From w4wj at aol.com  Tue Dec  1 16:45:20 2020
From: w4wj at aol.com (DON MURRAY)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 21:45:20 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [HCARC] Puerto Rico: Iconic Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses
 - BBC News
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55147973

Sad News. 73, Don, W4WJ,

From w4wj at aol.com  Tue Dec  1 16:55:58 2020
From: w4wj at aol.com (DON MURRAY)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 21:55:58 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [HCARC] Fwd: [SFDXA] Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope,
 already damaged, collapses
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More on ARECIBO... 73,Don,W4WJ,

From: Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Subject: [SFDXA] Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses
To: 'SFDXA Reflector' <sfdxa at mailman.qth.net>, QCWA <qcwa69 at mailman.qth.net>
 
 Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses 
  
By Associated Press
  
 December 1, 2020 | 1:29pm | Updated  
  Enlarge Image     This satellite image provided by 2020 Maxar Technologies shows the damaged radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2020. AP    
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday.
 
The telescope?s 900-ton receiver platform fell onto the reflector dish more than 400 feet below.
 
The US National Science Foundation had earlier announced that the Arecibo Observatory would be closed. An auxiliary cable snapped in August, causing a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it. Then a main cable broke in early November.
 
The collapse stunned many scientists who had relied on what was until recently the largest radio telescope in the world.
 
?It sounded like a rumble. I knew exactly what it was,? said Jonathan Friedman, who worked for 26 years as a senior research associate at the observatory and still lives near it. ?I was screaming. Personally, I was out of control?. I don?t have words to express it. It?s a very deep, terrible feeling.?
 
Friedman ran up a small hill near his home and confirmed his suspicions: A cloud of dust hung in the air where the structure once stood, demolishing hopes held by some scientists that the telescope could somehow be repaired.
 
?It?s a huge loss,? said Carmen Pantoja, an astronomer and professor at the University of Puerto Rico who used the telescope for her doctorate. ?It was a chapter of my life.?
 
Scientists worldwide had been petitioning U.S. officials and others to reverse the NSF?s decision to close the observatory. The NSF said at the time that it intended to eventually reopen the visitor center and restore operations at the observatory?s remaining assets, including its two LIDAR facilities used for upper atmospheric and ionospheric research, including analyzing cloud cover and precipitation data.
  
The telescope was built in the 1960s with money from the Defense Department amid a push to develop anti-ballistic missile defenses. It had endured hurricanes, tropical humidity and a recent string of earthquakes in its 57 years of operation.
 
The telescope has been used to track asteroids on a path to Earth, conduct research that led to a Nobel Prize and determine if a planet is potentially habitable. It also served as a training ground for graduate students and drew about 90,000 visitors a year.
 
?I am one of those students who visited it when young and got inspired,? said Abel M?ndez, a physics and astrobiology professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo who has used the telescope for research. ?The world without the observatory loses, but Puerto Rico loses even more.?
 
He last used the telescope on Aug. 6, just days before a socket holding the auxiliary cable that snapped failed in what experts believe could be a manufacturing error. The National Science Foundation, which owns the observatory that is managed by the University of Central Florida, said crews who evaluated the structure after the first incident determined that the remaining cables could handle the additional weight.
 
But on Nov. 6, another cable broke.
 
A spokesman for the observatory said there would be no immediate comment and a spokeswoman for the University of Central Florida did not return requests for comment.
 
Scientists had used the telescope to study pulsars to detect gravitational waves as well as search for neutral hydrogen, which can reveal how certain cosmic structures are formed. About 250 scientists worldwide had been using the observatory when it closed in August, including M?ndez, who was studying stars to detect habitable plantes.
 
?I?m trying to recover,? he said. ?I am still very much affected.?
   Filed under astronomy ,? puerto rico ,? scientists ,? space ,? 12/1/20
 
https://nypost.com/2020/12/01/huge-puerto-rico-radio-telescope-already-damaged-collapses/
  
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From cw4evr at hctc.net  Thu Dec  3 16:23:36 2020
From: cw4evr at hctc.net (Fred)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 15:23:36 -0600
Subject: [HCARC] Radio Email
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The club RMS station W3XO-10 along with W7HBH-10 in Ingram have both 
been updated to run VARA FM version 4.0.1.? This version is not 
compatible with earlier versions, so you will need to upgrade if you use 
Winlink radio email.

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From w4wj at aol.com  Thu Dec  3 19:05:38 2020
From: w4wj at aol.com (DON MURRAY)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 00:05:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [HCARC] MORE ARECIBO
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FYI. 73. Don. W4WJ.
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-footage-of-arecibo-collapse-released/

From jim.k0mhc at earthlink.net  Sat Dec 19 16:56:58 2020
From: jim.k0mhc at earthlink.net (Jim Froemke)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:56:58 -0600
Subject: [HCARC] Need a Yaesu medium rotor - purchase or borrow for January
	rove
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My "trusty" Yaesu G-1000 rotor is down for the count. Does anyone have a
medium duty Yaesu 800 or 1000 rotor available?

73, Jim

K0MHC/rover

Kerrville, TX

 

 

 


From w4wj at aol.com  Thu Dec 24 17:40:33 2020
From: w4wj at aol.com (DON MURRAY)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 22:40:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [HCARC] Fwd: [SFDXA] HALLICRAFTERS Collection 200 pieces
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FYI. Now is your chance to become a Hallicrafters Collector! 73. Don. W4WJ .

From: Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net>
Date: Thursday, December 24, 2020
Subject: [SFDXA] HALLICRAFTERS Collection 200 pieces
To: 'SFDXA Reflector' <sfdxa at mailman.qth.net>, QCWA <qcwa69 at mailman.qth.net>
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From w4wj at aol.com  Thu Dec 31 18:20:40 2020
From: w4wj at aol.com (DON MURRAY)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:20:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [HCARC] Fwd: ARLB041 FCC Reduces Proposed Amateur Radio Application
 Fee to $35
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FYI. HNY. 73. Don. W4WJ.

From: ARRL Web site <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
Date: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Subject: ARLB041 FCC Reduces Proposed Amateur Radio Application Fee to $35
To: w4wj <w4wj at aol.com>
SB QST @ ARL $ARLB041
ARLB041 FCC Reduces Proposed Amateur Radio Application Fee to $35

ZCZC AG41
QST de W1AW? 
ARRL Bulletin 41? ARLB041
>From ARRL Headquarters? 
Newington CT? December 31, 2020
To all radio amateurs 

SB QST ARL ARLB041
ARLB041 FCC Reduces Proposed Amateur Radio Application Fee to $35

The FCC has agreed with ARRL and other commenters that its proposed
$50 fee for certain amateur radio applications was "too high to
account for the minimal staff involvement in these applications."

In a Report and Order (R&O), released on December 29, the FCC scaled
back to $35 the fee for a new license application, a special
temporary authority (STA) request, a rule waiver request, a license
renewal application, and a vanity call sign application. All fees
are per application. There will be no fee for administrative
updates, such as a change of mailing or email address.

The R&O can be found online in PDF format at,
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-184A1.pdf .

This fall, ARRL filed comments in firm opposition to the FCC
proposal to impose a $50 fee on amateur radio license and
application fees and urged its members to follow suit.

As the FCC noted in its R&O, although some commenters supported the
proposed $50 fee as reasonable and fair, "ARRL and many individual
commenters argued that there was no cost-based justification for
application fees in the Amateur Radio Service." The fee proposal was
contained in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in MD Docket
20-270, which was adopted to implement portions of the "Repack
Airwaves Yielding Better Access for Users of Modern Services Act" of
2018 - the so-called "Ray Baum's Act."

Information on Ray Baum's Act can be found online in PDF format at,
https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ141/PLAW-115publ141.pdf .

"After reviewing the record, including the extensive comments filed
by amateur radio licensees and based on our revised analysis of the
cost of processing mostly automated processes discussed in our
methodology section, we adopt a $35 application fee, a lower
application fee than the Commission proposed in the NPRM for
personal licenses, in recognition of the fact that the application
process is mostly automated," the FCC said in the R&O. "We adopt the
proposal from the NPRM to assess no additional application fee for
minor modifications or administrative updates, which also are highly
automated."

The FCC said it received more than 197,000 personal license
applications in 2019, which includes not only ham radio license
applications but commercial radio operator licenses and General
Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) licenses.

The FCC turned away the arguments of some commenters that the FCC
should exempt amateur radio licensees. The FCC stated that it has no
authority to create an exemption "where none presently exists."

The FCC also disagreed with those who argued that amateur radio
licensees should be exempt from fees because of their public service
contribution during emergencies and disasters.

"[W]e are very much aware of these laudable and important services
amateur radio licensees provide to the American public," the FCC
said, but noted that specific exemptions provided under Section 8 of
the so-called "Ray Baum's Act" requiring the FCC to assess the fees
do not apply to amateur radio personal licenses.? "Emergency
communications, for example, are voluntary and are not required by
our rules," the FCC noted. "As we have noted previously, '[w]hile
the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary
noncommercial communications service, particularly with respect to
providing emergency communications, is one of the underlying
principles of the amateur service, the amateur service is not an
emergency radio service.'"

The Act requires that the FCC switch from a Congressionally-mandated
fee structure to a cost-based system of assessment. The FCC proposed
application fees for a broad range of services that use the FCC's
Universal Licensing System (ULS), including the Amateur Radio
Service, which had been excluded previously. The 2018 statute
excludes the Amateur Service from annual regulatory fees, but not
from application fees.

"While the Ray Baum's Act amended Section 9 and retained the
regulatory fee exemption for amateur radio station licensees,
Congress did not include a comparable exemption among the amendments
it made to Section 8 of the Act," the FCC R&O explained.

The effective date of the fee schedule has not been established, but
it will be announced at least 30 days in advance. The FCC has
directed the Office of Managing Director, in consultation with
relevant offices and bureaus, to draft a notice for publication in
the Federal Register announcing when rule change(s) will become
effective, "once the relevant databases, guides, and internal
procedures have been updated."
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