[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1557 - June 15, 2007

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1557 - June 15, 2007

The following is a Q-S-T.  Education combines with public service in a 
California school, the ARRL tries to solve ham radio interference to a 
military radar system and a Field Day concert in Sacramento.  Well, 
kind of.  Find out the details on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 
1557 coming your way right now.

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RESCUE RADIO MEETS EDUCATION:  47 NEW EM COMM TEEN HAMS IN CALIFORNIA

We start this week with a very positive story with word that 47 eighth 
grade students in California are now prepared to serve their community 
in time of crisis using Amateur Radio.  This, thanks to a middle-school 
principal and a teacher who saw the opportunity to combine science and 
public service into a learning experience for their students.  Amateur 
Radio Newsline's Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, lives in the area and has more:

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Representatives of the City of Calabasas, the Los Angeles County 
Sheriff's Department, the American Radio Relay League and other 
agencies were on hand recently to congratulate 47 eighth-graders at 
A.C. Stelle Middle School. This, after they completed a class that lead 
to their getting the Amateur Radio licenses as a part of the American 
Radio Relay League's educational incentive known better as The Big 
Project. 

The adoption of the Big Project into the Las Virgenes Unified School 
District as an Amateur Radio educational program was the brain child of 
school Principal, Mary Sistrunk, and science chairman, Karl Beutel. 
Beutel, who is KE6MAO, kicked off the project in all six of his science 
classes some time ago with a presentation and demonstrations of radio, 
including communication with other amateur operators using the schools 
own radio station. He then offered the students the opportunity to take 
an Amateur Service exam on-campus. 

Meantime, emergency services groups are supporting this project with 
hopes that it will provide a source of communications volunteers. 
Sheriff's Department Reserve Captain, Tom Fakehany, N6FDR, says that 
these students are likely the next generation of emergency volunteers 
who will provide communications when all else fails. County Disaster 
Communications Service member Norm Goodkin, K6YXH, says that the plan 
is to help organize these new hams into a youth group. One with the 
ability to provide emergency communications services to the school and 
to the community in the the City of Calabasas.

Next semester, the 47 students plan to start an amateur radio club at 
Calabasas High School, along with the 17 new hams already there from 
last year's project. According to Beutel, his school nearly tripled the 
number of students who earned their licenses from the program's 
inception last year. 

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, in Los 
Angeles.

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Beutel believes that this program is among the largest groups of middle 
school students to ever accomplish this.  The honor of the largest 
middle school ham radio licensing program thus far goes to "The 
Bardstown Experiment," that was chronicled in the October 1989 issue of 
QST magazine.  That article  detailed how more than 60 middle-school 
students and two teachers studied for and received their Novice class 
licenses.  (ARNewsline via E-Mail)

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WORLDBEAT - NEWFOUNDLAND:  VO1MRC BEACON ON THE AIR

Turning to world news, word that the Marconi Radio Club of Newfoundland 
will be conducting a propagation experiment running a CW beacon on 5 
point 269 MHz.  This, using its VO1MRC station.   

The beacon will be operational on June 15th and 16th from 00:00 to 23:59 
UTC.  VO1MRC will also be open briefly for 2 way contacts.  Starting 
00:01 UTC each of these days it will operate on 5260.5 KHz using  CW.  
Following this it will transmit on 5327.5 and receive 5346.5 KHz using 
Upper Sideband for stations authorized to transmit on 60 meters.  It 
will also operate on 3807.5 KHz Lower Sideband for other stations. 

Further information may be found by searching for VO1MRC on the World 
Wide Web.  (VHF Reflector)

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WORLDBEAT - AUSTRALIA:  NEW COMPETANCY STANDARD FOR HAM RADIO

New and closer ties between government, industry, education and ham 
radio have come together down-under.  This, as a result of a new 
Competency Standard exam in Amateur Radio being made available to all 
citizens of Australia.  Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of the WIA News has the 
details:

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The Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Technology has 
endorsed a new competency standard, called:-"Operate and maintain an 
amateur radio communication station". 

The standard approximates the syllabus for a Standard amateur operators 
certificate of proficiency.  This means the there is now a nationally 
recognised standard built around amateur radio. This is a link between 
amateur radio and education and industry. Competency to this standard 
can be an element in an electro-technology qualification. 
It certainly should make amateur radio as an activity much more 
attractive to schools. 

However, it is important to note that holding the competency will not 
qualify the holder for an amateur licence which still requires WIA 
certification to ACMA of competency in the theory, regulatory and 
practical elements of the syllabus. 

WIA President Michael Owen VK3KI welcomed the Departments endorsement, 
saying that he hoped that schools would be encouraged to support 
amateur radio activities and also acknowledged the work of the WIA's 
Nominated RTO, Fred Swainston VK3DAC in achieving this recognition of 
amateur radio.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of the WIA News 
in Australia.

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The new competency standard may not bring a lot of operators to the air 
but it should give the citizens of Australia a better understanding of 
what Amateur Radio is really all about.  (WIA News)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  OCEAN TRAVLER W7KFI HEADS TO JOHNSTON ISLAND

Ham radio operator and ocean adventurer Susan Meckley, W7KFI, has told 
the Ohio Penn DX Newsletter that she is on her way to Johnston Island 
and should be there by the time this newscast goes to air.   W7KFI 
plans to operate 80 through 10 meters on SSB and CW while on Johnston 
and is usually at 36 Kilohertz above the bottom of any band.   She 
expects  to be on Johnston Island for about a week before heading to 
Marshall Islands which is a 3 week voyage further South.  

What makes this story unique is that Susan Meckley is a 70 year old 
grandmother and the skipper of the USS Dharma who has been sailing all 
over the Pacific.  This amazing lady has a truly interesting story to 
tell and it is highly recommend that you visit the following Web pages 
to see where she has been: http://ussvdharma.net  and  
www.qrz.com/callsign/W7KFI  (Southgate, OPDX)

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WORLDBEAT - NEW GUNIA:  HAM RADIO REVITALIZATION IN P29

Still in the South Pacific, Papua New Gunia is seeing a revitalization 
in its Amateur Radio community.  Jim Linton, VK3PC, has the rest of the 
story.

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A strong effort is being made to increase amateur radio activity in 
Papua New Guinea and a recent P29 CQ Day is only just the beginning. 

Wilfred Kilepak Amai P29PG/VK3DWA initiated the very successful special 
activity day outside the Parliament Building in Port Moresby. There 
were plenty of interested on-lookers. 

The radio administration PANGTEL is supportive of any steps to achieve 
a greater participation in amateur radio. 

Wilfred says PANGTEL is aware of the Australian licence restructure 
that occurred in October 2005 that includes the Foundation Licence, but 
has not yet followed suit. 

Traditionally P29 has mirrored the VK licence system, due to the strong 
relationship between Papua New Guinea and Australia that was 
established before it gained independence in 1975. 

I'm Jim Linton VK3PC reporting for the Amateur Radio Newsline.

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Papua New Gunia could also soon have its first ever female radio 
amateur.  The unidentified ham qualified for a license in Australia 
earlier this year.  She is now being by that nations telecommunications 
regulator Pang Tel for a P29 callsign.  (WIA News)

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RADIO REGULATIONS:  HAM RADIO VS. PAVE PAWS - CHAPTER 2

The ARRL has sent out more than 100 letters to owners and trustees of 
70 centimeter repeaters whose systems have allegedly affected the 
governments PAVE PAWS radar installations on the Atlantic and Pacific 
coasts.  The letters essentially tell these hams to lower the output 
power of their repeaters to 5 watts and await further notice from the 
FCC.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, reports:

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Citing an increasing number of interference complaints, the US Air 
Force earlier this year asked the FCC to order dozens of repeater 
systems to either mitigate interference to Pave Paws radar 
installations or to shut down.  According to the ARRL Letter, the 
situation affects 15 repeaters within less than 100 miles of Otis Air 
Force Base on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and more than 100 repeaters 
within some 140 miles of Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, 
California.

The ARRL is working with the Department of Defense to develop a plan to 
mitigate alleged interference from 70 centimeter ham radio repeaters to 
this military radar system on both coasts.  The letters sent to 
affected repeaters give them an up-to-date briefing on the ongoing 
negotiations with the US Air Force, as well as outlines the Department 
of Defense plan. The Department of Defense has indicated a willingness 
to try a mitigation proposal, but they have also indicated their need 
is for these issues to be resolved sooner rather than later.  With that 
in mind, the ARRL proposed an initial mitigation strategy.  It works 
this way.  

All repeaters on the Department of Defense list in the affected areas 
will immediately reduce power to 5 watt absolute maximum transmitter 
power output.  Each repeater licensee or trustee should then 
immediately contact ARRL Regulatory Information Specialist Dan 
Henderson, N1ND, to confirm that this step has been taken. 

Meantime, the ARRL will provide Longley-Rice calculations for each 
repeater to the Department of Defrense.  For those who have never 
before heard the term, Longley-Rice Calculations are used to compute 
signal loss from a transmitter to receiver along a particular path and 
terrain.

For its part, the Department of Defense will then provide engineering 
data to the ARRL and FCC.  These studies will be reviewed by the 
Department of Defense, the ARRL Lab and the FCC to determine the amount 
of mitigation necessary for each repeater. 

Based on this review by the Department of Defense additional mitigation 
proposals for individual repeaters will be provided by the ARRL as 
needed to individual repeater owners.  This might include further power 
reductions, lowering of antenna heights, use of more directive antennas 
and other possible mitigation techniques.  If there is a disagreement 
on the conclusions, a conference call will be held to resolve any 
outstanding issues.

All interference must be resolved no later than August 1st.  Beginning 
in August and continuing on a periodic basis, the Department of Defense 
will have a follow-up engineers study at each PAVE PAWS Radar site to 
ensure corrective actions have been taken and to ensure that successful 
mitigation continues.

The ARRL says that even with extreme measures, its still possible that 
some repeaters in close proximity to the PAVE PAWS sites may have to be 
shut down permanently.  If that happens, official notice would come 
from the FCC.  It is also conceivable that some repeaters might be 
required to operate permanently at a lower power level in the areas 
near these Air Force bases.  In those cases, the League will be in 
contact with the individual repeater owners with that information and 
the FCC will be notified.

The bottom line:  Its up to the ham community near the two PAVE PAWS 
Radar installations to make co-existance work.  If the hams fail to do 
so, then they could have their repeaters taken off the air for good.  

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

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PAVE PAWS radar systems are used for national security functions, 
including early detection of water-launched missiles.  The Amateur 
Radio Service is a secondary user in the 420 to 450 MHz band.  As such, 
Amateur Radio licensees bear the responsibility of mitigating or 
eliminating any harmful interference to the primary user, which in this 
case is the Government Radiolocation Service that includes the PAVE 
PAWS Radar systems.  (ARRL)

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MILITARY RADIO:  EXPIREMENT AT MIRAMAR

An experimental authorization has been granted to Northrop Grumman to 
operate in the 1850 to 1865 and 1930 to 1945 MHz bands.  This, to  
demonstrate a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node for the U.S. Air 
Force.  The system will operate both fixed and mobile as well as 
airborne at an altitude of  60,000 feet within 92 miles of Marine Corp 
Air Station Miramar near San Diego, California.  More about it is on-
line at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-
273498A1.doc  (CGC)

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RESCUE RADIO:  NEW CELLPHONE SENSORS 

The United States Department of Homeland Security has reportedly 
launched an initiative asking the wireless industry about the potential 
for equipping a new generation of cellular telephones with technology 
to scan and detect harmful compounds in the environment and 
automatically relay the readings to a central monitoring point.  
According to the CGC Communicator, the concept, known as "Cell-All," is 
said to have attracted the interest of several companies, and 
partnerships with handset manufacturers are being discussed.  More is 
on-line at 
http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews110-000002524221.html  (CGC)

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FCC NEWS:  BETTER ULS INTERFACE ASSISTS THE HANDICAPPED

The FCC has enhanced the usability of the Universal Licensing System 
website for people with disabilities.  

According to the Handi Ham Newsletter, in the redesigned License 
Archive, the search interface, results screen and detail pages will use 
the same display as ULS License Search.  On the detail pages, users 
will directly access license information.   

Handi Hams says that this attention to better web design will help 
everyone navigate the ULS pages, not just people with disabilities.   
Users are able to access the new functionality via the "Archives" 
button on the ULS homepage at:
http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/   (Handi Ham Newsletter)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  GET WELL WISHES TO QCWA PRES W3BE

Some names in the news.  First some get well soon wishes to QCWA 
President and 1991 Radio Amateur of the Year John B. Johnston, W3BE.  
John is back at his Maryland home recuperating from heart bypass 
surgery on Thursday, June 8th.  According to word from the QCWA the 
operation went well and he should be fine after his recovery period.  
Get well wishes can be sent to W3BE at his callbook address.  
(ARNewsline, QCWA)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  JOHN HENNSEESS N1KB TO BE REMEMBERED AT FIELD DAY 
2007

The ARRL is reporting that the Newington Amateur Radio League in 
Connecticut will honor the memory of long-time Handiham volunteer John 
Hennessee, N1KB.  This, at Field Day 2007 by using the special event 
callsign W1H.  

John Hennessee died in 2006 at age 42. He had worked at ARRL 
headquarters for 20 years and was described as always patient and 
thorough in his answers to our questions about rules and regulations.  
The Field Day operation using the W1H callsign is a tribute to his 
dedication to the Amateur Service over his lifetime.  (ARRL)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  N6R - A FIELD DAY CELEBRATION OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. 
REAGAN

And listen out for a very special Special Event station over Field Day 
weekend.  This one operating from the Ronald Reagan Presidential 
Library in Simi Vally, California as N6R.  

This is the third consecutive year that the Ventura County Amateur 
Radio Society will operate from the library grounds .  And once again 
they will be joined by members of the Simi Settlers Amateur Radio Club 
for what is fast  becoming an annual Field Day operation that also 
commemorates the lives of President Ronald and Mrs. Nancy Reagan.  

This is a prize contact not to be missed.  QSL N6R to N6ZE with Self 
Addressed Stamped Envelope to his QRZ.com mailing address.  (N6ZE)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  A K9EID FIELD DAY CONCERT

This year will mark a different kind of Field Day for ham radio's own 
Mr. Audio.  This with word that Bob Heil, K9EID,  will spend Sunday, 
June 24th firing up the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ at the Towe Auto 
Museum in Sacramento, California.  

For those of you not aware, in addition to being an inventor and 
researcher, Bob Heil is also a well accomplished concert organist.  And 
this particular concert will actually be a reunion of sorts between 
K9EID and the instrument on which he will be performing.  

The gorgeous instrument which Bob will play was originally installed in 
the St. Louis, Missouri. Lowe's State theatre during the late 1920's.  
In 1958 it was removed and installed in Rugerri's restaurant in St 
Louis where a then young Bobby Heil played this very Wurlitzer for the 
diners.  The organ was moved to Sacramento were pipes from the 
Hollywood home of the late producer director Cecil B. De Mille were 
added to make this spectacular sounding instrument. 

The Sierra Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society is sponsoring 
this Sunday afternoon concert.  It begins at 2 P.M. Pacific time and 
admission to it is free with a paid museum admission.   And during the 
program K9EID will introduce songs from his latest CD titled "Bob Heil 
at Home."   This recently completed album was  recorded on his own 3 
manual theatre organ that is installed in his Illinois studio.

Again, that's Field Day Sunday, June 24th at the Towe Auto Museum in 
Sacramento, California, for a free theater organ concert by ham 
rafios's own Bob Heil, K9EID.  It should be a truly fun afternoon.  
(Heil Sound Ltd. release)

**

CHANGING OF THE GUARD:  73 TO "MR. WIZARD"

If you grew up in the 1950's and 1960's and had a fascination with 
science, them you likely tuned into a television program called "Watch 
Mr. Wizard."  For 30 minutes each week from 1951 to 1965, Don Herbert 
donned the persona of "Mr. Wizard" to teach his legions of young 
viewers about the magic of science in every day living.  

Its not known if Don Herbert was a radio amateur.  Years ago there were 
stories circulating that he held a W 9 call prior to World War 2, but 
that's never been established.  No matter, Don Herbert as "Mr. Wizard"  
is generally credited with helping to build the United States base of  
baby boomer technologists whose interest in science and engineering was 
peaked by tuning into this program.  Some, credit their lifelong 
careers to watching Mr. Wizard as they were growing up.  And one ham we 
know quite well got hooked in a big way.  While he was in college, 
Henry Feinberg, K2SSQ, took a job with Mr. Wizard designing many of the 
simple experiments that made kids want to turn on and tune in.  He says 
that Don Herbert's key to success was to always keep science 
understandable and use the kind of objects a youngster might find 
around the house.

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Feinberg:  "The first thing that I made after I found out it was Mr. 
Wizard -- I had watched that program while growing up -- was to take a 
piece of Oak Tag (construction paper) , make it into a cone, stick a 
darning needle on the end of it and use it as a phonograph."

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Keeping science simple was the real key to Don  Herbert's success as 
Mr. Wizard.  As a result, the show which was aimed at youngsters 
between 8 and 13 received a Peabody Award in 1953 for the high quality 
of its youth programming.  And by the mid-1950's more than 100,000 
children across the United States had enrolled in 5,000 Mr. Wizard 
Science Clubs.  And such was the power of Don Herbert on America's 
youth that during the 1960's and 1970's, about half the applicants to 
Rockefeller University in New York cited Mr. Wizard when asked how they 
first became interested in their chosen careers.

After his children's program went off the air, Don Herbert remained in 
television science programming with general-audience shows like "How 
About" and  "Exploration." NBC revived "Watch Mr. Wizard" for one year 
in the early 1970's.  In the 1980s, Don Herbert reprised his children's 
shows with "Mr. Wizard's World" on the Nickelodeon cable network. 

Don Herbert never really retired.  Always dedicated to the education of 
America's youth, in recent years he established a website where he made 
may past shows and his science training materials available to the 
general public.  And it was on that website where his family posted the 
sad news that he had passed on Tuesday morning, June 12th .   Don 
Herbert -- "Mr. Wizard" -- was 89.  

Additional informatiuon from the Mr Wizard Studios website: For those 
of you who would like to share your thoughts on Don Herbert or anything 
Mr. Wizard related, the family has added a guestbook for your 
convenience.  Also added is a new blog.  Both Can be reached by links 
on the http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/ home Pge.  (ARNewsline from 
published reports.)

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ON THE AIR:  COMMEMORATING 70 YEARS OF TRANS ATLANTIC FLIGHT

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of  the first transatlantic 
passenger test flight, a special re-enactment flight is planned by 
Captain Patrick White and his son Ian.   The two will be flying their 
"Vintage Lady", a PBY Catalina Flying Boat, from Botwood Newfoundland 
to Foynes, Ireland, on the 5th and 6th of  July.   To celebrate this 
event, Ireland's Limerick Radio Club has been invited by the Foynes 
Flying Boat Museum to operate a special Amateur Radio station in 
conjunction with the commemorative reenactment of the 1937 flight.  
EI70FOY will be on the air from the 6th  to the 8th  of July on 80 
throuhgh10 meters as well as locally on VHF and UHF.  A special QSL 
card, commemorating the flight, will be sent to all stations worked 
over the three days . All QSL cards should be sent to the Club's QSL 
Manager Alan Cronin EI8EM at his callbook address.  (Southgate)

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ON THE AIR:  2ND REGIMENT HELICOPTER COMMEMORATIVE

And another special event station is TM2RHC.  It will be active from 
10th to 24th of June before and during an air show at Le Luc le Cannet, 
France. QSL via F4EUN.  The call letters TM2RHC stands for 2nd Regiment 
Helicopter Combat.  QSL as directed by the operators.  (OPDX)

**

THE CONTEST CALANDER:  IARU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIO - JULY 14 - 15 UTC

In radiosport news, this years annual IARU HF World Championship will 
be held during the 24-hour period from 1200 UTC Saturday, July 14th  to 
1200 UTC Sunday, July 15th.  Because this is unusually late in the month 
for the event to occur, there has been some confusion about the dates. 
So again the correct dates are the 14 and 15 of July in UTC time.  
Complete rules are on line at www.iaru.org/contest.html  (Via E-Mail)

**

DX

In D-X, word that the The Polish 3B6 Agalega Islands DXpedition Team 
will be operating until the 18th of June.  Team leader SP9MRO says that 
the group's call sign is 3B6DX. For more details and updates, visit 
www.3b6.godx.eu  

ON4LO, will be active portable C T from a couple of Portuguese 
lighthouses until 29th June.  Thoise hes putting on the air are  Cabo 
de Sao Vincente and Ponta Sagres.  He plans to operate SSB and digital 
modes on 10 to 40 meters.  QSL as directed on the air.

The White Tower DX Team's operation from Skyros Island is expected to 
take place from 16th to 22nd June. Nine operators will be active as 
SY8WT with six stations, five amplifiers and a wide range of beams, 
verticals and dipoles.  QSL via SV2HPP, direct or via the bureau.

(Above from various DX news sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  FIGHTING THE 10 METER FREEBAND INVASION

And finally this week, if you are wondering what all those 
conversations without call signs are on 28.085 MHz, well it appears to 
be a small invasion of unlicensed truckers and so called Freeband 
operators of our 10 meter band.  We have more in this report:

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Originally confined to portions of the mid-West, the pirate trucker and 
Freeband epidemic appears to be spreading nationwide.  This, as more 
and more of these illegal operators are making their unauthorized home 
on 28.085 Megahertz and several other 10 meter frequencies. 

And what is the Amateur Radio community doing about this invasion?  On 
the surface at least, very little.  With the upper High frequency bands 
not offering very much D-X these days, the majority of  hams are 
sticking to 20, 40 and 80 meters with few stations heard in the 15, 12 
and 10 meter spectrum.  So the truckers and Freebanders see this is 
fair game for their unlawful operations and are busy establishing 
squatters rights in these bands.  

What about the FCC?  Well its doing what it can.  There have been 
several well publicized violation notices sent to trucking firms.  They  
request owners to instruct their drivers to curtail any operations for 
which they are not licensed and threatening punitive action such as 
fines.  But that's about it.  With the FCC enforcement folks stretched 
thin and Freeband operations being among the lowest of priorities on 
the enforcement agenda, there is no reason to believe that there is 
going to be any sort of massive sweep by the Federal government to 
clear these pirate operators out of the ham radio bands.  

In the end, it will be the ham radio community that will have to defend 
these frequencies.  And it does that by using them.   If hams load up 
10 meters or any band with legitimate Amateur Radio operations, there 
will be no place for the illegals to play and they will go elsewhere.  

In the case of 28.085, there have been suggestions that this frequency 
become a national C-W or RTTY Calling Channel.  That's a pretty good 
approach.  Another is for every ham with the capability of operating 10 
meters to start holding QSO's on that frequency.  As any Morse 
enthusiast will tell you, C-W can get through even when faced with all 
sorts of QRM including pirate operators using voice.  

The bottom line.  if licensed radio amateurs fill up 10 meters even for 
local chats, the truckers and Freebanders will soon be looking 
elsewhere for a new home.  

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Evi Simons, in New York.

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About two decades ago, then 73 Magazine editor Wayne Green, W2NSD, 
coined the phrase "Use it or loose it."  Back then it was applied to 
the pending transfer of 220 to 222 MHz away from Amateur Radio.  Today 
the same words ring important in fighting those without licenses who 
are trying to take 10 meters forcibly from hams.  (ARNewsline, 
QRZ.com, listener input)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

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For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, I'm Jim 
Meachen, ZL2BHF, in Auckland, New Zealand, saying 73 and we thank you 
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