 NEWSLINE RADIO - CBBS EDITION #99 - POSTED 11/20/93

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                     FINE ISSUED FOR IGNORING NAL

    The FCC has issued a Notice of Forfeiture in the amount of
 $10,000 against David Plourde, N1IZR, of Lewiston, Maine.  The
 Commission says that they want him to pay up because he has
 failed to file an explanation of his on the air operations on the
 Class D 11 meter citizens band.
    By way of background, back in 1992 Plourde was issued a Notice
 of Apparent Liability to Monetary Forfeiture in the amount of
 $10,000.  This for allegedly operating on the 11 meters using a
 non type-accepted transmitter and linear amplifier.  Plourde was
 given the usual thirty days in which to respond to the fine, but
 as of October 12 of 1993 he had not filed an answer to the
 forfeiture notice.
    The FCC says that it is not willing to wait any longer to
 hear what Plourde might have to say. Instead, it has order
 pursuant to Section 503, sub-part B of the Communications Act
 that Plourde, shall forfeit a monetary forfeiture in the amount
 of $10,000 for violating Section 301 of the Communications Act
 and Section 95.409, sub-part a of the Commission's Rules.
    Plourde has thirty days to pay the fine or file a further
 appeal.  If he fails to respond this time, the FCC has the power
 to turn the matter over to the Department of Justice and seek
 immediate collection.
    The forfeiture order issued to Plourde was signed by Richard
 M. Smith who is the Chief of the FCC's Field Operations Bureau
 in Washington, DC.

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                         ICOM CONTROVERSY

    The ARRL says that a advertisement by Icom America in the
 November issue of its QST Magazine dealing with a year-end
 Christmas sales promotion is wrong when it says that the League
 is discounting its membership fees to people who buy Icom radios.
 The ARRL says that the Icom promotion could be interpreted by
 some readers to mean that league memberships are being discounted
 through the Icom coupon program and that this is not the case.
 This, even though an Icom press release dealing with the
 promotion does mention ARRL membership as a -- quote --
 "...discounted product."
    In its own statement of clarification on the matter, the ARRL
 says that the advertisement and press release are actually
 referring to the normal membership bonus that is given to all new
 applicants.  This in the form of an ARRL published book.
    The Icom promotion runs from October 1st through December
 31st.  It offers the a book of thirty-two discount coupons from
 twenty-one leading manufacturers of accessories useful with Icom
 ham gear.  According to the Icom press release, the types of
 discounted products available to radio purchasers include -- and
 gain we quote -- include antennas, cables, publications,
 seminars, ham shows and ARRL membership.  It the last two words
 of this statement that the American Radio Relay League is taking
 issue with.
    So far there has been no word from Icom regarding the ARRL
 rebuttal of that companys' year end promotional ad.

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                 US-CANADA TRANSCEIVER MEASUREMENTS

    As a result of an agreement between the FCC and the Canadian
 Department of Communications, both agencies have now agreed to
 accept measurement reports made in either the US or the Canadian
 format toward satisfaction of their respective equipment
 authorization requirements for digital cellular telephone
 transceivers.  This agreement holds the promise for application
 to other pieces of radio gear as well, possibly including some
 radios destined for hams.
    Under current FCC regulations, before cellular telephone
 transceivers can receive type acceptance, the manufacturer or
 importer is required to file information as outlined under Parts
 2 and 22 of the commissions rules.  Similarly, Canadian
 authorities require that measurement reports be submitted in
 parts
 2.993 and 2.995 of the DOC rules.  But as of October 19th a
 manufacturer or importer can use either filing format with either
 country for consideration of an authorization to sell the product
 in each respective nation.
    If similar agreements can be reached with other countries, it
 will speed up getting new communications products to market while
 substantially lowering the cost of government certification to
 get them into the end users hands.

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              NEW CORDLESS PHONE FREQUENCIES PROPOSED

    In an effort to relieve channel congestion and reduce
 interference to cordless telephones now operating in the 46 MHz
 and 49 MHz bands, the FCC is proposing to revise its Part 15
 rules to provide additional channels for these devices.  The
 proposal is in response to a request filed by the
 Telecommunications Industry Association which asserts that the
 growing popularity of cordless phones has rendered the ten
 current channel pairs currently available as being highly
 inadequate.
    The industry lobby group has proposed that frequencies
 currently allocated to the Private Land Mobile Radio Services for
 use by the Land Transportation, Petroleum and Forest Products
 Radio Services be reallocated to cordless telephones on a shared
 basis.  The TIA and the FCC both seem to agree that the risk of
 interference to private land mobile operation from cordless
 telephones would be negligible since there are right now fewer
 than thirty assignments covering less than 800 mobiles on each of
 the proposed frequencies.  If adopted, the new cordless telephone
 allocation will center around 44 MHz and 49 MHz.  By way of
 minimizing the potential for co-service interference, the FCC
 says that it will require that new cordless phones designed for
 this proposed allocation to be equipped with automatic channel
 selection.  This the commission says will prevent the
 establishment of a base to hand unit link on an occupied channel.
    The proposal carries the designation of Docket 93.235.
 Commentary cutoff was November the 8th.  Reply comments are due
 no
 later than November 23rd.

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                   NEW SERVICES AUTHORIZED AT 2 GHZ

    The FCC has begun the distribution of spectrum at 2 Gigahertz
 for use by an array of voice, data and video communications.
 They began by allocating 120 MHz worth of spectrum in new
 subbands from 1850 to 1890, 1930 to 1970, 2130 to 2150 and 2180
 to 2200 Megahertz to accommodate a wide variety of Personal
 Communications Service -- or PCS offerings.  This 120 MHz will be
 channelized into four frequency blocks of 10 MHz each, one 20 MHz
 wide frequency black and two 30 MHz wide frequency blocks.
 Eventually, PCS licensees will be permitted to share up to 40 MHz
 of spectrum in any one given service area.
    The FCC says that it plans to license broadband PCS systems
 in both the fifty-one major trading area based service areas and
 in another 492 basic trading areas as well.  This they say will
 insure that the Personal Communications Service is given the
 potential for full competition with similar services including
 cellular telephone and land mobile radio.  The FCC adds that all
 PCS licenses will be issued with a full ten year term.

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                              IARU

    On the international front, the Administrative Council of the
 International Amateur Radio Union has held its annual in
 Brussels, Belgium.  Among their most important actions, the
 council support the idea that IARU Regions 1 and 2 should
 continue their joint efforts to facilitate operation by amateurs
 visiting other countries without the need for any additional
 licensing.  The council also adopted resolutions requesting that
 member societies to draw attention to the respective governmental
 administrations to the undesirability of imposing type approval
 and station inspection procedures on their Amateur Radio and
 Amateur Satellite services.  Finally, the group reviewed and
 approved plans for Amateur Radio representation at upcoming
 conferences and meetings of the recently restructured
 International Telecommunications Union while continuing to
 promote the continued development of Amateur Radio worldwide.

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                           UK YOUNG HAM

    The Radio Society of Great Britain has selected fifteen year
 old Timothy Munn, G7OTO as the United Kingdom's Young Amateur of
 the Year.  Munn says that he has been interested in Amateur Radio
 for the past five years, having first been introduced to the
 hobby when he was only age 10.  With assistance from the Isle of
 Wright Radio Society, Munn pass his Novice examination in January
 of 1992.  As soon as he got his G7OTO call sign, he created a
 ham radio club at his school.  G7OTO next applied to the RSGB
 for instructor status and was named the youngest Novice Class ham
 radio teacher in the history of the United Kingdom's ham radio
 program.
    The Radio Society of Great Britain says that Tim Munn is a
 typical ham.  It says that his main interests are building
 receivers and transmitters and operating packet.  The RSGB adds
 that the first runner up in this years awards program was Simon
 Kahn who passed his license examination when he was only age
 eleven.

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                           LO-19 UPDATE

    From AMSAT comes word that the LO-19 ham satellite has been
 loaded with the version of its FTL0 software.  According to
 Harold Price, NK6K this is new software that supports the
 broadcast directories.  Harold also says also note that the
 kernel load in the flight computer has been running without
 interruption for well over 740 days as his report was being
 prepared.

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                          DX - ETHIOPIA

    In DX, word that Ethiopia as ET3BH has been quite active on
 the 12, 15 and 17 meter bands.  His operating times seem to be
 12:30 to 14:00 UTC and again between 17:30 and 20:00 UTC.  You
 are advised to heck around 18.077, 18.140, 21.028, 21.295 and
 24.947 Mhz at the times just mentioned.  The operator says that
 he is, Bertel, SM3HLL, and he expects to be in Ethiopia until
 January 1994.  All cards go by SM3HLL's callbook address.

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                          7Z QSL ROUTE

    Also, the new QSL route for 7Z2AB is via K1SE.  Please do not
 send qsl's to AA0BC or 7Z2AB directly as turnaround will be very
 long.  AA0BC has changed his QSL routing to get the qsl's back
 to you more quickly but he says that it may take a while to get
 back on track with the new qsl manager.

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                           RADIO ELWA

    On the shortwave scene, word that Liberia's Radio Elwa has
 recently returned to the air.  This, after a 3 year absence due
 to civil unrest.  Its frequency is 4760 KHz and operates between
 16:00 to 22:00 UTC.  The QSLing address is Radio Elwa, Box 10-
 0192, Monrovia 10, Liberia.

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                       BENDER RECOVERING

    Word that former ARRL W1AW station manager Chuck Bender
 W1WPR, is reported recovering from heart bypass surgery
 according to his successor Jeff Bauer WA1MNK.
    Countless former Novices from the 1950's through the 1980's
 today have valued QSL cards from W1AW bearing the signature
 "CR."  For many years Bender would work the late night shift at
 W1AW to give newcomers the thrill of a contact with the
 headquarters station.  Get well wishes can go to W1WPR at his
 Callbook address.

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