Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : ALL
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu May 19 2016 11:11 pm
THE WORLD OF DX
John, W5JON/V47JA, will be active from Calypso Bay, St. Kitts as V47JA
from June 14 to July 15. He will work 160-6 meters, including 60m, using
SSB. He will also be a Single Op/All band entry during the IARU HF World
Championship Contest on July 9th and 10th. Send QSL cards to W5JON direct
or via LoTW. He is not accepting bureau QSLs.
Merv, N6NO, is using the call sign VK9OL while working from Lord Howe
Island. He will be there through May 29. He is using mainly CW, and
focusing on the WARC bands. QSL direct to N6NO.
Look for Phil, TN2MP and Joe TN2BJ, operating from the Congo, considered
a semi-rare DX. They will be operating there until May 23. QSLs go via
F5MVB and F5AOW respectively.
On May 28 and May 29, be listening for members of the Lough Erne Amateur
Radio Club, working from the Marble Arch Caves Geopark in County
Fermanagh, Ireland, to celebrate European Geoparks Week. They will be
using the call sign GB2MAC, and operating SSB on all the HF bands. Send
QSL cards via LoTW, eQSL and Bureau.
(SOUTHGATE ARC, IRTS)
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KICKER: FAREWELL TO A LONGTIME FRIEND, DAVE BELL, W6AQ, SK
JIM: Finally, we say a sad goodbye to a tireless promoter of amateur
radio, an Emmy award winning filmmaker, and close friend and supporter
of Amateur Radio Newsline. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Wilbanks,
AE5DW.
DON: Dave Bell, W6AQ, passed away Friday, May 13th. He was 84. A ham for
65 years, Dave was a filmmaker and television producer. He is known in
entertainment circles for his work producing TV movies, specials, and
documentaries for all of the broadcast networks, including cable giants
USA Network, HBO, and Showtime. He even made a couple of feature films -
"Nadia", and "The Long Walk Home." His documentary series, "Missing -
Have You Seen this Person?" was nominated for an Emmy, and became the
basis for the legendary NBC series "Unsolved Mysteries." His CBS
production of "Do You Remember Love", starring JoAnn Woodward and
Richard Kiley, won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama/comedy Special in
1985. The list goes on and on. So prolific was Dave Bell's work, it
has been said that anyone over 50 who has worked in reality TV at some
point worked for, or with Dave Bell. But, we remember Dave not as a
television executive but as W6AQ. And, before he got rolling in
entertainment films in the '80s, he was making documentaries about
amateur radio as far back as the late '50s. His first ham radio film
was "The Ham's Wide World."
Here's Dave Bell:
"'The Ham's Wide World' featured several major celebrities who were
big-time hams. If you know these names, you qualify for the Old Old
Timer's Club. Arthur Godfrey, K4LIB, Bill Leonard, W2SKE, and Barry
Goldwater, K7UGA."
He recruited some major star power for "The World Of Amateur Radio."
[Dick Van Dyke audio]
In 2002, he produced "Amateur Radio Today", featuring an iconic voice
of a generation as the host:
[Walter Cronkite audio]
One of the voices you heard in that clip was Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF,
Newsline's founder. Bill and Dave worked together for decades on those
ARRL films. They were more than colleagues, they were the best of
friends. Dave Bell was a supporter of our Young Ham Of The Year award,
purchasing the plaque for the winner. I had the great fortune of
presenting Dave Bell, and a retrospective of those films, at the 2014
Dayton Hamvention. I was awestruck, something that never happens to me.
Dave was just as gracious as he could be, and we had a fantastic time
that I will treasure for the rest of my days.
Dave Bell is survived by Alice, better known as Sam, his wife of 61
years, her call is W6QLT.
Dave Bell's legacy will live on in these films. I encourage you to
visit arrl.org and learn more about these films. They're all available
for purchase from the league.
Remembering our good friend Dave Bell, W6AQ, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine;
Dayton Daily News; Don Kunst, W3LNE; DX.NET; Geoff Bonney, VK4GI;
Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitter Society;
SATERN; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show;
Waxahatchie, Texas Daily Light; West Virginia DX Association;
Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Please send emails to our address at
[email protected]. More
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official
website located at www.arnewsline.org.
We also remind our listeners that there's still time to nominate
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 contributions to ham radio and their community. To download
an application form, visit our website, www.arnewsline.org, and click
on the tab for "Y-H-O-T-Y." Completed applications should be sent to:
The Young Ham of the Year Award, in care of Amateur Radio Newsline,
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 Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston,
West Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
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