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A VERy SPECIAL NEWSCAST CLOSE
With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC
Communicator, CQ Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio Penn DX
Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain, the RSGB, the Southgate
News and Australia's WIA News, that's all from the Amateur
Radio NewslineT. Our e-mail address is newsline(at)
arnewsline (dot) org. More information is available at
Amateur Radio Newsline'sT only official website located at
www.arnewsline.org. You can also write to us or support us
at Amateur Radio NewslineT, 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa
Clarita California, 91350
Before we go, I just want to say a word of thank you to all
of you who listen in each week to these Amateur Radio
Newsline bulletins. As we end this 1800th consecutive week
of bringing these newscasts to you, we want to pause for a
moment and look back to 1977 when Jim Hendershot, WA6VQP,
and Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, produced and issued the first
Westlink Radio Network bulletin. It was devoted entirely to
repeater deregulation and only heard by those in the Los
Angeles area with a transceiver set to 223.5 MHz simplex.
Likely no more than two dozen people or so. Now just a few
months shy of 35 years later, Amateur Radio Newsline, which
is the successor name to Westlink Radio, is heard on
thousands of repeaters world wide and by tens of thousands
over the Internet. And as it was back in 1977, so it
remains a free listener supported service to the ham radio
by your fellow radio amateurs.
Yes, there are many people to thank, but we will limit it to
three who were part of the original 1970's core group and
who sadly have become Silent Keys. So as we end Newscast
1800 we lift up our imaginary glass to toast the lasting
memory of our original Production Coordinator Bill Orenstein
KH6QX. We also salute the master wordsmith and anchor Alan
Kaul, W6RCL. Last but by no means lest, we remember our
guiding light of many years and the man who made it possible
for Astronauts to take ham radio into space. Of coarse we
are referring to one of the world's greatest news reporters,
producers and anchors, the late Roy Neal, K6DUE, of NBC
Network News. All three may no longer be with us in the
flesh, but they will never be forgotten here in the Amateur
Radio Newsline studios. What they helped to pioneer in the
1970's 1980's and 1990's is the reason you are hearing this
1800th newscast right now.
For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk,
and for all of the Amateur Radio Newsline volunteers the
world over, I'm Jim Davis, W2JKD, saying 73 and we thank you
for listening all of these years. You are an important part
of the Amateur Radio Newsline family and we would not be
here if not for you.
Amateur Radio NewslineT is Copyright 2012. All rights
reserved.
Edited and posted to the Amateur Radio Packet Network on the
KA9LCF Amateur Packet BBS by Bradd Davidson, KA9LCF.
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