THE WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, listen for Makoto, JI5RPT, from Ogasawara Island,
operating as JD1BLY, from March 7th to 10th. He'll be on 160m to 10m CW,
SSB and digital. QSLs go to the home call.
In Ghana, a group of 6 operators from the UK will be using the callsign
9G5X, between the 7th and 21st of March. They will operate on all bands
from 160m to 10m. Send QSL cards via M0OXO OQRS.
Peter, HA3AUI, will be using the call sign J5UAP, in West Africa, in
early March for a few days. Listen for him on CW, running 100w to a
Spiderbeam. QSL via the on-line log on cqafrica.net.
Between March 3rd and March 5th, members of the Kuala Lumpur DX Team
will sign 9M4IOTA, from Tioman Island, on all bands from 80 meters to 10 meters,
using CW, SSB and digital modes. This will count as AS-046 for
the Islands on the Air Award. QSL manager is 9M2OOO.
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KICKER: HEARING DUBAI'S VICE PRESIDENT LOUD AND CLEAR
NEIL/ANCHOR: In our final story this week, we hear how the leader of
Dubai is sharing a message with the world via satellite -- relying on
more than just a little help from ham radio. Amateur Radio Newsline's
Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has those details.
GRAHAM: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai,
may not have his ham radio license, but his message is traveling far
and wide on the HF bands, the first message to be transmitted from a
newly launched satellite of the United Arab Emirates.
The satellite is a Nayif-1, launched in late February, from the Satish
Dhawan Space Center in India, and it is Dubai's first nanosatellite.
The sheikh's message, being sent out in Arabic, translates to say
[QUOTE] "The renaissance of peoples, nations and civilizations starts
with education, and the future of nations starts at their schools."
[ENDQUOTE]
At one school in particular, the American University of Sharjah,
engineer students worked with the space center in India, to design,
build, test, and operate the nanosatellite. Now, the school is
monitoring it. Its main objective is to send and receive messages on
amateur radio frequencies, transferring messages mainly among speakers
of Arabic.
So far, the sheikh's message has been heard loud and clear by hams in
Haiti, the U.S., Sweden and Spain, as the satellite flies high over the
earth at an altitude of 600 kilometers, or not quite 375 miles high.
Its telemetry and transponder data are available online at the AMSAT-UK website.
Now, if the sheikh happens to hear his own message endorsing the power
of education, perhaps he will undertake some study himself, and get on
the air in a more conventional manner - as a brand new ticket.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
(AMSAT-UK, THE UAE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT-UK;
the ARRL; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitters
Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; Southgate Amateur Radio News;
Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; The UAE National Newspaper; WTWW Shortwave;
and you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Please send emails to our address at newsline@arnewsline.org. More
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official
website located at www.arnewsline.org.
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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