Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 27 2021 08:30:51

WORLD OF DX

The Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society is marking the 59th
anniversary of the nation's independence, with a special event station,
using callsign 9Y59IND, through September 12th. Listen on HF, the
digital modes, 2 meters, EME, DMR, D-STAR, and Yaesu Fusion. QSLs will
be via Logbook of the World only.

Masa, JA0RQV, is operating as A35JP from Tonga, where he will be until
October 31st. Be listening on 80 through 6 meters, where he is using
CW, SSB, and FT8.

QSL via LoTW and ClubLog, or direct with $2 in US currency, or by the
bureau using his home callsign.

Members of the Emirates Amateur Radio Society are using the special
event callsign A60EXPO, between September 1st and October 1st, to
promote World Expo 2020 in Dubai. The expo itself runs from October
31st until March 31st of next year. Send QSLs via EA7FTR.

Be listening for Pascual, EA5WO, who will be using the special event
callsign AN5WAR, from Valencia, Spain, between September 1st and the
30th. Pascual is commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the start of
the Second World War. He will be operating on various HF bands. QSL
via LoTW or eQSL. 

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: A SPARK GLOWS BRIGHTLY AT MUSEUM IN FINLAND

PAUL/ANCHOR: In our final story, we visit a museum in Finland, where
ham radio operators are delivering their messages to hams and non-hams
alike, via a display of their homebrew equipment. Ed Durrant, DD5LP,
takes us there.

ED: The exhibit is called "It Started with a Spark," and it honours
100 years of innovation and home-brewing among amateur radio operators
in Finland.

Housed at the Finnish Museum of Technology, the exhibit features
equipment created by amateur radio operators, many of whom are members
of SRAL, the Finnish Radio Amateur Association.

So, it is no surprise that this summertime exhibit is actually the
result of some clever home-brewing itself.

It began as a concept for Heikki Lempola, OH2BGX, a member of the radio 
association's anniversary committee. He envisioned it as a display of
self-made technology, that would feature some of the equipment the radio
association itself had put on display previously during smaller local
one-day exhibits.

Like a spark that gives energy to something greater than itself, his
idea grew and grew, once Heikki had a conversation with Rina Linna,
the exhibition producer at the museum in Helsinki. The museum, and the
radio association's centennial tribute made for natural pairing. The
home-brewing got under way, and the collection grew from compact antennas
to transmitters to transceivers, just for starters. The exhibit runs
through to the 29th of August.

In an interview posted on the museum's blog, both Heikki and Rina remark
that the equipment is on display to showcase its aesthetics, as well as
its functionality. Both agreed that visitors don't have to be hams to
appreciate the beauty and the brilliance of what they're seeing.

It's the kind of amateur radio that gets its message across to everyone,
even to people who aren't hams.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP.

(SOUTHGATE, SRAL, FINNISH MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; the ARRL; the Australian 
Communications and Media Authority; the BBC; Business Insider; CQ
Magazine; David Behar, K7DB; Daily DX; EarthSky; Eric Koester, KA0YWN;
the Finnish Museum of Technology; the US Food and Drug Administration;
Mark Sullivan, ZL3AB; Mike Sartoretti, KC2SYF; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.com;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SRAL; Ted Randall's
QSO Radio Show; West Bengal Radio Club; WFTV Channel 9; WTWW Shortwave;
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.

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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