Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Mar 11 2021 23:02:16 13 COLONIES ADDS NEW BONUS STATION STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Fans of the popular 13 Colonies Special Event will be happy to learn there's a new bonus station and a new design for the QSL cards. Jim Damron, N8TMW, tells us more. JIM: France, which played a key role in the American Revolution as the Continental Army's primary ally, will also provide some major assistance in this year's 13 Colonies Special Event. Ken Villone, KU2US, manager of the popular on-air celebration, has announced that TM13COL will be operating from France, and joining the other stations as one of the bonus contacts. Ken said Didier (deed-yay), F5OGL, asked whether he could represent France in the July event, and said five other hams will also be willing to become on-air allies. They are joining the other overseas bonus station GB13COL, which is always popular with operators in the U.S. and Europe. QSL cards are also getting a different look this year. They will feature ships, a popular image used about eight years ago. U.S. bonus station WM3PEN, operating for its 11th year, will feature the USS United States, one of the first frigates built in Philadelphia for the US Navy. Each state will select a Colonial-era ship relevant to their history. The QSL card for Massachusetts will feature the USS Boston, and the card for New York will have an image of the USS Niagara. The overseas bonus stations will feature the Hermoine (Her-MINEY) and the HMS Victory. The event will be held from July 1st to July 7th. A certificate will also be available for successful contacts. That success comes in big numbers too: Last year more than 202,000 QSOs were made. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW. (KEN VILLONE KU2US) ** KICKER: LOW-POWER STATION GOES DX-ING THROUGH TIME STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We end this week with a story of DXing - not across a distance of geography, but across a distance of time: eight years' time, to be exact. Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, explains. DON: Listeners to a radio message in the Washington, D.C. area had come to call it the "ghost radio broadcast." Heard faintly amid the static on 1650 AM, the low-power transmission was the same Department of Transportation traffic report that first announced road closures in 2013 for the second presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. It's unknown why this so-called forgotten message persisted for so long on the Traffic Information System transmitter - but according to various websites, after Georgetown University faculty member Matt Blaze called public attention to it on his Twitter account, the seemingly never-ending message was turned off on March 3rd. Ah, but it's not quite silent. Matt Blaze, a computer and network security expert, and a past recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation award, created an mp3 where the traffic report lives on. Like so many old radio stations, it's simply playing on the internet now. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW. (SWLING POST, GIZMODO, THE DRIVE) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to the Amateur News Weekly; Amateur Radio Digital Communications; Amateur Radio Experimenters Group; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; David Behar; The Drive; Gizmodo; Greg Lee, KI6GIG; Hamvention.org; IARU Region 1; Ken Villone, KU2US; Ofcom; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; QRZed.com; SWLing Post; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SPACE.com; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; YouTube; 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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth, Ohio, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2021. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.13-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (454:1/33) .