PLANNING FOR DAYTON: HOW SUPERSUITE IT IS!
DON/ANCHOR: Are you ready for Dayton Hamvention? This year, of course,
it's in Xenia, Ohio but there's one big contest activity that's still
happening in Dayton, in a suite of hotel rooms. It just got a fresh new website,
to boot. We learn more from Amateur Radio Newsline's Stephen
Kinford, N8WB.
STEPHEN: Scott KA9FOX has already been more preoccupied than most of us
with this year's Dayton Hamvention, and with good reason - he's just
launched the new website that showcases one of the hottest events being
run in conjunction with this year's event in Xenia, Ohio: It's the Contest Super
Suite, hosted by the Mad River Radio Club, North Coast Contesters,
and the Frankford Radio Club. Find all the contest action in the Harding,
McKinley, Garfield, and Harrison Rooms of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dayton
on Wednesday the 17th of May through Saturday the 20th. This is a contest
event that's going to have everything on it - just like some of the pizza
being served each evening - and on Friday night at 10 p.m, expect yet
another Hamvention-quality performance by the Spurious Emission Band. So,
if you can't wait to visit Hamvention, you can at least visit the website
now at www.contestsupersuite.com
Be sure to look under the tab for "Contest Related Events" to see more
related activities.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB.
(TIM DUFFY K3LR)
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WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, Helmut, DJ7CF, is using the call sign 6Y5/DJ7CF from
Greenwood, Jamaica, until April 28th. Be listening for him on SSB, CW, and
PSK31. QSLs go via his home call.
Between the 21st and 28th of April, be listening for operators David/OK6DJ,
and Petr/OK1FCJ, using the call sign 5V7P, from Lome in Togo. Find them on
160-10 meters using CW, SSB, and the Digital modes. Send QSL cards via
OK6DJ, ClubLog's OQRS, or LoTW.
In the Galapagos Islands, listen for Tim, LW9EOC, who will be on the air
from May 15th through the 29th as HC8/LW9EOC. He will be on Isabela island,
active on 160 through 6 meters, with an emphasis on 30/17/12 meters, using
SSB, CW, and RTTY. Send QSL cards via his home call sign, direct or LoTW.
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KICKER: ESSEX HAMS IN A LATHER
DON: We end this week's newscast with a story of ham readiness. Hams, as we
all know, are accustomed to being prepared - we assist at marathons and
half-marathons, we provide a communications safety net at boating events, hiking
events and cycling events. So in Maldon, England, when the Essex
RAYNET was called in to assist at a fundraising fun run around Maldon
Promenade Park, the hams there were prepared. After all, not every amateur
gets to assist at a mad dash through a fortress of colored bubbles.
Actually, there were four such bubble stations, and as the runners came charging
through each, streams of colorful bubbles were shot in their direction, the
thick lather rising as high as 4 feet.
It was the hottest day of the year so far - Sunday, April 9 - and an
estimated 1,000 runners nonetheless turned up to raise money for a local
hospice. The event was sold-out, and with the help of Essex RAYNET, and
its UHF repeater, it was proclaimed a great success.
No doubt organizers who'd worked so hard got a chance to celebrate
afterwards. Maybe they even broke out a bit of the....bubbly.
(ESSEX HAM WEBSITE)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; Cornish
Amateur Radio Club; Essex RAYNET; Hap Holly and the Rain Report;
the Hindu newspaper; the IARU; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; K2BSA
Amateur Radio Association; Locust Grove Historic Estate, Ohio-Penn DX
Bulletin; QRZ.COM; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio
Show; Tim Duffy, K3LR; 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 Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune, Mississippi,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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