I received this from Allen Pits, W1AGP. Allen is the Media and PR
Manager for the ARRL.

A major opportunity came up today, and you can take part in it....


SATURDAY Feb 11 at 4-10 PM CENTRAL

YOU ARE INVITED TO SHARE THE MAGIC OF AMATEUR RADIO AND HF BROADCASTING
TO A WORLD WIDE LISTENING AUDIENCE.

FROM 4 – 6 PM / 2200 - 2400 UTC THE FREQUENCY IS 9990 KHZ

FROM 6 – 10 PM / 2400 - 0400 UTC THE FREQUENCY IS 5085 KHZ

THE CALL IN NUMBER IS 615-547-9520

Call in and talk about:

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO,
YOUR FAVORITE MODES,
YOUR LOCAL AMATEUR RADIO CLUB AND ITS ACTIVITIES,
YOUR PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN AMATEUR RADIO

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.

This is a global radio event with radios being tuned in all over the
world.

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.

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.

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!

Allen w1agp

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ARRL Nebraska Section
Section Manager: Arthur I Zygielbaum, K0AIZ

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