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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 25 2019 09:21 pm
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2178, for Friday, July 26, 2019
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2178, with a release date of
Friday, July 26, 2019, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Hams in India reunite an ailing man and his
family. A special event station honors America's Navajo Code Talkers --
and ham radio pays tribute to pirate radio's Radio Caroline. All this
and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Number 2178, comes your way, right
now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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HAMS IN INDIA REUNITE AILING MAN WITH FAMILY
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We begin this week's report with the story of amateur
radio's role in a rescue and reunion in India. Jason Daniels, VK2LAW,
has those details for you.
JASON: Amateur radio operators in West Bengal, India, helped reunite
family members with a 65-year-old man who had gone missing after falling
seriously ill while traveling. The man, who had formerly worked for the
municipality of Jalpaiguri, was found unconscious by the side of the road
in Patna, and admitted to a private nursing home there, according to local
news reports. One of his rescuers managed to contact the man's family,
using his mobile phone, but only briefly, as the battery went dead. The
family, cut off without having full information, reached out to the West
Bengal Radio Club, and its secretary Ambarish Nag Biswas, VU2JFA. The West
Bengal hams contacted their counterparts in Patna, with the help of Swaran
Kumar Singh, VU2OYZ, however while arrangements were being made to transfer
the patient to a facility in Jalpaiguri, despite the complications of heavy
flood conditions there, the man's condition stabilised. Shortly thereafter,
the man's family was enroute to Patna for their reunion with him.
Ambarish Nag Biswas told the Millennium Post newspaper: "We feel that such
concerted efforts on the part of people from a neighbouring state...in our
Patna ham team to help out a person in West Bengal in distress deserves
special mention."
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
(MILLENNIUM POST)
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RURAL SCHOOL IN TELANGANA GETS AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Elsewhere in India, students and their advisors are
preparing to welcome a new amateur radio club. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has
more.
JIM: The new amateur radio club that's in the works on the campus of the
Telangana State Model School is considered the first of its kind in a
rural area in the state. Two of the school's teachers and 48 students
recently qualified for their amateur station operator certificate,
following a test given on the school grounds by the Department of
Telecommunications under the Ministry of Communication & Information
Technology. The newly minted hams expect to ask the District Collector
for funding to establish the campus club. The students credited the
scout master of the school Sayed Julani with encouraging students to
pursue the hobby. The scout master told Telangana Today newspaper that
his next plan is to get a licence to establish a ham radio station on
the premises. That effort has the support of the Lamakan Amateur Radio
Club in Hyderabad, which plans to provide this new club with its first
radios to get on the air.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
(TELANGANA TODAY)
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SILENT KEY: HAL COMMUNICATIONS' GEORGE HENRY JR. K9GWT
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: RTTY enthusiasts and hams familiar with digital
communications might remember HAL Communications. Their cofounder has
become a Silent Key, as we hear from Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
NEIL: The cofounder of a business known as a steady supplier of RTTY
and digital communications modems, as well as terminal units and
software, has become a Silent Key. George Henry Jr., K9GWT, later
became president of the company HAL Communications, which he ran with
business partner George Perrine. George, who was known by the name Bill -
for his middle name - launched the company formally as a corporation at
the University of Illinois at Urbana. According to the company website,
the business had previously been known as HAL Devices, when a number of
students were purchasing HF radio equipment parts, and reselling them at
hamfests starting in 1966. The company graduated from being a reseller
later on with the launch of its own product, a double-balanced modulator
circuit board that utilized HP hot carrier diodes.
George eventually sold his stock in the business to Barrett Communications
of Australia in 2012.
Bill Henry, who died on the 17th of July, was also a life member of the
ARRL. He was 78.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
