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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 05 2019 09:35 am
WORLD OF DX
In this week's World of DX, be listening for Harald, DF2WO, operating as
XT2AW, from Burkina Faso, through the end of April. He will concentrate
on 160, 80, and 60 metres. QSL via M0OXO's OQRS and LoTW.
Listen also for Jerry, F4HJO, using the call sign F4HJO/p, from Belle Ile
en Mer, from the 13th of April through to the 21st of April. He will
operate SSB, RTTY, and FT8, on 80-15 metres. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or
via the bureau to his home call.
Chris, EA3NT, will be on the air as J20NT, from mainland Djibouti, on the
13th and 14th of April, while waiting for his J20DX team mates' arrival.
QSL via EA3NT.
Mike, K9AJ, and Bruce, KD6WW, will be active as K7Y, from Khantaak Island
in the Yakutat County Group of Alaska, from the 10th to the 13th of May.
They will operate mainly CW on 40, 30, 20, and 17 metres, with some SSB,
and possibly some FT8. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via K9AJ, direct, or
bureau.
(OHIO PENN DX NEWSLETTER)
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KICKER: HAM HAS A COMET TO CALL HER OWN
NEIL/ANCHOR: Finally, we end with the question: What's better than a
vanity callsign? How about....a vanity COMET? Mike Askins, KE5CXP,
explains.
MIKE: Heather Flewelling, WH6FTQ, is a SOTA activator in Hawaii, a net
control for a nightly net, very active on simplex, and has even served
as net control for SKYWARN, starting with Hurricane Lane in 2018.
Now she has a comet to call her own: Comet Flewelling. Heather, who has
a PhD in physics, discovered the comet recently during her work at the
Institute for Astronomy, a part of the University of Hawaii. Her current
assignment is the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or
ATLAS. It's an early warning system for asteroid impact that the
university is developing, with support from NASA. That's what led her
to her celestial finding.
On the 21st of March, the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet
Center christened Heather's discovery with her name.
That's got to be at least as exciting as another recent discovery that
Heather made: amateur radio. Heather got her ticket only in May of last
year, after buying an SDR radio on impulse. By Field Day, just a few
weeks later, she had upgraded to Extra class -- you might say, at the
speed of a comet.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(DARREN HOLBROOK KH6OWL)
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