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GB2RS NEWS Sunday 22nd November 2009

Newsdesk@rsgb.org.uk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:08:54 GMT

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GB2RS NEWS

Sunday 22nd November 2009

The news headlines

* Ofcom's World Radiocommunication Conference consultation

* Rowley Shears, G8KW, SK

* Presidential Installation Dinner to take place in Warrington

Ofcom has published a consultation on the issues to be covered during
the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012. The purpose of the
consultation is to seek views from those with an interest in the issues
on the WRC-12 agenda. Among the questions in the consultation is
Question 23: Should amateur radio be given an allocation in part of the
band 415 to 526.5kHz and if so where? The consultation can be found at
ww.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/wrc_12.

The Society has learned with great sadness that Rowley Shears BEM,
G8KW, passed away on Tuesday 17 November 2009. Responsible for
re-introducing amateur radio into Germany after the second world war,
he was perhaps best known for his KW range of amateur equipment from
the 1950s to the 1970s. Through KW Electronics and the KW2000
transceiver, he was largely responsible for popularising SSB in the
British amateur community. Rowley passed away peacefully at the ripe
old age of 90.

The Presidential Installation Dinner will take place at the Daresbury
Hotel in Warrington on 16 January 2010. Details are in the December
RadCom. The Daresbury Hotel, Warrington is offering RSGB members the
negotiated bedroom rate of �50 B & B for those wishing to stay on the
night of the 16th. Members wishing to take up this offer will need to
telephone 0844 980 2360, press Option 2 and quote Reference DE00762609.
Details are also on the RSGB website.

The team of five GB2RS newsreaders in NW England have been given
transceivers for 2m, 4m and 6m for use in transmitting the news. The
radios have come from Graham, G1PYA, a regular listener to GB2RS. The
five newsreaders, G4GSY, G0MRL, G0NAJ, M1NTO and M0HDE would like to
record their very great thanks to Graham for this valuable gift, which
is so clearly in the traditional spirit of amateur radio.

There are a few places left for any would-be radio constructors who
would like to take part in the 3rd Bath Buildathon. The event is
happening on Saturday 5 December and the project is the popular Walford
Electronics Brendon 80m double sideband transceiver. The Buildathon
coincides with the Bath Christmas Market, should you wish to make a
family weekend of it. Further details can be had from Steve Hartley,
G0FUW, who is QTHR and can be e-mailed using his
callsigntiscali.co.uk.

Voting in the RSGB 2009 elections is still open and both electronic and
postal methods are available. It is being run by the Electoral Reform
Society. There are four Board places to be filled and Region 8 also has
an election for the Regional Representative position. Full details of
all the candidates and how to vote are in the December RadCom and on
the RSGB website at www.rsgb.org. RSGB Members have until noon on 10
December to register their vote and you must only use one method of
voting.

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Martin Lynch & Sons will be holding their annual Open Day on 5 December
from 8am to 4pm. Sponsored by Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood, there will be a
free hog roast and representatives from the main manufacturers on hand
to chat about their products. This event leads up to the company's 20th
year of trading.

The Next Foundation Course at the North Derbyshire Training and Exam
Centre is due to start in mid January or early February. The Centre is
at Clay Cross near Chesterfield. The course is held over eight evenings
from 6.30 to 8.30pm, with refreshments included. Full details are on
www.m0oct.com under the heading RAE Courses. Places are limited so call
01246 275 889 or e-mail exams@m0oct to book your place.

And now for the details of rallies and events for the coming week

Mayo Radio Experimenters in Ireland are holding their annual Radio
Rally today, Sunday 22 November, in The Welcome Inn, Castlebar, Co
Mayo. More information can be found on their website
http://ei7mre.org/rally.htm.

Also today, 22 November, the Plymouth Radio Club Rally will take place
at the Elm Community Centre, Leypark Walk, Estover, Plymouth PL6 8UE.
There is plenty of car parking and the doors open at 10.15am for
disabled visitors and 10.30am for other visitors. There will be trade
stands and a Bring & Buy as well as suitable catering facilities.

On 29 November, the Bishop Auckland Radio Amateurs Club Rally will take
place at the Spennymoor Leisure Centre, Co Durham DL16 6DB. There will
be talk-in and plenty of car parking with the doors opening at 10.15
for disabled visitors and 10.30 for other visitors. Admission is �1.50
and under 14s may visit free of charge. Details from Mark, G0GFG, 01388
745 353.

These are the last rallies that we have details for in 2009. If you
would like your 2010 rally mentioned in RadCom and on GB2RS, please
send details to radcomrsgb.org.uk.

Now for the news of special events

Members of Chorley & District Amateur Radio Society will be operating
GB0LD celebrating Lancashire Day from the village of Hoghton in central
Lancashire from Thursday 26 November to Sunday 29 November inclusive.
The station will be operating on the HF bands dependent on propagation,
with activity also planned on 2m and possibly 70cm. QSL will be via the
bureau. More information can be found on QRZ.com.

Preston Amateur Radio Society is running special event station GB1LD on
Friday 27 November from their HQ for Lancashire Day. For further
details e-mail secretaryprestonars.co.uk.

Southport & District Amateur Radio Club will operate a special event
station from the market town of Ormskirk, in the south of the county,
between 8pm and 10pm on November 27 under the club's callsign GX2OA to
celebrate Lancashire Day. They would like to encourage as many
Lancastrian operators as possible to sign in during the event and make
contact with the station. All stations making contact will receive a
special QSL card in return. At 9pm, at the same times as many other
events around the country, the Lancashire Day proclamation will be read
out followed by the Toast to the Duke of Lancaster, HM The Queen.

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And now the HF DX news compiled from 425 DX News and other sources.

3V3S will be on the air from Tunisia from 23 November to 2 December,
including an entry in the CQWW Contest. QSL via DL9USA. More details at
www.3V3S.tk.

Antarctica will see some amateur activity in the next few months. From
the US base, KC4USV will be active, mainly on Sundays on 14.232MHz SSB,
14.070MHz PSK and 14.043MHZ CW. QSL via K1IED. He will be there until
20 February. From the Indian base listen out for AT10BP until March
2011. QSL via VU3MKE. On Adelaide Island, VP8DMH will on the air. The
IOTA reference for this is AN-001. QSL via Mike's UK call of M0PRL.

The CQWW CW Contest on 28 and 29 November has many DX entries. Here are
details of the ones we've heard about. 9J3A will be on the air from
Zambia, QSL direct to S57S. KH6ZN will be active from Big Island in
Hawaii. QSL as per details on qrz.com for N6TJ. HC8N will operate from
Galapagos. QSL via W5UE. VK9XW will be on the air from Christmas
Island. From Bermuda, KE0UI will be on as VP9I. QSL via N1HRA. Whilst
on Koror Island until 10 December, T88CI will also take part in the
contest. QSL via HA5AO.

Now the contest news

In the previous couple of GB2RS News broadcasts there has been an error
in the timings of the UK Activity Contests. The remaining dates for
November and December are 50MHz on 24 November and 22 December between
2000 and 2230UTC. Then it's 144MHz on 1 December between 2000 and
2230UTC and 432MHz on 8 December from 2000 to 2230UTC. Later in
December there is the 1.2 and 2.3GHz Activity Contest on 15 December
between 2000 and 2230UTC and 70MHz on 29 December between 2000 and
2230UTC.

On 25 November, the 80 Club Sprint CW leg takes place between 2000 and
2130UTC. The exchange is serial number and name and there are two power
levels allowed, 10 watts or 100 watts.

Without doubt November's biggest event of is the CQWW DX CW Contest,
which takes place for the entire 48 hours of the weekend of 28*29
November. Rather like the CQWW SSB Contest that took place at the end
of October, there will be a lot of DXpeditions, some by well-known
operators from Britain. It starts at 0000 on 28th and finished as 2359
on 29th. The exchange is signal report and CQ Zone, which for the UK is
14.

Now the solar factual data for the period from the 9th to the 15th of
November, compiled on 16th of November by Neil Clarke, G0CAS.

Only the 13th and the 14th saw the solar disc spotless. The remaining
days only had single spots visible. The return of the active region
from several weeks ago took place during the 14th. When it had rotated
fully into view it became apparent that no sunspots were visible and
only a plage region remained. Solar activity was very low. Solar flux
levels increased slightly from 72 units on the 9th to 75 by the 14th.
The average was 73. The 90 day solar flux average on the 15th was 72,
that's one unit up on last week. X-ray flux levels remained below the
minimum reporting level. Geomagnetic activity was quiet everyday. On
the 10th, 11th and the 12th the Ap index was only one unit. The average
was only Ap 3 units. Solar wind data from the ACE spacecraft saw solar
wind speeds decline from 440 to a slow 270 kilometres per second by the
12th and the 13th. Particle densities were low throughout. Bz varied no
more than minus 6 and plus 7 nanoTeslas for the period.

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And finally the solar forecast. This week solar activity is expected to
be very low. However, there is a slight chance that activity could
increase to low with the possibility of a small C class solar flare
taking place. Solar flux levels should be around the mid 70s. Other
than the chance of a slight disturbance around midweek geomagnetic
activity is expected to be at quiet levels. MUFs during daylight hours
at equal latitudes should be around 23MHz for the south and 20MHz for
the north. The darkness hour lows should be about 8MHz. Paths this week
to South Africa should have a maximum usable frequency with a 50 per
cent success rate of around 28MHz. The optimum working frequency with a
90 per cent success rate will be about 23MHz. The best time to try this
path will be between 0900 and 1400 UTC.

And that's all for this week from the propagation team.

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Next, the Local News:

Please note that details of all RSGB-affiliated clubs and societies

can be found on the RSGB website, including e-mail addresses

and website links where known.

[Note to newsreaders: Please read the local news items appropriate to
the service area of your

transmission.]

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-EAST

and EAST ANGLIA On Tuesday 24 November Brede Steam Amateur Radio
Society is operating from the shack. Contact Steve, on 01424 720815. On
Tuesday 24 November Dorking and District Radio Society is having a talk
on millimetre wave radio propagation by Dr David Browning, M6DJB.
Contact Garth, G3NPC, on 01737 359472. On Tuesday 24 November Harwell
Amateur Radio Society is having a shack activity night. Contact
Malcolm, G8NRP, on 01235 524844, infog3pia.org.uk. On Tuesday 24
November Horndean and District Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on
the history of Whale Island by Lt Cdr Witt. Contact Stuart, G0FYX, on
023 9247 2846. On Wednesday 25 November Chesham and District Amateur
Radio Society is having a construction evening. Contact Terry, G0VFW,
on 01442 831 491. On Wednesday 25 November Dover Radio Club is having a
practical demonstration of PSK 31 and a discussion. Contact Brian,
G4SAU, by email to g4sauDARC.org.uk. On Wednesday 25 November
Farnborough and District Radio Society is holding its AGM. Contact
Derek, G3OFA, by email to mailfarnboroughradio.org.uk. On Wednesday
25 November Havering and District Amateur Radio Club is having an
informal evening. Contact John, M0UKD, on 07817 365354. On Wednesday 25
November Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on
Claverton Pumping Station. Contact Richard, G3ZGC, on 01635 46241. On
Wednesday 25 November Peterborough and District Amateur Radio Club is
having a DVD night on basic radio measurements. Contact David Howlett,
M0VTG, by email to padarctesco.net. On Wednesday 25 November
Worthing and District Amateur Radio Club is attending the Nevada
Communications open evening. The club room will still be open as usual.
Contact Roy, G4GPX, on 01903 753 893. On Thursday 26 November Bittern
DX Group is meeting at Pinewood Park IBC. Contact Linda, G0AJJ, on
01692 404154. On Thursday 26 November Edgware and District Radio
Society is having a talk by Malcolm Wood MBE. Contact Mike, G4RNW, on
020 8950 0658. On Thursday 26 November King's Lynn Amateur Radio Club
is having a club night and 2m club net. Contact Ray, G3RSV, by email to
ral-g3rsvsupanet.com. On Thursday 26 November Lowestoft and
District Pye Amateur Radio Club is having a night at the shack. Contact
Phil, G0JSG, on 01502 585448.

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On Thursday 26 November Shefford and District Amateur Radio Society is
having a talk on the BBC Boys. Contact David, G8UOD, on 01234 742 757.
On Thursday 26 November Waterlooville Amateur Radio Club is having a CW
night. Contact Rich, G4IBW, on 02392 680852. On Friday 27 November
Mid-Sussex Amateur Radio Society is having a fish and chip surprise
night. Contact Sue, G6YPY, on 01273 845 103. On Friday 27 November
Wimbledon and District Amateur Radio Society is having a surplus sale.
Contact Jim, M0CON, on 020 8874 7456. On Saturday 28 November Gorleston
Amateur Radio Society Lunch time meeting at the Short Blue Hotel,
Gorleston. Contact David, G3OEP, on 01493 662 323.

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-WEST On Tuesday 24 November Blackmore Vale Amateur
Radio Society Is having a natter night. Contact Tony, G0GFL, on 01258
860741. On Tuesday 24 November West Devon Radio Club is preparing for
its Christmas party. Contact Jules Cuddy, M1AGY, on 01752 291588. On
Wednesday 25 November Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio
Club is on the air. Contact Tony, G0WMB, on 01454 417048. On Thursday
26 November Newquay and District Amateur Radio Society is having a club
night and Foundation training if required. Contact Joe Bell, M6JOE, on
01726 891557. On Thursday 26 November South Bristol Amateur Radio Club
is on the air. Contact Len, G4RZY, on 01275 834 282. On Thursday 26
November Swindon and District Amateur Radio Club is having a natter
night. Contact Den, M0ACM, on 07810 317750. On Thursday 26 November
Yeovil Amateur Radio Club is having a committee meeting and putting the
club station on the air. Contact Steve Crask, G7AHP, by email to
steveg7ahp.co.uk.

NEWS FOR THE MIDLANDS On Monday 23 November Gloucester Amateur Radio
And Electronics Society is having an informal evening. Contact Anne,
2E1GKY, on 01452 548478, daytime. On Monday 23 November Lincoln
Short-Wave Club is having a construction contest. Contact Pam Rose,
G4STO, on 01427 788356. On Monday 23 November South Birmingham Radio
Society Club is on the air. Contact Don, on 0121 458 1603. On Monday 23
November Stratford Upon Avon District Radio Society is having a talk on
Apollo 11 communications by G0CHO. Contact G0CHO, on 01608 664488. On
Tuesday 24 November Derby and District Amateur Radio Society is on the
air. Contact Richard Buckby, by email to radiodadars.org.uk. On
Tuesday 24 November Loughborough and District Amateur Radio Club is
having a talk by Ian, G8SNF. Contact Chris, G1ETZ, on 01509 504 319.

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On Tuesday 24 November Mid-Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society is
meeting on the air on 145.225MHz. Contact Bernard, M1AUK, on 01926 420
913. On Wednesday 25 November Midland Amateur Radio Society is having
an open meeting, is on the air and holding training classes. Contact
Norman, G8BHE, on 01214 229 787. On Wednesday 25 November South Notts
Amateur Radio Club is holding a members only forum. Contact Terry,
M0RIA, on the web at www.radioclubs.net/snarc. On Wednesday 25 November
Telford and District Amateur Radio Society is having a junk sale with
G8UGL in the chair. Contact Mike, G3JKX, on 01952 299 677. On Friday 27
November Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club is looking at QSL
cards. Contact Chris, M0BQE, on 01905 776 869. On Friday 27 November
Coventry Amateur Radio Society is having a committee forum. Contact
John, G8SEQ, on 07958 777363. On Friday 27 November Nunsfield House
Amateur Radio Group is having a talk on nostalgic TV by Martin
Winfield. Contact Ken Frankcom, G3OCA, on 01332 720976. On Friday 27
November South Birmingham Radio Society is having a construction
evening. Contact Don, on 0121 458 1603.

NEWS FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND On Monday 23 November Angel Of The North
Amateur Radio Club is on the air and continues its Advanced Licence
course. Contact Nancy Bone, G7UUR, on 0191 4770036. On Monday 23
November Bolton Wireless Club is having a question and answer forum and
activity night. Contact boltonwirelessgmail.com. On Monday 23
November Sheffield Amateur Radio Club is having a quiz night. Contact
Trevor Wood, M0TWS, by email to trevorwood6yahoo.co.uk. On Monday
23 November South Tyneside Amateur Radio Society is holding its AGM at
St. Peters Church, York Avenue, Jarrow. All are welcome and a buffet
will follow. Contact George, M1FNE, QTHR. On Monday 23 November
Thornton Cleveleys Amateur Radio Society is having an auction led by
Mick, G4EZM. Contact John Foster, M3WAZ, on 01253 399377. On Tuesday 24
November Chester and District Radio Society is having a talk on the
wind up mast by Derrick Sumner, M1SUM. Contact Barbara Green on 0151
339 9183. On Tuesday 24 November Morecambe Bay Amateur Radio Society is
having a social evening. Contact Martin Hazel, M0ZIF, on 01524 848193.
On Tuesday 24 November Otley Amateur Radio Society is having a 50MHz
activity night. Contact Paul, 2E0PAK, on 07768 996370. On Tuesday 24
November Warrington Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on wartime
radio by Ged, G8RSI. Contact Roger, M0DWQ, on 07868 000 705. On
Wednesday 25 November Hornsea Amateur Radio Club is taking part in the
80m Sprint CW contest and having a committee meeting. Contact Gordon
MacNaught, G3WOV, on 01377 240573. On Wednesday 25 November
Mid-Cheshire Amateur Radio Society is holding its annual junk sale.
Contact Peter Paul Fox, G8HAV, on 01606 553401. On Thursday 26 November
Preston Amateur Radio Society is holding its AGM at 8pm. Contact
secretaryprestonars.co.uk.

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On Thursday 26 November South Cheshire Amateur Radio Society is having
a talk on oscilloscopes by Dave, G8DHQ. Contact Chris Wiseman, G0RDK,
on 01782 773185. On Thursday 26 November South Manchester Radio and
Computer Club is having a surplus equipment sale. Contact Ron, G3SVW,
on 0161 969 3999. On Thursday 26 November Wakefield and District Radio
Society is having a visit by the RSGB Regional Management Team. Contact
Ken, 2E0SSQ, on 07900 563117. On Friday 27 November East Cleveland
Amateur Radio Club is preparing for the stall at the Spennymoor Rally.
Contact Alistair, G4OLK, on 01642 475 671. On Friday 27 November Hull
and District Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on D-Star by Andy
Russell, G0VRM. All amateurs and family are welcome. Contact Keith,
2E0BRQ on 01482 217776. On Friday 27 November Tynemouth Radio Club is
holding an great egg race radio challenge. Contact Graham Errington, on
07812 172136.

NEWS FOR SCOTLAND On Tuesday 24 November Livingston and District
Amateur Radio Society is having Morse code practice. Contact Norman, on
07740 946192. On Wednesday 25 November Kingdom Amateur Radio Society is
having a shack night. Contact Brian, MM0XBD, on 01383 738905. On
Wednesday 25 November Lothians Radio Society is having a talk by Dr
Roger Hill MBE. Contact Andy Sinclair, by email to
lrs_secretarymoosedata.com. On Thursday 26 November Aberdeen
Amateur Radio Society is holding its AGM. Contact Lewis, GM4AJR, on
01224 575 663.

NEWS FOR WALES On Monday 23 November Llanelli Amateur Radio Society is
on the air. Contact Craig, MW0MXT, on 01269 840292. On Tuesday 24
November Marches Amateur Radio Society is having a radio and general
knowledge quiz. Guests are very welcome and refreshments are available.
Contact Dave, MW0AYM, on 01691 777242. On Tuesday 24 November Meirion
Amateur Radio Society is having its family Christmas meal. Contact
John, MW0VTK, on 07868 738016. On Friday 27 November Newport Amateur
Radio Society is building the Two Valver. Contact Gareth Price on 01633
880081.

NEWS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND GB2RS welcomes program information from all
RSGB affiliated clubs. We invite club secretaries to email details of
forthcoming meetings to GB2RSrsgb.org.uk. Any information for
January meetings that arrives before 29 November will also appear in
the Club Calendar section of the January RadCom.

And that's the end of this week's GB2RS news broadcast,

prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

VOA Transmitter Plant Tour on YouTube

Jim[_15_] — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:11:48 GMT

I have uploaded a video of my 1998 tour of Voice of America
Transmitter Plant 'A'
to YouTube
"Tour of Voice of America Transmitter Plant"
It is a 40 minute video broken into 5 parts. The tour is guided by
Carl Lineberger, former senior technician.
Search the above or simply "Voice of America Transmitter"

See three GE, 250,000 Watt transmitters,
One, Marconi, 500,000 Watt transmitter,
Four, Continental Electronics, 500,000 watt transmitters,
One Continental Electronics, 50,000 watt SSB transmitter,
One Technical Materials Corp, 40,000 watt transmitter,

A Huge antenna switching house.

Each step in the signal path is shown and explained by Carl
Lineberger.

Enjoy,
Jim Hawkins - WA2WHV

[RAC-Bulletin] RAC Bulletin 2009-036E: RAC target of phishing attempt

rac-bulletins@eton.ca — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:43 GMT

RAC Bulletin 2009-036E: RAC target of phishing attempt

Several messages have been received from users of the @rac.ca
e-mail alias system who have received e-mails purporting to be
from RAC claiming that maintenance was to be performed on the
e-mail system and that certain information was requested to be
sent to the sender of the message.

Please note that this message was not originated by anyone at
RAC. We would not ask for such information as usernames and
passwords in an e-mail. It can safely be ignored. E-mails
relating to the @rac.ca e-mail alias system would come from
or or other
identifiable RAC e-mail address.

Thanks to Earle Smith, VE6NM, who sent me the message
with complete headers which made it possible to report this
activity to the provider from which the messages originated
as well as the provider of the e-mail address to which
replies were to de sent.

James R. Hay, VE2VE
Vice President, Technical and Administrative Services
Radio Amateurs of Canada

Bulletin RAC 2009-036F : RAC est l'object d'un essai de "phishing"

{Malheureusement l'ordinateur avec lequel j'ai
ecrit ce bulletin ne peut pas faire les accents.}

Quelques messages ont ete recu des usagers de la systeme d'alias
@rac.ca qui ont recu des messages qui se present comme etre
vennant do RAC. Ces messages dit qu'il y aura d'entretien qui
requis que les recipients des messages donne des renseignements
a l'expediteur de la message.

S'il vous plait noter que cette message n'a pas ete envoye par
personne chez RAC. Nous ne demandons pas les renseignements
comme noms d'usager ou mots-de-passe dans un couriel. Vous
pouvez ignorez ce message. Couriels au sujet de la systeme
alias @rac.ca vient de ou
ou un autre adresse identifiable d'etre relie a RAC.

Merci a Earle Smith, VE6NM, qui m'a envoye une copie de la
message avec les ligne entete complete qui m'a permis d'avertir
le pourvoyeur d'ou vient le message et aussi le pourvoyeur ou
l'adresse ou vous etes demande d'envoyer les renseignements.

James R. Hay, VE2VE
Vice-president, Services techniques et administratifs
Radio Amateurs du Canada

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Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec
RAC E-News/Web News Bulletin Editor
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ANS-319 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

JoAnne Maenpaa — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:29:24 GMT

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-319

ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North
America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on
the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who
share an active interest in designing, building, launching and
communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites.

Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:

In this edition:
* AMSAT NextGen Progress
* AO-51 38k4 BPS Operations 16-19 November
* AO-7 has 35th Birthday on 15 November
* SatPC32 V.12.8a Upgrade Available for Download
* High Altitude Balloon Project Seeks Student Applications
* ARISS Status - 09 November 2009

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-319.01
AMSAT NextGen Progress

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 319.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 15, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-319.01

Just to give everyone a little update on how the AMSAT NextGen
Program is doing @ Binghamton University . . .

(a) CONTROL & EXPERIMENT SYSTEMS
- The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the
ARISSat documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the
primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.

- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen:
* The Control/Safety Timer needs to be adapted to conform with the
CubeSat deployment switch standard
* Consolidation of Camera functionality into a separate camera
payload board (functionality is currently spread across a number
of boards in the stack)

(b) RF SYSTEMS
- The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the
ARISSat documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the
primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.

- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen:
* Antenna design choice - single dual-band vs dual mono-band
* New RF container design needed

(c) POWER & STRUCTURE SYSTEMS
- The Systems Engineering students are doing well analyzing the
ARISSat documentation and will be scheduling meetings with the
primary AMSAT engineering contact to discuss documentation questions.
- The Hardware Engineering students have been busy creating a
preliminary design for solar panel deployment and use of super-
capacitors to replace the battery. A Preliminary Design Review
is being scheduled in mid-November with the AMSAT Engineering Team.

- Identified Design Changes Needing to Occur for NextGen:
* Replace Battery with modular stacks of Supercapacitors in parallel
to the Solar Panels
* Shrink ICB (Interconnect Board) to fit within CubeSat frame
* Reduce PSU footprint by moving camera power function to a Camera
Payload Board (CPB)
* Slight PSU voltage supply design change
* Remove test/program load functionality from ICB to external test
board (XTB) via standard CubeSat & PPOD maintenance ports (per
CubeSat spec.)

We are still on-target to have an engineering model ready for the
AMSAT table at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention with readiness for launch
later in 2010.

[ANS thanks Alex, N3NP, for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-319.02
AO-51 38k4 bps Operations 16-19 November

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 319.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 15, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-319.02

Okay 38k4 packet operators, get ready to start your engines!!

AO-51 is scheduled for a four day period of high speed packet oper-
ations at 38k4 bps. It's been about 2 years since the satellite was
configured in this mode. The satellite will be in high power mode
(only TXA 435.150 transmitter ON) during this period.

The posted schedule is as follows:

November 16 - November 19

38k4 BBS, L/U
Uplink: 1268.700 MHz 9k6 FM
Downlink: 435.150 MHz 38k4 FM

Usually this means the mode will run from around 22:00-23:00UTC
November 15 (Sunday evening Eastern US) until around 22:00-23:00UTC
November 19 (Thursday evening Eastern US).

Users of the PacketBBS are encouraged to send me feedback/reports on
your experiences during this period.

Please note that 38k4 packet operations require a receiver with
sufficient bandwidth and that your normal 9600 radio receive
connection will not work. Users also need a TNC that is capable of
running packet at 38k4. A special "wide" filter like the ones
available through Symek (www.symek.com) need to be installed in the
radio to "tap" a wide band signal. A few commercially available
TNCs, like the KPC-9612+ and the Paccomm Spirit-2 (with satellite
option) can be used.

You can use a PCR-1000 or PCR-1500/2500 as a wide band receiver,
without modification. Use the packet jack and set the receiver
to FM (not FM-W) with a 50 kHz filter width. If you have one of
these receivers, but not the right TNC, you might try Doug
Qualigiana's KA2UPW sound card software here:
http://www.quagliana.com/willow/ It will decode at 9600 and 38k4.
There was an article about his software in the AMSAT Journal just
a few months ago.

Hope to see you active on AO-51 at 38k4!

[ANS thanks Mark, N8MH, for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-319.03
AO-7 has 35th Birthday on 15 November

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 319.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 15, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-319.03

Thirty-five years ago this Sunday (15 November), AO-7 reached orbit.
The following is from the AO-7 page on the AMSAT-NA Web site:

"AMSAT-OSCAR 7 was launched November 15, 1974 by a Delta 2310
launcher from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California. AO-7 was
launched piggyback with ITOS-G (NOAA 4) and the Spanish INTASAT. The
second phase 2 satellite (Phase II-B). Weight 28.6 kg. Orbit 1444 x
1459 km. Inclination 101.7 degrees. Octahedrally shaped 360 mm high
and 424 mm in diameter. Circularly polarized canted turnstile VHF/UHF
antenna system and HF dipole."

If you're not set up for the linear satellites but have a receiver
with CW/SSB capability on 2 meters, try listening to a pass. The
middle of her Mode B downlink passband is 145.950 mHz, and you will
find most of the activity occurring between 145.940 mHz and 145.960
mHz. Generally, you'll hear CW operators below 145..950 and SSB
operators above 145.950.

Here is a link to the online log for AO-7:
http://www.planetemily.com/ao7/ao7log.php

[ANS thanks Tim, N3TL, for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-319.04
SatPC32 V.12.8a Upgrade Available for Download

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 319.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 15, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-319.04

Erich, DK1TB has uploaded an upgrade of SatPC32 (V. 12.8a) on his
website http://www.dk1tb.de.

The V.12.8a update includes the following:

1. The main program SatPC32 can now manage up to 4 different
configurations. Configuration #1, for example, could steer a single
satellite transceiver to work the normal V/U and U/V satellites.
Configuration #2, for example, could steer a separate radio (FT-817,
IC-706MKIIG) as RX and the satellite transceiver as TX. This
configuration is useful for AO-51, mode V/S. Most users will receive
S-band with a 13cm/2m down converter and a 2m RX. Configuration #1
would not work because the satellite transceiver cannot simultaneously
receive and transmit on the same band (2m).

The Keplerian data only needs to be updated with one configuration.
The new data will be used by the all configurations.

The configurations can be switched via mouse click in menu 'Setup',
'Configurations'.

2. In 'Real Time' mode the program updates it's calculations once per
second. With previous versions the update interval could not be
changed. Now the speed can be increased by 5 and 10 fold (menu 'CAT').
On the higher bands the Doppler shift can change by 50 Hertz per second
and more. That will cause scale effects on the received signal. Due to
the narrow filters CW signals even can be lost. Increasing the update
speed can prevent these effects.

3. In menu 'CAT' a bottom line has been added. It displays the com-
plete data line from file Doppler.SQF. So, the optional comments at
the end of a data line can also be seen. That is particularly helpful
with satellites that provide multiple modes (i.e. AO-51 and ISS) and
therefore require multiple data lines in Doppler.SQF.

4. CAT steering of the Icom radios IC-706MKIIG, IC-7000 and IC-910H
has been simplified. With previous program versions the IC-706MKIIG
and IC-7000 required an extra line between the radio's ACC jacket and
the PC's COM port to inhibit frequency changes while the radio is
transmitting (because that would cause frequency errors). The IC-910H
required the line with SatPC32ISS. This line is no longer necessary.

5. The programs now works flawlessly on 64-bit Windows systems, except
rotor steering with the interfaces FODTrack, KCT, IF-100 and RifPC.
The kernel driver that is used to output data to these interfaces is a
32-bit version. A 64-bit version is not available yet. The KCT and
RifPC could not be used anyhow with 64-bit systems because they require
an ISA slot which is no longer supported by newer PCs.

The program also works flawlessly under Windows 7. It supports the
96-dpi (100%) and the 120-dpi 125%) fonts. It does not work properly
with the new 144-dpi (150%) fonts. Program versions 12.8 and older
work only with the 96-dpi fonts.

6. The CD and the Internet Setup File now include the tool
DataBackup.Exe. Via a single mouse click, the program can generate a
backup copy or restore the entire SatPC32 data folder (all personal
settings). That is particularly helpful when the program is upgraded.

7. Some bugs have been fixed (concerning, i.e., downlink correction
and transverter operation).

THANK YOU to Erich Eichmann DK1TB for creating and continuously
enhancing SatPC32 for the global amateur satellite community. And
for donating it to AMSAT-DL, AMSAT-NA, and AMSAT-UK. SatPC32 is surely
the most lucrative fund raising item for these AMSAT groups.

Please support these AMSAT groups by registering your copy of SatPC32.

[ANS thanks Erich, DK1TB, for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-319.05
High Altitude Balloon Project Seeks Student Applications

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 319.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 15, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-319.05

The SpaceDaily Express newsletter carried the announcement that NASA
is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and univers-
ities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a
high-flying scientific balloon.

The annual NASA project provides near space access for 12 under-
graduate and graduate student experiments to be carried by a NASA
high-altitude research balloon. The flights typically last 15 to
20 hours and reach an altitude of 23 miles. Experiments may include
compact satellites or prototypes.

The experiments are flown aboard the High Altitude Student Platform,
or HASP, a balloon-born instrument stack launched from the Columbia
Scientific Balloon Facility's remote site in Fort Sumner, N.M.

The goals of the project are to provide a space test platform to en-
courage student research and stimulate the development of student
satellite payloads and other space-engineering products.

HASP seeks to enhance the technical skills and research abilities of
students in critical science, technology, engineering and mathematics
disciplines. The project is a joint effort between NASA and the
Louisiana Space Grant Consortium.

NASA's HASP houses and provides power, mechanical support and communi-
cations for test articles and instruments. It can support approximately
200 pounds of student payloads. Since 2006, the HASP program has
selected 44 payloads for flight, the work of more than 200 students
from across the United States.

The deadline for applications is Dec. 18. NASA is targeting fall 2010
for the next flight opportunity. NASA expects to make selections in
January 2010.

Information is available on-line at:
http://laspace.lsu.edu/hasp/Participantinfo.html

[ANS thanks SpaceDaily Express and the Louisiana Space Grant
Consortium for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-319.06
ARISS Status - 09 November 2009

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 319.06
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 15, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-319.06

1. Upcoming School Contacts

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact
has been approved for Institut Don Bosco in Bruxelles, Belgium. The
contact will take place on Monday, November 16 at 09:41 UTC via
telebridge station WH6PN in Hawaii. Don Bosco is a secondary industrial
technical school with an enrollment of approximately 750 students and
offers courses in carpentry, electricity, mechanics, computing, print-
ing and electronics.

Flanders District of Creativity and the Department of Education of
the Flemish Government have teamed up for an Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Tuesday, November 17
at 13:44 UTC via station LU8YY in Argentina. The groups have partnered
to organize the very first congress for kids in Belgium. A conference
is being set up with keynote speakers and interactive workshops for
1200 twelve year olds. Dirk Frimout & Sijtn Meuris will give a present-
ation about astronomy.

2. Westbrook Intermediate Experiences ARISS Contact

On Tuesday, November 3, an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact was held with Westbrook Intermediate School in
Friendswood, Texas via telebridge station LU8YY in Argentina. Eleven
students were able to ask Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA 11 questions before
losing the connection with the ISS. Thirsk's son offered his father a
surprise with the third question using his newly acquired ham radio
license, KF5DRU.

3. Successful ARISS Contact John Taylor Collegiate

On Wednesday, November 4, an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact took place between John Taylor Collegiate in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA on the ISS. Tele-
bridge station WH6PN in Hawaii provided the link. Fifteen people
gathered for the event and observed the students as they asked 13
questions of the astronaut. Media coverage was provided by the Winnipeg
Free Press.

4. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Speaks with Stott Through ARISS

Students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Daytona
Beach, Florida experienced an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact on Thursday, November 5. The connection was
made through the telebridge station VK4KHZ in Australia. Approximately
seventy students and educators were present for the event and eighteen
questions were asked and answered. This was a school crew pick of Nicole
Stott, KE5GJN, an alumna of ERAU. The ERAU Web site boasts a news re-
lease as well as a photo of Stott on the ISS holding an Embry-Riddle
banner.

5. ARISS Contact with Tokaisonritsu Muramatsu Elementary School

Tokaisonritsu Muramatsu Elementary School in Tokai Village, Ibaraki,
Japan participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, November 6. Eight students posed
two questions each to Nicole Stott, KE5GJN on the ISS as an audience
of 110 students and parents watched. Media coverage was provided by
three newspapers, one magazine and other outlets.

6. Astronaut Training Status

A basic operations session on the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the Inter-
national Space Station) program was held with astronaut Mike Fossum,
KF5AQG on Monday, November 2. Fossum is scheduled to fly with
Expedition 28 in May 2011.

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]

/EX

In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the
President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining
donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional
benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office.

73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Lee McLamb, KU4OS

GB2RS NEWS Sunday 15th November 2009

Newsdesk@rsgb.org.uk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:00:11 GMT

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GB2RS NEWS

Sunday 15th November 2009

The news headlines

Electronic Voting available for the RSGB 2009 elections

Some UK licences get an extended validation period

New allocations for Finnish and Norwegian radio amateurs

An electronic voting system is now up and running for voting in the
RSGB 2009 elections. It is being run by the Electoral Reform Society.
There are four Board places to be filled and Region 9 also has an
election for the Regional Representative position. Full details of all
the candidates and how to vote are in the December RadCom and on the
RSGB website at www.rsgb.org. Members may still send in a postal vote
if preferred and an envelope is included with this month's RadCom.
Please note that RSGB members have until noon on 10 December to
register their vote and you must only use one method of voting.

Ofcom introduced a new, easy online licensing system in 2006 that
requires amateur radio licensees to validate their licence details at
least once every five years. If you have not already got your licence,
you can see how easy it is at Ofcom's website. If your licence has an
issue date between November 2006 and August 2007 and licensing details
have not been amended since then, your licence will be due for
validation around the time of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games
in 2012. During this time, Ofcom will be busy preparing for the event,
making sure that the extra demand for spectrum is met without causing
interference. Therefore, Ofcom has decided this time round to
automatically extend the validation period of these amateur licences
for a further year, giving 6 years from the issue date. After this,
these licence holders will need to update their licences themselves.
Full details can be found in the December RadCom and on the RSGB
website at www.rsgb.org.

The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority has given stations in
Finland and its territories access to the 70MHz band. This includes
Finland, OH, Aaland Island, OH0, and Market Reef, OJ0. The new
allocation is 70.000 to 70.175MHz and 70.225 to 70.300MHz with 25, 30
or 100 watts depending on licence class. Restrictions apply for
stations closer than 50km to Norwegian and Russian borders.

Updated amateur radio licensing regulations have also come into force
in Norway. New allocations have been made available to all Norwegian
radio amateurs in addition to the 135.7 to 137.8kHz and the 7.1 to
7.2MHz bands. In the LF bands there is a secondary allocation at 493 to
510kHz with 100 watts, CW only. At HF there is a secondary allocation
at 5.260 to 5.410MHz, all modes with a 6kHz maximum bandwidth and
24.740 to 24.890MHz on a secondary basis, with 1kW and 6kHz maximum
bandwidth. In the 70MHz band there are several changes. All allocations
are on a secondary basis with 100 watts maximum and a maximum bandwidth
of 16kHz. Norway has extra allocations at 70.0625 to 70.0875MHz,
70.1375 to 70.1875MHz, 70.2625 to 70.3125MHz, 70.3625 to 70.3875MHz and
70.4125 to 70.4625MHz.

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Thailand's 7MHz expansion has received the go ahead from their
telecommunications regulator. The Thai National Telecommunications
Council has approved the expansion of the 40m band giving Thai radio
amateurs a primary status between 7.0 and 7.2MHz.

The recently postponed Train the Trainer course for Reading, Berkshire
has now been rescheduled for Saturday 21 November 2009. It will be
located in the Boardroom, Nabishi UK Ltd, 16c Upton Road, Reading,
Berkshire RG30 4BJ, starting at 9.30am. For further information please
contact Dr Alison Johnston, G8ROG by e-mail to or by
phone on 0118 954 5368, in the evenings please, or visit the regional
RSGB website www.rsgb-region-9.org.uk.

Castles and Stately Homes OnThe Air have launched a new website for
Northern Ireland. It can be found at www.cashota-ni.org. All
information and details of historical sites and how to activate them
can be found here, including activation forms for those amateurs that
wish to have a go gaining the award. Information can also be obtained
from The Northern Ireland Representative, Bobby 2I0ULL on 0774 701
9438.

Amateur wishing to claim IOTA credit for October 2009 contacts with
C91VM, whilst activating IOTA references AF-061, AF-066 and AF-088,
should be aware that, in response to the operator's current published
QSL policy, these three operations will not be accepted for IOTA
accreditation. Clarification is awaited from the operator that a policy
change will be made immediately to the effect that payment of 5 US
dollars is not obligatory and that cards sent direct with sufficient
return postage will be answered direct in a timely fashion. A prompt
amendment to the policy notice on QRZ.com is therefore required if
accreditation is to be reconsidered.

The ARMMS RF and Microwave Society is an independent professional
society comprised of Electronics Engineers with an interest in RF &
microwave design and measurement. The two-day ARMMS Conference will
take place on 23 and 24 November at the Rockingham Forest Hotel, Corby.
Full details of the conference programme can be found on their website
www.armms.org.

And now for the details of rallies and events for the coming week

Today, Sunday 15 November, the CATS Radio & Electronics Bazaar will
take place at the 1st Coulsdon Scout HQ, at the rear of the Council Car
Park, Lion Green Road, Coulsdon, Surrey. Doors open from 10am to 1pm
and entry is �1. Car parking is free and you will find the usual Bring
& Buy as well as catering. Details from Andy G8JAC, e-mail
.

The Mayo Radio Experimenters in Ireland is holding their annual Radio
Rally on Sunday 22 November, in The Welcome Inn, Castlebar, Co Mayo.
The Mayo Club has also organised Declan Craig, EI6FR to give a talk the
evening before the rally, at 8.30pm. He will have an interesting
account about past expeditions and IOTA activity that he has taken part
in, how to plan future events and what is involved. The hotel is
offering a special rate for those wishing to stay the night before the
rally. More information can be found on their website
http://ei7mre.org/rally.htm.

Also on 22 November, the Plymouth Radio Club Rally will take place at
the Elm Community Centre, Leypark Walk, Estover, Plymouth PL6 8UE.
There is plenty of car parking and the doors open at 10.15 for disabled
visitors and 10.30am for other visitors. There will be trade stands and
a Bring & Buy as well as suitable catering facilities.

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Now for the news of special events

Members of the Galway VHF Group will be operating an HF station for a
24 hour period from lifeboat stations in County Galway. On 15 November
they will operate from the Aran Island Lifeboat station at Kilronan,
Inishmore. There will be a special QSL card for all contacts made and
SWL reports will also be welcomed.

Members of Chorley & District Amateur Radio Society will be operating
GB0LD from the village of Hoghton in central Lancashire. The station
will be celebrating Lancashire Day, the actual date of which is Friday
27 November. However, they are so proud of Lancashire that the station
will be active from Thursday 26 November to Sunday 29 November
inclusive. The station will be operating on the HF bands dependent on
propagation, with activity also planned on 2 metres & possibly 70
centimetres. QSL will be via the bureau. More information can be found
on QRZ.com.

To celebrate the Winter Olympic Games, VG7V will be on the air from
Canada until 30 November. QSL via VE7OM.

And now the HF DX news compiled from 425 DX News and other sources.

The Uruguay DX Group Falkland Islands DXpedition will be on the air
from Port Stanley until 21 November. They plan to start operation at
local sunset on the 14th working 40 meters. Listen out for VP8BUH on
SSB and VP8BUG on CW and digital modes. The QSL manager is David,
ED7DX.

DL2RMC, DL2JRM and DM5TI will be on from Christmas Island, the VK9 one,
from 21 November to 5 December. They will be on all bands and modes,
with emphasis on the low bands, mostly operating CW.

An international team is heading to Tonga, prefix A3, from 18 November
to 1 December. Plans are to have two stations including amplifiers for
all-band activity. Full details are on IK1PMR's website, which can be
found using your favourite search engine.

RA9LI will be active from Troynoy Island, which is IOTA reference
AS-086, in Asiatic Russia for about a year using the callsign RA9LI/0.
He will be active on the HF bands. QSL via UA9LP.

WB2IQU will be active from Western Samoa between 18 and 22 November as
5W2IQU. He will be active mainly on 20m. QSL via his home call.

Now the contest news

The UHF UK Activity Contest takes places on 17 November between 1900
and 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 1.3 and 2.3GHz bands, the exchange
is signal report, serial number and locator.

The 2nd 1.8MHz Contest takes place on Saturday 21 November. It's a
4-hour CW `bash' in which entrants can expect to work plenty of
continental stations, as well as the UK. Conditions permitting,
well-equipped stations can also expect to make some QSOs across the
Atlantic and sometimes even further. It takes place between 2100 and
0100UTC and the exchange is signal report, serial number and district.

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Now the solar factual data for the period from the 2nd to the 8th of
November, compiled on 9th of November by Neil Clarke, G0CAS.

Solar activity was very low with no solar flares taking place. The
solar disc was spotless till the 5th when a small sunspot group
emerged. It had no effect on solar flux levels which remained steady
all week. The average was 71 units. The 90 day solar flux average on
the 8th was 71, that's the same level as last week. X-ray flux levels
remained below the minimum reporting level throughout the period.
Geomagnetic activity was extremely quiet until a small coronal hole
disturbance arrived early on the 8th. There was three days with the Ap
index at zero units. The Ap index is calculated from 8 three hourly
measurements which is called the Kp index. This is on a scale from zero
to nine, zero equals very quiet levels and nine equals extreme storm
conditions. For the first 6 days of the period all the Kp indices were
zero except for 4. The Ap on the 8th increased to 6 units. The average
was Ap 1 unit. Solar wind data from the ACE spacecraft saw solar wind
speeds decline from 390 kilometres per second on the 2nd to 233 by the
7th. On the 8th speeds increased to 450 kilometres per second. Particle
densities were very low, often below one particle per cubic centimetre
until the 8th when they increased to 16 particles per cubic centimetre.
Bz showed little variation and was around plus 3 nanoTeslas for long
periods. On the 8th fluctuations to minus 9 and plus 8 nanoTeslas took
place during the slight disturbance. One parameter not used before in
this section of the news is the temperature of the solar wind. This
week temperatures where the lowest that I have seen.

And finally the solar forecast. This week solar activity is expected to
be very low. There is a slight chance that a small C class solar flare
could take place. However, the sunspot group that was visible a few
weeks back could be visible again if it as survived its transit on the
far side of the Sun. Solar flux levels are expected to be around the
mid 70's. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be mostly quiet. Activity
could increase slightly after midweek due to a small coronal hole. MUFs
during daylight hours at equal latitudes should be around 23MHz for the
south and 20MHz for the north. The darkness hour lows should be about
8MHz. Paths this week to India should have a maximum usable frequency
with a 50 per cent success rate of around 25MHz. The optimum working
frequency with a 90 per cent success rate will be about 20MHz. The best
time to try this path will be between 0900 and 1400 UTC.

And that's all for this week from the propagation team.

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Next, the Local News:

Please note that details of all RSGB-affiliated clubs and societies

can be found on the RSGB website, including e-mail addresses

and website links where known.

[Note to newsreaders: Please read the local news items appropriate to
the service area of your

transmission.]

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-EAST

and EAST ANGLIA On Sunday 15 November Bittern DX Group continues its
Foundation Licence course. Contact Linda, G0AJJ, on 01692 404154. On
Sunday 15 November Horsham Amateur Radio Club is having a morning fox
hunt. Details on the web at www.harc.org.uk. On Monday 16 November
Basingstoke Amateur Radio Club is having a base line session on PIC
processors. Contact Clive, G4ODM, on 01256 326050. On Monday 16
November Braintree and District Amateur Radio Society is having a talk
on computer software for satellite working. Contact John, M5AJB, on
01787 460 947. On Monday 16 November Felixstowe and District Amateur
Radio Society is having a talk by a Microwave Round Table speaker.
Contact Paul, G4YQC, by email to . On Monday 16
November Surrey Radio Contact Club is having a talk on digital
photography by Ray Howells, G4FFY. Contact Ray, G4FFY, on 020 8644
7589. On Tuesday 17 November Andover Radio Amateurs Club is having a
talk on the Falklands 2009 expedition. Contact Martin, M0MWS, on 0777
618 1646. On Tuesday 17 November Brede Steam Amateur Radio Society is
operating from the shack. Contact Steve, on 01424 720815. On Tuesday 17
November Verulam Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on 21st century
amateur radio terminology by Chris, G6CMD. Contact Ralph, on 01923
265572. On Wednesday 18 November Chesham and District Amateur Radio
Society is on the air and having CW practice. Contact Terry, G0VFW, on
01442 831 491. On Wednesday 18 November Dover Radio Club is having a
natter and operating evening. Contact Brian, G4SAU, by email to
. On Wednesday 18 November Havering and District
Amateur Radio Club is holding the M3KNL Memorial Quiz. Contact John,
M0UKD, on 07817 365354. On Wednesday 18 November Worthing and District
Amateur Radio Club is having a talk by Peter, G4PAP, entitled Just a
Few Quick Shots. Contact Roy, G4GPX, on 01903 753 893. On Thursday 19
November Cray Valley Radio Society is having a visit by RSGB Regional
Manager Alison Johnston G8ROG, speaking on the RSGB, training and the
future. Contact Bob, 2E0RCV, on 020 8265 7735 after 8pm. On Thursday 19
November Horsham Amateur Radio Club is having a social evening at The
Frog and Nightgown, Wimlands. Details on the web at www.harc.org.uk.

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On Thursday 19 November King's Lynn Amateur Radio Club is having a club
night and 2m club net. Contact Ray, G3RSV, by email to
. On Thursday 19 November Lowestoft and District
Pye Amateur Radio Club is having a club night at the shack. Contact
Phil, G0JSG, on 01502 585448. On Thursday 19 November Shefford and
District Amateur Radio Society is having a talk by Dick, G4LBH on 24GHz
equipment. Contact David, G8UOD, on 01234 742 757. On Thursday 19
November Sutton and Cheam Radio Society is having a talk on WSPR by
Walter Blanchard, G3JKV. Contact John, G0BWV, on 020 8644 9945. On
Thursday 19 November Waterlooville Amateur Radio Club is having a talk
by Dr N Lutte. Contact Rich, G4IBW, on 02392680852. On Friday 20
November Cambridge and District Amateur Radio Club is having a talk and
demo on PSK31 and other digimodes. Contact Lawrence Micallef, M0LCM, on
07941 972724. On Friday 20 November Loughton and Epping Forest Amateur
Radio Society is having a review of 2009 by the Committee. Contact Marc
Litchman, G0TOC, on 020 8502 1645. On Friday 20 November Mid-Sussex
Amateur Radio Society is having a radio night. Contact Sue, G6YPY, on
01273 845 103. On Friday 20 November Wey Valley Amateur Radio Group is
having a talk by Patrick Arnold on SOE and local connections. Details
on the web at www.weyvalleyarg.org.uk.

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-WEST On Monday 16 November Appledore and District
Amateur Radio Club is having a bring and buy auction. Contact Brian
Jewell, M0BRB, on 01237 473251. On Tuesday 17 November Blackmore Vale
Amateur Radio Society is having an HF evening in the club shack.
Contact Tony G0GFL, on 01258 860741. On Wednesday 18 November Exmouth
Amateur Radio Club is having an operating and mystery night. Contact
Mike, G1GZG, on 01395 274172. On Wednesday 18 November Thornbury and
South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club is having a video night.
Contact Tony, G0WMB, on 01454 417048. On Wednesday 18 November
Trowbridge and District Amateur Radio Club is having a natter night.
Contact Ian, G0GRI, on 01225 864 698, evenings and weekends. On
Thursday 19 November South Bristol Amateur Radio Club is holding its
AGM. Contact Len, G4RZY, on 01275 834 282. On Thursday 19 November
Swindon and District Amateur Radio Club is having radio tales from the
Sultanate of Brunei by Ian, G3YBY. Contact Den, M0ACM, on 07810 317750.
On Thursday 19 November Yeovil Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on
basic filters by Chris, G4DCH. Contact Steve Crask, G7AHP, by email to
.

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NEWS FOR THE MIDLANDS On Monday 16 November Gloucester Amateur Radio
And Electronics Society is having a DF Hunt. Contact Anne, 2E1GKY, on
01452 548478, daytime. On Monday 16 November South Birmingham Radio
Society is having a committee meeting. Contact Don, on 0121 458 1603.
On Tuesday 17 November Derby and District Amateur Radio Society is
having a video show. Contact Richard Buckby, by email to
. On Tuesday 17 November Loughborough and District
Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on surround sound by Ian, G8SNF.
Contact Chris, G1ETZ, on 01509 504 319. On Wednesday 18 November
Lincoln Short-Wave Club is having a shack activity and natter night.
Contact Pam Rose, G4STO, on 01427 788356. On Wednesday 18 November
Midland Amateur Radio Society is having a laptop computer evening and
training classes. Contact Norman, G8BHE, on 01214 229 787. On Wednesday
18 November Telford and District Amateur Radio Society continues its
winter projects. Contact Mike, G3JKX, on 01952 299 677. On Thursday 19
November Solihull Amateur Radio Society is having a surplus sale.
Contact P T Gaskin, G8AYY, on 0121 783 2996. On Friday 20 November
Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club is having a committee
meeting. Contact Chris, M0BQE, on 01905 776 869. On Friday 20 November
Coventry Amateur Radio Society is having a skittles night. Contact
John, G8SEQ, on 07958 777363. On Friday 20 November Nunsfield House
Amateur Radio Group is planning the club programme. Contact Ken
Frankcom, G3OCA, on 01332 720976. On Friday 20 November South
Birmingham Radio Society is having a construction evening. Contact Don,
on 0121 458 1603. On Saturday 21 November South Notts Amateur Radio
Club is running an Intermediate weekend with M0BWY, G4NSP and M0RIA.
Contact Terry, M0RIA, on the web at www.radioclubs.net/snarc.

NEWS FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND On Monday 16 November Angel Of The North
Amateur Radio Club will is having a talk on the Enigma Machine and how
it helped win the War by Mike Stott, G0NEE. Contact Nancy Bone, G7UUR,
on 0191 4770036. On Monday 16 November Thornton Cleveleys Amateur Radio
Society is having a talk on the ionosphere by Peter, G4JGC. Contact
John Foster, M3WAZ, on 01253 399377. On Tuesday 17 November Chester and
District Radio Society is visiting Urenco of Capenhurst. Contact
Barbara Green on 0151 339 9183. On Tuesday 17 November Morecambe Bay
Amateur Radio Society is having a social evening. Contact Martin Hazel,
M0ZIF, on 01524 848193. On Tuesday 17 November Otley Amateur Radio
Society is having a member's presentation. Contact Paul, 2E0PAK, on
07768 996370. On Tuesday 17 November Warrington Amateur Radio Club is
having a talk on amateur satellites by Mike, G4VSS. Contact Roger,
M0DWQ, on 07868 000 705.

8

On Wednesday 18 November Denby Dale Radio Club is visiting LAM
Communications. Contact Gerald, G3SDY, on 01484 602905. On Wednesday 18
November Hornsea Amateur Radio Club is holding its AGM. Contact Gordon
MacNaught, G3WOV, on 01377 240573. On Wednesday 18 November
Mid-Cheshire Amateur Radio Society is planning for Radioactive and is
on the air. Contact Peter Paul Fox, G8HAV, on 01606 553401. On Thursday
19 November South Manchester Radio And Computer Club is watching a
video on "Balloon Borne Amateur Radio" by Peter, G0BHP. Contact Ron,
G3SVW, on 0161 969 3999. On Thursday 19 November Wakefield and District
Radio Society is on the air and preparing for Children in Need. Contact
Ken, 2E0SSQ, on 07900 563117. On Friday 20 November East Cleveland
Amateur Radio Club is on the air. Contact Alistair, G4OLK, on 01642 475
671. On Friday 20 November Mexborough and District Amateur Radio
Society is having a talk by Chris Colclough, G1VDP, on HF DXing and
contesting. Contact Sharon, M0BOH, by email to . On Friday
20 November Tynemouth Radio Club is having an operating night,
technical topics and Morse Class. Contact Graham Errington, on 07812
172136. On Friday 20 November Wakefield and District Radio Society is
operating GB1CIN in support of Children In Need from the ASDA
Supermarket, Asdale Road, Wakefield, WF2 7EQ. Contact Ken, 2E0SSQ, on
07900 563117.

NEWS FOR SCOTLAND On Tuesday 17 November Livingston and District
Amateur Radio Society is having a club evening. Contact Norman, on
07740 946192. On Wednesday 18 November Ayr Amateur Radio Group is
having a talk and demo of EMC by MM6YET. Contact Charlie, MM0GNS, on
01563 551704. On Wednesday 18 November Kingdom Amateur Radio Society is
holding its AGM. Contact Brian, MM0XBD, on 01383 738905. On Wednesday
18 November Paisley YMCA Amateur Radio Club is having a training
evening. Contact Bill Anderson, 2M0BZZ, on 01505 613633. On Thursday 19
November Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society is on the air and having a
construction evening. Contact Lewis, GM4AJR, on 01224 575 663.

9

NEWS FOR WALES On Monday 16 November Dragon Amateur Radio Club is
having a discussion night. Contact Stewart Rolfe, GW0ETF, on 01248
362229. On Monday 16 November Llanelli Amateur Radio Society Club is
having a raffle and social night. Contact Craig, MW0MXT, on 01269
840292. On Tuesday 17 November Carmarthan Amateur Radio Society is
having a regular meeting plus intermediate exam tuition. Contact
Alastair Underwood, GW0AJU, on 01267 290822. On Tuesday 17 November
Wrexham Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on the Screwdriver
Antenna. Contact Glyn, MW0BNB, via the web at www.qsl.net/wars. On
Thursday 19 November Swansea Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on
television by Tim Davies, GW4ADL. Contact Roger, GW4HSH, on 01792
404422. On Friday 20 November Newport Amateur Radio Society is on the
air. Contact Gareth Price on 01633 880081.

NEWS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND RSGB General Manager Peter Kirby will be
visiting two clubs in Northern Ireland this week. On Tuesday 17
November he will be at GEARS, who meet from 8pm at The Knockagh Lodge,
236 Upper Greenisland Road, Greenisland, County Antrim. On Wednesday 18
November he will be at West Tyrone ARC, who meet at 8pm in the
Technology Centre, 2 Spillers Place, Omagh, County Tyrone. GB2RS
welcomes program information from all RSGB affiliated clubs. We invite
club secretaries to email details of forthcoming meetings to
. Any information for January meetings that arrives
before 29 November will also appear in the Club Calendar section of the
January RadCom.

And that's the end of this week's GB2RS news broadcast,

prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

SARL NEWS - SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2009

No Name — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:27:12 GMT

SARL NEWS - SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2009

You are listening to ZS6SRL, the official radio station of the South
African Radio League, the national body for amateur radio in South
Africa, with a news bulletin transmitted every Sunday at 08:15 CAT in
Afrikaans and at 08:30 CAT in English. To listen to a web-stream, visit
www.sarl.org.za, click on ARMI and follow the links for details. PLEASE
NOTE: for audio via Echolink, connect to ZS0JPL-R.

You can download this bulletin and previous ones from www.sarl.org.za
and subscribe to receive future bulletins by e-mail.

Your newsreader this morning is (name), (call sign), on 145,725 and
7,066 MHz from Pretoria, with relays on 28,325; 14,235; 10,130, 7,066
and 3,695 MHz SSB, as well as 52,750; 438,825 and 1,297 MHz FM in the
Pretoria area. (Other newsreaders please change to suit.)

SILENT KEY

It is with deep regret that the passing away of Arthur Ronald Hersey on
6 November 2009 is announced. Arthur qualified as a radio amateur in
1938 at the age of 16 and received the call sign ZS1RS.

We extend our sincere condolences to his son, John, family and friends.

(PAUSE)

In the news today:

HAVE FUN WITH SATELLITES

A NEW BACAR TO BE DEMONSTRATED

RAE RESULTS IMMINENT

RADIO AMATEUR WINS A NOBEL PRIZE

You are listening to ZS6SRL. Stay tuned for more detail on these and
other important and interesting news items.

NORTHWEST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB IS HOSTING ZS10WCS

The North West Amateur Radio Club is hosting the special ZS10WCS during
the month of November. A good start was made by the Boland Amateur
Radio Club in September when they made 2 639 contacts with amateurs
from more than a hundred countries. The Oakdale Radio Club took charge
in October. At this stage it is not known how many contacts were made.
In December members of the East Rand Radio Club will operate ZS10WCS.

The preferred frequencies are as follows: CW on 28 010; 21 010; 14 010;
7 010 and 3 510 kHz. SSB on 28 480; 21 280; 14 180; 7 080 and 3 780
kHz.

QSL via the Bureau or directly via the SARL, P.O. Box 1721,
Strubensvallei, 1735.

HAVE FUN WITH SATELLITES

AMSAT has arranged a Satellite Activity weekend from 13 to 15 November
2009. Radio Amateurs are invited to submit logs for the Satellite
Activity Weekend. The purpose of the event is to encourage new
operators to join the growing fraternity of users of Amateur Radio
Satellites. AMSAT North America has specifically enabled the higher
power QRP mode on AO-51 to make operation on this satellite easier for
first-time users for the duration of the event.

The event will run from 16:00 UTC on Friday 13 November 2009 though to
16:00 UTC on Sunday 15 November 2009. Operation is permitted on any
operational Amateur Satellite in any mode to count for points, with the
proviso that all QSOs on AO-51 have to use the QRP V/U mode (145,880
MHz uplink and 435,150 MHz downlink).

RF Design will sponsor the prize of a TinyTrak 4 for the operator who
accumulates the most overall points and a TinyTak3 for the best
portable station. If these are the same operator, the TinyTrak3 will be
awarded to the operator with the second highest points tally.

The full detail can be downloaded from www.amsatsa.org.za.

A NEW BACAR TO BE DEMONSTRATED

On Saturday 21 November at 14:00, John Willescroft, ZS6EF, will
demonstrate the 2010 version of BACAR at the National Amateur Radio
centre. Its maiden flight in the Western Cape will be on Sunday 24
January. BACAR is the acronym for Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio - a
project first launched by SA AMSAT in the 70s.

BACAR will be demonstrated on a tethered launch. Radio Amateurs who are
not able to be part of the demonstration at the NARC will be able to
follow it on the Web. More details will be announced in next week's
SARL news bulletin and published on www.amsatsa.org.za.

The demonstration will follow the first Home Constructor's Course at
the NARC - which is now fully booked. Names are now recorded for a
possible second series of Home Construction courses next year.

There are still places available on the Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape
Town courses. A list of those who have been booked and confirmed is
available on the SARL web at www.sarl.org.za. Click on RTA under the
heading 'activities' and follow the links.

RAE RESULTS IMMINENT

The long-awaited RAE results will be released within the next few days.

Since the last RAE, a few things have been changed to assist ICASA in
easing the burden of doing additional admin work. The changes are as
follows: Normally we would reserve the call signs ahead of the time for
the RAE candidates. Candidates wanting to write the Class A exam have
the opportunity to write the Class B examination as well.

Once all of the marking and moderation of the exam papers had been
completed, we had to send a list back to ICASA asking them to release
all the reserved call signs for those that had failed. We would then
ask them to release call signs of those who had enrolled for the Class
A exam that had failed, but passed the Class B exam, in order to
reserve call signs for a Class B call sign. This alone created a
tremendous load on the staff working with amateur licensing and a lot
of double work had to be done.

The new process will be that only once the marking has been completed,
will we send the call signs through to be reserved for those that have
passed their exams.

We would like to urge all candidates to keep their eyes glued to the
SARL's Web page for your result. We thank you for your patience.

Should you have any queries, you may contact Mariska at the SARL office
on 011 675 2393 or e-mail her to .

ANOTHER RADIO AMATEUR WINS A NOBEL PRIZE

Around 05:30 on the morning of 6 October, George E Smith, AA2EJ, of
Barnegat, New Jersey, received a phone call that changed his life: He
had just heard he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics for 2009 "for the
invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor". Smith
will share the prize money with two other recipients: Charles K Kao, of
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the United Kingdom and the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Willard S Boyle of Bell
Laboratories. Each recipient will receive a diploma, a medal and a 25%
share of the R10 million prize money.

Kao was recognized by the prize committee for his "groundbreaking
achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical
communication". His discoveries paved the way for the optical fiber
technology that is used for almost all telephony and data communication
today. Boyle and Smith invented a digital image sensor - the CCD - that
has become the 'electronic eye' in almost all areas of modern
photography.

The CCD - invented in about an hour over lunch when Smith and Boyle
worked at New Jersey's Bell Labs - was, according to Wired Magazine,
the first practical way to let a light-sensitive silicon chip store an
image and then digitize it. In short, it is the basis of today's
digital camera. According to Wired, the "most amazing thing about the
invention" is that Boyle and Smith came up with the design so quickly.
With Bell Labs threatening to take away the funds from their department
and transfer the money to other research, Boyle had to come up with a
competing semiconductor design. He got together with Smith, and within
an hour, they came up with the idea and sketched it all out on a
blackboard.

"One morning in October 1969," Boyle wrote on his website, "I was
challenged to create a new kind of computer memory. That afternoon, I
got together with George Smith and brainstormed for an hour or so about
a new kind of semiconductor device, drawing a few sketches and
equations on a blackboard. We called it a charge-coupled device: A
'CCD.' When we had the shops at Bell Labs make up the device it worked
exactly as we had expected - much to the surprise of our colleagues."

Smith said that he knew the CCD was under consideration for the Nobel
Prize, "but we didn't know exactly if, or when, it would happen.
Research that wins the Nobel is often done many years beforehand. In my
case, this was 40-year-old research. The Prize Committee wants to make
sure the research has stood the test of time." More on Amateur Radio
Mirror International later today at 10:00. Unfortunately, the show is
about to end. The sunspot is moving toward the sun's western limb where
it will soon disappear.

WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT BY ZS4JAN

During the past month Jan Botha, ZS4JAN, made a wonderful achievement
by achieving the WAZS 1 000 award of the SARL. It means that Jan made 1
000 confirmed contacts with individual call signs in South Africa. It
took Jan almost 6 years to reach this milestone.

What makes this achievement m�re unique is the fact that Jan is the
first amateur to gain the WAZS 1 000 award.

The President of the SARL congratulates Jan with this unique
achievement and trusts that that it will be an inspiration to other
amateurs to be m�re active on the bands and to regularly confirm
contacts by means of either a QSL card or the SARL's electronic QSL
system.

Again many congratulations to Jan.

ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE

The annual Remembrance Day Service will be transmitted in Amateur Radio
Mirror International today at 10:45 CAT. The service is in memory of
South Africans who lost their lives in the protection of our country
and our people. Please observe Radio Silence between 10:45 and 11:00
CAT as a mark of respect. The service will be conducted by Rev Hannes
Enslin, ZS6JDE.

CONTEST NEWS

The second leg of the SARL HF Field Day will be on the weekend of 21
and 22 November 2009.

The contest committee has released the results of the second leg of the
SARL 80 Metre QSO Party. 1st Jan Botha, ZS4JAN, 630 points; 2nd Charles
le Roux, ZS1CF, 415; 3rd Theuns Potgieter, ZS2EC, 265; 4th Sasolburg
ARC, ZS4SRK, 255; 5th Geoff Levey, ZS6GRL, 230; and 6th The World Cup
Soccer station, ZS10WCS, operated by Dave, ZS1SG, with 205 points.

PROPAGATION REPORT

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is still at low
levels. There were no sunspots visible during the last couple of days.

15 and 20 m will provide the best opportunities for DX. Conditions to
the east and the west will be good from the afternoon onwards. During
the late afternoons and early evenings, it will be good towards Europe.
In the mornings it may be possible to make contacts with Australia on
20 m. In the afternoons there are good possibilities of contacts with
the USA on 15 m. Contacts with New Zealand are going to be challenging.
During the afternoons and evenings, 15 and 12 m contacts may be
promising with Brazil.

Local conditions are going to be good on 40 m during the daytime. 80 m
may perform well during the early mornings and late afternoons over
shorter distances. 30 m will perform well over longer distances during
the middle of the day. With summer here, 20 m is also once again
becoming very useful for contacts between Divisions 1 and 6. 80 m is
the frequency of choice in the evenings.

Please visit www.spaceweather.co.za for further information.

DIARY OF EVENTS

8 November - Remembrance Day service at 10:45 this morning during the
ARMI program; 9 November - closing date for Radio ZS articles; 13 to 15
November - Satellite activity weekend; 15 November - closing date for
suggestions for the 2010 Contest; 21 and 22 November - SARL HF Field
Day; 21 November - Home Construction course and BACAR demonstration in
Gauteng at the NARC; 22 November -Intechnet with SumbandilaSat as
subject; 30 November - closing date for the essay competition and
closing date for SARL Council nominations.

SARL News invites clubs and individuals to submit news items of
interest to radio amateurs and shortwave listeners. Submit news items,
if possible in both English and Afrikaans only to
www.sarl.org.za/newsinbox.asp, not later than the Thursday preceding
the bulletin date.

The SARL also invites you to listen to Amateur Radio Mirror
International every Sunday morning at 10:00 CAT on 145,750 MHz in the
Pretoria-area, with relays on 7 082, 7 205 and 17 860 kHz. There is
also a podcast by ZS6RO. For a web-stream and Echolink by ZS6FCS, visit
www.sarl.org.za, click on 'ARMI' and follow the links. A repeat
transmission can be heard on Mondays at 21:00 CAT on 3 215 kHz. Sentech
sponsors the ARMI transmissions on the non-amateur frequencies.

You have listened to a bulletin of the South African Radio League,
compiled by Dennis, ZS4BS. The editor was Jannie, ZR6PHD.

Thank you for listening, 73.
/EX

NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 195

jamie pye — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:51:14 GMT

NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 195
08-NOVEMBER-2009
NZART Website: http://www.nzart.org.nz/

Greetings
Welcome to Headquarters-Infoline a twice-monthly bulletin of news from NZART
Headquarters e-mailed directly to Branches, the amateur radio packet
Bulletin Board Service and to others that subscribe through the NZART
Website at:
http://www.nzart.org.nz/lists/infolinelist.html

In This Issue
*From The Business Manager Debby Morgan ZL2TDM
==Examination Supervisors
==NZART Examination Supervisor Appointment Process
==NZART HQ Change of Hours
*FMTAG Notes For November 2009
==Further Call For Comments - 2400 MHz Band Plan
==Final Recommendations to NZART Council
==The IARU Region 3 Newsletter -- Headlines and Internet URLs
*Wellington Radio EXPO '10
*Second Block Course/Weekend Study Course Proposed
*Contest News
==VHF/UHF/SHF Contest Notes
==HF Contests
*Upcoming Events
*Break-In and Infoline Information
*Dates for Official Broadcast (OB) and Head Quarter's Infoline
*Attachments for Branches:
NZART Headquarters Infoline 195.doc
*******
>From The Business Manager Debby Morgan ZL2TDM
Hi all... sorry for my memory lapse last issue, I was so carried away with
attending the IARU triennial conference in Christchurch, I neglected to
write a note and tell of all my experiences down there.

I am sure by now you will all have heard from the various NZART attendees at
the meeting and also from the NZART President of the great success and
camaraderie that was felt by all societies in attendance. Suffice to
say...there is still a very positive spirit out there regarding amateur
radio...and more importantly the need for such communication during recent
natural disasters, that affected so many in such a short space of time.

Examination Supervisors
There has been a considerable number of applications coming through for
examination supervisors, therefore I felt it timely that all should be aware
of the policy on approving these people.

NZART Examination Supervisor Appointment Process
A Policy Statement by NZART Council

The NZART ARX will accept nominations from Branches of NZART for the
position of Examination Supervisor following receipt of the following:

* A copy of the minutes from the meeting of the nominating Branch in which
the motion was passed nominating the candidate for the position.

* Two nominee character references from members of the nominating branch who
also must be members of NZART.

* Confirmation that the nominee is a member of NZART. On receipt of the
above the NZART ARX will check with the NZART General Secretary that the
membership details of the nominee and referees are in order.

The nomination and supporting documentation is then sent to NZART Council
for acceptance.

If NZART Council chooses not to approve the nomination it is not under
obligation to disclose reasons.

Note: successful nominees must remain a member of NZART while occupying the
position.

NZART HQ Change of Hours
Council approved a recommendation of the Finance Management Group for
headquarters to review current operating hours.

As from 1 December 2009, NZART Headquarters will be open for three full days
per week, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY from 9am to 5pm. These days were
chosen as they will have the least impact of statutory holidays in a year.

This effectively reduces my working time from 25 hours per week to 24,
however may see this reduce further in the longer term.

Talk soon...Debby ZL2TDM
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FMTAG Notes For November 2009
At its November 2009, NZART Council approved publication of these notes.

Further Call For Comments - 2400 MHz Band Plan
NZART Council invites comments on the establishment of an alternative Narrow
Band Mode segment on frequencies just above 2400 MHz. Members should send
their comments to FMTAG:

INTERIM RECOMMENDATIONS TO NZART COUNCIL
None this month.

Final Recommendations to NZART Council
First published as Interim Recommendations in September/October 2009
Break-In.

Branch 22 Marlborough has applied for a 4575 APRS Digipeater, to be located
at Jamies Knob, at map reference NZ260 P28 026586. The transmit and receive
frequency will be 144.575 MHz, in accordance with the band plan on page 7-15
of Call Book. An engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no
interference to other stations.

Branch 22 Marlborough has applied for a 4575 APRS Digipeater to be located
at Kaikoura, at map reference NZ260 O31 673650. The transmit and receive
frequency will be 144.575 MHz, in accordance with the band plan on page 7-15
of Call Book. An engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no
interference to other stations.

Branch 26 Nelson has applied for a 2-metre APRS Digipeater, to be located at
Takaka Hill, map reference NZ260 N26 983206. The transmit and receive
frequency will be 144.575 MHz, in accordance with the band plan on page 7-15
of Call Book. An engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no
interference to other stations.

Branch 26 Nelson has applied for a 2-metre APRS Digipeater, to be located at
Fringed Hill, map reference NZ260 O27 366886. The transmit and receive
frequency will be 144.575 MHz, in accordance with the band plan on page 7-15
of Call Book. An engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no
interference to other stations.

Branch 26 Nelson has applied for a 2-metre APRS Digipeater, to be located at
Mt. Murchison, map reference NZ260 M29 683418. The transmit and receive
frequency will be 144.575 MHz, in accordance with the band plan on page 7-15
of Call Book. An engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no
interference to other stations.

Branch 63 Upper Hutt has applied for a 23-centimetre repeater, to be located
at Mt. Climie, map reference NZ260 899041. The repeater's transmit frequency
will be 1292.000 MHz and its receive frequency will be 1272.000 MHz. An
engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no interference to other
stations.

Branch 66 Auckland VHF has applied for a 23-centimetre beacon, in accordance
with the revised beacon band plan, to be located at Klondyke, map reference
NZ260 705258. The transmit frequency will be 1296.253 MHz. An engineering
evaluation confirms that there will be no interference to other stations.

Branch 74 Wellington VHF has applied for a 955 repeater at Ngaio Reservoir,
map reference NZ260 R27 594933. The repeater transmit frequency will be
439.550 MHz and the repeater receive frequency will be 434.550 MHz. An
engineering evaluation confirms that there will be no interference to other
stations.

COMMENTS AND APPLICATIONS
Please send your comments and suggestions on the above matters and
recommendations, and on any other FMTAG matters, by e-mail to:

Applications for repeaters, beacons, digipeaters, point-to-point links, and
so on, should be made on the latest version of FMTAG Form 10. The latest
versions of FMTAG Form 10, and the explanatory Form 10A, are available on
the NZART web site:

http://www.nzart.org.nz/nz/fmtag.html

Completed forms should be sent by e-mail to

END
*******
The IARU Region 3 Newsletter -- Headlines and Internet URLs
Issue 15 - July to October 2009, Released November 2009

>>> HEADLINES <<<
* A Word from the Chairman of IARU Region 3 - Michael Owen VK3KI
* 14th IARU Region 3 Conference Christchurch 12 - 16 October 2009
* Monitoring System (MS)
* Amateur Radio Education
* Emergency Communications
* Emergency CoA for Region 3
* ARDF
* Region 3 Directors for the next three years
* Regional Coordinators
* IARU Region 3 Band revised
* Region 3 Conference in 2012
* Bush fires, earthquakes and tropical storms
* JOTA a success
* Preparations underway for WRC-12
* WIA celebrates 100 years
* Region III Award
* Reminder- 2012 International YL Meet in Adelaide
* The 2009 Seanet
* Expansion of 40 Meter band

MS Word version of this newsletter is available at
http://www.iaru-r3.org/news/r3nl-09-10.doc

Acrobat PDF version is also available at
http://www.iaru-r3.org/news/r3nl-09-10.pdf

Hyper Text Markup Language, HTML version, is available at
http://www.nzart.org.nz/html/2009/r3nl-09-10.html
*******
Wellington Radio EXPO '10

>Date: Saturday 27 March 2010
Location: Knox Church Hall, High Street, Lower Hutt

Vendors: doors open at 7.00 am

Public: doors open at 10.00 am

Proudly supported by the Combined Amateur Radio Clubs of Wellington.
*******
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Second Block Course/Weekend Study Course Proposed

Hawke's Bay Amateur Radio Club Inc. is running a second block course this
year if there is enough demand. Please let all know of this.

21st / 22nd of November.

More info to follow.
Please send all expressions of interest to

Regards,
Warren Harris
ZL2AJ
Technaserve Ltd
*******
Contest News

VHF/UHF/SHF Contest Notes
Field Day Contest, 50 MHz and up
5 December 2009 - 1700 to 2300 NZT
6 December 2009 - 0700 to 1300 NZT

The rules are available at:
http://www.vhf.org.nz/VHF-UHF-SHF-ContestRules

Logs should be sent within two weeks, to:
with Contest Log in the subject line,
or by post to:
Contest Manager, Wellington VHF Group, P.O. Box 12-259, Thorndon, Wellington
====
HF Contests

KIWI DIGITAL MODES GROUP TWIN SPRINT CONTEST 5/6-DEC
http://www.nzart.org.nz/html/2009/di...ntest-dec.html

2009 CQ WORLD WIDE CONTESTS
CW Section - 0000 UTC, 28th November through to 2359 UTC, 29th November
Contest Rules and Other Operating Information: http://www.cqww.com/

2010 JOCK WHITE MEMORIAL FIELD DAY CONTEST
When:- Saturday, 27th February 2010 and Sunday 28th February 2010
Times :- Saturday 1500 NZDT until 2400 NZDT and Sunday 0600 NZDT until 1500
NZDT
http://www.nzart.org.nz/contests/200...wfd-rules.html
*******
Upcoming Events

Wellington Radio EXPO '10
27 March 2010, Knox Church Hall, Lower Hutt

NZART Annual Conference Auckland 5th - 7th June 2010
http://nzartconference.cjb.net
*******
Break-In, Infoline and General Information

Break-In - From the Break-In Editor John ZL3IB
1. Closing Date Reminder: Copy for the NOVEMBER/DECEMBER issue of Break-In
closes on 10-NOVEMBER-2009.

2. Document File Format: Please do not send copy for publication as Word
2007.docx files; they cannot be processed. Please send in Word 2003 (or
earlier).doc or *.rtf file format.

3. Early receipt of copy is much appreciated.

4. Break-In Contents Index from 1957 can be found at:
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GB2RS NEWS Sunday 8th November 2009

Newsdesk@rsgb.org.uk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:07:23 GMT

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GB2RS NEWS

Sunday 8th November 2009

The news headlines

* Two Canadian stations on 500MHz

* St Helena Day broadcasts

* Notice of Variation for GB3WX

On 30 October, Canada issued two licences in the Developmental Service
in the range 504 to 509kHz. VE1ZZ has been assigned VX9PSO and is
reported to be on 504.6kHz. VO1NA has been assigned VX9MRC and is
reported to be on 507.77 and 508.5 kHz. Two more stations, VE3OHH and
VE7BDQ, are expected to become active soon.

Radio St. Helena Day will be on Saturday 14 November. For Europe, the
broadcast will be from 2200 to 2330UTC on 11.0925MHz USB. To get a QSL
from Radio St. Helena, you must send a written and verifiable reception
report by airmail and include sufficient return postage, which should
be 5 euros or 3 US dollars. E- mail-reports will be not be verified and
recordings will not be returned. Your reports should be sent to Radio
St Helena, PO Box 93, Jamestown, St. Helena, STHL 1ZZ, South Atlantic
Ocean, via AIRMAIL, via United Kingdom & Ascension. The last two lines
of the address are very important.

The recently postponed Train the Trainer for Reading, Berkshire has now
been rescheduled for Saturday 21 November 2009. It will be located in
the Boardroom, Nabishi UK Ltd, 16c Upton Road, Reading, Berkshire RG30
4BJ. The start time will be 9.30am. For further information please
contact Dr Alison Johnston, G8ROG by email to or by
phone on 0118 954 5368 in the evenings or visit the regional RSGB
website www.rsgb-region-9.org.uk.

A Notice of Variation for GB3WX, the 6m and 10m cross-band repeater,
was issued on 3 November. The Wessex Repeater Group would like to
express their thanks go to all at the ETCC and Ofcom for their support
with this project.

Colchester Radio Amateurs are holding a Foundation licence course. Two
evening tutorial sessions take place on Wednesday 11 and 18 November.
The practical activities and examination take place during the day on
Saturday 21 November. For further details contact Kevan, 2E0WMG on 0776
654 3784 or by e-mail to .

The next round of Advanced classes start in Bath on 7 January, aiming
for the June/July exam. Classes run every Thursday from 7 to 9pm. Full
details can be had from Steve Hartley, G0FUW, who is QTHR and can be
e-mailed using his . Steve and his team are also
happy to support distance learning for those that cannot make the
classes. Steve also has a few places left at the 3rd Bath Buildathon,
which takes place on Saturday 5 December. The project is the Walford
Electronics Brendon 80m double sideband transceiver. The Buildathon
coincides with the Bath Christmas Market, should you wish to make a
weekend of it. Rumour has it that Santa may be operating stroke sled
mobile for the first QSOs with the newly constructed rigs.

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And now for the details of rallies and events for the coming week

The Rochdale and District Radio Society Traditional Radio Rally will be
held on Saturday 14 November at St Vincent's Church Hall, Caldershaw
Road, Rochdale OL12 7QL. Doors open at 10.30am, admission is �2.50 and
there are concessions for under 12 and seniors. There will be a Bring &
Buy and tables are �5 for those wishing to sell their own radio related
items. More details from Dave, G0PUD on 07710 243107.

On Sunday 15 November, the CATS Radio & Electronics Bazaar will take
place at the 1st Coulsdon Scout HQ, at the rear of the Council Car
Park, Lion Green Road, Coulsdon, Surrey. Doors open from 10am to 1pm
and entry is �1. Car parking is free and you will find the usual Bring
& Buy as well as catering. Details from Andy G8JAC, e-mail
.

Now for the news of special events

Members of the Galway VHF Group will be operating an HF station for a
24 hour period from lifeboat stations in County Galway. On 14 and 15
November they will operate from the Aran Island Lifeboat station at
Kilronan, Inishmore. There will be a special QSL card for all contacts
made and SWL reports will also be welcomed.

The Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club will be transmitting from Brownlow
House in Lurgan, Co Armagh on Wednesday 11 November from 10am for
Armistice Day, using the special event callsign GB2AD. This location
was chosen as it has been used in both World Wars. It was a Battalion
HQ in WW1 and American HQ in WW2. The club will be operating all bands
and modes throughout the day, so listen out.

Aberdare and District Amateur Radio Society will be running a special
event station to commemorate Armistice Day on 11 November with the
callsign GB0AD. The call will be active until 15 November and operating
times can be viewed at www.radioclubs.net/aadars.

GB1HF will be on the air on 14 November from Northern Ireland to
commemorate the life of Harry Ferguson the inventor and engineer.

And now the HF DX news compiled from 425 DX News and other sources.

T30KI and T30IW will be on the air from Western Kiribati between 10 and
16 November. Activity will be on HF plus 6m as conditions permit using
SSB and CW. QSL via N1EMC.

PW2IO and PW2TA will activate Cabras Island, which is IOTA reference
SA-071, between 19 and 23 November. They will operate two separate
stations running 300W and 100W respectively. Both stations will work CW
and SSB. The main bands to be used are 15, 17, 20, 30 and 40m, on IOTA
frequencies. Additional information will be available at QRZ.com.

F6AML will be on the air from the Union des Comores using the callsign
D68F from 13 to 23 November. QSL via F6AML, either via bureau or
direct. More details on QRZ.com.

DJ8NK, DM2RUM and DM2XO will sign VP2MNK, VP2MUM and VP2MXO from
Montserrat until 15 November, all bands and modes. QSL to their home
calls direct or via bureau.

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DL7DF and friends will operate from Phu Quoc Island, which is IOTA
reference AS-128, until 17 November, with one station on CW and SSB and
one station on RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. They have a web page. QSL via
DL7DF either direct or via the DL QSL Bureau.

An international team is heading to Samoa, prefix 5W, between 10 and 17
November. Plans are to have two stations including amplifiers for
all-band activity. More details on IK1PMR's website.

Now the contest news

10 November sees the 432MHz UK Activity Contest between 1900 and
2130UTC. The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

RSGB HF events begin on Thursday 12th with the SSB leg of 80m Club
Sprints. It takes place between 1900 and 2030UTC. The exchange is
serial number and name. November is the final month of the series.

Two days later, on the 14th, it's the Club Calls Contest, when
individuals from clubs compete as teams. The unique aspect of CCC is
that part of the exchange is the name of your club (assuming you are a
member of one). In the past it has been apparent that some less skilled
ops have either not given the name of their club exactly the same way
for every QSO or have given it wrongly, making it appear that there are
multiple clubs with similar names, for example Shillingbury Radio
Society or Shillingbury Radio Club. It could be a good idea for the
co-ordinators of a club entry to give each operator a briefing and a
card printed with the exact wording that should be given, because the
adjudicator, Rob, G4LMW, is going to check them carefully. The contest
takes place between 20000 and 2300UTC and the exchange is signal
report, serial number and club info.

Now the solar factual data for the period from the 26th October to the
1st of November, compiled on 2nd November by Neil Clarke, G0CAS.

Solar activity was low on some days. In total 9 C class solar flares
occurred, five of which took place in a 6 hour period during the
morning of the 27th. A coronal mass ejection took place on the 31st
associated with a C class solar flare. All this activity was
responsible to a new cycle sunspot group, the largest so far this
cycle. Solar flux levels was 82 units on the 28th but then gradually
declined to 72 units by the 1st as the group rotated out of view. If
the group survives its transit on the far side of the Sun it should
rotate back into view around the 12th or the 13th of November. This as
been the most active week since the end of March last year. The 90 day
solar flux average on the 1st was 71 units, that's two units up on last
week. X-ray flux levels increased above the minimum reporting level all
week and peaked at A7.5 units. The average was A4.2. All this adds up
to more compelling evidence that sunspot minimum is now behind us. We
must however, keep our feet on the ground. We are still in the minimum
phase of the sunspot cycle and it will be a couple of years yet before
activity will be routinely like this. The latest forecast for the next
maximum is in the spring of 2013. Geomagnetic activity was quiet
everyday except for the 30th which increased to `active' levels due
possibly to a sector boundary crossing. The Ap index was 11 units on
that day and the average was Ap 4 units. Solar wind data from the ACE
spacecraft saw solar wind speeds vary between 300 and 430 kilometres
per second. Particle densities increased to 15 and 17 particles per
cubic centimetre on the 29th and the 30th respectively; otherwise they
remained below 10 particles per cubic centimetre. Bz varied between
minus and plus 2 nanoTeslas on the quiet days and between minus 8 and
plus 11 nanoTeslas during the slight disturbance.

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And finally the solar forecast. This week solar activity is expected to
be at very low levels. The solar disc could be spotless for the next
few days but later in the week the return of the large sunspot group
could take place. Solar flux levels are expected to be around the 70
mark, but from midweek a steady increase could take place if the group
returns into view. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be quiet
throughout. MUFs during daylight hours at equal latitudes should be
around 23MHz for the south and 20MHz for the north. The darkness hour
lows are expected to be about 9MHz. Paths this week to South America
should have a maximum usable frequency with a 50 per cent success rate
of about 27MHz. The optimum working frequency with a 90 per cent
success rate will be around 21MHz. The best time to try this path will
be between 1000 and 1700 hours UTC.

And that's all for this week from the propagation team.

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Next, the Local News:

Please note that details of all RSGB-affiliated clubs and societies

can be found on the RSGB website, including e-mail addresses

and website links where known.

[Note to newsreaders: Please read the local news items appropriate to
the service area of your

transmission.]

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-EAST

and EAST ANGLIA On Tuesday 10 November Brede Steam Amateur Radio
Society is operating from the shack. Contact Steve, on 01424 720 815.
On Tuesday 10 November Harwell Amateur Radio Society is having a talk
on healthy eating for radio amateurs by Janet, 2E0LLM. Contact Malcolm,
G8NRP, on 01235 524 844.

On Wednesday 11 November Aylesbury Vale Radio Society is having a quiz
with Chesham. Contact Roger, G3MEH, on 01442 826 651. On Wednesday 11
November Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society is having a committee
meeting. Contact Martyn, G1EFL, on 01245 469 008. On Wednesday 11
November Chesham and District Amateur Radio Society is having its
annual inter-club quiz night with Aylesbury. Contact Terry, G0VFW, on
01442 831 491. On Wednesday 11 November Darenth Valley Radio Society
will be having a talk on D-Star and the Gateway on GB7OK by Garry,
2E0ULA. The venue is Crockenhill Village Hall, postcode BR8 8LT. For
more information contact Paul, M0HAL, by email to
. On Wednesday 11 November Dover Radio
Club is having an overview of amateur television by Brian, G8ZYZ.
Contact Brian, G4SAU, by email to . On Wednesday 11
November Farnborough and District Radio Society is having a talk on
Radio Caroline by John, M3XTE. Contact Derek, G3OFA, by email to
.

On Wednesday 11 November Havering and District Amateur Radio Club is
having an informal evening. Contact John, M0UKD, on 07817 365 354. On
Wednesday 11 November Norfolk Amateur Radio Club Informal /
Construction / Workshop. Contact Chris Danby, G0DWV, on 01603 419 204.
On Wednesday 11 November South Essex Amateur Radio Society is holding
its AGM. Contact Dave Speechley, G4UVJ, on 01268 697 978. On Wednesday
11 November Southgate Amateur Radio Club is having its autumn junk
sale. Contact David Sharp, M0XDS, by email to .
On Wednesday 11 November Worthing and District Amateur Radio Club is
having a collectors' show and tell evening. Contact Roy, G4GPX, on
01903 753 893. On Thursday 12 November Bittern DX Group is having an
informal evening. Contact Linda, G0AJJ, on 01692 404 154. On Thursday
12 November Edgware and District Radio Society is having a talk on rig
frequency measurement by John, G3SJE. Contact Mike, G4RNW, on 0208 950
0658.

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On Thursday 12 November King's Lynn Amateur Radio Club is having a club
night and 2m club net. Contact Ray, G3RSV, by email to
. On Thursday 12 November Lowestoft and District
Pye Amateur Radio Club is having a discussion on Echolink and whether
it really is radio. Contact Phil, G0JSG, on 01502 585 448. On Thursday
12 November Reading and District Amateur Radio Club is holding its
autumn junk sale. Contact Pete, G8FRC, on 01189 695 697. On Thursday 12
November Shefford and District Amateur Radio Society is having a quiz
night. Contact David, G8UOD, on 01234 742 757. On Thursday 12 November
Waterlooville Amateur Radio Club is having a ladies night. Contact
Rich, G4IBW, on 02392 680 852. On Friday 13 November Mid-Sussex Amateur
Radio Society is having a radio night and table top sale. Contact Sue,
G6YPY, on 01273 845 103. On Friday 13 November Wimbledon and District
Amateur Radio Society is on the air and operating Morse. Contact Jim,
M0CON, on 020 8874 7456. On Saturday 14 November Verulam Amateur Radio
Club is taking part in the Club Calls contest. Contact Ralph, on 01923
265 572.

On Sunday 15 November Bittern DX Group continues its Foundation Licence
course. Contact Linda, G0AJJ, on 01692 404 154. On Sunday 15 November
Horsham Amateur Radio Club is having a Sunday morning fox hunt. Details
on the web at www.harc.org.uk. On Monday 9 November Coulsdon Amateur
Transmitting Society is having its annual quiz with question master
Frank, G3ZMF. Contact Andy, G8JAC, by email to .

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-WEST On Tuesday 10 November Blackmore Vale Amateur
Radio Society is having a talk on narrow band television. Contact Tony
G0GFL, on 01258 860 741. On Tuesday 10 November West Devon Radio Club
is having a table top sale night. Contact Jules Cuddy, M1AGY, on 01752
291 588.

On Wednesday 11 November Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur
Radio Club is having a talk on software defined radio by Ron. Contact
Tony, G0WMB, on 01454 417 048. On Thursday 12 November Newquay and
District Amateur Radio Society is having a club night and Foundation
training if required. Contact Joe Bell, M6JOE, on 01726 891 557. On
Thursday 12 November South Bristol Amateur Radio Club starts its
Christmas raffle, organised by Steve, G0UQT. Contact Len, G4RZY, on
01275 834 282. On Thursday 12 November Swindon and District Amateur
Radio Club is having a mini-talk on meters by Dennis, G3LLZ. Contact
Den, M0ACM, on 07810 317 750. On Thursday 12 November Yeovil Amateur
Radio Club is having a talk on homebrew microwave equipment by Dave
Edwards. Contact Steve Crask, G7AHP, by email to . On
Monday 9 November Cornish Radio Amateur Club Computer Section is having
a talk by Clive, G3OCB on creating your movie DVD. Contact Steve,
G7VOH, on 01209 844 939.

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NEWS FOR THE MIDLANDS On Tuesday 10 November Derby and District Amateur
Radio Society is having a committee meeting. Contact Richard Buckby, by
email to . On Tuesday 10 November Eagle Radio Group
is having a talk on weird engines by David, G7BUK. Contact Terry,
G0SWS, on 01507 478 590. On Tuesday 10 November Loughborough and
District Amateur Radio Club is having a bring-a-valve vintage. Contact
Chris, G1ETZ, on 01509 504 319.

On Tuesday 10 November Mid-Warwickshire Amateur Radio Society is having
a DVD evening. Contact Bernard, M1AUK, on 01926 420 913. On Tuesday 10
November Worcester Radio Amateurs Association is having a talk and on
the air night. Contact Leslie Coyne, M3WRZ, on 01905 764 320. On
Wednesday 11 November Lincoln Short-Wave Club is having a shack
activity and natter night. Contact Pam Rose, G4STO, on 01427 788 356.

On Wednesday 11 November Midland Amateur Radio Society is having a
committee meeting and holding training classes. Contact Norman, G8BHE,
on 01214 229 787. On Wednesday 11 November South Notts Amateur Radio
Club is having a talk on the PIC Controller by G4EDX, plus M0BWY will
be running an Intermediate Practical. Contact Terry, M0RIA, on the web
at www.radioclubs.net/snarc. On Wednesday 11 November Telford and
District Amateur Radio Society is having a quiz night with M0TAW.
Contact Mike, G3JKX, on 01952 299 677.

On Friday 13 November Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club is
running the last night of GB75XX. Contact Chris, M0BQE, on 01905 776
869. On Friday 13 November Coventry Amateur Radio Society holds its
great egg race. Contact John, G8SEQ, on 07958 777 363. On Friday 13
November Nunsfield House Amateur Radio Group is having a committee
meeting and shack night. Contact Ken Frankcom, G3OCA, on 01332 720 976.

On Friday 13 November South Birmingham Radio Society is having a
construction evening. Contact Don, on 0121 458 1603. On Saturday 14
November Leicester Amateur Radio Society is on the air and holding a
committee meeting. Contact the duty committee member on 07804 595 749.
On Sunday 8 November South Notts Amateur Radio Club is on the air and
holding a Morse and Intermediate Practical with M0BWY. Contact Terry,
M0RIA, on the web at www.radioclubs.net/snarc. On Monday 9 November
Gloucester Amateur Radio And Electronics Society is operating club
equipment. Contact Anne, 2E1GKY, on 01452 548 478, daytime. On Monday 9
November Leicester Amateur Radio Society is on the air. Contact the
duty committee member on 07804 595 749. On Monday 9 November South
Birmingham Radio Society is checking its contest equipment. Contact
Don, on 0121 458 1603.

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On Monday 9 November Stratford Upon Avon District Radio Society is
having a surplus equipment sale. Contact G0CHO, on 01608 664 488.

NEWS FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND On Tuesday 10 November Chester and
District Radio Society is having a committee meeting. Contact Barbara
Green on 0151 339 9183. On Tuesday 10 November Isle Of Man Amateur
Radio Society is having a talk and video on the 3B7C DXpedition by Bob
Barden, MD0CCE. Contact Stuart Hill, GD0OUD, on 01624 613 226.

On Tuesday 10 November Morecambe Bay Amateur Radio Society is having a
fancy dress and games night. Contact Martin Hazel, M0ZIF, on 01524 848
193. On Tuesday 10 November Otley Amateur Radio Society is having a
shack night. Contact Paul, 2E0PAK, on 07768 996 370. On Tuesday 10
November Warrington Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on early DF by
John, G7SF. Contact Roger, M0DWQ, on 07868 000 705. On Wednesday 11
November Hornsea Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on corn and
kilowatts by John, G3XYF. Contact Gordon MacNaught, G3WOV, on 01377 240
573. On Wednesday 11 November Mid-Cheshire Amateur Radio Society is
working on the club project and operating G4CAX on HF. Contact Peter
Paul Fox, G8HAV, on 01606 553 401. On Thursday 12 November Hornsea
Amateur Radio Club is taking part in the 80m Sprint SSB contest.
Contact Gordon MacNaught, G3WOV, on 01377 240 573. On Thursday 12
November South Cheshire Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on
portable operation by Ray, M1REK. Contact Chris Wiseman, G0RDK, on
01782 773 185. On Thursday 12 November South Manchester Radio and
Computer Club is having a talk on cost effective wire antennas by
Chris, G3UAU. Contact Ron, G3SVW, on 0161 969 3999. On Thursday 12
November Wakefield and District Radio Society is planning for next
year's Northern Cross Rally which will take place on Valentines' Day.
Contact Ken, 2E0SSQ, on 07900 563 117. On Friday 13 November East
Cleveland Amateur Radio Club is having a technical forum. Contact
Alistair, G4OLK, on 01642 475 671. On Friday 13 November Sheffield
Amateur Radio Club is having a visit to the club by Scouts. Contact
Trevor Wood, M0TWS, by email to . On Friday 13
November Tynemouth Radio Club is having a radio sale. Contact Graham
Errington, 07812 172 136.

On Monday 9 November Angel Of The North Amateur Radio Club is holding
its AGM. Contact Nancy Bone, G7UUR, on 0191 477 0036. On Monday 9
November Bolton Wireless Club is having a talk on meteor observations
by radio by a member of the Bolton Astronomical Society. Contact the
club by email to . On Monday 9 November
Sheffield Amateur Radio Club winter is having a junk sale. Contact
Trevor Wood, M0TWS, by email to .

On Monday 9 November Thornton Cleveleys Amateur Radio Society is having
a talk on SSTV by Kevin, G0LRK. Contact John Foster, M3WAZ, on 01253
399 377.

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NEWS FOR SCOTLAND On Tuesday 10 November Kilmarnock and Loudoun Amateur
Radio Club is having a talk on RAYNET by Richard, MM1BHO. Contact
Graham, MM3GDC, by email to . On Tuesday 10
November Livingston and District Amateur Radio Society is having an
operating evening. Contact Norman, on 07740 946 192. On Wednesday 11
November Kingdom Amateur Radio Society is having a shack night. Contact
Brian, MM0XBD, on 01383 738 905.

On Wednesday 11 November Lothians Radio Society is having a one man
outing on the subject of "What's in the box", by Norman Stewart,
GM1CNH. Contact Andy Sinclair, by email to .
On Thursday 12 November Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society Club is having a
discussion night. Contact Lewis, GM4AJR, on 01224 575 663. On Monday 9
November Moray Firth Amateur Radio Society is looking at the new club
project. Contact Jim, MM0SMD, on 01340 820 134.

NEWS FOR WALES On Friday 13 November Newport Amateur Radio Society is
having a GB4CR Ryder Cup meeting. Contact Gareth Price on 01633 880
081. On Monday 9 November Llanelli Amateur Radio Society is having a
club night. Contact Craig, MW0MXT, on 01269 840 292.

NEWS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND No news items have been received for Northern
Ireland this week.

And that's the end of this week's GB2RS news broadcast,

prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1682 - November 6 2009

William M. Pasternak — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:12:55 GMT

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1682 - November 6 2009

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1682 with a release date of
Friday, November 6th, 2009 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T. Georgia hams are given a $165,000 grant to
build a D-Star rescue radio network, two hams help save a life on
Catalina Island, the next Global Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications Conference will take place in Curacao and two pre-teens
come up with a cheap solution to the Digital Reception problem in the
USA. Find out the details on Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number
1682 coming your way right now.

(Billboard Cart Here)

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RESCUE RADIO: GEORGIA HAMS GIVEN $165,000 TO BUILD D-STAR RESCUE RADIO
NETWORK

Its one of the largest government grants ever given to ham radio
emergency communications. This as $165,000 in Federal funding has been
secured by Georgia Emergency Management Agency to complete a statewide
D-Star based ham radio emergency communications network.. Amateur
Radio Newsline's David Black, KB4KCH, has the story of the grant and
the all digital rescue radio network that it will create:

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The network's creation is the result of a dream that started in 2005
according to John Davis, WB4QDX. That's when a vision was born for what
amateur radio emergency communications could one day achieve in the
state of Georgia. Mark Fehlig, WA6NGC, is the former director of
Engineering for the state's Public Broadcasting System. When the
opportunity arose to install two amateur radio antennas on each of nine
television towers providing statewide coverage, Fehlig jumped into
action. Fehlig designated Georgia's Amateur Radio Emergency Service to
control the use of those sites for emergency communications. The next
task was to figure out the best technology to use at those sites.

Linked FM repeaters and packet were among the modes considered. But
radio amateurs were also watching emerging D-Star technology. They
recognized it as a state of the art platform providing simultaneous
voice and data communications. Knowing that D-star also allows
repeaters to be linked on a flexible basis and that it permits
simultaneous voice and low speed data along with high speed Internet
connectivity at 1-point-2 Gigahertz...and the decision was made to go
D-star for the state's new system.

When the network is finished, radio amateurs will have access to voice
and data repeaters on all nine towers across the state, operating on 2
meters, 440 MHz and 1-point-2 Gigahertz. Because those towers are
strategically located to provide maximum public television coverage,
amateur radio communications will benefit from wide area coverage, as
well. Commercial grade inch and 5/8 transmission lines will connect the
antennas, which will be between 500 and 600 feet above ground.
Georgia's Public Broadcasting Network will provide indoor space for
equipment, along with backup power at each site. Internet access will
be available, too, thanks to the broadcasting system's DS-3 data
network...this means flexible linking of repeaters will be possible
using a stock D-Star interface.

The federal money will also pay for 20 dual-band D-star radios to be
installed at EMA offices across the state, along with a portable UHF
D-Star repeater available for emergency deployment. In addition, three
1-point-2 Gigahertz D-star radios with laptops for sending data and
photos from field locations will also be purchased. The money will
also be used to build a robust reflector to serve the state's network
during emergency conditions and also for general use during
non-emergency times. Two of the emergency network's D-star repeaters
are already on the air. One is located at Pembroke, Georgia, near
Savannah. The second operates from atop Stone Mountain, serving the
Atlanta metro area. The complete Georgia D-star amateur radio emergency
communications network is expected to be in operation in early 2010.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm David Black, KB4KCH, at the
South-East bureau in Birmingham, Alabama.

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The Georgia network will complement other D-Star based emergency
communications systems planned or in operation in the neighboring
states of Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. Once all are in
operation, it will create a regional ham radio emergency capability
across the American Southeast. This monetary grant is only second in
size to one of $250,000 given by the governor of Oregon in 2007 to that
states ham radio first responders. This, to build a Winlink-based
state-wide amateur radio emergency communications network. (WB4QDX,
Georgia ARES via Southgate)

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RESCUE RADIO: TWO HAMS CREDITED WITH SAVING A LIFE ON CATALINA ISLAND

Karl Tso, KI6PCW, and wife Deborah Ava, KJ6CRZ, put their ham radio
emergency training to use to help rescue an unidentified man after an
accident on Catalina Island. This as the recently trained volunteer
ham radio operators rescued a man after he fell more than 40 feet onto
rocks below.

Tso and Ava are both of Topanga, California which is a Los Angeles
suburb and are members of the Topanga Disaster Radio Team. The couple
had climbed a hill on Catalina Island to check out a repeater when they
saw a 61-year-old man bleeding and moaning.

Tso and Ava had their hand-held radios with them. They used the
equipment to make contact with other radio amateurs on the California
mainland, who called 911 to report the emergency. Los Angeles County
firefighter paramedics responded and the injured man was quickly flown
by medevac helicopter to St Mary's Hospital in Long Beach for
treatment.

Authorities say that the couple's quick thinking and knowledge of ham
radio helped save the injured man's life. The Topanga Disaster Radio
Team they work with is a part of the Topanga Coalition for Emergency
Preparedness. (Published news reports)

**

RESCUE RADIO: GAREC-2010 TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER 2010 IN CURACAO

GAREC-2010, the next Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
Conference it will take place next fall in Curacao. The dates will be
October 11th and 12th with the theme of the meeting to be "Learning
through practicing.. More details of next Octobers gathering will be
announced as they become available. Meantime keep an eye on the
conference website for updates. The URL is www.rientola.fi/oh3ag/garec
(OH1VR)

**

ON THE AIR: HAMS TO HELP FIGHT AIDS WITH HIV/AIDS AWARENESS THROUGH
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATION

Ham radio is joining the world-wide campaign to help find a cure for
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome better known by the acronym AIDS.
Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has more:

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To do its part to conquer this killer disease, a special amateur radio
station will be operating at the Joint United Nations Program on
HIV/AIDS or UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. This, from
December 1st to the 7th using the special event callsign 4U1AIDS. The
operation is part of an invitation from UNAIDS to all peoples globally
to observe the "World AIDS Day" and demonstrate global H-I-V awareness.

Begun on December 1st, 1988, the aim of "World AIDS Day" is to raise
money, increase awareness, fight prejudice and improve education
regarding H-I-V and AIDS. UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million
people living with H-I-V, including 2.5 million children.

Those who hold QSO's with 4U1AIDS on any three bands will awarded a
special commemorative World AIDS Day Award certificate. Amateur radio
stations that have radio contact with 4U1AIDS on five bands will be
awarded a special commemorative UNAIDS pennant. All contacts will be
sent a special 4U1AIDS QSL card.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, in Los
Angeles.

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For further information, please contact with Andrey Fedorov, UNAIDS, 20
Avenue Appia, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland. More information is
on-line at www.DX-World.com/4u1aids (UNAIDS release)

**

RADIO RULES: CANADA BEGINS ISSUING 500 kHz EXPERIMENTAL LICENSES -
FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC CONTACT MADE

Some good news for our listeners to the North. After months of
negotiations between Radio Amateurs of Canada and telecommunications
regulator Industry Canada the first two licenses granted to Canadians
for experiments at 504 to 509 kHz have been issued. This, in
preparation for the 2012 World Radiocommunications Conference.

Jack Leahy, VE1ZZ, has been assigned call sign VX9PSO in the
Developmental Service for his experimental transmissions. Joe Craig,
VO1NA, has been assigned call sign VX9MRC. Both of these stations have
been on the air already, with VX9PSO having been reported at 504.6 kHz
and VX9MRC at 507.77 kHz.

And this late news. Finbar O'Connor, EI0CF, in County Donegal ,Ireland
reports that he has had a QSO with Joe Craig, VX9MRC. He says that Joe
was on 507.77 kHz while he was on 507..056 kHz. The respective
reports were, EI0CF heard in Canada at 559 and VX9MRC heard at 529. The
mode was CW, using straight Morse keys.

This is the first Ireland to Canada contact on the 500 kHz band.
Signal reports to any of the now operational 500 kHz stations can be
sent to their call book addresses. Two more authorizations, in Ontario
and British Columbia, are expected soon. (Radio Amateurs of Canada,
IRTS)

**

BREAK 1

>From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world including the N7GAD Puget
Sound Amateur Radio Club repeater serving Seattle, Washington.

(5 sec pause here)

**

RESTRUCTURING: THAILAND EXPANDS 40 METER HAM ALLOCATION

Thailand's 7 MHz expansion has received a go ahead from that nations
telecommunications regulator. John Gagen, W2YR reports that he's just
received information from the International Secretary of the Radio
Amateur Society of Thailand that the Thai National Telecommunications
Council has approved the society's recent request for the expansion of
40 meters. This giving hams in that nation a primary status of 7.0 to
7.2 MHz.

For those not aware, this is the same bandplan that had been approved
internationally at the WRC-03 conference and was to be effective March
29 this year, pending approval on a country-by-country basis. For
Thailand it happens about the time that this weeks newscast goes to air
on Friday, November 6th. (W2YR via OPDX)

**

ARISS CELEBRATES ITS 500th SCHOOL ROOM CONTACT

The 500th ARISS classroom to space station contact has taken[place. On
Tuesday, October 27th, I-S-S Commander Frank De Winne, ON1DWN answered
questions from students at the new Copernic Science Center in Warsaw,
Poland. This was the 500th school contact since ARISS began operations
in 2000.

This was a telebridge contact operated by ARISS ground station of
Shayne Lind, VK4KHZ located in Queensland, Australia. At the end of
the contact, De Winne thanked Lynd for the many years of providing
ARISS telebridge contacts. Lynd in turn shared these thanks with his
colleagues of the 11 other telebridge ground stations which cover all
five continents. (ARISS)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE: STUDENT PAPERS INVITED TO FLY ON ARISSAT 1

Still with ham radio space and educational news, word that the ARISSAT
One development team is inviting school students from around the world
to submit papers or other visual items that will be flown on that ham
radio satellite. Submissions should be in jpg or pdf format such as a
paper or a study done on science, technology, engineering, or math.
Also accepted will be items such as a drawing of space craft , a
schematic, a journal kept on an educational topic, a story, photo or
news article about a class doing a hands on educational project.

To take part, the student or teacher should submit the material by
e-mail to Dave Jordan's to aa4kn (at) amsat (dot) org and also copied
to gaston (dot) bertels (at) skynet (dot) be. They will check that
content is appropriate to students and select those to fly on ARISSAT
One. The deadline for submissions is on Sunday, November 15th.
(ON4WF)

**

ENFORCEMENT: UNLICENSED BROADCASTER HIT WITH $2500 FINE

The FCC has issued a $2500 fine to Frankie Grover of Lakeland, Florida.
This for operating an unlicensed transmitter on 87.9 MHz from a
location known as the Kingston Lakeside Inn and using the unassigned
call letters WGBC FM

According to the FCC, its agents used direction finding to locate the
signal. On August 18, 2009, the Tampa Office issued a Notice of
Apparent Liability for Forfeiture to Mr. Grover in the amount of
$10,000. This, for the apparent willful and repeated violation of
Section 301 of the Act.

Grover submitted a response to the NAL. He admitted to operating the
station but requested a reduction or cancellation of the proposed
forfeiture saying the level of proposed fine would pose a financial
hardship. He also provided the FCC with the required financial records
to prove his claim. The FCC accepted his evidence and has reduced the
fine to $2500 which he was given the customary 30 days to pay or to
file a further appeal. (FCC)

**

ENFORCEMENT: IRMA FRAUSTO HAS COMPANY IN THE UK

You probably remember the story of Irma Frausto of Compton, California
that we reported on a few weeks ago. Her amplified TV antenna
allegedly self-oscillated on 840 MHz and caused interfere to a cell
site. The FCC sent her a Citation even though there was nothing in the
Commission's write up to suggest that she knew about the
self-oscillations or had the wherewithal to eliminate them.

Well now Irma has company. A 12 year old schoolboy in Great Britain by
the name of Nickie Chamberlain has been busted because his self-
oscillating TV antenna was interfering with air traffic over his home
in Linslade, Beds in the UK. The Ofcom engineer ordered the father to
dispose of the aerial immediately.

Air traffic controllers first noticed the communication problems on the
flight path into London Luton Airport on October 6th .According to
Ofcom, pilots coming into land at the airport were loosing contact
with the control tower because the faulty antenna preamp was
transmitting on the same frequency as the aircraft radios. You can
read more at http://tinyurl.com/yhj37ab (CGC, Telegraph.com)

**

RESCUE RADIO: IARU GLOBALSET 2009 ON NOVEMBER 14

Saturday November 14TH, is the date of the International Amateur Radio
Union will activate "GlobalSET 2009.", This is a Global Simulated
Emergency Test running from 1800 to 2200 UTC that encourages hams world
wide to pass simulated emergency traffic using standard National
Traffic System format.

This drill is being billed as a great opportunity for all radio
amateurs to observe and their practice important traffic passing
skills. These are skills that are deemed fundamental to the role of
amateur radio in crisis communications conditions.

Rules and a list of participating stations may be found at
www.iaru-r1.org. Search under the heading, Emergency Communications
Working Group. (IARU)

**

RADIO LAW: REFARMING TV SPECTRUM FOR BROADBAND

Federal regulators are considering taking back some spectrum from
television broadcasters and auctioning it off to wireless companies.
This so as to increase the availability of wireless broadband services
for the general public.

At this stage, FCC officials are mostly trying to get input from
broadcasters and others. The proposal will be released in February of
2010. TV station owners are likely to fight the plan, although the FCC
is envisioning paying broadcasters for any airwaves that are
repossessed and auctioned away. (FCC)

**

HAM HAPPENINGS: SEVHFS CONFERENCE CALLS FOR PAPERS

The Southeastern VHF Society is calling for the submission of papers
and presentations for the upcoming 14th Annual Southeastern VHF Society
Conference. The event is slated to be held at Morehead State
University in Morehead, Kentucky on April 23rd and 24th of 2010. The
deadline for the submission is February 5, For more information please
visit www dot sevhfs dot org on the World Wide Web. (K4IDC)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: TWO FCC SPECTRUM EXPERTS TO LECTURE DOWN-UNDER.

Some names in the news. The New Zealand Ministry of Economic
Development has announced that it will welcome FCC spectrum experts
William Sharkey and Mark Bykowsky to lecture down-under. Both are
Senior Economists at the FCC Office of Strategic Planning in
Washington, D.C.. The two will present a seminar on Current Research in
Spectrum Allocation Issues and Auctions. The seminar session is being
sponsored by the Ministry and the PING Research Group at Auckland
University. (WIA News)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: WA6ITF RETIRES FROM FOX TV AFTER 30 YEARS

And from Los Angeles comes word that our own producer Bill Pasternak,
WA6ITF, has retired from Fox Television after a career that spanned
close to three decades at the networks flagship station KTTV. He
started in 1980 as a bench technician maintaining 3/4 inch U-Matic
videocassette recorders used by the stations news operation. Over the
years he did just about every job one finds at a television station.
He says that the last 12 years working as the engineering contact with
the news department have been the ones he has enjoyed the most. There
he's not only worked the technical side but also has been on the air
several times as an expert on all things electronic and radio
communications for news stories reported by Hal Eisner, Phil Schuman
and others.

Bill tells Newsline that he's only retired from broadcasting but not
from life. He says that he has a number of projects he wants to
undertake including the production of a television documentary on a
medical researcher and completing the script for a two act stage play.
He also will be continuing his V-H-F column in Worldradio Magazine and
producing these weekly Amateur Radio Newsline reports. That coupled
with a wife, daughter, son-in-law and four very active grandkids will
keep Bill a very busy 67 year old boy.

Pictures of his surprise retirement party put on by his many friends at
KTTV are on Bill's photo album page on the Facebook Social Networking
service. Look for his album under the name Bill Pasternak +titled
Saying Goodbye to KTTV after Almost 30 years. (ARNewsline(tm))

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: ARRL PRESIDENT JOEL HARRISON, W5ZN, NOT TO SEEK
REELECTION

Someone else retiring is ARRL President, Joel Harrison, W5ZN. Late
last week Harrison announced that he has decided not to seek reelection
when his current term expires on January 16, 2010.

Joel Harrison served two terms as ARRL president. He began his ham
radio political career in 1983 when he became the Section Manager in
the League's Arkansas Section. Subsequently, he has served as Delta
Division Director and as an ARRL Vice President. In 2000, he was
elected First Vice President. He was elected League President in 2006.
(ARRL)

**

BREAK 2

Coming to you this week from beneath the Southern Cross in Auckland,
New Zealand, this is ham radio news for today's radio amateur. We are
the Amateur Radio Newsline with links to the world from our only
official website at www.arnewsline.org and being relayed by the
volunteer services of the following radio amateur:

(5 sec pause here)

**

CHANGING OF THE GUARD: FORMER ARRL DIRECTOR PAUL VYDARNEY, WB2VUK - SK

Some sad news to report. Word that former ARRL Director Paul Vydareny,
WB2VUK, of Tarrytown, New York, passed away Thursday, October 22, from
a brain aneurysm.

Paul Vydareny had a long record of volunteer service with the ARRL.
Prior to becoming Director, he served as Section Manager of the Eastern
New York Section from 1980 to 1996 and as Vice Director from 1987 to
1996. In those days Vice Directors were once allowed to serve
simultaneously as Section Managers.

Vydareny was elevated from Vice Director to Director when then-Director
Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML, was elected ARRL First Vice President . But he
resigned as Director in September of 1996, citing job and church
obligations as preventing him from doing what he considered a proper
job of fulfilling his duties as Director.

Paul Vydarney, WB2VUK, was only age 65 when he passed. In his honor
every net in the 2009 New York City Marathon was announced as: "This is
-- whomever -- at the mic of the WB2VUK Marathon Network." (ARRL, W2ML)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE: LUSAT-1 FALLS SILENT

AMSAT-Argentina reports that its LUSAT-1, LO-19 ham radio satellite
stopped transmitting CW telemetry on 437.125 MHz on or around October
20th. LU1ESY says that he last received a signal on October 11th
after which he noted a drift in the downlink frequency beyond the
expected Doppler shift.

AMSAT-Argentina says that it hopes to revive LUSAT to allow it to
celebrate its 20 years in space next January 23. It also adds that it
welcomes any reception reports of the now out of communications ham
radio bird. (AMSAT-Argentina)

**

RADIO HISTORY: THE WORLDS FIRST RADIO STATION

What is the world's first radio station? Although AM radio broadcasts
were tested in 1906 and used for voice and music broadcasts up until
WW1 it wasn't until 1916 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania when 8XK began
regularly scheduled broadcasts. 8XK would receive the first official
broadcasting license in 1920 with the call sign KDKA.

But there's more to this story. At 6:00 PM on November 2, 1920 the US
presidential election returns were announced from a shack in East
Pittsburgh by Leo Rosenberg and KDKA became the world's first
commercial radio station. More on this story is at the National Museum
of Broadcasting website at the U-R-L found in this weeks printed
Newsline report.

(Do Not Read:
http://nmbpgh.org/conrad_project/his...commercial.htm)
(K3VR)

**

ON THE AIR: MARCONI NOBEL 100 AWARD.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of inventor Guglieliamo Marconi
receiving the Nobel Prize, a special on the air event from Sweden is
planned. The idea is to listen for and work 10 different special event
"SI" prefix stations between November 9th and December 10th.

The calls to listen out for are SI0GM, SI1GM, SI2GM, SI3GM, SI4GM,
SI5GM, SI6GM and SI7GM. Other Swedish stations may be using the special
prefix SI, but only the above stations count. Each anniversary station
counts once per band. No endorsements. Logs go to SSA Awards Manager,
Bengt Hogkvist, Ostbygatan 24 C, SE-531 37 Lidkoping, Sweden. ( SSA
AWARDS)

**

ON THE AIR: INTERNATIONAL NAVAL CONTEST DECEMBER 12 - 13

The International Naval Contest 2009 sponsored by Portuguese Navy
Hamradio Club takes place starting at 16:00 UTC on Saturday, December
12th and concluding at 15:59 UTC on Sunday the 13th. Modes used are
only CW and SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters. For more information
by e-mail please write to inc (dot)contest09 (at) nra (dot) pt

**

DX

In DX, word that DL7VSN is once again heading to Tanzania and will
probably be active as 5H1HS, this time from the Kilimanjaro area. He
was expected to begin his operations on November 1st but the length of
his length of stay was not mentioned. Activity will be 160 through 10
meters using mainly CW and RTTY. If all plans go well he may also get
to activate his 5th Islands on the Air group from this DXCC entity for
one or two days. DL7VSN says that he will also be in the Serengeti and
Tarangire National Park starting November 18th, and hopes to be active
from these areas as well. QSL via his home callsign.

G4OHX, will be active as 5R8HX from Madagascar between December 28th
and January 3rd of 2010. His operation will be mainly using CW. He
will also be active portable ZS5 between January 4th to the 17th. QSL
direct only via his home callsign.

If you are looking for a contact with Singapore then listen out for
9V1JP who is a new operator from there and has been active on 20
meters. James says via QRZ.com that he is in a very challenging
environment and is trying hard to put out a decent signal on HF. He
also says that in the QSL area that he is in the process of designing
them, and they should be good and ready to begin sending them out in
the spring of 2010.

JK2VOC says that he will be active from BA4TB station in China. This,
between November 27th to the 30th including the CQ World Wide DX CW
Contest on November 28th and 29th. QSL via JK2VOC.

Lastly, YV5IAL will be portable CE0 from Easter Island between January
8th and 11th of 2010. This will be a QRP, portable, holiday style
operation. Activity will use the PSK31 digital mode on 14070.15 kHz
from 2200 to 0100 UTC daily. He may occasionally be on 40, 30 and 15
meters as well. QSL via this operation via his home callsign.

(Above from various DX news sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM: KIDS SOLVE THE DTV RECEPTION PROBLEM

And finally this week, if you or someone you know are having reception
problems on your new digital television or converter box, the problem
is likely with the antenna. Most rabbit ear or loop indoor antennas
are insufficient for DTV reception. Unfortunately, a lot of folks are
not allowed to put antennas on their roof. With a solution, enter
Naiomi and Noah Miller. They are the pre-teen children of FCC O-E-T
attorney James Miller. With a little help from dad, the two kids take
you on a "Watch Mr. Wizard" like journey into how to homebrew your own
indoor D-T-V antenna using the magic of science found in everyday
living:

--

Audio here from YouTube.com

--

The antenna that the Miller kids built is based on the Gray-Hoverman
Digital TV Antenna design but without the rear reflector. It in turn
is rooted on the design of the late Doyt R. Hoverman who created and
did the early work on this design long before the days of computer
antenna modeling programs. More on this design can be found at
www.digitalhome.ca/ota/superantenna. You can see the video of Naiomi
and Noah Miller building their home-brew version of it on YouTube at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaYDtOqpTOI. Trust me when I tell you that
it's a few of the best moments you will spend on-line this week.
(CGC, Audio courtesy of YouTube.com)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC Communicator, CQ
Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio Penn DX Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain,
the RSGB, the Southgate News and Australia's WIA News, that's all from
the Amateur Radio Newsline(tm). Our e-mail address is
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Radio Newsline's(tm) only official website located at
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Radio Newsline(tm), P.O. Box 660937, Arcadia, California 91066.

For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk in Los
Angeles in the USA, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, in Auckland, New Zealand
saying 73 and we thank you for listening.

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.

[RAC-Bulletin] RAC Bulletin 2009-035E - New Executive Announced.

rac-bulletins@eton.ca — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:17:19 GMT

RAC Bulletin 2009-035E - New Executive Announced.
2009-11-03

During a RAC Board of Directors' teleconference meeting held
by the Nomination Committee Chair Bj Madsen, VE5FX, on
October 29th, 2009, the following new members of the
Executive were elected:

Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW - President
Paul Burggraaf, VO1PRB - Secretary
Margaret Tidman, VA3VXN - Treasurer

These individuals will assume their respective responsibilities
on January 1, 2010.

Subsequent to the October 29th meeting, the following Directors
and Officers submitted their resignations:

Bob Cooke, VE3DBD (former President) - effective October
31, 2009

Geoff Smith, VA3GS (former Ontario South Director) -
effective November 1, 2009

Noel Marcil, VE2BR (former Quebec Director) - effective
November 1st, 2009

The remaining positions on the executive will be unchanged as
the current officers were acclaimed.

First Vice-President Ian MacFarquhar, VE9IM, pursuant to the RAC
By-laws, will assume the duties of President until December
31st, 2009.

The Board and Executive extend their most sincere thanks to
Geoff and Noel for their past service to RAC and wish them
all the very best in their future endeavours.

The Board also extends its thanks to Bob Cooke for the time
he has devoted to RAC as a past Director, Past Vice-President
of Field Services and as President during rather challenging
times. Bob's involvement with RAC began in the early 1990s
as an Assistant Director. He was elected as Ontario South
Director in 2001 and served in that capacity until January
2005. Bob was subsequently elected as Vice President,
Field Services in January 2006 and served in that role
until February 2009 when he was asked by the Board to assume
the responsibilities of President of RAC.

The dedication and commitment of volunteers like Bob,
Geoff, Noel, and many others, result in Canadian Amateurs having
a voice which is heard locally, provincially, nationally
and internationally, and they are to be congratulated for
their outstanding contributions.

G. Linda Friars, VE9GLF
Corporate Secretary - Radio Amateurs of Canada

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Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec
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ANS-305 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

JoAnne Maenpaa — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:49:12 GMT

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-305

ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT
North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS
reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur
Radio operators who share an active interest in designing,
building, launching and communicating through analog and
digital Amateur Radio satellites.

Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:

In this edition:
* Ares I-X Completes a Successful Flight Test
* Call for Papers
* 500th School Contact
* LUSAT-1 Silent
* ARISS Status

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-305.01
Ares I-X Completes a Successful Flight Test

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 305.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 1, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-305.01

Ares I-X Completes a Successful Flight Test
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off Oct. 28, 2009,
at 11:30 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in
Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The flight
test lasted about six minutes from its launch from the
newly modified Launch Complex 39B until splashdown of
the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange.

The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6
million pounds of thrust to accelerate the rocket to
nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just shy of hypersonic
speed. It capped its easterly flight at a suborbital
altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its
first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.

Parachutes deployed for recovery of the booster and the
solid rocket motor, which were recovered at sea and will
be towed back to Florida by the booster recovery ship,
Freedom Star, for later inspection. The simulated upper
stage and Orion crew module, and the launch abort
system will not be recovered.

The flight test is expected to provide NASA with an
enormous amount of data that will be used to improve
the design and safety of the next generation of
American spaceflight vehicles, which could again
take humans beyond low Earth orbit.

[ANS thanks NASA for this info]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-305.02
Call for Papers

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 305.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 1, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-305.02

Call for Papers 14th Annual Southeastern VHF Society Conference
April 23rd and 24th, 2010 Morehead State University in Morehead,
Kentucky.

The Southeastern VHF Society is calling for the submission of papers
and presentations for the upcoming 14th Annual Southeastern VHF
Society Conference to be held at Morehead State University in Morehead,
KY on April 23rd and 24th, 2010. Papers and presentations are solicited
on both the technical and operational aspects of VHF, UHF and Microwave
weak signal amateur radio.

The deadline for the submission of papers and presentations is February 5,
2010. All submissions for the proceedings should be in Microsoft Word
(.doc). Submissions for presentation at the conference should be in
PowerPoint (.ppt) format, and delivered on either a USB memory stick or
CDROM or posted for download on a web site of your choice.

For further information about the conference
please go to http://www.svhfs.org

Thank you,
Robin Midgett K4IDC
2010 Program Chair, SVHFS

[ANS thanks SVHFS for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-305.03
500th School Contact

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 305.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 1, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-305.03

ARISS celebrates 500th school space contact

ARISS Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF noted that on Tuesday,
27 October 2009, ISS Commander Frank De Winne, ON1DWN answered
questions from students participating to a venue at the brand
new Copernic Science Center in Warsaw, Poland. This was the 500th
School Contact since ARISS began operations in the year 2000.
Schools in all continents benefit from ARISS educative School
Contacts.

This telebridge contact was operated by ARISS ground station
VK4KHZ located in Glenden, Queensland, Australia. At the end
of the contact, Frank thanked Shane Lynd VK4KHZ - for the many
ARISS telebridge contacts he'd already performed. Shane shares
these thanks with his colleagues of the 11 ARISS telebridge
ground stations which cover all five continents.

October 15, 2009 students in Gao, Mali talked with UNICEF good
will ambassador Frank De Winne onboard the ISS and 23 October,
students in Mbour, Senegal got answers to their questions, direct
from space. During the same orbit, Frank De Winne also talked with
students in Ieper, Belgium.

Audio recordings of the Warsaw and Ieper school contacts are
available at http://www.ariss-eu.org/archive.htm.

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering
the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA,
CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from
participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement
of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the
International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see,
first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize
youngsters' interest in science, technology and learning.

[ANS thanks ARISS Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF and SouthGate for
the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-305.04
LUSAT-1 Silent

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 305.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
November 1, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-305.04

LUSAT-1 Silent

AMSAT-Argentina reported LUSAT-1, LO-19 stopped transmitting CW telemetry
on 437.125 MHz around October 20. Ignacio, LU1ESY reported he last re-
ceived a signal on October 11 after which he noted a drift in the down-
link frequency beyond the expected doppler shift.

AMSAT-Argentina says, "We hope to re-live LUSAT to allow him to cele-
brate its 20 years in space next January 23. We welcome any reception
reports!"

[ANS thanks AMSAT-Argentina for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-305.05
ARISS Status

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 305.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 26, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-305.05

1. Recent & Upcoming School Contacts

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact
has been completed with Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland
on Tuesday, October 27 at 09:33 UTC via telebridge station VK4KHZ in
Australia. The centre organized a student competition for naming
the asteroids, using rules of the science naming process. This month
the winners travelled to Warsaw for the competition finale and will
take part in the ARISS event.

Sherbrooke Community School in Sassafras, Victoria, Australia has
been completed for an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact on Wednesday, October 28 at 07:13 UTC.
This will be a telebridge contact with station W6SRJ in California.
The school fosters student participation and the advancement of
amateur radio in the community. It operates Sherbrooke Community
Club station, VK3KID. The school invited representatives from
neighboring schools to pose questions to the astronauts and asked
its sister schools in China and Bhutan to also submit questions for
students to ask the ISS crew.

David Thompson Middle School (DTMS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
has been completed for an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, October 30 at 21:12 UTC via
station LU8YY in Argentina. DTMS and the University of Calgary's
science department will collaborate on this event.

2. Italian Students Contact Astronaut Frank De Winne via ARISS

On Tuesday, October 20, students attending Istituto Comprensivo
"Romualdo TRIFONE" in Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno, Italy
participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact with Frank DeWinne, ON1DWN on the ISS.
To prepare for the contact, teachers partnered with astrophysicists
of the Astronomical Observatory "Giancamillo Glorious" in M.
Rovella and the local amateur radio group ARI Salerno.
Assistance was provided by the amateur radio station in
"Alighieri Trevigi" School, located in Casale Monferrato,
Italy. The school used a combination of a direct and telebridge
contact to avoid local obscurations.
An audience of more than 40 (Casale Monferrato) and 450 (
Montecorvino Rovella) students, teachers and visitors gathered
for the event and the webcast received over 500 connections.
Regional television, local media and newspapers covered the news.

3. ARISS Contact with Senegal Students

On Friday, October 23, C. E. M. IV in Mbour, Senegal experienced
an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact with Frank De Winne, ON1DWN on the ISS. Students asked
twenty questions of the astronaut. Swiss astronaut Claude
Nicollier, HB9CN also participated in a videoconference with
the youth. C. E. M. IV is a technical college and has formed
a scientific club at the school based on new technologies.

4. De Winne has ARISS Contact with Ieper Students

Students from VTI Ieper in Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
spoke with Frank DeWinne, ON1DWN via an Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Friday,
October 23. Telebridge station VK4KHZ in Australia provided
the connection. Twenty questions were asked and answered in
front of a large audience including several reporters. The
school recently built a replica of the plane, 'Mourane Parasol'
which Guynemer (a French pilot) flew during World War I and
incorporated the ARISS contact as a feature event in their
celebration of 100 years of aviation.

5. Astronaut Jeff Williams has ARISS Contact with Arctic School

On Friday, October 23, students from Samuel Hearne Secondary
School in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada experienced
an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact with Expedition 21 astronaut Jeffrey Williams, KD5TVQ.
This was a telebridge contact via ground station W6SRJ in
California. At the school's request, ARISS representatives
visited the school and classrooms prior to the contact to talk
about amateur radio and the ISS. Six hundred people attended
the event and watched as the students asked Williams 22
questions about life and work in space. CBC (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation) Radio and the local and area
press covered the event. The school is located very near the
Arctic Ocean which makes this the most northerly ARISS
contact to date.

6. Canadian Bel Ayr Pathfinders Speak with Robert Thirsk via ARISS

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact took place on Saturday, October 24 between Bel Ayr
Pathfinders in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and Robert
Thirsk, VA3CSA on the ISS via telebridge station W6SRJ in
California. Thirsk answered 17 questions posed to him by the
students as an audience of 160 gathered for the event,
including the media (CBC, CTV, a community television station,
a radio station and a local newspaper). The Pathfinders that
participated in the ARISS contact earned Galactic Adventures
badges and will share this experience with other
Girl Guides of all ages.

7. ARISSat-1 Meeting Held

The ARISSat-1 Team met in Phoenix, Arizona over the October
23 -25 weekend to assemble and test the integration of the
various satellite components. The team has also been compiling
voice messages to be included on ARISSat and has been preparing
for the Safety Review meeting to be held on Thursday, October 29.

8. ARISS International Meeting Held

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
Team meeting was held on Tuesday, October 20. Topics of
discussions included a status on the Columbus module antennas
and an ARISSat-1 update.
See: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/arisstel2009-10-20.htm

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]

/EX

73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Dee Interdonato, NB2F
nb2f at amsat dot org

[RAC-Bulletin] RAC Bulletin 2009-034E - Canadian Experiments at 500 kHz authorized

rac-bulletins@eton.ca — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:10:11 GMT

RAC Bulletin 2009-034E - Canadian Experiments at 500 kHz
authorized - 2009-10-30

After months of negotiations between RAC and Industry
Canada over the details of the licence applications and
reporting conditions, the first two licences granted
to Canadians for experiments at 504 � 509 kHz in preparation
for WRC-12 have been issued by Industry Canada (see RAC
Bulletin 2008-29).

Jack Leahy, VE1ZZ, has been assigned call sign VX9PSO in
the Developmental Service for his experimental transmissions.
Joe Craig, VO1NA, has been assigned call sign VX9MRC. Both
of these stations have been on the air already, with
VX9PSO having been reported at 504.6 kHz and VX9MRC at
507.77 kHz. Signal reports can be addressed to the operators
at their call book addresses.

Two more authorizations, in Ontario and British Columbia, are
expected soon.

Richard Ferch, VE3KI
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs - Radio Amateurs of Canada
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GB2RS NEWS Sunday 1st November 2009

Newsdesk@rsgb.org.uk — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:38:51 GMT

GB2RS NEWS

Sunday 1st November 2009

The news headlines

* Sweden bans polluting PLT equipment

* New solar message board service

* 500th Schools contact from the International Space Station

A CEPT Electronic Communications Committee report notes that Sweden has
removed from the market some of the Powerline Networking equipment that
pollutes the radio spectrum. The 54th meeting of the CEPT Working Group
Spectrum Engineering in Bordeaux covered recent developments of the
harmonised emission standard for IT equipment EN55022. Mention of the
Swedish action in withdrawing polluting PLT equipment appears under `13
EMC' in the Working Group report. If you wish to read this in full,
just type `Working Group Spectrum Engineering Bordeaux' into your
favourite search engine and go to the www.ero.dk reference you will see
listed.

Neil, G0CAS, our solar and propagation news reporter for GB2RS, has
started a new messaging board service on solar activity and
propagation. People are encouraged to take a look and ask any questions
relating to the terms used in his weekly report, or find the latest
news on solar, geomagnetic activity and propagation. The site is at
http://spotsandflares.lefora.com.

On 27 October International Space Station Commander Frank De Winne,
ON1DWN, answered questions from students participating at the brand new
Copernic Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland. This was the 500th School
Contact since ARISS began operations in the year 2000.

The forthcoming Winter Olympic Games in Canada will be celebrated on
the amateur bands. The Vancouver Olympics Amateur Radio Group will be
activating three special event stations until March 2010. VG7V is on
the air until 30 November, then VG7W will be on the air from 1 December
until 31 January. VG7G will be on air from 1 February until 31 March
2010. Commemorative QSL cards will be available.

The Swedish Amateur Radio Society has recently announced the Marconi
Nobel 100 Award. European stations outside Sweden must work, or Short
Wave Listeners must hear, ten different SI stations between 9 November
2009 and 10 December 2009. SM stations may use the prefix SI and there
will be several anniversary calls on the air, SI0GM to SI7GM. Each
station counts once per band. The fee for the award is 5 euro or 5 US
dollars. Full details can be found on the internet at
www.awardmanager.se, where you should click on the Union Jack flag.

A new technical website has been launched in Ireland, www.techtir.ie.
It contains discussions, tutorials and articles on a wide range of
technology subjects. There is an anti-spammer signup filter as well as
Catchpa and strict Moderation, so the site should be suitable for
youngsters too. Mayo Radio Experimenters are holding their annual Radio
Rally on Sunday 22 November, in The Welcome Inn, Castlebar, Co Mayo.
They also have an interesting evening planned for 21 November. Declan
Craig EI6FR to give a talk the evening on DXpeditions and IOTA.

And now for the details of rallies and events for the coming week

Today, Sunday 1 November, the Great Northern Hamfest will take place at
the Metrodome Leisure Centre, Queens Road, Barnsley S71 1AN. Opening
time is 11am. There will be trade stands an RSGB bookstall, Foundation,
Intermediate and Advanced licence information, special interest groups
and local radio clubs. There are a limited number of tables available
at a reduced price for amateurs, but not trade, wishing to sell their
surplus equipment. To book a table and for any other enquiries, contact
the Hamfest Manager, Ernie, G4LUE on 01226 716339 or 07984 191873.

The North Wales Radio Rally is on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1
November in Llandudno at John Bright School, which is postcode LL30
1LF. Doors are open from 10am to 5pm both days. Talk in will be on S22.
The rally is all on one level and there is disabled access. Entry is �3
and you'll find many large traders attending and there will be an RSGB
bookstall as well as a Bring and Buy. For more information please
contact Liz Cabban, GW0ETU on 01690 710257 or by e-mail at

The Holsworthy ARC Rally will take place today, 1 November, at the
Holsworthy Community College, Holsworthy, Devon EX22 6JD. Doors open at
10am and the entry fee is �2. There will be trade stands and a Bring &
Buy. More details from Don, G0RQL on 01409 261223.

Also today, 1 November, the Foyle & District ARC Rally will be held in
the Best Western White Horse Hotel, Derry BT47 3PA. Doors open at 12
noon and there will be trade stands, special interest groups and Bring
& Buy.

Now for the news of special events

Reading and District Amateur Radio Club will be running GB2RD on 31
October at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation in Woodley. The event is
celebrating 75 years of RADARC and its links with Woodley. The club
venue is just a few miles from the Museum and many radio amateurs have
interests in aviation too. They will be operational on 80, 40, 20, 4
and 2m from 10am till 5pm. Visitors are most welcome.

Over three weekends of November, members of the Galway VHF Group will
be operating an HF station for a 24 hour period from lifeboat stations
in County Galway. The purpose of this operation is to promote the 185th
anniversary of the lifeboat service in Ireland. The first operation
will take place from the Galway Lifeboat Station over the weekend of 7
and 8 November. The following weekend, 14th and 15th, will see an
operation from the Aran Island Lifeboat station at Kilronan, Inishmore.
The final operation will take place from Clifden Lifeboat Station,
Ballyconneely, over the weekend of 28 and 29 November. All operation
will take place on the HF bands with two stations in operation at all
times. There will be operation on phone and digital modes with some
operation on SSTV also possible. There will be a special QSL card for
all contacts made and SWL reports will also be welcomed.

Celebrating the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group's Golden Jubilee,
Andrew, M5AEX was in control of GB50ATG last month and worked some nice
DX. His activity was mainly in the CQWW and JARTS contests and all
contacts were on RTTY. Andrew managed 372 QSOs in 61 countries and 5
continents. November sees G3LDI operating GB50ATG once again.

Special event station K0V will be on the air on Saturday 7 November and
on Veterans Day, Wednesday 11 November. The Emporia Amateur Radio
Society will be operating the K0V station from a site adjacent to the
Emporia All Veterans Memorial in Kansas. The operating times will be
1900 to 2300UTC on 7 November and 1400 to 2400UTC on 11 November using
frequencies of 14.268, 7.262 and 3.920MHz, �20kHz. A special QSL card
will be available.

And now the HF DX news compiled from 425 DX News and other sources.

Rick, AI5P will be signing ZL/AI5P from North Island, New Zealand
between 1 and 6 November. QSL via AI5P either direct or through the
bureau.

FT5WO will be active from Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean
until 15 November. He is usually on 17 and 20m between 0600 and 1300UTC
on Saturdays and Sundays. QSL via F4DYW.

Between 7 and 16 November, EI6DX will sign /6W from Senegal using
mainly the low bands and CQ. QSL via RX3RC.

In Argentina, PY2TJ will be /LU from 1 to 7 November from the Island
Tierra Del Fuego. QSL via PT2OP.

VP2MUM will be on the air from Montserrat from 3 to 15 November. QSL
either direct or via the bureau to his home callsign of DL2RUM.

Now the contest news

The annual contest of the International Police Association Radio Club
is taking place over the weekend of 7 and 8 November. CW is on 7
November from 0600 to 1000UTC and 1400 to 1800UTC. SSB is on 8 November
also from 0600 to 1000 and 1400 to 1800UTC. More details from
www.iparc.de.

The 144MHz UK Activity contest and club championship takes place
between 1900 and 2130UTC on 3 November. All modes can be used and the
exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.

The Marconi CW Contest is on 7 and 8 November between 1400 and 1400UTC.
There are four categories to enter, depending on the amount of time you
can devote and whether you are a single operator fixed station or not.
The exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.
Internationally, the IARU 144MHz CW Contest coincides with the Marconi
CW Contest and the exchange is the same. Now the solar factual data for
the period from the 19th to the 25th of October, compiled on 26th of
October by Neil Clarke, G0CAS.

A small single sunspot appeared on the 20th and disappeared again on
the same day. However, on the 23rd, a larger spot group emerged and on
the 24th had 13 spots within the group. Both groups belonged to the new
cycle. Solar activity was very low but during the early morning of the
24th a C1.5 solar flare took place, lifting activity to low. Solar flux
levels increased from 71 units on the 19th to 76 by the 24th. That's
the highest daily figure so far this year. The average was 73 units.
The 90 day solar flux average on the 24th was 69 units, that's the same
level as last week. X-ray flux levels still remained below the minimum
reporting level until the 25th and then increased to A1.2 units.
Geomagnetic activity was quiet everyday except for the 22nd. This was
due to a coronal mass ejection that occurred on the 17th and was
mentioned in last weeks report. The CME travelled at 320 kilometres per
second and took 5 days to travel between the Sun and Earth. This is
relatively a slow speed for a CME. The Ap index on the 22nd was 14
units. This is the most disturbed day since the 30th of August. The
average for the week is 8 units. Solar wind data from the ACE
spacecraft saw solar wind speeds increase from 270 kilometres per
second on the 19th to 490 by the 25th. Particle densities were low
except for a brief increase to 19 particles per cubic centimetre during
the evening of the 24th. Bz varied between minus 2 and plus 3
nanoTeslas on the quiet days and between minus 9 and plus 10 nanoTeslas
during the storm of the 22nd. People interested in the latest solar
activity can visit http://spotsandflares.lefora.com/ which gets updated
most days and is run by Neil, G0CAS.

And finally the solar forecast.

This week solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. Sunspots
could be visible on some days. Solar flux levels should be around the
70 mark when no spots are visible and slightly higher if any spots do
appear. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be quiet throughout the
coming week. MUFs during daylight hours at equal latitudes should be
about 22MHz for the south and 19MHz for the north. The darkness hour
lows should be around 9MHz. Paths this week to Australia should have a
maximum usable frequency of about 22MHz. The optimum working frequency
with a 50 per cent success rate will be about 18MHz. The best time to
try this path will be between 0900 and 1400 hours UTC.

And that's all for this week from the propagation team.

Next, the Local News:

Please note that details of all RSGB-affiliated clubs and societies

can be found on the RSGB website, including e-mail addresses

and website links where known.

[Note to newsreaders: Please read the local news items appropriate to
the service area of your

transmission.]

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-EAST

and EAST ANGLIA On Monday 2 November Braintree and District Amateur
Radio Society is having a junk sale. Contact John, M5AJB, on 01787 460
947. On Monday 2 November Southdown Amateur Radio Society is having its
annual dinner at the Eastbourne Toby Carvery. Contact John, G3DQY, on
01424 424 319. On Monday 2 November Surrey Radio Contact Club is having
a talk. Contact Ray, G4FFY, on 020 8644 7589. On Tuesday 3 November
Andover Radio Amateurs Club is having an introduction to satellite
working. Contact Martin, M0MWS, on 0777 618 1646. On Tuesday 3 November
Brede Steam Amateur Radio Society is operating from the shack. Contact
Steve, on 01424 720815. On Tuesday 3 November Chelmsford Amateur Radio
Society is having a talk on the FlexRadio FLEX-5000A software defined
radio by Gwyn Williams, G4FKH. Contact Martyn, G1EFL, on 01245 469 008.
On Tuesday 3 November Dover Radio Club is having a natter and operating
evening. Contact Brian, G4SAU, by email to g4sauDARC.org.uk. On
Tuesday 3 November Horndean and District Amateur Radio Club is having a
natter night and social evening. Contact Stuart, G0FYX, on 023 9247
2846. On Tuesday 3 November Leiston Amateur Radio Club is holding its
AGM in Room 63 of Leiston High School. Contact Dave, G4HUP, on 01473
737 717. On Wednesday 4 November Chesham and District Amateur Radio
Society is having a general meeting. Contact Terry, G0VFW, on 01442 831
491. On Wednesday 4 November Havering and District Amateur Radio Club
is having a talk on eBay for dummies by Rob, M0MCP. Contact John,
M0UKD, on 07817 365354. On Wednesday 4 November Norfolk Amateur Radio
Club is having a visit from RSGB President Colin Thomas, G3PSM. Contact
Chris Danby, G0DWV, on 01603 419204. On Wednesday 4 November Southdown
Amateur Radio Society is operating G3WQK at Hailsham shack. Contact
John, G3DQY, on 01424 424 319. On Wednesday 4 November Worthing and
District Amateur Radio is having a discussion evening on wires, poles
and aerials. Contact Roy, G4GPX, on 01903 753 893. On Thursday 5
November Basingstoke Amateur Radio Club is having tales of the
unexpected by Tim Doncaster, G3PJD. Contact Clive, G4ODM, on 01256
326050. On Thursday 5 November Cray Valley Radio Society is having a
natter night. Contact Bob, 2E0RCV, on 020 8265 7735 after 8pm. On
Thursday 5 November Horsham Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on
electrical oddities by John Narborough. Details on the web at
www.harc.org.uk. On Thursday 5 November King's Lynn Amateur Radio Club
is having a club night and 2m club net. Contact Ray, G3RSV, by email to
ral-g3rsvsupanet.com. On Thursday 5 November Lowestoft and District
Pye Amateur Radio Club is having a shack night. Contact Phil, G0JSG, on
01502585448. On Thursday 5 November Shefford and District Amateur Radio
Society is having a talk by Paul, M0PSW on power projects with a
difference. Contact David, G8UOD, on 01234 742 757. On Friday 6
November Cambridge and District Amateur Radio Club is having a shack
evening. Contact Lawrence Micallef, M0LCM, on 07941 972724. On Friday 6
November Crystal Palace Radio and Electronics Club is having a talk by
RSGB Regional Manager Alison Johnston, G8ROG followed by a short
history of power supplies by Victor, G1PKS and Bob, G3OOU. Contact Bob,
G3OOU, on 01737 552 170. On Friday 6 November Loughton and Epping
Forest Amateur Radio Society is having a LF night on the air. Contact
Marc Litchman, G0TOC, on 020 8502 1645. On Friday 6 November Wey Valley
Amateur Radio Group is having a visit by Rob Mannion, G3XFD. Details on
the web at www.weyvalleyarg.org.uk. On Saturday 7 November Brede Steam
Amateur Radio Society is at the bunker. Contact Steve, on 01424 720815.
On Saturday 7 November Mid-Sussex Amateur Radio Society is providing
radio assistance at St. Wilfrids Fireworks. Contact Sue, G6YPY, on
01273 845 103.

NEWS FOR THE SOUTH-WEST Swindon & District Amateur Radio Club are
running a Foundation Licence course November 7, 16 and 21. Further
information from Tony, G4LDL on 01793 525523 or by email to
tony.ldlntlworld.com. On Monday 2 November Cornish Radio Amateur
Club is having a committee meeting. Contact Steve, G7VOH, on 01209
844939. On Wednesday 4 November Cornish Radio Amateur Club is having a
surplus sale. Contact Steve, G7VOH, on 01209 844939. On Wednesday 4
November Exmouth Amateur Radio Club is having a barbecue and fireworks.
Contact Mike, G1GZG, on 01395 274172. On Wednesday 4 November Thornbury
and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club is having a garage sale at
Stan's QTH. Contact Tony, G0WMB, on 01454 417048. On Wednesday 4
November Trowbridge and District Amateur Radio Club is judging entries
for the G2BQY and G4UNU Constructor's Cup. Contact Ian, G0GRI, on 01225
864 698, evenings and weekends. On Thursday 5 November South Bristol
Amateur Radio Club is having a DX challenge evening led by Len, G4RZY.
Contact Len, G4RZY, on 01275 834 282. On Thursday 5 November Swindon
and District Amateur Radio Club is having a talk by Den, M0ACM entitles
"We CQ here, we CQ there". Contact Den, M0ACM, on 07810 317750. On
Thursday 5 November Yeovil Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on short
vertical antennas by Rob, G3MYM. Contact Steve Crask, G7AHP, by email
to steveg7ahp.co.uk. On Friday 6 November Lymington Community
Association Radio Club is having a talk on the DMV Pro and Comet 250
antennas by G3ZPR. The club meets at Lymington Community Centre, Cannon
Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BQ. All radio amateurs and
shortwave listeners are very welcome, and there is talk-in on S22.
Details of this, and forthcoming Foundation licence courses, from Keith
Cromar, G8MZF, on 02380 849395. On Friday 6 November Saltash & District
ARC is holding its AGM at the Burraton Community Centre. Members and
visitors are welcome. Details from Brian on 01752 844321.

NEWS FOR THE MIDLANDS On Monday 2 November Gloucester Amateur Radio And
Electronics Society is having a talk on aerials by Tom, G3XMM. Contact
Anne, 2E1GKY, on 01452 548478, daytime. On Monday 2 November Leicester
Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on Worked All Britain by G4IAR.
Contact the duty committee member on 07804 595749. On Tuesday 3
November Derby and District Amateur Radio Society is having a junk
sale. Contact Richard Buckby, by email to radiodadars.org.uk. On
Tuesday 3 November Loughborough and District Amateur Radio Club is
having a computer problem night. Contact Chris, G1ETZ, on 01509 504
319. On Tuesday 3 November South Notts Amateur Radio Club is taking
part in the 2m contest. Contact Terry, M0RIA, on the web at
www.radioclubs.net/snarc. On Wednesday 4 November Lincoln Short-Wave
Club is having a talk on EME by Howard Ling, G4CCH. Contact Pam Rose,
G4STO, on 01427 788356. On Wednesday 4 November South Birmingham Radio
Society is holding its AGM. Contact Don, on 0121 458 1603. On Wednesday
4 November South Notts Amateur Radio Club is having an Intermediate
Practical Assessment by RSGB Regional Manager M0BWY. Contact Terry,
M0RIA, on the web at www.radioclubs.net/snarc. On Wednesday 4 November
Telford and District Amateur Radio Society is having an open house and
on the air night. Contact Mike, G3JKX, on 01952 299 677. On Friday 6
November Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club is operating
special event station GB75XX. Contact Chris, M0BQE, on 01905 776 869.
On Friday 6 November Cheltenham Amateur Radio Association is having a
talk on repeaters by Steve, G4FPV. Contact Derek Thom, G3NKS, on 01242
241099. On Friday 6 November Coventry Amateur Radio Society is having a
bangers and mash night. Contact John, G8SEQ, on 07958 777363. On Friday
6 November Nunsfield House Amateur Radio Group is having a talk on the
NHARG packet cluster by Pete Walker and Andy Barker. Contact Ken
Frankcom, G3OCA, on 01332 720976. On Friday 6 November South Birmingham
Radio Society is having a construction evening. Contact Don, on 0121
458 1603.

NEWS FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND On Monday 2 November Angel Of The North
Amateur Radio Club is taking to the air and continuing its Advanced
Licence course. Contact Nancy Bone, G7UUR, on 0191 4770036. On Monday 2
November Sheffield Amateur Radio Club is having a talk on RAYNET by
G0JJR. Contact Trevor Wood, M0TWS, by email to
trevorwood6yahoo.co.uk. On Monday 2 November Thornton Cleveleys
Amateur Radio Society is having a natter night. Contact John Foster,
M3WAZ, on 01253 399377. On Tuesday 3 November Chester and District
Radio Society Club is holding a review of club equipment. Contact
Barbara Green on 0151 339 9183. On Tuesday 3 November Morecambe Bay
Amateur Radio Society is having a social evening. Contact Martin Hazel,
M0ZIF, on 07852 200232. On Tuesday 3 November Otley Amateur Radio
Society is taking part in the 144MHz UKAC from the shack and having
technical chatter in the Village Hall. Contact Paul, 2E0PAK, on 07768
996370. On Wednesday 4 November Denby Dale Radio Club is having an
introduction to amateur microwaves by Peter Day, G3PHO. Contact Gerald,
G3SDY, on 01484 602905. On Wednesday 4 November Hornsea Amateur Radio
Club is having an activity night. Contact Gordon MacNaught, G3WOV, on
01377 240573. On Wednesday 4 November Mid-Cheshire Amateur Radio
Society is on the air and working on the club project. Contact Peter
Paul Fox, G8HAV, on 01606 553401. On Thursday 5 November South
Manchester Radio And Computer Club is having a talk and demonstration
of chilli con carne for contests by Ron, G3SVW. Contact Ron, G3SVW, on
0161 969 3999. On Thursday 5 November Wakefield and District Radio
Society is having a pie and peas supper at HQ. Contact Ken, 2E0SSQ, on
07900 563117. On Friday 6 November East Cleveland Amateur Radio Club is
on the air. Contact Alistair, G4OLK, on 01642 475 671. On Friday 6
November Tynemouth Radio Club is having an operating night with
technical topics and a Morse class. Contact Graham Errington, on 07812
172136. On Saturday 7 November Wakefield and District Radio Society is
holding its Foundation Licence exam. Contact Ken, 2E0SSQ, on 07900
563117.

NEWS FOR SCOTLAND On Tuesday 3 November Livingston and District Amateur
Radio Society is having a club evening. Contact Norman, on 07740
946192. On Wednesday 4 November Ayr Amateur Radio Group is having a
group discussion. Contact Charlie, MM0GNS, on 01563 551704. On
Wednesday 4 November Kingdom Amateur Radio Society Club is having a
shack night. Contact Brian, MM0XBD, on 01383 738905. On Wednesday 4
November Paisley YMCA Amateur Radio Club is having a training evening.
Contact Bill Anderson, 2M0BZZ, on 01505 613633. On Thursday 5 November
Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society is holding a junk sale. Contact Lewis,
GM4AJR, on 01224 575 663. On Friday 6 November Cockenzie and Port Seton
Amateur Radio Club is having a club night. Contact Bob, GM4UYZ, on
01875 811 723.

NEWS FOR WALES The North Wales Radio Rally takes place on Saturday 31
October and Sunday 1 November in Llandudno at John Bright School, LL30
1LF. Doors are open from 10am to 5pm both days. Talk in is on S22. The
rally is all on one level and there is disabled access. Entry is �3 and
you'll find many large traders attending including an RSGB bookstall.
There is also a Bring and Buy. For more information please contact Liz
Cabban, GW0ETU on 01690 710257. On Monday 2 November Dragon Amateur
Radio Club is holding its AGM. Contact Stewart Rolfe, GW0ETF, on 01248
362229. On Monday 2 November Llanelli Amateur Radio Society is having a
members-only pool tournament. Contact Craig, MW0MXT, on 01269 840292.
On Tuesday 3 November Carmarthan Amateur Radio Society is having
Intermediate exam tuition. Contact Alastair Underwood, GW0AJU, on 01267
290822. On Tuesday 3 November Wrexham Amateur Radio Society is having a
Morse exercise night. Contact Glyn, MW0BNB, via the web at
www.qsl.net/wars. On Wednesday 4 November Conwy Valley Amateur Radio
Club is having a talk by Safer Roads Officer Martyn Schlangen on
equipment used by the police for speed enforcement and the achievements
of speed cameras. Contact Wynne, GW6PMC, on 01745 855 068. On Thursday
5 November Meirion Amateur Radio Society Club is having a is having a
quiz night. Contact John, MW0VTK, on 07868 738016. On Friday 6 November
Newport Amateur Radio Society is having a talk on the TR4 by Ross,
GW3NWS. Contact Gareth Price on 01633 880081.

NEWS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND On Thursday 5 November Bangor and District
Amateur Radio Club is having its annual surplus sale. Contact Mike,
GI4XSF, on 028 4277 2383. Mayo Radio Experimenters in Ireland are
holding their annual Radio Rally on Sunday 22 November at The Welcome
Inn Castlebar, Co Mayo. They also have an interesting evening planned
for 21 November, when Declan Craig, EI6FR, will give a talk on
DXpeditions and IOTA.

And that's the end of this week's GB2RS news broadcast,

prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1681 - October 30 2009

William M. Pasternak — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:55:22 GMT

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1681 - October 30 2009

Note: This weeks newscast runs 35 minutes and 16 seconds and contains
three ID breaks. Newscast begins right now.

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1681 with a release date of
Friday, October 30th, 2009 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T. Sweden says no to radio pollution from
B-P-L, a new South African ham satellite gets is Oscar designation,
three hams file a petition to make all emergency communications legal
and the biggest yearly ham radio public service event takes place in
New York City a few hours after this weeks newscast goes to air. Find
out the details on Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1681 coming
your way right now.

(Billboard Cart Here)

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THE BPL WAR: A BIG WIN IN SWEDEN

We begin this week with news that one European nation is saying no to
interference caused by Broadband over Powerline Internet access. Bill
Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in the studio with more:

--

Telecommunications regulators in Sweden have withdrawn certain
Broadband over Powerline or Powerline Transmission Internet access
equipment from the public marketplace. A recent C-E-P-T Electronic
Communications Committee report notes that the Swedish regulator
ordered the sale of such gear to cease because some BPL gear pollutes
the radio spectrum.

Mention of the Swedish action in withdrawing the equipment appears in
the Report from the Working Group Spectrum Engineering Bordeaux, 07 11
September 2009. It gives the reasons behind the decision to impose
these latest anti RF interference standards on BPL service in that
nation.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the
newsroom in Los Angeles.

--

You can read the report in its entirety at
http://www.ero.dk/37D6714E-27DF-42D7...183?frames=no&
(Southgate)

**

NEWSLINE FOLLOW-UP: MORE ON THE C6APR TRAGEDY

The contesting world is still in shock at the tragic news that four
members of the C6APR team perished when their light aircraft crashed
soon after take-off in South Carolina the pre dawn hours of Wednesday,
October 21st.

Killed when the twin engine Piper Aztec PA-23 plummeted to the ground
shortly after takeoff from Summerville Airport in South Carolina were
the pilot Peter Radding W2GJ, along with passengers Ed Steeble, K3IXD,
Randy Hargenrader K4QO and Dallas Carter W3PP.

According to news reports, Radding had been flying for over 40 years
and Hargenrader was also a licensed pilot. All four were on their way
Crooked Island in the Bahamas by way of Ft. Pearce, Florida, to operate
the CQ World Wide DX Contest when the accident occurred. Crooked Island
is a location used on seven previous occasions by the team since 2006.

The National Transportation Safety Board in Washington D.C., is the
lead investigating agency. NTSB investigator Shawn Etcher said the
plane banked to the left after takeoff. He said that judging by marks
found on trees near the wreckage, it appears the plane climbed to an
altitude of at least 90 feet before crashing. The crash scene was
engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.

Sixty-six year old Stella Bazzle lives about a half-mile from the crash
site. She is quoted as saying that the plane's engines didn't sound
right as it passed near her house. She described it as a roaring and
grinding sound. Bazzle, then heard what sounded like two explosions,
with the first one bigger than the second.

The wreckage was to have been transported to Atlanta, Georgia, for
closer examination. Typically, it takes the N-T-S-B between 12 and 18
months to determine the cause of a crash, but a preliminary report is
expected out shortly. (Summerville Journal, Charleston Press, others)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE: SUMBANDILASAT DESIGNATED AS SO-67

The recently launched South African SumbandilaSat has now been
designated as SO-67. AMSAT's OSCAR Number Coordinator Bill Tynan, W3XO,
made the designation shortly after receiving an e-mail from the
secretary South Africa AMSAT requesting that an OSCAR number be
allocated to the new ham radio bird. .

As previously reported, the amateur radio payload on SumbandilaSat was
developed by South Africa AMSAT and incorporated by the University of
Stellenbosch into the main payload. The ham radio payload was
officially coordinated through the IARU Satellite Frequency
Coordination Panel with an uplink of 145.880 MHz and a downlink of
435.350 MHz.

Late word is that the F-M transponder on SumbandilaSat will be
activated for the first time over North America on Saturday October 24
at 19:52 UTC. In this mode SumbandilaSat will uplink on 145.875 MHz
and downlink on 435.345 MHz. A CTCSS tone of 233.6 Hz is needed to
access this F-M repeater in the sky. (ANS)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE: AMSAT REVEALS ITS NEXT GEN CUBESAT

AMSAT will work with a university student engineering team to develop
the NextGen Cubesat. Program Manager, Alex Harvilchuck, N3NP,
introduced this new program at the recent AMSAT Symposium. That's
where he also revealed the program goals. These include an initial
analysis of ARISSat-1, analysis of the lessons learned from the renamed
SuitSat 2 project and other prior spacecraft. This, to create a
building block architecture for future satellites. N3NP says that
NextGen will feature an open, modular, evolutionary, and documented
design based on this analysis. More on this new bird is at the AMSAT
website at www.amsat.org. (ANS)

**

BREAK 1

>From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world including the N5IUF
repeater serving Dallas, Texas.

(5 sec pause here)

**

RADIO LAW: GROUP PROPOSES REVISING 97:111 TO PERMIT UNRESTRICTED HAM
RADIO EMCOMM

Meantime, a small group of hams has petitioned the FCC to add a new
section to Part 97:111 of the Amateur Service rules. The Amateur Radio
Policy Committee has filed a request to the regulatory agency to add a
sub-part6 t that rule to permit any ham to participate in emergency
training drills, whether or not he or she is in the employ of an entity
taking pat in the exercise.

The wording that the group is proposing would permit transmissions
necessary for disaster relief or emergency response, including training
exercises, planning, drills or tests without regard to whether the
amateur operator has related employment. This, where the transmissions
are for the exclusive use of amateur radio operators for non-commercial
purposes.

The request is signed by three prominent radio amateurs. They are Tom
Blackwell, N5GAR, of Dallas, Texas; David Coursey, N5FDL, from Tracy,
California, and ham radio educator Gordon West, WB6NOA, of Costa Mesa,
California. They say that their petition is presented in what they
term as Section 97 point 1 of the FCC rules. 97 point 1 defines FCC
licensed amateur operators as part of a voluntary non-commercial
communications service, particularly with respect to providing
emergency communications.

The petition was accepted by the FCC on October 15th, but so far it has
not been assigned a rule making number nor has it been released for
public comment. (QRZ.com, others)

**

RESCUE RADIO: NEW ADVANCES IN EMCOMM FEATURED ON THE BBC

Recent developments in emergency broadband communications is the topic
of a BBC interview with Mike Outmesguine KG6NHH. Outmesguine is the
president and founder of TransStellar, Inc., a successful technology
services company with an emphasis on wireless mobility and energy
information systems.

The BBC news item says that KG6NHH has demonstrated an easy way to
produce what it calls a "Network Relief Kit." This is described as an
ultra portable method of connecting to the internet from almost any
location in the world.

The system works by contacting one of three satellites orbiting the
earth to get an internet connection. The receiver can then be plugged
in, using ethernet cables, to a standard router, VoIP phone or similar
devices.

The BBC says that In 2003-2004 the equipment cost some $40,000 . but
these days the whole kit, Now, thanks to advances in technology the
entire kit can be carried in a back-pack with its cost down to around
$3,000 including the solar panel. Connectivity is said to be fast
enough to watch videos on YouTube.

You can read the full BBC report at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8318156.stm The BBC Digital
Planet radio interview with Mike Outmesguine, KG6NHH, is at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004l2hz (BBC)

**

RESCUE RADIO: FEMA SELECTS NEXT GENERATION EAS TESTING LAB

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has selected a site for a lab
to test new Emergency Alert System equipment. This as the next step to
assure that the equipment fully complies with the new Common Alerting
Protocol or CAP system that is still being developed.

FEMA has awarded Eastern Kentucky University a contract to test the
next generation of EAS equipment to make sure it conforms with the CAP
protocol developed by the Integrated Public Alert and Warning or IPAWS
System. Making equipment available that can receive a Common Alerting
Protocol message is the first of several objectives that must be
accomplished before FEMA adopts the system. (FEMA)

**

PUBLIC SERVICE: DELTA ARC TO SUPPORT MEMPHIS ST. JUDE MARATHON

The Memphis based Delta Amateur Radio Club will be providing
communications support to the upcoming St. Jude Marathon. This
December 5th event is sponsored by St. Jude children's' hospital. More
information on the marathon is on-line at www.stjudemarathon.org.
Information on the club is at www.deltaclub.org. (NF5B)

**

ENFORCEMENT: BANK OF AMERICA VS. THE FCC

It's the FCC versus one of the nations largest banking institutions in
a dispute over a satellite earth station. Fred Vobbe, W8HDU, has the
details:

--

Even those at the very top can hear the word no from the FCC. Take the
giant Bank of America which has been told that it has to apply for a
new permit to operate an Earth station because it accidentally let its
old license expire.

The story goes like this. On September 10, 2009, Bank of America filed
a petition to request reinstatement of its earth station license for
call sign E990192, which had expired this past July 20th. Bank of
America states that the oversight was inadvertent and due to a new
monitoring and maintenance contract. Bank of America further
explained that the new contractor has put this earth station into its
database to ensure timely renewal filings in the future.

But in its October 9th denial, the FCC said that under its rules a
petition for reinstatement of an expired license will be considered
only if the petition is filed within 30 days of the license expiration
date. It said that Bank of America did not file its petition within
this time frame, nor did it ask for a waiver of this rule. So based on
this it has denied Bank of America's request for re-instatement of
authority for earth station call sign E990192. It also said that if
Bank of America seeks regular authority to operate this earth station,
it must file an application for a new license for this station.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Fred Vobbe, W8HDU.

--

In rendering its decision the FCC did say that the bank can file for a
Special Temporary Authority to operate the station that the agency
indicates that it will be granted. (FCC)

**

NEWSLINE FOLLOW-UP: AMAZON PAYS $150,000 TO SETTLE KINDLE SUIT

Amazon has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a tort action filed by 17
year old Justin Gawronski. He's the Michigan teen who sued the online
retailer after George Orwell's novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" along
with his homework were deleted from his Kindle electronic book.

The Orwell novels had been added to the online retailer's site by a
company that did not have the rights to sell them. In mid-July, with
no notice to customers about the error, Amazon remotely deleted the
e-books. Gawronski was adversely affected when the deletion also
partially destroyed his homework.

The money, after going to the law firm representing the teen, will be
donated to charity. Gawronski had already been compensated for the loss
with a $30 gift certificate. (Published news reports)

**

RADIO RESEARCH: OLD LOGS NEEDED T STUDY THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Miami University of Ohio
are seeking copies of amateur station logs from 1913 through 1927.
This, in hopes they may offer insights into the relationship between
individuals' work and leisure activities, technology, and their social
networks of he era.

Phil Kim is an Assistant Professor at the Wisconsin School of Business.
He notes that diaries, letters, QSL cards and station logs can contain
valuable insights into the link between an individual's occupation,
hobbies and friends.

Kim notes that early in amateur radio history, thousands of ham radio
enthusiasts were licensed by the government to comply with the Radio
Act of 1912. At that time and due to newly enacted rules, that those
early hams began to more carefully document the new communications era.

In an effort to uncover new information about approaches to work and
leisure time and the development of social networks, Kim and other
researchers are comparing early ham licensing records from the
Department of Commerce with detailed information in amateur operators'
station logs. If you happen to have an old ham station log from that
period that you would like to see included in the study, please contact
Steve Johnston, WD8DAS, via e-mail to johnson at wpr dot net. (WD8DAS,
QCWA)

**

RADIO EDUCATION: THE COLLEGE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB ASSOCIATION

If you are in college or are preparing to attend, then the new College
Amateur Radio Club Association may interest you. The web based
organization is described as an attempt to create a community of
college students, faculty, and alumni in order to unite the college
clubs. According to Bryce Salmi, KB1LQC, the hope is promote amateur
radio to college students through which collaborative innovations in
technology can be made, and college clubs will retain a more stable
membership. The groups home is located in cyberspace at
http://www.collegearc.com (KB1LQC)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: KB2GSD PERSONAL PAPERS GO TO HIS COLLEGE

The estate of the late Water Cronkite, KB2GSD, has made public. The
retired CBS newsman has bequeathed his college alma mater what amounts
to a treasure trove of papers and memorabilia chronicling his career.

Cronkite dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin in 1935 as a
junior. Instead, he decided to pursue a career in the news business
but the broadcasting legend never abandoned his Texas-based educational
roots.

According to his last will and testament now on file at Manhattan
Surrogate's Court, KB2GSD bequeathed his personal papers to the
university. This is really a process that actually started before his
death on July 17 but will now end with the release of materials he had
held onto at his office and homes in Manhattan and on Martha's
Vineyard.

After becoming a television anchor, Cronkite returned often to campus
as a lecturer and lent his announcing skills to the university as the
narrator of ads that are still used at athletic events and to promote
Longhorn accomplishments. (Published reports)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: TAPR ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

Tucson Amateur Packet Radio has elected Steve Bible, N7HPR, as it new
President. Other leadership positions include Scott Cowling, WA2DFI,
as Vice President; Tom Holmes, N8ZM, as Treasurer; and Stan Horzepa,
WA1LOU, as Secretary. TAPR also recently elected three new members to
their Board of Directors. They are Scott Cowling, WA2DFI; John Koster,
W9DDD, and Mark Thompson, WB9QZB.

The election results were made public at the recent ARRL and TAPR
Digital Communications Conference in Chicago, Illinois. At the
gathering the TAPR Board of Directors of selected named Dr David Toth,
VE3GYQ, as President Emeritus of the group. Dr. Toth served as TAPR
President from 2005 to 2009 and as a member of the Board from 1987
through 1993 and 2004 to the present. (TAPR)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: DL3OAP NEW CHAIR OF DARC EXECUTIVE BOARD

Some names in the news. First over to Germany where Dr. Walter Schlink,
DL3OAP has been elected as Chairman of the Deutscher Amateur Radio
Club's Executive Board. He succeeds Jochen Hindrichs, DL9KCX.
Hindrichs had served as Chairman since May, 2001, but decided not to
run for anther term.

Also elected to the Executive Board are Steffen Sch�ppe, DL7ATE, Dr.
J�rgen Sturhahn, DL8LE, Martin K�hler, DL1DCT, and Mitch Wolfson,
DJ0QN. Wolfson who is originally from Los Angels California held the
call WA6GSN. He still holds a U.S. license and the call K7DX. He's
also believed to be the first non German ever elected to this post in
the DARC.

The meeting where the election took place was n the city of Bad
Lippspringe and took place on October on 24th. (Southgate)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS: VE4HAY RE-ELECTED RAC MIDWEST DIRECTOR

And congratulations to Derek Hay, VE4HAY, of Winnipeg who has been
re-elected as the Midwest Region Director of Radio Amateurs of Canada.
Hey ran unopposed and was declared re-elected on September 16th. (RAC)

**

BREAK 2

This is ham radio news for today's radio amateur. From the United
States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline with links to the
world from our only official website at www.arnewsline.org and being
relayed by the volunteer services of the following radio amateur:

(5 sec pause here)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: COMMUNICATIONS IN A SHRIMP'S EYE

>From the technology page comes the story of the remarkable eyes of a
marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD, CD players
and possibly telecommunications gear. This, according to a new study
from the University of Bristol published in Nature Photonics. Amateur
Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has the rest of this fascinating
story of communications under the sea:

--

The mantis shrimps used in the study are found on the Great Barrier
Reef in Australia and have the most complex vision systems known to
science. They can see in twelve colors while humans see in only three.
Also, it can distinguish between different forms of polarized light.

Special light-sensitive cells in mantis shrimp eyes act as quarter wave
plates which can rotate the plane of the polarization of a light wave
as it travels through it. This capability makes it possible for mantis
shrimps to convert linearly polarized light to circularly polarized
light and vice versa.

Manmade quarter-wave plates perform this essential function in CD and
DVD players and in circular polarizing filters for cameras. However,
these artificial devices only tend to work well for one color of light
while the natural mechanism in the mantis shrimp's eyes works almost
perfectly across the whole visible spectrum from near-ultra violet to
infra-red.

Dr. Nicholas Roberts is the lead author of the Nature Photonics paper.
He says that the work of his team reveals for the first time the unique
design and mechanism of the quarter-wave plate in the mantis shrimp's
eye. He describes it as exceptional and out performing anything we
humans have so far been able to create.

Exactly why the mantis shrimp needs such exquisite sensitivity to
circularly polarized light isn't clear. However, polarization vision is
used by animals for secret communication that avoids the attention of
other animals, especially predators. It could also assist in the
finding and catching of prey by improving the clarity of images
underwater. If this mechanism in the mantis shrimp provides an
evolutionary advantage, it could help scientists create better optical
devices in the future using liquid crystals that have been chemically
engineered to mimic the properties of the cells in the mantis shrimp's
eye.

This would not be the first time humans have looked to the natural
world for new ideas. In another bit of research the lobster's compound
eye recently inspired the design of an X-ray detector for an
astronomical telescope.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, looking at
communications technology in the briny deep.

--

This new research into the amazing vision capabilities of the mantis
shrimp and how it might one day improve communications in the human
world was conducted at the University of Bristol's School of Biological
Sciences in collaboration with colleagues the University of Queensland
in Australia. (Adapted from Science OnLine)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: MOBILE AND HANDHELD DTV STANDARD IS APPROVED

A fast-track effort by broadcasters, transmission vendors and consumer
electronics manufacturers to create a technical standard for
transmitting digital TV signals to cellular telephones and other mobile
devices has come to fruition. This, with the Advanced Television
Systems Committee announcing that it has approved a ATSC Mobile Digital
television Standard.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee says that the mobile standard
formally known as A/153 and also received overwhelming support in
balloting by its full membership tallied at midnight on October 15th.
The formal approval of the standard, which has been circulating in
preliminary form since last November, should pave the way for mobile
DTV receivers to hit retail shelves next year.

Development of the standard officially began in May 2007, when the
Advanced Television Systems Committee released a request for proposals
for a standard for the mobile and hand held telecasting system. It has
progressed at record setting pace since then. (RW)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: ON-STAR USES RADIO TO END PURSUIT

For the first time since it was created, the On-Star highway safety
system pioneered by General Motors has been used to bring an end to a
high speed pursuit. Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, has
the details:

--

It all took place about two weeks ago when the victim identified as
Jose Ruiz, of Lindsay, California, was sitting in his Tahoe in a
lighted parking lot about 3 a.m.. This, while his cousin was talking
on a cell phone in the passenger seat. Out of the corner of his eye,
Ruiz says that he saw a man walking toward him. The man then allegedly
pointed a sawed-off shotgun at Ruiz and ordered both men to get out of
the Tahoe and empty their pockets. Ruiz's cousin at first refused, but
Ruiz told him to obey, knowing that OnStar could find the stolen truck
with the built-in global positioning system.

The cousin relented and the man sped off in the truck. Ruiz then ran
toward a nearby pay telephone to call police. As luck would have it he
spotted a sheriff's deputy on her break who in turn notified the
Visalia police. Officers quickly contacted OnStar and got Ruiz's
permission to find the vehicle.

Police spotted it a few miles away. As officers made a U-turn to
pursue it, the Tahoe sped off at a high speed. At about the same time,
police dispatchers told the pursuing officers that OnStar was about to
disable the stolen vehicle by radio command. It did, the Tahoe rolled
to a halt, and the robber was quickly captured without any injuries
except maybe to the alleged robbers pride.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Norm Seeley, KI7UP, in Scottsdale,
Arizona.

--

The bottom line. Technology may soon make it very unattractive to try
to steal a car if the thief knows that there is a 1 in 2 chance that he
will be caught by radio remote control. (Future Technology)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: BOSE INTRODUCES WIRELESS STREAMING AUDIO SPEAKER

Audio equipment maker Bose has introduced its new SoundLink wireless
music system. This is a one-piece portable speaker system that allows
users to play streaming audio from their computer wirelessly in and
around the home.

The new SoundLink system was designed as a simple solution for people
who listen to sound stored on their computer, but do not necessarily
want to be at their computer to hear it. No software or Wi-Fi
connection is required. Just plug the included USB key into the
computer, select the sound from any Internet source and the audio will
stream to the SoundLink system via a long-range wireless link that
works through most walls and floors.

The included infrared remote control operates the power and volume. It
c an also send transport control commands to most applications,
allowing users to skip tracks or play/pause from a distance. More
information about this novel product is on-line at www.Bose.com (New
Product News)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: FLO TV TO BE AVAILABLE BY CHRISTMAS

A new form of television will soon be at arms reach. Jim Davis, W2JKD,
has the details:

--

Coming in time for Christmas is a wireless handheld TV that will have
its own dedicated network. The new FLO TV Personal Television, or PTV,
is a live mobile TV service from Qualcomm that is used for AT&T Mobile
Television and Verizon's V-Cast.

The PTV will sell for $250, and subscriptions begin at $9 a month. FLO
TV isn't saying yet what content it has lined up, but the AT&T and
V-Cast products have 15 channels apiece, including CBS Mobile, CNBC,
Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, MTV and
Nickelodeon.

Plans call for DVR functionality down the road. The big question is
just how many people will be willing to pay for a service that
supplies programs to a miniscule 2 or 3 inch screen.

I'm Jim Davis, W2JKD

--

The answer as to weather we will some day see a world of humans walking
aimlessly down a street with their eyes glued to a tiny screen will be
interesting to watch out for. And if it does catch on, then we do mean
to watch out! (TV Tech)

**

WORLDBEAT: RADIO SWEDEN TO STOP QSL'ING LISTENER REPORTS

Radio Sweden says that it is discontinuing mailing QSL cards to
listeners in response to reception reports. Also, the station will be
discontinuing mass mailouts of its program schedules.

According to Media Network, with the start of the new transmission
period on October 25th, Radio Sweden will only be publishing its
broadcast schedule on the World-Wide-Web. Radio Sweden says that this
is a logical consequence of the increasing importance of the Internet
as a broadcast platform and because it has stopped broadcasting its own
programs in the Swedish language.

The only exception is when the station receives a specific request for
a printed version of its schedules Listeners can contact Swedish
Radio's Listener Service department with these requests. (Media
Network)

**

HAM HAPPENINGS: ARECIBO OBSERVATORY ON NOVEMBER 1st

And while this is kind of short notice, word that the second activation
of station KP4AQ located at the Arecibo Observatory Radio Club will
take place on Sunday November 1st. This, to commemorate 46 years of
operations of still the single largest radio telescope antenna in the
world. The operation will also commemorate the 35th anniversary of
the Arecibo Message, which was sent on November 16, 1974,in binary code
and transmitted to the globular star cluster M13. Its purpose was for
if it to be received by intelligent life and to let them know about our
existence. The special event will run from 1300 to 2000 UTC on 20
meters SSB. More information about the Arecibo Message is in
cyberspace at at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message (
E-mail)

**

HAM HAPPENINGS: NORTH AMERICAN SUMMITS ON THE AIR

This North American Summits on the Air or SOTA activation day is
Saturday, November 14th. To celebrate, the four North American Summits
on the Air associations are planning a multi-hilltop activation
spanning the North American continent. Portable, mountain top stations
will be operating from the VE2, W1, W2, and W6 call areas. The
operators will be using the extensive spotting and alerting system
devised by the SOTA organization. To join in the fun, please visit the
www.sota.org.uk to get the latest details. (KI6J)

**

BREAK 3

Running a bit long this week because there's so much news to report, we
are the Amateur Radio Newsline with links to the world from our only
official website at www.arnewsline.org and being relayed by the
volunteer services of the following radio amateur:

(5 sec pause here)

**

DX

In DX, KL7JR reports that plans are underway for the activation of
Jacquot Island before and during ARRL's December 11th to the 13th Ten
Meter Contest. Listen out for VY1RST to concentrate on 10 meters for
the contest and 14.260 for non-contest activities. QSL via KL7JR at
his callbook address.

And ZS6TAF, who works in Maputo Mozambique from time to time will be
operate mobile using the callsign C91BA. He has a Yaesu 857D and
Watson mobile antenna for 80 through 6 meters. QSL via his home
callsign.

A team of operators will be on the air from Arturo Prat-Greenwich
Island in the South Shetland archipelago between January 10th to the
24th of 2010. Their callsign will be XR9JA. Activity will be on 160-6
meters using CW, SSB,PSK31 and the AO-51 ham radio satellite. QSL via
CE5JA.

CT1DRB, is active as T6AG from Afghanistan for the next 6 months. His
operation will be CW only.. QSL via EA3GHZ direct.

Lastly, N1EMC and N1IW and will be active as T30KI and T30IW,
respectively, from Western Kiribati. This, between November 10th and
the 16th. Activity will be on H-F plus 6 meters as conditions permit
using SSB and CW. QSL via N1EMC.

(Above from various DX news sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM: PUBLIC SERVICE - HAM RADIO - AND THE ING NYC MARATHON

And finally, its once again time for the biggest annual ham radio
public service event found anywhere in the world. The New York City
Marathon began in 1970 with 127 runners, a budget of $1,000 and a small
group of ARES operators who tried to provide communications. Today,
the I-N-G sponsored race has grown to the status of World Class
Marathon with over 38,000 runners, two million spectators and a corps
of over 400 ham radio volunteers holding it all together.

This years New York City Marathon takes place on Sunday, November 1st.
In planning for marathon day there is a coordinated effort between the
New York Road Runners and several New York City agencies. While each
agency has its own dedicated communications system, no two have the
ability to talk to one another. Enter ham radio.

Since 1976, Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML, has been the volunteer Director of
Communications for the New York City Marathon. He says that the hams
are the only ones who can communicate with everyone involved:

--

Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML: And the reason we can communicate with everyone
involved is not because of the iron, its not because of the radios --
its because of our skills. As technology has advanced and we have
brought in the use of cellphones and the use of the Nextel system and
trunked radio, time and again, marathon organizers from the original
Fred Lebow through his successor Alan Steinfeld, W2TN, to todays New
York City Marathon Director Mary Wittenberg all say the same thing:
'-you can by any amount of radios with any amount of money, but all the
money in the world won't buy the skills the ham radio community has.' "

--

Mendelsohn's words have long been echoed by Paul Ortolano, who is the
events director for the New York Road Runners. In a 2007 interview,
Ortolano told the Hofstra Chronicle newspaper that amateur radio
operators are the key source of communications for the marathon. He
said that the marathon cannot happen each year without the dedication
of the ham radio community. Ortolano called them the eyes and ears of
the event and Mendelsohn is quick to agree:

--

Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML: "The New York Road Runners cannot put staff
out there nor can the New York Police put the quantity of staff that we
use with over 400 ham radio operators providing eyes -- walking quarter
mile segments of the course, patrolling for fallen runners. We have
the the hardware. We have the expertise and the New York City
Marathon has long said very, very good things about our operation."

--

In addition to his volunteer work with the NYC Marathon, Steve
Mendelsohn, W2ML, is a senior engineer at the ABC Television Network
in New York. He is the recipient of a Technical Emmy for his part in
ABC's special turn of the century telecast titled "2000: Millennium
Around the World." And to top it off in 1990 he was named Hamvention
Radio Amateur of the Year for his development of the ham radio
communications network that keeps the New York City Marathon on
track. He became involved with the marathon when its founder, the
late Fred Lebow came to a Tri-State Repeater Council meeting looking
for an amateur radio expert. Steve said that he didn't exactly
volunteer. Rather he was volunteered by the other hams at the repeater
coordinators gathering:

--

Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML: "In point of fact, I listened to the late Fred
Lebow talk about shutting down the city, running a huge number of
people -- I think the original number was about 1300 -- through the
streets of the city -- and I turned to the then president of TSARC and
I said that this man is out of his mind. I then excused myself to go
to the mens room. When I came back the first thing that struck me was
listening to Fred talk about how excited he was to work with us and the
fact that amateur radio was going to provide a very, very important
safety point for the New York City Marathon. I casually sat down,
turned to the president and said '-who would volunteer for something
like this?' He smiled and said '-the one that was out of the room.'
And to this day I have never volunteered."

--

Since then, W2ML has been the New York Marathon Director of
Communications. Under his aegis, the ham radio communications network
for the event has grown in size to become the largest all volunteer ham
radio communications group found anywhere: --

Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML: "We are very fortunate to have a lot of people
who really enjoy doing public service. This year we will have over
400 hams -- I think we are up to 406 or 407 at this with the two
volunteers we got tonight. They come in from Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and we
even have a gentleman who comes in from Denver. K2AD comes in from the
Denver Marathon to provide a hand.

"Most of us, while we all celebrate ham radio and what it can do for
the running public. In fact we have become a very close knit family to
the point where there is a group from Columbus, Ohio, that actually
rents an RV as part of a three-day weekend, and they drive to New
York. They then go into Manhattan and enjoy the city on Friday and
Saturday and Sunday morning they do the marathon. Then they drive back
to Ohio and that's their idea of a vacation."

--

W2ML is responsible for more than just recruiting ham radio operators.
He has to know how to strategically place them in vital positions along
the course. Some of these include the start and finish lines, the
water trucks, the medical stations, and of coarse the checkpoints
throughout the race path.

This year Mendelsohn expects to have volunteer operators from nine
different states. Many of these are the same volunteer ham radio
operators that placed their own lives on the line to assist following
the attack of the World Trade Center in 2001. That act of terrorism
also destroyed the ability for police, fire and rescue workers to
communicate in lower Manhattan. Jumping in immediately as
communications first responders were the regions ham radio operators.
They volunteered their time and radio gear as substitute communications
for police, fire and other emergency agencies responding to the
disaster area. The hams also served at numerous shelters and at
temporary rescue stations as the only available communications. In the
process earned the respect ad admiration of city, state and federal
level government officials.

Since then many have been back to offering communications for the
annual race through the streets of the Big Apple, but because of the
lessons that they have learned over the years in service to the New
York City Marathon, these hams are prepared to face just about any
emergency that might come their way. (ARNewsline(tm))

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC Communicator, CQ
Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio Penn DX Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain,
the RSGB, the Southgate News and Australia's WIA News, that's all from
the Amateur Radio Newsline(tm). Our e-mail address is
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Radio Newsline(tm), P.O. Box 660937, Arcadia, California 91066.

For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, I'm Don
Wilbanks, AE5DW, saying 73 and we thank you for listening.

Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.

ANS-298 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

JoAnne Maenpaa — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:57:30 GMT

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-298

ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America,
The
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a
worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in
designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital
Amateur Radio satellites.

Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to:

In this edition:
* New AO-51 Whole Orbit Data decoder released
* SumbandilaSat Designated as SO-67
* New items for sale at the AMSAT online store
* New EMI Calculator Available From Australian ACMA
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
* Iran May Put Satellite in the Ham Satellite Bands
* ARISS Status - 19 October 2009

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.01
New AO-51 Whole Orbit Data decoder released

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.01

Thanks to our resident telemery guru Mike Rupprecht DK3WN a new AO-51
whole orbit data (WOD) telemetry decoder has been released! The file
with decoder and coefficients file can be downloaded from here:

http://www.dk3wn.info/files/ao51wod.zip

The AO-51 telemetry archive is on the AMSAT FTP server. DK3WN's new
decoder is for processing "raw" WOD telemetry files. For example, the
WOD data collected for October 2009 is here:

ftp://ftp.amsat.org/pub/amsat/teleme...t2009/raw1009/

The decoder generates a .CSV (comma separated) file that can be opened
in Excel, etc. A nice feature is that the telemetry program actually
graphs the data, too!

THANKS, Mike DK3WN!

[ANS thanks Mark, N8MH, for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.02
SumbandilaSat Designated as SO-67

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.02

AMSAT's OSCAR Number Coordinator Bill Tynan, W3XO announced he has
received an e-mail sent to the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors by Hans
van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV, Secretary SA AMSAT requesting that an
OSCAR number be allocated to SumbandilaSat.

In the e-mail Hans states that the amateur radio transponder on
SumbandilaSat was successfully switched on from the ground by ZS6BPZ
during the test phase on Sunday 18 October 2009 and that several QSOs
were made through the transponder.

The amateur radio payload on SumbandilaSat was developed by SA AMSAT
and incorporated by the University of Stellenbosch into the main pay-
load. The SA AMSAT payload was officially coordinated through the
IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel with an uplink of 145.880
and downlink of 435.350 MHz

Bill replied, "Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the
AMSAT-NA President, I hereby designate this latest amateur radio
satellite as SumbandilaSat Oscar 67 or SO-67. On behalf of AMSAT-NA
and the world's amateur radio satellite community I congratulate those
responsible for building, testing and launching this new satellite.
May it have a long and successful life."

You can hear more of these initial and QSO's through this new South
African ham radio satellite at:
http://previews.matogen.com/sunspace...ds/Sumbandila-
FirstActivePass-Recording-2009-10-18.mp3

[ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO and SA AMSAT for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.03
New items for sale at the AMSAT online store

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.03

Did you miss the symposium? Now available at the AMSAT online store --
a 40th Anniversary Tote as well as the Proceedings of the Symposium.
Get yours while supplies last.

[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO, for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.04
New EMI Calculator Available From Australian ACMA

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.04
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.04

Australia's Swinburne University, together with EM Software and
Systems, has developed an online tool that will allow users to
calculate exclusion zones around antennas where radiation levels
exceed safety standard limits.

Commissioned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority,
the exclusion zone calculator will allow people to conduct safety
assessments of transmitting antennas, such as those found on boats,
four wheel drives, at fixed station locations and even communication
networks operating in the VHF and UHF spectrum. This includes ham
bands from 2 meters on up through 2.4 GHz.

To calculate the zone, all users need to do is enter the antenna
type, transmitter power, antenna gain and frequency band into the
online tool. Click your mouse and the program will automatically
calculate the safe distance around the antenna in metric distance.

The ACMA has also produced a booklet entitled Human Exposure to
Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation Information for Licensees
of Radio-Communications Transmitters. Both the on-line tool and
a booklet that explains EME health exposure can be found at:
http://www.acma.gov.au. (ACMA)

[ANS thanks ACMA and Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1679 for the
above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.05
Satellite Shorts From All Over

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.05

+ The AMSAT Symposium was held over the October 9 - 11 weekend in
Baltimore, Maryland. AMSAT President Barry Baines' presentation
has been posted to the AMSAT Web site. A video of symposium high
lights was put together and has been posted on YouTube.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efXlL75dvA

+ Drew, KO4MA says the QSL cards for the July Apollo anniversary event
on AO-51 have arrived and he is starting on the stack this weekend.
He is pretty sure they should all be in the mail by next week and
thanks all for the interest and support.

+ For those going to the Ft. Wayne, Ind. Hamfest, Nov. 14-15, there
will be an AMSAT Forum on Sat. the 14th at 1:15pm. There is also an
APRS forum on Sun. 15 Nov. at 10 am. More info can be found at:
http://www.fortwaynehamfest.com

+ Page 43 of the October issue of SatMagazine features an article on
CubeSats titled 'A Costing + Pricing Challenge', see:
http://www.satmagazine.com/2009/SatMag_Oct09.pdf

+ USA Today has a flash graphic showing the step-by-step construction
of the International Space Station:
http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/...line/flash.htm

[ANS thanks everyone for the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.06
Iran May Put Satellite in the Ham Satellite Bands

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.06
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.06

The SouthGate Amateur Radio News Site and Amateur Radio Newsline
reported this week there is a possibility that Iran's Mesbah-2
satellite, slated for launch early 2010, could operate on frequencies
allocated to the Amateur Satellite Service.

An on-line report at astronautix.com says that the original Mesbah
satellite, lost in a 2005 launch failure, was to have operated on
Amateur Satellite Service frequencies. Now its being reported that
Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Reza
Taqipour, has said that the replacement Mesbah satellite has success-
fully completed pre-launch tests and is now ready for liftoff early
next year.

Most observers think that there will be little difference between
the transponder set-up between the lost Mesbah satellite on the new
replacement bird. See: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mesbah2.htm

[ANS thanks SouthGate and Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1680 for
the above information]

/EX

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-298.07
ARISS Status - 19 October 2009

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 298.07
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
October 25, 2009
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-298.07

1. Upcoming School Contacts

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled with Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday,
October
27 at 09:33 UTC via telebridge station VK4KHZ in
Australia. The centre organized
a student competition for naming asteroids, using rules of the science
naming
process. In October the winners travel to Warsaw for the competition finale
and
will take part in the ARISS event.

Sherbrooke Community School in Sassafras,
Victoria, Australia has been scheduled
for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on
Wednesday, October 28 at 07:13 UTC. This will be a telebridge contact via
station W6SRJ in California. Sherbrooke Community School fosters student
participation and the advancement of amateur
radio in the community. It operates
Sherbrooke Community Club station, VK3KID. The school has invited
representatives from neighboring schools to pose
questions to the astronauts and
asked its sister schools in China and Bhutan to also submit questions for
students to ask the ISS crew.

David Thompson Middle School (DTMS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada has been
scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact on Friday, October 30 at 21:12 UTC via station LU8YY in Argentina.
DTMS
and the University of Calgary's science department have collaborated on this
event.

2. ARISS Contact Between Thirsk and Boundary Beach Students

On Tuesday, October 13, students from Boundary
Beach Elementary School in Delta,
British Columbia, Canada spoke with astronaut Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA on the
ISS
via an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact.
Seventeen questions were answered, including one from the radio team. The
contact was made possible through the Langley Amateur Radio Association. To
prepare for the contact, students got involved in many space related
activities
and participated in Dr. Thirsk's "Get Fit for Space" program.

3. Glenmore Christian Academy Experiences ARISS Contact

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact occurred
on
Wednesday, October 14 between Glenmore Christian Academy students in
Calgary,
Alberta, Canada and Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA. Nearly six hundred students,
teachers, parents and guests gathered to watch
the youth ask 20 questions of the
astronaut. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation) and CTV (Canadian television)
covered the event.

4. ARISS Contact with UNICEF - Mali

Children in Gao, Mali participated in an Amateur Radio on the International
Space Station (ARISS) contact on Thursday, October 15 via telebridge station
K6DUE in Maryland. The contact was held as part of the UNICEF WaSH (Water,
Sanitation, Hygiene) campaign. Astronaut Frank De Winne, ON1DWN, a UNICEF
Belgium goodwill ambassador, spoke to the children, answering 5 questions.

5. ARISS - JOTA Contact Unsuccessful

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was
scheduled for Jamboree on the Air (JOTA), Boy Scouts of America Headquarters
in
Irving, Texas on Saturday, October 17. Due to technical difficulties, the
contact did not take place. Contact demonstrations on other satellites were
given during the day, however, and there was an amateur radio balloon flight
as
well. Scouts also took part in a Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) activity.
Approximately 400 Scouts, parents and officials attended the event.

6. NASA Reports on ARISS Contact

NASA posted as one of its "Daily Top Stories" an article from the Vancouver
Sun
about the October 9 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact with Belmont Elementary School:

Hundreds Of Students "Enthralled" Talking To ISS Astronaut. The Vancouver
Sun
(10/10, 178K) reported, "Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk zipped through the
heavens above Langley's Ecole Belmont elementary school Friday, riding the
International Space Station and chatting with 533 enthralled students." The
event was organized by "ARISS (Amateur Radio International Space Station), a
NASA- sponsored educational outreach program." According to the article,
"Judging by the reaction of the children sitting cross-legged in the gym,
the
program was an obvious hit."

[ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for the above information]

/EX

In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the
President's
Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project
Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms
are
available from the AMSAT Office.

73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Lee McLamb, KU4OS