Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Oct 28 2021 21:25:08 WORLD OF DX In the world of DX, listen for the special event callsign CN46MS until November 10th from Morocco. Hams will be marking the 46th anniversary of the "Green March" for the annexation of the Spanish Sahara called for by King Hassan the Second. Send QSL cards to CN8WW. Members of the Belgian Air Force Amateur Radio Association are operating three special event stations until the end of 2021. The callsigns are ON75AF, ON75BAF, and ON75BFS. The activations are in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Belgian Air Force. Be listening on various HF bands. Send QSLs to ON6KL. Listen for Richard, NN2T, and other operators using the callsign C6AHB until November 22nd from Bimini. Send QSLs via LoTW or ClubLog's OQRS. Be listening for Jamie, M0SDV, using the callsign 3B8/KX7M from Mauritius between November 22nd and December 1st. Jamie will be part of the 3B8M team and will be operating on various HF bands. QSL via LoTW or ClubLog's OQRS. (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: KC5BOO CAPTURES THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN DON/ANCHOR: For our final story this week, we caution our listeners: Halloween arrives on Sunday, October 31st, and there's nothing you can do about it -- except perhaps get on the air. Mike Askins, KE5CXP, offers this idea. MIKE: Be not afraid. Instead, be like Judy Cox, a Texas YL whose callsign, KC5BOO, inspires her to look forward each year to the season of ghosts and goblins when she can scare up some extra contacts on the bands. For Judy, the holiday has always been sweet as the candy folks hand out to costumed trick-or-treaters when they visit. But in her part of Texas, children don't go door-to- door all that much so Judy gets into the spirit by getting on the air and calling...."BOO" R Zed. Judy told Newsline that her vanity callsign really has less to do with Halloween than you might think: "Boo" is the nickname she was given by her grandchildren. Her idea for an annual special event, called Boo To You, took shape in 2018 and she sends special QSL cards to confirm that the magic did indeed happen. She plans to be on the air...for a spell...between 0001 UTC on October 31st until 0400 UTC on November 1st. Find her on the usual haunts on SSB. Best of all, she said, you stand more than a ghost of a chance of making contact this year: a few friends are helping out by operating CW and FT8. She invites Newsline listeners to "come by and say 'boo.' " That is, unless the bands turn out to be one big horror show. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm MIke Askins, KE5CXP. (JUDY COX, KC5BOO) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan MacNabb II, W0ARN; AMSAT-UK; the ARRL; Binar Space website; CQ Magazine; Carlos Beviglia, LU1BCE; David Behar K7DB; Henry Radio website; Judy Cox, KC5BOO; Long Island CW Club; Ohio Penn DX; PHYS.org; QRZ.com; Radio Club Argentino; Radio Society of Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; the Washington Post; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all-volunteer non- profit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us, please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate you all. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune, Mississippi, 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) .