[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline 1430 - January 7, 2005

Sat Jan 8 08:57:26 EST 2005

Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1430 - January 7, 2005

The following is a Q-S-T.  Ham radio continues its relief efforts for 
dictums of the Indian Ocean earthquake and Tsunami while friends of a 
missing ham radio couple take to cyberspace to try to find them.  Find 
out the details on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1430 coming your 
way right now.

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RESCUE RADIO:  HAMS CONTINUE TO AID TSUNAMI VICTIMS

Ham radio is continuing its aid effort to victims of the December 27th 9 
point 0 earthquake and raging tsunami that devastated several southern 
Asian nations.  Graham Kemp, VK4BB, brings us up to date.

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Anderman Island VU4.  Amateur Radio Operators VU4BRI/VU4NRO were on a DX 
radio expedition,  stopping that activity to help the people.  Ram, 
VU3DJQ in New Delhi says there is an open invitation from Port Blair 
administration for Indian radio operators for providing emergency 
communication from Port Blair.  Travel and stay at own expense.  VU4RBI 
has left, but 5 further operators will join the team and will operate 
from many islands as possible. There is severe shortage of potable water 
in CarNicobar.

VU2MUE told us ham radio operators left for Andaman from Mangalore, 
Bangalore  and Hyderabad to activate ham radio stations in the tsunami 
hit smaller islands which are still cut-off from the mainland as well 
from the capital Portblair. It is expected that ham radio stations would 
be activated in the areas Hut Bay Island, Little Andaman etc.

VU2MUE heard TV journalist Monidipa Banerjee's voice on the National 
NDTV channel reporting from the Andamans during one of its evening news 
telecasts stating that governmental communication systems 'a total 
failure in Andaman & Nicobar. He heard her emphasising the need of ham 
radio communication system in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. It may be 
mentioned that no ham radio operation had been allowed by the Government 
of India for the last 17 years in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands until YL 
Bharthi, VU4RBI could get a 'special permission' to activate VU4 
DXpedition.

Nets for  Andaman and Nicobar Islands are on 7.090, 7.095, 14.160,   
14.190, 14.191, 14.193 amf 14.200 MHz.

India VU:  One VU2 Amateur who was feared missing in the after-wake of 
the tsunami was Binu VU2NGB. Happily  VU2NGB is ok and fine in Vypen 
Island, was due to "QSY" to VK land on the 7th of this month.

In India the public have asked ham radio operators to find missing 
persons. Contacting VU radio amateurs on the Internet using 
http://www.hamradioindia.org the amateur radio operators then pass the 
message to Andaman Island on 14.191 MHz USB voice or 7.090 MHz LSB voice 
using short wave radio transceivers. Some hams are also using morse code 
and others have connected their home computer to their ham radio 
transmitter.

Gopal Madhavan  had an eyeball with VU2RBI Bharathi at Chennai airport, 
on her arrival from Andamans. She was very, very tired, not unexpectedly 
but happy that she and her team were able to assist at a time of need.

There were also another group of hams led by VU2LIC at the airport, and 
they are expected to leave for the Andamans also a group from Gujarat is 
also in Chennai led by VU2CPV and they will also be leaving with relief 
materials.

India Nets:  India VU2NRO at Hyderabad is on 14.160 to receive QSPs for 
Portblair.  India on 7.050 MHz with hams visiting New Delhi on 145.600 
MHz (-600 KHz ).

Somalia 60:  Radio amateur Burhan 6O0AP in Galkayo, Somalia has 
confirmed the death toll.  Somalia Tsunami death toll is 200. Missing 
persons in Somalia are not included. Mr Mohammed Ghedi, Somalia's Prime 
Minister appealed to foreign countries, international organisations and 
well-wishers to come to the aid of Somalia. 

In Hafun, Puntland, North East Somalia (population of 6,000) a third of 
buildings were destroyed. The surrounding areas are under water. Sam 
Voron in Somalia says the situation in many areas is unknown and the 
United Nations is undertaking survey and assistance efforts.

3.655MHz LSB which is the main night time Somalia ham radio emergency 
listening frequency with 7.055 MHz LSB  as the primary daytime Somalia 
emergency listening frequency.  Also keep an ear on 10.125 MHz USB.  To 
help foreign hams contact Somalia hams use  14.255 MHz USB as themain 
listening frequency for overseas contacts with Somalia.  18.155 MHz USB 
or 21.255 MHz USB are alternates.

Bangladesg S21:  Manjurul Haque, S21AM is the General Secretary, 
Bangladesh Amateur Radio League he reports: "...here in Bangladesh we 
have been operating since the Tsunami first hit on the 26 December 2004 
on the Ham Radio emergency networks  on 14.190 MHz and 7.060 MHz. When 
needed we relay emergency messages.

Sri Lanka, 4S7:  Sri Lanka's Prime Minister had no contact with the 
outside world  until Amateur Radio operators set up a ham radio inside 
the Prime Minister's official house. The Prime Minister's satellite 
phone failed and the only link in his disaster operations centre was the 
Short Wave Amateur Radio, reports Sri Lankan ham radio operator Victor, 
call sign 4S7VK. 

 "As President of the Amateur Radio Society in Sri Lanka it was 
wonderful even at a tragic time to link up South of Sri Lanka with the 
Prime Minister who comes from the South and that is where his people 
are. So we went in and established this HF link.  My friends 4S7KE, AK 
and DZ went in a 4 wheel drive approaching the costal town of Hambantota 
from the interior as the main road along the cost was badly battered and 
full of debris and was impassable. I knew my propagation thanks to 
George Jacobs and I  could be  100% sure that we could keep a link going 
on 3 and 7 MHz. So  when all the cellular and all other means failed 
Short Wave stood bold and proud.  It is so simple and we didn't even 
have a TS 50 or such a small mobile HF set, but took an Icom IC7400 the 
best radio we have and two 12v batteries and dipoles some food and water 
and filled the rest of the vehicle with food for the displaced.  I stood 
by in Colombo at the PM's to run the link in and coordinate..

We are trying to expand our coverage but our resources are limited."

The Emergency Net for  Sri Lanka is on 7.060 MHz. 

Thailand HS:  Ham Radio operator Charlie K4VUD/HS0ZCW in Thailand was 
interviewed by CNN. He has been relaying emergency Tsunami messages to 
India using the 20 metre band.

The Emergency Net for Thailand is on 7.075 MHz.  News 24x7 is found on 
EchoLink node 46601 hs1wfk-l

Indonesia YB: Amateurs in Indonesia have established emergency 
communications between Medan in Sumatra  and Banda Aceh, the area 
destroyed by the Tsunami on the northern tip of Sumatra. They are using 
the 80 metre 3.815 Mhz for long distance communications and the 2 meter 
band for short distance contacts. Amateur Radio operators YB6ZZ and 
YB6ZES are operating an earthquake and Tsunami emergency network on the 
Indonesian amateur radio emergency frequencies of 7.055 MHz and 21.300 
MHz in the 15 metre band. 

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB, in Brisbame, 
Australia.

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More with Graham in future Newsline reports.  (Note:  Expanded print 
version via WAI News)

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RESCUE RADIO:  TSUNAMI - THE PERSONAL SIDE

But there far more to this story.  In fact this is many stories within a 
story and Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark Abramovich, NT3V, is here with 
some of them:

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And the news media around the world - including such organizations as 
The Washington Post, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal - have relayed 
those stories of courage, determination and dedication of operators in 
India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

The heroic efforts of the operators on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 
DXpedition immediately following the earthquake and tsunami also have 
been chronicled by many news outlets.

The Washington Post even reported that Bharathi Prasad, VU2RBI/VU4RBI, 
who was the DXpedition team leader was declared by many in the region to 
be "Teresa of the Bay of Bengal," making reference to the Roman Catholic 
nun, Mother Teresa, who ministered to the poor in India and is now on 
the path to sainthood.

Prasad and her team of operators quickly switched from DX mode to 
emergency communications, relaying first-hand reports back to India's 
mainland and handling many health-and-welfare messages.

Allen Pitts, W1AGP, media and public relations manager for the American 
Radio Relay League, says there are so many stories of commitment and 
sacrifice by amateurs in the South Asia region affected by the disaster.
"We've gotten reports here of amateurs operators putting in 20-hour 
shifts," Pitts says. "I've gotten a couple of reports where they've 
directly contributed to getting relief efforts in and getting people out 
of rubble - in some cases, while the hams themselves were still ducking 
falling concrete.

"It's really been wonderful. It's a good day to ham. We're very proud of 
the people over there." 

Pitts says operating conditions have been very primitive: 

"You've got to remember that in a lot of these areas, the roads to get 
into some of them are along the coastline and there are many areas they 
still don't have people in there," Pitts says. "But the hams are the 
ones who are pointing out what is needed by who, where and when. There 
are certain communities, they've got enough medicine, but they lack 
food. There are other communities - they may have food, but they lack 
medicine.

"And the hams are coordinating not just the health and welfare traffic 
at this point, they're still coordinating the actual relief efforts. Ham 
radio, again, has shown it works!"

Pitts says the response to this crisis - like those after the Florida 
hurricanes, the wildfires out in the West, and immediately following the 
9-11 attacks - speaks to the versatility of the Amateur Radio service.
"It is one of the most basic, consistently survivable communications 
systems that has ever been designed because each operator is independent 
and yet they are coordinated all over," Pitts says. "It is an incredible 
emergency tool and it has really come to the fore at this point. I just 
hope people in Washington and other decision-makers are listening."

Pitts says attention is now focused on the victims and the recovery, as 
it should be. But, the media and governments will eventually look back 
and begin to understand the role Amateur Radio plays in our society.

"When they start to look and summarize, 'Okay, what happened? 'How did 
this happen?' and we start to try and figure where do we go from here?" 
Pitts says. "That's when the story of amateur radio will come to the 
media fore."

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, in 
Philadelphia. 

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While the quake and Tsunami took place in the Indian Ocean, for many 
around the world, this is a tragedy that hit at home.  (ARNewsline (tm))

**

RESCUE RADIO:  UPDATE ON MISSING HAM RADIO COUPLE 

The whereabouts of missing ham radio operators Thomas Hawks, KD7VWJ, and 
his wife Jackie, KD7VWK, remain unknown, but friends and relatives have 
now taken to the World Wide Web to try and help find them.  This by 
creating a new website simply called  www.tomandjackiehawks.com.  A 
website that traces the case of the missing pair of ham radio operators 
from the day they sold their boat named The Well Deserved for a reported 
$400,000 and then, seemingly vanished off the face of the planet.  

As previously reported, the Arizona couple haven't been seen since 
selling their boat which they kept in Newport Beach, California in mid-
November.   Investigators say that the missing couple have not used 
their cellphones, credit cards or bank accounts.  Their car, a silver 
Honda CRV was found in Mexico in December.

A man who bought a yacht from a missing retirees  and may have been the 
last person to see them alive had already been taken into custody on 
unrelated charges. Police say that 25 year old Skylar Deleon bought the 
55-foot cabin cruiser from the missing  couple, but  investigators 
continue to refuse to say whether he is a suspect in their 
disappearance.  

De Leon was first charged with possible money laundering.  That was 
dismissed on January 4th when a new complaint that he took  $7,000 from 
a boating company on April 24th was filed.  Officials again said that 
allegation was not related to the missing couple.  During a hearing in 
Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Robison ordered Deleon be held 
in lieu of $200,000 bail.

Meantime, those hoping to find the Hawkes are monitoring all 
developments in the case are posting all the latest news on the new 
website,  Again its in cyberspace at www.tomandjackiehawks.com  
(Published news reports)

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RESCUE RADIO:  WB6NOA LOOSES TOWER TO TORNADO

One of the worlds best known hams has become the latest victim of Mother 
Nature's wrath.  In this case only a tower and antennas were lost.  
Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, has the rest of the 
story:

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Initial reports said that the late December damage to the home of ham 
radio educator Gordon West, WB6NOA, might have been caused by a weather 
phenomena called a microburst.  But later reports have pegged it as a 
small tornado.  A rather rare phenomena here in usually sunny Southern 
California.

But the region has been experiencing some very un-California-like 
weather the last 10 days.  Pacific Ocean rainstorms creating abnormally 
cold and wet winds.  What weather forecasters call a classic sub-
tropical moisture flow.  And it was this weather pattern that spawned a 
small tornado that, among other things that took down Gordos tower.  And 
ironically at a time when he was busy running a weather net on 2 meters.
According to Gordo's wife Susan, they heard a loud thump, a bit of a 
tearing noise and then some windows blew out.  A quick inspection of 
their Costa Mesa home showed that the tower had indeed fallen, part of 
the roof was missing and at least one window had its frame buckled and 
bent.  

Suzie West told Newsline that the property across the street was also 
damaged as were several other neighbors homes.  The real irony for Suzie 
and Gordo was having to be out in the rain picking children's diapers 
off the front lawn.  This, so that the storm would not carry them away 
and clog the city's drainage system.  They had been blown there, and if 
they plugged the drains it could have lead to flooding in the area.  
But the bottom line.  Suzie West says that everyone is safe and Gordon 
strung up a temporary dipole to keep the family on the air.
For the Amateur Radio News, Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF.  

Jim.  

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In case you are wondering, the West's say that a new tower and antennas 
are on order and Gordon does plan to rebuild.  (CGC, ARNewsline(tm))

**

RADIO LAW:  FCC PLANS 3G SPECTRUM AUCTION

Spectrum for advanced "third-generation", services such as high-speed 
Internet will be auctioned off as early as June 2006.  This, according 
to a Federal Communications Commission release on Wednesday December 
23rd.

The bands to be auctioned include 1710 to 1755 MHz and 2110 to 2155 MHz. 
The agency said it would try to sell licenses for airwaves in the 1432-
1435 MHz band in July or August 2006.

Some of the bands are currently used by federal government agencies.  
But a new law signed by President George W. Bush last week would 
reimburse them for a move to other spectrum using proceeds from the sale 
of the wireless licenses.  The National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration will be required to advise the FCC of 
estimated costs and timelines for relocation of the government 
operations at least six months before the auction takes place.  (FCC, 
others)

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ENFORCEMENT:  CATV SYSTEM FINED FOR EXCESSIVE SIGNAL LEAKAGE

The FCC has ordered a cable television operator to pay an $8000 fine for 
excessive signal leakage.  This, in a Notice of Monetary Forfeiture 
issued to Northland Cable Properties.  Evie Simons has more:

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In a December 22nd press release the FCC says that Northland is the 
operator of cable television systems in Sandersville and Tennille, 
Georgia.  The fine is for what the FCC terms as willful and repeated  
violation of cable television signal leakage standards as outlined in 
several sections the Commissions rules.

Back on a March 5, 2003, the Commission's Atlanta, Georgia Field Office 
conducted a cable signal leakage inspection of Northland's cable 
systems.  Engineers found that that Northland's cable systems 
experienced signal leaks at 38 locations on frequency 121 point 2625 MHz 
which exceeded 20 microvolts per meter at a distance of at least 3 
meters from each leakage point.

In its July 2, 2003 response to the Notice Northland sought cancellation 
of the proposed forfeiture.  It argued that the Atlanta Office's 
measurements were inaccurate and that the company undertook immediate 
and prompt remedial measures.  Also, that the leakage problems, for the 
most part, were attributable to customers premises equipment and inside 
wiring. 

But the government was not willing to buy Northland's defense.  And in 
doing so it may have set a new legal precedent.  This is because the FCC 
says that Northland is charged with the responsibility of monitoring and 
correcting signal leaks regardless of their cause to ensure that their 
systems comply with FCC  cable leakage standards which serve a critical 
safety purpose.  This includes signal leakage attributable to customers 
premises equipment and inside wiring.  In other words, the cable company 
is responsible for it all.

In New York, I'm Evi Simons reporting for the Amateur Radio Newsline.

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In this case the potential for interference was in the Aviation Band but 
it could just as easily have fallen anywhere in the VHF spectrum 
including 2 meters.  The FCC gave Northland the normal 30 days to pay 
the fine or to file an appeal.  (FCC, ARNewsline(tm), others)

**

PUBS FOR RADIO ENTHUIASTS:  POLICE CALL 2005

Some new publications of interest to radio hobbyists.  First is word 
that the 2005 edition of the scanner directory Police Call is out and 
this year it features Police Call CD-ROM at no extra charge.  Called the 
scanner users bible by many, this publication includes frequencies for 
various emergency agencies and 18 other categories of two way radio 
including government, aircraft education and many more.  You can find 
the latest Police Call along with the CD at Radio Shack and other 
selected dealers, nationwide.  (Via E-Mail)

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PUBS FOR RADIO ENTHUIASTS: MILITARY FREQUENCY DIRECTORY

And the second edition of the Military Frequency Directory is now 
available.  Published by Grove Enterprises, the latest CD contains a 
search function and complete listings for all 50 states.  You will also 
find many updated services as well as thousands of pages of 
documentation in Adobe PDF format.  More information is at www.grove-
ent.com or by e-mail to mt at groveent.com  (PopComm)

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ON THE NEWS STANDS:  HD RADIO IN POPCOMM

And if you have interest on the emerging world of IBOC or so called 
digital High Definition Radio, be sure to read the review of Kenwoods 
new mobile H-D receiver by Alan Dixon, N3HOE.  Its in the January issue 
of Popular Communications, and unlike most product reviews, this one 
take a broad look at the technology as well as the hardware itself. It 
starts on Page 8 and makes interesting reading for anyone interested in 
the emerging world of digital entertainment.  (PopComm)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  KE5BRW TALKS WITH THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND

What is it like to live and work in space?  Thats what a group of 
students at the University College Cork, Ireland, learned on Friday 
December 17th when they spoke via a ham radio and teleconference hook-up 
to US astronaut Leroy Chiao, KE5BRW on board the International Space 
Station.  Take a listen:

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Audio here

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The European Space Agency, had set up an educational event for several 
schools in Ireland and ten classes participated at the venue in Cork.  
The students had prepared 10 questions and spaceman Chiao answered all.   
This included one from a student named  Danielle who asked:  "What can 
you see when you look out the window of the space station?""

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Audio here:  

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In Cork, an audience of over 300 students, teachers and VIP's listened 
to the space talk.  On a big screen, showing the world map, they could 
see the ISS approaching from the Indian Ocean and crossing the 
Australian continent where the ham radio ground station providing the 
radio communications to the I-S-S was located. Jeremy Sheehan EI5GM 
operated the phone and presented the mike to the students. The signals 
were crystal clear.

Several newspapers, a TV station and the Irish national radio broadcast 
station covered the event.  ESA representatives and the academic 
authorities were delighted with the way the contact went.  (Tnx:  Gaston 
Bertels, ON4WF, ARISS-Europe chairman)

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RADIO IN SPACE:  THE GAS CLOUDS OF TITAN

Telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii have recorded clouds floating over 
Saturn's biggest moon.  This, as scientists from the California 
Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, use 
the deep space facilities at the Keck and Gemini observatories to 
photograph methane gas clouds near the south pole of the moon Titan.

Titan is considered by some astronomers to be the most earth-like body 
in the solar system.  While some planets like the gas giant Jupiter are 
covered in clouds, these photos mark the first time the process of 
evaporation and cloud formation has been spotted in space. (NASA)

**

RADIO HONORS:  ROVER HONOR ROLL POSTED

Tim Marek, KX7C says over the VHF Reflector that he has finished posting 
the January 2004 VHF Sweepstakes National ROVER Honor Rolls on the 
website.  Just take your web browser to 
http://k7xc.tripod.com/VHF_Records/ for the main Honor Rolls page.  
(KX7C)

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OPERATING EVENTS:  A CONTEST FOR IRLP

A contest on IRLP?  Yep and its the idea of Australia's Bass Amateur 
Radio IRLP Group in a joint venture with an American club.  The two 
groups are currently putting together the contest details with the 
Australian's acting as sponsor and providing the trophy will the 
Americans will manage the event.

Keeping in mind that this will be for IRLP only, the groups are looking 
for ideas on how to pull it off..  If you want to provide input, it goes 
to  The Bass Amateur Radio IRLP Group,  PO Box 2280,  ROSEBUD PLAZA, 
ROSEBUD  VICTORIA, Zip 3939, AUSTRALIA.  You can also send ideas by e-
mail  to IRLPcontests at bassirlp.cjb.net  (WIA News)

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OPERATING EVENTS:  PROJECT DIANA 

And on January 15th, from 1400 U-T-C to the 16th at 0000 U-T-C,  New 
Jersey's Ocean Monmouth Amateur Radio Club will operate from the 
historic Diana Site of Camp Evans.  This, to commemorate the first ever 
successful moon bounce experiment as conducted by the U-S Army Signal 
Corps held on 10 January 1946.  OMARC shall operate in the General, 
Technician and Novice subbands of  80, 40, 20, 15, 10 meters.  For more 
information on the Diana Project and for QSL info please visit the OMARC 
web site at www.omarc.org  (OMARC)  

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DX

In DX, LA7IJA and his team will be active from Easter Island from 
January 8th to the 18th.  Listen for them on all the usual frequencies 
including 6 meters with the call signs 3G0YP for CW-RTTY-PSK-SSTV and 
3G0YM for SSB.  QSL as directed on the air.  (VIA)  

And listen for W9VA, active as PY0FF during the ARRL DX CW Contest.  
Thats February 19 and 20th. His operating class is to be announced 
later.  W9VA will be on Fernando de Noronha, February 16 to the 22nd.  
Before and after the contest, he will be mostly on the WARC bands and 6 
meters using his personal callsign PYZ0ZFO.  Q-S-L all via W9VA. (OPDX)

NE8Z, will be active portable PJ4 from Bonaire in the Netherlands 
Antillies from February 4th through the 13th.  Activity will be mostly 
CW and SSB including the WARC bands and 6 meters.  QSL NE8Z to Rick 
Dorsch, P.O. Box 616, Hamburg, MI 48139.  (OPDX)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  BUZZWORDS FROM THE ETHER

And finally this week we turn our attention to the most basic form of 
communications.  Human speech.  What we say and how we say and how we 
say it.  Part of it is so-called buzzwords that are used to communicate 
thoughts or emotions.  Words like the catch phrases Fahgeddaboutit!  
Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has the latest on whats hot and whats not:

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According to a new list issued by the Global Language Monitor about ten 
days ago, Fahgeddaboutit is out.  Its been replaced by "Incivility."  
That a word which shot to prominence in last falls election to describe 
what some commentators saw as the unprecedented negativity of the U.S. 
political debate. 

Close behind is Donald Trump's message to losers on "The Apprentice."  
In this case its the two words -- "You're fired!"  Trump's famed 
dismissal notice topped the TV buzzword list. Close behind that phrase 
was "Mess O' Potamia" used on the "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" to 
describe events in Iraq.  "Girlie Men," a favorite expression to deride 
opponents used by California Governor  Arnold Schwarzenegger was a close 
runner up.  Others in the top 10 were "wardrobe malfunction," 
"Infectious disease," from the ever-expanding "CSI" detective series and 
"extreme makeover" from various television reality shows.

Global Language Monitor does not appear to keep track of buzz words in 
ham radio, but we have a few that seem to be in right now.  We call it 
ham speak.  For instance, if you do V-H-F contesting from a mobile you 
are now a Rover.  And operating meteor scatter has become "working the 
rocks."  We know there are many others, but we have to end it someplace, 
so with the latest news -- er -- I mean street buzz, I'm Bruce Tennant, 

K6PZW, telling it like it is -- er -- reporting -- or something.  

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Global Language Monitor is a group which keeps track of word use.  You 
can see the entire list on line at www.LanguageMonitor.com  
(www.LanguageMonitor.com)

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