Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2126 for Friday, July 27, 2018

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2126 with a release date of Friday, July 27, 2018 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. A ham in Japan achieves his goal after 4 decades. More than 300 lighthouses prepare for activation – and meet Amateur Radio Newsline’s Young Ham of the Year for 2018! All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2126 comes your way right now.
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TRIUMPH ON 6 METERS AND BEYOND
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We begin this week with a story of personal triumph. One ham. One goal. One award. And 41 years. With those details, here’s John Williams VK4JJW.
JOHN: Say the words “worked all states” to hams who have ambitions for this ultimate ARRL award in American contacts and they’ll likely tell you stories of perseverance, pileups and no doubt, dreams. Ask Tac Hirama, JA7QVI, a radio amateur in Japan, and he’ll tell you that he finally got to live that dream. On the 17th of June, almost 41 years to the day after he began his Worked All States journey on 6 meters, Tac had a successful QSO with New Jersey ham Andy N2NT via EME, or moon bounce. It completed the protracted effort he began on June 11, 1977 in a QSO with Fred W6PVB.
Tac told Amateur Radio Newsline in an email that his chase for a New Jersey contact took a decade and he had expected it would be, like the other 49 states, either via F2 or Sporadic E propagation. Moon bounce, however, did the trick.
He hasn’t just collected an award however: Along the way Tac has amassed a number of friends – Dan K1TO, Andy N2NT, John N2NC, Morris N1IBM, Dr.Joe K1JT among them.
We note that there’s a little bit more to this adventure: With this recent 6 meter accomplishment, Tac now boasts Worked All States awards on 10 bands from 160 meters to 6 meters.
It pays, he said, not to give up on one’s dreams.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m John Williams VK4JJW.
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WHEN RADIO IS A BRIDGE TO THE WORLD
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Get ready to hear hams calling QRZ from bridges, honoring a very special style of structure, as Jack Parker W8ISH tells us.
JACK: If amateur radio is a bridge to the world, well, it’s only natural to expect to find hams on or near bridges on the 18th of August. In Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio, they’ll be setting up stations on or near covered bridges. In Ohio, clubs such as the Miami County Amateur Radio Club and the Highland Amateur Radio Association will be among many activating these bridges and calling QRZ to mark Covered Bridge Day. The Miami County club will be operating at the Eldean Covered Bridge in Troy, out of the nearby shelter house. The bridge itself was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2017. It was built in 1860 and is recognized as the longest “long truss” style bridge in the U.S. The Highland club amateurs have a list of 7 bridges to be activated, including the Blackwood Covered Bridge in Lodi Township and the Lynchburg Covered Bridge. Meanwhile that same day in New York’s Thousand Islands region, hams will be marking the 80th anniversary of the opening of that region’s International Bridge System. The Thousand Islands Repeater Club KC2TI will be on the air from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. local time. The International Bridge System runs between Collins Landing, New York, to the Ontario mainland, spanning

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