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DIE

Opportunity

There it is. knocking again

- quick, ge t your ear plugs .

Say, what does it take to get

you

off

dead center?

Out

of

that

co

uch with the TV turned

off? Hello?

There's a great opportunity

tha

t s

wide open right now

that

co

uld be started with a

micro

lo an and built into

an

international multi-billion dol

lar chain. Please don

t

make

me do it I

wan

t to keep doing

UF

Os

and

s,

and the

Ame lia Earhart disappear

ance, which I knew person

ally about. Could the Apollo

Moon visits have all been

faked?

We

re

being

bo

ught

off

with entertainment to keep us

too busy to figure thi

ng

s ou t.

How much of yo

ur

life is

spent working, sleepi

ng

and

bei

ng

entertain

ed?

The aver

age family, accord ing to the

latest research, watches TV

seven hours a day

As a regis tered iconoclast I

question

the co

nventional wis

dom (stupidity?) about f

ann

ing, the food industry, the RS

FDAJAM.AJADA our money,

the American Cancer Society,

doctors, hospitals, NASA,

Congress, Clinton, the phar

maceutical industry, immuni

zation, alternative health, the

mili tary, the war on drugs,

the war on poverty, public

schoo ls , co lleges, religions,

the

music

industry, sports, ra

dio,

TV,

newspapers, news

magaz

ines, the dangers

of

po

t,

in

surance, banks, psy

chiatry, mi lk, sugar, white

flour, cooking, dental

am

a

gam, NutraSweet, big

bU

SI

ness, lawyers,

judge

s, most

jobs, pri sons, UFOIET de

bunki

ng

, unions, fl

uo

ridation,

global warming, the ozone

hole, tobacco, liquor, coffee,

property taxes,

Socia

l Secu

rity, environmentalism, freon's

hazards, the pyramids' age ,

dowsing debunking, reincar

nation

deb

unking, foreign

aid public water supplies ,

Medicare, a

nd

so on.

l 1I

think of more.

Unless you re a newcomer

to these pages,

you ve

read

my

expose

s of all

of

the

above.

And

more.

attacks conventional

or

cher

ished be liefs and institutions

as being false

or

harmful.

H

ey

, that s me I

am

defi

n itely an iconoclast And the

more I look into things (that s

cal

led research), the

more

I

find

I m

disbelieving conven

tio nal institutions. And yes,

these inst

it

utions a

nd

beliefs

are harming us.

An

d t

hey re

false. But we

ve

aU been hood

winked {a.k.a. brainwashed,

hypnotized} into believing in

them.

We are taught from the ear

liest childhood by our par

ents, our peers, ne ighbors and

the media to believe in the

goodness of mom and apple

pie

. We

re

thoroughly incul

cated

with beliefs that are

making us sick, robbi

ng

us

of

20-30 years o f life, and keep

i

ng

us

from

maki

ng muc

h

money.

We believe in our school

system. Oh, we

kn

ow it has

some problems. More money

migh

t

fix

them, r ight?

And

we believe in doctors. Sure,

there are some quacks. We

believe in our food suppliers

who are providing us with

enric hed and lite prod

ucts, and we re protected by

the

FDA

.

Mo

st

of

us

don

t be

lieve

ou r

government would

lie to us about really impor

tant things. Of course there

are a few conspiracy nuts

who are forever trying to

make trouble

over

the Fed,

the Illuminati, the National

Security Council, the

New

World

Order

, and so on. And

we have a few athe ists who

(gulp) d

on t

be lieve in

God

.

That reminds me

of

the

athe

i st in the funeral parlor - all

dre

ssed up

and no place to go.

Then there are the govern

ment cover-ups such as the

me. Pioneering blood, maybe.

By 1939 I d bui.lt .a -ln 1

wa

lkie-talkie. ThIS Interest In

radio naturally got me i

nto

a

tec hnical university, Rensselaer.

And then , when World War

II

came along, into the Navy as

an electronics technician. I

voluntee red for submarine

du ty, where I served from

1943- 1945. Then they trans

ferred

me

to the submarine

school in New London,

cr

to

teach electronics.

After the war I went

back

to college, where I was the

president of the radio club

and found

ed

WRPI, the

cam

pus radio station. Toda.y

the biggest student activity.

After college I wo rk

ed

as a

radio

engineer

and DJ, then

as

chief

cameraman

at WPIX

in

New

Yo

rk

and

as a

TV

di

rector at KBTV in Dallas

and WXEL in Cl

eve

land.

I

got

ce

rtificated and worked

as

a professional psycholo

gist. I work

ed

on a color or

gan

on a Guggenheim Grant,

and as the Secre tary

of

the

Music Research Institute,

where

1

wrote

my

fir s t book,

Music For YourMoods

But I was more interested

in

pio nee ring new

ham

modes

,

so

when I heard about

narrowband FM in 1946, I

immediately got on the air

with it.

That s

now the stan

dard for VHF communication.

When sideband came along,

as

the

editor

of CQ I

pushed

that.

I don t

want to tum thi s

into a fult-Iledged biography,

so I ll end there. I ju st wanted

to give you an idea of how I

got the way I

am

.

How Come'

Yeah, how come Wayne is

writin g all these long editori

als?

One

thing

I

haven t done

in all my 48 years of writing

editorials is give some back

ground as to

how I

happened.

Well I figured my readers

would

be

m

or

e interested in

what I had to say about thi ngs

than about me personally.

I was born in 1922 in Little

ton. New Hampshire. My

moth

er

was a commercial

art

ist and my dad was an aviator

with the Army ir Force, sta

tioned at Langley Field, Yir-

ginia. He took me up in a

Martin bomber when I was

about two month s o ld, so I

got an early start.

My

great grandfather was a

pioneer in

ho

meopathy. He

was the town doctor in

Li ttleton, where my father

also was born . A

Green

pub

lish

ed

the first Bible in

America,

and Greens founded

Greene County. NY and Green

County,

MI

A Greene also

founded Rhode Island, but i

t

s

a small state, so that probably

isn t very important.

By

an

odd co

i

ncidence

,

all o f my ancestors, from

eve

ry

b

ranch

of th e family,

came over here before

1700

.

P ioneers.

My

grandfat

her

was an in

ventor. A successful inventor.

It was his inventions that got

Ci tgo started ba

ck

in 1910,

and during the depression in

the 1930s he turned Conti

nen tal Can

around, saving

them from bankruptcy.

So

I was ripe for amateur

radio when I was a kid and

started

bu

ilding radios when 1

was

15 . By

16 I was busy Ico

noclast

making

contacts

on

40m CW

o . .

But it was the frontiers of

My

dic tionary def ines an

am

ateu r radio that att racted iconoclast as someone who

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a basic rule - if we can t

patent it and charge top do llar

for it, you ain

t

gonna

get

it.

So, wha t do you know

abou

t radionics? Rife

rn

a

chin

es,

Lakhovsky l

magnets,

colo

red ligh ts. and

other alte rnative devices which

may be abl e to he lp repair

ou

r

bodie

s for us?

Perhaps I should add stu ff

like carbon dioxide, hydro

gen peroxide, UV light, the

Bioelectrificrt , s ilve r col

lo id, and o the r such healing

technologies. Well , they all

should

be

honestly investi

gated and tested, no ma iler

how crazy

the

y seem.

Between our paying around

double what any

other coun-

try has to pay for hea lth ca re

and getting

poorer

results

than some third-world

coun-

tries

provide

,

it

s t ime for

some group to blow the

wh istle.

Co

ngress, whose kitty

is well fed by the medical in

dustry l

ob

byists, isn't about to

rock the boat. Perhaps we need

to set up a consumer 's coopera

tive which could then bring a

class action suit agai nst thc

AMA, FD

A.

our hospitals,

and the pharmaceutical in

dustry for a couple trillion

do llars for malpract ice .

Th e fact is thaI we have a

long way to

go

in understand

ing the myste ries o f our bod

ies. Microelectric currents and

mag netic fields seem able to

even help re

gr

ow bones.

There 's dowsing, wh ich has

bee n sc ientifica lly proven to

work, but for which we have

no logical explanation. And

that is also true of psychoki

nes is, psycho

me

try, precogni

tion , remote viewing, and so

on

You don ' t even have

to

take

my word. or the word o f the

researchers on whom I' m de

pending for my data, that all

these thing s are real. You can

learn to dowse, or any other

o f the above th ings you

would rather re

je c

t as crazy.

It s an abil ity that everyone

seems to have. A latent ab ility

that thrives when exercised.

Look here. cheap skate, spend

$7 for

Bev

y Jargers ' new

pocket book on the subject.

It

s an instruction manua l that

;\

Il

.dical

Research

I ve found several more su

pcrb books on the subject

you wa

nt

to

re

ad if

I

ca

n

ge

t you olT the couch.

Yester

da

y a ham whom I'd

met at the Peor ia Hamfest

stopped by

to

vis it. bringing

along

two

radionics

mach ines

and a co lored light system.

He had a long list o f

ama

zing

cures he

d

ac hieved with them.

So, how much

do

you know

about radionics? They

re

simi

lar to

Hieronymus

Machines,

which were first described in

Analog bac k around 1956.

Hu lda Clark expla ins how to

bu

ild

on e

in

her

A Cure For

l l Illn sses That s a book

that I don t recommend,

by

the

way.

I ve

written about

these gadgets in the past, but I

don t recall ever getting any

encouraging rea

de

r feedback.

How about using colored

lights

to

cure illnesse

s ?

How

can

that possi bly work?

Today

I

talked with a couple

of people who are using Rife

technology machines and also

cla im

to

be having some

con-

sistent cures for illn esses.

I' ve written about Royal

R

aymon

d R

if

e. his incredible

microscopes, and his approach

to curing illnesses before,

too. so I wo n' t

go

into all that

again. Basica ll y Rife found

that speci fic radio frequencies

would demolish pathogens.

I ve also some books on the

Lakhovsky Multi-Wave Os

ci llator, citing some remark

abl e results using it.

I' ve a friend who is ac hiev

ing

cur

es and healing with

magnets.

Wh

at I don

t

have

are

any

sci

en

t ific double-b lind stud

ies

of these approaches to heal

ing.

If

any

of

them work. our

medical estab

li

shment should

investigate them and develop

their designs and applications.

The medica l establishment

has a long and virtually un

blemi shed history o f ignoring

new ideas for as long as pos

sible, and cruc i fying their

proponents. Th e pharmaceu

tical industry,

which

has a

ti

ght

ho ld on the medical

indust

ry s

j ugular when it

comes to implementing any

cost-cutting developments, has

Conlinued

on page 9

Amateur

R

ad

io

tcaev

March 999 5

opment opportunity are open

ing and closing (permanently)

while yo u are putting it in

storage at a day care center.

The

supe r day

care

cente r

o

ft

he 21st century w ill check

your

chi ld to

sec

when

it is

ready to lea rn what, and then

g ive it the atte

nt

ion and

expo

su re needed to build

tho

se

skills. It will have nat i

ve

speaking people to teach the

children a dozen or so lan

guages. Kids can (a nd will

love to) lea rn

to

re

ad

and

write by four, if permitted.

And

so

on it goes, but

onl

y

if

the kids have the attention

they need.

In these days when it takes

both parents to

make

as much

money as

on

e used to

make

,

day

care ce

nters are

needed

,

Virtually

no

pa r

ents

ar

e

equipped

to teac h

their

ch il

dren a dozen languages . so

th

ere

will be a ne

ed

for that.

if

noth ing e lse,

Chi ldren love

to

learn.

They re interested in every

thing and . if permitted. will

ab sorb an amazing amount o f

infor

mation. Kids love to

learn to identi fy flowers and

trees, animal s, stars, and so

on . They want to know about

everything they

ca

n see,

hea

r

fee l and taste. It' s natural. In

stead, many parents imprison

the ir kids in playpens or cribs

dur

ing the time when thei r

lea rn ing abili

ty

is tryi ng

to

explode outward. They sedate

and st

upefy

them wi

th

TV. If

your kid has an opportunity

to p lay with a pia no or o

ther

musical instru

me

nts at th ree

and fou r, the

oppo

rtunity

should be there. When I was

six, I wan ted to learn to play

the piano and

my

fa

ther

al

most had

to

bea t me to stop

that non se

n

se

. Lat

er

, fri

end

s

h

eard

o f my interest

and

gave

me their old piano. My dad

h

ad

it hau led

off

and thrown

away so he

wouldn t

hav e

to

liste n to me practice . Oh well,

I guess there isn t any big

need for another composer

anyway.

That s an extreme case. but

are you doing something

simil

ar

to yo

ur kids

So

how about getting to

geth

er

with some other parents

and starting a super day care

cente r ? And then cloning it

and

my

co ld fus ion jo ur

l, and write boo ks. Oh. I 'd

to have the freedom to

it anothe r 70 countries. to

and sc uba dive around

world. So please don ' t,

your laziness and

of

motivation, force me

get this busine

ss

started

elf I have this problem

seeing something that

should

do

and ,

a someo ne.

I

say what

hell

and do

it.

,

lee

s get d

own

to

here. Look, th

er

e arc

s of thousands of day care

ers, so who needs more,

? Only any parents who

e a serious interest in the

ment o f their chil

. Sometimes I get the

that all t

oo

many par

s find

their childre

n a tcr

e nui sance. They let day

centers babysit them

the day and hire a

ysitt

er at

night. Then, when

y

ge

t to five, they pu t

in

to

kindergarten and le t

oo ls

do

the day care. They

n provide tran sportation,

don

t

mean to be criti

ca

l

lying), but if you ' ll

a crummy seven bucks

get the Pocket Hook

How

aise a Brighter Ch

if

d by

Beck , you ' ll find out

if

a child is provided with

righ t learni ng mate rials

stimuli at

the right time

the child's brain and coor

ti on deve l

opmen

t,

it

s

to incre ase a child 's IQ

or

more points. This is

learning that 's not avail

in many ( if any) day care

s.

u say your child 's day

center is excellent ? Sure,

te ll me how many lan

s yo ur child

wa

s tau ght

een the ages

of on

e and

. That s

when

ki

ds are

to learn just about any

of

languages, to speak

without an accent. and to

k in each of the

languages .

ching from one to the

with

ease

, After three.

learning opportunity is

. Z ip, gone.

e are simi lar period s in

ild's devel

opment

when it

kly and eag

er

ly learns

th

ings that will never

easy to learn later. Win

s of learni ng and devel-

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The QRPcanut of

Jame s Fi

sher

(73,

December

1(98 )

is a

gr

eat idea , but, as he

said, acts as a high-pass filter

and will not attenuate harmon

ics. There is a simple and

ea

sy

solution:Add a variable capaci

to r in

pa

ralle l wit

h

the shunt

induc to

r.

This is mentioned in Joseph

Carr

s Pra

ct

ic

al Antenna

Hand

bo

ok

of 199 1, on

page

1 1 (i l

lustration JI) 7 ).

I kn

ow

that many people will

bu ild

and

e

njoy

this

easy-to

make circuit,They ' ll enjoy iteven

more

when

this simple

m

od

iflca

tion gets

ri

dof theharmonics (and

FCC pink slips .

totally has our pub lic school

s vstem killed

the

p ioneering

spiri t

which

gal

ou

r country

started j us t over a couple hun

tired years OW)

Hull about

it, Are y O l

having

J

ball with your

Kach

ina

Tell us about it} Let s

see some letters.

For that malle

t:

I d tove

10 se

e

leiters f rom any ofyou who are

trying

/lew ,\ tllf

f.

Are 10 having

a hall with slow

scan.

packet,

RTT or what? Help me to ge t

others out of t

hei

r nt is and

en-

jo

y ing the

exciteme

nt amateur

radio

has to offer ., . /layn e.

Andju st loo al what

our

po-

litic

all

y-ln

sp i

red d

ru

g war has

done to countries like Mexico

and Colombia The

huge drug

prof i ts our gove

rn men

T

has

made pos

sib

le has po isoned the

polit

ics and econom

ie

s

o

many

Car

ibbean

countries,

as well as

high offi

ci

als in American agen

cie

s.

l

y ou t

hin

k

I m exagger

ating eren a little. please read

the

well-researched book

I rec

om

men

de d,

Dru

g C ru

zy

...

Wayne.

h nk

Rumph

KD IDZI.

There was a woman in the local

paper who had AIDS , She was

in the pape r abo ut

a

yea r ago,

too. r ca lled her and offered to

give

her

my

Bioclc

ctnfi

er

rv

.

She asked for the information

first.

so

I sent it to he r. It s been

a monthn

ow and

I

ha ..ent

heard

from her. If I had an incurable

disease

I

would try anything that

came along.

r

don

t

understand

people like her who arc waiting

fo r a mirac le

cu

rl' that ma y

never come, In the mean time

she is tak ing a diet of pills just

to live . A year ago

I

off ered it to

the localAIDS group and never

hea rd any more.

Frank, now yo u k

now

how

frus

tr

ated

, f ee

l

Be

twe

en the

Bioel

e

ctrifier

fo r emerge

nci

es

and a change o diet. I m 0 W

convinced tbat

any illness can

be overcome - as I explain in r- - - - - - - - - - -

my Secret

Gu

ide to Health ...

U ayne.

The New Machinel

When i.es Earnshaw demon

strated the new Kachina at Day

ton ,

yo

u ca n bel that

th

e

competition was al l

eyes

. ears.

and

cameras.

Well, this is the

first real ly new de

vel

opmen t in

ham

gear

in about 30 years

since

the advent

of si d

eband,

sol id state. and syn thesized tWI

ing. How long wil

l

it take before

II e see Japane

se

copies

What I d li ke 10 get is some

leiters

from

Kachina

II

.H

s

fro

m the ki

nd

of hams who are

the f irst to

try

lIew technologies,

while everyone else wails . How

From the Ham Shack

Dan ' :\Iillcr NZ9E. I agree where we recognize that eating

co

mp

letely with your edi to ria l disorders. gambling addiction

l

ak

e on the illegal drug problem and alcoholism are treatable ill

(Neve r Say Die : ' January nesses. When will we recognize

1999. page 60 ). By making buy- ill ic it drug add

ict

ion as the

ing and possessi ng drug s a same?

crime . the government has only Switze rland is now

do

ing just

escalated the price. made drugs that. The Swiss have a program

mo

re appeal ing to those who in place thai wi ll supply (for vir

enjoy the dare and the danger. tually no money) hard drugs to

and increased the possibility

of

addicts who come 10 the

ap

an

addict

buying poo rl y proved clinics for their fixes:

ha ndled or tain ted drugs .

It

The Swiss are still coming down

hasn ' t done a thing to so lve the hard on the street se lle rs, but

real problem. those street se llers wil l no doubt

The government doesn't seem soon disappear becau

se

of

the

to

get it .

Illegal drug usage isn t practica lly free alternative . The

a crime, it's a vice . addicts themselves areofcourse

There 's a big di

ff

eren

ce be

- happy with the idea, but also say

tw

een a

cr

ime and a

vice . A

that they' re striving to get off

of

crime occurs when an innocent drug s because it ' s no longer

vict im is the ob

ject

of the ac- funr-c-thc

dar

ing and cool -

none such as

in

robbery,

rape, ness is gone. And that's exactly

or murder. The innocent party is whatthe Swiss authorities want ,

d irec tly targeted. With a vice . to make drugs

uncoo

l

.

The

the victim is oneself.

Excessive

Swiss are handling drug

eddie-

drinking is a ice, so is smoking, tion as a

treatable

vice, not a

overeating, gambling , prostitu- crime. Selling drugs is a differ-

tion.

and any other

self-destruc- e

rn

story,

but us ing

the

m is

rive

behavior, But they ' re not looked at as

a

human weakness ,

crimes. Even though people will not a criminal act. The victims

say, Is

n

t it

a

crime that so and arc

the

users themselves, j ust as

so

is involved in

that.r

rhar's ju sr with any othe r vice .

an express ion. It isn' t a crime Oh sure , the re a re innocent

against society it's a s

el f

-abu- victims associated with vice s,

sive

vice , Our lead

er

s have to too the inn

oce

nt panics tha t

come to te rms with the distinc- can be killed when an alcoholic

tion. As you wro te in your cdi- is

dr

iving d runk, the family

tonal. Prohibition-s-which made members of an addicted g

am

manufacturing. sell ing , buying bier who ca

n t af for

d to put food

and using alcoholic b

everag

es a

on

the table,

even

tho se

who

crime back in the .l Os- was a suffer the effects of second-hand

complet e ll

op

. Wh y' Because smoke from cigar and cigarette

al

coholism

is a v ic e , n

ot

a smokers. but these victims arc

crime, The g

ove

rnment fina lly not th e di r

ec

t ta rge ts of the

realized that (a lbeit

13

years

af-

vice he fall

ou

t they suffer is

te r passi ng the Pro hi b i t ion

prim

a r

ily

u

nin

t

en de

d . In a

amendment) . crime. the victim is the object

Crim inalizing vices is a lways

of

the crime; in a

v

ic

e.

any

sec

unproducti

ve

and

often cata- ond

or

th ird party vict imization

clysmic, as we

' re now find ing is

accid

enta l. that is to say.

OUI with the War

on

Drugs.

Edu-

they ' re not the

target of

the

ac-

cation. a long wi th recognizing tio n. A vice is p

er

pe

tr

ated on

and treating addictive p

er

sona l- oneself.

It' s

time that our

gov

ity

traits, is a much better an- e

mme

nt fac

ed

tha t fact in its

swe

r.

We' re finally at the po int War on Drugs,

6 73

Am

t

eur Radio Today . Ma rch 1999

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Cutbacks in Connecticut

The

ARRl

is cUlling back

the

size of OST

agaz

in

e

as amateur rad io's dwi

nd

lingnumbers

tak

e

the

ir toll, accord ing to a message to Sec

t

ion

Managers

from

League Field Serv icesMan

ager Rick Palm K

1CE

. Severa l areas of the

magazine will becut back; the spaceallotted for

Section News will be reduced by 15 .

Pa lm's

mes

sage

pa

intsagrim picture forama

teur radioas it faces the nextcentury. Palm said

the annualnumberof newlicensees hasdr

opped

dramat ica l ly over the pasttwo or th ree yea rs. As

a

result

overall VEe exam activity is

down about

25 from rast

yea

r, and

th

ere are other signsof

the

decline. including thebiller economic con di

tions ama teur radio equipment dealers face. as

evidenced by the many businesses thai have

do

sed during

th

e past three years.

Since Ma rch 1997 , Palm says that the

ARRL

has

seen its overall membe

rsh

ip numbers

fa

ll by

more than 14,000or abou t 8,He says the rea

sons for

thi

s drop are varied , and

in

clude the

tra

dit

iona

l reaction to a dues i

ncre

ase. But more

Ch

all

eng

ing to amateur radio's future are strong

indications that Technician class licensees are

not finding much to keep them interested in

a

mateu

r

red

o Of to compellhem tobe

mem bers.

Tw

o yearsago, Pa lms

ays

, hamswere joining

the League

in large numbers

in response

to

spe

c

t

rum

threats. Bu t a yearlater almost

50

have

not renewed . Palm

says

there could be

severa

l

reasons a combination of the last dues in

crease, the perception that the threats to the

spectrum have abated, a lack of interest by

hams in

what

the ARR Lisoflering--or

just simply

defections Irom amateur radio.

Bul Palm does leave the Section Managers

wi th

an opt

im

istic no

te

He

says

that onc e the

unce

rta inty surrounding

FCC

license restructur

ing is past. the s

ituat

ion

shou

ld improve. In the

meantime,

th

ough , the

ARRL

has to

take

acton

in thewake of falling numbers.

Austeritymoves include the cancellationof the

long-running VHFandUHFSpring Sprints.These

min

i-eontests are traditionally held

dU

ling Aplil

and May

. ARR L

con

test

bran ch

manager Dan

Henderson

N1

NOcites a lack of participation for

the change . He says t

hat

in

1998

only 200

peop

le

s

ubm

ittedlogs and thosesubmittedwere spread

across the seven frequency bands covered by

the Splints. With so few peop le taking part, the

sprints are just too expensive to subsidize in

th

ese tight economic times.

And in another

coet-cumnq

move , the

ARRl

has

me

rged its Field Serv ices and Educational

Act

ivi

ties

departments. The new Field

and

Edu

cational Serv i

ces

Department

ca

me into exist

ence onJanuary4th . Thenew department

bring

s

8 73

Amateur Radio Today

March 1999

R

N u m ~ on

your

~ 1 M c

u d

together ste ff members with a similar mission:

thesupport ofARR Lvolunteerswho in tum, pro

mote ham radio on a local and

reg

ional level.

Uke the decision to abandon the VHF andUHF

Sprints, this move also was designed to reduce

expenses

in

the face of a decline in both ARRL

membership and overall amateur radio licensing

and activityover the past

few years

. FormerEdu

ca

tion

al Activities department manager Rosa lie

Whi

teWA1STO hasassumed the title 01Educa

tional ServicesManager. She will oversee day

to-d

ay operation of the new department and will

con

tinu

e as the primary staff contact for

ama

teur

radi

o in space issues.

From ARRL via News/ina, Bil l Pasternak

WA6

lTF, editor.

Hams Respond As Killer

Tornadoes Rake South

Hams in Tennessee and Arkansas res ponded

as unusual tornadoes threatened,

then

struck ,

in Janu ary. A ca ll went out January 22nd for ad

diti

ona

l hamradiovolunteers to

ass

ist em

erg

ency

operations in Tennessee in the storms' wake.

Tornadoes in the Jackson , Tennessee. area

January

17th

killed eight people.

An

other eight

died when tornadoes st

ruc

k in the vicinityof

l ittl

e

Rock

and Wh

iteCounty,Arkansas,January 21st.

The National Weather

Serv

ice ca lled it an un

precedentedoutbreak of tornadoes for January.

Arka

nsas Section Manager

Roger

GrayN50S,

in Sea

rcy

. reported that hewas up all

nigh

t and

observed fouror five funnel clouds, but he esu

mated that at least 30tornadoes swept through

the area . Gray has been actively ma

nag

ing the

ARES

opera tion

.We have

had

an incredible re

sponse

from

the

amateu

r

communi

ty: he said .

Heestimated that up to 60 hams were activeon

VHF and

HF

nets. Amateur

rad

io filled

the

gap

as long-distance te lep

hone

circu itshave became

e

ro c

ec

Another wild night in Arl

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umb

er 1 on

your

eedbac

k

ca

rd

h

luck of the rish

s ee

c leprech un or pir te

rboth?

Guy Slaughte r K9AZG

753 W. El iza beth Drive

Crown Point IN 46307

N

ever wo rk a leprechaun. If you

hear one on frequency, QSY.

If he s calling you, QRT.

Quickly

I wish someone had told l ie that be

fore I got involved with Wec Mac.

It

could have saved me a lot of grief.

So, you ask, how can you tell a lep

rcchaun when you hear one? Rule of

thumb: Shun all falsetto-voiced phone

cps with AC hum on their signals, and

avoid all funny-fisted CW guys with

rough and chowpy notes.

It's not

only

leprechauns, of course,

who sound like that. but abstention

from contacts with

ll

such ops is the

safe way to go . Besides, it' ll make our

bands better. Sec,

if

we boycott non

leprechaun lids because they sound

like leprechauns, we'll motivate them to

force their voice registers downhill , to

improve their CW, to clean up their sig

nals, and thus to upgrade into non-lids.

Leprechauns, howeve

r,

can t do this.

Their vocal cords are too teensy to vi

brate in human-voice ranges, their fingers

are too dinky for our keying devices, and

they can 't prevent their magnetic-flux

auras

fro

m hum-modulating

RF.

What the little buggers

c n

do,

though, is give you trouble. Let me te ll

you about mine.

73

mate

ur

Radio tc ev

March

I was on 20 CW when I heard this

rough and chowpy signal call ing me as

I was wrapping up a QSO with a DL2.

It signed an EI call. I was tempted to

ignore it. intending to shut down the

rig in favor

of

a tr ip to the bat hroom.

Instead, I came back to the caller,

thanked him for the shout, and gave

him a 597C report. That was a tragic

mistake.

RR Guy in Indiana/ur 589 589 in

Dublin Dublinlnyme is Mac Mac/why

the T7C AR BK, the EI said,

ch

ow

ping along at around 25 words per

with a really rotten fist and a terrible

AC growl on his note .

BK sri Mac fer the bum rpt, I told

him. I that ud want to knw ur loud sig

is a Iii ruff and chirpy here. BK.

Ur rcv r always block on strong

sigs? .

No no no/rcvr not blocking/other

strong sigs snd FB. BK.

In ur nose with a ruddy hose/AK

SK, says the EI, and he s gone.

I menta lly tagged the guy a so re

head, pu

nched the

QS

O data into the

log, hit the big

sw

itch, and headed f

or

the bathroom, wondering why I was

suddenly sneezing so hard that my

nose began to bleed.

Two hours later, with my nosebleed

finally stopped,

J

heard the E n

again. This time his note was cle an and

chirplcss. 1 gav e him a 589X when he

acknowledged my call, adding, Ur sig

DC Mac/no sign of chirp/note clean

and purc/K.

TU fer rept, says the EI. Name is

J igger Jigger in Dublin Dublin/cvhy

the big dea l on the DC si BK.

Tha t op was Mac

,

I say. T his a

club station? BK.

No no no/personal station in my

home/op is Jigger Jigger/pse who Mac?

Beats me, I say.

QSO d

your call

earlier today/no te was chirpy es buzzy

op with funny fist sed his na

me

Mac.

Was not me, says the E

I.

Been

getting QSLs for QSOs not in log/cards

say TU Mac/spose I have pirate?

Bet on it, I say. Too bad/GL es

hpe CU agn/DX cs gud rp ts173 AR

SK.

And that was tha t, right? Wrong.

The next day, I was wrapping up

with an H 9 on 15 sideband when I

heard a high-pitched voice call ing me

in a thick Irish brogue. He had a ter

rible AC growl on his signa

l.

He

signed that same EI call.

Hi, Jigger, I said, coming bac k to

him. I 'm glad to see you again so

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