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   reasons for creation of a new department. She said the move is being   
   made with support from the state to create the degree programs. Majors   
   will select from four programs, which include wireless networking and   
   signal processing focus, as well as AI, electronics and energy.   
      
   The professor chairing the new department is Andy Klein. On the   
   university website, the professor writes that having a standalone   
   department will pave the way to creating partnerships and internships   
   with companies and generate more internships for students. Andy Klein   
   is an amateur radio operator who received the callsign KG7WFT in July.   
      
   This is George Zafiropoulos, KJ6VU.   
      
   (STEVE STROH, N8GNJ, ZERO RETRIES NEWSLETTER; WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE   
   UNIVERSITY)   
      
   **   
   RSGB TEAM HONORED BY BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR; Newsline congratulates the team at the Radio Society of   
   Great Britain's National Radio Centre. They were selected for the 2025   
   Sir Arthur Clarke Education and Outreach Team Award for their work   
   advancing knowledge into amateur radio satellite communications. The   
   British Interplanetary Society conferred the award which was accepted   
   by RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas, M1ACB; NRC Coordinator Martyn   
   Baker, G0GMB; and NRC Volunteer Brian Hardy, G4BIP.   
      
   (RSGB)   
      
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   'WAR OF THE WORLDS' SPECIAL EVENT REMEMBERS MARTIAN 'INVASION'   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Radio was precious to Orson Welles, the American   
   writer, actor, magician,  and filmmaker who is most prominently   
   celebrated at this time of the year for "War of the Worlds," his 1938   
   science fiction broadcast depicting a Martian invasion - a drama so   
   realistic that it incited panic in listeners. War of the Worlds was   
   back on radio recently - but this time it was amateur radio, as Travis   
   Lisk, N3ILS, tells us.   
      
   TRAVIS: The fictional Martians may not have have their antennas tuned   
   but members of the Delaware Valley Radio Association did as 16   
   operators called CQ for several hours in a public park in Grover's   
   Mill, New Jersey, the site where the original broadcast radio drama   
   played out in 1938. This was the club's fourth year hosting the event   
   as station W0W [W ZERO W], and it was timed to coincide with the   
   original late October airing.   
      
   There is a monument in the park honoring that broadcast, which put   
   Grover's Mill on the map - but the hams' activation in the park may   
   have left a lasting impression too:   
      
   Unlike the invading Martians, the visitors here came in peace. Cyclists   
   participating in the township's "Martian Bike Ride" and other members   
   of the public stopped by to get a close-up look at what amateur radio   
   is all about. One young person even got on the air and logged one of   
   the 159 QSOs that were made, according to Martin Crabtree W3PR.   
      
   Anyone saying "take me to your leader" would have been introduced, of   
   course, to club president Martin - that's Martin, not Martian - who was   
   outfitted appropriately in foil-covered fedora. Other hams wore   
   antennae - but in this case, none of them were tuned for any   
   transmissions except, perhaps, those from Mars.   
      
   This is Travis Lisk N3ILS.   
      
   (MARTIN CRABTREE, W3PR, QRZ.COM)   
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including   
   the K7MMA repeater in Spokane, Washington on Fridays at 5 p.m.   
   localtime.   
      
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   EVENT MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE LAKE SUPERIOR SHIP TRAGEDY   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Amateurs in Minnesota are preparing to mark a somber   
   50th anniversary - a maritime tragedy that has even touched the lives   
   of some club members. Andy Morrison K9AWM has the details.   
      
   ANDY: Fifty Novembers ago, a storm stirred over Lake Superior and the   
   USS Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship with 29 men aboard, was swallowed up by   
   the raging water. That tragedy in the American Midwest claimed the   
   lives of the entire crew; they share their final resting place with the   
   doomed iron-ore carrier.   
      
   These men are not buried and forgotten, however; their friends,   
   relatives and former neighbors are among those who participate every   
   year in an on-air tribute organized by the Stillwater Amateur Radio   
   Association. Hams will be calling QRZ as W0JH from the 7th of November   
   through to the anniversary date of the ship's sinking, November 10th.   
      
   Special events chair and past president Dave Glas, W0OXB, told Newsline   
   that connections to this ship have emerged almost every year for the   
   two decades of this event. A distant cousin of club member Curtis   
   Letch, KF0PSC, was among the fatalities: Blaine H. Wilhelm, was 52 and   
   the ship's oiler. Dave told Newsline: [quote] "Over two decades of   
   operating our special event, we've made contact with 1,000 hams average   
   per year worldwide. Mostly throughout North America. There's often   
   someone who tells us of a connection they've had with one of the lost   
   crewmen." [endquote]   
      
   The hams will operate from Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. The ship   
   had passed that lighthouse on the day it made its final trip.   
      
   For details about modes, frequencies and times - or instructions on how   
   to get a certificate - see QRZ.com.   
      
   This is Andy Morrison K9AWM.   
      
   (DAVE GLAS W0OXB, QRZ.COM)   
      
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   ASTRONOMY TRADE FAIR TO DEBUT AT HAM RADIO FRIEDRICHSHAFEN   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: If your plans next year include attending Ham Radio   
   Friedrichshafen in Germany, you may want to set aside a day to consider   
   some sky-gazing that has long been a companion to amateur radio. Astro,   
   an astronomy trade fair is making its premiere next year. The   
   exhibition center that will be home to the large ham radio trade fair   
   from June 26th through to the 28th will also be welcoming amateur   
   astronomers and technology hobbyists on June 27th. Space is being set   
   aside in Hall B1 for the trade fair focusing on astronomy,   
   astrophotography and related activities, giving hams and others many   
   more worlds to explore.   
      
   (MESSE FRIEDRICHSHAFEN)   
      
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   WORLD OF DX In the world of DX, Rudi, DK7PE is making his third Pacific   
   DXpedition and is on the air through to the 19th of November. His plans   
   include activating Guam with the callsign KG6/AH0G, Micronesia, using   
   V6CW, the Marshall Islands, using V73RK and possibly Western Kiribati   
   using T30RK.  He will operate CW only with 100 watts and wire   
   antennas.QSL via his home callsign.   
      
   The Mediterraneo DX Club is on a DXpedition to Sierra Leone until the   
   10th of November using the callsign 9L8MD. A separate activity will   
   take place on Banana Island, IOTA Number AF-037, using the callsign   
   9L9L on 40-6 metres. QSL via IK2VUC.   
      
   Eddy, OE3SEU, will be active as CN2SE/p while touring Morocco in his   
   motorhome between the 1st of November  and the 7th of December. Eddy   
   will also be calling on the QO-100 satellite.  QSL via LoTW.   
      
   Members of the Radio Club del Tarragones, EA3RCY, will be using the   
   callsign AO25TWHS [pron: AY OH TWO FIVE TEE W H S] from the 1st to the   
   30th of November. The special callsign celebrates the 25th anniversary   
   since the Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco, which is modern-day   
   Tarragona, as inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List. QSL via   
   LoTW, QRZ Logbook and eQSL.   
      
   (425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
   **   
   KICKER: WHY HAVE A QSO WHEN YOU CAN HAVE A CONCERTO?   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Our final story this week, will be music to your ears,   
   or maybe not. Jim Davis W2JKD explains. JIM: When the musician-composer   
   duo of Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe launched their new album, "Liminal,"   
   on the 10th of October, they really launched it, in every sense of the   
      
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