Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Oct 27 2017 12:50 pm

SILENT KEY: PUBLISHER CARL SMITH N4AA

PAUL/ANCHOR: DXers and readers of two publications about DXing are
marking the loss of a Silent Key, who, as a publisher, provided
guidance to many. Heather Embee, KB3TZD, has that story.

HEATHER's REPORT: The publisher of DX Magazine and QRZ DX has become
a Silent Key. Carl Smith, N4AA, who was a noted DXer as well, had
been a licensed amateur since his earliest days in 1954, in Kansas
City, beginning with the call sign WN0YFT. An Air Force veteran,
Carl became W4NQA when he first moved to North Carolina. In 1997,
Carl, and his wife Miriam, KB4C, took their love of DXing one step
further, by purchasing DX Publishing, the parent company of both
publications.

Having made it to the top of the DXCC Honor Roll, Carl was inducted
into the CQ DX Hall of Fame in 2012.

After Miriam Smith became a Silent Key, he established the KB4C
Miriam Smith Award, to honor western North Carolina hams who
demonstrate a commitment to public service and emergency
communications.

Carl helped found the Western Carolina Amateur Radio Society, and
established the annual Asheville Hamfest. He had also owned and
managed an amateur radio store in Asheville, and was a founder of
the SouthEastern DX and Contesting Organization's W4DXCC Convention,
which uses Miriam's call sign on the air for special occasions.

Carl Smith was 77 when he died on October 20.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD.

(ARRL)

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BREAK HERE:

Time for you to identify your station.

We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around
the world, including the W0EF repeater in St. Louis Park, Minnesota,
on Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.

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THERE GOES THE TELEGRAPH, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

PAUL/ANCHOR: The FCC has just stopped enforcing some of its rules.
Can you guess why? Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, fills us in.

SKEETER'S REPORT: When you think of an older, outmoded form of
communication that may well have been rendered useless by telephone,
and, of course, email, texting and the web, what comes to mind?

If you answered "the telegraph," consider yourself in the same mindset
on the issue as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, and the rest of the
commissioners in Washington. The last Western Union telegram was sent
in 2006 in the U.S., and barely four years ago - in 2013 - the
commission stopped enforcing rules relative to the telegraph.

Now those regulations are scrapped altogether. This is the commission's
way of removing what it considers unnecessary rules, and giving the
agency greater efficiency. Or in the words of the chairman himself,
it was [quote] "just a matter of good housekeeping." [endquote]

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Skeeter Nash, N5ASH.

(SOUTHGATE ARC)

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HAM TV PROJECT CONNECTS WITH AUSTRALIA

PAUL/ANCHOR: In Australia, one amateur got a bit of a surprise when
he caught up with a live HAM-TV transmission from the International
Space Station. John Williams, VK4JJW, tells us more.

JOHN'S REPORT: Now here's a QSO to remember: Picture Tony Hutchison,
VK5ZAI, an Australian ground station, for the Ham TV Amateur
Television Project, in communication with Italian astronaut Paolo
Nespoli IZ-Zero-JPA. The contact was made in mid-October in the first
live HAM-TV transmission to be received in Australia, from the
International Space Station.
 
It's not so hard to picture, actually, even though Tony himself
didn't expect any images to come through. He told the Wireless
Institute of Australia, that the video transmission was a total
surprise, as the ISS made its low-elevation pass over Australia.
He thought at most he would get a black screen - but there was
Paolo, rehearsing for an interview he was to have later with the
Italian Red Cross. Tony immediately grabbed some still imagery from
the screen, and also made a video recording.

The recordings have since beeen sent to other HAM-TV equipped ground
stations in Australia, as well as Europe. That's sure one fancy QSL
card.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.

(WIA)



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