HAMS NEEDED FOR MEDICAL MISSION TO HONDURAS
JIM/ANCHOR: Hams are never more helpful - or more needed - than when their
work takes them to remote parts of the world. A nonprofit group in the U.S.
is planning its next trip to provide medical and dental help in Hondurus
next year, and hams are very definitely needed. We hear more from Neil
Rapp, WB9VPG.
NEIL's REPORT: The International Health Service is looking for amateur
radio operators to help with its next two-week medical service mission to
Honduras in February. While the primary purpose is to provide
communications services for doctors treating impoverished villagers in
remote areas, John Kirckof, KB0UUP, describes the radio side of the
experience as a kind of "super Field Day," with messages being relayed
from location to location for a variety of health care needs. Most areas
have little or no electric, phone or internet service.
Anyone with a General class license or higher, who is willing to assist
with communications relating to surgical transport, medical supplies, or
other needs is welcome. It's recommended that radio operators bring their
own portable HF rigs, and have the ability for 2 meter communications as
well, but John told Newsline that radios can also be provided for those
who have none. Organizers will also assist newcomers in the use of the
WinLink system, which is used for sending such messages as
patient-referral forms, or requests for supplies between remote villages
and some of the surgery locations. No Spanish-language skills or medical
background is needed.
If you're interested, or need more details about what's required, contact
John by phone at 320-634-4386, or email him at jmkkek-at-yahoo-dot-com.
(jmkkek@yahoo.com)
For information about the nonprofit itself, visit their website at
www-dot-ihsmn-dot-org (www.ihsmn.org)
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
(JOHN KIRCKOF KB0UUP)
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WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, be listening for Tim, VE6SH, who is using the callsign V29SH
until August 5th from the island of Antigua. He will be operating on
30 meters and 17 meters, holiday style. Send QSLs via his home call.
A special event station marking the 40th birthday of the Swedish Crown
Princess Victoria will be on the air, with the call sign SC40VIC. Be
listening for this station through to the end of 2017. Send QSL cards to SM6JSM.
Philip, G4PWO, is on the air through to the end of July, operating from
the Maldives. Be listening for him using the call sign 8Q7PW. He will be
operating on SSB, and in some digital modes, and will upload logs to
Logbook of The World. Send QSLs to his home callsign.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)
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KICKER: NOW THAT'S DX!
JIM/ANCHOR: Finally, listen up: Can you hear it? Scientists in Puerto Rico
can, and they think the sounds they've been picking up, are signals from a
red dwarf star known as Ross 128. Researchers at the Arecibo Observatory
first detected these odd communications back in April and May, and the news
has since been making its way around the internet. Naturally that's led to
speculation once again about alien life forms. But Abel Mendez, director of
the Planetary Habitability Lab at the University of Puerto Rico, notes in
his blog that space aliens aren't high on the list of possibilities. He
said the source could be a burst from a high-orbit satellite - or emissions like
solar flares.
Scientists asked for assistance from two other radiotelescopes: the Allen
Telescope Array in California, and the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
in West Virginia. The findings are still pending.
Perhaps what's really needed instead - just maybe? - is simply to send a
QSL card.
(PHYS.ORG NEWS)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
CQ Magazine; George Dewar, VY2GF; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the Hindu
newspaper; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; John Kirckof, KB0UUP; K2BSA;
The New York Times; PHYS.ORG; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Sunshine Coast
Amateur Radio Club; the Times of India; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; 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 Jim Damrom, N8TMW, in Charleston, West
Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.
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