Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 04 2021 22:34:26

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, listen for the members of the Kuwait Amateur Radio 
Society operating as 9K60NLD throughout the month of February. This is a 
special event celebrating Kuwait's 60th National Day, which is February 
25th, and Liberation Day, which is  February 26th). QSL via 9K2RA.

In Mozambique, Bruno, CS7AMN, will be using the call sign C91BVA from 
Maputo starting on February 18th. Be listening on 80/40/20/15 and 10 
meters where he will be using SSB and the Digital modes. QSL via LoTW, by 
the Bureau (via CS7AMN), ClubLog or eQSL. 

In Germany, members of the Local Branch Kerpen (G29) have begun operating 
with the special event callsign DC220GERKE and will remain on the air 
through April 31st. They are celebrating the 220th birthday of Friedrich 
Clemens Gerke, who revised the Morse Code telegraphy system into the 
standardized form we know today as the International Morse code. QSL via 
DJ6SI direct or by the Bureau.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: HIGH-FLYING HUNGER HITS THE ISS

JIM/ANCHOR: Finally, if you've got an appetite for a good story, our final 
report this week is about some high-flying hunger in space that led the 
hams on board to engage in a bit of dietary diplomacy. Mike Askins, 
KE5CXP, serves this one to us:

MIKE: Whoever said hams love a good meal so much that they're unwilling to 
share their food may have eaten their way through more than a few hamfests 
-- but they haven't been aboard the International Space Station. 
Astronauts and cosmonauts not only appreciate one another's space-friendly 
cuisine but are required by NASA to do pre-flight sampling of the 
international goodies for the sake of their in-flight stomachs. So when 
the US astronauts heard their Russian colleagues learned would have a 
two-month delay in their next shipment of food, meal-sharing was the only 
solution. Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, Victor Glover, KI5BKC, Mike Hopkins,
KF5LJG, and Shannon Walker, KD5DXB, stepped up to the plate, so to speak. 
Sergey (SUR-GAY) Ryzhikov (RIZ-HIGH-KOV), one of the two cosmonauts, 
reported that the 13 containers of the Americans' food were even provided 
free of charge. That should be sufficient for the two cosmonauts until 
February 15th. According to a report from the Russian state-owned news 
site RIA Novosti, that's when the next shipment is scheduled.

With the ISS traveling at speeds of up to 17,100 miles an hour, you might 
even consider this to be fast-food. Very fast food.

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

(NASA, RIA NOVOSTI)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the ACMA; Airforce.Gov.Au; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; 
ARISS; the ARRL; Central Coast Amateur Radio Club; CQ Magazine; David 
Behar, K7DB; David Johnson, KF4ALH; LATMOS; LiveScience; Phys.Org; Myles 
Bruns, VE7FSR; NASA; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; OpenFalklands.com; QRZ.com; 
Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Space.com; Ted Randall's 
QSO Radio Show; RIA Novosti; Spaceflight Now; The Times of India; the 
Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; YouTube; and you our 
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 

Please send emails to our address at newsline@arnewsline.org. More 
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website 
at arnewsline.org.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and 
our news team worldwide, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleson, West 
Virginia, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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