Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 01 2022 19:20:57

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, Rafael, NN3RP will be active from Granada, 
Nicaragua as YN2RP during July 5. He will be operating on the HF 
bands, FM satellites, and will be using FT8/FT4, CW, RTTY, VarAC, 
and SSB. QSL via LoTW and eQSL.

Be listening for Pete, ZL4TE, operating as E51RMP from the Cook 
islands during July 14th through 21st. Although he will be mainly on 
Rarotonga, he will make a side trip Aitutaki, IOTA number OC-083, on 
July 18th and 19th. Be listening on the HF bands. He will be QRP. 
QSL to Pete's home call.

FIrst-time contest participant VK5KI will be on the air for the 
Radio Society of Great Britain's IOTA Contest from Kangaroo Island, 
IOTA number OC-139, off South Australia's coast, from Friday July 
29th to Sunday July 31st. The station will operate in CW and SSB. 
Before the contest, be listening on 80m through 10m. During the 
contest, be listening on 80/40/20/15/ and 10m. QSL via Charles 
M0OXO.

Be listening also for KL7RRC from Kiska Island, NA-070, during the 
RSGB IOTA contest on July 30th and 31st. Send QSLs to N7RO.

(DX-WORLD.NET)

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KICKER: GETTING A STRING OF CONTACTS WITH A KITE

NEIL/ANCHOR: For our final story, we introduce a radio amateur who 
is lucky enough to have found a way to combine two things she really 
loves - amateur radio and flying kites. Mike Askins, KE5CXP, tells 
us about her adventures in Kite POTA.

MIKE: Lisa Neuscheler (Newsh-Lurr), KC1YL, has found a way to string 
together her Parks on the Air contacts from as close to her Florida 
home as Texas and as far away as the western states, the Caribbean 
and Europe. That's because the string she uses is the string of a 
kite. The kite enthusiast launched her first high-flying ham radio 
antenna in October of last year on Florida's east coast with 
friends. Back home on the west coast near Tampa, she and her small 
team have done eight kite activations since that time. This past 
March, she was on Florida's Honeymoon Island when she achieved her 
first POTA kite-to-kite contact with another team that also brought 
their kite there.

Lisa told Newsline that she credits Kourt de Haas, KB5PRZ, with 
inspiring her lofty goals after she learned that the Texas amateur 
accomplished his QSO with her in 2016 - while she was still living 
in Connecticut - using an antenna on a kite over the Gulf of Mexico. 
Now she runs along the Florida beaches with a POTA kite team of her 
own, including Julie, NF1T, Jack, W1BBU, and others.

Her next challenge is a longer-distance POTA kite-to-kite contact 
with her friend Paul, W1IP, in Connecticut. Their first attempt on 
June 13th was scrapped by insufficient wind on Paul's local beach. 
Lisa made 95 regular POTA contacts that day using her kite antenna 
but none were made with Paul. So they're trying again on July 11th.

Lisa told Newsline: [quote] "You have to be happy when you are 
holding a kite string." [endquote] No doubt she'll be even happier 
if on that day the wind helps carries her ambition to reality. You 
might even say it will be uplifting.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.

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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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