[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1505 - June 16, 2006

Sat Jun 17 09:07:57 EDT 2006

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1505 - June 16, 2006

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Administrator, Andy Area, N6TCQ

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First a thank-you to all who have helped us get through the winter with your 
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The following is a Q-S-T.  

The world of Amateur Radio says its time to clean up 40 meters, a push to 
get ham radio emergency communications recognized in the U-K and a pan-
Europen C-E-P-T Foundation Class entry level license could be on its way.  
Find out the details on Amateur Radio News line report number 1505 coming 
your way right now. 

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ENFORCEMENT:  HELP CLEAN UP 40 METERS

A new push is on to clean intruders out of the 40 meter band.  Graham Kemp, 
VK4BB, tells us whats happening in South Africa and down-under in V-K:

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Alright, its time to help to clean up 40 meters, and this ids a world-wide 
call that has gone out.  Many stations not licensed to operate on the 
Amateur portion of the 40m band  use the spectrum. IARU Monitoring System 
groups around the world are  monitoring and reporting the intruders. 

In South Africa the word has gone out  from the SARL:  "We now need your 
assistance to get a perspective from  Southern Africa, as soon as 
possible."

 The SARL IARUMS group is looking for amateurs and short-wave listeners who  
can monitor the spectrum 7000 - 7100 kHz  and log intruders.  To help, 
guidelines are available on the SARL at www.sarl.org.za

 Here in VK remember you send reports direct to Glen Dunstan VK4DU
 intruders at wia.org.au. And there is also the IARUMS Net on Fridays, at 
07:30 UTC on 7.065 MHz.  

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Here in the United States, reports of intruders on any band go to our 
national society, the American Radio Relay League.  (WIA News, SARL)

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RESTRUCTURING:  NEW CEPT FOUNDATION CLASS LICENSE PROPOSED

The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications  Administrations 
has proposed a new entry level amateur CEPT  licence for all nations that 
are signatories to the agreement.  Jim Linton, VK3PC, has the details:

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Looking at the well documented and considered proposal, the new  licence is 
similar to the Australian and British Foundation Licences.

 Several CEPT nations are known to already considering an entry level  
licence.

 The proposal includes the benefits of having an entry level licence  and 
identifies the target groups of people who are likely to find it  
attractive.  

 The proposal outlines its training requirements and a syllabus that  
includes both theoretical and practical modules. 

 The CEPT proposal emphasizes that access to HF frequencies is crucial  to 
the success of the proposed entry level licence.

 Access to sufficient spectrum and providing adequate operating  privileges 
are important, says the proposal, so that entry level  licensees can 
communicate with and learn from, the wider radio  amateur community.

 Comments from CEPT member nations will determine the future of the  
proposal - the deadline for their comments is the 1st of August.

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With the success of the Foundation Class growing and it gaining support 
world-wide, many hams in the United States are beginning to wonder why its 
not being considered here as well.  (WIA News)

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RESCUE RADIO:  RADIO SYSTEM BLAMED IN WAKE OF LONDON SUBWAY BOMBING RESPONSE

A lack of a digital radio system is being blamed for the poor 
communications among first responders following the July 7, 2005, London 
bombings.  We have more in this report:

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A report released on Monday, June 5th notes that the lack of a digital 
radio network hampered the efforts of emergency service rescue teams.  The 
London Assembly's 7 July Review Committee report called it unacceptable 
that the emergency services are still not able to communicate by radio when 
they are underground.  This, some 18 years after the official inquiry into 
a fire at King's Cross station recommended action to address the problem.  

The report noted that in this case the rescue teams were unable to 
communicate properly between the sites of the explosions underground, their 
fellow first responders at ground level and control areas that were 
activated to assist in the emergency response.  It said that a lack of a 
digital radio network meant that many senior managers among the main 
emergency services were forced to rely on overloaded mobile phone networks 
to communicate in the aftermath of the explosions.  

A project to enable emergency services personnel with digital radio 
handsets to communicate underground is currently two years behind schedule.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, in Los Angeles.

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The London Underground's antiquated radio systems were also criticized 
after it failed to work during the post explosion response.  (ZD.net)

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RESCUE RADIO:  RSGB URGES UK GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT HAM RADIO IN EMERGENCIES

In the wake of this report, the Radio Society of Great Britain is urging 
political leaders in the United Kingdom to adopt Amateur Radio as an 
emergency communications resource.  Jeramy Boot, G4NJH, has the rest of the 
story:

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The Radio Society of Great Britain has issued a public statement in 
response to the London Assembly's report into the 7th July bombings.

The London Assembly report concludes that the emergency services' response 
to the terrorist attacks was hampered by poor communications. In a press 
release, the RSGB stresses the important role that radio amateurs have 
played in providing emergency communications following major disasters.

RSGB general manager Peter Kirby called on the UK government to start 
taking amateur radio and Raynet groups seriously.  He said: "Radio amateurs 
are used extensively in other countries abroad during times of emergency, 
and following 
the New Orleans flooding President Bush personally thanked radio amateurs 
in the US for providing the communication systems that the government 
agencies were unable to 
provide.

Jeramy Boot, G4NJH

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At air time its not known if the U-K government has responded to the R-S-G-B 
in this matter. The press release, in PDF format, can be downloaded from 
http://www.rsgb.org/news/pressreleases/pressrelease050606-raynet.pdf .  
(RSGB)

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RESCUE RADIO: CITY IN INDIA PREPARES FOR E-COMMS BLACK-OUT

At least one city is not waiting for diasater to strike.  In Indian 
municipality of Mumbi has brought together all communications providers to 
plan out for a worst case scenario.  Rob Mount Barker, VK5MM, has the 
details:

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With the monsoon season just around the corner, Mumbai has convened a  
special meeting to examine the state's disaster management plan.

 The government has also invited cellular phone  service providers to the  
meeting as they are seen to play a major role in  disseminating 
information.

 SOP's to deal with any emergency also include private and government-owned  
news media channels as well.  The government would rope in HAM radio  
operators to have alternate channels  of communication ready to deal with  
any situation. There are a number of  HAM radio enthusiasts in Mumbai who  
will be on the Government list.

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By preparing in advance, Mumbi civic leaders believe that they are doing as 
much as possible to be prepared for a communications black-out or other 
emergency situation.  (SARL, WIA News)

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RESCUE RADIO:  HOUSE REPORT SAYS HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT FAILING

Back here in the USA, a House of Representatives report says that the 
Homeland Security Department has failed to fulfill 33 of its own pledges to 
better protect the nation.  The report concludes that gaps remain in 
federal efforts to secure an array of areas, including ports, borders and 
chemical plants. There also are still delays in the department's sharing 
terror alerts and other intelligence with state and local officials.  

The Department of Homeland Security was created in response to the 
September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City 
and the Pentagon in Washington.  (Published reports)

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RESCUE RADIO:  TIMES SQUARE TOWER FIRST OF EIGHT WITH FIRE RADIO REPEATERS

Almost five years after the September 11 attacks, the majority of New York 
City's skyscrapers still lack in-building radio repeaters that allow 
firefighters to use walkie-talkies in the inner recesses of those 
buildings.  Now, thanks to the efforts of the Durst Organization their 48 
story building at 4 Times Square is now equipped with a repeater to solve 
these problems.  

The company recently installed the gear and its already been checked out by 
Fire and Plice personnel.  Durst has also announced that seven more of its 
skyscrapers are scheduled to receive similar repeaters this year.  

The Durst Organization is one of the city's largest privately owned real 
estate firms.   (CGC)

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RESCUE RADIO:  NEW CHICAGO TOWER PLAN NIXED

Plans to install a new tower to serve the needs of Chicago broadcasters and 
emergency service providers has been nixed.  This, according to the Chicago 
Sun-Times which has closely followed the discussions between broadcasters 
and developers regarding construction of a tall tower for DTV broadcasting 
antennas in Chicago. 

In a recent article, writer David Roeder reported that the developer would 
not pursue the tower project and would instead build a 57 story condominium 
building on its lakefront land.  Roeder said the developer of the nearby 
Calatrava building, which has a large spire on top, indicated that its 
design could be modified to accommodate new antennas.  (TV Technology, 
others)

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ENFORCEMENT:  VK CB OPERATOR PLEADS GUILTY TO STALKING

This out of South East of Queensland Australia.  That's where an 11 meter 
C-B operator has been convicted of harassing other Citizens Radio 
operators.  

According to the prosecutor in the case. It  all started when a woman 
bought two  CB radios to communicate with her 15-year-old daughter.   
Several months later, the woman began hearing two unknown men calling her 
filthy names over the airwaves.  For the next 7 months the Queensland  CB 
community had heard  the ranting of call sign "Whitepower" during a  
campaign of abuse directed at a woman.

But authorities were listening in too.  Eventually, one man was arrested 
after an investigation by police and  the Australian Communications and 
Media Authority, which recorded the transmissions and tracked him down.

The unidentified 33 year old operator eventually plead guilty to one count 
of  stalking with violence before a magistrate in the Southport  District 
Court.  He was sentenced to a 12-month intensive correction order.  What we 
call community service and counseling here in the United States.  At the 
time of sentencing the judge said it was a concern to him that the abuse 
and threats were broadcast to such a wide audience.  (WIA News)

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ENFORCEMENT:  CBS - JACKSON INDECENCY CASE MAY BE HEADED TO COURT

CBS isn't budging in its belief that the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show in 
which Janet Jackson unexpectedly bared her breast does not meet the FCC's 
legal standard for broadcast indecency.  

Reacting to the FCC's decision last week to uphold the original indecency 
fine against several CBS owned television stations, the network issued a 
statement saying it still disagrees with the commission and will continue 
to pursue all remedies necessary to affirm its legal rights.

The network has exhausted all appeals at the agency and its only remedy now 
would be to take the case into the Federal court system which CBS has not 
yet said that it will do.  CBS notes that it has apologized to the American 
people many times for the inappropriate and unexpected half-time incident.  
It says has taken steps to make certain it will never happen again.  (RW 
from FCC, CBS, others)

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RADIO LAW:  FIGHT OVER REMOTE DVR RECORDING HEADED TO COURT

Several television networks and studios have filed suit against cable 
programming provider Cablevision contending that the cable company's 
network DVR service, which is slated to go live next month, violates their 
copyrights.  All claim in the lawsuit filed in United States District Court 
in New York that the Cablevision service is actually an extension of video-
on-demand and thus requires appropriate licenses with copyright holders.

In its defense of the proposed system Cablevision likens the service to a 
DVR. In a statement, Cablevision said that the lawsuit is without merit, 
reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of Cablevision's remote-storage 
DVR, and ignores the enormous benefit and well-established right of viewers 
to time-shift television programming.

The plaintiffs are 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, 
Walt Disney Company, ABC, CBS and NBC networks. They are jointly asking for 
an injunction to prevent Cablevision from launching the service.  The legal 
battle will be closely watched by the cable industry because industry 
experts widely expect that Video On Demand will migrate over time to an 
everything-on-demand model, enabled by network D-V-R capability.  (Future 
Technology)

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HAM HAPPENINGS:  SPEAKERS AND PAPERS NEEDED FOR AMSAT SYMPOSIUM

Amsat is seeking speakers for an upcoming symposium.  Jim Davis, W2JKD, has 
more:

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Speakers are invited to submit and present papers dealing with the science 
of Amateur Radio Satellites and associated technologies for the AMSAT 2006 
Space Symposium. The Symposium will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in 
Foster City, California, approximately 10km south of San Francisco 
International Airport.

Since the 2005 Symposium was cancelled due to hurricane damage caused by 
hurricanes Katrina and Rita, speakers originally scheduled for the 2005 
Symposium are invited to re-submit papers for the 2006 Symposium.

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Again, that U-R-L is www.amsat.org For more information please refer to: 
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2006CallForPapers.php  (AMSAT)

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HAM HAPPENINGS:  PAPERS SOLICITED FOR ARRL/TAPR DCC

Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the 25th Annual ARRL and 
TAPR Digital Communications Conference to be held September 15th to the 17th 
in Tucson, Arizona.  These papers will also be published in the Conference 
Proceedings.  The submission deadline is July 31, 2006. Submissions go to 
Maty Weinberg, ARRL 225 Main Street,  Newington, Connecticut, 06111 or by 
e-mail to maty at arrl.org  (ARRL, TAPR)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS WINS ANOTHER ONE

The Amateur Radio Club of the University of Arkansas added another national 
championship in the American Radio Relay League's November Sweepstakes 
competition.  The group has posted the top score among all university clubs 
in the contest, racking up 87,520 points to defeat runner-up Michigan State 
ARC and third-place Georgia Tech Radio Club. 

Operating for the event maximum 24 hours with the club callsign of W5YM, 
members made 547 confirmed contacts.  More important for this event, they 
scored a perfect sweep of all 80 operating zones stretching across North 
America.  Along with the national championship among university clubs, this 
group also had the best score for all clubs in the school category for the 
Delta Division of ARRL.  (Via e-mail)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  K1MAN REFERENCES REMOVED FROM WIKIPEDIA

It appears as if all references to Glenn Baxter, K1MAN, have been removed 
from the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia.  According to a posting from the 
Wikipedia operators dated this past April 29th, the content previously 
posted in User Talk area of the concerning Baxter was not the sort of 
information that Wikipedia is intended for.  

Now, trying to do a search on Wikipedia for the call sign K1MAN or any 
combination of Baxter's name or his name and call yields no results.  The 
same holds true when you search for either his American Amateur Radio 
Association or International Amateur Radio Network. 

Baxter, who has yet to pay a $21,000 fine issued by the FCC is also still 
not listed on the qrz.com call sign database and is still prevented from 
posting anything on the on-line pages on that site.  (Various)

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RAIN PROMO WITH HAP HOLLY

Now a look at what's coming up on this weeks Rain Report. 
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This week RAIN presents Part 2 of Ed Hare, W1RFI, speaking on BPL.

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The RAIN eport is now on our website at arnewsline.org or by telephone at 
847-827-7246. That's 847-827-RAIN.

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD:  EMMA GARDNER FARNSWORTH - RIP

A lady who helped to bring about modern television has passed from the 
scene.  Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, has the rest of the story:

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Elma Gardner Farnsworth, who helped her husband Philo T. Farnsworth develop 
the first fully electronic television system and who was among the first 
people whose images were transmitted on TV, has died. "Pem" Farnsworth as 
she was better known passed away on May 3rd at age 98.  

Mrs. Farnsworth married the then young inventor in 1926.  She worked by her 
husband's side in his laboratories and fought for decades to assure his 
place in history after his death in 1971.

Philo Farnsworth's first TV transmission was on September 7, 1927.  It took 
place in his San Francisco, California lab, when the then 21-year-old 
inventor sent the image of a horizontal line to a receiver in the next 
room.  

Prior to Farnsworth, other researchers had demonstrated various systems 
including mechanical transmission of images, but it was the work of Philo 
T. Farnsworth that led to the electronic TV we know today.

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In a 2002 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Mrs. Farnsworth 
recalled that morning that transmission was made.  She said that it was a 
very small screen about the size of a postage stamp.  At first, she and her 
husband  were stunned. It was too good to be true. Then Philo Farnsworth 
said: "There you have it -- electric television."  (San Francisco 
Chronicle)

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD:  RICHARD BURTON EX-WB6JAC - SK

A radio amateur who challenged the system and lost his license, has died.  
Richard Burton, the former WB6JAC, passed away Sunday, June 11th following a 
long bout with throat cancer.  

Burton was the ham who lost his ticket in the an early 1980's FCC crackdown 
on repeater interference problems in the Los Angeles area.  He refused to 
go off the air and wound up in prison several timer because of his decision 
to chalange the FCC.  

Burton died at the Sunnyside Nursing Home in Torrance, California, where he 
spent his last months of his life.  At airtime, funeral arrangements are 
pending.  (KG6DVO, others)

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  NEW NANO LEDS

The nano world is getting brighter. Science Daily says that Nanowires made 
of semiconductor materials are being used to make prototype lasers and 
light-emitting diodes with emission apertures roughly 100 nm in diameter.  
That's about 50 times narrower than conventional counterparts. 

Nanolight sources may have many applications, including lab on a chip 
devices for identifying chemicals and biological agents, scanning-probe 
microscope tips for imaging objects smaller than is currently possible, or 
ultra-precise tools for laser surgery and electronics manufacturing.  A 
paper in the May 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters* reports that 
individual nanowires grown at NIST produce sufficiently intense light to 
enable reliable room-temperature measurements of their important 
characteristics. (NanoTech)

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HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  NASA ALL GO FOR JULY SHUTTLE LAUNCH

NASA says all systems are "go" for launch of space shuttle Discovery 
between July first and the 19th.  This, following a two-day review of the 
shuttle and its fuel tanks that NASA managers and engineers say the risk of 
falling foam is within acceptable limits. 

Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale says he expects to see some foam fly off 
at launch, but in significantly smaller pieces than in the past. The 
largest should be around an ounce and a-half.  A piece that fell off 
Discovery last year was about a pound and was even larger piece that led to 
the destruction of shuttle 
Columbia in 2003. (NASA)

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RADIO IN SPACE:  NEW GEOS SAT LAUNCHED

The first of a revitalized series of space borne weather watchers has been  
launched into space by a Delta 4 rocket, giving American meteorologists a 
sophisticated new tool to warn against dangerous severe storms.  As the 
13th member of the fleet of Geostationary Operational Environmental 
Satellites, or GOES-13, the craft will appear fixed above Earth. Tentative 
plans call for the first visible image from GOES-N to be taken on June 27, 
followed a few days later by the first data from the Solar X-Ray Imager, 
which gives forecasters warning of space weather events by looking at solar 
flare emissions.

After 200 days of testing and checkout activities, NASA will formally give 
its seal of approval for the craft in December. The agency will then hand 
over the satellite to its operator - the National Oceanographic and 
Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA - to begin its 10-year mission, an 
improvement of three years above previous GOES satellites. The weather 
observatory also has a larger load of fuel to last almost 14 years.  
(Space-Flight-Now)

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HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  THE LUNAR LANDER ANALOG CHALLENGE 

Here's one for hams involved in radio control projects.  NASA says that it 
is sponsoring a $2 million contest to spur aerospace designers to build and 
demonstrate versatile rockets that may one day support a lunar mission. 
Called the Lunar Lander Analog Challenge, competing teams will have to 
build a rocket that can launch vertically, climb to a certain altitude and 
suspend in the air, land at a target 100 yards away and then return to its 
original launch pad.

NASA is working with the Santa Monica, California, based X Prize Foundation 
to conduct the Lunar Lander Analog Challenge. The competition has two 
levels of difficulties and several prizes will be awarded. The largest of 
these is $1.2 million.  

The contest is part of the space agency's Centennial Challenges program, 
which aims to foster innovation by offering prizes to teams that can solve 
a range of problems.  More information is on-line at 
centennialchallenges.nasa.gov  (NASA)

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RADIO IN SPACE: TWO NEW DWARF GALIXIES DISCOVERED BY RADIO 

Using radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered two dim dwarf galaxies 
that are the Milky Way's newest-known galactic companions.  The two newly 
detected dwarfs were found in the direction of the constellations Canes 
Venatici and Bootes the herdsman.   This brings the total number of dwarf 
galaxies in the Milky Way's cosmic neighborhood to 14, but theorists 
believe there could be hundreds more. (Space)

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WORLDBEAT - SRI LANKA:  ITS ABOUT TIME

Sri Lanka will set all its clocks back by 30 minutes and revert to its 
original time standard  This, following a decade long experiment that 
largely failed to save the nations energy.

The nations President ordered that Sri Lanka revert to its original time 
standard which is 5 1/2 hours ahead of U-T-C that the countru maintained 
until May of 1996.  Faced with an electricity shortfall that year, the Sri 
Lankin government advanced clocks by an hour to extend the daylight hours 
available.  Later that year the time standard was brought back by a half 
hour to put Sri Lankasix hours ahead of U-T-C.  Now, that extra 30 minutes 
is being dropped as well.  

The reason for the latest change?  Pop Comm says the official government 
mandated the change in 1996, the Tamil Tiger rebels who control large parts 
of the nation in the north-east did not follow it.  This lead to two 
differing time standards in that country.  (DRS)

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DX

In D-X, word that JA8BMK, will be active from Walis ans Fortuna Islands as 
FW8AA through July 24th. Operations will be on CW and SSB only. QSL via 
JA8UWT.

And listen or the calls K-H-Zero-N and W-H-Zero-C from Saipan through June 
20th.  The operators will spend some of their time on the WARC bands and 
160 meters CW in addition to the normal DX frequencies.  QSL via JA6CNL and 
JA6AGA as directed on the air.

Lastly, 4Z4DX, will be active through July 20th  as M-Zero-D-O-V portable 
S-V-5 on Dodcanese and as J45DOV from Rhodes Island.  Activity will be on 
all bands and modes. QSL via 4Z4DX.

(Above from OPDX)

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THAT FINAL ITEM:  WIN-98 TO FADE AWAY - MAYBE

And finally this week, its time to say farewell to an old friend.  More 
specifically a computer operating system that many hams still rely on for 
their day to day on the air operations.  Grant Stowell, VK3HFS, has the 
story of the demise of Windows 98:

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Many amateur radio shacks use computers and  Windows 98 has been a popular 
operating system in many, but  time and technology have marched on and the 
life cycle for Windows 98 has come to an end according to Microsoft.  They 
have announced that as of July 11 2006, they will no longer support Windows 
98, 98 Second Edition and Windows ME.

Microsoft on its Australian website state "Microsoft will retire public and 
technical support including security updates by this date.

However, existing support documents and content will continue  to be 
available through the Microsoft Support Product Solution Center website. 

So what now I hear you ask? Well of course you can update to  the latest 
and greatest from that software company or maybe look  at the variety of 
favours of Linux available free of charge via the open source community. 
They run fine on older machines and can probably do most of what an amateur 
requires.  Or of course they're more than enough supporters of the fruity 
machine -- the Apple.

 I'm Grant Stowell VK3HFS.  Now where are those old DOS disks I know 
they're around here somewhere!

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Ah yes DOS.  The good old days.  We remember them well.  (WIA News)

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