Subj : Newsline Part 3 To : ALL USERS From : DARYL STOUT Date : Thu Mar 31 2016 08:17 pm WORLD OF DX These are the last days for DXers to catch Makoto, JA7FGI, who is active until April 4 as XW7FG from Vientiane in Laos. Makoto is working on 80-6 meters using SSB, RTTY and PSK31, with a focus on the higher bands. QSL via JA7FGI, by the Bureau or eQSL. Mike, VO1OK, will be active as V31OK from Belize City between April 24 and 27, and from Ambergris Caye Island between April 28 and May 3. Mike will be on 40/20/10 meters using SSB. QSL via his home callsign using LoTW or eQSL. Led by Yuris, YL2GM, their team leader, operators will be working as EP2A from the Gilan Province in Iran between April 16 and April 25. They can be heard on 160-6 meters -- but not 60 meters -- and will be using CW, SSB and RTTY. They will have four stations on the air. QSL via YL2GM, or by ClubLog's OQRS, either direct or Bureau. (OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN) ** KICKER: PIERRE PULLINMYLEG'S SPECIAL APRIL 1 REPORT [ANCHOR/JIM]: The centennial of the nation's parks has opened up new operating challenges to amateurs from coast to coast - and beyond. Honoring the annual tradition of providing an April 1 report each year for Amateur Radio Newsline, our roving correspondent Pierre Pullinmyleg, returns to share this account on his very unpredecented way of working in one of the nation's foremost national parks - Wyoming's Yellowstone. [PIERRE] Zere is nothing like making ham radio history when you are marking 100 years of America's national parks. And never has zere been a ham radio mode such as what I am working now. I, Pierre Pullinmyleg, am the creator of such a special event mode. It is not PSK or JT-65. Ziss is Geyser Mode. My antenna izz actually zee historic geyser herself, Old Faithful. Zee spouting water, oh she has become my vertical antenna. And that is, shall we say, so very magnifique. [Mmmmmmwwwwwwwah!] Because of zee minerals in ziss water, she transmits my 100-watt signal and zere is very little loss. Well no - zere is actually water loss - lots of splishy splashy so I must wear zee protective plastic trenchcoat during QSOs. And zee park rangers, they think I am maybe Inspector Jacques Clousseau. Ridiculous! Now I have been able to tune ziss geyser to 15, 20 and 40 meters but I am having no luck with contacts. I suspect malicious interference. In fact, reports from zee tourists here say zere is another ham's National Parks station, and he is operating above something called a supervolcano here in Yellowstone. Mon Dieu! He is using ziss volcanic hotspot to power his linear amplifier. Sacre bleu! Ziss lid, he is jamming my signal! I wanted to make history, and now instead I must make zee complaint. I must call zee FCC. Mais, non, I must call zee park rangers!!!! Zut alors! I am Pierre Pullinmyleg at the Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone, for Amateur Radio Newsline. 73, and a bientot. ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to ABC.NET Australia; Alan Labs; the ARRL; the Belgian Embassy in Australia; Chaz Cone, W4GKF; CQ Magazine; DX.NET; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; the Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QSL.NET; QRZ.COM., Radio Amateur Old Timers Association; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Southside Amateur Radio Club; TWiT TV; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email address is 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 Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston, West Virginia, saying 73, and as always we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. --- BgNet 1.0a12 - The Thunderbolt BBS wx1der.dyndns.org Little Rock, AR .