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Part H (Part 8 of 8 parts)
Volume 17, Number 27 (July 10, 1998)
In Brief:
This weekend on the radio: Turn on and tune in for the IARU
HF Championship. The ARRL HQ station W1AW/0 will operate from
Hannibal, Missouri, at the QTH of K4VX. The IARU HQ station,
NU1AW, will operate from Connecticut. Also on tap: the QRP ARCI
Summer Homebrew Sprint, and the CQ WW VHF Contest. Just ahead:
The North American QSO Party (RTTY) is July 18-19. Also, the
SEANET Contest (CW).
RAC seeks 10 meters for Basic ops: Radio Amateurs of Canada
has asked Industry Canada to permit holders of the Basic plus 5
WPM Morse code certificates to operate in the 10-meter band. The
license is the approximate equivalent of the US Tech Plus ticket,
which already enjoys 10-meter privileges. RAC said the proposal
"would be an important step for the growth and stability of the
Amateur Radio Service." RAC says it hopes IC--Canada's equivalent
of the FCC--will approve the move quickly so that Basic ops can
enjoy HF operating during the rise in the current sunspot cycle.
More astro-hams: SAREX Principal Investigator Matt Bordelon,
KC5BTL, reports that the number of US astronauts with ham radio
tickets has risen to 82. Three members of the STS-93 crew now are
licensed, two of them fairly recently. They are Michel Tognini,
KD5EJZ, Eileen Collins, KD5EDS, and Catherine Coleman, KC5ZTH.
SkyQuest Balloon launch a success: W1AW served as tracking
net control on 75 meters Saturday, May 30, when the SkyQuest
expendable balloon package launched from the National Weather
Service's Boston Forecast Office Open House. The balloon's signal
was heard all across New England, New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania for approximately two hours, indicating a healthy
peak altitude. The net, with help from HQ staffers Steve Ford,
WB8IMY, Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, and Al Alvareztorres, AA1DO, had almost
30 checkins. Hank Riley, N1LTV, of SkyQuest seeks operators who
have extended tapes of the balloon telemetry signal that they
could loan to SkyQuest for analysis. Contact Riley via e-mail at
h1riley@umassd.edu if you could share that material. Extended,
uninterrupted tapes are required to decode the altimeter data.
These don't have to be perfect in quality because exact
frequencies are not relevant to altitude measurement.--Hank
Riley, N1LTV/SkyQuest
Ham club helps cops with weather system: The University of
Arkansas Amateur Radio Club (W5YM) helped the Police Department
in the small town of Elkins, Arkansas, to install an early
weather warning system at a cost of about $300. Using a Student
Government Association grant, the club already had installed a
nonamateur repeater to rebroadcast National Weather Service
satellite signals on VHF, where they can be received on simple
scanners and decoded on a PC equipped with the proper software.
The system permits dispatchers to have ready access to weather
warnings.--Northwest Arkansas Times; thanks to Jim Haynes
W6RCL wins Murrow Award: NBC News producer Alan Kaul, W6RCL,
has been selected to receive the Edward R. Murrow Award for
excellence in television journalism for his role in producing
NBC's coverage following the death of Mother Teresa. Kaul was one
of five on-site producers in Calcutta, India. The team produced
eight reports that aired September 5 to 13, 1997. The stories
examined the life and work of the Roman Catholic nun who pledged
herself to those she called the "poorest of the poor." The Edward
R. Murrow Awards will be presented September 23, in San Antonio,
Texas, during the Radio and Television News Directors Association
convention.--thanks to Newsline
The ARRL Letter
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Editorial, Rick Lindquist, N1RL, e-mail elindquist@arrl.org.
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Page last modified: 4:59 PM, 10 Jul 1998 ET
Page author: elindquist@arrl.org
Copyright © 1998, American Radio Relay League, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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[End ARRL Letter Vol 17 #27 7/10/98]
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