Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 15 2021 20:49:11

WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, be listening for members of the international 
group known as the Slow Morse Code Club, which is celebrating its 
first anniversary. They will be using CW and the special callsigns 
TM1SMC for France, GB1SMC for England and EI1SMC for Ireland. The 
anniversary event will be on the air between July 17th and July 
25th. The callsign TM1SMC will also be using SSB. QSL cards will be 
sent via the Bureau. Send your QSL cards and SWL reports to F4IIQ. 
Visit the QRZ page of TM1SMC for more details.

Be listening for Brian, GW4DVB, active as J88PI from Palm Island, 
also known as Prune Island, in the St. Vincent and the Grenadines 
Island group, between July 24th and August 1st. He wlil be on the 
air holiday style on 40/20/17/15/10 and 6 meters using CW, SSB, SSTV 
and FT8. Send QSLs to his home call only.

The Svalbard DXpedition team has been joined by Rune, LA7THA, as the 
operators get ready for activation between July 21st and July 26th. 
They will be using the callsign JW0W (Jay W Zero W). Send QSLs to 
QSL manager Charles M0OXO through OQRS, Direct or via the Bureau. 
The full log will be uploaded to LoTW.

John, KL2A, will be active from Anchorage, Alaska, throughout July 
on 160-6 metres using mainly CW and possibly FT8. Send QSLs to Post 
Office Box 924, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816, in the US.

Members of the Bulgarian Radio Club Blagovestnik, LZ1KCP, are 
honoring yet another of the Orthodox saints during July. They will 
be using the callsign LZ950TM. This is part of a year-long activity 
toward the "All Saints - 2021" award. Send QSLs via the Bureau or 
direct to LZ1KCP. For more details about the awards visit the 
website at www dot lz1kcp dot com (www.lz1kcp.com). August's special 
event will have the callsign LZ363ER.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: DOUBLE THE AMATEUR RADIO JOY FOR MINNESOTA TWINS

JIM/ANCHOR: For our final story, we ask: What's better than being in 
a ham radio family? How about having your identical twin right 
beside you in the shack for going on eight decades. Kent Peterson,
KC0DGY, introduces us to these two YLs.

KENT: Janet Robidoux, K0JE, and her sister, Janice Robidoux, K0JA,
are the real Minnesota Twins. Their kind of teamwork has nothing to 
do with the American pro baseball team by the same name in their 
home state. Their teamwork reflects more on the sisterhood of a pair 
of Midwestern YLs who are not just identical twins but amateur radio 
operators.

Being 86 means Janet and Janice have become DXers through life 
itself: At one time or another during their eight decades on the 
planet they have engaged in canoe-racing, competitive bowling, 
wildflower photography and adventure travel to every US state except 
Hawaii. They've taken part in volunteer efforts close to home and in 
enviable DX locations such as Indonesia and Tonga. They've also 
traveled to visit ham friends for eyeball QSOs in New Zealand and 
Australia.

They have long since sold their recreational vehicle, their ice 
skates and their snow shoes and have stopped climbing the 65-foot 
tower outside their home 11 years ago but they're still game for a 
good hunt. At the home QTH, they chase national park radio operators 
while using CW and SSB. They also hunt and pounce the big DX with 
the help of 1,000 watts of power and the antenna they rotate to pull 
their quarry in.

Their station log may be filled with countless QSOs but as they told 
the Star-Tribune newspaper, it's the blank pages they're focusing on 
now. Janet said: [quote] "We always want to get more countries." 
[endquote] Outside the front door in their garden, where the 
sisters' steel tower stands, possibilities still grow abundantly 
amid the flowering annuals.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.

(STAR TRIBUNE)

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ARRL; CQ Magazine; David Behar K7DB; Dayton Daily News; DX-
World.net; IARU; Finnish Amateur Radio League; Ham Radio Outlet; 
QRZ.com; Mark Steven Williams K9GX; Radio Society of Great Britain; 
the Star-Tribune newspaper; Southgate Amateur Radio News; 
shortwaveradio.de; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the Times of 
Israel; USKA; 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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