Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 10 2017 05:39 pm
WORLD OF DX
Nuri, TA3X, will be active as TC630MECCA, from Izmir, Turkey, from
the first of November, to the 14th of January, 2018. He will operate
CW, SSB, and digital modes, on 160 to 10 metres. QSL via TA3X, direct,
or bureau.
Rob, N7QT, is leading a team of 9 radio operators from Mellish Reef
in Australia, as VK9MA, through the 16th of November. The team will
be active from Heralds-Beacon Islet, the only permanent land in the
reef on all the HF bands, using SSB, CW and RTTY. The operators ask
all amateurs to please note that they are always going to be working
split. Send QSLs to N7QT.
Get ready! November the 18th sees the next annual Europe to North
America SOTA Summit to Summit event, where SOTA activators will be
out on both continents, trying to make contacts. Look for stations
to be spotted on the SOTA Cluster at SOTAWATCH dot ORG, between
around 12 and 1500 UTC on the 18th. and give the activators a call,
they appreciate all calls. We are hoping for better propagation
conditions for this weekend, where both SSB and CW stations, will
be heading up some hills, and mountains for the event.
(OHIO PENN DX)
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KICKER: PAPAL 'VISIT' TO THE ISS
JIM/ANCHOR: Students aren't the only ones who get excited to talk to
the Space Station. Mike Askins, KE5CXP, tells us about one recent
contact that was blessed - truly blessed - by good fortune.
MIKE'S REPORT: It's a given that when Pope Francis has some big
questions to ask about life and the universe, he looks to the
heavens. That's just what he did on October 26th, in fact - and he
got some answers - only this heavenly exchange didn't come from the
source you might imagine. The pontiff got a chance to chat via a
satellite feed, with the six astronauts on board the International
Space Station, and his questions were understandably tough. Like the
rest of us, he was seeking to understand humanity's place in the
universe - but these were challenges that space travelers such as
Paolo Nespoli, IZ0JPA, and Joseph Acaba, KE5DAR, could only take a
stab at, from a scientific point of view.
NASA'S Randy Bresnik, the Expedition 53 commander, told the Pope,
however [audio clip]: "People cannot come up here, and see the
indescribable beauty of the earth, and not be touched in their
souls."
With this exchange, Pope Francis became the second pope to speak with
astronauts, following Pope Benedict in 2011.
Paolo, of course, did take the opportunity to make a kind of confession.
Humbled at not knowing all the answers to the pope's questions he said
"our aim here is to spread knowledge, [but] the more we learn, the more
we realize we do not know."
So together, they will all continue to look to the Heavens.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(SPACE.COM)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; Cornwall Live;
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Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; K2BSA;
Livonia Amateur Radio Club; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; South African Radio
League; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Space.com; Stillwater Amateur
Radio Association; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; WGLT public radio;
WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur
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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 Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston,
West Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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