Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 11 2021 22:12:01

WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, be listening for special event callsigns ON75AF, 
ON75BAF, and ON75BFS, from Belgium. These callsigns are helping amateurs 
in the Belgian Air Force Amateur Radio Association mark the air force's 
75 year anniversary. Be listening through the end of the year on HF, VHF 
and UHF where operators will be using CW, SSB and the digital modes.

In Rwanda, members of the Holy Land DX Group will be using the callsign 
9X4X starting on the 24th of November and running through to the 1st of 
December. Listen for them on 160m through 10m where they will be using 
CW, SSB, RTTY and FT 8. They will also be in the CQ WW DX CW contest on 
November 27th and 28th. Send QSLs to Ruben, 4Z5FI.

Ferdy, HB9DSP, becomes a first-time DXpeditioner with the callsign 
5Z4/HB9DSP when he operates from Kenya between December 2nd and the 16th. 
Listen for Ferdy on 20, 15 and 10 meters where he will be using mainly 
SSB with some FT8. Send QSLs to his home callsign, direct, by the Bureau 
or LoTW.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: A TRANSATLANTIC FRIENDSHIP POWERED BY STEAM

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Learning about technology isn't always what it seems. As 
a group of girls in England recently found out, technology can lead to 
something wonderfully personal....called friendship. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, 
picks up the story from here.

JEREMY: The 11- and 12-year-old girls are called the STEAMettes, a name 
that's a nod to their shared interest in Science Technology Engineering, 
Art and Maths. For the past four years the Kent County youngsters have 
been guided by John Hislop, G7OHO, a retired physics teacher and an 
ambassador in STEM learning. Most recently John has taught them such 
basics as soldering and the coding of a microbit computer they were going 
to use to send CW they'd learnt. After Larry Olson, W9INE, saw a 
presentation by John and the STEAMettes at the QSO Today ham expo in 
August, Larry introduced them to Colorado teacher Ravi Davis, KF0FYL. 
Ravi has several newly licensed hams in her sixth-grade school who have 
also been coding microbits. Since the STEAMettes have studied Digital 
Mobile Radio in preparation for their Foundation licence, they put their 
knowledge to use in a transatlantic QSO on October 29th via DMR. The 
Colorado students used radios loaned to them by the Estes Valley Amateur 
Radio Club. Ravi told the local newspaper that this was the first DX 
contact for her students. They talked about their schools, their lives 
and the differences in their respective communities. Suddenly, even with 
7600 km between them, the students felt none of that distance at all.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(JOHN HISLOP G7OHO, SOUTHGATE, FACEBOOK)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to the the ARRL; CQ-DATV magazine; CQ Magazine; David Behar 
K7DB; Facebook; John Hislop G7OHO; Manfred Meier DF6EX; Mike Gregoric 
S55G; Ohio Penn DX; Parks on the Air; PHYS.org; QRZ.com; Radio Society of 
Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Taka 
7K1BIB; Wireless Institute of Australia; World Wide Flora and Fauna; and 
you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. 

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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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