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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 09 2021 10:55:51

WORLD OF DX

Listen for Frank, K3TRM, operating as VP2V/K3TRM from Tortola, British 
Virgin Islands until the 17th of July. Be listening on 40-6m where he 
will be using SSB, RTTY, FT8 and also on the satellites. QSL via his home 
call.

Be listening between July 17th and 25th for members of the Quito Radio 
Club who will be on the air as HD1QRC90. The club is marking its 90th 
anniversary. They will be on the air on all bands and all modes. QSL via 
EA5GL.

A Russian Robinson Club IOTA/RRA Expedition will be using the callsign 
RI0FWA (R Eye Zero F W A) between July 24th and 29th from Kunashir 
Island, IOTA AS-025. Their activation will include the RSGB IOTA contest. 
Send QSLs to R Zed 3 F W (RZ3FW), who is a member of the team.

(DX-WORLD.NET)

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KICKER: MOBILE ANTENNA HITS A BUMP IN THE ROAD

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We end this week's report with the story of a mobile 
antenna and traveling down the road to trouble. Mike Askins, KE5CXP,
tells us how it happened.

MIKE: There's nothing like the freedom of having a mobile antenna and 
many hams who have at least one will tell you it's a game-changer when 
they're on the road. But when is an antenna TOO MUCH antenna?

According to the California Highway Patrol, it's too much antenna when 
it's a satellite dish attached to the hood of your car. On July 2nd, a 
motorist with just that configuration was pulled over by an officer who 
identified it as a [quote] "visual obstruction." The police said the dish 
seemed to be an antenna like those that connect to the Starlink service 
which SpaceX introduced in its beta stage late last year.

According to news accounts in the New York Post newspaper and CNBC, the 
motorist explained to the officer that the antenna was used for business 
and it provides a necessary Wi-Fi connection for the car. When the 
officer asked whether it impeded driving in any way, the motorist 
reportedly said that visibility was an issue only when making right 
turns.

He was given a ticket for a moving violation. A post on the highway 
patrol's Facebook page for Antelope Valley, recounted the story too, 
citing a section of the California Vehicle Code which makes the mounting 
of visual obstructions on the hood of a vehicle to be illegal.

That apparently applied to this vehicle, which was a red Toyota Prius. 
Perhaps the driver would have had better luck if he'd been driving 
something older, say, one from the 1960s or 1970s. We're thinking of one 
Chrysler Motors model in particular: It was called the Plymouth 
Satellite.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.

(NYPOST and CNBC)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society; the 
ARRL; Bob Wertz NF7E; CNBC; CQ Magazine; David Behar K7DB; DX-World.net; 
IARU; India Today; the New York Post; QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great 
Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Space.com; 
Spacenews.com; Spaceweather.com; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; WTWW 
Shortwave; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's 
all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 

You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. For more information or 
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with the title "Two Stories."

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.

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