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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1979
FIGHT
4 U.S. firms
apply to build
gas pipelines
United Press International
OMAHA — Four major pipeline
companies have filed an application
with the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission to build an 809-mile,
$1.4 billion pipeline to transport
natural gas from Alberta, Canada, to
midwestern and eastern U.S. mar
kets, it was announced Monday.
The companies, filing the applica
tion under the Northern Border
Pipeline Co., said the pipeline sys
tem would transport gas from the
Alaskan North Slope and could be
on line by the 1981-82 heating sea-
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Involved in the proposed project
are Northern Natural Gas Co.,
Omaha; Northwest Energy Co., Salt
Lake City, Utah and Panhandle
Eastern Pipeline Co. and United
Gas Pipe Line Co., both of Hous
ton.
The Northern Border application
proposes construction of the 42-inch
diameter pipeline from Port of
Morgan, Mont., to a point on
Northern Natural s system near
Ventura, Iowa.
“Volumes of gas contracted for by
United and Panhandle will be made
available to them through
exchange-displacement and trans
portation arrangements through
existing pipeline systems,” the
companies said.
“This volume of gas is sufficient to
supply approximately 2 million
homes, the companies said.
The total Alaskan project, pro
posed to be completed in 1984, will
be capable of transporting initially
up to 2.4 billion cubic feet of natural
gas per day from the North Slope to
the United States.
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in annual radio
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Dan Eggers, doctoral student from Seattle, Wash., operates a
Morse code keyboard which transmits the Morse code at a high
rate of speed. Eggers is a member of the MSC Radio Commit
tee.
Battalion photo by Becky Leake
By BECKY LEAKE
Battalion Reporter
In a secluded room filled with the
low-pitched hum of radio equip
ment, “DX Dave” listens intently to
the morse code coming over the
earphones telling of flash floods and
tornadoes in Houston.
Pausing only to get his notes in
order, he starts relaying the mes
sages for help to other Ham
operators standing by in different
points all over the country.
Actually, “DX Dave” McCarty, a
junior chemical engineering major
from Overland Park, Kan., was par
ticipating in a national test of the
Ham Radio’s Emergency Broadcast
System.
“The idea is to keep us on the
ball,” said McCarty, who earned his
nickname from his skill in making
contact with foreign stations, which
are called DX stations by Ham
operators.
Sponsored by the American Radio
Relay League and CQ Magazine,
the simulated emergency test is
held yearly during the last week of
January.
McCarty and other members of
the Memorial Student Center Radio
Committee used their own equip
ment to participate in the national
test which lasted 36 hours, ending at
midnight Sunday.
McCarty estimates about 100
messages were sent and received at
A&M’s station, VV5AC, during that
time. Although the messages were
fake, in real emergencies, Ham
radio operators work with the Red
Cross and other rescue organiza
tions locating disaster victims and
informing relatives of thi er ,
Ham radio works on t(|,
principle as citizens bam
transmitting radio waves
voice or morse code.
Mark Neal, a senior nucU
neering major from Housta|
he first got interested in H
by enrolling in a coursed
Free University.
Neal said the word,]
thought to have originated
words, home amateur, flu
definition is “a body of sell
self-regulated, self-organ®]
serve of trained operators
McCarty estimates tl
about 400,000 Ham radio
in the United States and;
operators in Brazos Count)
“During the simulated |
gency test, operators '
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acceptable. .En’tribut
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received permission Thurs:|g am p u
the Energy Departmentr
gasoline allocations tonl
throughout the country, f
to February 1978 levels *1
partly because of the
imports from Iran.
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