Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 14 2019 08:25 pm
BRAZILIAN REGULATOR AFFIRMS HAMS' SAFETY CRITERIA
JIM/ANCHOR: Brazil's communications regulator ANATEL has accepted
recommendations that had been made by LABRE, the national amateur radio
society, on regulations concerning human exposure to electromagnetic,
electric, and magnetic radiation. ANATEL had been reviewing distance
calculations contained in an earlier resolution, which sets out specific
conditions that are relevant to radio amateurs. The Brazilian amateur
group asserted, in its input, that it supported the continuation of those
criteria, and that no changes were necessary. ANATEL has concurred.
(SOUTHGATE)
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in Greenville, Texas, on Monday nights at 7:30.
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DOWN TO HAM BASICS AT NAVY BASE
JIM/ANCHOR: In one California classroom recently, the students were from
the military, but the curriculum was totally amateur....radio, that is.
Here's Dave Parks, WB8ODF, with more.
DAVE: Amateur radio operators and the United States military are old
friends, dating back to the first World War. Once again, the two recently
became classmates as well. This time, the teacher and students were in
Point Mugu, California, home of a U.S. Naval Air Station. The classroom
of Brian Hill, KF4CAM, was filled with 23 software engineers and
developers from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. They were
there to prep for their amateur radio Technician test. Organizers were
quoted in published reports as saying that the one-week immersion session
included a curriculum in RF propagation, antennas, and signal modulation.
The instruction designed by Brian, who's been a ham since high school,
had been crafted to supplement these students' computer science backgrounds
by adding some relevant radio theory. The Navy personnel, rookies in
amateur radio, are experts in electronic warfare, where a lot of this
theory has relevance. It even piqued the interest of a fellow amateur Ian
Mann KI6YVO, the head of the division's target design engineering branch,
who is also pressing for the schooling to be expanded.
The students recently passed their final exam - the FCC licensing test.
Organizers say their next activity might well be something like a school
field trip. It will likely be a fox hunt - one in which they design and
build their own directional antennas, and then go off in search of an RF
beacon hidden somewhere on the base.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Dave Parks, WB8ODF.
(C4ISRNET, SIGHTLINE MEDIA GROUP)
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FCC SEEKS COMMENT ON PETITION TO CHANGE STATION ID RULES
JIM/ANCHOR: The FCC is looking for comment on an Ohio ham's petition to
amend station identification rules during emergency operations. The
petition from Robert Dukish, KK8DX, would like net control stations, or
others in an emergency communications to announce the call signs of all
participants every 10 minutes, from a single point, using automatic ID
by CW at speeds of no more than 25 wpm. The petition argued that current
rules could prove [quote] "burdensome and can hinder the flow of emergency
traffic on the channel." [endquote] The same petition was filed in 2005
and 2006, but the FCC did not adopt his suggested changes. Hams wishing
to comment are advised to use the FCC Electronic Comment Filing Service
or ECFS.
(FCC.GOV)
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HOPING FOR A BOUNCE FROM THE MOON
JIM/ANCHOR: A team of Swiss amateurs is moonstruck - so much so that
they're planning their next DXpedition, preparing for some EME action
on Crete. We learn more from Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
JIM M: Get ready for yet another microwave DXpedition -- this one on
Crete. Sam, HB9COG, and Dan, HB9CRQ, are preparing now to set off in May,
and expect to be on the air from the 10th through to the 17th. The Swiss
operators plan to be on the bands between 23 cm and 3 cm using EME. The
trip follows just months after the team's successful activation in
Liechtenstein in late November and early December. During that activation,
members Mark, HB9DBM, and Dan, HB9CRQ, operated on 23, 13, 9, 6 and 3cm,
and according to their website, they completed 131 QSOs and 108 first-time
contacts on 5 bands in 5 moon-passes. That adds up to one pass per band.
Their QSOs included 25 using CW. As noted on their website, their
terrestrial station makes use of WSJT software from Joe, K1JT, and by
using WSJT-X, the team has been able to make use of new modes such as
QRA64 for 6 and 3 cm EME, and some additional features such as
Doppler-Compensation.
The team was founded in 1998 by Dan, Sam, and Mark, in Reinach,
Switzerland, to operate DX with an emphasis on EME.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
