Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 22 2017 10:06 am
SIX METERS GETS COOKING IN TEXAS
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: If you're near Austin, Texas, and you really want to get
cooking on 6 meters, Neil Rapp, WB9VBG, shares this recipe.
NEIL'S REPORT: What goes better with ham than some BBQ? The famous 6
meter BBQ is continuing, thanks to support from FlexRadio and DX
Engineering. The BBQ will take place this year on September 29th and
30th, at the Lonestar Court in Austin, Texas. Several vendors will be on
hand, and presentations about how to get the most out of your 6 meter,
setup will be made by some top experts. And, two additional speakers have
been added. Tim Duffy, K3LR, will review new Low Noise 6 meter LFA Yagis.
And, the one of the leading experts on receiver performance, Rob Sherwood,
NC0B, will review the performance of a wide selection of radios exclusively
for 6 meters. For more information, visit sixmeterbbq.com. Be sure to bring
your appetite for 6 meters!
Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in
Bloomington, Indiana.
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WORLD OF DX
Elsewhere in DXing, you have a few more days to listen for Al, K7AR,
operating as 5W0RA in Samoa. Al is calling QRZ on 160-10 meters using
SSB, CW and RTTY. Send QSLs via his home callsign, ClubLog or LoTW.
A team of Indian amateurs including Rama/VU2DEV, Gaurav/VU2GTI, and
Pradeep/VU3EDG, will be using the call sign AT7M while operating from
St. Mary's Islands, between the 30th of September 30 and the first of
October. St. Mary's Island is also known as Coconut Island off the
Arabian Sea coast near Karnataka, India. Be listening on various HF
bands, and in various modes. Send QSL cards via VU3NPI.
There's disappointing news for amateurs who've been awaiting the
Argentinian DXers Group operation as PJ7T from Saint Maarten.
Widespread damage has cancelled the group's planned operation that
would have started the 24th of October. The group is presently securing
the necessary paperwork to use San Andres Island as its alternate
destination at an as-yet unknown date.
(OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN)
**
KICKER: GIVE THIS WEDDING RECEPTION A 5 x 9
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: There are ham radio licenses and there are marriage
licenses. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has a story about what happens when the
two converge.
JEREMY: Congratulations to M0NFE & M6YAX -- that would be Nick and
Majbritt, now "Mr. and Mrs." officially as of Saturday, September 16th.
Their wedding in Essex was followed by some exceptionally festive
partying at Hawkwell Village Hall thanks to some clever Linux programming
written by the groom, who is a software developer. Nick's code was
designed to operate some of the wedding attractions - with prompts both
in English and in German, to make things easier for his bride's friends
and his new in-laws. The wedding unexpectedly turned into a minor rescue
mission - the kind that amateurs, of course, are accustomed to. An hour
before the wedding, fellow Essex Ham club member Pete Sipple, M0PSX,
received a call from Nick, that there was no Internet connection at the
venue. The club loaned Nick its portable WiFi hotspot, and wedding bells
were soon ringing. Pete and his wife, Sarah, M6PSK, were among the happy
guests. As for the newlyweds, they may not have spent their wedding day
talking on the air, but clearly they spent it dancing on air.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(ESSEX HAM, PETE SIPPLE M0PSX)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
the Associated Press; CQ Magazine; Essex Hall; Hap Holly and the Rain
Report; K2BSA; Leon ON4VLM; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; Pete Sipple M0PSX;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; 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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth Ohio
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.
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