Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 14 2018 09:54 am
AN OCCASION TO CELEBRATE AT THE VOA
JIM/ANCHOR: If you're in the shack anytime on September 22, between 1300
and 2100 UTC, tune to 20 meters or 40 meters, and help the Bethany Relay
Station of the Voice of America, mark the 74th anniversary of its
commissioning on Sept. 23, 1944. WC8VOA will be operating a special event
station, offering both a QSL card, and a downloadable commemorative
certificate. Afterward, in another part of the distinctive Art Deco
building in West Chester, Ohio, the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting
will be hosting a fundraising event, from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. local time,
to support needed building renovations.
If you can't get there, however, get on the air. While WC8VOA's HF
equipment and antennas aren't the original ones dating back to 1944,
the spirit of VOA history is surely still there on the air.
**
AIRSHOW INCLUDES RADIO SHOW IN SONOMA COUNTY, CALIF.
JIM/ANCHOR: In California's Sonoma County, organizers are combining an
airshow with a radio show - special event station K6W. Here's Andy
Morrison, K9AWM.
ANDY: Sonoma County, California, has struggled to rise above the ashes
of the recent wildfire devastation, and on September 22nd and 23rd, the
county's spirit gets a boost from dozens and dozens of wings - the kind
of wings you'll find at the airshow taking place at the Charles M.
Schulz-Sonoma County Airport on those two days. The Wings over Wine
Country Airshow will feature aerobatic performances, the U.S. Air Force
Academy skydiving team, and fly-bys of historic planes from World War
Two.
Just as the aircraft overhead put on their own shows, the Sonoma County
Radio Amateurs will be demonstrating on the ground. Special Event
callsign K6W will be activated on 20 and 40 meters, depending on band
conditions.
No wonder the event theme is "Rising Together: A celebration of recovery
in Sonoma County." After a challenging season, everyone there will want
to know that things are looking up.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Andy Morrison, K9AWM.
(Darryl Paule, KI6MSP)
**
A CELEBRATION OF MARCONI - DOWN UNDER
JIM/ANCHOR: It's been 100 years since Australia, and the UK connected
via wireless - so something special is being planned, as we hear from
Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
GRAHAM: Every five years, the first successful exchange of messages
between Australia, and the United Kingdom, via wireless in 1918, is
marked by contact between the Dragon Amateur Radio Club in Wales, and
the Hornsby Amateur Radio Club, together with the Ku-ring-gai Historical
Society. This year, 100 hundred years after the original experimental
transmission between the two nations, the experiment is about to occur
again - this time on the 22nd of September, as a re-enactment of the
original Morse Code message, and a broader celebration.
With this being a 100-year anniversary, the Ku-ring-gai Municipal
Council is planning to host a celebration, that will include displays
in the nearby St. Andrew's Church hall, as well as an amateur radio
station operated by the Hornsby and District Amateur Radio Club,
with the call sign VK100MARCONI. At the same time in Wales, the Dragon
Amateur Radio club will operate its own HF station from the site of the
Marconi transmitter there, using the call sign GB2VK.
The day's activities will include replication of the original message
sent from Wales by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes to Ernest Fisk,
who was at home at his wireless station in Wahroonga.
Why wait until the 22nd of the month? The Wireless institute of Australia
has been celebrating all month, and hams are being allocated state- and
territory-based special event call signs for the duration of the
observance. The call signs have the prefix "VI" and the suffix "MARCONI"
with the appropriate number in between designating each state or
territory.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
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