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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Mar 21 2019 11:52 pm
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2160, for Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2160, with a release date of
Friday, March 22nd, 2019, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Hams prep for floods in the American Midwest.
A noted DXer becomes a Silent Key - and the team is Bouvet-bound at
last! All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Number 2160, comes
your way right now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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TOP STORY: BOUVET ISLAND DXPEDITION SETS SAIL
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We begin this week's report with word that the Three Y
Zero Eye (3Y0I) Bouvet Island DXpedition has at last set sail aboard
the MV Atlantic Tuna for its destination, which the team expects to
reach around March 26th, conditions permitting. The team departed South
Africa on the 19th of March, and has plans to stay between two and four
weeks on the remote island, depending on various factors affecting
safety. If you can't wait to get them in your log, listen for their call
sign E51DOM/mm while they are enroute. There is information on their
website at bouvetoya dot org (bouvetoya.org) about how to track their
progress. The team notes that it will not be monitoring personal emails
or any of the DX clusters during the activation. Expect their glacier
camp on the island's southeast corner to provide an open view to Europe
and Japan, but mountains in the northwest direction to the U.S.
They write on their website [quote]: "Stay tuned for further updates and
cross fingers for us. History has begun!"
(3Y0I DXPEDITION WEBSITE)
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RED RIVER VALLEY HAMS PREP FOR FLOODING
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Meanwhile, amateurs in the American Midwest are keeping
an eye on the massive flooding expected soon on both sides of the Red
River, expected to have serious impact on residents in North Dakota and
Minnesota. Hams there have been using the advance weather warnings to
brace - and to plan, as we hear from Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.
KENT: Faced with a flooding emergency that could recall the massive rise
of the Red River in 1997 and 2009, members of the Amateur Radio Emergency
Service, and the Red River Radio Amateurs club, are meeting regularly to
prepare for early April, when overland flooding could overtake the flat
valley, as melting snow is trapped by ice dams directly to the north.
Mark Jensen, KK0V, the newly named Emergency Coordinator for the Amateur
Radio Emergency Service, and a member of the Red River Radio Amateurs
club, said close to 50 hams gathered for a planning meeting on the 19th
of March, to work out logistics for cooperating with Emergency Operations
Centers in Fargo and West Fargo in North Dakota, and in Moorhead,
Minnesota. Mark said the weather service has predicted "moderate to
severe" flooding, and hams have been instructed to check the condition
of their emergency kits, charge all batteries, check their ID badges,
and spend more time monitoring the repeaters than normal, in case they
are called up to assist with communications. He said hams will also be
coordinating with the Fargo Moorhead Ambulance Service, which also
maintains a ham shack. The hams, many of them veterans of many previous
floods, reviewed their plan of action - from power outage response, to
assisting with sandbags - and expect to meet again soon, and hope for the
best.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.
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SILENT KEY: BRAZILIAN DXER ALENCAR PV8ADI
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The DXing community and amateurs worldwide are grieving
the loss of a noted longtime amateur radio operator, who died following
a fall from one of his towers. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, contacted Paulo,
PV8DX, a longtime friend of the Silent Key, and has this report:
JEREMY: The accomplished and well-known DXer known as Alencar, PV8ADI,
of Boa Vista in Roraima state, Brazil has become a Silent Key. He died
just three days short of his 80th birthday, which would have been on the
20th of March. An active DXer, his full name is listed on QRZ as Clovis
Pinheiro Barreto. He was often heard on 20 and 40 metres, and was
accomplished in CW. His friend Paulo, PV8DX, told Newsline that in the
afternoon on the 17th of March, he had fallen from the top of the very
tower he had built himself. Paulo wrote in an email [quote] "We think
the steel cable that he was repairing failed and he jumped." [enquote]
Paulo said his friend was taken to hospital, with an open fracture to
his right arm, and also with leg injuries, but his heart stopped during
surgery. He was revived once by the doctors, but at 6:37 p.m. that
evening, his heart gave out. Paulo said Alencar had no family. He went
on to say [quote] "He just lived for radio, morning, noon, and night."
[endquote], and added that Alencar was worthy of all our admiration,
and was "heart and soul a radio ham."
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A special tribute page has been set up honoring the
memory of this Silent Key. Please visit l a b r e dash r r dot org
(labre-rr.org)
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