Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 17 2022 21:30:28

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, if you consider working China to be an Oympian-style 
challenge, here's your chance. The Chinese Radio Amateurs Club has 
activated a special event station operating on CW, SSB and FT8 in support 
of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Hams will be 
calling QRZ until the end of the Paralympic Winter Games. The call sign 
is BY1CRA/WO22. The QSL manager is BA4TB. See QRZ.COM for available 
awards.

Be listening for Rob, DM4AO, who is on the air from Cabo Verde as D44AO 
until the 25th of February. He is using mostly CW and operating on 80 
through 10 metres. He will participate in the ARRL CW DX contest on 
February 19th and 20th. See QRZ.com for QSL details.

Listen for Yuri, VE3DZ, operating from Martinique as FM/VE3DZ until the 
24th of February. He will be using the callsign TO4A in the ARRL CW DX 
contest. QSL to his home callsign or via ClubLog.

Karel, OK2WM and Vlad, OK2WX are on the air from Innahura island, 
Maldives as 8Q7WM and 8Q7WX until March 8th. Listen for them on 160, 80 
and 40 metres using CW and SSB. Send QSLs to their home callsigns.

(DX-WORLD.NET, SOUTHGATE)

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KICKER: IN PENNSYLVANIA, HERE'S TO THE NEXT 100 YEARS

PAUL/ANCHOR: In a small town made world famous by a railroad property on 
the classic American board game Monopoly, they're getting ready to 
celebrate 100 years of radio activity. Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark 
Abramowicz (pronounced Abram-a-vich), NT3V, has our final story for 
this week.

MARK: It's a centennial being marked by more than candles on a cake.
 
The Reading Radio Club in the town of Reading, Pennsylvania - about 55 
miles north and west of Philadelphia - is reflecting on its past and 
hopes for the future.
 
Joe Pietruszynski, AC3DI, is the club president.
 
He said a small community of wireless radio hobbyists in Reading were 
part of ham radio's infancy.
 
"Thirty people or so that were experimenters," Pietruszynski explained. 
"In fact, back in those days they used what they called spark gaps."

West Reading resident William Wagner, was listening at the right time.
 
"(The) Titanic had a spark-gap transmitter," Pietruszynski said. "In 
fact, one of the local hams had heard the distress call."
 
Wagner became the first Reading area resident granted a federal ham radio 
license - 3KL - in 1913.
 
The group's history records Harold Landis, 3LP, who also got his license 
just after Wagner, as gathering a group of hobbyists to form the Reading 
Radio Club in 1921.
 
They gained official recognition in 1922, when the club affiliated with 
the American Radio Relay League.
 
Pietruszynski said like many radio clubs, interest and membership has had 
its ups and downs.
 
"I think we're on a cycle now where more and more interest is coming 
in," he said. "Youth are where ham radio is going to wind up being."
 
What kind of impact will they have? The next 100 years may hold the 
answer.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, in Reading, 
Pennsylvania.
 
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to AMSAT; Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society; CQ Magazine; 
David Behar K7DB; DX-World.net; the IARU; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com; QSO 
Today; Radio Society of Great Britain; the St. Patrick's Award; South 
African Radio League; SOTA; Southgate Amateur Radio News;
shortwaveradio.de; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you, our
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 

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appreciate you all.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and 
our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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