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The ARRL Letter

Published by the American Radio Relay League ********************************************

February 10, 2022

Editor: Rick Lindquist, WW1ME <ww1me@arrl.org>

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HamCation® is February 10 - 13, 2022.

Visit www.arrl.org/expo <http://www.arrl.org/expo>.

IN THIS ISSUE

- APRS Developer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, SK
- Dayton Hamvention Looks to Be a Go for 2022
- ARRL Podcasts Schedule
- Some New Rules Going into Effect this Year for ARRL Field Day
- ARRL Announces New World Wide Digital Contest
- Three SpaceX Crew-4 Crew Members Hold Ham Licenses
- Amateur Radio in the News
- Heil Sound Changes Hands
- Announcements
- Getting It Right!
- The K7RA Solar Update
- Just Ahead in Radiosport
- Upcoming Section, State, and Division Conventions

APRS DEVELOPER BOB BRUNINGA, WB4APR, SK

The father of the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS <http://www.aprs.org/>), Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, of Glen Burnie,
Maryland, died on February 7. An ARRL Life Member, Bruninga was 73.
According to his daughter, Bruninga succumbed to cancer and the effects
of COVID-19. Bruninga had announced his cancer diagnosis in 2020. Over
the years, Bruninga readily shared his broad knowledge and experience
in APRS and other topics in the amateur radio and electronics fields.

While best known for APRS, Bruninga, a retired US Naval Academy senior
research engineer, had an abiding interest in alternative power
sources, such as solar power. In 2018, he authored Energy Choices for
the Radio Amateur, published by ARRL, which explores developing changes
in the area of power and energy and examines the choices radio amateurs
and everyone else can make regarding home solar power, heat pumps, and
hybrid and electric vehicles. Bruninga drove an all-electric car and
had experimented with a variety of electric-powered vehicles over the
years.

What became APRS had its origins in 1982, when Bruninga wrote his first
data map program that plotted the positions of US Navy ships for the
Apple II platform. A couple of years later, he developed what he called
the Connectionless Emergency Traffic System (CETS) on the VIC-20 and
C-64 platforms for digital packet communications to support an
endurance race. The program was ported to the IBM PC platform in 1988
and was renamed APRS in 1992. The recognized North American APRS
frequency is 144.39 MHz and APRS is linked globally via the internet.
Bruninga founded the Appalachian Trail Golden Packet event, which
fields APRS nodes from Stone Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in
Maine each July.

ARRL Contributing Editor Ward Silver, N0AX, remembered Bruninga this
way: "Bob kept pushing APRS beyond its origins as a position reporting
system. He developed and helped implement numerous other uses of APRS
in support of what has become the 'Ham Radio of Things,' with great
potential for future amateur radio applications. Bob's far-reaching
vision and imagination were as good as it gets."

Bruninga mentored US Naval Academy midshipmen in building and launching
amateur radio satellites and CubeSats, beginning with PCSat in 2001.
PCSat was the first satellite to report its precise position directly
to users via its onboard GPS module. Subsequent USNA spacecraft
included PSK-31 capability (HF to UHF) and other innovations.

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) ARRL liaison
Rosalie White, K1STO, recalled that Bruninga attended many
ARISS-International meetings and contributed "enormously" to ARISS APRS activities, leading a team in developing protocols and software for
rapid message exchange via a packet "Robot."

Last year, ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, on behalf of ARRL, honored
Bruninga with a brick in ARRL's Diamond Club Terrace at ARRL
Headquarters. Read an expanded version <http://www.arrl.org/news/aprs-developer-bob-bruninga-wb4apr-sk>.

DAYTON HAMVENTION LOOKS TO BE A GO FOR 2022

Hams and vendors hoping to attend Dayton Hamvention® 2022 have been
asking what, if any, COVID-19 regulations will be in place at the
event. Hamvention management says it's monitoring the situation
closely. Hamvention General Chairman Rick Allnutt, WS8G, issued a
statement:

"We strongly anticipate that Hamvention 2022 is a go. We cannot
guarantee what government may decide about unknown changes in the
pandemic. It has become obvious that the State of Ohio is very unlikely
to call a halt to large gatherings anytime soon. Despite a recent large
spike in [Omicron-variant] COVID cases and hospitalizations, there is
no move to restrict large indoor or outdoor events such as sports
events," Allnutt said.

Allnutt added that he anticipates that the official state guidance may
be to recommend -- not require -- face masks and social distancing, but
does not expect to be checking attendees' vaccination status on site. Hamvention will support state guidance.

Some have asked whether COVID-19 testing will be available at
Hamvention. At this time, there are no plans to have testing on site.
Updates on Hamvention and COVID-19 regulations related to the event
will be posted on the Hamvention website <http://www.hamvention.org/>.

Hamvention, an ARRL-sanctioned event, will be held May 20 - 22, at the
Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio.

ARRL PODCASTS SCHEDULE

YouTube is increasingly becoming the "go-to" resource for information
on a variety of amateur radio topics. The latest episode of the On the
Air podcast (Episode 26) features a conversation with two YouTube
veterans -- Dave Casler, KE0OG, and Steve Goodgame, K5ATA.

The latest edition of the Eclectic Tech podcast (Episode 53) features a discussion about the 222 MHz band with ARRL Radiosport Manager Bart
Jahnke, W9JJ.

The On the Air and Eclectic Tech podcasts are sponsored by Icom. Both
podcasts are available on iTunes (iOS) and Stitcher (Android) as well
as on Blubrry -- On the Air <https://blubrry.com/arrlontheair/> |
Eclectic Tech <https://blubrry.com/eclectictech/>.

SOME NEW RULES GOING INTO EFFECT THIS YEAR FOR ARRL FIELD DAY

After taking a few detours over the past couple of years due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, ARRL Field Day <http://www.arrl.org/field-day> rules
are being updated on a permanent basis starting this summer. ARRL
conducted a Field Day community survey with invitations propagated far
and wide, and direct emails sent to more than 15,000 individuals and ARRL-affiliated clubs. After sorting through, reviewing, and discussing
the survey results, the ARRL Programs and Services Committee
recommended a number of rule changes for ARRL Field Day, which will
take place this year over the June 25 - 26 weekend.

Starting this year, the maximum PEP output for a transmitter used by
anyone submitting a Field Day log will be 100 W. The power multiplier
of 2 will remain in place, and the high-power category will be removed
from the rules. Until this year, the maximum low-power limit had been
150 W for most ARRL-sponsored operating events. The power multiplier
will remain at 5 for QRP participants running a maximum of 5 W or less.
As previously announced, 100 W is now the low-power category limit for
all ARRL and IARU HF Contests, effective January 1, 2022.

A couple of changes instituted initially as accommodations for the
COVID-19 pandemic will remain. Class D (Home) stations will continue to
be able to earn points for contacts with other Class D stations. The
club aggregate scoring change initiated in 2020 as a temporary measure
will become part of the permanent rules. In the aggregate scoring plan,
the scores of individual stations are combined under the score of a
single club.

Another change, involving Rule 7.3.2 Media Publicity, has been
modified. Rules to date have offered 100 bonus points for attempting to
obtain publicity and demonstrating same. With the ease of posting via
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and various other media websites, Field
Day participants will now be required to obtain publicity, not just try
to do so. Any combination of bona fide media hits would qualify for the
bonus points. For example, posting the details of your upcoming or
ongoing Field Day activity, or your Field Day results, on a club or
news media site, on Facebook, or via Twitter and Instagram would meet
the bonus criteria. Photos and videos are encouraged as part of media
posts.

ARRL ANNOUNCES NEW WORLD WIDE DIGITAL CONTEST

The ARRL World Wide Digital Contest
<http://arrl.org/arrl-digital-contest> will debut at 1800 UTC on June
4, ending at 2359 on June 5, 2022. All non-RTTY modes are permitted.
Going forward, RTTY will be the sole mode for the ARRL RTTY Roundup,
which will continue to take place in January.

In broad strokes, this will be an HF to 6-meter event, on 160, 80, 40,
20, 15, 10, and 6 meters, with single-operator and multi-single entry categories. These are Single Operator, One Radio (SO1R), Single
Operator, Two Radio (SO2R), and Multi-Single (MS). Overlays in the single-operator categories will include "all enclosed antennas" and
"maximum of 8 operating hours." Single-operator entries may operate for
24 hours (with off times taken in one or two breaks that are at least
60 minutes long), while MS entries may operate for the full 30 hours.

Operating assistance is permitted for all operating categories.

Power categories will be:

- QRP (5 W transmitter output or less)

- Low Power (maximum 100 W PEP transmitter output)

The exchange for the World Wide Digital Contest will be a station's four-character grid square designation. Stations may work each other
once per band, regardless of digital mode. Participants will earn 1
point for each contact, plus 1 point for each 500 kilometers (310
miles) between stations. So, a contact between stations 1,000
kilometers apart would be worth 3 points. The total score is total
contact points.

ARRL makes available a grid-center distance calculation tool <http://contest-clubs.arrl.org/griddistancecalc.php>. Options include kilometers (always rounded up), distance between pairs, and points.

For instructions on how to submit logs <http://contest-log-submission.arrl.org/>, visit the ARRL Contest page.
Logs will be due 7 days after the event has concluded.

In succeeding years, the World Wide Digital Contest will take place on
the first full weekend of June.

Full details <http://arrl.org/arrl-digital-contest> on the new
operating event are on the ARRL website.

THREE SPACEX CREW-4 CREW MEMBERS HOLD HAM LICENSES

Three of the four crew members in the SpaceX Crew-4 launch to the
International Space Station (ISS) are amateur radio licensees. They are
Robert Hines, KI5RQT; Kjell Lindgren, KO5MOS; and Samantha
Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF. Lindgren and Cristoforetti have served
previously on the ISS. Crew-4 is set to launch on April 15 for a
6-month stay. Crew-4 will be the fourth crew rotation mission of
SpaceX's human space transportation system and its fifth flight with astronauts,

including the Demo-2 test flight, to the space station through
NASA's Commercial Crew Program <https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew>.
The mission will launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9
rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
Florida.

Last week, NASA and its international partners approved crew members
for Axiom Space's first private astronaut mission to the ISS. Called
Axiom Mission 1 or Ax-1, the flight is targeted to launch on March 30,
from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9
rocket. The Ax-1 crew will fly on Crew Dragon Endeavour to and from the
space station. After 10 days in orbit, the Ax-1 crew will splash down
off the coast of Florida.

Axiom Space astronauts Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy,
and Eytan Stibbe are prime crew members of the Ax-1 mission. The
quartet is scheduled to spend 8 days aboard the ISS, conducting
science, education, and commercial activities before returning to
Earth.

"This represents another significant milestone in our efforts to create
a low-Earth orbit economy," said Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight at NASA.

AMATEUR RADIO IN THE NEWS

ARRL Public Information Officers, Coordinators, and many other member-volunteers help keep amateur radio and ARRL in the news <http://www.arrl.org/media-hits>.

- "Amateur radio operators make contacts in global winter training <https://nbcmontana.com/news/montana-moment/amateur-radio-operators-make-contacts-in-global-winter-training>"

/ NBC Montana (Montana) February 6, 2022.

- "Freeport ham radio operator gets thrill from being part of airwaves <https://journalstandard.com/story/news/local/2022/02/01/freeport-ham-radio-operator-gets-thrill-being-part-airwaves/9285152002/>"

/ Journal-Standard (Illinois) February 1, 2022

- "Youlou Radio Movement hosts second 'Summit on the Air' <https://www.searchlight.vc/news/2022/02/01/youlou-radio-movement-hosts-second-summit-on-the-air>"

/ Searchlight (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) February 1, 2022

- "Telling Alaska's Story: John Bury talks about 67 years as a ham
radio operator <https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/02/01/telling-alaskas-story-john-bury-talks-about-67-years-ham-radio-operator/>"

/ Alaska's News Source (Alaska) January 31, 2022

- "Gainesville residents demonstrate how to use ham radios in case of
severe emergency situations <https://www.wcjb.com/2022/01/29/gainesville-residents-demonstrated-how-use-ham-radios-case-severe-emergency-situations/>"

/ WCJB-TV (Florida) January 29, 2022

HEIL SOUND CHANGES HANDS

Heil Sound has changed hands. Founded by Bob Heil, K9EID, and based in
Fairview Heights, Illinois, Heil Sound is a manufacturer of
microphones, microphone accessories, and audio accessories for both professionals and amateurs. The new owners are Heil Sound President and
CEO Ash Levitt and Director of Operations Steve Warford. Sarah Heil,
who was co-owner of Heil Sound, has retired, but Bob Heil will continue
to do outreach work and amateur radio product design as Founder and CEO Emeritus.

"My life has been about achieving great sound, whether on the concert
stage or in the amateur radio world," Bob Heil recounted. "I've watched
Heil Sound go from a regional sound company to a world-class microphone manufacturer. This company has been my passion, but it is time for me
to step aside. There is no better team to carry the company forward
than Ash and Steve, and I have the utmost confidence in them."

Heil Sound <http://www.heilsound.com/> is a name well known within the worldwide amateur radio community for its microphones and "boom set" microphone/headset combinations. The company marked its 50th
anniversary in 2016. The company began in 1966 as Ye Olde Music Shoppe
-- a music store in Marissa, Illinois, Heil's hometown.

Heil initially made a name for himself working with music performers to
provide sound reinforcement for their live gigs, initially supplying
full sound system packages for venues and festivals throughout the
Midwest and later working with world-class acts such as Humble Pie,

The Who, The Grateful Dead, and Joe Walsh, WB6ACU. Heil said it was
the Dead's Jerry Garcia who suggested the Heil Sound name. Among other innovations, Heil created the quadraphonic sound system for The Who's "Quadrophenia" tour as well as the Heil Talk Box, made famous by Joe
Walsh and Peter Frampton.

Levitt and Warford both started working with Heil Sound as teenagers,
building and packaging products. Levitt took a different career path in academia for several years but continued to regularly consult with Heil
Sound. He returned to Heil Sound full time in 2017 and assumed the role
of president in 2020. Warford worked his way up in the company over the
course of his tenure and, for the past several years, has been
responsible for daily operations.

"Steve and I are honored to carry forward the legacy of Heil Sound,"
Levitt said. "We care very deeply about Heil Sound's role in the
industry and intend to build on that going forward with new products
and greater distribution. Read an expanded version <http://www.arrl.org/news/heil-sound-changes-hands>.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

- <http://www.arrl.org/expo>Follow the 2022 ARRL National Convention
and Orlando HamCation this weekend, February 10 - 13. On Twitter, use #hamcation to follow all the convention happenings. Visit the official convention photo album on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10159047960132408>.

- The Chinese Radio Amateurs Club (CRAC <http://crac.org.cn/>) has
announced <http://crac.org.cn/wo/> that Beijing 2022 Olympic and
Paralympic Winter Games special event station BY1CRA/WO22 is now active
on FT8, SSB, and CW on 160 - 10 meters and will operate until the games
close. Contact awards are available. A log <https://clublog.org/logsearch/BY1CRA/WO22> is posted to Club Log. --
Thanks to Southgate Amateur Radio News via CRAC

- Registration is open for the 67th Pacific Northwest DX Convention <https://pacificnwdxconvention.com/>, set for August 5 - 7 in Spokane, Washington. The 2022 event will emphasize DXing, contesting, and
technology.

- Organizers of the Saint Patrick's Day Award have announced a new web
page <http://www.stpatricksaward.com/> that provides full information
on this amateur radio award. The site includes the simple registration
form to be completed by all participants in this year's festivities,
March 16 - 18.

- Due to the widespread paper shortage and related supply chain issues,
the March 2022 issue of QST will mail approximately 10 days later than
usual, arriving in homes the week of February 22. ARRL members can read
the digital edition <http://www.arrl.org/qst> of the March issue now.

- February 13 is World Radio Day, proclaimed in 2011 by the member
states of UNESCO and adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2012.

GETTING IT RIGHT!

To clarify the "In Brief" item, "Webinar Set to Discuss Amateur Radio
and AUXCOM Support to Department of Defense," in the February 3 edition
of The ARRL Letter, the text should have said, "On February 18 at 0100
(the evening of Thursday, February 17, in North American time
zones)..."

THE K7RA SOLAR UPDATE

Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Three new sunspot groups appeared
this week, on February 3, 6, and 8. Average daily sunspot number rose
slightly from 81.3 last week to 83.9 in this reporting week, February 3
- 9.

Average daily solar flux increased modestly, from 123.1 to 126.

Solar flares and geomagnetic storms throughout the week raised the
average daily planetary A index from 10.1 to 14.4, and the middle
latitude A index, measured at one location in Virginia, went from 6.4
to 9.6.

A geomagnetic storm on February 4 brought down 40 of the low-Earth
orbit Starlink satellites, even though the storm was not especially
robust. But from February 3 - 4, the high latitude college A index
measured near Fairbanks, Alaska, was 48 and 61, a level that assures
the appearance of aurora borealis.

So far, sunspots were visible every day in 2022. Last year, 64 days had
no sunspots, and in 2020, 208 days were spotless, according to
Spaceweather.com <http://www.spaceweather.com/>.

Predicted solar flux values for the near term are 120, 118, 110, 115,
118, and 112 on February 10 - 15; 115 on February 16 - 19; 118 on
February 20; 120 on February 21 - 23; 125 on February 24 - 25; 120 on
February 26 - March 4; 115 and 122 on March 5 - 6; 120 on March 7 - 9;
110 on March 10 - 11, and 115 on March 12 - 18.

Predicted planetary A index is 25, 20, 12, 18, and 25 on February 10 -
14; 20, 12, 10, 12, and 8 on February 15 - 19; 5, 10, 8, 5, 8, and 12
on February 20 - 25; 8 on February 26 - 27; 5 on February 28 - March 2;
12, 10, 15, and 10 on March 3 - 6; 5 on March 7 - 11; 25 and 20 on
March 12 - 13; 5 on March 14 - 15, and 10 and 12 on March 16 - 17.

Here are some images
<http://www.hkastroforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&p=321591> of recent
sunspot regions.

Sunspot numbers for February 3 - 9 were 84, 87, 91, 83, 78, 86, and 78,
with a mean of 81.3. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 126.5, 129.6, 125.9,
123.6, 127.2, 123.1, and 125.9, with a mean of 123.1. Estimated
planetary A indices were 27, 32, 12, 15, 7, 5, and 3, with a mean of
10.1. Middle latitude A index was 18, 18, 10, 12, 4, 3, and 2, with a
mean of 6.4.

A comprehensive K7RA Solar Update is posted Fridays on the ARRL
website. For more information concerning radio propagation, visit <http://arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals> the ARRL Technical
Information Service, read
<http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere> "What the Numbers
Mean...," and check out <http://k9la.us/> the Propagation Page of Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA.

A propagation bulletin archive <http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation> is available. For customizable propagation charts, visit the VOACAP Online for Ham Radio <https://www.voacap.com/hf/> website.

Share <k7ra@arrl.net> your reports and observations.

JUST AHEAD IN RADIOSPORT

- February 12 -- 1.8 RSGB 1.8 MHz Contest (CW)

- February 12 -- Asia-Pacific Spring Sprint (CW)

- February 12 - 13 -- CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest

- February 12 - 13 -- Dutch PACC Contest (CW, phone)

- February 12 -13 -- SKCC Weekend Sprintathon (CW)

- February 12 - 13 -- KCJ Topband Contest (CW)

- February 12 - 14 -- YLRL YL-OM Contest (CW, phone, digital)

- February 12 -13 -- OMISS QSO Party (Phone)

- February 12 - 13 -- AWA Amplitude Modulation QSO Party

- February 13 -- Balkan HF Contest (CW, phone)

- February 14 -- PODXS 070 Club Valentine Sprint (Digital)

- February 14 -- CQC Winter QSO Party (CW)

- February 14 -- OK1WC Memorial (MWC) (CW)

- February 14 -- 4 States QRP Group Second Sunday (CW, phone)

- February 14 - 18 -- ARRL School Club Roundup <https://arrl.org/school-club-roundup> (CW, phone, digital)

- February 16 -- AGCW Semi-Automatic Key Evening (CW)

- February 16 -- RSGB 80-Meter Club Championship, Data

- February 17 - 18 -- Walk for the Bacon QRP Contest (CW, Maximum 13
WPM)

- February 19 - 20 -- ARRL International DX Contest <http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx> (CW)

UPCOMING SECTION, STATE, AND DIVISION CONVENTIONS

- February 10 - 13 -- 2022 ARRL National Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/expo> at Orlando HamCation®, Orlando, Florida

- February 18 - 19 -- ARRL Southwestern Division Convention <http://www.yumahamfest.org/> (Yuma Hamfest), Yuma, Arizona

- March 12 - 13 -- QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo <https://www.qsotodayhamexpo.com/>. (ARRL is a QSO Today partner)

- February 26 -- ARRL Vermont State Convention <http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/ham-con-arrl-vermont-state-convention-1> (HAM-CON), Colchester, Vermont

- March 19 -- ARRL Southern Florida Section Convention <http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/47th-annual-martin-county-hamfest-arrl-southern-florida-section-convention>

(47th Annual Martin County Hamfest), Stuart, Florida

- March 19 -- ARRL West Texas Section Convention <http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/66th-annual-st-patrick-s-day-hamest-arrl-west-texas-section-convention>

(66th Annual St. Patrick's Day Hamfest), Midland, Texas

- March 19 -- ARRL West Virginia Section Convention <http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/charleston-area-hamfest-arrl-west-virginia-section>

(Charleston Area Hamfest), Charleston, West Virginia

- March 27 -- ARRL Virginia Section Convention <https://viennawireless.net/wp/events/winterfest/> (Winterfest),
Annandale, Virginia

- April 1 - 2 -- ARRL Maine State Convention <http://w1npp.org/>,
Lewiston, Maine

- Search the ARRL Hamfest and Convention Database <http://www.arrl.org/hamfests> to find events in your area.

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