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   home callsigns, including S56DX, S51V, S57UN and several others. They   
   will also be participating in the CQ WW 160-Meter CW Contest as a   
   Multi-Single entry using the team callsign IG9/S51V, all from Lampedusa   
   Island, IOTA number AF-019.  QSL via the operators' home calls. See   
   QRZ.com for additional details.   
      
   Listen for OF60AP being used by members of the Central Uusimaa   
   [pronounced: ooo SEE' muh] Radio Amateurs Association OH2AP in Finland.   
   The club is marking its 60th anniversary with this year-long special   
   event.  See QRZ.com for certificate and QSL details.   
      
   Dwight, VE7BV, is using the callsign TG9BBV until the 28th of January   
   from Guatemala. He is operating CW, SSB and some FT8. Look for Dwight   
   on 40 through 6m. See his personal QRZ.com page for QSL details.   
      
   (425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
   **   
   KICKER: THE SHOW MUST (AND DID) GO ON   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: There's a saying in theatre that even if you encounter   
   hardship, "the show must go on." Well, the theatre of radio is no   
   exception to that rule. In our final story this week, we learn how an   
   important amateur radio program weathered the storm - literally - to   
   fulfill a promised short-wave broadcast premiere. Here's Jeremy Boot   
   G4NJH with the details.   
      
   JEREMY: Listeners had counted on hearing the first short-wave broadcast   
   of the D.A.R.C.'s amateur news programme from Woofferton, England -but   
   no one had counted on the severe storm that was bearing down on the   
   west of England. The damage rendered 7 of the station's 35 antennas   
   unusable leaving the 9670 kHz broadcast imperiled as the start of the   
   programme drew near.   
      
   The technical team scrambled and, on short notice, improvised: They   
   "Crash-Started" another transmitter and a different antenna so that   
   they were able to put the programme on the air, just as expected,   
   on-time and on-frequency.   
      
   In an announcement to listeners on Sunday, 12th January, Radio   
   D.A.R.C.'s Rainer Englert, DF2NU, thanked the Woofferton team, saying   
   [quote] "this incident shows once again that technicians help each   
   other and do everything humanly possible." [endquote].   
      
   Although reception reports varied unexpectedly because of the different   
   equipment employed, over 1,000 listeners' emails poured in, praising   
   the programme. Rainer proclaimed the premiere a success.   
      
   The Woofferton station had saved Radio D.A.R.C. for its listeners after   
   the closure of its previous short-wave broadcaster in Moosbrun,   
   Austria, had been obliged to close down.   
      
   Meanwhile, the station reports that the original antennas have since   
   been repaired and their original configuration restored. The show will   
   indeed go on.   
      
   (RADIO D.A.R.C.)   
      
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