[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1558 - June 22, 2007

Sat Jun 23 09:22:15 EDT 2007

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1558 - June 22, 2007

The following is a Q-S-T.  The RSGB restructures to welcome digital 
repeaters, 6 meters opens for some good D-X and the ARRL says that 
Congress may mandate an investigation of B-P-L interference.   Find out 
the details on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1558 coming your 
way right now.

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WORLDBEAT - UK:  THE DIGITAL WORLD IS HERE

The world of digital ham radio comes another step closer to reality.  
This as the Radio Society of Great Britain is says that digital is the 
future of ham radio and its restructuring some of its committees so as 
to be ready.  Jeramy Boot, G4NJH, has the details:

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A study of the work of the Data Communications Committee and the 
Repeater Management Committee has revealed increasingly common ground, 
especially where internet gateways and internet linking to repeaters 
are concerned.

Advances are also being made towards the introduction of digital modes 
such as D-Star and APCO25 that amongst other newer technologies can 
carry both voice and data streams.

With this in mind it has been agreed that a new committee based on the 
Repeater Management Committee structure and to be known as the Emerging 
Technology Co-ordination Committee will replace the DCCand RMC with 
immediate affect. The new committee will be chaired by John McCullagh, 
GI4BWM, with Iain Philipps, G0RDI, as
Vice-Chairman. Other committee members will include current Regional 
Repeater Managers and Steve Morton, G8SFR, who will continue to co-
ordinate Internet Gateway applications.

I'm Jeramy Boot, G4NJH and you are listening to the Amateur Radio 
Newsline.

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What this means is that U-K hams involved in both digital and analog 
relay communications or transitioning from analog to digital now have 
one central base of knowledge to work with.  It also puts the Radio 
Society of great Britain at the forefront of political leadership in 
the U-K as the changeover takes place.  (GB2RS)

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RESCUE RADIO:  VK HAMS RESPOND AS FLOODS HIT

Hams from several Australian provinces have responded in the wake of 
severe weather and flooding that has hit the North Queensland area.  
Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of the WIA News, has the details:

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Mal VK4MAL is currently working with the Red Cross Counter-Disaster  
division in the flooded areas of the New South Wales Central Coast  and 
Hunter Region.

 Mal VK4MAL is Counter-Disaster Co-ordinator for Red Cross in  North 
Queensland and he and hundreds of other volunteers were  shipped in 
from across VK to provide some help for flood weary local  volunteers 
and residents of the disaster zone.

 VK2ATZ/portable the Westlakes AR Club were in the thick of things,  
but were still able, somehow, to score a vantage point to see the  
container ship which was washed ashore at Nobby's Beach on the  Friday
 morning.

Saturday Westlakes Amateur Radio Club was open....But not for usual 
business.   It was open to the few that braved the weather and answered 
the calls for  help to clean up the debris from the horrible weather 
suffered the previous  night.

 Some helping included VK2YPW, VK2AFZ, VK2ZM and Keith VK2PKT, Paul 
VK2BPL,  and Richard VK2FRKO also John VK2FJKG

 Then when the Hunter River in Maitland looked like breaking its banks 
on  Sunday, the Volunteer Rescue Association wasted no time in securing 
the  specialist communications skills of WICEN (NSW).

 Eight operators from the Hunter Region were deployed at Rutherford, 
and  they were tasked with passing intelligence reports to the services  
involved, along with monitoring and reporting the river levels at 15  
minute intervals. This involved three teams, two at the gauges and one 
at  the control centre; all were alert and busy throughout the night 
and into  the next morning.

 As well as this, teams were on stand-by in both the Sydney North and  
Central Coast Regions, but as the floods abated they were not required; 
it  is worth noting that although members in the Central Coast Region 
also  suffered from the storm, some were still able to respond.  Other 
VRA squads such as CREST and Cave Rescue were also involved.

I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB, of the WIA News reporting for the amateur Radio 
Newsline.

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The President of the Volunteer Rescue Association is Ray Gill.  He 
thanked the Australian ham community for its prompt emergency service 
response.

**

THE BPL FIGHT: ARRL REPS HAM RADIO ON BPL TO ITU

A major meeting of the International Telecommunications Union that 
could help determine the future of ham radio world-wide is taking place 
in Switzerland.  It involves BPL.  Rob Mt. Barker, VK5MM, is here with 
the rest of the story:

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ARRL Chief Executive Officer and IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ, 
have  been representing the IARU at a meeting of ITU-R Working Party 1A 
in  Geneva, Switzerland.

 Working Party 1A is responsible for spectrum engineering techniques 
within  Study Group 1 (spectrum management) and has been working on a 
document that  may eventually become what's called a "preliminary draft 
new report" on the  impact of power line telecommunications (PLT, what 
we call BPL on this side  of the Pacific) on radiocommunication systems 
operating below 80 MHz.

 Of course, the IARU's interest is in ensuring that the report 
accurately reflects the sensitivity of the amateur services to 
interference from this source.

 Also meeting at about the same time (June 12-20), ITU-R Working Party  
8A, which is responsible for most of the land mobile services, plus the 
amateur and amateur-satellite services. WP 8A hopes to complete work on  
a "draft new handbook for the amateur and amateur-satellite services" 
to be published by the ITU.

I'm Rob, VK5MM

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More on the outcome of these meetings in future Amateur Radio Newsline 
reports. (WIA News, ARRL)

**

THE BPL FIGHT:  CONGRESS MAY ORDER INVESTIGATION OF IJNTERFERENCE

The ARRL says that the United States Senate may investigate Broadband 
Over Powerline's's interference potential to Amateur Radio.  This after 
Senator Mark Pryor files a bill calling on the Federal Communications 
Commission to conduct a study on the interference caused by broadband 
Internet transmission over power distribution systems to customers 
homes.  Amateur Radio Newsline's David Black, KB4KCH, is here with 
more:

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Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas is a member of the Senate's Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  If the measure he introduced 
gains the needed support, then Senate Bill 1629 would call  for the 
same studies to be performed as does House Bill 462.  That measure was 
introduced on January 12th by Rep Mike Ross of Arkansas.  Both would 
require the FCC to conduct and submit to that committee and to the 
House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce a report on a 
study of interference potential of systems for the transmission of 
broadband Internet services over power lines.

According to the ARRL, there are to be four required areas of inquiry.  
First is the variation of field strength of BPL service signals with 
distance from overhead power lines, and a technical justification for 
the use of any particular distance extrapolation factor.   

Then, the  depth of adaptive, or 'notch,' filtering for attenuating 
normally permitted BPL service radiated emission levels that would be 
necessary and sufficient to protect the reliability of mobile radio 
communications.  

Also required would be a technical justification for the permitted, 
radiated emission levels of BPL signals relative to ambient levels of 
man-made noise from other sources.  

Lastly such a report would require the FCC to provide options for new 
or improved rules related to the transmission of BPL service that, if 
implemented, might prevent harmful interference to public safety and 
other radio communications systems.  This is something that the FCC has 
been reticent to do since it embraced B-P-L technology several years 
ago.  

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm David Black, KB4KCH, at the South-
East bureau in Birmingham, Alabama,

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The ARRL is very thankful for this turn of events in the BPL struggle.  
League President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, said that the League is grateful 
for Senator Pryor's support.  He added that the Senator's recognition 
of Amateur Radio's role in emergency communications and public safety 
is also greatly appreciated.  (ARRL)

**

ON THE AIR:  6 METERS TURNS SUMMER HOT

Six meters is showing signs of being the V-H-F band of choice for this 
summers D-X season.  We have more in this report:

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That's right Don.  6 meters has been the band of choice of VHF DX 
enthusiasts, with contacts like this one becoming more and more 
commonplace.

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Sound of VE3TMG working Hawaii:  Hear it in the MP3 version of the 
newscast downloadable at www.arnewsline.org

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That's Terry Greenwood, VE3TMG, in  Windsor, Ontario, Canada  working  
Fred Benardella, KH6FI, Mountain View, Hawaii, recorded on June 18th.  
That's a path across land and sea of close to 4500 nautical miles.  

But hams in the U-S-A are not the only ones experiencing long haul 
contacts on the Magic Band.  Also on the 18th, Ev Tupis, W2EV, in Holley 
New York reported over the V-H-F Reflector that he was experiencing 
multi-hop from to EA8 on 6m.  Ev also said that there were reports of 2 
meter E skip contact taking place between Ohio to Newfoundland.  A bit 
later, John Fridenstine, W8PAT, in Oberlin, Ohio, posted that worked or 
heard all continents in a 12 hour period.  For him it was South America 
in the morning, Europe, Afirca and Oceania in the a afternoon and Asia 
on EME in the evening. 

We don't have any recordings of those, but we do have of a truly rare 
south to north 6 meter station.  Heres Octavio Miranda, YN2N, in 
Nicaragua trying to contact a W 5 station on what was likely Trans-
Equatorial propagation:

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Sound of YN2N: Hear it in the MP3 version of the newscast downloadable 
at www.arnewsline.org

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The sation he was trying to work and eventually did contract was Pat 
Dyer, WA5IYX, in San Antonio, Texas.  Pat tells Amateur Radio Newsline 
that  while not the greatest signal, Miranda was the first Nicaraguan 
that he has heard or worked in his 43 years operating 6 meters.  The 
signals were only 5 by 5 at WA5IYX but YN2N gave Pat a 10 db over S 9 
report.

Getting on 6 meters is no longer very expensive.  The primary D-X mode 
is Upper Sideband.  The primary calling frequency is 50.125 Mhz and for 
casual operation a simple dipole with a total length of 108 inches will 
suffice. And with even that simple a set-up you never know what you 
might work or hear.

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Sound of V26HS: Hear it in the MP3 version of the newscast downloadable 
at www.arnewsline.org

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For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, with the 
FT-847 tuned to 50.125, at the studio in Los Angeles.  

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For the latest, up to the minute 6 meter D-X news take your web browser 
to the 6 Meter Prop Logger.  Its in cyberspace at 
http://www.dxworld.com/50prop.html

Also, if you operate on 6 meters, be sure to switch it to A-M mode and 
tune up to 50.4 MHz now and again.  That's where a lot of old timers 
using 1950's vintage gear hang out and you never know who you might 
hear.  (ARNewsline)

**

ENFORCEMENT NEWS:  FBI INVESTIGATING PHONY REPORTS TO THE NEWS

The FBI has entered into an investigation surrounding bogus severe 
weather reports e-mailed to the National Weather Service.  The false 
information has caused the to issue unnecessary warnings that have 
taxed the resources of a number of communities.

The phony reports were sent to the NWS over its Web page.  
Investigators have already traced the Internet Protocol address of the 
computer sending the false reports.

Jeff Lanza,is the special FBI agent in charge of the investigation.  He 
says that the effort to track down the source of bogus information to 
the weather service could be the first in the U.S.  He adds that 
providing false information to the federal government is punishable by 
up to five years in jail.  (Tech OnLine)

**

ENFORCEMNENT TECHNOLOGY:  NEW CELLPHONE SENSORS 

The 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.  
This,  to scan and detect harmful compounds in the environment and 
automatically relay the readings to a central monitoring point.  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)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  FCC CHAIRMAN AGAIN SAYS YES TO CABLE A LA CARTE

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has renewed a 
long simmering debate over "a la carte" programming at a recent cable 
industry gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada.  According to news reports, 
Martin told the audience at the annual "Cable Show" that consumers 
should be able to purchase what they want without being forced to buy 
what they don't. 

Martin has supported implementing "a la carte" service, where consumers 
could choose and pay for individual channels, rather than purchase them 
in bundles from their cable companies.  He said the issue was 
increasingly important since the price for "expanded basic" cable has 
doubled since 1996.  (Published reports)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  HAM POLICE OFFICER INJURED IN THE LINE OF DUTY

A Southern California ham well known for his work in helping to remove 
repeater jammer Jack Gerritsen, the ex-KG6IRO, from the airwaves has 
been injured in a traffic accident.  This with word that Los Angeles 
County Deputy Sheriff Burton  Brink, N6USO, was hurt in an on-duty 
traffic collision the morning of June 6th.  

The accident occurred when a driver tried to exit the carpool lane on 
the Interstate 10 freeway.  Driving in a carpool lane requires two or 
more occupants in the vehicle.  This driver was alone and according to 
a report from the San Gabriel Valley Radio Club, a California Highway 
Patrol unit was ahead when the driver tried to avoid a ticket for a 
carpool violation.  The driver did not check for a clear lane and 
collided with Brink who was on motorcycle patrol. 

N6USO was admitted to the County USC Medical Center in Los Angeles 
where it was determined that he had sustained multiple rib fractures, a 
punctured lung, and lacerated spleen, as well as associated road rash. 
His injuries, though serious, do not appear to be life threatening.

A career law enforcement officer, Burton Brink has been with the Los 
Angeles County Sheriff's Department since 1989.  Prior to that he was 
an Officer with Monterey Park Police Dept. from 1982 to 1989, and an 
Arcadia Police Explorer Cadet from 1977 to 1982. 

N6USO is also the owner of the 145.440 MHz repeater located on Southern 
California's Sunset Ridge.  This was one of many repeaters targeted for 
jamming and harassment by Jack Gerritsen during the years prior to his 
latest arrest and 7 year jail sentence that he is currently serving.  A 
trained investigator, Brink stood his ground against Gerritsen and is 
among those credited as helping to bring Gerritsen before the bar 
justice.  

Get well wishes can be sent to Burton Brink, N6USO, at his callbook 
address.  (SGVARC, WA6ILQ)

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NAMES IN THE NEWS:  CATHERINE DEATON TO RETIRE FROM THE FCC 

The FCC employee also generally credited with sending radio jammer Jack 
Gerritsen to prison will be retiring from the Commission on August 3rd.  
This with word that Catherine Deaton, who heads FCC Enforcement 
Bureau's Los Angeles field office will be leaving government service 
following 40 years that includes 10 years as an undercover narcotics 
agent and the past 27 years working at the FCC.

Bob Gonsett, W6VR, who writes the CGC Communicator calls Deaton a 
breath of fresh air for the L.A. field office.  In his June 19th 
edition, he noted that ubder her guidance the Los Angeles bureau's door 
has been open to all inquiries and concerns, the attitude of the office 
has been positive and the results impressive. 

After August 3, Deaton plans to do a bit of traveling, help her 
daughter in her medical services business and fully exercise her gym 
membership. If you'd like to send her your best wishes, e-mail her at 
Catherine.Deaton at fcc.gov   (CGC)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  CONGRESS TO HONOR "MR WIZARD"

A follow up to our story last week on the passing of television's first 
ever teacher of science and technology.  On Monday, June 18th the U.S. 
House of Representatives honored Don Herbert, better known as "Mr. 
Wizard," in a resolution passed on the House floor.

Representative Vernon Ehlers of Michigan co-sponsored the resolution to 
honor Herbert, who died of cancer at the age of 89.  In his sponsorship 
statement Ehlers said that the "Mr. Wizard" show laid the groundwork 
for the educational television genre that later spawned cable channels 
devoted to science, like the Discovery Channel.  The show also created 
Mr. Wizard Science Clubs nationwide with 5000 such groups operating by 
1995.   

Ehlers stated that as a child, he didn't have TV, but he read science  
magazines his sister gave him that she would get from her high school 
science class. Ehlers said that he would then perform his own home 
experiments from the magazines.  He closed by noting that he was happy 
to co-sponsor Don Herbert's official recognition by the Congress of the 
United States.  (Published Reports)

**

ON THE AIR:  W8HC TO COMMEMORATE MARCONI 

2007 marks the centennial of those first signals generated from 
Marconi's historic station in the United Kingdom.  To commemorate this 
event, as well as radio's first-ever commercial venture, Hal Turley, W-
8-H-C has announced a special amateur radio operation from two 
locations central to Marconi as a pioneer in wireless technology.   
Once again, Jeramy Boot, G4NJH, is in Nottingham, with more:

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On Saturday and Sunday, August 4 and 5, Turley will operate portable G 
I from from Ballycastle.  He will be also taking part in the annual 
Marconi Festival at Ballycastle with the Marconi Radio Group's special 
event station MN0MRG on Sunday, August 5th.  On Monday, August 6, Hal 
will ferry over to Rathlin Island and operate from East Lighthouse.  

Leaving Northern Ireland, Hal will arrive in Clifden on Wednesday, 
August 8 where he will operate portable E I at the Derrygimla site on 
August 9th and 10th.  It is hoped that some operating time can also occur 
from nearby Letterfrack, site of an ancillary receive station built in 
1912 to allow for full duplex operation of the transatlantic signals. 

Contacts will be confirmed via Logbook to the World and special QSLs 
from each of these historic Marconi locations will be printed and sent 
via the Global QSL system at www.globalqsl.com.  In addition, a 
specially designed certificate will be issued to those stations making 
contact with both GI and EI operations from either Ballycastle or 
Rathlin and Derrygimla or Letterfrack. 

I'm Jeramy Boot, G4NJH

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In keeping with the historic accuracy of the original Marconi 
transmissions, all QSOs from these locations will be CW only.  (GB2RS)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  MICROWAVE SDR RADIO BEING DEVELOPED

Radio amateurs interested in the microwave bands may find the Microwave 
Software Defined Radio project interesting. Its goal is to provide a 
transceiver operating on the 144, 422, 1268, 2400 MHz and above bands, 
covering the whole of each band.  Full duplex cross-band operation is 
also planned specifically for satellite use. More details are on line 
at the Microwave Software Defined Radio website.  Its in cyberspace at 
http://uwsdr.berlios.de   (G8UBN for the uWSDR team)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  JPL CONGRATULATES AMSAT-DL ON VOYAGER 1 INTERCEPT

The Flight Team that oversees NASA's Voyager One deep space probe has 
congratulated AMSAT Germany on its reception of a signal from the 
spacecraft.  In March 2006, the signal from Voyager 1 was received by 
the AMSAT D-L team using the 20 meter dish in Bochum. 

Voyager 1 is the furthest object away from earth to be built by humans.  
As a token of  their collective  appreciation, the controllers not only 
confirmed the reception report.  They also sent Amsat Germany a photo 
of the Voyager Flight   That picture can be found on line at 
http://www.amsat-
dl.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=97   
(Southgate, AMSAT-DL)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  ME AND MY BABY - MONITOR

An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb didn't have 
to turn on the news for an update on the now concluded STS 117 space 
shuttle mission. This was because her baby monitor decided to become a 
shuttle mission video delivery service of its very own.

Beginning on Sunday, June 10th, one of the two channels on Natalie 
Meilinger's baby monitor began picking up video from inside the space 
shuttle Atlantis.  Summer Infant Products which manufactured the remote 
monitoring system said that it is investigating what could be causing 
the video to appear on Meilingers unit  but is so far baffeled.  
Company Communications Director Cindy Barlow said that she never heard 
of anything similar happening.

Meantime, NASA had its say as well.  Spokesperson Brandi Dean issued a 
statement denying that the signal Meilinger was seeing was not coming 
directly from the shuttle.  She noted that the live video is available 
on NASA's Web site, so it's possible the monitor was picking up a 
signal from some localized rebroadcast.   

So far it does not look as if any local hams or ham radio 
retransmission of NASA video is responsible.  More likely it's a 
neighbor with one of those in home television rebroadcast units used to 
send cable or satellite delivered television to other rooms.  
(Published reports)

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HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  THE FLORIDA AMSAT NET WANTS SPEAKERS

The Florida AMSAT net is looking for satellite operators who are 
willing to be a guest speaker on their Thursday night net. The repeater 
network used in this network covers half the state of Florida. An 
echolink connection is available for all others.  Please contact Drew 
Glasbrenner by e-mail to ko4ma at amsat.org if you are interested. (ANS)

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WORLDBEAT - UK:  HAM SCOUTING CLUB GETS GRANT

The U-K based Chesterfield and District Scouts Amateur Radio Club has 
recently received a National  Lottery Grant from that bnations Awards 
for All Fund.  The club was given the equivalent of $10,000 that it 
will use to purchase new radio equipment, computers, a portable 
generator and a mini marquee. 

The club intends to support members who are Scouts in gaining their 
amateur radio licenses and in development of their skills. They also 
want to develop Amateur Radio Direction Finding techniques by 
purchasing equipment which will allow the club to demonstrate amateur 
radio within the scouting community in Derbyshire.  (Southgate)

**

WORLDBEAT-  SWEEDEN:  THE ANNUAL SAQ ALTERNATOR ON  JULY 1

The annual transmission on 'Alexanderson Day' with Sweden's  
Alexanderson alternator on the VLF frequency of 17.2 kHz will take 
place Sunday July 1st.  The operation takes place at 09:00 U-T-C and 
will be repeated at 13:00 UTC.  There will also be activity on amateur 
radio frequencies with the call SK6SAQ. 

QSL cards are appreciated.  They can go direct or via the Swedish 
Amateur Association QSL bureau.  More is on-line at www.alexander.n.se  
(Southgate)

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WORLDBEAT - USA:  CARF ESTABLISHES ECHOLINK NET

Back in the United States, word from Lloyd Colston, KC5FM, that t the 
Christian Amateur Radio Fellowship has established a new network on 
Echolink.  Using the K6JWN conference server  number 127901, the net 
meets Saturday at 1400 UTC.  Christian hams from around the world are 
invited to participate.  More is on-line at www.carf.net  (KC5FM)

**

DX

In DX, word from O-P-D-X that DL7DF will be leading a DXpediton team to 
East Africa.  The group plans to be active as 9U0A between September 
26th  and October 9th.  Operation will be on 160 through 6 meters using 
CW, SSB, SSTV and digital modes.   There will be a special emphasis on 
the lower bands and digital operations Pilot station for this 
DXpedition is Bernd, DF3CB.  QSL via DL7DF, either direct or by the 
German QSL Bureau.

Approval has been granted for the use of the Special Prefix VR10 in 
addition to VR2 for Hong Kong radio amateurs.  This from July 1st of 
this year through June 20th 2008 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 
Hong Kong's reunification with China.  More details are available in 
the OFTA letter for HongKong Radio Amateurs.

Lastly, the Southgate News says that the Scarborough Reef Dxpedition 
team has uploaded a partial log containing QSOs for those DXers who 
supported the BS7H operation to the ARRL Loogbook to the World website.  
The group says that this is a special 'Thank You' to those who made the 
effort to support their operation. The team adds that  there will be 
additional periodic uploads Loogbook to the World as QSL'ing proceeds.  
A full upload will be done as soon as the bulk of the direct QSLs are 
answered.  Direct cards are expected to start going out in early July.  
(Above from various DX news sources)

**

HAM RADIO ON THE WEB:  REPEATER HISTORY - A VICARIOUS TRIP BACK TO 
WR6ABE 

If you want to take a look back at repeater technology of the mid-
1970's, have we got a website for you.  Actually the website is 
YouTube.com and its where Steve Jensen, W6RHM, has posted some great 
video transfers shot on film in 1976 by his father, the late Bob 
Jensen, W6VGQ.

The four short movie clips feature a trip to California's original 
Mount Wilson two meter repeater, WR6ABE.  Even better, the travelogue 
is hosted by the repeater's creator, Burt Weiner, K6OQK:

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K6OQK audio here. Hear it in the MP3 version of the newscast 
downloadable at www.arnewsline.org

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Weiner narrates from two locations.  Both the actual repeater site 
overlooking the Los Angeles basin and what you just heard from the 
control point at his former home.  As a bonus, you get to meet many of 
the systems users from that era who helped to make this obscure 
repeater into a legend of the golden age of ham radio relay station 
development.

Its truly a trip back in time to an era when tubes were still king and 
repeaters used a lot of them.  Look for it at:   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb7r3_n1wBo 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pjJfz8RHsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik6LUs60S9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Udq98j0EM)

(Information supplied by W6RHM)

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