Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jan 10 2020 01:53 pm
WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, listen for Jean, FG8NY, using the special callsign
TO10CWO (Tee-Oh-Ten-C-W-Oh) in Guadeloupe from the 17th to the 31st of
January. The activation is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CW
Ops Club. Operations will be in CW, and on various HF bands. Send QSLs
to FG8NY.
Members of the Russian Robinson Club are on the air as E44RU from
Palestine until the 14th of January. Their pilot is Victor, UA3AKO.
Be listening on 160-10 metres, where they will be using CW, SSB, and
FT8, in fox-hound mode. Send QSLs to R7AL, via ClubLog's OQRS or LoTW.
Donald, VE7DS, will be operating as E51DDG, from Rarotonga Island, from
the 2nd to the 14th of February. He will be on 40, 30, 20, and 17 meters
every day using CW. Send QSLs via LoTW or by the Bureau.
Listen for Roland, F8EN, operating as FR/F8EN from Reunion Island between
January 23rd and February 18th. Roland will be using CW only, and will be
on various HF bands. Send QSLs to F6AJA, direct, or through the R-E-F
Bureau.
(OHIO PENN DX)
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KICKER: SRI LANKAN AMATEUR'S NOVEL RECOMMENDATION
PAUL/ANCHOR: In our final story, we share a special long-distance
connection made long ago by Victor Gonnetilleke, 4S7VK, secretary of the
Radio Society of Sri Lanka. Here's Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
GRAHAM: Shortwave radio became the gateway to the world for him at age
12 in Sri Lanka, and that gateway widened years later in 1983, when
Victor Goonetilleke, 4S7VK, got his amateur radio license. By then,
he'd fallen in love with a serialised radio drama he'd heard on the BBC,
"The Land God Gave to Cain," based on a novel about a missing amateur
radio operator in Canada's frozen north country. Touched deeply by the
story, Victor has since read the novel a number of times. Now, so many
years later, he is still recommending it to friends. He told Newsline
in an email that he considers this book a special treasure because its
hero is an amateur radio operator.
He is also happy to share another reason why the book is such a treasure
to him. Its title page was autographed by author, the prolific British
novelist Hammond Innes, with whom he had a brief exchange of letters.
The publisher had put the two men in touch with each another. In a
letter in 1981, the author acknowledged to Victor that the book was
difficult for him to write, and that he believed it to be the first
international novel with a ham as its hero.
Every ham has their treasured DX contacts of course, but these
traditionally occur on the air. In Victor's case, the printed page
served as the conveyance nearly a half-century ago for making what
he considers the connection of a lifetime. As he told his friends
in a recent posting on Facebook, it was like getting a QSL.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp VK4BB.
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Website; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso,
Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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