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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2535 for Friday, May 29th, 2026 Amateur
Radio Newsline Report Number 2535 with a release date of Friday, May
29th, 2026 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. Canada's time-keeping shortwave station is
going silent. Hams in Gibraltar have double the celebration -- and
there's a new way to play bingo while working satellites. All this and
more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2535 comes your way
rightnow.

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BILLBOARD CART

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CANADA TAKES TIME-KEEPING SHORTWAVE STATION OFF THE AIR

SKEETER/ANCHOR: In our top story this week, time has run out -literally
- in Canada. Barely three months after silencing its national
Weatheradio forecast service on VHF, Canada is shutting down shortwave
station CHU, its official time service. Kent Peterson KC0DGY tells us
what's happening.

KENT: Canadian shortwave station CHU is scheduled to go off the air on
the 22nd of June. The station delivers the nation's official time from
a transmitter site southwest of Ottawa, broadcasting on 3.33, 7.85 and
14.67 MHz, allowing listeners in Canada and around the world to
synchronize their clocks on Coordinated Universal Time. The service is
run by the National Research Council and transmits the time via digital
voice in English and French.

The time-signal radio station makes use of atomic clocks on the
premises, which are checked against atomic clocks based at the council headquarters.

Canada first began transmitting the time under the CHU callsign in
1938. The station began its transmissions earlier in the decade as
VE9OB. Its announcements are in Coordinated Universal Time, a change
made in 1990 after decades of transmitting in Eastern Standard Time.

In making the announcement of the station's shutdown, the NRC said that official time-keeping will be delivered instead by three more modern
methods - via its telephone talking clock and, using the Internet via
its Network Time Protocol and its web clock.

This is Kent Peterson KC0DGY.

(NRC CANADA, SWLing POST)

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BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SABLE ISLAND QSL CARDS

SKEETER/ANCHOR: The long-awaited QSL cards from the Sable Island
DXpedition will soon be on their way, as we hear from Sel Embee KB3TZD.

SEL: If you are one of the 103,145 contacts made by the CY0S team in
March from Canada's Sable Island and you're waiting for your QSL card,
your wait is almost over.

Team member Murray WA4DAN announced on the DX World website that
printing is about to begin on the elaborate double-fold, six-panel
cards. Mailings are expected to begin sometime in early June.

Contacts were made with 169 DXCC entities from the Sable Island
station, which was 100 percent solar-powered. The team went QRT on the
31st of March.

This is Sel Embee KB3TZD. (DX WORLD, FACEBOOK)

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DOUBLE THE CELEBRATION FOR AMATEURS IN GIBRALTAR

SKEETER/ANCHOR: Amateur radio's earliest beginnings in Gibraltar were experimental in the years following World War II. Now the British
overseas territory - and the Gibraltar Amateur Radio Society - are
marking a double anniversary. As Dave Lee M7TLB tells us, radio is
central to both celebrations.

DAVE: The ZB2 prefix made its appearance with the first amateur radio
licence issued in 1946 by officials in Gibraltar. Ham radio was born.
Thirty years later, an organisation took shape for the growing
community of hams there: The Gibraltar Amateur Radio Society.

The society is marking its 50th anniversary by hosting an exhibit,
"Echoes from the Rock," at a local cultural center, John MacKintosh
Hall. The exhibit tells of ham radio's awakening in the post-war years
on the rocky Iberian peninsula. What had begun with tinkering and experimentation in those early radio years became a blessing to
families in Gibraltar cut off from their relatives on the other side of
the border in Spain during the years when the border, and conventional communication, was closed. During this era, in 1976, the Gibraltar
Amateur Radio Society, ZB2BU, was founded after two smaller clubs
merged to create a larger, more powerful group. The newly formed
society gave Gibraltar a voice as a member of the International Amateur
Radio Union.

The history exhibit will showcase old and modern-day radio in
Gibraltar, celebrating 50 years of the club with a special event
station, ZB2FTY operating from the exhibit itself and from club
headquarters. The exhibit closes on the 29th of May.

This is Dave Lee M7TLB.

(YOUR GIBRALTAR TV)

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13 COLONIES EVENT RETURNS WITH CHANGES

SKEETER/ANCHOR: The 13 Colonies Special Event held annually during the
first week of July has been undergoing significant changes. One of them
will make it a lot easier to get the coveted, colorful certificate
awarded to chasers. We get the story from Mark Abramowicz
(Abram-oh-vich) NT3V.

MARK: Ahead of its 18th year of operation, the 13 Colonies Event
organizers will change distribution methods for certificates for making contacts with stations in the original colonies, as well as England,
France, and Philadelphia.

Bob Josuweit WA3PZO, is managing director of the newly formed 501c3
charitable organization, 13 Colonies Amateur Radio Association

He says the group has decided to simplify and speed-up the process: the certificates can now be downloaded, once ordered on the 13 Colonies
website or sent by traditional mail to a US Post Office box.

You'll still have to prove you made the contacts. Josuweit says a
database will be available on the website to help you to verify those
contacts. If you prefer, you can continue to fill out a paper log or
print out your individual log from your computer and mail it.

Bob told Newsline that this year's QSL cards will pay tribute to the
250th anniversary of America's birth and the Declaration of
Independence.

BOB: "This year we're featuring on most cards a theme of where the
Declaration of Independence was first read in their particular state."

MARK: He says Philadelphia played a huge role as the birthplace of
American liberty, and that city's WM3PEN station QSL card will honor
that history.

BOB: "Since the Declaration was created here, we're actually showing a
picture of the assembly room in Independence Hall where the Declaration
was written and voted upon."

MARK: There is more for stations contacting WM3PEN in Philadelphia. He
says the city is among major US cities hosting a series of World Cup
soccer tournament matches through July and there will be on-the-air
recognition of that event as well.

BOB WA3PZO: "Those stations working WM3PEN in Philadelphia will be able
to get two QSL cards - one for the soccer event and one for 13
Colonies. So, two cards for the price of one contact."

Check out all the latest developments at the 13 Colonies website
available in the text version of this story on our website, A-R Newsline-dot-O-R-G.

[DO NOT READ: https:/www.13colonies.us ]

I'm Mark Abramowicz (Abram-oh-vich) NT3V.

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BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur
Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world including
the WB3GXW repeater in Silver Spring, Maryland and simultaneously on
EchoLink Conference Server Node 6154 on Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays
at 7 PM Eastern time.


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HALL OF FAME INDUCTS NEWSLINE'S JIM DAMRON N8TMW

SKEETER/ANCHOR: We here at Amateur Radio Newsline would like to share a
proud moment - truly an honor for one of our own. Anchor and
correspondent Jim Damron N8TMW, is one of seven broadcast professionals
being inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Jim,
who has also been a stage and movie actor, has served in a variety of
roles in broadcast radio, including DJ, program director and station
manager. He is also known for his voice-over work. The induction
ceremony will be in October. Jim, congratulations from all of your
teammates here at Amateur Radio Newsline who know how deserving youare.

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LICW CLUB OFFERS FREE CW TRAINING FOR FIELD DAY

SKEETER/ANCHOR: So you've checked your antennas, your equipment, your generators, your logging software and yes, even your coffee pot, and
you think you're ready for Field Day? If you are a CW op and a little
unsure about what all of this means for you, the Long Island CW Club is offering a free way to prepare, as we hear from Randy Sly W4XJ.

RANDY: Field Day will bring the single largest on-air event for ham
radio operators in the US and Canada on the weekend of June 27th and
28th. It is a weekend for training, preparedness and practice for all
hams - and for some CW operators it can be a little bit daunting. Free
Field Day CW prep classes are being offered throughout the month by the
Long Island CW Club, which hopes the sessions will put more confident
CW operators into the mix.

The free sessions are open to all CW operators at all levels of
proficiency, not just members of the LICW club. The sessions will
explain ways to listen and send, common abbreviations used, the Field
Day exchange itself and - perhaps just as importantly - how to operate
with confidence.

The instructor-led sessions begin on the 1st of June and will be held
live in the club's public Zoom meeting room.

To see the schedule of classes and read more details about the
instruction, visit the link in the text version of this week's newscast
at arnewsline.org

This is Randy Sly W4XJ.

[DO NOT READ: https://longislandcwclub.org/2026fieldday/ ]

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HAMVENTION CELEBRATES ATTENDANCE BY 38,000 GUESTS

SKEETER/ANCHOR: Hamvention organizers are calling it a record. Nearly
38,000 guests turned the Greene County Fairgrounds & Expo Center in
Ohio into Ham Radio Central for one weekend. Stephen Kinford N8WB has
that report.

STEPHEN: The official count: 37,924 visitors to Hamvention and more
than 600 volunteers. That's what made the weekend the success it was,
along with the exhibitors and the flea market vendors, according to
Brian Markland, general chairman, who made the announcement just days
after closing day on May 17th. He said in a statement: [quote] "I could
not be more proud of what we accomplished together." [endquote]

Get ready for Hamvention 2027. Opening day is May 21st and that's less
than a year away!

This is Stephen Kinford N8WB.

(HAMVENTION)

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ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FESTIVAL SEEKS PRESENTERS

SKEETER/ANCHOR: Electromagnetism is a force of nature that is
fundamental to ham radio. It also has the power of attraction that
draws artists, tinkerers, hackers and others who are perpetually
curious - and takes them this summer to a field in England. Jeremy
Boot G4NJH explains.

JEREMY: The Electromagnetic Field festival is sold out. The nonprofit
community camping event will turn a field in Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire, into a true field day between the 16th and the 19th of
July. Already the scientists, engineers, blacksmiths and crafters have
been making their plans.

So too have the amateur radio operators in the field and on the air
throughout the event as special event station GB26EMF based in the AMSAT-UK/British Amateur Television Club Village. Among the 4,000 on
site, any licensed hams will be welcome to get on the air.

Despite the sold-out tickets, organisers still have room for
adventurous presenters wanting to provide entertainment by singing,
showing films or providing music on their own homemade instruments.
Clever installations are also welcome. Previous years have featured a
robotic spider, a radioactive xylophone and an upside-down campfire. If
your proposals for entertainment, workshops or installations are
accepted, you are welcome to enjoy the rest of the festival. See the
links in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org to
submit a proposal or to get more information about the AMSAT Village.

This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

[DO NOT READ: https://www.emfcamp.org/cfp ] [DO NOT READ: https://www.emfcamp.org/villages/2026/30 ]

(SOTA REFLECTOR, ELECTROMAGNETIC CAMP WEBSITE)

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WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, listen for four special callsigns activated by the
Radio Society of Great Britain and the BBC Amateur Radio Group, marking
the June 27th shutdown of BBC's long-wave stations at Droitwich in Worcestershire, Westerglen near Stirling and Burghead overlooking the
Moray Firth. Listen for GB1500M, GB198LW, GB198END and GB198KHZ.

In the Maldives, IOTA Number AS-013, Yosuke, JJ1DQR is on the air
holiday style as 8Q7QR from the 28th of May through to the 1st of June
and will participate in the CQ WW WPX CW Contest.

Alain, F8FUA, will be on the air holiday style as 9X5KM from Kigali,
Rwanda from the 4th through to the 13th of June, operating CW, SSB and
digital modes on various HF bands.

Oliver, W6NV, is on the air as A31WW on Tongatapu Island, Tonga, IOTA
Number OC-049, until the 2nd of June, operating CW on the HF bands. He
will be very active in the CQ WW WPX CW Contest on the 30th and 31st
ofMay.

For QSL and other operating information, visit each station's page on
QRZ.com.

(425 DX BULLETIN)

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KICKER: THINK THIS IS FOR THE BIRDS? BINGO!

SKEETER/ANCHOR: In the Northern Hemisphere, where summer will dawn in
just a few weeks, hams are engaged in the seasonal pursuit of
bird-watching and they've combined it with the game of bingo. No,
they're not crazy; they're just crazy about chasing satellites, as we
hear from Jim Davis W2JKD.

JIM: OK, bird-watchers, it's time to wing it. There is no real
competition here, no sponsors or rules and no entry fees. You just need
an antenna and a bingo card. Yes, a bingo card.

Thanks to Sean Borgerson, KK7OVF, creator of Bird Chaser Bingo, hams
began their sky-high pursuit in May and expect to continue through to
the 31st of August. Each participant registers and receives a bingo
card filled with squares that they need to complete by fulfilling their summer-themed operating tasks and satellite-related objectives. There
are opportunities to score big at this game in different ways and--by
the way--it's not cheating if you use social media to help other
players find activity.

Complete your bingo card and submit it no later than the 15th of
September.

The website for cards and all information is borgersons.com - spelled
"b o r g e r s o n s dot com"

Now, every operator who submits a completed card will get a certificate
and will be acknowledged for different levels of bingo achievements.

So if you think birding is only for wildlife enthusiasts, think again
-- but if you think this is the season for bird-chasing........Bingo!!

I'm Jim Davis W2JKD.

(AMSAT NEWS SERVICE)

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