[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newslinet 1472 - October 28, 2005

Sat Oct 29 10:41:52 EDT 2005

Amateur Radio Newslinet 1472 - October 28, 2005

The following is a Q-S-T.   Ham radio is ready as hurricane Wilma makes 
landfall in Mexico and the United States.  Hear the graphic details on 
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1472 coming your way right now.

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RESCUE RADIO:  A HURRICANE NAMED WILMA - PART 2

Hurricane Wilma's slow progress over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula took a 
heavy toll on local villages and luxury resorts.  It also knocked out power 
and other utilities.  With all means of communications down, it was up to 
ham radio let the outside world know what had happened.  One of the most 
cryptic damage assessments came from XF3PAS on Cozumel:

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XF3PAS:  "I can tell you that this is very serious damage.  We have no 
communications.  We have two cruise ship terminals and we have our cargo 
pers also down. so we have no way at this moment to have water or food 
(delivered).  We have to bring it overland.  Over."

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Alberto also provided reports to the Hurricane Watch net on 14.325 MHz:

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XF3PAS:  "It devistated a terifficly (wide) areas.  Hotels on the ocean 
front are down.  Some of them are completely damaged and the erosion at the 
South end is really bad.  It goes like 50 yards in over solid rock.  There 
is nothing in the area other than solid rock that was about 50 yards 
inside.  Over."

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By Sunday morning, October 23rd, Wilma was a Category 2 hurricane as it 
headed into the Gulf of Mexico. Its next target was the west coast of 
Florida, with landfall taking place on Monday the 24th. Steve Crow, K4CPX, 
in Punta Gorda reported that Wilma's eye wall clocked at 120 Knots passed 
directly over Marco Island  as forecasters had predicted with Naples and 
Everglades City directly in the hurricane's path.  Steve also reported that 
he had not lost power though the lights were blinking every so often.  He 
also had good news that his boat.  The Sea Fox was riding out the storm 
very well.

Wilma then crossed Florida heading directly toward the Ft. Lauderdale area.  
There were reports of storm surge flooding in the Keys.  Ron Keister, 
KG4DWP at the E-O-C in Boynton Beach who described only light to moderate 
damage at about noon on the 25th over Hurricane Watch Net VoIP circuits:

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KG4DWP: "It appears we are in the south-west eyewall at this time.  We have 
rain and wind and we do have some structural damage to the adjacent 
buildings.  Roofs, sidings and trees down.  That kind of thing."  

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Further North,  Martin Falk, KI4IQZ, reported in from the Oakland Park 
Emergency Operations Center 

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KI4QZ:  "Its slowed down a tiny bit but its still windy.  Everyone is 
staying put. The fire department in Oakland Park is considering going out 
shortly, hoping that the winds go down in the next ten to fifteen minutes.  
Its to dangerous for high profile vehicles right now.  Back to net."  

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The big problem in the area between Deerfield Beach and Boynton Beach was 
not a loss of phone.  Rather it was the power that kept going away.  As 
Wilm's eye passed over the area, our producer Bill Pasternak was surprised 
when the phone rang with his in-laws in Boca Raton on the other end:

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"I was sitting here, actually working on the script for Newsline when my 
wife called out to me and said that mom and dad were on the phone.  I 
picked up the extension and talked to them for a while and found out that - 
yes - they had no power.  And yes - they had no cellular service.  No gas, 
I believe.  But the telephones kept working - at least in the Boca Raton 
area."

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That area was one of the few where landline telephons remained in operation 
even though cellular service went out.  The ham radio community using 
emergency power kept on the air even though at times the copy was a little 
rough:

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(Unidentified operators.  Hard to decipher off-air audio).

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As Wilma approached, the Hurricane Watch Net worked in conjunction with  
National Hurricane Center station WX4NHC to gather data on the storm.  
Meantime, with power out to over 6 million people after the storm finally 
made its way off shore, ARES and other emergency communications volunteers 
throughout Florida provided ongoing assistance to relief officials and the 
public.  

According to news reports, 10 people in Florida lost their lives in the 
storm.  Authorities say that they hope to have electrical service 
completely restored no later than November 16th.  

A databases where hams can reguister to volunteer to provide asssistance to 
relief agencies has been set up for the ARRL by Joe Tomasone, AB2M.  Its 
on-line at wilma.ab2m.net.  Again that's wilma.ab2m.net.  (ARNewslineT with 
most audio from HWN IRLP Conference)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  ARRL ANNOUNCES POST KATRINA-RITA TOY DRIVE

The American Radio Relay League is coming to the aid of children in the 
coastal areas of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana hit by hurricanes 
Katrina and Rita.  This, by conducting a nation-wide holiday toy drive. 

Between now and December 10th, hams across United States are collecting new 
toys for children in the stricken areas.  They are then packaged with a 
card showing the persons callsign and sent to a central collection point 
from where the Salvation Army will handle the distribution.  

To make a donation just send your toy and card to the ARRL Toy Drive in 
care of the Salvation Army, 1775 Moriah Woods Blvd - Suite 12 Memphis, 
Tennessee, 38117-7125.  On Christmas morning there will likely be a 
youngster in the storm ravaged gulf states that will be smiling because a 
radio amateur like you - really cared.  (ARRL)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  SOCAL POWER OUTAGE FOLLOW-UP

A follow-up to our story last week about the response by hams to a power 
outage that hit parts of Southern California about a week and a half ago.  
Amateur Radio Newsline's Joe Mell, K-Zero-O-V, says that the outage and the 
ham radio response were both a lot wider than first reported:

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In addition to Long Beach and adjacent Los Angeles County cities, the 
outage affected at least 10 cities in Orange County as well. That's where 
medical-related communications are regularly provided by hams in the 
Hospital Disaster Support Communications System. 

HDSCS as it is better known, was activated at 6 AM at the request of South 
Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach. As hams were heading to that 
hospital, the phone status of other hospitals in affected cities was being 
determined. This resulted in responses to two more, Orange Coast Memorial 
Medical Center in Fountain Valley and Los Alamitos General Hospital in Los 
Alamitos. 

When Orange County officials activated the Emergency Operations Center at 9 
AM, HDSCS already had two operators there, providing communications from 
the dispatch Central Point. And how did other county agencies reach the 
hospitals without phones? The Net Control and HDSCS founder April Moell 
WA6OPS recalls: 

"The communications center officials gave my two phone numbers to hospitals 
and ambulance companies, as well as some police and fire departments. I was 
called when they needed to contact any of the affected hospitals." 

Traffic on the HDSCS two-meter net included inter-hospital messages 
regarding patient transfers and the names of on-call physicians. The 
California Office of Emergency Services' Region 1 EOC ham station used the 
HDSCS net to get status of the affected OC hospitals for relay to state 
headquarters in Sacramento. Phone services began coming back up around noon 
and repairs were complete by 2:30 PM, at which time the ham operations 
secured. 

For the Amateur Radio Newsline in "The OC," I'm Joe Moell. K0OV

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By the way, the Hospital Disaster Support Communications System is an ARES 
group that is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.  Our 
congratulations to them.  (ARNewslineT, K0OV)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  CISCO ANNOUNCES TOTAL INTEROPERABILITY RADIO INTERCONNECT 

Cisco Systems, a company hams know best for its computer system routing 
products is getting into the business band and emergency communications 
business.  This with the announcement that it has developed a new 
technology designed to flawlessly interconnect radio and Voice over I P 
communications networks.

The core of what Cisco has developed is a system that allows users of 
private mobile radios talk to each other even if they use different radio 
standards and frequencies.  Called IP-based Interoperability and 
Collaboration Systems or I-P-I-C-S, it works by carrying all the radio 
traffic over an I-P network controlled by a single command center.  From 
there it interconnects all users on an open or selective call basis as 
dictated by those involved in the conversation.  

Shah Talukder is a Cisco general manager for Safety Systems and Security.  
He tells Techworld dot com that the system is not limited to radio to radio 
communications.  He says that it could be adapted for voice-over-IP and 
could bring radio channels on to laptop computers.  This would mean total 
interoperability interconnecting any voice to any other voice,  whether or 
not a radio was involved in the circuit or not.  

Talukder says that Cisco developed the system to solve the problems within 
emergency services.  For example in those instances where the police, 
ambulance and hospitals are using different frequencies but need to 
immediately talk to one another. He admitted that there are some security 
issues owing to the large numbers of people listening to emergency 
broadcasts through scanners, but says that the security built around IP, 
notably I-PSec would be enough to make the system robust. 

Talukder adds that IPICS will mean sweeping changes for all of the 
emergency services.  If adopted by radio amateurs, it could mean an instant 
interconnect between an emergency site and a ham radio base of operations 
such as ARRL Headquarters, even if the two are  thousands of miles away.  
(Techworld)

**

RESTRUCTURING:  CODE TEST NPRN COMMENTS CLOSE OCTOBER 31ST

The closing date to file comments on the FCC petition to abandon Morse 
testing for candidates seeking an Amateur Radio license is Monday, October 
31st.  If you want to be heard on the issue then you need to write quickly.  

According to an ARRL Bulletin,  more than 2600 comments have been filed in 
response to the Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Order in WT Docket 05-
235.  This is the document that proposes to do away with the 5 WPM Morse 
code requirement for all license classes. It also denies several proposals 
to create a new entry-level license class.

While October 31st is the last day for initial filing, the reply comment 
period runs through  Monday, November 14th.  An FCC Report and Order in this 
proceeding is not likely until sometime in 2006.  (ARRL)

**

RESTRUCTURING:  ARRL PRES SAYS TO BRING BACK THE NOVICE CLASS

And speaking about restructuring one person who thinks the FCC is wrong in 
not considering an entry level license is ARRL president Jim Haynie, W5JBP.  
In fact, Haynie believes it is time to bring back the novice license, but 
with a few changes for the 21st century.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark 
Abramowicz, NT3V, spoke with President Haynie about this back to the future 
idea:

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Jim Haynie is pretty adamant about the issue. And, he thinks the FCC is 
missing an opportunity. 

"Back when I was first a novice, I got a good taste of what was going on HF 
and how we could do long-distance communications," Haynie says. "Today, we 
don't have that. What we have is what I would call - and this is my own 
personal opinion - a 2-meter ghetto." 

Haynie says he's not disparaging those who operate 2-meters and use it for 
hobby communication or public service activities. Rather, Haynie says to 
only open the door ajar to allow for 2-meter operations for new licensees 
doesn't go far enough. 

"What I would like to see is the FCC to turn around and give some voice 
privileges on HF so people that are new in amateur radio an ability to find 
out what it's like to talk to foreign countries," Haynie says. 

Haynie agrees he speaks with some nostalgia. But he also feels new people 
coming into amateur radio aren't getting the whole picture. 

"I know when I was a novice, I worked 40 meters and knew a bunch of people 
all over the world," Haynie recalls. "And where 40 meters would propogate 
to. And that gave me the taste of amateur radio as far as HF communications 
goes. 

"I think that's something we need to have today, I really do. And, what's 
going on is the fact that the new people coming into amateur radio don't 
have that ability." 

It was January 2004 when the ARRL board took a position endorsing a new, 
entry level class it called novice with HF voice and cw privileges. The 
ARRL's proposal called for limited HF voice activity for the new novices on 
80, 40, 15 and 10 meters. It also suggested restricting power output to 100 
watts on 80, 40, and 15 meters, and 50 watts on 10 meters. 

Haynie says the board's position really hasn't changed. 

"All of the board members are fully in agreement and we feel like that a 
novice class license with HF voice privileges are something that would be 
very important and the question is can I convince the FCC," Haynie says. 

So far, the FCC has pretty much rebuffed the ARRL's plan, but Haynie vows 
he won't gve up. 

"I think what we'll have to do is spend some time in talking to the 
commission about where that would go and what it would do to enhance 
amateur radio and the new licensees coming on the air," Haynie says. 

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

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President Haynie is not the only one who feels that its time for a Novice 
with phone privileges.  Others like Hollywood film maker Dave Bell, W6AQ, 
also believe that the real "sizzle" for the hobby is on the low bands.  
That the infectious spirit of ham radio is much harder to catch when you 
are only operating local VHF repeaters.  (ARNewslineT)

**

HOMELAND SECURITY:  10-CODES ARE OKAY AFTER ALL

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has changed his mind and won't 
require the abolition of 10-codes in everyday law enforcement 
communications as a condition of compliance with the National Incident 
Management System and eligibility for future federal grants.  Chertoff's 
recent announcement at the Annual Conference of the International 
Association of Chiefs of Police in Miami Beach earned him a warm round of 
applause.  (CGC)

**

THE BPL WAR:  ARRL CALLS ON THE FCC TO SHUT DOWN MANASSAS VA BPL

The ARRL has asked the FCC to instruct the City of Manassas, Virginia, to 
shut down its broadband over power line system.  This, after the system 
manger failed to resolve interference complaints filed by several radio 
amateurs.  Amateur Radio Newsluine's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, is here with the 
details:

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According to the ARRL Letter, Communication Technologies or COMTek 
Incorporated operates the BPL system over the Manassas, Virginia 
municipally owned electric power grid. The League says the facility has 
been the target of interference complaints, none of which has resulted in 
any action or even interest on the part of the FCC's Office of Engineering 
and Technology's staff. In the meantime, the ARRL says, interference to 
local Amateur Radio stations continues.

In a 16 page filing the both the O-E-T and the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, 
the ARRL said that the Manassas system currently causes harmful 
interference, and as such is not compliant with applicable FCC Part 15 
regulations. The League says that whatever actions either Manassas Power or 
Communication Technologies might have taken to relieve the problem have not 
been successful and the interference persists to the present time. 

The ARRL goes on to say that this is precisely the situation in which the 
system must be shut down, pending successful resolution of the interference 
problem it creates. In doing so it has thrown the ball back into the 
regulatory hands of the FCC.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, reporting.

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Two years ago, the ARRL put Manassas officials on notice that it would act 
on behalf of its members to ensure full compliance with FCC regulations 
once the city's BPL system, then in the trial stage, started up.  If the 
FCC refuses to act it could leave the ARRL with no other option than to 
take the matter into the Federal courts.  (ARRL, ARNewslineT, others)

**

ENFORCEMENT: PROPOSED CROSS BORDER MICROWAVE FINE #1

Broadcaster Pacific Spanish Network of Chula Vista, California has 
tentatively been fined $10,000.  This, for unauthorized 22 GHz microwave 
operations in the U.S.. 

Back on March 8th, the Commission's San Diego Office  began its 
investigation of allegations that Pacific Spanish Network was  operating an 
unauthorized microwave radio station.  The microwave system in question is 
presumably used to beam multiple audio programs across the U.S. - Mexican 
border to feed Mexican stations, which in turn beam the programs back to 
the U.S.

An agent  from the San Diego office monitored and measured the  
transmissions of a microwave radio station operated at Pacific Spanish' 
showing it was a  microwave radio station operating on 22473.5 MHz.  The 
FCC says that a review of its database revealed that Pacific Spanish has no 
authorization to operate a point-to-point microwave radio station.  It 
noted that Pacific Spanish did have a pending license application, filed 
January 13th for this transmitter site but this application  was dismissed 
on March 1st.  (CGC)

**

ENFORCEMENT: PROPOSED CROSS-BORDER MICROWAVE FINE #2

In an unrelated action, the FCC has issued a $10,000 Notice of Apparent 
Liability  to Uniradio in San Diego.  Uniradio is a program supplier to 
XEMO AM in Tijuana, Mexico that the FCC claims is operating an unlicensed 
cross-boder transmission facility.  

In its defense, Uniradio told the FCC that the equipment company that 
installed the radio transmitter had inadvertently switched the receiver and 
transmitter frequencies as the station should be operating on 22464.75 MHz.  
Uniradio also  stated that they have applied to the FCC for a special 
temporary authority and they have corrected the transmitter frequency 
error.

But the is nit buying the excuse.  In issuing the N-A-L the FCC says that 
Uniradio Corporation apparently willfully and repeatedly violated Section 
301 of the Communications Act of 1934 by operating an unlicensed microwave 
radio station on the 2.1 GHz microwave  band and that Uniradio is 
apparently liable for a forfeiture  (CGC)

**

ENFORCEMENT: PROPOSED CROSS-BORDER MICROWAVE FINE #3

Lastly, a series of proposed fines  have also been issued to a variety of 
other U.S. companies, many of which are involved in cross-border 
manufacturing.  Apparently these companies have been beaming unauthorized 
microwave signals across the U.S. - Mexican border to coordinate plant 
activities.  (CGC)

**

HAM AID:  FAR SCHOLARSHIS OPEN 

The Foundation for Amateur Radio has announced that it plans to administer 
54 scholarships for the 2006 through 2007 academic year.  This, in the hope 
of assisting hams who are planning on attending full-time institutions of 
higher learning.

The awards range from $500 to $2500.  In some cases preference is  given to 
residents of a given geographical area or to those who are pursuing certain 
courses of study.

The Foundation for Amateur Radio is a Federal 501c 3 tax exempt 
organization devoted exclusively to promoting the interests of Amateur 
Radio.  For additional information and an application form, write to F-A-R 
Scholarships, PO Box 831, Riverdale, Maryland, 20738

The cutoff date to apply is April 30, 2006.  (FAR)

**

FUTURES FILE: TIME IS NEAR WHEN CELLPHONES WILL REPLACE COMPUTERS

Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs says the memory and processing power in 
today's cellphones are the equivalent of a Pentium III computer running at 
550 MHz.  He predicts Moore's Law will soon boost that equation to make 
cellphones the personal computers of tomorrow.  Jacobs also thinks most 
major metropolitan areas of the United States will offer video on demand by 
the end of 2006.  (CGC)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  ARRL ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS

>From the ARRL Letter word that the League's Membership 
Services Department has announced the appointments of two advisory 
committee chairmen.  ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, has named Ward 
Silver, NA0X, to a one-year term as the chairman of the Contest Advisory 
Committee. Silver succeeds Joe Staples, W5ASP, who served at the helm of 
the CAC for about two and a half years.  Staples will remain the West Gulf 
Division's CAC representative. 

President Haynie has also reappointed Jim O'Connell, W9WU, to another one-
year term as chairman of the DX Advisory Committee.  O'Connell has headed 
up the DXAC for the past two years.  (ARRL)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  HONORS FOR OUTGOING HAMVENTION GENERAL CHAIRMAN N8EMO

Ohio's Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau will honor 
outgoing Hamvention General Chairman Gary De Combes, N-8-E-M-O, at its 14th 
Annual Community Ambassador Awards Breakfast.  De Combes is one of ten 
meeting planners who will be celebrated for their part in bringing events 
to the Dayton/Montgomery County area during the past year. 

The awards breakfast is scheduled for the Dayton Marriott Hotel for 
Thursday, November 10th. Over 100 Community Ambassador Award winners have 
been honored since the initial breakfast in 1992.  (City of Dayton)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  NEW AMSAT OFFICERS ANNOUNCED

And AMSAT North America has announced who will guide that organization in 
trhe coming months.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Fred Vobbe, W8HDU, is here 
with all call signs and names:

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Rick Hambly, W2GPS, will continue as President of AMSAT North America.  
This, as the organization announces the results of officer selection  to 
serve the 2005 through 2006 year.  

Elected along with Hambly are Executive Vice President Lee McLamb, KU4OS; 
Vice President of Operations Mike Kingery, KE4AZN and Vice President of 
Human Spaceflight Frank Bauer, KA3HDO.  

Bob McGwier, N4HY, will serve as Vice President of Engineering; Barry 
Baines, WD4ASW, as Vice President of Marketing and User Services; Steve 
Diggs, W4EPI, as Secretary; Gunther Meisse, W8GSM as treasurer.  Martha 
Saragovitz, continues in her position of Manager. 

AMSAT-NA has also announced its leadership team for the 2005 to 2006 
business year.  In alphabetic order, those elected to serve on the groups 
Board of Directors are Barry Baines, WD4ASW; Emily Clarke, W0EEC; Tom 
Clark, W3IWI;  Rick Hambly, W2GPS; Lou McFadin, W5DID; Gunther Meiss, W8GSM 
and Dr. H. Paul Shuch, N6TX.  First alternate is Bob McGwier, N4HY with Lee 
McLamb, KU4OS  as second alternate

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With this group running the show, AMSAT appears to be in some very good 
hands as it faces the future of ham radio in space.  (ANS)

**

WORLDBEAT-GERMANY:  DRM PLAYING HAVOC WORLDWIDE

Germany shortwave broadcaster Deutsche Welle recently introduced a new 
Digital Radio Mondiale service from its Taldom Russia relay site that's 
reportedly tearing up the airways, but not in a very positive way.  
According to a report from Bob Padula the signal is on 9.690 MHz beaming 
260 degrees from 0400 to 0600 U-T-C daily broadcasting in various languages 
toward Europe.  The problem is that the wideband signal is creating havoc 
to other broadcasters. 

For example, Padula is in Melbourne, Australia where the D-R-M digital hash 
is blocking everything from 9.680 to 9.700 MHz because of long path 
propagation. It's also co-channel with R-E-E Noblejas which has its Sefardi 
service to the same target zone from 04:45 to 05:15 UTC. Channel Africa's 
English service on 9.685 MHz from 05:00 to 06:00 UTC is also affected.  
(Bob Padula via SCADS)

**

DX

In DX, word that DL7AFS and DJ7ZG will be on the air portable 5 B from 
Cyprus through November 16th.  Activity will be on 160 through 6 meters 
mainly on SSB, RTTY and PSK31.  Look for them on the usual DX frequencies, 
especially using  30, 17 and 12 meters. QSL via DL7AFS, either direct or by 
the bureau.  (OPDX)

And LY1DF, will be active from Dodecanese as J45A during the CQ World Wide  
D-X C-W Contest on November 26th and 27th as a Single-Operator Single-Band 
entry. The single band is likely to be 160 or 80 meters. QSL direct to 
LY1DF.  (OPDX)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  WOULD YOU BELIEVE A GHOST DETECTING RADAR?

And finally this week, with Haloween right around the corner comes word 
that the Japanese company that launched popular computer data storage units 
shaped like rubber ducks and dishes of Sushi started is now selling a new 
product.  One that some hams might find usefull.  Would you believe an 
honest to goodness ghost detector?  Amateur Radio Newsline's Evi Simons 
takes a look:

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It seems as though Dan Akroyd and Rick Moranis just aren't up to date.  
Nobody's calling the Ghost Busters!  Instead, they're going with 
GhostRadar, the newest computer add-on from Solid Alliance.

Yup, thats right.  Solid Alliance Corporation has come out with a device 
with a built-in ghost radar detection system.  How does it work? Well, from 
what we know of it, it beeps and flashes red lights in response to the 
spirits unusual magnetic waves.  It also reacts to body heat and 
perspiration that is detected by a sensor where users place their thumbs. 

A representative from Solid Alliance said that the device may beep as often 
as once an hour in a place that's haunted, but from what I can tell; it may 
just beep if you're in a warm room with no air conditioning.  

If you thought this novelty item was enough to sell it to you, the device 
also has a regular USB memory storage device included.  This little device 
can not only alert you of ghosts in the house, but can also store your 
documents, digital photos, and mp3s. What a novelty indeed!

In Japan, this item will cost you about twice what a regular USB memory 
storage device will - $185 for 512 megabytes.  Not a bad price for such an 
important function. No word yet on how much they will cost here.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Evi Simons haunting you from New York.

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Solid Alliance recommends GhostRadar for such things spooky late nights 
alone at your computer or to those curious about finding out if their 
sudden chills represent a supernatural visitor.  We can think of one other 
use hams can put it to.  That's seeing if the strange sound Morse signal 
you come across on 20 meters is a very, very long delayed echo from another 
century and a now silent key.

Happy Halloween.

**

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