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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 16 2018 11:15 am

WORLD OF DX:

In this week's World of DX, if you want to contact Christmas Island, be
listening for Michael, DF8AN, who is operating only until the 17th of
November as VK9XQ. Listen on 160 to 6 meters where he is using CW, RTTY,
various digital modes, and FT8 in DXpedition mode. QSL to home call.

Henning, OZ1BII, will be active as ZA/OU2I from Golem in Albania, between
November 21st and 27th. Listen for him using CW only on the 30/17/12 meter
bands. He will also be in the CQWW DX CW Contest, which is November 24th
and 25th. Contacts will be uploaded to ClubLog, eQSL and LoTW. QSL direct
to his home address or LoTW (which is preferred).

In Barbados, a team of operators including Sigi, DL7DF, Manfred, DK1BT,
and Wolf, DL4WK, will operate as 8P9AE, from Barbados, until the 20th of
November. Be listening for them using CW, SSB, and the Digital modes.
They can be heard on 160-80m, including 30m, and they will also have an
antenna for 20-10m. Send QSLs direct to DL7DF, or by the Bureau. Logs
will be uploaded to LoTW within 6 months after their DXpedition.

From Algeria, be listening for the Algerian Radio Amateur Union's special
event station 7V1N from Djelfa, until November 20. QSL via operators'
instructions.

These days, many use the FT8 digital mode for DX contacts. On the evening
of the 13th of November, the WSJT-x group published version 2, release
candidate 4 of their program. As well as several fixes and extensions,
this latest version (which will work until the final release of version
2 in December) now only works with the 77 bit packet mode, and hence all
FT8 operators will now need to upgrade, if they are to continue to work
each other. Version 1.91 and earlier of WSJT-x will no longer work with
this or future versions. There is expected to be some confusion until all
have upgraded, at the latest when the non-test version 2.00 is available
from December.

**

KICKER: DXPEDITIONER GOING THE DISTANCE AT 83

PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final report, we introduce a YL who's an octogenarian
headed to Africa. Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, shares her story.

CARYN: An amateur radio ticket can also be a ticket to living one's
dreams - and perhaps no one knows that better right now than Susan
Meckley, W7KFI. Susan is headed to Malawi, where in a few days, she and
her friend Don Jones, K6ZO, will be on a DXpedition through early
December, operating CW as 7Q7M, and 7Q6M respectively.

Retired from both the U.S. Navy and the Army, the Mississippi resident
said she's always been up for adventure. Yes, even at 83 years of age.

Susan, who's had her ticket since 1952, cruised the Pacific solo aboard
her 32-foot sailboat for years, until she came ashore when she turned 80.
Her next big moment was to fly a World War Two fighter plane -- but then,
Don Jones came along another option: They would travel to the rare African
DX entity, where he is involved in a project assisting a local hospital,
and operate before, after, and during, the CQ WW CW contest.

Her rationale for changing her plans?

SUSAN:"The plane would have been for an hour, and the trip is for an
extended period of time."

CARYN: Though they'll be living in the hospital guest quarters, there
might be some camping involved - which, in Africa, means lions.

SUSAN: "I am worried about that. I just might bow out of that because
with my luck, I would get the 10 percent that didn't get the memo that
says don't bother humans."

CARYN: She wants to make as many contacts as possible, of course, but
she has another goal, a reasonable one:

SUSAN: "Get out alive and come back home."

CARYN: The trip will mean that this devoted ragchewer will finally get
to experience her first contest too. She considers this trip one grand
last hurrah.

SUSAN: "When I first got into radio in the early 50s, I read about
Danny Weil and his yacht, the Yasme, and I said ''my gosh I want to do
that.'' My whole life has been planned to get military retirement,
Social Security and disappear off into the sunset. So I've gone to some
of the islands and places I've been to that I haven't been so sure about.
Oh I've had some adventures out there."

CARYN: You can be a part of her next adventure, starting on the 22nd of
November. Listen for Susan 7Q7M, and Don 7Q6M, sending CQ in CW. That
will be the sound of Susan Meckley, age 83, saying QSL to one more big
ham radio dream.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT.

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT-UK;
the ARRL; CQ Magazine; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Jeff Savasta KB4JKL;
Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; Steve Fletcher, K7AA; Southgate Amateur Radio News;
Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Variety; 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].
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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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