Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jan 12 2018 11:15 am
'SERGIO AND SERGEI' IS A HIT
NEIL/ANCHOR: Who doesn't love a good film, in which amateur radio has a
starring role? Apprently even the audiences in Cuba, love this one, as
we hear from Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
KEVIN: Take a stranded Russian cosmonaut in a space station, and add a
Cuban amateur radio operator into the mix, and you've got a winning
combination for a feature film. That's what the Cuban amateur radio
federation, the FRC, has to say about "Sergio and Sergei." The film,
directed by Ernesto Daranas, has been voted most popular by moviegoers
in Cuba.
The fictional account of the men's friendship that develops while the
cosmonaut is stranded during the Soviet collapse in 1991, is loosely
based on actual contacts between amateur radio operators in Cuba, and
the Mir space station.
The U.S.-Cuba collaboration, which also features Ron Pearlman as an
American journalist, was recently screened at the 39th International
Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. It made its premiere
in September, at the Toronto Film Festival.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
(The CUBAN AMATEUR RADIO FEDERATION)
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WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, listen for the FGC Radio Team from Eritrea, between
the 14th and 23rd of January. Zorro, JH1AJT, Franz/DJ9ZB, Dima/RA9USU,
Yan/RZ3FW, and Champ/E21EIC, will be operating on CW, SSB, and RTTY, on
160 meters through 6 meters. The trip is designed to support the Eritrea
National Olympic Committee. Send QSLs via JH1AJT. Contacts will be
entered into OQRS on ClubLog when he returns to Japan.
Listen for John, KB4FB, operating holiday style, from Laos. He began
there on January 9th, and expects to stay for about two weeks. He is
using the call sign XW4FB. QSLs will be via LoTW.
A group of Japanese amateurs is using the call sign 6Y6J, from the
Jamaica home station of Josh, 6Y5WJ, through the 22nd of January. QSLs
can be sent through Club Log's OQRS. All logs will also be uploaded to
LoTW.
Listen until the 31st of January for Rich, PA0RRS. Rich is operating
from Penang Island, West Malaysia, using his 9M2MRS callsign. QSLs can
go to his home call sign.
(IRTS, OHIO PENN DX)
**
KICKER: THE SKY'S NOT FALLING BUT.....
NEIL/ANCHOR: We close out this week's newscast, with a report about a
contest that, for a change, doesn't involve being on the air. Here's
John Williams, VK4JJW.
JOHN: If you're a distant relative of Chicken Little, the odds are that
this contest may not be right for you. But, if your guessing game is
good - and you don't run around shouting every 10 minutes, that the sky
is falling - you might have a chance at a nice prize, in what's being
called the Chicken Little Contest. No, the sky isn't falling, but a
Chinese space laboratory weighing nine tons is definitely set for a
less-than-glorious return home. It's called the Tiangong-1 spacecraft.
It's the first space lab built, and launched by China. It went up in
September 2011 and now, well, it's poised to come back down sometime in
mid-March. The word "sometime" is the key here. The Aerospace
Corporation's Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies is
sponsoring a contest, asking people to guess as best as they can, when
the lab will land. The center will provide a prize, which it hasn't yet
disclosed. Don't worry, the laboratory has no crew aboard. The only
thing riding on it now are people's hopes their guess was the best of
all.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.
(SPACE.COM)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; the
Cuban Amateur Radio Federation; Curt, WA2JSG; Hap Holly and the Rain
Report; Henry Ruminski, W8HJR; the IARU; the Irish Radio Transmitters
Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; Philippine Amateur Radio Association;
QRZ; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Space.com; Ted Randall's QSO Radio
Show; Wireless Institute of Australia; 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 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 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington,
Indiana, saying 73, and, as always, we thank you for listening.
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