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   Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2010, May 6, 2016   
      
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2010 with a release date of Friday,    
   May 6, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a QST. The North Korea DXPedition is dead. National    
   Parks on the Air gets a station operating from the world's largest    
   single span arch bridge. A team of kids makes the most of the Florida    
   QSO Party. And our lead story: the FCC cracks down on a New York-area    
   jammer. All this and more in Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2008 coming    
   your way right now.   
      
   (Billboard Cart Here and Intro)   
      
   **   
   FCC CRACKS DOWN ON NY AREA JAMMER   
      
   In our top story this week, the FCC has issued a warning to an    
   unlicensed operator, charging him with jamming the bands in the New York    
   metropolitan area.   
      
   The agency's Enforcement Bureau sent the warning to Daniel Delise of    
   Astoria, Queens, New York, on April 20. Acting on a barrage of    
   complaints, the FCC sent the warning after its Special Counsel had    
   several telephone conversations with Delise and given him a number of    
   verbal warnings.   
      
   It then sent the document which says in part: QUOTE "In spite of these    
   warnings, the New York Office continued to receive information that you    
   were operating radio transmitting equipment on frequencies in the    
   Amateur Radio Services, Land Mobile Radio Services, and Personal Radio    
   Services without authorization." ENDQUOTE   
      
   FCC direction-finding had confirmed unauthorized 2 meter transmissions    
   from Delise's home on April 7, when it was also discovered he had a    
   handheld radio and seven mobile radios programmed to operate on those    
   bands, along with rooftop antennas. The document also recounted that    
   Delise admitted to the agents that he had operated on 147.96 MHz that    
   same evening.   
      
   Delise has been given 10 days to respond to the notice before the FCC    
   decides on sanctions.   
      
   (FCC.GOV)   
      
   **   
   SNOCO HAMS, THE 'UNCLUB'   
      
   SKEETER: The SnoCoHams are a friendly group of radio amateurs who gather    
   regularly, help one another out, and get on the air. Just don't call    
   them a club. Amateur Radio Newsline's Paul Braun, WD9GCO, tells us more.   
      
   PAUL: When is a club NOT a club? When it's like the SnoCoHams in the    
   Pacific Northwest. I spoke with member Eric Nordin, AD7BF, about the    
   group, o riginally formed by the late Bob Huson WA7HYD.   
      
   ERIC: SnoCo Hams is not a club, per se, it's just a group, there are a    
   few of us, take care of the website, get breakfast, get together second    
   Saturday of every month, It was actually born from some frustration with    
   oh, I think, some political posturing and stuff in the club and Bob    
   decided, "hey, you know, let's start a website and an email reflector    
   that anybody can join and I'll get that going and just stand out of the    
   way. And you know those will be tools for people to use and it wasn't    
   long at all after that hey, let's just get a monthly breakfast together    
   going. No politics, no club meeting, no business, just a bunch of hams    
   who get together around the table and circulate and talk and toss ideas    
   around. And it's grown. We had around a dozen people the first couple of    
   meetings. It's grown and typically we have anywhere between 20 and lcose    
   to 40 people who show up now. It's a neat thing."   
      
   PAUL: Nordin said that Huson originally formed the group to complement    
   local clubs, not to compete with them. In fact, he said, many local    
   clubs have benefitted from the intermingling of members at the    
   brakfasts. He also mentioned that a major part of the original email    
   list was lost when HOuston passed away so if you are interested in the    
   group please visit their website at www.snocohams.net.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.   
      
   **   
      
   SKEETER/ANCHOR: Who says all hams are couch potatoes?  Some of them have    
   no trouble running a 6-kilometer course through the forest and finding    
   five radio transmitters while they're doing it.  With more, here's    
   Newsline's Joe Moell (MELL) K-zero-O-V, who is also ARRL's ARDF Coordinator.   
      
   JOE'S REPORT: The annual ARDF Championships are now complete.  ARDF    
   stands for Amateur Radio Direction Finding, also called foxhunting,    
   foxtailing and radio-orienteering, all on foot under international    
   rules.  This year's National Championships took place in early April    
   near Killeen, Texas, under the sponsorship of the Texas ARDF Group and    
   the Austin Orienteering Club.   
      
   Anyone at any transmitter hunting skill level was welcome to compete, so    
   there was a wide age range of participants from all over the country,    
   plus visitors from Ukraine and a high school exchange student from    
   China.  Some were past medal winners, while a few had never completed a    
   full course before.  In accordance with standard rules of the    
   International Amateur Radio Union, the participants were divided into    
   eleven age and gender categories, so the ones in their 70's didn't have    
   to compete against prime-agers for the gold.   
      
   Lead organizers for this year's championships were Kenneth Harker WM5R    
   and Jennifer Harker W5JEN.  They obtained the sites and set five    
   challenging courses.  The classic courses on two meters and 80 meters    
   were over six kilometers from start to each of the five transmitters and    
   then to the finish.  In addition, there was a sprint event to see who    
   could find ten lower-powered transmitters fastest.  There was also a    
   foxoring event.  That's a new sport that combines orienteering and    
   direction-finding.  Competitors were given a map marked with ten    
   circles.  When they got inside the area represented by each circle, they    
   could hear a QRP 80-meter transmitter and track it down with RDF.   
      
   When it was all over, 16 OMs and 9 YLs had received gold, silver and    
   bronze medals to take home.  Some of them are also getting invitations    
   to travel and compete on Team USA in the ARDF World Championships, which    
   will get under way in mid-September near Albena, Bulgaria.   
      
   For the complete results and lots of photos of these championships,    
   point your Web browser to homingin.com.  That's homingin -- as one word    
   -- homingin.com.  That's also a good place to learn more about the fun    
   of on-foot transmitter hunting and about bringing it to your locality.   
      
   From southern California, where we are planning several training events    
   to get Team USA ready for the World Championships, this is Joe Moell,    
   K0OV, for Amateur Radio Newsline.   
      
   (JOE MOELL, K0OV)   
      
   **   
   FOR FLORIDA KIDS, ICE CREAM AND QSOs   
      
   SKEETER/ANCHOR: In one Florida park, it seems, that state's QSO Party    
   was also a kids' party. And while Norway, Switzerland, Scotland and    
   South America were among some of their biggest DX contacts, some of the    
   most important contacts made by the four young operators with call sign    
   K1D weren't even made on the air: They were the parents and kids    
   strolling by in a DeLand, Florida park, watching the youthful quartet    
   using a Go Box, mobile antenna and a solar battery -- and later, a Honda    
   generator.   
      
   Said their dad: QUOTE "We just want to show more kids and their parents    
   that these kids have a spark." ENDQUOTE   
      
   That spark burned brightly too. On Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1,    
   with father James Lea, WX4TV, lending support, his son and three    
   daughters spoke to the world - and then showed the immediate world what    
   ham radio was all about.   
      
   It was, said their father, a test run for Field Day. And also quite a    
   party. In all, 13-year-old Zechariah, WX4TVJ, 11-year-old Faith Hannah,    
   AE4FH, 9-year-old Hope, KM4IPF, and 8-year-old Grace, who is testing for    
   her Tech license soon, worked 448 stations, mostly on 20 meters. All of    
   which proves that the best party favor is a full log book.   
      
   (JAMES LEA, WX4TV)   
      
   **   
      
   NORTH KOREA DXPEDITION SCRAPPED   
      
   SKEETER: DXers can no longer hope to work the much-anticipated P5    
   DXpedition in North Korea: It won't be happening. Amateur Radio    
   Newsline's John Williams, VK4JJW, gives us the details.   
      
   JOHN: The P5DXpedition to North Korea is dead - and it wasn't bad    
   propagation but a lack of funds and the need for secrecy that killed it.    
   So says Paul Ewing, N6PSE, spokesman for the Intrepid DX Group that had    
   been planning the historic event since 2013. Ewing has said, in a number    
   of news reports, that despite long discussions with the Democratic    
   Peoples republic of North Korea, a breach in the required security    
   surrounding those talks ended with permission being denied to work from    
   North Korea. The North Korean officials had also requested a fee in    
   connection with the DXPedition, Ewing says, and there was no funding to    
   be had.   
      
   The 10-day mission to activate the world's most wanted DXCC entity has    
   now been scrapped.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.   
      
   (AMATEUR RADIO VICTORIA, QRZ, INTREPID DX GROUP)   
      
   **   
   RADIO SCOUTING REPORT   
      
   SKEETER: If you're scouting for Scouts to contact on the air with the    
   call sign K2BSA, you'll want to hear this week's report on Radio    
   Scouting. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD.   
      
   BILL'S REPORT: This week in Radio Scouting we have 3 activations of the    
   K2BSA callsign in Georgia, Iowa, and New Hampshire.   
      
   Thomas Moore, WX4TM, will be the control operator for the portable 4    
   station in Columbus, GA, at the Chattahoochee Council 2016 Scout Expo on    
   May 7th from 9am - 2pm Eastern.  Thomas and Bill Watt, K4BLL, of the    
   Columbus Amateur Radio Club, will be building on their Radio Merit Badge    
   program by demonstrating HF, VHF/UHF, APRS, satellite communications (if    
   the birds are in alignment), and fox hunting.   
      
   Mike Miller, AC0BD, will be the control operator for the portable 0    
   station in Granger, IA at the Pack 89 Cub Scout Overnighter Camp  on May    
   7th during the morning hours.  Mike will be demonstrating 20 meter phone    
   to groups of Cub Scouts on a home-brew 20m dipole and generator setup.   
      
   Michael Fecteau, N1MAY, will be the control operator for the portable 1    
   station in Gilmanton Ironworks, NH, at the Wannalancit District Camporee    
   on May 7th 9am to 4pm.  Michael will be demonstrating HF with 4 GOTA    
   stations on 20 and 10 m phone.   
      
   Next week we have an activation in Montana!  Please help support this    
   activity, and others involving youth in amateur radio, by working and    
   spotting them on the air and online.  For more information on K2BSA and    
   radio scouting, please visit http://www.k2bsa.net/.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this    
   is Bill Stearns NE4RD.   
   **   
      
      
   BREAK HERE:   
      
   Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio    
   Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around such as the Mingus Mountain    
   Repeater Group, K7MRG, in Arizona, on Tuesday evenings.   
      
   **   
      
      
   A BRIDGE TO BETTER NPOTA CONTACTS   
      
   SKEETER/ANCOHR: A group of West Virginia DXers plans to work the bands    
   for National Parks on the Air by going out on a bridge. Here's the story    
   from Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Damron, N8TMW.   
      
   JIM's REPORT: As part of the ARRL's National Parks on the Air-which    
   celebrates the centennial of the National Park Service this year-members    
   of the West Virginia DX Association and other hams will be operating    
   special event stations from the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville,    
   West Virginia on Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 10 AM to 4 PM.  Operations    
   will be on 20 and 40 meters on both CW and SSB.  There will also be a    
   two meter FM simplex station operating on 146.55 mhz, which the public    
   may visit. HF stations will have to be set up in an area inaccessible to    
   the public, but visiting Boy Scouts will be able to access the HF    
   stations and get on the air.   Club callsign W8AH will be used.  The    
   callsign originally belonged to famed DX-er Al Hix, now a silent key.   
      
   You may QSL direct to W8AH or via LOTW or QRZ.COM   
      
   The New River Gorge Bridge is part of the National Park Service New    
   River Gorge National River Area, which encompasses over 70,000 acres of    
   land along the New River.   
   With an arch over 1700 feet long, it is the world's third largest single    
   span arch bridge, carrying over 16,000 vehicles daily.  Opened in 1977,    
   the bridge is over 3030 feet long and nearly 900 feet high.   
      
   According to event organizer, Randy Damron N8XEA, the group has been    
   given permission to hang wire antennas from the bridge structure, which    
   is accessible from an   
   enclosed catwalk underneath the bridge.   
      
   This may give a whole new meaning to the definition of beam antenna.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron N8TMW, reporting from    
   Charleston, West Virginia.   
      
   **   
      
   70 YEARS OLD AND PARTYING IN N.J.   
      
   The Roseland Amateur Radio Club in Roseland, New Jersey is marking its    
   70th Anniversary with a QSO Party on May 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. local    
   time. The club will be operating SSB on 20 and 40 meters and will also    
   be working 2 meters FM on its WA2JSB repeater.   
      
   For more information, visit the club website, www.k2gq.org.   
      
   **   
   HAMS LOVE A PARADE, BUT NEED A HAND   
      
   On that same day, May 14, a group of hams will be providing    
   communications support to the Westford Kiwanis Apple Blossom Parade. The    
   Minuteman Repeater Association is looking for about a dozen volunteers    
   in eastern and central Massachusetts to bring their 2 meter radios and    
   help out. Assignments will be given out at 8:30 a.m., about 90 minutes    
   before the parade kicks off.   
      
   The Apple Blossom Festival and Parade has been held every spring since    
   1968 and is a major fundraiser, supporting scholarships, cookouts for    
   seniors and other neighborhood programs.   
      
   Please contact Terry Stader for details by emailing ka8scp@wb1gof.org   
      
   (DAVID WOLFE, KG1H, WESTFORD KIWANIS WEBISTE)   
      
   **   
   BURLINGTON REPEATERS HAVE CHANGE OF ADDRESS   
      
   Moving Day is over for the Burlington repeaters of the Minute Man    
   Repeater Association, which are now up and running in North Reading. The    
   club is looking for signal reports for both repeaters, which are at    
   146.715 kHz and 446.775 kHz. The input PL has not changed. The move is    
   expected to improve coverage in all directions, but most particularly to    
   the north.   
      
      
   (BOB DEMATTIA, K1IW)   
      
   **   
   WORLD OF DX   
      
   Be listening until May 15 for three German operators working as E44QX    
   from Jericho in Palestine on 10 through 80m. They'll be working mainly    
   on CW but also some SSB and RTTY. QSLs will be handled by DF8DX.   
      
   Gerd DL7VOG is on the Island of Martinique working as FM/DL7VOG on the    
   island of Martinique until June 6. He will mainly use CW and RTTY on all    
   bands 80m to 6m. For QSLs, use ClubLog OQRS.   
      
   Uli DJ9XB will operate from Crete, holiday style, with the call sign as    
   SV9/DJ9XB from May 10 through May 20. Find him on all bands, 40m to 6m,    
   but mainly 6m. QSL to the home call.   
      
   (IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTER SOCIETY)   
      
   **   
   KICKER: DXPEDITION STAYS LOCAL BUT GOES FAR   
      
      
   SKEETER/ANCHOR: And finally, we hear about one student ham radio club in    
   Indiana that's found a way to beat the high cost and the hassle of    
   foreign DXpeditions. They're keeping it local. We hear more from Amateur    
   Radio Newsline's Stephen Kinford, N8WB.   
      
   STEPHEN KINFORD: Now here's a DXpedition that doesn't involve passports,    
   airplanes or complicated survival strategies. Yet the venue is rare and    
   the objective is ambitious. Students in the Bloomington High School    
   South Amateur Radio Club in Indiana are working one of the most wanted    
   counties in the state on Saturday, May 7, as part of the Indiana QSO    
   Party. That would be Brown County, where the teens will work in a    
   Field-Day-like setting in Brown County State Park, near Nashville, Indiana.   
      
   The student club, K9SOU, enjoys a strong reputation in working DX and in    
   doing contesting, and even though some of its members have gone on youth    
   DXpeditions, it just wasn't going to be possible to travel to far,    
   remote parts of the world as a team. That's when chemistry teacher and    
   club sponsor Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, decided the state park would be a    
   perfect way to satisfy the taste for adventure and the desire to    
   activate a rare locale.   
      
   So be listening for the teens 20, 40, and 75m SSB from around 1500 to    
   1800Z.  And if you want to monitor their activities, follow their    
   Twitter feed in real time at @K9SOU and visit their Facebook page.    
   Better still, just get on the air and work them.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB.   
      
   (NEIL RAPP, WB9VPG)   
      
      
   **   
      
   NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur Radio Victoria; the    
   ARRL; Bill Stearns NE4RD; CQ Magazine; DX.NET; FCC.GOV; Hap Holly and    
   the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; James Lea, WX4TV; Joe    
   Moell, K0OV; Neil Rapp, WB9VPG; QSL.NET; QRZ.COM., SnoCoHams; Southgate    
   Amateur Radio News; TWiT TV; West Virginia DX Association; Westford    
   Kiwanis Club; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners,    
   that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email address is    
   newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio    
   Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org.   
      
   We also remind our listeners that there's still time to nominate    
   candidates for the 2016 Bill Pasternak Young Ham of the Year Award. This    
   honor recognizes licensed amateurs who are no older than 19 and living    
   in the U.S., Puerto Rico or Canada, and who have made significant    
   contributions to ham radio and their community. To download an    
   application form, visit our website, www.arnewsline.org, and click on    
   the tab for "Y-H-O-T-Y." Completed applications should be sent to: The    
   Young Ham of the Year Award, in care of Amateur Radio Newsline Inc.,    
   Editorial Office, P.O. Box 451, Huntington Station, New York 11746.   
      
   For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,    
   and our news team worldwide, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston, West    
   Virginia, saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.   
      
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