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Excerpt: ARRL Letter

Subject: Excerpt: ARRL Letter
From: frenaye@pcnet.com (frenaye@pcnet.com)
Date: Fri Mar 22 19:34:17 1996
A couple of things of potential interest to contesters from this week's ARRL 
Letter (full copy available at www.arrl.org)

                -- 73 Tom  K1KI

ARRL TO FCC:  SHORT-TERM SUSPENSIONS AN ANSWER

The League thinks the FCC should have statutory authority to suspend ham 
licenses for up to six months, once the Commission has good reason to 
believe an operator has grossly violated the rules. In comments filed in 
response to an FCC Notice of Inquiry seeking ways to streamline the 
Commission's administrative activities, the ARRL said short-term suspensions 
would be one way for the FCC to address malicious interference and other 
serious rule violations "without delay and expense." The League maintained 
the suspensions would be a viable deterrent.

Under the League's scenario, the FCC also would be able to immediately 
modify an Amateur Radio license to preclude operation on certain frequency 
bands or at certain times of day, also for up to six months.

In its filing, the League said that most of the 650,000 hams in the country 
behave themselves on the air and obey the regulations, and the Amateur 
Service "requires little enforcement effort." The ARRL pointed to the 
volunteer examination program as a model of self-regulation. However, the 
League said that in recent years, the FCC--and especially its Compliance and 
Information Bureau--has been "completely ineffective" in providing a 
meaningful enforcement presence for the few who flout the law, and this has 
led to an increase in instances of malicious interference. "Since 1983, 
there have been virtually no enforcement actions taken by FCC in the Amateur 
Service," the League's filing states. In recent years, the League said, hams 
have viewed the FCC as a "paper tiger" that fails to act "in even the most 
egregious" cases.

"There is no substitute for Commission action in certain types of compliance 
cases," the ARRL said in urging the FCC seek authority for the reforms.

In other matters, the League criticized the FCC for continuing to "focus on 
the symptom rather than the cause" of home-electronic equipment 
interference, even though it has authority to do so. The League urged the 
FCC to require manufacturers to put notices on products indicating they are 
subject to harmful interference, and to provide interference-resolution 
information and contact representatives for RFI resolution. The ARRL said it 
was not optimistic that the pilot privatized interference resolution program 
would work, since it puts the burden of resolving the interference problem 
on the consumer, not the manufacturer.

The League also recommended establishing a cadre of volunteers who would use 
their skills to resolve interference problems involving other radio 
services, provided volunteers could be guaranteed some protection from 
lawsuits.

The League further suggested the FCC reduce its administrative burden by 
adopting the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making, RM-8677, which asks the FCC to 
implement the Inter-American Convention on an International Amateur Radio 
Permit (IARP). This could eliminate the burden of processing reciprocal 
license applications of hams visiting from elsewhere in the hemisphere. The 
ARRL also suggested that the US take advantage of the European Conference of 
Postal and Telecommunications Administrations' (CEPT) Recommendation T/R 
61-01 arrangements and issue a CEPT license that would be recognized by 
other participating administrations and valid for visits.

The League's comments conclude by observing that the Commission's NOI 
"signals to the League an intention to reduce the Commission's functions to 
the role of auditor and mediator, rather than regulator," and calling this 
"a positive trend for the Amateur Service."

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Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444



>From Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham@HK.Super.NET  Sat Mar 23 01:28:19 1996
From: Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham@HK.Super.NET (Mr. Brett Graham)
Subject: 3rd Asia-Pacific Sprint - LAST REMINDER!
Message-ID: <199603230128.JAA21716@is1.hk.super.net>

Remember, the 3rd Asia-Pacific Sprint will be held on _SUNDAY_ 24 March from
1230 to 1430 UTC.
 
Objective: For stations outside the Asia-Pacific region to work as many
           Asia-Pacific stations as possible within the 2 hour time limit.
 
           For stations inside the Asia-Pacific region to work as many
           stations as possible, anywhere in the world, within the 2 hour
           time limit.
 
           (A complete list of the Asia-Pacific countries is defined below)
 
Winners:   Each DXCC country, each continent plus one overall.
           Winners receive a cool Asia-Pacific contest T-shirt.
 
           (Sponsorship of prizes is solicited - if interested, please
           send an e-mail to ap-sprint@dumpty.nal.go.jp)
 
       February [8 Feb 97], the second Saturday of June [8 June 96] & the
       third Saturday of October [19 Oct 96])
 
Time:  1230-1430 UTC
 
Bands: 20m & 40m only
 
Mode: CW only
 
Power limit: 150W output
 
Entry categories: Single operator, Single radio only
 
Contest exchange: RST + Serial number beginning with 001
 
Duplicate contacts: Same station may be worked only once on the per band
 
Multipliers: Prefixes per WPX rules (once only - not once per band)
 
QSY rule: Called station (usually CQer) QSYs at least 1 kHz after a QSO
 
Final Score: Number of QSOs x Multipliers
 
Asia-Pacific countries for this contest (coutries from Asia side Pacific
Rim to 180 degrees longitude):
 
3D2(all), 1S/9M0, 9M2, 9M6/8, 9V, BV, BV9(Pratas), BY, BS(Scarborough),
C2, DU, FK8, FW, H4, HL, HS, JA, JD1/Ogasawara, JD1/Marcus, KC6(Belau),
KH2, KH9, KH0, P29, T2, T30, T33, UA0, V6/KC6, V7, V85, VK1-9(all except
VK9X & VK9Y), VS6, XU, XV/3W, XX9, YB, YJ, ZL(all except Chatham & Kermadec)
 
Results will be posted to: CQ-CONTEST@TGV.com
                           AP-SPRINT@dumpty.nal.go.jp
                           CQ Contest Magazine
 
Rules and results will be distributed by an automated info-server.
Send a request e-mail to: info-contest@dumpty.nal.go.jp
with the command in the body:  #get ap-sprint.rule
 
All logs must contain complete QSO information plus a summary sheet
and your T-shirt size.  Electronic logs are gladly accepted by e-mail!  The
log & summary sheet must be in ASCII format (no binary files, please).
Sample entry format is shown below.
 
Post your entry to:
 
JAs - Tack Kumagai     non-JAs - James Brooks
      P O BOX 22                 15 Balmoral Road #03-08
      Mitaka                     Singapore 259801
      Tokyo 181                  SINGAPORE
      JAPAN
 
Email: 9v1yc@equator.lugs.org.sg
 
Log deadline:  E-mail - 72 hours after end of contest
               Post - Postmarked no later than 7 days after contest
 
 
Sample Summary Sheet
--------------------
                      ASIA PACIFIC CW SPRINT CONTEST
 
CALLSIGN USED:
OPERATOR:
COUNTRY:
DATE:
 
BAND    QSOs     POINTs     PREFIXES
 7
14
--------------------------------------
Total
 
SCORE:
 
Comments:
 
____________________________________________________________________________
 
(TYPE or PRINT)
NAME                    CALL
 
Address:
City   :
Prefecture/State:
Postal Code:
Country:
____________________________________________________________
 
 
Sample Log
 
Any ASCII file output from CT/TRLOG/NA/ZLOG etc logging software
will be accepted.
 
BAND MM/DD/YY  HHMM  CALLSIGN      RSTNR    RSTNR   NEW   POINT
                                   SENT     RCVD    MULT
20   09/30/95  1310    JE1CKA      599001   59917   JE1   1
40   09/30/95  1312    9V1YC       599002   59916   9V1   1
40   09/30/95  1316    VS6BG       599003   59922   VS6   1
20   09/30/95  1317    JE1JKL      599004   59931         1
[END]
 
73, VS6BrettGraham aka VR2BG bagraham@hk.super.net

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