Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Oct 20 2017 09:12 am THE WORLD OF DX Be listening as the Liberia Radio Amateur Association hosts three IOTA enthusiasts between the 30th of October, and the 3rd of November, for the first activation of Baiyah Island, a new IOTA designation, AF-111. Col McGowan, MM0NDX, will operate as EL2EL; David Deane, EI9FBB, will operate as EL2BB, and Jeremy Sheehan, EJ5GM, will operate as EL2GM. This is described as the first Islands on the Air operation from the island. The DXpedition call sign will be 5L3BI. A special event station is operating from October 20th through November 20th, marking the 79th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. Listen for operators on all the HF bands using CW, SSB, and the digital modes. A bronze, silver and gold diploma will be available. The 10 call signs will include TC10A, TC10F, TC10T, along with numberous others. On Mauritius, Jean-Paul, HB9ARY, will be active as 3B8HC, between the 4th and 18th of November, working holiday style. Find him on 80 through 6 meters, though he will concentrate on 80, using mainly SSB. He will also work some slow CW. QSL via NI5DX direct. If you want to work Kuwait, be listening for Abdallah, 9K2GS, who will be operating from there in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest on the 28th and 29th of October. He'll be using the call sign 9K2K. QSL via Logbook of the World only. (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: ON THE WATCH FOR SASQUATCH CHRISTIAN/ANCHOR: Our final story was just made for Halloween. It involves amateur radio operators deep in the woods - and a monster known as Bigfoot. Here's Mike Askins, KE5CXP. MIKE: Now here's a Halloween question for hams: When you're operating out in the wild, sitting around a campfire, and telling ghost stories, while pursuing good signal reports, what do you need more than favorable band conditions? How about.....bravery? It's the 50th anniversary of a documentary film that is said to have captured footage of the Bigfoot monster at Bluff Creek, Oregon. The controversial 1967 account by Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson, is the inspiration behind the Bigfoot Radio Net Expeditionary Team's sojourn this month into the woods of southeastern Oklahoma. The hams will be calling QRZ on the HF bands, wondering about the likelihood of good copy by Sasquatch himself. Maybe the melting Smores will draw him out into the open? Or maybe the smell of good campfire coffee? Look for details about the team's adventures, and keep current on their operating frequency on their Facebook Page. Then, listen for them on the air. The Bigfoot Radio Net's field operation begins October 23rd. It runs through the 28th....at least unless Bigfoot has other plans for them. It is, after all, almost Halloween. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; the Associated Press; CQ Magazine; The FCC; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the Independent; K2BSA; the Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; South Yorkshire Repeater Group; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Wireless Institute of 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 Radio Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org. We also close this report, by also offering congratulations from all of us at Amateur Radio Newsline to our colleagues at the ICQ Podcast, which just completed its 250th edition, and the SolderSmoke podcast which just marked its 200th. Well done, and we wish you many more 5 and 9 reports on your shows. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Christian Cudnik, K0STH, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2017. All rights reserved --- þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org .