Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 13 2021 02:21:48

INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY WRAPPING UP W9IMS EVENT

JIM/ANCHOR: Hams are nearing the final lap of the big W9IMS event at 
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Here's Jack Parker, W8ISH, with more.

JACK: As summer comes to a close, members of the W9IMS special event 
station are busy wrapping up another week of world-wide contacts during 
the annual Brickyard race. As the official amateur radio club for the 
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the W9IMS group has been logging hundreds 
of contacts during the Indy Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race 
and now the Brickyard race.

The official numbers will be tabulated in the coming days and then each 
contact will receive a special QSL card, designed for each event. Those 
stations that made the log for all three races will receive a 
commemorative certificate as well.

This is the 18th year for the W9IMS special event station and despite 
weak band conditions this spring, early reports indicated they logged 
over 6-thousand contacts during the first two races. The W9IMS team is 
hoping to double that amount in the final race of the season. They 
should cross the finish line and take the checkered flag on a record 
number of contacts for the racing season at the Indianapolis Motor 
Speedway.

Reporting from Indianapolis, this is Jack Parker, W8ISH.

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SILENT KEY: LIFELONG AMATEUR, JAZZ 'AMBASSADOR' BOB RINGWALD K6YBV

JIM/ANCHOR: The music world and the amateur radio world are both 
grieving the loss of a friend. We turn to Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB, for 
that story.

RALPH: Robert Ringwald, K6YBV, was a lifelong amateur radio operator, 
who also made his mark in the jazz world as a jazz ambassador and co-
organizer in 1974 of California's first Sacramento Jazz Festival where 
his band was a headliner. A professional jazz pianist, he was also an 
enthusiastic radio amateur. First licensed in 1957, he soon became 
adept in CW which he identifies on his QRZ page as his most frequent 
mode. Bob became a Silent Key on August 3rd.

Blind almost since birth, Bob became known to many checking into the 
Alaska Pacific Preparedness Net on 20 meter SSB, California Traffic 
Net, 75 meter SSB, Northern California Net, Region Net 6 and the 
Pacific Area Net on 80- and 40-meter CW. He was especially proud of his 
daughter, actress Molly Ringwald, and took great pains to keep things 
authentic when she portrayed an amateur radio operator in one episode 
of the NBC sitcom, "The Facts of Life." Bob wrote: "Naturally the 
writers had Molly's lines all wrong. I volunteered to write the ham 
talk to be authentic and they gratefully accepted." Molly also used her 
father's callsign in the episode.

With his passing, Amateur Radio Newsline has also lost a friend. Bob 
Ringwald was a frequent contributor of story ideas that listeners have 
heard each week. He died at the age of 80.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

(ASSOCIATED PRESS, QRZ, RINGWALD.COM)

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