Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Feb 03 2023 02:13:00 Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2362, for Friday, February 3rd, 2023 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2362 with a release date of Friday, February 3rd, 2023 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. A ham club honors a combat casualty from the Vietnam War. Artificial intelligence gets on the air -- and it's time at last to chase the Bouvet Island DXpedition! All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2362, comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** GET READY TO WORK BOUVET ISLAND 3Y0J PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story takes us to Bouvet Island. DX chasers - your ship has come in. That would be the sailing yacht known as the Marama, which inspite of windy, rainy conditions, stood by while a Zodiac made a difficult but successful landing on Bouvet Island with the 3Y0J team. As Newsline went to production, the team was setting up. Now it's time to start listening for signals from the second most wanted DXCC entity. In addition to the main 3Y0J station, you may want to listen for limited operation of four additional callsigns - 3Y7GIA, 3Y7THA, 3Y/LB5GI and 3Y/LB1Q. For updates, see QR-Zed dot com and DX-world.net. (DX-WORLD.NET, 3Y0J WEBSITE) ** FCC DEBUTS MAP, DATABASE OF PIRACY ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS PAUL/ANCHOR: In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission has finally put a piracy enforcement resource online that the agency says is late because of delays in funding. Kent Peterson, KC0DGY, brings us that story. KENT: A database and map displaying pirate radio enforcement actions taken by the FCC has gone live as part of an overall response to the Pirate Act passed by Congress. The database shows the agency's actions over the past three years following the act's passage and includes consent decrees, landlord notice letters and the $10,000 forfeiture associated with pirate operations. The FCC said that it was delayed until now in implementing the Pirate Act because of funding delays and challeges posed by the pandemic. The funding covers the cost of other actions, including enforcement sweeps and in-person investigations. To comply with that mandate, the agency needs to hire additional field agents and buy a half-dozen mobile direction-finding vehicles . Although the FCC has already posted openings for five agents and a field counsel, its purchase of six mobile- direction-finding vehicles has been delayed, because much of the funding remains delayed. Implementation of the Pirate Act was expected to cost $11-million, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Funds were not provided until last March and only $5-million was available to the FCC at the time. The Pirate Act mandates enforcement sweeps in the top five markets. The act also strengthened the agency's enforcement abillity, permitting it to take action against those landlords and managers who permit pirate operations on their properties. For a link to the map and database, see the text version of this newscast at arnewsline.org [DO NOT READ: https://opendata.fcc.gov/stories/s/wgq8-eb5c ] This is Kent Peterson, KC0DGY. (RADIO WORLD, FCC) ** AMERICAN LEGION RADIO CLUB HONORS COMBAT CASUALTY PAUL/ANCHOR: A ham radio club in one South Carolina town is honoring a Vietnam War combat casualty by ensuring his name is never forgotten. We hear those details from Kevin Trotman, N5PRE. KEVIN: In the combat jungles of Vietnam, he was a link to the outside world for his fellow Marine infantrymen. William Hunter Kilburn of Aiken, South Carolina, was a radio telephone operator carrying a radio and an antenna for vital communications. In May of 1970 another Marine tripped a wire attached to a Viet Cong booby trap and the Aiken High School graduate, who had been walking behind him, was killed. His hometown remembers him well but even more than that the American Legion Radio Club, W4RTO, has chosen to honor him. The ham club, established at the post less than a year ago, now carries the Marine's name. There is a plaque at the post's headquarters identifying the site as the home of Private First Class William H. Kilburn Post 26 American Legion Radio Club. On January 24th, the club members also approved William Kilburn as an honorary member. The military had earlier awarded him a medal posthumously for combat valor. Now he serves as an inspiration in his home community where club members help youngsters study to get their radio license and where many members are looking for ways to deepen their own commitment to service in their own way. From Aiken, South Carolina, this is Kevin Trotman, N5PRE. (NEWSBREAK AIKEN) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .