Subj : Newsline Part 4
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Oct 21 2016 04:44 pm

KICKER: NATIONAL PARKS ON THE AIR, VK STYLE

SKEETER/ANCHOR: 

GRAHAM: They don't call it portable operations for nothing. As hams in
Australia prepare for the sixth annual Keith Roget Memorial National
Parks Award activity weekend in Victoria's National Parks, amateurs have
chosen their times and locations for operating, and many of them plan to
be on the move, at more than one spot, from Lower Goulburn to Warby Ovens,
to Port Campbell, and points in between.

This is all, of course, nothing new in Victoria or in the United States,
which will soon be wrapping up its centennial celebration of its own
National Parks after a year of similar portable ops.

In Victoria's case, though, hams have Keith Roget, VK3YQ, to thank for
being the award's inspiration. Keith became a Silent Key in 1981, after an
amateur career that kept him forever on the move with his radio equipment.
Keith was a respected World War II veteran, who served with the Royal
Australian Air Force, and became an active amateur in his later years.

Now it's just a matter of waiting until Friday, the 11th of November, for
the activity to begin. It doesn't conclude until Monday, the 14th of
November. Across those four days, hams will be on the move, in the spirit
of Keith Roget.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

(SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO NEWS, AMATEUR RADIO VICTORIA)

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Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our listeners, that's all from the
Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at
newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Topeka, Kansas,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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