Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1572 -September 28, 2007
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1572 - September 28, 2007
NOTICE: Due to the fact that key Newsline personnel will be attending the QCWA convention in Colorado, next weeks newscast number 1573 will be delayed by about 48 hours. Look for it to be released at about noon, Sunday October 7th, Pacific time. Our normal Friday release schedule will resume with newscast 1574 on October 12th. ** Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1572 with a release date of Friday, September 28, 2007 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a Q-S-T. The National Frequency Coordinators' Council asks the FCC to declare all digital voice repeaters follow the same rules as analog F-M repeaters, Australia makes ready for digital voice operations and four New England repeaters voluntarily shut down over interference to Pave Paws radar. Find out the details on Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1572 coming your way right now. (Billboard Cart Here) ** RADIO LAW: NFCC ASKS FCC TO DECLARE DIGITAL VOICE REPEATERS THE SAME AS ANALOG Is a digital voice repeater really a repeater or is it something else yet to be defined in law? The National Frequency Coordinators' Council believes that anything that repeats voice in close to real time is a repeater, and its now asked the FCC to declare this to be the case. Jay Maynard, K5ZC, is president of the NFCC. He explains the back story that lead his organization to act: -- K5ZC: "When D-Star started really taking off, somebody wanted to put up a D-Star repeater. He went to his local coordination council and wanted to put up a 2 meter D-Star repeater. He went to his local coordination council but was told no because we do not have any frequencies available for you. In desperation -- I don't know if that's a truly accurate word but its close enough -- they (the want to be repeater owners) went to the FCC and described what D-Star did in such a way that the FCC -- specifically Bill Cross -- concluded that a D-Star repeater really wasn't a repeater and therefore did not have to operate in the repeater subbands." -- That night be all well and good if it were only D-Star and other digital repeaters that fell into this category. Unfortunately, many of today's analog FM systems also include a slight audio delay to facilitate control or linking. And it soon became apparent that this opinion by Bill Cross could lead to a lot of problems on the VHF and UHF bands: -- K5ZC: "This guy said 'fine' and he put his machine up on 145.61MHz with a minus 1.2 MHz offset and went to town That gave D-Star a foothold in that area, but it also opened up a real can of worms because the way that Bill Cross wrote the message, he said that its not simultaneous because there is a delay in the path between the input and the output. The problem there is that lots of (analog) repeaters have delays between the input and the output. Anyone that's running an RC-850 (controller) or other computerized controller has a delay. And it was only a matter of time before some bright spark read that message and said: 'Ah hah! My repeater does not transmit simultaneously either. Its not a repeater and I can get on outside the repeater subbands and go to town-" -- And that's what had frequency coordinators concerned. They did not want to see a return to the repeater turf wars that marked the early days of FM relay operation: -- K5ZC: "In the late 1960's and early 1970' there was a lot of proliferation of repeaters. That was really the 'golden age' of repeater construction. And in that era is when frequency coordination first came about because you had people wanting to put their repeaters up all on the same frequency, and that did not work very well -- as you might imagine. Part of the regulation that came down to stem that tide was restricting repeaters to parts of the ham bands so that they wouldn't take over the entire band. After all, there are folks that do other things than operate FM repeaters on 2 meters and on some of the other bands and they have just as much right to operate on the ham bands as repeater operators do. And that's where the restriction (of repeaters) to certain subbanbds comes from." -- After debating the matter for several months as more and more digital voice systems took to the air, the majority of NFCC members agreed that it was imperative for them to let the FCC know that they believe any device that retransmits an audio signal in near to real time is a repeater and should be treated as such.-- -- K5ZC: "What the NFCC did was vote to ask the FCC to treat anything that asks like a repeater, as a repeater. This was a formal motion and vote of the council." -- Specifically, the letter states that the NFCC believes that any amateur station, other than a message forwarding system, that automatically retransmits a signal sent by another amateur station on a different frequency while it is being received, regardless of any delays in processing that signal or its format or content, is a repeater station within the meaning of paragraph 97.3(a)(39) of the FCC rules and should be treated as such. In practical terms, it means that D-Star, APCO 25 and any other repeatable digital voice system that comes along would be restricted to operation in the FCC recognized repeater subbands. That they could not simply set up shop on any frequencies that the system owner might choose to the detriment of weak signal, satellite or any other user of any ham radio band. It's an action likely to be lauded by groups like those just mentioned but likely will be condemned by those wanting to put up digital voice repeaters. If the FCC finds itself agreeing with the NFCC, then it will mean digital voice relay enthusiasts will have to get in line behind all of the others waiting for repeater pairs for their old line F-M systems. ** MORE WITH K5ZC ON THE RAINREPORT Obviously we have only scratched the surface of this controversial topic. If you want to learn more, take your web browser over to www.therainreport.com. That's where you will find Part 1 of a two-pard in-depth interview with NFCC President Jay Maynard, K5ZC. Again that's www.therainreport.com or on the phone at area code 773-358-7845 (ARNewsline(tm)) ** EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: AUSTRALIA MAKES READY FOR D-STAR The United States is not the only place where digital voice repeaters are coming of age. Australia's National Technical Advisory Committee or NATC has been considering how best to accommodate narrow band digital voice technologies such as D-Star. They have now made a number of proposals. Peter Young, VK3MV, of the WIA News reports: -- Firstly, in the 2 meter band, digital repeaters will be assigned to frequencies in the 146 to 147 MHz band, using the space between existing FM repeater channels. This is known as inter-leaving and is a common method of assignment to increase spectrum efficiency. The are some compelling reasons to take this approach for 2 meters, one is to remove the potentially annoying "drone" of digital signals, and secondly, the lack of normal FM repeater channels in some parts of Australia. It also seems to make sense to have the uniform arrangements across all of Australia. The arrangements for simplex operations, again to separate digital and FM emissions, NTAC has recommended the best area for simplex D-Star activity would be the 145 MHz segment. One suitable channel that is clear of other use is 145.125 MHz and should be used as the national simplex digital channel. On 70cms, where there is less congestion, NTAC has recommended that the first fifteen repeater channels, that is, 438.025 to 438.375 MHz, be used for D-Star type activity. NTAC has recommended that the arrangements for simplex activity on 70cm be centred on a national channel of 438.900 MHz, with secondary channels 12.5 KHz either side of the national channel. For the 23cm band, NTAC has recommend that repeater channels be assigned in the high end of the 1293 to 1294 MHz repeater segment. And on the 23cm, there is already a digital simplex segment between 1298 and 1300 MHz. As D-Star on this band uses a 128 KHz emission bandwidth, it is suggested that channels are spaced at 200 KHz intervals, beginning at 1298.1 MHz. I'm Peter Young VK3MV -- Australia's National Technical Advisory Committee will review these arrangements as D-Star digital activity develops. Further information can be found on the W-I-A website and will be included in the next edition of the WIA call book. (WIA News) ** ENFORCEMENT: HAMS HELP NAB FLORIDA BURGLERS Back in the U-S, three Florida juveniles who allegedly used Amateur Radio gear to coordinate at least one burglary and possibly more have been taken into custody. This, after two they showed up on a wide area repeater that two hams were monitoring. One of them was a retired police officer. It all started back on September 8th . Albert Moreschi, AG4BV, of Jupiter Farms and John Levey, KI4HTL, of Palm Beach Gardens, were listening to the repeater when some unexpected transmissions were heard. Some unlicensed operators showed up and what they were talking about caufght KI4HTL's ear. As a retired police officer, Levey, he knew what it was being discussed. So he began recording the radio transmissions from the suspects while he and Morsechi notified local law enforcement. Unfortunately, the would-be burglars didn't describe the house well enough to get the exact address. Then on September 21st the same group of bootleggers again showed up on the repeater. It was evident to Levey what was happening, so he again began recording the transmissions while coordinating with Morsechi by cellphone. Meantime, the owner of the house being burglarized was huddled in her bedroom closet, calling sheriff's deputies for help. They arrived on scene and the hams listening to the repeater knew it because the last transmission from the suspects was "Code Red, Code Red, Code Red. There are cops everywhere, dude!" But for Levey, the work didn't end with the suspects arrest. He then headed to the Jupiter Farms Sheriff's Office substation where one of the suspects had been taken. KI4HTL identified himself as a former police officer and a ham radio operator. He told the deputy on duty that he had recordings of the suspects radio transmissions. The Sheriff's Office is now in possession of the tapes. Oh yes. We forgot to mention that the repeater that the suspects chose to use has coverage Boynton Beach to Port St. Lucie. That's several hundred square miles. Its also a Citizens Emergency Response Team Repeater so there is always someone listening in. (Palm Beach Post, others) ** Break 1 From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world including the WB2FKZ repeater serving West Babylon New York. (5 sec pause here) ** HAM RADIO VS.THE MILITARY: THE LATEST ON PAVE PAWS The reduction of interference to the governments Pave Paws radar on the 70 centimeter band has taken its first toll. This, even as the ARRL works toward finding a solution that will appease the military and the Department of Defense in eliminating interference to its Pave Paws radar system. Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Carlson, KQ6FM, in Reno, has mo -- Chris Smith, K1CJS, reports via eHam dot net that at least four U-H-F repeaters have terminated their operation. All are in Massachusetts and located within 30 miles of the East coast Pave Paws radar site. The machines now gone are the Barnstable Repeater on 442.950, the Dennis Repeater on 443.500, the 443.800 machine at Dartmouth and the Falmouth Repeater on 444.250 MHz. Smith adds that other repeaters, including the 447.825 system in Coventry, Rhode Island, are likely soon to follow. Meantime the ARRL Letter says that the League participated with the Department of Defense in a teleconference call on Wednesday, September 19th, regarding Amateur Radio repeaters interfering with the Air Force's Pave Paws radar system. According to Regulatory Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND, the Department of Defense acknowledged that it has seen changes at some repeater sites, but not all of them. He confirmed that some Massachusetts repeater owners have volunteered to completely turn off their systems. Others have made changes, but more is needed at both of the nations two Pave Paws radar sites. Meantime, the Department of Defense has identified additional sources of interference in Massachusetts. Henderson says that this was not really unexpected and is part of what has become an ongoing project. He says that the ARRL will begin working with these repeater owners as soon as the Department of Defense provides the League with specific information. In California, where more than 100 repeaters are being scrutinized Henderson said the majority of these systems have not been mitigated. That's because the Air Force has not had a chance to revisit Beale Air Force Base for new measurements, but it will be happening soon. Meantime, reports circulating that a number of California repeater owners have decided to take no further action about eliminating the interference unless they receive official notice from the Federal Communications Commission have proven to be false. California repeater owner operators appear more than willing to cooperate in any way necessary, but they need guidance on what to do next. As soon as they receive directives, they will be taken care of. Repeater owner operators are usually good about handling such things. For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Carlson, KQ6FM, in Reno. -- The real problem on the Western horizon may turn out to be those repeater users who are disenfranchised as their favorite systems. This, as repeaters reign in coverage of leave the air all together. More and more reports are surfacing of hams in the affected area installing high power UHF amplifiers to try to keep in contact with the same group they used to talk in over a repeater. From the standpoint of interference mitigation, its a lot easier to deal with 10, 20 or even 100 repeaters whose location is cast in concrete than it is thousands of high power mobile operators wandering the roads in the same geographic zone. (ARNewsline(tm), ARRL, eHam, K1CJS) ** RESCUE RADIO: JOINT CANADA - USA EMCOMM PREPAREDNESS EVENT A demonstration of cooperation in emergency communications preparedness between Canadian radio amateurs and those in the United States was being planned for September 29th and 30th. This, with the installation of special event station VO1ARES at historic Signal Hill, in St. John's, Newfoundland. The objectives of the event is three-fold. First, is to highlight the capabilities of Amateur Radio in providing emergency communications in times of crisis. Also, to illustrate the cooperation between Canada and the United States on emergency preparedness. Lastly, to create a database of communications ‘first responders' that the Government of Canada can contact for emergency communications assistance in times of crisis. Sponsors are Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and Radio Amateurs of Canada. Facilities, provided by Parks Canada, are being coordinated by the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs. The site is the Marconi memorial station on Signal Hill where reception of the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission occurred in 1901. This is the first time an official activity of its type has been conducted and radio amateurs from all across Canada and the U.S. A. were invited to participate and to talk up the value of Amateur Radio as a valuable community resource. (RAC) ** RESCUE RADIO: RAYNET ASSISTS AT UK PLANE CRASH The United Kingdom's South Sussex RAYNET group were on hand to help when a plane crashed at the recent Shoreham Airshow. Jeramy Boot, G4NJH, has the details: -- Each year an emergency plan is rehearsed and refined, in the hope that it will never be needed. However on the weekend 15th and 16th September that practice paid off. On the Saturday a Hurricane nose-dived into the ground, killing its pilot instantly. The incident happened off-field, and no one else was involved. Two members of the team who witnessed the incident informed Control, who put everyone on high alert. The emergency channel sprang into use. The pre-prepared messages and procedure for Incident Off Field was broadcast, and acknowledgements sought from all on that net. This resulted in all access and departure gates being closed, all senior safety and administrative personnel being briefed. The PA Caravan being informed, and members of the public kept aware of the situation. Jeramy Boot, G4NJH -- Shortly after the accident, a group of Spitfire aircraft flew the 'man missing' formation. This, in tribute to the downed pilot. (GB2RS) ** RECUE RADIO: DARC OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO GERMAN AUTHORITIES The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club has sent a letter to the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance. This to offer Amateur Radio assistance in cases of emergency. In a letter signed by president Jochen Hindruchs, DL9KCX, the German national society underlines the fact that Amateur Radio stations are technically independent and that the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club structure with districts and local clubs fits the communications needs of the regional authorities. (Southgate) ** HAM RADIO ON THE WEB: NEW UK D-STAR WEBSITE Icom U-K is in the process of creating up a new website in the United Kingdom for D-Star users. Located in cyberspace at www.d-staruk.co.uk, the site will be content rich and will be a comprehensive guide to D-Star related including sections about the history, features and technical matters regarding the D-Star system. Also included will be links to some successful forums that have already built-up a wealth of information about setting up and running a D-Star system. Again that URL is www.d-staruk.co.uk (Icom UK) ** HAM RADIO PROMOTION: MGM FILM PRESENTS RADIO HAMS A film from Metro Goldwayn Mayer that promotes Amateur Radio has surfaced on the Internet. Produced in 1939 by Pete Smith, "Radio Hams centers on a family called to dinner. All but the teenage son respond. When family members go looking for him, one by one they are snared into a world of ham radio high adventure. One that includes a rescue in Alaska and a tragic search for a downed aircraft at sea. Unlike most films promoting ham radio, this one is not a documentary. It's a fully scripted 10 minute dramatic presentation featuring a cast of professional actors well directed by Felix Fiest. E. Mauriece Adler is credited with writing the screen play. "Radio Hams" is really a nostalgic look back at ham radio the way it never was, You can see it on-line at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4 (YouTube) ** THE SOCIAL SCENE: THE 2007 QCWA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION IN COLORADO The 2007 QCWA International Convention takes place October 4th through the 7th at the Doubletree Hotel in Denver. Seminars on Friday and Saturday, include Station Grounding Procedures, Health and Safety Tips in the Shack, Amateur Radio Operations from the South Pole, an IARU Update, the QCWA Forum and much more. Friday night's Meet & Greet will feature The 4th U.S. Artillery Regimental Brass Band for your listening pleasure. More information is on-line at qcwa-58.rmhcn.org/convention/ (QCWA) ** THE SOCIAL SCENE: ROCK HILL HAMFEST OCT. 6 IN S.C. The 53rd Annual Rock Hill Hamfest and Computer Expo takes place on Saturday, October 6th at the Rock Hill American Legion Post 34 and the York County Fairgrounds in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Gates open at 7am with V-E License Testing starting at 10am. Talk-in is on the 147.03 MHz repeater. More information is on-line at www.rockhillhamfest.com (eHam) ** THE SOCIAL SCENE: HALL OF SCIENCE HAMFEST IN NY ON OCT 7 The Hall of Science Amateur Radio Club Hamfest takes place on Sunday, October 7th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time. The venue is the New York Hall of Science Museum Parking Lot located in New York City's Flushing Meadow Corona Park. Talk in is on the 444.200 repeater with a 136.5 hz. Tone access or on 146.52 simplex. More information is on-line at www.HOSARC.org (Via e-mail) ** 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) ** NAMES IN THE NEWS: HAMS TO HEAD OPERATIONS AT TWO NASA CENTERS Veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa, KB5TZZ, who has been named Deputy Director of NASA's Johnson Space Center. Ochoa has served as Director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson. She will succeed Bob Cabana, KC5HBV, who was named Director of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. According to an ARRL release, Ochoa and Cabana have each flown in space four times. Ochoa flew on space shuttle missions STS-56 on Discovery in 1993, STS-66 on Atlantis in 1994, STS-96 on Discovery in 1999 and STS-110 on Atlantis in 2002, logging a total of 978 hours in space. She became Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson in December 2002 and Director of Flight Crew Operations in September 2006. Cabana has logged more than 1010 hours in space. He served as pilot on STS-41 in 1990 and STS-53 in 1992, both on Discovery. He was mission commander on STS-65 on Columbia in 1994 and STS-88 on Endeavour in 1998, the first International Space Station assembly mission. (ARRL, NASA) ** CHANGING OF THE GUARD: TOM ATKINS, VE3CDM - SK Amateur radio has lost a great ambassador and advocate. This with the sad news that former ARRL Canadian Division Director and IARU Region 2 President Tom Atkins, VE3CDM, passed away Tuesday, September 18. Atkins was the last Director of the ARRL's Canadian Division before the Canadian Radio Relay League began to operate independently in 1988. The CRRL eventually gave way to today's Radio Amateurs of Canada.. VE3CDM also served for two terms as President of Region 2 of the international Amateur Radio Union . He also served on the IARU Administrative Council and as an IARU Expert Consultant. In addition to his work with IARU, Tom Atkins was a QCWA Life Member as well a member of Wild Rose Chapter 151. He was the President of the Fred Hammond Chapter 73. Tom Atkins, VE3CDM, dead at age 82. (RAC, ARRL, QCWA) ** HAM RADIO IN SPACE: SCOUTS ASSIST IN SUIT-SAT 2 PROJECT A group of young scouts are going into space. At least they are headed there vicariously. On Saturday, September 15th, approximately 58 boys, ages 6 to18 in Maricopa, Arizona met to assemble two non-flight safety boxes for SuitSat-2. The scouts from Cub Scout packs 983, 977, 778, 997, troop 993 and ham radio explorer post 599 also drew pictures to be included on the SuitSat-2 DVD. As an addeed bonus, the older boys were also taught how to solder and lace cables. Photos from the Explorer Scouts working this project can be found on line at http://www.briansnapped.com/content/pics/SuitSat_2007/ (ANS) ** HAM RADIO IN SPACE: CELEBRATING SPUTKIK 1 AMSAT-North America will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Russia's first Sputnik artificial satellite with a special event on AO-51 on the evening of Wednesday, October 3rd local U-S time. To commemorate the occasion, AO-51 will rebroadcast original Sputnik telemetry and a congratulatory message to mark the event during passes over North America on the evening which translates to October 4th UTC. At this time, only the passes over North America will be able to carry the special event. (ANS) ** RADIO IN SPACE: LOOKING FOR THE TINIEST LIGHTS IN THE SKY Speaking about radio from space, when you look up at the night sky you see the brightest stars in the firmament. But astronomers and radio astronomers see lots more. Burt Hicks, WB6MQV, has their latest discovery: -- An international team of astronomers has uncovered the faintest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the team took hundreds of high-resolution photos that were then radioed back to Earth. The astronomers then compared the images pixel-by-pixel to identify the dimmest stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6397. The researchers say that the light from these faint stars is so dim that it is equivalent to that produced by a birthday candle on the Moon, as seen from Earth. -- Now those are truly faint stars! (Space & Science) ** WORLDBEAT - SOUTH AFRICA: RTA PRESENTATIONS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WEB The first of the presentations made at the South African Radio League's Radio Technology in Action days are now available on the web. The presentations are in PDF format and can be downloaded for printing or viewing on screen. The URL is www.sarl.org.za, click on activity and then on RTA. The South African Radio League also invites everyone to visit the RTA section of the web regularly as presentations will be added over the next few weeks. (Southgate) ** WORLDBEAT - UK: NEW LOOK FOR BARTG MAGAZINE AND WEBSITE The British Amateur Teledata Group also known as BARTG, has undergone some changes recently. The group now has a new website www.bartg.org.uk which offers extra features. It also gas a brand new look for irs Datacom magazine. (GB2RS) ** DX In D-X, woird that a large group of Dutch amateurs will be going to Qawra, Malta for their 20th holiday DXpedition. They will operate on 80 through 6 meters using CW, SSB and digital modes until September 30th. Listen out for the special callsign 9H20 and QSL via PB9ZR. And the city of Cotacachi, Ecuador will be the temporary Q-T-H of EA1APV operating portable HC1. This through the 20th of October. Reports are that Marcos is working there so ham radio occupies only very little of his spare time. QSL via his home call. And the U-K's Border Amateur Radio Society is planning an on the air operation as GS0BRS and GX0BRS through 29th December. Activity will be on HF and VHF. For more details contact Ray Evans, GM0CDV. Lastly, SU8BHI will be the Egyptian callsign of HA3JB through November 30th. He plans to work CW, RTTY, SSTV, PSK and a little SSB on all of the H-F bands. QSLs only direct to HA3JB. (Above from various DX news sources) ** THAT FINAL ITEM: THE FRIENDLY QSO PARTY Turning to the world of radio sports, the Pennsylvania QSO Party is celebrating it's 50th anniversary as the Friendly QSO Party. The dates this year are October 13th and 14th. Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark Abramovich, NT3V, has mo -- Next to California's state party, Pennsylvania's is one of the most active fall events on the bands. Michael Coslo, KB3EIA, is PA QSO Party chairman. "Participation has been steady," Coslo says. "We keep track of the number of logs that have been submitted and we have been just about the same for the last four, five years, which is interesting because participation does tend to go down and up with the sunspot cycle." Coslo says lots of people are participating in the party and he'd like to see some more logs. "We know there's a lot more activity out there than from what the log submissions have been and I know there are some people who I've seen their call signs in the logs, they would have actually won their county if they had submitted a log," Coslo says. "So, we try to encourage everybody, even though it's at the low ebb of the sunspot cycle to send in a log because we're all playing in the same pond, so to speak." Coslo, who has been chairman of the PA Party for the past few years, says this is the year he and the Nittany Amateur Radio Club, sponsor of the event, decided to tackle the rules. "We had always tried to keep things simple and down to one page. But, finally decided that with the demand for clarification I was going to start defining things. And, it's been a good thing. We now have a lot of things that there used to be questions asked every year that things are pretty well defined. But it also makes the rule pages a lot larger. We went from one page to eight pages." But Coslo says among the rules you'll find a few nice changes. "We've added SSB-only class which there had been some call for that since we offer a CW-only class," Coslo says. "And, we've also added what's called a 'Good Neighbor Plaque.' "This was started to encourage operation on 20 meters because some of our friends in places like Florida and California, other places out West - they'd like to get involved in the party, too. And, what we need is operators from Pennsylvania to be working them." He says last year's experiment with digital modes will continue with operations on RTTY and PSK 31. The best place to find out more about the PA QSO Party is by going to the group's website at http://www.nittany-arc.net/paqso.html For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, in Philadelphia. -- Again, the dates this years Pennsylvania QSO Party are October 13th and 14th. Hope to hear you on the air. (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 W-I-A 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. Before we go, one quick announcement. Due to the fact that key Newsline personnel will be attending the QCWA convention in Colorado, next weeks newscast number 1573 will be delayed by about 48 hours. Look for it to be released at about noon, Sunday October 7th, Pacific time. Our normal Friday release schedule will resume with newscast 1574 on October 12th. 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 2007. All rights reserved. |
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