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Amateur Radio Newsline #911 02 Feb 1995
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NEWSLINE RADIO - CBBS EDITION #911 - POSTED 02/01/95
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The following is a QST
A tower case in New York, the unlicensed are named in the
United Kingdom and paging world-wide. Truly an international
edition of Newsline coming your way right now.
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TENTATIVE L.I. TOWER ACCORD REACHED
Mark Nadel, NK2T says that his ongoing problems with the
township of Hempstead, New York are almost over. This as the
result of an accord reached on Wednesday January 25th between him
and Hempstead's Board of Zoning Appeals.
By way of background, Nadel is the New York ham who filed suit
against Hempstead in Nassau Supreme Court after the Zoning Board
continually rejected his application for a variance to maintain
his fifty-five foot high transmitting tower. This, even though
the same board had approved an almost identical installation in
nearby Merrick back in 1989.
With the assistance of Senator Alfonse D'Amato and
Representative Peter King, Nadel brought the situation to the
attention of former FCC Private Radio Bureau Chief Ralph Haller,
N4RH. As previously reported, last October 25th Haller intervened
in the case by sending the Zoning Board a letter. It told the
board that local authorities may not base their regulation of ham
radio antenna structures based on the possibility or actuality of
interference to neighboring consumer electronic instruments.
This, Haller said is the singular purview of the federal
government as administered by the FCC.
The Haller letter is credited with having a profound impact on
the Zoning Board and is credited with helping to bring about this
meeting.
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VANITY CALLS HERE!
The FCC has announced its intention to implement a vanity call
sign program, and also to resume the issuance of club and military
recreation station licenses. In a January 24 news release, the
Commission released a general outline of the new program.
Amateurs will be eligible to apply for a call sign of their
choice in four "gates." The first group eligible to apply will
be previous holders of a call sign or the close relative of a
previous holder of an amateur call sign who is deceased. The
second group will be Amateur Extra Class licensees, then Advanced,
then all others. The FCC will announce the opening of each
"gate" by public notice.
The FCC said that the first gate will open as soon as a new
application form, FCC Form 610-V, is available and the
Commission's licensing facility is prepared to begin processing
the applications, no sooner than April, according to FCC staff.
Applications for club station licenses will be accepted as soon as
the FCC's Report and Order on this matter is released. Club
station call signs will be issued systematically, unless under the
fourth "gate" the trustee of an existing club station applies for
the call sign of a deceased member as a vanity call sign for the
club.
The fee for the use of vanity call signs will be 7 dollar(s)
per year, or 70 for dollar(s) a ten-year license term, according
to Wireless Telecommunication Bureau staff. However, on January
12, 1995, in a notice of proposed rule making, the FCC proposed a
fee of 3 dollar(s) per year, for fiscal year 1995 (which began
October 1, 1994).
Amateurs will be able to list up to 25 call sign choices, from
any call area, FCC staff said. It is expected that it will be
several weeks before the new form 610-V is approved.
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ARRL HACKED ON THE I-NET
The ARRL has been hacked on the Internet. The League says that
a message claiming to be W1AW Official Bulletin falsely states
that the American Radio Relay League plans to petition the Federal
Communications Commission to drop all Morse code requirements
for all Amateur Radio licenses in the United States.
The league says that an authentic ARRL Bulletin numbered
ARLX004 was apparently altered and re-posted on an internet
newsgroup. From there it has quickly spread worldwide.
But the League has no plans to file any form of no-code
expansion petition. It says that the real ARLX004 concerned a
balloon launch from Iowa.
The ARRL adds that it views the dissemination of forged
Official Bulletin as an extremely serious matter, but stops short
of saying what action it will take if the person who posted the
phony message is found.
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REVOKEES TO BE ANNOUNCED
On the regulatory scene, Great Britain's Radiocommunications
Agency has announced that they will begin to publish details of
those whose amateur licenses had been revoked. Until now this
information has been regarded as confidential. The agency says
that the decision to make public will be a deterrent to others
thinking of breaking the radio regulations. It says that
publication will make other hams aware that license revocation
and a ban on use of ham radio communications is a punishment that
the government feels is applicable for some egregious offenders.
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CEPT AGREEMENT
Also from overseas, another international ham radio licensing
agreement has been signed. Word that Estonia, Israel and Turkey
have signed the CEPT agreement.
This arrangement permits temporary amateur operation in those
countries without additional paperwork. Twenty seven countries
have so far implemented the CEPT pan-European licensing scheme.
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NEW 10 GHz RECORD
A new ham radio microwave record is set. Roger Bowman, VK5NY,
and Walter Howse, VK6KZ, have claimed a new world distance record
on the amateur 10-GHz band.
On December 30, 1994 Bowman and Howse claim to have worked over
a path of 1911 kilometers. Both operated portable with one near
the city of Adelaide and the other near Perth. VK5NY used 180
milliwatts to a 400-mm dish. VK6KZ ran 100 milliwatts to a
similar antenna. The 2-way contact was on SSB phone.
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GLOBAL PAGING
Federal regulators have cleared the way for a new national and,
eventually, global satellite service offering an array of two-way
communications including phone and fax.
Unlike conventional satellites that orbit thousands of miles in
space, the new service uses satellites that orbit close to the
earth. The orbit is low enough for people on the ground to use
special hand-held phones and other devices to send and receive
calls, messages, pages and other services.
After nearly five years of work, the Federal Communications
Commission completed a plan on how companies may provide the
service. Specifically, the commission, with the help of industry,
resolved how public airwaves will be shared among companies.
According to the Personal Communications Industry Association,
4 million Americans, that's 1.4 percent of the U.S. population,
will subscribe by 2003 to satellite delivered communications
services.
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CHALLENGER REMEMBERED
The Chattanooga Amateur Radio Club will be operating a special
event station from the new Challenger Learning and Teaching Center
of Chattanooga. This from 11:00 UTC on January 27th until 21:00
UTC on January 28th.
The station will sign the call W4AM and operate near the middle
of General class phone bands on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters, as
well as locally on 2 meters and 70-cm simplex.
The Learning Center is named for the space shuttle Challenger
and its seven astronauts who perished in a launch accident back in
January of 1986. The club hopes to attract young people to their
station and into the hobby during the center's opening.
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WATCH FOR MIR
Shuttle STS-63 the Mir rendezvous flight is scheduled to launch
February 2. The shuttle will fly up to Mir, but will not dock.
And it just so happens that Mir will be visible in the morning sky
over much of the U.S. during this flight.
Normally the shuttle's exact flight path is not known until
after it has launched. However, Mir's orbit is well established
and should remain stable from now until the end of the STS-63
mission. Since the shuttle will fly to Mir, we only have to track
Mir to tell us where to look to see both spacecraft.
According to AMSAT's Dave Mullenix, N9LTD, the best way to be
ready for this space spectacular is to start right now. You'll
need a tracking program that can check for visible passes. For a
satellite to be visible, it must be above your horizon and in
sunlight while you are in darkness on the ground. Since Mir and
the Shuttles are both fairly large objects in low earth orbit, the
two of them flying in formation should be a beautiful sight to
watch and possibly to photograph.
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DX
In DX, word from Botswana that A22MN, will be leaving in
February. Dave will move on to Finland where he will be there for
the next 3 - 4 years. Meanwhile he has been trying to work
stations on 80 and 160 meters. He is reportedly upset because the
same individuals keep calling him on these bands and they are not
giving other stations a chance to work him as an new one. Please
QSL only to manager WA8JOC and not direct to Dave.
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BHM E-MAIL
And finally, unless you've been asleep for a few years, you've
already heard plenty about the information superhighway. It seems
that everybody has their own E-mail address these days. In fact,
we here at Newsline have not one, but a half dozen. Now, an
Alabama amateur radio club is taking what may be the first step of
its kind onto the superhighway. The Birmingham Amateur Radio Club
has set up its own E-mail address for Hamfest information. Bill
Levey, WA4FAT, helped arrange the Club's Hamfest address on
America On Line.
If you'd like information on the Hamfest, here's the Club's E-
mail address. Send inquiries to [email protected].
By the way, the BirmingHamfest-95/Alabama Section Convention is
set for May 20th and 21st. And get ready. You can just about bet
that more amateur radio clubs will follow suit by jumping on the
superhighway with their own E-mail addresses, as well.
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And for this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
You can write to us at Post Office Box 660937, Arcadia, CA 91066.
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