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   the Amateur Radio Club Sarawak using the callsign 9M8BARF from the 1st   
   through to the 15th of September. The festival is being held in   
   Sarawak, East Malaysia. See QRZ.com for QSL details.   
      
   Harald, DF2WO  will be active again as	9X2AW  from Rwanda from the 1st   
   through to the 27th of September. Harald operates CW,  SSB and	FT8/FT4   
   using  various bands, including 6 metres. He will also be using the   
   QO-100 satellite. See QRZcom for QSL details.   
      
   (DX-WORLD, 425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
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   KICKER: A RADIO HOMECOMING, ONE CENTURY LATER   
      
   DON/ANCHOR: Our final story takes us to Australia, where - for a few   
   hours - one radio operator is returning ham radio to the former home of   
   the first lady of radio in the state of Victoria. Graham Kemp VK4BB   
   takes us there.   
      
   GRAHAM: Elizabeth Hutchings, VK3HM, had the distinction of being the   
   first YL licensed as an amateur radio operator in the state of   
   Victoria, Australia. Radio apparently was in the family's genes -- in   
   the 1920s, her son Alan held the callsign VK3HL and her daughter,   
   Marjorie, was licensed as VK3HQ.   
      
   Some 100 years later on the Callawadda land where the famliy's old   
   radio shack still stands, Geoff Smart, VK3GCM, is putting amateur radio   
   back into action. He chose this property, known as Bryn Avon, as his   
   QTH for the Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association's annual   
   competition. Geoff knew Bryn Avon from commercial consultancy work he   
   had done but he only learned of its connection to ham radio after   
   reading an article by ALARA historian Jennifer Wardrop VK3WQ.   
      
   It's been a busy year of celebration for ALARA, which was founded in   
   1975. The association's contest, held every year during the last full   
   weekend in August, is one of the many ways the group has been marking   
   the occasion. The rules of the international contest stipulate that YLs   
   may work anyone they please but men can only work YLs.   
      
   As Newsline went to production, Geoff was making plans to be active   
   from the farm on 40 metres. Whether operating from the home of a   
   notable YL from Victoria gives him a winning edge in a YL association   
   contest remains to be seen. Win or lose, no doubt this would meet with   
   the approval of one radio pioneer from Victoria.   
      
   This is Graham Kemp VK4BB.   
      
   (GEOFF SMART, VK3GCM; ALARA)   
      
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   It's now even easier to send in your ham radio haikus to us here at   
   Newsline! Visit our website at arnewsline.org and as you compose your   
   ode to your favorite online activity, we will help you use the correct   
   number of syllables to make an authentic haiku. Submit your work and   
   then sit back and wait to hear whether you are the winner of this   
   week's challenge. The winner gets a shout-out on our website, where   
   everyone can find the winning haiku.   
      
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   With thanks to ALARA; Amateur News Daily; AMSAT News Service; ARRL;   
   David Behar K7DB; DXNews; 425DX Bulletin; FCC; Geoff Smart, VK3GCM;   
   Hurricane Watch Net; Jeff Savasta, KB4JKL; Jonas Bjarnason, TF3JB;   
   Norval Kennedy, N3OUN; PCMag website; shortwaveradio.de; Sonoma News;   
   Wireless Institute of Australia; YouTube; and you our listeners, that's   
   all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.  We remind our listeners that   
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   please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate   
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   For now, with Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT at the news desk in New York, and   
   our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks AE5DW in Picayune,   
   Mississippi saying 73. As always we thank you for listening. Amateur   
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