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Amateur Radio Newsline #912
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Amateur Radio Newsline #912 06 Feb 1995
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The following is a QST
The ARRL invites repeater coordinators to a league sponsored
meeting, Japanese hams rally to provide communications in the
earthquake ravaged city of Kobe and another honor for a well known
British ham. These stories and more on Newsline report number 912
coming your way right now!
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ARRL BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Repeater coordinators. Put on your traveling shoes. The ARRL
is inviting you to an open meeting later this year. A meeting
that the Board of Directors says is to discuss ways of
strengthening FCC support of local and regional coordinators, and
related issues.
This is only one of many decisions made when the ARRL Board of
Directors met in San Antonio, Texas, January 20th and 21st. Here
are more of the highlights.
First, the Board adopted a Strategic Long Range Plan that has
been in preparation since May of 1994 and has instructed President
George Wilson, W4OYI, to begin its implementation. W4OYI
appointed three new committees to coordinate the most critical
aspects of plan implementation.
Also, a package of legislative goals was adopted, including
positions on special call sign and licensing fees, spectrum
allocations, liability protection for volunteers, RF
susceptibility of consumer equipment, better rules enforcement,
and commercial competition for spectrum.
And the cost of being an ARRL member is going up. This after
an operational plan and budget for 1995 and 1996 was approved.
The dues increase takes effect on April 1st. On the other side of
the coin, a fund raising effort in support of the AMSAT Phase 3D
satellite project was approved, including a $150,000 matching fund
program.
On the regulatory scene, a draft petition for greater
flexibility in spread spectrum operation was revised to limit such
operation to bands above 420 MHz, and the General Counsel was
instructed to file the petition with FCC.
And the ARRL will file comments supporting participation by
radio amateurs in state and local emergency communications
operating plans under the new Emergency Alerting System that will
replace the Emergency Broadcast System.
Also, the board ordered something many hams have been wanting
for several years. Studies were ordered of ways to oppose
restrictive covenants that limit amateur operation, and to
increase FCC enforcement of its amateur rules. Sometimes called
Conditions, Covenants and Restrictions, these are deed
restrictions placed on many homes at the time that they are
constructed. They also make it difficult for ham radio operators
to find new homes.
In other matters, the final report of the Ad Hoc 219 MHz
Committee was adopted, in preparation for an expected announcement
of an amateur allocation in this band. Also, the Hiram Percy
Maxim Birthday Celebration that was so popular in September 1994
was made an annual event.
Finally, Helen Grauer, N0BCI, the widow of ARRL Director Paul
Grauer, W0FIR along with and Directors Ed Metzger W9PRN and Frank
Butler were elected to three year terms as Directors of the ARRL
Foundation.
The complete minutes of the January board meeting will appear
in March issue of the League's QST magazine.
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KV4FZ LICENSE RENEWAL DESIGNATED FOR HEARING
An amateur radio operator once considered a hero is now a step
closer to losing his license. The FCC has ordered a license
renewal hearing for Herbert L. Schoenbohm, KV4FZ.
In 1992, Schoenbohm was convicted in U.S. District Court of
fraudulent use of a counterfeit long distance telephone access
device. Now, the Commission says that conviction is relevant to
evaluating whether Schoenbohm will comply with FCC rules governing
amateur radio.
The Commission says it appears Schoenbohm lacks the requisite
qualifications to have his Extra class amateur radio license
renewed. Schoenbom, who lives in the U.S. Virgin Islands, says he
will prevail in court.
In addition to house arrest and two years probation, Schoenbom
was ordered to pay a $5000 fine. He says the FCC was asked to
hold the license renewal hearing by people who want him off the
air.
The next step is for an FCC Administrative Law Judge to set a
hearing date. No word yet on exactly when that will happen.
Herbert Schoenbohm is no stranger to controversy. Fifteen
years ago, he took on rich yacht owners who paid for radio
callsigns and operated illegally while in the Caribbean.
Schoenbohm got the FCC to declare that people operating from U.S.
flagged vessels must hold valid amateur licenses and are subject
to FCC rules. That victory made him a hero to hams worldwide.
More recently, he founded the controversial Better Amateur
Radio Federation. Now, the man other hams once looked up to has
to prove to the government that renewing his license will serve
the public interest. More on this story in future Newsline
reports.
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RADIO FREE BERKLEY REPRIEVE
The unlicensed community radio statio Radio Free Berkeley
received a temporary reprieve. This, after a federal judge
rejected a Federal Communications Commission request for a
preliminary injunction to shut down the station.
Free Radio Berkeley is a 20 watt FM station that broadcasts
from 9 p.m. to midnight on Sundays. It's operated by Stephen
Dunifer who says that he wants to expand the station's hours. But
the FCC says that the small alternative station was illegally
broadcasting without a license and should be shut down. It argues
that there is no constitutional right to operate a radio station.
But in an order issued on Friday January 20th, U.S. District
Judge Claudia Wilken. Judge Wilken said she questioned the FCC's
rules governing small stations like Dunnifers'. She stopped short
of ordering the FCC to adopt new rules authorizing the operation
of such stations. She did say that the FCC, not the courts,
should decide how to regulate "micropower" stations like Radio
Free Berkeley, and indicated that the government cannot simply run
them off they air.
The FCC says that the ruling was the first time a judge has
rejected the FCC's request to shut down an unlicensed radio
station. The agency will be appealing the case to a higher court.
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HAM RADIO IN THE KOBE QUAKE
Ham radio was used to aid communications following the January
16th earthquake in Kobe Japan, but only within the borders of that
country. Japan declined to declare an international
communications emergency. That meant only nations with third
party traffic agreements could handle emergency related traffic.
But inside the country it's a different story where more than
200 hams are still providing communication in the Kobe area.
Amateur Radio is being used to connect relief centers and to
exchange information on road conditions and traffic, the health,
welfare, and whereabouts of residents, and the availability of
water and food, according to the Japan Amateur Radio League.
The JARL and the Japan Amateur Radio Equipment Industry
Association are conducting the communications effort at the
request of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. 200
handheld transceivers for 430 and 1260 MHz, as well as three
repeater stations, were supplied by JAIA. Each portable station
has been assigned a special call sign, 8J3 series.
But there are still 400 relief centers handling a total of
240,000 evacuees that are still not being served by this
communication system. The Japan Amateur Radio League says that it
is considering equipping at least half of them with amateur
stations, if they can get the hams and the go ahead from the
government.
And this reminder to hams in the United States. No bilateral
third party traffic agreement exists between Japan and the United
States. Since Japan has declined to declare an international
communications emergency, it is illegal to send or receive third
party messages for stations in Japan. Don't do it unless you want
to you want to chance getting a pink slip from the FCC.
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IARU MEMBERSHIP SOUGHT
Still on the international scene. Amateur Radio societies in
Turkmenistan and Burkina Faso have applied for membership in the
International Amateur Radio Union.
The president of the Turkmenistan Radio Amateur League is
Eugene M. Zwontsov, EZ8BO. He says his organization has 24
members with the total number of licensed amateurs in Turkmenistan
is 32.
The Association des Radioamateurs du Burkina Faso says it has
29 members, including a number of officials of the Office National
des Telecommunications. Its president is Youssouf Kaba, XT2KY.
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WRTC-95
The administrators of the World Radiosport Team Championship
1995 report progress in organizing the event and solicit questions
and comments.
WRTC-95 will be held July 8 and 9, 1995, in Washington, DC, in
conjunction with the IARU HF World Championship. The Frankford
Radio Club has joined the Potomac Valley Radio Club in
coordinating applications for operators/participants.
Many other Washington area amateur radio clubs also will help
with the arrangements and logistics for WRTC-95.
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HELP WANTED
AMSAT North America says that it is seeking the services of a
full-time person to oversee the final assembly and testing of the
Phase 3D spacecraft at its Orlando, Florida Integration Facility.
The person must have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in
the aerospace industry including cable harness design and
installation. Both domestic and international travel will be
required.
Also, AMSAT's Phase 3-D project is in need of a volunteer who
can read and translate technical Russian. If you can help in
either of these projects please contact Dick Jansson, WD4FAB at
Amsat NA.
(*****
SOLAR ASSISTANCE
NASA has completed the second of two shipments of solar panel
modules, marking delivery of the first U.S. Space Station flight
hardware for NASA's cooperative space endeavors with Russia.
The hardware shipments each consisted of 45 solar panel
modules that were developed for the cooperative solar array
project, an effort that brings together NASA's advanced
photovoltaic technology with Russia's proven structures and
mechanisms.
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DX - LEBANON
In DX, OH1NO says that he will be active from Lebanon as
OH1NOA/OD5 until August of 1995. Look for him on 80 through 10
meters including the WARC bands mainly on CW and QSL via OH1MRR.
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DX-KENYA
Also, Kenya is on the air. 5Z4FO has been active on 80
meters CW and SSB below 3800 kHz starting as early as 22:15 UTC
and as late as 04:15 UTC. He has also been active on 160 meter
mostly CW on 1832 kHz around 01:00 UTC. QSL via KB4EKY.
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ANOTHER BROADBENT HONOR
And finally, a second very high honor has come to Ron
Broadbent, G3AAJ, in as many months. A recent GB2RS News
Bulletin reports that Ron has been elected a Vice President of the
Radio Society of Great Britain. The election was by the RSGB
Council with the announcement was made at RSGB's presidential
installation dinner on January 14th.
In late December, Ron was awarded an MBE or Member of the
British Empire honor in the New Year's Honours List "for services
to amateur radio," which decoration he is to receive personally
from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace later this month.
(*****
And for this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
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