Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Jan 20 2022 21:45:04 DXERS PUSH TO RETAIN ACCESS TO ISLAND GROUP PAUL/ANCHOR: The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument is on the map for many avid DXers. Now they're working to make sure those islands get to stay there. Ralph Squillace, KK6ITF, explains what's happening. RALPH: Imagine logging a DX contact from any of the seven islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. This group is known as the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. DXpeditions don't happen often there -- in fact it's been almost four years since a five-member team from the Northern California DX Foundation landed on Baker Island using the callsign KH1/KH7Z. The foundation's Don Greenbaum, N1DG, is now leading an effort to open the islands up for more DXers to have the kind of experience he and his teammates had on Baker Island in 2018. The US Fish & Wildlife Service, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, have received public comment on the proposal, which has the support of the Foundation. As a new management plan is being drafted for the islands, DXers want to be confident it will ensure continued occasional access there. The comment window closed on January 20th but the Foundation is hopeful. It said in a statement: [quote] "Ham radio was used by the early colonizers of Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands in the mid 1930s. It is a tradition that extends to today with the 2018 Baker Island radio expedition." [endquote] For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB. (OHIO PENN DX, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DX FOUNDATION) ** ONLINE DX MUSEUM PRESERVES RARE AND VINTAGE QSLs PAUL/ANCHOR: Speaking of DX, many of us would agree, DX never gets old, even if those cards from far-away locations become vintage. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, tells us about a unique online museum of sorts that preserves QSL cards for sharing...we hope, forever. ED: Jean Michel, F6AJA, has thousands and thousands of QSL cards, some from rare DX entities, and he didn't even have to turn his rig on once to get them. Jean Michel has created an online gallery of images of nearly 20,000 QSL cards sorted into different albums, including an assortment of the 10 most wanted DXCC entities, spanning the years 2011 to 2020. The collection contains more than 500 cards from contacts on rare French Pacific Islands, more than 1,000 from the various research bases in Antarctica and commemorative stations for the IARU and the ITU. That collection has more than 900 cards. Hams collecting DX from the United States have contributed images from each of the states, all dating before 1945. The site is in French but is available as an English translation. We are including the address in the text version of this week's newscast. You'll also find Jean Michel's email address. He's always looking to add to his collection and you can write to him if you're interested in contributing some of your own cards. [FOR PRINT, DO NOT READ: http://LesNouvellesDX.free.fr ] [FOR PRINT, DO NOT READ: LesNouvellesDX@free.fr ] For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP. (OHIO PENN DX) ** CLUB CREATES MAP TO CONNECT HAMS IN CANADA PAUL/ANCHOR: Hams in Canada have a new resource to help them locate other radio operators, as we hear from Sel Embee, KB3TZD. SEL: The Georgian Bay Amateur Radio Club VE3OSR in Canada is offering a way for hams to reconnect with one another through clubs, especially if they have lost touch during the pandemic. Clubs throughout Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, are now shown on a colorful map display which is free online for all hams' reference. The Georgian Bay amateurs are encouraging other clubs in Canada to add themselves to the map, which can be done by using the button labeled "CONTACT" on the bottom of the web page containing the map. Visit gbarc dot ca stroke clubs dot php (gbarc.ca/clubs.php) For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Sel Embee, KB3TZD. (GEORGIAN BAY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB) ** BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the KD5DMT repeater in Benton County Arkansas on Saturdays at 7 p.m. local times during the Amateur Radio Information Net on the Benton County Radio Operators' Repeater System. --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .