Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 14 2018 09:36 pm
BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the K8SCI repeater
in Brunswick, Ohio, on Sundays at 9 p.m.
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WHEN A QSL CARD BRINGS CALLSIGN DEJA VU
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: It's not unusual for one ham's transceiver to show up in
another ham's shack, one ham's antenna to find its way across the country
to another ham who needed it, or even an old, treasured straight key given
away by someone who doesn't need it any longer. But a ham in Oklahoma,
and a ham in California, recently learned they shared something entirely
different, as Mike Askins, KE5CXP, explains.
MIKE: On November 25, 2018, Mike Olsen, NQ6C, and Roger Simpson, K5RKS,
had a QSO on 17 meters at 1831 UTC using FT8 mode. Not long after, Mike
received Roger's QSL card, and something else - a second, older QSL card
in the same envelope, which left Mike feeling as if he were looking into
a mirror.
Mike told Newsline in an email: [quote] "The first QSL card on top had
NQ6C, which was my call sign, but it wasn't one of my cards." [endquote]
Mike was assigned the call sign earlier this year, and clearly this QSL
card went back much further in time than that. His temporary confusion
ended when he looked at the other QSL card - the one from their recent
contact - and saw that Roger had written, at the very bottom: "What a
surprise to work my old call!"
It turns out Roger had been assigned the call sign in November of 1982,
after passing his Extra Class exam at the FCC's San Francisco office.
Mike, of course, had no clue about its history, when it became his turn
to be assigned the call sign in March.
It's not every day you get to connect with your digital doppelganger.
Now, says Mike, NQ6C, has not just become a treasured call sign and
QSL card, but a piece of personal history -- and he might just have
this card framed.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
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YLRL AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO 3 PROMISING AMATEURS
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The Young Ladies' Radio League has just awarded three
promising amateurs with scholarships to continue their studies, as we
hear from Heather Embee, KB3TZD.
HEATHER: Readers of YL-Harmonics, the official publication of the Young
Ladies' Radio League, were greeted by three smiling faces on the cover
of the group's November-December issue: Jordyn Mann, W1KXJ; Anna Veal,
W0ANT; and Trina Boyce, KI6GZG, all have good reason to smile. They have
all been named YLRL Scholarship winners, receiving gifts that honor three
Silent Keys: Ethyl Smith, K4LMB; Martha Wessel, K0EPE, and Mary Lou
Brown, NM7N. Jordyn is a computer science major at MIT, and has been an
intern at NASA. Anna, a graduate of the STEM high school in Highlands
Ranch, Colorado, plans to study computer science at the University of
Colorado. She is also a past winner of Amateur Radio Newsline's Young
Ham of the Year award. Trina, who is a doctoral candidate at Colorado
Technical University, has two master's degrees, and teaches online as
an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University. Applications will be
open soon for the 2019 scholarships, and are due by April. For more
information, check the website of the Foundation for Amateur Radio at
farweb dot org (farweb.org). Meanwhile, congratulations to this year's
winners.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD.
(The YLRL HARMONICS)
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WORLD OF DX
In this week's world of DX, be listening for Ben, DL6RAI, who is
operating in Aruba as P4/DL6RAI. You can listen for him until the
27th of December on 160 and 80 meters. QSL via Club Log's OQRS,
LoTW, or via his home call.
In Curacao, Anders, SM4KYN, will be active as PJ2/SM4KYN, through
the 14th of January. Send QSLs direct to his home call.
In Antarctica, Felix, DL5XL, is active again as DP1POL, from the
German research station "Neumayer III" until February 2019. He is
operating mainly CW and digital modes. Send QSLs via DL-ONE-ZED Bee Oh
(DL1ZBO), direct, or by the bureau, and on LoTW.
Starting on the 26th of December, Chie, 7L3PFH, will be active as
KH0TG from Tinian in the Mariana Islands, where she will be operating
until the 1st of January. She will operate CW and SSB on 160 through
20 meters. QSL direct to JL1UTS.
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