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> Subject: The ARRL Letter, Vol 21, No 22
> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 18:13:29 -0400
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> ***************
> The ARRL Letter
> Vol. 21, No. 22
> May 31 , 2002
> ***************
>
> IN THIS EDITION:
>
> * +Field Day goes region-wide; on-line soapbox
> announced
> * +Odd interference case resolved in Ohio
> * +New Mexico amateurs again active on wildfire duty
> * +May a busy month for ARES in Missouri
> * +ARRL, PRB-1 credited in antenna victory
> * Solar Update
> * IN BRIEF:
> This weekend on the radio
> W4EHW 2002 hurricane season 2002 on-the-air
> test is June 1
> ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
> course registration
> Clarification
> +Antarctic ledge named after amateur
> +Colorado ARES groups stand down from fire duty
> Vote on QST Cover Plaque Award
> OMIK golden jubilee celebration set
> Steve Dimse, K4HG, wins EarthLink R&D grand
> prize
>
> +Available on ARRL Audio News
>
>
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>
> ==>FIELD DAY GOING REGION-WIDE IN 2002; ON-LINE
> SOAPBOX AVAILABLE
>
> For the first time in its 69-year history, Field Day
> officially will
> expand its scope beyond the borders of the US and
> Canada to include
> participation by amateurs in all of North and South
> America--including the
> Caribbean. Field Day takes place this year on the
> first weekend of
> summer--June 22-23 (Field Day is always the fourth
> full weekend in June).
> Following this year's event, clubs, groups and
> individuals taking part
> will be able to upload photos and comments to the
> ARRL Contest Soapbox Web
> site <http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/>.
>
> "We encourage interesting photographs that will give
> those visiting the
> site sense of the 'flavor' of a group's Field Day
> participation," said
> ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND.
> Henderson says he gets
> "hundreds of photographs" for possible use in QST,
> which typically has
> room for about a dozen. "The Online Soapbox gives
> groups the chance to
> display their best efforts for FD," he said.
>
> The Field Day Soapbox area will open Sunday, June
> 23, at 2100 UTC. Anyone
> may post stories and photos, but these will be
> screened before posting.
>
> Groups and individuals still are expected to submit
> Field Day
> reports--summary sheets, dupe sheets, proofs of
> bonus, etc--for the annual
> QST Field Day report. "Also, we still encourage
> groups to include their
> best photographs for consideration for QST,"
> Henderson added. The
> complete--and official--rules for Field Day 2002 are
> available on the ARRL
> Web site
>
<http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2002/rules-fd-2002.html>
> and
> in the May issue of QST (page 108).
>
> Field Day has a long tradition as an emergency
> preparedness exercise,
> operating equipment "in the field" using power
> sources other than the
> commercial mains. As ARRL Chief Executive Officer
> David Sumner, K1ZZ,
> pointed out in his "It Seems to Us . . ." editorial
> <http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2002/05/01/2/> in
> June 2002 QST, Field
> Day also presents an ideal opportunity to showcase
> Amateur Radio to the
> general public and to local officials and to convey
> an important message
> in the process.
>
> "No matter what, there will be hams and they will be
> able to communicate
> with one another. No matter what," Sumner wrote.
>
> While contacts with amateurs around the world always
> have counted for
> credit, this year's event will mark the first formal
> participation by
> stations outside the US and Canada.
>
> Another significant change this year is the new "Get
> on the Air" or GOTA
> station, which replaces the Novice station at Field
> Day setups. The idea
> is to give Novice and Technician licensees as well
> as generally inactive
> amateurs of any class and even unlicensed
> individuals a chance to
> participate--under the supervision of a licensed
> control operator.
>
> One persistent question Henderson says he's been
> getting concerns how the
> Field Day rules define a "generally inactive"
> licensee in terms of GOTA
> operation. "We do not want to get into
> hair-splitting or micromanaging a
> definition of that term," Henderson said. Instead,
> he points to the
> frequently asked questions information in the Field
> Day packet, which
> says, "Clubs should use their judgment in
> determining the operators of the
> GOTA station."
>
> Examples in the Field Day packet include operators
> who have never been on
> HF or who have been off the air for the past couple
> of years. Any single
> GOTA operator is limited to a maximum of 100
> contacts of the 400-contact
> for-credit contact total.
>
> The first "International Field Day" was held June
> 10-11, 1933, billed as
> "just a test of portable equipment" for US and
> Canadian amateurs,
> according to former ARRL Communications Manager
> George Hart, W1NJM. Hart
> credits then-Communications Manager Ed Handy, W1BDI,
> with coming up with
> the idea of Field Day. It was not until Field Day
> 1934 that Handy's Field
> Day writeup in QST raised the aspect of emergency
> preparedness.
>
> ==>OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY INTERFERENCE CASE RESOLVED
>
> In what FCC Special Counsel for Enforcement Riley
> Hollingsworth called "a
> textbook example" of FCC-ARRL cooperation, a case of
> strange interference
> involving a power company and an AM broadcast
> station has been
> substantially resolved. As a result of their
> follow-up investigation, six
> Cincinnati-area amateurs were awarded the ARRL
> Certificate of Merit.
>
> In January, the FCC wrote Cincinnati AM radio
> station WLW and Cinergy
> Corp--the electric utility serving the region--to
> help resolve the unusual
> and longstanding interference situation that was
> affecting local amateurs.
> Apparently spurious signals associated with WLW
> transmissions had been
> monitored over a wide area and frequency range and
> were severely affecting
> some amateur bands.
>
> The investigation focused on utility towers carrying
> 345-kV lines in the
> vicinity of the WLW broadcast tower. Jay Adrick,
> K8CJY--a member of the
> amateur team involved in tracking down the problem
> and one of those
> honored--explained at the Dayton ARRL Forum earlier
> this month that the
> primary problem seemed to stem from so-called static
> lines on the towers,
> which do not carry electrical power. The static
> lines, he pointed out,
> were not sufficiently RF-bonded to the tower
> structure. "They're actually
> loose-fitted," he said. "At 60 Hz, it's a reasonable
> ground." But at RF,
> it acted as a non-linear junction, and the static
> wires acted as a huge
> antenna. The result was something that sounded a bit
> like a spark gap
> modulated by WLW's audio on several amateur bands.
>
> Success did not come easily, and mop-up operations
> continue. Hollingsworth
> called the situation "a history-making RF
> interference case" that
> generated more investigative analysis than any other
> case in his years
> with the FCC.
>
> Ohio ARRL Section Manager Joe Phillips, K8QOE, said
> the local amateurs
> brought the matter to the FCC's attention after
> working with WLW and
> Cinergy for almost two years to pin down the cause
> of the spurious
> signals.
>
> Honored with certificates at the ARRL Forum in
> Dayton in addition to
> Adrick were team leader Bob Reiff, WA8ULW; Ted
> Homan, WB8WFG; Herb
> Nichols, W3EOA; Geoff Mendenhall, W8GNM; and Paul
> Jellison, WD8KMX.
> Jellison is regional engineering manager of Clear
> Channel Communications
> which owns WLW. Also honored were non-amateurs Jeff
> Antoni and Kelly
> McMahan, both of Cinergy Corporation.
>
> The certificates were signed by ARRL Great Lakes
> Division Director George
> Race, WB8BGY, and ARRL Lab Supervisor Ed Hare,
> W1RFI, who assisted in the
> efforts to resolve the interference situation. The
> amateurs were cited for
> "creating an example of longtime and continuing
> corporate-amateur radio
> cooperation in an interference abatement of high
> power RF signals."
>
> Though some interference remains, Phillips said, the
> local amateurs and
> both corporations discovered many possible sources
> of trouble and have
> established a working procedure for clearing them
> up.
>
> "Saying the interference is all cleared up would be
> foolhardy given the
> complex nature of the engineering involved," said
> Phillips, who
> recommended the awards, "but the two words that
> describe this historic
> work would be 'patience works.'"
>
> Under FCC Part 15 and Part 73 rules, incidental
> noise radiated by power
> company equipment or spurious emissions from a
> broadcast transmitter must
> be corrected if they cause harmful interference to
> radio communications.
>
> ==>NEW MEXICO AMATEURS CONFRONT ANOTHER WILDFIRE
> EMERGENCY
>
> Amateur Radio operators in New Mexico once again
> found themselves on
> fire-related duty during May. On May 23, an incident
> command post was set
> up in Espa�ola in response to a so-called "sleeper
> fire"--a
> lightning-caused fire that smolders before bursting
> into flame--near the
> village of Truchas in north-central New Mexico. Over
> the Memorial Day
> weekend, more than 250 residents were evacuated from
> their homes in
> Truchas and the nearby village of Cordoba.
>
> "Some residents were bused back into the area May 24
> and given five
> minutes each to collect any medications and other
> important items they
> left behind and a chance to retrieve pets and
> livestock," said New Mexico
> Section Emergency Coordinator Bill Kauffman, W5YEJ.
>
> Rio Arriba County Emergency Communications Manager
> Lonie Scott, AH2AZ,
> activated amateur communications support. Amateurs
> were dispatched to Red
> Cross shelters set up at two elementary schools in
> Chimayo, and The Los
> Alamos Amateur Radio Club's W5PDO provided support.
> By late on May 24, the
> wind had shifted, and the fire was burning away from
> Truchas. Residents
> were able to return home starting at 9 AM the next
> day. Kauffman said the
> incident command post and the shelters closed later
> that day after all
> evacuees had returned home.
>
> While the amateur turnout was not an official
> Amateur Radio Emergency
> Service (ARES) activation, Kauffman said that Los
> Alamos County District
> Emergency Coordinator Bill Boedeker, NM5BB, and
> Santa Fe County DEC Alden
> Oyer, AG5S, did monitor the residents' return and
> remained available to
> provide additional resources if needed. "We're
> working on establishing an
> ARES group in Rio Arriba county but the amateur
> population is somewhat
> sparse so we'll continue to support that county from
> adjacent counties
> even when they get organized," he explained.
>
> Kauffman said the fire was still burning as of May
> 29 in the Pecos
> Wilderness of the Santa Fe National Forest, but was
> not considered a
> threat to any homes or structures. Reports indicate
> the fire is nearly
> two-thirds contained and has burned more than 12,000
> acres. As tinder-dry
> conditions persist in New Mexico, amateurs there
> have continued to be
> involved in efforts to deal with a number of other
> smaller fires.
>
> ==>MAY A BUSY MONTH FOR MISSOURI ARES TEAMS
>
> Amateur Radio Emergency Service teams in Missouri
> were active during May
> in response to widespread flooding and other weather
> emergencies,
> including at least one tornado. Gov Bob Holden
> declared a statewide state
> of emergency on May 16.
>
> "We've really had quite an active spring storm
> season following the
> terrible winter ice storm in Northwest Missouri,"
> said Missouri Section
> Emergency Coordinator Patrick Boyle, K0JPB.
>
> Carroll County Emergency Coordinator Dennis
> Lightfoot, KC0IUD, reported
> that after more than five inches of rain fell in a
> short period of time on
> May 8, flooding became "a major problem" in his area
> as a local creek
> overflowed its banks. At one point, Lightfoot said,
> he and John Goedeke,
> KC0KGN, rescued a woman and her two children from
> rapidly rising
> floodwater that threatened to get into their home.
>
> "We didn't give it a second thought," Lightfoot
> said, explaining that he
> and Goedeke waded into the cold, swiftly moving
> water. "We didn't have
> much time to wait on anybody, because the water was
> eventually going to
> get in the house." Lightfoot said he and Goedeke
> carried the youngsters,
> ages 2 and 4, and assisted their mother to safety.
>
> "It was just a big, big mess," Lightfoot said,
> adding flood damage was
> widespread. "But everything is recovering well."
>
> ARES members Charles Haygood, KC0KGI, and Jack
> Vantrump, N0SAX, also
> activated in Carroll County. Lightfoot thanked
> Lafayette County EC Andy
> Irvine, AA0IY, for relaying weather information to
> SKYWARN on VHF.
>
> Citing reports from his Emergency Coordinators (ECs)
> and District ECs
> (DECs), Boyle said ARES was put on standby in the
> Missouri Bootheel area
> to watch the Mississippi River levees and to report
> any attempts to break
> them to relieve pressure on other areas.
>
> South of St Louis along the Mississippi, the
> Jefferson County ARES team
> <http://listen.to/jeffcoares> reports both flooding
> and a small
> tornado--F0 on the Fujita scale--during May.
> According to Jefferson County
> EC Bob Lucas, N0XEV, and AEC Jon Stanley, KB0WVK,
> the ARES team also
> participated in SKYWARN nets during both emergencies
> and stood by to
> provide communication.
>
> Elsewhere, Texas County EC Richard Wood, KB0MPO, was
> on the scene of the
> Willow Springs tornado a few minutes after it
> demolished the Highway
> Patrol's 360-foot tower and damaged some homes. Wood
> verified the damage
> for the National Weather Service Springfield SKYWARN
> Net and offered to
> help with communications.
>
> In the central Missouri counties of Phelps and
> Pulaski in early May,
> low-lying areas in and around Waynesville were
> evacuated and a flood
> warning issued. Missouri ARES District I EC (and
> Pulaski County EC) Gene
> Bess, KC0IUO, alerted ARES teams in the two counties
> to provide
> communications for an American Red Cross shelter set
> up in St Robert. The
> ARES team remained in touch with the regional
> SKYWARN net in Springfield
> to report severe weather and flooding as it
> occurred.
>
> Most evacuees decided to stay with relatives or
> friends on higher ground,
> and the shelter closed the following day. ARES
> remained on standby,
> however, in case of additional flooding.
>
> Phelps County EC Joe Counsil, K0OG, and his ARES
> team worked with a group
> in flood cleanup and recovery efforts south of
> Rolla. "The cleanup effort
> was quite successful and was an excellent experience
> for us all," Counsil
> said. "Most importantly, we helped several families
> in the neighborhood in
> their time of distress and need."
>
> The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has
> included 19 Missouri
> counties on its list of weather-damaged regions,
> including damage
> resulting from tornadoes in late April.
>
> ==>A WIN IN KINDERHOOK: ARRL, PRB-1 CREDITED IN
> ANTENNA BATTLE
>
> A New York amateur is crediting the limited federal
> preemption PRB-1 and
> ARRL with helping him win approval for an antenna
> support structure on his
> property. Fred Fitte, WA2MMX, spent the better part
> of a year trying to
> gain the necessary approvals from the Town of
> Kinderhook. He finally got a
> building permit earlier this month.
>
> "It's been a really ugly battle for about eight
> months," Fitte said. "I
> can't say enough good things about the League."
>
> The Town of Kinderhook would not allow a ham radio
> antenna support
> structure in excess of 35 feet without a variance.
> "PRB-1 is what saved my
> bacon," said Fitte, who finally won approval of his
> request to erect a
> 50-foot tower on a 3-1 vote of the town's zoning
> board of appeals. PRB-1,
> which is spelled out in the FCC Amateur Service
> rules under �97.15(b),
> requires municipalities to "reasonably accommodate"
> amateur communication.
> Fitte said that by the time he had presented his
> case, "it was real clear
> that the zoning board of appeals knew what they had
> to do."
>
> Fitte singled out ARRL Hudson Division Director
> Frank Fallon, N2FF--who
> attended every hearing--and ARRL Lab Supervisor Ed
> Hare, W1RFI--who
> attended several--for special mention. A required
> trip to the town's
> planning board for a "site review" was routine and
> uneventful, he said.
>
> Fitte called Fallon "a crusader in the effort to
> keep ham radio active and
> moving forward," and said he became an ARRL Life
> Member because of his
> efforts. He also credited his legal counsel, Al
> Millus, WB2EQR, and Dr
> George Wilner, K2ONP, head of the Hematology
> Department at Albany Medical
> Center, whose expert testimony addressed concerns
> about possible RF
> exposure.
>
> Fitte said the zoning board "acknowledged that PRB-1
> was a major factor in
> the decision" and that if his application had been
> considered based solely
> on a request for a variance, it would not have been
> granted.
>
> Despite its earlier opposition, Fitte said, the ZBA
> eventually came to
> conclude that his application did not significantly
> alter the character of
> the neighborhood, did not affect property values and
> did not have a
> negative environmental impact. In addition, he said,
> the board agreed that
> no negative health impact based on RF exposure was
> proven. More pertinent,
> however, was a conclusion that a 35-foot structure
> would not be conducive
> to effective communications and that 50 feet--his
> request--was the bare
> minimum. Fitte said the ZBA also accepted Hare's
> assertions before the
> board that 75 feet was the accepted height for
> optimum communications.
>
> The zoning board's approval did not come without
> some restrictions,
> however. Fitte's tower was approved for the left
> side of the house. Fitte
> had hoped to erect it on the right side of the
> structure, nearest to his
> ham shack. The ZBA okayed a total height of 75
> feet--50 feet of tower and
> 25 feet of antenna, an outcome he called "a pleasant
> surprise." He also
> agreed to install an anti-climbing device and to
> remove the structure when
> he moved. He also must provide proof of license
> renewal every 10 years.
>
> With a building permit now in hand, Fitte says he
> intends to get his
> town's zoning code changed to provide an exemption
> for Amateur Radio
> antenna support structures. But that will have to
> wait for a tower-raising
> party, he said.
>
> ==>SOLAR UPDATE
>
> Sun watcher Tad Cook, K7VVV, Seattle, Washington,
> reports: Average daily
> solar flux and sunspot numbers rose this week.
> Average daily sunspot
> numbers were up nearly 65 points and daily solar
> flux was up by 15 over
> last week, and there were some very active
> geomagnetic days.
>
> Solar flux is expected to fade a bit this week, and
> may reach a short-term
> minimum around Monday or Tuesday. There is a new
> large sunspot on the
> southeast limb of the sun. Region 9973 could bring
> solar flares.
>
> We're moving out of spring propagation and toward
> summer conditions. Ten
> meters is going out of season, and moving into
> summer will see lower MUF,
> affecting propagation on 15 meters; 17 and 20 meters
> will be the best
> summertime bands for HF DX, with 20 offering the
> best conditions right
> after sunrise or into the evening, rather than
> midday.
>
> Sunspot numbers for May 23 through 29 were 229, 242,
> 221, 232, 227, 218,
> and 206, with a mean of 225. The 10.7-cm flux was
> 180.3, 189.1, 182.6,
> 183.1, 186.7, 186.4, and 184.8, with a mean of
> 184.7. Estimated planetary
> A indices were 54, 7, 6, 10, 28, 12, and 12, with a
> mean of 18.4.
>
> __________________________________
>
> ==>IN BRIEF:
>
> * This weekend on the radio: The WW South America CW
> Contest, IARU Region
> 1 Field Day (CW) and the QRP TAC Sprint are the
> weekend of June 1-2. JUST
> AHEAD: The ARRL June VHF QSO Party, the ANARTS WW
> RTTY Contest, the
> Portugal Day Contest, the RSGB Jubilee Contest, the
> Asia-Pacific Sprint
> (SSB) and the TOEC WW Grid Contest (SSB) are the
> weekend of June 8-9. See
> the ARRL Contest Branch page
> <http://www.arrl.org/contests/> and the
> WA7BNM Contest Calendar
> <http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html>
> for more info.
>
> * W4EHW 2002 hurricane season 2002 on-the-air test
> is June 1: W4EHW at the
> National Hurricane Center in Miami holds its
> Hurricane Season 2002
> On-The-Air Station Test Saturday, June 1, 1300-2200
> UTC. Amateurs are
> invited to contact W4EHW during the event, which
> provides a chance for the
> station to check out its equipment and give new
> volunteer operators some
> hands-on training. The test also marks the kickoff
> of the 2002 hurricane
> season. During the June 1 test, W4EHW will be active
> on HF, VHF and UHF,
> CW, SSB and PSK31. Stations contacting W4EHW are
> asked to supply call
> sign, signal report, location and a short weather
> report. QSLs are
> available via W4VBQ; include a SASE. More
> information is on the W4EHW Web
> site <http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/w4ehw/>.
>
> *ARRL Certification and Continuing Education course
> registration:
> Registration opens Monday, June 3, for the Level I
> Amateur Radio Emergency
> Communications course (EC-001), Monday, June 10, for
> the Level II course
> (EC-002), and Monday, June 17 for the Level III
> course (EC-003). Courses
> must be completed in order, starting with Level I.
> Registration for the
> Antenna Modeling course (EC-004) opens Monday, June
> 10. Registration for
> the HF Digital Course opens Monday, June 17.
> Registration on all dates
> begins at 4 PM Eastern Time. Beginning July 1,
> registration fees for all
> on-line courses will increase by $5. To learn more,
> visit the ARRL
> Certification and Continuing Education Web page
> <http://www.arrl.org/cce>
> and the C-CE Links found there. For more
> information, contact
> Certification and Continuing Education Coordinator
> Dan Miller, K3UFG,
> [email protected].
>
> * Clarification: The article "Precision Emergency
> Automated Position
> Reporting System Test Set" that appeared in The ARRL
> Letter, Vol 21, No 21
> (May 24, 2002) failed to indicate the frequency to
> be used for the PEAPRS
> test. It is the standard APRS frequency of 144.390
> MHz.
>
> * Antarctic ledge named after amateur: A ledge in
> the Antarctic has been
> named after a Connecticut ham who provided phone
> patches for scientists
> working in the region. Larry Skilton, K1IED, says
> that to his knowledge,
> he's the first Amateur Radio operator who's never
> been to Antarctica to
> have a place named after him for services rendered.
> Skilton Ledge is
> described as a relatively flat rectangular rock
> platform at the
> southeastern margin of Midnight Plateau in the
> Darwin Mountains. The upper
> surface is ice-covered, but a rock cliff forms the
> southern end. Skilton
> made phone patches in the US to complete radio
> communications from US
> Antarctic Project science stations including Palmer,
> McMurdo, Byrd surface
> station and particularly South Pole. He worked a
> regular nightly schedule
> for 11 years, between 1990 and 2001 and arranged the
> completion of several
> thousand calls.
>
> * Colorado ARES groups stand down from fire duty:
> Colorado ARRL Section
> Manager Jeff Ryan, K0RM, reports the Schoonover
> (Deckers) Fire--once
> designated by the National Forest Service as the
> most important fire in
> the nation for federal resources--was brought under
> control May 26, and
> participating ARES groups have stood down. Fourteen
> structures were
> destroyed by the fire, and four firefighters
> suffered minor injuries. More
> than 60 families and dozens of campers had been
> evacuated and more than
> 500 firefighters battled the lightning-sparked blaze
> that scorched some
> 4000 acres in the Colorado mountains. The portion of
> the Pike and San
> Isabel National Forest that contained the fire
> remained closed for the
> Memorial Day weekend. The previously closed Highway
> 67 and Rampart Range
> Road have been reopened to traffic. Ryan reports
> that 78 hams from four
> different ARES groups supported six agencies,
> including local emergency
> management agencies and the American Red Cross,
> during the fire event.
>
> * Vote on QST Cover Plaque Award: The winner of the
> QST Cover Plaque Award
> for May was Matt Kastigar, W0XEU, for his article
> "The St. Louis
> Switcher." Congratulations, Matt! The winner of the
> QST Cover Plaque
> award--given to the author of the best article in
> each issue--is
> determined by a vote of ARRL members. Voting takes
> place each month on the
> Cover Plaque Poll Web page,
> <http://www.arrl.org/members-only/qstvote.html>. As
> soon as your copy
> arrives, cast a ballot for your favorite article in
> the June 2002 issue of
> QST. Voting ends June 30.
>
> * OMIK golden jubilee celebration set: OMIK Amateur
> Radio Association--the
> largest minority ham radio organization in the
> US--and OMIK Ladies
> Auxiliary will celebrate their golden jubilee (50th
> anniversary) July
> 17-20, 2002, in Dayton, Ohio. An ARRL-affiliated
> organization, OMIK was
> founded in 1952 by African-American Amateur Radio
> operators, many of whom
> had learned or honed their communications skills
> during World War II.
> Pronounced "Oh-Mike," the name OMIK stands for Ohio,
> Michigan, Indiana,
> and Kentucky, the core membership region in OMIK's
> early days. The 2002
> convention will feature technical sessions on
> Amateur Radio topics by
> Clifford Peoples, KE8QR, and Wallace Wright, AD8N,
> plus amateur exam
> sessions, tours of the Dayton area and a program
> honoring past OMIK
> presidents. For more information contact convention
> chair Moody T. Law,
> WQ6I, [email protected]. Visit the OMIK Web site
>
<http://webusers.anet-stl.com/~ka0etf/omik.htm>.--Cornelius
> Washington,
> KR0Z
>
> * Steve Dimse, K4HG, wins EarthLink R&D grand prize:
> EarthLink's Research
> and Development department has announced that Dr.
> Steve Dimse, K4HG, is
> the grand prize winner of its open standards-based
> Automatic Vehicle
> Location (AVL) device application development
> contest. The competition was
> held to explore new and future vehicle telematics
> applications. Dimse won
> the overall, grand prize for his proposal to
> integrate the AVL device into
> the existing Automatic Packet Reporting System
> (APRS) worldwide tracking
> system, which he helped create. Dimse's proposal
> would extend the reach of
> the APRS by allowing it to be used by anyone with an
> AVL device and access
> to the Internet. "The far-reaching benefits of this
> type of service
> include anything from keeping up with your kids to
> tracking down a stolen
> car," said Dimse, an emergency room physician.
>
>
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