Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Dec 30 2022 06:10:49 WORLD OF DX In the World of DX, special stations SP90ENIGMA and SP90ENG are active until 15 January to mark the 90th anniversary since Polish cryptologists first broke the Enigma cipher. For SP90ENIGMA, send QSL via SP3PGR. For SP90ENG, QSL via SP3PDO. The Marconi Club is holding the fifth edition of its QSO Party Day on the 7th of January. Operators will be on the air from 0700 to 18000 UTC on 80, 40 and 20 metres, using CW. The ARI Loano (LOW-ANNO) Marconi Club is a member of the International CW Council. Operators will be calling "CQ MCD." Special callsigns R2023NY and UE23NY are active on the HF bands until the 8th of January for the annual "Russian New Year" radio marathon organized by the Miller DX Club. QSL via RQ7L. Be listening for HH75RCH on the bands from January 1st through the 1st of May. This is the special callsign marking the 75th anniversary of the Radio Club d'Haiti, established on March 29th 1948. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, or via N2OO (N 2 OH-OH). (425 DX NEWS) ** KICKER: A HOLIDAY NET THAT'S A SAFETY NET STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Our final story for this week is about one holiday net that is also, for many, a kind of safety net. Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, has that story for us. DON: Sometimes we get on the air looking for more than just a signal report. As the holiday season draws to a close, ONTARS, the Ontario Amateur Radio Service, has stepped in twice to do just that. Known for the daily net it holds on 3.755 MHz, ONTARS also provided a gathering place for amateurs who spent this past Christmas in need of company. That net, known as Sam's Christmas Cracker, was conducted by Sam Jones, VE3ZSZ, as he has done for the past six years with the support of Barry Lisoweski, VE3ISX, the ONTARS manager. Sam shared this year's net on December 25th on 80 metres at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time with Kevin, VA3RCA. Sam told Newsline in an email that the net added some holiday brightness for people who may have suffered a death in the family or perhaps were left trapped by the recent blizzard that struck in the northeastern regions of the United States and Canada. He said [quote] "It was about 120 minutes of just funny jokes and funny stories." [endquote] Together everyone checked in and found a common meeting ground on the air. Sam said he plans to hold another net on New Year's Day, January 1st. This will be on 7.185 MHz lasting from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It will be called the Positive Vibrations Net. Sam told Newsline [quote]: "It's important. I try to bring smiles across the miles." [endquote] This is Don Wilbanks, AE5DW. (SAM JONES, VE3ZSZ) ** NEWCAST CLOSE - DO YOU HAVE NEWS? STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Do you have a piece of Amateur Radio News that you think Newsline would be interested in? We are not talking about advertising your club's upcoming hamfest or field day participation, but something that is out of the ordinary. If so, send us a brief overview via the contact page at arnewsline.org. If it's newsworthy and we would like to cover it, we'll get back to you for more details. NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to the Alexanderson Association; Amateur Radio Weekly; the ARRL; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Congresswoman Debbie Lesko; Contest University; CQ magazine; the DARC; David Behar K7DB; the 425 DX News; Sam Jones, VE3ZSZ; shortwaveradio.de; the True Blue DXers Club; University of Alaska Geophysical Institute; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 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. We also remind our listeners that if you like our newscast, please leave us a 5-star rating wherever you subscribe to us. 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 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .