Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : ALL USERS
From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Fri Mar 04 2016 12:28 pm
SATELLITE CONNECTS SOUTH AMERICA AND ANTARCTICA
It's being called a historic contact, and indeed, the satellite
communication made on Feb. 28 between Federico Mainz, LU5UFM, in Buenos
Aires, and Marcelo Duca, LU1AET, in Argentinean Antarctica, was just that.
The Radio Club of Argentina and AMSAT-LU described their call as the
first contact via satellite between Argentinean Antarctica, and the
Argentinean mainland.
Marcelo was running 15 watts and, using a handheld transceiver; Federico
was using 4 watts. Using the SO-50 satellite, their 2-minute QSO clearly
went the distance - their signals covered nearly 2,700 kilometers.
(ARRL)
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KICKER: OTHERWORLDLY QRM OR QRN?
SKEETER: Was it rock and roll, reverb or something else when Apollo 10's
crew heard a certain something on their radios while traveling on the
dark side of the moon? Well, the odd sound heard in May of 1969, has
finally been sorted out - and the explanation is one that's familiar to
lots of hams the world over. We have more from Amateur Radio Newsline,
and Wireless Institute of Australia's newsman, Graham Kemp, VK4BB:
[GRAHAM'S REPORT]
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to ABC.NET Australia; Alan Labs; the ARRL;
the Cape May County Herald, CQ Magazine; DX.NET; Hap Holly and the Rain
Report; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; the New Zealand Association of
Radio Transmitters; the New Zealand Herald; the Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin;
QSL.NET; QRZ.COM., Southgate Amateur Radio News; Sydney Morning Herald;
TWiT TV; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's
all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Our email address is
[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 Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Topeka, Kansas,
saying 73, and, as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
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