Subj : Newsline Part 1
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From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Thu Mar 24 2016 09:34 pm
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2004, March 25, 2016
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2004, with a release date of Friday,
March 25, 2016, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. New York area hams take on malicious interference.
American Indians are taking radio into tribal lands. A veteran broadcaster
celebrates his roots on the amateur airwaves. And, the Heard Island
DXpedition is a go! All this and more, in Amateur Radio Newsline Report
2004, coming your way right now.
(Billboard Cart Here and Intro)
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UNJAMMING THE AIRWAVES
We begin this week's newscast with a report that hams in the New York
metropolitan area are ramping up their fight against malicious
interference plaguing the region's VHF and UHF bands. And they're hoping
that hundreds of others will add some valuable input.
In a recent email to ARRL Hudson Division members, division director Mike
Lisenco, N2YBB, is urgently pressing hams and their clubs to help create
a wide-ranging database documenting the problems throughout New York
City, Long Island, Northern New Jersey, Westchester and Rockland
counties. Lisenco is asking all hams who have already filed complaints
with the FCC about the malicious interference to pass along the complaint
number, as well as the date it was sent and any action that was taken.
And, he is asking repeater owners, trustees and other hams everywhere in
the region to document their first-hand complaints with as much detail as
possible - even if these complaints duplicate what others have heard.
To bolster the effort, New York Congressman Peter King has written FCC
Chairman Tom Wheeler, pressing the agency to step in, and act against
the interference. In the meantime, the division is directing database
contributors to an online report form that can be found on its website
at hudson.arrl.org. There is a link that says "End Hudson Jamming",
which allows access to the form.
Lisenco wrote, in his email, the more reports the better: QUOTE "We need
quantity. In other words, constant reports from everyone who is
experiencing jamming on VHF and UHF as it's happening." ENDQUOTE
In a followup email, he further urged: QUOTE "One report is not enough.
We need hundreds. Thousands." ENDQUOTE
(ARRL HUDSON DIVISION)
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PUTTING INDIAN COUNTRY ON THE AIR
DON: A national group of American Indians who are also licensed amateurs
is harnessing ham radio's power to help those living on America's tribal
lands. Amateur Radio Newsline's Kent Peterson, KC0DGY, spoke with the
group's president.
[KENT'S REPORT:]
NATHAN NIXON: In Arizona we have 22 tribal nations here in our state,
those 22 tribal nations make up 29 percent of the land base in Arizona,
so more than a quarter of our state is all tribal lands.
KENT PETERSON: A plan to increase amateur radio's presence in Tribal
lands is the mission of the National Tribal Amateur Radio Association.
Their president is Nathan Nixon N7NAN.
NATHAN: Having been a licensed ham for 22 years and working in Indian
country for the last six years I can tell you there are not a lot of
amateur radio operators that I've met.
KENT: Nixon says amateur radio can be a valuable resource to interconnect
smaller villages.
NATHAN: For a long time a lot of the things your counterparts in the city
or county had we didn't have, You've got these tiny villages here, and
they're blocked by so many things and yet if you can find the highest
point, and you may be able to cover those tiny villages. And, you put a
ham radio repeater up there with 100 watts, you may be able to cover
those villages. Here's my cell phone, and yet, I can pull out this radio
running 5 watts, and they're 80 miles away from me. That to me is just
amazing. They're going to have that backup communication system.
KENT: The association has three main goals
NATHAN: To further amateur radio in Indian country. Hey, we want equipment
in our emergency operations center -- that's our second goal to assist
with that. But the third goal is to bring STEM into those Indian schools.
The example I use all the time: look at our astronauts. Most all are
licensed amateur radio operators and those kids from our schools could
pave the way to do that.
KENT: And the group hopes to expand
NATHAN: I would like to see NTARA have a footprint into all 567 tribal
nations within five years.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson KC0DGY
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