Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Sep 22 2017 10:06 am SIX METERS GETS COOKING IN TEXAS STEPHEN/ANCHOR: If you're near Austin, Texas, and you really want to get cooking on 6 meters, Neil Rapp, WB9VBG, shares this recipe. NEIL'S REPORT: What goes better with ham than some BBQ? The famous 6 meter BBQ is continuing, thanks to support from FlexRadio and DX Engineering. The BBQ will take place this year on September 29th and 30th, at the Lonestar Court in Austin, Texas. Several vendors will be on hand, and presentations about how to get the most out of your 6 meter, setup will be made by some top experts. And, two additional speakers have been added. Tim Duffy, K3LR, will review new Low Noise 6 meter LFA Yagis. And, the one of the leading experts on receiver performance, Rob Sherwood, NC0B, will review the performance of a wide selection of radios exclusively for 6 meters. For more information, visit sixmeterbbq.com. Be sure to bring your appetite for 6 meters! Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington, Indiana. ** WORLD OF DX Elsewhere in DXing, you have a few more days to listen for Al, K7AR, operating as 5W0RA in Samoa. Al is calling QRZ on 160-10 meters using SSB, CW and RTTY. Send QSLs via his home callsign, ClubLog or LoTW. A team of Indian amateurs including Rama/VU2DEV, Gaurav/VU2GTI, and Pradeep/VU3EDG, will be using the call sign AT7M while operating from St. Mary's Islands, between the 30th of September 30 and the first of October. St. Mary's Island is also known as Coconut Island off the Arabian Sea coast near Karnataka, India. Be listening on various HF bands, and in various modes. Send QSL cards via VU3NPI. There's disappointing news for amateurs who've been awaiting the Argentinian DXers Group operation as PJ7T from Saint Maarten. Widespread damage has cancelled the group's planned operation that would have started the 24th of October. The group is presently securing the necessary paperwork to use San Andres Island as its alternate destination at an as-yet unknown date. (OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN) ** KICKER: GIVE THIS WEDDING RECEPTION A 5 x 9 STEPHEN/ANCHOR: There are ham radio licenses and there are marriage licenses. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has a story about what happens when the two converge. JEREMY: Congratulations to M0NFE & M6YAX -- that would be Nick and Majbritt, now "Mr. and Mrs." officially as of Saturday, September 16th. Their wedding in Essex was followed by some exceptionally festive partying at Hawkwell Village Hall thanks to some clever Linux programming written by the groom, who is a software developer. Nick's code was designed to operate some of the wedding attractions - with prompts both in English and in German, to make things easier for his bride's friends and his new in-laws. The wedding unexpectedly turned into a minor rescue mission - the kind that amateurs, of course, are accustomed to. An hour before the wedding, fellow Essex Ham club member Pete Sipple, M0PSX, received a call from Nick, that there was no Internet connection at the venue. The club loaned Nick its portable WiFi hotspot, and wedding bells were soon ringing. Pete and his wife, Sarah, M6PSK, were among the happy guests. As for the newlyweds, they may not have spent their wedding day talking on the air, but clearly they spent it dancing on air. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. (ESSEX HAM, PETE SIPPLE M0PSX) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; the Associated Press; CQ Magazine; Essex Hall; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; K2BSA; Leon ON4VLM; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; Pete Sipple M0PSX; 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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth Ohio saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved. --- þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org .