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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Mar 25 2021 19:28:11

HAM HELPS JAILED MAN RETURN HOME TO NEPAL

JIM/ANCHOR: For some hams, community service doesn't always involve using a 
radio. In India, one leader in the ham radio community called on his skills 
in the legal profession to help a man find freedom. Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, 
brings us that story.

JASON: A citizen of Nepal is a free man after four decades in jail in India 
thanks to assistance from an amateur radio operator who served as his 
attorney. Hirak Sinha, VU3ZHG, successfully argued before the Kolkata High 
Court to allow the repatriation and return of the man who had been held in 
Darjeeling on murder charges since the age of 21. The man is now 62 years 
old. The court released him in the presence of his brother and officials of 
the Nepalese Consulate after a mental health examination confirmed he was 
not fit to stand trial. Hirak Sinha is vice president of the West Bengal 
Radio Club.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.

(TIMES OF INDIA, AMBARISH NAG BISWAS VU2JFA)

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WORLD OF DX

A special event is commemorating the 117th anniversary of Italian settlers' 
arrival in southern Chile. Three stations will be on the air until Sunday, 
March 28th, from Italy, Argentina and Chile. They are II4CPC, LU6DK/D, and 
CB6I. There are three special event certificates available. For details see 
QRZ.com.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: SOFTWARE DEFINED QSOs? NO FOOLIN' (WELL MAYBE)

JIM/ANCHOR: April 1st is coming up fast and Newsline listeners know what 
that means. Our final story this week is from Pierre Pullinmyleg, the only 
member of our team who works one day a year: on April Fool's Day. Pierre, 
what fabulously remarkable story do you have for us now?

PIERRE:  Bonjour, my ham radio friends.  Zis is the famed French reporter 
Pierre Pullinmyleg back by popular request. I have been testing a new 
product that I think you will find more popular than croissants at zee 
Hamvention. You know, sometimes zee bands... zay get lonely. It's so quiet 
that Pierre has no one else to talk to but my brother Pierre. So we teamed 
up the pair of Pierres to bring you zee very latest in QSO technology.  We 
call it the Software Defined QSO. When there's no one on zee bands, the 
software defined bot has a ragchew just for you!  And, since it's carefully 
calculated by computer, the on-air manners are impeccable. We guarantee 
that you will always get a 5 and a 9, and that you'll always get Good 
Operator reports from zee FCC. There won't be a need for a dummy load, 
because your QSO will be smart instead!  Zis Software Defined QSO won't 
talk about those things that make you cringe at night like on 75 meters... 
the location of a new liver spot or the details of your last colonoscopy.  
You can even pick from 73 different accents and 88 different voices to make 
your QSO more authentic, including some of those YLs for a nominal fee.

Be sure to check out the Software Defined QSO from the pair of Pierres.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Pierre Pullinmyleg.

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the Amateur News Weekly; Ambarish Nag Biswas, VU2JFA;
AMSAT-UK; the ARRL; Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency;
Cleveland.com; CQ Magazine; David Behar, K7DB; DJ Finch, N4RRR; the Free
Radio Net website; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; QRZed.com; Searchlight VC; 
Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SWLing Post; Times of 
India; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, 
that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 

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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. As always, we thank you for listening.

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