Subj : Newsline Part 4
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 21 2017 11:28 am

THE WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, the Tortugas CW Group will be operating as ED9T for
the King of Spain CW Contest on May 21st and 22nd, from the Spanish
external territory of Melilla on the North African coast. They will
mostly operate on CW, however, you may also hear them operating as
EG9TOR on SSB and digital modes outside of the contest. QSL via EA4PN
or use OQRS for a direct, LoTW, eQSL or bureau card.

Listen for David, OK6DJ and Petr, OK1FCJ operating as 5V7P from Togo
between April 21st and the 28th. Find them on 160 to 10 meters using CW,
SSB and digital modes.  QSL via OK6DJ, ClubLog's OQRS or LoTW.

Next month, Tim LW9EOC will be operating as HC8/LW9EOC from the Galapagos
Islands between May 15th and May 29th on 160 meters through 6 meters. He
will focus mainly on 30, 17 and 12 meters using SSB, CW and RTTY. QSL via
his home call, direct or LoTW.

Listen also for Pasi, OH3WS, on the air as OJ0W from Market Reef on May
6th and 7th. Find Pasi on 20 to 6 meters using CW and SSB. Pasi will also
try 60 meters on both CW and SSB, on 5354 kHz. QSL via his home call.

Finally, despite likely very average propagation and busy bands with
contests, the SOTA operators have planned their next Europe-to-North
America - Summit to Summit activity for Saturday May 13th between 12:00
and 18:00 UTC. Likely bands are 20m and 17m CW and SSB; as always
realtime spotting will be available at sotawatch.org.

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KICKER: HERE'S TO THE NEXT 60 YEARS IN JAPAN

PAUL/ANCHOR: And finally, we look forward - and we look back - with a
60-year-old club for YLs in Japan. The Japan Ladies Radio Society has
something special going on, as we learn in this week's final report,
from Amateur Radio Newsline's Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT.

CARYN: Special event station 8N60JLRS began operating in Japan on April 1,
and the celebration won't stop until next March. What's going on? The
Japan Ladies Radio Society is marking the long life it has enjoyed since
three pioneering female amateurs founded it in 1957, to help that nation's
small but rapidly growing population of YLs enjoy life on the amateur
bands. According to Yukiko Maki, 7K4TKB, it was quite an adjustment.

YUKIKO: Once YLs in Japan started to call CQ, there were always huge
pileups and heavy QRM, and it wasn't easy and comfortable for them to
have a relaxing conversation with other YLs in Japan. It was very
difficult to do so at the time. That was the reason this club was
founded. It was meant to be the place for Japanese YLs to meet and
enjoy talking with other YLs.

CARYN: Yukiko, who chairs the radio society's DX operations, said the
group has 160 domestic and 40 DX members. She said the special event
station is just one of many activities the YLs have had: there are two
annual contests, there's an awards program and over the years, there's
been some adventure.

YUKIKO: The first one was a DXpedition in Maldives near India using
callsign 8Q7YL in 1985, with 9 members and more than 23 thousand QSOs
were made during the 5-day stay. Another one took place in 2007 to
celebrate our fiftieth annivesary, and at the time, the QTH for this Dx
was in the Palau Islands in the Pacific Ocean. We used our call sign was
T80J with 18 members, and at the time, we did more than 2700 QSOs.

CARYN: The group's 60th anniversary will also be celebrated at the
general meeting of the Japan Ladies Radio Society in Tokyo this summer.
Yukiko said it's going to be great catching up with everyone. If you
can't get to Tokyo, there's always special event station 8N60JLRS now
through March of 2018. The YLs will be calling CQ -- and listening.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT.

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Al Kirton, VK4FFZ; Amateur News
Weekly; the ARRL; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Japan Ladies Radio
Society; New England QSO Party; QRZ.COM; QST Magazine; Southgate Amateur
Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Summits on the Air; SWLING.COM;
Tufts University; 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.

Also -- if you've going to Hamvention this year -- you can contact us in
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We'll be wearing our distinctive blue polo shirts. We'd love to meet our
listeners.

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.

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