Subj : Newsline Part 3 To : ALL From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu May 26 2016 10:44 pm THE WORLD OF DX As the Wireless Institute of Australia prepares for its annual general meeting and conference on Norfolk Island, a team of Australian amateurs are activating the island through May 31, working as VK9NT. Listen for them on all bands from 160m to 10m, working CW, SSB & RTTY. Be listening, too, during the meeting weekend for the WIA's Commemorative Station, VI9ANZAC. Other stations operating will include VK9WI and VK9WIA. Olli, OH0XX, is activating PZ50X from Suriname through June 1, and can be found mainly on CW, from 160 meters to 6 meters. Send QSLs to his home call; logs will be uploaded to Logbook of The World. Listen for Randy, WW6RG, on Diego Garcia Island in the Chagos Archipelago through May 30. He will be using the call sign VQ9RA, working SSB on 20, 17 and 15m. Send QSLs to his home call. Finally, a World War II special event station is being operated by the Radio Club des Ardennes through June 21. Their call sign is OS101AB, honoring the 101st Airborne Division's action during the Battle of the Bulge. Send QSL cards via the Belgian QSL Bureau. ** KICKER: ONE "YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR," REVISITED SKEETER: Our last report for this week answers the question: "Whatever happened to some of those winners of our Young Ham of the Year Award?" We have an answer from our 1998 winner -- and from Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, who caught up with him recently. DON: We got an email recently from Richard Paczkowski, KF4BIA. Richard was our 1998 Young Ham Of The Year, and he joins us now via Skype. Richard, great to catch up with you! Bring us up to speed on where life has taken you since 1998. [Richard] DON: Let's go back to that day in 1998. The phone rings, and it's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, informing you that you're the Young Ham Of The Year. Tell us about that. [Richard] DON: How is life in your world these days? [Richard] DON: I think that is an amazing idea! Tell us how to enter. [Richard] DON: Frugal Florida Fun.com/radio. Richard Paczkowski, KF4BIA, our 1998 Young Ham Of The Year. It's been great catching up with you! [Richard] DON: Again, the website is Frugal Florida Fun.com/radio. Pass it along. There's more to our chat, and you can hear it all as a Newsline Extra. Visit our website, ARNewsline.org, and click the Extra tab at the top of the page. While you're there, check out the YHOTY tab. I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW. SKEETER: Great things happen to great young hams! With that in mind, We remind our listeners that the deadline is June 30 -- so there's only a little time left to nominate candidates for this year's Bill Pasternak Young Ham of the Year Award. This honor recognizes licensed amateurs no older than 19, and living in the U.S., Puerto Rico, or Canada, and who have made significant contributions to ham radio, and their community. Visit our website, www.arnewsline.org, and click on the tab for "Y-H-O-T-Y" for an application. Send completed applications to: The Young Ham of the Year Award, in care of Amateur Radio Newsline Inc., Editorial Office, P.O. Box 451, Huntington Station, New York 11746. Remember, you have only until June 30. ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; the BBC; CQ Magazine; Dayton Hamvention; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Historic England; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; the K2BSA Anmateur Radio Association; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; 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 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 Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Topeka, Kansas, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. --- þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, AR - wx1der.dyndns.org .