Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 23 2017 11:58 pm
BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the WW8GM General
Motors Amateur Radio Club in Michigan on the club's 70cm RenCen Repeater
at 443.075 MHz, every Saturday at 9pm.
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CONTACT WITH THE CONCORDE
JIM/ANCHOR: The supersonic airplane known as the Concorde was taken out
of service in 2003, but a Seattle-area amateur is marking the 48th
anniversary of its test flight with a special event station that begins
next week. With that report is Amateur Radio Newsline's Caryn Eve Murray,
KD2GUT.
CARYN'S REPORT: Starting on March 2, Greg Magone
(Kilo-Bravo-7-Quebec-Papa-Sierra) KB7QPS, a senior member of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is celebrating the test flight
of a supersonic jet aircraft that forever changed the world's concept of
air travel.
GREG: The Concorde certainly was a revolution for transatlantic jet
travel. It shrunk the number of hours for being able to cross the pond,
so to speak, and it was revolutionary for that. It was a unique airplane
with a unique design for a commercial aircraft. I thought that it was an
important event to commemorate in the history of mankind, because the
Concorde was such a unique aircraft out there.
CARYN: Special Event Station Whiskey 7 Charlie is the latest installment
in Greg's year-long Air, Space and Technology Operating Event. Greg will
be flying solo as the lone operator for those four days in March, and
he's looking forward to hearing what hams have to say:
GREG: "I imagine many are going to comment as to whether or not they have
actually flown on the Concorde, and if they have not flown, certainly
they would have memories of seeing it fly in and out of airports or
otherwise, some other connection they have to the Concorde when they come
and make contact."
CARYN: Greg himself has actually been on board the Concorde a few times,
not as a passenger, but a visitor to the museum where the aircraft is on
display. There's no question it has captured his imagination. Still, he
does have one regret:
GREG: "I have never seen the Concorde fly, unfortunately. It would have
been fun to see but I never had that opportunity."
CARYN: The Concorde gets back in the air - or rather, ON the air,
between the 2nd and 6th of March, traveling this time at the speed of
light, courtesy of radio waves. Be listening on 20 meters around 14250
kHz. A beautiful, full-color QSL card awaits you.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT.
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HAMS HELP CELEBRATE RADIO STATION'S 95 YEARS
JIM/ANCHOR: A beloved old broadcast station came to life again in the UK,
thanks to an amateur radio club with a sense of history, respect, and
great enthusiasm for its legacy. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Jeremy
Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: Ninety-five years ago, radio came alive inside a small broadcast
station - a former military Marconi hut - in Essex, as Britain welcomed
its first regular broadcast station 2MT. The date was the 14th of
February, 1922, and it is considered by many to mark the birth of British
broadcasting. Earlier this month, that same historic hut rang out with
different radio sounds -- amateur radio -- as the Chelmsford Amateur
Radio Society transmitted from there as station GB952MT, calling CQ to
commemorate the anniversary.
Taking radio from its deep past into the digital present, club member
Jim Salmon, 2E0RMI, also made use of an internet radio station to air
vintage comedies, radio-related documentaries, and other historic material
during the three-day celebration, which took place the 12th through the
14th of February.
As the website for Radio Emma Toc noted, the amateurs were not looking to
recreate the original station 2MT, just to celebrate it, along with its
spirit.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(THE MALDON AND BURNHAM STANDARD, CHELMSFORD AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY)
