Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Oct 15 2021 03:41:01

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for members of the International 
Amateur Radio Contest DX Club who are using the call sign 4U2U until 
October 31st. They are celebrating United Nations Day, which is October 
24th. This station counts as a contact with Austria, prefix OE, for DX 
purposes and it counts as 4U for the Vienna International Centre for the 
CQ DX Marathon Award. Send QSLs to UA3DX, direct or by the Bureau.

The CQ WW DX SSB contest taking place on October 30th and 31st offers 
the opportunity for a number of stations in Indonesia, Kuwait and 
Hawaii.

In Indonesia, a team using the callsign 7A2A will be operating from a 
contest station in central Java. QSL using LoTW or send QSLs direct or 
to YB2DX.

In Kuwait, Abdallah, 9K2GS, will be active in the contest as 9K2K. Send 
QSLs to EC6DX or QSL via LoTW. 

Be listening for Alex, KU1CW, in Hawaii, using the callsign KH7Q from 
Oahu Island. He will also be active before and after the contest using 
the callsign KH6/KU1CW. QSL KH7Q via LoTW or direct to AH6NF.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: WI-FI? WHY NOT? A DIFFERENT KIND OF DX

PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story, we look at a most unusual kind of DX. 
It was accomplished recently using a mode that is usually associated 
with very local signals. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, tells us about it.

ED: It's hardly the preferred mode for DXing, but Wi-Fi certainly went 
the distance recently for two hams in Italy who succeeded in making 
contact between the island of Sardinia and the Tuscan summit of Monte 
Amita, 304 kilometres, or nearly 200 miles away.

The connection made across the Tyrrhenian (TUH-REEN-EE-YUN) Sea was a 
project undertaken by the Italian Center for Experimental Radio 
Activities and was reported recently on the Wi-FiPLanet website. The 
report didn't say who the hams were but the Italian center's spokesman 
Mirco Paesante (PIE-SANTAY) IZ3HAD called the achievement a world record 
for Wi-Fi and a first step in creating [quote] "a wide-band digital 
network to connect all Italian ham radio users to each other and to 
other services provided by our associations." [endquote] Those services 
include D-STAR, Echolink, and Amateur TV.

The 802.11a link was created using radio modules on both ends from 
Ubiquity Networks based in San Jose, California. The modules were 
connected to 35dBi 5GHz parabolic dish antennas.

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

(WI-FIPLANET.COM)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

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ARRL; COMREG; CQ Magazine; Dan Romanchik, KB6NU; David Behar, K7DB; NASA; 
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Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SOTA 
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Today; Wi-Fi Planet; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all 
from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 

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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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