[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1509 - July 14, 2006

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1509 - July 14, 2006

CLOSED CIRCUIT

The following is a closed circuit.  Ladies and gentleman, our Support 
Fund Administrator, Andy Jarema, N6TCQ

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In the coming weeks Ill be here reading off the names of those whose 
generosity has helped keep these weekly newscasts coming your way.  But 
this week I am here to ask for your support for the months ahead.  
Specifically for July and August when our expenses normally go up and 
income falls.  

This is a very busy time for Amateur Radio Newsline.  It's the start of 
the tropical storm season.  This means added expense to cover the 
activities of hams as they prepare for the worst-case scenarios as we 
saw last summer and fall.  It is also the time of year when we present 
the Young Ham of the Year Award.  Thankfully, those wonderful folks at 
Vertex-Standard cover all of the expenses to transport he winner to 
Huntsville. For the presentation ceremony.  They, along with and C-Q 
Publishing also provide the prizes that the winner receives.  

Even so, it will still cot Amateur Radio Newsline close to $1000 to 
sand its representative and pay our part of the expenses.  And once 
again we are asking you, our listeners to help in defraying these 
costs.

Remember, Amateur Radio Newsline is a 501C3 not-for-profit corporation.  
You donation is tax deductible.

Our address is the Newsline Support Fund, PO Box 660937, Arcadia, 
California, 91066.  Or, if you prefer, you can donate electronically 
using Pay Pal. Just click the "donate" button on our website at 
www.arnewsine.org.

Again, and as always, we thank you.  For the Newsline Support Fund I`m 
Andy Jarema, N6TCQ

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Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1509 with a release date of 
Friday, July 14th, 2006 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
 
The following is a Q-S-T.  Canada takes top honors at the 2006 World 
Radiosport Team Championship in Brazil, hams in Ireland are concerned 
about a new wireless public address service near 10 meters and Amateur 
Radio Newsline names an 18 year old musician as Young Ham of the Year 
in the USA.  All this and more on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 
1509 coming your way right now.


(Billboard Cart Here) 
 
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YHOTY:  KATHERINE FERRY, NC8F, NAMED ARNEWSLINE YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR

She is 18 years old, a concert musician and has devoted half of her 
young life in service to ham radio.  And now, Catherine Ferry, NC8F, 
has been selected to receive this years Amateur Radio Newsline Young 
Ham of the Year Award.  Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, is here with a profile 
of the young lady whose accomplishments helped to capture the judges 
hearts:

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A long-term commitment to Amateur Radio - including public service, 
promoting the hobby through hamfests and licensing classes, and work as 
a news letter editor - pushed Catherine Ferry's nomination to the top. 

Catherine, who prefers to be called Cathy, was stunned to learn she had 
been selected to receive the prestigious honor. Here's her reaction 
after being told by the "Young Ham of the Year" administrator, Bill 
Pasternak, WA6ITF. 

Pasternak: "Well, congratulations, you are the Young Ham of the Year." 

Ferry: "I am?" 

Pasternak: "You are (laugh)." 

Ferry: "(gasping) Are you serious?" 

Pasternak: "Would I be sitting here saying to you: 'Congratulations 
Cathy, you are the Young Ham of the Year,' if I wasn't very serious?" 

Ferry: "ahhh...I don't know..(laugh) probably not." 

Pasternak: "I am very serious." 

Ferry: "Oh my gosh! (gasp) Thank you!" 

Cathy, who is from Silver Lake, Ohio, is the daughter of Bruce Ferry, 
AK8B, and the late Joan Ferry. She was first licensed at the age of 10 
and had her Extra Class ticket by age 13. 

"I've been very involved with ham radio, almost for half my life, 
actually," Ferry says. "I ended up getting my license when I was 10 
years old. And, I've been involved with the Cuyahoga Falls Amateur 
Radio Club pretty much since I first got my license. 

"I've always participated in their Field Day. This year was one of the 
best Field Days ever, actually. I had a great one-and-a-half-hour run 
on 80-meters. 

"I try to do as much public service as I can with them. I really, I 
have a lot of fun with ham radio doing that. I'm also into computers 
and I'm a big fan of reading, I love reading." 

For the past two years, she's served as editor of the Cuyahoga Falls 
Amateur Radio Club Newsletter and received an honorable mention in the 
2004 ARRL Ohio Section Newsletter Contest. She's also serving as an 
Assistant Emergency Coordinator and secretary of the Summit County Red 
Cross Amateur Radio Club. 

Cathy was asked before being told she was our winner, what it would 
mean to her for her accomplishments to be recognized. 

"To me, that shows that I'm somebody who like greatly represents ham 
radio and like youth in the ham radio area and that's a very great 
honor," Ferry says. 

Cathy says using amateur radio for public service means a lot. 

"I've been involved working with the Akron Road Runner Marathon, I've 
volunteered with the All-American Soapbox Derby both the welcoming 
committee and the race day events," Ferry says. "There's been a bunch 
of local duo-athelons, the Belfur Run, Nardonia Hills, a bunch of local 
ones I've done in the past few years." 

Cathy has been ticket coordinator for hamfests by the club and also 
promoted and help teach in the club's Technician Class licensing 
course. 

And, she did all of this while attending Cuyahoga Falls High School 
where she graduated with a 3.5 grade point average. 

And, if school and ham radio weren't enough to fill her time, there's 
her passion for music and the bassoon. 

"Most of my performances have been with the local high school band. But 
I have participated in two community groups - the first being the 
Mansfield Symphony Youth Orchestra," Ferry explains. 

"I played with them for two years and I got to perform six separate 
times at the Renaissance Theater in Mansfield, Ohio. And, this past 
year I was involved with the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony. 

"I performed twice at Severance Hall and then over the past week and a 
half I've been touring with them in New Zealand and Australia. I 
performed with them at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland. 

"And in Sydney, I performed with them in the Town Hall and also in the 
Sydney Opera House where I also got to perform with about 350 other 
musicians when we were doing a world premiere piece of David 
Gillingham's most recent piece, 'The Sails of Time.' " 

Cathy says music has always been a big part of her life. 

"Well, music is pretty much my life outside of ham radio," she says. "I 
got involved in it in fifth grade when I first picked up the flute, you 
know for the school band. And, then the next year I had switched over 
to oboe, and the year after that I had switched over to bassoon where I 
am now. 

"And, I think part of the reason I'm so involved in music is because my 
parents were both really into classical music. It seemed to always be 
playing around the house. I think just my constant exposure to that is 
what really connected me to music." 

And, finally, what about the relevance of Amateur Radio to young people 
today? 
"There's so many teen-agers who have the internet and chat rooms and 
that's how they meet other people," she says. 

"Well, ham radio is kind of like that for me, it's just a different way 
of meeting other people and that's something I really enjoy doing. 

"It's also another way to connect with people. It's something else you 
have in common with other people and you can meet other people 
through." 

Cathy plans to attend Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, this fall 
where she will be majoring in, what else, music. 

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

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Catherine will receive her award on Saturday August 19th at the 
Huntsville Hamfest.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Wilbanks, A-E-5-D-W, 
will be on hand to emcee the festivities.  He will be joined by Don 
Allen, W9CW, of CQ Magazine and a yet to be named representative from 
Vertex Standard Corporation.  Vertex Standard which makes Yaesu brand 
ham radio gear and CQ Publishing are the corporate underwriters of the 
Young Ham of the Year Award.  (ARNewsline)

**

RADIOSPORTS - WRTC 2006:  AND THE WINNERS ARE

A pair of Canadian hams are the winners of the 2006 World Radiosport 
Team Championship.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has 
the final scores:

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They are celebrating up North.  This with word that the Canadian team 
of John Sluymer, VE3EJ, and Jim Roberts, VE7ZO, have landed first place 
in WRTC 2006 with an amazing 2,593,940 points. 

As the on-air portion of the event reached its climax it was almost 
neck and neck between the Canadian team and their nearest competitors 
the United States West team made up of Californian's Dan Craig, N6MJ 
and Dave Mueller, N2NL.  In the end Muller and Craig finished in 2nd 
place with a very respectable score of 2,508,732 points.  Rounding out 
the top three was the Special United States Invitational team of Doug 
Grant, K1DG, and Andy Blank, N2NT who logged 2,227,333 contact points. 

All 47 teams were assigned special but non-descript calls using the PT 
to PW series prefixes.  The first place Canadian team operated as PT5M, 
the US West team was PW5C and the United States Invitational team used 
the call letters PT5Y.  

A bit of controversy arose after the contest had ended.  Initial 
results had shown the Serbia-Montenegro team operating as PT5L as being 
in 3rd place with 2,326,750 points.  But a subsequent re-evaluation of 
all logs by the judges moved their ranking down to number 11 with a 
points total of only 1,937,647.  The reason given was that the 
operators had mistakenly set up their logging software for a location 
in Europe rather than South America.  

Speaking of logs, as in years past, those who could not make it to the 
event  were able to follow the action in almost real time.  This, using 
the on-line logging scoreboard provided by the WRTC sponsors.  It 
listed the scores of all 46 teams, was updated hourly and represented 
the actual number of points each team had logged to the end of the 
previous hour.  A good way to vicariously follow the action of WRTC 
2006.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, reporting.

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WRTC was actually a six day celebration of Amateur Radio contesting 
held in Florian¢polis, Brazil.  It began on Wednesday July 5th with a 
dinner and show and ended on Monday July 10th with a grand awards 
banquet.  The actual contest taking place on Saturday July 8th and 
Sunday, July 9th.  (WRTC 2006, ARNewsline, ZL2BHF, W6AQ, others)

**

HAM RADIO ALERTS:  NEW IRELAND PA SERVICE COULD POSE PROBLEM FOR HAM 
RADIO

The Irish Amateur Society is reporting that on June 22nd, that nations 
telecommunications regulator ComReg launched a Wireless Public Address 
licensing service.  One that will allow religious and  community 
organizations to be licensed to transmit services and events for  the 
benefit of people in communities throughout the country.  But it also 
could pose a threat to ham radio on 10 meters.  WIA Newsman Graham 
Kemp, VK4BB, is here with  more:

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Eighty 10 kHz channels are being made available between 27.6 MHz and  
27.995 MHz.  Base station power is to be 1 watt AM and 4 watts FM to a  
vertical antenna.

 The channel at 27.995 MHz is of concern to experimenters.  This is  
only 5kHz below the lower limit of the 28 MHz amateur band.  Some of  
the existing community broadcasts on the 27 MHz band occupy bandwidths  
in excess of 10kHz so there is potential for interference from this  
channel to the exclusive IARU CW allocation at the lower end of the 28  
MHz band.  At certain times the 28 MHz band is open worldwide so there  
is a potential for interference to the amateur service in other  
countries.

 We would ask experimenters to listen out for these broadcasts  
particularly in channels close to the lower end of the 28 MHz band.  If  
any of the transmissions encroach in any way on this band try to  
establish the location and identity of the station concerned.

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If you happen to run across one of these units interfering with ham 
radio communications, please send a report  Sean Nolan  
ei7cd at gofree.indigo.ie   (WIA News via IRTS NEWS)

**

RESTRUCTURING:  MORE NEW REGS FOR UK HAMS

Still on the other side of the Atlantic pond, word of more sweeping 
changes to the United Kingdom's Amateur Service rules by that nations 
telecommunications regulator the Office of Communications.  Jeramy 
Boot, G4NJH, is in Nottingham with the details:

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UK radio amateurs will soon not have to keep a log unless specifically 
requested to by Ofcom.  This, following a major revamp of the amateur 
license announced by the communications regulator. 

Other significant changes to the license include a substantial 
relaxation of the regulations on unattended operation and remote 
control. Amateurs will be able to use 10mW on any amateur band for 
remote operation within a 100 milliwatt  range. However, Internet 
Gateway operation will be prohibited. 

Interestingly, Ofcom appears to have formally recognized amateur radio 
as a leisure activity as well as a self-training hobby.   This latest 
revamp of the license follows a raft of major changes unveiled in 
February 2005. Then, Ofcom announced its intention to introduce a 
lifetime license that could be renewed for free over the Internet. 

The lifetime license and the new changes to the license Ofcom has just 
announced are both due to come into force in October.

Jeramy Boot, G4NJH.

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U-K hams are encouraged to read  the Office of Communications 
documentation on the format of the new license and respond with their 
comments.  The proposal is on-line at 
www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/aradio/lifetimelicence  (GB2RS)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  NEW EAS PLAN PROPOSED BY DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

The government's Department of Homeland Security will soon have the 
ability to post warnings of impending disasters and other alerts to 
cellular phones and many websites.  This as the agency begins a total 
revamping of the nations emergency alerting system that dates back to 
the 1950's.  Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, has more:

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According to news reports, by the end of 2007 Homeland Security expects 
to be able to send emergency alerts to cellular telephones, portable 
data assistants, wireless hand held computers and Internet sites.  
This, as a means  of reaching reach as many Americans as possible 
before a catastrophe strikes.  

Agency spokesman Aaron Walker said on Tuesday, July 11th that the they 
will also will also seeks to transmit warnings on cable television, 
satellite television and satellite radio.  This, to supplement the 
government's national alerts sent on network and local broadcast 
television channels as well as AM and FM stations.

The Association of Public Television Stations is partnering with FEMA 
to transmit the alerts to receiving networks - including telephone, 
Internet and traditional broadcast outlets.  Last week, FEMA 
demonstrated a pilot of the new system at a public television station 
suburban Virginia.  

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF


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The new warning system is expected to cost $5.5 million to test and 
nationally, and about $1 million dollars annually to maintain.  
(Various published reports)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  REPORT SAYS HAM RADIO MUST BE INCLUDED IN FUTURE E-COMMS 
RESPONSES


Hams have long known that the inability to communicate was major flaw 
in storm response immediately after hurricane Katrina.  Now, emergency 
responders are speaking out on this failure and taking steps that they 
hope will avoid a re[peat of the problem in the future.  Amateur Radio 
Newsline's David Black, KB4KCH, reports:

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When hurricane Katrina hit, landline telephones became useless in the 
storm ravaged areas. Cellular service was also completely gone.  And 
with these links to the outside world cut, the Internet became useless 
and nonexistent. 

One of the biggest problems facing first responders was the inability 
of local, state and federal officials to talk to each other.  Because 
of this, there was little communication among local police, fire and 
ambulance services except in those instances where hams showed up with 
their own gear and provided the interoperability that the established 
responders lacked.  

Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency itself was out of contact 
with many of those in the field because it relied on a communications 
infrastructure that literally was blown apart. And when the agency's 
multi-million dollar portable interoperable system failed to perform as 
advertised, the National Guard, state police agencies, Wildlife and 
Fisheries, the numerous out-of-state police and ambulance crews that 
came to aid victims were isolated from those they were sent to assist.

Only ham radio survived the rampage because it did not rely on any 
central infrastructure that was vulnerable to mother natures wrath.  It 
went on to be the lifeline for many first responders in the storms 
wake.

According to a report on discussion among emergency providers held in 
the nine regions, participants recommended that land line, Internet, 
commercial radio and television, fiber optic, fax, two-way radio, 
cellular voice and text.  Also, satellite telephone, the OnStar vehicle 
system, and Amateur Radio should be considered in any integrated 
response.  

The report says that system failures are hard to predict and that all 
available channels of communications should be used to reinforce a 
detailed common communications plan for each region.  This includes ham 
radio.  A communications service that the report infers is not only 
decentralized but because of this is a lot less vulnerable to damage.  
And a communications tool that has proven its worth in the wake of 
Katrina and other natural disasters that preceded that killer storm.  

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm David Black, KB4KCH, at the South-
East Bureau on Birmingham, Alabama.

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Loosely translated the report seems to indicate that it is likely to 
again fall to the Amateur Radio community to provide continued 
emergency communications in times when all else fails.  It's a job hams 
will likely be doing for decades to come.  (Various published reports)

**


HAM RADIO REMEMBERS:  KCRA TO COMMEMORATE THE 911 TEWRRORIST ATTACKS

New York's Kings County Repeater Association will once again pay 
tribute to those who lost their lives in the 911 terrorist attacks that 
felled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon building.  This, 
with a special commemorative event scheduled for Sunday, September 10th. 
Chris Stafford KC2OLS is spokesman for the group:

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Stafford: "We will have several stations set up.  We will have some 
guest speakers and we have a special QSL card especially for the event 
that will be given out to any of the stations contacting our special 
event station as well as members of the public who are hams and who are 
going to be at the event."

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This years venue is at Owl's Head Park on Shore Road and 68th street in 
the Bay Ridge section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.  Using 
the call sign KC2RA the Kings County Repeater Association will have 
several stations setup for contacts with other Amateur Radio operators 
around the world.  Members of the public are invited to stop by to 
discuss the 911 attacks and learn about the importance of Amateur Radio 
in the post 911 world.  They may also get to talk via ham radio to 
someone thousands of miles away.   

More information on this 911 commemorative event is on the web at 
http://www.kc2ra.com/911_2006.shtml (KCRA, KC2OLS)

**

RADIO HAPPENINGS:  HAM RADIO TO COMMEMORATE AIRVENTURE 2006

It's called AirVenture and it's the worlds biggest annual fly-in for 
just about any kind of aircraft ever made.  Now in 2006 ham radio will 
be a part of this world class aviation event.  

As in years past, the Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club will be hosting a 
special event station operating from the grounds of the Experimental 
Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  W-9-Zed-L will take to the 
air with R-F rather than wings, from Thursday July 27th to Sunday July 
30th.  Operating hours will be 1300 to  2100 U-T-C  on 7.250 and 14.270 
MHz on the high frequency bands.  Local contacts will also be sought 
after on the 146.760 MHz repeater and 146.520 MHz simplex.  The 
repeater requires a sub audible access tone of 100.0 Hz.

Hams attending AirVenture are encouraged to stop by, say hello, sit 
down and be a guest operator.  And for those with the spirit of 
adventure and who have some extra dollars to spend, AirVenture will 
provide plenty of opportunities to take flights in three of the E-A-A's 
distinctively different aircraft.  These are the organizations World 
War 2 B-17, a Bell 47 helicopter; and a truly vintage Ford Tri-Motor 
built back in 1927. 

On the ham radio side, all High Frequency QSO's will be sent a 
commemorating certificate.  If and when you work them, QSL with a 9" x 
12" self addressed stamped envelope to the Fox Cities Amateur Radio 
Club, Attention Bernie- N9YMC, PO Box 5233, Appleton, Wisconsin.  The 
Zipcode is  54912.  Lots of information about AirVenture 2006 is on 
line at www.eaa.org

(Do Not read.  The Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club website is at 
http://fcarc.us/modules/AMS/ (N9YMC)

**

RADIO TECHNOLOGY:  WINLINK GOES ANTI-SPAM

Our longtime friend Steve Crow, K4CPX, reports a significant change in 
Winlink to help make it more secure.  Steve quotes an e-mail from 
Winlink's Steve Waterman, K4CJX, saying that no attachments will be 
accepted by the system if there is nothing in the body of the message.  
The subject line is unimportant but there must be something in the body 
of the message even if its just a word or one alpha character.  

According to Waterman's note, the change went into effect about a moth 
ago.  It was introduced as a way to minimize the amount of unwanted 
spam mail getting relayed.  A second notice of this change has now been 
sent out to all current Winlink users.  (K4CPX)

**

ON THE AIR:  DXCC RECOGNIZES MONTENEGRO

And a new DXCC entity has come into being.  According to an ARRL DX 
bulletin, the United  Nations admitted the Republic of Montenegro as 
its 192nd member on June 28th  and that action automatically makes the 
tiny Balkan nation the 336th current DXCC entity.  Effective June 28th 
the ARRL has added The Republic of Montenegro to the DXCC Countries 
List and claims for DXCC credit will be accepted immediately.  (ARRL)

**

ON THE BANDS: CALIFOENIA TO PORTUGAL ON 6 METERS 

Another truly amazing 6 meter DX contact has been made.  Chip Margelli, 
K7JA, in Garden Grove, California, reports that he worked CT1HZE in 
Portugal on Saturday, July 8th at 1617 UTC on 50.08 MHz using CW.  Chip 
says that probably represents five E-layer hops, and Joe was his first 
European QSO ever on that band.  K7JA says that the signal from CT1HZE 
peaked a solid 5-7-9 the station in Portugal turned his beam toward 
California.  Chip's station in California consists of 200 watts from a 
Yaesu FTV-1000 Transverter driven by a Mk-V FT-1000MP into a 6 element 
beam with a 14 foot boom.  The equipment being used by CT1HZE was not 
known.  (K7JA)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  OUR LANGUAGE - GOOGLE NOW A VERB

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has finally decided to add the Internet 
search engine Google as a verb in its 2006 edition, making the search 
engine officially synonymous with the act of on-line searching itself.  
To Google  arrives in the revised dictionary along with other high-tech 
terms like spyware and ringtone.  (PVT)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  AMSAT GETS SOFTWARE

AMSAT North America has announced that it is the recipient of several 
expensive software design packages from industry.  This includes Texas 
Instruments Code Composer Studio Platinum Edition valued at $10,785 and 
Cadence Design Systems P-C-B Designer that carries a price tag of  
$185,915.  

AMSAT President Rick Hambly, W2GPS, has been primarily responsible for 
getting the organization its university educational status that enabled 
the donations to be made.  In a statement, Hambly said that with these 
donations and the continuing financial support of our members the 
momentum within the Eagle Project is growing every day.  He also noted 
that AMSAT is very appreciative of these gifts.  (AMSAT)

**

RADIO IN SPACE:  NASA NAMES NEW MOON ROCKETS ARES

NASA has named its new lunar spacecraft Ares I and Ares V, using a 
Greek word for Mars.  The rocket that takes the Mars bound crew into 
Earth orbit will be called Ares I.  That spacecraft will be stacked on 
top of a single five-segment solid-rocket booster that can lift 55,000 
pounds into low Earth orbit. 

The vehicle that carries the mission's far bulkier lunar cargo will be 
called Ares V, and is reminiscent of the old heavy-lift lunar rocket, 
the Saturn V. The crew capsule will get yet another name that is yet  
to be determined.

NASA says that it chose Ares over hundreds of other proposed names, 
rejecting choices that included constellations and figures from ancient 
mythology. The first Ares test flight could be as early as 2009.  
(NASA)
  
**

WORLDBEAT - JAPAN:  CLOTHING WITH FANS

If you get hot under the color slaving away in front of a computer 
screen, listen up.  Here is something really unique to make your day a 
bit cooler., USB powered air conditioned clothes.  No, we are not 
kidding.  Trevor Teague of the WIA News has more:

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Everyone actually does have a natural air conditioner which is sweating 
and these air conditioned clothes are designed to give that mechanism a 
shot in the arm.

The clothes have two 10 centimeter fans located at right and left sides 
at the back of clothing at waist level. These fans draw in a large 
amount of air which helps to  vaporize thus dissipating sweat and 
bringing down the wearers body temperature.

The clothing comes with a switch to adjust the fan speed. Just connect 
your shirt to the USB port and be cool.

--

This ingenious idea is the brain child of an ex Sony technician.  At 
present shirts for men and women are available only in Japan.  (WIA 
News)

**

WORLDBEAT - COOK ISLANDS:  E5 IS THE NEW PREFIX

And word from Victor Rivera, ZK1CG, that a callsign prefix change has 
taken place for the North and South Cook Islands.  Victor Says that as 
of July 1st, the Cook Islands international radio callsign prefix Zulu 
Kilo has been replaced by the letter number combo E 5.  The 
announcement was made in the Cook Islands News Daily  on Monday, June 
28th. As a result, Victors call has become E51CG.  (ZK1CG)

**

DX

In DX, Andy Dugny, G0JLX, reports he will be on the air from Ascension 
Island until July 23rd.  Operation is SSB and CW as ZD8AD.  QSL as 
directed on the air. 

And  F4CKP says that he will be on Martinique 2 months.  He arrived on 
from July 3rd and will remain through the end of August.  His activity 
is on 80 through 10 meters including the WARC bands on RTTY and SSB.  
QSL direct via his home callsign or by via bureau.

Lastly, down the road a bit, N5KO, and several other operators will be 
active from the Galapagos Islands as HC8N during the CQ World Wide DX 
CW Contest on November 25th and 26th.  They will set up as a Multi/Multi 
entry. QSL them via W5UE.

(Above DX News from various DX sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  THE PRINCE - THR GIRL FRIEND - THE RADIO

And finally this week, the story of a member of the British Royal 
Family, his girlfriend and a hand held radio.  What do all three have 
in common?  Again, W-I-A newsman Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

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Prince William's girlfriend has been seen with a hand-held.  

No, not a 2 meter handie, but a state of the art digital police radio.  

The 24 year old brunette who has been dating William since the pair met 
at a university was spotted carrying the high-tech equipment at a 
recent polo match.  

According to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, Prince William, concerned 
about his sweethearts safety has arranged that she carry the nearly 
$2000 digital device which is linked to the police force.

--

As the line in Mel Brooks musical "The Producers" goes:  "Its good to 
be the king."  Or, in this case -- the prince.   (WIA News)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

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Hicks, WB6MQV,  saying 73 and we thank you for listening."  Amateur 
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