Amateur Radio Newsline 'making the news'

This week, Amateur Radio Newsline, the excellent news service heard weekly by thousands of radio amateurs on repeaters across the US, celebrates with its 1,500th consecutive newscast.

Marking this special occassion, AR Newsline's producer
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF said:

"With this 1500th consecutive newscast, Amateur Radio Newsline has reached another milestone. Close to 29 years of bringing you the news of Amateur Radio, personal communications and emerging communications technologies. I won't go into our history, but I do want to thank two very special groups of people.

"First are the volunteers who make up the all volunteer Amateur Radio News team. The three dozen or so folks spread around the globe who research, report and anchor these weekly newscasts. The folks who are the "sound" of
Amateur Radio Newsline. Some like Jim Davis, W2JKD, Alan Kaul, W6RCL and Burt Hicks, WB6MQV, have been with us since our early days as Westlink Radio. Others like Don Carlson,, KQ6FM, are making their debut with us this week. But new or old makes no difference. What's important is that each one cares about the hobby and wants to share his or her knowledge with you. And to all who have ever been a part of the news reporting team, I say thank-you for being there to devote your time and talent to keeping the weekly Newsline reports coming everyone's way.

"And to the second group. To our thousands or maybe 10's of thousands of listeners out there, I say thanks to you as well. Thank you for caring about Newsline through your ongoing support. Thank you for your letters of support and of criticism. Thank you for being there each week, either as a bulletin station replaying the newscast or as a listener. We hope and pray we have served your needs until now, and we promise to strive even harder in the coming weeks, months and years to bring to you the most up to date and accurate weekly bulletin that we can.

"When we were planning how to celebrate this special milestone, it occurred to us that what we really should do is what we do best. Bring you a newscast that is timely and relevant. And that's what we do this week as we try to do every week.

"So, as they say on Broadway, lets go on with the show. Welcome to Amateur Radio Newsline report, number 1500."

Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF

Amateur Radio Newsline
US radio amateurs can hear the 1,500th newscast on their nearest bulletin repeater. It's also available as a podcast from their website

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