Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 20:54:32 POTA ACTIVATION MARKS A SCOUTING 100TH ANNIVERSARY STEPHEN/ANCHOR: An anniversary celebration for Scouting gets on the air on Saturday April 2nd in the form of a Parks on the Air activation. The Ten Mile River Scout Camp Amateur Radio Club and the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club will be operating with the callsign K2T from Bear Mountain State Park, POTA Park K-2010, in Rockland County, New York. The hams are marking 100 years since the founding of the New York City Boy Scout Foundation by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was governor of New York State at the time. It will be a multi band / mode operation. A commemorative QSL card will be available. See K2T's page on QRZ for details. ** WORLD OF DX In the World of DX, Israel is celebrating its 74 years as an independent nation and hams are using special prefixes 4X74 and 4Z74 between the 5th and 11th of May. QSL cards via LoTW or indivdual operators. You may also hear the callsigns during the Holyland Contest on April 15th and 16th. In West Malaysia, Alex, SQ9UM, is using the callsign 9M2/SQ9UM from Kuala Lumpur until March 31st. Be listening on 40-6 meters where Alex will be using CW, SSB and FT8/FT4. QSL via his home callsign. In Nepal, Matjaz, S57MK, will be calling QRZ on various HF bands as 9N7MK during the trekking sessions on Mt. Everest between April 2nd and 23rd. Watch his QRZ page for QSL details. ** KICKER: APRIL FOOL! HERE'S A RIG THAT CAN TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Finally, with the arrival of April 1st, April Fool's Day, Newsline brings our special April Fool's Day correspondent, Pierre Pullinmyleg, out of retirement. We offer his very special report here. PIERRE: Good day to you mes amis, it is I, Pierre Pullinmyleg with yet another Amateur Radio Newsline exclusive report - so exclusive is this that no one - not even the people in zis story - know that this is news. So exclusive that not even YOU - our listeners - know that this is news. I, Pierre Pullinmyleg, do not even know that this is news. But we announce this week that history is made: the makers of the world's amateur radios have signed a contract with the makers of the world's automobiles to build zee Rigmobile, an HF transceiver that seats up to four passengers with plenty of cargo space -- and has an optional roof rack and bobblehead doll on the dashboard. Now you can work DX and drive there afterward to deliver your QSL card personally. Why rely on zee lousy post office? Now on acceleration? She is fantastic! You will reach speeds of 300,000 kilometres per second - zee speed of light -- and no authorities except zee communications regulators can make you stop!! After all, you already have your ticket. Zee Rigmobile means no more annoying hours spent wiring your car and cursing. Get behind its wheel and "Q R Z" is as close as your accelerator pedal! What could be better? Well....sources have told Pierre Pullinmyleg that there are talks now with makers of the world's small passenger airplanes for a flying transceiver, Zee SkyRig. Zat seems zee best way to bust zat pileup we're expecting on Bouvet Island. For now, this is Pierre Pullinmyleg saying "au revoir mes amis." ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to AMSAT; ARRL; CQ Magazine; CNN; David Behar K7DB; XWorld.net; Facebook; Nature.com; Ohio Penn DX; Paul Ewing, N6PSE; QRZ.com; the Radio Society of Great Britain; Ralph Fedor, K0IR; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SOTA Reflector; Steven Reiners, KC9SIO; TAPR: Twitter; Yeudy Marte, HI5YJM; and you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us, please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate you all. 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. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2022. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .