Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 27 2019 04:29:49

PEORIA AREA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB MARKS CENTENNIAL

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In Peoria, Illinois, recently two of Newsline's anchors
and correspondents helped the Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club mark a
milestone. Here's Paul Braun, WD9GCO, and Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.

PAUL: From the Peoria, Illinois Superfest, this is Paul, WD9GCO, and

DON: Don, AE5DW, from the 100th anniversary of the Peoria Area Amateur
Radio Club.

PAUL: Don was invited to be one of the speakers at a forum to talk about
Ham Nation, and Amateur Radio Newsline, and I was invited to come along.
We also had:

DON: Dhruv Rebba, KC9ZJX, the current Young Ham of the Year. We
participated in the forum today, and the kit building session, with Joe
Eisenberg, K0NEB, and it's been a great experience, a great hamfest up
here.

PAUL: Absolutely. If you're in the Midwest, it's a reasonably large one -
big flea market area, big indoor area with dealers and such, and nice
prize drawings. This year, there was a separate raffle for a Flex! We had
a very nice turnout, we had good questions, people are very appreciative
of what we do, and a lot of fond memories of Bill, which is always a good
thing to hear when you're out.

DON: Yeah, it really was, and I just wanted to thank the membership of
the Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club, for inviting me up here, and making
it possible for me to be here, we had a great time -- it was my first
time coming to the great state of Illinois, and it happens to coincide
with my birthday, which comes up on the 25th, so it was the Peoria
Superfest and Don's Birthday Party! A good time was certainly had by me,
and I hope you, too, Paul, and pretty much everyone else we ran into.
You know, Huntsville always says they're the friendliest hamfest, but I
gotta tell you, Peoria gives them a run for their money, because the
hospitality is absolutely second-to-none up here.

PAUL: From Peoria, Illinois at the Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club's
Superfest 2019, this is Paul, WD9GCO,

DON: And Don, AE5DW, for Amateur Radio Newsline. 

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NORWAY SHUTTING LONG WAVE TRANSMITTER

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In Norway, there are plans to upgrade one transmitter --
and shut another down. One is long wave, and the other medium-wave.
Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has those details.

JEREMY: Norway's government-owned broadcaster, NRK, has announced that
it will shut down its long wave transmitter on 153 kHz in October, citing
low audiences for the AM service.

Officials held a consultation in 2018, regarding the planned shutdown,
but said no one came forward with objections at the time. In the same
announcement, NRK said it planned to upgrade its medium wave transmitter
on 1485 kHz.

The 1,000-watt transmitter is still widely used, they added, and the
frequency would be useful for prepartions for emergency operations.
Noting in a letter to the national Ministry of Culture that the facility
is aging, NRK said it would undertake an upgrade that would boost the
power from 1 to 3kW - making it Norway's last AM station, since the
number of listeners in Norway had continued to shrink as a result of
other means of reception.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(SOUTHGATE)

**

ARRL RENEWS CALL FOR BANDWIDTH LIMIT ON DATA MODES

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The ARRL has renewed a request it made earlier to the
FCC, asking for changes in the way limits are set on data transmission.
Paul Braun, WD9GCO, has the details.

PAUL: The ARRL has asked the FCC to remove symbol-rate limits on data
transmissions, and adopt a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit instead. This is the
group's second request to the agency for such a change. The FCC had
earlier proposed removing the symbol-rate limits, but did not agree with
the ARRL recommendation on bandwidth. In renewing its request, the ARRL
contends that symbol-rate limits, which date to the 1980s, are a hindrance
to efficient modern data modes.

(ARRL)

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: As Newsline went to production, Will Wiquist, an FCC
spokesman, said in an email that the agency is still reviewing the request
and had no timeline for a decision.
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