Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : ALL USERS
From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Thu Apr 14 2016 10:55 pm
WORLD OF DX
Svein, LA9JKA, is operating on Jan Mayen Island, on all HF bands, until
early October. He is using the call sign JX9JKA. Send QSLs to his home
call.
Tom, KC0W, will is active for several months as KH8/KC0W from American
Samoa using CW only. Send cards to his home QTH in the United States.
Members of the Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club will be working as K6PV/6
from Santa Catalina Island from April 28 to May 1. Look for them
operating SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK31 on 80 through 10 meters. Send QSL cards
via K6PV.
Doug, VK4ADC, is working holiday style as VK9NU from Norfolk Island,
starting April 23, through May 2. He will only be working SSB. Look for
him on 80 meters through 6 meters. Send QSL cards via home call (direct
or bureau). You may also use eQSL and LoTW.
Alex, W1CDC, is on the bands as 8R1A from Guyana until April 24, holiday
style. Listen for him on 80m to 10m, mainly working CW. QSL to his home
call.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTER SOCIETY)
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KICKER: DOG CATCHER NEEDED FOR MISSING ASTRONAUT POOCH
STEPHEN: We close this week with a cautionary tale from a group of
schoolchildren in the UK: Think twice before sending your dog - even a
toy dog - into space. We hear more from Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim
Damron, N8TMW.
JIM: "FIND SAM" -- Those words, preceded by a hashtag, signal the world's
focus, on social media, on the intense search efforts by some London
primary school students on locating the plush toy they launched, with
a helium balloon, into space. Sam, the toy dog, was equipped with a
GoPro camera, and GPS tracking equipment. But when the balloon popped,
15 miles above the Earth, and everything that went up, eventually came
down, Sam was nowhere to be found. They did not, after all, equip Sam
with a map.
Radio amateurs, of course, can relate. Trackers, transponders, balloons,
and often, ground searches, are part of the amateur experience for many
who enjoy this kind of experimentation.
Now, it's unlikely Sam met with the same fate as Laika, the Soviet space
dog who orbited the Earth in 1957, and failed to survive, but the
question remains - where in northwest England could Sam have landed? The
world asks "Have you seen this dog?" Even a local hotel that helped
sponsor the project is offering a free stay to Sam's finder.
For the students, this was supposed to have been a lesson in astronomy
and physics. But, perhaps the teacher should have also thrown in some
studies of animal husbandry, or at least dog breeding. The kids might
have decided they'd be better off using a retriever.
For Amateur Radio newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW.
(CNN, TWITTER, NATURE WORLD NEWS, USA TODAY)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; Cornish Amateur
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Amateur Radio Society; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Southside Amateur
Radio Club; TWiT TV; Twitter; USA Today; Wireless Institute of
Australia; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio
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candidates for the 2016 Bill Pasternak Young Ham of the Year Award.
This honor recognizes licensed amateurs who are no older than 19, and
living in the U.S., Puerto Rico or Canada, and who have made significant
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Completed forms and supporting documentation should be sent to:
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Inc., Editorial Office, P.O. Box 451, Huntington Station, New York 11746.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth,
Ohio, saying 73, and as always we thank you for listening.
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