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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Mar 10 2022 22:25:08

POTA ADDS NEW DX ENTITIES INCLUDING THOSE ON FALKLAND ISLANDS

NEIL/ANCHOR: Parks on the Air has announced a new group of DX entities. 
Here's Vance Martin, N3VEM, with details.

VANCE: Parks on the Air is excited to welcome a new batch of DX entities 
to the program this month. Be on the lookout for new parks getting added 
in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kingdom of Eswatini, 
Bolivia, Paraquay, Uruguay, Suriname, Guyana, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, 
and the Falkland Islands. If your country, or one you'd like to 
represent, is not yet part of POTA please reach out via the "contact us"
link from Parks on the Air dot com, and we'll help you get started as a 
volunteer country administrator.

In upcoming events, we hope you join us for the upcoming Spring Support 
Your parks event on April 16th and 17th UTC. 

We also hope you'll join us this summer for our very popular annual 
plaque event, on July 16th and 17th, UTC. There will be three new 
plaques available for DX activators this year, one each for stations 
activating outside of the continental US, in IARU regions one, two and 
three. Sponsorship opportunities will be opening at the end of March, so 
if you or your club is interested in sponsoring a plaque, please send an 
email to N3VEM at parks on the air dot com. Due to steady growth, and 
improving conditions that make it possible to, as KN4MQR said on twitter 
"...load up a wet pasta noodle, and get pileups for hours" -- we are 
expecting a very large turnout.

This is November Three Victor Echo Mike from the Parks on the Air news 
desk.

(VANCE MARTIN, N3VEM)
 
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WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for Dick G3RWL, operating as 8P6DR 
holiday style from Barbados until the 31st of March. He will be on 80 
through 10 metres, using CW only. He will be active in the British 
Commonwealth Contest on March 12th and 13th, but the contest is not for 
US operators. QSL to his home callsign, direct, or by the Bureau using 
ClubLog's OQRS.

In the Maldives, Laurent, F8CZI, is using the callsign 8Q7ZI until the 
21st of March. He is operating holiday style using CW and SSB. QSL via 
his home call.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: AUSTRALIAN MIGHT 'ROO' THE FATE OF HIS DIPOLE

NEIL/ANCHOR: For our final story, let's talk about ground wave 
propagation. It's not unusual to use the earth's surface to help you 
cover a short distance. Sometimes it's even preferable when you're using 
one of the lower frequencies. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, tells us about one 
antenna in Australia that recently covered a short distance in just this 
manner -- but it wasn't even transmitting at the time.

GRAHAM: Compton, VK2HRX, was operating portable one weekend last month 
and went to bed happy with the performance of his linked dipole on 20, 
40 and 80 metres. After a good day operating in the bush on Saturday, he 
was looking forward to more good contacts when he awoke on Sunday 
morning. He even left the antenna in place so he'd be ready to start 
when the sun came up. But as he told fellow hams on the Oz SOTA mailing 
list recently, things didn't quite work out that way [quote]: "When I 
went to use it on Sunday AM it wasn't there." [endquote] He discovered 
that one leg was broken at the 40/80 link and the other leg had simply 
vanished. Walking farther, Compton spotted the bright yellow antenna 
wire up on a nearby hill. It was then that he remembered the previous 
night when 20 or so kangaroos had come bouncing by. He guessed that one 
of them may have run off with the wire. Likely he was trying to work 
skip.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

(OZSOTA Groups.io mailing list)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Ambarish Nag Biswas, VU2JFA; ARRL; CQ Magazine; David 
Behar K7DB; DXWorld.net; Facebook; the FCC; the Morning Journal News; 
India TV News; Ohio Penn DX; OZSOTA Groups.io; QRZ.com; the Radio 
Society of Great Britain; South African Radio League; Southgate Amateur 
Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Stacy Holbrook, KH6OWL; the Statesman; 
YouTube; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio 
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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 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Union, Kentucky,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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