Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1757 - April 15 2011

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1757 with a release date of
Friday, April 15, 2011 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T. A new record for optical communications by
ham radio is set in the UK, a special callsign prefix to celebrate the
upcoming royal wedding, 6 meters and digital modes may soon return in
France and World Amateur Radio Day is here this week. Find out the
details are on Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1757 coming
your way right now.


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RADIO RECORDS: UK HAMS SET NEW OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS RECORD

A new record has been set for optical communications by a group of
British hams. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, reports from Nottingham in the U-K:

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On 3rd April a new distance record set for optical communication by a
group of radio amateurs from North-East England.

The distance worked was just a few meters short of 90km. Signals were
exchanged on FM and SSB at remarkable strengths.

The contact was made from Race Head in County Durham, which is locator
IO94VS to Danby Moor near Whitby, which is locator IO84NK.

The team at Race Head included two stations, Stuart, G8CYW running the
transverter and LED transceiver of his design featured in recent
articles in RadCom, and Brian, G8KPD also running his version of the
designs, plus separate receive and transmit heads. The station on
Danby Moor was operated by Rob, M0DTS using his version of the
transverter featured in RadCom.

I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

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Truly a ham radio record that you had to have been there to see.
(GB2RS)

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HAM HAPPENINGS: HAM RADIO TO CELEBRATE ROYAL WEDDING

Amateur Radio in the UK will be a part of the upcoming royal wedding.
This with word that the Radio Society of Great Britain has made an
agreement with UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom for all UK Radio
Amateurs to use special callsigns for a period of eleven days beginning
on the date of the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
on April 29th.

Use of the special GR prefix will require UK hams to obtainer a waiver
called a Notice of Variation from Ofcom. This can be quickly obtained
via a simple process on the RSGB's website, where full details of the
arrangements can also be found.

UK amateurs wishing to use the special prefix should visit
www.rsgb.org.uk/weddingcall and follow the instructions found there.
The last date and time for application is 6.00 pm on April 25th. All
Notice of Variation will be provided by close of business on April
28th. No postal applications will be accepted and all of the special
permits will be sent by e-mail. (RSGB)

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RADIO POLITICS: AMSAT FRANCE LEADERSHIP VOTES TO DISSOLVE ORGANIZATION

AMSAT France appears to have disbanded. According to a notice
published in Frances URC News on Monday April 11th, 21 leaders present
at an Extraordinary General Assembly of AMSAT France voted the weekend
of April 9th to dissolve the organization.

The actual vote is reported as 11 votes in favor of going out of
business and 10 in favor of continuing. The short news release gave no
reason for the decision by AMSAT France to dissolve and go away. The
original press release, in French is on line at tinyurl.com/3spvx6l.
(URC News, F1MOJ)

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RESTRUCTURING: FRENCH NATIONAL SOCIETY SEEKS 6 METER ALLOCATION

Still in France, F1DUE, who is the president of the French amateur
radio national amateur society, the REF, reports that his efforts to
open the 6 meter band for his nations ham operators is ongoing.

As previously reported, last year the REF asked the French frequency
regulation authority ARCEP to once again reopen the 50 MHz allocation
that was suspended two years ago. Earlier this year the ARCEP informed
the REF that it would consider an allocation of 50.0 to 52.0 MHz for
use by French radio amateurs.

F1DUE says that the ARCEP placed this proposal on the agenda of the
Frequency Planning Commission which was held in March. However, as of
airtime, its still unknown as to when the change of the bandplan is
finalized and will come into effect. (Southgate)

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RESTRUCTURING: WORK CONTINUING ON LEGALIZING DIGITAL MODES IN FRANCE

Meantime, the group Digital Radioamateur France says that a March 11th
meeting between five French ham radio groups and telecommunications
regulator ARCEP. This, regarding the legalization of several new
digital could lead to changes to permit their use.

F1SHS is the president of Digital Radioamateur France. In a press
release he says that this meeting was a first step in building a new
relationship between ham radio and the French telecommunications
regulator regarding digital ham radio operations. He says that
organizing the get together was the result of 6 months working on a
shared document between those groups involved in getting digital modes
legalized in his nation. F1SHS thinks that this can also lead to an
even larger request from the ham community to ARCEP about three years
from now.

(F1SHS via Southgate)

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RESTRUCTURING: UKRAINIAN HAMS LOOSE FREQUENCIES ON HF AND UHF

Some restructuring news out of the Ukrane that's bad news for ham radio
operators in that nation. This, as the Ukrainian government has
affirmed new rules for amateur radio operations that have resulted in
spectrum losses on the High Frequency, UHF and microwave bands.

According to an e-mail from Alexander Doshchich, UY0LL, the spectrum
withdrawn from access by Ukranian hams includes 10.100 to 10.150 and
14.250 to 14.350 MHz on the HF bands. On UHF an above the losses
include 1240 to 1300 MHz, 2300 to 2450 MHz, 5670 to 5850 MHz and
numerous other spectrum slots right on up to 248 to 250 GHz. (UY0LL)

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ENFORCEMENT: MIAMI UNLICENSED BROADCASTER HIT WITH $20000 NAL

If you are operating an unlicensed radio station, don't advertise it on
the Internet. That's the lesson that Florida resident Marckenson
Bazile is learning the hard way as the FCC issues him a $20,000 Notice
of Apparent Liability for his alleged operation of an unlicensed radio
transmitter on the frequency 103.9 MHz from his residence in the city
of Miami.

According to the Commission's March 29th release, on June 16 2010 and
again on June 29 2010, Mr. Bazile is alleged to have operated an
unlicensed radio station on the frequency 103.9 MHz from his residence.
Information on the Internet also showed that Mr. Bazile served as a D-J
for a radio station on the frequency 103.9 MHz that the regulatory
agency says was an unlicensed operation.

The FCC says that because Marckenson Bazile knowingly operated the
station, it finds the apparent violation was willful. Because the
operation occurred on more than one day, it also finds the apparent
violation was repeated. Based on the evidence before it the $20,000 NAL
has been issued to Brazile. He was given the customary 30 days to pay
or to file an appeal. (FCC)

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THE BPL FIGHT: THE BBC REPORTS ON PLT INTERFERENCE TO BROADCASTING

The British Broadcasting Corporation has issued a report investigating
the potential interference to broadcast reception from Broadband over
Powerline devices which are known in Europe as Power Line
Telecommunication or PLT equipment used in the home.

The report says they operation of the PLT Power Line Adaptors caused
interference to indoor portable reception of both FM and Digital Audio
Broadcasts, in varying degrees from no effect to total disruption. The
report notes that the so-called digital cliff effect found in Digital
Audio Broadcast reception means that when interference occurs the
impact is extreme. The cliff effect is the all or nothing point in all
digital broadcasts where you either get pristine reception or none at
all.

But that's not all. The Power Line Adaptors were also found to disturb
reception of FM using an external antenna at one of the homes that was
surveyed. You can read the entire BBC Research White Paper at
downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp. (GB2RS)

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD: WORLD RADIO LABS FOUNDER LEO MEYERSON, W0GFQ
-S.K.

An era in amateur radio has come to an end. This with word that World
Radio Laboratories founder and owner Leo I. Meyerson, W0GFQ, has became
a Silent Key.

According to a news release from the Quarter Century Wireless
Association, Meyerson passed away on Wednesday, April 13th at the
Eisenhower Medical Center, near his summer home in Rancho Mirage,
California.

Leo Meyerson, was age 100 at the time of his passing. At airtime
funeral arrangements are pending. We will have more about the man and
his lifetime contribution to amateur radio in next weeks Amateur Radio
Newsline report. (ARNewsline)

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BREAK 1

From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world including the KA5GLX
repeater serving Clear Lake Texas

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RESCUE RADIO: SOCAL HAMS PROVIDE AID IN ANOTHER HOSPITAL PHONE OUTAGE

Two weeks ago, Newsline told you about a phone failure at Childrens
Hospital of Orange County and how hams quickly responded to help. Well,
it's happened again at another hospital there. Newsline's Joe Moell
K0OV is back to tell you the details and to explain why he's not
surprised at another outage.

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A group pager alert at 10:28 AM on April 5 brought members of the
Hospital Disaster Support Communications System to Saddleback Hospital
in Laguna Hills after a digital equipment failure caused the inbound
and outbound trunk lines to become inoperative. Again, the phone
number of HDSCS net control was given to Orange County Communications
agency so that ambulance companies and other hospitals could contact
Saddleback Hospital via ham radio. The outage lasted until 6 PM that
day.

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[audio from activation]

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Of the 115 times that HDSCS has been activated for communications
problems in Orange County hospitals, this was the 85th time that it was
due to switchgear or cable failure. Does it seem to you that Orange
County has an unusual number of hospital phone failures? Well, not
really. HDSCS leader April Moell, WA6OPS, talks to a lot of hospital
employees and disaster planners around the country who tell her that
they have their share of phone outages too. The causes range from
accidentally cut cables to computer failures and power surges. She
says that the difference is that most ham emergency groups around the
country don't prepare and plan to help in these single-hospital
incidents. They don't set up 24-hour alerting plans for the hospitals
to use to contact them quickly when phones go down, so they never get
the call. Often they don't have portable stations so they can go into
the individual hospital units such as the Emergency Department,
Pharmacy and so forth to provide unit-to-unit communications.

When a nurse on a hospital unit has an urgent need to contact a
patient's physician at his office or home, but the phones are down
because switchgear has failed or backhoe has dug up the cables, that's
just as severe an emergency as it would be after a hurricane or
tornado. So HDSCS plans to help hospitals whenever they need it, not
just when all else fails in a big natural disaster.

Orange County hospitals appreciate HDSCS because hams come when they
call and they can connect their staff members to the outside, no matter
the cause of the communications outage. WA6OPS thinks that other ARES
groups around the country should adopt this hospital support model,
which includes robust alerting plans for each hospital, regular
meetings with the hospital disaster planners, and ready-to-respond
members who are trained in the special terminology and communications
needs of medical facilities.

More information about HDSCS and its secrets of success are at the Web
site of the Hospital Disaster Support Communications System, or
HDSCS.ORG. From southern California, I'm Joe Moell K0OV for Amateur
Radio Newsline.

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Another time when ham radio is there when normal lines of
communications fail. (K0OV)

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PUBLIC SERVICE: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MAY 1 PROJECT BREAD WALK IN
BOSTON

Eric Horwitz, KA1NCF, tells Newsline that ham radio volunteers are
needed in the Boston, Massachusetts area. This in support of the
Project Bread Walk for Hunger on Sunday, May 1st.

Eric says that this will be the 43rd running of the event and hams are
needed to provide communications support for the Project Bread Staff
and volunteers along the 20 mile course.

If you are interested in helping please take your web browser to
www.mmra.org/wfh/ to log in and fill out the signup form. Questions go
by e-mail to wfh11(at)mmra (dot)org (KA1NCF)

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RADIO LAW: FCC CONSIDERING NEW COMPLEX TOWER RULES

The radio towers-are-killing-migratory-birds debate has moved to a new
stage at the FCC. This, as some conservation groups and other federal
agencies have prodded the Commission into considering changes that will
make its approval process for towers more complex.

And not just new towers are affected. David Oxenford is an attorney
with firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. He says that the new requirements
proposed by the FCC would affect modifications to existing structures
if there would be a substantial increase in size or even changes in
lighting.

Two major rule changes are up for public comment. The first is a
requirement to give local public notice of the construction of a tower.
The second is a possible requirement for an Environmental Assessment.

Oxenford notes that an Environmental Assessment is a document that must
be carefully prepared this is not routinely something that an
applicants can dash off on their own. What affect if any the passage
of these proposed requirements might have on small towers used by ham
radio operators on private property is unknown. (RW)

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HAM RADIO IN CYBERSPACE: NEW NOTE BOARD FEATURE ON QRZ.COM

The popular QRZ dot com ham radio website has added a very unique new
feature. Called the Note Board, it gives every QRZ member's callsign
access to an on-going collection of messages that are attached directly
to their callsign page.

According to QRZ founder Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, the new Note Board system
allows other members on your Friends List to leave messages on your
page. Optionally, you may designate an All Friends Mode that lets
everybody post to your page.

Lloyd says that each member has full moderation authority for their
Note Board and can add or delete postings whenever they like. And
regardless of whether you limit the posts to your friends or everybody,
you still get to block selected users from your page. (QRZ.com)

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HAM HAPPENINGS: 2011 AMSAT SYMPOSIUM AND ANNUAL MEETING

The 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting will be held November
4th to the 6th at the Wyndham San Jose in San Jose, California. The
AMSAT Board meeting will be at the same hotel on Thursday and Friday
November 3rd and 4th. A special hotel rate for attendees has been
negotiated that includes free Wi Fi, parking and airport shuttle. If
you are into ham radio space communications, then be sure to Mark your
calendars and plan to attend this event. (WA4SXM)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: WK3N RECEIVES RARE 160 METER WAZ AWARDED.

Some names in the news. First a word of congratulations to James
Scott, WK3N, of Hartstown, Pennsylvania. This on both achieving and
receiving his 160 meter Worked All Zones award. This award started in
1975 and less than 35 North American stations have ever achieved this
level.

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: WTVT REPORTER WARREN ELLY. W1GUD, ANNOUNCES HE WILL
RETIRE FROM WTVT TELEVISION THIS JULY

Warren Elly, W1GUD, who has been reporting news for Tampa Florida's
WTVT television is preparing to step away from the Fox-affiliate after
nearly 29 years with the station. Elly joined WTVT in 1982, after
reporting for Youngstown Ohio's WYTV. He quickly became known in the
Tampa area for his direct reporting style covering crime and politics.

Ham radio wise, Elly was first licensed in August of 1961 as WN1GUD. A
Connecticut native, Elly credits amateur radio as the motivation that
lead him to his career in broadcasting. He also worked in the amateur
radio industry with short detours into publishing with 73 Magazine,
manufacturing and marketing at DenTron and Original Equipment
Manufacturing Sales as KW Electronics. From there it was onto the
broadcast news business with Tampa's WTVT being his home base for close
to three decades.

According to his QRZ dot com bio, W1GUD's main amateur radio interest
is AM. He has operated that mode on 160, through 10 meters since 1967
and is with the Florida AM Group that meets nightly on 3655 Kilohertz
in the 75 meter band. He also enjoys working DX on SSB and CW. And
over the years he has reported several hobby radio related stories
right here on Amateur Radio Newsline.

Warren Elly also maintains a YouTube Channel for retro broadcast
transmitters and allied interests. Its in cyberspace
www.youtube.com/user/w1gud. His final day at WTVT is set for this
coming July 5th. (ARNewsline from Mediabistro, QRZ.com)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: ISS ASTRONAUT AND JETHRO TULL PERFORM FLUTE CONCERT

And NASA says that musical harmony reached new heights. This as
astronaut Cady Coleman, circling Earth aboard the International Space
Station, and musician Ian Anderson, founder of the rock band Jethro
Tull, collaborated for the first space-Earth duet.

Coleman is an amateur flutist. She and Anderson played a portion of
the song "Bourree," an arrangement of which Anderson and Jethro Tull
performed during their 1969 U.S. tour as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
stepped on the moon.

Coleman played her part from 220 miles above Earth. Anderson performed
his part while on tour in Russia. The two segments were then edited
together to form the finished piece.

Coleman and Anderson's performance saluted 50 years of human
spaceflight and the anniversary of the first launch of a human to
space. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed that milestone on April 12,
1961. You can see this out of the world flute concert at
tinyurl.com/3voo5ed. (NASA)

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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)

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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: THREE RETIRING SPACE SHUTTLES TO HAVE NEW HOMES

Four space transport vehicles, three of which have a close association
with amateur radio will soon have new homes. This after NASA announced
on Tuesday, April 12th the new retirement locations for the four
remaining space shuttles. Three that flew and the program's ground
based test vehicle. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in the Newsroom with the
details:

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According to NASA, the space shuttle Atlantis will be displayed at the
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The Endeavour will go
to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Discovery will makes
its home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Virginia
and the test shuttle, Enterprise, will be displayed on the Intrepid
Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

The announcement was made on the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle
program's first flight made by the ill-fated Columbia orbiter, and the
50th anniversary of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first
human in space. But it was the first manned ham radio operation by Dr.
Owen Garriott, W5LFL, from Columbia during mission STS-9 lead to the
creation of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment program which later
gave way to Amateur Radio on the International Space Station or ARISS
as its known today. Hence the close ties between ham radio and the
space shuttles.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the new
home of the spaceship Endeavour - Los Angeles, California.

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During the three decade span of the Space Shuttle program ham radio was
a part of many flights. And thanks in good part to former NASA
Administrator Jess Moore and the late NBC science correspondent Roy
Neal, K6DUE, amateur radio also severed as a back-up communications
system that was in place on shuttle flights should all other means
fail. (NASA, ARNewline Archives)

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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: KA2UPW NEEDS ARISSAT 1 AUDIO FILES

If you made a recording of the transmissions of the ARISSat One
satellite while it was operational from the International Space Station
in celebration of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagari's 50th spaceflight anniversary,
then ARISSat TLM author Douglas Quagliana KA2UPW wants to hear from
you. This, as he issues a request for ARISSat One audio recorded
between 14:30 UTC on April 11th and continuing until 10:30 UTC on April
13th.

If you are able to make a recording of the signals from ARISSat-1,
Douglas would be very interested in obtaining a copy. He is most
interested in the CW and BPSK signals, but if you were able to record
the voice and SSTV signals he would like to have those as well.

KA2UOW asks that you save your recordings as .WAV files. Please do not
use the popular MP3 format and don't convert the recordings into MP3.
This is because the MP3 format compresses the information to create a
smaller file and data is lost. He says to leave the recordings as
those large .WAV files and contact him by e-mail to
dquagliana(at)aol(dot)com for details on how to get the recorded files
to him. (KA2UPW/5)

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RADIO IN SPACE: A MORSE CODE ROVER FOR MARS

A Morse code Rover will soon be headed to the Red Planet. Well, at
least one marked in Morse. VK2LAW reports:

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) choose to put a pattern on the next
Martian Rover, named Curiosity. They are in a pattern of short squares
and longer rectangles on the wheels almost like dots and dashes in CW.

According to JPL, Curiosity is about the size of a small SUV
-- 10 feet long (not including the arm), 9 feet wide and 7
feet tall -- or about the height of a basketball player --and weighs
2000 pounds.

It features a geology lab, rocker-bogie suspension, a rock-vaporizing
laser and lots of cameras. Curiosity will search areas of Mars for past
or present conditions favorable for life and for conditions

It is set to launch between November 25 to December 18, 2011 from Cape
Canaveral, Florida and will arrive on Mars August, 2012. The prime
mission will last one Mars year, or about 23 Earth months

I'm VK2LAW reporting.

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And less we forget. We do know what the pattern of dots sand dashes
spells out. Simply the three letters JPL. (WIA News)

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RADIO SCIENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS FOR ARRL & TAPER DCC

Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the 30th Annual ARRL
and TAPR Digital Communications Conference slated for September 16th to
the 18th in Baltimore, Maryland. Papers will also be published in the
Conference Proceedings but you do not need to attend the conference to
have your paper included in the Proceedings. Also, papers will be
published exactly as submitted and authors will retain all rights.

The submission deadline is July 31st. Please send papers to Maty
Weinberg at the ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, Connecticut, 06111. You
can also submit them by e-mail to . (WB8IMY)

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ON THE AIR: CELEBRATING DJURDJEVEC CROATIA

On the air keep an ear open for special event station 9A11P to be
active through the end of the year. This, to celebrate the city of
Djurdjevac, Croatia. A special QSL will be issued and all QSOs will be
confirmed automatically via the bureau and electronically using Logbook
of the World. (OPDX)

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CONTEST CORNER: FLORIDA QSO PARTY MOVED TO APRIL 30 - MAY 1

And the date of this year's Florida QSO Party has been changed to the
weekend of April 30th to May 1st this year. The contest is normally
held on the 4th full weekend in April however this year that is Easter.
So the decision was made to slip it a week so as not to conflict with
family holiday plans. (Florida QSO Party)

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DX

In D-X, the Pacific-DXer's Web page is reporting that a callsign should
soon be issued and permission granted to a group of Polish hams to
operate from Nauru during January and February of 2012. This permit
will include 60 meters. The call requested is C-21-A.

VE3DZ will be on the air from Barbados as 8P9AA through May 1st.
Activity will be on all HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his
home callsign.

Also from Barbados, word that PY2XB, will be active as 8P9XB from St.
Philip, Barbados between May 8th and the 21st. Operation will be on 80
through 6 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. He will also have a 6 meter
beacon on at 50.099 MHz. QSL via PT7WA.

OH2YL will be active portable FJ from Saint Barthelemy between April
15th and the 27th. Activity will be on all High Frequency bands from
160 to 10 meters. He will be using CW only on a lower edge of all
bands. QSL via OH2YL direct or electronically using Logbook of the
World.

9N7DX and XYL 9N7YL will be operational from Nepal between April 13th
to the 30th. Operation is primarily on 20, 15, 10 and 6 meters using
CW, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via 4Z4DX.

And listen out for A25FC in Botswana from April 14th to the 18th.
Activity will be on 80 through 10 meters using CW, SSB, PSK and RTTY.
QSL via ON4CJK, either direct or via the bureau.

Lastly, HA5PP will once again be active stroke 5B from Cyprus during
the CQWW WPX CW Contest on May 28th and 29th. He will be a single
operator single band entrant but his band of choice has not yet been
announced. QSL via HA5PP.

(Above from various DX news sources)

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THAT FINAL ITEM: WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY ON APRIL 18

And finally this week, the International Amateur Radio Union, and its
member societies representing over 150 countries around the world, will
celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on Monday, April 18. The theme for
this year's celebration is "Amateur Radio: The first technology-based
social network." Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, tells us
about this years ham radio celebration:

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According to the IARU and the ARRL, long before the Internet and smart
phones existed, amateur radio operators had been talking, texting and
sharing their thoughts for decades. But unlike those commercial
services, amateur radio continues to attract people world-wide by
providing international communications for free. And because it does
not need pre-established supporting infrastructure, radio-savvy
amateurs can reach out to friends in every corner of the world and into
space as well.

Amateur Radio operators have been the leaders in developing many of
today's modern electronic and communications marvels. Today the
citizens of Earth think of wireless as being the ubiquitous cellular
phone - only made possible because of the pioneering work in radio
technologies first explored by these "amateurs". Many of our leading
electrical engineers draw from their practical experiences as Amateur
Radio operators as they continue to develop applications blending
computers and radios. Ham Radio operators may be "amateur" because
they are unpaid volunteers, but their skills and contributions to the
world are of the highest order.

Calling, texting or even using old Morse code on the Amateur shortwave
bands can result in chatting with other radio amateurs across town or
far across the oceans. While hams have repeatedly been in the news for
their life-saving communications services in disasters, a large part of
their activities is the excitement and joy of contacting distant and
remote areas of the world, learning directly about each others' regions
and lives and trying different ways to make radio contacts around the
world.

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

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Since 1925, the IARU has been instrumental in coordinating and
representing Amateur Radio to the world. For more information about
the International Amateur Radio Union please take your web browser to
www.IARU.org (IARU, ARRL)

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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
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And a reminder that the nominating period for the year 2011 Amateur
Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award is now open. Created by
Newsline back in 1986, this award is offered to recognize one young
United States or Canadian radio amateur age 18 or younger for his or
her contributions to society through Amateur Radio.

As in years past, the 2011 recipient will receive an expense paid trip
to the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville Alabama courtesy of
Vertex-Standard Corporation which produces Yaesu brand amateur radio
gear. Vertex-Standard will also present this years winner with a
special ham radio related gift. CQ Magazine will again treat the
recipient to a week at Spacecamp-Huntsville. We at Amateur Radio
Newsline will present the winner with a plaque honoring his or her
achievements.

All nominations and materials required by the official rules must be
received by ARNewsline before June 30, 2011. A downloadable nominating
form is at our website at www.arnewsline.org. A nominating form can
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Radio Newsline, Inc. 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita California
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Again, the cutoff date for this year's Young Ham of the Year Award
nominations is June 30th. We ask you to do your part by nominating a
young ham who has done something special related to ham radio. The
nomination form is at www.arnewsline.org

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

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