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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 18 2017 09:05 am
SCOUTS PREP FOR WORLDWIDE EVENT
NEIL/ANCHOR: Barely two months after this summer's Boys Scouts of
America Jamboree, scouts around the world are preparing for even more
QSOs. We have those details from Ed Durrant, DD5LP.
ED'S REPORT: Scouts in South Africa await their turn for a jamboree
experience, which will come on the weekend of October 20th through
22nd. Their participation in the worldwide scouting event promises
to pack some extra promise this year. Based on last year's statistics
in South Africa, the 2016 Jamboree saw the number of young licensees
in South Africa rise by a dramatic 400 percent. Those statistics were
released by Richard Hooper, ZS6RKE, the National JOTA/JOTI Coordinator
for Scouts South Africa, who will be accepting South African
registration for the event in just another week or so.
Over the next few weeks, Scout organizers are encouraged to plan to
host events and to participate. Those young radio operators will be
in good company, on the air and online. The worldwide event is marking
60 years of connections, and at least 1 million youngsters representing
more than 150 nations, will be involved. Richard asks that anyone in
South Africa with questions about organizing, or simply assisting, to
contact him directly via email at
richard-dot-hooper-at-scouts-dot-org-dot-za. (
[email protected])
For Amateur Radio Newsline this is Ed Durrant, DD5LP.
(SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO NEWS, SCOUTS SOUTH AFRICA)
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WORLD OF DX
Doug, W6HB, will be active as E51DLD, between Aug. 27 and Sept. 8 from
Rarotonga Island. Listen for Doug on 160-10 meters using SSB. He will be
operating holiday style. Send QSLs via his home callsign. He only wants
QSL cards, no LoTW, no eQSLs or QRZ.com logs.
In French Polynesia, listen for Heinz, DF1YP, operating as FO/DF1YP,
from Moorea Island, between September 6th and October 1st. Activity
will be holiday style, and on 20/17/15 meters, using SSB and the Digital
modes. Send QSLs via his home callsign, direct or by the Bureau, which
is preferred.
Listen for a pair of South African operators in the Sani Pass area of
Lesotho until the 21st of August. They are using the callsigns 7P8VRR
and 7P8QM, and operating on 40, 20 and 15m.
In Samoa, be listening for Bert, CX3AN, between the 19th and 26th of
August. His callsign is 5W0HA, and he is on 40 and 30m CW, and 20 and
17m SSB. QSLs go via his home call.
(IRTS, OHIO PENN DX)
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KICKER: A HAM WITH A HIGH-FLYING ANTENNA
NEIL/ANCHOR: We end this week's report with this story of a ham in the
British Isles, who likes to get his signal out no matter which way the
wind is blowing. That's because Nigel Utting, GJ7LJJ,
[Gee-Jay-Seven-Ell-Jay-Jay), sometimes uses a portable kite antenna,
so if the wind is blowing, it takes his wire straight into the sky.
Clearly his antenna doesn't fly as high as the signals he hopes to be
transmitting, but recently the Jersey-based ham got a little extra
on-air help: He became part of a televised broadcast report by ITV
news weather presenter Sophia Bird. She interviewed him as part of her
five-day forecast, and asked about his kite antenna.
Nigel told her that on that particular day, he was able to copy plenty
of other stations, but wasn't really having a good day getting his
signal out. Think again, Nigel! In those few moments, everyone who was
tuned into ITV News knew exactly who you were - and gave you and your
kite antenna a 5 and 9.
(SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO NEWS, ITV NEWS)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the
ARRL; CQ Magazine; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio
Transmitters Society; ITV News; the Kilgore, Texas News Herald;
Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; Scouts South Africa; Southgate Amateur Radio
News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Radio Amateurs of Canada; Radio
New Zealand; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our listeners, that's all from
the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington,
Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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