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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 21 2020 06:02 am

MANITOBA AMATEUR HONORED FOR RADIO EFFORTS IN CANADA

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Radio Amateurs of Canada has named its latest Amateur
of the Year. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, tells us about him.

JEREMY: Congratulations to Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, who was named
Amateur of the Year, by the board of directors of Radio Amateurs
of Canada. In making the announcement, the RAC called Cary "the
face of VE4 on the international scene." He has been a strong
presence both at Dayton Hamvention, and at the 2018 World Radiosport
Team Championship event held in Wittenberg, in Germany.

An avid DXer and contester, Cary is a founding member of Radiosport
Manitoba, which he helped to create in his home province in 2013. He
has been its vice president and education coordinator as well as a
major player and organiser for Field Day, at the Winnipeg Amateur
Radio Club, of which he is also a member. The RAC board notes that
he recruited top contesters from around Canada, to be present to
mentor newcomers to HF, who were experiencing their first Field Day.
 
In 2016, Cary helped with the presentation of "The HF Experience,"
designed to entice amateurs at all levels of experience to
participate in more activity on those bands.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(RAC)

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CONSIDER A LIGHTHOUSE QTH ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: You may think August is far off on the calendar, but
guess again. Some hams on Canada's Prince Edward Island, are already
getting ready for the annual event that celebrates the province's
lighthouses. Dave Parks, WB8ODF, explains.

DAVE: The Maritime Lighthouse Amateur Radio Group isn't looking for
company on the air during the International Lighthouse Lightship
Weekend this summer. The hams want company in the lighthouses, where
they'll be activating VY2PLH, on August 22nd through the 24th. Those
lighthouses include Point Prim, the province's oldest lighthouse,
and possibly Cape Bear, which is also home to a Marconi museum.
Those locations will be among the more than 500 entries from around
the world in this popular event, where the only prize is the
satisfaction in being with other hams in a picturesque location
talking to other radio operators. The club is extending a welcome
to hams everywhere, to visit Prince Edward Island, and help activate
one of the lighthouses in the province. The Prince Edward Island
Lighthouse Society lists more than 50 eligible sites. If you want to
make one of them your QTH for the August's event, contact George Dewar,
VY2GF, at vy2gf at rac dot ca (vy2gf@rac.ca) or d e w a r g at
bellaliant dot net (dewarg@bellaliant.net). 

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Dave Parks, WB8ODF.

(GEORGE DEWAR VY2GF)

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WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, Pat, N2IEN, Lee, WW2DX, Rock, WW1X, and Ray, W2RE,
are active as FJ/ their home call signs, respectively, from St. Bart's
in the Caribbean, until February 22nd. Activity will be holiday style
on various HF, VHF, and UHF bands, using CW, SSB, RTTY, EME, and
satellites. QSL via the operators' home call-signs.

Willy, ON4AVT, is on the air as 6W7/ON4AVT from Senegal, until March
27th. He is mainly on 60/40/20 and 10 meters using mostly FT8/FT4,
with some CW and SSB. Send QSLs via the Bureau.

Also in Senegal, listen for Dani, EA4ATI, operating as 6W1/EA4ATI,
from Dakar, until February 26th. Dani will be on 40/20/15 and 10
meters, using SSB. QSL to EA4R or via LoTW.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF FLIGHT

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Our final story this week is about traveling fast.
The speed of radio waves and of airplanes. Here's Ralph Squillace,
KK6ITB.

RALPH: Radio waves: they travel at the speed of light. But, something
special sometimes happens at the speed of FLIGHT. The flight in this
case is British Airways Flight 112, which made the trip from New York
to London on February 8th, in a heart-stopping 4 hours and 56 minutes.
That trip set a new record for subsonic flight.

The stellar performance in the sky, accomplished by surfing the jet
stream, shortened the journey, which had the bonus that it exposed
passengers to 30 percent less cosmic radiation than usual.

This isn't the first such achievement: A Norwegian passenger plane
made a record-setting flight in January of 2018, when it went from
New York to London at 779 mph. Virgin Atlantic topped that last year,
going from Los Angeles to London at 801 mph. All thanks to the jet
stream.

Of course, hams may not all be that impressed. We regularly travel at
the speed of light which - at least in a vacuum - is 186,282 miles
per second - or 299,792 kilometres per second. What about the
radiation? Well, hopefully that's safely reduced too, if our rigs and
antennas are properly installed and shielded.

Take THAT, airline industry!

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

(SPACEWEATHER.COM)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE:

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; Bloomberg Business News;
Business Wire; David Behar, FCC.GOV; Hytera Website; NASA;
shortwaveradio.de; Radio Amateurs of Canada; Ron Skipper, W8ACR;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; SpaceWeather.com; SPARK Museum;
Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the U.S. Marine Corps; the Wireless
Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; SpaceWeather.com; 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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth,
Ohio, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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