An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services, when she was startled by an intruder. She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled: Stop! Acts 2:38! (Repent and be baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins may be forgiven.)
The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done.
As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar: 'Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to you.'
'Scripture?' replied the burglar. 'She said she had an Ax and Two 38s!'*
Send this to someone who needs a laugh today and remember: Knowing scripture can save your life - in more ways than one!
Thanks Russell KF4LIA
QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, Contest
Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calender and WA7BNM web sites.
Thanks to all.
CYPRUS, 5B. Jack, RW3QC, will be active as 5B4AII during the IARU
HF World Championship as a Single Op, All Band, High Power, Mixed
entry. QSL via RW3RN.
MALDIVES, 8Q. Tim, VE6SH, IARU Vice President, will be active as
8Q7TM between July 11 and 20, including an entry in the IARU HF
World Championship. QSL via VE6SH.
AFRICAN TOUR. John, 9M6XRO, will be active from the following
African locations, July 11 to 13 from Johannesburg, South Africa, as
ZS6/GM3OOK; July 14 to 19 from Mozambique as C91XO; July 19 to 25
from Swaziland as 3DA0OK. He will be QRV on 160 through 10 meters
using CW, RTTY and SSB. QSL via M3SDE, direct/bureau for all three
call signs. See QRZ.com.
CAPE VERDE, D4. Massimo, IZ4DPV, will be active as D4C during the
IARU HF World Championship as a Single Op, All Band, High Power, SSB
entry from Mindelo, Ilha do Sao Vicente (AF-086, WLOTA LH-1976).
MARKET REEF, OJ0. Five operators will activate Market Reef between
July 11 and 14, which will include a Multi-Op entry as OJ0A in the
IARU HF World Championship. They will have three stations on the
air on 160 through 6 meters. Operators are G0CKV/SM0CKV, OH1VR,
OH3RM, W6RGG and G3SXW. All operators will sign OJ0/home call
before and after the IARU Contest, except for OH1VR who will use
OJ0VR. QSL all OJ0/homecalls via the operators' home call signs and
OJ0VR via OH1VR. QSL to OJ0A via OH3RM.
GREENLAND, OX. Operator Bo/OZ1DJJ (OX3LX) is expected to combine a
work and vacation DXpedition until July 23. Activity will be on 6
meters and possibly 2 meters. Operations will be limited to his
spare time. QSL via OZ1PIF.
FAROE ISLANDS, OY. A German group will be active from Suduroy
Island (EU-018), until July 16. Operators are DL2MLU, DD1LD, DD5FZ,
DK7MCX and DL6RAI. Look for the operators to sign home call/OY.
Activity will be on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB and
Digital. The team is expected to be in the IARU HF World
Championship.
MICRONESIA, V6. Dick, AD7AF, will be active as V63WWA from Kosrae
Island (OC-059) until July 24. Activity will be mostly CW with some
SSB, PSK31, and RTTY on 80 through 10 meters. QSL via AD7AF.
IRAQ, YI. Buzz, NI5DX, reports that Kitch, WD6V, who has been
active as YI9WV, has put some 4000 contacts in the log since
mid-April. Most of his contacts have been on 40 and 30 meters CW,
but he has also been on 20, 17, 15 and 10 meters. Kitch has also
been active on PSK31 on 20 meters and is expected to try 40 meters.
QSL YI9WV via NI5DX, by the Bureau or direct with SASE and 1 USD or
1 IRC.
UNITED KINGDOM, G. GB50OT will be QRV until July 13 to mark 50
years of RAOTA, the Radio Amateurs Old Timers' Association. Look
for them on 80 through 6 meters using SSB, CW and digital. QSL via
G3VBE.
USA, N. The Carolina DX Association will activate N4BX from grid
square FM13 for the CQWW VHF Contest July 19 and 20. They say FM13
is probably the U.S. grid locator with the smallest amount of land
in it. It is mostly a water grid.
ALAND ISLANDS, OH0. OH2PM and OH2BH will be taking a ferry to Aland
Islands today and will be QRV in the IARU Contest signing OG0A. QSL
via OH2BH. They will also be active outside the contest as OH0R and
OH0B, respectively. QSL to their callbook addresses.
MONTENEGRO, 4O. Bill, ON5JE, will be active as 4O1/ON5JE from Budva
until July 17. Activity will be on the HF bands, propagation
permitting. QSL via his home call sign.
ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. Jim, N6TJ, is once again active as ZD8Z and
will be staying on the island until July 15. Activity will be on
all bands CW and SSB. Look for him to be in the IARU HF World
Championship. QSL via his new manager AI4U, direct or by the
Bureau.
THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The IARU HF World Championship, FISTS
Summer Sprint, West Coast Regional Challenge and QRP ARCI Summer
homebrew are on tap for your contesting pleasure. Please see page
78 in July 2008 QST and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest web sites for
details.
Radio Rescue !! THIS IS A GREAT SITE !!!!...
Kansas Teen Named 2008 Young Ham of the Year
2008 Young Ham of the Year Emily Stewart, KC0PTL
Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, a 17 year old from Leavenworth, Kansas, has been named the 2008 Young Ham of the Year (YHOTY ), announced YHOTY Award Administrator Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Emily was selected based on her commitment to Amateur Radio, along with leadership, outreach, and her technical and public service achievements of the Amateur Radio Service to others. She will receive her award as part of the Huntsville Hamfest. More than two dozen young people were nominated for this award, now in its 22nd year.
The daughter of Mike, K0MDS, and Sharon Stewart, Emily was first licensed in August of 2003 when she was 12; she holds a General class license. She said she was "so excited" when she got her ticket that she wanted to share Amateur Radio and made presentations while in middle school about ham radio. That led to getting active in her local radio club and contributing articles to the club newsletter. Through her local activities, Emily was appointed in 2006 as the first Assistant Section Manager for Youth in the ARRL Kansas Section.
Emily has lived in Kansas for eight years. Prior to that, home was in Germany, where her father was serving in the US military. She credits her dad for sparking interest in amateur radio when they moved back to the United States: "I thought it was really cool when he started talking to people overseas in Europe. And Germany was still kind of home to me, so when he started talking to people in Germany, I said I wanted to do that, too."
Last August, while attending the ARRL Kansas State Convention, Emily conducted a survey of attendees, asking how many had persuaded their children or grandchildren to get involved in Amateur Radio. The slim response led her and Brian Short, KC0BS, to develop the Kansas Legacy Project. This project has three prongs: Pass the spirit and knowledge of the Amateur Radio Service to a new generation; build ties between family members using ham radio activities, and increase youth participation in ham radio. Through her efforts, Emily hopes to encourage hams to get the younger members of their families to get their ham licenses and get involved. The project has netted good results so far, including one of the youngest hams in the region to be licensed -- 7 year old Lucie Goodhart, KD0DMO, who took a license class with her dad and passed her Technician test last March.
Emily is also interested in the public service and storm spotting portion of Amateur Radio: "My dad would sometimes take me out with him to go storm spotting. I decided that I wanted to have some training, so I took a couple of online courses in emergency communications. I will either go out with my dad when we get called out to do some storm chasing or I will stay at home and do spotting from home -- just in case something really nasty does happen. Then that way I'm home with my mom."
Emily also has a deep interest in spaceflight and astronomy. One of her cousins, US Astronaut Robert L. Stewart, was a crewmember onboard the space shuttles Challenger and Atlantis. She has been attending Spacecamp since she was in the 6th grade. "I'm also into astronomy and that's another thing my dad and I do," said Emily. "We volunteer at an observatory about an hour away from Leavenworth. We work on public access nights."
This fall, Emily heads into her senior year at Leavenworth High School where she is a member of the National Honor Society, Vice President of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is a copy editor for the school yearbook. Already a Registered Pharmacy Technician with the state of Kansas, she is considering making pharmacy her career.
Emily is a member of the American Radio Relay League and the Kickapoo QRP Amateur Radio Club. She's also a regular participant in Field Day, Kids Days and QRP events.
The 2008 Amateur Radio Newsline! Young Ham of the Year Award will be presented on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama. As the 2007 Young Ham of the Year, Emily will receive a trip to the Huntsville Hamfest, ham radio equipment, various books and magazines and an all-expense-paid week at Spacecamp in Huntsville. Amateur Radio Newsline will award her with a commemorative plaque at the ceremony.
The presentation of the YHOTY award is a regular feature of the Huntsville Hamfest and has been made possible through the generosity and kindness of the event's Planning Committee. This year's YHOTY award ceremony will be hosted by Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, of Amateur Radio Newsline, along with representatives of corporate underwriters Vertex-Standard and CQ Communications, Inc.
The Amateur Radio Newsline "Young Ham of the Year" award program (formerly the Westlink Report Young Ham of the Year Award), has been presented annually since 1986 to a licensed radio Amateur Radio operator who is 18 years of age or younger and who has provided outstanding service to the nation, his/her community or the betterment of the state of the art in communications through the Amateur Radio hobby/service.
International Space Station On-The-Air with ARISS
Greg Chamitoff, KD5PKZ
July looks to be a busy month for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). On Friday, July 4, members of the Austin Amateur Radio Club (AARC) facilitated a successful ARISS contact between the International Space Station (ISS) and Cub Scout Pack #304 and Blackland Prairie Elementary School in Round Rock, Texas. Before an audience of 100, 10 Cub Scouts asked nearly 20 questions of Greg Chamitoff, KD5PKZ. Chamitoff launched into space on May 31 on the space shuttle Discovery and took over on the ISS for Garrett Reisman, KE5HAE. Chamitoff is scheduled to return to Earth in November.
An ARISS contact has been scheduled with the National Agriculture Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Wednesday, July 9 at 15:14 UTC. Telebridge station W6SRJ in Santa Rosa, California will assist with the contact. The museum is a large research facility in the City of Ottawa covering more than 1000 years of major contributions to agricultural progress. A public camp is part of the overall operation of the farm.
Another ARISS contact has been scheduled with the Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences (DASS) at the Kuwait Science Club in Safat, Kuwait on Monday, July 14 at 17:05 UTC. Telebridge station WH6PN in Hawaii will assist with the contact. DASS aims to spread scientific awareness in the fields of astronomy and space sciences by actively engaging the public in exploring the cosmos. This educational activity will educate young people about space stations, satellites and ham radio.
If a school in your area is interested in participating in an ARISS contact, please visit the ARISS Web page for more information on how to apply.
Riley Hollingsworth to Retire July 3: The End of an Era
Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, spoke at the FCC forum at the 2008 Dayton Hamvention. After almost 10 years of working in Amateur Radio enforcement, Hollingsworth is set to retire from the FCC today. [S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA, Photo]
On Thursday, July 3, Special Counsel for the Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH -- the man who has come to embody Amateur Radio Enforcement - will say goodbye to the FCC as he retires and begins his life as a private citizen. In May, Hollingsworth announced he would definitely retire; he had contemplated retiring in January 2008, but cited "several issues on the table that I want[ed] to continue to work through with the amateur community." While his successor has not yet been named, he was quick to point out that the FCC's Amateur Radio enforcement program will continue.
Hollingsworth said that he has "loved" working for the FCC and has "always had great jobs, but this one involving the Amateur Radio Service has been the most fun and I have enjoyed every day of it. I've worked with the best group of licensees on earth, enjoyed your support and tremendous FCC support and looked forward every day to coming to work. The Amateur Radio Enforcement program will continue without missing a beat, and after retirement I look forward to being involved with Amateur Radio every way I can. I thank all of you for being so dedicated and conscientious, and for the encouragement you give us every day."
Saying it has been a "privilege to work with and for the Amateur Radio licensees and the land mobile frequency coordinators," Hollingsworth said that he is "extremely fortunate to work for two wonderful groups of people: Those at headquarters in the Enforcement Bureau, and for the Amateur Radio operators."
Before joining the FCC, Hollingsworth, a South Carolina native, graduated from the University of South Carolina and Wake Forest University School of Law. While in high school, He worked as a disc jockey for WRHI, an AM station in Rock Hill, South Carolina. "It's a funny thing," Hollingsworth said. "They once held a beauty pageant in Rock Hill and nobody won!" In the mid-1970s, he was a "Nader's Raider" and worked on brown lung disease in the North and South Carolina textile mills.
"Basically I'm just an ordinary guy caught in the cross-hairs of radio history," Hollingsworth said. "But I am proud of the fact that the digital clock on my VCR has been blinking for 4 years."
Hollingsworth told the ARRL he was "so very impressed" with the young people who are involved with Amateur Radio: "To the very young Amateur Radio operators I have met who have dreams of being scientists and astronauts and communications engineers, we will be pulling for you; I have a strong feeling we won't be disappointed."
Calling the Amateur Radio Service a part of the American heritage, Hollingsworth explained that he is "going to stay as actively involved in it as I possibly can. Thank you all for working tirelessly to provide the only fail safe communications system on Earth and for helping this country keep its lead in science and technology. What an incredible gift it has been to work with you every day, and how fortunate we are to love the magic of radio! Every gift of lasting value comes with responsibility. We must never forget what we owe for our spectrum privileges. I will continue working with you in every way I can to ensure that Amateur Radio lasts a thousand years."
Get Ready for the IARU HF World Championship
HF Contesting usually hits a dry spell during the summer months, but the weekend of July 12-13 brings a summer bright spot for HF contesters -- the IARU HF World Championship.
According to ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, the IARU contest is a little different from most major HF contests. "For starters, it's only 24 hours long (instead of the normal 48). This leaves you plenty of time over the weekend to have fun in the contest and participate in other activities. Another difference is that you can combine modes. While most HF contests are either CW or SSB, IARU allows you to operate CW, SSB or a mixture of both. Lastly, the IARU contest exchange is a signal report and your ITU zone." ITU zones are different than CQ zones, Kutzko said. For a map of ITU zones, visit the IARU Web site.
One of the features of the IARU contest is the highlighting the IARU member Amateur Radio organizations from all around the world. These organizations often participate in the contest with a special call (often ending in HQ, designating a national headquarters station) and can be worked as special multipliers in the contest. Kutzko said that IARU Administrative Council members from around the world will also be on and can also be worked for special multiplier credit. "If you hear a station giving R1, R2, R3 or AC as their contest exchange, that station represents part of the IARU Administrative Council or regional Executive Committee."
The IARU HF World Championship runs from 1200 UTC Saturday, July 12 to 1200 UTC Sunday, July 13. For complete rules and forms, you can visit the IARU Contest Web page or the ARRL Contest Web page.
Are You "IN Shape" for the Doctor's Check-up?
Starting this month, we at ARRL are introducing a brand new monthly feature: Amateur Radio quizzes! Stump your friends with your knowledge of arcane ham trivia. Stump yourself by trying to answer these easy (and sometimes not-so-easy) questions. See if the Doctor really does know best.
This month we visit the Department of Redundancy Department with a test about...tests! How much do you know (or remember) about your ham license exam and the processes involved? We have ways to make you talk!
1. How many VE's must be present to administer an exam?
a. None, exams aren't administered in Canada!
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
2. What is the passing percentage for FCC amateur exams?
a. 50 percent
b. 75 percent
c. 80 percent
d. About 50-50 from what I've seen
3. Which of the following was sufficient to pass the Element 1 Morse Code exam?
a. 25 consecutive characters copied
b. Begging and pleading for mercy
c. A written essay describing the text sent during the exam
d. A what?
4. What is the document the test administrator provides that shows you've passed your exam?
a. FCC Form 605
b. OET Bulletin 65
c. CSCE
d. An ARRL Radiogram to your mom
5. Which of the following are needed to access your personal license information from the FCC Universal Licensing System?
a. URL
b. FRS
c. FRN
d. CORES
6. After passing your General class exam, what do you append to your call sign when calling CQ on 20 meter phone?
a. Stroke KT
b. Stroke AG
c. Upgrade
d. Yippee!
7. How long should it take between passing your first exam and getting your call sign?
a. The VE team will assign you a new one on the spot
b. As soon as the VEC receives the exam report
c. No more than a couple of weeks
d. "Why, back when I took the test, the FCC was so slow that some of us NEVER got our call signs!"
8. The set of questions from which exams are constructed is called the__________.
a. Test booklet
b. Instrument of torture
c. Test generator
d. Question pool
9. You must be _________ to administer an amateur exam session.
a. 21 years of age
b. An accredited Volunteer Examiner
c. This tall
d. An Amateur Extra class licensee
10. Which reference contains the current rules and regulations for the Amateur Radio Service?
a. FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Operations Policy Manual
b. Article 25 of the International Radio Regulations
c. Riley Hollingsworth's Little Black Book
d. Part 97 of the FCC Regulations
Bonus Question -- At the test session, 90 percent of the more than two dozen candidates passed their Technician exam. Of those, 66 percent passed and went on to the General. Of those, 66 percent went on to take the Extra, but 25 percent failed. If the test room could only hold 35 candidates (not including the examiners), how many total candidates were there?
Answers
1. D -- more may be present, but three is the minimum
2. B
3. A -- B was not unusual, but remained insufficient
4. C
5. C
6. B -- although D is frequently added
7. C
8. D -- although B is common
9. B
10. D
Bonus Answer -- The solution is courtesy of Zack, W1VT. N is the total number of test takers. The number of successful Extra candidates must be an integer and is equal to N × 9/10 × 2/3 × 2/3 × 3/4 = N × 3/10. N must less than 35, greater than 24 and divisible by 10, so the answer is 30 candidates, leaving 9 successful Extras.
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