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   Power Mobile concludes at 1459 UTC.  Meanwhile, Radio D. A. R. C. has   
   announced that starting Sunday, January 5th, its broadcasts will   
   continue to be carried on shortwave thanks to an agreement signed with   
   the station in the BBC broadcast complex in Woofferton, England.   
   Listeners across Europe and the Middle East will be able to hear the   
   programming on 9670 kHz. The high-gain antenna system at the complex is   
   expected to give the 125 kW transmission an effective radiated power of   
   nearly 4 megawatts. Meanwhile, the radio amateur-owned and -run   
   'Channel-292' 10kW transmitter near Ingolstadt in Germany will continue   
   to use the 6070 kHz frequency for more local reception of Radio   
   D.A.R.C. 's program.   
      
   The ORS station was formerly the Radio Austria International broadcast   
   station and is well-known for having had Europe's largest directional   
   antenna system for shortwave broadcasts.   
      
   (RADIO D. A. R. C.)   
      
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   "OPERATION TOY TRAIN" GETS HELP FROM HAMS IN PENNSYLVANIA   
      
   DON/ANCHOR: A group of hams from eastern Pennsylvania boarded a special   
   train to join Santa in collecting toys for the needy during a nearly   
   five-mile ride through Amish (Ahhh-mish) and Mennonite (Men-no-Night)   
   farm country. At the same time, they operated a special event station   
   to promote their charitable mission. Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark   
   Abramowicz NT3V has the story.   
      
   MARK: Members of the Alburtis Amateur Radio Club and East Penn Amateur   
   Radio club joined forces to organize the Operation Toy Train event in   
   northeastern Berks County, PA in cooperation with the U.S. Marine   
   Corp's Toys for Tots program on Sunday, Nov. 24th - the last Sunday of   
   November.   
      
   The team, led by Nicholas Hoffke KC3SGN and Walt Skavinsky KB3SBC,   
   activated W3A aboard a Conrail caboose pulled by a train operating   
   along the Allentown and Auburn Railroad.   
      
   The duo set up a homemade inverted-L antenna stretched over the roof of   
   a flat rail car to make HF contacts on 20 and 40 meters. They also   
   employed a 2-meter radio and antenna to make VHF contacts with local   
   hams along the route.   
      
   During the five-hour period, the group collected more than 160 toys at   
   three stops along the rail line and made more than 75 contacts using   
   the W3A call, including QSOs with stations across the continental U.S.,   
   Puerto Rico and even Great Britain..   
      
   Skavinsky said one guest operator - whose handle is Sierra Alpha   
   November Tango Alpha - was particularly thrilled to learn that all   
   those who made contacts with W3A were on his "nice list."   
      
   Skavinsky says Santa was happy with the donations of so many toys   
   brought by those who came out to greet the train and check out the   
   activities of his ham friends. Santa thanked them all and promised he   
   would make sure the toys find homes this Christmas.   
      
   I'm Mark Abramowicz NT3V in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.   
      
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   SILENT KEY: MICHAEL McNAMARA EI2CL, DXER, ISLAND ACTIVATOR   
      
   DON/ANCHOR: Ireland's national ham radio society recently lost a friend   
   and a longtime advocate. We hear about him from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
   JEREMY: Working behind the scenes for the Irish Radio Transmitters   
   Society, Michael McNamara, EI2CL, left his imprint. Having joined the   
   society in 1965 - first as a shortwave listener - he later took up the   
   responsibility for collecting and sorting the incoming QSL cards and   
   other items of correspondence. Michael got his ham licence in May of   
   1973 and became a society committee member. One of his accomplishments   
   was to draw up the rules for the Worked EI Counties Award in the   
   mid-80s.   
      
   Outside of his society responsibilities, Michael became well-known as a   
   high-scoring chaser of DXCC, IOTA and Summits on the Air awards, and,   
   before the 1991 collapse of the USSR, he actively chased contacts with   
   all the Russian oblasts.   
      
   An enthusiastic activator himself, he would also travel with teams to   
   Irish offshore islands. In the 1970s, he was a contest station operator   
   for EI1AA, which was widely known as the Irish Leprechaun ContestGroup.   
      
   Michael was 83.   
      
   This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
   (PETER BALL, EI7CC)   
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including   
   the 9Z4RG repeater in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and on   
   Echolink Node 3384, on Saturdays at 1200 UTC.   
      
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   ARDC STAFFER TO OVERSEE GRANT AWARDS   
      
   DON/ANCHOR: Ham radio clubs and others seeking grants from Amateur   
   Radio Digital Communications will be able to turn to someone new on   
   staff there to assist them in processing their paperwork. We have those   
   details from Andy Morrison K9AWM.   
      
   ANDY: Adam Zimmel, W0ZML, has joined Amateur Radio Digital   
   Communications as its grants and administrative associate. The ARDC   
   made the announcement on its website, saying that Adam will work to   
   help them handle the grant process and also provide support for some of   
   the other internal operations at the ARDC. He has been on board since   
   late October. Adam has a strong background in cybersecurity and IT   
   policy. ARDC awards grants to qualifying applicants whose projects fit   
   into one of three main categories: research and development; education;   
   and the support and development of amateur radio.   
      
   This is Andy Morrison K9AWM.   
      
   (ARDC)   
      
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   RADIO TELESCOPE IN NETHERLANDS CONTACTS 3 MARS ORBITERS   
      
   DON/ANCHOR: Contacts made by a very sensitive radio telescope in The   
   Netherlands are showing scientists tremendous promise, as we hear from   
   Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.   
      
   JIM: Radio amateurs made successful contacts with three Mars orbiters   
   during a recent test of a single dish radio telescope in The   
   Netherlands. In early November, the  C.A. Muller Radio Astronomy   
   Station, PI9CAM, conducted its first tests on X-band with an 8.4 GHz   
   feed created by Dutch amateur Bert Modderman, PE1RKI. This is the band   
   researchers typically use for communications with satellites doing deep   
   space explorations.   
      
   The radio telescope at Dwingeloo successfully detected the carrier   
   signal of the orbiters Tianwen-1 from China's space agency as well as   
   NASA's MAVEN and MRO. A post on the observatory's blog reported that   
   signals were also copied from the European Space Agency's HERA   
   spacecraft and the NASA probe Europa Clipper. The scientists were also   
   able to decode data from signals received from Stereo-A, NASA's   
   space-based observatory.   
      
   The telescope's sensitivity played a key role here, as it did this past   
   fall when the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope functioned as an online   
   â-˜Earth Moon Earth' relay station during the Scouting organisation's   
   Jamboree On The Air. The telescope successfully received the otherwise   
   weak EME signals, which it fed to its webSDR for online listening.   
      
   This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.   
      
   (CAMRAS.NL)   
      
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   WORLD OF DX   
      
   In the World of DX, be listening for Ralf, DB4REB, operating as CN2REB   
   while on holiday in Morocco from the 30th of November until the 30th of   
   January. He will be using CW, SSB and FT 8 on a variety of HF bands and   
   plans to activate some POTA sites. See QRZ.com for QSL details.   
      
   Listen for a team of eight operators using the call T46W will be on the   
   air from Cayo Santa Maria, IOTA number NA-204, from the 1st through to   
   the 10th of December. Find them operating on a variety of modes from   
   160 through to 6 metres. QSL via LoTW.   
      
   As the 43rd edition of the Italian Naval Old Rhythmers [RITH-MURRS]   
   Club contest gets under way on the 7th and 8th of December, listen for   
   the club's own station using the callsign IQ1NM. The operators will be   
      
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