Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu May 12 2022 19:18:40

WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, be listening for Gerben, PG5M, active as HB0/PG5M 
from Liechtenstein until the 15th of May. Gerben is operating holiday 
style on various HF bands using CW only. QSL via PG5M or ClubLog's 
OQRS. For updates, follow the Twitter page of his home call.

Members of the Ecuador DX Club will operate special event station HD1E 
from Quito on Monday, May 23rd and Tuesday, May 24th. The hams are 
celebrating Ecuador's Bicentennial Independence Day, which is on May 
24th. They will be on all HF bands using all the usual modes. QSL via 
LoTW. A free commemorative diploma will be available for all successful 
contacts.

Other hams in Ecuador who are members of the HCDX Group have been using 
the callsign HD200BP since May 1st from Quito (Special Event) and will 
continue until the end of May. They are commemorating the 200th 
anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha. Look for them on the HF bands 
using SSB and FT8/FT4. QSL via EC5R.

Be listening for Reiner, DL2AAZ, using the callsign TO2AZ from 
Basseterre Island, Guadeloupe, between May 27th and June 10th. Reiner 
will operate holiday style on 40 to 10 meters, including 30, 17 and 12 
meters. He will be using CW and SSB. QSL to his home call.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: A WORLD OF CONCERN FROM AN OCEAN AWAY

NEIL/ANCHOR: Our final story this week reminds listeners how small 
amateur radio can make the world, especially in an emergency. Ed 
Durrant, DD5LP explains.

ED: There's a great distance between the American South and the Azores, 
where Geir Tore Christiansen LA5ZO was with his sailboat in late April. 
The Norwegian amateur heard a ship's urgent transmission on 12 MHz 
digital selective on his DSC-equipped HF radio and quickly pinpointed 
its origin as the United States. Suddenly the vastness of geography 
became irrelevant. Geir has been a radio operator on merchant ships and 
oil rigs for much of his life and, as he told Newsline, responding to a 
radio distress call is simply something an operator does. Geir reached 
out to the United States Coast Guard via satellite phone. Meanwhile in 
the U.S., the Coast Guard received a call on VHF-FM channel 16 from the 
crew of that same ship off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana. A crew 
member had gone missing and was reported overboard in the Gulf of 
Mexico.
 
According to a Coast Guard press release and a report on the nola.com 
website, the Coast Guard sent out an urgent marine information broadcast 
and several units of the service began a search in the waters. Geir said 
he learned later that the man was successfully rescued. The Coast Guard 
could not confirm those details to Newsline but a report on Southgate 
Amateur Radio News said a heat-sensing camera located the man, who was 
wearing an inflatable vest for flotation. A helicopter rescue pulled him 
out of the water. No doubt the rescued man held fast to the lifeline as 
it was lowered into the water for him. The other lifeline - radio - was 
one he perhaps could not see but it was surely there as strong as ever.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP.

(NOLA.COM, GEIR TORE CHRISTIANSEN LA5ZO, US COAST GUARD, SOUTHGATE)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the ARRL; Arpp, Root and Carter Funeral Home; CQ 
Magazine; David Behar K7DB; Geir Tore Chrstiansen, LA5ZO; Mainichi 
Shimbun; NOLA.COM; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com; the Radio Society of Great 
Britain; Parks on the Air; Southgate Amateur Radio News;
shortwaveradio.de; Thorsten Schmidt, DO1DAA; US Coast Guard; Washington
Post; 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 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Union, Kentucky,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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