Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 14 2017 10:57 am
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, it's time to celebrate offshore broadcasting with
special event station GB5RC, which will be on the air August third through
seventh, marking the long and colorful history of Radio Caroline. Be
listening as seven operators from the Martello Tower Group call QRZ,
aboard the Ross Revenge, which is moored in the River Blackwater near
Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. The special event station is also encouraging
Short Wave Listening. Operations will be primarily on 80m, 40m, and 20m,
and the hams are also hoping for operation on 17m, 15m, 12m, and 10m, if
conditions favor it.
Texas amateur John, W5JON, is operating on the Caribbean island of St.
Kitts, and calling as V47JA, until the 5th of August. callsign. Listen for
him on the HF bands, 160 meters to 6 meters on single sideband, and also
listen for him during the IOTA contest at the end of July. Send QSLs to
his home call sign.
Be listening for Pierre, VE3KTB, who will be using the call sign VY0ERC,
through the 22nd of July, as he operates from Ellesmere Island where the
Eureka Amateur Radio Club has a station. In addition to a contact, working
Pierre will count as NA-008 for the IOTA award. Pierre's QSL manager is
M0OXO.
(RADIO CAROLINE, IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)
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KICKER: BIKES ARE VEHICLES FOR KANSAS RESCUE DRILL
PAUL: Finally, we look at a rescue drill in which the victims weren't
local residents simulating serious injuries. Let's hear from Amateur Radio
Newsline's Mike Askins, KE5CXP, how the hams handled THIS challenge.
MIKE: It was a search-and-rescue mission unlike the kind most hams get
involved in, but the Manhattan Area Amateur Radio Club was prepared.
Coordinating their efforts with the local Community Emergency Response
Team, radio operators like Jim Foster KD0NQQ, the club's secretary, served
as emergency-response workers, keeping their eyes on the ground to discover
where help was needed in the city's downtown.
It was July 8 in Manhattan, Kansas, and there was no time to waste: There
were bicycles - yes bicycles, dozens of bicycles - damaged and in distress
all around, some in advanced stages of disrepair.
Of course, this was a drill, a simulated disaster. The bicycles, however,
were real, and so was the need for some of them to be fixed, so they could
be returned to service with the city's free bicycle-sharing service, Green
Apple Bikes.
This so-called Green Apple Bikes Rescue Operation was a way for Riley
County Emergency Management to test emergency response in the city, and,
at the same time, get much-needed repairs for the well-used two-wheelers.
Just like human disaster victims would be transported for medical care,
the bicycles were taken to repair facilities for their own version of
triage after the hams spotted them and radioed for help. In this case,
however, there was no need for any get-well cards or, for that matter,
QSL cards.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(KSNT-TV, RILEY COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
the Berkshire Eagle; CQ Magazine; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish
Radio Transmitters Society; Kurt Pawlikowski, WB9FMC; KSNT-TV; Margie
Spangenberg, KK4AGN; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; Radio Amateurs of Canada;
Radio Caroline; Riley County Emergency Management; Southgate Amateur
Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Wireless Institute of
Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the
Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at
[email protected]. More information is available at Amateur Radio
Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso,
Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.
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