Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 08 2017 07:41 am
WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, listen for Jacques, F6HMJ, operating as 6W7/F6HMJ
from Senegal, between December 21st, and January 15th. He will be
active using CW, with some SSB on 20-10 meters. Send QSLs via his home
callsign.
Off the Senegal coast, a group of four operators is using the call sign
6V1A, from Goree Island, between December 15th and 17th. Listen for
them on CW and SSB, on all HF bands. According to the most recent 6V1A
page on QRZ, all QSLs should be sent to: Post Office Box 971, Dakar,
Senegal.
Lester, W8YCM, is using the call sign 6Y6Y in Negril, Jamaica (NA-0097)
through January, 2018. Lester is working holiday style on a number of
HF bands. Send QSLs via W8YCM direct only.
Rich, PA0RRS, is on Penang Island, operating as 9M2MRS until January
31st. Listen for Rich on 40-10 meters, using CW, RTTY and PSK. Send
QSLs to his home callsign, via ClubLog's OQRS, LoTW or eQSL.
(OHIO PENN DX)
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KICKER: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 'MIR' KIND
CHRISTIAN/ANCHOR: In our final story, we find ourselves once again
welcoming ham radio as a film or TV hero. In this case, it's a film
that is just now making its premiere in Cuba. Graham Kemp, VK4BB,
tells us more.
GRAHAM: It's not quite true....but it's not quite false. The story of
Sergio the Cuban amateur radio operator, and Sergei the MIR Space
Station cosmonaut, is indeed the stuff of fiction. The movie is making
its premiere at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema,
which opened in Havana Dec. 7. Its story follows the friendship of a
Cuban amateur, with an orbiting cosmonaut who is stranded in space in
1991, as the Soviet Union crumbles during its final days.
The 93-minute movie is directed and co-written by Ernesto Daranas, who
told several media outlets that the film is a fictionalized account,
based on several real-life exchanges that Cuban amateurs had with
Soviet crews at that time in history.
Sergei is the cosmonaut stranded on the MIR. His counterpart, Sergio the
ham, is a Marxist philosophy professor watching his own world in Cuba
struggle with a very down-to-earth economic crisis.
Ham radio gives rise to a growing friendship between the two men - both
adrift in their respective universes - and it eventually widens to
include a U.S. journalist covering NASA, played by American actor Ron
Perlman.
The film reflects a greater friendship, however, one not evident on
screen: the warmer relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and their
cooperation in the production. What better way to honor the spirit of
ham radio than to bridge two worlds here on earth?
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
(IMDB.COM, SOUTHGATE, DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
CQ Magazine; Deadline Hollywood; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the
Hindu newspaper; the IARU; IMDB.com; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ; Radio
Amateurs of Canada; Radio Caroline; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted
Randall's QSO Radio Show; the Times of India; WSPRNET.ORG; 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 Christian Cudnik, K0STH, in St. Louis,
Missouri, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.
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