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> The ARRL Letter
> Vol. 21, No. 41
> October 18, 2002
> ***************
> 
> IN THIS EDITION:
> 
> * +It's "status quo" for now at 2300-2305 MHz, FCC
> rules
> * +Ham radio avionics package "keeps on ticking"
> after launch disaster
> * +Youngsters learn firsthand about space flight via
> ham radio
> * +FCC judge favors Schoenbohm's return to ham radio
> * +Amateur's Petition for Reconsideration on CC&Rs
> denied
> * +League asks FCC not to let European FRS-type
> radios on 70 cm in US
> *  Solar Update
> *  IN BRIEF:
>      This weekend on the radio
>      ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
> course registration
>      ARRL Audio News celebrates its fifth birthday
>      Salvation Army officer praises hams' efforts in
> wake of hurricanes
>      Paul Blumhardt, K5RT, joins CQ staff
>      Special event to mark Panama centenary
>      P29PL leaving Papua New Guinea
> 
> +Available on ARRL Audio News
> 
>
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> 
> ==>FCC OPTS FOR STATUS QUO AT 2300 TO 2305 MHz
> 
> In a classic good news-bad news scenario, the FCC
> has dismissed an ARRL
> petition that sought primary status for amateurs at
> 2300-2305 MHz. At the
> same time, the Commission denied petitions from
> AeroAstro and
> MicroTrax--commercial interests that had hoped to
> share the spectrum with
> Amateur Radio. The action, taken October 9,
> maintains the status quo on
> the band.
> 
> "That the commercial petitions were dismissed is, of
> course, good news,"
> said ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner,
> K1ZZ. "We had argued for
> that outcome." In comments filed on the AeroAstro
> and MicroTrax
> proceedings last year, the League had called on the
> FCC to put an end to
> "commercial encroachments" on amateur allocations in
> the 2.3 and 2.4 GHz
> bands.
> 
> Sumner called the outcome of the League's petition,
> RM-10165, "mildly
> disappointing" because, as he explained, a status
> upgrade "would provide
> some measure of protection against future commercial
> proposals." Sumner
> pointed out that the FCC did not altogether rule out
> a future status
> upgrade, but he cautioned that the band "is still
> vulnerable."
> 
> In turning down the ARRL's petition, the FCC said
> that since it was also
> dismissing the MicroTrax and AeroAstro petitions for
> access to 2300-2305
> MHz, "amateur operators' weak-signal communications
> in the 2300-2305 MHz
> band will be protected if the amateur allocation
> remains secondary." The
> FCC said the band "will remain in the Commission's
> reserve, and the status
> quo in the band will be maintained until the
> Commission reevaluates the
> spectrum status for the Amateur Service that may be
> appropriate."
> 
> The FCC turned down the MicroTrax and AeroAstro
> applications in part
> because appropriate spectrum already was available
> elsewhere and neither
> company had demonstrated a need for an additional
> allocation. MicroTrax
> had proposed to establish a Personal Location and
> Monitoring Service
> (PLMS) at 2300-2305 MHz under FCC Part 27 rules.
> 
> The AeroAstro petition went further, proposing to
> share the band on a
> co-primary basis with the Amateur Service. AeroAstro
> wanted to establish
> its Satellite Enabled Notification System (SENS)
> messaging service under
> the FCC's Miscellaneous Wireless Communication
> Service rules. AeroAstro
> also had called on the FCC to impose technical
> limits on amateur
> operation, which the ARRL in its comments had
> characterized as "Draconian"
> and "totally unacceptable."
> 
> ARRL interference studies predicted "intolerable"
> interference, especially
> to weak signals in the band, if the FCC had adopted
> AeroAstro's petition.
> The FCC also worried that NASA's Deep Space Network
> would not be protected
> by the modified out-of-band limits AeroAstro had
> proposed.
> 
> Internationally, the 2300-2305 MHz band is allocated
> to Fixed and Mobile
> services on a primary basis and to the Amateur
> Service on a secondary
> basis in all three International Telecommunication
> Union regions. The
> Radiolocation Service has a secondary allocation in
> the band in Region 1,
> and a primary allocation in Regions 2 and 3.
> 
> A copy of the Order is available on the FCC Web site
>
<http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2002/db1010/DA-02-2587A1
> .doc>.
> 
> ==>HAM RADIO PACKAGE "KEEPS ON TICKING" FOLLOWING
> LAUNCH DISASTER
> 
> What began as a perfectly magnificent morning in the
> Nevada desert
> September 19 ended in a disastrous launch failure
> for a group of Amateur
> Radio operators and amateur rocket enthusiasts. The
> Civilian Space
> Xploration Team's (CSXT) Primera rocket engine
> failed a few seconds into
> its flight, and the rocket was destroyed. CSXT team
> members had hoped the
> suborbital vehicle, which carried several Amateur
> Radio payloads, would be
> the first amateur-built rocket to reach space--an
> altitude of more than 60
> nautical miles.
> 
> "It was very exciting. The sun came up, and the
> rocket was there, and we
> activated all of the computer systems, and
> everything came up fine,"
> recalled Avionics Manager and CSXT Program Co-Leader
> Eric Knight,
> KB1EHE--one of the several hams involved in the
> project. "Everything went
> very very smoothly." Until everything went terribly
> wrong three seconds
> into the launch.
> 
> "There were a lot of people in tears," Knight said.
> "This is something for
> which everybody put their lives on hold for a couple
> of years. It was a
> very very upsetting thing." The team members went
> through "a period of
> mourning" as they went about the range picking up
> the pieces of the
> rocket. "It was very tough to swallow at that
> point," Knight added. No one
> was hurt.
> 
> Amazingly and unexpectedly, the Amateur Radio
> avionics survived the
> rocket's destruction and continued operating until
> they struck the desert
> floor. "We were extraordinarily pleased with the way
> the electronics
> performed," Knight said. "If there was an bright
> spot, it was that the
> avionics--all based on ham radio technology and
> built by hams--worked
> flawlessly. We had perfect video of the launch from
> the rocket right
> through the motor failure." All members of the
> avionics team are ham radio
> licensees.
> 
> The upbeat Knight said team members, while initially
> stunned and
> devastated, remain undeterred. "We will be pressing
> ahead for a launch
> possibly again next year," he said. "It was only a
> speed bump in our
> overall process." Knight called his teammates "a
> very resilient bunch" and
> determined to go forward.
> 
> The disaster means starting over largely from
> scratch. Along with their
> hopes and dreams for success this time went a
> considerable amount of hard
> cash--on the order of $130,000--that came right out
> of the members'
> pockets. "We're actively looking for sponsors right
> now and people who
> would like to have their name and brand tied in with
> such a historic
> endeavor," Knight said. Primera Technology was the
> only corporate sponsor
> for the failed launch.
> 
> The September attempt was the group's third.
> Additional information is
> available on the CSXT Web site
> <www.civilianspace.com>.
> 
> ==>TEXAS YOUNGSTER MAKES CAREER CHOICE DURING ISS
> HAM RADIO CHAT
> 
> Fourth-grader Kyle Bryant made a career choice this
> week. He's going to
> become an astronaut. At least that's what he told
> his teacher, James
> Jones, after he and nine of his classmates at Lamar
> Elementary School in
> Greenville, Texas, fired off questions via ham radio
> to astronaut Peggy
> Whitson, KC5ZTD, aboard the International Space
> Station. The contact was
> arranged via the Amateur Radio on the International
> Space Station (ARISS)
> project.
> 
> Kyle and his classmates at Lamar Elementary have
> been studying space and
> space travel for weeks in preparation for the ARISS
> QSO. Jones called the
> 10-minute experience "absolutely phenomenal," and
> added that it was "mind
> boggling" for his students to actually talk to
> Whitson after studying
> about her and her two crewmates, crew commander
> Valery Korzun, RZ3FK, and
> cosmonaut Sergei Treschev, RZ3FU.
> 
> "We've been tracking them for days on an Internet
> Web site," Jones said.
> "This was very impressive! It made a bunch of kids
> very happy!"
> 
> Lamar Principal James Evans explained that since his
> school's new campus
> opened in August, the emphasis has been on science
> and space. "Every
> classroom has a display having to do with space," he
> noted.
> 
> Amateur Radio coordinator for the direct, 2-meter
> contact was Art
> Passannante, KC5GQP. He and his crew from Greenville
> set up their station
> outdoors in front of the school to accommodate a
> sizeable audience. The
> quad beams for the contact were hombrewed in classic
> ham radio fashion
> from scraps of all-thread, plastic pipe and wire
> salvaged from the trash
> pile at a construction site.
> 
> By all accounts, the contact went flawlessly. Among
> the onlookers were
> some 100 students, 20 parents, a dozen or so
> teachers and three reporters.
> 
> ARISS is an international project with US
> participation by NASA, ARRL and
> AMSAT.--Gene Chapline, K5YFL
> 
> 
> ==>FCC JUDGE FAVORS SCHOENBOHM'S RETURN TO AMATEUR
> RADIO
> 
> An FCC administrative law judge has agreed that the
> FCC should grant the
> General class Amateur Radio license application of
> Herb
> Schoenbohm--formerly KV4FZ. Schoenbohm lost his bid
> to renew his ham
> ticket in 2000 but applied for a new license the
> next year. Following a
> hearing on Schoenbohm's application last spring, an
> initial decision of
> Administrative Law Judge Arthur I. Steinberg October
> 11 declared that
> Schoenbohm appears qualified to rejoin the Amateur
> Radio ranks.
> 
> Steinberg wrote that the hearing concluded that
> Schoenbohm "has not
> engaged in any significant wrongdoing since his
> prior disqualifying
> misconduct," that his misconduct was not recent,
> that his "reputation for
> good character in his community is excellent," that
> Schoenbohm "has taken
> meaningful measures to prevent the future occurrence
> of misconduct" and
> that loss of his ham ticket "coupled with the shame
> and humiliation that
> resulted" make unlikely a recurrence of misconduct.
> 
> Steinberg concluded that Schoenbohm "possesses the
> requisite character
> qualifications to be a Commission licensee" and that
> the FCC should grant
> his application. Schoenbohm also has taken and
> passed the Extra class exam
> (Element 4), but that application was not part of
> the proceeding.
> 
> For his part, Schoenbohm said he was very grateful
> for the outcome and
> said he appreciated "all the amateurs who came to my
> defense and supported
> the application." He said he does not yet know if he
> will attempt to
> regain his KV4FZ call sign if his application is
> granted.
> 
> Assuming that the FCC concurs with Steinberg's
> initial decision,
> Schoenbohm has made good on his promise to one day
> return to Amateur Radio
> after losing a lengthy battle with the FCC to renew
> his license.
> Steinberg's decision followed this summer's Proposed
> Finding of Fact and
> Conclusions of Law from the FCC Enforcement Bureau,
> which recommended that
> the evidence presented at hearing supported giving
> Schoenbohm another
> chance.
> 
> In 1994, the FCC put Schoenbohm's renewal
> application for KV4FZ up for
> hearing following his 1992 felony conviction on
> federal fraud charges. The
> Commission finally turned down his renewal
> application in 1998, the US
> Appeals Court upheld the FCC's decision in 2000, and
> the US Supreme Court
> declined to hear the case later that same year.
> 
> In March 2001, a couple of months after his
> authority to operate as KV4FZ
> had expired, Schoenbohm took and passed the General
> class examination. A
> couple of weeks later, he qualified for Amateur
> Extra as well, but the FCC
> refused to act on the second application since it
> had not yet granted the
> first. The FCC designated Schoenbohm's General
> license application for
> hearing on the basis of character issues stemming
> from his 1992 conviction
> as well as his alleged lack of candor during
> subsequent FCC hearings on
> the matter.
> 
> A copy of Steinberg's initial decision is available
> on the FCC Web site
>
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-02D-01A1.doc>.
> Other documents pertaining to this proceeding, WT
> Docket 01-352, are
> available via the FCC's "Search for Filed Comments"
> page
> <http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.cgi>.
> To view these
> documents, enter "01-352" in the "Proceeding" field
> and click on "Retrieve
> Document List."
> 
> ==>FCC REJECTS AMATEUR'S PETITION FOR
> RECONSIDERATION ON CC&R ISSUE
> 
> The FCC has turned down a Petition for
> Reconsideration filed by a Florida
> amateur of the Commission's 2001 decision to deny
> the ARRL's Application
> for Review in RM-8763. That proceeding concerned the
> League's lengthy
> effort--ultimately stymied by the FCC--to have the
> Commission include
> privately imposed deed covenants, conditions and
> restrictions--CC&Rs--under the limited federal
> preemption known as PRB-1.
> That policy, codified in Section 97.15(b) of the
> FCC's rules, calls on
> municipalities to "reasonably accommodate" amateur
> communication when
> regulating the installation of outdoor antenna
> structures. The League
> subsequently sought a congressional solution to the
> issue in the form of
> HR 4720.
> 
> The FCC dismissed the League's Application for
> Review on December 18,
> 2001, on the grounds that PRB-1 "adequately protects
> the predominant
> federal interest in promoting amateur communications
> from regulations that
> would frustrate the important purposes thereof." Not
> long after, and
> acting on his own, W. Lee McVey, W6EM, of Bradenton,
> Florida, filed his
> Petition for Reconsideration, claiming it presented
> additional evidence
> that the FCC had not considered in dealing with the
> ARRL's petition.
> 
> "McVey's Petition fails to explain why he did not
> present his arguments
> earlier and fails to present new facts or
> circumstances," said the
> Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O) by D'wana R.
> Terry, who heads the
> Public Safety and Private Wireless Division of the
> FCC's Wireless
> Telecommunications Bureau. Terry pointed out in the
> MO&O that under FCC
> "delegated authority" she could dismiss as
> repetitious any Petition for
> Reconsideration that "fails to rely upon changed
> facts or new
> circumstances."
> 
> Terry contended that McVey could have made his
> arguments by commenting on
> ARRL's Petition for Rule Making. "In this regard, we
> note that McVey did
> not attempt to participate in this proceeding prior
> to filing the instant
> Petition for Reconsideration."
> 
> Terry concluded that none of McVey's arguments
> warranted reconsideration
> of the Order that denied the ARRL's Application for
> Review.
> 
> The FCC said McVey filed his own Petition for Rule
> Making on the CC&R
> issue while the ARRL's Application for Review was
> pending in 2001. The FCC
> dismissed that petition last February, reasoning
> that it was substantially
> the same as the ARRL's. McVey, the MO&O noted, "did
> not appeal or
> otherwise challenge" the FCC's decision.
> 
> ==>ARRL ASKS FCC TO DENY US USE OF EUROPEAN/UK
> FRS-TYPE RADIOS ON 70 cm
> 
> The ARRL has asked the FCC to deny a petition, filed
> by a Virginia
> amateur, that would set aside eight channels in the
> 70-cm band on which
> visitors from Europe and the United Kingdom would be
> permitted to use
> their Personal Mobile Radio (PMR 446) transceivers
> while in the US. PMR
> 446 is similar to the US Family Radio Service (FRS),
> which uses
> frequencies in the 462-467 MHz range.
> 
> "ARRL is not unsympathetic to the compatibility
> concerns of international
> travelers, but at the same time, there are far less
> problematic solutions
> to the problem noted by the petitioner than those
> contained in the
> Petition," the League said in its comments. The ARRL
> recommended that
> European and UK visitors purchase FRS transceivers
> to use during US
> visits.
> 
> The FCC put the Petition for Rule Making from Dr
> Michael Trahos, KB4PGC,
> on public notice in August and designated it as
> RM-10521. A physician from
> Alexandria, Trahos said his proposal would help to
> promote international
> goodwill. The General-class licensee asked the FCC
> to amend its Amateur
> Service "and/or" Family Radio Service rules to allow
> "visiting/transient/tourist non-amateur non-United
> States resident foreign
> nationals" unlicensed access to certain frequencies
> between 446.0 and
> 446.1 MHz at up to a half watt PEP output.
> 
> The ARRL demurred. "Not all means of fostering
> international goodwill
> constitute public interest justifications sufficient
> to support regulatory
> changes," the League said. A rule change permitting
> non-amateurs to
> operate unlicensed transmitters on amateur bands, it
> continued, would be
> contrary to the fundamental regulatory structure of
> the Amateur Service,
> the Communications Act of 1934 and the International
> Radio Regulations. To
> modify Part 95 rules would require a reallocation
> proceeding, the ARRL
> said.
> 
> In his Petition, Trahos also asserted that existing
> Part 97 Amateur
> Service rules precluding the use of PMR 446 radios
> in the US were
> "essentially unenforceable" and that granting his
> petition would have
> minimal impact on existing amateur operations. The
> ARRL contended,
> however, that there are "obvious" enforcement
> problems associated with the
> Petition and that putting the unlicensed users on a
> ham band was "a
> formula for serious interference."
> 
> The ARRL band plan for 70 cm designates 446.0 MHz as
> a national calling
> channel. Other frequencies in the segment are for
> simplex or repeater use.
> In the US, government radiolocation services are
> primary and Amateur Radio
> is secondary on that portion of the 70-cm band.
> 
> "If nothing else, this Petition reveals the problems
> that arise from the
> failure to harmonize allocations internationally,"
> the ARRL noted. "Had
> the United States and CEPT [the European Conference
> of Postal and
> Telecommunications Administrations] taken steps to
> harmonize FRS channels
> internationally prior to creating the FRS in the
> first place, the problems
> reasonably noted by the petitioner might have been
> avoided."
> 
> The Petition, RM-10521, and filed comments are
> available via the FCC's
> Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS). Click on
> "Search for Filed
> Comments" and enter "RM-10521" (the ECFS is
> case-sensitive) in the
> "Proceeding" field. The comment period has expired.
> 
> ==>SOLAR UPDATE
> 
> Solar Solon Tad "Good Day, Sunshine" Cook, K7VVV,
> Seattle, Washington,
> reports: Sunspots and solar flux were higher during
> the past week. Average
> daily sunspot values increased by more than 46
> points over the previous
> week, and average solar flux was up by nearly 20.
> Geomagnetic conditions
> were unsettled to active. The most active days were
> Thursday and Monday
> (October 10 and 14), when planetary A indices were
> 23 and 26. The really
> quiet day was Friday, with a planetary A index of 8
> and mid-latitude A
> index of only 5.
> 
> Solar flux should drop over the next couple of weeks
> to around 140 by
> October 27-29, then turn up again at the end of the
> month. Over the next
> few days, Friday though Tuesday, approximate solar
> flux values are
> predicted around 180 to 185. The earth is currently
> within a high-speed
> solar wind, and we could see a jump in geomagnetic
> activity if the
> interplanetary magnetic field tilts south. Planetary
> A indices are
> predicted around 12-15 over the next few days, an
> unsettled outlook.
> 
> Sunspot numbers for October 10 through 16 were 244,
> 178, 171, 167, 175,
> 165, and 182, with a mean of 183.1. The 10.7-cm flux
> was 171.9, 179.4,
> 180.4, 179.2, 181.2, 176.8 and 182.5, with a mean of
> 178.8. Estimated
> planetary A indices were 23, 8, 11, 10, 26, 15, and
> 14, with a mean of
> 15.3.
> 
> __________________________________
> 
> ==>IN BRIEF:
> 
> * This weekend on the radio: Scouting's Jamboree on
> the Air (JOTA), the
> JARTS World Wide RTTY Contest, the ARCI Fall QSO
> Party, the Worked All
> Germany Contest, the Asia-Pacific Sprint (CW), the
> RSGB 21/28 MHz Contest
> (CW) and the Illinois QSO Party are the weekend of
> October 19-20. JUST
> AHEAD: CQ Worldwide DX Contest (SSB), the ARRL
> International EME Contest
> and the 10-10 International Fall Contest (CW) are
> the weekend of October
> 26-27. 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.
> 
> * ARRL Certification and Continuing Education course
> registration:
> Registration for the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency
> Communications Level III
> (EC-003) and HF Digital Communications (EC-005)
> courses opens Monday,
> October 21, 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time (2000 UTC).
> Registration will
> remain open through Sunday, October 27. Classes
> begin October 28.
> Registration for the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency
> Communications Level II
> (EC-002) and Antenna Modeling (EC-004) courses
> remains open through
> Sunday, October 20. If you have not yet let us know
> what you'd like to see
> for future C-C course offerings, visit the C-CE
> Course Survey
> <http://www.arrl.org/members-only/cce/ccesurv.html>
> page on the ARRL Web
> site midnight, October 27. 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 Program Coordinator Howard Robins, W1HSR,
> [email protected].
> 
> * ARRL Audio News celebrates its fifth birthday: The
> League's weekly
> Amateur Radio newscast--ARRL Audio News--marked its
> fifth birthday on
> October 17. Compiled and edited each week from The
> ARRL Letter, the news
> feed in those early days of 1997 initially was
> available only in RealAudio
> format via the ARRL Web site, and with Tucson
> Amateur Packet
> Radio--TAPR--generously providing server space. A
> telephone call-in line
> (860-594-0384) was added shortly after the news
> feed's debut. More
> recently, ARRL was able to set up the service on its
> own servers. Along
> the way, we've added some additional voices in the
> form of ARRL HQ
> staffers Jennifer Hagy, N1TDY, and Brennan Price,
> N4QX, in addition to the
> primary host, Rick Lindquist, N1RL, the ARRL's
> senior news editor.
> Digitally recorded and produced at ARRL
> Headquarters, ARRL Audio News now
> is available as an MP3 file, downloadable from the
> ARRL Web site
> <http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio> in addition
> to the telephone
> call-in service. More than 110 repeaters in the US
> and elsewhere in the
> world now air ARRL Audio News in full or in part.
> 
> * Salvation Army officer praises hams' efforts in
> wake of hurricanes: Mark
> Price, N9VOC, a Salvation Army captain and a member
> of the Salvation Army
> Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN), has praised
> the assistance rendered
> to the organization by members of the Central
> Louisiana Amateur Radio Club
> following recent hurricanes that hit the state. The
> Central Louisiana hams
> "gave of themselves and of their own equipment to
> aid in communications,"
> Price said. "With stations manned at Red Cross
> checkpoints and center as
> well as aboard any operation manned by The Salvation
> Army, the men and
> women of Amateur Radio have distinguished themselves
> above and beyond all
> expectations." Price made the comments in a letter
> to the editor of The
> Town Talk, a local newspaper. The hams in Central
> Louisiana "not only
> provided communications and coordination, but also
> tirelessly gave of
> their time to assist The Salvation Army in its
> Herculean effort to provide
> 15,130 units of food and refreshment to evacuees
> over the course of three
> days." Hams, Price said, helped prepare and
> distribute supplies as well as
> provide excellent communication.
> 
> * Paul Blumhardt, K5RT, joins CQ staff: Paul
> Blumhardt, K5RT, has joined
> the staff of CQ Communications Inc as director of
> new business
> development, company president Dick Ross, K2MGA,
> announced October 16.
> "Paul brings to CQ a valuable mix of ham radio
> experience coupled with an
> outside view of the amateur radio industry," said
> Ross. Blumhardt will
> oversee efforts to broaden the base and the scope of
> the company's
> marketing activities. CQ publishes magazines, books,
> videos and other
> materials for the Amateur Radio and hobby radio
> fields. Blumhardt has been
> serving for the past three years in a volunteer
> capacity as Worked All
> Zones Award manager. He is a member of the ARRL, the
> North Texas Contest
> Club, the Potomac Valley Radio Club and the Lone
> Star DX Association.
> Blumhardt will work from his home in Rowlett, Texas.
> 
> * Special event to mark Panama centenary: The Radio
> Club of Panama will
> operate a special event station, HP100RCP, during
> the month of November to
> commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of
> Panama. A
> commemorative certificate is available to stations
> working the special
> event station and confirming the contact with a QSL
> and two International
> Reply Coupons (IRCs) or $1 US. QSL to Radio Club de
> Panama,  PO BOX 10745,
> Panama 4, PANAMA. HP100RCP will operate in all bands
> and all modes
> including PSK31.--Radio Club de Panama
> 
> * P29PL leaving Papua New Guinea: After 18 years of
> activity from Papua
> New Guinea, 74-year-old Paul Linsley, P29PL, is
> headed back to Australia
> for medical reasons and retirement. He hopes to
> continue on the air as
> VK2EXB and maybe from club station VK2ATZ. Linsley
> favored CW and often
> has been the only active Papua New Guinea station on
> that mode. "Paul has
> been an avid supporter of Amateur radio for all his
> years in Papua New
> Guinea from 1984 and has represented P29 in many
> contests as well as to
> tens of thousands of individual amateurs around the
> world," said Rick
> Warnett, P29KFS.--The Daily DX
> 
>
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