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FCC Publishes Handbook for National EAS Test What does the federal government expect from you in the upcoming national EAS test? The FCC has posted a handbook that spells it out - and is requiring that you post it. - PDF: http://bit.ly/tbTDgl Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 903: Moons over my HAM radio While we inadvertently promote a chain restaurant's free luncheon, we also talk a lot about space. Which annoys Brian Cooley to no end. We talk about Google Mars, and contacting the ISS and the NASA-sponsored Singularity university. But he gets his revenge when he announces the retirement of the inventor of the BMW-butt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR now on Twitter This Week in Amateur Radio is now on Twitter, the web site dedicated to quick and fast messages for mobile users or those wanting to keep up with friends and family with short updates. Using the new Twitter feed, TWIAR will send links to news as well as updates to the web site (file uploads, downtime, new features, etc.). Users can set up their PDAs or cell phones to receive these updates as they are posted, or use the RSS feed to send updated to their RSS readers. Please visit our Twitt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WIA: Members and Guests Descend on Broken Hill Today saw a major influx of members and guests into Broken Hill for the WIA AGM weekend and to participate in the planned social and tourism events. 40 meter and 2 meter simplex stations were set up in the Southern Cross Hotel on Thursday evening to accompany people travelling by road. Thanks are extended to all those home stations who spent their time keeping the travellers company on HF and relaying messages to others who could not be heard because of propagation conditions. (Audio includ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iran Speedboat Conflict Falsely Attributed to Ham Radio The recent conflict between speedboats in Iran and an American warship is being blamed on a false transmission from elsewhere. The perpetrator is being labeled as a Radio Ham in this news story. Technocrat.net would like to point out that anyone with a boat is likely to have the sort of radio involved, and many more exist on shore. The sort of person who makes false transmissions on marine radio is not likely to be a ham radio operator. Amateur radio requires some technical competence befor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UK: Ofcom publish Radio Amateur response to 24 GHz radar Ofcom have published on their website the joint response by RSGB, UKuG and AMSAT-UK to the latest Automotive Short Range Radar 24 GHz consultation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Letterman is a ham? Yesterday's combative appearance of Howard Stern on Late Night with David Letterman lasted three freewheeling segments, sparing few media heavyweights. There were some tender moments. Stern mainly used the appearance to settle old media scores, sharpening his rhetorical knives on his archnemeses: Don Imus, Dr. Phil, Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno.--On Letterman's supposed fascination with ham radio: Stern said, ''Listen to me ... a lot of serial killers are ham radio operators.'' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #067 - Week of 5/06/06 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. US House Committee okays Telecom bill with BPL interference study amendment. 02. FCC Chairman is nominated by the Bush administration for second term. 03. The VU4AN Andamans operation created a clamor on the bands. 04. California public utilities commission approves state BPL regulations. 05. The FCC considers regulations for towers in relation to migratory birds. 06. Hams in Europe detect the Venus Express satellite. 07. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #067 - Week of 5/06/06 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. US House Committee okays Telecom bill with BPL interference study amendment. 02. FCC Chairman is nominated by the Bush administration for second term. 03. The VU4AN Andamans operation created a clamor on the bands. 04. California public utilities commission approves state BPL regulations. 05. The FCC considers regulations for towers in relation to migratory birds. 06. Hams in Europe detect the Venus Express satellite. 07. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #066 - Week of 4/29/06 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. Glen Baxter, K1MAN, Appears ready to take the FCC to court over $21K fine. 02. Lawyer for convicted radio jammer Jack Gerritsen gets a second sentencing continuance. 03. ARRL alleges misrepresentation by BPL operator; inaction by the FCC. 04. ARRL Executive Committee works through a wide-ranging agenda. 05. Australia may place Ultra wide band radar in the ham 24 gigahertz band. 06. The FCC invites comments on ARRL Spread Spect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #066 - Week of 4/29/06 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. Glen Baxter, K1MAN, Appears ready to take the FCC to court over $21K fine. 02. Lawyer for convicted radio jammer Jack Gerritsen gets a second sentencing continuance. 03. ARRL alleges misrepresentation by BPL operator; inaction by the FCC. 04. ARRL Executive Committee works through a wide-ranging agenda. 05. Australia may place Ultra wide band radar in the ham 24 gigahertz band. 06. The FCC invites comments on ARRL Spread Spect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #064 - Week of 4/15/06 01. Glen Baxter, K1MAN, Appears ready to take the FCC to court over $21K fine. 02. Lawyer for convicted radio jammer Jack Gerritsen gets a second sentencing continuance. 03. ARRL alleges misrepresentation by BPL operator; inaction by the FCC. 04. ARRL Executive Committee works through a wide-ranging agenda. 05. Australia may place Ultra wideband radar in the ham 24 gigahertz band. 06. The FCC invites comments on ARRL Spread Spectrum petition. 07. New ARRL "Hello Campaign" video public s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #064 - Week of 4/15/06 01. Glen Baxter, K1MAN, Appears ready to take the FCC to court over $21K fine. 02. Lawyer for convicted radio jammer Jack Gerritsen gets a second sentencing continuance. 03. ARRL alleges misrepresentation by BPL operator; inaction by the FCC. 04. ARRL Executive Committee works through a wide-ranging agenda. 05. Australia may place Ultra wideband radar in the ham 24 gigahertz band. 06. The FCC invites comments on ARRL Spread Spectrum petition. 07. New ARRL "Hello Campaign" video public s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Week in Amateur Radio #678 - Week of April 8, 2006 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. Glen Baxter, K1MAN, Appears ready to take the FCC to court over $21K fine. 02. Lawyer for convicted radio jammer Jack Gerritsen gets a second sentencing continuance. 03. ARRL alleges misrepresentation by BPL operator; inaction by the FCC. 04. ARRL Executive Committee works through a wide-ranging agenda. 05. Australia may place Ultra wide band radar in the ham 24 gigahertz band. 06. The FCC invites comments on ARRL Spread Spect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Week in Amateur Radio #677 - Week of April 1, 2006 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. The FCC affirms a $21,000 NAL (fine) against Glen Baxter, K1MAN. 02. The FCC denies REC Networks petition in the Baxter case. 03. The Vanity call sign fee is poised to drop later this year. 04. An Arizona power utility shuts down its Cottonwood BPL field trial. 05. The State of New Mexico funds a state wide amateur emergency network. 06. Injured miner, Randy McCloy, KC8VKZ, goes home. 07. Hungarian amateurs get six meters and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #062 - Week of 4/01/06 Here are the stories making news This Week in Amateur Radio: 01. The FCC tells four amateurs to take personal disputes off the air or fine. 02. The FCC adopts plan to establish a public safety/Homeland Security Bureau. 03. The FCC tells amateurs failure to respond could lead to enforcement action 04. BPL chip maker shows interference abatement improvements to the league. 05. The league requests rule changes to ease spread spectrum operations. 06. Maryland utility ends its limited BPL pilot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #062 - Week of 4/01/06 Here are the stories making news This Week in Amateur Radio: 01. The FCC tells four amateurs to take personal disputes off the air or fine. 02. The FCC adopts plan to establish a public safety/Homeland Security Bureau. 03. The FCC tells amateurs failure to respond could lead to enforcement action 04. BPL chip maker shows interference abatement improvements to the league. 05. The league requests rule changes to ease spread spectrum operations. 06. Maryland utility ends its limited BPL pilot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Week in Amateur Radio #675 - Week of March 18, 2006 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. Amateur radio is poised to stay within the FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau as FCC creates Homeland Security Bureau. 02. Mississippi becomes the 22nd state to add PRB-1 into state laws. 03. "Hello Campaign" provides rallying point to promote amateur radio. 04. New Mexico creates a new state wide emergency network that supports amateur radio, and earmarks half-million for ham gear. 05. Ham reports to the FCC about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #058 - Week of 3/04/06 01. Regulation by bandwidth "A reasonable middle ground" the league says. 02. ARISS makes it official SuitSat One is SK. 03. The 3Y0X DXpedition is now a part of ham radio history. 04. Long Island Power Authority to proceed with BPL testing. 06. Hams provide communications to assist with Phillipine mud slide. 07. Shortwave frequency coordinators huddle, cite need for more frequencies. 08. Virginia members elect new Section Manager, new SM's elected. 09. CBS News anchorman Christopher Glenn, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #058 - Week of 3/04/06 01. Regulation by bandwidth "A reasonable middle ground" the league says. 02. ARISS makes it official SuitSat One is SK. 03. The 3Y0X DXpedition is now a part of ham radio history. 04. Long Island Power Authority to proceed with BPL testing. 06. Hams provide communications to assist with Phillipine mud slide. 07. Shortwave frequency coordinators huddle, cite need for more frequencies. 08. Virginia members elect new Section Manager, new SM's elected. 09. CBS News anchorman Christopher Glenn, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Week in Amateur Radio #672 - Week of February 25, 2006 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. Regulation by bandwidth "A reasonable middle ground" the league says. 02. ARISS makes it official SuitSat One is SK. 03. League tells the FCC to order an end to arbitrary access limits to BPL database system. 04. The 3Y0X DXpedition is now a part of ham radio history. 05. Long Island Power Authority to proceed with BPL testing. 06. Hams provide communications to assist with Phillipine mud slide. 07. Shortwave frequency coo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TWIAR International #057 - Week of 2/25/06 Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition: 01. The FCC is non-committal on the pending "Morse Code" proceeding action. 02. The league complains to the FCC about BPL database irregularities. 03. 3Y0X and NA1SS log a historic QSO. 04. The NCVEC releases a new revised and corrected Element 2 Question pool. 05. Praises of amateur radio read into the Congressional Record. 06. Bill Baran, N2FNH with the Random Access Thought 07. Leo Laporte with the latest technology news ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ARRL Audio News: Aug 12, 2005; Vol 24 Number 31 ARRL Audio News--OPEN--In this edition . . .; Time to step up to the plate for spectrum defense; Italy is latest country to drop Morse requirement; ARRL Audio News ID--Satellite Update--BREAK; Shuttle Discovery returns home safetly; Big Project continues to expand; K1EIC and W7JWJ share 2005 Mentor/Instructor Award; ARRL Audio News--IN BRIEF/CLOSE Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website K1MAN issued $21,000 Notice of Apparent Liability The FCC has issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) proposing to fine Glenn A. Baxter, K1MAN, of Belgrade Lakes, Maine, $21,000. In the NAL, released June 7, the FCC alleges that Baxter has violated several sections of the Part 97 Amateur Service Rules. The list includes rules proscribing interference with ongoing communications, transmitting communications in which he has a pecuniary interest, failure to provide information the FCC requested, engaging in broadcasting, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RSGB: Schools Invited to Join in on 'Spacewalk' Attention schools! Would your school like to participate in a spacewalk? A Russian spacesuit is expected to be deployed from the International Space Station during a spacewalk currently planned for mid-September. Once deployed, the spacesuit will orbit earth for several weeks until it burns up when it enters the earth?s atmosphere. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team has received permission to include a special compact disk on-board this spacesuit with school a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UK: Ofcom Proposes Lifetime Licenses for Radio Amateurs in the UK Ofcom today announced proposals to reduce the regulatory burden for amateur radio users by replacing the current paper-based system of licensing, renewed annually, with a new, low-cost electronic licence for life.Ofcom is not proposing to remove the need for amateur radio users to hold a Wireless Telegraphy Act licence. Nor will it will remove any regulation which safeguards the integrity of radio spectrum used by the amateur radio community. Rather, it is seeking the right balance between ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CQ Names Hall of Famers for 2005 CQ Amateur Radio magazine has announced the induction of 17 new members of its Amateur Radio, Contesting and DXing halls of fame. Names of the inductees were made public May 22 during Dayton Hamvention."CQ congratulates all of these deserving honorees," said CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU. "Plaques for Contest and DX Hall of Fame inductees were presented at the Dayton Hamvention. Complete details will be in the July 2005 issue of CQ magazine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CW Ops Whip Whippersnapper Text Messengers on National Television It might have been Friday the Thirteenth, but it was a lucky day for Morse code--and particularly for veteran CW contest ops Chip Margelli, K7JA, and Ken Miller, K6CTW. During a May 13 appearance on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the pair was able to pass a message using good old fashioned Morse code more rapidly than a pair of teenaged text messengers equipped with modern cell phones. The victory, which replicated a similar challenge that took place recently in Australia, has provid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amateur Radio on Columbus November 2002, ARISS Europe extended a request to ESA Directorate for Manned Space Flight and Microgravity, asking for ham radio facilities on Columbus, the European ISS laboratory presently under construction. In 2003 ESA's Columbus division agreed on the principle. The project is to install amateur radio antennas on the nadir of Columbus, i.e. underneath the module, facing the earth. The antennas will be installed before launch. Columbus will be transported in the bay of an American Shutt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surfin': Linux for Hams Who Never Linux AI9NL - Harv's Hamshack Hack is a Web site that will help you get your feet wet with Linux. Harv has put together a CD containing a complete Linux operating system (OS) with a collection of Amateur Radio programs. The CD also includes non-ham radio software to accomplish other tasks like Web browsing, e-mailing, news reading, writing, and arithmetic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website