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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 17 2018 11:34 am
LOST AND FOUND IN INDIA
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Amateurs in India have once again been able to help
reunite a family with a missing member - in this case, it was a woman
missing for three years. Here's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: Thanks to amateur radio operators in India, a mentally challenged
woman got a big farewell from the hospital, where she was being treated
- and a big welcome home from the family she had not seen in three years.
According to a Telegraph India newspaper report, Maziran Khatun had been
admitted to a hospital in West Bengal in late July, but was unable to
recall very much about her life, until after receiving psychiatric
treatment. When the 25-year-old woman finally recalled where she was
from, the hospital reached out to the West Bengal Radio Club, which got
in touch with Taheruddin Ahmed, VU2TUO, vice president of the Amateur
Radio Club of Assam. He contacted police, and began seeking out her
family members in a village in Barpeta district in lower Assam. According
to news reports, the woman's mother was able to identify her from photos,
and later spoke to her on the phone. The mother told authorities that her
daughter, herself the mother of two children, had suffered a mental
breakdown, and went missing not long after her divorce. Hospital
authorities bought her train tickets for the trip home, and gave their
former patient a grand farewell. She was reunited with her family on
Saturday, August 11th.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(TELEGRAPH INDIA)
**
WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, listen for Jose, NP4G, using the call sign CE0Y/NP4G
from Rapa Nui, Easter Island between the 26th and 29th of August. He will
be operating holiday style on 40-10 meters, using CW and FT8. Send QSLs
via LoTW or NP4G.
Members of the DX World team are joining with Norman/5B4AIF, to activate
the island Ayios Yeoryios in the Cyprus Coastal Islands Group, between
August 25 and 27th. They will use the callsign C4II. Listen on 80-10
meters and possibly 6m. They will be using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL via LoTW.
QSL Manager will be announced later.
Don't forget this weekend, it's the International Lighthouse and
Lightship weekend. To see if there's an activation near you, check the
list at ILLW. NET. This fun international event, which promotes the
conservation of lighthouses and publicizes amateur radio has even
attracted some of the Amateur Radio Newsline crew, with Caryn, KD2GUT,
and the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club activating lighthouse US0019
on Fire Island, New York on Saturday/Sunday starting around 8:30 a.m.
local time, and over in Germany, Ed, DD5LP, is activating DE0138 Westmole,
and DE0140 Mangturm in Lindau on Lake Constance in Southern Germany from
around 11 a.m. local time on Sunday.
(OHIO PENN DX)
**
KICKER: TWO RESCUES, 90 YEARS APART
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We end this week's report with the story of two rescues,
90 years apart - both made possible by radio. Here's Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
JIM MEACHEN: It has been 90 years since the Zeppelin "Italia" crashed on
the way home from an expedition to the North Pole, killing several
members of the crew of explorers, and leaving survivors stranded on an
ice pack 120 km northeast of Svalbard.
Ninety years later, a North Pole expedition sponsored by the Air Ship
Italia Search Expedition and planned in tribute to that disaster, met
with a harrowing fate as well. On August 2nd, the expedition yacht Mea
Lux with special event call sign II0PN/MM (India India Zero Papa
November) encountered a serious storm off the south coast of Svalbard,
Norway ,and waves measuring 5 to 6 meters high - or as high as 20 feet -
left the craft rudderless as it caught fire, and began to take on water.
Neither cell phone nor satellite phone service worked, but the 20 meter
Marine Net heard the calls for help from Simone Orlandini, IU5KUH, and
the Norwegian Coast Guard was dispatched. All on board were airlifted
to safety by helicopter. The expedition and the yacht, however, were
abandoned.
Fortunately, there is also a rescue story associated with the historic
zeppelin incident -- and it too came about because of radio. A Russian
radio amateur ultimately heard signals from the stranded crew, being
transmitted by Giuseppe Biagi using the emergency transmitter and
receiver he had salvaged from the airship. Using a makeshift quarter-wave
antenna and a counterpoise, he was able to get out a distress call.
Although the support ship never received the signals, Russia's Nikolai
Schmit did, a dozen days later. An international rescue effort was
launched. It became the first air and sea polar rescue. Those rescued
included the airship's commander Umberto Nobile, but the Swedish
meteorologist Finn Malmgren died before being rescued.
As for the modern-day rescue from the yacht, crew member Alberto,
IT9MRM, posted on DX-World.Net that it was sadly [quote] "ungovernable
and at the mercy of the waves." [endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT;
ARISS: the ARRL; CQ Magazine; DX-World.Net; Facebook; Hap Holly and the
Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin;
QST Magazine; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio
Show; Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Please send emails to our address at
[email protected]. More
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official
website 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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth,
Ohio, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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