MORE ACTIVATIONS FOR K2BSA
NEIL/ANCHOR: Radio Scouts are finishing up the month of January with
some more activations, as we hear from Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill
Stearns, NE4RD.
BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we have 2 activations of the K2BSA
callsign, 1 activation from Scout Camps on the Air, and planning for the
National Scout Jamboree, and Jamboree on the Air.
Bryan Gonderinger, AF0W, will be activating K2BSA/0 at Merit Badge
College in Longmont, CO, on January 28th. Scouts will be working on
their Radio Merit Badge, along with many other opportunities for scouts
to earn badges at the Mountain View District's event.
Thomas Schuessler, N5HYP, will activating K2BSA/5 at a Radio Merit Badge
workshop at the National Scout Museum in Irving, TX, on February 4th.
This is an exciting opportunity for scouts to visit this active station,
and the museum.
Over on the Scout Camps on the Air site, we have Thomas Kisner, KN6Q,
who will be activating KE5BSA at the Silver Star Merit Badge College in
Fort Worth, TX, on February 4th. Thomas will be active on 20 meters on
14.290 plus or minus the QRM.
We here at the K2BSA group are actively scheduling our transportation
and arrivals to the National Scout Jamboree to be held in July from the
15th to the 28th. We are very excited about the opportunity to work
with scouts and our sponsors on making Radio Scouting a part of this
great adventure for the youth. Details of the operation are well into
the planning stages, and expect K2BSA to be on the air on most bands,
and on satellite throughout the event. We'd like to thank Icom America,
DX Engineering, and MFJ Enterprises for their support of this event.
With February approaching, it's time to start locking in the location
for your JOTA event. Recruit a champion to continue the dialog of JOTA
at district committee meetings and round tables. Join us on the Radio
Scouting net the 2nd Thursday of the month on EchoLink in conference
*JOTA-365* or node number 480809 at 9pm Central.
For more information on K2BSA and Radio Scouting, please visit
http://www.k2bsa.net/.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this
is Bill Stearns, NE4RD.
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THE WORLD OF DX
Listen for the call signs J5UAP and 6W2SC, as Peter, HA3AUI, visits
Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, between now and early March. He is operating
on CW. QSL cards should be sent directly to his home call.
A group of German operators is activating TU5MH from the Ivory Coast
through the 2nd of February. They have three stations, and can be found
on 80m to 10m on CW, SSB and RTTY. Send QSL cards via Club Log OQRS.
Logs will also be uploaded to Logbook of The World.
Members of a Dominican Republic club have put Beata Island on the air
until the 1st of February. Be listening for their callsign HI1UD. The
IOTA reference is NA-122. The expedition's QSL Manager is W2CCW.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)
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KICKER: USING CODE IN A FLASH
NEIL/ANCHOR: It wasn't a straight key, or even a bug, but a flashlight -
also known as a torch - that helped rescue an injured Army reservist
recently when he was visiting Seatown in Dorset in the UK. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has that story.
JEREMY: Sgt. Tim Robinson broke his leg after slipping on some seaweed
during a walk on the Jurassic Coast, east of Lyme Regis. Without a mobile phone,
he could not telephone for help. According to some media accounts,
he crawled and staggered in the direction of his hotel for about two
hours. As darkness crept in, however, the injured reservist realized he
still had one reliable means of communication - his pocket flashlight.
He signaled "SOS" in Morse Code in the direction of the hotel where the
Derbyshire couple were staying more than a mile away. He had hoped that's
where his wife Paula would be looking for him.
He repeated the Code message three more times. His wife, who was at a car
park, followed the signals and responded. The couple exchanged signals
five more times until she located him. After she summoned help, a lifeboat
transported him to Lyme Regis, and he was transferred there to a hospital.
He later told his rescuers "I've had two tours of Afghanistan, and one in
Iraq and there were a few incidents over there, but nothing quite as
dramatic as what happened on this beach".
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(BBC, THE MIRROR)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; BBC; CQ Magazine; Hap
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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 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington, Indiana,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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