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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 25 2019 21:21:55

RADIO SCOUTS ACTIVE AT 24TH WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: If you're looking to work some Radio Scouting stations
right now, Bill Stearns, NE4RD, tells how you can catch up with them.

BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we're on location at the 24th World
Scout Jamboree.  As of the recording of this segment, the station NA1WJ
is active and fully operational, and we will be well into the first week
of moving scouts through the station and getting them on the air. We have
competed in the CQ WW VHF contest to give that 6m beam a workout, and have
already logged over 300 contacts, and 22 countries on the other stations.

The team is confident the station is performing optimally. Expect that to
continue as the Jamboree goes on. Scouts leave on August 1st, so expect
operations to cease at that time.

The ARISS contact is scheduled for July 27th and the program is set to
begin around 2:14 pm Eastern time. There should be 3 balloons aloft, and
one more to launch on July 29th around 10:00 am Eastern time.

For more information on this and radio scouting, please visit our website
at k2bsa.net.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this
is Bill Stearns, NE4RD.

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IN UK, HAM RADIO PAYS TRIBUTE TO PIRATE RADIO

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Up for some adventure on the high seas? Ed Durrant, DD5LP,
has this report about an iconic pirate radio station.

ED: As all the special event stations celebrating man's moon landing fifty
years ago start to wind down, the Martello Tower group are marking the
anniversary of some high adventures at sea. It has been 55 years since the
first UK ship-bourne music pirate radio station came on the air off
England's coast in 1964.

Not only was Radio Caroline the first of the "offshore pirates" she was
also the last one - closing down in the 1990s. That wasn't the end,
however, as a group of supporters restored the last of the ships used,
the Ross Revenge, converting it into a Pirate Radio Museum, with a working
broadcast studio moored in the River Blackwater, and to top that they
managed to get a local radio licence, using the frequency and transmitter
site of their old enemy the BBC. At night the one kilowatt AM station can
be heard on 648 KHz across much of northern Europe still playing the
classic rock and roll of the Radio Caroline era.

To celebrate 55 years since the start of the change to radio listening
options in the UK, a special event station GB 55 RC will be active on HF
from on-board the Radio Caroline ship from the first to the fifth of
August, and a lucky few can visit the ship with the special event station
operating on Saturday, the 3rd, and Sunday, the 4th of August. Special QSL
cards will be available for those contacting the ship and for SWL reports.

For full details, check the GB55RC page on qrz.com.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Ed Durrant, DD5LP.

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SPECIAL EVENT HONORS NAVAJO CODE TALKERS

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In Arizona, the son of one of the great Navajo Code
Talkers of the second world war is using ham radio to honor those heroes.
Christian Cudnik, K0STH, has the details.

CHRISTIAN: This year will mark the 15th time amateur radio has honored
the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, with a special event station.
Station N7C is an intensely personal effort for Herbert Goodluck, N7HG,
who brings to the activation great pride, and love for his late father
John V. Goodluck. Herb told Newsline that although his father had been
forbidden to speak his native language as a child in grade school, it
was ultimately that same Navajo tongue that transformed him and his
fellow members of the Third U.S. Marine Division Signal Unit into heroes,
thwarting the Japanese with a code based on the Navajo language. Born on
the reservation in Northeast Arizona, John Goodluck had enlisted in the
Marines while in high school, and served in the South Pacific, including
Saipan and Iwo Jima. He died in April of 2000.

Special event station N7C will operate from the annual Navajo Code
Talkers' Day event in Window Rock, Arizona. Herb, a very proud son, is
the QSL manager. Be listening between August 14th and 17th, on 17, 20,
and 40 meters.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Christian Cudnik, K0STH.
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