Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Jul 02 2021 02:45:48 WORLD OF DX In the world of DX, Alex, DD5ZZ, will be on the air as OA7/DD5ZZ from Peru between July 30th and September 17th. Be listening on HF between 40m and 10m, where he will be using SSB and FT8/FT4, maybe some CW. He is considering participating in the WAE CW/SSB and WW Digi DX contests later this summer, possibly using the OA7/5P6G. Send QSLs to DD5ZZ by ClubLog's OQRS or LoTW. In Canada, listen for Bill, VE3ES, who is on the air as VE3VACCINE in Ontario, in the hopes he can encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. This special event station will be on the air until July 15th. Listen for him 30/20/10/6 meters using SSB and FT8/FT4. Send QSLs to VE3ES. Listen for Gerry, whose callsigns include G3WIP and VK0GB, among others. He has just received the callsign ZD7GB for his activation from the main village of Jamestown on St. Helena Island. He is working there as a doctor through September 6th and will be on the air during his spare time, mostly on 40 through 10 meters using SSB and FT8/FT4. QSL details were not available at press time. (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: HAM RADIO: THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR PAUL/ANCHOR: Our final story for this week is about the enduring friendship of two men whose lives went in different directions more than 40 years ago. Their long search for one another ended recently, thanks to amateur radio. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, tells us about them. GRAHAM: It's well-known that in some parts of India, missing family members are often reunited with their loved ones back home through the efforts of the West Bengal Radio Club. Recently, however, the club helped a man who wasn't really lost in quite the same way, but had gone missing, from the life of a Kolkata phyisician who had come to treasure his friendship more than four decades earlier. Both men became doctors and are now in their 80s. They had been colleagues as young physicians at a health center in Mathabhanga, a city in West Bengal. Dr. B. Das had been searching for years for his colleague Nityananda (Nit-YON-ONDA) Panda, who is from Odisha. He had even visited Odisha a few times to look for him. With no success in sight and with her husband now in frail health, his wife approached the club, and told the secretary Ambarish Nag Biswas, VU2JFA, about the friendship. She said the last time her husband saw his friend was in 1977. That year, Nityanda had handed his responsibilities to him at the hospital before departing for Odisha. The club reached out to Dushmanta (DOOSH-MON-TUH) Kumar Das VU2DKD, an amateur radio operator based in Odisha. With the help of an old photograph of Dr. Panda, he was able to track him down. Ambarish Nag Biswas told the local Millennium Post that the two friends immediately got down to the business of catching up on more than 40 years of friendship. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB. And that's what friends are for. (MILLENNIUM POST) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; ARISS; the ARRL; the Australian Communications and Media Authority; the Australian Maritime College; CQ Magazine; CNN; David Behar K7DB; DX-WOrld.Net; Josh Reichard K8KJR; Millennium Post; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; QRZ.com; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SPACE.COM; Straight Key Century Club; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; WTWW Shortwave; 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 Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2021. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .