Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 22 2018 08:42 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2121, for Friday, June 22, 2018
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2121, with a release date of
Friday, June 22, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. A pioneer in CW keying becomes a Silent Key.
The Technician class license exams in the U.S. are about to get new
questions -- and we look ahead at the Ducie Island DXpedition. All
this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2121, comes your way
right now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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MAKING THE ROUNDS FOR DUCIE ISLAND
NEIL/ANCHOR: We begin this week with an update on the Ducie Island
DXpedition which sets off in late October. Excitement is building -
and progress is too. For that update, we turn to Jason Daniels,
VK2LAW.
JASON: The Ducie Island DXpedition team continues to gather momentum
toward its operations as VP6D on October 20th through November 3rd.
The newest member of the pilot team is 15-year-old Mason Matrazzo
KM4SII, who made his debut DXPedition last year at age 14, operating
from Iceland. He is heading to Curacao next month as PJ2/KM4SII. The
DXpedition team has been making the rounds, attending at Dayton
Hamvention, and the International DX Convention in Visalia (Viz-AIL-yah)
California in the U.S. and Friedrichshafen (FREED RICK'S Harfen) in
Germany to talk up the trip and meet with corporate sponsors.
They also continue with their fundraising to help defray personal
expenses of the team members themselves. For more information about
this much-awaited South Pacific DXpedition, or to help support it,
visit vp6d.com
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
(SOUTHGATE)
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FIELD DAY: SMALL VOICES, BIG DREAMS
NEIL/ANCHOR: Remember your first Field Day? Whether it was long ago -
or just last year - one group of hams in California is hoping you'll
make this year's Field Day memorable for some young first-timers.
Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, tells us more.
DON: Field Day has been in everyone's sights for quite some time now --
but for one group of youngsters in California, it marks their
long-awaited first Field Day, and a first opportunity to operate on HF.
Members of Scout Troop 44, and Cub Scout Pack 458, are operating side
by side with the San Mateo Amateur Radio Club, using the club call sign
W6UQ. In addition, they will be running their own small-scale Field Day
operation as KZ6BSA. Donn Lovell, K8DLL, whose son 14-year-old Connor,
K7CBL, will be among those radio Scouts, said that the youngsters will
have their own miniature Field Day, with simplex contacts on 2 meters,
and 70 cm. He also said they will get some practice air time, just for
fun, using FRS/GMRS radios and later, repeaters. Donn told Newsline the
Scouts' hope that even with all the QRN and pileups that are sure be
happening, hams will be listening for those squeaky little voices out
there calling "CQ Field Day."
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.
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FIELD DAY GREETINGS FROM GERMANY
NEIL/ANCHOR: In an apparent show of solidarity with Field Day
participants in the U.S., the Mighty KBC, as it is known in Germany,
plans to transmit greetings in MFSK64, in the hopes it will be heard
by amateurs throughout North America. The transmission by the 100 kW
HF broadcast transmitter is set for the 24th of June sometime around
0130 UTC. This is to occur during the weekly "Giant Jukebox" broadcast
of the Mighty KBC on 9925 kHz. Naturally, reception reports are
encouraged.
Hams should email them to
[email protected].
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