Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Mar 25 2022 00:21:26 SPECIAL EVENT HONORS AMERICAN MUSIC LEGEND LORETTA LYNN PAUL/ANCHOR: Get ready for a birthday party on the air, marking one of the greats in American country music history. We hear more about this special event from Jim Damron, N8TMW. JIM: The Amateur Radio Service Club of Paintsville, Kentucky, will be operating a special event station from the birthplace of American country music star Loretta Lynn, in Butcher Hollow, in Van Lear, Kentucky. The hams are commemorating her 90th birthday. During her musical career, Ms. Lynn received numerous awards including three Grammys, seven American Music Awards, eight Broadcast Music Incorporated awards, 13 Academy of Country Music, eight Country Music Association, and 26 fan-voted Music City News awards. The club will be using the callsign K4L, which stands for Kentuckians for Loretta. The special event station will be operating from Zero through 2359 hours UTC on April 14th, 2022 on all HF bands and on repeaters on the East Kentucky Repeater System. They will also be operating some of the digital modes, as well as CW. For a specially-designed QSL card confirming your contact, send your QSL and SASE to KY4ARC. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Jim Damron, N8TMW. (JON HAGER N4KJU) ** HAMS CLIMB UP FOR INTERNATIONAL HEMA SUMMIT DAY PAUL/ANCHOR: Summit activators are getting ready for a formal international challenge in the HEMA awards scheme. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, bring us that report. ED: Few challenges are too tall for radio operators who are accustomed to conquering and activating summits. So when summit radio enthusiast Rob, G7LAS, suggested to his fellow activators that they participate in an International HEMA Summit Day on Saturday, April 2nd, they jumped on board. Activators from around the world have committed to operating on that day to get as many other summits in their logs as possible. Others have pledged to be enthusiastic chasers. Activators will especially be looking to grab contacts between HEMA summits in the recently added associations. To qualify for the HEMA award scheme summits must have a prominence between 100 and 150 metres over the surrounding terrain. Details of the HEMA award scheme can be found at the internet address given in the text version of this script at arnewsline.org. [ hema.org.uk ]. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP. (FACEBOOK) ** WORLD OF DX In the World of DX, the 3Y0J Bouvet Island Dxpedition has put out a QST in the hopes that the team can add a radio operator from North America focusing on SSB. Co-leader Ken, LA7GIA, wrote in a posting on the team's Facebook page that the physical challenges during the DXpedition and the 10-day sail in early 2023 will be intense. The team guarantees pileups but no showers for three weeks. The team members is expected to pay a minimum of $20,000. Interested? Send an email to info at 3y0j dot no (info@3y0j.no) (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: NO DEFLATED EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS WEATHER BALLOON PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story, we hear about a group of university students in Pennsylvania who were just as happy when their weather balloon launched...as when it burst. Sel Embee, KB3TZD, has their story. SEL: The morning fog covering Philadelphia burned off just in time for the triumphant launch of the latest high altitude weather balloon of the Villanova University CubeSat Club. The balloon's 90-minute journey on Friday, March 18th, began on the college campus in Pennsylvania just before noon local time, and ended at 1:30 in the afternoon in central New Jersey. The payload included three amateur radio transmitters using the club callsign W3YP, three cameras and a GPS tracker. Progress reports were tweeted live by club advisor Alan Johnston, KU2Y, and the students livestreamed the action from the club's Instagram account. The helium- filled latex balloon was designed to burst when the flight reached an altitude of 60,000 feet or 18.2 kilometres. The payload was outfitted with a parachute which returned it to Earth for successful recovery by the students. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Sel Embee, KB3TZD. (TWITTER, FACEBOOK) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to AMSAT-UK; the ARK; ARRL; CQ Magazine; Daryl Stout, WX4QZ; David Behar, K7DB; DXWorld.net; Facebook; Global Bihari; Jon Hager, N4KJU; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com; the Radio Society of Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Space.com; Twitter; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. 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