Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Aug 19 2021 21:34:50

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, listen for Elvira, IV3FSG, using the callsign 5X3R 
from Uganda through the 2nd of September. She is on 80m through 10m using 
SSB, RTTY and PSK31. Send QSLs via IK2DUW, direct, by the Bureau or 
ClubLog.

Fred, DL5YM, and his XYL Tina, DL5YL, will be on the air as HBZero/DL5YM 
and HBZero/DL5YL, respectively, from Liechtenstein between the 5th and 
28th of September. Their time on the air will be limited because they 
will be hiking during the day. Listne on 160m through 6m where they will 
be using mostly CW, with some SSB and RTTY. Be listening for them as well 
during the CQWW DX RTTY Contest taking place September 25th and 26th. 
Send QSLs via their home callsigns, direct, by the DARC Bureau or 
ClubLog.

Don't forget you can pick up some great DX during the International 
Lighthouse Lightship Weekend on the 21st and 22nd of August. There are 
nearly 300 registered Lighthouse/Lightship stations around the world that 
are planning to be on the air. Visit the website illw dot net.

(OHIO PENN DX)

**

KICKER: A FRIEND IN NEED

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Finally, it's been said that "when all else fails, 
there's ham radio." Our last story takes this one step further. Because 
even when amateur radio isn't directly involved, when all else fails, 
there's nothing like ham radio FRIENDS. Here's Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB, 
with that story.

RALPH: Ham radio is what gave Blil Scott, K6PKL, and Skip Kritcher,
K7ZAA, the gift of friendship.

But ironically, it was the connection via another form of radio 
communication -- the cellphone -- that gave Skip the gift of life. 

According to a report from CBS Sacramento, the Myrtle Point, Oregon radio 
operator was apparently felled by a stroke last month, and desperately 
punched up numbers on his mobile phone, thinking he was calling his 
sister. Those numbers connected him instead with Bill, 500 miles away in 
San Joaquin County, California.

Skip had difficulty speaking because his speech was slurred, but suddenly 
Bill realized who it was who was speaking, and that his friend was in 
distress. Bill's wife, Sharon, a retired nurse, concluded Skip had just 
had a stroke. The couple called 9-1-1, and first responders in Oregon were 
dispatched to his home to transport him to a hospital.

According to the news report, Skip is back at home recovering after four 
days in the hospital and for now he still has some impaired vision. One 
of the EMTs told Bill and Sharon he would have died within a few hours if 
he hadn't found help.

While Skip recovers, he and Bill, who belongs to the Ham Radio Club in 
Manteca, have gone back to communicating under less urgent circumstances. 
They are also using their preferred means of getting in touch with one 
another: amateur radio.

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

(CBS SACRAMENTO, MANTECA RIPON BULLETIN)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; the ARRL; the Associated 
Press; Billerica Amateur Radio Society; Bristol CERT; CBS Sacramento; CQ 
Magazine; David Behar K7DB; Daily DX; FCC.Gov; Funk Funeral Home; Laird 
Solomon VE3LKS; Manteca Rpon Bulletin; NBC Connecticut; Ohio Penn DX; 
QRZ.com; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; 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.

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.

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7)

.