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Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1797 - January 20 2012

Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1797 with a release
date of January 20th, 2012 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a Q-S-T.  QRZ.com joins the fight to kill
the SOPA act now in congress; MARS resumes using Winlink; D-
Star will be going on-orbit later this year and a tribute to
the man who guided the change from vacuum tubes to solid
state.  Find out the details are on Amateur Radio NewslineT
report number 1797 coming your way right now.


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RADIO LAW:  QRZ.COM JOINS THE FIGHT TO STOP SOPA AND PIPA

The giant QRZ.com ham radio website has joined the fight to
stop passage of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA,
a similar bill working its way through the U-S Senate.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Robert Sudock, WB6FDF, reports on
why QRZ.com and its owner Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ is taking this
hard-line stand.

--

Why should ham radio care about these two bills?  According
to publisher Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, the measures are sponsored
by Hollywood entertainment corporations and the recording
industry. They threaten to destroy the internet as we know
it.  And in his front page posting on the QRZ.com, he lists
what he terms "the facts about the bills."

According to AA7BQ, websites will be required to police
their own content for copyright violations of all kinds.
Any website found in violation of the intellectual property
of another party must be shut down -- it's internet access
blocked by its Internet Service Provider, DNS de-listing,
and all banking transactions via online payment providers
would be stopped.

Lloyd notes that there is no burden of proof required to
shut down a website.  Any claim of copyright infringement
could result in a court ordered shutdown.

Website owners will be responsible for policing content
uploaded by their users. A violation could be ridiculously
minor to qualify such as uploading a trademarked image, a
photo of a celebrity, a clipping from a newspaper, an audio
clip from movie, or the like.  Also, uploading a copyrighted
song or video would become a felony under the US Code.

And it is not just domestic websites that would be impacted.
The law would apply to foreign websites as well, requiring
United States based Internet Service Providers to block
access to those sites.

Lloyd then notes that this law could also kill his site,
QRZ.com, as users know it.   He notes that the site
currently has some 300,000 photographs on its server, all of
which would have to be taken down and manually verified to
be in compliance.  The same thing would hold true for each
biography page where a photograph or other image exists.

Lloyd says that in his case, there's no way he could do it.
If burdened with this sort of responsibility, QRZ would
simply be found in violation and forcibly shut down by the
federal government, all in an to protest both bills many
websites went dark on Wednesday, January 18 effort to please
what he terms as Hollywood and the music industries.

To protest both bills, many websites went dark on Wednesday,
January 18.  The Amateur Radio Newsline provides a short
video insert in the TWiT network's Ham Nation podcast each
Tuesday evening.  That network did not go dark, but devoted
its live programming to the SOPA and PIPA topics.  As we go
to air the programs should be rendered and posted for
download in both audio and video formats.  Go to www.twit.tv
and look for "Security Now," "This Week in Google," "Tech
News Today," "Triangulation" and the January 20th edition of
"This Week in Law" for a more detailed and web centric
discussion.

The story is still evolving. In reaction to public protests,
both bills were withdrawn for retooling on Friday, January
30th.  More details to follow next week.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Robert Sudock, WB6FDF,
in Los Angeles.

--

AA7BQ ends his posting by asking those who use his website
to contact their Congressmen and Senators to voice your
opposition to both of these measures, especially SOPA. He
says that it's not just QRZ.com that depends on their
action.  Rather he says, it's the entire internet as they
know it today.  (QRZ.com, TWIT.tv, ARNewslineT)

**

RESCUE RADIO:  ARMY MARS RESUMES USE OF WINLINK 2000

The Army's Military Auxiliary Radio System better known
simply as Army MARS is back using WinLink 2000.  The ARRL
reports that Lieutenant General Susan Lawrence has reversed
the decision to phase out the use of the global radio e-mail
system by Army MARS members that was issued late last year.

Lieutenant General Lawrence stated that the Army, after
reviewing its capabilities, had decided that the continued
use of WinLink 2000 would be in MARS best interest.  She
went on to call it a valuable asset to Army MARS members and
agencies that were using the service.

On January 5, 2012, the Chief of Army MARS officially
notified the membership that the phase out notice had been
rescinded.  Army MARS members and agencies who had been
using the service hailed the decision by Lieutenant General
Lawrence and have resumed use of the WinLink 2000 radio e-
mail system.

More about WinLink 2000 is on the web at www.winlink.org.
(ARRL)

**

RADIO GROWTH:  DXCC SEES AN INCREASE IN APPLICATIONS

Interest in DX is growing.  So says the ARRL as we hear from
Amateur Radio Newsline's Heather Butera-Howell, KB3TZD, has
more:

--

The ARRL reports that it appears as if more amateurs are
working DX these days.  This in turn means the ARRL's
Membership and Volunteer Programs Department, especially the
DXCC Desk and the ARRL Incoming and Outgoing QSL Bureaus,
are working very hard in processing applications and sending
out cards via the different QSL Bureaus.

In 2010, the DXCC Desk processed 7134 applications for
initial awards and endorsements.  These 2010 applications
included 853,462 QSOs. In 2011, the DXCC Desk processed
11,175 applications, representing  1,250,864 QSOs.

Sharon Taratula is the Membership and Volunteer Programs
Administrative Manager.  She explained that comparing 2010
to 2011 represents a 47 percent increase in the number of
QSO's and a 57 percent increase in the number of
applications received.

And that's quite an impressive increase in any area of ham
radio.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Butera-Howell,
near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

--

To learn more about this increase in DX, go to
tinyurl.com/dxcc-numbers on the world wide web.  And we will
have more DX related news later on in this weeks Amateur
Radio Newsline report.  (ARRL)

**

BREAKING DX NEWS:  VP6T PITARICAN OPERATION SAYS NO 6 METERS

The VP6T DXpedition to Pitcarin Island will not be on 6
meters nor any exotic modes such as EME or SSTV.  Nor will
it likely even show up on 60 meters.

 The operation which begins on January 20th and continues
through February 4th has issued a press statement explaining
its decision to concentrate its operations on the
traditional and popular High Frequency bands.

According to the team they are a small group and are limited
in baggage weight and size.  As such they were forced to
make choices.  And while most of the team are 6 meter
operators, they reached a decision not to spend much their
time and effort on this band.

For these reasons no 6 meter antenna will be taken with them
and no time slot is booked for 6 meter operation.  For more
details, updates along the suggested frequencies for the
VP6T DXpedition please visit the operations website at
www.vp6t.org. (Southgate)

**

BREAK 1

From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio
Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world
including the Caravan Club Net in Albuquerque New Mexico.

(5 sec pause here)


**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  STUDENT HAM RADIO D-STAR SATELLITE TO
LAUNCH LATER THIS YEAR

D-Star should be in space before the end of 2012.  Students
at the University of Liege in Belgium are hoping their D-
Star based ham radio satellite OUFTI-1 will be launched
towards the end of this year if at all possible.

Plans originally called for it to be carried to orbit on the
maiden flight of the European Space Agency's Vega launch
vehicle.  That now appears to be out of the question.
However team leaders say that other opportunities have been
identified and discussions are ongoing with at least one
launch provider.

If and when OUFTI-1 makes it to orbit it could mean a lot of
those on the fence about purchasing D-Star based gear might
just tape the plunge.  This in turn would likely result in a
major world-wide sales boost for Icom which to date is the
only supplier of D-Star based ham radio gear.

An update on the satellite and plans to get it into space
have been published in the January 2012 issue of the OUFTI-1
Newsletter.  That issue focuses on the current status and
near-future of D-Star based bird.  You can read it on-line
at tinyurl.com/oufti-1-2012.  (Various sources)

**

RADIO LAW:  JUDGE ISSUES SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN K1MAN
FORFEITURE CASE

It's two for the government and one for Glenn Baxter, K1MAN,
in the case involving a fine issued to the Maine radio
amateur by the FCC several years ago.

In a 38 page ruling issued January 10th, U.S. District Judge
John Woodcock Jr., chief of Maine's federal court, upheld
two of the three judgments the FCC sought against Glenn
Baxter, K1MAN, of Belgrade Lakes, Maine.

The judge upheld forfeitures totaling $10,000 for violations
of the Communications Act of 1934. The two violations were
willful or repeated failure to respond to FCC requests for
information and conducting willful or malicious interference
with other radio transmissions.

Judge Woodcock, however, denied the FCC's request for
judgment on a count of engaging in communications in which
there is a pecuniary or monetary interest.  Specifically,
the judge questioned whether Baxter's promotion of his
website during his transmissions rose to the level of a
violation of FCC rules even though the FCC argued that the
website sells merchandise.

The judge extensively cites Baxter's responses to the FCC,
including referring to Baxter's personal attacks against a
government attorney, and FCC personnel, including retired
FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH.

Woodcock conceded in his opinion such attacks by Baxter made
it difficult to separate policy and factual disputes.
However, the judge concluded that Baxter could not "avoid
summary judgment by attempting to manufacture a factual
dispute."

At one point, Judge Woodcock asserts: "Clearly, Mr. Baxter
is bristling with irritation with the government."

Citing Baxter's arguments and demands for a trial on the
ongoing matters, Judge Woodcock ruled that there must be a
triable issue. He then ruled that the government had only
proven its case for a summary judgment in two of the three
matters before him.

But it's probably not over.  Baxter is more than likely to
file a further appeal on the two matters that Judge Woodcock
found for the government.  It's also believed that the
government will proceed to take the third issue to trial
before a judge and jury.  (From Actual Court Transcript)

**

PUBLIC SERVICE:  HAM RADIO AT THE EAGLE CAP EXTREME SLED DOG
RACE

Ham radio will be providing the communications for Oregon's
only Iditarod and Yukon Quest qualifier race.  The 2012
Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race is January 25th to the 28th.
Ham radio volunteer communicators we will be using a pair of
linked repeaters tied to a remote base to cover the course.
Some operators will be camping out in remote locations for
the entire time to support the event.  In addition, anyone
can listen in on all of the events ham radio  communications
on Echolink conference Node number 367015.  More information
is on line at www.eaglecapextreme.com (KB7DZR)

**

RADIO AND EDUCATION:  THE FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR RADIO
SCHOLARSHIPS

The Foundation for Amateur Radio has announced that it will
be administering fifty scholarships for the 2012 to 2013
academic year.  This, to assist licensed Radio Amateurs in
the pursuit of higher education.  Amateur Radio Newsline's
Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, reports:

--

The Foundation for Amateur Radio fully funds two
scholarships. The remainder are administered by the
foundation, without cost to the various donors.

Only licensed Radio Amateurs may compete for these awards.
To qualify, a ham must be planning to pursue a full time
course of studies beyond high school and be enrolled, or
have been accepted for enrollment, at an accredited
university, college or technical school.

The awards range from $300 to $5,000 with preference given
in some cases to residents of specified geographical areas
or the pursuit of certain study programs.  Non-US residents
are eligible to apply for some of the scholarships.

Additional information and an application form may be
requested by letter or QSL card to FAR Scholarships, Post
Office Box 911,Columbia, Maryland, 21044-0911.

For the Amateur Radio Nrewsline, Im Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, in
Zion, Illinois.

--

Scholarship applications are also available for download at
The Foundation for Amateur radio website.  Its in cyberspace
at wwr.farweb.org. (FAR)

**

THE SOCIAL SCENE:  WINTERFEST 2012 IN ANNADALE VIRGINIA

Turning to the ham radio social scene, the 36th Annual
Winterfest is slated for Sunday, February 26th .  This, at
the Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus,
in the city of Annandale, Virginia.

Tailgating starts at 6 am EST with the indoor sales area
opening to the public at 8 am.  The large, heated indoor
area accommodates more than 100 tables operated by
commercial vendors, clubs, ham radio organizations and
individuals.

This event is sponsored by the Vienna Wireless Society which
will also hold a ham radio testing session associated with
the hamfest on Saturday, February 25th.  More information is
on the web at www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php. (AI4SV)

**

THE SOCIAL SCENE:  PALM SPRINGS CA. HAMFEST JANUARY 28

The annual Palm Springs Hamfest takes place on January 28th
from 9 am to 5 pm Pacific Standard Time at 4193 Matthew
Drive in Palm Springs, California.  Hosted by the Desert
RATS Club the show will feature 35 vendors, hands on
equipment demonstrations, a swap meet and much more. Talk-in
on is on the local 166.940 repeater that requires a 107.2
hertz sub-audible access tone.  More information is on-line
at desertrats.am.  (VE7REZ)

**

HAM HAPPENINGS:  TIME TO REGISTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS
WEEKEND

The International Museums Weekend special event will this
year take place on the double weekends of June 16th and the
17th and again on the 23rd and the 24th.  Hams world-wide
are being encouraged to participate by setting up stations
in their local museums.

The events organizer is M1BYT.  He asks that all those
intending to take part to register their museum via the from
on the International Museums Weekend website at
www.ukradioamateur.co,uk/imw.  M1BYT can also be contacted
via e-mail to harry (dot) m1byt (at) tiscali (dot) co (dot)
uk.  (M1BYT)

**

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)

**

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:  2012 TO BE A LEAP SECOND YEAR

Look for 2012 to be a tiny bit longer than years past.  This
is because 2012 will be a bit longer than 2011 or 2010.
Confused?  Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, is here to sort it all out:

--

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems
Service has decided to add a leap second to Coordinated
Universal Time at the end of June 2012.

The most recent leap was added on December 31, 2008.  They
have been necessary because of the Earth's unpredictable
rotation.

Coordinated Universal Time, better known as UTC is based on
highly accurate atomic clocks, but has been kept more or
less synchronized with mean solar time by way of leap
seconds.

Leap seconds were first introduced in 1972 but may not be
with us much longer.  Now however, a proposed revision of
Standard-Frequency and Time Signal Emissions will be voted
by the International Telecommunication Union
Radiocommunication Assembly meeting, immediately before this
years World Radiocommunication Conference.  If the
international panel agrees, Leap Seconds will be eliminated
by 2018.

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

--

Meantime with this being a so called leap year, February
will have a total of 29 days instead of the usual 28, to
make up for our rotation around the Sun.  So adjust your
computer logging software accordingly.
(VK3PC)

**

RADIO IN SPACE:  DEDICATED CUBESAT SPECTRUM FOR RESEARCH
PROJECTS

SmallSat, CubeSat, and Nano Satellite developers are seeking
a spectrum allocation, outside of the 435 to 437 MHz amateur
satellite band that could be dedicated to their specific
bandwidth, data rate, and mission requirements.

In a press release ISIS notes that experimental, proof-of-
concept demonstration missions find it increasingly more
difficult to find spectrum on today's crowded bands.  Also,
obtaining commercial or research space frequency allocations
is beyond the budgetary capability of many of these
missions.

ISIS says that some satellite developers may be able to
adapt their communication requirements to operate in the
amateur radio spectrum.  But in order to fully meet mission
requirements on other projects a more suitable spectrum is
quickly becoming a potential long term need for the emerging
nano-satellite market.

ISIS says they plan to attend the World Radio Conference,
WRC, this month as part of the Dutch national delegation.
This is to make use of the opportunity to informally sound
out the various opinions on this matter and investigate
potential possibilities for creating a future solution
ensuring the spectral needs of the community are met. (ANS)

**

RADIO AND SPACE: NASA SUMMER 2012 INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS

NASA is accepting applications for student summer internship
positions at several of its centers around the country.
Students can view opportunities and apply for them at
intern.nasa.gov by selecting the Student Opportunities tab
then clicking on Internships.   The application process must
be completed at the NASA intern website.  The cutoff date to
apply for summer internships is February 2nd.  (NASA via
ANS)

**

HAM RADIO IN SPACE:  PLAN YOUR LATE 2012 ARISS SCHOOLROOM
CONTACT NOW

NASA's Teaching From Space office is accepting proposals for
United States ARISS classroom contacts to be held between
July 15, 2012  and January 15, 2013.  The deadline for
submitting proposals is January 30th.  For more information,
see the Teaching From Space website at tinyurl.com/ariss-
planning-2012.  (ANS, KB3LKI)

**

ON THE AIR:  HAM RADIO WILL HELP USHER IN THE CHINESE NEW
YEAR

On the air, word that the station master for the Malaysian
Amateur Radio Transmitter Society has announced that the
special event callsign, 9M4CNY, will be active from Penang
Island on January 29th, between 0700 to 1600 UTC.  This in
honor of the Chinese New Year Cultural and Heritage
Celebration for 2012.  Suggested frequencies are 7.088 MHz
on 40 meters and 14.288 MHz on 20.  The operating mode is
SSB only.  QSL direct only to address for 9M4CNY found on
QRZ.com.

**

DX

In DX, F8APV will be active from Reunion Island from January
22nd until February 10th signing portable FR.  QSL as
directed on the air.

JA6CNH will be active as XV2CNH from Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam between February 10th and the 15th.  Activity will
be on 160through 6 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital
modes. QSL via JA6CNH, direct only.

Lastly, DF7ZS will be active from Aruba Island March 21st to
the 27th signing P40S.  QSL direct to DF7ZS as his address
on QRZ.com.

(Above from various DX news sources)

**

THAT FINAL ITEM:  NORMAN KRIM - CHAMPION OF THE TRANSISTOR -
SK

And finally this week we pay homage Norman Krim, an
electronics visionary who played a pivotal role in the
industry's transition from vacuum tube to solid state
electronics.  Amateur Radio Newsline's Jeff Clark, N8TMW,
takes a look back at the man who put solid state devices in
the hands of experimenters, and ham radio operators world
wide:

--

In a long career with the Raytheon Company Norman Krim made
several important breakthroughs in popularizing the
transistor to experimenters.  He also had an early hand in
the growth of the RadioShack chain,

Norman Krim did not invent the transistor.  That was the
work of a scientific team at Bell Laboratories back in 1947.
Rather Krim saw the device's potential and persuaded
Raytheon to begin manufacturing it on a mass scale,
particularly for use in miniaturized hearing aids that he
had designed. As a result, thousands of hearing impaired
benefited from Krim's initial use of the transistor in
compact hearing aids.

But not every transistor Raytheon made was suitable for that
purpose and this is where Norman Krim's foresight took hold.

Harry Goldstein is an editor at IEEE Spectrum, the magazine
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He
said that when transistors were first being manufactured by
Raytheon on a commercial scale, there was a batch called
CK722's that were too noisy for use in hearing aids.  So
Krim contacted editors at magazines like Popular Science and
Radio Electronics and began marketing the CK722's to
hobbyists.  The result was that a whole generation of kid
engineers, many likely young ham radio operators working in
their garages and basements got to construct all kinds of
electronic projects.  Among these were early transistor
radios, guitar amplifiers, code oscillators, Geiger counters
and metal detectors.

Goldstein says that as a result, a lot of them went on to
become engineers. And as a result, Norman Krim became known
as the father of the CK722.

After leaving Raytheon, Norman Krim bought two electronics
stores in Boston called RadioShack. By the time he sold the
business to the Tandy Corporation two years later, it had
seven stores.  Today the chain has about 7,300.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Jeff Clark, K8JAC.

--

News reports say that Norman Krimm passed away of congestive
heart failure last December 14th in a retirement home in
Newton, Massachusetts, at age 98. As far as we can
determine, he was not a radio amateur.  That said, the
impact he had on our hobby was and is truly immeasurable.
(RW and other published reports)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC
Communicator, CQ Magazine, the FCC, the Ohio Penn DX
Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain, the RSGB, the Southgate
News and Australia's W-I-A News, that's all from the Amateur
Radio NewslineT.  Our e-mail address is newsline(at)
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www.arnewsline.org.  You can also write to us or support us
at Amateur Radio NewslineT, 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa
Clarita California, 91350

For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk,
I'm Fred Vobbe, W8HDU, in Lima, Ohio, saying 73 and we thank
you for listening.

Amateur Radio NewslineT is Copyright 2012.  All rights
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