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ULS Now Up and Running
by Marvin 12 May '00

12 May '00

This is from the ARRL Newsletter ----------------------------- FCC DEBUTS ULS INTERNET FILING! Amateurs now can file Universal Licensing System applications via the Web! With little fanfare, the FCC opened ULS to Internet filers on April 29. It formally announced the system this week. ULS users now can file applications and notifications via the Internet for all services previously only available by dial-up connection to the Commission's Wide Area Network. To access the new capability, visit the ULS home page http://www.fcc.gov/wtb/uls and click on "Online Filing." (Users may ignore the on-line survey.) Applicants must first be registered with ULS and use their ULS password to log onto the system. The ULS--the FCC's interactive on-line licensing application, modification and renewal system for wireless telecommunications services--was deployed for the Amateur Service last August 16. ULS also lets users research the status of applications filed in ULS and licenses issued by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. WTB Chief Thomas Sugrue said this week that many ULS users had requested the ability to access ULS through the Internet in order to utilize their high speed Internet connectivity. He also addressed concerns about the security of transactions handled via the Internet. "We now have the technology in place that assures the integrity and security of data transmitted over the Internet along with high speed connectivity," he said. "This is another step forward in the expanding functionality of ULS." The FCC has told the ARRL that making online payments--to file a vanity call sign application and pay on line, for example--requires that users be running the 128-bit encryption version of Netscape Communicator Ver 4.73 or later. The FCC says Netscape 4.7, 4.61 and 4.51 have been tested and are compatible with the ULS. While different browsers and platforms other than Windows-based systems may work for some ULS functions, the FCC currently supports only these recent versions of Netscape for online filing tasks. Netscape 4.6 and versions earlier than 4.51 are not compatible with ULS, however. Filers should configure browsers to enable Java and Java Script and to accept all cookies. Users also will need to download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later as a plug-in to their Web browser. Netscape and Acrobat are available free via the Internet. ULS support for other browsers and platforms, such as the Mac, is in the works and should be available shortly. The FCC will continue to provide dial-up access to the ULS. Information on making a dial-up connection is available via the ULS home page by clicking on "Connecting to ULS." Those experiencing problems logging onto the ULS should contact ULS Tech Support at 202-414-1250.--FCC

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[Fwd: ARLB026 VECs Struggle with Paperwork Mountain]
by Michael P. Jogoleff 12 May '00

12 May '00

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*SPECIAL GUEST FOR SBARC MAY 19 2000 MEETING!
by Dennis Schwendtner 11 May '00

11 May '00

Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Meetings _ Upcoming May Meeting Friday, May 19, 2000 7:30 PM (Doors open at 6:45!) Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Special Location!!! St. Andrews Presbyterian Fellowship Hall 4575 Auhay Drive (off Hollister between Turnpike and Modoc) Visitors are cordially invited! Talk in is available on K6TZ 146.79/19(131.8). and 147.000 +600 MHz pl 131.8 . Old Timers' Night with Wayne Green, W2NSD Wayne Green, W2NSD Special Guest Speaker: Wayne Green, W2NSD Bio: Every time someone asks me for a brief bio I start out innocently enough born in Littleton, New Hampshire in 1922. Father: aviator; mother: artist, it says on my birth certificate. Kinda an artist and engineer start for me. The problem is that the next thing I know Im up to volume five of my bio, so lets cut to the ham radio chase. I was bitten by the radio bug when I was 14. It happened in church! Some guy came in with a big carton of radio parts and gave em to my friend Alfie. Having no interest in em, he gave the carton to me. That was part one of a two-part disaster in my life. The second part was when I found an article in Popular Mechanics that used the parts to make a cigar box radioand the damned radio worked! I was hooked. No, Im not complaining. Amateur radio has provided me with a lifetime of fun and adventure. Ive visited hams in over 130 countries and operated from sixty some including places such as Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Swaziland, Lesotho, the Korean DMZ, Fiji, Wake Island, and so on. And what could be more fun to do for a living than publishing a ham magazine? Talk about nirvana! Ive traveled around the world with hams. Twice. I ski with em. I go scuba diving with em. Ive taken hams on tours of Europe and Asia. I even organized an all-ham African hunting safari. My father got into aviation right in the beginning, so I guess its no wonder that Ive been attracted to new technologies. The first time I heard ham teletype signals I had to know more. So I built a terminal unit, bought an old Model 12 machine, and had so much fun hat I started a small magazine on the subject. I loved building ham gear and wanted to share the fun I was having. This lead to my starting 73 magazine in 1960. Well, I have this genetic problem of wanting to share anything I particularly enjoy with as many people as I can. W Jack Babkes W2GDG invented narrow-band FM in 1946, I was one of the first on the air with it. Then came RTTY in 1948. Wow, was that fun! John Williams W2BFD and I set up a repeater atop the New York City Municipal building in 1949, making it so RTTYers all around greater New York could be in contact. A little over a year later I started publishing my RTTY Journal. When sideband arrived in 1955 I had a ball, o I published everything I could about it. In 1959 I flew around the world, working tens of thousands of stations on 20 m SSB from the plane, and visiting hams in 26 countries. That was also the year I represented amateur radio for the U.S. at the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva. This was the conference when Kruschev saved amateur radio. But that story would take an hour to tell. In 1963 we had the worst disaster in the history of the hobby, but that, too, is a long and fascinating story. Thats when, in less than two years over 85% of the ham dealers were forced out of business, 90% of the ham clubs folded, and over 90% of the ham manufacturers folded. 1966 I almost got the ITU to officially endorse amateur radio. Thats a several chapter story in itself. In 1970 I heard that His Majesty King Husseins wife had given him a ham rig for Christmas, so I cabled him, asking if hed like me to come over and show him how to use it. A few days later I was in Amman, where I operated from the palace for two weeks with His Majesty. And thats another long and fantastic story. A few years ago, when I visited Jord n, Prince Raad held a special meeting of the Royal Jordanian Amateur Radio Society and introduced me as the man who had had more of an effect on Jordan than anyone other than the King imself. Exciting moments for me? Working my home station on 20m from VK3ATN in Birchip, Australia. And then going down to 75m and hearing my home station coming through S-9+! Wow! My two DXpeditions to Navassa Island. Working several states on 10.5 GHz. My Oscar contact with Moscow, where there was a 20-second window. Round tables on 75m with me relaying DX stations from Africa and the Indian Ocean via 20m on 75m. Yes, I had two kilowatt rigs. Then there was that Finnish Sauna with OH2SS, where we went from a half hour in a 250� room and jumped into a lake, where the ice had just melted a few days earlier. I got excited about repeaters, setting up WR1AAB on nearby Pack Monadnock Mountain. The results were spectacular, so I published hundreds of articles on 2m FM and repeaters in 73, plus I published a separate repeater magazine. I organized repeater conferences around the country to standardize channels. We went from about a hundred repeaters to thousands, and all this with no help whatever from any of e other ham magazines. I have my 60-year ARRL plaque. Ive come from the 1930s, when amateur radio was crystal controlled and 90% was on CW, to todays synthesized solid-state transceivers. Ive worked 100 countries in a weekend, 200 in a month, and 300 in a year. All states in one night. Rag chewed, pioneered NBFM, SSB, slow scan, repeaters, and satellites. Ive worked moonbounce from the big dish at Arecibo. And, you know, there hasnt been anything Ive done that anyone else couldnt have, if theyd taken advanage of the opportunities. Yes, I know, thats all me-me me. Well, its a bio, so what did you expect. My controversial editorials in 73 are more about you than me. I write about anything I think should interest you. I review books Ive discovered which youre crazy if you dont read. I talk about how you can make more money, how you can be healthier, how you can raise your babys IQ by 40 to 50 points, and how we can enormously improve our schools, our government, and so on. We have the best country in the world, but if we work at it, we can make it a whole lot better. So, lets get busy. The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club holds its General Meetings on the third Friday of the month (except for the months of June, July, August) at either the County Schools Auditorium or the Goleta Union School Dist. Admin. Center Board Room. The meeting starts at 7:30pm, but come early for the "Free-to-Good-Home" Table, SBARC Bookstore, and socializing. Topics and speakers have ranged from DXing with the Pope, Gordon West, JPL Demonstration, Old Timers' Night, and Come Fly With Us! (hang gliding and Amateur Radio. This year's topics will include Transmitter Hunting and Fiber Optics. _________________________________________________________________ ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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DONATIONS!
by Dennis Schwendtner 11 May '00

11 May '00

Subject: Donations!!! **************QST QST QST QST********************** Wanted: A little time on your part and a little asking on your part. Many of us frequent different places of business in Santa Barbara and Goleta. We eat out and we buy, buy, buy. When your in your favorite restaurant or store, please ask the manager if they would like to donate to a great cause. Our Hamfest in August. All they can say is no, but usually if they know you they will be glad to donate. We would like the load of work to not fall on just the same old group, when it doesn't take much effort to ask a simple question like "does your company donate to fund raisers"? That all it takes to get the ball rolling. We do have the appropriate paper work and if you need those sent to a particular place of business, we will supply them. Just let us know. Or if you need some just to have with you we can get you the supply. Thank you so very much for your help with this effort. We want to make it the best Communication Fair/Hamfest ever. Another thing that would work is if you yourself have something that is new and it just is sitting in your closet. Candles, books, stationery, wine glasses, wine, HT's etc. We can put these in gift baskets, if they are new. I guess it's called white elephants. So check your drawers and closets for a donation from yourself. We would greatly appreciate it. A lot of you out there are talented. If you would like to donate a photograph, painting, pottery or afghan those items would also be accepted with opened arms. Best Regards Dennis and JoAnn Schwendtner 73 WB6OBB ;-} 88"s KA6RPN ;-] Hamfest Prize chair- people 966-7060 ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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Please Stop the "test messages"
by Clayton A. Burnham 11 May '00

11 May '00

I really hate to be a whiner, but these "test messages" are getting out of hand. And if you "reply" to someones message, please do not "reply-to-all" unless it is very important. Thanks...

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Test Message
by Marvin 11 May '00

11 May '00

Just checking to see if this address still works.

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New SBARC-list site
by Paul Cronshaw, D.C. 11 May '00

11 May '00

Please note that there is a new procedure to subscribe to the SBARC-list: Visit the new listserv site at: http://lists.netlojix.com/mailman/listinfo/sbarc-list Paul Cronshaw DC SBARC-list Administrator KF6TRT

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Fw: SB 1714 AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 9, 2000
by Donald L Milbury 10 May '00

10 May '00

FYI 73, Don Milbury, W6YN SB 1714 AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 9, 2000 <http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1701-1750/ sb_1714_bill_20000509_amended_sen.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amateur Radio: If you're not having fun, you are not doing it right! http://www.qsl.net/arrlsb ARRL, Santa Barbara Section To subscribe: mailto:arrlsb-subscribe@egroups.com Internet Manager: AD6AD(a)arrl.net

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Fw: Delay in license processing
by Donald L Milbury 09 May '00

09 May '00

FYI: 73, Don Milbury, W6YN -------------------------------- Hi All: Perhaps a few words here will clarify the reasons for the delays of applications going through the ARRL VEC. The ARRL VEC processes between 65 and 70% of all amateur applications. The W5YI group, though smaller, does account for 20% or more all applications. The remainder of the applications are processed by very small VECs, at least a couple of which do not test as many applicants in a year as large ARRL or W5YI team would test in a month. The ARRL has not purposely delayed the submission of new license and upgrade data to the FCC. The delay is a product of sheer volume! Over 10,000 applications are waiting to be processed for the date of April 15th alone. Since January 1st there has been a large increase in the number of test sessions. Year to date we have seen an increase in the number of individual applicants by a factor of over 3. This will give you an idea of the task before us. Yes, there are significant delays; the ARRL VEC has hired additional staff to help cope. Staff are bringing work home nights and weekends, others are staying at work until 9:00 PM or later on a regular basis. All field stocked and software using teams had to be supplied with new materials prior to the implementation of the new rules. Currently, we expect to start processing the 10,000 or so April 15th applications later this week. When the backlog is finally broken, we should be back to business as usual. There is a bright side. Even now that the "magic date" has come and gone, testing is at a higher level than it was last year - a healthy outlook for Amateur Radio. The W5YI VEC may have started processing April 15th sessions, but he too has had to hire additional help. The very small VECs did not have very many applicants in the whole scheme of things, so from those VECs , upgrade grants may well have occurred in the FCC database. We ask that VEs, and applicants bear with us as we attack the literally "file cabinets" full of pending applications. One final note in closing, for those of you who generally use e-mail addressed to vec(a)arrl.org, to register sessions, request supplies, request clarifications, or for a multitude of other reasons requiring contact with the VEC office, please be aware that the mail box is full. Mail for this mailbox has been increasing since January 1, 2000 . Currently there are over 1500 messages awaiting response. Some responses have been automated. If your request is urgent, consider addressing it to my mail box as an alternative, ( w1ki(a)arrl.org ). Or if practical, fax your requests to 1 (860) 594-0339. The telephone works also, but please bear in mind that telephone time does take away from test session / application processing time. The ARRL VEC is willing to answer any and all requests for VEC services. So, if you do have a need to contact us, please do not hesitate to do so. Many thanks to all of you who have supported, and continue to support the ARRL VEC program. Wayne K. Irwin, W1KI Assistant to the ARRL VEC Manager E-Mail to: w1ki(a)arrl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amateur Radio: If you're not having fun, you are not doing it right! http://www.qsl.net/arrlsb ARRL, Santa Barbara Section To subscribe: mailto:arrlsb-subscribe@egroups.com Internet Manager: AD6AD(a)arrl.net

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Love Letter Virus Protection
by Marvin 09 May '00

09 May '00

I just received this from Bob and think it is well worth sharing. FWIW, among his many talents Bob is a Windows Guru. My version of Win95 (the first version) did not seem to offer scripting capability so I am guessing this will apply to later versions of Win95 and/or Win98. ----------------------------- From: Bob Staudenmaier To: All Friends and Clients Subject: Protection Against Love Letter Virus The "Love Letter" virus and its variants depend on Windows scripting support to run. If you are not using Microsoft Outlook (or Outlook Express), you can scrap the AntiVirus scans and remove the scripting components to immunize your system. 1) Have your Windows CDROM disk handy 2) Go to MY COMPUTER........CONTROL PANEL 3) Double-click on ADD/REMOVE programs 4) Select the WINDOWS SETUP tab 5) Choose ACCESSORIES, then hit the PROPERTIES button. 6) Scroll down until you find the WINDOWS SCRIPTING HOST. If this box is not checked, your system does not have scripting support installed and your system is immune to the love letter virus. Use the CANCEL button to close all dialog boxes. If the box IS checked, you may remove the scripting host by unchecking the box and hitting the OK button until all boxes are closed. Reboot your system. Remember that you may only remove the scripting host if you are NOT using Outlook or Outlook Express. Notes: In the unlikely event that you have another application (so far unknown to me) that uses the scripting host, you will have to REVERSE the above procedure to reinstall scripting support. If you already HAVE the virus, this procedure will not help you. Follow virus removal instructions below or seek assistance. Exercise caution when opening E-mailed attachments. Avoid opening these types of files: applications (.EXE) word documents (.DOC) excel spreadsheets (.XLS) visual basic scripts (.VBS) Most other types of files (.GIF, .JPG, .BMP, .PDF, .PS, .EPS, .HTM , .TXT) cannot carry viruses and are generally safe to open.

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