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Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1619 - August 22, 2008
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1619 - August 22, 2008
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1619 with a release date of Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a Q-S-T. Ham radio faces tropical storm Fay, Georgia's ham community says it won't talk to Russia, a new 2 meter record set as South Africa contacts Reunion Island, hams in Denver are advised how to handle protesters to the Democratic National Convention if they appear on local repeaters and a 17 year old from Kansas receives the Young Ham of the Year Award and more. We take you to Huntsville where the ceremony took place on Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1619 coming your way right now. (Billboard Cart Here) ** RESCUE RADIO: HAM RADIO IS READY FOR TROPICAL STORM FAY Ham radio operators sprang to alert when weather forecasters announced that a tropical storm named Fay would definitely make landfall on the most south-east region of the United States mainland. Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, has been following Fay's path from our newsroom in Los Angeles: -- Tropical Storm Fay will likely not become a hurricane, but as this newscast is prepared the storm continues to plod up the Florida peninsula with the possibility of dumping up to 20 inches of rain in some areas. As the storm approached the Florida Keys, several ham radio severe weather alert groups were activated. Among them the famed VoiP Hurricane Watch Net that collected severe weather information from hams in the field like N1YLQ and passed it along to the National Hurricane Center in Miami: -- Actual net audio. Hear it in the MP3 version of this newscast downloadable at www.arnewsline.org -- The VoIP net also passed along severe weather alerts issued by the National Weather Service to those listening: -- Actual net audio. Hear it in the MP3 version of this newscast downloadable at www.arnewsline.org -- Also activated was the Hurricane Watch Net with its primary operations on 14.325 MHz and back-up operations on 7.268 and 3.950 MHz. It too filed severe weather information back to the National Hurricane Center via the center ham station WX4NHC. Tropical Storm Fay formed over the weekend of August 16thn in the Atlantic and was blamed for 20 deaths in the Caribbean before hitting Florida's southwest coast. Fay hit the Florida Keys on Monday, August 18th with driving rain sustained winds of about 55 mph. It then veered out over the Gulf of Mexico before heading east across the state the following day. This, on a path that would have taken it over the Atlantic before it again curved westward toward the Florida Georgia coastline. Since it never reached hurricane status, Fay was more water than wind. There were no reports of major wind damage on Wednesday, August 20th despite flooding in Florida's Brevard County. The storm had stalled there, and was predicted to dump between 10 to 20 inches of rain in the area. The storm flooded streets downed trees and cut power to some 95,000 homes and businesses in South Florida. Fay also spawned at least one tornado that damaged 51 homes in Brevard County, southeast of Orlando. Nine homes that were a total loss. According to the ARRL, all three of its Florida's Section Managers are working cooperatively as Fay tracks through the state. As we go to air, hams involved in emergency communications and disaster relief remain on high alert. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the newsroom in Los Angeles. -- NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, has put out a prediction that Fay my not slide up the East coast as originally thought. NOAA says that the storm could stay inland and cross the Florida peninsula and head out into the panhandle and beyond. We will have an update on Fay and what hams in her path have done in next weeks Amateur Radio Newsline report. (VoIP Net, HWN, ARRL, Other published reports) ** RADIO IN POLITICS: GEORGIAN NATIONAL HAM RADIO SOCIETY SAYS GEORGIA HAMS NOT CONTACTING RUSSIA Amateur Radio contacts between Georgia and Russia have ceased. At least that's what the Georgian national ham radio society is claiming as a protest to the military action and occupation of Georgia by Russian troops. According to information provided by the Southgate News, the President of the National Associations Radioamateurs of Georgia has said that contacts between Georgian and Russian Amateur Radio stations have ceased. Mamuka Kordzakhia, 4L2M, also asks that all amateur radio societies, who are either members and non-members of the International Amateur Radio Union do the same. It should be noted that this is a plea coming from a leader of a national ham radio society and not the result of any mandate given by Georgian telecommunications authorities. Neither the governments of Georgia nor Russia have placed any restrictions on hams in either nation during the current conflict. Its unlikely that the International Amateur Radio Union or its member nations will take any stand on this issue. Historically the IARU has kept its distance from the internal politics of any nation, be it an IARU member or not. (NARG, with follow-up by ARNewsline(tm)) ** RADIO RECORDS: SOUTH AFRICA TO REUNION ISLAND ON 2 METERS A new radio record is set in the southern hemisphere. ZS2GK and FR5DN have made the first ever 2 meter VHF contact between Reunion Island and South Africa via the South Indian Ocean path. Take a listen: -- Actual contact audio. Hear it in the MP3 version of this newscast downloadable at www.arnewsline.org -- At 02:15 South Africa time on August 12th, Glenn Kraut, ZS2GK, heard the FR5DN beacon from Reunion Island. At 03:39 he established a two-way contact with Mondon "Phil" Phillipe, FR5DN on 144.200 MHz SSB. The two also made contact on 144.400 MHz using FM. The signal strength was S5 to S6 with no QSB over the VHF path of 2875 km. ZS2GK used was 400W on SSB and 200W on FM. At the FR5DN end Phil was running 120 watts on either mode. The two operators also discussed the possibility of trying the contact in the near future on the 70 centimeter band: -- Actual contact audio. Hear it in the MP3 version of this newscast downloadable at www.arnewsline.org -- According to the South Africa Radio League this is a new record on 144 MHz. Ironically, it took place on the morning of the maximum of the Perseids meteor shower. More information and the full audio files of the contact available www.astrorun.com/~fr5dn/radio/august2008.html (AS1I, audio from www.astrorun.com fr5dn/radio /) ** HAM RADIO EVENTS: OLYMPICS COMMEMORATIVE STATION CONTINUES Members of the Hong Kong Amateur Radio DX Association continue to be active as V-R-2008-O, This, to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Operations will continue until August 31st on 40 through 6 meters using SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL direct only to VR2XMT Charlie Ho, PO Box 900, Fanling Post Office, Hong Kong. Sorry. Nut there is no electronic e-QSL or Logbook to the World filings accepted for this rather special commemorative event. (Hong Kong DXA) ** BREAK 1 From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world including the Rocky Mountain Radio League serving Denver and Bloomfield Colorado. (5 sec pause here) ** RADIO READY: HAMS IN DENVER ADVISED ON HOW TO HANDLE DNC PROTESTERS Hams in Denver are being warned to be on the lookout for unlicensed operators. This as the Democratic National Convention comes to town. Amateur Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, reports: -- With the Democratic National Convention about to descend on Denver Colorado, ARES District 22 Operations Officer Dan Meyer, N0PUF, has some advice for hams in the area. In a posting to the World Wide Web Meyer says that after reading on some of the web sites set up by protesters coming to the convention, he finds that some say that ham radio is the best way to communicate instead of using FRS or GMRS radios. Meyer says that Denver area hams need to be ready to T-hunt down any illegal transmissions. He also notes that just about every usable repeater channel pair in the Denver metro area is assigned on some basis. Most as secondary or tertiary frequencies. But if illegal transmissions do appear on Denver area repeaters, the trustees need to be prepared to shut them down. Meyer also has some advice to T-Hunt teams. He says that if the transmissions are tracked to the Denver downtown area, he would suggest that the T-Hunters do not go there. And if by chance the T-Hunters do spot someone who is operating illegally that they not confront that person, He says that the protesters are likely better prepared for more than you are. The bottom line. Meyer believes that as soon as the Democratic National Convention is over and everyone leaves town, the rouge operators will go away as well. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, in Los Angeles. -- One suggestion we might make to our friends in the mile-high city if illegal operators do show up on local Denver repeaters. Rather than shutting then down the owners might consider placing them into CTCSS or Digital CTCSS tone access mode. Its very doubtful that political protesters will have the technologic insight needed to program an access tone into an HT or mobile. Especially if that tone is unpublished and unknown. Also, if you do go tone access during the convention do not use the standard 100 hertz default tone most radios come set to. A protester might inadvertently turn it on by fiddling with the keypad. Instead, use an lesser occupied sub audible tone that will leave the unlicensed protesters scratching their heads as to why they cannot communicate using those wonderful mountaintop relay devices that the properly licensed radio amateurs in Denver can. (KB6CC, ARNewsline(tm), others) ** RADIO LAW: FCC ANNOUNCES FREE DTV CONVERSION SPEAKERS BUREAU The Federal Communications Commission has launched a Speakers Bureau. This, for groups throughout the country to request speakers to discuss the upcoming transition to Digital Television at their meetings. The Commission will provide speakers, without cost, to any group requesting one. To request a speaker, go to the FCC's DTV website, www.dtv.gov, and simply click on the words "Request a Speaker." Or contact Rosemary Kimball from 9 a.m. to 5 p..m. Eastern time at area code (202) 418-0511. You can also e-mail her a request to Rosemary dot kimball at fcc dot gov. The FCC says that this new Speakers Bureau is the latest addition to the its Digital Television conversion outreach effort. The big switch to all digital broadcasting is still scheduled to take place on February 17th, 2009. (FCC) ** ENFORCEMENT NEEDED: RARE RADIO BADGE COLLECTION STOLEN From the how low can a human being get file comes word that a thief has hit the recent Irish Scout Jamboree. According to a report in the Southgate news, on the last night of the recent scout gathering in Ireland someone made off with the DK8ZM Rare Radio scouting and JOTA Badge collection. It was not until the last day of the event that the 300 item collection was found to be missing. According to David Hutchinson, GI4FUM, hams working the Jamboree immediately produced a poster with a photograph of the badge collection. Within a half hour it was distributed to all leaders at the camp. Unfortunately, the badges are thought to have been removed from the Jamboree site before they were found to be missing from their display area. Police in Ireland are investigating. (Southgate) ** ENFORCEMENT: TV STATION TO PAY $16,000 HURRICANE CHARLEY CLOSED CAPTIONING A CBS television affiliate is paying a steep price for not providing enough closed-captioned information during Hurricane Charley. Don Carlson, KQ6FM, has mo -- In a consent decree brokered by the FCC, WINK-TV in Fort Meyers, Florida, has agreed to pay the government $16,000 to settle a complaint brought by local hearing-impaired viewers. News Press says that the storm, which hit in August 2004, came ashore along the barrier islands before sweeping across Charlotte County. WINK-TV dropped all its regular programming and was in solid storm coverage in the hours leading up to landfall. The station's team of anchors, reporters and meteorologists supplied a steady stream of information to viewers. The only problem: Many of the fast-changing details were spoken aloud by the news team, but didn't make it into the more limited written information WINK was providing in its graphics and news tickers along the bottom of the screen. This violates a federal rule protecting the rights of the hearing-impaired. Soon after Hurricane Charley, the station took steps to add real-time captioning to all its major newscasts. Because of this WINK admitted no fault in the Consent Decree and it ends the FCC investigation into the matter. -- It should be noted that both the local Fort Meyers NBC and ABC stations were each fined $24,000 in late 2005 for the same lack of comprehensive closed-captioning. Those stations appealed the fines. The managers each say the matter is still pending. (News-Press.com) ** ENFORCEMENT: TWINS ARRESTED IN CA COPPER THEFT An update to an ongoing story dealing with the theft of copper wire world wide. Twin brothers and a juvenile have been arrested in connection with a series of just such thefts in California. An under cover investigation Lancaster Sheriff's Station began after a report was filed by Verizon that $40,000 worth of copper wire had been stolen. The investigation in a sparsely populated area lasted nearly 50 hours. Three suspects were taken into custody who were linked to four thefts of copper wire from Verizon over a two week period. The suspects reportedly climbed utility poles to cut the wire down and it was taken to recycling facilities where it was sold for between $1.80 and $2.50 a pound. They are also believed to be linked to at least a dozen similar thefts. (Published reports) ** NAMES IN THE NEWS: VK2RO APPOINTED AS IOTA REP IN REGION 3 The Radio Society of Great Britain which runs the Island Of The Air program has appointed Roger Conway VK2RO as a representative for ITU Region 3. The region includes Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Indonesia and Islands of the Pacific excluding French and US territories. The same region previously represented by Jim Smith VK9NS. Conway, who is President of Australia's Shepparton and District Radio Club, will be the official check point for IOTA awards for the region. (RSGB) ** THE SOCIAL SCENE: HAMFAIR IN TOKYO JAPAN AUGUST 23 - 24 Turning to the ham radio social scene, the gigantic Hamfair in Tokyo takes place the weekend of August 23rs and 24th. This gathering is billed as the largest ham radio gathering in the Pacific Rim with an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 active radio amateurs expected to attend over the two days of the event. It is also the place where manufacturers tend to showcase new technologies and gear that's still in development. Some of it that will not be seen on dealer shelves anywhere in the world for years to come. If anything exotic does show up we will let you know about it in future Amateur Radio Newsline reports. (Hamfair Tokyo) ** THE SOCIAL SCENE: PARIS TEXAS IN OCTOBER Meantime on this side of the Pacific and a bit inland, the Paris Texas Radio Group will host the 4th Annual Paris Texas Hamfest on October 10th and 11th. The venue is the Coliseum at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds. More information is on line at www.paristexasradio.com/hamfest (Via e-mail) ** EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: THE 2008 ARRL / TAPR DCC IN CHICAGO IN SEPTEMBER The joint 2008 ARRL and Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Digital Communications Conference will held in the Chicago area from September 26th to the 28th. The venue is the Elk Grove Village Holiday Inn located near O'Hare airport. The Digital Communications Conference is billed as the premiere annual digital ham radio meeting covering all aspects of digital communications as applied to ham radio. This includes both voice and data on frequencies ranging from the lowest of the high frequency bands up through the microwaves. And for the first time, this years conference will feature a D-STAR Friday Night event. Plans are to have the nations leading innovators, pioneers and leaders in D-STAR digital movement at the gathering to answer any and all questions regarding the mode that some believe will likely replace F-M for ham radio utility communications in the years and decades to come. There will be a free airport to hotel shuttle and easily accessible from major interstate highways. Full information about the 2008 Digital Communications Conference and accommodations is on line atwww.tapr.org/dcc. (WB9QZB, TAPR, Others) ** SPECIAL EVENT: ROUTE 66 ON THE AIR The Citrus Belt Amateur Radio Club of San Bernardino, California will host the 9th Annual "Route 66 On The Air" Special Event. The operation includes 18 stations and two rovers operating in and around major cities along the old Route 66 from Santa Monica, California to Chicago, Illinois. Official station call designations will begin with W6A in Santa Monica and end with the letter assigned to the final operator taking part. The rover stations will be on September 13th from 0001 UTC to 2400 UTC on September 21st. Frequencies will all be on or near those ending in the number 66 using all available modes. QSL information is on the web at www dot w6jbt dot org. Just click on the words "Route 66 Event." All you need to do is to answer their CQ to get your kicks along Route 66. And if only it were legal to play the music that goes along with those words. (Press release) ** 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) ** CHANGING OF THE GUARD: VE3TFD KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY Some sad news to report. A firefighter and ham radio operator has been killed in the line of duty. Bob Leek, VE3TFD, was a 25-year veteran of the Toronto Fire Department and lost his life in the response to a massive propane depot explosion that occurred Sunday August 10th. In offering it's Condolences, the Canadian national ham radio society, noted that VE3TFD was a member of Radio Amateurs of Canada, the South Pickering Amateur Radio Club and Durham Amateur Radio Emergency Service. (RAC) ** EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: STUDY SHOWS FEW KNOW ABOUT HD RADIO Some amazing and alarming statistics in a decade where digital is the buzzword. A survey by American Media Services says that only about 1 in every 3 American adults say they are somewhat familiar with H D Radio. AMS says that its survey shows that only 33 percent of respondents have ever listened to an HD Radio broadcast while 67 percent say they have not. Whether that can be read as "only a third" or "already a third " is a matter of interpretation. AMS by OmniTel conducted a telephone survey of more than 1,000 adults in March. 65 percent of respondents said that they are not in any way familiar with the digital broadcast radio technology. (RW) ** EMERGING TECNOLOGY: NEW LASER DEMONSTRATED A major breakthrough in laser communications technology. Burt Hicks, WB6MQV, has the details: -- Science Daily reports that applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics have demonstrated a new highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than the current crop. While semiconductor lasers are widely used in everyday products such as optical recording technologies and laser printers, they suffer from poor directionality. Divergent beams from semiconductor lasers are focused or collimated with lenses that typically require meticulous optical alignment leading in some cases bulky optics. To get around these limitations, the researchers sculpted a metallic structure, dubbed a plasmonic collimator. It consists of an aperture and a periodic pattern of sub-wavelength grooves placed directly on the face of a quantum cascade laser emitting at a wavelength of ten microns. In so doing, the research team was able to dramatically reduce the divergence angle of the beam from a factor of twenty-five degrees down to just a few degrees in the vertical direction. Even with this change the laser maintained a high output optical power and could be used for long range chemical sensing in the atmosphere, including homeland security and environmental monitoring, without requiring the bulky collimating optics. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Burt Hicks in Santa Clarita, California. -- The innovation is said to open the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications. Harvard University has also filed a broad patent on the invention. (Science Daily) ** HAM RADIO IN SPACE: NASA LEARNING HIGHLIGHTS HAM RADIO AMSAT's Tom Clark, K3IO, has highlighted what the NASA Digital Learning Network has to say about Amateur Radio. According to his posting on the AMSAT Bulletin Board , the report says that Amateur Radio on the International Space Station frequently provides direct from orbit contact with students in schools around the world. It went on to say that to help prepare the students for an ARISS experience, NASA has generated a series of teaching modules for the students. The news item notes that the space agency has three different packages available suitable for students in Kindergarten through 4, 5 to 8 and 9 to 12 grade levels. In all it's a very positive view of ham radio by NASA. More is on-line http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools...t/maillist.php (ANS) ** WORRLDBEAT - SOUTH AFRICA: HAMS SET UP AMATEUR RADIO STATIONS AT SCHOOLS As part of this years World Space Week, hams in South Africa have been asked by their national society to set up an amateur radio station at local schools and share the magic of amateur radio with students. The society says that this will give students an opportunity to listen to astronauts sharing his space experiences. Also, there's also the possibility that some kids will get a chance to talk with an astronaut using the ARISS ham radio in space program. (Southgate) ** ON THE AIR: IARU REGION 1 ATV CONTEST On the air, the annual IARU Region 1 Amateur Television Contest takes place from 1800 UTC on Saturday September 13th to 1200 UTC on Sunday the 14th. Operation I on all bands from 70 cm and above. Talk-back is most likely to be found on 144.75 FM. The rules of this contest can be found on-line at www.iaru-r1.org/VHF_Handbook_V5_11.pdf ( Southgate) ** ON THE AIR: LIONESS OF ITALY AWARD The 50th Anniversary Lioness of Italy Award has been announced. This, to celebrate of the anniversary of the Brescia section of the Italian Amateur Radio association. The award will be issued to all amateurs who make the required number of QSOs. SWL's can also qualify with the proper number of confirmed listener reports. This award qualification period will run from August 24th to September 14th for operation on all Amateur service bands. 10 Brescia stations for contacted or heared are needed by European stations and 5 for DX stations. Contact confirmation that includes your log extract goes to in electronic forma to IZ2FOSat rbolb dot com. The deadline to enter is October 28th. (Press release) ** DX In D-X, Didier Senmartin, F5OGL, the team leader of the upcoming Glorioso DXpedition says that the rumor mongers spreading unauthorized information about the planned operation have no idea what they are talking about. In a world wide Internet posting, F5OGL says that no date is yet fixed for the operation to begin. That said, he is doing all he can to be on the island before the end of this year. Senmartin notes that all the operators are also personnel of the French Military Defense and they all have professional assignments which have priority over anything that is ham radio related. He goes on to explain that the use of hams in the military is essential to the success of the planned operation. This, because major risks in the zone does not allow for including civilian ham radio operators in the crew. F5OGL says that he will do all he can to make it as perfect as possible DXpedition to the Glorioso, but adds that safety first is the first goal. In other DX news, F5NHJ will be operating portable FK from Grande Terre, New Caledonia until August 29th. Activity will be mostly on CW and the digital modes on 30 meters. QSL as directed by the operator CU6AY stroke P is active from Pico Island through the 4th of September. QSL direct to his home callsign as listed at QRZ dot com. And IK8VRH portable 5Z4 will be active from Kenya through to the end of August. Operations are on 40, 20 and 17 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL as directed on the air. (Above from various DX news sources) ** THAT FINAL ITEM: KC0PTL RECEIVED YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR HONORS And finally this week, we take a drive or a flight to Huntsville Alabama where at last weekends Huntsville Hamfest Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, received honors as 2008 amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. Our producer Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, was on hand to make the presentation: -- WA6ITF: "I would like to take this opportunity to present to Emily the 2008 amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award. And it says -- quote -- awarded to Emily M. Stewart, KC0PTL, in recognition of her total dedication to the amateur radio service. Its jointly signed by Amateur Radio Newsline, Vertex-Standard USA and CQ Magazine. -- end quote. Emily, congratulations. This is yours." (Applause) -- After Bill presented Emily with the plaque it was time for her to receive some gifts from the awards corporate sponsors. First up was Don Allen, W9CW, from CQ Magazine: -- W9CW: "We are one of the sponsors of the Young Ham of the Year Award and this year we have for Emily an 8-day program at Spacecamp. In addition to Spacecamp we are also providing some gifts to her from CQ specifically. We have a one year subscription to CQ, a subscription to CQ VHF and also a one year subscription to Poipular Communications magazine." (Applause) -- Don was quickly follows by Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, of Vertex Standard. These are the folks who bring you Yaesu brand ham radio gear and have been an award sponsor since 1986. -- K7BV: "Yaesu is once again proud to be a principal sponsor of the Young Ham of the Year Award. We are very pleased to have met Emily today for the first time and we have a little something for her. I believe that with the qualification I have seen that she is going to college and who knows where else and we would like her to have an FT-817 portable for HF through VHF and UHF so that you can get on the air no matter where you go. (Applause) -- Last but by no means least was a new addition to the line-up of gifts for Emily. To go with her new Yaesu transceiver Heil Sound presented her with a microphone and headset to make flea power Dxing a pleasure. And representing Heil Sound was a name long connected with the Young Ham of the Year program -- Chip Margelli, K7JA: -- K7JA: "To give you a little more talk power, we are going to provide you with a Heil lightweight headset with the HC5 element for your 817. Use it in good health and, again, congratulations. "We are very proud to be a part of this ceremony and Bill, its always a pleasure." WA6ITF: "Its good to have you back." -- And what was Emily's reaction? -- KC0PTL: "I'm really surprised that I was given all of this stuff and I feelk very, very honored to be here." -- And we are very honored to have Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, as the Amateur Radio Newsline, 2008, Young Ham of the Year. (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 . More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's(tm) only official website located at www.arnewsline.org. You can also write to us or support us at Amateur 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 thank you to the Huntsville Hamfest for its ongoing generosity in hosting our Young Ham of the Year Award presentation, 73 and we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. |
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