[ETSList] Hudson Division Beacon - e-mail edition - # 35
Ronald A. Loneker Sr. KA2BZS
[email protected]
Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:55:34 -0500
ARRL Hudson Division
February 2004
Hudson Division Beacon - e-mail edition - # 35
By Frank Fallon, N2FF, Director, Hudson Division, ARRL
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* ED HARE TO BE IN NNJ FOR BPL TALK
This may be your only chance to hear Ed, as he will not be making other
presentations, as he will simply be too busy preparing material for
ARRL's response to the FCC NPRM on BPL. See the story below on BPL.
The 10-70 Repeater Association, Inc. - Regular meeting on Wednesday,
March 3, 2004. Ed Hare, W1RFI, will give a presentation about Broadband
over Power Lines (BPL) and the effect that it will have on Amateur
Radio. This meeting will be held at the Bergen County Law and Public
Safety Institute in Mahwah (click for directions) at 7PM (special
time!). Because this topic is so important to all hams (as well as
many of those involved in public safety, who may have their
communications impacted as well), we encourage anyone who is interested,
club member or not, to attend this presentation.
Check the website: www.10-70.org or call the hotline: 201-445-5172.
KA2ANF - Joyce Birmingham, Hudson Division Vice Director
[email protected]
For directions see http://www.10-70.org/ve.htm#BCLPSI
* Attention ARRL-Affiliated clubs
(Jan 30, 2004) -- To be considered actively affiliated with ARRL, a
club needs to update its record with ARRL Headquarters at least once per
year--or as often as necessitated by changes in the club. If your club
has not recently submitted an update with ARRL, please visit "The
Affiliated Club Annual Report Form" page. Follow the instructions under
"How to submit an update for your club records." Special Service Clubs
need to submit an update as well by visiting the "Form FSD-7 Application
for Renewal as an ARRL Special Service Club" page.
>> A LICENSE STRUCTURE IS NOT HAM RADIO
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In the past few weeks I have had a number of e-mails from division
members concerning the ARRL Restructuring II proposal to the FCC. A few
are very upset over it. It is a big change. I have tried to answer
these division members as best I could. Some few have accused the ARRL
Board of being anti code and not interested in preserving ham radio. I
could tell they were angry. I would like to share a detailed answer that
I gave to one such member and on which I have expanded. It's long but
it covers the issues involved and may help you understand how the
proposal came about and why I and the other members of the ARRL Board
feel it's necessary.
Here is my response:
I got my Novice license or ticket in January 1962 within six months of
graduating from college and starting to teach. I got on the air with a
used HQ 100 and a homemade single 6AG7 transmitter. Although I didn't
realize it at the time, I was QRP with less the 5 watts output. A few
months later, in April I went into the Army reserves and after basic
training at Ft. Knox I went to Field Radio Repair School at Ft. Gordon,
GA. Those were the days of the one-year non- renewable Novice license.
At the time I did not realize that I could have retaken the exam at the
end of the year and extended my time on the air. Here I was with a
great theory background thanks to the Army but no code speed to get the
13 WPM General. I had no interest in the Technician license as I wanted
DX and HF. So I was off the air for about two years struggling to get
my code speed up listening to tapes.
I had a real problem with the code as I had learned it the wrong way.
I had learned it by what it looked like - dots and dashes - from the Boy
Scout manual. That adds an extra thought process, which is both time
consuming and slowing. With a lot of work I eventually passed the
General and went immediately to RTTY and eventually SSB. But I wanted
to get rid of my old call sign and get all those extra DX frequencies so
despite the fact that I rarely operated CW I listened to tapes and W1AW.
By November 1976 I was able to copy 20-WPM solid for at least one
whole minute in front of a FCC employee and passed the test the first
time around. I couldn't believe it. I passed because I was very
relaxed. I was sure I would fail. I took the test only because a friend
asked me to keep him company when he took the Advanced. I was in shock
when the FCC examiner told me I had passed. Now I had to take the
written, which I had not studied. But apparently enough had stuck as I
passed. Had I failed the written I would have had to take the entire
test over 30 days or more later. In those days you had to pass the
entire exam in one shot. There was no such thing as getting credit for
parts of the exam. It was all or nothing.
Once I got the Extra I changed my call to the one I currently have and
stayed on RTTY and SSB chasing DX and contesting. It was not until
about 1990 that I started to get into CW contesting and DXing. I can
now copy in excess of 30 WPM during DX pile-ups or in contests but I
never learned to send with a paddle so I send from buffers or a
keyboard. As a result I never rag chew in CW. I am not that
comfortable with CW but I do make thousands of CW contacts each year and
have 200 plus counties on the mode. I really do not want to see CW go
away. I've built a 40 meter CW QRP rig and I have about 50 Altoids cans
in the basement ready for a few projects.
You make some assumption about the ARRL directors that are not correct.
Of the fifteen directors about ten of us operate CW regularly and five
or six are real cracker jack CW ops in contests or DXpeditions. As a
group we are far from anti-CW. About four of those on the Board are
very unhappy with the entire issue. They support the ARRL position
because they know it is the best deal we can hope to accomplish. They
simply wish we did not have to deal with the issue at all. They
certainly are not as you maintain, anti-code. That just is not so.
All of us would be unhappy to hear any member say that any one us or the
organization was "not interested in preserving the ARS, but (were) more
interested in membership." Hey, we are volunteers! We are not getting
big fees for all the time and travel we do on behalf of ARRL and its
members. We do it because we love ham radio, deeply.
The fifteen directors currently on the ARRL Board knew that no matter
what position we took some of our members would not be happy. There was
no possible way around that conclusion. The survey I took via e-mail
back in September showed that close to 60 percent of the members wanted
to keep a Morse test and that they also wanted a new entrance level exam
without a Morse test. Over 70% wanted a new entrance level license
class. A sizable percent of those responding wanted the Morse test
dropped altogether - almost 30 percent. That was up from 18% just a few
years ago when I conducted a survey in 1999 during Restructuring I.
Well, what's changed?
In July 2003 the ITU eliminated the treaty language requiring nations to
determine that prospective Amateur operators could "receive by ear and
send by hand" International Morse code. No speed had ever been set
although most countries set the speed at 10 or 12 WPM. It had been 10
WPM in the US until about 1937 when it was upped to 13 WPM after the
ARRL requested that it be 12.5 WPM after a member survey. Many hams
realize that we have not seen hordes of CB type operators entering our
ranks after the code speed was lowered to 5 wpm. While we had many hams
upgrade, we had all too few new hams entered our ranks. Therefor most
of us are no longer worried or any longer believe the argument that
there are hordes of CB type operators who will invade our ranks and
lower our standards. If it did not happen in 2000 why should it happen
in the future. It's a myth. It is also going to take more than a mere
change in the license structure to get a lot of new hams.
Many of the directors and ARRL insiders were surprised at the ITU
decision. We were not surprised that they dropped the Morse
requirement. We knew that was going to happen as the ITU societies in
all three regions had already taken a position on the issue. They
wanted to drop the requirement. The US delegation could have stayed
home and it was still going to happen. What surprised us was that it
happened immediately. Most times there is a delay of six months or a
year or more before a provision goes into effect. This was immediate.
So we had to play catch up and determine what our policy was going to be
in light of the requirement being immediately dropped. Directors began
to get input from their members and some took surveys to help them
decide how they would vote. I took an e-mail survey of members.
I don't feel you can make a decision of this magnitude on feelings or
personal likes or dislikes. The issue is far too important. You have
to look at many issues. One is what the FCC wants to do or is likely to
do. They do not conduct surveys. By law they do not have to. All they
need do is make an announcement and take comments and then write an
opinion, which justifies to some extent whatever they decide to do.
About a week ago I went back to the December 1999 document, some 72
pages long, that the FCC issued just before it implemented the 5 WPM
Morse test for General and Extra on April 15, 2000. I wanted to make
sure I had remembered their reasoning correctly. I had. The important
pages for our discussion here are pages 14 to 24 - just those ten pages.
This is where the FCC discusses the issue of the Morse test and gives
its rational for the public policy decision it took - the official US
government position on Morse testing. The sole justification in 2000
for maintaining the test even at 5 WPM was the existence of the ITU
treaty language. Well, now that the treaty language no longer exists,
what do you think the FCC will do? You can find that document on the
ARRL web site at http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/wt98-143ro.pdf
Or look at the lead story in yellow - League Files "A Plan for the Next
Decade" with FCC and go "Full Story" and then find and click on the
Report and Order (WT 98-143).
You will see that the FCC has already disregarded some of the issues you
raise as either untrue or unimportant. Be aware that this is the FCC
and not ARRL saying this. Please do not shoot the fifteen messengers
here, and especially not this one.
It is clear to many members of the ARRL Board what the FCC wants to do
and we really cannot afford to simply disregard it. It's my opinion
that they plan to or will eliminate the Morse test for the General test.
I believe that we have a chance of convincing them they should maintain
a Morse test for the Extra license. If enough hams back the ARRL
request for a Morse test for the Extra, there is a good chance we will
maintain our Morse tradition. A team form ARRL will be in Washington to
talk to the FCC about this issue and BPL a number of times in coming
months. But there is, in my mind, absolutely no chance of increasing
the code speed for any class license or keeping a code test for the
General. That's my view of the situation and it may not be shared with
the entire board or even the majority of the board.
The FISTS position, in my opinion, therefore has no chance of being
implemented. There is no way the FCC will increase the code speed now
that the treaty language no longer requires a Morse test. That's not in
the cards. I really could not in good faith vote for a FISTS type
proposal as an ARRL Director. I feel I would be giving members like you
false hope. I would in effect be lying to you. Increasing code speed
is simply not a possibility. You may not want to hear that, but it is
not opinion so much as it is FACT. A bitter pill to swallow, as you
said.
You state that "ARRL is not truly interested in preserving the ARS, but
more interested in membership." This is totally false. We need to grow
ham radio, preserve the ARS and gain ARRL members. We need all three.
You cannot have one without the other. If you have any knowledge of the
history of the Amateur Radio Service you should be aware of the crucial
part that ARRL has continually played throughout the long history of ham
radio. Currently the ranks of ham radio operators are not growing.
That may not be immediately obvious as we have for some time had a ten
years license term and a few years of a grace period before individuals
are struck off the FCC license list. Many of those who entered our
ranks in the early 1990s are still on this list of ham operators
although they may no longer be interested in ham radio and in some cases
are no longer living. The system makes it impossible to tell with any
accuracy how many licensed operators we currently have or more
importantly how many of them are active operators. What we do know is
that almost a third of those who took the Technician license in the
1990s never got on the air. (A professional survey ARRL conducted
confirms this.) If you are not on the air and active there is little
reason to be an ARRL member. I believe that you really cannot have ham
radio without ARRL. Others feel that way too and they are not all
elected ARRL officials.
Ham radio is not about a license exam you or I took at some point in the
past. Nor is it about how difficult we thought the exam was. I thought
my twenty-question Novice Exam in 1961 was difficult for I knew almost
nothing about radio at that point. There were two and a half pages of
material on the Novice Exam in the 1962 ARRL license manual. Ed Hare
who took his Novice Exam at about the same time told me he too thought
it was hard and he also reminded me that many older hams had not been
happy when the Novice class license was introduced in about 1953. It
was too easy some felt. Well, if it had not been for that easy entrance
portal we might well not have people like Ed Hare in our ranks now.
Thank god for that exam!
Yes, many of us can wax eloquently about how at a tender age we
struggled to learn or more accurately memorized concepts or formulas and
then traveled into a big city to take and pass an FCC exam. Few of us
made it on the first try. The nostalgia is pleasing to us all. But the
reality is quite different. It has never been the exam we took which has
made ham radio great and which has given us pride in ham radio and
created our long proud tradition. It is rather what individuals and our
entire group, once licensed, has accomplished over many years. It about
how we used what we learned in two world wars and many smaller conflicts
to provide a necessary and vital service to the armed services of our
nation. It is not the exam but rather the public services we have
provided to our local communities across the nation when we have manned
shelters and provided communications at public events or during storms
or national emergencies. It's about selfless volunteerism without pay.
It about all the things we see in the ARRL video "Amateur Radio Today"
narrated by Walter Cronkite and put together by a team of professionals
at no cost. All of those professionals who put that video together did
it on their own time for free. But that is, after all, the spirit of
ham radio. Ham Radio is about all the public service our RACES and ARES
volunteers have provided over many years. It's about the fun and
enjoyment we had in operating and building radio equipment. It's about
the enjoyment we had in making friends across town or across oceans.
The ticket enabled us to do many great things with radio. It's the
doing of ham radio that enriches our lives and not the exam we took.
It's not about the license exam, but rather what we did once we passed
that exam. It is about the Elmering and mentoring many have quietly
done over the years. When we put all the emphasis on the exam and
"standards", whatever that nebulous word may mean to us individually, we
miss the point of what ham radio is all about. Hams radio is about
service and contacts we have had with other hams over many years, which
have enriched our lives. It is not about an exam system.
If the exams have become easier over the years why is it that in most
cases 60 per cent of those who take the exams at nearly every session
fail? It has been that way for years. The exams frequently "seem"
easier to us when we look at the current versions, but then like Ed
Hare, we have learned a lot since we first took our exam. We are not
the same persons we were when we took those exams years ago. We have,
hopefully, learned a lot more about radio and people since then.
Will some leave ARRL over this issue? Undoubtedly, but I do not think
there is anything I can say or do that will change that. Some want
things to remain as they are and given changes in technology and at
Geneva that simply is not possible. Ham radio exists in the real world
and not in an electronic vacuum.
The FCC told us in 1998 that they wanted to simplify the license
structure. It was not ARRL's idea. In 2000 the FCC did that by going
to three classes of license. But they left us with two three licenses
which some now call the "legacy licenses" - Tech Plus, Novice and
Advanced. Renewable but without an exam they have privileges assigned
to them. The ARRL Board feels that we need to move those "legacy
licenses" into the current system by grandfathering them. The ARRL
proposes that current Techs, Tech Plus, and Generals receive the
privileges of the new General Class. In addition ARRL seeks to move
current Advanced Class operators to the Extra privileges. Some have
chosen to view this as a giveaway and demeaning to current holders of
General and Extra licenses. But it appears to be only "fair" thing to
do if you are going to move to three licenses. The other option, is
much less humane and certainly not fair. It would require re-testing or
downgrading, which is what happened in the mid 1960's when the Incentive
Licensing program came into effect.
Let me digress here for a moment about the Incentive Licensing system
under which most of us were licensed. Actually I had just passed my
General before the plan was implemented. Before Incentive Licensing
there were essentially only two classes of license - Technician and
General. There were a few Extra Class and a few Conditional Class
(those who lived too far from an examining center and took a test
administered by another ham) and there were the non-renewable Novices.
Most hams held General Class licenses. The new program was brought in
so that we could defend our spectrum by showing the government that we
were a highly qualified reserve of operators ready to help the nation.
We were at that time in the middle of the Cold War and everyone was a
little bit paranoid about what might happen. The FCC and ARRL
leadership felt this was a solution and a protection for us at the time.
(Perhaps they too were paranoid.) Eventually nearly everyone joined the
upgrading bandwagon. But the plan was terribly unfair to those older
hams who held a General Class license. Under the new concept or plan
they eventually lost frequencies and privileges unless they upgraded to
Advanced or Extra. There was no grand-fathering or automatic upgrading.
It was a terrible time. None of the current fifteen ARRL directors
want to see that ever happen again. We realize that some members will
not be happy with this provision of the plan but the alternative is far
worse.
One of the unintended consequences of Incentive Licensing is that it has
created a "cast system" within ham radio. We are since that 1960's no
longer the same one big happy General Class family. We all live in
little spectrum ghettoes. We can't all go everywhere or anywhere we
want. Some of us can't go to the sacred world of HF unless we UPGRADE.
Think for a minute about some of the loaded words some of us use like,
"shack on a belt crowd" or "no code techs." They are actually
derogatory terms if you stop and think about them. Was Incentive
Licensing a totally good thing for ham radio? I think the jury may
still be out on this one. But I do know that because of the concept we
have a divided ham community, which causes some of us to have great
difficulty embracing the new proposal.
I really believe that the current ARRL proposal, while not perfect and
certainly not pleasing to all our members, is a very good compromise on
all the complicated issues involved and has the greatest chance of
gaining the support of most hams. It also has the possibility of most
of its elements being implemented by the FCC.
Whatever the FCC eventually decides to implement for a license system is
not the end of ham radio as we know and love it and is not the end of
ARRL either. It may also not be the last time the FCC proposes a change
in the license structure. As I have said before ham radio and ARRL
cannot exist without each other. I hope they both have a long life and
we all continue to have fun with ham radio.
* FCC Okays BPL Proposal; ARRL Officials Express Disappointment
(Feb 12, 2004) -- The FCC today agreed unanimously--with one partial
dissent--to go forward with a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on
the subject of Broadband over Power Line (BPL). The NPRM is the next
step in the BPL proceeding, which began last April with a Notice of
Inquiry that attracted more than 5100 comments--many from the amateur
community.
See http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/02/12/5/?nc=1 for further
details.
* Top DXer turns 90!
Top DXCC Honor Roller Ben Stevenson, W2BXA, of Colonia, New Jersey,
celebrated his 90th birthday January 25. The ARRL DXCC Desk reports the
new nonagenarian stands at 391 overall entities, in a tie with Ed
Hawkins, K6ZO, who will turn 90 himself in February 2005. "The most
anyone could ever work is 393--335 current and 58 deleted," explains
ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, "so 391 is currently the highest
achieved." On phone, Stevenson is currently the DXCC "top dawg" at 389
total entities, Moore notes. Fellow North Jersey DX Association member
Howard Wolfe, W2AGW--who was tied with W2BXA and K6ZO at the top of the
pile--died in December 2002 at age 95.
See the picture of Ben at
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/01/28/1/ shows Birthday boy Ben
Stevenson, W2BXA (center) gets help in celebrating his 90th birthday
from fellow DXers John Burgio, W2JB (left) and Bill Hellman, NA2M
(right). The surprise party was arranged by Stevenson's wife Raisa and
attended by NJDXA members and neighbors.
* CW STORY ON NPR
Nice story about Morse Code on National Public Radio February 17th. Rick
Lindquist was interviewed.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1680529
The International Telecommunications Union nears approval of a measure
codifying the "at" sign -- typical of email addresses, as in
[email protected] -- to be signified in Morse code. Morse code users
reportedly want to find a uniform way of sending email addresses to each
other. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Rick Lindquist, news editor at
QST, the journal of the National Association for Amateur Radio.
Turns out it is the 4th most popular NPR story to be e-mailed in the
last 24 hours as well...
>> 2003 New Jersey Traffic Handler Awards
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W2SWE Memorial Award - The W2SWE Memorial Award was named in honor of
Ed Malecki, a cornerstone of NJ Net operations throughout the 1970s. Ed
epitomized the best in traffic handlers through his expertise, his
volunteerism, and his mentoring. Ed died in early 1979 and the award
has been made every year since 1979 by nominations from our membership.
For 2003, the award goes to George Jindela W2MTO of Parsippany for his
all around participation and promotion of traffic functions, including
net controls and liaisons. George is also the first two-time winner,
having also achieved the award back in 1992. Congratulations George!
W2UEZ Memorial Award - The H. William West W2UEZ Award honors Bill
West for his outstanding achievements in managing and growing the NJ
Slow Net and mentoring newcomers to traffic handling. Ironically, Bill
was also the first winner of the SWE award for his good deeds. Since
1981, the W2UEZ Award has been presented yearly to the most promising
newcomer in NJ traffic handling - the kind of guy or gal that Bill would
be proud of. For 2003, the award goes to John Pugh W2QOB of Hopewell.
In a short time, John has grown tremendously as a traffic handler and
net participant, as well as a net control and liaison, and has learned
the ropes on CW, SSB and FM nets. Congratulations John, and we hope you
will stay with us for many years. de Dan Ostroy K2UL, Southern NJ
Section Traffic Manager
If you are have an interest in traffic nets or just want to see how it's
done listen in to these nets in operation and learn a thing or two.
(from The New Jersey Traffic Bulletin)
Statewide NNJ / SNJ Section Nets (HF)
New Jersey Morning Net (NJM) 3.695 MHz, 10am Fri/Sat/Sun, N2GJ Mgr.
New Jersey Net (NJN) 3.695 MHz, 7 & 10pm Daily, AG2R Mgr.
New Jersey Phone Net (NJPN) 3.950 MHz, 6pm Daily, 9am Sun, W2CC Mgr.
New Jersey Slow Net (NJSN) 3.715 MHz, 6:30pm Daily, K2PB Mgr.
NNJ Local Nets (VHF/UHF)
Central Jersey Traffic Net, 146.760 -, PL 156.7, 8pm Daily, KB2VRO
Mgr.
New Jersey VHF Net (early), 146.895 -, PL 151.4, 7:30pm Daily, N2RPI
Mgr.
New Jersey VHF Net (late), 146.700 -, PL 141.3 , 10:30pm Daily, N2OPJ
Mgr.
Union County Traffic Net, W2NJR linked repeaters, 10pm M-F, KY2MMM
Mgr.
SNJ Local Nets (VHF)
Jersey Shore ARS Traffic Net, 146.910 -, PL 127.3, 7:30pm Daily, KC2JBZ
Mgr.
South Jersey Traffic Net, 145.470 -, and 147.150+, PL 127.3, 8pm
Su/M/W/F, KB2RTZ Mgr.
South Jersey VHF Net, 147.345 +, PL 127.3, 10:30pm Daily, WB2UVB Mgr.
SJVN Training Net, 147.345 +, PL 127.3, 10:15pm, 4th W, WB2UVB Mgr.
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>>>>>>>>>>APPROVED HAMFESTS:
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The Division's first hamfest of 2004 is:
29 Feb 2004 + Long Island Mobile ARC http://www.limarc.org/fest.htm
Contact:
Diane Ortiz, K2DO
PO Box 392
Levittown, NY 11756
Phone: 631-286-7562
Email: [email protected]
Hicksville, NY
Sect: New York City-Long Island
DIRECTIONS:
>From Long Island Expressway: Take exit 44S (Seaford Oyster Bay
Expressway - Rte 135 South). Go to exit 10 (Old Country Road). Go west
on
Old Country Road to Levittown Parkway and make a left (heading south).
Levittown Hall is about 1/2 mile down on your left after the shopping
center.
>From Southern State Parkway: Take exit 27N (Wantagh Parkway North).
Continue north to exit W2 East (Old Country Road East). Go about 1/2
mile
and make right onto Levittown Parkway. Levittown Hall is about 1/2 mile
down
on your left.
6 Mar 2004 x Splitrock ARA
http://www.splitrockara.org
Contact:
Michael Greenfeld, K8BQ
PO Box 610
Rockaway, NJ 07866
Phone: 866-457-6687
Email: [email protected]
Parsippany, NJ
Sect: Northern New Jersey
>From Route 3 West
Merge on to Route 46W for 3.7 miles
Take the I-80 WEST/RT-23 NORTH exit
Merge on I-80 WEST and proceed 7 miles
Exit 47 on to Route 46 West
Proceed 2.3 miles
Take Baldwin Road exit, ramp on right
Make left at end of ramp and cross over Route 46
Entrance to Smith Field Parking on left
>From Route 80 East
Exit 45
Left a light
Left at first light on to Route 46 West
Just before next light take Baldwin Road exit, ramp on right
Make left at end of ramp and cross over Route 46
Entrance to Smith Field Parking on left
13 Mar 2004 + Cherryville Repeater Association http://www.qsl.net/w2cra
Contact:
Cherryville Repeater Assocation, W2CRA
PO Box 308
Quakertown, NJ 08868
Phone: 908-788-4080
Email: [email protected]
Clinton, NJ
Sect: Northern New Jersey
14 Mar 2004 + Orange County ARC http://www.bestweb.net/~ocarc/
Contact:
Ed Moskowitz, N2XJI
123 Harold Avenue
Cornwall, NY 12518
Phone: 845-534-3492
Email: [email protected]
New Windsor, NY
Sect: Eastern New York
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