Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 01 2022 19:20:47

SILENT KEY: ALPHA AMPS' RICHARD EHRORN W4EA/W4ETO

NEIL/ANCHOR: The man behind the highly successful company Ehrhorn 
Technological Operations has become a Silent Key. Dick Ehrhorn,
W4EA/W4ETO started the company in 1970 and began production of the 
line of high-power Alpha RF amplifiers so popular in the amateur 
radio community. Dick was a lifelong ham. Mary Bittner WB0PXM, told 
Newsline that Dick and her late husband, the Rev. Paul Bittner, who 
had held the call sign W0AIH, had been friends since their Minnesota 
high school days when they met through a school amateur radio club. 
She described Dick as a good friend and a man of faith.

She said Dick, who was in failing health, died on Sunday, June 26th 
in Virginia. He was 88.

(EHAM.NET, MARY BITTNER WB0PXM, FACEBOOK)

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SPECIAL EVENT STATION TO HONOR DXPEDITIONER, HUMANITARIAN ZORRO

NEIL/ANCHOR: A special event is under way to celebrate the life of a 
ham known globally as a man of adventure and compassion. That story 
comes to us from Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.

JASON: The gifts of friendship, humanitarian gestures and good DX 
that filled the life of Zorro Miyazawa, JH1AJT, are being celebrated 
by operators of a month-long special event station, 3D2AJT, in Fiji 
through to late July. Zorro, who had cancer, became a Silent Key in 
March of this year. Throughout his long amateur radio career, his 
DXpeditions helped put notable and coveted DXs in the logbooks of 
hams around the world. Zorro was also known for his charitable work 
on behalf of children in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Japan and elsewhere. 
The special event operators will be on the air using CW, SSB, FT4, 
FT8 and varAC HF digital chat until the 27th of July, which would 
have been his 73rd birthday. According to the station's page on 
QRZ.com, the final day on the air will be marked with a farewell 
party organised by Zorro's widow at one of the schools her husband 
founded in Fiji.

QSL via ClubLog.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.

(DX-WORLD.NET, QRZ.COM)

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TRANSMITTER TO REMAIN OFF THE AIR ON ALEXANDERSON DAY

NEIL/ANCHOR: In Sweden, the Grimeton Radio Station is opening its 
doors to visitors at last this year, but its historic transmitter 
must stay off the air. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has those details.

JEREMY: For the first time since the pandemic began, the Alexander 
Association in Sweden will be welcoming visitors to Alexanderson Day 
on Sunday, 3rd July  at the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station.

Unfortunately, the 98-year-old mechanical transmitter will be unable 
to get on the air. A note on the association website reports that a 
shortage of components prevents this Alexanderson Day tradition from 
happening.

The 200 kW transmitter with the call sign SAQ will be started up 
twice and visitors to the radio station can be present but no 
transmission will be made into the top-loaded vertical antenna 
customarily used for 17 kHz transmissions. The transmitter was 
developed by the radio pioneer Ernst Alexanderson of Sweden who was 
an engineer at General Electric in the United States. It first went 
on the air in 1924.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(THE ALEXANDERSON ASSOCIATION)

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