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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Esta noticia merece a abertura de uma garrafa de “champanhe” da Bairrada</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><img width=644 height=524 id="il_fi" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCE7EA.EC7ADC20" alt="Descrição: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_36W8Gybl0iU/TNBEPS2iM6I/AAAAAAAAAb4/SUkEAbrEhlY/s1600/WTWW9480e.jpg"></span><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>New HF shortwave radio station sign<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>It is not very often that you can hear a new HF shortwave radio station sign on the air. <b>WTWW</b>, a new International Shortwave Radio facility just outside of Nashville, TN is launching a new transmitter this Saturday with a broadcast we are calling <i>'This Is Only A Test'</i> starting at 4 pm Central Standard Time. This is a 100,000 watt transmitter running into a full size rhombic antenna.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>This is a global radio event with radios being tuned in all over the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>The <b>QSO Radio Show</b> has requested that we could air this broadcast as a amateur radio event to promote amateur radio along with shortwave listening. Why? Well, the shortwave listening audience is huge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>The typical shortwave radio listener is a great potential candidate for amateur radio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>This is the second time WTWW has allowed us to conduct this kind of broadcast on a powerful new shortwave facility.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>This is not a commercial venture in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>So spread the word to all of your amateur radio friends and call us on Saturday on “This Is Only A Test” and talk to the world about Amateur Radio!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>Thanks and 73<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>Ted Randall</span></i></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'>QSO Radio Show<br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><a href="http://www.qsoradioshow.com"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0000CC;text-decoration:none'>http://www.qsoradioshow.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>