Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jun 02 2022 21:19:18

WORLD OF DX

Be listening for the special callsign EI90IRTS, which was issued to mark 
the 90th birthday of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society. Amateurs 
throughout Ireland are calling QRZ with this callsign on all bands and 
using all modes. According to a report from the IRTS, the call is already 
attracting pileups, so be ready. The callsign will be active for the 
remainder of this year. QSL via Bureau, LOTW or eQSL.  Direct QSLs can be 
sent to EI6AL enclosing $2, or payment via Paypal or Clublog.

Harald, DF2WO will be using the callsign 9X2AW until the 22nd of June from 
Rwanda. He will be using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8 on 160m, 20m, 17m, 15m and 
10 meters. QSL to M0OXO OQRS 

Take (Tah-Kay), JS6RRR/JI3DST/JJ5RBH is on the air from Shodo island, AS-
200, until July 4th. Listen for the three call signs on 80m through 70cm 
using CW, SSB, FT8, RTTY, FM. See QRZ.com for QSL details.

(DX-WORLD.NET, SOUTHGATE)

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KICKER: THE DX TO END ALL DXES

PAUL/ANCHOR: We end this week's report with the story of the latest radio 
message that targets some receivers you might not necessarily find listed 
on QRZ. Ralph Squilllace, KK6ITB, tells us what's going on.

RALPH: A group of Calfornia researchers is planning what some might call 
"the DX to end all DXes." They recently announced they'll be transmitting 
a message from a deep space network at Goonhilly, England, to an alien 
solar system 39 light years away. The message targets TRAPPIST-1, a dwarf 
star outside our solar system. Unlike amateur radio, the message to be 
sent in early October will be able to transmit music, and it will, along 
with details about the environmental crisis we are having here on earth.

The researchers are part of a group called METI International, a group of 
scientists devoted to pursuing interstellar messaging. In fact, the 
acronym stands for "messaging extra-terrestrial intelligence."

Their planned message follows in the tradition of the most famous radio 
transmission to date, sent almost 50 years ago from the Arecibo radio 
telescope in Puerto Rico. A decade later, another mode of messaging was 
used involving the so-called “Golden Records,” phonograph records sent on 
board the two Voyager spacecrafts.

None of those attempts at communication reportedly got replies even though 
in Voyager's case, instructions were included on how to play the records. 
Perhaps radio will win the day, after all, and this new message will 
succeed where others seem to have failed. 

Well, let's hope the band conditions are promising and hope someone is 
still around if any reply comes.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

(BIG THINK.COM)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the ARRL; the Australian Communications and Media 
Authority; BigThink.com; Clark Ackison, AA8SH; CQ Magazine; David Behar 
K7DB; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com; the Radio Society of Great Britain; South 
China Morning Post; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; the 
Wireless Institute of Australia; Youth on the Air; 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 Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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