Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jan 30 2020 11:38 pm

GET READY FOR THE VP8PJ DXPEDITION

PAUL/ANCHOR: Are you ready for the VP8PJ DXPedition? Here's an update
from John Williams, VK4JJW.

JOHN: The Perseverance DX Group is moving closer to the day the team
activates the South Orkney Islands for the VP8PJ DXPedition. The group
expects to be on the air from Signy Island, from February 21st through
March 5th, giving hams around the world a chance to make contacts on
ClubLog's 16th most wanted DX entity. The team reports that its
equipment arrived recently in Punta Arenas in Chile, and is in storage
for the time being.

The team will arrive on the Indian Ocean island from Punta Arenas
aboard the RV Braveheart, which is based out of New Zealand.

This South Orkney Islands DXpedition is the first of its kind to
activate the location in 9 years. In 2011, the Micro-Lite Penguin
Expedition Team VP8ORK logged almost 64,000 contacts there.

For more details about the DXpedition, or to contribute toward
fundraising of the $325,000 expedition, visit the website
sorkney dot com (sorkney.com).

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.

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WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, listen for Sadao, JA1PBV, on Cuyo Island, as DU1S
through early February. Listen on 40 to 6 metres for Sadao, using CW
and FT8. QSL to the home call sign.

A reminder that Ali, EP3CQ, is again active from Somalia as 6O1OO
(Six-Oh-One-Oh-Oh) until February 5, 2020. QRV mainly on FT8.

Note: 6O1OO is the only active and licensed amateur radio station in
Somalia.

Paolo, IK7UXW, is on the air from Gombe, Kinshasa as 9Q1C until early
March. Listen for him on 40-17 metres, sending slow CW. Send QSLs to
his home call sign.

Willy, 6W7/ON4AVT, will be on the air from Warang, Senegal, from
mid-February to the 30th of March. Willy will be on 20 metres,
using CW, SSB and the digital modes. Send QSLs to his home call.

(DX WORLD)

**

KICKER: WHEN YOUR 'BENCH' IS OUT IN SPACE

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our final story for the week is about a project two of
the hams undertook on board the International Space Station -- except
of course, they weren't exactly ON board at the time. To explain,
here's Mike Askins, KE5CXP.

MIKE: So you think you face challenges on a crowded bench, where it's
hard to work on projects in an organized manner? Consider the task
that recently faced Andrew Morgan, KI5AAA, and Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP.
They had all the room in the world - or beyond the world, actually -
because they were spacewalking as they worked. These two astronauts
were partners on Saturday, January 25th, as they plugged a leak in a
coolant line of the cosmic ray detector outside the International
Space Station. This wasn't your typical homebrew project: the Alpha
Magnetic Spectrometer is a $2 billion device. Of course, Andrew and
Luca aren't your typical hams: their QTH for now is the International
Space Station, where they've also been engaging in QSOs back home on
earth, as part of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.

The spectrometer has a job to do too, out there in space: its mission
is to find antimatter and dark matter.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE:

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; the Associated Press;
the Aviationist; Aziz Sasa, TA1E; the Bavarian Contest Club; CNN;
DX World; FCC.GOV; the Military Times; NASA.GOV; the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration; Southgate Amateur
Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Udaya Patil, VU2UPQ; 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 arnewsline.org.

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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