Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 04 2021 21:59:15

KICKER: WHEN THE KEY TO ORDERING PIZZA IS A STRAIGHT KEY

SKEETER: We end this week's newscast with a little slice of life. Or 
maybe.....a little slice of pizza? Or maybe both. Well, if you enjoy pizza 
and you enjoy Morse Code, you might enjoy a pie with everything on it -
including some dits and dahs. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, delivers the pizza for 
us here.

JEREMY: The pizza delivery chain, Papa John's, has just cracked the code 
to a clever marketing scheme and it's using CW to make it happen. The 
popular Call of Duty video game played on Xbox, Playstation and Windows, 
has partnered with the pizza maker to launch the game's latest version, 
"Call of Duty: Vanguard," which features a World War II theme with four 
leading characters: military officers from Great Britain, the US, 
Australia and the Soviet Union. Now, it also features....pizza for those 
playing the game. By ordering a Morse Code kit in advance from the pizza 
maker, players will be able to get a kit that lets them crack the code 
they then need to translate into CW. Each code corresponds to a different 
topping for their pie. The kits become available in the UK later this 
month.

Giles Codd, the pizza chain's UK marketing director, said the campaign 
also underscores the company's partnership with the Call of Duty Endowment 
which assists military veterans in the UK in finding jobs.

Whether any pizza orders will be placed from Bletchley Park....remains to 
be seen.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(SOUTHGATE, TECHROUND, POLYGON.COM) 

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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  Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Shelbyville, 
Tennessee, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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