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Ärende: Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1535 -  January 12th, 2007
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Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1535 -  January 12th, 2007

Now, Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1535 with a release date of
Friday, January 12th, 2007 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T.

A California ham becomes an international hero for assisting in the
rescue of a stranded sailor off the coast of Chile.  Also, a power
provider works with hams in Massachusetts to avoid interference and
more about Reginald Fessenden and the worlds first radio broadcast.
Did he really make it?  You decide for yourself after hearing Amateur
Radio NewslineT report number 1535 coming your way right now.


(Billboard Cart Here)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  SOCAL HAM ASSISTS IN RESCUE AT SEA

A Riverside California ham has been dubbed a hero by his fellow radio
amateurs.  This after he helped to coordinate the rescue of a sailor
off the coast of Chile.  We have more in this report from Burt Hicks,
WB6MQV:

--


We have all heard the story before.  Someone, somewhere in need of
communications during an emergency and out from the sidelines comes a
ham that can provide it.  An in reality, that's the story of the rescue
of around-the-wold sailor Ken Barnes off the  coast of Chile on January
5th.  A rescue made possible with more than a little help from a ham
radio operator back home.

That ham is Migual Morales, KC6CYK, of Riverside California.

--

Morales:  "I got involved because I learned last Monday evening that an
American was stranded and adrift somewhere in the South Pacific where
two oceans collide at the tip of the continent down there.  No
cellphone.  The satellite cellphone that he had was cutting off and on
every 30 seconds and that was the most (time) he could talk."

--

Mike, as he is known locally,  heard about Barnse's predicament on
local newscasts and offered to help.  He did this by contacting the
sailor's fiancee, Cathy Chambers, and suggesting he might be able to
get in touch by radio with hams in Chile who also might be able to
assist.

--

Morales :  "And so I called the family.  I found their number in the
directory and I introduced myself  to Cathy Chambers and I told her
that I had lived in Chile when I was a kid.  And speaking the language
and having a ham radio license here in the states and being affilated
with the Radio Club of Chile I was able to talk to my colleagues down
there, and I offered my services voluntarily of coarse.  And she said
that she was very happy and said to please do what you can."

--

In an interview with the ARRL, Morales, who also peaks fluent Spanish,
said he felt it was important for Barnes family to know the mariners
situation and how the rescue plans were progressing.  He did this by
making contact with on 10 meters with stations in Chile.  From them he
obtained what he termed as credible reports as to what was actually
happening.

--

Morales:  "I was lucky enough really:  I have a Novice license but I
was able to go to 20 meters and 5 meters abd monitor and listen and
talk on 10 meters with ham rafio operators in CE7 in the southern part
of Chile.

--

One of the things he learned that the Chillian Navy was putting off any
rescue attempt.

--

The Chilean Navy had no intention in rescuing Ken Barnes.  To them, it
was someone else stranded there and they were expecting him not to
survive.  That's a reality of that part of the world.

To them, to send a war ship into international waters  some 300 miles
over the 200 nautical miles that they had to extend their trip. It was
not worth it.

They are now claiming credit and they are now saying that yhey were
coordinators and they instructed.  Baloney -- they didn't do that."

--

The Navy did dispatch one of the CP3 Orion aircraft Chile uses to
patrol its 200-mile-offshore territorial claim.  The plane spotted
Barnes foundering vessel, photographed it and even attempted to drop a
life raft that missed its mark.  Morales later learned that the Chilean
Navy recruited the trawler the Polar Pesca 1 to undertake the actual
rescue while it coordinated the effort.

--

Morales:  "The private company Ploa Pesca is the one (that rescued
Barnes).  It is a private factory fleet of fishing vessels.  They are
the ones that deserve the credit."

--

Morales said he was able to gather information from Punta Arenas, on
the extreme southern tip of South America, and, via his Chilean ham
radio contacts, from the rescue ship.
--

Morales: "I was relaying information as far as the location of the
privateer.  I woud get the latitude and longitude from the Punta Arenas
radio operators --  and not from the Chilean Navy -- and I relayed it
to the U.S. Coast Guard as well as the family.  So, for the first time
they knew first hand the true information and the true location and
what was being done to rescue him."

--

The 47 year old Barnes, left Long Beach, California, late last October,
hoping to be the first person to sail around the world from the United
States West Coast.  A severe storm badly damaged his boat and soaked
his supplies.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Burt Hicks, WB6MQV, in Los Angeles

--

The City of Riverside has announced plans to honor Morales for
rendering assistance to Barnes.  For his part, Morales says he's "a
very low-key type of person who isn't all that fond of being in the
media spotlight.  That said, we hams can her more with Mile Morales,
KC6CYK on this weeks Rain Report.  Its available right now as an MP3
file at our website at www.arnewsline.org and streaming audio at
www.therainreport.com.  Its also available by telephone at 641-985-
5999.  (ARNewslineT, ARRL, Riverside County Amateur Radio Assn.,
W6TRTW, others)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  GAREC 07 TO BE HELD IN THE USA

The International Amateur Radio Union has announced that the Global
Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference 2007 will take place
in August.  This, in conjunction with the 2007 ARRL National Convention
at the Huntsville Hamfest.   Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, has more:

--

According to the ARRL Letter, the league's Alabama Section and the
Huntsville Hamfest Association will co-sponsor GAREC-07.  IARU
International Coordinator for Emergency Communications Hans Zimmermann,
F5VKP and HB9AQS, says it will take place Thursday and Friday, August
16 and 17 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, just prior to the convention and
hamfest.

This will mark the third annual Global Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications Conference and the first held in the United States.
GAREC-07 is an acronym for Global Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications Conference  2007.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the
studio in Los Angeles.

--

Additional details on the Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
Conference for 2007 will be announced as they become available .
(ARRL)

**

THE BPL FIGHT: CONCORD MASS. DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY

Amateurs in Concord, Massachusetts are closely monitoring plans by the
town's electric utility to implement a Broadband over Power Line system
using gear supplied by PowerGrid Communications.  But they also say
that so far there has been a lot of cooperation between the supplier
and the Concord ham community in planning the system.

Steve Telsey, N1BDA, of the Colonial Wireless Association says that
PowerGrid' Chief Technology Officer has already held a meeting with the
local ham community and brought samples of the equipment to
demonstrate.    N1BDA describes their relationship with the company as
cordial and very cooperative.

He says that PowerGrid is aware that hams are very concerned about this
system and that they are willing to notch out the ham bands.  But
Telsey also notes that this will not address problems faced by
shortwave listeners and users of time signal stations like WWV.

There are currently no BPL operations in Concord and that any pilot
program would not commence until at least February or March.  The BPL
database indicates that the proposed new system will include the entire
community of Concord with some overhead and underground installation.
Approximately 130 nodes would be deployed.

N1BDA says that the lighting company is still exploring a possible
business model.  He says that it is still possible the whole thing
might get canceled. For now, Colonial Wireless Association officers are
requesting that the matter be kept low key so that negotiations can
move forward in a spirit of cooperation as they have been, so far.
(K9HI,  Eastern Mass AR News)

**

Break 1

From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the WD5ERD
repeater of the Plano Amateur Radio Clubs Good News Net serving the ham
radio community of Plaino, Texas.

(5 sec pause here)


**

LICENSING STATS:  NUMBERS GOING DOWN EXCEPT TECH

The latest numbers are in and it looks as if very little upgrading has
been taking place lately.  But George Mc Couch, K3UD, thinks that's all
about to change.  And change for the better.  Amateur Radio Newsline's
Bruce Tennant has both the bad news and the good:

--

George Mc Couch, K3UD, posts licensing statistics on QRZ.com.  He says
that the number of Extras, Advanced, General and Novice class license
holders has decreased somewhat in recent days.

Mc Couch says that as of January 1st, there are only 108,205 Extra class
license holders.  That's down by 208 since the last reporting period.
Also gone are 866 Advanced, 704  General and 683  Novice class
operators.

Meantime, the Technician class continues to grow.  Their number stands
at 322,966 and representing a growth of 1,896 licensees.  It also means
that Technicians now account for half of the 655,832 licensed United
States hams.

But here is the good news we promised.  In an editorial note, George
says that he thinks that we have hit the low point for upgrading and
its likely to get better from here.  He says that since the FCC has
announced that it will soon be dropping the code test requirement he
expects to see an initial, and likely ongoing gain in the General and
Extra class trickets.

Mc Couch thinks it could be that the bottom line number of 655,832 is
about as low as it will.  But he adds that it will be interesting to
see what the effect the upcoming rules change will have.

This is K3UD's analysis the numbers of individual FCC licensees for the
months of October, November and December 2006.  He also covers many
other license statistics in addition to the quarterly figures we have
presented here.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, in Los
Angeles.

--

All of K-3-U-D's very comprehensive licensing statistics appear on the
Home and News Pages at QRZ.com but you may have to hunt a bit to find
them by the time this weeks newscast makes it to air.  (QRZ.com,
ARNewslineT)

**

ENFORCEMENT:  PA HAM GETS NOV FOR FAILURE TO UD

A Pennsylvania ham who allegedly failed to identify in a timely manner
has been sent an official Notice of Violation from the Philadelphia
office of the FCC.   The notice to Andrew Ban, KB3GRK, whom the FCC
says was monitored by one of its agents on September 12 and 13, 2006
and failed to identify for long durations during his transmission made
on both days.

The FCC says that in one instance, Ban or whomever was operating his
station did identify for nearly one hour.  In a second instance, the
period exceeded 20 minutres.  The FCC says that these are violations of
section 97.119(a) of the Amateur Radio Service rules.  This section
requires stations in the Amateur service to identify at the end of each
communication, and at least every 10 minutes during a communication.

Ban was given 20 days from the December 20th issuance of the Notice of
Violation to respond.  (FCC)

**

ENFORVCEMENT:  DON'T TO TO THOSE NOT LICENSED

Todd A. Hamilton, KC8WOM,  Darren L. Kamphouse, KD8DDO, and David E.
Kutzbach, KD8BNG, have each been sent an Advisory Notice by the FCC.
This, for allegedly failing to identify and conversing on the air with
other, unlicensed stations.

In its Debember 6th, 2006 letter to the three Michigan hams,  the FCC
says that it has information that indicates while participating in
hunting activities in their area, that they were transmitting without
identifying by call sign and to communicating with hunters using
unlicensed Amateur Radio equipment.

The FCC says that such use of their stations violates its rules.  It
requested that each ham call FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth to
discuss this matter with him.  (FCC)

**

RADIO ACCIDENTS:  ICE FELLS KSYZ  FM TOWER

The KSYZ FM transmitting tower  in Boelus, Nebraska hit the ground
early Sunday morning, December. 31st.  The tower came down as a result
of the  recent ice storm that hit central Nebraska a few days earlier.
The station that operates on 107.7 MHz says that weather permitting, it
will start  rebuilding soon.  In the meantime the station is back on
the air from a temporary tower site  Pictures of the fallen tower are
at http://www.ksyz.com/towerpics.html) (CGC)

**

HAM RADIO IN THE WEB: WWW.HAMATLAS.EU

www.hamatlas.eu is a new, on-line Amateur Radio reference LIBRARY just
brought on-line by Darek Milka, SP6VNK.  The site already contains
complete information on all 337 DXCC entities, over 3000 pictures and
more than 1100 maps all of which are related to the hobby.  Darek tells
Amateur Radio Newsline that it took for years of work to bring it on
line.  He says that everyone is welcome to stop by.  Again the URL is
www.hamatlas.eu  (SP6VNK)

**

HAM RADIO ON THE SILVER SCREEN:  NEW VIDEO TELLS NCDXF STORY

The Northern California DX Foundation has released a new promotional
video explaining the many aspects of the organization and its work.
Produced by James Brooks, 9V1YC, the 10 minute show highlights the many
accomplishments of the Foundation. This includes its educational
programs, its commitment to sponsorship of DXpeditions, its support for
the World Radiosport Team Championship games and the joint  NCDXF  IARU
International Beacon Network,

DVD copies will be available in the coming weeks, but the show is
available now for viewing on-line under the "Videos" section of the
groups website at www.ncdxf.org. It can be viewed or downloaded from
the Google Video at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1969114446660423090
(Various))

**

HAM HAPPENINGS:  MARCONI DAY IN APRIL

Its not to early to begin planning for the next International Marconi
Day.  Jeramy Boot, G4NJH, has more:

--

International Marconi Day will take place on Saturday 28th April this
year. Although the event is not a contest, participants can qualify for
award certificates by contacting special stations.

These stations must operate on or close to a site where Guglielmo
Marconi carried out experiments or where Marconi equipment was used
prior to his death in 1937.

If you would like to operate one of these special award stations, it is
essential that you register the station by emailing
webmaster@gb4imd.org.uk prior to the event .

Jeramy Boot, G4NJH.

--

More on International Marconi Day is on the web at  www.gb4imd.org.uk.
(GB2RS)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS AT THE FCC

Some names in the news.  First up is Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin who named Fred Campbell as Chief of the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Catherine Seidel as Chief of the
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau.

Fred Campbell comes to  the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's Chief
after serving as Chairman Martin's Legal Advisor for wireless issues.
Preior to that he held thr position of an Attorney Advisor in the
Wireline Competition Bureau.

Newly promoted Catherine Seidel has been the Acting Chief of Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (since April of 2005.   She has also served
as a Deputy Bureau Chief and Chief of Staff for that bureau.
Previously, she served as the Chief of the Telecommunications Consumers
Division in the Enforcement Bureau and has also held positions in the
Common Carrier Bureau and the Mass Media Bureau.  Prior to joining the
Commission in 1993.  (FCC)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  ZL3NL RECEIVES RCA FRED LINK AWARD

High honors for a ham from New Zealand.  Jeff Clark, K8JAC, reports:

--

The Radio Club of America has honored Sir Angus Tait, Zed-L-3-N-L, as
the recipient of the 2006 Fred M. Link ,W2ALU, Award.  R-C-A recognized
Tait for his substantial contributions to the advancement and
development of land mobile radio and communications.

Angus Tait had a childhood fascination for electronics and left high
school to work in a radio store. He served with the Royal Air Force in
radar during World War II.  After the war, he designed and built mobile
radio equipment, although his first company.

In 1969, he founded Tait Electronics Ltd., in Christchurch, New
Zealand, considered a world leader in mobile radio.  He has kept  his
manufacturing base in New Zealand, with 95 per cent of production
exported to 160 countries

--

The 87 year old Tait was unable to attend RCA's awards banquet to
receive the honor.  Tait Communications President Bill Fredrickson
accepted the award in his stead.  (RCA)

**

NAMES IN THE NEWS:  VE7IS WINNER OF IRLP NEW YEARS ROUND-UP

Kenneth Roy McNeil, VE7IS, of  Okanagan Falls, British Columbia,
Canada, is the winner of the 4th annual IRLP New Year Around the
World QSO Party.  According to Alinco's North America representative
Evelyn Garrison, WS7A, Mc Neil's name was chosen out of the more than
500 hams who were on frequency and on-line at the time of the drawing.

Garrison tells Newsline that Bill Slaughter, VE7CIM, of Burnabee Radio
in Burnaby, British Columbia, will get to present Mc Neil with an
Alinco DJ-5 hand-held radio the not to distant future.  She also said
that a lot of people had a great New Years Eve celebrating together
thanks to ham radio and the Internet Radio Linking Project.  The New
Year Around the
World QSO Party was part of the regular Friday Night IRLP Open Forum
International Net.  (WS7A)

**

BREAK 2

This is ham radio news for today's radio amateur.  From the United
States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline with links to the
world from our only official website at www.arnewsline.org and being
relayed by the volunteer services of the following radio amateur:

(5 sec pause here)

**

WORLDBEAT - IRELAND:  WIN A HAM TRIP WITH CQIR - IRELAND CALLING

If you have ever dreamed of a ham radio vacation in Ireland, here is
your chance to win a free trip to Erin's Isle.  This, as the Irish
Radio Transmitters Society celebrates the 75th anniversary of its
founding throughout 2007.

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society came into being back in 1932.  As
part of the jubilee celebrations, overseas entrants with 75 or more
QSOs with special event stations will have the opportunity to win a
trip to Ireland!  To make this possible, the Society is organizing an
International Radio Contest called "CQIR - Ireland Calling."  Full
rules and county codes on the society's website. At www.irts.ie.
(IRTS)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE"  NEW HAM-SATS GET OSCAR DESIGNATIONS

Two new ham-sats now have official OSCAR designations.  AMSAT OSCAR
coordinator Bill Tynan, W3XO, has re-named the RAFT  One  as  NAV-
OSCAR-60 or NO-60.  Also, the ANDE satellite is now NAV-OSCAR-61 or NO-
61.  Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy's Satellite
Laboratory designed and built RAFT One and ANDE orbital communication
packages under the watchful eye of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR.  (ANS)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  AMSAT-NA LAB MOVES TO MARYLAND

AMSAT North America should be all moved into its new Lab facility by
the time this newscast rezches air.  Its Vice President of Engineering,
Bob Mc Gwiar, N4HY, says that the Florida-to-Maryland-Move-Team planned
to have all of the contents of the old AMSAT Orlando laboratory placed
in the new facility in Pocomoke City, Maryland on or about January 7th.

The new lab is 6000 square feet.  The Clean Room is so Large that it
requires required 8 large air handlers that were delivered to the
facility by 24 foot trucks.

Mc Gwiar says that the new facility will handle the Eagle and several
joint ventures on smaller satellites.  AMSAT North America plans to
have the new laboratory available to help in the development of the
Phase 3 E ham radio bird.

Photos of the new facility are on-line at
http://n4hy.smugmug.com/gallery/2297432/  (ANS)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  NEW RECORD FOR SOLAR POWER

A new world record achieved in Solar Cell technology.  Boeing-
Spectrolab says that it recently achieved a conversion efficiency of
40.7 percent.  This,  establishes a new milestone in sunlight-to-
electricity performance.  More is on line at
www.energy.gov/news/4503.htm  (Science OnLine)

**

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY:  NEW CHIPS IMPROVE MOBILE RECEPTION

STMicroelectronics has announced that it is sampling a new digital
AM/FM radio receiver chipset for use in automotive applications.  The
company says that the chips sophisticated digital signal processing
techniques allow them to provide excellent reception quality while
reducing interference even in the presence of challenging signal
conditions.  Jointly developed by ST and Bosch's subsidiary, Blaupunkt,
this advanced digital receiver chipset integrates audio signal
processing and Radio Data System decoding.  (RW)

**

WORLDBEAT-ANTARCTICA AND U.K:  BECOMING AWARE OF THE SOUTH CONTINANT

The United Kingdom's North Wakefield Radio Club will be running special
event station GB0WAP between February 19th to the  25th.  This, to raise
awareness about Antarctica.

This will be the only Worldwide Antarctic Program station running from
Britain.  For award chasers, the station will have the unique reference
of 'W-A-P zone 72,   More information can be found on the world-wide-
web at www.ddxc.net/wap/  (GB2RS)

**

WORLDBEAT -  MONGOLIA:  NEW NATIONAL SOCIETY FORMED

Mongolia now has a new national ham radio society.  According to JT1CD,
the Mongolian Amateur Radio Society was formed at a conference of that
nations radio amateurs held last November 18th.

Nick named MARS, the Mongolian Amateur Radio Society will officially
represent Mongolia to the International Amateur Radio Union.  It will
also act as a conduit in dealings with other national Amateur Radio
societies, worldwide.  (OPDX)

**

WORLDBEAT _ BULGARIA:  A SPECIAL EVENT

Radio Bulgaria's DX Editor Dimiter Petrov, LZ1AF will be using the
special event call sign LZ50DXJ through December 31, 2007.  This, to
mark the 50th anniversary of Radio Bulgaria's DX Program which started
on November 17, 1957.  LZ1AF will be active on all H F bands mostly on
CW. Special QSL cards will be issued and dealt with via the QSL bureau.
(Southgate)

**

WORLDBEAT - PORTUGAL:  ZL TO CT ON 2 METERS

Moonbounce enthusiasts in New Zealand and Portugal are claiming a new
Earth-Moon-Earth distance record.  This, in a December 6th  contact,
using the digital JT-65-B mode.

Taking part were Nick Wallace, ZL1IU and  Joe Kraft, CT1HZE.  Wallace
was running 500 Watts to four 12 element Yagis, while Kraft  was
putting  1.5 kW into four 11 element beams.  The E-M-E contact spanned
a terrestrial distance of 19,685 kilometers.  (WIA News)

**

DX

In D-X, word that CE3FZ , will  be active as CE2P from Panul
Lighthouse, Chile during the weekends of January and February.
Activity will be on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters on SSB only.   QSL to his
callbook address.

Also, ON4AA, is active as portable HI8  from the Dominican Republic
until 14th January.  He plans to focus on 40 and 20 meter SSB, RTTY and
PSK31.

And PA0RRS will be active from Penang Island through the 28th of
February.  QSL these last two as directed on the air.

(Above from various DX news sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  FESSENDEN - YES OR NO?

And finally this week, conflict over Canadian inventor Reginald
Fressenden and the claim that he made the worlds first radio broadcast
on  Christmas Eve of  1906.  While radio amateurs world wide seem to
have adopted this belief as being true, some non-ham scholars are not
so sure.  Jim Linton, VK3PC, has the story of one of them and the facts
he says prove the Fessenden broadcasts never took place:

--

Fessenden - father of broadcasting or not?

The world is celebrating the centenary of radio broadcasting, marking
the first broadcast by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden in December 1906. .

Undoubtedly a brilliant man, Canadian-born Fessenden with numerous
inventions to his name, is now having doubts cast over whether he is
the father of broadcasting.

A radio history enthusiast and writer, James E. O'Neal, has found that
evidence for the broadcast having actually occurred, is decidedly
lacking.

Writing in Radio World magazine, O'Neal makes some valid points that
are likely to be the subject of continued debate.

Fessenden never spoke of a Christmas Eve broadcast at the time and only
mentioned it once, in a 1932 letter just before his death.

The often repeated reference to 1906 broadcast is the 1940 biography,
"Fessenden: Builder of Tomorrows," written by his widow Helen.

Through most of his career, Fessenden wrote in numerous technical
journals. However despite extensive research by O'Neal he could not
find any printed reports in them of Fessenden's Christmas Eve and New
Year's Eve broadcasts of 1906. Much less any newspaper reports to back
up the story.

Fessenden was supposed to have alerted stations by wireless telegraphy
of his impending broadcast. Again, archival checks of wireless logbooks
found no reference to such an alert or the broadcast.

O'Neal also raises doubts whether wireless telegraphy station equipment
at the time could have demodulated the intelligence on an AM signal.

While another inventor, Lee De Forest, in a 1925 Radio News article
claimed that he originated the world's first broadcast of speech and
music. Fessenden never rebuts De Forest's claim in any subsequent issue
of that publication.

O'Neal writes that he really wanted to believe that Fessenden did what
is claimed.

He had the means to do the broadcast, however according to O'Neal, all
evidence points to the Christmas Eve event 1906 at Brant Rock,
Massachusetts, as being a contrived story.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Linton, VK3PC.

--

Its likely that none of us will ever know for sure if Fessenden really
was the first radio broadcaster.  Those signals are lost in the
antiquity of time.  Then again there are some things that are far
better left to the mind, to the imagination and to the heart.  They are
called traditions and the belief in Reginald Fessenden's radio
broadcasts seem to lie among them.  (WIA News)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

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