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Fw: MORSE CODE RADIO STATION KPH... Lives!
by W6YN Don Milbury 22 Jun '00

22 Jun '00

FYI: 73, Don Milbury, W6YN --------------------------------------------------- HISTORIC MORSE CODE RADIO STATION RETURNS TO THE AIR Former "Wireless Giant of the Pacific" Will Once Again Be Heard 22 JUNE 2000 (MRHS) - The former Marconi and RCA Morse code radio station KPH will make a commemorative broadcast on Wednesday, 12 July, the first anniversary of the last commercial Morse code transmission in North America. KPH began life at the dawn of radio. Its first home was the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, from which it derived its first call letters, PH. When the Palace Hotel was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire the station moved to several different locations, eventually finding a permanent home on the mesa west of the small California town of Bolinas. Along the way federal regulators added the K prefix to the original PH, creating KPH, one of the most famous radio call signs in the world. Radio operators ashore and afloat came to regard KPH as "the wireless giant of the Pacific". Only the best operators worked at KPH. They were there 24 hours a day, ready to help with everything from the mundane messages of maritime commerce to urgent requests for assistance from ships in distress. The KPH signal literally spanned the globe. Radio operators on ships in the far corners of the world were comforted by the steady signal of KPH in their earphones. As technology progressed the end of Morse code was predicted many times. But KPH soldiered on providing good, reliable service to the maritime community. The end came at Bolinas in 1997 when Globe Wireless purchased the license and the big transmitters were finally shut down. On July 12, 1999 Globe Wireless sent the last commercial messages in Morse code from KFS, their master station near Half Moon Bay. It was the last time the famous call KPH would be heard on the air - or so it was thought. Today the former KPH facilities are part of the Point Reyes National Seashore which has a strong interest in the important role the station played in the history of radio communications. The Maritime Radio Historical Society has been working with the Point Reyes National Seashore to preserve and restore KPH with the goal of eventually creating a museum dedicated to this great station that was once heard throughout the world. On 12 July KPH will return to the air from its original location, using its original equipment and its original frequencies - generously made available by Globe Wireless, the current owner of the KPH license and operator of the equally famous KFS from which the last commercial Morse message was sent. Veteran operators, radio engineers and those with an interest in radio history will gather at the Bolinas transmitter building to watch the station come on the air one year and one minute after the last Morse transmission from Half Moon Bay. Commemorative messages will be sent by hand by the operators who once stood watch at the station. And then they will listen for any calls from the few remaining ships at sea with Morse capability. While this event does not signal the return of KPH to commercial Morse service we intend it to acknowledge and honor all the radio operators who have "worn the earphones" and played a role in the history of maritime radio. The station will operate on 4247.0, 6477.5 and 13002.0Kc on shortwave and 500/426Kc. on medium wave. If additional frequencies become available by 12 July these will be announced in the commemorative broadcast. Contact: Dick Dillman Maritime Radio Historical Society Phone: 415-512-7137 Email: ddillman(a)igc.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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"FD" VHF OPERATORS
by RICHARD L JOHNSON 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

I have ben assigned the task of chairing the VHF field day station, 6m, 2m, 220m, 432, with Rod wb9kmo doing ATV So at this time I am looking for operators to man the various stations I have a time table for you to sign up for the time that you want to work and what band. Your commitment for these hours will be yours only, if some one else is on the radio, they will have to relinquish it to you I am sure there will be times that no one will be there to operate, THE OBJECT IS TO HAVE FUN Please don't let all this hard work setting up these stations go for nought Call dick w6dnn to sign up your time and band 967-7573 or e-mail by Thursday AM ( I am home all day) TNX

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New license procedure obsoletes VE program
by Jay Hennigan 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

http://totl.net/Ham/ -- Jay Hennigan - Network Administration - jay(a)west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. NASDAQ: NETX - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323

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Fw: SB-1714: Letters Needed!
by Donald L Milbury 15 Jun '00

15 Jun '00

June 28th is the day the Assembly Committee will consider bill. Please take action NOW! 73, Don Milbury, W6YN ------------------------------------------------- SB-1714: Letters Needed! By Jim Maxwell, W6CF, Director, Pacific Division, ARRL w6cf(a)arrl.org You may know that SB-1714, which is our first step toward restraining local jurisdictions from regulating Amateur service antennas out of existence, passed the California Senate 39-0 on May 30. From there it has gone to the Assembly for consideration. On June 6 SB-1714 was assigned to the Local Government Committee of the California Assembly. The members of the committee are Assembly members Longville (Chair), Pacheco (Vice-chair), Corbett, Kaloogian, Kuehl, Thompson, Torlakson and Wiggins. The present text of the bill may still be found at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov; click on "bills" and search on "1714" (no quotes). We have just been informed that the SB-1714 will be considered in the Local Government Committee on Wednesday, June 28. Preparations are in progress right now for a small group to appear before the Committee in support of the bill. The makeup of our group is in a state of flux at the moment, but current plans are for our group to be led by Vice Director Vallio, W6RGG, ably supported by Sacramento Valley Section Manager Jerry Boyd, K6BZ, and possibly Volunteer Counsel Coordinator Harry Styron, K6HS. I will be out of the country on that date, so will not be able to attend. We do not have a sponsor in the Assembly, so we need to be more active in support than was necessary in the Senate, where we had the minority leader carrying the bill. We continue to face opposition to any meaningful bill from the California League of Cities and other lobbying organizations concerned with land use and real estate. You should express your opinion (hopefully supportive) to your individual Assembly member and to the members of the Local Government Committee and/or to the committee staff. At this point please do not suggest changes to the bill, because any amendment in the Assembly would effectively kill it for this year. In its present form it doesn't hurt, and it will permit us to work with the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to get (hopefully) something next year that will really help. You may find your Assembly member's name in the government pages of the telephone directory or on the web by going to http://www.assembly.ca.gov and using the zip code finders that can be found off those pages. Every Assembly member may be contacted by mail addressed to him or her by name at P. O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0001. Every Assembly member may be contacted by email at an address constructed as assemblymember.<name>@assembly.ca.gov, where <name> is the last name of the Assembly member. For example, Assemblyman Sam Aanestad of the 3rd district has email address assemblymenber.aanestad(a)assembly.ca.gov. Each member of the Assembly has individual office, telephone and fax numbers in their district and in Sacramento. Local offices are listed in the government section of your phone directory. A great deal of information about each member can be found off of the http://www.assembly.ca.gov page. The Local Government Committee is more primitive, for they have no email address. Their snail-mail address is 1020 "N" Street, Room 157, Sacramento, CA 95814. Their telephone number is 1-916-319-3958 and their fax number is 1-916-319-3959. You should send them a copy of every letter addressed to your Assembly member or to the Assembly members of the Local Government Committee. In the Senate we got a very misleading support count in the legislative analysts' comments, because few of our letters went to the committee staff. They said we only had six letters in support, which is only the count of letters that went to the staff itself - they apparently did not see the many letters addressed to individual Senators. It is sufficient just to write or telephone to say "I am an Amateur Radio Service licensee and I support SB- 1714." Staff at each level simply keeps a count for and against for the member. The Assembly member generally will not see the individual letters, only the count. Please at least tell me and our Pacific Division Volunteer Counsel Coordinator Harry Styron, K6HS, (hlstyron@ wcrklaw.com) that you have written, to whom you have written, and if your letter was for or against the bill. This way we can keep a count for when we appear before the Committee. Harry, K6HS, has also created a SB-1714 mail list. The list contains periodic updates and alerts related to SB-1714. If you wish to subscribe, send email to 1714- info-request(a)contra-costa.net with the word "subscribe" (no quotes) in the subject line. Thanks to Harry Styron, K6HS and Mike Mitchell, W6RW, for most of the information provided above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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MEMORIES!
by Dennis Schwendtner 11 Jun '00

11 Jun '00

Subject: As seen in an ARRL Letter... This should bring back memories... ======================= HAMS REMEMBER BIG BAND LEADER "TEX" BENEKE, K0HWY, SK Big band singer and saxophonist Gordon L. "Tex" Beneke, K0HWY, of Santa Ana, California, died at a rest home in Costa Mesa May 30, reportedly of respiratory arrest. He was 86. Beneke took over the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1946 after Miller's death during World War II, and he continued to capitalize on the Miller sound throughout his career. He later broke with the Miller estate and formed his own band, billing it as "Tex Beneke and His Orchestra: Playing the Music Made Famous by Glenn Miller." A native of Forth Worth, Texas, Beneke joined Miller's orchestra in 1938. His southern-style vocals helped make hits out of Miller's "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree," among others. Fred Mason, W5SLT, recalls that Beneke operated 10 meters from his hotel room during his travels around the country, using a wire hanging out the window. Mason also remembers running phone patches in the early 1950s, so Beneke could talk with his parents in Fort Worth. Tim La Marca, N6RNK--a younger-generation big band leader--says he met Beneke in the early 1990s--first on the air and later in person. A mutual acquaintance had told Beneke about the young musician, so Beneke gave him a call on the local repeater. "Imagine my surprise when one evening, just as I was about to turn off my radio, there was a voice I had not heard on the repeater before." A few months later, La Marca got to meet Beneke when his band was performing in Pasadena. "After the performance, we went backstage to meet Tex--one of the highlights of my life," he said. "You can't mention the Big Band Era without the name of Tex Beneke coming to mind," La Marca said. "Even though his key is silent, we still have the recordings of his wonderful music to remember him by." Curiously, Beneke's role was omitted from the movie, "The Glenn Miller Story." Beneke himself appeared in films such as "Sun Valley Serenade" in 1941 and "Orchestra Wives" in 1942. ***** 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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ARRL Newsletter
by Marvin 09 Jun '00

09 Jun '00

* C'mon clubs, strut your stuff! Think you belong to the best ARRL-affiliated or Special Service Club anywhere? Ready to go up against any club to compare the variety of ham radio activities and community service your club can muster? Then what are you waiting for? Let's hear about it! See http://www.arrl.org/field/club/club-awards/ for details. It's not every day that a club can exercise bragging rights and earn a cash award. But wait! There's more! We'll spread the word about your exceptional club far and wide, so other clubs can get motivated. Not yet affiliated with ARRL? Point your browser to http://www.arrl.org/field/club/#affiliation. Be part of the vibrant movement to insure the future of Amateur Radio. Thousands of ARRL-affiliated clubs know they are making a difference!--Mary Lau, N7IAL

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Interesting propagation ahead...
by Jay Hennigan 07 Jun '00

07 Jun '00

NOAA's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colorado USA, detected a major solar flare yesterday (June 6, 2000). They are predicting a strong geomagnetic storm aimed at Earth from this event on Thursday and Friday. For a full story, see http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s439.htm SEC forecasters are predicting activity in Earth's magnetic field to increase over the next few days. Strong geomagnetic storm levels (Category G3 on the NOAA Space Weather Scales) are expected on June 8-9. -- Jay Hennigan - Network Administration - jay(a)west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. NASDAQ: NETX - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323

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ARDF World Championship Technical Specs.
by Marvin 06 Jun '00

06 Jun '00

Technical Specifications 144MHz(2Meters) a) Frequency (hidden transmitters):144.50MHz Beacon (MO): 144.75MHz b) Frequency stability: better than 50ppm c) Power:4W(PEP) d) Antenna: cross dipole, horizontal polarization e) Mode:A2A,Keyed carrier modulated by AF tone 3.5MHz(80Meters) a) Frequency (hidden transmitters):3550KHz Beacon (MO) 3660KHz b) Frequency stability: better than 50ppm c) Output RF power:>=2W d) Antenna:5-7 meters above ground level, ground wire:3 meters Terrain Information The contest field is low hill area, covered by pan (somewhere) and bamboo wood (somewhere) . Some places are difficult to run across. The use of track-shoes is permitted.

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Fw: From: "Fried Heyn(ARRL SW Director)" <wa6wzo@arrl.org>
by Donald L Milbury 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

An update from our ARRL Division Director FYI: 73, Don Milbury, W6YN ------------------------------------------------- From: "Fried Heyn(ARRL SW Director)" <wa6wzo(a)arrl.org> Our SB-1714 (CA "PRB-1") has passed the following votes: Senate Local Government Committee....................6 to 0 Senate Appropriations Committee........................13 to 0 California State Senate.........................................39 to 0 We still need to have it voted on by the California Assembly. Since Senator Brulte is the Minority Leader of the Senate, that should help us get the Governor to sign. We are still trying to get some wording changed, but the main thing is that we are getting 47 CFR 97.15 language into California law and the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an appropriation for the State of California to study the Amateur Radio antenna problem and prepare a model ordinance (with help of the ARRL). 73/Fried(ô¿ô)KNOWLEDGE=POWER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Virus Info
by Marvin 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

Quite a number of viruses have been written to exploit bugs in MS Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. The following, taken from the Heathkit listserver, seems like a good description and is worth passing around, especially the part about removing the associations to several file extensions. --------------------------------------- In regards to the large number of virus' that have been written over the last 18 months, notice that almost every one of them depend on the complete MicroSoft suite to function properly. For most of them (not ALL, though), the common tie is Outlook and the Visual Basic Script engine. Working at a University and administering a number of computers, I see this problem all the time. Our University Email folks are very aggressive towards these virus' and eliminate the bulk of these virus' before they enter the campus environment. But I've found the easiest method to prevent infections is to simply break the MicroSoft suite and remove Outlook (and Internet Explorer 5.0). I personally use Eudora and Netscape specifically because of this and COMPLETELY remove Outlook and Internet Explorer (or never install them). I then remove the file associations to several file extensions (VBS,VBE,WSF,WSH,JS and JSE). This prevents infected attachments from 'working' as Windows doesn't know how to execute the attachment. You may receive the virus, but it can do no harm. There is a small program from Cerberus named vf.exe at http://www.cerberus-infosec.co.uk/vf.exe that will remove these extensions from Windows. Takes about 30 seconds to run and the program is free. Obviously, if you are working in an intergated office environment that depends upon Outlook or you write software/macro's using the Visual Basic Script Engine this WILL NOT WORK FOR YOU. As always, the best protection is a good Anti-Virus package. I use Nortons Antivirus, enable the 'Atuomatic Update' feature and schedule updates weekly. ABOUT THE VIRUS... from http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html Virus Description: Wscript.KakWorm VBS.KakWorm spreads using Microsoft Outlook Express. It attaches itself to all outgoing messages via the Signature feature of Outlook Express and Internet Explorer newsgroup reader. The worm utilizes a known Microsoft Outlook Express security hole so that a viral file is created on the system without having to run any attachment. Simply reading the received email message will cause the virus to be placed on the system. Microsoft has patched this security hole. The patch is available from Microsoft's website. If you have a patched version of Outlook Express, this worm will not work automatically. Also known as: VBS.Kak.Worm, Kagou-Anti-Krosoft Category: WORM Infection length: 4116 Bytes OUTLOOK PATCH INFO (I forgot where I got this info)... Severe Windows Security Bug and Fix This bug is quite bad, and has been known since last year. It became more of an issue after somebody figured out you could exploit it to propagate computer infections in the same manner as the ILOVEYOU worm, only with much more destructive results. Any PC running Internet Explorer 5.0 and/or Office 2000 can be attacked with e-mail attachments, even if the recipient does not open said attachments. You don't even have to be using Internet Explorer: just having it installed with default security settings makes you vulnerable . The techies among you can see the horror of the situation. Fortunately, a fix will patch the hole in under five minutes. Make sure all the Windows machines in your care apply the patch immediately. Incidentally, Microsoft has finally responded to this class of e-mail-delivered worms by redesigning how the Outlook e-mail client deals with attachments. PCWorld has the story. Bug: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-032.asp Fix: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm Outlook: http://www.officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/out2ksecFileTypes.htm PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,16721,00.html <<< end of message >>>

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