Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 08 2017 04:38 pm
KICKER: SUMMITS IN THE SKY??
PAUL/ANCHOR: Our last story redefines the concept of going on the air -
largely because it involves amateur radio operators wearing parachutes.
And using them! With this story, we hear from Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
MIKE's REPORT: If you remember the time you took that big leap into ham
radio, perhaps you can relate, even a little, to Rob, KC6TYD, Troy,
W7BIG, and Mark, AF6IM. When these three took their leap as amateurs
just a few weeks ago, it was out of an airplane flying at an altitude
of twelve thousand feet over Tracy, California.
Parachute Mobile Mission 28 in late August marked the team's latest try
as Parachute Mobile operators, activating a piece of the sky for their
very own twist on Summits on the Air.
Rob said the four jumps made at Skydive, California, consisted of three
operations on 2 meters with the last one being an HF activation on 20
meters. The team logged a total of 62 contacts, 12 of them on HF.
Although almost all the stations they logged were in and around central
California, the team did score a contact in Florida which -- yes --
counts as DX.
Rob told Newsline that the hard part wasn't the jump itself, but getting
ready to go on - and in - the air.
Setting up the gear and completing the safety checklist and manifest can
take up to 30 minutes, with another 30 to 40 minute wait for an airplane.
Then - the pressure is on! "Keep in mind," he told us, "the jumper only
has about a ten to fifteen minute window to make as many QSOs as
possible."
The team isn't quite done yet. Mission 29 is next on the agenda, and
that's in a few short weeks. It's scheduled for October 21st. Visit
their website parachutemobile.wordpress.com for more details. As Rob
noted, plans for that are anything but up in the air.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, with my feet definitely planted on the
ground, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(PARACHUTE MOBILE, ROB FENN KC6TYD)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
CQ Magazine; the FCC; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio
Transmitters Society; the Manly-Warringah Radio Society; Ohio Penn DX
Bulletin; Parachute Mobile; Rob Fenn, KC6TYD; Southgate Amateur Radio
News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the Times of India; Victoria News;
WIVB-TV; WTWW Shortwave; the YL Beam; 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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