On the Web : May 2007


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Our contributions to the South Jersey Radio Association club bulletin "Harmonics" includes lengthy Web addresses. As the URL's can be difficult or a nuisance to type into your Web browser, the postings here should make it easier to get to the Web sites SJRA members are interested in. Look for the posting at w2xq.com at the time "Harmonics" is scheduled for delivery in the south Jersey area. Questions, suggestions or contributions are always welcome.
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If you are interested in the public service aspects of ham radio, please help out with the September 29-30 MS bike ride to the shore. Bill Ferguson, WA3BXW, put out a call for help last March, and the request for participants continues. See the March "On The Net" column for details.

Field Day 2007 is nearly here. Check the electronic version of this column for the countdown clock and map links.

This is CHU, Canada...

CHU's well-known time-standard frequency on 7335, atop the 40m band, is in trouble. This isn't exactly HF ham radio, but if you would help as described below, CHU's staff would appreciate it. There is broadcaster encroachment. Help put a stop to it now before the disease spreads. Here's the rest of the story.

Since CHU is now licensed as a broadcaster and not a fixed service, they no longer have a built-in prioritized right to the 7335 kHz frequency.

WHRI (Noblesville, Indiana) has decided to use this frequency for several hours/day and has referenced with the HFCC for 24 hour/day usage. Brian Smith, who works for the Canadian broadcaster on 740 kHz, wrote the following. If you help, please copy Brian.

From: Brian Smith (am740@rogers.com)
Date: May 7, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: [ODXA] CHU frequency conflict with shortwave station WHRI
To: Group/ODXA

Here is a response from CHU. Please email the people below and let them know your not at all happy with the situation. Also, please pass this email along to other groups and continue the fight.

Brian Smith
Ontario DX Association
Board of Directors
am740@rogers.com

Hello Brian,

I am aware of this situation.

CHU has a licence to broadcast on 7.335 MHz and this frequency has been registered with ITU, HFCC, FCC and other broadcast authorities. This, however, does not guaranty that we own this frequency, for all international purposes. We must now fight for it, with the FCC.

I have sent several letters to WHRI, but their chief engineer has not replied to me. I have also sent a letter to the FCC stating the use of our service on this band and our long standing service at this frequency. They have yet to respond.

We must now go through all politically correct channels to resolve this dispute. But the members of your association can use other mean declare their dissatisfaction with the interference from WHR. Have your interested members send email to WHR ( lsarkisian@lesea.com ), and the FCC ( thomas.lucey@fcc.gov ).

This may have more impact.

Regards,
Raymond Pelletier
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Frequency and Time
Institute for National Measurement Standards
National Research Council Canada
M-36, room 1026
1200 Montreal Road
Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6
Tel: (613) 993-3430
Fax: (613) 952-1394
raymond.pelletier@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Government of Canada
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Leo Laporte Radio Show

Leo Laporte has been a popular media person in the personal computer field for the past 20 years or so. You may recall his shows on the defunct Tech TV cable TV channel. And Leo has a tech blurb on "This Week in Amateur Radio" — check our back columns for information. Now I've found his syndicated radio show. Home base is KFI in Los Angeles. The live call-in show airs on Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern. I like the show, and perhaps you will too. It is technology, not just computers, and the technology language doesn't require one to have an engineering degree. The show's Web site is techguylabs.com. If you cannot listen to the live show, audio archives are available on the Web site. If you do listen to the live show, I recommend you join the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel #techguy for the Q&A that is useful in the repeats and fills — "What did he say?" — on Web addresses and companies mentioned in the show. While the techguyslab.com Web site provides a Web browser access to the channel, I recommend you use a real IRC client that automatically writes out a log of all the messages in the forum. There's also a link to the live video feed, and that's fun to look at.

Laporte mentioned a couple of interesting Web sites as we get ready to ship it off to Ted. From the May 12th show: SearchMash — searchmash.com — is a new search engine operated by Google. A very thin client compared to the home page of its owner, I wonder if this may be a testing bed for new features to eventually be seen in Google. It may be interesting to watch the changes over time. And eEye Digital Security — eeye.com — offers, according to Laporte, outstanding (and either free or low cost) virus protection with two different products whose selection is based upon the type of computer system to be guarded. It may be worth investigating if you are not so happy with the two market-leading consumer products.

In closing, just a reminder for those who came in late. This column also appears on w2xq.com, and the links are live. You don't have to type in the long URLs, and typos and errors are corrected. Have a good Field Day.

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