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Hundreds of portable stations head for lighthouses</h1><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The<span> </span><strong>International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend</strong><span> </span>is tracking ahead of last year's record with four weeks left to go, and now stands at 385 registrations from 43 countries.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img align="right" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10478184_779359668754221_2737813847519386682_n.jpg">Among the latest is Estonia, with its 9-metre tall cylindrical concrete tower Lou Lighthouse built in 1934 near the Estonian village of Lou, and put on air by Russ Rowlett ES0/OH1EJY.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The South Point Lighthouse of Barbados is a new country registered by Amateur Radio Society of Barbados 8P6AW. That club will now also put the Ragged Point Lighthouse on the air.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Aruba Amateur Radio Club P43ARC was last in the fun-event in 2005. It's now back with the California Lighthouse - named after the steamship California wrecked in 1891.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">No matter where you are in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania or the Americas, there will be plenty to contact and all have a rich history to tell. Some issue special QSL cards.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The United States of America stays in the lead with 69 registrations, followed by Germany 57, Australia 56, and England 27.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The primary aims are to raise public awareness of the old navigational aids and help publicise portable Amateur Radio.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For more details of the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend on August the 16th and 17th, visit the website<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.illw.net/" target="_blank">www.illw.net</a></p>
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<strong><em>Jim Linton VK3PC</em></strong></p></div>