HURRICANE WATCH NET'S DON KAY, K0IND, SK
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A founding member of the Hurricane Watch Net has become a Silent Key, as we hear from Newsline's Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
MIKE's REPORT: The Hurricane Watch Net has lost one of its original
members, U.S. Air Force Col. Don Kay, K0IND. He became a Silent Key, on
March 1, following a three-year battle with lung cancer.
Don, a native of Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of the U.S. Naval
Academy, served in the Air Force after attending Basic Flight School and
later became an All Weather Pilot. Don's military service lasted from
1946 until 1977, and included 175 combat missions, including more than
610 hours in Vietnam, where he was with the Vietnam Defense Campaign,
and Air Campaign from April, 1965 to March, 1966.
He was known to many as a devoted ham and Elmer and qualified for his
amateur radio license in the early 1950s while stationed in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. He is considered a co-founder of the Hurricane Watch
Net, which he joined in 1965 as one of the original members. He was
assistant net manager for 23 years and later, net manager for four,
ending in 1992. He even designed the Hurricane Watch Net logo in the
early 1980s.
Don Kay was involved with the Maritime Mobile Service Net and Air Force
MARS, working as well with the Medical Amateur Radio Conference, where
he helped missionaries, and doctors running phone patches, in the
Caribbean and Central America.
Through his assistance in the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978, and
the Grenada conflict in 1983. Don was added to the Congressional Record
in recognition of his work by Sen. Barry Goldwater, K7UGA, now a Silent
Key.
Don Kay was 89.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(BOBBY GRAVES KB5HAV, HWN NET MANAGER)
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WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, the F6KOP expedition team is in the Ivory Coast
operating as TU7C through March 19th. They will be active on all HF bands
CW, SSB, and Digital. Send QSL cards to F1ULQ or the Web page OQRS.
Listen on all bands, from 160 through 10 meters, for a multi-national
team operating from Niger as 5U5R until March 20th. They are operating
on SSB, CW and RTTY. Send QSL cards to EA5RM.
Also through March 20th, be listening for the "Echo India" DXPedition
team operating from Nepal as 9N7EI. The team is operating as many as
five stations continuously over their nine-day period in Nepal ,and
can be heard on all bands and modes, 80 meters through 10 meters. They
are working 40 kilometers outside Kathmandu about 6,000-feet above sea
level. The group's QSL manager is M-ZERO-OXO.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)
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KICKER: FOLLOW THE 'MORSE CODE BRICK ROAD'
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Our final story is all about how Morse Code has gotten underfoot - literally - on two college campuses. Here's Newsline's Paul
Braun, WD9GCO.
PAUL'S REPORT: To those hams who thought learning Morse Code was hard - possibly even harder than a brick - meet artist Jackie Ferrara, whose
works feature Morse Code numbers, and letters that actually ARE bricks.
The colorful objects, set into walkways and walls, spell out words in
Morse Code in at least two public spaces Jackie redesigned and redefined:
a walkway at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, and a
memorial rooftop garden at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
In Rochester, her patterned walkways outside the Memorial Art Gallery
spell out the gallery's name, and the name of the school in red and dark
brick dots and dashes. At Tufts University, Code was used to spell out
the name of a young man who killed himself in 2003 during his sophomore
year. The library rooftop garden is now dressed in planters, decorative
mosaic brick, a sundial - as well as the student's name spelled out in
Morse.
More recently, Jackie's Code-infused creations turned up on the walls of
a New York City art gallery exhibit in a collection of line drawings.
Here, Morse Code was used to spell out titles of films the artist has
collected over time.
It's not clear whether Jackie Ferrara has actually memorized - or can
even copy - Code, or has ever used a bug or even a straight key. But,
her career has been long, and it has also been successful, so clearly
she's getting her message across somehow, one brick at a time.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
(NY ARTBEAT, TUFTS UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER)
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our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth, Ohio,
saying 73, and as alway,s we thank you for listening.
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