Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 02 2022 09:17:10

RSGB PREPARES FOR RE-ENACTMENT OF TRANSATLANTIC CENTENARY TESTS

NEIL/ANCHOR: Get ready for the Transatlantic Centenary Tests, coming this 
December to an HF frequency near you. The Radio Society of Great Britain 
has already started to get things rolling, as we hear from Jeremy Boot,
G4NJH.

JEREMY: With the support of Ofcom, the Radio Society of Great Britain 
have reactivated five callsigns that date back to the 1920s, at the dawn 
of amateur radio communication across the Atlantic. The call signs are 
going back on the air for all of December during the Transatlantic 
Centenary Tests, which took place between 1921 and 1923. The call sign 
G5WS is being used from the 1922 tests, as the first to make the ocean 
crossing. Its signal from South London was heard in North America on the 
24th of December in 1922.

Other call signs will be G5AT and G6XX, both used for the 1923 tests, 
G6ZZ, used for tests in 1924 on a moving rail train, and the Scottish 
Highlands call GM3DR.

These tests will differ from the original ones in that they will engage 
stations in two-way communications with UK and Crown Dependency-based 
stations. Stations will be in England, Scotland, Wales, Guernsey, the 
Isle of Man, Jersey and Northern Ireland.

So get ready for what lies ahead. Additional details can be found on the 
RSGB website. See the link in the text version of this week's newscast at 
arnewsline.org

This is Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

[PRINT ONLY:  https://rsgb.org/transatlantic-tests/ ]

(RSGB)

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EAST COAST RADIO OPERATORS PUT APPALACHIAN TRAIL ON THE AIR

NEIL/ANCHOR: Hams are signing up to activate POTA and SOTA sites along 
the Appalachian Trail in the eastern United States. Kevin Trotman, N5PRE,
tells us about the event and its participants.

KEVIN: Imagine being part of an event that covers six national parks, 
eight national forests, more than 40 SOTA summits and over 65 state parks 
and forests that have POTA designations. It's a stretch of land known as 
the Appalachian Trail and it's considered a major national treasure in 
the United States. For the second year in a row it will be where you can 
find activators participating in the second annual Appalachian Trail On 
the Air event. It's also where chasers around the country, if not the 
world, will be pointing their antennas.

The trail itself has a POTA national designation of K-4556 and on the 
weekend on Saturday, Oct. 1 and Sunday, Oct. 2, activators will be 
posting their POTA schedules and SOTA alerts. Activators can plan ahead 
and sign up in advance now by going to the website www dot A T ontheair 
dot net (www.atontheair.net) and complete the form that appears on screen 
when you click the button that says "RSVP."

This event was begun last year as the inspiration of Mike WB2FUV, an 
amateur living in the mountains of upstate New York. According to his QRZ 
page, he fell in love with operating QRP from the mountains and trails of 
the northeast two years ago. He writes on his page that last year's event 
attracted more than 50 activators on SOTA summits and POTA parks in 11 
states all along the Trail. Chasers were answering their calls from 
throughout North America and Europe.

This is Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.

(QRZ, SOTA REFLECTOR, NORTHEAST SOTA CLUB)
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