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Amateur Radio NewslineT Report 1932 - August 22 2014
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1932 with a release date of August 22
2014 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Hams in Hawaii are ready as tropical storms head
their way; The Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference looks at the
future; Ham radio gets the message through when all else fails; a new
microsat is hand launched from the ISS and the story of a retirement
community that has adopted ham radio. Find out the details are on Amateur
Radio NewslineT report number 1932 coming your way right now.
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RESCUE RADIO: HAMS IN HAWAII RESPOND TO TROPICAL STORM ISELLE
Hams in Hawaii were once again ready as Tropical Storm Iselle made
landfall on the Big Island on Friday, August 8th. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF,
is in the newsroom with the details of how radio amateurs on the Island
State were ready for this severe weather event:
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As soon as hams on Hawaii were informed that Hurricane Iselle was headed
toward them, preparations for its arrival began:
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AH6RH: "We figured that there would be landfall in about 10 days, so we
already began to put out the word and the preparation. The baseline plan
was to run our communications over a common channel on VHF and UHF. We
have a statewide repeater system for that. So the National Weather
Service and SKYWARN people would take the lead and state Civil Defense and
county Civil Defense in case there was storm damage on any particular
island."
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That's Ron Hashiro, AH6RH, who serves as both Hawaii State RACES
coordinator and Emergency Coordinator for ARES. He tells Amateur Radio
Newsline that everything was in readiness when Iselle made its closest
approach:
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AH6RH: "As the storm approached the Big Island it approached as a
category 1 Hurricane and then just off shore it fizzled out a little bit
to a very, very high end tropical storm. It hung off shore for 5 « hours
and in the process the brutal winds and the punishing rains ground down on
the South-East coast of the Big Island and they took quite a beating over
there."
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As a result of the storm, some 21,900 residents were without electric
power. And landline and cellular service was down in some area. But ham
radio kept the emergency responders in communications with one another:
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AH6RH: "The governor had previously declared an emergency. With that
declaration we were able to activate our repeater on the top of Mauna Kea.
That single repeater covered about 2/3 of the island and provided
communications for a lot of the people.
"The county brought up their volunteers. Many of them are CERT members
and a lot are amateur radio operators and they used that repeater to keep
in touch.
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It took about 10 days for things to settle back to normal with all power
and telephone service restored as we go to air. Hashiro says a lot of the
success of the ham radio response is that all hams who work as emergency
responders do so together for a common goal:
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AH6RH: " We all work cooperatively together. We do not make a strong
distinction between SKYWARN, ARES or RACES. We all work together and very
often it's the same leaders who are serving in different capacities at
different times.
"But we do want to stress interoperability between all amateur radio
groups. Because Hawaii being the most populated area in the most remote
part of the world, should anything adverse happen we all have to rely on
each other. We all have to back each other up and amateur radio is a big
component of that plan."
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AH6RH adds that he wants to give a lot of credit for this well planned
response to Paul Agamata, WH6FM, who organized the amateur radio response
on Hawaii's Big Island. Hashiro says that it was because of WH6FM, that
the Big Island was prepared for the arrival of Tropical Storm Iselle and
for the area's recovery.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in Los
Angeles.
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All in all, a job well done by a group of radio amateurs who are always
ready to expect the unexpected. (ARNewsline)
**
RESCUE RADIO: GAREC 2014 LOOKS AT RESCUE RADIO
The recent Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communication conference, or
GAREC 2014 held in Huntsville Alabama held just prior to the Huntsville
Hamfest shared many informative presentations, videos and discussions on
recent experiences plus some media interest. This while looking at the
future of ham radio emergency communications worldwide.
GAREC 2014 was hosted by ARRL Alabama Section and the Huntsville Hamfest
and was attended by delegates from all three International Amateur Radio
Union regions. Organizer Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, said that besides routine
items such as IARU regional reports that presentations were received on
many topics. These included Emergency Communications as an element of
promoting Amateur Radio along with the Salvation Army's SATERN program and
digital modes and remote control operation. Other presentations included
the United States Defense Department use of the Military Affiliate Radio
Service for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, and a combined
Emergency Services Dispatch Centre providing interoperable communications.
During the conference a number of themes began to emerge. These included
the importance of meaningful conversations with served agencies to ensure
that their communications needs are met. Another was to focus attention
on Amateur Radio as a trusted partner in emergency response in all phases
of the communications life cycle. Also topic taken under advisement was
use of social media as way to send near real-time information on an event.
This as long as doing so does not compromise amateur radio's
relationships with served agencies.
All presentations will soon appear on line at www.w4ozk.com/GAREC14.htm.
The next and 10th GAREC will be in Tampere, Finland in June of 2015.
(VK3PC, GAREC 2014)
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RESCUE RADIO: HAM RADIO EMCOMM MESSAGE FROM GOUGH ISLAND
It was ham radio to the rescue on when an important message from remote
Gough Island to the South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs
could not be sent as the normal lines of communications were down.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Stephan Kinford, N8WB, is here with the details:
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The story really began this past February when Pierre Tromp, ZS1HF,
volunteered to go to Gough Island after a member of the Gough Team had
passed away on the island. Tromp was then transported to Gough Island
where he was assigned the call sign ZD9M.
Over the weekend of August 9th, a serious incident occurred on the island.
As the Satellite Phone connection to the African continent had been poor
since the first week of August, ZD9M decided to use ham radio to contact
Trevor Brinch, ZS1TR for relay of the information back to Cape Town.
While the text was not made public, the message contained 836 words and
was sent a few at a time and repeated back for confirmation. The entire
process took about 1 hour 45 minutes to transfer via High Frequency radio.
During this time the two stations were forced to alternate between 20 and
30 meters as conditions were fading in and out on both bands. After
confirmation of the content of the message it was retyped into e-mail
format and successfully sent to the listed recipients.
Another example of amateur radio being able to get the message delivered
when all others methods fail.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinfod, N8WB, reporting.
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Gough Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean and is uninhabited
except for the personnel of a weather station which the South African
National Antarctic Program has maintained continually since 1956. That
makes it one of the most remote places on Earth with a constant human
presence. (SARL)
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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: CHASQUI-1 HAM RADIO RESEARCH CUBESAT DEPLOYED FROM
ISS
The Chasqui-1 amateur radio satellite has been successfully deployed from
the International Space Station during a space-walk by two Russian
Cosmonauts .
,At 14:00 UTC on August 18th Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev opened
the hatch of the docking module to start their space walk or EVA. The
tiny satellite was successfully deployed by Artemyev about 23 minutes
later.
Chasqui-1 is a research satellite designed to standard CubeSat dimension
by the Peruvian National University of Engineering in collaboration with
the Southwestern State University in Kursk. Experiments on-board include
a cameras that visible light and another that detects only infra-red.
The tiny bird carries a beacon on 437.025 MHz that can transmit either
1200 bit per second Audio Frequency Shift keying using AX.25 protocol or
9600 bits per second Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying better known as GMSK.
(AMSAT UK)
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ENFORCEMENT: FCC ORDERS PAYMENT OF $15,000 NAL
The FCC has turned down a Petition for Reconsideration of a $15,000 Notice
of Apparent Liability filed by Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick of
Austin Texas. This, in regard to an unlicensed broadcast station that
agents of the Enforcement Bureau had previously traced to their residence.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, has this latest follow-up
report:
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This story goes back to August 12, 2013 when an agent from the FCC's
Enforcement Bureau's Houston Office used direction-finding to locate the
source of a radio signal on 90.1 MHz to an antenna atop a tower mounted to
the side of an apartment building in the city of Austin. Ownership of
both the building and tower were traced to Walter Olenick and M. Rae
Nadler-Olenick at that address.
On September 6, 2013, the Houston Office issued Mr. and Mrs. Olenick a
warning letter, which advised them that the operation of an unlicensed
radio station from their property violated the Communications Act.
In their reply, the Olenick's did not deny that they owned the apartment
building and operated the unlicensed radio station from it. Rather they
stated that the FCC agent did not have permission or consent to enter the
premises.
They also stated that because they had no commercial nexus with the
Commission, they did not consent, directly or by any implication, to the
Commission's policies, procedures, or jurisdiction. They also implied
that they do not consider themselves subject to the laws of the United
States and stated they expect any future communications to come from the
International Bureau only after a treaty to which they are "signators" is
signed.
But in its findings the FCC noted that it has every right to observe from
common grounds and that it also had the authority to regulate radio
transmissions within the state of Texas. With that it gave the Olnicks
the customary 30 days from the February 19th issuance of the proposed
$15,000 fine to pay or to file an appeal.
This past June 3rd the FCC affirmed the previously issued Notice of
Apparent Liability. In doing so the FCC said that Section 301 of the
Communications Act explicitly sets forth the
Commission's jurisdiction over all radio transmissions, both interstate
and intrastate. At that time the Olenick's were again given the 30 days
from the release of the order affirming the fine to pay it or to file any
form of appeal which they apparently did. On August 19th in a Memorandum,
Opinion and Order the FCC denied the Olenick's Petition for
Reconsideration.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Victoria,
Texas.
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The Olnicks' were again told that payment is due within 30 calendar days
after the release date of the Memorandum Opinion and Order. Whether or
not the Olnicks' will continue the appeals process or possibly take the
matter into the Federal court system is unknown as we go to air. (FCC)
**
RADIO LAW: UN-NARROWBANDING WAIVER REQUEST DENIED BY FCC
The FCC has denied a June 19, 2013 request from Del Norte County,
California that it be permitted to un-narrowband its radio system back to
its 25 kHz channels.
In its filing, the County had claimed that its narrowband system had
reduced critical coverage by 40 percent. Also that three to five
additional towers would be needed to restore it to its capability. Noting
that the County had only 30,000 people and no spectrum congestion, it
asked to be permitted to return to wideband operation.
But in declining the request the FCC noted that among other reasons, that
the county would eventually experience a less reliable system. Also that
the wider-bandwidth equipment would become obsolete. (LMR Radio Group,
WA6ILQ)
**
RADIO READING: LATEST BAA RAGAZINE NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
Volume 2 issue 1 of the free radio astronomy publication RAGazine is now
available for download. This edition includes articles on such topics as
an introduction to objects that can be detected by the amateur radio
astronomer, a simple Digital Interferometer, the quarterly VLF observing
report and much more. You can download this and previous issues at
tinyurl.com/ragazine. (Southgate)
**
HAM HAPPENINGS: WORLD DATV PARTY TO PROCEED DESPITE SOFTWARE ISSUES
Despite software issues the World Digital A-T-V Party will go ahead as
scheduled.
While most activity in this global event is based around Amateur Radio ATV
frequencies, the Internet-based Skype connection service is used for
Interstate and International connections. However Skype is currently
grandfathering out older versions of its software and the new version do
not support import video from USB Dongles such as EzCap. These are the
devices used to take the output video as received from the ATV Repeater
and send it to the remote anchor station. Peter Cossins, VK3BFG, appears
to have found a temporary work around, but it will be dependant on the
administrators of Skype and their timetable.
Either way, the event will take place on Friday August 29 and Saturday
August 30 Melbourne Australia time. In the United States the W6A-N
Amateur Television Network in southern California will be taking part.
Also, the British Amateur Television Club will be streaming the event on
its website at www.batc.tv (VK3PC)
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NAMES IN THE NEWS: HAM IN INDIA RARE TYPE BLOOD DONOR
Some names in the news. First up is Shaikh Sadaqathullah, VU2SDU, who
was recently featured in the August 11th edition of India's Trinity Mirror
Evening English language newspaper. According to the article, VU2SDU, who
has a rare blood group, started donating blood in 1993 at the suggestion
of VU2HMN. She told him one of her relatives with the same rare blood
group was to undergo heart surgery. You can read the entire story at
trinitymirror.net/news by using the search argument VU2SDU. (Southgate,
Trinity Mirror News)
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NAMES IN THE NEWS: OSWEGO COUNTY NY HAM HONORED
Back in the United States, Dave Anthony, AC2CM, a member of the Oswego
County New York Emergency Communicators and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency
Service has been honored with the 2014 Service Award. This, for his
dedication to the amateur radio group that helps government agencies with
emergency communications needs.
AC2CM has been a member of the group since 2006. Since then he has
participated in numerous RACES activations that provided reliable
communications between responding agencies, field to field and field to
base locations. As a RACES volunteer, Anthony often works at the Joint
Information Center during the county's nuclear power plant exercises.
More about Dave Anthony, AC2CM, and his volunteer efforts is on the web at
tinyurl.com/races-volunteer-honored.
(oswegocountytoday.com)
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NAMES IN THE NEWS: KATIE ALLEN WY7YL JOINS HRD LLC
Katie Allen, WY7YL of Sundance, Wyoming, has joined the staff of HRD LLC
the developers and distributors of the Ham Radio Deluxe station control
package. Allen is an Extra Class with various interests in Amateur Radio
from contesting and DX'ing to volunteering. While still a General, she
achieved both Worked All States and DXCC. Additionally she serves as an
ARRL Volunteer Examiner; as the ARRL Assistant Section Manager for
Wyoming, and as the Director of Development for Rocky Mountain Ham Radio.
At HRD Allen will be involved in providing technical support,
documentation and sales of the company's Ham Radio Deluxe software suite.
(HRD)
**
NAMES IN THE NEWS: NEW 73 ON AO-73 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, has announced a new award for contacts made via the
AO-73 which is better known as the FUNcube-1 amateur radio satellite.
Stoetzer says that the requirements for this award are very simple. Just
work 73 unique stations on AO-73 on or after September 1, 2014. That's
it.
N8HM says that there are no geographic restrictions on your operating
location and no QSL cards are required. When you complete the
requirements, simply e-mail your log extract including the callsign of
each station worked, the UTC time, and dates of all contacts to n8hm (at)
arrl (dot) net. Also include the address where you'd like your
certificate to be sent.
According to Stoetzer, there will be no cost for this award however
donations to AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-North America's Fox satellite program are
encouraged and will be appreciated. (N8HM, Southgate)
**
HAM HAPPENINGS: AMATEUR RADIO VILLAGE TO BE AT UK EMF-2014
AMSAT-UK has announced that there will be an amateur radio village and
special event station at the Electromagnetic Field or EMF 2014 event
taking place August 29th to the 31st. Amateur Radio Newsline's Heather
Embee, KB3TZD, has the details:
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EMF 2014 is described as a festival for anyone interested in radio,
electronics, space, homebrewing, robotics, 3D printing, the Internet
culture and pretty much anything else you can think of. It is a volunteer
effort by a non-profit group inspired by European and US maker groups like
the Chaos Communication Camp and Toorcamp to name only a few.
This years' event will take place at Bletchley near Milton Keynes in
Buckinghamshire, England. Attendees are invited to set up their own
village or camps within the camp. That's where like-minded people can
gather and put on their own activities. The EMF team of volunteers will
supply power and internet to each tent.
Ham radio-wise, special event station GB2EMF will be on the air from the
Amateur Radio Village but as of now no operating schedule, bands or QSL
routing has been made public. One thing that likely won't happen is a
portable cross-band repeater that was to be on the air during the
gathering. Unfortunately telecommunications regulator Ofcom's licensing
issues may preclude this. Either way, it appears as if EMF 2014 is going
to be a maker, hacker and ham radio good time.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD, reporting.
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For more information on this event go to www.emfcamp.org or follow the
event on Twitter @emfcamp. (AMSAT-UK)
**
RADIO AIDS: UPDATED WORLDWIDE AMATEUR 5 MHZ ALLOCATION CHART RELEASED
A new and updated 5 MHz allocation chart has been issued by Paul Gaskell,
G4MWO, of Saint Helens, in the UK.
According to Gaskell, it has been several months since the last version of
the Worldwide Amateur 5 MHz Allocations Chart has appeared. G4MWO says
that due to the increasing number of 5 MHz allocations and in terms of
readability it is no longer possible to retain the chart in its original
pdf-type format. Because of this it has been reconfigured as a Microsoft
Excel file instead.
G4MWO says that the newly updated Worldwide Amateur 5 MHz Allocations
Chart can be found on the web at tinyurl.com/oofmemh. (G4MWO, Southgate)
**
RADIO IN SPACE: THE SEVENTH NEXT GEN GPS SATELLITE IS NOW IN ORBIT
On August 1st, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully
carried an Air Force GPS-IIF satellite in the orbit. This is the seventh
such satellite launched of a planned constellation of 12 such birds. This
satellite is the third launched in 2014, with one more planned for later
this year.
(Published news reports)
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ON THE AIR: PA70OMG COMMEMORATES WW2 OPERATION MARKET BASKET
On the air, keep an ear open for special event station PA70OMG, to be
operational from the Netherlands from September 12th to the 21st. This to
commemorate the 70th anniversary of the World War 2 Operation Market
Garden by paratroopers and allied forces which began on September 17th
1944 to help liberate the region after four years of German occupation.
If you make contact QSL's go direct or via the bureau to PB0AEZ. More
information on Operation Market Basket and this ham radio special event
operation can be found on-line at pa2p.nl/pa70omg. (PA70OMG)
**
ON THE AIR: B4YOG CELEBRATES CHINA 2ND YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES
Also, be on the lookout for special event station B4YOG to be active until
August 28th. This operation is being held to celebrate the 2nd Youth
Olympic Games in the city of Nanjing, China. This station has been
operational on 40, 30, 20, 15 and 10 meters using CW, SSB and PSK. QSL's
go via BD4WO, either direct or by via the bureau. (OPDX)
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DX
In DX, IZ0CKJ will be active stroke I-B-zero from Palmarola Island until
August 31st. His operations are on 40, 20 and 15 meters during his
daytime hours and mainly on SSB. Listen for his QSL as directed on the
air.
Members of the Romanian Radio Club Association will activate Fericirii
Island for the first time as YP0F between August 22nd and September 30th.
Operations will be on the High Frequency bands only. QSL via YO9FNP.
EA7FTR will be active between September 5th and October 10th as D44KS from
Boa Vista which is the Eastern most island of Cape Verde. Due to work
commitments his hours of operation will be limited to his spare time.
Listen for him on 40 through 6 meters using SSB and RTTY and QSL via
EB7DX.
W5JON will be on the air as V47JA from his vacation home at Calypso Bay
on St. Kitts between September 29th and November 12th. Activity will be
on 160 through 6 meters including 60 meters using SSB. He will also be
operational during the CQ World Wide DX SSB Contest as a Single Operator
All-Band entry. In addition his wife who holds the call W5HAM will
occasionally operate as V47HAM. All QSLs go to W5JON direct or via Logbook
of the World. No bureau QSLs for this operation.
ZL2MF will be operational as E6MF from Niue Island between September 2nd
and the 9th on 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6 meters SSB. Look for him also in the
All Asian DX SSB Contest On September 6th and 7th. QSL's go via ZL2MF
direct or via the bureau.
AC8G will be operational as J37K from Saint Georges between October 24th
to the 26th. Activity will include the CQWW DX SSB Contest on October 25th
and 26th signing J3A. QSL J37K via AC8G and J3A via WA1S.
Lastly, DL7DF will be on holiday in Senegal between November 1st and
the13th and plans to be on the air stroke 6w but only as time permits.
Operation will be on 160 through 10 meters using CW, SBB, RTTY, PSK31 and
SSTV. QSL to DL7DF, direct or by the DARC Bureau.
(This weeks DX news courtesy of OPDX)
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THAT FINAL ITEM: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ADOPTS HAM RADIO
And finally this week more than a dozen residents of a Redlands,
California, retirement community have become amateur radio operators and
are working to familiarize themselves with a local disaster relief plan.
This in the event that emergency personnel were unable to reach their
Plymouth Valley retirement community should a disaster situation arise.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, has more:
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According to the Redlands Daily Facts on-line newspaper, Keith Kasin,
AI6BX, is the Plymouth Village executive director who is leading the
group. In the article Kasin explained Plymouth Village is required to
have an emergency response plan as part of its day-to-day operations.
Also that the program provides those involved with a chance to be
pro-active.
The group is made up of Plymouth Village volunteers that meet regularly
and also hold practice drills using amateur radio. Each volunteer is
responsible for a portion of the retirement community. Kasin says that
once training and exams are complete, Plymouth Village will see around 30
certified operators working to keep residents safe.
According to Kasen, Plymouth Village is a 37-acre campus with a population
of 300.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, reporting.
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The complete story about this unique community self help disaster planning
is on the web at tinyurl.com/plymouth-village-ready. (Redlands Daily
Facts)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE
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Penn DX Bulletin, Radio Netherlands, Rain, the RSGB, the South African
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