Local News and Views
Salvador Arevalo, ex DW1VGA fined!
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) sitting en banc has found Salvador Arevalo, ex-DW1VGA, guilty of transmitting without a license in violation of NTC Memorandum Circular No. 9-4-94A which prescribes rules on renewal of licenses, and Ministry Circular No. 87-174 which prohibits the transmission of profane or indecent words or language. The findings contained in a Decision promulgated only in July concludes that “(C)onsidering that respondent’s (Mr. Arevalo) Philippine amateur license has already expired, he is prohibited from using the frequency allocated to Philippine amateur amateurs. Also, he is not allowed to use his foreign amateur call sign here in the Philippines for failure to show proof of his qualifications to avail of the benefit of the reciprocity rule as provided by law.” As for the allegations that Mr. Arevalo’s QRZ.com’s account was hacked by PARA, the same Decision deems the “operation of PARA’s affairs and the alleged hacking of the respondents account (in QRZ.com) are matters concerning their internal functions, (hence) the Commission deems it appropriate not to discuss the same being outside the realms of its jurisdiction.” The Decision imposed a PhP5,000 fine against Mr. Arevalo payable within 15 days from date of Decision. PARA President Ramon J. Anquilan, DU1UGZ, welcomed the Decision saying that NTC showed a firm resolve in deciding the case as it were, and that the Decision will become a deterrent against bootleggers and other unlicensed people on 2 meters. |
Don Bosco has more power!
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| The DON BOSCO TECHNICAL COLLEGE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INC (DX1DBT) recently received an ACOM 2000A linear amplifier from Jin DU1IST. Photo shows Ivan Velasquez of DX1DBT receiving the amplifier from Jin (President of DX1J). On hand to witness the occasion was Eddie DU1EV. |
FCC Exams at the 2010 PARA Hamvention
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The ARRL
VE team in the Philippines congratulates the successful examinees
who took the FCC exams at the 17th IGEB and PARA Convention in
Tagaytay City. Eddie Valdez, DU1EV |
2010 PARA Hamvention & 17th International Grand Eyeball
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Hosted by FLARE |
Co-Hosted by COMPASS |
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Convention and 17th International Grand Eyeball held over the
weekend of June 4-6, 2010 was a huge success. It was well
attended with donated transceivers and PARA watches as raffle
prizes. Some 275 delegates, coming all the way from Mindanao to
Northern Luzon, packed the convention hall, not counting the
Pinoy hams from North America. On behalf of the Board and the
members of PARA, may I extend my congratulations to the
Convention Chairman Ed Ilagan, DU1DPE, together with his
hardworking crew from FLARE and COMPASS as well as their
counterparts from the IGEB. I would like to express also my
gratitude to all participants, delegates, supporters,
advertisers and other people who ensured the success of the
event. In particular, my special thanks to foreign hams and
Pinoy hams from North America, some of whom donated some of the
prizes, placed ads in the souvenir program and shared their
precious time by coming over to be one with the local hams to
support the event. Please continue to participate and support
the amateur radio service in the Philippines. Sana huwag kayong
magsawa sa inyong pagtangkilik, pakikiisa at pagpapalaganap sa
ating hilig. Sa mga aking nakaligtaang bigyan ng pasasalamat,
alam ninyo kung sino kayo at ang inyong naging mahalagang
bahagi, ang aking taos-pusong pasasalamat din po. Pinakahuli,
kung anuman ang naging pagkukulang namin, hinihingi po namin ang
paumanhin at inyong pag-unawa. See you in Bohol in 2011.
Ramon J. Anquilan, DU1UGZ, President |
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A multi-national team of up to 30 amateur radio operators from nine countries is in advanced preparation to operate from Spratly Island group in the South China Sea. Following 12 months of discussions with military and civilian authorities permission has been received to operate on Thitu Island (Pagasa in Filipino), the second largest island in the Spratly Islands with a population of about 100.
The team leader is Chris VK3FY. The rest of the team to date
includes: A website is now up and running: http://www.dx0dx.net/ DX0DX Public Affairs, Jim Linton VK3PC |
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from the desk of your President... Monthly Digest (March/April 2010) Not much activity was logged for March and for this reason this digest covers the months of March and April 2010. |
David R. Fraser, DU5/NU4W, SK
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the amateur community here in the Philippines. Mr. David R. Fraser,
DU5/NU4W, who lived in Tacloban City, met with an accident while on
his bike around 1100Z on Monday 3rd of May, 2010. The news was
relayed by Nathan Eamiguel, DU5AOK, moments after the accident.
There is no information yet as to where his body will be interred.
After retirement, David chose to live his life in Tacloban City, his wife's home town. He was active in Elmering hams from ACCESS 5 and assisted the club during the 2010 GSP INFEX & DX Contest. Efforts are being made to inform proper authorities and David's surviving relatives about his untimely demise. Our condolences to David's family, may his soul rest in peace. |
Romanian Ham in Manila
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Puiu Cristea, YO5BIM,
recently visited Manila and had a chance to have an eyeball with
Eddie DU1EV. In their conversation, Eddie was happy to hear that
Romania is very ham friendly to foreign hams and that they have an
open door policy for licensing. Any foreign ham can get a reciprocal
permit in less than an hour. Puiu promised to get in touch with the
President of their national society so that the necessary paperwork
between our national societies and our regulatory body would be
commenced thereby paving the way for a seamless licensing for
Filipino and Romanian hams. |
INFEX 2010
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We are pleased to announce the winners and participants of the International Friendship Exchange and DX (INFEX) Contest held on February 20, 2010. We wish to thank the twenty six (26) Councils that participated. The Winners
A complete list of participants and scores in Excel format can be downloaded by clicking HERE. |
THE PARA VHF (2-meter) ROUND UP CONTEST
The PARA VHF Round Up Contest was held on April 17-18 2010. The purpose of this contest was :-
| A. | For participating amateur stations to contact as many other amateur stations as possible within the allocated contest period. |
| B. | To provide a venue for testing propagation. |
| C. | To promote club activity. |
| D. | To develop and enhance fellowship and friendship among amateurs. |
| E. | To collect as many QSL cards as possible for award credit. |
| F. | To enjoy the contest. |
| Contest results will be posted here soon. |
DX7CA Club Activity
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| DX7CA, CARL Inc., held a club activity weekend on March 20/21. This activity celebrated the death anniversary of the late President Ramon Magsaysay, as well as serving as field testing for the upcoming PARA VHF Roundup Contest in April. To view the pictures from this event please go to the PARA Album and select the DX7CA Mt. Manungal album. |
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Cebu Amateur Radio League Inc., one of the oldest amateur radio clubs in the Visayas, has a new Facebook page. Please click HERE to go to the page and reach out to those in District 7. Other clubs and Districts, please take note! How about joining in the Facebook revolution? Post your local news and gossip online! |
| PARA has a new photo
album based on Coppermine software. Please click
HERE
to visit the Album. If club secretaries have any photos they wish to be shown in the PARA album please email them to webmaster. |
2010 Board Meeting Minutes, Click HERE...
New PARA Forum
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A new Forum and Bulletin Board has been created now that we have a larger server space. This Forum is open to all comers but requires one time registration. The old forum posts have been migrated over to this new forum and bulletin board. Please click PARA Forum to register and visit our new Bulletin Board. Please use your callsign to register as there are many spammers that I have to filter out. If you don't know what "Forum" means please look it up in a dictionary. It is not a website, it is a place for your voice to be heard, whether questions about any topic relating to ham radio or PARA, or advice for newbies, or just something you want to post in the various topics to be found in the PARA Forum to start a conversation or thread about something that interests you. |
Online Callbook
| You can show your details online in our callsign listing by sending a scanned copy of your RSL to webmaster. |
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Panay Amateur Radio Club hosted a Seminar on 27th February, followed by a PARA Board Meeting on 28th. |
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| PARA President Ramon, DU1UGZ, addresses the Seminar | The meeting was hosted by Bobby Garcia, DU6BG |
| Do you have an entry on QRZ.com? Please help spread the word by mentioning the PARA website in your entry. |
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Bob Henderson 5B4AGN recently visited the PARA office. Afterwards, he enjoyed San Miguel Beer with Eddie DU1EV. Bob is a very active ham who has gone on a number of dxpeditions. He is also very active in contesting and has several 1st place certificates tucked under his belt. For more info on Bob you may want to visit his homepage |
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from the desk of your President INFEX 2010 : A Continuing Annual Partnership The 2010 INFEX was successfully held today, February 20th 2010. A total of 28 stations participated coming from the different parts of the archipelago. At the “check-back” time, the highest claimed QSOs were from DX1ARM (42) for the Fixed Station category and DX1ACE (43) for the Field category. From monitoring the activity, I surmise that all call districts were represented. |
World Wide WPX Contest
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| I get by with a little help from my friends.... At 82 years old, this seems to be the tune that Greg DU1GE sang during the 2009 CQ WPX contest. It was the first time for Greg to join a contest, and winning first place is indeed a nice reward. Sharing and camaraderie are the hallmarks of a true blue ham. Thank you very much to his friends who helped him operate a multi-operator two transmitter station: Beth, DU1BA, DU1EV, DU1NA, DU1XX, DV1KID, DV1PPV, DV1UC, DV1VHY, DW1VDO, 4F1BYN, DU3HF. | Congratulations also to Ethel (now DU1EE). Not country nor continental, but world winner for a starter on Single operator, Single Band!. |
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| First award of ham couple DU1AV and DV1JSB through their special call sign 4D1A. |
President's Monthly Digest
| To keep all members informed of the latest happenings and news, our new President, Ramon Anquilan DU1UGZ, has started the President's Monthly Digest. To view the January edition, please click HERE. |
Down Memory Lane....
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KA1CS - Frank C. Swan, PARA President 1939 - 1946 (Photo April 1940) |
Ben Fama, K6WAA Donates FT7400 to PARA
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K6WAA,
Benjamin Fama of Carson California has kindly donated a Yaesu FT7400
70cm mobile rig to PARA DX1PAR. It was shipped to an address in
Pateros, Metro Manila via NØDO Noel
Santos of Carson California by door to door box and is shown here
being turned over to DV1VGO Gilbert Galbis PARA Secretariat by DU1EQ
Panny S. Quintana on Friday 29th January 2010.
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ACER General Membership Meeting
| DX1ER/ACER held their first quarter General Membership Meeting recently with a good turn out of members as can be seen above. |
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Regular Seminar Schedule Seminars for aspiring amateurs are conducted regularly. Those who are interested in attending please check firstly on the PARA news page for news of upcoming seminars. Please contact the PARA office for more details and confirmation. tel: 974 1986 email: dx1par@yahoo.com Local clubs are encouraged to conduct their own seminars to help their members to upgrade as well as introducing new members to the hobby. Assistance will be given to clubs so please contact Dolores at PARA HQ for more details. |
The NTC Provincial Examination Schedule for 2010 can be seen by clicking HERE
New Board Members
| Congratulations to the following who were elected to serve on the PARA Board this year.... |
| Ramon Anquilan, DU1UGZ | President |
| Cesar Maligalig, DV1KC | Vice President |
| Mike Hogar, DU1XX | Secretary |
| Jojo Vicencio, DU1VHY | Treasurer |
| Butch Pacana, DU1RP | Director |
Cycle 24 Update 1/6/10
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courtesy of KH6/K6MIO, from Moon Net group |
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northern and southern R indices through December 2009. The
northern hemisphere shows a clear jump in activity that
continued to increase through October, November, and December
(and appears to be continuing into January); and it is
tracking quite close to the Cycle 23 northern-hemisphere trajectory. Even more encouraging is that in November and December, there is a similar jump in the southern hemisphere R, which appears to be approaching the Cycle 23 track. The current, very preliminary, indications continue to suggest that solar maximum may occur around the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2012-13, if normal rules apply (they may not). |
DX Marathon
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The CQ DX Marathon is a year-long activity, beginning at 0001 UTC January 1 and ending at 2359 UTC December 31. Each year’s event is separate. Any authorized amateur frequency may be used. Contacts through repeaters or satellites are not allowed for credit, nor are contacts with maritime or aeronautical mobile stations. All contacts must be made entirely over amateur radio frequencies—i.e., Echolink-type contacts do not count. Any authorized amateur mode may be used. Three modes will be recognized in the DX Marathon—CW, SSB, and Digital. All modes other than CW and SSB will count as Digital. Submissions with all contacts utilizing a single mode will be recognized. Now that Cycle 24 appears to be on an upswing according to the article above, you have no excuse not to participate in this activity. For more details please click on the link below... http://www.dxmarathon.com/Contestrules2010/DX Marathon Rules Dec09.pdf |
Ham Seminar at UST
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first orientation seminar of 2010 with 70 ECE/EE students from
3rd-5th year at the University of Santo Tomas, UST Tan Yan Kee
Student Center, Manila on January 24th 2010. UST has requested a special exam on Monday Feb 15th at the same venue. The seminar will hopefully revive DX1UST, The University of Santo Tomas Amateur Radio Club. |
IARU R3 adopts CoA
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Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Band Plan has been updated to include
five emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies. These are 3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz. The move to adopt these frequencies made at the recent IARU Region 3 Conference, follows similar decisions at earlier IARU Region 1 and Region 2 Conferences. CoA are not spot frequencies, but a starting point + or – 5kHz, are not the only frequencies to be used, and are not mode specific and should be considered as being 'all modes'. IARU member radio societies in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to take action to include the CoA frequencies in their national band plans to help promote their use for emergency communications and training exercises. Jim Linton VK3PC Chairman, IARU R3 Disaster Communications Committee |
40m Band - 7.0MHz to 7.2MHz
| The Frequency Management Division of NTC recently stated that the expanded 40m band is now available in the Philippines as from 30th June 2009. This date was the final date on which all broadcast stations must have stopped transmissions in the 7.1 to 7.2MHz segment. The statement came about because of prompting by PARA officials and the matter is now apparently resolved so lets get out there and enjoy the new space. You may find that there are some broadcast stations still lingering in the new segment, some from North Korea, but these are now illegal interlopers. |
FCC Exams
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Albert Velasco, DU1ACV, recently hurdled the challenge of the FCC exams and passed all three tests in one sitting! He is now an extra class license holder with the call ACØQA. Photo shows Albert proudly displaying his certificate of successful completion of the exams from the ARRL. Seated in front of him is the ARRL Volunteer Examiner team comprised of Francis See, Pete Vargas, Jim Clarkson and Eddie Valdez. Congratulations Albert! For more information on taking the FCC exams here, please click on the picture. |
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My Ham Shack is a place where you get a personal web page for you and your shack. Your friends, family and fellow Amateur Radio Operators will have a place to go to admire your Ham Shack. For example, if your callsign is DU1GM, then your web page address will be http://MyHamShack.com/DU1GM/ You will have a Station Blog so you can write information about you, your ham shack, your experiences, etc. You can build your network of Connections. You will have a place to upload pictures of your ham shack and radio equipment to share with the world. Create and share your own instructional projects. Learn what other hams have done to improve, fix, restore and upgrade equipment in the Projects section. Show others how you put up your own tower. Not signed up? Register today for a free web site for your ham shack. |
DX1L Repeater
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Putting up the PARL clubs UHF repeater at the QTH of Clifford, DU1CC. The repeater is on 431.900MHz, input on 436.900MHz, and uses a 100Hz tone to access the Antipolo repeater and 85Hz tone to access the Tagaytay repeater. Installation crew: Clifford Certeza (DU1CC), Eddie Valdez (DU1EV), Greg Ella (DU1GE, probably the oldest DU ham still climbing towers and installing antennas - 80 years old), Mike Hogar (DU1XX) and Nicky Academia (DU1NA).If you would like to help Clifford defray the costs of the repeaters then please contact him on 09209616157 |
Broadband over Power Line, BPL
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Is this something we should be concerned about? Well, BPL is now becoming established in the Philippines and will shortly be trialed in Malabon. BPL uses HF frequencies and has been shown to cause severe interference to VHF & HF receivers/transceivers such as used on amateur radio frequencies as well as government and civil agencies. |
A picture from PARA's 52nd Anniversary
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Left to
right : Jose Mari Gonzalez DU1JMG, Antonio Lazatin Jr. DU1LOG,
Mo Flores DU3MF, Donato Poblador DU7DP, Thanks to Rudy Rojas, DU8RF, for identifying the gent 3rd from left. |
Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
| June 17, 2009: The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why. At an American Astronomical Society press conference today in Boulder, Colorado, researchers announced that a jet stream deep inside the sun is migrating slower than usual through the star's interior, giving rise to the current lack of sunspots. |
| PARA now has a Facebook page. To join the group please click on the Facebook logo above. If you are not yet a member of Facebook you will be given the option to create an account. See you there! |
Affiliated Clubs
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have their own web sites. The latest to advise us of their web site
is DX3UNA, Ulo ng Apo, in Olongapo. To visit their website please
click on their logo above. To see other clubs web sites please visit
our affiliated clubs page
http://www.para.org.ph/clubnews.htm To add your own club's web site to this list please send the details to webmaster. |
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Reiteration by NTC of requirement for |
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Please click HERE to read the correspondence between NTC and PARA Sec. Gen. on the above subject. Included is a reiteration of NTC Memo 9-4-94 |
In Memoriam - now on the PARA Forum
Current Solar information is shown on the Propagation Page
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As Solar Cycle 24 has now started it pays to keep your eye on various web pages that show solar information. We have collected some of this information and it is displayed on our Propagation Page. |
To find out more and to subscribe to the K9YA Telegraph click here....
Inside the June 2010 Issue...
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Ft. Tuthill 80 By Philip
Cala-Lazar, K9PL |
| District 1 Pakulo 1987 |
| Do you recognize
yourself here?.... |
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Check out some of the bargains to be had on the PARA Ads page. There are more than you can shake a stick at. Just mouse over the description to see the rig of your dreams, then click to go to the Ads page. |
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| Once upon a time there was a PARA QTC Journal. Now, thanks to Thelma, DU1IVT, who has a dog eared, coffee stained copy of the first edition, you can stroll down memory lane. This first edition was published in March 1991 and there are interesting articles and pictures, full of memories of troubled times as well as some good lessons for the present generation. To peer back to those days please click HERE. There will be more issues published, coming soon.... |
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Looking for a repeater near you? Please check out our Philippines Repeater Map
If you find any errors or omissions, please contact webmaster |
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Propagation bad? Is your antenna down or your rig broken? No problem, there are lots of ways to listen on the bands without having a radio - you just need an internet connection. |
PARA Website
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The para.org.ph domain and server cost extra each year to provide a service to members and non-members alike. If you feel you can contribute to the running costs of the website, please contact the Secretariat. The cost of the domain name is $70 for 2 years. All contributions will be gratefully accepted and you will be mentioned on our donors page. Maraming Salamat po. |
Check out the increasing number of articles submitted by members.
http://www.para.org.ph/membersarticles.htm
International Reply Coupons - IRCs
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Do you know there are new ones now available and the old ones you may have are already expired? Click HERE to read more.... |
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