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   on the future, you're right. As the club does every year, it is   
   extending an invitation to its members to submit an imaginative and   
   attractive QSL card to be sent out following the annual Straight Key   
   Month activity in January. The K3Y event will mark the club's 19th   
   anniversary.   
      
   In mid-December the submitted designs will be presented to club members   
   for a vote. The most popular design will appear on the official K3Y QSL   
   card and, as before, 12 other top selections will appear in the SKCC's   
   print calendar.   
      
   The popular event, which begins on the 2nd of January - following the   
   ARRL's Straight Key Night - features club members calling CQ from all   
   13 regional call areas in the US and from countries in six IARU   
   continental regions.   
      
   If you don't have a copy of this year's calendar and want to see some   
   of the most popular designs created by members, visit the link in the   
   text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org   
      
   This is Randy Sly W4XJ.   
      
   [DO NOT READ:   
   https://skccgroup.com/k3y/k3y-docs/SKCC_Calendar_2024.pdf]   
      
   (SKCC)   
      
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   NEW HAM SHACK ON PENNSYLVANIA CAMPUS IS ALSO RESEARCH TOOL   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: Having a new ham radio shack is always something worth   
   celebrating, but what if your new shack also happens to be a valuable   
   research tool and a center for the education of university students?   
   Travis Lisk N3ILS takes us to one such shack on the campus of the   
   University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.   
      
   TRAVIS: The new radio shack inside the Loyola Science Center at the   
   University of Scranton offers a vast view of the city five floors   
   below. The state-of-the-art amateur radio equipment that make up this   
   station offers a view of the world beyond and the electromagnetic   
   activity above that provides the means by which we radio amateurs make   
   HF contacts.   
      
   This is the new shack for the W3USR Amateur Radio Club, which was   
   founded four years ago. This is not just a headquarters for student   
   operators on campus but a research resource for students and faculty   
   members who are involved in HamSCI, the citizen-scientist investigation   
   group led by university professor Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF. The shack   
   will become a busy place as HamSCI conducts its experiments funded by   
   benefactors such as NASA, the National Science Foundation and Amateur   
   Radio Digital Communications. Outside, a 40-foot tower has antennas for   
   HF, VHF/UHF satellite and microwave frequencies, with some antennas on   
   rotators.   
      
   The shack officially opens its doors on Friday the 25th of October. The   
   open house includes a public dedication ceremony and a lecture,   
   followed by a buffet dinner for those who hold tickets to that event.   
      
   This is Travis Lisk N3ILS.   
      
   (UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON, AMATEUR RADIO DAILY)   
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world including   
   the ZS0MOT (Zed Ess Zero Em Oh Tee) repeater in Middelburg South Africa   
   on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. local time.   
      
   **   
   SPECIAL EVENT RECALLS MARITIME DISASTER IN 1922   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: Shipwrecks have always fascinated one radio amateur in   
   Wisconsin -- but none more than the sinking of a rail car ferry that   
   killed everyone on board in 1922. The activation of a special event   
   tells its story, as we hear from Paul Braun WD9GCO.   
      
   PAUL: From the time he was a youngster, maritime stories and disasters   
   always held a fascination for Nathan Banks, KC9HYY. When he recently   
   learned of the tragic sinking of the SS Milwaukee Rail Car Ferry, the   
   October 22nd, 1922 disaster hit close to home for this Milwaukee area   
   native. This wasn't like the Titanic, the Andrea Doria or the Lusitania   
   - this was a local story that held him spellbound. Nathan, who has been   
   a ham for two decades, will be on the air for the inaugural special   
   event station N9M from the 21st through to the 23rd of October. A   
   special QSL card will be available for those working the station either   
   on SSB, FT8, FT4 and possibly CW.   
      
   Nathan hopes to spread the word about the ship's long career   
   transporting train cars and the stories about the crew members who died   
   when the vessel was swallowed up by Lake Michigan. There were no   
   survivors. The wreck lies at the lake's bottom, 3 miles offshore, north   
   of Milwaukee.   
      
   This is Paul Braun WD9GCO.   
      
   (NATHAN BANKS, KC9HYY)   
      
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   BROADCASTER IN STOLEN-TOWER CASE DIES   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: The Alabama broadcaster who told police his AM radio   
   station's tower was stolen last February, has died. Brett Elmore, owner   
   and general manager of WJLX in Jasper, Alabama, made headlines after   
   reporting to authorities that the station's transmitter and 200-foot   
   stainless-steel AM tower had been stolen mysteriously overnight.   
      
   The case has not been solved. News reports gave no cause of the   
   broadcaster's death. He was 41.   
      
   (RADIO WORLD, WIAT-TV)   
      
   **   
   HOT AIR BALLOON CRASH DESTROYS RADIO TOWER   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: In New Mexico, more trouble for broadcast radio towers: The   
   tower of an AM radio station in Albuquerque collapsed after being   
   struck by a hot air balloon from the nearby International Balloon   
   Fiesta on Friday October 11th. The talk radio station, KKOB-770 AM,   
   shut its 50,000-watt transmitter as the pilot and his passengers, two   
   young boys, descended a ladder on the tower near where the balloon had   
   become entangled. No injuries were reported.. The station stayed on the   
   air at 96.3 FM. Local news media reported that, ironically, it was 20   
   years ago to the day that another balloon, also bearing the likeness of   
   Smokey Bear, crashed into the same tower.   
      
   (RADIO INSIGHT, KRGE.COM)   
      
   **   
   WORLD OF DX   
      
   In the World of DX, listen for Kazu, M0CFW on the air as 3B9/M0CFW from   
   Rodrigues Island, IOTA number AF-017, from the 22nd through to the 30th   
   of October. Listen for him during the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. operating   
   as 3B9KW. See QRZ.com for QSL details.   
      
   Bernie, ZS4TX, and John, ZS6JON will be on the air from Lesotho on 70   
   cm EME using the callsign 7P8Z. The grid square is KG30.  They will do   
   two moon passes starting on Friday the 18 of October at 18:00 UTC   
   moonrise and ending Sunday the 20th of October at 05:00 UTC moonset.   
   They will also do some satellite passes which include the ISS, if   
   available, RS-44 and SO-50. QSL via PA3CMC and LoTW.   
      
   Listen for Vasco 7Q7CT, Jorge CT1BOL, Vasco D2ACE and Fran EC7R who   
   will be using the callsign 7Q1 -  Seven Quebec One - from Malawi   
   between the 23rd of October and the 2nd of November. Listen for them in   
   the CQ WW DX SSB Contest. QSL via EA7FTR.   
      
   Saty, JE1JKL  will be operating as 9M6NA from Labuan Island, IOTA   
   number OC-133,	      in East  Malaysia  from the 23rd of October  to   
   the 25th of November. Listen for him in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest and   
   the CQ WW DX CW Contest. See QRZ.com for QSL details.   
      
   (425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
   **   
   KICKER: REPEATER TRANSMITS A SPIRIT MIGHTIER THAN ANY HURRICANE   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: Our final story takes us to the mountains of North   
   Carolina, where the voices on the Mount Mitchell repeater carry hope   
   amid hurricane wreckage. Andy Morrison K9AWM shares their story.   
      
   ANDY: Many of the hams who call rural North Carolina home consider the   
   region's Mount Mitchell repeater their home as well. The repeater,   
   owned by Randy Johnston, N2GE, also became their refuge and their   
   lifeline while the deadly force of Hurricane Helene tore their   
   communities and their lives apart. Lynn Moose, KI4ZEK, was on the   
   repeater on Friday, September 27th, as neighbors checked in to say   
      
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