Good afternoon:
This Wednesday evening, April 5th, we will be performing an upgrade of the MS Exchange software. This is the program that provides all our arrl.org e-mail functions.
Beginning at 5 pm and lasting until approximately 2 am (2100UTC on 4/5 to 0600 UTC on 4/6) the e-mail system at HQ will be down for the upgrade. During these hours, all e-mail to arrl.org e-mail addresses will be queued at P.O. Box and released once the system upgrade has been completed.
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73,
Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY
Chief Financial Officer
ARRL, Inc.
The National Association for Amateur Radio
(860) 594-0212
www.arrl.org
Greetings,
Today I received my copy of the latest issue of FOCUS, the Journal of the
First Class CW Operators' Club. It contained an interesting article by
WA9AQN, which contains the material quoted below. I believe some of you may
find it interesting, and that perhaps we may find some way to use it to
further highlight the good works of amateur radio operators.
"Welles’ production, however, was not simply intended to be a repetition of
the story of the mutiny, but to follow recent island history. In the year
before the broadcast, 1938, rumors had spread of a typhoid outbreak on the
island. Ships refused to stop to drop off food, supplies, or to render
assistance to the 214 islanders whose future hung by a thread. Welles
recounted the story in his broadcast. The only communications between
Pitcairn Island and the rest of the world were by radio. The only local
amateur was Andrew Young, VR6AY. Young searched the hf bands for help.
Dorothy Hall, W2IXY in New York, had been a regular in his logbook for some
time, and she took the message requesting food and medical supplies.
Dorothy relayed the message and aid was finally dispatched. She was in the
studio with Welles for his broadcast."
"You can listen to a recording of the Welles broadcast on YouTube, and If
you want to skip the drama and go straight to ham radio, go to 47:38, which
is immediately following a classic Campbell’s chicken soup commercial. Yum,
just the thing to warm the innards when the band is cold ... Reprinted with
permission of The K9YA Telegraph , originally published February 2017,
Volume 14, Issue 2."
73, Bob W6RGG
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