Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1749   February 18 2011   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1749 with a release date of Friday,   
   February 18, 2011 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a Q-S-T.  The deployment of ARISSAT One is delayed until this   
   summer but a test from inside the I-S-S shows that the bird should perform   
   flawlessly.  Also, the Sun wakes up with a big flare on February 13th, the   
   United Stastes recognizes    
      
      
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   HAM RADIO IN SPACE: ARISSAT-1 DEPLOYMENT DELAYED UNTIL JULY   
      
   A delay until this summer for the deployment of ARISSAT One from the   
   International Space Station.  This as the Russian space station manager RSC   
   Energia announces the delay based on the work schedule of the Cosmonauts and   
   Astronauts dunging the upcoming s   
      
    On Wednesday, February 9th NASA had announced that EVA number 28 will be   
   broadcast live on NASA TV, starting at 1245 UTC on February 16th.   Included   
   in the schedule posted by NASA was the deployment of ARISSAT One.   
      
    On Thursday, February 10th Energia decided to have the crew do a checkout of   
   ARISSAT One to make certain that it had survived the trip up on board the   
   re-supply cargo flight that had carried it to its temporary home on the   
   I-S.S..  This test was not an e   
      
    But that was not to ne.  On Friday, February 11th Energia management   
   announced that the deployment of the ARISSAT One satellite had been removed   
   from the schedule of events for E-V-A 28.  This Energia said was due to   
   changes in the tasks associated with    
      
    But the good news in all this is that ARISSAT One will likely work exactly as   
   it was designed to once deployed on-orbit.  Hams on the ground to heard   
   ARISSAT One during the test period said its signal was definitely loud and   
   clear.   
      
      
      
   (ANS, ARISSAT)   
      
      
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   PROPAGATION:  EARTH-DIRECTED SOLAR FLARE COMES OUR WAY   
      
   Has Mother Nature finally heard the prays of hams world?  This may be the case   
   as Old Sol unleashed Sunspot number 1158 at 17:58 UTC on Sunday, February 13th.   
      
   Sunspot 1158 is described as the strongest solar flare of the year so far.  It   
   was an M6.6-category blast.  The eruption produced a loud blast of radio waves   
   heard in shortwave receivers around the dayside of our Eaeth.  NASA's Solar   
   Dynamics Observatory    
      
   Preliminary data from the STEREO-A and SOHO observatories in space agree that   
   the explosion produced a fast but not particularly bright coronal mass   
   ejection. The actual cloud was predicted to hit our planets magnetic field on   
   or about February 15th and h   
      
   At its initial peak also on February 15th the active region of this solar   
   eruption was more than 100,000 km wide with at least a dozen Earth-sized dark   
   cores scattered beneath its unstable magnetic canopy.   
      
   (AF4JF, VHF Reflector)   
      
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   RADIO LAW:  USA RECOGNIZES MONTENEGRO UNDER CEPT LICENSE   
      
   The FCC has added Montenegro as the latest nation that the United States   
   recognizes in accord with the C-E-P-T reciprocal agreement for radio   
   amateurs.  Under the compact, US citizens who hold an FCC-issued General,   
   Advanced or Amateur Extra class Amateur   
      
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   BREAKING DX NEWS:  SABLE ISLNAND TEAM HOPES MARCH 7   15 WILL BE A CHARM   
      
   The C Y Zero DXpedition team has set March 7th to the 15th as its target   
   schedule to be on the air from Sable Island.   
      
   The operators plan to travel to Halifax, Canada on 5 March to take care of   
   final logistics details in preparation for the charter flight to Sable on the   
   7th.  The team says that it has maximized its personal schedules to be as   
   flexible as possible to adap   
      
   As most listeners know, this will be the third try to make it to Sable with   
   the previous attempts put on hold due to long term weather delays.  The team   
   leaders say that even weather will always be impossible to predict, they have   
   been encouraged by sever   
      
   The website will be updated periodically as to the status and any potential   
   impact on the planned activation date.  Its in cyberspace at www   
   cy0dxpedition.com.  We will have more DX news at the end of this week's   
   Amateur Radio Newsline report.   
      
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   BREAK 1   
      
   From the United States of America, We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on   
   bulletin stations around the world including the K6OX repeater serving the   
   Antelope Valley in Southern California.   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT:  FCC ENORCEMENT BUREAU AGREES TO POSTPONE K1MAN LICENSE RENEWAL   
   HEARING   
      
   The FCC's Enforcement Bureau has agreed with Glenn Baxter, K1MAN, that the   
   hearing on his license renewal should not go forward until the civil action to   
   collect a $21,000 fine against the Maine radio amateur has been adjudicated.   
      
   In her February 10th filing to Chief Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel,   
   Enforcement Bureau Chief Michelle Ellison stated that the Bureau agrees with   
   K1MAN that the proceeding in the matter of Baxter's pending license renewal   
   should not be scheduled    
      
   She did however include one proviso.  This being that the discovery aspect of   
   the case continue per its schedule to provide for judicial economy and   
   efficiency.  Ellison says that this will permit the parties to move to trial   
   as quickly as possible after    
      
   (FCC)   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT: $25000 NAL ISSUED TO UTAH U-NII OPERATOR   
      
   The FCC has issued a $25,000 Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture and   
   Order to Utah Broadband who the regulatory agency clams to be the operator of   
   two Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure or U-NII transmission   
   systems in Salt Lake City,    
      
   In its February 11th release the FCC says that on October 5, 2010, FCC agents   
   from the Enforcement Bureau's Denver and San Diego Offices, along with FAA   
   personnel, used direction-finding techniques to locate emissions on the   
   frequencies 5580 and 5640 MHz.   
      
   The FCC agents inspected the systems which were operated by Utah Broadband.    
   Both U-NII systems utilized the modular transceiver model XtremeRange5, an   
   intentional radiator manufactured by Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.[1]  The FCC   
   Equipment Authorization for th   
      
   In assessing the $25,000 N-A-L the FCC says that based on the evidence before   
   it the agency finds that Utah Broadband apparently willfully and repeatedly   
   violated sections 301 and 302(b) of the Act, and sections 15.1(b) and 15.1(c)   
   of the FCC's Rules, by    
      
   Utah Broadband was given the customary 30 days to pay the N-A-L or to file an   
   appeal.   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT:  FCC ISSUES $10000 NAL TO ALLEGED NJ UNLICENSED STATION   
      
   And the FCC has also issued a $10000 Notice of Apparent Liability for   
   Forfeiture to  one Bernabe Moreno. This, for his alleged operation of an   
   unlicensed radio transmitter on the frequency 102.3 MHz in Passaic, New Jersey.   
      
   On April 3 and April 7, 2010, in response to a complaint, agents of the   
   Enforcement Bureau's New York Office used mobile direction-finding techniques   
   to monitor the frequency 102.3 MHz in Passaic and determined the source of the   
   transmissions to be a radi   
      
   On April 7, 2010, the agents returned to the building to conduct an inspection   
   of the radio station and knocked on the door where they believed the station   
   was located.  The person who answered the door identified himself as Bernabe   
   Moreno.   
      
   Moreno told the agents that he owns and operates the station on 102.3 MHz at   
   this location.  The agents observed that the station was active at the time of   
   the inspection until Mr. Moreno turned off the transmitter at the agents'   
   request.  The agents then   
      
   Now in its follow-up, the FCC has issued the $10000 Notice of Apparent   
   Liability to Moreno for operating the unlicensed station.  Moreno was given   
   the usual 30 days to pay or to file an appeal.   
      
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   HAM HAPEININGS:  VISALIA DX CONVENTION TOP BAND DINNER   
      
   Turning to the ham radio social calendar, the 2011 Top-Band Dinner Banquet at   
   the Visalia DX Convention is now open for reservations.  This years event will   
   take place on Friday, April 15th, at 6:30 PM at the Holiday Inn, Visalia,   
   California.  This years    
      
   (WB6RSE)   
      
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   HAM HAPPENINGS:  IRTS AGM AND RALLYE IN LIMERICK MARCH 26-27   
      
   The Irish Radio Transmitting Society's Annual General Meeting weekend,   
   including the Annual Dinner and Rally will be held on Saturday March 26th and   
   Sunday March 27th.  The event will be hosted by the Limerick Radio Club.  The   
   venue is the Radisson Blu Ho   
   And for those of you nopt aware, in Europe a rallye is the same as a   
   convent=tion or large hamfest here in the USA.   
      
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   NAMES IN THE NEWS:  GEORGE TRANOS, N2GA, NAMED NEW CQ MAGZINE CONTEST EDITOR   
      
   Some names in the news.  First up is George Tranos, N2GA, of Long Island, New   
   York, who has been named the new Contesting Editor of CQ Amateur Radio   
   magazine.   
      
   George Tranos comes to this position with over two decades of contesting   
   experience in a variety of station settings, and has several top scores to his   
   credit.  Both as a single operator and as part of contesting teams.  He has   
   operated extensively from t   
      
   Professionally, N2GA is president of a software and management consulting   
   firm, vice president of a school for professional motorcycle riders, and a   
   freelance journalist.  He is married to Diane Ortiz, K2DO, an accomplished   
   contester herself and a former    
      
   Tranos succeeds John Dorr, K1AR, who stepped down after writing the magazine's   
   contesting column for nearly 22 years.  George Tranos' first column will   
   appear in the March 2011 issue of CQ.   
      
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   NAMES IN THE NEWS:  WEATHER BRAINS AT AGE 5   
      
   And a well done to Alabama Meteorologist James Spann, W-Oh-4-W and the crew at   
   Weather Brains.  This, as the on-line show about the weather celebrates its   
   5th anniversary this month.   
      
   For those of you who never heard of Weather Brains, this is a weekly audio   
   presentation delivered over the Internet that says it unites weather geeks   
   worldwide.  According to its website, the presenters do their best to cover   
   the world of weather in a fun   
      
   Each show generally runs 60 to 80 minutes.  They are record on Monday nights   
   and are usually available about midnight Monday nights Eastern Time.  So far,   
   W-Oh-4-W and his Weather Brains associates have produced over 200 shows and   
   have never missed a week   
      
   You can hear a new show each week on-line at www dot weatherbrains dot com.    
   And we add our own congratulations to the crew at Weather Brains on a job well   
   done.   
      
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   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 followi   
      
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   WORLDBEAT:  NORWAY TO END ANLOG FM BRODCASTING IN 2017   
      
   The Norwegian Government has announced plans that would see both the nations   
   national public and commercial radio services cease all analog FM broadcasts   
   in 2017.  A report in Radioworld Online quotes a Norwegian government press   
   release as saying that th   
      
   (RW)   
      
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   WOLDBEAT: COMMEMORATING RADIO PRAGUE   
      
   Mike Barraclough reports that a special broadcast commemorating the end of   
   Short Wave transmissions from Radio Prague is now available online.  Included   
   are two recordings from 1937 and two from 1968 along with an interview with   
   Oldrich Cip, now head of t   
      
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   WORLDBEAT:  NEW DUTCH CONTEST CLUB FORMED   
      
   A new Dutch amateur radio contest group has been born and located in the   
   northwest part of the Noord-Holland Province.  Its call sign is PA6NH with   
   PA2PAC, PA3FUN, PA7TWO, PH9HB, PD1AIQ and PE1OPK as the charter members.    
   Currently, their station setup co   
      
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   ON THE AIR:  COMMEMORATING THE LAST SWISS MEDIUM WAVE TRANSMITTER   
      
   On the air, members of Switzerland's Rav Radio Amateurs of Vaudios whose   
   regular club call sign is HB9MM will activate the special callsign HE3OM from   
   the town of Sottens during the month of February.  Sottens is a small village   
   where the last medium wave   
      
   Permission has now been granted to the club to use the stations two giant   
   antennas for amateur radio purposes.  The tallest is 188 meters high, and is   
   being used on the High Frequency bands, especially the lower frequencies such   
   as 160 and 80 meters.  The   
      
   QSL cards go to HE3OM via HB9TOB. For more details, see www (dot) hb9mm (dot)   
   com/sottens   
      
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   DX   
      
   In DX, the XF4 Revillagigedo DXpediton has been assigned callsign 4A4A. A team   
   of 9 operators will take to the air from Isla Socorro March 4th to the 19th on   
   160 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and some digital modes.  A possibility of 6   
   meters was also mentio   
      
   ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that the 9X0SP 2010 DXpedition to   
   Rwanda has been approved for DXCC credit.  If you have cards that were   
   recently rejected for this operation, please send an e-mail to the ARRL DXCC   
   Desk.  Moore says that once y   
      
   VK8NSB, VK8FNCY, 9M6DXX, 9M6XRO and MW0JRX will be operating from TImor-Leste   
   in East Timor between September 16th and the 26th.  The precise location will   
   be Atauro Island, which is about 30 kilometers north of the capital, Dili.    
   The group says that it    
      
   Lastly, VK3FY is reporting on DX-World.Net he is hoping that the weather   
   improves in the South China Seas so that he and his group can board the ship   
   which will take four operators to Pag-Asa in the Spratly Islands.  He notes   
   that as this is a scouting tr   
      
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   THAT FINL ITEM: VK CLUBS TO LUNCH COCKROCH TO NEAR SPACE   
      
   And finally this week, two clubs down-under are joining forces to send a   
   cockroach to the edge of space in a balloon aptly named Loki One.  Yes, we   
   said a cockroach as in those kind of disgusting bugs that nobody wants to find   
   in their homes.  Here's the    
      
   Norse mythology claims that Loki is the great mischief-maker.  It's also the   
   name of the edge of space balloon experiment that the Tamworth Radio Club   
   members and Tamworth Oxley Scout members will be launching in the coming weeks.   
      
   The payload of Loki-1 includes an APRS equipment for tracking and flight data;   
   a camera set to take photo's at 1 minute intervals; sensors to record temp and   
   radiation, some paper aircraft that will be dropped from a height of approx.   
   30 kilometres with i   
      
   The Tamworth radio club has installed 7 ground stations around the North West   
   and New England regions of New South Wales.  These will be used to receive   
   APRS data from Loki-1 then transfer it to the internet for live tracking via   
   the APRS network.  It is    
      
   As airspace is heavily regulated regarding its use, the flight planners say   
   that negotiations are well in hand with Australia's airspace regulator the   
   Civil Aviation Safety Authority as well as air traffic controllers  This,   
   regarding a host of regulation   
      
   As to the welfare of the cockroach?  Well nothing has been said if it will fly   
   in a pressurized compartment or just have to take its chances as the balloon   
   makes its way to the edge of space and back down to the ground.  And at   
   airtime there has not been    
      
   Up to date information on this high altitude balloon flight can be found on   
   Tamworth Radio Club's web site under the topic of projects.  It's in   
   cyberspace at www.trci.org.au   
      
   (Southgate, VK2BOZ and VK2YGV)   
      
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   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   
   Newsline(tm).  Our e-mail   
      
   For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, I'm Don Wilbanks,   
   AE5DW, saying 73 and we thank you for listening.   
      
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