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   Gish. It aired several times a year on Lifetime from 1999 through 2002.   
      
   Hap earned his Novice license in 1965 at age 14. A year later he earned   
   his General and in 1981 his Advanced class license. He was a phone   
   patch station and net control for the Westcars traffic net After   
   graduation from college in Illinois, he met his future wife, Stephanie.   
   They wed in 1976.   
      
   Hap has said that he owes a great deal of gratitude to Newsline's   
   founder Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Hap was a faithful Newsline listener   
   and Bill was only too happy to encourage and help Hap with The Rain   
   Report. Hap would share his booth space with Newsline at Hamvention   
   when it was at Hara Arena. I met Hap there. Bill and I recorded and   
   produced several Newsline eposides over the course of a few years on a   
   laptop sitting in that booth.   
      
   In 2002 Hap was named Amateur of the Year at Dayton Hamvention. Away   
   from ham radio, Hap was a professional keyboardist and a past president   
   of the Des Plaines, IL Toastmasters Club. He was an audio engineer and   
   monitor for Horizons for the Blind. For Hap, blindness was never a   
   disability, only a challenge that fine-tuned his other senses. He was   
   truly an inspiration. Hap passed from this world on Monday, February   
   24th. He was a friend to the entire amateur community, a friend to   
   Newsline and a truly inspirational presence to anyone having the great   
   fortune to have met him.   
      
   Good DX on farther up the dial, Hap. Tell Bill we said 73.   
      
   I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.   
      
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: The 220 MHz Guys Amateur Radio Club in Chicago, where Hap   
   held a lifetime membership, told Newsline that a memorial service was   
   being planned for this May.   
      
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   ALABAMA ACTIVATION RECALLS 'BLOODY SUNDAY' OF US CIVIL RIGHTS ERA   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: Two hams who'll be on the air in Alabama in March aren't   
   just activating a POTA site but reminding the world of one of the most   
   painful moments in the history of civil rights in the US. We hear more   
   from Travis Lisk N3ILS.   
      
   TRAVIS: The challenging road to defending their constitutional right to   
   vote led hundreds of Black civil rights marchers onto another road --   
   one that led them outside Selma, Alabama on March 7th, 1965. There, as   
   they arrived at the Edmund Pettus Bridge bound for the governor's   
   office in Montgomery, the marchers were assaulted by state and local   
   police and forced back into Selma. That violent day came to be known as   
   Bloody Sunday. This protest was also an outcry over the killing of   
   civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson who was beaten and shot   
   during a march for voting rights one month earlier.   
      
   Bloody Sunday marked the first of three historic marches that led to   
   the Voting Rights Act of 1965 later that year. Its story is told along   
   the 54-mile route now known as the Selma to Montgomery National   
   Historic Trail.   
      
   Sixty years later, amateur radio operators are marking the anniversary   
   of Bloody Sunday by calling QRZ on the weekend of March 8th and 9th to   
   call attention to that long, painful period in US history. This is a   
   POTA activation. The trail is designated by Parks on the Air as   
   US-4580. Listen for Tom KB5FHK and Sloan N3UPS, who will be operating   
   SSB on HF and linear transponder satellites. Tom told Newsline that the   
   operators will begin on 40m around 0000 UTC on that Saturday. They will   
   return on Sunday after 1300 UTC to operate on 10, 15 and 20 metres as   
   well as via linear transponder satellites.   
      
   Sloan and Tom will be sending commemorative QSL cards featuring an   
   image of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a symbol of turbulence and struggle   
   - and ultimately of change. This is Travis Lisk N3ILS.   
      
   (TOM GAINES, KB5FHK)   
      
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   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including   
   the UHF repeater of the North Shore Radio Club. NS9RC. in Chicago on   
   Thursdays at 8 p.m. local time as part of its weekly net.   
      
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   YHOTY NOMINATING WINDOW OPENS   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: It's time for the amateur radio community to help us   
   begin identifying candidates to nominate for the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF   
   Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year award. Amateur   
   Radio Newsline's Mark Abramowicz (pronouncer Abram-a-vich) NT3V is   
   chairman of the award committee and has more...   
      
   MARK: Do you know a young ham who brings a unique set of skills to the   
   hobby we love?   
      
   Is it someone who you might have recruited through a Field Day visit or   
   exposure to a Scouting Jamboree on the Air event?   
      
   How about a young person who joined your local radio club after finding   
   an Elmer and getting licensed?   
      
   Maybe you are that Elmer.   
      
   How about a young ham who found their way from being a regular check-in   
   for your club's weekly 2-meter net to being invited to join the net   
   control team and working and organizing public service events?   
      
   Is it a young person whose love of earth-space science was stimulated   
   by hearing the International Space Station astronauts on the air -   
   thanks to your mentorship - and arranging for that person to make   
   contact via ham radio with one of them?   
      
   Perhaps, this future leader in our hobby got exposed to contesting and   
   became competitive thanks to your help and support after getting on the   
   air in QSO parties or DX contests.   
      
   These are the kinds of young people Amateur Radio Newsline is looking   
   to recognize for their accomplishments.   
      
   Candidates should be 18 years or younger and from the continental   
   United States.   
      
   It's easy to nominate someone.   
      
   But you are the one who has to take the initiative and fill out that   
   on-line application to bring someone who might be selected as our next   
   Young Ham of the Year to the attention of our Amateur Radio Newsline   
   judges.   
      
   You'll find everything you need to know at the awards tab on our   
   website - arnewsline.org.   
      
   Deadline for online applications is May 31.   
      
   I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V.   
      
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   GET READY FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT AMATEUR RADIO   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: What amateur radio operating strategy combines a little   
   bit of being mobile, a little bit of fixed and - if you so choose - a   
   little bit of maritime? It's spelled R a D A R, which is the acronym   
   for Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio. Get ready, RaDAR Rally day is just   
   weeks away, as we hear from Randy Sly W4XJ.   
      
   RANDY: Eddie Leighton, ZS6BNE pioneered the operating concept more than   
   a decade ago in South Africa with an event known as the RaDAR Challenge   
   which was embraced worldwide by portable operators. This year the RaDAR   
   Rally, which takes place on April 5th, keeps the spirit and the   
   strategy of the original challenge. The four-hour rally is particularly   
   appealing to hams who are accustomed to working portable outdoors and   
   this is an activity that can be combined with Summits On The Air and   
   Parks On The Air. Operators spend four hours setting up a station as   
   quickly as possible, making five contacts, then dismantling the station   
   and moving to another location to do the same thing again. According to   
   the rules, the required distances vary depending on whether the radio   
   operator is walking, cycling, driving or even canoeing. All bands and   
   modes are acceptable but use of terrestrial repeaters is not.   
      
   This is Randy Sly, W4XJ   
      
   DO NOT READ: www.radarrally.info   
      
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   TECHNIQUE MAY MAKE SOLAR PANELS MORE AFFORDABLE   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: If you use solar panels in your portable operation, or are   
   thinking about it, this development in solar power technology on a much   
      
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