[TCARC-NTx] ARRL Letter

[:) :)]

This information is for those that know James and I.  As many of the members 
know I am in the military.  For a period of time I will be unavailiable due 
to my deployment in the military.  I just wanted to let the club members 
know what was going on and will try to keep everyone as posted as possible.  
God Bless everyone and take care Ill see you when I return. Shawna B.  
KD5PDH






>From: david johnson <kb5ylg@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: tcarc-ntx@mailman.qth.net
>To: tcarc-ntx@mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [TCARC-NTx] ARRL Letter
>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:25:29 -0800 (PST)
>
>***************
>The ARRL Letter
>Vol. 22, No. 02
>January 10, 2003
>***************
>
>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
>
>===========================================================
>
>==>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.
>__________________________________
>
>==>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.
>
>===========================================================
>The ARRL Letter is published Fridays, 50 times each
>year, by the
>American
>Radio Relay League--The National Association For
>Amateur Radio--225
>Main
>St, Newington, CT 06111; tel 860-594-0200; fax
>860-594-0259;
><http://www.arrl.org>. Jim Haynie, W5JBP, President.
>
>The ARRL Letter offers a weekly e-mail digest of
>essential news of
>interest to active amateurs. The ARRL Letter strives
>to be timely,
>accurate, concise, and readable. Visit ARRLWeb
><http://www.arrl.org>
>for
>the latest news, updated as it happens. The ARRLWeb
>Extra
><http://www.arrl.org/members-only/extra> offers access
>to informative
>features and columns.
>
>Material from The ARRL Letter may be republished or
>reproduced in whole
>or
>in part in any form without additional permission.
>Credit must be given
>to
>The ARRL Letter and The American Radio Relay League.
>
>==>Delivery problems (ARRL member direct delivery
>only!):
>letter-dlvy@arrl.org
>==>Editorial questions or comments: Rick Lindquist,
>N1RL, n1rl@arrl.org
>==>ARRL News on the Web: <http://www.arrl.org>
>==>ARRL Audio News:
><http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/> or call
>860-594-0384
>
>==>How to Get The ARRL Letter
>The ARRL Letter is available to ARRL members free of
>charge directly
>from
>ARRL HQ.
>To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your address for
>e-mail delivery:
>ARRL members first must register on the Members Only
>Web Site
><http://www.arrl.org/members/>. You'll have an
>opportunity during
>registration to sign up for e-mail delivery of The
>ARRL Letter, W1AW
>bulletins, and other material. To change these
>selections--including
>delivery of The ARRL Letter--registered members should
>click on the
>"Member Data Page" link (in the Members Only box).
>Click on "Modify
>membership data," check or uncheck the appropriate
>boxes and/or change
>your e-mail address if necessary. Then, click on
>"Submit modification"
>to
>make selections effective. (NOTE: HQ staff members
>cannot change your
>e-mail delivery address. You must do this yourself via
>the Members Only
>Web Site.)
>
>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 Mailing Lists@QTH.Net
><http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/letter-list>.
>(NOTE: The ARRL
>cannot assist subscribers who receive The ARRL Letter
>via this
>listserver.)
>
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
>http://mailplus.yahoo.com
>_______________________________________________
>TCARC-NTx mailing list
>TCARC-NTx@mailman.qth.net
>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/tcarc-ntx


_________________________________________________________________
MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* 
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus