[TCARC-NTx] ARRL Letter

[david johnson]

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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 22, No. 02
January 10, 2003
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IN THIS EDITION:

* +ARRL Board of Directors to meet in Connecticut
* +FCC threatens amateur with revocation hearing
* +French youngsters rendezvous with astronaut via ham
radio
* +New Jersey lawmakers honor Amateur Radio's 9/11
role
* +KD5MDT to replace RV3FB on spacewalk
* +New satellite gets OSCAR designation
*  Solar Update
*  IN BRIEF:
     This weekend on the radio
     ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
course registration
    +ARRL seeks Repeater Directory listings from
coordinators
    +Special event from former WCC to celebrate
Marconi centennial
     FCC to hold open commission meeting
     California RACES team responds to gas leak
     Maritime Mobile Service Network celebrates 35th
anniversary
     K6ZT elected president of engineering honor
society

+Available on ARRL Audio News

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==>ARRL BOARD TO TAKE STRATEGIC TACK AT JANUARY
MEETING

The ARRL Board of Directors will mull options for the
next cycle of 
League
activities and deal with fiscal issues when it gathers
January 17-18 in
Windsor, Connecticut. With ARRL and International
Amateur Radio Union
(IARU) positions established for most pending FCC and
legislative 
issues
and for the upcoming 2003 World Radiocommunication
Conference (WRC-03),
the Board is poised to tackle strategic planning for
the next three to
five years as one of its top agenda topics.

"We need to look at our basic assumptions," said ARRL
Chief Executive
Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ. "We will do what we have
to do to ensure 
that
Amateur Radio and the ARRL will be healthy 20 years
from now." At the
January meeting, the Board will consider
recommendations regarding how
strategic planning should be conducted later this
year.

Sumner said ARRL Board members also are interested in
how the ARRL can
stimulate the entry of prospective amateurs from among
the adult
population. Board members also want to explore ways to
entice 
previously
licensed individuals who have left the hobby to return
to Amateur 
Radio.
"There are a lot of new things out there, like PSK-31
and Internet 
linking
that didn't exist a few years ago," he said. "We want
to find a way to
effectively get the word out to those who don't know
that there are 28
flavors of Amateur Radio now, not just vanilla,
chocolate and 
strawberry."

He pointed out that the ARRL Education and Technology
Program--"The Big
Project"--and the Amateur Radio on the International
Space Station 
(ARISS)
program emphasize radio and science instruction for
schoolchildren. 
Both
activities are designed to yield long-term benefits
for Amateur Radio 
from
within the younger generation.

The Board also will be asked to ratify the ARRL budget
for 2003, which 
is
expected to be the last year in a three-year period of
planned deficit
spending. With the League's Development Office firmly
established and
tapping into nontraditional revenue sources, the plan
for 2003 is to
greatly reduce the deficit compared to 2002 and to
look toward again
presenting a balanced budget in 2004, Sumner said.

The Board also will hear from invited guests,
including IARU President
Larry Price, W4RA, and Radio Amateurs of Canada
President Bill Gillis,
VE1WG. In addition to reports from ARRL President Jim
Haynie, W5JBP, 
other
ARRL officers and standing committees, the Board is
expected to hear 
from
technical, ad hoc and advisory committees.

Prior to the Board meeting, newly elected Great Lakes
Division Director
Jim Weaver, K8JE, and Vice Director Dick Mondro,
W8FQT, will be at ARRL
Headquarters January 14-15 for an orientation program.

==>FCC THREATENS NEW YORK AMATEUR WITH HEARING

The FCC has told a Technician-class operator from New
York to stay off 
20
meters or risk having to defend his license at a
hearing. FCC Special
Counsel Riley Hollingsworth wrote Alexander Sandbrand,
N2NNU, of 
Yonkers
December 12 notifying him that the FCC plans to
designate his ham 
ticket
for revocation and suspension proceedings if it learns
of additional
incidents of out-of-band operation.

"This serves as notice that if you engage in any
additional incident of
out-of band operation, the Enforcement Bureau intends
to designate your
Amateur station license N2NNU for a revocation hearing
before an
Administrative Law Judge," Hollingsworth wrote, "and,
further, that we
intend to designate your Technician-class operator
license for 
suspension
for the remainder of the license term, August 26,
2011."

An initial Warning Notice regarding alleged operation
on the 20-meter
phone band went out to Sandbrand in August 2001, but
the FCC has 
reports
that Sandbrand has operated on HF phone since then.

"Information before the Commission indicates that on
at least nine
occasions subsequent to receipt of that warning
letter, you operated 
out
of band," Hollingsworth wrote. He cited reports that
N2NNU had operated 
at
various times on 20, 17, 15 and 10 meters between
September 2001 and 
June
2002.

Hollingsworth told ARRL that after the first Warning
Notice, Sandbrand
called him to complain that it wasn't fair that he had
to pass 
additional
examination elements to operate on HF phone. "I told
him if he wants to
operate on HF, he has to take the test like everybody
else," 
Hollingsworth
said.

In the latest Warning Notice, Hollingsworth informed
Sandbrand that the
FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will not
process any upgrade
applications from him until the matter is resolved. He
said this week 
that
he has not heard anything further from Sandbrand.

==>FRENCH STUDENTS RENDEZVOUS WITH ASTRONAUT VIA HAM
RADIO

Students at the Immaculate Conception Elementary
School in Brest, 
France,
spoke January 8 via Amateur Radio with US astronaut
Don Pettit, KD5MDT. 
A
member of the Expedition 6 crew, Pettit is the chief
science officer on
board the International Space Station. The contact was
arranged by the
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) program.

Some 30 schoolchildren, their teachers and parents
gathered in the room
where the local Amateur Radio club had set up the
satellite station. 
Once
contact was established between NA1SS and ground
station F6KPF and
season's greetings exchanged, Pettit began answering
questions, which
included one asking if the crew celebrated Christmas
in space. Other
youngsters wanted to know about how the ISS was
supplied with food and
where the crew's drinking water came from. Pettit and
his fellow crew
members commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP, and Nikolai
Budarin, RV3FB, 
will
remain in space until March.

"The signal was strong, and Don's voice sounded as if
he was addressing
the audience from the floor," said ARISS Vice Chairman
Gaston Bertels,
ON4WF. By the end of the pass, 18 questions had been
asked and 
answered.
Those on hand for the early-morning contact included
the mayor of 
Brest.
The event received radio, TV and print media coverage.

Bertels reports that the 10 and 11-year-old
pupils--students of Anne
Jaouen--have been studying radio telecommunications
throughout the 
school
year with support from the Brest Amateur Radio Club.
"Hands-on 
experience
consisted of building a crystal radio set, and the
children also have
communicated from their classroom with French Amateur
Radio stations,"
Bertels said.

The youngsters also were actively involved in
preparing the questions 
for
the ARISS contact. "They studied some basics of
astronomy, made models 
of
the solar system, showing lunar phases, the sky, the
sun and the 
earth,"
Bertels explained. "They also saw pictures taken on
board the ISS and
transmitted on television."

In addition to the scientific side of space study, the
children wrote
poems on the theme and illustrated these with
paintings--now decorating
the walls of the school--that represent the adventure
of space 
exploration
and the planets, Bertels said.

ARISS is an international program with support from
ARRL, NASA and 
AMSAT.

==>NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE HONORS AMATEUR RADIO'S 9/11
ROLE

The New Jersey Legislature has honored the role of
Amateur Radio 
operators
in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks. On hand 
in
Trenton to witness a joint proclamation December 12
were ARRL Hudson
Division Director Frank Fallon, N2FF, Hudson Division
Vice Director 
Steve
Mendelsohn, W2ML, Northern New Jersey Section Manager
Bill Hudzik, 
W2UDT,
and Bergen County District Emergency Coordinator Mike
Adams, WA2MWT, 
who's
also a member of the New Jersey PRB-1 Task Force.

"I would like to take this opportunity to commend you
for your hard 
work
and efforts," said Assembly Speaker Albio Sires.
"During times of
disaster, your group has displayed superior service
and dedication to 
the
safety of our citizens. I applaud the efforts of the
independent radio
operators and thank you for your selfless actions on
September 11, 
2001.
Allow me to express my sincere gratitude for your
participation with 
the
New Jersey General Assembly on this day, December 12,
2002."

On behalf of the amateur contingent, Hudzik thanked
the 80 members of 
the
Assembly. Among the cosponsors of the resolution was
Assemblyman 
Matthew
Ahearn, KB2PNN, a Democrat from Fair Lawn and sponsor
of an Amateur 
Radio
antenna bill, Assembly Bill 3065, in the Garden State.

While in the state capital, the ham radio delegation
took the 
opportunity
to promote A3065, "The Amateur Radio Antenna Bill."
The measure would
codify the limited preemption known as PRB-1 into New
Jersey's 
statutes.
In addition, it would preclude local ordinances or
regulations that
effectively prohibit an antenna support structure of
70 feet or less 
above
ground level exclusive of any antenna upon the
structure. The measure 
has
been assigned to the Housing and Local Government
Committee chaired by
Assemblyman Jerry Green (D-Plainfield). The text of
the proposed
legislation <http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/> is
available on the New 
Jersey
Legislature Web site. Search on "A3065" in the "Bill
Search" engine.

Ahearn will be seeking cosponsors in the New Jersey
General Assembly 
and
Senate. Interested New Jersey amateurs may contact him
via e-mail
<asmahearn@njleg.org>. Amateurs may contact their
state lawmakers to
express their opinions on the bill or to urge their
cosponsorship. 
Visit
the New Jersey Legislature page
<http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/> and 
look
under "Members--Find Your Legislator."--Michael Adams,
WA2MWT

==>PETTIT TO SUB FOR BUDARIN DURING SPACEWALK

International Space Station astronaut and Science
Officer Don Pettit,
KD5MDT, will fill in for Russian cosmonaut and Flight
Engineer Nikolai
Budarin, RV3FB, on a January 15 spacewalk or
extra-vehicular
activity--EVA. Pettit and Expedition 6 mission
commander Ken Bowersox,
KD5JBP, will spend more than six hours in space
working on the ISS.

"Pettit replaced Budarin because on-orbit medical data
raised concerns
among US flight surgeons responsible for medical
certification of
spacewalk activity," NASA said this week in a
statement. "This decision
does not affect Budarin's other on-orbit duties. Both
NASA and the 
Russian
Aviation and Space Agency have agreed to the personnel
change for the
EVA." NASA said that because of privacy concerns, no
further 
information
would be made public. Associated Press has quoted
Russian space 
officials
as saying that Budarin failed to meet US standards in
tests on a
stationary bicycle. Budarin, 49, is a veteran of eight
spacewalks.

AP quoted Russian officials as saying that they were
aware of the
"peculiarities" of Budarin's cardiovascular system and
that he is 
healthy
enough to do the spacewalk. Until US flight surgeons
delayed it, the 
EVA
was scheduled to take place last month.

Pettit, 47, himself was a last-minute fill-in for Don
Thomas, KC5FVF, 
who
was pulled from the Expedition 6 crew because flight
surgeons worried
about his exposure to radiation in space. During the
EVA, Bowersox and
Pettit will continue outfitting the newly delivered
Port One truss
segment. Expedition 6 was launched aboard space
shuttle Endeavour last
November 23. The crew will remain aboard the ISS until
March.

The Expedition 6 crew also will be the first to not
host any
guests--either from Soyuz taxi missions or the space
shuttle. Pettit 
has
been filling some of his free time conducting casual
QSOs from NA1SS on 
2
meters.

==>NEW SAUDISAT GETS OSCAR DESIGNATION

A third satellite in the SaudiSat series has earned an
OSCAR 
designation
from AMSAT. SaudiSat-1C now will be known as SO-50.
The Amateur Radio
payload was successfully placed into orbit December 20
from Russia's
Baikonur Cosmodrome by a modified Soviet-era ICBM. The
German-made 
SAFIR-M
Amateur Radio payload
<http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/12/24/3/#German>
went into orbit
during the same launch, as part of the RUBIN-2
scientific satellite.
SAFIR-M has been designated as AO-49. SaudiSat-1C is a
project of the
Space Research Institute of the King Abdulaziz City
for Science and
Technology (KACST) <http://saudisat.kacst.edu.sa/>, an
independent
scientific organization of the Saudi Arabian
government.

"On behalf of AMSAT-NA I wish to congratulate you and
your associates 
at
Space Research Institute of KACST on the successful
culmination of this
project and hope that amateurs all over the world will
have an 
opportunity
to use SO-50," said AMSAT-NA Board Chairman Bill
Tynan, W3XO, in making
the announcement this week.

SaudiSat-1C follows by a little more than two years
the launch of
SaudiSats 1A and 1B. Now in a 650-km (400 miles)
orbit, SaudiSat-1C
carries several experiments, including a new Mode J FM
amateur 
repeater.
The downlink frequency is 436.775 MHz. The uplink
frequency is 145.850
MHz. A 67.0-Hz CTCSS tone is required for on-demand
access to the
satellite, which shares the same frequencies as AO-27
and SaudiSat-1A.

Space Research Institute Director Turki Al Saud
reports that the
SaudiSat-1C repeater was activated and tested this
past week. Its
receiving antenna is a quarter-wave whip atop the
spacecraft. The 
250-mW
UHF transmitter is coupled to a quarter-wave antenna
on the bottom of 
the
spacecraft. He said the repeater will be available to
amateurs 
worldwide
as power permits.

AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, has pointed
out that
SaudiSat-1C will require activation on each pass by a
designated 
control
operator. "A worldwide network of designated control
operators is now
being developed so that radio amateurs may begin using
the satellite
immediately," he said.

For tracking, the NORAD identifier for two-line
Keplerian elements is
27607.

According to a report in Arab News
<http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=21335>, the
new satellite is
equipped with capabilities to provide "vital data"
concerning weather
conditions and oil exploration as well as to monitor
the movement of
vehicles in remote regions of Saudi Arabia.

Turki Al Saud told AMSAT-NA that SaudiSat-1A (SO-41)
recently has been
used to conduct some tests and will return to service
soon. SO-41 has 
been
configured for FM voice repeater operation.
SaudiSat-1B (SO-42) still 
is
being used to conduct some experiments but could be
made available for
amateur use in the future.--AMSAT News Service; King
Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology

==>SOLAR UPDATE

Heliophile Tad "You Might As Well Be Walkin' on the
Sun" Cook, K7VVV,
Seattle, Washington, reports: After last week's big
drop in activity,
sunspots are back. The average sunspot number for this
week was more 
than
twice what it was last week, and average daily solar
flux was up by 
more
than 32 points. Solar flux is expected to rise over
the next few days 
to
190 on Saturday and 195 on Sunday, peaking on Monday
around 200. But
helioseismic images show no major spots on the sun's
far side.

Right now we are inside a weak solar wind, and
geomagnetic indices have
been quiet since last Friday and Saturday. The
planetary A index has 
been
in the single digits, but is expected to rise slightly
to 15 on Friday,
and then drop back again.

The recent variation in solar activity shows that
there is still life 
in
this sunspot cycle, although over time we should
expect a downward 
trend.
We have passed the longest night of the year, and this
is a good season
for lowband work on 160 and 80 meters, particularly
when K and A index
values are low. As the days get longer, the higher
bands will improve 
as
we head toward the spring equinox.

Sunspot numbers for January 2 through 8 were 74, 108,
117, 128, 141, 
199
and 198, with a mean of 137.9. The 10.7-cm flux was
118.3, 137.6, 143,
148.1, 162.1, 163.2 and 173.7, with a mean of 149.4.
Estimated 
planetary A
indices were 8, 13, 13, 9, 7, 9 and 7, with a mean of
9.4.
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==>IN BRIEF:

* This weekend on the radio: 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. JUST AHEAD: The North American QSO
Party (SSB), the ARRL
January VHF Sweepstakes, the LZ Open Contest (CW), the
Michigan QRP
January CW Contest, and the Hungarian DX Contest are
the weekend of
January 18-19. 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 Level II Amateur Radio
Emergency 
Communications
(EC-002) and Antenna Modeling (EC-004) courses opens
Monday, January 
13,
12:01 AM Eastern Standard Time (0501 UTC).
Registration will remain 
open
through Sunday, January 19. Classes begin Monday,
January 20. A new
service now allows those interested in taking an ARRL
Certification and
Continuing Education (C-CE) course in the future to be
advised via 
e-mail
in advance of registration opportunities. To be
included, send an 
e-mail
to prereg@arrl.org. On the subject line, include the
course name or 
number
(eg, EC-00#) you'd like to take. In the message body,
provide your name
and call sign and the month you want to start the
course. 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]

* ARRL seeks Repeater Directory listings from
coordinators: The 
deadline
for repeater coordinating entities to submit repeater
listing 
information
for the 2003 edition of The ARRL Repeater Directory is
Friday, February 
7.
According to League policy, the ARRL only accepts
repeater listings 
from
recognized frequency-coordinating bodies. "All
information on repeaters
intended for The ARRL Repeater Directory must come
through a recognized
repeater coordinating body," said Brennan Price, N4QX,
who compiles and
edits the annual publication for the League. "With the
exception of the
Pacific Insular Territories, the Canadian Territories,
and Nunavut, 
there
is currently a coordinator serving all parts of the US
and Canada." 
Price
urges repeater owners to provide their coordinators
with updated
information as soon as possible for inclusion in the
2003 edition. For
more information, contact Brennan Price, N4QX,
n4qx@arrl.org.

* Special event from former WCC to celebrate Marconi
centennial: 
Special
event station WA1WCC will be on the air during
"Marconi Week," January
11-19, from the former WCC Marconi-RCA-MCI shore
station operations 
center
in Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. Look for
WA1WCC on or about 
7.040
and 14.040 MHz on CW and 7.260 and 14.285 MHz SSB. The
event, sponsored 
by
the WCC Amateur Radio Association, marks the 100th
anniversary of
Guglielmo Marconi's first successful wireless
transmission between the 
US
and Europe. A message was sent by the Marconi station
in Wellfleet,
Massachusetts, on January 18, 1903. By 1914, Marconi
had built a new 
safer
and more up to date station in nearby Chatham. The
former WCC facility
will be open to the public from 9 AM until 5 PM
Eastern Time. Plans are
under way for Marconi's daughter, Princess Elettra
Marconi, to visit
Chatham January 16. She is scheduled to visit another
special event,
KM1CC, at the former Eastham Coast Guard station on
January 18. At one
time, WCC was described as the busiest ship-to-shore
station on the US
eastern seaboard. The Chatham Marconi Maritime Center
is sponsoring a
series of educational events for the public during
Marconi 
Week.--Chatham
Marconi Maritime Center Inc newsletter

* FCC to hold open commission meeting: The FCC will
hold an open 
meeting
Wednesday, January 15, at 9:30 AM in Washington, DC.
The Meeting will
focus on presentations by senior agency officials
regarding
implementations of the agency's strategic plan and a
comprehensive 
review
of FCC policies and procedures. Presentations will be
made in four 
panels:
Panel One consisting of the managing director. Panel
Two consisting of 
the
chiefs of the Enforcement and Consumer and
Governmental Affairs 
bureaus.
Panel Three consisting of the chiefs of the Office of
Engineering and
Technology, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and
the 
International
Bureau. Panel Four consisting of the chiefs of the
Wireline Competition
and the Media bureaus. The audio portion of the
meeting will be 
broadcast
live on the Internet via the FCC's Internet audio
broadcast page at
<http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/>.--FCC

* California RACES team responds to gas leak: The
Huntington Beach,
California, Fire Department called upon the Huntington
Beach Radio 
Amateur
Civil Emergency Service (RACES) group
<http://www.hbraces.org> December 
11
after a natural gas leak occurred. Nine fire companies
responded to the
alarm. The Huntington Beach RACES team established a
controlled net and
initiated the RACES incident command system. Twenty
RACES members
responded to the incident command center at the scene
of the leak, to 
the
Huntington Beach emergency operations center and to a
care and 
reception
center for displaced residents. Tim Sawyer, WD6AWP,
served as net 
control
operator. Huntington Beach RACES Chief Radio Officer
Steven Graboff,
W6GOS--a physician--responded to the care and
reception center and
provided cellular, Amateur Radio, American Red Cross
and fire 
department
radio communication. RACES communications were
utilized exclusively
throughout the event, since as the city's cell phone
system was not
functioning. "Between the RACES communicators and the
CERT [Community
Emergency Response Team] shelter team, no additional
city or Red Cross
personnel were needed, and the incident was handled
very well," said
Huntington Beach Fire Department Emergency Services
Coordinator Glorria
Morrison, KE6ATG. "This is an example of how
volunteers can be utilized 
to
provide emergency services to the City of Huntington
Beach at no cost 
and
no drain to city resources." Other RACES members
maintained radio watch 
on
the net and prepared for a 12-hour deployment. Within
90 minutes, the 
fire
department advised RACES that the problem was under
control and the
emergency was over, and residents were allowed to
return to their 
homes.
No injuries were reported. The Huntington Beach Fire
Department 
Emergency
Services Office administers the RACES team.

* Maritime Mobile Service Network celebrates 35th
anniversary: The
Maritime Mobile Serice Network (MMSN) marked its 35th
anniversary on
January 3. The net now operates on 14.300 MHz.
According to Bobby 
Graves,
KB5HAV, the net's original purpose was to assist those
serving in the 
US
military during the Vietnam War. In its early years,
the MMSN saw a lot 
of
phone patch traffic. "Our primary purpose now is that
of handling legal
third-party traffic from maritime mobiles, both
pleasure and 
commercial,
and overseas deployed military personnel," said
Graves, who serves as 
the
nets schedule coordinator and Webmaster. He said the
net also helps
missionaries in foreign countries. The MMSN has grown
from its original
nine founding members to nearly 60 net control
stations and relief
operators. It's recognized by the US Coast Guard and
has been 
instrumental
in handling hundreds of incidents involving vessels in
distress. During
severe weather, the net also acts as a weather beacon
for ships and 
relays
weather warnings and bulletins from the National
Weather Service and 
the
National Hurricane Center. "The Maritime Mobile
Service Network has a
legacy of serving people and will continue to do so,"
Graves said.

* K6ZT elected president of engineering honor society:
ARRL Life Member
Tom Rothwell, K6ZT, of Los Alamitos, California, has
been elected
president of Eta Kappa Nu <http://www.hkn.org/>, the
national honor
society for electrical and computer engineering.
Rothwell was elected 
to
membership in 1953 while attending the University of
Southern 
California.
He is a retired Hughes Aircraft Company group vice
president and 
division
manager. First licensed in early 1947, he spent three
years in the US 
Air
Force, much of it in postwar Japan, where he held the
call signs J5AAL,
J2AAL and JA3AA. (He won the CQ World Wide DX CW
contest for Japan in 
1948
and the ARRL International DX Contest--Phone and
CW--for Japan in 
1949.)
An Extra class licensee, Rothwell still enjoys chasing
DX on CW. 
Founded
in 1904, Eta Kappa Nu has some 100,000 members and
chapters at more 
than
200 colleges with accredited curricula in electrical
or computer
engineering.

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