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Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1282 – March 8, 2002

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1282 with a release date of
Friday, March 8th, 2002 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T.

The Dayton Hamvention announces the EMMY AND OSCARS of Amateur Radio.  We
have
the winners on Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1282 coming your war
right
now.

(Billboard Cart Here)

**

HAMVENTION 2002:  AWARD WINNERS NAMED

The Dayton Hamvention has named Radio Amateur Information  Network founder
Alanson “Hap” Holly, KC9RP, as its 2002 Radio Amateur of the Year.  Holly
received the news of his selection on Thursday evening February 28th in a
phone
call from Cathi Hoskins, N8ZCQ, who chairs the Hamvention Awards and Banquet
Committee.  KC9RP tells Amateur Radio Newsline that he was completely taken
by
surprise:

--
Holly KC9RP: “I was absolutely stunned!  In fact, all I could say was me?  I
mean seriously, I was just absolutely floored.”
--

Holly, lives in Des Plaines Illinois has been licensed since 1965.  He began
his ham radio informational programming career in 1984 on a local Chicago
Area
repeater.  This eventually lead him to become founder, moderator and guiding
light of a weekly amateur radio audio feature magazine known as the RAIN
Report.

--
Sample audio from Rain Report.
--

RAIN programming is distributed to hundreds of repeaters across the country
via
a telephone dial-up line, the rainreport.com website, by a subscription tape
service and broadcast over W-A-Zero-R-C-R's weekly 160 meter informational
net.

But that’s is only a small part of the Hap Holly story.  Originally licensed
in Escondido California at age 14, Holly who has been blind since age 7
served
as a phone-patch station and net control for the famed WESTCARS traffic net
until 1970.  He then headed off to Principia College in Illinois and from
1970
to graduation in 1974, ran phone patches and kept radio schedules for many
of
his fellow students.

Holly graduated Principia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, and
soon
found himself in the Chicago area.  There, he sought out world-class jazz
accordionist Leon Sash, to pursue further training in music. As a
professional
keyboard player, Holly’s diverse repertoire of American music of the past
six
decades has made him a popular choice in the Chicago area.

Hap met his wife-to-be while he was teaching a class in non-visual
perception
to high school students at a summer camp in Buena Vista, Colorado.  The two
were married in August of 1976.  Stephanie, who is sighted, received her ham
ticket and KA9WKD callsign in 1986.

Over the years, Hap Holly has written articles for the Spec-Com Journal,
Radio
Scan Magazine and occasionally reports for us here on the Amateur Radio
Newsline.  Holly is also a common sight at the Dayton Hamvention, taping
forums
which are then incorporated throughout the year into his RAIN Reports.  And
since 1975 KC9RP has been an honored member of the Des Plaines Lions Club.
He
has also been a member of the Des Plaines Toastmasters since 1976.  He and
Stephanie are also active with Des Plaines Illinois Emergency Medical Alert
system.

Named as this years Hamvention Technical Excellence award winner is Alan
Waller, K3TKJ, of Laurel, Delaware.  Waller was chosen for his work that
lead
to the interfacing the Internet to Amateur Radio.

First licensed in 1961, Waller combined his decades-long love for Amateur
Radio
and a burgeoning interest in the then-new Internet to design and manage the
www.qsl.net and www.qth.net web sites.  That was back in 1993.  Since that
time, Alan Waller's web sites have come to serve the needs of tens of
thousands
of ham radio operators worldwide by providing a vast technical reference
platform, an electronic mail service, web page hosting services, and links
to
thousands of other ham radio related sites.  And in the true spirit of the
Amateur Radio, Waller's initial work utilized leading edge experimentation
to
see what could be done with the technology then available.  This has
developed
into a mature, reliable service to the world wide ham radio community.

Rounding out this seasons winners are a pair of pair of space exploring hams
who have been named as co-recipients of the 2002 Hamvention Special
Achievement
Award.  Former astronauts Owen Garriott, W5LFL, and Tony England, W0ORE, are
being honored for paving the way for manned ham radio operations from the
space
shuttles that has made ham radio a permanent part of mans exploration of
space.

Owen Gariott, W5LFL was first.  On November 28, 1983, Garriott, was launched
into space aboard the space ship Columbia for the STS-9 mission.  It was the
Spacelab 1 mission and Garriott brought along the first Amateur Radio
station
on a crew-tended space vehicle.  It was a simple Motorola hand held
transceiver
connected to a special antenna designed to fit in the Space Shuttle’s
window.

Three days later, W5LFL came on the air and hams across the United States
and
around the world were witness to a historic radio transmission:

--
Owen Garriott W5LFL:  “This is W5LFL in Columbia.  W5LFL in Columbia
orbiting
the Earth at an altitude of 135 nautical miles passing over the U.S. West
Coast
and calling CQ.”
--

Among those who heard Owen Garriott's Amateur Radio transmissions from space
was Lance Collister, WA1JXN of Frenchtown Montana.  Collister, who is now
W7GJ,
 is credited with being the first amateur to work an astronaut in orbit.
Take
a listen:

--
Lance Collister WA1JXN/W7GJ:  “W5LFL on Columbia, WA1JXN, W-A-1-Japan -
Xray-Norway, WA1JXN Frenchtown Montana standing by.”

Owen Garriott, W5LFL:  “Hello W1JXN, WA1JXN, WA1-Juliet-Xray-November.  This
is W5LFL.  You’re our first contact from orbit.  WA1JXN, how do you read?
Over?”
--

The success of Garriott’s mission lead to the development of SAREX -- The
Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment.  And, over the years,  SAREX permitted
youngsters in classrooms around the world to speak directly with astronauts
in
space.  But for this to happen, the technology of manned ham radio
operations
from space had to be enhanced.  This aspect of the then new SAREX program
fell
to the next ham radio operator orbited: Tony England, W0ORE.

W0ORE flew into space on the shuttle Challenger in 1985.  It was Mission
51F,
Spscelab 2.  In addition to the 2 meter FM voice gear, Tony England also had
with him the first ever ham television station to go into space.  Slow Scan
yes, but capable of sending back high resolution images which hams on the
ground equipped with SSTV gear could view live or record on a simple audio
cassette for later viewing and historical archiving.  From space, Tony
England
described the station he was using:

--
Tony England, W0ORE:  “Essentially we’ve got a commercial TV camera that
anyone could go out to their local radio store ant buy.  We feed this into a
scan converter built by a commercial outfit and modified by NASA Amateur
Radio
clubs and this takes a snapshot of the scene and digitizes it and put it in
a
memory.

Then its sent to a handie-talkie like this.  From there we will send it over
a
wire up to the upper window upstairs and to this antenna when I get it up
there
in the window.  Then it will be transmitted to the ground.

When we get going, we will be able to send color TV images of what we are
doing
on board as a series of snapshots updated every 10 or 20 seconds.  Amateurs
anywhere on the ground will be able to receive them, and ones with scan
converters will see the pictures.”
--

That flight also marked another first.  The first ever two way television --
ham radio television -- to and from space.

Tony England went on to flight prove both the improved FM voice and then new
SSTV systems.  The SSTV was so successful that NASA gave very serious
consideration to a permanent installation on all shuttles for back up
communications.  More important, the early on-orbit operations by Own
Garriott
W5LFL and Tony England W0ORE made possible the thousands of educational
contacts between children in school classrooms and the crews flying in
space.
First, on board the shuttles, and now as a permanent part of the
International
Space Station.

Hap Holly KC9RP, Alan Waller K3TKJ, Owen Garriott W5LFL and  Tony England
W0ORE
will receive their honors at the Hamvention Awards Banquet slated for
Saturday
evening, May 18th at the Nutter Center in Dayton Ohio.  Amateur Radio
Newsline
will be there to bring you this story and all the news about Hamvention
2002.
(ARNewsline™ from Dayton Hamvention® news release.  Some audio from
“Amateur Radio’s Newest Frontier” and “SAREX - The Shuttle Amateur
Radio Experiment” video presentations)

**

Break 1

>From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard
on
bulletin stations around the world including the Indiana Hamfest Association
net serving Indianapolis Indiana.

(5 sec pause here)

**

RADIO RULES:  FCC RESUMES VANITY PROCESSING

Vanity license processing is getting back on tract.  According to a Legaue
bulletin the FCC now has all outstanding vanity applications filed last
October
in hand and is ready to resume routine vanity processing.  Until recently a
single missing vanity application had been holding up a backlog of more than
2000 vanity applications.  The FCC credits the ARRL in part with helping to
locate applicants and resolving the problem.  (ARRL, FCC)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY COMMS SUMMIT

The first ever Amateur Radio Emergency Communications summit was held in
Indianapolis last week.  Amateur News Weekly’s Jack Parker, W8ISH, reports
on
the success of this first meeting.

--
They came from the Red Cross, Salvation Army, ARES, RACES and even CB-radio’
s
REACT team. Two dozen representatives of different Amateur Radio emergency
communications groups met in a  Federal Building training room to find ways
of
helping local and state emergency management organizations.  The summit was
organized by Marion County ARES director Mike Palmer, N9FEB.   Palmer cited
a
need to develop better communications and cooperation between the different
groups.

Many amateurs wear two or three different hats when it comes to providing
public service.  Palmer wants to identify those who are willing to help and
to
better utilize the voice and data communications available in the Marion
County
Amateur Radio Community.  Many of the summit participants agreed this type
of
effort is long overdue.

Members of Army-Navy and Air Force Mars, as well as the Indiana Wing of the
Civil Air Patrol offered their services during times of disaster.  Everyone
agreed this was a good start and look forward to future efforts to better
train
and organize Amateur Radio Emergency Communications in Marion County and
Central Indiana.

Reporting from Indianapolis for Amateur News Weekly, this is Jack Parker
W8ISH.

--

According to Jack, everyone came away from the meeting knowing that
cooperation
between groups is a key element in providing better service to the public.
(ANW)

**

RADIO  RULES:  FCC ADOPTS AMBER EAS EVENT CODE FOR CHILD ABDUCTION CASES
The Federal Communications Commission has announced the adoption of a Report
and Order amending the Emergency Alert System rules.  Included are several
new
EAS event and location codes, which broadcast stations and cable systems may
use to alert the public in the event of state and local emergencies.  Of
these,
a new Child Abduction Emergency event code may be the most interesting to
hams
involved in Search and Rescue and who have E-A-S decoders installed in their
repeaters.

The plan is described as a voluntary partnership between law enforcement
agencies and the media that will be used to alert the public of serious
child
abduction cases where police believe that the child is in danger of bodily
harm
or death.  Under the plan, radio and television stations will be permitted
but
not required to interrupt programming to disseminate information concerning
serious child abductions when the new Child Abduction Emergency code is
received.  It could also be used by hams as an automated call to action to
help
find a missing child if used to activate an E-A-S equipped Amateur Service
repeater.

Police departments say that every minute counts in dealing with an abducted
child situation.  In adding the Child Abduction Emergency code the FCC says
that its responding to public concerns.  (FCC)

**

ENFORCEMENT: FCC COMPLETES GEORGIA ARRL VEC EXAM SESSION AUDIT

The FCC has wrapped up an investigation into apparent irregularities at five
ARRL VEC-sponsored Amateur Radio examination sessions in Georgia during 2000
and 2001.  As a result of the probe, FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth
says that several examinees will be called back for partial retesting:

--
Riley Hollingsworth:  “We determined reviewing all of the information that
was brought to our by the League that eight examinees will have to be
retested
on the code element.  The ARRL has also relieved ten VE’s of their duties as
volunteer examiners.”
--

According to the ARRL Letter, all V-E’s who might have been involved were
suspended after the FCC investigation began last year.  (FCC, RAIN)

**

ENFORCEMENT:  A REPEATER OUTSIDE OF THE BAND

The FCC is also looking at the operation of repeater in the Metro New York
City
area.  Again, the FCC’s Riley Hollingsworth:

--
Riley Hollingsworth: “We opened an inquiry into allegations that an
uncoordinated repeater operated by Thomas Batista, KC2DDD, and Gerardo
Arias,
N2IFU, in Corona and Staten Island New York.  Now that repeater is not only
causing interference to a coordinted repeater, but the input is apparently
on a
frequency not even allocated to the Amateur band.  So, needless to say we
are
real interested in reviewing that response when it comes in.
--

What Hollingsworth will be looking for is an answer to why the machine is
using
143.020 MHz as an input frequency as well as why its on the air without
coordination.  143.020 MHz is a full 800 Kilohertz below the bottom edge of
the
2 meter Amateur band. (FCC, RAIN)

**

CONVENTIONS:  SOUTH EAST VHF SOCIETY CONFERENCE

On a far lighter note, the Sixth Annual Southeastern VHF Society Conference
will take place April 26th through the 27th in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.   And
they
too are putting out a call for papers.  If you are interested in
participating,
please contact KG4QDZ by e-mail to [email protected].  (VHF Reflector)

**

CONVENTIONS:  CHARLESTON HAMFEST MARCH 16

And the 18th Annual Charleston Area Hamfest and Computer Show will be held
Saturday, March 16, 2002 from 9 AM to 3 PM at the Coonskin Armory in
Charleston, West Virginia. Talk-in is on the 145.35 MHz repeater.  Admission
is
$5 and there will be free parking.  More information is available by e-mail
to
[email protected].  (N8TMW)

**

BREAK 2

Here when you need us 52 weeks a year.  We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
with
links to the world from our only official website at www.arnewsline.org.

(5 sec pause here)

**

HAM RADIO POLITICS:  NCI LEADER CALLS FOR ELECTIONS

Bruce Perens, K6BP, the founder and an incumbent director of No Code
International says that its time for new directions for the group and has
called for elections.  Amateur Radio Newsline’s Norm Seeley, KI7UP, has
more:

--
According to Bruce Perins, K6BP,  when he started NCI in 1997, he never
dreamed
that it’s goals would be achieved so quickly.  But says Perins; “we are
most of the way there.”

Perins notes that last year the International Amateur Radio Union voted to
ask
for the removal of the international treaty provision requiring Morse Code
testing for Radio Amateurs.  Now Perins observes that even ARRL has voted in
favor of removing code requirements from the international Radio
Regulations.

With what he terms as -- no remaining credible opposition to NCI's cause
left
on the international level -- Perins says that it is time to turn NCI’s
focus
to domestic policy.  He says that for NCI to take an appropriate role in the
end-game of the no-code battle means cooperation with national societies
like
the American Radio Relay League.  And to do this, Perrins believes may take
some new people.

So Perins has asked that an election for new directors be held no later than
April 30th of this year.  He also says that any person who was an NCI member
on
December 31, 2001 can be a candidate for director, and is eligible to vote
in
the election.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Norm Seeley, KI7UP.

--

More information about No Code International is on the web at
www.nocode.org.
(ARNewsline with information from K6BP)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  AO-40 GPS TEST RESULTS PUBLISHED

The February issue of GPS World included an article titled Formation Flying
in
Space.  Authored in-part by AMSAT North America's Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, the
essay shows G-P-S results from the receivers that NASA’ Goddard Space Flight
Center provided for flight on the AMSAT OSCAR 40 bird.  According to Tom
Clark,
W3IWI, the data shown in the article was downloaded using AO-40's RUDAK
system
by WD0E and KB0G.  (ANS)

**

WRTC-2002:  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETE LIST OF OFFICIAL
ON-SITE REFEREES

The WRTC 2002 Organizing Committee has named a full list of on-site referees
for the upcoming games.  The committee says that it received more than 100
highly qualified applications and those chosen were from that group.  A full
list of referees and other information is available on the web at
www.wrtc2002.org  (WRTC2002)

**

DX

In D-X, word that Dave Cree, G3TBK, has returned to work in the Caribbean.
Throughout March Dave will be active as J88DR from St. Vincent.  For the
first
two weeks of April look for him J3 slash G3TBK from Grenada. Operations will
be
on all bands, but concentrating on the WARC bands, mostly on C-W, but with
some
SSB.  QSL to Dave's home call either direct or via the RSGB bureau.  (RSGB)

The New Zealand Amateur Transmitters Society is warning hams world wide of
what
they say is a pirate operation.  According  the NZART News, a maritime
mobile
station using the callsign ZL2TO and the name Tony has been heard recently
operating on nets on 15 Meters.  This station currently gives his location
as
the Cape Verde Islands.  Only one problem.  The ZL2TO call sign is allocated
the Waitara Amateur Radio Club.  (NZART)

And the South Africa Radio League news service says that anyone who has held
a
QSO's with 7Q8 slash ZS6GH or C9 slash ZS6GH should write them off .  SARL
says
that these have been declared null and void because license or authorization
to
operate was issued by the telecommunications regulators in Malawi or
Mozambique.  (SARL)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR THE YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR AWARD

And finally, we started this weeks newscast with a story about awards. Lets
end
it on a similar note as we here a Amateur Radio Newsline officially open the
2002 nominating season for our own Young Ham of the Year Award.

The Young Ham of the Year award was created in 1986 by amateur Radio
Newsline
producer Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, to fill what he viewed as a void where
younger
members of ham radio society were often overlooked:

--
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF:  “When I was a young ham in the 50’s and 60’s the
good deeds of young hams were often overlooked and ignored. When I grew up I
was fortunate enough to be in a position to remedy this and thats how the
Young
Ham of the Year Award program came about.  Thats how it came into being”
--

The award as originally envisioned as very low budget.  One idea was for a
certificate that would be mailed to a ham, age 18 or younger who had shown
some
exceptional ability or performed some heroic deed that set him or her apart
from the crowd.  When Bill mentioned the idea to Chip Margelli K7JA, of
Vertex
Standard back in the company’s days as Yaesu USA, the idea quickly expanded.
Margelli offered company support on the spot:

--
Chip Margelli, K7JA:  “When Bill Pasternak gave me a call and dsescribed the
project to me in the tiniest bit of detail it was obvious that this was a
no-brainer and something that we as a company at Yaesu wanted to encourage.
So, I jumped at the opportunity to be a major contributor and it has been a
great project ever since.”
--

The award now had substance, but it lacked a permanent home.  One was found
in
1993 when it was invited to the Huntsville Hamfest:

--
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF:  “The way we got to Huntsville?  Simple.  We
advertised.  We put a notice into the newscast that we were searching for a
permanent home.  The answer came in a note from Scotty Neustadter, now W4WW,
who is the Huntsville Hamfest Chairman.  Scotty basically said bring it to
Huntsville.  And we did.”
--

While the presentation ceremony did go to Seaside Oregon in 1994, it
returned
to Huntsville in 1995 where it has been ever since.  And in 1996 a second
major
corporate underwriter came on board.  C-Q Magazine.  Rich Moseson W2VU, is
editor:

--
Rich Moseson, W2VU: “We at CQ have always thought that it is very important
to promote Amateur Radio to young people and we saw that co-sponsorship of
the
award was the way to help do that.
--

What CQ did was to add to the Young Ham of the Year awards chest something
very
special.  A week of fun and excitement at Spacecamp. Today, with corporate
sponsorship from Vertex-Standard USA and CQ Magazine, and support from
countless others including the ARRL, Dave Bell Associates and Rosewood
Communications the Young Ham of the Year Award continues to honor the
Amateur
Radio related achievements of those hams age 18 or younger.  And now its
time
to find a fitting recipient for 2002.

Full details, rules and a nominating form are available right now on our
website at www.arnewsline.org.  Just scroll down to the Young Ham of the
Year
Award area and click to download.  Or you can send a self addressed stamped
envelope to the 2002 Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award, 28197 Robin
Avenue,
Santa Clarita California 91350 and we will mail back the materials.

The Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award is a one of a kind.
It
honors the youth of ham radio and in doing so, we hope it helps to insure a
bright future for the hobby and the radio service that all of us love.
(ARNewsline™)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

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Before we go, another reminder that the nominating period for the 2002
amateur
Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year is now open. Nominees must be 18 or
younger.  Full rules and an application is on our website at
www.arnewsline.org.

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