[TCARC-NTx] ARRL Letter
david johnson
[email protected]
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:57:46 -0800 (PST)
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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 22, No. 01
January 3, 2003
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IN THIS EDITION:
* +ARRL's 5-MHz experimental operation ends
* +New crew resumes ARISS school contacts
* +FCC poised to renew Kevin Mitnick's ham ticket
* +Hams fill communication gap during telephone
emergency
* +McGan Award nominations open
* ARRL offering license renewal, other application
services to
nonmembers
* Solar Update
* IN BRIEF:
This weekend on the radio
ARRL Emergency Communications course registration
ARRL to sponsor emergency communications course
seminar in
Mississippi
Correction
Packet users requested to not send e-mail
messages to ISS crew
+ARRL QSL Service ends 2002 just shy of 2 million
cards shipped
+League volunteers help at public TV pledge drive
IARU presents Amateur Radio Administration Course
in Kenya
+Available on ARRL Audio News
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==>ARRL CONCLUDES 5-MHz EXPERIMENTS, AWAITS FCC
DECISION ON NEW BAND
Without fanfare, the ARRL allowed its WA2XSY 5-MHz
experimental license
to
lapse January 1 rather than request renewal for
another year. Last May,
the FCC proposed going along with the ARRL's 2001
request for a new
domestic (US-only), secondary HF allocation at 5.25 to
5.4 MHz.
Discussions with various governmental
agencies--including the
Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) and
the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA)--continue on
how
to accommodate amateur operation in the band, which is
primary for
several
governmental agencies including the military. The NTIA
regulates radio
spectrum allocated to the federal government.
"At this point, we have every reason to believe the
FCC will act on its
proposal early this year," said ARRL Chief Executive
Officer David
Sumner,
K1ZZ. "As to what the outcome will be as far as 5 MHz
is concerned, we
cannot predict."
In a December 24 letter, Sumner thanked the 15 Amateur
Radio clubs and
individual amateurs who took part in the 5-MHz
experimental operation
that
began in January 1999 and largely concluded in 2002.
"You assisted in
providing an important part of the groundwork for our
petition for a
domestic allocation to the Amateur Radio Service in
this frequency
range
by demonstrating the desirability and feasibility of a
shared
allocation,"
he wrote. "We hope it will not be long before amateurs
throughout the
country are able to enjoy the fruits of your efforts."
Sumner said the ARRL chose not to request another
renewal of the WA2XSY
license because it already had obtained sufficient
information to
justify
its petition for the band.
Until surprise opposition surfaced last fall from the
NTIA, the FCC had
the League's request for a new 60-meter band on the
proverbial fast
track.
In a letter filed with the FCC last August--after the
comment deadline
had
passed--the NTIA recommended that the Commission not
go forward with
the
5-MHz proposal. The NTIA said several government
agencies with
allocations
in the proposed spectrum had expressed reservations
about allowing
amateurs to use the band, even on a non-interference
basis.
The ARRL has been working with the federal agencies
involved to resolve
the impasse the NTIA letter raised. The NTIA said
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.
The
FCC's May 2002 Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM)
fails to
adequately
protect these "critical government operations" from
harmful
interference,
the NTIA asserted.
The ARRL has called the 5 MHz allocation "an urgent
priority of the
Amateur Service." In its July 2001 petition, the
League told the FCC
that
a new band at 5 MHz would aid emergency communication
activities by
filling a "propagation gap" between 80 and 40 meters.
Experimental operations on 5 MHz continue on a very
limited basis in
the
United Kingdom and in Canada. In Newfoundland, the
Marconi Radio Club's
VO1MRC has been operating under experimental authority
from Industry
Canada and an endorsement from Radio Amateurs of
Canada to conduct
experiments on 5 MHz. On December 21, VO1MRC completed
a cross-band (5
MHz/7 MHz) CW contact with VK7RO in Tasmania.
==>CHICAGO YOUNGSTERS ENJOY END-OF-YEAR ARISS QSO
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) school and
educational contacts resumed in late December after a
hiatus to change
crews. Expedition 6 Crew Commander Ken Bowersox,
KD5JBP, spoke December
29
via NA1SS with a dozen youngsters visiting Adler
Planetarium and
Astronomy
Museum <http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/index.html> in
Chicago. It
marked
the 81st ARISS contact and the first contact for
Bowersox' crew with
youngsters in the US. Expedition 6 crew members also
conducted
successful
ARISS contacts on New Year's Eve with participants at
the World Scout
Jamboree in Thailand and with students in France.
"I'd say the most important thing that I have learned
in space is that
people are very, very strong and flexible, and we can
adapt to all
types
of different environments," Bowersox told a youngster
who had asked the
space veteran to describe the most interesting or
important thing he'd
learned in space.
Other youngsters were curious about food and eating in
space. Bowersox
said he missed pizza most of all aboard the ISS. His
favorite space
food,
he said, was bread pudding. "And I can just open a
packet and eat
straight
out of the packet with a spoon," he said. Bowersox
also explained that
the
human body still digests food very well in zero
gravity. He also noted
that the crew was trying to grow some tomatoes and
herbs in space.
"We're
not sure how they'll turn out," he said, "but we're
hoping they'll be
very
tasty."
An audience of some 200 people, including TV and
newspaper reporters,
were
on hand to watch the youngsters interview Bowersox via
Amateur Radio.
Participating youngsters ranged between five and ten
years old.
Organizing
the ARISS event were ARISS mentor Charlie Sufana,
AJ9N, and the
planetarium's Geri Smith.
Audio and video (Quicktime) clips of the Adler
Planetarium ARISS
contact
are available via the Adler Planetarium Web site
<http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/education/events/iss/>.
On December 31, 15 Scouts at the 20th World Scout
Jamboree
<http://www.worldscout.pacific.net.th/> in Thailand
spoke with
Expedition
6 crew member Don Pettit, KD5MDT, via special event
station E20AJ.
Among
other questions, the Scouts asked Pettit if he wanted
his own kids to
grow
up to become astronauts, how the crew members bathe in
space, and how
the
lack of gravity affects the human body.
Also on December 31, Pettit spoke with students at the
Rene Mure school
in
Commelle-Vernay, France. ARISS International Vice
Chairman Gaston
Bertels,
ON4WF, said some 60 schoolchildren and their parents
assisted in the
contact. The French youngsters wanted to know if
Pettit believed in
extraterrestrial life, whether the crew could feel the
speed of the ISS
through space, and if microgravity made it difficult
for crew members
to
find their way in the space station.
==>FCC POISED TO RENEW COMPUTER HACKER'S HAM TICKET
An FCC Administrative Law Judge has recommended that
the FCC grant the
Amateur Radio license renewal application of convicted
computer hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick, N6NHG. The Initial Decision
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-02D-02A1.pdf>
by
Chief Administrative Law Judge Richard L. Sippel
released December 23
comes approximately one year after the FCC designated
Mitnick's license
renewal application for hearing.
"Right now, my goal in life is to live a productive
life and to earn a
living and try to make up for all the time that I lost
and try to be a
productive citizen," Mitnick told an FCC hearing last
June 18. The
Commission had cited character issues stemming from
Mitnick's history
of
illegal computer-related activity--which included
several convictions
and
prison sentences and two years on the run.
Mitnick testified that he's decided to turn his life
around and
dedicate
himself to a career in broadcast radio, public
speaking, and writing to
help government, businesses, and individuals minimize
the risks
associated
with computer intrusions. Following his release from
prison, Mitnick
said,
he has been law-abiding and has no desire to return to
his former life.
In his Initial Decision, Sippel wrote, "There is
reliable evidence that
Mr. Mitnick has focused on becoming an honest,
productive citizen and
that
he has the means to continue to do so." Sippel said
that Mitnick has
been
on the amateur bands since his release from prison and
there have been
no
complaints regarding his on-the-air behavior. "The
evidence in its
totality shows Mr. Mitnick to have an overall record
of compliance with
Commission rules," Sippel concluded.
Unless exceptions are raised within 30 days or the FCC
reviews the
ruling
on its own motion, Sippel's decision becomes effective
50 days after
its
release.
First licensed in 1976, Mitnick, 39, filed with the
FCC through his
attorney to renew his General ticket not long after
his US District
Court
conviction in August 1999. His ham license was due to
expire in
December
1999, but the FCC extended his operating authority
while his renewal
application was pending. Mitnick reportedly spent some
$16,000 in legal
fees to retain his ham ticket.
Following a similar hearing earlier this year on
character issues, the
FCC
recently granted the Amateur Radio license application
of Herbert
Schoenbohm. Last month, Schoenbohm regained his
previously held KV4FZ
call
sign via the vanity call sign system. Upon his return
to ham radio
after a
nearly two-year absence, he initially was issued NP2MJ
as a sequential
call sign.
==>HAMS HELP OUT DURING OKLAHOMA TELEPHONE EMERGENCY
Hams responded to fill a communication gap December 23
after the town
of
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, experienced a city-wide
telephone outage that
left
telephone customers unable to call outside their local
exchange. Broken
Arrow implemented its Telecommunications Failure Plan
as a result. A
request went out for amateurs to assist at the local
emergency
operations
center (EOC) and at three area hospitals.
Several hams in and around the town of 75,000
residents responded to
the
call. Four Broken Arrow Amateur Radio Club members
staffed positions at
the Broken Arrow EOC and at three hospital emergency
rooms. Tulsa
Amateur
Radio Emergency Service member Joe Iverson, KD5KKZ,
reported to the
City
of Tulsa EOC.
"All in all, things went smoothly," said Broken Arrow
ARC president
Steve
Bradley, KB5ZSD. "The city officials were again very
impressed and
appreciative with the amateur community's commitment
to service and
response to the emergency. It is times like these that
such
partnerships
between local government and the local hams become
invaluable."
The operation lasted about five hours. In addition to
passing traffic
between the EOC and the hospitals, lines of
communication also were
opened
with the Oklahoma State Department of Civil Emergency
Management in
Oklahoma City via the EOC's HF amateur station.
The telephone system troubles were traced to the loss
of a digital
protocol needed for call routing.
==>NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE 2003 PHILIP J. MCGAN
MEMORIAL SILVER
ANTENNA
AWARD
Nominations are open for the ARRL 2003 Philip J. McGan
Memorial Silver
Antenna Award. Throughout the year, ARRL PICs, PIOs
and other PR
volunteers in the ARRL field organization strive to
keep Amateur Radio
visible in their communities. Among other valuable
activities, they
publicize special events, write press releases, and
maintain solid
working
relationships with their local media--radio, TV,
newspapers.
"If you know someone who has achieved public relations
success on
behalf
of Amateur Radio, nominating him or her for the McGan
Award is the
perfect
way to bestow much deserved recognition," said ARRL
Public Relations
Manager Jennifer Hagy, N1TDY. "The 2003 McGan Award
will go to a ham
who
has demonstrated success in Amateur Radio public
relations and best
exemplifies the volunteer spirit of Phil McGan, the
award's namesake."
A journalist, Philip J. McGan, WA2MBQ (SK), served as
the first
chairman
of the ARRL's Public Relations Committee, which helped
reinvigorate the
League's commitment to public relations. Hagy notes
the award honors
contributions in public relations, not in public
service.
"Public relations activities for which the McGan Award
is given include
efforts specifically directed at bringing Amateur
Radio to the public's
attention--and most often the media's--in a positive
light," she
explained.
A committee of volunteers knowledgeable about Amateur
Radio public
relations will pick the winner, subject to approval by
the ARRL Board
of
Directors. Information on nominating someone for this
award is
available
on the ARRL Web site
<http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/12/30/1/call-for-nominations.html>.
To obtain an entry form, call ARRL HQ at (860)
594-0328 or e-mail
Jennifer
Hagy, N1TDY, [email protected].
==>ARRL PROVIDING FCC LICENSE RENEWAL, ADDRESS
CHANGES, MODS TO
NONMEMBERS
The ARRL has announced that it's now providing FCC
Amateur Radio
license
renewals, address changes and other license
modification services to
nonmembers. For a $12 fee, the League will renew a
nonmember's Amateur
Radio ticket (the license must be within 90 days of
expiration), file
an
application to change address or name or request
issuance of a new
sequential call sign. The ARRL Volunteer Examiner
Coordinator is
processing these applications.
"The $12 is in line with our calendar year 2003 exam
application fee,"
said ARRL VEC Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ. For several
years, the ARRL
has
been handling renewals, address and name changes and
modifications free
of
charge for members and has directed nonmembers to the
FCC's free
Internet
or hard-copy application options or to other providers
of such
services.
Jahnke suggests that nonmembers who now choose to
employ the League's
application handling service also consider adding $27
(based on the
current under-65 full term member rate of $39) for a
full ARRL
membership
that includes free application handling and other
services--not to
mention
QST.
Members or nonmembers taking advantage of this service
should submit
NCVEC
Form 605 <http://www.arrl.org/fcc/forms.html> to ARRL
VEC, 225 Main St,
Newington CT 06111 USA for processing. Nonmembers
should make the $12
fee
payable to "ARRL." For more information, contact ARRL
VEC,
[email protected].
==>SOLAR UPDATE
Wave bender Tad "Who can make the sun shine, on a
cloudy day?" Cook,
K7VVV, Seattle, Washington, reports: Last week we
reported sunspot
numbers
dropping dramatically. This week it became a trend.
Average daily
sunspot
numbers for the past three weeks were 206.1, 164.4 and
55.3. Average
solar
flux was 188.7, 169.1 and 117.1. The real shocker
though was Monday,
with
a sunspot number of only 44! I thought it possible
that the sunspot
number
had not been that low since the other side of the
solar cycle (before
the
peak), but we actually saw lower values of 27 and 38
on September 11
and
September 12, 2000. On September 26, 1999, it was also
44--and that was
probably on the other side of the peak of the current
cycle.
Last year was surprisingly good in terms of high
sunspot activity. The
average daily sunspot number for Calendar Year 2002
was actually
slightly
higher than any of the three previous years. Average
daily sunspot
numbers
for the years 1997 through 2002 were 30.7, 88.7,
136.3, 173, 170.3 and
176.6. Note the 176.6 value is lower than the 178.3
reported in last
week's bulletin as the average sunspot number for the
first 359 days of
the year. The drop in sunspot numbers over the past
week was so
dramatic
that it actually dropped the yearly average by nearly
two points!
Average
daily solar flux for the same six years was 81, 117.9,
153.7, 179.6,
181.6
and 179.5.
What is the trend? Let's look at quarterly averages.
Average daily sunspot numbers for the past eight
quarters were 147.3,
164.8, 170.4, 198.1, 178.3, 165.3, 193.5 and 152.7.
Average daily solar
flux for those same quarters was 164.4, 166.7, 175.5,
219.1, 203.9,
156.4,
178.1 and 164.2. As you can see, there is quite a bit
of variability in
the values. Solar cycles only appear smooth when
looking backward and
doing a moving average of the data.
Currently Earth is entering a solar wind from a small
coronal hole on
the
sun. Conditions could be unsettled on Friday and
Saturday. The
projected
planetary A index for Friday through Monday is 15, 15,
10 and 8. The
projected solar flux for those same days is 120, 125,
125 and 130.
Sunspot numbers for December 26 through January 1 were
62, 63, 70, 51,
44,
50 and 47, with a mean of 55.3. The 10.7-cm flux was
127.4, 116.5,
116.9,
114.8, 113.8, 115.1 and 115, with a mean of 117.1.
Estimated planetary
A
indices were 15, 37, 19, 13, 15, 11 and 10, with a
mean of 17.1.
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==>IN BRIEF:
* This weekend on the radio: Kid's Day, the AGCW QRP
Winter Contest,
the
ARRL RTTY Roundup and the EUCW 160-Meter Contest are
the weekend of
January 4-5. JUST AHEAD: The North American QSO Party
(CW), Hunting
Lions
in the Air, the East Asia 160/80 DX Contest, the
Midwinter Contest
(CW),
the NRAU-Baltic Contest (CW and SSB are separate
events), the Midwinter
Contest (SSB) and the DARC 10-Meter Contest are the
weekend of January
11-12. 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 Emergency Communications course registration:
Registration opens
Monday, January 6, at 12:01 AM Eastern Time (0500 UTC)
for the on-line
Level I Emergency Communications course (EC-001).
Registration remains
open through the January 11-12 weekend or until all
available seats
have
been filled--whichever comes first. The class begins
Tuesday, January
21.
Thanks to the federal homeland security grant from the
Corporation for
National and Community Service, the $45 registration
fee paid upon
enrollment will be reimbursed after successful
completion of the
course.
During this registration period, approximately 200
seats are being
offered
to ARRL members on a first-come, first-served basis.
To learn more,
visit
the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Web
page and the C-CE
Links found there. For more information, contact
Emergency
Communications
Course Manager Dan Miller, K3UFG, [email protected];
860-594-0340.
* ARRL to sponsor emergency communications course
seminar in
Mississippi:
The ARRL will offer a free Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications
course
(ARECC) seminar January 31, in conjunction with the
2003 Capital City
Hamfest in Jackson, Mississippi. The seminar will not
include the Level
I
course itself. This program is designed to explain in
greater detail
the
duties of volunteer certification mentors, instructors
and examiners of
the Amateur Radio Emergency Communications courses and
provide
additional
information for those considering these volunteer
positions. "With
Level I
emergency communications training being offered
nationwide under the
homeland security grant from the Corporation for
National and Community
Service, we hope to have all ARECC team players
reading from the same
page
to ensure success under the federal grant guidelines,"
said ARRL
Emergency
Communications Course Manager Dan Miller, K3UFG. The
seminar will be
held
Friday, January 31, 1 until 5 PM, at the Trade Mart
Building, located
on
the Mississippi State Fairgrounds northeast of the
coliseum. Seating
may
be limited. If you plan to attend or need more
information, contact Dan
Miller, K3UFG, [email protected]; 860-594-0340; fax
860-594-0259. For
registered CMs, CIs and CEs who attend, mileage may be
reimburseable up
to
a total of $35. Seminar attendance does not include
admission to the
hamfest, which is January 31-February 1. For more
information on the
2003
Capital City Hamfest, visit the sponsoring Jackson
Amateur Radio Club
Web
site <http://www.jxnarc.org/>.
* Correction: In the report "FCC Seeks Comments on
Amateur
Radio-Related
Petitions" in The ARRL Letter, Vol 21, No 50 (Dec 27,
2002), we erred
in
attempting to synopsize the rule making petition
designated RM-10620
offered by Dale Reich, K8AD. Reich notes that his
proposal would
require
current veteran, rule-abiding Novice and Advanced
ticket holders to
apply
for an upgrade in license class through a Volunteer
Examiner
Coordinator.
* Packet users requested to not send e-mail messages
to ISS crew:
Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
International Chairman
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, has requested that amateurs
refrain from sending
e-mail to the ISS crew via the onboard RS0ISS Personal
Message System
(PMS). "The crew is not answering the e-mail, and we
really don't
expect
them to." he said. "If things change, we'll let you
know." Reports have
indicated that the ISS packet mailbox is filling up
with unread
messages,
many of them greetings to the crew or holiday
greetings. The all-ham
Expedition 6 ISS crew consists of Crew Commander Ken
Bowersox, KD5JBP,
cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, RV3FB, and astronaut Don
Pettit, KD5MDT.
* ARRL QSL Service ends 2002 just shy of 2 million
cards shipped: With
sunspot numbers slowly starting to decline, it may be
a while before
the
ARRL QSL Service <http://www.arrl.org/qsl/qslout.html>
again sees the
sort
of activity it dealt with in 2002. During the past
year, the service
mailed out 1,963,165 cards from ARRL members to DX
stations. That's up
by
30,850 over 2001--or approximately 1.6 percent. The
final day's QSL
card
shipment to exotic and rare entities--done every 90
days--was 148,050
cards alone. "Overall, it's been a pretty good year
for the bureau,"
said
ARRL QSL Service Manager Martin Cook, N1FOC. "We got
the cards sorted
on
time with no backlog this year." Cook said most
members have been
sorting
their cards properly before sending them to the ARRL
QSL Service for
shipping. "Unsorted cards really slow things down," he
said.
* League volunteers help at public TV pledge drive:
Amateur Radio got a
bit of TV exposure December 30 as several ARRL
Headquarters staffers
represented the League during a Connecticut Public
Television (CPTV)
fund
drive. ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart,
K1MMH, who organized
the group of HQ volunteers, said that with more than
300 public radio
and
television stations in the country, volunteering a ham
radio club for a
pledge drive phone bank is a tidy way to gain some
visibility. "Just
call
the station's volunteer coordinator," Hobart
suggested. "Several people
called in and said they were hams, or that their
father was a ham, and
donated because they saw our banner in the
background." ARRL Electronic
Publications Manager Jon Bloom, KE3Z, even helped a
caller with an
"out-of-sync" audio problem on her TV (the SAP channel
was
engaged)--something most volunteers probably could not
do. The 17 HQ
staffers and family members helped raise more than
$45,000 for CPTV
during
a University of Connecticut women's basketball game
and received high
praise from the station's volunteer coordinator for
their
professionalism
and above-average results during their segment.
* IARU presents Amateur Radio Administration Course in
Kenya: The
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has announced
the successful
presentation of the Amateur Radio Administration
Course (ARAC) in
Nairobi,
Kenya. The course, conducted jointly by IARU and the
African Advanced
Level Telecommunications Institute (AFRALTI), was
taught December 9-13,
2002, to a class of 22 telecommunications officials
from
English-speaking
African countries. Support for the course was provided
by the
International Telecommunication Union
Telecommunication Development
Bureau
(ITU-D), the African Telecommunications Union (ATU)
and the
Communications
Commission of Kenya (CCK). Students were from
administrations and
telecommunications operators from Ghana, Kenya, Sudan
and Zambia.
Presenters were Paul Rinaldo, W4RI, for IARU; Mohamed
K. Noorani of
AFRALTI; and Gideon Mwakatobe of ATU. AFRALTI Director
Edward Mallango
participated in the opening ceremony and ATU
Secretary-General Jan
Mutai
officiated at the closing ceremony. Amateur Radio
Society of Kenya
(ARSK)
Chairman E H M (Ted) Alleyne, 5Z4NU, set up an HF
station at the
training
site. "The presentation of the course in Nairobi was
made possible by a
strong sense of partnership that exists between ITU,
ATU, and IARU,"
said
IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ. "IARU President
Larry Price, W4RA,
has
assigned a high priority to the development of Amateur
Radio in Africa.
We
are most gratified that ITU-D Director Hamadoun Tour�
as well as ATU
Secretary General Mutai and his colleagues in Nairobi
share our
conviction
that Amateur Radio can contribute to human resource
development for the
improvement of telecommunications in Africa." The
course included
instruction in subjects such as the ITU, Radio
Regulations, spectrum
management, the IARU, domestic and international
regulations, Amateur
Radio operations and technology, disaster
communications and the
Amateur-Satellite Service.
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