
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 17, No. 9
February 27, 1998
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=>Address Changes: Kathy Capodicasa, N1GZO, e-mail kcapodicasa@arrl.org
=>Editorial: Rick Lindquist, N1RL, e-mail elindquist@arrl.org
=>ARRL Audio News is available at http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/
    or by telephone at 860-594-0384.
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IN THIS EDITION:
* +SAREX to be on John Glenn flight
* +Mir resumes school contacts!
* +Hams help in wake of Florida storms
* +FCC back on line
* +Section Managers elected
*  New RFX book available from ARRL
*  Jerry Linenger, KC5HBR, retires as astronaut
*  Solar update
* +Iris Colvin, W6QL, SK
*  Basil O'Brien, G2AMV, SK
*  IN BRIEF: This weekend on the radio;
   K0OV tapped as ARRL ARDF Coordinator;
   SG-2020 debut delayed; Southeastern VHF
   Society Technical Conference; Free SWL
   contest logger available; New Satellite
   Handbook available; SETI League annual meeting set

+Available on ARRL Audio News
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SAREX TO BE ON JOHN GLENN FLIGHT

A ham radio package will be aboard the shuttle flight that carries US 
Senator and astronaut John Glenn into space this fall. Word from NASA this 
week was that the Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment or SAREX payload would be 
carried on STS-95 when it flies in October carrying the 77-year-old space 
pioneer into orbit for the first time since the early 1960s, when Glenn 
became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth.

Two hams--US Astronaut Scott Parazynski, KC5RSY, and European Space Agency 
astronaut Pedro Duque, KC5RGG, of Spain--will be among an international crew 
aboard STS-95. The launch date for the only other SAREX mission scheduled 
for 1998--STS-93--has slipped from August to December. Glenn already has 
begun his astronaut training, but it's not yet known if he plans to get his 
ham ticket before his return to space.

MIR RESUMES SCHOOL CONTACTS!

It's been a long, dry spell for schools that have been waiting for a chance 
to have their students talk to Mir. But that drought has ended. Amateur 
Radio contacts between the Russian Mir space station and schools--on hold 
since a series of problems plagued Mir last year--resumed this week. Aboard 
Mir, US astronaut Andy Thomas, KD5CHF, spoke with youngsters at schools in 
California, Colorado, and South Carolina. Another Mir contact with a school 
in Wyoming is set for March 3, and additional Mir-school contacts are in the 
works, possibly for later in March.

On February 23, Thomas spoke with youngsters at Shell Beach Elementary 
School in Pismo Beach, California. The pupils got to ask Thomas 10 questions 
during the 10-minute contact--made possible through a telebridge connection 
via W5RRR at Johnson Space Center in Texas. AMSAT Technical Mentor Bill 
Hillendahl, KH6GJV, said the children practiced their on-the-air performance 
several times during the previous week until they had it just right. "After 
the session with Andy, the kids were very excited," he said. More than 125 
other pupils and adults were on hand at the school during the contact, which 
was covered by local news media.

The following day, February 24, ten equally excited kids at Prairie Hills 
Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, got their chance to speak 
with Thomas via WA0VTU, the club station of the Pikes Peak Radio Amateur 
Association. As an audience of around 350--including TV and newspaper 
reporters--looked on and listened in, Thomas described his activities on Mir 
and answered six questions. A local repeater retransmitted both sides of the 
contact. Signals were reported generally good but with some static.

On February 26, pupils at Buist Academy in Charleston, South Carolina, fired 
off a dozen questions. Thomas--using his Australian-issued VK5MIR call sign 
for the telebridge contact via VK5AGR--managed to answer 11 of them during 
the 10-minute contact. In one answer, Thomas spoke of the importance for 
those in space to have radio contact with Earth to keep in touch with 
friends and family (he expressed similar sentiments during a NASA press 
conference where he extolled ham radio as immensely helpful in combating the 
loneliness of space flight). In answering another question about the value 
of international cooperation in space exploration, Thomas declared, "Space 
doesn't belong to any one country. We have to share it." An audience of 
approximately 50 people, including news media, was on hand for the contact.

Some of the schools on the latest schedule originally had been scheduled to 
talk with US astronaut Jerry Linenger, KC5HBR, who was aboard Mir for the 
last school-Mir contacts a year ago. Arranging the latest contact schedule 
took several months and was complicated by equipment malfunctions aboard Mir 
and--more recently--by the change in crews.

AMSAT Vice President for Manned Space Programs Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, said 
this week he's pleased that the school contacts logjam was finally starting 
to clear. "It was exciting to hear the students' reactions to the contacts 
and rewarding to know that we have provided an experience to these 
communities they will never forget," he said.

The school contacts--carried out on 70 cm--were a new experience for the 
pupils on Earth and for Thomas aboard Mir. In the first few weeks of his 
stay, Thomas had logged very little time on the spacecraft's Amateur Radio 
equipment because of the crew's busy schedule. But he did make some contacts 
earlier this month on 70 cm using the R0MIR call sign. The 46-year-old 
Australian native will work aboard Mir until June.

HAMS HELP IN AFTERMATH OF FLORIDA TORNADOES

Hams pitched in to help in the aftermath of intense storms and tornadoes in 
Central Florida that killed more than three dozen and injured hundreds of 
others. The tornadoes and heavy thunderstorms struck early Monday while most 
people were asleep, surprising the residents of the affected areas between 
Daytona Beach and Orlando. Many were left homeless by the storms, now being 
called the deadliest and most destructive in Florida's recorded history. 
Weather observers blamed the tornadoes on the El Nino weather system. Some 
families lost their homes and everything they owned. In one tragic incident, 
a tornado wrenched an 18-month old toddler out of its father's arms; the 
child later was found dead. In another miraculous one, the storm picked up a 
youngster on his mattress and placed him gently on an oak tree.

ARRL Northern Florida Section Emergency Coordinator Nils Millergren, WA4NDA, 
said the tornadoes mostly affected Florida's East Central District, while 
the West Central District--Sumter County in particular--experienced 
flooding. At least three Red Cross shelters were reported open in the days 
right after the storms struck. Millergren says amateurs were providing 
communications for shelters and had put in hundreds of operator-hours in 
Sumter County alone. Seminole County ARES/RACES member Allen Wilson, WB7BCI, 
was among dog-handler hams activated to assist in the search and rescue 
effort. Other hams were involved in damage assessment and in providing 
backup communication to relieve already-congested commercial systems. Net 
operations on 2 meters continued this week, and volunteers still were being 
solicited in Northern Florida.

Osceola County--the only county in the Southern Florida section affected by 
the storms--was said to have been hardest hit. Osceola County EC Christopher 
Hammock, KE4DUJ, spent several days at the county Emergency Operations 
Center. Osceola has a small ham population. Southern Florida SM Rip Van 
Winkle, AA4HT, reports hams from outside the county--particularly from Polk 
County--were helping out. Van Winkle said Osceola ham operations in support 
of the emergency wrapped up February 26.

President Clinton visited the affected area this week. Damage was reported 
to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Curfews were imposed in some areas 
to deter looting.--thanks to Nils Millergren, WA4NDA, Rip Van Winkle, AA4HT, 
and others

FCC COMPUTER SYSTEM BACK ON LINE

The FCC got its errant Amateur Radio licensing computer system back on line 
February 21 and began processing the backlog of applications. The system 
went down February 10, and no paper or electronic applications were 
processed for nearly 11 days as FCC personnel in Gettysburg attempted to 
troubleshoot the problems with the system.

Gettysburg personnel first processed data submitted on February 11 and 12 by 
VECs and had an updated file available for the Internet call sign servers on 
February 21. Since the initial processing went well, VECs then sent on the 
applications they'd been holding back at the FCC's request. By February 26, 
it was business as usual. Gettysburg had caught up with the backlog and ran 
a batch of vanity applications, although a number of applications remained 
in the work in process (WIPs) stack.

The FCC offered no explanation for the computer breakdown--its longest ever. 
The situation frustrated those who have been hoping to learn their new call 
signs or to check on updated licensing status. Call sign servers on the 
Internet also were affected. The FCC apologized to VECs for the 
inconvenience.

SECTION MANAGERS ELECTED

Virginia, Pacific, and San Diego will get new section managers, while 
incumbent section managers were returned to office in five other sections.

In the Virginia Section, Lynn Gahagan, AF4CD, of Chesapeake outpolled 
Lawrence Macionski, W8LM, of Bluemont 1256 to 579. Gahagan will succeed 
current Section Manager Chris Wright, KD4TZN, of Rocky Mount.

In the Eastern Pennsylvania Section, incumbent SM Allen Breiner, W3TI, of 
Tamaqua defeated Robert Stanhope, KB3YS, of York 950 to 760.

In the North Carolina Section, incumbent W. Reed Whitten, AB4W, of Cary was 
the winner in a three-way race. Whitten received 730 votes. Challengers 
Glenn Roger Allen, KD4MYE, of Wake Forest and Billy Mitchell, WB4SGA, of 
Mebane, polled 657 and 636 votes respectively.

Votes from the three contested sections were counted February 24 at ARRL 
Headquarters.

Candidates in five other sections were uncontested. Declared elected were: 
In the Eastern New York Section, incumbent Rob Leiden, KR2L, of Scotia; in 
the Louisiana Section, incumbent Lionel "Al" Oubre, K5DPG, of New Iberia; in 
the Pacific Section, Ronald Phillips, AH6HN, of Keaau, Hawaii (Phillips will 
succeed current Pacific SM Dean Manley, KH6B); in the San Diego Section, 
Tuck Miller, K6ZEC, of National City (Miller will succeed Patrick Bunsold, 
WA6MHZ); and in the South Dakota Section, incumbent Roland Cory, W0YMB, of 
Mobridge.

Terms for successful candidates begin April 1, 1998.

NEW ARRL BOOK--RF EXPOSURE AND YOU--NOW AVAILABLE

If you're worried about how to comply with the FCC's new RF exposure 
requirements, then you'll want a copy of the new ARRL book RF Exposure and 
You by ARRL Lab Supervisor Ed Hare, W1RFI. RF Exposure and You became 
available just this week.

As ARRL Executive Vice President Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, put it: "The new RF 
exposure rules are now a part of the regulatory landscape and are likely to 
remain so." RF Exposure and You is the best way available to ease the 
transition, Sumner said.

This book communicates one simple message: For the vast majority of Amateur 
Radio operators, the RF exposure rules are not difficult to understand and 
follow. At 320 pages, RF Exposure and You contains all the background 
information, suggestions and worksheets you'll need to help you comply with 
the new RF exposure rules and to operate your station legally and safely.

Hare said that preparing the book was "a real challenge and a real 
collective effort." The result is a book that's probably the first of its 
kind. "I have never seen this information pulled together in one place 
before," he said. ARRL Headquarters staff and volunteers (including the ARRL 
RF Safety Committee) participated fully with the FCC as the Commission 
determined the best advice to give amateurs on how to meet the new 
requirements. The League was able to persuade the FCC to reconsider its 
rules, and to rewrite them so that amateurs would be less affected. Hare 
says it took a lot of teamwork between Headquarters staff and outside 
volunteers to have the book printed and available in just three months.

A. J. Kruger, K7CMM, of Arizona, placed the first advance order for RF 
Exposure and You early this year. This week, Hare personally autographed the 
first copy out of the box--indicating it was the first copy purchased from 
ARRL Headquarters. The order went out this week.

RF Exposure and You is $15 (plus shipping and handling). Order Item #6621. 
To order  your copy, visit your local Amateur Radio retailer or the ARRLWeb, 
http://www.arrl.org/catalog/6621, or call toll-free 888-277-5289.

JERRY LINENGER, KC5HBR, RETIRES FROM ASTRONAUT CORPS

NASA has announced that US astronaut Jerry Linenger, KC5HBR, who lived 
aboard the Mir space station for 122 days, has retired from NASA to pursue 
private interests. Linenger, a physician and a captain in the US Navy, was 
aboard the Russian space station from January to May 1997.

Also retiring as a NASA astronaut is shuttle veteran Blaine L. Hammond, 
KC5HBS, who plans to join a California aerospace firm. Hammond, a colonel in 
the US Air Force, flew on two Shuttle flights.

Linenger was aboard Mir when a fire broke out just over one year ago ignited 
by oxygen-generating lithium perchlorate "candles" used on the spacecraft. 
Despite the fire just a few days earlier, Linenger spoke with students at a 
Michigan elementary school via ham radio to report all crew members in good 
health. The fire, a collision with a Progress supply rocket last summer, 
several computer failures, and other problems led some officials in this 
country to question sending additional US astronauts to train aboard Mir.

Linenger arrived at the Mir as a member of the STS-81 crew and returned with 
the STS-84 crew, logging 132 consecutive days in space during those combined 
missions.  Selected as an astronaut in 1992, his first space flight was on 
board Discovery for STS-64, an 11-day mission, in 1994.

SOLAR UPDATE: ANOTHER SOLAR RETREAT

Solar savant Tad Cook, K7VVV Seattle, Washington, reports: Solar activity 
retreated again last week, with average sunspot numbers down 20 points and 
average solar flux down about five. Geomagnetic conditions were relatively 
quiet. Quiet conditions are expected to continue over the next few days, 
with the solar flux February 27 through March 1 predicted to be 93, 92 and 
90. Stable geomagnetic conditions should be good for the CQ Worldwide 160 
Meter DX Contest this weekend. Currently the most active solar region is 
number 8164, with 18 sunspots.

Over the next week look for solar flux to drift below 90, then rise above 90 
after March 8, above 100 around March 12, and below 100 by March 18. Over 
the next month the hours of daylight will increase in the northern 
hemisphere, and we can look forward to typical spring conditions with more 
daylight openings on the higher bands.

A chart on the web at http://www.dxlc.com/solar/cyclcomp.html compares the 
current solar cycle, now 21 months old, with the two previous cycles, dating 
back to June 1976. This is part of the DX Listener's Club of Norway Web site 
mentioned in a previous report. The monthly smoothed sunspot number is 
obviously lagging for this cycle, and the month-by-month graphic comparison 
makes this very clear.

K7EEC wrote to ask: "If flux numbers are high, does this mean that 
propagation is probably better?" He also asked what the flux numbers 
measure.

High solar flux is good for HF propagation, especially if A and K indices 
are low. During the peak of the sunspot cycle the solar flux is higher. 
Solar flux is a measurement of radio energy emitted by the sun at 10.7 
cm--or 2800 MHz. This seems to correlate with ionization of the ionosphere. 
The denser the ionization, the higher the frequencies that it can reflect. 
More information can be found in chapter 21 of the 1998 edition of The ARRL 
Handbook for Radio Amateurs and in The New Shortwave Propagation Handbook, 
by Jacobs, Rose and Cohen, published by CQ magazine.

Your questions and comments are welcome via e-mail to tad@ssc.com.

Sunspot numbers for February 19 through 25 were 57, 29, 28, 38, 59, 78, and 
69 with a mean of 51.1. The 10.7-cm flux was 98, 95.7, 94.8, 95.5, 99.4, 
98.6, and 94.7, with a mean of 96.7, and estimated planetary A indices were 
7, 7, 4, 6, 11, 3, and 4, with a mean of 6.

IRIS COLVIN, W6QL, SK

The other half of the world-famous Colvin DXpedition team, Iris Colvin, 
W6QL, of Richmond, California, died February 18 at her home. She was 83. 
Iris Colvin was first licensed in 1945. She and her late husband, Lloyd 
Colvin, W6KG, traveled the world between the 1960s and the early 1990s, 
operating from more than 100 DXCC countries. Lloyd Colvin died in 1993. The 
couple had been married for 55 years.

The Colvins racked up more than a million contacts over the years and 
amassed one of the largest QSL collections in the world--more than a half 
million cards at last count. The collection is said to have occupied an 
entire room in the Colvins' home.

The ARRL Board of Directors recognized the Colvins' contributions to 
international goodwill by naming them Amateur Radio Ambassadors of the 
Decade 1980-1990. The Colvin Award was established in 1994 from the proceeds 
of an endowment set up by Lloyd Colvin that named the ARRL as a beneficiary. 
The Award disburses grants to support ham radio projects that promote 
international goodwill in the field of DX. Among others, the Colvin Award 
has helped to fund the second World Radiosport Team Championship in 1996 and 
the VK0IR Heard Island DXpedition in 1997.

Upon learning of Iris Colvin's passing, Carlos Garnier da Silva, PY1HDG, 
commented, "The DX world owes a debt to the Colvins. I had a lot of fun 
working them, and I will never forget their efforts on behalf of ham radio." 
Rusty Epps, W6OAT, said, "With her passing, we have lost both a friend and 
one of the true giants of Amateur Radio."

Iris Colvin was a Charter Life Member of the ARRL and a life member and past 
president of the Northern California DX Club. She also was on the DXCC Honor 
Roll and was inducted into the CQ DX Hall of Fame in 1976.

A daughter and grandchildren survive. Services were private.

BASIL O'BRIEN, G2AMV, SK

Former RSGB President Basil O'Brien, G2AMV, died on February 21. O'Brien 
represented the North of England as an RSGB Council Member for many years 
and had previously been Regional Representative for the North-West. O'Brien 
was RSGB President during 1981. Eight years later, he was awarded the 
highest honor to be bestowed by the RSGB--he was made a Vice President. 
Services were February 27. US amateurs had the opportunity to meet Basil 
O'Brien and his wife, Eileen, at the 1981 ARRL National Convention in 
Orlando and at the 1982 Dayton Hamvention.--RSGB; David Sumner, K1ZZ

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In Brief:

This weekend on the radio: The CQ WW 160-meter SSB Contest tops the list of 
operating events this weekend. Also, the North Carolina QSO Party and the 
UBA Contest (CW) are on tap. See February QST, page 95, for more 
information. Coming up: March 7-8 it's the ARRL International DX Contest 
(SSB).

K0OV tapped as ARRL ARDF Coordinator: Joe Moell, K0OV has been appointed as 
the first ARRL Amateur Radio Direction Finding Coordinator. At its last 
meeting, the ARRL Board of Directors authorized creation of the volunteer 
position to promote ARDF activities in IARU Region 2 as one means to involve 
youth in the hobby. The ARDF Coordinator will promote ham radio 
direction-finding activities and report regularly to the Board.

SG-2020 debut delayed: SGC reports via its Web site, 
http://www.sgcworld.com/sg2020.html, that deliveries of its long-awaited 
SG-2020 low-power HF transceiver will not begin until mid-March. Initial 
production will cover back-ordered units. New orders won't be available from 
dealers until after May 1. The SG-2020, based on the design of the popular 
Index Laboratories QRP Plus transceiver--now out of production--was 
originally scheduled to be on the market last fall. That date subsequently 
slipped to January. By way of explaining the delay, SGC says it's improved 
the SG-2020's technical specs "to deliver enhanced performance."

Southeastern VHF Society Technical Conference: The second annual 
Southeastern VHF Society Technical Conference is set for Friday and 
Saturday, April 3-4, at the Atlanta Marriott Northwest. ARRL Lab Supervisor 
Ed Hare, W1RFI, will speak on EMI and the new RF exposure regulations during 
the conference. Other presentation topics include helical antennas by Mike 
Barts, N4GU; using high-speed CW for meteor scatter, by Jim McMasters, 
KD5BUR; and UHF Beacons by Charles Osborne, WD4MBK. Microwave experimenter 
and author Paul Wade, N1BWT, is the banquet speaker. Antenna measurements 
and noise figure testing as well as a flea market will be available. The 
family program offers a chance to see the Atlanta Braves on Sunday, April 5. 
For more information, contact Conference Chairman Jim Worsham, W4KXY, e-mail 
wa4kxy@bellsouth.net; tel 770-945-9910, or Publicity Chairman Tad Danley, 
K3TD, e-mail k3td@contesting.com; tel 770-513-9252, visit 
http://www.akorn.net/~ae6e/svhfs, or write Southeastern VHF Society Inc, Box 
1255, Cornelia, GA 30531. A special hotel rate is in effect for conference 
attendees. For Marriott reservations, call toll-free 800-228-9290.

Free SWL contest logger available: A free SWL logger program, SDL 
(Super-Duper for Listeners), is now available. SDL is a comprehensive MS-DOS 
HF contest logger for SWLs. It's derived from SD and shares all its relevant 
features. SDL offers direct support for most international contests. Some 35 
country and area multiplier reference files are supplied. SDL links to 
Kenwood and Yaesu radios to follow band and mode changes. It offers fast, 
simple logging and editing, and it tracks multipliers, dupes and points in 
real time. It is not designed for post-contest logging, however. SDL runs 
under MS-DOS or in a DOS window with Windows 3.11, 95 or NT. SDL may be 
downloaded from http://ve7tcp.ampr.org/ftp/software/sd. SDLCHECK, a 
post-contest program to edit SDL files and to generate printed logs, 
multiplier lists, check sheets and summary sheets. An SDL reflector also is 
available. To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@blacksheep.org with the 
message "subscribe sd-user".--Paul O'Kane, EI5DI

New Satellite Handbook available: The ARRL's new Radio Amateur's Satellite 
Handbook by Martin Davidoff, K2UBC is off the press. This brand-new edition 
contains valuable information on satellite operating, types of antennas 
(including how-to articles on building your own), software, satellite 
Internet sites, profiles of all the current active satellites and much more. 
This new edition includes 376 pages of information, such as getting ready 
for the new Phase 3D satellite and information about Amateur Radio operation 
from the US space shuttles (SAREX) and the Russian Mir space station. It 
contains thorough appendices covering profiles of computer programs, 
Internet sites, FCC Rules, and a complete history of amateur satellite and 
space operations. The new Radio Amateur's Satellite Handbook is available 
from ARRL Publications. Order Item #6583. It's $22 (plus shipping and 
handling). To order  your copy, visit your local Amateur Radio retailer or 
the ARRLWeb, http://www.arrl.org/catalog/6583, or call toll-free 
888-277-5289.

SETI League annual meeting set: The SETI League Inc will hold its fourth 
annual membership meeting and a press briefing Sunday, March 29, 1998, 
starting at 2 PM Eastern Time, at the organization's headquarters in Little 
Ferry, New Jersey. At the press briefing, SETI League scientists will report 
on the progress of their Project Argus search, launched just over two years 
ago. The SETI League calls Project Argus--named after the fictional search 
in the late Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, Contact-- "perhaps the most ambitious 
radio astronomy project ever undertaken without government equipment or 
funding." Project Argus will deploy and coordinate approximately 5000 small 
radiotelescopes around the world in an all-sky survey for signals of 
possibly intelligent extraterrestrial origin. For more information or to 
join The SETI League, see http://www.setileague.org/ or send e-mail to 
join@setileague.org or call toll-free 800-828-7384 (TAU SETI).
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