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who like to move around.  The International Travel Host Exchange, or I- 
T-H-E is a program administered by the German national society, D.A.R.C.   
It provides radio amateurs with the possibility of free accommodation  
with other amateurs around the world in exchange for other hams offering  
accommodation to overseas amateurs.  
 
Most International Travel Host Exchange members are in Europe, but there  
are also amateurs registered in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia,  
Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Syria, Thailand and the USA. Once  
registered, postal or e-mail addresses are made available so that  
contact can be established well before any visit takes place.  For more  
information please contact Thilo Kootz, DL9KCE by e-mail to   
dl9kce at darc.de. 
 
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:  NEW GRAYLINE STUDY REMAILER 
 
A new Internet newsgroup has been set up to discuss and coordinate the  
current research into greyline propagation by the RSGB Propagation  
Studies Committee.  It is with Yahoo and people can subscribe by sending  
an empty e-mail to greyline-subscribe at yahoogroups.co.uk  
 
Yahoogroups is also the home of the Amateur Radio Newsline e-mail list  
you subscribe to it by sending a similar empty e-mail to arnewsline- 
subscribe at yahoogroups.com.  ARNewsline is one word spelled a-r-n-e-w-s- 
l-i-n-e. 
 
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HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  RS-12/13 - S.K. 
 
The AMSAT News Service and the ARRL Letter both report that the Russian  
Radiosport RS-12/13 ham satellite appears to have died.   Jerry Brown,  
K5OE, reports he's received word from Russian sources that RS-12/13 went  
dark as a result of severe solar flare activity in 
July and August.  
 
At airtime, efforts are under way to restore the satellite, but hopes  
for success are dim, according to Brown's Russian acquaintances. RS- 
12/13 were integrated into the COSMOS 2123 Russian navigation satellite,  
launched February 5, 1991.  It's beacons have not been heard since  
August 20.  (ANS, ARRL Letter) 
 
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INTERNATIONAL - AUSTRALIA:  CB RULES ARE CHANGING 
 
The Australian UHF CB equipment standard is to change.  The new standard  
will require that CTCSS equipment include facilities to reduce  
interference to non CTCSS users.  Required features include a 'channel  
busy' warning light and a 'listen before transmit' function.  The  
changes were required by the Australian Communications Authority  
following changes that legalized CTCSS signaling on UHF  CB channels.  
The A-C-A has also informed the Australian Association of Citizens Band  
Radio Operators that once the standards are approved by  Standards  
Australia, they will become compulsory for equipment manufacturers.  (Q- 
News) 
 
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DX 
 
In D-X, word that KF2XN is active as KH2 slash KF2XN from Guam for at  
least the next month. He operates mostly SSB in his spare time.  QSL as  
directed on the air.  (RSGB) 
 
And BI7DX is an Isands on the Air expedition that will operate from  
Weizhou Island throuhgh the 4th of October. Weizhou Island is located in  
the Gulf of Tongking in South China with team members comming from four  
different Chinese provences. The operation will be on SSB and CW from 40  
to 10 meters, including the WARC bands.  (RSGB) 
 
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THAT FINAL ITEM:  THE BIRDS ARE BACK 
 
And finally this week, our favorite flying T-Hunt is about to start.   
This, as the famed radio tagged burrowing owls take flight once again.   
With the details, here's Joe Moell, K0OV. 
 
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It's that time again -- migratory birds in the Northern Hemisphere are  
heading south for the winter.  For the fifth year, ham radio operators  
and scanner fans are being asked to use their equipment to help wildlife  
biologists figure out the routes and final destinations of endangered  
Burrowing Owls.  In previous years, hams helped determine that owls  
hatching during summer months in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan  
and Alberta travel over central states from North Dakota to Oklahoma,  
ending up in southeast Texas and northern states of Mexico.  They  
sometimes fly over 2000 miles to their winter homes. 
 
There aren't any radio-tagged Canadian owls to listen for this fall, but  
the University of Arizona is asking for ham help with 53 transmittered  
owls from eastern Washington state.  If you live in the western USA and  
can receive 150 MHz signals, you could help.  Your scanner or extended- 
range hand-held ham radio transceiver, plus an outside antenna, are all  
you need to join in.  If you have radio direction finding equipment for  
VHF, so much the better. 
 
For all the frequencies and monitoring information, go to the usual  
place on the Web, www.homingin.com (HomingIn is one word.)  If you  
aren't on the Web, send postal mail to my callbook address.  Again, the  
Web site is homingin.com 
 
Thanks in advance for your help.  From southern California, this is Joe  
Moell K-zero-Oscar-Victor for Amateur Radio Newsline 
 
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Once again, more information is in cyberspace at www.homingin.com.   
(ARNewsline) 
 
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NEWSCAST CLOSE 
 
With thanks to Alan Labs, Amateur News Weekly, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC  
Communicator, CQ Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio Penn DX Bulletin, Radio  
Netherlands, Rain, the RSGB and Australia's Q-News, that's all from the  
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm).  Our e-mail address is newsline  
@arnewsline.org.  More information is available at Amateur Radio  
Newsline's(tm) only official website located at www.arnewsline.org.  You  
can also write to us or support us at Amateur Radio Newsline(tm), P.O.  
Box 660937, Arcadia, California 91066.  
 
A reminder that our survey how ham radio is being used by home schoolers  
is still taking place.  If you are a home schooling parent or a student  
being home schooled, please send your thoughts on the subject by e-mail  
to newsline at arnewsline.org.  We will keep the survey going for one more  
week. 
 
For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, I'm Jim  
Damron N8TMW and I'm Jeff Clark K8JAC  saying 73 and we thank you for  
listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright  2002.  All rights  
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