Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri May 17 2019 11:49:25

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX,

Members of the Slovak Amateur Radio Association are operating special
event stations OM83IHWC and OM2019IIHF, during the 83rd Ice Hockey World
Championship. The games began May 10th, and continue through to May 26th.
The stations have been on the air since the start of May, and will operate
until the 31st. Be listening on various HF and VHF bands. A special award
is available. QSL Manager for OM2019IIHF and OM83IHWC is OM2FY. All logs
will be uploaded to ClubLog. You can request a QSL card via OQRS, or by the
Bureau.

Members of the Old House Radio Club, including Toni, OH5CY, Niko, OH5CZ,
and Juha, OH5CW, will be active as OG0C, from Žland Islands, between May
22 and May 28th. Be listening on 160 through 2 metres, where they will be
using CW, SSB, FT4, FT8, and MSK144. The group will be active during the
CQWW WPX CW Contest taking place May 25th and 26th.

QSL via OH5C, by the Bureau, direct or LoTW.

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KICKER: COLORADO SCHOOL LEARNS REALITY OF RADIO RESCUE

JIM D/ANCHOR: Our final story reminds us that school shootings have,
sadly, become a common reality -- but so too has the fact that radio
can make a difference even in the face of such horror. Here's Mike
Askins, KE5CXP.

MIKE: Administrators at one high school outside Denver, Colorado, are
true believers in what amateur radio operators have known for years:
radio helps save lives. The school is the STEM School Highlands Ranch,
where on Tuesday May 7th, two students with guns killed one teenager,
and injured eight other people. It was radio, however, that was credited
with getting quick police response. Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock
said in a recent NBC News report that the school's use of their
on-premises police radio got word out about the active shooter situation
immediately. That frantic message was, in effect, a broadcast to local
law enforcement.

The fact that one of the suspects was in custody within minutes was
attributed by experts to a healthy two-way radio link from the campus
to the cops. Curtis Lavarello of the School Safety Advocacy Council
told NBC that fewer than 10 percent of school agencies have such radio
links. He said providing them is as easy as adding police channels to
existing radios a school may have, or giving the schools unused police
radios.

Whether it's cyclones ravishing Asia, or hurricanes trouncing the U.S.
Atlantic Coast, or nightmare situations in schools, radio remains the
wireless lifeline for us all. Ask any ham.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.

(NBC NEWS, DAVID BEHAR K7DB)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE:

With thanks to the Associated Press; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; Beppe,
I1WKN; CQ Magazine; David Behar, K7DB; Hap Holly and the Rain Report;
Lew Malchick, N2RQ, Legacy.com; NBC News; New Zealand Association of Radio
Transmitters; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; Riccardo IZ1GDB; Southgate
Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Radio Society of Great
Britain; South African Radio League; Wireless Institute of Australia;
WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio
Newsline.

Please send emails to our address at newsline@arnewsline.org. More
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only 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 Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston, West
Virginia, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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