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                           REPEATER FINED

    A repeater owner has been fined five thousand dollars because
 the FCC says that his system was heard transmitting on a
 frequency in an aeronautical communications band.  The case
 involves William A. Krause, WA2HDE of Ceder Grove, New Jersey.
 The FCC says that on August the 30th, its New York City Field
 Office received a complaint from the FAA about a signal on 243
 Mhz that had appeared on receivers at two airports over the
 previous five days.
    The FCC says that the next day it used its direction finding
 equipment to trace the signal to a ham radio repeater installed
 atop a building at 2 Penn Plaza in Manhattan, New York.
 Subsequent investigation by the FCC determined that the repeater
 was being operated by WA2HDE.  The commission says that the
 repeater transmitter was either operating off of its coordinated
 frequency of 224.66 MHz or that it had developed a high level
 spurious emission at 243 Mhz.
    According to the commission, 243 MHz is designated as the
 international emergency and distress channel to be used by radio
 beacons in the Marine and Aeronautical Radio Service.  243 MHz is
 automatically monitored by a set of low earth orbiting satellites
 called Sarsat Cospas.  These birds are routinely used in search
 and rescue operations and are maintained as a joint venture
 between the United States, Canada and Russia.
    The FCC contends that during the time that Krause repeater
 transmitter was operating on 243 MHz it had the potential to
 block emergency radio communications over a very large geographic
 area.  Because of this the FCC says it took the action to issue
 the five thousand dollar fine as a part of its continuing effort
 to preserve the integrity of this important aeronautical radio
 system hat they say pilots depend on for safety while in flight.
 WA2HDE was given thirty days to file an appeal.

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                   TV STATIONS FINED FOR KID ADS

    The Federal Communications Commission has also notified four
 television stations they will be fined for exceeding limits on
 commercials aired during children's shows.  A 1990 law forbids
 stations from broadcasting more than ten and one half minutes of
 commercial material an hour during children's programming on
 weekends, or more than twelve minutes per hour on weekdays.
    According to the published news reports, the agency issued a
 Notice of Apparent Liability to Monetary Forfeiture against the
 licensee of KPLR-TV in St Louis and said it intends to impose a
 $30,000 fine.  KXRM-TV in Colorado Springs will be fined $25,000,
 while the licensee for KTTM-TV in Huron, S.D. and KTTW-TV in
 Sioux Falls, S.D. will be fined $27,500.
    The license holders have the customary 30 days to respond to
 the violation notices but it may be hard for any of them to find
 an excuse for their actions.  It seems that the stations
 themselves admitted to the violations when they supplied the FCC
 with the data required for license renewals.

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                    SENATE & HOUSE SUPPORT GROWS

    Ninety seven members of the United States House of
 Representatives and fifteen US Senators have now become
 co-sponsors of the Amateur Radio Service Joint Resolution which
 was introduced into both houses of congress last May.  At its
 meeting last January, the ARRL's Board of Directors paved the way
 for the joint resolution with a resolution sponsored by New
 England Division Director Bill Burden, WB1BRE.  Based on the
 Burden motion, the Board voted to instruct its Washington
 representatives to seek formal recognition from the 103rd
 congress of the role played by the Amateur Radio Service.  This,
 as a national resource in preparation of and relief from
 disasters and in helping to foster technical progress in
 electronics.
    Representative Mike Kreidler of Washington State was an
 original co-sponsor of the House version of the resolution and he
 has some strong words of support for the Amateur Radio service.
 According to Kreidler, it is about time for Congress to recognize
 the achievements of our nations hams.  He says that with the
 service approaching 600,000 licensed radio amateurs in the United
 States, he is certain that every member of the house has had
 similarly favorable experiences with the amateur community and
 will also support this resolution.  So far, 97 of his fellow
 congressmen and women have followed his lead.

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                          ARRL ELECTIONS

    While there are elections taking place in several ARRL
 divisions this fall, none is more contested than the race for the
 seat of Director for the Southeastern Division.  There, an
 incumbent with more than a decade in office has a lot of
 competition at the ballot box.  Three amateurs are challenging
 incumbent Frank Butler, W4RH, of Florida.
    Amateurs in the Southeastern Division have a choice:  Go with
 a familiar name -- or choose change.  Incumbent Frank Butler has
 held the office for 13 years.  Butler sez he's always available
 to assist League members with problems.  But others say it's time
 for a new face to lead the Division.  Georgia resident David
 Shiplett, AC4MU, sez the League needs to get back in step with
 the amateur community.  Shiplett is joined in the race by Rudy
 Hubbard, WA4PUP, currently ARRL's Section Manager for Northern
 Florida.  Hubbard has heavy involvement in emergency
 communications.  Also in the race is Florida resident Alan Page,
 KE4WO.  Page sez he'll keep amateur radio moving in an upward
 direction.  November 19th is the day all 4 candidates anxiously
 await -- that's when the ballots will be counted.
    In addition to the Southeast, ARRL elections are being held in
 the Delta, Dakota, Midwest and Pacific Divisions as well.  The
 Director's elected later this month will serve a 2-year term
 that starts January first of 1994.

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                          SAREX - STS 58

    STS-58, the latest in the series of Shuttle Amateur Radio
 EXperiments called SAREX, was a tremendous success.  The fourth
 and final flight of 1993 racked up near-perfect contacts with 17
 school groups ... many reporting full quieting contacts with the
 spacecraft from horizon to horizon.  An outstanding one took
 place on October 21st, when the Lycee Gaston Febus school, in
 Pau, France, had a telebridge contact with the astronaut.  Jean
 Marc Dumont, the French school coordinator, reports that over 10
 thousand students in France listened to the conversation through
 a national repeater!
    Hundreds of school children in the United States were thrilled
 by direct talks with the STS-58 astronauts and thousands more
 listened in.
    The general ham population also had a great time.  This was
 the longest shuttle mission to date ... 14 days ... and the crew
 dedicated much of their second week in orbit to general QSOs ...
 several hundred of them ... and packet, with well over 800 packet
 contacts reported at this time.  During the flight, Bill
 McArthur, KC5ACR, radioed back ... "Thanks for all the great
 QSO's.  KC5AXA ... Marty Fettman ... KC5CKM, Rick Searfoss, and I
 love them.  We're doing human metabolic and cardiovascular
 experiments in the lab today."
    The SAREX Working Group, in charge of the flight, said "This
 was a testament to the outstanding support and preparation by the
 astronauts on-orbit and the SAREX team on the ground and in
 Mission Control."
    QSL information for STS-58 ... send cards to ARRL, STS-58 QSL,
 225 Main Street, Newington, Connecticut 06111.  Allow six to 10
 months for a reply.

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                      SAREX 10TH ANNIVERSARY

    This marks the 12th time SAREX, the Shuttle Amateur Radio
 EXperiment, has flown ... and it's the last SAREX mission for
 this year.  Next up, in December, will be a shuttle flight
 dedicated entirely to the task of repairing the Hubble Telescope.
    Next year, two SAREX flights are scheduled at this writing.
 STS-60, in January, with astronaut Charles Bolden and Cosmonaut
 Sergei Krikalev ... and STS-59, in April, with Jay Apt and Linda
 Godwin.
    If you would like to know more about the history of SAREX,
 there's a story in the November issue of QST magazine ...
 commemorating the tenth anniversary.  That's right, Owen Garriott
 led the parade in November, 1983!

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                            INDIA QUAKE

    News stories are applauding the work of ham radio operators
 relief efforts to the survivors of the recent earthquake in
 India.  The press services have reported that twenty six ham
 radio operators have set up a network to help coordinate relief
 efforts to the 120,000 people that were left homeless by the
 September 30th trembler.
    According to Sirama Suri VU2MY, in rural India telephones can
 be as much as 25 miles away.  There he says, it has been Amateur
 Radio operators that have been the ones who have put together a
 communications network to aid these earthquake victims.

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                            DXCC UPDATE

    In DX, the ARRL's DXCC desk says that it has received 1330
 applications for new awards and endorsements.  That's a mega
 total of 95,212 individual QSL cards which maker it the largest
 number of cards received in any single month since September of
 1990.

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                              BURUNDI

    Famed DXer Baldur Drobnica, DJ6SI, is reportedly active as
 9U5DX.  He was heard on 24.892 MHz at 14:13 UTC, 14.025 MHz at
 20:50 UTC and 18.081 MHz at 20:57 UTC.  The length of his stay in
 Burundi is unknown.  QSL direct to DJ6SI at his Callbook address.

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                       THP LEAVES U.S. MARKET

    The worsening international monetary condition has now
 directly affected Amateur Radio.  This, with the announcement by
 Tokyo Hy-Power Labs Inc. that it will terminate export sales from
 Japan to the United States.
    Tokyo Hy-Power manufactures a wide variety of ham radio
 related equipment including six meter transverters, 2 meter and
 70 centimeter power amplifiers and the worlds only tri band hand
 held radio.  A hand held that operates on both HF and VHF.
    For the past several years Tokyo Hy-Power has been represented
 in the United States by Orion Business International of Fresno,
 California.  According to a FAX from Loren Pleet of Orion, the
 President of Tokyo Hy-Power Labs cited the abnormally high Dollar
 to Yen exchange rate and the severely depressed economy of Japan
 as the major factors in reaching this decision.  Pleet said that
 Orion Business International was shocked when it heard of the
 decision by Tokyo Hy-Power to abandon the United States market.
 He says that despite Orion's efforts to try and continue the flow
 of equipment from Tokyo Hy-Power Labs the decision made in Japan
 appears to be irreversible.
    Tokyo Hy-Power was never one of the heavyweights in the US
 marketing arena, but it is far from a tiny operation.  In fact,
 its products were well known worldwide before they were ever seen
 by hams in the United States.  Even though the United States is
 considered the strongest amateur equipment market in the world,
 the dollar to yen exchange rate is making it harder and harder
 for all Pacific Rim nations to turn a profit selling their goods
 to us.

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