Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1784 - October 21 2011   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1784 with a release date of Friday,   
   October 21st, 2011 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a Q-S-T. A ham is killed in a mass murder at a beauty salon   
   in Seal Beach, California; ham radio responds to massive flooding in   
   Thailand; the C-E-P-T will propose a new 500 kHz band at WRC 2012 and radio   
   helps to discover an invisible planet. Find out the details are on Amateur   
   Radio Newsline(tm) report number 1784 coming your way right now.   
      
      
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   CRIME: HAM KILLED IN SEAL BEACH CA. MASS MURDER   
      
   A Seal Beach, California, ham was the innocent victim of a mass murderer. On   
   Wednesday, October 12th, Scott Dekraai is alleged to have opened fire in a   
   hair styling salon where his ex-wife was a stylist. She and eight others   
   were killed in the rampage. One of those was David Caouette, N6DAC, who was   
   sitting in his vehicle near-by as the gunman made his escape and shot him   
   for no apparent reason. Amateur Radio Newsline's Joe Moell K0OV has what is   
   known so far.   
      
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   N6DAC probably didn't know Scott Dekraii. He was simply in the wrong place   
   at the wrong time. The unfortunate 64-year-old father of three had stopped   
   for lunch at a Seal Beach diner and was sitting in his Land Rover in the   
   parking lot when Dekraii came out of the hair salon and opened fire on him.   
      
   David was a ham who loved off-roading in his Land Rover with a group of   
   fellow hams. They remember him as a mellow guy who was always ready to blaze   
   a trail and always ready to help others. In the Orange County Register, Ed   
   Testa KI6OJV tells the story of how David stopped to help a fellow driver   
   whose vehicle was disabled by a snapped Rod. N6DAC spent four hours   
   figuring how to get that new friend back on the road.   
      
   A memorial and tribute to N6DAC took place on October 17 at the diner where   
   he died, with many of his friends in attendance.   
      
   From Orange County, California this is Joe Moell, K0OV, for Amateur Radio   
   Newsline.   
      
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   The 41-year-old Dekraai was scheduled to enter a plea on October 15th to   
   eight counts of capital felony murder and one count of attempted murder.   
   But the arraignment was postponed until November 29th after his lawyer asked   
   for time to assemble a legal team. Prosecutors say they will seek the death   
   penalty for Dekraai. Meantime some local Los Angeles area news reports say   
   that the alleged gunman may have suffered from Bi-Polar Disorder and could   
   plead not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. (K0OV, other published   
   news reports)   
      
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   RADIO LAW: CEPT TO PROPOSE NEW 500 KHZ AMATEUR BAND AT WRC 2012   
      
   According to a bulletin issued by the Irish Radio Transmitting Society, a   
   small allocation of about 15 kHz in parts of the 500 kHz band for the   
   amateur radio service will be proposed at the next World Radiocommunications   
   Conference to be held in 2012. This, as a proposal by the European   
   Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations, better known as   
   the initials CRPT.   
      
   According to the Irish Radio Transmitting Society bulletin, this proposal has   
   been made by a project team of about 50 representatives of European   
   governments and other stakeholders in preparation for WRC12. The decision   
   to proceed followed an invitation of the Federal Network Agency in Germany   
   for a meeting that was held at the end of September in Mainz. The   
   discussions there led to a compromise in the size of the amateur radio band,   
   namely 480 kHz to 472 kHz, with a maximum effective radiated power of five   
   watts. If approved, this allocation would be on a secondary basis to any   
   and all current users. (Southgate)   
      
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   RESCUE RADIO: HAMS IN THAILAND RESPOND AS FLOODS HIT THAT NATION   
      
   Hams in Thailand are now first line emergency responders. This as massive   
   flooding rages across parts of that nation. Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm   
   Seeley, KI7UP, has the latest:   
      
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   The death toll from the most devastating flooding to hit Thailand in over 60   
   years has now risen to near 300. This, following monsoon rains that have   
   swept across that nation since late July.   
      
   Amateur radio has been assisting with flood relief communications by helping   
   victims in the affected areas. As we go to air, Thai hams are using the   
   Radio Amateur Society of Thailand club station HS0AC and have also set up   
   shop at a special flood relief centre at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport   
   operating as HS0AB. Take a listen:   
      
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   Actual Thai emergency communications audio.   
      
   --   
      
   Locally, Thai hams are operating on VHF on 144.900, 144.9375 and145.000 MHz.   
   World-wide, Thai emergency flood relief operations are on 7.063 and 7.060   
   MHz in the 40 meter band. If you happen to hear what sounds to be emergency   
   communications on those two frequencies it is best to remain clear of them.   
      
   So far, nearly three million people in 26 out of the country's 77 provinces   
   are said to have been affected by the disaster that has caused serious   
   damage to that countrys agriculture and industries. Damage so far has been   
   assessed at more than 20 billon baht or 6 million United States dollars.   
   Meantime the city of Bangkok is bracing for a large amount of run-off water   
   that is about to reach the it and which will coincide with seasonal high   
   tides that will make it harder for the flood waters to flow out to sea. And   
   with the volume of water and continuing rainfall, this emergency, and ham   
   radio first response efforts are both likely to continue for days if not   
   weeks to come.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, Im Norm Seeley, KI7UP, following this story   
   from Scottsdale, Arizona.   
      
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   A video showing activities at the special flood relief amateur radio station   
   at Don Mueang Airport is on line at tinyurl.com/Thai-flood-hams. Also,   
   United States hams are being asked to refer all inquires from local or   
   national media to ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts,   
   W1AGP. Allen is in contact with those handling relief operations in   
   Thailand and will have the most accurate information. His e-mail is w1agp   
   (at) arrl (dot) org. (HS0ZDX, VK3PC, RAST, ARRL)   
      
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   RESCUE RADIO: VK HAMS ASSIST IN HUNT FOR AIRCRAFT MISSING 30 YEARS   
      
   A group of amateur radio operators from Sydney, Australia, recently took part   
   in a multi-agency search and rescue exercise in a remote area of New South   
   Wales. This, to help in the continuing search for a small plane that is   
   believed to have crashed some 30 years ago with its pilot and four   
   passengers on board.   
      
   The single engine Cessna aircraft had the tail identification of VH-MDX. It   
   had had taken off from Queensland for a flight to to Sydney's Bankstown   
   airport when its pilot identified as Michael Hutchins radioed that he was   
   experiencing severe turbulence. Also that the plane had been hit by   
   lightning and he could no longer determine its orientation. To make matters   
   worse, the wings were icing up and despite his best efforts, the Cessna was   
   losing altitude. The aircraft then disappeared from radar and all   
   communications ceased a few minutes later.   
      
   For thirty years since the accident, teams of volunteers have returned to the   
   area to walk and climb their way through every piece of unsearched landscape   
   in the hope that somebody will discover a piece of wreckage or spot   
   something that helps to ends the riddle of VH-MDX. The regions that have   
   been searched are marked off on a large map, so further unsearched areas can   
   be checked the following year.   
      
   For the safety of the volunteer searchers, each of the six teams carried one   
   vhf or uhf handheld radio and a portable 2-way High Frequency transceiver.   
   Packed in a rainproof canvas box, the H-F sets included a short wire antenna   
   that would work using skywave or N-V-I-S propagation. This, to contact any   
   of several radio command posts set up and manned by WICEN of New South   
   Wales. WICEN is a volunteer organization of licensed Australian amateur   
   radio operators who donate some of their time and expertise to emergency   
   communications to benefit the community much the same way that ARES members   
   do here in the United States. Other groups helping with the search this   
   year included the Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue Squad, the New South Wales   
   Police Rescue Squad, the New South Wales Volunteer Rescue Association and   
   several others.   
      
   At the time of its disappearance the Cessna's four passengers were New South   
   Wales Police Inspector Ken Price, who was traveling with Noel Wildash,   
   Phillip Pembroke and Rhett Bosler. Search aircraft sent to the general area   
   could find no sign of wreckage, and there was no smoke or fire to guide   
   them. Several intensive land searches were also lunched but to date, no   
   wreckage of the plane and the remains of its five occupants have been found.   
   At airtime, the search is expected to resume sometime next year. (Adapted   
   from walkietalkietwowayradios.com)   
      
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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 WA4B repeater serving   
   Miami, Florida.   
      
   (5 sec pause here)   
      
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   HAM RADIO NUMBERS: 700,000 HAMS IN THE USA   
      
   Figures released by the American Radio Relay League say that the number of   
   United States hams now stands at a record high number of 700,000. According   
   to ARRL V-E-C Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, the number of Technicians peaked   
   in March 2011 at 342,572, while September 2011 saw both Generals and Extras   
   each peak respectively in their number of license holders.   
      
   In issuing her report Somma noted that as new Technicians earn their amateur   
   radio licenses, and current Technician licensees move on to General and   
   Generals upgrade to Extra, this can cause up-and-down fluctuations for the   
   totals. None the less, Somma says that for the first time, there are more   
   than 700,000 radio amateurs in the United States. (ARRL)   
      
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   RADIO SCIENCE: LOW FREQUENCY GRANT ISSUED TO K4LCD AS WF2XXQ   
      
   The FCC has issued an Experimental License grant to Juan Granados, K4LCD, to   
   operate on 130 kHz and 500 kHz with the callsign WF2XXQ. The permit is   
   valid until October 1, 2016 and is tied to the ongoing Very Low Frequency   
   Amateur Radio Experiment. More is on-line at tinyurl.com/4235u7s (FCC)   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT: ANOTHER UNLICENSED FLORIDA BROADCASTER DINGED WITH $10000 NAL   
      
   Posting information about his unlicensed station on the Internet could cost   
   its alleged owner and operator $10,000. This after the FCC issues a Notice   
   of Apparent Liability in that amount to one Neal Davis who the regulatory   
   agency says operated such a transmitter from an a commercial property in the   
   city of Ft. Lauderdale.   
      
   The case goes back to earlier this year. On January 21st, March 8th and   
   March 10th agents from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau's Miami Office T-hunted   
   the source of radio transmissions on 96.1 MHz to a location in Fort   
   Lauderdale, Florida. While monitoring the station on March 10th, agents   
   heard a male voice identify himself as "Shawty Pimp." On the same date, the   
   Fort Lauderdale Police Department executed a search warrant at the   
   commercial property and found Mr. Davis operating what it described as Disc   
   Jockey equipment.   
      
   After the location was secured, agents from the Miami Office inspected the   
   premises and found an unlicensed radio transmitter displaying 96.10 MHz.   
   They also observed a Facebook page for "Nintysixonefm Realsideradio" on a   
   laptop and an envelope addressed to Neal Davis near the equipment.   
      
   An agent from the Miami Office subsequently found information on the Internet   
   advertising 96.1 FM, including a phone number that the FCC office previously   
   heard broadcast on 96.1 MHz and information for a Disk Jockey that goes by   
   "Djshawtypimp." Mr. Davis was identified by the agents as D J "Shawty Pimp"   
   by comparing a photograph found on-line to that on Davis's Florida driver's   
   license.   
      
   On October 17th, the FCC issued the $10,000 NAL to Neal Davis based on the   
   information and documentation that it discovered during its investigation.   
   Davis was given the customary 30 days to pay the proposed fine or to file an   
   appeal. (FCC)   
      
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   ENFORCEMENT: FCC ORDERS DETROIT FM TRANSLATOR OFF THE AIR   
      
   The FCC has ordered Radio Power, Inc. to take translator W284BQ in Detroit   
   off the air. This due to unresolved interference to co-channel WIOT(FM), in   
   Toledo, Ohio.   
      
   WIOT licensee Citicasters identified nearly 30 complaints from listeners   
   within the station's protected contour describing difficulties in receiving   
   the station in their cars and homes. In July, the FCC gave Radio Power 30   
   days to resolve all the interference complaints or suspend operation. Radio   
   Power did try to resolve the interference, including modifying the antenna   
   to suppress radiation to the south.   
      
   Nevada-based Radio Power, Inc. offered those listeners a smartphone with an   
   iHeartRadio application installed, enabling the listeners to receive WIOT   
   programming over the Internet. However the phones require a paid data plan   
   to run iHeartRadio which WIOT considered to make this an unworkable   
   solution and did not solve the interference.   
      
   For its part Radio Power disagreed. It argued that the use of a smartphone   
   improves the reception of WIOT and eliminates the interference.   
      
   But it was the FCC that had the final word. In its order released on October   
   17th, the regulatory agency said that providing a smartphone to complaining   
   listeners does not solve over the air interference. Also that Radio Power's   
   attempted remedy does not fulfill its obligation to suspend operations until   
   the interference has been eliminated.   
      
   The FCC's order to take W284BQ off the air is effective immediately. More is   
   on-line at tinyurl.com/translator-interference-fcc. (RW, FCC)   
      
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   RADIO SAFETY: LARGE FINE PROPOSED IN INDIANA TOWER ACCIDENT   
      
   The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a $91,500 fine   
   for tower company ERI. This for alleged safety violations in connection   
   with two tower related fatalities.   
      
   As Indiana's Lafayette Journal and Courier reported, two men fell some 340   
   feet and died in April while helping to build a 500-foot tower for the WASK   
   Radio Group. Now, in its initial findings, the Occupational Safety and   
   Health Administration says the men were exposed to fall hazards while riding   
   the pole connected to the jump line of the gin pole. A gin pole is a   
   vertical assembly used in the construction of towers to assist in raising   
   and lowering such a structure.   
      
   The Occupational Safety and Health Administration also claims the two workers   
   were not provided with adequate fall protection when accessing the   
   man-basket and that load limits were not properly marked on some of the   
   crew's equipment.   
      
   In reply, ERI President Tom Silliman said that some of OSHA's initial   
   findings were incorrect and claims that the report is being revised. He   
   added he could not comment until final determinations have been made.   
      
   According to the initial findings, the proposed fines can be appealed. (B&C)   
      
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   WORLDBEAT: US TESTS TO BE HELD IN COSTA RICA OCTOBER 28   
      
   An ARRL Volunteer Examination Coordinator exam team will be holding an   
   examination session in Costa Rica for United States amateur radio licenses.   
   The tests will be administered on Friday, October 28th at 9:00 a.m. local   
   time in the city of La Guacima, Alajuela.   
      
   The fee for the exam is $14, which is the same as on U.S. soil. It entitles   
   the applicant to take exams and receive credit for as many test elements as   
   he or she can pass that day. This includes those elements required for   
   higher grades of license.   
      
   This may be the last opportunity to take a United States exam this year   
   anywhere in Central America. Those interested should contact Carlos Diez,   
   TI5KD, via e-mail to ti5kd10 (at) gmail (dot) com as soon as possible to   
   make arrangements and to reserve a seat. (Via e-mail)   
      
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   WORLDBEAT: AMATEUR RADIO FEATURED AT IAC2011   
      
   Amateur Radio was featured in several papers presented at the 62nd   
   International Astronautical Congress held in Cape Town South Africa. This,   
   for the first time since the formation of the International Astronautical   
   Federation way back in 1951.   
      
   Several papers highlighted Amateur Radio involvement in satellites and in the   
   search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper by Dr. Jakobus van Zyl   
   and Johann Lochner, ZE6CBC, both engineers at SunSpace, covered a global   
   geographical survey of received signal's strength in the VHF band.   
      
   Another report was on the data collected by the South African SumbandilaSat   
   that had provided useful information for selecting future ground station   
   locations for minimum interference. The study also gives an indication of   
   frequencies to use for command and telemetry communication at existing   
   ground stations. (SARL)   
      
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   NAMES IN THE NEWS: NR6AV NAMED 2011 DISTRICT COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER OF THE   
   YEAR   
      
   Some names in the news. First our congratulations to Ray Avesian, NR6AV, who   
   has been named as the 2011 District Communications Officer of the Year at   
   the Los Angeles County Disaster Communications Service Semi-Annual Meeting.   
   In selecting him for the honor it was noted that Avesian has worked   
   diligently to bring the Disaster Communications Service program at Temple   
   Station District 5 closer, and using his experience as a successful coach,   
   to build a team of dedicated amateur radio operators.   
      
   The Temple Station Disaster Communications Service District 5 serves a very   
   large portion of Southern California's San Gabriel Valley. This includes   
   the communities of Temple City, Rosemead, Bradbury, Duarte, South El Monte,   
   and the unincorporated areas of Monrovia, Arcadia, South San Gabriel, East   
   Pasadena.   
      
   The Meeting honoring NR6AV was held at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's   
   Department Sherman Block Headquarters Building in Monterey Park, California.   
   (KE6VRL)   
      
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   WITH NEWSLINE: FACEBOOK AND YAHOOGROUPS - WE ARE THERE FOR YOU   
      
   And while we do not talk about it much on these newscasts, as we go to air   
   this week the Amateur Radio Page on Facebook has garnered some 717 friends.   
   And we just want to pause for a moment to thank James Pastorfield, KB7TBT,   
   of Lavonia, Georgia, who stepped up just after we created the page and   
   offered to maintain us for us.   
      
   Like everyone else in our Amateur Radio Newsline family, James is a   
   volunteer. In this case one of those very special people that makes it   
   possible for us to have an active presence on one very special aspect of   
   social networking on the World-Wide-Web.   
      
   If you are on Facebook but are not a follower of the Amateur Radio Newsline   
   page, we invite you to join us. Just use the search bar on Facebook to   
   locate us and join in. We would love to have you with us over there.   
      
   Also, for those wanting home computer delivery of the text version of these   
   weekly newscasts, we invite you once again to join the Amateur Radio   
   Newsline group on Yahoogroups. You can also use the site to find archived   
   scripts going all the way back to the year 2001. Just use the standard   
   Yahoogroups sign up procedure to obtain a yahoogroups account then locate   
   and join the group called ARNewsline.   
      
   Either way, we hope to continue to serve you in cyberspace as well as on the   
   air. (ARNewsline(tm))   
      
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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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   CHANGING OF THE GUARD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS LEADER ROBERT GALVIN OF MOTOROLA -   
   SK   
      
   One of the greatest leaders in the world of telecommunications has left the   
   scene. This with the passing of Robert Galvin, the man generally credited   
   as putting the name Motorola on the map. Chris Boone, WB5ITT, has the story   
   of this industry giant who affected lives world-wide:   
      
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   Robert W. Galvin, who took the reins of Motorola from his father and built a   
   family-run business that pioneered Depression era car radios and wartime   
   walkie-talkies into a global maker of color television sets, cellphones and   
   other ubiquities of the electronic age has died.   
      
   From his days as a stockroom apprentice in 1940 to the midlife pressures of   
   the executive suite and his retirement-in-name-only as chairman in 1990, Mr.   
   Galvin spent his working life with Motorola, leaving it only for military   
   service in World War II. By the time he stepped down, he had transformed   
   the company from a moderately successful postwar enterprise into a high-tech   
   international giant in a fast-changing, highly competitive business.   
      
   In the three decades after Mr. Galvin took control in the late 1950s, annual   
   sales leaped to $10.8 billion from $290 million. Motorola, based in   
   Schaumburg, Ill., built factories, hired thousands of workers, expanded its   
   products and set high standards for innovation.   
      
   Galvin was the force behind a company that forged trends in radio, television   
   and integrated circuits for computers and other products.   
      
   Robert William Galvin was born in Marshfield, Wis., on Oct. 9, 1922, the only   
   child of Paul and Lillian Guinan Galvin. He grew up in Chicago, where his   
   father and uncle had founded the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928.   
   The company had begun by making battery eliminators. Devices to plug radios   
   into electrical systems in homes and cars. Radios were originally   
   battery-operated. By 1940, Galvin Manufacturing had evolved into America's   
   premier maker of car radios and two-way radios, called Handie-Talkies which   
   became a Motorola trademark. After World War 2 broke out they became   
   walkie-talkies, and the Army bought $10 million worth. Galvin also   
   prospered in government contracts for radar systems.   
      
   In 1947, the company changed its name to Motorola, a fusion of motor and   
   Victrola. It also set up a profit-sharing plan for employees - one of the   
   first in the country to do so. During the Korean War, Motorola made mobile   
   radio equipment and began to develop microwave-relay communications systems.   
      
   Mr. Galvin became president in 1956 and took over day-to-day operations from   
   his father, who was chairman and chief executive until his death in 1959.   
   Robert succeeded him in both posts, and in the 1960s embarked on new paths:   
   guided missile designs, space communications, radios for ships and aircraft,   
   components and integrated circuits for TV sets, car ignitions and hundreds   
   of other products. Motorola produced the first hand-held mobile phone in   
   1973 and later dominated the cellphone hardware business.   
      
   Mr. Galvin gave up Motorola's chairmanship in 1990, but continued for more   
   than a decade to serve on its board and advise his son, Christopher, who   
   succeeded him in 1997.   
      
   At airtime, it was not known weather Robert Galvin had been an amateur radio   
   operator. According to both the QRZ and FCC databases, there was no issued   
   amateur radio license for Robert W. Galvin who was truly one of the pioneers   
   of two-way and telecommunications products throughout the world.   
      
   Reporting from sunny but dry South-East Texas in Beaumont, I'm Chris Boone,   
   WB5ITT, for the Amateur Radio Newsline.   
      
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   As an aside, it should be noted that reporter Chris Boone, WB5ITT, is also   
   the oldest Newsline bulletin station in Texas and also moderates the largest   
   remail list dedicated to commercial Land Mobile Radio on the Internet. LMR   
   at Yahoogroups.com ....normal subscribing commands for yahoogroups apply or   
   they can find the list at groups.yahoo.com/group/LMR. (WB5ITT, other   
   published news reports)   
      
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   WORLDBEAT: YAHOOGROUP FORMED TO DISCUSS THE RSGB'S FUTURE   
      
   Concern over the Radio Society of Great Britain's accountability and the way   
   it's been conducting itself recently appears to have prompted a new   
   discussion group on Yahoo Groups from White Rose Radio. On its opening page   
   the group says that the site is open to all radio amateurs and interested   
   parties in relation to the RSGB proposals on its proposed reorganization of   
   its governing body.   
      
   The White Rose Radio group claims that its purpose is to maintain the RSGB as   
   a democratic, accountable membership organization. It also suggests that   
   the RSGB is in reality a business whose singular purpose is to defend and   
   protect the privileges enjoyed by radio amateurs within the UK.   
      
   Recently, the RSGB announced plans to hold what it called an Extraordinary   
   Membership Meeting to discuss and vote on changes that would effectively   
   remove most of its current Board of Directors and replace them with experts   
   in various fields of corporate governance. At the same time its looking at   
   various methods to enter a period of what might be best termed as fiscal   
   economic measures to help it weather the current world economic climate.   
      
   You can follow the discussion on line by joining the new discussion group at   
   groups.yahoo.com/group/whiteroseradiouk. (Southgate)   
      
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   HAM RADIO IN SPACE: UOSAT 1 LIFE CELEBRATED   
      
   Surrey Satellite Technology Limited has celebrated the 30th anniversary of   
   the orbiting of Surrey's first satellite, UOSAT-1. Launched into orbit on   
   October 6th 1981, UOSAT-1 was designed and built by a team from the   
   University of Surrey led by its founder Sir Martin Sweeting, G3YJO.   
      
   UOSAT-1 was also known as UOSAT-OSCAR 9. It was a scientific and educational   
   Low-Earth Orbit satellite containing many experiments and beacons but no   
   amateur transponders. The satellite remained fully operational until it   
   re-entered October 13, 1989 from a decaying orbit after nine years of   
   service on-orbit. (ANS)   
      
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   This is ham radio news for today's radio amateur. From the United States of   
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   ON THE AIR: CELEBRATING THE XIV PAN AMERICAN GAMES   
      
   Members of Mexico's Club de Radio Experimentadores de Occidente in   
   conjunction with the Federaci=F3n Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores will   
   activate special event station 4C1JPG between now and October 30th. This   
   operation is to the 2011 and XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara.   
   Activity will be on 160 through 6 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK and the   
   Satellites. QSL via Logbook of the World, by the bureau or direct to   
   XE1GZU. (Via e-mail)   
      
      
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   DX   
      
   In DX, listen out for a team of German and Polish operators to be signing   
   3XY1D from Guinea between October 18th and November 1st. Operation will be   
   on 160 through 6 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital modes. One station   
   will be exclusively dedicated to RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. QSL via DL7DF,   
   direct or via the bureau.   
      
   F5HRY will be active stroke FY from French Guiana during the CQ World Wide DX   
   SSB Contest on October 29th and the 30th . This, as a Single Operator   
   Single Band 10 meter only entry. QSL as directed on the air.   
      
   LA5UF will be on the air from Nauru as C21UF through October 24th and Easter   
   Island   
   as CE0Y/LA5UF between November 3rd and the 11th. Activity from both   
   locations   
   will be on CW and PSK31. QSL only via his home callsign.   
      
   Lastly, F6BLP will be active from Senegal as 6W7SK between January 20th and   
   February 3rd, 2012. His operation will be holiday style operating mainly   
   CW. Logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World and to eQSL. Send your   
   QSL to F6BLP, direct or via the bureau.   
      
   (Above from various DX news sources)   
      
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   THAT FINAL ITEM: NASA KEPLER SPACE PROBE DISCOVERS INVISIBLE PLANET   
      
   An invisible planet, which has not yet been seen by eye has been discovered   
   by scientists using NASA's Kepler spacecraft. The discovery was possible   
   thanks to a companion of the unseen planet. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in   
   the newsroom with more:   
      
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   According to astronomers, the planet named Kepler-19c really cannot be seen,   
   but it makes itself known by the way it influences other planets through its   
   gravitational force.   
      
   The invisible planet has tugged at its partner the visible Kepler-19b planet,   
   slowing it down and then speeding it up in its transition.   
      
   The Kepler space probe locates planets by looking for a star that dims   
   slightly as a planet transits the star, passing across the star's face from   
   the space probes point of view. Transits give one crucial piece of   
   information regarding the planet's physical size. The greater the dip in   
   light, the larger the planet relative to its star. However, the planet and   
   star must line up exactly for Kepler to see a transit.   
      
   The visible Kepler-19b has a diameter of 18,000 miles, making it slightly   
   more than twice the size of Earth. It reportedly transits its star every 9   
   days and 7 hours. It orbits the star at a distance of 8.4 million miles,   
   where it is heated to a temperature of about 900 degrees Fahrenheit.   
      
   The invisible planet named Kepler-19c has multiple personalities that are   
   consistent with the data found according to Daniel Fabrycky of the   
   University of California at Santa Cruz. Fabrycky says that it could be a   
   rocky planet on a circular 5 day orbit, or a gas-giant planet on an oblong   
   100 day orbit.   
      
   Currently the astronomers know very little about the new planets. The Kepler   
   spacecraft will continue to monitor and radio information back to Earth   
   regarding the twin Kepler-19's throughout its mission. This in hope of   
   gathering more information about the invisible Kepler-19c.   
      
   For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill Pasaternak, WA6ITF, quite visible in   
   the Newsroom in the City of Angels.   
      
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   It should be noted that years ago astronomers discovered the planet Neptune   
   in the same way. While tracking Uranus they noticed that its orbit didn't   
   match predictions. That led to the later proven theory that a more distant   
   planet might be nudging Uranus and calculated its expected location. (IB   
   Times, Space.com)   
      
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   With thanks to Alan Labs, AMSAT, the ARRL, the CGC Communicator, CQ Magazine,   
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   For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, at the editors desk, I'm Jim Davis,   
   W2JKD, in sunny Vero Beach, Florida, saying 73 and we thank you for   
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