Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Dec 16 2022 11:03:06 Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2355, for Friday, December 16th, 2022 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2355, with a release date of Friday, December 16th, 2022, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. Hams help a lost 5-year-old find her way home. A hiking trail steps off with a boost from amateur radio -- and hams in Connecticut pay tribute to the transatlantic tests of 1921. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2355, comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** HAMS HELP RETURN LOST 5-YEAR-OLD TO FAMILY PAUL/ANCHOR: Last week we celebrated the Newsline's selection of the West Bengal Radio Club as International Newsmaker of the Year. This week our first story reports on their latest effort - reuniting a family with the 5-year-old daughter who they had given up for dead. John Williams, VK4JJW, has that story. JOHN: A children's game of hide-and-seek at a railway station went very wrong in August of 2020, when a 5-year-old girl chose an unfortunate spot to hide from her three brothers: a train that pulled out of the station shortly afterwards. She was eventually able to disembark farther down the line at the Kolkata Railway Station but because she spoke only Hindi and not Bengali, she could only explain her situation with her tears when police found her crying at the station. According to a report in the Millennium Post, a year passed in which the girl was sent by an NGO to a children's care home and enrolled in school. She gained fluency in Bengali and soon became an honors student in her class. Unable to track down her parents all this time, the administrators of the private home notified the West Bengal Radio Club of the girl's predicament, according to Ambarish Nag Biswas, VU2JFA. Club members utilised their network of contacts and were able to trace her family to Jharkhand, a bordering state in eastern India. Photographs shared with the family on the WhatsApp mobile platform confirmed that this was indeed their missing daughter. The little girl went home on Saturday, December 10th. Ambarish Nag Biswas told the Indo Asian News Service: [quote] "When our contacts got in touch with the mother and we got her to connect with her daughter through a video call, it was a heart-wrenching moment. The woman had given up her child as dead. The little girl had given up all hope of getting back to her family ever again." [endquote] This is John Williams, VK4JJW. (MILLENNIUM POST, INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE) ** VINTAGE TRANSMITTER IN TRANSATLANTIC TRIBUTE PAUL/ANCHOR: In the US recently, hams teamed up for a radio activation that turned out to be a living museum and a tribute to history. Kevin Trotman, N5PRE, tells us about it. KEVIN: Visitors to the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut were part of a celebration of history taking place on Sunday, December 11th. They watched and heard as Bob Allison, WB1GCM, got on the air using a repurposed Gates BC1T commercial transmitter using the callsign W1VCM/1BCG for AM operation on 75 meters. Bob was marking the 101st anniversary of amateur station 1BCG's contact with Scotland during the ARRL Transatlantic Test of 1921. Bob, president of the museum's amateur radio club, told Newsline: [quote] "December 11th is a great day to celebrate Amateur Radio, as the day marks the many technological successes of the era: CW's efficiency and effectiveness over spark, the use of a superheterodyne radio receiver, and the directional Beverage Antenna." [endquote] The tribute event had been organized by Clark Burgard, N1BCG, of Greenwich, Connecticut. The original transmissions that made history more than a century ago occurred in Greenwich, about 90 minutes southwest of the museum, with operators sending CW across the ocean. This year, more modern equipment joined the refurbished Gates transmitter during Bob's three-hour activation, which also included time spent on 40M and 2M sideband. Before he left for the day and headed out into the snow, Bob made sure he logged one more important contact: Bob talked to the museum visitors who'd been observing him on the radio to share in the triumph of more than a century ago. This is Kevin Trotman, N5PRE. (BOB ALLISON WB1GCM) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .