Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Apr 01 2021 19:43:17

WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, Matthew M0ZMS has announced he will be heading to the 
Falkland Islands at the end of April and hopes to get on the air from this 
rare DX using the call sign VP8ZMS. He may also use the call sign VP8RAF on 
occasion. Matthew will be promoting awareness of the Royal Air Force 
Amateur Radio Society. Matthew is the serving members' representative of 
the society and will be deploying to the British Forces South Atlantic 
Islands, Mount Pleasant Complex for the activation. Find his operating 
details and other information on the Twitter page for VP8ZMS. He will QSL 
on LoTW and ClubLog and will issue paper QSL cards upon his return to the 
UK after August.

Be listening for John, MW1CFN, operating as GB ONE ZERO ZERO FOUR FTS 
(GB1004FTS) from Anglesey Island off the Welsh mainland's northwest coast 
until April 8th. He is marking the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air 
Force's Number 4 Flying Training School. Listen for him on various HF bands 
as well as 6 and 2 metres. He will be using SSB and the Digital modes. Send 
QSLs directly to his home call.

Danish radio amateurs are active with two special callsigns OZ75BO and 
OZ75MAY until April 11th to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of 
Bornholm Island following the end of World War II. Be listening on all 
bands, including the WARC bands, where operators will be using CW, SSB and 
all the Digital modes. Operators on the island itself will be using the 
OZ75BO call. Send QSLs via OZ1ACB or ClubLog's OQRS. Operators prefer to 
NOT receive a paper QSL card. A special award is available.

(OHIO PENN DX, SOUTHGATE)

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KICKER: HELPING HIS ALMA MATER GET BACK ON THE AIR

NEIL/ANCHOR: We end this week with the story of a grateful graduate of an 
Indiana college. He and his wife have given the school the gift of amateur 
radio. Here's Dave Parks, WB8ODF, with that story.

DAVE: Bill Becher, AA8RW, may have graduated from college in Indiana in 
1950, but to a small group of undergrads studying there now, he is 
indisputably the Big Man on Campus. During Bill's time as an radio 
engineering student, the Angola, Indiana school was known as Tri-State 
College. Today its name is Trine University and its campus is where the 
Michigan resident, and his wife Helen, KG8TQ, recently helped awaken the 
students' amateur radio club from dormancy by donating money and equipment.

Many of the 15 members are studying electrical engineering, as Bill did, or 
other forms of engineering and information technology. When they're not 
tending to their academic obligations they're hosting the weekly net of the 
Trine University Amateur Radio Club. According to the university's website, 
the young hams are also mentoring would-be licensees and building new 
equipment and antennas.

The club's president Tim Mayer, KD2TCP, licensed for two years, and
majoring in mechanical engineering, said the club also hopes to get 
involved next in EME and satellite communications.

The students can look forward to aiming for the sky because of a generous 
husband and wife who never forgot the thrill of keying the mic, or sending 
some CW, and discovering the world.

Said faculty advisor Kevin Woolverton, KW9S: "Without them, it wouldn't 
have been possible to start and continue."

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Dave Parks, WB8ODF.

(TRINE UNIVERSITY)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the ACMA; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; Bill Brown, WB8ELK; 
CQ Magazine; David Behar K7DB; DX-World.net; HamSCI; IARU Region 1; Last 
Man Standing Special Event; RI0Q online diary; Trine University; Ogden 
Amateur Radio Club; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; QRZed.com; Radio World; Radio 
Society of Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; 
Twitter; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the Wireless Institute of Australia; 
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 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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