Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Dec 14 2018 09:36 pm HISTORIC TRANSMITTER RETURNS TO AIR FOR HOLIDAY STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Another holiday tradition - this one involving a historic transmitter - will be back on the air in Sweden, as we hear from Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. JEREMY: Christmas Eve morning will bring coffee, cake, and CW, for radio enthusiasts who'll be gathering at Sweden's World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, for an annual tradition: the tuning up of the Alexanderson 200 kW transmitter, a relic from 1924, to send out a Christmas message in CW on the VLF frequency of 17.2 kHz. It is especially significant this year, since organisers reluctantly announced the cancellation of last year's scheduled message, because maintenance work needed to be completed on the nearly one-hundred-year-old transmitter. The radio station welcomes QSLs, and listener reports for this special holiday message by email, direct mail, or bureau. The email address is info at alexander dot n dot se (info@alexander.n.se) Meanwhile, to mark the event, amateur radio station SK6SAQ will be operating on three frequencies: using CW on 7.035 kHz or 14.035 kHz, or using SSB on 3.755 kHz. Hams and other radio listeners unable to be present in Sweden will not be left out, of course: the event will be broadcast live on YouTube, as the message goes out at 0800 UTC, or 9 a.m. local time. You will, however, have to supply your own coffee and cake. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. (SOUTHGATE) ** LONG ISLAND CLUB HOSTS 2 SEASONAL ON-AIR EVENTS STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In New York, the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club believes there's no place like being with hams for the holidays -- so they're hosting two events to celebrate the season. Here's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. NEIL: What better way to celebrate Christmas than a 12 Days of Christmas Special Event Station? This special event starts on Friday, December 14th and runs for... yes... 12 days, which would make it end on Christmas day. Each day has its own special 1x1 callsign, like W2P is the Partridge in a Pear Tree station; or the W2L Nine Ladies Dancing station. Collect as many days as you want, and you can get a fabulous certificate if you work just one or more. And of course, you can go for the clean sweep of all 12! But if you do, that's a lot of birds. 184 to be exact. Lou Maggio, NO2C, tells us about how you can find this first time offering of the extra special event. LOU: These are all operators that are seasoned. We don't have any people doing this that have never done anything like it before, so we're kind of letting them pick the bands, pick the frequencies, and then they'll spot themselves. The way I usually do it: SES and then 12 Days of Christmas... and that generally is enough to attract anyone that wants to get the certificate. NEIL: To get your certificate, you'll just need to upload your log in cabrillo format after the event is over. But wait, there's more! On December 25th, there's an extra, extra special event for those people like Lou and Newsline's own Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, who have birthdays on Christmas day. Lou tells how the Christmas Birthday Special Event started. LOU: Caryn and I are in the same club, and we happened to have a conversation one day, and realized we were both born on Christmas Day. So, we said ok let's take and do a special event on VHF on Christmas day and see how many people check in. And, quite a few people checked in. So, we did it again the second year, and it was even more popular. So this year, because we had so much luck with HF special events, we said well let's do it on HF this time. So we figure we'll do it on the 25th. So anyone who actually has a birthday on the 25th, and that includes Christmas babies, Boxing Day babies, New Years Eve babies, anybody who has a holiday related birthday in around the 25th, we're hoping will check in; and then they'll be able to download a certificate from our website commemorating the contact. And we're going to probably be on any frequency that ends 25... 3.825, 7.225, 14.325 are the ones that we're going to be calling on. And we'll be spotting on the cluster also. NEIL: So listen for the 12-days of Christmas stations starting on December 14th and for K2B on December 25th. Fire up those rigs, warm your hands to the glow of the amplifier, and have fun with these two special events. And from all of us here at Newsline, we wish our editor, Caryn, a very Merry Birthday. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. --- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32 * Origin: RadioWxNet: The Thunderbolt BBS tbolt.synchro.net (801:1/2) þ Synchronet þ Temple of Doom BBS - tod.eothnet.com .