[TCARC-NTx] Fwd: The ARRL Letter, Vol 21, No 37

[david johnson]

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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 21, No. 37
September 20, 2002
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IN THIS EDITION:

* +Progress reported on 5 MHz compromise
* +Hurricane Watch Net, W4EHW activate for first time
this season
* +Tennessee hams pass the acid test
* +FCC shuts down California UHF system
* +Digital fans enjoy annual ARRL/TAPR conference
* +Vintage Maxim QSL card brings record price
* +ARRL updates contest certificate designs
*  Solar Update
*  IN BRIEF:
     This weekend on the radio
     ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
course registration
     Maximize your public relations efforts with new
PC presentations
     Vote on QST Cover Plaque Award
     NASA names Whitson first ISS science officer
     ARRL DXCC Desk accredits 7O/OH2YY Yemen operation
     Ten-Tec announces annual hamfest
     Murphy G. "Murph" Ratterree, W4WMQ, SK

+Available on ARRL Audio News

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==>ARRL OFFICIALS UPBEAT ABOUT REACHING 5-MHZ
COMPROMISE

ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, and General Counsel
Chris Imlay, 
W3KD,
say they're optimistic about reaching a resolution to
issues that could
otherwise block plans for a new 5 MHz band. Until
surprise opposition
surfaced from the National Telecommunications and
Information
Administration (NTIA), the FCC appeared to have put
ARRL's request for 
a
new, domestic-only, secondary amateur allocation at 60
meters on the 
fast
track.

In an eleventh-hour move a month ago, the NTIA
recommended in a letter 
to
the FCC--sent after the comment deadline--that the
Commission not go
forward with a proposal for an Amateur Radio
allocation at 5250 to 5400
kHz. The NTIA regulates radio spectrum allocated to
the federal
government.

"We are working together with the Federal agencies
involved toward a
solution of the impasse raised by the NTIA letter,"
Imlay said after he
and Haynie attended a series of meetings September 19
in Washington, 
DC.

Acting NTIA Associate Administrator for Spectrum
Management Fredrick R.
Wentland had said in an August 21 letter that critical
federal 
agencies,
including the Department of Justice, the US Coast
Guard and the 
Department
of Defense, were making extensive use of 5 MHz
frequencies. He worried
that the 5 MHz proposal the FCC put forth last May at
the ARRL's 
request
"does not adequately provide for protection from
harmful interference 
to
these critical government operations."

After initially huddling this week with NTIA and FCC
officials and 
staff
members, Haynie and Imlay met face-to-face with
representatives of the
agencies involved to share mutual concerns.

"They are willing to work with us," Haynie said.
"Chris and I left 
feeling
a whole lot better." Haynie said hammering out some
differences will
involve some further meetings--including one with the
US Navy--but that 
he
and Imlay were feeling much more positive about the
situation.

"I feel confident we'll get something," Haynie said.
"I don't think 
we'll
get everything we want, but it's certainly a start,
and it's a lot 
better
than what it was this time last week."

One difficulty in the negotiations is that some of the
information on 
the
government's use of the 5-MHz frequencies involved is
classified. "We 
were
given some hints about the sensitivity and the
seriousness of some of 
the
activity that's going on," Haynie said, "and we fully
appreciate that
now--more so than before--because we just didn't, and
couldn't, know. 
The
important thing is that we have established a good
working relationship
with the Justice Department and the Coast Guard."

Imlay said the discussions tended to center on power
restrictions and
frequencies but emphasized that no decisions were
reached. The ARRL
proposal called for a 150-kHz wide band and the full
legal power limit.
Imlay hinted, however, that perhaps a smaller band
than the one 
requested
coupled with some power output limitations, was a real
possibility.

The ARRL has called the 5 MHz allocation "an urgent
priority of the
Amateur Service" and has asked that the proceeding to
grant it be
expedited. Until the latest snafu, the FCC had been
expected by early 
next
year to issue a Report and Order on proposals for the
5-MHz band, a new
low-frequency allocation in the vicinity of 136 kHz
and primary Amateur
and Amateur-Satellite status at 2400 to 2402 MHz.

==>HURRICANE WATCH NET, W4EHW ACTIVATE FOR ISIDORE

The Hurricane Watch Net <http://www.hwn.org> activated
this week for 
the
first time in the current hurricane season as a
nascent hurricane
threatened Cuba and possibly parts of the Gulf of
Mexico. HWN Manager 
Mike
Pilgrim, K5MP, said the net activated at midday on
September 19 on 
14.325
MHz while Isidore was still a tropical storm. The
storm continued to 
gain
strength, however, and by the next day was a Category
2 hurricane 
packing
winds of 100 MPH, with higher gusts.

Members of the Hurricane Watch Net
<http://www.hwn.org> were continuing 
to
keep their eyes on the storm, which, at week's end,
was closing in on
Western Cuba. As of September 20, tropical storm
warnings and hurricane
watches were been posted for portions of Mexico's
Yucatan
Peninsula--including the island of Cozumel. The
National Hurricane 
Center
was predicting that Isidore would make landfall over
Western Cuba. A
hurricane warning remained in effect for several
provinces.

Well-known Cuban amateur and International Amateur
Radio Union Region 2
Area C Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, said
it appeared that 
the
main impact of the storm was poised to strike the Isle
of Youth (Isla 
de
la Juventud) and the western part of Pinar del Rio
Province. Coro
requested protection from interference for 3740, 7040
and 7125 kHz. He
said amateur operators were deployed at CO9BNA at the
Cuban weather
service, Instituto de Meteorologia.

Isidore was moving at about 8 MPH to the
west-northwest. Heavy rainfall 
of
up to 30 inches and damaging surf conditions were
forecast for the 
storm's
path. Official advisories are available on the NHC Web
site
<http://www.nhc.noaa.gov>.

Assistant Amateur Radio Coordinator Julio Ripoll,
WD4JR, at W4EHW at 
the
National Hurricane Center
<http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/w4ehw/>, reported 
that
W4EHW also commenced operations on September 19. W4EHW
has HF stations 
on
both 20 and 40 meters. W4EHW is collecting reports via
APRS, e-mail and
its on-line Hurricane Reporting Form.

The Hurricane Watch Net and W4EHW at the National
Hurricane Center work
hand-in-hand to gather and disseminate real-time,
ground-level weather
data and damage reports from Amateur Radio operators
to assist
forecasters. The HWN also functions as a backup
communication link for 
the
NHC, emergency operating centers and the National
Weather Service.

==>AMATEURS AID IN ACID SPILL AFTERMATH

Dozens of Tennessee hams passed the acid test after a
train derailed 
near
Knoxville the morning of Sunday, September 15. The
wreck of the
Norfolk-Southern freight dumped more than 10,000
gallons of 
concentrated
sulfuric acid, some of which leaked into Ft Loudoun
Lake along the
Tennessee River. The resulting vigorous thermal
reaction generated a
hazardous mist, prompting a massive evacuation. Two
Amateur Radio
emergency teams activated to assist responding
agencies.

ARRL Knox County Emergency Coordinator Greg Williams,
K4HSM, says
authorities ordered the evacuation of all
residents--some 9000
households--within a 1.3-mile radius and recommended
those within five
miles also get out of the area.

Williams said the Middle East Tennessee Emergency
Radio Service 
(METERS)
was called up at 12:30 PM on the Radio Amateur Club of
Knoxville 
repeater
system. Nearby Blount County activated its ARES net as
the potentially
toxic cloud drifted south by the prevailing winds.

"There were several immediate concerns," Williams
said. "One was a bike
tour sponsored by the Multiple Sclerosis Society that
had cyclists
traveling near the affected area." Williams said hams
assisting with 
the
MS Bike Tour were alerted to the spill. Event
personnel promptly called
off the remainder of the tour, evacuated the few
remaining cyclists and
had paramedics check them for any symptoms.

Meanwhile, the Red Cross set up shelters to handle
evacuees, and the
emergency operations centers for Knox and Blount
counties activated.

Williams said Amateur Radio assistance, although
offered, was not
immediately needed by the emergency services
overseeing the situation. 
But
the Red Cross requested ARES activation by
mid-afternoon due to 
overloaded
phone lines and a need to communicate with shelter
workers. Amateur
operators were deployed throughout the afternoon and
into the evening 
to
all shelters in Knox and Blount counties.

According to Williams, more than 50 amateurs checked
into the METERS 
net
over the course of the 10-hour activation, which drew
praise from Red
Cross officials. Williams reports that more than 50
amateurs checked 
into
the METERS net during the activation.

==>REPEATER? REMOTE BASE? FCC ORDERS CALIFORNIA SYSTEM
TO SHUT DOWN

The FCC has ordered a UHF Amateur Radio system in the
Los Angeles area
shut down until it either obtains coordination or
comes up with an
acceptable plan to prevent interfering with a
coordinated repeater just 
10
kHz away. FCC Special Counsel for Enforcement Riley
Hollingsworth says 
the
owner of the 447.250-MHz system on Mt Disappointment,
Steven R. Decho,
KE6FX, has complied with the FCC request, which was
included in a
September 4 Warning Notice.

"For over two years, your Mt Disappointment KE6FX
station has been
characterized by lack of control and identification
problems,"
Hollingsworth wrote. "The real basis of this matter
seems to be that 
you
object to a recent change in spacing standards by the
coordinator and 
do
not wish to conform to them." The regional
coordinator, the Southern
California Repeater and Remote Base Association
(SCRRBA), has told the 
FCC
that the coordination for KE6FX was abandoned.

The FCC considers the KE6FX station a repeater, while
Decho, who 
resides
in Draper, Utah, calls it "a remote base." As a remote
base, he has
claimed, KE6FX does not require coordination. But the
FCC said Decho 
did
submit outdated coordination documents in his response
last year to FCC
communications.

In either case, Hollingsworth again pointed out, the
KE6FX system is
causing interference to the coordinated WA6UZS
repeater 10 kHz away. If
it's a repeater, Hollingsworth explained, KE6FX is
obliged to prevent
interference to the WA6UZS repeater under �97.205 of
the FC rules. If 
it's
an auxiliary station or a remote base, "the fact
remains that it
interferes with the WA6UZS repeater," Hollingsworth
said.

In previous communications with Decho going back about
a year and a 
half,
Hollingsworth among other things cited "reports of
dead carriers that 
last
for weeks, a tone that lasted continuously for three
weeks, weekends of
2-meter rebroadcasts and a repeating CW identification
that lasted for
weeks." Over the July 4 holiday this summer, the
system re-broadcast 
other
repeater traffic and ignored attempts by WA6UZS
repeater personnel to
contact Decho, the FCC said.

In August 2001, the FCC said the KE6FX beacon
identifier that activated
without operational input, the rebroadcasting of other
repeater 
traffic,
dead carriers, continuous tones or repetitive CW
identifiers "must 
cease
immediately" and normal repeater traffic, if any, must
not interfere 
with
WA6UZS.

==>DIGITAL AFICIONADOS TURN OUT FOR 2002 ARRL/TAPR
CONFERENCE

More than 100 of the most active Amateur Radio digital
enthusiasts from
around the world turned out in Denver, Colorado,
September 13-15 for 
the
2002 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference. This
year's event 
marked
the 21st conference. Agenda topics ranged from APRS
(Automatic Position
Reporting System) to high-speed digital networking and
software-defined
radio (SDR), among others.

Friday's forums were dominated by discussions of APRS.
Topics included 
a
discussion of single-wire APRS weather stations,
high-altitude balloon
tracking and recovery--presented by representatives
from Edge of Space
Sciences <http://www.eoss.org/>--APRS in the Sydney
Olympics and the
versatile Findu.com <http://www.findu.com/> on-line
APRS database.

Saturday's sessions included forums on the prospect of
using consumer
wireless devices (popularly known as 802.11b or
"Wi-Fi" devices) to 
create
high-speed Amateur Radio digital networks. A forum on
HF digital voice
also drew considerable interest.

One of Saturday's highlights was a demonstration of
the new ICOM D-Star
<http://www.tapr.org/tapr/dv/DStar brochure.pdf>
digital radio system. 
At
the heart of D-Star is the ID-1 transceiver, which
ICOM had on display 
at
the Dayton Hamvention last spring. The ID-1 operates
on 1.2 GHz and can
communicate using FM analog voice, digital voice and
data. The 
transceiver
can be programmed with a desktop or laptop computer,
or it can be 
operated
in a more conventional manner via a remote front
panel. ICOM's Ray 
Novak,
KC7JPA, said D-Star will be available in the US in
November. (Click 
here
for a sample of D-Star audio recorded at the
conference.)

Bruce Perens, K6BP, <http://perens.com/> was the
featured speaker at 
the
Saturday evening banquet. His entertaining
presentation stressed the
notion that individuals, not just corporations, still
can innovate and
invent. Perens called for grassroots development of
Amateur Radio 
software
and hardware according to the Open Source model. He
also encouraged the
audience to become educators, because, he explained,
"the future 
strength
of Amateur Radio is in our value as technology
teachers."

SDR was another hot topic at the conference, and the
Sunday seminar was
devoted exclusively to that subject. Projects such as
GNU Radio
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/gnuradio.html>
promise a day when
amateur transceivers will achieve extraordinary levels
of flexibility.
Under the SDR paradigm, software, rather than the
hardware, literally 
will
"define" the way in which a radio operates.

Proceedings of the 21st ARRL and TAPR Digital
Communications Conference
now are available for $20 (plus shipping and handling)
via the ARRL Web
catalog <http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?item=8756>.
Order item No 8756.

==>VINTAGE 1AW QSL BRINGS RECORD PRICE

We're not certain if ARRL co-founder and first
president Hiram Percy 
Maxim
would have been proud or surprised to know that one of
his old 1AW QSLs
apparently set a price record for the sale of a single
QSL card. A
1923-vintage HPM 1AW card recently went for $2125 on
the eBay auction 
site
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2131624991>.

Neither the seller nor the buyer have been identified,
but ARRL member
Paul Cassel, VE3SY, of Petersburg, Ontario, Canada,
acted as the sale
agent and posted the card on the auction site. "The
winning bidder is 
in
California and is a very serious QSL collector," he
said after the 
auction
closed. Cassel pledged to donate half of his sale
commission to the 
W1AW
Endowment Fund <http://www.arrl.org/endoww1aw.html>.

The 1AW card appears to verify reception of 9CTR on a
wavelength of 193
meters rather than a two-way contact. "You were
calling another 9," 
Maxim
wrote in the card's "Remarks" section. Although the
card proclaims
"American Radio Relay League Station 1AW" across the
top, the 
now-famous
call sign was Maxim's own personal call sign at the
time, not the
League's, and Maxim operated from his home on
Hartford.

Until the 1AW card sale, Cassel says the highest known
price paid for a
single QSL card was more than $1100 for an AC4YN QSL
from the Tibet
DXpedition of Sir Evan Nepean, G5YN, who died last
March at age 92.

==>ARRL CONTEST BRANCH ANNOUNCES REDESIGNED
CERTIFICATES

The ARRL Contest Branch has released newly designed
certificates for
various ARRL-sponsored contests. The new certificate
designs will be 
used
for all contests starting with those issued to
qualifying participants 
in
the December 2001 ARRL 160-Meter Contest.

"They replace a design that has been in use by the
ARRL for at least 
the
past 20 years," ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan
Henderson, N1ND, said 
of
the new designs. He explains that part of the redesign
involved
reformatting the certificates from a "landscape"
(horizontal) to a
"portrait" (vertical) layout.

The ARRL November Sweepstakes certificate features an
attractive red,
white and blue design and incorporates the popular
outline map of the 
US
and Canada that has been appearing on Sweepstakes
plaques.

Certificates for other HF events are highlighted by
the "global" icon 
now
found on the International DX Contest plaques.

The VHF/UHF/Microwave contest certificates incorporate
a moonbounce 
dish
antenna as a background motif.

While the criteria for winning an award vary among the
various 
operating
events, certificates normally go to the top-finishing
station in each
category from each ARRL/RAC section and DXCC entity.

"We are waiting for the new certificates to arrive
back from the
printer's," Henderson said. "As soon as we have them
in hand, we will
begin printing and mailing the backlog of
certificates."

==>SOLAR UPDATE

Heliophile Tad "House of the Rising Sun" Cook, K7VVV,
Seattle, 
Washington,
reports: Average sunspot numbers were up a bit this
week compared to 
last,
and solar flux on average was about the same.

Solar flux peaked in the short term on September 10 at
220.5 and has 
been
mostly declining since. Solar flux on Tuesday through
Thursday of this
week was 194, 176.8 and 165.3. For Friday though
Sunday it's predicted 
at
165, 160 and 155. Sunday's value may continue for a
few more days and
should be the minimum for the near term. Assuming
returning activity 
from
the current solar rotation, solar flux is expected to
peak again around
October 6-11.

Sunspot numbers for September 12 through 18 were 258,
246, 256, 168, 
190,
228 and 225, with a mean of 224.4. The 10.7-cm flux
was 212.4, 206.1,
206.9, 187.8, 182.6, 194, and 176.8, with a mean of
195.2. Estimated
planetary A indices were 17, 16, 11, 8, 8, 13, and 14,
with a mean of
12.4.

__________________________________

==>IN BRIEF:

* This weekend on the radio: The ARRL 10 GHz
Cumulative Contest, the 
AGB
NEMIGA Contest, the SARL VHF/UHF Contest, the
Scandinavian Activity
Contest (CW), the Collegiate QSO Party, the QRP Afield
Event, the
Washington State Salmon Run, the Panama Anniversary
Contest and the 
Fall
QRP Homebrewer Sprint are the weekend of September
21-22. JUST AHEAD: 
The
CQ/RJ Worldwide DX Contest (RTTY), the Scandinavian
Activity Contest
(SSB). the Alabama, Louisiana and Texas QSO parties,
and the Anatolian 
DX
Contest are the weekend of September 28-29. 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 Satellite Communications
course (EC-007) 
opens
Monday, September 23, 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time (2000
UTC). 
Registration
will remain open through Sunday, September 29. Classes
begin September 
30.
Registration for the Level III Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications
(EC-003) and HF Digital Communications (EC-005)
courses remains open
through Sunday, September 22. 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,
hrobins@arrl.org. [C-CE logo]

* Maximize your public relations efforts with new PC
presentations: 
Thanks
to the efforts of ARRL Public Relations Committee
member and Santa 
Barbara
Section Public Information Coordinator Jeff Reinhardt,
AA6JR, the ARRL 
is
happy to offer two new PowerPoint presentations to
help field 
volunteers
get the most out of their public relations programs.
Both presentations
can be found on the PR Department Web site
<www.arrl.org/pio>. The
presentation "How to be a Media Relations Superstar"
<http://www.arrl.org/pio/Superstar.ppt> is packed with
lots of helpful
pointers to guide you in successfully promoting
Amateur Radio in your
area. This presentation also would work well for
anyone giving a talk 
on
how to promote ham radio. The presentation "100 Great
Publicity Ideas 
for
your Amateur Radio Club"
<http://www.arrl.org/pio/100Ideas.ppt> speaks 
for
itself. Check it out for great tips to help you build
positive public
awareness about Amateur Radio all year long!--Jennifer
Hagy, N1TDY

*Vote on QST Cover Plaque Award: The winner of the QST
Cover Plaque 
Award
for August was Declan Craig, EI6FR, for his article
"The 2002 South
Sandwich/South Georgia Micro-Lite DXpedition."
Congratulations, Declan!
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>.
There's still time to
cast a ballot for your favorite article in the
September 2002 issue of
QST. Voting ends September 30.

* NASA names Whitson first ISS science officer: NASA
has named 
astronaut
Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, as the first NASA International
Space Station
science officer. Whitson, who holds a doctorate in
biochemistry from 
Rice
University, became the ISS's first resident scientist
when she arrived 
at
the orbiting outpost June 7. "Dr. Peggy Whitson is an
obvious choice 
for
NASA's first ISS science officer," NASA Administrator
Sean O'Keefe said 
in
making the announcement September 16. Before joining
the astronaut 
corps,
Whitson's NASA career included time spent as a
researcher. She helped
develop experiments to fly on the space shuttle,
served as the project
scientist for the Shuttle-Mir program and co-chaired
the US-Russian
mission science working group. The post of NASA ISS
science officer is 
a
new duty assignment that will be made for a NASA
astronaut on each ISS
crew increment. For now, NASA says, the science
officer will focus on 
US
research conducted aboard ISS. When she returns to
Earth this fall,
Whitson's science officer duties will continue for
those experiments
conducted during Expedition 5.--NASA news release

*ARRL DXCC Desk accredits 7O/OH2YY Yemen operation:
The ARRL DXCC Desk
reports that it has received evidence that the Yemen
operation by Pekka
Ahlqvist, OH2YY, in May 2002 was conducted with
written approval from 
the
Yemeni government. "Credit for QSOs with 7O/OH2YY from
May 4 through 
May
11, 2002, will be given effective immediately," said
ARRL Century Club
Manager Bill Moore, NC1L. Regarding the 7O1YGF
operation, the DXCC Desk
says it still has received no evidence traceable to
the Yemeni 
government
to accredit that operation for DXCC. "DXCC credit for
this operation 
will
be given only after such evidence has been presented
to ARRL," Moore 
said.

* Ten-Tec announces annual hamfest: Ten-Tec will hold
its third annual
hamfest Friday and Saturday, September 27-28, at the
company's plant in
Sevierville, Tennessee. Hours will be 5-9 PM Friday
and 9 AM-3 PM
Saturday. On hand will be displays and on-the-air
demonstrations of
Ten-Tec equipment, including the new Model 565 Orion
and Model 516
Argonaut V. Other activities include technical forums,
Amateur Radio
examination sessions, guided tours of the plant,
tailgating (Saturday
only), a swap meet, equipment sales and trade ins.
There will be free
refreshments Friday; barbecue will be available
Saturday. On the forum
schedule are ARRL Sales and Marketing Manager and avid
contester Dennis
Motschenbacher, K7BV; and QEX Editor and digital
signal processing guru
Doug Smith, KF6DX, and well-known antenna expert L. B.
Cebik, W4RNL.
Forums get under way at 10 AM Saturday. Ten-Tec is
located at 1185 
Dolly
Parton Parkway in Sevierville, about 30 miles east of
Knoxville. For 
more
information, visit the Ten-Tec Web site
<http://www.tentec.com>. The
Ten-Tec Hamfest is an ARRL-sanctioned event.

* Murphy G. "Murph" Ratterree, W4WMQ, SK: Murph
Ratterree, W4WMQ, of 
Rock
Hill, South Carolina, died September 9. He was 67. An
ARRL member, was 
the
founder and first president of the International DX
Association 
(INDEXA),
which promotes worldwide goodwill among Amateur Radio
operators and
supports DX operations in countries with little or no
amateur activity. 
He
also was a veteran member of the Carolina DX
Association. A chapel 
service
was conducted September 11. Survivors include his
wife, Margaret Sue, 
and
a son and daughter. Memorial contributions are invited
to the American
Cancer Society, 500 E Morehead St, Suite 211,
Charlotte, NC 
28202.--Judy
Roush, AA7UC

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The ARRL Letter also is available to all, free of
charge, from these
sources:

* ARRLWeb, http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/. (NOTE: The
ARRL Letter will 
be
posted each Friday when it is distributed via e-mail.)

* The QTH.net listserver, thanks to volunteers from
the Boston Amateur
Radio Club: Visit
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/letter-list.
(NOTE: The ARRL cannot assist subscribers who receive
The ARRL Letter 
via
this listserver.)


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