Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jun 17 2021 19:34:36

WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, be listening for Simone, IK5RUN, and Carlo, IK5MES,
using the callsigns IG9/IK5RUN, and IG9/IK5MES, respectively, from 
Lampedusa Island until June 25th. They will be operating holiday style
on 40-6 meters using SSB. QSL via their home callsigns, direct or by the 
Bureau.

Members of the Royal Omani Amateur Radio Society will be on the air as 
A43MI from Masirah Island, Oman, between July 22 and 27th. They will also 
use the callsign A44M during the RSGB IOTA Contest being held July 24 and 
25th). QSL both callsigns via ClubLog's OQRS, LoTW or eQSL.

Be listening for Luca, IK5AEQ, and Franco, IZ5IUY, operating as 
IL7/IK5AEQ, and IL7/IZ5IUY, from San Domino Isle, until July 8th. Be 
listening on various HF bands. QSL via their home callsign direct or
via LoTW.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: A FATHER, A SON AND A REPEATER

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our final story comes to us this week just in time for 
Father's Day which in many parts of the world, is being celebrated this 
year on Sunday, June 20th. One ham in Pennsylvania is marking his second 
holiday without his father. But there are a few ways amateur radio is 
letting him keep his father close by. Here's Dave Parks, WB8ODF, with this 
story of father and son.

DAVE: The callsign W3NTT, and the repeater W3NTT, are now assigned to 
Aaron Groover, but as far as this Pennsylvania amateur radio operator is 
concerned, part of both still belong to his father, James. A veteran of 
the US Navy, James Groover became a Silent Key on June 10, 2020 at age 62. 
He had been the inspiration for his son who at the time of his father's 
death, held the callsign K3ALG.

Now operating with his dad's call, Aaron runs the repeater they had 
dreamed of building, and running together. Aaron fulfilled that dream 
alone atop from Pimple Hill, Pennsylvania, for the both of them and 
getting it on the air for him is as much a source of pride, as a gesture 
of love and respect. He told Newsline [quote] "it's making fantastic QSOs 
and became one of the most used repeaters around." He added: "I figured he 
would love this."

Aaron has also been busy with the gift his father bought for him just 
before his passing. Knowing his son's affinity for PiStar and DMR 
gateways, he'd surprised him with an OpenSpot, a gift Aaron received only 
after his father was gone. He uses it today, he said, in his memory.

On June 10th of this year, the first anniversary of James Groover's death, 
Aaron went on the air and gave a call for him in his memory, a proper 
Silent Key notice. It went out from a repeater that stands now on a 
hilltop as a symbol of the bond between father and son. Aaron told 
Newsline: "Everytime I key it up, I will forever think of my father."

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Dave Parks WB8ODF. 
 
(AARON GROOVER W3NTT) 

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Africa News; the Alexander Grimeton 
Association; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; ARISS; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; 
David Behar K7DB; FCC; Intrepid DX Group; Mauritius Research and 
Innovation Council; NASA; National Hamfest; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; 
QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great Britain; Slovenia Contest Club; Southgate 
Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; WTWW 
Shortwave; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's
all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.

You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. For more information or to 
support us visit our 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 Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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