Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1557 - June 15, 2007

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1557 with a
release date of Friday, June 15, 2007 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T. Education combines
with public service in a California school, the
ARRL tries to solve ham radio interference to a
military radar system and a Field Day concert in
Sacramento. Well, kind of. Find out the details
on Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1557 coming your way right now.


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RESCUE RADIO MEETS EDUCATION: 47 NEW EM COMM TEEN HAMS IN CALIFORNIA

We start this week with a very positive story
with word that 47 eighth grade students in
California are now prepared to serve their
community in time of crisis using Amateur
Radio. This, thanks to a middle-school principal
and a teacher who saw the opportunity to combine
science and public service into a learning
experience for their students. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, lives in the area and has mo

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Representatives of the City of Calabasas, the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the American
Radio Relay League and other agencies were on
hand recently to congratulate 47 eighth-graders
at A.C. Stelle Middle School. This, after they
completed a class that lead to their getting the
Amateur Radio licenses as a part of the American
Radio Relay League's educational incentive known better as The Big Project.

The adoption of the Big Project into the Las
Virgenes Unified School District as an Amateur
Radio educational program was the brain child of
school Principal, Mary Sistrunk, and science
chairman, Karl Beutel. Beutel, who is KE6MAO,
kicked off the project in all six of his science
classes some time ago with a presentation and
demonstrations of radio, including communication
with other amateur operators using the schools
own radio station. He then offered the students
the opportunity to take an Amateur Service exam on-campus.

Meantime, emergency services groups are
supporting this project with hopes that it will
provide a source of communications volunteers.
Sheriff's Department Reserve Captain, Tom
Fakehany, N6FDR, says that these students are
likely the next generation of emergency
volunteers who will provide communications when
all else fails. County Disaster Communications
Service member Norm Goodkin, K6YXH, says that the
plan is to help organize these new hams into a
youth group. One with the ability to provide
emergency communications services to the school
and to the community in the the City of Calabasas.

Next semester, the 47 students plan to start an
amateur radio club at Calabasas High School,
along with the 17 new hams already there from
last year's project. According to Beutel, his
school nearly tripled the number of students who
earned their licenses from the program's inception last year.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, in Los Angeles.

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Beutel believes that this program is among the
largest groups of middle school students to ever
accomplish this. The honor of the largest middle
school ham radio licensing program thus far goes
to "The Bardstown Experiment," that was
chronicled in the October 1989 issue of QST
magazine. That article detailed how more than
60 middle-school students and two teachers
studied for and received their Novice class licenses. (ARNewsline(tm) via
E-Mail)

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WORLDBEAT - NEWFOUNDLAND: VO1MRC BEACON ON THE AIR

Turning to world news, word that the Marconi
Radio Club of Newfoundland will be conducting a
propagation experiment running a CW beacon on 5
point 269 MHz. This, using its VO1MRC station.

The beacon will be operational on June 15th and
16th from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC. VO1MRC will also
be open briefly for 2 way contacts. Starting
00:01 UTC each of these days it will operate on
5260.5 KHz using CW. Following this it will
transmit on 5327.5 and receive 5346.5 KHz using
Upper Sideband for stations authorized to
transmit on 60 meters. It will also operate on
3807.5 KHz Lower Sideband for other stations.

Further information may be found by searching for
VO1MRC on the World Wide Web. (VHF Reflector)

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WORLDBEAT - AUSTRALIA: NEW COMPETANCY STANDARD FOR HAM RADIO

New and closer ties between government, industry,
education and ham radio have come together
down-under. This, as a result of a new
Competency Standard exam in Amateur Radio being
made available to all citizens of
Australia. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of the WIA News has the details:

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The Commonwealth Department of Education Science
and Technology has endorsed a new competency
standard, called:-"Operate and maintain an
amateur radio communication station".

The standard approximates the syllabus for a
Standard amateur operators certificate of
proficiency. This means the there is now a
nationally recognised standard built around
amateur radio. This is a link between amateur
radio and education and industry. Competency to
this standard can be an element in an electro-technology qualification.
It certainly should make amateur radio as an
activity much more attractive to schools.

However, it is important to note that holding the
competency will not qualify the holder for an
amateur licence which still requires WIA
certification to ACMA of competency in the
theory, regulatory and practical elements of the syllabus.

WIA President Michael Owen VK3KI welcomed the
Departments endorsement, saying that he hoped
that schools would be encouraged to support
amateur radio activities and also acknowledged
the work of the WIA's Nominated RTO, Fred
Swainston VK3DAC in achieving this recognition of amateur radio.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp,
VK4BB, of the WIA News in Australia.

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The new competency standard may not bring a lot
of operators to the air but it should give the
citizens of Australia a better understanding of
what Amateur Radio is really all about. (WIA News)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: OCEAN TRAVLER W7KFI HEADS TO JOHNSTON ISLAND

Ham radio operator and ocean adventurer Susan
Meckley, W7KFI, has told the Ohio Penn DX
Newsletter that she is on her way to Johnston
Island and should be there by the time this
newscast goes to air. W7KFI plans to operate 80
through 10 meters on SSB and CW while on Johnston
and is usually at 36 Kilohertz above the bottom
of any band. She expects to be on Johnston
Island for about a week before heading to
Marshall Islands which is a 3 week voyage further South.

What makes this story unique is that Susan
Meckley is a 70 year old grandmother and the
skipper of the USS Dharma who has been sailing
all over the Pacific. This amazing lady has a
truly interesting story to tell and it is highly
recommend that you visit the following Web pages
to see where she has been:
http://ussvdharma.net and www.qrz.com/callsign/W7KFI (Southgate, OPDX)

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WORLDBEAT - NEW GUNIA: HAM RADIO REVITALIZATION IN P29

Still in the South Pacific, Papua New Gunia is
seeing a revitalization in its Amateur Radio
community. Jim Linton, VK3PC, has the rest of the story.

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A strong effort is being made to increase amateur
radio activity in Papua New Guinea and a recent
P29 CQ Day is only just the beginning.

Wilfred Kilepak Amai P29PG/VK3DWA initiated the
very successful special activity day outside the
Parliament Building in Port Moresby. There were
plenty of interested on-lookers.

The radio administration PANGTEL is supportive of
any steps to achieve a greater participation in amateur radio.

Wilfred says PANGTEL is aware of the Australian
licence restructure that occurred in October 2005
that includes the Foundation Licence, but has not yet followed suit.

Traditionally P29 has mirrored the VK licence
system, due to the strong relationship between
Papua New Guinea and Australia that was
established before it gained independence in 1975.

I'm Jim Linton VK3PC reporting for the Amateur Radio Newsline.

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Papua New Gunia could also soon have its first
ever female radio amateur. The unidentified ham
qualified for a license in Australia earlier this
year. She is now being by that nations
telecommunications regulator Pang Tel for a P29 callsign. (WIA News)

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Break 1

From Auckland, New Zealand and Los Angeles
California in the United States of America, we
are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin
stations around the world including the Douglas
County Amateur Radio Club's W0UK repeater serving Lawrence, Kansas.

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RADIO REGULATIONS: HAM RADIO VS. PAVE PAWS - CHAPTER 2

The ARRL has sent out more than 100 letters to
owners and trustees of 70 centimeter repeaters
whose systems have allegedly affected the
governments PAVE PAWS radar installations on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The letters
essentially tell these hams to lower the output
power of their repeaters to 5 watts and await
further notice from the FCC. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, reports:

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Citing an increasing number of interference
complaints, the US Air Force earlier this year
asked the FCC to order dozens of repeater systems
to either mitigate interference to Pave Paws
radar installations or to shut down. According
to the ARRL Letter, the situation affects 15
repeaters within less than 100 miles of Otis Air
Force Base on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and more
than 100 repeaters within some 140 miles of Beale
Air Force Base near Sacramento, California.

The ARRL is working with the Department of
Defense to develop a plan to mitigate alleged
interference from 70 centimeter ham radio
repeaters to this military radar system on both
coasts. The letters sent to affected repeaters
give them an up-to-date briefing on the ongoing
negotiations with the US Air Force, as well as
outlines the Department of Defense plan. The
Department of Defense has indicated a willingness
to try a mitigation proposal, but they have also
indicated their need is for these issues to be
resolved sooner rather than later. With that in
mind, the ARRL proposed an initial mitigation strategy. It works this way.

All repeaters on the Department of Defense list
in the affected areas will immediately reduce
power to 5 watt absolute maximum transmitter
power output. Each repeater licensee or trustee
should then immediately contact ARRL Regulatory
Information Specialist Dan Henderson, N1ND, to
confirm that this step has been taken.

Meantime, the ARRL will provide Longley-Rice
calculations for each repeater to the Department
of Defrense. For those who have never before
heard the term, Longley-Rice Calculations are
used to compute signal loss from a transmitter to
receiver along a particular path and terrain.

For its part, the Department of Defense will then
provide engineering data to the ARRL and
FCC. These studies will be reviewed by the
Department of Defense, the ARRL Lab and the FCC
to determine the amount of mitigation necessary for each repeater.

Based on this review by the Department of Defense
additional mitigation proposals for individual
repeaters will be provided by the ARRL as needed
to individual repeater owners. This might
include further power reductions, lowering of
antenna heights, use of more directive antennas
and other possible mitigation techniques. If
there is a disagreement on the conclusions, a
conference call will be held to resolve any outstanding issues.

All interference must be resolved no later than
August 1st. Beginning in August and continuing
on a periodic basis, the Department of Defense
will have a follow-up engineers study at each
PAVE PAWS Radar site to ensure corrective actions
have been taken and to ensure that successful mitigation continues.

The ARRL says that even with extreme measures,
its still possible that some repeaters in close
proximity to the PAVE PAWS sites may have to be
shut down permanently. If that happens, official
notice would come from the FCC. It is also
conceivable that some repeaters might be required
to operate permanently at a lower power level in
the areas near these Air Force bases. In those
cases, the League will be in contact with the
individual repeater owners with that information and the FCC will be
notified.

The bottom line: Its up to the ham community
near the two PAVE PAWS Radar installations to
make co-existance work. If the hams fail to do
so, then they could have their repeaters taken off the air for good.

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

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PAVE PAWS radar systems are used for national
security functions, including early detection of
water-launched missiles. The Amateur Radio
Service is a secondary user in the 420 to 450 MHz
band. As such, Amateur Radio licensees bear the
responsibility of mitigating or eliminating any
harmful interference to the primary user, which
in this case is the Government Radiolocation
Service that includes the PAVE PAWS Radar systems. (ARRL)

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MILITARY RADIO: EXPIREMENT AT MIRAMAR

An experimental authorization has been granted to
Northrop Grumman to operate in the 1850 to 1865
and 1930 to 1945 MHz bands. This,
to demonstrate a Battlefield Airborne
Communications Node for the U.S. Air Force. The
system will operate both fixed and mobile as well
as airborne at an altitude of 60,000 feet within
92 miles of Marine Corp Air Station Miramar near
San Diego, California. More about it is on-line
at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-273498A1.doc (CGC)

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RESCUE RADIO: NEW CELLPHONE SENSORS

The United States Department of Homeland Security
has reportedly launched an initiative asking the
wireless industry about the potential for
equipping a new generation of cellular telephones
with technology to scan and detect harmful
compounds in the environment and automatically
relay the readings to a central monitoring
point. According to the CGC Communicator, the
concept, known as "Cell-All," is said to have
attracted the interest of several companies, and
partnerships with handset manufacturers are being
discussed. More is on-line at
http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews1...002524221.html (CGC)

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FCC NEWS: BETTER ULS INTERFACE ASSISTS THE HANDICAPPED

The FCC has enhanced the usability of the
Universal Licensing System website for people with disabilities.

According to the Handi Ham Newsletter, in the
redesigned License Archive, the search interface,
results screen and detail pages will use the same
display as ULS License Search. On the detail
pages, users will directly access license information.

Handi Hams says that this attention to better web
design will help everyone navigate the ULS pages,
not just people with disabilities. Users are
able to access the new functionality via the
"Archives" button on the ULS homepage at:
http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/ (Handi Ham Newsletter)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: GET WELL WISHES TO QCWA PRES W3BE

Some names in the news. First some get well soon
wishes to QCWA President and 1991 Radio Amateur
of the Year John B. Johnston, W3BE. John is back
at his Maryland home recuperating from heart
bypass surgery on Thursday, June 8th. According
to word from the QCWA the operation went well and
he should be fine after his recovery period. Get
well wishes can be sent to W3BE at his callbook address. (ARNewsline(tm),
QCWA)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: JOHN HENNSEESS N1KB TO BE REMEMBERED AT FIELD DAY 2007

The ARRL is reporting that the Newington Amateur
Radio League in Connecticut will honor the memory
of long-time Handiham volunteer John Hennessee,
N1KB. This, at Field Day 2007 by using the special event callsign W1H.

John Hennessee died in 2006 at age 42. He had
worked at ARRL headquarters for 20 years and was
described as always patient and thorough in his
answers to our questions about rules and
regulations. The Field Day operation using the
W1H callsign is a tribute to his dedication to
the Amateur Service over his lifetime. (ARRL)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: N6R - A FIELD DAY CELEBRATION OF PRESIDENT AND MRS.
REAGAN

And listen out for a very special Special Event
station over Field Day weekend. This one
operating from the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library in Simi Vally, California as N6R.

This is the third consecutive year that the
Ventura County Amateur Radio Society will operate
from the library grounds . And once again they
will be joined by members of the Simi Settlers
Amateur Radio Club for what is fast becoming an
annual Field Day operation that also commemorates
the lives of President Ronald and Mrs. Nancy Reagan.

This is a prize contact not to be missed. QSL
N6R to N6ZE with Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
to his QRZ.com mailing address. (N6ZE)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS: A K9EID FIELD DAY CONCERT

This year will mark a different kind of Field Day
for ham radio's own Mr. Audio. This with word
that Bob Heil, K9EID, will spend Sunday, June
24th firing up the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ at
the Towe Auto Museum in Sacramento, California.

For those of you not aware, in addition to being
an inventor and researcher, Bob Heil is also a
well accomplished concert organist. And this
particular concert will actually be a reunion of
sorts between K9EID and the instrument on which he will be performing.

The gorgeous instrument which Bob will play was
originally installed in the St. Louis, Missouri.
Lowe's State theatre during the late 1920's. In
1958 it was removed and installed in Rugerri's
restaurant in St Louis where a then young Bobby
Heil played this very Wurlitzer for the
diners. The organ was moved to Sacramento were
pipes from the Hollywood home of the late
producer director Cecil B. De Mille were added to
make this spectacular sounding instrument.

The Sierra Chapter of the American Theatre Organ
Society is sponsoring this Sunday afternoon
concert. It begins at 2 P.M. Pacific time and
admission to it is free with a paid museum
admission. And during the program K9EID will
introduce songs from his latest CD titled "Bob
Heil at Home." This recently completed album
was recorded on his own 3 manual theatre organ
that is installed in his Illinois studio.

Again, that's Field Day Sunday, June 24th at the
Towe Auto Museum in Sacramento, California, for a
free theater organ concert by ham rafios's own
Bob Heil, K9EID. It should be a truly fun
afternoon. (Heil Sound Ltd. release)

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This is ham radio news for today's radio amateur.
From beneath the Southern Cross, 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:

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD: 73 TO "MR. WIZARD"

If you grew up in the 1950's and 1960's and had a
fascination with science, them you likely tuned
into a television program called "Watch Mr.
Wizard." For 30 minutes each week from 1951 to
1965, Don Herbert donned the persona of "Mr.
Wizard" to teach his legions of young viewers
about the magic of science in every day living.

Its not known if Don Herbert was a radio
amateur. Years ago there were stories
circulating that he held a W 9 call prior to
World War 2, but that's never been
established. No matter, Don Herbert as "Mr.
Wizard" is generally credited with helping to
build the United States base of baby boomer
technologists whose interest in science and
engineering was peaked by tuning into this
program. Some, credit their lifelong careers to
watching Mr. Wizard as they were growing up. And
one ham we know quite well got hooked in a big
way. While he was in college, Henry Feinberg,
K2SSQ, took a job with Mr. Wizard designing many
of the simple experiments that made kids want to
turn on and tune in. He says that Don Herbert's
key to success was to always keep science
understandable and use the kind of objects a
youngster might find around the house.

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Feinberg: "The first thing that I made after I
found out it was Mr. Wizard -- I had watched that
program while growing up -- was to take a piece
of Oak Tag (construction paper) , make it into a
cone, stick a darning needle on the end of it and use it as a phonograph."

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Keeping science simple was the real key to
Don Herbert's success as Mr. Wizard. As a
result, the show which was aimed at youngsters
between 8 and 13 received a Peabody Award in 1953
for the high quality of its youth
programming. And by the mid-1950's more than
100,000 children across the United States had
enrolled in 5,000 Mr. Wizard Science Clubs. And
such was the power of Don Herbert on America's
youth that during the 1960's and 1970's, about
half the applicants to Rockefeller University in
New York cited Mr. Wizard when asked how they
first became interested in their chosen careers.

After his children's program went off the air,
Don Herbert remained in television science
programming with general-audience shows like "How
About" and "Exploration." NBC revived "Watch Mr.
Wizard" for one year in the early 1970's. In the
1980s, Don Herbert reprised his children's shows
with "Mr. Wizard's World" on the Nickelodeon cable network.

Don Herbert never really retired. Always
dedicated to the education of America's youth, in
recent years he established a website where he
made may past shows and his science training
materials available to the general public. And
it was on that website where his family posted
the sad news that he had passed on Tuesday
morning, June 12th . Don Herbert -- "Mr. Wizard" -- was 89.

Additional informatiuon from the Mr Wizard
Studios website: For those of you who would like
to share your thoughts on Don Herbert or anything
Mr. Wizard related, the family has added a
guestbook for your convenience. Also added is a
new blog. Both Can be reached by links on the
http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/ home
Pge. (ARNewsline(tm) from published reports.)

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ON THE AIR: COMMEMORATING 70 YEARS OF TRANS ATLANTIC FLIGHT

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first
transatlantic passenger test flight, a special
re-enactment flight is planned by Captain Patrick
White and his son Ian. The two will be flying
their "Vintage Lady", a PBY Catalina Flying Boat,
from Botwood Newfoundland to Foynes, Ireland, on
the 5th and 6th of July. To celebrate this
event, Ireland's Limerick Radio Club has been
invited by the Foynes Flying Boat Museum to
operate a special Amateur Radio station in
conjunction with the commemorative reenactment of
the 1937 flight. EI70FOY will be on the air from
the 6th to the 8th of July on 80 throuhgh10
meters as well as locally on VHF and UHF. A
special QSL card, commemorating the flight, will
be sent to all stations worked over the three
days . All QSL cards should be sent to the Club's
QSL Manager Alan Cronin EI8EM at his callbook address. (Southgate)

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ON THE AIR: 2ND REGIMENT HELICOPTER COMMEMORATIVE

And another special event station is TM2RHC. It
will be active from 10th to 24th of June before
and during an air show at Le Luc le Cannet,
France. QSL via F4EUN. The call letters TM2RHC
stands for 2nd Regiment Helicopter Combat. QSL
as directed by the operators. (OPDX)

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THE CONTEST CALANDER: IARU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIO - JULY 14 - 15 UTC

In radiosport news, this years annual IARU HF
World Championship will be held during the
24-hour period from 1200 UTC Saturday, July
14th to 1200 UTC Sunday, July 15th. Because
this is unusually late in the month for the event
to occur, there has been some confusion about the
dates. So again the correct dates are the 14 and
15 of July in UTC time. Complete rules are on
line at www.iaru.org/contest.html (Via E-Mail)

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DX

In D-X, word that the The Polish 3B6 Agalega
Islands DXpedition Team will be operating until
the 18th of June. Team leader SP9MRO says that
the group's call sign is 3B6DX. For more details
and updates, visit www.3b6.godx.eu

ON4LO, will be active portable C T from a couple
of Portuguese lighthouses until 29th
June. Thoise hes putting on the air are Cabo de
Sao Vincente and Ponta Sagres. He plans to
operate SSB and digital modes on 10 to 40 meters. QSL as directed on the
air.

The White Tower DX Team's operation from Skyros
Island is expected to take place from 16th to
22nd June. Nine operators will be active as SY8WT
with six stations, five amplifiers and a wide
range of beams, verticals and dipoles. QSL via
SV2HPP, direct or via the bureau.

(Above from various DX news sources)

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THAT FINAL ITEM: FIGHTING THE 10 METER FREEBAND INVASION

And finally this week, if you are wondering what
all those conversations without call signs are on
28.085 MHz, well it appears to be a small
invasion of unlicensed truckers and so called
Freeband operators of our 10 meter band. We have more in this report:

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Originally confined to portions of the mid-West,
the pirate trucker and Freeband epidemic appears
to be spreading nationwide. This, as more and
more of these illegal operators are making their
unauthorized home on 28.085 Megahertz and several other 10 meter
frequencies.

And what is the Amateur Radio community doing
about this invasion? On the surface at least,
very little. With the upper High frequency bands
not offering very much D-X these days, the
majority of hams are sticking to 20, 40 and 80
meters with few stations heard in the 15, 12 and
10 meter spectrum. So the truckers and
Freebanders see this is fair game for their
unlawful operations and are busy establishing
squatters rights in these bands.

What about the FCC? Well its doing what it
can. There have been several well publicized
violation notices sent to trucking
firms. They request owners to instruct their
drivers to curtail any operations for which they
are not licensed and threatening punitive action
such as fines. But that's about it. With the
FCC enforcement folks stretched thin and Freeband
operations being among the lowest of priorities
on the enforcement agenda, there is no reason to
believe that there is going to be any sort of
massive sweep by the Federal government to clear
these pirate operators out of the ham radio bands.

In the end, it will be the ham radio community
that will have to defend these frequencies. And
it does that by using them. If hams load up 10
meters or any band with legitimate Amateur Radio
operations, there will be no place for the
illegals to play and they will go elsewhere.

In the case of 28.085, there have been
suggestions that this frequency become a national
C-W or RTTY Calling Channel. That's a pretty
good approach. Another is for every ham with the
capability of operating 10 meters to start
holding QSO's on that frequency. As any Morse
enthusiast will tell you, C-W can get through
even when faced with all sorts of QRM including pirate operators using
voice.

The bottom line. if licensed radio amateurs fill
up 10 meters even for local chats, the truckers
and Frreebanders will soon be looking elsewhere for a new home.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Evi Simons, in New York.


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About two decades ago, then 73 Magazine editor
Wayne Green, W2NSD, coined the phrase "Use it or
loose it." Back then it was applied to the
pending transfer of 220 to 222 MHz away from
Amateur Radio. Today the same words ring
important in fighting those without licenses who
are trying to take 10 meters forcibly from
hams. (ARNewsline(tm), QRZ.com, listener input)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE

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