[Ham-News] Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1578 - November 9, 2007

Sat Nov 10 11:21:10 EST 2007

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1578 - November 9, 2007

The following is a Q-S-T.  Hams provide communications as floods ravage 
part of Mexico, a ham finds a possible cure for cancer and a good 
report on the numbers of hams here in the United States.  Find out the 
details on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1578 coming your way 
right now.

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RESCUE RADIO:  HAM RADIO ACTIVE IN MEXICO FLOODING

Heavy rains have caused major flooding in the southern state of Tabasco 
in Mexico, with the state capital Villahermosa particularly badly hit.  
It is reported that 80% of the city is under deep water, and more than 
a million people have been made homeless.  And ham radio is proving to 
be a communications lifeline.  Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has more:

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Communications with the affected area remains poor   But using a 
worldwide network of VoIP member stations, the International Radio 
Emergency Support Coalition -- known as the IRESC -- has been keeping 
track of how amateur radio has been helping the immense humanitarian 
relief effort in the storm ravaged area.  Here's what they report:

Early on the 2nd of November, Axpe Soto Antonio EB1FGO, was able to 
connect to various Echolink nodes on the periphery of the disaster 
zone.  Remarkably, the XE3DSD Echolink equipped VHF repeater in San 
Cristobal was still operational.  EB1FGO spoke to Manuel Jesus Ceballos 
Garcia XE3RNK and Marlon Iv n De la Rosa Herrera, XE3ROI, located in 
Villahermosa itself.  Marlon said that the immediate need was for fresh 
water, clothing, life jackets and any form of inflatable craft. 

At 2200 UTC the same day, a message was received from Paulo XE1WSR 
reporting that Marlon and his family were being evacuated from their 
home. XE3RNK was, at least for the time being, the only known amateur 
still operating directly out of the disaster zone.  A bit later, the 
XE3DSD repeater  lost its power supply and shut down.  With this, the 
Echolink connection was lost.

On the 3rd of November, very weak mobile/portable operation could be 
heard on 7.060MHz.  The Mexican Red Cross reported using portable 
1.6GHz Inmarsat equipment to communicate with Villahermosa, as the 
local G-S-M and other phone systems were not working.

On November 4th the XE3DSD repeater was restored to operation and 
IRESC's Spanish language team EB1FGO and Eusebio Flores de la Rosa 
EA5GVP spoke directly with Juan Armando Cruz Zapata XE3AYZ and David 
Maciel XE3DX, based in San Cristobal, Chiapas.  Armando reported that 
radio amateurs in Villahermosa were assisting the Civil defense and 
Mexican Red Cross teams, operating via a network of IRLP stations and a 
146.910MHz FM repeater immediately within the disaster zone.

7.060 MHz continued to be used during daylight hours for longer-range 
communication.  The local amateurs reported that this area of Mexico is 
quite experienced in dealing with flooding and that there is now a good 
command and control system in operation conforming to a well-rehearsed 
plan.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Brice Tennant, K6PZW, in Los 
Angeles.

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For those not aware, the International Radio Emergency Support 
Coalition is a U-K based worldwide coalition of volunteer 
communicators.  Currently, the group has members in at least 35 
countries.  Most members are also affiliated to their respective 
national organizations such as the International Red Cross, the 
Salvation Army, the U-K's RAYNET, local ARES and RACES groups and many 
others.  More about the group is on-line at www.iresc.org.  (IRESC, 
others)

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RESTRUCTURING:  NUMBERS REMAIN ABOUT THE SAME

Some good news and some bad news regarding growth in ham radio in the 
United States.  The good news is that we are holding our own in regard 
to the number of FCC licensed radio amateurs in the United States and 
its possessions.  The bad news is that despite all the restructuring 
over the past decade and a half, we are not seeing any significant 
growth.  This, according to Fred Maia, W-5-Y-I, who writes the 
Washington Readout column in C-Q Magazine and has his finger on the 
pulse of ham radio statistics in the United States.  And in a recent 
conversation with Newsline, Fred says that despite the latest round of 
regulatory revisions the numbers really have not changed all that much:

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W5YI:  "There are actually about 655,000 radio amateurs who are 
licensed.  The figure 712,000 includes amateurs who are in the 'grace 
period.'  The recent rule makings -- abolishing the code and expanding 
voice frequencies and so forth -- everyone thought that this was going 
to have a big impact on the number of radio amateur.  Actually has not 
happened."

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If we are not getting a lot of new hams, then what has been the impact 
of all of the recent deregulation.  Fred Maia says that we are really 
shifting around within the service itself:

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W5YI:  "The number of radio amateurs in each class has changed.  For 
example, Technicians no longer have to pass a code test  so they are 
able to upgrade to General very easily, buy just passing a written 
test.  So, we have lost some Technicians, but we have made up for it by 
gaining a like number of General class amateurs.  

And the same thing holds true for General and Advanced class.  They no 
longer have to pass a 20 WPM code test in order to upgrade to Extra.  
So we are seeing declines in General and Advanced, but almost a like 
number of increases in Extra class.

While we have not seen an increase in the total number of amateurs, 
what we have seen is a switch in the mix of the various Amateur Radio 
classes."

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If this is the case, how has ham radio been able to sustain the numbers 
it claims.  Fred Maia says that it's a kind of balancing act:

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W5YI:  "The number of new amateurs coming into the hobby really has not 
increased at all.  The people leaving through becoming Silent Keys or 
not renewing their licenses is just about in step with the number of 
new amateurs.

So, there is no increase there.  The biggest impact is the number of 
amateurs in higher classes because they don't have to pass a code 
test."

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So what has the impact been on the ham radio supply industry?  Fred 
Maia says that he's hearing from dealers that the sales of High 
Frequency gear is definitely on the rise:

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W5YI:  We talk to them all the time and they are selling a lot of HF 
rigs to people who are able to upgrade into HF without taking a code 
test.  You talk to companies like Ham Radio Outrlet and Amateur 
Electronic Supply and they tell you that they are selling more high 
priced transceivers."

--

According to Maia, this first report card since Morse testing went away 
is pretty good.  (ARNewsline)

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HAM RADUO NEAR SPACE:  HAM BALLOON WILL TRY ATLANTIC CROSSING

Amateurs at the University of Tennessee Amateur Radio Club are 
launching a balloon with a beacon in the 10 MHz Amateur Band that may 
travel across the Atlantic.  

The latest Icarus X mission designated  UX-19, will hopefully launch 
about the time we go to air. The payload will include a GPS unit and 
computerized unit that will regulate the balloon's altitude and send 
telemetry on 10.123 MHz in CW and RTTY formats. In addition to the 30m 
beacon there will also be an APRS beacon AA4UT-11 on 144.390 MHz FM.

The flight has been dubbed 'The Spirit Of Knoxville' after Lindbergh's 
first trans-Atlantic flight.  The 10 MHz transmitter will run 3 watts 
output into a half wave dipole hung below the balloon.  The goal of its 
5 day mission  is to be the first Amateur Radio equipped helium balloon 
to cross the Atlantic.

More is on-line at www.utarc.org (UTARC)

**

RADIO SCIENCE:  HAM MAY HAVE DISCOVERED CANCER CURE

John  Kanzius, K3TUP may have accomplished what has eluded medical 
science for decades.  A cure for some types of cancer.   Bill 
Pasternak, WA6ITF, reports:

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According to Terry Graves, K7FE, posting to QRZ.com, K3TUP's method 
heats the cancer cells with RF after they have been combined with 
conductive nanoparticles that have been introduced into the body by 
pill or injection.  The nanoparticles heat up when exposed to RF and 
destroy the cancer cell.  Normal cells do not attract the nanoparticles 
as readily as those with cancer do and are not harmed by the treatment.  

Kanzus therapy is currently in the testing process on animals with 
success.  Unfortunately, hi own cancer has returned and he is hopeful 
that his method will receive government approval soon.  This, to 
benefit others and possibly himself.  We sincerely wish him well.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak WA6ITF, at the 
studio in Los Angeles.

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You can read more about K3TUP's work in combating the killer disease 
at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-
cancer2nov02,0,1633038.story?coll=la-home-center  (QRZ.com, LA Times, 
K7FE, W6AQ)

**

ENFORCEMENT:  EXPLAIN WHY 

The FCC enforcement folks have been busy in recent days with letters 
going out to a number of hams.  On November 1st, the agency made public  
enforcement actions against six radio amateurs.   

Two letters went to hams in Arizona.  In one to Charles K. Caprio, 
AD8Q, the  Bullhead City ham was issued a Warning Notice along with a 
Request for Information.  This, regarding complaints received by the 
Commission alleging deliberate interference, recording and transmission 
of telephone calls, operation on unauthorized frequencies and threats 
made to licensees. The FCC told Capio that if the information contained 
in the complaints proves to be true, then it raises serious questions 
regarding his qualifications to retain an Amateur license. 

The FCC gave Caprio twenty days to respond to 14 questions regarding 
his operating practices.  He was also told to provide the FCC with the 
make, model and serial number of all transmitting equipment he uses.  
AD8Q was also warned that the regulatory agency will use all pertinent 
information before it, including information that he provides in his 
reply, to determine
What enforcement action, if any, is warranted in this matter.  (FCC)

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ENFORCEMENT:  UNCOORDINATED REPEATER TOLD TO RESLOVE INTERFERENCE ITS 
CAUSING COORDINATED SYSTEM

The other Arizona issue revolves around repeater to repeater 
interference.  James D. Ogden, N7KPU, of Prescott Valley received 
notification from the FCC regarding his responsibility to coordinate 
his N7KPU repeater. 

Back on August 8th the FCC wrote to Ogden and enclosed a complaint from 
the licensee of coordinated repeater KB7OBJ.  The complainant alleged 
that Ogden's N7KPU repeater was operating without coordination on the 
447.350 and 442.350 MHz channel pair and causing  harmful interference. 
The complaint indicates that Ogden had been contacted numerous times 
about this problem but he has declined to address it. 

Ognen replied on September 25th.  At that time he provided a copy of a 
coordination document that was unsigned and undated, but appears to be 
about 15 years old.  He  provided no current coordination document and 
the FCC notes that the N7KPU is not listed in the commonly used 
Repeater Directory published by the ARRL.

The FCC advised Ogden that in its view his system is not coordinated.  
As such when there is interference between a coordinated and an 
uncoordinated repeater, the licensee of the uncoordinated repeater has 
primary responsibility to resolve the interference.  And since Ogden 
prove to the FCC that his system is coordinated that he has the primary 
responsible for
alleviating the interference to the KB7OBJ machine.

Ogden was given 20 days to respond to the Commission detailing a plan 
to cure interference.  (FCC)

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ENFORCEMENT:  YOU NEED A LICENSE TO BE A BROADCASTER

In the mid-West, Todd  Dougherty, N9OGL, of Taylorville, Illinois was 
sent a "Warning Notice" and a "Request for Information."  This 
revolving around allegations that Dougherty has been operating an 
unlicensed radio station on  6.950 and 13.556 MHz among other 
frequencies,  

The FCC says that its information indicates that the signal strength of 
these transmissions exceed the power limit of Part 15 of the 
Commission's rules for unlicensed transmitters. The letter also says 
that radio direction finding by the FCC indicate that such 
transmissions were made from Doughrty's  location on 13.556 MHz at 
various dates in November 2006.

The FCC says that this information if proven true raises serious 
questions regarding Dougherty's qualifications to retain an Amateur 
license. The FCC gave N9OGL 20 days to answer 8 questions regarding his 
operating practices.  This included requesting whether or not he used 
the name Todd O'Dochartaigh, N9OGL?  If so, directed him to describe 
the circumstances under which he used it and on what dates.

Dougherty was told that the FCC plans to use all relevant information
before it, including information that he discloses in his reply, to
determine what, if any, enforcement action is warranted in this matter.
The FCC says that this could include license revocation, suspension of 
Dougherty's operator privileges or a fine of up to $10,0000.  (FCC)

**

TELECOMMUNICATUONS LAW:  CONGRESS BANS PRETEXTING

The U.S. Senate has passed without dissent legislation to ban the use 
of deceptive methods to obtain consumers' telephone records. The Senate 
approved the measure previously passed by the House of Representatives 
and sent it to President Bush to sign into law.  The measure is aimed 
at stopping the practice of impersonating people to obtain their phone 
records, also known as pretexting. 

The Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act would criminalize 
obtaining confidential phone records through making fraudulent 
statements or providing false documents to a telephone service provider 
or accessing customer accounts through the Internet or by fraudulent 
computer-related activities. It would also prohibit the unauthorized 
sale or transfer of confidential phone records information, or the 
receipt of such information with the knowledge that it was fraudulently 
obtained. The measure would also ban buying records from a data broker 
and sets criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines. It 
does not apply to federal, state or local law enforcement agencies.  
(Published reports)

**

RADIO CRIME:  MORE COPPER THEFT - THIS TIME NEAR SANTA BARBARA CA

Copper thieves are at it again.  This time the target is a California 
T-V station.  Jim Damron, N8TMW, reports:

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This time the target was the KPMR-TV transmitter compound near  Santa 
Barbara, California.  That's where bandits broke in and hauled off 
approximately 300 feet of  transmission line which were coiled up on 
the ground well inside the compound.  Nothing else was touched, not 
even two emergency antennas that were also at the back of the building.

According to the CGC Communicator, the theft occurred over the evening 
of October 16th to the 17th.  The criminals apparently dragged the lines 
out to the front of the road and cut them up into six foot sections for 
hauling away.  

The Santa Barbara Sheriffs Office says that this is becoming a more 
popular type of crime.  It says that attempts have been made to get 
live large power cables.

Several months ago, someone entered the compound and ripped off the 
doors to the electrical service panels next to the building and stopped 
just short of trying to remove the main feeder lines. 

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW.

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Had the copper thieves tried to cut the mains power feeders threes a 
very good chance that they would have been seriously injured or even  
killed in the process.   And all for the few dollars that they would 
get selling the stolen wire to some unscrupulous scrap metals dealer.  
(CGC)

**

HAM RADIO BUSINESS:  MOTOROLA BUYS VERTEX STANDARD

Motorola Inc. announced on November 5th that  will pay $108 million to 
acquire 80 percent of Japan's Vertex Standard Company.  The Schaumburg 
Illinois based Motorola said that Tokogiken, a closely held company 
controlled by the president and chief executive officer of Vertex, will 
acquire the other 20 percent of Vertex.

Motorola noted that it will effect the buyout through a tender offer, 
priced at 2,214 yen, or $19.38 a share of Vertex stock.  This 
represents a premium of 38 percent over the price at which Vertex 
shares closed Friday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.  The board of 
directors at Vertex has approved the buyout terms.

While Vertex Standard's primary line of gear is commercial land mobile 
two way radio, it is also one of the worlds leading suppliers of ham 
radio gear  Its Yaesu line was one of the first imports to the United 
States back in the 1970's and its popularity has remained high ever 
since.

Motorola is no stranger to ham radio products either.  During the 
height of the FM craze in the early 1980's, its Metrum 2 meter 
transceiver was a highly sought after piece of gear for mobile amateur 
radio operation and still holds a high resale value among collectors of 
ham radio memorabilia.  (Numerous sources)

**

INDUSTRY NEWS:  IS THE SHACK COMING BACK TO AR 

Kevin P Burkhardt, K9MUL, says on the QRZ.com website that Radio Shack 
appears to be getting ready to re-enter thee Amateur Radio marketplace. 
Burkhardt, who is a Radio Shack employee say that he attended t a 
District meeting and was told by a senior District ,Manager who had 
just visited Ft. Worth, that the company is currently planning to 
slowly work it's way back into the Amateur Radio market but to what 
degree he does not know.  

Burthardt also reports that after many years of a dwindling 
"miscellaneous. parts" section that the future plan is to greatly 
expand the this section to days of past glory, and even better. 
(QRZ.com)

** 

THE SOCIAL SCENE:  2008 EASTERN VHF/UHF CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS

The 34th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference, sponsored by the North East 
Weak Signal Group will be held next April 18th to the 20th at the Crown 
Plaza Hotel, in Enfield, Connecticut.  As usual, there will be the 
traditional Swap'n Sell Flea Market specializing in VHF and Up items.  
And if you interested in presenting a talk or preparing a paper for 
inclusion in the Conference Proceedings please contact Bruce Wood, 
N2LIV, Conference Chairman. by e-mail to N2LIV at optonline.net  (VHF 
Reflector)

**

CHANGING OF THE GUARD:  PAUL TIBBETS E--K4ZVZ - SK

The ham who flew the aircraft that dropped the first Atomic Bomb in 
combat has died.  92 year old Paul Tibbets, the former K4ZVZ, who 
piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on 
Hiroshima near the end of World War 2, passed away at his Columbus, 
Ohio Thursday. November 1st from what news reports describe as a variety 
of health problems.  

Tibbets' historic mission in the plane named for his mother marked the 
beginning of the end of World War II.  More important, military experts 
say that it eliminated the need for what military planners feared would 
have been an extraordinarily bloody invasion of Japan. 

The plane and its crew of 14 dropped the five-ton bomb nick named 
"Little Boy" on the morning of August  6, 1945.  The blast killed some 
80,000 people and leveled the city of Hiroshima. Tibbets  never 
expressed regret over his role. He said it was his patriotic duty and 
the right thing to do.

Tibbets kept a low profile in ham radio. Clyde L. Mings, AC4EY, 
commenting in the West Florida Herald Tribune on-line edition said that 
he worked for Tibbets for over a year on the B-47 jet bomber project.  
Also that he later helped Tibbets set up his ham radio station in his 
home at MacDill Air Force Base.  Mings said that he found Tibbets to be 
a perfectionist, but also a quiet, competent and caring officer who 
knew war; he flew a B-17 combat tour and was wounded over Germany.  
According to vanityhq.com website, Tibbets held the K4ZVZ call until 
1998.  Sources say he gave up the hobby when his hearing failed.  

Paul Tibbets is survived by his wife, Andrea, and three sons - Paul, 
Gene and James - as well as a number of grandchildren and great-
grandchildren. ,Fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to 
protest he had requested no funeral and no headstone.  Instead he was 
cremated and his ashes spread across the English Channel, a place that 
he said he love to fly across.  (Published news reports)

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  D-STAR ON YOUR PC

D-Star may be coming to a P C near you.  This with word that Maurice 
Wheatley, AE4JY, is working on a project that could allow personal 
computer users  to send and receive D-STAR Digital Voice.

The end product would be a small board that when plugged into a PC's 
USB port, will provide an interface to a DVSI digital voice vocoder 
chip.  The idea is to be able to use a PC and soundcard and listen and 
talk to a D-Star voice data stream over the internet.  

Other uses would be to create a soundcard program that would implement 
the G4GUO HF digital voice modem or just to use as a low bit rate 
vocoder for other VoIP operations.  More is on-line at Digital Voice 
Dongle http://www.moetronix.com/dvdongle/
and the AE4JY Ham Radio pages atr http://www.moetronix.com/ae4jy/ 
(Southgate)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  THE FELXABLE PAPER BATTERY

A new, flexible is paper-thin battery has been developed at the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. To create the 
battery, a special paper was infused with carbon nanotubes which 
consist of carbon atoms wrapped into tubes that only measure a few 
nanometres in diameter.  These act the battery electrodes and allow the 
storage devices to store and conduct electric power..

The new battery technology has the ability to work in temperatures up 
to 300§ and down to -100§F.  It can  be printed like paper, rolled, 
twisted or folded so it could power implanted medical devices.  The 
battery's semblance to paper is no accident: more than 90 per cent of 
the device is made up of cellulose, the same plant cells used in most 
kinds of paper.  The only draw back so far is that researchers have  
yet to develop a way to inexpensively mass produce the patented 
devices. The end goal is to print the paper using a roll-to-roll system 
similar to how newspapers are printed.  (Southgate)

**

WORLDBEAT - AFRICA:  THE INTERNT EXPANDS

In news from around the world, fewer than four out of 100 of Africa's 
citizens currently use the internet, and broadband penetration is below 
1%.  But that's changing and more than a third of Africa's citizens 
should have access to broadband internet by 2012.  Currently,  

The barriers to broadband access were the key talking points at the 
Connect Africa meeting in Kigali, in Rwanda.  The conference featured  
representations from organizations such as the World Bank, World Health 
Organization and United Nations, as well as high-profile technology 
leaders such as Intel's chairman Craig Barrett.

The attendees were all invited to make financial commitments to 
improving technology and telecommunications on the African continent. 
More than $3 billion dollars has been pledged so far.  (BBC)

**

ON THE AIR:  WESTERN VHF/UHF NET TIME CHANGE

On the air, the 75 Meter VHF/UHF Western Weak Signal Net: net will 
change times from 6:30 pm to 5:00pm is Pacific Standard Time starting 
this Sunday, November 11th.  The net frequency remains 3.925Mhz.  If you 
can hear it, drop by and sign in.  (VHF Reflector)

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DX

In D-X, keep an ear open for special event station IY1EY will be active 
Through November 11th.  This, to celebrate Gugliemo Marconi's 
experiments from his yacht "Elettra" that took place between 1919 and 
1936.  Expect activity on all bands CW, SSB and RTTY.  QSL via IK1QBT.

DK9LO will be active portable OZ from Vendsyssel-Thy Nordjylland 
through the 16th of  November. QSL via home call, direct or bureau.

Lastly, the special callsign PA20NAFRAS will be active through November 
19th.  This, to  celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Netherlands Air 
Force Radio Amateur Society.  If you work this one, QSL via PA1TT.

(From various DX news sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM: DO YOU HAVE GRAND DADS QSL?

And finally this week, a question.  Do you happen have a QSL card from 
the late Leon Faber?  During his lifetime, Faber held the calls W9DAX, 
W9EH and finally W7EH.   

Well, if you can part with it then please send it to Dick Ross, K2MGA, 
at CQ Magazine.  He will make sure that its turned over to someone who 
never met Lee Faber, but has a definite connection to the man.  His 7 
year old grandson Bryce:

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"Bryce is a terrific young guy whose is in a fight for his life.  He's 
got a rare and aggressive form of cancer that he's been fighting for a 
good part of his 7 years.  

Bryce's grandfather Lee Faber died before Bryce ever had the chance to 
meet him.  All he knows about his grandfather he's learned from his 
father Barton. 

I was asked by Barton at Memorial Solan-Kettering (hospital in NYC) if 
I thought that there was any way that we might be able to come up with 
even one of Lee's old QSL's from his long ham career.  So, that's what 
we are trying to do.  

We feel that we have been given a rare opportunity to connect this 
courageous young fellow with his silent key grandfather through the 
magic of ham radio.  Somewhere out there among our readers, there has 
got to be someone who has at least one of Lee's QSL's  that we can send 
to Bryce

--

So how can you help?  Simply by looking through your old QSL collection 
and seeing if you have a card from Lee Faber under any of the three 
calls that he held during his lifetime.  Again, those call signs were 
W9DAX, W9EH and finally W7EH.  

Maybe its not on your wall.  Maybe its in with all those others you 
have in that collection sitting in a shoebox in your closet.  Or in 
that photo album that you use to store your QSL collection.  

No matter. If you are willing to give it up so that Leon Faber's 
grandson can get to know a bit about his grandfathers passion for 
radio, just put it in an envelope and send it off to Dick Ross, K2MGA, 
at CQ Magazine.  His address -- actually that of the magazine is 25 
Newbridge Road, Hicksville, New York.  The zipcode is 11801.  

Dick Ross promises that he will take the cards he receives and ship 
them off to Bryce Faber.  This, to help build a generation bridge 
between today and a generation now past.  (More about Bryce Faber and 
the search for a way to connect him to his long deceased grandfather 
Lee in Dick Ross' article "A Shoebox Search Mission" beginning on page 
30 of the November issue of CQ Magazine.  (ARNewsline, CQ)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

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For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, I'm Don 
Wilbanks, AE5DW, saying 73 and we thank you for listening.  