Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 17 2023 00:42:38

CQ MAGAZINE NAMES NEW ASSOCIATE EDITOR

PAUL/ANCHOR: Congratulations to our friends at CQ magazine, where a new 
associate editor has been hired. Sabrina Herman, KB3UJW, has joined the 
staff, succeeding longtime managing editor Jason Feldman, KD2IWM. Sabrina 
had previously been managing editor and promotional coordinator for 
Hermes Press, a small publisher of books in Pennsylvania. She has been a 
ham for 13 years. We wish everyone at the CQ office well.

(CQ MAGAZINE)

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SAFE SPLASHDOWN FOR FOUR ISS ASTRONAUTS

PAUL/ANCHOR: Welcome home to the four astronauts comprising Crew 5 aboard 
the ISS. They splashed down safely just off the coast of Florida. Andy 
Morrison, K9AWM, has that story.

ANDY: Having finished their five-month stay aboard the International 
Space Station, two astronauts from the US, one from Japan and a cosmonaut 
from the Russian Space Agency returned to Earth in the Gulf of Mexico 
just after 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 10th. Two of the four are amateur 
radio operators.

NASA astronauts Josh A. Cassada, KI5CRH, Nicole Aunapu Mann, JAXA 
astronaut Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina are 
now safely home following a mission that began last October when they 
arrived on the ISS inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The replacement 
team - Crew 6 - arrived on March 3rd to continue the work that includes a 
number of scientific experiments.

This is Andy Morrison, K9AWM.

(CNN.COM)

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SILENT KEY: QCWA OFFICER GARY J. KIMBALL, WB2SER

PAUL/ANCHOR: A leader in the Quarter Century Wireless Association has 
become a Silent Key. We have that story from Sel Embee, KB3TZD.

SEL: Gary J. Kimball was known throughout New England and central New 
York for his company, National Audio, which he cofounded in 1977 with his 
business partner Mark Gummer, N2IQ. The business provided sound and 
lighting systems for music events ranging from the Syracuse Jazz Fest to 
the New York State Fair. On the air, he was known as WB2SER, and locally 
many knew him as a mentor in the central New York ham community. He was 
an officer of the Quarter Century Wireless Association Chapter 29 
covering the local Finger Lakes region of New York. QCWA members first 
received their licenses at least 25 years ago. He was a member of Radio 
Amateurs of Greater Syracuse and a member of the Liverpool Amateur 
Repeater Club. His voice was a familiar one to hams who heard his regular 
on-air roundups of local hamfests. At the time of his death in late 
February, Gary had been retired from his company for about five years, 
according to his online obituary.

Gary Kimball was 72.

This is Sel Embee, KB3TZD.

(LEGACY.COM. RON PANETTA, WB2WGH)

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RECORD FINES FOR STATIONS CHARGED WITH PIRACY

PAUL/ANCHOR: A New York City broadcaster charged with piracy has become 
the first of two stations to be targeted under a law passed three years 
ago enabling larger and, until now, unprecedented penalties. The FCC has 
proposed a record fine of more than $2.3 million against Radio Impacto 2, 
which the agency said was still on the air at the time the commission 
made its announcement on Wednesday, March 15th. According to a report in 
Radio World, the radio signals are being transmitted from the New York 
City borough of Queens. Radio Impacto's website calls it "The Official 
Radio of Ecuadorians in New York." According to the Radio World report, 
the FCC issued a $20,000 forfeiture against the station in 2015 and a 
year later its broadcast equipment was seized by US Marshals.

The second station was identified in the Radio World report as "Pirate 
Radio Eastern Oregon," and its operator faces an $80,000 forfeiture.

The FCC is awaiting response from both stations.

(RADIO WORLD)

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