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Amateur Radio Newsline #967 27 Feb 1996

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                          The following is a QST

    Ham radio faces Mother Nature in the Pacific Northwest and the
 Dayton CBer arrested for TVI speaks out.  These stories and more on
 Newsline report number 967 coming your way right now!

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                             NORTHWEST STORMS

    As flood waters receded in the Pacific Northwest, ham radio
 operators continued their efforts to provide  relief workers with
 emergency communications.

    For the third time in as many months, the pacific northwest has been
 hit by the forces of nature, and amateur radio was there to help.
 After high winds in December and ice storms in January, early February
 saw a period of relentless rain that caused many rivers in northwest
 Oregon and southwest Washington to swell past flood stage.  Even as
 the President was making his rounds of the stricken area, hams were
 active in their ARES and races support roles.
    We spoke with Lew Williams, WB7NML, who is the ARES Section Emergency
 Coordinator, who told us that numerous county ARES and RACES Programs
 were involved.

    "There were probably 19, no 21 counties that were activated, and there
 were, I don't know, 4 or 5 others that were on standby."  Williams

    The extreme flooding posed many problems for both amateurs and
 rescue personnel alike.  Lew described some of the difficulties for
 us.

    "There were situations that were where hams were helping out with
 four wheelers.  They had to, you know the people with four wheel
 drives that were helping on evacuations, etc.  Wasco County, they lost
 all their roads.  The streams wiped out a bunch of the roads and they
 had to evacuate the nursing home with snow cats, would you believe."
 Williams

    Hams linked rescue workers in the field to local eoc's, as well as
 linking the eoc's's together, and to the state emergency operations
 center as well.  This was not always easy, as many of the facilities
 had their own problems.

    "The main generator failed and they brought in another one and it
 almost went down so they were almost, in that particular incidence
 were almost relying on the hams because of their portability."
 Williams

    Hams involved in the emergency knew how to adapt when things didn't
 go well.  Generators weren't the only equipment to fail.  Some of the
 radios didn't fare so well either...

    "The HF radio in the particular EOC'S wouldn't operate and so they
 were operating portable out with the VHF out to someone with HF to
 maintain contact with the Oregon Emergency Management Division."
 Williams

    Even with the difficult conditions and equipment failures, Lew says
 that northwest amateur radio operators came through when needed.  Lew
 says that the lessons learned by the hundreds of amateurs involved in
 the disaster will be evaluated just as if this had been a training
 exercise, and the information will be put to use refining the state's
 emergency communications program to further improve the hams service
 to the public.

    It's been an exceptionally wet winter in the Pacific Northwest.
 More storms are being predicted and hams could be kept busy until
 spring.

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                    MOTOROLA to IARN:  RETURN OUR GEAR

    The International Amateur Radio Network has been asked to return a
 150 MHz Motorola repeater, a dozen handheld radios and a power
 generator loaned to the Red Cross by the IARN in the aftermath of
 Hurricane Marilyn.  The W5YI Report says that Motorola wants the
 equipment back so that it can be replaced in the company's emergency
 inventory for future use.

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                            ELECTRONIC RENEWAL

    The FCC will not renew your license electronically.  So says the
 ARRL's Regulatory Information Branch in response to several recent
 queries.  The League says that you can now download the Form 610 from
 the FCC fax-on-demand service or from the FCC's home page on the World
 Wide Web.
    The FCC now only renews a ham radio license if an application is
 received within 90 days before or two years after the expiration date.
 It will not be renewed if submitted earlier.  And, if you apply for
 renewal after your license has expired, you may not operate until the
 application has been processed.
    As announced last year, there is really no good reason for a person
 not to renew his or her license prior to expiration.  Since last fall,
 the FCC has been sending out a mail in reminder called Form 610-R.
 You should receive it at least 90 days before your ticket expires.  If
 all of the information is correct, you just need to sign the form and
 return it.  If for some reason you do not get a Form 610-R, a regular
 Form 610 is okay to use.

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                          DAYTON CB'ER SPEAKS OUT

    A Dayton, Ohio area Citizens Radio operator who was jailed for
 causing TVI says that his neighbors never really complained about TVI
 before calling in the local police.  Is this a case of an over zealous
 police department or is it justice gone sour?  Amateur News Weekly
 sorts out the details in this half time report:

     "On December 9th, 1995 a Morrain, Ohio CB operator, Steve Hollbrook
 was arrested for causing interference to his upstairs neighbors.  He
 was charged with interfering with a public service, a third degree
 felony with no bond and was held in jail until Monday, December 11th
 when the Montgomery County Prosecutor declined to press charges.  On
 Wednesday, February 7th, 1996 Steve Hollbrook appeared in Kettering,
 Ohio Municipal Court where the case was transferred, due to a conflict
 of interest of a personal nature with officials in the Morrain City
 government.  The charges of interfering with a public service were
 dropped, apparently because these matters were beyond the city of
 Morrains jurisdiction.  However, part of the original complaint had to
 do with what Mr. Hollbrook said over his radio in reference to his
 neighbors.  On the basis of those words, which the neighbors taped
 from their TV, the Morrain City Prosecutor decided with the legal
 action.  Officials offered Mr. Hollbrook the opportunity to plead to a
 reduced charge, a minor misdemeanor.  After consulting with legal
 counsel, Mr. Hollbrook pleaded guilty and was fined $100 plus court
 costs, with $50 of the fine suspended.
    Steve's reason for pleading guilty was to get this matter over with.
 So he could move on and examine his options toward the future.  He is
 currently consulting with his attorney and declines to be more
 specific as to what his options may be.
    One of the things Steve remembers the most is his approximately 48
 hours behind bars for this incident.  To this day, he is still not
 entirely sure why things went as far as they did.

    "You know, like I said the whole weekend, sitting there.  I kept
 asking myself, Why am I here?  And you know my wife kept telling me
 you are in the right, just be patient.  You know it is hard to be
 patient when you are sitting there behind these bars."  Hollbrook

    There are many twists and turns behind the scenes in this story.
 According to Steve, when he originally installed his CB, his wife
 checked with all the neighbors in the building to see if anyone was
 experiencing interference.  When that proved to be the case, some
 antenna work was done, additional filtering was installed and offers
 were made to supply filters to the neighbors if the problem
 reoccurred.      That offer was never taken up by anyone.  Because
 until the day of his arrest, Steve claims that at no time did anyone
 in his building ever complain to him about interference.  His
 neighbors comments that interference had been going on for two months
 to the police leave him totally baffled to why they never spoke to him
 or his wife about the problem.
    The case has been settled to the satisfaction of the City of Morrain.
 Whether everything has been settled to the satisfaction of Steve
 Hollbrook remains to be seen.  Steve is greatly appreciative to the
 local amateur community and to the American Radio Relay League for
 informational assistance and moral support during the case.

    As an aside, Steve Hollbrook told Charlie Kotterman that he really
 enjoys electronic communications.  And as a result of the support
 shown him by the Dayton ham community, he is already at work studying
 to get his own amateur radio license.

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                      N6NHG ARRAIGNMENT AGAIN DELAYED

    The arraignment of alleged computer hacker Kevin David Mitnick,
 N6NHG has again been delayed.  Several Los Angeles news outlets
 reported on February 20th that Mitnicks' arraignment will likely occur
 at the end of March.  This, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney
 Christopher Painter will indicates that this will give lawyers more
 time to try to reach a plea agreement.
    Mitnick became a federal fugitive in 1992 when he violated the terms
 of his probation by leaving Southern California.  He was arrested last
 February in North Carolina, after federal investigators tracked him to
 a rented apartment near Raleigh.
    U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer is presiding over Mitnick's Los
 Angeles case and will probably preside over his North Carolina case as
 well.  Under federal guidelines, if Mitnick pleads guilty to the North
 Carolina charges in Los Angeles, he may be sentenced by a local judge.
  If he pleads not guilty, he will be sent to North Carolina for trial.


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                       HAM RADIO FOILS THEFT ATTEMPT

    And two Kansas hams are heros after stopping another kind of computer
 crime.  Zachary Canright, KB0GMC, and Beryl Masters, WB0EJJ, recently
 helped police in Overland Park, Kansas, nab three teenagers trying to
 make a getaway with $7,500 worth of computers allegedly stolen from a
 local store.  Canright's attention was first drawn by the teens'
 peculiar behavior as they loaded the computer equipment onto a truck.
 He then noticed the vehicle had no plates and used his mobile radio
 and a local repeater to contact Masters.  Masters directed police to a
 shopping center lot where Canright had followed the youths and
 witnessed them attaching plates to the pickup.  Police arrested the
 three teens and charged them with felony theft.

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                               BOSNIA RADIO

    Hams have assisted the Army test a Bosnia-bound mobile AM radio
 station.  Fred Cresce, KC4MOP, Steve Ickes, WB3HUZ, Ken Moffat, N3EAR,
 and Paul Courson, WA3VJB, staffed a new mobile Army Broadcast Service
 station at Fort Meade while it operated on 1670 kHz and identified as
 ABS Radio.
    Regular listeners to Newsline probably recognize the name Paul
 Courson from reports he has done for us.  In real life, Paul is a
 broadcaster with Dow Jones.  He tells Newsline that the station took
 to the air on February 5th and operated around the clock for several
 days.  He says that he and the other hams were brought in to help
 specifically because of their interest and experience in using AM on
 the amateur bands.
    The 5000 watt ABS transmitter went on the air using a 150 foot high
 vertical antenna the hams helped set up and tune.  The station
 broadcast from Fort Meade until February 9th.  It was then packed up
 for transport to Bosnia.  There it will be set up to entertain and
 inform US troops stationed with the peace keeping force.

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                     NEWSLINE JOINS TAPR AUDIO WEBSITE

    Tucson Amateur Packet Radio has added Newsline to its audio site on
 the world wide web.  According to Greg Jones, WD5IVD, all bulletins on
 the system are encoded using Real Audio type technology.  Greg says
 that he plans on keeping the weekly announcements on the system for
 sometime.
    The Universal Resource Locator for the TAPR web site is a long and
 complex one so we won't try to give it here.  To get it, drop a note
 to Greg via the internet to:

                             gjones@tenet.edi

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                                TWIAR BACK

    And a belated welcome back to the satellite to our friends in Albany,
 New York who produce "This Week in Amateur Radio".  The program
 returned to satellite distribution on Saturday, January 27th.
    This Week in Amateur Radio is carried by the "Tech Talk Network" on
 Telesat Canada Anik E2 communications satellite.  The network will
 utilizes transponder 18 with 5.8 MHZ wideband analog audio.  Anik E2
 is located at 107.3 degrees west longitude in equatorial
 geosynchronous orbit and provides excellent coverage of North America
 with spot beams aimed at Alaska and Hawaii.

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                                KITSAT HOT

    In ham radio space related news, AMSAT North America reports that
 Kitsat-Oscar 23's transmitter efficiency went down during January
 because its orbit configuration offered no eclipse period and no time
 to cool down.  The additional heating resulted in a degradation of
 efficiency.
    KO-23 is a packet store-and-forward satellite.  The spacecraft is a
 cooperative effort between Korea and the University of Surrey in the
 United Kingdom.

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                            DECLASSIFIED LAUNCH

    The February 1996 issue of Popular Mechanics includes a feature
 article by Philip Chien, KC4YER on the now declassified Corona
 spacecraft project.  In his story, Chien notes that the very first
 OSCAR satellite was a piggyback payload on the Discoverer 36 mission,
 which was actually the cover name for the Corona series of spy
 satellites!
    The article includes a fairly good artist's rendition of what the
 Agena upper stage looked like in space.  From what Phil understands,
 the OSCAR payload was attached to the launch vehicle in place of where
 ballast would have normally been.

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                              VATICAN BEACON

    From the international desk comes word that a new 6 meter beacon is
 on the air from Vatican City.  On Sunday, 4th February a new beacon
 was activated from the location of HV3SJ.  Its operating frequency is
 50.004 MHZ, shifting 800 Hz upward depending on temperature at the
 site.  The power output is 10 watts to 5 element Tonna beam aimed
 towards the United Kingdom.  An omni will be installed as soon as
 weather allows.  This beacon should be of particular interest as no
 beacon has been active from Italy on 6 meters until now.

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                                    DX

    In DX, 9J2BO is quite active from Zambia on all bands.  Look for hi,
 on 3.505 MHZ at 04:15 UTC and 10.103 MHZ at 05:20 UTC. QSL to:

                              Brian Otter
                              P.O. Box 34554
                              Lusaka, Zambia

    Effective immediately, requests for any of the 4U1UN cards or any of
 their special callsigns such as 4U50UN should be sent to WB8LFO.  The
 use of the W8CZN mail drop has been discontinued.

    And T30DP is currently on Kanton Central Kiribati.  Reports indicate
 that he will be active as T30DP/T31 on 20 meters only.  QSL via
 VK4CRR.

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                             NEW CALL - OLD CALL

    And finally, this from Dick Flanagan, W6OLD who reports the story of
 Dick Creley, KB7UUK, a ham who wanted a new call sign.  Not wanting to
 wait for the FCC's Vanity program to arrive, Creley started working
 his way through the General and Advanced requirements in order to
 qualify for one of those nice 2 by 2 Advanced callsigns.
    Well, we are glad to report that he made it!  The former KB7UUK now
 has his new call.  Want to guess what it is?  Try KJ7UK.
    Makes you kind of wonder if the FCC's computer isn't programmed with a
 strange sense of humor.

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    And for this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.  You
 can write to us at:

                                NEWSLINE
                                P.O.Box 660937
                                Arcadia, CA
                                91066

    For now, with Bill Pasternak WA6ITF at our editors desk, we at
 NEWSLINE say 73 and we thank you for listening.

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