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NEWSLINE RADIO - CBBS EDITION #892 - POSTED 09/17/94
 
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                      The following is a QST
 
   The International Amateur Radio Union meets in Singapore and
 the FCC helps investigate a far flung radio hoax.  These stories
 and more on Newsline report number 892 coming your way right now!
 
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                              IARU
 
     An important meeting of Region 3 of the International Amateur
 Radio Union has taken place in Singapore.  A number of the
 decisions made there will definitely impact on the way that
 Amateur Radio is perceived at the upcoming World
 Radiocommunications Conferences.
   The 9th Conference of the IARU Region 3 was held in Singapore
 from the 5th to the 9th of September.  Key items supported by the
 conference included that the conference recognized the excellent
 work of JARL, Paul Rinaldo (W4RI), in the working group ITU TG8/2
 dealing with wind profiler radar.  The conference confirmed
 support for the continuation of the requirement contained in the
 ITU regulations for competency in morse code to be first
 demonstrated before an operator in the amateur service is licensed
 to use the allocated HF bands.  Region 3 recognized the work of
 IPHA, the information program for handicapped radio amateurs.  And
 commended it to member societies.
   Amateur radio direction finding and rules for IARU Region 3
 ARDF Championships were approved.  IARU Region 3 International
 Class Referees were also appointed.  The next ARDF Championship
 in Region 3, that will be hosted by the Wireless Institute of
 Australia in Queensland.
   To Beacons, and the conference approved the international
 beacon project.  Region 3 is to establish timeshare beacons.  The
 generous offer of the JARL to fund the purchase of beacon in Sri
 Lanka was acknowledged.  Region 3's bandplan for 144 Mhz has had
 the EME segment extended.  It is now aligned with the plan of
 Region 1.
   Many papers were presented to the conference relating to the
 improper use of amateur bands and the IARU monitoring service.
 The conference encouraged all societies to be active in the
 monitoring service.
   Finally in this summary of key points of the conference, Region
 3 conference endorsed the Phase 3D satellite project and societies
 have agreed to assist with funding to the one or more
 organizations involved in the realization of the project.
   For those not aware, decisions made in any IARU region
 eventually impact on amateur radio operations worldwide.  For that
 reason it is important to keep an eye on all of the Union's
 gatherings.  We will have more on this IARU conference next week.
 
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                     SOUTH PACIFIC RADIO HOAX
 
   The Boston FCC Office reports that it has helped to bust an
 apparent South Pacific radio distress hoax.  It started when the
 office received a call from the Coast Guard reporting they has
 been alerted to a distress call from a woman saying she was on a
 boat off the Massachusetts coast and in an emergency situation.
 The woman claimed that her husband, a diabetic, was seriously ill
 and needed emergency medical attention.  She also claimed that her
 vessel's power supply was dead and she was communicating via
 cellular radio.
   The Coast Guard launched a 14,000 square mile search without
 success.  But the Engineer In Charge of the Boston FCC Office,
 who helps coordinate the Coast Guard District Hoax Enforcement
 Action Team, suspected that the call was a phony.  This, because
 she could not accurately describe her location, sea conditions and
 other details to the Coast Guard.
   Working with local cellular companies, he determined that the
 call was not being placed locally.  Instead it was actually coming
 from Avalon Beach, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.  Contacts will
 be made via the U.S. Embassy and prosecution by Australian
 authorities is expected.
 
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                           FCC TO MOVE
 
   The FCC's Washington D.C. headquarters will be relocating to
 southwest Washington D.C. after all.  An agreement between the
 U.S. government's General Services Administration and an office
 complex called "The Portals" has been reinstated by an appeals
 court.  The justices ruled that the GSA had improperly terminated
 an agreement to lease space in 1991 after the FCC decided it did
 not want to make the move.  The commission argued that the leased
 space was inadequate for future needs and that it did not want to
 leave the downtown Washington area which they say is more
 conducive to FCC operations.  As a result of the court decision,
 the GSA has re-signed the lease with "The Portals" and plans to
 move the FCC to the new location before the end of the century.
 
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                      SAREX - STS-64 FLIES
 
   On the 9th of September, the Space Ship Discovery was launched
 into a high inclination orbit that flew it over most of the
 populated places on Earth.  It's prime objective was to measure
 the atmosphere, emitting laser energy and measuring the return
 signals that bounced back.  The astronauts also deployed and
 retrieved a free flying astronomical observer, took an untethered
 space walk and conducted robotic processing of semi conductor
 materials.
   Ham radio operators cheered the success of another shuttle
 amateur radio station, the 15th sent into orbit by the SAREX
 Program.  Mission Commander Dick Richards, KB5SIW checked out the
 equipment during an Australian pass with Graham Ratcliffe, VK5AGR.
   Then Richards and Blaine Hammond, the pilot, KC5HBS, and
 Doctor Jerry Linenger, KC5HBR, a Mission Specialist, went on to
 rack up ten of the most successful school contacts ever.  Several
 of the school groups had horizon to horizon QSO's with the
 astronauts, asking and getting answers to dozens of questions.
   Most of the school were stateside, but one of them, the
 Middletown Grange School, was in Christchurch, New Zealand, where
 some 60 pupils, teachers and parents chatted with Jerry Linenger,
 who described his life aboard the Discovery.  The contact was
 covered by all the New Zealand National Television Services and
 was retransmitted throughout the country on amateur repeaters.
   The young astronauts association, in Spokane, Washington, also
 televised their contact with the space ship, from the Step/Star
 Schools to a C Band satellite system that sent coverage to schools
 all over the United States.
   Added to the school contacts, the crew of STS-64 found time
 for dozens of general QSO's with hams all over the world, their
 high orbit giving them strong signals almost everywhere.
   Next up for SAREX?  STS-67, Now scheduled in January.  A 14
 day mission aboard the Space Ship Endeavour with Steve Oswald,
 KB5YSR, the Commander, and Ron Parise, WA4SIR, the Payload
 Specialist making his second SAREX flight.
 
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                       SPACE HAM EXPERIMENT
 
   A ham radio operator will soon have an experiment flying on a
 space shuttle mission.  Dalina Steiner, N2MIA is a researcher at
 the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.  Her project
 is a study is a cartilage mineralizing culture system.  N2MIA
 says that this is very important in the study of osteoporosis and
 other bone related diseases and the effects of new medications on
 them.
   As we go to air Dalina Steiner is at Cape Canaveral for a run
 through of the project with the NASA launch team.  She says she
 hopes the experiment will fly before years end.
 
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                   TASMA CANCELS DATABASE FEE
 
   Southern California's Two Meter Area Spectrum Management
 Association now says its ten dollar a year database management fee
 is not mandatory.  Repeater owners in the area were upset after
 receiving notification that read in part -- and we quote -- "TASMA
 has adopted a resolution to assess each coordinated repeater ten
 dollars per year.  The assessment will be due on July 1st of each
 year and will be held to be delinquent if not paid by September
 31st of each year, commencing with September 31, 1994." -- end
 quote --.
   Needless to say this announcement was not very popular.  Now,
 TASMA has recanted it stating that the $10 fee is optional, and
 will be used only to purchase equipment for monitoring the band.
 However, all two meter repeaters will still be required to submit
 updated information on their current status or risk
 decoordination.
 
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                          TSARC LIVES!
 
   Like the fabled Phoenix, a well known repeater coordination
 council serving the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area has
 again risen from its own ashes.
   An article appearing in September 1994 issue of the BEAR Fax,
 that's the newsletter of the ABC Broadcast Employees Amateur Radio
 Society in New York, says that Tri State Amateur Repeater Council
 (T-SARC) was on the verge of extinction when salvation arrived.
 According to the article, at the last moment a number of hams
 stepped up to take on the time consuming, complex and thankless
 job of coordinating the estimated 2200 repeaters operating in the
 New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area.
   Elected as the new T-SARC President is Tom Raffaelli, WB2NHC
 of Thornwood, NY.  Tom is joined by Vice President Don Venberg,
 W2GEZ of Eatontown, NJ.  Eddie Velasquez, KD2JS of Queens, NY has
 been chosen as recording secretary and Steve Koeper, KF2JA of
 Suffren, NY as corresponding secretary.  Richard Sandell, WK6R
 of Larchmont, NY rounds out the leadership group as Treasurer.
   This latest incarnation of T-SARC is already hard at work
 trying to solve a number of regional repeater problems.  It has
 successfully forged an agreement between the operators of two
 closely spaced repeaters on the frequency pair of 147.24/.84.
 Currently it is attempting to solve issues surrounding users of
 machines on 223.90 MHz and 28.68 MHz.  T-SARC is also attempting
 to clear up a large backlog of wait-listed repeater coordination
 requests for the area.  We know you all join in wishing T-SARC
 much success.
 
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                      NEW LEADERS AT QCWA
 
   Famed radio amateur Lew Mc Coy, W1ICP has assumed the
 Presidency of the Quarter Century Wireless Association.  Mc Coy
 who is currently a Contributing Editor of CQ Magazine is best
 known for his years of service to the American Radio Relay League.
 He first hired on at League headquarters in 1949 and served as
 Assistant Communications Manager.  In 1950 he transferred to the
 Technical Department where he held many titles including Technical
 Editor of QST Magazine.  W1ICP also used his writing skills as
 Novice Editor to assist newly licensed hams get started in the
 hobby.  In 1988 Mc Coy was named the winner of the Dayton Amateur
 Radio Association's Technical Excellence Award.
   Serving with Mc Coy as his Vice President is Jack Kelleher
 W4ZC, Secretary John Swafford W4HU and Treasurer Wes Randles
 W4COW.  The new QCWA Directors are Walt Brink W3WPY, Milt Chaffee
 W1EFW, John Edel K8LBZ, Gary Harrison WA0RWS, John Huntoon W1RW,
 Larry Shima W0PAN, Croft Taylor VE3CT, John Troster W6ISQ, Milly
 Wise W5OVH and Ed Yoder W3YMB.
   If you want to meet the new QCWA leadership team you will get
 your chance September 29th to October the 1st.  All will be
 attending the 1994 QCWA National Convention in El Paso, Texas that
 weekend.
 
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                      CHAVERIM SCHOLARSHIP
 
   The Chaverim of the Delaware Valley has named Stuart J.
 Meyers, KB8JBK of Dublin, Ohio as the recipient of the $1,000 Ed
 Ludin, K2UK Memorial Scholarship.  Meyers is a pre-med student at
 Miami University.  Chaverim is the Hebrew word for friend.  The
 Chaverim of the Delaware Valley is a Philadelphia based fraternal
 organization of Jewish radio amateurs and their friends who
 support education and brotherhood through Amateur Radio.
 
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                          MOUNT ATHOS
 
   In DX operating news, word that Mount Athos is now on RTTY.
 Several German operators have set up RTTY gear for Monk Apollo,
 SV2ASP/A.  He has already been heard on the air testing the
 equipment.  The best day to catch him is Sunday.
 
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               NORM CHALFIN RETIRES FROM NEWSLINE
 
   The end of September will bring with it a major change for the
 Newsline family.  This, with the announcement that our long-time
 Support Fund Administrator, Norm Chalfin, K6PGX, has decided to
 retire.
   Recently our producer Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF had lunch with
 Norm at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California where K6PGX
 spent most of his adult career.  Norm took the opportunity to
 reminisce on how he became involved in Newsline in the days when
 we were still the Westlink Radio Network and distributed mainly by
 mailout tape:
 
   "We sent out, I don't know how many hundreds of recordings and
 the upshot of it was that the mail crushed about 6 of them in 16
 years.  Otherwise everything seemed to go on very smoothly."  Norm
 Chalfin, K6PGX.
 
   Dr. Chalfin's replacement is Randy Hammock, KC6HUR.  Randy
 is also with The Jet Propulsion Labs.  He was also at the luncheon
 and we asked him to introduce himself to you.
 
   "I was working with Norman as a contractor at the Jet
 Propulsion Laboratory when I joined up with the radio club.
 Seemed like I was a regular member, attending all the board
 meetings, so they elected me President after just one year
 membership.  And like a fool, I decided to go for that two years
 in a row.  So this year, since I am no longer President of the JPL
 Radio Club, I figured I might as well take on some other duties
 elsewhere.  So now here I am with Newsline."  Randy Hammock,
 KC6HUR.
 
   What now for Dr. Norm Chalfin?  He says that at age 80, its
 time to enjoy ham radio:
 
   I want to get all my equipment back in shape with your help and
 anybody elses.  After that, I expect to get on the air more than I
 have been recently.  And get my computing equipment back in shape.
 There will be lots to do, even for a octogenarian."  Chalfin,
 K6PGX.
 
   It's hard to put into words the way all of us at Newsline feel
 toward Norm Chalfin.  For the past sixteen years he has been our
 friend.  Our confidant.  Our inspiration and most important, the
 person who's skill in handling our finances has kept us solvent
 even in the worst fiscal crisis.
   Maybe its best to simply say "we love you Norm."  No matter
 what you do.  No matter where you go.  You will always be an
 important part of our lives.  A little flowery maybe, but these
 are feelings that come from the hearts of all of us on the
 Newsline team.
 
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