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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 05:04 pm
WORLD OF DX
Be listening for Tev, TA1HZ, who will be operating as 9H3HZ, from a bed
and breakfast in Malta for the 2018 IOTA contest July 28th�and 29th. He
will be operating as an "Island Station-Dxpedition" on 100 watts." He
also hopes to operate FT8 while on Malta. QSL direct via his home call
sign; LoTW preferred.
Listen for members of Japan's Nara DX Association, as they operate from
Micronesia as V6J until the 31st of July. They are on all bands 40 - 6m
on SSB, CW, FT8, and RTTY, and are focusing on contacts into Europe and
North America. QSL via Club Log OQRS.
We also want to make note of a 10-year anniversary. This week marks one
decade since the first ICQ Podcast, a UK-based podcast "for amateurs by
amateurs." Congratulations to our colleagues!
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KICKER: CANADIAN SIGNAL MAKES WAVES IN NORTHERN IRELAND
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In our final story we ask: Turn on the radio, and what
do you expect? Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has that answer.
JEREMY: Not too long ago, Paul Logan spent a nice evening listening to
a radio programme on CBC Radio 1 from Newfoundland. Nothing unusual
about that, right? Except Paul, MI3LDO, is an avid FM DXer, and he was
tuning in from Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It was
21:35 UTC, or 22:35 local time for Paul, and his adventure in North
American listening was especially unusual, because it was on 88.5 MHz.
Strong multi-hop sporadic E signals aren't all that uncommon on 28 and
50 MHz, but on this night 88 MHz was the maximum usable frequency.
As John Desmond, EI7GL, reported in his blog: [quote] "this really is a
remarkable catch." Paul managed this bonus DX across 3200 kms - or not
quite 2,000 miles - with an SDR receiver and a 5 element beam. The blog
noted that this is the fourth time since 2003 that Paul has heard a
station from Canada on the band between 88 and 108 MHz.
Paul himself notes on his QRZ page that his interest in radio dates to
the early 1980s, and back then, it involved mostly listening on the
broadcast bands. However, he writes, he also enjoys transmitting on his
Icom 703, or his Yaesu FT-817 - and when he does - you can expect to
hear him at 5 watts, or perhaps even less. Who knows? Next time, perhaps
the CBC will be on the receiving end of his very QRP signal.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(BLOG OF JOHN DESMOND EI7GL)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
CQ Magazine; Darryl Paule, KI6MSP; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish
Radio Transmitters Society; John Desmond, EI7GL; Kevin Mulcahy, VK2CE;
Miami County Amateur Radio Club; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; Peter Parker,
VK3YE; QRZ; Radio Society of Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News;
Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the Thousand Islands Repeater Club;
Wireless Institute of Australia; WRTC; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send
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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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth,
Ohio, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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