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March 1990Volume LXXIV Number 3

Index of Advertisers 174League Lines 14Moved and Seconded 55Packet Perspective 79Section News 87Silent Keys 82Special Events 86The World Above 50 MHz 77W1 AW Schedule 4550 and 25 Years Ago 82

OUR COVERLarry Filby, K1 LPS, mans his10-GHzcontest stationatop Vermont's Jay Peak. See page 83 for thecomplete story ontheFourth Annual ARRL 10GHzCumulative Contest. (cover phDto by Paul Wade,N1BWT)

CONTENTS

TECHNICAL

Amateur Satellite Communications 76Coming Conventions 81Contest Corral 85Correspondence 63DX Century Club 67Feedback 41FM/RPT 78Ham Ads 152Hamfest Calendar 80Hints and Kinks 42How's OX? 65

- DEPARTMENTS

83 Results, Fourth Annual ARRL 10-GHz Cumulative ContestBilly Lunt, KR1R. and Warren Stankfewfcz. NF1J

20 Practical Radio Aurora Emil Pocock, W3EP

26 Evolution of the Short Top-Loaded Vertical Charles J. Michaels. W7XC

31 Using.the MC2831A FM Transmitter Subsystem IC Doug DeMaw, W1FB

34 Practical Battery-Back-Up Power for Amateur Radio Stations-Part 1George L. Thurston fII, W4MLE

38 Product Review: ICOM 1G-725 MF/HF Transceiver44 Technical Correspondence

9 It Seems to Us: Rotten Operating11 Up Front in QST15 Earthquake! Steven Ewald, WA4CMS

18 What Do You Get for Your Membership Dues? David Sumner. K1ZZ

46 QST Profile: Tony Bongiovi, KX2Z Kirk Kleinschmidt. utez48 Love My Son, Love His Radios ByChristina M. Gardner

49 Radio is More Than a Merit Badge! Lary Eichel. K2NA

50 A Montserrat Memoir James D. Cain. K1TNNP2MDC

53 Board Steers Course for WARG-92, Future Rick Palm. KICE

60 Happenings: Flawless Launch Yields Six OSCARs; New Era in AmateurSatell~e Communications Begins

64 At the Foundation: In Service to You, the Member Mary E. Schetgen, N7IAL

74 Public Service: ANERCOM Final Report, January 1990-Part 1

OST (ISSN: 0033-4812) Is published monthly as itsoHlclal journal by theAmerican RadioRelayLeague.Newington, CT USA

David SUmner, KtZZPublisherPaull. Rinaldo, W4RIEditorMark J. Wilson, AA2Z.Managing EditorKirk Kleinschmidt, NT0ZEdttotIaISrJpervisorBrian aemee, WA1YUACopy Editor

Charles L. Hutchinson, KSCHTechnicalEditorGerald L Hall, K1TD, Joel P. Kleinman, N1BKE,

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Section Managers of the ARRLReports Invited: The ARRL Board of Directors (see list at left) determines the policies of ARRLThe 15 divisions of the League are further arranged into 69 administrative "sections," eachheaded by an elected Section Manager. Your 8M welcomes reports of club and individualactivity, ARRL Field Organization appointments are available covering a wide range of AmateurRadio volunteer interests, Whatever your license class, your 8M has an appointment available.Check with your 8M (below) for further information.

James E. Swafford, W7FF, 5906 W Miramar Dr, Tucson 85715 (602·298·7793)Phineas J, lcenbce. Jr, W68F, 19323 Halsted St, Northridge, CA 91324 (818-349-3186)Joe H, Brown, W6UBO, 5444la SIerra, RIverside, CA 92505"(714-687--8394)Arthur A. Smith, W6INI, 4515 MeUsa Way, San Diego, CA 92117 (619-273-1120)Thomas I. Geiger, W2t<J/A, 428 E Grant St, Santa Maria, CA93454 (805-866-1359)

W. W. "Dan" Dansby, W5URI, 5805 Walla Ave, Fort Worth 76133 (817-292-5019)Joseph Lynch, N6CL, PO Box 73, Oklahoma City 73101 (405-526-6625)Arthur A. Ross, W5KR, 132 Sally La, BNlwnsville 78521 (512-831-4458)Amelia "Milly" Wise, W50VH, 8516 Mt Scott, EI Paso-79904 (915-751-4160)

Mildred Cullen, AMXF, 2331 lvy Lane, Birmingham, AL35226 (205-822-6130)Edmund J. kcscbucld. K4JNL, 5525 Perf)' Ave, Columbus 31909 (404-322-2856)Royal V. Mackey, N4ADl, 161 Shell Point W, Maitland 32751 (407-644-5905)Richard D. Hill, WA4PFK, 12380 NW 30 St, Sunrise 33323 (305-572-3172)Alberto L Valldejuli, WP4CSG, V~11 19th St, Berwind Estates, Alo Piedras 00924Ronald Hall, Sr, KP2N, PO Box 3967, St Thomas 00803 (809-Tl4-474O)

Bob Valllo, W6RGG, 18655 Sheffield Ad, Castro Valley, CA94546(415-531-6704)Joseph D. Lambert, W81XD, PO Box 1201, Boulder City 89005 (702-294-0505)Wayne Jones, NHBGJ, PO Box 794, Wahiawa, HI 96786 (808-621-5916)Jett(e Hill, W6Rff, J06 St Charles Ct, Roseville, CA. 95661 (91&-783-0383)Richard Wilson, K6lRN, PO Box 4212, San Rafael, CA 94913Byron Smith, WA6YlB, 504 S, Joyner, Exeter, CA 93221 (200-592-1038)Glenn Thomas, W86W, 554 Simas Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035 (408-263-9450)

Dianne lee Marshall, AL7FG, One Dog Path. Ester 99725 (907-479-5819)Don Clower, KA7T, 5103 W. Chetry ln, Merldian 83642 (20B-888-7020)A. F. "Pete" Peters. KF7A, Rte 38, Box 2017, Livingston 59047 (406-222·2601)Randy Stimson, KZ7f, 9890 SW Inglewood St, Portland 97225 (5Q3.297-1175)Mary Lewis, W7QGP. 10352 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle 98125 (20&523-9117)Tom Plaisance, KC7PH, 101 N 37th Ave, Yakima 989.02 (5Q9.966-4612)

Paul S, Vydareny, WB2VUK, 259 N Washington, North Tarrytown 105~1 (914-631-7424)Walter M, Wenzel, KA2RGI, 373 Fifteenth St, West Babylon 11704 (516-957·5726)Richard S, Moseson, NW2l, 19 linden Ave, SioomlJeld, 07003 (201-680-1585)

Caesar Pcndme, N1DCS, 5 Bailey Dr, West Haven 06516 (2Q3..934-2477)Barry Porter, KS1PA, 47 Erin Ad, Stoughton 02072 (617·341-2639)Clyde E. acneeteet, Jr, WA2ERT, PO Box 14, Birch Harbor 04613 (207-963-7192)William Burden, WB18RE, 11 Briand, Nashua 03063 (60:3-889-9322)William Foss, KA1JXH, 70 Mayfair Rd, Cumberland 02864 (401-334-3058)VacantJean Hurtle. KAllfC, 10 Hospital Rd, Baldwinville, MA 01436 (506-939-8108)

Robert W, Walstrom, W0EJ, 7431 Macon Dr NE, Cedar Rapids 52402 (319-393-8982)Robert M. Summers, K08XF, 3045 North 72nd, Kansas City 66109 (913-299-1128)Bill McGrannahan, KooRB, 4826 Jarboe, Kansas City 64112-1335 (816-753-7100)Vern J. Wirka, WB0GQM, 3106 Vinton, Omaha 68105 (402-341-4572)

John A. Themes, WM4T, 60 Locust Ave, Covington 41017 (60&331-0331)George E, Race, WB8BGY, 3865 Gibbs Rd, Albton 49224 (517-531-4758)John P. Haungs, WABSTX, 10815 Thornvlew Dr, Evendale 45241 (513-563-7373)

George E. Frederickson, KC0T, RR #2-Box 352, South Haven 65382 (612--558--6312)Roger "Bill" Kurtti, WC0M, Rural Route-Box 34, Rock lake 58365 (701.26&5646)Roland Cory,W0YMB, 1010 7th St, W, Mobridge 57601 (605-84-5-2400)

Bob Harmon, W5SEP, Rt 1, Box 219. Winslow 72959John M. wonderqem, KSKA, 600 Smith Or, Metairie 70005 (504--837-1485)veeeen "Butch" Magee, KF5DE, 2120 Belvedere Dr, Jackson 39205 (601-373-4325)Harry Simpson, W4MI, 1830 Macaulay Ave, Memphis 38127 (901-357--8148)

David Carlson, AA9D. PO Box 123, South Elgin 60177 (708-141-6093)Bruce Woodward, W9UMH, 6208 Bramshaw Rd, Indianapolis 45220 (317-251-6606)Richard A. Regent, K9GOF, 5003 South 26th St, Milwaukee 53221 (414-282·0312)

Watt Dabell, KD3G1S, are a Box 267, Greenwood 19950 (302-349'-4271)Kay C. Craigie, KC3LM, 5 Faggs Manor tn, Paoli 19301 (21&993-9623)Kenneth Cohen, NI3F, 7403 Hickory Log Clr, ColumbIa, MD 21045 (301-381-7883)Richard Baier, WA2HEB, 1226 Audubon Or, Toms River 08753 (201-27()'9292)William Thompson, W2MTA, RD 1-Rock Rd, Newark Valley 13811 (607-642·8930)John Fleming, NOSM, 149 Mayfair Dr, Pittsburgh 15228-1144 (412-571-0578)

Northwestern DivisionAlaskaIdahoMontarulOregonWestem WashingtonEastem Washington

Pacific DivisionEast BayNevadaPacificsacramento Valleysan FranciscoSan Joaquin ValleySanta Clara Vaffey

Roanoke DivisionNolth CaroJina W. Reed Whitten, AB4W, 1208 Oxford Place, Cary 27511 (919-467-7464)South Carolina Charles E. Moeller, N4FVU, 116 Willow Winds Dr, Columbia 29210-4454 (803-n2-1186)Virginia Claude Felgley, W3ATQ, 135 The Maine, Wllllamsburg 23185 (804-253-0658)West Virginia Kart 8, Thompson, KBKT, Star Rte Box 11A, Seth, 25181 (304-837~3681)

Rocky Mountain DivisionColoradO Edith Sheffield, KAilMQA, 1444 Roslyn 5t, Denver 80220 (303-355-2488)New Mexico - Joe Knight. W5POY, 1040B Snow Heights Blvd, NE, Albuquerque 87112 (505-299-4581)Wah Richard Fisher, NS7K, 1510 Cella Way, tavton 84041 (801-544-1928)Wyoming James E, Raisler, N7GW, 1102 East 9th St. Gillette 82716 (307-686-0794)

Southeastern DivisionAlabamaGeorgiaNorthern FloridaSouthern FloridaPuerto RicoVirgin Islands

Southwestern DivisionArizonaLOllAngelesOrangeSan DiegoS8n~ Barbara

West Gulf DivisionNorth TexasOklahomaSouth TexasWest Texas

Atlantic DivisionDelawarefttstem PennsylvaniaMaryland-DCSouthernNew JfilrseyWe.stam New YorkWestern Pennsylvania

Central DivisionillinoisIndianaWisconsin

Dakota DivisionMinnesotaNonn DakotaSouth Dakota

Delta DivisionArkansasLouisianaMississippiTennessee

Great Lakes DivisionKentuckyMichiganOhio

Hudson DivisionF.astem New Yor/{NYC-Long IstandNorthem New Jersey

Midwest DivisionIowaKansasMissouriNebraska

New England DivisionConnecticutEastem MassachusettsMaineNew HampshireRhode IslandVermontWestern Massachusetts

DirectorsAUanUc DtvlsionHUGH A. TURNBUU, * W3ABC, 6903 Rhode IslandAve. College Park, MD 20740 (301-927·1797)Vica Dlrecror: Kay C.Cralgie, KC3LM5 faggs Manor Lane, Paoli, PA 19301(215-993-9623)

Central DivisionEDMOND A. METZGER, W9PRN, 1917 Undsay Rd,Springfield, IL 62704 {217·548,6870j

Vice Director: Howard S. Huntington, K9KM65 South Burr Oak Dr, LakeZurich. IL 60047

Dakota DivisionHOWARD MARK, W00ZC, 11702 River Hills DrBurnsville, MN 55337 (612-89Q-9114l

Delta DivisionJOEL M. HARRISON, WB5IGF, Rte 1·80)( 2198Judsonia, AA 72081 (501-729-3301)ViceDirector. HenlY R. Leggette, W04Q,1555 GalvestonSt. Memphis. TN 38114(901·744-mO)

Great Lake. DivisionALLAN L. SEVERSON, ABaP, 1275 Ethel Ave.lakewood. OH, 44101; (216-521-1565)VIce Director: George E. Race, WB8BGY. 3865 Glbb5Road, Albion, MI49224 (511-531-4758)

Hudson OMslonSTEPHEN A. MENDELSOHN, * WA20HF, 318 NewMilford Ave, Dumont, NJ 07628 (201.-3£14.057010680)

Vice Director:Paul Vydareny, WB2VUK2W N WashIngton St, N Tarlylown, NY 10591-2314(914-631-7424)

Midwest DiVisionPAUL GRAUER, WllFIR, Box 190, Wilson, KS67490 (913-658-2155)VICe Director: L c. "Chuck" Miller, WA0KUH7000 North East 120, Kansas City, MO 64166(816-781-7313)

, New England DivisionTOM FRENAYE, K1KI, PO Box 386West Suffield, CT 06093 (203-668-5444)

WeeDllVCtor: ClEWis 0" "Cliff" Laverty, W1RWG,17 Fair St, Norway, ME 04268 (207."43-2353)

Northwestern DivislonWILLIAM A. SHRADER. W7QMU, 2042Jasmine Ave,Medford, OR 97501 (503-773-£624)Vice- DllVCtor. Mary Lou Brown, NM7N, 504 ChannelVifW/ Dr, Anacortes, WA 98221 (20&293-9295)

Pacific DivisionCHAALES P. McCONNELL, W6DPO, 1658 W MesaAve, Fresno, CA 93711 (209431-2038)

Roanoke DivisionJOHN C. KANODE~ N4MM, RFD 1, Box 7M,Boyce, VA= C==·'340)I Vice Director: James G. Walker, WD4HLZ,

: Ate 1, Box 5395, Marlon, SC 29571 (803-423-3645)

Ii Rocky Mountain Division

MARSHALL QUIAT,-· AG0X, 1580 Uncoln St, Suite, 440, Denver, CO 802"03(303-830..6666)

Vice Director: Wililam M. Sheffield, KQ0J,1#4 Roslyn St, Denver, CO 80220 (303-355-2488)

Southeastern DivisionFRANK M, 8UTLER JR,· W4RH323 Elliott Ad, SE, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548­(904-244-5425)

Vice Director: Mrs Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR2780 NW ard sr, Miami, Fl 33125 (305-642-4139)

Southwestern DivisionFRIED HEYN, WA6WZO, 962 Cheyenne StCosta Mesa, CA 92626 (714-549-8516)

Vice Director: Wayne Overbeck, N6NB14021 Howland, Tustin, CA92680 (714-731-6178)

West Gulf DivisionSAM C. SinON, KV5X, 920 Hickory Lane, Ardmore,OK 73401

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The Amerlcan Radio Relay League. Inc, is anoncommercial association of radio amateurs,organized lor the promotion of interest in Arne-leur Radio communication and experimentation, for theestablishment of networks to provide communications Inthe eventof disasters or otheremergencies, for theadvancement of the radio art and of the pubnc welfare,for the representation of the radio amateur In legislativematters, and forthe maintenance of fraternalism and ahigh standard of conduct.

ARALIs an Incorporated association without capitalstockchartered under thelaws ot theSlate ofConnecticut, andis an exempt organization undersecnc501(c)(3)of the InternalRevenueCode of 1986. Its affairsate governed by a Board of Directors, whose votingmembers are elected everytwo years by the generalmembership. The officers are elected or appointed by theDirectors. The League is noncommercial, and RO one whocould gain financlany from the shaping of its affairs iseliRible formembership on lts Board.

Of, by, and for the radio amateur," ARRlnumberswithin its ranks the vastmajority of active amateurs In thenation and t\a$ a proud rnstory at achl6V(l:ment as thestandard-bearer in amaleur affQlrs.

A bonafide interest in Amateur Radio Js the onJyessenner qualification of membership; an Amateur Radiolicense is nota prerequisite, although fullvoting member­ship is granted onlyto licensed emeteura in the US.

Membership Inquiries andgeneral correspondence$hould be addressed 10theadministrative headquarters a225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111 USA.TelepM.ne: 203-666-1541 Telex; 65G215-5052 Mel.Mel MAll (electronic mailsystem) 10:215-5052FAX: 203-665-7531 (24-hour direct line)

Canadian membership inquiries and correspondenceshould be directed 10 CARL Headquarters, Box 7009,Station E, London, ON N5Y 4J9, tel 519-660-1200.

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Executl". Vice President: DAVIDSUMNER.· K1ZZSecretary: OA.vtO SUMNER, K1ZI.Treasurer: JAMES E. McCOBBJA., K1 lW

StallWashington A,... CoordInator

PerryF. Williams, W1UEDPUBLICATIONSManager. Paul L. Rinaldo, W4RIDeputy Manager:John Nelson, W1GNCAdvertising DepartmentBrad A. Thomas, KC1 ex.Manager

Circulation DepartmentDebra Jahnke, ManagerKatherIne Fay, N1GZO, Deputy Manager

ProductionlEditorial DepartmentMark J. Wilson, AA2Z. Manager

Technical DepartmentCharles L Hutchinson, KaCH, ManagerGerald L. Hall, K1TD, Depl.l1y Manager

MEMBERSHIP COMMUNICATIONS SERVICESManager:JohnF. Undholm, W1XXRegulatory Information Department

Thomas R. Hogerty, KC1J,ManagerFIELD SERVIceSManager: Richard K. Palm, K1 C£Deputy Manager: Luck Hurder, KY1T

VOLUNTEER EXAMINERDEPARTMENTBart J. Jahnke.KB9NM, Manager

BusInessManagerBanyJ. Shelley

General CounselChl\slllphe, 0, Imlav, N3AKO

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Rotten OperatingIt's time to dust off the Wouff Hong.Remember the Wouff Hong? It's a

device almost as old as the League itself,designed so tbat the merest glance IS suf­ficient to strike terror in the heart of anywayward radio amateur, Anyone guilty ofpoor or thoughtless operating is well ad­vised to repent, lest the Wouff Hong bewielded upon them in unspeakable ways.

The Wouff Hong was inspired by somerotten sending overheard one night in 1917by "The Old Man," a frequent QST cor­respondent revealed laterto be noneotherthan Hiram Percy Maximhimself. The firstlive specimen of one surfaced at ARRLHeadquarters in 1919, just before amateurswere returned to the air following theWorld War I hiatus. To this day, membersattending ARRL conventions may share itssecrets by being inducted into the RoyalOrder of the Wouff Hong at the stroke ofmidnight.

IfT.O.M. were still writing for QSThewouldhavesomechoicethings to sayabouthow we ushered in the '90s, and some in­teresting thoughts about where the WouffHong might most profitably be put to use.

While it's not the only current exampleand the situation was hardly the fault ofthe organizers, the New Year's DXpeditionto remote Bouvet Island, 3Y5X, inspiredsome of the worst on-the-airconduct everheard on tbe amateur bands. If someonehad set out to create a situationthatcouldbe used to discredit Amateur Radio atfuture allocations conferences, such asWARC-92 just two years away, they couldhardly have done better than we did toourselves.

The 3Y5X operators provided the firstopportunity in a decade for amateurs tocontact a rare and remote spot. .Tens ofthousands of people wanted contacts, Split­frequency operation is normalprocedurefor such DXpeditions: They transmit onone widely publicized frequency, and an­nounce a range of frequencies where theyarelistening. This is efficient because every­onecalling canhear the DXpedition station,and it works wellas long as their transmitfrequency is kept reasonably clear. A con­tact takes just a few seconds, and eventual­ly everyonewho wants a contact gets one.

Any high-profile radio operation is aninviting target for sociopaths bent on dis­ruption. There are two million licensedradio amateurs in the waddy and lots moretransmitters in the hands of unlicensedpeople; among them there are bound to besome whose perspective on reality is notqnite 20/20. Anyone who's run a successfulnet knows what to do about them. Ac-

knowledge that they're fouling things up,and you're stuck with them; ignore them.difficult as that may be at times, and even­tually they lose interest and go away. Thisfringe element came out for 3Y5X, but un­fortunately it was only a small part of theproblem.

Also gumming up the works were oper­ators who were having trouble figuringouthow to use their equipment split-frequency.Lots of people earned themselves inad­vertent, instant notoriety by transmittingon the wrong frequency. According to anFCC news release, many of them alsoearned themselves an FCC citation becausethey did so on phone, outside the US phoneband. Yes, the FCC was listening, and inthe first 13 days of January issued morethan 240 citations to people calling 3Y5Xout-of-band. FCC says, " . .. these viola­tions appear to have resulted from misuseof increasingly complex amateur serviceequipment rather than any willful action... ". Maybe so, but may we gently sug­gest that a major DXpedition is not thetime to learn how to use your fancy newradio?

A much larger problem, and one that isall the more regrettable because it wascaused by people who should know better.was the reaction to the interference fromthese sources, Self-appointed policemensimply added to the bedlam, often know­ingly in violationof the rules. That was justwhat the sociopaths wanted. We hope someof those 240 citations were sent in thepolicemen's direction. for they would bewell deserved.

Aside from firm applications of theWouff Hong, what can we do? Theamateur conununityknows, more thantheIi'CC, who the perpetrators are. We haveto make it clear to our brethren thatdeliberate interference and other rulesviolations simply wtll not be tolerated.Thereis no safe havenfor rottenoperatorsin any DX club worthy of its League af­filiation.

Some of the QRM to 3Y5X probablycamefrom non-DXerswho were frustratedbyinterference to their own operating fromthe thousands of callers roaming the restof the band. The callers spread out a lotmore than necessary, a problem that needsto be better addressed by future DXpedi­tions. But thatcannotjustifydeliberate in­terference in retaliation.

There is no justification for deliberateinterference. EVER. If you don't believethat, if you refuse to subscribe to thatprinciple, find another hobby. The soonerthe better.-David Sumner, K IZZ

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1989 Boy Scout .JamboreeThe full atory on the 1989 National

..ambor•• app.ara .Ia.wh.r. In thla laau•.

Top right: After more than two years of planning,K2BSA finally got on the air from the 1989 NationalScout Jamboree at Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, August 2-8.K2BSA originated more than 2,000 NTS messages anddelivered more than 400. (K9UTQ photo)

Top left: Operations along the Merit Badge Midwayincluded packet and FSTV•.. often simultaneouslyi(WB2jWD photo)

Left: The main attraction was the demonstration tent.Seventy-four Scouts earned their Radio Merit Badges atthe Jamboree, and Scouts QSOed some 3,000 stationsfrom around the world. Ali 50 states, several US territo­ries, and even foreign countries were represented bythe 35,000 participants. (K9UTQ photo)

Bottom left: QST Assistant Technical Editor, ARRlliaison, and Eagle Scout Rus Heaiy, N)2l, presents lifeScout Greg Beaver, N8LAI, a set of ARRL books inrecognition of his achievements in Amateur Radio andScouting. Greg earned his Amateur Extra Class licenseat the Jamboree, just before his 13th birthday. He hadearned his Noviceticket just five months earlier. (K2NAphoto)

Bottom right: The Boy Scout Radio Merit Badgeencompasses much morethan just communicating.Theory of electronic circuitry and hands-on experienceare a vital part of understanding radio. (K9UTQ photo)

March 1990 11

ARRL Northwestero Division Vice Director and pastYLRL President Mary Lou Brown, NM7N, of Anacortes,Washington, with feathered friend.

Friedl Meissner, DK6FM, of West Germany, operatesthe YLRL station in the hospitality room at the CocoPalms Resort, Kauai, Hawaii.

YLRL turns 50:T)1e Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, and FoundingPresident Ethel Smith, K4LMB, of McLean, Virginia, was on hand at the Golden Anniversarycelebration in Kauai, Hawaii, with 140 YLs from around the globe. Festivities enjoyed bymembers (and their OMs) included DX YLs modeling their native attire, a luncheon, prizedrawmgs. tours to the Kauai Amateur Radio Club, the NIST atomic clock, the Pacific MissileTracking Range, WWVH, and a final evening luau. (info and photos courtesy of N7HAT)

1500-year-old amateur station: A classic DXer, JimHanlon, WaKGI, sits amid a staggering collection ofhardware that totals more than 1,500years of age. limis well-known by readers of the Classic Radio ExchangeNewsletter, and works at AT&T Bell Labs near hishome in Columbus, Ohio. (photo courtesy of W8KG/)

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In search of . . . : Members of The International Group forHistoric Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) journeyed to theSouth Pacific to search for clues to the mysterious 1937disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, FredNoonan, in the vicinity of Gardner lsland. Lt Col TomGannon (USAF Ret), WA4HH/13D2HJ, of Fort WaltonBeach, Florida, operates from his motel room at theTIGHAR base in Suva, Fiji. Bart Whitehouse, WA0HWP, ofLittleton, Colorado, handled amateur communicationaboard the expedition vessel. While Earhart's LockheedElectra 10E was not located, the team discovered 19artifacts now being examined for possible links to the in­cident. Other amateurs interested in the mysterious disap­pearance of Earhart may join the members of the AmeliaEarhart Research Consortium net Man or Fri at 2100 UTeon 28.51, 28.515 and 28.58 MHz, depending on band con­ditions. (photo courtesy of WA4HH/J

CQ de UAIlCIW7KYC: The Khabarovsk TerritorialRadiosports Federation hosted 15 US amateurs for theUSSR Radlosport contest September 22-26, 1989. Pic­tured operating is first place winner Kevin, WA7VTD,and (l-r) Mike; UWllCN; Rene, KX7Z; Eugene, UAllCA;and Dave, N7MYO. Khabarovsk is about 400 milesnortheast of Vladivostok, in the extreme eastern partof the USSR. (K7RUN photo)

Up Front guidelinesDo you have something that belongs in Up Front inQST? Do you have a dynamic, striking photographdepicting an exciting facet of Amateur Radio? We'relooking for reader submissions of material for thiscolumn. If you have a quality color photo or slide ofamateurs in action, or a well-composed shot of anunusual or interesting Amateur Radio-related subject,send it in. We' prefer slides or transparencies, but wecan also useglossy color prints. Submissions will beacknowledged, but will not be returned. Send to UpFront in QST, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111.

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Soviet-American exchange: During a recent goodwillvisit to the US Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, by threeSoviet Navy ships, the captain of the destroyerOtfichnyz met George Goering, KC4ACB, of VirginiaBeach and asked for help in iocating a Beatles cassette.In exchange, he presented George with this key.(KC4ACB photo)

Inverted vee? Andy Owens, N5HKM, of Dallas, super­vises lowering of the wreckage after strong Texaswinds modified his tower. Dave Miller, KBSGGG, ofDeSoto, Texas, mans the crane. Andy plays themandolin with his bluegrass band Danger In The Air.(photo courtesy of KB5GGG)

O'er the bounding RF waves: Dick Ellers, K8)lK, ofWarren, Ohio, mentioned to the license bureau clerkthat 73 is a significant number in Amateur Radio. Shethen reached ahead in her stack of registrations toissue him this distinctive combination. Dick enjoys"masthead marine" VHF using the bow-mounted whipwith his hand-held transceiver while sailing onMosquito Creek Reservoir. (K8/LK photo)

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League Lines

The 1990 Annual Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors was held in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 19-20. SeeMoved and Seconded... on page 55 and the article on page 53 for complete details on the meeting.

At its February 8 meeting, the FCC is expected to give consideration to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making on a code­less license. Check WIAW buUetins for late-breaking news.

We'I'e entered a new era in amateur space communications. The next generation of amateur satellites, UoSATs D and Eand four Microsats (PACSAT, WEBERSAT, LUSAT, and DOVE), began their journey into space from the launch sitein Kourou, French Guiana on Sunday, January 21. Once in space, UoSATS D and E became OSCARs 14 and 15 andthe Microsats became OSCARs 16-19. The Happenings column on page 60 of this issue details this historic event.

The FCC issued Notices of Violation to more than 240 amateurs for transmitting phone emissions on frequencies notauthorized for phone operation. The FCC stated that "These transmissions violated Section 97.305(c) of theCommission's rules, thereby creating interference to an amateur station on Bouvet Island. Amateur service stations werecited for these violations during the period between January 2·13, 1990."

The next ARRL open house will be held in conjunction with the Newington (CT) Amateur Radio League's flea marketon Sunday.r June 3, from 10 AM to 4 PM. You're invited to visit ARRL HQ and tour the newly renovated WIAW.

WIAW will be on the air all day on March TO, thanks to the Meriden (CT) Amateur Radio Club. Operation will beginat 1300 UTC. TWs will be the first organized multiband operation from the newly renovated station. Plannedfrequencies include: SSB-28.35, 21.25, and 14.25 MHz; CW-14.04 and 21.04 MHz. An SASE to ARRL HQ willspeed up your request for a QSL card.

Attention young artists: If you are between the ages of 8 and 18 and have an interest in electronics, we'd like toshowcase your talent and originality. The ARRL is sponsoring a national art contest with the theme "Youth inAmateur Radio." Winning entries will be featured in QST. Entries deemed appropriate will be forwarded to aworldwide contest sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland. For a copy of therules, send an SASE to ARRL, Educational Activities Branch, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 0611 I. The deadline isApril 15, 1990.

This is a banner year for the Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX)! Two NASA Shuttle missions will carryradio amateurs into space. Dr Ron Parise, WA4SIR, has been cleared to operate voice and packet radio on STS-35 inMay, and Lt Col Ken Cameron, KB5AWP, has been authorized to operate voice, packet radio, and amateur televisionaboard STS~31 in November. An ARRL Foundation grant provided more than $8,000 worth of hardware to be carriedon the shuttle. League involvement in the project now shifts to an informational and educational role.

There are two new faces at ARRL HQ. Barry Shelley has joined the ARRL staff as Business Manager, and BradThomas, KCIEX, has come aboard as Advertising Manager.

Call for papers: Papers are invited for presentation at the ARRL 1990 Educational Workshop, scheduled for Saturday,June 9, at the ARRL National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Topics include all aspects of Amateur Radiorecruiting and instruction such as one-on-one tutoring, motivational techniques, PR ideas, and working with seniors, thedisabled, and youth. If you're Interested in presenting a paper, contact Educational Activities Coordinator RosalieWWte, WAISTO, at ARRL HQ, and request an author's kit. Camera-ready papers are due at ARRL HQ by April 27.

The FCC has amended its rules by expanding the s-meter repeater subband from 52-54 MHz to 51-54 MHz to permitestablishment of additional repeaters to meet increased demand. The Commission stated that voluntary band plans willassure adequate protection for weak-signal work in the DX window and other amateur uses. Details will appear in theApril QST Happenings column.

The FCC has approved use of the current version of Form 61fJ.-A, dated August 1986, through July 30, 1992. Form61O-A is used for application by an alien Amateur Radio licensee to receive a reciprocal operating permit.

Job opening no. I: The Technical Department at HQ needs an Assistant Technical Editor. We are looking for alicensed, experienced amateur with a Bachelor's degree in science and engineering, or eqnivalent experience. Thesuccessful candidate will be able to write and edit effectively, have a solid grasp of electronic fundamentals, and be ableto do library research. The ideal candidate will have experience in preparing material for publication, and with wordprocessing on a personal computer. Excellent benefits. Starting salary range is $27,300-$30,000. Contact Joel Kleinman,NIBKE, at ARRL HQ.

Job opening no. 2: A new position, Educational Correspondent, has been created In the Educational Activities Branchof ARRL. Candidates should be licensed amateurs who would enjoy helping new hams and instructors by mail and onthe telephone. Starting salary is $19,344. Send resume to Rosalie White, WAISTO, at ARRL HQ.

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Amateur Radio responds to the northern California disaster.Compiled by Steven Ewald, WA4CMS

Assistant Public Service Manager

Marilyn Bagshaw, N6VAW, crosses a pollee line to get to the Marina Middle Schoolemergency shelter. (KC6AAN photo)

The following articles and first-personaccounts are representative of theout­standing efforts put forth by Amateur

Radio operators during the aftermath of theOctober 17, J989, earthquake.

The Ultimate Emergency TestWehams pride ourselves on being ableto

provide public service communications whenwe are needed. Like other emergency groupsin California, Santa Cruz ARES membershave often pondered the consequences of amajor earthquake. Like many of you, wehave prepared for disaster situations by par­ticipating in training sessions anddrills. But,do people take these exercises seriously, or arethey just another fun activity-like DXing,Field Day, transmitter hunts, and QSO par­ties? Did you ever stop to think, "Gee, if thiswere the real thing, what would I actuallydo?"There are times when events control ourdestiny.

At 5:04 PM, Tuesday, October 17, 1989,the third largest earthquake to hit the con­tinental US this century struck Santa CruzCounty, California. Measuring 7.1 on theRichter Scale, the 'quake's epicenter waslocated just eight miles from the center ofSanta Cruz. Heavy damage occurred alonga 75-mile length of the San Andreas fault­extending north to San Francisco and Oak­land, and south to Hollister and Salinas.Damage exceeded $7.1 billion, making thisthe most costly natural disaster in US history.

When the shaking stopped-a mere 15seconds later-592 homes had been destroyedcountywide, 2,069 suffered heavy damage,and 9,210 had minor damage. Some 668mobile homes were destroyed or receivedmajor damage. Nearly 10,000 people weredisplaced from their homes, andtwomonthslater, 3,000 remalned homeless. Thankfully,only six people died in the county.

The Disaster AreaSanta Cruz County, situated on the Pacific

coastabout 60miles south ofSan Francisco,has a population of 230,000. The principalcities are Santa Cruz and Watsonville.

When the quake euded, the county waseffective\9 isolated. Slides and damagedbridges closed most highwaysand rural roadsto the east and south. Electric power, tele-

phone service and radio communications weredisrupted.

Quake CommunicationsInitially, radio amateurs provided the only

communications between the county Emer­gency Operations Center (EOC) and manyfield Iocatious. These included hospitals, RedCross shelters, adjacent county EOCsand theState Office of Emergency Services inSacramento. Reports were received thatWatsonville Community Hospital had beendamaged. That hospital had recently iustalleda 2~meter base station. John Rider, N6TYH,carne on the air from Watsonville, and we im­mediately sent him to the hospital. He hadthehospital station on the air a few minuteslater. The telephone system was out, as wastheir main emergencygenerator. Hospital per­sonnel were already evacuating critical-carepatients from the third and fourth floors ofthe building. We requested ambulances, in­cluding units from the Army at Fort Ord andfrom Monterey County, to the south. Move­ment of patients to the other two countyhospitals and to Monterey County began.Medical helicopters were requested from asfar away as Stanford Medical Center andfrom FortOrd. Someof these choppers were

Bindy Beck. KC6MN, is shown operatingout of a parked car in front of the MosconeConvention Center shelter. (N6VAW photo)

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unable to establish radio communication withthe hospitals for landingclearance. AmateurRadio wasused to relaylanding instructionsviatheirhomebases. JamieFinch, WI6F, wassent to pick up a portable generator for anearby food-processing plant. That genera­tor wasset up on the lawn of the hospital topower lights for emergency surgery.

Manygasleaks and brokensewer and waterlines were reported via ham radio. Ham"shadows" accompanied search teams as vic­timswere sought indamaged buildings. Struc­tural engineers and inspectors were airliftedby military aircraft from other parts ofCalifornia. Amateur Radio was used exten­sively in coordinating theseoperations.Earlyon the morning following the quake, ham"shadows" accompanied these personnel asthey began evaluating the damage in SantaCruz and Watsonville. As in many disastersituations, a majorpart of the Amateur Radiooperations involved support communicationsfor establishing, staffing, and provisioningRedCrossemergency shelters. ARES supportof Red Cross activities continued for eightdays.

PersonnelAt the peak of our operations, we were

simultaneously manning 25locations in SantaCruz County-almost half were Red Crossshelters. Many locations required 24-hourcoverage, and some needed two or moreoperators. From the very beginning we ex­perienced greatdifficulty withstaffing.Morethan 370hamswere utilized during our eightdays of operations. Many worked multipleshifts-some worked alleight days.Althoughmany local hams contributed their services,we were largely dependent upon volunteersfrom other areas.. Some carne from as farawayas Los Angeles and San Diego. Otherscame from Nevada and Oregon. Most camefrom the adjacentcountiesof Monterey andSantaClara, where 'quakedamage wasmuchlesssevere. If those counties had needed morehams for their own emergencyoperations, oursituation could have become even worse. Asit was, many people were forced. to work verylong shifts under extremely stressful condi­tions.-Wayne Thalls. KB6KN

Radio Amateurs Take Leading Role inCommunieatlous

After checking into the local repeater(147.33 MHz) in Marin County, I turned onmy car radio and listened to reports of thehorror, devastation, and tragedy that hadoccurredon Tuesday, October 17. The earth­quake that rocked the Santa Cruz area hadtoppled a mile-long stretchof the Nimitz free­wayand a section of the [-80 BayBridge, andcaused an out-of-control fire in SanFrancisco's Marina District. I sat in disbelief.

How could this happen? I monitored ourfrequency, listening to the operators reportingin with emergency traffic concerning the col­lapse of a false ceiling ina majorgrocery storein Novato. 1later heard on the repeater that,thankfully, no onewasinjured in theincident.

I reported to mydesignated operatingsta­tion. Another Marin Amateur Radio Club

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Jim Rich, N6SZQ, mans the radio at theAmerican Red Cross headquarters inSacramento. (WA6CFI photo)

operator beat me to the task of providingcommunications to Novato CommunityHospital. MarinCountyisnorth of SanFran­cisco. The county survived the 'quake withverylittledamage. About 100 members of ourlocalRadio Amateur Civil Emergency Service(RACES) were stationedat strategic locationsthroughout thecounty, and operatedfor threehourson mostiy simplex frequencies, withthethree hospitals communicating through therepeater.

Knowing of the damage in San Francisco,we monitored Bay-area traffic to find a wayto put our resources to the best use. Ourresources consisted of operators whoestablished health-and-welfare nets on allfrequencies, and provided operators to cometo the shelters and operate on the San Fran­ciscoemergency frequency of 145.15 MHz.

San Francisco had five operating stations,four at shelters for the homeless and one asnet control. The four stations were the Ameri­can Red Cross Building, Marina MiddleSchool, Moscone Convention Center, and StIgnatiusHighSchooL The net controlwasincontact with the four other American RedCrossshelters: Alameda,Oakland,San Jose,and Santa Cruz/Watsonville areas. The SanFrancisco American Red Cross Building alsohoused the net control operator during quietertimes. San Francisco stations used the145.15-MHz repeater, occasionally passingsimplex traffic on the same frequency. Therepeater is located on the ridge above DalyCity near the San Francisco airport.

At each station there were three to fivehams: one or two operators monitored therepeater frequency and the remaining wereused as runners on different simplex frequen­cies,obtainingand dispersing informationtothe proper officials. Many operators workedback-to-back eight-hour shifts during timesof high traffic.

Approximately 50 radio operators volun­teered at the shelter sites in San Francisco.Theybeganshowing upat theiroperating sta­tions immediately after the 'quake. Thisprocedurewaspracticed at an April19earth­quakedrill.Ironically, the RACES grouphad

practiced in thesamebuildings that were nowfunctioning as realearthquake-relief centers.

Twelve to 15 operating sites were eventu­ally established throughout the city of SanFrancisco. Eachoperatorbroughta 44O-MHzor 2-meterrig with antenna and enoughbat­tery power to last 12--24 hours.

Preparing for an emergency of this scalesometimes can become overwhelming. I hadnever met the other operators who I wasworking with, but similar training taught eachof us how to log our messages down to thevery last detail and establish control in achaotic environment. The emergencycommu­nication operations in San Francisco con­tinued 24 hours a day for seven days. Thetelephone company restored service to eachof the shelters by 2 PM PST on Tuesday,October 24. 1989.-Bindy Beck. KC6AAN

NTS and Packet Radio Put to TestOn that ill-fated day in October, I was

browsing through the messages on the localpacket system, when suddenly, shortly after5 PM, my chair started to bounce up anddown. At first, 1 thought it was just one ofthe many little earthquakes that any nativeCalifornian has grown accustomed to ridingout with little concern.

Suddenly, the motion began to get violent

This bUilding, like many others in down­town Santa Cruz. suffered severe damageduring the earthquake. Many were laterdemolished because of structural inadequa­cies. (KB6KN photo)

and things began flying around the shack.A large bookcase to my left fell over andspilled hundreds of books and QSTs acrossthe floor. Loud noises from stuff fallingover in my storage area behind the shackconvinced me it was time to get out of thehuilding.

My first thought was power. I got outmy generator and started setting up on theroad next to my shack. My neighbors cameover and helped me with the gasoline. Istarted the generator, and let it run for awhile. I got out my hand-held and heganto monitor the 2-meterrepeater in our area.There was a lot of conversation on the airas the hams began to check in. This wasa good sign because the repeater is locatedat the same site as the packet node that Iuse for forwarding packet messages. Therepeater is at a county site that has emer­geney power, so I had assumed it would beon the air. In a few minutes, I had theVHFIUHF side of the BBS in operation.Steve, WA6HAM, was bringing overanother generator to get the HF stationgoing. The first step was to find out whatnodes and BBSs were on the air. I beganworking my way through the network tofind out who was there.

A, the suncame up the next morning andthe HF bands started to come alive, thetraffic began to pour in. W9ZRX connectedto me and started a two-hour forwardingsession. The inbound volume was unbeliev­able. At times, I hadW9ZRX on 20 meters,W31W10n 15meters,K61YKfrom southernCalifornia on the 220-MHz port, andAL7IN from Oregon on the 433-MHzport-all forwarding to me at the sametime! I only had two outbound ports to tryto handle the four inbound ports that neverseemed to slow down. I called for help, andremote SysOps Brad, WA6AEO, andDennis, KA6FUB,came over to the station.For the next 48 hours, the BBS was mannedaround the clock. By the weekend, we hadhandled more than 5000 messages, most ofwhich had been forwarded to the SantaCruz and Bay areas.-Lew Jenkins, N6VV

Earthquake Observations from Afar

As I drove home on the evening ofOctober 17, someone announced the SanFrancisco area's major earthquake on alocal repeater, My first thoughts were ofrelatives in the South Bay area; and mysecond was whether N6VV's station east ofOakland had survived.

I guessed we were about to participate inthe most intensive use of packet for trans­mission of NTS messages that our fledglingmode had ever seen. Most long-haul mes­sage forwarding in the US takes place onHF. N6VV is one of the major HF Gate­ways in northern California. Without his bigsignal, I feared we would quickly developa large backlog.

The three major HF BBSs in the area,

N6VV in Pleasant Hill, N6MPW in BenLomond, and N6IYA in Felton, survived.Despite the lack of commercial ac power,all three BBSs returned to service quickly,running on standby generators. Thesehams,along with many others, really deserve ahand.-Dave Zeph, W9ZRX, Indiana HFGateway SysOp

DIsaster Duty

At 5 AM, Thursday, October 19, I leftmy Sacramento home for Oakland, at therequest of the Alameda County ARESgroup. I soon joined up with eight otherlocal hams In a convoy heading east. Ourmission: to support the disaster relief effortsof the American Red Cross hy providingradio communications.

The food service managersent a message asking forthe status of the long­overdue "500 hand-heldhot meals. "

We reported to Oakland Red Cross head­quarters. After initial confusion and delays,our leader, Frank, N6SNO, received our as­signments. I was sent to the Red Crossfacility at Bunch School-the site of the col­lapsed section of the NImitz freeway in Oak­land. I arrived at 9:15 AM, and looked upat the pancaked double-deck highway.Rescue and construction workers, police.fire and medical personnel swarmed over thesite, Two men walked on top of the mangledstructure, directing a crane. A helicopterhovered in the distance. I turned and drovethrough the school yard gate.

I parked near the entrance to the gymnasi­nru and was briefed by the operator I wasrelieving.He introduced meto Gary Wilkes,the Red Cross liaison at the facility. Garyexplained their mission: to receive, prepareand deliver food to the workers at the col­lapsed freeway, I \1 blocks away.

I established contact with Red Crossheadquarters on my car's 2-meter radio,then took my hand-held and went inside thegym. Volunteers were bringing in food andpreparing sandwiches.

For < the next hour, I handled routinetraffic. I heard N6UGO report that an esti­mated $250 million in damage had beendone to 22 buildings in Oakland. For thenext 45 minutes I maintained contact withGary by holding a Red Cross CB hand-heldin one hand, while in my other hand I heldthe microphone of my mobile rig.

I sent more messages concerning supplies

I sent more messages concerning suppliesleft behind at a closed shelter, people offer­ing to help, and the efforts of Red Crossofficials to secure hard hats and masks. Thefood service manager sent a message ask­ing for the status of the long-overdue "500band-held hot meals." Sometimes a messagewould go out requesting a response thatwould never come.

Aaron arrived at 4 PM, and I took a shortbreak. Gary told me that the phone com­pany had agreed to provide hard hats, andthat some supermarket employees wouldbring them across the bay, via the subway.Gary was a resourceful, energetic Armyman-a natural leader, who overcamenumerous obstacles during the day.

Aaron and I passed more traffic. Thena truck arrived with food and hard hats. Iasked about our relief, which was expectedat 4 PM. A huge crane rurubled slowlydown the street outside the school yard.

My relief arrived on a motorcycle, at6 PM. I was briefing him when I saw Gary,Gordon, and Brian, the facility manager,walking toward me. They were accompaniedby a middle-aged man in a jump suit deco­rated with badges and patches. He was acongressional aide. Six congressmen hadflown in from around the country, bring­ing sophisticated infrared imaging equip­ment to look for survivors. He wanted toknow where they should deploy. He alsowanted to know where the congressmenwere.

I broke into the net with this prioritytraffic for the Oakland EOC. We all stoodaround my car, waiting for a reply. A fewminutes later a call came over the speaker,mounted on my car's roof: "RegionalHeadquarters to Bunch School. Please detailthe numberof meals you have served todayand yesterday. Break out by breakfast,lunch, dinner or snacks, hot or cold. Wealso need to know.... ,.

We broke out laughing. As soon as Icould, I broke in: "Please stand by, head­quarters. We are waiting for priority trafficconcerning a visiting congressional party."

Five minutes later the answer came backfrom the EOC: The congressional aideshould report to the Incident Commanderat Cyprus and West Grand. I acknowledgedthe message, and looked around for theaide. He was gone. I sent out a runner tofind him. Five minutes later he returned, totell me that the aide had left ten minutesago, saying, "1 know where to go."

Brian winced when he learned of this. Hegave me my final message. which 1 wrotedown andgave to my relief to pass: "Pleaseask the IC to report to us when the congres­sional aide arrives at his location.n

Based on what I saw hams from all overnorthern California do in the week follow­ing the deadly earthquake, I'd have tosaythat Amateur Radio has paid its does infull.-Jim Rich, N6SZQ liIIEJ

March 1990 17

What Do You Get for YourMembership Dues?Every year since 1981, the League has stretched every dollar ofmembership dues a little farther.By David Sumner, K1ZZ

Executive Vice President, ARAL

ARRL dues goupApril I, for the firsttime in nineyears. It's a modest in­crease in the annual rate-$5.oo for

mostmembers, $4.00 for those eligible for thesenior citizen rate, $2.00 for family and blindmembers, andeither $1.25 or $2.50 for youthmembers depeoding on theirage. Thepostagedifferential for sending QSTto members out­sidetheUSand possessions will alsoincreaseslightly, from $1l per year to $12.

The 20'7. risein the regular duesrate com­paresveryfavorably withthe 50% inflationthat has occurred since the last increase, in1981. The League's Boardof Directors andstaffareproud of how we've managed to con­tain costswhile at the sametime answeringthe call for an ever-wider rangeof activitiesand services. For example, Headquarters isnowproviding a broader rangeof services tomore members than in the past, and is pro­ducing morepublications, without additiooaistaff.

Everyyearsince 1983, wehaveprintedtheaudited financial statements for the Leaguein QST. We'lldo it again thisyear,probably

in the June issue (assmning the audit iscompleted no later than April). Not everymember is interested in wading through allthose numbers, but even those who aren'thavebeen reassured to knowthat thestateofthe League's finances has been verifiedindependently and the results madeavailablefor all to see. Andmostof you,wethink, areinterested in how your League's dollarsareput to work for Amateur Radio.

More than Jnst OnesMembership duesare not the only source

of revenue for theLeague. In 1990 (see FIg I)weexpect to receive just over$10 million inrevenue, butonly$3.7 mi1Iion will come fromdues-about $375,000 of that as a result ofthe rate increase. The nextlargest source ofrevenue is thesaleof publications: theHand­book, Tune in the World, the LicenseManuals, and dozens of other books andsupplies. Of course, mostof the $3.3mi1Iionwe expect to see from this source will gotoward thecosts of editing, production, print­ing,anddistribution. Thethirdmajor source

of League revenue is the saleof advertisingspace, mostly in QST. Operating revenues(exam fees, outgoing QSL bureau fees,awards fees, etc) will account for lessthan 3%of the total, and other revenues (voluntarycontributions, interest and dividend income,etc) for another 3%.

More than a MagazineProducing a monthly membership journal

of the quality of QST isn't cheap, but thedirectcost(not including overhead) of doingso will beless than30%of theLeague's over­all budget for 1990 (see Fig I). Producing ourother publications, whichnot onlyare an im­portanl source of revenue but also make amajor contribution to the League's educa­tionalmission, will accountfor another 26Ofo.The remainder of the budget comprises theessence of the League as a volunteer as­sociation.

In 1990, almost a mi1Iion dollars will bedevoted to volunteer programs: the section­level field organization, volunteer examiners,affiliated clubs, hamfests and conventions,

Expected Sourc.. of Revenue

1990

(Millions of DOllars)

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1990

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$3.704

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f Operating revenues$0.285

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. Other revenues 4.2%,Operating revenues 0.8%

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Operating revenues 2.8%

Publications sales 32.4%

QST congrs1Ula1es..•D the foUowing radioamateurs on SO years asARRL members:o George Hart, WINJM, of Newington, Con­necticutoW. P. Sides, W4AUP, of Montgomery.Alabama• William R. Marks, WIAP, of Jacksonville,Floridao LiscumDiven..W7IR, of Scottsdale, Arizona• John P. Foster, W5HNW. of Belleview,Floridao Nelles Roth, WSUPR, of Wauseon, Ohioo Charles M. Kugel, W4KOS, of LighthousePoint, Floridao Marc Molyneux, Jr, N4EM, of Mobile,Alabamao Donald Brown, W4MY, of Atlanta, Georgiao Philo H. Rockwood, WlJVlP, of Fergus Falls,Minnesotao CharlesC. Dawson, W9CUW, of Bear Creek,Wisconsino Clarence S. Schultz, WIlCHJ, of JunctionCity, Kansaso John G. Nauman, W9CN, of Merritt Island,Florida• Clarence A. Grimm, W9NJZ, of Bensenville,Illinoiso William N. Genematas, WSRSO, of GrossePointeSbores, Michigano Walter N. Pike, of Bellsviiiie, Marylando WardS. Atherton, W4RVE, of Fort Pierce,Floridao Veikko K. West, K60RP, of San Mateo,Californiao George D. Meserve, W0HG, of Prairie Villa,Kansaso Irving Astmann, W60MR, of Mt Shasta,Californiao Philip 0. Malmberg, W4NOO, of CocoaBeacb, Floridao Normand E. Tetreault, WIFO, of Wakefield,Rhode Islando Lewis L. Blain, W6EBS, ofTulare, California

you to dig just a bit deeper so the Leaguewill be on a sound footing to face futurechallenges. We know you'll agree that yourmembership in ARRL is worth it-andmore. ~

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shift of resources into our publications pro­gram several yearsago. Advertising revenue,up slightly in absolute terms, is lower inpercentage terms-a trend that will be re­versed as ad rates are adjusted (a 10% in­crease took effect last fall) to reflectcirculation gains and increasedcosts.

Operatingrevenues, while stilla smallper­centage of the total, haveincreased as a resultof the VolunteerExaminerprogram, theout­going QSL Bureau, and awards fees. The1990 budgetas adoptedby the Boardcalls for$30,000 in new revenuefrom DXCC awardfees; a schedule of DXCCcharges that favorsmemberswill be announced later.

Evenwben takentogether withuser fees forspecialmembership services (suchas awardsand the QSL bureau), dues as a percentageof League income basdeclined-an indicationthat an increase in the dues rate is overdue.

You're Not a SubscriberUnless you're readingthisQST ina library

or youbought it at a radio store, it came toyou as but one of many benefits of Leaguemembership. Throughyourmembership, andparticularly if you're an active volunteer, yousupport a wide range of activities for theprotection, promotion, andadvancement ofAmateur Radio.

Your elected Board of Directorsis asking

FemilylbllndLife

Life, Foreign

ARRL Membership Dues RstesEffective April 1, 1990

One TwoYear Years$30 $5724 4542 81

Regular, USUS, 85 & overForeignForeign, 85 &over

FamiiylbiindYouth 13-17, USYouth 12 &

under, USUfe, US

instructors, publicservice activities, and theBoardof Directors.Theseprogramssupportcountless hours of volunteer effort whichbenefitAmateur Radio and the public far inexcess of the League's cash investment. Thewillingness of active members to contributetheir time to the League's mission is ourgreatest asset.

About three-quarters of a milliondollarswill go toward providingmembership serv­ices: awards programs, contests, the QSLbureau, WIAW, and other informationserv­ices.Theseprogramsare designed to benefityon as an activeradio amateur, to makeyouwant to belong.

Representing AmateurRadioto the federalgovernment and internationally isexpected tocost $3S5,000 this year. It could be more, itcould be less; a lot dependson what sorts ofnew threats may arise, on how quickly ourlegalchallengeto the FCC's reallocationof220-222 MHz moves through the Court ofAppeals, and on other things beyond ourcontrol. At 19S9 budget time, no one couldhave predicted that our Washington teamwouldspendfivemonthsof that yeardefeat­ing licensefees in Congress.But as always,whatneeded to be done wasdone, the budgetnotwithstanding.

Promoting Amateur Radio is budgetedat$143,000 for the year.Thisis whatweexpectto spend on recruitingnewamateurs and onacquainting the public with tbe good thingshamsdo, usingopportunities suchas the twoSpace Shuttle missions carrying hams intospace.

As adopted by the Board in January, thebudget for 1990 left $416,000 of the expectedrevenue unexpended. Following review by thenewly appointed Administration and FinanceCommittee, some of this amount will beadded to the programs listed above; theremainderwillbe earmarked for the GeneralFundor for a special reserve suchas the Fundfor the Defense of Amateur Radio Fre­quencies.

Some TWngs Have CbangedThe League'S revenue sources area little

differenttodaythan theywere nineyearsago(seeFig 2). Publicationssalesare more im­portant, reflecting the meritsof a conscious

March 1990 19

Practical Radio AuroraRadio amateurs have known and used auroral propagation formore than fifty years. Here are some new suggestions-practicalproposals-for making wider use of this most curious form ofVHF and UHF propagation.By Emil Pocock, W3EP

RR 3 Box 70 (Rle 207)Lebanon, CT 06249

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Years otter beginning of new solar cycle

Fig 1-At A. occurrence of aurora compared with the sunspot cycle. The auroral curveshows the average percentage of the total number of auroras in the 11-year solar cycleseen each year across the cycle. Data points are tour-year averaged annual observationsduring soler cycles 14 through 17 (1901-1945). made from the Yerkes Observatory, Wis­consin. The smoothed average sunspot numbers for cycles 8 through 20 provides a refer­ence. Based on Chamberlain, pp 109-111. At B, planetary geomagnetic index (A"lcompared with the 280o-MHz solar flux during solar cycle 21. Source: NOAA-US71F SpaceEnvironment Services center.

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peak occurs at about 0200. Auroras arerarely observed at 1200local time. Thereis a distinct tendency for aurora to reap­pear at 27-day intervals, because aurorasace closely linked to general solar activity.Finally, auroras are two to three times aslikely to occur near the spring and fall

daily, monthly, and annual cycles. As thesehave been discussed elsewhere in some de­tail, only the briefest review is necessaryhere.' Auroral activity has two distinctdaily peaks. The most prominent occurs atabout 1800 local time, followed by a gradu­al decline toward midnight. A secondary

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Radio amateurs discovered auroralpropagation in 1939, and haveaccumulated a great deal of practi­

cal knowledge about it over the interven­ing fifty years. Five previous QST articleshave laid the foundations for understand­ing and using this most unusual form ofradio propagation.' These fine contribu­tions to the radio art make a most usefulintroduction to auroral propagation, andreaders who are unfamiliar with radioaurora will want to review them. Althoughusually associated with the VHF and UHFbands from 50 to 432 MHz, aurora alsoprovides useful propagation on 28 MHz.Aurora is not often exploited on 28 MHz,but it may be especially attractive duringthe solar minimum, when F-layer skip at28 MHz all but disappears.'

This article builds on previous QST ar­ticles in three ways. First, it explains somecbaracteristics of radio aurora that havereceived scant attention in the past. Theseinclude the relations of auroral activity tothe solarcycle, considerations of geograph­ic coverage, and implications of Dopplershift. Second, some practical hints arepresented for making auroral contacts inthe bands above 432 MHz-somethingamateurs have yet to accomplish. Finally,there's a short discussion of some recentlydiscovered aurora-related phenomena thatbear watching in the future. Understandfrom the outset that some analyses present­ed here simplify complex and incomplete­ly understood physical mechanisms for thesake of focusing on useful principles. Thesesimplifications are noted where appropri­ate.

Aurora and the Daily, Annnal, and SolarCycles

More than five decades of radio-auroraobservationsand more than two centuriesof systematic visual aurora observationshave shown that auroras appear in certain

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A less well-known auroral eycle lags thell-year cycle of solar activity by nearly twoyears. This is indicated in Fig lA, whichpresents a summary of visual observationsmade from the Yerkes Observatory in Wis­consin between 1901 and 1945.4 Auroraappearances do not form a smoothcurve.There is a slight plateau between two andfour years into the It-year cycle, a mainpeak just after five years, and a small bumpat about year eight.

It is difficult to account for the oddshape of thiscurve, butbecause auroral ac­tivity corresponds closely to geomagneticactivity, the ups and downs of the plane­tary A index (Ap) may provide the under­lying pattern of auroral activity. Quitesurprisingly, a plot of the Ap index duringthe most recent complete solar cycle(1975-1986) reveals a very similar curvewith three peaks corresponding to the fea­tures noted in the curve of visual data fromearly in the century. Compare Fig lA withFig lB. if these data do trace a predictablecycle of auroral activity, then auroral ac­tivity will probably peak during late 1991or early 1992, oue to two years after the

currently predicted peak of solar cycle 22.

Geographic Considerations

In the northern hemisphere, aurorasappear in the northern sky; they are rarelyseenin southerly geographic latitudes in thenorthern hemisphere. Although this isgenerally accurate, the appearance ofauroras correlates more closely withgeomagnetic latitude, measured as magneticinclination.' See Fig 2. Between 20 and80 auroras also may appear annually overthe Great Lakes (75" geomagnetic latitude),to fewer than 5 per year south ofPennsylvania (70 0 geomagnetic latitude),but authorities do not agree on thesenumbers.' Stations in the American Westarelikely to experience fewer auroras thanstations at the same geographic latitude inthe East because, as Fig 2 shows, the ge­omagnetic latitude dips considerably to thesoutheast iu North America. The souther­ly extent of any particular aurora alsocorrelates closely with the intensity of a ge­omagnetic disturbance. The higher the Kindex, tbe farther south, by geomagneticlatitude, an aurora is likely to appear.'Table I compares approximate K-indexvalues and visual occurrences of aurorawith geomagnetic iatitudes. The strong as-

sociation of aurora with geomagnetic ac­tivity has made close monitoring of the Kand A indexes one popular technique forpredicting radio aurora.'

Given the geographic distribution ofaurora, it is often assumed that aurorasspread southward from some more north­erly origin. On-the-air observations seem10 confirm the gradual expansion of radio­aurora activity over time, but this may bedeceiving. This impression may simply bethe result of how quickly operators becameaware of auroral conditions, as on-the-airactivity may lag considerably behind actualconditions, especially in more southerlylatitudes where auroras are rare.? Auroramay actually form quite suddenly over awide area. Reports in Amateur Radio jour­nalsoverthe years arescattered withrefer­ences to aurora beginning and ending as ifa great ionospheric switch were thrown;other anecdotal evidence suggests that theintensity of radio-aurora activity peaksverysooo after aurora appears. What can wemake of these sometimes contradictory ob­servations'!

A detailed study of 1440MBz contactsduring the great February 1986 auroraseems to 'how that the aurora appearedand disappeared simultaneously over a

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Table 1Distribution of Aurora with Geomagnetic latitudeGeomagnetic Average Annual Number Average K IndeXLatitude 01OverheadAuroras Required for Aurora75· 20-40 570 0 10 765· 1-2 9

Sources: See Chamberlain and Forbes.

March 1990 21

Fig 3-Electron density in the E layer at about 110 km altitude north and south of the Mill­stone Hill radar site in the Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts (42° latitude), onFeb 8-9, 1986. Density is measured in electrons per cubic meter (e/m3). Note the suddenintensification over a wide north-south belt at about 2030 UTe. The shaded portionrepresents a density in excess of 6 x 1011 e/m3, Source: Massachusetts Institute otTechnology, Haystack Observatory.

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could be spanned perpendicular to theauroral front. that is generally north-south,is less than 1100 km, as shown by stationsA and B. The very longest contacts are onpaths just tangent to the auroral front, suchas that made by stations A and C. Usuallydirectional antennas are pointed consider­ably east or west of north when long­distance contacts are made. Paths signifi­cantly longer than 2200 km are probablynot possible, except under the conditionsnoted earlier, because auroral ionization ofsufficient density to scatter VHF radio sig­nals has not been observed higher than theE layer. Stringent geometrical requirementsmake doubie-hop auroral propagation un­likely.

The Aurora Boundary Ellipse

The maximum distances a station couldexpect to work in intermediate directions,somewhere between 1000 and 2000 km, areshown as open points in Fig 5A. Onequarter of an ellipse is formed when thesepoints are connected. A complete ellipseappears when this process is duplicated forthe west side of A and continued for vari­ous positions of the auroral front to thenorth of station A. The resulting auroraboundary ellipse, shown in Fig 5B. mea­sures 2000 km along its minor (perpendic­ular) axis and 4000 km along its major(horizontal) axis. 14 The edge of this ellipserepresents the maximum distance a stationat the ellipse's center could expect to spanvia any aurora. IS

A single boundary ellipse neatly definesthe approximate limits of auroral contactsin many practical tests, but some cases re­quire slight adjustment of the ellipse orien­tation. i6 Fig 6 shows the contacts made byBill Maxson, N4AR, on t44 MHz over afive-hour period during the March 1989aurora. In this case, the ellipse had to be

Fig 4-Two-dimensional geometry 01a typi­cal auroral contact. The solid lines showthe actual signal path between stations Aand B. The dashed line shows the grea~

circle path; the dotted line Is the southernedge of the region in which stations canmake auroral contacts. Station C lies northof the auroral front, and is usually unableto make auroral-scatter contacts. Station Dis too far south of the auroral front to par­ticipate.

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is the normal maximum range for single­hop sporadic-E and meteor-scatter con­tacts, for example. hoth of which are alsoE-Iayer phenomena. Current American dis­tance records for auroral propagation. listedin Table 2. bear out this approximatefigure, but there is still room to stretchthose records. Contacts beyond 2200 krnmay be aided by enhancement due tofavorable tropospheric conditions, or byhigh station elevations.

The three record contacts and manyother recorded VHF and UHF auroracontacts in excess of t500 km havepredominantly east-west orientations.r­The reason for this is not difficult todeduce. In order to make an aurora con­tact, both stations must be within 1100 kmof the auroral front (the southern edge ofauroral ionization in the northernhemisphere), otherwise the aurora will bebelow the radio horizon. Both signal pathsintercept the auroral front at approximatelyequal angles of incidence, although in prac­tice there is a great deal of leeway becausethe auroral front is not a precisely definedscattering medium. A typical two-dimen­sional geometry is shown in Fig 4. StationsA and B lie within 1100 km of the auroralfront and have a conunon scattering region.Station C, north of the auroral front,would generally be shut out from auroralpropagation; station D is too far south touse the aurora.

By extending this two-dimensional geo­metric analysis,» it can be seen fromFig 5A that the maximum distance that

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broad geographic band, thus no real expan­sion took place.!" A radar scan of theionosphere made from the Haystack Ob­servatory in Massachusetts during the sameperiod supports this view. Fig 3 showsisograms of equivalent electron density inthe E layer at about 110 km altitude overtime during that aurora. Electron deusityincreased nearly tenfold, from less than1011 to nearly 1012 electrons per cubicmeter (e/m'), within a twenty-minuteperiod. This rapid ionization did not ex­pand slowly southward. but appeared overa very broad north-south region all at once.Although the radar did not scan farthersouth than 41 c latitude, satellite observa­tions made at the same time indicate thatthese conditions extended as far as SouthCarolina at 34 0 latitude.

Over the following few hours, electrondensity receded and expanded twice.perhaps giving some credence to the notionthat auroral activity may expand over time.The auroral session ended much as it hadbegun, that is, suddenly and simultaneouslyover a wide area-as if a great switch hadbeen thrown once again. Although thesedata refer to just one period of a very in­tense aurora, they are typical of mostauroras at middle latitudes."

Maximum Distances

Auroral propagation is basically an E­layer phenomenon. Therefore, the maxi­mum great-circle distance over which twostations could make contact, regardless offrequency, is about 2000 to 2200 km. This

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is slightly more complicated, becauseneither the transmitting station (the trainwhistle in the classic analogy) nor thereceiving station (the observer) is movingrelative to one another. The relative motionis supplied by the aurora itself, for amoving reflector also induces Dopplershift. Indeed, bolb the frequency shift andthe auroral buzz may be attributed to twoseparate sorts of apparent motion with thecomplexities of the aurora.

The shift in the center frequency ofaurora-propagated signals canbe explainedby the mass movement of auroral E-layerelectrons in the same direction relative tothe earth. Such a motion exists as a resultof powerful ionospheric currents thatpropel electrons (or at least electric charges)at velocities of 500 to 3000 meters persecond (mls) approximately parallel to theearth's geomagnetic latitudes within theauroral E layer. These velocities are suffi­cient to cause a frequency shift of up to3 kHz for a 144-MHz signal and evengreater shifts for higher signal fre­quencies.P

The magnitude of the Doppler shiftcaused by auroral propagation may beroughly calculated with an adaptation ofthe basic Doppler equation. For a movingreflector, the effect is doubled, and this isincorporated in the equation below.

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latitude. Also note that for any particularaurora, the distance between the stationand the auroral front will impose additionalres!tictions witbin the limits of the bound­ary ellipse. For instance, as Figs 4 and SAimply, aurora contacts in each extreme ofthe boundary ellipse cannot be made simul­taneously. This is because vastly differentauroral-front positions are needed to workinto each extreme of the ellipse. In spite ofthese cautions and conditions, the bound­ary ellipse provides a good approximationof the limits of auroral propagation."

Doppler Sbift

VHF amateurs have long noticed andtaken for granted the rough quality ofaurora-propagated CW signals, variouslydescribed as a buzz, hiss, or raspy sound.SSB signals are usually 90 garbled !bat theyare not useful for communications, espe­cially on 144MHz and above. Signals alsoseem much wider than normal, CW signalsperhaps oocupying I kHz or more at 144MHz. In addition to the buzz and widen­ing effect, VHF signals scattered by auroraare shifted in frequency by as much asseveral kilohertz. What causes these charac­teristics, and does understanding them haveany practical application?

The frequency shift immediately suggeststhat some sort of Doppler effect operateson aurora-propagated signals. The Dopplereffect is that familiar phenomenon !batcauses the pitch of a passing train whistleto increase as the train approaches a sta­tionary observer and to decrease as itspeeds away. The Doppler effect extendsto radio, light. and other forms of radiatingenergy just as well as sound; the principleis the same. The problem of explaining thefrequency shift in radio-aurora propagation

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tilted slightly with regard to geomagneticlatitude in order to fit all the statioos heworked into lbe ellipse. The position of theauroral front probably changed substan­tially over the five-hour period, and for atleast part of the time, the auroral front ap­peared at an angle with respect to N4AR's

Fig 5-At A, extreme distances over whichstation A may communicate via auroralscatter perpendicular to and parallel to theauroral front are shown by pclnts Band C.Extreme distances in intervening directionsare shown by the open pcints. When con­nected. these points form one quarter of anellipse. At B, the aurora boundary ellipsemarks the IImtts to which a station at thacenter may communicate via aurora, as­suming that all auroral fronts are parallel tothe major axis.

Fig 6-Contacts made byN4AR (located in gridEM77), 2217-0333 UTC,March 13-14, 1989, areshown by solid dots. Notethat ali contacts fallwithin Ille aurora bound­ary ellipse. N4AR proba­bly worked to the veryIImtt that auroral propaga­tion allowed in severaldirections. ..

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Table 3Expected Doppler Shift (kHz) for Aurora·Propagated Signals atVHF and UHF

Signal Frequency (MHz)Equivalentveloclly 50 144 220 432 903 1296(mIs)

521 0.18 0.50 0.75 1.5 3.0 4.51042 0.35 1.00 1.50 3.0 6.0 9.02083 0.70 2.00 3.00 6.0 12.0 18.03125 1.00 3.00 4.50 9.0 18.0 27.0

Table 4Expected Relative Strengths of Aurora-Propagated VHF andUHF SIgnalsFrequency Relative Signal Approximate Signal(MHz) Strength Stfeng1hComparison

(dB) (S units)

50 +32.2 9 + 52 dB144 0.0 9 .. 20 dB220 -12.9 9 .. 7 dB432 -33.5 7903 -55.8 3

1296 -66.8 1An S unit is equivalent to 8 dB.

bly less than the calculations yield for elec­tron currents of SOO to 3000 mls velocity.Earthbound radio stations are nearly al­ways at some distance perpendicular to theelectron current, thus the relative velocitywill be somewhat less, perhaps half the ac­tual velocity. Even when equivalent veloc­ities are used, the figures given in Table 3still overestimate Doppler shift. The sim­plified equation does not take into accountthe index of refraction of the auroralionosphere nor the scattering losses, bothof which also reduce the Doppler effect.

The direction of Doppler shifts (higheror lower in frequency) depends on thedirection of the electron flow and the rela­tive positions of transmitting and receivingstations. Auroral electrons flow toward thesunlit side of the earth, that is, toward theeast during daylight and toward the westduring evening. The great reversal fromeast to west takes place at about 2200 localtime." It may be possible to detect thedirection of the current flow and the timingof the great reversal by careful observationsof Doppler shift. Calculation of effectivevelocity from Doppler shift may be moredifficult, because the positions of transmit­ting and receiving stations in relation to thecurrent flow may not be known with muchprecision. There may be some clever solu­tions to this problem that would make forsome interesting experhnental observations,but in most practical applications, it is notnecessary to know the actual velocity.

Determinirig the Doppler shift from two­way contacts involves further difficulties,because two separate Doppler shifts takeplace. Consider this example. K9MRI sitsdown on his favorite aurora calling fre­quencyof 144.190 MHz. Because of theDoppler effect, you hear him calling CQon 144.188, and give him a call at that fre­quency. Doppler shift also affects yourreturn signal, but it is likely to be in theopposite, and at least partially compensat­ing, direction. K9MRI may hear you closeto his own frequency, even though twoDoppler shifts have taken place. It is alsopossible that your signal will be shifted inthe same direction, thus magnifying thenetDoppler effect. K9MRI is not likely to hearyou on 144.190 in any case, but he Cannotdetermine from your apparent frequencythe actual Doppler shift on either sigrtal.

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In practice, it may be enough to takenote of the net apparent Doppler shift, anduse this figure in estimating where to listenfor other stations or when moving fromband to band. Once the net Doppler shifton a given frequency and path are deter­mined, the Doppler shift on other bandscan be estimated with some confidence.Such information might be very usefulwhen moving a station from band to band,for example, especially when moving from144 MHz to 432 MHz and higher. Dopplershift can be expected to be three timesgreater on 432 MHz than 144 MHz, andfinding a station on a specific frequencymight be tricky without taking this intoconsideration.

Auroral Buzz and Widening

The buzz and widening that are alsofaruiliar features of aurora-propagatedsignals result from a second Dopplerphenomenon that can be attributed to asimultaneous raising and lowering of thesignal frequency over a small range. If aphysical reflector was responsible, it couldbe expected that it would be moving backand forth rapidly relative to transmitter andreceiver. As the reflector moves forwardwith respect to the observer, the frequencyof the retlected signal increases; as it movesback, the frequency decreases. The neteffect would be to transform a single purenote into a complex of closely relatedhigher and lower frequencies-a buzz.

Scientific studies suggest that several pos­sible movements of auroral electrons maycause the buzz effect. Random motion ofelectrons in the aurora may be responsible,especially as the aurora is not a single scat­tering plane, but exhibits features of depth.There may bemany scatteringregions,eachcontributing a slightly different sort of rela­tive motion to the scattered radio signal.In addition, one of the primary movementsof auroral electrons is downward in tightspirals from much higher in theionosphere." Spiraling electrons appear toboth approach and recede relative to a sta­tionary observer, and thus may contributeto the apparent forward and backward mo­tion of the auroral scattering medium.

The apparent velocity of the relativeback-end-forth motions of the auroralmedium can also be calculated from Dop-

pier shift. In this case, the width of thewidened signal corresponds to the Dopplershift. One half the width of the signal canbe attributed to the velocity of the medi­um in one direction, and this Doppler fre­quency shift can be applied to Eq I andTable 3 to estimate the comparativebroadening on various bands. Typical144-MHz (:W signals may appear I kHzwide, suggesting a medium that appears tohe moving at about 500 m/s, Under thesame conditions, 432-MHz CW signalswould be 3 kHz wide.

Signal Strength

Signal strengths of aurora-propagatedVHF and UHF signals decrease rapidlywith increasing frequency. Empiricalstudies indicate that strength varies with theseventh power of wavelength." This canbewrittenas a convenientequation in termsof frequency and decibels (dB) as:

S=70 log (-{;-) (Eq 2)

whereS = comparative signal strength, dBf l = first frequency, MHzf2 = second frequency, MHz

Table 4 provides the signal-strength rela­tionship among the various VHF and UHFbands using 144 MHz as the point of com­parison. The table assumes the same sta­tion gains across the various bands. Themost striking feature of this relationship isthe relatively weak signal strength likelyabove 432 MHz. Even during an intenseaurora, when signals on 144 MHz may be20 dB over S9, 1296-MHz signals may bebarely out of the noise.

Aurora at 903 and 1196 MHz

Radar studies have shown that auroralechoes can be returned at frequencies ashigh as 3 GHz, suggesting that two-wayamateur contacts ought to be possibleabove 432 MHz. No such contacts havebeen reported so far, but this achieve­ment is within reach. How can it be done?Previousdiscussions of auroral characteris­tics provide some hints of what to expect. Ex­treme Doppler shift will undoubtedly make903-and 1296-MHzauroral signalssound un­familiar. They are likely to be shifted in fre-

quencyconsiderably, perhaps4 kHz or more.ExtremeDopplerbroadeningmay make903­and 1296-MHz auroral signals several kilo­hertz wide and souud like keyed noise. One1295-MHz radar study of aurora producedconsistent Doppler shifts of 4 kHz andbroadening of 16 kHz.22 Finally, signalstrength is likelyto bevery weakby compar­ison to signals at 432 MHz, even during thethe most intenseauroras. At 1296MHz, sig­nals will be at least 6 S units (36dB) weakerthan those of comparable stations at432MHz. Thus, actualsignal-strength differ­ences may be greater, because 1296-MHzamateur installationsrarely equal the stationgain of typical 432-MHz stations.

A pair of well-equipped stations no morethan 500 km apart may have better successin making a historic 903- or 1296-MHzauroral contact by first establishing them­selves on 432MHz. When signalstrength on432 MHz exceeds 6 S units above the noise,special attention should be paid to peakingantennasfor maximum signalstrength. If theauroral front is verycloseto stationsattempt­ingsuchcontacts, theremay be some advan­tage to elevating the antennas. Note thedirectionand magnitudeof the Doppler shifton 432 MHz; it is likelyto be twiceas greaton 903 MHz and three times as great on1296 MHz. After all the preliminaries are not­ed, one or bothstationsshouldquickly changeover to an agreedupon frequency on the 903­or 1296-MHz band, taking into account theestimated Doppler shift. Then listen for sig­nals that sound like keyed noise-and goodluck!

AuroraJ·E PropagationAn aurora-related propagation modecalied

auroral E has been used for at least thirtyyears, but some recent discoveries havecon­siderably expanded the scope of aurora­related propagation phenomena." Theremay be at least two distinct types of VHFauroral-E propagation. The more familiartype affects 50 MHz several hours afternormal radio-auroral activity has ceased. Inmost cases, it appears only after midnightlocaltime across the northern part of the USand southern Canada, although other pathshave been spanned occasionally. East-westdistancesof 2000to 5000km are typical; sig­nals are sometimes weak with a characteris­tic tluttery or watery sound, quite distinctfrom normal auroral signals. This type ofauroral E has not beenreported on 144MHzor higher.

What may be a secondauroral-E mode hasbeen reported increasingly in recent years,most commonly on 50 MHz. This type ap­pears during the height of exceptionally in­tense radio aurora sessions; signals are verystrong and clear, nearly indistinguishablefrom familiar sporadic-Epropagation. It hasbeen possible to bear the transformation ofDoppler-shifted aurora-propagatedsignals tothe clear and strong signalsthat characterizeauroral E overa periodof lessthan a minute.Distances are typicaliy limited to 2200 km,although some apparently double-hop con­tacts have been. rellorted on 50 MHz. Duringthe March 1989 aurora, as many as lOllauroral-E contacts were made on 144 MHz

for the first time, and at leastone other simi­lar episode in the Pacific Northwest duringAugust 1989 has been reported."

Thereissomeevidence that thissecond typeof auroral E may affect signals at 220 MHzand evenhigherin frequency. Further experi­ence with this newly discovered auroralphenomenon mayreveal someof its mysteries.

ProspectsThe next three years may provide exceed­

iuglyfruitful periodsfor radio-aurora opera­ting and observation. The current solar cyclehas alreadyprovenitselfto be oneof themostintense on record, and as appearance ofaurora is closelyrelated to solar activity, wemight expect some spectacular conditions.The chances for aurora in the southern partof the US also appear excellent over the nextseveralyears. There is still room for distancerecords to be extended on various frequen­cies; no one has yet claimed an auroral con­tact on 903 or 1296 MHz. The causes ofauroral-E propagation are still largelyunknown, but these modes hold promise fortransatlantic contacts on 50 MHz, more fre­quent occurrences on 144MHz, and possiblya further breakthrough on 220 MHz. Morereports are needed on 28-MHz auroralphenomena. Wherever you livein the middlelatitudes, auroral propagation willundoubt­edlyprovideconsiderableactivity and excite­ment for you on the bands above 28 MHzover the next few years!

AeknowledgmentMythanks to DrJohu C. Foster, Assistant

Director, MIT Haystack Observatory, forproviding data from the Millstone Hill44O-MHz radar, and for his accompanyingexplanations. The MillstoneHill incoherent­scatter radar is supported by the NationalScienceFoundation.

Notes"The first account of auroral propagation can be

found in "56 and 112 Mes.,'· QST, May 1939,p 78. Subsequent 08T articles on aurora arelisted in the fJrst 5 references.

'!Auroraand relatedgeomagneticstorms usuallydisrupt all formsof propagation on the amateurbands below 28 MHz. Even mild auroras mayabsorbhigh-frequencysignals,especiallyoverpolar ana near-polarpaths.

ssee the QST articles citedin the first5 referencesas well as Chamber1aln, pp 110-112 and222·223, and Lange-Hesse.

-aee Chamberlain.pp 109-113. The YerkesOb­servatoryis at Williams Bay,Wisconsin.at 42 0

30" north latitude.l'iFor more infonnation, see Forbes. pp 52-64.»see Harang, p 6; Chamberlain, p 106; and

Moore. p 16 (reeroduced in Miller, e15). Thegeomagneticlatitude used In Moore 8 figure isapparently thatof total magnetic Intensity; it isnot comparable to themagneticlncllnation usedin Fi9 2. See Forbes for a more complete dis­cussion.

78ge Miller, p 16,8This is discussedmore fully in Miller and in C.

L Bixby and J. Morris, "The Art and Scienceof mung," OST, Jan 1979. pp 11-14.

"This was- the tentative conclusionof a study ofreported 144-MHzauroral contacts in Pocock(Proceedings. 1989). pp 157and 161.

lOCompare this discussionwith Pocock(1987), P8.

11Letler from John C. Foster. AssistantDirector.Haystackobservatory. Jan 9, 1990,

"See Pocock (1987, and Proceedings. 1989)."Thissimplifies the case considerably, because

auroral path analysis is 8 three dimensionalproblem. See Miller and Lange-Hesse,pp 516-526 and 543-559.

1·This atso describes a 30 0 ellipse. Graphicanalyses are easier with a template that con­talns manysizesof SOli ellipses;they are com­monl\( available from statlcners and draftingsuppliers.

15A similar "aurora boundary fence" is describedin Jessop, pp 2.21-2.23. A slightly different setof maximum<tistance curves result froma three­dimensional analysis of~heroblem for verynorthern latitudes. See Lan esse,pp55()Q53.

"S.. Pocock (1986, and roceedlngs, 1989).l1S8Vural factors may explain these anomalies.

The auroral front Is not a single, smoothboundary. It may be wavy, discontinuous, orcomposed of [lOItieity separated Ionized regions.Thus, exceptionalcontacts may be attributedto localizedauroral features.Analysisof someof the casessuggestthat the 4000- x 2DOO-kmellipse may be a bit conservative. A 4400- x220O-km ellipse, which would still fall withintheoretlcallimlts, maybe moreappropriate, andmay not requiredifferent tilts to account for allcontacts.

"See Chamberlain, pp224-226; WeI~ pp 121-123;and Lange-Hesse, pp 534-36.

198e9 Leadbrand, pp 122~123; and Petrie, pp66-59.

:roSee Chamberlain, P 226; and Lange-Hesse,pp534-36. An especlelly graphic .xpranation ofthe spiraling of precipitating electrons withinauroral storms is found in Akasofu.

"Miller, pp17-18; andChamberlain, pp119-120."Abel and Newell. pp 235-238.23Amateur experienceswith auroraf..E propaga­

tion are reviewed in Pocock (OST, 1989).,24Thanks to Jerry Logan, NF7X, for bringing to

my attention the August 1989auroral-Eevent.

ReferencesOST art/clesR. Dyce, "More about V.H.F. Auroral Propaga·

lion," OST, Jan 1955, pp 11-15, 116. us.D. Lund. "Auroral Notes,' OST. May 1968, pp36­

40, 152.R. Miller, "Radio Aurora." QST, Jan 1985, pp

14-le.R. Moore, "Aurora and MagneticStonns," QST,

Jun 1951. pp 14-19. 110.E. Pocock,"Auroral-EPropagation at 144 MHz,"

OST, Dec 1989, pp 26-32.

Studiesof partlCf,llar aurorasG. Jessop, od, "Amateur Auroral Studies,"

VHFIUHF Manual, 4th ed (Potters Bar: RadioSociety ofGreat Britain, 1983), pp 2.20-2.27.

E. Pococl!z "The GreatAurora of February 7-9.1986," t-'roceedlngs of the 20th Conference ofthe central States VHF Society (Newington:ARRL, 1986). 21 pages.

E.Pocock, "The GreatAuroraof February1986,"OEX, Jan 1987, pp 7-10.

E. Pocock, "The Great Aurora of March 13-14,1989: Some Preliminary Observations andAnalyses," Proceedings of the23IdConferenceof the ConfraJ States VHF Society (Newington;ARRL. 1989), pp 156-165.

C. Smith, "Auroral Activity," Radfo Communica­tions. Nov 1984. pp 961'-969.

Professional maretureW. Abel and R. Newell. "Measurements of the

AfternoonRadioAuroraat 1295MHz," Journalof Geophyslcel Research 74,Jan 1989, pp231­245.

S. Akaso1u "The Dynamic Aurora," ScientificAmerican. May 1ge9.pp 90-97.

J. Chamberlain, PhyS/cs of the AulOl1l andAlrglow(New York: Academic. 1961/.'

K. Davies,"Auroral Seatter," onospheric RadioPropegatlon (Weshington, DC; GovernmentPrinting Office. 1965). pp 379-383.

A. Forbss. "The Earth's Magnetic Field," in J.Jacobs. ed•• Geomagnetism, 2 vols. (London:Academic. 1gen, I; pp 52-64.

L. Harang, The Aurorae (New York: John Wiley,1951).

G.Lange+l..... "Radio Auror.," In B.M. McCor­mac, ed.. Aurora and Airglow, pp 519-562.

R.leadbrand, "E1eetrom~netlcMeasurementsof the Aurora," In M. Welt, ed., AuroralPhenomena: E)(ll8lfmonfS and Theory (Stanford,CA: Stanford University Press, 1965).

B. McCormac, TheRadiating Atmosphere (NewYork; Sprlnger·Verlag, 1971)...

B. McGormac, ed., Aurora sndA1JIlIOW (New York:Reinhold. 1967).

W. Petrie, KeoooIt TheSlOIy of theAulOI1I BoreeJis(New York: Macmillau.(963). DEJ

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Evolution of the Short Top­Loaded VerticalIf a quarter-wave vertical for 160 meters is beyond your means,how about trying something shorter?By Charles J. Michaels, W7XC

13431 N 24th AvePhoenix. AI.85029

On 160 meters. "the gentleman'sband," many hams operate shortbase- or top-loaded verticals. They

use an antenna length (height) of about 30to 60 feet with modest radial systems. Tbeiravailable space, height restrictions orfinances simply do not permit installing thetraditional YI-A tower and a system of 120YI-A radial wires that approaches an em­cieney of 100'7,. The name of the game is,"Make the most of what you have."

For purposes of discussion, I will use a4O-foot mast of I.6-inch average diameterand a frequency of 1.9 MHz as the basis forvarious short vertical antennas. Differencesbetween the t1eld pattern of such a short ver­tical and that of a YI-A vertical over the cus­tomary "perfect earth" are almostindistinguishable unless the patterns aresuperimposed. See Fig IA. The \<i-A radia­tor is very slightly better at the lower anglesand the 4O-foot radiator is very slightly bet­ter at the higher angles.

Over real earth, with enough input powerto each antenna to produce equal radiatedpower, the patterns willagain be essentiallythe same, and look like those of Fig lB.Aside from questions of efficiency, theantenna patterns should be similar for thesame location.

Over real earth with a modest radial sys­tem of IOto 20 radials, each of perhaps 35or so feet in length. antennas in variouslocations will not all see exactly the sameground-loss resistance. For purposes ofdiscussion, let's assume it to be 15 ohms­recognizing that the typical short antennais seldom found on the Uaverage earth,"that is, in a meadow accommodating an ex­tensive radial system. This figure is derivedlargely by experience with suburban back­yard antenna systems. 'This ground-lossresistance (Rg) will appear at the feed pointof each antenna in series with the radiationresistance (R,) and any other lossresistance.

For those interested in the mathematicsor in designing for a somewhat different an­tenna height, etc, the equations used in thisdiscussion are given in the Appendix. Thereare many formulas and curves for radiation

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resistance. Rr, versus vertical height of theantennas discussed here. Accurate formu­las are tedious of solution (see Appendix EqI) and accurate sintple formulas are re­stricted to narrow height ranges. AppendixEq 2, however, applies to simple verticalmonopoles with acceptable accuracy for ourpurposes up to heights of 90'. R, is virtu­aUyindependent of radiator diameter withinany practical diameter range of these an­tennas.

The various antennas to be discussed areshown in Fig 2. The sinusoidally distributedcurrents are shown to scale. The value of

(8)

Fig I-At A. the E-fleld patterns of a v.->.antenna and a short antenna differ onlyslightly over perfect earth. For equalradiated power, the similarity is alsopresent over real earth, as shown at B.Over real earth. both patterns are down byapproximately 6 dB from the perfect-earthfield value at the psuedo-Brewster angle of12'-poor earth conditions typical of thesuburban backyard surrounded by hcuses.(Patterns calculated wnh MN).

Solid lines-Patterns for a short verticalantenna.

Broken lines-Patterns for a Y4~A 160-mvertical antenna

Dotted lines-Pattern for a V4-;\ antennaover perfect earth.

the base current for 100 W input to theantenna is listed as lb' At 1 kW, it wouldbe 3.16 tintes that value.

i\ntellllll I-The '4-A Vertical

By definitlon, a !"-A antenna has anelectrical length (height) of 90'. R, by Eq 2is the conventional 36.6 ohms.Jn series withthe assumed R. of 15 ohms, a feed-pointresistance Rb of51.6 ohms results. Becauseefficiency is the ratio of R, to the total feed­point resistance including all losses (Eq 4), anefficiency of 71% is indicated. These data arelisted in Fig 2 nuder Antenna J.

Antenna 2--The Short Base-LoadedVertical

A 4O-foot vertical has an angular heightof 27.8' (Eq 3) and R, of 2.24 ohms(Eq 2) at J.9 MHz. Being short of '4-Aresonance, it exhibits capacitive reactance aspart of its feed-point impedance. The capa­citive reactance can be computed by view­ing the antenna from the base as a trans­mission line terminated in an open circuit.'The characteristic impedance of this"line"for the 4O-foot height and J.6-inch diameteris calculated as 365 ohms from Eq 5. Itsinput reactance, using Eq 6, willbe _..j692ohms. This capacitive reactance can becanceled by a base-loading coil with an in­ductive reactance of +j692 ohms. This re­quires an inductance of 58 till (Eq 7). If the58-till coil has a Q of say, 300, its lossresistance, Re. will be 2.3 ohms (Eq 8),which willappear at the base in series withthe R. of 15 ohms and the R, of 2.24 ohmsfor a total Rb of 19.54 ohms. Efficiency(Eq 4) is 11.5%. Note the triangular currentdistribution. The loss in any required L net­work to match these antennas to a 50-0hmcoax feed line is assumed negligible.

We can expect the signals from this4O-foot base-loaded antenna to be downabout 8 dB (Eq 9) from a fun YI-A antennain the samelocation with the sameground­loss resistance.' or course, very few :l4 w ,,"

towers are so situated.The ground loss is the thing which we

must endure since we can do little to changeit in limited space for a radial system. The

'Notes appear on page 30.

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Fig 2-The antennas described in the text are shown with their current distributions, radiation resistances Rr• assumed ground-lossresistances R". coil loss reslslances Rc (ilany). total base input resistances at resonance Ro, base currents Ib for 100 W Input to the an­tenna, and efficiency in percent. The efficiency percentage is the same as the radiated power in watts.

other factor, Rr, howevert is somethingwecan change.

Anteana 3-Capacitlve Top Loading

At higher frequencies. a capacitive top hatis often used to increase the radiationresistance of a short antenna and bring it10 \4-).resonance. Thiswouldeliminate theneed for the base loading coil with its 2.3

ohms of loss resistance. The radiationresistance of the base section of a 4O-footlop-loaded vertical can be calculated byEq 1, but again a simplerequation (Eq 10)yields values sufficiently accurate for ourpurposes. For this antenna an R,- of 7.96ohms results. This increases efficiency to34.7'1. for a gainof 4.8 dB over the base­loaded system.

Shown in Fig 2. as Antenna 3, theimprovement can also beseenas the changein current distribution compared with thatof Antenna 2. The current times the lengthis the area under the current curve alongthe antenna. Power radiation is propor­tional to the square of this area, so thepower radiated by Antenna 3 is 3 timesthat of Antenna 2 for the same input

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power-a gain of about 4.8 dB.The top loading seemingly replaces the

antenna portion and current distributionshownin broken lines.Therefore, somein­terpret top loading as increasing the effee­tive height of an antenna. The top-loadedantenna, however, will not have the R;implied by its 'l'-I\ resonance.

The 4O-foot mast, viewed figurativelyfrom the top as a 365-<>hm transmission line,appears as a short-circuited line. The bottomend is terminated in an impedance that isvery low compared to its characteristic im­pedance. Using Eq II, a short-circuited linethat is 27.8· long with a Zo of 365 ohmshas an input impedance of jl92 ohms. Acapacitive reactance of 192 ohms wouldbring it to resonance. The correspondingcapacitance is 436 pF by Eq 12.

A solid thin disc provides just about thehighest capacitance available for a givenarea. Depending on the metbod used to cal­culate the disc size, it willbe approximately15 feet in diameter. The customary equa­tion used to calculate the capacitance of adisc (Eq 13) is not applicable to such a largedisc only 40 feet above the ground. At anyrate,a purely capacitive toploadseems im­practical for such a short antenna at this fre­quency.

An intermediate arrangement could be areasonably sized capacitive hat on Anten­na 2. 'This would somewhat increase theantenna R, and somewhat decrease the baseinductance required to resonate it, resultingin improved efficiency over Antenna 2.

Antenna 4-The Wire Flattop

A horizontal wire flattop can be used tobring the 4O-foot mast to 11.-1\ resonance.As shown for Antenna 4, the center of thewire is connected to the top of the mast.Equal currents flowing outward cancelalmost all radiation from the flattop. Tobring a short antenna to 'l' -1\ resonance, thewire length should be about twice tbe lengthof the missing angular length. In this case,at 1.9 MHz, that length is approximately2 X (90· _._. 27.8") = 124· or 178 feet. Thisis 89 feet of wire on each side conneeted tothe top of the 4O-foot mast. But 178-footflattops are not usually possible in thisenviromnent. Drooping the flattop wireseliminates the two end-supporting masts,but does not reduce the space required bya significant amount. It produces a down­ward-flowing current component which isin opposition to the current in the mast,slightly reducing Rr• A long but somewhatnarrow space may accommodate such a flat­top, and efficiency of 34.7'1. would beeffected.

Good quality insulators must be used atthe wire ends because of the rather highvoltages present. Strain insulators ordinarilyused in guy wires wI1I not do.

The wirellattop is a cousin to the invertedL, which is really not a top-loaded verticalbut an antenna that is a combination ofvertical and horizontal elements.

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Antenna 5-The Indnctive-Capacitlve TopLoad

The 7.96-<>hm Rr of the top-loadedantenna still looks attractive. If an induc­tive reactance-is placed in series with acapacitive reactance. it reduces theeffectivecapacitive reactance. Inductive reactance canmake a small capacitance (high reactance)look like a large capacitance (lower reac­tance), as shown by Eq 14.

If a more practical hat size, say 48 inchesin diameter, ispostulated, its capacitance ascalculated from Eq 13 is about 43 pF. Itsreactance is - jl946 ohms (Eq 15). As previ­ously calculated, the inductive reactance ofthe mast as seen from the top is +jl92ohms, leaving 1946 - 192 = 1754ohms tobe supplied by the inductor. From Eq 16,this is 147pH, a feasible coil. Assuming thata Q of 300 is reasonable, then the coil lossresistance given by Eq 8 is 5.85 ohms.

This 5.85 ohms of resistance is located atthe top of the mast. Because the current issinusoidally distributed, the current at anangular distance from the current loop (atthe base in a 'l'-I\ resonant antenna) is theloop current multiplied by the cosine of theangular distance from the loop. Since P =PR. we can "refer the resistance to theloop" by multiplying it by cos'O, Eq 17.Since the cosine of8 decreases with antennaheight, taller antennas rellect less of the coilresistance to the base.

For the 27.8· mast, Eq 17 refers the 5.85ohms to the feed point as 4,6 ohms, a lossresistance that becomes part of Rt,. With R,of 7.96 and Rb of 7.96 + 4.6 + 15 =27.56 ohms, efficiency by Eq 5 is 28.9'10,

A gain of 4.0 dB has been achieved overthe base-loaded antenna, Antenna 2. Don'tsniff at 4 dB! Some hams put up two­element phased arrays to achieve 4 dB ofgain.

A 2O-footor sowirellattop of no. 10wirewith its center connected to the top of theloading coil could serve the same purposeas the 48-inch disc. Such an arrangement isesseutially the wire flattop of Antenna 4shortened by the action of the loading coil.

Wire lengths intermediate to the 178 feetof Antenna 4 and the 20 feet above couldbe resonated by progressively larger induc­tors,with space considerations or coilpowerloss determining the length of the wire. Thesame precautions regarding insulators apply.Tuning could be accomplished by pruningthe wire iength. Sloping the wire willchangethe tuning, because it affects the capacitanceto ground.

Antenna 6-lndnctive-Capacitive TopLoads With Whips

Another common technique is to use awhip above a loading inductor in a verticalantenna, such as in center loading or above­center loading. A whip as seen from the in­ductor can be treated as an open-circuitedtransmission line.

Assume a 15.5-foot whip with an averagediameter of 0.562 inch (I inch tapering to1/8 inch). Anything longer seems ratherdifficult to support without guying some­where above the coil. This is difficult be­causeveryhigh voltages arepresent on thetop-loading coil and all parts of capacitivestructures above the coil.

Eq 3 gives the whip angular length as10.78·. The z, is 371 ohms by Eq 5. Themast provides 192 ohms of inductive reac­tance as previously calculated. Eqs 6, 14 and7 yield an inductance of 147 pH.

Assuming again a Q of 300, the same 4.6ohms is referred to the base. The coil re­quirement of the 15.5-foot whip is exactlythe same as that of the 48-inch disc. Thewhip, however, contributes to the R,. Eq 2applies and yields 0.33 ohm of radiationresistance at a point 27.8 0 above the base.Eq 17 refers it to the base as 0.26 ohm ofRr, which adds to the 7.96 ohms for themast section for a total R, of 8,22 ohms.The efficiency by Eq 4 is 29.5%. The gainover the base-loaded antenna is 4, I dB, notsignificantiy different from that of Antenna5 using the disc.

The question often arises as to how muchthe whip contributes to radiation. 'This15.5-foot whip, which is a fairly extremewhip length, atop a 4O-foot mast and coil,contributes only 0.26 ohm to the tolal of8.22 ohms R,-, or 3'7•. Hence, only 3'10 ofthe radiated power comes from the whip inspite of its representing 28'10 of the overallheight of 55.5 feet. For all practical purposesthe mast does the radiating while the whipmerely supplies its reactance to resonate thesystem. Most properly, a whip-loadedantenna height in this mast height range isthat of the mast.

Under the assumptions made, the induc­tive-capacitive top-loaded antennas, 5 and6, should provide signalsabout 4 dB downfrom a 'l'-I\ antenna in the same locationwith the same ground-loss resistance.

Capacitive Structures

The capacitive structures describedrepresent just about the largest disc or whipthat is manageable, although I once hearda Texas station (where else'l) with a hatmade of 24-foot crossed sections of irriga­tion tubing with wires connecting the endsand the midpoints. Whips of generousdiameter can be combined with rather longcrossbars or spiders with enough legs toapproach the capacitance of a disc for amore manageable and practical capacitivestructure.

Whips and spiders or crossbars seem toadd their capacitance fairly well, but nocombination is equal to the sum of thecapacitance of its parts. The larger the hatjust above the coil, the less the whip con­tributes.

Antenna 7 of Fig 2 illustrates the currentdistribution of a combined capacitive hatand whip antenna. The combination has aneffective combined capacitance of 43 pF,

(Eq I)'

requiring the same 147 pH of inductive reac­tance. Its characteristics are similar to thoseof Antennas 5 and 6.

Bandwidth

The inductive-capacitive top-loadedantenna described will exhibit bandwidthsof approximately 20 kHz between the 2: ISWR points. If other than fixed-frequencyoperation is planned, then it is best to designandtrim for a natural resonance at 2 MHzand use a small base coil to move aroundthe band. A variable inductor of about30 Jdishould provide for tuning down from2 MHz to 1.8 MHz. I use a remotelyswitched motor-driven inductor.

Reduction of loss will decrease the band­width. The limiting case of essentially noground loss would probably yield a band­width of about 10 kHz, but then otherproblems become quite severe.

Effect of CoD Loss

Larger, higher capacitance structuresreduce the inductance requirements. Heroicstructures are required to get tbe requiredinductance down to the 8o-pH range.

Because of the swamping effect of theassumed 15-obm R8~ loss in a top-loadingcoil has surprisingly tittle effect on efficiencyover a rather large loss range. With 100 Wto the antenna, loss in the 147-pH coil witha Q of 300 would be 13 W, and the peakpotential across the coil about 4000 volts.This is quite acceptable for coils of modestsize and construction.

Operation of antennas such as Antenna7 at the lega1limit of 1500 W to the antennawould produce power loss in the coil of250 W and peak coil voltage of 20,000.WhOe the 250 W would average out torather modest levels for SSB operation, thepeak voltage would stil1 exist. Under "kcy­down" or AM operation, the 25o-watt levelwould be catastrophic to coils of the usualsize and construction. For legal-limit input,the top-loading structure will have to besuch as to requirelessinductance, or the coilwillbave to bedesigned for a substantiallyhigher Q, or both.

For example, say a coil could safely dis­sipate a power on the order of ISOW. Thisis probably possible for a good-sized coil inan open-air environment. If so, then coilsranging from 80pH with a Q of 300 (requir­ing very large capacitive structures) toISO Jdi with a Q of 600 (requiring thereasonable structures of Anterma 7) willsurvive.

The alternative is to ensure tbat theduration of such power input never exceedssome brief time well within the thermal timeconstant of the coil-a risky procedure atbest. Stories of burning or melting top­loading coils are not uncommon.

t;rfects of Ground-Loss Reduction

The efficiency of these short top coil­loaded antennas is improved with reductionof ground loss. An extensive radial systemand earth ofgood quality produces a loss

resistance of about 2 obms. Over such aground system, Antenna 7, with a 147-pHcoil of Q = 3m, willhave an efficiency ofahnost 54'10, for a signal increase of 2.5 dB.Although hardly worth the effort, this ispossible because at a lOO-watt power levelthe coil loss would be about 32 W.

Operation of this same antenna over sucha ground system at 1500 W would lead toa coil loss of 475 W and 20,000volts acrossthe coil. Evena 147-pH coil with a Qof600,which is quite hard to achieve in practice,would bave to dissipate 300 W. An 8o-pHcoil with its attendant capacitive structureproblem would dissipate 150 W. Insummary, high-power operation of theseshort inductive-capacitive 160-meter anten­nasover good ground systems is limited bycoil beat dissipation and voltages. The base­loaded vertical, with its loading coil atground level, makes exotic coils possible,but the better solution is Antenna 4, the Twith the horizontal-wire top load. Antenna5, using a wire flattop of intermediatelength, could reduce loading-eoil require­ments to a range of permissible loss, withspace requirements being the trade-off.

The best article on ground radial systemsthat I have seen in amateur literature is oneby Brian Edward, N2MF.2 His Fig 7 isparticularly applicable to ground systems ofthe kind likely to existunder the space limi­tations in which short antermas are oftensituated.

Vertical antennas are sometimes "lowtuned" by top loading to raise the currentloop farther above ground to reduce groundlosses. In a short anterma, the angular dis­tance just is not there to allow much cur­rent difference, and the required 1argerandhence more lossy inductor incurs addition­al coil loss that may exceed the ground-lossreduction.

The antennas discussed are all assumedto be hase fed. Grounded towers can be toploaded to facilitate shunt feed or slant-wirefeed. Short folded monopoles, foldedumbrellas etc on grounded masts can alsobe top loaded. Although these feed methodsyield a different (usually higher) feed-pointimpedance, this transformation of im­pedances does not affect the ground currentsor ground losses of the antenna. Such cur­rents and losses will be the same as theywould be if the tower was isolated fromground at the base and fed at that point.

Conclusions

Short inductive-capacitive top-loadedantennas are suitable for operation underthe conditions assumed. Coil loss is the com­promise to space considerations, and thelimiting factor for high power operation.

Coil-loss problems decrease with in­creased mast height or the availability ofhorizontal space for such as horizontal-wiretop-capacitive structures. Reduction of coilloss will improve efficiency to some extentandpermit operation at higher power levels.

Very low-loss ground systems, althoughimproving efficiency for low-power opera-

dOD, place prohibitive requirements on theloading coils for even large whip and spidercapacitive structures. Survival of conven­tional loading coils with high power inputis most probably because of very highground loss.

/'!lr· I

II bI IIII

j----\-I-

a

..L-----l-...LFig 3-Showlng how lengths a and baredefined for Eq 1 of the Appendix. The totallength (height). a pius b, equals 90·.

Appendix

R, ... 30 f(height)sinZO

where

f(height) ~ ,in'B [Si~2A II.- ~/.C!. [S,(4A)1 + S,(2A) (co, 2G + I)

. 2G[Sj(4A) S(2A·j--sm 2·- i )

A ~ 2WXB = 2~b/X

a ~ length a, feet (see Fig 3)b = length b. feet (see Fig 3)

984X ~ wavelength, f(MHz) feet

G~A+B

jX1 _ COS X x2

S,(x) = dx =--o x 2x2!

x4 ~ xn.. +-_..._-4x41 6x6! nxn!

, jX sin x xsS·(x) = --dx = x--­lOX 3X31

x5 x't+-_..._-SxS! n x nl

5, and Sjmust be to-about six-placeaccuracyfor short antenna.

March 1990 29

whereEff .... efficiency. 010R, .-.::: radiation resistance, ohmsRt. "'" total feed-point resistance, ohms

RLoop R il cos21J (Eq 17)

whereRLooP ',-':: resistance at f) transferred. to

current loopRIJ "" resistance at 8 from current loop(J = angular distance between resistance to

be transferred and current loop

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XL """ inductive reactance, ohmsf -= frequency, MHz

Notes1(EDITOR'S NOTE: As Fig 2 shOWS, with equal

power applied. more current flows at the basein the shorter, base-loaded element than in thefull-size, V4-h element. Intuitively, It may thenseem that this higher base current might yielda field-strength increase (gain) to offset someof the resistive losses, and therefore the author'sfigure of "8 dB down" may appear to requiremodification. However, not only the currentamplitude, but also the currentdistribution in theconductor (as indicated in Fig 2) is a factor indetermining far-field signal strength, The 8-dBdifference can be verified with antenna analysisprograms using method of moments calcula­tions, such as NEe, MININEC, and MN. Otherantenna configurations evaluated in this articlecan be similarly venfted.]

28. Edward, "Radial Systems for Ground­Mounted Vertical Antennas," QST, Jun 1985,pp 28-30_

'3Adaptedfrom G. H. Brown's thesis, "A Theoret­leal and Experimental Investlgation of theResistances of Radio Transmitting Antennas,"Univ of Wisconsin, 1933, citing van dar Pol andR. Bechmann, Jahrbuch O. Drahtl relegr. 13,217. 1918.

"From B. Byron (W7DHD). "Short Vertical Anten­nasfor the Low Bands,' HamRadio;Part 1, May1983, pp 36--40. and Part 2. Jun 1983, pp 17-20.

s-See note 4, ~

CEq 13)

(Eq 12)

where

C ,'" capacitance, pFf :.::. frequency, MHzXc ,::". capacitive reactance. ohms

lO6

21lfXc

L 0.' X,_ (.Eq 16)2Ef

whereL "'" inductance, J-tH

X ~ Xc· XL IEq 14)

whereX ;;:;:. resulting reactanceXc = capacitive reactance, ohmsXL "'" inductive reactance, ohms

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Carl Nelson. Managing Director o f thePavek Museum of Wonderful Wireless.stands beside a display of antique tubes. in­cluding a DeForest Audion tube. The St PaulRadio Club joined the museum to com­memorate Lee DeForest's patent of the Audiontube and the birthday of museum founder JoePavek, W00EP, with special event stationK0AGF on February 17-18. Pavek, now a Si­lent Key, was rirst licensed in 1933, and be-

C = O.8992d

whereC ';;0;.' capacitance. pFd "" diameter, inches

10'Xc = 2,fC CEq 15)

whereXc""' capacitive reactance, ohmsf = frequency, lI.1HzC = capacitance, pF

where

Z", = input impedance of short-circuitedtransmission line

Zo '::-:: characteristic impedance of line,ohms

j "'"; the complex operatorfJ = angular length of line

Strays -!JI!JI

(Eq 9)

(Eq 7)

(Eq 6)

(Eq 5)

(Eq II)

(Eq 2)4

(err, )

dB = 10 10g10 Eff;

-jZZ = ...__.9...or. tan 8

X1 "= •._'_.-. 21d'

whereL ,.-.: inductance, ItHX'L :::: inductive reactance, ohmsf -= frequency, MHz

R ~ 366 (1-cos H)lr . sin2H

whereZoe "'" input impedance of open-circuited

line, ohmsZo = characteristic impedance of line.

ohmsf! angular length of linej ....,..' the complex operator

xa, '~-t- (Eq 8)

where

RI: ':'::: resistance of coil. ohmsXL .... inductive reactance of coil, ohmsQ = quality factor of coil

H - 0.366hf (Eq 3)

whereH .... angular length, degrees; Note:

360/984 ~ 0.366h - length, feetf ".~ frequency. MHz

Eff - 100 ~._. (Bq 4)n,

where

dB = gain, decibelsEfft and Eff;;-= efficiencies- being compared.

R, ~ 36.6 sin-H (Eq 10)'

whereR, '::. radiation resistance of the base

section of a top-loaded antenna at ~i-X

resonanceH ""' angular height of base section

whereRr • ,"': radiation resistance of simple

monopole. ohmsH ... angular height of simple monopole

whereZo = characteristic impedance of vertical

monopole considered as a transmissionline, ohms

h = height of monopole, feetd "'., average diameter of monopole, inchesIn = natural logarithm

30 D5T~

Using theMC2831AFMTransmitterSubsystemIC

Subsystem ICs are great for miniaturized transmitters and receivers.Here are some guidelines for using the Motorola MC2831A.

By Doug. DeMaw, W1FBARRL Contributing EditorPO Box 250Luther, MI 49656

Good fortune came to mv door whenthe mailman delivered two samplesof a new IC that Motorola devel­

oped for the cordless-phone industry. Thedata sheet that accompanied the samplesinspired visions of numerous amateur cir­cuits that could be wrapped around the16-pin DIP ICs that awaited my attention.Imagine a complete FM transmitter on asingle substrate! Certainly, such a devicewould be excellent as the heart of anamateur FM transmitter.

The MC2S3IA is aimed at 49-MHzcordless-phone use. The manufacturershows a circuit that uses the third harmonicof the crystal as the operating frequency.This energy is taken from pin 14 to the ICand passed through a band-pass filter thatis tuned to the third harmonic. Only about0.4 W of power exists in the third harmonic,but it is ample for the short range of cord­less phones.

I chose a IO-meter circuit in which to testthis interesting I'C. The basic circuit ofFig 1 can be extrapolated to 2 and 6 metersby adding the proper number of multipli­er and amplifier stages.

A Practical to-Meter Circuit

Please refer to Fig I. The ic (UI) isshown at the left. VI is used in a VXO cir-

cuit. L I permits adjustment of the crystaloperating frequency. The frequency shiftis approximately 14 kHz at 14.5 MHz(twice that range at 29 MHz) as L1 is variedfrom minimum to maximum inductance.The VXO circuit enahles the frequency toshift under modulation, thereby ensuringFM deviation when audio is applied to pin5 of LJ I. Control R5 is adjusted to providethe frequency swing (deviation) desired.

The dashed lines and non-numberedcomponents at the bottom of the U I illus­tration are optional. They permit toneencoding, should that be desired. SI canbe used to actuate the tone. I left those ter­minals of U1 unconnected. The valuesshown will provide a 5-kHz tone.

RF output from UI is taken at pin 14.I chose the second harmonic of the crystalfrequency. T1 is tuned to 29 MHz by wayof a high-Q toroidal transformer. 1 usedfairly light coupling (C7 and C22) in andout of the tuned circuit to help reduce thelevel of the 14.5-MHz energy from VI.This causes the tuned circuit to act some­what like a high-pass network. Smallercapacitance values can be used at a sacrificein power output from Q1.

The recommended operating voltage forthe MC2831 A is + 3 to +8 V de. The max­imum safe operating voltage for U J is+ 10 V. Total current draln for the chip Is4 rnA at 4 V.

Outboard CircuitryThe discrete components to the right of

U I in Fig I illustrate how we can build upthe output power at 29 MHz. QI operatesas a linear amplifier. A class-C stage is notsuitable at Q I because of the modest poweroutput from U1. Also, the linear amplifierhas less harmonic output than does a c1ass­C amplifier. Although a 2N5179 is speci­fied for Q I, you can use the more common2N5770. In fact, a 2N2222A should beokay at Q I. I did not try one in this circuit.

I chose an NEC 2SCI973 for Q2. Thisjumbo '1'0-92 type device Is rated at l-Woutput at 50 MHz with only 30 mW ofdrive! [ A 2N3866 should be okay as a sub­stitute. C23 of Fig I is used to bypass VHFharmonics that are present in the output ofQI. Ril prevenls self-oscillation of Q2.

The output impedance of Q2 is J44 IIwhen it delivers 0.5 W of output. FLI isdesigned for 50 ll. This requires that abroadband matching transformer (T3) beused between Q2 and FI 1. I obtain inexcess of 05 \V of output power when theQ2 Vcc is + t2. This results in a total ex­citer current of 130 rnA. The output in­creases to 0.7 W at + 12.5 V. The turnsratio of T3 should be changed in accor­dance with the Q2 power output. Z (col­lector) = Vcc2/ZPo- where Po is the outputpower in watts. The '1'3 turns ratio is thesquare root of the impedance ratio. I mea­sured the Q2 efficiency as 53 percent.

You can increase the power output of theexciter by using a lower resistance value at

1Notes appear on page 33.

March 1990 31

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Fig l-Hybrid diagram of the to-meter FM exciter. Fixed-value capacitors are disc ceramic, 50 V or greater. Fixed-value resistors are1;'4-W carbon composition. Dashed lines and related components show optional circuits (see text).

ca, Cl0-Miniature 6o-pF trimmer (seeNote 1).

C17-C20, incl-NPO ceramic disc, silvermica or polystyrene.

C21--Electrolyllc or tantalum.01-Zener diode, 7.2 V, 4OQ-mW or 1 W.L1-Slug-tuned inductor, 4-8 ~H, PC

mount. 30 turns of no. 30 enarn wire on a3/16-inch-QO form, scramble wound tooccupy 1/4 inch (see Note 1).

L2, L4-Toroidal inductor, 0,3 ~H. Use 10turns of no. 24 enam wire on an AmidonAssoc T-37-6toroid.

L3-Toroidal inductor, 0.373~. Use 11turns of no. 24 enam wire on an AmidonAssoc T-37·6 toroid,

LS-See text.01, 02-See text.R5-1o-kllllnear-taper, carbon-composilion

control, panel mounted (see text).RFC2-Miniature 3- or 5-~H RF choke or 6

turns of no. 26 enam wire on an AmidonAssoc FT·25-43 ferrite toroid.

T1.--Primary has 14 turns of no. 26 enamwire on an Amidon Assoc T-37--6 toroid.Secondary has 6 turns of no. 26 wire.

T2-Primary contains 14 turns of no. 26enam wire. Secondary has 3 tums of no.2S wire. Amidon T-37-6 toroid core.

TS-Primary has 15 turns of no. 26 enamwire on an Amidon FT-37-43 ferrite toroid.Secondary has 10 turns of no. 26 enamwire.

Ul-Motorola FMSUbsystem IC. At thiswriting, available from Motorola dealersfor less than $3. (The MC2833, with twoundedicated transistors. has largelysuperseded the '2831.)

Yl-Fundamental crystal, 3O-pF loadcapacitance in HC-6IU holder.

R8 of Fig l. Do not use less than 56 (I forR8 in order to prevent overheating of QI.In a like manner, you cau reduce the out­put power from Q2 by using a larger

resistance value at R8. An output 01'0,5 Wshould easily drive a 10-W outboardamplifier if a high-gain transistor is used,

A 14.5-MHz series trap is shown in

dashed lines at the upper right in Fig I. Ifyou waut to try your haud at IO-m F1I-lQRP with the "barefoot" exciter, add theLS/C25 trap. It can be tuned to eliminate

32 05.....

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Need Tlaxcala for Worked All States inMexico? Then you'll need a QSL from CptJesus Garcia Fernandez, XEIGFJ (standing),

StraysYou can add a 33-V, 400-mW Zener

diode to Q2's circuit for SWR protection.Simply bridge the diode from the collectorpad of the PC board to ground. Thecathode of the diode connects to the Q2collector.

Exciter Adjnstment

Select a crystal for YI that is marked2 kHz higher than the desired operating fre­quency. Adjust the slug in L1 to obtain thechosen operating frequency" This will allowleeway for "rubbering" the crystal to theselected frequency.

Connect a 50-ohm dummy antenna atthe output of FLI. Apply operating voltageto the assembly, then adjust C8 and CIOfor maximum exciter output power. Ascope can be used to set these trimmers forthe output-waveform purity. The objectiveis to tweak C8 and CIO to produce thecleanest sine wave practicable while sam­pling across the 50-ohm load. The sine­wave peaks will not be equal when14.5-MHz energy is present.

Adjust the trimmers for equal amplitudeof the positive and negative sine-wavepeaks. This indicates resonance of thetuned circuits, TI and '1'2. Alternatively,you can monitor the exciter output with areceiver that is tuned to 14.5 MHz, thenadjust the two trimmers for minimum20~meter response, consistent with maxi­mum output power at 29 MHz.

Ftnal Comments

The ctrcui t in Fig 1 represents a- startingpoint for experimentation. A 2-meter FMexciter cau be made by using an 18·MHzcrystal at Yl and taking the output frompin 14 of VI at 36 MHz, then multiplyingthe frequency to 146 MHz along the linesshown in this lO-meter circuit. In a likemanner, you can build a 6-meter FM exciteraround the MC283lA.

If I were to go through this exerciseagain, i would make the output of pin 14of U I the crystal frequency, then doubleit to 29 MHz by way of a push-push,balanced doubler. This would reduce the14.5-MHz energy by at least 40 dB if thedoubler were properly balanced. A pair of2N2222As should work well in a push-pushdoubler, and the efficiencycould approachthat of a straight-through class-C stage.

Good luck with your experimentsl Iwould appreciate hearing about yourresults if you develop other circuits aroundthe MC2831A.

NoteslQ2 and the other special parts are available trom

OakHillsResearch,4061 NDouglas Rd, Luther,MI 49656. Send SASE for price information.

'PC boards for this project are available from FARCircuits, 18N640 Field Ct, Dundee, IL 60118,tel 312-426-2431, after 6 PM Central Time.Price: $3.75plus$1.50shipping perorderto USaddresses. A PC-board template and parts­placement diagram areavailable from the ARRLHQ Technical Department Secretary for anSASE.

ssee Note 1. IR'_~_J

2~~'H'C15

r 0,001

L5- _

L '-'l.2

most of the residualI4.5-MHz euergy thatfeeds through the circuit from V I. The trapcan be tuned while monitoring the trans­mitter output at 14.5 MHz and tuning C25for minimum signal. as indicated. on the Smeter. L5 consists of 47 turns of no. 30enamel wire on an Amidon FT-37~6I ferritetoroid. C25 can be a 3-30 pF ceramic, plas­tic or mica trimmer.

14.5-MHzFrop

Test Model Construction

Single-sided board material is used.'Deviation control R5 is panel mounted,although it could be a PC·board trimmerif you wish.

The L1 coil form, C8, CIO, Ql and 02are not always easy to locate, These com­ponents are available by mail)

I used epoxy to affix a modified '1'0-5heat sink on the body of Q2. It runs quitewarm without the heat sink. My sink is anAavid no. 5784. I bent the press-en ring tofit snugly over the body of Q2. A few dropsof epoxy were placed atop the transistorafter theheat sink was in place. You canfashion your own heat sink from no. 18aluminum, brass or copper.

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Practical Battery-Back-Up Powerfor Amateur Radio Stations­Part 1Many radio amateurs use batteries only in low-power, portable/mobile applications. Here's how to use batteries to keep a hamstation going when commercial ac power fails.By George L. Thurston III. W4MLE

2116 Gibbs DrTallahassee, FL 32303

Fig 1-A basic battery­based power systemconsists of a back-upbattery, A, a charger,S, the system load, C,and interconnectingwiring. This article. part1 of 3, focuses onback-up-battery topicsand the basics ofhousing and installing apower-back-up system.Chargers and chargingtopics aredIscussed inPart 2.

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back-up-battery types, chemistry. construc­tion and procurement, and the basics ofhousing and installing a power-back-up sys­tem. In Part 2, we'il cover battery chargersand charging. Part 3 will cover back-up­battery monitoring, maintenance and safe­ty, and how to dispose of unnsable batteriessafely and responsibly.

Components of a Battery-Back-Up System

In its most basic form (FIg I), a battery­backed-up power system consists of a back­up battery, itsload. a charger,and intercon­necting wiring. A practical system-Fig 2outlines mine-may include morethanonestorage battery, and also includes fusing andinstruments (or points for connecting instru­ments) to monitor voltage and current in thesystem.

Snitable Batteries for Back-Up Power

Automotive batteries are unsuitable forstation back-up power except as a lastresort," Intended to start cars, they aredesigned to provide several hundred am­peres for the few seconds needed to crankan engine. From a back-up-power stand­point, though, their weakness is that theydon't like to be discharged very far. You

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Part of the author's 12~V back-up powersystem. these 2·V, 300-Ah, lead-acid floatcells-obtained free of charge from a localtelephone company-help keep W4MLE onthe air when commercial power fails.(W4MLEphotos.)

H eavy-duty back-up power is readilyavailable for many-perhapsmost-Amateur Radio stations,

and it need not be expensive. Virtually allmodern amateur gear isdesigned to operatefrom 11 to 14 or 15 V de, making opera­tion possible from highly reliable. heavy­duty batteries. Yet, battery backup isunderappreciated and underutilized byamateurs-probabiy because of a iack offamiliarity and the supposed difficulty orexpense of obtaining suitable batteries. Sur­plus commercial or industrial heavy-dutyiead-acid cells often can be obtained for theasking, however, and frequently theycomein batches big enough to supply several sta­tions at once. I

Besidessuperb back-up against failure ofcommercial ac power. batteries provideotherbenefits. One of theseis surgeprotec­tion: A power-line spike big enough todemolish a regulated dc power supply prob­ably won't get past a battery to damagesolid-state electronics. In addition, batteries:

• Are dean and safe,"• Require very little maintenance.• Offerconsiderable overvoltage protec­

tion if a power-supply regulator fails.• Can accumulate dribs and drabs of

energy from alternative power systems. suchas solar energy. water or windpower. anddeliver it when needed.

As useful and versatile as batteries are,however, building a battery back-up systemrequires care and planning. Many hamsbelievethat an old automobile battery, stuckunder the operating desk and put on acharger everyso often, constitutes batteryback-up. "Tain't so!

This three-part article describes how to geta practical battery-back-up system up andrunning. In thisarticle, Part 1, we'lldiscuss

'Notes appear on page 37.

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F2

BT6 -

Load13.5-V

RegulatedSupply

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vM2

1 r1I BT41~T- +

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BTl

Three-WireConnectionto120Vac

M2-Meter capable of measuring voltagesfrom 10 to 15. A 0- to l5-V meter willwork, but a 10- to l5-V. expanded-scalemeter is better.

Zl-Regulatad power supply, modifiad forprotection against reverse voltage asdescribed in Part 2 of this article. Do notuse a supply that has not been modllledfor reverse-voltage protection.

F1, F2-32-V fuse of a current rating nogreater than that necessary to handle thesystem current demand with a margin ofsafety (for example, 20 to 25 A for the=l5-A load presented by a l3.8-V,100-W MF/HFtransceiver). F2 Is usedonly if BT6 is present.

M1-Zero-center ammeter; range depen­dent on battery capacity and load.

Fig 2-A practical battery-backed-up power system may include more than one storage battery. and also includes fusing and instru­ments. or points for connecting instruments, to monitor system voltage and current. This drawing, which depicts the author's system,illustrates how batteries of varying types and capacities can work together to provide solid back-up power. Stock regulated powersupplies usually must be modified before they can be used for charging service at Zl; see below and Part 2 of this article-to appear In asubsequent Issue of OST-for more Information. A simple battery voltagelcurrent monitor (Ml and M2 serve this function In this diagram)will be descrlbad in Part 3.BTl, BT2, BT3-Batlery oonsisting ot six

2-V, 3OI>-Ah float cells.BT4, BT5-6-V, 101>-Ah deep-cycle bat­

teries.BT6-0ptional dee!H'Ycle battery to handle

peak current demand in cases of high­voltage drop In statlon-to-battery wiring:see text.

may have already disoovered this the hardway: Kill your car battery two or three timesby leaving your headlights on, and you'llprobably have to replace it.

Three other types of rechargeable lead­acid battery, readily available to radioamateurs, can be deeply discharged andrecharged:

• Deep-cyciebatteriesare used in recrea­tional vehiclesand by boaters and fishermento operate boat t.rolling motors, lights,pumps and electronics. Industrial deep-cyclebatteries are often fully discharged every dayand recharged every night.

• Gelled-elearotyte batteries, manufac­tured hoth for float and deep-cycle service,are usually intended for portable use andcan be quite small. In most respects, theycan bemanagedeither as oonventional deep­cycle batteries or, in light-duty applications,as float batteries. I won't discuss gelled­electrolyte batteries specifically because theybehave mucb like their liquid-electrolyteoounterparts.

• "Fkxu-service" batteries. used in unin­terruptible power systerns4 for telephoneand large oompnter systems, should not bediscl1aIged and recharged more frequentlythan necessary.They are kept on a regulatedcharging source all the time-the same

source that normally powers the load.Properly applied, deep-cycle, gelled­

electrolyte and float-service batteries arewell-suited for back-up service even thoughtheir cheruistries are similar to that ofautomotive batteries. They can replace yourstation's oommercial ac power so oompletelyduring an outage that your rig may not no­tice that the power is down!

Baek-Up Battery Chemistry

Selection, use and care of lead-acid back­up batteries requires knowledge of theircberuistry and oonstruction. Most such bat­teries oonsist of a case, or tank, divided intocompartments-one compartment percell-each of which is filled with dilute sul­furic acid (H2S04)' Immersed in this acidare plales-actually latticework frames­made of lead alloy. Half of the total num­berof a given cell's plates are filled with leadperoxide (PbOV; these plates serve as thecell anode (+ electrode). The remainder ofthe cell's plates are filled with spongy metal­lic lead (Pb)-Iead that's fmely divided toexpose maximum surface area to the elec­trolyte. These spongy plates serve as the cellcathode (- elect/ode).

Deep-cycle cells generally differ in oon­struction from automotive cells in that their

plate-support grids consist of a lead­antimony alloy that stands up well to repeat­ed cycling.

Floal cells usually oontain lead-calciumplates that tend to respond to repeatedcycling by swelling, cracking and fallingapart, eventually creating short circuitsbetween adjacent plates.

With no loadoonnected to a fully chargedbattery of any of these types, a voltage­about 2 V per cell-appears between theanode and cathode of each cell. When aload is oonnected, the battery releases storedchemical energy by causing electric currentto flow through the load. The transforma­tion of chemical to electrical energy occursas a result of several chemical reactions inthe battery, with the final results represent­ed by the equation:

Pb02 + Pb + 2H2S04~

PbS04 + 2H20 (Eq 1)

Translated, this means that the leadperoxide and spongy lead react with thesulfuric acid to release energy and producetwo new compounds-c-lead sulfate (PbSOJand water. This reaction is indicated by theright-pointing arrow in Eq 1. As the dis­charge continues, more and more acid isoonverted, causing the specific gravity of the

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These 6-V. 100-Ah, float batteries, also part of the W4MLE back-up battery, consist ofthree cells each.

electrolyte to decrease.' When all the leadperoxide (PbQ2) is used up, the battery is"dead." Because the electrolyte normallycontains a surplus of acid, its specific gravityusually doesn't fall all the way to 1.0.

'Whenthe battery is charged, the reactionreverses (hence the left-pointing arrow inEq 1), converting the charging electricalenergy into stored chemical energy. Now.lead sulfateon the positive plate is convertedback to lead peroxide. releasing sulfuricacid. Lead sulfate on the negative plate isconverted back to spongy lead, producingstill more sulfuric acid. When all the sulfuricacid has been released, the battery is fullyrecharged and the specific gravity of theelectrolyte is back at maximum.

The chemical process is the same in lead­calcium and lead-antimony cells (includinggelled-electrolyte cells). But the design andapplication of these two types differ indetail, such as the optimum electrolytespecific gravity, the normal open-circuitvoltage for a single cell at full charge, andthe optimum ficat voltage. Lead-calciumcells, usually used in float-charged systems,require and produce a slightly higher volt­age per cell, lose less energy through internalleakage and take less maintenance, thantheir lead-antimony counterparts. Thesedesign differences are important in AmateurRadio applications.

Since back-up batteries are seldom, ifever, called upon to deliver short bursts ofextremely high current, their electrolyte isnot as acidic as that in automotive batter­ies, and they contain fewer plates." On theother hand, back-up-battery plates arethicker and more densely packed withmaterial than those of automotive startingbatteries. And the plates of float batteriesare usually immersed in larger quantities ofelectrolyte than other lead-acid batterytypes.

An Overview nf AvaUable Back-UpBatteries

Float-service batteriesare the vice presi­dents of the battery world. Their functionsare to wait for a main power system to fail,to be ready when it does, and to not com­plain when it doesn't. They are electro­chemical couch potatoes, luxuriating in alight but continuous flow of current-justenough to replace their internal leakagelosses-from a regulated power supply.

Float cells are sold in many forms. Theyrange from 6-V, 100-Ah batteries of threecells each, to individual2--V, 100- to 300-Ahc-ells weighing as much as 85 pounds each.Cells of much higher capacities are manu­factured for industrial uses, but their sizeusually precludes their use in ham stations.

Most manufacturers, such as Gould.Exide and C&D, warrant their 110atcells for20 years under strenuous industrial use.Used for power back-up in Amateur Radiostations, industrial float batteries may bevirtually immortal, with industrialpreventive-maintenance discards probablylasting more than 10 years even after a hardworking life. Remember, though, that 110at

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cells don't like deep discharges. Onemanufacturer".' warns that

if occasional discharges are experienced,battery life will decrease in proportion tothe frequency and depth of thesedischarges ...

It is customary that a stationary batterywillnot experience any more than 200 dis­charge cyclesevenly distributed throughoutits useful life. Frequent or greater depthsof discharge can shorten service life to 10years or even less, even with proper main­tenanceand operating conditions.

Two hundred cycles may sound like a lot,but remember that many industrial applica­tions-golf-cart service, for instance­require full discharge every day and com­plete recharge every night. In such service,200 cycles amounts to less than a year ofbusiness days!

Deep-cycle batteries can tolerate frequentdischarges to about JJ V, and can withstandsuch use every day for years if well­maintained. But they also perform quite wellin float service. The most useful deep-cyclebatteries for Amateur Radio Service consistof six 2-V cells. connected in series, in asingle, compact case. Deep-cycle batteriesintended for use on boats and recreationalvehicles are typically rated at 60 to 100 Ah,compared to 40 to 50 Ah for car (starting)batteries. And deep-cycle batteries aredesigned to operate at 13.8 V while charg­ing. Industrial deep-cycle batteries may bedesigned for slightly lower voltages.

Deep-cycle fishing and recreational­vehicle batteries are normally warranted for18 months because they tend to be abusedby forgetful sportsmen who top them offby fast charging after leaving them dis­charged for long periods. Properly nurtured

and used in stationary service at a ham sta­tion, however, deep-cycle fishing batteriescan last much, much longer than 18months.

Obtaining Back-Up BatteriesWhere can you find suitable back-up

batteries? You could buy float cells from amanufacturer for something like $11Ah per2-V cell. That amounts to maybe $300 fora 2-V, 300-Ah cell-$1,800 for a 6-cell bat­tery! Surprisingly, however, 110at cells areoften available gratis.

Used batteries are seldom retained whenfloat-cell-backed power systems are upgrad­ed. Old float cells are generally hauled offto a toxic-waste dump or to a salvage house,where the cells' lead. and polycarbonateplastic cases, are reclaimed. Often, anAmateur Radio dub, or even individualamateurs, can arrange to get these discard­ed cells for hauling them away.

The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Societyhas a written agreement with the local tele­phone company (Centel) to accept discardedbatteries on behalf of club members. About75"70 of the cells the club has received fromthe company were in good health. Similararrangements have been worked out be­tween industrial battery users and otherAmateur Radio clubs nationwide. My ownstation has a lQOO-Ah float-cell bank, somecells of which once powered the city policedepartment's telephones. Other cellspowered a monster computer at FloridaState University!

Of course, deep-cycle batteries can bepurchased off-the-shelf at most boat dealers,fishing-tackle shops and automotive stores.Price, warranty and rated capacity are theimportant considerations in a new-batterypurchase.

W4MLE'0 main battery-BT1-BT5 in Fig 2-oono;sto of deep-cycle and float cello,connected in series-parallel and housed outdoors.

Housing a Battery-Back-Up System

Back-up batteries can be kept indoors,since they do not sputter electrolyte as auto­motive batteries do, but they must be venti­lated. Charging generates oxygen andhydrogen-s-gases that form a highly explo­sive mixture if allowed to collect in anenclosed area. with back-up batteries. safeventilation is generally assured if you fol­Iowa simple rule: Don't put them ina closetorenclose them ina box. Smallbatteriescanbe stored in a corner or under a desk; aroom's ordinary air circulation will sufficefor ventilation in most cases.

Back-up batteries can be kept outdoorsin most climates; fully charged, they freezeat about - 95 of.' Completely discharged·-when their electrolyte is least acidic-theirfreezing point is quite close to that of water(32 "F). To protect the battery from sun­light. rain, snow, trash, insectsand acciden­tal short circuits, the cells should beprovided with a housingor cover. You maybe able to obtain a suitable plastic-coatedsteel battery rack from the supplier of yourback-up cells. Such racks can usually holdtwo sets of six cells each. Or you can builda rack of your own, as 1 did the rack shownin the photo above. If you build your ownrack, be sure it can take the weight of yourback-up batteries: my rack consists of 2 X 4and 4 x 4 lumber.

The porous, explosion-proof caps in thetops of back-up-batteries' cells are normallycovered by plastic lids. If these lids get lost,don't leave the caps open; trash, rain andinsects can get in. (Mud-dauber wasps, forinstance, love to build nests in the necks ofthe funnels-and mud contains no knownvitamins beneficial to battery cells.) Ordi­nary glass marbles, placed in the cap necks,are a good substitute for the lids; they canbe easily removed. when water must beadded to the cells,

Back-up batteries need protection fromdirect sunlight. The polycarbonate plastic

cases of float cells can be damaged byultraviolet light; they develop cracks, andleak. If you store your cells outdoors, keepthem off the ground and out of the sun.where you can eyeball them frequently tocheck their electrolyte levels. At nontropicallatitudes in the northern hemisphere, thenorth side of a building receive.') little or nosun throughout the year; if that's where youlive, the north side of your house is- a goodlocation for battery storage. when it'savailable,

Minimizing Voltage Drop in Battery-to­Station Wiring

Wire is resistive, and resistance dissipatesuseful power as heat. Because of this, besure to install your back-up battery as closeas possible to its heaviest load-no morethan 10 to 15 ft away, and the closer thebetter. A 2OO-W load, such as a loo-W­output MF/HF transceiver, draws at least15 A at 13.5 V: a 300,W load draws 22 Aat this voltage. The wire resistance betweenbattery and load causes a voltage drop; forexample,a resistance of 0.1 0 in a linecarry­ing 22 A causes a drop of 2.2 Vl The resis­tance of the system's positive and negativeleads must be taken into account. Moral:Use heavy-gage wire.

Automotive battery cables are a goodsource of such wire. Welding cable isanother. Or. you can try flexible, three­conductor. house-wiring cable: Double itand connect all six of its no. 10 solid con­ductors in parallel. Use one such six­conductor cable for the positive connection,and another for your system's negative load­to-battery lead. (You may be able to findsome suitable discarded cable at a buildingsite, or obtain "reel ends" from a building­materials supplier.) Make sure that everyconnection is well soldered and mechanicallytight, You may have touse a propane torchto heat the joints sufficiently to solder them.Connect the main-battery negative lead to

the power supply and the rig.Assuming that the battery is sufficiently

close to its load, most of the resistance ina back-up system occurs at its connectors.Measure the system voltage at the battery,at the power supply and at the load. If youmeasure a drop of more than half a volt atfun load, you have a problem. (Monitorsfor in-linecurrent and voltage at the batteryterminals should be located where you'll seethem every time you enter the room. Part 3of this article will describe battery monitor­ing in detail and describe a circuit designedfor this purpose.)

ln cases of excessive voltage drop, suchas those with long runs of wire (15 feet ormore). another solution is possible. Put asmall (100 Ah) battery under your operat­ing desk, within two or three feet of the sys­tem's heaviest load (usually your MF/HFtransceiver). Hang this additional battery­BT6 in Fig 2····--across the 12-V line by con­necting it directly-through a suitably ratedfuse in its positive lead-to the rig terminals,in parallel with the line from the outside bat­teries and power supply. This battery willkeep the system voltage from sagging dur­ing the relatively brief periods of heavy loadand then recharge itself from the main bat­tery during intervals of light load.

Notes1A cef/ls a single electrochemical unit capable

of generating electricity by means of two elec­trodes and an electrolyte. Depending on itschemistry and design. a cell may be classed asprimary (non-rechargeable} or secondary(rechargeable). A battery consists of two or morecells connected in series, parallel or series­parallel to combine their voltage and/or currentcapacities. (In popular usage, battery can meana sin-gle cell or a battery of cells, For clarity.battery is used to mean "a battery of cells"throughout thIs artlcte.j The batteries used incommercial and Amateur RadIo back-up serviceare invariably rechargeable and, in heavy-duty,full-station back-up service, are nearly alwaysbased on lead-acid chemIstry. Thus. through­out this article. back-up battery is used to mean"lead-acid back-up battery."

2But reasonable safety precautions must be takenwhen handling and installing back-up batteriesbecause they contain caustic and highly corro­sive sulfuric acid.

3" Standby Power. Will the Automotive BatteryDo?" Telephone .Journal. Jan-Feb 1975.

-Uninterruptible power systems are designed tobe just that: power-supply systems capable oftaking over, or continuing to operate. when regu~lar ae power fails.

ethe specific gravity of a substance is the ratioof its density to the density of another sub­stance, with both densities measured in air. Thespeciffc gravity of back-up-battery electrolytesuses that of pure water-c-t.nc-as a referent. Thespecific gravity of the electrolyte in fully chargedfloat cells typically ranges from about 1.2 to1.275: for deep-cycle cells, the specifIc gravityis slightly hIgher.

6F1oat.-service cells usually contain approximatelys-mear sulfuric acto: thls is. six moles (molecu­lar weights, measured in grams) of H2S04 perliter of electrolyte. The molecular weight of sul­furic acid is 98, so a mole of sulfuric acid is 98grams.

"C&DStationaryBatteryInstalJatlon and OperatingInstflictions. pub in 1981 by C&DBatteries. 3043Walton Rd, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462.

8Jf you store your batterIes outside, besure theyare inaccessible to unauthorized personnel.

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Product Review

ICOM IC-725 MF/HF Transceiver

Conducted By James W. Healy, NJ2LAssistant Technical Editor

Reviewed by Kirk Kleinschmidt, NTfJZ

With the introduction of the IC-725, ICOMjoins the entry-level transceiver battlewithKenwood and Yaesu. ICOM's budget­priced '725 should hold its own against itschief competitors: Kenwood's TS-l40S;Yaesu's FT-747GX; and Heath's SB-1400(a slightly reworked FT-747GX).

The '725 is a full-featured 100-W trans­ceiver in a diminutive (3.7 ).:: 9.5 x9.4-inch) cabinet. Some of its advanced fea­tures include ICOM's direct-digital synthesis(DDS) frequency control (more on thatlater), 26 user-programmable memories.three scanning modes, band-stackingregisters (to remember the frequency, modeand filtersselectedwith eachmemoryandband location), two YFOs, selectablelO-dB-gain preamp, 20-dB attenuator,computerinterface,andtheability to con­trol the ICOM AH-3 automatic antennatuner (well suited for multiband mobileoperation).

Controls and ConnectionsThe front panel. which accommodates

quite a few controls,does not appear over­crowded. The left third of the front panelcontains the main POWER switch, theTRANSMIT switch and push buttons for theNoise Blanker. ATTenuator. PREamplifierand AGC. There's also a backlit S meterand relative power-output meter. a head­phonejack.an 8-pinmicrophone connectorand two concentric controls-one for AFgain and SQuelch. the other for MfC gainand AF PoWeR.

The centerportion of the front panel isprimarily occupied by the black-on-orangeLCD and frequency-determining controlssuch as the VFO knob, the kHz, MHz, BANDand LOCK switches (used to set tuningspeeds and to change bands; lOCK disablesthe main tuning knob and is also used totransmit subaudibJe tones in the optionalFM mode). To the left of the tuning knobare the mode-selection switches: SSB, CW(wide and narrow). and AM/FM.

On the upperright are the six memory­and VFO-manipulation controls: VFOA/B. SPLIT, memory channel UP/DOWN,MEMory. and Memory write. Thesecontrolsalso have secondary functions: program­med SCAN, VFO A • B and Memory > VFO.Under the memory controls are the RfTand TUNER controls (TUNER selects anddeselects the optional AH-3 automatic an­tenna tuner),

The '725', rear panel has the followingconnectors: DC 13.8 V, ANTenna, computerinterface. TUNER interface. SEND and ALejacks (for controlling external amplifiers),

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two accessory sockets (for connectingexternal audio devices, RTTY or packet­radioterminals.automaticantennatunersor selectors. etc). CW KEY, EXTernalspeaker, ground, and a switch to enablethe semi-break-in feature in CW mode.

The supplied HM-12 hand-held micro­phone is equipped with UP and DOWNfrequency-selection buttons, in addition tothe PIT switch. The up!down buttons canalso be disabled by a microphone-mountedswitch.

Frequency SelectionThe 1C-725 uses the main YFO knob and

several push-button switches to select theoperating frequency. When the YFO knobis rotated, the VFO changes frequency inIO-Hzsteps. If this is too slow for you, youcan select alternate rates of 20 or 50 Hz perstep. I found even the IO-Hz rate to beextremely fast-I used the faster rates onlywhile tuning among shortwave broadcaststations. The fastest tuningratemakesthe'725 feel awkward. Pushing the kHz, MHzor BAND keys while rotating the VFO knobresults in accelerated frequency or bandchanges.

The '725 has two VFOs, allowing split­frequency operation. There are also 26programmable memories. The first 22 areregular memories, each storing frequencyand mode. Memory channels 23 and 24each store a pairof frequencies and modesfor commonly used split-frequency pairs,and channels 25 and 26 are used to set the

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upper and lower limits of the programmed­scan function.

I commend ICOM on the sensible, easy­to-use layout of its VFO and memory func­tion controls. Whether quickly steppingthrougb available memory positions, writinga new frequency to memory, or switchinghetween the two YFOs or a memory posi­tion. the '725 makes it easy. Unlike manysimilar rigs. it's not necessary to entermemory mode to c-ycle througb the availablememory channels. In VFO mode, the upand down arrow keyscause the rig to cyclethrough the memory channels. This makesit easy to tune up and down the band andload the memory channels with the fre­quenciesof severalDX or contest stationswithout a lot of button pushing.

The '725 has three scan modes: (1)programmed scan, using the contents ofmemory channels 25 and 26 as limits; (21memory scan, which repeatedly scans allprogrammed memory channels; and (31selected-mode memoryscan, whichrepeat­edlyscansthecontents of all memory chan­nelswiththesameoperating mode. Certainscan functions can be changed by installinga diode on one of the internal circuitboards.

Although the '725 is an entry-level unit,teOM's advertisements promote the rig'shigh-tech DDS frequency synthesizer. DDSis supposed to be the last word when itcomes to synthesizer performance, offeringimproved lock-up times and providing ex­cellentphase-noise performance. Sure, the

Fig 2-Spectrai dispiay 01 the 1C-725during two-tone intermodulation distortion(tMO) testing. Third-order products are ap­proximately 35 dB below PEP output, andfifth-order products are approximately38 dB down, Vertical divisions are each10 dB; horizontal divisions are each 2 kHz.The transceiver was baing operated at100 W PEP output on 14.2 MHz.

Fig 3-CW-keying waveforms for the ICOM1C-725 in the semi-break-ln mode. The lowertrace is the RF envelope; the upper trace isthe actual key closure, Each horizontal divi­sion Is 5 ms. The transceiver was beingoperated at 130 W output on 14.02 MHz.The 1C-725's CW keying is good.

Fig l-Worst-case spectral display of theICOM 1G-725.Horizontal divisions are each10 MHz; vertical divlslons are each 10 dB.Output power is approximately 134 W at14.2 MHz. All harmonics and spuriousemissions are at least 56 dB below peakfundamental output. The 1C-725 complieswith current FCC specificatlons for spectralpurity.

Blocking dynamic ranqet:3.5 MHz, noise limited;14 MHz, nolse limited.

Two-tone, third-orderintermodulation distortiondynamic range. preamp on.r3.5 MHz, 91.5 dB; 14 MHz,90.5 dB. Preamp off: 3.5 MHz,92.5 dB; 14 MHz, 90.5 dB

Third-order intercept, preamp on:3.5 MHz, 0 dBm; 14 MHz,-2 dBm. Preamp off: 3.5 MHz.10 dBm; 14 MHz, 6 dBm.

Preamp off, 1.0 MHz, 150 .V;14 MHz, 5S .V: 29 MHz, 78.V.

Min, <0.3 .V; max, >2.2 V.3.13 W at 10% THO with an 8-0

load.430-2090 Hz.

420-2650 Hz.

Receiver DynamIc Testing

Minimum discernible signal(noise floor) with 500-Hz filter:

Preamp on

3.5 MHz, ···-137.5 dBm;14 MHz, -137.5 dBm.

Preamp off

3.5 MHz, -128.5 dBm;14 MHz. -129.5 dBm.

6.O-kHz bandwidth (preamp on,test signal 30% modulated withI-kHz tone):

1.0 MHz, 1.85 .V;3.5 MHz, 0.51 IN;14 MHz, 0.48 .V.

FM module not tested.

See Fig 2.See Fig 3.Fast AGC, 20 ms; slow AGC, 22

ms.

A114.2 MHz and 13.8 V, 17.4 Amax; 0.84 A in receive at minaudio gain.

Transmitter Dynamic Testing

Typically 125 W PEP on SSB andCWo Power output varied slightlyfrom band to band. (IMOperformance rated only to 100 W.)

See Fig 1.

S-meter sensitivity (p.V for 59 reading): Not specified.

Squelch sensitivity: <0_3 pV.Receiver audio output: >2.6 W at 10% THO (total

harmonic distortion) with an 8~n load.Receiver audio + IF response: Not specified

OtherColor: Gray.Size (HWO): 3.7 x 9.5 x g.4 Inches; 10.1 lb.

tBlocking dynamic rangs mSa8Urem6nls were noise limitsd at all spacings; third·order IMDdynamic range measurements were made at the MRL Lab standard signal spacing of 20 kHz.

AM: (6.0-kHz bandwidth) <2 .V for 10 dB SIN from1.8-30 MHz.

FM: (bandwidth not specified) <0.5 .V for 12 dBStNAO from 28-30 MHz.

Receiver dynamic range: Not speclhed.

Spurious signal and harmonic suppression: Greaterthan 50 dB below peak power output.

Third-order intermodulatlon distortion: Not specified.CW keying waveform: Not specified.Transmit-receive turnaround time (PIT release to90% audio output with an S9 signal): Notspecified.

Transmitter AF response: Not specified.

ReceiverReceiver sensitivity (preamp on):

SSB and ew (bandwidth not specified): <0.15.Vfor 10 dB SIN from 1.8-30 MHz.

TransmitterTransmitter output power: Max 100 W PEP on SSB,

100 W on CW and FM, 40 W on AM.

Power requirement: 13.8 V dc, 20 A max ontransmit, 1.5 A max on receive.

Table 1ICOM 1C-725 160-to 10-Meter Transceiver, Serial no. 02826Manufacturer's ClaImed Specmcations Measured in the ARRl Lab

Frequencycoverage: Receiver, 500 kHz to As specified.30.0 MHz; transmitter, 1.8 to 2.0.3.40 to 4.1,S.90 10 7,5. 9.90 to 10.5, 13.90 to 14.5, 17.90 to18.5,20.90 to 21.5, 24.40 to 25.1,27.90 to30.0 MHz.

Modes of operation: USB, LSB, CWo FM, AM. As specified. FM and AM(transmit) optional.

March 1990 39

1C-725 is an entry-level rig-I had toremind myself of that fact when using the'725 in tough band conditions-butICOM's inclusion of DDS hasn't (at leastin the samples we tested) resuited in thephase-noise reduction hinted at in ICOM'sadvertisements.

The 1C-725's frequency display is up toICOM's usual standards. It's easy to readand prominently displays all the necessaryinformation (band, mode, selected VFO,etc).

The RIT feature, although smooth andeasily switched in and out, does not havemuch range. The review rig exhibited lessthan 3 kHz of RIT travel. (Of course, forwider excursions, split operation using bothVFOs works very well.) Another unhelpfulcharacteristic of the '725's RIT is that theoffset frequency is not indicated separatelyon the frequency display. Pressing thesecond-function key and the RIT on/offkey sums the RIT offset with the displayedfrequency.

The feel of the IC·72S's tuning knob isexcellent. It is extremely smooth and hasthe right amount of weight. A slight nickof the wrist will send the VFO dashing upor down the band-unlike the detented tun­ing knobs on some other rigs. The IC·725also has an adjustable knob brake so youcan customize the feel of the rig's tuningknob.

The ReceiverThe '725's front end is made up of eight

automatically selected band-pass filters: 0.5to 1.6, 1.6 to 2, 2 to 4, 4 to 8. 8 to ll, IIto 15, 15 to 22, and 22 to 30 MHz. As youtune up and down through the MFIHFrange of the receiver, the appropriate band­pass filter is switched in. Although its sen­sitivity is quite good (see Table I). therC-725's receiver performance under toughband conditions (lots of strong signals ora strong station close by) is far from top­notch. This is not uncommon in entrylevelrigs. Although the IC-725's third-orderIMD dynamic range is good, broadbandnoise generated in the receiver thwarted allour efforts to measure the rig's blockingdynamic range.

The IC-725 comes equipped with a2.3-kHz SSB filter and a 6-kHz AM filter;optional 250- and 500-Hz CW filters areavailable. The 500-Hz filter is just right forthose who like a good CW filter, but onethat's not extremely narrow. This filter pro­vides an excellent middle ground, and sig­nificantly improves the rig's CWperformance.

The IC-725 allows selection of only onebandwidth during AM reception: 6 kHz at- 6 dB and "less than 20 kHz" at - 40dB.(The IC-725's SSB filter is not selectableduring A!vI reception. and envelope detec­tion of even communications-quality AMis suboptimal with an SSB filter, anyway.)A 6-kHz-wide filter, assuming that it hasa good ·_·601- 6 shape factor (2:1), is

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acceptable-although a kilohertz or twotoo wide-for reception of internationalbroadcast stations (spaced 5 kHz apart) andamateur AM signals. The IC-725's AMfilter isfar too wide for good AM receptionin Amateur Radio and shortwave­broadcast bands-and the '725 sounds asif audio rolloff has been built in to com­pensate for the filter's wideness. In on-the­air tests, the IC-725's 6-kHz-wide filter al­lows reception of strong SWBC signals IOto 12kHz away from their carrier frequen­cies. Selectivity this broad is optimal onlyfor mediumwave channel spacings (9 or tokHz). Remedy: Switch the IC-725 to USBor LSB and receive AM as SSB. TheIC·725's SSB filtering is good. Selectivityon FM (with the optional FM unit [not test­ed] installed) is rated at 15 kHz.

Mode selection on the '725 is simply amatter of pushing a button (or two). Eachof the three mode-selection push buttonsserves a double duty. Pushing the AM/FMkey switches the rig into AM mode; pushingit again engages FM mode, and so on. TheSSB key toggles between USB and LSB,and the cw key toggles between wide andnarrow modes (provided an optional CWfilter is installed).

DXers and contesters will immediatelynotice the IC-725's lack of serious QRM­fighting controls. The optional CW filterand the noise blanker are about it! There'sno IF shift or variable-bandwidth control.In casual operation, these features areusually not missed, and leaving them outkeeps the cost of the '725 down, but Iwould have used them if ICOM hadincluded them.

The noise blanker in the '725 is a mixedblessing. in my experience, the noiseblanker works well on some pulsed(ignition-type) noise, but does not workwell on any type of atmospheric noise, withone exception: Sometimes, the blankerwould totally eliminate the Soviet over-the­horizon radar ("woodpecker")-even a20-over-S9 woodpecker! At other times,because of propagation effects or otherinfluences. the noise blanker does little toeliminate the woodpecker. The reallyfrustrating thing about the noise blankeris its annoying tendency to chop and distortdesired signals. This, a side effect of limiteddynamic range, is commonly caused bynoise blankers.

A IO-dB-gain preamp and a 2O-dB at­tenuator can be switched into the receiveline. The attenuator is useful in tamingextremely strong signals. (The IC-725 hasno RF-gain control.) Especially useful on15 and 10 meters, the preamplifier reallyperks up marginal signals. Using thepreamp at lower frequencies, however,usually causes more trouble than it is worthin terms of degraded strong-signal-handlingcapability.

The IC-725's audio output is a booming3-plus watts into an 8-ohm load. That'spower to spare-perhaps too much for

fixed-station operation. The rig's audio­gain control is quite touchy. Rarely did Ihave to turn the knob past 9 o'clock (thatmeans ~4 of the knob's range is neverused!). I had a difficult time trying to findjust the right setting for the AF-gain con­trol with the internal speaker-it was nearlyalways a bit too high or a bit too low.Perhaps a more linear AF-gaincontrol, orthe use of an external speaker, wouid pro­vide better performance.

Switchable AGe (fast or slow) adds tothe 1C-725's flexibility, although I did notnotice a great deal of difference betweenthe fast and slow settings. The AGe switchdoes not function in PM mode.

The Transmitter

Power output for the IC-725 is the in­dustry standard 100 W PEP (40 Won AMwith the optional UI-7 AMlFM unit). Thereview unit put out as much as 140 W on12 meters, although our lab engineers arequick to point out that the '725's IMD per­formance is specified at 100W output, and,according to (COM, exceeding that levelwill degrade the unit's IMD performanceand may damage or destroy the flnal­amplifier transistors. It's easy to reduce theIC-725's maximum power output, though.

The '725 has a transmitter-drive control.CW and SSB output power typically canbe varied between about 10 and 100 W.That the '725 would not put out less than10 W was a surprise to me: as an avid QRPoperator. 1expected the IC-725's output tobe much less at the low end. Fortunately,the rig's minimum and maximum poweroutput can be adjusted by means ofseparate internal controls. The locations ofthese potentiometers (R208 and R210) areshown on p 31 of the IC-725 owner'smanual. The reviewrig is now set for 5 Wat the low end and about 95-105 W at thehigh end. It takes only about 10 minutesto make these adjustments; all you need isa Phillips screwdriverfor the bottom-coverscrews, a slot-head screwdriver for theadjustments, a CW key, a dununy load anda wattmeter.

The broadband nature of the rig makesit easy to tune up-if that's the right term!Simply adjust the RFPWRcontrol to obtainthe desired power output and you're all set.For 8SB or AM operation, you'll have toset the mike gain control to the point wherethe ALC-indicator LED lights to its bright­est level on voice peaks. This is not ashandy as having a separate meter scale formeasuring ALC levels. but the LEDarrangement seems to work well.

The duty cycle of the '725 is notmentioned in the operator'smanual, so asa general precaution I did not operate therig key-down for very long. When operatingRTTY. the rig became quite warm, even at25 Woutput. Normal CW and SSB opera­tion (50"70 duty cycle) doesn't generatemuch heat. The rig's quiet cooling fan runsduring transmission.

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[J In Fig 3 of" A 'Testerfor Crystal F, Q andR" (D. DeMaw, QST. Jan 1990, p 23), theU2terminal labeled GND should be ADJ, andthere should be a220-!) resistor across U2'sADJ and OUT terminals. (tnx Paul Parker,WB6DHHj ...""1

Fig 5~Correct connection for the trans­former.

o There's an error in Fig 3 of "StableHEXFET RF Power Amplifiers;" TechnicalCorrespondence, QST, Nov 1989, P 39. Asshown. the transformer acts as a step-upcircuit, presenting an impedance of 200Q tothe FET. To present the required 12.5-11loadto the FET, the transformer should be con­nectedas shownhere in Fig5.-Tnx to JosephC. Pinckney, WB2VNM

Feedback

To be fair, I have to point out that thereceiver maladies I experienced with the'7'...5 (except thesevere audiodistortion) arecommon to other comparable rigs. Con­tests and evening operation on 40 metersin New England can be a challenge for anyreceiver!

AlI said and done, the IC-725 is a prettyneat little radio. It would make a fantasticmobile rig, and a nifty first rig. Actually,anyone but serious DXers and contesterswill find the '725 to he extremely capableand easy to use.

The introduction of the IC-725 has cer­tainly done one thing-it's made it darndifficult to choose between the latest entry­level radios. Even after using all of themI still can't make up my mind about whichone I like best!

Thanks to Dave Newkirk, AK7M, for hiscontributions to this review.

Price class: IC-725, $950; 500-Hz CWfilter, $77; 250-Hz filter, $74; AM­transmit/FM transceive module, $72.Manufacturer: ICOM America, Inc, 2380116 Ave NE, Bellevue. WA 98004, tel206-454-7619. i,';"':::J

to instructions on opening the rig and.in­stallingoptional filters and makingminoradjustments. As I expected. the suppliedschematic does not detail the '725's DDScircuit.

AccessoriesInstalling the 5OO-Hz CW filter gave me

the perfect opportunity to look "under thehood" of the '725. Inside the rig I foundthree main circuit-board assemblies: one onthe top of the chassis, one on the bottomof the chassis, and one just behind the frontpanel. Removing the top and bottom partsof the cabinet is easy, requiring only theremoval of a few screws.

There are four main internal plug-inaccessories: 250- and 500-Hz CW filters(only one at a time can be installed); thelJl-7 AM/FM unit; the UT-30 programma­ble tone-encoder unit (it goes with theAM/FM unit); and the CR-64 high-stabilityoscillator unit. The installationof each ofthese units is a simple affair. completelyillustrated in the manual. Installing thefilter takes all of five minutes, start tofinish.

The list of other accessories for theIC-725 is surprisingly extensive. Amongthem are the MB-23 carrying handle, theAH-3 automatic antenna tuner, the SP-7external speaker, the CT-16 satellite inter­face, the IC-MB5 mobile mounting bracket,the CT-17level converter and the EX-627external automatic HF-antenna selector.The list goes on,

Operating ImpressionsMy satisfaction with the IC-725 varied

Over time: It depended greatly upon thetype of operating I was doing. The '725excelled duringcasual operation-it has alot of things going for it: small size. ageneral-coverage receiver (that got a goodworkout on SWBC and nonbroadcast,nonamateur stations), and flexible, easyoperation. The '725 worked weIIon RTTYand drove my 3CX800A7 amplifier withoutcomplaint. The rig nevergave me a bit oftrouble. and lived up to its design objec­tive."! in almost every way.

Still, I have mixed feelings about the'725. In addition to the many features andcharacteristics of the '725 that I like, it hasseveral that I lind disappointing. As I men­tioned, I hada lot of trouble with the '725'sreceiver in strong-signal environments, likeeveningoperation on 40 meters andduringcontests like the CQWW DX SSB event.That combination caused the receiver togeneratea lot of garbageas it succumbedto strong, nearby (and sometimes not-so­nearby) signals, making copy difficult. TheIC-725's receive-audio distortion andsignal-intermod-with-noise effects limit theviabilityof t.he receiver during "CW nar­row" operation.

The noise blanker's characteristic ofblanking desired signals, and the extremesensitivity of the AF gain control, made fora lor of knob turning and button pushingwhen I was trying to dig out the weak ones.

(A)

The iC-72S' s CW shaping is good, andthe transmit/receive turnaround timeis fastenough to accommodate digital modes suchas packet radio and AMTOR. The rig'ssemi-break-in circuits do not chop off thefirst CW character when switching fromreceive to transmit. The semi-break-infeature can be switched off hy pushing ahutton on the rear of the '725. 'Thebreak­in delay is also adjustedon the rear panel.

Owner's ManualAt 36 pages, plus a separate schematic,

the owner's manual for the IC-725 isn'tskimpy, butit's not too informative, either.Instructions for settingupthe rigandthosedescribing its operation areexcellent-easyto read, logical, and supported by usefuldiagrams. The short section on main­tenance and adjustment is limited mostly

(B)

Fig 4-Spectral display of the 1C-725 trans­mitter output during composite-noisetesting. Power output is 130 W at 3.5 MHz(A) and 130 W at 14 MHz (B). Each verticaldivision is 10 dB; each horizontal divisionis 2 kHz. The scaleon the spectrumanalyzer on which these photos were takenIS calibrated so that the log reference level(the top horizontal line on the scale in thephotos) represents - 60 dBc/Hz and thebaseline Js -140 dBc/Hz. Composite-noiselevels between - 60 and - 140 dBcJHzmay be read directly from the photographs.The carrier. oft the left edge of the photo­graphs, is notshown. These photographsshow composite transmitted noise at fre­quencies 2 to 20 kHz offset from thecarrier.

March 1990 41

Hints and Kinks

A NARROW RTfY FILTER FOR mEKENWOOD TS-43OS TRANSCEIVER

o For owners of TS-430S transceivers thatinclude YK-88CN 270-Hz CW filters: Con­necting pins I and 2 of connector 27 on the430's IF board with a short piece of solidwire (no. 22 is suitable) causes theYK-88CN to beselected in the transceiver's"narrow 8SB" modes. When usedfor LSBreoeption, the filter is oentered on the stan­dard high RTfY tones for 170-Hz shift(2125 Hz mark and 2295 Hz space) andworks great. The only drawback to thismodification is that the 270-Hz filterdoesn't work in the USB mode (neoessaryfor AMTOR operation) unless the IF SHIFT

control is turned clockwise as far as it cango-and then it passes only the mark toneand attenuates the space tone.-KennethO. Flint, N7lMR, 3600 Data Dr #58,Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

DIODES FOR RF PROBES

i:J Concerning the Hints and Kinks item"RF Probes Revisited" (March 1986QST),I have a few comments regarding the RFsampler shown in Fig 3 on page 48 of thatissue. The IN4007 power diode used in thesampler is a poor chnioe for an RF rectifierbecause of its relatively slow reverse re­covery rate' (lrr): around 30 I's. At radiofrequencies, the IN4007 cannot clear outits minority carriers in time to operateproperly on the next cycle of the appliedsignal.

A somewhat better choioe for an RF­probe rectifier would be one of the siliconfast-recovery diodes used in the TV indus­try. These silicon diodes, used to rectify RFac (at 15.734 kHz in standard TV powersupplies), may have a PIV rating as highas 1.5 k and a t rr of around I·)'S.

Some catalogs list high-voltage, fast­recovery diodes that have a trr of 0.2 )'S.Such diodes are suitable for use at frequen­cies up to 250 kHz-oertainly better thanthe power-line-frequency speed of theIN4007! A 0.2-)'Sdiode is worth trying inan RF probe. (By the way, I cross­referenced the in-house part number of atypical fast-recovery, TV-power-supplydiode in a semiconductor reference guidepublished by a well-known electronicschain. The recommended replacement wasa IN4007 equivalent! Such a diode wouldrectify poorly, if at all, in an RF-drivenportion of a TV or VDT power supply.)

1RsVfJfS6 recovetytime Is the time a diode takesto recover to a specified value of reverse cur­rent or voltage after switching from the onstate.-AK7M

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lncidentally, I've had great results usingvacuum-tube diodes in in-line RF probes.The types I've used include the 9004,9005,9006 and 559. These work perfectly up past432 MHz and can be built into a short sec­tion of transmission line; if the line is flat,the peak power on the line can easily becomputed from the diodes' voltage output.-Harold Isenring, W9BTI, 10850 AmyBelle Rd, Colgate, WI 53017

MORE "LOW POWER" POWEROUTPUT FOR mE YAESU Ff-23RTRANSCEIVERo Having owned a Yaesu FT-23R hand­held and PA-6 mobile de adapter/chargerfor a few months, I found I needed morepunch than the maximum RF output(about 5.5 W) the rig produoed whenpowered by the car electrical system. Tosolve this problem, I purchased a "brick"at a local harnfest-and discovered that theFT-23R's 5.5 W overdrove it. Set for lowpower, the rig put out about 0.5 W-toolittle to drive the amplifier!

I called Yeasu and learned that theFT-23R's low-power output is adjustable.Here's how. Carefully open your radio asper the illustration on page 17 of itsoperating manual, and fold the radio inhalf. Look down the side of the half con­taining the antenna connector to locate twosmall trimmer pots. The uppermost onesmall (closest to tbe antenna connector) setsthe tranceiver's RF output power. Outputincreases with clockwise rotation of thiscontrol.

Connect the transceiver to a dummyantenna via an RF wattmeter. Using apower supply set to supply the voltage atwhich you'll use the transceiver in the fieldor car, adjust the rig's low-power outputto the level you need. Reassemble theFT-23R.

Because this adjustment also increasesthe FT-23R's high-power RF output, besure to keep the transceiver in its low-powermode to keep from overdriving theamplifler-s-and to avoid stressing theFT-23R's output-amplifier transistor.'-Hank Hanburger, K3YDX. 2265 Mist­haven Ln, Gambrills, MD 21054

LOOP COUPLING FOR J ANTENNAS

o Coax can be matched to a J antenna'squarter-wave section by means other than

2Hints and Kinksrecommends againstusingtheFT-23R at outputpowers aboveIts ratedmaxi­mum in the high-power mode. Componentdamage, and emission of spurioussignalsatlevelsabovethoseallowed by FCC purity-of­emissions rules, may result.-AK7M

Conducted By David Newkirk, AK7MAssistant Technical Editor

clamping, clipping, bolting or soldering.Using an idea by Lawrenoe Showalter,W6KIW, and Robert Hopkins, K6MUP,I tried coupling to a J with a loop (Fig I).Loop coupling systems are nothing new forsome antennas, but for theJ,loop couplingis a new idea that works fine. I find thatloop coupling allows me to obtain a lowerSWR on the J's feed line more quickly thantapping the line on the J element.

My J antennas consist of 1/2-inch­diameter copper tubing, elbows, Ts andcaps. The center-to-center spacing of the0/<- and \<l-A portions ofaJ constructed ofthese materials is 10/< inches. The couplingloop 1 use is 5¥i X I l<l inches in size andconsists of plastic-coated no. 14 copperwire. Connect one end of the loop to thecoax center conductor and the other endof the ioop to the coax shield. Be sure theloop ends don't touch where they connectto the coax, and coat the connections wellwith liquid plastic. (Plastic compounds in­tended for dip-coating tool handles workfine.) Position the loop flat against the J'spiping, with the loop bottom about 3/8inch from the inside bottom of the crookof the J. Temporarily tape the loop to theJ element.

Adjusting the loop for miuimum SWRis simple: Move the loop up or down fromits initial position until you find the pointof minimum feed-line SWR. Once you'vefound this point, tape the loop as closely

(not to scole)

Plcsttc-iccctedNo. 14 Wire

5-1/2"

i-3/4"

InItial Space,...-r.....---r-r :5/8"

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\, .... J Element

Iplostic-CoatedConnections

Coax to etcttcn

Fig 1-Henry DavIs feeds his VHF J antennaswith the loopcoupling systemshown her•. Seethe text for how to position and mount the loopfor minimum SWR.

Rg 2-Kurt Hunter and Martin Salabes connect a Kenwood BS-a pan-dispiay adapter to ageneric oscilloscope as shown here. Some Kenwood transceivers include a jack thatcarries the 8.83-MHz IF signal necessary to drive the B8-8; see the text lor one means ofobtaining this signal lrom a Ts.4308.

NARROW WIDE• •CENTER ADJ

•Peak for molt

\ scope detlectlonMARKERSW

This arrangement allows me to windlarge coils for power-amplifier tanks,Transmatches, and so on, from wireup tono. 12. For air-core, self-supporting coils.I use a mandrel lA inch less in diameterthan the final diameter of the coil. Themotor is slow enough for the turns to bewound against firm thumb pressure belowthe rotating mandrel, which limits' 'spring­out" when the wire is cut.

Thin-wire, space-wound coils can bewound with great accuracy on slip-onforms. With patience, you can even windLitz-wire and ,,-wound chokes. For plug­in transmitter coils. I \<i-inch-diam plastic­pipe couplers are fine-and cheap. Theycan be drilled and mounted on l4-gage-wirelegs passed through two holes in a terminalstrip and soldered to form plug-in pins.

Although large, solenoidal coils are lessin vogue than they once were, they are stilluseful in antenna tuners and vacuum-tubepower amplifiers. My rotisserie techniqueallows me to fabricate such coils profes­sionally and cheaply.-Alex Comfort, MD,KA6UXR, III S Evergreen, Ventura, CA93003

AN AGe-THRESHOLD CONTROLFOR THE HEATH HW·9TRANSCEIVER

[] Strong signals near or in the HeathkitHW-9's IF passband can cause weakersignals in the passband to be distorted or"pumped" by AGC effects in the trans­ceiver's high-gain IF-amplifier stages. Asdesigned, these stages run at full gain. andthere is no panel control for adjusting theirgain. Here's an easy modification thatsolves this problem.

During alignment of the HW-9, R329(AGe SET), a SOO-kll circuit-board trimmerpot, is set and not adjusted again. Throughexperimentation. I discovered thaI R329allows the transceiver's IF gain to bereduced enough to minimize AGe pumping.I replaced R329 with a chassis-mountedcontrol to allow routine adjustment of theHW -9's IF-amplifier gain.

Remove the original R329 from the PChoard and discard it. Mount R329's shaft­driven replacement-I used a SOO-klllinearcontrol from Radio Shack-on the HW-9chassis. (There is ample room on the chassisfor the control. I elected not to place thecontrol on the HW-9's front panel, insteadinstalling it on the transceiver's side [left,viewed from the front.]) Connect the newcontrol to the R329 circuit-board holes viaa piece of RG-174 coax.

The only readjustment necessary afterthis modification is a slight touch-up ofR333 (METER ZERO). Now, your HW-9 canperform better in the presence of strong sig­nals: Using the panel-mounted R329, sim­ply reduce the IF-amplifier gain to the pointat which AGe pumping disappears. AdjustR329 for full receiver gain as necessary.-Jim Douglas, NI2F, 9 Linda Ln, Clark,NJ 07066 !i!'!'.')

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Sweep Select

SWE EP SELECT

3

4 Sawtooth Sweep-Signal Input

5 -12 V

6 +11V

7 ::--::=h6tc

9 ScopeverncclInput

(solder to pins)

WINDING LARGE COILS ON AMOTORIZED BARBECUE SPIT

[J Evenly winding large coils of no. 16 orheavier-gage wire can be tricky. Such a jobmay require three hands! Winding evenlyspaced coils with lighter-gage wire is alsoa chore, even if you use string for spacingthe turns. Winding such a coil often in­volves several tries, and the result rarelylooks professional.

I wind large coils on a motorized bar­becue spit with a set of mandrels madefrom plastic irrigation tube. End washers,made from PC-board material and cut tofit the square spit, cap the mandrels."Instant" glue holds the washers to themandrels.

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TS-43OS transceiver, this signal is accessihleat jack 6 on the 430's RF board.) Feed theas-s's output (labeled to Scope VorUcal Inputin Fig 2) into the scope's vertical (Y) input.

Finding a tap to obtain the oscilloscope'ssawtooth sweep signal may take a little ex­perimentation. This signal should be avail­able at the scope's horizontal-output driverstage. or at the output of the scope'ssawtooth-oscillator buffer amplifier.

Adjust the scope's vertical sensitivity;0.1 V Idiv is sufficient. Use the slowestsweep speed that does not produce notice­able display flic!<er.-Kurt E. Hunter,WBJAGC, Box 351 HighlandRd, Orefield,PA 18069, and Martin K. Salabes, K3CSV,1631 Sweetland S/, Nokomis, FL 34275

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RX IF.......-t 3 GND

USING THE KENWOOD BS-8PANORAMIC-DISPLAY MODULEWITH GENERIC OSCILLOSCOPES

o You can use your oscilloscope as apanoramic display in conjunction withKenwood transceivers that have S.S3-MHzintermediate frequencies (lFs) by teamingthe scope with a Kenwood BS-Span-displaymodule, generally available at Kenwoodham-radio-equipment dealers for about$110.3

Connect the adapter as shown in Fig 2.The BS-S requires 11 V de (negativeground) and 12 V de (positive ground);these voltages may be obtainable from thescope if it's solid state. Pick up the trans­ceiver's S.83-MHz IF signal at the input endof the receiver IF stages. (In the Kenwood

to the J's copper pipe as possible. Spacebetween the coupling loop and the Jelement raises tbe SWR.-s-Henry Davis,W6DTV, 7822 Washing/on Ave, Se­bas/opal, CA 95472

rrhis hint is not for beginners; it requires digginginto the Innards of an oscilloscope-danger,highvoltage/-and, insome cases, into the clr­cuitry of the transceiver that drives the as-a.Hintsand Kinksrecommends that youobtain,andreferto, service manuals and/orschematicdiagrams of the88-8,andyourtransceiver and _oscilloscope, beforeputtingthis hint intoprac­tice.TheBS-6 schematic appears Indocumen­tation for Kenwood's SM-220 StatIonMonitor.-AK7M

Technical CorrespondenceThe publishers of QST assume no responsibility for statements made herein by correspondents.

Conducted By Paul K Pagel, N1FBAssociate Technical editor

TRANSCEIVER AUDIO-FREQUENCYRESPONSE

[J A good technical Product Review mustcontain information that is important tousers of the equipment. The August 1989Product Review of the Yaesu FT-747GXaccomplished this end. I

One of the most important things aboutany transceiver is: How does it sound? Ifit sounds lousy, it doesn't-s-for instance­matter how sensitive the receiver is. If thereceiver section has a severe treble and/orbass roU-off, the audio cannot sound good.This is not just a matter of aesthetics. Ifthe audio-frequency passband is restrictedbeyond certain limits, the understandabil­ity of speech will be degraded.

Long ago, Bell Telephone Labs research­ers found that, for best understandability,speech needed a passband of about 300 to3000 Hz, a total bandwidth of 2700 Hz. Forexample, if the high frequencies are severelyrolled off, the sibilant (hissing) sounds ofspeech-like the f, s, h and soft e-beonmemuddy and not consistently distinguisha­ble from each other.

A voice-communications product shouldbe designed to provide effective communi­cation. if ~' ... the overall SSB receivebandwidth of the FT-747GX is only1246 Hz at - 6 dB, with a 2.2-kHz-wide IFfilter in line!" ,thereis a problem that needsto befixed, Fortunately, Dave Newkirk andcolumn editor Rus Healy followed throughwith the manufacturer's representative andfound a solution to this problem. This isthe kind of Product Review that benefitsthe owners, and the manufacturer, of theequipment. The manufacturer ulthnatelybenefits because good-sounding radios willsell better than muddy-sounding radios.

or equal importance is a transceiver'sSSB transmit bandwidth at the - 6 dBpoints. Measuring the transmit bandwidthis a simple thing to do. All you need is asine-wave audiogenerator and a wattmeter.Set the audio generator output frequencyto about 1000 Hz. Feed the audio into thetransmitter (connected to a dummy load)and adjust the generator output level untilthe wattmeter reads 40 W. Decrease thegenerator's frequency until the wattmeterreads 10 W. Write down the frequency.Now, increasethe audio-generatorfrequen­C'Y above 1000 Hz until the power outputmeasures lOW. Write down that frequen­C'Y. End of test. The whole procedure takesless than five minutes. This is time wellspent if the results will appear in a credi­ble publication with a circulation figure of

1D. Newkirk. "Yaesu FT-747GX MF/HF Trans­ceiver," Product Review, QST. Aug 1989,pp 33-36 and 52.

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159,000 hams. The transmit and receive au­dio frequency - 6 dB passband of a tran­sceiver is important to-and easilyunderstood by-most hams.-Richard L.Measures, AG6K, 6455 La Cumbre Rd,Somis, CA 93066

TUBE-NUMBER CROSS REFERENCE

[J Much to my surprise. I receive a coupleof requests each month for a VT-to­commercial tube cross reference. I've com­piled a comprehensive (,..'1'055 reference thatprovides the commercial tube-numberequivalents for WW II Army vacuum-tubenumbers (VT numbers).' The US Navynormally used the commercial identifica­tion for vacuum tubes, but my list also in­cludes 18 known exceptions that have5-digit Navy identification numbers.

This cross reference does not providecommercial-to-military relationships. Also,I've not attempted to categorize tubes fortheir intended purpose, nor to include tubecharacteristics.-Bill Welsh, W6DDB,4.5527 3rd St East, Lancaster, CA93535-1802

ICOM 1C-22S REPLACEMENT IC

[] There are still many 0 f the popularICOM IC-22S rigs around, perhaps ownedby folks like me who refuse to let them die.When my IC-22S quit, the repairman di­agnosed the problem as a defectiveprogrammable divider (ICI), a TC5080P.The technician spent about eight weeks try­ing to locate a replacement. When hecouldn't find one, 1 took the rig bome.

ICOM customer service confirmed thatthe TC5080P was no longer available andthey knew of no substitute. After somesearching, I learned that the ECGI207 isa direct replacement for the TC5080P, buteven this IC is discontinued. I was 'elatedto find a local electronic-components sup­plier had four ECGI207s lying in a dustybox.' I bought two of them. TheECGI207 is installed in my '22S and itworks perfectly.

Perhaps there are other electronics storesaround the country that also may bave theECGI207 in stock.-George L. Brian,WA4WJD, 3913 Albert Dr, Nashville, TN37204

srhe SurplUS Conversion Manual, by R. C. Even­sonand 0, R. Beach, Vall, 2ndedition,1948,published by l'echno-Graphic Publications anddistributed thenby Editorsand Engineers, Ltdof Summerland, Galifornia, contains sucha list.Thatpublication is evlden~y outofprint. Acopyof010 complote cross referance (Including Bill'.additions)is availablefromthe ARRLTechnl­cal Department Secretaryfor a no. 10 SASEand $1 to cover photocopying costs.-fd,

3Rardolph & Rice,1213McGavock St, NashVille,TN37202; toI615-255-5602.

BAMBOO SOURCE

[] Bamboo poles for quads and otherantenna projects are often hard to obtain.I've found a source that provides not oniybamboo poles, but bamboo plants as wellfor those who want to grow their own.'The bamboo poles are avallable in Io-footlengths and diameters from one-half tofour inches.-Rob Frohne, KL7NA, //9 EWhitman Dr#10, College Place, WA 99324

MORE ON BAUD RATE-UGHl

[] In October's Technical Correspon­dence,' Mr Moore asserts that describinga system to be.....operating at 1200bauds,with a 'baud rate' of 300, implies that thesystem line pulse rate is varying cyclicallybetween 900 and 1500 pulses per second(1200 ± 300)'"

I assert that it does not! The technicalpicture I get from that statement is one ofa system that at some moment wasoperat­ing at 1200 baud, but has been constantlychanging by +300 baud every second since..• by now, well above the frequency oflightl-Bruee E. Lackey, WB3HAE, 1003Aster Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850

Mr Moore responds:Bruce is right, and I was in error (I know

better') by suggesting there was anythingcyclic about "baud rate."-Ernest J.Moore, VE3CZZ, 37 Ashgrove Cres,Nepean, ON .K2G OS1

ICOM SERVICE CONNECTION

o Those with telephone data-communi­cation capability may be interested in a newfeature on the CompuServe'" informationservice. There is now an ICOM SUPPORTdata library in the CompuServe HAMNETforum. CompuServe members can down­load service bulletins for many ICOMproducts from the data library.

While in HAMNET. take a look in datalibrary 1. Electronic copies ofARRL Letter,Gateway and WIAW bulletins are availa­ble there.

If you want to join CompuServe (thereare charges for connecting to the service),see your local computer dealer, or call8oo-848-8199.-Bob Schetgen, KU7G,ARRL HQ

MORE ON TREE-SUPPORTEDANTENNAS

[] I found Doug Brede's article to be very

4Bamboo Brokerage, Inc,5016192nd PlaceNE,Redmond, WA 96053-4602, toI206-658-5166,A catalog is available.

6E.Moore."Baud Rate-Ugh!", Technicalcor­respondence. QST, Oct 1989,P 37.

WIAW ScheduleApril z-oetoeer 29, 1990 MTWThFSSn =Dey. of Week Dy =D.llyW1AW code practtce and.bulletin transmluions are sent on the follOWing schedule:

UTe Slow Code Practice MWF: 0200, 1300,2300; TThSSn: 2000; Sn: 0200Fast Code Practice MWF: 2000; TTh: 0200, 1300;TThSSn: 2300: S: 0200ON Bulletins Dy; ,OOסס 0300, 2100; MTWThF: 1400"Teleprinter Bulletins Dy: 0100, 0400, 2200; MTWThF: 1500Voice Bulletins Oy:0130, 0430

EDT Slow Code Practice MWF:9 AM, 7 PM; TIhSSn: 4 PM, 10 PMFast Code Practice MWF: '" PM, 10 PM; TIh: 9 AM; TThSSn: 7 PMON Bulletins 0)': 5 PM, 8 PM, 11 PM; MTWThF: 10 AMTeleprinterBulletins Dy: 6 PM, 9 PM, 12 PM; MTWThF: 11 AMVoice Bulletins Dy: 9:30 PM, 12:30AM

CDT Slow Code Practice MWF:S AM. 6 PM; TIhSSn: 3 PM. 9 PMFast CodePractice MWF: 3 PM, 9 PM; TTh: 8 AM; TThS$n: 6 PM(;IN Bulletins Dy: 4 PM, 7 PM, 10 PM; MTWThF: 9 AMTiSleprinter Bulletins Dy: 5 PM, 8 PM, 11 PM; MTWThF: 10 AMVoice Bulletins Dy; 8:30 PM, 11:30PM

MDT Slow CodePractice MWF: 7 AM, 5 PM; TThsSn: 2 PM, 6 PMFast Code Practice MWF: 2 PM, 8 PM; TTh: 7 AM; TThSSn: 5 PMON BulletIns Dy: 3 PM, 6 PM, 9 PM; MTWThF: 8 AMTeleprinter Bulletins Oy: 4 PM, 7 PM, 10 PM; MTWThF: 9.AMVoice Bulletins Dy: 7:30 PM, 10:30PM

PDT Slow Code Practice MWF: 6 AM, 4 PM; TThSSn: 1 PM, 7 !3MFast Code Practice MWF: 1 PM 7 PM: TTh: 6 AM; TThSSn: 4 PMCW Bulletins Oy: 2 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM; MTWThF: 7 AMTeleprinter Bulletins Dy: 3 PM, 6 PM, 9 PM; MTWThF: 8 AMVoIce Bulletins Dy: 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM

Codepractice,QualifyingRun and CW bulletin frequencIes: 1.818,3.5815,7.0475,14.0475,18,0975,21,0n5, 50.08, 147.555 MHz.Teleprinterbulletin frequencies: 3.625, 7.095, 14.095, 18.1025. 21.095.28.095. 147,555 MHz.Voice bulletIn frequencies: 1,89,3,99, 7.29,14.29,18,160.21.39,28.59, SO.19, 147.555MHz,$low code practice is at 5, 7'1h, 10, 13 and 15 WPM.Fast code practice is at 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 13 and 10 WPM.Code practice texts are from Q..~T, and the sourceof each practice is given at the beginningof eachpractice and at the beglnningof alternate speeds.For example, "Text is from JanuBrY.1989 QST,pages 9 and 100" indICates that the main text is from the article on page 9 and the mixed numberlletter groups at the end of each speedare from the contest scoreson page 100.On Frldays, UTe, a OX buhetin replacesthe regUlar bulletin transmissions.On Tuesdavs and Saturdays at 2230 UTe, Keplerian Elements for active amateur satellites will be senton the regUlar teleprinter frequencies.Teleprinterbulletinsate 45.45-bsoo Baudot, 11Q.baud ASCII and 100-baud AMTOR, FEC mode,aeuoot, ASCII and AMTOR ~n that order)aresent during all 1500 UTe transmissions, and 2200 UTCon WThFSn, Durlng other transmission times, AMiOR Is sent only as time permits.CW bulletinsare sent at 18 WPM,W1AW is open for visitors Mondaythrough Friday from 8 AM to 1 AM EDTand on SaturdayandSunday (rom3:30 PM to 1 AM EDT. If you desire to operate W1AW. be sure to bfi!'tga copy of yourlicense with you. W1AWIs available for operationby visitors between 1 and 4 PM Mond,y throughFriday.In a commurneations (Imergency, monitor WtAW for special bull(ltins as follows: voieeOil thenour,teleprinter at 15 minutes past the hour. and ONon the hsW hour, .W1AWWill be closedonMay 28. July 4 an;,.d,.,;S.,;,e",plc,em_be_r.,;,3,.,;' _

I would like to get I" toueh with ...o anyone with information on equipmentused to playa World War H-era brush Mail­A.-Voice circular magnetic recording. BillKime, WD8ROK, 3640 East StageRd, Ionia,MI48846.[] 'anyone who has recently incorporated theCollins SlJ-4 receiver into a transmitter!receiver combination for use on amateurbands, especiallythe WARC bands. Igor F.Pifat, YUIPQI, Rifata Burdzevica 69,YU-llOSO Beograd, Yugoslavia.

I] US amateurs pursuing the Worked NIIrish Counties Award sponsored by the IrishRadio Transmitters Society, to exchangeinformation and to help with spotting. DickBean, WAIKDLlE12HC, 304 Canton St,Westwood, MA 02090,

Strays

Fig 1-Dimonsions of tho porcelain cableholder. The holders are available with Adimensions of 2. 3, 3-1/16 and 3-116inches.

informative.(, Here's anothe\~ means ofattaching a wire to a tree that! should helpprevent damage to the tree-s-a porcelaincable holder (see Fig 1). ,

The True Value" and ServiStar~hard­ware stores in my neighborhood sell thesedevices. The surfaces of the holder aresmooth and should not cause much abra-sion. :

If you need some "elastic rhpe" to com­pensate for the movement of a tree or itsbranches in the wind, try the elastic tie­downs (bungee cords) that can be found inhardware, department and camping-goodsstores under many different names. I foundsuch tie-downs in packages marked"Buffalo Brand Bungee Straps" and"Adjust-A-Cord Carrier Strap."-BobRaffaele, W2XM, 5 Gadsen Ct, Albany,NY 12205

PROGRAMMING IN C

I.J I enjoyed James Cain's article about thenew facilities at WIA W.7 Even thoughI've been a bam since I was 14(1954), I'venever been able to make the trip to seeWIAW, Mr Cain's article was probably thenext best thing to being there.

I was especially pleased to see that someof the engineers are using the C languagefor software development. For control atthe hardware level, no other high-level lan­guage can even come close.

My company writes and distributes Ccompilers for personal computers, with anemphasis on IBM" PC and compatiblemachines. We're willing to offer anylicensedham cepies of our C compiler, pro­gram editor, function library and sourcecode debugger for $50.' (Bought separate­Iy, these retail for $150.) The compiler ishigh quality, meets almost all of the pro­posed ANSI C standards, and is very easyto use. (The Heath., Company markets ourcompiler with their C training course.)

C is a perfect choice for the high-speedrequirements often found in our hobby,and tests show OUf compiler to be at leastfive to eight times faster than interpretedBASIC. I believe my offer would put Cwithin the reach of almost all hams-andwe might start seeing more software arti­cles in QST using Ci-s-Jack: Purdum,W9NMT, Ecosoft Inc, 6413 N CollegeA ve. Indianapolis. iN 46220

~D, Brede, "The Care and FeedIng of anAmateur's Favorite Antenna support-theTree." QST. 8ep 1989, pp 26-28 and 40,

'J, Gain, "A Visit to W1AW," QST, Dec 1989,pp 14-17,

8QrderfromEcosoftInc,6413NCollegeAve, In­dianapolis, IN 46220. tel 800-952.()472. TheMRL and QST in no way warrant this offer.

Note:- All correspondence addressed to thiscolumn should bearthenama, callsignandcom­plete address ofthesander, Please include aday­time telephone number at which you may bereached if necessary. I§!EJ

March 1990 45

~QST Profile: i

Tony Bongiovi" KX2ZAn extremely successful record ~roducer, KX2Z is into ham radioand public service in a big way.By Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z

QST Editorial Supervisor

P iercing lyrics. the syncopated hackbeat of rock 'n' roll drums, big-namemusicians, a wall full of gold and

platinum records and the musical, rhythmiccadence of sweetly sent Morse code-what'swrong with this picture? Nothing. really. It'sall in a day's work. and play, for TonyBongiovi,KX2Z. record producer. recordingengineer,entrepreneur and Extra Class ham.

1f the name Bongiovi sounds familiar, itshould. The 41-year-oldBongiovi is an oldercousin of rock superstar Jon BonJovi, TheRaritan, NewJersey. nativeshave made theirmark un the music mdustry-i-Jou as a per­former. Tony as a producer.

HI got him started," Bongiovi says in astraightforward way. "I develop artists. Ibring them into the studio and get involvedwith the production of their records. 1did thatwith Jon, and it took us about tour or fiveyears. He was right out of high school whenwe started. We're doing very well with hisrecords."

A lot of successful recoiding artists{Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, amongothers) pass through Bongiovi's unequaledManhattan.recording studio, aptly namedPower Station. [It used to be a Con Edisonpower station.]

The building'ssubdued,monolithic appear­ance, and the fact that the roof is populatedwithlarge Yagi antennas,gavemethe impres­sion 1 was stepping into some clandestineforeign embassy, Once inside, however, 1knew l was in the right place. PowerStation-multi-tloored recording studio andhome to amateur station KX2Z-proved tobe a fitting backdrop for my conversationwith Bongiovi, ARRL Life Member, and amost unconventional ham.

Bongiovi began his professionalrecordingcareer at the age of t7. Working at home, hemanaged to duplicate the famed "Motownsound." Thiscaught the attention of MotownPresident Berry Gordy, who had Bongioviflownto Detroiton a regular basisto engineerrecords for StevieWonder. Diana Ross, TheSupremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips andother leading Motown artists.

In 1968, Bongiovi became a full-timeengineer at the Record Plant in New York,and the Tony Bongiovi "sound" permeated

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the rock radio scene of the late '60s.In 1970t Tony's present-day partner Bob

Walters brought Tony to Media Sound stu­dios, and Bongiovi became a sought-afterproducer and was a major factor in MediaSound's success.

In 1977, Bongiovi and Walters launchedPower Station, considered by many criticsand musicians to be the bestrecordingfacilityin the world,To date, Bongiovi has producedmore than 35 gold and platinum records.

To giveyou an idea of just how connectedPower Station is, all but one of last year'sGrammy Award winningalbums, and nearlyhalf of the recordson today's Billboard chartswererecorded, mixed. overdubbed or editedat Power Station Recording Studios.

N-ot content to simply produce records,Fony is a well-known figure in the field ofacousticsand sound recording. He's designednoise-reductionsystemsfor helicopters, andwas an acoustics consultant on Dick Rutanand Jeana Yeager'shistoric round-the-worldllight in Voyager,

Considering Bongiovi's hefty resume, Ididn't quite know what to expect from myencounter with KX2Z·, ..starrnaker and hamoperator roUed into one. As it turn) out, I hadnothing to worry about. Tony is a friendly.laid-back kind of guy, from his jeans-and-T­shirt attire to his articulate sense of humor.He seems untouched by the glitter and hype

Tony Bonqiovi, KX2Z, at the business endof his statjon-located on the fourth floor ofhis Power Statton Recording Studio inManhattan. (photos by author)

surrounding the recording industry."I really got started in radio when 1 was

about 15," said Bongiovi as wemadeour wayto the reception area, past unending rows ofgold records,"I started buildingreceivers formodelairplanes,but becauseI couldn't affordto buy the necessaryparts for a ham station,I quickly lost interest."

Tony turned to CB radio for a few years.but didn't seriously think about AmateurRadio until he got a scanner for Christmassome to years ago. "1 heard the guys on2 meters, and that got meinterested again,"he says.

Bongiovi listened to WlAW code practicebulletins and code practice cassettes to learnthe code.

"The codecame reallyeasy...beingin themusic business and having a musical back­ground, . .it's a very rhythmic and almostmusical thing.J'

It must havebeenprettyeasy,because Tonyisa realC\Vop whosefavoritepastimeis rag­chewing on 4il-meter CW-at a brisk 30­35 WPM. "I used to be a bit faster, actuallycopying faster than I could send-but nowI'm solid at 30 WPM," he added.

Bongiovi credits Dan, KU2D. and Chas,N2BOG, for helpinghim becomean accom­plishedCW op-KU2D for slowingdown tohelp him out, and N2BOG for teaching himhow to copy fast code without writing itdown.

Tony was first licensed as KA20RT in198 J. "I went from Noviceto Extra in lessthan a year," he says, thanks in part to hisproximity to the local FCC Field Office,located only a short taxi ride away. "1 keptgoing back until I passed-it took me fouror five times to pass the Extra Class test."

Because his station is located on the fourthfloor, just aboveseveralmilliondoUars worthof sensitive recordingequipment,an RFI-freesetup was critical. It just wouldn't do to hear"faint, raspy CQ in the background track ofsomeone's latest album!

1'0 find just the right gear, he went to alocal ham store and literallyborrowed one ofeverything-one Kenwood. one ICOM, OneYaesu, OneTen-Tee, and one Collins. Oncethe stuff was set up, Tony tuned up the rigsand checked them for trouble downstairs.Tony's first and only HF station-aKWM-380 and an Alpha 78amplifier-is stillgoing strong.

The operating position at KX2Z took meby surprise. 1guess I was expecting to see adazzling, space-age display of ham radioelectronics-something on par with the

Would you believe a splitMband speech processor? Okay, so the mixing console is reallypart of Tony's Power Station Recording Studio. On the other sideof the glass window isone of several recording studios. complete with pyrarnld-tlke, acoustically designed ceil­tnqs. pine-covered walls and 48Mtrack tape decks.

recording studios I'd seen downstairs.instead, I saw something a littlemore downto earth.

Thestation is piled on top of a smalltabletucked into a corner of Tony's top-floorapartment. The armrests of his favorite oper­ating chair are literally worn off, and the gearis mostlycoveredwith a respectablelayer ofdust-something I could relateto! Misce11ane­ous ham stuff is tacked onto the walls, andthe requisite amount of unidentifiable equip­ment covers the floor underneath the table.

To the rightof Tony's ham station, a large,walk-throughgreenhouse(hometo a coupleof tropical birds-one named Gigahertz)opensonto the roof. Here, two towers pro­videsupport for as-element 20-meter Yagi,a a-element an-meter Vagi and an 80-meterdipole. Setting upand maintaining theanten­nas provides an interesting challenge. "Be­cause of my importance to the studio, mypartners won't let me climb around on thetowers. They don'twant meto falldownandbreak my neck, or worse. so l have to havesome help." Tony's chief antenna helper isBob Christiansen, KB2EF.

Although Bongiovi's station can run thelegal limit, and his station sprouts a fairamount of aluminum, he's not a technicallyoriented ham.

Tony likes to communicate-to talk topeople. "It's a hobbyfor me, a form of relax­ation. llike to talk about anything except hamradio: What's your favorite vegetable?What's the last good book you've read?­stuff like that."

Theview from therooftop station isclassicNewYorkCity-you can seepart of the sky­line, butonly being up four or five stories.youget a better view of thesides of many ofthe taller, downtown buildings.A short dis­tance away is the top of the CBS building,coveredwithsatellite antennasand other pro­tuberances whose functions are not readilydiscerned.

The CBS building is related to one of

Tony'smostrewarding Amateur Radio pur­suits-emergency disaster communications.In fact, around.the New YorkCity area andin the recording industry I Bongiovi is affec­tionately-becoming known asthe"Master ofDisaster" because of his ham radio appear­ances on CBSand CNN during hurricanes,earthquakes and the like.

It all started during the Grenada invasion... I took a break from a studio session andturned on therig. 1heard a kidon 20 meterstalking about theinvasion so I called thenewsroom at CBS and asked them if they hadheard anything about it," said Tony.

CBS didn't know anything about theincident so they sent a crew over to listen.When CBS wanted to put his station oncamera,Tony called theFCC to checkout therules. Beforelong, CBS hadsetup a cameraand a direct network feed, "At first, I didn'twant to do it. But that was the start of it,"he added.

lt wasindeed thestart of something. FromHurricane Gloria to Chernobyl to the.SanFrancisco earthquake,Bongiovi has beenput­ting hisbest foot forward, helping out duringdisaster situationsand running emergencytraffic.

His unexpected relationship with CBShasheightenedBongiovi'sawarenessof the pub­licservice aspectof Amateur Radio. What helikes best is that after many of hisnetworkappearances, his phone rings off the hook."Sometimes I get as many as .150 cal1s­people want to know what's going on.. .someevenoffered memoney... 1told them to giveit to the Red Cross."

Tony's TV cameos have sparked someaction with therecord companies-in an iron­ic way. ..Record company presidents nevercall you," Tony says,chuckling sarcastically,"you cannever getthrough to them. Butonenight, during the HurricaneHugo crisis, I gotcalls from no less than three record compa­ny executives. Do you know what they wereinterested in? They wanted to know if their

houses on St Croix were still standing!"Bongiovi thinks that good media relations

are important for AmateurRadio, and thinksall hams should be prepared to deal moreeffectively withthe mediaduringemergencies."When Iseemany hams on TV, they almostalways explain things in an overly technicalway. You have to makeit really simple. be­cause the general public doesn't appreciatetechnical explanations of towers and beamantennas. They just want to know what'sgoing on."

Bongiovi, a Volunteer Examiner for theARRL VEC program, has a soft spot forNovices. He likes to givean occasional Novicetest, andfrequents theNoviceCWsubbandsto help Novices improve their code speed.Paradoxically, Bongiovi, a dedicated CWoperator, is a strong proponent ofa codelesslicense for VHF and above. "The hard-linersare discouraging many potential hamsbecause of somekind of ego problem. It's theold 'if I had to do it, you do too' routine."

Although Bongiovi has not talked to anyother celebrity hams, such as Chet Atkins,Ronnie Milsap, Donny Osmond or JoeWalsh, he has tried to introduce a superstaror two to the ranks of Amateur Radio-withlargely unsuccessful results.

Onenight, after a longsession in thestudio,Bongiovi brought Mick Jagger, of RollingStones fame, upto hisshack andfired uphisrig. After working a few stations on SSB, itwas apparent that things were not workingout. "Nobody would believe that it wasactually Mick Jagger they were talking to,"hesays, "so Micklost interest andwanderedback downstairs."

Another singer, Ozzy Osbourne, stayed atthe riga while longer, but to this day, neitherof them has appearedon the FCC rosters. Ohwell...

What does Tony see as Amateur Radio'sfuture? "Greater useof frequencies," foronething, anda "trend toward people operatingrather than building their own gear," foranother.

"Let's faceit. You buy a newtransceiver.and if the damn thingbreaksdown, youdon'teven try to take it apart-you'd be crazy,Years ago you had to build the stuff, buttoday, if your rigsneezes, you have to sendit hack to the factory."

Bongiovimakes no apologies for hispointof view. He'svery much hisown person. "l'mdoing exactlywhat I want to do. I don't feelany different now than I was when i was inhighschool. I havemy radio stationnow, andat least I can afford the equipment!"

Tony isn't a DXer (although he did inad­vertently work BYIPKl, doesn't participatein contests. has no interest in packet radio,and doesn't evenhave a QSLcard. But that'spart Of Amateur Radio's wide appeal­different strokes for different folks.

For Bongiovi, Amateur Radio is a waytoescape, if onlymomentarily, the pressures ofthe recordingindustry. It's a relaxinghobby,plain and simple. "I meeta lot of interestingpeople," he explains. "Ijust get on the radioand have a ball with it. AlII do is operate,andthat's allI want to do. Ienjoythat."rm-:"':")

March 1990 47

Love My Son, Love HisRadiosTo a nonham, marrying a dedicated amateur is one thing; discoveringthat Amateur Radio "runs in the family" is quite another!

By Christine M. Gardner23 Grace CircleMarlboro, MA 01752

Bcfore my husband became myhusband. his mother drew me asideand whispered a warning.

"Love my son, lovehis radios," shesaid.The expression she wore as she waited formy reaction can only be described as oneof challenge. Well, sure, I thought, I likemusic. l smiled. She nodded. All was wellin our misunderstanding of each other'sgestures.

I met his friends. Most of them wereintroduced to me by letter-number com­binations instead of names. They tailedhim WAlLXN. I called him Dan. Theycalled me LXN's YL. Most of them carriedbeeping, squawking hand-held radios intheir shirt pockets or attached to their helts.

l couldn't help feeling more than a littleuncomfortable when I began noticing howmany of their wives' pocketbooks alsobeeped and squawked.

I hecame an XYL, Dan my OM. I con­vinced him that I would be content to liveout my life as a nonham. Cali sign-less. Thebeeps and boops ("Dits and dabs, dear")all sound alike to me. Putting a microphonein front of my face instantly paralyzes myvocal cords. I choose to communicate viathe written word. I'm happy 'with a byline,he can have the cali sign. When I demandedto know why he referred to onr children as"harmonics," the OM told me that "Har­monics are known to cause so much inter­ference you can hardly hear yourselfthink." That was something I couldunderstand.

Meet Lizzy, youngest and only femaleharmonic of the former WAILXN, nowKBlWW, and his XYL. Let me correctthat. I went from YI. t.o XYL to YE. I'vegiven up having our towels monogrammed.

Lizzy, unlike her two older brothers,started raiding her dad's shack from tbefirst day she realized it was a place whereshe could talk, a lot, and not get asked toplease stop for two seconds!

Everywhere Dad went, Lizzy followed.Before they were out of the driveway, I sawthe portable radio in her hands or the

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Nine-year-old LIzzy Gardner, KA1TOK, ofMarlboro, Massachusetts. shares a shackwith her dad, Dan, KB1WW. "That Out­rageous Kid" loves to "TOK" to fellowamateurs all over the world. (Photocourtesy of Christine Gardner)

microphone cord stretched to where she satin the car. Unlike her mother. she does notfreeze in front of a microphone. "TheKid." which is what we've called her sinceDay One. was born to talk.

When she was eight, The Kid startedhanging around "The Club." the AlgonquinAmateur Radio Club in Marlboro, Mas­sachusetts. The OM is president of TheCluh (again).

She insisted on helping when "M" putup his 60-foot tower. "M'!"

"You know, Ma. 'dah-dah' is "M' inMorsecode. Dad ~ Dada ~ dab dab = M."

"Oh, of course."The Kid studied up on theory and she

and M practiced code for hours. I shookmy head and remained silent. I would hate

to see the disappointment on her face. Iknow she's a smart kid, but this was heavyduty stuff. She took classes at the club.When the big day arrived, M wasn'tallowed in the room during the testing, sohe fooled around in the club', shack andpaced the halls. I stayed at home andwondered what 1 would say to the poorbaby. 1 had seen the study guide questions.How is a nine-year-old girl supposed toknow the difference between a quarter­wave vertical and a half-wave 'v!ipole?(What are they is my question'?) The Kidwould be crushed if she failed.

The Kid and M carne home wearingsmiles wider than the two what-ever-they­are's that sit on top of the 60-foot towerthat's attached to the side of our house.She's now the youngest member of TheClub and a member of the ARRL. She'smade a lot of new friends.

"Who's that you're talking to?" I askher.

"That's FEX (Gerry, NIFFX)." Or itcould be Dianne, KAINOJ, or Dianne'smother, Ann, KAIPON.

[ leave her notes that say, "Clean yourroom after school!"

M leaves her notes that say, "Lizzy,don't forget to give me a shout on 28.364this afternoon between 4 and 4: 10, andremember to turn the tri-bander to the east.Listen for DXO (Bob, WB4DXO) around4:30."

!f you like to talk, she's there. Lizzy,KAlTOK, "That Outrageous Kid." Lovemy daughter, love her radios. !Q~':J

--_.__..•_--StraysI would like to get in touch with ...

[J anyone with information on an external.home-brew SSB flIter for a Yaesu747. AndyBirkhead, KB9CAT, 6681 Eagle Patine DrSouth 2B, Indianapolis, IN 46254.

Radio is More Than a MeritBadge!

Thirty-three K2BSA staffers kept the Demonstration Station on the air and runningsmoothly during the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, Altogether, the scouts and staffersmade nearly 4,000 QSOs during the week-long event. (K2NA photo)

A look at the 1989National ScoutJamboree.By Lary Eichel. K2NA

PO Box 13278Boulder, CO 80308

Amateur Radio helped weave thefabric of the Jamboree experienceas some 60.000 scouts, leaders and

visitors from all50 states celebrated scoutingat the 1989 National Scout Jamboree,August 2-8, 1989, at Fort A. P, Hill, Vir­ginia. The Jamboree was so popular, thesheer number of participants often causedmassive traffic snarls that made getting tothe site a real problem!

For the hams involved, this was a majorevent: For more than two years. a groupof Radio Scouts planned for the event. (See"Radio Scouting" in August 1989 QST.)The Radio Scouting staff operated Demon­stration Station K2BSA, provided RadioMerit Badge and Novice license instruction.and originated more than 2,000 messages.

Space for the temporary repeater net­work was secured on a 100-foot-highmicrowave tower, courtesy of the Army.Fortunately. there were no major problems(such as the severe weather in 1985), so therepeaters became a part of the normalactivity of the busy Jamboree city.

With the tents ready for equipment,Woodbridge Wireless radio ciub volunteersdelivered the bulk of the radio equipmentand antennas. K2BSA staff arranged thestation to fit its surroundings: VHF/UHF,satellite, FSTV and packet were allsqueezed into one end, with HF positionsspread across the back wall. K2BSA at the1989 National Scout Jamboree was on theair. Less than 36 hours later, K2BSA hadworked all states!

Once in operation, there were few timeswhen the demonstration station was notcrowded with scouts and leaders. Thepacket radio and NTS networks carriedmany greetings to and from the Jamboree.

Where there are scouts, there must bemerit badges, and the 1989 National Jam­boree was no exception. Some 74 scoutsearned Radio Merit Badges at the Jam-

boree, and nearly 300 scouts completed atleast some of the requirements.

The merit badge area was transformedinto a classroom, a test equipment and kit­building area, an SWL post, a Morse codepractice area and an FSTV/packet terminal:The radio area was in a prime location andthe FSTV/packet terminal attracted manypassersby. One scout earned his Novicelicense during the Jamboree even thoughhe had no prior radio experience!

Long lines at pay telephones promptedmany scouts to visit K2BSA to send a mes­sage home, During the day, scouts lined upto fill in the blanks on the message forms.Besides the popularity of the messageservice, scout-operated FSTV and packetradio were the hit of the show. Scouts could

K2BSA National JamboreeBox ScoreBand QSOs10 675t5 80020 115040 102580 180VHF/UHF 110 (excludinq packet

and repeater)Total 3840

2000 + messages originated,400 + delivered.

exchange greetings and pictures betweenthe Demonstration Tent and t.he MeritBadge Midway in spite of the din of activityin the station (scouts are not quietlt. Whenthe packet link dropped out, the scoutsmaintained communications with messagesscribbled on paper and held up to the FSTVcameras! The kids are natural communi­cators.

Radio isan activity for everyone. and thense of radio by the blind is well known.One blind scout made several visits toK2BSA, and hopes to join the ranks oflicensed hams soon after he returns home.The deaf can participate in radio, too: Adeaf Scout Leader spent several hours onAMTOR and packet chatting with newlyfound ham friends. Radio involves moret.han just sound; radio is a vehicle for com­munications. by voice. by computer. byvideo and through satellites.

Many ham radio manufacturers. localradio clubs. packet radio and NTS opera­tors went all-out to support K2BSA, Theirinvestment in the youth at the Jamboreewas well spent. One QSL card noted,"K2BSA was hotter than DX this week!"K2BSA operation at the 1989 NationalScout Jamboree added fuel to the growthof youth in Amateur Radio. But as we set.'.it, the challenge is to keep the growth alIve.Watch for and support Radio Scoutingactivities-radio is more than a meritbadge! lij~~_-)

March 1990 49

A Montserrat MemoirWhy one ham keeps returning to this out-of-the-way isle that

the Caribbean used to be.

"I t's a lousy place to visit and youwould hate it." Sogoestheinside jokeamong those of us who have taken

radio vacations on the Leeward Island ofMontserrat. The ploy, of course, is to dis­courage others from discovering our paradise.

"You're onlyrunning 100 watts? Youmustbe kidding, you're 30 over 9." Wenever tireof hearing that line coming from the otherside of the world. Nor of returning hometomailboxes alreadyfilled withQSLs, manyofthem from much rarer DX stations.

And even though hundreds of thousandsof contacts have been made from Montser­rat over theyears, there always are thedozensof "First Montserrat. PSE QSU' requestsafter every trip there.

I have a friend, a newDXerwith some200countriesworked, whohas yet to loghisfirstVP2M. Blame Hurricane Hugo. When thiskiller storm hit the US Virgin Islands andPuerto Rico lastSeptember. another victim,tiny Montserrat, wasvirtually ignoredby themedia.

Yet, Montserrat-The Emerald Isle­suffered greatly in botha humanand materialsense. A dozen people perished (out of only13.000), and the island's fragile infrastruc­ture, from homes to power lines to drinkingwater. was devastated.

Thislush,semitropical island,a deep,darkgreen from theairas one approaches on thetwin-engine Air Montserrat flight fromAntigua, now bears a brownish hue. Its

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greenery was leveled by Hugo's l40-mi/hwinds.

A Trip of IIiseoveryI first visited Montserrat io March 1987. I

knew from myfriendChod Harris, VP2ML,that the radio experience would be eye­opening, but did not suspect that radio wouldbe only a smallpart of Montserrat's charm.

Myinterest in hamming wasat a lowebb.Despite decades of serious contest work, Ivisited M'rat in 1987 on a noncontestweekend. Yetin sixdays of casualCWopera­tion (with 100 watts output), I made 1400contacts.

WhenJTlKA'" calls )<JU, thensends aQSLdirect, youknow you'vefoundradioNirvana.

The delightfulpropagation notwithstand­ing, I did discover that when things break,theyaren't easily fixed. Thelocal Radio Shackstocks boomboxes, batteries, andnot muchelse. Youcanforget coax,connectors, micro­phones, and mosteverything elsehamsneed.

There's one thing I never did quite figureout, though. Downtown Plymouth's lonemagazine storesported CQmagazines on itsshelf. (OK, so they were three months old.)

Montserrat's Heroic HamIf you knowMontserrat youknowBobby.

Bobby Martin, VP2MO, that is. Bobby is MrAmateur Radio andMontserrat's unofficialworldwide ambassador. He helps withlicens­ing and generally seesto it thatham visitors

to the island are accommodated. He is oneof the finest people I have ever met.

Bobby was born on Antigua, the nearestisland to Montserrat. He and his wife Maelive in a modest concrete house. much ofwhich Bobby built with his own hands.Despite a painful backcondition, Bobbyhasspent the last several years building an addi­tionto the house, and heand Maehad lookedforward to moving Bobby's ham shack outof their bedroom and into the new room.

Bobby'sfuture harnshack is madeof con­crete blocks. HI buy a few blocksat a timewhen I have thespare money," hesays."Noreason to be in debt just to have a biggerhouse."

Mae enjoyscomparingnotes with visitorsabout herfavorite TVshow, "The Young andthe Restless." Or, as Bobby calls it "TheYoung and the Worthless," a joke thatdemolishes cultural barriers.

Hugodestroyed Bobby'stower and beams,hut hishousesurvived, and VP2MO was backon the air using battery power within hoursof the storm's departure.

Chod Harris, writing in the December 1989issue of TheDX Magazine, describes Bobby'srole in post-Hugo communications:

At the height of the storm, Bobby lost alot of the equipmentwhich helps him talk toother radio operators around the world. Butassoonas thestorm hadabated, he salvagedwhat be conld and rigged up a pieceof wireovera fallen electrical cable to actasan aerial.

The author (the one without a hat) with afriend, Chillum, who operates a crafts shopin "downtown" Plymouth.

At 4 AM Sunday, Bobby sent an SOS thathis equipment was "corning down."

When he fan out of gas for his generator(Harris writes), Bobbyset up an emergencystation inhis car so hecould contact operatorsin the US. who relayed messages to otherradio operators in North America and theCaribbean.

Bobby also transmitted newsreports for theCaribbean News Agency, the AssociatedPress, and UPl, filing reports by RadioAntilles news staffers Joe Dominique andPeter Richards.

"I got a kick out of a live interview bothreporters conducted with theChief Ministervia my set," said Bobby.

"It was the first official word out from theChief Minister and even Prime Ministers werestanding by to hear what Mr Osborne (theChief Minister) had to say," he added.

His Excellency Governor Turner, in histelegrams to London, referred to BobbyMartin, VP2MO, as "Montserrat's HeroicHam,"

A Rich History

Montserrat has been a British protectoratesince the 17th Century. Originally populatedby the Irish and served by black slaves, theisland today is home to a few remainingancestral whites. andan otherwise predomi­nately black popuiation comprised of WestIndians and descendants of former slaves.

Montserrat is largely dependent on thelargess of the British government. A strongindependence movement exists. however. anda referendum on severing ties with Englandwas scheduled for 1990. Montserrat is one ofonly a handful of Caribbean islands left withHVP" call signs. I don't know what "VP"

stands for, if anything. Maybe VictorianProvince. Or Very Pretty.

An ambitious airport expansion was on thedrawing board, to more readily accommodatejet traffic, and the island's compleroentof twohotels might actually have doubled as a resnltof the improved accessibility.

But Hugo has sidetracked these plans.Months after the storm's rampage, electricalpower still is intermittent at best, the watersystem (a model of efficiency) is erratic, andmany of the island's residents remain inemergency shelters.

Reportedly the only building on the islandnot sustaining some damage was the AIRRecording Studio, a retreat for many wellknown rock groups.

in Montserrat's immediate vicinity, onlyGuadeloupe also sustainedsigniticant damage,according to Oxfam America. Bnt on Mont­serrat, Hugo was catastrophic, destroyingabont 80'10 of all property on the Island andleaving 80'10 of the island's population home­less, Oxfam reported;

Following Hugo, some fifty portable gener­atorswere shipped to M'rat andimmediatelysnatched up by those of means. Gasoline tofeed them was going for $7 per gallon.

Thesesupplies cameto Montserrat mostlyby ship, augmented by a handfnl of C-130"Hercules" cargoplanes. But because Hugoblewawaythe island's one jetty, everythingnow must be ferried to shorein small boats,at what must be-uncharacteristically forthose who live there--a maddeningly slowpace.

Theisland's small medical school, a sourceof both revenue andpride, wasdestroyed byHugo, and reportedly will not be rebuilt.

As for the fate of Radio Antilles, the majorGerman-operated MF radio site and a Carib­beanbeacon, it wasscheduled to be back onthe air only around April of this year.

Home Away From HomeTrips to Montserrat (I have made three Iare

never uneventful. There usually are radioproblems to be fixed, not to mention theunexpected inconveniences one might nottolerate elsewhere.

High humidity and the salt air in particularattack all kinds of metal. The braid aroundcoaxial cable turns green almost before your"yes. And my keyer paddle still suffers fromwhat I call "Caribbean Crud." It's a greatexcuse. however, when you make sendingerrors.

11 is nearly impossible to keep up a Bever­age antenna; the cows and goats will promptlytear itdown,although I confess J've never ac­tually seen a goat eating the wire.

The power can be erratic. One time, allwent dead three hours into the CQ WorldwideDX Contest. Surprise . . , it wasn't the usualdowned line, but rather a fried circuit breakerthat looked like Edison might have built it.

Fortunately, Bobby Martin sees to it thatthe power company's "scheduled main­tenances" do not take place during radiocontests!

Incidentally, the circuit breaker that failedwas right in our house (the island runs on

220 V, most people having their own step­downtransformers). The repairman and histrainee were there in less than an hour, at1] PM on a Friday night. The breaker wasquickly and professionally replaced.

M'rat is a great place to give up eatingmeat, and you can forget about fresh milk.You buy whatever Plymouth'S two grocerystores happen to have on the shelf that day.

There is a secret placewhere you can buyfresh herbs and vegetables; you'll find it.

Thebeer is very low octane, at theprice ofthe real thing, and comes in 7 II> oz bottles.This is typical of mnch of the Caribbean.Chod tells me that he once was there duringa "beer drought" ("Worst three honrs I everspent," he says).

Where Am I?

On a visit to M'rat in early 1988, I tackledthe new lO~meter phonesegment forNovicesand Technicians. Although I'm not wildaboutvoiceoperating, the newbandseemedlike an opportnnity to be an exciting contactfor some newcomers.

These neophytes were great fun to work.I called "CQ Novices and Technicians only,please," and found that everybody else reallywas ...ery generous about letting themthrongh.1 gave one Novicehis first QSO ever.Another called his Novice friend across town,who got on and worked me with two watts.

A Technician class licensee called to sayhehad been licensed 25 years (nearly as long asI) and how grateful he was to be able to oper­ate SSB on 10 meters. He was 86 years old.

Some of the Novices at first thonght I wasin Canada, because the only other contactsthey had made ontside of the US were withVEstations. I became very accomplished atspelling "Montserrat," and 1 learned that try­ing to pinpoint mylocation as "35miles westof Antigua" would work only if the personat the other end knew where Antigua was. (Onmany mapsAntigua isa mere dot, andMont­serrat doesn't show up at all.)

Speaking of Antigua. every morning I

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Remains of a villa on Montserrat following Hurricane Hugo.

would havecoffee on the veranda and lookacross those 35 miles of the Caribbean Sea,at the silhouette of Antigua, wondering if Iever would work a V2 station. In a way, Inever have. In three trips and about 9,000contacts, the closest I got was an Americanham out of Westport, Connecticut. aboarda sailing ship in the harbor at Antigua.

On cleardaysyoucan justmake out Nevis,V47, to the north. and standing on the roofJ could seeGuadeloupe.FG. This perspectivesends you back to your world atlasandrein­forces justhowcompact thischain of islandsls belying their differences in history andcharacter.

Another incident is worth telling. Igenerally have been remiss about exposingfriendsto Amateur Radio. Nobodypushes to"see the radio station" and I don't dragvisitors to the shack.

Friends Reggie and Russ were alongon oursecond trip to M'Rat. One morning 1 wasmaking a rare SSBcontact, with Roy Neal,K60UE. Reggie chose that very moment towalk into the bedroom/shack and ask if I wastalking to anybody interesting.

"Oh. you know, just the usual hamcrowd." I said, banding her the mike. "Sayhello to Roy Neal, former ScienceEditor forNBCTelevision and the TV voice of the spaceprogram."

Although we had been friends for years,I never really had demonstrated ham radioto Russand Reggie. But they knewthere wassomething special about doing radio fromMontserrat,especially when 1announced thatI had "upgraded" to myown personal VP2Mcall sign.

Reggieand Russ had flown in on a Satur­day evening, as I was half way through theARRL CW OX Contest and starting to getloony. I had neglected to bring a multipliercheck-off sheet with me, so I putour gueststo work making some up, by hand.

Last November. Reggie and Russ came tovisit as 1wasfinishing the last hour of the CQWorldwideCW Contest. from home. Afterthe final bell rang. I showed them how mycomputer already had calculated my finalscore and how many countries1had worked.Lookingat the computerized station,we allthought back to the jury-rigged operation onM'rat, and to all those handwritten logsandcheck sheets.'

My IslandBymy third and most recent trip to M'rat,

in November 1988, 1 was feeling quite athome.Thiswasa bachelor trip, just meandmy college roommate from the '60s.

Aside from smoking Cuban cigars andlamenting ourlostyouth, weplanned a multi­singlein the CQ CW Contest. But insteadwewent our separate ways, he working single­band 10 meters and me just horsing aroundduring his off times.

Despite my competitive nature and theexpense of getting to M'rat, I felt no pressureto get on the air. Handing out the multiplierto acouplethousand stations andthen goinginto town for the steel drum hands and crabraces was fine with me.

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Three hams from Texas were on M'Ratthat weekend, running a very successfuloperation (as VP2MW) from the other sideof the island. Because Montserrat sports anactive volcano at its center (that's how theisland got there in the first place), we barelyknew they were on the hands. even thoughour stations were less than 10 miles apart.

On my way in I had run into one of theTexans-Bill. KM5R.in the Antigua airport,and I helped him lug his Alpha amplifieraboard the Air Montserrat plane. I thinkwhen I saw that Alpha was when I decidedit was going to be no contest!

Iwill return to M'rat sometime soon, to seethe new look of the island. and to visit myfriends onceagain. Someof themare hams,some not, just likeat home. I have renewedmy license for another year.

I've visited and operated from just five

Strays

I would like to get in touch with ...[J Anyone using a Sanyo MBC-550 computeron packet. BillRobinson, 4920Skyland Dr.Meridian, MS 39301.

o Anyone who has a service manual orschematic for a Realistic DX~300 communi­cations receiver, or an Eico 232 VTVM.Donald B. Sylvain, WA3WOD. 6021 Ross­more Dr, Bethesda. MD 20814.

[J Anyone who knows where Jcan obtainaSwanPSU·3Aor SXI17 powersupply. John

foreign countries, but1know I never reallyunderstood OX, and workingOX, until I leftthe States. We hams have a special oppor­tunity to make friends in othercountries notonly on the air, but when we visit them. aswell.

Fornow, I'msaddened bywhat nature hasdone to my favorite island and its people.Early reports indicated that able hodiedMontserratians can find plenty of work butold and disabled people have hcen hit hardby the wind and water damage to their fewpossessions. And there are a lot of olderpeopleon Montserrat, because they don'tdieof airpollution, urban stress, alcoholism, orviolence.

But with citizens like VP2MO J am confi­dentof Montserrat's ability to bounce back.And you willbe hearing VP2MOC again, be­fore long. IM'~'J

A. Zonzo, Sr. WA9UZY, 2922 N KeatingAve, Chicago, IL 60641.CJ Anyonewhoknows where to gettheband­switchbelt for a HallicraftersFPM·3oo. DaleHall, PO Box9609,KansasCity, MO 64134.D Anyone whohasaschematic fora Syntha­coder n made by Engineering Specialties,Oxnard, California. Thisunit wasusedwiththe reOM 22S 2-meter transceiver. BillJ. Lorton. KC7WO, 2672 Broadview Ave.Medford, OR 97501.[] Amateurs who are planetarians, possiblyto set up an HF net. Jim Brown, N3FYC,Director, Stanback Planetarium, PO Box3036, South CarolinaState College. Orange­burg, SC 29117, or Chuck Sommer, Presi­dent, Goddard Amateur RadioClub. PO Box86, Greenbelt. MD 20770.

Board Steers Course forWARC-92, FutureARRL policymakers meet in Hartford, January 19-20.

lations that may potentially hinder AmateurRadio activities. The LGL will buttress thework of the State Government Liaison. (SeeMinute 73.)

The Volunteer Resources Committee willstudy the possibility of establishing a newappointment, Section Training Coordinator(STC), to promote on-the-air programs de­signedto socialize newharns, including Com­municators, should the newcodeless classoflicense becreated.The STC wouldencouragetraining programs for various aspects ofemergency and public-service communication,traffic handling,compliance with FCC regu­lations, and so forth. (See Minute 50.)

The Volunteer Resources Committee willtake a top-to-bottom look at the NationalTraffic System, with input from Area Staffand others. (See Minute 77.)

Staff and General Counselwillcontinue to

By Rick Palm. K1 CEField Services Manager

With the fuseo.n WARC-92 growingever shorter, the ARRL Board ofDirectors at its 1990 AnnualMeet­

ing took steps toward defense of AmateurRadiointerestsfor the future. Citingthe needfor adequate reserves for the WARC, a hostof other threats including220MHz, zoning,restrictivecovenants, inflation. and the needto restore essential levels of membershipservices. the Boardapprovedthe firstduesin­crease in nine years. EffectiveApril l , 1990,the regular annual dues rate willbe $30, andfamiiy and blind membership will be $4.

The Board unanimously returnedDr LarryPrice, W4RA, to the office of President;David Sumner, KIZZ, as Executive VicePresident and Secretary; and Jim McCobb,KILLU. as Treasurer. The Directors alsounanimonsly elected George Wilson Ill,W40YI, First VicePresident; Rod Stafford,KB6ZV, and lim Haynie, WB51BP, as ad­ditional VicePresidents; and Jay Holladay,W6FJJ, InternationalAffairs Vice President.

Serving on the Executive Committee areDirectors Marshall Quiat, AG0X, FrankButler, W4RH, Stephen Mendelsohn,WA2DHF, and Hugh Turnbull, W3ABC.The EC has the authority to act on behalf ofthe Board between Board meetings.

Year of the Amateur Satellite ProgramNotingthat the satellite programrepresents

The Board unanimously returned Dr LarryPrice, W4RA (I), to the office of President;and David Sumner, Kill, as ExecutiveVice President and Secretary.

a major sourceof technological advancement,public service and education, to fulfill thecommitment to the public as outlined inAmateur Radio's charter, the Board pro­claimed 1990 as the yearof the amateur satel­lite program. The year willsee the launch ofno less than eight new OSCAR satellites in­cluding six just launched as part of theMicrosat/UoSAT effort. (See Minute 62.)

t'ield Organization IssnesTo clarify the role and importance of

ARRL publicrelationsvolunteers in the field,the title of the Public Information Officer isnow Public Information Coordinator. andthe Public Information Assistant is PublicInformation Officer. (See Minute 59.)

A new LocalGovernment Liaison (LGL)will bringthe FieldOrganization closerto thelocal level to monitor zoningand other regu-

Table 1Summary of Major Board ActionsMinute Purpose

Regulalo/y

65 Continue work on club and previously held call signs75 Petition for no change in AM power88 Prepare comments on FCC/NTIA spectrum-management Notices

of Inquiry

Operating and Awards40 VRAClVUAC study 144, 220, 420 band plans42 VRAC study the VUAC 13-cm band plan43 5BDXCC endorsements for 12 and 17 meters48 W1AW guest ops to receive certificate54 Change dates of 1990 June VHF QSO Party5.0 1990 US-USSR Goodwill Contest76 MSC study field-checking of DXCC cards

Organizational5~13 Elections of officers25nO Dues Increase26 Ratification of 1990 budget47 Election of ARRL Foundation Directors49 AIRS changed to ARRL Monitoring System50 VRC study Section Training Coordinator51/69 MSC study spectrum-management cornmlttee58 Committee to study Articles and Bylaws59 PIA now PIO; PIC now Public Information Coordinator61 Create Disaster Communications Coordinator62 1990 year of the Amateur Satellite Program67 Study premium class of ARRL membership73 Create Local Government Liaison77 VRC study NTS structure81 1992 National Convention in Los Angeles

PIJbfications41 Map in Repeater DJreclo/y: 1512Q-kHz areas60 Publications Committee study call directories64 Special pubs prices for hamfest prizes66 EC, staff, study OSTsurveys

Disposition

AdoptedAdopted

Adopted

AdoptedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedLostAdoptedAdopted

EtectedAdoptedAdoptedElectedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedAdoptedPostponedAdoptedLostAdoptedAdoptedAdopted

PostponedAdoptedAdoptedAdopted

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The Ffne Print

Decisions made by your League are notmade in a vacuum.Tbeyare made by peopleyouelect, wholisten to your concerns, haveyour input, and reflect your interests whensittingat tbe Board table. Take a look at theline print on the following pages, and if youhave an opinion on something. tell yourDirectorabout it. You'll then have tbe satis­faction of knowing tbat wben he or shereturns to the Board table in July, you'll beparticlpatingin the shapingof your League'saffairs.

IARU member-societies in other countries.Gay Milius, W4UG, was named Director

Emeritus in recognition of his service asDirectorof the RoanokeDivisionfrom 1981to 1988, and as Vice Director of both theHudsonand RoanokeDivisions. (See Minutes52, 53. 56, and 71.)

General Counsel Christopher Imlay, N3AKD(r), and new League Vice President JimHaynie, WB5JBP.

Veteran League staffer and currentWashington Area Coordinator PerryWilliams. W1UED. acts as a resource tothe Board during discussions on regulatorymatters.

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VHF Repeater Advisory Committees, willstudy the presentband plans for the 144-148,220-225, and 420-450 MHz bands. Anyrecommendations for changeswill be madeto the Membership Services Committee forreview prior10 the 1991 Annual Meeting. (SeeMinute 40.)

Recognizing the needfor further resourcesdevotedto spectrum management, the Boardassigned. its Membership Services Committeeto study tbe possibility of establishing aspectrum-management committee. Thecom­mittee would review current band plans andrecommend spectrum usage practices. (SeeMinute 69.)

OperatingTheBoard considered recommendations of

the OX AdvisoryCommittee,approving 18­and24-MHI endorsements to theFiveBandOXCC award. (See Minute 43,)TheMember­ship Services Committee will also study thefeasibility of field-checking QSLcards for tbeinitial DXCC application. (SeeMinute 76.)

Future guest operators at the newly reno­vatedHiram PercyMaximMemorial Station,WIAW, will receive a handsome certificateuponcompletionof at leastoneQSO,tbanksto a Board vote. (SeeMinute 48.)

ThanksCharles P. Bender, WIWPR; E. Laird

Campbell, WlCUT; Tod Olson, K0TO;andGay Milius, W4UG,were all recognized fortheir many years of service to ARRL invarious volunteer and professional capacities.Bender was WlAW station operator, ChiefOperator, and Station Managerfor 38 years.Campbell served35yearsin the Communica­tions,Advertising, Production,and TechnicalDepartments, and he was QST ManagingEditor.

Tod Olson,K0TO,a formerSectionCom­munications Manager. served the Board for16years asa Vice Director. Director I and In­ternationalAffairs Vice President. In the lastrole, Olson strengthened ARRL's ties with

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Committee Reports AvailableCopies of Ihe reports of Ihe Standing Commillees of Ihe Board, Ad Hoc Commillees,

and Advisory Committees are available to members at the costof reproduction andmailing. Here is a listof these reports as presented at the 1990 Annual Meetingof theBoard, with the number of pages and the cost. The absence of a report trom this listmeans that no written report was submitted.

Pleaseorderby document number, and include remittance with your order. Addressorders to the Secretary, ARRL.CommitteeAdministration & FinanceMembership ServicesPublicationsExecutive CommitteeElection CommitteeSAREX Working GroupRFI Task GroupAmateur Radio Digital Committee­LegalStrategy CommitteeEducation Task ForceANERCOMVHF Repeater Advisory CommitteeOX Advisory CommitteeVHF/UHF Advisory Committee

The effervescent Stephen Mendelsohn,WA2DHF. Hudson Division Director andreturning member of the League'sExecutive Committee,

explore with the FCC the possibility of re­institutingclubcallsigns and callspreviouslybeld by individuals. (See Minute 65.)

The ARRLInterference Reporting Systemis renamed the ARRL Monitoring System,consistent with IARU nomenclature, (SeeMinute 49.)

Regulatory aud Baud PlanningAM OSBers, rejoice! Exercising the general

philosophy that privileges should not be re­ducedonceearned, ARRLwill filea petitionwith the FCC to modify Part 97, cementingfor the future the special power limits ex­tended to this mode currently due to expirein June. (SeeMinute 75.)

Two expert panels, tbe VHFIUHF and

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Moved and Seconded •••

M[NUTES OF THE 1990 ANNUALMEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORSTHEAMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE, INC.Jannary [9·20, 1990

SUMMARY AGENDA1) Roll Call2) Moment of Silence3) Consideration of the agenda for the meeting4) Approval of the Minutes of the 1989 Second

Meeting5) Election of Officers6) Election of Executive Committee7) Election of ARRL Foundation Directors8) Reports by the Officers9) Receivereports and consider recommendations

of the Committees10) Appointment of CommitteesII) Report of the Host Director. 1990 ARR L

National Convention(2) Directors' Motions13) Authorization of certain expenses

l) Pursuant to due notice, the Board of Directorsof the American Radio Relay League, Inc., met inannual session at the Summit Hotel, Hartford,Connecticut, on Friday, January 19, 1990, Themeeting was called to order at 8:35 AM EST withPresident Larry E, Price, W4RA, in the Chair andthe following Directors present: Hugh A, Turnbull,W3ABC, Atlantic Division; Edmond A. Metzger,W9PRN, Central Division; Howard Mark,W00ZC, Dakota Division; Joel M. Harrison,WBSIGF. Delta Division; Allan L. Severson, AB8P,Great Lakes Division; Stephen A. Mendelsohn,WA2DHF,Hudson Division; Paul Grauer, Wt'FlR,Midwest Division; Tom Frenave, KIKI, New En­gland Division; William R. Shrader, W7QMU,Northwestern Division; Rodney J. Stafford,KB6ZV, Pacific Division; John C. Kanode, N4MM,Roanoke Division; Marshall Ouiat, AG0X, RockyMountain Division; Frank M. Butler, Jr., W4RH,Southeastern Division; Fried Heyn, WA6WZO,Southwestern Division; Jim Haynie, WB5JBP, WestGulf Division. Also present as members of theBoard without vote were Jay A. Holladay, W6EJJ,First Vice President; George S. Wilson, Ill, W40YI,Vice President: Tad Olson, Kt'TO, InternationalAffairs Vice President; David Sumner, K 172,Executive VicePresident: and James E. McCobb,Jr. KILLU, Treasurer. Also in attendance at theinvitation of the Board as observers were thefollowing Vice Directors: Kay C. Craigie, KC3LM.Atlantic Division; Henry R. Leggette, WD4Q, DeltaDivision; George E. Race, WB8BGY, Great LakesDivision; Paul Vydareny, WB2VUK, HudsonDivision; L. C. "Chuck" Miller, WA0KUH, Mid~west Division; Mary Lou Brown, NM7N, North­western Division; Charles P. Mcconnell, W6DPD,Pacific Division; James fl. Walker, WD4HLZ.Roanoke Division; Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR,Southeastern Division; Wayne Overbeck. N6NB.SouthwesternDivision; and Sam C. Sitton. KV5X,WestGulf Division. There were also present: HarryMact.ean. VR3GRO, First Vice President. theCanadian Radio Relay League; Counsel ChristopherD. Imlay, N3AKD; Barry .T. Shelley. BusinessManager: Paul Rinaldo, W4Rl, PublicationsManager; John F. Lindholm. Wl)(.,'X, MembershipCommunications Services Manager; Richard K.Palm. K1CE. Field Services Manager; and PerryWilliams. WIVED. Washington Area Coordinator.

2) The assembly observed a moment of silencein recollection of Radio Amateurs who have passedaway since the previous Board Meeting, especiallyHonorary Vice President and Past Director JohnGriggs, W6KW. and past Section Manager KarlMedrow,W3FA. Good wishes for a speedy recoverywere offered to vice Director Cliff Laverty.W1RWG, who has been seriously ill. Greetings fromPresident Emeritus Harry Dannels, W2HD. PastDirector A1Oubre, K5DPG, and Past Director GayMilius. W4UG. were conveyed to the Board. TheChair introducedMessrs. Severson andShrader intheir new roles as Directors. Mr. Shrader introducedthe new ViceDirector of the Northwestern Division,Ms. Brown, and Director Severson introduced the

new Great Lakes Vice Director, Mr. Race. Mr.Turnbull introduced Ms. Craigie. Atlantic DivisionVice Director, and Mr. Harrison introduced ViceDirector Leggette of the Delta Division.

3) On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn. seconded byMr. Harrison. the agenda was ADOPTED with theaddition of "Report of the Canadian Radio RelayLeague" under item 8..

4) On motion of Mr. Kanode. seconded by Mr.Mendelsohn, the Minutes of the 1989Second Meet­ing were APPROVED as presented.

5) The Chair announced the opening of nomina­tions for the office of President. Mr. Mendelsohnnominated Mr. Price, On motion of Mr. Grauer.seconded by Mr. Mark, it was unanimously VOTEDthat nominations are dosed and the Secretary isinstructed to cast one ballot electing Mr. Price asPresident.

George Wilson, III, W40YI, was electedFirst Vice President. George chairs thisyear's Administration and FinanceCommittee.

6) The Chair announced the opening of nomina­tions for First Vice President. Mr. Severson nomi­nated Mr. Wilson. On motion of Mr. Oulat,seconded by Mr. Mark. it was unanimously VOTEDthat nominations are dosed and the Secretary isinstructed to cast one ballot electing Mr. Wilson asFirst Vice President.

7) The Chair announced the opening of nomina­tions for an additional Vice President. Mr. Shradernominated Mr. Stafford. On motion of Mr. Quiet,seconded by Mr. Mendelsohn, it was unanimouslyVOTED that nominations are closed and the Secre­tary is instructed to cast one ballot electing Mr.Stafford as a Vice President.

8) The Chair announced that nominations werein order for an additional Vice President. Mr.Harrison nominated Mr. Haynie. On motion of Mr.Quiat, seconded by Mr. Severson, it was tmani­mcuslv VOTED that nominations are closed andtheSecretary isinstructed to castoneballot electingMr. Haynie as a Vice President.

9) The Chair announced the opening of nomina­tions for International Affairs Vice President. Mr.

Quiat nominated Mr. Holladay. Mr. Mark nomt­nated Mr. Olson, but Mr. Olson declined the nomi­nation citing the press of personal business. Onmotion of Mr. Frenaye, seconded by Mr. Mark. itwas unanimously VOTED that nominations arcclosed, and the Secretary is instructed to cast oneballot electing Mr. Holladay as International AffairsVice President.

10) 'TheChair announced the opening of nomina­tions for Executive VicePresident. Mr. Heyn nomi­nated Mr. Sumner. On motion of Mr. Quiat,seconded by Mr. Kanode, it was unanimouslyVOTED that nominations are dosed and the Secre­tary is instructed to cast one ballot electing Mr.Sumner as Executive Vice President.

11) The Chair announced [he opening of nomina­tions for Treasurer. Mr. Mendelsohn nominatedMr. McCobb. On motion of Mr. Quiat, secondedby Mr. Kanode. it wasunanimously VOTED thatnominations are closed and the Secretary is in­structed to cast one ballot electing Mr. McCobb asTreasurer.

12) The Chairannounced the opening of nomina­tions for Secretary. Mr. Severson nominated Mr.Sumner. On motion of Mr. Shrader, seconded byMr. Kanode, it was unanimously VOTED thatnominations are dosed and the Secretary is in­structed to cast one ballot electing Mr. Sumner asSecretary. Whereupon. the Chair announced thatMessrs. Price, Wilson. Stafford, Haynie. Holladay,Sumner and McCobb were elected as the officersof the ARRL until the 1992 Annual Meeting of theBoard (applause),

13) The Chair announced the opening of nomina­tions for Executive Committee. Mr. Kanode nomi­nated Mr. Quiat. Mr. Quiat nominated Mr. Butler.Mr. Harrison nominated Mr. Mendelsohn. Mr.Stafford nominated Mr. Heyn. Mr. Metzger nomi­natedMr. Grauer. Mr. Frenaye nominated Mr.Turnbull. On motion of Mr , Metzger, seconded byMr. Severson, it was VOTED that the nominationsare closed. The Chair announced the appointmentof Mesdames Gauzens. Brown and Craigie a~

Tellers. The Tellers reported that Messrs. Ouiat,Butler and Mendelsohn were elected on the firstballot; Mr. Turnbull was elected on the secondballot (applause).

14) Without objection, the election of directorsof the ARRL Foundation was deferred until laterin the Meeting.

15) Mr. Price presented his report as President,covering internal communications. FCC matters.affairs of the International Amateur Radio Union(of which Mr. Price is Secretary), preparations forthe World Administrative Radio Conference to beheld in Spain in 1992 (WARC-92), membershipmatters, and the long-range planning process.

16) Mr. Holladay presented his report as FirstVice President. The priorities he identified for thecorning year included continuing to address fiscalconcerns. insuring that we are prepared forWARC-92, increasing emphasis on public relations.and recruiting of new amateurs. During 1989 Mr.Holladay had served on the Executive Committee,the Membership Services Committee and the Long­Range Planning Committee and also served asBoard Liaison to the VHF/UHF Advisory Com­mittee. He had been a delegate to the lARU Region:2 Conference at Orlando, where heobserved a highlevel of cocperatton and agreement on the essentialissues.

17) Mr. Wilson presented his report as a VicePresident. Active in the affairs of six committeesduring 1989, he served as Chair of the Ad Hoc Elec­tion Procedures Committee, the Committee toExamine a Possible Code Free License. and theCommittee to Examine the FCC Part 97 Rewrite:and as a member of the Legal Strategy Committee.the Long-Range Planning Committee and theVolunteer Resources Committee. Mr. Wilson ex­pressed pride in the League having turned back aproposal to impose license fees on Amateur Radio;the impact of such fees on the intake of newamateurs "could have been horrible," he said.

18) The report of Clyde Hurlbert. W5CH. asVicePresident, waspresented. It discussed problemsand challenges in the field of financing. Leagueoperations, administration. business operations. and

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the need to raise dues to support member services.19) Mr. Olson presented his report as Inter­

national Affairs VIce President. It summarized theRegion 2lARU Conference in Orlando, includingits election of officers and the work of its commit­tees. Mr. Olson also summarized the work of theInternational Amateur Radio Union in general.

20) The extensive report of the Executive VicePresident focusedon the ARRL agenda for the nextseveral years. Mr. Sumner mentioned the need forstrategic planning in anticipation of a codelesslicense, to earn community support of AmateurRadio, to stimulate technical advancement. forgreater involvement by young people, to earn thesupport of developing countries, to deal withpossible biological effects of radio frequency energy,to strengthen financial resources, to enhance ourimage, and for spectrum management. Appendicesdescribed WARC-92 preparations, ARRL publica­tions activities, a progress report on educationalactivities and the status of actions previouslyrequested by the Board.

21) Mr. MCCobb reported as Treasurer on ac­tivity in the investment portfolio, the specifics ofwhich will be presented in detail in the writtenAnnual Report later in the ye-ar.

22) Mr. Imlay's extensive report as Legal Counselsummarized spectrum allocation matters, includingthe court appeal of the FCC's Docket 87-14 reallo­cation of 220-222 MHz, personal emergency locatortransmitters (Docket 89-599), the spectrum policyreview begun by the National Telecommunicationsand Information Administration, and theWARC-92 Notice of Inquiry (in Docket 89-5.54).Mr. Imlay also mentioned the code-free licensepetition, RM-699S. proposed amendments to PartlJ1. proposed revision of the Rules concerningRTITand data communications, a request for a declara­tory ruling concerning the possession of radioreceivers, and other FCC matters. He concludedwith a summary of local antenna and RFI cases.

During the course of the above, the Board wasin recess from 10:20 to 10:50 AM.

23) Mr. Grauer presented his report as Presidentof the ARRLFoundation, including the good newsthat its assets had increased by $100.000during theprevious fiscal year. Grants included a number ofscholarships, a grant to the Courage Handi-HamSystem Equipment Loan Program, support for theShuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, an emergencycommunications grant following Hurricane Hugoto buy equipment for use in Puerto Rico, and anumber of Victor C, Clark Youth Incentive Pro­gram awards.

24) Acting for President Bruce Balla. VE2QO,Mr. Maclean presented the report of the CanadianRadio Relay League, as a matter of fraternal in­terest to the ARRL Board. Among topics includedwere the new officers of eRRL, Bylaw changes,restructuring of Amateur Radio in Canada, andefforts toward creating a single Amateur Radiosociety in Canada. At 11:40 AM the Board stoodin recess for luncheon, reconvening at 1:08PM withall persons hereinbefore mentioned present. At thispoint the President announced the appointment ofMr. Wilson as Parliamentarian for the meeting.

25) Mr. Metzger. as Chairman, presented thereport of the Administration and FinanceCommit­tee.Jt was moved by Mr. Metzger, seconded by Mr.Heyn, that the following resolution be adopted:

WHEREAS, there will be another World Ad­ministrative Radio Conference in approximately1992; and

WHEREAS. there are continuing legal andother expenses related to the defense of our 220MHz frequencies; and

WHEREAS, recent successes on Capitol Hillpoint to the desirability of continued monitoringof legislative activity, with attendant expense; and

WHEREAS, there are growing problems na­tionallyaffecting the ability of Radio Amateurs toerect antennas for effective communications, in­cluding problems with zoning aswellas fast-growingproblems involving restrictive covenants; and

WHEREAS, inflation and other factors con­tinue to increase expensesinvolved in everyactivity;and

WHEREAS, it is not acceptable to reducemembership services for any appreciable period oftime; and

WHEREAS, there are new and expandedmembership services proposed for the future; and

WHEREAS.there has not been a duesincreasesince 1981: and

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WHEREAS, since J981 there has been an ln­crease of approximately SO percent in the nationalcost price index; and

WHEREAS, our proposed budget for calendaryear 1990 is a bare-bones budget, and by calendaryear 1991 additional revenues will be needed toproperly provide for the above; now therefore, it is

RESOLVED that effective April 1. 1990,Bylaw 4 of the Bylaws of the American Radio RelayLeague is amended by replacing "$25" with "$30"in the first. sentence.

A roll call vote being required, the matter wasdecided in the affirmative with all Directors votingaye except Mr. Grauer, who voted nay. So the Bylawwas AMENDED. The Board was in recess from2:33 to 2:59 PM.

26) On motion of' Mr. Metzger, secondedby Mr.Harrison. it was unanimously VOTED that the 1990budget of the American Radio Relay Leaguepresented at the January 1990Meetingof the Boardof Directors is ratified.

27) On motion of Mr. MCCobb, secondedby Mr.Butler, it was unanimously VOTED that BusinessManager Barry J. Shelley is authorized as a sig­natory on checking accounts and certificates ofdeposit at Connecticut Bank and Trust Company,Connecticut National Bank. Shawmut Bank, andAndover Bank. Authority is also granted to effectthe transfer of funds from those banks by wire orother electronic means.

Rocky Mountain DivIsion Director MarshallQuiat, AG0X, was elected to the ExecutiveCommittee.

28) Mr. Quiat, asChairman, presented the reportof the Membership Services Committee. Studies bythe Committee: continue on developing a standardcomputer file format for contests, preparation ofsigns for clubs to use on highways; and the studyof amateur television issues in the 420-MHzband.Rules governing use of packet or voice assistancein connection with contests were adopted for t990

, events. The Committee willexamine a request fromthe Insurance Administrator for a premium increaseon equipment insurance, The Committee alsocon­tinues its study of the formation of an AmateurRadio SpectrumConsultative Committee to addressspectrum management issues.

29) Mr. Haynie, as Chairman, presented thereport of the Publications Committee calling foraggressive direct marketing and for the incorpora­tion of the publication Gateway into QEX.

30) Mr. Stafford, as Chairman, reported. for theVolunteer ResourcesCommittee on its investigationof ways in which volunteer leadership can be

trained; planning the integration of CommunicatorClass licensees into ARRL affairs; making changesin the Section Public information Program; andmonitoring the progress of the Volunteer ExaminerCoordinator activity. The Board was in recess from4:20 to 4:41 PM.

31) Mr. Price, as Chairman, presented the reportof the ARRL Executive Committee. It summarizedthe three meetings of the Executive Committeeduring the year, each of which has been reportedin QS1".

32) A report on the Shuttle Amateur RadioExperiment by the SAREX Working Group wasreceived.

33) Mr. Turnbull. as Chairman, presented thereport of the RFI Task Group. A case concerningalleged interference to a medically installed pacemaker is still unresolved, proposed tests neverhaving materialized. The Task Group continues toparticipate in industry's development of standardsfor RFI measurements.

34) Mr. Oisonreported briefly for the BiologicalEffects Committee which, in June, had reviewedthe article on biological effects by Dr. Ivan A.Shulman, WC2S, which appeared in the Octoberissue of QST. The Committee intends to seckstandard methods for measurements of radio fre­quency energy and to play an active role in pro­ducing and distributing information. Dr. Shulmanbecame chairman effective January 1.

35) Mr. Rinaldo, as Chairman, presented thereport of the Committee on Amateur Radio DigitalCommunication. The report covered the 8th AR.RLComputer Networking Conference on October 7 atthe US Air Force Academy; the petition for RTTYand packet rule changeswhich was filed in Decem­ber; the HF Packet Radio Design Quest announcedin the May, 1989, issue of QST; and the receipt ofa $10,000 grant from the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency, to be used for HF packetdevelopment.

361 1\.1r. Quiat, as Chairman, presented the reportof the Legal Strategy Committee. Its tasks includedmonitoring court proceedings and decisions affect­ing Amateur Radio, giving assistance and guidanceto staff members assisting amateurs and their at­torneys with local problems, conducting continulnslegal education seminars. continuing legal researchsuch as that which led to PRB-l and assisting inthe Part rn Rewrite Committee activities.On motionof Mr. Ouiat, seconded by Mr. Heyn, it wasVOTED that Christopher Imlay is designated asGeneral Counsel of ARRL (applause).

37) Mr. Frenaye, as Chairman, presented thefinal report of the Education Task Force. Its recom­mendations have led to complete rewrites of theTechnician and General Class Instructor's Guides,establishment of a Volunteer Educational AdvisorProgram. the conducting ofa verysuccessful ARRLNational Education Workshop at the 1989ARRLNational Convention with a 139-page publicationof ~ papers presented there, establishment of aprogram for authorizing instructors to award con­tinuing education units (CElls), publication of anEducation ActivitiesForum newsletter, and renewedefforts to build school Amateur Radio clubs. Ac­tivities of the Education Task Force now can be bestcarried on by the Publications and VolunteerResources Committees working with Headquarters.On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn. seconded by Mr.Frenave, it was VOTED that the Education Task

, Force is discharged, with the warm thanks of theBoard for a job well done. During the course ofthe above, Mr. Leggette took the seat for Mr.Harrison, at j;:17 PM,

38) Mr. Stafford, as Uaison, presented the finalreport of the ARRL National Emergency ResponseCommittee (ANERCOM). Hurricane Hugo pro­vided a laboratory for the emergency plans deve­loped by ANERCOM. Cooperation with lARURegion 2 Societies was apparent both during thehurricane and at the Tenth General Assembly inOrlando. ANERCOM and the ARRL FreidServicesDepartment have been in close contact with servedagencies and the Office of US Foreign DisasterAssistance. Other subjects included interface withthe news media. the ARRL International Assistanceand Traffic Net (lArN), health and welfare inquirytraffic, gateway message formats, and standardoperational procedure.

39) Mr. Metzger, as Chairman. presented thereport of the Election Committee, covering its workin administering theDirector and Vice Director elec­tions during 1989 and a Section Manager recall elec-

tion in 1990. On motion of Mr. Frenaye, secondedby Mr. Mendelsohn, it was VOTED that thefollowing paragraph beadded after paragraph 6 inthe standard procedures for the ARRL Committeeof Tellers:

"Upon completion of the ballot counting andcertification, the results shall be communicated tocandidates in an expeditious manner, by telephoneor electronic means:'

40) Mr. Shrader, asLiaison, presented the reportof the VHF Repeater Advisory Committee. It wasmoved by Mr. Shrader, seconded by Mr. Butler,that the Board of Directors of the ARRL task theVHF Repeater Advisory Committee and the VHF~UHF Advisory Committee to recommend changesto the ARRL 144-148 MHz, 220-225 MHz and420-450MHz band plans and that such changes bepresented to the Membership Services Committeefor study before the 1991 Annual Boardof DirectorsMeeting. On motion of Mr. Wilson, seconded byMr. Mendelsohn, it was VOTED to amend themotion to read: that the Board of Directors of theARRL task the VHF Repeater Advisory Committeeand the VHF-UHF Advisory Committee to considerchanges to theARRL 144-148MHz, 220·225 MHzand 420-450MHz band plans and that any changesbe presented to the Membership Services Committeefor study before the 1991 Annual Board of DirectorsMeeting. The question thereupon being on themotion as amended, the same was ADOPTED.During the course of the above, Mr. Harrisonreturned to his seat at .5:42PM. The Board was inrecess for dinner from 5:44 to 8:39 PM, with allpersons hereinbefore mentioned present except Me.Stafford; Mr. McConnell took his seat,

41) It was moved by Mr. Shrader, seconded byMr. Harrison, that the Board of Directors of theARRL recommend that a one-page map of the USbeincluded in the ARRL Repeater Directory, depict­ing which states are using 15kHz separation betweenrepeaters and which states are using 20 kHz on thez-meter (144 MHz) band. On motion of Mr.Dlson,seconded by Mr. Kanode, it was VOTED to post­pone consideration of the matter until the July Meet­ing of the Hoard. Messrs. Shrader, Heyn andHarrison requested to be recorded as voting againstpostponement; Mr. Metzger requested to be re­corded as having abstained. During the course of theabove, Mr. Stafford resumed his seat at 8:.52PM.

42) On motion of Mr. Shrader, seconded by Mr.Heyn, it was VOTED that the Board of Directorsof the ARRL task the VHF Repeater AdvisoryCommittee to review the 13-cm band plan as pro­posed by the VHF-UHF Advisory Committee. TheVRAC recommendations shall be presented to theMembership Services Committee for their study be­fore the 1991 Annual Board of Directors Meeting.

43) No report had been received from the Con­test Advisory Committee. On behalf of the DXAdvisory Committee, Mr. Kanode presented acomprehensive report provided by its chairman.Richard Roderick. KSUR. It was moved by Mr.Kanode, seconded by Mr. Harrison, that thefollowing endorsements be added to the 5-Band DXCentury Club program: 12 meters (24.890 to 24.990MHz) and 17 meters (18.068-18.168 MHz). It wasmoved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Mark, thatthe motion be amended by striking the text and sub­stituting therefor the following: that the .oXACreview all presently available DX awards and en­dorsements. and submit in its next report a list ofsame, prioritized according to their perceivedimportance to the OX community. A point of orderwas raised by Me.Mendelsohn, that the amendmentoffered was not germane to the motion it proposedto amend. However. the Chair ruled that the motiont.oamend was in order. The question then being onthe amendment, the same was LOST. The questionthen being on Mr. Kanode's motion, a roll call votebeing ordered upon request, the question was de­cided in the affirmative. Messrs. Harrison,Mendelsohn, Frenaye, Shrader, Stafford, Kanode,Ouiat, Heyn and Haynie voted aye, Messrs, Mark.Severson, Grauer and Butler voted nay, and Messrs.Turnbull and Metzger abstained. So the motion wasADOPTED.

44) Mr. Holladay, as Liaison, presented thereport of the VHF~UHF Advisory Committee. Thereport outlined the status of past VUAC recom­mendations. There was no report from the PublicService Advisory Committee,

45) With unanimous consent, the Chair deferredagenda item 10,Appointment of Committees, untillater in the meeting.

46) Mr. Grauer, as host Director, reported onplans for the 1990National Convention. It is to beheld June 8-10 at Bartle Hall, Kansas City (Missouri)Convention Center, 13th and Central. The AllisPlaza is HQ Hotel with the Americana as backup;attendees should mention ARRL. when reservingrooms. At this point, 9:50 PM, the Board was inrecess for the night, reconvening on Saturday,January 20, 1990,at 8:40AM with all personshere­inbefore mentioned present except TreasurerMcCobb who had departed from the meeting.

47) Mr. Frenaye, on behalf of the ARRL Foun­dation. presented nominations for its Board ofDirectors for J990. On motion of Mr. Butler,seconded by Mr. Harrison, it was VOTED that PaulGrauer, W0FIR, John Kanode, N4MM, and RalphAnderson, KlfNL are elected for three-year terms,and Roger Franke, K9AYK, for a one-year term,as Directors of the ARRL Foundation.

48) At this point the Board reached item 12 onthe agenda. Directors' motions. On motion of Mr.Frenaye, seconded by Mr. Kanode. it was unani­mously VOTED that guest operators at the newlyrenovated Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station,Wl AW, be presented with a certificate upon com­pletion of at least one OSO.

49) On motion of Mr. Shrader. seconded by Mr.Heyn, it was VOTED that the name of the HARRLInterference Reporting System" be changed to"ARRL Monitoring System (ARRL MIS)."

Atlantic DivisIon Director Hugh Turnbull,W3ABC, discusses progress on the RFtfront. Hugh is chairman of the League'sRFl Task Group.

50) On motion ofMr. Stafford, seconded by Mr.Mendelsohn, it was VOTED that the VolunteerResources Committee shall undertake the study ofthe creation of a new section-level a\'R0intmentcalled, "Section Training Coordinator. 'The VRCshall develop a job description for the Section Train­ing Coordinator and then shall seek input from thefield as to the advisability of creating such a newposition. The job description shall include, but notnecessarily be limited to. the following: 1) encourag­ing clubs and repeater groups to establish and main­tain on-the-air code practice sessions, especially inthe VHF-UHF frequencies, 2) encouraging clubsand repeater groups to establish and maintain on­the-air training programs for the various aspects ofemergency communications, public service commu­nications, traffic handling, compliance with FCCrules and regulations. etc. The VRC is to report tothe Board on this matter at the July 1990 Meeting,

51) It was moved by Me. Kanode, seconded byMr. Frenaye, that whereas effective utilization ofthe spectrum available to radio amateurs has becomeincreasingly important due to growth in the numberof popular operating modes and growth in thenumber of users of each mode, it is thereforeordered that a spectrum management committee beestablished having asitsbasis and purpose toreviewcurrent ARRL band plans and spectrum usagerecommendations and practices, Considering alloperating modes and interests for a given band and,

where appropriate, formulate recommendations forpresentation to the ARRL Board for adoption. TheMembership Services Committee is directed todevelop procedures for: 1)Selection of members forthe spectrum management committee. Such selec­tion shall be made without regard to current Leaguemembership. 2) The process of deliberation andrecommendation to be used by the Committee. Thisprocess shall provide for input from and feedbackto the user community. These procedures shall beestablished in consultation with the US amateurcommunity and shall be presented for approval atthe second 1990 Meeting of the Board. Onmotionof Mr. Heyn, seconded by Mr. Haynie, it was VOT·ED to postpone consideration of the matter untilafter lunch.

52) On motion of Mr. Quiat, seconded by Mr.Frenaye, the following resolution wasunanimouslyADOPTED (apptause):

WHEREAS,CharlesR. Bender,WIWPR, hasserved on the ARRL Headquarters staff faithfullyfor 38continuous vearsas WIAW station operator,the last 18 of which as Chief Operator and StationManager; and

WHEREAS, "Chuck" has fondly becomeknown as the principal voice and fist behind manyWIAW QSO,; and

WHEREAS, many prospective hams havelearned Morse code through the diligent efforts ofChuck at WIAW; now, therefore.

BE IT RESOLVED. that this Board commendsChuck for his great contribution to the League andAmateur Radio and conveys a hearty "73" for arichlydeserved. long, healthy and happy retirement.

53) On motion of Mr. Haynie, seconded by Mr.Mendelsohn, the following resolution ..vas unani­mously ADOPTED (applause):

WHEREAS, Laird Campbell. WICUT, hasserved on the ARRL Headquarters staff faithfullyfor 35 continuous years, including positions in theCommunications, Technical andAdvertising depart­ments, and as the Managing Editor of QST; and

WHEREAS, Laird has also served tile staff asSenior Staff Assistant for personnel matters, as Act­ing General Manager during W ARC preparationsand has been chairman of the Museum of AmateurRadio Committee; and

WHEREAS, Laird, in his additional role ofProduction Manager, has diligently overseen theproduction of more than 70 ARRL titles; now.therefore

BE IT RESOLYEO, that this Board commendsLaird for his tireless devotion to the League andfor his contributions to Amateur Radio, and passesalong its best wishes for a happy retirement.

54) It was moved by Mr. Grauer. seconded byMr. Harrison, that the June VHF QSO Party bemoved up one week, from June 9 to June 16. Butafter discussion. the motion was LOST.

55) On motion of Mr. Shrader, seconded by Mr.Harrison, it was VOTED that the ARRL accept theinvitation to participate in a 1990 US-USSR Good­will Contest. timed to coincide with the 1990 Good­will Games to be held in Seattle, Washington.

56) On motion of Mr. Kanode, seconded by Mr.Mendelsohn. it was unanimously VOTED that GayE. Milius, Jr., W4UG, the Roanoke Div-ision Direc­tor from 1981 to 1988, is elected as DirectorEmeritus (applause).

57) On motion of Mr. Haynie, seconded by Mr.Heyn, it was VOTED that the following ARRLConventions are approved: West Texas Section,Abilene, April 14·]5. 1990, and Oklahoma State,Oklahoma City, August 3-5. 1990.

58) On motion of Mr. Turnbull, seconded by Mr.Metzger, it was VOTED that the President appointOf use an existing Committee to review the Articlesof Association and Bylaws and propose any changesnecessary to reflect the current duties of officers.Their preliminary report should be made to theBoard at its Second 1990 Board Meeting.

59) On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn. seconded byMr. Wilson, it was VOTED that the section-leveltitles for Public Information appointments bechanged to better reflect their work. Public Infor­mation Assistant shall become Public InformationOfficer; Public Information Officer shall becomePublic Information Coordinator.

60) On motion of Mr. Grauer, seconded by Me.Frenaye, it was VOTED that the Publications Com­mittee study the fe<tsibillty of publishing calldirectories. During the course of the above. Messrs.Leggette and Sitton took the seats for Messrs.Harrison and Haynie at 9:~7 AM.

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Dakota Division Director Howard Mark. W00ZC 0>, and Delta Divlson Director JoelHarrison, WB5IGF.

Several new Vice Directors attend their first Board meeting. from left: Great Lakes Divl­sian's George Race, WB8BGY; Atlantic Division's Kay Craigie, KC3LM; and Delta DivI­sion's Henry Leggette. WD4Q.

made by staff and General Counsel to work withthe FCC to find a way to allow the issuance of newclub caIJ signs, as well as the reissuance of call signspreviously held by individuals.

66) On motion of Mr. Heyn, seconded by Mr.Butler, it was VOTED that the Executive Committeewith Headquarters staff study the method, practi­cality and merits of regularly having informalsurveys conducted in (}ST. During the course of theabove, at 11:08 AM, Mr. Harrisonretumed to hisseat; Mr. Walker took the seat for Mr. Kanode.

67) It was moved by Mr. Mendelsohn, secondedby Mr. Frenaye, that the Administration andFinance Committee shall study the desirability ofestablishing a premium class of League membershipas an incentive to those who desire to provideadditional support to the League. Such a class ofmembership might provide additional League serv­icesat a yearly membership cost of at least twicethe annual rate. But, after discussion, the motionwas LOST.During the course of the above, at 11~AM. Messrs. Kanode and Severson resumed theirseats.

68) At this point, 11:27 AM, Me. Price returnedto the Chair and announced the following appoint­ments to Standing Committees.

Administration and Finance: Mr. Wilson, Chair­man; Messrs. Harrison, Frenaye, and Metzger. AiTreasurer, Mr. McCobb is also a member of thiscommittee.

Membership Services: Mr. Kanode. Chairman;Messrs. Grauer, Mark. Stafford andMrs. Gauzens.

Publications: Mr. Severson. Chairman; Messrs.Sitton, Shrader and Walker.

Volunteer Resources: Mr. Hevn, Chairman;Messrs. McConnell, Haynie and Vydareny.

Election: Mr. Turnbull, Chairman; Messrs. Butlerand Grauer. During the course of the above, at11:44 AM, Mr. Vydareny took the seat for Mr.Mendelsohn; at II:l0 AM, Mr. McConnell took theseat for Mr. Stafford; and Mr. Sitton took the seatfor Mr. Haynie. The Board wasin recess for lunchfrom 12:01 to 1:04 PM, reassembling with all per­sons hereinbefore mentioned present except Mr.McCobb. Messrs. Haynie and Stafford returned totheir seats at this time.

69) The Board returned to an item of businessthat had been postponed until after lunch. Onmotion of Mr. Kanode, seconded by Mr. Stafford,it was VOTED to amend Mr. Kanode's earliermotion to read as fellows,

WHEREAS. effective utilization of the spec­trum available to radio amateurs has becomeincreasingly important due to growth in the numberof popular operating modes and growth in thenumber of users of each mode, it is thereforeordered tbat the Membership Services Committeestudy the establishment of a spectrum managementcommittee whose basis and purpose is to reviewcurrent ARRL band plans and spectrum usage

shall request the Secretary of the League promptlyto notify the remaining Board members of the placeand time of the meeting. The meeting notes of anyStanding Committee meeting shall be published tothe full Board within 45 days of that meeting.During the course of the above, at 10:~7 AM. Mr.Race took the seat for Mr. Severson.

64) On motion of Mr. Grauer, seconded by Mr.Mendelsohn, it was VOTED that an ARRL ap­proved ham fest be able to buy publications at aspecial price to be used as prizes at the hamfest.(Limit to be set at $100.) During the course of theabove, at 11:02 AM, Mr. Leggette took the seat forMr. Hamson,

65) On motion of Me. Frenave, seconded by Mr.Butler. it was VOTED that continued efforts be

61) It wasmoved by Mr. Stafford, seconded byMr. Kanode. that the post of Disaster Communica­tions Coordinator becreated. The position shall beappointed by the President of the ARRL and shallbe responsible for acting as Liaison with the lARUin the area of disaster communications. On motionof Mr. Mendelsohn, seconded by Mr. Severson, itwas voted to postpone discussion of the matter untilafter lunch. The Board was in recess from 10:10 to10:45AM. resuming with Mr. Holladay in the Chairand Messrs. Haynie and Harrison in their seats.

62) On motion of Mr. Haynie, seconded by Mr.Heyn, the following resolution was ADOPTED:

The ARRL Board of Directors, on behalf of theofficers and members proclaim for all to note that:

WHEREAS. the Amateur Satellite Programrepresents a major source of technological advance­ment within the Amateur Radio community; and

WHEREAS. the Amateur Satellite Programhas a long history of providing useful communica­tions resourcesto radio amateurs worldwide: and

WHEREAS. the Amateur Satellite Program isa major element of the public service, education,and scientific research being conducted via AmateurRadio today; and

WHEREAS. the Amateur Satellite Programrepresents the resourceful, creative, innovative andvolunteer spirit of Radio Amateurs everywhere; and

WHEREAS. 1990 will see the launch of eightnew OSCAR satellites including six on a singlelaunch vehicle with the MicrosatlUoSAT launch;and

WHEREAS, 1990 will see the construction ofan additional OSCAR satellite by AMSATMltalyandAMSAT-NA begin; and

WHEREAS, 1990 will marie: the beginning ofthePhase Ill-D construction activity by a broad baseof international amateur participants; now,therefore

BEIT RESOLVED, that in recognition of thecontribution of the Amateur Satellite Program tothe Amateur Radio Service and of the significantevents which are to occur during the course of theyear 1990 within this discipline of Amateur Radio,we hereby declare: 1990 the Year of the AmateurSatellite Program.

63) On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn, seconded byMr. Harrison, it was VOTED that it shall be astanding order that, promptly after the calling ofa meeting of a Standing Committee. its Chairman

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recommendations and practices, considering alloperatingmodes and interests for a given band and,where appropriate, to formulate recommendationsfor presentation to the ARRL Board for adoption.The MSC study shall include recommended pro­cedures for: 1)Selection of members of the spectrummanagement committee. 2) The process of dellbera­tion and recommendation to be used by the Com­mittee. This process shall provide for input fromand feedback to the user community. The studyrecommendations shall be established in consulta­tion with all existing committees whichare affectedand with interested members of the US amateurcommunity. These recommendations shall bepresented at the Second 1990Meetingof the Board.

The question then being on the motion as amend­ed, the same was ADOPTED.

70) It was moved by Mr. Metzger, seconded byMr. Butler. that Bylaw 7 is amended byreplacing"$2" with "$4" in the first sentence. A roll callvote being required. the question wasdecided in theaffirmative. All the Directors voted aye. so theBylaw was AMENDED.

71) On motion of Mr. Mark, seconded by Mr.Grauer. the following resolution wasunanimouslyADOPTED by standing ovation:

Now let it be known that:WHEREAS. Tod Olson has contributed to

Amateur Radio as a member of ARRL's FieldOrganization as a Section CommunicationsManager; and

WHEREAS. Vice President Olson competedfor many years as a top-rated contester and wasthefirst editor of the National Contest Journal; and

WHEREAS, for the past 16 years, Vice Presi­dent Olson has served the ARRL Board as ViceDirector, Director and Vice President of Inter­national Affairs, in the tatter role fostering strongties with member societies overseas; now, therefore

BEIT RESOL YED, that this Board does here­by commend Vice President Olson for his contri­butions to Amateur Radio and the ARRL. andwishes him well in his future endeavors.

72) On motion of Mr. Severson,seconded by Mr.Mendelsohn, it was VOTED that Standing Order113 is amended to include Section Manager. Thenew wording shall be: "The Executive Vice Presi­dent, upon request, shall furnish each SectionManager and Director a list showing each memberof his urea who fails to renew membership priorto expiration of the grace period."

73) It was moved by Mr. Mendelsohn, secondedby Mr. Harrison, that the following resolution beadopted;

WHEREAS, a significant portion of the legal/regulatory problems faced by amateurs today comefrom the areaof local government. zoning boards,etc .• which may enact ordinances or regulationsdetrimental to amateur radio interests. or may useexisting rules to hinder amateur operation; and

WHEREAS, Volunteer Counsel must frequent­ly deal with such problems long after they arise; and

WHEREAS, the State Government Liaisoncannot monitor the activities ofeach and every localgovernment body. nor appear before each and everybody; now. therefore

BE IT RESOLVED, that the station appoint­ment of Local Government Liaison is establishedin the Field Organization to bring Amateur Radiocloser to these most basic, grass roots levels ofgovernment.

BE IT FURTIlER RESOLVED, that the FieldServices Manager will promulgate appropriate ca­tificates of appointment and job descriptions andpublish appointee recruitment articles in appropri­ate publications.

A loll call vote being ordered, the question wasdecided in the affirmative. Messrs. Mark, Harrison,Severson. Mendelsohn. Frenaye, Shrader, Stafford,Kanode, Quiat, Butler. Hem, and Haynie votedaye. Messrs. Turnbull, Metzger and Grauer votednay. So the motion was ADOPTED.

74) It was moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded byMr. Butler, that a new Bylaw be added after Bylaw19~ "The Election Committee shalt certify the elig:i­bilitv under Article I t of any nominee to rill a ViceDirector vacancy under Article 7." A roll call votebeing required. the question W3$ decided in theaffirmative, with all the Directors voting aye. Sothe new Bylaw was ADOPTED.

15) It was moved byMr, Frenave, seconded byMr. Mendelsohn, that a petition be filed with theFCC proposing modifications to Part 97.313(b).proposing the power limits for operation on AM

DSB in accordance with previous ARRL policy tosupport the retention ofoperating privileges alreadyearned. Theayes and nays being ordered on request,the question was decided in the affirmative. Messrs.Turnbull, Metzger, Harrison, Severson, Mendel­sohn,Grauer,Frenaye, Shrader, Kanode, Quiat andButler voted aye; Messrs. Mark, Stafford andHaynie voted nay; and Mr. Heyn abstained. So themotion was ADOPTED. The Board was in recessfrom 2:06 to 2:25 PM.

76) On motion of Mr..Stafford, seconded by Mr.Harrison, it was VOTED that the MembershipServices Committee shall study the feasibility of fieldchecking of QSL cards for the initial applicationfor the DXCC Award. The MSC is to seek inputfrom the membership and the DXAC. If the MSCdetermines that field checking is feasible, it shalldevelop rules and ~ures for suchfield checkingandshall present Its findings and recommendationsto the Board of Directors at the July 1990Meeting.

,. -';j;~L:,~;.".~'0;;~i::::~"~:l:New England IDivison Director TomFrenaye, K1KI ~), and new NorthwesternDivlson Director Bill Shrader, W7QMU,listen Intently Ito discussion on a motionbefore the Bo,ard.

77) On modl of Me. Stafford, seconded by Mr.Heyn, it was VOTED that the VRC shall undertakea study of the] structure of the National TrafficSystemand to recommend to the Board of Directorsany changes that the VRC deems appropriate. TheVRC shall seekthe input of the AreaStaffs and ifthe VRC deems it necessary and appropriate, theVRC mayproposethat the three Area Staff chair­men meet m person with the VRC to discuss thematter. I

78) It was moved by Me. Heyn, seconded by Me.Butler, that the appropriate Standing Committeestudy the feasibility 'of allowing a limited numberof Section Man~s (up to IS) to attend eachBoardMeeting, asobservers at no expense to the League.But after discussion,the motion was LOST. Duringthe course ortbe above, at 2:S0PM, Mr. Sitton tookthe seat for Mr. Haynie.

79) On motion of Mr. Metzger, seconded by Mr.Quiat, it was V.OTED that the Board of Directorsreimburse deficiencies in various accounts of$464.28 for the fiscal year 1989.

80) On motion of Mr. Heyn, seconded by Mr.Butler, it was VpTED that the ARRL SouthwesternDivision Convention to be held at Scottsdale,Arizona, October 11-13, 1991, is approved.

81) On motion of Mr. Heyn, seconded by Mr.Stafford. it Was VOTED that the 1992 ARRLNational Convention be held at Los Angeles,California, onlAugust 2Q..23, 1992.

82) Moving Inow to Item 13 on the agenda, onmotion of Mr. ifumbull, seconded byMr. Shrader,it was VOTED that the Executive Vice Presidentis hereby authorized to reimburse Division Directorsfor actual expenses incurredby them during the year1990 in,the proPer administration of ARRL affairsin their respective divisions and in accordance withBoard policy up to the amounts as follows: AtlanticDivision 512,000; Central Division $8,:500;DakotaDivision S4,SOO; Delta Division $10,000; GreatLakes Divisioti $13.500; Hudson Division $8.500;Midwest Division $1,000; New England Division$8,500; Northwestern Division $13,000; PacificDivision $10,500; Roanoke Division $U,OOO; RockyMountain Division $8.500; Southeastern Divisons12,000:Southwestern Division S13.500: West Gulf

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Division $10,000.83) On motion of Mr. Butler. seconded by Mr.

Quiat, it was VOTED that the Executive Vice Presi­dent is hereby authorized to reimburse the followingCommittees and Task Groups created by the Boardfor expenses incurred by them during the year1990in the proper execution of their duties and inaccordance with Board policy. as follows;

aFI Task Group 52,SOD; Committee on the Bio­logical Effects of RF Energy S3.S00: Committee onAmateur Radio Digital Communications $10.000;Legal Strategy Committee $12,500; Election Com­mittee $3.000: Public Relations Committee $S,OOO.

84) On motion of Mr. Kanode, seconded by Mr.Heyn, it was VOTED that to continue the Board'spolicy of reimbursing QSL Bureau Managers of theLeague for certain travel in furthering ARRLorganizational objectives, the Executive Vice Presi­dent is hereby authorized to pay during the year 1990a total amount not to exceed$4,000 under the termsprescribed by the general pattern established by theBoard.

85) On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn, seconded byMr. Butler, it was VOTED that to continue theBoard's policy of reimbursing National TrafficSystem officials above the section level for certainapproved expenses in furthering ARRL organlza­tional objectives, the Executive Vice President ishereby authorized to pay during the year 1990 a totalamount not to exceed$3.000under terms prescribedby the Field ServicesManager following the generalpattern established by the Board.

86) On motion of Mr. Grauer, seconded by Mr.Metzger, it was VOTED that to continue the policyof the Board to assume the administrative expensesof the ARRL Foundation, the Executive Vice Presi­dent is hereby authorized to pay during the year 1990a total amount not to exceed $2,000 in accordancewith ARRL standing policies with respect to travel,accounting procedures and auditing. During thecourse of the above. at 3;25 PM. Mr. Hayniereturned to his seat.

87) On motion of Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr .Kanode, it was VOTED that the Board of Directorsauthorizes reimbursement of additional expenses of53,3S1.83 incurred by the Administration andFinance Committee during 1989 in the performanceof its duties.

88) On motion of Mr. Olson, seconded by Mr.Frenaye. it was VOTED that the Executive VicePresident, with guidance from the President, isrequested to study the FCC and NTIA Notices ofInquiry pertaining to WARe 92 and other spectrummanagement issues, and prepare comments in suf­ficient time for review and approval by the Execu­tive Committee.

89) On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn, seconded bythe entire Board, it wasunanimously VOTED thatthe Board of Directors of the ARRL, assembled inHartford, Connecticut, this 20th day of January,1990, thanks the Executive Vice President and hisable staff: specifically, Lisa Clark, for all of herwonderful administrative work; John Lindholm,Rick Palm, Paul Rinaldo and .BarryShelleyfor theirtechnical expertise at crucial moments; and PerryWilliams for faithfully recording one of the mostproductive meetings in memory (applause).

90) Me. Price announced the following additionalcommittee assignments:

Contest Advisory Committee: Chairman,Richard Assarabowski, KICC; Board Liaison,Director Kanode.

DX Advisory Committee: Chairman RichardRoderick, K5UR: Board Liaison. DirectorMcConnell.

Public Service Advisory Committee: Chair­man, Laurance Staples, Wf'AIB; Board Liaison,Vice Director Race.

VHF Repeater Advisory Committee: Chair­man, Karl Pagel. N6BVU; Board Liaison. Direc­tor Shrader.

VHF-UHF Advisory Committee: Chairman,Lauren Libby, KXOC>; Board Liaison, DirectorHarrison.

Public Relations Committee: Board Liaison.Director Mendelsohn

91) There followed an opportunity for all presentto make final comments. There being no furtherbusiness, the Board adjourned sinedie at 4:49 PM.(Total time in session as a Board: 13 hours. 36minutes; direct authorizations: $200,316.11.)

Respectfully Submitted.David Sumner. KIZZSecretary @t~~

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Happenings Conducted ByJohn C. Hennessee, KJ4KBRegulatory Information Editor

Flawless Launch Yields Six OSCARs; New Era in AmateurSatellite Communications Begins

On Sunday. January 21. at approximately0135 UTC, the "brilliant plume" coming fromthefirststage of an Ariane V-35rocket markedthebeginning of a picture-perfect launchof thenext generation of OSCARsatellites. At thattime,UoSATs D and E and the fourMierosats(PACSAT, WEBERSAT, LUSAT andDOVE), begantheir journeyinto space fromKourou, French Guiana. An attemptto launch24 hours earlier was "scrubbed" because ofthunderstorms near the launch site.

The AMSAT LaunchInformation NetworkService (ALINS) covered the launch and theeventssurroundingit. The launch was heardaround the world with rebroadcasts byWIAW, WA3NAN, W5RRR, and a host ofother HF and VHF stations on virtually allamateur bands.

The rocketreachedits orbital velocity of 7kilometers persecond 16minutes into theflightas it passedeast of Bermuda. At 20 miuutesinto the flight, UoSATs D and E weredeployed, making them OSCARs 14 and 15.One minute later, the four Microsats were suc­cessfully deployed, making them OSCARs16-19. respectively.

Ariane LaunchControl and AMSAT staffapplauded as the amateur satellites weredeployed in this "very historic moment" for

RFI CASE DISMISSED INWASffiNGTON SUPERIOR COURT

An RF1 nuisance case brought against aradio amateur has been dismissed by theSuperior Court of theStateof Washington forlack of jurisdiction. The court stated that theFCC has exclusive jurisdiction over casesinvolving RFI.

The case involved Dr Wayne Hudson,KTIG, a resident of unincorporated KingCounty, Washington, and his two neighbors,Luedkeand Abigando, After the initialcom­plaint of RF1 by his neighbors, Hudson hadhis station inspected by the FCC and by aprivatefirm, and hisequipment was found tobe in accordance with FCC rules. Hudson'stower had been inspected by King CountyLand Development and a permit was issued.RF1 problems continuedand seemed to stemfrommanysources apart fromAmateurRadiooperation. [t was later determined that hisneighbors used "touch lamps"-devices thatcan sometimes cause RFI even when turnedoff. Thinking that Hudson was causing theRFI, they took him to Small Claims Courtwhere Hudsonproved that he wasnot at fault.A verdict was rendered in his favor.

Luedkeand Abigandolater took their caseto Washington State SuperiorCourt whereit

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AMSAT and Amateur Radio.In a letter to AMSAT President Doug

Loughmiller, KOSI, ARRL Executive VicePresidentDavidSumner,KIZZ, congratulat­ed AMSATon the successful orbiting of thefour Microsats, "What the AMSAT team basdone," SUmner said. "reflects credit on theentireAmateurRadiocommunity. 'The timingcouldn't be betteras webegin preparationforthe World Administrative Radio Conferenceto be held in 1992.

"AMSAT can justifiably take pride inproviding theAmateurRadiocommunity witha newcommunications capability. TbeAmeri­can Radio RelayLeague sharesin your prideand is pleased to havehad the opportunityofcontributing to the project."

In confident anticipation of a successfullaunch, the ARRL Boardof Directors passedthe following resolution:

"The ARRL Board of Directors, on behalfof the officers and membersproclaimfor allto note that:

"Whereas the amateur satellite programrepresents a major source of technologicaladvancement withinthe AmateurRadioCom­munity, and

"Whereasthe amateursatellite programhasa long historyof providing usefulcommuni-

was determinedthat "The Supremacy Clauseof the United States Constitution bars theinstantstatelawclaims and deprives this courtof subject matter jurisdiction since RF1problemsare withinthe exclusive jurisdictionof the FCC, preempting any state lawsto thecontrary . . . . ,.

It was determined that theneighbors hadnottaken steps to solve their own RFI problemsand that they had refused to take the neces­sary stepsas requestedby the FCC. Theyalsorefused to take their lamps to the manufac­turer. Hudson's neighbors also sought aninjunction on the basis of aesthetics saying thatthe antennas were unsightly. The courtresponded by sayingthat aesthetic impact isuot a groundfor injunctive relief. It concludedby reaffirming thefact that thecourt's jurisdic­tion is preempted by federal law pursoant tothe Supremacy Clauseof theUS Constitution,and that the FCC has exclusive jurisdictionover RFI problems.

SCRRBA SUSPENDS COORDINATIONON 902-928 MHz; ITS PLANSOPERATION IN CERTAIN CITIES

EffectiveDecember 7, 1989, the SouthernCaliforniaRepeater and RemoteBaseAssoci­ation (SCRRBA) suspendedall coordinationon the 33-emamateur band (902-928 MHz).

cations resources to Radio Amateurs world­wide, and

"Whereas the amateur satellite program isa major element of thepublic service, educa­tion, and scientific researcbbeingconductedvia Amateur Radio today, and

"Whereas the amateur satellite programrepresents the resourceful, creative, innovative.and volunteer spiritof RadioAmateursevery­where, and

"Whereas 1990 will see the launch of eightnewOSCAR satellites, including six on a singlelaunch vehicle with the Microsat/UoSATlaunch, and

"Whereas 1990 will see the constructionofan additional OSCAR satellite by AMSATItalyand AMSAT North Americabegin, and

"Whereas 1990 will mark the beginningofPhase lII-D constructionactivity by a broadbase of international amateur participants.

"Therefore be it resolved, that in recogni­tion of the contributionof tbe amateur satel­liteprogram to theAmateurRadioservice, andof the significant events which are to occurduring the courseof the year 1990 within thisdiscipline of Amateur Radio, we herebydeclare:

"1990 the year of the amateur satelliteprogram."

International Teletrac Systems (ITS), a subsidi­ary of PacificTelesis Group, will begin opera­tion of an automatic vehicle monitoring(AVM) service in the greaterLos Angeles arealater this year.This system will occupy 8 MHzof spectrum(904-912 MHz) and will be oper­ating under the provisions of Section90.239.According to Bill Kelsey, WA6FVC, Chairmanof SCRRBA, International TeletraeSystemsis planning to offer similarAVM services in38 other metropolitan areas during the nexttwo years.

Cities to be affected by 1991 are: Atlanta,Baltimore, Boston,Chicago, Dallas,Detroit,Houston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia,Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, andWashington, DC.

CIties to be affectedby 1992 are: Buffalo,Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus. Denver. FtLauderdale, Hartford, Indianapolis, KansasCity, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,Newark, New Orleans, Phoenix, Portland,Rochester. Sacramento,Salt Lake City, SanAntonio, San Jose, Seattle, St Louis, andTampa! St Petersburg.

The SCRRBA Tecbuical Comruittee will bemeeting with representatives of ITS to evalu­ate continueduseof the band by amateurs inSouthernCalifornia.As a resultof that meet-

ing,SCRRBA will decide whether to continuecoordination with thecurrent bandplan,makentinor adjustments to the band plan or spon­sor a band-planning meeting for the develop­ment of a new band plan for SouthernCalifornia.

The 33<01 (902 MHz)band is allocated ona secondary basisto the amateurservice, sub­ject to amateurs not causing harmfulinterfer­ence to, and not receiving protection from,anyinterference related to the operationof indus­trial, scientific, and medical devices, automaticvehicle monitoring systems or government sta­tions authorized in this band.

FCC COMMENTS ON AMATEURFEEDBACK TO McNAMARA LETTER

On October11, 1989, FCC Special ServicesDivision Chief Robert H. McNamara wroteto a number of amateurs seeking commentsand informationon phone patches,informa­tion bulletins and over-the-air telegraphy prac­tice. The letter requested information andinsight that could bring a resolution to "theunfortunate continuing over-the-air disputethat takes placeon the 2CHneter hand... whichis jeopardizing international goodwill ...."ARRL'sresponse was submitted on November15,1989, byARRLCounsel Chris Imlay. Seethe February Happenings column for thedetails of the reply.

In a letter dated December 21, 1989,McNamara statedthat 45replies were receivedin response to hisletter,and that although theresponses "containedsomewhat conflicting in­formationand views, theywerehelpfulin un­derstaoding theissues so that a course of actioncould be selected." McNamarastated that itappeared that the intensity of the debate hassubsided and that mostof those participatingin it haverecommitted themselves to the basicprinciples of the amateur service by attempt­ing to resolve such "disputes" off the air.

He stated that the "disputes" are centered.in threemainareas:phone-patch communica­tions on the HF bands, informationbulletins,and telegraphy practice transmissions.McNamara statedthat thereplies" ... confirmthat misuse of an important amateur servicefrequency band was having a major negativeimpact upon the service. They clearly showthat the amateurservice wasnot fullycooper­ating in selecting transmitting channels and inmakingthe most effective useof the amateurservice frequencies as required by Section97.101(b)."

McNamara stated there were two generalviews concerning a solution in the responses.One, that the amateur community should beallowed to solve the "problem" internally. Thesecond,that the Commission shouldmount amassive enforcement effort. McNamarasaidthe second approachwas not possible becauseof enforcement priorities and budget con­straints; if direct Commission interventionprovedto be necessary it would bein the formof additional restrictions that may affect allamateur operators.

McNamara said "In viewof the above, wewill afford the amateur community the self­regulation opportunity suggested." He went

on to suggest that interested individuals andorganizations participate voluntarily indeveloping a plan for amateurself-regulation.

McNamara closed by observing that theFCC wants "to enableamateur operators inthe United States to createand pioneercom­munications systems, limited onlybytheirper­sonal interests, imagination and technicalskills. Webelieve that it wouldbe tragicif thedegree of regulation of the service had to beincreased because the amateur service commu­nity could not effectively resolve its internaldisagreements. Additional regulation for thesolepurposeof maintaining order among thelicensees will surely detract from the amateurservice fully meeting its objectives."

ARRL Executive Vice President DavidSumner, KIZZ, observed that McNamara'sconclusions do not address the specific sugges­tions for Commission action offered by theLeague in its November 15response, and thatthecourse of actionMcNamara is recommend­ing is similar to an effort to bring opposingfactions together that wasundertaken in goodfaith, but withoutultimatesuccess, in Orlan­do last March.

FCC GRANTSEXTENSION OF STA FORAUTOMATIC HF PACKET

On January 3, 1990, the ARRL requestedan extension of the Special TemporaryAuthority (STA) permitting certain AmateurRadio stations to operateunder automatic con­trol when operating on certain frequenciesbelow 29.7 MHz.The FCCgranted theARRLrequest on January 4, 1990, for one year oruntil rnlesare adopted that will permit auto­matic control of data and RTIY communi­cations, whichever is shorter.

Theexperience gained thronghthe STAhasresultedin a recentPetition for Rule Makingthat the ARRL submitted to the FCC onDecember 12, 1989. Communications con­ducted in accordance with the STA haveaffordedamateursa good ideawhat the oper­ating parameters of unattended HF digitaloperation should be. The FCC has not yetassigned a RMnumberto theARRLpetition.

PACIFIC BELL OFFERS RESIDENTIALRATFS TO AMATEUR REPEATERS

Pacific Bell is offeringresidential telephonerates to amateur repeaterswith phone-patchfacilities. Pacific Bell's Customer ServicesManager Jennifer Just said, "Our decisionwas based on two factors. One, that hamradio operators are prohibited by law forusing the services for business purposes,and ... that PacificBellvaluesthe emergencyback-up helpamateurs provide and would liketo make the service as widely available aspossible."

Any repeater groups serviced by PacificBellthat are currently beingchargedcommer­cial rates for their phone patch should calltheir local business office to apply for thechange.

GTE GIVES RESIDENTIAL RATFS TOAUTOPATCIIFS

GTE Californiais offeringresidential rates

to itscustomersfor repeaterswith autopatchfacilities. In a January 91etterto Karl Pagel,N6BVU, Karen Shaw, Vice President ofCostomer Relations for GTE, said GTE ismakingthe rate change retroactive to OctoberI, 1989.

The policy apparently will extend to allGTE-serviced repeateror remote-base ownersnationwide.Amateur Radiorepeater groupsthat are GTE customers should be hearingfrom a GTEcustomerrepresentative explain­ingthenewmonthly service rate. Shortlyafterthat, they will receive a one-time credit ontheir telephonebill. Any group not receivinga call shouldcontact its localbusiness office.

ARRL NORTHWESTERN DIVISIONDIRECTOR DRAKE, W7RM, RESIGNS

Citing recent medical problems and theneed to concentrate on a successful recovery,Rush S. Drake, W7RM, has submitted hisresignation as Director of the ARRL North­western Division effective December 31,1989.Drakeservedas Vice Directorof the Divisionfor twoyears,and Director for three. WilliamR. Shrader, W7QMU, has assumed the postof Director for the remainder of the currentterm. ARRL President Larry Price, W4RA,appointedMary Lou Brown,NM7N,to com­plete Shrader's term. as Vice Director.

FCC ENFORCEMENT ACfIONSAccording to recent FCC news releases,

Richard Harrison, owner and operator ofComtekin Manassas, Virginia, has beencon­victedof offering for sale and selling illegalCBequipment. In September1988, Harrisonsold an RF amplifier to a representative ofthe FCC's Baltimore Office. A subsequentsearchof the Comtek facilities resultedin theseizureof 55illegalamplifiersand CBtrans­ceivers.

Harrison's actswere in violation of Section302 of the Communications Act and arepunishable by a fine not to exceed$100,000and!or imprisonmentnot to exceed one yearfor each count,

lu another case, Donald R. Lehto,VVATWOC,ofCarerree, Arizona, has paida $750 fine for willful and malicious inter­ferenceto other amateur stations. The FCChad received numerous complaintsabout anamateur who followedother amateur opera­tors from one frequeucy to another andjammed various networks and amateurrepeaters with offensive sound effects. InMay, 1989, the FCC's Douglas, Arizona,officestaff monitored deliberate interferenceon 3.992 MHz and 3.9g3 MHz, and tracedthe interfering signals to Lehto's home.

Stephen Y. Tsuya, Engineer in Charge ofthe Commission's office in Douglas, Arizona,has written to ARRL 00 Coordinator JohnMoore, NJ7E, thanking John and othervolunteers for their assistance. In Tsuya'swords. "Not only is the program working,it is providing invaluable ... help."

Willful or malicious interference is aviolationof Section97.125 and is punishableby a maximumadministrativefme of $2,000perday, perviolation,up to a totai of$5,000.

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FCC-ISSUED CALL SIGNS UPDATEThe following is a list of the Feels most recently Issued call signs as of January 1.District Group A Group B Group C Group D

Extra Advanced TechlGen Novice0 WZflJA KF0HC N0WQ K80FPA1 W81D KC1S1 N1HGA KA1UVU2 WV2E KE2R8 N2KER K821ZT3 NX3T KD3QK N3HSS KA3VOL4 A84SL KN4CV N4XSR KC4NUW5 M5PS KI58H N5PUL K85L1R6 M6SY KK6EH NeXLC KC6HTK'7 M7CY KF7ZB N70AY K87JGU8 WY8G KFBDH N8LQX K8BIRE9 WN91 KE9TZ N9JEN K89DUJGuam KH2M AH2CF KH2EH WH2AMKHawaii .. AH6KD NH6VO WH6CGHAlaska

.,AL7LS NL7TD WL78WC

USVI NP2F KP28S NP2DO WP2AGZPuerto Rico .. KP40K WP4XG WP410Z

•• indicates all 2 x 1 calls have been issued in these areas,

FCC PROPOSFS HIKER'S LOCATORSERVICE ON 220-222 MHZ

On December J2, 1989, the FCC proposedthe establishment of a Personal EmergencyLocator Transmitter Service (PELTS) thatwould provide individuals in remote areaswith a means of alerting others of an emer­gency situationand to helpsearch-and-rescuepersonnel locate those in distress.

The Commission saysit has two objectivesin establishing PELTS: providing an area­wide,centrallycoordinated radio communi­cations systemfor use by the general publicin remote areas (thereby reducing responsetime in emergency situations) and reducingthe illegaluse of Emergency Locator Trans­mitters (ELTs) and Emergency PositionIndicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs). ELTsand EPIRBs are emergency radio beaconsused to assist search-and-rescue units inlocating downed aircraft and vessels indistress.

The FCC proposed to use 50 kHz of thereallocated 220-222 MHz band for PELTSinfivefrequency pairs. To offer the public someassurance that theequipment issafeand likelyto perform its intended function, the Com­mission proposed technical standards anddesignspecifications for PELTSequipment.

FCC UPHOLDS BUREAU·IMPOSEDFORmTURE AGAINST AMATEUR

According to an FCC news release, onDecember 12, 1989, "the FCC upheld thePrivateRadioBureau's actionwhich imposeda $1200 forfeiture against Amateur Radiooperator David B. Hodges, N3DTH, formalicious interference (jamming) and forfailureto identify, in violation of FCCrules."

The FCC stated that it "had received anumber of complaintsof interferenceto theBaltimore RadioAmateur Television Societyamateur repeater." Subsequently, FCC en­gineers observed interference which theydetermined came from Hodges' amateurstation. Although Hodges said he did notrecallwhetherhe madetransmissions on anyspecific date, he admittedthat on occasion hemadesuch transmissions to causeinterferencewhen provoked by others. In his defense,Hodgesnotedhispublicservice activities andthat he had not previously beencited for anyviolation. He also promised he would notcommit violations in the future.

"FCC noted that suchtransmissions serveno legitimate purpose and were clearly in­tendedto causeharmfulinterference. Hodges'failure to identify his transmissions wasobviously intended to make detectiondifficult. The Commission concluded thatnone of his arguments excused or mitigatedthe violations."

AMATEUR FINED FOR INTERFERINGWITH COMMERCIAL STATION

According to a news release from theFCC', New York field office, a licensedamateur from WestTaghkantic, New York,

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was fined $1,()(X) for pirate radio operation.The FCC stated that "On the afternoon ofSunday,December 17,1989, an FCCengineerinspectedthe station of Frederick K. Stark,KA2YLZ, after monitoring hisoperation on1000 kHz...Unlicensed radio operation is aviolationof Section301 of the Communica­tionsAct. Unlicensed radio operatorsmay besubject to fines up to $100,000 and/or oneyear in prison."

ROBERT H. RATCLIFFE, KB3KC,NAMEDASSISTANT CHIEF, FCC MASSMEDIA BUREAU

Robert H. Ratcliffe, KB3KC, has beennamed as the FCC's AssistantBureauChief(law) in the Mass Media Bureau. Ratcliffealsoserved for several monthsas FCCChair­man Alfred Sikes' interimlegalassistant formass media affairs.

CRRL PRFSIDENT AND COUNSELRETIRE

CRRL President Tom Atkins, VE3CDM,has retired to devotemoretime to his familyand to IARUwork.Atkinswasrecently elect­ed Secretaryof IARU Region2, and willbetaking a seat on the worldwide IARU Ad­ministrative Council. Effective January I,i990,the newCRRLPresident is Bruce Balla,VE2QO.

In other CRRL news, CRRL GeneralCounsel BobBenson, QC, VE2VW, will soonbe retiring. He served as CRRL GeneralCounsel and as ARRL Associate GeneralCounsel for Canada for 16years.TimEDam,VE6SH, will be appointed CRRL GeneralCounsel at the May 1990 CRRL Boardmeeting.

PAST DELTA DIVISION VICEDIRECTOR GRAHAM HICKS, WSlHP,SK

ARRLis saddenedto report the passing ofGraham Hicks, W5IHP. First licensed in1939, he was ARRL Vice Director of theDeltaDivision from 1961-1964. Hickswas ao­tivein establishing and maintaining emergen­cy communications for the Gulf Coast,especially during hurricane emergencies andwasalso responsible for recruiting many newhams.

ARRL AWARDS FIRST GRANT FORHF PACKET RADIO RFSEARCH

The ARRLmade it, first technology grantof more than $1000 to a team of amateursheaded by Stephen Hall, WM6P, of SintiValley, California, for research in diversityreception of high-frequency (HF) packetradiosignals. Hall's team is investigating: thebenefitsof diversity receptionfor HF packetradio; thedesign of practical diversity antennasystems, modemcharacteristics. and receiverdesigns for diversity reception.

Hall's colleagnes includeAndyDemartini,KC2FF, of Clearwater, Florida; WaliyLinstruth, WA6JPR, and Bill Lake, WB6RIJ,of Santa Barbara, Califorula; and HerbDuncan, WE7L, and Peter LaCount,W8UXD, of Sierra Vista, Arizona.

Funds provided under this grant are forpurchase of equipment, electronicparts andother out-of-pocket expenses associated withthis research. The teammembers donatetheirvolunteer laborand muchof theirownequip­ment in carryingout this work. A discussionof diversity reception and its potential benefitsfor usein AmateurRadiocan be foundin thechapter on Digital Communications in The/990 ARRL Handbook. _~

Correspondence Conducted ByJohn Hennessee, KJ4KBRegulalory Informallon Editor

Allietter~ will be considered carefully. We reserve the right to shorten letters selected in order to have more members' views represented.The publishers of QST assume no responsibility for statements made herein by correspondents.

BIG BROTHER WAS LISTENINGo TheNorwegian DXpeditionto BouvetIs­land (3Yj, oneof the rarestDXislands, couldhave been one of ham radio's shiningmoments. Well, needless 10 say, the world­widespotlight on 14.145 MHz was [ust toomuchfor some hamsto leave alone.To allowsome operating "elbow room" during thefirst two weeks, the Bouvet hams operated5-kHz down from the bottom of the USphonesubbandand listened overa wide rangeof frequencies.

Assoon as one errant ham transmitted onthe wrong"split-Vf'O," dozens of "helpful"policemen lethim know-right on IheBouvetfrequency. Then, each "frequencycop" hadto beinsultedby others tellinghim or her tobe quiet! That, combined with intentional"CQs," "Is this frequency in use?" "Whereis he located?" and other assorted garbage,brought innocent cries of "enough" and"you're disgusting ... "-right on the out-of­band frequency. The Mexican and Canadianoperators, who had everyright to be there,left the frequency in horror. Fortunately,most of the tens-of-thousands who calledfrom within the US band segment resistedgiving comments. Botthedamage isdone....USamateurs now take on the foreignphoneband!

Let's hope sanity returns to DXing, andthaI other hams will still journey thousandsof miles to giveusall a chance to worka rarecountry.-HankGoldman, WA20VG, River­dale, New York

o Listening on 14.195 and 21.195 MHz tothe 3Y5X Bouvet DXpedition was almostenough to make you want to abandonDXing-Fred Roberts, W6TKV, Riverside,California

o In 37yearsof AmateurRadioI haveneverwitnessed a display of improper operationequalingthe violation which accompanied therecent 3Y5X activityfrom Bouvet Island. Asmallgroup of foul-mouthed sociopaths wereable to deliberately and maliciously ruin anypossible enjoyment the majority of theamateurfraternity mayhavederived from thisexpensive and dangerous DXpedition to anextremely remote location.--Tom Watts,W4CVX, Elizgbeth City. North Carolina

o I have beenlistening to the 2O-meter bandfor the past several dayswhilethe 3Y DXpe­dition has been active. The poor operatingpractices and flagrantly illegal activities ex­hibited by USstations have beentotally dis­graceful. Clearly, courtesy and rulesenforcement are a relic of the past.-JohnSiegel, MBNC, Marlboro, New Jersey

GLASNOST: THEGREATAWAKENING[J I wouldlike10 express myappreciation of

yourarticles on Glasnost and Amateur Radio.I found them very interestingand informa­tive.Yourarticles havehelpedto dispelsomeof the old cold-warstereotyping of Russiansthat was so prevalent a few years ago. Iworkedquite a numberof Russianoperatorsback in the '70s, but always with mixedfeel­ings; it wasinteresting, but kind of scary atthe sametime. Now I can relaxand enjoyallthe RussianQSOslTheir equipmentmay beold, but theyare goodoperators. Justrecent­Iy, I got my rust directQSLs back from theSovietUnion. I was just as thrilled as whenI got some of the rare ones.--Rawson Ben­nett, WA7NXS, Phoenix, Arizona

FROM RUSSIA WITH THANKS[J On behalf of my wife Svetlana and my­self, I wouldliketo express our sincere thanksto everyone in the USAwhohelpedto makeour recent trip to your country such afantastic experience. We feelthat there is nobetter way to do this than through QST­the world's premier Amateur Radio publi­cation.

Thanks are due in particular to Allen,WA4DRU, who did so much to make it allpossible-taking us to so many placesof in­terest, openinghis hometo us and in generalextending suchwonderful hospitality. Thanksare also due to Lloyd and Iris, W6KG andW6QL, for their wonderful hospitality inCalifornia, and to Ed, NT2X, for all his as­sistance. In addition,wewouldliketo extendour thanksto theARRLHQ gangand in par­ticular to Dave, KIZZ, and Don, W3AZD,for our memorable visit there.

We hope to see more American radioamateurs in Leningrad in the nearfuture. Youare always welcome.- Vlad Kaploun,VAlCK, Leningrad, VSSR

GEOGRAPHY AND THE RADIOAMATEURo There has been much said about theproblemof gettingyonng peopleand retiredpeople interested in the hobby. We need toget the information into variousother cban­nelssincethere are stillmany peoplewhodonot know what Amateur Radio is.

Recentiy, a program on CBS entitled,"Where In the World Are We?" dealt withthe unfortunate fact that so many of ourAmericanyoung folk knowvery little aboutthe many countriesof the world. Even highschoolgraduatesand college studentscannotidentify places that are common to activeradio amateursI Because geography is nottaught the wayit usedto be, whatbetter waythan ham radio to learn! Perhaps somewell­recognized publicfigures couldbe enlistedtotalkabout AmateurRadioand howit is sucha great medium for worldwide learning.

Theseideascameto mewhile I was lookingthrough my collection of DX QSLs fromIran, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kirghiz,Kazakh, Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania, and mostof the other placesthat are in the daily newsreports. Isn't it somethingspecialthat hamscancommunicateeverywhere even when warsare going on or governments are in tur­moi1?-Sam Beverage, WIMGP, NorthHaven, Maine

PUT HAM RADIO INTO THECLASSROOMSn On June 3, 1989, the ARRLconductedaneducational workshop [atthe ARRLNationalConventiou] in Arlington, Texas. From thisworkshop, the ARRLcompiled 25papersintoa book entitled Proceedings of The ARRLNational Educational Workshop [availablefrom ARRL HQ for $12 plus shipping andbandling].l've read it manytimes: Congratu­lations to the League for a job well done.

I'm conductinga Noviceclassin my fIfth­grade class and I use Amateur Radio rightalong with the kids' regular classroom sub­jeets. The Proceedings have helped me inmany ways, and I'd recommend it to anyteacher or person interested in starting up aNovice class in an elementary school.

The ARRL's next step should be to getprofessional educators together to conductNovice classes. Put on ARRL sponsoredteacherworkshopsand go get more teachersand schoolsinto Amateur Radio. Teachers'conventions are another place that wouldexpose our educators to Amateur Radio.

Oncemypresent class is licensed, I'm goingto run another Novice classplus an upgradeclass for my kids. Next year, I'll put on ateachers' workshopon Amateur Radio. Themomentum is there. I'm sure thereare otherpeople out there who will hring AmateurRadio directlyinto the classroom. Let's putAmateurRadioeducationwhereit belongs­into Americanclassrooms for the benefit ofthe kids and...Amateur Radiol-ConradEkstrom, WBIGXM, Claremont, NewHampshire

[ARRl's next National Educational Work­shop is in June allhe NationalConventionin Kansas City.]

THE DUMMY LOAD: BUY ONE ANDUSE ITo Now that Amateur Radio licensing feeshavebeen deleted from budgetreconciliationlegislation, each licensee has, in effect,an ex­tra $35 in his or her pocket. May I suggestthat every one who doesn't own a dummyload use that money to buy one? That way,they can stop loadingup right on top of sta­tions in QSOs,or whoaretrying to workrareDX and special-event stations.-Ralplt H.Brock, KG5ME, Lubbock, Texas iliF.J

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• At the Foundation

In Service to You, the MemberMeet some new faces and learn what's in store for your Foundationas we move into a new decade.By Mary E.Schetgen, N71AL

SecretaryThe ARRL Foundation

T he 1990 annual meeting of the Boardof Directors of the ARRLFoundation, Inc was held the evening

of January 20, 1990, at the Summit Hotel,Hanford, Connecticut. Present at the meeting,which immediately followed the close of the!\RRL Board of Directors Meeting (seep 53), were: Foundation President PaulGrauer. W9FIR, reelected for another 3~year

term; Vice President Edmond A. Metzger.W9PRN; Secretary Mary E. Schetgen,N7lAL:Foondation Directors Frank M.Butler. Jr, \V4RH; Thomas W. Frenaye,KlKI; and John C. Kanode, N4MM (new).Also present were ARRL Southwestern Di­vision Director Fried Heyn, WA6WZO; DeltaDivision Vice Director Henry R. Leggette;Roanoke Division Vice Director James G.Walker, WD4HLZ; Midwest Division ViceDirector L. C. "Chuck" Miller, WA0K.UH;and new ARRL Business Manager. Barry J.Shelley. Not able to attend were FoundationDirectors Roger W. Franke, K9A YK. ournewly elected Treasurer; Ralph V. Anderson,K0NL; Dick L. Eilers, W0ZV; Leonard M.Nathanson, W8RC; Robert York Chapman,WIQV, President Emeritus; and L. PhilWicker, W4ACY, Honorary VicePresident.

Highlights of the meeting included discos­sions of:

• changes to our scholarship deadline for1991-92.

• modifications to the Vietor C. ClarkYouth Incentive Program to promoteAmateur Radio dub involvement in theschool-station funding process.

• AMSAT and its current projects.• promotional items to encourage dona­

tions at hamfests.• production and distribution of mortuary

cards for those wishing to make memorialcontributions through mortuaries and funeralhomes.

• an approved grant to ARRL for a displaycase to house ARRL 75th Anniversary historicartifacts/gifts.

• two new scholarships to be approved thisyear.

Informal discussion at the meeting centeredaround the encouraging response to ourSimple Will Kit, the desire to develop tax­deferred programs for our contributorsin ad­clition to those included in our Simple WillKit, and suggestions for improving the visi­bility of Foundation programs to the generalham population. The meeting reflected a senseof optimism about our present programs andthe direction we are moving in this year­mostly made possible by you, our supporters!

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COntributors Comer

We wish to thank the following for theirgenerous contributions to:The Jesse A. Bieberman MeritorIouSMembership FundWilliam J. Findiey, W3FEA

in memory of William F. Smith, KX31The Victor C. 9fark Youth incentive Progra.mFundJo Ann Melcher, KA61AH

in memory of Frank J, Melcher, N6BFTMr and Mrs Hobert D. Browne

In memory ot Charles Buckter, W6BOWTOm Frenaye, K1KIJohn Pescatore, WB2EKKThe Goldwater Scholarship FundLouis C. SandersJames M. WebsterPaul and Helen L. Grauer ScholarshipFundRaiph V. Anderson, KflNLHelen L Grauer. N0BCIPaul Grauer, W0FIRL. Phil and Afic9 J. Wicker Schofarship FundL. PhH Wicker, W4ACYThe Bill Bennett, W7PHO, SCholarship FundGeorge W,Johnston, W6YWA

The New England FEMARA ScholarshipFundTri CUy ARC (CT)

In memory of Henry G. Appleblad, K4GJF,and Charles W. Austin Ill, WlINN

'The GeneralFundJames F. Starkey, SrJohn V, Boehme. K4PRKJasen L. Chamberlain. KB8GEKFrank HalleySteveHopkins

.Jonn S. DvorakCora G, Fordiakahisa Kuwakinc, JP10EPKenneth 0, DietzWalter J. Sickinger. W2GSrHarry R, Tinney, WB2FNN 'Daniel F. SheaDavid B. Cooley. KB20KThomas J, McCullochKenneth A. Edelstein, KE2EP

Bruce A, EppersonGary NberstadtAllan M, Schuman, KJ6PLJoseph J, Urban, N2CQXGary and Mary MayfieldMurgas ARC (PA)

in memory ot Murgas ARC Silent KeysEdward Cartotto. W6ZZNDennis G, Collins, K61FBHarvey Teplitz, KaCEKTed M. Sarchet, W7SZVW. H. Hobbs. N4VFCSigmund G. Bookbinder, N180NMike Rogers. G4NARHerbert D, Yaw, W5BCYStoddard Gray. WA3CPZDan Gacek, Jr, KA9Z1MGeorge ~, Falter, K7YKDRay Weghorst, W90BFR. D, Hudson, Jr. K6LTOHarold Schelin, N0KDYSam Pontler, N6TGU .Dwight G. Simmons. KBSCHWJean Clame.nt, HB9AFDEllsworth M. Fitch, W2VY1Robert K LandryRichard M, Shaw, Jr, NF4H.Jack G. DoddRoland H. Daniels" KA2GEABill Kolar. W7AVaDavid C. SCull. KD4SVPaul MarshallLawrence P, Provence. KB7EZGArnold D. Pherson, KB7FCBTed L Wedzilowicz, KA2HMBWilliam P, Morrow, N2ADXG. William Tunnell, W3DVCJohn A, Bertuch, KB6NZBradley G, Stewart, KA6PGGAbraham Russek, XE1JHCRIchard Taylor, WAlTFMRobert E. Garson, KA1RVXLewis M. Konecky. WA20VCJohn J. Paganelli. WA1AWRWilliam E, WanamakerJames A. Ordlng, W50WRHays ARC (KS)

In memory of L. A Stapp, W0PHYAs received and acknowledged during themonth ot December. 1ii~.J

How's DX? Conducted By Ellen White, W1YU419620 SW 234 St, Homestead, FL 33031

XT2CW-A One-Man DXpedition to Burkina FasoWhere is Burkina Faso, non-DXers have

asked Rudi, DK7PEIAH0G. He'd respondto questionsabout this WestAfricancountryby identifying it by its previous name of Up­per Volta, with its exotic and typicallyAfrican-sounding capital of Ougadougou(Wog-a-doo-goo). For several years, thegovernment reportedlywas unwilling to issuenew Amateur Radio licenses.

In 1988, Rudi sent an application to Bur­kina Paso requesting permission to operate.neverreallybelievinghe wouldgetan answer.let alone a license. About six months later.much to his surprise. he received a telegramfrom ONATEL, the Ministry of Post andTelecommunications in Ougadougou, sayinghe would get the requested permission uponhis arrival. That certainly was unexpectedgood news.

On August 4, DK7PE departed via Parisand Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to that unique landlying "up the Volta River." All his equip­ment. except for a t1shing cody arrived. Thenext day. at the ONATEL office, he wasinformed that he should probably come backin about a month for his licensel Globe­trotting Rudi has learned that patience is oneof the most valuable attributes on the Africancontinent. After waiting about an hour.another official hinted that he should tryanother government section on the other sideof the city, even giving him a lift there! Thisoffice had a file with Rudi's name on it, andinside it (believe it or not) was the promisedlicense with the call XT2CWl

The hotel manager had no objections toRudi's hamming plans. The operation startedwith a half-wave sloper for 160, a multibandWindom for 80 through 10meters and an ad­ditional vertical dipole that could be convertedfrom 15 to 10 meters, all fixed at about 90feet on the hotel roof.

The W21YX high-normal propagationprediction came true with US pileups on 10and 15, never-ending European openings andgood opportunities to Japan. One eveningwhile he was working a series of US stationson 15 meters, Rudi had to QSY for a160-meter European sked. After announcinghis QSY, he got to 1.830 M Hz and heard USstations calling him! After his sked he workedstation after station. It seemed a remarkablephenomenon for Rudi to see that band in suchgood shape during a year with high sunspotnumbers. when the MUF is so high that ISmeters is wide open right on the same path!

During the next few days. Xf2CW spentmore time on top band and had one particu­larly exciting contact working N91JS (RST559). N91JS was running just I watt output.Later N9US called him with higher power andhis report was well over 89.

On the seventh day of operation, SaturdayAugust 12 at 1420Z, all bands collapsed.After three hours of noise on all frequencies,the bands slowly recovered but were not asgood asthey hadbeen previously. XT2CWwas last heard at 1915Zon 40meters, workingOH2WI.

Rudi, DK7PE, handing out 4O-meter CW con­tacts at XT2CW. (DK7PE photo)

Rudi left Burkina Faso witb a total ofalmost 6500 CW contacts. someon sideband(a few even on FM), with only 15 hours ofsleep and a weight loss of six pounds. He leftthinking about where to go next.

YEAR·END DIARY

December 28: The Bouvet 3Y5X QSLManager (Earling, LA6VM) calls on the land­line afflrmtng that the operation is indeed takingplace! Late that same night, a New Englandfriend calls. beside himself with anger over Wphone/CW shenanigans re the operation. Heblames the cat calling, deliberate QRM. police­man tactics. nasty manners and so forth on the5BDXCC award (and its multiband ramifica­tions). It might be considered simplistic to blamedeliberate/ignorant operations on an awardwhen it seems more reflective of our currentsociety mores. But. I'm personally sick at whatwe are doing to ourselves and what we so revealto those covetous of our frequencies. US hamsare licensed, in part. because or their uniqueability to enhance and foster international good

The Aurora, ready to sail tor Bouvet with3Y5X operalors (l-r) LA2GV. JFlIST.LA1EE, HB9AHL. and F2CW. (photocourtesy of CX7By)

will. Writing thison December 30 makes me par­ticularly thoughtful about what these childish!mean/inoonsiderate/boorish/rotten antics couldall mean in another year and another interna­tional frequency conference. Where did this allstart? More importantly, where will it all end?

December 30: Gloomy news from both sidesof the Atlantic this evening. N1XX relates thesad news that 87-year old Frank. WIWY. hasjoined Silent Keys. Frank. first licensed in 1922and a fixture in the CQ Magazine contest pro­gram for decades. has been an irrevocable partof our hamming heritage. He was instrumentalin developing the format of the impressivelypopular CQWW Contest and was proud to havebecome an ARRL SO-Year member in 1972 ata ceremony shared by Barry Goldwater.K1UGA. Bad news heard on the bands-thepassing of venerable Ron Perks, G4CP. a gen­tleman DXer /contester, active in the First ClassCW Operators' Club. a true role model andfriend who will be deeply missed. A surprise thissame day to receive the December 22 SaturdayEveningPostSocietymailingindicatingthat theFebruary Bouvet special is indefinitely post­poned. due to the loss of availability of the ship.A batch of cards from the bureau and a chuckleat the QSL from Vic, UA3SAA, with the slo­gan "Make DX, Not War!" Glasnost! Great EJv.peditions magazine notes that Burma is nowmore properly calledthe Union of Myaruna. (Ohmy. will I ever keep this straightl)

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[I International DX Convention: Last call­preregistration for the April 6-8 event at Visalia,California requires postmark by March 23; $40to the convention c/o Don Bostrom. N61C, 4447Atoll Ave. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 (includesregistration, banquet, brunch, cocktail party).

[] Bouvet: SM6BGO's great circle map speciallymade for 3Y5X is a fascinatingly different lookat the world with Africa due north, and Europebeyond. South America NW then the US. Itgraphically shows why operation was plannedfrom two different Bouvet sites, to have a shortpath "view" to all populated areas of the world.

Ll Marcb: The perennial Grenada K4LTA groupwill be signing 134A, SASE to W5PWO or asnoted.

[J Stamps: WV4V practices what he preachesand got a quick tumaround A22 QSL return witha Botswanastamp. Check with Brianat DX QSLAssociates, 434 Blair Rd NW. Vienna, VA22180.

[J An "unsung bero" is Denny. GW3CDF. whohandles pileups in a calm professional manner.taking time out for the weak signals. As Ron.WN3VAW notes. "Denny runs the wateringhole, but he doesn't help you drink at it."

IJ New Countries: Thanks to OX AdvisoryCommittee work, Conway Reef (302), aterritory of Fiji, and Banaba (T33), part ofKiribati, have been added to the DXCC List byvirtue of Point 2(b). Old-timers more easilyremember Banaba as Ocean Island, VRI. backin the old Gilbert-Ellice-Ocean Island days. (SeeARRL DXCC List for criteria points.) [!di_1S.J

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DX Century Club Awards Administered By Don Search, W3AZD

The OX century Club certificate is awarded to amateurs who submit confirmation for contacts with 100 or more countries on the official ARRLDXCC Countries List. There are now 321 current countries on the list. The DXCC Honor Roll includes those who are within 9 countries ofthat figure tor the Mixed and Phone awards and within 9 countries of the station with the highest total for the CW DXec award. The followingannual listing of the DXCC membership contains the call signs and exact country totals by endorsement during the two-year period from October1.1987 through September 30, 1989. Honor Roll members are indicated with an asterisk (0),

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March 1990 73

Public Service Conducted By Luck Hurder, KY1TDeputy Manager, Field Services Department, ARRL

ANERCOM Final Report, January 1990-Part 1By Joel J. Kandel, KJ4T, Chairman,

ANERCOM

[The following is summarized from theANERCOM Final Report.)I, Introduction

This past hurricaoeseasonprovedto be atest under fireof the ARRL NationalEmer­gencyResponse Committee', (ANERCOM)incipient disaster communications plan. Hur­ricane Hugo left no doubt what workedandwhatdidn't in our efforts to makethe Leaguemore responsive and visible duringsuch dis­asters.

Our workand intent havebeeninfectious,as shown by the actions of the JamaicaAmateurRadio Association (lARA). Underthe leadership of Disaster CommunicationsCoordinatorDrEricMunroe,6Y5EE, JARAmembers traveled to islands hithard byHngoand helped restorecommunications. Some ofthe equipment they used had been sent toJamaicabythe League the year before, in theaftermathof Hurricaoe Gilbert. Wecao thinkof no finer recommendation forthework ofthe League and this Committee.

During Hurricaoe Hugo, ANERCOMworked closely withARRLHQ FieldServicesDepartment staff members' Rick Palm,KICE, Steve Ewald, WA4CMS, and LuckHurder, KYIT, to coordinate the League'sresponse. This report summarizes those areasof response and makes recommendationsbased on that experience.

ANERCOM's last meeting on October27and 28washeldat ARRLHQ in Newington,Connecticut, withthe above-mentioned staffmembers. Thismeeting served twopurposes:to review our plansand theirefficacy, and totransfer the yoke of responsibility for theirimplementation from the Committee toARRLstaff. Bothgoalswere accomplished,and all parties are confident that the programwill succeed.

II. lulemallooal Amateor Radlo UnionIt was fortunate that the International

Amateur Radio Union Region 2 TenthGeneralAssembly was heldshortlyafter thehurricaoeseason.Morethan everbefore,theassembly became a forum for internationaldisaster communications planning andcooperation. In its last report, ANERCOMemphasized that no international disastercommunications program can be successfulwithout the fnll cooperation of the lARD.The lARD passedmanyresolutions support­ingdigitalcommunications andinternationaldisaster training cooperation.

ANERCOM believes thereshouldbean in­dividualformally desiguated asdisastercom­munications liaison to lARD Region 2.

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III. Served AgenciesANERCOM and the ARRLFieldServices

Department have been in closecontact withrepresentatives of served agencies. These arethesameagencies withwhich ANERCOM has'laid thegroundwork in pastmeetings. For theflrst time, the Americao Red Cross head­quarters in Washington participated viaIATN. Red Cross officials continued usingAmateur Radio from the DC area through­ont Hugo. Red Cross Disaster Communica­tions Coordinator Mike Riley. KXIB,promises to strengthenRed Cross' presenceon IATN in the futureas its headquarters sta­tion gets better equipped and manned.

A workingrelationship solidified last yearwith the Agency for InternationalDevelopment's Officeof USForeign DisasterAssistance (OFDA). Two years ago, duringHurticaoe Gilbert, OFDAmoved off amateurfrequencies to avoid interference with com­munications to itspersonnel in theCaribbean,This year they successfully used the lATN,where members of ANERCOM patched themthrongh to the islands. In exchange, ArthurFeller, KB4ZJ. of OFDA,wascooperative insupplying first-hand informationfor WlAWhnlletins directiyto ARRLHQ. Wefeelthatthis is a modelof the served-agency/ ARRLcooperation that ANERCOM has beenwork­ing toward. It should be nurtured.

The Salvation Army's Washington, DC,pnblicinformationofficehas beengiven thenames and phone numbers of ARRL FieldOfficials in varionsdisasterareas. This putsthe League in a favorable positionto help ifnecessary.

Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)has been in touch with the ARRL FieldSer­vices Department and this Committee toestablish the location of the lAIN net fre­quency. VITA will have an amateur stationat its Virginia headquarters, and will be avaluableally during disasters. VITA is alsolicensed to use nonamateur VHFoperationsfrequencies via UoSAT D.

The United Nations Disaster ReliefOrganization (UNDRO), using4UIUNas itscommunications arm from New York City.hasalso beenpresent on IATN and elsewhereduring recentdisasters.ANERCOM has notmet formally with UNDRO.

This Committee therefore recommendsthat: (A) ARRL HQ develop a more for­malized working relationship with 4U!UNduring disasters, and (8) ARRL HQ pursuethe upcoming Decadeof DisasterPreventionsponsoredby the UnitedNationsas a forumfor more fruitful interface.

ANERCOM's program of served-agencyinterfaceis begiuning to attract other organi­zations interested in working withAmateur

Radio. TheseincludeNOTIFY and AMER!­CARES.AMER!CARES has a solidhistoryof disaster and medical reliefto stricken areas.Also, DOGS-EAST, the volunteerorganiza­tion that trains search-and-rescue dogs, hasexpressed interest in obtaining communica­tion assistance from Amateur Radio.

ANERCOM recommends that the ARRLField Services Department contact theseorganizations to create a working rela­tionship.

IV. ARRL Disasler DatabaseHurricaoe Hugo reinforcedthe need for a

oompnterized data baseat ARRLHQ, as out­lined in ANERCOM's last report. WhenARRL Field Officials' names and phonenumbers wereneededin affectedareas.whenAmateurRadioequipment had to be 'hippedto Puerto Rioo and St Croix, and when airtransport for the equipment had to besecured, a computerized data basewouldhaveexpedited matters.

ANERCOM recommends that as theARRL Field Services Department developsthe data base, it does so with the goals ofmaking the system multiaccess and multi­tasking.

V. News Media InterfaceANERCOM continues to believe that the

uews mediahaveto beaccommodated, ifonlyto givethe publicaccurateinformationratherthan hearsay.As in past disasters,the mediaattacheditselfto anyamateurwiIling to desig­nate himself or herselfan authority.It shouldbe noted, however, that during HurricaneHugo, more than in any past disaster,AmateurRadiogainedthegreatestdegreeofcredibility withthepublic. Webelieve that thiswas because of the professional manner inwhich theInternational Assistance TralficNet(IATN)wasrun. and that it served as a placeto monitor unfolding events.

The beautifullyrenovatedWIAW facilitycaoserveas a focal point for mediabriefing,Networks shouldbe invitedto run telephonelines to the upstair. room, where they caopatch in televised "remotes" and interfacetheir computersthronghlandIinemodemstofile written reports. It is common for net­worksand localstations to havethis capabil­ity at facilities where major news storiesoriginate (e.g., the National HurricaneCenter).

ANERCOM recommends that the newsmedia be invited to set up private landIinesfor news collection at WIAW.

IConUnued next month.)

Amateur Satellite CommunicationsConducted By

Vern "Rip" Riporlella, WA2LQQPO Box 177, Warwick. NY 10990

The 1990s: Decade of Hard Choices?-Part 1

For more information on getting started on OSCAR snd Information onAMSAT membership and membership benefits, call AMSAT at 301-589·6062or write: AMSAT, PO Box 27, Washington, DC 20044. Please Include abuslnellll-size SASE.

total bandwidth 21,917.7 MHzBand numbers. symbols and designators: The band numbers and symbols shown are those used

by the International Telecommunication Union, For more on the designators, see Reference Datalor Engineers: Radio. Electronics, Computer and Communication.. 7th ad ~ndianapolis: HowardSams & Co, 1965. pp 1-3 and 1-4).

Some bands are secondary allocations; others, exclusively amateur. Some bands are used foruplinks only, others for downlinks only: and some are not available in all three fTU regions.Refer to Table 10.4 of the ARRl's Satellite Experimenter's Handbook, P 10-6, for details. Alsosee Chapter 2 at The ARRL Operating Manual, 3rd edition. The FCC Rule Book containscomplete details on the FCC rules regulating amateur space operations.

Table 1

Amateur Satellite AllocationsITUBand BandwidthNumber Symbol Designator Fraquency (MHz) Wavelength

'7 HF 7.0-7.1 MHz 0.1 40m7 HF 14.00-14.25 MHz 0.25 20 m7 HF 18.068-18.168 MHz 0.1 17 m7 HF 21.00-21.45 MHz 0.45 15 m7 HF 24.89-24.99 MHz 0.1 12 m7 HF 28'<)..29.7 MHz 1.7 10 m8 VHF 144-146 MHz 2.0 2m9 UHF L 435-438 MHz 3.0 70 em9 UHF L 1.28-1.27 GHz 10 24 em9 UHF S 2.40-2.45 GHz 60 13 em

10 SHF S 3.40-3.41 GHz 10 10 em10 SHF X 5.65-5.67 GHz 20 5 em10 SHF X 5.83-5.85 GHz 20 Scm11 EHF X 10.45-10.50 GHz 50 3 em11 EHF K 24.00-24.05 GHz 50 12 mm11 EHF V 47.0-47.2 GHz 200 6mm11 EHF V 75.5-81.0 GHz 5500 4mm11 EHF 142-149 GHz 7000 2mm11 EHF 241-250 GHz 9000 1 mm

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GHz, where all thai spectrum lies dormant,will likely remain high in the 19900. IiOCn

QST congratulates...

[] Former US Senator Barry M. Gold­water, K7UGA. on sixty years of member­ship in the ARRL. Amateur Radio's elderstatesman was honored with an awardpresented by ARRL Southwestern DivisionDirector Fried Hevn, WA6WZO, andARRL Arizona Section Manager JimSwafford, W7FF. at the joint meeting ofthe Quarter Century Wireless Associationand the Society of Wireless Pioneers inPhoenix, Arizona, on December 2. 1989.

Strays

one-at a cost of less than $200~that in­cluded a block downconverter! Moreover.the new high electron mobility transistors(HEMTs), available commercially, producenoise figures down to 1.1 dB at 14 GHz andcost less than $400 each. Such devicesweren't available at any cost just a fewyears ago. And there's the potential ofpower FETs working up to 100 GHz, orhigher, for transntitters.

But those fantiliar with centi- andmillimeter-band work know well that pre­cision tolerances on waveguides. connectorsand associated hardware command a heftyprice. Some precision RF connectors costover $100 each. And although it adds lusterto the equipment, the gold plating (neces­sarily) found on many components quicklyattenuates your bank account while enhanc­ing the propagation and conduction of RF.So, the cost of operating above, say, 30

Over the last four years or so, thiscolumn has primarily focused on the prac­tical issues associated with using and en­joying satellites. Given the rustling ofcalendar pages attending the new decade,however. we'll step back this time for abroader view of the issues facing theamateur satellite field in the 1990s. Indeed,with the added perspective we see the out­lines of changes ahead. Will they be for tbebetter?

It's said (correctly, I believe) that answersare easy once the questions are well­formulated. In this context, here is whatseems to be the major question for the1990s: Will spectrum continue to be avail­able for OSCARs?

The answer is a complex one and notnearly as satisfying as we'd like! On the onehand, we find enormous spectral resourcesavailable to radio amateurs. On the otherhand, most of the untilied spectral turf isbarren for a good reason: It's virtually un­usable with current technology. Moreover I

avaricious commercial users are position­ing themselves to sliceoff for their own usethose Amateur Radio allocations that newtechnology has recently rendered commer­cially viable (and thus valuable) turf.

Table I shows that the Amateur Satel­lite service is blessed with a total availablehandwidth of nearly 22 GHz! To put thatnumber in perspective. imagine that10,000,000. radio amateurs get on the airsimultaneously using SSB. If each of theirsignals occupies 2.2 kl-lz, they'll all fit into22 GHz. 1

But before we get too excited about allthis band space, recognize this: Only 0.03%of that vastness lies below 10Hz.Moreover, less than 0.5 '7. is below 10 GHz!Yes, the vast, wide open spaces above Kband offer space for anyone who can figureout how to use it. This entails two basicproblems: (1) While devices that workabove 30 <JHz are becoming Jess expensiveand more available to radio amateurs. theprecise nature of' work in the centimetricand millimetric ranges suggests high costwill persist; and (2) with rare exceptions,atmospheric absorption drastically altenu­ates SHF and EHF signals.

Occasional breakthroughs might en­courage predictions of low-cost. solid-statedevices suitable for work above 30 GHz.For example, in 1981, a 35-K low-noise am­plifier for C band TVRO (4 <JHz) mighthave cost $2000 or more. I recently installed

IOfcourse, we'd have to make them all calling CQon separate frequencies to maximally occupy theband-you know, kinda like 20 meters on a typi­cal Sunday!

The World Above 50 MHzConducted By Bill Tynan.W3XO

Send reports to HeR 5 PO Box 574-334.Tlerra Linda Ranch, Kerrville, TX 78028 or call512-257-1296 10record late-breaking information.

ReportingReaders of The World Above 50MHzmust

know thevalueof regular reporting. Thisgoesfor news items, hintsand kinksand the stand­ings boxes. As noted in the November 1989column. microwave news and informationwill receive increased coverage. Not that ithasn't been coveredheretofore; accountsofmicrowave happenings have been carriedwhenever they weresubmitted and adequatespace could be found.

Recent examples are the wanderings ufsomeof the gang on the West Coast in questof newgrids and extendedDX. In addition,the Microwave Standings Boxis run per thescheduleshown in Table 1. Nevertheless, ifmicrowave informationis to receive increasedexposure. I must receive more reports in thisarea. Remember, one of the major servicesof a columnsuchas this, appearingas it doesin a high-circulation magazine like QST, isto interest thosewhomaynot presently he in­volved in a particular facet of AmateurRadio. While specialty periodicals and news­letters are excellent vehicles for disseminat­ing news and information among presentpractitioners, a wide-circulation magazinecan't be beat for exposing potential convertsto something new. The WorldAbove50MHzprides itself on continuously exposing thebroad amateur communityto the excitementand challenge represented by operatlonon thehands above 50 MHz-including the micro­waveportion of the spectrum. So keep thosereports coming and I willdo my best to getthem into print.

While on the subjectof reporting,it is evenmore importantthan everto regularly updateinformation for the standings boxes. Withaneven greater emphasis being placed on thevalueof QST space, I find it necessary to runeach hox only once per year. Carrying the

boxesless frequently will provideadditionalspace for other material such as picturesandoperatingreports. In additional, the two-yearreportingrule mustbe more rigidlyenforced.So, if all of a sudden yon find ynur call notlisted in a particular box, even though youmay have been regularly reporting youractivities on other bands, you willknow thereason. Remember, it is not necessary to haveworked new states, countries. call areas orgrids to contlnue to be listed-merely a writ­ten indication, every two years or less, thatyou are still on the band and haven't movedto the other end of the country. Until now.I haven't imposed the two-year rule on the6-Meter DX Box, but henceforth, I must.

As an aid to reporting, I have designednew,streamlined forms forallbut the6-MeterDX Box,which must continueto listcalls andcontact dates. There are now three kinds offorms: the 6-Meter DXForm, a generalformfor 2 meters and up, and the EME AnnalsForm. NI are availablefor an SASE. Pleasespecify the form(s) you want and use themto make copies for future use, Also, keep a

Table 1Standings Box Schedule

MonthBox Appearing DeadlineMicrowave January November 5EME Annals March January22 Meters May March 51-114 Meters July May 5'70em september July 56-Meter OX November September 1

Note the earlier dates for the EME Annalsand a-Meter OX bcxss.;

copy of your submissions ali a means ofknowingwhento update your ligures. Manybury their box updates in letters containingother information. WhileI always try to fer­ret these out, they have been known to be­come lost in the shuffle. The preferred wayto providebox updatesis on the special formsor reasonable facsimiles. That way, they goright into the files I maintain for snch infor­mation.

Table 1showsthe newschedule for the ap­pearence of each box, along with the datesreports must be received. This new schedulewill begin with the August 1990 column,whichwill carry no box. Thus, as previouslyscheduled over the next five months, theMicrowave Box will appear in April, the6-Meter DXBoxin May, the EME AnnalsinJune, and the 2-Meter Boxin July. from thenon, the new schedule applies. Please Dote theearlier deadlines for updates to the EMEAnnals and 6-Meter DX Boxes,

ON THE BANDS

Not surprisingly, 6-meter F2 reports continueto dominate the mail and the telephone answer­ing machine. Despite the fact that some parts ofthe country continue to experience daily open­ings. their duration, strength and geographicalspread has diminished noticeably during Decem­ber. This drop-off led many to speculate that wehave seen the best of Cycle 22. Only time wintell, but many knowledgeable people contendthat we are yet some months away from thepeak. Propagation normally tails off much moreslowly on the down side of the cycle than it im­proves on the up side. Thus. we should still havetwo or three years of good 6-meter propagationafter the peak is reached. Cycle 21 peaked inDecember 1979, and interesting 6-meter DX wasstill being worked well into 1982. Keep the faith!

From a number of reports, it is clear that con­ditions rut a small peak at the end of the old year

7lJ..cm StandingsFor WAS holders, listings are WAS number, call. state, call areas worked and grids worked. For others, call. state, US states worked, call areas worked and grids worked. Call areas arettle 10 US call areas plus KH6 and Kl7 plus each VE and XE call area plus DXCC countries not located within the contlnentallimlls of the US. Canada or Mexico. (The UN does not countas a call area) Grtds are those Maidenhead designators worked since the vuce award was instituted January 1. 1983. To make the standings a true reflection of current 7O-cmactivity,those not reporting within the past two veers have been dropped. They Will be reinstated upon presentation, in writing, 01 a statement Indicating continued activity. It is not necessary toshow additional states, call areas or grids worked fn order to be rensrsd. Compiled January 8, 1990, Updates for next listing must be received by July 5, 1990

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and the first day of 1990. Then. for the next 10days at least, they collapsed altogether. Decem­ber 28 was a particularly good day for the WestCoast. As had happened before, several Euro­pean stations were worked in southern Califor­nia. But. thistime the northern California jinxwasbroken, with K6QXY, WA6BYA, W6JKVandK6MYC allworking FCIBUU. In a Europe­starved area, this is great news. KC6EDP,Malibu, reports that ZLs were heard during theafternoon of December 31, as wellas the follow­iog day. Several New Zealand stations also wereheardhere in Texas the first day of the new year,with ZL2TPY the loudest. A few European sta­tions were also heard here NewYear's morning.The afternoon of December .30 witnessed strangeconditions indeed. Favorable geomagnetic con­ditions produced an aurora which apparentlyresulted in a number of coast-to-coast contactson 6 meters, with beam headings far to the north 'of the normal direction. W0JRP, Joplin, Mis­souri. reports working K7KV while aimedat 30degrees.

KL7IKV, Anchorage, writes to fill everyonein One-meter conditions in the far north. Lynnnotes that this is one area of the world in whichEurope has yet to be worked. Nevertheless, behas had great success in other directions.KL7IKV's QSO total is truly impressive, withsome 1900s-merer contacts completed during thefall of 1989, This was after almost a completelackof DXfrom1983 to 1988. Mostof thecon­tacts have been with Japanese stations, but VK.KH6, KG6, VS6, KH6, DU, HL. KH4, 10 aswell as: VB. Wand XE have also been worked.Both Lynn and AL7Chaveworked all Japaneseprefectures, a significant feat indeed.

In addition to an impressive F2 report,WAIOUB passes along an interesting SWL cardfrom a listener in the Northern Asiatic part of

FM/RPT

the SovietUnion (grid N066). The reception wason June 7, 1987, at 1416Z, most certainly viasporadic E. Bob's signal report was 559, and thebeam heading noted bytheSWL was M degrees.Calculated distance is just under 5500 miles.

Severalaccounts have been received regardingz-meter sporadic E during. mid-December.WA4PGM, Farmville, Virginia, FM07, reportsworking VPSD wilbS x 9 signal, (both ways)at 221SZ December 15, after first hearingWA4MJE, EL94. Kyle says that 6 meters wasloaded with strong. close-in stations at the time.Since July1989, WA4PGM bas worked 24statesand 74 grids on 2. meters. Operation on 6 metershas brought similargoodfortune, with 36conn­tries. 38 statesand 175 grids being worked overthe same six-month period. Catching this sameopening was WAIZNY. Topsfield, Mas­sachusetts. who hooked up with two stations:WA40WC, EL97, at 2129Z, and WB4MJE,EL94. at 2140Z. Jobn runs an lC-271H to a6welement Yagi and was quite elated with thecontacts.

W5FYZ, Minden, Louisiana, stilllikesto pur­sue the meteors, Ernie reports completing a QSOwilbN8CMH. West Virginia, FM09,during theGeminids, and KA3KHZ, Delaware, during theQuadrantids. This comes after trying to workDelaware for the past 30 years.

'Thee-merer contingent is not the only groupof VHFers adding new countries to its totals.Many of the z-meter moonbouncers are gettingpretty high on the ladder, too. One is WSUN.Davesays that he worked 13 newcountries dur­ing 1989, bringing his total to 89. Those addedduring J989 were: 4.JIFS, Cf3M. nODJ.T36JT, HCSK, V63MB, HD8E, F6EYMICT.ZK1RS (in both Northern Cook and SouthernCook Islands), FKITS, ZD8MB and HL9TG.

The December issue of Six Meters and Up

DXer, published by the RSGB and edited byG4ASRand G4VXE.carries an item relating toa claimed newrecord for 'zo-cm meteor scatter.The publication notes that the record bas beenheldbyW6LER and W2AZL overa distance of1642 km (abont 983 miles). After success withfour skeds, PA3DZL decided that the 1989 Per­seides would provide a good opportunity to makean attemptwilbSM6CEW-r-a distance of 1864km (about 1120miles). After five attempts, somenearly successful, they finally made it in al-hour-af-minute QSO onAugust 12. PA3DZLrun, 1kWto anarrayofeight 24-e1ement F9FT,.No information was provided on SMlCEW'ssetup.

VE4MAwrites that he is stillactive on 23-cmEME, with a tz-rocr dish and S()()..W amplifier.Recent contacts include SM2CEW, UA1ZCL,ZS6AXT [for WAC), OE9XXI, WDSAGO,K2UYH, WB~TEM, W7JFand W6KJY. Thisbrings Bary's station count to 47. Current con­struction projects include gear for 3456-MHzEME. Authorization has recentlybeenreceivedfor operation on 33 em, so VE4MA should soonbe heard off the moon on that band as well.

Whileattendinga WestCoast gathering last sum­mer, thisconductor had the pleasureof witnessinga very convincing microwave demonstration.K6KLY setnpa portable200-milliwatt IO-GHt SSBrig and I!A. foot (30-dB gain) dish. Wilb thisequipment, Russ proceeded to work K6UQH athis home QTH-a distance of about 25 miles.Bill was using a similarly powered rig and an­teonaon hisend. Allbaugh lbepath was tbrongha nearby hill, 8-7 signals (with no fading) wereobserved. In addition to the fact that they couldwork over this path with such low power, I wasimpressed by the small amount of drift exhibit­ed by the equipment. 1 was informed that anydrift was in the IC-202 nsed for the IF. 1l'E]

Conducted ByStan Horzepa, WA1LOU75 Kreger Dr, Wolcott, CT 06716-2702

CompuServe10 no. 70645.247

A National DTMF Tone Squelch Frequency?-Part 3In December, I presented a proposal by

Vern Gallinger, W7JAT, of Kingman,Arizona, for a NationalDTMFToneSquelchFrequency. With a DTMF decoder installedin a radio. the receiver would remainsquelcheduntil the national DTMF lone wasreceived (the tone would besent only whenhams needed assistance], Thus, operalorswould be able 10monitor a repealer withouthavingto listento incessantrepeater chatter,yet be alerted when their assistance wasneeded,

Your response to this proposal has beenoverwhelming. Most of it has been positiveand has inclnded numerous suggestions onhow to fine-tune the system.

Don't Dial 9111A number of respondentssuggestedusing

the digit sequence "911" as the nationalDTMF tone code because it is already usedon a nationalbasisfor emergency phoneca1lsand is familiar to all. The fact that II is nsedfor emergency phone calls is a reason why itcan not be used for the national DTMF tonecode as explainedby John Maio, WB2ARS,of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in his conciseopinion on the subject.

"For heaven's sake, don't use 911! Our

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local repeater (and I'm sure many othersaround the country) accept a 911 tone com­bination and automaticallydialsdirectlyintothe city'semergency response center. Anotherpoint: Many repealers use DTMF tones tocontrol functions. Theseare usually, but nolalways,precededbya '#' or '*'. So, whynotuse theplain ~O' for 'operator' as the nationalDTMF code? Nothing I'm aware of uses asingle digit to control anyJhlng, and in anemergency, it might be easier to rememberjust one digil to gel a repeater operator tocomeup on the air."

(Anoiherargument in favorof a single-digitcode over a multiple-digit code is ihat single­digit decoders are less complex and lessexpensive than multiple-digitdecoders).

Seal of Approval ReqniredThe next step is to formally present the

National DTMF Tone Squelch Frequencyproposal to the ARRL VHF Repealer Advi­soryCommittee (VRAe) and the PublicServ­ice Committee so it can be studied andchanged. If the commitJees find merit in theproposal, theycanrecommend thai the ARRLBoard of Directorsaccept the proposal lor arevised version). Onceaccepted, the proposalwouldcreate a siandard that Amateur Radiomanufacturers could work wilb.

Meanwhile. aswe wait for some official ac­lion, wecan get prepared for whatever comesdown the pike.

Paul Newland, AD7I,bas designed a super­duper DTMF decoder that Can decode thelong HO" as well as multiple-digit tone se­quences (for individnal selectivecallingandgroup calling). It's based on a Motorolasingle-chip microcomputer (68HCOSC4) thatcosts about SIS. His target cost for compo­nentsand a PC board is less than $45_ Any­one interestedin hisdecodershouldsend himan SASEat PO Box 205,Holmdel,NJ 07733.

For thosewhodon't want to roll theirown,two QST advertisers sell reasonably pricedDTMFdecoders. MoTronElectronics (695 W21s!Ave,Eugene, OR97405) has the Net-KallNK-I (as a kit or assembledand Jested)thatcan be set to respond to any of the 16DTMFdigits. MoTronalso has the modelAuto-KallAK-lQ that responds 10 three-digit DTMFsequences, Engineering Consulting (583Candlewood St, Brea,CA 92621) has a 4-digitsequenceTouch-lonedecoder that controls aDPDT relay and can be optioned to controlfour additional relays.

So let's start building and experimentingwiih the systemto find out whal works best,

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Packet Perspective

Welcome to Packet Perspective!

Conducted By Stan Horzepe, WA1LOU75 Kreger Dr, Wolcott, CT 06716-2702

CompuServe 10 no. 70645,247

Packet radio is still hot after all theseyears! Although I have heen an activepacket-radio user for six years, I am nota pioneer of the mode. Packet radio hasbeen around almost twice as long as I'vebeen involved in it, but during the past sixyears there's been an explosion in packetradio.

In the spring of 1984, when 1 plugged ina TNC for the first time, there were onlyfour other users in the whole state ofConnecticut. They were using one digipeaterand one bulletin board. Today, a typical2-meter packet radio channel in the Nut­meg State sports four or more digipeatersor network nodes, at least one bulletinboard, and I don't know how many users.And the growth continues.

I use the "Santa Claus TNC HighPressure Areal' as a barometer of packetradio growth. The High moves onto thez-metcr packet radio channels during thelast week of December. During that week,there is a mini-explosion of new users onthe channels, usually accompanied by amicro-explosion of beacons. Although thebeacons subside after the new users learnbetter, the new users don't go away.Rather, they discover the joys of packetradio operation and go merrilyon their wayfinding their own niche in the world ofpacket radio. In 1989, the Santa ClausTNC High was typical of past years, so Isee no abatement of the packet radio ex­plosion. Not one bit.

Along with this growth comes this newQST column-devoted entirely to theworld 01 packet radio. As with the othercolumns I've conducted for QST, thiscolumn is yours as well as mine. Yourcontributions are welcome. Whether theycome in the form of gripes, complaints,opinions, suggestions, or kudos, my mail­box is always open.

Escape from 1200 Bands

It looks like 1990 may be the year whenhigh-speed packet radio, that is, faster than1200 bauds, trickles down to the user level.Much network-level packet radio nowoperates at data rates of 4800, 9600 orhigher, with the average user stuck at 1200.The reason the user is stuck at 1200 baudsis because of the lack of readily available,inexpensive equipment that supports great­er data rates. This is changing, as the firstpart of the new year has already broughtus new equipment designed to speed upoperations for the average user.

Kantronics has just introduced its DVR1-1144-MHltransceiver that is optimizedfor high-speed data communications and

is ready to connect to a high-speed packetradio modem without modification. Mean­while, MFJ is touting Hturbo" packet radiovia a 24OO-baudmodem that can be addedto most TNCs.

Later this year, Tucson Amateur PacketRadio (TAPR) plans to introduce its"packetRADIO," a 2~meter digital trans­ceiver with built-in modems that will pro­vide 9600-baud FSK, as well as the stan­dard 12oo-baud AFSK packet radiooperation. These new offerings join previ­ously introduced high-speed modems andTNCs from Kantronics and the high-speedmodems, TNCs, and transceivers fromPacComm. And who knows what otherhigh-speed surprises await us at Dayton andbeyond?

With all of the big names in amateurpacket radio providing relatively inexpen­sive, high-speed solutions to the 2-meterpacket radio morass, it won't be longbefore users begin plucking high-speedgoodies off their dealers' shelves andinstalling them in their shacks.

Escape from Hardware Hell

Saturday, not one, buttwoofmyTNCsstopped functioning. Luckily, I wasable torevive one of them! The resurrection waseasy once I diagnosed the malady. Thesymptom wasthat the 'INC's receiver wasdead. The front panel DCD LED remainedoff and no received packets were displayedon my terminal. despite the fact that my2-meter radio's S meter was indicating thereception of packets.

After shutting off the TNC, I began totroubleshoot by checking whether all of theIGs and otber components were seatedfirmly in their sockets. I did this by pressingdown on each socketed component. WhenI powered up the TNC. it functioned nor­mally for a half-hour or so, then its receiverdied again.

Back under the hood, I tried to find thespecific component that was causing theproblem. The MF10 switched-capacitorfilter and the XR2211 demodniator ICswere likely culprits, but extracting and rein­serting them in their sockets was not thecure. I tried the two filter networks that aremounted on the 16-pin DIP headers thatstraddle the MFIO IC. Extracting and rein­serting the resistor and capacitor filter net­work (U19 in a TNC 2 clone) exposed theculprit,

Over the three-year life of my TNC, anoxide layer had built up between the DIPheader's pins and its mating socket's recep­tacles. This iscaused by anelectro-chemicalaction that occurs between the dissimilar

metals of the pins and the socket and causesthe molecules of one metal to migrate andcreate a new chemical oxide that fills thespace between the DIP header's pins and thesocket's receptacles. Eventually, the oxidebuilds up a resistance that breaks the connec­tion between the DIP header and the socketand disrupts the operation of the TNC.

This problem is common where ICs orother devices are mounted in sockets. Thetemporary solution is to extract and rein­sert the device in its socket (a number oftimes, if necessary) in order to break up theoxide. Solvents that are used for electronicclean-up tasks can also be used to removethe oxide. The ultimate solution is toremove the socket and solder the compo­nent directly to the PC board.

Someday, if your TNC dies, check thesocketed components. It may save you atrip to the TNC hospital. """'J

StraysEICO ADDRESS

Reader Ralph Strawbridge of White Stone,Virginia, advises that Bico service manualsand schematics may be ordered directly fromthe company at the following address: EicoElectronic Instrument Co, Inc, 363 MerrickRd, Lynbrook, NY 11563.

RID REUNIONThe final meeting of the wartime members

of the FCC's Radio Intelligence Division willbe held at a luncheon on Friday, April 27. The50th Anniversary of the founding of RIDwillbe formally observed in a ceremony afterwardat the White House. Contact Gene Eveslage,K4LJ, 8350 Greensboro Dr, #1020, Mcl.ean,VA 22102.

QST congratulates .••

o The Poughkeepsie Amateur Radio Club(PARC) on its 25th anniversary. PARC is anA.RRL Special Services Club and is the suc­cessor to the first ham club in the Mid­Hudson Valley, the Mid-Hudson AmateurRadio Club.o Dr Theodore S. Rappoport, N9NB. of theVirginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity, on being awarded the 1990YoungScientist Award by the Marconi InternationalFellowship Council and IEEE for achieve­ments in the field of radio propagation. Theaward, which carries a medallion and a$10,000honorarium, will be formally present­edata ceremony inWashington, DC on Aprn29, 1990.

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Hamfest Calendar Administered By Bernice Dunn, KA1KXQConvention Program Manager

Attention: Thedeadline for receiptof Items forthiscolumn is the 5th of the secondmonthprecedingpublicationdate. HamfestInformation is accu~teas of our deadline; contact sponsor for possiblelate changes. ror those who send in items forHamfest Calendar and Coming Conventions:Postal regulations prohibit mention in~ ofprizesof anykindand gamesof chancesuch asbingo.

Arkansas (Jonesboro)-March 24. Sponsor: Jones­boro ARC. Time: 9 AM-$ PM. Place: CraigheadCounty Fairgrounds Building. two blocks north offHwy 63 bypass. 2731 Highland Dr. Talk-in:146.01/61, 146.52. Admission: tree, Tables: 57eachfor public, dealers free. Contact: EvelynCastleber­ry, N5DSY, PO Box 9.~. Bono. AR 72.416.501-932-1660.California (Oxnard)-April 7. Sponsor: VenturaCounty ARC. Time:8 AM-12 PM. Place: O~dCommunity Ctr, 800 Hobson Way. from PacificCoast Hwy I, turn west on 5th Street then southon Hobson Way. Features: videotapes, refresh­ments, free parking. Talk-in: 14(i.28188. Admission:free. Tables: advance $8, door $10. Contact: BobBond, WD6BCN, 1420 McGloughlin Ave. Oxnard,CA 93035.Colorado (Longmont)-April 7. Sponsor: Long­mont ARC. Time: 8 AM-3 PM. Place: BoulderCounty Fairgrounds. Admission: $3. Tables: $7.Contact: Bob Doman. WA2EKU. 1106 Fordham~~, Longmont, CO 80501. 303-651-3613.Connecticut (UncasriIle)-Marcb 24. Sponsor.Radio Amateur Society of Norwich. Tlme: set-up9 AM. public 10 AM. Place: Uncasville VFW, offRt, 32 behind Wonder Bread bakery. Features:refreshments. auction (bring your equipment to beauctioned), wheelchair accessible. Talk-in:146.13.n3. Admission: free. Contact:Bob Dargel,KAI8B. 203-739-8016.C..oanecticot(West Hartfordl-Marcb 18. Sponsor:Insurance City Repeater Club Inc. Time: I) AM­2 PM. Place: American School for the Deaf. Talk­in: 146.28/88. Admission: $2. Tables: SIS. Contact:Chuck Motes, KIDFS, 22 Woodside Ln. Plainville.cr 06062.tFJorida (F't Wilton Beach)-Mareb 17-18. Spon­,"lor. Playground ARC. 1'i1M: Saturday 8 AM-5PM.Sunday 8 AM-4 PM. Place: Ft Walton Beach Fair­grounds on LewisTurner Blvd. across fro~ CityGolf Course. Features: flea market. commercial ex­hibits. forums, free parking. RV parking (30spaces). Talk-in: 146.19n9. Admtsston: advance $3,door 54. Tables: 510 (one day), S15 (both days).Contact: Playground ARC. PO Box 873. Ft War­ton Beach. FL 32549.t(;corgia (Columbus)-March 24-25. Sponsor:Columbus ARC~ Time:Saturday 9 AM-4 PM. Sun­day 9 AM-3PM. Place: Columbus Municipal Au­ditorium, 4th Ave and 4th St. Features: flea market.Talk-in: 146.61. Admission: free. Contact: RedHunt. K4DOW. 2221 Wessex Dr. Columbus. GA31904, (D) 404-327-4S16.Illinois (Grayslake)-Marcb 25. Sponsor: Liber­tyville&Mundelein ARS. Time:8 AM. Place: LakeCounty Fairgrounds, junction Rtes 45 & 120. Ft'D­tures: free parking. indoor swapfest. Talk-in:147.63103. 146.52. Admission: advance $3, door$4. Contact:Bob Dick, NY9E, 708-362-9634 after7 PM. or write with SASE to LAJ\.lARS. Box 751,Libertyville. IL 60048.Illinois (Roddord)-Marcb 31. Sponsor: RockfordARA. Time:8 AM-3 PM. Piece: US Rte 20 bypassand Rte 251. Exit south of bypass. entrance onFrontage Rd. west side of Rte 251. Features:Amateur Radio and computer dealers. nee market.tailgating, refreshments, free parking, wheelchairaccessible. Tolk-in: 146.0l/61, 146.52. Admission:advance $3. door $4. Contact:advance sales sendSASE to Rockford Hamfest, PO Box 10003. Rock-

tARRl Hamlest

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ford, lL 61131, general info contact Joe Roling.N9HEZ, 81S-399-6995.

indiana (Columbus)-Aprll ,. Sponsor:ColumbusARC. Time: 8 AM~2 PM. Place: BartholomewCounty 4-H Fairgrounds,located on State Road II.Talk-in: 146.79/19. Contact:Marion Winterberg.WD9HTN, 11941 W Sawmill Rd. Columbus, iN47201, 8f2-341~70.t[mliana (lndianapoUs)-Marm 1I, Sponsor: Mer­gan County Repeater Assn. Time:set-up Saturday3~9 PM (security provided overnight). Sunday 6-8AM [all vehicles must be out of the building by 7:S0AM), public 8 AM. Place: Indiana State Fair­grounds Pavilion Building. Features: VB exams.programs, free parking. Talk-in: 144.65/145.25.Admission: no advance. door $6. Tables: 8-ft ta­ble including space, S10 each (no space without ta­ble \\iI1 be sold, advance reservations suggested).Contact: send SASE before February 23, 1990. toAileen Scales, KC9YA. 3142' Market Place.Bloomington. IN 47403, 812-339-4446.

Kratocky (Elizabetbtown)-Marcb 24. Sponsor.LincolnTrail ARC. 'Jjme: set-up Friday 6 PM (secu­rity provided). public Saturday 81'0. M-4:30 PM.Place: Pritchard Community Ctr. Features: freeparking, new dealers. tlea market. forums. VEexams (9 AM. bring original license and a copy).Talk-in: 146.52. 146.38/98. A.dmission: advance $4.door $~. Tables: $5. Contact: Chuck Strain.AA4ZD, PO Box 342, Vine Grove, KY 40115.502-351-1715.MaIne (Portland)-Marcb 31. Sponsor. PortlandAmateur Wireless Assn. Time:8 AM-2 PM. Place:Westbrook Armory across from Westbrook HighSchool on Stroudwater St. Features: VB exams.seminars. forums. exhibits. flea market. refresh­ments. Talk-in: 146.13/13.146.55. Admission: $4or $3 if you bring equipment to sell. with free tablespace while it lasts. Contact:Doug Greer. NtEXD.PAWA. PO Box 1605. Portland. ME 04104,207-874-1230.tMaryland ('ItmoDium:)-Marth 31-A,prill. Spon­.s'Or: Baltimore ARC. Time:Saturday 8 AM-S PM,Sunday 8 AM-4PM. Place: Maryland State Fair­grounds. Features: major manufacturers, refresh­ments. VEexams. Talk-in: 146.07/67.Admission:$5 for both days. Contact: lR301-HAM~FEST or1-800·HAM·FEST.Massachusetts (Braintree)-Marcb 25. Sponsor:South Shore ARC. Time: vendors 9 AM. public11 AM-4PM. Place: VikingClub. 410Quincy Ave.Features: free parking. refreshments. Admission:$1. Tables: 8-ft tables available for $10 each (in­cludes one free admission per table). if paid beforeMarch 23. Send to Hal Jones. WBIABM, 48 SaningRd. N Weymouth, MA 02191. Tables will cost $12on the day of the sale (no guarantee of table spaceunless paid for in advance). Cheeks should bemadepayable to the South Shore ARC. Confirmation ofcheck receipt will be sent. no cancellation refundafter March 23. Contact: Hal. (,17-335-:5777evenings.

MassacbosettJ (Framiugbam)-April 8. Sponsor:Framingham ARA. lime: set-up 8 AM. 9 AM forearly bird buyers and 10 AM for all buyers. Place:Framingham Civic League Bldg, 214 Concord St.(Rte 126). lieututes: flea market, VB exams(preregistration required). Talk-in: 147.73115. Adw

mission: $5 for early bird buyers. $2 for all buy­ers. Tables: $12. tncludes one free admission(preregistration required). Contact: for tables JonWeiner. KIVVC. 52 Overlook Dr. Framingham.MA 01701,508-877-7166, for exams send completedForm 610. copy of ham license. and check for $4.75payable to ARRL/VEC to FARA. PO Box 3005.Framingham. MA 01701.508-877-0563 evenings.

'Massachusetts (Sandwich)-March 10. Sponsor:Barnstable Re. Time:set-up8 AM. public 10 AM:.Place: Rt 6 (Midcape Hwy) east to exit 2 (Rt 130).go right (south) 2~~ miles. Site is on right at theOak Ridge Elementary School. Features: refresh­ments, VB exams, free parking, wheelchair acces­sible. Talk-in: 147.6451045. Admission: no advance.door $2.50. Tables: advance $8. door $10. Contact:

Don Haaker, WAIAIC, 508-778-5673 or HenryFales, KZ1V, 508-255-2818.IMicbigab (Grosse Pointe Woods)-Aprill. Spon­sor: Southeastern Michigan ARk Time: 8 AM­2 PM. Place: Grosse Point NHS. Vernier Rd. be­tweenMack and Lakeshore Dr. Take 1-94 to Ver­nier, go east 1'1i miles to Hamfest. features:refreshments. ARRL forum. OX forum, packetforum; VE exams. Talk-in: 146.14/74. PL IZ(100.0). Admission:no advance. door $4.C'ontact:Southeastern MichiganARA, PO Box 646, St ClairShores, M1 48080, 313-527-3497.Micblgatl (Marshall)-March 17. Sponsors:Southern Michigan ARS & Marshall High PhotoElectronics Club. TIme: set-up 6 AM, public 8 AM­3 PM. Place: Marshall High School. 1-69 to 1-94,then east to exit 110;or 1-94to exit 110 (Old US-27),then south and east to school. Follow the signs. Fea­tures: VE exams (9:30 AM, preregistration requiredinclude Form 610. SASE and 54.7:5. Make checkor money order payable to ARRL/VEC, send toLicense Exam. PO Box2. Pleasant Lake, M149272-,(walk-ins on availability basis). Talk·in:146.06/66.146.:'52. Admission: advance $2 (SASE), door $3.Tables: $.75 per ft (min. 4 ro. reserved unill8 AM.Send SASE to SMARS. PO Box 934. Battle Creek.MI 49016 or tel Wes Chaney. N8BOM,616-979-3433.Miu.nesota (Rocbester)-April 7. Sponsor.Rochester ARC. ttme: 8:30 AM. Place: JohnAdams Junior High School.152S NW 31st St. rea­lures: ilea market. computer and electronics items.speakers. programs, refreshments. free parking.Talk-in: 146.22/82. Contact: RARe. clo N0HZN.2824 NW 24th St. Rochester. MN 55901.New Jersey (Absecon)-Man:b 10. Sponsor: ShorePoints ARC. TIme: dealers 7 AM. pubUc 9 AM­2 PM. Place: Holy Spirit High School. Rte 9. lhmile south of Rte 30. Features: indoor selling spacewith ac, outdoor tailgating (weather permlrtingj,free parking, refreshments. Talk-in: 146.38"/98S,146.52. Admission:$.':l. Tables: SS. Contact:ShorePoints ARC. PO Box 142, Absecon, NJ 08201.t'New Jersey (Flemington)-March 31. Sponsor:Cherryville Repeater Assn. 11 me. Time: 8 AM­4 PM. Place: Hunterdon Ceutral HS Field House.%·mile north of Rt 311202 Circle. Features: VBexams. refreshments. free parking. limited tailgat­ins. Talk·ln: 14652, 147.615/015.147.975/375.Ad·mission: no advance. door $5. Contact: MartyGrozinski, NS2K. 201-788-4080.

tNew Jersey (Trenton)-March 25. Sponsor. Dela­ware Valley RA. Time: vendors 6 AM. public8 AM-2 PM. Place: New Jersey National Guard.112th F"leId Arollery Armory. BggertsCrossins Rd.Lawrence Township. which is located 2 miles northof the I-95/Rte206 interchange. Features: refresh­ments, free parking, (facility has handicap parkingand is wheelchair accessible). Tatk-tn: 146.07/67.Admission: advance $3. door $4. Tables: sellersmust provide their own tables. Indoor selling spacesare $10 (wall space) or $7; outdoor spaces are $6.Contact: HAMCOMP'90. clo KB2ZY, an I, Box259, Stockton. NJ 08559 (SASE please).New Jeney tUpper saddle River)-March 24. Spon­sor: Chestnut Ridge Re. Place: Education Build­ing. Saddle River Reformed Church. East SaddleRiver Rd. at Weiss Rd. Features: tailgating 55,refreshments. Admission: $1. Tables: 510 for thefirst. $5 each additional table. Contact: JackMeagher. W2EHD, 201-768-8360.Ohio (Conneaut)-March 11. Sponsor: ConneautARC. Time: vendor 7 AM. public 9 AM-3 PM.Place: Conneaut Human Resources Ctr, 327 MillSt. Features: refreshments. free parking. Talk-in:147.99/39.Admission: no advance. door $3. Tables:8-ft $5. Contact:Bob Schultz. W8ERQ. 146 SouthRidge Rd. Conneaut, OH 44030. 216-593-5490.tObio (MadisoR)-Marcb 25. Sponsor: LakeCounty ARA. Time: 8 AM-3 PM. Place: 1-90 toRte 528. follow signs north to Madison HighSchool. at comer of Middle Ridge and Burns Rds.Features: Ilea market, commercial exhibits, VEexams, refreshments. forums. Talk-in: 141.8112J,

222.90/224..s0. Admission: advance $3. door $4.Tables: $5 (6 ft), $6..s0(8 It}, Contact: Bob Broady,'5717 Fenwood Ct, Mentor-Lake, OH 44060,216-257-2036.tOhio (Maumee)-Marcb la. Sponsor: ToledoMobile Radio Assn. Time: 8. AM~5:30 PM. Fea­tures: major vendors. flea market, Talk-in:147.87/27. Admission: advance $3.50, door $4.Contact: Bob Hanna. K8ADK. 2154Circular Dr,Toledo, OH 43551, 419-382-2529.tP~haDb. (Lebanon)-ApriI1. Sponsor: Ap­palachianAmateur RepeaterGroup. TIme: vendors6 AM, public 8 AM. Place: Lebanon Fairgrounds.Features: parking, handicapped accessible, refresh­ments, VE exams, (10 AM ,preregistration request­ed). Talle-in: 146.04/64. 146.52. Admission: $4,ladies and kids free" Tables: with electricity $8.without electricity$5. Contact: Homer Luckenbill,WA3YMU,IOSWalnut St, Pine Grove, PA 17963,717-345-3780; Ron, WB3HNX, 717-345-8667; nrPaul, WB3HEC, 717-566-2606.Texas (Midland)-Mllreb 17w18. Sponsor: Midland

ARC. :rime: Saturday to AM-5 PM, Sunday8 AM-2:30 PM. Place: Midland County ExhibitBldg, located east of Midlandon the north side ofEast Hwy 80. Features: refreshments. VE exams.Admission:advance$5~ door $6. Tables: $6. Con­tact: Midland ARC, PO Box.4401, Midland, TX79704.Tens (Weatherford)-Marcb 31. Sponsor: ParkerCounty ARC. Time:8 AM-4PM. Place: NationalGuard Annory, 716 Charles. Features: auction.swapfestmarket, VBexams(10AMl. refreshments,exhibits. Talk-in,: 147.64/04. Admission: advance$2, door $3. Tables: $5. Contact: Gary Graham,KGSCW, POanx 1750, Weatherford, TX 76086.Washington (Puyallup)-Marcb 10. Sponsor.Mikeand Key ARC. Time: set-up r'riday 4 PM·9 PM,Saturday 6 AM·9 AM, public 9 AM-6 PM. Place:Pavilion of the Western Washington Fairgrounds.Features: free parking, refreshments, VE exams,free overnight space for self-contained RVs. Talk­in: 146.22/82, 222.521224.12. Admission: $3.Tables: table request postmarked before March 1,$t:5; after $18, commercialspace $50. Contact: for

table reservations M &: K Swapfest, US t7 t 17thA.ve, NE. Kirkland, WA 98034. For VBinfo sendan SASEto 6372nd Ave, South Kent. WA 98032.'!West Virginia(CharlestoD)-March 31. Sponsoll:Kanawha ARC &. Tri-County Ham Radio Club.'fime:set-up (\ A..\1., public 9 A.M-3 PM. Place:Charleston CivicCtr. Features: VBexams, refresh­ments, ample parking, ARRL/ARBS information.Talk-in: 146.28/88,146.52. Admission:$5. Tables:$6, electricity available. Contact: Betty Palmer,WCSS, PO Box8400,SouthCharleston,WV25303.304-346-1348.twiscoDSID (Madison)-April8. Sponsor. MadisonArea Repeater Assn. Time: set-up 7 AM, public8 AM. Place: Dane County Exposition Center Fo­rum Building,. Features: refresoments, parking, fleamarket.Talk-in: 147.7S!15.Admission: advance $.3,door $4, children under twelvefree. Tables: $9 inadvanceplusadmission.Contact: MARA, PO Box8890, Madison, WI 53708-8890, 608-249-7579(deadline fOT admission tickets and table reserva­tions is March 31, 1990). m:J

Coming Conventions Strays

For further information contact Don Minkoff.NKM, 213-397-2984.

NORTH CAROLlNA STATECONVENTIONApril 8, 1990, RaleighThe North Carolina State Convention is sponsoredby the Raleigh ARS. It will be held at the JimGraham Bldg, NCS Fairgrounds, HillsboroughSt.Doors are open from 8 AM-4PM. Admissionis $4in advance and $$ at the door. Features includerefreshments, ARRL booth and forum, home-brewand CW contests. VE exams, hospitality partySaturday night in Convention Bldg. Talk-in is on146.04/64, 146.28188. For further information con­tact Rollin Ransom, NF4P, 141.1 Parks Village Rd.Zebulon, NC 27597, 919-26944Q6.Note: SponSOf5 of Jarge gatherings shouldcheckwithLeague HQfor anedvlsory onpossible daleconflicts before contracting for meeting space.Dates maybe recorded atARRL HQfor upto twoyears In advance.

NORm CAROLINA SECTIONCONVENTIONMarch 17-18, 1990, CharlotteThe North Carolina Section Convention is spon­sored by the MecklenburgARS. it will be held atthe CivicCenter. Doors are open onSaturday from';\ AM-S PM and Sunday from 9 AM-~ PM. Ad­mission is$5 in advanceand $7 at the door. Featuresinclude refreshments, forums, VB exams. Talk-inis on 146.34/94, For further information contactMary Biggs, KA4EXP, 8435 Rust Wood Place,Charlotte, NC 28227, 704-545-0768.

NEBRASKA STATE CONVENTIONMardi 13-15, 1990, KearneyThe NebraskaStateConventionis sponsoredby theMidwayAmateur Radio Club. It willbeheld at theHoliday Inn. Features include symposiums cover­ing regulations and practices by the FCC, properuse of a ti.me domain re:i1ectometer by Marshall Bor­chartof Ricer/Bond, ARRL forumby Paul Grauert

VBexams (Saturdayonly), exhibitorswithnew andused equipment, flea market, auction(Sunday). Formore information write to Midway Amateur Ra­dioClub,POBox 1231,Kearney, NE 68848-1231,308-237-9277.

NORTH FLORIDA SECTIONCONVENTIONMarch 23-25, 1990. OrlandoThe North Florida SectionConventionis sponsoredby the OrlandoAmateur RadioClub. It willbe heldat the Ora.D8C' County Convention Civic Center.Doorsareopenon Friday from 12noon-sPM (fleamarket only), Saturday from 9 AM-5PM and Sun­day from 9 AM-3 PM. Admissionis $7 in advanceand $9 at the door. Features include horne-builtequipment, forums. Talk-in is on 146.16/16, Forfurther information contact Orlando Hamcation,PO 'Box 547811, Orlando, FL n854-1811,407-657~90S2prior to 10 PM.

INTERNATIONAL OX CONVENTIONApril 6-8. 1990, Visalia, CaJifoniaThe international OX Convention is sponsored bythe Southern California DX Club. It willbe held atthe Holiday Inn-Plaza Park. Rooms at the HolidayInn and Lamp Liter Inn are alIeady fun. NeaIbyhotels/motels include: Best Western,209-732-4561;Motel Astrt, 209~627-288.s; Sundance Inn,209-73~6641. Features include contests. forums,seminars, eyeball QSOs. Preregistration is$40andmust be postmarked no later than March 23. 1990,all subsequentregistrationswin be $45. Make yourcheckspayableto International DX Convention andmail your registrationand checksto Don Bostrom,N6IC, 4441Atoll Ave. Shennan Oaks, CA 9142.1.

1990

March 3-4Texas State, Brownsville

Mareh 17-18North Carolina Section. Charlotte

March 23-25Nebraska State, Kearney

March 23-25Nortbern Florfda Section. Orlando

i\priI6-841st International DX Convention.

Visalia, CA

April 8North Carolina State. Raleigh

ARRL NATIONAl. CONVENTIONSJune 8-10, 1990-Kansas City,

Missouri

August 23-25, 1991-Saginaw,Michigan

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QST congratulates. , ,

Dr John D. Kraus, W8JK, of Delaware,Ohio. on receiving the Institute of Electricaland Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1990Heinrich Hertz Medal for pioneering work inradio astronomy and the development ofthe helical antenna and the corner reflectorantenna The award has only been madeonce before. 11 consists of a gold medal, acitation, and a $10.000 honorarium. Krausis McDougal Professor Emeritus of ElectricalEngineering at Ohio State University and isDirector of the OSU Obse!Vatory. In 1985,Kraus was awarded the IEEE's oldestmedal, named for Thomas A. Edison.Previous recipients of the Edison Medalinclude Alexander Graham Bell and GeorgeWestinghouse. The tormal presantation offhe Hertz Medal will be made at the IEEEinternational Convention in Toronto, Ontario,In October 1990. (photo courtesy of W8JK)

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6tltnt IttpSIt is with deep regret that we record the passing of these amateurs:

Administered by Nancy A Sllpski

WIAJI. Philip W. Bourque, waterville, MEKBIC, Robert A, Weianer, Warwick, RlWICSG. Howard Gomes. North Attleboro. MAWAlDXN, William K. Brown. Spring Hill. FlKAIEKQ. George C, Pierce. Westerville. OHWI HRI, Archie R... Bragg, Seabrook, NHWltNN, Charles W. Austin. Ashaway, RIWIJKV, Kenniston W. Lord. Wallingford. CTWIKPN, Florian J. Pox, Stratford, CT·WlMAR, Raymond I. Prime, Hampton Bays, NYWlMDC. George E. Hood. Sutton, VTKIOCG, Ted A. Kobel. Hudson. FLKIPNL. Ernest N. Lefebvre. Forestville, CTKI PV. Carl E. EdIer. Rumford, MEWlAXT. Charles Shcreys, Milford, PA".2EQO, Robert Littler, Moorestown. NJKB2GN. Graves H. Snyder, Summit. NJW2ISY, Homer M. Ross. Lincoln, DEWA2KMI, Michelina Jamele, Daytona Beach, FLNA2P. Harold M. Zimmerman, Holiday. FLW2RX. EarnestH. RoY. Buffalo. NYW2VTX. Frank L. Bogdan, Deer Park. NYKC2WS. Robert G. Thompson, Lake Hurst, NJW2ZWA, Edward O. Johnson, Princeton, NJK2ZYF. James V. Eldredge, Cobleskill. NYKJDRV, John E. Cltarles, Havre De Grace, MDW3GFN, Earl Werst, Mertztown, PAWB3HYO, James C. Brady, Abbottstown. PAW3KTW, Harry P. Smith, Pittsburgh, PAW3SI. David M. Turner, Kensington, MDW3YGH. A. W. Nylund. lothian. MDW3YNE, Ray W. McDonald, Butler. PAW3ZQU. Melvin p. Stambaugh, Chambersburg, PAK4EDF, Harry M. Stein, Springville, ALW4EX, Claude W. Bass. Crossville, TNWB4PZV, Paul D. Lascell, Englewood. Fl.AA4GJ, William L. McNabb, St Petersburg, 1<"1.K4GJF, Henry G. Appteblad, Waterford, CTW4HFO, Charles P. Chandler, Ashland, MSK4JFP, Fritz Fredrickson, Merritt Island. FLK4JQO, John L. Martin. Fort Lauderdale, FLWB4JTH, James A. Ward, Portsmouth, VAWA4JXG, Richard C. Gronberg, wlnston-Salem, NC·WB4KCI, Willy A. Roelant, Virginia Beach, VAK4KGG, Carl F, Scharff, Denver, NCW4KTA, George C. McDaniel. Greenup, KYW4LOT, Benjamin F, Ginther, Brookneal. VA

50 Years AgoMarcb, 1940[J The cover photo of an antenna switching Instal­lation looks a bit elaborate for a ham setup-that'sbecause it is of General Electric's experimentalshort-wave and television broadcasting setup nearSchenectady. Three of QST's editorial staff wereinvited for a complete tour of the facilities.[J It's even easier (and cheaper, 'With lokral tubesinstead of expensive acorns) to start on 112 Me. ifyou use WIJPE's design for a practical converter,It will feedeither your basic receiver for a.m. recep­tion, or the family 43~Mc. f.m. set for that mode.o First word from the Inter-American Radio Con­ference in Chile is the good news that participatingnations agreed to amateur exclusivity (in thishemisphere) of all amateur bands! No agreementwas possible on voice and c.w. subbands, however.LJFormer Technical Editor Jim Lamb has reco­vered from a two-vear bout with illness and is backOD thestaff with a new title of Research Engineer.[J The popularity of mobile is focusing attentionon noise limiters to reduce ignition interference;W9ZWW shows several applications of the Dickertshunt limiter to various second-detector circuits incommon use.El Climaxing yean of experimentation, brothers Bill(W8IFD) and Walter Good of Kalamazoo, Michi­gan, won the radio-control event at the nationalmodel aircraft championship meet. Rudder and aile­ron escapements constitute the state of the art tech­niques.[J A reprint excerpt from a Bureau of Standards

82 05T~

WB4LNY, Robert R. Timmons, Orlando. F'LWA4MMD, Joseph P. Rubino, Cocoa Beach. FLKI4NI, D, H. Rosenbaum. Royal Palm Beach, FLW4QN, Harold J. Klaiss, Orlando, FLKC4k. Mack C. Jones. Stuart, FLK4SGP, Malcolm B. Henderson, Nathalie, VAW4SH, Jacob A. Maxwell, Spartanburg, SCKJ4UR. Joseph Oranchak, Hudson. FLAF4W. Richard N. lynn. Alexandria, VAK4WJ, Carleton L. Coleman, Wildwood, £'1.A..>\4XI, Charles F. Beckett, Clearwater. 1"1.WSHDU, Tom L. McAlister, Morton. TXWSHTI, John W. Roby, Chappell Hill. TXWSIGV. Calvin G. Campbell, Archer City. TXWSJHX, J. H. Newton, Waco, TXWA5KAC. James R. Hauff. Cleburne, TXWSLZW, Mervin B, Goodman, Dallas. TXN5MOR. Dan Moffett, Malakoff, IXNR5P, Archie J 0 Adkins, Lebo. KSKASRDY, Billy D. Smith, Waco,TXW5SSF, A. D. Bryant, Gainesville, TXWASTXN. Melvin J. Fenrich, Leander. TXKC6AEQ, R. J. DUffield. Corona, CAK6AKT. Robert K. Lee. Whittier, CAW6BCM, Cornwall C. Everman. San Rafael, CAKB6DW. SteveTower, Santa Rosa., CAW6DZ, Orin C. Levis, Sacramento, CAN6lGB, Eddie S. Futrell, San Leandro. CAW6KON, Floyd E. Henderson, Riverside, CAN6LLV, Gerard B. Rene, Corona. CAW6MDK, Robert G, Mintle, La Puente, CAW6QQ, James P. Weathers, Lancaster. CAK6TJB. Clifford T. McKiney, Sparks, NYK6T\'V. Daniel W. Ntgn, Sierra Madre, c.o\.W7BAN, Ralph W, Bedwell, Spokane, WAK7GKL. Lowell L. Young. las Vegas, NVNA7L. Albert J. Cherry, Yakima, WAKC7RF. George R" Tweed, Grants Pass. ORW8BHM, Orval L. Watts, Richmond. INW8GV, Philip Bieglecki, St Clair, M1KB8HZ, Roy H. Kennedy. Salem, OHW8lLE, Robert M. Rogers, New Carlisle. OHN8KEV. Roy E. Rankins. Athens. oaW8LUL. Allan F, Reindel. Fraser, MIWA8NKX. Raymond E, Thomas, Vermilion. OliWBBYQl, Harry Dudush, Amherst, OHW8ZYQ, Clifford H. Williams. Dayton, OH

circular helps usunderstand more of thenormalandirregular characteristics of the ionosphere whichaffect wave propagation.[1 For his medium-power In-meter rig. wnvybroke away from the usual concept of fitting com­ponents into the standard relay rack chassis dimen­sions; he built a chassis to best tit his transmitterdesign.Ll Meters are expensive, yet we need to know whatis going on in various parts of today's rigs. W91BCdiscusses meter-switching methods to measure bothgrid and plate functions with one unit.II Communications Manager Handy warns that theLeague is indeed serious about strict neutrality inthe present European hostilities, and will disquali­fy any OX contest participant working or even heardcalling any station in Europe or such nation'scolonies,[J It's not easy, but W8DPY gets two directionsfrom his fixed three-element vertical array by clip­ping or removing additional lengths of wire to out­side elements to change director and reflectorfunctions.

25 Years AgoMarcb, 1965I] Oscar 1ll is nearing completion. and if you planto communicate through this relay satellite you'llneed to develop your own tracking data to deter­mine when Oscar is within llne-of-slght range ofyour station. W6liEK provides considerable detailin formulas and diagrams to ease our computations,o W6DKH expands the Oscar encyclopedia by ex­plaining the telemetry system, and how we can de-

W9CJN. Wilner R, Erickson, Milwaukee, WIN9FTO. Jeffrey K. Schettler, Hudson, WIK9lJC, Henry C. Dexter, Richton Park, ILNC9I. Harold R. Holloway, Freeport, ILK9IZE, leonard Novara, Murphysboro. ILWA9KRG, Roger E. Humke. Quincy, ILW9NBL, Edwin B. Rosenberg. Prescott, AZW9PFR, Winston W. Seitz. Decatur, INW9SFL. Laurence A. Knutson, La Crosse, WIW9lJWH. Rocco De Paul. Arlington Height. ILWB9WGD, Robert E. Brown, Tomah. WIW0CQC, George P. Swanson, Cedar Rapids. IAN0EGX, Claude E. Fullerton, Carthage, MOW8ESW. Clarence C. Bowman, Kansas City. MOW8EZJ, William K. Crain. Augusta, KSW0MOX, Louis D. Breyfogle. Boulder, COW0VUA, Louis S. Finnegan. Sun City, CA*WB0WRG. Arthur L. Flenner, Ottawa, KS·WA8ZNN. John P. Donlon. Volga, lA

-Life Member, ARRL

Notes: All SilentKeyreportssent to HQmust includethe name, address and call sign of the reporter aswell as the name,addressand call of the Silent Keyin ordertobe listedin thecolumn. Please allowsever­al months for the listing to appear in QST.

In order to avoid unfortunate errors in the SilentKeys column, reports of Silent Keys are confirmedthrough acknowredgment only to the family of thedeceased.Thus, those who report a Silent Keywillnotnecessarily receive anacknowledgment fromHQ.Canadian reports should be sent to the CRRL HQaddress on page 9.

Many hams have remembered a Silent Key witha memorial contribution to the ARRL Foundation.Should you wish to make a contribution in a friendor relative's memory,you might designate it for anexisting youth scholarship, the JesseA. BlebermanMeritorious Membership Fund, the Vietor C. ClarkYouth Incent.ive Program Fund or for the GeneralFund. Contributions to the Foundation are tax­deductible to the extent permittedunder current tax:law.Our addressis: TheARRLFoundation,Inc, 225Main St, Newington. CT 06111. ~

term.ine the satellite's temperature by reading burstsbetween the regular "HI" identifiers.o RCA kindly provided a symposium on semicon­ductor manufacture and operation for a number ofthe QST staff, as useful background for furtheramateur application of solid-state devices. A sidetrip to the company's Astro-Blectronics division.arranged by manager W3VQQ, educated the visit­ing editors on latest ComSat technology.o The League joined other radio groups in right­ing against license fees all the way to the SupremeCourt, but unfortunately thishighestauthority ruledthat FCC bas the legal right to charge fees, and thatthe schedule is within reason.Fl WIICP. partially responding to continuing pleasfrom FCC to help alleviate the problem of harmon­ics from Novice rigs. has another article on thecauses of spurious signals and how a simple filtercan virtually eliminate them.e] W4EWL cut a Monomatch down to a size thatwould replace the clock in his Oldsmobile dash­board. and can keep track of power output as wellas s.w.r. while be motors.[:J ARRL's voluntary "national calling and emer­gency frequencies"-one for each voice and c.w.in each major band-are discussed by WINJM withthe proposal that they be made "full time" calling­only channels. with a five-minute silent/listeningperiod at the beginning of each hour.o 'The December editorial on whether we have too

many contests brought an avalanche of mail, ex­cerpts from which rill this month's CorrespondenceSection. Unfortunately. there is no real consensus.LJ The Buildina: Fund is just one rung from its lad­der climb to the $250,000 goal. The less pleasantnews iiithat at the end of 1964, both FCC licenseeand League membership totals are down, however,lightly.-WIRW m;]

Results, Fourth Annual ARRL10-GHz Cumulative ContestI hope everyone had as much fun as I did!-W6HCCBy Billy Lunt, KR1 R

Contest Manager

and Warren Stankiewicz, NF1JAssistant Contest Manager

Neither wind, rain, snow nor sleetwill stop the mailman, and X­banders are not far behind. They

seem to find new techniques to get aroundalmost any obstacle. Ed, W2TTM, learned"that under certain conditions, raising theantenna's elevation as much as 7.5 degreeson one end of a 258-km path brought thesignal up 5 to 6 dB; and operating in adownpour can sometimes enhance the sig­nal, as it happened over a 191-km well­known path." While in Ontario for thecontest, Bob, NIlW. ran into rain and arig problem, but this didn't stop him. Bobconveyed, "While holding the horn out theear window in the rain and holding abroken wire on my rig to a terminal withmy finger, I keyed the rig for two challeng­ing contacts."

For the 1989 lo-GHz Cumulative Con­test, 49 entries were received. This figureis down a tad from last year's total of 54entries, but Steve, VF.3SMA, claims thatIn his area "there was a big increase in ac­tivity this year despite limited time availa­ble to some of the 'old hands." '

Southern California not only contributedthe most participants but also claimed thefarthest QSOs. Phil, W6HCC, Chuck,

Bob, W1 XP, operaled from Mt Monadnockin New Hampshire.

WA6EXV, and William, WA6QYR, com­pleted 266-km QSOs to tie for the farthest­DX mark. Long-distance QSOs seem to beplentiful in this year's contest with 10 sta­tions making contacts of more than 200km. W6HCC finished first for the mostcompleted QSOs, with a total of 78 Qs.WA6EXV wasn't far off the mark, mak­ing 71 contacts. WA6QYR was third with67 QSOs.

Phil, W6HCC, traveled to 15 differentsites, compiling 10,320 points for firstplace. Chuck, WA6EXV, scored 9,272points, placing second, while Gary, NN6W,finished in third place with 8,222 points.

The ARRL lo-GHz Cumulative Contestis a unique speciality contest. It is spreadover two different weekends and one can

Milt, WeQT, operated a Gunnplexer andSSB from Mt Vaca.

operate from many different locations.Two stations can work again whenevereither moves to a new location. QSO points

Steve, VE3SMA, setting up his dish.

VE2HAK Is at the controls of the VE2DUBstation in FN35.

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Ray, N6AMD, set up in the foreground of a commercial microwave site in DM13.Stu, VE3MWM, (I) with his home-brew rig,and Clark, VE3WCB, with a relerometer.

are determined by the distance in kilome­ters between the two stations making thecontact. Check June QST for completerules.

If this sounds interesting and challeng­ing to you and if you enjoy microwaveactivity, this contest is for you. Scoutthe area for several good microwave sitesand start making plans for the next con­test. The 1990 ARRL ro-one CumulativeContest will be held on the weekends ofAugust 18-19 and September 15-16. Goodluck!

Soapbox

This was my first time out-great fun! I foundthat careful planning is essential. Bad weatherkilled two of the four days for operatinz(WIAIM). 1got to operate only during the firstweekend. The SSB LO was off frequency. so I

could only make FM contacts with the Gunn­plexer equipment. This event is worthwhile!(AF1T). Activity wasdown in Southern New En­gland on narrowband this year. I carried the ,HIpounds of gear ina packup Mt Monadnock bothweekends. During the second weekend, the windalmost blew us 'off the mountain! 1 workedK1WHS over a nonoptical path (W1XP). Beingable to complete SO-plusmile QSOs from a mo­bile to a home station sure puts a new light Onthis contest! If I could work them on 144-MHz:SSB, I could work them on 10 (1Hz! 1 workedWB5LLTA from 16 locations that were all non­line-of-sight (WA5VJB). I really enjoyed thisyear's contest. I found a number of new oper­ating sites in the dessert on my rover day(W6HCC). 1operated as a rover during the firstweekend. During the second weekend. I oper­ated from HeapsPeak (WA6a.XV).lt was toughgoing! Propagation across the water from SanDiego to the Los Angele-s area was poor bothweekends. Some of our "sure" contacts were notworkable. There was a good turn out of locals.Six of the San Diego group went to Mt Palomarfor the last Saturday of the contest (W60YJ).

1 had a great time and enjoyed all my contacts(WB6IGP). We were rained out on the secondweekend (W6QT). At age 75. I do not have toomuch push! (N6AM:D). I operated the firstweekend with a 27-mW Gunnplexer,19-inch dishand a Penny feed system. Murphy struck thesecond weekend with rain storms and lightning.Last year it was high winds (W6ASL). Duringthe first weekend. I had transfer case failure onmy 4 x 4, and during the second weekend, tileweather conditions caused no contacts to bemade. Good conditions but not enough time! Ineed bigger antennas and no hills in the way(K0NG). Thanks to Michael. VE2DUB. and mybrother. Pierre, VE2PBQ, who gave me thechance to get on 10 GHz by giving me a smallPC board to assemble (VE20WL). I finallybroke the tOO-km barrier! Sure would be nicero get some US calls in the log. Many paths ex­ist but it seems as if there is little or no activityin those areas (VE3SMAl. It wouldn't be amicrowave contest unless it rained! Sitting on ahilltop inside a car with an X-band transceiverpointed through a window seems to be the mostpopular operating position (VE3BF'M).

Soares

Scores are listed by call areas. Within each call area scores are listed in descending order. Score lines indIcate call sign. total score, totalases, number ot different call signs worked and best OX in kilometers.

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Contest CorralFEBRUARY

28West Coast Qualifying Rnn, 10-35 WPM, at05002 Mar 1 (9 PM PST Feb 28). W60WP prime,W6ZRJalternate. frequencyis approximately3.590MHz. Underline one minute of the highest speedyou copied.certifythat your copywas made withoutaid and send to ARRL HQ for grading. Please in­clude your full name, call sign (if any) an.d com­plete mailing address. A large SASE will helpexpedite your award or endorsement.

MARCH

3-4ARRL International DX Contest, phone,Dec QST, p 79.

9WIAW Qualifying Run, 10-35WPM at 0300ZMar to 00 PM ESl'Mar 9). Transmitted simul­taneously on 1.818358157.047514.047518.097521.077528.0775 50.08 147.555 MHz. See Feb 28listing for more details.

9-11Japan International DX Contest. CWo Feb QST,p 79.

1()"1ICounty Hunter's 10 Meter QSO Party, CW. spon­sored by the Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club,from 1200ZMar 10until2400Z Mar 11 (phone fromlZOOZ Mar 17 to 2400Z Mar 18). Single cps only.No net or prearranged Q508. Suggested frequea­des: CW-28.15ll-28.200 (phone-28.330-28.380).Exchange signal report and F for fixed or M formobile. Work stations once; work mobile 'Stationsagain when they change county/state lines. Mobileson county linescount as one QSO and two mulripli­<'1"$. Score one point per WlYE QSO; three pointseachstate/province worked; five points for each DXQSO; fifteen points each US mobile QSO. Finalscore equals total number of counties worked timesQSO points, Awards. Mail entry (for results. sendSASE) by Apr 23 to N4FSZ via Callbook address.Iowa 050 Pa.t1)'. sponsored by the Iowa Section,from 1800ZMar 10until O6OOZ Mar 11. Work sta­dons once per band and mode. No repeater QSOs.Exchange signal report and county for iowa sta­tions; section or country for others. Suggested fre­quencies: CW-1.810 3.550 7.050 14.060 21.05028.050 MHz: phone-3.875 7_230 14.280 21.32528.600 50.120 144.200 146520 MH2':; Novice-c-IukHz from low ends. Count 1 point for each phonecontact: 1.5 points for each CW contact; 3 pointsfor each OSCAR contact; 5 points for each Noviceand Techcontact. iowa stations multiply total QSOpoints by total sections/countries worked. Othersmultiply total 080 points by Iowa counties (max99) worked. Bonus multiplier for each ARRL IowaSection OffICialworked (max 8). Awards. Mail logsby Apr I to Bob McCaffrey, K9CY, RR #4, Box228C, Boone. lA 50036.Wisconsin QSO Party, Feb QST, p 79,

17·18Rerm.uda Contest. Feb QST. p 79_Connty Hunter's to-Meter QSO Party, phone, seeMar 1O~11 listing for details.

.17-19BARTG Spring R'ITY. Contest. sponsored by theBritish Amateur Radio Teleprinter Group, from0200Z Mar 17until O2OOZ Mar 19. Operate 30 hoursmaximum. Off-times must be no less than threehours each and must be indicated in log. Single oper­attlr, multioperator and SWL categories. Work sta­tions once per band. 80, 40, 20, 1; and 10 meters.Exchange UTe time, signal report and messagenumber starting with 001. Count two points for

RITY QSOs with stations in your country, 10 pointsfor others. Count 200 bonus points for each coun­try worked per band. For final score, add QSOpoints x (total different DXCC countries .+W/VE/VK call areas per band) plus (band coun­tries X 200 X continents). Use a separate log sheetfor each band. Mall logs to be received by May 27to John Barber, G4SKA, 32 WeUbrook St, 'Fiver­ton, Devon, EX16 5JW. England.Virginia State QSO Party, sponsored by the Ster­ling Park ARC from 1800z Mar 17until O2OOZ Mar19. Exchange QSO number beginning with 001 andQTH (county for VA stations; state, province orDX country for others). Score one point per phoneQ50; two points per CW, RTTY. SSTV and pack­et QSOs:. No crossmode QSOs. VA stations multi­ply QSO points total by the sumof states, Canadianprovinces, DX countries and VA counties worked.Others multiply total QSO points by number of VAcounties worked. Work the same station on eachband and mode for QSO credit. VA stations maycontact in-state stations for both QSO and multipliercredit. Mobile stations may be worked in eachcounty they operate from for both QSO and mul­tiplier credit. County line stations count for onlyone 050. CW frequencies are 60 kHz up from thelow end of SO, 40, 20, 15and 10meters; 160meters;Novice CW bands, Phone frequencies are 3.9301.230 14.285 21.375 28.375 2S.575; 160 meters(except DX windows). Other modes use usual fre­quencies. Follow ARRL Standard Contest loggingguidelines. Mall logs by April 15 to Virginia QSOParty. c/o George Foy, N4DLR, 413 N ArgonneAve. Sterling, VA 22170.

18Zero District QSO Party• sponsored by the Daven­port RAe, Mar 18from 1800Z-2400Z, Zero-districtstations may work anyone; all others work zero­district stations only. Work each station once perband and mode. Mobile stations may be workedagain as they change counties. Exchange signalreport and state. Zero-district stations also sendcounty. Suggested frequencies: CW-60 kHz upfrom lower band edges; phone--3.900 7 .27014.30021.350 146.52 (no repeater Q508); Noviee-3.7307.13021.140 28.360; packet-145,OlO. Count Ipoint for phone QSOs, 2 points for CW QSOs and2 points for packet QSOs. Zero-district stations mul­tiply QSO points by total of states, zero-districtcounties, provinces and DXCC countries worked.Others multiply QSO points by number of zero­district counties worked. QSO with W0BXRcountsfor lO QSO points, regardless of mode. Any sta­tion 'With overtooQSOs must include a dupe sheet.Club competition for zero district only. Mail logsby Apr 30 and send an SASE (or results to W0BXR,116632nd St. Moline, IL 61265.

zeWIAW Qualifying Ruu, 1ll-35WPM, at 1400LMar 20 (9 AM fo.::sT). See Feb 28 listing for moredetails,

20·21AC;.nC/CLAR..I\ ('.antest. CW. sponsored byCLARA, from 1700Z Mar 20 until 0500Z Mar 21(phone, from 17002 Mar 27 until OSooZ Mar 28).Work stations once per band. No net, list, or cross­mode contacts. Exchange serial number (startingwith (01), RST, QTH, and if CLARA or familymember. Suggested frequencies: 3.690 7,035 ]4,03521.035IpholW-7,070 14.12021.300 28.488). Count5 points for each contact with a member (2 pointson phone), 2 points with nonmember (1 point onphone). CLAR>\ family members may be workedonce for a In-point bonus, Multiply points by totalnumber of Canadian provinces and territories (12max). VE0, and one Armed Forces base abroad.Awards.Send logs by April 20 to Jeanne Gordon,VE2JZ. S Wood Crescent. Beaconsfield, Quebec,H9W IC5, Canada.

Conducted By Mark A. Burke, KA1MISContest Assistant

24-25CQ World Wide WPX Contest. phone, sponsoredby CQ Magazine, from OOOOZ Mar 24 unti12400ZMar 25 (CW contest, May 26-27). Single ops areallowed a maximum 30 hours operating time; off­times must beat least 60 minutes in length and mustbe clearly indicatedin the log. Multioperator stationsmay operate entire 48 hours. Phone only. 160-10meters (excluding the WARC bands). Categories:single op, all band and single band: QRP (S·Wout­put maximum); multiop (multiband only) multi andsingle transmitter. Multi-singles must remain on aband for at least 10 minutes after making a QSO;multi-multis are allowed only one signal per band.AU transmitters must be located within a SOO-meter~

diameter circleor limits of property; no remote sta­tions. Work stations once per band for QSO pointcredit, but prefix credit may be counted only once.Exchangesignal report plus serial number startingwith 001. Multi-multis use separate numbers on eachband. QSO points: Contacts between stations ondifferent continents count threepoints on 28, 21 and14MHzand six points on 7, 3.5 and 1.8 MHz. ForNorth American stations. contactsbetween stationsin different countries on the NA continent counttwo points on 28, 21 and 14 MHz: and four pointson 7, 3,5 and 1.8 MHz. For non-NAstations. con­tacts withstations in other countries but on thesamecontinent count one point on 28, 21 and 14 MHzand two points on 7. 3.5 and 1.8 MHz. QSOs be­tween stations in the same country count zeropoints. but are permittedfor prefix multiplier credit.Multipliers are prefixes. and are counted only once,A prefix is the two or three letter/number combt­oation that forms the first part of an amateur callsign, as in WI. 04. DF3. 8P6, etc. Stations cper­atmgoutside thecallarea indicated by their call signsmust sign portable. The portable prefix counts asthe multiplier; for example, AAIK/3 in Delawarecounts as an AA3 multiplier. Final score is totalQSO points times sumof prefixes worked. Awardsand club competition. Mail logs by May 10 (1ullOIor CW) to CQ MOEazjne. WPX Contest, 76 NorthBroadway, Hicksville, NY 11801.

VL-ISSB QSO Party, phone, Feb QST, p 79.

27-28ACnC/CI..ARA Contest, phone. see Mar 20-21listing.

APRIL

3West Coast Qnallfylug Run, 10-35 W~M. atO4OOZ Apr 4 (9 PM PDT Apr 3). See Feb 28listmgfor more details.

7WIAW Qualifying Rnn, 10-35WPM at 0200ZApr 8 (10 PM EDT Apr 7). See Mar 9 listing formore details.

7..sNorth American QSO Party, CW, sponsored by theN(ltionolContest Journal from lSOOZ Apr 7 untilO6OOZ Apr 8 (phone-18002 Apr 14 until O6OOZApr 15). Contests are separate. Single-operator andmultioperat:or. Multiop may bemultitransmitter butonly one signal per band. No spotting nets for sin­gle cp. Single ops may operate any 10 bours. Restperiods must be at least 30 minutes long and notedin tog. Multiops may work the entire contest. Useonly one call sign per contest. Exchange name andstate/province/country. I60-JO(no WARCbands).Work stations once per band. Suggested Irequen­de" CW-1.815 3.535 7.03514.035 21.035 28.035:pbone-1.865 U501.225 14.2502l.300 28.600. Try10 meters at 1900Z and 2OOOZ. IS m at 1930Z and2030Z, and 160meters at 0430Z and 0530Z. A validQSO istwo-way Jogged exchange between aNorthAmerican station (as defined by CQWW DX Con­test plus KH6) and another station. Multipliers arestates (including KH6 and KL7). VB call areas(VEl-YES, VOl, V02, VYI) and other NA coun-

tries (do not count USA, VB, KH6 or KL7 as coun­tries). Score 1 point per QSO. Multipliers times QSOpoints for tinal score. Awards. Send logs, summarysheet and dupe sheets before 30 days after the con­test to Dave Pruett, K8CC, 2727 N Harris Rd.Ypsilanti, MI 48198.

9ARRL Spring Spriots, 144 MHz.

14-15North American QSO Party. SSB, see Apr 7..glisting for more detail.QRP ARCI Spring QSO Party, ('"'W. sponsored byQRP ARC International, from I200Z Apr 14 until2400Z Apr is. Single band or aU band. Operate nomoretban 24 hours. Work stations once per band.Exchange signal report, state/province/country andARCI number if member or power out if non­member. Suggested frequencies: 1.8103.560 3.1107.040 7.110 14.060 21.060 21.110 28.060 28.11050.060. Count 5 points for QSO with ARCI mem­ber. Others count 2 points for same continent and4 points for different continent. Multiply QSOpoints by states/provinces/countries worked perband by power multiplier 0- to 5-W output X7;under l-W output x 10). More than S-W outputcounts as checklog. If 1000/0 natural power, multiplyfinal score by 2; if lOOlfJO battery, by 1.5. Bonus

Special Events

Macon. Georgia: The Macon ARC will operateW4BKM 1400Z-2300Z Mar 23-24 in connectionwith the Macon Cherry Blossom Festival. Suggestedfrequencies: CW-7130, 14030, 21130. 28130;Phone-7250, 14250.21320, 28320. For certificate.send QSL and 9~ x 12-inSASE to W4RKM, MaconARC, PO Box 4862, Macon GA 31208.Grand Island. Nebra.'lka: The Grand Island ARCwill operate W"CUO from OOOOZ Mar:2 until2400ZMar 4 to celebrate the annual return of the SandHills Crane to the Platte River Refuge. Operationwill be SSB, CW, packet, AMTOR and RTIY inlower portions of the General bands. Operation isalso planned in the Novice bands. For certificate,send QSL no. and SASE to W8CVO. PO Box 642,Grand Island, NE 68802.Sweetwater. Texas: The Nolan County ARC willoperate from IS00Z-2400Z Mar 9-11 during theWorld's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup. Operationwill be in the General 40- and 20-meter bands andthe Novice Hl-meter band. For certificate, send QSLand largeSASE to WR5B. PO Box 825,Sweetwater,TX 79556.Ecru, Mississippi: The 7th grade Industrial Artsclasses of the North Pontotoc Attendance Centerwill operate WBSHAZ from 1400Z~2jOOZ Mar22-23 to celebrate the first year of their TechnologyStudent Association. Operation will be14.2$0-14.275. For certificate, send QSL and SASEto Industrial Arts Department, North PontotocSchool, Ecru, MS 38841St Patrick, Ohio: The Farant ARC will operateWB8SMCfrom 1700Z Mar 17 until 17QOZ Mar 13.Suggested frequencies: CW-3735, 713j. 14135.21135,28135; Phone-3870, 7270, 14270, 21370,28370; RTTY--3620, 7090, 14090. 21090, 28370,For QSL,.send SA.c;E to Farout ARC, PO Box 9181.Dayton OH 454Jl9-9181.South Cbarlestou,Wost Vlrgluia:KESOJ will operate0800Z·I600Z Mar 10·11 to commemorate the 75thbirthday of the United States Naval Reserve. Oper­ation will bean 3.875, 7.250.14.250 and the Noviceto-meter band. For certificate. send QSL and SASEto Eric Knapp, KE80C, 917 Glenn Way, SouthCharleston, WV 25309.Piscataway. New Jersey: The Piscataway ARC willoperate using their own callsigns/VOA from OOOOZMar 17 until 2400Z Mar 1'8 to commemorate theVoice of America Relay Station. Operation willbe

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points for using home-brew equipment (HB): add.2000 points for each band an HBtransmitter is used;add 3000 points for each band an HB receiver isused; add 5000 points for each band an HB trans­ceiver is used. Include description of home-brewequipment, commercial equipment and antennasused, and indicate which equipment was used onwhich bands. Awards. Mall entry (SASEfor results)before 30days after the contest to Red Reynolds,K5VOL, QRP ARCI Contest Manager, 835 Sur­ryse Rd, Lake Zurich, JL 60047.

17ARRL Spring Sprints, 220 MHz.

21-22M,4.RAC County Haaters SSB Contest. sponsoredby the Mobile AR Awards Club, from OOOOZ Apr21 until2400 Apr 22. Work stations once per band.Work portables/mobiles again as they changecounty.Stations on county lines count as one 050.but multiple multipliers. Exchange signal report,category (fixed, portable or mobile), county andstate (for US stations), province or country. Sug­gested frequencies: 3.880 7.240 14.270 21..34028.340. Portables and mobiles work below the sug­gested frequencies; others spread out above the fre­quencies. Count 1 point for QSOs with WlYE fixedstations, IS points for WlYE portables or mobiles.

in the lower General portion of 75, 40. 20 andIs-meters and the Novice In-meter band. for cer­tificate, send QSL and 9- 'l( 12-in SASE to PARC,Attn KB2UV. PO Box 1233, Piscataway. NJ 08854.aevel.nd, Ohio: 'Themembers of Westpark RadioOps will operate from OOOlZ Mar :z.t until 2400ZMar 2.. to celebrate Novice enhancement. Opera­tion willbe 28.300-28.500. For certificate, work fiveWestpark members. Send QSL and 9- )( 12-ioSASE to W8VM. c/o Glenn Williams, 513 Kenil­worth Rd. Bay Village, OH 44140,Sayreville. New ,Ieney: 'The Raritan Bay RA willoperate K2GE from 1800Z Mar 23 until O2OOZMar 26 in celebration of their 37th year of affilia­tion with the ARRL. For certificate, send QSL andSASE to RRRA Inc, PO Box 173,Sayreville, NJ08872.AJodlonao, AlMI<a: The Anchoraae ARC will oper­ate KL7JFU startina lSOOZ_3 for approximatdy2~ weeks durtng the 1990 Iditarod Trail Sled Do&Race. For QSL, send SASE to NL7KB, PO Box670173, Chugiak, AK 99567.0173.Ireland: The Irish Radio Transmitters Society willoperate Mar 17 in celebration ofSt Patrick's Day.All stations working 20 of the 26 counties will beeligible for an award. For details, contact JoeDuffin, W20RAlEI8GT, 4 West Central Ave,Moorestown. NJ 08057.(ia1tbersburg, Maryland: The NBS BRASS willoperate K3AA from OOOOZ Mar 24 until 2400ZMar 25 to commemorate the 88th anniversary ofthe National Bureau of Standards (now renamedthe National Institute of Standards and Technology).Approximate frequencies are 20 kHz up from thelower end of the 80. 40, 20. IS and 10 Generalbands; Novice CW and phone. For certificate, sendQSL and SASE to NBS BRASS. National Instituteof Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg. MD20899.

Computer Diskette Media: Items for this columncan now be sent on a standard 5V4~ or 31..12-ln

MS-DOSformatted floppy disk to ARRL HQ.Thefile must be in an ASCII format and must containall information as listed below. The file can alsobe sent via modem to the AARL HQ BBS at20J.665.Q090.Deadline: The deadline for receipt of items forthiscolumn is the1st of thesecond month preced-

S points for all other QSOs. Multiply QSO pointsby total US counties worked for flnal score. Mobilesand portables calculate their scores both on a state­by-state basis and overall for awards. Mail logs tobe received by May 21 (include a large SASE forresults) to WA50TK, 185 Cinnamon Dr, SatelliteBeach, FL 32937.

QST QSO Award Party

25ARRL Sprlog Spriots, 432MHz.

28-29Helvetia Contest

Computer Diskette Media: Items for this columncan now be sent on a standard 3.5- Or5.25~incb MS­DOS-formatted floppy disk to ARRL HQ. The filemust be in an ASCII format and must contain allinformation as listedbelow. The me can also besentvia modem to the ARRL HQ BBS at 203-665-0090.

Deadline:Thedeadline for receipt of items tor thiscolumn is the tst ofthe second monthpreceding thepublication date, Forexample, your informationwouldhave to reach HQ by Apr" 1 to make tf'le Juneissue. Please include name of contest, dates,times(Z)and complete rules. Send to Contest Cor­ral. 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111. rti!.!S.l

Conducted By Warren C. Stankiewicz, NFtJAssistant Contest Manager

Ing the publication date. For example~~ur Infor­mation wouldhaveto reachHQby AprIl 1to makethe June tuue. Please include the name of thesponsoring organization, the call sign of thespecial-eventstation, the city location, dates andtimes (Z), suggested frequencies and QSL infor­mation. Requests for donations will not be pub­lished.OSLlng SpecloI-Ewnt _OIlS: TogatyourQSLor oertifIcate from anyof the special~nt stationslisted here, follow these simple guidelines. (1)After working the station, carefullyfill out a aSLcard for the QSC. Showthe date and time ac­curatelyusing UTe. (2)Preparea .."-addressed,stampedenvelope. If sending tora certificate, usea9- x 12-inenvelope if you wantan unfoldedcer­tificate,or a no.10envelope iftolds are okay.ln­c1ude enough POStage forreturn of your envelo~.(3) Mail both YourQSL and your SASEto the ad­dresslisted,or to the addressgivenon the air bythe station you eso. Be patient. Special-eventstations will often print their cards and/or certifl­cates after the operation is over so they will knowhow many to order. rm:.J

StraysCQ DR HOWARD, DR FINE,DR HOWARD ..•

o WhenPrince WilliamHospital in Manas­sas, Virginia. had its telephoneservice inter­rupted during recent renovations, AmateurRadio operators came to the rescue to pro­videstandby communication services. Elevenmembers of tire Ole Virginia Hams AmateurRadio Club volunteered their time and effort,and were strategicallystationedat variouskeypoints throughout the hospital. The Manas­sas repeater's autopatch was effectively usedto summon doctors and provide routine com­munications.

Section NewsThe ARRL Field Organization Forum

Administered by Steven Ewald, WA4CMS

ATLANTIC DIVISIONDELAWARE:: 8M: Walt Cabell, KD3G8-ASM: Bill Ryan,WA3OPJ.1gavea talk on traffichandlingat the KCARCmeet­ing in January. Hope to hear some of you on Ihe DelawareTraffic Net. KCARCis talking about sponsoringa Fox Huntthis sprlng. They will offer a trophy to the winninglearn.Theonly rule I know of Is the DRng equipment must be home­brew. More Info on this event will followor you can contact!he KCAAC at PO Box 1000, Dover. The DEX nOOIll$nowcroa linked from 145.0510221.01.Speakingof OEX,I wouldliketowelcome Delaware'snewestAAALaffiliatedclub, TheDuPont ExDerimentaiStation Amateur RadIo Club.These arethe guyswhoare runningthe DEXnodeson packet.Thanksandwelcome aboard! Decnet rpt: eTN 8tr1a 345tfc 44 In21888M, DEPN sins 49 tfc 13 In 5 seans, SEN $Ins 53 fc 6 In4 S8!InS. Traffic: W3QQ 75, W83DUG 46, K3YBW 30,KA3GRQ 23. K3JL 23,WA3WIY19, W3FEG16, KD3GS13,N3FLOS. K3ZXP4. TOTAL 241.EASTERN PENNSVLVANIA: SM, Kay Craigie, KC3LM­ASM: WA3PZO, KA3A, 1<03B, K3ZFD.SEC:KB3YS. ACe:KC3QB, OO~ W31B. SGl: WA3JAO. 8TM, BM:KB3UD.PIO:W3XJN. TC:W3FPF. By the coverdate ofttllsQST. we'll knowy,t;o is to be the new5ection Manasrer, effective AprIl1.I wouldlike to thank both candidatesand all Leaguememberawhovoted, for jour active participation in the election process.Eastern PA hamlest season begins with the optimistically­namedYorkSpringfest in Doveron March4. They haveplentyof Indoorarea,sc dcn'tlet weetherkeep you away. KC2EG,K3ARR, and KA3QYH havebeen added to me ORS I'O$t&/'.We hope former SCM W3HK Is back In good health by thetime thl' ink', dry. Ordinarily, I havenotllated Silent K&y$ inthis column, because it would be Impossibleto avoid gfvlngoffense by Iaillng10 mentionsomeone. However, the passingof DRS N3AZW last Decembercannot go without comment.Despite physical disabilities, Andy wasEPA's regularmemberof Brass Pounders l.eaQue andparticipated In manyNTSandindependentnets. In addition, he put his su~rbly-equlppedstation at the disposalof District 1 ARES. Andy firstlearnedrneeeaae- handlingasa Technicianon the Mid-AtlanticARClocal VHF net, tralned by KD3AO. His interest In messagehandlingled Andy10 upgradeto Advanced,and he eventuallybecame a 3RN NetManagerand memberof TOO. All thishap­penedin about a half-dozenyears. Theml!f1Y traffic handleraWhohave stepped forwardto cover Andy's dulles are to becommended. Special thanksgo to W3lve, whomadecertaini'lIl message, remainingon Andy" desk were cleared andtumed In Andy's final BAR. Tumlng to a happier topic, theAtlantiCDivision 1990"Amateurotthe Year" awardnomina­fions are now open. Let's have plenty of good nominationsfrom EPA, as we did last year. KC3LM has inlo on how tonominateaomeone for this prestigiousservice award. N3CZBhas retired from active duty as an 00. We thank Louis torhIs many years of good judament and quiet service. OOCW31S spokeon tile newPartWat HarrisburgRAC.STMlBMKB3UOspoke on packet radio at Lehigh Valley ARC. End­lass Mte:. 1990officersareWB31WZ, KA3TOV, KA3UXW,andKA3OF.A. Good to see KC3FO'sWestBranchARA newslellerback in prlnt. Holmesburg", membersare en~Ving the newnorthGast repeater input. December Traffic: N3AZW 1197.N3DRM353, W3JKX279, N3CO142, W3KAG114, W3IPX112, N3EFW98, W3DP 85, KA3MVM 84, AA3B 33, W4UQ78. W3NNL75, WA3EHD74, KA35KT74, W3Z1D 72, KD3AO47. WB3EVL 46, K3TX42, KU3R 38, KAaROF36, N3GXK34. W3BNR 31, W3KOO24, N3COV21, K3ARR 16, W3CL1:2,KA3QYH 11, N3FGC 10, W3FAF9, K3NEJ 9, W3ADE5.Nm IQNllOTC): EPAS08I223, EPAEPTN 5231340, f'TIN196150, MARcNET67/5, MARCTN 126/74, SePATN 115130.@BBS: OWA3TSW 487, @K3RU 457, @WB3JOE 190,@N3ET5,MAfIYLAND.DC: SM, Ken Cohen, NI3F (@ W31W1l­ASMIPKT: KJ3E.A5M1ACC: WA3YLQ. QOCIBM:NB3P.pIO:N3BMB. SEC: KN3U. TC: W3WN. STM: N3EGF. SGL:KW3X. A MOOham,Ron Parise, WI\4SIR,WID be anastronautaboard the shuttle Oo!umbla, and will operate pkt usIng aSAREX"080 machine" worked on by W3IWI and N2WX.W2FA,Goddardtrustee,MODNM, MEPNSec'y and former8M became a Silent Key.Karl will be sorely mleeed. K3GHHISnewMODNM.NF3XcontinuesFe jobwithARESand workon antennas.We waIcome e-CARSand its youth group uan affiliatedclub. PR idea:haveur local cablechannel show1heARAl film "New Work! of AmateurRadiO." which maybe borrowed from HQ. WITH THE NETS; NET/MGROND/OTc/ONI: MSNIKC3Y 31/641352, MEPNIK3RXK30/1881749, HOCARESJWA1QAA213112, Trafflc:W31Wl1765(BPL), NB3P 422, K3GHH 399, KJ3E 320. WA3YLO 298,KMt27!, KC3Y254 W3F7)J181,KA3RFE1715, K3RXK142,N3ETJ 126, WA3EFT 113, KA3ENO 102, WB3BJM 101,N3GIY72, NT3S 72, Neal 69, NRaQ67, KD3JK64, KDflM-48, K3USO43,WB3BFK 36,W3DQ136, W3YVQ34,K30RW33, K1BGT 27, WazHW 25, N3EGF 24, WA3GYW 10,WA10M 6. PSHR: WA3YLO 86, K3RXK 82, KC3Y 80,KOOHH fIT, KD3JK66.SOUTHERNNEWJERSEY:SM, RichardBaler,WA2HEB­SEC: W2HOB. STM: WB2UVB. Ace: K2lXE. TO; N2BQT.PIC:KA2AAF,SGL: VACANT, BM:VACANr.OOC:WA2HEB.ATC',: K2JF, KA2RJAand WB2MNF.We have a new SECin thtIMOtion and he is BoydPrestwood, W2HOB,of Mt. Holly.Boytll' a past SEC and hasmuch experiencein the field ofemergencycommunicationsand emergencypreparedness.Boyd replaces Georoe Ford, K201J,who will~ movingcutof our area vary soon. Boyd" address is: 8 Dogwood Dr.,Burlington 08018. I'd liketo thankGeorga forhisdevotedworkas SEC forever 5112 years.Good luck, Georgel VEtestinjin Bellmawron March 15. See February, 1990QST for fudelaJlB. TheSNJSection StaffAdmin,Netmeets the last Mon-

dayeveningof eachmonthat9 PMonthe147.34&'975 repeat­er in WaterfordWorks. Why not give a listen and see whatyour sectionleadershipis up to? Speakingof the 345 repeat­er, I torgot to menlion last monthfhat the SouthernNewJer­sey VHF Net now meets on this repeaterevery evening at10:30PM. Whaleverpartof thesectionyou livein, youshouldbe able 10ONI. Until next month, 73. Traffic:WB2UVB365,KB1SD(PBBS)344, WA2.CUW 145, WB2ZJF137, KB2COB32, KA2CQX 30, WMJRP 23,W2FFE12, N21PH & K20G 4,WAaEMY & WB2SYJ 3, KA2VKN, W2HOB & KE2EH 2,WA2JSG & N2HQL 1.WESTERN NEWYORK: SM, Wimam Thompson, W2MTA-Aheartythank you 10all radio clubs in WasternNewYorksec­tlon for their promotions to both lheir membershipand thegeneral public. Presentlythere are 65 affiliatedclubs on uiehere. Of these, 49 med1989AnnualReports,Some 29 senttheir newsletterato the 8ection Manager...other club news­leltera would be appreciatedtoo. Anothersawn clubs weresendingnewsletters,maybetheystoPped publishing.Duringthe past year some 18c1ub$ had OUTSTANDING publications.TheYare:SARAFACTS. BULLTHISTLE BUGLE,OOHERER,GRAM NEWS,HILLTOPPER, KODAKPARK,LARC LONG­WIRE CVARC PACKET NEWS, PROS NEWS, RAGSREVIEW, DRUMINS' RUMBUN8, SALT TABLET, SMOKESIGNAL,SPECTRUM, STATIC SHEET, TOROiD, andWNYD­XA REPORT.Keep up the good work, amateur radio wouldbe lost without yourefforts...AJI of youl Public ServiceHonorRoll: N2EIA, N2EVG, WA2FJJ, W2FR, NN2H, KC2HJ,WB2MNA, W2MTA, WB20EV, WB20WO, WB2QIX,KA2QOO,ND2S,KA2UTI,NJ3V, KD2WP, K2YAI,KA2ZKM,KA2ZNZ. BPL December to W2MTA.NET NAME QNlfQSPJONO NET NAME QNIIQSPIONDNYSEMO 118--Q0&.05 NYSR ON 02MlO5-(l5NYSIM"CW 312·190-31 NyS/e"CW 428-2157-31WDNIM' 418-184-31 BlUELINE l00-01~

NY PHONE" 11S-140-28 JCAACN ~ESS ON "53-167-31 nGARDS 027-ClO4-03NYPON" 626-299-31 VHF THIN ()45.Q(l().04NYSPT&EN 519-11J1-31 BRVSN 2fW.002.31LCARES ~.Q00.04 CNYTN' 2!f3-0n31OCTENfE" 778-143-31 OC'TeNlL" 32!HJ50-31Q NIIl: 423-OOt..,"lO Palhflnder ;i'51.Q03.29STAR' 398--053-31 Earlyblfd 1~21

OARCN 055-003-04 ORTN 027.(lOO.()4WDNJE' 50'·193-31 WDNlL' .wa.14S-31220 NET 015-01JO-(L4 NYS/L'ON ~1'NTB Net.PacketNodeReports(!<T/ST): NA2B2J207,KA2JXI3/4. CLUB OFFICERS: Drumlins N2CMA, KB2GYP,WA2S0K, N21JM: MOARC WF2V, KB2GUA, WB2CLK,KB2FOO, WB2WNV: SCDXAW2V0, NT2D.WB2KCI. KB2G;TCARe N2GFW, N2ISU,KA2WFC, KB2BON; UARCK2BRF,WA2TVE, W,6,2FSU, WA2A7.A, 1990 CLUB ANNUALREPORTFORMSwln be arriving at clubs soon. Hamfests:Horseheads Feb, 24, Drumlins Mar. 31, Owego May 5,RochesterMay 18-20,DepewJune 3, RomeJune 3, BataviaJuly 8, Elmira Sep. 29, SyracuseOct. 13. Again this year atDaytonHamVention, WNYDXAwill haveHospltalltvSulleApril27-28 In Stoufters Suite 325. 00 Reports: N2FH'T. AppoInt­ments:(EO)KA2HVY OtsegoCounty;(NM)N2EVGWesternDistrict Nets; tORS)KA2AON. Manythanks to WB2OWOforexcellent perfonnance as Net Manager for more than liveyearsof outstandIngWDNperformance. l'hanks to K2VTTforpast nine yearsas Otsego County EG.Here's to the Ides otMarch, may we IltM improved courtesy 10 use of BandPlans...and may there be smarter spectrumusage Inour tu­lure. Traffic(Dec.):W2MTA640, NA2B418, WB2J:YNQ 415,NJ3V373,K2YAI327,WA2FJJ309, KC2HJ269.W2FR252,WB2IJH 251, WB2MNA242, N2EtA. 240, ND2S 235, NN2H142, KA2ZNZ 138, KA2ZKM 128, KD2WP100,WB2QIX99,KA2QOO 96, WB20EV 95,KB2EOO 83, KA2UT182,W2UYE82, WA2:UKX 7&, KA2SJG59, AF2K55, KA2DBD 50, N2EVG46, KG2D42, W82NLU42, WB3CUF28, N2DLN18, KA2JXI10, W2PHQ10, WA20EP 4.

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA:SM, John T. Fleming, N03M@ N03M- ASMISGL: KA30EM @ NM3G. SEC: WA3UFN@ WA78SO. STM: WA2QXA. BM: KC3ET@ KA3NVP. TC:N3EFN @ K3ASI.000; KX3V, ACC: AK3J.NET ONI Ole SESS /1HZ TID MNClRWPA ARPSC .39S3 S:OOPIS N03MWPAON 1.-49 134 31 3585 ";OOPID WA3UNXWPAPTN 423 167 31 ,391)3 1I:00f'1O WA3HLNKFN I8I'J S5 22 lQ.40 I:OOP N3EMDPFN 234 22$ ?3 3958 5:00PID WASTHTWPA2MTN ~19 1~.a:31 1Ml8l3 D:OOPID K.ot.3BGCNWPA2MTN 554 101 '17 14613 Q:QOPIO w~sc

I emsorry to report the passIngof KD300.and W3YNE.Ourthoughtsand prayeraarewith their Jami6es and friends. I amhappy10announcethe appointmenlof WA2QXAas SectionTraffic Manager.Tedcan be found onboth SSBand00 andwill be acceptingthe S1atlon Activity Reportsfor the Section.I am still looking lor a Public InformationOfficer, but I hopeby the time that youread thiscolumn that I will havefilled thevacancy. A newSectionnethas been tItarted onSundaysdur­ing the "school" 888lIOn. The WPA ARPSCnet is an oppor­tunity for the SectIon appoInteesto meet and plan sectionactiVllles. Congratulations to the new officers of the FortVenango Mike and Key Club, Pres.• NV3B, VP - NooSC,seer. -N3FPA,Treas. - N3HMB Act. Chnnn. - KaMHB andthe CrawfordAmateurRadio Society, Pres, " KA3OEM,VP- N3FKEJ..seer, • K3TLP,Treas. -IdYAK, Dlrs, N3EFNandKB3E>tl.;lroups frombothErie and PittsburghvisitedIhelr lo­cal hospitals and gavethechildrentherea chanceto talk per­sonally to "Sanla." I would Imaginethat it was alsodone byother groupsin thesection. Thankyoufor yourtimeanddedI'

cation to helping these youngslera.We all knowthat mentalattitude has a lot 10 do with health and recovery, Hopeful1yyoursmall effort will help their recovery.Nowthat it Is 1990,do you know that there will be no expiring ham licenses for5 years? It was5 yElara ago that the US went to 10 year timeperiod. Decembertraffic: N3EMD576, W30KN 540, N03Mf!llJ.J_N3FM 2741.~A3UNX 159. N3AES 139, W3NGO 136,~EM 119, vvA3DBW 102, WA2QXA 83, KA3VBY 60,W3RUL 57, KC3YE41, KC3HR26, W3KUN25, K3LTV16,WA3QNT12, KA3EGE 11.

CENTRAL DIVISIONIWNOIS: SM, Davo Carlson, AA9D-SEC: W9QBH, BM:K9EUl. ACO; WB9SFT. STM: K9CNP_ SGL: K9IDQ. TC:N9RF. DOC: W9TI. PIO: W9EWA. DEC: WD9EBQ,ILLINOISSECTIONNETSNET FREQ TIMEISH 3905 1800 DAlLYILN S690 1930,2200 DAlLY!TN 37050 1900 CAlLYCTN 147.69/011 2100 OAtLYlLARES J905 1630 1ST. SAD SUNDAYSILLINOIS INDEPENDENT NETSlEN 3940 0900 SUNDAYSlLPN 385lt 1645M.f; 0830 SUNDAYNCPN ,3915 0700 M.sATNCPN 7270 U!15 M·SATDecemberwas the month for club elections In Illinois. Con­gratulations t!' the fOllowing new/re.turning officer~: MetroAmateur RadiO Club· Pres" NE9H, V.P" N9HEL, Treas.,W9F~ aec., W9LYA;MoultrieAmateurRadioKlub - Pres.,WNiOWY; V.P" W9LYN;secrrreas., WC9V;North ShoreRa­dio Club - Pres., Ka9CNU; V.P" NaCHO; aec., W8LVN;'rrees., W9RS; Amateur Cross Link RepeaterAssociation­Pres.,WD9FXP; V.P.KA9SUN; Sec., KA9VPK; Treas.,N9IJA;Joliet AmateurRadio Society - Pres., W09IBH; V.P" AD9Y;sec., WB9ACQ;'rreae.. NC9T;Westernillinois Amateur As"dlo Club - Pres., NA9Q; V.P" KA9WUR;8ecITreas., N9IRT.TheChicagoTraftlcNet (CTN)recentlyceased operationdueto Jackof participation.thanks to KA9QXl andWB8RFB formanagIng the net, and to all thosewhocheckedin and/orhan­dIed traffic from CTN. Fox River Radio League membersKE9GG, N9FWM, W9NJP, KB9CIN, and WA9TRG helpedspread some Christmascheer to children at local hospitalsby letting them speak directly (moreor less) to santa Claus.Naxt: year,its "-TV andcostumes. Traffic:K9CNP285,W9HLX254, W9HOT227, W9LWH211,WD9CIR190,WA9VLC161,NS9F151,W9HB1151, K9QEW97.W09HQW72, WB9TVD72, W9KR 65, N9DR55, KA9TVUIT51, WA9SLT 46, NG9T4S, KE9DX 31:'1, KA9CTWrr 36, W9JUM 15, WA9AXL 13,N3AIA71..WA9RUM 1, W9lNQ6, W9VEYIM6,@WB9MJN­BBS, 30;" @N3AIA-eBS,17.INDIANA: SM,BruceWoodward, W9UMH-SEC: WB9ZQE.STM:WA90HX. ACC: NX91. rc. WA9JWl. SGL: WA9VQO.BM: \N9OCl. PIO:N9IPA.PM: WB9AHJo NM's: ITN KA9EIV,QIN KJ9J,ICN NR91<, VHFW9PMT, IWNKA9ERC. DECEM­BER Net Reports:NET FAEQ nMEIDAILYIUTC aNI OlC QTA SESITN 3910 1330121300'2300 ~797 4Z9 19l11 70QIN 3M6 14OO/lJOOOJ03OO 439 2&8 1157 62I(,,'N 37050 2315 133 71 !S6O zeIWN 3910 1310 1500 $38 31IWN VHF BLOOMINGTON 5$7 46S:31IWN VHF KOKOMO 174 191 31IWN VHF' LIGONIER 451 ~ 31HOOSIER VHF NETS 115) 3253 1~ 4697 1$7D9RN for DECEMBER 362 QTC 62 SES. IN 97% byWA90HX, K9ZLS-, K9GBR, N9DWU, K9CGS, WB3HWU.CANDlor DECEMBER 852 messagesin 31sea. D9RN100%by K9ZLS, .N9DWU, WA90HX, SILENT KEYS: HARRYBU­TtERW9FUINOlANAPOUS ANDLOYAPPERSON, W9FFW

~~~~~c ~~~~~~J~~GC~~~.~%E§~ePJAWARDS WERE.pRESENTED THIS MONTH TO DONSMITH W9EPT, ALLEN RUTZ WA9GKA, BRIAN STRAUPNQ9Q,BRUCECLARK KA90CC,RONALDPOGUEKDOC:IB.MARV BOETCHER WA9UXP, AND JOHN HARTMANN5AAA.EOREPORTS:WD9X,N9DTG,WASlOQT, WA9HEE,WB9NCE, W9CFI, KA9ZOR, KB9AVS, KA9KOG, W9EPl",N9FMO, N9GKQ, N9GSX, N9ADS, W9KGE, WB9ZQE,WD9AVQ, WB9RVN, AND KA9FDF. PACKET BBSREPORTS:WB9SYK 3090, K09QB 1797, WA9UXP 2017,N9BAC 1815, N5AAA 1592, KA90CC 2. Public ServiceReports: FIoy1:l CountY HarvestHomecoming ParadeKA9FO~EC.N9FOZreports383hourawith5 accidents, 6 trafficlights,2 debri on road, 2 reckless drivers,5 stalledcars,2 weathernets, 1 RR crossing..Tr~ic: NR9K 590, N9DWU 257, KJ9J196,WA9QCF 142, W9ZGC132,WA90HX113,W9UUH105,KOOBR 103,N9BAC103. WB9QPA94, WA9UXP84, NSAAA65, W9PPO62. KIlSBW49, K9ZLS44,W90CL 43., N9HZ39,N9BS 33, W9EHY30. WB98YK 28, K09QB 24, K9ZBM21,NX91 19, WD9DWD 18, KD9DU 16, K9FE115,W9PMT 14,W09HII 14, K9DIY 12, KW9C 12. N9DTG 11, W9CNE 8,KB9SU8~yYB9IHR 7,AB9A7,WB9NCE7,W9KMY6, K90UP5, WMJ",C 4, WD9X 4, KBSGK 4, WP£OIZ 3, NES '3,KA9ZOD 3, W9RTH 3, N9FMO 2, KA90CC 2, WD9CIV 2,K9ML 2, W90ZJ 1.WISCONSIN: SM, R~har. Reg'n!, K9GDF-8EC; W9lAG.STU: KC9CJ.ACe: KA9FOZ. -aM: WB9JSW, COO; NC9G,PIO:K9ZZ.TC: K9GDF.The WisconsinQSO Partystarts atnoonon March 10th.Join the on-ll\e..air fun, meetother Wis­consin amateursand friends,give the WisconsinQBO Partya try,andcheckIntonnatlon InOSTContestCorraJ or ask otheramateursfor details.MilwaukeeRAe examson March 7th at

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7:00P.M. in Wauwatosa EastHigh SChool, resarvatlonswllhW9JK. Wisconsin Nets Associlillon meeting lS March 10th•details from Chainnan WA9W. Badger Examiners examsMarch 17th at St Nicholas Parish In Milwauke., Into fromWI9M.Walk-inexams March31st at CreditUnionBuilding InMenomonie,lnfoWF91. secncn Traffic Manager,KC9CJ, whopresentedso-veerARRLaffiliationawardto GreenBayMikeand KeV Club. says "Impressive club with commitment andenthusiasm, they made me feel welcomethere," N9BOLofLake Tomahawk, extremely busy traffic handler durlng lastVElar, checkedInto1,947variousnetsand wasnatcontrolsta­lion an astQundlng 443 nmeetTheWest AlliSRAC has a netavery Tuesday when there 1$ no club meeting, at 8:00 P.M.on 145.17MHz, Sorry to report Silent Keys Dr. Henry Two!­meyer, KA9PCB of Wauwatosaand Phill.aeser, W9ECL,re­tired fromWTMJ. TheNortheastWJsconsln RadioLeague hasnew officers: Pres. WF9H; V. Pfes. KB9ALN: 5ec./Treas.N9BPO.m&ets IirstWednesdays at 100PackerDrivein GreenBay, and hordsa net Tuesdays on 147.27 MH%. ThofJl;Jhtofthemonth:Nomatterwhatgoes wrong,thereis alwayssome­body whoknewIt would.TraffIC: WBt.r{PY2360, KC9CJ 1071.WG9J516, WAffIN542 W9CBE420 W9KtN 372 W9YC'N292, K9GDF 167, N9BDL 162,I<A9KLZ 130, IWlBHL 101$,W9UCL103, KA9FVX99, AG9G92, KE9LX73, K9A.KG 63,W9NGP 54, N9BCX52, K9FHI 51, NS9Q 45, WB91CH 42,K9EP 40, K9UTQ 35. KA9VIA 27, K9KSA 18, K9ANV 17,WOODY 17. W9UW 10, K9BEO4, W9PVD4.

DAKOTA DIVISIONMINNESOTA:SM,George Frederickson. KCtTT-Decemberwound. up a good year for MSN.For Decemberwe set a newhigh of 30 stations reporting SARs,That's areen Keep It upand I knowtherecouldbe more100, The tctanremc handledlor the monthwasa whopping8.2071 And,on top of that, ouromeccsmen, Mel.NilFOO. predictsthatour Indianwinterwillcontinue. I don't know If he'. r1ght or not. But, a consumerUp-date fromthe Well StreetJournal says that Februarywillsee mexrmum leYels of Solarnaresand Solar storms whichmay disruPttelephoneccmmunlcencnsand possibly powerdlstr1bution syStems. Theydidn't sayanythingabout NTSandtrattlC handling.It might tum ou,t.to pGa monthwherewe willbe involvedin high leyelsof iutilftyIf such things do come topass. In the meantimewe will enl"oy our current successes.That's it for this time Gang. Untl next time, 73 es GL. JimSwisher KFeFI.STM.NET FREQ TIME QNllOTCJSESS NET MGR.MSNf1 3685 e,:K1P M1/84i31 KDllNHMSN12 368S IO:OOP 284/103131 KIlQBEMSSN" :mo 6:00P 41$51131 I<.M5BYMSPNlN 3860 11:05P 382.'211/27 WAfWCMSPNJE MOO 5;;:iQP 1036,1384131 KOOPAW 3929 9:ooA 3673J339/119 ?h'OreACMAW 3S60 6:<lOP 3221189/21 KDllCIuMSSN additionallysent 42 training messages.All Freqs.MSN/1 and MSNl2· 7OIQ.; MSPNlN· 7232.Tratllc: KADARP5342, WAflTFC473. WilUAW 366. KF0FJ 381, NIWOO 204.KAIlPOM 173, W90M 167,WDOOUF 110, KT91104, NflKHH97, K00NH 88, NRD881, KAlISBY74, WAroNE 139, KOOCI57, KroGI 57, N0JW 55, NF0G 53, NDJP 45, KCflT 35,KAWQN 35, NCKCM 29, KADCDC21. NOONN 1e, KIPNPK15, KBI1IRW 14, NflFKU9, W0KYG 7. J<.ll.0AJF 5, KAflBFP 3.NORTH DAKOTA: SM, Bill Kurtll, WceM-Peace GardenHamlestcoming up in JUly6-8 good weekendof campin~ inthe Turtle Mis. I had the pleasure of being at the planmn9meetingin Minotwith the DickinsonDevilsLakeand canadI­an 1990 Committee& you cen bet they,have one Whoppercoming up. DakotaDivisionConventionIn FargoSept:28-30,1990.Your8M hasbeenon thedisabledlist forthe last weekwith a brokendown foot but I am trying to make the best ofit by reorganizingmy shack, doing paperworketc. Maybe Iwill evenhavelime to teamhowto useAdata baseprogram.Congratulations to WDOOAF on getting his Extra, WBMWF& KBf)[)YAforGeneraland NflI(QFfor hIs newcall and TACh­nicianLicense. DavilsLakeareaHamshad a busyyearagainprovidingCommunIcations for the FishingTournament,Dogsled races, severalSKYWARN$(ISSIOns 3< II nemreet, Goodwork tellows. We all wish W0ZQJ • speedyrecovery from Aslipped disk operation, also a bfllated congratulations toWB0VHW & xyJ on theJr 1st child. Traffic: KArlF'SM 303.NET FREQ TIME SESS/ONl/QTCMGRGoosllRiver 1895 kHz 9 AM Sun 5/lI1f1 NfIIVnATA 39041 kH:I: 1):30D, 29f759149 NlllJRWXNETS 31:141 kHz SMKl4/5C. WflGFE

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SOUTH DAKOrA: SM, R. L Cory, WI!JYMB-ASST 8M:WAilFPR, NMBE. SEC:KAa<PY. 81M; KOOYL. SouthDakotahamswill have twoHam Conventionsto go to this next sum­mer with the first at Hot SpringsIn Aug 11 and 18 and thel'$:wiD be aDakota DivisionCOnvention in Fargoonsept28-$30with moredetatlsto followas they becomeavailable.K00YLreports a upward trend for Decemberwith checklns on theNovicenet.BurghardtAmateurcenter has beenhonoredfortherecontributions to theS. Oak.CElntennlal Wagontraln lastsummer.LarkClubat WatlHtown is conductingNoviceclass­8$. Chart/a RodgersWI.'QQN zero DistrictOSLmanagersaidnegotiations areunderwayto possiblymove thebureautromOmaha to Kansas City as he would like to retire from it after10 yearsat service.Our thanks10 Charlielor a excellent lob.Total Traffic reported for Decemberwas 700.

DELTA DIVISIONARKANSAS: SM. Bob Harmon. W5SEP-CAREN 1990officers are: Pres-Richard Brownlee.KASIVY, Vp·eob Han­cock, KD510B, 8ecty-ElmerLangstonN50CG, Treas-WayneMahnker,WASLUY. Congratulations toRussellville RadioClubfor introdUCing emateurradio10 over 10041tK1rade students.Our ArkansasARRLatfjiJated clubs nownumber 11 with840members. HELP-would all present ARES members pleasedrop me a line to be included in database. HegNet PacketRadioAssociationandotherpackeloperatorshavebuUtandinstalledAsecondarynetworkon 146.610linking Llttle Rockand Fayetteville. Purposeis primarilytomoveBBS trafficbe­tween Little Rock, Ft. Smith, and Fayetteville,and get it off145.01. Both ends have dual-port Netrornor rnenet nodeson 145.61 and 145.01.Little AockaJlases are UT01 (.011 andHOG (.61). Fayettevillealiases areARHOG(.01) and HOG(.61). these changeshave donemuch to reneve congestionon 45.01. For more information,contact Chuck KA5BML

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mer'g4J, online h6lp plus MUCHmore. loal RO·SSTV- easy way to receive- SSTVpictures145. 148 Chi-Writer (2 diSks) - fantastic scientfl with the PC. Hook upvlaserial port & speaker.wordprocesaor with WYSrwYG display. 1099 Kenwood Rig Control - control your TS440147 Pfo..CR OpUcal Character Recognition - use and' T'S94O with your Pc, Works on the TS140.hand scanner to read and convert Images to text. 1110 OX Contest Logger - version 4.25 of the165. 186 aNadem (2 disks) - THE modem com- legendary K1EAoontest logger.municalkma standlUd for BBSing. 1120 Total Ham! • lil popular multi-purpose, all-ln­110,171 ProComm - One of the best communica- one utility program. Simultaneous logging, beamtions programs available. headings, awards, counties & other record keeping.190-192 PC-File:dB - a great dBase a compatible 1121 Amateur Radio Logbook - a great litHe log­dat!lbase .system. Fu»yre!ationalwI has LANsupport book program written in C. Uses FASTIndexing and211 Aa Easy As - Lotus 1-2.:1 epreedeheet clone. generates full reports.Does 97%01 what Lotus does (and then some!) 1131 HAMFEST - a great mailing fist system for271 The Draw - ANS! drawing/animation program. hamlest attendence. Many, manyfeatures!275, 276 DanCAD-30 (2 disks) - Very sophlstlC81ed 1137 RTP • terminal program for packet Includes3D frame and drawing program. Good general CAD. WEFax program for ihe PK232TNC.278 PC-Key Draw _A hybrid draw/palntlCAD wstem 1142 PU8 Mall 80K - personal man box for olderthat has many features of the mere expensive setups. Kantronlcs lNC's without the mailbox feature.290 FJowOraw - Full-featured program for drawin 1143 KAII RTTY - A d"lldlcated RnY/ASCIlIlIChem.atk:s, llowchlUts,. HIPOdiagrtJ.ms, ect AMTOR/CN program for the Kantronics KAM.391 EZ Forma Ute· ma:ke your own lonna for busl 1144 MFJ ,rerminal Program - dedicated to iheness and personal use. MF,J llne of TNC's Rivals commercial versions.-425AM-,ax ~ « great sharewaretaxprep program 1145 PK232 Term Program - for the AEA PK232591 P-BASIC· It carbon copy of the BASlCA inter 1148 PIcPro/WeFAX - WeFax and packet picturespreter. Run BASIC programs on yourXT/AT. via your Kantronics TNC (EGA req'd IorWeFAX)839, 840 Technoiocb Turbo Pascal 'Toolkit (2 11-49 GeoClock ~ Real-TIme grayliM map of Earth.disks) - toolkit for Turbo peecet programmer. Includes Uke DX-Edgllt.(OGA/Here) (EGANOA ver #1150.)functions. for video. sound, timing. memory and more. 1155 USN Aoppy Almanac - US Naval observa-883, 684 C Tutor t2d~) _good introductiOnto C lory yearlV directory of sstronomical-data.128 PeraoneJ C Compiler - a very profeSsional 1156 SKYGlobe • EXCELLENT star "gazer" sys-ccmcuer. Top notch MAKE facility, linker &.examples. tern. Shows 89 consteUations plus MUCH morel131 DOS Technical Relerence _ complete refer 1202. 1203 Tracker (2 disks) - Top notch hum-ence of DOS ax for the plogrammerand aviduser. cane tracker wiIh great graphics.735 GTE's DOS Tutor - .. fabulous graphically orien· 1249 World 29 - good world·view map system.ted DOS tutor. Vert complete. Even allows you to zoom in on any Ioeation.783. 7lJ4. _ JORJ (2 diskB] - a 58,000 ward. on·" 1250 World AlIa_ - informative atfas ram.dictionary. Beatsmost commercial system! ....n_1....~._ r"'l"Y'

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HUDSON DIVISIONEASTERNNEWYORK:SM, Paul S. Vydareny, W62VUK­STMiASM:K2ZM.SEC:W/42Z'fM. ACe:KV2A. OOL:KB2HQ.BM: WB2IXRPIC: KB2TM. OOC: N2DVO.....Te: WA.2VGM.ASM/PACKE'T: N2FTR ASM/NWSLm: WB2NHC. NETREPORTS FOR DECEMBER 1989 (CHECKlNSlTAAFFICPASSE01: CON 651(124 EBS 453/157 HVN 321(105 NVP1751140 NYPON 6261299 NYSE 4281267 NYSL 366I22SiINYSM 3121190 SON292/137. eWB NEWS:,t,IbanV.ARA',K2C(hristmas) 1"(reeJ and N1C(hriatmasj C(aroI) operationnet­red tooo+ Q,so,. They held a I<2W QLF contest in JIUIU­my. Saratoga R....CES held a meeting WfIh Northern Dist.RACESat their EOGin Glen, Falls. Schenectady AAA hada presentation by Mark Klein of TektronIX on modem testeqlllpment TheycongratlJlatfJ' NaSB andWB2KHH upgradesand newmemoorW1HOJ. W/to:2GYV andhis crewhavedonean outstandingJobat HVCCgraduating75 newhamswithinthe pastlouryears. Congratl Bob.Someotyou sendmeyourmonthly newsletters.Each one is e.lCcellent J read each. onGandauemptto extract infofor thiscolumnfromeachotmem.Allthose editors are to be commended for an excellentlobIWiththe newdesld.op pUblishing programs for computers, thejob Iscertainly a bit easierbut it 'till requirestime, effort andinput trom theclubofficersandmembers. .... newsletterhelpsto keepthosewhocannotattendthe meetlngsaware01clubactivitiesand what theymissed. Andofferyoureditor. handlIf your club does not havea newsletter.try to find someoneto start one. Ifyou needsomehelp,gM me a call. PerhapsI can otter some suggestions. GOod luckl And keep thosenBW$letters comlngl DEC.PSHR:N5MEAWB2VUKWE2GK2ZVI K82EPUWB1BTJN2JBA.Dec..Tl'Qffic: N5MEA. 329,K2L't'E197.WB2VUK175,K2ZVl142,WB2IIV132, WAZJBO108, WA2YBM 82, KB2EPU 66. WA2GYY 53, WE2G 40,K2ZM 40, WD2K 38. WB1BTJ 30, WF2M 30, N2FTR20,N:i!JBA 17, K2HNW 1.NEW YORK CITY·LONG ISLAND: SM, Walter M. Wenzel,KA2AGI-ASM: N2GQR. ACCIPIO: KA2I.ce. see: WA2UJI.STM: K2MT.OOC: NB2T. TC:W2QUV.BM:W2JUP. Thefol·lowing are tratllC nets In andaroundthe sectionmethandleNLI:NET FREQ TIME DAY MaRBA'o'HF 1~.35OiR 2000 DLY K2TWZNCVHF 148.745IA 1930 M.f' N2JMP'NCVHF 141'l.Il'O'SIR 1m 5-W NlfMPSC'VliF 14M1O'JR :«lOCI SU.f' K.WMANYP 3.925 MHz 1300 OLY W2MTANYP{)N 3.Il13 MHz 1100 DLY KA2\JSDNYSIM s.<srr MHz 1000 OLY N2EIANYSIE un MHz 1;00 OLY N-'iMEANYSIt. 3.1'm MHz 2200 OLY w~wNLT 2lUSQ MHz 2100 WED N21MPESS' 3-S90MHz flJOO DLY mwss'Independent Net, T'8CQgnlzed by NTS, local times.... PACKETNODESTAnONS· ..A12Q -4 Freeport145.010 Nassau.W. SuffolkW2HPM-4 Far­mingville144.970 central SuffolkNR2L-4 WaterMill 145.090ElIStemSuffolkWB2IBQ-4 Mastlapequa 145.030 BackupforAr2Q.4 VE LISTINGS: UMARC. second Saturdayof eactrmonth at 9:30 AM at Salten Hall, NY InstJIute of 'rectmcto­gY,Old Westbury- contact Al Jones, W2ZDB516-876-5790SUFFOLK COUNTY VE TEAM - second Saturdayof eachmonthat 9:30AM at theSllftolk CountyCommunfty College,IsUp ....rts Bldg., Selden, NY - contact Geal1le Sintchek,WAZl/NV516-751..QS94; GRUMMAN ....RC· secondTues.ofeach month.at 5:00 PM at the Grumman nee. Center,Bldg.BOO, Soulli O)'sterBayRoad,Hicksville, NY- con!act HowardUebman,W2(,lUV 51~354-6861: GREATSOUTH BAY....RC_fourth8undayeach monlhat 12Noonetme BabylonTownHallOfficeAnnex,281 PhelpsLane,NorthBabylon, NY- con­tact WalterWenzel, KA2RGI516-$57-6726; "}'O!Jr group holdsregularlyscheduled licenseexamsessions and/orclassesletme knowso theycan be addedroth!s listing.Withthe springapproaching wearealllhlnk1ngabout the warmerweathertorepairthosewinterproblemsto our radiosystema.lfyouhavean event,hamfest,CICSS$6S or other happening pteeee let meknow of it about two months In atiltance 80 I can ~et it Intothe columnhere.If there Isanyoneout there Ihat 1,lnterest­ed In assisted on a sectionRFflTRcomeertee pleasecontactme for moreinformation.Thesectionis also look1ng torpeo­ple who are avid and experienced DFers.I am also looKingfor anyperson, whoareactiveIn emerg!H1tY rellafcommum­cation, and are not part 01the NYC/U-sectlonReliefopera­ttons. PlEl'a:se cootact me if you are abee to assist In any ofthese areasor it you would like any more intormencn.NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: SM, Rich Moseson, NW2l­@K06TH. ASM',: KA2FlRecruitment (Vacantl!Youlh PQm.N2IGONoi.ccuneerNW2SINWkY26fSE KC2'ZNSW. Ace:WA2QYX. aM: K2fJ1.R. OOIAAC: KA2BZS. PIO:NW2L. see:WB2HBZ. SGL:W2KB. STM:K2VX. mw2VV, HM'l RADIOINFOLINE;2Q1-68~1585. Welc()me to newASMFrankTer­ranella. N21GO, who will be a C(lntral resourcefor informa­lionon Vo!l.m1&er CounselsandammunJtlon forbattlingunjlJSIlaws & regs.W2VYis new TechnicalCootdinator, leaVingavacancy In the ASMNouth slot If YOU'llll Interested and In­volved in same way with youth &lor education, psG let meknOW. Tnx KAsQ for takIngon theIe Job last)'ear. M)' friend& colleague, WQ5BOR, Justgave mE/! a "llUrplus", lo-m f-"Mri~ ... gelling me excited ab?ut the prospectof trying sam.thing new In ham radio.This Is my 20th yearas a ham, butthlltexcitementneverlades,and there', stili plentyout !hereI haven't tried. l'Ubet the same goes for you, too,whetherro.t!'rea brandnewNoviceor an old-old·tlmer. Why not makea "new decade" resolutionto try something newthis year?BEItler yet, introducesomeoneelse10somethingnew.Sharethe excftemenU Some startIng: poInts: an active ATV groupIn Bayonne;a 10mrepeatergroup In Sussex Co.; perhapssomeone in your club who's Into somethingdifferent.Try a"ham specialty nIght" and aeewhatyoucanleam...and teach.Oon'tbelong to a club? Gallme !Of'" the nameof one nearbyor for help In starting your own. Reminder: 7-8-90... the lastsequential dateof thecenltJry ANDthedateof the 1990,4.RRLHudllOn DivisionConvention, at NY Inst.of Technot!=9V In Oldwestbury,NY. Don'tmi$S itl Add1tionaJ FieldOrganiZation ap­pointments: OBS:W2QR.ORS:WB2GJE. OES:K2GQ. PIA:WB2,JGZ. al11rom 1RAe. Welcome. eonSilrats 10all traffic­handlersfor a great December - '18 8tationsreportpassing

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MIDWEST DIVISIONIOWA: SM, Wade Walstrom, Wl!lEJ-SEC}; KDilBG. 8TM:WBMW/, ACC: NUiIP. 000; WAtQMU. ElM: KaIR. roKflDA$. SGL: WRilG, The FortMadisonARC Is planningtooperatean HFstationIn the local highschool scienceclass­es as part of the AARL SChool ClUb Round Up, KAtJJAWreports an update10the east central Iowapacket network.Thenetwork provldesa link betweentheQuadCftt'" andDu­buqueplu. aids In I1nking betweenthe QuadCltJesPBBSandcedar RapidsPBBS.wezuz and KAln'YPwerevacationingin 6Wlandandplanning10contacnhe SWIowaARA falthltiiwhllathero. Newcall reportedIs Nil.BJ, WA£lNDD has retiredas a teacher and ham club advisorat Wood Junior High InDavenport. Thanksfor your many contrlbuUons to amateurradio, Too. and happy retirement! 'rhe Southeastem IowaTechnical SocIety hasbeen formedand WBlriHB II the newpresU:1snt OtIice,.. of the nswIyIDmled KAABA Ternpm HamRadio UnitareWAIlQBC,President, KDME. Vice Presldilnt,andKIIAAG,~uret. KDilRN is theDMRAA Hamof the Month for December, Congratulations, Mark. KCIKZis the winnerof tha 1989Winthrop M. MagerAward,Congratu­lations,Petel Thanksto OMRAA, EIDXA, CVARC, SWlowaAHA, FOARC, FMARC, and DRACfor theirclub newsletterslRegretfully.KalJAbecamea SilentKey InDecember. Traffic:WOOS 178,KAlADF 174,NeJL 123,KflCNM 118,KIlGP62,WBflMCX50, KfXPT38, WBeAWl34, WBOClKA 13,WfGN 4.KANSAS: SM, Robert M, Summers, KtJBXF-SeCISGL~NttBlD. STM: WWYO. ACQ KflBXF. TC: KAEfiEP. BM:~~J'~~~G. OOC: IOOXF. Net activity lor the

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On another from. the COnnectk:utCouncilof Amatew- RadioClubsIsdoingwell, and isstittlook·Ingfor moreCT clubsto join.Thisorganization Is agreat Ideaand has my full support. 1urge any and all clubs that havenot vetgone to a meeting, to do 80. For more Info, you cancontact Dick Grillo,KB1XLInWil11manllc. Alsoeveryfirst andthird Tuesdaytherewill be an on theair mee~.'!ll~ the COun­cil at9:00 PM.EDT on3.965. CongratstoWHARA, StamfordARC lor their renewalsas Special service Clubs. 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COMPUTING SWR & WATTMETER : 823ffraffic 25-4; Pine TreeIW1KXl31135Sf209; Han­cockJWA2ERTi3l25J2; Aroostock/WA1YNZJ4I6318; cumoer­landIKA10DT/4153133: CentralMainelN1DZII9J229I1S' MainePublic ServiceJKA1LP'Nf5182J(!l; KennebeciKA1lPW/5J91f2,Malne liaison stallons had anotheroutstandingmonth: cycle211ClOOJt" cyde 31100%, cytle 4/96.8%. StatIonAetMty: W1KX256,KA1REB 186,N1GND186,KA10DT 135,W1BMX108,NR1F 102. K1UNO 89, W81BYR 82, W1VEH 77, WA2ERT68, W1JTH54'!, N1BCF51, WA1YNZ44, W10TQ37, N1FPP36, ND1A 28, KB7ECP 11, KA1RFD 7, AF1L 4-.NEWHAMPSHIRe; SM, Bill Burden-ASMs: W1NH. ox andcontesting, KX1L Youth activlties, WB1HBB: State ofganl-

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MONTANA: SM, Pete Peters, KF7R--sK: Jack W Baker,WA70YQ. East Glacier.WY7M, Bob Fostera practicing at­tomey in Bozemanhas volunteeredhis servicesand ARRLhasaccx:epted Bobat a VolunteerCouncil;thanksBob.Hel.nlllhas a new auto patchon 146.25/85 repeaterK1TQM.JimAldrichhasbeenvisibleonTVdoingPublicService AnnounC&­menta. Helena Club Officers. Pre$: WB7ETT, V Pres NJ7V,5ecJTresN7MUX.GreatFalls ClubOrlicets, PresN7KOR.VPres N7HKUSec KF7LL, Tres W7NBB.New Novices:Den­nis Hoeger,RobertWilliams,MarkLund.Jack Myers,JosephManglanflni,Tom StenZElI. Patricia Ramhorst.Karen Chrts­tlansen,EwanDrayer. KenPhinlps, DonRegU. PSHR, W7TGU69. Traffic: W7TGU 1530,KA7YYR395.NET aNI ore NET MGRMSN!Ii e KF7RMTN 1957 188 N7AlKIMN 256 181 KA7EEE

OREGON:SM. RandyS1lmson KZ7T-ASM: W7FBP.ASM:WB7EMO, STM: W7VSE. SEQ KV7F. PIO: KC1YN. SGl:KA7KSK ACC:WF7Q.00: WNTW, STC: N7ENI.I becameaware of a very Interesting public service event in LaneCou~. TheLaneAmateurs PubUc Service(LAPS) GrouphelptheSki PatrolIn theWillamate PassResortareafromNovem­ber until April every year and have done it for the past five!(Sara. They llI'Q up thereeveryweekendanddrive 100mitesround trip. Theyhave twohams at the Ski Patrol office andtwohamsstationedin eugeneforanyphonepatchthatwouldbe neededlor anemergency. To methat issomekindof dedi·cation and I am glad I found out about it Thanks Tom,KA7TAM and Fran, wrrwo, lor starting the operation.AnothernicenoteIs theSET(SimUlated Emergency Test)heldin ClackamasCounty. The seenenc was lost hikers on_ MtHood. The hams (lperators were Involvedlor the llrst timethanksto Curley,WA7T1e and Dale.W7FBP, Theyusedbothtwo metersand packet We had anotherSETfromthe TrojanNuclear Plant in Rainierand thlt hams had their packet sys·remrunningfor the flrst time. Paul.WB7BBG,packedup hisgear and wentto Rainierand did just a great job. aeceueeof all of the interest in packetbVthe countiesthe EOCIn theStateCapit<ll hastheBSSrunning24 hoursaday.If youwouldt1ke anymtcrmeucn aboutupcomingtesta,put onby theStateor have comments(HamRelated)for the CaPitol, connect toK7MYU via the nodesalem on 145.650. I wouldIlke more In­tcrmencn aboutclub activitiesin yourarea. Youcandropmea line or send it by packet I checkthe W7YJ and WeALJ BBStwice a week. aren, KM7R. has resignedas Assistant sec­tionManagerbecause of jobcommitmentIwouldlike tothankBren foren of thewerk sheput Inon thepadcet system, Traffic(P"lH Packet W7VSE 60S, WB7EMO 307, KA7EEE 299,vtrooo188,N7BGW177,N70RP 137,W7X1123P, W7LNE94, WB7VMS 74P KA7DEF 61, KA7WFW 42, KA.7AID 29,W70AN 12. Late Nov. W7DAN5.EASTERNWASHINGTON: SM, Tom Plaisanco, KC7PH­STM: W7GB, SEC: WA1C8X. OOC; W7LKR. ACe: N07M.SGl: KD7AG. TC: W7DBV.ASM & WEN NM: KE7WG.TheHamfestcalendar for the next six monthsof 1990 Includes;Mike and Key PuyallupSwapmeetMarch tcm, WallaWallaSwapmeel March25th,Spokane Hamf9S1. April7th & 8th.Yaki­ma HamfestMay19th& 20th. WenatcheeHamfestJune 2nd& Srd. Supportyourlocalradloclub.withouttheireffortstheseget togetherstoramateurswouldnot takeplace. Congrats10STMOonCalbickon his5BDXCCplaque.DonFelgenhauer,K1BFL,fromSpokaneis the newWa.Sec. GIN NetRecorderfor 1990.New Officersrcr the YakimaAmateurRacrlO Club,W7AQ 1990 edition Pres. Jo Whitney, KA7L.JQ, VP MarkTharp, KB7HOK SEC.Roger Wilson. N7NPL trees. f-lovdSChmldt,.KA7KAX. TrusteeKF7UW, OlrectorsKA1lAY, WAtE,N7HHU.KB7ATN. YakimaCounty ARESreports 17.20 volun­teer hours In 1989,SECWA7CBX reportsARES 190 PublicServicl!l hours tor December. 73, KC7PH @ N7HHU BBS.Traffic: W7GB 341, WA7YEN 419, W7LBK 98, N7HXT 16,WESTERN WASHINGTON: SM,MaryLewis.W70GP-STM:K07ME (@K7KNZ). SEC; NM7N{@N7HFZl. SGl: KD7AC.Ace: W1OGP. Te: W7JWJ. RushDrake,W7AMhasresignedas ARRLDirector12-31-89. Rushhad. heartattack 12-9-89.but Is ImprovingrapidlYat the home of his son In Portland,OR, Bill Shrader.W7QMUof Medford.OR advances to thepositionof Director. Mary lou Brown, NM7N,of GuemesIs­tane.WA & Western WA SEC, a position she will ecnunueto hold, was appointedVice Director.Newofficeselected torthe following clubs:ChehalisPresN07S; 1stVp N7MOU:2ndVP KA700R; 3rd VP KA7MRU; seev KA7JPK' TreasWB7ATP:RadioClub TacomaPres K7JF'; VPW8LGb: SecyW7KFN;TreasW7BUN: B.E.A.R.S. PresKE7Mp;VPWEKPK;TreasN7LGJ;Seeyresigneddue to worksked change:WestSeattleARCPresK7JBZ;VPWA7SXB:SeeyW7GUW:TresK7JBZ:: Issaquah ARC Pres KA7TIY; VP KE7XT; SEley &TreasKA7GK: JCAACPresKF6XT; VPKA7MNH; 8ecy N71TPandTress NF7K.The clubslnvlteyourvislts.NortfJw9S1. Ch~ter 4 of Q()NA will hold annual spring dinner at Lewis andaark HotelApnl28. Mike& KeylleamaTket March10 at PuyaI·IUpfairgrounds, KE7AV Is lookingfor localamateurs Interestedin workingthe 233.68 MHz repeaterIn MountVernonwhichoffers autopatchtecmnee. It Interestedcall ~24--1228 (Doug).I stated In my Sept report, which was Dec ISSue. I can onfyreportmaterialreceived. No1rl reports-no IJstlng. 12-89K7AJT17,K7CLl11, KA7CRN24, N7CSP206, WB7EJS51. KR7F173.KB7FlT (NOV)3. N1GGJ139, W7IGC442, W7tG 422,W1PRT39.(NOVl 18, K7S,UX336,KA7TIY 88, W7TVAffi,K7UQH 134. 33 &. 73.

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one of the most popular accessories in Iamateur radio today isthe automaticantenna tuner. The applications for

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: unit's numerous benefits, however, so thismonth's Tech Talk takes a closer look at an­tennatuners in an eye-opening manner. We areconfident you will find this discussion quite infor­mative and beneficial for increasing youron-the-air operating enjoyment and success.

Explained in the simplest ofterms, antennatuners are adjustable impedance matchingunits. They assure an optimum RF match andlow SWR between your transceiver and itsantenna so full transmitter power can be deliv­ered into the antenna's feedline. Understandthat no antenna tuner directly improves anantenna's signal radiating abilities; it simplyensures maximum transceiver RF output is

, directed toward the antenna. Radiating thatpower effectively isthe antenna's purpose.

Newer amateurs may ask why an antennatuner isused when a standard 50 ohm-outputtransceiver is connected to a commerciallymanufactured 50 ohm antenna. Are not the twoimpedances identical and alow SWR eminent?Maybe, but not necessarily. Any antenna issusceptible tofield-installed variations caused i

by trees, rooftops, ground conductivity, nearby'automobiles, etc. Many antennas are also nar­rowbanded and their SWR's rise significantlybetween SSB and CW band segments. Everysetup has its own idiosyncrasies but an auto­matic antenna tuner mates its rig and antennainto asmooth working combination.

There are two basic types ofantenna tuners:manual and automatic. Manual tuners are usu­ally credited with the widest range for matchingunusual antennas, butthe time required fortheiradjustment and determining which of two orthree "low SWR' settings should be used isnotattractive lorserious DX'ing orhigh score con­testing. Being tuned and ready for no-fumblesaction always yields the highest returns! Auto­matic antenna tuners are faster and more accu­rate In adjustment, but some units only match a

limited range andlor require surprising amountsofoperator interaction.

ICOM's automatic antenna tuners, however,are world-famous for their wide range single,operation (press one button and talkl), and highsensitivity (they se~-reference and tune evenwhen you run low power). Now that iseffectiveness!

Automatic antenna tuners are factory­installed in ICOM's deluxe IC-765, IC-781 andIC-761 HF transceivers, and in the new IC-4KL1000 watt-output linear amplifier. ICOM's auto­maticantenna tuners includethe AT-500, AT'150and AT-l00 base tuners, plus the AH-2 andAH-3 mobile tuners that install in your auto'strunk. When activated, each unit immediatelypresets to nominal impedance matching condi­tions for your selected band. During the first'instant ofyour initial transmission, the base tun­ers check for an optimum match and perform final''tweaking adjustments."

Automatic antenna selection isalso featuredin ICOM's base station tuners, and this deluxefunction is easily integrated in ICOM's tuner­equipped transceivers by adding an optionalEX-627. The EX-627 simply plugs into a rearsocket on its mated transceiver, and itautomati­cally selects the proper antenna according toyour band of operation. The EX-627 selects up to7antennas, and you set antennaiband combina­tions to fityour station (like separate ormultibandbeams for 20, 15 and 10 meters, dipoles for 80and 40, etc.), with jumpers under the EX-627'stop hatch. Contesters love itl :

Since the previous discussion was generally ,technical In namre, we invited various owners of!COM tuners toshare their opinions and experi­ences in an informal manner. Several operatorstold us their ICOM tuners consistently workedwith high SWR's that left competitive unitscyclingand hunting for a good match. Others reportedfully automatic antenna selection and tuning tookafew seconds to accept, but not they will not useanything less. Probably the most unusual de­scription ofICOM tuner effectiveness came fromnoted CO columnist K4TWJ, Dave reported theautomatic antenna tuner inhis IC-761 matched

even worst-case SWR's, so he used ij toloadthe metal bedlrame in his temporarytownhouse OTH and made several good con­tacts on 30 and 40 meters. Dave useda"home­brewed tee match" by clip lead-connecting thecoax feedline's shield and center conductor 14inches apart atthe bedframe's corner, The rigand bed were inseparate rooms, so 34 feet ofcoax was used for interconnection. SWR with­outthe ICOMtuner in-lineexceeded 8-to-1 (for­ward and reflected power were almost equal I),and the SWR dropped to 1.3to1when the tunerwas activated. Full transceiver output couldthen be delivered to the bedframe, but powerwas voluntarily reduced to 30 watts to minimizeRF heating effects. Signal reports were notout­standing, but that was the bedframeJantenna'sdeficiency inradiation: not the tuner's fault. Itperiormed admirably!

Automatic antenna SWitching and tuningwith ICOM equipment is indeed delightful. Youare free to operate multiple bands by simplydialing a desired frequency on your trans­ceiver, and support units follow your lead. Youstart rather than join DX pileups and catch "newones'before others even gettheir gear ready tocall. Setting up your own 1990-style station isalso acinch. ICOM transceivers and accesso­ries interconnect inless than an hour's time. Gofor it,and enjoy an exciting new dimension inamateur radio todayl

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WB4TZR 51. K4UTY36, Wb4EQB34, N4AOI32,N40ZD30,WMVLX25, WB4MMH 22, Kl4HS21,KC4HE21,N4KOX 14 KB40BP 14,WA8APQ 12, KK40F 12, AA4FW12,W64SGB12,WMPUP 12"N4UF11,N8HW11,WASKNE10,KC4CSX 8, WA4NKA8. KCoIERB 8. N4ENV15, KC4EYD5, WA4$TZ5, N400F 2.SOUTHERN FLORIDA: SM,R'lChard D.Hirr. WMPFK-STM:K4ZK.SEe: W4SS.TC: Kf4r. 8M: WD4KBW, PIO: N4PBF.Me: W4TAH.OOClAAC; K4EUK.SGL: KCoIN. PKT MGR:K4CY.Congratsto the PIRATES. PIneIslandRadioAmatoorTechnical& Experimental Society,a newlyorganizedclub.In addition to theirregular actMties theyintendtoprovidequIckcommunication fromthebarriElr islandsIntheeventof stonnsandcometo the aid of boats in distressin the Gult.The Mar·tin CountyARC,CommonEmitter reportsthat their goal of a250 membel'8hip roster during the 1989-1990 fiscal year isnearlyreached· there arepresentlv23etnal't'lb6r$ wt\hseveralapplications awaiting apprO\lal. the Gator Chapter ot theQCWA reported32 membersand guests at the Christmasmeetingheldat Stacey'sBuffetInC1easwater. The EvergladesARC,Beam stales that the preliminaryfiQure lor the F1amln·go special event is close to 300. Also Indicatedwas thatAMCH will give a dlscuselon on traffic handlingat the nextmeeting.The FortMyersARC,Modulator indicatesthat theclub hasa busgoingto theMiamiHamboree on February 3rd.Othernewsletters received includedthe Englewood ARC,theSouthwestAorida TraffIC Net and the South BrevardARCSpark. WT4Fsenta message statingeightPolkCountyham.originatedand sent 121 hOlIday messages from nine ditler·ent nursinghomes.Be suretocheckWMEIC's PSHRsec...• he had a whopping173deliverie.lor a total score at 24511KM4VC. ECArcadia,writes that contacthas beenmadewithall police andfire departmentsin the cIty andcountyas wellas the Red Crossand the civil defensedIrector.Ualson hasbeenestablished withNTSandplansarebeingmadeto give

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W6LKN, Bob (714-6B8-~. SM: Org Co, Ralph WB6JBI(714-776-9272). ASM: SB CO. Ken WASZEf. ASM: Jerry,ADM,section NewsEditor.Good luck,OM, ACCreports.FmTri-CountyARA,Supportyour elected officers. Come out 10the meetings,PARTICIPATE, wecan continueto be thebestlittle club in the country. de Moody,WOO, Pres. VP CraigN6SYK.SEC:: Ron WD6FSX. TreasJolm WB6ASH.Moron­go ARCPresBrian N6VBM,'trees Bill KB6EII, (SecNIL).Au­tonellcs RC Is now ARRL affiliated and will have the manyavailablebenefits.Goodmove.Fmthe CacheltaValleyARC,Indo Ham•. The City 01Indo has a new antenna ordinancethat requiresa bfd permit if height exceeds ta rt, the max Is65 ft.Checkwith loCal officials, fhereis agrandfatherclause.VICtor ValleyARCcongrats toWOOFCS for 1stptace in Orange5ection8eptVHFConlestll.19900ffJcers. Pres.Jeny, K1YCI,1st VPJim, N5COT.2nd VPCliff, KG6PO, 8ecJim, W60UU,'trees kart, WBiWLO. BIShop ARC, 1990 OffIcers, SteveWV6T, Pres, Johnny. KE7CC VP, Jon NW6C. Sec Bill,W600R. Twas..BuenaParkARC,was thereto helpthlt coer­dlnatlngcouncilin fooddistributionto thenoodv,wtth WA6YJKspearheading, WA6SHF, KAElQWZ. 1<161<\', KA6HJK,WBSLGL,NBTRA, WABPLMPlus XYL. KBSIYKand Bobseza rewardIng momlnghelpingour neighbors goingthroughbadtimes.FullertonRC rp\S fall licensea greatsuccass,S Novtcesand 12 upgrades.Tnx AA60D & WGUYW. REHAB RADIONorth PoleCommunicators were at it again.70patientstalkedto Banta. Highlight this time wasthe seriouslyill young boywhohad notbeeneating, but atter the aso WithSantastart­ed taking food again. (There 1$a Santa Claus.) Tnx KIlQV,W86GCTandWB6ECBde WA60PS, RlversklG CountyARA1990 OffIcers Pres Mike, N6KZB, VP S1eve KF6ZH. TressFred, W6TKV,sec: Bob,N6SHT,8TM: Dan,WF60, Tfc Dec89 rpt. SCNV31 sessions,aNI 262,QTC264. PSHRWFSO,N6ADV,KAElHJK, KA6TND.BPLWF60. Traffic: WF60 851,KA6HJK 148, KMTND 116, K6ZCE77, K6JT 77, KA6GNDn, weCPS 65, ADM 56, NOOKS 55, W6SX37, N6ADV'O,K16XZT, KOOOX 16,KA8JOB13, N6H1Wa, WA6WKC4. 8MInfo. If you have wordsof wisdomyou feel shouldbe lncluc­ed in this limited space, please contact 8M Joe, W6USa,714-687-8394 or ASM Jerry, ADIlA,at 714-351-8824. cu.SAN DIEGO:SM.ArthurR. Smith,W6INI--6EC:W6INI.STM:NSGW. PIO:N6PKY.ro N6JZE.Tht Southwestern DIY Convfor 1990will be held In San Diego Aug 24-26. If you are nota member of your local club you are missingout on a vltataspect of AmateurRadio. Central Dist ARES meets at Nor­malHeightsUnitedMethodistChurch,4650Mansfield,eachsecondSaturday.Bkfst 08OQ.- 0845. meeting0900. Cometoeither or both. Everyonewelcome. Late Nov and earty DecsawseeminglyendlessSantaAnawxresultingin 10days,ofRed Fla~ Patrols. Fifty operators participated If you are rn-

~~.A~~~~~o~~::C~'f:.taa~=~223,52 MHz,prov1dlng anopportunityfor Novices10take partIn ARES. WA6COE fs NCB. Club offlcera lor 1990: NorthShol'&S ARC Pres W6SAX,VP NSGZI, Sec KABAFR, TraasN6ART:Poway ARSPresW06ENP.VPK6CD, Sec KA6PXD,Truas KB6VOA; ARCof EI Cajon Pres WSBF, VP KA6RLX.Sec NV6E, Treas W6ULU; PalomarARCPres W9FaN, VPKl8JM, Sec W6HCD,Treas WI6B.NCTN(Nov) 29 sessions,68 msgs, 251 ck-ins. ARES CW (Nov) 04 sess(ons, 8 ck·ins_Traffic: (Nov) K1SZH MS, KK6CK 73, N6RVO46, N6GW9,WMIIK 3.SANTA BARBARA: SM, Thomas J. Geiger, W2'K!VA- Wehave put aside December's news to note with sadness theloss of one of amateur radiO'. tireless workers and greatfriends. On Saturday mOrning, January 6, John Griggs,W6trW,becamea Silent Key.John served In many capaci­lies, made numerouscontributionsto the art and science ofradio communications, and to the furtheranceof amateurra­dio. We have space here10highlight only II few. John wastlrst licensedin 1922,at th. age Of 15, and remainedan ac­tlve ham lor thesucceeding68 ye8l'l. His amateurradioavo-

~~I~~~ ~~~(~{~~~~d=~~~?~:~~"1~~~oaarty twenties. In 1he late 1930', JOhn designed the radIoequipmentuseby AdmIral Byrd on his 1940Antarcllcexpe­dillon. DUring World War II he servedWiththaNavy as II ra­dio field engineer In lhe Pacific. Over the course of hisprofessional careerwith theConsolidated VutteeAircraftCorp.LPLEngineeringCorp.in LosAngeles,hedesignedavionicsand communications equipmentand public servicecommu·nlcatlonssystems.With the resumptionof amateur radioac­tivities following the war, John took an active part In ARRLleadership,beingelectedARRLSouthwestern OMSiOn DIrec­tor in 1949. He served In that post until 1954,.. AssistantDirector(1955·1959 and 1961 -1967), and againas Director'!rom 1967till 1978when he was forcedto retire becauseofhishealth.In 1972Johnreceived a speclal'Woutf Hong" cer·tificate commemorating his (then) fifty )'681'1 as II licensedamateur,and honoringhIsdevotionto the Idealsof the serv­ice. After his retirementIn 1978John was accordedthe raretribute of being elected an Honorary Vice Presidentof theARRL In 1984he waspresentedwith theSouthwesternDivi­sion MeritoriousServiceAWV'd "for great contributionsandpersonalservice for the perpetuationof ham radio." In addi·tion to his manyARRLactivitiesW6trWwasan active memober of the San DIego ARC and the San Diego Council ofAmateur Radio Clubs, which he served as President and

shows at ihe local high school during January. N4HHP,RACESOffic&rlor BrowardCounty se:nta packet messagestating that the OaklandParkgovemmentcalled out RACESChristmasEve10help lOOk for a kidnappedchild. Therewasa mixedqroup of hamsand cb'ers whoworkedwell ~etherandconSIdering theeveningtheywerecalledout,gaveit theirbest in a very professionalmanner . the good news Is thatthechild wasfoundInanabandoned vehiclein aboutoneanda half hours.N4TFP,Editorof theScuttfebutt. a Waterway Ra­dio & Cruising Club PUblication sent me a copy of their spe.cial HurricaneHugo reeue . the list of boals and their statusin the aftBrmathof Hugo wasastounding - but the stories relat.ed by three couples dUring the storm were absolutelycliff.hangers. Muchtoo lengthylor meto Includeherebuthopefullythesastoriesof RBrsonal experiences duringHurricaneHugoin St Thomas, Culebra and Georgetown, ·SC will be madeavailablefor all to share.Lettersof commendation to the netwere also included,one in particular from the Commender,SeventhCoast Guard District.Miami,FL whichexpressed hisappreciationfor theenthusiasmandprofessionalism exhibit­ed by net members- he pointedout that their searchesoften~lltended to remoteareas not accessibleby other meansofcommunications.Receiveda packet messagefrom N2WX,formerly of Palm Bay - he is now a 1st year law sbJdent inthe Tampaarea. Howiewasa memberot QFN and then be­came one on the pioneers in packet radio. Congrats toWA4EICwhowasselectedas HAMOFTHEYEARby theLeeC¢untyhams.WD4KBW. BulletinManagerreports180bulle­tins eentand received by W4DL«, WMEIC 57, WT4F 56,W04KBW 16 and WA9VND7, The ARRL Information Netmeets on 3940KHz every Saturdaymorningat BAMto ene­ble amateursInthe Stateof Floridato meetwithandccmmu­nicatewith their electedand appointedofficials· please joinlISand/orlisten. 73de WA4PFKTraffic:W3CUL3848,W3VR1395, WA4EIC805, K4SCl 712. KB6ECH 674, K4ZK 570,K4FQU564, WA9VND528, WMPFK 491,AA4HT470, K4IA436 K4EUK 372, AMeN 339, AB4EA 299 KB4KXV294,N4KFU221,KA4FZl208, WMNBE 201,WT4F201,WMRUE192,W84WYG 188,W4NFK188,KD4GR 174,N4MML168,W4DL168,W4UIO164,W4TAH157.AA4CH146,K3KT137,W4DWN 128. N4ET 124,KB4WBY105,KC4VK97, N4HAS94, N40RZ 8S, KB4MON 82, W1KAM 75, W1NJM 73,KMYHS 69, WD4KBW64, K14ZW 56, KF4RL48, KB4A){G48, K20YG 45, N1EQN 41, KB0BDL 39, KAflGYF 35,WMUOO 32, N4XGC26,KN4CM25,K9EHP22, N4VLH19,KB4HAY 18, AB4BC 15, W3TLV15, W4VQE14, K4GVl11,KB4TIU 10, K4GMX 10. N9GDV9, KMSIH 9, I(A4GDU8,N4ILN 8, N40IA 7, W4MFD7, NMBC 7. W4NSY6. W3lJR5, N4RHJ 5, N4MFE .., N2FEL 4, N4PSV 3, KA4UlR 1,WBBHYC 1, AA41F 1.

SOUTHWESTERN DIVISIONARIZONA:SM, Jim Swafford,W7FF-ASM: K70MA. STU:W7EP.NMs: K7POF, K6LL. Hope Santa was:good to all ofyou. KX7Preports receiving a new IBM clone as well as aPakratt computer Interface. That's making out like gan~busters! Mostdubs had Christmasdinners or parties. Letsall resolveto make 1990the best year ever for the AZSec•

1~~~:~~~f~=:tt~ro~~~~t~~~~~eTrneighbors in solVing problems.TheFCCoften requestshelpfrom U$ in this area,and it's one waywecan ensureour bn.age with both the FCCandthe generalpublic.In the Phoenix_Sun City area we have the following volunleersrecruitedbylhe WVARC: JoeNowakowski, W7FPG,Ch'm.584-6117; MikeNelson, KB9MJ, Glendale, 486-0967: Dick Howe. K7QCS.Peoria, 979-4662; Bill rntssen. K7VZP.Phoenix, 942-6352;Dan Ford, WA2YNE, Phoenix 938-6688; Charlie Nuzum,WG7P, Sun City, 933-aB38; Tom Watts, NY7S, Sun City.972-6589; (Thanks,WVARC"Short Skip.") In the Kingmanarea, we havethe followingrepresentingthe HualapaiARC:Carl Harnisch, WA7OPQ, 75a-S216; Charlls Elfs, WBPNM,757·7553 (H)753-0883 {1M;In the Bullhead CItyarea,ourer;{:.whl1e 00 and ATe, NZ7b has volunteered.H~ name andnumber.Art Palmer,NZ7D,BullheadCity, 758-5542. In Tuc­son, we haveour TC,BillJorden, K7K1 who is WIlling to helpon TVIproblems,Hisno. is297·1668. Thanks abunch. OMs.I wouldsuggestthat thooG of vcu whoarenotalreadyappoInt.ed, applyfut theMRL AsstTech.Coordinator(ATe) appoint_ment. I'n be sending each of you appUcatlons soon. W7YSreported that one of the recipients of his 00 advisory dis­crepancyreportsactualJv wrotehim a thankyOu notelFBBill.K7KYW,PimaCo. DEC;WF7V, YumaCo. DECand N7EBTVerdeValleyactingEOall sent InFB SETreports. Also,Walt,K7KYW, sent in FB 1989 EC annual report. Congrats to 1;111whopartIcipated. NJ7E,our 000. and )'<?ur 8M will be travel.ling to DouQlas In Feb'ytovlsit FCCofficials.John, NJ7E,re­cently reCElived a commendation from FCC for outstandingworkin locating a jammer in the Cave Creekarea. Thejam­mer. a ham, was fined $750. Good work. ARCAsponsoredSpringHamlest is Mar. 31 at Scottsdallll Communitycollegehosted~ ScottsdaleA~~ Also CochiseARAwill havetheirannual Spring hamfest in Sierra Vista May 4-6. send morereports guys and gals, CUL & 73. Jim. Traffic: W7EP 322,W70IF 102, K7RLl68, N7ETP64, W7LVB52, K7POF50,W7KXE 3.2.lOS ANGELES: SM, Phineas J. Icenbice, Jr. W6BF_WA6JTM, Harrywaseletted Chaiman of the LosAngelesArea,Council of AmateurRadio Club tor 1990.WAeWZN, Sandywaselected ViceChairmanand KF6NG, Ken was re-electedSaclTreas.We have about 45 Area Clubs are as members.The Councilwillpromota the nextHAMCON92 and KF6NC,KenWahrenbrock was SQlected tobe theChairman. YourClUbshouldcontactKenassoon aspossibleso thatyourclubcanparticipateIn theirchoiceaclMty. T'he first meetingwillbe heldat the Marriott Hotel (LAX) Sat. (11)AM, Mar. 311990. Thisconventionalmaybe an ARRLNt/analConventlon.Commit.tee meetingswil1 be held every three months. Partlclpationon this Committeeis a must fOrall clubs that want to learnandeamllt It youarea clubofflcerand don't voteto haveyourclubparticipate youaremissing agreatopportunitv.-N6MAD,KathleenS. Carlson is the Traffic Mgr.lor WSFNO/R. Kath­leen'sreport for Dec.89 Is as lollows:N8NYK-66Ji~HT-26,KC6BGC-22, N6TF8-21, & KB8SPG-18,-The l"\Ai iSSUedpublic notices involving two ENFORCEMENT actions, onetaken against Donald Lehto, WA7WOC of Carefree, Arlz.($750) and one taken against David B. HodQes. N3DTH,a$1.200 forfeiture. Both weretor Malicious Interfilrencel-Many

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Chairman,respectively. After hiSmove to Los Osos In 1971he becameactive In the EsteroARC.John alsowasa memober of ar::wA anda numberof civicorganizations. John's loveof amateur radio and tireless work on its behalf was en­thuslastlcallysharedby hiswife Roxanna, K6ELO.He is sur­vived by Roxanna,sons Art, KA6UEW, and Bruce, and onegrandson.John W. John Griggs, W6KW, was an exemplaryindividualanda beaconforall ham radio-he is sorelymissed.In keeping with the spirit of John's life, 1111;1 family requeststhat memorial donationsbe made 10 the ARRL FoundationIn lieu of flowers.Novemberles1ing successes-Satellite ARC(GLAARG) - To Extra:KB6DUG, ToTech:KC6ETD, KC6GIX.txamlners: WB611Y, N6IR,N6UE.NM6W.W6PIM,W6GQS.Santa BarbaraARC(ARRL) -To Advanced: W61OJ. To aener­al: KC6ETR, N6WAO,N6UUV, N6VNV.KC6GBP. To recn:KC6GAX, KB6NUO, LarryNicholas.Bob Roberta, neoecArna­ble, Oscar Ocampo,Jim Bnlsch (all unlicensed).Examiners:KBSAH. AA60T, AA6M)(, WD6ETK. K16XG, WA6VNO.KA7MG~ W6PIM. December testing SlJCC8sseS - SMRA(ARRL)- loExtra:WA1FMM.1'0Advanced:N6WVM. K6UHU.WAJjWKA, WA6WKB, N6VDI. To General: KB6PQE.KC6CRA. To Tech: WD6ARW, Mike Monaco. Ed Padgett,Ralph Richardson, Ralph Steele (call signs pendinQl. Ex­aminert: N6SR,WS2V.WR2S,KA6KTU. AA7M. WBBeNO.K6JTJ,K6VK,W06BAM.Non-VEassislants: KA6WZA. LauraSChroeder. Congratulations 10all and thanks to those dedI'catedVEsandassistants. Congratulations also10formerPIO,N6FOU,an upgradingto Advanced(previQlJsly unreported).73 for now.

WEST GULF DIVISIONNORTH TEXAS:SM,Dan Dansby. W5URJ.-ASMS: W5GPO,K5MXa, W5IWE. KG6SC, KF5BL. Ace: KA1CWM. 8TM:W5VMP. SEe: NMJP. BM: W5QXK. TO: K5SXK. PIO:K5HGL. OOC-: WMYKO. Welcome N3FKVto our Section.Dick Is the author of an article In the ASR about gelling onSatellite CHEAP.We need morearticles like this rcr (he lowbudget ham andZero lund youth. Now it someonewill wnteaboUllowpriced HFGear.Thanksto N5PIUandothers.ATVISgetting hot again. An ATV Rplr is proposedfar the OFWareaanrJAndy.WY5Vconductsa neton theAri Rptr(147.14)eachWed8:30PMlocal.KG5SCtellsmethat theFourStatesARC is planning a tailgate awapfestand maybeother aclivi·tias. Detailswhenavailable.7290kHzpicnic10beat BastropgP. Check Into net for details. Workon ArlingtonHamtestisIn full speed.panto makeIt8-10June90. NextSectionNewslenerdueoul about1 Mar90. II wUl have~st of all known clubsin section. If yourclub Isnot listed or youdon't know, pleaselet me or KA1CV'JM know.We needname01club, president,n$WS; ed'rlor. Whenand whereyoumeet.BPL:K5UPN0, 638.563.5 .. 1206;W5TOO149.267, 427.9 ,. 872; KF5BL25.100. 105.75 .. 305; N5PGZ 106, 24, 32, 26 .. lB8; OtherTraffic: W90YL 287. NSKCL204, WA5MWD200. KB5BNU1204-, N5LDD 122, KD5RC96 96, N5NZH 91, KB5AOE 86,WB5CPY73, AC5Z. 41, K06NG 39. K5ZSB35, WA5EZT27,W5VMP11. Our sympathyto K5MXQon the passing of hismother. Congratulal1ons to KC5NGon being electedNM 01!he Q..FW TIc Net 7290kHz Tfc Net reports for Dec: 45 S9I'slons 34M aNI, 513 MessagesNTS liaisons 2 per session­NM KB5DVF. TIN for DecQNl 1050,QTC316. 31 sessions,in 1874 minutes.OKLAHOMA:SM, JoeLynch.N6CL.Your8M was privilegedto attend severalChristmasbanquetsduring December.Myappreclal10n goes to all of the wondertul.clubswho allowedme the opportunityto sharetheir celebrationof the holidays.Thenewpresidentof EnidARCIsKF5SD. The newpresldentof Edmond ARC is I<A5WAV. The new presidentof Wheat­straw is K5GGL.Congratulations to N50HL on upgrading- toAdvanced. We all thought you would never get past thatGeneralcode test.ThISspring sees many new hamson theair and manyupgradesfrcm the fall classes.It Is our respcn­slbill1Y to showour newbretheren how tooperateprooerlvandhowfabe ladlesandgenUemen of the airways.Your 8M hasheard of and personally observed too much tees-men­honorableoperating this past year. We oweIt to the futureof our hobby to be responsible and courteous to our fellowamateur.The Tulsa to Oldahomarepealer link continues10work well. Enid ARChas acquired equlpmenl and will seenbe on line with links that mayeventuallyextendIts portionofthe coverageto the Panhandle.Silent Key:WA5l1X reportedby K5KXL 73 forthIS month,de Joe. N6a.. Traffic:WASEaN677, N5IKN 194, K5CXP 87. WA50UV 78. W5VOR 64.K5GBN35. WASZQO 31,WA50GC 28.PSHR:K5CXP1/30,2/30,3112,5112,6/16, TI1oo.SOUTHTEXAS: SM, Art Ross.W5KR- SEC, KSDG. SiM,WD5GKH.PIO. WMUZB. ACC.W85YDD. 8M, WA5WGY,TC, NZ5U.OOC.KSSBU. SGl. K5KJN. ASMall of above plusN5TC.San Benito ARC(SSC)Pres WJ+2VJL rprts busy Decwith SantaClausParadecommmunication support, "Talk 10Santa" event far the children in localhospital and a SpecialEvent~ration for "Sanla'scR&R"uponreturnto NorthPale;WA2VJL, N5NYK, N5LNS, KB5FTU, N5GNI<, KA5UVY,KA5SJH WB9BXEtook part. OBSWA2VJLrprts 7 bulletins,I special bulletin, 2 propagationfacts qiven 21 readingsan1 neta. Heart at TexasHam Operators Group (HOT-HOGI,Brady,VElearn traV91ed to Brownwood toconducta testsee­sIan fOrthat club; 13 appllcantatook exams. Huntsvl11e ARSbulletin rpm upgrades:N50PL to General;KB5IUJ,N50DJto Advanced;W5lKB to Extra. PIAKA5EEQ, BrenhamARC,rprtsN5PRA(ex-KB5JIX) upgradedto Technician; N5GCUre­Ured from Bllnn College,nowmore time to Ham. DRNS NMWB5YDD rprts 998 msgs passed In 62 Dec sessions;STXrepresented 100% by W5KLV, W5CTZ,WB5HZa, KE5ZV,N5NAV. KOSKa, N51ll. WB5YDD.PIA NZ5J,seljluin, .rprtsCTTNNM N5NAVusing "round robin" messageIt1 traIningprocedures;N5HYR risked freezinghimself dUringInstalla­tion of heater for "frozen" repeal&!': 34 Hams and familiesattendedpre-Cl1r1stmas breakfastin S1artzvil1e. AARCOVER,AustlnARCbulletin, remindsall hands that TexasSlawSpeedNet CTSN) meets nightly at 8:00 PM an 3745 kHz; TSN NMN5KtL will be glad to hearyou.CANDNM KSUPN rprta1267msgs passedin 31 Dec sessions;DRN5represented100%;STXslatlonswereWB5YDD. N5IU. N5NAV,KE5ZV. KOSKO,W5KLV.BARN.BeaumontARCNews, rprt$W5ttJNA donal­ed 444.7 MHz repeater to the club; club received j;lrantof$1000 from local cMc club lor purpose of completing RedCrossemergencystation and to maintainemergencyequip­ment; AC5K named Ham of the Year at Christmas party;KC6SE and WD5EXC were wed in Dec. The Bexar

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ANTIQUERADIOCLASSIFIED. Subscribeto antiqueradiO'SIargest-clrculation monthlymagazine.Old radios, TVs, hamequip., 40s & 50s radios,telegraph,books& more. Ads& er­tlcles. Free 2O-word ad monthly.Samplefree. Six-monthtrt­a1: '11. Yearly rates: $20 ($30 by 1st dassl. Foreign:writ•.ARC, P.O. Box B02-B4, C8r1lsle. MA 0174~. ..•.•.•.•.•._..-TELEGRAPH ItemsBoughtByCollector: oldor unusualkeys,bugs, sounders,call boxes,etc.-anycondition. Pre-1920tel­egraph or radio IlleralUre. laITy Nutting,WD6OTC, 4025SlateCourt, San1a Rosa, CA. 9SC05, 107-539-1883.

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WANTED-QSTfor 1916,1917.R. AlTOWSmith, 3505Wood­burn Road, Annandale,VA 22003, 703-560-7151.

NORTHWEST IMAGERY_Distinctive QSL's, personalizedservice,quality reeuns, attractiveprices. Send'1 lor samplepaeket(refundablewith purchase).Tom,WCJ7Y, 1196~ Tio-ga Street, Boise, 10 83709. ~ _

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WANTED: Radio, magazines, hom speakers, pre 1930.~.~THU, 1545Raymond, Glendale,CA91201,8~~~2-8961.

WANTED:QS7VOWME 1.W6ISe, B2BelbrookWay,Ather·~-,CA94025.WE MAV HAVE the tubes you need. (ThousandsIn stock).send SASE for our list. Fala Electronfcs,P.O. Box 1378-1,Milwaukee,WI 5320:.:.'~,-- _BUY, Sell, Collect and Restoreearly tube equipment?Earlyreceivers,tubes and telegraphgear? Join the AnliqulaWire­lessAssociationwhichsponsorsold-Ume "meets", flea mar­kels, museumand journalwith technical artldes and free wantada. Membershipand annual dues only$10. Write for Infor­mation and Museumhours: Bruce Kelley, W2ICE.Route 3,~olcomb, NV 14469. . _

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IC.(J4AT FM HT 449.00 CaliS TH·75A2m/70cmHT TSA GallSFEX·736·220 220 MHz,25w Module 322.00 caus

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The sensitive TVC-4G GaAsfet downconverter varicap tunesthe whole 420-450 MHz band down to your TV set to channel2. 3 or 4. Just add a good 70 cm antenna and you are readyto watch the live action. TVC-2G board only is avail. for $49.

Onceyou get bitten by the ATV bug - and you willafterseeing your first picture - we havethe TX70-1companion ATVtransmitter for only $259to enableyou to send back video from your homecamera orcamcorder. ATV repeaters are springing up all over ­check the ARRL flepeater Directory for one nearyou.Call (818)447-4565 or write for our complete ATVcatalog for downccnverters, iinearamps, antennas.and accessories on the 70. 33. & 23cmbands.

FOR SALE:HFSBButternut "Butterfly"; Alliance HD73 Ro­tor; 100' Belden Rotor Cable. Never used. KB2BC,Sl~109~ Plck-uponly.

ALPHA76$895. AllianceU·1OO Rotors$25. CDElR-44 ROo~~_.~!5, K1BW.508-346-5191 weekni~_ts. •.MACINTOSH SOFTWARE: Packel,Contest. Loaging,Morse,Theory Training. Free Info. ZCo Corp.• P.Cf. Box 3720,Nashua. NH 03061,603-888-7200, FAX 603-883-S4S2._.__._._. ._._-KB12P CONTEST LOG ro.n Unlimited Band. & Modes,Documented. 4000 Contacts.16Help SCreens, AnyContest,More. IBM-PC.Comph:lte program$25, demo $5. Kebel.Box2010B. Sparks, NY89432. .._

WANTED: Broken, Non-Operatlng Bug;s: W6CC"K.=-,-------,-,~

AMIGA, MACINTOSH. ATARIXlJXEJST AmateurRadiopublicdomain softwarelor $4disk. SASEfor catalog. SpecifYcom­puterl WMEFH Hamsort, Box 1646, Orang. Pi!lTX. Fl32067.1646::<_~_~__.ESTATESALE:Drake2B Receiver.r4XC Transmitter.200Notch Filter w/Speaker, AC4 Power Supply, MN4 Tuner,Microphone,excellent condnlon,$375. Sylvia ecve, 10421E. VIctoryLane, Inverness,Ft ~,904-637-6305. ._

NEED R-80 ballast tUbe for Halllcrat&l'S R-274-FRA. CallKA5DTG collect after 5:00 PM 501-35U907,

SWAN l00MX w!ACSupplyMike$400. Larson.W6T8A,SOX1721, Niland, CA 92257.

ETOALPHA76PAlBgaI UmllAr!:lplifier. Three8874s,160-10Meters, $1395080. Bud, K2KlR, 315-337-'1112 EvenIngs•

DRAKEL4Buneer, inci PowerSupply,Mlntconclilion. HyGa/nTH7DXBeam. Best reasonable offers. N4JQV.62 Rawson,Brookline, MA 02146.-_._. -DIGITAL AUTOMATIC DISPLAYS. Any radio. Be specific.Large 45 cent SASE.Grand Systems,P.O.B, 33n, Blaine,WA 98230.

FORSALE:SpectrumSOA1000twometerrepeater, upgradeAX, 30W TX, channeledup on 147.531.03. Robot eicwecenModel60viewfinder.Model70B monItor,Model80Acamerawith macro lens. Call N7RH, 702-356-8200, leave message.

WANTED: slugs for Bird Mod 43 Meler·need"C" and "H"to cover 20 & 2 meter band. W4ADX,1162S. Harbor Drlv.,R1vlera Beach, Fl 33404. 407-848-8500.

TEN-TECTitan425$1000.EarlAlkire,WsaM, lOON College,R_o_"_"_d_roc_~ TX 78684.512-2~2~209=<~=WANTED: SSB Adapter for 100M 245. Mike, N6TYF, r.o,~.?x 82566. San Diego, CA 92138,61~7~ _

WANTED: VF().240 for Kenwood TS-63OS, Bill Simpson,W8KPL. 4607 Robinwood. Royal <?_al<, MI 48073.

HAM PROGRAM·Log. Antennas,and much much more. ForXT/AT computers. listing $8.95, dIskette $19.95. Fred,WN5FUV, 2665 ChateauDrive, Norman,OK 73069.

COllINS 31264 Wattmeter.Speaker,PhonepatchWE$100RE$135.516F2PowerSupplyHE $100.NiceRoundEmblem3011 S6OO. 75S3B-32S3-516F2 $600.KWM·2A WE 516F2$550. KSGIT, 713-331-1074, .•.• ._ _SIMPLESTComputerPossible.Small.UsesZilOO ZSO, Idealfor Introduction to microprocessors/systems. Toggle Sw.in/Hexldecout For theory/construction aend$4.10'tocern­puter Book, p,e.B. 75, New Vork. NV 10185...-_.- .",.,,"".

WANTED: AS~i?J%-pJ9Play for a veesu 101EE. Mike,WB2PBL, 51 1.

WANTED: Military BNC ConnectorUQ108-501? Mal.cabletype. 2 Incheslong,t4 lnch narrow neckInmiddle.MAN, 9500Tasca NE, Albuquerque. NM 87111. 5Q5.821-5615•..-.-.... -YAESU F'T227R Memortzer2MBlerTranscaiver trNIl1Wwithmanual $140. Ed, W4GW, 803-229--1133,

!...ES, t~. Sagln.~w In 19911ROSS' $$$$ New March Specials:Kenwood"fS.44OSM'AT$1169.90, TM·2S3OA$409.90. TS-950SD$3719.90, 1M-231A$359.90, SM-23C $849,99, TS-811A '1034.90, T8-711A$839.90.TM·701A$479.90.TR-8400S369.99, 100M 1e-s01$1019.90,10.735 $969.90, 1e-471H $97'9.90, 1Q.471A$709.90,1e-751A $1449.90. 1c.228H $419.50. 1C-88A & HM·14$328.99, 1Q.37A $329.99, Yaesu FT·157GX1I $949.90,FT·736R .1549.90. FT-411 $309.90. FT-209RH $276.99,FT-470$424.90,HeathkitS8-1OOO S679,9!';HN-31A$21.90,HD·1234 $27.90. H1).1250 '11~.90, MI).1416 $22.90,HWS-24HT $449.90. AEA PK432MBX $304,90, PK-88$119.90. MM-3 $159.90. Robet 800H $29Sj,99, BOOCH$579,99.All LTO (limItedume offer). Lookingfor somethingnot listed??Callor write.Over9004harrHelated ItemsIn stocklor ImmedIate shipment Mentlon ad. Prices cash, FOBPreston. Hours Tuesday.friday 9:00 to ti:oo PM. Mondays9:00to 2:00 PM. Closedsaturday & Sunday.AO$$Dlstrbut·~~~.y, 78 South State, Preston, ID 83263,._._.- --_.-

WANTED,T8-5208 CW Filter. KSTVC.

WANTED-VOX forSwan3501500. K2Jl.D, Box234,E.Nofth.port, NY 11731.

MINI QUADWanted,HQ1or HQ2, AlsDwant Mini Quad. forparts. Kent, KE9RS, 312-416-3713.

WANTEDNavy ARB ReceiverTek 1L10,1L20, 1L30, 1l4O.Derek Oldenburger. Box 5538, Bismarek, NO 58502,701-223-7373,

COMMODORE 84 HamProwams-a disksidesover200hamprogcams-$16,95, 25centstamp gets unusualsoftwarecete­log Of utilities.Cas. and Brltishdisks.Hcme-Spun Software,Box1064-0, ero. ~~_ ..~33~92:cB". ...__ICOM735 wlAT1SO AntTuner$950. SPectrum SCRn 2 MeterRepeaterwrNacom 641 Ouplexer$975. Bearcat 580 Scan·ner$1Xl. RadioShackPR057Scanner$75. CushcraltA147-4Two Meter Beam $25. 111 payshipping.Bob. 24 W. Compress,Artesia, NM 88210.505-746-6514.

N~W TUBE SPECIALS:3-500Z (EIMAC MFRl $145 'PENTA MHll $1123-1000Z (EIMAC MFRl $7503CX2500A3 /8161 ""'" "FA, $7003CX2500F3""""''''RI •••.•.......•..• $9953CX10,000A3 ""'" "'R> ....••....• $15004-400A (EIMACMFR) $189 IP£NTA MFAJ$169

4CX1000A(PENTA MFAl ~~ $499572B (CETRON MFAf$ 99 (PEllrl"A "IFf'll $ 68811A IP~NTA. MFA)$15 (HORIZONTAL US~l $ 226146B IPENTA MFRj$15 (MA1CHEDPAIRI $ 38PL172/8295A ","'" "'RI••.......•• $995KWM-2A TUBE KIT {WIGl.:GBMPl $145325- TUBE KIT IWI614l>e.M,P,~ ..~.n $125"[.!i_S· TUBE KIT ..••~.•••.••••....•••.• $ 95

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TEN·TEe seteme Station Model 2510, mint manual, $350.~ltch, WB2GNA, 516-735-4320 nights.

FORSALE:Kenwood R·1000GeneralCoverage Communi­cations Rcvr, mint condition, asking $325. WtlMJ,617-599-1984..•.--.'.."."."--_..WANTED: ICOM1c-47A, anycondition, butmustbe working.John, KC5GB, 713-376-1616.

KENWQOO T8-93O-S1AT 'rrenecelver, $995.55 FootTristaoTubular Tower, completely relurblshEKI. extended height 62feet, $595. Tri-Ex MC-50 Tower Motor Control Kit, $345. TrI,Ex TA54-Ltiltover accessory.$345. CUstom built 6 meter hallkilowatt. 10 drive, $395. ColllnslS8-3 with AM, C:W, SSBFihers, $315. Custom built 1296 MHz Transverter 80 wattsout, 28 MHzIF, $595. K6KUa, 209-564-3960.

WANTED: Shllckmasler 100. Call collect. KE6Rl,805-466-0912.•.•._-_...........•...WANTED: Ham Equipmentand Other Property. The RadioClub OfJunior High School22 NYC Inc. Is a nonprolit organi­zation. granted 501(c)(3)stalus by the IRS, incorporated withthe goal of usingthe theme of Ham Radioto furtherand en­hance the education of young people nationwide. Yourproperty donationor financial support would be greatly ap­preciated and acknowledged witha receipt foryourtax deduct­Iblecontribution. II's easier,faster,andusuaUy moreprofitableto donate than to sell. Most Important,your helping.Join uson the "ClassroomNet" 7.238at 1200UTCand 21.3951330UTCdaily. Writeus at:P.O. Box 1052.New 'fork, N'f 10002.~?~!!.~ the clock hotline: 516-f174-40!2.•....... _WANTED: Heathkit, MlJlerorSimilarManufactured Crystal De­teeterRadio.KA31VX,65714th Avenue,ProspectPark, PAlllO76.

WANTED: Eico753 Transceiver,unbuiltkit or built in perfect:-vorking andcosmeticshape.D. Huth,AA6MK, 805-213-0757.

ATARI, CW, RTTY, ASCII, and Packet Programs for 8 bitmodels. Each programavailableon disk for $15 and on car­trldge for$35_SASEfor info. Electrosoff,1656South canrcr­nta"Street, Loveland", ~CO~805~~37~.~-=__-:-:=:;--;c_WANTED: Butterr;;rtHF58 Beam.Lee Garman, 1912sea IsleRoad, MemphIS, IN 38117, 901-682·1486.

INSULATORS-Heavy Duty Pcrceun for guys and antennas,ax 1.25x.75with endhofes$3, 8x 1.5 x 1 wilh platedswlv·els $4.50 plus postage. N6KO,16500 King Road, Jackson,CiA 95642.

WANTED:Heathkit DX:)6:completeand In excenenrccnoi­tlon.send price to lea, KC4BDF, 310 SouthParkDrive,gpar-tanburg, SC 29302. . _

COLl.INS New Tubes 8eta-KWM2$90 less 6146Bs. 75S3Band32S3$110less 6146Bs. 6BN8,60C6. 6EAS. SATS,6AI..5,6AH6. 6ES8 $3 each, 20 tor $50. KWM2 on/off switch $20.WE2T,716-334-1103.

WANTED:Bandb"wltch Assemblyfor Clippertonl FinalAmpor EndWafersectionfor same.Bob Tauxe,W6JTA, Box1327,Oakhurst, CA 9364-i, 902-s83-8772

SELL Argonaut 515/CW Fil1:er $300. Ten-Tee315 Receiver$100.Model252MSupply/!S-15$60. Manualsincluded,shlp­ping extra. Joseph Mead, 5 Echo HIli Road, Montvale, NJ

07645. ~====cc-=====---'-'COlliNS SM-2 Mike $75, Drake MN·2000 $125, HeathSB·tHO SCope $95, Mosley CM·l w/Speaker $125, 100M1C2·AT $200, auper-x Headphones$20, Astatic 0.104 Mike$40, Vlbroplex Bug$20, Deluxe$25, WatersCompreamp $20.~.!1yf~~.~..?WR Meter$15. All FOBWB4GIG, 1-i19-637-5078.

KENWOOD T81408 Mike Incl. $660. Astran RS20A~rsupply $70. Kenwood AT 130Tuner $145, all like new,origl.net cartons, manualsIncluded.New Nye Viking MasterKey$2,5. Drakalow pass 52 ohms, 1000watt llIter $20, new Af·phaDellaRTTransitrap$,21. WiD shipall.CallMarty,KA7KKC,

602-77lI-4563~~. --;:----::---.,-;--;:-c-c-c-::c­WRllTEN Exams Supereasy.Memoryaids from psycholo­glstJengineer cut studytlme scm. Novice,Tech,Gen:$7 each.Advanced, Extra: $12 each. Moneyback guarantee. Bahr,119$-66 CItrus, Palmbay,FL 32905.ROSS' S$$$Used March Spec-"-""''''''''C:K8"--"wood-'-r7''~93ll=SNI~A=T$1399.90, eoro $36.90, TR-84OO $219.90, lH-45AT $249.90,SP-1BO$49.90, TR-36OO$l89.90, M8-1$28.95,100M 1C-900$379.90, SM·2 $32.50, Ie-5M5 $29.90, 1G-PS20 $159.90,Yaesu FT-902DMlWCWFl $699.90,NelS $59.90, FRB-1$12.90, FAA-17OO $39.90,FT·730AlYM-55 $229.90,NcaA$65.90, Robot 400 $289.90, Mirage 8-108 $99.90, 8-1016$199.90, 0-24 $139.90. looking for something not listed??Call or wri1e. Wehaveover220used ItemsInstock. Mentionad. Pricescash, FOBPreston.HoursTuesday·Frklay9:00to6:00 PM. Monday9:00 to 2;00 PM. ClosedSaturday & Sun­day.RosaDlstribiJting Company, 78SouthStata,Preston,ID83263, 208-852-0830.

Sx-88 WANTED. Bob Mattson,KC2LK.10 Jan9WOOd, High·land, NY 12528,914-691-6247.

WANTED-Heath SP-10. TomWalker,RD1, Box 123T,Rich:ford, NY 13835.:rEN·TEC Argonaut 505, 251 Power Supply, 405 50 WattLinear AmpIft1er, Mic, mint, $350 or BO. Bill, N3EWP,814-382-68S5.

IRC. Wanted. W4KXC,703-243-6576. ..._--VACUUMRelays.7Jennln~ RigR2G50 KV l00A used $30each. Also 2 E"imac 450TL Tubes used with SDcketa $100each. Wanted GR916A Reactance Bridge. JohnGibson,1075~erling Avenue,Berkeley,CA 94708, 41~~~'~05~1~,-,,_HALUCRAFTER MatchedUnits For TransceiverOperation.HT-46Xmtr and 8X-146Bcvr. Excellentoondltion, $125each.Henry, 508-649-6441.

HElL HD-5Element$15,Pvr8mldP8-25Supply$75, AmecoPCl Preamp$25, TI-55, st:I-50 Calculatora$10, GEBoom­box $25. 2M Amplifiers: Falcon 4105 {unusec!l $140, V.J90(wIPreamp)$90, KLM $75. Heath SB110A, SUpply, Stlkr,$300. SB102, SUfPIv, SPeaker. $300. Yaesu FT425RD AllMode $375.Relh, 1715..1II1nols Road, Northbrook,IL~.~:

COLLINS WANTED: 7583C, 3283A, KWM2A, 3051, 3OL1,5151, etc. Parts In any condition. Also need mod's forKW'M380. SASEfor n$WSletter. AlsowantElmac8874,8877,any condition. W05,JFR, 4161Oak Road,Tulsa,OK 74105,918-742·1845...•.•.•.•.•_-_.-- .•._--OLD HEATHTestGear·V-7A, AV·2,ce, AG-9A, 0-10. B&WCX49A.. Mail inquiries only. KESNU.

SELL:Brand new3-5OOZ triodes Insealedboxes,$95each.New572B triodes. $65 each.AU w/Warrantias. call Jeny, KV2lat Summit Electronics,201-337-2350 or FAX 201-331·1686.

BUTTERNUTHF5B"Butterfly"compactbeam.Neverused,$225. AD2S, 212-392-3523 business houra...•. ..•.•.•ATLASRadioWanted,reasonable, any condltlon.WA3JY:X.3535 california, Pittsburgh, PA 15212.GAEAi~iiy home on hill in w~~;rt~,,-,~MA.CC-~Larg-.-p,~.-."'lolot, 4 bedroomoolonlal, :2baths, 2 enclosedporches, eat-Inkitchen, formaldlnlng, living room, COrfden, flreplace,dou­ble garage, built·in ham shack. $152,000. Call W1ZTL,617-894-3943 evenings.

KENWOOD TS-120S $350. Heathkit SB230 $295. K6AVX,61H75-5S27.

WANTED: YK-901 RTIVfCW Keyboard. W04T,6Q6.528<104O.

WANTED:Ham 4 or TX Rotator,SW·3, SX·17,Blue Racer,35 thru 41QST, GlobeScout. SkyBuddy, Sky Champ, Ken­wood Speaker. All mail answered. Bruce Vaughan, NAsa,P.O.B. 203, Springdale, AR 72165.

HAM EQUIPMENT. Nlcati Batteries.Tapes.K & M Electron·ee, 1-800-666-4223.

BENCHER Paddle and MFJ !<eyer, Non·lambic, both $80.Frank, W2MZQ, Brooklyn, 716-998-2743.

DISCOUNT eOoKS, Scanners;-AntennaS: We haVG radiobooks and frequency books by TAB, SAM's, ARRL, CAB,McGrawHllI and others,manI at discountprices. Free cala­log. Dovle Communications, Dept 0390, Route 8, Box 18,Lake Pfeaaant,NY 12108,.~.!.~15. .•._MADISON: Kenwood T8-950. YaesuFT·1000D, 100M 10-765:TradesWanted.Penta 811ATube$12,61468$12, 4CX250B$85, 5728 $78, 3-500z $99, new boxed 3A RF Metera2.5­round $30, l00J45OVDC Atial Cap $4. PricesFOB Houston.Madison Elactronlc8, 3621 Fannin, Houston, TX 77004,1-800-231-3057, 1-713-520-7300.

CALL StGN Bait Buckles$11.99. Customengraved licenseplate holders$1.75.Add $2 for S&H.Ctwell; to Henry Horns­by, 3205 Cook Peak Road, Lake Isabelle,CA 93240.

WANTED: Radio Shack Video Processor15-1272. W20C,914-2734058.

HAM MUG Beautifully hand-crafted16oz. PQttery mug withyour name and call imprinted Into the CI~Q~aOJce of bluesor browns. $14.95ppd. JC Cramer, 650 e, Shelton,

WA.....='=-.=-=-:-7,..,,-''''''''''''--'''--'''''---;--;KENWOOD TL-922A 10-160MaterAmplifierwlth manualandbox. Mint condition, hardly used, $1,075. KB4SS,404-623-0163.

WANTED: 6-Kc Filter for Colllns 75A-4. N4uz._. "-,

PRE-1942TransmitterWanted.Any conditionor part ccnel­dared, Examp'es~ Gross, stenccr, Collinl. Bob Mattson,KC2lK, 10Janewood, Highland, N_'l' ~_~~~~__~_~_~~~:e247.CENTURY21, Matchln--'l JamblcKeyerand Tuner, $350, orsell separately.WA5KOK.713-359-2362.

5181, $BOO. 7SS3B. 32S3, !S16F2, 31284, all rle, $1500.~gnal-one CX7·B,Sl.~. James Craig, 1-803-~..:....

WANTED: FV-301 VFOandF~l AntennaTuner.Must bein excellent condition. WB1DTJ,301-628-1046..•.•.•.•_--_.. ...•.•_.-..._--_.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•..··SS8 ELECTRONIC USA*. Newlowcost AF-sensad mast­mounted GaAsFET preampllliers MC2I144 MHz orMC7OI432-435 MHz introdUctory special $109,95,high per­formance20 watt transvert8ra: LT68, LT2S$579.95,LT70S$599.95, LT33S$639.95, LT23S1296MHz 10wa1ts$6n.9S,1013Hztrllnsverter kIts calli OSCAR2400 MHz converters$229.95.Call or write tor 40 page catalog. 124 CherrywoodDrive,Mountaintop,PA 18707,717-86&~ &veningselft~r6:30 PM, wee~~~.~s anytime. Geny,~~ _

WANTED External VFO for Kenwood TS-511 S ModelVFQ.5SS. Contact"f8 Maloney\AT2l, AIMDWIC 6OA, NasBarbers Point, BarberaPOint, H 96B62-5050.

FREEShipping Butternut Products,Verticals,WARC Coils,10-11 Meter Compact Beams, HF5B's. Stamp for flyer.WB2RTW,Hart Eastern CommunicatIons. 1444 DlU1ington,

Derby, NY 14047. ....;:;-;=======GONSEr 2 and6 meter Sidewinder'awanled for my station,operational or restorable. Don, W5QRW, At. 2, Box 2924,Palestine,TX 75801.

WANTEii goodused MillenGridDip M"eter Model90652withmanual. Reasonableprice. John Coey, WBTTOC, 7117 SESOth Avenue, Portland, OR 97206.

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COMPACT desktop KW linear amplifier. Lookslike O;lllins30l1, Uses"" 811/\ lubes, Sond state sell-contained powersupply. lncrudes4 spare 811A tubes. S120.You pick up orpayunited parcel shippingCOftS. Also have 4 811Atubes.$24for all. For info call Davfs,501-257--2567,

QUADS 4 element IS meter $135,10 meter $169,9S. Ughtn·ing Bott Antennas, RD If2. Volant. PA 16156,412-530-13913.

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WANTED:Johnson"500"'xmtr, Also, grid dIpme1ers by Millenor Measurements Corp.W1aD, 120 Oetby Road, Revere,MA02151.

TVSERVICEMEN I need a zenith horizontal output trans­formerpart number&89430,newor used,for the 25C55 chas­sis. W3NQC.

SALE-TelexlHy-Gain 18-AVT Vertical.BO-10M, good Ox, I1kenew in box. JI~.'..~~CAJ, 702-827-3074~.;;;::-;",,=::::::HEATHKtTSWANTED:SB-220 linear amplifier, S8-500 twometertransverter. Contact G. Hawrysko,K2AWA, P,O. Box568, Bora Hall, Jamaica. NY 11424.

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SElUTRADE Yaesu FRG7700Digital Receiverlor HF Xcvr.SP600 Receiver $100, local, Steve, NABG, 209-223-0427,

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VAESUFT301S,FP301PfS;W5. PalomarPT3000 2iiN;:;tenna Tuner, S250. WASKOK, 713-359-2362..•. .•.•.•.•.•.•BEAM Headings.. OXand WAS, from your QTH $B, Wagner,weBSBB, 5065 South KessJer.Frederick, Troy, OH 45373,

SEll bvonginal owner:KenwoodT8-83Q..S sin 2110730+,wfCW·Nlilter, service& inat. manuals.Orig lube. 100%, lewhra, mint condx $675; Me-so mike $50; Drake R7Areceiversin 3030+ wlextra filters, camp,aervlce manuaUservlco kitffix.lures all mint condx $7S0;Drake R4A recelver, MS4 spkr,T4XB xmitter, A.C4PS, cables, manuals & orig tubes, veryclean excellent candx. for the combo $450;Grundig 8ataIllt3400 Prolesslonal receiver, protect case, orig eeec­ments/schematlcs,practically unused$600; Astatic 100 onG Siand wfcord, good conclx$50. Contact Walt, W2VEE,~.~.~ne 201-75s.-aa95, FAX201.754-57~: .__...._

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(t;', 1989 YaesuUSA, 17210Edwards Road Cerritos, CA 90701 (800) 999-2070

Performance without compromise.

instant playback of l6-second receive memory,plus two 8-second "CQ Contest" messages ontransmit.

• Automatic Antenna TImer built-in with fast ac­tion and 39 memories for quick band changes.

• QRM Rejection Systems, including a variety ofcascaded filter selections, width control, IF shift,IF notch filter, all-mode squelch, dual-mode noiseblanker and a CW audio peaking lilter.

Additional Features: 108dB dynamic range 0 frontpanel RX antenna selector 0 built-i n electronic keyermodule 0 stereo dual receive 0 flywheel effect onmain and sub VFO tuning dials 0 twin frequencydisplays 0 CW spot.

A product of three years of intensive research anddesign. This HF rig will allow you to achieve aposition of competitive dominance.

See the exciting new FT-IOOO at your Yaesu dealertoday. It's the best of the best.

YAESU

Performance. Yoursand your radio's. They go handin hand. To be a truly world-class competitor,you've got to have a truly world-class rig. And it'shere, now. The versatile new FT-1000 from Yaesu.

The FT-IOOO will blow away your competition witha spectacular combination of power and operatingflexibility with such features and options as;

o Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS), two ten-bitDDS plus three eight-bit DDS for fast lock-up timeand lower synthesizer noise than other traditionalPl.Lsysterns,

o High RF Power Output, continuous adjustableoutput from 20 to a full 200 watts.

o Dual Receive utilizing two tuning knobs for easyspotting; with optional BPF-I module allows cross­band dual receive.

o Digital Voice Storage (DVS-2) option provides