From bmarx at bellsouth.net Fri Dec 7 11:16:52 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bill) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 11:16:52 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions Message-ID: *From The ARRL Letter: *Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions * December 7 - 8 -- West Central Florida Section Convention , Plant City, Florida * January 5 -- New York City-Long Island Section Convention , Brookville, New York * January 12 -- Georgia ARES Convention , Forsyth, Georgia * January 18 - 19 -- Southern Florida Section Convention , Fort Myers, Florida * January 18 - 19 -- North Texas Section Convention , Forest Hill, Texas * January 20 - 26 -- Quartzfest Convention , Quartzsite, Arizona * January 25 - 26 -- Mississippi State Convention , Jackson, Mississippi Find conventions and hamfests in your area . From n8pr at bellsouth.net Fri Dec 7 16:08:40 2018 From: n8pr at bellsouth.net (Pete Rimmel N8PR) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 16:08:40 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Lunch tomorrow Message-ID: <80C80446A3F84AB38CDEFD488C2DBBFE@PeteRGateway> Don?t forget we have a QCWA Lunch tomorrow at noon at the Falcon Pub. 73, PeteR N8PR From bmarx at bellsouth.net Mon Dec 10 15:31:31 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bill) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:31:31 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Twas the nite before... Message-ID: <952dd61d-adc7-4933-5687-bc81c47e708d@bellsouth.net> From the CWops List: - Bill W2CQ *Twas the nite before..*. Twas the nite before TEN opened and all through the shack Not a signal was stirring, for outside it was black The dipoles were hung by the tower with care In hopes that strong signals soon would be there. The harmonics were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of pileups danced in their heads With me in my PJ's and Mom in her thong We wondered about DX and where we went wrong When out on the snow there arose such a mess I sprang from the bed and forgot to get dressed Away to the window I flew like a streaker Tore open the amp and became suddenly weaker The coax was ripped and the new fallen amp fell onto the floor and the ?Test was now damped But what do my wondering eyes suddenly see but a miniature stack of 10m yagis and deer ! With a little old man, so adept at the key this could be our good luck if only it could be.... More QRQ than Hastifisti and with power to spare. Now Dasher, now Dotter, now? all deer he yelled proud We doing this right and we're going to be loud! On Meteor, Aurora and Backscatter too We?ll work everyone til the tubes they turn blue. To the top of the hill we ran with our tools Now dash away, dot away, lids and QRM fools As dry dummy loads that before the current that flows I will rid you of keyclicks, splatter and gosh Heavens knows. So up to the house-top the signals they flew With antennas and amplifiers and St. Nicolas too. And then in a moment I heard on the stairs DX being worked, that was extremely rare As I logged with N1MM (plus version of course) St. Nick was working them, SSB and on Morse. He was dressed all in fur and looking alive And his clothes? were all sweaty from working a P5 A bundle of coax he threw on his back And he looked like a Slim, who would never come back His eyes how they looked, his cheeks were puffed out From a SSB pileup that was tuckering him out His droll little mouth, behind the headset from Heil Did not conceal that rare DX smile The stump of his pipe he held tight in his face As lots of DX was coming and this was a race ! He had a big smile and a big gut too From sitting too much and working DXCC on Two. He was fast and fat and a right happy old elf I looked in the mirror and imagined myself A wink of his eye and a twist of the key He said 5NN and worked a P3 He spoke not a word as he worked the Morse code This rate behaviour never gets old He filled all the stockings Between contacts he said Once this is done, Mike, you go back to bed ! Laying a finger up side of his nose He started another pileup and the din, it arose This is VE9-Santa and you are Five-by-Nine I?ll work you all quickly and leave no one behind He sprang to his sled and with a nod of his head He worked the last contact (Long path to ZD8Z!) Away the stats flew to the ARRL I?ll be back next year people, Perhaps from Z2 He yelled as he faded and went out of sight MX, 73 and to all a GN ! -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Merry Christmas from new Brunswick dit dit Mike VE9AA and family From bmarx at bellsouth.net Wed Dec 12 07:36:14 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bill) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:36:14 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] WSJT-X 2.0 Full Release Now Available; FT8 Enthusiasts Urged to Upgrade Now Message-ID: <6884e115-9f80-70f4-ad1c-a03f8e4a12e3@bellsouth.net> WSJT-X 2.0 Full Release Now Available; FT8 Enthusiasts Urged to Upgrade Now... From ARRL: - Bill W2CQ 12/10/2018 The /WSJT-X/ 2.0 software suite has been released, and developer Joe Taylor, K1JT, is urging FT8 and MSK144 users to upgrade to what will become the new standard, because the FT8 and MSK144 protocols have been enhanced in a way that is /not/ backward compatible with older versions of the program. That includes any version 1.9 releases. ?The new protocols become the worldwide standards starting on December 10, 2018, and all users should upgrade to /WSJT-X 2.0 /by January 1, 2019,? Taylor said on the /WSJT-X/ *home page* . ?After that date, only the new FT8 and MSK144 should be used on the air.? Users are encouraged to read the new */Quick Start Guide /* for /WSJT-X/. Gary Hinson, ZL2IFB, has released an */FT8 Operating Guide /*. From bmarx at bellsouth.net Wed Dec 12 07:47:41 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bill) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:47:41 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Got a real old Bug that needs parts or restoring? Message-ID: Try this site: - Bill W2CQ https://2bradioparts.com/ From bmarx at bellsouth.net Sat Dec 22 09:12:04 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bmarx@bellsouth.net) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 09:12:04 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] The History of DXing: When Signal Beats Noise References: Message-ID: From Tony N2MFT: The History of DXing: When Signal Beats Noise > > https://tedium.co/2016/05/12/dxing-radio-television-history/amp/ > From bmarx at bellsouth.net Thu Dec 27 13:48:02 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bmarx@bellsouth.net) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:48:02 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Power Supplies For Sale Message-ID: > I have two ASTRON linear power supplies for sale. These are NOT switching power supplies; they contain heavy power transformers. Both are in like new condition, load tested, and work flawlessly. No dents, no scratches, no rust or other corrosion. I have been the only owner, having purchased both of them new. Detailed specifications are available on-line. > > RS-12A fixed 13.8 volts at 9 amps continuous and 12 amps ICS. No meters on this model. $60.00 > > VS-50M variable voltage from 2 to 15 volts and adjustable current limiting. It has two separate meters for voltage and current. 37 amps continuous and 50 amps ICS. $235.00 > > I can bring to the next SFDXA meeting or can be picked up at my home in Parkland. > > Lou > W9IL > Email: w9il at arrl.net From bmarx at bellsouth.net Thu Dec 27 15:33:03 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bmarx@bellsouth.net) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:33:03 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] NY Radio Info References: <85c3d595-1c2b-1288-64a5-dedb3e1d98a2@verizon.net> Message-ID: <4DF4CF88-DA05-460D-9420-020C919A8D3E@bellsouth.net> > > > I remember the station at Brentwood, you could hear the CW transmissions on the AM car radio > as my parents drove by the site. > > http://longislandgenealogy.com/Wireless/Wireless.html > > ~Wireless History ~ > > By L.I. Wireless Historical Society 43 Sayville Blvd., Sayville, NY 1782 > President Connie Curie Vice President Van Field > Long Island?s early wireless history has been largely ignored by local historians. Probably no other area in the America could equal Long Island for its density of early radio stations. Its proximity to New York City, the financial capital of the world, and to its harbor destined Long Island to become the locus of transatlantic radio communications and ship-to-shore wireless service for Atlantic shipping. For over a half a century before the advent of satellite communications the overwhelming majority of transatlantic radio communications with the United States funneled through Long Island facilities. > The first permanent wireless station in the US was built at Siasconset on Nantucket Island and placed in operation August 12, 1901. The Marconi station at South Wellfleet in Cape Cod was originally erected in 1901, but its antennas blew down before it was operational. Cape Cod didn't get on the air until January of 1903. > The purpose of early wireless stations was to relay traffic from ship to shore for profit. The Marconi Company along with others set up a closed system. They would supply the equipment and operators. The equipment was installed aboard ship and at land stations by Marconi Company employees. Radio contacts were always between Marconi owned stations. > Other Companies did the same thing. The thought of using the system for distress wasn?t even considered. > The first recorded use of the system for distress was off Nantucket Island on January 23, 1909. Marconi had a station located there at Siasconset on the island of Nantucket to relay messages from ships coming from Europe on the New York and Boston. > The Royal Mail ship REPUBLIC was outbound with well-to-do passengers on their way to the Mediterranean area for a fun filled vacation trip. Off Nantucket the ship was rammed in the fog by the FLORIDA, a ship loaded with immigrants from Italy headed for New York City. The Marconi operator, Jack Binns aboard the REPUBLIC contacted Nantucket with the news. By this time, ships were beginning to become equipped with wireless. As the word of the disaster spread, many ships headed for the area to be of assistance including two US Revenue Cutters. > Passengers were removed from both ships without incident and the REPUBLIC eventually sank. This was shortly before the TITANIC incident. Wireless became the instrument for rescuing people and ships that were involved in disasters at sea. The Wireless Companies became reluctant participants in assisting in distress situations. The law of the sea at this time was that if you assisted a distressed vessel in any way, the ship?s company could collect salvage rights. This fact made captains reluctant to ask for help. > Many Companies tried to get into the maritime message business. Long Island, sticking out into the ocean was an ideal place to install the wireless gear, which only had a range of a few hundred miles in the beginning. > Radio?s infancy saw Long Island serve as home of Marconi?s second and third permanent stations in the United States, those at Sagaponack (Long Island?s first) and Babylon (Long Island?s second) opening in 1902, followed by Sea Gate in 1906. The Sagaponack and Babylon stations served also as schools for Marconi operators. The stations at Sagaponack and Sea Gate were often cited for facilitating assistance to vessels in distress. Both handled a heavy flow of Titanic survivor messages. > > > The Royal Mail Ship (RMS) REPUBLIC > The Babylon station was located on the Jacobs property, which extended from Fire Island Avenue to Sumpwams Creek. A school for training telegraph operators in wireless telegraphy operation and procedures was also established there. There were from four to six students in the school all the time, and the course of instruction ran about three weeks. They received free lodging in the Jacobs cottage on the site. Upon successful completion of the course, they were employed by the Marconi Company at a salary of from $60 to $100 a month. > > 1918 shot of the Sayville Station while operated by the Navy > > The small 12 by 14 foot station building, abandoned when the station closed in early 1907, was found and purchased in 1930 by famed inventor Edwin H. Armstrong (super heterodyne, FM radio) and presented to RCA president David Sarnoff, and had it transported to RCA?s Radio Central site in Rocky Point. Today it is in the possession of the Rocky Point School district, which maintains it on the school grounds. Once a year on Marconi day, local radio amateurs activate this site. > In 1912 the most powerful and advanced commercial wireless station in the United States, the first able to consistently span the Atlantic, was erected in West Sayville by the German firm, Telefunken. Its landmark 500-foot antenna tower was the tallest structure on Long Island. Through its sister station in Nauen, Germany, The Great Sayville Station, as it was known, provided the most reliable radiogram and newspaper press service to Europe then available. It also provided ship-to-shore service for the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd lines. > RCA?s ?Radio Central,? opening in 1921 on a 10 square mile site at Rocky Point, was the world?s largest and most powerful transmitting station of its time. Its 2,000-acre receiving station at Riverhead bristled with antennas of the most advanced design. Its Long Island research laboratories employed many of the most brilliant minds in radio technology and for decades literally wrote the book on the subject. > Beginning in 1927, Mackay Radio and Telegraph (later ITT World Communications) opened stations at Sayville, Southampton, Napeague, and Brentwood, providing international point-to-point communications and high seas ship-to-shore service. At the height of submarine warfare during WWII, Mackay operators at Southampton reported receiving upwards of ten SOS calls a day from vessels on the Atlantic. > > > > Mackay's Brentwood Station around 1984 > > Mackay's Southampton receiving Station. This shot was taken about 1982. This Building housed both point-to-point and marine (WSL). Operators here keyed remote transmitters located at Amagansett (Napeague) (MackayAm) and later HF transmitters relocated from Amagansett to Brentwood. > Press Wireless, Inc. was formed in 1929 by a group of newspapers to meet demand for rapid transmission of news dispatches throughout the world. In 1930 it opened transmitting facilities on a 185-acre site in Hicksville and a receiving station at Baldwin Harbor. In 1957 transmitting operations were relocated to a 500-acre site in Centereach, where it operated 47 high power transmitters. Receiving was relocated to Northville. In addition, PW provided military radio links throughout the world during WWII. > The voices of wartime news correspondents in Europe, such as Edward R. Morrow, received for AM broadcast were received through the Long Island receiving stations of RCA at Riverhead, Press Wireless at Baldwin or Mackay Radio at Southampton. > > Marconi's Sagaponack Station > > > > > > Naval Station at Amagansett > > There were also de Forest stations at Quogue, Manhattan Beach and Long Beach. The US Navy had stations at Amagansett, Montauk Point, Fire Island, and Rockaway Beach. Independent Wireless Telegraph Company operated ship-to-shore stations at Babylon, East Hampton and East Moriches, as did Globe Wireless in Garden City. > A Voice of America international broadcast station was built on Long Island in 1941. Operated by CBS from 1942 to 1963, the station shared the 1,100-acre Brentwood site of Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co., beaming the outputs of its three 50,000 watt transmitters to Europe and South America using extensive arrays of directional antennas. > At Sayville, L.I. Telefunken of Germany set up a large station shortly before WW1. When we went to war, the U.S. Navy took over the station. The Navy early on recognized the value of wireless communication with their ships. > > Navy's second station at Montauk about 1921. Probably located on the eastern shore of Fort Pond Bay. Ti appears the building is outfitted for a DF antenna, but another building (to the right) adds a bit of confusion. > > > > > An overall shot of the Montauk buildings abt 1921 > > When Radio Corporation of America was formed from the Marconi Company, they soon built the largest transmitting and receiving stations in the world at Rocky Point and Riverhead, L.I. These were tied by telephone line to their message center at Broad Street in Manhattan. Today nothing remains but some state signs proclaiming it the David Sarnoff outdoor recreation area and some large pieces of concrete deep in the Rocky Point woods. > Long Island?s rich history includes the expansion of wireless radio technology. This story is not generally depicted in history books. Hopefully this will help to bridge the gap. > > Easthampton station later acquired by Independent Wireless Telegraph > Side Bar - Early Wireless, CQD and SOS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Radio Officers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radio-officers+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to radio-officers at googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radio-officers/CADO5RbhH67bd9gSzgyJroLVhF-f93VkRWnMN3NkSAyMAP5T30Q%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From bmarx at bellsouth.net Thu Dec 27 15:36:09 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bmarx@bellsouth.net) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:36:09 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] NY Radio Info References: <4DF4CF88-DA05-460D-9420-020C919A8D3E@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: Click to See Article with Pictures. http://longislandgenealogy.com/Wireless/Wireless.html > >> >> >> I remember the station at Brentwood, you could hear the CW transmissions on the AM car radio >> as my parents drove by the site. >> >> http://longislandgenealogy.com/Wireless/Wireless.html >> >> ~Wireless History ~ >> >> By L.I. Wireless Historical Society 43 Sayville Blvd., Sayville, NY 1782 >> President Connie Curie Vice President Van Field >> Long Island?s early wireless history has been largely ignored by local historians. Probably no other area in the America could equal Long Island for its density of early radio stations. Its proximity to New York City, the financial capital of the world, and to its harbor destined Long Island to become the locus of transatlantic radio communications and ship-to-shore wireless service for Atlantic shipping. For over a half a century before the advent of satellite communications the overwhelming majority of transatlantic radio communications with the United States funneled through Long Island facilities. >> The first permanent wireless station in the US was built at Siasconset on Nantucket Island and placed in operation August 12, 1901. The Marconi station at South Wellfleet in Cape Cod was originally erected in 1901, but its antennas blew down before it was operational. Cape Cod didn't get on the air until January of 1903. >> The purpose of early wireless stations was to relay traffic from ship to shore for profit. The Marconi Company along with others set up a closed system. They would supply the equipment and operators. The equipment was installed aboard ship and at land stations by Marconi Company employees. Radio contacts were always between Marconi owned stations. >> Other Companies did the same thing. The thought of using the system for distress wasn?t even considered. >> The first recorded use of the system for distress was off Nantucket Island on January 23, 1909. Marconi had a station located there at Siasconset on the island of Nantucket to relay messages from ships coming from Europe on the New York and Boston. >> The Royal Mail ship REPUBLIC was outbound with well-to-do passengers on their way to the Mediterranean area for a fun filled vacation trip. Off Nantucket the ship was rammed in the fog by the FLORIDA, a ship loaded with immigrants from Italy headed for New York City. The Marconi operator, Jack Binns aboard the REPUBLIC contacted Nantucket with the news. By this time, ships were beginning to become equipped with wireless. As the word of the disaster spread, many ships headed for the area to be of assistance including two US Revenue Cutters. >> Passengers were removed from both ships without incident and the REPUBLIC eventually sank. This was shortly before the TITANIC incident. Wireless became the instrument for rescuing people and ships that were involved in disasters at sea. The Wireless Companies became reluctant participants in assisting in distress situations. The law of the sea at this time was that if you assisted a distressed vessel in any way, the ship?s company could collect salvage rights. This fact made captains reluctant to ask for help. >> Many Companies tried to get into the maritime message business. Long Island, sticking out into the ocean was an ideal place to install the wireless gear, which only had a range of a few hundred miles in the beginning. >> Radio?s infancy saw Long Island serve as home of Marconi?s second and third permanent stations in the United States, those at Sagaponack (Long Island?s first) and Babylon (Long Island?s second) opening in 1902, followed by Sea Gate in 1906. The Sagaponack and Babylon stations served also as schools for Marconi operators. The stations at Sagaponack and Sea Gate were often cited for facilitating assistance to vessels in distress. Both handled a heavy flow of Titanic survivor messages. >> >> >> The Royal Mail Ship (RMS) REPUBLIC >> The Babylon station was located on the Jacobs property, which extended from Fire Island Avenue to Sumpwams Creek. A school for training telegraph operators in wireless telegraphy operation and procedures was also established there. There were from four to six students in the school all the time, and the course of instruction ran about three weeks. They received free lodging in the Jacobs cottage on the site. Upon successful completion of the course, they were employed by the Marconi Company at a salary of from $60 to $100 a month. >> >> 1918 shot of the Sayville Station while operated by the Navy >> >> The small 12 by 14 foot station building, abandoned when the station closed in early 1907, was found and purchased in 1930 by famed inventor Edwin H. Armstrong (super heterodyne, FM radio) and presented to RCA president David Sarnoff, and had it transported to RCA?s Radio Central site in Rocky Point. Today it is in the possession of the Rocky Point School district, which maintains it on the school grounds. Once a year on Marconi day, local radio amateurs activate this site. >> In 1912 the most powerful and advanced commercial wireless station in the United States, the first able to consistently span the Atlantic, was erected in West Sayville by the German firm, Telefunken. Its landmark 500-foot antenna tower was the tallest structure on Long Island. Through its sister station in Nauen, Germany, The Great Sayville Station, as it was known, provided the most reliable radiogram and newspaper press service to Europe then available. It also provided ship-to-shore service for the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd lines. >> RCA?s ?Radio Central,? opening in 1921 on a 10 square mile site at Rocky Point, was the world?s largest and most powerful transmitting station of its time. Its 2,000-acre receiving station at Riverhead bristled with antennas of the most advanced design. Its Long Island research laboratories employed many of the most brilliant minds in radio technology and for decades literally wrote the book on the subject. >> Beginning in 1927, Mackay Radio and Telegraph (later ITT World Communications) opened stations at Sayville, Southampton, Napeague, and Brentwood, providing international point-to-point communications and high seas ship-to-shore service. At the height of submarine warfare during WWII, Mackay operators at Southampton reported receiving upwards of ten SOS calls a day from vessels on the Atlantic. >> >> >> >> Mackay's Brentwood Station around 1984 >> >> Mackay's Southampton receiving Station. This shot was taken about 1982. This Building housed both point-to-point and marine (WSL). Operators here keyed remote transmitters located at Amagansett (Napeague) (MackayAm) and later HF transmitters relocated from Amagansett to Brentwood. >> Press Wireless, Inc. was formed in 1929 by a group of newspapers to meet demand for rapid transmission of news dispatches throughout the world. In 1930 it opened transmitting facilities on a 185-acre site in Hicksville and a receiving station at Baldwin Harbor. In 1957 transmitting operations were relocated to a 500-acre site in Centereach, where it operated 47 high power transmitters. Receiving was relocated to Northville. In addition, PW provided military radio links throughout the world during WWII. >> The voices of wartime news correspondents in Europe, such as Edward R. Morrow, received for AM broadcast were received through the Long Island receiving stations of RCA at Riverhead, Press Wireless at Baldwin or Mackay Radio at Southampton. >> >> Marconi's Sagaponack Station >> >> >> >> >> >> Naval Station at Amagansett >> >> There were also de Forest stations at Quogue, Manhattan Beach and Long Beach. The US Navy had stations at Amagansett, Montauk Point, Fire Island, and Rockaway Beach. Independent Wireless Telegraph Company operated ship-to-shore stations at Babylon, East Hampton and East Moriches, as did Globe Wireless in Garden City. >> A Voice of America international broadcast station was built on Long Island in 1941. Operated by CBS from 1942 to 1963, the station shared the 1,100-acre Brentwood site of Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co., beaming the outputs of its three 50,000 watt transmitters to Europe and South America using extensive arrays of directional antennas. >> At Sayville, L.I. Telefunken of Germany set up a large station shortly before WW1. When we went to war, the U.S. Navy took over the station. The Navy early on recognized the value of wireless communication with their ships. >> >> Navy's second station at Montauk about 1921. Probably located on the eastern shore of Fort Pond Bay. Ti appears the building is outfitted for a DF antenna, but another building (to the right) adds a bit of confusion. >> >> >> >> >> An overall shot of the Montauk buildings abt 1921 >> >> When Radio Corporation of America was formed from the Marconi Company, they soon built the largest transmitting and receiving stations in the world at Rocky Point and Riverhead, L.I. These were tied by telephone line to their message center at Broad Street in Manhattan. Today nothing remains but some state signs proclaiming it the David Sarnoff outdoor recreation area and some large pieces of concrete deep in the Rocky Point woods. >> Long Island?s rich history includes the expansion of wireless radio technology. This story is not generally depicted in history books. Hopefully this will help to bridge the gap. >> >> Easthampton station later acquired by Independent Wireless Telegraph >> Side Bar - Early Wireless, CQD and SOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Radio Officers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radio-officers+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to radio-officers at googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radio-officers/CADO5RbhH67bd9gSzgyJroLVhF-f93VkRWnMN3NkSAyMAP5T30Q%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From bmarx at bellsouth.net Thu Dec 27 16:29:35 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bmarx@bellsouth.net) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:29:35 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] FCC NPRM 16-239 Your Help is Needed! References: <2BDC90E1-E5F6-4AD9-B742-6BE736F34654@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <6BED5389-BBEE-4CFF-A597-25AD7B91854B@bellsouth.net> From a Friend: >> Dear Amateur Radio Friends, >> >> Please note that there is an intense propaganda based lobbying campaign happening right now at the FCC that is going unopposed. Over 400 comments from the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc./WINLINK crowd are urging the FCC to widen the bandwidth of obscured (encrypted) data that cannot be intercepted by the FCC or other hams, even other data operators ? by their own admission ? they just want free private, effectively encrypted email : >> >> https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?limit=100&proceedings_name=16-239&sort=date_disseminated,DESC . >> >> >> >> Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc., ARSFI, is merely a front organization for WINLINK and boaters that want free encrypted email over HF ham bands. Their members have openly admitted they are using effectively encrypted email that even other WINLINKer?s cannot intercept ? no one but the two people in the point-to-point link are able to decipher the proprietary transmission. Even the FCC cannot intercept the transmission in ARQ mode, something most hams don?t understand: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/1222718116209 >> >> >> >> ARSFI's campaign was launched after Dr. Ted Rappaport, an internationally recognized expert on Spectrum Utilization, sent the following comments in to the FCC, against NPRM 16-239 and RM 11708. https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1116597429048/FCC%20Letter%20Nov.%2015%202018%2016-239.pdf . >> >> >> >> Please support Dr. Rappaport?s astute and insightful, fact based call for FCC to stop all action on NPRM 16-239 and/or RM 11708, without adoption, and to first focus on drafting rules that ensure that only open, in the clear, easily decoded transmissions are used for all amateur communications, in order to ensure the self-policing and lack of commercial bypass on the amateur spectrum, as required by Part 97 Rules. >> >> >> >> Additionally, Ron Kolarik, K0IDT, has filed a common sense approach to the problems created by wideband digital operations on HF. https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/100918881206/PETITION%20FOR%20RULEMAKING.pdf . In your comments, I would encourage you to also ask that the FCC move to enact Ron's proposed rulemaking, which would ensure all data is open and able to be monitored by other hams, as required by Part 97. Ron's proposal would also limit the "automatically controlled data stations" (HF email servers) to currently existing data bands, consistent with IARU band planning,. thus solving the interference issues with narrow band modes such as CW, RTTY, FT-8, PSK, JT-65, etc.. >> >> >> >> It is easy to simultaneously file express comments for the four relevant proceedings on the FCC website. To submit a quick express filing at the FCC, simply go to: >> >> https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express , and in the Proceedings field, type in exactly (without quotes) "16-239" and select it in the pull down, then enter ?RM-11708? and select it in the pull down, then enter ?RM-11759? and select it in the pull down, and then finally enter ?17-344? and select it in the pull down. Fill in your own name as filer, hit enter, and then your address and email. You should check the box for email confirmation. Express filings will not have paragraph and link formatting, but that's OK, it's quick, easy and gets the information across to the FCC. Your written comment will go to all four relevant proceedings where ARSFI is fighting for its spectrum takeover of private email. >> >> >> >> Here is a letter I "express filed" at the FCC. Feel free to use or modify my text. >> >> >> >> My name is Dan White and I am a licensed amateur radio operator of 48 years. >> >> >> >> Approval of NPRM 16-239 or RM-11708 would be very troubling to me for reasons already articulated to the FCC by hundreds of amateurs, as it would perpetuate not only malicious interference but major Part 97 rule violations with no ability to monitor traffic and self-police the hobby. >> >> >> >> ARSFI is improperly perpetuating free, private email and internet access, mixing the boundaries of private email services (Sailmail, Airmail, WINLINK) and the hobby of amateur radio. Therefore, in short, I fully support Dr. Rappaport's testimony and recommendations of November 15, 2018, as shown at https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1116597429048/FCC%20Letter%20Nov.%2015%202018%2016-239.pdf . >> >> >> >> Furthermore, I support immediate FCC action for Mr. Kolarik's previously filed proposal of October 9, 2018, to ensure the amateur radio hobby can self-police itself, as shown here: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/100918881206/PETITION%20FOR%20RULEMAKING.pdf >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Dan White >> >> W5DNT >> >> Finally, please encourage your friends who care about the future of amateur radio to file such a brief statement that urges the FCC to stop NPRM 16-239, etc. and seek common sense solutions such as Ron's proposal. >> >> Thanks for your consideration in this call to action. >> >> Happy New Year in 2019 and 73! >> >> Dan >> >> W5DNT >> >> >> >> >> >> From bmarx at bellsouth.net Thu Dec 27 16:47:13 2018 From: bmarx at bellsouth.net (Bmarx@bellsouth.net) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:47:13 -0500 Subject: [QCWA Everglades Chapter #69] Jean Shepherd WOR Ham Radio Bootleggers References: <0f172623-0018-ae8b-9181-8faaec1f982e@verizon.net> Message-ID: <976CD231-E481-4696-936A-A79D4F43F8AB@bellsouth.net> From Bill NA2M: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wInxW9Ux_KA