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FRIDAY — JULY 6, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 514

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Well... it's still hot and dry here in Southern Illinois. The mercury hit 107º Thursday, shattering the old record of 100º set in 1913. More heat is in the forecast through Saturday.

According to the Illinois Ag Statistics Service, 33% of the state’s corn crop is rated as poor to very poor. 31% of the state’s soybean crop is also rated as poor to very poor. Statewide, the topsoil is rated 52% very short. [ WFIW ]

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Is RIM shot?

Cracked ’Berry hits 9-year stock bottom
By GARETT SLOANE
NEW YORK POST
Last Updated: 12:04 AM, July 2, 2012
Posted: 11:27 PM, June 30, 2012

BlackBerry is on death watch, waiting for a visit, perhaps, from the RIM-reaper.

The Canadian company RIM, a national treasure, is losing the faith of even its home country as it bleeds BlackBerry users in North America. A once-committed business base is fraying, overcoming the “CrackBerry” habit that once gripped executives who couldn't escape their messaging devices.

Now, the BlackBerry is looking at pager-like obsolescence, a future textbook case for business school about how far and fast a company can fall.

“Even hard-core fans of BlackBerry are starting to look away,” said Steven Brasen, a research director at Enterprise Management Associates.

Last year, 70 percent of companies with 10,000 or more employees were on BlackBerrys; this year that market share will fall to 30 percent, Brasen said.

Last week, RIM reported what was likely its last quarter of growing its user base, which stands at 78 million. Revenue is dwindling, down 43 percent year-over-year last quarter, and the next-generation BlackBerry 10 phone was delayed again.

Customers are not waiting while RIM, which cut its work force by a third, plays catch-up to Apple and Google phones already available.

Margaret Wood, a saleswoman in Canada, abandoned her home country’s iconic tech company, and after years of BlackBerry use she switched to the iPhone last week.

“I have been using an iPad for a couple of years,” Wood told The Post. “The switch to the iPhone was natural.”

She’s an example of how Apple lures customers with one product and rides the halo effect as users become attached to the ecosystem of developers who deliver apps and other content. Apple says it’s sold 250 million iPhones since it debuted in 2007.

BlackBerry can’t match Apple’s offerings — not that it hasn't tried. Last year, the firm released the PlayBook tablet, but it was a sales bust.

On her BlackBerry, Wood “never did download many apps because the app store was slow and painful,” she said.

RIM is trying to recover, and the company hard-sells developers, guaranteeing revenue and offering other incentives, according to apps makers.

“But it’s not really worth it,” one developer said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “BlackBerry is a falling platform.”

Meanwhile, RIM is a falling stock. Last summer shares were above $30, but on Friday they closed at a nine-year low: $7.39.

RIM’s new CEO, Thorsten Heins, has said the company is committed to turning its fortunes around without a sale or strategic partnership, although there have been reports that Microsoft could be interested in teaming with RIM, similar to the way it has with Nokia.

Investors are worried, however, that as RIM goes it alone, it will burn through its $2.2 billion in cash. RIM’s intellectual property could be a draw for any would-be future smartphone maker (perhaps Amazon or Facebook) looking to get in the game, analysts said. [ source ]

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Apple is planning smaller iPad by year’s end, sources say

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By Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano
Published: July 3
Updated: Thursday, July 5, 2:00 PM
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July 4 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. plans to debut a smaller, cheaper iPad by year-end, two people with knowledge of the plans said, to help maintain dominance of the tablet market as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. prepare competing handheld devices.

The new model will have a screen that’s 7 inches to 8 inches diagonally, less than the current 9.7-inch version, said the people, who asked not to be identified because Apple hasn't made its plans public. The product, which Apple may announce by October, won’t have the high-definition screen featured on the iPad that was released in March, one of the people said.

A smaller, less expensive iPad could undercut the ambitions of Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com Inc. to gain traction in the advancing tablet market, said Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. The new device will probably have a price closer to Google’s Nexus 7 tablet and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, both of which have 7-inch screens and cost $199.

“It would be the competitors’ worst nightmare,” Wu said in an interview. “The ball is in Apple’s court.”

Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, declined to comment yesterday.

Since the iPad went on sale in April 2010, Apple has dominated the tablet market, which is predicted by DisplaySearch to reach $66.4 billion this year. Apple has 61 percent of the market, according to Gartner Inc.

Apple’s rivals are eager to gain a toehold. Google said on June 27 that it will sell a tablet-style device called the Nexus 7. Earlier in the month, Microsoft announced a tablet called Surface that will have a similar screen size as the current iPad. Amazon’s Kindle Fire was released last year.

Google Strategy

The entrants’ best chance of success has been to focus on markets where Apple had no toehold, said Jan Dawson, an analyst at Ovum Ltd. The Surface comes in two models that are most likely to appeal to buyers who want to continue using Microsoft’s Windows software, Dawson said. While Microsoft has not disclosed pricing or timing for either, the higher-end version will probably be pricier than the iPad and targeted more at an emerging class of laptop PCs called Ultrabooks, he said. The latest iPad ranges in price from $499 to $829.

Google’s Nexus 7 could stack up well against Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which went on sale in November. The Nexus 7, manufactured by Asustek Computer Inc., has a faster processor and better battery life than the Kindle Fire, as well as a front-facing camera.

Still, competing with a lower-priced iPad will be more challenging, Wu said. Apple benefits from having more than 225,000 apps that have been tailored specifically for the current iPad.

Apple Retail

The company also boasts more than 360 retail stores where the device can be purchased and tested by consumers. Google said the Nexus 7 will be available only from its online store, while Microsoft will sell its tablets online and at its smaller chain of 20 stores.

Apple has considered introducing a smaller tablet since the original iPad was released, one person said. That approach has worked for Apple’s iPod, which is the world’s top music player and comes in various sizes and colors.

Source: The Washington Post

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Chicago to get hyper-connected under Rahm Emanuel's grand Wi-Fi plan

Emanuel plans to make entire downtown area wireless — the latest in a series of innovations from Chicago's ambitious mayor

Ed Pilkington in Chicago
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Tuesday 3 July 2012 10.45 EDT

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Rahm Emanuel, the hyperactive mayor of Chicago, is drawing up plans that would transform the city into one of the most wired urban centres in the world and affirm its status as the broadband backbone of America.

Emanuel has instructed officials to examine the technical and financial implications of turning the whole of downtown Chicago into a wireless network zone. Under the plans, the city's traffic and street lights would be turned into smart polls, ensuring unbroken internet access throughout the city centre that would be extended underground across the entire CTA subway system.

Combined with the already existing connectivity of Chicago's two great electronic trading exchanges — the Mercantile Exchange and Board of Options — the audacious plans would give Chicago, Emanuel believes, a huge strategic advantage. "We are the broadband backbone of America, right here. That's a physical fact, and I have to use that advantage to its maximum capacity, both in the city and in terms of connectivity with the rest of the world."

Wiring the entire downtown area is just one of a long list of innovations that Emanuel, 52, has put in train since arriving at City Hall in May last year. The famously foul-mouthed overseer of the West Wing during Barack Obama's first two years in office hasn't so much hit Chicago's ground running as burnt it up in a frenzy.

He has introduced a $7bn plan to overhaul the city's crumbling infrastructure, replaced the membership of city boards, reshuffled departments, introduced safeguards against petty corruption, cut remuneration for commission members, hosted the Nato summit and encouraged companies such as Walgreens and Chase to expand their presence in the city — all within 13 breathless months.

All his moves, Emanuel insisted in an interview in the board room of City Hall, have been taken with an eye to Chicago's long-term future as one of the world's great cities.

"There are 100 cities in the world that drive the creativity, the economy, the world GDP, the culture — and Chicago's one of those 100," he said. "The decisions we make here in the next two to three years will determine whether Chicago 20 or 30 years from now stays in that 100 club or veers off track. That's true for the mayor of Shanghai, or London, or Paris, or New York — what we do now will determine our trajectory."

On current growth projections the population of metropolitan Chicago is expected to exceed 10 million people by 2030, which will gain it entry to the very select club of global megacities. Emanuel sees that as another huge opportunity, though he adds it is "fraught with danger if you don't plan right".

The first task the mayor set himself was to face head-on the historic legacy problems of a crumbling city. The Chicago he inherited from his predecessor, Richard Daley, who served 22 years as mayor, is in some regards in spanking good health with a vibrant economy, sparkling riverfront, world-class universities and effervescent architecture.

But in other aspects it is desperately in need of a facelift: its water services and sewers are rotten and bursting, its public high schools have a shocking 50% graduation rate, the subway is creaking in parts, unemployment is rampant in the poorer outlying neighborhoods and the murder rate is high and rising.

As a symbolic example of the problem, it is reported that when Emanuel took possession of the mayor's office he found that it wasn't even wired for the internet.

Over the next three years Emanuel will pump $7bn to bring the ageing city up to scratch. That will pay for a massive upgrading of the underground water infrastructure, two new runways at O'Hare airport, an overhaul of subway stations, $660m investment in public schools, a rapid-transit bus system in the centre of the city and the first steps towards making Chicago the most bike-friendly city in the world.

Looking further ahead, the mayor is setting up a Chicago Infrastructure Trust composed of private and public members to advise him on how to push the city into the future. Its first act will be to carry out a $225m "retrofit" of public buildings to make them more energy-efficient, and then he will be looking for ideas on how to ensure that Chicago is what he calls "a knowledge-based, creative economy built on 21st-century foundations and moving at 21st-century speeds".

His overall ambition, he said, is to make Chicago "one of the most liveable of cities in America", but to keep true to its roots as a city of neighbourhoods with deep ethnic roots and 28 different languages spoken. Emanuel is fond of calling his city "the most American of American cities".

What does he mean?

"We are the capital of the midwest, but we also gather people from all over the country. We are a city of immigrants, from America and the rest of the world," he said, adding that he is himself a typical Chicagoan with a father from Israel and maternal grandfather who came from the Russia-Romania border.

Should Emanuel succeed in implementing even a portion of his ambitions he will have written himself into the history books as one of a new generation of activist mayors grabbing American cities by the lapels and giving them a good shake. The most visible example is Michael Bloomberg in New York, who has startled the US with his proactive policies for fighting obesity and making the Big Apple green.

But in Emanuel's case, the determination to press ahead with large-scale revitalisation of the city has a peculiarly personal quality. It is founded upon his recognition — based in turn on his own close-up experience of the gridlock in Washington as Obama's former chief of staff — that government in America is not working and thus can no longer be relied upon to deliver change.

"Washington is not moving, Springfield, our state capital, is not moving. I cannot tie this city's — my city's — future to that dysfunction. If they were to get a highway transportation bill in Washington, all the better; if they were to make a major investment in our national infrastructure, all the better.

"But a strategy for a city's growth is not one based on hope. I have to get things done. I am going to take as much of our own economic destiny into our own hands."

Source: The Guardian UK

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Two-Way Users Slow to Comply with Narrowbanding Mandate

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

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Less than half of two-way radio users have brought their equipment into compliance with the government's narrowbanding mandate, according to the FCC.

BearCom, a provider of wireless communications, pointed to the FCC's numbers in a release aimed at reminding users about the transition to the narrowband 12.5 kHz channel technology called for in the FCC's initiative.

“The countdown continues to the January 1, 2013, narrowbanding deadline,” said BearCom President & CEO Jerry Denham. “And with nearly half of licensees still to make the transition, there is plenty of work to be done to ensure that vital communications aren't adversely affected.”

The mandate requires public agencies and companies that currently use legacy 25 kHz wideband systems in the VHF and UHF bands to make the transition to narrowband by January 1, 2013. Users who don’t make the switch face potential fines and possibly the loss of their communication capabilities.

“Even with all the advance notice and publicity about narrowbanding, it’s clear many users are waiting to take action,” said Denham.

Denham says users can conduct an inventory of equipment that should reveal which units can be converted to 12.5 kHz and which must be replaced. Users then can arrange for the conversions and procure up-to-date equipment. Lastly, new or modified FCC licenses can be obtained.

The deadline is the result of an FCC effort that began almost two decades ago to ensure more efficient use of the spectrum and greater spectrum access for public safety and non-public safety users.

Migration to 12.5 kHz efficiency technology, once referred to as “refarming” but now referred to as “narrowbanding,” will allow the creation of additional channel capacity within the same radio spectrum, and support more users.

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Leap Second Bug Snarls Air Travel in Australia

By: Rich Miller
July 1st, 2012
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Computer problems with the Amadeus airline reservation system caused long lines and traveler delays at airports across Australia this weekend, as the outage wreaked havoc with the check-in systems used by Qantas and Virgin Australia. The outage appears to be related to the “Leap Second Bug,” in which the addition of a single second to the world’s atomic clocks caused problems with IT systems.

More than 400 Qantas flights around Australia were delayed by at least two hours as staff switched to manual check-ins. The outage at Amadeus, one of the world’s major reservation systems, lasted about an hour but had a longer impact on air travelers and airline staff.

Media reports say Qantas has blamed the leap second bug for the issues at Amadeus. A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Universal Time (UTC) to account for variations in the earth’s rotation speed. The Qantas problems were the most visible business impact of the problems the adjustment created or IT systems.

The leap second bug is a time-handling problem that is a distant relative of the Y2K date issue. The leap second bug bug caused problems for a number of popular web sites, including LinkedIn, Reddit, Mozilla and The Pirate Bay.

Amadeus says it handles more than 3 million airline bookings a day through its huge data center in Erding, Germany , where more than 5,000 servers process 1 billion transactions a day across its many travel businesses (see video overview and infographic for more). In a media statement, Amadeus said it is investigating the cause of the systems crash and will “take any appropriate steps to avoid this reoccurring.” The outage was the second this year for Amadeus’ reservations systems, following an incident in January .

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Falcone Sets Up His Defense

Hedge-Fund Manager Plans to Blame His Advisers in Fight Against SEC Suit

By JULIET CHUNG
The Wall Street Journal

Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone is settling on one of the strategies he'll use to defend himself against fraud allegations that could destroy his career: Blame his lawyers and lieutenants.

The 49-year-old Mr. Falcone was fighting the Securities and Exchange Commission for months before last week's civil lawsuit by the SEC against him and Harbinger Capital Partners LLC, based in New York.

Mr. Falcone has vowed to fight the allegations, including misappropriating client assets, favoring certain customers over others and manipulating bond prices. The SEC's claims will be "vigorously defended in the courthouse," said Matthew Dontzin, a lawyer who represents the hedge-fund manager.

Mr. Falcone plans to try deflecting blame to a former Harbinger operating chief and two lawyers who advised him to borrow $113.2 million in 2009 from a Harbinger fund to pay his personal taxes even though other investors were blocked from withdrawing money, according to people familiar with his defense.

In the suit, the SEC alleges that Mr. Falcone and the operating chief, Peter Jenson, misled investors and an outside law firm when Mr. Falcone borrowed the money. Bruce Karpati, chief of the asset-management unit of the SEC's enforcement division, declined to comment further.

The SEC charges are a blow to Mr. Falcone, who captured the limelight for his profitable bets against subprime mortgages during the financial crisis. In May, LightSquared Inc., his ambitious attempt to build from scratch a nationwide wireless-phone network, filed for bankruptcy protection. Harbinger is LightSquared's main backer.

Mr. Falcone is expected to contend that borrowing the money was the best option for his investors, since most of his assets were illiquid and because of what he believed to be a lack of financing alternatives. The loan also prevented a possible tax lien on his Harbinger assets, which could have hurt the fund, according to the people familiar with his defense.

The people familiar with Mr. Falcone's defense, some of which was spelled out to SEC officials before the suit was filed, said he got the loan on the advice of in-house lawyer Robin Roger, an outside lawyer from Sidley Austin LLP with whom he never communicated directly, and Mr. Jenson.

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Mr. Jenson's lawyer, Charles Clark, disputed Mr. Falcone's recollection of events, saying that Mr. Falcone actually ignored the advice of Mr. Jenson, who left the firm in June 2011.

"Any position by Mr. Falcone that he was not aware of all facets of the loan, the underlying legal advice, or his final approval of it, is not supported by the evidence," Mr. Clark said. "Mr. Falcone withheld material information from my client pertinent to the loan and failed to act on other elements of my client's advice relevant to the loan."

A spokesman for Mr. Falcone and Harbinger declined to respond to Mr. Clark's statement.

Ms. Roger's lawyer, Paul Shechtman, said she "relied on a distinguished outside lawyer for legal advice and on Harbinger's business people for the facts and gave her best independent judgment." Ms. Roger hasn't been accused of wrongdoing.

The SEC also accused Harbinger of ignoring advice from a law firm that advised against the loan, while providing "materially incorrect information" about the fund's health to Sidley Austin. Sidley wasn't identified by name in the SEC's suit.

People familiar with Mr. Falcone's defense strategy said his lawyers will argue that advice from the other law firm, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, related to a different situation. They said Sidley had accurate information and suggested the loan.

Representatives of the two law firms declined to comment.

The SEC also alleged that Mr. Falcone and Harbinger favored some of its biggest investors with secret "side deals" that allowed those investors to withdraw money more easily from the firm than other investors. In return, the preferred investors agreed to support a restructuring plan that would limit other clients from yanking their money, the SEC said.

Mr. Falcone's lawyers plan to counter in court that there was no quid pro quo arrangement. Instead, Mr. Falcone and Harbinger pushed for more restrictive redemption terms in order to stabilize a fund. Fund documents also allowed special treatment of large or strategic investors, lawyers are likely to assert.

In its suit, the SEC didn't identify two other Harbinger executives to whom it sent so-called Wells notices. A Wells Notice is an indication of possible charges.

Harbinger has said Ms. Roger and Omar Asali, its president, were told the SEC wouldn't take action against them. Mr. Asali's lawyer declined to comment.

Mr. Shechtman, Ms. Roger's lawyer, said the SEC's decision not to pursue charges against his client "confirms that she properly fulfilled her function as general counsel."

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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Colorado Hams Provide Disaster Communications During Wildfires

ARRL (American Radio Relay League)
07/05/2012

Thanks to an extremely dry season, portions of Colorado have been ravaged by wildfires. As of July 5, only a handful of the fires are considered extinguished or fully contained, with the majority considered still active. According to InciWeb, almost 170,000 acres are affected by 11 active fires. Since June 9 — when the High Park Fire, the first of the wildfires began — hams in Colorado have been assisting with disaster communications, providing communications support to the State and served agencies.

Randy Long, K7AVV, of Masonville, told the Denver Post in an article published June 14, that beginning June 10, he “he has been managing operators staffing eight-hour shifts around the clock. [The hams have been] doing such things as setting up portable radio repeaters and relaying messages between the fire lines and command posts. About 40 operators have volunteered [to help provide communications support].”

Along with Long, Robert Wareham, N0ESQ and a handful of ARES volunteers reported to the National Guard Armory in Fort Collins as the High Park fire encircled the Buckhorn and Horsetooth mountains, the sites for some of the public safety communications towers for Larimer County. “These are the kind of things we train for day in and day out,” Wareham told the Denver Post. “We just want to keep the people in this county safe.” The paper reported that there are about 50 repeater sites located in the mountains.

Shortly after the High Park broke out, radio amateurs in Estes Park and Fort Collins were called upon to help provide communications support to the American Red Cross. Hams set up antennas and a crossband repeater to provide communications from Red Cross Headquarters in Estes Park to their facilities at the fire base, as well as to a Red Cross evacuation center that had been set up at a local high school.

ARRL Colorado Section Manager Jack Ciaccia, WM0G, and ARRL Boulder County Emergency Coordinator Allen Bishop, K0ARK, were returning from the High Park Fire on June 26 when they were notified that Boulder County Office of Emergency Management had activated ARES for another fire, the Flagstaff Fire. According to Ciaccia, a lightning strike had hit just west of Boulder, causing a 20 acre that had spread to 230 acres in only 30 minutes, due to high winds.

“The Boulder Office of Emergency Management wanted Boulder County ARES (BCARES) positions manned at the Emergency Operations Center,” Ciaccia told the ARRL. “They also wanted to send additional operators to video positions and set up packet and voice communications at a local school noted, as it would serve as the evacuation center. We set up a resource net on the local Boulder Amateur Radio Club repeater and assigned a Net Control Station to set up there.”

Ciaccia said that within one hour, ATV hams with BCARES had a video camera set up, while other hams at the evacuation center team had set up packet communications, providing data and video, as well as 2 meter FM voice communications. “Another net was up and running simultaneously on our operations repeater, with another Net Control Station working at the EOC,” he explained. “Other portable video positions were fully operational by the end of two hours. Our live video feeds were up on the huge video screens at the EOC, allowing the entire emergency staff to see helitankers and US Forest Service bomber aircraft making fire retardant drops. They could also see the fire live from the backside, which was not otherwise visible without our portable ATV teams live video feeds. When the Type I federal fire teams showed up to determine whether the fire would escalate to their level, they noticed the live video feeds at the EOC and made special trips to our field video sites. They were unaware that a TV resource was available that could be used for their purposes and were quite pleased at that capability and wanted us to continue operations if it escalated to a Type I.” The fire never grew beyond 300 acres and it remained at a Type II level.”

“The served agencies — the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office and their Office of Emergency Management — were extremely pleased that we responded so fast and so well,” Ciaccia told the ARRL. “Joe Pelle, the Boulder County Sheriff, made it a point to stop by and thank us, as did Mike Chard, the Director of the Boulder Office of Emergency Management.”

Source: ARRL.org What is Ham Radio ? left arrow CLICK

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TECHNICAL SECTION

KSM

Coast Station KSM

The call letters KSM were originally assigned to a station of the Robert Dollar Company. The station was located near Los Angeles. It operated on 500kc and eight frequencies in the HF band. When the MRHS was granted its own commercial coast station license we were very pleased to find that we had been assigned this historic call sign.

KSM is a commercial, common carrier coast station in the grand tradition of KPH and the dozens of other such stations that once existed in the USA. When the license for KPH was sold to Globe Wireless the MRHS felt it needed its own coast station to carry on the traditions and preserve the skills of the art of maritime radio through actual use.

KSM uses the original transmitters, receivers and antennas of KPH. The station is licensed for communications with ships at sea using both CW and RTTY modes in the MF and HF marine bands. KSM accepts traffic from ships at sea for onward transmission to addressees ashore. No charge is made for this service.

KSM Frequencies (in kc)

CW:

426
500
4350.5
6474.0
8438.3
12993.0
16914.0
22445.8

RTTY:

6328.0
8433.0
12631.0

KSM uses two modes of "RTTY": Baudot and FEC. Baudot transmissions are at 170cps shift, 45 baud. FEC transmissions are at 170cps shift, 100 baud.

On CW, KSM broadcasts its "wheel" (a repeating message inviting ships to call and giving the frequencies being used). When working ships, the KSM operator will key all frequencies so listeners will be able to hear the shore side of the contact no matter what frequency they are monitoring. All maritime radio operations are duplex. Once the ship makes contact with KSM it will shift from the calling to a working frequency. The KSM operator will repeat this frequency so listeners can attempt to hear the ship. KSM sends high seas weather for the Pacific at 2130gmt at 25wpm.

On RTTY, KSM broadcasts marine weather and press information alternating between the two modes listed above.

Source:

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Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, a newsletter from the Law Offices of Blooston, Mordkofsky, Dickens, Duffy & Prendergast, LLP are reproduced in this section with the firm's permission.

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FCC Unveils Tentative Agenda For July 19 Open Meeting

The FCC has announced that the following items will be on the tentative agenda for the next open meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 19, 2012:

FCC Next-Generation Mapping Presentation: The FCC said it will hear a presentation on the latest advancements in mapping at the Commission, including the launch of fcc.gov/maps, and novel use of maps and the latest open source mapping technology to increase transparency across the agency and promote data-driven decision-making to benefit consumers, industry, and developers.

White Spaces for Wireless Broadband Presentation: The Commission said it will hear a progress report by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Office of Engineering & Technology on the development and use of white space technology to unleash more spectrum for wireless broadband.

Measuring Broadband America Report 2012 Presentation: The Commission said it will hear a presentation on the Measuring Broadband America July 2012 Report, which extends the study into more regions and publishes more kinds of data. This latest study of broadband performance in the U.S. follows the Commission’s first-of-its-kind report last year to test and report transparent broadband speed and performance data in collaboration with Internet Service Providers, the FCC said.

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AUGUST 1: FCC FORM 502, NUMBER UTILIZATION AND FORECAST REPORT: Any wireless or wireline number blocks—including 100, 1,000, or 10,000 number blocks—from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), a Pooling Administrator, or from another carrier, must file Form 502 by August 1. Carriers porting numbers for the purpose of transferring an established customer’s service to another service provider must also report, but the carrier receiving numbers through porting does not. Resold services should also be treated like ported numbers, meaning the carrier transferring the resold service to another carrier is required to report those numbers but the carrier receiving such numbers should not report them. New this year is that reporting carriers are required to include their FCC Registration Number (FRN). Reporting carriers file utilization and forecast reports semiannually on or before February 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending December 31, and on or before August 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending June 30.

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DIRS NOW READY TO RECEIVE DISASTER OUTAGE INFO ON INTERCONNECTED VoIP & BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICES: The FCC has announced that of June 28, its Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) will accept disaster outage information on interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and broadband Internet services. DIRS is a voluntary, web-based system administered by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) that communications providers can use to report communications infrastructure status and situational awareness information during times of crisis. Information submitted in DIRS provides the Commission with an important level of awareness regarding the status of communications during and immediately after a disaster. The expansion of DIRS to interconnected VoIP and broadband Internet services recognizes that consumers, businesses, and government agencies increasingly rely on broadband and interconnected VoIP services for everyday and emergency communications needs, including 9-1-1 services.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 26 July 3, 2012

 

This newsletter is not intended to provide legal advice. Those interested in more information should contact the firm. For additional information, contact Hal Mordkofsky at 202-828-5520 or halmor@bloostonlaw.com

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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From: ARRL Members Only Web site
Subject: IL HB 1390 Now Public Act 097-0720
Date: July 5, 2012 8:14:28 PM CDT
To: Brad Dye K9IQY

Public Act 097-0720

HB1390 Enrolled LRB097 07768 KMW 47880 b

spacer AN ACT concerning local government.

spacer Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

spacer Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 11-13-1.5 as follows:

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spacer Sec. 11-13-1.5. Amateur radio communications; antenna regulations. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no ordinance or resolution may be adopted or enforced by a municipality after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly that affects the placement, screening, or height of antennas or antenna support structures that are used for amateur radio communications unless the ordinance or resolution: (i) has a reasonable and clearly defined aesthetic, public health, or safety objective and represents the minimum practical regulation that is necessary to accomplish the objectives; and (ii) reasonably accommodates amateur radio communications.

spacer A municipality may not regulate the antennas or antenna support structures that are used for amateur radio communications in a manner inconsistent with this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.

spacer Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.

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About Selfishness

“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”

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Genre: Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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Lao Tzu [...] was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi). His association with the Tao Te Ching has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of the Taoist religion, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones." Lao Tzu translated literally from Chinese means "old master" or "old one", and is generally considered honorific.

According to Chinese tradition, Lao Tzu lived in the 6th century BCE. Historians variously contend that Lao Tzu is a synthesis of multiple historical figures, that he is a mythical figure, or that he actually lived in the 5th-4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period.

A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Lao Tzu in their lineage. Throughout history, Lao Tzu's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

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