Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 20 2018 12:46 pm
INDIANA GETS READY TO QSO PARTY HEARTY
CHRISTIAN/ANCHOR: It's a party - and Indiana amateurs are hosting. Bring
your best signal, and your best on-air manners. Here's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
NEIL: Spring time in Indiana means it's time to start planning for the
Indiana QSO Party. The Hoosier DX and Contest Club sponsors the event,
and offers an award for working all 92 Indiana counties. But wait,
there's more! Not only is the Indiana QSO Party on May 5th, but there's
also three other QSO Parties that day! One of the committee members,
Mark Musick, WB9CIF, explains.
MARK: There's always a lot of excitement about the first Saturday in May,
because there's four QSO parties going on simultaneously, and so there's
a lot of activity. The four QSO parties are: the Indiana QSO Party, the
New England QSO Party, which is all six of the New England states, the
Delaware QSO Party, and the 7QP QSO Party. What the clubs out west have
done is all eight states in the seventh call district have got fixed and
mobile stations on, so they are trying to activate all the counties in
all eight of those states. And, all the major contest logging software
people have set up their software, so that you don't really have to be
participating, say, in the New England QSO Party. You just work people
in all four. And, all four QSO parties have worked together here, so that
you submit your log to each one of them, and they score their QSO party
from your log individually.
NEIL: For the county hunters, this is a great chance to finish off your
Indiana checklist.
MARK: We started in '02, and all but two or three years, we've gotten all
92 counties on the air, at some time during the contest period.
NEIL: You can find all the details at hdxcc.org/inqp. Reporting for
Amateur Radio Newsline from the Hoosier state, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,
in Bloomington, Indiana.
**
WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, be listening for Jan, PA4JJ, operating holiday style
as 9A/PA4JJ, from mainland Croatia, between the 27th of April, and the
8th of June. Expect him to operate mainly FT8 on 40-10 metres. QSL via
LoTW, Club Log's OQRS, or via home call.
Sergei, R4WAA, is active from Nepal, as 9N7WA, through the 27th of April.
Listen for him operating CW and digital modes on the HF bands. QSL via
his home call.
Listen for Tak, JR1LZK/6, and Mitsu, JE1HXZ/6, on 80 through 6 meters,
from Kita Daito Island, from the 27th of April to the 7th of May. They
will operate CW, SSB, RTTY, and FT8. QSL via home calls (direct or
bureau), Club Log and LoTW.
(THE DAILY DX, OHIO PENN DX)
**
KICKER: HAM RADIO GETS PRIME-TIME TV ROLE, SORT OF
CHRISTIAN/ANCHOR: Finally, we ask: What's happening here? Amateur radio's
in the movies, and now amateur radio's on one more TV show. We'll let
Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, explain.
DON: As anyone who's ever been in a ham shack knows, you don't need to
be able to see something, to expect great things from it. Take radiowaves,
for instance. You can't see them, but on a good day, with good band
conditions, they can deliver the world.
So what's the deal with Dan Conner? The character on the American TV
series "Roseanne", is hiding something from his family, and we, the
audience, can't see it either. On the April 17 episode of "Roseanne,"
the recently revived situation comedy on the ABC Network, Rosanne's
husband, Dan, has some kind of amateur radio rig tucked away in the
garage that he's fixing. (show audio: It's like that ham radio Dad
tinkers with in the garage. If it was gonna work, it would've worked
by now. Dad just got that radio working. He's got a friend in Duluth,
that's 102.") Could Dan, portrayed by actor John Goodman, secretly
have gotten his ticket? Is he carrying the legacy of the character
Mike Baxter, from TV's "Last Man Standing"? That popular show was
cancelled on the same network not long ago. Well, we didn't see Dan's
rig in this recent episode, but like radio waves, Santa, and The Tooth
Fairy, that doesn't mean we can't believe in it. Perhaps the reality
of one more ham radio operator on TV is out there just below the noise
floor....so we'll keep tuning in, listening and watching.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.
(ABC-TV, CARSEY-WERNER PRODUCTIONS)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to ABC-TV; ABC News; Alan Labs; the ARRL;
Carsey-Werner Productions; Coast to Coast AM website; CQ Magazine;
the Daily DX; First Class CW Operators Club; Hap Holly and the Rain
Report; Minneapolis Star-Tribune; Nic, VK7BEE; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Time
Magazine; Wireless Institute of Australia; Wireman.com; WRTC 2018;
WTWW Shortwave; and you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur
Radio Newsline.
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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 Christian Cudnik, K0STH, in St. Louis,
Missouri, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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