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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 06:38:23 PDT From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup <info-hams@ucsd.edu> Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #807 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Mon, 18 Jul 94 Volume 94 : Issue 807 Today's Topics: A.N.A.R.T.S. News Bulletin 818 17th July 1994 Airshow Contact Amateur Radio Newsline #883 15 Jul 94 FCC accepts no data entry volunteers? FCC Delays now at 17 weeks! PLEASE READ!!! Send Replies or notes for publication to: <Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu> Send subscription requests to: <Info-Hams-REQUEST@UCSD.Edu> Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Jul 1994 23:03:57 +1000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!ifi.uio.no!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!news.ci.com.au!eram.esi.com.au!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: A.N.A.R.T.S. News Bulletin 818 17th July 1994 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu [ ANARTS - Australian National Amateur Radio Teletype Society ] A.N.A.R.T.S. News Bulletin 818 17th July 1994 3.545 MHz 0930 UTC VK2BQS (Jim) 7.045 MHz -3 0030 UTC VK2CTD (Col) 14.070 MHz (amtor/fec) 0030 UTC VK2DPM (Alan) 14.091 MHz 0030 UTC VK2BQS (JIM) 146.675 MHz 0030/0930 UTC VK2JPA (PAT) 144.850 MHz (ax25 bbs) VK2JPA AT VK2RWI (or VK2OP) 146.675 MHz (rtty mmbbs/repeater) VK2RTY A personal reply to last weeks WIA Federal news item This position of not allowing members to change to another state division seems ill-advised to me. When members felt strongly enough in the past about the way the affairs of a division were being run that they opted to transfer to another division as a temporary haven, the result of this new ruling will now be to ensure that these people are lost to the WIA altogether. Is it not better to keep members in the fold, and their contributions helping the cause of Amateur Radio than to drive them out completely? Who will the WIA represent -- only a minority of licensed amateurs in the state so afflicted. What sort of voice will the WIA have when it cannot claim to represent a sufficient number of amateurs in the hobby? Will this lead to the establishment of a rival body? These are personal concerns of this writer, who did think of changing divisions in recent times, even resigning, but thought of the repercussions of this act multiplied by the many other amateurs with the same inclinations. The reason that I did not do this was that all things pass in the course of time, hopefully without lasting damage, and because of the need to keep the numbers up so that the SMA is still dealing with the representatives of many Australian Amateurs. I hope the Federal office will see the transfers as a means of sheltering from unwanted troubles and not as a form of poaching, because I am sure it was not the latter. de Pat VK2JPA --------------------------------------------- IPS weekly report ----------------- 08 July - 14 July 1994 Issue No 28 Date of issue: 15 July 1994 INDICES: Date 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 10cm 86 86 86 86 83 81 82 A 05 05 05 05 02 04 (15 estimated) T 29 30 29 32 28 33 38 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY Solar activity was very low 8th-11th, and 13th July, and low on 12th and 14th. The geomagnetic field at Learmonth (WA) was quiet 8th-13th, then quiet to active on 14th with a minor storm period 1500- 1800 UT. Ionospheric F2 critical frequencies at Sydney were near pre- dicted values with 15-30 per cent enhancements on 14th July 1100-1600 UT. FORECAST FOR THE NEXT WEEK (15 - 21 July) SOLAR: Very low to low. GEOMAGNETIC: Active on 15-16th, quiet to unsettled otherwise. IONOSPHERIC: Near normal initially until 20th, slightly de- pressed thereafter. Courtesy of IPS Radio and Space Services, Sydney --------------------------------------- Avis Island It was reported by the RTTY Digital Journal in the May/June issue that Avis Island will be activated July 21-25 using the callsign YW0RCV. The occasion marks the 191st anniversary of the Venezuelan Navy and 60 years for the Venezuelan Radio Club. VRC will sponsor this all mode (SSB, CW, and Digital) all band (no WARC) event. QSL to IARU Bureau via YV5AJ, Radio Club Venezolano, POB 2205, Caracas, 1010-A, Venezuela. See September 1993 DX News column in the RTTY Digital Journal for more details. ---------------------------------------- VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES 8 JULY 94 VK2SG RTTY DX NOTES FOR WEEKENDING 8 JULY 1994 (BID RTDX0708) WAS SORRY TO HEAR WEDNESDAY MORNING, THAT JULES TOOK A LIGHT- NING HIT AND WILL BE OFF THE AIR FOR A TIME. KNOCKED OUT TRANSCEIVER. THANKS TO ANGELO, W5KSI FOR PASSING ME HIS TRAFFIC. OUR INFORMATION THIS WEEK CAME FROM: DJ3IW AND THE CENTRAL- EUROPE DX CLUSTER NODE DB0SPC, I5FLN AND THE IK5PWJ PACKET CLUSTER, N2DBI, W2JGR AND THE NJ0M NODE THE TWIN-CITIES DX PACKET CLUSTER AND W5KSI. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. BANDPASS FRIDAY 1 164-14090 VQ9YL 1752-14086 4Z5GA 2002-14086 OZ5MJ SATURDAY 2 0134-14080 TI2YO 0707-14083 ZA1MH 1214-14085 OH0TH 1530-14084 EA8ATE 1856-14084 A41KD 1910-14084 9A3TB 1948-14082 SV7BVZ 2111-14085 1A0KM SUNDAY 3 0847-14084 1A0KM 1010-14085 1A0KM 1209-28088 EM0F 2102-14086 EA8ATE MONDAY 4 1127-14082 9A3TB 2141-14085 HI8BG 2208-14085 CI3HO QSL VE3HO 2218-14088 LA1VCA 2250-14080 YL1ZR TUESDAY 5 1636-14087 4X6UO 1657-14085 ZA1MH 2207-14084 ZA1MH 2212-14085 SV1QN WEDNESDAY 6 0226-14087 4S7KA 0245-14085 UA9TK 0629-14087 A35MW 1428-14086 1A0KM 1602-14082 EA6NB 2223-14084 VY2SS 2243-14090 4N7N 2251-14084 WP4SIP THURSDAY 7 1420-14082 V73AX 1651-14084 OK2SBJ 2025-14086 SV1QN NOTES OF INTEREST. SWAZILAND, 3DA0. 3DA0CA, JON RUDY HAD A KAM SENT TO HIM FOR RTTY FROM THE STATES AND MURPHY STRUCK 3 DAYS AFTER HE GOT IT OUT OF THE BOX. A LIGHTNING STORM CAME IN AND HIT THE PHONE LINE. THE COMPUTER WAS NEAR, ARCHED THRU THE PLASTIC COMPUTER, WIPED OUT THE COM PORT OF THE RS232 BUFFER CHIP. JON NEEDS AN LMC 6034IN DRIVER FOR THE KAM. OR SCHEMATICS AND OR COM1 DRIVER CHIP FOR TOSHIBIA T-2000SX. ANYONE THAT MIGHT ASSIST HIM WOULD BE APPRECIATED. FOR NEXT WEEK'S BULLETIN, SEND YOUR BANDPASS AND NOTES OF INTEREST TO LUCIANO, I5FLN AT ZS5S.ZAF.AF OR AT I5FLN.ITA.EU. REMEMBER, DX DON'T SLEEP. GL DE BOB, WB2CJL AT W5KSI.#NOLA.LA.USA.NA ------------------------------------------------ ARLD039 DX news The items in this week's bulletin are courtesy of Bob, W5KNE, QRZ DX, Chod, VP2ML, The DX Bulletin, Dave, VE2ZP/VE9CB, John, WB2K, Warren, NF1J, the Yankee Clipper Contest Club PacketCluster network and the Contest Corral column from the pages of QT. Thanks. NORTHERN COOK ISLANDS. Ken, ZL2HU, is planning a six week SSB operation as ZK1KH, though no date has been mentioned. He will favor 21177 and 28490 kHz. Meanwhile, Steve, AA6LF, has wrapped up his ZK1ALF stint. Plans were for him to be on from Western Samoa through July 12, but he has yet to show on local PacketCluster nodes. A July 13 to 18 stop at Tokelau and July 18 to 25 stay on Wallis are on his itinerary. The remainder of this bulletin dealt with various contests on the weekend of 9th-10th July. ----------------------------------------- Extracts from the 160m DX Bulletin no. 24 of 2/7/94 JW...SWALBARD Tom LA4LN and Magne LB3RC will be QRV from 1-20 August as JW5LN and LB3RC/JW. They will operate all bands frm 160m to 10m CW/SSB/digi. Qsl direct to their home callsign. Be careful LA4LN address in CB is wrong!!! YV0..AVES ISLAND (as mentioned elsewhere in this boradcast) The group of YV guys will visit this rare island in occasion of 60 years of Venezuelan radioclub. The operation will start on July 21 until 25. They will be active on all bands SSB/CW/digi except WARC bands as YW0RCV. Qsl via YV5AJ ZA...ALBANIA Mike ZA1MH is very active on all bands icluding 160. Mike is an American missionary on Balkan peninsula. His home call is K5KWG but he wants Qsl direct to ZA. His wife is also active like ZA1EH. ZA1MH - Mike Holman, BOX 19, Tirana, Albania. TN...CONGO Rudi, DK7PE will be in Brazzaville from July 11. The expected call is TN0CW. When he get a license he will be active for 10 days on all bands. From many experiences of Rudi from Africa he will monitoring frequency 1827 kHz between 2000-2100z. His working fruequency will be 1832 kHz. Sunrise and sunset in Brazzaville: 05:09z and 17:03z. 73! and see you on 160m! Mike OM3ZJW ------------------------------------ Society information The Society may be contacted at : PO Box 860, Crows Nest 2065 Australia, for such matters as membership and general enquiries. Enquiries can also be made by packet to the President (Col) VK2CTD, or the Secretary (Pat) VK2JPA at VK2RWI. News items may be sent to Broadcast Officer PO Box 60 Blacktown 2148 Australia, or by packet to VK2JPA at VK2RWI. Email addresses for the Broadcast Officer are : patl(at)pitt.conmusic.su.oz.au The Society welcomes news items on any digital subjects from anywhere in the broadcast coverage area. We know we reach New Zealand and many South Pacific islands, and we were reaching as far north as Japan when conditions were right. We are looking forward to news from your areas to let other amateurs know what you are doing in the hobby. Hope to hear from you. 73s de Pat VK2JPA Broadcast Officer That concludes the broadcast for this morning/evening. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2AAB.NSW.AUS.OC PGP 2.6 dave@esi.COM.AU ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave available ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 94 12:14:37 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: Airshow Contact To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Roy, Here is my input regarding the Airshow Contact. 73, Frank On Saturday July 16, the 25th anniversary of the liftoff of Apollo-11 on its historic journey to the moon, General Thomas Stafford (Ret), a former NASA astronaut who flew on-board several Gemini and Apollo missions, exchanged greetings with STS-65 mission commander Robert Cabana, KC5HBV, using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) radio. General Stafford was in Oklahoma City attending the Airshow America. Using the SAREX telebridge, General Stafford was able to communicate with Commander Cabana first through a ground station in Hawaii and then through a ground station in San Diego. A special phone patch also allowed the crowd of 150,000 spectators at the airshow to hear this historic SAREX contact. After Commander Cabana extended his greeting from space, Stafford asked about the Shuttle and living in space. General Stafford was quick to point out that "the Space Shuttle can be considered luxurious living as compared to that small capsule I flew in during my flight on Apollo-10 25 years ago". General Stafford thanked Commander Cabana for the contact and signed clear. One observation made by the SAREX team was the vitual silence of the audience during this live exchange between the former astronaut and the Space Shuttle Commander as compared to the deafening roar of the crowd and the planes during the air show. It seemed that the audiance was truly transfixed by our (amateur radio's) ability to talk to an astronaut while they are in space. Members participating: Dick Flagg, WH6CJU in Hawaii Kerry Banke, N6IZW in San Diego Bob Douglas, W5GEL in Corpus Christi Frank Bauer, KA3HDO in Silver SPring, MD Lou McFadin, W5DID in Houston Gil Carman, WA5NOM in Houston Darome Telecommunications in Chicago ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 10:39:34 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.dorsai.org!bigsteve@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Amateur Radio Newsline #883 15 Jul 94 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu The electronic publication of the Amateur Radio Newsline is distributed with the permission of Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, President and Editor of Newsline. The text version is edited from the original scripts and transcribed from the audio reports by Dale Cary, WD0AKO, and is first published in The Radio & Electronics Round Table on the Genie Online System. If you have any comment, suggestion, or news item you would like to submit, send them via E-Mail to 3241437@mcimail.com or B.PASTERNAK@genie.geis.com. You can contact Newsline at +1 805-296-7180. It is a combination answering and FAX machine, if you have a FAX to send, wait for the voice prompt and press your fax-send button. All other information and disclaimers are in the text header below. NEWSLINE RADIO - CBBS EDITION #133 - POSTED 07/17/94 (***************************************************************) (* *) (* * * ***** * * **** * ***** * * ***** *) (* ** * * * * * * * ** * * *) (* * * * *** * ** * *** * * * * * *** *) (* * ** * * ** * * * * * ** * *) (* * * ***** * * **** ***** ***** * * ***** *) (* *) (* **** * **** ***** *** *) (* * * * * * * * * * *) (* **** ***** * * * * * *) (* * * * * * * * * * *) (* * * * * **** ***** *** *) (* *) (***************************************************************) The following is late news about Amateur Radio for Radio Amateurs as prepared from NEWSLINE RADIO scripts by the staff of the AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, INC. -- formerly the WESTLINK RADIO NETWORK. For current information updates, please call Audio Version of Newsline ========================= Los Angeles............................ (213) 462-0008 Los Angeles (Instant Update Line)...... (805) 296-2407 Seattle................................ 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In the Ham Radio conferences on those networks For the latest breaking info call the Instant Update Line listed above. To provide information please call (805) 296-7180. This line answers automatically and will accept up to 30 minutes of material. Check with your local amateur radio club to see if NEWSLINE can be heard weekly on the air in your area. Articles may be reproduced if printed in their entirety and credit is given to AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE as being the source. For further information about the AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE, please write to us with an SASE at P.O. Box 463, Pasadena, CA 91102. Thank You NEWSLINE (**************************************************************** Some of the hams of NEWSLINE RADIO... WA6ITF WB6MQV WB6FDF K6DUE W6RCL N6AHU N6AWE N6TCQ K6PGX N6PNY KU8R N8DTN W9JUV KC9RP K9XI KB5KCH KC5UD KC0HF G8AUU WD0AKO DJ0QN and many others in the United States and around the globe!!! (**************************************************************** [883] (* * * * C L O S E D C I R C U I T A D V I S O R Y * * * * (* * (* The following is a closed circuit advisory and is not * (* for air over amateur radio. Repeat, not for broadcast. * (* This is just a reminder that the address for the Newsline * (* Support Fund is Newsline, in care of Dr. Norm Chalfin, * (* K6PGX, Post Office Box 463, Pasadena, California 91102. * (* Again, and as always, we thank you. That ends the closed * (* circuit with Newsline report number 883 for release on * (* Friday, July, 15, 1994 to follow. * (* * (* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The following is a QST Hawaii to the mainland on VHF and UHF, floods in Georgia and a ham on the run. These stories and more on Newsline report number 883 coming your way right now! (***** HAWAII TO MAINLAND ATV The United States mainland and the island state of Hawaii have been joined by several modes including amateur television. The DX event began on Monday July the 11th and is continuing as we go to air. Gordon West, WB6NOA literally put a contact on hold to file this report: "In the background is Paul Lieb, KH6HME. That is pouring it on two meters, 432, 1296. If fact, the first ever video from Hawaii to California was received right here at our station, WB6NOA. P4 good quality video showing the KH6HME beacon on Mauna Loa. This is the first time in amateur television that we have had such a long distance video received. Right during the long haul troppo from California to Hawaii was a sporadic E opening. So California was working Hawaii and then they were working British Columbia and Washington all on two meters. I'm working Hawaii right now." Gordon West, WB6NOA VHF and UHF DXers are saying that this is the best opening in years. Most say that they think its the signal for a hot DX summer to come. (***** ILLEGAL BROADCAST IN PUNA Still in Hawaii, word that the Honolulu FCC Office has busted another unlicensed broadcaster. This, after it received a fax of an advertisement for "Masters of the Symphony," broadcast by Classical Radio Puna on 89.9 MHz. Puna is an area on the Big Island of Hawaii to the south of Hilo. The flyer indicated the station operated on weekends from 8 PM to midnight. Since there is no FCC authorization for an FM broadcast station on 89.9 MHz in Hawaii, Honolulu agents John Raymond and Jeffrey Guerpo traveled to the Big Island and located the pirate broadcast station in a residence in Hawaiian Paradise Park. This is a rural subdivision in the Puna district with over 130 miles of unpaved roads, no street lighting, and no mail delivery. The station operator turned out to be retired and disabled individual who readily admitted to operating the station without authorization from the FCC. In fact, he told the agents that God had revealed to him that his life mission was to make classical music available to unserved communities. After giving the matter careful consideration and in view of the alleged offenders medical and financial status, issuance of a Notice of Apparent Liability was not deemed worthwhile. The unnamed subject later indicated to the FCC that he had thought again about what he had been doing. After considering the matter he sent the FM transmitter to South America to be used by his missionary friend. The Honolulu FCC office has not received any reports of further activity by Classical Radio Puna since then. (***** SAREX SAREX STS-65 is in orbit and on the air. The Space Shuttle Columbia roared into the blue skies of the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, July 8th to begin the second International Microgravity Laboratory Mission. The near flawless countdown resulted in an on-time launch of the mission at 16:43 UTC. The seven member crew of STS-65 is now half-way through its planned 14 days on-orbit. Two of the crew members on board Columbia are ham radio operators. They are the newly licensed Shuttle Commander Robert Cabana, KC5HBV and Astronaut Don Thomas, KC5FVF. Both are operating the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment from the orbiters mid-deck. Ground based amateur radio operators can communicate with the two astronaut hams through packet radio and, when time permits, make voice contacts as well. In addition, thirteen scheduled school group contacts with students in the United States, Germany, and Japan are also planned. Amateur Astronomers who say their frustrated at not being able to see the astronomically event of the century say they plan now to hook up radios and listen to it instead. So, thousands of astronomers soon will become SWL's and join the many hams how will also be listening in as the Shoemaker Levy 9 comet slams into Jupiter to meet a fiery end. Astronomers will not actually be able to see the collision which is expected to have a considerable effect on the gassy planets atmosphere because it will occur on the far side of Jupiter away from the earth. But it turns out Jupiter emits radio waves at frequencies between 500 kHz and 40 MHz. Scientists think these signals are caused by electrons breaking free of a magnet bond between the planet and its moon Io. On an earth based shortwave radio they sound like waves crashing on a beach. The New Scientist Magazine says that groups of radio enthusiasts will listen for changes in the sound when the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 collides with Jupiter starting on July 16th. (***** GEORGIA FLOOD One of the largest amateur radio emergency communications efforts ever is underway in the southeastern U.S. Amateur radio operators are assisting officials throughout southern Georgia. That's the area devastated from flooding caused by Tropical Storm Alberto. Jim Altman, N4UCK, is the ARRL's Section Manager for Georgia: "There are several hundred amateurs currently in the field. Basically, like in any disaster such as Andrew or Hugo or similar. Amateurs have been involved in initially primary data gathering. And then as the even progresses we have been involved in coordination of disaster relief for the Red Cross and Salvation Army and the other agencies FEMA and GEMA to provide them with coordination information primarily." Jim Altman, N4UCK. To give you an idea how severe and widespread the damage is, 31 Georgia counties have been declared federal disaster areas. More than 20 people are dead. 600 bridges have been swept way and nearly half a million acres of croplands have been turned into a swamp. "You've got shelters open all across south GA. There are tens and tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes. Half the City of Albany is under water. The City of Bainbridge, if it is not under water yet, is about to be. And these relief centers are coordinating, via amateur radio, as well as other communications methods in order to achieve the delivery of things like meals. So we are handling the traffic from how high the river is now to where's the coffee." Altman, N4UCK. Altman tells Newsline most communications are by voice, but packet is also in use. The exact number of amateurs assisting is not available. But it's believed to number well into the hundreds. "I know that one of the net controls on the HF net told me that he had 90 pages of notes at this point. I have probably have two or three hundred callsigns on my lists and pieces of paper of people who have been checking. Now over the last three or four days, the scope of this event is absolutely massive. I was at a meeting earlier today with the Federal Emergency Management and State Emergency Management. They were saying that this is worse than what happened in Iowa last year. We've got literally hundreds of communities that have become isolated with no way in or out of them." Altman, N4UCK. Altman sez amateurs from other states including Alabama and South Carolina have arrived to help with the effort. "Georgia has a large number of counties. It has over 159 counties. And I would estimate that we're providing services in probably 45 to 50 of those at this time. Altman, N4UCK. As we go to air, Altman expected the need for amateur communications services to be levelling off as floodwaters begin to recede. More on this story in upcoming Newsline reports. (***** N6NHG WANTED BY POLICE Kevin David Mitnick, N6NHG, of Van Nuys, California is reportedly on the run once again. Mitnick is the legendary computer hacker who first gained infamy for breaking into a Department of Defense computer in the 1980's. CBS news reported on Monday, July 11th that authorities believe the thirty year old Mitnick has been using tele-computing to again breach the security of a number of heavily guarded computer and communications networks. These include computers used by Pacific Telephone and the California State Department of Motor Vehicles. Police believe that Mitnick may possibly be trying to create a total new identity for himself. Authorities told the Los Angeles Times that Mitnick was last spotted at a shop in Studio City, California. They say he attempted to pick-up some fax'ed documents belonging to the Department of motor Vehicles. When police moved in, they claim he threw the papers at them and ran. A warrant has been issued accusing Mitnick of violating his parole on a previous computer hacking conviction. One of the terms of his parole forbid him from using a computer for any illegal purpose. (***** ARNS AWARDS The Amateur Radio News Service has announced the winners of its 1993 ham radio newsletter awards. More than 100 clubs entered the annual newsletter competition. Twenty seven were rated "superior," with the top three being The Atlanta Ham edited by James Massara, N2EST for the Atlanta Radio Club; The Readout by Clarency Pinheiro, WA6ZLO for the Stanislaus, California Amateur Radio Association and once again the W3OK Corral by Clarence Snyder, W3PYF for the Delaware - Lehigh Amateur Radio Club. Congratulations to all of the winners. (***** UK INTERFERENCE The United Kingdom's Radiocommunications Agency has had to investigate interference from unattended operation of digital modes on 144 and 432 MHz. In several instances it had to find a way to gain access to an unattended transmitter site when the operator was not present. While British license holders are not required to notify the local Radio Investigation Service for such operation, British hams have been asked to give thought as to how their station could be closed down in their absence if problems arise. (***** DX - SVALBARD In DX, word that LA4LN and LB3RC, will sign JW4LN and LB3R/JW respectively from the western coast of Vest-Spitsbergen from August 1st to the 20th. This is a scientific expedition to Svlbard and not a DXpedition. Even so, they will be operating all bands 160-10 meters with special attention to the WARC frequencies. Activity will be on CW, SSB and the digital modes in the mornings, evenings and when the weather is bad, and also when they do not have to chase away the dangerous polar bears! QSL direct only with an SASE and return postage to the respective operators home calls. (***** NET REGISTRATION This reminder from ARRL headquarters. Nets have until September 6, 1994, to register in the 1995-96 ARRL Net Directory. The new edition will not carry over information from previous directories, so net managers must send a registration card known as Form F S D 85 to Headquarters. The address is 225 Main Street in Newington, Connecticut 06111. (***** ZL CEPT A recent report in the W5YI ham radio newsletter says New Zealand has joined the growing number of nations adopting the pan-European CEPT ham radio license. Well the story is correct but it is a bit late. Actually it is about a year late according to Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF who is the President of the New Zealand Amateur Radio Transmitting Society. The NZART is New Zealand's national ham radio society. Kind of the ARRL of New Zealand. As such it was directly involved in backing the adoption of CEPT. Meachen says that the CEPT universal ham radio license has been well received by that nations amateur radio community. (***** And for this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. You can write to us at Post Office Box 463 in Pasadena, California 91102. (* * * Newsline Copyright 1994 all rights are reserved. * * * -- < ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> < "Big Steve" Coletti > < Shortwave Listener, Broadcaster, Computer Consultant > < and all around nice guy > < Internet: bigsteve@dorsai.dorsai.org ==== S.COLETTI2@genie.geis.com > < UUCP: steve.cole@islenet.com ==== steveny@lopez.marquette.mi.us > < Fidonet: 1:278/307 US Mail: P.O. Box 396, New York, NY 10002 > < Voice: +1 212 995-2637 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 13:08:19 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ra!usenet@network.ucsd.edu Subject: FCC accepts no data entry volunteers? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu > In article <3010g1$94s@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, ham@wam.umd.edu (Scott Richard Rosenfeld) writes: > > Apparently, there's a clause in somebody's law book that prohibits the > FCC from accepting volunteer help in doing data entry. Apparently the > Gettysburg people would love the help, but CAN'T accept it. > > [the rest deleted] > What about volunteers from other branches of the federal government? I'm a federal employee, I live in Alexandria, VA, and would be willing to donate a couple of days of my time to help with the data entry. Perhaps they could even pay me, providing the money could be transfered between agencies. -Dave -- David Drumheller, KA3QBQ phone: (202) 767-3524 Acoustics Division, Code 7140 fax: (202) 404-7732 Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC 20375-5350 e-mail: drumhell@claudette.nrl.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 00:01:38 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!witch!doghouse!jsalemi@network.ucsd.edu Subject: FCC Delays now at 17 weeks! PLEASE READ!!! To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <30bdkn$p2n@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, Robert D. Novak (bnovak@kaiwan.com) writes: >I teach a monthly no-code license class and my March class just got their >licenses. The wait: 14 weeks 3 days. > Sounds like the FCC issued a whole batch at once. 73...joe ---------- Joe Salemi, KR4CZ Internet: jsalemi@doghouse.win.net Compuserve: 72631,23 FidoNet: 1:109/136 MCI Mail: 433-3961 ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #807 ******************************