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*************** The ARRL Letter Vol. 24, No. 45 November 18, 2005 *************** IN THIS EDITION: * +League asks FCC to regulate by bandwidth instead of mode * +String of tornadoes prompts Amateur Radio response * +ISS commander entertains, educates, inspires via ham radio * +ARRL announces director, vice direction election results * +Toys pouring in for 2005 Holiday Toy Drive *  Solar Update *  IN BRIEF:      This weekend on the radio: Get on for the ARRL NOVEMBER SWEEPSTAKES (SS!      ARRL Certification and Continuing Education course registration     + Ham Aid funds available to help replace storm-damaged emcomm systems     +Revised restrictions on 70 cm bear repeating      UK radio amateurs don't want lifetime licenses, poll indicates      Deadline is December 31 for WRTC 2006 applicants      TAPR announces election results +Available on ARRL Audio News <http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/ =========================================================== ==Delivery problems (ARRL member direct delivery only!): This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ==Editorial questions or comments: Rick Lindquist, N1RL, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it =========================================================== + NOTE: ARRL Headquarters will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions on those days. Next week's editions of The ARRL Letter, ARRL Audio News and the DX and propagation bulletins will be distributed Wednesday, November 23. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Monday, November 28, at 8 AM Eastern Time. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! =========================================================== ==ARRL FILES REGULATION-BY-BANDWIDTH PETITION WITH FCC The ARRL has formally asked the FCC to adopt the League's plan to segment the Amateur Radio bands solely by emission bandwidth rather than by mode. The Petition for Rule Making, filed November 14, recommends what the ARRL called a shift in regulatory philosophy that would encourage and facilitate the development and refinement of digital techniques and advanced technologies. At the same time, the League said, accommodating new technologies would not come at the expense of current operating modes, including double-sideband AM phone. This petition seeks for the Amateur Radio Service the flexibility to experiment with new digital transmission methods and types to be developed in the future, the League's petition said, while permitting present operating modes to continue to be used for as long as there are radio amateurs who wish to use them. The ARRL said the changes it suggests will also update the FCC's rules and eliminate the need for cumbersome procedures to determine whether a new digital mode is legal under Part 97. The ARRL's regulation-by-bandwidth plan is far from a done deal. In order for it to be adopted, the FCC first must put the League's Petition for Rule Making on public notice and invite formal public comments. A subsequent Notice of Proposed Rule Making would kick off a further round of formal comments. Ultimately, the FCC would have to issue a Report and Order putting the changes into place and setting an effective date. The League conceded that its regulation-by-bandwidth regime would place increased responsibility on the amateur community to establish workable, accepted band plans, but it expressed confidence that such an effort would be successful. The petition filed this week has been in the works for some time now. The ARRL Board of Directors adopted the petition's guiding principle in 2002 and invited comments from the Amateur Radio community in the summer of 2004. The proposal reflects expert input from the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee as well as from ARRL staff. Comments from League members and an ARRL Executive Committee review led to further fine tuning. The ARRL wants the FCC to replace the table at §97.305(c) with a new one that segment bands by bandwidths ranging from 200 Hz to 100 kHz. Unaffected by the ARRL's recommendations, if they're adopted, would be 160 and 60 meters. Subbands in other bands below 29 MHz would accommodate maximum emission bandwidths of 200, 500 or 3.5 kHz, with an exception of 9 kHz for AM phone. The League's petition seeks to facilitate and encourage the development, refinement and use of new digital technologies without the regulatory remnants developed at a time when the principal emissions used in the Amateur Radio Service were Morse telegraphy and single- or double-sideband amplitude-modulated telephony. Part 97 rules need to permit higher data rates between 1.8 and 450 MHz to encourage development of digital multimedia technology, which has great promise for improving and fostering more effective emergency and disaster relief communications, the petition asserted. This petition does not favor one mode at the expense of another, the ARRL concluded in urging FCC adoption. It merely allows expansion of the repertoire of options that amateurs may pursue compatibly. ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussed the subject of regulating by bandwidth in three It Seems to Us . . . QST editorials: Regulation by Bandwidth in September 2004, Narrowing the Bandwidth Issues in April 2005 and Self Regulation in October 2005. The text of the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making is on the ARRL Web site <http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Minute-64... ion-FINAL.pdf. ==AMATEUR RADIO RESPONDS AS STORMS SPAWN RASH OF TORNADOES Just weeks after assisting in hurricane relief efforts along the Gulf Coast and in Florida, Amateur Radio volunteers responded in the wake of yet another weather emergency. Strong thunderstorms resulting from a clash of cold and warm fronts in the nation's midsection spawned tornadoes in several states. The nearly three dozen twisters reported November 15 in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri came a little more than a week after tornadoes killed more than 20 people in Indiana and days after another string hit Iowa, resulting in one death. Some 8000 customers were left without electricity in the affected states, but Kentucky appears to have been the hardest hit. Nets for SKYWARN were activated all across the affected areas, Kentucky Section Emergency Coordinator Ron Dodson, KA4MAP, reported November 16. We also had the state EOC [emergency operations center] on the air on 3.993 MHz last night as we were trying to get emergency information into and out of the affected areas. Dodson told ARRL Headquarters that WX4NWS at the Louisville National Weather Service (NWS) office was active during the afternoon and evening of November 15 as forecasters tried to keep up with the rapidly developing weather. One person died in the Marshall County town of Benton, where a tornado severely damaged a mobile home park. Upward of two dozen other people were hurt, Dodson added. Kentucky Area 2 District Emergency Coordinator Nick Bailey, KG4URI, said a tornado ripped through the southern end of Madisonville. He estimated that up to 30 ARES and RACES volunteers deployed throughout Hopkins County. Baily reported a lot of damage but no deaths. On November 16, three ARES teams equipped with APRS and GPS accompanied search-and-rescue (SAR) teams going door-to-door. Amateur radio provided mostly SAR communications as the police repeaters were still up, Bailey added. According to Bailey, preliminary estimates had 35 to 40 homes severely damaged or destroyed in the Madisonville area and possibly 10 in Earlington. At least two dozen people were reported injured in Hopkins County, and the count was expected to rise. A confirmed touchdown also occurred in Sharps. Steve Morgan, W4NHO, an ARRL Great Lakes Division assistant director, reported a tornado was tracked from Dawson Spring through Owensboro and into southeastern Indiana. I spoke with the deputy EMA director in Hopkins County, Frank Wright, KA4IGR, he said at mid-week. Amateur Radio is the only reliable communications they have at the moment due to power outages. Telephone service also was reported out in parts of Kentucky. Indiana's latest encounter with tornadoes was not nearly as severe as that of November 6. In the November 15 outbreak, one person was reported killed in Hancock County when a car went out of control after running into water on the pavement. Indiana SEC Dave Pifer, N9YNF, said property damage this time was largely hit and miss across the state. I know the SKYWARN programs were hopping yesterday as we tracked the storms through the area, he said. At one point they would only take tornado/funnel reports and significant damage reports because there was so much going on. Illinois SM Shari Harlan, N9SH, says her section seems to have largely escaped the tornado outbreak. It appears that while some straight line winds toppled some structures in the Wabash, Edwards and Lawrence county area, they escaped the afternoon round of storms, she said. She did note one report of definite rotational echoes, however. Iowa SEC Jim Snapp, NA0R, said Amateur Radio volunteers responded after a series of eight tornadoes within a few hours hit central Iowa November 12. The twisters hit parts of eight counties, he said, and one person was killed. Homes, business and farmsteads were damaged or destroyed as the tornadoes rampaged through the Iowa countryside and in some small communities, he said. According to Snapp, K0DMX at the NWS Des Moines office started getting reports of hail and tornado activity around 3:45 PM CDT. Amateur reports as well as other sources of storm information enabled the NWS staff to send out updates to the storms activity and its path to the public, he said, adding that a dozen hams contributed reports to the SKYWARN net. ==STUDENTS IN ITALY, ENGLAND ENTERTAINED, EDUCATED VIA HAM RADIO Students in Italy and England spoke via Amateur Radio November 9 with
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The ARRL Letter Vol. 24, No. 45 November 18, 2005 *************** IN THIS EDITION: * +League asks FCC to regulate by bandwidth instead of mode * +String of tornadoes prompts Amateur Radio response * +ISS commander entertains, educates, inspires via ham radio * +ARRL announces director, vice direction election results * +Toys pouring in for 2005 Holiday Toy Drive *  Solar Update *  IN BRIEF:     This weekend on the radio: Get on for the ARRL NOVEMBER SWEEPSTAKES (SS!     ARRL Certification and Continuing Education course registration    + Ham Aid funds available to help replace storm-damaged emcomm systems    +Revised restrictions on 70 cm bear repeating     UK radio amateurs don't want lifetime licenses, poll indicates     Deadline is December 31 for WRTC 2006 applicants     TAPR announces election results +Available on ARRL Audio News <http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/ =========================================================== ==Delivery problems (ARRL member direct delivery only!): This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ==Editorial questions or comments: Rick Lindquist, N1RL, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it =========================================================== + NOTE: ARRL Headquarters will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions on those days. Next week's editions of The ARRL Letter, ARRL Audio News and the DX and propagation bulletins will be distributed Wednesday, November 23. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Monday, November 28, at 8 AM Eastern Time. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! =========================================================== ==ARRL FILES REGULATION-BY-BANDWIDTH PETITION WITH FCC The ARRL has formally asked the FCC to adopt the League's plan to segment the Amateur Radio bands solely by emission bandwidth rather than by mode. The Petition for Rule Making, filed November 14, recommends what the ARRL called a shift in regulatory philosophy that would encourage and facilitate the development and refinement of digital techniques and advanced technologies. At the same time, the League said, accommodating new technologies would not come at the expense of current operating modes, including double-sideband AM phone. This petition seeks for the Amateur Radio Service the flexibility to experiment with new digital transmission methods and types to be developed in the future, the League's petition said, while permitting present operating modes to continue to be used for as long as there are radio amateurs who wish to use them. The ARRL said the changes it suggests will also update the FCC's rules and eliminate the need for cumbersome procedures to determine whether a new digital mode is legal under Part 97. The ARRL's regulation-by-bandwidth plan is far from a done deal. In order for it to be adopted, the FCC first must put the League's Petition for Rule Making on public notice and invite formal public comments. A subsequent Notice of Proposed Rule Making would kick off a further round of formal comments. Ultimately, the FCC would have to issue a Report and Order putting the changes into place and setting an effective date. The League conceded that its regulation-by-bandwidth regime would place increased responsibility on the amateur community to establish workable, accepted band plans, but it expressed confidence that such an effort would be successful. The petition filed this week has been in the works for some time now. The ARRL Board of Directors adopted the petition's guiding principle in 2002 and invited comments from the Amateur Radio community in the summer of 2004. The proposal reflects expert input from the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee as well as from ARRL staff. Comments from League members and an ARRL Executive Committee review led to further fine tuning. The ARRL wants the FCC to replace the table at §97.305(c) with a new one that segment bands by bandwidths ranging from 200 Hz to 100 kHz. Unaffected by the ARRL's recommendations, if they're adopted, would be 160 and 60 meters. Subbands in other bands below 29 MHz would accommodate maximum emission bandwidths of 200, 500 or 3.5 kHz, with an exception of 9 kHz for AM phone. The League's petition seeks to facilitate and encourage the development, refinement and use of new digital technologies without the regulatory remnants developed at a time when the principal emissions used in the Amateur Radio Service were Morse telegraphy and single- or double-sideband amplitude-modulated telephony. Part 97 rules need to permit higher data rates between 1.8 and 450 MHz to encourage development of digital multimedia technology, which has great promise for improving and fostering more effective emergency and disaster relief communications, the petition asserted. This petition does not favor one mode at the expense of another, the ARRL concluded in urging FCC adoption. It merely allows expansion of the repertoire of options that amateurs may pursue compatibly. ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussed the subject of regulating by bandwidth in three It Seems to Us . . . QST editorials: Regulation by Bandwidth in September 2004, Narrowing the Bandwidth Issues in April 2005 and Self Regulation in October 2005. The text of the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making is on the ARRL Web site <http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Minute-64... ion-FINAL.pdf. ==AMATEUR RADIO RESPONDS AS STORMS SPAWN RASH OF TORNADOES Just weeks after assisting in hurricane relief efforts along the Gulf Coast and in Florida, Amateur Radio volunteers responded in the wake of yet another weather emergency. Strong thunderstorms resulting from a clash of cold and warm fronts in the nation's midsection spawned tornadoes in several states. The nearly three dozen twisters reported November 15 in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri came a little more than a week after tornadoes killed more than 20 people in Indiana and days after another string hit Iowa, resulting in one death. Some 8000 customers were left without electricity in the affected states, but Kentucky appears to have been the hardest hit. Nets for SKYWARN were activated all across the affected areas, Kentucky Section Emergency Coordinator Ron Dodson, KA4MAP, reported November 16. We also had the state EOC [emergency operations center] on the air on 3.993 MHz last night as we were trying to get emergency information into and out of the affected areas. Dodson told ARRL Headquarters that WX4NWS at the Louisville National Weather Service (NWS) office was active during the afternoon and evening of November 15 as forecasters tried to keep up with the rapidly developing weather. One person died in the Marshall County town of Benton, where a tornado severely damaged a mobile home park. Upward of two dozen other people were hurt, Dodson added. Kentucky Area 2 District Emergency Coordinator Nick Bailey, KG4URI, said a tornado ripped through the southern end of Madisonville. He estimated that up to 30 ARES and RACES volunteers deployed throughout Hopkins County. Baily reported a lot of damage but no deaths. On November 16, three ARES teams equipped with APRS and GPS accompanied search-and-rescue (SAR) teams going door-to-door. Amateur radio provided mostly SAR communications as the police repeaters were still up, Bailey added. According to Bailey, preliminary estimates had 35 to 40 homes severely damaged or destroyed in the Madisonville area and possibly 10 in Earlington. At least two dozen people were reported injured in Hopkins County, and the count was expected to rise. A confirmed touchdown also occurred in Sharps. Steve Morgan, W4NHO, an ARRL Great Lakes Division assistant director, reported a tornado was tracked from Dawson Spring through Owensboro and into southeastern Indiana. I spoke with the deputy EMA director in Hopkins County, Frank Wright, KA4IGR, he said at mid-week. Amateur Radio is the only reliable communications they have at the moment due to power outages. Telephone service also was reported out in parts of Kentucky. Indiana's latest encounter with tornadoes was not nearly as severe as that of November 6. In the November 15 outbreak, one person was reported killed in Hancock County when a car went out of control after running into water on the pavement. Indiana SEC Dave Pifer, N9YNF, said property damage this time was largely hit and miss across the state. I know the SKYWARN programs were hopping yesterday as we tracked the storms through the area, he said. At one point they would only take tornado/funnel reports and significant damage reports because there was so much going on. Illinois SM Shari Harlan, N9SH, says her section seems to have largely escaped the tornado outbreak. It appears that while some straight line winds toppled some structures in the Wabash, Edwards and Lawrence county area, they escaped the afternoon round of storms, she said. She did note one report of definite rotational echoes, however. Iowa SEC Jim Snapp, NA0R, said Amateur Radio volunteers responded after a series of eight tornadoes within a few hours hit central Iowa November 12. The twisters hit parts of eight counties, he said, and one
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This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it *************** The ARRL Letter Vol. 24, No. 45 November 18, 2005 *************** IN THIS EDITION: * +League asks FCC to regulate by bandwidth instead of mode * +String of tornadoes prompts Amateur Radio response * +ISS commander entertains, educates, inspires via ham radio * +ARRL announces director, vice direction election results * +Toys pouring in for 2005 Holiday Toy Drive *  Solar Update *  IN BRIEF:     This weekend on the radio: Get on for the ARRL NOVEMBER SWEEPSTAKES (SS!     ARRL Certification and Continuing Education course registration    + Ham Aid funds available to help replace storm-damaged emcomm systems    +Revised restrictions on 70 cm bear repeating     UK radio amateurs don't want lifetime licenses, poll indicates     Deadline is December 31 for WRTC 2006 applicants     TAPR announces election results +Available on ARRL Audio News <http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/ =========================================================== ==Delivery problems (ARRL member direct delivery only!): This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ==Editorial questions or comments: Rick Lindquist, N1RL, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it =========================================================== + NOTE: ARRL Headquarters will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions on those days. Next week's editions of The ARRL Letter, ARRL Audio News and the DX and propagation bulletins will be distributed Wednesday, November 23. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Monday, November 28, at 8 AM Eastern Time. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! =========================================================== ==ARRL FILES REGULATION-BY-BANDWIDTH PETITION WITH FCC The ARRL has formally asked the FCC to adopt the League's plan to segment the Amateur Radio bands solely by emission bandwidth rather than by mode. The Petition for Rule Making, filed November 14, recommends what the ARRL called a shift in regulatory philosophy that would encourage and facilitate the development and refinement of digital techniques and advanced technologies. At the same time, the League said, accommodating new technologies would not come at the expense of current operating modes, including double-sideband AM phone. This petition seeks for the Amateur Radio Service the flexibility to experiment with new digital transmission methods and types to be developed in the future, the League's petition said, while permitting present operating modes to continue to be used for as long as there are radio amateurs who wish to use them. The ARRL said the changes it suggests will also update the FCC's rules and eliminate the need for cumbersome procedures to determine whether a new digital mode is legal under Part 97. The ARRL's regulation-by-bandwidth plan is far from a done deal. In order for it to be adopted, the FCC first must put the League's Petition for Rule Making on public notice and invite formal public comments. A subsequent Notice of Proposed Rule Making would kick off a further round of formal comments. Ultimately, the FCC would have to issue a Report and Order putting the changes into place and setting an effective date. The League conceded that its regulation-by-bandwidth regime would place increased responsibility on the amateur community to establish workable, accepted band plans, but it expressed confidence that such an effort would be successful. The petition filed this week has been in the works for some time now. The ARRL Board of Directors adopted the petition's guiding principle in 2002 and invited comments from the Amateur Radio community in the summer of 2004. The proposal reflects expert input from the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee as well as from ARRL staff. Comments from League members and an ARRL Executive Committee review led to further fine tuning. The ARRL wants the FCC to replace the table at §97.305(c) with a new one that segment bands by bandwidths ranging from 200 Hz to 100 kHz. Unaffected by the ARRL's recommendations, if they're adopted, would be 160 and 60 meters. Subbands in other bands below 29 MHz would accommodate maximum emission bandwidths of 200, 500 or 3.5 kHz, with an exception of 9 kHz for AM phone. The League's petition seeks to facilitate and encourage the development, refinement and use of new digital technologies without the regulatory remnants developed at a time when the principal emissions used in the Amateur Radio Service were Morse telegraphy and single- or double-sideband amplitude-modulated telephony. Part 97 rules need to permit higher data rates between 1.8 and 450 MHz to encourage development of digital multimedia technology, which has great promise for improving and fostering more effective emergency and disaster relief communications, the petition asserted. This petition does not favor one mode at the expense of another, the ARRL concluded in urging FCC adoption. It merely allows expansion of the repertoire of options that amateurs may pursue compatibly. ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussed the subject of regulating by bandwidth in three It Seems to Us . . . QST editorials: Regulation by Bandwidth in September 2004, Narrowing the Bandwidth Issues in April 2005 and Self Regulation in October 2005. The text of the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making is on the ARRL Web site <http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Minute-64... ion-FINAL.pdf. ==AMATEUR RADIO RESPONDS AS STORMS SPAWN RASH OF TORNADOES Just weeks after assisting in hurricane relief efforts along the Gulf Coast and in Florida, Amateur Radio volunteers responded in the wake of yet another weather emergency. Strong thunderstorms resulting from a clash of cold and warm fronts in the nation's midsection spawned tornadoes in several states. The nearly three dozen twisters reported November 15 in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri came a little more than a week after tornadoes killed more than 20 people in Indiana and days after another string hit Iowa, resulting in one death. Some 8000 customers were left without electricity in the affected states, but Kentucky appears to have been the hardest hit. Nets for SKYWARN were activated all across the affected areas, Kentucky Section Emergency Coordinator Ron Dodson, KA4MAP, reported November 16. We also had the state EOC [emergency operations center] on the air on 3.993 MHz last night as we were trying to get emergency information into and out of the affected areas. Dodson told ARRL Headquarters that WX4NWS at the Louisville National Weather Service (NWS) office was active during the afternoon and evening of November 15 as forecasters tried to keep up with the rapidly developing weather. One person died in the Marshall County town of Benton, where a tornado severely damaged a mobile home park. Upward of two dozen other people were hurt, Dodson added. Kentucky Area 2 District Emergency Coordinator Nick Bailey, KG4URI, said a tornado ripped through the southern end of Madisonville. He estimated that up to 30 ARES and RACES volunteers deployed throughout Hopkins County. Baily reported a lot of damage but no deaths. On November 16, three ARES teams equipped with APRS and GPS accompanied search-and-rescue (SAR) teams going door-to-door. Amateur radio provided mostly SAR communications as the police repeaters were still up, Bailey added. According to Bailey, preliminary estimates had 35 to 40 homes severely damaged or destroyed in the Madisonville area and possibly 10 in Earlington. At least two dozen people were reported injured in Hopkins County, and the count was expected to rise. A confirmed touchdown also occurred in Sharps. Steve Morgan, W4NHO, an ARRL Great Lakes Division assistant director, reported a tornado was tracked from Dawson Spring through Owensboro and into southeastern Indiana. I spoke with the deputy EMA director in Hopkins County, Frank Wright, KA4IGR, he said at mid-week. Amateur Radio is the only reliable communications they have at the moment due to power outages. Telephone service also was reported out in parts of Kentucky. Indiana's latest encounter with tornadoes was not nearly as severe as that of November 6. In the November 15 outbreak, one person was reported killed in Hancock County when a car went out of control after running into water on the pavement. Indiana SEC Dave Pifer, N9YNF, said property damage this time was largely hit and miss across the state. I know the SKYWARN programs were hopping yesterday as we tracked the storms through the area, he said. At one point they would only take tornado/funnel reports and significant damage reports because there was so much going on. Illinois SM Shari Harlan, N9SH, says her section seems to have largely escaped the tornado outbreak. It appears that while some straight
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écrit : Yesss !!! Il l'a refait ! On se demande s'il est payé pour le faire, tant de régularité.... Pas payé dugland ! Bénévole, tante Runge... Et je le referai, rien que pour toi, mon petit roquet. georges georges < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it a écrit dans le message de news: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it *************** The ARRL Letter Vol. 24, No. 45 November 18, 2005 *************** IN THIS EDITION: * +League asks FCC to regulate by bandwidth instead of mode * +String of tornadoes prompts Amateur Radio response * +ISS commander entertains, educates, inspires via ham radio * +ARRL announces director, vice direction election results * +Toys pouring in for 2005 Holiday Toy Drive *  Solar Update *  IN BRIEF:     This weekend on the radio: Get on for the ARRL NOVEMBER SWEEPSTAKES (SS!     ARRL Certification and Continuing Education course registration    + Ham Aid funds available to help replace storm-damaged emcomm systems    +Revised restrictions on 70 cm bear repeating     UK radio amateurs don't want lifetime licenses, poll indicates     Deadline is December 31 for WRTC 2006 applicants     TAPR announces election results +Available on ARRL Audio News <http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/ =========================================================== ==Delivery problems (ARRL member direct delivery only!): This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ==Editorial questions or comments: Rick Lindquist, N1RL, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it =========================================================== + NOTE: ARRL Headquarters will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions on those days. Next week's editions of The ARRL Letter, ARRL Audio News and the DX and propagation bulletins will be distributed Wednesday, November 23. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Monday, November 28, at 8 AM Eastern Time. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! =========================================================== ==ARRL FILES REGULATION-BY-BANDWIDTH PETITION WITH FCC The ARRL has formally asked the FCC to adopt the League's plan to segment the Amateur Radio bands solely by emission bandwidth rather than by mode. The Petition for Rule Making, filed November 14, recommends what the ARRL called a shift in regulatory philosophy that would encourage and facilitate the development and refinement of digital techniques and advanced technologies. At the same time, the League said, accommodating new technologies would not come at the expense of current operating modes, including double-sideband AM phone. This petition seeks for the Amateur Radio Service the flexibility to experiment with new digital transmission methods and types to be developed in the future, the League's petition said, while permitting present operating modes to continue to be used for as long as there are radio amateurs who wish to use them. The ARRL said the changes it suggests will also update the FCC's rules and eliminate the need for cumbersome procedures to determine whether a new digital mode is legal under Part 97. The ARRL's regulation-by-bandwidth plan is far from a done deal. In order for it to be adopted, the FCC first must put the League's Petition for Rule Making on public notice and invite formal public comments. A subsequent Notice of Proposed Rule Making would kick off a further round of formal comments. Ultimately, the FCC would have to issue a Report and Order putting the changes into place and setting an effective date. The League conceded that its regulation-by-bandwidth regime would place increased responsibility on the amateur community to establish workable, accepted band plans, but it expressed confidence that such an effort would be successful. The petition filed this week has been in the works for some time now. The ARRL Board of Directors adopted the petition's guiding principle in 2002 and invited comments from the Amateur Radio community in the summer of 2004. The proposal reflects expert input from the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee as well as from ARRL staff. Comments from League members and an ARRL Executive Committee review led to further fine tuning. The ARRL wants the FCC to replace the table at §97.305(c) with a new one that segment bands by bandwidths ranging from 200 Hz to 100 kHz. Unaffected by the ARRL's recommendations, if they're adopted, would be 160 and 60 meters. Subbands in other bands below 29 MHz would accommodate maximum emission bandwidths of 200, 500 or 3.5 kHz, with an exception of 9 kHz for AM phone. The League's petition seeks to facilitate and encourage the development, refinement and use of new digital technologies without the regulatory remnants developed at a time when the principal emissions used in the Amateur Radio Service were Morse telegraphy and single- or double-sideband amplitude-modulated telephony. Part 97 rules need to permit higher data rates between 1.8 and 450 MHz to encourage development of digital multimedia technology, which has great promise for improving and fostering more effective emergency and disaster relief communications, the petition asserted. This petition does not favor one mode at the expense of another, the ARRL concluded in urging FCC adoption. It merely allows expansion of the repertoire of options that amateurs may pursue compatibly. ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussed the subject of regulating by bandwidth in three It Seems to Us . . . QST editorials: Regulation by Bandwidth in September 2004, Narrowing the Bandwidth Issues in April 2005 and Self Regulation in October 2005. The text of the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making is on the ARRL Web site <http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/bandwidth/Bandwidth-Minute-64... ion-FINAL.pdf. ==AMATEUR RADIO RESPONDS AS STORMS SPAWN RASH OF TORNADOES Just weeks after assisting in hurricane relief efforts along the Gulf Coast and in Florida, Amateur Radio volunteers responded in the wake of yet another weather emergency. Strong thunderstorms resulting from a clash of cold and warm fronts in the nation's midsection spawned tornadoes in several states. The nearly three dozen twisters reported November 15 in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri came a little more than a week after tornadoes killed more than 20 people in Indiana and days after another string hit Iowa, resulting in one death. Some 8000 customers were left without electricity in the affected states, but Kentucky appears to have been the hardest hit. Nets for SKYWARN were activated all across the affected areas, Kentucky Section Emergency Coordinator Ron Dodson, KA4MAP, reported November 16. We also had the state EOC [emergency operations center] on the air on 3.993 MHz last night as we were trying to get emergency information into and out of the affected areas. Dodson told ARRL Headquarters that WX4NWS at the Louisville National Weather Service (NWS) office was active during the afternoon and evening of November 15 as forecasters tried to keep up with the rapidly developing weather. One person died in the Marshall County town of Benton, where a tornado severely damaged a mobile home park. Upward of two dozen other people were hurt, Dodson added. Kentucky Area 2 District Emergency Coordinator Nick Bailey, KG4URI, said a tornado ripped through the southern end of Madisonville. He estimated that up to 30 ARES and RACES volunteers deployed throughout Hopkins County. Baily reported a lot of damage but no deaths. On November 16, three ARES teams equipped with APRS and GPS accompanied search-and-rescue (SAR) teams going door-to-door. Amateur radio provided mostly SAR communications as the police repeaters were still up, Bailey added. According to Bailey, preliminary estimates had 35 to 40 homes severely damaged or destroyed in the Madisonville area and possibly 10 in Earlington. At least two dozen people were reported injured in Hopkins County, and the count was expected to rise. A confirmed touchdown also occurred in Sharps. Steve Morgan, W4NHO, an ARRL Great Lakes Division assistant director, reported a tornado was tracked from Dawson Spring through Owensboro and into southeastern Indiana. I spoke with the deputy EMA director in Hopkins County, Frank Wright, KA4IGR, he said at mid-week. Amateur Radio is the only reliable communications they have at the moment due to power outages. Telephone service also was reported out in parts of Kentucky. Indiana's latest encounter with tornadoes was not nearly as severe as that of November 6. In the November 15 outbreak, one person was reported killed in Hancock County when a car went out of control after running into
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C'est pour te faire remarquer ? Non ! Mais pour t'emmerder toi, oui. D'ailleurs, à l'avenir, je dédierai à Tante Runge (la belle voyageuse), tous les envois. Dis-moi merci. georges

Non ! Mais pour t'emmerder toi, oui. D'ailleurs, à l'avenir, je dédierai à Tante Runge (la belle voyageuse), tous les envois. Dis-moi merci. Dis le cébiste, tu pollues le groupe. On se FOUT de ta newsletter