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Again, more  information is at Joe's website.  Its in cyberspace at 
www.homingin.com.  And remember:  homingin is one word.  (K0OV, 
ARNewsline(tm))

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  QCWA SEEKS NEW G.M.

In other news, word that Jim Walsh, W7VLN is resigning as the General 
Manager of the Quarter Century Wireless Association and the groups Board 
of Directors is looking for a replacement.   Among the responsibilities 
are attending all meetings of the QCWA board, keeping full records for 
the organization and conducting the general correspondence.  A 
solicitation for nominees is on line.  You will find it in cyberspace at 
www.qcwa.org/manager.htm  (QCWA)

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CONFERENCES:  30TH ANNUAL EASTERN VHF/UHF CONFERENCE 

The 30th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF conference will be held next April 16th 
to the 18th, at the Radisson Hotel in Enfield, Connecticut.  Planners 
say that the conference has been moved to the spring time to help 
alleviate numerous conflicts with other ham radio activities and 
vacation schedules in August.  Guest speakers, proceedings, articles and 
overall volunteers are being solicited to help out. Prize donations are 
also being solicited from vendors and members.  More information is 
available from conference chairman Bruce Wood,  N2LIV, by e-mail to 
bdwood at erols.com  (VHF Reflector)

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BEACON NEWS:  C6AFP COMING BACK ON THE AIR

Steve Rutledge, N4JQQ says over the VHF Reflector that the C6AFP beacon 
in grid square FL16,  should be operational soon.  This, thanks to W4WSR 
who rebuilt the old one that WZ8D originally supplied.   

That one took a lightning hit last summer.  Rutledge says that he was 
able to salvage the RF board but that was it.  

Rutledge thanks C6AGN, whose Q-T-H the beacon now lives at.  This is in 
Coco Bay, Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, The Bahamas.  He says that Bill 
should be back on the island on or about the time this newscast hits 
air.  Hopefully we will hear the beacon sometime later this month.  (VHF 
Reflector)

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INTERNATIONAL - INTRUDER WATCH:  PIRATES OF THE PACIFIC

On the intruder watch scene, VK6XW in Albany Australia reports over 130 
of  them in the ham bands in recent days.  The majority are foundd on 20 
meters and appear to be Indonesians, with the rest being Asian Intruders 
including a number of fishing boats. VK6XW  says that the boats also use 
Amateur Radio VHF  frequencies for ship-to ship communication. 

Meantime, Chris Wright, VK2UW in Lighthouse Beach New South Wales 
Australia reports on other pirates in the Pacific.  This group is using 
Amateur Radio calls such as VK4ZLY,  several Zed L calls and American 
calls -- portable VK.  These are also on 20 meters and Chris says that 
they have become a major headache to a number of regularly schedule ham 
radio nets.   (Q-News)

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DX

In D-X, word that XV9DT is active as 3W22S now until the 31st of 
December. The special callsign is to celebrate the 22nd South East Asian 
Games, hosted by Vietnam.  (GB2RS)

Also, HB0/HA0HW/P and two other stations will be operating from a 
location 1350 meters above sea level in Liechtenstein through the 10th 
of November.  The three operators will be active on 160 to 10 meters, 
with an emphasis on the low bands.  Modes used will be CW, SSB and RTTY.  
QSL as directed on the air.  (GB2RS)

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THAT FINAL ITEM:  NYC HAMS RUN THE RACE

Kenya again ruled the New York City Marathon but it was ham radio that 
kept the race running.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Henry Feinberg, K2SSQ, 
takes a look at the November 2nd event and  the radio amateurs who kept 
it moving along:

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Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML: "When people say `why do you do it' my answer is 
always the same.  I'm in it for the T-shirts."

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And after 27 years as Communications Director for the New York City 
Marathon,  Steve Mendelsohn W2ML, has to have quite a collection.  But 
Mendelsohn is also the first to tell you that he is only a small part of 
a big ham radio organization that keeps all the races within the New 
York City Marathon moving.  And 2003 was no exception:

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Mendelsohn:  "At about 8 o'clock we went to the actual starting line at 
the Verrazno Narrows Bridge and Alan fired the air-horn that's starts 
the race for the athletes with disabilities.  And, 15 minutes after that 
it was the start of the wheel-chair race; and 15 minutes after that was 
the start of the hand-cranked race and fifteen minutes after that the 
elite women.  And finally, at 10:07 our operators climbed into vehicles 
-- because we maintain control of all of the vehicles on the course for 
safety purposes -- and we use Amateur Radio to do it -- and down the 
course we went.  

At the other end, we climbed out of the vehicles; everyone went to do 
their next assignment and from the time that the male winner cross the 
finish line at roughly 12:15 p.m. until the time that we closed down the 
Family Reunion at 6:30 at night and started to tear down, 411 hams 
worked with the other 12,000 volunteers to make this the smoothest, best 
marathon ever."
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The Alan that Steve referred to is Race Director Alan Steinfeld, W-2-T-
N.  They were but two of the 400 plus Amateur Radio volunteers who came 
out this year.  And Mendelsohn says that the hams were kept very busy, 
especially in assisting in medical communications as runners fell by the 
wayside:

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Mendelsohn:  "We had people went down virtually everywhere on the 
course.  The hams were there with the doctors to help and provided a 
great deal of medical communications back to the Family Reunion area.  
This allowed the families to know that a runner had dropped out:  That 
they may have been taken to a hospital or that they were simply going 
home."

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Mendelsohn says that between 800 to  900 pieces of health and welfare 
traffic was passed between 10:07 a.m. and 4:40 p.m.  He also says that 
2003 was the years of APRS at the New York City Marathon.  Ill have that 
part of the story next week.

With part of the course of the New York City Marathon in sight, I'm 
Henry Feinberg, K2SSQ, reporting for the Amateur Radio Newsline.

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As for the race results.  Kenya's Martin Lel, running his first ever 
marathon won the Mens division. He timed in 2:10:30 beating out 
defending champion Rodgers Rop.  Meantime  Margaret Okayo smashed the 
course record.  She won the race for the second time after crossing the 
line in 2 hours, 22 minutes, 31 seconds, shattering her own record by 
almost two minutes. 

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