Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Apr 08 2021 23:35:28

WORLD OF DX

Bodo, HB9EWU, is on the air in Zambia where he is on a humanitarian 
mission. He is using the call sign 9J2BG and is active on 20 meters. Send 
QSLs to HB9EWU, direct or by the Bureau. He is unsure of the length of his 
activation but will send QSL cards in 2022 when he returns to Switzerland.

Be listening for Alex, PA1AW, who will be using the special event call sign 
PA96WARD celebrating 'World Amateur Radio Day 2021 on the 18th of April. 
That date is the anniversary of the creation of the International amateur 
Radio Union in 1925 in Paris. Send QSLs to PA1AW.

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KICKER: THE VAGABOND HAM

PAUL/ANCHOR: We end this week's news report with an invitation: On the 
occasion of World Amateur Radio Day on Sunday April 18th, we ask you to sit 
back, relax and think of what it means to be a ham radio operator. To help 
your thoughts along, we offer this poem by Ken Johnson W6NKE/SK, first 
published in 73 magazine in 1960. Sunil, VU3ZAN, brought it to the 
attention of Onno, VK6FLAB. We thank Onno, who reads it here in this except 
from his weekly podcast "Foundations of Amateur Radio."
 
The Vagabond Ham, by Ken Johnson W6NKE (SK)

A vagabond's life is the life I live
Along with others, ready to give
A friendly laugh and a word of cheer
To each vagabond friend, both far and near.
I travel the air waves, day or night
To visit places I'll never sight
From the rail of a ship, or from a plane
Yet I'll visit them all again and again.
I never hear from a far off land
That my pulse doesn't quicken.
 With careful hand I tune my receiver and VFO dial
To make a new friend and chat for awhile.
Africa, Asia, they're all quite near
In as easy reach as my radio gear
With the flip of a switch, the turn of a knob
I can work a ZL, a friend named Bob.
There's an LU4, a fellow that's grand
Who's described to me his native land
'Till I can hear the birds, and feel the breeze
As it blows from the slopes of the mighty Andes.
I learned of the surf, and a coral strand
The smell of hybiscus where palm trees stand
Neath a tropical moon, silver and bright
From an FO8 that I worked one night.
I've thrilled to the tales of night birds' screams
In the depths of the jungle where death-laden streams
Flow'neath verdant growth of browns and greens
From a DU6 in the Philippines.
The moors of Scotland, a little French Shrine,
German castles on the River Rhine
Of these things I've learned, over the air
Without ever leaving my ham shack chair.
There's a KL7 on top of the world
To whom the Northern Lights are a banner unfurled
That sweeps across the Arctic night
Makes the frozen sky a thing of delight.
Tales of silver and gold and precious stones
Ancient temples and molding bones
Where the natives, I'm told, are tall and tan
By an XE3 down in Yucatan.
My vagabond trips over the air
Will take me, well, just anywhere
Where other vagabonds and I will meet
From a tropical isle, to a city street
My vagabond's life will continue, I know
Through the fabulous hobby of ham radio
And one day from out at the world's end
We'll meet on the air, my Vagabond friend.

I'm Onno, VK6FLAB

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the ACMA; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; 
David Behar K7DB; Dronelife; DX-World.net; Hamvention; IARU Region 1 Youth 
Working Group; Intrepid DX Group; NASA Ohio Penn DX newsletter; Onno 
Benschop VK6FLAB; QRZed.com; Radio World; Radio Society of Great Britain; 
Rebel DX Group; Rich Gordon K0EB; Southgate Amateur Radio News; 
shortwaveradio.de; Spacenews; 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 Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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