Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 22:22:34

NEW LIST RELEASED OF MOST WANTED DXCC

NEIL/ANCHOR: This is the list so many hams wait to see. It's the most 
wanted DXCC list and a new one was just released by ClubLog. The top five 
are, starting with top most-wanted: North Korea, Bouvet Island, Crozet 
Island, Scarborough Reef and fifth is San Felix Islands. For the rest of 
the list - and it's a long one - visit clublog.org.

(CLUBLOG)

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WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for Larry, G4HLN, using the call sign 
GB4CKS, until November 14th. He is operating CW and some SSB on 40 to 10 
metres marking the 85th anniversary of the death of Australian record-
setting aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The aviator disappeared on 
November 8th 1935 off the coast of what was then known as Burma, while 
trying to break the England-to-Australia speed record. Send QSLs to G4HLN, 
direct or via the bureau.

Be listening for special event station OZ100MILL, which is on the air until 
December 15th, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the unification of 
Southern Jutland with Denmark. Operation is on all the HF bands using CW, 
SSB, RTTY and other digital modes. Send QSLs via the bureau.

Special event station DK70DARC is active until the end of December, marking 
the 70th anniversary of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club. Send QSLs to the 
bureau.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: SOME REAL DX WITH THIS ANTENNA UPGRADE

NEIL/ANCHOR: So you've swapped your 40 metre dipole out for a nice new beam 
and you're hoping to score more DX? Well, the folks at NASA can relate to 
that. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, wraps up this week's newscast with that story.

GRAHAM: Repairs and upgrades to the Deep Space Station 43 dish in Canberra 
Australia had kept it off the air since last March. That's significant 
because it's the only dish in the world that can send commands to the 
Voyager 2 probe. Well, NASA reports that an upgrade to the dish allowed it 
to finally make contact with the probe again on October 29th. It was the 
first successful transmission since March.

It's not that the mission team had lost contact entirely: Data and status 
updates could still be received from the probe. But with the dish out of 
commission these past few months, there was no way to successfully transmit 
to the craft some 116 billion miles away. No antennas anywhere else on 
Earth can do what the powerful dish in the Southern Hemisphere could. 
According to NASA's website, the dish is expected to return to full service 
by February 2021.

So, if lately, you're confounded by your own antenna projects, be glad 
you're not trying for a rare DX in Deep Space. Those kinds of upgrades are 
best left, perhaps, to the professionals.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

(NASA, ENGADGET)

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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 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington Indiana,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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