Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri May 14 2021 08:41:08

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, members of the Korean Amateur Radio League are 
using the special callsign HL41GDM to mark the 41st anniversary of the 
Democratic Uprising in South Korea, which occurred between May 18th 
and 27th in 1980. Operators will be calling on all bands and modes 
through May 31st. QSL via HL4CCM, direct, by the Bureau, ClubLog, or 
eQSL.

In Germany, operators are marking the 25th anniversary of the German 
DX Foundation using the special event callsign DL25GDXF. The station 
will be on the air until the 31st of July. Send QSLs to DL6DH. A 
contact with this station or DF0GDX and club members are needed to be 
eligible for the GDXF 25 years certificate. 

Operators Ennio, IW1RBI, Alessandro, IZ1AZA, Gianluca, IU1KBL and 
Andrea, IU1JXW, will be on the air with the callsign 3A/IW1RBI from 
Monaco, and will identify a weekend between the end of May and mid-
June that works with the current COVID-19 restrictions. Be listening 
for them on 80-6 meters using CW, SSB and FT8 in fox-hound mode. QSL 
via the address on QRZ.com or LoTW.

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KICKER: RARE GRID HUNTERS FIND THAT THEIR SHIP HAS COME IN

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: OK grid hunters: Our final story of this week is for 
you. If you are a ham on the prowl for the rarest grids, your ship 
came in–literally–earlier this month. Neil Rapp WB9VPG explains.

NEIL: It's a long journey by ship between Florida and Saipan and 
merchant mariners like Jim Clary who make the trip often face a 
seven-day work week. On the trip he made this month, however, Jim, 
whose call sign is ND9M, also faced a unique opportunity: Using the 
passes of about a dozen satellites and two Yaesu rigs for full duplex 
operation, he activated some of the rarest grid squares on Earth. Jim, 
who is his ship's communications officer, told Newsline that operating 
maritime mobile in his spare time helps him keep his wits together on 
long runs like this one. The real gift, however, is the one he's been 
giving hams around the world - an opportunity to work so-called "wet 
grids," many of which he said are rarely, if ever, activated.

He told Newsline in an email: "Since these grid squares that I'm 
sailing through are so rare, it would be a shame not to make them 
available to VUCC chasers." VUCC is the VHF-UHF Century Club of the 
ARRL, which issues awards for confirmed contacts with 100 or more grid 
squares on UHF, VHF or via satellite. Grid squares themselves measure 
a modest 1 degree latitude by 2 degrees longitude, so on this big 
planet of ours there are plenty out there. There's an abundance of 
satellites too: from the oldest one, AO-7, to the RS-44 with its huge 
footprint.

For Jim, this may have been just one more supply cruise, but for the 
hams who intercepted his rare cargo on this trip, he surely delivered.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.

(JIM CLARY ND9M)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; Arizona Historical 
Society; CQ Magazine; CNN; David Behar K7DB; Highland County Press; 
New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters; Ohio Penn DX 
newsletter; QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great Britain; Reuters; 
Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Ted Randall's QSO 
Radio Show; Washington Post; WTWW Shortwave; Wireless Institute of 
Australia; 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. Be sure to follow some of these stories as 
they get a more indepth look on the YouTube Channel of 100 Watts and a 
Wire. Search for the video segment with the title "Two Stories."

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.

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