470 ARG News Letter 7-22-10 With Late Addition At End

Hello everyone and welcome to this weeks news letter, been very busy this week and the temps sure have been up, hope all staying cool and doing well... I believe we had 56 on the net last week with Danny and those who e mailed (3) .... cannot blame anyone for enjoying this wonderful weather that we are having !!
Ok lets get started.....

Connect with the National Scout Jamboree via Amateur Radio
TAGS: amateur radio, ctcss tone, D-Star, national scout jamboree, radio merit badge
07/20/2010

The National Scout Jamboree takes place July 26-August 4 at Fort AP Hill, Caroline County, Virginia. A myriad of exhibits and activities await the close to 40,000 Scouts, leaders and staff. Coming from all 50 states, territories and foreign countries, they will have the opportunity to live, work and play together in an atmosphere of Scouting fellowship. And just like the National Scout Jamborees in 1973, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, the 2010 event will feature Amateur Radio.

A team of 17 Scouters and two Scouts will activate K2BSA as a demonstration station at the Jamboree. According to K2BSA Staff Member Larry Wolfgang, WR1B, they will be demonstrating various operating modes to the visiting Scouts, with activity primarily on HF, around the published Scout frequencies. Wolfgang is the ARRL Liaison to the National Scout Jamboree. Another group of 17 Scouters and one Scout will assist other Scouts in earning the Radio merit badge, while seven Scouters will be offering classes and will help administer Amateur Radio licensing exams.

K2BSA will also operate an EchoLink station at the Jamboree on 444.425 MHz simplex, with a CTCSS tone of 100 Hz on the Jamboree equipment. The EchoLink node number is 307770 and the IRLP node number is 3011.

“We will also be on the air via D-STAR from the Jamboree site,” Wolfgang said. “We will be using the WS4VA 2 meter repeater (145.320 MHz, -600 kHz split), located 35 miles north of us in Stafford, Virginia, which in turn will be connected to D-STAR Reflector 30B.” The K2BSA repeaters will operate on 145.17 MHz, with a -600 kHz shift and 442.90 MHz with a +5 MHz shift; use a 100.0 Hz CTCSS subtone for both repeaters. There will be a Jamboree Net at 1900 (local time) each evening.

Some K2BSA staff will be equipped with APRS. Click here for to view APRS activity at the National Jamboree.

The K2BSA staff would like to thank ICOM America for the generous loan of some D-STAR equipment, the Stafford (Virginia) Area Radio Association (SARA) and SARA Trustee Emmett Price, K3EP, for the dedicated use of one of their D-STAR repeaters, as well as Gateway, Robin Cutshaw, AA4RC, and John Davis, WB4QDX, for the use of D-STAR reflector 30B. K2BSA also thanks the following companies and individuals for their assistance with their operation at the Jamboree: Array Solutions (W3NQN Bandpass Filters), Buckmaster, Cushcraft, Flex Radio, Heil Sound, HRO in Woodbridge, Virginia, Hy-Gain, MFJ, QuickSilver Radio Products, Steve Gwilliam, G8XGG, Ten-Tec and Yaesu USA.

Chris Graney

christopher.graney@kctcs.edu

The nearly forgotten story of how a radio amateur successfully detected transmissions from the first men to land on the Moon.

In July of 1969 a ham radio operator and amateur radio-astronomer by the name of Larry Baysinger, W4EJA, accomplished an amazing feat. He independently detected radio transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface. Fortunately, his accomplishments were recorded by Glenn Rutherford, a young reporter for the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. “Lunar Eavesdropping: Louisvillians hear moon walk talk on homemade equipment,” sporting Rutherford’s byline, appeared in the Wednesday, July 23, 1969 issue of that paper — front page of section B, the local news section (see Figure 1).

Rutherford opened the Courier story with “Thanks to some homemade electronic equipment, including a rebuilt 20 year old radio receiver from an Army tank (see Figure 2) and an antenna made of spare pieces of aluminum, nylon cord and chicken wire (see Figure 3 and 4), a small band of Louisvillians was able to ‘eavesdrop’ Sunday (July 20) night on the American astronauts’ conversation directly from the moon.”

The story discussed how Baysinger recorded 35 minutes of conversation from VHF signals transmitted between astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins (he did not attempt to pick up the encoded S-band signals from the main Moon-Earth communication link).1 These 35 minutes included the time during which President Richard Nixon transmitted a message of congratulations to the astronauts.

Rutherford’s story briefly mentioned how Baysinger had been previously successful in constructing a device to detect radio signals from Jupiter and in tracking and reproducing pictures transmitted from Earth-orbiting satellites. It briefly described the antenna used for the lunar eavesdropping project — a fully steerable 8 × 12 foot “corner horn” — and it briefly discussed the amazing sensitivity of the receiver, which Baysinger specially modified for the lunar eavesdropping project. Rutherford finished the story with “Needless to say, the receiver worked to perfection Sunday night.”

Baysinger’s accomplishment earned him some brief recognition — a meeting with the Collins Radio Company, which supplied the communications systems for the Apollo spacecraft. Collins was impressed with Baysinger’s work. Then the story faded into the mists of time. “Lunar Eavesdropping” quietly sat in the rolls of microfilmed Courier-Journal editions in the reference sections of (mostly Kentucky) libraries, awaiting rediscovery.

Providence brought “Lunar Eavesdropping” back to light this summer. Rutherford, now an assistant editor of the central Kentucky newspaper The Record, was interviewing me concerning the productive history-of-astronomy research program operated out of the Jefferson Community & Technical College observatory. Our discussion drifted into the subject of science being done in unexpected places by a small homegrown operation (such as a Kentucky community college observatory).

This prompted Rutherford to mention Baysinger’s work and the attention he got from the Collins Company as another example of interesting, homegrown, small-operation science in Louisville. I was immediately intrigued, especially when Rutherford said he did a story on it that appeared in the Courier-Journal.2 He could not recall the exact date, so a few days later I was rummaging through the microfilm collection at the University of Louisville library. I found Rutherford’s story within an hour (with the help of my wife Tina and son Joe).

When I got back to Rutherford about how I was interested in the story and had found it in the July 23, 1969 Courier-Journal, he mentioned that Baysinger actually still lived in Louisville — retired from a radio career but still active in ham radio. In short order I was talking to Baysinger via phone and e-mail, learning more about the lunar eavesdropping project.

Lost in the Archives

Today a person can sneeze and let the whole world know about it through Twitter or Facebook, so it is hard to believe that the lunar eavesdropping project could have almost completely disappeared into the microfilm drawers — but so it had. Extensive searches through Google, as well as through the EBSCO and JSTOR databases, turned up no references to it at all.3

So how did Larry Baysinger come to be eavesdropping on Apollo 11 the night of July 20, 1969? Baysinger told me that he got interested in radio in the early 1950s, when building a radio from scratch or modifying a military surplus device was common practice. Surplus WWII equipment was both available and inexpensive at that time and Baysinger has fond memories of high school road trips to Lexington (Kentucky) and Indianapolis (Indiana) where a radio enthusiast could find particularly good hunting for military surplus.

His interest and talents in radio eventually led him to career with WHAS 840 AM radio in Louisville. (WHAS and the Courier-Journal were both owned by the Bingham family of Louisville and it was through this connection that Rutherford met Baysinger and became aware of his work.) By the late 1960s Baysinger was working professionally for WHAS and experimenting on the side with radio astronomy and satellite tracking.

The lunar eavesdropping project arose because he had an interest in independently verifying the information that NASA had been providing about the Apollo program. Could he get unedited, unfiltered information about the Apollo 11 landing by eavesdropping on the radio signals transmitted from the lunar surface? Maybe he could find out things that NASA did not want the public to know about. In addition, successfully detecting a transmission from the lunar surface would be a great technical accomplishment. Various “experts” had told him that it could not be done.

Aiming for the Moon

Baysinger says that on the night of the Apollo 11 landing, he and Rutherford had to essentially aim the antenna at the Moon by getting behind it and sighting it like a gun. This was difficult since the weather was cloudy and the Moon not easily visible. The antenna, which was originally built for Baysinger’s radio astronomy work, had a motorized steering mechanism but it had to be manually guided.

Its “beam” or “field of view” was such that, once pointed at the Moon, it could be let go for a little while, but pretty soon it would have to be reaimed because the motions of the Earth and Moon caused the Moon to drift out of the antenna’s field and the signal to be lost. In fact, this was one piece of evidence that the Apollo 11 signals the receiver picked up were indeed from the Moon — if the antenna was not kept aimed at the Moon, the signal disappeared. Baysinger’s wife and daughter watched the Apollo 11 landing on TV while Baysinger and Rutherford listened via Baysinger’s equipment. The signal on the home-built equipment came through approximately 5-10 seconds earlier than the signal on TV. It was noisy, but you could hear what was going on.

I asked Baysinger whether he found anything that NASA edited out — comments about things going wrong, the astronauts being loose with their language or exclamations about meeting space aliens. He said no — absolutely everything was transmitted to the public on TV. In fact he said, “that was kind of disappointing.” Part of the idea of the project was to hear the unedited “real story,” and it turned out there was nothing edited. Indeed, Rutherford’s story makes no mention of hearing anything unusual.

Perhaps because there was nothing to hear that couldn’t be heard on CBS, Baysinger did not attempt to eavesdrop on any other Apollo missions. After Apollo 11 he moved on to other projects. Rutherford moved on to other stories. “Lunar Eavesdropping” was moved on to microfilm.

An unanswered question in this story is whether there were other lunar eavesdropping projects conducted by Amateur Radio operators. This is something that QST readers with long memories can help with. My searching through Google and various databases, asking among those knowledgeable in the history of astronomy and querying various print and Web Amateur Radio publications has turned up only one other case of independent detection of Apollo transmission from the Moon. Sven Grahn and Richard Flagg picked up transmissions from the Apollo 17 command module in orbit around the Moon using a 30 foot radio telescope dish, but they heard only two recognizable voice transmissions, each consisting of only a few words.4

It is possible that there had been other projects like Larry Baysinger’s and perhaps these projects were told in articles like Glenn Rutherford’s. Those projects and their stories might be sitting in a drawer somewhere, waiting for a QST reader to bring them to light.

Lunar Eavesdropping Link

More information on Larry’s lunar eavesdropping, including some audio clips, can be found on Christopher Graney’s Otter Creek-South Harrison Observatory Web page, Lunar Eavesdropping In Louisville, Kentucky.

All photos used with permission of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, except as noted.

Christopher M. Graney is a professor of physics and astronomy at Jefferson Community & Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky. He can be reached at Jefferson Community & Technical College, 1000 Community College Dr, Louisville, KY 40272.

1The S-band covers 2-4 GHz, which encompasses the 2.3-2.31 GHz, 2.39-2.45 GHz and 3.3-3.5 GHz amateur bands. — Ed.

2I was intrigued due to my interest in astronomy’s history (this being an interesting story of radio astronomy). I was also intrigued because both in my classes and in our observatory public outreach programs I encounter people who ask whether I think we really went to the Moon. I thought it would be wonderful in those instances to have “on tap” a story of a local person independently verifying the presence of astronauts on the Moon.

3These searches were done in August 2009. Since then I have discussed “Lunar Eavesdropping” with many people, including those on a history of astronomy e-mail list, so more references to it may now exist. The Courier-Journal has an electronic database of articles, but it does not go back to 1969.

4QST readers interested in this story may want to look at Grahn’s Tracking Apollo 17 from Florida or Flagg’s University of Florida Student Satellite Tracking Station Web pages.

K1ZZ Presented with "BPL Spoils" Award
TAGS: ARRL Chief Technology, BPL business, BPL systems
07/16/2010

During the Friday morning portion of the July 2010 ARRL Board meeting in Windsor, Connecticut, Chief Executive Officer Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, received a surprise plaque from the Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation (AMRAD). Titled “BPL Spoils”, the plaque featured a discarded BPL modem that was allegedly rescued from surplus equipment belonging to a prominent manufacturer that had decided to exit the BPL business. ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, presented the plaque to Sumner in recognition of his and ARRL staff's tireless work against radio interference generated by BPL systems.

FCC Modifies Amateur Rules to Allow Participation in Disaster and Emergency Drills on Behalf of an Employer without a Waiver
TAGS: amateur, amateur communications, amateur operations, amateur radio, amateur radio operators, amateur radio service, amateur stations, bona fide emergency, disaster preparedness drills, emergency preparedness drills, emergency situations, preparedness drills, public interest
07/16/2010

In a Report and Order (R&O) released Wednesday, July 14, the FCC amended Part 97.113 to allow amateurs to participate without an FCC waiver in government-sponsored disaster preparedness drills on behalf of their employers participating in the exercise. The FCC also has amended the rules to allow employees to participate in non-government drills and exercises up to one hour per week and up to two 72-hour periods during the year.

“Experience has shown that amateur operations can and have played an essential role in protecting the safety of life and property during emergency situations and disaster situations,” the FCC noted in the R&O. “Moreover, the current Amateur Radio Service rules, which permit participation in such drills and tests by volunteers (ie, non-employees of participating entities), reflect the critical role Amateur Radio serves in such situations. However, as evidenced by recent waiver requests, state and local government public safety agencies, hospitals and other entities concerned with the health and safety of citizens appear to be limited in their ability to conduct disaster and emergency preparedness drills, because of the employee status of Amateur Radio licensees involved in the training exercises. We therefore amend our rules to permit amateur radio operators to participate in government-sponsored emergency and disaster preparedness drills and tests, regardless of whether the operators are employees of the entities participating in the drill or test. We find that extending authority to operate amateur stations during such drills will enhance emergency preparedness and response and thus serve the public interest.”

In order to allow participation in non-governmental disaster drills -- such as those sponsored by ARES® or private hospitals -- the FCC will now allow amateurs employed by an agency participating in such a drill to participate up to one hour per week. In addition, they may also participate in up to two exercises in any calendar year, each for a time period not to exceed 72 hours. “This time limitation, which is consistent with the timeframes contained in the waiver requests filed with the Commission, should serve to further ensure the use of Amateur Radio for bona fide emergency testing,” the R&O stated. “We emphasize that the purpose for any drills we authorize herein must be related to emergency and disaster preparedness. By limiting the purpose in this manner, we further ensure that such drills will be appropriately limited.”

In amending the Amateur Radio rules, the FCC reiterated that it does not intend to disturb the core principle of the Amateur Radio Service “as a voluntary, non-commercial communication service carried out by duly authorized persons interested in radio technique with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest. Rather, we believe that the public interest will be served by establishing a narrow exception to the prohibition on transmitting amateur communications in which the station control operator has a pecuniary interest or employment relationship, and that such an exception is consistent with the intent of the Amateur Radio Service rules.”

The effective date of the R&O is to be determined and will be at some time after its publication in the Federal Register. A more detailed story will be forthcoming from the ARRL.

FCC: Vanity Call Sign Fees to Decrease August 17
TAGS: federal register, fiscal year, regulatory fee, vanity
07/20/2010

On July 19, the FCC announced via the Federal Register that the cost of an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will decrease 10 cents, from to $13.40 to $13.30. The new fees take effect 30 days after publication, making August 17, 2010, the first day the new fee is in effect. In FY2010, the FCC expects to grant 14,800 vanity call signs, bringing in $196,840 from the vanity call sign program. Earlier this year, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM), seeking to lower the fee for Amateur Radio vanity call signs.

The notice in the July 19, 2010 edition of the Federal Register -- entitled “Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2010; Final Rule” -- includes all FCC regulatory fees; these fees are expected to recover a total of $336,712,213 during FY2010, encompassing all the Services the FCC regulates.

The FCC is authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended, to collect vanity call sign fees to recover the costs associated with that program. The vanity call sign regulatory fee is payable not only when applying for a new vanity call sign, but also upon renewing a vanity call sign for a new 10 year term.

This Weeks Video's....The one below is a real tribute to amateur radio and a great SK.....On Emergency Communications.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9136_Nhh4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9PVSRGFvwE&feature=PlayList&p=46FFF8E520...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73mD7l4mkk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNRuy3h_y0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-KsS6gK5rU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnnf0xUWNM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hRI7KpJtw&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ledIP82ow&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqxKjlzcyKo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wk__n1a8C8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t63vGeytAFA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSx8q3FrJE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbaJORY0BUI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8v3mxBxAp4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVg0qeZ9Wc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtrB7ocrKY8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQE_eaDg2bM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaXHm2L_71Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCNTkb7QHM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejhtY1pMig&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ynHvBXn_7E&feature=related

Well hope that you have the video's this week, it's a great collection about amateur radio in emergencies...and how ham radio does work !!!

Dalton Amateur Radio Club..
http://s2.webstarts.com/w4drc/

North Georgia Ham Radio Nets..
http://www.pauldingarc.com/net.html

Georgia Repeaters ...
http://www.artscipub.com/repeaters/dsprpts.asp?limit=1&state=Georgia

State Of TN Radio Reference..
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?stid=47

Sevier County Frequencies..
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?inputs=1&ctid=2505#cats

Knox County Frequencies...
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?inputs=1&ctid=2474#cats

Yaesu Mic Info...
Yaesu Microphone Tricks
Paul R. Brenner (W6RLF) on November 7, 2002
View comments about this article!

Yaesu Microphone "Tricks":

Several years ago, when I got really active again in ham radio, I bought a FT-100. I use it as my primary home rig, as I've moved my "shack" to the study with its small desk, and I need to be "low profile". I've greatly enjoyed it, and never had the problems experienced by some others. However, the audio quality of the microphone, with its teeny element, leaves something to be desired.

Several months ago there was an article discussing simple modification whereby you take the microphone apart to remove a small plastic disk that sits in front of the microphone element. I've spoken to Yaesu techs, and they have no idea why that disk was placed there. With it removed, audio is understandably improved somewhat. I won't re-hash that article, but it should be easily found here on eHam.

One other problem not solved by the above "mod", but easily solved, is fairly scratchy, sibilant audio. That is true whether the aforementioned disk is present or not. Early in my days with the FT-100, someone recommended a simple fix: A piece of foam weather-stripping taped over the microphone holes. Buy it thick enough that it is easy to split with a razor knife to eliminate the gummy side. It's fairly easy to control the thickness you cut. Cut a long enough piece that you can tape it away from the holes, and the buttons. I cut a narrow, long piece and run it over the top of the mic; one piece of tape goes over the top of the mic (I don't use those "up" and "down" buttons much); the other goes across the mic in front, just above the buttons. If you do it neatly with thin strips of black tape, it doesn't look too bad.

I've tested this listening to myself in another receiver, and it perfectly eliminates the scratchiness.

I recently bought a FT-1500M and have made the same modifications to its mic, which is very similar to the FT-100 mic.

Finally, I've learned that you don't have to spend a lot of money to GREATLY improve the audio of the FT-100. A month ago, a local Radio Shack was selling a discontinued floor sample of a typical "studio" dynamic mike for $3. Low impedance. It looked very well made, and I bought it because I couldn't pass it up. I immediately started thinking about whether I could use it with the FT-100. It's sort of a "bargain basement Heil".

The FT-100 uses a six-conductor modular line for the mic. Fortunately, an old-fashioned electronics store in the town next to ours had this; you won't find six-conductor modular in Radio Shack, although it's probably easily available on the net. The FT-100 manual has a clear diagram of the connections. A mic like this has only two conductors, for the mic element itself; the "on-off" switch is of course not a "push to talk". (This means that you have to use VOX.) I spliced the conductors, and tried the mic. The audio sounded good, but there was virtually no output, even at full gain!

I called Yaesu, and one of the techs told me to reset the entire radio back to default settings. He couldn't explain why, but said that they've learned that this cures a multitude of problems. (It seems as though, just like a computer, conflicts can arise.) In fact, if someone sends a FT-100 to Yaesu with an inscrutable problem, that's the first thing they do automatically. Lo and behold, that solved the problem. I was now getting normal output.

At this point some readers are probably saying that they'd rather live with less good audio than do this, but this wasn't a big deal for me; I had very little programmed into my FT-100.

Bottom line: With no DSP adjustment, no compression, mic gain at 50%, I've got nearly "broadcast quality"; audio. I've confirmed listening to myself how much better it sounds; and a net I check into regularly can't believe the difference.

I'm out $11, $3 for the mike and $8 for the small stand. You may not find a $3 mic; on the other hand, you may already have such a mic. At Radio Shack, these current stock mics seem to go for $30-$40. All in all this is a pretty reasonable way to significantly improve the audio of the FT-100.

What About Skywarn ...
From District 6 .....Bill Hicks and Rick Sawaya Sr..

What can I report?

Typically we are looking for the following:

Tornadoes

Funnel Clouds

Wall Clouds

Hail

High Winds

Heavy Rainfall

Also, we are looking for the following damage reports:

Hazardous conditions or road accidents not attended by emergency personnel

Power outages affecting large areas

Damage as a result of bad weather

What constitutes severe weather?

Officially, the National Weather Service's criteria for severe weather is as follows:

Tornadoes, Funnel Clouds, or Wall Clouds

Hail larger than dime size
Rain in excess of 1" per hour or greater than 2" over a 24-hour period

Wind in excess of 68 miles per hour, or MPH

HOWEVER, The 470 District 6 Skywarn does take the following additional reports:

Any size hail falling in the area

Wind in excess of 30 miles, or MPH

What do I NOT report?

While we enjoy the participation we get from the many amateurs who have checked in to the 470 District 6 Skywarn, it is important to understand that we are providing Emergency Communications and vital weather information to the National Weather Service in situations where literally seconds count. Therefore, in order to guarantee that the correct information gets facilitated properly, please refrain from reporting the following:

Lightning reports

Information that is "hearsay" or unconfirmed

Information that is not current or older than 15 minutes ... unless requested.....

Information that has been reported on other services or off of Television unless requested....

Hope these small items will help out ..

The Defrag That Works Fast !!

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Well thats it for this week, Ladies don't forget the 470 Ladies Round Table every Tuesday at 8:00pm on the 145.470 repeater..

Late Addition thanks Danny !!!

YHOTY: CODY ANDERSON, KI4FUV, NAMED AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE 2010 YOUNG
> HAM OF THE YEAR
>
> A 17 year old Tennessee ham generally credited with saving the life of
> a downed runner in a marathon has been selected as the 2010 Amateur
> Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. Mark Abramovich, NT3V, is here
> with the story of Cody Anderson, KI4FUV:
>
> --
>
> "Cody, KI4FUV, you are the 2010 Young Ham of the Year award recipient
> from the Amateur Radio Newsline."
>
> "I'm really excited. Somehow I can't wait to tell everybody here."
>
> And that was the reaction of Cody Anderson of Harriman, Tennessee when
> he got the news the judges had selected him for the recognition.
>
> Cody, 17, is the son of Benny Anderson and Jane Ann Edwards. He is an
> honors graduate of Rockwood High School in nearby Rockwood.
>
> Phillip Newman, KE4LSH, president of the Roane County Amateur Radio
> Club, based about 30 miles west of Knoxville, nominated Cody for the
> award.
>
> Cody serves as vice president of the club as well as net manager and
> webmaster for KE4RX.org.
>
> "I'm really involved with the ARES portion of it," Cody says. "ARES is
> really strong here within Roane County.
>
> "I would be more active on HF, although I just don't have a way to get
> an HF antenna up. I'm pretty active on 2-meters on the local club
> repeater."
>
> Cody's nomination rose to the top of the Young Ham of the Year award
> committee's nominee list because of a life-changing event which
> occurred in this young ham's life.
> It was May 30, 2009 and Cody says he was manning a checkpoint at the
> "Run for the Child" event in Roane County.
>
> "It was about 20 or 25 minutes in," Cody recalls. "One of the runners
> had went past me and I noticed he fell. I waited just a second or two,
> you know, to see if he got back up. Maybe he just tripped.
>
> "And, then I noticed he didn't get back up, so I went over to him and
> by the time I got to him he had quit breathing and went into cardiac
> arrest.
>
> "After I radioed it in, me and another one of the runners that had
> stopped started CPR."
> Cody says he had completed that CPR training through the club just
> months earlier and put his knowledge to work, doing mouth-to-mouth
> resuscitation while the runner did the chest compressions.
>
> Cody recalls it all happened so fast and he just reacted instinctively.
>
> "You know it's a fairly short race and the checkpoint I was working at
> was one of the earlier ones," Cody says. "I actually got done before
> the race was over. And, I went back and as I got back to the command
> post, I heard over the public safety radio they were bringing in a
> helicopter and flying him out to another hospital."
>
> Cody says the man survived and although his heroic actions got some
> attention, the experience really didn't change him.
>
> "I don't think that fazed me at all because I believed I was just doing
> what was right and I wasn't in it for the recognition," Cody recalls.
>
> First licensed in 2004, Cody is a General Class operator who, although
> he is not a Boy Scout himself, has been helping the Radio Club of
> Knoxville teach two merit badges offered each summer at the Buck Toms
> Scout Camp run by the Great Smoky Mountain Council.
>
> "They get two merit badges - they get the Radio and Electronics - and
> we help them build a TenTec shortwave receiver kit and help them
> understand how it works, what the components do," Cody says. "We let
> them operate the radios if they want to."
>
> Cody is heading on to Roan State Community College this fall where he's
> planning to get some core courses completed. He says he's then planning
> to enroll at Tennessee Tech where he'll major in computer science.
>
> As to his future in ham radio, Cody says there's always room for that.
>
> "I hope to stay as active as I am now or become more active," Cody
> says. "Tennesee Tech actually has a radio club.
>
> "I believe that ham radio is what's helped me learn a lot of my
> technical knowledge now and even computer skills and things like that,
> working with digital modes and other things.
>
> "I really hope that I can stay as active as I am now and continue to
> learn with it."
>
> Once again, congratulations to Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, Amateur Radio
> Newsline's Young Ham of the Year.
>
> For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, in
> Philadelphia.
>
> --
>
> Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, will receive his award at the 2010 Huntsville
> Hamfest slated for the weekend of August 21st and 22nd at the Von Braun
> Center in Huntsville, Alabama. We hope to see many of you there.
> (ARNewslineT)
>

Oh Yea a great place to eat !!!

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Address: 3609 Sutherland Market, Knoxville, 37919
Phone: 865-525-4659
Fax: 865-525-6996

Description:
As seen in The Metro Pulse Restaurant Guide

Take a taste. See if you like it before you commit. That’s the motto at Holy Land, which has been part of the Bearden landscape for nearly 13 years, and operated by Walter and Denise Ajlouny and their son Jason the past three. Five months ago, the trio added a hot lunch/dinner/deli menu that patrons can take to go or eat at a few cozy tables up front, overlooking the small-town foot traffic on Knoxville’s international student hub, Sutherland Avenue. Rolled stuffed grape leaves, lamb kebabs, and spinach pie are just a few possibilities. “We have the best falafel in town, too,” boasts Walter, who also swears by his wife’s made-fresh chicken curry salad. “The Mideastern food is authentic. We don’t skimp or modify the taste. We cook it the way we would serve it on our own table.”

The rest of the menu they cook the way they would in Long Island, where the couple owned a deli for 15 years. Menu items that made the trek south with them include big, juicy burgers (the best of the 30 they offered in New York) with regional toppings, like a Texas Burger with onion rings, BBQ sauce, and cheddar. The deli sandwiches (with names like Dagwood and the God Father) rival any in the Big Apple, piled high with thin-sliced turkey, corned beef, pastrami and the like and served on white, wheat, rye or a hero roll as you wish. Bread pudding, egg salad, chopped liver, and fried clams are just a few of the other NYC-style taste sensations, while the flavors of the Middle East sold by the pound run the gamut from five types of hummus to baba ghannouj to white bean salad and tabbouleh.

The kitchen opens for business around 10:30 a.m. and winds down about 7:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday—on Sundays, the by-the-pound to-go deli foods are the option. Or, you could cook Holy Land-style at home, with tempting ingredients from the store: couscous, bins of bulk olives, fresh yogurt drinks, five types of feta, bulk spices, and a variety of beans are only a small sampling of the wares. And if you can’t make up your mind what to make, tell one of the Aljounys—they’ll help you decide.

Restaurant detailsCuisine: Deli, Middle Eastern
Price range: $5 - $13
Delivery? No
Buffet? No
Local establishment? Yes
Outdoor seating? No
Party room? No
Reservations accepted? No
Call-aheads accepted? Yes
Kids menu? No
Occasional live music? No
Heated smoking area? No
Smoking porch? No
Wheelchair accessibility: Very accommodating *
Accepts barter? No
Number of vegetarian dishes: 20
Number of vegan dishes: 10

Payment options
Visa
Mastercard
Discover
American Express
All checks
Business hours
Sundays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mondays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesdays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesdays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Fridays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

* Restaurants are rated either: Very accommodating, ADA-compliant, Inaccessible. * For more detailed accessibility profiles, check wiredonwheels.com.

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God Bless
Rick