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Long-time ham and ARRL member David Lien, W6OVP, of Battle Ground, Washington, has transferred the Web address www.QST.org  < http://www.qst.org > to the ARRL. If you head to that URL, you'll now find yourself in the QST section of the ARRLWeb.  "I bought the rights to it about nine years ago," he said. "I was just trolling -- I own quite a few [Web addresses]. I came across QST.org and grabbed it. It's so important to ham radio, and there's only one use for it."  An aerospace engineer for many years, Lien is also a prolific author. Of his many books, the majority of which helped computer neophytes learn the ins and outs of the TRS-80 and other early personal computers and systems, his best-known were "Learning IBM BASIC" and "The BASIC Handbook." In fact, Lien was a consultant on the development of the ground-breaking TRS-80, which was among the first mass market personal computers.  "I was pleased I was in the right place at the right time to rescue the name and hold it for the League until they were ready [to request it]," he said.  ARRL Chief Operating Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, who first contacted Lien about the address, commented: "We really appreciate David's generosity in transferring QST.org back to us. It will make it easier for our members and others interested in Amateur Radio to find information about QST and its content on the Web. We have some other exciting plans in the works for QST.org that we will be implementing in the upcoming months." (Excerpt from the ARRL Letter, Vol. 26, No. 42,  dated October 19, 2007)
                                        SON FOLLOWS IN FATHER'S STEPS

Richard Garriott, KE5QNX, son of Owen Garriott, W5LFL, will be launching into space and living aboard the International Space Station in October 2008 as a client of Space Adventures. Owen Garriott operated the world's first Amateur Radio Station from space, W5LFL, as part of the Spacelab mission on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-9) in 1983; he is on the Astronaut Advisory Board of Space Adventures. Space Adventures is a company that allows private citizens the chance for space travel on Russian Soyuz spacecraft at an estimated cost of $30-55 million per person. Richard, who is Space Adventures vice chairman, has applied for his grandfather's call sign, W5KWQ. He plans on making Amateur Radio contacts on the International Space Station (ARISS) when he is in space. (Excerpt from the ARRL Letter, Vol. 26, No. 40,  dated Oct 5, 2007)
                 New Public Service Announcements Available for Broadcast

ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, announced that there is a suite of seven Public Service Announcements (PSAs) available that can be used on broadcast radio. "These PSAs are a matched set that positions Amateur Radio in a positive light in the minds of people and creates a mental image of ham radio. Parallels are on your TV or broadcast radio every evening -- they show the car and an attribute of it. Pitts said that he hopes hams will distribute these PSAs to local radio stations, acting for benefit of ALL Amateur Radio operators.  They can be downloaded from the ARRL Web site at < http://www.arrl.org/pio >. A special "thank you" goes out to Don Carlson, KQ6FM, and Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, who aided in making the collection.   (Excerpt from the ARRL Letter, Vol 26, No 42, dated October 19,  2007).
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