Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 09 2018 03:34 pm
THE WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, members of the Veron Club station, PI4FL, in the
Netherlands, are active until the 28th of February. They are on the air,
marking the 40th anniversary of their club. According to QRZ, QSL cards
are being accepted by PA3HEB, via the bureau.
On Bonaire, John, K4BAI, is active as PJ4/K4BAI, until February 23rd. Be
listening for him, with the PJ4A team, during the ARRL International DX
CW Contest, which runs February 17th and 18th. Send QSLs to PJ4A and
PJ4/K4BAI via K4BAI.
In Barbados, Richard, G3RWL, will once again be active as 8P6DR, between
March 20th, and April 29th. He will be working holiday style, on 80-10
meters, using CW, and some RTTY. Send QSLs via his home callsign, direct,
or by the Bureau, using ClubLog's OQRS.
(OHIO-PENN DX)
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KICKER: ALIVE AND STILL KICKING
JIM/ANCHOR: Finally, we hear the story of one ham in Canada, who went
searching for a satellite, and surprised even NASA. Here's Mike Askins,
KE5CXP.
MIKE: Scott Tilley, VE7TIL, is almost always in search of a somewhat
unusual QSO: He's often listening for secret military satellites. One
of his more recent attempts to sniff out something interesting, put him
on the trail of the Zuma satellite. Zuma was a secret U.S. government
payload, that had gone missing, shortly after its launch in January.
No one really knows what happened to Zuma - it was a secret mission,
after all -- but that didn't stop Scott, an amateur radio astronomer,
from trying.
Enroute to his hoped-for contact with the super-secret spy in the sky,
Scott instead came across another one, that turned out to be a voice
from the undead. He heard a transmission -- clear and unmistakable -
from what he believed was the NASA satellite called IMAGE. The only
thing is this: IMAGE had long since severed communications with NASA,
back in 2005. The satellite had gone high above the Earth in 2000, in
the hopes of studying the magnetosphere, but NASA believed a power
malfunction took it out of service permanently.
As Scott might say, rumors of its death may be greatly exaggerated. He
soon realized this could indeed be IMAGE, and it was still transmitting
quite actively. He even successfully, matched its rotation rate to the
rate associated with the IMAGE satellite. That, of course, piqued NASA's
interest.
NASA told the aerospace website AmericaSpace, that if this is indeed
IMAGE, it would like to put the satellite back on the job. In other
words, death is no excuse, for not showing up to work - even after 13
years.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(ARSTECHNICA)
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Holly and the Rain Report; Huntsville Amateur Radio Club; Ohio-Penn
DX Bulletin; QRZ; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO
Radio Show; Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L; Wireless Institute of Australia;
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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