[ARRL-OK] pr Digest, Vol 13, Issue 11

[Lloyd Colston]

Please note this event scheduled for tomorrow.  Sorry for the short notice.

73

Lloyd



On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM,  <pr-request at reflector.arrl.org> wrote:
> SATURDAY Feb 11 at 4-10 PM CENTRAL
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> YOU ARE INVITED TO SHARE THE MAGIC OF AMATEUR RADIO AND HF BROADCASTING TO A WORLD WIDE LISTENING AUDIENCE.
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> FROM 4 - 6 PM / 2200 - 2400 UTC THE FREQUENCY IS  9990  KHZ
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> FROM 6 - 10 PM / 2400 - 0400 UTC THE FREQUENCY IS 5085 KHZ
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> THE CALL IN NUMBER IS 615-547-9520
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> Call in and talk about:
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> WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO,
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> YOUR FAVORITE MODES,
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> YOUR LOCAL AMATEUR RADIO CLUB AND ITS ACTIVITIES,
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> YOUR PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN AMATEUR RADIO
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> Call in and talk about   It is not very often that you can hear a new HF shortwave radio station sign on the air. WTWW a new International Shortwave Radio facility just outside of Nashville, TN is launching a  new transmitter this Saturday with a broadcast we are calling "This Is Only A Test" starting at 4 pm Central Standard Time.  This is a 100,000 watt (wow!) transmitter running into a full size rhombic antenna!  They need to test it -and while they are at it Ted Randall has set things up for hams to talk about Amateur Radio.
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> This is a global radio event with radios being tuned in all over the world.
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> The QSO radio show has requested hams to call in as a amateur radio event to promote amateur radio along with shortwave listening. Why? Well, the shortwave listening audience is huge and the typical shortwave radio listener is a great potential candidate for amateur radio.  There are more than 1.5 billion shortwave receivers in use worldwide, the BBC estimates that at any given moment, over 200 million sets are tuned to shortwave broadcasts.
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> This is the second time WTWW has allowed us to conduct this kind of broadcast on a powerful new shortwave facility. The purpose of this broadcast is to demonstrate HF communications ... and to put radio amateurs on the air to a worldwide audience to tell their story.
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> By the way... this particular broadcast is not a commercial venture in any way.  Maybe later it will be (they hope!) but not yet J     So spread the word and call in on Saturday to "This Is Only A Test" and talk to the world about Amateur Radio!



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