Subj : Newsline Part 1
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 17 2017 05:08 pm
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2055 for Friday, March 17, 2017
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2055, with a release date of Friday,
March 17, 2017, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. A longtime amateur supplier of crystals is closing
its doors. South African youngsters find new friends on the air -- and hams
climb to summits around the world, to face challenging contacts. All this,
and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2055, comes your way right now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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CRYSTAL MANUFACTURER SHUTTING AFTER 6 DECADES
SKEETER/ANCHOR: Our top story this week is about International Crystal
Manufacturing. The longtime supplier to the amateur radio community is
going out of business, as we hear from Newsline's Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
MIKE'S REPORT: International Crystal Manufacturing, once one of the
suppliers of crystals for Collins Radio, will be closing its doors by the
end of May. The Oklahoma City company manufactures precision crystals,
quartz crystals, oscillators, filters, and other products, and has been
in business since 1950.
A letter on the company's website from Royden Freeland Jr., W5EMH, the
son of the company's founder, said the company will honor all pending
orders, and would try to fill a limited number of new orders, depending
on the availability of raw materials.
International Crystal is considered one of the few remaining makers of
crystal products based in the U.S. ICM expanded from crystals into other
electronics in the 1980s, following the 1978 death of the founder, and
his wife, in an airplane crash. It eventually went back to its core
manufacture of crystals in the 1990s, after selling much of its
distribution and equipment business.
In addition to being a Collins supplier, ICM also provided materials to
RadioShack, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for a second time,
and announced that many of its 5,900 employees, and 1500 remaining stores
would be impacted.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP, in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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MONIX: THE LONG AND SHORT OF SHORTWAVE
SKEETER/ANCHOR: Shortwave listeners and scanner enthusiasts in and around
Cincinnati, are making use of a resource to monitor themselves, as well as
radio signals. We hear more from correspondent Jack Prindle, AB4WS, in
this report, courtesy of Amateur News Weekly.
JACK: In the greater Cincinnati area, there is a group of avid radio
monitors, who listen to all kinds of RF. Calling themselves MONIX, they
have been a base for SWL and scanner listeners in the area for years.
MONIX was founded in 1983 as an informal club of scanner enthusiasts,
shortwave listeners, DXers, and others, who share an interest in the hobby
of radio monitoring. MONIX is a full spectrum, all-mode club, covering all
aspects of radio monitoring, from DC to daylight. MONIX covers the
Cincinnati-Dayton metro area, southwest Ohio, southeast Indiana, and
northern Kentucky. Monix is an open group. Anyone anywhere may join! If
you're a radio hobbyist, this is the place to be. They have a group on
Yahoogroups and Facebook, which can be found by searching yahoogroups for
MONIX. For more information visit the MONIX website at M-O-N-I-X dot N-E-T.
Covering your amateur radio news in the greater Cincinnati area, and the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, for Amateur News Weekly, this is Jack Prindle,
AB4WS, in Big Bone, Kentucky.
SKEETER/ANCHOR: Our thanks to Amateur News Weekly for that report.
Additional reports on the Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky region, can be found
at www.amateurnewsweekly.com
