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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jan 06 2023 06:36:09

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for VI10SOTA (VEE EYE TEN SOTA) which is 
on the air in Australia to celebrate the 10th year of Summits on the Air 
in the VK1 region. The station will be active through to the end of the 
year and any amateur with an Australian licence who is activating a VK1 
SOTA peak may use it.

Logs of all activators will be found under each activator’s log in their 
account.

Be listening for Harald, DF2WO, using the call sign D44TWO from Sao Tiago 
(AF-005), Cape Verde until the 21st  of January. He is on 160 through 6 
metres, using FT8 with some SSB and CW. He is also using the  QO-100 
satellite. QSL via M0OXO's OQRS.

Listen for Darren, VK4MAP, who is working holiday style as FW/VK4MAP from
Wallis & Futuna in the South Pacific through the first half of January. 
Listen for him on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres where he will be operating 
SSB. QSL direct to his home call.

The special call sign DB100RDF is on the air to mark 100 years of 
broadcasting in Germany. This commemorates the fact that the first 
official radio entertainment in Germany went on the air on the 29th of 
October, 1923. QSL direct to DO2PZ or via the bureau.

You can hear the special call sign EG1NMP from the 7th to the 10th of 
January. The station is on the air to remember the wreck of the Monte 
Palomares, a Spanish freighter that sank in the North Atlantic on the 
10th of January, 1966. QSL only via LoTW and eQSL. 

(425 DX NEWS)

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SAYING 73 TO THE OLD YEAR AROUND THE WORLD

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our final story has a little bit of magic in it. Some of it 
is amateur radio magic and the rest is simply New Year's magic -- because 
we can't put a final ribbon on the holiday season without this story of a 
QSO that happened in two countries across the change of the year. John 
Williams, VK4JJW, explains.

JOHN: With poor conditions on the bands, the 10-minute QSO between one 
ham in Australia and another in Thailand might have felt more like it 
lasted for a year. Well....in a way, it actually did.

Supoj (Sue Podge) E25JRP was on 20 metres at 2130 local time in Bangkok 
in the final hours of the old year, but very few CW operators responded 
to his call in that first half-hour. At 2200 local time, someone more 
distant came back to him - like the others, his call began with a V - 
perhaps it was VR, from Hong Kong, or VU, from India. Battling serious 
QSB, Supoj asked for a repeat - and then another.

He told Newsline: [quote] "After a couple of question marks and 'again,' 
I got all of his callsign." [endquote] It was VK5PL, Dave, a colleague 
from the Long Island CW Club in the United States. Dave was at home in 
Australia and recognised Supoj's callsign when he heard it on the air. 
Two thousand twenty-three was already well underway at his QTH. The 
year-change had started two hours earlier.

Riding the fickle QSB, the two had just enough time to exchange new 
year's wishes - and for Dave to log his first QSO of the new year and 
Supoj to log one of his final ones of the old year.

Dave wrote on the club's forum on groups.io: [quote] "I had a great start 
to the year." [endquote]

Supoj told Newsline: [quote] "I turned off my rig with a big smile." 
[endquote]

Now, of course, with everyone properly settled into 2023, the only thing 
that needs to get in sync are those band conditions.

This is John Williams, VK4JJW.

(SUPOJ, E25JRP; GROUPS.IO) 

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With thanks to the Alexanderson Association; Amateur Radio Weekly; the 
ARRL; Birla Institute of Technology; CQ magazine; Dave, VK5PL; David 
Behar K7DB; the 425 DX News; IEEE; Radio Society of Great Britain; 
shortwaveradio.de; Springfield News-Sun; Supoj, E25JRP; Straight Key 
Century Club; 3YØJ Website; West Bengal Radio Club; Wireless Institute of 
Australia; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio 
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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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