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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2430 for Friday May 24th, 2024

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2430 with a release date of
Friday, May 24th, 2024 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. A network breach at ARRL causes service
disruptions. WWVB is at half-power following antenna damage -- and
using Winlink for fun and games.  All this and more as Amateur Radio
Newsline Report Number 2430 comes your way right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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HACKERS GAIN ACCESS TO ARRL HEADQUARTERS-BASED SYSTEMS

NEIL/ANCHOR: As Newsline went to production, users of the ARRL's
Logbook of the World® and the ARRL Learning Center were struggling
with a service disruption following what the league described as
[quote] "a serious incident involving access to our network and
headquarters-based systems." The ARRL posted on its website a
reassurance that its member database contains only details that are
available from public records, such as name, address and callsigns,
adding that no credit-card information or other sensitive information
is stored. The ARRL did not address requests from Newsline and other
media for clarification of the cause of the security breach, adding
only that it was giving highest priority to having industry experts
resolve the issue.

(ARRL, SECURITY WEEK)

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STARLINK, RIVAL SPAR OVER FREQUENCY COORDINATION, INTERFERENCE CHARGES

NEIL/ANCHOR: In what may shape up as a first test of a new FCC rule
about direct-to-cellular satellite services, a service provider is
charging Starlink satellites with creating interference on the S-band.
Kent Peterson KC0DGY has those details.

KENT: Omnispace, which has plans for building a global mobile network
through a satellite constellation, has criticized Starlink satellites'
own direct-to-device network for creating what a top executive calls a
noise floor that renders their own customers' services useless.

According to a report on the Space.com website, SpaceX had previously
written to Omnispace and the FCC about coordinating the frequencies of
their respective systems -- but that exchange has not yet taken place.
SpaceX's David Goldman asked Omnispace's Mindel De La Torre in early
May to provide empirical evidence of the claimed interference. Goldman
also questioned whether Omnispace may not be coordinating frequencies
as required by the International Telecommunication Union or the FCC
because it is a licensee based out of Papua, New Guinea.

Omnispace operates several low- and medium-Earth orbit satellites
experimentally but intends to build a 600-satellite constellation. The
company has previously been critical of SpaceX, most recently of its
partnership with the US division of the cellular network, T-Mobile.

In March, the Federal Communications Commission adopted regulations
covering so-called Supplemental Coverage from Space, under which
direct-to-device satellite services are considered secondary to primary
frequency allocations on the 2 GHz band.

This is Kent Peterson KC0DGY.

(SPACENEWS.COM)

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CALIF. GETS 'RIGHT TO REPAIR' LAW FOR ELECTRONICS

NEIL/ANCHOR: A new law is about to make California the newest US state
giving consumers better access to repairing electronics they purchase
in that state. Ralph Squillace KK6ITB brings us that story.

RALPH: A law that takes effect on July 1st in California will require
the makers of consumer electronics to offer purchasers of those
products - along with service dealers and repair facilities - a means
to repair them by providing guides, parts and tools for a period
between 3 to 7 years after the manufacturing date, depending on the
item's original wholesale price. The new Right to Repair Law brings
California in line with a growing push in other states for similar
legislation. According to the website of the Reinhart legal firm, 30
other states have introduced similar legislation. Two other states -New
York and Minnesota - have similar consumer electronics laws already in
effect. A right-to-repair law in Colorado covers agricultural
equipment.

The new California law will apply to all electronics sold there as far
back as July 2021. The law excludes video game consoles and alarm
systems, neither of which is considered an "electronic or appliance
product."

According to the website of the Sidley Austin law group, similar
measures are in the works in Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont and Washington.

The bill was introduced last year by state Senator Susan Talamantes
Eggman as a means of reducing electronic waste and improving California
residents' opportunities to repair, or have repaired, broken products.

This is Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.

(SUSAN TALAMANTES EGGMAN WEBSITE, SIDLEY AUSTIN, REINHERT)

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ANTENNA DAMAGE FORCES WWVB TO OPERATE AT REDUCED POWER

NEIL/ANCHOR: In the United States, the timekeeping radio station WWVB
is providing its essential information on reduced power following storm
damage to one of its antennas. Travis Lisk, N3ILS, gives us an update.

TRAVIS: Wind damage to half of its phased-array antenna has left radio
station WWVB operating at reduced power outside Fort Collins, Colorado.
The winds that struck the south antenna in early April	 were estimated
to be higher than 90 miles per hour. The National Institute of
Standards and Technology operates the timekeeping site. People
throughout North America rely on WWVB's broadcasts to synchronize their
watches, clock radios and other consumer electronics. It is also used
for accurate time synchronization and for timekeeping applications in
appliances, cameras and irrigation controllers. Since the wind damage
occurred, the station has broadcast using its north antenna only and on
reduced power. The NIST explained the change in an announcement
recorded on the 11th of May and posted on YouTube. There is also a
notice on the NIST website.

This is Travis Lisk N3ILS.

(NIST, YOUTUBE)

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SILENT KEY: THREEZA CRUZ ANICETO, DW3TRZ, CONTESTER, FRIENDSHIP
ADVOCATE

NEIL/ANCHOR: A well-respected and much-loved YL, active in contesting
and DXing, and an advocate for international friendship, has become a
Silent Key in the Philippines. We hear more about her life from John
Williams VK4JJW.

JOHN: Threeza Cruz Aniceto, DW3TRZ, was an award-winning contester, a
mentor to many and a special friend to YLs with whom she shared her
talents in needlework, taking time to craft ham radio-related gifts and
cross-stitched QSLs for hams around the world. Threeza maintained an
active YouTube channel, called "Mabuhay [ma-BOO-hay] DXStitch Amateur
Radio," which she established to promote worldwide friendship through
ham radio.

Threeza died on May 18 of pancreatic cancer according to the Philippine
Amateur Radio Association and her friend Anne Dirkman, KC9YL, who
supported Threeza in joining the US-based Young Ladies Radio League as
a DX member. Newsline listeners got to hear about Threeza's talents in
an interview on Amateur Radio Newsline in 2018 and readers of the
ARRL's QST magazine got to know her better in a January 2020 Member
Spotlight feature article.

In the Philippines, "Mabuhay" is a wish for a good life. Threeza Cruz
Aniceto, who said that word often to friends, surely had one herself.
She was 49.

This is John Williams VK4JJW.

(ANNE DIRKMAN, KC9YL; PHILIPPINE AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION, QST)

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SILENT KEY: LEO MC HUGH, EI8BR, NOTED CW MENTOR

NEIL/ANCHOR: A leader and a mentor among CW operators in Ireland has
become a Silent Key. We hear more about him from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY: The name and callsign of Leo McHugh, EI8BR, was well-known
among CW operators in Ireland and was a frequent entry in the logs of
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