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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 05 2021 09:18:55

WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, be listening for special event station GB2CR in 
Scotland until the 18th of March. The special callsign's suffix "CR" 
stands for "Collins Radio," and the operators will be using vintage 
valve/tube radio equipment manufactured in the U.S. by Collins. Be 
listening on 80-10 meters; mostly SSB with some CW. All QSOs will be 
uploaded to ClubLog.

Be listening for Bill, K9HZ; Kyle, WA4PGM, and Dan, W0CN active as J68HZ 
from a villa in St. Lucia until March 11th. Their activity is usually on 
160-2 meters using CW, SSB, FT8 and EME. QSL J68HZ via LoTW, eQSL or 
direct to K9HZ

Stian, LB5SH, will be active as JW/LB5SH from the JW5E club station on 
Spitsbergen Island in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. He is 
expected to be on the air between March 25th and March 28th on various HF 
bands using SSB and FT8. He will also be in the CQWW WPX SSB Contest on 
March 27 and 28th using the callsign JW2T. Send QSLs to JW/LB5SH and 
possibly JW2T via LoTW or ClubLog.

Be listening for Ian, ZS6JSI, who began operating from Benin as ZS6JSI/TY 
in January and expects to be there for six months. Be listening mostly on 
20 meters where he is using FT8. He also operates mobile and can be heard 
at times on 80/40/20 meters using SSB and FT8. For details visit his page 
on QRZ.com.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: DOCUMENTING AN OLD BOAT ANCHOR'S SAIL

DON/ANCHOR: If you've ever refurbished an old boat anchor, you know the 
challenges of adding a piece of history to your shack. No doubt you can 
relate to this next story about a powerful old Collins boat anchor. Ralph 
Squillace, KK6ITB, tells about a new video that chronicles its rescue and 
its cross-country journey several years ago.

RALPH: The control room and the Collins 250,000-watt transmitters once 
used by Voice of America at its Delano Relay Station in California is 
transmitting history now instead of U.S. government broadcasts that began 
during World War II into the Pacific Rim and Central and South America. 
The transmitter, once part of Delano (duh-LAY-no) Relay DL-8, is now part 
of the permanent exhibit at the Antique Wireless Association Museum in 
Bloomfield, New York, where its cross-country journey ended almost six 
years ago with the help of the museum, the Collins Collectors Association 
and the VOA.

A video moderated by Dennis Kidder, W6DQ, and recently uploaded by the 
museum shows the painstaking effort of the team to save the 821A-1 
transmitter from the bulldozer headed its way after Voice of America 
halted its operations there in 2007. The team, working to do disassembly 
and transport on a tight deadline, consisted of Jim Stitzinger, WA3CEX, 
Bill Cairns, N7OTQ, Rod Blocksome, N0DAS, CCA president Scott Kerr, 
KE1RR, and Vince Baker from the VOA, among others. 

This was not just Collins' most powerful transmitter for a shortwave 
broadcaster; it could also autotune within 20 seconds, helping it 
successful avoid jammers seeking to silence the U.S. government's 
messages. Its story, however, remains unsilenced: Visitors have shared 
its message and its history at the Antique Wireless Museum and now in 
this 40-minute video uploaded to YouTube in February.

A link to the video appears in the script of this week's newscast on our 
website, arnewsline.org

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

[FOR PRINT: do not read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrSrdArng10 ]

(YOUTUBE, CCA, AWA)

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Wireless Association; the ARRL; Collins Collectors Association; CQ 
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listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.

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and our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune,
Mississippi, saying 73. As always we thank you for listening.

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