‰ Now 18 WPM transition file follows ‰ Most members of the FUNcube 1 team will gather November 21, launch day, at the RSGBs National Radio Centre at Londons Bletchley Park to staff a monitoring station at least for the first couple of days following launch. FUNcube 1 is among more than two dozen small satellites, many of them carrying Amateur Radio payloads, that will be put into orbit by a Dnepr rocket now being readied in Russia The first signals from FUNcube 1 should be heard in Southern Africa and then in Hawaii and then Alaska, said a message on the FUNcube 1 website. FUNcube 1 initially will transmit at about 30 mW, safe mode, and telemetry will be on 145.935 MHz. In its normal educational mode, the signal should to be about 10 dB stronger. After that, we hope to hear signals in the UK on a very low pass to the east around 0850 UTC. We will be trying to do our best to keep everyone in touch with what is happening, the message continued. Part of that effort will include streaming video from the NRC, getting underway at about 0700 UTC the day of the launch. The team also will maintain a presence on the cubesat IRC channel at //webchat.freenode.net/, as well as via the AMSAT BB. The first release of the FUNcube Dashboard User Interface software is now available for download. This software, when used with a FUNcube dongle or other SSB capable VHF receiver, will decode and display all 58 telemetry channels, all onboard status flags, and the Fitter messages from the spacecraft. Further information is available on the web at //funcube.org.uk/ . The ARRL has asked the FCC to delete the symbol rate limit in Part 97.307f of its Amateur Service rules, replacing it with a maximum bandwidth for data emissions of 2.8 kHz on amateur frequencies below 29.7 MHz. The ARRL Board of Directors adopted the policy underlying the petition initiative at its July 2013 meeting. The petition was filed November 15. The changes proposed would, in the aggregate, relieve the Amateur Service of outdated, 1980s era restrictions that presently hamper or preclude Amateur Radio experimentation with modern high frequency and other data transmission protocols, the Leagues petition asserted. The proposed rule changes would also permit greater flexibility in the choice of data emissions. Symbol rate represents the number of times per second that a change of state occurs, not to be confused with data, or bit, rate. Current FCC rules limit digital data emissions below 28 MHz to 300 baud, and between 28.0 and 28.3 MHz to 1200 baud. Transmission protocols are available and in active use in other radio services in which the symbol rate exceeds the present limitations set forth in Part 97.307f of the Commissions Rules, but the necessary bandwidths of those protocols are within the bandwidth of a typical HF single sideband channel of 3 kHz, the ARRLs petition pointed out. If the symbol rate is allowed to increase as technology develops and the Amateur Service utilizes new data emission types, the efficiency of amateur data communications will increase, the ARRL concluded. These incumbent ARRL section managers faced no opposition and were declared elected for new terms of office beginning January 1. David Drummond, W4MD, Alabama, Jim Larsen, AL7FS, Alaska, Jim Latham, AF6AQ, East Bay, Ron Cowan, KB0DTI, Kansas, Larry Camp, WB8R, Michigan, Bill Kauffman, W5YEJ, New Mexico, Robert Griffin, K6YR, Santa Barbara, and Ed Emco, W1KT, Western Massachusetts. ‰ End of 18 WPM transition file ‰