[continued from previous message]   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Although radio operators on the amateur and commercial   
   side all take pride in the medium's resilience, several broadcast radio   
   stations in Louisiana were not so fortunate during the recent arrival   
   of Hurricane Francine.   
      
   The Desk, an industry website, reported that FCC disaster-related   
   reports showed that the Category 2 hurricane took at least five radio   
   stations in the state off the air - both AM and FM broadcasters. The US   
   Federal Emergency Management Agency has often underscored the   
   importance of local radio stations in delivering emergency alerts   
   during disasters. The critical role AM radio has played for decades in   
   communicating these messages in the US has been part of a robust debate   
   to retain AM radios in newly manufactured vehicles.   
      
   (THEDESK.NET)   
      
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   WORLD OF DX   
      
   In the World of DX, be listening for Lucy, AB3MY, operating as   
   DU1/AB3MY on Luzon Island, IOTA number OC-042, in the Philippines until   
   the 24th of September. Listen for her using SSB and possibly some FT8   
   on 40, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 metres.  QSL via her home call.  Her   
   activity is to honor her late father, Percy Tence, PY2PD.   
      
   Listen for Michal, OM2DX, using the callsign TO2DX (TEE OH TWO D X)   
   from  Reunion Island, IOTA number AF-016, from the 27th of September   
   through to the 7th of October. He will operate CW, RTTY and FT8 on   
   60-10 metres. Listen for him as well in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX   
   Contest on the 28th and 29th of September. QSO to his home call.   
      
   (DX-WORLD.NET, 425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
   **   
   POUNDING - AND SOUNDING - THE BRASS, NASHVILLE STYLE   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: In our final story, we learn about three avid contesters   
   who traveled recently to Nashville, Tennessee where they learned they   
   could make beautiful music together. Skeeter Nash N5ASH introduces us   
   to them.   
      
   SKEETER: Jim Green, K0XV; Lonnie Craven, K4KZ and Dave Needham, AA4VT,   
   are veteran HF operators whose finely tuned skills at sending code   
   demonstrate how well each one knows his way around a CW key, especially   
   during a contest. Never having met one another until this past summer,   
   there was no way these hams could have known that they also share an   
   enviable proficiency in another mode - a mode that also relies on keys,   
   but in this case, musical keys. They all play the French horn and like   
   the CW key, this brass instrument is also capable of creating a   
   powerful message. It did just that when the men joined the Celebration   
   Orchestra for a performance in late June in Nashville, Tennessee. The   
   orchestra is part of the Global Missions Project that uses the power of   
   Christian evangelical music to transmit a message of faith. After three   
   hours of rehearsal on the morning of June 21st, the curtain went up on   
   the orchestra that same afternoon.   
      
   Jim told Newsline in an email that Dave and Lonnie have traveled   
   internationally on missions with the music ministry but this was his   
   first time with the Celebration Orchestra. The last thing he expected   
   was an eyeball QSO. Jim told Newsline: [quote] "Imagine my absolute   
   surprise to learn that there were two horn players who were also radio   
   amateurs." [endquote]   
      
   Now they can listen for one another, whether they are pounding - or   
   sounding - the brass, As Jim told Newsline: [quote] "Whether we perform   
   together again remains to be seen. If we register for a trip, then we   
   will make music together again." [endquote]   
      
   To hear the concert, follow the link in the text version of this week's   
   newscast at arnewsline.org   
      
   [DO NOT READ:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pnbHFitJ74 ]   
      
   This is Skeeter Nash N5ASH.   
      
   (QRZ.COM, JIM GREEN, K0XV)   
      
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   HAIKU FOR YOU   
      
   Don't forget the Amateur Radio Newsline haiku challenge. Share with   
   fellow listeners the poetry that is inspired by your ham radio   
   experience! If you're not too busy tuning your antennas or chasing the   
   latest DXpedition, pick up a pencil and share your experience by   
   sending an original haiku to us here at Newsline. Use the entry form on   
   our website, arnewsline.org and please follow the rules for writing   
   your three-line haiku -- sorry but we cannot accept any entries that   
   aren't written in traditional haiku form.   
      
   NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Amateur Radio Weekly; AMSAT News;   
   APRSFoundation.org; ARRL; Cincinnati Hamfest; David Behar K7DB;   
   Electronic Frontier Foundation; Franklin Amateur Radio Club; FCC;   
   425DXNews; Jim Green, K0XV; Ofcom; QRZ.com; Radio Society of Sri Lanka;   
   Radio World; shortwaveradio.de; TheDesk.Net; WorldDAB.org; YL Beam; and   
   you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.	We   
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   KD2GUT at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm   
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