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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jan 24 2020 11:36 am

TIGHTER SECURITY SURROUNDS SWEDISH LICENSES

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Candidates for radio permits in Sweden are being asked
to have a lot more patience, as their paperwork is being processed. The
reason? National security. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, explains.

JEREMY: National security concerns are slowing the handling of amateur
radio permits in Sweden, according to a recent report from the SSA, the
Swedish society of radio amateurs.
 
The nation's telecommunications regulator is advising applicants to allow
extra time for the processing of their paperwork, because of a more
thorough review required from 1st January. Sweden's Electronic
Communications Act has new provisions that require additional oversight
by the Armed Forces and Security Police. The SSA estimates the paperwork
will now take a minimum of 2 or 3 more weeks beyond the customary waiting
period.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(SOUTHGATE)

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WORLD OF DX

On Reunion Island, Roland, F8EN, will be active as FR/F8EN, starting the
29th of January. He will be active until the 19th of March, and will be
operating CW only, on all HF bands. QSL to F6AJA.

Listen for Hiro, JG1SXP, using the call sign 8Q7HK, from Maldive Islands,
from February 19th to 24th. He will be on 80 through 10 metres, and
possibly 160 metres using SSB, CW, and FT8. QSL via LoTW.

The TI9A team will be on the air from Cocos Island from the 1st through
the 12th of February. Listen for them on all bands using all modes. Send
QSLs to UA3DX, ClubLog OQRS, or by LOTW.

Be listening for Peter DC-ZERO-KK who is on the air as 4S7KKG from Sri
Lanka until the 30th of March. He can be most readily found using CW and
the digital modes. Send QSLs to his home call sign, direct or by the
bureau. He will upload all QSOs to LoTW and ClubLog.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: DIVING DEEP FOR 'THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS RADIO'

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: For our final story, we ask: What extremes would YOU go
to, to get your hands on an old radio?

If that radio is the wireless transmitter that operator Jack Phillips used
on April 15, 1912, to summon help for the doomed RMS Titanic, those
extremes likely include ocean depths. The United States company that has
salvage rights to the wreckage is ready to make that trip - and soon. It's
asking a U.S. District Court judge in Eastern Virginia to approve an
undersea expedition to the ship's interior to retrieve the Marconi
transmitter that summoned the RMS Carpathia. It sent the message: "Come at
once. We have struck a berg. It's a CQD, old man." In an agreement reached
recently between the two countries, Britain and the United States both have
the authority to grant or refuse permission for such missions.

RMS Titanic Inc., the U.S. company hoping to make the trip, noted in its
court papers that while the radio room itself has stayed somewhat
unscathed, holes are forming in the deckhouse directly above it, placing
the Marconi set in peril. The Washington Post said that Parks Stephenson,
a Titanic expert, called the transmitter "the world's most famous radio."

(WASHINGTON POST)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE:

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL; Jenni Eileen Jones
M-ZERO-ZED-H-T; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; Quartz; Radio Society
of Great Britain; SpaceAustralia.com; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; the
Washington Post; 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 at arnewsline.org.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth,
Ohio, saying 73, Happy New Year, and as always, we thank you for
listening.

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