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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jun 10 2021 22:31:06

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for Adrien, F4IHM, who is using
the callsign 5UAIHM, until June 27th, from Niger. He is on 40m and
20m, using CW and SSB. QSL to F4IHM, direct or by the Bureau.

Be listening for the callsign GB1ORC, a special event callsign of the
Online Amateur Radio Community. OARC is marking the one-year anniversary
of its founding as an online amateur radio club based in the UK. GB1ORC
will be on the air until June 20th. The club will also use GB0ARC until
June 24th.

In Scotland, listen for Paul, G4PVM, using the callsign GM4PVM, from
the Isle of Lismore (IOTA EU-008) between June 29th and July 4th. Paul
will be on the air holiday style, using 40m to 10m, both CW and SSB.
Send QSLs via LoTW, eQSL, or ClubLog, for IOTA.

Listen for the special event callsign TM57COV, between the 15th and
29th of June. A team of French amateur radio operators will be on the
air, to pay tribute to those who have died from COVID-19, or are
currently struggling to recover. The station also pays tribute to the
caregivers who are working with COVID cases. For QSL details, visit
the station's page on QRZ.com

(OHIO PENN DX, SOUTHGATE)

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KICKER: TAKING MANY SMALL STEPS TO FOLLOW SOME BIG FEET

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: What is better than a rare DX? How about scoring a
rare sighting right where you've set up your portable station? Mike
Askins, KE5CXP, has that report for us.

MIKE: When the hams in the Bigfoot Radio Net go on a field expedition,
as they did just a few weeks ago in the Ouachita National Forest in
Oklahoma, they're looking to log a big contact. You might say a
big-footed contact. To some he's known as Bigfoot. To others, Sasquatch.

On everything from weeklong special events to overnight solo
investigations, Brent Boydston, KF5THB, has been on the hunt since
2016, for the legendary creature. No, Bigfoot doesn't have a
callsign (at least not yet) but then this part of the hunt doesn't
happen while they're on the air, or cooking under the canopy of stars.
Brent says that when not calling QRZ, he looks for the classic
oversized muddy footprint, or certain rock formations said to comprise
his habitat.

Brent told Newsline that while in Oklahoma's Winding Stairs Mountains
recently, he and his brother [quote] "looked for Bigfoot, we listened
for Bigfoot, and we smelled for Bigfoot." [endquote] The expeditions
are the natural spinoff of the weekly Bigfoot Radio Net on Wednesdays
at 2000 Central Time on 7.155 MHz. He said ham radio and Bigfoot go
together, because the ragchew topics are usually about someone's
close encounters.

Quoting Brent: "Calling CQ means never knowing what you may find.
Similarly, looking for a mythical creature in a vast wilderness means
the same." [endquote] That turns every adventure into a sasq-WATCH.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.

(BRENT BOYDSTON, KF5THB)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE:

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; ARISS; the ARRL; Brent
Boydston, KF5THB; CQ Magazine; David Behar, K7DB; FCC; HARRY BRYANT,
AA2WN; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MICHAELA WHEELER,
VK3FUR/VK4XSS; NASA; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; Paul Strauss, WD6EBY;
Paul Driver, M0XZT; Photonics.com; QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great
Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Ted Randall's
QSO Radio Show; WTWW Shortwave; YouTube; and you our listeners, that's
all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.

You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. For more information,
or to support us, visit our official website at arnewsline.org.

Be sure to follow some of these stories as they get a more indepth
look on the YouTube Channel of 100 Watts and a Wire. Search for the
video segment with the title "Two Stories."

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. As always, we thank you for listening.

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