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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 03 2023 02:25:32

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, Phil, VA3QR, is operating from Panama throughout 
March, using various call signs depending upon his location. Those call 
signs include HP1/VA3QR, HP3/VA3QR and HP8/VA3QR. He will be using SSB 
and the digital modes. QSL to his home call.

Listen for Matt, ZL4NVW, who will be activating several SOTA summits on 
Secretary Island off the Fiordland coast from the 7th to the 13th of 
March. He will be on 40m through 10m, SSB only.  Secretary Island uses 
the IOTA designation OC-203 for the South Coastal Islands of New Zealand. 
QSL to his home call.

Listen for Robert, OK2PYA, operating as EA6/OK2PYA from various World 
Wide Flora & Fauna areas on Mallorca in the Balearic Islands, IOTA EU-004 
until the 7th of March.  He is using CW on 40-10 metres. QSL via Club 
Log's OQRS and LoTW.

(425 DX BULLETIN, DX-WORLD.NET)

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KICKER: THE HEIGHT OF GRATITUDE FOR A SUMMIT RESCUE

NEIL/ANCHOR: For our final story, we visit with a SOTA activator who is 
recovering from serious injuries after a fall on a summit. While he is 
healing, he plans to active a campaign of gratitude for his rescuers. 
Here's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, with that story.

JEREMY: It was just a few weeks ago that Alan, 2E0JWA, had hopes of 
scoring 4 points plus a 3-point winter bonus for activating the largest 
summit in his immediate area, G/SP-001 Kinder Scout in the Peak District 
National Park.

His goal on that day in January came crashing down with him when he fell 
on a piece of black ice on the well-marked summit path, shattering his 
left leg. He expects that after two surgeries, he will be back on his 
feet by mid-May - perhaps even back on the air for a summit by summer.

As he tells colleagues on the SOTA Reflector, however, he might not be 
making those plans at all were it not for the kind souls who first rushed 
to his aid on the trail to stabilise him -- and then for the welcome 
arrival of the volunteer team he describes in his blog as "angels in red 
coats," the Glossop Mountain Rescue Team. It was a complicated rescue but 
they moved him safely off the hill just as snow showers were threatening 
to arrive.

Alan is now asking others on the SOTA Reflector and the ham community to 
help inspire some kind of special event or thank-you gesture for helping 
to keep this SOTA activator alive. To Alan, the winter bonus for that 
summit truly belongs to the angels in red coats.

This is Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(SOTA REFLECTOR,  2E0JWA  BLOG)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Breaking Defense.com; CQ magazine; David Behar K7DB; 
Donald De Riggs, J88CD; DX-World.net; FCC; 425 DX News; Hambel Net; 
HamSCI; Parks on the Air; RadioWorld SOTA Reflector; the 2E0JWA Blog; 
shortwaveradio.de; Washington Post; YouTube and you our listeners, that's 
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and 
our news team worldwide, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Union, Kentucky,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening. 

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