Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 17 2022 09:06 am
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, Barry, FO/KD6XU, has been active from French
Polynesia and can be heard from the Society Islands. Be listening for
him using CW mainly on 40-12m bands.
Listen for Team ZY8AM from the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil between July
1st and 12th. They will be active on 160m to 6m using CW, SSB and FT8.
QSL using LoTW or Direct only.
In Guatemala, Stephen, K4IM, is on the air as TG9AWS until October.
Listen for him from 160 to 10 metres with a focus on RTTY. QSL via home
call, direct, LoTW, OQRS Club Log.
Roland, F8EN is on Gabon Island operating as TR8CR until the end of July.
Listen on 40, 30 and 20 meters where he is using CW. QSL via F6AJA direct
or bureau.
(DX-WORLD. NET)
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KICKER: MORSE CODE IS KEYING UP IN AUTOMAKER'S NEW CAMPAIGN
DON/ANCHOR: For our final story, we look at how one car maker's ad
campaign has embraced the spirit of the DXpedition. In fact, the car
maker is using that campaign as a vehicle - a four-wheel-drive vehicle in
this case - to honor the kind of adventurous spirit found in amateur
radio and to celebrate - in a big way - Morse Code. Here's Mike Askins,
KE5CXP, with the details.
MIKE: There's no need to keep a secret about what's going on at Jeep: the
popular carmaker has been into Morse Code now for quite a few years. In
2015, there was the campaign slogan "Don't Morse Code and Drive," which
gave good safety advice to motorists having off-road adventures in their
four-by-four. Later came a Morse Code message in the cars themselves,
dits and dahs in raised bumps visible on the driver's left footrest.
Decoded, the message spells out "Sand, Snow, Rivers, and Rocks," the
terrain the SUV was made to conquer with relative ease. Now there's a new
campaign called "Jeep Code," released this past spring by the ad agency
Publicis Groupe. The agency's executive creative director said on the
website Little Black Book online that CW serves as an ideal match for
Jeep because Morse Code is a good form of communication for people in
remote, off-road places. The agency directed the creation of a website to
complement the campaign, letting people generate or translate their own
Morse Code messages, just for fun. That website is jeeplifeiscalling dot
com (jeeplifeiscalling.com)
When miles- or kilometres-per-hour teams up with words-per-minute, the
only thing left for the carmaker to do, perhaps, is to trade in all those
ignition keys.....for straight keys.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(JEEPLIFEISCALLING.COM, LITTLE BLACK BOOK ONLINE, ADSOFTHEWORLD.COM)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE:
With thanks to the Ads Of the World; AMSAT News Service; ARRL;
Astroscale; BBC; CQ Magazine; Daily Mirror; Daily Express; David Behar
K7DB; DX-World.net; JeepLifeIsCalling; IARU Region 1; Little Black Book
Online; Millennium Post; NPR; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com; Robert Sabarese;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; Sable Island DXpedition website;
shortwaveradio.de; TechMonitor; the Washington Post; and you our
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
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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 Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune,
Mississippi, saying 73. As always we thank you for listening.
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