STARRING ROLE FOR DSTAR
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: If you enjoy any number of nets, and you're starting to discover
the excitement of DSTAR, here's another option for you starting
in May. Here are the details from Jack Prindle, AB4WS, who filed this
report for Amateur News Weekly.
JACK PRINDLE: Mark your calendars, the Kentucky DSTAR Net on Reflector
56 Bravo is returning starting on May 4, 2017 every Thursday evening at
7 p.m. Eastern Time, thanks to the work of Ray, KI4BM, and Larry, NN4H.
Hope to hear you on DSTAR Reflector 56 Bravo Thursdays at 7 p.m. Eastern
Time. Pass it on! Covering your amateur radio news in the Greater
Cincinnati area, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, this is Jack Prindle,
AB4WS in Big Bone, Kentucky.
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: To hear more news serving hams in Kentucky and the Greater
Cincinnati area, visit amateurnewsweekly.com
(AMATEUR NEWS WEEKLY)
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THE WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, listen for a team of operators from the UK signing
as A25UK from Botswana until the sixth of May. They'll be on all bands
160m to 10m SSB, CW and RTTY. QSLs go via M0OXO.
Be listening for Peter, DF7DQ, in Vietnam, from the first of May until
the 10th. He is using the call sign 3W9DQ, and operating holiday style
on 40m to 15m CW, SSB and RTTY. Send QSL cards to his home call.
The latest stop for Tom, KC0W, is Guatemala, and you can hear him using
the call sign TG7/KC0W until May 8th. After that, be listening for him
when he arrives in Guyana, and uses the call sign 8R1/KC0W beginning
May 10th.
(IRTS)
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KICKER: AUSTRALIA'S BACK IN SPACE
STEPHEN: We end this week's newscast with a report from Australia, where,
it seems, scientists are back in the satellite business. We hear the
details from Amateur Radio Newsline's John Williams, VK4JJW.
JOHN'S REPORT: There's an awful lot of pride lately among scientists and
satellite enthusiasts in Australia, now that the first new satellites to
be built in that nation in 15 years have been launched by NASA at Cape
Canaveral.
The miniaturized research satellites were developed by university-based
teams at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney,
the Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, and the
University of South Australia.
Lifting off from Cape Canaveral on April 18, the Australian satellite
projects were designed to help gain an understanding of climate and
weather systems by studying the Earth's thermosphere.
Andrew Dempster, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research director
at the University of NSW, said the only two Australian satellite launches before
this were in 1967 and 2002. Iver Cairns, from the University of
Sydney, was present at the launch, and told reporters he considered it a
big day for Australian space research. He said he was especially proud
that the three satellites would be the first from Australia going to the
International Space Station for deployment.
All of that leaves a pretty good feeling in the Land Down Under, for what
is about to be accomplished "Up Over."
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.
(SOUTHGATE, ABC.NET.AU)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to ABC.NET Australia; Alan Labs; Amateur News
Weekly; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; CQ Scotland; George Dewar VY2GF; Hap Holly
and the Rain Report; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show;
West Bengal Amateur Radio Club; 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.
Also -- if you've going to Hamvention this year -- you can contact us in person!
Just look for the Newsline crew at the HamNation booth in Xenia.
We'll be wearing our distinctive blue polo shirts.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and
our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth, Ohio,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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