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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 07 2018 09:50 am
GET ON BOARD THE 'FLYING SCOTSMAN'
PAUL/ANCHOR: Ham radio is also helping mark railroad history, as we
hear from Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: The locomotive's website calls it a "National Treasure" - and
few would argue with that, even if they're not train enthusiasts, or
fans of the Flying Scotsman.
Built in Doncaster for the London and North Eastern Railway, the
Flying Scotsman went into service in 1923, and became one of the
most powerful express trains in service at that time.
So many years later, it's getting its own Amateur Radio Special Event
station, GB0FS. The operators on the 15th of September, will be in a
carriage pulled by this famous train. Its name was made in 1928 by
providing the first non-stop service between London and Edinburgh - a
long trip that was reduced to eight hours travel time. The radio station
is a collaborative effort between the Bury Radio Society, and the
Rochdale and District Amateur Radio Society. The journey will take the
hams from Bury, Lancashire to Holyhead, in Anglesey, North Wales and
back.
Organizers Dave, M0LMN, and Mo, M0TXK, note on the GB0FS page that this
is the first Special Event Station to take place mobile on the main UK
railway network. They will be operating simplex on 2m and 70 cm and can
also be heard on DMR and Fusion repeaters.
So, All aboard!
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(BURY RADIO SOCIETY, QRZ)
**
KICKER: THE 'BOOMERANG RADIO' COMES HOME
PAUL/ANCHOR: We end this week on a personal note from one of our own
here at Newsline. This is a story about the love of an old radio -
and something more. This story belongs to Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
NEIL’S KICKER: Here at Newsline at the end of each report, we usually
end with a funny or heartwarming story from someone. This week is no
exception. But this time, the story is one of my own. Last week, I was
picking up an amplifier that had been upgraded for K9SOU, the high school
station located where I teach. Joe Fitter, K7JOE, my cohort at the
amateur radio club at Indiana University, made the updates for us. But
in addition to picking up the amplifier, he brought me a rather large
receiver. It was a Hallicrafters S-40B that he told me about. He had
been trading some equipment, as he often does. Then he said, "I think
this belonged to your Dad." Dad became a silent key a little over a year
ago. So Joe tells me to open up the lid, and inside was a small card
from when the receiver had been repaired. It had my mom and dad's names
on it, their callsigns, Vincennes, Indiana (my hometown), and at the
bottom, the name of a very close friend in my childhood, Paul Kent,
W9CQ, who mentored me in RTTY.
I barely remember this receiver, as I was only five years old at the
time, and Dad bought a newer receiver with general coverage not long
before I earned my novice license. But, indeed it was in his hands at
one time. Whether he repaired it or sold it is still not clear yet.
I'm still trying to connect the dots for the entire story, but I seem
to remember that he sold it, and the Heathkit transmitter we started
out with in order to get some money for an amplifier. Joe had bought
it from Paul Kent's nephew, and figured out some of its history from
the card. He was gracious enough to give it to me last week. And now,
this receiver is back home... 42 years later.
Some have called it the "boomerang" radio, others have said it's a
message Dad is trying to send like on the movie "Frequency." As for
me, I'm just truly grateful.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington,
Indiana.
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the
ARRL; the Bury Radio Society; CQ Magazine; Daily Mail; Hamlife.JP;
Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; the
Japan Times; Korea Stamp Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ; 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
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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 Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso,
Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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