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Amateur Radio Newsline #965 15 Feb 1996

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                         The following is a QST

   The FCC says it needs more money to do its job and support for the
concept of an independent repeater spoc grows.  These stories and more
on Newsline report number 965 coming your way right now!

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                             FCC FUNDS LOW

   FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says that telecommunications laws cannot be
effectively overhauled and enforced without more money from Congress. Hundt
told reporters on January 18th he would ask congress to give the FCC
$225,000,000 for fiscal year 1996.  This is a 26 percent increase over its
current budget.
   Congress has provided the FCC with only $165,000,000 for fiscal year
1996.  The FCC's 1995 budget was $186,000,000.  The current $165,000,000
figure is an 11 percent decrease from last year.  Hundt faces an uphill
battle in a Republican-controlled Congress that wants to hold down federal
spending.

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                   FCC DENIES KV4FZ LICENSE RENEWAL

   The FCC has acted to deny the application of Herbert L. Schoenbohm
to renew his Amateur Radio license.  Schoenbohm, who holds the call
sign KV4FZ had his application to renew designated for public hearing
after the FCC received complaints that asked his application be
rejected.  This, based on a federal court conviction several years ago
a charge that he had in his possession a counterfeit telephone access
device.  
   The decision against Schoenbohm was issued on January 26th by FCC
Administrative Law Judge Edward Luton.  Schoenbohm was given the usual
thirty days to file a further appeal before the entire Commission.  If
they deny his renewal application, Schoenbohm's only option will be to
take the matter into the federal courts.  Schoenbohm has been heard on
the air to say that he will fight to retain his license even if it
means going all the way to the Supreme Court.  
   If he fails to file in the required time period, the order becomes
effective fifty days after its date of issue.  Until that time,
Schoenbohm is free to continue to operate on the air.    

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                        SPOC RESPONSE POSITIVE

   Efforts to develop a single point of contact between the nation's
amateur repeater coordinators and the FCC appear to be making
important progress.  A committee of amateurs has released its
recommendations on who should serve as the contact point.  This has
been a very controversial issue, it's one that could ultimately affect
the repeaters you use for communication.  At the center of the dispute
is whether the ARRL should serve as contact liaison between
coordinators and the Commission on coordination and interference
issues.  The controversy grew after an October 1995 meeting between
coordinators, League representatives and the FCC.  One groups reaction
to the committees recommendation is very positive.  

   The committee's report comes more than 3 months after a heated
meeting, one that saw coordinators complaining of a railroad job in
favor of making the League the single point of contact.  But if what
the committee proposes becomes reality, the League won't have that
role.  Instead, a council of amateurs would be created and called the
National Frequency Coordination Council or NFCC.

   "I think this is a good compromise"  David Baughn, KX4I

   Baughn is Frequency Coordinator for the Alabama Repeater Council. 
He says the Committee's recommendations are somewhat of a surprise.

   "It's a little bit different from what the committee was charged to
do, which was to develop a SPOC at the ARRL.  However, I think that,
that this is a good approach to the situation.  The ARRL has said that
they really are not interested in actually being the SPOC."  Baughn

   NFCC would receive start-up money and other support from the League.
But the ARRL would not oversee or direct the Council's activities. 
That arrangement is considered likely to please coordinators who
opposed having the League serve as the single point of contact. 
Coordinators from each state would be able to vote on key issues.  The
number of votes each state could cast would be based on the size of
its amateur population, the more hams a state has, the more votes its
coordinators can cast.  Another committee recommendation could mean a
major change affecting repeaters and other amateur radio systems
nationwide.  

   "As it stands now the bottom line would be that eventually 
coordination would be required for repeater operation."  Baughn

   That means it could ultimately be illegal to put an amateur repeater
on the air that is not coordinated.  Baughn supports the committee on
this idea, too.  He says current rules making uncoordinated repeaters
responsible for fixing interference problems are weak.

   "Anybody that's had a repeater that had interference problems or
been a frequency coordinator and has dealt with interference problems
knows that's just not enough to get these situations straightened
out." Baughn

   Requiring repeaters to be coordinated would mean changing FCC rules
governing the amateur radio service.  Baughn says coordinators are
currently discussing whether to ask the FCC to hold a rule making
proceeding to make that happen.

   Frequency coordinators across the country have 60 days to respond to
the Committee's suggestions.  Depending on what additional action is
taken, the Committee could then proceed with plans to incorporate. 
The Committee's work may signal the beginning of a solution to the
entire single point of contact issue.  The Alabama delegation
initially opposed the single point of contact proposal but later
changed its position.  And the Southeastern Repeater Association,
SERA, which initially went on record opposing the idea has clarified
its position.  SERA now says it, too, can support a single point of
contact if that liaison is made up of the nation's coordinators.  The
only question now.  Will the ARRL will support and possibly fund an
organization over which it will have absolutely no control? 

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                        ARRL vs. AUTO LOCATION

   The ARRL says no to limiting the 76-77 GHz band to vehicle radar
systems.  In comments on an FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making to
temporarily remove hams from the band, the League tells the FCC to
maintain existing ham allocations from 75.5 to 81 GHz to spur
development of short-range high-speed data links. 
   Automobile manufacturers differed on the issue of continued Amateur
Radio use of the 76-77 GHz band.  Ford Motor Company opposes continued
use of the band by hams.  General Motors says that vehicle radar
systems would not be adversely affected by continued amateur use of
the band.  Japanese automakers don't want to use these frequencies at
all.  They say they prefer 60-61 GHz for these systems instead.  

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                       FUND ADMINISTRATORS REPORT

   If you are one of those stations who gets to hear the closed circuit
advisory that precedes the newscast, then you know that Newsline is
once again in deep financial trouble.  The problem is that there have
been few donations of late.  Heres a report from our support fund
administrator, Andy Jarema, N6TCQ:

   This month we heard from the Penntucket Radio Association of Haberville,
MA, the Radio Amateur Service Club of Baton Rouge,  the Wichita Radio
Club and the Santa Clarita Amateur Radio Club in California.  Period.
   As we move into the new year, keep in mind that the news is daily.
Please remember that when you think about the only Amateur news service
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   Remember that the clubs that support us with the club name, repeater
call and service area get a mention during the newscast id break.    

   Andy will be back in about four weeks.  Hopefully with far better
news.

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              SCHOOL CLUB PROVIDE COMMUNICATION DURING BLIZZARD

   Yet another story of ham radio bravery in the wake of the Great
Blizzard of 1996.  As the storm hit New England the weekend of January
6-7, the Bethel Educational Amateur Radio Society of the Bethel,
Connecticut Middle School got the call to action from the City Office
of Emergency Management.  The students operated around the clock to
provide backup communication for the town and acting as a net control
station for 34 surrounding towns in the greater Fairfield County area.

   The club maintained vital communication links with the Area Office
of Emergency Management in Bridgeport.  They relayed weather
information and prepared materials if emergency shelters were
activated. 
   Using the call sign of their coordinator, Peter Kemp, KZ1Z, the
group operated from the local fire department on both HF and VHF. 
They also have a club station at their school.  A dozen students
participated in the effort. 

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                      HAMS HELP HEART ATTACK VICTIM

   A group of Boy Scouts that included several hams lived up to the
Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared".  As a result, the victim of a heart
attack is alive to talk about his ordeal.
   It all happened during a wilderness outing last August.  Dave Smith
of Saratoga, California and his wife Janet were accompanying their
younger son and other scouts on an eight-day backpacking trip into
California's Yosemite high country when Dave Smith experienced chest
pain one day into the outing.  Scoutmaster Paul Wesling, KM6LH, took
Smith's vital signs and used ham radio to relay the information to the
Yosemite emergency response staff.  Smith was rescued and transported
by helicopter to Yosemite Valley and then to Modesto, California,
where doctors determined he'd suffered a mild heart attack. 
   Wesling says that ham radio is a standard part of his troop's
outings.  Both Wesling and Eagle Scout Rajeev Goel, KD6MXV, had VHF
handheld radios along for the trip.  As a result of their experience,
Dave and Janet Smith are making plans to take one of the troop's
Amateur Radio licensing classes.  This way, they to will always be
prepared. 

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            SUMMERS RECEIVES ARRL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

   ARRL Midwest Director Lew Gordon, K4VX reports that Bob Summers,
K0BXF, has received the ARRL Lifetime Achievement Award plaque after
more than 30 continuous years as Kansas section manager and section
communications manager.  
   First licensed in 1955, Summers has held a variety of ARRL 
appointments, including Official Observer, Official Bulletin Station
as well as Section Emergency Coordinator for Kansas. 
   He was appointed acting section communication manager for Kansas in
1965 and was successfully elected for every term up until his 
retirement last November.
   Director Gordon, made the presentation at the Kansas State 
Convention one day after Bob turned 67.

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                            CB RADIO MAGAZINE

   A few weeks ago we reported an unexpected and unprecedented 
resurgence in 11 meter Class D Citizens Band radio.  Retailers say
that more 11 meter CB sets were sold this past Christmas than in the
past ten holiday sales seasons combined.  On a percentage scale, CB is
again one of the fastest growing radio services.  And for the first
time in almost two decades, CB radio now has a magazine of its own.
   CB Radio Magazine is now available through subscriptions and on
newsstands.  The first issue contains a myriad of information for
anyone who owns a CB radio or who is planning on buying one.  And if
you think that CB Magazine will be one of those short lived
publications, you might want to guess again. CB Radio Magazine is the
product of those same minds that bring you CQ Magazine, CQ VHF
Magazine, CQ Contest and Popular Communications to name only a few. 
And, as the radio industry knows, the people at the helm of CQ
Communications usually produce winners each time out.

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                            HAVANA MOON S.K.

   Any ham that has regularly tuned outside of the HF amateur bands to
listen to international broadcast or utility stations and has followed
background stories on those stations in SWL publications probably has
heard of "Havana Moon".  Bill Godbey, KB2OOR, who's alter ego was the
mysterious "Havana Moon" is now a silent key.  
   Godbey, a resident of Ossining, New York, died shortly after being
diagnosed with terminal lung and liver cancer at the age of 59.  He
had not been feeling well since this past summer.  His wife Christine
Paustain got him to see a doctor just before Christmas.  He was
admitted to the hospital on New Years Eve and passed away on January
9th.  
   Under his "Havana Moon" pseudonym, Godbey wrote regular articles
about some of the more unusual aspects of shortwave listening.  Though
his own research he exposed those mysterious "numbers" stations that
seem to be everywhere in the spectrum as government run spy stations
sending encoded messages to operatives in the field.  
   A broadcast veteran, Godbey had also been involved in a mail order
company that specialized in shortwave memorabilia, a radio hobby news
program called Signals, and more recently in an internet consulting
company.       
   The March issue of Monitoring Times magazine will pay tribute to
"Havana Moon" with a reprint of an early article by Godbey and a
biography of him written by his wife who is also known as "Kristin
Kaye".  

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                               W1RJA S.K.

   VHF veteran Ed Bristol, W1RJA became a silent key last December
1st.  Bristol died in his sleep from a heart attack at age 64.  
   Active on 6, 2, 222 and 432, Ed had a commanding signal from his
Connecticut QTH for over 30 years.  A staunch supporter of the North
East Weak Signal group from its inception, he had just been elected to
its Executive Board of Directors       
   Ed Bristol is survived by his wife Rae, K1LXD.

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                                   DX

   In DX, 3A2MD, in Monaco reports she is on every day between 14:00
UTC and 16:00 UTC on 14.175 to 14.180 MHZ.  QSL to Laura-Marcelle
Martinez, 73 Bd du Jardin Exotique, 98000 Monaco.  

   And to the north, Industry Canada Quebec Region has authorized all
Canadian hams to use special prefixes through February.  This to mark
the 50th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust.

   And in case you have not already heard, the ARRL Board of Directors
has voted to add Scarborough Reef to the DXCC countries list.  QSL
cards for Scarborough will be accepted by the DXCC desk after April
1st.  Cards received before April 1st will be returned without action.

(*****
                                 STS-76

   Five schools have been selected for participation in SAREX during
space shuttle flight STS-76.  Launch is tentatively set for March 21
for a nine-day mission that will include the third docking with Mir. 
   Two or more students at each of the selected schools will get to
ask the astronauts questions during scheduled SAREX contacts. 

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                          ASTRONAUT HAMS MARRY

   And finally, in what appears to be a "first" for ham radio and for
the United States space program, astronauts Steve Nagel, N5RAW, and
Linda Godwin, N5RAX, were married December 29.  Steve and Linda flew
together on STS-37 in April 1991.  Both have appeared as speakers for
ARRL at conventions.  
   Nagel was the commander aboard space shuttle mission STS-55 in
April 1993 and operated SAREX.  Godwin, a NASA Mission Specialist,
operated the SAREX during mission STS-59 in April 1994.  She flies
again on STS-76 in March. 

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   And for this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.  You
can write to us at:

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   For now, with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF at our editors desk, we say 73
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