Subj : Newsline Part 4
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 24 2017 02:02 pm

In the world of DX, a team of radio amateurs from the Netherlands will be
operating from Liechtenstein as HB0/homecall between the first and 8th of
April. The operators are Mans/PA2HGJ, Robert/PA2RDK, Frank/PA3CNO,
Paul/PA3DFR, Henry/PA3HK, Gert/PE0MGB and Piet/PE1FLO. Listen for them on
all bands between 160 and 10 meters. They'll be using mainly CW and some
SSB/Digital modes. Much of their activity will be on the new 60m band.
Send QSL cards via PE1FLO.

Another ham is also operating from April 1st through the 8th. Bill, K9HZ,
will be operating from his villa in St. Lucia. He can be found on 160
through 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. He is especially interested in
contacts into Alaska and Montana in the United States, to complete his 8P
WAS. Send QSL cards to his home call sign. He also uses LoTW, ClubLog, and
eQSL.

There are a few days left to contact Franz, OE2SNL, who is active until
the 30th of March working from Grenada as J3/OE2SNL. You can hear him on
160 through 10 meters. Send QSL cards to his home callsign.
 
(OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN)

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KICKER: TRANSMITTING, IN A NUTSHELL

PAUL: We end this week's newscast with the story of a very miniature
homebrew transmitter, that was a tough nut to crack. Well....maybe not.
The transmitter is actually a very simple device for sending CW. It
operates QRP, drawing its power from a 9-volt battery. Of course, it's
so tiny that the battery actually has to be outside the device: the
transmitter is housed inside a walnut shell! Its creator, Jarno (YARN-O)
de Haan, PA3DMI, in Amsterdam, just happens to really like walnuts -- and
the ones he was eating from his neighbor's tree inspired him to follow a
design he had seen for a tiny CW transmitter. As he told Amateur Radio
Newsline in a recent email: QUOTE "looking at the design and eating
walnuts got me thinking what if....." ENDQUOTE

What if, indeed. He found four very tiny crystals on the Internet for $10,
added a few other super-small components, then added the most miniature
hinges he could find that would allow the nut to open and close. When he
hooked it up to a dummyload, out came 50 to 60 milliwatts!

After he posted a video of it on YouTube, the website Hackaday.com took it
viral. The rest is Internet and ham radio history. Followers have gone,
well.....nuts over it. As for Jarno (YARN-O), he's inspired now to do more.
He wrote Newsline to say: QUOTE: "I still have about a half kilo of walnuts
so I could make a receiver, an antenna tuner, a new walnut CW-key - the
possibilities are endless." ENDQUOTE

Amateur Radio Newsline congratulates Jarno (YARN-O) on revolutionizing the
wireless world of walnuts, and asks that he please write us again when he's
had his first successful QSO with a squirrel.

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;
Clark Burgard, N1BCG; Hackaday.com; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the
IARU; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; 9N7NEI Website; Ohio-Penn DX
Bulletin; QRZ.COM; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio
Show; WTWW Shortwave; 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 located at www.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, and, as always, we thank you for listening.

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved.


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