Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Mar 09 2018 09:21 am CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA HOSTING HAMFEST DON/ANCHOR: If you're near Charleston, West Virginia, get ready for some big action. Jim Damron, N8TMW explains. JIM: The 34th Annual Charleston, West Virginia Area Hamfest, is almost here! It is on Saturday, March 24, from 9 AM to 2 PM, at the Charleston Civic Center. This year's hamfest will also be an ARRL WV Section Convention, with keynote speaker Steve Ewald, WV1X, ARRL Field Organization Team Supervisor. Sharing in that ARRL forum also will be N2COP, Roanoke Division Vice Director, and WV Section Manager Dan Ringer, K8WV. Yaesu rep Cory Sickles, WA3UVV, will be talking about System Fusion II in his forum. In addition to several dealers, and numerous flea marketeers, there will be VE testing, as well as card checkers for DXCC, WAS, and VUCC. Prizes at the Hamfest include a first prize of $500 cash. For more information on the Charleston WV Hamfest, go to w8gk.org For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW reporting. ** NOMINATE NEXT YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR DON/ANCHOR: We remind all listeners that we are accepting nominations for the 2018 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Young Ham of the Year award. If you know a promising young amateur, who is 18 or younger, and lives in the U.S., its possessions, or Canada, please download a nomination form from our website, arnewsline dot org, under the YHOTY tab. Nominations are due May 31, and the award will be presented in August, at the Huntsville Hamfest. ** WORLD OF DX In the world of DX, IOTA chasers should be listening for YL2GM, YL1ZF, and YL2KL, operating as 3C3W, from Bioko, and as 3C0W from Annobon, two islands of Equatorial Guinea, through March 27. They will be on 160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL direct to YL2GN. On Easter Island, a group of operators is on the air as XR0YD, until March 15. Listen on 160 through 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL via DL4SVA. Be listening for Ross, W2TT, and John, AF3K, from Turks and Caicos Islands from March 20-27. They will also participate in the CQ WW WPX using the call sign VP5P. You can hear them all week on 80 through 6 meters, using SSB, CW, RTTY, FT8, and 6M MSK144, which is a meteor scatter mode. QSL via EQSL, LOTW, QRZ. There will be Club Log uploads regularly. QSL via W2TT $2 for paper cards. ** KICKER: MORSE CODE'S A SHOE-IN DON/ANCHOR: Our final story is a footnote. Literally -- a footnote. We'll let Mike Askins, KE5CXP, explain. MIKE: Never mind having a good fist to send CW; sometimes what's really needed is a great set of toes. Yes, toes. At the recent Mobile World Congress showcase in Barcelona, Sierra Wireless unveiled safety boots that are also two-way communications devices. They allow industrial workers who wear them to transmit distress calls by tapping out Morse-like Codes with their feet. The footwear, which is outfitted with a SIM card, and a wireless module, can also receive messages or reminders sent by the boss. These so-called "smart shoes" emit 80 decibels of sound -- and while they're not the latest in fashion, they're definitely the latest in technology. What that means to their safety-minded wearer, is that they do have to gain some fluency in their dots and dashes to make it work. After that, operation is entirely hands-free - except, of course, for putting them on and lacing them up. (BBC, SIERRA WIRELESS) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; ARAT; the BBC; CQ Magazine; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the IARU; the Irish Radio Transmitters Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; Radio Society of Great Britain; Sierra Wireless; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Vanguard Nigeria; Waverley Amateur Radio Society; Wireless Institute of Australia; 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 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 Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune, Mississippi, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.03-Win32 * Origin: RadioWxNet: The Thunderbolt BBS wx1der.dyndns.org (801:1/2) þ Synchronet þ Temple of Doom BBS - tod.eothnet.com .