Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1757 - April 15 2011   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1757 with a release date of Friday,   
   April 15, 2011 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a Q-S-T. A new record for optical communications by ham   
   radio is set in the UK, a special callsign prefix to celebrate the upcoming   
   royal wedding, 6 meters and digital modes may soon return in France and   
   World Amateur Radio Day is here this week. Find out the details are on   
   Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1757 coming your way right now.   
      
      
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   RADIO RECORDS: UK HAMS SET NEW OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS RECORD   
      
   A new record has been set for optical communications by a group of British   
   hams. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, reports from Nottingham in the U-K:   
      
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   On 3rd April a new distance record set for optical communication by a group   
   of radio amateurs from North-East England.   
      
   The distance worked was just a few metres short of 90km. Signals were   
   exchanged on FM and SSB at remarkable strengths.   
      
   The contact was made from Race Head in County Durham, which is locator IO94VS   
   to Danby Moor near Whitby, which is locator IO84NK.   
      
   The team at Race Head included two stations, Stuart, G8CYW running the   
   transverter and LED transceiver of his design featured in recent articles in   
   RadCom, and Brian, G8KPD also running his version of the designs, plus   
   separate receive and transmit heads. The station on Danby Moor was operated   
   by Rob, M0DTS using his version of the transverter featured in RadCom.   
      
   I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
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   Truly a ham radio record that you had to have been there to see. (GB2RS)   
      
   **   
      
   HAM HAPPENINGS: HAM RADIO TO CELEBRATE ROYAL WEDDING   
      
   Amateur Radio in the UK will be a part of the upcoming royal wedding. This   
   with word that the Radio Society of Great Britain has made an agreement with   
   UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom for all UK Radio Amateurs to to use   
   special callsigns for a period of eleven days beginning on the date of the   
   marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29th.   
      
   Use of the special GR prefix will require UK hams to obtainer a waiver called   
   a Notice of Variation from Ofcom. This can be quickly obtained via a simple   
   process on the RSGB's website, where full details of the arrangements can   
   also be found.   
      
   UK amateurs wishing to use the special prefix should visit   
   www.rsgb.org.uk/weddingcall and follow the instructions found there. The   
   last date and time for application is 6.00 pm on April 25th. All Notice of   
   Variation will be provided by close of business on April 28th. No postal   
   applications will be accepted and all of the special permits will be sent by   
   e-mail. (RSGB)   
      
   **   
      
   RADIO POLITICS: AMSAT FRANCE LEADERSHIP VOTES TO DISSOLVE ORGANIZATION   
      
   AMSAT France appears to have disbanded. According to a notice published in   
   Frances URC News on Monday April 11th, 21 leaders present at an   
   Extraordinary General Assembly of AMSAT France voted the weekend of April   
   9th to dissolve the organization.   
      
   The actual vote is reported as 11 votes in favor of going out of business and   
   10 in favor of continuing. The short news release gave no reason for the   
   decision by AMSAT France to dissolve and go away. The original press   
   release, in French is on line at tinyurl.com/3spvx6l. (URC News, F1MOJ)   
      
   **   
      
   RESTRUCTURING: FRENCH NATIONAL SOCIETY SEEKS 6 METER ALLOCATION   
      
   Still in France, F1DUE, who is the president of the French amateur radio   
   national amateur society, the REF, reports that his efforts to open the 6   
   meter band for his nations ham operators is ongoing.   
      
   As previously reported, last year the REF asked the French frequency   
   regulation authority ARCEP to once again reopen the 50 MHz allocation that   
   was suspended two years ago. Earlier this year the ARCEP informed the REF   
   that it would consider an allocation of 50.0 to 52.0 MHz for use by French   
   radio amateurs.   
      
   F1DUE says that the ARCEP placed this proposal on the agenda of the Frequency   
   Planning Commission which was held in March. However, as of airtime, its   
   still unknown as to when the change of the bandplan is finalized and will   
   come into effect. (Southgate)   
      
   **   
      
   RESTRUCTURING: WORK CONTINUING ON LEGALIZING DIGITAL MODES IN FRANCE   
      
   Meantime, the group Digital Radioamateur France says that a March 11th   
   meeting between five French ham radio groups and telecommunications   
   regulator ARCEP. This, regarding the legalization of several new digital   
   could lead to changes to permit their use.   
      
   F1SHS is the president of Digital Radioamateur France. In a press release he   
   says that this meeting was a first step in building a new relationship   
   between ham radio and the French telecommunications regulator regarding   
   digital ham radio operations. He says that organizing the get together was   
   the result of 6 months working on a shared document between those groups   
   involved in getting digital modes legalized in his nation. F1SHS thinks   
   that this can also lead to an even larger request from the ham community to   
   ARCEP about three years from now.   
      
   (F1SHS via Southgate)   
      
   **   
      
   RESTRUCTURING: UKRAINIAN HAMS LOOSE FREQUENCIES ON HF AND UHF   
      
   Some restructuring news out of the Ukrane that's bad news for ham radio   
   operators in that nation. This, as the Ukrainian government has affirmed   
   new rules for amateur radio operations that have resulted in spectrum   
   losses on the High Frequency, UHF and microwave bands.   
      
   According to an e-mail from Alexander Doshchich, UY0LL, the spectrum   
   withdrawn from access by Ukranian hams includes 10.100 to 10.150 and 14.250   
   to 14.350 MHz on the HF bands. On UHF an above the losses include 1240 to   
   1300 MHz, 2300 to 2450 MHz, 5670 to 5850 MHz and numerous other spectrum   
   slots right on up to 248 to 250 GHz. (UY0LL)   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT: MIAMI UNLICENSED BROADCASTER HIT WITH $20000 NAL   
      
   If you are operating an unlicensed radio station, don't advertise it on the   
   Internet. That's the lesson that Florida resident Marckenson Bazile is   
   learning the hard way as the FCC issues him a $20,000 Notice of Apparent   
   Liability for his alleged operation of an unlicensed radio transmitter on   
   the frequency 103.9 MHz from his residence in the city of Miami.   
      
   According to the Commission's March 29th release, on June 16 2010 and again   
   on June 29 2010, Mr. Bazile is alleged to have operated an unlicensed radio   
   station on the frequency 103.9 MHz from his residence. Information on the   
   Internet also showed that Mr. Bazile served as a D-J for a radio station on   
   the frequency 103.9 MHz that the regulatory agency says was an unlicensed   
   operation.   
      
   The FCC says that because Mackenson Bazile knowingly operated the station, it   
   finds the apparent violation was willful. Because the operation occurred on   
   more than one day, it also finds the apparent violation was repeated. Based   
   on the evidence before it the $20,000 N-A-L has been issued to Brazile. He   
   was given the customary 30 days to pay or to file an appeal. (FCC)   
      
   **   
      
   THE BPL FIGHT: THE BBC REPORTS ON PLT INTERFERENCE TO BROADCASTING   
      
   The British Broadcasting Corporation has issued a report investigating the   
   potential interference to broadcast reception from Broadband over Powerline   
   devices which are known in Europe as Power Line Telecommunication or PLT   
   equipment used in the home.   
      
   The report says thay operation of the PLT Power Line Adaptors caused   
   interference to indoor portable reception of both FM and Digital Audio   
   Broadcasts, in varying degrees from no effect to total disruption. The   
   report notes that the so-called digital cliff effect found in Digital Audio   
   Broadcast reception means that when interference occurs the impact is   
   extreme. The cliff effect is the all or nothing point in all digital   
   broadcasts where you either get pristine reception or none at all.   
      
   But that's not all. The Power Line Adaptors were also found to disturb   
   reception of FM using an external antenna at one of the homes that was   
   surveyed. You can read the entire BBC Research White Paper at   
   downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp.   
      
   **   
      
   CHANGING OF THE GUARD: WORLD RADIO LABS FOUNDER LEO MEYERSON, W0GFQ - S.K.   
      
   An era in amateur radio has come to an end. This with word that World Radio   
   Laboratories founder and owner Leo I. Meyerson, W0GFQ, has became a Silent   
   Key.   
      
   According to a news release from the Quarter Century Wireless Association,   
   Meyerson passed away on Wednesday, April 13th at the Eisenhower Medical   
   Center, near his summer home in Rancho Mirage, California.   
      
   Leo Meyerson, was age 100 at the time of his passing. At airtime funeral   
   arrangements are pending. We will have more about the man and his lifetime   
   contribution to amateur radio in next weeks 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 KA5GLX repeater serving   
   Clear Lake Texas   
      
   (5 sec pause here)   
      
      
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   RESCUE RADIO: SOCAL HAMS PROVIDE AID IN ANOTHER HOSPITAL PHONE OUTAGE   
      
   Two weeks ago, Newsline told you about a phone failure at Childrens Hospital   
   of Orange County and how hams quickly responded to help. Well, it's   
   happened again at another hospital there. Newsline's Joe Moell K0OV is back   
   to tell you the details and to explain why he's not surprised at another   
   outage.   
      
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   A group pager alert at 10:28 AM on April 5 brought members of the Hospital   
   Disaster Support Communications System to Saddleback Hospital in Laguna   
   Hills after a digital equipment failure caused the inbound and outbound   
   trunk lines to become inoperative. Again, the phone number of HDSCS net   
   control was given to Orange County Communications agency so that ambulance   
   companies and other hospitals could contact Saddleback Hospital via ham   
   radio. The outage lasted until 6 PM that day.   
      
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   [audio from activation]   
      
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   Of the 115 times that HDSCS has been activated for communications problems in   
   Orange County hospitals, this was the 85th time that it was due to   
   switchgear or cable failure. Does it seem to you that Orange County has an   
   unusual number of hospital phone failures? Well, not really. HDSCS leader   
   April Moell, WA6OPS, talks to a lot of hospital employees and disaster   
   planners around the country who tell her that they have their share of phone   
   outages too. The causes range from accidentally cut cables to computer   
   failures and power surges. She says that the difference is that most ham   
   emergency groups around the country don't prepare and plan to help in these   
   single-hospital incidents. They don't set up 24-hour alerting plans for the   
   hospitals to use to contact them quickly when phones go down, so they never   
   get the call. Often they don't have portable stations so they can go into   
   the individual hospital units such as the Emergency Department, Pharmacy and   
   so forth to provide unit-to-unit communications.   
      
   When a nurse on a hospital unit has an urgent need to contact a patient's   
   physician at his office or home, but the phones are down because switchgear   
   has failed or backhoe has dug up the cables, that's just as severe an   
   emergency as it would be after a hurricane or tornado. So HDSCS plans to   
   help hospitals whenever they need it, not just when all else fails in a big   
   natural disaster.   
      
   Orange County hospitals appreciate HDSCS because hams come when they call and   
   they can connect their staff members to the outside, no matter the cause of   
   the communications outage. WA6OPS thinks that other ARES groups around the   
   country should adopt this hospital support model, which includes robust   
   alerting plans for each hospital, regular meetings with the hospital   
   disaster planners, and ready-to-respond members who are trained in the   
   special terminology and communications needs of medical facilities.   
      
   More information about HDSCS and its secrets of success are at the Web site   
   of the Hospital Disaster Support Communications System, or HDSCS.ORG. From   
   southern California, I'm Joe Moell K0OV for Amateur Radio Newsline.   
      
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   Another time when ham radio is there when normal lines of communications   
   fail. (K0OV)   
      
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   PUBLIC SERVICE: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MAY 1 PROJECT BREAD WAL IN BOSTON   
      
   Eric Horwitz, KA1NCF, tells Newsline that ham radio volunteers are needed in   
   the Boston, Massachusetts area. This in support of the Project Bread Walk   
   for Hunger on Sunday, May 1st.   
      
   Eric says that this will be the 43rd running of the event and hams are needed   
   to provide communications support for the Project Bread Staff and volunteers   
   along the 20 mile course.   
      
   If you are interested in helping please take your web browser to   
   www.mmra.org/wfh/ to log in and fill out the signup form. Questions go by   
   e-mail to wfh11 (at) mmra (dot) org (KA1NCF)   
      
   **   
      
   RADIO LAW: FCC CONSIDERING NEW COMPLEX TOWER RULES   
      
   The radio towers-are-killing-migratory-birds debate has moved to a new stage   
   at the FCC. This, as some conservation groups and other federal agencies   
   have prodded the Commission into considering changes that will make its   
   approval process for towers more complex.   
      
   And not just new towers are affected. David Oxenford is an attorney with   
   firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. He says that the new requirements proposed   
   by the FCC would affect modifications to existing structures if there would   
   be a substantial increase in size or even changes in lighting.   
      
   Two major rule changes are up for public comment. The first is a requirement   
   to give local public notice of the construction of a tower. The second is a   
   possible requirement for an Environmental Assessment.   
      
   Oxenford notes that an Environmental Assessment is a document that must be   
   carefully prepared this is not routinely something that an applicants can   
   dash off on their own. What affect if any the passage of these proposed   
   requirements might have on small towers used by ham radio operators on   
   private property is unknown. (RW)   
      
   **   
      
   HAM RADIO IN CYBERSPACE: NEW NOTE BOARD FEATURE ON QRZ.COM   
      
   The popular QRZ dot com ham radio websoite has added a very unique new   
   feature. Called the Note Board, it gives every QRZ member's callsign access   
   to an on-going collection of messages that are attached directly to their   
   callsign page.   
      
   According to QRZ founder Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, the new Note Board system allows   
   other members on your Friends List to leave messages on your page.   
   Optionally, you may designate an All Friends Mode that lets everybody post   
   to your page.   
      
   Lloyd says that each member has full moderation authority for their Note   
   Board and can add or delete postings whenever they like. And regardless of   
   whether you limit the posts to your friends or everybody, you still get to   
   block selected users from your page. (QRZ.com)   
      
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   HAM HAPPENINGS: 2011 AMSAT SYMPOSIUM AND ANNUAL MEETING   
      
   The 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting will be held November 4th   
   to the 6th at the Wyndham San Jose in San Jose, California. The AMSAT   
   Board meeting will be at the same hotel on Thursday and Friday November 3rd   
   and 4th. A special hotel rate for attendees has been negotiated that   
   includes free Wi Fi, parking and airport shuttle. If you are into ham radio   
   space communications, then be sure to Mark your calendars and plan to attend   
   this event. (WA4SXM)   
      
   **   
      
   NAMES IN THE NEWS: WK3N RECEIVES RARE 160 METER WAZ AWARDED.   
      
   Some names in the news. First a word of congratulations to James Scott,   
   WK3N, of Hartstown, Pennsylvania. This on both achieveing and receiving his   
   160 meter Worked All Zones award. This award started in 1975 and less than   
   35 North American stations have ever achieved this level.   
      
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   NAMES IN THE NEWS: WTVT REPORTER WARREN ELLY. W1GUD, ANNOUNCES HE WILL   
   RETIRE FROM WTVT TELEVISION THIS JULY   
      
   Warren Elly, W1GUD, who has been reporting news for Tampa Florida's WTVT   
   television is preparing to step away from the Fox-affiliate after nearly 29   
   years with the station. Elly joined WTVT in 1982, after reporting for   
   Youngstown Ohio's WYTV. He quickly became known in the Tampa area for his   
   direct reporting style covering crime and politics.   
      
   Ham radio wise, Elly was first licensed in August of 1961 as WN1GUD. A   
   Connecticut native, Elly credits amateur radio as the motivation that lead   
   him to his career in broadcasting. He also worked in the amateur radio   
   industry with short detours into publishing with 73 Magazine, manufacturing   
   and marketing at DenTron and Original Equipment Manufacturing Sales as KW   
   Electronics. From there it was onto the broadcast news business with   
   Tampa's WTVT being his home base for close to three decades.   
      
   According to his QRZ dot com bio, W1GUD's main amateur radio interest is AM.   
   He has operated that mode on 160, through 10 meters since 1967 and is with   
   the Florida AM Group that meets nightly on 3655 Kilohertz in the 75 meter   
   band. He also enjoys working DX on SSB and CW. And over the years he has   
   reported several hobby radio related stories right here on Amateur Radio   
   Newsline.   
      
   Warren Elly also maintains a YouTube Channel for retro broadcast transmitters   
   and allied interests. Its in cyberspace www.youtube.com/user/w1gud. His   
   final day at WTVT is set for this coming July 5th.   
      
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   NAMES IN THE NEWS: ISS ASTRONAUT AND JETHRO TULL PERFORM FLUTE CONCERT   
      
   And NASA says that musical harmony reached new heights. This as astronaut   
   Cady Coleman, circling Earth aboard the International Space Station, and   
   musician Ian Anderson, founder of the rock band Jethro Tull, collaborated   
   for the first space-Earth duet.   
      
   Coleman is an amateur flutist. She and Anderson played a portion of the song   
   "Bourree," an arrangement of which Anderson and Jethro Tull performed during   
   their 1969 U.S. tour as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon.   
      
      
   Coleman played her part from 220 miles above Earth. Anderson performed his   
   part while on tour in Russia. The two segments were then edited together to   
   form the finished piece.   
      
   Coleman and Anderson's performance saluted 50 years of human spaceflight and   
   the anniversary of the first launch of a human to space. Cosmonaut Yuri   
   Gagarin completed that milestone on April 12, 1961. You can see this out of   
   the world flute concert at tinyurl.com/3voo5ed.   
      
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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 following radio amateur:   
      
   (5 sec pause here)   
      
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   HAM RADIO IN SPACE: THREE RETIRING SPACE SHUTTLES TO HAVE NEW HOMES   
      
   Four space transport vehicles, three of which have a close association with   
   amateur radio will soon have new homes. This after NASA announced on   
   Tuesday, April 12th the new retirement locations for the four remaining   
   space shuttles. Three that flew and the program's ground based test   
   vehicle. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in the Newsroom with the details:   
      
   --   
   According to NASA, the space shuttle Atlantis will be displayed at the   
   Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The Endeavour will go to   
   the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Discovery will makes its   
   home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Virginia and the   
   test shuttle, Enterprise, will be displayed on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space   
   Museum in New York City.   
      
   The announcement was made on the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle   
   program's first flight made by the ill-fated Columbia orbiter, and the 50th   
   anniversary of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human in   
   space. But it was the first manned ham radio operation by Dr. Owen   
   Garriott, W5LFL, from Columbia during mission STS-9 lead to the creation of   
   the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment program which later gave way to Amateur   
   Radio on the International Space Station or ARISS as its known today. Hence   
   the close ties between ham radio and the space shuttles.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the new home   
   of the spaceship Endeavour - Los Angeles, California.   
      
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   During the three decade span of the Space Shuttle program ham radio was a   
   part of many flights. And thanks in good part to former NASA Administrator   
   Jess Moore and the late NBC science correspondent Roy Neal, K6DUE, amateur   
   radio also severed as a back-up communications system that was in place on   
   shuttle flights should all other means fail. (NASA, ARNewline Archives)   
      
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   HAM RADIO IN SPACE: KA2UPW NEEDS ARISSAT 1 AUDIO FILES   
      
   If you made a recording of the transmissions of the ARISSat One satellite   
   while it was operational from the International Space Station in celebration   
   of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagari's 50th spaceflight anniversary, then ARISSat TLM   
   author Douglas Quagliana KA2UPW wants to hear from you. This, as he issues   
   a request for ARISSat One audio recorded between 14:30 UTC on April 11th and   
   continuing until 10:30 UTC on April 13th.   
      
   If you are able to make a recording of the signals from ARISSat-1, Douglas   
   would be very interested in obtaining a copy. He is most interested in the   
   CW and BPSK signals, but if you were able to record the voice and SSTV   
   signals he would like to have those as well.   
      
   KA2UOW asks that you save your recordings as .WAV files. Please do not use   
   the popular MP3 format and don't convert the recordings into MP3. This is   
   because the MP3 format compresses the information to create a smaller file   
   and data is lost. He says to leave the recordings as those large .WAV files   
   and contact him by e-mail to dquagliana (at) aol (dot) coml for details on   
   how to get the recorded files to him. (KA2UPW/5)   
      
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   RADIO IN SPACE: A MORSE CODE ROVER FOR MARS   
      
   A Morse code Rover will soon be headed to the Red Planet. Well, at least one   
   marked in Morse. VK2LAW reports:   
      
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   The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) choose to put a pattern on the next   
   Martian Rover, named Curiosity. They are in a pattern of short squares and   
   longer rectangles on the wheels almost like dots and dashes in CW.   
      
   According to JPL, Curiosity is about the size of a small SUV -- 10 feet long   
   (not including the arm), 9 feet wide and 7 feet tall -- or about the height   
   of a basketball player -- and weighs 2000 pounds.   
      
   It features a geology lab, rocker-bogie suspension, a rock-vaporizing laser   
   and lots of cameras. Curiosity will search areas of Mars for past or   
   present conditions favourable for life and for conditions   
      
   It is set to launch between November 25 to December 18, 2011 from Cape   
   Canaveral, Florida and will arrive on Mars August, 2012. The prime mission   
   will last one Mars year, or about 23 Earth months   
      
   I'm VK2KKAW reporting.   
      
   --   
      
   And less we forget. We do know what the pattern of dots sand dashes spells   
   out. Simply the three letters JPL. (WIA News)   
      
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   RADIO SCIENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS FOR ARRL & TAPER DCC   
      
   Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the 30th Annual ARRL and   
   TAPR Digital Communications Conference slated for September 16th to the 18th   
   in Baltimore, Maryland. Papers will also be published in the Conference   
   Proceedings but you do not need to attend the conference to have your paper   
   included in the Proceedings. Also, papers will be published exactly as   
   submitted and authors will retain all rights.   
      
   The submission deadline is July 31st. Please send papers to Maty Weinberg at   
   the ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, Connecticut, 06111. You can also submit   
   them by e-mail to maty@arrl.org   
   (WB8IMY)   
      
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   ON THE AIR: CELEBRATING DJURDJEVEC CROATIA   
      
   On the air keep an ear open for special event station 9A11P (Nine Alpha ONE   
   ONE Papa) to be active through the end of the year. This, to celebrate the   
   city of Djurdjevac, (DURD-E-VAC) Croatia. A special QSL will be issued and   
   all QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau and electronically   
   using Logbook of the World. (OPDX)   
      
   **   
      
   CONTEST CORNER: FLORIDA QSO PARTY MOVED TO APRIL 30 - MAY 1   
      
   And the date of this year's Florida QSO Party has been changed to the weekend   
   of April 30th to May 1st this year. The contest is normally held on the 4th   
   full weekend in April however this year that is Easter. So the decision was   
   made to slip it a week so as not to conflict with family holiday plans.   
   (Florida SO Party)   
      
   **   
      
   DX   
      
   In D-X, the Pacific-DXer's Web page is reporting that a callsign should soon   
   be issued and permission granted to a group of Polish hams to operate from   
   Nauru during January and February of 2012. This permit will include 60   
   meters. The call requested is C-21-A.   
      
   VE3DZ will be on the air from Barbados as 8P9AA through May 1st. Activity   
   will be on all HF bands using CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL via his home callsign.   
      
   Also from Barbados, word that PY2XB, will be active as 8P9XB from St. Philip,   
   Barbados between May 8th and the 21st. Operation will be on 80 through 6   
   meters using CW, SSB and RTTY. He will also have a 6 meter beacon on at   
   50.099 MHz. QSL via PT7WA.   
      
   OH2YL will be active portable FJ from Saint Barthelemy between April 15th and   
   the 27th. Activity   
   will be on all High Frequency bands from 160 to 10 meters. He will be using   
   CW only on a lower edge of all bands. QSL via OH2YL direct or   
   electronically using Logbook of the World.   
      
   9N7DX and XYL 9N7YL will be operational from Nepal between April 13th to the   
   30th. Operation is primarily on 20, 15, 10 and 6 meters using CW, RTTY and   
   PSK31. QSL via 4Z4DX.   
      
   And listen out for A25FC in Botswana from April 14th to the 18th. Activity   
   will be on 80 through 10 meters using CW, SSB, PSK and RTTY. QSL via   
   ON4CJK, either direct or via the bureau.   
      
   Lastly, HA5PP will once again be active stroke 5B from Cyprus during the CQWW   
   WPX CW Contest on May 28th and 29th. He will be a single operator single   
   band entrant but his band of choice has not yet been announced. QSL via   
   HA5PP.   
      
   (Above from various DX news sout   
      
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   THAT FINAL ITEM: WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY ON APRIL 18   
      
   And finally this week, the International Amateur Radio Union, and its member   
   societies representing over 150 countries around the world, will celebrate   
   World Amateur Radio Day on Monday, April 18. The theme for this year's   
   celebration is "Amateur Radio: The first technology-based social network."   
   Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, tells us about this years ham   
   radio celebration:   
      
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   According to the I-A-R-U and the A-R-R-L, long before the Internet and smart   
   phones existed, amateur radio operators had been talking, texting and   
   sharing their thoughts for decades. But unlike those commercial services,   
   amateur radio continues to attract people world-wide by providing   
   international communications for free. And because it does not need   
   pre-established supporting infrastructure, radio-savvy amateurs can reach   
   out to friends in every corner of the world and into space as well.   
      
   Amateur Radio operators have been the leaders in developing many of today's   
   modern electronic and communications marvels. Today the citizens of Earth   
   think of wireless as being the ubiquitous cellular phone - only made   
   possible because of the pioneering work in radio technologies first explored   
   by these "amateurs". Many of our leading electrical engineers draw from   
   their practical experiences as Amateur Radio operators as they continue to   
   develop applications blending computers and radios. Ham Radio operators may   
   be "amateur" because they are unpaid volunteers, but their skills and   
   contributions to the world are of the highest order.   
      
   Calling, texting or even using old Morse code on the Amateur shortwave bands   
   can result in chatting with other radio amateurs across town or far across   
   the oceans. While hams have repeatedly been in the news for their   
   life-saving communications services in disasters, a large part of their   
   activities is the excitement and joy of contacting distant and remote areas   
   of the world, learning directly about each others' regions and lives and   
   trying different ways to make radio contacts around the world.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Norm Seeley, KI7UP, in Scottsdale,   
   Arizona.   
      
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   Since 1925, the IARU has been instrumental in coordinating and representing   
   Amateur Radio to the world. For more information about the International   
   Amateur Radio Union please take your web browser to www.IARU.org (IARU,   
   ARRL)   
      
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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 WIA News, that's all from the Amateur Radio   
   Newsline(tm). Our e-mail address is Newsline (at) arnewsline (dot)org. More   
   information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's(tm) only official   
   website located at www.arnewsline.org. You can also write to us or support   
   us at Amateur Radio Newsline(tm), 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita   
   California, 91350   
      
   And a reminder that the nominating period for the year 2011 Amateur Radio   
   Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award is now open. Created by Newsline back   
   in 1986, this award is offered to recognize one young United States or   
   Canadian radio amateur age 18 or younger for his or her contributions to   
   society through Amateur Radio.   
      
   As in years past, the 2011 recipient will receive an expense paid trip to the   
   Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville Alabama courtesy of Vertex-Standard   
   Corporation which produces Yaesu brand amateur radio gear. Vertex-Standard   
   will also present this years winner with a special ham radio related gift.   
   CQ Magazine will again treat the recipient to a week at   
   Spacecamp-Huntsville. We at Amateur Radio Newsline will present the winner   
   with a plaque honoring his or her achievements.   
      
   All nominations and materials required by the official rules must be received   
   by ARNewsline before June 30, 2011. A downloadable nominating form is at   
   our website at www.arnewsline.org. A nominating form can also be obtained   
   by sending a request along with a self addressed stamped envelope to the   
   Young Ham of the Year Award in care of Amateur Radio Newsline, Inc. 28197   
   Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita California 91350.   
      
   Again, the cutoff date for this year's Young Ham of the Year Award   
   nominations is June 30th. We ask you to do your part by nominating a young   
   ham who has done something special related to ham radio. The nomination   
   form is at www.arnewsline.org   
      
   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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