WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, be listening for Alex, 5B4ALX, active as C4XMAS in
Cyprus until December 31st to celebrate the Christmas season. Listen on
160-6 meters where Alex will be using CW, SSB and the digital modes.
QSL via IZ4AMS, direct, by the Bureau or ClubLog.
Listen for the special event call sign CN1M until the 31st of December.
This is an expedition in the southern part of Morocco. Send QSL cards
to RW6HS direct.
In Ukraine, members of the "7-DX-Club" are activating a special event
with the call sign EN50WZA between January 1st and 31st. They are
marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of their club. Send QSLs
to UT7WZA.
We also report the news that noted DXPeditioner Franz Berndt, DL9GFB,
has become a Silent Key. Franz was a member most recently of the Z66DX
team in Kosovo, but had also been in the Marshall Islands in 2015 with
the V73D Dxpedition and in Samoa in 2013 with 5W0M -- among many
others. He was part of the team VU7RG named "DXpedition of the Year
2006/2007" by the Southwest Ohio DX Association in 2007. A notice
posted on Facebook said he died following a stroke at the age of 68.
(OHIO PENN DX)
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KICKER: IN AUSTRALIA, THE ULTIMATE DX?
SKEETER: We finish this newscast by celebrating another kind of DX, the
ultimate DX. How about a contact from a star near the sun? Graham Kemp,
VK4BB, gives us that signal report.
GRAHAM: Astronomers in Australia are calling the mysterious radio
signal they heard BLC-1. It's their way of describing the narrowband
emission they detected in the spring of 2019 coming from the direction
of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star closest to our sun.
The unexplained signal was picked up by the Parkes telescope in New
South Wales, Australia and later analysed remotely at Penn State
University in the United States. The findings were posted this month on
the National Geographic website.
Was this a type of special event station from an alien life form? Well,
the listeners who received the signal are naturally hoping so, since
one of the two planets orbiting Proxima Centauri appears to have a
temperate climate like our Earth. The scientists who received this
signal are known as Breakthrough Listen and their 10-year search
focuses on extraterrestrials on the air.
While that narrowband reception in Australia gave them some hope - at
least initially - experts have advised the researchers that there is
more likely a rather ordinary, terrestrial explanation since the signal
is more akin to what is produced by our very earthbound Wi-Fi, GPS and
cell towers. They have also yet to receive that signal again.
Looks like that certificate for Worked All Stars may have to wait.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
(NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE:
With thanks to AFP news service; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT-UK; the
ARRL; the BBC; CQ Magazine; David Behar, K7DB; the EI7GL blog;
Facebook; The FCC; IARU Region 1; National Geographic; Ohio Penn DX newsletter;
the Radio Society of Great Britain; Science magazine;
Science Alert; shortwaveradio.de; Southgate; the SOTA Reflector;
Space.com; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; WTWW Shortwave; 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 Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Nashville,
Tennessee, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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