The World of Ham Radio CD-ROM From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.telepac.pt!usenet From: Francisco Costa Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:23:19 GMT Organization: telepac Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4ep4m7$i6a@vivaldi.telepac.pt> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bj1_p1.telepac.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: vfiscus@mcn.net Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97558 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32920 rec.radio.amateur.space:6238 vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) wrote: > >Amsat is debating having a yearly contest on the satellites, something beside s >Field Day. > >Should there be one? > >73 de KB7ADL > > > If you're thinking in "HF style contest" on the birds, i say "That's totaly non sence! It come to my mind a couple questions: 1- for what purpouse? 2- in whitch bird(s)? 3- what about the others who don't have visibility? 4- QRP only? and i'm sure you're thinking in lot more... I think all the answers go to the same word: NO But, if you think in a ZRO test, or any other kind, but always thinking that a satellite has a limited power budget and the winner is not the "top power", but the "big ears", than i say YES. 73's F.Costa CT1EAT From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!newsworthy.West.Sun.COM!ssguest!aga From: aga@ssguest.west.sun.com (Tony Angerame - Sun SSE) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Keesler AFB Radio Club 1965/66?? Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:24:02 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Lines: 4 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ep4ni$75g@newsworthy.West.Sun.COM> References: Reply-To: aga@ssguest.west.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ssguest.west.sun.com Hey I was there in 65/66! Just couldn't find a "Radio Club". Only shack there was MARS at the end of the flight line. Where was it? Tony WA6LZH RY29252 From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!cc.iu.net!news From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: FCC forms online - yuck! Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:52:53 GMT Organization: Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4ep6dl$ggd@cc.iu.net> References: <4eitns$pie@casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) NNTP-Posting-Host: netport-16.iu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4eitns$pie@casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, mkb@llama.rec.ri.cmu.edu (Mike Blackwel l) writes: >It's nice that the FCC puts some forms online >(ftp://ftp.fcc.gov/pub/Forms), but why are they using PCX bitmaps? If probably because the PCX files worked with whatever fax back software they have, i betcha. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news2.ee.net!news.ee.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news.halcyon.com!usenet From: "Gary P. Fiber" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ICOM IC720/720A Mods Date: 1 Feb 1996 03:31:50 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4epc76$9q7@news.halcyon.com> References: <823171608_OASIS_@g6tsf.demon.co.uk> <4eoc7a$cf9@portal.gmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blv-pm2-ip28.halcyon.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit) >Same letter also noted that ICOM has discontinued this relay >as a replacement part. Being mechanical, it is the item >that most often goes on a 720A. So when it goes, so does >the radio . . . > Jeff Shelton/KS4TL Fact is the company who made the relay for ICOM in Japan went out of business several years ago. Before that happened ICOM tried to forcast the requirements for the relay for the next 5 years. Thye used them up in the 9 to 10 years that have passed since that time. Gary From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!taebaek.nowcom.co.kr!imci3!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!ferengi.prismnet.com!usenet From: rew5808 Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: WTB: lafayette, allied electronics & heathkit catalogs Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:12:37 GMT Organization: PrismNet - (512)-418-1568 Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4epi45$d2r@ferengi.prismnet.com> References: <4ehl14$sep@crl11.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-1-14.reallink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.shortwave:69533 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18802 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24425 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97589 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13069 I am looking for some lafayette radio, allied electronics, and heathkit catalogs from 1957 thru 1965. would appreciate any help and/or any leads you can give me. thanks bobby wb5wur From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!ferengi.prismnet.com!usenet From: rew5808 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: WTB: lafayette, allied electronics & heathkit catalogs Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:51:45 GMT Organization: PrismNet - (512)-418-1568 Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4epkdh$d8v@ferengi.prismnet.com> References: <4ehl14$sep@crl11.crl.com> <4epi45$d2r@ferengi.prismnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-1-14.reallink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97615 rec.radio.shortwave:69565 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18825 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24451 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13080 I am looking for some lafayette radio, allied electronics, and heathkit catalogs from 1957 thru 1965. would appreciate any help and/or any leads you can give me. thanks bobby wb5wur From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!newsworthy.West.Sun.COM!news70.West.Sun.COM!usenet From: "Dana H. Myers" Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy Subject: Useful discussion (was Re: A Dear KF4DDM letter) Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:55:26 GMT Organization: Sunsoft, Los Angeles Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4epkke$jp5@abyss.West.Sun.COM> References: <4elm3k$an4@jupiter.planet.net> <4empr0$9t0@reader2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vr1000p.west.sun.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 i86pc) X-URL: news:4empr0$9t0@reader2.ix.netcom.com Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.cb:26081 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97692 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32983 kc5egg@ix.netcom.com(Gerald Schmitt ) wrote: [deletia] >Good on you Steve I agree there has been enough. I'm only sorry I >didn't see this post before the shot I took at you this morning. Let's >get some usefull discussion going here. The whole code anti-code has >probably done more to drive away potential hams than anything else. The "code/anti-code" isn't what drives people away. The inability of amateurs to discuss this issue in a mature and rational manner is doubtlessly the most repulsive factor. When people see subjects like "No Code = No Brain", and read the vitriolic attacks originating from both those who want to retain the code requirement and those that want to discard it, how can they help but be repulsed? When a conversation turns from discussing what is spoken to attacking the speaker repeatedly, there's virtually no value. These newsgroups are as good or as bad as we make them. If folks want to ignore the chartered topics of the newsgroups and engage in incessant flaming, many will be driven away, for good reason. If folks can learn to have the kind of discipline necessary in a self-policing service, we can make these newsgroups good. Again, the issue isn't code/no-code. The issue is maturity and common decency, which seems to have no correlation to license class or code status. -- * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD#: j | Views expressed here are * * (310) 348-6043 | mine and do not necessarily * * Dana.Myers@West.Sun.Com | reflect those of my employer * From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!ferengi.prismnet.com!usenet From: rew5808 Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: wtb: allied, lafayette, heathkit catalogs Date: 1 Feb 1996 06:06:59 GMT Organization: PrismNet - (512)-418-1568 Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4epla3$dd5@ferengi.prismnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-1-14.reallink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.swap:56499 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18793 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97578 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13062 i would appreciate any help i can get in locating some spare lafayette radio/electronics, heathkit, or allied electronics catalogs from 1957 thru 1965. thanks bobby wb5wur From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:35 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!bga.com!realtime.net!nntp4.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!olivea!cnn.isc-br.com!rraymon!braymond From: braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:54:44 LOCAL Organization: Olivetti NA, Spokane WA Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4eaun4$kd6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <1996Jan26.180933.12550@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: ws1-251.isc-br.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article barnaby@world.std.com (Richard Barnaby) writes: >From: barnaby@world.std.com (Richard Barnaby) >Subject: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:15:36 GMT >To QSL or not to QSL, that is the Question >gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: >[snip] >>(Scott Rosenfeld NF3I) writes: >[snip] >[Paraphrase mode on] >1. Scott posits that QSL's are "part of being an amateur" >and it is our duty as a matter of courtesy to QSL. The amateur radio hobby is NOT a poor mans hobby. While there are some of us who operate with inexpensive equipment, MOST of us have spent thousands of dollars on equipment, over a period of time. I think of QSLing as only a small part of the hobby and is certainly not a duty, but a courtesy.When we take into consideration what MOST of us have spent on our ham equipment, the cost of QSLing should not be very relevant. Kind of like buying an expensive automobile but not able or wanting to spend a few bucks on accessories. As far as not participating in the QSL game, remember that it is only a courtesy, not a duty. So the question arises as to whether we should be courteous or not?We all know how the bands abound with courteous operators these days, right? This question could be debated for a LONG time. Why not put it to rest with the fact that we should treat others as we wish to be treated. If you are satisfied with being treated rudely and being ignored, then perhaps you should continue doing so to others. As for me, I prefer to remember that some time in the future, I may need a QSL card from someone (for whatever purpose). In addition, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that I have made someone happy today. all of us should treat others as we would like to betreated. If you are satisfied with being treated rudely, then by all means continue to rudely disregard QSL cards you may receive. I don't feel it is a duty to QSL, only a courtesy. But then we all know that courtesy abounds on the amateur bands these days, right? I think that returning a QSL card falls in the same category as there..that will never change, nor will the fact that many of our QSL cards will never be answered. This is a fact of life and we can debate it all we want..it won't help. ************************************************************************** * BRAYMOND@NS.POWERAMP.NET - Spokane, WA - Amateur Radio KG7WC * ************************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:36 1996 Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.equip,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!not-for-mail From: dconti@carroll.com (Daniel M. Conti) Subject: FS : Standard C 508 A mini dual band HT, MINT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Carroll-Net Message-ID: X-Trace: 823147857/13269 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: atlas22.carroll.com Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:00:25 GMT Lines: 5 Xref: news.epix.net alt.radio.scanner:27088 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97570 rec.radio.scanner:44787 rec.radio.swap:56478 Standard C 508 A dual band mini HT, MINT, in box with manual, access. Also includes custom soft leather case and lapel speaker mike. $200.00 shipped to 48...COD $5.00 extra. E-Mail if interested From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!bga.com!realtime.net!nntp4.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!olivea!cnn.isc-br.com!rraymon!braymond From: braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:03:27 LOCAL Organization: Olivetti NA, Spokane WA Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4eaun4$kd6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <1996Jan26.180933.12550@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: ws1-251.isc-br.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bo b Raymond) writes: >From: braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) >Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:54:44 LOCAL RE: My previous post containing verbiage at end. Please excuse my poor attempt to edit which resulted in the garbage at the end. Thanks and 73. ************************************************************************** * BRAYMOND@NS.POWERAMP.NET - Spokane, WA - Amateur Radio KG7WC * ************************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:39 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!mv!wd1v.mv.com!user From: john@wd1v.mv.com (John Seney) Subject: Free Ham Test Simulators - Macintosh Message-ID: Organization: MV Communications, Inc. Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:37:44 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: wd1v.mv.com Lines: 54 FREE - NEW Macintosh HAM TEST SIMULATORS Studying for a ham test and have access to an Mac? Upgrade Fast! Simulate the test and get S T I M U L A T E D! 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Seney € € € € john@wd1v.mv.com 144 Pepperidge Drive € € € € www http://www.mv.com/ipusers/wd1v Manchester, NH 03103-6150 € € € € 5956779@skymail.com (40 character pagi ng) wd1v@wb1dsw.nh.usa.noam € € € € 603-533-3472 (car w/vm & page) € LeCroy Sales Engineer € Applications/Sales/Customer Service € 800-553-2769 € From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:40 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news2.ee.net!news.ee.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!citi2.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!newshost.vu.nl!cs.vu.nl!sun4nl!rnzll3!sys3.pe1chl!rob From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Organization: PE1CHL Message-ID: References: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:39:28 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97688 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32982 rec.radio.amateur.space:6268 In Gary Watts writes: >I also say NO to contest on any of the birds >Todd, >You are right about the downlink power budget >I have heard may stations on ao-13 who were several DB LOUDER than the beacon >I have also seen the effects of a strong signal on other weaker signals.. How is contesting related to using too much uplink power? I would say a contest is the ideal way to educate users about uplink power. When many stations are active, a few strong ones will surely attract attention and can be asked to lower their power. On a sat like ao-13, it is easy to arrange for a few monitoring stations that just blacklist those stations that run too much power and don't reduce it when asked. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:41 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!a2i!in-news.erinet.com!inquo!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!b13.gtnet.gov.uk From: anewgrosh.ra@gtnet.gov.uk (Amanda Newgrosh) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Life.... Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 10:48:22 GMT Organization: Radiocommunications Agency Lines: 8 Message-ID: <823171702.16199@b13.gtnet.gov.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: b13.gtnet.gov.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: b13.gtnet.gov.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Ever wanted to know about Life, The Universe and Radio???? Check out: http://www.open.gov.uk/radiocom/rahome.htm Amanda Newgrosh From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:42 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!microvst.demon.co.uk From: "Anthony R. Gold" Newsgroups: alt.support.divorce,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: In Memory of Burt Fisher (or Ode to Burt) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 11:16:20 GMT Organization: Microvest Limited, London Lines: 14 Message-ID: <823173380snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> References: <4eket9$4tp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: microvst.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Mail2News-Path: microvst.demon.co.uk Xref: news.epix.net alt.support.divorce:18444 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97592 In article <4eket9$4tp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> friedmanb@aol.com "Friedmanb" writes: > A crowd of mourners came to Cape Cod yesterday to witness the > internment of local teacher Burt Fisher. If New Englanders intern their corpses, do they bury their prisoners? Regards, -- Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!bga.com!realtime.net!nntp4.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!usenet From: Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ITU non-signatory countries & QRM on ham bands Date: 1 Feb 1996 11:21:44 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Asia, Taipei TAIWAN R.O.C. Lines: 63 Message-ID: <4eq7o8$cn6@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.167.36.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com Eric, As I recall, from my days living in Japan, the 160M bandplan is a very small slice of thet US amateur 160M spectrum. Further, I believe it is CW only allocation. I dont recall the exact spectrum authorization, but 1.907 plus and minus 10 Kilohertz comes to mind as the official plan for JA. I cant recall exactly, as I never had antennas for top band while living there. Please remember that the 160M, 80, and even 40 meter bands different pending ITU zone. For example, most nations within ITU zone 3 have only 7.000 to 7.100 exclusively authorized for amateur service...anything beyond that is "fair game" for broadcasters. Also, some HF bands are not exclusive allocations to amateur service. 30 meters, for example, is shared by amateurs in every zone and is even power restricted in zone 2. While I agree with your point of QRM being caused on the ham bands that are "solely allocated to amateur use", such as 20M or 15M, I can not say that I agree with the complaints about 40 or 75/80 or 160 meters. These band plans are very different pending ITU zone, so, just because someone is interfering with the "California Kilowatts" doesnt mean they are breaking ITU regulation per se. The real problem with interference is that most coutries violating the exclusiveness of the ham bands do so because the countries themselves have few active radio amateurs to "call them" on such violations. Having lived overseas for over 5 years, including stints in Europe, Japan, and Asia, I can say that we as amateurs are faced with far worse problems from bootlegger, illegal, unlicensed stations than from occasional broadcast interference from someone in another zone, or a clandestine radio broadcast station. I find most interference is from non amateurs using amateur gear to conduct day to day business. This "bootleg" issue, I believe, is a a severe threat to our precious radio spectrum, much more so than the few unruly nations of the world that dont follow ITU regulations. Unless and until governments recognize radio spectrum as a limited resource, such violation will continue to threaten our radio spectrum and will continue to be a detriment to ham and other radio services utilizing the HF spectrum. As for a blockade on Japan, it has been proven that trade sanctions often hurt the blockading country more than the blockaded....just look at what happened to French exports to New Zealand after NZ boycotted French goods due to the Nuke Tests in the Atols --- imports ROSE 14% due to "panic buying". Just my view of things.... 73, Joe Fitter ARS: BV/N0IAT ex 7J1AOF ex YU3/N0IAT ex KA0ZDH Texas Instruments Asia Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China >sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (Erik K.Sorgatz) wrote: > Let us begin with Japan's station that usually sits at 1812 KHz...WHY >is it still there? From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!fnalv1.fnal.gov!MURSO From: murso@fnalv1.fnal.gov (MURSO@fnalv.fnal.gov) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:07:47 GMT Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4eqogj$r5e@fnnews.fnal.gov> References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4eaun4$kd6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <1996Jan26.180933.12550@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> , Reply-To: murso@fnalv1.fnal.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalv1.fnal.gov In article , braymond@ns.poweramp.net (B ob Raymond) writes> >As far as not participating in the QSL game, remember that it is only a >courtesy, not a duty. So the question arises as to whether we should be >courteous or not?We all know how the bands abound with courteous operators >these days, right? >all of us should treat others as we would like to betreated. If you are >satisfied with being treated rudely, then by all means continue to rudely >disregard QSL cards you may receive. I don't feel it is a duty to QSL, only a >courtesy. But then we all know that courtesy abounds on the amateur bands >these days, right? I think that returning a QSL card falls in the same >category as there..that will never change, nor will the fact that many of ou r >QSL cards will never be answered. This is a fact of life and we can debate it >all we want..it won't help. Maybe most peoples outlook is different. The above puts it in a nutshell. Remember your first contact? Think back to your first NOVICE CODE contact. Did it mean anything to you? In November I had a QSO on 10M with a 10 year ol d ham who had a friend over. He put his friend on for a short time and we talke d about joining the ranks. I sent both the operator AND the guest a QSL. Yesterday I got the operators card in the mail. It was one of his first contacts on 10M phone and he was quite excited. His friend was now working on his ticket. That QSL you don't send or respond to could be someones first. it might be the little extra touch that keeps the hobby from being for the old and rich. I have sent many SASE cards IF THEY ARE ASKED FOR. If you want or need to be SASE'ed, please tell the operator. My cards are sent out that day or at the latest the next day. To keep the cost down I send each card as a postcard unless requested different. I like receiving them as postcards because of the postmark on the card. My cards are not fancy, I generate them on a laser printer using card stock. My most cherished card is hand-drawn on cardstock from a 9year old novice from Missouri. He apoligized for sending it on the card. Next time you blow off a QSL, think about just what it could possibly mean to the other party. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.ping.at!rai.ping.at!kwp Date: 01 Feb 1996 16:34:00 +0200 From: kwp@rai.ping.at (Wolf Harranth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <623UrSwV-jB@rai.ping.at> Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL... X-Newsreader: CrossPoint v3.1 R/C11482 Lines: 115 I's like to join this interesting discussion. I am Curator of *QSL Collection*, with 800.000+ cards on file probably the biggest one of its kind worldwide. Our earliest ones are pre-QSL-QSLs (handwritten cards or letters), followed by those where the operator carefully and proudly lists each and every country he has worked or heard. The latest cards date from the most recent DXpeditions (10.000 contacts in the pile-up...). We not only collect QSLs, awards etc. to preserve them for the future, we also do a lot of research into amateur radio history - and here again QSLs, and by far not only the "rare" ones, are a good starting point. FYO I add a few explanatory remarks. You'd perhaps like to support our project. 73 de Wolf OE1WHC 100% QSL ---- FAQ - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - QSL COLLECTION Q: What are the aims of QSL COLLECTION? A: We collect, keep archives and reasearch QSL cards, awards and related material - both from amateur radio and broadcasting stations - from the pioneer days to the present. We make the cards available to publishers and for general research, and exhibit them in public. The group is becoming a reliable source for scientific studies and articles in ham radio magazine. Q: Is this a private initiative? A: No, we are an International Committee, registered as an international foundation in Vienna, Austria. Q: Who supports QSL COLLECTION? A: A growing number of national amateur radio societies and broadcasters, e.g. WIA in Australia, DARC in Germany, ORF in Austria; many prominent hams, oldtimers and newcomers - more than 200 so far. Q: How can I join QSL COLLECTION? A: Either by membership ($ 30,-- per annum), to support the voluntary work of the gruop, and no further obligations involved; and/or by becoming a sponsor offering certain help - e.g. a financial contribution; sending cards no longer needed; acting as QSL Manager for a country or region, to reduce individual postage expenses; making a bequest, so that a personal collection will be sent to the group at a later stage; volunteering as monitor, thus helping to keep the files up-to-date... Q: How is the collection organized? A: There is a basic file with ONE card from each country, prefix, region (such as Oblasts, Counties, Parishes, DOKs...), special event stations, IOTA islands, and so on; and there are special files, such as ONE card each from each operation from rare DX spots, operations of the "Big Guns", prominent operators (kings and queens, statesmen, entertainers, artists...). There is also a special file of preward cards. Especially important collections are being kept in their entity. NOTE: The Collection includes, of course, QSLs sent *to* SWLs, but *not* reception reports (SWL cards), except prewar ones. Q: What happens to the other cards? A: They are being carefully filed and stored for further use. What you might consider *trash* now, may be as valuable tomorrow as cards from the 1930s to the '50s are today - especially with dissolution of old countries and the birth of new ones. Q: How can *I* help? A: - Ask for our list of cards missing/cards on file. The rare QSL is always the one missing - perhaps you have a few QSLs to spare. - If you work a *new one* (this might just be a new prefix, county etc.) send a SWL report to the station, together with your own QSL, and send this additional QSL to the Collection. - Don't throw magazines, books and other background information away. The group may need it for its research work. - Keep the rarest cards in your collection in a special file, together with a note of dedication: Make sure they will not be lost once you become a Silent Key. Invite other hams to follow your exmaple. - Spread the word. Talk to the next of kin when a befriended ham passed away. Q: Should I send my cards right away? A: Please don't. Contact the group first. Tell them what you have to offer. If you cannot cover postage costs yourself, they will try to reimburse you from what little budget they got. Q: How can I contact the group? A: Letters to: QSL COLLECTION, POB 2, A-1112 Vienna, Austria-Europe Parcels to: QSL COLLERCTION, c/o Radio Austria International, A-1136 Vienna, Austria/Europe (Cards are also OK via the OE Bureau, that this takes ages...) Phone: +43 1 749 52 83, Fax: +43 1 749 52 835 Email: Internet kwp@rai.ping.at -- Fido 2:310/39.44 Packet Radio: OE1WHC @ OE1XAB.#OE1.AUT.EU Wolf Harranth OE1WHC, Hon. Curator -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf HARRANTH OE1WHC InterNet: kwp@rai.ping.at Radio Austria International Fido : 2:310/39.44 A-1136 Vienna Packet : OE1WHC@OE1XAB.AUT.EU Austria/Europe Fax : +43/1/87 87 8-44 04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## CrossPoint v3.1 R ## From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:49 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet From: little@pecan.enet.dec.com (Todd Little) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:35:50 GMT Organization: ObjectBroker/COM Lines: 49 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4eqq56$6g3@usenet.pa.dec.com> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4elb3a$1e9@usenet.pa.dec.com> Reply-To: little@pecan.enet.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: aci1202_port12.chi.dec.com X-Newsreader: News for Windows NT X1.0-73 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97586 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32935 rec.radio.amateur.space:6244 In article rfm@urth.eng.sun.com (Rich McAllister) wrote: > In article <4elb3a$1e9@usenet.pa.dec.com> little@pecan.enet.dec.com (Todd Li ttle) writes: > >>In article <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> >>vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) wrote: >> >>> >>> Amsat is debating having a yearly contest on the satellites, something bes ides >>> Field Day. >> >>Absolutely not. Basically the person with the strongest uplink >>wins at the expense of everyone else. > > One doesn't win contests by making it impossible to hear the other > stations. Say what? I didn't say it would be impossible for the power station to hear others. His uplink power in no way affects his ability to hear. In fact, if the power is due to using something like an EME class antenna array, he'll be able to hear anything that makes it above the elevated noise floor of the transponder. While transmitting, his signal will cause the AGC circuit in the transponder to drop everyone *else's* signal to below the average user's noise floor. You can win contests by making contacts or preventing others from making more contacts that you. This topic has been beaten to death on the VHF reflector for VHF+ contests and on the satellites it is no longer a local issue but a global one. Simply listen on AO-13 when someone is using an uplink power that results in a downlink signal significantly higher than the beacon. Their QSO continues without a hitch, but everyone else's QSOs suffers big time. On Field Day, this is generally not as big a problem as few Field Day stations are strong enough to dominate the transponder, certainly not for the few additional points one gets after getting the satellite bonus. What benefit will a satellite based contest serve? There is already a "contest" to measure your stations receive capabilities, which is where people's effort should be placed as better receive capabilities benefit everyone. 73, Todd N9MWB From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!netserv.com!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!news From: Bart Jahnke Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: License expiring in 5 months, where to get 610 form? Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:07:33 GMT Organization: American Radio Relay League - VEC Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4eqs0l$ues@mgate.arrl.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bjahnke.arrl.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: wa2ise@netcom.com wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) wrote: >My license will expire in July, so I'll need to send in a renewal 610 >form. Where can one get a copy, and when is an appropriate time to >fill it out and mail it to the FCC? > >TIA 73s The FCC will mail you a Form 610-R (renewal short form) at about 90 days before your license is to expire, assuming your mailing address is up to date with FCC. If you don't get the Form 610-R by 60 days bfore your license will expire, then send the FCC a regular Form 610. If you need a regular Form 610, you can get one from us if you provide us with your mailing address; or you can get it electronically from the FCC as follows: FCC Fax on demand - 202-418-0177 (request form 000610). or World wide web - http://www.fcc.gov/Forms/Form610 or Internet - ftp://ftp.fcc.gov/pub/Forms/Form610/ 73, =============================================================== = | ARRL HQ = = Bart J. Jahnke, KB9NM | Tel: 860-594-0300 = = ARRL/VEC Manager | Fax: 860-594-0259 = = 225 Main St | Internet: vec@arrl.org = = Newington CT 06111 (USA) | MCI MAIL ID: 653-2312 = = | = =============================================================== From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:53 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: BALLOONS Message-ID: <1996Feb1.171720.29689@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:17:20 GMT Lines: 94 In article js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) writes: >Alfred J. Boetcher (boetchaj@uwec.EDU) wrote: >: In article <4e31r6$24qc@watt.oedison.com> wagnerj@watt.oedison.com (John >: Wagner) writes: > >: >>Our local club is interested in a couple of balloon launch scenerios. >: >> >: >>1) We would like to put up a tethered weather balloon at Field Day. It >: >>would serve 2 purposes: It would carry a dual band radio to use as a remo te >: >>base, and it would be tethered with wire, making it a beautiful 160 meter >: >>vertical. I'm interested in altitudes of between 2000 and 10000 ft. > >: Gary Coffman KE4ZV responds: >: >Pardon me, but this is dangerous as hell except in rather special >: >circumstances. In the first place, a tethered weather balloon will >: >lay almost horizontal in any wind. It won't just hover straight >: >overhead, so it's difficult to get much altitude this way. Now >: >consider all that wire laying out over the countryside, unless >: >you're in an incredibly rural area, it will find a power line. >: >Your estate may have to pay for any damages incurred by the grid. > >I don't think so. Our club has put up balloons for several years. The >balloon dose stay overhead, and as with ANY flight, you are subject to >weather restrictions. To take 500 feet of number 14 gauge wire, you need >a 350 lbs lift capacity. That is just for the wire. Now you have your >tether, 1/4" steel cable. Once again 500+ feet is going to be 3000 to >5000 lbs of lift required. As you can see, hot air is not going to cut >it! That's a rather incredible amount of lift for a weather balloon (which of course *isn't* a hot air balloon anyway). I don't know where you're getting your figures, but 350 pounds for 500 feet of #14 is absurd (it's also 75% of the yield limit of the wire, so it wouldn't take much catenary loading from the wind to exceed the limit). 500 feet of bare 14 gauge copper wire only weighs about 6.25 pounds. That's too much load for a 10 foot Wx balloon, of course, but you'd use something a bit thinner, say #22, which would only weigh a pound for 500 feet. It'd break in a 24 MPH gust, though. And I guarantee that if there is any wind at all, that balloon is going to lay out along the ground instead of standing overhead. With a 10 foot balloon, #22 wire, and a 15 MPH wind, that corresponds to a slant angle of about 84 degrees off zenith. With very light breezes, the balloon may stand as high as 45 degrees off zenith, but it would have to be dead calm for it to approach zenith more closely than that. A lifting body, however, like the advertising blimps, can be set to rise into the wind, and they can approach zenith fairly closely, to better than 30 degrees off zenith. The angle from zenith corresponds to the sum of the tangents of the vector forces at work. >For some reason everyone is thinking Wagner is stupid. We have talked in >mail about this in the past. I think that he has a good idea, and with a >lot of planing his club will do just fine. I don't think he's stupid. I just think he doesn't have experience with tethered balloons of this nature, and that he hasn't done the math to see what angle the forces involved will yield. There are three primary force vectors, lift, gravity, and wind loading. Those are tied together by the catenary of the wire to yield the angle of repose for the system. All the data you need is in the CRC Handbook. If you've got a *lot* of excess lift, you can pull the wire more nearly vertical for a given wind speed, but a lot of lift corresponds to a *large* balloon, and that has a correspondingly large frontal area to present to the wind, so the vectors still lead to a large angle off zenith. The advantage of the lifting bodies is that they can supply lift *without* a corresponding increase in frontal area, so they can reduce the angle from zenith a lot more. Unfortunately, that puts more stress on the tether too, so you have to go to a larger gauge, and that adds weight. It can be a vicious circle. If he lays out 2,000 to 10,000 feet of wire, he's creating an incredible hazard if it gets away from him. The odds of it all coming down where it'll miss a power line are pretty slim. Though for a Wx balloon to lift that much he's going to have to use #30 or smaller, and it'll just vaporize when it tangles with the power lines (automatic fuse). (And it'll break under it's own weight and wind loading before it reaches full height anyway.) Now there is another way. If he uses a large (manned) hot air balloon, he can three point tether it with heavy steel cable and just hang the antenna wire vertically below it. That may be what you're thinking of. He's not going to reach 2,000 to 10,000 feet that way, however. Something on the order of 300 feet might be possible before stresses on the central tether connection to the balloon get out of hand during wind gusts. (Of course he could use a *huge* tethered blimp, such as TV Marti uses, and reach 10,000 feet, but I doubt he can afford that, Congress is debating whether the US can afford that.) Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!netserv.com!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!usenet From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLD008 DX news Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:35:28 -0500 Organization: American Radio Relay League Lines: 83 Sender: root@mgate.arrl.org Approved: mtracy@arrl.org Message-ID: <$arld008.1996@arrl.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mgate.arrl.org Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.info:10772 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97655 SB DX @ ARL $ARLD008 ARLD008 DX news ZCZC AE50 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 8 ARLD008 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 1, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD008 ARLD008 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with info provided by Luke, PT7WA, Frank, AH0W, PT2GTI, DL7VOA, DL9GOA, DX-NL, Chris, G4BUE, Tedd, KB8NW, the Yankee Clipper Contest Club PacketCluster network and Contest Corral from QST. Thanks to all. WAKE ISLAND UPDATE, KH9. The team has arrived on Wake, but no PacketCluster spots have been posted in the northeast as of press time. Due to work scheduling, Mike, KC7V, will not be on the team. Bob, N6EK, is the new team member. The new route for cards is via K4HQI. SOUTHERN COOK ISLANDS, ZK1. K8PYD and WT8S expect to operate from February 17 to February 24. They will operate mostly CW and RTTY, with some SSB, for this all band effort. Listen for ZK1PYD and ZK1WTS. Their trip to Northern Cook Islands was canceled due to transportation problems. CHATHAM ISLANDS, ZL7. Barry, G3MFW/ZS1JF, will operate from ZL7 February 15 to 19. He prefers SSB. Call sign TBA. QSL via KA1JC. UGANDA, 5X. Peter, ON6TT, is returning to Uganda for a 6 month to 2 year stint managing a telecom team associated with the UN World Food Program. It may take a month before he receives his 5X license. Plans are to operate mostly SSB and RTTY, though he works CW on request or by sked. Peter will be on the air for most contests. QSL via ON5NT. Though based in 5X, he will visit and operate from 9X, 9U, 9Q, 5H, ST, ST0, T5, 5Z, E3 and ET. THE GAMBIA, C56. DL2RUM, DL7BO, DL7DF, DL7UFR and DL7URH will operate two stations from near Banjul March 4 to 18. Call signs TBA. CW frequencies will be 1822, 3505, 7005, 10115, 14005, 18073 and 21005. SSB will be on popular DX frequencies. Though primarily an MF/HF, CW/SSB/RTTY operation, some OSCAR 13 and 6 meter work is possible. QSL via DL7DF. TONGA, A3. Paul, KK6H, will operate during spare time, usually from 1700 to 1900z and 0500 to 0900z. He will sign A35RK on CW and RTTY. QSL via W7TSQ, either direct or via the W7 bureau. MALDIVE ISLANDS, 8Q. Chris, HB9CYV, and Rolf, HB9CZR, hope to sign 8Q7YV and 8Q7ZR respectively, February 14 to 20. Plans are for 80 through 10 meter activity, with a chance for 160 meters as well. IVORY COAST, TU. G3SXW, G4FAM, K7GE, N7BG and WB7SRW will be active in the ARRL DX CW Contest February 17 and 18 as TU5A. QSL via W8AEF. They hope to be on the air with individual call signs February 15 and 16. INDIA. Pai, VU2PAI, informs DX'ers that he prefers postage stamps to green stamps. Indian Excise and Customs rules come into play here. Pai continues to be active on 160 meters with a dipole, though new antennas at a new QTH are in the works. TRINDADE ISLAND, PY0. PY1UP will be doing a four month hitch at the Brazilian Naval Base and intends to operate PY0TI on all bands. His ship leaves Rio early February. QSL via PY1UP. CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Dick, K3DI, will sign ZF2OP with QRP in the ARRL CW DX Contest February 17 and 18. QSL via K3DI. MONTSERRAT, VP2M. Art, WA2UJH, returns as VP2MDY February 16 to March 1. He will operate mostly CW 160 to 10 meters. QSL via NW8F. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. Operating events to choose from include the Classic Radio Exchange, North American Sprint phone and Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Northern New England QSO Parties. See page 108 in February QST for rules. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:56 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Message-ID: <1996Feb1.174220.29925@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4eaun4$kd6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <1996Jan26.180933.12550@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:42:20 GMT Lines: 19 In article barnaby@world.std.com (Richard Barnaby) writes: > >My book still has QSL = "Can you acknowledge receipt?" >I guess its a matter of interpretation here. I always assumed this >meant "Can you acknowledge receipt of this message by HARD COPY", with >the "meaning" being, "Can you confirm IN WRITING that I made this >contact with you via radio" QSL has two official usages. "QSL?" means "Do you acknowledge receipt of my traffic?" "QSL" means "I acknowledge receipt of your traffic." They are procedural signals intended to be used for *over the air* message handling, nothing about postal cards or snail mail is implied. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:57 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!paperboy.ids.net!anomaly.ideamation.com!anomaly.ideamation.com!not-for-mail From: kd1hz@anomaly.ideamation.com (Michael P. Deignan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:43:53 -0500 Organization: The Ace Tomato Company Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4erfn9$hjf@anomaly.ideamation.com> References: <4eo016$3k4@mozart.wg.icl.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: anomaly.ideamation.com In article <4eo016$3k4@mozart.wg.icl.co.uk>, wrote: >>And now with a no-code license, VHF frequencies sound more like C.B. >>frequencies. Disgusting. > >Where do you live ? what do you listen to ? >Where I live we don't (normally) hear anything like this ! I live in Providence, RI, and I agree with the original poster. Two meter bands sound like a cesspool of Channel 19. Even 440 is starting to go as the 2 meters starts to get crowded around here. >1. Have you EVER really listened on VHF/UHF/Microwave bands ? > And I don't mean the local repeater channel how about using > the ssb segment of the band (assuming you have such a thing in the USA) > with a small beam (correctly polarised). I think you would be surprised. ...and your point is... what? I can point to the lower 25 khz of 20 meters and compare it to 14.313 too. So what? >2. What "snails pace" for the cw test - it maybe in the US, but what about th e rest > of the world ? > The cw requirements vary from country to country - should't they be THE SA ME > everywhere? No, I believe each country should set its own requirements. If a country wants to emphasize CW, its their sovereign right to do so. >3. I am a no-code operator and I object to being called "poor" because of it. Then upgrade. >4. I know several radio officers on ships (two of which are cruise ships sail ing out of the US) > who won't use cw unless they have to - and they are the professionals. Try calling the US > Coast Guard on cw and see how far you get ! With GMDSS, there is little reason for CW on ocean-going vessels. MD -- -- -- "Who needs looks when you've got taste?" -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:58 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Message-ID: <1996Feb1.174442.6@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4e1g2a$mi0@brickbat.mindspring.com> <4eo3ph$8j3$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:44:42 GMT Lines: 15 In article <4eo3ph$8j3$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Hans Brakob K0HB <71 111.260@CompuServe.COM> writes: > >If you add both classes together, they constitute about >41% of the licensees. I think 20.3% are Techs and Tech+ >just over 21%. You've got that backwards, Techs outnumber Tech+ by about 7,000 at last count. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:06:59 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: boetchaj@uwec.EDU (Alfred J. Boetcher) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: No Code = No Brain Date: 1 Feb 96 17:58:31 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 69 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu > tonyp@convex.com (Tony J. Podrasky) writes: >Wow - this subject has really lowered the professionalism of this >group to a true "amateur" status. > SNIP >The primary reason for the existence of amateur radio today is >public service. At one time it was for experimentation and development >of technology, but the electronic's industry has pretty well taken >over that task. gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Responds : :I disagree with this almost totally. It's true that amateurs do a :bit of public service communications, and on occasion a smidgen :of emergency communications, but for the most part that's a thing :of the past. What with modern trunked public service agency communications :systems, and cellular phone, most emergency, and what used to be called :public service, communications are now handled other ways, and more :directly by the involved parties. Amateurs still have a role to play, :but as noted in the Op-Ed in the current QST, that role is more one of :a trained volunteer responder for an agency than as a communications asset. :The fact that the amateur may be able to bring an alternate communications :asset to the party is almost a perpherial side issue. :Where amateur radio maintains a unique role to play is in experimentation :and development of technology, most notably the latter. Amateurs serve :as the world's largest communications beta test organization, and they :*pay* for the privilege of doing it. Sorry guys, I feel your both missing the boat. Amateur radio's purpose in the beginning was, without a doubt, experimentation and the developement of a new and exciting technology. It then evolved into a means of providing a public service. Now, Amateur Radio has evolved into something else, a hobby. It can be still be used as a vehicle for experimentation, or a means of providing a public service. But in the end, its a hobby just like fishing. Is that bad??? Probably not, if we keep that perspective in mind. oftware developement has become the new horizon whereby a relative amateur can write a program and advance the leading edge. Also, much public service traffic can be sent by other more efficient means. Does that mean that Amateur radio is obsolete? Not necessarily. Again, Its just evolved. Consequently, the structure we use to license new hams also needs to evolve. I think that a new potential ham ought to be tested for proficiency in the areas they intend to operate. Tests wouldn't necessarily be easier, just pertinent to the operating priveledges sought. Many of the people I see at our VE sessions are just looking for a reliable means of local communication. Why then do we ask them the length of a 1/2 wave 40 meter dipole. Thats not to say some of them won't advance to more exotic forms of communication in the future. If we test them on what they need to know for the communication mode they seek, who know's, they might actually study the material instead of memorizing the questions and answers. Where do I suggest putting the CW testing? Right where it belongs, to qualify someone to operate in CW only sub-bands. If the rare DX hangs out there, they'll learn the code to chase it providing thats they're interest. In other words, to qualify for a fishing license I shouldn't be required to show proficientcy with a fly rod. After all, if they aren't biting i'll stop at the restaurant on the way home for a fish dinner. But lets not forget, in some areas of the world if they're not biting they're not eating. 73 Fred B. WU9R From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:01 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.belnet.be!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!nielsen.co.uk!peer-news.britain.eu.net!xara.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: What ssb rig ???? Message-ID: <1996Feb1.180430.120@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:04:30 GMT Lines: 31 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24449 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97613 uk.radio.amateur:10473 In article <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk> ee95ajm@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew John Murrell) writes: >Now that my 2/70 hand held has just packed up I was thinking about getting >a ssb rig. My first problem is what frequency to get (i'm only a B license >(above 30 Mhz only), and the second is what rig ? > >I was hoping to maybe work some dx, so I was thinking about 6m, would I find >much out there (my qth is 12 miles from Gatwick airport (in a valley :{ )). Six is becoming popular, but due to the current state of the sunspot cycle you won't find much beyond local activity except during the infrequent band openings. *Then* it can get real busy. But if you're going to restrict yourself to one VHF+ band, I'd think seriously about a 70cm or 2m SSB rig before I'd set up for 6m. That's because there are many more operators, and more enhanced propagation modes to explore, on those bands. Your "dx" won't be global in scope (unless you go for EME), but it will be more frequent and more hectic as you chase tropo, aurora, and satellites. However, if you're patient, a 3 element beam and a 100 watts on 6 meters can give you globe spanning results when the band does open. Meteor scatter also works better here than on 2 meters. In 4 or 5 years when the sunspot cycle comes around, 6 will be open to somewhere in the world almost daily. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news From: Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: ack-ack and pip-emma Date: 1 Feb 1996 18:50:38 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4er21u$fou@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: nene.cl.cam.ac.uk Keywords: alphabets Xref: news.epix.net alt.usage.english:83691 sci.lang:47432 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97601 uk.radio.amateur:10461 By following crossreferences in the OED I have found the following fragments of a "signaller's code", and dates going back to 1891. Anyone know any more? ak/ack beer do emma pip esses toc vay/vic (zem?) Note: ack-ack means AA means anti-aircraft (fire). pip-emma means P.M. as in after midday. (I'm also told that beer-beer meant barrage balloon). Brian Kelk Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/bck1/ubzr.html U.K. bck1@cl.cam.ac.uk From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:03 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!bison.alfred.edu!kato.theramp.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!swanston.demon.co.uk From: gavin@swanston.demon.co.uk (Gavin Stirling) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: What ssb rig ???? Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 18:56:55 GMT Lines: 54 Message-ID: <823201516.2205@swanston.demon.co.uk> References: <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk> Reply-To: gavin@swanston.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: swanston.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: swanston.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24486 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97638 uk.radio.amateur:10501 ee95ajm@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew John Murrell) wrote: >Hi, >Now that my 2/70 hand held has just packed up I was thinking about getting >a ssb rig. My first problem is what frequency to get (i'm only a B license >(above 30 Mhz only), and the second is what rig ? >I was hoping to maybe work some dx, so I was thinking about 6m, would I find >much out there (my qth is 12 miles from Gatwick airport (in a valley :{ )). >To get the most out of my signal (I can't use 2 much power as I live in a >housing estate), I was thinking of using a beam, would this be the best bet ? ? >Sorry if these questions sound daft, but i've only ever used ssb at JOTA. >Andy, g7ueh >(before anyone suggests it, i am 'slowly' learning morse, but i need somethin g >to play with in the mean time !!!) >email - ee95ajm@brunel.ac.uk Well 6m is good in the summer with sporadic 'e' but e's each day become a bit boring especially after your log fills up with italians and balkan area people. When the DX is around you might need a bit of power to break the pile up.....and when there are no 'e's about it's as dead as a dodo. Until conditions improve I'd leave it as your main band. For my money I'd go for 2m, much more activity especially in the South, up here in the sticks it's quiet. But you could get a rig such as an IC251e (around 300UKP) and add an amplifier to take it beyond the 10 watts it normally gives out. For example, with 70 watts and a 9ele yagi I managed to work down to Reading from Edinburgh last night. Ok it was a prearranged sked but that appears to be the only way to get a long distance qso these days....... Cheers, Gavin, GM0WDD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Gavin C. Stirling. GM0WDD ~ ~ Edinburgh, Scotland ~ ~ Home: gavin@swanston.demon.co.uk ~ ~ or ~ ~ University: bdggcs2@caledonia.hw.ac.uk ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.gdbnet.ad.jp!news.hebel.net!news.sics.se!news.funet.fi!jazz.cc.spt.fi!news.csc.fi!news.eunet.fi!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!lamarck.sura.net!gozer.inri.com!news From: Joseph Carvalho Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: IC-2350 Info needed Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:05:25 GMT Organization: Inter-National Research Institute Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4er2tl$fl2@gozer.inri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: carrera.sd.inri.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-URL: news:rec.radio.amateur.misc Picked it up on Tuesday. Nice radio, bad manual. Nothing on packet, nothing o n cross-band repeater and NO SCHEMATICS! Possibly too new for out of band mods. ANy info is appreciated. --joe KE6WEO From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:06 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!con-nntp-gw!news.sprintlink.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain ** Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:15:40 GMT Organization: Planet Access - Stanhope, NJ Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4er3gs$m8n@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4eqbu6$hce@jupiter.planet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan48.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ writes: > > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > > at738@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David Toste) wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> What I meant was that modifying a CB is illegal if you plan on using > > it on > > >> the cb band. If you use it for 10m or something in the ham bands then > > it is not > > >> illegal. What the guy was saying at first that modifying all radios i s > > illegal. It > > >> is not illegal to modify a scanner either but using it to listen to > > unauthorized > > >> bands, ie cellular, is illegal. > > >> > > >It is illegal to modify a CB to 10m. Beucase the radio has NOT been > > >certified for use on 10m. > > > > Hello? Hello? Anyone home? The radio does not need to be "certified > > for use on 10m" since amateur equipment does NOT require type > > acceptance!! > > > > -Drew in Charlotte- > > > > > > > >>>> > > >>>> From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:07 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!mr.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.suba.com!qni.com!gwatts From: Gary Watts Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 20:11:15 -0600 Organization: Suba Communications Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4eqq78$1fga@chnews.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: qni.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4eqq78$1fga@chnews.ch.intel.com> Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97741 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33003 rec.radio.amateur.space:6274 Tom, On 1 Feb 1996, WB7ASR wrote: > FACT: AMSAT already supports satellite contesting, for AMSAT promotes > and sanctions the ARRL Field Day "contest" on satellites. Don't > believe me? Check out the AMSAT WEB homepage. > Some say they don't want satellite contesting to ocure because they don't > want all the "BIG GUNS" to hog all the satellite battery power. So what! > AO-13 is going to crash anyways!!! Until then, the solar pannels will > recharge the batteries. Lets get the most use out of the the bird before > it burns up! It is not a matter of the BIG GUNS accessing the bird... but of PROPER and respected operating procedure.. Like not operating stronger than the downlink beacon ! It does not taked a BIG GUN to trash the transponder I have even heard FM signals on the thing ! It is either a lack of knowledge or RESPECT and proper operating procedures. The BIG GUN was indead a problem on AO-21 but that is another story. TTYL Gary Watts de N0OXV Kansas City Mo 81 GL1100I From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:08 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.news.primenet.com!uucp.primenet.com!stat!david Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.info Message-ID: <4er70j$s8q@news3.cts.com> From: garym@cts.com (Gary Morris) Subject: San Diego County RACES Web Pages Date: 1 Feb 1996 20:15:15 GMT Approved: rec-radio-info@stat.com Organization: CTS Network Services Sender: news Lines: 35 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97690 rec.radio.info:10773 From: garym@cts.com (Gary Morris) Subject: San Diego County RACES Web Pages Date: 1 Feb 1996 20:15:15 GMT Organization: CTS Network Services Message-ID: <4er70j$s8q@news3.cts.com> San Diego County RACES (SDCR) announces their site on the World Wide Web. http://www.cts.com/browse/garym/races SDCR is an all volunteer communications service that provides mutual-aid communications for government agencies for special operations, emergencies, and disasters. We are organized as a reserve unit of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department with operational responsibilities to the San Diego County Office of Disaster Preparedness (ODP) with over 500 members. SDCR provides a variety of special communications resources including an extensive communications van (tour the van thru our web pages), an Internet/Packet-radio gateway and BBS, extensive repeater system, and fixed stations located at 32 state, county and local government facilities around the County of San Diego. Field teams are on stand-by 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including staff for the fixed RACES stations, the RACES Communications Vehicle (RCV) Team, Motorized Team and the Special Actions Team. For more information about RACES and San Diego County RACES, please see our web pages. -- Gary Morris Deputy Radio Officer/Digital Comm Internet: webmaster@races.sandiego.ca.gov Emergency Planning Detail (RACES) Packet: KK6YB @ K6JCC.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA San Diego County Sheriff's Dept From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:09 1996 From: Bob.Horvath@Microserve.com (Bob Horvath) Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.scott.net!acara.snsnet.net!HiWAAY.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nuclear.microserve.net!microserve.com!BOB.HORVATH Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: NIR-10 Upgrade....Worthwhile???? Message-ID: <96020177514@microserve.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:31:54 EST Reply-To: Bob.Horvath@Microserve.com (Bob Horvath) Organization: Microserve Information Systems (800)380-INET Distribution: world Lines: 56 >Path: nuclear.microserve.net!imci2!suck-feed.internetmci.com!imci5!imci4!news fe >ed.internetmci.com!castle.nando.net!news >From: doughall@parsifal.nando.net (Doug Hall) >Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc >Subject: Re: NIR-10 Upgrade....Worthwhile???? >Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:42:10 GMT >Organization: JPS Communications, Inc. >Lines: 25 >Message-ID: <4ep97v$kn1@castle.nando.net> >References: <96013150601@microserve.com> <4eohsn$mf7@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> >Reply-To: doughall@nando.net >NNTP-Posting-Host: vyger204.nando.net >X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99a.107 > >"William M. Bickley" wrote: > >>Bob.Horvath@Microserve.com (Bob Horvath) wrote: >>>Is the Version 4.0 upgrade to the NIR-10 worth getting? >>> >> >>Well, the price is right, and the work is near-zero. Now, to answer your >>question... >> >>Personally, I think the previous version did a better job. Whatever, advic e >you >>get, if you do choose to upgrade, save the old chips. You may end up swappi ng > them >>back in. I didn't, and now I'm sorry. >> >William, > >The NIR-10 4.0 upgrade should allow you to duplicate ANY 3.0 setting, >since all the original code is still there - just with added features. >I made sure of that when I wrote the upgrade code. If you need a set >of the old v3.0 EPROMs to compare with, give me a call at JPS. >73, >Doug Hall, KF4KL >JPS Communications, Inc. >http://emporium.turnpike.net/J/JPS/jps.html > > Thanks to both of you for the reply.....I'll try to get a few more opinions an d then decide. Bob H. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:10 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: pearls of wisdom radio-wise Date: 1 Feb 1996 21:58:54 GMT Organization: Planet Access - Stanhope, NJ Lines: 4 Message-ID: <4erd2u$o3u@jupiter.planet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan36.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) i didn't know this??? is this true??? if so, why didi Icom repeatedly say the ir IC-706 was not forsale until it was approved?? steve From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:12 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!interactive.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!g6iqm.demon.co.uk!vhf-comm From: Michael J Wooding Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: What ssb rig ???? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 22:15:54 +0000 Organization: VHF Communcations Magazine Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4dgKpgAauTExEwri@g6iqm.demon.co.uk> References: <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk> <823201516.2205@swanston.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: g6iqm.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: g6iqm.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.10 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24625 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97774 uk.radio.amateur:10599 In article <823201516.2205@swanston.demon.co.uk>, Gavin Stirling writes >When the DX is around you might need a bit of >power to break the pile up. Disagree - I have been op on 6m for the past 2 years with only 750mW and have worked most European and Near Eastern countries. Working DX is an *art* and does not require loads of power, but perhaps a fair bit of patience. The rewards are inversely proportional to the EIRP! Mike Michael J Wooding vhf-comm@g6iqm.demon.co.uk - CompuServe: 100441,377 Web Pages: http://www.eolas.co.uk/ag/vhfcomm.htm Tel: (0)1788 890365 Fax: (0)1788 891883 KM Publications, 5 Ware Orchard, Barby, Nr.Rugby, CV23 8UF, UK VHF Communications Magazine - Especially Covering VHF, UHF and Microwaves From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!inews.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!chnews!usenet From: tom_boza@ccm.ch.intel.com (WB7ASR) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: RFI telephone parts Date: 1 Feb 1996 22:19:20 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ere98$rfs@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <9601311455.AA00729@tix.timeplex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tboza.ch.intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) taylor@tix.timeplex.COM (Seth Taylor) wrote: >I want to modify my own telephone for RFI proofing. The BeLL System >practice 500-150-100 covers fixing 500 and 2500 telsets for RFI. They >recommend replacing the internal network of the phone with a 425J. Does >anyone have a source for this part or have a way of getting the component >values for the resistors that are added in the circuit of the standard 425 >network ? I don't wana spend 80 bucks for a modified phone when all it takes >is a few simple mods to do the job. > >Seth KC2WE Wrap about 1-15 turns of the cord going into the telephone trought a 2-3 inch iron core toroid. Also, insure there is a GOOD ground at the telephone junction box which is mounted outside next to your house. By doing this, is has eliminated RFI and my wife has never complained since. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:14 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: otterson@mindspring.com (Jeff Otterson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Repeaters Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:32:41 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4erg58$1c9@brickbat.mindspring.com> References: <4d7d6b$235@earth.njcc.com> <4dh64n$ffh@news.dgsys.com> <3109026b.1441908@cronkite> <4egsgl$bhj@anomaly.ideamation.com> <310e3df4.344383237@cronkite> Reply-To: otterson@mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: otterson.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 ellsworth@bravo.otis.utc.com (Brian Ellsworth) wrote: >kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com (Tony Pelliccio) wrote: >> >>And here in the MA/RI area there aren't any pairs available for either >>2m or 70cm. >> >actually in Mass, and R.I. there are a number of available 2 >meter pairs. That is if you can get the dinosaurs on the >co-ordination council to allow 1 meg split machines like most >other metro-areas do.... 146.430/147.430 etc... oh, yeah, great, and why not some 1.6 MHz, 800 KHz, 2.0 MHz splits too. Why not put your repeater's output on 146.52, and the input on 147.52, so then you can hog more simplex frequencies. The NESMC "dinosaurs" have never coordinated a 1 MHz split on 2 meters, and I hope to God they never do. Get a grip. n1kdo/4 >-be Jeff Otterson ------------- otterson@mindspring.com Maker and user of tools PGP key available at http://www.mindspring.com/~otterson/pgp.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: kc5egg@ix.netcom.com(Gerald Schmitt ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy Subject: Re: Useful discussion (was Re: A Dear KF4DDM letter) Date: 1 Feb 1996 22:45:06 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4erfpi$dmd@cloner3.netcom.com> References: <4elm3k$an4@jupiter.planet.net> <4empr0$9t0@reader2.ix.netcom.com> <4epkke$jp5@abyss.West.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-sfe-nm1-21.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Feb 01 2:45:06 PM PST 1996 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.cb:26041 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97610 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32948 In <4epkke$jp5@abyss.West.Sun.COM> "Dana H. Myers" writes: > >kc5egg@ix.netcom.com(Gerald Schmitt ) wrote: > >[deletia] > >>Good on you Steve I agree there has been enough. I'm only sorry I >>didn't see this post before the shot I took at you this morning. Let's >>get some usefull discussion going here. The whole code anti-code has >>probably done more to drive away potential hams than anything else. > >The "code/anti-code" isn't what drives people away. The inability >of amateurs to discuss this issue in a mature and rational manner >is doubtlessly the most repulsive factor. When people see subjects >like "No Code = No Brain", and read the vitriolic attacks originating >from both those who want to retain the code requirement and those that >want to discard it, how can they help but be repulsed? When a conversation >turns from discussing what is spoken to attacking the speaker repeatedly, >there's virtually no value. > >These newsgroups are as good or as bad as we make them. If folks want >to ignore the chartered topics of the newsgroups and engage in incessant >flaming, many will be driven away, for good reason. If folks can learn >to have the kind of discipline necessary in a self-policing service, we >can make these newsgroups good. > >Again, the issue isn't code/no-code. The issue is maturity and common >decency, which seems to have no correlation to license class or code >status. > >-- > * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD#: j | Views expressed here are * > * (310) 348-6043 | mine and do not necessarily * > * Dana.Myers@West.Sun.Com | reflect those of my employer * > I think the difference is purely semantical. Perhaps I should have said the tone of the CW antiCW argument. Where I live no one much cares what class of license you have it is just one community. The net serves to remind me just how luck we are to enjoy this harmony. CUL 73 de Jerry From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:17 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!zippy.intcom.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!inews.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!chnews!vegas.ch.intel.com!cmoore From: cmoore@vegas.ch.intel.com (Cecil A. Moore~) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: This sickening NO-Code Debate! Date: 1 Feb 1996 23:19:30 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4erhq2$td2@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <4eout8$idd@news1.usa.pipeline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vegas.ch.intel.com In article <4eout8$idd@news1.usa.pipeline.com>, Jim Sheffield wrote: >On Jan 30, 1996 19:17:27 in article , >'murso@fnalv1.fnal.gov (MURSO@fnalv.fnal.gov)' wrote: >>If you don't like the rules >>of the game, then don't play it. >Amen. "Hell is the impossibility of reason." Actually hell is having to pay to download stuff like this that belongs on rec.radio.amateur.policy, not on this group. 73, Cecil, KG7BK, OOTC (not speaking for my employer) From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!bison.alfred.edu!kato.theramp.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet From: walt@servelan.co.uk (Walt Davidson) Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: ack-ack and pip-emma Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 23:59:22 GMT Organization: home in Tewkesbury Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4erk87$4fq@tube.news.pipex.net> References: <4er21u$fou@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ai186.du.pipex.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net alt.usage.english:83896 sci.lang:47518 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97709 uk.radio.amateur:10557 Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: >By following crossreferences in the OED I have found the following >fragments of a "signaller's code", and dates going back to 1891. >Anyone know any more? > ak/ack beer do emma pip esses toc vay/vic (zem?) This is quite correct. The callsign of the early Marconi Co. experimental broadcasting station at Writtle, near Chelmsford, Essex, was "2MT" - affectionately known as "two Emma Toc". It was in operation for only 11 months, from 14 February 1922 until 17 January 1923, initially on 700 metres but moving to 400 metres on 22 May 1922 at the request of the General Post Office. The output power was 200 watts. 73 de G3NYY -- Walt Davidson E-mail: walt@servelan.co.uk 100523.1414@compuserve.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:19 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net (KF2TI - Steve) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Brain ** Date: 2 Feb 1996 01:10:50 GMT Organization: Living Life thru Popular Science Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4eo0rk$q4c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan35.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepted by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > at738@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David Toste) wrote: > > > >> > >> What I meant was that modifying a CB is illegal if you plan on using > it on > >> the cb band. If you use it for 10m or something in the ham bands then > it is not > >> illegal. What the guy was saying at first that modifying all radios is > illegal. It > >> is not illegal to modify a scanner either but using it to listen to > unauthorized > >> bands, ie cellular, is illegal. > >> > >It is illegal to modify a CB to 10m. Beucase the radio has NOT been > >certified for use on 10m. > > Hello? Hello? Anyone home? The radio does not need to be "certified > for use on 10m" since amateur equipment does NOT require type > acceptance!! > > -Drew in Charlotte- > > > >>>> From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:20 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!bug.rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!lebanet!rdsnet!larry.shaud From: larry.shaud@rds.leba.net (LARRY SHAUD) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: for sale D104... etc Message-ID: <8BA004B.00EE0010EB.uuout@rds.leba.net> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 01:15:00 -0500 Distribution: world Organization: RDSNet BBS, Lebanon, PA, 717-228-2322 rdsnet.com Reply-To: larry.shaud@rds.leba.net (LARRY SHAUD) References: X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Lines: 53 -=> Quoting Mitchell to All <=- Mi> @FROM :mitchell@scoot.netis.com Mi> N @UMSGID : Mi> N @UNEWSGR:01rec.radio.amateur.misc Mi> N Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Mi> From: mitchell@scoot.netis.com Mi> Subject: for sale D104... etc Mi> Sender: usenet@arrow.netis.com (Usenet Netnews) Mi> Organization: NETIS Public Access Internet Mi> Message-ID: Mi> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:35:59 GMT Mi> I am upgrading my old 386dx40 system to a Pentium system. In the Mi> process Mi> I have many usefull parts to try to peddle. The items are listed below Mi> and priced to go fast. They will be sold first come first serve. Mi> Get back to me fast or make offer if only kinda interested. Mi> 1 meg 32 pin simms $20 each Have 4 Mi> IO card providing 2 com ports $3 Mi> 80mb scsi hard drive as is $7 1 meg segment on hd is bad, but I Mi> just partitioned it off and use the other 79 no problem. Mi> Samsung data monitor, color cga with vga adaptor plug $15 Mi> XT computer only no monitor or keyboard all else there.$18 or make Mi> offer!!!!!! Mi> SCSI controller cable. 3 feet or so long. $3 ($5 to $15 new) Mi> brand new dual floppy drive. 5 1/4 and 3 1/2. Fits in 5 1/4 size bay Mi> Just one floppy sells for$45new. This went $120 new asking $55 Mi> 2 working printers. Both have manuals and work fine. Mi> Toshiba Expresswriter 420 Mi> Star SG 15 Mi> I will sell them for $40 each or both for $70 Mi> Also have Mi> D104 microphone $30 Mi> 40ch Pierce Simpson cb mobile set $15 Mi> several 23 channel cb mobile sets $7 that model of pierce simpsom do you have ... Catch the Blue Wave! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!bison.alfred.edu!kato.theramp.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet From: little@pecan.enet.dec.com (Todd Little) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: 2 Feb 1996 01:38:26 GMT Organization: ObjectBroker/COM Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4erpui$b85@usenet.pa.dec.com> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4elb3a$1e9@usenet.pa.dec.com> <4eof4j$i2@superb.csc.ti.com> Reply-To: little@pecan.enet.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: aci1202_port12.chi.dec.com X-Newsreader: News for Windows NT X1.0-73 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97745 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33004 rec.radio.amateur.space:6277 In article <4eof4j$i2@superb.csc.ti.com> mbv@ti.com (Ken Durham) wrote: > Todd, you are absolutely right in as far as the type of contest that > you have in mind, but I believe what is beling proposed is more in > the line of the technical competition that is done regularly on AO-13. > The object of the contest is to see who can copy the weakest of > an ever decreasing string of CW uplinks. This "contest" already exists. It is called the ZRO test and measures how far below the beacon you can copy a CW signal. This is why I assumed an HF style contest. > If they are considering a contest like we hear on the HF bands we > will all suffer the results of transponder overload. Amen. 73, Todd N9MWB From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:25 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.accessone.com!news From: vbook@vbook.com (Ed Mitchell) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,alt.radio.scanner,alt.radio.pirate Subject: February edition of Ham Radio Online available on the Net Date: 2 Feb 1996 03:27:46 GMT Organization: Virtual Publishing Co. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4es0bi$nb@news.accessone.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vbook.accessone.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97617 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32951 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:13911 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24455 rec.radio.scanner:44858 rec.radio.shortwave:69567 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18827 alt.radio.scanner:27128 alt.radio.pirate:13346 The February 1996 edition of Ham Radio Online is available at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm New articles are available now and we will be adding 1 to 2 new articles each week. Ham Radio Online has up-to-date news about Amateur Radio from around the world , feature stories, real-time propagation and auroral condition reports, real-tim e earthquake and severe weather conditions for emergency communications planning , online humor section and the Ham Radio Online Library with fully indexed (find any section with just a mouse click) Part 97 rules and regulations. And we plan to offer some totally cool new services during the coming month. A s always its free and free of ads. Thanks to you, we had over 10,000 readers stop by during January! Please enjoy! 73, Ed Mitchell KF7VY vbook@vbook.com http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm ------------------------ personal email to vbook@vbook.com Visit Ham Radio Online, it's free, at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.nuri.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: comptnce@airmail.net (James Long) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Which 2M mobile to get? Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 05:25:52 GMT Organization: customer of Internet America Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3111a04c.140847260@news.airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal22-10.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 I want to get a new 2 meter or 146/450 mobile. I want small size, intuitive ease of use, and a bright display with large numbers, since my eyes aren't what they used to be. I've read the poop sheets for the Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu radios, I've seen them, and have narrowed it down to the Icom 281H ($379 locally) or the Kenwood 733A ($585 - $85 rebate). In your experience, any cons or special pros for these rigs? Do you have any better recommendations? I've looked for reviews, but CQ didn't have any. How 'bout QST? Is there a ham magazine nowdays especially for VHF/UHF equipment? Is there a place to buy with better prices than the others? Jim Long K5QPT comptnce@airmail.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.flint.umich.edu!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!usenet From: Tom Clark Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: 2 Feb 1996 05:55:49 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4es915$4q6@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4elb3a$1e9@usenet.pa.dec.com> <4eof4j$i2@superb.csc.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 32bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97659 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32969 rec.radio.amateur.space:6263 mbv@ti.com (Ken Durham) wrote: >little@pecan.enet.dec.com (Todd Little) wrote: > >>In article <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> >>vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) wrote: snip snip > If they are considering a contest like we hear on the HF bands we >will all suffer the results of transponder overload. > >Ken Durham K5MBV Hey -- don't blame AMSAT!! A thread developed on the amsat-bb@amsat.org mail exploder asking the question, and it generated a lot of replies. If by "they" you mean the AMSAT Board/Officers, this is >>NOT<< a topic of discussion in those circles. Tom Clark, W3IWI AMSAT Director & President Emeritus From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:28 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!moritz From: moritz@ipers1.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de () Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: What ssb rig ???? Date: 2 Feb 1996 08:18:30 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4eshcm$2iji@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ipers1.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24470 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97629 uk.radio.amateur:10495 In article <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk>, Andrew John Murrell wrote: >Now that my 2/70 hand held has just packed up I was thinking about getting >a ssb rig. My first problem is what frequency to get (i'm only a B license >(above 30 Mhz only), and the second is what rig ? Hi Andy, Here in Europe the situation is the following: 6 m becomes very busy during the summer months, when you will be able to work entire Europe with 10W or so and a modearte beam. Now in the winter it is quite quiet. On 2m SSB you may find some activity every weekend, but since your QTH is in a valley, you may find during band openings that the OM's in better locations always catch the DX first. This is not so critical for 6 m sp-E. On 70 you might also be listening to the noise for most of the time. the higher up you move in frequency, the more critical becomes you take-off. My advice: go for 6 or for the lot. 73, Moritz DL5UH From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!not-for-mail From: stauffer@htc.honeywell.com (Don Stauffer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ATV help needed Date: 2 Feb 1996 08:57:03 CST Organization: Honeywell Technology Center Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4et8nv$sj4@moon.src.honeywell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dons.htc.honeywell.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.4 I am just getting started in ATV (fast scan) and would sure like some help. Doesn't seem to be much activity here in the Twin Cities. Is there a FAQ somewhere that covers ATV? How about a mailing list? WB0YTH Don Stauffer in Minneapolis stauffer@htc.honeywell.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news2.ee.net!news.ee.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!g4kfk.demon.co.uk From: Mike Gathergood Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Brain ** Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 09:11:42 GMT Organization: CQ-BBS +44 1753 595468 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <823252302snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> References: <4eo0rk$q4c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> Reply-To: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: g4kfk.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Mail2News-Path: disperse.demon.co.uk!post.demon.co.uk!g4kfk.demon.co.uk In article <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> adell@planet.net "KF2TI - Steve" writes: > I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepted > by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? Only for VHF and above. 73 Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!blackbush.xlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!peer-news.britain.eu.net!demon!brig.demon.co.uk!peter From: Peter Adams Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: ack-ack and pip-emma Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:49:43 +0000 Organization: Spilsby Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <4er21u$fou@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: brig.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: brig.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.11 Xref: news.epix.net alt.usage.english:84013 sci.lang:47565 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97781 uk.radio.amateur:10604 In article <4er21u$fou@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk writes > >By following crossreferences in the OED I have found the following >fragments of a "signaller's code", and dates going back to 1891. >Anyone know any more? > > ak/ack beer do emma pip esses toc vay/vic (zem?) > >Note: ack-ack means AA means anti-aircraft (fire). > pip-emma means P.M. as in after midday. > >(I'm also told that beer-beer meant barrage balloon). > This was the phonetic alphabet in use before the WW2 'Able, Baker, Charlie..' It has left us many legacies such as 'Don R (Dispatch Rider)' and 'dim as a Toc H (Talbot House) lamp'. -- Peter Adams Lincolnshire, England From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!news.tetherless.net!toad.com!pacbell.com!gw2.att.com!news.midplains.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!microvst.demon.co.uk From: "Anthony R. Gold" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Brain ** Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 12:39:21 GMT Organization: Microvest Limited, London Lines: 34 Message-ID: <823264761snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> References: <4eo0rk$q4c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> Reply-To: tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: microvst.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Mail2News-Path: microvst.demon.co.uk In article <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> adell@planet.net "KF2TI - Steve" writes: > I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepted > by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? > > > > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > > at738@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David Toste) wrote: > > >It is illegal to modify a CB to 10m. Beucase the radio has NOT been > > >certified for use on 10m. > > > > Hello? Hello? Anyone home? The radio does not need to be "certified > > for use on 10m" since amateur equipment does NOT require type > > acceptance!! Drew is right that a modified CB transmitter or a tranceiver, and which is used afterwards *only* under the amateur service, does not require type acceptance. But his more sweeping statement that implied all amateur equipment was free from acceptance testing is not correct. All External RF Power Amplifiers or Amplifier Kits made, modified or imported for use in the amateur service on any frequency below 144MHz require FCC Type Acceptance. The one exception is that any licensed amateur may make or modify one single amplifier per year without type acceptance. See 97.315. Regards, -- Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!usenet From: Al Wong Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: License expiring in 5 months, where to get 610 form? Date: 2 Feb 1996 13:56:25 GMT Organization: The MITRE Corp. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4et569$pom@linus.mitre.org> References: <4erb7c$8kg@news1.sunbelt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: m24837-pc.mitre.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit) To: flanders@znet.groupz.net flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) wrote: >wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) wrote: > >>My license will expire in July, so I'll need to send in a renewal 610 >>form. Where can one get a copy, and when is an appropriate time to If you really want the form, you can down load it from www.fcc.gov. Al KF4GDD -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:34 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.av.qnet.com!ibbs!js Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <184@ibbs.av.org> References: <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca><4eoi84$ffd@news.greatbasin.net> Reply-To: js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) From: js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 14:21:13 GMT Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Lines: 46 In article <4eoi84$ffd@news.greatbasin.net>, NC7K@VHF.RENO.NV.US (NC7K@VHF.REN O.NV.US) writes: >In <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca>, jim@draco.bison.mb.ca (Jim Jaworski) write s: >> Morse Code is DEAD. Get rid of it. This IS almost the 21st >>Century you know. >> >> >>-- >>Winnipeg MB Canada jim@draco.bison.mb.ca >>TEAM OS/2 MIME OK >>VE4JAF BSCN Helpline Volunteer >>OS/2 -- 100% 32-bit since April 1992 and over 3400 32-bit OS/2 apps. > >Boy... Are YOU out of touch! > >I work alot of weak signal VHF and plenty of contacts would not have been >possible without the use of CW. > >I recognise this for what it is.... Instead of trying to meet the requirement for >a higher class lisence, attack the requirements... Thats easier. This constan t >clamouring to lower requirements is not unique to Amateur Radio either. It >appears that a large group of young people would rather complain than work >to meet existing requirements. > >Its that requirement that keeps Amateur Radio from being another CB mess! > >Tim Marek - NC7K >---- >CW Forever! > > So we get rid of CW. What is next? How much easier do people want it to be to get a license? Morse is required, so just do it. Oh I forgot that is a bit of work. We would not want to work for our reward. This whole anti CW thing is a reflection of what is happening everwhere. Construction contractors and truck drivers don't want to test for a license either. Why? Because they are lazy and have no desire to devlope skills. The same can be said about ham radio. The anti-CW people are just pissed because there are people like me who demand they work for a license. Learn a new skill, and then use it. For those of us that do use CW and enjoy it. Brag about it, you have a skill that was work to get and some folks don't have. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Stillinger - KB6IBB js@ibbs.av.org PSC Box 3429 js@red-eft.la.ca.us Edwards AFB, CA 93524 +1 805 258 7303 8N1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.emi.com!news.algorithms.com!usenet From: Ryan Workman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Th 79AD Mod's ----Wanted--- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 14:39:21 -0500 Organization: Algorithms, Inc. Lines: 7 Message-ID: <31126869.4C84@algorithms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 167.152.154.243 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I) Any Mod's any one has for the TH-79AD, would be greattly aprreciated! Send 'em to : Workman@Algorithms.Com 73, Ryan Workman, KB2OOP Workman@Algorithms.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsserver.trl.OZ.AU!pcies4.trl.OZ.AU!ddiamond From: ddiamond@TRL.OZ.AU (Drew Diamond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: strange beacon on 40? Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 15:04:29 Organization: TRL Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <4e8nou$1gc@swen.emba.uvm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc0126.trl.oz.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev Final Beta #7] In article <4e8nou$1gc@swen.emba.uvm.edu> gdavis@griffin.emba.uvm.edu (Gary Da vis) writes: >From: gdavis@griffin.emba.uvm.edu (Gary Davis) >Subject: strange beacon on 40>Date: 25 Jan 1996 20:04:46 GMT > I've noticed what appears to be a beacon on 40 at 7.002. >It's there many mornings around 1200 utc and just sends >...- ...- ( V V V ... )> Does anyone know what this is? Where is it located? > 73 Gary WQ1F> ( In the Green Mt. State of Vt.) This V beacon intruder has been there for a number of years. I do not know for sure, but I think that it may be located somewhere in south central Russia. When amateur signals from that area are good, the beacon is always particularly strong here near Melbourne. For a little while, a week or so back, this beacon was running FSK, such that the mark was V, and space a B. See also 7.039 MHz where you may hear F, S, and C beacons. I too would dearly like to know what these beacons are for, and where they are located. 73, Drew, VK3XU. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:38 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!guardian.up.edu!gateway.sequent.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!usenet From: asmartuser Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ******Yaesu FT767GX manuals********** Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 16:09:35 -0800 Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness Lines: 6 Message-ID: <3112A7BF.2DEC@snefru.comm2000.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: cimarosa2-l11.comm2000.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6b (Win16; I) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24593 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97762 Hi I was looking for Yaesu FT 767GX Manuals, both service and operating. Any help will be appreciated. 73, Maurizio From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:39 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!newsworthy.West.Sun.COM!news70.West.Sun.COM!usenet From: "Dana H. Myers" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Brain ** Date: 2 Feb 1996 16:56:00 GMT Organization: Sunsoft, Los Angeles Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4etfn0$2ve@abyss.West.Sun.COM> References: <4eo0rk$q4c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> <823252302snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: vr1000p.west.sun.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 i86pc) X-URL: news:823252302snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk Mike Gathergood wrote: >In article <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> > adell@planet.net "KF2TI - Steve" writes: > >> I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepted >> by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? > >Only for VHF and above. > >73 >Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * >G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * Maybe in the U.K. (I don't know), but the FCC rules only specify that external power amplifiers for use *below* 144MHz require type acceptance. Look at 97.315 and 97.317. -- * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD#: j | Views expressed here are * * (310) 348-6043 | mine and do not necessarily * * Dana.Myers@West.Sun.Com | reflect those of my employer * From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:40 1996 Newsgroups: alt.support.divorce,rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news4.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!ns.draper.com!news.draper.com!tas1255.draper.com!user From: tschamp@draper.com (The Wizard) Subject: Re: In Memory of Burt Fisher (or Ode to Burt) Message-ID: Sender: nntp@draper.com (NNTP Master) Nntp-Posting-Host: tas1255.draper.com Organization: Draper Lab X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b24.0+ References: <4eket9$4tp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <823173380snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> <1996Feb1.100056.113043@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <4erecs$fb4@usenet.continental.com> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 18:20:54 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: news.epix.net alt.support.divorce:18517 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97696 In article <4erecs$fb4@usenet.continental.com>, Paul Christensen wrote: > >No, but we'd do just about anything to get rid of Burt.... > > Ignore the problem and it will go away. Hmmm, well in rec.radio, maybe that works. But I'm not sure that'll make a good battle-flag here in a.s.d! Besides, some of us have developed a bizarre fondness for Burt. (Hey, I read Dilbert, too!) Years ago I used to have a pet black rat snake I was sorta fond of, too. He smelled funny, but he was great for getting rid of dead mice... And aside from some of the personal attack flame-wars, *some* of Burt's inanities stimulate thought and replies, which isn't always a terrible thing. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Wizard may be reached at tschamp@tiac.net (home), or tschamp@draper.com (work), daily from 7 AM to 2 AM. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:41 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!usenet From: Dennis Doonan Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: qsl etiquette (see Feb 1996 QST) Date: 2 Feb 1996 19:23:20 GMT Organization: Eaton Corporation Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4etob8$lak@ns.oar.net> References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4dpo4v$7tl@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: doonan.mke.etn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) gbrown@unlinfo.unl.edu (gregory brown) wrote: >It used to be said that a QSL card was the final courtesy of a >QSO. During most of my ham career, sending a card seemed to be Boy, oh boy. I thought I was the only one that felt like that. I guess the trend will be to not only include an SASE and a $1, but we should also pay (in advance, I am sure) the cost of the electricity to operate the other ham's station. Then, our share of the depreciation on his station. Let's see.... $4800 (rig) + $1200 (antenna/tower), useful life 6 years, 5 contacts per month (can't over due it now). I guess we should send an SASE along with about $47 in cash (no check, of course). What ever happened to friendship. Are some of us in this for the money??? Come on, lets enjoy this as a hobby. 73 de KG9DO From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:42 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!zeus.ieee.org!usenet From: Vincent Biancomano Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain Date: 2 Feb 1996 19:25:09 GMT Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4etoel$1ij@zeus.ieee.org> References: <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dlpu3$4u5@abyss.West.Sun.COM> <4dn0rk$179@unet.net.com> <4e594v$437@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> <4ejipc$rqm@zeus.ieee.org> <4el6h8$91c@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4elp81$6h7@zeus.ieee.org> <4elvt4$b6u@hubcap.clemson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nissan.mag.ieee.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97630 rec.radio.amateur.policy:32957 In response to Bill DuBroff, who writes: > Not too good Vince when you have to go back 7 years to find someone > who pushed for easier exams. As for this net, I have seen nobody in > the current time period that has pushed for no-code and easier > exams. Wrong again, Bill, for the upteenth time. Petition RM-8260 came three years ago, and carried over into 1994. In addition, the fact that someone felt the same 7 years ago doesn't (and hasn't) diminished their thoughts, or efforts, today. If you haven't seen anyone pushing, you're not looking. Attempting to restrict your comments to this net (i.e., "as for this net, I have seen nobody...") doesn't get you off the hook. This net is not the be all and end all of all human response to the no-code, no-theory issue. > As for being beneficial, it will never be "shown" until it is > tested, which gets down to the feeling of the majority that it is > or is not beneficial, and that feeling should control - the > practioners (as defined as a majority) of the hobby should define > the boundary conditions, not the FCC or any single person or group. > With respect to 97.1, you claim but have no evidence that no-code > would reduce its thrust. Your declaration is not adequate. Wrong again, for the upteenth plus one time. If it can't be shown from the get-go, it is illogical and counterproductive to proceed, from the scientific and engineering points of view. And as has been stated previously by K4KYO, an organization's credibility suffers when the majority consists of those who have just entered that organization. Disaster waits if one attempts to rely on newcomers to dictate the new rules of the game. In the case of ARRL, they have enough trouble on their hands today and realize they have to think things through three times before even beginning to consider alterations. Thus, in summation, it is YOUR declarations that are inadequate. Regards, Vince, WB2EZG From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!msunews!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: socci@bns101.bng.ge.COM (Vincent Socci ph2828) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Using DSP to emulate a TNC Date: 2 Feb 96 20:02:06 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 44 Message-ID: <9602022002.AA02652@bns101.bng.ge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu Hey guys/gals/other: I am trying to use digital signal processing to emulate a TNC for packet communication. Right now, I'm at the very start of my research, so I'm looking for resource information. 1) What are the best WWW locations for DSP information? (My crawler shows quite a few, but I don't know which ones are useful) 2) Where can I find documentation detailing how a TNC operates? I know vaguely what is in there, but I really need the details. Feel free to respond via this thread or by direct email. Thanks, Vince 73 DE KB2UXU ____________________________________________________________________ / Vince Socci / Lockheed Martin Control Systems /| /==============================/====================================/ / / 600 Main Street / Systems Engineer / / / Johnson City, New York / Advanced Controls Engineering / / / 13790-1888 / Email: socci@bns101.bng.ge.com / / / / Callsign: KB2UXU / / / Tel (607) 770-2828 / Marcall Tel: 8*255-2828 / / / Fax (607) 770-2213 / Marcall Fax: 8*255-2213 / / /______________________________/____________________________________/ / |_____________________________/\____________________________________|/ __ __ ________ \ \ / / / ____ / \ \ / / / / /_/ \ \ / / / / \ \/ / \ \ \ / \ \ \/ \ \ /\ / / \ \ / / \ \/ / \ / \/ From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!news.westnet.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp.cntfl.com!books From: books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 2 Feb 1996 21:09:34 GMT Organization: CMDS News machine Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> References: <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca><4eoi84$ffd@news.greatbasin.net> <184@ibbs.av.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.90.27.7 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jeff Stillinger (js@ibbs.av.org) wrote: > So we get rid of CW. What is next? How much easier do people want it to be > to get a license? Morse is required, so just do it. Oh I forgot that is a > bit of work. We would not want to work for our reward. > This whole anti CW thing is a reflection of what is happening everwhere. > Construction contractors and truck drivers don't want to test for a license > either. Why? Because they are lazy and have no desire to devlope skills. > The same can be said about ham radio. The anti-CW people are just pissed > because there are people like me who demand they work for a license. Learn > a new skill, and then use it. > For those of us that do use CW and enjoy it. Brag about it, you have a > skill that was work to get and some folks don't have. Well goody for you. Let me put it this way. Many people are never going to use CW. The work required to learn CW is pointless. Do you enjoy pointless? I think you should have to learn braille in order to get you license. It makes just as much sense. I don't know why I'm jumping in here, the old "I had to do it so you should have to do it also" is a rather shortsighted attitude. It goes to show that improvement of ham operators is the least of your worries, you just worried someone might get the priviledges with less work. On the other hand... I get the fealing that alot of CW proponents are afraid that they wouldn't be able to deal with real competance tests. If CW went away you might actually have to demonstrate theory competance with a non-gimmee test. So, is it better to keep numbers down via ancient skills that are unnecessary, or is it better to force people to develop modern, relevant skills? As for those that want the CW frequencies, that's fine, those people can learn morse since it will be relevant to them. I would be all for maintaining those as pure CW. Roger (Same one that had the fight about the "computers in society" class. I enjoy learning new things, but I HATE wasting my time.) From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Stephan M. Anderman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: This Week in Amateur Radio #149 (for air through 2/9/96) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 96 22:24:23 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 47 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1f.delphi.com Here is a summary of news items covered on edition #149 of "This Week in Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered audio bulletin service, for the week ending 9-Feb: - 1. FCC Affirms Its Committment to 219 MHz Amateur Allocation 2. Commission Delays Spectrum Policy and Management Hearings 3. Kansas City Amateurs Assist Police in Catching Computer Theives 4. ARRL Says FCC Will Not Accept Electronic Filing of Renewals 5. Ham Gear Used In Kidnapping Case Seen on "60 Minutes" 6. Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD, Recovers from Knee Surgery in NYC 7. Several Notable Hams Listed as Silent Keys 8. "The RAIN Dial-up" from Chicago 9. "Gateway 160 Meter Net Report" with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR 10. March Shuttle Mission, STS-76, to Carry SAREX 11. STS-75 Schedule for Launch Later This Month, Keps on WWW 12. MCI Wins the Latest FCC Auction of a DBS Satellite Slot 13. Weekly Propagation Forecast with George Bowen, N2LQS 14. "Amateur Radio Newsline" - Edition #964 from Los Angeles 15. Upcoming Special Event Stations 16 Congress Passes Telecommunications Revision, Details Next Week - Funding for the program's transmission and production expenses was provided this week by a grant from Gene Wicklund, WA0ZOK, of Horace North Dakota, who carries "This Week in Amateur Radio" on the WA0ZOK repeater on 443.75 MHz, serving Fargo, North Dakota, Morehead, Minnesota, and the Red River Valley. - "This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur voice bulletin service, produced by Community Video Associates, Inc., a New York State not-for-profit corporation based in Albany, NY. The program is heard on the "Tech Talk Network" each Saturday at 8:00 PM (EST) on the Telesat Canada Anik E2 commercial communications satellite, transponder 18 (9B vertical), 5.8 MHz wideband analog audio subcarrier (4.06 GHz), located at 107.3 degrees west longitude in equatorial geosynchronous orbit. It's carried on VHF/UHF repeaters throughout North America and on 160 meters at 1860 kHz. Contact your local amateur radio club or repeater operator if "This Week in Amateur Radio" is not being heard in your area. - Production and transmission expenses are underwritten by donations from repeater operators, amateur radio clubs, and individuals. Satellite space and uplink services are provided by Skyvision, Incorporated as a service to the amateur radio community. Further information is available from George Bowen, N2LQS, at 518/283-3665 (e-mail kxkvi@delphi.com) or Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB, at 518/664- 6809 (e-mail sanderman@delphi.com). You may also reach them @ WA2UMX.FN32AW.ENY.NY.USA.NA via amateur packet. From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:48 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!bug.rahul.net!a2i!sierra.net!imci3!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!indirect From: lenwink@indirect.com (Len Winkler) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham Radio & More Show on Real Audio Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 22:38:48 GMT Organization: Ham Radio & More Show Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4eu3qi$nsn@globe.indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s163.phxslip4.indirect.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Check out the TAPR page for past Ham Radio & More Show interviews. They include interviews about TAPR, AMSAT, Packet, Phase 3D, and soon, many more. The page is presented by TAPR, Greg Jones doing much of the work. The Ham Radio & More Show thanks Greg and TAPR for helping to distribute these interviews to those interested. The address is: www.tapr.org/hrm Len Winkler, KB7LPW lenwink@indirect.com P.O. Box 9219 kb7lpw@kc7y.az.usa.na Phoenix, Az. 85068-9219 Ham Radio & More Show info at: http://www.barc.org/barc/ham-more.html RealAudio site: www.tapr.org/hrm The show airs LIVE at 6:00pm ET The show also airs on WWCR shortwave, tape delayed at 1000utc on 7.435, on Mon days, and Saturdays at 1700utc on 12.160. Support "WOG". Written only General!!! From lwbyppp@epix.net Mon Feb 05 22:07:49 1996 Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.equip,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!news.qnet.com!news.widomaker.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!not-for-mail From: dconti@carroll.com (Daniel M. Conti) Subject: WTB : Kenwood model 742A multiband radio. X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Carroll-Net Message-ID: X-Trace: 823293342/17912 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: poseidon03.carroll.com Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 23:31:04 GMT Lines: 5 Xref: news.epix.net alt.radio.scanner:27161 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97677 rec.radio.scanner:44931 rec.radio.swap:56685 Looking to purchase a Kenwood model 742A multi bander, with or without 6 meter module. Older model 741 also acceptable. Must be fully functional and in decent shape. Will pay reasonable price. E-Mail with response, please From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!news.jsums.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sbt.net!news.ia.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net (KF2TI - Steve) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: "cronic problem ham/cb users" Date: 2 Feb 1996 01:16:52 GMT Organization: Living Life thru Popular Science Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4erom4$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4ehabi$1oc2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan35.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > > Try cutting the coax were it goes into the house and hope that the > >radio is close to the area and the coax is loose and run for all your > >worth. I know of someone who did this and smashed the radio all to heck > > > Why just HOPE that the radio will be smashed "all to heck?" Insure this > result will be achieved by tugging on the coax until said radio is pulled > up to where the coax goes into the wall/window. Then, simply let go and > listen for a loud crashing sound. Unless the coax has some sort of > strain relief on the other end, the poor little meathead is looking at > one messed-up radio. At the very least, it will have scratched the radio > and damaged whatever was sitting on top of it. If you're real lucky, the > radio will have fallen onto a cement floor and suffered damage to it's > insides. > > -Drew in Charlotte- > > >>>> From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!gatech!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: ik0hbn@isa.IT (Sante Lillo) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (none) Date: 3 Feb 96 12:54:33 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 2 Message-ID: <9602031254.AA15710@net.isa.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu HELP From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!guardian.up.edu!gateway.sequent.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!server-b.cs.interbusiness.it!usenet From: asmartuser Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ******Yaesu FT767GX manuals********** Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 16:09:35 -0800 Organization: Centro Servizi Interbusiness Lines: 6 Message-ID: <3112A7BF.2DEC@snefru.comm2000.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: cimarosa2-l11.comm2000.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6b (Win16; I) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24593 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97762 Hi I was looking for Yaesu FT 767GX Manuals, both service and operating. Any help will be appreciated. 73, Maurizio From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:46 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy Subject: -Next subject? Date: 3 Feb 1996 20:59:39 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4f0ibr$2c9$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97737 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33002 We've pretty much beat Morse to death here. It is either an Eternal Enigma, or an Inevitable Truth, but... CW IS! 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!crc-news.doc.ca!usenet From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy Subject: Re: -Next subject? Date: 5 Feb 1996 19:00:12 GMT Organization: Industry Canada Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4f5k3s$7pu@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4f0ibr$2c9$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cummings.jim.dgrr000.ic.gc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97776 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33014 Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >CW IS! > >73, de Hans, K0HB > It is what? 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!prodigy.com!usenet From: VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: -Next subject? Date: 5 Feb 1996 23:08:48 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f62m0$1kmq@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> References: <4f0ibr$2c9$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> <4f5k3s$7pu@crc-news.doc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: inugap2.news.prodigy.com X-Newsreader: Version 1.2 Jim Cummings wrote: > >Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> wrote: > >>CW IS! >> >>73, de Hans, K0HB >> > >It is what? Outdated and ancient, among other things. -Drew in Charlotte- KF4DDM From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:49 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 2code or knot 2code Date: 4 Feb 1996 15:52:56 GMT Organization: Planet Access - Stanhope, NJ Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4f2kor$jpo@jupiter.planet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan34.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) the great debate zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sorry.... feel asleep why knot repost everything over and over again??? I wanna use hf but i got no code give it too me waaaa waaaaa I had ta learn code so should you waaaa waaaaa the boy scouts this, burt and drew that waaaaa waaaaa vince and his fists..frew and his olde phartz (btw equipment doesn't have a " Q" in it) be patient and by 1999 the debate may be over but until then its so BORING wit h a major capital B burts reposts of all his greatest hits is more exciting than this lets get on with the things that rea important like.....pinning your neighbor s coax or the letters ARRL, spelle in different order really prove that jimmy hoffa is alive and well and working dx in the pacific just a thought now as Johnny Storm like to say FLAME ON!!! steve From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:49 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: Hank Blackstock Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 3819 Web Site Date: 4 Feb 1996 14:44:04 GMT Organization: Internet Oklahoma Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4f2gnk$5tp@ionews.ionet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: osip93.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit) A group of hams that have occupied 3819 khz since the early sixties now have a web sit. Please give us a visit. http://www.cswnet.com/~wa5jrh/ 73 Hank WA5JRH From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!bdt.com!miwok!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: tuzcular@ibm.net (Ercan Tuzcular) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 800 MHz RX on TH-79A Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 22:19:14 GMT Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4f39qj$3c28@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip139-92-17-93.pt.uk.ibm.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Recently I saw an article about softkey modification of TH-79 A like TH-79E. I would be very pleased, if somebody could send me the necessary sequences. -------------------------------------------------------------- Ercan Tuzcular tuzcular@ibm.net Callsign: TA1L Fax:5727087 P.K. 32 Bakirkoy, 34712 Istanbul - Turkiye, Tel:90-212-5705022 -------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:51 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.gdbnet.ad.jp!news.hebel.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.tele.fi!news.funet.fi!jazz.cc.spt.fi!news.csc.fi!news.eunet.fi!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: tuzcula@ibm.net (Ercan Tuzcular) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 800 MHz RX with TH-79A Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 22:12:29 GMT Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4f39e1$44h0@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip139-92-17-93.pt.uk.ibm.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Recently I read an article about keypad rx extension possibility of TH-79A like TH-79E. Is there anybody, who knows more about it? Ercan TUZCULAR tuzcular@ibm.net TA1L -------------------------------------------------------------- Ercan Tuzcular tuzcula@ibm.net Callsign: TA1L Fax:5727087 P.K. 32 Bakirkoy, 34712 Istanbul - Turkiye, Tel:90-212-5705022 -------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:52 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Chris Boone <72732.2610@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap Subject: ACC Owners!! Remailer now online Date: 7 Feb 1996 19:36:14 GMT Organization: ENTERGY/Gulf States Utilities Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4fauve$51m$4@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24712 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97868 rec.radio.swap:57068 For all current owners of ACC equipment (Advanced Computer Controls), there is now a listserver remailer operated by the same folks who operate the LINKCOM remailer... To subscribe, send a msg to "majordomo@engrng.pitt.edu" In the BODY of the msg, put ONLY the following: subscribe acc end --------------- Then make a note as to WHY you want to subscribe....if you are an owner of ACC gear, state it and mention model and S/N if possible....OR if you are part of a group that operates an ACC system, note that... This remailer is for ACC operators only....PLEASE do not try to subscribe if you dont own or maintain any ACC equipment...bandwidth is limited... Linkcom's remailer is at the same site...use the same format as above but in the body of the msg, use "subscribe link" 73 Chris -- Senior Telecommunications Technician 72732.2610@CompuServe.com ENTERGY/Gulf States Utilities 1:106/4267 FIDOnet WB5ITT - Advanced Class BBS- 409-447-4267 (WBBS) PG-9-5322 FCC Commercial 409-525-2001 PhoneMail 24hr From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:53 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!prodigy.com!usenet From: EJVJ40A@prodigy.com (George Deamicis) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: AEA DSP 232 CONTROLLER Date: 4 Feb 1996 14:48:34 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f2h02$1nn6@useneta1.news.prodigy.com> References: <4efuso$2e26@useneta1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: inugap5.news.prodigy.com X-Newsreader: Version 1.2 Thanks Robert I think I'll give them to the end of the month and then cancel . I asked this same question to ARRL by E-Mail , haven't receive a response yet. 73 GEORGE N1JGE From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!newshost.convex.com!convex!tonyp From: tonyp@convex.com (Tony J. Podrasky) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: AEA DSP 232 CONTROLLER Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:42:55 GMT Organization: Coyotes R Us - ask me about my Coyotes Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4f5fiv$47c@convex.convex.com> References: <4efuso$2e26@useneta1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: convex1.convex.com Are you talking about the DSP-2232? I've had one since they were in BETA, and it works quite well. What sort of problem are you seeing? -- Tony J. Podrasky | You know those little buttons you press to cross the street San Diego , Ca | at an intersection? Well, regardless of what you have been tonyp@convex.com | told they *do* react to how hard and how many times they WA2EAA/MAZEAAA | have been pressed, and adjust the tfc lights accordingly. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:56 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!grouper.Exis.Net!usenet From: buch@exis.net (Joe Buch) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: AM on UHF??? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 04:22:28 GMT Organization: Exchange Information Systems Networks Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4f6l53$h2j@grouper.Exis.Net> References: <1996Feb5.203840.10585@lafn.org> Reply-To: buch@exis.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.exis.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 ag001@lafn.org (Abraham Stavsky) wrote: >Over the past several days, I've noticed that my Bearcat 700A >scanner is picking up a local AM station, KFI (640 KHz) at >450.7250 MHz. Given the wide spread between the frequencies, >I cannot understand what's causing this. It was not a one-time >"fluke" either - it seems to occur on a regular basis. Moreover, >the signal on 450.7250 MHz seems to air some 10-20 seconds >AHEAD of the one at 640 KHz. Any ideas? >Thanks, >Abe, KE6OCM > > Most likely a cue circuit to a remote unit or traffic helicopter. The 20 second delay on the 640KHz transmitter could be to allow killing call-ins who don't behave. I don't know what KFI's format is these days but if they engage in "live" local talk radio with call-ins, some reasonable delay is normally provided to allow the sensitive ears of the easily offended to be protected. It also helps prevent law suits. Joe Buch N2JB buch@exis.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:56 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!newshost.convex.com!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!news From: eusrdf@exu.ericsson.se (Richard Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: AM on UHF??? Date: 6 Feb 1996 15:21:29 GMT Organization: Ericsson North America Inc. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <4f7rlp$q9@cnn.exu.ericsson.se> References: <1996Feb5.203840.10585@lafn.org> Reply-To: eusrdf@exu.ericsson.se NNTP-Posting-Host: b03c14.exu.ericsson.se Several channels are available in this range for remote broadcast. Such a set up would be a remote from a shopping mall, etc. Normally these are paired wit h another frequency that is +5 mHz higher. The UHF signal will be in real tim e, vs. the primary signal which is delayed several seconds to allow for bleep ing of unwanted words. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:58 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: AM on UHF??? Message-ID: <1996Feb6.162314.25611@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:23:14 GMT Lines: 39 In article ag001@lafn.org (Abraham Stavsky) writes: > >Over the past several days, I've noticed that my Bearcat 700A >scanner is picking up a local AM station, KFI (640 KHz) at >450.7250 MHz. Given the wide spread between the frequencies, >I cannot understand what's causing this. It was not a one-time >"fluke" either - it seems to occur on a regular basis. Moreover, >the signal on 450.7250 MHz seems to air some 10-20 seconds >AHEAD of the one at 640 KHz. Any ideas? This is probably an IFB (Interrupted FeedBack) transmission. This is used to feed reporters in the field so that they can hear the talent and actualities being inserted at the studio during live broadcasts. The signal can be interrupted by studio personnel for cueing purposes. If you monitor for a while, you'll probably hear instructions being given to the field reporter interrupting the program from time to time. If you listen 5 MHz above this signal, you'll probably hear the field reporter's broadcast if you're close enough to his field location. The signal you're hearing is the output of the station's remote broadcast pickup repeater, and its input should be 5 MHz higher in frequency. The reason the program feed is early is that the station is probably delaying its main transmission by a few seconds to allow it to be censored, a fairly standard practice by stations with call in programs. We used to call this tape delay since it was done with a special tape recorder, but today the delay is probably totally electronic using digital memory. If the field reporter listened to the main broadcast signal, the delay would hopelessly confuse him, and the station couldn't give him cues either. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:05:59 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news From: Jeff DePolo WN3A Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: AM on UHF??? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 23:57:18 -0500 Organization: InterMedia Interactive Software, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3116DFAE.1981@intermediainc.com> References: <1996Feb5.203840.10585@lafn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts13-23.upenn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win95; I) Abraham Stavsky wrote: > > Over the past several days, I've noticed that my Bearcat 700A > scanner is picking up a local AM station, KFI (640 KHz) at > 450.7250 MHz. Given the wide spread between the frequencies, > I cannot understand what's causing this. It was not a one-time > "fluke" either - it seems to occur on a regular basis. Moreover, > the signal on 450.7250 MHz seems to air some 10-20 seconds > AHEAD of the one at 640 KHz. Any ideas? The segments from 450.000 to 451.000 and 455.000 to 455.000 are primarily allocated to the media services. The bottom and top 100 kHz of each of those segments contain "group P" channels (pretty sure that's what they're called). Channels in the group P range are spaced at 10 kHz (e.g. 450.010, 450.020, 450.030, etc.). They are used for telemetry, typically from a broadcast transmitter site back to the studio. The remainder of the frequencies outside the group P blocks are spaced at 12.5 kHz and typically contain program audio, remote audio, ENG channels, etc. It's not uncommon to hear program material on those channels. I don't know if those channels are commonly allocated for STL use (studio-to-transmitter link), but I assume they could be. Most STL's, at least on FM, are in the 950 MHz range or are done by copper. --- Jeff From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:00 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!fdurt1.fdu.edu!xyzzy.bubble.org!newshost.cyberramp.net!news.iadfw.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!cv282 From: cv282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mistie Mullarkey) Subject: Re: AM on UHF??? Message-ID: Sender: cv282@freenet5.carleton.ca (Mistie Mullarkey) Reply-To: cv282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mistie Mullarkey) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet References: <1996Feb5.203840.10585@lafn.org> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 06:52:26 GMT Lines: 18 Abraham Stavsky (ag001@lafn.org) writes: > Over the past several days, I've noticed that my Bearcat 700A > scanner is picking up a local AM station, KFI (640 KHz) at > 450.7250 MHz. Given the wide spread between the frequencies, > I cannot understand what's causing this. It was not a one-time > "fluke" either - it seems to occur on a regular basis. Moreover, > the signal on 450.7250 MHz seems to air some 10-20 seconds > AHEAD of the one at 640 KHz. Any ideas? sounds like a studio transmitter link between the station and the main transmitting antenna. -- ΙΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝ» Ί cv282@freeNET.carleton.CA Ί Ί purdon@ott.ve2sux.ampr.org Ί ΘΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΌ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:01 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!mr.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.suba.com!qni.com!gwatts From: Gary Watts Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 20:11:15 -0600 Organization: Suba Communications Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4eqq78$1fga@chnews.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: qni.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4eqq78$1fga@chnews.ch.intel.com> Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97741 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33003 rec.radio.amateur.space:6274 Tom, On 1 Feb 1996, WB7ASR wrote: > FACT: AMSAT already supports satellite contesting, for AMSAT promotes > and sanctions the ARRL Field Day "contest" on satellites. Don't > believe me? Check out the AMSAT WEB homepage. > Some say they don't want satellite contesting to ocure because they don't > want all the "BIG GUNS" to hog all the satellite battery power. So what! > AO-13 is going to crash anyways!!! Until then, the solar pannels will > recharge the batteries. Lets get the most use out of the the bird before > it burns up! It is not a matter of the BIG GUNS accessing the bird... but of PROPER and respected operating procedure.. Like not operating stronger than the downlink beacon ! It does not taked a BIG GUN to trash the transponder I have even heard FM signals on the thing ! It is either a lack of knowledge or RESPECT and proper operating procedures. The BIG GUN was indead a problem on AO-21 but that is another story. TTYL Gary Watts de N0OXV Kansas City Mo 81 GL1100I From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!bison.alfred.edu!kato.theramp.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet From: little@pecan.enet.dec.com (Todd Little) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: 2 Feb 1996 01:38:26 GMT Organization: ObjectBroker/COM Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4erpui$b85@usenet.pa.dec.com> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4elb3a$1e9@usenet.pa.dec.com> <4eof4j$i2@superb.csc.ti.com> Reply-To: little@pecan.enet.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: aci1202_port12.chi.dec.com X-Newsreader: News for Windows NT X1.0-73 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97745 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33004 rec.radio.amateur.space:6277 In article <4eof4j$i2@superb.csc.ti.com> mbv@ti.com (Ken Durham) wrote: > Todd, you are absolutely right in as far as the type of contest that > you have in mind, but I believe what is beling proposed is more in > the line of the technical competition that is done regularly on AO-13. > The object of the contest is to see who can copy the weakest of > an ever decreasing string of CW uplinks. This "contest" already exists. It is called the ZRO test and measures how far below the beacon you can copy a CW signal. This is why I assumed an HF style contest. > If they are considering a contest like we hear on the HF bands we > will all suffer the results of transponder overload. Amen. 73, Todd N9MWB From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mcn.net!blpm01-191 From: vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 03:48:16 GMT Organization: Montana Communications Network Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4f6j2v$4ga@news.mcn.net> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> <4elb3a$1e9@usenet.pa.dec.com> <4eof4j$i2@superb.csc.ti.com> <4es915$4q6@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: blpm01-191.mcn.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97806 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33023 rec.radio.amateur.space:6286 In article <4es915$4q6@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Tom Clark wrote: > >> If they are considering a contest like we hear on the HF bands we >>will all suffer the results of transponder overload. >> >>Ken Durham K5MBV > >Hey -- don't blame AMSAT!! A thread developed on the amsat-bb@amsat.org mail >exploder asking the question, and it generated a lot of replies. > >If by "they" you mean the AMSAT Board/Officers, this is >>NOT<< a topic of >discussion in those circles. > >Tom Clark, W3IWI >AMSAT Director & President Emeritus > > All I want and NEED is one satellite contest. It should be international in scope and sponsored by AMSAT. It will take place during Field Day. WHY?, Because field day is the best opportunity to show-off our part of the hobby to other hams. The first priority of the contest would be the display and use of an OSCAR station to others(Portable operations most likely required). Second priority, make QSO's & have FUN! That's ALL I want. One 24 hour long contest and to recuit more hams into AMSAT. One little 24 hour contest shouldn't tax our satellites batteries too much. And who knows, maybe they'll like satellite operation so much, that they'll make a Phase 3D donation right on the spot. ;-) 73 de KB7ADL 1996 Countdown to Phase 3D ! From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!inews.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!chnews!usenet From: tom_boza@ccm.ch.intel.com (WB7ASR) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:36:56 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4eqq78$1fga@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <4ek07i$qpi@news.mcn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tboza.ch.intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97841 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33030 rec.radio.amateur.space:6289 FACT: AMSAT already supports satellite contesting, for AMSAT promotes and sanctions the ARRL Field Day "contest" on satellites. Don't believe me? Check out the AMSAT WEB homepage. Some may argue that the ARRL Field Day event is not a contest, but call it whatever you want, for under the cover of the words ARRL Field Day "event", its a CONTEST! So since AMSAT "supports" satellite contesting, why woun't AMSAT support other satellite contest? Some say they don't want satellite contesting to ocure because they don't want all the "BIG GUNS" to hog all the satellite battery power. So what! AO-13 is going to crash anyways!!! Until then, the solar pannels will recharge the batteries. Lets get the most use out of the the bird before it burns up! I think its more of a "religious" and "political" issue. AMSAT needs to be in political alignment with ARRL, so they allow the ARRL Field Day contest to occure. However, those powers to be don't personally like contesting, so they don't support satellite contesting! Kind of two faced double standard if you tell me!!! Tom... From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:05 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!newshub.csu.net!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!ttinews!avatar!sorgatz From: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (Erik K.Sorgatz) Subject: Re: Amsat Satelllite Contest, Should we have one? Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ttinews.tti.com Nntp-Posting-Host: avatar Organization: Citicorp TTI References: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:45:49 GMT Lines: 12 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97863 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33037 rec.radio.amateur.space:6294 In article greg@core.rose.hp.com (Greg Dolkas) w rites: >I vote NO. I (as an ARRL & AMSAT Member) vote NO. (contests suck!) sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (or:es@soldev.tti.com) KB6LUY (private email:eks@westwo rld.com) TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 "ANY COMMENTS OR STATEMENTS MADE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CITICORP, ITS SU BSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES." (Copyright 1995, ARR-permission to store/archive hereby grante d) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:07 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!usenet From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLP005 Propagation de KT7H Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 3 Feb 1996 15:22:01 -0500 Organization: American Radio Relay League Lines: 47 Sender: root@mgate.arrl.org Approved: mtracy@arrl.org Message-ID: <$arlp005.1996@arrl.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mgate.arrl.org Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.info:10781 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97758 SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP005 ARLP005 Propagation de KT7H ZCZC AP26 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 5 ARLP005 From Tad Cook, KT7H Seattle, WA February 3, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP005 ARLP005 Propagation de KT7H This bulletin was delayed by one day due to a delay in getting solar data. Solar activity is still very low. We are very close to the solar minimum. The latest projections show the 10.7 cm solar flux reaching minimum around a year from now, during January and February 1997. But similar projections show the sunspot number reaching minimum during April through June of this year, and a big increase starting late in 1997. The sunspot number is derived by counting visible dark spots on the Sun and factoring in their area. Solar flux is derived by measuring 10.7 cm radiation from the Sun, and this seems to correlate with density of ionization in the ionosphere. The most disturbed day over the past week was January 29, when the A index reached 18, and the K index was as high as five. Otherwise geomagnetic conditions were quiet over this period. Solar flux should head down toward 70 by a week from now and then back above the mid-seventies late in the month. Chuck Sherman writes that he found a good source of historical solar data on the internet via ftp at ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/. Some versions of last week's bulletin ARLP004 had a wrong email address for the author of this bulletin. The correct address is tad@ssc.com. Sunspot Numbers for January 25 through 31 were 11, 11, 11, 11, 12, 26 and 14, with a mean of 13.7. 10.7 cm flux was 73.9, 73.8, 73.8, 73.6, 74, 74.7 and 76.7, with a mean of 74.4. NNNN /EX  From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:08 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!bdt.com!news.ossi.com!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!usenet From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLX005 Hams test Army station Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 8 Feb 1996 16:10:12 -0500 Organization: American Radio Relay League Lines: 38 Sender: root@mgate.arrl.org Approved: mtracy@arrl.org Message-ID: <$arlx005.1996@arrl.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mgate.arrl.org Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.info:10800 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97924 SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX005 ARLX005 Hams test Army station ZCZC AX51 QST de W1AW Special Bulletin 5 ARLX005 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 7, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB SPCL ARL ARLX005 ARLX005 Hams test Army station Hams are helping a Bosnia-bound US Army mobile AM radio station in Fort Meade, Maryland, test its broadcasting capabilities. The station, assisted by a group of Amateur Radio AM enthusiasts in the Washington, DC, area, seeks reception reports. Fred Cresce, KC4MOP; Butch Ickes, WB3HUZ and Paul Courson, WA3VJB, are staffing the new Army Broadcast Service station on 1670 kHz and using the call letters KTRK. The frequency is in the newly expanded Standard Broadcast Band. Courson, a broadcaster with Dow Jones, says the station began broadcasting around the clock February 5 and so far has received reports from as far away as Colorado. He said he and the other hams were brought in to help specifically because of their AM activity on the amateur bands. The 5000-W transmitter is working into a 140-foot vertical antenna the hams helped set up and tune. KTRK will continue broadcasting from Fort Meade until February 9. Then, the portable station will be packed up for transport to Bosnia, where it will be set up to entertain and inform US troops stationed there. Reception reports go to the Army Broadcast Service, 601 North Fairfax St, Alexandria, VA 22314. Write DX on the outside of the envelope. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:09 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!bdt.com!news.ossi.com!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!usenet From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLX006 Correction to ARLX005 Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 8 Feb 1996 16:10:17 -0500 Organization: American Radio Relay League Lines: 41 Sender: root@mgate.arrl.org Approved: mtracy@arrl.org Message-ID: <$arlx006.1996@arrl.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mgate.arrl.org Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.info:10801 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97925 SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX006 ARLX006 Correction to ARLX005 ZCZC AX52 QST de W1AW Special Bulletin 6 ARLX006 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 8, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB SPCL ARL ARLX006 ARLX006 Correction to ARLX005 A corrected version of ARLX005 follows. Hams are helping a Bosnia-bound US Army mobile AM radio station at Fort Meade, Maryland, test its broadcasting capabilities. The station, assisted by a group of Amateur Radio AM enthusiasts in the Washington, DC, area, seeks reception reports. Fred Cresce, KC4MOP; Steve Ickes, WB3HUZ, Ken Moffat, N3EAR, and Paul Courson, WA3VJB, are staffing the new Army Broadcast Service station on 1670 kHz, which is identifying itself as ABS Radio and playing music. The frequency is in the newly expanded Standard Broadcast Band. Courson, a broadcaster with Dow Jones, says the station began broadcasting around the clock February 5 and so far has received reports from as far away as California. He said he and the other hams were brought in to help specifically because of their AM activity on the amateur bands. The 5000-W transmitter is working into a 150-foot vertical antenna the hams helped set up and tune. The station will continue broadcasting from Fort Meade until February 9. Then, the portable station will be packed up for transport to Bosnia, where it will be set up to entertain and inform US troops stationed there. Reception reports go to the Army Broadcast Service, 601 North Fairfax St, Alexandria, VA 22314. Write DX on the outside of the envelope. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:10 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.spss.com!uchinews!news.luc.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!g4kfk.demon.co.uk From: Mike Gathergood Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Bunch of new Alt.Ham Newsgroups now Available Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 16:24:11 GMT Organization: CQ-BBS +44 1753 595468 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <823191851snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> References: <310d9635.14632872@pubnews.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: g4kfk.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 X-Mail2News-Path: disperse.demon.co.uk!post.demon.co.uk!g4kfk.demon.co.uk In article <310d9635.14632872@pubnews.demon.co.uk> mwdx@uscyber.com "mike witkowski" writes: > If you haven't notice lately there is a bunch of new alt.ham > newsgroups. Just refresh your newsgroup listing and you might be > surprised by the number of new groups. Yes ... but not without problems. I posted a WTB in alt.ham-radio.am last week, and it duly appeared. Since then there've been no other postings in that ng. I sent the WTB posting again last night and it got bounced back by my ISP as 'No valid newsgroups specified' 73 Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: motuiti@aol.com (Motu Iti) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Call Letters Now-a-Days. Date: 3 Feb 1996 12:45:27 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 15 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4f06vn$ma2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: motuiti@aol.com (Motu Iti) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Call Letters Now-a-Days. Just trying to get a handle on Call letters; I remember when it was only 'W2" etc. As they ran out of single digits, there came "WA2, WB2" and WN2 for novice grade etc. Now-a days, I don't know what is going on. Some questions: 1) Are call letters still being issued by numerical region "2" being NY etc? 2) Does the FCC fill in with old call letters (W2, WA2) as they expire? 3) Can you tell the license grade by the letters? 4) What is the recent chronology of call signs since the WB2 issue? If you could send me, or direct me to the answers I'd greatly appreciate it. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!multiverse!library.erc.clarkson.edu!rpi!gatech!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Call Letters Now-a-Days. Date: 3 Feb 1996 22:53:02 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4f0p0e$kmg$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> References: <4f06vn$ma2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Motu Iti asked: >1) Are call letters still being issued by numerical >region "2" being NY etc? Answer: Yes. >2) Does the FCC fill in with old call letters >(W2, WA2) as they expire? Answer: No >3) Can you tell the license grade by the letters? Answer: Not really. There is a scheme at the time of first license,which (for the mainland) goes like this: --Novice: 2x3 calls assigned, such as KB2XYZ --Tech, Tech+, and General: 1x3 calls assigned, such as N2XYZ --Advanced: 2x2 calls (except none start with "A") assigned, such as KB2XY. --Extra: 1x2 or 2x1 calls assigned, such as N2XY or NX2Y. Also 2x2 calls starting with "A" such as AB2XY. This scheme gets diluted because you can keep your call when you upgrade. Thus KB2XYZ who got that call as a Novice can keep it all the way to Extra. Also, some blocks are "used up" and calls from lower groups are being assigned. For example in most areas the 1x3 calls are all gone so new Techs, Tech+s, and Generals are being assigned 2x3 calls. -- --Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:14 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.columbia.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!mv!usenet From: jbl@levin.mv.com (Joel B Levin) Subject: Re: Call Letters Now-a-Days. Message-ID: <3115681f.172209812@quartz.mv.com> Reply-To: jbl@levin.mv.com Organization: At home. Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 02:18:06 GMT References: <4f06vn$ma2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <1996Feb4.130436.14532@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/16.182 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: levin.mv.com Lines: 24 In <1996Feb4.130436.14532@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, Gary Coffman wrote: |Now when the Vanity call sign program starts, things will become |even more confused since newly minted licensees will be able to |get old W4xxx or K4xxx call signs for a fee. I've thought about |getting W4ZV just to be contrary, but decided it wasn't worth |it. You'll still have to upgrade. Calls that are in a group designated only for a certain class of license or higher are not available under the vanity program to those not holding at least that grade. W4ZV would be available only to an extra class licensee. On the other hand, some call sign sequences have never been issued to my knowledge -- what if I asked for something completely off the wall like WT1AA? Hmmm... /JBL -- Nets: levin@bbn.com | or jbl@levin.mv.com| pots: (617)873-3463 | "I gotta go." ARS: KD1ON | -- I. Shoale s From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:15 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.telalink.net!uro!jackatak!root From: root@jackatak.theporch.com (Jack GF Hill) Subject: Re: Call Letters Now-a-Days. Organization: Jack's Amazing CockRoach Capitalist Ventures Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 03:58:46 GMT Message-ID: References: <3115681f.172209812@quartz.mv.com> Sender: bbs@nowhere.uucp (generalized bbs login) Lines: 22 jbl@levin.mv.com (Joel B Levin) writes: > On the other hand, some call sign sequences have never been issued to my > knowledge -- what if I asked for something completely off the wall like > WT1AA? Hmmm... Hate to throw cold water on the "never been issued" idea, but back in the early 1970s, during a snafu at the FCC, I was, for a brief time, issued WT1AAG... this leads me to conclude that a) there were at *least* six other folks who had WT1 calls issued for different reasons... (mine was an STA while they were researching a callsign request -- the $20 to buy your old call back deal of long ago) -- 73, Jack - W4PPT/M +--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--+ | Jack GF Hill |Voice: (615) 459-2636 - Ham Call: W4PPT | | P. O. Box 1685 |Modem: (615) 377-5980 - Bicycling and SCUBA Diving | | Brentwood, TN 37024|Fax: (615) 459-0038 - Life Member - ARRL | | root@jackatak.theporch.com - "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" | +--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--+ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!newsserver.rdcs.Kodak.COM!usenet From: Bill Rhodes Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Call Letters Now-a-Days. Date: 9 Feb 1996 20:38:39 GMT Organization: Mfg Eng Resource Ctr Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4fgbcf$l1c@kodak.rdcs.Kodak.COM> References: <4f06vn$ma2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rhodesmac.raster.kodak.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12(Macintosh; U; 68K) To: motuiti@aol.com X-URL: news:4f06vn$ma2@newsbf02.news.aol.com The answer to your questions is not straight forward. RE: #1 Yes, the FCC still issues calls by number district and they are the same as they have been for many years; however, they no longer automatically re-issue your call if you move from one area to another. So you will now hear many 2 calls with California addresses, etc. RE#2 They were at one time, however since they went to the expanded call letter base I think they may not be doing it actively anymore. The advent of vanity calls will likely get many reassigned again. RE#3 Yes but nut with absolute certainty. All other things being equal when you apply for a license the FCC assigns from a specific group e.g. 2x3 calls starting with KA, KB are technician, 2x1 calls starting with AA, AB etc are extra, etc. However, if you upgrade you have the option to keep your old call so once again you can not tell a person's license class for sure by their callsign. RE#4 I do not know the chronology completely but it is published. Several of the ham mags publish the last call issued in each class so you can see where they are. The chronolgy started with the separating of the classes to specific call structure (as in #3) e.g. Tech started with KA2AAA thru KA2ZZZ, then KB2AAA THRU KB2ZZZ, etc. Hope that is helpful, I know it is all written down somewhere, but due to the fact that you cannot really tell much as many people keep their old calls after upgrade I do not try to keep track of it anymore....73 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Cape Cod Teacher Fired Date: 3 Feb 1996 11:48:41 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4evi2p$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4e7vbg$8rs@s2.GANet.NET> <8B9D2D4.13450007A7.uuout@psybbs.durham.nc.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: s202.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) robert@kd3bj.ampr.org (Robert E. Garland) wrote: > >No, according to the news reports, it was NOT Burt Fisher. For one, I >think he teaches in another district. Then again, Burt Fisher may be a >pseudonym, and his signature line may be inaccurate. The teacher fired teaches 6 miles from where I live. I teach 6 miles from where I live. Check my call to see if my name matches up. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:19 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!fish.pond.com!kd3bj!kd3bj.ampr.org!robert From: robert@kd3bj.ampr.org (Robert E. Garland) Subject: Re: Cape Cod Teacher Fired Sender: usenet@kd3bj.ampr.org (News Posting Phantom User) Organization: The KD3BJ Usenet BBS Message-ID: References: <4e7vbg$8rs@s2.GANet.NET> <8B9D2D4.13450007A7.uuout@psybbs.durham.nc.us> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: jupiter.kd3bj.ampr.org Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 04:08:36 GMT Lines: 8 No, according to the news reports, it was NOT Burt Fisher. For one, I think he teaches in another district. Then again, Burt Fisher may be a pseudonym, and his signature line may be inaccurate. 73 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:20 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Cape Cod Teacher Fired Date: 4 Feb 1996 11:52:38 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4f26m6$a2h@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4e7vbg$8rs@s2.GANet.NET> <8B9D2D4.13450007A7.uuout@psybbs.durham.nc.us> <4evi2p$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <4f17l7$2ts@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: s202.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) Gareth Crispell wrote: >This is quite correct. Mr.Fisher and the fired teacher are two entirely >different people. > >N1MSV You spoiled my fun. I was trying to get them to think I was the one fired. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:21 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!guardian.up.edu!gateway.sequent.com!news.orst.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Gareth Crispell Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Cape Cod Teacher Fired Date: 4 Feb 1996 03:03:03 GMT Organization: Craigville Conference Center Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4f17l7$2ts@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4e7vbg$8rs@s2.GANet.NET> <8B9D2D4.13450007A7.uuout@psybbs.durham.nc.us> <4evi2p$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: s206.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) This is quite correct. Mr.Fisher and the fired teacher are two entirely different people. N1MSV From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:21 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nuclear.microserve.net!news.paonline.com!usenet From: "Joseph G. Hill" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Cincinnati Hamfest Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:48:01 -0500 Organization: shivasys.com Lines: 4 Message-ID: <31143A81.6919@shivasys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.189.80.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) Amyone know the date, time, location, etc. of the winter Cincinnati Hamfest. Are there usually PC dealers there? 73, Joe AB4SC From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:25 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!a2i!sierra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!brutus.bright.net!news From: wedowler@bright.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Cincinnati Hamfest Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 19:02:16 Xed Organization: BrightNet Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <31143A81.6919@shivasys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.212.115.126 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage In Article<31143A81.6919@shivasys.com>, write: > Path: brutus.bright.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nuclear.microser v e.net!news.paonline.com!usenet > From: "Joseph G. Hill" > Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc > Subject: Cincinnati Hamfest > Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:48:01 -0500 > Organization: shivasys.com > Lines: 4 > Message-ID: <31143A81.6919@shivasys.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.189.80.53 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) > > Amyone know the date, time, location, etc. of the winter Cincinnati > Hamfest. Are there usually PC dealers there? > 73, > Joe AB4SC Cincinnati ARRL '96 Feb 24-25 '96 Joe its a good hamvention I have gone the last 5 years and yes they have computers new and used. Advanced registration is $6 and $8 at the door. Talk in 144.77/145.37 73, Warren NS8R From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!netnews.upenn.edu!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!intac!intac.com!not-for-mail From: gkantor@intac.com (Gary Kantor) Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Clegg FM-27B and Regency radios Date: 3 Feb 1996 17:38:21 -0500 Organization: INTAC Access Corporation-- An Internet Service Provider. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4f0o4t$62i@nile.intac.com> References: <4ens9c$89e@dub-news-svc-2.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nile.intac.com Keywords: regency clegg hr-6 hr-2 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.swap:56976 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24669 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97829 Steve, Funny you should mention the FM-27B and the HR-2 in the same sentence. The running joke of that era was that if you had a Clegg FM-27B and a Regency HR-2 with a 146.940 receive crystal, you could indeed work all of 146 - 148 MHz at the same time! The Clegg was capable of transmitting over that entire rang e simultaneously and the Regency was so W-I-D-E that it could receive everything within 1 MHz of the crystal (Center) frequency! "The way Clegg talks and the way Regency hears, it's a perfect match!" Yenta the Matchmaker.... 73's Gary, WA2BAU From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Stephan M. Anderman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Clegg FM-27B and Regency radios Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 19:03:04 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <4ens9c$89e@dub-news-svc-2.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1g.delphi.com X-To: <72527.01012@compuserve.com> Hey wait a minute.....! I have an FM-27B. And I still use it from time to time. Damn boomerang... Been stolen from my car three (yes, count 'em - 3!) times. and it keeps finding its way home, like a homing pidgeon! And when I put it on the air, all manner of things home in on my QTH, angry neighbors, stray jetliners out of Pittsburgh, scud missiles, cable TV tech reps, and NYNEX security personnel . So be careful what you say about these vintage radios. Bring back the spark CW transmitters, while you're at it, too!!! - Enjoy de Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB (address withheld by request) sanderman @ delphi.com - Fine business, Chuck. You're a little scr a t c h y in to th e r epe ate r , bu t p e r f e c t y re adab l e. Ri g he r e i s a n old C l e gg F M - t wo s ev e n B ra v o i nt o a Ri n go om ni an te nna at a bou t From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:28 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!cc.iu.net!news From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Club Call signs (how?) Date: 5 Feb 1996 03:57:00 GMT Organization: Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4f3v6c$ebu@cc.iu.net> References: <960130160047258@digcir.cts.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) NNTP-Posting-Host: netport-69.iu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <960130160047258@digcir.cts.com>, ej.johnson@digcir.cts.com (Ej Johnson) wr ites: > Can anyone tell me how to apply for a club Call? >What forms do I need? call the FCC forms distribution center - ask for a form 610B (by the way, the one i just got from the FCC is different in layout than what the ARRL had sent me a while back...but the form number and dates are the same...the new forms have a block for new/renewals where the old forms are just set up for renewals . Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!hookup!news.nstn.ca!inforamp.net!ts33-01 From: mmss@inforamp.net Newsgroups: alt.radio,alt.radio.whadya-know,rec.radio,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Cool music sites. Date: 4 Feb 1996 08:06:32 GMT Organization: InfoRamp Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4f1pe8$3ar@sam.inforamp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts33-01.tor.inforamp.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: news.epix.net alt.radio.whadya-know:568 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97708 The Rockhouse: http://www.rockhouse.com/CANADA/homepages/2.html Underground Music Archive: http://www.iuma.com/IUMA-2.0/ftp/indexes/IUMA/artist/Sa'les,_Mig/ State of Independents, 101.1 FM the Planet: http://vaxxine.com/soi/migsales.html MDP Promotions: http://www.xtc.net/~klemm/migsales.html From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!castle.nando.net!news From: johnmb@nando.net (john) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Correction: vintage communication gear page... Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 18:43:01 GMT Organization: News & Observer Public Access Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3114fde3.3583471@news2.nando.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: grail1819.nando.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Sorry for the earlier mis-post... the correct URL for my tube type ham gear page is: http://www.zynet.com/~johnb Have fun, /john From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: CQ DX Date: 3 Feb 1996 11:50:46 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: s202.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------191041802929022" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------191041802929022 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---------------------------------191041802929022 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Who the hell am I to call CQDX. I have been a ham for over 34 years and in 28 of those I could only afford crummy rigs and antennas. There were so many stations I could have worked (and called) if they were not calling CQDX. I have NEVER called CQDX, although today I am much better equiped. Many times when I call CQ I would prefer DX, who am I to EXCLUDE anyone. If someone wants to talk to me who am I to be selective? When my beam is headed towards DX and I get a domestic call it is usually from a station using a dipole, remember all hams are not "Big guns." And in reality to be a "real man" is not predicated on how much money you have. When you call CQDX, think about what you are really saying (calling anyone but no Americans need answer). From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: otterson@mindspring.com (Jeff Otterson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Crystal Vendors Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 01:48:17 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4fblu0$epn@brickbat.mindspring.com> Reply-To: otterson@mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: otterson.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I have seen several recent pleas for information about crystal vendors. I have bought crystal from the following vendors: Bomar Crystal. 800-526-3935. They now have a $50 minimum order, and unless you have an account with them, don't start on your order until they receive your check. Did not take plastic, last time I asked. But-- Their prices were extremely reasonable. CTS/Marden. 800-222-6093. Takes credit card. reasonable prices. If you are willing to wait, they can be cheap... Rush orders are more expensive. ICM/International Crystal. 800-725-1426. Takes credit card. Most expensive of the lot. Good place for those oddball crystals that nobody else can make. JAN Crystal. 800-JAN-XTAL. Why do they seem unremarkable to me? Not the cheapest, not the most expensive, but 2nd to ICM in price, as I recall. I used to use Bomar exclusively, but the $50 minimum pissed me off, so I have been buying from CTS/Marden. ICM gets the orders for those strange TCXO crystals, and series resonant oddballs. Jeff Otterson ------------- otterson@mindspring.com Maker and user of tools PGP key available at http://www.mindspring.com/~otterson/pgp.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.socketis.net!usenet From: albraun@socketis.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CT vs. NA Contest Software--Which is better? Date: 4 Feb 1996 20:01:59 GMT Organization: SOCKET Internet Services INN site Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4f33bn$f4d@news.socketis.net> References: <31150223.170F@clark.net> Reply-To: albraun@socketis.net NNTP-Posting-Host: op006.socketis.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <31150223.170F@clark.net>, Jack Jeffery writes: >I'm planning on buying contest software soon, and have narrowed down my >choices to two products--CT or NA. However, I'm really not sure which >product has more to offer. > CT has been around longer, which is probably the reason more contesters use it. Originally CT did strictly DX contests; K8CC developed NA, using the same basic user interface as CT, to fill in the gap and do the domestic contests that CT ignored. In fact, both of them started out as freeware: I got my first diskettes of each program as freebies at Dayton a few years ago. As time went on, however, both programs went commercial and they started overlapping each other in terms of what contests they did. Now they both do all the same basic contests (with each covering a couple of "second tier" contests that the other does not), but they still use the same basic interface with the function keys doing mostly all the same things. However, their file formats are, and have always been, different, so that you cannot take a file generated by one and load it into the other. Until recently, updates to CT were available more readily than for NA, because K1EA had a landline BBS for several years before the NA people did, but as I understand it both programs now provide on-line updates to registered users. Bottom line...you pays your money and you takes your pick... there isn't a whole lot in terms of functionality to recommend one over the other. Just my opinion, FWIW, based on usage of CT versions 3 thru 9, and NA up through version 7. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Alan Braun MD, NS0B/V31EV *Internet: albraun@socketis.net * * Jefferson City, MO *Packet: NS0B@N0LBA.#cemo.mo.usa.noam * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:34 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon!ames!waikato!midland.co.nz!usenet From: Bruce Kingsbury Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: drew advocates tresspassing and vandalism Date: 5 Feb 1996 13:37:08 GMT Organization: CherryBomb! Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4ek999$39b@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: omega.co.nz X-Gateway: Hellsgate 0.5b X-ftn-PID: Timed-B10 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.cb:26145 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97798 > I got another method: get a syrringe and inject salt water in the cable > that will work wonders I got an answer to that. My "coax" is a length of spare 75ohm TV coax, which goes from my window along the side of the house and up to the top of the pole. The real coax goes down through a hole in the floor, underground and up the centre of the pole. I'll probably add some sort of tamper-alarm to the "coax" one day too, or perhaps just put a few hundred volts on it. There are a lot of dickhead CBers who think they can DF and go around cutting the first coax they see just 'cos they're getting an S9. -- .-'~~~-. .'o oOOOo`. : - :~~~-.oOo o`. `. \ ~-. oOOo. bruce@cherrybomb.omega.co.nz `.; / ~. OO: Fax: +64 7 847-5513 .' ;-- `.o.' , Voice: NISTIM0L0C ,' ; ~~--'~ \|/ ; ; ____\|//_______\|/________\\;_\\//___\|/________ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:35 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: ozarks333@aol.com (OZARKS 333) Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: drew advocates tresspassing and vandalism Date: 3 Feb 1996 11:48:52 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 9 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4f03lk$l5h@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4ek999$39b@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: ozarks333@aol.com (OZARKS 333) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.cb:26196 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97911 Once again the Prodigy, cyber-retentive, cloak threat, holier than thou, speaketh. If you guys cant take a joke than turn off your monitors. As far as "legal proceedings" against the posting of a users views I suggest you consult the 1st Amendment. You could not even prove conspiracy based on the posting unless specific names and locations where included. I suggest you half-wits stick to Ham Radio and leave living our lives to the fullest to the rest of us. QSL From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: SRDJAN@ZAMIR-ZG.ZTN.APC.ORG (srdjan dvornik) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: e.mekic@zamir-sa.ztn.apc.org:Info-Ha Date: 3 Feb 96 08:32:27 GMT Organization: ZaMir Transnational Net Lines: 8 Message-ID: <29.5209@zamir-zg.ztn.apc.org> References: <199602020742.XAA14912@mail.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu you are not allowed to send messages bigger than 102.4 kb thru this net. srdjan dvornik zamir-zg support From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!post.its.mcw.edu!usenet From: simon twigger Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Extra Exam question selection... Date: 4 Feb 1996 20:04:50 GMT Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4f33h2$nhv@post.its.mcw.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.106.116.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:rec.radio.amateur.misc Hi there, I have been looking at the Extra Class examination and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how a VEC would select the questions from the question pool to make up a suitable examination paper. For the other exams N,T,G and A, it's nice and straightforward - select one question from each subelement and there you have it. However, for the Extra exam it seems less obvious how its done. For example, for subelement 4BA, there should be 8 questions but the subelement only appears to be divided into 7 sections (4BA-1 to 4BA-7)...so which section has two questions? I ask because I am playing around with HTML and CGI scripts and have written a practice examination generator which works very nicely for the other four examinations but the Extra exam is somewhat older and rather less 'user friendly'! ( I realise a site exists at http://w5ac.tamu.edu/ham-exam.html which does this job very well already, I just wanted to write my own, and even they are having fun and games with the Extra exam.) If there is anyone out there who could explain the 'rules' that are used to generate this exam I would be very gratefull. Many thanks, Simon, AA9PW. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:39 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!bug.rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!lebanet!rdsnet!larry.shaud From: larry.shaud@rds.leba.net (LARRY SHAUD) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: for sale D104... etc Message-ID: <8BA004B.00EE0010EB.uuout@rds.leba.net> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 01:15:00 -0500 Distribution: world Organization: RDSNet BBS, Lebanon, PA, 717-228-2322 rdsnet.com Reply-To: larry.shaud@rds.leba.net (LARRY SHAUD) References: X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Lines: 53 -=> Quoting Mitchell to All <=- Mi> @FROM :mitchell@scoot.netis.com Mi> N @UMSGID : Mi> N @UNEWSGR:01rec.radio.amateur.misc Mi> N Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Mi> From: mitchell@scoot.netis.com Mi> Subject: for sale D104... etc Mi> Sender: usenet@arrow.netis.com (Usenet Netnews) Mi> Organization: NETIS Public Access Internet Mi> Message-ID: Mi> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:35:59 GMT Mi> I am upgrading my old 386dx40 system to a Pentium system. In the Mi> process Mi> I have many usefull parts to try to peddle. The items are listed below Mi> and priced to go fast. They will be sold first come first serve. Mi> Get back to me fast or make offer if only kinda interested. Mi> 1 meg 32 pin simms $20 each Have 4 Mi> IO card providing 2 com ports $3 Mi> 80mb scsi hard drive as is $7 1 meg segment on hd is bad, but I Mi> just partitioned it off and use the other 79 no problem. Mi> Samsung data monitor, color cga with vga adaptor plug $15 Mi> XT computer only no monitor or keyboard all else there.$18 or make Mi> offer!!!!!! Mi> SCSI controller cable. 3 feet or so long. $3 ($5 to $15 new) Mi> brand new dual floppy drive. 5 1/4 and 3 1/2. Fits in 5 1/4 size bay Mi> Just one floppy sells for$45new. This went $120 new asking $55 Mi> 2 working printers. Both have manuals and work fine. Mi> Toshiba Expresswriter 420 Mi> Star SG 15 Mi> I will sell them for $40 each or both for $70 Mi> Also have Mi> D104 microphone $30 Mi> 40ch Pierce Simpson cb mobile set $15 Mi> several 23 channel cb mobile sets $7 that model of pierce simpsom do you have ... Catch the Blue Wave! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:40 1996 Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.equip,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!wang!uunet!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!not-for-mail From: dconti@carroll.com (Daniel M. Conti) Subject: FS : Alinco DR 590 T 2M/440 dual bander, MINT...mods X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Carroll-Net Message-ID: X-Trace: 823751246/18103 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: poseidon05.carroll.com Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 06:36:10 GMT Lines: 11 Xref: news.epix.net alt.radio.scanner:27329 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97876 rec.radio.scanner:45227 rec.radio.swap:57086 Alinco DR 590 T 2M/440 dual bander for sale. This rig is MINT, in box with manual, all acces. Radio has ben upgraded to 600T specs, and also has been modified for out o fband RX and TX ... Also includes optional EDC-20 15 foot extension kit for remote mount of head, and EJ-7U tone decode unit. $450.00 shipped to 48...COD $5.00 extra. E-Mail if interested From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:41 1996 Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.equip,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!wang!uunet!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!not-for-mail From: dconti@carroll.com (Daniel M. Conti) Subject: FS : Alinco DR 610 T, 2M/440 dual bander, MINT, in box.... X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Carroll-Net Message-ID: X-Trace: 823751240/18103 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: poseidon05.carroll.com Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 06:36:04 GMT Lines: 5 Xref: news.epix.net alt.radio.scanner:27328 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97875 rec.radio.scanner:45226 rec.radio.swap:57085 Alinco DR 610 T 2M/440 mobile dual bander, MIN, harldy used in box with manual, all accessories. Also includes optional EJ-24U tone decode unit. $500.00 shipped to 48. COD $5.00 Extra. E-Mail please if interested. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:42 1996 Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.equip,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!interactive.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.new-york.net!news2.new-york.net!not-for-mail From: dconti@carroll.com (Daniel M. Conti) Subject: FS> Azden AZ-61A 6 meter HT, MINT - Brand NEW..Steal at $225.00 Shipped! X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Carroll-Net Message-ID: X-Trace: 823214236/11778 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: poseidon01.carroll.com Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 01:26:38 GMT Lines: 6 Xref: news.epix.net alt.radio.scanner:27264 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97795 rec.radio.scanner:45114 rec.radio.swap:56930 Azden AZ-61A 6 meter HT, MINT, in box, with manual, all access., hardly used, BRAND NEW. They sell for $380.00 new. $225.00 Shipped to 48. COD $5.00 extra. E-Mail if interested From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.flint.umich.edu!gfn1.genesee.freenet.org!gfn1!bkotarsk From: bkotarsk@gfn1.genesee.freenet.org (Bill L. Kotarski) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Date: 4 Feb 1996 06:14:02 GMT Organization: The Genesee Free-Net Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4f1ira$79f@gfn1.genesee.freenet.org> References: <8B9C03F.0029003DDA.uuout@hobbs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gfn1.genesee.freenet.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ROLAND STINER (roland.stiner@hobbs.com) wrote: > To: bkotarsk@gfn1.genesee.freenet.org > Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! > B>The World just can't keep giving you everything you desire.. you must > >work for what you want... and If you want HF you must work at it... Life > >is as simple as you want to make it or as HARD as you want to make it... > Oh boy, now you've done it! Are you saying that people have to WORK for > the privileges they get? How dare you require people to give a little > of themselves to get something? Haven't you ever heard of WELFARE? > It's the same thing, people think they're entitled to it without giving > anything back to society! I was trying to be nice and Not mention that WELFARE word.... I also think that the F.C.C. should require them to pass a SENDING test.. I have listened in the CW portion of the bands and there are lots of CW users who donot pause between words.. They just RAMBLE on joining words together... There is a SKILL at sending CW and us RECIEVERS have to suffer by trying to copy a person who doesnot know how to send the code,, and you can tell that they are using a KEYBOARD to send it... -- ai720@detroit.freenet.org-------------------- bkotarsk@genesee.freenet.org sfuxdis@frog.thpl.lib.fl.us------------------bkotarsk@freenet.grfn.org bill.kotarski@cmail.com And Whatever Else You People Call Me N8JOS--- General Class since 1968 EX-WB8DKR and WN8DKR From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!news.westnet.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.new-york.net!news.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!jbaltz From: jbaltz@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B Altzman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.policy Date: 4 Feb 1996 03:38:16 GMT Organization: double ionizers association Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4f19n8$nud@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca> <4eoi84$ffd@news.greatbasin.net> <184@ibbs.av.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: watsun.cc.columbia.edu In article <184@ibbs.av.org>, Jeff Stillinger wrote: >So we get rid of CW. What is next? How much easier do people want it to be >to get a license? Morse is required, so just do it. Oh I forgot that is a >bit of work. We would not want to work for our reward. Reward? How much different is an Amateur License from a driver's license? We aren't required to show evidence of "work" for the latter, we just have to pass the tests. >because there are people like me who demand they work for a license. Learn >a new skill, and then use it. Show me where, in Part 97, one is required to exert work to obtain an amateur license. Please respect the Followup-to: line. >Jeff Stillinger - KB6IBB js@ibbs.av.org //jbaltz jerry b. altzman Entropy just isn't what it used to be +1 212 650 5617 jbaltz@columbia.edu jbaltz@sci.ccny.cuny.edu KE3ML (HEPNET) NEVIS::jbaltz From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mint.net!n1naf.mint.net!n1naf From: n1naf@mint.net (Michael Francoeur) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:30:12 Organization: Maine Internet Works Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> <4ev23k$b9c@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-16.mint.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] CW is a requirement and I think it should stay. If I can pass my 13 wpm anyone can! All that is required is work and practice, but such is the state of life these days. "Give me what I want let alone that I haven't proved my worth". I rarely use code, but I still do from time to time. It's a realiable means of communication through less than ideal conditions. You may appreciate the value some day if you find yourself in a collasped building. 73 de Mike N1NAF@MINT.NET or N1NAF@KA1RTW.ME.USA.NA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:46 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 7 Feb 1996 22:04:23 GMT Organization: Planet Access - Stanhope, NJ Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4fb7l7$n06@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4f5vv5$q2e@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan48.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > molder@dnr.state.wi.us (Robert Moldenhauer) writes: > In article <184@ibbs.av.org>, js@ibbs.av.org says... > > > > > > >So we get rid of CW. What is next? How much easier do people want it to be > >to get a license? Morse is required, so just do it. Oh I forgot that is a > >bit of work. We would not want to work for our reward. > > There is a priciple of the work must be related to the reward. Most people > who want access to HF want it for purposes other than CW, such as SSTV, > Packet, etc. CW 9or more appropriately Morse Code) is just another data > encoding scheme, memorizing it for a test is silly. Memorizing it for a > givernment sponsored test for a hobby is worse, it's just another example o f > big government... > > >>>> ZZZZZZZZ snitzz huh??? wha???? sorry feel asleep.... Her'es the horse see the horse run here's the gun..see the gun shot the horse here's a broomstick..see the broomstick beat this dead horse BORING!!!!!! just my op's From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!ub!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp.cntfl.com!books From: books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:01:15 GMT Organization: CMDS News machine Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4f5glb$odg@server.cntfl.com> References: <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> <4ev23k$b9c@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.90.27.7 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] WA8ULX (wa8ulx@aol.com) wrote: > Roger Iam having a problem trying to find out why you want HF Privilages > anyway. What do you expect to do on HF that you cant do on VHF? Actually, for what I want to do it doesn't matter. I don't plan on every getting anything beyond codeless technician class anyway. It's just the silliness of trying to defend using an outdated communications technology as a license requirement kind of set off the BS filters and I couldn't resist. I was also rather annoyed at the current state of testing. For some reason it really annoys me to find that the written test is such a farce. I guess it fits right in with the educational expectations of most Americans, but it is a sad commentary on our society. "Oh, actually learning something useful is too hard, they should just tell us the answers." I've seen too many students in college trying to blame the professor or someone else because they don't learn the material. Here they are GIVEN the answers. It takes the feeling of accomplishment out of getting my license. The whole process went from challenge to annoyance. As for the code, why not provide real challenges that take useful knowledge as apposed to a contrived challenge? Roger Obnote: before looking at test answers I went and took the online tests. I failed miserably on the novice test because I didn't know the shorthand. I made 18 out of 25 on the tech test by falling back on my USN data systems technician electronics knowledge. What does this mean? I don't know. Obnote2: I enjoy a good arguement. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:48 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.bluesky.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!baan.nl!jmaas From: jmaas@baan.nl (Johan Maas) Subject: Guest Call for India Sender: news@baan.nl Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:54:48 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: daly.baan.nl Organization: Baan Nederland bv Lines: 15 Hello All, I am going for three months to India, I like for the time i am in India a Gues t CALL sign. How is the procedure to get a quest call. Maybe somebody knows an contactperson I am seeing forward to receive some information! 73 from Johan PA3GSB From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:49 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.fr!jussieu.fr!pasteur.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!not-for-mail From: jchapman@freenet.columbus.oh.us (John Chapman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Guest Call for India Date: 7 Feb 1996 08:52:29 -0500 Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4faaqt$gaa@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Johan Maas (jmaas@baan.nl) wrote: : Hello All, : I am going for three months to India, I like for the time i am in India a Gu est CALL sign. : How is the procedure to get a quest call. : Maybe somebody knows an contactperson The first place to check would be your national amateur radio organization in The Netherlands, they should have the information available, even if you are not a member..... The American Radio Relay League handles that here in the US......... I have been to India several times, but never long enough to worry about operating from there... Good luck! -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- John Chapman WB8INY Ohio Section ARES, District Emergency Coordinator, District 7 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/wb8iny (try it, you'll like it) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!tribune.meitca.com!ulowell.uml.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!agis!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!torn!news.unb.ca!nbt.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: btaylor@mailserv.nbnet.nb.ca (Brent Taylor) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Guides on the Air - Skeds and Freqs? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 23:50:43 GMT Organization: NBNet Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4f657e$c66@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: btaylor.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I have been approached by a group of guides in my area to help get them on the air the weekend of February 17 and 18. Could anybody tell me the suggested times and frequencies for these QSOs? Thanks in advance... Brent Taylor, VE1JH Doaktown, N.B. FN66wn From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:51 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: frankb2686@aol.com (FrankB2686) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham magazine back issue contents Date: 5 Feb 1996 02:11:04 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 2 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4f4ai8$6eo@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: frankb2686@aol.com (FrankB2686) Does anyone know of an online site that lists the contents of back issues of ham magazines such as QST, CQ, 73, etc? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:52 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xavier.cybersmith.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news.net99.net!news1.exit109.com!ppp23-tr From: harryjb@exit109.com (Harry J. Britton) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ham Radio Saturn Car Computer Problems Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 04:25:15 GMT Organization: Alantic Internet Technologies, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4f6l88$3t5@news1.exit109.com> References: <4d3pnv$13k@tech.mm.occ.cccd.edu><4d5jeg$1uvs@news.gate.net> <118@ibbs.av.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp23-tr.exit109.com Keywords: Saturn Car Computer X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article , braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) wrote: >In article <118@ibbs.av.org> js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) writes: >>From: js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) >>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:10:37 GMT >>Subject: Re: Ham Radio Saturn Car Computer Problems > >I have used my Kenwood TM241 transceiver in my SL2 for several years now, >without problems. I have taken no special precautions, in fact, I have the >power cable plugged directly into the fuse block and transmit with 50 watts. >My antenna is trunk lid mounted (by the way, the trunk is not made of plastic). > >I have not heard of anyone else having such problems with the Saturn. I am glad >I purchased my SATURN and will buy another one in the future. > >Bob, KG7WC > >************************************************************************** >* BRAYMOND@NS.POWERAMP.NET - Spokane, WA - Amateur Radio KG7WC * >************************************************************************** > Hi Bob: I have a '95 SL1 and I've run 130W HF with one of those tripod magnet mounts. (Powered with another BIG car battery on the floor. :-) I haven't tried Hi-Po VHF yet, but no problems on HF either.. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:53 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.tcd.net!news From: rayc@tcd.net (Ray D. Congdon) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ham Radio Saturn Car Computer Problems Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 21:22:43 GMT Organization: ISA-USA Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <4d3pnv$13k@tech.mm.occ.cccd.edu><4d5jeg$1uvs@news.gate.net> <118@ibbs.av.org> <4f6l88$3t5@news1.exit109.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip4.cedar.tcd.net X-Newsreader: Quarterdeck Message Center [1.0] SL2 owner here (well actually my wife is... she lets me drive it occasionally...) Have had several HF, 2m & 440 rigs in it. No problems... and I'll be buying another fer sure! ---- Ray D. Congdon N7HQK ISA-USA 5515 N. 4400 W. Cedar City, Utah 84720 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.inc.net!novia!news.dpc.net!news.heurikon.com!uwvax!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: cowanr@isma8.monmouth.army.mil Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham Trader Date: 6 Feb 96 15:05:00 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 8 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu Harlan, I have 1-800-774-2623. Amateur Radio Trader P.O. Box 3729 Crossville, Tn 38557 73, Roland WF4P.AAR2AA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:55 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!news.kei.com!intac!hobbs!roland.stiner From: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Help to operate in Japan. Message-ID: <8BA22E0.0029003EB6.uuout@hobbs.com> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 96 12:16:00 -0500 Distribution: world Organization: _T_H_E__R_O_Y__H_O_B_B_S__BBS Moonachie NJ 201-641-7307 Reply-To: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Lines: 27 To: desaid@marshall.edu Subject: Help to operate in Japan.. seeking advise D>I just got a word that I will be travelling to Japan. I will be >staying in Japan for seven months. I would like to know how ot >get the operating privileges at Japan. I have advance class >license here. I would appreciate if someone give me some >suggestions or point me in right direction. Contact the ARRL at 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111 They will give you all the information on the above you need to get going. --- OLX 1.53 de, NK2U --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: CyberNet BBS Lyndhurst, NJ (1:2604/151) .....oooooOOOOOo http://www.intac.com/~cono __,-----. ---+_________#_ The Roy Hobbs BBS sysop@hobbs.com |________| |__|___________} Node 1: 201-641-7307 ooooo oo ~ ooO-O-O-O == oo\ Node 2: 201-641-3126 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:57 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.binc.net!news From: hansons@mailbag.com (Jason Hanson) Newsgroups: alt.culture.ny-upstate,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa,alt.rhode_island,misc.transport.road,rec.autos.driving,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.travel.usa-canada,alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Help with trip to NE US/SE Canada Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 02:39:03 GMT Organization: Berbee Information Networks Corporation Lines: 48 Message-ID: <4f6fd5$nei@grandcanyon.binc.net> Reply-To: hansons@mailbag.com NNTP-Posting-Host: msn_2_4.binc.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net alt.culture.ny-upstate:17600 soc.culture.canada:106959 soc.culture.usa:107106 alt.rhode_island:14019 misc.transport.road:970 rec.autos.driving:108240 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97796 rec.travel.usa-canada:37193 alt.radio.scanner:27270 rec.radio.scanner:45120 My fiancee and I will be married May 4, after which we will embark on our honeymoon. Below is our intended route - what we are looking for are hotel suggestions, dining suggestions, places to visit, must-see activities, road information, alternate routes, availabilities of services, known speedtraps, 2m repeaters, police scanner frequencies, and any other things you'd like to throw in, including flames for the wide cross-posting of this message. I-94 Madison, WI to Chicago, IL I-94 Chicago, IL to Detroit, MI/Windsor, ON ON401 Windsor, ON to Toronto, ON ON401 Toronto, ON to PQ/ON line TC20 PQ/ON line to Montreal, PQ TC20 Montreal, PQ to Quebec, PQ TC20 Quebec, PQ to Riviere-du-Loup, PQ TC185 R-d-L, PQ to PQ/NB line TC2 PQ/NB line to NB/ME line -- US1 NB/ME line to Brunswick, ME -or- I-95 NB/ME line to Bangor, ME and US1 Bangor, ME to Brunswick, ME -- I-95 Brunswick, ME to Boston, MA I-95 Boston, MA to New Haven, CT I-95 New Haven, CT to NYC, NY NY17 rural NYC, NY to I-390 (Is this road 55 or 65?) I-390 from NY17 to US20-Alt US20-Alt from I-390 to Buffalo, NY I-190 Buffalo, NY to Niagara Falls, NY/ON QEW Niagara Falls, ON to ON401 ON401 from QEW to London, ON ON402 London, ON to ON/MI line I-69 ON/MI line to I-94 I-94 back to Madison Any suggestions, comments, etc. will be appreciated - we have 9-10 days to do this and we are rather fast people - driving and sightseeing. Also, please reply via email since there is such a wide variety of newsgroups that would be included in a posted followup... Thank you very much to any or all with suggestions! -- Jason Hanson hansons@mailbag.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:58 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.igc.net!usenet From: yv5dta@igc.net (Steve Morao) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: HELP! Need Diagram for Page Electronic Date: 3 Feb 1996 22:42:56 GMT Organization: Internet Gateway Connections Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4f0odg$im6@IRIS.igc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: runabout1-55.igc.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.3 Hi I NEEDS THE DIAGRAMS, DATA ON WAVEFORMS & VOLTAGE OR A MANUAL ON A PAG EL ELECTRONICS ,600MHZ FREQUENCY COUNTER BUILT IN RESEDA CALIFORNIA ABOUT 1973... Please if you have this info, e-mail me direct to:yv5dta@igc.net Steve Morao yv5dta@igc.net http://www.igc.net/~yv5dta/ham.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:06:58 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.emi.com!news.algorithms.com!usenet From: Ryan Workman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 12:36:17 -0500 Organization: Algorithms, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 167.152.154.249 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I) To All: Here is my situation: I recently upgraded to Tech Plus and bought an HF Rig. Kenwood Ts-450/AT. I constructed a 10 meter dipole. The dipole is reasonant at 28.400. But, the band seems to be flat. Is it really that dead or could I have done something wrong???? I also have a R7 I will be installing when the weather breaks. Any Suggestions?? Please let me know! 73, Ryan, KB2OOP Email: Workman@Algorithms.Com or Ryan.Workman@Jemsoft.Com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:00 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 5 Feb 1996 13:30:04 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4f50os$6li@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-01.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Feb 05 5:30:04 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) To: workman@algorithms.com Ryan Workman wrote: > I constructed a 10 meter dipole. The dipole is reasonant at >28.400. But, the band seems to be flat. Is it really that dead or could >I have done something wrong???? I also have a R7 I will be installing >when the weather breaks. > Hi Ryan, yep the band is that dead. We are near the low of the 11 year sunspot cycle. Have a local amateur check your signal on 10M, then get on the DX Packet Cluster in your area -- if 10M opens and it does occaisionly with sporadic E layer propagation the DX boys will post an alert. In the past few weeks we have had KH6, LU, PY and some Central American stations reported on 10M here in Calif. You shud hear some Carribean stuff there in N.J. If you can get the R7 up and running you should do quite well on 40M both during the day and eve. Propagation is very good on this band during the winter. The R7 only needs to be 7 or 8 foot off the ground -- its a super low angle radiator and works quite well. Good Luck Rod From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:01 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.socketis.net!usenet From: albraun@socketis.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 6 Feb 1996 07:02:42 GMT Organization: SOCKET Internet Services INN site Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4f6uei$o2k@news.socketis.net> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> Reply-To: albraun@socketis.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ro005.socketis.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com>, Ryan Workman write s: >To All: > >Here is my situation: > >I recently upgraded to Tech Plus and bought an HF Rig. Kenwood >Ts-450/AT. I constructed a 10 meter dipole. The dipole is reasonant at >28.400. But, the band seems to be flat. Is it really that dead or could >I have done something wrong???? I also have a R7 I will be installing >when the weather breaks. > >Any Suggestions?? Please let me know! > >73, >Ryan, KB2OOP >Email: Workman@Algorithms.Com or Ryan.Workman@Jemsoft.Com Ryan - congratulations on your new license! Yes, the band is VERY flat. 10 meters is the band which is most highly dependent on sunspot activity of all the HF bands, and right now there are essentially no sunspots. Thus the only skip on 10 is short-skip in the states, and occasionally some DX from south of the equator. No Australians, no Europeans and probably no Africans. What activity there is will mostly be heard during the hours of brightest sunlight, when you are probably at work. No, you've probably not done anything wrong except get your license at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. The best way to remedy the situation is to upgrade so you can get on the low bands. Get on 40 and 80 CW with your R7, get your code speed up, pass 13 wpm and then get on 15 and 20 SSB, especially 20 which will survive any level of sunspots (or lack thereof!) Good luck. 73 - Alan NS0B * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Alan Braun MD, NS0B/V31EV *Internet: albraun@socketis.net * * Jefferson City, MO *Packet: NS0B@N0LBA.#cemo.mo.usa.noam * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.texas.net!newshost.comco.com!news1.cris.com!news2.acs.oakland.edu!condor.ic.net!news.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.nd.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news.net99.net!news1.exit109.com!ppp23-tr From: harryjb@exit109.com (Harry J. Britton) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 04:35:23 GMT Organization: Alantic Internet Technologies, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4f6lr7$3t5@news1.exit109.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp23-tr.exit109.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com>, Ryan Workman wrote: >To All: > >Here is my situation: > >I recently upgraded to Tech Plus and bought an HF Rig. Kenwood >Ts-450/AT. I constructed a 10 meter dipole. The dipole is reasonant at >28.400. But, the band seems to be flat. Is it really that dead or could >I have done something wrong???? I also have a R7 I will be installing >when the weather breaks. > >Any Suggestions?? Please let me know! > >73, >Ryan, KB2OOP >Email: Workman@Algorithms.Com or Ryan.Workman@Jemsoft.Com Hi Ryan: What you might try is listening around the 29.4 to 29.5 area. This is where you can hear the HF satelites. There are a few. Usually you will hear some very fast code (telemetry) on 29.403~29.408.. When that starts getting strong, you can hear code and SSB from there on up to almost 29.5. You can't talk to them but they're fun listening to, and it doesn't take skip. This way you know the radio is working.. Sometimes it is REAL dead. Hey, you around Jersey? 7:00 or 8:00PM Sunday evening there is a "Get Together" on 28.380. It's called the "Monday Morning Net" (zulu time) Fell free to drop in! KB2MEN FM29VW From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:03 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: "William M. Bickley" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:31:44 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4f7oog$8f8@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-prn1-15.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Feb 06 6:31:45 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) Hi, Ryan: First off, congratulations on the upgrade. You've opened the door to a wonderfully exciting world. You're already hard at work on 13wpm, right? Just stay with it, keep up the 20 or 30 minutes a day, and you'll be there in no time. Yep, 10M is pretty quiet most times these days. But there are probably lots of folks just like you, listening to a "dead" band. Don't be afraid to throw out a CQ or two. You may be surprised at the result! I looked up your call, and see that you're in the Cape May area. I'm up in central Jersey. Maybe we can set up a sched sometime. You can work on your code, I can work on mine, and maybe I'll get a QSL card for Cape May county out of the deal (I confess, I'm a County Hunter....). Anyway, good luck with your new privileges. You're gonna' luv it. 73. Bill KF2ON From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov!user From: frederick.mckenzie-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 14:12:21 -0500 Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov In article <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com>, Ryan Workman wrote: > I recently upgraded to Tech Plus and bought an HF Rig. Kenwood > Ts-450/AT. I constructed a 10 meter dipole. The dipole is reasonant at > 28.400. But, the band seems to be flat. Is it really that dead or could > I have done something wrong???? I also have a R7 I will be installing > when the weather breaks. Ryan- Yes, the band is dead! It sometimes opens up, but not often. Sometimes, the band is actually open, but no one has found out about it. Listen for the CW beacons between 28.2 and 28.3 MHz. If/when you hear one, you can probably figure out what part of the world is coming through. (There may be a list of beacons posted in one of the FAQs.) If you can hear beacons, call CQ. There may be others listening that also think the band is dead. As you probably know, 10 Meters is affected by the 11 year sunspot cycle. Fortunately, we've just passed the bottom, and are starting uphill again. Over the next several years, activity will be getting better and better. You may have best results with a horizontal dipole, especially working DX. On the other hand, you may find that the R7 will work better locally, talking line-of-sight to stations with vertically polarized antennas. 73, Fred, K4DII (Sometimes found on 28.333 "Mosquito Net", Wednesdays 7 PM Eastern Time) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:05 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!shore!castle.shore.net!1-324-127-0!stephen.frechette From: Stephen.Frechette@f127.n324.z1.fidonet.org (Stephen Frechette) Date: 07 Feb 96 09:41:00 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: hi Message-ID: <2e2_9602071000@castle.shore.net> X-FTN-To: Mom Lines: 4 Hi Memere! I'm sitting here with Sara on my lap, just jotting anote to say hi! From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:08 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.gdbnet.ad.jp!news.hebel.net!news.sics.se!news.funet.fi!jazz.cc.spt.fi!news.csc.fi!news.eunet.fi!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!lamarck.sura.net!gozer.inri.com!news From: Joseph Carvalho Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: IC-2350 Info needed Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:05:25 GMT Organization: Inter-National Research Institute Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4er2tl$fl2@gozer.inri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: carrera.sd.inri.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-URL: news:rec.radio.amateur.misc Picked it up on Tuesday. Nice radio, bad manual. Nothing on packet, nothing o n cross-band repeater and NO SCHEMATICS! Possibly too new for out of band mods. ANy info is appreciated. --joe KE6WEO From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:09 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!daily-planet.execpc.com!š™™> From: markstrm@execpc.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: icom, ic-w21at Mods??? Please email!! Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 01:33:24 Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4f7083$54h@daily-planet.execpc.com> References: icom, ic-w21at Mods??? Please email!! NNTP-Posting-Host: sillywalk.execpc.com X-Newsreader: IBM WebExplorer DLL I have this ICOM IC-W21AT HT. Dual band 2 meter and 440. is there any Mods for it. ??? ie. frequency, split band mod? please email j.markstrom@ieee.org thanks KB8MMA USA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:10 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nuclear.microserve.net!news.paonline.com!usenet From: "Joseph G. Hill" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Indianapolis Hamfest Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:47:00 -0500 Organization: shivasys.com Lines: 4 Message-ID: <31143A44.6DE5@shivasys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.189.80.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) Anyone know the dates of the winter Indianapolis Hamfest...date, time, location, etc. Also are there PC dealers usually there? 73, Joe AB4SC From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:10 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1!news From: edlyon@iquest.net (Ed Lyon) Subject: Re: Indianapolis Hamfest X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ind-006-236-254.iquest.net Message-ID: Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: IQuest Network Services X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.6 References: <31143A44.6DE5@shivasys.com> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:34:09 GMT Lines: 16 In article <31143A44.6DE5@shivasys.com>, "Joseph G. Hill" says: > >Anyone know the dates of the winter Indianapolis Hamfest...date, time, >location, etc. Also are there PC dealers usually there? > 73, > Joe AB4SC According to a flyer I have : INDIANA HAMFEST MARCH 10th. 1996 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. There is no time given for starting or stopping and no vendor list. Having never attended this particular event -- I don't know about computer vendors but in all the others around the area there has always been quite a few computer booths. 73's ED AA9OE From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!whidbey.!usenet From: subbustr@whidbey.net (DAVE M . SCHERTZER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Info Re: MIDLAND LMR radio... Date: 5 Feb 1996 04:30:52 GMT Organization: DND CF DET Whidbey Is. WA Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4f415s$rth@whidbey.whidbey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: asn73.whidbey.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Any address fer MIDLAND radio avail on the web?? http://www. ?????????? or 1-800-xxx-xxxx subbustr@whidbey.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:12 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Chris Boone <72732.2610@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Info Re: MIDLAND LMR radio... Date: 5 Feb 1996 19:00:14 GMT Organization: ENTERGY/Gulf States Utilities Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4f5k3u$fi2$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> References: <4f415s$rth@whidbey.whidbey.com> Try 1-800-MIDLAND... works for me Chris -- Senior Telecommunications Technician 72732.2610@CompuServe.com ENTERGY/Gulf States Utilities 1:106/4267 FIDOnet WB5ITT - Advanced Class BBS- 409-447-4267 (WBBS) PG-9-5322 FCC Commercial 409-525-2001 PhoneMail 24hr From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.inc.net!novia!news.dpc.net!news.heurikon.com!uwvax!tricia!pendragon!ames!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!usenet From: sarosiw (sarosiw) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Info Re: MIDLAND LMR radio... Date: 6 Feb 1996 20:35:03 GMT Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4f8e1n$834@niven.ksc.nasa.gov> References: <4f415s$rth@whidbey.whidbey.com> <4f5k3u$fi2$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n1122503.ksc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <4f5k3u$fi2$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>, 72732.2610@CompuServe.COM says... > >Try 1-800-MIDLAND... > >works for me > > >Chris > >-- >Senior Telecommunications Technician 72732.2610@CompuServe.com >ENTERGY/Gulf States Utilities 1:106/4267 FIDOnet >WB5ITT - Advanced Class BBS- 409-447-4267 (WBBS) >PG-9-5322 FCC Commercial 409-525-2001 PhoneMail 24hr Yo! I just got access to all this stuff and I'm having a blast. See ya on HAM_TECH. -WS From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:14 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsserver.trl.OZ.AU!pcies4.trl.OZ.AU!ddiamond From: ddiamond@TRL.OZ.AU (Drew Diamond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: interference question Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:15:07 Organization: TRL Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <4em0vk$9g6@orion.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc0126.trl.oz.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev Final Beta #7] In article <4em0vk$9g6@orion.convex.com> jco@convex.com (John C. Oppenheimer) writes: >From: jco@convex.com (John C. Oppenheimer)>Subject: interference question >Date: 30 Jan 1996 15:01:40 -0600>I am looking for interference that I have on 20M. I have a carrier>every 65.646 KHz. >The signal is receiver independent, found on both an IC-738 and>SB-101.>antenna.>Does anyone recognize the frequency?Next is DFing it. Knowing what I might be looking for may help. >John KN5L Suspect a SVGA monitor, attached to a P.C.... Line filter between P.C. and power outlet socket should help. 73, Drew, VK3XU. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:15 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!intac!hobbs!roland.stiner From: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Is this correct? Message-ID: <8BA40B5.0029003EDC.uuout@hobbs.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 03:01:00 -0500 Distribution: world Organization: _T_H_E__R_O_Y__H_O_B_B_S__BBS Moonachie NJ 201-641-7307 Reply-To: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Lines: 21 To: adell@planet.net Subject: Is this correct? A>I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepted >by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? I was too but I believe that only applies to radio commercially made. Rigs made by hams do not have to be type accepted. I could be wrong though. --- OLX 1.53 de, NK2U * Origin: CyberNet BBS Lyndhurst, NJ (1:2604/151) .....oooooOOOOOo http://www.intac.com/~cono __,-----. ---+_________#_ The Roy Hobbs BBS sysop@hobbs.com |________| |__|___________} Node 1: 201-641-7307 ooooo oo ~ ooO-O-O-O == oo\ Node 2: 201-641-3126 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov!user From: frederick.mckenzie-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 18:27:25 -0500 Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <8BA40B5.0029003EDC.uuout@hobbs.com> <4f84f5$egv@nntpa.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov In article <4f84f5$egv@nntpa.cb.att.com>, ring@porky.cb.att.com (Warren Ring) wrote: > ROLAND STINER wrote: > >A>I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepte d > > >by the FCC??? > I'm sure that about 50 people are going to respond and tell you Noooooo!!! Warren- There are different levels of type acceptance. As I understand it, any radio, or other device that uses radio signals, must be type accepted under FCC Rules Part 15, before it can be manufactured for sale. This has to do with incidental radiation of signals, such as from the receiver's local oscillator. There are other parameters that a Ham transmitter must meet, such as harmonic attenuation. However, I don't know if that is part of the type acceptance procedure. You're right about CB sets, as well as radio transmitters that operate under other parts of the FCC rules. Transmitters for other services must be designed so the operator can't possibly screw up. Ham equipment isn't required to be type accepted to that extent. It is still the Ham's responsibility to transmit inside the bands allowed by his/her license class, and to use the proper mode for the band segment in use. 73, Fred, K4DII From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:17 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.2sprint.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: comptnce@airmail.net (James Long) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Kenwood 733A poor intermod? Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 01:07:16 GMT Organization: customer of Internet America Lines: 8 Message-ID: <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal16-10.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24550 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97715 I'm thinking of buying a Kenwood 733A dualbander, but I'm hearing that its intermod rejection is poor. If true, that could be a problem in the Dallas area. Any comments? I'm also considering the Icom 2350 or 2700. Please reply via email. Thanks. Jim Long, K5QPT comptnce@airmail.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!news.igc.net!news.zynet.com!ez0!pagesat.net!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!col.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!pb2esac!jaminge From: jaminge@pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com (John Minger) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Kenwood 733A poor intermod? Date: 5 Feb 1996 02:39:43 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell, ESAC Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4f3qlf$a5t@gw.PacBell.COM> References: <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24628 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97779 In article <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net>, James Long wrote: >I'm thinking of buying a Kenwood 733A dualbander, but I'm hearing that >its intermod rejection is poor. If true, that could be a problem in >the Dallas area. Any comments? I'm also considering the Icom 2350 or >2700. Please reply via email. Thanks. > I have had no problems worth mentioning with intermod on the TM-733A. Compared to my TH-78A hand-held radio, the 733A is great! I have noticed that the RF environment is critical to which radios work well and which ones don't. The 78A was nearly useless in parts of the Rapid City, SD area last year. There are problem spots around the Los Angeles area too. By comparison, my friend's Yaesu FT-530 had intermod troubles too, but in different geographic environments. In short: borrow a TM-733A and use it in the place you will need it, before you commit the cash for a new one. BTW: one of my old timer friends says the problem most people have is cross-modulation, or mixing, and not intermod. Intermod is something that happens in transmitters, not receivers. Eh? Hope this is a help to you. 73, de KE6DTC, John -- ___________________________________________________________________________ John A Minger KE6DTC Opinions expressed are those of the author Los Angeles, CA and not those of anyone or anything else. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:20 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Kenwood 733A poor intermod? Message-ID: <1996Feb6.173942.26032@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net> <4f3qlf$a5t@gw.PacBell.COM> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:39:42 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24663 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97823 In article <4f3qlf$a5t@gw.PacBell.COM> jaminge@pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com (John Minger) writes: >Compared to my TH-78A hand-held radio, the 733A is great! Faint praise indeed. :-) >BTW: one of my old timer friends says the problem most people have is >cross-modulation, or mixing, and not intermod. Intermod is something >that happens in transmitters, not receivers. Eh? The terms are equivalent, though with a transmitter the desired signal is usually part of the mix while with receivers it may not be. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:21 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!news.muohio.edu!usenet From: Carl Morgan Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Kenwood 733A poor intermod? Date: 7 Feb 1996 19:59:51 GMT Organization: Miami University Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4fb0bn$2t06@rose.muohio.edu> References: <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net> <4f3qlf$a5t@gw.PacBell.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.53.21.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: jaminge@pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24711 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97866 I have two Kenwood 732s and an Icom 2350. The Kenwoods are, by far, much better atI/M rejection than the Icom. Don't kave any experience with Yaesu .... but .... a local reports it worse than the Kenwood. Make no mistake, I/M does and will exist. You must either use CTCSS or learn to live with it. 73 <> Carl K8NHE ================================================================ jaminge@pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com (John Minger) wrote: >In article <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net>, >James Long wrote: >>I'm thinking of buying a Kenwood 733A dualbander, but I'm hearing that >>its intermod rejection is poor. If true, that could be a problem in >>the Dallas area. Any comments? I'm also considering the Icom 2350 or >>2700. Please reply via email. Thanks. >> >I have had no problems worth mentioning with intermod on the TM-733A. >Compared to my TH-78A hand-held radio, the 733A is great! >I have noticed that the RF environment is critical to which radios work >well and which ones don't. The 78A was nearly useless in parts of the >Rapid City, SD area last year. There are problem spots around the >Los Angeles area too. By comparison, my friend's Yaesu FT-530 had >intermod troubles too, but in different geographic environments. > >In short: borrow a TM-733A and use it in the place you will need it, >before you commit the cash for a new one. > >BTW: one of my old timer friends says the problem most people have is >cross-modulation, or mixing, and not intermod. Intermod is something >that happens in transmitters, not receivers. Eh? > >Hope this is a help to you. >73, de KE6DTC, John >-- >___________________________________________________________________________ >John A Minger KE6DTC Opinions expressed are those of the author >Los Angeles, CA and not those of anyone or anything else. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wco.com!news From: acopac@hope.netwizards.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Kenwood 733A poor intermod? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 04:18:07 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4fbthq$aui@news.wco.com> References: <3114064a.298006117@news.airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.99.115.54 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24797 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97939 If the raadio were properly designed - the image rejection and IM would be much less of a problem. Noland WB6CKT comptnce@airmail.net (James Long) wrote: >I'm thinking of buying a Kenwood 733A dualbander, but I'm hearing that >its intermod rejection is poor. If true, that could be a problem in >the Dallas area. Any comments? I'm also considering the Icom 2350 or >2700. Please reply via email. Thanks. >Jim Long, K5QPT >comptnce@airmail.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:23 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!news-server.ncren.net!redstone.interpath.net!mercury!marlins From: marlins@mercury.interpath.net (Richard Marlin - Personal Account) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Kenwood TH-22 no book Date: 2 Feb 1996 12:52:29 GMT Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4et1ed$df4@redstone.interpath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.interpath.com Summary: Kenwood TH-22 no book Help ! I just bought a used TH-22-at very nice little portable, have figured out most of it, can't figure out how to make it do carrier scan instead of time scan. anyone can tell me which combp of buttons to push ? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:24 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news.sprintlink.net!news1.sunbelt.net!usenet From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: License expiring in 5 months, where to get 610 form? Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 21:28:28 GMT Organization: SunBelt.Net INTERNET Access Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4erb7c$8kg@news1.sunbelt.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ags-r2-p1.groupz.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) wrote: >My license will expire in July, so I'll need to send in a renewal 610 >form. Where can one get a copy, and when is an appropriate time to >fill it out and mail it to the FCC? >TIA 73s ============================================================ For ROUTINE renewals, you don't use the 610 anymore, Robert. Yes - I know - it surprised me, too. Mine expires in March. FCC sent me a simple form many weeks back, which I signed to acknowledge that I wanted it renewed, and sent it back. They sent the form without being asked. Nice to have the feds doing something right! If your address is still good in their files, you probably will get that form soon. If not you will then REALLY need a 610 to change the address! 73's Jerry Flanders W4UKU South Carolina From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:25 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.inc.net!novia!news.dpc.net!news.heurikon.com!uwvax!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ttinews!avatar!sorgatz From: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (Erik K.Sorgatz) Subject: Re: Life.... Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ttinews.tti.com Nntp-Posting-Host: avatar Organization: Citicorp TTI References: <823171702.16199@b13.gtnet.gov.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:45:41 GMT Lines: 18 In article <823171702.16199@b13.gtnet.gov.uk> anewgrosh.ra@gtnet.gov.uk (Amand a Newgrosh) writes: >Ever wanted to know about Life, The Universe and Radio???? > >Check out: >http://www.open.gov.uk/radiocom/rahome.htm > >Amanda Newgrosh > Very nice indeed! But why arent all the title listings active? (perhaps they are still under construction?) sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (or:es@soldev.tti.com) KB6LUY (private email:eks@westwo rld.com) TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 "ANY COMMENTS OR STATEMENTS MADE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CITICORP, ITS SU BSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES." (Copyright 1995, ARR-permission to store/archive hereby grante d) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news1.digex.net!news3.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: michaelk@access5.digex.net (Michael G. Katzmann) Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.electronics Subject: Looking for HP8505 Network Analyzer phase lock board (opt 5) Date: 3 Feb 1996 22:24:58 -0500 Organization: Broadcast Sports Technology Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4f18ua$kuk@access5.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access5.digex.net Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.swap:56822 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97755 I am looking for an option to the HP8505A network analyser. It is the phase lock option 005. I need the phase lock board (A2A101 HP part 08505-60213) and the mixer (A2A102 HP 0955-0141). The cables would be nice but not essential. I realise the chances that anyone knows what the hell I'm talking about are low, and that anyone has these parts that are not already in a working analyzer are even lower, but it doesn't hurt to ask! If you have these parts to sell please contact me. (work phone 410/672-3900) Michael -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Michael Katzmann ( NV3Z / VK2BEA / G4NYV ) /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ - Broadcast Sports Technology Inc. |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' - Odenton, Maryland. U.S.A. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) michaelk@digex.NET (finger for PGP public key) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!gw1.att.com!csn!news-2.csn.net!usenet From: "Frank W. Watervoort" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Looking for shareware morse training software Date: 6 Feb 1996 01:16:25 GMT Organization: Echostar Communications Corp. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4f6a59$pl@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.76.128.131 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Hi, My call KB0TPL, and I'm looking to get my morse down in the next couple of months to get my General license. I passed the theory, but now need to study the morse part. I'm looking for some software on the net that'll help me study for it. Do you know of an FTP site where I could get software for this purpose ? Send me mail at frank@echostar.com Thanks and 73's From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:28 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!guitar.sound.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!utcsri!cannon.ecf!sinclai From: sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu (SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N) Subject: Mods needed for Kenwood TH-22A X-Nntp-Posting-Host: skule.ecf Message-ID: Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:01:45 GMT Lines: 2 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97919 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24780 The subject says it all. I've been unable to find any using a web search. Please reply by e-mail. Thanks. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:29 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Morse code Cry Babys!!! Message-ID: <1996Feb9.054628.9386@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4ej6fh$15qo@chnews.ch.intel.com> <4ejft1$ktp@server.cntfl.com> <4eo5k0$8sl@mrnews.mro.dec.com> <4f400i$ebu@cc.iu.net> <4fak9k$o82@mrnews.mro.dec.com> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:46:28 GMT Lines: 49 In article <4fak9k$o82@mrnews.mro.dec.com> randolph@est.enet.dec.com (Tom Rand olph) writes: >In article <4f400i$ebu@cc.iu.net>, wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) writes... >>got the test program. got the ability to generate custom tests (do so on occ asion) >>but those have to come from the pools...so if you think the pools are out of date >>or wrong - what have you submitted to the revision committee for considerati on >>for the next pool revision? there's always at least 1 pool in revision every year. > >No, I don't think they're either out of date or wrong. They're just simply >presented in a totally inappropriate way. We give everyone the exact question s >and answers that will be on the test. Were you tested this way in school? >Didn't think so. Actually, many professional and trade exams are given just this way. The real estate exam, the electrical contractor's exam, even the written commercial driver's license exams, are given from a public pool of questions, just as are amateur exams. The only real difference is that sometimes the pools are larger for professional licensing exams than they are for amateur exams. >>the correct answer for the 80m novice band is 3675-3725 kHz for the US. >>How is that not memorization? > >Yes, there are a few things, such as the band edges, which can't be done any >other way - rote memorization. This doesn't mean the whole test should be tha t >way. It's trivial to program a computer to draw a resistive voltage divider, >pick a random applied voltage and random resistor values, and calculate what >the right answer should be. I see no reason why this kind of question "has to >come from the pools". If you know Ohm's law, you can figure out the answer >from this knowledge. If you memorized the question pool, you circle the answe r >you memorized, no knowledge of any electronics needed, and move on. If the simple algebra of Ohm's Law is your idea of a technical exam, I suppose juggling numbers could be done. So that's one question, now what about the rest? About a third of the exam is legal, and that can *only* be memorized. About another third of the exam is *terminology*, and that too can only be memorized. The remaining third, including the infamous Ohm's Law question, may require a bit of reasoning or calculation. If you took all the questions requiring simple mathematical manipulation to answer and ignored them, you'd still have a good chance of passing the exam. The exam isn't a mathematics test, so worrying so much about simple math problems misses the whole point of the exam. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!oslonett.no!sn.no!newsfeed.tip.net!usenet From: Fredrik Hofgren Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Morse Code history? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 16:40:26 +0100 Organization: Uniplus Internet Access Lines: 6 Message-ID: <311624EA.3AC2@kuai.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: a4139.dial.tip.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0GoldB1 (Win95; I) I wounder if anyone could help me out on the history of the Morse Code? Some i nfo on "language", "when" and "why". TIA hofgren@kuai.se From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:32 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jmaxwell From: jmaxwell@netcom.com (james a maxwell) Subject: Re: Morse Code history? Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <311624EA.3AC2@kuai.se> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:51:30 GMT Lines: 20 Sender: jmaxwell@netcom12.netcom.com Fredrik Hofgren (hofgren@kuai.se) wrote: : I wounder if anyone could help me out on the history of the Morse Code? Some info on : "language", "when" and "why". : TIA : hofgren@kuai.se There's a nice overview of telegraphy and the Morse code in chapter 2 of "Morse Code, the Essential Language," by Peter Carron, W3DKV. It's published by the ARRL. It starts with the Chappe telegraph, as does the earlier posting in French. 73. Jim W6CF -- ______________________________________________________________________________ _ james a maxwell jmaxwell@netcom.co m From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!not-for-mail From: gfoley@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Gerard Foley) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse Code history? Date: 6 Feb 1996 08:56:51 -0500 Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4f7mn3$k9b@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> References: <311624EA.3AC2@kuai.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Fredrik Hofgren (hofgren@kuai.se) wrote: : I wounder if anyone could help me out on the history of the Morse Code? Some info on : "language", "when" and "why". : TIA : hofgren@kuai.se The two follows on this which first appeared here refer to the telegraphic system, rather than the Morse Code. From memory, my impression is that the Morse Code originates with S.F.B.Morse. It has a fair number of charact- ers which differ from what we used now on radio, which is best described as International Code or International Morse Code. Its particular difference was that it included another kind of space, an intracharacter space, so that the letter C, for instance, was .. . In most American lan-line telegraphy, right up to the 1920's, reception was on a sounder, which was essentially what we would now call a relay with a fairly heavy rod for an armature. This bar pulled down on the magnet when the key at the other end was depressed, and came up and hit a stop when the key was released. Thus the sound was more related to key clicks, or radio c-w with the bfo turned off, than to the radio code we use now. To cause the "make" sound to differ more from the "break" sound, things, sometimes like the shell of a bell, were often attached to the upper stop. Again, from memory, in the 1880's an International Conference adopted the code we use now. Outside the U. S. more automated systems were more common, using for instance, pen recorders writing on paper tape. The British sounders were also vertical and more like a magnetic compass, with a different resonator at the two sides do the make and break would be distinctive. Sorry, no references here. Gerry K8EF From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:34 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Jim O'Connell Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Multi-color QSL cards? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 18:13:39 -0600 Organization: Netcom Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3117EEB3.4166@ix.netcom.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-chi12-18.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Feb 06 4:13:50 PM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) To: Jim Lowman Jim Lowman wrote: > > We will be having a Special Event in the near future, celebrating the 50th > anniversary of our radio club. > > One of our members designed one of the nicest-looking QSL cards I have seen > in many years of hamming. The problem is, they are in five or six colors. > No printer in the local area can handle that many colors on one card. > > Can someone suggest a QSL card printer who might be able to help us? > > Thanks in advance, > > de Jim - KF6CR > San Bernardino, CA Try WX9X, Rich Halstead at 219 465-7128. 73, Jim W9WU From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:35 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!multiverse!library.erc.clarkson.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jlowman From: jlowman@netcom.com (Jim Lowman) Subject: Multi-color QSL cards? Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:42:35 GMT Lines: 15 Sender: jlowman@netcom20.netcom.com We will be having a Special Event in the near future, celebrating the 50th anniversary of our radio club. One of our members designed one of the nicest-looking QSL cards I have seen in many years of hamming. The problem is, they are in five or six colors. No printer in the local area can handle that many colors on one card. Can someone suggest a QSL card printer who might be able to help us? Thanks in advance, de Jim - KF6CR San Bernardino, CA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!its.hooked.net!usenet From: eplatt@hooked.net (Evan Platt) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: MUST SELL THIS WEEKEND: Keypad progammable Bendix King UHF. Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 04:51:14 GMT Organization: IncidentNet Lines: 10 Message-ID: <31143b2a.510969030@news.hooked.net> Reply-To: eplatt@hooked.net NNTP-Posting-Host: webe-41.ppp.hooked.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Would like to sell local (Bay Area) instead of shipping. Radio is 14 channels, FULLY keypad programmable, Rapid Charger, BNC Connector, metal case, brand new battery, programming guide, speaker mike. This unit can be sent to Bendix King for $290 to become Alpha numeric and 210 channels. Would like $475, but will take best offer. I'm physically challenged (no vehicle, I had a motorcycle, and got into a VERY serious accident, so I can walk somewhere and meet you but not too far.. I'm in Palo Alto in the Mountain View border. You can reach me at any time at 415-939-1037. No offer too low. Reply via phone or eplatt@hooked.net. Thanks From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!primus.ac.net!news.cais.net!netaxs.com!chesco.com!usenet From: seanp@carriage.chesco.com (Sean Petty) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: NABER Study Guides? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:13:26 GMT Organization: CIA - Langley, VA Lines: 5 Message-ID: <311a20b9.54641861@news.chesco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1x5.chesco.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Does anyone know of any study guides for the NABER Technician Certification other than the one they publish? A name and phone number would be greatly appreciated. Sean From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:38 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!not-for-mail From: jyazel@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Jack Yazel) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need help locating software. Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:02:52 -0500 Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4f88ks$bcs@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> References: <4f5mhf$6ie@suba01.suba.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] byoung@qni.com wrote: : Fellow rec.radio.amateur.misc Junkies, : I ran across a Web page that listed some amateur radio software : that I would like to have, but can't find! I printed the page and now : File Name Description : BPWIN12.ZIP Band Plan For Windows - Shows Ham Bands : SM415.ZIP Super Morse 4.15 : Bill Young : byoung@qni.com : KB0UZQ SM415.EXE can be located at: oak.oakland.edu /pub3/hamradio/arrl/bbs/vec I don't know where the other one is. Jack - W8RAG From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:39 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.suba.com!news From: byoung@qni.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need help locating software. Date: 6 Feb 1996 13:35:03 GMT Organization: Suba Communications Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4f7le7$41n@suba01.suba.com> References: <823567587snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: s30.qni.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Mike, Thanks for taking the time to reply to my posting! Rather than make a trans-Atlantic telephone call to obtain the software, do you know of any FTP or Web sites? Bill Young byoung@qni.com KB0UZQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:40 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!fdurt1.fdu.edu!xyzzy.bubble.org!newshost.cyberramp.net!news.iadfw.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!g4kfk.demon.co.uk From: Mike Gathergood Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need help locating software. Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 00:46:27 GMT Organization: Myorganisation Lines: 16 Message-ID: <823567587snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> References: <4f5mhf$6ie@suba01.suba.com> Reply-To: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: g4kfk.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.30 X-Mail2News-Path: g4kfk.demon.co.uk In article <4f5mhf$6ie@suba01.suba.com> byoung@qni.com writes: > BPWIN12.ZIP Band Plan For Windows - Shows Ham Bands The current version of this is actually 1.4 Available from file area 11 (Radio-Related Windows Software) at The CQ Centre BBS on 011 44 1753 595468 > SM415.ZIP Super Morse 4.15 Same again, file area 4 (Morse/CW) 73 Mike The CQ Centre BBS, 01753 595468, 300-28800 bps, 8N1, ANSI-BBS G4KFK Tel/Fax Slough (01753) 582085 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:41 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!sierra.net!usenet From: Roger Weld Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need help locating software. Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 18:54:41 -0800 Organization: ICCCSA Lines: 32 Message-ID: <311965F1.6C80@sierra.net> References: <4f5mhf$6ie@suba01.suba.com> <4f88ks$bcs@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: iceberg-d71.sierra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win16; I) To: Jack Yazel Jack Yazel wrote: > > byoung@qni.com wrote: > : Fellow rec.radio.amateur.misc Junkies, > > : I ran across a Web page that listed some amateur radio software > : that I would like to have, but can't find! I printed the page and now > > : File Name Description > : BPWIN12.ZIP Band Plan For Windows - Shows Ham Bands > : SM415.ZIP Super Morse 4.15 > > : Bill Young > : byoung@qni.com > : KB0UZQ > > SM415.EXE can be located at: > > oak.oakland.edu /pub3/hamradio/arrl/bbs/vec > > I don't know where the other one is. > > Jack - W8RAG Jack-- The above URL is outdated and the file could not be found, at least by me. --- ### ---The Spirit is a terrible thing to ignore!--- Roger Bowen Weld From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:42 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nectec!usenet From: "Fred H. Amsden" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need Manual Yeasu FT-4ll Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:37:47 +0700 (GMT) Organization: National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Bangkok Lines: 13 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sura1.sut.ac.th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to locate a manual for the Yaesu FT-411 2 meter transceiver. I will pay copying and mailing cost. Thanks, Fred Amsden (AA6KW/HS0ZBP) osutfha@sura1.sut.ac.th ****************************************************** * Money isn't everything ... * * but it's way ahead of whatever's in second place. * ****************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!zippy.intcom.net!imci3!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!services.arn.net!usenet From: franko@arn.net (Frank M.) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need MOD for Kenwood TS120s Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 01:01:50 GMT Organization: ARNet, Inc. Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4f6997$cno@services.arn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: arnet-209.arn.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Need Mod for Kenwood TS120s for wide recieve, if one exist? Please post or e-mail to me 73's N5ZLT From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov!user From: frederick.mckenzie-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need MOD for Kenwood TS120s Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 18:42:22 -0500 Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <4f6997$cno@services.arn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov In article <4f6997$cno@services.arn.net>, franko@arn.net (Frank M.) wrote: > Need Mod for Kenwood TS120s for wide recieve, if one exist? Frank- I see that Amateur Electronic Supply still lists the IF filters for the TS-120S, but under the R-5000 shortwave receiver. The only filter wider than the stock filter, would be the AM filter, YK-88A-1. I expect this filter would be very poor for sideband reception, but might pass some kind of wideband data successfully. As you're aware, the TS-120 does not have AM capability. If you really mean wide frequency coverage, rather than wide bandwidth, you're out of luck. The TS-820 had auxilliary bandswitch positions for adding additional 500 KHz frequency segments, but not the TS-120S. I haven't seen any information on the net, or at any of the Mod sites, that would help you convert existing segments to other frequencies. 73, Fred, K4DII From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!usenet From: dbsales@jaxnet.com (Dave Mains) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: North Fla DX Assoc. Home Page Date: 4 Feb 1996 03:26:29 GMT Organization: NO4J Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4f1915$l70@jaxnet.jaxnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts3-009.jaxnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Visit our new web page: http://www.jaxnet.com/~nf4l/nfdxa.htm 73's Dave....NO4J From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:46 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.glink.net.hk!news From: cclsc@glink.net.hk (Sidney Cheng) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Open freq. at Vail? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 04:37:01 GMT Organization: Chiaphua Components Limited Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3116daa7.8091244@news.glink.net.hk> Reply-To: cclsc@glink.net.hk NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup39.glink.net.hk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Hi, I am pretty new at this amateur radio thing and was hoping that someone can help me out by answering a few of my questions. We just bought a couple of ICOM FM transceivers and would like to bring them to Vail, Colorado while we go skiing. The default frequency is set at 146.01 Mhz. I assume that I need to program in a few different frequencies in the different channels so as not to interfere with other people in the area. Does anyone know what frequencies are available (open) for use for recreational purpose in this area? Also, I have come across the term "repeater" whereby the transceiver transmits and receives on different frequencies. Can anyone tell me what a repeater does? And how do I go about finding out this "offset" frequency in the Vail, Colorado area? I would really appreciate some feedback. Thanks in advance :) --- Sidney Cheng (cclsc@glink.net.hk) Chiaphua Components Limited "your partner in motor driven applications..." From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:48 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.sunbelt.net!sl02-057.sunbelt.net!user From: khinceman@sunbelt.net (Kim A. Hinceman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Packet BBS Listing needed for SC and NC Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 08:01:12 +0000 Organization: SunBelt.Net INTERNET Access Lines: 7 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sl02-057.sunbelt.net I would like to find a listing of packet bbs systems in SC and NC. Any ideas? Tnx, WA4VKW Kim A. Hinceman khinceman@sunbelt.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.sni.de!kebsch From: kebsch@pdb.sni.de (Waldemar Kebsch) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: qsl etiquette (see Feb 1996 QST) Date: 2 Feb 1996 13:24:41 GMT Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4et3ap$3qk@nervous.pdb.sni.de> References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4dpo4v$7tl@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4e990v$ic4@news.socketis.net> Reply-To: Waldemar Kebsch NNTP-Posting-Host: neurotic.pdb.sni.de In <4e990v$ic4@news.socketis.net> albraun@socketis.net writes: >Many of the "little guns" in contests are people who are there because >they are chasing some award. That's how I got started in contesting. >Very few people operating in contests have the time and equipment to be >truly competitive. If all contesters had the attitude displayed above, most >of the little guys would go away and the big guns would just have them- >selves to talk to. I think a more balanced approach is indicated here. >Flame away, the asbestos suit is on! 73 - Alan Alan, I know HAM's who have a simple rule: NO CARD NO POINT IN ANY FURTHER CONTEST! 73 and good luck in the next contest! Waldemar, DK3VN -- E-Mail: kebsch.pad@sni.de Packet Radio DK3VN @ DB0NOS.#NRW.DEU.EU Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low! [86h] Europe Pile-Up-Warning: Don't accept breakers, or the wolfes will get you! From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.fast.net!news From: victorj@fast.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: qsl route Date: 2 Feb 1996 13:46:27 GMT Organization: FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet Lines: 3 Message-ID: <4et4jj$jf5@nn.fast.net> Reply-To: Victorj2fast.net NNTP-Posting-Host: victorj.fast.net X-Newsreader: AIR News 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Help! need qsl route for A71CW that works. Have sent 2 . have had 2 returned . thanks Vic From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:52 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.flint.umich.edu!news.gmi.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!csc.canberra.edu.au!news From: jamesm@sw2.canberra.edu.au (Jim Muller VK1FF/WB2FFY) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QSLs & contesters [was QSL etiqutte] Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:48:45 GMT Organization: Canberra DX Group Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4evi2b$rb0@csc.canberra.edu.au> References: <4e60fc$r3g@portal.gmu.edu> <4e74fb$on8@hummin.sol.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sliphost3.canberra.edu.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 Carroll J Shelton (cshelton@mason2.gmu.edu) wrote: >: After reading a post from one contestor that he never replies >: to QSLs for contest QSOs, I would be curious about the habits >: of other US contesters. Do you respond to QSLs for contest QSOs? >: (I understand the special circumstances of DX stations, I'm >: just asking about US contesters here.) I've enjoyed DXing and contesting from in and outside the US and have always responded to all QSL requests with or without SASE. Ninety-Nine percent of the time I return SASEs and money included with QSL requests. I disagree with the recent "QSL etiquette" item in the Feb issue of QST. In my opinion, if the cost of QSLing is a problem for you then: a. You should of made it clear during the contacts that an SASE (or whatever) is required for confirmation. b. Inform the other operator that you don't QSL. c. Simply do not make more QSOs (particularly /125 "special event" which have a higher probability of being wanted) than you feel you can afford. I received 450+ cards via the bureau last week from the US and 50+ cards from Japan. Most of the cards are for contest QSOs. I have nearly finished filling out return QSLs for all contacts and expect to have them posted in the mail within a week or two. NO SASE, IRCs, or MONEY required! Happy Contesting/DXing. 73, Jim VK1FF, VI100GM, VI1HSK, VI1FF, WB2FFY/1/2/3/4/5/VE3/I7/KP4 (and next year VK9..) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:53 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!condor.acc.iit.edu!uchinews!ncar!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!shore!news From: jjmartin@shore.net (JJ Martin) Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner.uk Subject: Re: R7100 Modification Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 06:44:47 GMT Organization: WK1V Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4fbrjo$qs0@shore.shore.net> References: <4ejqb8$6e5@news.ios.com> <4ek51g$chl@grouper.Exis.Net> Reply-To: jjmartin@shore.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-7-20.shore.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net uk.radio.amateur:10724 rec.radio.shortwave:69891 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18975 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24771 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97908 rec.radio.scanner:45283 alt.radio.scanner:27357 alt.radio.scanner.uk:2129 >In article <4ejqb8$6e5@news.ios.com>, . says... >>Ever since ICOM decided to delete the 800 - 900 MHZ coverage from its IC-R71 00 >>receiver, Just fer the record...ICOM didn't just decide to delete the 800-900 MHz coverage from any of their radios. It was our folks in Washington D.C. who made it illegal to listen to the cellular telephone frequencies when they modified the Communications Act of 1934. I believe the cutoff date for the manufacture of equipment openly capable of receiving cellular freqs is April of 1994. Just some gee whiz info. :) Cheeers! jjm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!condor.acc.iit.edu!uchinews!ncar!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!shore!news From: jjmartin@shore.net (JJ Martin) Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner.uk Subject: Re: R7100 Modification Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 06:44:49 GMT Organization: WK1V Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4fbrjp$qs0@shore.shore.net> References: <4ejqb8$6e5@news.ios.com> <4ek51g$chl@grouper.Exis.Net> <4elqh2$p71@pegasus.starlink.com> Reply-To: jjmartin@shore.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-7-20.shore.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net uk.radio.amateur:10725 rec.radio.shortwave:69892 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18976 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24772 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97909 rec.radio.scanner:45284 alt.radio.scanner:27358 alt.radio.scanner.uk:2130 Bill Funk wrote: >Hmmm... If you can buy a new R9000 (since you are in a business that will >allow you to do so), then you can get an un-restricted R-7100. The manufacturers will not deliver an unrestricted radio within the confines of the U.S. unless they are delivering it to a government agency. >Me, I'm lucky. I have an older R-7100, full coverage! (No, it's *not* for >sale!!) :-) This law sucks!! jjm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:55 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!shore!news3.near.net!monk.proteon.com!news From: dts@peanut.senie.com (Daniel Senie) Subject: Re: Repeaters Message-ID: <4f0j0f$9f9@peanut.senie.com> Lines: 32 Sender: news@proteon.com Nntp-Posting-Host: peanut.senie.com Organization: Daniel Senie Consulting References: <4d7d6b$235@earth.njcc.com> <3109026b.1441908@cronkite> <4egsgl$bhj@anomaly.ideamation.com> <310e3df4.344383237@cronkite> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 21:10:39 GMT In article <310e3df4.344383237@cronkite>, Brian Ellsworth wrote: >kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com (Tony Pelliccio) wrote: > > >> >>And here in the MA/RI area there aren't any pairs available for either >>2m or 70cm. >> >actually in Mass, and R.I. there are a number of available 2 >meter pairs. That is if you can get the dinosaurs on the >co-ordination council to allow 1 meg split machines like most >other metro-areas do.... 146.430/147.430 etc... Funny, some of us really like having more than just a few simplex frequencies in the area. 146.43 is used for simplex by a bunch of folks west of Boston. The 2 meter band has uses other than voice repeaters, even if the coordination councils don't pay too much attention to them. There should be no problem getting a 2 meter pair in at least some parts of Massachusetts. I suspect there's no problem if you want to add a repeater in the Berkshires, for example. Yes, the Boston area is pretty well covered with repeaters. Time to use what exists. Last I heard, 70cm was NOT full, though. Dan N1JEB -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie Internet: dan@senie.com, Daniel Senie Consulting n1jeb@senie.com http://www.senie.com Packet Radio: N1JEB@KA1SRD.MA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:56 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!newsserver.sdsc.edu!news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!usenet From: ka1jy@usa.nai.net (Brian Ellsworth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Repeaters Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:14:44 GMT Organization: HamRadio Lines: 25 Message-ID: <311727d9.66819788@a3bsrv.nai.net> References: <4d7d6b$235@earth.njcc.com> <4dh64n$ffh@news.dgsys.com> <3109026b.1441908@cronkite> <4egsgl$bhj@anomaly.ideamation.com> <310e3df4.344383237@cronkite> <4erg58$1c9@brickbat.mindspring.com> <4eu05r$3ub@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: ka1jy@usa.nai.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ka1jy.nai.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 In <4erg58$1c9@brickbat.mindspring.com>, otterson@mindspring.com (Jeff Otterson) writes: >>ellsworth@bravo.otis.utc.com (Brian Ellsworth) wrote: >>actually in Mass, and R.I. there are a number of available 2 >>meter pairs. That is if you can get the dinosaurs on the >>co-ordination council to allow 1 meg split machines like most >>other metro-areas do.... 146.430/147.430 etc... > >oh, yeah, great, and why not some 1.6 MHz, 800 KHz, 2.0 MHz splits >too. Why not put your repeater's output on 146.52, and the input on >147.52, so then you can hog more simplex frequencies. The NESMC > hay, read the ARRL SUGGESTED bandplan for '2' and you'll see the one meg splits have been suggested for years. (please note you must read the whole plan for 2.... The first page is a bit misleading.) No one is suggesting .52 or any of the 99% vacant frequencies around it. I megs splits are nothing new and the 3 or 4 possible legal channel pairs hardly conflict with any significant amount of simplex space. FYI, 1meg pairs have been around since before 1978 when i first got on 2 meters. -be From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:57 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!netserv.com!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!usenet From: ka1jy@usa.nai.net (Brian Ellsworth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Repeaters Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 09:00:57 GMT Organization: HamRadio Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31186718.1135440@a3bsrv.nai.net> References: <4d7d6b$235@earth.njcc.com> <3109026b.1441908@cronkite> <4egsgl$bhj@anomaly.ideamation.com> <310e3df4.344383237@cronkite> <4f0j0f$9f9@peanut.senie.com> Reply-To: ka1jy@usa.nai.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ka1jy.nai.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 On Sat, 3 Feb 1996 21:10:39 GMT, dts@peanut.senie.com (Daniel Senie) wrote: >Funny, some of us really like having more than just a few simplex frequencies >in the area. Hmm.. Can't find a clear one? Maybe there are too many packet stations on them.. >The 2 meter band has uses other than voice repeaters, even if the coordinatio n >councils don't pay too much attention to them. > Oh i agree! That's why the machine on 146.415/147.415 in N.Ct is packet only. The only voice it repeats in the interference from guys talking on 147.42 in R.I... (yea yea, they've been asked to move, but refuse...) Ya know one of the reasons the simplex channels are so crowded on 2 is the growth of packet over the past 10 years. The problem is that simplex packet doesn't work very well... As soon as more than 3 or 4 packet stations get on a single simplex freq it starts to deteriorate. Once you get 10 or more it is almost unusable. This gobbles up the free simplex channels pretty quickly! As packet ops are frustrated by the mode not working they keep expanding the number of channels where packet is 'acceptable'.... Ah.. squatters rights.... Packet repeaters ease this situation a bit. Maybe giving up a couple of your optional repeater/simplex freqs would gain you some space in the simplex area in the long run. -be From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:58 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!usenet From: Kevin Schmidt Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Requesting contest QSLs [was QSL etiquette] Date: 1 Feb 1996 20:57:00 GMT Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4er9es$2i1h@theory.tc.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dione.tc.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; AIX 2) X-URL: news:rec.radio.amateur.misc#DLuA6K.An5@freenet.carleton.ca I have read the "To QSL or not" topics. I personally reply to all QSLs received. I also find it hard to believe that anyone, who has time to get on the air, is too busy to write "confirmed by W1ABC", sign the card they received, and stick it in the supplied SASE. But if someone wants to toss away all the QSLs and SASEs he receives that's his right. It is amusing to hear a contester suggest that he expects operators to ask, during a contest contact, if he will reply to a QSL request. I can see it now instead of something like this. (BTW, In my imagination, this is in morse, and op1 is sending 35 words per minute and op2 is sending 15 wpm.) op1: cq test de w1abc op2: w2xyz op1: w2xyz 599 ME op2: tu 599 NY op1: tu cq test de w1abc I now realize that at least one contester wants: op1: cq test de w1abc op2: w2xyz op1: w2xyz 599 ME op2: tu 599 NY and by the way, I really need Maine to finish my WAS if I send you a card with an sase would you be willing to send me yours k op1: r no k op2: ok 73 w2xyz op1: cq test de w1abc This may reduce the qso rate somewhat for op1, but now that I know what's expected... Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:07:59 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: uswat@aol.com (Uswat) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: RFI: Colorado Hamfest/Computerfest dates Date: 8 Feb 1996 23:20:12 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 3 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fei1s$2od@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: uswat@aol.com (Uswat) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Looking for Hamfest dates, times, locations, and contact information for Colorado, especially Denver-metro area or at least the front range. Thanks in advance. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:00 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!bug.rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.unb.ca!scratchy.mi.net!scratchy.mi.net!not-for-mail From: bizeau@mi.net (Glen Bizeau) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Rochester/Dearfield Hamfest when ???? Date: 2 Feb 1996 16:22:12 -0400 Organization: Maritime Internet Services Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4etrpk$m1b@scratchy.mi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: scratchy.mi.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] when is the spring hamfest at deerchester, I was to the one in the fall and would like to attend the one in the spring also, but not sure of the date. any help would be appreciated. Glen Bizeau VE9GLN From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:01 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!howland.reston.ans.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!shore!northshore.shore.net!not-for-mail From: mc@shore.net (Michael Crestohl) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Rochester/Dearfield Hamfest when ???? Date: 7 Feb 1996 07:19:50 -0500 Organization: Shore.Net; a service of Eco Software, Inc. (info@shore.net) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4fa5d6$h98@northshore.shore.net> References: <4etrpk$m1b@scratchy.mi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: northshore.shore.net In article <4etrpk$m1b@scratchy.mi.net>, Glen Bizeau wrote: >when is the spring hamfest at deerchester, I was to the one in the fall and >would like to attend the one in the spring also, but not sure of the date. > > any help would be appreciated. > > Glen Bizeau > VE9GLN > Hosstraders opens at 9:00 AM on Friday May 10th and ends sometime in the afternoon on Saturday May 11th. Admission is $20.00 from 9:00 - 3:00 Friday - after 3:00 it is $5.00. 73, Michael Crestohl, KH6KD/W1 mc@shore.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!service-2.agate.net!usenet From: John Wilcox/NS1Z Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Rochester/Dearfield Hamfest when ???? Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:00:59 GMT Organization: Agate Internet Services (AIS) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4fdkpr$s94@service-2.agate.net> References: <4etrpk$m1b@scratchy.mi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1z.sdi.agate.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Every real "Hoss Trader" knows that the spring trader session is always the day before Mother's Day. I think Joe/K1RQG does this so that he remembers to get Pearl something for Mom's day...... For more details, contact Joe/K1RQG @ callbook address. Don't forget to include the SASE if you want a reply.. -- John Wilcox / NS1Z INTERNET :204.117.6.48 ns1z@agate.net Work :5018901@mcimail.com TCP/IP :44.118.6.4 ns1z@ns1z.ampr.org AX-25 :ns1z@kb1bsc.fn44rn.me.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.tcd.net!news From: rayc@tcd.net (Ray D. Congdon) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Sagami Army Mars Oldtimers... Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 18:02:01 GMT Organization: ISA-USA Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <4eitns$pie@casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu> <4f0122$h4l@spectator.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip11.cedar.tcd.net X-Newsreader: Quarterdeck Message Center [1.0] Looking for some of the folks that were active at the Sagami Army Mars Facilit y in the late 1970's... Just to say Hi amd Thanks! ---- Ray D. Congdon N7HQK ISA-USA 5515 N. 4400 W. Cedar City, Utah 84720 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ratty.wolfe.net!news.aa.net!tsunami.ixa.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!news.fsu.edu!nntp.cntfl.com!books From: books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Schedule of Amateur Radio tests? Date: 8 Feb 1996 18:06:23 GMT Organization: CMDS News machine Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4fde2v$b3q@server.cntfl.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.90.27.7 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] trwagner@iquest.net wrote: > Quesiton: > Is there a schedule that is published or on a web site that lists exam > dates and times for each state? > I'd like to find out the dates/times of scheduled ham exams in > Indianapolis this year. > Thanks > Ted http://www.arrl.org/exams.html Roger From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:05 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!news4.noc.netcom.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!usenet From: jimbob@acpub.duke.edu (James P. Meyer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: See Weak Signals with your PC & Soundcard Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 19:31:28 GMT Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <311508e9.3398429@news.duke.edu> References: <4ev0du$j8m@spectator.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: async46.async.duke.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97740 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13133 mwcook@cris.com (Mike Cook - AF9Y) wrote: >Available Download Sites for Beta Demo: > > Internet - http://www.webcom.com/af9y > Internet - ftp.webcom.com/pub/af9y > BBS - East Coast Atlantic BBS (704) 284-4854 > Adding a tilde (~) before the "af9y", like this "~af9y", might be necessary for some ftp or web browser programs. Jim From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:06 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: SKIP Date: 4 Feb 1996 16:00:40 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4f2l78$sc@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4f030r$9ib@news1.exit109.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca2-15.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Feb 04 8:00:41 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) Back in the 70's, Hugh Cassidy WA6AUD, published a wonderful DX News Letter titled the West Coast DX Bulletin. In it he would conger up such characters as "Red=Eyed Louie", "the QRPer" and others. Regarding propagation, Hugh recommended the proper incantations to the "Palos Verdes Sundancers" this was the only method known that might produce sunspots in the off years of the 11 year solar cycle. These incantations are a highly guarded secret amongst DXers but some information may be found in a book honoring Hugh: DX IS !! THE BEST OF THE WEST COAST DX BULLETIN BY CHARLES T. ALLEN W5DV AND JAMES A. ALLEN W6OGC Late reports by the "predictors" say we have from 6 months to a year to reach the bottom of the 11 year cycle, then to the DXers delight (unlike other endeavors) its all up hill from there -- perhaps peaking around 2001 -- be there its a ball. 73 good DX (skip) Rod From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:07 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!nntp.coast.net!news.net99.net!news1.exit109.com!ppp13-tr From: harryjb@exit109.com (Harry J. Britton) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: SKIP Date: Sun, 04 Feb 96 17:43:17 GMT Organization: Alantic Internet Technologies, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4f2r82$o0c@news1.exit109.com> References: <4f030r$9ib@news1.exit109.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp13-tr.exit109.com Keywords: propagation skip sunspots X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article , cv282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mistie Mullarkey) wrote: >Harry J. Britton (harryjb@exit109.com) writes: >> Hi: >> Does anyone know when the SKIP is coming back? > >As far as I know "skip" is always present in some way or another. >Is this for 11 meter use? > Oh, No.... I'm a 10 meter 15 meter person. When I first got my ticket in '91, 10 was always hoppin'. I made alot of mobile contacts. Now it sounds like my radio is dead. I know the solar cycle is 11 years, but I thought it was very active for at least 8 of them. I suppose it was back in 1979 when I couldn't even talk to a friend 1/4 mile away with a CB.. Was a constant S9+20 level of noise (many CBes) all the time. Haven't been on 11 meters for a long time now... From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:08 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!newstand.syr.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ub!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.datasync.com!news.datasync.com!not-for-mail From: rocker@datasync.com (Ray Rocker) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: SKIP Date: 4 Feb 1996 02:26:29 -0600 Organization: Datasync Internet Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4f1qjl$j1n@osh1.datasync.com> References: <4f030r$9ib@news1.exit109.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: osh1.datasync.com Harry J. Britton (harryjb@exit109.com) writes: > Hi: > Does anyone know when the SKIP is coming back? SKIP == Seriously Killer International Propagation? Better look to the low bands for the next year or three. Ray, WQ5L ... rocker@datasync.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:09 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnews.wa.com!uw-coco!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!prairienet.org!w9sz From: w9sz@prairienet.org (Zack Widup) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: SKIP Date: 5 Feb 1996 02:27:32 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4f3puk$6f0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4f030r$9ib@news1.exit109.com> Reply-To: w9sz@prairienet.org (Zack Widup) NNTP-Posting-Host: firefly.prairienet.org In a previous article, harryjb@exit109.com (Harry J. Britton) says: >Hi: > Does anyone know when the SKIP is coming back? > The "SKIP" on 80/75 has been just fine! Lots of Africa and EU most of the evening (in Midwest) and even lots of JA's in the morning here! 73, Zack W9SZ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:10 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!cv282 From: cv282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mistie Mullarkey) Subject: Re: SKIP Message-ID: Sender: cv282@freenet3.carleton.ca (Mistie Mullarkey) Reply-To: cv282@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mistie Mullarkey) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet References: <4f030r$9ib@news1.exit109.com> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 19:17:48 GMT Lines: 12 Harry J. Britton (harryjb@exit109.com) writes: > Hi: > Does anyone know when the SKIP is coming back? As far as I know "skip" is always present in some way or another. Is this for 11 meter use? -- ΙΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝ» Ί cv282@freeNET.carleton.CA Ί Ί purdon@ott.ve2sux.ampr.org Ί ΘΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΌ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:11 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!news.westnet.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!kenh From: kenh@netcom.com (Ken Harris) Subject: Slow scan TV Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:32:10 GMT Lines: 15 Sender: kenh@netcom22.netcom.com I'm trying to make a cheap color camera that be transmitted over phone lines. I'd like to use as much "off-the-shelf" stuff as possible. I'd like to use ideas from "slow scan TV" if possible. I'm looking for info on CCDs, cameras, frame grabbers, compression techniques. Are there any FAQs or web pages on this? -- ---- Ken Harris Internet: kenh@netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news.uh.edu!lurch.sccsi.com!news.sccsi.com!tattoo.sccsi.com!nuchat!News.MO.NET!usenet From: Alan Johnsom, K9CTF Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: St Thomas 10 meter Repeater, correction Date: 7 Feb 1996 20:03:02 GMT Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Lines: 4 Message-ID: <4fb0hm$rrr@Twain.MO.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm0x6.dialip.mo.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) I should have said ...... What ever happened to the St. Thomas 10 meter repe ater on 29.66. Alan K9CTF From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:12 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news.uh.edu!lurch.sccsi.com!news.sccsi.com!tattoo.sccsi.com!nuchat!News.MO.NET!usenet From: Alan Johnsom, K9CTF Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: St. Thomas 10 Meter Repeater Date: 7 Feb 1996 20:01:21 GMT Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Lines: 1 Message-ID: <4fb0eh$rrr@Twain.MO.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm0x6.dialip.mo.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) What ever happened to the 29.62 repeater on St. Thomas? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!yuma!lamar.ColoState.EDU!not-for-mail From: galen@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Watts) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: State-side 10m repeaters Date: 3 Feb 1996 11:50:22 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4f0ape$312o@lamar.ColoState.EDU> References: <4evhvd$aej@eiger.pncl.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lamar.acns.colostate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dr. Malcolm A. Williamson (mitch1@pncl.co.uk) wrote: : Can anyone tell the input/output frequencies for the American 10m : repeaters please. Inputs: 29.5-29.59 MHz Outputs: 29.61-29.7 MHz Offset is 100kHz. Channels are typically spaced 20 kHz: 29.52/29.62, 29.54/29.64, ... in/out. : Many thanks : Dr. Malcolm A. Williamson (Ph.D) GΨEGA 73 and happy DX, galen, KF0YJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:14 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: The Test Date: 3 Feb 1996 11:50:13 GMT Lines: 55 Message-ID: <4evi5l$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: s202.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------194112377928914" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------194112377928914 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---------------------------------194112377928914 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain This test is for ham radio operators: 1. Do you say QSL on voice?_________ 2. Do you say "For ID" after your call?________ 3. Is it rare for you to have a contact longer than 20 minutes?_______ 4. Do you check into traffic nets to up the "body count?"_________ 5. Do you check into traffic nets for any reason?__________ 6. Do you participate in contests and like it?________ 7. Are you overweight and hold an Extra Class license?________ 8. Have your worked more countries than the number of sexual encounters with your spouse?____________ 9. Are you a regular on a two meter repeater?___________ 10. Do you dislike children in general?______________ 11. Do you ask for help and when received from a number of hams send out a general thank you to everyone in the world?___________ 12. Do you think it is wrong to talk about politics or other interesting topics on ham radio?_______________ How to Score: Number of Yes answers: 2 or less- are you sure you are a ham? 4 to 6- you are on the edge of being human or ham. 6 to 8-you are a typical ham-very boring. 8 to 1O-check your pulse, if you find one re-take test. 1O or more. Call the funeral home, send your name into QST as a Silent Key. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!ip026.phx.primenet.com!w5gyj From: w5gyj@primenet.com (James E. Bromley) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: This sickening NO-Code Debate! Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:14:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Lines: 23 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: References: <4elqs7$jpe@fnnews.fnal.gov> X-Posted-By: ip026.phx.primenet.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article <4elqs7$jpe@fnnews.fnal.gov> murso@fnalv1.fnal.gov (MURSO@fnalv.fnal.gov) writes: >Once you have committed yourself to becoming an amateur, which DOES take >a Committment, I would think that that meant you wanted to be part of the >hobby and want to learn. This no-code debate is really getting, (has been), >a pretty dull fight. ... >Changing the rules (preparing for flames) is a typical Democrats way of >operating in this case. Give us everything. We shouldn't have to WORK for i t >either. You guys are just looking for ham radio Welfare. It isn't here. Geez, I thought it was those soulless Republicans who were changing all the rules in Washington these days, throwing out all the useless bureaucratic regulations and red tape that are standing in the way of progress, giving away huge chunks of the radio spectrum to broadcasters without asking them to WORK for it (or to provide additional broadcasting jobs). Oh, that only applies to CORPORATIONS. Sorry, never mind. W5GYJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:17 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: Walt W., dfheli@gramercy.ios.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Time for me to post again Date: 3 Feb 1996 01:23:40 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4eudes$t0t@news.ios.com> References: <4erucq$6h3@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-24.ts-2.la.idt.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Hello, Are you an old Home-brewer? Many hams that I speak to today, can not tell me what a resistor does?! When I was a Ham, in 1964, I made all my gear. I was 14. It is indeed, convenient to buy the Jap junk. It does have all the cool bells and whistles, but what ham can fix them? They are made for production, not for repair. Enough babbling on my part. 73's Walt W. dfheli@gramercy.ios.com > Burt Fisher writes: > I have not posted much here lately but I see Dave Bushong is > saying nasty things so I will start my series of how much > I love ham messages for ALL of you thanks to Dave. > > -- > #================#=====================================================# > | Burt Fisher | Teacher of video, broadcasting and electronics | > | Amateur call | South Dennis, Ma. (Cape Cod) | > | K1OIK | If you sit on the fence, it is a pain in the butt | > #================#=====================================================# > | k1oik@ccsnet.com MAC is 5% of the market | > #======================================================================# > > Get a GIF of K1OIK by telnet://ccsnet.com and go to FREE downloads for > bf1pres.gif (hams never had such excitment!) > > > >>>> From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Time for me to post again Date: 2 Feb 1996 02:54:18 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4erucq$6h3@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: s201.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) I have not posted much here lately but I see Dave Bushong is saying nasty things so I will start my series of how much I love ham messages for ALL of you thanks to Dave. -- #================#=====================================================# | Burt Fisher | Teacher of video, broadcasting and electronics | | Amateur call | South Dennis, Ma. (Cape Cod) | | K1OIK | If you sit on the fence, it is a pain in the butt | #================#=====================================================# | k1oik@ccsnet.com MAC is 5% of the market | #======================================================================# Get a GIF of K1OIK by telnet://ccsnet.com and go to FREE downloads for bf1pres.gif (hams never had such excitment!) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:19 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!uwvax!uchinews!ncar!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Time for me to post again Message-ID: <1996Feb4.232113.17709@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4erucq$6h3@alterdial.UU.NET> <4eudes$t0t@news.ios.com> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 23:21:13 GMT Lines: 13 In article <4eudes$t0t@news.ios.com> Walt W., dfheli@gramercy.ios.com writes: >It is indeed, convenient to buy the Jap junk. It does have >all the cool bells and whistles, but what ham can fix them? Any ham *can* fix them. He just needs to learn the proper skills. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:20 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.texas.net!newshost.comco.com!news.tamu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!winternet.com!news.minn.net!JHILL From: dsp@timewave.com (Customer Support) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Timewave Technology Homepage Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 21:46:14 GMT Organization: Timewave Technology Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4f8lrp$k1u@cobra.Minn.Net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-74.minn.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14021 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24688 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97849 rec.radio.shortwave:69816 I am proud to announce that the WWW Homepage for Timewave Technology is finally up and running. You can view spec sheets for our products, a list of dealers, a list of magazine reviews, customer testimonials, download user manuals, and more. It's not as fancy as some homepages, and a few parts are still under construction, but it'll improve as time goes on. Check it out at: http://www.timewave.com/index.html 73, John, NJ0M Product Engineer and wearer of many hats... Timewave Technology Inc. dsp@timewave.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!bga.com!realtime.net!nntp4.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!olivea!cnn.isc-br.com!rraymon!braymond From: braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:54:44 LOCAL Organization: Olivetti NA, Spokane WA Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4eaun4$kd6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <1996Jan26.180933.12550@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: ws1-251.isc-br.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article barnaby@world.std.com (Richard Barnaby) writes: >From: barnaby@world.std.com (Richard Barnaby) >Subject: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:15:36 GMT >To QSL or not to QSL, that is the Question >gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: >[snip] >>(Scott Rosenfeld NF3I) writes: >[snip] >[Paraphrase mode on] >1. Scott posits that QSL's are "part of being an amateur" >and it is our duty as a matter of courtesy to QSL. The amateur radio hobby is NOT a poor mans hobby. While there are some of us who operate with inexpensive equipment, MOST of us have spent thousands of dollars on equipment, over a period of time. I think of QSLing as only a small part of the hobby and is certainly not a duty, but a courtesy.When we take into consideration what MOST of us have spent on our ham equipment, the cost of QSLing should not be very relevant. Kind of like buying an expensive automobile but not able or wanting to spend a few bucks on accessories. As far as not participating in the QSL game, remember that it is only a courtesy, not a duty. So the question arises as to whether we should be courteous or not?We all know how the bands abound with courteous operators these days, right? This question could be debated for a LONG time. Why not put it to rest with the fact that we should treat others as we wish to be treated. If you are satisfied with being treated rudely and being ignored, then perhaps you should continue doing so to others. As for me, I prefer to remember that some time in the future, I may need a QSL card from someone (for whatever purpose). In addition, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that I have made someone happy today. all of us should treat others as we would like to betreated. If you are satisfied with being treated rudely, then by all means continue to rudely disregard QSL cards you may receive. I don't feel it is a duty to QSL, only a courtesy. But then we all know that courtesy abounds on the amateur bands these days, right? I think that returning a QSL card falls in the same category as there..that will never change, nor will the fact that many of our QSL cards will never be answered. This is a fact of life and we can debate it all we want..it won't help. ************************************************************************** * BRAYMOND@NS.POWERAMP.NET - Spokane, WA - Amateur Radio KG7WC * ************************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:23 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!bga.com!realtime.net!nntp4.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!olivea!cnn.isc-br.com!rraymon!braymond From: braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:03:27 LOCAL Organization: Olivetti NA, Spokane WA Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <4dkfdj$inc@cc.iu.net> <4e0975$gfm@nw001.infi.net> <4e2lbo$ail@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4e9jai$nao@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4eaun4$kd6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <1996Jan26.180933.12550@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: ws1-251.isc-br.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bo b Raymond) writes: >From: braymond@ns.poweramp.net (Bob Raymond) >Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:54:44 LOCAL RE: My previous post containing verbiage at end. Please excuse my poor attempt to edit which resulted in the garbage at the end. Thanks and 73. ************************************************************************** * BRAYMOND@NS.POWERAMP.NET - Spokane, WA - Amateur Radio KG7WC * ************************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:24 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!news From: barnaby@world.std.com (Richard Barnaby) Subject: Re: To QSL or not to QSL, that is the question! Message-ID: Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Nntp-Posting-Host: world.std.com Organization: Business Support Services X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99b.113 References: <1996Feb1.174220.29925@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4es1vu$qt2$2@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> <1996Feb4.121039.14148@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:30:15 GMT Lines: 39 1) Hans Brakob K0HB remarked >>Gawd, I love it when the "experts" clarify these obscure >>points. >> >>To think, for 60 years, we've been in error calling them >>"QSL cards"! 2) gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: >They call themselves _CQ Magazine_, _73 Magazine_ and _QST_ >too. That doesn't mean quite the same thing as those procedural >signals mean when used over radio does it? The 'Q' signals >have an ITU recognized meaning over radio, and that meaning for >"QSL" isn't postal cards. The signals can be assigned other >meanings in other contexts, but my reply was to a claim that >the international procedural signal "QSL" used over radio meant >a mailed *hard copy* receipt for the contact. It no more has >that meaning than _73 Magazine_ means _Best Regards Magazine_. >Anyone who has read Uncle Wayne's editorials knows that isn't >true. My original post was not so much a claim but a question about what the true meaning of QSL meant, to which I believe Gary responded properly. It seems to me that Gary is saying that although we may have a QSL *Card* and a QSL *Buro*, that does not change the fact that QSL means the confirmation of the receipt of an *on-the-air* message, not the derived connotations relating to hard-copy mail. A question then still remains in my mind, then... 1) What is the difference between "R"oger "CFM (Confirm) and QSL, and if they are the same, why the redundancy? is QSL the only ITU approved signal, and the others just common usage? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:28 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!panther.sirinet.net!KJ5RT From: dadams@sirinet.net (Deryl Adams) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: TW-4000A mods needed Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 03:52:00 GMT Organization: Sirius Systems Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4f3uos$8hr@panther.sirinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pppdi64.law-ok.sirinet.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 Anyone have the out-of-band recieve modifications for the TW-4000A dual band mobile...? I have the "mars" VHF mod, but wonder if there is a UHF also....??? 73, KJ5RT The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: tjroman@ix.netcom.com(Tom Roman ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Vanity Callsign Update Date: 9 Feb 1996 03:04:16 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4fedjg$epo@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hay-ca3-03.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Feb 08 7:04:16 PM PST 1996 Just looking for an update. Last I heard "gate 1" was going to be announced sometime during 1Q96, but that was before the governmemnt shutdown. Has anyone heard any specific dates yet? TNX, Tom, WB2SCW From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!xara.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nuclear.microserve.net!news.paonline.com!usenet From: "Joseph G. Hill" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Vanity Callsigns Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:48:54 -0500 Organization: shivasys.com Lines: 4 Message-ID: <31143AB6.7035@shivasys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.189.80.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) Anyone have any info regarding the gates for vanity callsigns. Where is a good place to monitor for information? 73, Joe AB4SC From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.ping.at!rai.ping.at!kwp Date: 04 Feb 1996 23:24:00 +0200 From: kwp@rai.ping.at (Wolf Harranth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Message-ID: <62FX38V--jB@rai.ping.at> Subject: Wake Expedition Info X-Newsreader: CrossPoint v3.1 R/C11482 Lines: 22 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97743 uk.radio.amateur:10572 Just received the following msg from the Wake team: Trip was very long. Two broken airplanes in route caused big delays but thats OK. Better on the ground than up in air! Arrived 1.2. about 0130z but unable to start setup till about 0400z as accomodations were not as promised. But all worked out well and after 24 hours we now have 1 tribander, 1 WARC-Beam, a Hygain vertical and a balltecreek special up, Needless to say we are very tired. Been 2 stations since about 0400 2.2. mostly 40 and 80. 20 very popor. No Europe, sorry to say... We try to cover the Wake expedition (as we did with all major DX events) in Radio Austria International's "Kurzwellen-Panorama", the weekly radio show for BC-Dxers and radio amateurs. 73 de Wolf -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf HARRANTH OE1WHC InterNet: kwp@rai.ping.at Radio Austria International Fido : 2:310/39.44 A-1136 Vienna Packet : OE1WHC@OE1XAB.AUT.EU Austria/Europe Fax : +43/1/87 87 8-44 04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!nntp Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED -- RADIO HANDBOOK (Orr, W6SAI) Message-ID: <1996Feb6.215206.113403@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: Bill Date: 6 Feb 96 21:52:05 CST Nntp-Posting-Host: kuts14p14.cc.ukans.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 15 Looking for the following amateur radio related book: RADIO HANDBOOK by William Orr, W6SAI 22nd Edition 1981 Howard W. Sams & Co Prefer "mint" condition with no markings, underlining, dog ears, etc. 73s Bill AA4FM/0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.suba.com!news From: byoung@qni.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: WANTED: EXAM STUDY HELP FOR LICENSE Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:41:39 GMT Organization: Suba Communications Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4f5fgj$1i1@suba01.suba.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: s16.qni.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) David, There's an excellent resource ON the Web. I used it (to good advantage...) when I studied for my Tech, and I'm using it to study for my General. It's called Ham Exam and the URL is http://w5ac.tamu.edu/ham-exam.html Try it! Bill Young byoung@qni.com KB0UZQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:34 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!hideout.emanon.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!mr.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!camelot.ccs.neu.edu!nntp.neu.edu!news3.near.net!inmet!texas.hous.inmet.com!davidm From: davidm@hous.inmet.com (David Martin) Subject: WANTED: EXAM STUDY HELP FOR LICENSE X-Nntp-Posting-Host: texas.hous.inmet.com Message-ID: Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:32:33 GMT Lines: 8 All: Are there any computer programs available on the Internet that will help you to study for the FCC radio license? For the PC - Windows or DOS?] DM From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:35 1996 Newsgroups: misc.industry.electronics.marketplace,rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.electronics.components Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jaypee From: jaypee@netcom.com (John Peterson) Subject: Wanted: Retail Source for Nickel Metal Hydride AA Penlite Batteries Message-ID: Followup-To: sci.electronics.components Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:57:13 GMT Lines: 13 Sender: jaypee@netcom5.netcom.com Xref: news.epix.net misc.industry.electronics.marketplace:541 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97906 sci.electronics.components:2063 Can anyone recommend a retail source for a small quantity of Nickel Metal Hydride batteries (standard AA penlites, without tabs). I've tried a whole bunch of different places without any luck. Battery World carries them but won't accept small orders under 100 pieces! Tauber Electronics has them, but only sells them in assemblies for ""approved"" devices. Any leads appreciated... Best Regards, John -- ___|___ John C. Peterson, KD6EKQ -(*)- o/ \o MicroSoft? Just say NO! From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!not-for-mail From: magliaco@pilot.njin.net (John Magliacane) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: WB0QCD Alford-Slot Antenna Measured Performance Date: 7 Feb 1996 12:51:38 -0500 Organization: Brookdale Community College - Lincroft, NJ Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4faora$pn6@pilot.njin.net> References: <4e3mqf$o18@pilot.njin.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pilot.njin.net Summary: Not very good... In article , Gary Watts wrote: >John, > >Thanks for the news but > >What do you have to offer that is better that has been tested on a range ? > >Gary Watts de N0OXV >Kansas City Mo >81 GL1100I > Hi Gary. Well, as I mentioned in the Web page, stacked half-wavelength slots *MAY* work better. Some friends of mine are working on just such an antenna. When construction and testing is complete, I'll post a follow-up. But in the meantime, I thought it might be interesting to show what the actual patterns of WB0QCD's Alford Slot antenna REALLY look like in case there is someone else already out there with a better design. As reminder, the page showing the measured performance of the WB0QCD Alford Slot antenna is located at: http://www.njin.net/~magliaco/slot.html The Alford-Slot antenna is a horizontally polarized, omni-directional antenna system that is popular for ATV and ATV repeater use on the 70-cm band. 73, de John, KD2BD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John A. Magliacane, KD2BD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Internet : kd2bd@amsat.org | Voice : +1.908.224.2948 Satellite : OSCAR-16, OSCAR-19 | Morse : -.- -.. ..--- -... -.. AX.25 : KD2BD @ KS4HR.NJ.USA.NA | WWW : http://www.njin.net/~magliaco ATV : 426.250 MHz/439.250 MHz | FAX : +1.908.747.7107 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!snooze.ser.bbnplanet.com!news.mountain.net!usenet From: dringer@access.mountain.net (Dan Ringer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: What does CQ mean? Date: 2 Feb 1996 04:58:19 GMT Organization: D. Ringer, Attorney Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4es5lb$3rc@news.mountain.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: slip21-1.mountain.net X-Newsreader: AIR News 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) I had always thought that CQ was "come quick" but it could be an "old wyfe's t ail." The distress prosign was CQD (the D stood for "danger"?) When the Titanic went down they transmitted CQD, then tried the (then) recentl y adopted distress signal SOS - proported to be the first use of SOS. No, I don't have the references for the above. Just passing it along. Dan, K8WV From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:38 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!interactive.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news3.mr.net!mr.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!g6iqm.demon.co.uk!vhf-comm From: Michael J Wooding Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: What ssb rig ???? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 22:15:54 +0000 Organization: VHF Communcations Magazine Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4dgKpgAauTExEwri@g6iqm.demon.co.uk> References: <4enpt1$1kt@ccsp-26.brunel.ac.uk> <823201516.2205@swanston.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: g6iqm.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: g6iqm.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.10 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24625 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97774 uk.radio.amateur:10599 In article <823201516.2205@swanston.demon.co.uk>, Gavin Stirling writes >When the DX is around you might need a bit of >power to break the pile up. Disagree - I have been op on 6m for the past 2 years with only 750mW and have worked most European and Near Eastern countries. Working DX is an *art* and does not require loads of power, but perhaps a fair bit of patience. The rewards are inversely proportional to the EIRP! Mike Michael J Wooding vhf-comm@g6iqm.demon.co.uk - CompuServe: 100441,377 Web Pages: http://www.eolas.co.uk/ag/vhfcomm.htm Tel: (0)1788 890365 Fax: (0)1788 891883 KM Publications, 5 Ware Orchard, Barby, Nr.Rugby, CV23 8UF, UK VHF Communications Magazine - Especially Covering VHF, UHF and Microwaves From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:40 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!safn2!pmm From: pmm@safn2.saf.com (Penn McClatchey) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Summary: FCC monitoring Message-ID: <959@safn8.UUCP> Date: 7 Feb 96 15:27:52 GMT References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Organization: SAF Customer Service, Atlanta GA Lines: 19 In article <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes: > > In theory, the FCC monitors the amateur bands and enforces the > rules. Back years ago, most amateurs knew someone who had gotten > a "pink QSL" from Uncle Charley at one time or another, and everyone I remember getting a post card from an ARRL volunteer monitor for being out of band as a novice in 1973. It looked official and embarassed the hell out me. I had no idea that my old Heath VF-1 was drifting a mile a minute. Whatever happened to the ARRL monitors? Pity the FCC. They have responsbility to monitor 3000 times (aren't commercial services closing in on 100 Ghz?) more frequency. To listen for violators, you have to use judgement. Judement means people. People means funding. -- Penn M. McClatchey (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co, Atlanta, GA, USA) Architectural Aluminum. Custom Fabrication. Paint, Powder Coating, Anodizing. pmm@saf.com Amateur Radio WB4DPT Voice: 404-355-1560,ext231 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:41 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!cc.iu.net!news From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 8 Feb 1996 02:28:53 GMT Organization: Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4fbn55$ljn@cc.iu.net> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) NNTP-Posting-Host: netport-6.iu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu>, uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Eric Martin) write s: >Why does a ham need to get a license? Don't people just buy transcievers >and go on the air anyway? no they don't. not when it takes about $2k for all new stuff. >Even if they do have licenses, what stops them from using bands they are >not supposed to use? hams (as well as most other services) are extremely jealous of their allocatio ns. you show up w/o having any inkling of knowing the ropes and you get chased off . self-policing for a good part of the problems, you know. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:42 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cdc2.cdc.net!news1.cris.com!mariner.cris.com!Alexlane From: Alexlane@cris.com (Alex Lane) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 8 Feb 1996 13:03:44 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4fcsbg$m8f@spectator.cris.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mariner.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Eric Martin (uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote: : I was disturbed, however, by the impression I received of ham radio : being a place where everyone is checking up on you. This eagerness to : bust vagrants, by reporting them to the federal government, smacks of : vigilantism, and certainly would make one paranoid about going on the : air. Eric, let's assume you are in a public park, enjoying a sunny picinc with family and friends. Now here come some punks who throw sand in your food, vandalize the rest rooms, and generally make public nuisances of themselves. Would reporting such behavior to the cops "smack of vigilantism," in your opinion? Would such actions on the part of others make you paranoid about using the park? Cheers... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Alex Lane, TechTrans International | finger/email: alexlane@cris.com 2200 Space Park Drive, Ste. 410 | voice (713) 335-8000; fax -0893 Houston TX 77058 | PGP fingerprint: 7FDB06E2478479B4 323CA94865AA5BC2 KD6JJA - speaking as a citizen, not as an employee... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!bertha.ho.rohmhaas.com!news From: mah48d@rohmhaas.com (John E. Taylor III) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 13:03:21 GMT Organization: Rohm and Haas Company Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fcsq3$fnv@bertha.ho.rohmhaas.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> Reply-To: mah48d@rohmhaas.com NNTP-Posting-Host: w815a1.ho.rohmhaas.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Eric Martin) wrote, in part: >Ham >radio has enough of an air of extremem conservatism (witness the editor >of 73); why compund it by acting like agents in a polic... Wow...it's kinda embarrassing to think that newcomers are getting the impression Wayne speaks for Amateur Radio. Yuck! -- John E. Taylor III W3ZID |"Opinions are the author's, and E-Mail: mah48d@rohmhaas.com |not of Rohm and Haas Company." From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:44 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: why a license? Message-ID: <1996Feb8.204227.7339@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fcsq3$fnv@bertha.ho.rohmhaas.com> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:42:27 GMT Lines: 20 In article <4fcsq3$fnv@bertha.ho.rohmhaas.com> mah48d@rohmhaas.com writes: >uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Eric Martin) wrote, in part: > >>Ham >>radio has enough of an air of extremem conservatism (witness the editor >>of 73); why compund it by acting like agents in a polic... > >Wow...it's kinda embarrassing to think that newcomers are getting the >impression Wayne speaks for Amateur Radio. Yuck! Yeah, but it's amusing to see him referred to as an extreme conservative. Hams have been blasting him as a liberal for years because of his advocacy for change. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!paperboy.ids.net!anomaly.ideamation.com!anomaly.ideamation.com!not-for-mail From: kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com (Tony Pelliccio) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:34:57 -0500 Organization: Ideamation, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4fe8c1$1ru@anomaly.ideamation.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <959@safn8.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: anomaly.ideamation.com In article <959@safn8.UUCP>, Penn McClatchey wrote: > >I remember getting a post card from an ARRL volunteer monitor for being >out of band as a novice in 1973. It looked official and embarassed >the hell out me. I had no idea that my old Heath VF-1 was drifting >a mile a minute. Whatever happened to the ARRL monitors? The ARRL monitors found out they were held legally responsible for those little notices and therefore no longer wished to get involved in protracted legal battles that the had neither the time nor the money. > >Pity the FCC. They have responsbility to monitor 3000 times (aren't >commercial services closing in on 100 Ghz?) more frequency. >To listen for violators, you have to use judgement. Judement means >people. People means funding. And in addition to all that, they now have to enforce completely bogus obscenity laws on the Internet where nobody has bothered to tell them what's obscene. Hell you can't even talk about the "A" word anymore but you can preach your ultra-right-wing Pro-Life babble. Tony -- == Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR == As offensive as I wanna be. == kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news.halcyon.com!usenet From: "Gary P. Fiber" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 9 Feb 1996 05:03:15 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4fekij$hgi@news.halcyon.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fbn55$ljn@cc.iu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blv-pm3-ip15.halcyon.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit) I ran into a model " X222 " the other day. It was an ICOM 4SAT with a scrambler installed into it. Some Counter Spy shop modified the radio by installing a scrambler into it. Apparently they sold large numbers of these. Still only operated in the amateur band 440 to 450 Mhz and was sold by a " spy " shop in the U.S. Obviously the intended operators were persons doing survlience activities. Never did find out why the radio was left only operational in the amateur band though. It gets pretty interesting where many " amateur " radios end up, still operating only in the ham band, lots of bootlegging going on out there these days. Gary From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.inc.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!netlink.com.au!esmeralda.access.net.au!news.tbsa.com.au!news From: adam@tbsa.com.au (Adam Maurer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Why is this stuff >10 days old Date: 4 Feb 1996 12:03:15 GMT Organization: The Shack Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4f27a3$174@news.tbsa.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp9.tbsa.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 Today is Feb 4. The latest article is dated Jan 22. How come this stuff is so dated on my mail server??? From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:48 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.sunbelt.net!usenet From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.ham-radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Subject: WTB ICOM CW FILTER Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 20:01:37 GMT Organization: SunBelt.Net INTERNET Access Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4f8bvv$p0e@news1.sunbelt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ags-r1-p10.groupz.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24687 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97847 rec.radio.swap:57022 I want to buy a CW filter for my ICOM Ham Radio. This can be the 9 MHz series, like the FL32 (500 Hz BW), or the FL63 (250 Hz BW), Or, the FL52A (500Hz BW) for the 455KHz IF. These fit several of the ICOM radios. Mine is the 751. How much? Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:49 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.nd.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ghgcorp.com!usenet From: "Ros St. John" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WTB: TOWER/ANTENNAE Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 22:20:26 -0800 Organization: GHG Corporation Lines: 20 Message-ID: <311844AA.679F@ghgcorp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialupline73.ghgcorp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Hi. Due to a tornado, my tower and antennae are now junk. STATE FARM INSURANCE REFUSES TO PAY CLAIM!!!!! BEWARE!!!! I am looking for a used TRI-EX/HYGAIN LM-354 tower or at the very least, the center section thereof. Want used HYGAIN TH-7DXS OR TH-11. Want used CUSCHCRAFT 2 METER BOOMER. Want M2 1.2 gig atv antenna. Want AEA OR M2 434 mhz. atv antenna. Thank you. W5BRY, Ros. my email is rstjohn@ghgcorp.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:51 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: WTD: Leaky Coax Message-ID: <1996Feb9.055634.9473@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4fbfeg$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 05:56:34 GMT Lines: 39 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97929 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18983 In article <4fbfeg$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> Rob Bellville writes: >I've got a communications need that requires intra-building >communications. Since the building is steel and concrete and is rather >long end-to-end, I'd like to install some type of leaky or radiating coax >down the long hallways so that signal strengths will be somewhat >consistant. I need low-power base to portable communications throughout >the building. > >Questions: > >1) Can I modify normal coax (like RG-8/U) by cutting slots or some other >method to achieve "leaky-ness"? Not practically. >2) Where can I buy leaky coax at a reasonable price? The trade name for what you want is "Radiax". I believe it is made by Andrew. It is not cheap (around $2 a foot). There is another way. You can use drop fittings in the line and dipole antennas at intervals. Use 30 db couplers for your drop fittings near the transmitter, and increasingly larger coupling factors as you get further away from the transmitter, IE use a 12 db coupler, a 6 db coupler, a 3 db coupler, and finally just put an antenna directly on the end of the line. This probably isn't as good as using Radiax, but it might be cheaper if you ignore installation costs. When you consider professional installation costs, which can range up to $2 a foot themselves when you start talking about drop fittings, then the cost of the Radiax doesn't look quite so bad. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:52 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ican.net!news.io.org!nobody From: fanjoy@io.org (George Fanjoy VE3PEB) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WTD: Software to Operate a XCVR for the BLIND Date: 9 Feb 1996 09:54:31 -0500 Organization: Internex Online (shell.io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 26 Sender: fanjoy@ionews.io.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: zap.io.org I am seeking software to operate a Kenwood TS-450 from a computer for use by the blind. Requirements: Preferably in Basic. I'll leaarn C if I have to but I'd prefer not. I know I'll want to add enhancements and changes. DOS based, not Windows If I have the above I can satisfy two other needs: Accessible to the computer speech processor - no graphics and one piece of information per line. Very large print on the computer screen I am a retired engineer who is a volunteer working with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind Amateur Radio Program. It's no small program, since 1967 we have arranged for the provision of over $500,000 worth of HF transceivers to the blind all across Canada. We are currently working on tools to make Amateur operation more friendly for blind operators. Help appreciated - 73 -- George VE3PEB TORONTO, Canada (416)621-5248 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:53 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!edisto.awod.com!harbour.awod.com!usenet From: glittle@awod.com (Glenn E. Little) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: Yaesu FT-51 MODS wanted Date: 4 Feb 1996 14:52:41 GMT Organization: Amateur Radio Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4f2h7p$dig@harbour.awod.com> References: <4eungf$l43@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chs0109.awod.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97833 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24672 rec.radio.swap:56985 In article <4eungf$l43@news.ios.com>, rod@venus.hili.com (Blackshadow) says: > > > If there is a MOD for 800Mhz for the FT-51? Please email me > > Thank You > N2RVM > Check Oak.oakland.edu for mods on many equipments. 73 Glenn WB4UIV From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news From: Les Butler Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: Yaesu FT-51 MODS wanted Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 19:09:09 -0500 Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 16 Message-ID: <31193F25.565C@cris.com> References: <4eungf$l43@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc5-fddi.cris.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97879 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24728 rec.radio.swap:57096 Blackshadow wrote: > > > If there is a MOD for 800Mhz for the FT-51? Please email me > > Thank You > N2RVMIf you are using the ADMS-1 software for programming of the FT-51 why not visit my homepage. I have available for download the repeater files for the Detroit Area and the latest upgrade patch that will bring you up to version 1.22 http://www.cris.com/~lsbutler They are near the bottom of the page under the picture of the FT-51 Les From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.scott.net!acara.snsnet.net!HiWAAY.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: rod@venus.hili.com (Blackshadow) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.swap Subject: Yaesu FT-51 MODS wanted Date: 3 Feb 1996 04:15:11 GMT Organization: Frequency Spectrum Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4eungf$l43@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.147.154.70 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97880 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24730 rec.radio.swap:57097 If there is a MOD for 800Mhz for the FT-51? Please email me Thank You N2RVM From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:56 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!icon!greg From: greg@core.rose.hp.com (Greg Dolkas) Subject: Re: Yaesu FT767 Extended RxTx Mods Anyone ? Sender: news@icon.rose.hp.com (News Administrator) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:41:59 GMT References: <310D5515.366F@myserver.mylocation> Organization: HP - Information Networks Division X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6] Lines: 31 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24782 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97921 asmartuser (myaddress@myserver.mylocation) wrote: : Hi, : : I got a Yaesu FT 767 GX, with 144 Mhz unit. It's a good rig, expecially : for : the coverage of all bands. : The 2m unit works till 145.999. : My question is: how to extend till 147.999 ? Yes. Hold the MCK (2) button down while turning on the rig. That should change it to 144-147.99 mhz operation unless they've done something on your unit's filtering to restrict it otherwise. : The same problem is on the other unit (430 Mhz)! : Well, holding the AC (0) button down toggles it from 430 to 440 on the display , but there *ARE* component changes inside the module which prevents operation outside the original band. Even though the display may say 440, it's still operating on 430. Sorry. : It's also possible to extend TX capabilities ? : The 2M change covers both Rx and Tx. I believe Yaesu has these different band restrictions for different world markets. I am not aware of what the restrictions are in your part of the world, so be careful. Enjoy, Greg KO6TH From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Feb 09 17:08:56 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!cc.iu.net!news From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: zoning and stuff Date: 8 Feb 1996 02:30:51 GMT Organization: Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4fbn8r$ljn@cc.iu.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) NNTP-Posting-Host: netport-6.iu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 i have yet to get the magazine, but i am told the march 1996 Playboy has about 3-4 pages devoted to the tyranny of zoning and CC&Rs. it appears amateurs may have been again in the vanguard of modern society.. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:01 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!clio.trends.ca!news.io.org!winternet.com!mr.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!prodigy.com!usenet From: CBAX63A@prodigy.com (Roland Geter sr) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: %% WANT KNWD VS-1 %%% Date: 12 Feb 1996 00:10:08 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Lines: 8 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fm0h0$2dii@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: inugap4.news.prodigy.com X-Newsreader: Version 1.2 Will pay cash and shipping for a KENWOOD VS-1 Voice Synthesizer Card in working condition ONLY. - ROLAND S GETER SR CBAX63A@prodigy.com WB6LNA@KC7Y.AZ.USA.NOAM From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.bluesky.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!philabs!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!usenet From: Al Wong Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (no subject) Date: 12 Feb 1996 02:22:37 GMT Organization: The MITRE Corp. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4fm89d$8r1@linus.mitre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mwppp15.mitre.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) I have just purchased a Yaesu FT-5200 with the MH-27 w/DMTF microphone. The problem is that there were no instructions on for the microphone. My question is what is the A B C D buttons for? The 5200 manual does point out the fact that the P button is non-functional on the 5200. Any response/help would be greatly appreciated. -- Al Wong The above opinion does not reflect that KF4GDD of my employer. As with ALL my opinions, alwong@mitre.org I write them, you intrepret them. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:03 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!ttinews!avatar!sorgatz From: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (Erik K.Sorgatz) Subject: 10 meters Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ttinews.tti.com Nntp-Posting-Host: avatar Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:58:26 GMT Lines: 35 Someone asked about 10m...it's a little quiet now with the sunspot cycle at an 11yr low..but you will hear the various 10m Booster groups, 10-10, 10-10 International and many local rag-chew nets pop up when the sporadic E kicks up. And dont forget to TRY a few cq's! Nominally, 10m is OPEN to someplace! The other traffic which happens (unfortunately) on 10m is the heavy-duty influx of bootleggers, freebanders and jammers floating up from the CB band. I encourage everyone to consider that the manufacturers would just *LOVE* to sell those 10&11m rigs to the CBers on a legal basis, and if we dont start USING 10m more..the FCC might very well consider letting the CBers have it!! Which reminds me, our 10m Net is sponsoring a St. Valentine's Day BOATANCHOR NITE...here's your chance to drag out that old Johnson, Hammerlund, Collins, Hallicrafters, Globe, Gonset, Eico, Elmac, Tristar, Swan, Metor or even a piece of vintage HOMEBREW gear, put it on the air and enjoy it for a change! ..a chance to hear what the rigs of the Past sound like! AM/SSB/CW/FM-PM or whatever your privs allow. We're hoping for checkins from all over, so please join us! Thats 2/14/96 at 07:10 UTC, 28.310 (plus or minus the QRM!) BE THERE! 73! (listen to 28.310 usb at 07:10 UTC everyday for the last/first words on 10 m it's the "Ten Again - Late Nite/Early Morning RagChew Net" KA6PVR (Paul) is Net Control - Bring an attitude and your legal callsign. Jammers and bootlegger's auditioned Friday Nites...get on the list! THUNDER OUT OF THE WEST!) And Remember:"If you can't stand 'em, you can't work 'em!" sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (or:es@soldev.tti.com) KB6LUY (private email:eks@westwo rld.com) TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 "ANY COMMENTS OR STATEMENTS MADE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CITICORP, ITS SU BSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES." (Copyright 1995, ARR-permission to store/archive hereby grante d) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!paperboy.osf.org!bone.think.com!blanket.mitre.org!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!news.consultix.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!cu-dialup-0906.cit.cornell.edu!user From: jwg6@cornell.edu (Joel Govostes) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 10 METERS - calling freq (NY) ??? Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 20:40:21 -0500 Organization: Cornell University Lines: 12 Sender: jwg6@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0720.cit.cornell.edu Is there a 10 meter ssb calling frequency, at least in NY or the northeastern states? I am interested in drumming up QSO's when the band appears closed and also I'm looking for ground-wave/tropo, mostly evenings. The band is so wide I'm not sure where to call CQ. I did finally make a contact today to the next grid-square and that was on 28.400. I had been calling on 28.325 where I sometimes hear very faint ground-wave SSB at night, but so far the stations haven't ever been strong enough to ID or call. Perhaps hams into 10-X group or whatever know of accepted 10m calling frequencies such as are found on 6m and 2m??? Also anyone know the location/power of the CW beacon at 28.195 in FN12 ?? Thanks N1AEP From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:05 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: amman@airmail.net (McCarthy) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 6 meter Yaesu FTV-650b Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 06:14:20 GMT Organization: customer of Internet America Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4fehni$527@news-f.iadfw.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal27-15.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 Help!! need manual for a Yaesu FTV-650b 6 meter transverter. Will cover all cost!!!!! Thanks, Robert amman@airmail.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:06 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nntp.news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Neff" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 800 MHz RX on TH-79A Date: 6 Feb 1996 11:35:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Lines: 15 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <31179F25.B19@primenet.com> References: <4f39qj$3c28@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> X-Posted-By: ip022.phx.primenet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ercan Tuzcular wrote: > > Recently I saw an article about softkey modification of TH-79 A like > TH-79E. I would be very pleased, if somebody could send me the > necessary sequences. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Ercan Tuzcular tuzcular@ibm.net Callsign: TA1L Fax:5727087 > P.K. 32 Bakirkoy, 34712 Istanbul - Turkiye, Tel:90-212-5705022 > -------------------------------------------------------------- Me too. I've been trying for months now, and no luck. If you find out, please let me know. Thnx n7ory@primenet.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:07 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!yama.mcc.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!hou.moc.com!knepp From: knepp@starbase.neosoft.com (Rex Knepp) Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Re: ack-ack and pip-emma Followup-To: alt.usage.english,sci.lang,rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:11:45 GMT Organization: Marathon Oil Company Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ffo7h$bel@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <4er21u$fou@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.109.157.9 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: news.epix.net alt.usage.english:84440 sci.lang:47791 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97953 uk.radio.amateur:10777 Peter Adams (peter@brig.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article <4er21u$fou@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk : writes : > : >By following crossreferences in the OED I have found the following : >fragments of a "signaller's code", and dates going back to 1891. : >Anyone know any more? : > : > ak/ack beer do emma pip esses toc vay/vic (zem?) : > : >Note: ack-ack means AA means anti-aircraft (fire). : > pip-emma means P.M. as in after midday. : > : >(I'm also told that beer-beer meant barrage balloon). : > : This was the phonetic alphabet in use before the WW2 'Able, Baker, : Charlie..' It has left us many legacies such as 'Don R (Dispatch Rider)' : and 'dim as a Toc H (Talbot House) lamp'. I note from idly spinning through this thread that -- in almost all variants -- the words chosen for the phonetic alphabet are relatively common. All that is, except "toc." What the hey is a "toc"? Unless it's a tic's twin, the meaning escapes me. It's not in any of my US dictionaries. -30- rex ============================================================================ knepp@hou.moc.com Rex Knepp - Marathon Oil Company - Tyler, TX Marathon has no opinions: these are, therefore, mine. ============================================================================= From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:09 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.ping.at!rai.ping.at!kwp Date: 07 Feb 1996 14:56:00 +0200 From: kwp@rai.ping.at (Wolf Harranth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Message-ID: <62RYSUr--jB@rai.ping.at> Subject: AL7EL/KH9 Wake Exp.Report X-Newsreader: CrossPoint v3.1 R/C11482 Lines: 31 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97957 uk.radio.amateur:10780 RADIO AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL Samstag/Saturday 10. February 1996 Europe: 0505, 1005, 1305, 1705 UTC - 6.155 & 13.730 kHz 2205 UTC - 5.945 & 6.155 kHz Sonntag/Sunday 11. February 1966 NAm: 0005 UTC - 9.655 kHz Andere Zielgebiete/Other target areas: http://www.ping.at/rai/ KURZWELLEN-PANORAMA Interview mit Lloyd Westbrook K4HQI, einem Mitglied des Expeditionsteams von AL7EL/KH9 nach Wake Island, mit einer Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse. KURZWELLEN-PANORAMA (German Service) Interview with Lloyd Westbrook KH4QI, AL7EL/KH9 team member, summing up the Wake Island DXpedition. (Our English Service might take up the piece Saturday or Sunday in its Rpeort from Austria). 73 de Wolf OE1WHC DX Editor, Radio Austria International -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf HARRANTH OE1WHC InterNet: kwp@rai.ping.at Radio Austria International Fido : 2:310/39.44 A-1136 Vienna Packet : OE1WHC@OE1XAB.AUT.EU Austria/Europe Fax : +43/1/87 87 8-44 04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## CrossPoint v3.1 R ## From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:10 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!ftpbox!mothost!schbbs!news From: Paul Moller Subject: Re: Alinco DX-70 hum on 6 meters Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:50:22 -0600 Message-ID: <3120F98D.1788@csg.mot.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account) Nntp-Posting-Host: 144.188.36.8 Lines: 24 Bryan King wrote: > > I recently purchased an Alinco DX-70T and have put it on the air. I've > had it on HF (80m and 17m phone bands) and 6m FM. On HF the signal seems > to be fine, received many reports of excellent quality audio. On FM, > I have been receiving reports of a hum, even a strong hum when I > transmit. In all cases I am using the same regulated power supply which > is also brand new. > > I am looking for suggestions as to what might be the cause of this. One > ham suggested it might be rf feedback, or PL signal too high. The SWR > is less than 2:1 across the 6 meter band. I am using a Cuscraft AR-6 > Ringo antenna. Well if it is the PL signal is too high, I don't know > how to resolve that and do not have the equipment to test for it anyway. > > Thanks, > > Bryan Yes I had this problem also with my DX-70. It turned out to be the pl is adjusted to high at the factory. Alinco took it back and properly adjusted the pl under the warranty. Paul_Moller@csg.mot.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:10 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!strath-cs!info!news From: D.E.M.Cuff@exeter.ac.uk (Dan Cuff) Subject: Amateur Radio Software Message-ID: Sender: news@exeter.ac.uk (news admin) Organization: University of Exeter, UK X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:31:36 GMT Lines: 6 Can anybody tell me which are the best shareware/public domain satalite tracking programs and logging programs. They must be able to run under windows 95. Where can I get them from?? Thanks. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!mxol.mxol.com!agis!news1.agis.net!agis!nntp.netrex.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!prodigy.com!usenet From: AXMM03A@prodigy.com (Timothy Woodburn) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Auburn, CA Date: 8 Feb 1996 18:53:30 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Lines: 2 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fdgra$hn2@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: inugap4.news.prodigy.com X-Newsreader: Version 1.2 Any radio clubs in this area of the Sierra foothills? From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:12 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.esslink.com!pm1-24.esslink.com!user From: dandall@esslink.com (Daniel Dallaire) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Boxborough in Oct. Date: 13 Feb 1996 03:49:39 GMT Organization: WebGard Lines: 9 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1-24.esslink.com Does anyone have any idea when the advance mailings will be going out for the up-coming convention in Boxborough, MA in October? Just wondering..I'd like to ge my ticket (and room) early. Thanks.. -- Replies to dandall@esslink.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!metro.atlanta.com!nntp.atlanta.com!usenet From: Jeff Tucker Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: BV9P QSLs on-line! Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 23:50:04 -0500 Organization: Williams Consulting, Inc. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3120187C.151A@atlanta.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: chipw.atlanta.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0GoldB1 (Win95; I) The BV9P QSLs have been printed and are on the way to the manager KU9C. The QSL card is a deluxe full-color fold-out card printed by W4MPY. To be the first person on your block to see the card, check out: http://www.mindspring.com/~w4mpy Thanks, enjoy, es dx Jeff N9HZQ jefft@atlanta.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:14 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!netaxs.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mothra.westworld.com!news From: George Weischadle Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Callbook server for OLD calls? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:50:42 -0800 Organization: Sattel Technologies, Inc. Lines: 7 Message-ID: <311CDAF2.2824@sattel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a7.westworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Is there a callbook server that can look up callsigns of 10-20 years ago? I'd like to be able to look old friends, many of whom have new calls now that I don't know. Thanks George, KD6I Reply to: george@sattel.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:15 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!fish.pond.com!kd3bj!kd3bj.ampr.org!robert From: robert@kd3bj.ampr.org (Robert E. Garland) Subject: Re: Cape Cod Teacher Fired Sender: usenet@kd3bj.ampr.org (News Posting Phantom User) Organization: The KD3BJ Usenet BBS Message-ID: References: <4e7vbg$8rs@s2.GANet.NET> <8B9D2D4.13450007A7.uuout@psybbs.durham.nc.us> <4evi2p$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: jupiter.kd3bj.ampr.org Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 15:11:24 GMT Lines: 33 Burt Fisher writes: >robert@kd3bj.ampr.org (Robert E. Garland) wrote: >> >>No, according to the news reports, it was NOT Burt Fisher. For one, I >>think he teaches in another district. Then again, Burt Fisher may be a >>pseudonym, and his signature line may be inaccurate. >The teacher fired teaches 6 miles from where I live. >I teach 6 miles from where I live. >Check my call to see if my name matches up. > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ >/--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / > \ / `-' `-' \ / > `-' `-' OK. The Callbook lists Burton Fisher K1OIK as living in South Dennis, MA. With the six mile connection, are you trying to imply that the teacher who made the national news is a colleague? Or am I correct that your school and his school are different schools? (To resurrect an old joke, did you teach at different schools together?) -- Robert Garland NX3S @ N3ACL.PA.USA.NOAM Hilltown Township Bucks County robert@kd3bj.ampr.org Pennsylvania USA Grid FN20ii Hams do it bouncing off the "F" layer From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!sun!oucsboss!gw2.att.com!gw1.att.com!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: aa8jk@aol.com (AA8JK) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Cincinnati Hamfest Date: 9 Feb 1996 09:55:45 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 9 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4ffn9h$c2b@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <31143A81.6919@shivasys.com> Reply-To: aa8jk@aol.com (AA8JK) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com 24-25 FEB 96 are the dates. I have the schedule of events if you need more info. 73, Steve Caesar AA8JK AA8JK@aol.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:17 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!canyon.sr.hp.com!news From: mikef@rtfm.sr.hp.com (Michael Ferrara) Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Circuit Simulators. Date: 11 Feb 1996 20:11:42 -0800 Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co. Microwave Instruments Div. Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <4fdrbc$8e@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: rtfm.sr.hp.com In-reply-to: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk's message of 8 Feb 1996 21:52:44 -0000 X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.85 Xref: news.epix.net uk.radio.amateur:10817 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97993 In article <4fdrbc$8e@falstaf.demon.co.uk> robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Bi rch) writes: From: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 8 Feb 1996 21:52:44 -0000 Organization: Ruff'n Ready Reply-To: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk Path: canyon.sr.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!lf.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!bloom-beacon .mit.edu!yama.mcc.ac.uk!warwick!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci .com!btnet!news.easynet.co.uk!demon!falstaf.demon.co.uk!falstaf.demon.co.uk!no t-for-mail Lines: 8 NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dear All, Does anybody know where I can find the sources for SPICE?. Either in fortr an or C. Regards Robin Birch Check the Linux archives ... the latest C spice (3f3, I think) is definately on the InfoMagic 5-CD set. I'll bet TSX-11 or Sunsite has it as well. I also h ave 2g6 fortran spice here. Mike Ferrara M/S 4USS HP Microwave Instruments Div R&D 1400 Fountain Grove Pkwy Santa Rosa, CA 95403-1799 (707) 577-4479 mikef@sr.hp.com PGP Key Fingerprint = EC F3 52 79 9C 00 0F 78 00 38 28 CC 72 3C 2D 1C From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!yama.mcc.ac.uk!warwick!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!news.easynet.co.uk!demon!falstaf.demon.co.uk!falstaf.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Circuit Simulators. Date: 8 Feb 1996 21:52:44 -0000 Organization: Ruff'n Ready Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4fdrbc$8e@falstaf.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: news.epix.net uk.radio.amateur:10839 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98009 Dear All, Does anybody know where I can find the sources for SPICE?. Either in fortran or C. Regards Robin Birch From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:19 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.luc.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!camelot.ccs.neu.edu!nntp.neu.edu!news3.near.net!ray.com!news.ray.com!news.res.ray.com!swlnews.msd.ray.com!atla3!leduc From: leduc@atla3.agfa.com (Dave Leduc) Subject: Computer Interface for ICOM Xcvr Message-ID: Organization: Bayer Corporation, Agfa Division Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 13:02:56 GMT Lines: 6 I recently purchased an ICOM 737A and would like to try running it from my computer. Does anyone know where I can get information on building the interface. Thanks Dave AA1HJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:20 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.trw.com!gatekeeper2.svl.trw.com!news2.trw.com!jesse.auc.trw.com!dora.auc.trw.com!not-for-mail From: etuggle@dora.auc.trw.com (Eddie D. Tuggle) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: 7 Feb 1996 13:56:43 -0700 Organization: TRW Denver Operations Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4fb3mb$mc@dora.auc.trw.com> References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: dora Burt Fisher wrote the following in a previous article: > >Who the hell am I to call CQDX. I have been a ham for over 34 years and >in 28 of those I could only afford crummy rigs and antennas. There were >so many stations I could have worked (and called) if they were not >calling CQDX. I have NEVER called CQDX, although today I am much better >equiped. Many times when I call CQ I would prefer DX, who am I to >EXCLUDE anyone. If someone wants to talk to me who am I to be selective? >When my beam is headed towards DX and I get a domestic call it is >usually from a station using a dipole, remember all hams are not "Big guns." >And in reality to be a "real man" is not predicated on how much money >you have. When you call CQDX, think about what you are really saying >(calling anyone but no Americans need answer). > Being one of those little guys, I say thank you. -Eddie, KG0XB -- Eddie D. Tuggle, etuggle@dora.auc.trw.com | "There is nothing either good or TRW Denver Operations | bad, but thinking makes it so." 16201 Centretech Pky / Aurora, CO 80011 | -- SHAKESPEARE Voice: 303.360.4001 FAX: 303.360.4133 | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com (Clay Whiffen) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:06:33 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> Reply-To: cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-82-155.dialup.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 What tone do you set your receiver to when digging DX out at the ESP level? I suggested to TimeWave that they should provide a narrow CW filter with center frequencies down to 200Hz. To which their salesman responded that I was the only Ham that had ever asked about that and implied that I had something wrong with my ears. This has forced me to review my position and defend my contention that ESP level signals and signals in QRM are easier to copy at lower audio tones. Having been a musician of sorts in my youth (poor technique and no talent) I think a musical analogy might be the easiest to explain. The assumption is that our ears' ability to discern a signal, either being interferred with by nearby signals or buried in the noise, is probably the same as our ability to discern notes on the musical scale. One musical interval, i.e. one note, at 700Hz (where the rcvr mfgrs think we should copy code) represents about 83Hz wheras at 200Hz it represents about 22Hz. Therefore, at 700Hz we should be able to identify our desired signal with an interferring signal 82Hz away, wheras at 200Hz we can achieve the same level of recognition with the interferring signal only 22Hz away. This represents a significant improvement in situations where QRM is high. In the case of noise alone: at 700Hz & 100Hz bandwidth we get just one or two notes so, which note has the Toni? (shows my age doesn't it?) I mean we only have two notes for our ears to choose between because all the noise is within that bandwidth and its only a little over one note wide, so our ears perceive the noise to be right on top of our desired signal. The same bandwidth at 200Hz center frequency has the same band-limted power but, on the other hand, it is spread out over 5 notes (thats enough to play "Mary had a Little Lamb") so our ears have more to work with. Does that mean the effective bandwidth, including ears, is only 22Hz? (I realize the average ear response can be down up to 20dB at 200Hz but we have volume controls to take care of that.) I have a friend that eschews the use of any filter believing that his ear is a much better filter than any electronic device (although he has an acknowledged hearing problem, and, therefore, copies at higher tone frequencies.) What do you think; should I go to the ear doctor? Clay, KF4IX From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:24 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!news.westnet.com!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Message-ID: <1996Feb12.000315.24238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:03:15 GMT Lines: 74 In article <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com wr ites: [snip] >Having been a musician of sorts in my youth (poor technique and no >talent) I think a musical analogy might be the easiest to explain. >The assumption is that our ears' ability to discern a signal, either >being interferred with by nearby signals or buried in the noise, is >probably the same as our ability to discern notes on the musical >scale. One musical interval, i.e. one note, at 700Hz (where the rcvr >mfgrs think we should copy code) represents about 83Hz wheras at 200Hz >it represents about 22Hz. Therefore, at 700Hz we should be able to >identify our desired signal with an interferring signal 82Hz away, >wheras at 200Hz we can achieve the same level of recognition with the >interferring signal only 22Hz away. This represents a significant >improvement in situations where QRM is high. In the case of noise >alone: at 700Hz & 100Hz bandwidth we get just one or two notes so, >which note has the Toni? (shows my age doesn't it?) I mean we only >have two notes for our ears to choose between because all the noise is >within that bandwidth and its only a little over one note wide, so our >ears perceive the noise to be right on top of our desired signal. The >same bandwidth at 200Hz center frequency has the same band-limted >power but, on the other hand, it is spread out over 5 notes (thats >enough to play "Mary had a Little Lamb") so our ears have more to work >with. Does that mean the effective bandwidth, including ears, is only >22Hz? (I realize the average ear response can be down up to 20dB at >200Hz but we have volume controls to take care of that.) [snip] >What do you think; should I go to the ear doctor? I think you're ignoring some important factors, Clay. For a given (brief) tone duration, a higher pitch has more cycles for the ear/brain to work with, and allows the wetware PLL to settle into lock with it better. This is the classic PLL loop filter problem, a loop filter with too narrow a bandwidth, IE passes only low frequencies, has a long lock time compared to a filter with a wider bandwidth, IE passes higher frequencies, but of course has a finer resolution when lock is finally achieved. So higher pitch tones allow faster recognition of pitch information than low pitch tones. (I don't think I'm explaining this well, perhaps someone else can offer a more intuitive explanation.) In any event, the ear needs several cycles of tone to come to a good pitch lock, and for short duration tones, that requires a higher pitch. Morse elements at a reasonable speed have a shorter duration than a musical note, so experience with the musical scale may be misleading. Another factor is the frequency response of the ear. The SPL required for signal detection is much higher at lower frequencies than at higher frequencies (up to a limit where response starts rolling off the other way). The area around 1000 Hz is a sensitive one for the ear. Now you say we can just turn up the volume, but when we do that, we degrade the SNR because the amplifier contributes system noise of its own. If we are already in extremely marginal conditions, that may be sufficient to bury the signal in the noise. It would appear that the pitch chosen by radio manufacturers has stood the test of time. If many people had found that they got better performance at lower pitches, that's where they would have demanded the filters be centered. That doesn't necessarily mean that 700-800 Hz is the ideal pitch for OOK Morse decoding by ear, but it is a strong indication that it may be. Now I have a notch in my hearing response due to being exposed to lots of gunfire without ear protection in the late 1960s. So I need to shift the pitch a bit to be able to hear OOK Morse signals well, but that's a separate issue. I find I can hear the elements better at a substantially *higher* pitch. It wouldn't hurt to have your hearing tested. Then you would know the response of the system and could tailor signal pitch to it more intelligently. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:25 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.channel1.com!wizard.pn.com!sundog.tiac.net!shore!news From: jjmartin@shore.net (JJ Martin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: drew advocates tresspassing and vandalism Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 02:40:27 GMT Organization: WK1V Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4foj5h$26f@shore.shore.net> References: <4fjiqf$m1s@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: jjmartin@shore.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-7-11.shore.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.cb:26250 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98012 ozarks333@aol.com (OZARKS 333) wrote: >Bruce just get 2 big dogs like i have and you dont have to worry about >hiding the coax. You might want to put it out of the dogs' reach though...Don't ask how many cables I have replaced for folks whose dogs feasted on it. :) jj From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!inews.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!chnews!usenet From: Cecil Moore Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:27:10 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 10 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ffsku$8ru@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <4fbfim$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cmoore.ch.intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97965 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18998 Rob Bellville wrote: >I need to make a bunch of low power (< 5W) dummy loads. Where can I find >some 50 ohm 5W non-inductive resistors? Alternatively, I could use 25 and >100 ohm ones, too. Hi Rob, four 200 ohm 2 watt carbon resistors in parallel sounds just right. 73, Cecil, KG7BK, OOTC (not speaking for my employer) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:28 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.onramp.net!newshost.convex.com!news.dfw.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!wb3ffv!ppp61.bcpl.lib.md.us!dbaker From: dbaker@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Donald I. Baker) Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? Sender: usenet@abs.net Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:37:24 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp61.bcpl.lib.md.us References: <4fbfim$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> <4ffsku$8ru@chnews.ch.intel.com> Organization: Reville Engineering Services X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Lines: 32 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97971 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19002 In article <4ffsku$8ru@chnews.ch.intel.com> Cecil Moore writes: >From: Cecil Moore >Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? >Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:27:10 GMT >Rob Bellville wrote: >>I need to make a bunch of low power (< 5W) dummy loads. Where can I find >>some 50 ohm 5W non-inductive resistors? Alternatively, I could use 25 and >>100 ohm ones, too. >Hi Rob, four 200 ohm 2 watt carbon resistors in parallel sounds just right. >73, Cecil, KG7BK, OOTC (not speaking for my employer) Try radio shack (model 21-506) dc-500Mhz 15 watt dummy load. I just bought 2 from a local RS who claims there are super discounted becuase they are being discontinued. They cost me $4.80 each. Great little widget and cheap. Don Donald I. Baker Reville Engineering Services 4619 Schenley Road Baltimore, MD 21210-2525 (410) 467-7163 Custon Harsh Environment Computers and RF Products "Where no PC has gone before..." From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: w8jitom@aol.com (W8JI Tom) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? Date: 11 Feb 1996 22:02:02 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 15 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fmaja$lfr@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <311BF912.1F70@shu.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader In article <311BF912.1F70@shu.ac.uk>, Mark Pettigrew writes: > I have looked quite hard for 5W non-inductive resistors, and they are not >easy to find. 2W ones are relatively easy. There are some higher wattage >ones (20W, I think) in TO220 packages. > > Just be sure the non-inductive ones are REALLY non-inductive. Most off the shelf 1 watt or bigger resistors (carbon, metal film, MOX) are inductive these days. 73 Tom From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.dpc.net!novia!nntp.inc.net!news.inc.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!redwood.shu.ac.uk!news From: Mark Pettigrew Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 17:46:58 -0800 Organization: Sheffield Hallam University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <311BF912.1F70@shu.ac.uk> References: <4fbfim$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lti-03.lti.shu.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98024 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19034 Rob Bellville wrote: > > Hi! > > I need to make a bunch of low power (< 5W) dummy loads. Where can I find > some 50 ohm 5W non-inductive resistors? Alternatively, I could use 25 and > 100 ohm ones, too. > > I have looked quite hard for 5W non-inductive resistors, and they are not easy to find. 2W ones are relatively easy. There are some higher wattage ones (20W, I think) in TO220 packages. However, if you only want about 5W, you could simply put two 100 ohm resistors in parallel. It'll give you 4W. However, for showrt periods, provided the resistors are well spaced from each other and any mounting so there is a decent air flow round them, 5W shouldn't be a problem. You could try series-parallel for larger power ratings. Mark G0WLR From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!frankensun.altair.com!uwvax!newssinet!sinetnews!news.join.ad.jp!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!nntp Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: FOR SALE -- SHURE 450 DESK MIC Message-ID: <1996Feb9.194652.113685@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: AA4FM/0 Date: 9 Feb 96 19:46:51 CST Nntp-Posting-Host: kuts8p13.cc.ukans.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 12 SHURE MODEL 450 desk mic Good, working condition with some scratches. The 450 was selling new in a 1993 Newark Electronics catalog for approx $112. $35 C.O.D. POSTPAID (or offer?) Bill AA4FM/0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!matlock.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!psgrain!rainrgnews0!pacifier!pacifier.com!narc From: narc@pacifier.com () Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 7 Feb 1996 18:55:13 GMT Organization: Pacifier, public access Internet site. 360-693-0325 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4fasih$mcg@news.pacifier.com> References: <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca> <4eeg2b$iku@gfn1.genesee.freenet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pacifier.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill L. Kotarski (bkotarsk@gfn1.genesee.freenet.org) wrote: : Whoops I forgot to mention that my uncle is now 75 years old and is a : GENERAL CLASS Going for his ADVANCED CLASS : Wants his EXTRA BY his 78th Birthday Whats with all the CAPS? : Jim Jaworski (jim@draco.bison.mb.ca) wrote: : > Morse Code is DEAD. Get rid of it. This IS almost the 21st : > Century you know. : > -- : > Winnipeg MB Canada jim@draco.bison.mb.ca : > TEAM OS/2 MIME OK : > VE4JAF BSCN Helpline Volunteer : > OS/2 -- 100% 32-bit since April 1992 and over 3400 32-bit OS/2 apps. : -- : ai720@detroit.freenet.org-------------------- bkotarsk@genesee.freenet.org : sfuxdis@frog.thpl.lib.fl.us------------------bkotarsk@freenet.grfn.org : bill.kotarski@cmail.com And Whatever Else You People Call Me : N8JOS--- General Class since 1968 EX-WB8DKR and WN8DKR From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.magicnet.net!news.supernet.net!nntp.cntfl.com!books From: books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 7 Feb 1996 21:35:56 GMT Organization: CMDS News machine Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4fb5vs$rhk@server.cntfl.com> References: <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> <4ev23k$b9c@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.90.27.7 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Francoeur (n1naf@mint.net) wrote: > CW is a requirement and I think it should stay. If I can pass my 13 wpm > anyone can! All that is required is work and practice, but such is the stat e > of life these days. "Give me what I want let alone that I haven't proved my > worth". But have you proved your worth by learning CW? As you yourself admit: > I rarely use code, So what does this have to do with your day to day (or week to week) use of ham radio frequencies? Or are you just another "I did it so you should have to" person? > but I still do from time to time. It's a realiable means > of communication through less than ideal conditions. You may appreciate the > value some day if you find yourself in a collasped building. Yeah Right. That is quite a stretch of the imagination. OK, you want a skill part to the test, here's one that's a gimme that would work. To get your novice(?) class, you have to show up with the parts for a crystal radio and build it on the spot. Nothing pre-manufactured, although you can have nails and a board, but no drawing on the board. Must work or no license. For Tech you show up with the parts for a... You get the idea? Or would that be too hard? Roger From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!cc.iu.net!news From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 12 Feb 1996 04:01:13 GMT Organization: Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4fme29$gva@cc.iu.net> References: <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> <4ev23k$b9c@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4fb5vs$rhk@server.cntfl.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) NNTP-Posting-Host: netport-76.iu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4fb5vs$rhk@server.cntfl.com>, books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) writes: >To get your novice(?) class, you have to show up with the parts for a >crystal radio and build it on the spot. Nothing pre-manufactured, although this idea is always a hoot. always suggested by folks who probably haven't seen an exam in years... nothing premanufactured, eh? guess that takes out the oatmeal box and enameled wire...and the nails and board for that matter. gotta cut the tree down, hack out a board, forge some nails... i don't think we'll be able to get a test done on a saturday morning if we hav e to do all that. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:35 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!interactive.net!winternet.com!news.minn.net!skypoint.com!umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!bcm.tmc.edu!newshost.convex.com!news.dfw.net!news.dfw.net!not-for-mail From: boakley@dfw.net (Brian Oakley) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 8 Feb 1996 22:37:51 -0600 Organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4fej2v$nla@dfw.dfw.net> References: <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca><4eoi84$ffd@news.greatbasin.net> <184@ibbs.av.org> <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dfw.dfw.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Say Roger, Most of the hams that are for keeping the cw requirement could blow you away with the amount of technical knowledge they have. You forget, they took their tests at fcc regional offices. Those tests are NOT easy. I know from experience. B. Roger Books (books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us) wrote: : Jeff Stillinger (js@ibbs.av.org) wrote: : > So we get rid of CW. What is next? How much easier do people want it to be : > to get a license? Morse is required, so just do it. Oh I forgot that is a : > bit of work. We would not want to work for our reward. : > This whole anti CW thing is a reflection of what is happening everwhere. : > Construction contractors and truck drivers don't want to test for a licens e : > either. Why? Because they are lazy and have no desire to devlope skills. : > The same can be said about ham radio. The anti-CW people are just pissed : > because there are people like me who demand they work for a license. Lear n : > a new skill, and then use it. : > For those of us that do use CW and enjoy it. Brag about it, you have a : > skill that was work to get and some folks don't have. : Well goody for you. : Let me put it this way. Many people are never going to use CW. The work : required to learn CW is pointless. Do you enjoy pointless? I think you : should have to learn braille in order to get you license. It makes just : as much sense. : I don't know why I'm jumping in here, the old "I had to do it so you : should have to do it also" is a rather shortsighted attitude. It goes : to show that improvement of ham operators is the least of your worries, : you just worried someone might get the priviledges with less work. On : the other hand... I get the fealing that alot of CW proponents are afraid : that they wouldn't be able to deal with real competance tests. If CW went : away you might actually have to demonstrate theory competance with a : non-gimmee test. : So, is it better to keep numbers down via ancient skills that are unnecessar y, : or is it better to force people to develop modern, relevant skills? : As for those that want the CW frequencies, that's fine, those people can : learn morse since it will be relevant to them. I would be all for : maintaining those as pure CW. : Roger : (Same one that had the fight about the "computers in society" class. I : enjoy learning new things, but I HATE wasting my time.) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!fish.pond.com!kd3bj!jolt.pagesat.net!netserv.com!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rkram51@aol.com (RKram51) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ham Radio & More Show on Real Audio Date: 11 Feb 1996 02:12:54 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 8 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fk4tm$t3g@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4eu3qi$nsn@globe.indirect.com> Reply-To: rkram51@aol.com (RKram51) If you really want to improve the audio on the show, get rid of Professor A. He embodies all the snob qualities that put new people off from getting into the hobby in the first place. He is obviously impressed with himself, and his abilitiy to buy high priced equipment. I think I know what the "A" stands for. . From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.comm.net!imci3!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zippy.intcom.net!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!s2.GANet.NET!usenet From: "Rick, AA8VQ" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham Radio Classes Date: 6 Feb 1996 20:30:15 GMT Organization: Global Access Network ISP (614)717-1700 Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4f8don$1m7@s2.GANet.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp3-41.ganet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; U; 16bit) Interested in getting your amateur license? I am interested in conducting cla sses for Novice, Technican, General licenses in the Columbus OH area. Classes will likely be i n the North portion of town. I need to get an idea of the interest level before I make more commi ttments. 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Please enjoy! 73, Ed Mitchell KF7VY vbook@vbook.com http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm ------------------------ personal email to vbook@vbook.com Visit Ham Radio Online, it's free, at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline .htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:39 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!intac!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ub!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: wb8vbw@aol.com (WB8VBW) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham Radio Testing in Maryland 2/17/96 Date: 9 Feb 1996 13:42:13 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 14 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fg4i5$fqm@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: wb8vbw@aol.com (WB8VBW) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com The next test session sponsored by The Mid-Atlantic DX & Repeater Association will be held on Saturday February 17 in Smithsburg, MD near Hagerstown. This is an ARRL VEC test session. Walk-ins are welcome but preregistration is easy. Call our voice BBS at 301-416-8447 and select box 110. You can preregister and get exact directions via phone... You can also E-Mail me if you would like... 73 Mike, WB8VBW From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:40 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.nuri.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!satisfied.apocalypse.org!news2.near.net!emc.com!lss1074!chilton From: chilton@lss1074 (Ken Chilton) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Hamfest: Marlborough, MA Date: 12 Feb 1996 21:26:31 GMT Organization: EMC Corp. - The Storage Architects Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4foba7$5df@ns0.emc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lss1074.emc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Just a reminder about the hamfest featuring Ham Radio and Computer/Electronic equipment on Saturday, 17 February. Starts at 10am - $2 donation. Several raffle/door prizes. (I lost count.) Talk-in on 146.610-/449.925- Questions/Directions can be addressed to: chilton@emc.com C U there! de KA1TIH From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:41 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!mv!usenet From: jbl@levin.mv.com (Joel B Levin) Subject: Re: help Message-ID: <311cb167.47455035@quartz.mv.com> Reply-To: jbl@levin.mv.com Organization: At home. Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:44:16 GMT References: <495019@280.chatlink.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/16.182 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: levin.mv.com Lines: 21 In <495019@280.chatlink.com>, Ham_Operator@sys280.chatlink.com wrote: |Does anyone happen to have the phone number for the FCC? |I need to call them and find the rules on nonhams using a hams callsign. |One person says the ham does not have to get on air, id himself and |verify that he is control op for the nonham. You need a copy of the rule book. There must always be a control operator who can at the very least power off the station if something untoward happens. I believe the rules only state that the control operator must be present at all times. But if, for instance, someone who recognizes that the call sign doesn't match the voice comes on and asks, it wouldn't hurt to be prepared to verify that in fact your call sign is being used properly. /JBL -- Nets: levin@bbn.com | "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's or jbl@levin.mv.com| bureau that morning. Wide-eyed and distraught, she POTS: (617)873-3463 | stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor." ARS: KD1ON | -- S. J. Perelman From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:42 1996 Message-ID: <495019@280.chatlink.com> From: Ham_Operator@sys280.chatlink.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!gw2.att.com!gw1.att.com!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.chatlink.com!netaccess Date: 09 Feb 1996 00:41:38 PST Subject: help Lines: 10 Does anyone happen to have the phone number for the FCC? I need to call them and find the rules on nonhams using a hams callsign. One person says the ham does not have to get on air, id himself and verify that he is control op for the nonham. I was told that he has to do that. So, I wanna check with the FCC myself and see what they say about this matter. So if someone has the number for them, i'd appreciate it. Thanks. N1UST From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.monad.net!usenet From: rlubash@top.monad.net (Richard Lubash) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Help a potential ham Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:53:58 GMT Organization: MonadNet Lines: 12 Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[8736] Message-ID: <4flohm$j0a@news.monad.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rlubash.top.monad.net X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.7@rlubash.top.monad.net Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. A young man called me the other day and asked the best way to find out how to become a ham. I suggested that he contact a local ham club for help. He lives in OK City, OK and since I live in NH I thought I would post here and see if anyone can referr me to clubs in that area or to a list of clubs on the net. Thanks in advance Richard Lubash - N1VXW rlubash@top.monad.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!news.burgoyne.com!news.aros.net!usenet From: mfp@aros.net (KB7YJJ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Help to operate in Japan.. seeking advise Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:49:17 GMT Organization: ArosNet Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4fqiut$sf2@news.aros.net> References: <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit> NNTP-Posting-Host: anp52.aros.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit>, desaid@marshall.edu says... > >Hello to everyone: > >I just got a word that I will be travelling to Japan. I will be >staying in Japan for seven months. I would like to know how ot >get the operating privileges at Japan. I have advance class >license here. I would appreciate if someone give me some >suggestions or point me in right direction. > >Thank you very much. > >73 >Dinakar KG8OE >desaid@marshall.edu > Learn Nihongo very fast!!! :) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!ns2.mainstreet.net!news.PBI.net!netport.com!news From: Ginsberg Family Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 11 Feb 1996 02:29:13 GMT Organization: "netport a division of Data Services" Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4fjk9p$5hf@netport.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> <4f7rjg$qt3@linet06.li.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p03.buster.netport.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: tomcar@newshost.li.net I will certainly ditto that respose you recieved on the condition of the 10 meter band. I is kinda dead. I did spend a lot of time scanning the band for about 2-3 weeks to try to contact 10 10-10 members to get a membership in there 10x10 club. It sure seems dead but when open I find some of the most friendly and neat people, good luck Ed Gisnberg Ke6BNL 10x10 67327 From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.luth.se!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 9 Feb 1996 21:02:49 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4fgcpp$1hr$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> Hi Ryan, 10M really is quite flat these days. Mostly you will hear only local (if you are near other hams) stuff on 10Meters. To stir up some activity, give out a few CQs. Everyone else also thinks its flat, so no-one is calling. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --"Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus?" -Quote from AC6V- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:46 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ratty.wolfe.net!news.aa.net!tsunami.ixa.net!news.ironhorse.com!sloth.swcp.com!news.dgsys.com!usenet From: Lee Collins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 13 Feb 1996 00:20:01 GMT Organization: Digital Gateway Systems Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4folfi$8o4@news.dgsys.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> <4f7rjg$qt3@linet06.li.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.231.217.100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: news:4f7rjg$qt3@linet06.li.net With a dipole and an R7, you should have the best of both worlds. Get them both as high as possible. Yes, 10 meters is fairly dead right now, except sometimes in the late afternoon it comes alive for a short time. It's a great time to give your cw fist and ear a workout! Cheers! Lee KB1ACN From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!jupiter.planet.net!usenet From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:48:26 GMT Organization: Planet Access - Stanhope, NJ Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4fqita$lkh@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4folfi$8o4@news.dgsys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stan49.planet.net X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > Lee Collins writes: > With a dipole and an R7, you should have the best of both worlds. Get > them both as high as possible. Yes, 10 meters is fairly dead right > now, except sometimes in the late afternoon it comes alive for a short > time. It's a great time to give your cw fist and ear a workout! > > Cheers! Lee KB1ACN > > > actually, i found the r7 to work best about 10' off the ground. make sure the mast is grounded as well 73, enjoy it's a great antenna steve From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:48 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.csra.net!csra From: garyborb@csra.net (Gary Borba) Subject: Re: ICOM WEBSITE Message-ID: <2a7cc$92619.153@news.csra.net> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 14:37:04 GMT References: <4fi0k1$acn@ionews.ionet.net> X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Lines: 13 In article <4fi0k1$acn@ionews.ionet.net>, paulk@ionet.net wrote: >I was told Icom had a Web site I could get Technical assistance. Does anyone know where it would be? I tried yahoo with no >luck. Paul > Paul, try the following URL: http://www.icomamerica.com/icom/ Good hunting! de Gary, KR4XC From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:48 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!bdt.com!news.ossi.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: N3PGG@aol.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Info-Hams Digest V96 #116 Date: 10 Feb 96 14:31:07 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 12 Message-ID: <960210093105_218728011@mail06.mail.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu In a message dated 96-02-09 20:56:59 EST, you write: >From: wb8vbw@aol.com (WB8VBW) >Subject: CQ DX Hams and Ham Clubs...Link to our Repeater via Internet Phone Initially it sounds like a good idea. My only concern is that a non-amateur licensed person with internet phone capability could access your repeater. Limiting access via the internet would be next to impossible. Reversing the access (eg. a licensed amateur being able to access internet phone via your repeater) might be an interesting concept. 73 Tom/N3PGG From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:52 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: BGA2%RdgrFlt%NAH@go50.COMp.pge.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Lets open 10 ! Date: 10 Feb 96 19:00:54 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 3 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu As of today i'am monitoring 28.460 12 hours a day, I am not sure of Arrl band plans for That freq, but lets just do it a open it up. With the coverage of this group should have world wide coverage. Thanks KR6G From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:53 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.aros.net!usenet From: mfp@aros.net (KB7YJJ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: License expiring in 5 months, where to get 610 form? Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:48:40 GMT Organization: ArosNet Lines: 11 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <4fqito$sf2@news.aros.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: anp52.aros.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article , wa2ise@netcom.com says... > >My license will expire in July, so I'll need to send in a renewal 610 >form. Where can one get a copy, and when is an appropriate time to >fill it out and mail it to the FCC? > >TIA 73s Easy Call ARRL and if you are a member, they'll send them out to you within 3 days...:) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:54 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.emi.net!news From: dasosnin@emi.net (David Sosnin) Subject: LOGGING SOFTWARE X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Reply-To: dasosnin@emi.net Sender: news@emi.net (EmiNet Domain News Admin) Organization: The Devil's Den BBS Message-ID: X-Nntp-Posting-Host: taz.emi.net Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:08:37 GMT Lines: 10 Can anyone tell me some GOOD logging software that I can use for my Ham Radio Log? I can use either Windows based or DOS based. If you could tell me where to find it and a little bit about it would be great. Thanks N4TTN From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:55 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.gdbnet.ad.jp!news.hebel.net!news.sics.se!news.kth.se!news.eunet.fi!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: ashtabula2@aol.com (Ashtabula2) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: MODE question.... Date: 7 Feb 1996 19:39:49 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 10 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fbgol$rg7@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader Hello everyone, I am wondering if there is a simple way to determine the different carriers heard.. In reguards to what it is operating in ETC.... I hear so many different carriers, but I cant identify them... Any help would be greatly appreciated.... 73's JEFF From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:56 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!depot.mro.dec.com!mrnews.mro.dec.com!est.enet.dec.com!randolph From: randolph@est.enet.dec.com (Tom Randolph) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse code Cry Babys!!! Date: 7 FEB 96 11:28:43 Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4fak9k$o82@mrnews.mro.dec.com> References: <4ej6fh$15qo@chnews.ch.intel.com> <4ejft1$ktp@server.cntfl.com> <4eo5k0$8sl@mrnews.mro.dec.com> <4f400i$ebu@cc.iu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: improv.enet.dec.com In article <4f400i$ebu@cc.iu.net>, wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) writes... >got the test program. got the ability to generate custom tests (do so on occa sion) >but those have to come from the pools...so if you think the pools are out of date >or wrong - what have you submitted to the revision committee for consideratio n >for the next pool revision? there's always at least 1 pool in revision every year. No, I don't think they're either out of date or wrong. They're just simply presented in a totally inappropriate way. We give everyone the exact questions and answers that will be on the test. Were you tested this way in school? Didn't think so. >the correct answer for the 80m novice band is 3675-3725 kHz for the US. >How is that not memorization? Yes, there are a few things, such as the band edges, which can't be done any other way - rote memorization. This doesn't mean the whole test should be that way. It's trivial to program a computer to draw a resistive voltage divider, pick a random applied voltage and random resistor values, and calculate what the right answer should be. I see no reason why this kind of question "has to come from the pools". If you know Ohm's law, you can figure out the answer from this knowledge. If you memorized the question pool, you circle the answer you memorized, no knowledge of any electronics needed, and move on. ============================================================================== Tom Randolph N1OOQ NE-QRP 419 QRP-L 87 ARRL randolph@est.enet.dec.com ============================================================================== From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:58 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!usenet From: Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse code Cry Babys!!! Date: 13 Feb 1996 07:40:44 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Asia - Taipei TAIWAN R.O.C. Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4fpf9s$c9s@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <4ej6fh$15qo@chnews.ch.intel.com> <311556ed.0@news.sisna.com> <4fhscc$7rq@cloner4.netcom.com> <1996Feb11.060706.20782@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4fl2hm$7d0@shore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.167.36.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) >>SAR listens for *any* tapping sounds in the rubble, SOS is of no >>more value than any other banging you can do. >True.. >> And POWs in the Hanoi Hilton used the POW code, not Morse, to tap out >>the ir messages. >I believe the POW code was a 5 x 5 matrix of 25 letters of tap and >scratch. A tap is a dot and a scratch is a dash. Was a very >effective means of communication between the POWs and it is very easy >to differentiate between the two...try it..tap...scratch... A lot >more efficient than tapping the corresponding number for each letter >of alphabet >>The problem with tapping Morse is to differentiate a tap meaning >>dot from a tap meaning dash. Since Morse is a temporal code, you >>need some way to signal strike and release, not just strike, so >>that you can tell the *duration* of the Code element. >>Try sending Morse to a friend by just tapping a pencil on the >>desk. Don't let him look. See if he can tell the difference >>between an I and an A. They sound the same, just two taps. Very interesting little tidbit of information. I actually realized this same phenomenon as a new novice operator. I was watching the famous movie "Grey Lady Down". The guy in the sunken sub (oxymoron?) was using a wrench to "signal the guys outside in morse code". Problem was, I couldnt copy any of it. Then it dawned on me. Unless he used a combination of "tap and drag" of the wrench, the boys outside couldnt really understand his directions. Would be interested to know the POW code -- I've heard of whistling tunes to warn of approaching peril (ie POP GOES THE WHEASLE for enemy approach, GRAND OLD FLAG for all clear, etc). Guess that's getting outta scope on rec.radio.amateur.misc. 73 all, good discussion. Joe ---------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio: BV/N0IAT Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China ex. 7J1AOF (Japan) YU3/N0IAT (Slovenia) KA0ZDH (Novice) Licensed Radio Amateur since 1986. Comments are mine only. ---------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:03:59 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Morse Code history? Message-ID: <1996Feb9.184517.12825@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <311624EA.3AC2@kuai.se> <1996Feb9.051749.9078@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4ffkjb$iqc@portal.gmu.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 18:45:17 GMT Lines: 19 In article <4ffkjb$iqc@portal.gmu.edu> smasters@bzy.gmu.edu (Shawn C. Masters) writes: >Gary Coffman (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote: >: And now you know... the rest of the story. > > Maybe Morse should have stuck with art, rather then run from the >critics and go into science. Atleast then we wouldn't have the CW test's >as we know them now:-). Unfortunately, the National Endowment for the Arts, John Q Adams version, wouldn't give Morse a grant and he was forced to find a way to get a National Science Foundation (1843 version) grant instead. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:00 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!mwcs!bill.shymanski From: bill.shymanski@mwcs.mb.ca (BILL SHYMANSKI) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Motion Sensor RFI Message-ID: <8BA9409.03BB000BE1.uuout@mwcs.mb.ca> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 17:13:00 -0600 Distribution: world Organization: Muddy Waters Computer Society inc. Reply-To: bill.shymanski@mwcs.mb.ca (BILL SHYMANSKI) X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Lines: 9 Every time I key up a 2 metre rig in the house, the motion sensor lamp up front goes on. Since the packet station is on all the time, the light can pop up at any time of night; this is a minor nuisance. Will a few carefully-located .001 caps, some ferrite beads, etc. make the sensor less likely to false trip, or should I just scrap these lumberyard specials and buy a better brand of motion sensor ? Bill bill.shymanski@mwcs.mb.ca ve4stw@ve4kv.wpg.mb.ca From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:01 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!fish.pond.com!kd3bj!jolt.pagesat.net!netserv.com!aimnet.com!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!usenet From: rrk@indirect.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: NABER Study Guides? Date: 11 Feb 1996 05:48:31 GMT Organization: Internet Direct, Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4fjvvg$58e@globe.indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s118.phxslip4.indirect.com X-Newsreader: AIR News 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Most of the technical infromation on the NABER test can be found in the Radio Amateurs Handbook published by the ARRL. However, you'll need something else for the re gulations. I found the study guide to be quite useful for the test and it was worth the $ 20 (non-member price). The FCC Rules, Regulations and Licensing guide (about $23) contains in formation also found in your public library in the section where the Federal regulations are stored. You will need to know all the code numbers to do this so the book makes things much easier. BTW, I passed the NABER test first try using their study guides. It sure was a lot easier than the FCC General Radiotelephone :-). Richard Kendrick CET WA7TWI | Amateur Radio Extra Class | Do not adjust your mind, there QRP #4129/G-QRP #8591/MI-QRP #M-1412 | is a fault in reality. Phoenix, AZ email: rrk@indirect.com | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:02 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!wb3ffv!usenet From: Grant Harris Subject: Need Baltimore MD Clubs & Elmers, Please! Sender: usenet@abs.net Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:32:18 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ppp8.bcpl.lib.md.us Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Organization: ABSnet Internet Services, Inc. - info@abs.net - (410)-361-8160 Lines: 3 Any local Web page info, e-mail or phone numbers would be very much appreciated. Thank you! From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:03 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.localnet.com!intac!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.sojourn.com!frankensun.altair.com!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!elmgate!not-for-mail From: wpd@elmgete.raster.kodak.com (Bill DeMatties) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need Tek 453 scope manual Date: 8 Feb 1996 21:15:08 GMT Organization: Eastman Kodak Company - DPSC Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4fdp4s$6q6@elmgate.raster.Kodak.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.raster.kodak.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] Hi I'm looking for a service manual for a tektronix 453 scope. I would pay a reasonable fee for a copy of the manual or would like to know where an original manual may be purchased. Thanks in advance! +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Electricity is actually made up of extremely | | Bill DeMatties N2USA | tiny particles, called electrons, that you | | wpd@raster.Kodak.COM | cannot see with the naked eye unless you | | | have been drinking. -= Dave Barry =- | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!dsm6.dsmnet.com!usenet From: mfunaro@dsmnet.com (Michael J Funaro) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need Uniden FMH350D Programing Info Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 03:39:58 GMT Organization: Des Moines Internet Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4fmcnh$hk8@dsm6.dsmnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip3.dsmnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99b.112 Hello, I have a Uniden FMH350D tranceiver and need info on how to program it. Any info would be appreciated. 73, Mike WA0SWJ mfunaro@dsmnet.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.ecrc.de!news00.btx.dtag.de!not-for-mail From: Jochem@t-online.de (Werner Jochem) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need US mailing adress Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:50:51 GMT Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fdnnb$4ok@news00.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 052718577-0001@t-online.de (Werner + Sabine Jochem) X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1I [de] (Windows; I; 16bit) To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Hi Gang, probably in March I will try to get my US ham ticket at a test session here in Germany. Now I'm looking for a friedly and reliable US ham providing me with a US mailing adress. I'm 41 years old, ham since 1977, active mostly in CW on hf bands. I'm married, no kids, three cats and working as a regional sales manager for a large German pharma company. Other hobbies: motorbiking, travelling and scuba diving. If you think this would be a good idea for you, send me your email please. 73 Joe DK7VW email: jochem@t-online.de From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:05 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.spss.com!uchinews!ncar!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: jmouw@grtk.COM (John Mouw) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Packet to Internet Gateways Date: 7 Feb 96 17:15:07 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 5 Message-ID: <199602071715.MAA06789@grtk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu Looking for info on Packet to Internet Gateways. I tried several with no success. Please help a stuggling amateur in the Tampa Bay area. 73 John From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:06 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.inc.net!news.inc.net!news From: Will Flor Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Power connector for Standard C5718DA? Date: 11 Feb 1996 00:30:09 GMT Organization: R R Systems Group, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4fjdah$hud@news.inc.net> References: <4fd4vs$sea@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: will.rrgroup.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit) To: (Ben,E.,Cline),wrote: benjy@benjy.cc.vt.edu (Ben E. Cline) wrote: >Does anyone know the manufacturer, part number, availability, >and source for the power connector on the Standard >C5718DA? I asked Standard and they didn't have any >information. Their suggestion was to buy a 5m power >cord (CAW575) and cut it down. So, if I can't track >down the connector, I'll probably just remove the current >connector and put on a connector that I can actually >purchase. > I don't know the source or how to get one - but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's **exactly** the same as the one on my Kenwood TM-221A 2m mobile rig. Hopefull y, this info will help you find one. P.S. If you ever find out - please drop me a line, if you remember. 73 de KB9JTT willf@rrgroup.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:07 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: mazalr@bgumail.bgu.ac.IL (Mazalr and Earl Rubin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Racal TRA967 6 M FM XCVR Date: 10 Feb 96 08:00:11 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 17 Message-ID: <199602100800.KAA28139@bgumail.bgu.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu I have recently aquired a Racal Mobical TRA 967 6m FM rig. It works fine but I think that the receiver sensitivity could use some touching up. I assume that "G" hams used to work at Racal. Anyone out there (in Reading) know how to tune up one of these rigs??? My friends got some terrific Racal automatic antenna tuners (also fully operational) at the same scap yard. Any info on these. Thanks in advance for your direct replies. 73 Earl, 4Z4TJ Earl and Mazal Rubin 4Z4TJ Beer Sheva Israel mazalr@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Dust Capital of the World From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:08 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: ac3l@ix.netcom.com(Edward Oros ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Receive IMCT (Morse Code Trainer) By e-mail (v 1.9) Date: 9 Feb 1996 14:05:31 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4ffkbb$cl2@cloner3.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-pit1-03.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 09 6:05:35 AM PST 1996 If your news reader accepts attachment files. E-mail a request for IMCT and I'll send IMCT back to you by e-mail. IMCT handles the training for the beginner and the advanced student (0-20 + WPM). It helps you learn the sounds and takes you right up through various code tests. You can design your own tests, adjust the speed, spacing, etc. There is also an on-screen radio which simulates CQers, QSOs, even tuner-uppers! W/95 version comming soon! 73 Ed -- AC3L From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:08 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!n1ist From: n1ist@netcom.com (Michael L. Ardai) Subject: Re: Rochester/Dearfield Hamfest when ???? Message-ID: Organization: Utopia Planetia Shipyards - Mars References: <4etrpk$m1b@scratchy.mi.net> <4fa5d6$h98@northshore.shore.net> <4fq51n$g4n@service-2.agate.net> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:52:59 GMT Lines: 12 Sender: n1ist@netcom5.netcom.com In article <4fq51n$g4n@service-2.agate.net> John Wilcox/NS1Z writes: -But anyway, the answer is the Spring Hoss Trader's -(not HossChester, DeerChester etc) is always the day before Mother's day. And this year the fall one is on the same weekend as the ARRL Boxboro convention... /mike -- \|/ Michael L. Ardai N1IST -*- ---------------------------------- /|\ n1ist@netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:09 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.service.uci.edu!news.intelenet.com!newshost.neptune.net!jds From: jds@neptune.net (Jeffrey D. Stai) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.models.rockets Subject: Re: Rocket Launch Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:01:27 GMT Organization: Neptune.Net (Neptune Consulting Group, Inc.) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4fllf7$t6@neptune.neptune.net> References: <4fee62$11v@news1.exit109.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: neptune.neptune.net Keywords: Rocket Morse Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97983 rec.models.rockets:47685 In <4fee62$11v@news1.exit109.com> harryjb@exit109.com (Harry J. Britton) write s: >Hi: > I've been planning to launch a double stage rocket with a Morse Code >Transmitter on it. I'll be using a Z8 micro to shift a code string to a >xmitter. The hard part, I don't know what to have it send. I figure my call >and grid square would be good, but I have room for so much more. I suppose I >can have it count time from an event, like the launch, but putting in an >altimeter would add too much weight. Any suggestions? Well, the first suggestion is to check over at rec.models.rockets for the same information. I've directed followups over there... While I have no specific part numbers or anything like that, a reasonably competent homebrewer like yourself should be able to scare up something (I'm basing that on the fact that you have figured out how to interface your Z8 to the transmitter already): - a simple pressure transducer - a temperature transducer - a photo diode pointing out the side - is an altimeter really that heavy? - how about a transponder...?-) I'd be interested in finding out more about your basic setup!-) jeff stai, ke6knf jds@advradio.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:11 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.dpc.net!novia!nntp.inc.net!news.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Rocket Launch Message-ID: <1996Feb10.005108.14493@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Keywords: Rocket Morse Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4fee62$11v@news1.exit109.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:51:08 GMT Lines: 38 In article <4fee62$11v@news1.exit109.com> harryjb@exit109.com (Harry J. Britto n) writes: >Hi: > I've been planning to launch a double stage rocket with a Morse Code >Transmitter on it. I'll be using a Z8 micro to shift a code string to a >xmitter. The hard part, I don't know what to have it send. I figure my call >and grid square would be good, but I have room for so much more. I suppose I >can have it count time from an event, like the launch, but putting in an >altimeter would add too much weight. Any suggestions? There are a number of different things you can telemeter back that would be of interest. You can let a phototransistor peer out the side of the rocket and report rotation rate by counting sun crossings. You can install a strain gage to report G forces. You can install a mercury switch to signal when top of the arc is reached. Or you could have a thermistor report temperature up and down. Even an altimeter needn't be too large or heavy, if you're a bit clever. You can build an altimeter the size and weight of a pea. None of these are particularly well suited to Morse coding, however. You're better off using voltage to frequency converters, tone modulating the transmitter, and using frequency to voltage converters at the receiver to decode the telemetry. If you pick channel tone center frequencies carefully, you can send multiple channels of data at once. Of course with a micro on board, you could digitally encode the telemetry instead, and downlink it as high speed FSK, but simple tone coding is useful when you only have a few channels of data to send. Morse is too slow for practical rocket telemetry. The ascent would be over before more than a very few characters could be sent. Morse signaling is better suited to the leisurely ascent of a balloon. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:12 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.lahabra.chevron.com!usenet From: "C. Wheeler" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Rptrs near SLC, UT Ski Areas Date: 12 Feb 1996 20:55:57 GMT Organization: CCnet Communications - Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4fo9gt$hrk@gaudi.lahabra.chevron.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cgwh.sr.chevron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) Would appreciate it if anyone could pass on frequencies of any open repeaters (2m/70cm) that cover ski areas in the SLC area. Particularly in the Cottonwood Canyons (Solitude, Brighton, Snowbird, Alta). I don't normally spend much time talking on the radio when I am skiing but I carry an portable with me - and it's nice to know that I can use it if I need to. Thanks Curtis Pleasanton, CA From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: San Diego Palomar ARC on WWW Date: 10 Feb 1996 14:34:38 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4fiadu$7pa@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-17.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Feb 10 6:34:38 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) If you are visiting San Diego or relocating here, check out the Palomar Amateur Radio club page at: http://www.electriciti.com/parc Info includes all San Diego Repeaters, ARC's, ATV, Swap Meets and On-The-Air Nets, WX, Traffic and Maps as well as points of interest for the visiting ham. Also an excellent page for other links -- ARES, RACES, DX, Contesting, Ron Klimas' 500 link plus Ham Pages, WW Disasters, FCC Link, ARRL Link, DX Bulletins, US Repeater Guide by Artsci and much much more. Check us out and Welcome to San Diego. Good Surfing Rod Hark! I have hurled my words to the far reaches of the earth! What King of old could do thus ? A man may know of the whole world without leaving the shelter of his home! Loa Tsze From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:14 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Schedule of Amateur Radio tests? Date: 10 Feb 1996 18:42:34 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fiouq$j23@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca3-08.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Feb 10 10:42:34 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) To: trwagner@iquest.net GO to the arrl www page and scroll down to exams link --- covers whole country. Will post URL on an announcement -- can't copy URL to this reply 73 Rod Hark! I have hurled my words to the far reaches of the earth! What king of old could do thus ? A man may know of the whole world without leaving the shelter of his own home! Loa Tsze From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:15 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!news.vbc.net!news.uk0.vbc.net!SoNet!innotts.co.uk!usenet From: asperges@innotts.co.uk (Jeremy Boot) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: SWL Pages Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 17:13:32 GMT Organization: innotts.co.uk Lines: 16 Message-ID: <311ccb8c.14802346@news.innotts.co.uk> Reply-To: asperges@innotts.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: seriald0b.innotts.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Readers might like to note the new SWL Pages incorporated into: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ as promised and by request. Tons of advice for the newcomer and ton of links to Broadcasters' sites. SWLs are not forgotten after all! Thanks to those who suggested it and sent msgs from this group. 73 de Jeremy G4NJH asperges@innotts.co.uk [Homepages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ ] From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bill.gnatnet.net!usenet From: Gary Bleasdale Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: The Electronic 2ND OP Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:55:26 -0500 Organization: GnatNet Lines: 6 Message-ID: <311E8FFE.3839@gnatnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup40.gnatnet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) Does anyone know if the publisher of the software package The Electronic 2ND OP is still supporting the product? Used to get regular updates from GRF Computer Services, but havn't seen any for a while. Please respond by email to garyb@gnatnet.net. Or you can packet to kj4pv@n1nfc.#kbay.ga.na.usa. Thanks es 73 From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:17 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!night.primate.wisc.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Truth in hamming Date: 10 Feb 1996 15:20:49 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4fid4h$7pa@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4fggpt$6po@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-17.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Feb 10 7:20:49 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) Eric I read your article with much interest and would like to offer the following suggestions. First get back issues of QST and read in depth about the Loma Prieta and North Ridge Earthquakes and the Typhoon that hit KH6 land in the 70's. Local communications was swamped and the Amateur Radio Community handled thousands -- let me repeat that -- thousands of vital messages. In the 80's floods hit the Santa Cruz Mountain area and I handled several dozen messages from people in shelters who had no other means of communication to the bay area. Several people drowned and people were frantic to hear of their loved ones. I am sure all of them would disagree with you. Second I would like to comment on the mindless QSO's that you seem prone to engage in. You reap what you sow, my friend. On the airways, I have had conversations with a Professor at UCI who is a world renowned authority on the ancient greeks. A qso with an anthropologist in Belize studing the Indian ruins. A qso with a British soldier in the Falklands re the polar explorations in that area. A qso with a B-17 gunner during WWII. A heart-breaking QSO with a survivor of the Bataan Death March. A hydraulic engineer in a diamond mine in South Africa. Many many QSO's with a minister on Pitcairn Island about their history,the Bounty and current conditions there. And many more. Do any of the above interest you ??? I didn't think so. Rod A man may know of the whole world without leaving the shelter of his own home! (Provided he wants to!) Loa Tsze From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.spss.com!uchinews!news.luc.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.igc.apc.org!usenet From: frimon@igc.apc.org (Simon Frech) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Vacation in Europe Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:32:49 GMT Organization: Institute for Global Communications Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4fqarr$llr@igc.apc.org> References: <4fnfqk$mb2@ns.cowboy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp4-17.igc.org X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 bob@cowboy.net (Bobby Irvin) wrote: >I'm sure this is a tired old question, but I must ask: Is there anybody >out there that can give me reliable information concerning the operation >of my dual-band HT in the Netherlands? I intend to travel there in May >and I would like to know who to contact in the Dutch government to secure >clearance for such operation. Now before everybody screams "ask ARRL!", >I must tell you that I have sent email to that office over 3 weeks ago and >have yet to receive a response. I would give ARRL a phone call. Maybe your e-mail got lost somewhere. You could also call the Dutch consulate or embassy. I took my HT to Switzerland last fall. The Swiss Telecom authority wanted 50 Swiss francs for a 3 month permit (about $40). I had to send in an application (furnished by ARRL a couple of weeks after my initial e-mail to them) and the money and got a reply after 10 days or so. My HT can but was not set up to produce the "burst" tone that a lot of European repeaters require. Make sure your HT is ready; you'll make a lot more contacts. Enjoy your trip. Going ice-skating on the canals? ;-) Simon Frech, KE6KKH From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:19 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.onramp.net!news.tcst.com!op.net!agis!news1.agis.net!agis!nntp.netrex.net!news.voyager.net!news From: Jon V Twork Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: VHF Engineering Info Date: 7 Feb 1996 17:05:58 GMT Organization: Voyager Information Networks, Inc. Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4fam5m$dr8@vixc> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm148-24.dialip.mich.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) I need help in finding specifications, schematics, and modifications for Vhf Engineering 2 meter amplifier and accompanying power supply. Vhf Engineering was originally in Binghamton, N.Y. but have either moved or gone out of business. The model amplifier is PA140/10 and the power supply is a Model 24C Any help at all would be appreciated. Thank you. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:20 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!caen!nas From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (Mark Lamberson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Volunteer Sought to Test WinTalk v1.25 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 07:59:51 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4fk7n7$q2c@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: @pm023-00.dialip.mich.net Summary: Volunteer needed to test WinTalk X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 Keyword: WinTalk I'm seeking a volunteer that would like to help me test a Freeware product from ELF Communications called WinTalk. The program enables users with dialup connection to the internet to be able to call each other and communicate in a realtime radio teletype like enviroment. May come in handy to talk to far away relatives! If you are interested in conducting this test with me please contact me by posting a message to this group or E-mail me. The WinTalk program version 1.25 can be downloaded from the vendor's ftp site: ftp.elf.com /pub/wintalk/WTALK125.ZIP From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:21 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!interactive.net!winternet.com!mr.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 8 Feb 1996 01:50:55 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fbktv$86o$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> References: <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> >certainly would make one paranoid about going >on the air. Only if your license credentials didn't stand scrutiny! 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --"Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus?" -Quote from AC6V- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.charm.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!imci5!suck-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!newshost.convex.com!convex!tonyp From: tonyp@convex.com (Tony J. Podrasky) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 8 Feb 1996 22:03:40 GMT Organization: Coyotes R Us - ask me about my Coyotes Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4fdrvs$msp@convex.convex.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fcsq3$fnv@bertha.ho.rohmhaas.com> <1996Feb8.204227.7339@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: convex1.convex.com In article <1996Feb8.204227.7339@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, Gary Coffman wrote: > >Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary >Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary >534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us >Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Hi Mr. Coffman; _______________________| I represent the Acme Anvil company, and would like to discuss this with you... :-) -- Tony J. Podrasky Sure, we can do it - just select any TWO: San Diego , Ca +---------------------------------------+ tonyp@convex.com | GOOD | FAST | CHEAP | QSL? QRU? QRZ? QLZ? QFA? +---------------------------------------+ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:23 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.infi.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!uedmarti From: uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Eric Martin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 7 Feb 1996 18:42:51 GMT Organization: Educational Computing Network Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: ecom5.ecn.bgu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thanks for all the responses, most of which cam by e-mail. I was interested in how well the FCC enforces its licensing laws, for I see a time when all Internet users may someday also need a license. I was disturbed, however, by the impression I received of ham radio being a place where everyone is checking up on you. This eagerness to bust vagrants, by reporting them to the federal government, smacks of vigilantism, and certainly would make one paranoid about going on the air. Now I know that if I get a license, pony up the considerable amount of money for a rig, and go on, my first contacts will be made with people who are probably diving for their call book, making sure I'm clean. I hope their call book is up to date! While breaking the licensing law violates the spirit of professionalism and exclusivity of ham radio, I don't think that spying on fellow hams is a good solution to the problem. Shunning would work far better. Ham radio has enough of an air of extremem conservatism (witness the editor of 73); why compund it by acting like agents in a polic From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:24 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.dpc.net!novia!nntp.inc.net!news.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: why a license? Message-ID: <1996Feb10.010259.14583@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <959@safn8.UUCP> <4fe8c1$1ru@anomaly.ideamation.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 01:02:59 GMT Lines: 25 In article <4fe8c1$1ru@anomaly.ideamation.com> kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com (T ony Pelliccio) writes: >In article <959@safn8.UUCP>, Penn McClatchey wrote: >> >>I remember getting a post card from an ARRL volunteer monitor for being >>out of band as a novice in 1973. It looked official and embarassed >>the hell out me. I had no idea that my old Heath VF-1 was drifting >>a mile a minute. Whatever happened to the ARRL monitors? > >The ARRL monitors found out they were held legally responsible for those >little notices and therefore no longer wished to get involved in >protracted legal battles that the had neither the time nor the money. I fail to see how that could be. The notices were advisory only, with no force. Someone who didn't like the notice could simply pitch it in the trash. How could that possibly generate legal action? Sure, I know you can sue for any reason, or no reason at all, but over what is essentially junk mail? Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:25 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: mjsilva@ix.netcom.com(michael silva) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 7 Feb 1996 21:12:50 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4fb4ki$lm1@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: val-ca2-18.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 07 1:12:50 PM PST 1996 In <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Eric Martin) writes: <...> >I was disturbed, however, by the impression I received of ham radio >being a place where everyone is checking up on you. This eagerness to >bust vagrants, by reporting them to the federal government, smacks of >vigilantism, and certainly would make one paranoid about going on the >air. Now I know that if I get a license, pony up the considerable >amount of money for a rig, and go on, my first contacts will be made >with people who are probably diving for their call book, making sure >I'm clean. >... I don't think that spying on fellow hams is a good solution to the >problem. Actually, the percentage of contacts that sends people "diving for their callbook" will be very low unless your operating practices are suspect, but even so, if you're legal why does it bother you? When you transmit a callsign for the world (or at least the county) to hear, it is hardly spying should an occasional listener decide to look you up for whatever reason. As for up-to-date callbooks, every ham should have a sense of what callsigns are fresh off the FCC presses and thus may not be in print or on CD-rom. So all in all this concern of yours is greatly overblown, as you will find if and when you get on the air. 73, Mike, KK6GM From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.sunbelt.net!usenet From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: WTB HW-9 OR SIMILAR QRP RIG Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:36:29 GMT Organization: SunBelt.Net INTERNET Access Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4fqb1r$stj@news1.sunbelt.net> References: <4fme92$htt@news1.sunbelt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ags-r1-p3.groupz.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13316 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98037 rec.radio.swap:57412 I am looking for a Heath HW-9 QRP rig or similar. Any condition considered, but must have manual. Accessories OK, but not required. Please quote exact condition, appearance, accessories and price. Thanks Jerry Flanders W4UKU South Carolina flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!news.une.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!tmx!news.tmx.com.au!news.acay.com.au!news From: spiro evagelakos (spiroe@acay.com.au) Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: WTB:5KW AM Transmitter Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:19:25 GMT Organization: ACAY Network Computing P/L, Sydney AUSTRALIA. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <4fn47d$j76@www.acay.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiroe.acay.com.au X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Xref: news.epix.net aus.radio.amateur.misc:428 aus.radio.amateur.wicen:67 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19019 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14094 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24856 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13283 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98001 rec.radio.scanner:45416 rec.radio.swap:57330 This time I am after a second hand 5KW AM Transmitter Regards Spiro From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!news.une.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!tmx!news.tmx.com.au!news.acay.com.au!news From: spiro evagelakos (spiroe@acay.com.au) Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: WTB:AMATURE TRANSMITTER @ 160MTRS Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:15:25 GMT Organization: ACAY Network Computing P/L, Sydney AUSTRALIA. Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4fn3vt$j76@www.acay.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiroe.acay.com.au X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Xref: news.epix.net aus.radio.amateur.misc:427 aus.radio.amateur.wicen:66 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19018 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14093 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24855 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13282 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98000 rec.radio.scanner:45415 rec.radio.swap:57329 Hi , I am after a second hand amature transmitter for the 160mtr band Regards Spiro From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:28 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!news.une.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!tmx!news.tmx.com.au!news.acay.com.au!news From: spiro evagelakos (spiroe@acay.com.au) Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: WTB:LINEAR AMPLIFIER FOR 160MTR BAND Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:17:15 GMT Organization: ACAY Network Computing P/L, Sydney AUSTRALIA. Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4fn43b$j76@www.acay.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiroe.acay.com.au X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Xref: news.epix.net aus.radio.amateur.misc:426 aus.radio.amateur.wicen:65 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19017 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14092 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24854 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13281 rec.radio.amateur.misc:97999 rec.radio.scanner:45414 rec.radio.swap:57328 Hi , I am after a second hand linear Amplifier for the 160mtr band Regards Spiro From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!news From: Zack Lau Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Subject: Re: WTD: Leaky Coax Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 14:32:45 -0500 Organization: American Radio Relay League Lines: 33 Message-ID: <311CF2DD.A2C@arrl.org> References: <4fbfeg$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> <1996Feb9.055634.9473@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: zlau.arrl.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6b (Win16; I) To: Gary Coffman Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:97961 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:18996 Gary Coffman wrote: > > >1) Can I modify normal coax (like RG-8/U) by cutting slots or some other > >method to achieve "leaky-ness"? > > Not practically. It looks to me like Andrew takes ordinary Heliax and mills slots in the cable. "Holes are milled in the corrugation peaks of the outer conductor to form the radiating cable." p.564 of their catalog 36. I also recall that you considered Heliax to be ordinary coax, and not something exotic. > >2) Where can I buy leaky coax at a reasonable price? > > The trade name for what you want is "Radiax". I believe it is > made by Andrew. It is not cheap (around $2 a foot). > > There is another way. You can use drop fittings in the line and > dipole antennas at intervals. Use 30 db couplers for your drop > fittings near the transmitter, and increasingly larger coupling > factors as you get further away from the transmitter, IE use a > 12 db coupler, a 6 db coupler, a 3 db coupler, and finally just > put an antenna directly on the end of the line. Why the need for different value couplers? After all, with the commercial product aren't all the slots the same size, so that the coupling factor is the same? Of course, you probably want to feed it in the center and perhaps vary the coupling in a couple spots to optimize coverage. Zack KH6CP/1 zlau@arrl.org From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!amd!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WWW Mega Ham Links Date: 11 Feb 1996 18:09:32 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4flbcs$963@cloner4.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca2-23.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------27223119088129" X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Feb 11 10:09:33 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------27223119088129 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Been surfin the web for several weeks and have found two pages with over 500 Plus links to other Ham Related Info. Perhaps this may save you some surfin time. Although its fun to search -- run into the durnest stuff Hi Hi. If you are on any of the 5 hour a month plans -- this will save you $$$ too. Good Surfin and Hamming Rod Hark! For I Have Hurled My Words To The Far reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? ---------------------------------27223119088129 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain http://www.com-west.com/com-west/com-west.html http://uhavax.hartford.edu/disk$userdata/faculty/newsvhf/www/ham-www.html ---------------------------------27223119088129-- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 13 21:04:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!tiger.avana.net!root From: k6eid@avana.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: YAESU FT-707 Transverter Date: Fri, 09 Feb 96 16:48:13 PDT Organization: Avana Communications Corp. Lines: 25 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.245.133.117 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage I have a like new FT-707 transverter with the 6 meter and 2 meter modules. Asking $350/OBO. I used it with my FT-757GX. Technical info follows: The transverter works on all the modes of the HF rig and there are modules for 50, 144, and 430 mHz. It can operate satellite modes with full duplex operation between 28, 144, and 435 mHz. It includes repeater splits on all repeater bands. It permits use frm 50-54 mHz, 144-148 mhz, and 430-440 mHz. It's power input is 20 watts on SSB and CW and 5 watts on AM/FM. Its input range is 28 to 30 mHz. The only interconnections between the HF rig and the transverter are a phono connector cable frm an RF output jack on the HF rig , the DC power cord and a coax from the HF antenna 259 connector to the transverter. Appears that it might work on any rig that has those kind of connections. The RF output jack on the 757 provides a low level RF output from an early stage of the xmtr. Power level is about -6 dBm (0.1 Vrms) at 50 ohms. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:10 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: jrosariojr@aol.com (JRosariojr) Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: WTB:5KW AM Transmitter Date: 14 Feb 1996 03:49:49 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 1 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4fs7nd$por@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4fn47d$j76@www.acay.com.au> Reply-To: jrosariojr@aol.com (JRosariojr) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Xref: news.epix.net aus.radio.amateur.misc:446 aus.radio.amateur.wicen:71 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19099 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14179 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24980 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13359 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98120 rec.radio.scanner:45613 rec.radio.swap:57615 good luck From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!pacifier!pacifier.com!narc From: narc@pacifier.com () Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: mod for htx-212???? Date: 10 Feb 1996 19:14:26 GMT Organization: Pacifier, public access Internet site. 360-693-0325 Lines: 2 Message-ID: <4fiqqi$8rt@news.pacifier.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pacifier.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] does anybody have any mods for the htx-212 2mtr mobile? From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.mci.newscorp.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: armond@delphi.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse code Cry Babys!!! Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 02:28:40 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 2 Message-ID: References: <4ej6fh$15qo@chnews.ch.intel.com> <311556ed.0@news.sisna.com> <4fhscc$7rq@cloner4.netcom.com> <1996Feb11.060706.20782@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4fl2hm$7d0@shore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1f.delphi.com X-To: JJ Martin when a group of POW s were in an enemy propaganda film...one sent TORTURE in CW by opening and closing his eyes to the code letters. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:14 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.nosc.mil!news!horowitz From: horowitz@nosc.mil (Alan M. Horowitz) Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Message-ID: <1996Feb15.081031.8212@nosc.mil> Sender: news@nosc.mil Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb12.000315.24238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:10:31 GMT Lines: 2 Gary, if your SNR changes with changes in audio gain, you have bigger fish to fry than optimizing sidetone frequency. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:14 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.nosc.mil!news!horowitz From: horowitz@nosc.mil (Alan M. Horowitz) Subject: Re: Lets open 10 ! Message-ID: <1996Feb15.080429.8117@nosc.mil> Sender: news@nosc.mil Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA References: <4fldmc$1t8@hgea01.hgea.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:04:29 GMT Lines: 2 Nowadays, your 10 meter openings will almost always be Sporadic E. Summer will be even better for that. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:15 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.gate.net!news-adm From: lslewis@gate.net (Larry Lewis) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Wanted 2m transverter Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:20:12 GMT Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Lines: 3 Message-ID: <4fsjjp$2lrg@news.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftmfl2-24.gate.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Wanted - 28 mhz to 144 mhz linear transverter, working home built OK. - KN6WC From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rilowite@aol.com (RIlowite) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Logging Software Date: 14 Feb 1996 17:47:24 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 3 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4ftops$9t1@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: rilowite@aol.com (RIlowite) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com Use the Card File application in the Accessaries group of your Windows Pgm It works just fine for me. RIlowite@aol.com (W2GKG) From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:17 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: wa8ulx@aol.com (WA8ULX) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Modifing Hr-2600 out of band Date: 17 Feb 1996 06:59:06 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 3 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4g4fua$o79@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com X-Newsreader: AOL Offline Reader Does anyone know the mod for modifing the HR-2600 for out of band operation. I need to modify mine so I can use to Operate a couple Transverters. I cab be reached at WA8ULX@AOL.COM thanks and 73 Bruce From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!news.PBI.net!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!newsworthy.West.Sun.COM!ssguest!aga From: aga@ssguest.west.sun.com (Tony Angerame - Sun SSE) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? Date: 12 Feb 1996 22:09:28 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Lines: 4 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fodqo$mad@newsworthy.West.Sun.COM> References: <311BF912.1F70@shu.ac.uk> Reply-To: aga@ssguest.west.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ssguest.west.sun.com Use 1 watt resistors nd wire them in parrallel between two pieces of scrap cir cuit board (unetched). From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:19 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!sparky.insinc.net!news.bc.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.exodus.net!news1.best.com!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news5.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!usenet.continental.com!usenet From: Paul Christensen Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse code Cry Babys!!! Date: 14 Feb 1996 20:40:42 GMT Organization: Continental Cablevision Lines: 4 Message-ID: <4fthca$jtf@usenet.continental.com> References: <4ej6fh$15qo@chnews.ch.intel.com> <311556ed.0@news.sisna.com> <4fhscc$7rq@cloner4.netcom.com> <1996Feb11.060706.20782@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4fl2hm$7d0@shore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.152.167.73 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: armond@delphi.com What's your point? -Paul From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:19 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.physics.electromag Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.nosc.mil!news!horowitz From: horowitz@nosc.mil (Alan M. Horowitz) Subject: "blast through" blanketing sporadic E by polarization tricks? Message-ID: <1996Feb15.075858.8009@nosc.mil> Sender: news@nosc.mil Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:58:58 GMT Lines: 4 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98129 sci.physics.electromag:8229 Do the clouds which comprise ionospheric sporadic E, have any known bi-refringent properties or soesuch, which would allow signals to reach the above-lying F layer, through polarization diversity? Or by any other trick? From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:20 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.creighton.edu!bluejay.creighton.edu!crush From: Chuck Rush Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Medicine HF Net ? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:03:59 -0600 Organization: Creighton University, Omaha Nebraska USA Lines: 5 Message-ID: References: <4fmh65$lnv@medulla.ama.ttuhsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluejay.creighton.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4fmh65$lnv@medulla.ama.ttuhsc.edu> MARCO Medical Amateur Radio Council biggest net used to be 7.239 8p central (dst or not) membership inq to Dr William L Sprague, 8028 San Lucas Dr, Whittier, CA 90605 Chuck Rush N0AZ crush@creighton.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:21 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news5.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!llnews.ll.mit.edu!usenet From: Lawrence Artz Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Boxborough in Oct. Date: 13 Feb 1996 22:18:18 GMT Organization: MIT Haystack Observatory Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4fr2na$ev4@llnews.ll.mit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) I heard that it is the same weekend as Deerchester. Larry KA1CRN From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Stephan M. Anderman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 21:51:45 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 5 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1f.delphi.com X-To: John Bartolucci of "This Week in Amateur Radio". Watch for Friday night's summary posting in this newsgroup for reception details. - 73 de Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB Executive Producer - "This Week in Amateur Radio" From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:23 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.emi.net!news From: fsimonds@emi.net Subject: Re: RECIPROCAL LICENSE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: td_eecs@ix.netcom.com Sender: news@emi.net (EmiNet Domain News Admin) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: EmiNet Domain Internet Services (407)731-0222 Message-ID: References: <4fd8h7$bvp@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ttyf1.emi.net Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 20:43:49 GMT Lines: 5 I'll bet if you contact the ARRL at http://www.arrl.org they can help you. 73--Terry/WB4FXD From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:24 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news-relay.eworld.com!news-relay.eworld.com!not-for-mail From: lash1@eworld.com (Lash1) Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles,rec.music.bluenote,rec.music.christian,rec.music.classical,rec.music.country.western,rec.music.folk,rec.music.gdead,rec.music.hip-hop,rec.music.industrial,rec.music.makers.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic,rec.music.makers.percussion,rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.misc,rec.music.phish,rec.music.progressive,rec.nude,rec.org.sca,rec.outdoors.fishing,rec.outdoors.fishing.fly,rec.pets,rec.pets.cats,rec.pets.herp,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio. Subject: Re: Make money to pay off debts or to just spend! - aaaaa1.txt [1/1] Date: 16 Feb 1996 09:00:19 -0800 Organization: eWorld Lines: 5 Sender: root@news-relay.eworld.com Message-ID: <4g2d73$oov@hp5.online.apple.com> References: Reply-To: lash1@eworld.com (Lash1) NNTP-Posting-Host: hp5.online.apple.com Xref: news.epix.net rec.music.beatles:122883 rec.music.bluenote:112236 rec.music.christian:118180 rec.music.classical:177614 rec.music.country.western:61718 rec.music.folk:82460 rec.music.gdead:274891 rec.music.hip-hop:26382 rec.music.industrial:109433 rec.music.makers.guitar:79046 rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic:29494 rec.music.makers.percussion:27749 rec.music.makers.synth:81513 rec.music.misc:195919 rec.music.phish:130580 rec.music.progressive:19665 rec.nude:77653 rec.org.sca:141358 rec.outdoors.fishing:24785 rec.outdoors.fishing.fly:31546 rec.pets:55879 rec.pets.cats:140342 rec.pets.herp:58059 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:25001 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98144 Are you stupid? Let us know when you make your first $1,000 Duhhhh From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:25 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: jami1@ix.netcom.com(Frank L. Jamison ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Computerized Vacuum Tube List Date: 16 Feb 1996 18:21:49 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4g2hvt$fdv@cloner3.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-btr-la1-22.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 16 10:21:49 AM PST 1996 I am trying to determine if a CD-ROM or Floppy Disk exists listing all Vacuum Tubes. It would be preferable if the program had a database of individual tube specifications but a simple listing would be satisfactory. Any help will be appreciated. Frank 'Jamie' Jamison - W5YSM - Email: jami1@ix.netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: Hank Blackstock Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: LATEST HAM WEB SITES Date: 16 Feb 1996 12:52:52 GMT Organization: Internet Oklahoma Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4g1un4$qbs@ionews.ionet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: osip34.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit) To: kb6axk@netcom.com Check out the 3819 group at: http://www.cswnet.com/~wa5jrh/ 73 Hank WA5JRH From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!dsm6.dsmnet.com!usenet From: "Dave J. Cook" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: WTB -- RADIO HANDBOOK <<< 22nd edition >>> Date: 14 Feb 1996 02:46:08 GMT Organization: Des Moines Internet Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4fridg$35j@dsm6.dsmnet.com> References: <1996Feb10.120840.113719@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip5.mach3ww.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: debral@falcon.cc.ukans.edu Hi, I just checked my bookcase. I have your book - mint (cover still squeeks when opened). I don't know what it's worth -- how about $20 and I'll ship. Dave Cook W0EYA 515-454-2270 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!thunder.mgl.ca!granite.sentex.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!inquo!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!oslonett.no!sn.no!newsfeed.tip.net!thelma.netpower.no!news From: Ole Tom Guse Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Multiband on ALINCO DJ-180 Date: 13 Feb 1996 08:42:23 GMT Organization: Forsand kommune Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4fpitf$7md@thelma.netpower.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp5.netpower.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) A friend of mine have bought a DJ-180 abroad. This radio could receive 130-174 mhz. Unfortunally he have reset it to default settings. Could anybody help him with instructions on how to do it over again? Ole Tom Guse Norway From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:28 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.smart.net!news From: charlie@smart.net (Charles M. Clark) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Update SUPER SPACE & WEATHER SITE Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 20:29:34 GMT Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4fqsb8$t2u@news.smart.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bunky.smart.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 If you have visited Mike Robinson weather and space site in the past and enjoyed it, you will be pleased to know that he has a new and improved page which is still located at "http:www.airtime.co.uk/users/homebase/homebase.htm" There is a complete list of weather sites and all you need to keep up with what is happening or going to happen out in SPACE. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!news.PBI.net!pacbell.com!decwrl!pagesat.net!news.ossi.com!agate!lec4mac15.berkeley.edu!user From: jgb@physics.Berkeley.Edu (John Bartolucci) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: 13 Feb 1996 00:54:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 8 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lec4mac15.berkeley.edu Greetings, Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. Anyone know where I can find out more about it? - jgb@physics.berkeley.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.fast.net!news From: Tony Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: NEW HAMFEST !!! Date: 14 Feb 1996 22:15:19 GMT Organization: FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4ftmtn$57a@nn.fast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: abe-ppp300.fast.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1PE (Windows; I; 16bit) There is a new HAMFEST in town !!! The FIRST NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY HAMFEST Will be held on April 28 1996 At the Budd Lake Fire House On route 46 in Budd Lake, NJ For more info see the listing on "THE HAM-STRING" At http://www.users.fast.net/~n3itn From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Stephan M. Anderman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: License expiring in 5 months, where to get 610 form? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 21:56:05 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <4fqito$sf2@news.aros.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1f.delphi.com X-To: KB7YJJ If your current address is good with the FCC, you will receive a form 610-R from the Commission for renewal. Just sign it and return it to FCC. You will see this 60-90 days prior to expiration. If you don't receive it, you can obtain a 610 form from ARRL Hq. within a few days. FCC no longer accepts renewals sent earlier than 60 (though I forget, it may be 90) days prior to expiration. 73 de Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 15 Feb 1996 06:56:33 GMT Organization: IONet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsip31.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS or Windows. Thanks in advance. Brent From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnews.wa.com!uw-coco!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: rod@venus.hili.com (Blackshadow) Newsgroups: rec.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: FT-8500 Need Mods Date: 13 Feb 1996 03:05:45 GMT Organization: Frequency Spectrum Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4fov69$l98@news.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.147.154.75 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.scanner:45599 alt.radio.scanner:27506 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98108 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24966 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13353 Someone have the mods for FT-8500? Email: rod@venus.hili.com N2RVM From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:34 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: What's the best way to learn Morse code? Date: 16 Feb 1996 19:00:10 GMT Organization: IONet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4g2k7q$2vt@ionews.ionet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsip37.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Is there a preferred method for learning Morse code? I was reading about the Koch method on a web page and it sounded good, but the Supermorse software wouldn't download. I found a newer version some where and DLed it, but it seems like some times the dits and dahs are the same. Thanks. Brent From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:35 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: What's the best way to learn Morse code...cont'd Date: 16 Feb 1996 19:03:25 GMT Organization: IONet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4g2kdt$2vt@ionews.ionet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsip37.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 I almost forgot. The Koch method claims you don't want to memorize the individual letters, but just learn by doing to get maximum speed in the shortest time. It sounds good, but I wondered if there is any truth to this. I'm thinking of becoming a ham and wanted to learn code. Now I'm confused on how to go about it. Thanks Brent From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!nntp.news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!not-for-mail From: Rob Neff Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: 14 Feb 1996 10:25:00 -0700 Organization: Primenet Lines: 8 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <31221AA9.6F09@primenet.com> References: <31221924.614B@primenet.com> X-Posted-By: ip088.phx.primenet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Try: HAARP (Official) Mainpage: http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/index.html Alternative HAARP Page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1606/akhaarp.html From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:37 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Where do I go first to get info on obtaining a ham license? Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:38:34 GMT Organization: IONet Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4fvuja$9du@ionews.ionet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsip20.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 I'm sure this question gets asked alot, but I was wondering where I should go to get info on obtaining an amateur license. I just read 'Enigma' by Robert Harris and I got all caught up in the nostalgia of sending coded messages across the ether... Thanks. Brent From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:38 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!bzy.gmu.edu!smasters From: smasters@bzy.gmu.edu (Shawn C. Masters) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse Code history? Date: 9 Feb 1996 14:09:47 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4ffkjb$iqc@portal.gmu.edu> References: <311624EA.3AC2@kuai.se> <1996Feb9.051749.9078@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: bzy.gmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Gary Coffman (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote: : And now you know... the rest of the story. Maybe Morse should have stuck with art, rather then run from the critics and go into science. Atleast then we wouldn't have the CW test's as we know them now:-). 73, Shawn KE4GHS From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:38 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!gatech!concert!news.wfu.edu!not-for-mail From: charnoft@wfu.edu (Forrest T. Charnock) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: radio telescopes Date: 16 Feb 1996 19:22:15 GMT Organization: Wake Forest University Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4g2lh7$e03@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: darth.phy.wfu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] I'd like to find some info on design and construction of amature radio telescopes. Any good books or catalogs I should know about? -- ************************************************************************* Olin Physical Lab Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC http://www.wfu.edu/~charnoft KE4RJG * * * * * All science is either physics or stamp collecting. --Ernest Rutherford From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:39 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.spss.com!uchinews!ncar!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp.cntfl.com!books From: books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 14 Feb 1996 15:58:39 GMT Organization: CMDS News machine Lines: 10 Message-ID: <4ft0rf$cqi@server.cntfl.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fod41$21i@handel.seattleu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.90.27.7 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter A. Klein (pklein@news.seattleu.edu) wrote: > No one is going to lock you up or torture you for your opinions. Obviously you are not referring to the new US telecomunications law. Oh yeah, that's right, you aren't being punished for your opinions, you will be punished for voicing them. Roger From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:40 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!news4.noc.netcom.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!wb2cpu From: wb2cpu@world.std.com (howie cahn) Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 01:33:28 GMT Lines: 11 cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com (Clay Whiffen) writes: >What tone do you set your receiver to when digging DX out at the ESP >level? Clay, without trying to analyze either your argument or Gary's, I 'll just say that my perferred pitch for copying code has always been between 200 and 400 Hz. 73... howie wb2cpu@world.std.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:41 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!fish.pond.com!kd3bj!jolt.pagesat.net!netserv.com!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!hgea01.hgea.org!usenet From: Wayne Jones Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Lets open 10 ! Date: 11 Feb 1996 18:48:44 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4fldmc$1t8@hgea01.hgea.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp92.hgea.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; U; 16bit) BGA2%RdgrFlt%NAH@go50.COMp.pge.COM wrote: >As of today i'am monitoring 28.460 12 hours a day, I am not sure of Arrl >band plans for That freq, but lets just do it a open it up. With the >coverage of this group should have world wide coverage. Thanks KR6G That frequency is right in the middle of the novice/tech SSB portion of 10 meters. Should be a good place to monitor! Aloha Wayne, NH6GJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:42 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: ac3l@ix.netcom.com(Edward Oros ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Morse Code Program (IMCT) via FPT Date: 14 Feb 1996 05:10:45 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4frqsl$md3@reader2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-tol-oh1-14.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Feb 13 9:10:45 PM PST 1996 For anyone else who wants a copy of IMCT (v 1.9), you can now find a copy via FTP at FTP.FUNET.FI The program is under the path /pub/ham/morse The file name is imct.zip Many other Morse code programs can be found at this site also. 73 Ed -- AC3L From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:43 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: wave@mindspring.com (Pieter Ibelings) Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Subject: FS PTS 160, 100KHz to 160MHz 1Hz resolution DAS synthesizer. Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:22:05 GMT Organization: -.-. --.- -.. -..- Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4ftqqt$fku@firebrick.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wave.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.swap:57598 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98105 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13350 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24965 I have a mint PTS160 frequency Synthesizer by Programmed Test Sources. It generates carriers from 100 KHz to 160 MHz in 1 Hz steps. The unit uses Direct Analog Synthesis and can switch frequencies in extremely short times. Power is adjustable from the front panel up to around 15dBm. Unit is calibrate d and within 1Hz of WWV. This unit sells new from PTS for over $7000. Asking $1200. OBO. Unit has TCXO, GPIB, Rack mount and other options. AC4OP Pieter Wave@mindspring.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.channel1.com!wizard.pn.com!sundog.tiac.net!shore!news From: jjmartin@shore.net (JJ Martin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Help to find "...Chase Elephants from the Garden..." Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:52:45 GMT Organization: WK1V Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4frtbl$ad4@shore.shore.net> References: <4fm75o$juo@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: jjmartin@shore.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-7-20.shore.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 kd1yvjim@aol.com (KD1YVJim) wrote: >Does anybody know where and when this article was published? Or better >yet, have it in electronic form that they could e-mail it to me? Thanks >in advance for any responses. Sorry Jim I haven't seen it but I have heard about it. If you do find it I would appreciate a look at it too. Maybe we all would. :) thanks jjm wk1v From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!cc.iu.net!news From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 15 Feb 1996 02:24:47 GMT Organization: Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4fu5hf$p1@cc.iu.net> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) NNTP-Posting-Host: netport-3.iu.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu>, uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Eric Martin) write s: >I was disturbed, however, by the impression I received of ham radio >being a place where everyone is checking up on you. This eagerness to i'm surprised you think we're kidding. go check out the web sites (lots) of callsign look up programs and cd roms of calls and directories....authenticati on is a big thing... Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:46 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!news.mch.sni.de!horus.mch.sni.de!news From: frits.jensen@mch.sni.de (Frits Jensen) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Hyperlog software Date: 14 Feb 1996 12:31:05 GMT Organization: SNI Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4fskm9$gdn@horus.mch.sni.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: potd1231.mch.sni.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Hi OM and YL΄s I have been using Hyperlog software for years, and now have the version 2.25 (Payed for!). Heard rumours, that Hypersoft released "Hyperlog Plus". Anybody know this product, and can compare to 2.25? Any URL for demo-download? Thanks for the bandwith DL4MHU ***Frits**** Munich From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.fast.net!news From: n3itn@fast.net (Tony) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Subject: Re: Dummy load resistor source??? Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 03:24:53 GMT Organization: FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4fu9ag$gsu@nn.fast.net> References: <4fbfim$fsg@caesar.ultra.net> <4ffsku$8ru@chnews.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: abe-ppp322.fast.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98096 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19087 Cecil Moore wrote: >Rob Bellville wrote: >>I need to make a bunch of low power (< 5W) dummy loads. Where can I find >>some 50 ohm 5W non-inductive resistors? Alternatively, I could use 25 and >>100 ohm ones, too. >Hi Rob, four 200 ohm 2 watt carbon resistors in parallel sounds just right. >73, Cecil, KG7BK, OOTC (not speaking for my employer) STACKPOLE is the source !!! From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hyperlog software Date: 14 Feb 1996 17:29:36 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4ft660$7ce$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> References: <4fskm9$gdn@horus.mch.sni.de> Hyperlog "Pro" is not yet released (my guess is 3-4 more months). Meanwhile, the "regular" version is now up to version 3.05. You can download it from the HyperSoft BBS (the number is in the documentation). 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --"Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus?" -Quote from AC6V- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:48 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!thunder.mgl.ca!granite.sentex.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news-2.csn.net!usenet From: stan@mutadv.com (Stan Huntting) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Subject: KaWin 6.30 Date: 10 Feb 1996 03:45:30 GMT Organization: SuperNet Inc. (303)-296-8202 Denver Colorado Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4fh4cq$mnh@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.117.25.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14128 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98050 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24915 KaWin version 6.30 is ready! This new version of KaWin is faster, cleaner and loaded with new features. Registered users may upgrade at no cost. Others are invited to test this new version by downloading it from the KaWin Home Page or FTP Site. 73, Igottago... Stan .. -- Stan Huntting, KF0IA Postal Address: 4655 Pleasant Ridge Rd., Boulder, CO 80301-1731, USA email: stan@mutadv.com KaWin Home Page: http://www.mutadv.com/kawin/ KaWin FTP Site: ftp.csn.net in the directory /kawin From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: "Lacy Thompson Jr." Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Vocal Eliminator Algorithm Date: 9 Feb 1996 14:06:24 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4ffkd0$bc7@firebrick.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ltsound.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) A new Vocal Eliminator algorithm which allows for even more vocal elimination than LT Sound's State of the Art VE3+ will be introduced in early 1996. Persons interested in finding out more about the Thompson Vocal Eliminator(tm) are invited to visit our home page at http://www.ltsound.com or e-mail a catalog request to ltsound@mindspring.com The VE3+ contains State of the Art Vocal Elimination, Key Transposition, and Vocal Enhancement in one compact unit. The Thompson Vocal Eliminator(tm) allows users to remove the vocal from standard stereo recordings producing inexpensive, instantly available background music from the original standard recording. Software upgrades occur approximately every 6 months. Current owners of the VE3+ will be able to upgrade their software for a nominal charge of $25. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:51 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Message-ID: <1996Feb16.164448.17661@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb12.000315.24238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <1996Feb15.081031.8212@nosc.mil> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:44:48 GMT Lines: 15 In article <1996Feb15.081031.8212@nosc.mil> horowitz@nosc.mil (Alan M. Horowit z) writes: >Gary, if your SNR changes with changes in audio gain, you have bigger fish to >fry than optimizing sidetone frequency. Oh, it changes, in any receiver. Sure, the first stage has the dominant effect, but *every* stage makes a contribution to the final SNR. For an extremely marginal signal such as we've been discussing, even the fractional db contribution of the audio amplifier may matter. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:52 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!thunder.mgl.ca!granite.sentex.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!ns2.mainstreet.net!sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!newshost.lanl.gov!news.ttu.edu!medulla.ama.ttuhsc.edu!cortex!william From: william@cortex (William Biggs) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Medicine HF Net ? Date: 12 Feb 1996 04:54:29 GMT Organization: Texas Tech University HSC Amarillo Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4fmh65$lnv@medulla.ama.ttuhsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cortex.ama.ttuhsc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I heard a long time ago that there was a medical net on HF. Now that I've finally upgraded to General, I's like to listen in. Does anybody know when & where such a net is on HF? Thanks, Reddy Bigs -- William C. Biggs , MD KC5JIF Howdy from the High Plains of Texas 1900 South Coulter Drive Amarillo, TX 79106 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:53 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.news.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!rpaschal From: Richard Paschal Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Re: Update to Radio Propagation Forecasting Course Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Date: 14 Feb 1996 09:55:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010 Lines: 16 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4ft455$l40@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4fqp71$4s2@holly.cc.uleth.ca> X-Posted-By: rpaschal@usr4.primenet.com Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98080 rec.radio.shortwave:70095 When I looked, Cary Oler was listed as a guest at University of Lethbridge, Canada. Since there are many scams which are almost impossible to prosecute from the U.S. across international boundaries, especially in Canada, I want to know: 1. What the "Solar Terrestrial Dispatch" is,. 2. Who Cary Oler is. 3. Who teaches the course and what his credentials are. 4. Who sponsers the course and what his credentials are. 5. Is the course accredited in any way. -- --------------------- rpaschal@primenet.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ssd.intel.com!chnews!usenet From: tom_boza@ccm.ch.intel.com (WB7ASR) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Lets open 10 ! Date: 14 Feb 1996 16:34:10 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ft2u2$nqd@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <4fldmc$1t8@hgea01.hgea.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: tboza.ch.intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Wayne Jones wrote: >>As of today i'am monitoring 28.460 12 hours a day, I am not sure of Arrl >>band plans for That freq, but lets just do it a open it up. With the >>coverage of this group should have world wide coverage. Thanks KR6G > > >That frequency is right in the middle of the novice/tech SSB portion of 10 >meters. Should be a good place to monitor! > >Aloha >Wayne, NH6GJ > Why ???? 29.400 MHz is aleady the international calling freq!!! WB7ASR... From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:55 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!jazz.cc.spt.fi!news.csc.fi!news.eunet.fi!jjo From: jjo@tekla.fi (Jari Jokiniemi) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: DX IS! (CW IS!) Date: 15 Feb 1996 06:17:59 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <4fssd3$ahq@reader2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ds10.tekla.fi In-reply-to: Rod Dinkins's message of 14 Feb 1996 14:42:43 GMT DX IS. Can not argue with that. Most of the hams are not true blue DXers, though. DXers are actually a small minority. Perhaps CW IS might also be true. Pretty small minority of the hams are true blue CWers. I used to be (HSC 1182), but recently I have begun to think that my preferences should not force others to get into the hobby. Having chased a few DX's on SSB in the recent years, I have begun to suspect that even SSB IS could be true, too. Perhaps even PACKET IS or even RAGCHEWING IS could hold some significant meaning to some of us who are less enthustiastic about CW. -- Jari Jokiniemi, jari.jokiniemi@tekla.fi, OH2MPO, OH3BU Tekla Oy, Koronakatu 1, 02210 Espoo, 90-8879 474 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:56 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!noc.nyx.net!hermes.cair.du.edu!mercury.cair.du.edu!not-for-mail From: awinterb@du.edu (Art Winterbauer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse code Cry Babys!!! Date: 16 Feb 1996 07:49:09 -0700 Organization: University of Denver Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4g25h5$cjn@mercury.cair.du.edu> References: <4ej6fh$15qo@chnews.ch.intel.com> <1996Feb11.060706.20782@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4fl2hm$7d0@shore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.cair.du.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article , wrote: >when a group of POW s were in an enemy propaganda film...one sent TORTURE >in CW by opening and closing his eyes to the code letters. Hoo boy! That's reason enough for me. How about the ability to communicate through prison walls by tapping out Morse messages. Oooh...wait a minute... that means we would all have to learn *real* Morse rather than that International code. You guys are a hoot! -- Art awinterb@du.edu OR awinterb@diana.cair.du.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:57 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!oronet!news From: rst-engr@oro.net (Jim Weir) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: RST Kit Electronics Web Page Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:06:17 GMT Organization: RST Engineering Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4fta94$tjq@hg.oro.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rst-engr.oro.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.equipment:25012 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98163 After only 6 months of diddling around with it, we are finally up on the WWW. http://www.rst-engr.com Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Jim Jim Weir VP Engineering | You bet your sweet patootie I speak RST Engineering | for the company. I OWN the cotton- Grass Valley CA 95945 | pickin' company. http://www.rst-engr.com/ | AR Adv. WB6BHI Cessna 182A N73CQ rst-engr@oro.net | Comm'l Pilot & CFI Airplane/Glider A&P Mechanic From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:58 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!microvst.demon.co.uk From: "Anthony R. Gold" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 20:34:24 GMT Organization: Microvest Limited, London Lines: 19 Message-ID: <824243664snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> References: <1996Feb13.172615.3570@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: microvst.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.30 X-Mail2News-Path: microvst.demon.co.uk In article <1996Feb13.172615.3570@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us "Gary Coffman" writes: > In article > jgb@physics.Berkeley.Edu (John Bartolucci) writes: > > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed > >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. > > Are you sure you've got your acronym correct? It's DOD's HAARP (High Altitude Auroral Research Project). Similar to Nikola Tesla's plan for a death ray, in Engebretson, Alaska. Regards, -- Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:51:59 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnews.wa.com!nwfocus.wa.com!calvino.alaska.net!nntp.alaska.net!news.accessus.net!news.uoregon.edu!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.supernet.net!nntp.cntfl.com!books From: books@rtssec1.dms.state.fl.us (Roger Books) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ger Rid of the Morse Requirement! Date: 12 Feb 1996 16:28:53 GMT Organization: CMDS News machine Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4fnps5$a04@server.cntfl.com> References: <4ds2eq$16b@draco.bison.mb.ca><4eoi84$ffd@news.greatbasin.net> <184@ibbs.av.org> <4etuie$df8@server.cntfl.com> <4fej2v$nla@dfw.dfw.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.90.27.7 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Oakley (boakley@dfw.net) wrote: > Say Roger, > Most of the hams that are for keeping the cw requirement could blow you > away with the amount of technical knowledge they have. You forget, they > took their tests at fcc regional offices. Those tests are NOT easy. I > know from experience. B. So are you saying there is a correlation of technical knowledge to skill with CW? The tests may not be easy IF you come at them from the viewpoint of "I want to learn the information." I defy someone to make a 25 question test out of a pool of 300 questions that I can't pass if I have the 300 questions. Well, that's not quit true, you could make one I couldn't pass, but then you would be making it so obscure that very few people could pass it. Roger From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:00 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.spss.com!uchinews!ncar!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!usenet From: Jason Reighard Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Newsline by mailing list??? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 01:26:54 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4fbjvs$l12@wilde.oit.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1g.delphi.com X-To: Steve_Coletti Steve_Coletti writes: >In article <4fbjvs$l12@wilde.oit.umass.edu>, >dmd@wilde.oit.umass.edu (Daniel M Drucker) wrote: >> >>Is there a mailing list that distributes Amateur Radio Newsline? > >Newsline is available from the majordomo mail machine at Netcom. > >To subscribe send e-mail to listserv@netcom.com with the following as the >only line in the message: > yes that parts works and I get a mail back sying I am subscribed but newsline never arrives in my mailbox. Jason Kb8sfc From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:01 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!duke.usask.ca!buydens From: buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Canadian Advanced Qualification Diagrams Date: 14 Feb 1996 17:58:47 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ft7sn$r47@tribune.usask.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: duke.usask.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Those of you who are interested in obtaining GIFs of the Canadian Advanced Qualification Diagrams from RIC-24 can find them at my ham page. http://www.usask.ca/~buydens/ham They took a while to make, but they were a labour of love. I do not guaruntee them to be 100% correct so if you spot mistakes please feel free to let me know. BTW I have a suspicion that there are mistakes in the original diagrams but I tried to copy the diagrams as exactly as possible. 73 de VE5RV -- Brian Buydens There was a young poet named Dan, Department of Computing Services Whose poetry never would scan. University of Saskatchewan When told this was so, email: Brian.Buydens@usask.ca He said, "Yes, I know. VE5RDV From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:02 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!mv!usenet From: kingbp@ka1fqt.mv.com (Bryan King) Subject: Alinco DX-70 hum on 6 meters Message-ID: Organization: MV Communications, Inc. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 03:38:38 GMT X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.90.3 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ka1fqt.mv.com Lines: 18 I recently purchased an Alinco DX-70T and have put it on the air. I've had it on HF (80m and 17m phone bands) and 6m FM. On HF the signal seems to be fine, received many reports of excellent quality audio. On FM, I have been receiving reports of a hum, even a strong hum when I transmit. In all cases I am using the same regulated power supply which is also brand new. I am looking for suggestions as to what might be the cause of this. One ham suggested it might be rf feedback, or PL signal too high. The SWR is less than 2:1 across the 6 meter band. I am using a Cuscraft AR-6 Ringo antenna. Well if it is the PL signal is too high, I don't know how to resolve that and do not have the equipment to test for it anyway. Thanks, Bryan From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:03 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,sci.physics.electromag Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: "blast through" blanketing sporadic E by polarization tricks? Message-ID: <1996Feb16.163841.17483@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <1996Feb15.075858.8009@nosc.mil> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:38:41 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98143 sci.physics.electromag:8238 In article <1996Feb15.075858.8009@nosc.mil> horowitz@nosc.mil (Alan M. Horowit z) writes: >Do the clouds which comprise ionospheric sporadic E, have any known >bi-refringent properties or soesuch, which would allow signals to reach >the above-lying F layer, through polarization diversity? Or by any other >trick? Definitely. Of course all such propagation is refraction, and so near the edges of an E cloud the electron density is low enough to fail to refract the signal back to Earth. That signal will then go on to reach the F layer, where it will pass through into outer space since it is above the critical frequency for the F layer (else we wouldn't bother with sporadic E propagation, we'd use F layer propagation from the start). Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:04 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!primus.ac.net!news.cais.net!grouper.Exis.Net!usenet From: buch@exis.net (Joe Buch) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:25:50 GMT Organization: Exchange Information Systems Networks Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4fr6lf$398@grouper.Exis.Net> References: Reply-To: buch@exis.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.exis.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 jgb@physics.Berkeley.Edu (John Bartolucci) wrote: >Greetings, > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. > Anyone know where I can find out more about it? - > jgb@physics.berkeley.edu There have been recent threads on this subject in two newsgroups. See rec.radio.shortwave and sci.physics. electromag. If your server has already dumped them, repost your request and I will post some pertinent articles here. Joe Buch N2JB buch@exis.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:05 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ssd.intel.com!chnews!usenet From: tom_boza@ccm.ch.intel.com (WB7ASR) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Lets open 10 ! Date: 14 Feb 1996 16:35:48 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ft314$nqd@chnews.ch.intel.com> References: <4fldmc$1t8@hgea01.hgea.org> <4ft2u2$nqd@chnews.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tboza.ch.intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) tom_boza@ccm.ch.intel.com (WB7ASR) wrote: >Wayne Jones wrote: > >>>As of today i'am monitoring 28.460 12 hours a day, I am not sure of Arrl >>>band plans for That freq, but lets just do it a open it up. With the >>>coverage of this group should have world wide coverage. Thanks KR6G >> >> >>That frequency is right in the middle of the novice/tech SSB portion of 10 >>meters. Should be a good place to monitor! >> >>Aloha >>Wayne, NH6GJ >> > Why ???? 29.400 MHz is aleady the international calling freq!!! > WB7ASR... > Sorry,I ment: 28.400 MHz is SSB international calling freq. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:06 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hey! Can Anyone Help A New Ham?? Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:00:13 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4fve9d$9hf@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <3114EE91.40A6@algorithms.com> <4f7rjg$qt3@linet06.li.net> <4fjk9p$5hf@netport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-03.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Feb 15 6:00:13 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) I did a SH/DX 10 on our DX Packet Cluster and during Feb found several DX spots for 10 Meters including ZL, PY, and LU stations. Band is very dead most of the time however. If you can get on your local DX Packet Cluster any 10 Meter DX activity will be posted there -- DXers don't miss a thing HI HI. 73 Rod -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:07 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!dc.cis.okstate.edu!martin From: martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: NOAA Weather Transmitter Date: 14 Feb 1996 20:27:43 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ftgjv$qtj@news.cis.okstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dc.cis.okstate.edu During a local club meeting, some of us were discussing the fact that local amateurs have helped get NOAA weather radio stations on the air in near by towns. We live about 50 airline miles from Oklahoma City and the NOAA weather broadcast from OKC is quite audible if one has a good antenna but it is not very strong on those little portable weather radios that many people might keep around the house for tornado watches, etc. We have heard that amateurs in other towns have been able to help NOAA get the systems on the air by donating transmitters and other necessary equipment to receive the telephone or microwave feed from the nearest NOAA office. Has anybody actually assisted in a project like this? Our problem is that we don't know anybody to contact who might have first hand information about what needs to be done to get the ball rolling. Any information would be useful. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK 36.7N97.4W OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:08 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Message-ID: <1996Feb13.172615.3570@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 17:26:15 GMT Lines: 21 In article jgb@physics.Berkeley. Edu (John Bartolucci) writes: > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. Are you sure you've got your acronym correct? HARP was Gerald Bull's project to fire a projectile into space using his advanced gun design, which was later the basis for the Iraqi supergun. It was funded by the US Air Force, but the tests were fired in the Caribbean. I believe the highest altitude reached in those tests was 78 miles. When Air Force funding dried up, Bull went to the Iraqis for funding to make his orbital cannon. Bull claimed the Iraqi supergun would have been able to achieve orbit with its projectiles. (He was assassinated by Israeli agents before he could complete the project.) Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:09 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!cedar!oak.liii.com!roberts From: Robert Schoenfeld Subject: 160 meters and Field Day Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Sender: news@liii.com (News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: oak.liii.com Organization: Long Island Information, Inc. 516-INTERNET Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:40:31 GMT Lines: 21 We were wondering if there is 160 meter activity on field day. If there is we are going to put up a helium baloon for a vertical antenna Please e-mail me direct as I dont always read the news group 73 de Bob +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + e-mail:roberts@liii.com _____ + + HomePage:http://www.liii.com/~roberts \ / + + \ / + + | + + WA2AQQ | + + | + + Home repeater LIMARC 146.85 + + + + These opinion are MINE and tough if you don't like them + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Annoy a fascist confront him with the facts The road of life is a railroad From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:10 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!fish.pond.com!kd3bj!jolt.pagesat.net!netserv.com!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: 12 Feb 1996 01:51:02 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4fm6e6$npf$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> My preference is also for a lower frequency. I find the 700-800 setting on most transceivers to be far too high, especially in 'ESP' conditions, or in crowded conditions. My Timewave 59+ goes down to a center frequency of 400Hz where is "just starting" to get right. Some of the new transceivers (775 and 870 come to mind) provide more flexibility. In contesting situations, I frequently find myself using the RIT on run frequencies. Not a perfect solution, but it works when band activity will continue to support a run. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --"Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus?" -Quote from AC6V- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!mxol.mxol.com!agis!op.net!news.tcst.com!news.titan.com!news.cerf.net!qualcomm.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: theo_schmitz@VNET.IBM.COM (Theodor Johannes Schmitz) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: RS HTX-202 / 1750 Hz tone generator Date: 9 Feb 96 09:25:56 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 22 Message-ID: <199602090925.BAA17834@UCSD.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu I am interested to buy a low cost VHF HT for mobile operation. (I have a 25 W PA already). Some time ago, the RS HTX-202 has been discussed here to be a good candidate for its price. Can anybody tell me, if there is a 1750 Hz tone generator build in that HT ? (for the german repeaters need to be opened via that tone) What's the actual price for that HT ? Please email your answers directly to me, for my newsreader has no adequate filter to remove the noise on this group (no-code,etc..) 73, Theo (DK9WH) ============================================================ Theo Schmitz / IBM Mainz / Materials Lab. 4627 Email Internet: theo_schmitz@vnet.ibm.com Packet: DK9WH@DB0GV.#HES.DEU.EU Fone: 49(germany)6131-842044 Fax: 49(germany)6131-846810 ============================================================ I never used to be able to finish anything but now I From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:12 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!primus.ac.net!news.cais.net!xara.net!SoNet!innotts.co.uk!usenet From: asperges@innotts.co.uk (Jeremy Boot) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Server Problems Radio Pages Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:07:06 GMT Organization: innotts.co.uk Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3123b9af.10757682@news.innotts.co.uk> Reply-To: asperges@innotts.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: seriald1e.innotts.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Some readers have been telling me they have had problems accessing my pages. http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ The local server has been having problems, so do please keep trying. The pages have an extensive list of links, an explanation of aspects of amateur radio, new special pages for SWLs (listeners) with broadcast web page access, an IRC link, a tour of local historical site near the QTH, a mock exam, and even a history of Robert Burns, the Scots poet. So it's worth the wait! All welcome and I will reply to all e-mails sent through the pages. 2100 visitors to date (despite the recent server problems) since January. Jeremy G4NJH asperges@innotts.co.uk [Home, Am Radio, SWL pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ ] From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!edisto.awod.com!harbour.awod.com!usenet From: glittle@awod.com (Glenn E. Little) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: 13 Feb 1996 22:00:55 GMT Organization: Amateur Radio Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4fr1mn$3ti@harbour.awod.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: chs0080.awod.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ In article , jgb@physics.Berkeley .Edu (John Bartolucci) says: > >Greetings, > > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. > > Anyone know where I can find out more about it? - > > jgb@physics.berkeley.edu There was an article in one of the over the counter technical magazines within the last year describing this project. It talked about lenses in the sky caused by rf heating of the atmosphere. It talked about virtual antennas. It also addressed the need for the location due to energy requirements (tapped directly into a natural gas reserve). Check your library in the magazine index. 73 Glenn WB4UIV From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:15 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: REPEATER GUIDE ON WWW Date: 16 Feb 1996 17:56:20 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4g2gg4$e1q@cloner3.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-20.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 16 9:56:20 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) Saw several requests for an on-line repeater guide. Try ARTSCI at: http://home.earthlink.net/~artsci/repmain.html Still under construction from the looks of it -- but lots of states listed. VHF IS! Rod -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:16 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!thunder.mgl.ca!granite.sentex.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!feenix.metronet.com!fohnix.metronet.com!not-for-mail From: nmcewen@fohnix.metronet.com (Neal McEwen) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need Old Key and Bug Parts Date: 9 Feb 1996 22:06:48 -0600 Organization: Texas Metronet, Inc (login info (214/488-2590 - 817/571-0400)) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4fh5ko$5os@fohnix.metronet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fohnix.metronet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello Gang, I've got some telegraph key restorations going and need a few parts to finish up. Need parts off of older Vibroplex bugs + 1. Bunnell Gold Bug -- need the circuit closing lever and mounting hardware. 2. McElroy A-400 bug -- need thumbpiece and weights. A-400 or P-500 parts OK 3. Signal Electric Semantic -- need the pendulum stop post. 4. Electro Bug -- need weights. need one thumbscrew and jam nut. 5. Levinson Radio "Like-A-Flash" -- need finger pieces, binding posts. 6. Logan SPEED-X reverse frame -- need finger pieces 7. Clapp-Eastham -- need binding posts 8. Independent Wireless -- need binding posts Would buy parts off your junkers or buy your junkers for the parts. -- 73 de K5RW - Neal McEwen - Richardson, TX (Dallas) ******** I collect old telgraph and wireless telegraph keys ********* HomeNet - nmcewen@metronet.com - OS/2 tcp/ip SLIP HomePage - http://fohnix.metronet.com/~nmcewen/k5rw.html From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:17 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!n1ist From: n1ist@netcom.com (Michael L. Ardai) Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Message-ID: Organization: Utopia Planetia Shipyards - Mars References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:09:07 GMT Lines: 24 Sender: n1ist@netcom5.netcom.com In article <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com> rwilson@neca.com writes: -It DOES tend to suck being a ham and living in an apartment. Definitely... -Running HF *can* be done, but not too well. I thought the same thing but ignored that thought. I use a 20M Hamstick clamped horizontally to my windowsill, with the metal frame and siding as a counterpoise. 100W from the TS-130 or TS-50 has gotten 116 countries. Now if only 4 more will QSL :-) Of course I'd prefer stacked monobanders on 200' towers, but that'll be hard to do in Boston. -I was in an apartment which was below the ground level. That will make things tough. Maybe you can feed something (downspouts? plumbing? flagpole) at the bottom? Run a wire up a tree? /mike -- \|/ Michael L. Ardai N1IST -*- ---------------------------------- /|\ n1ist@netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:18 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: -Next subject? Date: 13 Feb 1996 20:45:41 GMT Organization: MicroBurst Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4fqt9l$2ho$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> References: <4f5k3s$7pu@crc-news.doc.ca> Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >>CW IS! >> >>73, de Hans, K0HB >> Jim, VE3XJ didn't get it, so he asked: >It is what? > >73 and live better digitally >Jim, VE3XJ Jim, It just IS. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --"Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus?" -Quote from AC6V- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:19 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!leif!jcraig From: jcraig@kean.ucs.mun.ca Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Date: 15 Feb 96 08:57:52 -0330 Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1996Feb15.085752.1@leif> References: <4eo0rk$q4c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> <823252302snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> <4f8d5t$4gu@nbdchc4.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: leif.ucs.mun.ca In article <4f8d5t$4gu@nbdchc4.bnr.ca>, Graham Craddock writes: > Mike Gathergood wrote: >>In article <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> >> adell@planet.net "KF2TI - Steve" writes: >> >>> I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepted >>> by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? >> >>Only for VHF and above. >> >>73 >>Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * >>G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * > And only in the U.S.of A. :) > > Graham > > VE3GCX/VE2NTC > In Canada too... If you don't hold an advanced certificate, your transmitters and amplifiers must be commercially manufactured, even if you have a CW endorsement. Joe VO1NA From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:21 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!newshost.cyberramp.net!news.consultix.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!usenet From: Kevin Schmidt Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:07:46 GMT Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dione.tc.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; AIX 2) X-URL: news:rec.radio.amateur.misc/99945-100044#1996Feb15.085752.1@leif I have been told that, in the distant past, the FCC required applicants to draw schematic diagrams of various simple circuits on amateur radio exams. I am curious when this stopped. Certainly the ARRL license manual had questions about drawing schematic diagrams when I studied for my license in 1965-1966. It also only had essay type questions and answers. My general class exam in August 1966 and my advanced/extra exam in 1968 were completely multiple choice, with no essay questions, schematic diagram drawing, or anything that required a human to grade. Further my father took the novice, technician and later advanced exams in 1967-1969, and he had no schematic drawing on any of these. So my personal evidence is that the FCC had removed these questions by 1966 if not well before. Since the general class exam that I took in 1966 had questions that would have been reasonable in 1936, I doubt if the exam I took was some newly developed one. (For example, although SSB had supplanted AM on HF, there were no SSB questions, but rather questions like "downward deflection of the plate current meter, when modulation is applied, is an indication of...") Please post if you took a technician or general exam before 1966 and did not draw schematic diagrams. It would be amusing to find approximately when they were dropped. Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:22 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.flinet.com!usenet From: chuck Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space,rec.radio.noncomm,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: Broadcasting Radio Station Database for you...... Date: 12 Feb 1996 04:04:46 GMT Organization: Orchid City Software Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4fme8u$bsf@news.flinet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wpb46.flinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.shortwave:70065 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19052 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14132 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24923 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13323 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98059 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33090 rec.radio.amateur.space:6321 rec.radio.noncomm:5156 rec.radio.scanner:45512 rec.radio.swap:57465 Friend, A fully functional standalone Broadcasting Radio Station Database for IBM and compatibles with more than 4,000 Radio Station records already. This program covers stations on Longwave, Mediumwave, and Shortwave. Each record contains the Station name, Frequencies, Schedule, Languages, Country, and Continent. The program sorts in same order. What's needed to get it? Your EMail address and your Postal Mailing address for registration and future information via Post of other Radio Related Database programs. This information will be kept confidential. If you can read a document written in MS Word(extension is DOC), request the operating instructions for the Radio Station Database Program called Voyageur. You'll get an idea from reading this document of the Voyageur Database and what it does. Incidently, the program offered with this notice is valid until June 6, 1996. Hope to hear from you.. Chuck KA4PRF From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:23 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!news.consultix.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!intac!hobbs!roland.stiner From: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Vacation in Europe Message-ID: <8BAC4E5.0029003FF5.uuout@hobbs.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 20:53:00 -0400 Distribution: world Organization: _T_H_E__R_O_Y__H_O_B_B_S__BBS Moonachie NJ 201-641-7307 Reply-To: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) X-Newsreader: PCBoard Version 15.22 X-Mailer: PCBoard/UUOUT Version 1.20 Lines: 28 To: bob@cowboy.net Subject: Vacation in Europe B>I'm sure this is a tired old question, but I must ask: Is there anybody >out there that can give me reliable information concerning the operation >of my dual-band HT in the Netherlands? I intend to travel there in May >and I would like to know who to contact in the Dutch government to secure >clearance for such operation. Now before everybody screams "ask ARRL!", >I must tell you that I have sent email to that office over 3 weeks ago and >have yet to receive a response. I need to get the ball rolling soon and >I'm not sure I can wait a lot longer. Any advice you can give will be much >appreciated. Reply here or through email. Thanks! Give them a call on the phone and they'll gladly send you the forms to fill out (and what to do with them.) They have the info-but call them "live". --- OLX 1.53 --------------> 73, de NK2U <---------------- * Origin: CyberNet BBS Lyndhurst, NJ (1:2604/151) .....oooooOOOOOo http://www.intac.com/~cono __,-----. ---+_________#_ The Roy Hobbs BBS sysop@hobbs.com |________| |__|___________} Node 1: 201-641-7307 ooooo oo ~ ooO-O-O-O == oo\ Node 2: 201-641-3126 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:24 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!jeefers.microdes.com!usenet From: Dave Hand Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Medicine HF Net ? Date: 15 Feb 1996 13:53:37 GMT Organization: Micro Design International, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4fvdt1$lbl@jeefers.microdes.com> References: <4fmh65$lnv@medulla.ama.ttuhsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhand.microdes.com william@cortex (William Biggs) wrote: > > I heard a long time ago that there was a medical net on HF. Now that I've > finally upgraded to General, I's like to listen in. > > Does anybody know when & where such a net is on HF? > > Thanks, > > Reddy Bigs > > > -- > William C. Biggs , MD > KC5JIF Howdy from the High Plains of Texas > 1900 South Coulter Drive > Amarillo, TX 79106 Most of the 40 meter nets sound like they would qualify .... the most popular topic of conversation being ailments and medications of their geriatric members .... :) Dave Hand wb4hyp From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:26 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!indirect From: lenwink@indirect.com (Len Winkler) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Ham Radio & More Show goes LIVE on WWCR Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 18:11:39 GMT Organization: Ham Radio & More Show Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4fvt1p$gi7@globe.indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s129.phxslip4.indirect.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98113 rec.radio.shortwave:70142 On Sunday, February 25, 1996, The Ham Radio & More Show will be LIVE on WWCR shortwave, 7.435, at 6:00pm et (2300utc) in addition to the other 2 tape delayed times as it has been for the past 6 months or so. Be sure to check us out with the first live show on WWCR dealing with Dopplers. Also, check out our RealAudio site courtesy of TAPR and our original home page, courtesy of BARC. Thanks to all for making the Ham Radio & More show almost 5 years old. Len Winkler, KB7LPW lenwink@indirect.com P.O. Box 9219 kb7lpw@kc7y.az.usa.na Phoenix, Az. 85068-9219 Ham Radio & More Show info at: http://www.barc.org/barc/ham-more.html RealAudio site: www.tapr.org/hrm The show airs LIVE at 6:00pm ET The show also airs on WWCR shortwave, tape delayed at 1000utc on 7.435, on Mon days, and Saturdays at 1700utc on 12.160. Support "WOG". Written only General!!! From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:27 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.magicnet.net!news.supernet.net!nntp.cntfl.com!news.fsu.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!usenet From: Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 10M openings Date: 16 Feb 1996 04:56:05 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Asia - Taipei TAIWAN R.O.C. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4g12p5$ntn@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <4fldmc$1t8@hgea01.hgea.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.167.36.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: wjones.hgea.org I happened to be listening to VOA on my SWL and took a listen up on 10 just for grins... 10 was in good shape last weekend. I heard lots of JA's up in the FM portion of the band, centered around 29.100 and again at 29.600 simplex. Also heard a few VK's, meaning the trans-eq sporatic E was opening. At about 16:00 local, I copied the ZS6BCN beacon meaning ten was clearly open to S Africa via the short path, though the sig was heavy with QSB and maximum signal was S-2. I agree...let's get on 10 and give a shout. Listen for Asia on 28.500 and above (lotsa local bootleggers below 28.5 these days). lets hope it opens a bit for the cw contest. Could use a few east coast Q's on 10! ;) Joe ---------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio: BV/N0IAT Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China ex. 7J1AOF (Japan) YU3/N0IAT (Slovenia) KA0ZDH (Novice) Licensed Radio Amateur since 1986. Comments are mine only. ---------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:28 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!aimnet.com!news.exodus.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: What about ham radio that is on the cutting edge. Date: 13 Feb 1996 00:12:27 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4fol1b$nrj@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4fn47d$j76@www.acay.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: s202.ccsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit) Xref: news.epix.net aus.radio.amateur.misc:437 aus.radio.amateur.wicen:70 rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19061 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14142 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24936 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13330 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98072 rec.radio.scanner:45535 rec.radio.swap:57485 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:29 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!b4pph13e!cnc23a From: cnc23a@b4pph13e.bnr.ca (Ken Edwards) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: DS-1A (DC-DC converter for Kenwood) question Date: 14 Feb 1996 15:49:07 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: b4pph13e.bnr.ca Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13341 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98091 I have a Kenwood TS-820S that I would like to run off battery in cases of emergency. And as a (good ?) homebrew project, I thought I could emulate the offering from the manufacturer. Problem is, the information in the back of the service manual is sufficently ambigeous enough that I have a few questions. Is the transformer shown part of the DC-DC converter kit, or is it the one already in the radio, with the barrier strip that already has the matching color coded wires ? The drawing shows the same connector as used for AC input, but wired for DC, then another "power connector" thet does not appear to match the previous which interrconnects with the barrier strip. How exactly is the power (DC) connected into the system ? Any other hints/explainations on this 'project' would be welcomed. Thanks.. -- ====================================================================== Ken M. Edwards, PE Nortel, Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 905-4769 email: cnc23a@bnr.ca All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer or co-workers, family, friends, congress, or president. From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:30 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.mnsinc.com!news From: df@mnsinc.com (Dan Ferguson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Re: Update to Radio Propagation Forecasting Course Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 22:07:49 GMT Organization: totally disorganized Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4fubre$imo@news1.mnsinc.com> References: <4fqp71$4s2@holly.cc.uleth.ca> <4ft455$l40@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dferg.mnsinc.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98095 rec.radio.shortwave:70126 Richard Paschal wrote: >When I looked, Cary Oler was listed as a guest at University of >Lethbridge, Canada. >Since there are many scams which are almost impossible to prosecute >from the U.S. across international boundaries, especially in Canada, >I want to know: >1. What the "Solar Terrestrial Dispatch" is,. >2. Who Cary Oler is. >3. Who teaches the course and what his credentials are. >4. Who sponsers the course and what his credentials are. >5. Is the course accredited in any way. >-- >--------------------- >rpaschal@primenet.com Haven't been around long, huh? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Dan Ferguson df@mnsinc.com + + Opinions herein expressed are not those of the donut store I patronize. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:31 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!crc-news.doc.ca!usenet From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: Ignition noise reduction Date: 16 Feb 1996 14:06:12 GMT Organization: Industry Canada Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4g230k$4fc@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4g0j7q$3nu@news.esslink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cummings.jim.dgrr000.ic.gc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: paulc@esslink.com Xref: news.epix.net sci.electronics.design:2946 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98138 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13369 paulc@esslink.com (Paul A. Cianciolo) wrote: >Hello all > >Has anyone ever done any work to quiet down the ignition system (spark >impulse noise) in a gasoline powered vehicle?? I wonder if one could >use large ferrite beads to choke off the spectrum of the spark from >radiating off the wire at the frequencies of interest. 1 mhz and >above? I have done a lot of grounding , and am using resistor plugs >and wires.. Are there any shielded wire kits out there? > >PaulC >"Noisy in Connecticut" > > Hello Paul: I have had good success with passing the ignition cables through some Snap-On Chokes. However, you will have to use a large number of them because, if your vehicle is like my Ford Ranger, there is not enough slack in the ignition cabl es to loop them through (I really wouldn't care to try it anyways). I wish you luck 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:32 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!primus.ac.net!news.cais.net!grouper.Exis.Net!usenet From: buch@exis.net (Joe Buch) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: I need some HF antenna help...... Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 03:02:46 GMT Organization: Exchange Information Systems Networks Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4frjc7$91b@grouper.Exis.Net> References: <4fr47h$og5@louie.disney.com> Reply-To: buch@exis.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 46.exis.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 Jim Markle wrote: >Briefly (cw version): Can I add coils of wire to a tuner/ladderline fed >dipole to increase wire lenght and thus performance on 75M without hurting >10M-40M? Yes. They would act as loading coils on 80 to increase the current in the center of the dipole. A short length (6 feet or so) of wire on the outboard side of the coils would be adjusted to fine tune the resonant frequency on 80/75. Make sure the short wire and coil are well insulated as high voltages will be present on the outboard side of the coils. On the higher bands the coils would tend to act as chokes making the antenna look like a half wave dipole on 40, a full wave on 20, etc. I have found that a 67 foot dipole fed in the center with 50 feet of 300 ohm transmitting style twinlead allows a good match using my Johnson Matchbox from 2.9MHz up to 30MHz. I operate MARS frequencies which are often far removed from the standard ham bands. The efficiency could be improved on 80/75 by using the loading coils you suggest. I haven't found the need to do so because it works well enough for my purposes without loading coils. Joe Buch N2JB buch@exis.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:33 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!athos.itribe.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!nntp Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: GIANT E.F. JOHNSON VARIABLE CAP FOR SALE Message-ID: <1996Feb15.210631.114127@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: Bill Date: 15 Feb 96 21:06:30 CST Nntp-Posting-Host: kuts9p10.cc.ukans.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 32 AIR-VARIABLE TRANSMITTING CAPACITOR ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Manufacturer: E.F. Johnson Co. Waseca, Minn. U.S.A. PART NO: 150DD70 CAP uuf * 150 X 2 VOLTS: * 7000 AIR GAP: * .175 SIZE: approx 14 inch X 4.5 inch COMMENTS: * Ratings apply to each section of this multiple section condenser. Includes insulated (steatite) shaft coupling. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Would anyone care to make an offer on this beauty? 73s Bill AA4FM/0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:35 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp2.cerf.net!louie.disney.com!root From: Jim Markle Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (no subject) Date: 13 Feb 1996 22:06:19 GMT Organization: Walt Disney Company InterNetNews site Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4fr20r$o18@louie.disney.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.7.141.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 32bit) Briefly (cw version): Can I add coils of wire to a tuner/ladderline fed dipole to increase wire lenght and thus performance on 75M without hurting 10M-40M? Not so briefly (ssb version): I have a ladder line fed flattop dipole (approx 33'/side) I'm tuning it for pretty acceptable outputs (except on 75m) with an MFJ tuner. On 75m it loads up but I know not much is actually being radiated. And I want better "real" performance on 75m. I can't add any more length to either side of the dipole without practically doubling back the wire on itself. Very small lot...... I have some open coils that are about 2" dia at 1/8" spacing. Can I add a piece of this coil to each side of the dipole and effectively increase my total wire length, even though a chunk of it is all coiled up? Would it be better to insert the coil at the feedpoint? Midpoint? Endpoint of the dipole??? Using a good tuner, will I be able to still get a good amount of signal past the feedline and up into the air? Or will the coil's inductance somehow cancel any benefit I'm hoping for and leave me with a very short, high freq resonant dipole with the coils acting as traps? Thanks very much in advance for any help, it's much appreciated. Jim Markle KB5OB/6 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp2.cerf.net!louie.disney.com!root From: Jim Markle Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: I need some HF antenna help...... Date: 13 Feb 1996 22:44:01 GMT Organization: Walt Disney Company InterNetNews site Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4fr47h$og5@louie.disney.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.7.141.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 32bit) Briefly (cw version): Can I add coils of wire to a tuner/ladderline fed dipole to increase wire lenght and thus performance on 75M without hurting 10M-40M? Not so briefly (ssb version): I have a ladder line fed flattop dipole (approx 33'/side) I'm tuning it for pretty acceptable outputs (except on 75m) with an MFJ tuner. On 75m it loads up but I know not much is actually being radiated. And I want better "real" performance on 75m. I can't add any more length to either side of the dipole without practically doubling back the wire on itself. Very small lot...... I have some open coils that are about 2" dia at 1/8" spacing. Can I add a piece of this coil to each side of the dipole and effectively increase my total wire length, even though a chunk of it is all coiled up? Would it be better to insert the coil at the feedpoint? Midpoint? Endpoint of the dipole??? Using a good tuner, will I be able to still get a good amount of signal past the feedline and up into the air? Or will the coil's inductance somehow cancel any benefit I'm hoping for and leave me with a very short, high freq resonant dipole with the coils acting as traps? Thanks very much in advance for any help, it's much appreciated. Jim Markle KB5OB/6 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:37 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!thunder.mgl.ca!granite.sentex.net!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news-relay.us.dell.com!pmafire!usenet From: Charles Mott Subject: C-SPAN Survey (2/10/96) Sender: usenet@pmafire.inel.gov (usenet guy) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 21:05:47 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: WINCO Lines: 33 This message is off-topic for this newsgroup, so I would appreciate your forebearance. The C-SPAN survey home is rec.video.cable-tv. The information assembled here will be useful to those who are trying to make a case for better C-SPAN coverage in their communities. New entries and corrections are requested. City/Town State System C-SPAN C-SPAN2 Comments (hours/day) Prescott AZ Paragon 24 0 Yarnell AZ Mission 0 24 Denver CO TCI 24 24 70-channel system New Haven CT Comcast 24 24 Ft Lauderdale FL Comcast 24 24 Tampa FL Jones 24 24 limited basic tier Honolulu HI Oceanic 24 11 Idaho Falls ID TCI 14 0 40-channel system Richmond IN TCI 24 0 Montgomery County MD Cable-TV 24 24 Audio service on SAP Brooklyn Park MN King 24 0 Duluth MN Bresnan 24 24 Wayzata MN Triax 24 24 St. Louis MO Continental 24 0 Charlotte (SE) NC Time Warner 24 24 60 or 70 channels Matthews NC Time Warner 24 24 60 or 70 channels Schenectady NY TCI 24 0 Chelsea OK Mission 24 0 Just added 1/1/96 Norristown PA Suburban 10 0 60-channel system Houston TX Time Warner 24 24 Salt Lake City (1) UT TCI 14 0 40-channel system Salt Lake City (2) UT TCI 24 24 70-channel system Superior WI Bresnan 24 24 Huntingdon WV Century 24 24 23,000 subscribers From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:52:39 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!news1.h1.usa.pipeline.com!usenet From: kb7et@usa.pipeline.com(Jim Sheffield) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Grading Scale for H.R. Equipment Date: 16 Feb 1996 00:00:55 GMT Organization: Jim Sheffield Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4g0hfn$881@news1.usa.pipeline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipe10.h1.usa.pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Pipeline USA v3.2.0 Ever interested in an advertisement for ham equipment and wished you knew a little more about its condition before buying? Wish there was a uniform scale for grading? Does anyone know of an existing grading scale for used amateur radio equipment to be sold/bought? If not, then I'd like to propose the following: Rating Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ 10 (N.I.B.) New in the box - free of blemish, complete with original box, paperwork, accessories 9-10 (pristine) Pristine condition, perfectly functional, all paperwork, free of blemish 8-9 (excellent) Excellent condition, perfectly functional, very minor cosmetic blemishes 7-8 (very good) Very good condition, perfectly functional, minor cosmetic blemishes 6-7 (good) Good condition, functional, some cosmetic blemishes that do not detract from operation 5-6 (fair) Fair condition, functional or readily made functional, significant blemishes that may interfere with operation <5 (poor) Poor condition, not functional, refurbishment requirements unknown ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Any comments or suggestions? 73 de Jim, KB7ET kb7et@usa.pipeline.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:35 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (no subject) Date: 14 Feb 1996 16:27:03 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 65 Message-ID: <4ft2gn$ksi@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-23.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------103051179911219" X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 14 8:27:03 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------103051179911219 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Gee Whiz Guys and Gals -- have you read Part 97 of the FCC Rules and Regs lately ?? First off the document refers to us as "Amateur Radio Service" not a hobby. Our basic charter is very clear as in the attachment below. Nothing about a hobby, game or whatever. Perhaps you choose to make it a hobby or a game, but thats not the basis on which your license was granted nor as many Hams view the privilege. No flames intended -- just a different perspective on the issue. -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** ---------------------------------103051179911219 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Subpart A General Provisions 97.1 Basis and purpose. The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles: (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art. (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art. (d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts. (e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill. ---------------------------------103051179911219-- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:36 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.accessus.net!news.one.net!uucp.one.net!basselope!ken.meinken From: ken.meinken@basselope.org (Ken Meinken) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: (no subject) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:47:00 GMT Message-ID: <960216180020715@basselope.org> Organization: Basselope West BBS, West Chester, OH [513] 860-2277 Distribution: world References: <4fr20r$o18@louie.disney.com> Lines: 45 J.>From: Jim Markle J.>I have a ladder line fed flattop dipole (approx 33'/side) I'm tuning i J.>pretty acceptable outputs (except on 75m) with an MFJ tuner. On 75m i J.>loads up but I know not much is actually being radiated. And I want b J.>"real" performance on 75m. I can't add any more length to either side J.>the dipole without practically doubling back the wire on itself. Very J.>small lot...... J.> J.>I have some open coils that are about 2" dia at 1/8" spacing. Can I a J.>piece of this coil to each side of the dipole and effectively increase J.>total wire length, even though a chunk of it is all coiled up? J.> J.>Would it be better to insert the coil at the feedpoint? Midpoint? J.>Endpoint of the dipole??? J.> J.>Using a good tuner, will I be able to still get a good amount of signa J.>past the feedline and up into the air? Or will the coil's inductance J.>somehow cancel any benefit I'm hoping for and leave me with a very sho J.>high freq resonant dipole with the coils acting as traps? J.> J.>Thanks very much in advance for any help, it's much appreciated. Jim, I think you would get the most improvement on 80 by putting the coils near the end of the antenna (maybe 5 ft from each end). Putting them in the center will not accomplish anything over what you have now, you would still get the same amount of current into the antenna wire, all you would change would be the loading, not the signal. You want to get the most current flowing through the most wire. Coils in the center will not increase the current flow. However, I can't begin to guess what effect the coils would have on operation on the higher bands. You say that you cannot extend the length any. But how about adding to the rf length by going vertical (down) at the ends, or horizontal (make it Z or C shaped). From a radiation standpoint, I think that would be the most efficient on all bands. 73, Ken WA8JXM --- WinQwk 2.0 a#0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:37 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.join.ad.jp!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.flint.umich.edu!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!admaix.sunydutchess.edu!ub!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gvls1!rossi From: rossi@VFL.Paramax.COM (Pete Rossi) Subject: 40 METER QRP BEACON THIS WEEKEND Message-ID: <1996Feb11.033600.24053@VFL.Paramax.COM> Sender: news@VFL.Paramax.COM Nntp-Posting-Host: gvlf6-a Organization: Loral Defense Systems-Eagan - Paoli, PA Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 03:36:00 GMT Lines: 62 I am running an experimental QRP beacon on 40 meters starting Saturday Feb 10 through Sunday afternoon Feb 11. The beacon will be using an automatic power sequencer which will permit the beacon to operate at several different power levels during each hour. Start time : Saturday Feb 10 4 PM EST (it is on now) Ending time : Sunday Feb 11 5 PM EST Location : Newtown Square PA FM29hx (about 15 miles west of Philadelphia) Antenna : 40 meter inverted vee @ 50' running in a north/south plane. Frequency: 7021.0 KHz Power schedule: The beacon power level will be changed during each hour according to the following schedule: minutes past the hour - power level- :00 - :01 2000 mW spotting signal :01 - :15 200 mW :15 - :16 2000 mW spotting signal :16 - :30 20 mW :30 - :31 2000 mW spotting signal :31 - :45 2 mW :45 - :46 2000 mW spotting signal :46 - :00 200 uW (0.2 mW) In other words... The beacon will run at 5 different power levels each and every hour. Every 15 minutes on the quarter hour, the beacon will run for 1 minute at 2 watts output for spotting purposes then run at the specified power level for the next 14 minutes. Power change times should be pretty close, however, the power will not change until the message in progress completes. Message format : VVV VVV VVV xx mW <4_letter_codeword> DE WA3NNA/B QRP Sent at 13 WPM. A different codeword will be used at each of the 5 power levels. Test your receiving skills! The 200 microwatt level has already been heard in North Carolina. All reception reports will be appreciated. I am looking into setting up some kind of acknowledgement certificate for those who successfully copy the power and codeword at various power levels. Details TBD. Please do not tell anyone the codeword that you copy. 73, and happy listening --- Pete Rossi - WA3NNA rossi@vfl.paramax.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:38 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.bluesky.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!news.sesqui.net!news.ti.com!usenet From: Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Subject: Re: Alinco DX-70 hum on 6 meters Date: 15 Feb 1996 11:29:05 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Asia - Taipei TAIWAN R.O.C. Lines: 78 Message-ID: <4fv5e1$9c1@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <4fv577$9c1@tilde.csc.ti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.167.36.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98103 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24963 Cross posting here to rec.radio.amateur.equipment from rec.radio.amateur.misc. thanks, Joe Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT wrote: Hi Bryan, I've had one of those rigs for about 8 months with no reports of problems. However, I own the DX-70 Japanese model (not the T model, so my unit did not come with CTCSS). I have had no problems with the unit in FM -- reports are consistently good . As the other ham suggested, perhaps RF is getting into your radio. Here is what I would suggest for starters, to eliminate the obvious: a. Does the hum change if high or low power? You need to work a station who is close enough to be "full quieting FM" on both high and low power. RF may be getting into the rig or the microphone on high, but not low power. If it goes away on low power, it could be RF in your rig or more likely into your power supply. b. Can the new power supply handle 19 amps of current continuously? My rig draws about 19 amps on FM...which is a continuous duty mode. Could be power supply hum if not hefty enough. c. Are you using the Alinco microphone? After-market mic's (especially electrec condenser mic's) can be prone to rf and cause a hum in the transmission. d. You mentioned CTCSS. Does the hum persist even after you turn off your ctcss encoder? Go simplex with a buddy to find out if your FM rptrs require CTCSS to access them. Or, just have a buddy listen to your input frequency with and without CTCSS encode. e. Does the hum change frequency (pitch) when you change the dip switches on the ctcss encoder board? If so, then the deviation on the CTCSS board may be set too high. There is a small surface mounted resistor on the ctcss board. Open the underside of the radio and adjust the ctcss level...you can do this if you are careful without the aid of test equipment. f. Is the VSWR below 1.5:1 at your rig and antenna? VSWR can sometimes cause funny things to happen to surrounding shack equipment....which can induce a hum into your FM rig. g. Does your rig sit on top of the power supply? Some rigs can pick up the "hum" of the power supply even though the mic is far from the source of the hum. Move the rig off of the power supply. These are some ideas...have had problems with hum before, but "usually a quick lesson to teach the radio all the words" solves the humming problem (sorry...old old joke couldnt resist). Good luck and keep us posted on your findings. 73, Joe --------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio: BV/N0IAT Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China ex. 7J1AOF (Japan) YU3/N0IAT (Slovenia) KA0ZDH (Novice) Licensed Radio Amateur since 1986. Comments are mine only. ---------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:40 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pagesat.net!a3bsrv.nai.net!mgate.arrl.org!usenet From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLD010 DX news Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:53:05 -0500 Organization: American Radio Relay League Lines: 72 Sender: root@mgate.arrl.org Approved: mtracy@arrl.org Message-ID: <$arld010.1996@arrl.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mgate.arrl.org Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.info:10834 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98122 SB DX @ ARL $ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news ZCZC AE52 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 10 ARLD010 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 15, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD010 ARLD010 DX news This week's bulletin was made possible with info provided by Wayne, N7NG, Tedd, KB8NW, Jaakko, OH1MA, and Contest Corral from QST. Thanks to all. NORTH KOREA, P5. The DPRK project group has been working long and hard to put P51DX on the air and establish amateur radio in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Due to transportation scheduling and severe weather conditions, the group's next trip to the DPRK will not be until late April. The goal of the DPRK project is to establish permanent on the air amateur radio activity with the large base of radio communications enthusiasts that are currently involved in radio direction finding and classroom Morse competitions. MYANMAR, XZ. A team consisting of OH1MA, OH1RY, OH2BE, OH2BH and OH2KNB will be on the air February 18 to 28 as XZ1R. Two stations with amps will be active. Some members of this group will also be making final preparations for the XZ1N DXpedition scheduled for early April. On CW check 1824/1831, 7004, 10114, 14004, 18074, 21004, 24894 and 28004 kHz. On SSB try 1845, 3795, 7042/7095, 14195, 18145, 21295, 24945 and 28495 kHz. QSL via SCSDX-team, PO Box 111, SF 24101, Salo, Finland. HEARD ISLAND, VK0. Tony, WA4JQS/VP8BZL, founder of the South Sandwich Island Antarctic DX Group, SSIDXG, reports his group scrapping plans for their three week operation. This is to allow the KK6EK/ON6TT Heard Island group maximum opportunities. MACAO, XX9. Mine, JE1CTM, is in the early stages of planning a short trip and operation from Taipa Island. FRANZ JOSEF LAND, R1F. Sergey, R1FJZ, is active on 3503 kHz and on 160 meters between 1100 and 1200z. He has worked 170 EU and JA stations on 160 meters but only VE1ZZ and KL7RA in North America. Also try 7003 kHz between 1230 and 1330z and 14243 kHz at 0915z. Sergey will go QRT in August. The Russian government may discontinue funding Arctic bases, so further activity could be rare. SAINT MARTIN, FS. Paul, WX9E, is active from the shack of FS5PL. He will sign FS/WX9E except during the ARRL International CW Contest. Mike, N0BSH, and Chad, WE9V, will join him and be active from February 22 to March 6 signing FS/N0BSH and FS/WE9V. The group will be active on CW and SSB on all bands. Chad will make a special effort to provide RTTY contacts for those needing FS on that mode. The group will participate in the ARRL International Phone Contest. QSL FS/homecall via the homecall using the new CBA. QSL FS5PL or possible special contest call via WX9E. NEVIS, V4. Mike, N0BSH, will be active until February 21, including an all band entry in the ARRL International CW contest. Listen for V47NZ, mostly on CW. QSL via N0BSH. THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. It's time again for the ARRL International CW Contest weekend. For full contest rules see page 105 in December QST. And good luck in the contest. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:42 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!shore!northshore.shore.net!not-for-mail From: mc@shore.net (Michael Crestohl) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Boxborough in Oct. Date: 15 Feb 1996 07:27:32 -0500 Organization: Shore.Net; a service of Eco Software, Inc. (info@shore.net) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4fv8rk$vi@northshore.shore.net> References: <4fr2na$ev4@llnews.ll.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: northshore.shore.net In article <4fr2na$ev4@llnews.ll.mit.edu>, Lawrence Artz wrote: >I heard that it is the same weekend as Deerchester. > >Larry >KA1CRN > You are correct. However, there is not a great deal of overlap if you think about it. Roachfield (aka Hosstraders) is pretty much over at noon on Saturday. Boxborough is on Saturday and Sunday. So, look at it as if it were a three-day ham radio party at two places. While I'm here re: Deerchester/Boxborough, I might add that this year two of my friends are on the Hamfest Committee - Mike Raisbeck K1TWF is the Program Chairman and Dave Foner WA1TET is the Flea Market Czar! So if any of you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc, you can address them to the appropriate person. Mike K1TWF's e-mail address is mike@rtr.com. Also, "Boatanchor" enthusiasts will be welcome to set up displays, hold forums and swap and buy stuff. A very well-known AMer (whose identity is a closely guarded secret) will be guest speaker and master of ceremonies. Its gonna be a great party! 73, Michael .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ -/--Michael Crestohl KH6KD/W1/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\--mc@shore.net-\-- \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:44 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!duke.usask.ca!buydens From: buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: 14 Feb 1996 17:55:06 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 56 Message-ID: <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: duke.usask.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] If I can put my 2 cents worth in (and I am Canadian so 2 cents is not worth that much ;-) I agree with the sentiments expressed here by all the hams responding in this thread. When I first got into ham radio I thought it was supposed to be fun. Then I see all the people complaining about CW. And people getting ignored because they are not "DX" enough, or they are running QRP. (BTW I have heard some Canadian hams complain that American ham radios tend to "work a little better" during contest times so that QRP stations receive responses from WAVE'ers.) The ARRL even has a section in its handbook advising foreign stations how to handle rude and selfish DX seekers. Where has the fun gone? I got into ham radio because I was interested in communicating. I don't care with who, or where. My dream is to build radios from scratch and have them work (which means I will be doing a lot of QRP and Morse code). Isn't that what the original dream of ham radio was all about? Unfortunately it seems like some people get in to amateur radio just so they can hang an expensive HT on their hip. They seem only interested in the loudest; the farthest; the most fancy etc. and I certainly doubt that they would be interested in talking to me... even if it is contest time and they need a VE5 to complete their list. This is probably just as well because I think we would have very little to talk about. 73 de VE5RDV Brian. Vance Campbell (vcampbell@novell.com) wrote: : I finally found something I agree with Burt on... : Burt Fisher wrote: : >Who the hell am I to call CQDX. I have been a ham for over 34 years and : >in 28 of those I could only afford crummy rigs and antennas. There were : >so many stations I could have worked (and called) if they were not : >calling CQDX. I have NEVER called CQDX, although today I am much better : >equiped. Many times when I call CQ I would prefer DX, who am I to : >EXCLUDE anyone. If someone wants to talk to me who am I to be selective? : >When my beam is headed towards DX and I get a domestic call it is : >usually from a station using a dipole, remember all hams are not "Big guns. " : >And in reality to be a "real man" is not predicated on how much money : >you have. When you call CQDX, think about what you are really saying : >(calling anyone but no Americans need answer). : > : > : For some of us obeying the law and using only the minimal power necessary fo r communications, (QRP) the other side of the country IS DX! -- Brian Buydens There was a young poet named Dan, Department of Computing Services Whose poetry never would scan. University of Saskatchewan When told this was so, email: Brian.Buydens@usask.ca He said, "Yes, I know. VE5RDV From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:45 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com (Clay Whiffen) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 23:44:53 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4g0ghd$r58@brickbat.mindspring.com> References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb12.000315.24238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4ftrsp$1are@stealth.mindspring.com> <1996Feb15.151803.12088@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-82-155.dialup.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 >. I know that there is an effect called noise masking >that occurs for a monotonic signal with noise in the immediate bandpass, >and that's a FM quieting, or PLL-like, effect. That is an interesting statement, Gary. Can you direct me to more information on this phenomena? It seems to be very relevant to the effect I mentioned where high (700Hz) tones and narrow (100Hz) bandwidth filters make CW copy difficult. I wonder if the 'noise masking' is a function of both frequency and bandwidth? ----------- However, I've been reading about a technique of increasing signal detection >sensitivity by *adding* noise to the signal (it has something to do with the >behavior of chaotic systems and flipping the system to a different attractor, >which is much easier to detect). Anyway, that may have some application here >too, IE you may not actually be hearing the signal, rather you may be hearing >a change in the noise caused by the presence of the signal and your brain >is assigning that a tonal value. In other words, the tone is actually a >psychosomatic response to the change in signal+noise. Something to think >about anyway. Where did you read this? I would be interested in reading it also. Your reference to psychosomatic response could be an explanation. In, at least, one case I remember, I actually could not hear the signal as a tone (8Q7AJ on 80M in Dec '90) but I still had Q5 copy where the locals with better antennas thought I was crazy (I have the QSL to prove it!) I can imagine that sort of thing might be possible and would like to investigate it further. (Old research habits die hard, Hi.) 73, Clay From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:46 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Message-ID: <1996Feb16.162604.17371@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:26:04 GMT Lines: 38 In article <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Kevin Schmidt writes : > >Please post if you took a technician or general exam before 1966 and >did not draw schematic diagrams. It would be amusing to find >approximately when they were dropped. I took my General in March of 64 and it had no diagrams to draw. They were still handing out the exam blue books in 64, but they were for scratch purposes, the answers went down as pencil marks on a multiple choice grid sheet graded by a secretary with an overlay. You did have to *send* Morse though, and the key was awful, very stiff and with a wide gap. I found out later I could have brought my own, but I managed to pass with the FCC key, though the examiner winced a few times. The Instructograph sounded awful too, overdriven and very distorted. My commercial First Phone had diagrams on the test, but you didn't have to draw any, just answer questions about the diagrams, that was in January of 63. There were no grids, you wrote the answers in the blue book. So I'd guess that was near the point where diagrams might have been required. I got my Novice in February of that year (volunteer examiner even back then), and it took a real grind to get up to the blankety-blank 13 WPM to get the General the next year (I wasted 2 hours a day for 13 months to get from 5 WPM to 13 WPM). I aced the written of course, but really sweated that code test, and from the look on the examiner's face, I probably passed only on sympathy. Fortunately, I've never had to do that again. (I was young and stupid, of course. I thought there must be something mighty important about Morse speed to put people through months of abuse. I found out later it was just a hazing ritual used to ration voice spectrum, and that made me very angry.) Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:47 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!usenet From: moorhead@ionet.net (Mark Moorhead) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: DTMF Keypads Date: 16 Feb 1996 06:15:58 GMT Organization: Internet Oklahoma Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4g17eu$l2g@ionews.ionet.net> References: <4fm89d$8r1@linus.mitre.org> Reply-To: moorhead@ionet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: okc-sip145.ionet.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <4fm89d$8r1@linus.mitre.org>, Al Wong writes: >I have just purchased a Yaesu FT-5200 with the MH-27 w/DMTF microphone. >The problem is that there were no instructions on for the microphone. My >question is what is the A B C D buttons for? The 5200 manual does point >out the fact that the P button is non-functional on the 5200. > >Any response/help would be greatly appreciated. > The A B C D buttons are DTMF tones.. The keypad is set up in such a way that vertical rows are of high frequencys, and horizontal rows are of low frequencys.. When you press on a key (i.e. 6), the horizontal row freq. of 770Hz, and vertical row freq. of 1447Hz tone mix together, resulting in the dual-tone multifrequency burst.. I help program a repeater for a friend of mine who is the trustee, and I seldom use the A B C and D keys, since some older radios that don't have DTMF capability built in, have it added, usually by use of a DTMF tone generator, (usually from radio shack), and don't have the extra vertical row of A B C D... (Usually some microphones use the DTMF buttons for double duty, like radio functions, or speed-dial memories, etc.. if your microphone didn't come with anything stating about that, then it's just a plain DTMF generator in the mic..) Hope this helps.... >-- >Al Wong The above opinion does not reflect that >KF4GDD of my employer. As with ALL my opinions, >alwong@mitre.org I write them, you intrepret them. > > Mark ------ KC5PWW moorhead@ionet.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:49 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: DX IS! (CW IS!) Date: 14 Feb 1996 14:42:43 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4fssd3$ahq@reader2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-04.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 14 6:42:43 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) I am not certain that WA6AUD, Hugh Cassidy, originated the immortal phrase DX IS! but he certainly used and popularized the phrase in his West Coast DX Bulletins published in the 1970's. Hugh's wonderful stories can be found in a book titled "DX IS!", edited and published in 1981 by Charles T. Allen W5DV and James M. Allen W6OGC. Hugh published the West Coast DX Bulletin weekly for over 11 years in the 1970's. The book "DX IS" is a collection of the delightful stories by Cass about the trials and tribulations of the QRPer, Red-Eyed Louie, the Palos Verdes Sundancers (making sunspots), and the Old Timer who wisely counselled the new DXers of the mysteries of the ages. Several of stories embody the phrase DX IS! as the only required explanation of the enigma of DXing.True Believers inherently know of this and True Blue Dxers ascribe to it, Cass claimed, and in Hugh's words "Son of a gun if that isn't true". From DX IS! -- DX IS THE EMBODIMENT OF EVERYTHING THAT'S EXCELLENT IT HAS NO KIND OF FAULT OR FLAW DXERS ALWAYS DRAW THE LOOKS OF AWE DX IS! Perhaps it is akin to Sir Edmond Hilliary's famous retort to "Why climb Mt everest?" he replied simply "Because its there". Like many things in life -- DX is beyond description and needs none and if you believe that you are indeed "A True Blue DXer". CW IS! also Rod de AC6v -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:50 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: wa5whn@ix.netcom.com(Jay Miller) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ghost Town Operation/ April 27, 1996/Riley, NM Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:31:51 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 59 Message-ID: <4fr007$7mv@cloner3.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alb-nm1-20.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Feb 13 1:31:51 PM PST 1996 For the Northern California QRP Club, "QRP To The Field", April 27, 1996 (aka "QRP Field Day") a number of us ( > 13) will be operating from a Historical Old Ghost Town in New Mexico, by the name of Riley. This town was famous for the bandits that hid out in the nearby Ladrones Mountains. Legend has it that over $50,000.00 in loot is still buried in the nearby mountains. Guess where we will be @ night ? *********************************** Riley, New Mexico (Ghost Town) Lat: 34 deg. 22' 50.35" N Long: 107 deg. 13' 47.55" W *********************************** Paul Harden, NA5N (pharden@aoc.nrao.edu) had suggested, for this event (NorCal "QRP To The Field"), that a multitude of stations (QRP & QRPp) operate from historical sites. There will be several in Colorado & Arizona too. Those stations will probably post where they will be in this newsgroup & the QRP-L reflector. With the multitude of QRP stations, that will be in Riley, NM, we will offer a special QSL Card (Photo), if You work any of the stations there. If You are interested in the NorCal "QRP To The Field" details, send a SASE to WU7F (callbook address). It is a 1 page flyer. If You are interested in QSL information for the Riley, NM event, stay tuned for details & check into the QRP-L reflector (The URL is in Webcrawler & the other search engines.) This event in Riley will start off on April 26th with the viewing of 2 comets (dark skies), at night. One of the comets maybe visible to the naked eye. Then on the 27th of April, You will hear quite a bit of activity from this Ghost Town, and hopefully others. Listen for us, we will be near the QRP calling frequencies; 21.060 MHz (If it is open), 14.060 MHz, 10.106 MHz, 7.040 Mhz, 3.710 MHz & we will be on 6 meters & 2 meters SSB too. We will indicate that we are in Riley, NM. Try to work all of the stations in Riley. With QRP, and the size of the Ghost Town, we will be spread out across several canyons & one River (Rio Salado). Yes, there is an old Church, grave yard & Rock School House still standing. As for the Ghosts, well, maybe we will have a few more stations than we had anticipated, or less ;-) Again, mark Your' Calendars, April 27, 1996, send a SASE To WU7F for the 1 page flyer & listen for all of us. We had heard a rumor that the Arizona QRP Crowd will not only be in a Ghost Town, but they will finance their operation by panning for gold too 8-) 72 (QRP 73)...Jay, WA5WHN, Albuquerque, NM (Too bad that we are not doing this on Halloween) GH0ST de WA5WHN K PS For those of You in California, no extra points for Metaphysical contacts :-) (snicker-snicker). From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:52 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!gatech!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Ham radio questions Message-ID: <1996Feb15.160117.12366@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <4fuarh$t9a@axe.netdoor.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:01:17 GMT Lines: 65 In article <4fuarh$t9a@axe.netdoor.com> jwever@netdoor.com (John Wever) writes : > >I have always heard about ham radio, and I am very interested in >becoming an operator. Could you please tell me what kind of equipment >is needed for a beginner? And how I can become an operator... and any >information you can give to a potintal ham radio operator. John, the equipment can range from very cheap and simple to very expensive and elaborate depending on what you want to do, and on whether you must buy the latest shiny toy or will be content with used or home built equipment. The results you achieve are only partially due to the expense of your equipment. Good operating skills can make up for a lot of equipment deficiencies, and home constructed equipment can actually be superior to factory built gear in many cases. You must decide whether your interests lie at HF or VHF+ to start. Different equipment is needed for those different parts of the spectrum. In either case, the most valuable equipment you can own besides the grey matter between your ears is a quality receiver. Don't scrimp here. Most amateur equipment today is configured as a transceiver. This is a combination of a transmitter and receiver housed in the same case. When shopping for such equipment, concentrate on receiver performance. In most cases, a transmitter is a transmitter, if you've seen one, you've seen them all. It's the receiver portion that's all important. There's an old saying, "You can't work'em if you can't hear'em", and that's very true. Ignore bells and whistles, out of band performance, and the like. That's unimportant (and usually hurts amateur band performance and drives up costs). Concentrate instead on the basics. Good sensitivity, good selectivity, and good strong signal handling performance are what you're looking for. The used market is a very good way to get equipment cheaply. There are many fine radios which are a few years old but still perfectly servicable. Many amateurs just have to have the latest gimmick on the market and trade frequently. That is a wonderful opportunity for the frugal bargain hunter to equip a very nice station at low cost. There are two basic ways to enter amateur radio, the Tech or the Novice license. If you are interested primarily in VHF+ operation, IE FM, repeaters, packet, satellites, EME, ATV, etc, then the Tech license is for you, and may be the only license you'll ever need. There is no Morse Code test. If HF and the DX game is your desire, then you'll want to start with the Novice license, and work on your Morse Code speed so that you can move up to General as quickly as possible, and from there learn some theory to take you on to Advanced (you may never need Extra as it grants few extra privileges). The ARRL publishes training materials. Start by pointing your web browser to www.arrl.org. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:54 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!nntp Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: HAMMARLUND MINIATURE AIR-VARIABLE CAPS FOR SALE Message-ID: <1996Feb16.004544.114136@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: Bill Date: 16 Feb 96 00:45:43 CST Nntp-Posting-Host: kuts6p12.cc.ukans.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 48 HAMMARLUND MINIATURE AIR VARIABLE CAPACITORS :::::::::::::::::::::: TYPE APC Compact, hi-quality variables. Isolantite base. Screwdriver or hex-wrench adjust. APC-25 3.0 - 25 mmf 10 available APC-140 6.7 - 140 mmf 3 " TYPE MAPC Midget padding, trimming and general purpose capacitors similar type APC but smaller. Ideal for small space applications. Gap .0135 inch. Rotors and stators are nickle-plated brass. Nickle-plated beryllium copper wiper contact. Tapped (4-40 thread) brass studs in Steatite base permit mounting without grounding rotor. Tested at 600 volts rms, 60 cps. Slotted shafts for screwdriver or hex wrench. MAPC-75 3.9 - 75 mmf 7 available MAPC-25 2.6 - 25 mmf 18 " TYPE ??? Identical in size and shape to the type APC, but have military part number. Rotors and stators are silver plated (tarnished). Please note that capacitance ranges and values fo this particular group are APPROXIMATE, subject to the accuracy of my RLC tester. 922-0004-00 2.5 - 30 mmf 10 available CA-290 3.5 - 60 mmf 8 " ::::::::::::::::::::::: Would anyone out there care to make an offer on these little jewels? 73s Bill AA4FM / 0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:55 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!mdisea!pilchuck!news From: tomz@premier1.net (Tom Zoch) Subject: Information on equipment sought by new Tech X-Nntp-Posting-Host: inet-gw Message-ID: Sender: news@data-io.com (Usenet news) Reply-To: zoch@data-io.com Organization: Sosiity fer spelen exalanse X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 02:20:34 GMT Lines: 50 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19106 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14183 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:24986 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13362 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98126 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33110 rec.radio.amateur.space:6337 Hi, I am going to be taking my Tech tests on Saturday (2/17) and am now starting to look in to what type of radios to get. I plan to put a 2M Mobile in my truck and get a more substantial base for home. For home I'm looking into Base Multiband / Multimode Transceivers and trying to decide what will be my best bet. I was thinking of one that would cover at least 2M and perhaps 70cm. I am interested in working into Satellite and EME as well as FM and perhaps some local CW, 12V operation would be a plus but not a major requirement. I do plan on upgrading to at least General with in the next year and expanding also into some HF as well. So I would want to take that into consideration as well. possibly using Transverters get to the higher freqs for satellite and EME and going with a more basic UHF/VHF base unit. For the mobile unit I was thinking of a rather simple 2M unit for repeater and simplex FM. I live in a rather remote area in the western foothills of the Cascades so I think one of the higher output power units would be in order. I was considering picking up one of the new Radio Shack units. As far as I can tell it has most everything I am looking for at a reasonable price. From the cross talk I have seen on the net and the write up in CQ (VHF) it seems to be a good choice. I would like to take advantage of the wealth of experience of those out here on the net and get some input from you as to what you think. Suggestions on equipment to get or avoid as well as things to look for or useless features to not even consider. For me price, value and reliability are important, I have a modest but hopefully adequate amount set aside for starting up and want to use it wisely. The Base unit I'll be looking for used at up coming Ham fests so any information about current or older equipment would be helpful. I was thinking of picking up the Mobil new ( if it is in or around the same price range as the Radio Shack unit ) but am vary open to suggestions. I would also welcome comment on other accessory gear that you feel would be useful as well as thoughts on band selection (pros and cons of the diffrent amature bands ) or what ever info. you would like to pass on to a newbie like myself. I know there are lots of books and other sources around and would not mind pointers to the better source like that, but I am primarily looking for personal insights and experience. Thanks TZ Reply here or by e-mail to tomz@premier1.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:57 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!nntp.coast.net!news.net99.net!premier1.premier1.net!news From: tomz@premier1.net (Tom) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.swap,alt.radio.amateur.club.clarc,rec.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.packet,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: Information sought by new Tech Date: 16 Feb 1996 18:13:31 GMT Organization: none of the above Lines: 48 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4g2hgb$f06@premier1.premier1.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dynamic-39.premier1.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.antenna:19125 rec.radio.amateur.equipment:25002 rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:13372 rec.radio.swap:57676 rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc:14200 rec.radio.amateur.misc:98147 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33120 rec.radio.amateur.space:6339 Hi, I am going to be taking my Tech tests on Saturday (2/17) and am now starting to look in to what type of radios to get. I plan to put a 2M Mobile in my truck and get a more substantial base for home. For home I'm looking into Base Multiband / Multimode Transceivers and trying to decide what will be my best bet. I was thinking of one that would cover at least 2M and perhaps 70cm. I am interested in working into Satellite and EME as well as FM and perhaps some local CW, 12V operation would be a plus but not a major requirement. I do plan on upgrading to at least General with in the next year and expanding also into some HF as well. So I would want to take that into consideration as well. possibly using Transverters get to the higher freqs for satellite and EME and going with a more basic UHF/VHF base unit. For the mobile unit I was thinking of a rather simple 2M unit for repeater and simplex FM. I live in a rather remote area in the western foothills of the Cascades so I think one of the higher output power units would be in order. I was considering picking up one of the new Radio Shack units. As far as I can tell it has most everything I am looking for at a reasonable price. >From the cross talk I have seen on the net and the write up in CQ (VHF) it seems to be a good choice. I would like to take advantage of the wealth of experience of those out here on the net and get some input from you as to what you think. Suggestions on equipment to get or avoid as well as things to look for or useless features to not even consider. For me price, value and reliability are important, I have a modest but hopefully adequate amount set aside for starting up and want to use it wisely. The Base unit I'll be looking for used at up coming Ham fests so any information about current or older equipment would be helpful. I was thinking of picking up the Mobil new ( if it is in or around the same price range as the Radio Shack unit ) but am vary open to suggestions. I would also welcome comment on other accessory gear that you feel would be useful as well ( for example band selection for Satellite and EME ), or what ever info you would like to pass on to a newbie like myself. I know there are lots of books and other sources around and would not mind pointers to the better source like that, but I am primarily looking for personal insights and experience . Reply here or by e-mail to tomz@premier1.net Thanks TZ From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:55:59 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!news-mail-gateway From: boetchaj@uwec.EDU (Alfred J. Boetcher) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: No Code = No Brain Date: 14 Feb 96 15:17:09 GMT Organization: ucsd usenet gateway Lines: 61 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu In article boetchaj@uwec.EDU (Alfred J. Boetcher) writes: >Sorry guys, >I feel your both missing the boat. Amateur radio's purpose in the beginning >was, without a doubt, experimentation and the developement of a new and >exciting technology. It then evolved into a means of providing a public >service. Now, Amateur Radio has evolved into something else, a hobby. > >It can be still be used as a vehicle for experimentation, or a means of >providing a public service. But in the end, its a hobby just like fishing. >Is that bad??? gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) responds: :Yes, I think that's bad. To an extent, you are correct that amateur :radio has devolved into just a game, like trophy hunting, or a bass :fishing contest. It may have entertainment value for the participants, :but does it have enough value to the public interest, the national :interest, or the international interest to preserve the service? :The spectrum consumed by amateur radio has vast commercial value. :Can we ju[Astify retaining it merely on the basis of a game? Unlike :fishing, where the waters used have multiple uses (hydropower, urban :drinking water supply, transportation, etc), amateur spectrum is :blocked from other uses as long as amateurs occupy it. So amateurs :need a better justification than recreation to keep such a valuable :resource. No Gary, not a game but a hobby. Webster defines hobby as "a persuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in for relaxation". It can be a game for some, but it doesn't have to be for all. Allthough the spectrum we occupy can't be used by other services we hardly occupy anything remotely approaching a large percentage of the available spectrum. >Consequently, the structure we use to license new hams also needs to evolve. >I think that a new potential ham ought to be tested for proficiency in >the areas they intend to operate. Tests wouldn't necessarily be easier, >just pertinent to the operating priveledges sought. Many of the people >I see at our VE sessions are just looking for a reliable means of local >communication. :Then you should direct them to the nearest cellular phone service :provider, or to the nearest provider of GMRS equipment. The amateur :service is ill served by those who just want to use it as a substitute :for commercially available services of equal or better utility. If you reread FCC 97.1 these people looking for reliable local communication more than meet the basis and purpose of Amateur radio. I suggest it is your interpretation that is skewed. :OTOH, if they want access to spectrum for use as a learning laboratory, :for use in public service, for use in RF experimentation, or for use :in support of exploiting other new uses of communications, then they've :come to the right place. Sorry. I completely disagree. Using your criteria as a litmus test, 99.5% of the hams I know don't qualify to be hams and this includes some extremely bright technical minds. That's not to say they don't engage in some experimentation, or some of the other things you suggest but primarily for most of the hams I know, its a hobby. 73 Fred WU9R From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:01 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!news.radio.org!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Message-ID: <1996Feb13.162308.3238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Organization: Destructive Testing Systems References: <1996Feb11.232217.23995@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4fmig3$1mp$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:23:08 GMT Lines: 60 In article <4fmig3$1mp$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Hans Brakob K0HB <71 111.260@CompuServe.COM> writes: >>>*Any* coherent signal will show up on the tuning display >>>of a digital station. > >Probably not Gary. > >Most displays are optimized to be useful for "fine tuning" a >signal already tuned to "in the ballpark", not for use as a >monitor of general activity on the nearby spectrum. They are >frequently limited to display signals which have passed through >the filters and processing for the selected mode. As an example, >some popular TNC's do not even have a tuning display but simply >a DCD lamp which is illuminated only when a valid packet signal, >properly tuned, is detected. This lamp will ignore any other >signal. If it were the only means used to determine a "clear >frequency", interference to other communications is likely to >occur. A simple aural check of the frequency would be far more >effective. Come on now, calling a DCD indicator a tuning indicator is stretching the definition of tuning indicator a bit far. Let's take a look at the worst tuning indicator out there, the MFJ1274's bargraph. It covers a span over twice the occupied bandwidth of the transmitted signal. Surely a 50% guard band is sufficient. Anyone who expects more clearance than that is being unrealistic on today's crowded bands. Now unfortunately the MFJ's tuning indicator isn't incredibly sensitive, and might miss a weak signal down at the noise floor. But consider my P-38 card's tuning indicator. It also covers a span twice that of the occupied transmission bandwidth, and it *is* sensitive enough to detect signals buried so deeply in the noise that I can't hear them by aurally monitoring. And the XY display on my homebrew TU is also good enough to detect signals I can't reliably hear. I'd say either one is a better monitor than just listening. I can say that with confidence because I do leave the speaker on when I'm hunting contacts, and I've spotted signals on the tuning indicators that I completely missed by ear (and have had QSOs with stations I couldn't hear on the speaker). I may not be able to *copy* Morse using those tuning indicators, but I can certainly tell if it is present. And that's all I really need to know to avoid interfering. Now I'll grant that if you demand a 1 kHz guardband I won't be able to tell you're there, but I consider that an unreasonable demand on today's bands, for any mode, data, voice, or OOK Morse. If you need that much guardband, you need to fix your receiver, or sharpen your technique. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:02 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 16 Feb 1996 14:20:16 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4g23r0$c7k@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <1996Feb8.063202.3946@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <1996Feb11.223520.23625@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca2-07.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 16 6:20:17 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) Xref: news.epix.net rec.radio.amateur.misc:98140 rec.radio.amateur.policy:33116 gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: > >That's probably all to the good, because HF amateur radio has devolved >to be a province of gamers who only exchange enough information with >their opposite numbers to get a postal card, sometimes generating >international ill will in the process. So the people to people aspect >has been pushed into being a small fringe activity, fitting in the cracks >left unfilled by the gamers and their activities. Yes I would agree there is a lot of "ur 59(9) send me my card" activity on HF. However there is considerable goodwill created by the HFers/DXers of the world in many respects. DX Clubs throughout the world are well known as one of the first points of contact when visiting outside of ones own country. Local Hams will arrange for housing, hosting, and arranging tours and assisting the visitors in many ways. On the repeaters, I have heard hundreds of Hams with non-USA callsigns sign in to the repeater and immediately have several people offer a warm greeting and any assistance that the visitor may need including housing! The number of friendships formed over the air are countless. For example I know of a friendship formed over 10 meters between a Minister on Pitcairn Island and a Professor at UCI in California. Together they are working on a history of Pitcairn Island project and after 5 years of on the air friendship will meet this spring for the first time. One has only to listen to 20M during good propagation to be amazed at how many worldwide Hams know each other -- some for many many years. Any way just a different perspective. === Ask the DX Community. 73 Rod > -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:03 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.frontiernet.net!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!news.corpcomm.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!lamarck.sura.net!fconvx.ncifcrf.gov!mack From: mack@ncifcrf.gov (Joe Mack) Subject: Re: Rochester/Dearfield Hamfest when ???? Message-ID: Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center References: <4fa5d6$h98@northshore.shore.net> <4fq51n$g4n@service-2.agate.net> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 22:24:06 GMT Lines: 35 In article n1ist@netcom.com (Michael L. Ardai) wr ites: >In article <4fq51n$g4n@service-2.agate.net> John Wilcox/NS1Z writes: >-But anyway, the answer is the Spring Hoss Trader's >-(not HossChester, DeerChester etc) is always the day before Mother's day. Well for you people out there whose calendars have the old way of doing it (days/months etc) rather than saints days, new moons and festivals, I thumbed through my business appointments calendar week by week, starting today till I found mothers day. FOr you guys Mother's day translated into the old way is Sunday May 12. > >And this year the fall one is on the same weekend as the ARRL Boxboro >convention... Damn! How come my calendar doesn't have such an obvious marker as the ARRL boxboro convention on it. No-one will ever be able to find out when Rochfield is in the fall. Joe NA3T (written on Valentine's day, Feb 14 to you other guys) > >/mike >-- >\|/ Michael L. Ardai N1IST >-*- ---------------------------------- >/|\ n1ist@netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:05 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.aros.net!usenet From: mfp@aros.net (KB7YJJ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Rptrs near SLC, UT Ski Areas Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:55:21 GMT Organization: ArosNet Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4fqja9$sf2@news.aros.net> References: <4fo9gt$hrk@gaudi.lahabra.chevron.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anp52.aros.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <4fo9gt$hrk@gaudi.lahabra.chevron.com>, cwheeler@ccnet.com says... > >Would appreciate it if anyone could pass on frequencies of any open >repeaters (2m/70cm) that cover ski areas in the SLC area. Particularly >in the Cottonwood Canyons (Solitude, Brighton, Snowbird, Alta). > >I don't normally spend much time talking on the radio when I am skiing >but I carry an portable with me - and it's nice to know that I can use it >if I need to. > >Thanks >Curtis >Pleasanton, CA > Hi Curtis... The Rocky Mountain Radio Assn. has several UHF machines, gateways, etc that cover the areas in question. 448.700 SALT LAKE and UTAH (Provo Area) ALL R.M.R.A. machines use PL 114.8 ** This machine has a fulltime 6 mtr 52.525 gateway on it, up for Sporadic 'E' fming - dxing?? 447.900 SALT LAKE and Wide Area and SKI Resort Coverage 448.350 UHF to complete HF gateway, DTMF controlled, wanna CALL home??? and the Utah VHF Society has the 147.120 + no tone covers both areas and the 147.180 + no tone is actually up at the 10,000 foot SNOWBIRD TRAM room!! Give me a holler when you get into town..mostly on 448.700 or 447.900... Marc KB7YJJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:06 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: The Amateur Radio Service - Hobby, Game or Service Date: 14 Feb 1996 16:36:45 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 59 Message-ID: <4ft32t$ksi@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: esc-ca1-23.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------19797868313120" X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Feb 14 8:36:45 AM PST 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------19797868313120 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Here is a different perspective on what the Amateur Radio Service is or is not. Part 97 of the FCC Rules and Regs refers to us as a the "Amateur Radio Service". Our basic charter is very clear as attached below. No mention is made of hobby, game etc. You may choose to think of it as a hobby, but that is not the basis on which your license was granted. For those of us pursuing the charter elements listed below, we think of Amateur Radio as a Service! -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** ---------------------------------19797868313120 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Subpart A General Provisions 97.1 Basis and purpose. The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles: (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art. (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art. (d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts. (e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill. ---------------------------------19797868313120-- From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:08 1996 Path: news.epix.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!DIALix!brisbane.DIALix.oz.au!not-for-mail From: mkelly@brisbane.DIALix.oz.au (Murray Kelly) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: VK2WI Weekly News, 4th February, 1996 Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:06:53 +1000 Organization: DIALix Services, Brisbane, Australia. Lines: 35 Sender: mkelly@brisbane.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <4fsmpd$eu0$1@brisbane.DIALix.oz.au> References: <4f4tum$kq1@eram.esi.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: mkelly@brisbane.dialix.oz.au armond@delphi.com writes: >Dave Horsfall writes: > >> In the never ending quest for more sophisticated ways to kill and maim >> people, the US Air Force has published a 2000 page report revealing the > >If you will look in your history book you may find that when the Japanese >were bombing Australia and getting ready to invade, it was the USAF that >helped stop them. The Australian govt was going to evacuate the entire top >half of the country and it was MacArthur who instead proposed attacking >New Guinea instead. The Japanese advance was finnally stopped on the >Owen Stanly Ridge up behind Port Moresby. > >> (Who says war isn't fun anymore? :-) > >Next time, don't ask us to help There's all sorts of nasty answers to nasty comments to nasty questions but a: next time you want to have a Viet Nam don't ask us. b. The Kokoda Track battle over the Owen Stanleys was a hard slog for the Aussies, mainly. The US was conspicuously small there. c. MacArthur was reticent to let the guns in Port Moresby be shifted to the eastern side of the range for the final showdown and prolonged that stage of the war. d. The battle of Darwin was indeed helped by the US Army and Navy Air Forces (as they were then) much to the same effect as at Pearl Harbour. Don't get off your bike. One man's opinion isn't the whole nation's. We still have a very great resect for the US despite whatever it is that may have upset you. Murray Kelly. vk4aok. . From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:10 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!warwick!news.herts.ac.uk!altair.herts.ac.uk!csd3cr From: Max Lock Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:16:06 +0000 Organization: University of Hertfordshire Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1996Feb13.172615.3570@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <824243664snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.herts.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <824243664snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Anthony R. Gold wrote: > In article <1996Feb13.172615.3570@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> > gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us "Gary Coffman" writes: > > > In article > > jgb@physics.Berkeley.Edu (John Bartolucci) writes: > > > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed > > >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. > > > > Are you sure you've got your acronym correct? > > It's DOD's HAARP (High Altitude Auroral Research Project). Similar to > Nikola Tesla's plan for a death ray, in Engebretson, Alaska. > > Regards, > -- > Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com > tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk > packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na Yep I saw that program too, VERY interesting, I tried DEC's Alta Vista search engine, but no luck there?... maybe it's a cover up, although I did see a Netscape screen in the office of the protestors?.. "The truth is out there." :) Max. -- /_/_/ University of Hertfordshire ARS. ______ / /|/ / \ Callsign: G7UOZ - TCP/IP: 44.131.166.25 - AX25: G7UOZ@G6BOB.AMPR.ORG WWW: HTTP://147.197.131.75/~g7uoz/g7uoz.html - E-MAIL: M.T.Lock@herts.ac.uk |____________________________________________|______| From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:11 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!interactive.net!winternet.com!news.minn.net!skypoint.com!news.cyberstore.ca!news.bctel.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.seattleu.edu!news.seattleu.edu!not-for-mail From: pklein@news.seattleu.edu (Peter A. Klein) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:57:21 -0800 Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA Lines: 54 Message-ID: <4fod41$21i@handel.seattleu.edu> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: handel.seattleu.edu In article <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu>, Eric Martin wrote: >Thanks for all the responses, most of which cam by e-mail. I was >interested in how well the FCC enforces its licensing laws, for I see a >time when all Internet users may someday also need a license. >I was disturbed, however, by the impression I received of ham radio >being a place where everyone is checking up on you. This eagerness to >bust vagrants, by reporting them to the federal government, smacks of >vigilantism, and certainly would make one paranoid about going on the >air. It really isn't. Hams are by and large a friendly and helpful lot. But the price of admission is a license. With the codeless Tech, virtually anyone of reasonably sound mind can earn a license in short order. So there's no reason why anyone should be violating Federal Law. If you want to get in the pool, you have to show you can swim first. Not perfectly, not well. Just enough to get around. >While breaking the licensing law violates the spirit of professionalism >and exclusivity of ham radio, I don't think that spying on fellow hams >is a good solution to the problem. Shunning would work far better. We don't spy. We sometimes check to see if someone's licensed if their behavior indicates that they may not be. Don't think of it as a police state. Think of it as Block Watch. If you heard some of the filth that gets spewed by a small minority on the ham bands--both licensed and unlicensed--not to mention deliberate inteference, harrassment, jamming of repeaters, and other flagrant violations of Federal communications law, you might not take this so lightly. It's not just illegal, it's not nice either. And it reflects badly on the rest of us. The FCC no longer polices the bands to the extent that they used to, and the general level of civility and repect for rules in the society at large has been dropping steadily since the early 60s. If we're going to keep our neighborhood clean, we need to indicate that illegal behavior will not be tolerated. > Ham radio has enough of an air of extremem conservatism (witness the > editor of 73); why compund it by acting like agents in a polic Listen on 75 meters or on some 2-meter repeaters if you think so. You'll hear plenty of political opinions of all stripes. I suspect you are correct that conservatives are more vocal on the bands, but that's the trend these days anyway. This has nothing to do with being a police state. No one is going to lock you up or torture you for your opinions. -- Peter A. Klein (pklein@seattleu.edu) : -----==3== --- --- Information Services, 5569 : | | | | | | | | Seattle University : @| @| @| @| @| @| @| @| From lwbyppp@epix.net Sat Feb 17 13:56:13 1996 Path: news.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!braintree!news.concourse.com!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!multiverse!library.erc.clarkson.edu!rpi!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!news.fujitsu.com!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!infoserv!asacomp!mike.anderson Distribution: world Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: mike.anderson@asacomp.com (Mike Anderson) X-Mailer: NetXpress 2.53 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:44:00 -0500 Organization: ASA Compucom Subject: Re: why a license? Message-ID: <35.40533.1427@asacomp.com> Lines: 34 MW>Eric Martin wrote: > Why does a ham need to get a license? Don't people just buy transciev > and go on the air anyway? > Even if they do have licenses, what stops them from using bands they > not supposed to use? > Just curious on how this is all enforced... MW>There is a long tradition of self-enforcement in the amateur service. MW>Basically, most hams are honest and follow the rules on their own. Ther MW>are always a few who don't, but my response is to just not work them on MW>the air. If everyone did that, they'd get bored and go away. If you wan MW>to buy a radio and bootleg a call, there's really nothing to stop you. MW>It's wrong and self-defeating, but if you mind your manners on the air MW>can probably get away with it for a while. MW>If you behave badly enough to attract the attention of the FCC and the MW>(it's a federal offense) they'll find you by direction finder, show up MW>your house with a warrent, confiscate your equipment, and arrest you. T MW>fines they've been handing out lately have been around $5,000. MW>Do yourself and everyone else a favor and earn yourself a license. MW>Mike, N4PDY All true and there's another good deterrent. QRZ is now just about everywhere. A friend looked me up on his new CD ROM. I've looked people up on the WEB QRZ site. Doesn't take too long for someone to see you ain't who you're supposed to be. And I agree, get the ticket. Vy 73 de WA8JDW Mike REALLY! --- * WR 1.31 # 44 * Doing Windows may be dangerous to your health! From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:29 1996 From: ddiamond@TRL.OZ.AU (Drew Diamond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: "BUG" -- how to adjust? Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:05:41 Message-ID: References: Keywords: bug In article jwg6@cornell .edu (Joel Govostes) writes: >From: jwg6@cornell.edu (Joel Govostes) >Subject: "BUG" -- how to adjust? >Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:53:34 -0500 >I recently inherited a semi-automatic key. It's not in great shape but I >think it will work if I adjust it right. It appears to be a Johnson (?) >but the name plate is gone. There is only one sliding weight. Could >someone attempt to describe the method of setting this up?? Thanks in >advance... N1AEP Lucky you. When cleaning the key, pay close attention to the dash and dot contacts. Lightly burnish the contacts with fine emery paper, then follow with plain cardboard (like a business card). Position the weight somewhere near the far end of the dot pendulum. With your analog VOM on ohms X10 and hooked across the "output" terminals, check that near zero ohms is obtained when you operate the dash lever (probably to the left). Adjust out any residual resistance with the ohms zero pot of the VOM. Now adjust the dot contact so that a clean string of dots is generated, and the meter hovers at 50% (half FSD) on the VOM scale. The dash contact is adjusted to what you feel is comfortable. It may take you some time to get the feel of the thing, so be prepared to put a good deal of effort into learning it. Can you get at past issues of QST's? For a full description of bug key adjusting, look up QST Feb. 1934 "How's Your Fist" by F. Schnel W9UZ. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:30 1996 From: Vance Campbell Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <312524cd.0@news.provo.novell.com> Date: 17 Feb 96 00:43:57 GMT Morse Code Whining Have we all forgotton that we are bound by international treaty to keep a morse code requirement? If everyone spent as much time studying the code as we all have reading everyone's bitching about it, everyone in the newsgroup could have at least a general. Let's move on to something else. --... ...-- -.. . .-- .- --... .-. --- .. -.- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:31 1996 From: cyberknght@aol.com (CyberKnght) Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles,rec.music.bluenote,rec.music.christian,rec.music.classical,rec.music.country.western,rec.music.folk,rec.music.gdead,rec.music.hip-hop,rec.music.industrial,rec.music.makers.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic,rec.music.makers.percussion,rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.misc,rec.music.phish,rec.music.progressive,rec.nude,rec.org.sca,rec.outdoors.fishing,rec.outdoors.fishing.fly,rec.pets,rec.pets.cats,rec.pets.herp,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio. Subject: Re: **********soulbelly is almost here********** Date: 17 Feb 1996 07:58:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4g4jcv$pf0@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4g34nh$3dc@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: cyberknght@aol.com (CyberKnght) >> From: s.belly@ix.netcom.com(artists formerly known as mustardseed) >> Date: 16 Feb 1996 23:41:37 GMT >> just a reminder that you can still enter the soulbelly free cd contest! JUST A REMINDER: MASSIVE SPAMMING OF UNRELATED NEWSGROUPS IS VERY MUCH NOT COOL!!! ******* BOYCOT SOULBELLY ******* From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:33 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <1996Feb19.160021.1@vax.cerritos.edu> From: dunla004@cerritos.edu (Terry Dunlap, AC6EF) Subject: 80M WAS Date: 19 Feb 96 16:00:21 PST From: dunla004@cerritos.edu (Terry Dunlap, AC6EF) Subject: 80M WAS Date: 19 Feb 96 16:00:21 PST Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA Message-Id: <1996Feb19.160021.1@vax.cerritos.edu> I'm trying to finish up the 80m portion of 5BWAS and I'm down to 3. I still need Maine, Alabama & South Dakota. I'm hoping to finish it this low-band season. Can I talk any ME or AL or SD folks into setting up a sked? I sure would appreciate it. Please email any responses to me directly. 73 de Terry AC6EF dunla004@cerritos.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:35 1996 From: Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Alinco DX-70 hum on 6 meters Date: 15 Feb 1996 11:25:27 GMT Message-ID: <4fv577$9c1@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: To: kingbp@ka1fqt.mv.com Hi Bryan, I've had one of those rigs for about 8 months with no reports of problems. However, I own the DX-70 Japanese model (not the T model, so my unit did not come with CTCSS. I have had no problems with the unit in FM -- reports are consistently good on both 10FM and 6 too. As the other ham suggested, perhaps RF is getting into your radio. Here is what I would suggest for starters, to eliminate the obvious: a. Does the hum change if high or low power? You need to work a station who is close enough to be "full quieting FM" on both high and low power. RF may be getting into the rig or the microphone on high, but not low power. If it goes away on low power, it could be RF in your rig or more likely into your power supply. b. Can the new power supply handle 19 amps of current continuously? My rig draws about 19 amps on FM...which is a continuous duty mode. Could be power supply hum if not hefty enough. c. Are you using the Alinco microphone? After-market mic's (especially electrec condenser mic's) can be prone to rf and cause a hum in the transmission. d. You mentioned CTCSS. Does the hum persist even after you turn off your ctcss encoder? Go simplex with a buddy to find out if your FM rptrs require CTCSS to access them. Or, just have a buddy listen to your input frequency with and without CTCSS encode. e. Does the hum change frequency (pitch) when you change the dip switches on the ctcss encoder board? If so, then the deviation on the CTCSS board may be set too high. There is a small surface mounted resistor on the ctcss board. Open the underside of the radio and adjust the ctcss level...you can do this if you are careful without the aid of test equipment. f. Is the VSWR below 1.5:1 at your rig and antenna? VSWR can sometimes cause funny things to happen to surrounding shack equipment....which can induce a hum into your FM rig. g. Does your rig sit on top of the power supply? Some rigs can pick up the "hum" of the power supply even though the mic is far from the source of the hum. Move the rig off of the power supply. These are some ideas...have had problems with hum before, but "usually a quick lesson to teach the radio all the words" solves the humming problem (sorry...old old joke couldnt resist). Good luck and keep us posted on your findings. 73, Joe ---------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio: BV/N0IAT Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China ex. 7J1AOF (Japan) YU3/N0IAT (Slovenia) KA0ZDH (Novice) Licensed Radio Amateur since 1986. Comments are mine only. ---------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:37 1996 From: Leila Henderson Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Any comments on the IC-2000H ? Date: 18 Feb 1996 05:17:25 GMT Message-ID: <4g6cp5$844@hustle.rahul.net> References: <4g5q17$afq@venus.texoma.com> Gary Stone (garystone@texoma.com) wrote: : Any comments from users of the IC-2000H - good or bad would be : appreciated. : 73 de N5PHT : Gary I have an IC-2000H and like it. I have had no problems, so far, with it. I use it for voice as well as packet. Le KB6MXH From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:37 1996 From: Gary Stone Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Any comments on the IC-2000H ? Date: 17 Feb 1996 23:57:27 GMT Message-ID: <4g5q17$afq@venus.texoma.com> Any comments from users of the IC-2000H - good or bad would be appreciated. 73 de N5PHT Gary -- /\__/\ Gary and Karen Stone (Gary N5PHT) 0 0 E-Mail: garystone@texoma.com @ or karenstone@texoma.com (_/\_) Http://home.texoma.com/personal/garystone/ ~~ From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:38 1996 From: dara@physics.att.com (Shel Darack) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Any qsl cards from CY0TP 10/95? Date: 20 Feb 1996 16:43:26 GMT Message-ID: <4gctne$94h@nntpa.cb.att.com> Does anyone know if the qsl cards have gone out from the CY0TP (Sable Island) operation of 10/95? Shel WA2UBK dara@physics.att.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:39 1996 From: grhosler@mmm.com (Gary Hosler - KN0Z) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Any qsl cards from CY0TP 10/95? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:04:16 GMT Message-ID: <4gfctv$h7@dawn.mmm.com> References: <4gctne$94h@nntpa.cb.att.com> dara@physics.att.com (Shel Darack) wrote: >Does anyone know if the qsl cards have gone out from the >CY0TP (Sable Island) operation of 10/95? >Shel WA2UBK dara@physics.att.com I sure haven't seen anything yet. Worked them on multiple bands, multi modes, and QSL'd direct (with SAE & $'s) the first time on 11/30 to the QSL Manager: WAYNE E KING VE1CBK 63 BROOK ST LAKE FLETCHER NS B2T 1A5 CANADA Sent the second set of QSL's (with $'s & SAE) on 1/19 with the same response I rec'd from the first attempt. It's looking as good as trying to get a card from FR5DX. Just keep sending money,....NOT! GL OM! 73's de KN0Z Gary Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of 3M. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:40 1996 Distribution: world Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: mike.anderson@asacomp.com (Mike Anderson) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 18:09:00 -0500 Subject: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarc Message-ID: <35.40739.1427@asacomp.com> AS>Woul d be most curious to know if anyone successfuly QSL'd AS>McMurdo or anyplace in Antarctica. Thanks. KE6OCM Well I worked and got a card from KC4USN. The card said it was from 'Downtown Byrd, Antarctica'. However, it's about 30 years old so I don't suppose that helps you much. VY 73, Mike WA8JDW --- * WR 1.31 # 44 * If it jams, force it..If it breaks, it needed replacing. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:41 1996 From: linville@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarc Date: 20 Feb 1996 17:13:43 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gcvg7$d0h@news.sas.ab.ca> References: <35.40739.1427@asacomp.com> I got a card from a 4K1 station... From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:42 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: ag001@lafn.org (Abraham Stavsky) Subject: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarctica? Message-ID: <1996Feb17.180726.27802@lafn.org> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:07:26 GMT Woul d be most curious to know if anyone successfuly QSL'd McMurdo or anyplace in Antarctica. Thanks. KE6OCM -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:43 1996 From: wa1uar@eecorp.com (Michael McCarthy) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarctica? Date: 18 Feb 1996 20:16:40 GMT Message-ID: <4g81f8$n9l@caesar.ultra.net> References: <1996Feb17.180726.27802@lafn.org> <4g6s0m$3sf@jobes.sierra.net> In article <4g6s0m$3sf@jobes.sierra.net>, blangton@sierra.net says... > >Listen for KC4AAA and others from several of the US based >research stations. I have worked several different Antartic >bases and have had great luck with QSL's. > >Good Luck > >Bill > I have worked KC4USV and received QSL's as they direct, usually through an APO address. >-- >Bill Langton (blangton@sierra.net) ARS - KN6ER >WAS, WAC, DXCC, DXDA, W-100-N, HHH #537 >Lake Tahoe, California >Home Page - http://www.iwn.com/wwws > > -- Mike McCarthy ===================== Give every man his Dew =========================== Michael A. McCarthy Everest Engineering Corporation, Consultants 4 Barnes Circle, Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 460-6737 E-mail to wa1uar@eecorp.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:43 1996 From: Bill Langton Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarctica? Date: 18 Feb 1996 09:37:25 GMT Message-ID: <4g6s0m$3sf@jobes.sierra.net> References: <1996Feb17.180726.27802@lafn.org> Listen for KC4AAA and others from several of the US based research stations. I have worked several different Antartic bases and have had great luck with QSL's. Good Luck Bill -- Bill Langton (blangton@sierra.net) ARS - KN6ER WAS, WAC, DXCC, DXDA, W-100-N, HHH #537 Lake Tahoe, California Home Page - http://www.iwn.com/wwws From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:44 1996 From: EMAIL-NAME@quantum.net (YOUR NAME) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarctica? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 22:25:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4g8qlb$iah@news.paonline.com> References: <1996Feb17.180726.27802@lafn.org> ag001@lafn.org (Abraham Stavsky) wrote: >Woul d be most curious to know if anyone successfuly QSL'd >McMurdo or anyplace in Antarctica. Thanks. KE6OCM >-- YES!!! AH6JR Stan From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:46 1996 From: grhosler@mmm.com (Gary Hosler - KN0Z) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Anyone ever QSL'd Antarctica? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 19:38:55 GMT Message-ID: <4gd8kn$o9v@dawn.mmm.com> References: <1996Feb17.180726.27802@lafn.org> <4g6s0m$3sf@jobes.sierra.net> <4gb1kb$791@handel.seattleu.edu> pklein@news.seattleu.edu (Peter A. Klein) wrote: >In article <4g6s0m$3sf@jobes.sierra.net>, >Bill Langton wrote: >>Listen for KC4AAA and others from several of the US based >>research stations. I have worked several different Antartic >>bases and have had great luck with QSL's. >Bill, could you post a QSL address? I worked KC4AAA a number of years >ago, and did not ever receive a card for the QSO. I remember having a >very nice chat with the op on the other end. But I got no QSL, even >though I sent an SASE to the address he gave me. >73, >Peter - KD7MW >--- >-- >Peter A. Klein (pklein@seattleu.edu) : -----==3== --- --- >Information Services, 5569 : | | | | | | | | >Seattle University : @| @| @| @| @| @| @| @| When I worked them they gave the following QSL Mgr: ROBERT A CHAMBERS NC6J 2247 W JEWETT ST SAN DIEGO, CA 92111 73's & GUD DX de KN0Z Gary in Wyoming, MN Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of 3M. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:46 1996 From: wired@genes.pl.my (Eugene Kang) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Are these modable? Message-ID: <824640258.22596snx@genes.pl.my> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 10:44:18 GMT Can any of the following be modded to have expanded tx/rx? No need to tell me where the mods are, I just need to know if they can me modified. Kenwood 22AT Standard C108/158 Yaesu FT-11R Alinco DJ100T/TH DJF1T/TH DJ G1T Icom IC-P2AT thanks! From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:48 1996 From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLB009 PRB-1 change sought Date: 15 Feb 1996 08:51:51 -0500 Message-ID: <$arlb009.1996@arrl.org> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB009 ARLB009 PRB-1 change sought ZCZC AG88 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 9 ARLB009 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 15, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB009 ARLB009 PRB-1 change sought The ARRL wants the FCC to take additional steps to compel state and local governments to make reasonable accommodation for Amateur Radio under PRB-1 and apply the least restrictive means to regulate amateur antennas and activity. In a Petition for Rulemaking filed February 7, the League calls on the FCC to amend Section 97.15(e) to say that any state or local ordinances restricting ham radio antennas to heights below 70 feet would be presumed unreasonable, unless the state or local authority could show its restrictions support a clearly defined health, safety or aesthetic objective. State and local governments also could not impose substantial application costs on amateur service licensees. The League also wants the FCC to acknowledge that it has an interest in the effective performance of Amateur Radio stations in areas regulated by deed restrictions or restrictive covenants rather than by local zoning ordinances. The League says clarifying the preemption policy (PRB-1) would help guide municipalities to enact provisions that make fair accommodation for amateurs and avoid highly divisive litigation between hams and localities. Under the suggested changes, state and local governments could apply to the Commission for a full or partial waiver of the amended rules in unusual circumstances. The FCC has not assigned a rulemaking petition (RM) number. Here is the suggested wording of Section 97.15(e) the petition requests: (1) State and local regulation of a station antenna structure must not preclude amateur service communications. Rather, it must reasonably accommodate such communications; it must constitute the minimum practicable regulation to accomplish the state or local authority's legitimate purpose; and it must not impose substantial costs on amateur service licensees. (2) Any state or local antenna restriction or regulation which, on its face or as applied, would limit amateur station antennas to heights below 70 feet is presumed unreasonable unless the promulgating authority can demonstrate that such regulation is necessary to accomplish a clearly defined, and expressly stated health, safety or aesthetic objective; that there is no less burdensome alternative to the regulation; and that the Federal interest in efficient amateur radio communications from the amateur station at issue is otherwise reasonably accommodated. (3) Any state or local authority, or other entity that wishes to maintain and enforce zoning, land use or other regulations or restrictions inconsistent with this section may apply to the Commission for a full or partial waiver of this section. Such waivers may be granted by the Commission in its sole discretion, upon a showing by the applicant that local concerns of a highly specialized or unusual nature create an overwhelming necessity for regulation inconsistent with this section. No application for waiver shall be considered unless it includes the particular regulation for which waiver is sought. Waivers granted according to this rule shall not apply to later-enacted or amended regulations by the local authority unless the Commission expressly orders otherwise. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:50 1996 From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLB010 FCC call sign update Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:58:41 -0500 Message-ID: <$arlb010.1996@arrl.org> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB010 ARLB010 FCC call sign update ZCZC AG89 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 10 ARLB010 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 15, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB010 ARLB010 FCC call sign update The following is a list of the FCC's most recently issued call signs as of February 1. District Group A Group B Group C Group D Extra Advanced Tech/Gen Novice 0 AB0AO KI0AV ++ KB0VFH 1 AA1PL KE1EA N1WOJ KB1BWP 2 AB2AA KG2FN ++ KB2WXM 3 AA3NK KE3VY N3WTW KB3BNF 4 AE4QB KT4KE ++ KF4GNF 5 AC5GK KK5WI ++ KC5SQT 6 AC6SH KQ6DN ++ KF6BGO 7 AB7OR KJ7UK ++ KC7PBF 8 AA8VV KG8VF ++ KC8CGD 9 AA9RE KG9FK ++ KB9MOU N. Mariana KH0V AH0AW KH0ER WH0ABE Guam WH2S AH2DB KH2PL WH2ANP Hawaii ++ AH6OK ++ WH6CZW Amer. Samoa AH8O AH8AH KH8CK WH8ABF Alaska ++ AL7QI ++ WL7CRO Virgin WP2V KP2CJ NP2IU WP2AIA Puerto Rico ++ ++ ++ WP4NIR ++All call signs in this group have been issued in this area. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:51 1996 From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:58:47 -0500 Message-ID: <$arlb011.1996@arrl.org> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB011 ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed ZCZC AG90 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 11 ARLB011 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 15, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB011 ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed ARRL has learned that the FCC may delay until mid-1996 the announcement of when it plans to open the first gate or gates of the vanity call sign program. A Commission spokesman says the FCC first wants to deal with remaining Petitions for Reconsideration it has received. The FCC had been expected to announce opening dates early this year. FCC vanity call sign application Form 610V is now available, but the FCC will not accept completed forms until it opens the appropriate filing gates. Prospective applicants can get the FCC Form 610V package by writing ARRL, 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111. Please include an sase. Form 610V also is available from the FCC via the Internet at http://www.fcc.gov/Forms/Form610V or ftp://ftp.fcc.gov/pub/Forms/Form610V/, or by fax at 202-418-0177. Ask for Form 006108. The FCC's Forms Distribution Center also accepts orders for Form 610V at 800-418-3676. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:52 1996 From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLP007 Propagation de KT7H Date: 16 Feb 1996 16:21:20 -0500 Message-ID: <$arlp007.1996@arrl.org> SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP007 ARLP007 Propagation de KT7H ZCZC AP28 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 7 ARLP007 From Tad Cook, KT7H Seattle, WA February 16, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP007 ARLP007 Propagation de KT7H It may be hard to believe, but solar activity has edged even lower. There have been no visible sunspots since the beginning of the month, and the sunspot number was zero every day last week. Solar flux was at or below 70 each day also. We should expect more periods of no sunspots as the current cycle bottoms out over the next year. Unfortunately the geomagnetic field has been acting up a little. The worst period was around 0900Z on February 13 when the K index was five. 160 and 80 meters are really best when the solar flux is low, but an active geomagnetic field can disturb the low bands greatly. For the DX contest this weekend, a recurring coronal hole could bring more geomagnetic disturbances. The solar flux should also edge above 70. The flux should peak at or just below the mid- seventies from February 25 through the first of March. No big geomagnetic upsets are foreseen. Sunspot Numbers for February 8 through 14 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0, with a mean of 0. 10.7 cm flux was 67.5, 70, 69.8, 70, 69.1, 68.7 and 68.9, with a mean of 69.1. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:53 1996 From: jjmartin@shore.net (JJ Martin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Boxborough in Oct. Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:36:17 GMT Message-ID: <4ge7gi$8m4@shore.shore.net> References: <4fr2na$ev4@llnews.ll.mit.edu> <4fv8rk$vi@northshore.shore.net> <4g4fqj$g3a@alterdial.UU.NET> Reply-To: jjmartin@shore.net Burt Fisher wrote: >mc@shore.net (Michael Crestohl) wrote: >> .-. .-. >> / \ .-. .-. / \ >> / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ >>-/--Michael Crestohl KH6KD/W1/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\--mc@shore.net-\ -- >> \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / >> \ / `-' `-' \ / >> `-' `-' >> >> >-- > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ >/--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / > \ / `-' `-' \ / > `-' `-' So.....What's your point Burt? > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ >/--Jim Martin WK1V---------/---\----/----\------/------\-----wk1v@hamradio.co m :-) > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ > \ / `-' `-' \ / \ > `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:55 1996 From: Roland S Geter PhD Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space,rec.radio.noncomm,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: Broadcasting Radio Station Database for you...... Date: 17 Feb 1996 07:47:44 GMT Message-ID: <4g4170$hl2@news1.goodnet.com> References: <4fme8u$bsf@news.flinet.com> To: chuck@mail.flinet.com Hi Chuck, Let's try to get the database over here on this provider, OK? Thanks Roland S Geter PhD roland@mycronet.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:55 1996 From: Amateur Radio <103615.461@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Changing Address Help Date: 15 Feb 1996 00:51:10 GMT Message-ID: <4fu01u$bho$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Can anyone tell me where to get FCC forms for changing my Amateur Radio Liense home station address? If this message is out of place in this newsgroup, please accept my apology; I'm new to the internet. Thank you - Don Stanley -- Don Stanley From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:56 1996 From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Changing Address Help Date: 15 Feb 1996 01:22:01 GMT Message-ID: <4fu1rp$9nf@cloner4.netcom.com> References: <4fu01u$bho$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> To: 103615.461@CompuServe.COM Hi Don. Go to WWW page for the FCC and you can download the needed forms. If u can't find FCC page, go to Palomar ARC page at: http://www.electriciti.com/parc the scroll down 7 buttons to FCC forms. Hope this helps. 73 Rod -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:57 1996 From: hamkb8uum@aol.com (HAMKB8UUM) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: CQ CQ CQ calling all kid HAMS Date: 18 Feb 1996 00:00:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4g6bpk$fsk@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: hamkb8uum@aol.com (HAMKB8UUM) Hello my name is Geoff KB8UUM I live in West Bloomfield, MI about 25 miles northwest of Detroit. I am 15 years old and a freshman in high school. I have a General class license and I am looking for kids world-wide to talk to on HF, packet whatever. Hope that you respond I will be looking for you. 73 all the best hope to hear from you. PSE email me at the following: HAMKB8UUM2aol.com 73, Geoff KB8UUM From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:58 1996 From: armond@delphi.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 01:31:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> What a great answer. Bravo, Gary!................................N6WR From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:10:59 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: CQ DX Message-ID: <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 05:37:07 GMT In article <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) writes: > >When I first got into ham radio I thought it was supposed to be fun. The amateur radio service is supposed to be fun the same as the Army, the Red Cross, or a University are supposed to be fun. You can have fun in any of those other organizations, but fun isn't their primary purpose, nor is it the primary purpose of the amateur radio service. Fun, and personal satisfaction, are the pay we receive for participating in the charter purposes of the service, but they are not the reason for the service's existence. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:00 1996 From: frankb2686@aol.com (FrankB2686) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: CQDL Magazine Date: 20 Feb 1996 01:20:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4gbp87$fai@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: frankb2686@aol.com (FrankB2686) Anyone have any info on how to subscribe to the German amateur radio magazine CQDL? Are there any other german amateur magazines? thanks Frank WD6AGS From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:01 1996 From: jddqc@vol.net Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,slac.rec.ham_radio,tnn.radio.amateur,uk.radio.amateur,uwarwick.societies,amateur-radio,in.ham-radio Subject: CV-157/URR SSB Converter Date: 17 Feb 1996 07:54:51 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4g41kb$3cb@vol.net> Keywords: CV-157/URR Single Sideband Converter I am trying to obtain a US Army "Depot Level" service manual for this instrume nt. The CV-157/URR is designed to work with the Collins R-390 shortwave receiver. If you have a copy to spare, or just want to make more space on your bookshelf, please reply to: Mike Hutchinson jddqc@vol.net PS: I would be pleased to pay reasonable costs From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:02 1996 From: dnorris@k7no.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 02:22:43 GMT Message-ID: <4g8fpn$4gi@news.syspac.com> References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb12.000315.24238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4ft9ig$q71@handel.seattleu.edu> pklein@news.seattleu.edu (Peter A. Klein) wrote: > >Personally, I dislike 800 Hz, which my old Icom 745 produces. So I always >set the RIT off 200 Hz when operating CW. Now that I have a Timewave >DSP-59+ and an Icom 751A, I use 650 Hz, which is close enough to the >751As sidetone that I can still hear the latter even with very narrow >filtering. FWIW, I have a FT990 and I prefer 500 Hz. BUT, speed makes a difference. I wish it was front panel selectable! C. Dean Norris, Esq. Amateur Radio Station K7NO e-mail to dnorris@k7no.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:04 1996 From: gfoley@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Gerard Foley) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: 18 Feb 1996 23:09:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4g8t5p$ejp@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> : cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com (Clay Whiffen) writes: : >What tone do you set your receiver to when digging DX out at the ESP : >level? In the discussion of this question, neither Clay Whiffen nor Gary Kaufmann has mentioned that a severely bandwidth limited noise sounds very much like a tone. This probably accounts for several posters mentioning a preference for fairly wide bandwidths as compared with narrow ones. A narrowly band limited noise with a keyed tone mixed in with it will produce the effect of a large carrier with weak modulation. I regret that I have no equipment to make a test of what my own preference in tone is. Gerry K8EF From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:05 1996 From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:52:25 GMT Message-ID: <4gak95$fg6@news1.sunbelt.net> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Kevin Schmidt wrote: >I have been told that, in the distant past, the FCC required applicants >to draw schematic diagrams of various simple circuits on amateur radio >exams. I am curious when this stopped. >Please post if you took a technician or general exam before 1966 and >did not draw schematic diagrams. It would be amusing to find >approximately when they were dropped. >Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu ========================================================== I took the General in 1951. I had to draw a few simple schematics for a few simple circuits. Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:06 1996 From: cjrobins@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com (Clair Robinson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 19 Feb 1996 14:49:34 -0600 Message-ID: <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> Jerry Flanders (flanders@znet.groupz.net) wrote: : Kevin Schmidt wrote: : >I have been told that, in the distant past, the FCC required applicants : >to draw schematic diagrams of various simple circuits on amateur radio : >exams. I am curious when this stopped. : >Please post if you took a technician or general exam before 1966 and : >did not draw schematic diagrams. It would be amusing to find : >approximately when they were dropped. : >Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu : ========================================================== : I took the General in 1951. I had to draw a few simple schematics for : a few simple circuits. : Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net I took it in 1952. Ditto. Clair, K0CJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:07 1996 From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 04:20:32 GMT Message-ID: <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Kevin Schmidt wrote: >I have been told that, in the distant past, the FCC required applicants >to draw schematic diagrams of various simple circuits on amateur radio >exams. I am curious when this stopped. >Please post if you took a technician or general exam before 1966 and >did not draw schematic diagrams. It would be amusing to find >approximately when they were dropped. >Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu ========================================================== I took the General in 1951. I had to draw a few simple schematics for a few simple circuits. Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:08 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: bs872@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Henry Ian Ross) Subject: Re: DS-1A (DC-DC converter for Kenwood) question Message-ID: Reply-To: bs872@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Henry Ian Ross) References: <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 22:21:25 GMT Ken Edwards (cnc23a@b4pph13e.bnr.ca) writes: > I have a Kenwood TS-820S that I would like to run off battery in > cases of emergency. And as a (good ?) homebrew project, I thought > I could emulate the offering from the manufacturer. Problem is, > the information in the back of the service manual is sufficently > ambigeous enough that I have a few questions. > > Is the transformer shown part of the DC-DC converter kit, or is > it the one already in the radio, with the barrier strip that already > has the matching color coded wires ? The transformer is the primary TX in the TS820S. > > The drawing shows the same connector as used for AC input, but wired > for DC, then another "power connector" thet does not appear to match > the previous which interrconnects with the barrier strip. How exactly > is the power (DC) connected into the system ? The power is supplied through the existing connector, which is re-configured for DC operation. Use a CINCH S-312-CCT connector. > > > Any other hints/explainations on this 'project' would be welcomed. I called Kenwood and they were very helpful with a FAX of the DC-DC adaptor. The kit is, however, no longer available, according to Kenwood. Scouter Ian Ross (VE3ARE) -- Scouter Ian Ross (VE3ARE) First Collins Bay Sea Venturers Kingston, Ontario From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:10 1996 From: jlkolb@sd.cts.com (John Kolb) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: DS-1A (DC-DC converter for Kenwood) question Date: 19 Feb 1996 21:27:31 GMT Message-ID: <4gaq03$3sh@news3.cts.com> References: <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> charles copeland (charles1@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca>, : Ken Edwards wrote: : >I have a Kenwood TS-820S that I would like to run off battery in : >cases of emergency. And as a (good ?) homebrew project, I thought : >I could emulate the offering from the manufacturer. Problem is, : >the information in the back of the service manual is sufficently : >ambigeous enough that I have a few questions. : > : >Is the transformer shown part of the DC-DC converter kit, or is : >it the one already in the radio, with the barrier strip that already : >has the matching color coded wires ? : > : >The drawing shows the same connector as used for AC input, but wired : >for DC, then another "power connector" thet does not appear to match : >the previous which interrconnects with the barrier strip. How exactly : >is the power (DC) connected into the system ? I've looked into this for my TS-520SE. The DC version TS-520S (or did I reverse the two names?) has an added heatsink on the back with two switching transistors, wired to a terminal strip in the rig. The power transformer is different, however. It has an added winding to serve as a low voltage primary, switched by the transistors. To convert to 12V DC in you would have to change the transformer and add the heat sink/transistors on the back. John Kolb KK6IL From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:11 1996 From: tomcar@newshost.li.net (Tom Carrubba) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: FEB 25 ARRL VE NORTH LINDENHURST,LI Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:28:29 GMT Message-ID: <4fvfud$ee8@linet06.li.net> FEB. 25 ARRL VE NORTH LINDENHURST,LI From: KA2RGI@KA2RGI.#NLI.NY.USA.NA To : EXAM@NLIBBS The Great South Bay ARC hosts ARRL amateur radio exams every 4th Sunday at 12 noon. Exams are given from Novice to Extra class. All exams are ARRL/VEC, CW exams are multiple choice w/ full headphones. The examination site is in the ARES/RACES room located in the basement. Access is at the rear of the building via stairs. Ring RED (TOP) buzzer for entry. Location: Babylon Town Hall Emergency Operations Center 200 E. Sunrise Hwy. North Lindenhurst, NY Talk in : 146.685/r 136.5pl Please bring the following: - Photocopy and original of current Amateur Radio License if licensed. - Photocopy and original of CSCE(s) that are current. - two forms of ID, at least one photo ID. - pens or pencils. - Calculator for math problems on exams, no pocket computers are allowed. - 1996 Exam fee is $6.05, please bring exact change. * Novice exams (elements 1A & 2) are free. For addition information you may contact: Tom Carrubba KA2DFO (516) 422-9684 or 422-9594 Walter Wenzel KA2RGI (516) 957-0218 -- ============================================================================ Tom Carrubba "To err is human, but to really foul N. Babylon, NY things up requires a computer......" KA2DFO packet radio| ka2dfo@kc2fd.ny.usa.na ============================================================================ From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:11 1996 From: ab@PEAK.ORG (Dean Youngquist) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur,rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.swap,cor.forsale,or.forsale Subject: Free QST magazines. Date: 20 Feb 1996 17:59:41 GMT Message-ID: <4gd26d$ekm@odo.PEAK.ORG> I would like to give away a couple years of old QST magazines. Covers 1979 to 1981 aprox. Free if you are local, otherwise pay shipping by UPS or US Mail book rate. While I'm here I'd like to mention that I'm looking for a low end HF trancsceiver with receive capability from .5 MHz to 30 MHz so it can double as my short wave receiver. -N7LPE Dean Youngquist at Memory Conversion Products, ab@peak.org 428 N.W. 9th Street, Corvallis, Oregon 97330-6133 tel: 541 754-4904, fax: 541 758-5331, secondary fax: 541 758-5288 From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:13 1996 From: Mike Obermeier Newsgroups: rec.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: FT-8500 Need Mods Date: 15 Feb 1996 04:56:45 GMT Message-ID: <4fueef$hke@news.htp.com> References: <4fov69$l98@news.ios.com> To: rod@venus.hili.com The mod is easy. This will give you 137-174mhz and 410-470mhz Tx/Rx. 1. disconnect power and antenna (like, you would'nt of done it already.) 2. open up the case by removing the screws and gently removing the cover and unpluging the speaker. 3. locate and CUT the GREEN WIRE on the CONTROL BOARD ( the vertical board beh ind the control panel. 4. reassemble the radio. 5. RESET THE MICROPROCESSOR (so much for the memory!) (press and hold [D/M] & [REV] & [ENT] & turn the power on (got enough finge rs?). (turn off the radio). (press and hold [SCAN] & [HOME] & turn on the radio (extended RX mod). Tha, Tha, Tha, That's All Folks! From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:16 1996 From: knappsm@crablegs.cig.mot.com (Steven M Knapp) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: FT10 Problem Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:10:21 GMT Message-ID: <4ftq4t$6a2@newdelph.cig.mot.com> References: <4f9c6b$121$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> MEME <76535.2442@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >If you have a Yaesu FT10 with CTCSS, there may be a problem. >Try this and see if you think so too: > >1. Go near a source of square waves. A PC will do, or maybe even your car. >2. Tune around the 2m band until you get some hash (the stronger the better). >3. Set the squelch level to "0". >4. Enable TSQ., and the audio will quiet down. >5. Now wait and see if hash breaks through the TSQ. (in bursts) >6. If not, try scrolling through the different TSQ freqs and >you'll most likely hear it. If not, try using another receive freq. >7. See how far you have to turn up the squelch to get it to quiet down. >(In some cases mine had to go all the way to max.) > >BTW, No other HT of ANY make or model does this that I have tried it with. >I was able to repeat this with ALL similarly equipped units in several >stores, right off the shelf. According to Yaesu, the engineers in JY-land >are now working on this, and hope to find a solution soon. >So unless the hash breaks through TSQ on one of YOUR favorite freqs, it may >not bother you, but it sure does me! I thought my FT40 stoped doing this when I exit the squelch setting. I thought it was just for my convience in setting the squelch that is was giving me some static. Now I played with it and noticed that mine does this no matter what, even without the hash, if I turn the squelch down I get the noise in bursts as you describe. Any word on fixes? Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven M. Knapp Motorola Inc, CIG 1501 W Shure Dr. IL27-3227AR Mail: knappsm@cig.mot.com Arlington Heights, IL 60004 USA From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:17 1996 From: acopac@hope.netwizards.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Grid Map Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 19:45:52 GMT Message-ID: <4g7vku$p38@news.wco.com> References: If you know the longitude and latitude of the road location you can figure out the grid locator - The ARRL World Grid Locator gives the description and also a BASIC program for calculation. A good USGS map may help though the road name may not be there. Also I haven't tried out any of the US Map programs but they may work... Noland WB6CKT sco@sco-inc.com wrote: >Anyone know of a grid map program for the computer that will show you where >the grid borders are in relation to roads in a state? >KE4IKT@sco-inc.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:18 1996 From: sco@sco-inc.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Grid Map Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:01:26 -0400 Message-ID: Anyone know of a grid map program for the computer that will show you where the grid borders are in relation to roads in a state? KE4IKT@sco-inc.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:18 1996 From: Thomas Anderson Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Re: Ham Radio & More Show goes LIVE on WWCR Date: 17 Feb 1996 04:04:30 GMT Message-ID: <4g3k4e$ovr@shiva.usa.net> References: <4fvt1p$gi7@globe.indirect.com> Len, I think you got a hell of a fine show. I just got on the Internet, and just wanted to tell you what a pleasant surprise it is to see you here! From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:20 1996 From: Thomas Anderson Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Re: Ham Radio & More Show goes LIVE on WWCR Date: 17 Feb 1996 20:26:21 GMT Message-ID: <4g5dld$lf4@shiva.usa.net> References: <4fvt1p$gi7@globe.indirect.com> <4g4fvb$g3a@alterdial.UU.NET> Burt Fisher wrote: >lenwink@indirect.com (Len Winkler) wrote: >>On Sunday, February 25, 1996, The Ham Radio & More Show will be LIVE on WWCR >>shortwave, 7.435, at 6:00pm et (2300utc) in addition to the other 2 tape >>delayed times as it has been for the past 6 months or so. > > >I am so excited I will pee in my pants. > > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ >/--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / > \ / `-' `-' \ / > `-' `-' Burt, I've only been on the Internet for a couple of days now, but I have to say that a quick review of your recent articles reveals a distiinct lack of etiquette. Why are you so darned bitter? Did you lose your job or your wife or something? I think there is nothing wrong with you that a weekend of contesting or maybe helping out a neighbor to install some radio equipment wouldn't cure. Hell, you're as bitter as Pat Buchanan! Maybe you oughta run for President. Then again, maybe you oughta just go to church and get an attitude adjustment. God bless you, Burt; you certainly need it! From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:21 1996 From: buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Ham radio questions Date: 15 Feb 1996 21:46:00 GMT Message-ID: <4g09io$dn5@tribune.usask.ca> References: <4fuarh$t9a@axe.netdoor.com> I am not very familiar with ham in the United States but in Canada I would guess that many beginners take the basic exam and get on 2 meters (144-148 Mz) This gives them a taste of ham radio without requiring them to learn Morse Code. Then if they want to get more involved they can take the more advanced licence exams. Probably your best bet to start off with is the book "The Radio Amateurs Handbook" published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Most likely your local library will have a copy (although it may not be the most current edition). It will give you a good description of what ham radio involves. 73 de VE5RDV Brian. John Wever (jwever@netdoor.com) wrote: : I have always heard about ham radio, and I am very interested in : becoming an operator. Could you please tell me what kind of equipment : is needed for a beginner? And how I can become an operator... and any : information you can give to a potintal ham radio operator. : Thanks, : John Wever : jwever@netdoor.com -- Brian Buydens There was a young poet named Dan, Department of Computing Services Whose poetry never would scan. University of Saskatchewan When told this was so, email: Brian.Buydens@usask.ca He said, "Yes, I know. VE5RDV From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:22 1996 From: jwever@netdoor.com (John Wever) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham radio questions Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 03:52:40 GMT Message-ID: <4fuarh$t9a@axe.netdoor.com> I have always heard about ham radio, and I am very interested in becoming an operator. Could you please tell me what kind of equipment is needed for a beginner? And how I can become an operator... and any information you can give to a potintal ham radio operator. Thanks, John Wever jwever@netdoor.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:24 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: mack@ncifcrf.gov (Joe Mack) Subject: Re: Ham radio questions Message-ID: References: <4fuarh$t9a@axe.netdoor.com> <1996Feb15.160117.12366@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:51:14 GMT In article <1996Feb15.160117.12366@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes: >In article <4fuarh$t9a@axe.netdoor.com> jwever@netdoor.com (John Wever) write s: >> >>I have always heard about ham radio, and I am very interested in >>becoming an operator. Could you please tell me what kind of equipment >>is needed for a beginner? And how I can become an operator... and any >>information you can give to a potintal ham radio operator. > John, try http://www.arrl.org/ The American Radio Relay League is the main umbrella organisation for hams in the US. Call them in CT (203)-666-1541 and find one of the local clubs to your liking (different clubs have different orientations, from techical to public service to just social clubs for chewing the fat). You can start doing things with them and get help from them. Pretty soon you'll be doing it with them. Joe NA3T From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:25 1996 From: Stephan M. Anderman Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 18:45:45 -0500 Message-ID: The League is petitioning FCC to codify a more stiffly worded version of PRB-1 into the Amateur Service Rules (Part 97). This could be a great day for amateur radio if the Commission follows through with assigning an RM number, and ultimately adopting this in some form. The ARRL and FCC have both expressed an interest in shoring-up PRB-1 to the benefit of amateurs. It now seems that the timing may be right for this League initiative. Hope this generates some discussion. I'm sure ARRL will be forthcoming with more information as it becomes available. Sounds like it's a petition that deserves everyone's support, even if you may not be a fan of Newington. It's something that will benefit all of amateur radio.... - 73 de Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB Stillwater, NY sanderman@delphi.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:25 1996 Message-ID: <505485@280.chatlink.com> From: Ham_Operator@sys280.chatlink.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Date: 16 Feb 1996 21:28:07 PST Subject: Re: help Thanks. I heard the call of a friend of mine being used several times in one day. Myself and several others demanded the one using his call have the ham get on the radio and identify himself letting us know he was in fact there. But my friend never got on. Couple days later he said he was in fact there, but was unable to say anything on air cause of larangitis. Way I see it, the guy using his call could have at least told us the situation, that way we wouldn't have gotten so concerned. Thanks for your help. I do need to get a copy of the rule though, just for safety messure. N1UST From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:26 1996 From: Vance Campbell Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Help to operate in Japan.. seeking advise References: <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit> <4fqiut$sf2@news.aros.net> Message-ID: <312521fb.0@news.provo.novell.com> Date: 17 Feb 96 00:31:55 GMT It has been almost 20 years since I got a temporary permit to operate in Japan, but I think you will have to find a club and get them to sponser you... Good Luck... WA7ROI From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:27 1996 From: inon@innet.be Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Help to operate in Japan.. seeking advise Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:21:47 GMT Message-ID: <4gd70b$6du@news.be.innet.net> References: <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit> <4fqiut$sf2@news.aros.net> mfp@aros.net (KB7YJJ) wrote: > > In article <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit>, desaid@marshall.edu says... > > > >Hello to everyone: > > > >I just got a word that I will be travelling to Japan. I will be > >staying in Japan for seven months. I would like to know how ot > >get the operating privileges at Japan. I have advance class > >license here. I would appreciate if someone give me some > >suggestions or point me in right direction. > > > >Thank you very much. > > > >73 > >Dinakar KG8OE > >desaid@marshall.edu > > > > Learn Nihongo very fast!!! :) > From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:28 1996 From: inon@innet.be Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Help to operate in Japan.. seeking advise Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:21:40 GMT Message-ID: <4gd704$6ba@news.be.innet.net> References: <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit> <4fqiut$sf2@news.aros.net> mfp@aros.net (KB7YJJ) wrote: > > In article <1996Jan30.111438.1145@hobbit>, desaid@marshall.edu says... > > > >Hello to everyone: > > > >I just got a word that I will be travelling to Japan. I will be > >staying in Japan for seven months. I would like to know how ot > >get the operating privileges at Japan. I have advance class > >license here. I would appreciate if someone give me some > >suggestions or point me in right direction. > > > >Thank you very much. > > > >73 > >Dinakar KG8OE > >desaid@marshall.edu > > > > Learn Nihongo very fast!!! :) > From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:29 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: leduc@atla3.agfa.com (Dave Leduc) Subject: Help with CQ-CONTEST reflector Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:09:33 GMT I have been trying to post the the CQ Contest reflector and my message keeps getting rejected. Can anyone help? I am a subscriber to the reflector. I have been sending the messages to "CQ-CONTEST@TGV.COM" as described in the instructions I received when I first subscribed. I have tried various combinations of upper and lower case characters. Any assistance would be appreciated! Dave AA1HJ (leduc@atla3.agfa.com) From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:30 1996 From: motuiti@aol.com (Motu Iti) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: How do I find........ Date: 16 Feb 1996 17:57:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4g325m$6pn@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: motuiti@aol.com (Motu Iti) Now that I got all the facts, How does one find out who is (are) the testing volunteers for my area (Sarasota Fl). Oh one last ques; Assume I pass, how long does it take to get my license? thanks for any replys Sandy From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:31 1996 From: Siegfried Rambaum Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: How do I find........ Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:20:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4g325m$6pn@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Call 1-800-32N-EWHAM ... they will send you a list On 16 Feb 1996, Motu Iti wrote: > Now that I got all the facts, How does one find out who is (are) the > testing volunteers for my area (Sarasota Fl). > > Oh one last ques; Assume I pass, how long does it take to get my license? From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:32 1996 From: gfoley@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Gerard Foley) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: HT's on cruise ships? Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:48:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> References: <1996Feb10.211828.1830@lafn.org> Abraham Stavsky (ag001@lafn.org) wrote: : A friend is embarking on a 3-week Mediterranean cruise and wants : to know whether to pack his 2m/440 HT. Anyone know what the regus : would be I mean regs...? Since one is on the "open sea" in int'l : waters, what rules would apply? : Thanks very much. : KE6OCM : -- Most opportunities to make VHF-UHF contacts are actually in port or within 12-mile limits, so that usually the laws of the country you are close to would apply. I have had a number of contacts in Puerto Rico and the U.S.Virgin Islands from shipboard and have never felt I was violating anybody's laws. Actually at sea, the comments of others about ship's registry no doubt apply. I have refrained in non-U.S. waters. There are, as far as I know, no U.S.waters in the Mediterranean, so you will have to consider Gibraltar, Spain, France, Italy..... etc. Gerry K8EF From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:33 1996 From: Siegfried Rambaum Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: HT's on cruise ships? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:11:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1996Feb10.211828.1830@lafn.org> <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> > Abraham Stavsky (ag001@lafn.org) wrote: > > : A friend is embarking on a 3-week Mediterranean cruise and wants > : to know whether to pack his 2m/440 HT. Anyone know what the regus > : would be I mean regs...? Since one is on the "open sea" in int'l > : waters, what rules would apply? In international waters, the rules of that country apply, where the boat is registered. In territorial waters, the rules of the appropriate country will apply. Within Europe however, you just need one reciprocal license, and I guess either Austria or Germany are the swiftest to obtain one. I dont recall what these licenses are called, but since the early eighties, for example, you can go with a German lic into most other European countries without having to apply for some reciprocal license, you just add the appropriate lic-class-country-prefix with a / to your call, and that's it. Check with some European hams in a QSO. Siegfried From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:34 1996 From: Joel.Weiner@ualberta.ca (Joel Weiner) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: HyGain 18AVT Info Needed Date: 17 Feb 1996 19:07:56 GMT Message-ID: I ma looking for the manual for the HyGain 18AVT 80-10M vertical. Particularly need the page with the measurements. If you can help please reply to joel.weiner@ualberta.ca or fax to 403-492-0886 (I'll reimburse the call) Many Thanks Joel Weiner VE6WQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:35 1996 From: William Vaughn Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: Ignition noise reduction Date: 18 Feb 1996 01:35:18 GMT Message-ID: <4g5vom$oab@olympus.net> References: <4g0j7q$3nu@news.esslink.com> <312615FA.523@halcyon.com> Paulc, You did not mention the age or type of vehicle. These are important factors since different models manifest there noise in different ways. One of the biggest problems in vehicles and boats are the alternators. A good preventitive maintenance item is to take your vehicle to an electrical shop and have them rebuild it. If that doesn't work then you might need an alternator filter. The marine types work best don't waste your money on the radio shack units. Install the filter as close to the output of the alternator as possible. The caps across all small motors and the bonding of body panels works good too. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:36 1996 From: "Gary P. Fiber" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: Ignition noise reduction Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:52:58 -0800 Message-ID: <312615FA.523@halcyon.com> References: <4g0j7q$3nu@news.esslink.com> Paul A. Cianciolo wrote: > > Hello all > > Has anyone ever done any work to quiet down the ignition system (spark > impulse noise) in a gasoline powered vehicle?? I wonder if one could > use large ferrite beads to choke off the spectrum of the spark from > radiating off the wire at the frequencies of interest. 1 mhz and > above? I have done a lot of grounding , and am using resistor plugs > and wires.. Are there any shielded wire kits out there? > > PaulC > "Noisy in Connecticut" I bonded my entire vehicle a few years back. The interference from ignition dropped from S-9 to S-2. Follow thw suggestions in the Radio Amateurs Handbook for mobile installiations. Most police vehicles use the same type of body panel bonding where all of the panels are connected with braid. it does work quite well. Also you might want to install some 0.01 uf disc ceramic caps across the heater motor leads and wiper motor leads. This helped quiet them down too. Gary From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:37 1996 From: paulc@esslink.com (Paul A. Cianciolo) Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Ignition noise reduction Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:10:13 GMT Message-ID: <4g0j7q$3nu@news.esslink.com> Hello all Has anyone ever done any work to quiet down the ignition system (spark impulse noise) in a gasoline powered vehicle?? I wonder if one could use large ferrite beads to choke off the spectrum of the spark from radiating off the wire at the frequencies of interest. 1 mhz and above? I have done a lot of grounding , and am using resistor plugs and wires.. Are there any shielded wire kits out there? PaulC "Noisy in Connecticut" From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:38 1996 From: Siegfried Rambaum Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Re: Ignition noise reduction Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:16:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4g0j7q$3nu@news.esslink.com> In our county, I have seen some stickers "NEED HELP - CALL YOUR SHERIFF". This might seem a bit farfetched for your problem, but think of it. Those guys drive in cars, and they are radio equipped. Just call your local office and ask your way through to the guy in charge for maintaining the cars. That guy should know all the tricks about grounding. And chances are, it might be a ham, too :) At least, it wont hurt to try it that way. On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Paul A. Cianciolo wrote: > Hello all > > Has anyone ever done any work to quiet down the ignition system (spark > impulse noise) in a gasoline powered vehicle?? I wonder if one could > use large ferrite beads to choke off the spectrum of the spark from > radiating off the wire at the frequencies of interest. 1 mhz and > above? I have done a lot of grounding , and am using resistor plugs > and wires.. Are there any shielded wire kits out there? From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:39 1996 From: BILLKB4R1W@aol.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Info-Hams Digest V96 #143 Date: 19 Feb 96 01:46:27 GMT Message-ID: <960218204627_425822548@emout07.mail.aol.com> UNSUBSCRIBE INFO-HAM From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:40 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 18 Feb 1996 23:09:35 GMT Message-ID: <4g8bjf$pj3@cc.iu.net> References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com>, rwilson@neca.com writes: >bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) wrote: >>I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur >>bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very >>unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. >>I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS >>or Windows. Thanks in advance. > >It DOES tend to suck being a ham and living in an apartment. >I've been licensed since '84 and have lived in apartments or >townhouses for all those years. i tend to agree. this is one area where amateur radio clubs with club stations can help out. a group of people set up 1 station where it can be made decent and everyone sh ares. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:41 1996 From: Victor Morange Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 05:57:52 +0000 Message-ID: <3126BFE0.1262@cts.com> References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> Brent Volden wrote: > > I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur > bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very > unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. > I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS > or Windows. Thanks in advance. > > Brent For one thing you need a license before you can "HAM brodcast." And another you don't broadcast in amateur radio. -- Victor Morange victorm@cts.com KO6ZK http://users.aol.com/victorm673/ From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:42 1996 From: rwilson@neca.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 15 Feb 1996 12:32:40 GMT Message-ID: <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com> References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) wrote: >I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur >bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very >unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. >I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS >or Windows. Thanks in advance. It DOES tend to suck being a ham and living in an apartment. I've been licensed since '84 and have lived in apartments or townhouses for all those years. Running HF *can* be done, but not too well. I was in an apartment which was below the ground level. I have a Uniden 2510 10m mobile. I had it hooked up to a power supply and a 4ft mag-mount CB antenna indoors. I talked to a guy here on the east coast. I was back in Kansas City at the time. So, it CAN be done, but don't expect too much. As for 2m, you should have no problem there if there are repeaters close by. I ran with an HT on telescoping antennas and mag-mounts indoors a lot. :) From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:43 1996 From: jaminge@pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com (John Minger) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 19 Feb 1996 18:48:05 GMT Message-ID: <4gagl5$mpb@gw.PacBell.COM> References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> <3126BFE0.1262@cts.com> In article <3126BFE0.1262@cts.com>, Victor Morange wrote: >Brent Volden wrote: >> >> I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur >> bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very >> unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. >> I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS >> or Windows. Thanks in advance. >> >> Brent > >For one thing you need a license before you can "HAM brodcast." And another >you don't broadcast in amateur radio. Brent, You will be happy to hear that there are lots of hams out there who will be forthcoming with good suggestions, and will help you with your license studies and equipment needs. You can probably reach a local VHF or UHF repeater from your apartment with no trouble. There are some neat "stealth" antenna designs out there, too. If you wish to talk around the world in the HF ham bands, you may find the apartment more of a problem. Don't get discouraged until you talk to the locals and find out what is possible for you. You can find ham radio clubs and interest groups through your local ham equipment stores, or through the ARRL. Getting scolded about the difference between broadcasting and transmitting is mostly something that happens on the internet, not on the ham bands. Good Luck, and 73 -John -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio: KE6DTC, packet bbs: KE6DTC@K6VE.#SOCA.CA.USA.NOAM John Minger Opinions the are author's own -------------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:45 1996 From: John Lloyd KE4UTX Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 19 Feb 1996 20:31:36 GMT Message-ID: <4gamn8$1dtk@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> <3126BFE0.1262@cts.com> <4gagl5$mpb@gw.PacBell.COM> Not quite the answer to your question, but I live in an apartment and operate HF almost every weekend. I installed my rig in my pickup and drive to a nearby park and operate from there. I find the noise level is much lower in parks than apartment complexes and I don't cause TVI. I have worked from JA to 9K2 in the passed 6 months. -- John Lloyd Email - jlloyd@raleigh.ibm.com Phone - 919-254-8021 Radio - --... ...-- -.. . -.- . ....- ..- - -..- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:47 1996 From: gray@news.humberc.on.ca (Kelly Gray) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 19 Feb 1996 21:29:32 GMT Message-ID: <4gaq3s$b66@dns.humberc.on.ca> References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com> <4g8bjf$pj3@cc.iu.net> Bill Newkirk (wnewkirk@iu.net) wrote: : In <4fv958$c6o@taurus.neca.com>, rwilson@neca.com writes: : >bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) wrote: : >>I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur : >>bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very : >>unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. : >>I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS : >>or Windows. Thanks in advance. : > : >It DOES tend to suck being a ham and living in an apartment. : >I've been licensed since '84 and have lived in apartments or : >townhouses for all those years. : i tend to agree. : this is one area where amateur radio clubs with club stations can help out. : a group of people set up 1 station where it can be made decent and everyone shares. One other thing to look into is what bands you want to operate in. I live in an apartment too, and one without a balcony at that. For the 2m band, the antenna that I use most consists of a square loop of wire held to the window with suction cups. It's not the greatest of gain antennas, but being 150 feet in the air makes up for a lot of shortcomings. The short feedline helps too, it isn't everybody that can have the shack up at the top of the "tower" :-) True, HF work is a a bit of a pain from an apartment, but if you're interested in anything from VHF to microwaves, an apartment may well be better than any house way down on the ground. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:48 1996 From: mulveyr@ll.aa2ys.ampr.org (Rich Mulvey) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is it feasible to HAM broadcast out of an apartment? Date: 20 Feb 1996 02:55:24 GMT Message-ID: References: <4fulf1$se7@ionews.ionet.net> <3126BFE0.1262@cts.com> Reply-To: mulveyr@vivanet.com On Sun, 18 Feb 1996 05:57:52 +0000, Victor Morange wrote: >Brent Volden wrote: >> >> I wasn't sure how much of an antenna one needs to transmit on amateur >> bands. I live in an apartment and wondered if that made it very >> unlikely for me to be able to enjoy the hobby of amateur radio. >> I would also be interested in a shareware code practice program for DOS >> or Windows. Thanks in advance. >> >For one thing you need a license before you can "HAM brodcast." And another >you don't broadcast in amateur radio. What Victor is trying to say is that amateur radio operators aren't allowed to "broadcast" to the general public. There are, however, amateur radio stations that broadcast to amateur radio operators, about subjects relating to amateur radio although it's generally frowned upon when done by private individuals. As for living in an apartment - it depends on how creative you are. :-) I lived in a townhouse for two years in which I used "invisible" antennas strung up along the roofline, and never ran more than 5 watts. ( Which is generally considered to be very low power ). I still managed to have contacts with nearly all 50 states, and quite a few European countries, on the HF bands. If you're interested in VHF and higher, which generally provides you with local contacts using voice, Morse code, and packet ( computer-to- computer ) communications, antennas are MUCH smaller, and therefore easier to deal with. Try contacting the American Radio Relay League in Newington, CT. They have all sorts of free information on how to get an amateur licence. Additionally, they sell at least one book describing "low-profile" communications for people who are living in apartments/etc. - Rich --- Rich Mulvey, aa2ys Rochester, NY USA mulveyr@vivanet.com aa2ys@net.wb2psi.ampr.org aa2ys@wb2psi.#wny.ny.us From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:49 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net (Geert Jan de Groot) Subject: Re: Is the C108/158 modable? Message-ID: References: <4g21cd$gs0@jaring.my> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 16:20:51 GMT Eugene Kang writes: >Is the Standard C108/158 modable? How much do they cost in >London? You need to ask. Standard also makes J-mark radios which you can't mod; this is not easy to see so ask before you buy. Standard isn't sold much in Europe; their marketing strategies suck IMHO. The other four have much more market share. Looking at the advertizements in RadCom, I think you may find that London prices are expensive. What I would do is buy one on the USA. If you are looking for an 108, consider the 508 instead. HRO is very friendly to remote sales; ask for Barry Onigman ; he helped me several times in the past. 73, Geert Jan From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:50 1996 From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Date: 15 Feb 1996 13:53:07 GMT Message-ID: <4fvds3$mqs@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4eo0rk$q4c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> <823252302snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> <4f8d5t$4gu@nbdchc4.bnr.ca> <1996Feb15.085752.1@leif> jcraig@kean.ucs.mun.ca wrote: >In article <4f8d5t$4gu@nbdchc4.bnr.ca>, Graham Craddock writes: >> Mike Gathergood wrote: >>>In article <4eroaq$qi1@jupiter.planet.net> >>> adell@planet.net "KF2TI - Steve" writes: >>> >>>> I was under the impression amateur radio equipment had to be type accepte d >>>> by the FCC??? Is the following statements correct??? >>> >>>Only for VHF and above. >>> >>>73 >>>Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * >>>G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * >> And only in the U.S.of A. :) >> >> Graham >> >> VE3GCX/VE2NTC >> >In Canada too... If you don't hold an advanced certificate, your >transmitters and amplifiers must be commercially manufactured, even >if you have a CW endorsement. > > >Joe VO1NA I believe that you are equating "commercially manufactured" with type approval , which is not true at all ... In the case of type approval, the regulartory ag ency sets standards as to the capabilities (frequency stability, purity of output s ignal, etc.) and equipment sold must meet that specification. Amateur equipment, in Canada, is not type approved at all because there is no specification that mus t be met by any amateur equipment prior to its sale or eligility for licensing. 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:51 1996 From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Is this correct?? was: No Code = No Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:25:11 GMT Message-ID: <4fvtq7$19i$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> References: <1996Feb15.085752.1@leif> >In Canada too... If you don't hold an advanced certificate, >your transmitters and amplifiers must be commercially >manufactured...... BUMMER! Bet there are some very active QCAO chapters up there . 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --"Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Corners Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus?" -Quote from AC6V- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:52 1996 Message-ID: <034305Z21021996@anon.penet.fi> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: an142028@anon.penet.fi (sorbie) Reply-To: an142028@anon.penet.fi Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 03:33:18 UTC Subject: Jack, WB3U - please e-mail me Jack, please e-mail me at your convenience - I've lost your e-mail address. Reply to me at pbock@melpar.esys.com. 73, Paul, K4MSG --****ATTENTION****--****ATTENTION****--****ATTENTION****--***ATTENTION*** Your e-mail reply to this message WILL be *automatically* ANONYMIZED. Please, report inappropriate use to abuse@anon.penet.fi For information (incl. non-anon reply) write to help@anon.penet.fi If you have any problems, address them to admin@anon.penet.fi From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:53 1996 From: jmd@pe.net (Jeff DeMarco) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Kenwood TH22 Mods? Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 22:44:14 GMT Message-ID: <4g0cvv$gfk@nfs1.pe.net> Looking for the mod to open up the transmit on the TH22. Thanks! Jeff DeMarco WB6KUW ************************************************* Jeff DeMarco WB6KUW Riverside, CA jmd@pe.net http://www.pe.net/~jmd "I am not a number, I am an alphanumeric string!" From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:54 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.ham-radio.swap From: ve7zzx@wimsey.com (Claude Leduc) Subject: Kenwood TS-60S 6 Meter 100 Watt all-mode mobile Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:51:08 GMT For Sale Kenwood TS-60S 6 Meter 100 Watt all-mode mobile Brand New, in box, with all papers etc. $1000 CDN $ 725 US Price is Firm -- Claude Leduc VE7ZZX CN89os ve7zzx@wimsey.com Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada Mountain DX Club - "To boldy VHF where no ham has VHFed before" Coming up Summer '96 DX-pedition to rare grid CO80, on 6M, 2M & 70cm From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:55 1996 From: Dennis Doonan Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: LaPorte, IN Hamfest -- info needed Date: 19 Feb 1996 17:44:17 GMT Message-ID: <4gacth$n4e@ns.oar.net> Can any one supply information on the Mid-Winter "Cabin Fever" Hamfest located in LaPorte, IN on February 24? Specifically, I'm looking for direction and a talk-in frequency. I'm also interested to hear comments about this one. I have the address for the LaPorte ARC, but there will not be enough time to get an SASE there and back by the weekend. Thanks to all. 73 de KG9DO, Dennis doonan@cordmc.dnet.etn.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:56 1996 From: Gerry Feid Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: LATEST HAM WEB SITES Date: 17 Feb 1996 21:55:28 GMT Message-ID: <4g5isg$9be@news.ecn.bgu.edu> References: <4g1un4$qbs@ionews.ionet.net> New WebSite at URL: http://www.ecnet.net/users/ugfeid/sarc.shtml A -lot- of stuff and growing daily. Gerry From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:56 1996 From: randall518@aol.com (Randall518) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Lets open 10 ! Date: 15 Feb 1996 07:14:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4fv83c$p94@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4ft314$nqd@chnews.ch.intel.com> Reply-To: randall518@aol.com (Randall518) Just announce a contest, it will open then :) Randy N2VQD From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:58 1996 From: wb6siv@cyberg8t.com (Raymond Sarrio) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: List Ham Classified ads FREE-->http://www.csz.com/sarrio.html Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:56:04 -0800 Message-ID: The Raymond Sarrio CompanyΉs Ham Radio WWW site is proud to announce a FREE Ham Radio classified advertising page at http://www.csz.com/sarrio.html. This new classified page will allow Hams to find equipement with the help of a search engine--no need to scroll through 100Ήs of listing before you find that special piece of gear. Plus, when you find the gear you'er interested in, you are also provided with easy point-and-click e-mail access, directly to the Ham that listed the item. For those Hams with gear to sell, take note! there is NO charge to list your equipment within Ham Classifieds, and there will be no posting time delays. Your posting(s) will go on-line, in our classified search engine, in about 1 hour. All you need do is fill out a simple forms page, and upon its (point-and-click) submission your ³For Sale² classified is immediately on-line. I will be purging the classified listings initially, about once every month, but that timeline will shorten as our classified numbers grow. 73Ήs, Ray -- Visit the Raymond Sarrio Co. Ham Radio Web site http://www.csz.com/sarrio.htm l Extensive discount Catalog, New Cool Links Page Ham Poll--New poll questions asked monthly From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:11:59 1996 From: dxtreme@ix.netcom.com (Bob Raymond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: LOGGING SOFTWARE Date: 17 Feb 1996 17:12:22 GMT Message-ID: <4g529m$iuq@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: In article , dasosnin@emi.net (David Sosnin) says: > >Can anyone tell me some GOOD logging software that I can use for my >Ham Radio Log? I can use either Windows based or DOS based. If you >could tell me where to find it and a little bit about it would be >great. > >Thanks > >N4TTN > > Hi David, You might want to look at my DXtreme Amateur Radio Station Log System V2.0. It runs in DOS on a 386DX or better machine with a VGA or better monitor. Designed for HF DXers, DXtreme lets you enter your contacts and track the DXCC performance of your station. It features attractive, easy-to-use screens, and a full range of inquiries and reports. A Demo version of DXtreme is available, free over the Internet or for a nominal charge via regular mail. To obtain the Internet Demo version of DXtreme, access the DXtreme Home Page, at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1702/ If you decide to order, feel free to take $10 off the price, which makes it available for $19.95. Thanks and 73, Bob Raymond, NE1I dxtreme@ix.netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:01 1996 From: Roland S Geter PhD Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: LOGGING SOFTWARE Date: 17 Feb 1996 07:36:26 GMT Message-ID: <4g40hq$gsl@news1.goodnet.com> References: To: dasosnin@emi.net There are really two software packages that I use and find very fantastic. KENTROL is a really great transceiver controlling software package that currently does not have logging but will presently. Get it at brian@synapse.net. LOGICW is my other favorite that has both routine logging for awards and very sophisticated contest logging software. If connected to various transceivers thru computer port you don't even have to enter the start or end time of QSO, frequency, mode, ect. It even has a CD-ROM interface for only $48 that automatically looks up the callsign and enter the contacts name, address, etc. subsequently automatically printing QSL cards. Really to much to mention here. Get if from pda@hosenose.com. Both packages are WINDOWS platform and as I have used them for uit a while with the LOGICW being my favorite because Ihave KENWOOD TS-940S & TS-440S that are included in their hardware driver lists. Most modern equipment with eomputer interfaces are supported though. Once you use the coputer controlled transceiver you will wonder how you ever got along without it even for just routine everyday non-contest logging. 73's Roland S Geter PhD - WB6LNA Internet: roland@mycronet.com Packet: WB6LNA@kc7y.az.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:02 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: Paul Moller Subject: Re: LOGGING SOFTWARE Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 07:58:16 -0600 Message-ID: <312881F8.2BEB@csg.mot.com> References: <4g40hq$gsl@news1.goodnet.com> Roland S Geter PhD wrote: > > There are really two software packages that I use and find very > fantastic. > > KENTROL is a really great transceiver controlling software package that > currently does not have logging but will presently. Get it at > brian@synapse.net. > Is there a nice windoze based radio controlling program for Yeasu? Paul_Moller@csg.mot.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:03 1996 From: Kim Horne Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles,rec.music.bluenote,rec.music.christian,rec.music.classical,rec.music.country.western,rec.music.folk,rec.music.gdead,rec.music.hip-hop,rec.music.industrial,rec.music.makers.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic,rec.music.makers.percussion,rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.misc,rec.music.phish,rec.music.progressive,rec.nude,rec.org.sca,rec.outdoors.fishing,rec.outdoors.fishing.fly,rec.pets,rec.pets.cats,rec.pets.herp,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio. Subject: Re: Make money to pay off debts or to just spend! - aaaaa1.txt [1/1] Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:04:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3125EE82.4980@visi.net> References: <312539DE.405A@midtown.net> WHY DO YOU PEOPLE CONTINUE TO REPOND TO THESE POSTS!!!!????? I see over 10 responses to this post and others like it. Especially hateful of ignorant posts. again... IF YOU IGNORE THEM THEY WILL GO AWAY, or a least the reast of us wont have to weed through a slew of responses. I've said my peace... Thank you. -- Kim http://www.visi.net/~kimbrlyh *********************************************************** "Who is General Failure... and why is he reading my drive?" *********************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:04 1996 From: dmd@wilde.oit.umass.edu (Daniel M Drucker) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc Subject: MFJ 1278 to Alinco DJ-F1T wiring? Date: 18 Feb 1996 19:01:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4g8elj$73j@wilde.oit.umass.edu> I need information on how to wire a MFJ 1278 TNC to the Alinco DJ-F1T HT. Thank you. -- [ Daniel Drucker / dmd@student.umass.edu / N2SXX ] Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:07 1996 From: rayc@tcd.net (Ray D. Congdon) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Missing Spectrum??? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 22:47:07 GMT Message-ID: References: <4gctne$94h@nntpa.cb.att.com> I may well be OTL (out to lunch) but having worked in telecom & electronics for many years I have always wondered "where's all the missing spectrum???" Check it out. Most comprehensive EM spectrum charts go from DC to abt 300 gHz, stop (BIG GAP!) then continue at 30 micrometers and on up to cosmic rays... what happens in the gap??? no sensors, no transmitters? or just none that we currently know of??? Looks, by my admittedly poor, calculations that nearly half of the EM spectrum is unaccounted for... is this where the space aliens communicate with cows etc.?;-) where P SI stuff happens |-)??? Anybody Know (or care?) can the FCC sell it??? ---- Ray D. Congdon N7HQK ISA-USA 5515 N. 4400 W. Cedar City, Utah 84720 From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:08 1996 From: narc@pacifier.com () Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: MODS for alinco 6mtr?? Date: 19 Feb 1996 02:31:33 GMT Message-ID: <4g8ne5$d0e@news.pacifier.com> Does anybody have the mods for the alinco 6mtr mobile rig????? From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:09 1996 From: ke4ay@ix.netcom.com(Michael T. Jones) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need "Boatanchors" address Date: 18 Feb 1996 03:29:40 GMT Message-ID: <4g66f4$38r@reader2.ix.netcom.com> Can anyone help me with the address to "Boatanchors" and how to connect? E mail to KE4AY@ix.netcom.com Thanks, Terry/KE4AY From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:10 1996 From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need "Boatanchors" address Date: 18 Feb 1996 13:58:35 GMT Message-ID: <4g7bab$i4p@cloner4.netcom.com> References: <4g66f4$38r@reader2.ix.netcom.com> To: ke4ay@ix.netcom.com Hi Terry I found a WWW page for Boatanchors at: http://www.zynet.com~johnb/ Own a few myself. Great for winter shack heating! 73 Rod -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:11 1996 From: Collier_Chun@ccm.hf.intel.com (Collier Chun) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Need Handheld Doppler Ant Circuit Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 07:03:00 PST Distribution: world Message-ID: <4g26df$q1c@ornews.intel.com> References: <4g0ih1$dc2@atlas.uniserve.com> In article <4g0ih1$dc2@atlas.uniserve.com>, crawford@uniserve.com says... >I'm looking for an article on building a handheld D.F. antenna with a >small doppler circuit on the handle. This particular one looked like a >bow tie antenna on a short handle with a 9vdc battery and PCB doppler >circuit attached. I can't remeber which mag it was in, but it was a >few years old. Sounds like you want a phase-detector circuit, not a Doppler system. A Doppler system relies on the apparent motion of an antenna in a circular pattern to obtain the necessary directional information, and less than three antennas will not induce the Doppler effect with the necessary two-dimensional orientation required. My suggestion is to try to get the book on DF'ing by Moell and Curlee. *Excellent* book on DFing and a number of projects you can build. Your local ham radio store should have it--otherwise, you can mail order it from any source who sells a fair assortment of radio-related books. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:12 1996 From: crawford@uniserve.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need Handheld Doppler Ant Circuit Date: 16 Feb 1996 00:18:41 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4g0ih1$dc2@atlas.uniserve.com> Reply-To: crawford@uniserve.com Hello: It never fails, you keep a magazine for years and one day decide you should toss it out. Within seconds of the garbage man taking it away, you NEED an article from it!!! I'm looking for an article on building a handheld D.F. antenna with a small doppler circuit on the handle. This particular one looked like a bow tie antenna on a short handle with a 9vdc battery and PCB doppler circuit attached. I can't remeber which mag it was in, but it was a few years old. If you have the article or a similar circuit, can you PLEASE contact me and I'll pay for costs to get a copy. If you wish, you could fax it to me, call my voice phone number and I'll arrange for the fax to be collect. Steve Crawford, VE7IIF Ph: (604) 826-6295 Fax: (604) 826-4930 PGP Fingerprint: 31 CD 7E DA 1B E3 8A 14 E2 9B 0D D8 C5 27 23 38 Finger: crawford@uniserve.com for PGP Public Key From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:13 1996 From: markstrm@execpc.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: need mod for alinco model 180 ht and mod sites! please email Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 11:57:59 Message-ID: <4gadn6$2d9@daily-planet.execpc.com> i am looking for some amateur radio mod's sites please email if you have any thanks also looking for mods for a alinco model 180 thanks jim j.markstrom@ieee.org kb9mma From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:14 1996 From: subbustr@whidbey.net (DAVE M . SCHERTZER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: NEED MOD FOR TH-251A Date: 20 Feb 1996 01:11:08 GMT Message-ID: <4gb73c$ma0@whidbey.whidbey.com> References: <4g8u7v$mra@services.arn.net> Remove diode D416 (138-174mhz) subbustr@whidbey.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:15 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: "Jeffery M. Shelton" Subject: need mod ft1000mp Message-ID: <312B36C9.48C@holli.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:14:17 GMT need mod for yeasu ft1000mp have customer who has brought this in and wants full transmit cap. can't find mod anywhere can anybody help????? jeff at J&S ELECTRONICS e-mail= shelj@holli.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:17 1996 From: jhillird@ix.netcom.com(Jeffery Hilliard ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need repeater op. w/reverse patch on East Coast for East-West Linkup Date: 18 Feb 1996 06:43:52 GMT Message-ID: <4g6hr8$hs8@cloner3.netcom.com> To: All repeater owners on the East Coast From: Jeff Hilliard WA6IOK Ref: East - West repeater linkup on Fridays Since our repeater group recently subscribed to the Sprint "Fridays are free" we are linking to other repeaters across the country on Friday afternoons during the West coast commute. If you have a reverse patch on your system and wish to participate in this fun stuff we rarely get to do, let me know the information below. Here's the plan... On Friday afternoons at 5:00PM Pacific Time, we will place a phone call from our repeater in Granite Bay, CA to any other repeater in the country or, in another country. All we need is your reverse patch telephone number and an agreed upon time and date. The phone call is on us! Are plan is to link for 1/2 hour to one hour each Friday afternoon. If you are a control operator and have an interest in this concept, please Email me at the following address. Be sure to include; Your callsign The repeater call The reverse patch area code and phone number The approximate number of users that will participate The date you wish to start. (We will be beginning this coming Friday) Your return Email address I will send a return Email as a confirmation. Let's give it a try! We have from 5 to 20 users on any given commute here on the West Coast using our frequency. Thanks for your interest in this project. I look forward to a great time. Best Wishes and 73, Jeff Hilliard WA6IOK Granite Bay, California jhillird@ix.netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:18 1996 From: Simon Twigger Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: New WWW Amateur Exam Practice Page!! Date: 18 Feb 1996 21:20:36 GMT Message-ID: <4g8574$ls1@post.its.mcw.edu> Hi there, Having recently discovered the joys of Perl and CGI on the WWW I decided to ge t into the swing of it by coding a WWW page where one can take practice Amateur Radio Exa ms. The page is now complete and has all five examinations along with figures (including Extra ). The results are displayed question by question and then broken down by subelem ent so that you can see which areas need extra study. I am also saving the results from each examination taken so that one can get s ome idea of the relative success rate for each Exam and subelement. This may provide some inte resting information as time goes by. The page can be found at: http://www.bi ochem.mcw.edu/P ostdocs/Simon/radio/exam.html I _think_ it should all work as expected but I welcome any reports of bugs and /or suggestions! I hope this is of use to people interested in upgrading. Thanks, Simon Twigger, AA9PW/G1SNT PS: If the page is slow, or not to your liking, try Ham Exam at: http://w5ac.tamu.edu:80/ham-exam.html From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:19 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: n1ist@netcom.com (Michael L. Ardai) Subject: Re: Newsline by mailing list??? Message-ID: References: <4g6v9o$bgr@squick.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:35:46 GMT In article <4g6v9o$bgr@squick.apana.org.au> plove@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FI LE (Paul Love) writes: -From: Jason Reighard (kb8sfc@delphi.com) wrote: -: Steve_Coletti writes: -: >dmd@wilde.oit.umass.edu (Daniel M Drucker) wrote: -: >>Is there a mailing list that distributes Amateur Radio Newsline? -: >Newsline is available from the majordomo mail machine at Netcom. -: yes that parts works and I get a mail back sying I am subscribed but -: newsline never arrives in my mailbox. -Same here Jason, I've had one (1) issue this year, but I was thinking that -they must have gone broke or something ! Jason- I just checked and you were not subscribed to newsline; I have added you. Note that if anyone;s mail bounces for "User unknown", they will be automatically unsubscribed from the list. Paul- I have no plove@ on any of my lists; I can't resubscribe you because your news system is broken; have your sysadmin fix the inwes domain file. To subscribe, just send "subscribe newsline-list" to listserv@netcom.com. I also haven't seen any newslines either on my list or on rec.radio.amateur.misc for a while; maybe they are broke this time... 73, /mike Maintainer, BARC lists -- \|/ Michael L. Ardai N1IST -*- ---------------------------------- /|\ n1ist@netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:20 1996 From: drm6@psu.edu (Drew R. McGhee) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: NOAA Weather Transmitter Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:45:22 GMT Message-ID: References: <4ftgjv$qtj@news.cis.okstate.edu> Martin, Contact your closest NWS office. I guess in your case that would be Oklahoma City. Ask to speak with the Warning Coordination Meteorologist. This person should be able to provide you with the information or point you in the right direction. Drew R. McGhee, KA3EJV AEC Blair County, PA ARES From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:21 1996 From: butler@sonoma.edu (Bob Butler) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Repeater Listing Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:23:27 -0800 Message-ID: Does anyone know if on-line repeater listings exist? Although I always get the ARRL's guide, it seems to be out-of-date as soon as it's published. I'd be nice to get dynamic info off the net. Thanks, -Bob KE6EHO butler@sonoma.edu -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:22 1996 From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Repeater section added to Amateur Radio Reference Date: 18 Feb 1996 13:42:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4g7rug$r2i@panix.com> A Repeater section has been added to the Amateur Radio Reference. -- Clay Irving N2VKG Amateur Radio Reference http://www.panix.com/clay/ham/ -- Clay Irving, N2VKG : clay@panix.com : Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it http://www.panix.com/clay : to gnaw through the leather straps... From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:23 1996 From: gittensd@pinn.net (Dennis A. Gittens, Jr.) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: REQ: Training: Where to find it. Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:18:30 GMT Message-ID: <4g4rgd$464@everest.pinn.net> What's a good way for someone with engineering background (but very little radio background) to get started? Where do you find training for Amateur Radio? I've seen the training kits in Radio Shack and was wondering if they're decent packages. Any inputs? Thanks in advance . . Dennis From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:24 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: REQ: Training: Where to find it. Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:10:11 GMT Message-ID: <4g5jo3$4oa@cc.iu.net> References: <4g4rgd$464@everest.pinn.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4g4rgd$464@everest.pinn.net>, gittensd@pinn.net (Dennis A. Gittens, Jr.) w rites: >What's a good way for someone with engineering background (but very >little radio background) to get started? Where do you find training >for Amateur Radio? I've seen the training kits in Radio Shack and was >wondering if they're decent packages. Any inputs? Thanks in advance >Dennis separate the two pieces -- there's what you need to know to get the license. and there's what you need to know to operate/build/etc. the guides available address the first question. you generally find the answer to the second question by listening on the air, reading the mags, attending club meetings, taking part in operating activities and so on. call the arrl at 800-3-2-new-ham...that should get you a list of clubs and cla sses in your area. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:25 1996 From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: RFI: Colorado Hamfest/Computerfest dates Date: 19 Feb 1996 08:09:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4g9sr2$c22@panix.com> References: <4g6682$do9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> In <4g6682$do9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> uswat@aol.com (Uswat) writes: >Looking for Hamfest dates, times, locations, and contact information for >Colorado, especially Denver-metro area or at least the front range. >Thanks in advance. Check: http://www.panix.com/clay/ham/events.html#fests -- Clay Irving, N2VKG : clay@panix.com : Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it http://www.panix.com/clay : to gnaw through the leather straps... From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:25 1996 From: uswat@aol.com (Uswat) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: RFI: Colorado Hamfest/Computerfest dates Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:25:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4g6682$do9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: uswat@aol.com (Uswat) Looking for Hamfest dates, times, locations, and contact information for Colorado, especially Denver-metro area or at least the front range. Thanks in advance. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:26 1996 From: michaela@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu (Michael Christie) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Saudi Arabian Hams Date: 16 Feb 1996 16:08:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4g2rnm$6ps@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu> References: Yes, certainly, there is activity from Saudi Arabia. HZ1AB has been active since the late 1940s as a club station associated with ARAMCO at Dhahran. There are a few expatriate operators at embassys in Riyadh. There are several Saudi citizen operators, including some from the Saudi Royal Family. HZ1AB is often present and readily workable in various DX tests throughout the year. I am aware of no restriction for HZ to contact other countries, excepting 4X [and this too may have disappeared as a restriction, not sure]. Enjoy. They are out there. 73, -mike- Michael Christie, K7RLS/4 Crawfordville, Florida From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:27 1996 From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Saudi Arabian Hams Date: 15 Feb 1996 13:54:24 GMT Message-ID: <4fvdug$9hf@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4fjcuf$hud@news.inc.net> To: willf@rrgroup.com On our DX Packet cluster, I did a SH/DX HZ (for Saudi Arabia) and found HZ1AB was on the air in January 1996. Frequencies were 80M and 40M. I have had QSO with him in the past and a QSL card accepted by the ARRL.I am sure I have heard him several other times as well. Not common, that is for sure. Good DX et al Rod -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:28 1996 From: tmsloan@ix.netcom.com(Ty Sloan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Siltronix 1011D Schematics needed Date: 17 Feb 1996 15:56:14 GMT Message-ID: <4g4tqu$537@cloner3.netcom.com> I am looking for a set of schematics for a Siltronix 1011D Comanche 10&11 Meter Tranciever. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanx. E-mail: tmsloan@ix.netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:29 1996 From: Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu (Walter R Francis) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 18 Feb 96 23:24:03 -500 Message-ID: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, and I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters off. They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a hunt it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me down in 15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em work to find me. :) Thanks.. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:31 1996 From: Steve Butler Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:13:54 -0800 Message-ID: References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> On 18 Feb 1996, Walter R Francis wrote: > I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, a nd > > Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. > I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em > work to find me. :) 1. Stay away from flat terrain. 2. Put your back to a hill. 3. Aim your beam at a tall building a few miles away (or power line, or ridge across the valley from you, or ....) Those are presuming that you need to "visible" and accessable by vehicle. Now, if the end game is on foot: Mount the antenna on a chain link fence behind a bunch of bushes and bury everything else. +----------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Butler Voice: 206-464-2998 | | The Seattle Times Fax: 206-382-8898 | | PO Box 70 Internet: sbut-is@seatimes.com | | Seattle, WA 98111 Packet: KG7JE@N6EQZ.WA | +----------------------------------------------------+ All standard and non-standard disclaimers apply. All other sources are annonymous. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:32 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sorting callsigns with ACCESS Date: 20 Feb 1996 03:03:01 GMT Message-ID: <4gbdl5$lsj@cc.iu.net> References: <4g87pv$mmb@cloner3.netcom.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4g87pv$mmb@cloner3.netcom.com>, wa4upe@ix.netcom.com (Tony King) writes: >I need to sort callsigns using Microsoft ACCESS (Win31). i'd consider breaking the call into 3 parts -- prefix, district and suffix. th en you have a direct handle to use instead of trying parse the components every time you need to process the list. input should do the parsing to let humans enter data ok, and get it into the t ables with minimum fuss... the real trick is to output the data w/o inserting spaces between the prefix a nd the district or having an extra space in front of single letter prefixes... Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:33 1996 From: dickmac@ix.netcom.com (Richard MacDonald) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sorting callsigns with ACCESS Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 08:29:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3129e7fb.2135954@nntp.ix.netcom.com> References: <4g87pv$mmb@cloner3.netcom.com> On Sun, 18 Feb 1996 22:09:37 GMT, wa4upe@ix.netcom.com (Tony King) wrote: >I need to sort callsigns using Microsoft ACCESS (Win31). > >Have any of you done the math for this and would you be willing to >share it with me? > >Please email me direct. > >Thanks, > >Tony > >wa4upe@ix.netcom.com > > > I know of no math to do this but there is one way that I have used in an xBase dataset. Assuming that what you mean is that you want to sort on the area numb er and suffix first then the prefix you can put the prefix and the rest of the ca ll in separate fields. That makes it easy. When you print the database out you ca n combine the two fields in one print area or just use a general print utility a nd leave a space showing between them. Dick MacDonald - AD0J From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:34 1996 From: rickhz@primenet.com (Rick) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Special Event HamDaze at the Arizona Science Center Date: 19 Feb 1996 22:06:02 -0700 Message-ID: <4gbkrq$78v@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Special Event Information The Center for Amateur Radio Learning "C.A.R.L." will operate a special event station during HamDaze weekend at the Arizona Science Center Mar 23-24. HamDaze will b e a showcase of Amateur Radio Technology presented by members of many Phoenix are a amateur radio clubs. Testing for the No-Code Technician license will be availa ble Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Visitors to ASC will be making contacts under the supe rvision of volunteer operators. KC7LUL will be on the air in the phone portion of th e novice 10 meter band, and general 15 and 20 meter bands. Hours are Saturday 9-5pm and Sunday 12-5pm. The Arizona Science Center is located at 147 E. Adams. For a certifica te send a QSL and 9" x 12" SASE to C.A.R.L. P.O. Box 51048 Phoenix, AZ 85076-1048. For information call 602-561-8405. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:35 1996 Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.misc From: uccajke@ucl.ac.uk (James Ker) Subject: Terminal program for PC? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:01:59 GMT Hi Folks, Could anyone tell me where I would be able to ftp a good terminal program for a PC from. I know of several sites, but they contain many program, what I really need is a site, and program name. Any help would be appreciated. Email privately if possible. Thanks, James uccajke@ucl.ac.uk From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:36 1996 From: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: THE CW REQUIREMENT Message-ID: <8BB1020.00290040AD.uuout@hobbs.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 00:32:00 -0400 Distribution: world Reply-To: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) To: k1oik@ccsnet.com Subject: THE CW REQUIREMENT BF>Who the hell is running the FCC, the hams or the government? The FCC is >using as justification for keeping CW the fact that hams want it. Can't >the FCC make a decision for the public good and merely consider the hams >opinion rather the be dictated to by the ARRL and other hams? Should I >write my Congressman to see who is in charge? (by the way I support the >current CW/no code position). Since we are the users of the spectrum, we should decide how it will be used. Sounds rational to me. --- OLX 1.53 --------------> 73, de NK2U <---------------- * Origin: CyberNet BBS Lyndhurst, NJ (1:2604/151) .....oooooOOOOOo http://www.intac.com/~cono __,-----. ---+_________#_ The Roy Hobbs BBS sysop@hobbs.com |________| |__|___________} Node 1: 201-641-7307 ooooo oo ~ ooO-O-O-O == oo\ Node 2: 201-641-3126 From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:37 1996 From: s40402@abel.richland.cc.il.us (Joseph Utter) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: This sickening NO-Code Debate! Date: 18 Feb 1996 18:41:31 -0600 Message-ID: <4g8gvr$m5j@abel.richland.cc.il.us> References: <4elqs7$jpe@fnnews.fnal.gov> <4fmivi$p7u@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Oh, my God, you've just started ANOTHER stinkn' flame.... Stop it.... WHEN WILL THE HURTING STOP! - Eek & the Terrible Thunder Lizards. Joe (wasting bandwidth to stop waste of bandwidth) Utter, N9ZJL (Clinton, IL) joeu@seq250.rollingpls.lib.il.us From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:38 1996 From: ssauer40@ix.netcom.com(Richard J Jones ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: This sickening NO-Code Debate! Date: 19 Feb 1996 04:46:37 GMT Message-ID: <4g8vbd$pgt@cloner4.netcom.com> References: <4elqs7$jpe@fnnews.fnal.gov> <4fmivi$p7u@newsbf02.news.aol.com> In <4fmivi$p7u@newsbf02.news.aol.com> cooperdg@aol.com (CooperDG) writes: > > >>Changing the rules (preparing for flames) is a typical Democrats way of >>operating in this case. Give us everything. We shouldn't have to WORK >for it >>either. You guys are just looking for ham radio Welfare. It isn't here. > >Typical Republican bs! The rightwing deregulators will be the first to >eliminate the "bureaucratic" interference in everyone's right to make the >radio bands useless. Unless they're too busy interfering in everybody's >private lives under the rubric of "getting the government off our backs". > >I suggest Mike do a survey of the anti-CW whiners and see if his thesis is >correct. I'll bet ya a bushel of photons that the anti-CW crowd is pretty >much the same political spectrum as the general public. Talk about not >working for what you get--what about Republican wonder boy Steve Forbes? > >Jeff / AC6DA > > Don't forget the Kennedys or the Rockefellers, they inherited also. "Class Envy" Work hard and be sucessful and someone wants to punish you and take it away. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:39 1996 From: amman@airmail.net (McCarthy) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Tubes Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 05:27:22 GMT Message-ID: <4g66be$65r@news-f.iadfw.net> Need 2 tubes: 12BY7A S2001/or 6146B Thanks Robert KC5RYI amman@airmail.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:40 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: Bob Archer N4ECO Subject: Uniden HR-2510 Message-ID: Reply-To: Bob.Archer@columbiaSC.ncr.com (archer) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:18:07 GMT I need a schematic for this rig. If you have one you can fax or tell me where I might aquire one. There is no Sam's Photofacts for it listed in their 1996 index. Thanks in advance.. Bob Archer N4ECO From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:41 1996 From: Jim Cranshaw N5FSL Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: URL for N5FSL and The Horn Speaker Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 23:24:57 -0500 Message-ID: <5vCLSmx.thsjim@delphi.com> You are invited to the N5FSL Homepage, which will lead you to: The Horn Speaker, about vintage radios. It contains articles about: 1. Early code, how it got started. 2. Article about the history of neutralizing RF amplifiers . 3. Other articles, ads, events, clubs, etc. http://home.navisoft.com/horn/ To go directly to The Horn Speaker use: http://home.navisoft.com/horn/ths2.htm 73 Jim Cranshaw, N5FSL From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:42 1996 From: murso@fnalv1.fnal.gov (MURSO@fnalv.fnal.gov) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Vacation in Europe Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:38:32 GMT Message-ID: <4fvgh8$lnf@fnnews.fnal.gov> References: <4fnfqk$mb2@ns.cowboy.net> Reply-To: murso@fnalv1.fnal.gov In article <4fnfqk$mb2@ns.cowboy.net>, bob@cowboy.net (Bobby Irvin) writes: >I'm sure this is a tired old question, but I must ask: Is there anybody >out there that can give me reliable information concerning the operation >of my dual-band HT in the Netherlands? I intend to travel there in May >and I would like to know who to contact in the Dutch government to secure >clearance for such operation. Now before everybody screams "ask ARRL!", >I must tell you that I have sent email to that office over 3 weeks ago and >have yet to receive a response. I need to get the ball rolling soon and >I'm not sure I can wait a lot longer. Any advice you can give will be much >appreciated. Reply here or through email. Thanks! > >de Bobby Irvin, N5ZHO I called the ARRL before I went over to Holland for the Scouting World Jambore e and within 1 week I had a packet of info. Just be sure that you give yourself 3 month leadtime for the Dutch to process the application for reciprocal privaledges. You should be aware that some of the repeaters in Holland still use tone burst. Many are now PL. I was a guest operator for PA6WSJ, the Jamboree station and met many Dutch hams. Really a nice bunch of people. If you are an ARRL member, just call them. They were very nice. KB9KFE From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:43 1996 From: adell@planet.net (KF2TI - Steve) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Valid Reasons for Retaining Morse Testing Date: 18 Feb 1996 01:06:28 GMT Message-ID: <4g5u2k$e7a@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4fvn6i$28k2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > (none) > > >>>> how funny.. how about this one. Top Reason for Retaining the Morse Requirement.... It's the only way you're gonna be able to get on the HF bands..at least till 1 999. Pretty good, huh??? From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:44 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Valid Reasons for Retaining Morse Testing Message-ID: <1996Feb19.002709.27966@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4fvn6i$28k2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4g5u2k$e7a@jupiter.planet.net> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:27:09 GMT In article <4g5u2k$e7a@jupiter.planet.net> adell@planet.net (KF2TI - Steve) w rites: > >how about this one. > >Top Reason for Retaining the Morse Requirement.... > >It's the only way you're gonna be able to get on the HF bands..at least till 1999. > >Pretty good, huh??? Actually no, you're confusing cause and effect. The current treaty requirement, as you note up for reconsideration at the 1999 WARC, is a reason for *meeting* the current requirement if you want immediate access to HF, not a reason for *retaining* the requirement into the indefinite future. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:44 1996 From: VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Valid Reasons for Retaining Morse Testing Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:32:18 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fvn6i$28k2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> (none) From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:45 1996 From: smithj@innet.com (Jim Smith) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 01:14:18 GMT Message-ID: <4fu1dp$bjl@news.innet.com> References: In article , jgb@physics.Berkeley.Edu (John Bartolucci) wrote: >Greetings, > > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. > > Anyone know where I can find out more about it? - > > jgb@physics.berkeley.edu HAARP. Air Force. Tesla Revisited. Trying to produce man-made auroras, I believe. Thats all I remember. Jim N8AVX From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:46 1996 From: wwhite@southwind.net (Wayne White) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on HARP Project Date: 15 Feb 1996 22:54:46 GMT Message-ID: <4g0djm$cob@opal.southwind.net> References: In article , jgb@physics.Berkeley.Edu (John Bartolucci) says: > >Greetings, > > Any hams out there following the HARP project? Supposed >antenna array being built in Alaska by the Air Force or NASA. > > Anyone know where I can find out more about it? - > > jgb@physics.berkeley.edu Try these web pages: http://www.gc.apc.org/ei/journal/haarp2.html http://www.earthisland.org/ei/journal/haarp3.html http://www.tezcat.com/octopus/HAARP/HAARP.faq http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/~pfrr/AURORA/INDEX.HTM Can't swear that they all work but some have. Good Luck From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:47 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: jangus@netcom.com (Jeffrey D. Angus) Subject: Re: WANTED: Remote Speaker/Mic Project Ideas Message-ID: References: <4g83b1$npl@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 01:52:14 GMT mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) writes: >I have a 2m rig set up in the kitchen...I want to wire the audio to 4 or 5 >different location, inside and outside my house...I would like to have a chea p >mic hooked up at each location I have a speaker. Has anybody ever made a >project like this? Any suggestions? >KB8VBA, Michigan >mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us Take a tip from the folks at Motorola. They do it all the time. The unit at the radio is called a remote adaptor, and the various remotes are just that, remotes. Change the levels to 600 ohm line, and run everything around at 0 dBm. (1 miliwatt into 600 ohms). You can use 6 wire phone cords, and their matching jacks to hook everything together. (Of course Motorola makes it tricky so they can do all this, and change channels too, with a single pair.) 73 es GE from Jeff -- Amateur: WA6FWI@WA6FWI.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA | "It is difficult to imagine our Internet: jangus@skyld.grendel.com | universe run by a single omni- US Mail: PO Box 4425 Carson, CA 90749 | potent god. I see it more as a Phone: 1 (310) 324-6080 | badly run corporation." From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:49 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: What's the best way to learn Morse code...cont'd Message-ID: <1996Feb17.043839.19573@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4g2kdt$2vt@ionews.ionet.net> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 04:38:39 GMT In article <4g2kdt$2vt@ionews.ionet.net> bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) writ es: >I almost forgot. The Koch method claims you don't want to memorize the >individual letters, but just learn by doing to get maximum speed in the >shortest time. It sounds good, but I wondered if there is any truth to >this. I'm thinking of becoming a ham and wanted to learn code. Now >I'm confused on how to go about it. Thanks It's true, you don't want to learn the dot-dash combinations for the letters. You want to develop a conditioned reflex response to the individual letter sounds *as a unit*. In other words, didah must simply generate the response 'A' and not, "hmmm, dot dash, lets see that's 'A'". Such a mental lookup table will prevent you from achieving higher speeds. To becomes successful copying Morse, you must bypass the conscious mind. The most important thing about copying Morse is to continually remind yourself, "Don't think!". (Depressing but true, Morse is the non-thinking man's signaling method. You must become like Pavlov's dog, disengage the rational mind that separates you from the animals and just respond to the stimulus by conditioned reflex.) Eventually, if you're fortunate in the way your mind works, you'll develop the ability to multitask and can think about something else while unconsciously copying Morse. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:50 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: What's the best way to learn Morse code? Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:13:24 GMT Message-ID: <4g5ju4$4oa@cc.iu.net> References: <4g2k7q$2vt@ionews.ionet.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4g2k7q$2vt@ionews.ionet.net>, bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) writes: >where and DLed it, but it seems like some times the dits and dahs are >the same. Thanks. did you calibrate the SM program to your computer? sounds like weighting and timing are off. there's the PARIS test in the program that will tell you if th e program sending at rated speed. there's also a weighting adjustment - should be 3:1 fo r starting out (dahs should be 3x a dit.) running other programs at the same time can also cause the programs to stumble around.. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:51 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Where can I find Info. on grounding Message-ID: <1996Feb19.001741.27871@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4g5fug$5ss@ganesh.sdstate.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:17:41 GMT In article <4g5fug$5ss@ganesh.sdstate.edu> DaggettE@cc.sdstate.edu (Eric Dagge tt) writes: >If anyone knows of a good source of info on grounding (Books or Internet) >Please Post or E-mail me daggette@cc.sdstate.edu > >My main interest is keeping interference from other sources down to a >Min. Eric, read Al Bloom's article in Technical Correspondence in the current QST. Grounding has almost no effect on interference in general, other than sometimes (often) making interference problems *worse* instead of better. Shielding, filtering, suppressing, and proper design are what reduce interference. Connections to Earth do little or nothing to help except in certain very limited cases. Grounding is an electrical safety issue, and a very important one, but it isn't an interference reduction issue except in as much as it *causes* interference through ground loops. About the only exception to that statement is when you are feeding an unbalanced antenna. Then Earth can be called upon to act as a counterpoise. But to be effective, the Earth connection needs to be at the antenna feedpoint, not back at the station (though the two can be the same physical point in some layouts). One of the best references on grounding is the National Electrical Code. These handbooks can be obtained at any good electrical supply house. Pay particular attention to Articles 250, 800, 810, and 820. Another usage of the term "ground" is important for interference and interaction reduction *internal* to electrical circuits. That is usage of the term "ground" to refer to the electrical common connection in circuits. For sensitive circuits, particularly at RF, circuit common connections have to be well thought out. This is a part of the design process. Techniques such as single point "grounding" and use of "groundplanes" can reduce *ground loops* internal to the circuitry which could lead to instability. These usages of "ground" have nothing to do with Earth connections. The ARRL Handbook has a (all too brief) treatment of this subject. In summary, ill thought out "grounds" can be a *source* of interference, but "grounds" are not generally a cure for interference (other than in the sense of correcting ill thought out ground connections to reduce their contribution to circuit interaction). Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:53 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: mack@ncifcrf.gov (Joe Mack) Subject: Re: Where do I go first to get info on obtaining a ham license? Message-ID: References: <4fvuja$9du@ionews.ionet.net> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:50:07 GMT In article <4fvuja$9du@ionews.ionet.net> bvolden@ionet.net (Brent Volden) writ es: >I'm sure this question gets asked alot, but I was wondering where I >should go to get info on obtaining an amateur license. We should have a FAQ on this... 1) Call the American Radio Relay League in Newington CT, 203-666-1541. They will have some sort of poop and a list of ham clubs local to you. They will also have their www address (which seems to have changed) et c 2) Go find a local club to your liking. This is to give you moral support (in case you don't like operating in a vacuum) and you will be able to do things with them that you can't do by yourself (because no-one has _all_ the equipment ever). Clubs have different orientations from service, running repeaters, contesting, HF, VHF. Some clubs are just social groups for hams to chew the fat. 3) Get a license. This involves passing an (or several) exam(s). The exams now are all conducted by ham radio clubs (goto #2 above) There are 3 parts, regulations, which just have to be learnt by heart; operating procedures (good manners on the air); and theory which is pretty much vestigial nowadays. You'll need some study materials,and most of the stuff available is appallingly bad. The main one used is "Now you're talking" by the ARRL, an introductory book which attempts to teach you what you need for the lower two licenses without using equations, physics, or linear thinking. 4) in the meantime look at http://user.itl.net/~equinox/ for a ham page which will start you looking on the net. All the best. Joe NA3T Durham NC mack@ncifcrf.gov From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:56 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Where do I go first to get info on obtaining a ham license? Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:18:31 GMT Message-ID: <4g5k7n$4oa@cc.iu.net> References: <4fvuja$9du@ionews.ionet.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In , mack@ncifcrf.gov (Joe Mack) writes: >1) Call the American Radio Relay League in Newington CT, 203-666-1541. wrong phone number -- use 800-3-2-new-ham for prospectives. (that's 800-326-3942) the regular phone number has changed completely: 860 594-0200. (i guess now, no one can claim the phone number was evidence of the arrl bearing the mark of the devil....8) ) the old number may work for a short time longer - some phone exchanges are still unable to call area codes with a middle digit that's not 1 or 0... Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:57 1996 Newsgroups: uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.misc From: uccajke@ucl.ac.uk (James Ker) Subject: Where to ftp terminal program from? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:20:07 GMT Hi Folks, I'm looking for a decent terminal program for a PC that will be compatible with an AEA PK232MBX. Does anyone know of a site (and the name of the program!) where one could be ftp'd from? I have looked at a few sites but they contain thousands of programs, I don't know which is best! Email me privately if possible. Cheers, James uccajke@ucl.ac.uk From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:58 1996 From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.ham-radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Subject: WTB ICOM CW FILTER Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 03:25:13 GMT Message-ID: <4gbeq7$u56@news1.sunbelt.net> References: <4f8bvv$p0e@news1.sunbelt.net> I want to buy a CW filter for my ICOM Ham Radio. I need the FL52A (500Hz BW) for the 455KHz IF. These fit several of the ICOM radios. How much? Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:58 1996 From: Roland S Geter PhD Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: WTB:5KW AM Transmitter Date: 17 Feb 1996 07:58:55 GMT Message-ID: <4g41rv$ica@news1.goodnet.com> References: <4fn47d$j76@www.acay.com.au> To: spiroe@acay.com.au What are you going to do with it? Roland S Geter PhD Internet: roland@mycronet.com Packer: WB6LNA@kc7y.az.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:12:59 1996 From: Roland S Geter PhD Newsgroups: aus.radio.amateur.misc,aus.radio.amateur.wicen,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: WTB:5KW AM Transmitter Date: 17 Feb 1996 07:57:37 GMT Message-ID: <4g41pi$ica@news1.goodnet.com> References: <4fn47d$j76@www.acay.com.au> To: spiro,evagelakos What are you going to do with it? Roland S Geter PhD Internet: roland@mycronet.com Packer: WB6LNA@kc7y.az.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:13:00 1996 From: dpmoore@west.net (Dan Moore) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Yaesu FT-736R Mod for 70cm band Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 12:06:03 GMT Message-ID: <4gco5h$euh@daffy.sb.west.net> Does anyone have a modification for the Yaesu FT-736R to allow operation in the 70cm band down to 420Mhz? I would appreciate any advice regarding this subject. Please send response to: dpmoore@west.net Thanks -Dan Moore WD6CYI From lwbyppp@epix.net Wed Feb 21 16:13:01 1996 From: Monty Richard Fritts Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Yaesu FT2500M modification Date: 16 Feb 1996 00:43:10 GMT Message-ID: <4g0juu$22k@sequoia.idir.net> I would like to find the modification for the Yaesu FT2500M. I need the modifi cation to allow it to transmit out of band. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:23 1996 From: Sara Roberts Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.cb,uk.radio.amateur Subject: "Portable" Tx Equipment Banned in Petrol Stations (UK)? Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 06:57:18 GMT Message-ID: <825231438snz@x-ferret.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: sara@x-ferret.demon.co.uk How can this be enforced and why? I must admit I have not refueled in a civilian petrol station for a while, but mobile phones and handhelds are not a patch on what our rig is equiped with. Do have have to pedal my wooden appliance into the station and switch of all electrical equipement including lights before hand? Better not key down in case my own electricals/fuel systems get annoyed. Even when not on call out Navigation still updates command as to where we are, whether we like it or not. Apparently the engine management sneeks on me as well on a regular basis. All the radios relay and repeat trunking instructions, and our handhelds are repeated through the rig so even if one of the crew stand off the forecourt we will radiate quite a few watts. If we were to get a call whilst refueling our computers apparently enter a frenzy of comms, and of course we have to respond. We even have our own set of crew radios to argue over which candy bar they want from the cashier. Buy law certain systems have to still be alive when we stop, so a generator, compressor and a heat pump are always running. Plenty of EMI there. What about other EMS? I am sure that police/fire/ambulance use and "inadvertently" transmit other data all the time. Surely Pumps are suitably shielded, (years ago I used to service the Gilbarco Pumps). Don't the pumps hold a minimal amount of fuel above ground and have plenty of protection? I used to see people smoke whilst filling cans... And don't mobile phones chat to the cell transmitter every now and then? Ours eats batteries in poor receiption areas too. Is this to protect against fire or the electronics geting confused? (I hope I don't cause a fire - that would be a bit embarrasing). I am having difficulties with receiving news, please could you copy your post to my mailbox. Thanks. Regards, Sara. -- ._o / //\. Sara Roberts \>> | sara@x-ferret.demon.co.uk \\ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:24 1996 From: N3PGG@aol.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (none) Date: 26 Feb 96 12:40:56 GMT Message-ID: <199602261240.HAA21538@emout05.mail.aol.com> anyone know of a Windows based County Hunters program? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks and 73 Tom/N3PGG From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:25 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: *** Here it is the new FCC 610 Form in Excel 3.0-5.0 Format *** Date: 25 Feb 1996 21:43:46 GMT Message-ID: <4gql6i$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4gmg7k$cfk@cloner4.netcom.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) outside of the fact that the FCC already put a form up on their website and there's little things that can annoy paper handlers when it's not done rig ht and it should probably be a PDF instead since you have to print it out and for most people the acrobat reader stuff is free... there is this one bit of inconsistancy...as in: In <4gmg7k$cfk@cloner4.netcom.com>, David Johanson wr ites: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >---------------------------------245253787825 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > The Excel file is a standard UUENCODED attachment. > >---------------------------------245253787825 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >Content-Type: zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls > >CQIGAAAAEABsCVwAIAAQRGF2aWQgTiBK...... it's sure not uuencoded...unless we've got a mime encoding of a uuencoded file. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:26 1996 From: naturechild@eworld.com (NatureChild) Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles,rec.music.bluenote,rec.music.christian,rec.music.classical,rec.music.country.western,rec.music.folk,rec.music.gdead,rec.music.hip-hop,rec.music.industrial,rec.music.makers.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic,rec.music.makers.percussion,rec.music.makers.synth,rec.music.misc,rec.music.phish,rec.music.progressive,rec.nude,rec.org.sca,rec.outdoors.fishing,rec.outdoors.fishing.fly,rec.pets,rec.pets.cats,rec.pets.herp,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio. Subject: Re: **********soulbelly is almost here********** Date: 22 Feb 1996 21:49:13 -0800 Message-ID: <4gjkgp$76p@hp5.online.apple.com> References: <4gea6d$7mt@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: naturechild@eworld.com (NatureChild) sign me up. A campfire and a can of beans. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:28 1996 From: rtm@netgate.net (Bob Martin N6MZV) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: 1.2 Ghz Repeater Info Needed Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 18:15:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4gd8hn$ben@news.anet-dfw.com> In article <4gd8hn$ben@news.anet-dfw.com>, grant@zeus.anet-dfw.com (Marc Grant) wrote: > Does anyone know of commercially available 1.2 GHz repeaters, or > commercially available components (receivers, transmitters, duplexers)? > > Thanks in advance Here's a shopping list (from the equipment list for the N6MZV/KD6JTT 1.2g repeater): Icom used to sell a 1.2 GHz repeater IC-RP1220 23cm repeater Wacom WP-698 23cm Duplexer Down East Microwave 23LNA preamp Down East Microwave 2335PAHS 35W Amp PolyPhaser IS-MR50LN 23cm lightning protector Astron RM50-BB power supply with gel cell backups We used an ACC RC-850 repeater controller. They're no longer in business. You need a duplexer. The combination of the duplexer and any length of line to the antenna (we use 7/8" Andrew LDF-50) costs you db, so we put a preamp in front of the Rx and a power amp after the Tx. Drop me a note if you want more info. 73- -- Bob Martin N6MZV * rtm@netgate.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:29 1996 From: grant@zeus.anet-dfw.com (Marc Grant) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap Subject: 1.2 Ghz Repeater Info Needed Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:48:07 GMT Message-ID: <4gd8hn$ben@news.anet-dfw.com> Does anyone know of commercially available 1.2 GHz repeaters, or commercially available components (receivers, transmitters, duplexers)? Thanks in advance From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:30 1996 From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 2 Linear Amplifiers Date: 24 Feb 1996 20:37:31 GMT Message-ID: <4gnsub$4j2@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4glshh$2ov@news.tcd.net> > > Drew Durigan wrote: > > > > > > ralph234@aol.com (RALPH234) wrote: > > > > > > > >Deer hunter 100 Watt Mobile Amplifier w/20db Preamp, 3-30 MHz. - $80.0 0 > > > >Shooting Star 225 Watt Mobile Amplifier w/20db Preamp, 3-30 MHz. - >$1 00. > > > 00 OR Possible trade for 2 Meter HT Transceiver. > > > DD > Since you're looking to trade for a 2-meter HT, I assume that you're a DD > licensed amateur operator (or soon will be) Since you're advertising DD > these amplifiers on the CB newsgroup...well, what can I say? It really DD > looks bad to see a ham openly selling amplifiers to CB'ers like this. DD > DD > -Drew in Charlotte- DD > KF4DDM Nice to see Drew suddenly become so involved with legal issues of amatuer radi o. Gess it beats advocating the destruction of other person's property (IE: pinning coax and ripping down towe rs and parking a simplex QSO on repeater freq's). Keep it up Drew, you may be OK after all steve P.S. hello Chris (OSU rules!!!) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:31 1996 From: Gary_Danaher@acd.org (Gary Danaher) Reply-To: Gary_Danaher@acd.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Distribution: world Subject: Re: 80M WAS Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:22:11 GMT Message-ID: <65502.122521867@acd.org> I'm trying to finish up the 80m portion of 5BWAS and I'm down to 3. I still need Maine, Alabama & South Dakota. I'm hoping to finish it this low-band season. Can I talk any ME or AL or SD folks into setting up a sked? I sure would appreciate it. Tun e the Geritol Net at 3.768 +- beginning at 0100 and work all 50 states in a month or less. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:32 1996 From: tkc@ncn.net (tkc) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ?info. wanted RAGBRAI radio operators. Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:53:11 GMT Message-ID: <312dd437.736159@NEWS.NETINS.NET> References: <4g3r2h$2ot@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4geqq6$6gi@dsm6.dsmnet.com> Reply-To: TKC@NCN.NET On 21 Feb 1996 10:05:58 GMT, mikemiller@dsm1.dsmnet.com wrote: ..In article <4g3r2h$2ot@mark.ucdavis.edu>, szhall@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Jeff Hall) writes: ..> I am looking for some information reagarding hams who work on the ..>RAGBRAI..I plan to ride it and would like to take my HT along if I see ..>something which I need to report. I think most use 146.52 as the frequency of choice. others use the local repeters along the way... Hope to hear from you... I am in Spencer, Ia 147.360 110.9 tone... 73 Dean WB0TKC From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:33 1996 From: Buster Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: [Questions] 1.2 Ghz Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:26:58 -0800 Message-ID: <3131FB72.6303@azstarnet.com> I'm looking to get into 1.2 Ghz. (Terrestrial & then maybe satelite._ Currenly having a blast with 2 meter ssb. Probably going to get 70cm ssb as soon as I can find a decent used rig. What would be my best attack plan to get on 1.2 Ghz. I have a limited budget. I was thinking the best way for me to go would be a transverter for a 70cm all mode radio. That way I could do both repeaters and ssb. If I can't have both, I'll forget repeaters. What kind of antennas (besides good ones:-) work best? Yagi, loop yagi, quagi, parabola, corner reflector? How much power is enough? 20 Watts seems plenty? What kind of RF exposure problems might I expect at 1.2 Ghz? I have a balcony with a 2m 7 element beam on it now (130 watts). The farthest I could get the antenna would be 20 feet. I know I don't want to look down the antenna:-) What is 1.2 Ghz like? I've heard it has very little traffic. I think I asked all the pertinent questions. Please respond via E-MAIL also. Thank You Buster - KC7KMJ Tucson, Arizona From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:35 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Any Alternative to Code? Date: 25 Feb 1996 10:20:22 GMT Message-ID: <4gpd57$h8f@news.hal-pc.org> References: <4ga358$dho@news.ios.com> > > For the last three years I've taught 'HAM' classes at our club and at a l ocal Junior > High. At least the 'HAMS' that I've Elmer'er can figure out an Ohms law pr oblem, > discuss propagation, and tell you what the block diagram components of a r adio > system can do, and how. Mindlessly sitting in front of a computer screen > memorizing quiz questions, isn't exactly 'furthering the abilitity'. I've been > 'hamming' off an on for 35 years. Over the weekend, I worked a little of t he > CQWW CW contest. Is using a computerized keyer slapping that virtual paddl e at > 40 WPM CW?, or is it low grade RTTY? I think 13 WPM is attainable for the bulk > of the individuals that 'want to do it'. If you don't, then maybe a 'pract ical factors' > test would be an alternative method of obtaining a higher level license. M aybe > sitting down and designing a workable transceiver with commonly available > components, and then building it, in front of a group of your peers. Of co urse, the > parts list would have to be standardized across all test sites. It's not a s wacky as > it sounds. One element could be a receiver, another element the transmitte r, the > third the antenna system. > > WD9AHF I tent to agree with everything you said. I would like to add the idea of mak ing CW an endorsement on your Amateur license, similar to the endorsements on a commercial license. If you hold the endorsement, you would be able to operate in the exclusive CW parts of the ban ds. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid ------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:36 1996 Date: 21 Feb 1996 18:13:00 +0200 From: kwp@rai.ping.at (Wolf Harranth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <63Jfh2BV-jB@rai.ping.at> References: <4gctne$94h@nntpa.cb.att.com> Subject: Re: Any qsl cards from CY0TP 10/95? Shel WA2UBK asks: > Does anyone know if the qsl cards have gone out from the > CY0TP (Sable Island) operation of 10/95? I received my "not in the log" information about two weeks ago. (The "not in the log" QSO was recorded and broadcast worldwide in my weekly radio program for radio amateurs, here at Radio Austria International). Perhaps you, too, are "not in the log"... 73 de Wolf OE1WHC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf HARRANTH OE1WHC InterNet: kwp@rai.ping.at Radio Austria International Fido : 2:310/39.44 A-1136 Vienna Packet : OE1WHC@OE1XAB.AUT.EU Austria/Europe Fax : +43/1/87 87 8-44 04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## CrossPoint v3.1 R ## From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:36 1996 From: szhall@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Jeff Hall) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Anyone use a YEASU 727R..Jeff Date: 19 Feb 1996 21:12:43 GMT Message-ID: <4gap4b$s66@mark.ucdavis.edu> I have a Yeasu 727R and I would like some step by step instructions on how to put in the PL...Thanks...Jeff. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:37 1996 From: subbustr@whidbey.net (DAVE M . SCHERTZER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Are these modable? Date: 22 Feb 1996 04:31:34 GMT Message-ID: <4ggrj6$jhi@whidbey.whidbey.com> References: <824640258.22596snx@genes.pl.my> >Kenwood 22AT yes, Kenwood 22A >Standard C108/158 yes Standard C108A & 158 >Yaesu FT-11R yes Yaesu FT-11 >Alinco DJ100T/TH DJF1T/TH DJ G1T yes Alinco DJ100, DJF1T, DJGIT >Icom IC-P2AT yes Icom P2AT subbustr@whidbey.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:38 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed Date: 18 Feb 1996 13:22:22 GMT Message-ID: <4g796e$lae@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <$arlb011.1996@arrl.org> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------312371077519441 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii w1aw@arrl.org wrote: > >SB QST @ ARL $ARLB011 >ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed > >ZCZC AG90 >QST de W1AW >ARRL Bulletin 11 ARLB011 >From ARRL Headquarters >Newington CT February 15, 1996 >To all radio amateurs > >SB QST ARL ARLB011 >ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed >NNNN >/EX ---------------------------------312371077519441 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 35 ARLB035 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT April 5, 1995 To all radio amateurs Read the above. Are ANY ARRL bulletins (except the propagation report) not from ARRL headquarters? Does Newington have to be on each one? Are ANY bulletins addressed to any one OTHER than "To all radio amateurs?" Why does the ARRL and hams in general use 1000 words when 100 will do? Aren't we "into" communications? The F.C.C. said the following: ''The amateur service community in the United States generally considers the current telegraphy speed requirements as necessary and appropriate,'' the FCC said. Who the hell is running the FCC, the hams or the government? The FCC is using as justification for keeping CW the fact that hams want it. Can't the FCC make a decision for the public good and merely consider the hams opinion rather the be dictated to by the ARRL and other hams? Should I write my Congressman to see who is in charge? (by the way I support the current CW/no code position). From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:40 1996 From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLD011 Awards committee vote Date: 21 Feb 1996 16:04:57 -0500 Message-ID: <$arld011.1996@arrl.org> SB DX @ ARL $ARLD011 ARLD011 Awards committee vote ZCZC AE53 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 11 ARLD011 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT February 21, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB DX ARL ARLD011 ARLD011 Awards committee vote The ARRL Awards Committee met recently to review submitted documentation for the 1992-93 P5RS7 operation submitted by Romeo Stepanenko. After a review of all material available, the Awards Committee voted unanimously to disqualify Romeo Stepanenko from participation in the DXCC program. This disqualification is based upon Rule 12, Operations Ethics, and Rule 13. The disqualification means that Stepanenko is not eligible to participate in the DXCC program in any manner. This includes, as provided for under Rule 12, paragraph (b) disallowance of contacts made with any station or DXpedition operated by him from the time of this action. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:41 1996 From: Andrew C Robertson Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARRL Bulletin Header, was ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:29:11 GMT Message-ID: <4gkq0n$qas@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <$arlb011.1996@arrl.org> <4g796e$lae@alterdial.UU.NET> <4g7dqj$6qm@news-e2a.gnn.com> <4ga0p7$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> Burt Fisher wrote: > Must it be repeated EVERY time? Must you complain about it (almost) EVERY time? I think the repetition in these headers bothers you because it reminds you of a part of yourself: boring old Burt who keeps saying the same things on this newsgroup over and over again. It's the same reason why you have to say "hams are boring". YOU are often boring. You attack out of your own insecurity. drewbob aa1hx From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:42 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARRL Bulletin Header, was ARLB011 Vanity calls delayed Date: 25 Feb 1996 11:20:59 GMT Message-ID: <4gpgmr$e1t@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <$arlb011.1996@arrl.org> <4g796e$lae@alterdial.UU.NET> <4g7dqj$6qm@news-e2a.gnn.com> <4ga0p7$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gkq0n$qas@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> To: drewbob@mit.edu Andrew C Robertson wrote: >I think the repetition in these headers bothers you because it reminds >you of a part of yourself: boring old Burt who keeps saying the same >things on this newsgroup over and over again. It's the same reason why >you have to say "hams are boring". YOU are often boring. Yes I am boring, in the real world but in the ham world I am very interesting. Many have told me I was their most interesting contact. >You attack out of your own insecurity. And YOUR attack on me was based on what? #================#=====================================================# | Burt Fisher | Teacher of video, broadcasting and electronics | | Amateur call | South Dennis, Ma. (Cape Cod) | | K1OIK | If you sit on the fence, it is a pain in the butt | #================#=====================================================# | k1oik@ccsnet.com | #======================================================================# You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:43 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: greg@core.rose.hp.com (Greg Dolkas) Subject: Re: Auburn, CA Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:35:16 GMT References: <4fdgra$hn2@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com> Timothy Woodburn (AXMM03A@prodigy.com) wrote: : Any radio clubs in this area of the Sierra foothills? : Yes! Sierra Foothills ARC. Meetings 2nd Friday of each month at the fire station on Sacramento St. Weekly net on the 145.43-/94.8 repeater Thursdays. Both are at 7:30pm. As the speel goes: "All amateur radio operators, and those interested in amateur radio, are cordially invited to attend." Greg KO6TH From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:44 1996 From: marc@i1.net (Marc Hookerman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: bands! reply Date: 24 Feb 1996 23:28:07 GMT Message-ID: <4go6u7$amn@news1.i1.net> I need a well knowledgeable radio person to tell me about each amateur band. thanx....not paragraphs, just what licenses cover what and frequency chars. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:45 1996 From: VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Date: 24 Feb 1996 05:15:01 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gm6sl$1eas@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> (none) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:46 1996 From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Date: 26 Feb 1996 14:11:42 GMT Message-ID: <4gsf2u$rth@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4gm6sl$1eas@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> To: VUBS79A@prodigy.com VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) wrote: >(none) > In both our countries, in order to gain access to operation on the amateur ban ds, one must pass an examination in order to gain access to the amateur allocation s below 30 MHz. Therefore, there is a very good reason to have Morse code testi ng -- with it, under the current certification schemes currently in place by both administration in your country, and mine, and most others, is that it provides legitimate access to those frequencies. Otherwise those who wish to operate o n those frequencies would be opening themselves to prosecution. My preference i s the legal way. 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:47 1996 From: sgibbs@guernsey.net (Steven Gibbs) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Correct URL for Guernsey WWW pages Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 19:00:22 GMT Message-ID: <4gqf79$5sb@news.guernsey.net> Reply-To: sgibbs@guernsey.net Sorry, but soon after posting an announcement about new Guernsey Amateur Radio WWW pages, the URL changed! The correct info follows: Guernsey amateur radio WWW pages are indexed at http://www.guernsey.net/~amateur_radio/ (This really is correct this time!) Links include Guernsey ARS; RSGB in Guernsey; Guernsey callbook, email & packet addresses; fm, repeater & packet operation; and a special page for radio amateurs intending to visit the Bailiwick. Maintainers of amateur radio WWW indexes: please include the above URL. Ham radio home page owners: we will be glad to set up reciprocal links. 73, Steve GU3MBS Guernsey, English Channel Islands, 25 February 1996 Steven Gibbs, sgibbs@guernsey.net 44 Les Prins, Vale, GU3MBS@GB7GUR.GB7LWB.#27.GBR.EU GUERNSEY GY6 8HB UK telephone 01481 57605 via England. International +44 1481 57605 From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:48 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ CQ CQ calling all kid HAMS Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:18:14 GMT Message-ID: <4gd396$ecd@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4ga0ul$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gan6o$nhn@jupiter.planet.net> adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ wrote: > >Well Burt..you've reached a new high in low's. Talking to you? >It's a shame we have to share you anal retentive views. Now I really know wh y the operators near you on the Cape consider you >clod and a bore. Have you ever heard THEM? > >Geoff..forget Burt..his is the epitome of which he speaks..he's old, probably fat, definitely lily white (dead things usually >are!!!) Old, yes, 50. Fat, 184 pounds, white. If dead things are white most hams are dead. >Just some are more asinine than others. BTW, just for your information, Burt teaches the mentally challenged for a living. >Obviously, they learn better from one of their own Insulting my students without knowing them. So typical gutless ham. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:49 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ CQ CQ calling all kid HAMS Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:19:55 GMT Message-ID: <4gd3cb$ecd@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4g6bpk$fsk@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4ga0ul$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gada9$buf@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher K Greenhalgh) wrote: > >You know I have a daughter too, but tell me, how old was your daughter when >"she got a life", and how long was she on the air BEFORE she got her new >life? My daughter was 10 when she became deeper in thought than the hams we heard on the air. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:50 1996 From: horseflyer@aol.com (HorseFlyer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ CQ CQ calling all kid HAMS Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:42:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4gge5r$jn5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4ga0ul$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> In article <4ga0ul$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET>, Burt Fisher writes: >My daughter is your age, been licensed for 6 years but she got a life >so she is not on the air. I HAVE A LIFE TOO, BUT AM ON THE AIR!!!!! > >There are no kids to talk to. Most hams are old fat white boring men. >If you find out otherwise let me know. > CALL ME SOMETIME ON 20 METERS THAN TELL ME THAT!!!! > What the heck are you thinking writing an article like that. All it does is discourage young kids instead of bringing them in the hobby!!!! Jonathon KB0QIR From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:52 1996 From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ CQ CQ calling all kid HAMS Date: 23 Feb 1996 01:56:53 GMT Message-ID: <4gj6t5$aiq@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4gd396$ecd@alterdial.UU.NET> > Burt Fisher writes: > adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ wrote: > > > >Well Burt..you've reached a new high in low's. > > Talking to you? I tried that once..all you where interested in typing was how hated and despis ed you we to the amateur community on Cape Cod and how this stunk and that was bad...what a waste of my time > > >It's a shame we have to share you anal retentive views. Now I really know why the operators near you on the Cape consider you > >clod and a bore. > > Have you ever heard THEM? > Yes I have, and they were more intelligent than you > >Geoff..forget Burt..his is the epitome of which he speaks..he's old, proba bly fat, definitely lily white (dead things usually > >are!!!) > > Old, yes, 50. Fat, 184 pounds, white. If dead things are white most hams > are dead. > > >Just some are more asinine than others. BTW, just for your information, B urt teaches the mentally challenged for a living. > >Obviously, they learn better from one of their own > > Insulting my students without knowing them. > So typical gutless ham. > Not insulting them Burt..only YOU HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI...ad nausem > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ > /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com \ > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / > \ / `-' `-' \ / > `-' `-' > BTW BURT...I've seen several older posting of this type of signature. so typi cal..a plagarist in your own right Flame away!!!! OH yes..the final insult. BURT FISHER.....PAT BUCHANAN Perfect together.....both opinionated knotheads From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:53 1996 From: cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher K Greenhalgh) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ CQ CQ calling all kid HAMS Date: 19 Feb 1996 17:51:05 GMT Message-ID: <4gada9$buf@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <4g6bpk$fsk@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4ga0ul$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> In article <4ga0ul$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET>, Burt Fisher wrote: >My daughter is your age, been licensed for 6 years but she got a life >so she is not on the air. Hi Burt. You know I have a daughter too, but tell me, how old was your daughter when "she got a life", and how long was she on the air BEFORE she got her new life? Thanks, & take care. -- Christopher K. Greenhalgh, N8WCT Computer/Electronic Tech. II at The Ohio State University E-Mail: ckg+@osu.edu (cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Radio : n8wct@w8cqk.#cmh.oh.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:54 1996 From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: 22 Feb 1996 19:25:49 GMT Message-ID: <4gifvt$l1@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4gghod$ih1@tribune.usask.ca> >Note: we have similar >regulations in Canada where each ham is a servant of H. M. the Queen. > Where in the name of heavens did you get this notion? Its laughable. Do you really believe such nonsense? >-- >Brian Buydens There was a young poet named Dan, >Department of Computing Services Whose poetry never would scan. >University of Saskatchewan When told this was so, >email: Brian.Buydens@usask.ca He said, "Yes, I know. >VE5RDV 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:56 1996 From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: 19 Feb 1996 14:36:00 GMT Message-ID: <4ga1sg$s6m@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: >In article <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens ) writes: >> >>When I first got into ham radio I thought it was supposed to be fun. > >The amateur radio service is supposed to be fun the same as the Army, >the Red Cross, or a University are supposed to be fun. You can have >fun in any of those other organizations, but fun isn't their primary >purpose, nor is it the primary purpose of the amateur radio service. >Fun, and personal satisfaction, are the pay we receive for participating >in the charter purposes of the service, but they are not the reason >for the service's existence. > >Gary >-- >Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems >Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp addres ses >534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org >Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | Perhaps this may be true with respect to the US regulatory framework, but I ha rdely see how it is germaine to the original posters's comments when FCC juristictio n does not apply in Canada. I suspect that the poster is looking of a reply that wou ld be more applicable in the broader context, rather than the (supposedly) narrow vi ew of Part 97, which I repeat for emphasis, is not applicable to Canadian amateur operation. 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:57 1996 From: buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: 22 Feb 1996 01:43:41 GMT Message-ID: <4gghod$ih1@tribune.usask.ca> References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Gary Coffman (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote: : In article <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buyden s) writes: : > : >When I first got into ham radio I thought it was supposed to be fun. : The amateur radio service is supposed to be fun the same as the Army, : the Red Cross, or a University are supposed to be fun. You can have : fun in any of those other organizations, but fun isn't their primary : purpose, nor is it the primary purpose of the amateur radio service. : Fun, and personal satisfaction, are the pay we receive for participating : in the charter purposes of the service, but they are not the reason : for the service's existence. Gary: With all due respect I think you are missing the point of what I am trying to say. Ham radio started long before FCC regulations turning it into a service. Now don't worry, I am not going to purposely bore you with a history lesson. Suffice it to say that as far as I can tell ham radio started because people wanted to experiment with radio. If I am understanding you correctly we do agree on one thing: that is when people find something good the government finds some way to pervert it; hence the service part of the FCC regulations. Note: we have similar regulations in Canada where each ham is a servant of H. M. the Queen. Thus I separate Ham radio from "Amateur Radio Service". In some ways amateur radio service is a tax we pay for being hams. Perhaps if we did not have and official "bureaucratic" raison d'etre we would lose even more of our bands to commercial interests. (History lesson ~2 (yawn): If I am not mistaken amateurs used to have all the bands above 200 kHz because they were considered useless.) My original point was that ham should not be solely about "the biggest", "the farthest", "the fanciest" etc. For me it is about learning about how radio works. Perhaps if electronics were my formal training or my profession I would have less interested in building radios because it would seem like work. My training is in computers and because of this I am not terribly interested in packet at the moment ;-) In reading your earlier comments and some of your other posts I must admit I am not quite sure why you got into ham radio. But I would be interested in finding out. I don't think I personally would enjoy the army. If my ham radio license ever begins to make me feel like I am in the army I will probably give it up in exchange for other means of communication, although by then the internet might just be another part of Bill G.'s empire ;-) In regards to the government imposed service part of ham radio, I do not mind helping others. Although I am disappointed that governments have made it a requirement, it is something I would be willing to do anyway. I am sure others may differ in their opinions about these regulations. Brian. : Gary : -- : Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems : Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp addre sses : 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org : Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | -- Brian Buydens There was a young poet named Dan, Department of Computing Services Whose poetry never would scan. University of Saskatchewan When told this was so, email: Brian.Buydens@usask.ca He said, "Yes, I know. VE5RDV From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:06:58 1996 From: Jim Cummings Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQ DX Date: 23 Feb 1996 19:21:38 GMT Message-ID: <4gl442$9bp@crc-news.doc.ca> References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4gghod$ih1@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb23.165540.18992@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: >Brian, I don't think you grasp how you are being of service to your >nation and the public simply by learning about technology. One of the >most important things a nation needs is a populace literate in important >technologies. You are performing the service the amateur radio service >is supposed to fullfill by learning and experimenting. If you happen >to *enjoy* doing that, so much the better, because you certainly aren't >being paid in any other coin. > >Gary >-- >Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems >Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp addres ses >534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org >Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | Regretably, Gary, you have overlayed the policy objectives of your legislation upon someone who is not operate an amateur station within the FCCs juristicition. There is little point in stating that he has to fulfill certain policy objectives of the national and public interests, when indeed there is no mention of those object ives in the domestic regulations of the this person. It is like arguing that becau se the US passed the 55 mph speed limit, that Canadians, while driving on their own r oads, are similarly proscribed by the same legislation. They reasons justifying tha t legislation may be honourable, even vital, but outside of the US juristiction, they have no effect. Thus, the response, premised on US legislation, is moot due t o irrelevancy. 73 and live better digitally Jim, VE3XJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:00 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: CQ DX Message-ID: <1996Feb23.161341.18742@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4evi6m$iui@alterdial.UU.NET> <31194ad3.0@news.provo.novell.com> <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> <1996Feb17.053707.20007@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4ga1sg$s6m@crc-news.doc.ca> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:13:41 GMT In article <4ga1sg$s6m@crc-news.doc.ca> Jim Cummings writes: >gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) wrote: >>In article <4ft7lq$r47@tribune.usask.ca> buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buyden s) writes: >>> >>>When I first got into ham radio I thought it was supposed to be fun. >> >>The amateur radio service is supposed to be fun the same as the Army, >>the Red Cross, or a University are supposed to be fun. You can have >>fun in any of those other organizations, but fun isn't their primary >>purpose, nor is it the primary purpose of the amateur radio service. >>Fun, and personal satisfaction, are the pay we receive for participating >>in the charter purposes of the service, but they are not the reason >>for the service's existence. > >Perhaps this may be true with respect to the US regulatory framework, but I h ardely >see how it is germaine to the original posters's comments when FCC juristicti on does >not apply in Canada. I suspect that the poster is looking of a reply that wo uld be >more applicable in the broader context, rather than the (supposedly) narrow v iew of >Part 97, which I repeat for emphasis, is not applicable to Canadian amateur >operation. Jim, read my comments as many times as I might, I still don't see a single reference to Part 97 or the FCC in there. The amateur radio service is ITU chartered, not just subject to some parochial charter. The ITU defines the Amateur Service as "A service of self-training, intercommunications, and technical investigations carried on by amateurs..." It is true that the US Communications Act of 1934 states plainly that such activity is considered in the national and public interest. I'm not familiar with the justifications stated for the existence of the service in Canada or other nations since I haven't seen the enabling legislation. However, I think I'm safe in saying that the service would not have received the long support it has had worldwide unless there was some recognition that it offered benefits to the national and public interests of the countries who authorize it, who have set aside valuable spectrum for it, and who have time and again supported it at ITU conferences. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:01 1996 Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:47:00 +0200 From: kwp@rai.ping.at (Wolf Harranth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <63Ff9YKF-jB@rai.ping.at> References: <4gbp87$fai@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Subject: Re: CQDL Magazine Frank WD6AGS asks: > Anyone have any info on how to subscribe to the German amateur radio > magazine CQDL? Are there any other german amateur magazines? Order CQDL via: DARC e.V., P.O.Box 1155, D-34216 Baunatal (Phone: +49/561/ 94 98 80; Fax +49/561/9 49 88 50) A more lively magazine is FUNKAMATEUR. Order via: P.O.Box 73, D-10122 Berlin (Phone +49/30/44 66 94 60; Fax +49/30/44 66 94 69) 73 de Wolf OE1WHC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf HARRANTH OE1WHC InterNet: kwp@rai.ping.at Radio Austria International Fido : 2:310/39.44 A-1136 Vienna Packet : OE1WHC@OE1XAB.AUT.EU Austria/Europe Fax : +43/1/87 87 8-44 04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## CrossPoint v3.1 R ## From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:02 1996 From: clarke@aztec.asu.edu (JACK CLARKE) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: 22 Feb 1996 01:13:07 GMT Message-ID: <4ggfv3$80u@news.asu.edu> Clay, you have obviously studied the subject very thoroughly. I think you're right. I'm also not surprised that the salesman didn't know what you were talking about. I am somewhat like your friend who doesn't believe in filters; but, rather, uses his ear. I happen to be a barbershop quartet singer. That is the epitomy of nit-picking over cycles-per- second. My ear can just tune in on about any frequency I want to. Most people have a range of sounds that suits them best. Some are lower -- some are higher. It will be interesting to see the answers to your question. Thank you. Jack VE3EED/W7 P.S. I'm a bass. I like your lower notes. -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:03 1996 From: jwkelley@e4e.oac.uci.edu (James W. KELLEY) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:32:25 GMT Message-ID: <4gt5cp$dsl@news.service.uci.edu> References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb15.151803.12088@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4g0ghd$r58@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb23.150505.18436@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> In article <1996Feb23.150505.18436@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, Gary Coffman wrote: >In article <4g0ghd$r58@brickbat.mindspring.com> cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com w rites: > >Now I at least know *where* I read this. This was an article in >_Science News_ reporting on noise injection as a method of enhancing >weak signal detection. Now I don't normally save back issues of >Science News, but I recall saving this one because of that article, >but I'll be darned if I can find it around here. It was in the last >few months. > >Gary The key words to search on here are "Stochastic Resonance". Very interesting subject matter. I think the article I saw appeared a couple of years ago. The principle is sort of counter intuitive, but it looks like it really does work. Apparently the engineering tests reveal an improvement in signal to noise ratio. Don't know to what extent circumstances play a role in the effectiveness of the technique. I recall the graphic in the article. Recollection is pretty fuzzy, but it showed two wells, positioned side by side with a vertical "barrier", or threshold between them. On the right side was small signal, sort of perched on top of a large amount of noise. On the left side the well was empty. The claim was (by analogy) that by injecting noise into the well on the right, one could boost the signal over the barrier into the other well where the noise level was low. The article was more convincing than my explanation. Of course the analogy only works if you position the signal on top of the noise. I think we are probably more accustomed to thinking of the signal as being "buried" by noise. It would be interesting to see a feature like this added to the next generation rigs. From a marketing standpoint, I wonder how well a "noise boost" switch would be received by the amateur community? hi hi. Jim Kelley KE6JPO From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:05 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: CW ops: What tone do you use? Message-ID: <1996Feb23.150505.18436@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4fkt53$lh7@brickbat.mindspring.com> <1996Feb12.000315.24238@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4ftrsp$1are@stealth.mindspring.com> <1996Feb15.151803.12088@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4g0ghd$r58@brickbat.mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:05:05 GMT In article <4g0ghd$r58@brickbat.mindspring.com> cwhiffen@atl.mindspring.com wr ites: > >>. I know that there is an effect called noise masking >>that occurs for a monotonic signal with noise in the immediate bandpass, >>and that's a FM quieting, or PLL-like, effect. > >That is an interesting statement, Gary. Can you direct me to more >information on this phenomena? It seems to be very relevant to the >effect I mentioned where high (700Hz) tones and narrow (100Hz) >bandwidth filters make CW copy difficult. I wonder if the 'noise >masking' is a function of both frequency and bandwidth? Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I was trying to hunt up the article where I read about this, but it's a lost cause, my "filing" system is hopelessly confused. Anyway, from memory, where this tidbit was found was in an article explaining DSP noise reduction systems. There are basically two ways to do noise reduction, and one of them depends on the psychoacoustic noise masking effect, which apparently works like FM quieting in this case. That's not much of a lead, but its all I have on this. >----------- > >However, I've been reading about a technique of increasing signal >detection >>sensitivity by *adding* noise to the signal (it has something to do with the >>behavior of chaotic systems and flipping the system to a different attractor , >>which is much easier to detect). Anyway, that may have some application here >>too, IE you may not actually be hearing the signal, rather you may be hearin g >>a change in the noise caused by the presence of the signal and your brain >>is assigning that a tonal value. In other words, the tone is actually a >>psychosomatic response to the change in signal+noise. Something to think >>about anyway. > >Where did you read this? I would be interested in reading it also. Now I at least know *where* I read this. This was an article in _Science News_ reporting on noise injection as a method of enhancing weak signal detection. Now I don't normally save back issues of Science News, but I recall saving this one because of that article, but I'll be darned if I can find it around here. It was in the last few months. One of these days I've *got* to get my filing system organized. :-( These are pretty sorry leads, and I'm sorry about that, but it's the best I can do without bringing in a forklift and working through the piles of paper that have accumulated around here. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:06 1996 From: Vincent Biancomano Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 21 Feb 1996 21:47:49 GMT Message-ID: <4gg3u5$470@zeus.ieee.org> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> One should check QST to confirm, but I believe drawing of schematics ceased in the mid 70's. Up until then, 10 of the 100 questions (Extra Class) required the drawing of both schematics and block diagrams. The drawing of schematics had been required at the "lower" classes as well, notably Technician Class. In 1956, the Technician Class license was a moderately difficult exam for a non-engineer, and even a good technician, since the exam stressed practical knowledge of circuitry, even into the VHF region. Thus, schematic drawing was required. The drawing of schematics for Technician Class, however, was dropped in the 60s, I believe, and well before the requirement was scrapped for Extra Class. Whatever the dates, it's easy to check out: all one needs are dated copies of the ARRL License Manual. The 100-question exam structure was also reduced to 50 in the mid 1970s. The "nature" of the questions changed as well, moving slowly away from the hard-nails technical approach. By 1980 or so, the Dick Bash era had arrived, in which the exact questions and answers to exams were first published. We've come a long way. Regards, Vince, WB2EZG From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:07 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: clifto@indep1.chi.il.us (Clifton T. Sharp) Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Message-ID: References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:25:33 GMT In article kf7qz@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Ricky Scott) writes: >I took my novice in late 1976 and then general/advanced in march/july 1977 >respectively. I had to draw simple circuit diagrams as well as block >reciever/transmitter diagrams. Plus the vaulted 13wpm code test in the >FCC building in San Francisco. So hope that helps some I took my Novice in 1965, and Tech in 1965, and General in 1966, and Advanced in 1967, and never ever ever did I have to ever draw any diagram of any sort for any test. I am not aware that there was any requirement for drawing in the 70's. -- Cliff Sharp There are days when no matter which WA9PDM way you spit, it's upwind. clifto@indep1.chi.il.us --The First Law of Reality From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:08 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: kf7qz@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Ricky Scott) Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Message-ID: References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:13:36 GMT Jerry Flanders (flanders@znet.groupz.net) wrote: : I took the General in 1951. I had to draw a few simple schematics for : a few simple circuits. I took my novice in late 1976 and then general/advanced in march/july 1977 respectively. I had to draw simple circuit diagrams as well as block reciever/transmitter diagrams. Plus the vaulted 13wpm code test in the FCC building in San Francisco. So hope that helps some -- Ricky J. Scott I dont speak for my company and they do not speak for me We like it that way and so do their Lawyers. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:09 1996 From: Vincent Biancomano Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 22 Feb 1996 15:55:08 GMT Message-ID: <4gi3ks$5a9@zeus.ieee.org> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> <4gg3u5$470@zeus.ieee.org> P.S. to Kevin Schmidt: The 72nd edition of the ARRL License Manual, dated 1 January 1975, states in the Extra Class chapter that applicants "should be prepared to draw schematics." So that requirement existed for Extra Class at least through 1974. Regards, Vince, WB2EZG From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:10 1996 From: Kevin Schmidt Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:34:33 GMT Message-ID: <4gi5up$4j22@theory.tc.cornell.edu> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> <4gg3u5$470@zeus.ieee.org> Vincent Biancomano wrote: >One should check QST to confirm, but I believe drawing of >schematics ceased in the mid 70's. Up until then, 10 of the >100 questions (Extra Class) required the drawing of both >schematics and block diagrams. The drawing of schematics had been >required at the "lower" classes as well, notably Technician Class. >In 1956, the Technician Class license was a moderately difficult >exam for a non-engineer, and even a good technician, since the >exam stressed practical knowledge of circuitry, even into the >VHF region. Thus, schematic drawing was required. The drawing >of schematics for Technician Class, however, was dropped in the >60s, I believe, and well before the requirement was scrapped for >Extra Class. Whatever the dates, it's easy to check out: all one >needs are dated copies of the ARRL License Manual. > >Regards, >Vince, WB2EZG > I believe that you are wrong, which is why I asked the question originally. I took the extra exam in 1968 and drew no diagrams at all: no block diagrams; no schematic diagrams. When I studied for the exams in the late 60s, the ARRL manuals said that you should be prepared to draw diagrams. However, the real FCC tests, as various posts have verified, had schematic drawing in the late 50s and no drawing in the early 60s. I believe that the ARRL license manuals are a poor method of determining the actual test questions. As I said in my original post, the license manual had practice questions with essay like answers that included schematic diagram drawing. The tests that I took (and apparently others here too) did not. Having read QST, I don't believe they published anything more than the FCC syllabus, if that, during this period. 73 Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:11 1996 From: "Dave J. Cook" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:10:55 GMT Message-ID: <4gd9sf$5rj@dsm6.dsmnet.com> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> Had to draw some in 1958 - power supply I think From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:12 1996 From: Kevin Schmidt Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:26:18 GMT Message-ID: <4giqia$3lta@theory.tc.cornell.edu> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> <4gg3u5$470@zeus.ieee.org> <4gi3ks$5a9@zeus.ieee.org> Vincent Biancomano wrote: >P.S. to Kevin Schmidt: >The 72nd edition of the ARRL License Manual, dated 1 January 1975, >states in the Extra Class chapter that applicants "should be prepared >to draw schematics." So that requirement existed for Extra Class at >least through 1974. > >Regards, >Vince, WB2EZG > Perhaps you didn't read my post. I said: :When I studied for the exams in the late 60s, the ARRL manuals :said that you should be prepared to draw diagrams. However, the real :FCC tests, as various posts have verified, had schematic drawing in :the late 50s and no drawing in the early 60s. I believe that the :ARRL license manuals are a poor method of determining the actual :test questions. Therefore the fact that the license manual said in 1974 what it had been saying for years just meant the license manual was still out of date with respect to the type of tests the FCC really gave. Quoting again from my post you were replying to: :I took the extra exam in 1968 and drew no diagrams at all: no block :diagrams; no schematic diagrams. 73, Kevin w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:13 1996 From: mishmash@anv.net (Charles J. Mishmash) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: DS-1A (DC-DC converter for Kenwood) question Date: 24 Feb 1996 16:23:02 GMT Message-ID: <4gne16$b5r@bighorn.accessnv.com> References: <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> <4gaq03$3sh@news3.cts.com> In article <4gaq03$3sh@news3.cts.com>, jlkolb@sd.cts.com says... > >charles copeland (charles1@netcom.com) wrote: >: In article <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca>, >: Ken Edwards wrote: >: >I have a Kenwood TS-820S that I would like to run off battery in >: >cases of emergency. >:How is the power (DC) connected into the system ? > The TS-820S that I had only required the DS-1A (2 Transistors & Heatsink). The original transformer had separate winding for the DS-1A. Worked very nicely. I wanted to build my own, but could not find the transistors at the time (early 1980's) Charlie AA7NQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:14 1996 From: grhosler@mmm.com (Gary Hosler - KN0Z) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: DX-Reflector Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:28:12 GMT Message-ID: <4gt29t$j9s@dawn.mmm.com> References: <4goq8v$6bi@squick.apana.org.au> plove%/etc/HOSTNAME (Paul Love) wrote: >-- >**************************************************************************** >* E-Mail : plove@quux.apana.org.au | Ax25: vk4xd @ vk4wia.#bne.qld.aus.oc* >**************************************************************************** >Greetings , >Could someone please tell me the subscription address for the DX-Reflector >I used to sub some time ago, but the address I have must be wrong as it >comes back as unknown address. >Would love to re-subscribe , any help gratefully received. >e-mail .. plove@quux.apana.org.au >Thanks in advance & 73 de Paul VK4XD. Send a note to: dx-request@ve7tcp.ampr.org and in the body add: subscribe (fololwed by your internet address here - no parens) 73's & GUD DX OM de KN0Z Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of 3M. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:15 1996 From: Max Marbles Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Field Day: How do you organize one? Date: 21 Feb 1996 07:51:16 GMT Message-ID: <4geitk$s6h@maureen.teleport.com> Howdy, Would appreciate any tips or notes on how you organized a Field Day. Especially, like a time line calendar and lists of necessities. Perhaps there is a WWW site. Any help appreciated we want to make it a good one. 73, Max, KC7GFW From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:16 1996 Date: 21 Feb 1996 18:21:00 +0200 From: kwp@rai.ping.at (Wolf Harranth) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,cor.forsale,or.forsale,rec.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Message-ID: <63JfhKVV-jB@rai.ping.at> References: <4gd26d$ekm@odo.PEAK.ORG> Subject: Re: Free QST magazines. Dean, > I would like to give away a couple years of old QST magazines. Covers > 1979 to 1981 aprox. Free if you are local, otherwise pay shipping by UPS > or US Mail book rate. We need QST 1-6/77; 1,8,9 and 12/1979; 1,2,12/1980; 1/1981 to complete our archive. Can you help? BTW: we also need: 6/1986; 1/1992; 11 and 12/1994; 1-8/1995 - just in case anybody else can help. QSL COLLECTION is a voluntary project, and the largest collection of its kind worldwide. We need magazines, books etc. for reference and research and would be particularly grateful for *old* issues (from the early years up to the seventies). 73 de Wolf OE1WHC Hon. Curator, QSL COLLECTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolf HARRANTH OE1WHC InterNet: kwp@rai.ping.at Radio Austria International Fido : 2:310/39.44 A-1136 Vienna Packet : OE1WHC@OE1XAB.AUT.EU Austria/Europe Fax : +43/1/87 87 8-44 04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## CrossPoint v3.1 R ## From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:17 1996 From: torarne@internet.no (Tor Arne Larsen) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Frkv mods for IC-728-729? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:08:42 GMT Message-ID: <312ba446.18914692@news.internet.no> Reply-To: torarne@internet.no Can anyone be so kind to tell me how i get my Icom IC-729 (728) to transmit on all frequency on HF. Other tips on mods will allso be welcome. Thank you - torarne@internet.no - From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:18 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Good thins about ham radio Date: 21 Feb 1996 12:05:13 GMT Message-ID: <4gf1pp$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------272092569131605 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---------------------------------272092569131605 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain I have positive news to report about my use of ham radio. Yesterday I saw a sign on Route 3 that said "Computer Show." I got on the 147.67 repeater in Quincy and asked for help as to where it was and immediately received excellent advice. Later on the 147.12 repeater in Billerica I asked for help in finding Computer City near Burlington. One again I received superb help plus when I got to Computer City I was much impressed with the store. Most of the time when I ask for help on a repeater I do get it. Ocassionaly I am met with silence but not yesterday. Burt K1OIK From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:19 1996 From: clarke@aztec.asu.edu (JACK CLARKE) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Grading Scale for H.R. Equipment Date: 24 Feb 1996 22:01:01 GMT Message-ID: <4go1qt$2mf@news.asu.edu> What happened to 4, 3, 2, and 1. The system seems to have built-in confusion factors! You say 9-10 is "Pristine". Well -- 10 is "new in the box". Also, 9 is listed as "excellent". So, when I list something as 9-10, do I mean "New', "Pristine", or "Excellent"? Whew!! Maybe we should just use words. Is this a government plot? It really bothers me to stop at 5. How about at least going on down to 1. 4. Run over by a tractor. 3. Run over by a small car. 2. Has been used occasionally for target practice. 1. Has been used a lot for target practice. Great idea!!!! Jack VE3EED -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:19 1996 From: sgibbs@guernsey.net (Steven Gibbs) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Guernsey WWW announcement Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 10:28:15 GMT Message-ID: <4gmsqo$vlc@news.guernsey.net> Reply-To: sgibbs@guernsey.net Guernsey amateur radio WWW pages are indexed at http://www.guernsey.net/~am-radio/ Links include Guernsey ARS; RSGB in Guernsey; Guernsey callbook, email & packet addresses; fm, repeater & packet operation; and a special page for radio amateurs intending to visit the Bailiwick. Maintainers of amateur radio WWW indexes: please include the above URL. Ham radio home page owners: we will be glad to set up reciprocal links. 73, Steve GU3MBS Guernsey, English Channel Islands, 24 February 1996 Steven Gibbs, sgibbs@guernsey.net 44 Les Prins, Vale, GU3MBS@GB7GUR.GB7LWB.#27.GBR.EU GUERNSEY GY6 8HB UK telephone 01481 57605 via England. International +44 1481 57605 From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:20 1996 From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Guernsey WWW announcement Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:57:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4gq7td$e4h@panix.com> References: <4gmsqo$vlc@news.guernsey.net> In <4gmsqo$vlc@news.guernsey.net> sgibbs@guernsey.net (Steven Gibbs) writes: >Guernsey amateur radio WWW pages are indexed at >http://www.guernsey.net/~am-radio/ >Links include Guernsey ARS; RSGB in Guernsey; Guernsey callbook, email >& packet addresses; fm, repeater & packet operation; and a special >page for radio amateurs intending to visit the Bailiwick. >Maintainers of amateur radio WWW indexes: please include the above >URL. >Ham radio home page owners: we will be glad to set up reciprocal >links. >73, Steve GU3MBS Guernsey, English Channel Islands, 24 February 1996 When I tried it: File Not found The requested URL /~am-radio/ was not found on this server. -- Clay Irving, N2VKG : clay@panix.com : Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it http://www.panix.com/clay : to gnaw through the leather straps... From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:21 1996 From: ppickens@cris.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: HAM GEAR - FOR SALE Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:06:31 GMT Message-ID: <4gi4a7$lq3@spectator.cris.com> I am quiting the hobby of ham radio and I am offering the following gear for sale: Ten Tec Paragon - Excellent condition includes all filters, RS- 232 card, voice synthesizer card and Heil head microphone. $1300.00 shipped. Yaesu FT-530 - Excellent condition includes digtial microphone and cigarette lighter adpter. $300.00 shipped. Kantronics KAM Plus multi- mode controller - Mint condition. used less that 10 times, includes all cables and has the latest version of EPROM. $275.00 shipped. MFJ Deluxe Versa Tuner II - Model MFJ-948. Excellent Condition. $75.00 shipped. Palomar Tuner Tuner - Excellent Condition $60.00 shipped. AEA MM-3 - The Morse Machine - Excellent Condition $150.00 shipped. If interested , email me a ppickens@cris.com or call me at 901-377-6704 after 6:00 pm CST. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Name : Phil Pickens Home : Memphis, TN Email: ppickens@cris.com Amateur Call: AD4WP Interests: Ham Radio, Fly Fishing, Fly Tying and Family. Yesterday pasted, Today reality, Tomorrow fantasy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:22 1996 From: lenwink@indirect.com (Len Winkler) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham Radio & More Live Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 21:39:17 GMT Message-ID: <4gg3f9$53k@globe.indirect.com> Ham RAdio & More will be live on WWCR shortwave this sunday at 6:00pm ET, 2300 utc, on 7.435mhz. 2nd frequency possible is 9.435 or 9.400. Our toll free call-in number will be 1-800-293-5366 or outside the country at 602-230-2755. Our guest is David Cunningham, W7BEP, discussing Dopplers and t'hunting. 73, Len Len Winkler, KB7LPW lenwink@indirect.com P.O. Box 9219 kb7lpw@kc7y.az.usa.na Phoenix, Az. 85068-9219 Ham Radio & More Show info at: http://www.barc.org/barc/ham-more.html RealAudio site: www.tapr.org/hrm The show airs LIVE at 6:00pm ET The show also airs on WWCR shortwave, tape delayed at 1000utc on 7.435, on Mon days, and Saturdays at 1700utc on 12.160. 2/25/96: LIVE ON WWCR, 7.435mhz, 2300utc Support "WOG". Written only General!!! From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:24 1996 Distribution: world Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: mike.anderson@asacomp.com (Mike Anderson) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:04:00 -0500 Subject: Re: Ham Radio & More Sho Message-ID: <35.40722.1427@asacomp.com> TA>Burt, I've only been on the Internet for a couple of days now, but I ha TA>say that a quick review of your recent articles reveals a distiinct lac TA>of etiquette. Why are you so darned bitter? Did you lose your job or TA>wife or something? I think there is nothing wrong with you that a week TA>of contesting or maybe helping out a neighbor to install some radio TA>equipment wouldn't cure. Hell, you're as bitter as Pat Buchanan! Mayb TA>oughta run for President. Then again, maybe you oughta just go to chur TA>and get an attitude adjustment. Tom, you will find this newsgroup much more enjoyable if you put Burt in your twit filter as I have done. Mike --- * WR 1.31 # 44 * Bad command. Bad, bad command. Stay! Staaay... From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:25 1996 From: tomcar@newshost.li.net (Tom Carrubba) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: HAMFEST March 10 Lindenhurst, LI Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:01:23 GMT Message-ID: <4gip3j$2k1@linet06.li.net> HAMFEST March 10 '96 Lindenhusrt, NY Release Date: December 15, 1995 Contact: Walter M. Wenzel Phone: 516-957-0218 Fax: 516-957-0218 GREAT SOUTH BAY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB & SUFFOLK COUNTY RADIO CLUB ARRL APPROVED LONG ISLAND HAMFEAST-COMPUTER SHOW - MARCH 10, 1996 LINDENHURST, NY - On March 10, 1996 the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club and the Suffolk County Radio Club will again sponsor an indoor Hamfest-Computer Show. The location will be at the Knights of Columbus Hall located at 400 South Broadway, Lindenhurst, NY. This is an ARRL approved Hamfest. There will be radio equipment, electronic componets, computers and access- ories, softeware, books, technical manulas, ARRL information, Amateur Radio License Exams and information. General admission is $ 5.00. For exam candidates please remember to bring your original FCC Amateur Radio license (if licensed), any C.S.C.E. forms that are pending, plus a photocopy of each, pens, calculator, formal form of ID (preferably photo ID), and the examination fee, to the exam seesion. 1996 ARRL/VEC fee is $ 6.05, exact change is appreciated. Novice exams are free. For vendor and additional information pleas contact, Walter Wenzel KA2RGI at (516) 957-0218 or Lou Meister N2YBX at (516) 842-9159, during EVENING HOURS ONLY (7PM-10PM). NO TABLES WILL BE RESERVED WITHOUT PRIOR PAYMENT due to the limited space available. Tables are 2.5ft x 6ft. Talk-in will be via GSBARC Repeaters on 146.685 4Z(136.5) PL and 223.86 OC. Food Service during the Hamfest will be provided by members of the Knights of Columbus Council. __ Great South Bay ARC P.O. Box 1356 W.Babylon, NY 11704 -- ============================================================================ Tom Carrubba "To err is human, but to really foul N. Babylon, NY things up requires a computer......" KA2DFO packet radio| ka2dfo@kc2fd.ny.usa.na ============================================================================ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:26 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: rodell@atl.com (R.W. Odell) Subject: Hamfests in Seattle or other pacific NW areas? Message-ID: <1996Feb22.065930@atl.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:59:30 GMT I've recently moved and don't have any publications coming through the US SnailMail forwarding yet, so I'm looking for a list of hamfests or other activities in the pacific NW, and the Seattle area in particular. Any help or pointers are appreciated. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ Robert W. Odell (WA2WLH) Voice: (206) 487-7859 _/_/ _/_/ Bothell, Washington, USA CP-ASEL,AMEL _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:27 1996 From: vbook@vbook.com (Ed Mitchell) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hamfests in Seattle or other pacific NW areas? Date: 24 Feb 1996 02:28:13 GMT Message-ID: <4glt3t$n3a@news.accessone.com> References: <1996Feb22.065930@atl.com> In article <1996Feb22.065930@atl.com>, rodell@atl.com says... > >I've recently moved and don't have any publications coming through the US >SnailMail forwarding yet, so I'm looking for a list of hamfests or other >activities in the pacific NW, and the Seattle area in particular. Any help o r >pointers are appreciated. > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/_/ Robert W. Odell (WA2WLH) Voice: (206) 487-7859 _/_/ > _/_/ Bothell, Washington, USA CP-ASEL,AMEL _/_/ >_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > The next big event is the Mic and key hamfest at Puyallup fairgrounds. Talkin on 146.82 on March 9th. This is a big indoor swap meet. ------------------------ personal email to vbook@vbook.com Visit Ham Radio Online, it's free, at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:28 1996 From: Collier_Chun@ccm.hf.intel.com (Collier Chun) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hamfests in Seattle or other pacific NW areas? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 06:58:35 PST Message-ID: <4gshsv$ahe@ornews.intel.com> References: <1996Feb22.065930@atl.com> In article <1996Feb22.065930@atl.com>, rodell@atl.com says... >I've recently moved and don't have any publications coming through the US >SnailMail forwarding yet, so I'm looking for a list of hamfests or other >activities in the pacific NW, and the Seattle area in particular. Any help o r >pointers are appreciated. The ARRL Northwestern division hamvention is held every year during the first full weekend in June in Seaside on the northern coast of Oregon. Quite a nice early summer outing! From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:29 1996 From: philj@ecc-uky.campus.mci.net (Phillip Jockell) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hams that have had sex. Date: 21 Feb 1996 11:59:28 GMT Message-ID: <4gf1f0$8dq@ns.campus.mci.net> References: <4g8b1e$6f5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4g8h8v$m78@abel.richland.cc.il.us> I had a sex once. Traded it for a Midland 13-500 two meter rig. It didn't work.... From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:29 1996 From: mulveyr@ll.aa2ys.ampr.org (Rich Mulvey) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hams that have had sex. Date: 20 Feb 1996 02:46:24 GMT Message-ID: References: <4g8b1e$6f5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4g8h8v$m78@abel.richland.cc.il.us> <1996Feb19.024437.28815@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: mulveyr@vivanet.com On Mon, 19 Feb 1996 02:44:37 GMT, Gary Coffman wrote: >In article <4g8h8v$m78@abel.richland.cc.il.us> s40402@abel.richland.cc.il.us (Joseph Utter) writes: >>70 cm. or 2M? >>That's the question. > >I vote for higher frequency. :-) > Don't discount the need for sufficient amplitude, as well! --- Rich Mulvey, aa2ys Rochester, NY USA mulveyr@vivanet.com aa2ys@net.wb2psi.ampr.org aa2ys@wb2psi.#wny.ny.us From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:30 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hams that have had sex. Date: 19 Feb 1996 14:31:21 GMT Message-ID: <4ga1jp$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <47efnk$6nt@shiva.usa.net> <47fi1i$r28@alterdial.UU.NET> <47j4gp$f6t@allinux2.alliance.net> <47jc6i$ji7@alterdial.UU.NET> kedwards@nando.net wrote: >Still obsessed with things you can't have. Guess you go in >this account's kill file as well. > >Cheers, > >N4ZBB Please do not judge me based on YOUR life. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:31 1996 From: dross@sirinet.net (Donald M. Ross) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hams that have had sex. Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 02:13:51 GMT Message-ID: <4gjslt$5hm@panther.sirinet.net> References: <4g8b1e$6f5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4g8h8v$m78@abel.richland.cc.il.us> <4gf1f0$8dq@ns.campus.mci.net> In article <4gf1f0$8dq@ns.campus.mci.net>, philj@ecc-uky.campus.mci.net (Phillip Jockell) wrote: >I had a sex once. Traded it for a Midland 13-500 two meter rig. >It didn't work.... > > Darn Midlands From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:32 1996 From: kd1yvjim@aol.com (KD1YVJim) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Hams that have had sex. Date: 20 Feb 1996 11:57:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4gcuhl$qb3@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: kd1yvjim@aol.com (KD1YVJim) And don't forget that venerable bumper sticker, "Hams do it 'til their gigahertz!" 73 de Jim KD1YV From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:33 1996 From: ke6tgn@ix.netcom.com(Wanda M Desmond) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hams that have had sex. Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:03:28 GMT Message-ID: <4gd5u0$eie@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4gcuhl$qb3@newsbf02.news.aol.com> In <4gcuhl$qb3@newsbf02.news.aol.com> kd1yvjim@aol.com (KD1YVJim) writes: > >And don't forget that venerable bumper sticker, >"Hams do it 'til their gigahertz!" > >73 de Jim KD1YV What's sex???? John KE6TGN From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:34 1996 From: edward@winternet.com (Robert Edward) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Handicapped HAM needs help Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:57:25 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4g7ro0$jif@news.ecn.bgu.edu> In article <4g7ro0$jif@news.ecn.bgu.edu>, Gerry Feid wrote: >I am a HAM, working my way up from No Code Tech, and I need a source of >extremely low cost equipment. >Disability income doesn't leave a whole lot, and everyone selling good >used equipment wants almost full retail for it, which I can't afford. >It's a matter of simple economics. >I am not looking for freebies! >What I need is a dual band (2m & 70cm) mobile rig that will crossband >repeat for less than a king's ransom. >It has to have a decent power output and a digital display. >If anyone has one or knows of one, please let me know. Hi Gerry: Are you a member of HANDI-HAMS? They offer an equipment purchase program for handicapped members. Not sure if they have a dual band mobile rig in inventory now, but it's possible... Pat Tice, WA0TDA, is the manager of the organization and handles equipment purchases. You can e-mail him at handiham@mtn.org. If you have WWW access, there is a HANDI-HAM website which provides comprehensive information: http://www.mtn.org/~handiham/ Best regards, Bobby Edward WB5MJK Minneapolis, Minnesota edward@winternet.com Courage HANDI-HAM System Volunteer From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:35 1996 From: whester@nyx.cs.du.edu (William R. Hester) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:06:51 -0700 Message-ID: <4gisub$j4f@nyx.cs.du.edu> References: I've seen the ARRL bulletin on this...they say that any limit on towers to less than 70 feet should not be allowed. I agree, however, it is a shame that they used "feet" for the measurement...had they said something like 25 meters, then the metric ignorant zoning commissions might think that it was not too high and comply without argument...and we would get an even taller tower. :-) Bill -- Bill Hester, Ham Radio N0LAJ, Denver CO., USA - N0LAJ@W0LJF.#NECO.CO.USA.NOAM Please route replies to: whester@nyx.cs.du.edu or uunet!nyx!whester Public Access Unix @ University of Denver, Denver Colorado USA (no official affiliation with the above university) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:36 1996 From: danelson@use.usit.net (Douglas Nelson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:52:20 GMT Message-ID: <4givjk$8cv@news.usit.net> References: <4gisub$j4f@nyx.cs.du.edu> William R. Hester (whester@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote: : I've seen the ARRL bulletin on this...they say that any limit on : towers to less than 70 feet should not be allowed. : Perhaps I'm the only ham in the US who doesn't want a tower next door. I guess hams don't have any problem with cellular towers, commercial TV station towers, water towers etc. in their neighbors' yards either. Even if I did find them aesthetically satisfying, I know for a fact that my neighbors don't, and I'd rather have their goodwill than carry my hobby.to its extreme. But I know that this isn't the official ham position...the ARRL says so! Doug Nelson K4JGW From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:36 1996 From: Hans Brakob K0HB <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Date: 24 Feb 1996 04:37:22 GMT Message-ID: <4gm4m2$jsr$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> References: <1996Feb23.170554.114645@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> >Now, if I can just get a nice little place out in the >country, I can get those dogs, that 125' Rohn, and that >log periodic that I've always wanted. My co-worker, K0SF thought the same. Got a nice secluded acreage out in country. Got all the right permits. No problems from the neighbors. Then a nearby golf course sues him because the 130' Rohn may be a flight obstruction to swans from a nearby wetland. (Yeah, right!) To cap it, the major instigator on the golf course board is a licensed ham! 73, de Hans, K0HB -- --If you're searching for something which caused a noise and find out that it's just the cat, leave the room immediately, if you value your life. --Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:37 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Message-ID: <1996Feb23.170554.114645@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: Bill Date: 23 Feb 96 17:05:54 CST References: <4gisub$j4f@nyx.cs.du.edu> <4givjk$8cv@news.usit.net> Towers and lots of aluminum up in the air have always been a problem for those of us who live inside the city limits. In an effort to co-exist with my neighbors, I've had to resort to a well-disguised long wire and antenna tuner. Now, if I can just get a nice little place out in the country, I can get those dogs, that 125' Rohn, and that log periodic that I've always wanted. 73s Bill AA4FM/0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:39 1996 From: Siegfried Rambaum Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:05:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4gisub$j4f@nyx.cs.du.edu> <4givjk$8cv@news.usit.net> What the heck is the problem? Any ham in his senses would not apply for an antenna mast if not 100% assured (best in written) that this would pose no problem. Ever heard that a FLAGPOLE had been objected? Why not make that flagpole sturdy and high, and if some antenna(s) fits under the flag, well .... put the flag up first, and add the antenna later. There is no restriction whatsoever on flagpoles :)) On 22 Feb 1996, Douglas Nelson wrote: > William R. Hester (whester@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote: : I've seen the ARRL > bulletin on this...they say that any limit on : towers to less than 70 > feet should not be allowed. : Perhaps I'm the only ham in the US who > doesn't want a tower next door. I guess hams don't have any problem with > cellular towers, commercial TV station towers, water towers etc. in their > neighbors' yards either. Even if I did find them aesthetically > satisfying, I know for a fact that my neighbors don't, and I'd rather have > their goodwill than carry my hobby.to its extreme. But I know that this > isn't the official ham position...the ARRL says so! > > Doug Nelson K4JGW > > > From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:40 1996 From: Krzr Radio Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.broadcasting,rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: help us buy a new mixer Date: 23 Feb 1996 13:52:19 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gkgqj$118@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> hello, we are in the market for a new mixer. we are wanting FM Stereo quality, 6-8 channels if possible. we have from $2000-$2800 to spend, maybe a little more. please email us at krzr@comp.uark.edu if you have any ideas. thanks. KK KK RRRRRRRRR ZZZZZZZZZZ RRRRRRRRR Univ.Arkansas KK KK RR RR ZZZZ RR RR Student Radio KKKK RRRRRRRR ZZZZ RRRRRRRR krzr@comp.uark.edu KK KK RR RR ZZZZ RR RR http://comp.uark. KK KK RR RR ZZZZZZZZZZ RR RR edu/~krzr/ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:41 1996 From: George Weischadle Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: HT's on cruise ships? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:40:07 -0800 Message-ID: <312C9C67.15E7@sattel.com> References: <1996Feb10.211828.1830@lafn.org> <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> Gerard Foley wrote: > > Abraham Stavsky (ag001@lafn.org) wrote: > > : A friend is embarking on a 3-week Mediterranean cruise and wants > : to know whether to pack his 2m/440 HT. . . . > ====================================== I just did a two week Mediterranean cruise last summer and bot was it great fun. Didn't take the hand-held, though. I figure I wouldn't have had much free time to use it anyway. Cheers. George KD6I -- ----------------------------------------- George Weischadle Sattel Technologies, Inc. 9145 Deering Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 Voice:(818) 718-6437 Fax: (818) 785-0629 ----------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:41 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: df1hx@flux.isys.net (Thomas Krull) Subject: Re: HT's on cruise ships? Message-ID: References: <1996Feb10.211828.1830@lafn.org> <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:12:17 GMT In article , Siegfried Rambaum wrote: [...] >Within Europe however, you just need one reciprocal license, and I guess >either Austria or Germany are the swiftest to obtain one. I dont recall >what these licenses are called, but since the early eighties, for >example, you can go with a German lic into most other European countries >without having to apply for some reciprocal license, you just add the >appropriate lic-class-country-prefix with a / to your call, and that's it. Hi Siegfried and other readers ! Our licenses here are called CEPT Licences. There is no more need to apply for a reciprocal licence if travelling to annother European coun- try which has joined the CEPT agreement as well, most Western European countries did so and even New Zealand joined the CEPT Standard. There are two licence classes only, '1' (code, all ham-bands) and '2' (no-code, UHF/VHF only). Just add the appropiate prefix of the country you're staying to your regular callsign, i.e. when i travel to Sicily/Italy i can use IT/DF1HX/p . 73, de Thomas [DF1HX] -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Krull df1hx@flux.isys.net DF1HX ------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:43 1996 From: rfowler@cris.com (Rich Fowler) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Info on 'fists' Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 19:32:26 GMT Message-ID: <4gnovg$8oo@spectator.cris.com> References: <96054.124725U54293@uicvm.uic.edu> FISTS is an International Morse Preservation Society. I'm not going to give any history in case I get it wrong. Needless to say that most of he members are nominated by fellow CW operators. Usually they have worked one another or have met on one of the FISTS nets. Net freq Net Control Time 14058 KE3NV 2000z Sundays 7058 KE3NV 2400z Saturdays(7pm EST) 3682 Slow TFC net 9pm EST (Tues/Thurs) 3720 Slow QSO(WB8I) 8pm 14/21/28.058 listen for CQ FISTS on the hour. email Nancy Kott WZ8Z: 73631.3654@compuserve.com for more info application for FISTS. Also possible to sked with me and I'll send you an applicaton. Vy 73, Rich K8MEG (rfowler@cris.com) >I have seen refernces to a group called 'fists'. Please tell me >what they do and how does one join them if interested. >thanks much. >73. >-boB Brown (KB9LFR) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:44 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) Subject: Just imagine: SW communications on Jupiter (probe had SW reciever) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 06:32:03 GMT The Galileo Jupiter atmosphere probe I heard had a SW reciever on board, to listen for lightning discharges. According to some results I heard, the scientists think they "heard" distant lightning via some really long distance DX. Jupiter is not a planet suitable for people to live on, even with spacesuits and such. But if man could figure out a way (and an economic reason why, like the gas mine in the 2nd Star Wars movie) one could concievely have DX contacts over much longer distances than possible on Earth. Just a wild thought I had...... From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:45 1996 From: medcalf@idir.net (Karl Medcalf (WK5M)) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Kantronics new WWW site - product info, hints Date: 24 Feb 1996 15:31:16 GMT Message-ID: <4gnb04$bek@sequoia.idir.net> Kantronics now has a WWW site with spec sheets on their products, hints on operating, some articles of interest, etc. It also provides mailto links for service related problems. http://www.kantronics.com/ -- 73, Karl Internet: medcalf@idir.net Packet: WK5M @ WK5M.#NEKS.KS.USA.NOAM ***** The views and opinions expressed here are mine and do not ***** ***** necessarily reflect those of my employer! ***** From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:45 1996 From: subbustr@whidbey.net (DAVE M . SCHERTZER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Keypad Mod For Yaesu Ft-51r Date: 22 Feb 1996 04:34:31 GMT Message-ID: <4ggron$jhi@whidbey.whidbey.com> References: <4gae74$ol5@cloner4.netcom.com> Info: Must unsolder jumper pad #6 No keyboard mod to my knowledge?? subbusrt@whidbey.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:46 1996 From: dnorris@k7no.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: LOGGING SOFTWARE Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:06:17 GMT Message-ID: <4ghplq$48@news.syspac.com> References: <4g40hq$gsl@news1.goodnet.com> Roland S Geter PhD wrote: There are really two software packages that I use and find very fantastic. KENTROL is a really great transceiver controlling software package that currently does not have logging but will presently. Get it at brian@synapse.net. LOGICW is my other favorite that has both routine logging for awards and very sophisticated contest logging software. If connected to various transceivers thru computer port you don't even have to enter the start or end time of QSO, frequency, mode, ect. It even has a CD-ROM interface for only $48 that automatically looks up the callsign and enter the contacts name, address, etc. subsequently automatically printing QSL cards. Really to much to mention here. Get if from pda@hosenose.com. Both packages are WINDOWS platform and as I have used them for uit a while with the LOGICW being my favorite because Ihave KENWOOD TS-940S & TS-440S that are included in their hardware driver lists. Most modern equipment with eomputer interfaces are supported though. Once you use the coputer controlled transceiver you will wonder how you ever got along without it even for just routine everyday non-contest logging. 73's Roland S Geter PhD - WB6LNA -------------------------------------------------- Hi Roland, I Use LogPlus by KD7P. Great rig control and super loger. cdn C. Dean Norris, Esq. Amateur Radio Station K7NO e-mail to dnorris@k7no.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:48 1996 From: Richard Kiefer Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: LOGGING SOFTWARE Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 10:59:29 -0800 Message-ID: <312F6011.539D@athena.csdco.com> References: <4g40hq$gsl@news1.goodnet.com> <4ghplq$48@news.syspac.com> dnorris@k7no.com wrote: > > Roland S Geter PhD wrote: > > There are really two software packages that I use and find very > fantastic. > > KENTROL is a really great transceiver controlling software package > that > currently does not have logging but will presently. Get it at > brian@synapse.net. > > LOGICW is my other favorite that has both routine logging for awards > and > very sophisticated contest logging software. If connected to various > transceivers thru computer port you don't even have to enter the start > or > end time of QSO, frequency, mode, ect. It even has a CD-ROM interface > > for only $48 that automatically looks up the callsign and enter the > contacts name, address, etc. subsequently automatically printing QSL > cards. Really to much to mention here. Get if from pda@hosenose.com. > > Both packages are WINDOWS platform and as I have used them for uit a > while with the LOGICW being my favorite because Ihave KENWOOD TS-940S > & > TS-440S that are included in their hardware driver lists. Most modern > > equipment with eomputer interfaces are supported though. Once you use > > the coputer controlled transceiver you will wonder how you ever got > along > without it even for just routine everyday non-contest logging. > > 73's > Roland S Geter PhD - WB6LNA > -------------------------------------------------- > > Hi Roland, > > I Use LogPlus by KD7P. Great rig control and super loger. > > cdn > > C. Dean Norris, Esq. > Amateur Radio Station K7NO > e-mail to dnorris@k7no.comHas anybody tried the logging software calle d CT? How is the rig control with this one? Setting up a new station at a new house and hoping to work some DX. Thanks. Dick Kiefer, K0DK From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:48 1996 From: VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Logical Reasons to Retain Code Testing Date: 21 Feb 1996 03:55:26 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ge53e$10gk@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> (none) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:49 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Logical Reasons to Retain Code Testing Date: 25 Feb 1996 10:32:48 GMT Message-ID: <4gpdsg$h8f@news.hal-pc.org> References: <4ge53e$10gk@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > (none) > I tend to agreee. What about keeping the code as an endorsement to the amateu r license, similar to the way commercial licenses have various endorsements. The endorsement would intitle the holder to use the exclusive CW portion of each band. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid ------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:50 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Logical Reasons to Retain Code Testing Date: 26 Feb 1996 14:29:27 GMT Message-ID: <4gsg48$qr7@news.hal-pc.org> References: <4gqtg9$11eu@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > >> VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > >> (none) > >> > > > >I tend to agreee. What about keeping the code as an endorsement to the > >amateur license, similar to the way commercial licenses have various > >endorsements. The endorsement would intitle the holder to > >use the exclusive CW portion of each band. > > This is much too logical, and ignores the REAL reason why "YE OLDE > FAHRTZ" insist on keeping an 1800's technology as a required amateur > testing element in 1996. The CW test keeps the "undesirables" out of > "their" private social club on HF, dontcha know? > > I've heard that argument far to many times. Why not require a EE degree or th at the applicant do 100 pushups. That sure would restrict the membership to the "club". No, I think that the answer is much simpler. Since the holder of the HF class license had to pass that code requirement, so should you. This attitute is is perpetuated year after year even to the point where it origional purpose, t o insure competent operators in a time that CW was the main form of communicatio n, has benn forgotten. It is going to take some real leadership on the part of t he ARRL to bring amateur radio kicking and screaming into the 21 century. But it is "catch 22", all of our leadership consist of those people who have passed the code test and feal that "since I had to pass that test so should you." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid ------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:51 1996 From: davidf@gobears.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Friedman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Looking for VE Testing SOON... Date: 27 Feb 1996 04:43:29 GMT Message-ID: <4gu25h$4o5@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> I'm trying to find a VE Testing opportunity to upgrade from my Novice to Tech ASAP in the Southern California area. Anything in LA County, Orange County or Riverside County will do... For that matter, if anyone knows of any tests on a weekend in San Mateo/Santa Clara/San Francisco/Alameda Counties, I can do that too. Thanks, Dave Friedman davidf@gobears.Berkeley.EDU From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:53 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: john@wd1v.mv.com (John Seney) Subject: Mac Ham Users Group Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:22:13 GMT "Macnet Roster" (ver. 733) has just been updated and is now a stand-alone application! The version number = the number of hams using Macs. "Macnet Roster" lists: o CALL SIGN @ HOME PBBS o FULL NAME o ADDRESS o CITY, STATE, ZIP o INTERNET ADDRESS o MACS USED o RADIOS USED o SOFTWARE USED o PASSIONS o COMMENTS of every known amateur radio operator in the world that uses a Mac computer. You can use "Macnet Roster" to find other Mac users that you can then communicate with directly. Compare notes on software, applications, ideas, hints and kinks, and make new ham friends that use the same computer you do. (You already know how cool you are - imagine accessing "the rest of us"!) If you'd like the latest "Macnet Roster": Send me a formatted disk in a self addressed and stamped disk mailer that is in a large envelope clearly marked "ROSTER". Or connect to my home page via the WWW http://www.mv.com/ipusers/wd1v Put YOUR INFO (via EMAIL or disk using TEACH TEXT) if you'd like to be include d in the "Macnet Roster" or send an update to your stats to me via pkt or email anytime. 73, John D. Seney |_|_|_|_| E-mail: john@wd1v.mv.com 144 Pepperidge Drive |_| |_| WWW http://www.mv.com/ipusers/wd1v Manchester, NH 03103-6150 |_|_ _|_| Skytel Page: 5956779@skymail.com VM + Auto-Pager: 603-533-3472 | | | | | AX.25: wd1v@wb1dsw.nh.usa.noam LeCroy Sales Engineer + Applications/Sales/Customer Service + 800-553-2769 [See Latest Digital Scope.FAQ on my Home Page] We must believe in free will. We have no choice. (I.B. Singer) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:54 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc From: shelj@holli.com (Jeffery Shelton) Subject: mod for ft1000mp needed Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:03:56 GMT need mod for yeasu ft1000mp can anyone help??? thanks jeff e-mail=shelj@holli.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:55 1996 From: jmd@pe.net (Jeff DeMarco) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Morse Code for Windows? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 15:55:57 GMT Message-ID: <4gi3mc$f1i@nfs1.pe.net> If anyone is aware of a morse code tutor for Windows or Windows95, please let me know. Tnx! JMD ************************************************* Jeff DeMarco WB6KUW Riverside, CA jmd@pe.net http://www.pe.net/~jmd "I am not a number, I am an alphanumeric string!" From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:56 1996 Message-ID: <63IMNg4vmiB@hit170.hit.handshake.de> From: hb.wibbelt@hit.handshake.de (Hans-Bernd Wibbelt) Subject: Morse key wiring diagram wanted Date: 20 Feb 1996 23:11:00 +0100 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Distribution: world ## Nachricht vom 19.02.96 weitergeleitet ## Ursprung : /REC/RADIO/AMATEUR/EQUIPMENT ## Ersteller: HB.WIBBELT@HIT.handshake.de Hello, can anyone send a simple wiring diagram of a Morse key (transmittor)? This is what a young friend of mine asked me to put into a BB. I'm not quite sure what he means but I hope there's help. Cheers H.B. -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:56 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton) Subject: Re: NEW RAE IN 1997 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:17:47 GMT References: <2a6.30470.545@acenet.com> Brian Carling (brian.carling@acenet.com) wrote: : Lazy blighters! When I took it in 1967 it was a serious ESSAY test : where you had to draw circuit diagrams etc.! It's harder now, you have to be able to unscramble *their* circuit diagrams, then work out which answer *they* think is right when some questions give you a choice of several or none that are actually right :-) I jest not David From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:57 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: New WWW Amateur Exam Practice Page!! Date: 25 Feb 1996 10:37:21 GMT Message-ID: <4gpe51$h8f@news.hal-pc.org> References: <4g8574$ls1@post.its.mcw.edu> > > HREF="http://www.biochem.mcw.edu/Postdocs/Simon/radio/exam.html">http://www.bi ochem.mcw. edu/P > ostdocs/Simon/radio/exam.html > > I _think_ it should all work as expected but I welcome any reports of bugs and/or > suggestions! > > I hope this is of use to people interested in upgrading. > > Thanks, > Simon Twigger, AA9PW/G1SNT > > PS: If the page is slow, or not to your liking, try Ham Exam at: > http://w5ac.tamu.edu:80/ham-exam.html > > OK, I'll try it later. Come by my web site and let me know what you think. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid ------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:07:59 1996 From: xcitor@radix.net (xcitor) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:06:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fi74f$rjb@over.mhv.net> <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net> <4gdj1c$hm5@news1.radix.net> In article <4gdj1c$hm5@news1.radix.net>, dayglo@radix.net (Dayglo) wrote: >On the other side of the coin there is: > >60 ft tower + 1500 Watts + $1200 radio = NO BRAINS > >I am a technician and like building my own kit/antennas. I will be >much more satisfied with a Worked All States from my own equipment then if I >dropped $10,000 for a setup. I was talking with someone just like this on th e >air. The first thing that they said was, technician huh!, well you can >upgrade!! then they proceeded to state that they could not talk because they >were DX'ing Africa. Well how much brains does it take to DX anything with that >setup. How about this one- 100 ft tower + 1500 watts + $3000 radio = who the fuck COULDN'T get a WAS or a DXCC on 40 or 80 meters. Me, a no-code tech, I'll have the bragging rights when I get my VUCC and WAS ALL ON VHF/UHF!!!! It can be done. This will be done probably with less than 500 watts mostly on 6m with my goddam hombrew 6m dipole. Goddam code-knowing egotistical bastards! -- "The problem with the Global Village is all the global idiots." From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:00 1996 From: tonyp@convex.com (Tony J. Podrasky) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:25:47 GMT Message-ID: <4gdaob$kii@convex.convex.com> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> In article <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net>, wrote: > >I use the 2M band on a regular basis and that includes auto patch >and repeater services. I do not have ANY KIND of FCC license although >I might get one if I have the time to waste. > >C. McCane > Please don't "waste" any of your time. Just keep operating without the license . Sooner or later things will take care of themselves. -- Tony J. Podrasky You don't TUG on Superman's cape, You don't SPIT San Diego , Ca in the wind, You don't PULL the mask off the ol' tonyp@convex.com Lone Ranger, and you don't *WEEDWACK* dogsh*t. QSL? QRU? QRZ? QLZ? QFA? - Jim Croce (after doing some yard work) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:01 1996 From: Rod Dinkins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 22 Feb 1996 15:33:25 GMT Message-ID: <4gi2c5$1vj@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fi74f$rjb@over.mhv.net> <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net> <4gdj1c$hm5@news1.radix.net> To: xcitor@radix.net Here in San Diego we have a club with over 800 members -- many many with No-Code Tech Licenses. I and many many others think the No code licenses are a great addition to Amateur Radio. See my articles of accomplishments of same. As for big gun stations -- we have a group of QRPers here, several who have worked DXCC (all CW or SSB) with less than 5 watts and modest antennas such as a Cushcraft R5 mounted 8 foot off the ground. Not easy or for the faint-hearted but DEFINITELY achievable. Don't let a few "bug" you when the majority welcomes you. But: You can get further with a wet noodle and a linear than you can with just a wet noodle -- Big Al from Chicago! -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:02 1996 From: rfm@urth.eng.sun.com (Rich McAllister) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 22 Feb 1996 18:03:05 GMT Message-ID: References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> In article xcitor@radix.ne t (xcitor) writes: >I'll have the bragging rights when I get my VUCC and >WAS ALL ON VHF/UHF!!!! It can be done. Actually, I believe *every* VUCC has been done all on VHF/UHF. -- Rich McAllister (rfm@eng.sun.com) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:03 1996 From: tonyp@convex.com (Tony J. Podrasky) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:36:04 GMT Message-ID: <4gdbbk$l59@convex.convex.com> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fi74f$rjb@over.mhv.net> <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net> In article <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net>, wrote: > >No Code = No Brain = C.B. > >The following message is a refutation of the above statement. >In fact, the following is much more true: > >Amatuer = Ham = No Brain > yu spelt am-chore rong agin, mistur McCane. It mayks yu luk stoopider then yore argament allreddy iz. 'threes > >C. McCane > -- Tony J. Podrasky | You know those little buttons you press to cross the street San Diego , Ca | at an intersection? Well, regardless of what you have been tonyp@convex.com | told they *do* react to how hard and how many times they WA2EAA/MAZEAAA | have been pressed, and adjust the tfc lights accordingly. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:04 1996 From: vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 23:17:21 GMT Message-ID: <4go6b6$3ef@news.mcn.net> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fi74f$rjb@over.mhv.net> <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net> <4gdj1c$hm5@news1.radix.net> Having to learn CW, never hurt anyone. And only IDIOTS complain about it! 73 de KB7ADL From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:05 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 25 Feb 1996 05:38:54 GMT Message-ID: <4gosle$a0v@cc.iu.net> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In , rfm@urth.eng.sun.com (Rich McAllister ) writes: >In article xcitor@radix.n et (xcitor) writes: >>I'll have the bragging rights when I get my VUCC and >>WAS ALL ON VHF/UHF!!!! It can be done. >Actually, I believe *every* VUCC has been done all on VHF/UHF. >Rich McAllister (rfm@eng.sun.com) oh, now don't be confusing them with the facts, rich... Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:06 1996 From: dfinn@nando.net (Dan Finn) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 03:42:12 GMT Message-ID: <4gpvqb$8do@castle.nando.net> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> <312E0831.3D5F@ix.netcom.com> Jim Daneke said: >cmccane@onramp.net@onramp.net wrote: >> >> In <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net>, boblee writes: >> >IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE NO-CODE TECH I WOULD NOT BE A HAM TODAY. >> >ALOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS LICENCE CLASS BUT IT >> >IS ATTRACTING THOUSANDS OF NEW HAMS DAILY. Thousands? Daily? I've said this a trilliion times: usenet is not the proper place for exageration. >> Listen to a new world technologist's attitude that's shared by most: >> >> I'm an electronics engineer, a member of the IEEE, and a computer >> network architect. I like radio and analog electronics as a hobby. >> I use the 2M band on a regular basis and that includes auto patch >> and repeater services. I do not have ANY KIND of FCC license although >> I might get one if I have the time to waste. One thing is for >> sure: >> I WILL NEVER TAKE A TEST ON MORSE CODE!!!!!!!!!!! You will never enjoy legal amateur HF priviledges either. But what the hay... >> >> I've been extremely successful as a designer of TCP/IP networks >> and recently became a Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer to >> boot, so, maybe with all that extra cash I'll pick up an HF radio >> for home and another for the car, hook up some TA's and have >> a roving data terminal, NATIONWIDE!!!!! If this is the type of person an HF codeless license would attract, I may prefer to leave the testing structure as it is, thank you. de KR4AJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:08 1996 From: Jim Daneke Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:32:17 -0700 Message-ID: <312E0831.3D5F@ix.netcom.com> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> To: cmccane@onramp.net cmccane@onramp.net@onramp.net wrote: > > In <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net>, boblee writes: > >IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE NO-CODE TECH I WOULD NOT BE A HAM TODAY. > >ALOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS LICENCE CLASS BUT IT > >IS ATTRACTING THOUSANDS OF NEW HAMS DAILY. OTHERS THINK WE WON'T > >UPGRADE , I'VE ONLY HAD MY LICENCE FOR A COUPLE MOUNTHS AND I'M ALMOST > >READY FOR GENERAL. MAYBE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO "NEWS LINE" MORE OFTEN. > > KC7NIY--CHUCK > > 73'S > > Listen to a new world technologist's attitude that's shared by most: > > I'm an electronics engineer, a member of the IEEE, and a computer > network architect. I like radio and analog electronics as a hobby. > I use the 2M band on a regular basis and that includes auto patch > and repeater services. I do not have ANY KIND of FCC license although > I might get one if I have the time to waste. One thing is for > sure: > I WILL NEVER TAKE A TEST ON MORSE CODE!!!!!!!!!!! > > What kind of a BONEHEAD is so obsessed with HISTORY that they seek > to make modern electronics professionals and hobbyists learn the > trade of the old telegraph operators of the 1800's? In terms of > electronics knowledge I have regularly WAXED every "amatuer" > radio operator that I have ever met and all they can do is try to > hold this childs toy morse code thing over my head. Gimme a > break man!!! That CRAP IS DEAD!!!!! It serves NO PURPOSE!!!!! > Don't even try and argue with that - YOU WILL GET WAXED TOO!!!! > Let's face it, in the 1990's it's outdated to even use HF for voice. > This is the age of DATA COMMUNICATIONS. I would like to invite > all really fast morse code guys to come over and try to beat the > speed of my terminal adapter at 9600 baud. And for those who > want to say things like "but what if, in a really bad disaster, > you didn't have your TA?" Do I even need to get involved in > such a pathetic arguement? NO!! > Now, to change the subject a bit, I don't ever want to be called > an "amatuer radio operator" - what a pathetic label. I got my > general class professional ticket while I was in the Navy, so how > am I supposed to be called an "amatuer" - really weak label. And > as for being called a "Ham Operator", I'll never be a HAM. > I've been extremely successful as a designer of TCP/IP networks > and recently became a Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer to > boot, so, maybe with all that extra cash I'll pick up an HF radio > for home and another for the car, hook up some TA's and have > a roving data terminal, NATIONWIDE!!!!! One thing that will never stop > me is MORSE CODE!!!!!!! > > C. McCane Sounds like you're pretty impressed with yourself! From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:09 1996 From: myers@West.Sun.COM (Dana Myers) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 25 Feb 1996 07:07:42 GMT Message-ID: <4gp1ru$plg@abyss.West.Sun.COM> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4gdj1c$hm5@news1.radix.net> <4go6b6$3ef@news.mcn.net> In article <4go6b6$3ef@news.mcn.net>, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote: > >Having to learn CW, never hurt anyone. And only IDIOTS complain about it! > > >73 de KB7ADL Yeah, right. Just like only IDIOTS cross-post to several unrelated groups. Note the followup-to: line, please. -- * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD#: j | Views expressed here are * * (310) 348-6043 | mine and do not necessarily * * Dana.Myers@West.Sun.Com | reflect those of my employer * From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:10 1996 From: adell@planet.net ( Steve - KF2TI) Landing, NJ Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 27 Feb 1996 12:24:12 GMT Message-ID: <4gut5c$ior@jupiter.planet.net> References: > xcitor@radix.net (xcitor) writes: > Me, a no-code tech, I'll have the bragging rights when I get my VUCC and > WAS ALL ON VHF/UHF!!!! It can be done. This will be done probably with ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > less than 500 watts mostly on 6m with my goddam hombrew 6m dipole. > I would certainly hope so!! Maybe you could try 2 meters WAS only. now that w ould be something. > Goddam code-knowing egotistical bastards! Name calling..tsk tsk tsk (does this make you a goddam code noing bastardly s nob???) steve From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:11 1996 From: Steve Butler Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Obtaining Question Pools? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:05:04 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4ge7rv$v4u@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Try this area on oak.oakland.edu /pub3/hamradio/arrl/bbs/vec: 610instr.txt 10k "FCC Form 610 instructions" advanced.new 159k "Advanced Question Pool (After 7/95)" advm95a.zip 191k "Advanced Class Manager 95 - Win (needs VBRUN300.DLL)" arrlfall.txt 12k "ARRL VEC Fall Exam Opportunities" ele2.zip 24k "ELEMENT 2 Questions" ele3a.zip 21k "ELEMENT 3A Questions" ele3b.zip 23k "ELEMENT 3B Questions" ele4a.zip 34k "ELEMENT 4A Questions" ele4b.zip 34k "ELEMENT 4B Questions" On 21 Feb 1996, Emarit Ranu wrote: > and wants to take an exam here. He wants the latest question > pools. Anyone know where I can get them via ftp? I have had > no luck on oak.oakland.edu, maybe I am blind?? +----------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Butler Voice: 206-464-2998 | | The Seattle Times Fax: 206-382-8898 | | PO Box 70 Internet: sbut-is@seatimes.com | | Seattle, WA 98111 Packet: KG7JE@N6EQZ.WA | +----------------------------------------------------+ All standard and non-standard disclaimers apply. All other sources are annonymous. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:12 1996 From: dmeredith@phx-az.com (Daniel Meredith) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: PACKET-INTERNET GATEWAY?? Date: 25 Feb 1996 18:16:02 -0700 Message-ID: <4gr1ki$b8k@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <314@yebbs.com> Reply-To: dmeredith@phx-az.com samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) wrote: >Hi, >Thanks for reading this message and I would like to ask if anyone knows >the E-mail & packet address of a Packet <--> Internet Gateway. >I know that there is a lot of them but I only tried one which is W2XO >with no luck and it was the only address I got from QST. >Any information will be very much appreciated. >Best 73's >Samir (OD5SK & KC5RYL) >Packet: OD5SK@7Z2YB.JED.SAU.MDLE > OD5SK@OD5RAK.LBN.MDLE >QTH: Jeddah - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia. >--- > ώ QMPro 1.53 ώ °±²Ϋ CQ CQ CQ DE OD5SK Ϋ²±° David Dodell, WB7TPY in Phoenix has operated a very successful and might I add, STABLE Internet<-->Packet Gateway. Contact david@stat.com for information on how to use it. Daniel From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:13 1996 From: macino@mail.fwi.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Date: 21 Feb 1996 01:32:16 GMT Message-ID: <4gdsn0$om1@news.ios.com> References: <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk> Reply-To: macino@mail.fwi.com In <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk>, ian@james.powernet.co.uk (Ian James) wr ites: >I have an IBM clone computer in the shack which I use for Internet and >hope to use for radio logging. However, the QRM from the computer >doesn't allow me to operate successfully on most bands. > >Does anyone know of a simple way of eliminating this interference? > Hi, Hate to be cold but, if you have it properly grounded, then shielding is anot her think to look at. 'CLONEs' aren't always created equal. They had to save cost someplace. Jim From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:14 1996 From: hornej@rastro.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Horne) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Date: 21 Feb 1996 21:49:29 GMT Message-ID: <4gg419$pbt@peabody.colorado.edu> References: <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk> <4gf19l$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> I've found that my external modem creates significant interference on the VHF bands when I'm online. Offline, it doesn't cause much trouble. Jonathan From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:15 1996 From: kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com (Tony Pelliccio) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4gjdaa$6si@anomaly.ideamation.com> References: <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk> <4gf19l$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gg419$pbt@peabody.colorado.edu> In article <4gg419$pbt@peabody.colorado.edu>, Jonathan Horne wrote: >I've found that my external modem creates significant interference on the >VHF bands when I'm online. Offline, it doesn't cause much trouble. > >Jonathan > I've opened up Mac Powerbooks to repair them and surprise! The internal modems in those have two crystal oscilators onboard. One is rated at 46MHz and the other at 14.xxxMHz. These should create some wonderful noise on the HF bands and the 14.xxx can interfere wih 140MHz since it's a 10th harmonic. Does this sound right? Tony -- == Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR == As offensive as I wanna be. == kd1nr@anomaly.ideamation.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:16 1996 From: Richard Kiefer Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:06:11 -0800 Message-ID: <312F61A3.12EF@athena.csdco.com> References: <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk> Ian James wrote: > > I have an IBM clone computer in the shack which I use for Internet and > hope to use for radio logging. However, the QRM from the computer > doesn't allow me to operate successfully on most bands. > > Does anyone know of a simple way of eliminating this interference? Most radiation comes from the cables which are connected to the computer, ie keyboard, printer, display. You can sometime use ferrite beads on these or use shielded cables which are well grounded to the computer chassis. Unfortunately the typical clones are the worst offenders for EMI. Also, make sure that none of the cable which come out of the computer are close to your antenna coax. Dick Kiefer, K0DK From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:17 1996 From: jaminge@pb2esac.esac.pacbell.com (John Minger) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:23:37 GMT Message-ID: <4gittp$g9v@gw.PacBell.COM> References: <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk> <4gf19l$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gg419$pbt@peabody.colorado.edu> Jonathan Horne wrote: > I've found that my external modem creates significant interference > on the VHF bands when I'm online. Offline, it doesn't cause much > trouble. My external modem drives my HT nuts, while my two Macintoshes are pretty well behaved by comparison. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm online or not. The offending modem is a US Robotics Sportster 14,400. -John -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Minger Interests: Genealogy, Amateur Radio KE6DTC@K6VE.#SOCA.CA.USA.NOAM, TCP/IP: 44.16.1.240 - ke6dtc.ampr.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:18 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: dts@peanut.senie.com (Daniel Senie) Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Message-ID: <4gqqqa$4ba@peanut.senie.com> References: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:19:38 GMT In article , Az0th wrote: [some stuff deleted] >You will _not_ be able to eliminate all the noise from your x86 box without >resorting to industrial strength, TEMPEST-style repackaging. You will be >able to _reduce_ the noise from your x86 box by smart use of shielding, >grounding, bypassing, filtering, etc.. Just repositioning your gear to >minimize the interference can make a big difference, and you can probably >live with some level of EMI without wanting to pull your hair, since your >x86 is probably chewing on many frequencies you don't even care about. This is not true. It's entirely possible to construct a PC which can be contained completely in plastic, and not have it radiate. Some hardware engineers and EMI engineers actually take the time to bypass circuits and IC's properly, and don't have the EMI leaking around in the first place. Other folks don't worry about it, figuring that the enclosure will do the trick. The latter approach results in added filters, toroids on supplied cables, etc. on the finished product. These all increase the cost ultimately and never fully solve the problem. A few cents worth of parts, and a few hours work on the designs makes all the difference. Many PCs on the market which claim to be FCC Class B, aren't. If a random sample were pulled from the production line and placed in a proper test chamber, you'd see some ugly things... In my shack I run a 486/100, high resolution VGA, etc., this system is connected to two other systems and a router over Ethernet. I don't have any problems with RFI from any of this. I have added a toroid here and there, but not many. Dan N1JEB -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie Internet: dan@senie.com, Daniel Senie Consulting n1jeb@senie.com http://www.senie.com Packet Radio: N1JEB@KA1SRD.MA From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:19 1996 From: darryl.linkow@grinder.com (DARRYL LINKOW) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: QSL's - HELP!! Message-ID: <8BB3410.016B004B2B.uuout@grinder.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 17:20:00 -0800 Distribution: world Reply-To: darryl.linkow@grinder.com (DARRYL LINKOW) Hello all and thanks for reading this. I am trying to get return QSL cards from three amateur stations. Each station I have sent my QSL card along with a SASE and they have not had the courtesy to send a reply! If anyone knows these hams, please contact them for me and request that they mail a QSL to me. Or, if you have an Email address for them, please Email me back with their Email address. Any and all help is appreciated. The stations are: WA6TBO - Kent Tiburski - Vista, CA N0YNP - Jeanne Weber - Mitchell, NE N7ANL - Richard - Kootenai, ID 73, and thanks for any and all help! Darryl KE6IHA --- * OLX 2.2 * Darryl Linkow (818)346-5278 9 am - 5 pm PST From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:20 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: cookt@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu Subject: Re: QSL's - HELP!! Message-ID: Reply-To: cookt@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu References: <8BB3410.016B004B2B.uuout@grinder.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:20:04 GMT In article <8BB3410.016B004B2B.uuout@grinder.com>, darryl.linkow@grinder.com ( DARRYL LINKOW) writes: > >Hello all and thanks for reading this. I am trying to get return >QSL cards from three amateur stations. Each station I have sent my >QSL card along with a SASE and they have not had the courtesy to >send a reply! If anyone knows these hams, please contact them for >me and request that they mail a QSL to me. Or, if you have an >Email address for them, please Email me back with their Email >address. Any and all help is appreciated. The stations are: > WA6TBO - Kent Tiburski - Vista, CA > N0YNP - Jeanne Weber - Mitchell, NE > N7ANL - Richard - Kootenai, ID > > 73, and thanks for any and all help! > Darryl KE6IHA > >--- > * OLX 2.2 * Darryl Linkow (818)346-5278 9 am - 5 pm PST Maybe you should send them a generic (blank) card with a sase sometimes, a ham may not have a card.... Tim WB8BCO From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:21 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: ab351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Richard Ferch) Subject: Re: QTH for TO5A? Message-ID: Reply-To: ab351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Richard Ferch) References: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:36:21 GMT Paul K.C. Wang (pwang@tornado.seas.ucla.edu) writes: > would like to know the location of TO5A which I worked during > the ARRL DX contest last week. Tnx. > 73, Paul (KU6T) He was in Martinique (FM). He gave his QSL route as YT6A (via YU bureau, perhaps?) - hope I copied that correctly :) 73 de Rich, VE3IAY -- Richard Ferch (ab351@freenet.carleton.ca) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:22 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: pwang@tornado.seas.ucla.edu (Paul K.C. Wang) Subject: QTH for TO5A? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:42:19 GMT Distribution: usa would like to know the location of TO5A which I worked during the ARRL DX contest last week. Tnx. 73, Paul (KU6T) From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:24 1996 From: Per Stangeland Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.space,rec.radio.noncomm,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: Radio Database Program LW, MW, SW coverage for YOU..... Date: 22 Feb 1996 19:50:43 GMT Message-ID: <4gihej$3q6@nms.telepost.no> References: <4gduns$sio@news.flinet.com> To: chuck@mail.flinet.com Charles Bolland wrote: >FRIENDS, > >If you would like a free copy of a radio database program that covers >longwave, mediumwave, and shortwave with at least 4,000 of records, send >your NAME, POSTAL ADDRESS, and EMAIL address to chuck@flinet, and I will >return the program to you via EMAIL. > >The program is not up to date! It is a program used during 1994 and >hasn't be updated since. However, many of the records are still current >for stations that do not change every quarter. > >The program is good until June 6, 1996. After that it will not function. > >Hope to hear from you and don't forget your Postal Address for >registration and future information via mail.. > >All addresses will be kept confidential! > >Chuck > >chuck@flinet.com > > My address is: Per Stangeland Luftfartsverket Luftveien 16 N-3440 Royken Norway. Best Regards Per From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:25 1996 From: mike.groves@memousa.ericsson.se (Mike Groves) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: REBUTTAL TO MINDLESS HAM QSO's Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 02:03:23 GMT Message-ID: <4gbaqp$499@erinews.ericsson.se> References: <4g553o$jib@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4ga1f2$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> Listening to HAM Radio is 100 times more interesting than the rantings going on in this thread. - Mike KD6PKJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:26 1996 From: Siegfried Rambaum Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: REBUTTAL TO MINDLESS HAM QSO's Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 19:49:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4g553o$jib@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4ga1f2$pfh@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gbaqp$499@erinews.ericsson.se> <4gf1dh$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> Just an SWL's view... There is a lot of interesting qso's goiing on on the ham radio bands. You only need the patience to listen. More often than not I wished I had done my lic, when I listened, but then I figured, that some of the interesting qso's might not have been what they had been, if another guy might have been in. Understanding starts with listening. And with reading when it comes to newsgroups. A little tolerance, by the way, would help a lot on the newsgroups like this one. On 21 Feb 1996, Burt Fisher wrote: > mike.groves@memousa.ericsson.se (Mike Groves) wrote: > >Listening to HAM Radio is 100 times more interesting than the rantings > >going on in this thread. - Mike KD6PKJ > > You like talk of contests, rigs, traffic and QSLs? > Tell me ONE interesting thing you heard on ham radio in the last week. > > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ > /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / > \ / `-' `-' \ / > `-' `-' > > > > From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:27 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Response to Interesting contact. Date: 21 Feb 1996 12:04:24 GMT Message-ID: <4gf1o8$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> I posted a request for readers here to share an interesting contact they had recently. Usually I get no response because no one ever has an interesting contact. But this time I did get ONE response that showed some very interesting contacts. We are on our way ham radio, maybe next time TWO people will have had an interesting contact? .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:28 1996 From: daniel@pandora.lugs.po.my (Daniel Wee, 9V1ZV) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Subject: RFI to Heart-Pacer like unit AICD Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 09:35:35 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gk1oi$65r@lantana.singnet.com.sg> Hi, I am wondering if anyone can help me. A HAM friend of mine recently had one of the following implanted to help control his heart rate. This is not actually a pacer unit but should be similar. Along with the AICD unit was a warning to avoid close proximity with HAM radio equipment. Does anyone have any experience with one of these things and could give me some feedback to confirm or allay any fears my friend might have? Thanks. Automatic Implantable Cardiovester Defibrillator Made by Meditronics Newer (1-lead) model 73 de 9V1ZV Daniel Daniel Wee | daniel@pandora.lugs.org.sg 9V1ZV | daniel.wee@f516.n600.z6.fidonet.org From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:29 1996 From: Dave Maciorowski Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: RFI: Colorado Hamfest/Computerfest dates Date: 22 Feb 1996 13:02:36 GMT Message-ID: <4ghphc$ofr@cloner3.netcom.com> References: <4g6682$do9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4g9sr2$c22@panix.com> In <4g6682$do9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> uswat@aol.com (Uswat) writes: >Looking for Hamfest dates, times, locations, and contact information for >Colorado, especially Denver-metro area or at least the front range. >Thanks in advance. The CRA News carries news of interest to hams in the Colorado Front Range. Checkout the latest newsletter (published every 2 weeks) at: http://www.rmsd.com/hamradio/cra/cra_news.html General info for hams in Colorado is available on the Colorado Amateur Radio Page at: http://www.rmsd.com/hamradio/ FYI, the next swapfest's not until April. ----- Dave Maciorowski, WA1JHK Colorado Repeater Association, Inc. Serving Colorado with Voice and Data, 6-Meters to 1.2 Gig Internet: wa1jhk@ix.netcom.com or wa1jhk@amsat.org From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:30 1996 From: decroos@kihwv.khbo.be Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: School ham station Date: 25 Feb 1996 16:10:40 GMT Message-ID: <4gq1m0$kfv@ping1.ping.be> If your school has a ham-station , let us know!!! We are STARCOM on4hti from Ostend Belgium. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:31 1996 From: decroos@kihwv.khbo.be Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: School ham station Date: 25 Feb 1996 16:08:28 GMT Message-ID: <4gq1hs$kfv@ping1.ping.be> To: all If your school has a ham-station , let us know!!! We are STARCOM on4hti from Ostend Belgium. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:31 1996 From: decroos@kihwv.khbo.be Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: School ham station Date: 25 Feb 1996 16:08:48 GMT Message-ID: <4gq1ig$kfv@ping1.ping.be> To: all If your school has a ham-station , let us know!!! We are STARCOM on4hti from Ostend Belgium. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:32 1996 From: decroos@kihwv.khbo.be Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: School ham station Date: 25 Feb 1996 16:10:15 GMT Message-ID: <4gq1l7$kfv@ping1.ping.be> To: all If your school has a ham-station , let us know!!! We are STARCOM on4hti from Ostend Belgium. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:33 1996 From: cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher K Greenhalgh) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt w Date: 22 Feb 1996 14:40:04 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ghv84$gbh@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> <4ghpcg$ooo@brokaw.comm.mot.com> In article <4ghpcg$ooo@brokaw.comm.mot.com>, Bruce Burke wrote: >In article ba5@news.ios.com, macino@mail.fwi.com writes: >}In <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu>, Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu (Walter R Francis) writes: >} Hi Wally, >} I did one last summer that still has 'em buzzing! I pulled into a public pa rking garage >} at about the 4th level. It was one of those that has about a 6'8" clearance , no the >} ones with exotic arrays mounted on rooftops weren't too excited about skulk ing >} around there.} Have fun >} WD9AHF >} P.S. the idea came from KB9IHS my 13yr son. > >Gotta be careful about doing those types of things. Some places will >have you removed because they see that as a threat to their customers. >Either that or they just don't have the same sense of humor... > >73, >Bruce, WB4YUC Fox hunting, or DFing, is popular here in Columbus too. We have one every month, and I have a jeep that I can take the top off, and have added a mast support to hold a 7ft, 1.25 mast with a 4 element gamma Yagi on it. I also built an variable attenuator which works great...I do very well at it. I also built a "fox box". It consists of a small circut board with an EPROM, 555 counter, and a PTT circut. With my Alinco DJ-162 (with no battery), and a 7.0 amp hour gel cell, it all fits very nicely into a small ammo box. The box is water-tight, green, and has a sealed home-built 1/4 wave antenna built in. Its pretty fun sitting in your car, watching the guys run up to your car with a big smile thinking they have found you, only to say "You have to find the transmitter!" which by the way, you have stuffed in a bush about an 1/8 mile away that you can see in your side view mirror...heh heh. Ive got other neat tricks and traps that I will share about DFing later. Take care all. -- Christopher K. Greenhalgh, N8WCT Computer/Electronic Tech. II at The Ohio State University E-Mail: ckg+@osu.edu (cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Radio : n8wct@w8cqk.#cmh.oh.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:34 1996 From: burke_br@adcae1.comm.mot.com (Bruce Burke) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt w Date: 22 Feb 1996 20:55:51 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gil8n$mhq@brokaw.comm.mot.com> References: Reply-To: burke_br@adcae1.comm.mot.com In article 100000@seatimes, Steve Butler writes: } } }On 18 Feb 1996, Walter R Francis wrote: }> I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, and }> }> Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. }> I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em }> work to find me. :) } }1. Stay away from flat terrain. }2. Put your back to a hill. }3. Aim your beam at a tall building a few miles away (or power line, or }ridge across the valley from you, or ....) } }Those are presuming that you need to "visible" and accessable by vehicle. } }Now, if the end game is on foot: Mount the antenna on a chain link fence }behind a bunch of bushes and bury everything else. } Fences and Railroad tracks work well too. We had a guy with a doppler unit once drive over some tracks about 20 times. He just also happened to be in the null off the side of my antenna when doing so..... 73, Bruce From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:36 1996 From: burke_br@adcae1.comm.mot.com (Bruce Burke) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt w Date: 22 Feb 1996 13:00:00 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ghpcg$ooo@brokaw.comm.mot.com> References: <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> Reply-To: burke_br@adcae1.comm.mot.com In article ba5@news.ios.com, macino@mail.fwi.com writes: }In <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu>, Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu (Walter R F rancis) writes: } Hi Wally, } I did one last summer that still has 'em buzzing! I pulled into a public par king garage } at about the 4th level. It was one of those that has about a 6'8" clearance, no the } ones with exotic arrays mounted on rooftops weren't too excited about skulki ng } around there.} Have fun } WD9AHF } P.S. the idea came from KB9IHS my 13yr son. Gotta be careful about doing those types of things. Some places will have you removed because they see that as a threat to their customers. Either that or they just don't have the same sense of humor... 73, Bruce, WB4YUC From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:38 1996 From: gray@news.humberc.on.ca (Kelly Gray) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 22 Feb 1996 14:31:15 GMT Message-ID: <4ghunj$em4@dns.humberc.on.ca> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> Walter R Francis (Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu) wrote: : I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, a nd : I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters off . : They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a hunt : it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me down in : 15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) : Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. : I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em : work to find me. :) : Thanks.. If you're using 2m or higher frequencies, you could try hiding a small beam in some foliage, and aiming it at some nearby buildings. That should keep things busy for a while. On one of our foxhunts, the fox was sitting in a car parked near a cluster of apartment buildings, and the reflections off the buildings were giving us all sorts of false readings. I got at least six solid readings, all pointing to the same place, a park about a kilometer away from the fox! From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:42 1996 From: David Robbins Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:45:45 -0800 Message-ID: <312C1F29.682F@berkshire.net> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> <4ge5l8$69s@Einstein.ebicom.net> > >I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, and > >I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters of f. > >They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a hun t > >it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me down in > >15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) > > > >Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. > >I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em > >work to find me. :) > > > >Thanks.. > > the worst fox i have seen sat on top of one hill and aimed a beam across the valley at a higher peak. the signal reflected very nicely off the higher peak while the side of the hill shielded him from the valley. we would start up the higher side and then the signal would come from the opposite direction. when we went that way it would fade out and seem to be coming from the higher peak again. 73, dave. -- ky1h@berkshire.net or robbins@berkshire.net http://www.berkshire.net/~robbins/ky1h.html WWW Page now has New England Flea Market list from W1GSL From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:43 1996 From: tkc@ncn.net (tkc) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 02:54:09 GMT Message-ID: <312d2bab.1609467@NEWS.NETINS.NET> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> <4gd2ps$lac@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: TKC@NCN.NET On 20 Feb 1996 18:10:04 GMT, gsparks@ix.netcom.com(Glenn Sparks) wrote: ..In <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu ..(Walter R Francis) writes: ..> ..> ..>I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the ..3rd, and ..>I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my .. Use HIGH power around 100 watts in a downtown location Into a simple 1/4 wave antenna. This will bounce all over the taller buildings and they will never get a fix on you.. Set up in a truck with a strong 12VDC supply and back up batteries. have fun.. 73 Dean From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:45 1996 From: mcinnis@austin.ibm.com (Mickey McInnis) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:44:18 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4girk2$t3s@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> Reply-To: mcinnis@austin.ibm.com In article <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com>, macino@mail.fwi.com writes: > > Hi Wally, > I did one last summer that still has 'em buzzing! I pulled into a public pa rking garage > at about the 4th level. It was one of those that has about a 6'8" clearance , no the > ones with exotic arrays mounted on rooftops weren't too excited about skulk ing > around there. Most of the previous hunts had been 'out in the county'. A li ttle > 'urban guerrilla' hunting will drive the most avid hunter nuts. We have a 2 hour > hunt limit, and actually nobody found us in the alloted time. Of course you are > going to want to vary your power, etc. For the initial contact to the hunte rs, we > used a 4 element beam hanging out of one of the ventilation openings. It wa s > pretty nasty, but probably more realistic than sitting in an air conditione d truck > out in a corn field! > Have fu n > WD9AHF > P.S. the idea came from KB9IHS my 13yr son. (Tongue-in-cheek on) Makes me think of my idea for taking care of "too smart" foxes who park in places that aren't public property. " Hello, police department, (or xyz security, or building owner,..)., there are some suspicious looking characters parked in XYZ parking garage, a construction site at xxx, You might want to check them out. I think they are drinking, selling drugs, selling cloned cellphones, shooting guns, etc..." -- Mickey McInnis - mcinnis@austin.ibm.com -- All opinions expressed are my own opinions, not my company's opinions. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:47 1996 From: cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher K Greenhalgh) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 22 Feb 1996 17:21:10 GMT Message-ID: <4gi8m6$i6p@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> <4ghunj$em4@dns.humberc.on.ca> In article <4ghunj$em4@dns.humberc.on.ca>, Kelly Gray wrote: >Walter R Francis (Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu) wrote: > >: I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, and >: I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters of f. >: They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a hun t >: it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me down in >: 15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) > >: Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. >: I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em >: work to find me. :) > >: Thanks.. > >If you're using 2m or higher frequencies, you could try hiding a small beam >in some foliage, and aiming it at some nearby buildings. That should keep >things busy for a while. > > On one of our foxhunts, the fox was sitting in a car parked near a cluster >of apartment buildings, and the reflections off the buildings were giving us >all sorts of false readings. I got at least six solid readings, all pointing >to the same place, a park about a kilometer away from the fox! Getting the transmitter under some power lines, around water, and/or horizonally polarize (if its UHF/VHF) all helps "scatter" the signal. In our rules, the transmitter and antenna(s) location cant change after the hunt has started, but a Yagi or quad are allowed to be moved on their axises. If you are allowed to do this, used in combination of different power settings, it would surely slow them down. :) We had a guy who used 3 different antennas (Yagi, Cube quad, horizonal), 2 different radios, total of 6 different power settings, under some high tension electrical wires, next to a large river. Between all this, he was changing the power levels, and "spinning" the Yagi and quad while transmitting...talk about a hard signal to chase! Take care. -- Christopher K. Greenhalgh, N8WCT Computer/Electronic Tech. II at The Ohio State University E-Mail: ckg+@osu.edu (cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Radio : n8wct@w8cqk.#cmh.oh.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:48 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 23 Feb 1996 01:56:24 GMT Message-ID: <4gj6s8$jbn@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu (Walter R Francis) wrote: > >I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, an d >I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters off. Use a real fox. A pretty girl. No ham would expect or know what to do. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:50 1996 From: macino@mail.fwi.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 21 Feb 1996 12:39:04 GMT Message-ID: <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> Reply-To: macino@mail.fwi.com In <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu>, Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu (Walter R Fr ancis) writes: > >I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, an d >I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters off. >They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a hunt >it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me down i n >15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) > >Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. >I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em >work to find me. :) > >Thanks.. > Hi Wally, I did one last summer that still has 'em buzzing! I pulled into a public park ing garage at about the 4th level. It was one of those that has about a 6'8" clearance, no the ones with exotic arrays mounted on rooftops weren't too excited about skulkin g around there. Most of the previous hunts had been 'out in the county'. A litt le 'urban guerrilla' hunting will drive the most avid hunter nuts. We have a 2 h our hunt limit, and actually nobody found us in the alloted time. Of course you a re going to want to vary your power, etc. For the initial contact to the hunters , we used a 4 element beam hanging out of one of the ventilation openings. It was pretty nasty, but probably more realistic than sitting in an air conditioned truck out in a corn field! Have fun WD9AHF P.S. the idea came from KB9IHS my 13yr son. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:51 1996 From: Wayne Jones Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sorting callsigns with ACCESS Date: 19 Feb 1996 22:10:20 GMT Message-ID: <4gasgc$hf6@hgea01.hgea.org> References: <4g87pv$mmb@cloner3.netcom.com> To: wa4upe@ix.netcom.com wa4upe@ix.netcom.com (Tony King) wrote: >I need to sort callsigns using Microsoft ACCESS (Win31). > >Have any of you done the math for this and would you be willing to >share it with me? To get a sort like the Callbook sort, I set up two fields - one for prefix and one for suffix, and other fields for any other data you might want. Then, when you make a query that you want sorted by callsign, pull both prefox and suffix fields into your query making sure your suffix field is first (in addition to any other data wanted). Sort on the suffix field, then the prefix field, hide then (or not), and you have your list sorted by callsign. Aloha Wayne, NH6GJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:51 1996 From: alubathsa2@aol.com (ALUBATHSA2) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Space Shuttle Date: 23 Feb 1996 17:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4glfqa$bvj@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: alubathsa2@aol.com (ALUBATHSA2) Hello everyone, Would any1 have a list of SHUTTLE freq'S?? SW or whatever. Any help would be appreciated.... From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:53 1996 From: rickhz@primenet.com (Rick) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Special Event Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:09:00 -0700 Message-ID: <4gldts$krn@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Special Event Information HamDaze at Arizona Science Center: The Center for Amateur Radio Learning (C. A.R.L.) will be hosting HamDaze Weekend March 23-24, Several Phoenix area radio club s will be setting up hands-on demonstrations and exhibits. Amateur Television, an HF station and a two way laser communications device will be just some of the attractions at the event. A test session will be available for the No-Code Technician License at 10:00a.m. on Saturday March 23. KC7LUL will be on the air in the phone portion of the no vice 10 meter band, and general 15 and 20 meter bands. For a certificate send a QSL an d 9" x 12" SASE to C.A.R.L. P.O. Box 51048 Phoenix, AZ 85076-1048. Visitors to ASC will b e able to make radio contacts under the supervision of licensed volunteer operators. Th e Arizona Science Center is located at 147 E. Adams. The hours are Saturday 9 - 5:00pm a nd Sunday 12 - 5:00. Adults $4.50, Seniors and 4-12 yrs old $3.50, 3yrs and less are f ree. For details call 561-8405. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:53 1996 From: Tim Pacan Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: test - do not read Date: 18 Feb 1996 21:45:54 GMT Message-ID: <4g86mi$bnc@dns.humberc.on.ca> To: All test From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:54 1996 From: afn29443@afn.org (john p. sumner) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: TEST:please do not read Date: 27 Feb 1996 12:58:26 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4guv5i$2i4@huron.eel.ufl.edu> References: <4gt2ll$g47@tpsun.taranaki.ac.nz> JimIrving wrote: -- I just did:-) John P. Sumner afn29443@afn.org From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:55 1996 From: WAVELORD Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: TH-79E "wide band" receiving mods. == H E L P == Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:59:59 +0100 Message-ID: <312C68CF.3BD7@mail.telepac.pt> Kenwood TH-79E ============== Can someone help me? I have already cut the green wire in the CTCSS unit but still my handheld is very limited in frequencies and doesn΄t X-band repeat. What shall i do? Please, any tiny little tip, any kind of help wanted. PEDRO BASTOS - CT1FOV 000000000000000000000000000000000 0From a paradise called Portugal0 000000000000000000000000000000000 pnb1eng@mail.telepac.pt ----------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:56 1996 From: kb2rmi@pop3.frontiernet.com (robbin decker) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: The Perfect Ham Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 02:42:06 GMT Message-ID: <4ggai2$13em@cheatum.frontiernet.net> References: <35.40722.1427@asacomp.com> <4gf1ho$bt2@alterdial.UU.NET> Burt Fisher wrote: >mike.anderson@asacomp.com (Mike Anderson) wrote: >>Tom, you will find this newsgroup much more enjoyable if you put >>Burt in your twit filter as I have done. Mike >> >The perfect ham, hear no evil, see no evil have no opinion on >anything that matters. > .-. .-. > / \ .-. .-. / \ > / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ >/--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ > \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / > \ / `-' `-' \ / >Burt, don't you realize that "evil" is just "live" spelled wrong? Having said that, the man has a point. `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:57 1996 From: buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Truth in hamming Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:50:11 GMT Message-ID: <4ggek3$ih1@tribune.usask.ca> References: <4fggpt$6po@alterdial.UU.NET> <3123BF52.2410@questar.com> While I do agree with much of what Burt Fisher wrote about mindless QSO's and I do appreciate the points made in the rebuttals concerning hams helping in various natural disasters, I would like to point out that "public sevice" means more than earthquakes. Examples: 1. Last Christmas VE5SC pretended to be Santa Claus and Regina area hams donated their time so that young children could have a conversation with "St. Nick". 2. Last fall many hams helped to co-ordinate the Grey Cup (Canada's Superbowl) which took place in Regina. 3. There were also hams at the Saskatoon Santa Claus Day parade. These people all donated their time, not because there was a disaster and they got "excited" just thinking what a hero they could be, but because others needed their services and they could help out. And they didn't do their service for the glory because there was none. Unless one was already involved with ham radio (or involved in organizing the event) one would not have even known that hams were there. Brian. -- Brian Buydens There was a young poet named Dan, Department of Computing Services Whose poetry never would scan. University of Saskatchewan When told this was so, email: Brian.Buydens@usask.ca He said, "Yes, I know. VE5RDV From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:58 1996 From: clarke@aztec.asu.edu (JACK CLARKE) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Truth in hamming Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:30:24 GMT Message-ID: <4ggdf0$6d8@news.asu.edu> You sure hit the nail on the head, Eric! The true definition of a ham is: "A lonely, pathetic wretch -- sitting in a corner somewhere, tuning around on his radio, desperately trying to be important". I've been a ham for over 30 years and have observed it all. I got the above definition about 10 years ago from a non-ham. I tried to argue the point several times over a period of several weeks -- but to no avail. I finally realized he was right. Incidentally, he is now a ham; but I'm sure he is not pathetic as are most of them. Thanks for your truth. Jack VE3EED/W7 -- From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:08:59 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Truth in hamming Date: 24 Feb 1996 15:58:48 GMT Message-ID: <4gncjo$457@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4fggpt$6po@alterdial.UU.NET> <3123BF52.2410@questar.com> <4ggek3$ih1@tribune.usask.ca> buydens@duke.usask.ca (Brian Buydens) wrote: >These people all donated their time, not because there was a disaster and >they got "excited" just thinking what a hero they could be, but because >others needed their services and they could help out. And they didn't do >their service for the glory because there was none. Unless one was already >involved with ham radio (or involved in organizing the event) one would not >have even known that hams were there. I never said hams did zero good. Of course there are a few hams that do what you suggest. But for the most part they sit on their butts. .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:00 1996 From: tomcar@newshost.li.net (Tom Carrubba) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: VE Lindenhurst, LI Feb 25 Date: 22 Feb 1996 17:45:22 GMT Message-ID: <4gia3i$oaf@linet06.li.net> FEB 25 ARRL VE NORTH LINDENHURST,LI From: KA2RGI@KA2RGI.#NLI.NY.USA.NA To : EXAM@NLIBBS The Great South Bay ARC hosts ARRL amateur radio exams every 4th Sunday at 12 noon. Exams are given from Novice to Extra class. All exams are ARRL/VEC, CW exams are multiple choice w/ full headphones. The examination site is in the ARES/RACES room located in the basement. Access is at the rear of the building via stairs. Ring RED (TOP) buzzer for entry. Location: Babylon Town Hall Emergency Operations Center 200 E. Sunrise Hwy. North Lindenhurst, NY Talk in : 146.685/r 136.5pl Please bring the following: - Photocopy and original of current Amateur Radio License if licensed. - Photocopy and original of CSCE(s) that are current. - two forms of ID, at least one photo ID. - pens or pencils. - Calculator for math problems on exams, no pocket computers are allowed. - 1996 Exam fee is $6.05, please bring exact change. * Novice exams (elements 1A & 2) are free. For addition information you may contact: Tom Carrubba KA2DFO (516) 422-9684 or 422-9594 Walter Wenzel KA2RGI (516) 957-0218 -- ============================================================================ Tom Carrubba "To err is human, but to really foul N. Babylon, NY things up requires a computer......" KA2DFO packet radio| ka2dfo@kc2fd.ny.usa.na ============================================================================ From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:01 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: 2m Mobile for under $100 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 14:14:28 GMT Message-ID: <4ghtp6$44@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Amateurs, I'm looking for a functioning, used 2m mobile transceiver with 40W or greater output for <$100. email me if you have one to sell. Have a good day!! mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us 73, KB8VBA From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:02 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: ICOM T21A & IC-2000H mods Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 19:36:28 GMT Message-ID: <4gqdp9$15j@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Please email to mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us 73, KB8VBA From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:03 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: ICOM T21A & IC-2000H mods Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 13:41:41 GMT Message-ID: <4gsdc4$gi7@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Please email mods to mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us. Thanks! 73, KB8VBA From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:04 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: ICOM T21A & IC-2000H mods Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 13:40:23 GMT Message-ID: <4gv1lq$dej@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Please email mods to mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us. Thanks! 73, KB8VBA From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:05 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: Remote Speaker/Mic Project Ideas Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 20:48:06 GMT Message-ID: <4g83b1$npl@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> I have a 2m rig set up in the kitchen...I want to wire the audio to 4 or 5 different location, inside and outside my house...I would like to have a cheap mic hooked up at each location I have a speaker. Has anybody ever made a project like this? Any suggestions? KB8VBA, Michigan mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:06 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <337@yebbs.com> Reply-To: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) From: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:00 GMT Subject: WEFAX Software References: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> =========================================================================== Packet: YEBBSNET Date: 02-27-96 (00:13) Number: 696 From: MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124 Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: WEFAX Software Conf: (12) INTNN Radio M --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MH > MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124@COMPUSERVE.COM> ALL > .com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news > From: Mike Hatzakis <71251.1124@CompuServe.COM> > Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc > Subject: WEFAX Software > Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:11:56 GMT > Organization: Jefferson University > Lines: 7 > Message-ID: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> MH > I am looking for shareware program for wefax on a pk-232. I am > not thrilled about paying $100 for aea software and would rather > pay a sharewre. MH > Anyone know if one is around...? MH > Mike WB2TBQ Hi Mike, Try the JVFAX program, It is a GREAT one , the latest Version is 7.1 I guess and I am very sure you will receive excellent pictures. Best 73's Samir ( OD5SK / KC5RYL ) QTH: Jeddah - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia --- ώ QMPro 1.53 ώ °±²Ϋ CQ CQ CQ DE OD5SK Ϋ²±° From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:08 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <340@yebbs.com> Reply-To: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) From: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:00 GMT Subject: WEFAX Software References: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> =========================================================================== Packet: YEBBSNET Date: 02-27-96 (00:13) Number: 696 From: MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124 Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: WEFAX Software Conf: (12) INTNN Radio M --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MH > MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124@COMPUSERVE.COM> ALL > .com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news > From: Mike Hatzakis <71251.1124@CompuServe.COM> > Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc > Subject: WEFAX Software > Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:11:56 GMT > Organization: Jefferson University > Lines: 7 > Message-ID: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> MH > I am looking for shareware program for wefax on a pk-232. I am > not thrilled about paying $100 for aea software and would rather > pay a sharewre. MH > Anyone know if one is around...? MH > Mike WB2TBQ Hi Mike, Try the JVFAX program, It is a GREAT one , the latest Version is 7.1 I guess and I am very sure you will receive excellent pictures. Best 73's Samir ( OD5SK / KC5RYL ) QTH: Jeddah - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia --- ώ QMPro 1.53 ώ °±²Ϋ CQ CQ CQ DE OD5SK Ϋ²±° From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:10 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <343@yebbs.com> Reply-To: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) From: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:00 GMT Subject: WEFAX Software References: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> =========================================================================== Packet: YEBBSNET Date: 02-27-96 (00:13) Number: 696 From: MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124 Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: WEFAX Software Conf: (12) INTNN Radio M --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MH > MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124@COMPUSERVE.COM> ALL > .com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news > From: Mike Hatzakis <71251.1124@CompuServe.COM> > Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc > Subject: WEFAX Software > Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:11:56 GMT > Organization: Jefferson University > Lines: 7 > Message-ID: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> MH > I am looking for shareware program for wefax on a pk-232. I am > not thrilled about paying $100 for aea software and would rather > pay a sharewre. MH > Anyone know if one is around...? MH > Mike WB2TBQ Hi Mike, Try the JVFAX program, It is a GREAT one , the latest Version is 7.1 I guess and I am very sure you will receive excellent pictures. Best 73's Samir ( OD5SK / KC5RYL ) QTH: Jeddah - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia --- ώ QMPro 1.53 ώ °±²Ϋ CQ CQ CQ DE OD5SK Ϋ²±° From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:11 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: What about ham radio that is on the cutting edge. Date: 23 Feb 1996 02:01:09 GMT Message-ID: <4gj755$jbn@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4fn47d$j76@www.acay.com.au> <4fol1b$nrj@alterdial.UU.NET> <4gdi6q$57e@thepit.trucom.com> marty@thepit.trucom.com (Marty Albert) wrote: >Postmaster: > >As you can see, Mr. Fisher is sending some rather inappropriate >messages and flooding a large number of News Groups with them. I answered a message and said nothing. Hardly what you charged me with. >Please discuss this matter with Mr. Fisher and, if needed, cut off his >send access to the News Groups. I think I am still here .-. .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ /--Burt Fisher K1OIK--------/---\---/-\---/---\-----/-----\k1oik@ccsnet.com\ \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' `-' From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:11 1996 From: ecgallup@mlode.com (Ed Gallup) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Where can I find Info. on grounding Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 19:03:53 GMT Message-ID: <4giel4$sg2@news.wco.com> References: <4g5fug$5ss@ganesh.sdstate.edu> In article <4g5fug$5ss@ganesh.sdstate.edu>, DaggettE@cc.sdstate.edu (Eric Daggett) wrote: >If anyone knows of a good source of info on grounding (Books or Internet) >Please Post or E-mail me daggette@cc.sdstate.edu The absolute best source, IMHO, is to call Polyphasor Corporation at 800 325 7170 or FAX 702 782 4476 and ask for their LIGHTNING/EMP and GROUNDING SOLUTIONS catalog. It should be free. Ed WB6SAT ecgallup@mlode.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:12 1996 From: ebcjoon@ebc.ericsson.se Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Where to find SuperMorse? Date: 27 Feb 1996 10:35:02 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gumom$5pc@erinews.ericsson.se> Do I need to say any more? I had it before but by a mistake i deleted it from my harddisk. Do any one know a ftp-site where i can find the program? 73 from Johan Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:13 1996 From: skubi@angela.inria.fr (Skubiszewski Marcin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Who will use Unix to learn code ? Date: 21 Feb 1996 18:22:55 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gfntv$qar@news-rocq.inria.fr> I wrote a program for learning code under Unix. Are there people interested in using it/porting it to new brands of Unix (including Linux) ? Or does everybody prefer Microsoft systems ? From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:14 1996 From: tonyp@convex.com (Tony J. Podrasky) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Who will use Unix to learn code ? Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:25:13 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gfrip$o36@convex.convex.com> References: <4gfntv$qar@news-rocq.inria.fr> In article <4gfntv$qar@news-rocq.inria.fr>, Skubiszewski Marcin wrote: >I wrote a program for learning code under Unix. Are there people >interested in using it/porting it to new brands of Unix (including >Linux) ? Or does everybody prefer Microsoft systems ? I'd like to see it - I'm running LINUX and would port it if it is worth while. -- Tony J. Podrasky - The Arabs were at the Oasis, eating their dates. San Diego , Ca - Ol' Grandpa came in town to get him some posse. tonyp@convex.com - Meanwhile - back at the ranch - Grandma was busy QSL? QRU? QRZ? QLZ? QFA? beating off the Indians and they just kept coming. From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:15 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: why a license? Message-ID: <1996Feb27.143618.6704@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4gt0ej$6hk@netaxs.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:36:18 GMT In article <4gt0ej$6hk@netaxs.com> cassidy@netaxs.com (Kyle Cassidy) writes: >: Eric Martin (uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote: >: : Thanks for all the responses, most of which cam by e-mail. I was >: : interested in how well the FCC enforces its licensing laws, for I see a >: : time when all Internet users may someday also need a license. >: >ah, what a wonderful world that might be ... but seriously, the reason >that radio amateurs are licensed has a lot to do with the limited amount >of bandwidth available, and also, more importantly, the idea that ham >radio is preparation for EMERGENCY SERVICE. the gvt. wants to be >relatively sure that in the event of an emergency, the ham community does >in fact know something about radio. that's the idea anyway. Actually, 97.405 waives the Part 97 rules, including 97.5, in case of a real emergency posing an imminent threat to life or property. Thus the FCC would seem to be saying that operator licensing isn't primarily concerned with emergency communications. This is in accord with common law. For example, in ordinary times, the state reserves the right to kill to only its licensed agents, IE police and military, but in an emergency where there is an immediate threat to life, an ordinary citizen is permitted to exercise deadly force. Thus it would seem that any purpose of licensing would be confined only to non-emergency situations. The idea of spectrum rationing does appear to be a defacto result of the current licensing system, but CCA'34 contradicts that as a purpose because it says the rules have to be crafted to maximize access to the spectrum by the public consistent with orderly use. I think that's the real reason for licensing, to attempt to ensure orderly use through requiring the applicant to demonstrate a knowledge of the consequences of actions he might take with radio transmitters, IE issues of bandwidth, harmonic emission, spurs, etc that might cause harm to other users, particularly life safety service users such as the Coast Guard, police, fire, etc. In other words, the only real purpose license exams serve is to remove the excuse "I didn't know" from the vocabulary of a violator. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:17 1996 From: jmatk@tscm.com (James M. Atkinson, Communications Engineer) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: Wiretapping and Telephone Bugging Web Page tscm.com Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:34:56 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: jmatk@tscm.com Keywords: Counterintelligence Debugging Surveillance Counter-Terrorism Finally the tools and test equipment page is finished, and we have updated our frequency tables/lists. Check out our updated tool and TSCM test equipment list. http://www.tscm.com/ http://www.tscm.com/tmde.html <--- TSCM Test Equipment http://www.tscm.com/tools.html <--- TSCM Hand Tools http://www.tscm.com/stu.html <--- Secure Telephones and Scramblers Upcoming Topics to watch for in March... Any interest?? Wired Microphones and Pinhole devices... tons of pictures The Computer Audio/Video Threat... tons of pictures Join us for a real world TSCM sweep... Feel free to suggest topics... =============================================================== James M. Atkinson "...Shaken, not Stirred..." TSCM.COM 127 Eastern Avenue #291 Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 URL: http://www.tscm.com/ E-Mail: jmatk@tscm.com =============================================================== The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and the Most Complete TSCM Counterintelligence Site on the Internet =============================================================== From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:18 1996 From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.ham-radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Subject: WTB ICOM CW FILTER Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 14:41:49 GMT Message-ID: <4gn7u7$76o@news1.sunbelt.net> References: <4f8bvv$p0e@news1.sunbelt.net> I want to buy a CW filter for my ICOM Ham Radio. I need the FL52A (500Hz BW) for the 455KHz IF. These fit several of the ICOM radios. How much? Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:19 1996 From: forbesm@peak.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WTB: Icom IC2A/AT or equivalent Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 18:39:16 PST Message-ID: <4gj98i$ce2@odo.PEAK.ORG> Reply-To: forbesm@peak.org Summary: I want a low-power handheld for a project I'm still looking for an Icom IC2A/AT or equivalent handheld 2m radio. I've got a solar-powered project for which I need a radio with low current drain while in squelched receive. The Icom fits the bill, at about 20ma receive current. Other radios would be acceptable, if they're fairly low-power. I'm looking at non-2m-radio solutions, but this would be the simplest way to do it, since I'll need to transmit intermittently as well. Got one you want to sell? Send me mail! Crystal-only types are fine too, since this will be a fixed- frequency application. I'm not looking to spend huge dollars here, but the radio doesn't have to be beautiful, either. -- forbesm@peak.org http://www.peak.org/~forbesm Mark G. Forbes KC7LZD (Landing Zone Dog!) "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." - Groucho Marx From lwbyppp@epix.net Tue Feb 27 20:09:20 1996 From: obrien@Aero.org (Michael O'Brien) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Yaesu FT-736R Mod for 70cm band Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:10:59 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ggcaj$spr@news.aero.org> References: <4gco5h$euh@daffy.sb.west.net> In article <4gco5h$euh@daffy.sb.west.net>, dpmoore@west.net (Dan Moore) writes : |> Does anyone have a modification for the Yaesu FT-736R to allow operation in |> the 70cm band down to 420Mhz? I would appreciate any advice regarding this |> subject. An error in the firmware of the radio allows operation down to 420 MHz with no hardware modifications. Turn to a satellite VFO. Manually key in a frequency in the range 420-430 MHz. It'll work. You can tune, too, as long as you tune upwards. Any attempt to tune downwards will trigger the boundary check and the frequenc y will instantly jump to 430.000 MHz. -- Mike O'Brien obrien@aero.org From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:29 1996 From: dmd@asimov.oit.umass.edu (Daniel M Drucker) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.swap Subject: Wanted MFJ 1278 <---> Alinco DJ-F1T cable Date: 23 Feb 1996 11:39:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4gkqjm$1vs@asimov.oit.umass.edu> Wanted: MFJ 1278 to Alinco DJ-F1T cable. -- [ Daniel Drucker / dmd@student.umass.edu / N2SXX ] From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:30 1996 From: ptyborow@neutron (Piotr Tomasz Tyborowski) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: FT-726R & 9600 Packet ? Date: 23 Feb 1996 12:06:24 GMT Message-ID: <4gkak0$htg@gemini.coi.pw.edu.pl> Hello ! Has anybody worked on 9k6 packet using YAESU FT-726R. If YES - pse send me informations about modifications of this transceiver to perform these transmisions. My 9k6 TNC - AEA PK-96. Vy 73! & TU for informations de Peter SP5TZP. Reply for: ptyborow@neutron.elka.pw.edu.pl From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:31 1996 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:47:25 CST From: Message-ID: <96054.124725U54293@uicvm.uic.edu> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Info on 'fists' I have seen refernces to a group called 'fists'. Please tell me what they do and how does one join them if interested. thanks much. 73. -boB Brown (KB9LFR) From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:32 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: azoth@netcom.com (Az0th) Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:46:44 GMT >I have an IBM clone computer in the shack which I use for Internet and >hope to use for radio logging. However, the QRM from the computer >doesn't allow me to operate successfully on most bands. > >Does anyone know of a simple way of eliminating this interference? Ummm...turn off your IBM clone computer? Seriously. I have several more-or-less modern x86 machines which all interfere with my radios more-or-less, despite steel boxes, monitor shielding, bypassing, beading, etc., etc.. The only terminal solution I've found for when the RFI is just unacceptable is to turn the bloody things off, and turn _on_ the old science: well-shielded 4 MHz Z-80's radiate a whole lot less than any of the newer, faster CPU's. Not all CP/M machines were created equal, but my CP/M machines, Tandy Models 12 and 4p and an even slower KayPro-II, don't interfere with my radios at all. They're slow, they're self-contained, and they're pretty well shielded. This kind of hardware is cheap or free, software for it is cheap or free, and there is still enough of a support system in place that you needn't hurt for advice (yup, lots of folks still use CP/M machines, at least occasionally.) Downside? Forget glitzy graphics, mice and multimedia. Forget media hype and new products. There's a CDROM available with some 19000 programs on it for CP/M, but if you need something special, you'll probably have to write it yourself, and (wait for it) most of the development tools you'd want to use are cheap or free. Z-80's and their ilk are still used in telephone switches and embedded systems everywhere, so it's not even a dead technology. You will _not_ be able to eliminate all the noise from your x86 box without resorting to industrial strength, TEMPEST-style repackaging. You will be able to _reduce_ the noise from your x86 box by smart use of shielding, grounding, bypassing, filtering, etc.. Just repositioning your gear to minimize the interference can make a big difference, and you can probably live with some level of EMI without wanting to pull your hair, since your x86 is probably chewing on many frequencies you don't even care about. But for real relief, for QRP, DX, weak-signal or satellite work, when local noise is a serious irritant, you really just need to turn it off at the source. Cheers es 73 de KF4FJH - RF Buchanan From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:33 1996 From: 100120.656@compuserve.com (Uwe Ehrenberg) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: CQDL Magazine Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:27:16 GMT Message-ID: <4gkpt4$pc3@dub-news-svc-3.compuserve.com> References: <4gbp87$fai@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Hi Frank, >> Anyone have any info on how to subscribe to the German amateur radio magazine CQDL? Are there any other german amateur magazines? << you should contact the DARC-Verlag and the DARC under the following e-mail address: 100737.3572@compuserve.com I am sure, they will find a way. If you are interested, i will find out the other addresses for you. vy 73 de Uwe DL3BJ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:34 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WTB -- UNDERSTANDING AMATEUR RADIO <<< ARRL >>> Message-ID: <1996Feb23.170813.114646@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> From: Bill Date: 23 Feb 96 17:08:12 CST Looking for the following publication: UNDERSTANDING AMATEUR RADIO by George Grammar (ARRL) 1963, paperback Prefer mint condition, but will consider all offers! 73s Bill AA4FM/0 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:35 1996 From: w1aw@arrl.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ARLP008 Propagation de KT7H Date: 23 Feb 1996 17:36:11 -0500 Message-ID: <$arlp008.1996@arrl.org> SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP008 ARLP008 Propagation de KT7H ZCZC AP29 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 8 ARLP008 From Tad Cook, KT7H Seattle, WA February 23, 1996 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP008 ARLP008 Propagation de KT7H Solar activity is still quite low, and last week there were three days with no sunspots. No improvement is in sight. There may be a rise in geomagnetic activity around February 25 and again around March 9 through 12. Conditions should be stable for the 160 meter SSB contest this weekend, but there may be a rise in geomagnetic instability on Sunday. Check WWV at 18 minutes after the hour. Every three hours the K index changes. As long as the K index is below three, conditions should be good. Sunspot Numbers for February 15 through 21 were 11, 0, 0, 0, 12, 14 and 26, with a mean of 9. 10.7 cm flux was 69, 70.1, 70.7, 70.2, 71, 72.2 and 71.9, with a mean of 70.7. NNNN /EX From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:36 1996 From: simont@post.its.mcw.edu (Simon Twigger) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Mounting detachable faceplate in car - Help! Date: 23 Feb 1996 18:58:27 GMT Message-ID: <4gl2oj$mbt@post.its.mcw.edu> Hi there, I have recently bought a Kenwood TS742 2m/70cm dualbander which has a detachable face plate to allow the radio to be installed in the trunk and the contols to be up front within reach. I have the radio installed under the passenger seat and the wires from the battery are in place without any problems. I am now trying to find a way to mount the faceplate, preferably without doing anything permanent to the car. I was wondering if anyone can give me any tips on how this might be accomplished? If I have to drill some holes somewhere inconspicuous then so be it, but Im trying to avoid it if I can. I have a Honda Civic '94. I have seen pictures of faceplates mounted on mobile phone 'goose necks' (flexible arms mounted to the car floor) which look very neat and tidy. Has anyone used this method and how easy is the installation of the goose neck? Thanks for anyone who can help me here. Simon, AA9PW Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:37 1996 From: Bill Crocker Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:14:37 -0500 Message-ID: <312E586D.7DA7@mail.rust.net> References: <4glfqa$bvj@newsbf02.news.aol.com> ALUBATHSA2 wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Would any1 have a list of SHUTTLE freq'S?? SW or whatever. Any help > would be appreciated.... Me again... I found a WEB site you may be interested in! http://garc.gsfc.nasa.gov/www/retransmission/retransmission.html Check it out. Bill Crocker From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:38 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: ?RV Nets ? Date: 23 Feb 1996 21:29:15 GMT Message-ID: <4glbjb$5r2@news.hal-pc.org> I have a student in my class that would like a list of the RV nets around the country. I know of the Good Sam RV Radio Net on 14240 and on 7292. Does anyone know of any others, particularly on 10 meters? Thanks, +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid ------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:39 1996 From: eb99541@goodnet.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: SOS!!! Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:48:51 GMT Message-ID: <4glg3c$o20@news1.goodnet.com> I have this trivia sheet that I REALLY need to finish. One oth questions is: The distress signal SOS has been thought to mean "Save our Ship" or "Save our souls" but it really has no meaning. Why was it chosen. If anyone know the real answer FOR SURE please, for the love of God, email me as I cannot keep up with this group. Thanks in advance, Jason From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:40 1996 From: wday@dfw.net (Wayne Day) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Subject: Re: RFI to Heart-Pacer like unit AICD Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:48:24 -0600 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <4gk1oi$65r@lantana.singnet.com.sg> daniel@pandora.lugs.po.my (Daniel Wee, 9V1ZV) wrote in part: > Does anyone > have any experience with one of these things and could give me some feedback > to confirm or allay any fears my friend might have? Thanks. > > Automatic Implantable Cardiovester Defibrillator > Made by Meditronics > Newer (1-lead) model > You might want to drop a note to : Postmaster@Medtronic.Com and ask him to forward a note to the customer service folks asking for any research or data related to this problem. Certainly they would probably know more than the anecdotal information the rest of us might be able to provide. Good luck! 73 Wayne KF5ZC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Day KF5ZC Fort Worth,Texas,USA kf5zc@amsat.org | CompuServe: 76703,376 76703.376@CompuServe.Com | ,__o wday@dfw.net |--\_<, Member: Bicycle Mobile Hams of America (*)/'(*) For info on BMHA or the BIKEHAM mailing list: Finger KF5ZC@dfw.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:40 1996 From: adell@planet.net (KF2TI - Steve) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Logical Reasons to Retain Code Testing Date: 24 Feb 1996 00:33:05 GMT Message-ID: <4glmc1$1j4@jupiter.planet.net> References: <4ge53e$10gk@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: > (none) > > >>>> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz uhhh sorry, feel asleep..did i miss anything worth reading??? gess not zzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:41 1996 From: bhowes Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: MARS Question Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 01:41:02 -0500 Message-ID: <312EB2FE.3F46@buffnet.net> I have a question, but I am not certain if this is the correct place to ask, if not please excuse me. I would appreciate any input.Can a Novice transmit on MARS frequencies with HF phone if he/she has a MARS licence? I was told that this was true. We are speaking about HF phone, not CW. Tnx. Email replies to bhowes@buffnet.net -Brad 73 From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:42 1996 From: jimmi.martin@index.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: repeaters Date: 24 Feb 96 06:56:03 GMT Message-ID: <9602240256.044EF02@index.com> I'm writing this evening to get some info. on an article I downloaded from a bbs last week. It was about building repeaters, from vol. 94 issue 9. I'm trying to find out if there are any diagrams that I can get to go with these instructions. Also I was wondering if there are any other radios that ca n easily or not so easily be converted to a repeater? Thanks, Jimmi From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:43 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: greg@core.rose.hp.com (Greg Dolkas) Subject: Icom R-7000 repair help! Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 07:46:21 GMT I have an Icom R-7000 receiver which has freaked out. Turn it on, and the display goes nuts. It has a mind of its own, blinking and switching bands and modes. Quite a sight to see, but not very functional. My first thougth was that my recent replacement of the memory backup battery broke something, but I seem to recall that the DC-DC board had some sort of design problem with an underrated capacitor. I can't find a reference to the exact fix in my files; does anyone have a copy of the relevant info? Thanks! Greg KO6TH From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:44 1996 From: plove%/etc/HOSTNAME (Paul Love) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: DX-Reflector Date: 25 Feb 1996 04:58:07 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4goq8v$6bi@squick.apana.org.au> -- **************************************************************************** * E-Mail : plove@quux.apana.org.au | Ax25: vk4xd @ vk4wia.#bne.qld.aus.oc* **************************************************************************** Greetings , Could someone please tell me the subscription address for the DX-Reflector I used to sub some time ago, but the address I have must be wrong as it comes back as unknown address. Would love to re-subscribe , any help gratefully received. e-mail .. plove@quux.apana.org.au Thanks in advance & 73 de Paul VK4XD. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:45 1996 From: MIKEKC5GJN@AOL.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: HT's on cruise ships? Date: 25 Feb 1996 07:00:33 GMT Message-ID: <4gp1eh$f39@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <1996Feb10.211828.1830@lafn.org> <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> In article , Siegfried Rambaum wrote: >Path: news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil! admaix.sunydutchess.edu!ub!csn!news-1.csn.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.o hio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news. lightlink.com!light.lightlink.com!siram >From: Siegfried Rambaum >Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc >Subject: Re: HT's on cruise ships? >Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:11:38 -0500 >Organization: ART MATRIX - LIGHTLINK >Lines: 21 >Message-ID: >References: <1996Feb10.211828.1830@lafn.org> <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> >NNTP-Posting-Host: light.lightlink.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >In-Reply-To: <4g0gnm$r36@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> >Status: N > >> Abraham Stavsky (ag001@lafn.org) wrote: >> >> : A friend is embarking on a 3-week Mediterranean cruise and wants >> : to know whether to pack his 2m/440 HT. Anyone know what the regus >> : would be I mean regs...? Since one is on the "open sea" in int'l >> : waters, what rules would apply? > >In international waters, the rules of that country apply, where the boat >is registered. > >In territorial waters, the rules of the appropriate country will apply. >Within Europe however, you just need one reciprocal license, and I guess >either Austria or Germany are the swiftest to obtain one. I dont recall >what these licenses are called, but since the early eighties, for >example, you can go with a German lic into most other European countries >without having to apply for some reciprocal license, you just add the >appropriate lic-class-country-prefix with a / to your call, and that's it. > >Check with some European hams in a QSO. > >Siegfried Im curious, how much activity would you expect to hear on the open ocean much less be able to get back to on a handy talkie. Take your HF rig and go maritime mobile, you'll make more contacts. (He said grinning.) 73 Mike KC5GJN From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:47 1996 From: genek@dibbs.net Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: SOS!!! Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:47:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3130CACF.313B@dibbs.net> References: <4glg3c$o20@news1.goodnet.com> eb99541@goodnet.com wrote: > > I have this trivia sheet that I REALLY need to finish. One oth > questions is: > The distress signal SOS has been thought to mean "Save our Ship" or > "Save our souls" but it really has no meaning. Why was it chosen.--- I don't believe it stands for anything. It is a combination of dots and dashs that were not used in the Morse code for any characters and would not be confused. It isn't really the characters S O S, but one character consisting of 3 dots, 3dashs, 3dots with no space between them. This is only my opinion.... Gene WA4WBI From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:48 1996 From: MIKEKC5GJN@AOL.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Logical Reasons to Retain Code Testing Date: 25 Feb 1996 17:44:56 GMT Message-ID: <4gq76o$e55@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <4ge53e$10gk@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4gpdsg$h8f@news.hal-pc.org> In article <4gpdsg$h8f@news.hal-pc.org>, sid@hal-pc.org wrote: >Path: news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins. net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!insync!news.hal-pc.o rg!usenet >From: sid@hal-pc.org >Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc >Subject: Re: Logical Reasons to Retain Code Testing >Date: 25 Feb 1996 10:32:48 GMT >Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users >Lines: 14 >Message-ID: <4gpdsg$h8f@news.hal-pc.org> >References: <4ge53e$10gk@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> >NNTP-Posting-Host: pm2-121.hal-pc.org >X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) >Status: N > >> VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) writes: >> (none) >> > >I tend to agreee. What about keeping the code as an endorsement to the amateur license, similar to >the way commercial licenses have various endorsements. The endorsement would intitle the holder to >use the exclusive CW portion of each band. > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org >.._ _... ..... _.._ .._ >http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid >------------------------------------- > They already do it's the tech plus, general, advanced and extra portions of the band. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:49 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB013 Question pool committee Date: 25 Feb 1996 18:47:35 GMT Message-ID: <4gqas7$k8r@news.hal-pc.org> References: <$arlb013.1996@arrl.org> Would someone explain to me what this is all about? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid ------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:50 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 25 Feb 1996 21:59:18 GMT Message-ID: <4gqm3m$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> <4gg3u5$470@zeus.ieee.org> <4gi5up$4j22@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4gi5up$4j22@theory.tc.cornell.edu>, Kevin Schmidt writes: >Vincent Biancomano wrote: >>One should check QST to confirm, but I believe drawing of >>schematics ceased in the mid 70's. Up until then, 10 of the wasn't there in 1971 (novice)/1972(couple of tries for general)/1973 (yay got past everything to Advanced..)...i always felt the code machine was fast..but i fin ally passed it... >>100 questions (Extra Class) required the drawing of both >>schematics and block diagrams. The drawing of schematics had been >>required at the "lower" classes as well, notably Technician Class. >>Extra Class. Whatever the dates, it's easy to check out: all one >>needs are dated copies of the ARRL License Manual. >>Vince, WB2EZG >I took the extra exam in 1968 and drew no diagrams at all: no block >diagrams; no schematic diagrams. > >When I studied for the exams in the late 60s, the ARRL manuals >said that you should be prepared to draw diagrams. However, the real >FCC tests, as various posts have verified, had schematic drawing in >the late 50s and no drawing in the early 60s. I believe that the would bet it was changed to eliminate subjectiveness on the part of the examiner and to accomodate increased numbers of applicants.. >ARRL license manuals are a poor method of determining the actual >test questions. As I said in my original post, the license manual >had practice questions with essay like answers that included >schematic diagram drawing. The tests that I took (and apparently >others here too) did not. Having read QST, I don't believe they published >anything more than the FCC syllabus, if that, during this period. >73 Kevin >w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu the ARRL made the license manuals from the FCC's published information plus some additional material to fill in where the authors would think there might be some holes. Odds are that you didn't see up to date procedural info because the license manuals were being written by those who had long ago passed the exams and just recalled what happened to them...instead of knowing what goes on currently.... Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:51 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: DS-1A (DC-DC converter for Kenwood) question Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:01:38 GMT Message-ID: <4gqm82$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In , charles1@netcom.com (charles copeland) wri tes: >In article <4ft09j$ias@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca>, >Ken Edwards wrote: >>I have a Kenwood TS-820S that I would like to run off battery in ts-820...about 160 W input...pulls about 20A at 12 V.. >I've looked into this also for my TS-820. The box that connects >to the TS-820 that allows DC operation only contains a two resistors >and two mega transistors. sounds something like the supply used in the TS-520.. >The transistors are no longer in production, but the equivalent >is ZN4049, PNP germanium, 60A, 45V, TO-36, NTE28 at the tune >of $45 each. Thats $90 a pair. Not a pretty picture. > >I think it would be more feasible to buy a DC to AC converter for >your cigarette lighter plug and drive the TS-820 with 120VAC. >I would be interested in anyones experience doing this. i don't think the lighter can supply enough current for transmit. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:52 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Hams that have had sex. Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:03:45 GMT Message-ID: <4gqmc1$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4gcuhl$qb3@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4gd5u0$eie@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4gd5u0$eie@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, ke6tgn@ix.netcom.com(Wanda M Desmond) w rites: >In <4gcuhl$qb3@newsbf02.news.aol.com> kd1yvjim@aol.com (KD1YVJim) >writes: >>And don't forget that venerable bumper sticker, >>"Hams do it 'til their gigahertz!" >>73 de Jim KD1YV >What's sex???? >John >KE6TGN a shorthand way of determining whether you have a plug or a socket... Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:53 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Have you read ARRL Bulletin #9 yet? A blockbuster!! Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:13:25 GMT Message-ID: <4gqmu5$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4gisub$j4f@nyx.cs.du.edu> <4givjk$8cv@news.usit.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4givjk$8cv@news.usit.net>, danelson@use.usit.net (Douglas Nelson) writes: >feet should not be allowed. : Perhaps I'm the only ham in the US who >doesn't want a tower next door. I guess hams don't have any problem with (must be an HF operator...or repeater denizen..for reliable dx on vhf, you nee d altitude or a satellite, and the birds come and go..could be VHF doesn't "work " for him due to terrain as well..so HF is the solution...could also mean he doe sn't operate much...) >cellular towers, commercial TV station towers, water towers etc. in their >neighbors' yards either. Even if I did find them aesthetically >satisfying, I know for a fact that my neighbors don't, and I'd rather have things like water towers make modern life possible...odds are your neighbors m ight think they use a star trek transporter to get the water from the reservoir to the faucet..and that they certainly have wireless lights in their house since there's no visible wires going from the switch to the ceiling lamp... >their goodwill than carry my hobby.to its extreme. But I know that this 70 foot towers aren't extreme -- esp if you live 100 mi from the tv station an d you don't want to pay for cable.. >isn't the official ham position...the ARRL says so! >Doug Nelson K4JGW why should the neighbors have ultimate control over your legal use of your property? see March 1996 Playboy mag - Playboy Forum titled "Conform or Else". Amateurs just happen to have had a problem longer than most other folks but they're getting their turn in the barrel too... who says that amateur radio must take a back seat to all other uses of a property..."Oh, you're a ham operating on 145.01 and tearing up the neighbors cable TV on channel 18 due to the neighbors using wire nuts to splice on some cable when they rearranged the house..." and the ham has to leave the air?? Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:54 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Morse Code for Windows? Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:18:30 GMT Message-ID: <4gqn7m$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4gi3mc$f1i@nfs1.pe.net> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <4gi3mc$f1i@nfs1.pe.net>, jmd@pe.net (Jeff DeMarco) writes: >If anyone is aware of a morse code tutor for Windows or Windows95, please let >me know. >Tnx! >JMD you can run the standard dos apps in the dos windows for the most part. Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:56 1996 From: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:21:52 GMT Message-ID: <4gqne0$p16@cc.iu.net> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> <312E0831.3D5F@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: wnewkirk@iu.net (Bill Newkirk) In <312E0831.3D5F@ix.netcom.com>, Jim Daneke writes: >cmccane@onramp.net@onramp.net wrote: >> What kind of a BONEHEAD is so obsessed with HISTORY that they seek >> to make modern electronics professionals and hobbyists learn the >> trade of the old telegraph operators of the 1800's? In terms of ... >> C. McCane a bonehead who will be spending his time defending his designs and application s against previous patents and defending his patents against prior art claims. >Sounds like you're pretty impressed with yourself! Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:56 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <314@yebbs.com> Reply-To: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) From: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:03:00 GMT Subject: PACKET-INTERNET GATEWAY?? Hi, Thanks for reading this message and I would like to ask if anyone knows the E-mail & packet address of a Packet <--> Internet Gateway. I know that there is a lot of them but I only tried one which is W2XO with no luck and it was the only address I got from QST. Any information will be very much appreciated. Best 73's Samir (OD5SK & KC5RYL) Packet: OD5SK@7Z2YB.JED.SAU.MDLE OD5SK@OD5RAK.LBN.MDLE QTH: Jeddah - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia. --- ώ QMPro 1.53 ώ °±²Ϋ CQ CQ CQ DE OD5SK Ϋ²±° From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:57 1996 From: VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:09:03 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gqtmv$r5c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> References: <312e0831.3d5f@ix.netcom.com> <4gqls6$a91@jupiter.planet.net> >cw love it or leave it I vote for "leave it" and, as I have stated before, my prediction is 5-10 years. Probably much closer to 5. Your post should have read "CW...leave it, or watch the commercial interests take over the bands" From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:58 1996 From: Mike Hatzakis <71251.1124@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WEFAX Software Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:11:56 GMT Message-ID: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> I am looking for shareware program for wefax on a pk-232. I am not thrilled about paying $100 for aea software and would rather pay a sharewre. Anyone know if one is around...? Mike WB2TBQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:07:59 1996 From: kenpaul@gatecoms.gatecom.com (Ken Paul) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Manual Needed for JRC NRD-525 Date: 26 Feb 1996 03:21:22 GMT Message-ID: <4gr8vi$io5@www.gatecom.com> Posting this message for a co-worker whose news server has gone down... Looking for the manual for a JRC NRD-525 (the author has not the slightest idea what it is) send ALL reples to Hank Brakman at kb2rkx@weca.org do NOT post replies or send mail to me... thanks! -- Ken Paul From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:00 1996 From: vbook@vbook.com (Ed Mitchell) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Obtaining Question Pools? Date: 26 Feb 1996 04:29:26 GMT Message-ID: <4grcv6$htp@news.accessone.com> References: <4ge7rv$v4u@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> >On 21 Feb 1996, Emarit Ranu wrote: >> and wants to take an exam here. He wants the latest question >> pools. Anyone know where I can get them via ftp? I have had >> no luck on oak.oakland.edu, maybe I am blind?? > You can also find the question pools in the Ham Radio Online Library available on the web at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm de KF7VY ------------------------ personal email to vbook@vbook.com Visit Ham Radio Online, it's free, at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:01 1996 From: vbook@vbook.com (Ed Mitchell) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.shortwave Subject: Free classified Ads at Ham Radio Online Date: 26 Feb 1996 04:33:49 GMT Message-ID: <4grd7d$htp@news.accessone.com> We've added free "classified" ads to our freeware Ham Radio Online international "magazine" web site. We also have original feature stories, international ham radio newsletters, broadcast/SWL info, REAL-TIME world-wide propagation resources including MUFs, aurora, geomagnetic field conditions and tons more stuff. The March stories will begin by the end of the coming weekend. Stop on by and check out the new Ham Radio Online Interactive section - where you can add your own messages and your own ads, DX announcements, VHF band openings or whatever. Please enjoy, 73, Ed, KF7VY ------------------------ personal email to vbook@vbook.com Visit Ham Radio Online, it's free, at http://www.accessone.com/~vbook/hronline.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:02 1996 From: Mike Gathergood Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: HISTORY OF THE YAESU FT-101 ? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 10:30:36 GMT Message-ID: <825330636snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> References: <1996Feb24.210102.114751@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <4got99$psn@odo.PEAK.ORG> Reply-To: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk In article <4got99$psn@odo.PEAK.ORG> billn@PEAK.ORG "Bill Nelson" writes: > I doubt if they have fallen apart - and have no idea why there are so few > for sale. The only ones I have seen, the asking price was in excess of > $500. I saw our club's 101E BLOWN apart a few years ago - it was borrowed, then returned minus the mains power lead. Somebody then put a mains plug on the DC power cable and plugged it into 230V AC. Can you guess what happened next? GM4AXG was QRT for several months! My question is - what's happened to all the 2m FM rigs ever sold? They don't seem to be QRV (at least not where I live in West London) and yet the market for new black boxes and ex-business radios for conversion to 2m FM is bigger than ever. Where are all these radios going? Who's using them, and what for? 73 Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:03 1996 From: Jan-Martin Hertzsch Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 2m use in France Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:52:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3131AD0D.41C6@agnld.uni-potsdam.de> References: To: "Paul A. Wright" Hi Paul, some people recommend whistling. Well, sometimes it seems to work. Another possibility is to buy an external microphone for your HT which is equipped with an extra button and the 1750 Hz tone generator. These micros are advertised in several ham magazines. There are also several repeaters which are simply carrier-controlled, but most require indeed the 1750 tone burst. vy 73 de DG0LFH, Jan-Martin From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:04 1996 From: srik@watson (Srikanth Gurrapu) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: help needed. Date: 26 Feb 96 17:36:33 GMT Message-ID: Dear Sir/Madam , I've got your email id on Internet. I need a small technical help. I want to know if any device is available , which gives the morse code for a given data , for eg : my call-sign. I want the binary representation of the data which is Morse coded. Could you please answer my question and give me some information regarding such devices. Thanks for your help , Gurrapu Srikanth , GRA, TISL, Univ. Of kansas, Lawrence. ADD :1301 West 24th Street ,Apt M26,Lawrence,KS - 66046. Phone : Off :(913)-***-**** ; Res : (913)-832-9259. email id : srik@tisl.ukans.edu URL location : http://www.tisl.ukans.edu/~srik ------X------ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:04 1996 From: MandD@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: propogation question Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:44:04 GMT Message-ID: <4gsv1p$i5a@cloner3.netcom.com> I am not in ham radio but thought maybe someone out there could answer a question for me. I am an RF tech working in satellite communications. Can someone give me a good definition of PROPOGATION...(propogation delay, RF propogation or whatever) We were having a discussion one day at work and cant agree on it....Yes, I guess we got a liitle to much time on our hand. Your definition would be greatly apreciated. Please Email me if you can help. Thanks in advance, Mike MANDD@ix.netcom.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:05 1996 From: cassidy@netaxs.com (Kyle Cassidy) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: why a license? Date: 26 Feb 1996 19:08:03 GMT Message-ID: <4gt0ej$6hk@netaxs.com> References: <4f8826$h9b@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <1996Feb7.005105.27506@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4farrb$2ng@news.ecn.bgu.edu> : Eric Martin (uedmarti@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote: : : Thanks for all the responses, most of which cam by e-mail. I was : : interested in how well the FCC enforces its licensing laws, for I see a : : time when all Internet users may someday also need a license. : ah, what a wonderful world that might be ... but seriously, the reason that radio amateurs are licensed has a lot to do with the limited amount of bandwidth available, and also, more importantly, the idea that ham radio is preparation for EMERGENCY SERVICE. the gvt. wants to be relatively sure that in the event of an emergency, the ham community does in fact know something about radio. that's the idea anyway. -- kyle cassidy -- kb2rvy office of academic computing -- rowan college of new jersey http://www.rowan.edu/~cassidy/home.htm From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:06 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: scw1118@hertz.njit.edu (steve c walko ee stnt) Subject: *** New Ten Tec 2 Meter XCVR Kit! *** Message-ID: <1996Feb26.193601.12875@njitgw.njit.edu> Reply-To: scw1118@hertz.njit.edu (steve c walko ee stnt) Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:36:01 GMT Hello all. I read in February 96 QST that Ten-Tec has released a 2 meter transceiver kit (p. 129). I was wondering if anyone has gotten their hands on one yet or if they've seen reviews of it. I miss the kit building days of Heath. The Ramsey 2 meter kit I built a few years back gave me nothing but trouble. This new kit is fully synthesized, covers the whole 2 meter band, has 15 memories and tone encode. If it has a decent receiver in it, I just may buy one and throw it together. Please comment if you see a review or own one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve W scw1118@hertz.njit.edu New Jersey Institute Of Technology Newark, New Jersey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:07 1996 From: Jim Irving Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: TEST:please do not read Date: 26 Feb 1996 19:45:57 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gt2ll$g47@tpsun.taranaki.ac.nz> From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:08 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: ds5w@avery.med.Virginia.EDU (Diane Schleifer) Subject: HELP: Newbie needs help Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:37:05 GMT I have been loking for a mobile way to get my e-mail and buying a cell phone and cell modem is too expensive. Someone told me that I could use a HAM radio and that there are ways to get e-mail over it. Can someone please explain how it works, what I need, how much it will cost, and some other little questions. I have _no_ ham experience so please be specific (I am not stupid, just have no HAM experience). Thanx. Dan ds5w@virginia.edu From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:09 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: rlubash@poco.mv.com (Richard Lubash) Subject: Needed - Hams That Can Write Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:15:43 GMT As the new Technical Editor of 73 Amateur Radio Today I am trying to bring some of the writing seen in 73 to more of a grass roots level. I feel that it is important to cover construction projects and product reviews of equipment that can be used and afforded by the majority of the amateur community as well as the big, neat, expensive stuff. I am looking for hams that would like to write about projects they have completed or equipment that they have had experience with. The main criteria being, is it something your fellow ham would be interested in. If you think this might be fun and would like more information please email or call me. 73 Richard ------------------------------------------------- Richard Lubash Technical Editor - 73 Amateur Radio Today 603-924-0058 fax 603-924-8613 email rlubash@poco.mv.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:10 1996 From: Dave Donkers Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need schematic/ Heath SM-150A Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:36:22 -0800 Message-ID: <31336B46.2C50@aps.anl.gov> Greetings -- I am looking for a copy of the schematic or manual for a Heath/Schlumberger Model SM-150A Frequency Counter, vintage mid-1970's (from datecodes on chips). Please reply with source or, if you have one, will pay copy/postage/fax costs. I am also able to recieve scanned images. TNX, 73s de Dave N9FLA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:11 1996 From: N3PGG@aol.COM Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Info-Hams Digest V96 #170 Date: 27 Feb 96 13:33:51 GMT Message-ID: <960227083351_232328071@emout09.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 96-02-26 21:32:08 EST, you write: >From: dasosnin@emi.net (David Sosnin) >Subject: 10-10 Number > >I used to have a 10-10 number a long time ago. I have lost the number. >Is there a way I can find out what it is or apply for a new one? I >need the name and address to get the information from. > > David, your 10-10 number is 51461...sound familiar? Glad to help. 73 Tom/N3PGG From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:12 1996 From: gherbst@msn.com Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.space,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Subject: [Q] Frequency of Jupitor emissions Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 13:51:35 PDT Message-ID: Hi All: Anyone know what frequence emissions from Jupitor may be picked up on. Also, is there equipment that can be bought or built cheaply to do such. As I recall I thought I saw mentioned in a trade rag 18Mhz - 22Mhz... Thanks, Gary- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:13 1996 From: rickhz@primenet.com (Rick) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:47:01 -0700 Message-ID: <4h055l$ble@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fi74f$rjb@over.mhv.net> <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net> Internationl Communications treaties still require the Morse code for any one wanting to operate in the HF bands 160-10 meters. There are plenty of U.S hams that have petitioned the FCC to drop the code requirement but the FCC has rejected all such proposals. Things have changed though at least there is no code requirement for the VHF and higher bands. I started as a No Code Tech but quickly upgraded so I could operate on the HF bands. Rick Horwitz, AB7FH From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:14 1996 From: Fred Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:00:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> <312E0831.3D5F@ix.netcom.com> > cmccane@onramp.net@onramp.net wrote: > > > > Listen to a new world technologist's attitude that's shared by most: > > > > I'm an electronics engineer, a member of the IEEE, and a computer > > network architect. I like radio and analog electronics as a hobby. > > I use the 2M band on a regular basis and that includes auto patch > > and repeater services. I do not have ANY KIND of FCC license although ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Make note of this statement!!!!!!!!!! > > I might get one if I have the time to waste. One thing is for > > sure: > > I WILL NEVER TAKE A TEST ON MORSE CODE!!!!!!!!!!! Much selfserving BS has been snipped out here to shorten things. > > > > Now, to change the subject a bit, I don't ever want to be called > > an "amatuer radio operator" - what a pathetic label. I got my > > general class professional ticket while I was in the Navy, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now, what did that statement say a bit earlier in this tirade???? Then how the hell could he have a General Class Radio/Telephone Oerators ticket from his US Navy days if he has no kind of FCC license. This is starting to sound like a wimp that cannot even grasp the concept of any kind of personal effort. BTW--when I was in the Navy you got a Radio/Telegraph Operators license as was required by Maritime law for shipboad radio OPs. You hadda know morse to get that!!!!!!!!!!! Good thing I got a pair of hip boots to wear. It's getting pretty deep. > > C. McCane Fred Fred Peerenboom internet: peerenbf@dmapub.dma.org Amateur Radio: ke8tq@n8acv.#day.oh.usa.noam BTW-- We run a 19.2 Kb packet backbone network here linking a big chunk of the state of Ohio. What do you do for the hobby of personal, amateur, ham or what ever you wish to call it, radio?????????? Besides spout off about how great you are and how you enjoy breaking the FCC regs as to transmitter operations by unlicensed operators. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:15 1996 From: asperges@innotts.co.uk (Jeremy Boot) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Radio Pages Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:34:53 GMT Message-ID: <31334b3a.2690027@news.innotts.co.uk> Reply-To: asperges@innotts.co.uk The local server recently changed its DNS number. Some people have complained they can't access my pages any more. You should be able to find them under: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ but if not, instead try: http://194.176.128.13/~asperges/ and it should work. This is the new DNS address. The pages contain info of interest to Radio Amateurs, Radio enthusiasts and Short Wave listeners. * There are links to many other pages, newsgroups, ftp etc; * A mock exam; * Questions and Answers for newcomers; * IRC links * Links to Friends on the Net (mostly homepages involved in radio) * The new Short Wave Listener pages with links to Broadcasters on the Net. * The Russian link; * Sources for help; There will be new updates in March. 73 de Jeremy G4NJH asperges@innotts.co.uk [Home, Am Radio, SWL pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ ] From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:16 1996 From: Mark Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Icom R-7000 repair help! Date: 27 Feb 1996 21:29:30 GMT Message-ID: <4gvt3q$jog@mari.onr.com> References: To: greg@core.rose.hp.com Greg, the problem is the dc/dc power board. The fix is replacement of 2-3 capacators. Im at work and dont have info close. Look on almost any scanner bbs for articles by Bill Parnass. He did a lot of 7000 research and should have articles on mods and repairs posted everywhere. If you have no luck email me and I'll dig at home for the info. 73, Mark N5UMT From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:17 1996 From: watty Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Jeep Cherokee and mounting moblie rigs.. Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:37:05 +0000 Message-ID: <31338791.5781@mail.voicenet.com> Anyone have experience mounting a mobile rig in a Jeep Cherokee? We just got a new one and the XYL couldn't bear any "holes" in it yet. I am probably going with a Uniden 2510/2600, so I can't go with a underseat/remote head configuration. Any help is appreciated. 73 N2RDD From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:18 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Message-ID: <334@yebbs.com> Reply-To: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) From: samir_khayat@yebbs.com (SAMIR KHAYAT) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:03:00 GMT Subject: WEFAX Software References: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> =========================================================================== Packet: YEBBSNET Date: 02-27-96 (00:13) Number: 696 From: MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124 Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: WEFAX Software Conf: (12) INTNN Radio M --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MH > MIKE HATZAKIS <71251.1124@COMPUSERVE.COM> ALL > .com!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news > From: Mike Hatzakis <71251.1124@CompuServe.COM> > Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc > Subject: WEFAX Software > Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:11:56 GMT > Organization: Jefferson University > Lines: 7 > Message-ID: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> MH > I am looking for shareware program for wefax on a pk-232. I am > not thrilled about paying $100 for aea software and would rather > pay a sharewre. MH > Anyone know if one is around...? MH > Mike WB2TBQ Hi Mike, Try the JVFAX program, It is a GREAT one , the latest Version is 7.1 I guess and I am very sure you will receive excellent pictures. Best 73's Samir ( OD5SK / KC5RYL ) QTH: Jeddah - Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia --- ώ QMPro 1.53 ώ °±²Ϋ CQ CQ CQ DE OD5SK Ϋ²±° From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:19 1996 From: Bob_Dixon_GM3ZDH@msn.com (Robert Dixon) Subject: Re: SOS!!! Date: 28 Feb 96 00:22:50 -0800 References: <4glg3c$o20@news1.goodnet.com> <4gr39g$chb@rocky.scvnet.com> Message-ID: <00001fef+00004078@msn.com> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc SOS replaced the original distress call which was CQD (calling all station I'm in distress). CQD was and sounded somewhat cumbersum. SOS (all run together) is a distinctive sound and can be rythmically sent. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:20 1996 From: AC6V Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: FS/USA callsign? Date: 28 Feb 1996 02:31:08 GMT Message-ID: <4h0epc$n8o@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <2a6.30895.545@acenet.com> To: brian.carling@acenet.com Brian, I searched our Packet Cluster and found FS/N0BSH was quite active from Feb 14 thru the 27th. With all the dits at the last part of his call I mighta missed em too HI HI. 73 Rod -- ***************************************************************** Hark! I Have Hurled My Words To The Far Reaches Of The Earth! What King Of Old Could Do Thus ? --- AC6V ***************************************************************** A Man May Know Of The World Without Leaving The Shelter Of His Own Home! Loa-Tsze ***************************************************************** From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:21 1996 From: Burt Fisher Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy.,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: New Thread! Date: 28 Feb 1996 02:53:25 GMT Message-ID: <4h0g35$8tt@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <4gpv54$im0@news.syspac.com> dnorris@k7no.com wrote: >I am getting tired of seeing the same old threads. Jeeees > > >New thread.. Topics. >1) Sex >2) No-sex >3) Burt >4) No-Burt >5) Foxes >6) sweat >7) Lonnie Anderson >8) fat #================#=====================================================# | Burt Fisher | Teacher of video, broadcasting and electronics | | Amateur call | South Dennis, Ma. (Cape Cod) | | K1OIK | If you sit on the fence, it is a pain in the butt | #================#=====================================================# | k1oik@ccsnet.com | #======================================================================# You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:22 1996 From: "David W. Knisely" Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.space,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.antenna Subject: Re: [Q] Frequency of Jupitor emissions Date: 28 Feb 1996 05:49:22 GMT Message-ID: <4h0qd2$p2u@iac2.ltec.net> References: To: gherbst@msn.com Hi there. The Decameter radio bursts do not stay on a particular frequency. They are quite broad banded and move in frequency as time goes on. 22 Mhz is a goo d place to look, but it also has some broadcast stations on when the ionosphere is refractive to those freqencies. It is best heard on a broad band AM shortwave receiver with a directional antenna (like a Yagi or a loop) pointed at Jupiter . The emissions are very irregular, and seem to be most often observed when the moon IO is in certain positions around the planet. David Knisely, Prairie Astronomy Club, Inc. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:23 1996 From: binder@teleport.com (Max Lindholm) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ur tips on Field Day Organizaton ??? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 07:25:41 GMT Message-ID: <4h101p$ml6@maureen.teleport.com> Howdy, Thanks to the few that responded to the posting on 2/20/96. I am looking for your tips on how to prepare a small group of from 10-20 hams for a field day. I have sent for the ARRL's package but, would appreciate those tips you have learned. Thanks... Max, KC7GFW, Salem, OR From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:24 1996 From: paul1@news.sfu.ca (Paul Erickson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Date: 28 Feb 1996 07:40:02 GMT Message-ID: <4h10si$29e@morgoth.sfu.ca> References: <4gm6sl$1eas@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton) writes: >Drew Durigan (VUBS79A@prodigy.com) wrote: >: (none) > > Damn! and there I was, ready to steal whatever logic you were using >and apply it to the benefits of elocution and typing tests (for those >"other" modes) to be sat before someone gets on HF. Hey, there's SSTV down >there too, does that imply a test of make-up skills? (!) or does someone's >mugshot have to reach some stipulated level of pulchritude ?... to make sure >that the pictures will reach a minimum acceptable standard. Interesting, does this mean that because people can talk without knowing how to read and we therefore do not need to teach the alpahbet? CW is the most basic form of communication possible, and to eliminate it is to promote a fundamental illiteracy. The digital modes should be enjoyed and developed, but someone who is not willing to develope even a basic facility for the most basic mode available doesn't belong there. Flame on McDuff ;-) cheers, Paul ve7cqk email: paul1@wizard.ucs.sfu.ca > David GM4ZNX From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:25 1996 From: Steve Butler Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: MARS Question Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:46:51 -0800 Message-ID: References: <312EB2FE.3F46@buffnet.net> On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, bhowes wrote: > I have a question, but I am not certain if this is the correct place to > ask, if not please excuse me. I would appreciate any input.Can a Novice > transmit on MARS frequencies with HF phone if he/she has a MARS licence? > I was told that this was true. We are speaking about HF phone, not CW. If MARS issues a license, then the user can use the assigned MARS frequency in any mode specified by the net control. --Steve, KG7JE, AAR0DO +----------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Butler Voice: 206-464-2998 | | The Seattle Times Fax: 206-382-8898 | | PO Box 70 Internet: sbut-is@seatimes.com | | Seattle, WA 98111 Packet: KG7JE@N6EQZ.WA | +----------------------------------------------------+ All standard and non-standard disclaimers apply. All other sources are annonymous. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:27 1996 From: CSLE87@email.mot.com (Karl Beckman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: MARS Question Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:07:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <312EB2FE.3F46@buffnet.net> In article <312EB2FE.3F46@buffnet.net>, bhowes wrote: > I have a question, but I am not certain if this is the correct place to > ask, if not please excuse me. I would appreciate any input.Can a Novice > transmit on MARS frequencies with HF phone if he/she has a MARS licence? > I was told that this was true. We are speaking about HF phone, not CW. > Tnx. Email replies to bhowes@buffnet.net > > -Brad > > 73 Absolutely true. The MARS frequencies are not within the amateur bands. A MARS operator is limited by the DoD and MARS rules, not by Part 97 restrictions, when operating on MARS frequencies. In the same vein, when operating on the 27 MHz CB band (Part 95 of the FCC Rules) you are not allowed to run 1500W output, operate CW, use a VFO, etc. When in Rome, do as ... By the way, CW is still legal and in daily use on DoD freqs until October 1, 1996. -- Karl Beckman, P.E. < If our English language is so > Motorola Pvt Data Systems < precise, why do you drive on the > Schaumburg, IL / Parma, OH < parkway and park on the driveway? > (847) 576-0992 / (216) 265-2092 ** Opinions expressed here do not represent the views of Motorola Inc. ** -- Amateur radio WA8NVW NavyMARS NNN0VBH @ NOGBN.NOASI From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:28 1996 From: Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Can someone give me the dates of the Dayton Hamvention? Date: 28 Feb 1996 11:41:15 GMT Message-ID: <4h1f0r$gde@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <4gtsaf$lhl@news.one.net> To: djmd@one.net May 17/18/19 I believe. It moved this year (normally it is at the end of April). Goal is to improve the weather! Too bad many foreign hams will miss either the CA DX convention or the hamvention now...the new dayton date no longer allows for a combined trip! Oh well... By the way, anyone reading this have a hotel reservation in Dayton that is not being used???? Travel agent here says all hotels booked...HELP! Thanks, Joe ---------------------------------------------------------- Amateur Radio: BV/N0IAT Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China ex. 7J1AOF (Japan) YU3/N0IAT (Slovenia) KA0ZDH (Novice) Licensed Radio Amateur since 1986. Comments are mine only. ---------------------------------------------------------- From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:29 1996 From: vinyn1vc@aol.com (VINY N1VC) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need microwave attenuator Date: 28 Feb 1996 12:45:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4h24b2$qub@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: vinyn1vc@aol.com (VINY N1VC) The attenuator is for my deceased one in my HP 8551 spectrum analyzer. It is an "N" coaxial type and it covers from 10 mhz to 10ghz. I guess any substitute could be pressed into service. Thanks beforehand -Viny Coppola From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:30 1996 From: Steve Lewis Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Can someone give me the dates of the Dayton Hamvention? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:06:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3134C3ED.2836@netusa1.net> References: <4gtsaf$lhl@news.one.net> To: David Wallace David Wallace wrote: > > See subject. > > Thanks!! May 17th, 18th, and 19th. Maybe I'll see you there. Also Dayton Hamvention has it's own page you might check in there for more info, I'd give you the address But I don't have it in my bookmarks, (I'll have to remedy that). -- Steve Lewis (n9jhg@netusa1.net) Just my opinion! :-) 73 cul From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:31 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: ICOM T21A & IC-2000H mods Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 13:13:17 GMT Message-ID: <4h1kf1$7ir@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Please email mods to mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us. Thanks! 73, KB8VBA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:32 1996 From: Dave Maciorowski Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Jeep Cherokee and mounting moblie rigs.. Date: 28 Feb 1996 13:27:47 GMT Message-ID: <4h1l8j$2dg@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <31338791.5781@mail.voicenet.com> To: watty, watty wrote: >Anyone have experience mounting a mobile rig in a Jeep Cherokee? >We just got a new one and the XYL couldn't bear any "holes" in it yet. I am >probably going with a Uniden 2510/2600, so I can't go with a underseat/remote >head configuration. Any help is appreciated. In my Cherokee, I use on-the-glass antennas. The radio bolts to the panel below the dashboard, to the right of the steering wheel, in front of the driver's right knee. My tribander fits fine there and the display is quite visible. Dave WA1JHK From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:33 1996 From: fmorris@prysm.NET (Frank C. Morris, N5YZM) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: (none) Date: 28 Feb 96 13:29:37 GMT Message-ID: <9602281329.AA03553@pti.prysm.net> SUBSCRIBE From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:35 1996 From: "Rick, AA8VQ" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Battery question Date: 28 Feb 1996 13:44:58 GMT Message-ID: <4h1m8q$c4t@s2.GANet.NET> References: <4gveed$2ro@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> Scott Armstrong wrote: >I have a question on purchasing a replacement battery for my Icom W2A transci ever. >The battery that came with the radio is 7.2 V and 1000 mAh. However, the repl acement >batteries that I have found are 1200 or 1400 mAh (the Icom replacement, 1000 mAh, at >$100 is a little too pricey). Can anyone please let me know which would be th e most >suitable choice for a battery? Also, can anyone let me know if they've had an y >positive or negative experiences with regards to different battery manufactur ers (ie >Periphex, Battery-Tech, etc...)? > >Any responses can be either posted here or sent via E-mail. > >Thanks in advance... > > > Scott Armstrong > Stevens Institute of Technolo gy > SARMSTRO@VAXA.STEVENS-TECH.ED U > Scott, Simply put, the bigger battery will give you more tlalk time. I agree that $1 00 is just too much for a battery pack. The manufacturers are getting too greedy when it comes to accessories and their prices. I've used CADNICA cells for years and have had good results. I used them as replacements for OEM packs because, I too have had it with high battery pack p rices. I use thesee cells and get them from E.H. Yost, aka Mr. NiCad. Another good brand of NiCad is Gates, albeit they're a bit pricy. Lastly, you may look into Nickle Metal Hydride cells. T hey have double the capacity fore the same physical size, but cost more and have a higher opencirc uit discharge rate, however. Good luck From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:36 1996 From: ken.thompson@KS.Symbios.COM (Ken Thompson) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Repeater freq's in CA, NV, AZ, UT?? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:17:11 Message-ID: References: <4h2837$91g@rhea.glo.be> <31349FFF.434B@ix.netcom.com> >Why don't you buy the ARRL handbook for $8.00. You can get one >at any HAM radio Store because so much of the data in it is out of date or incorrect. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:37 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: jangus@netcom.com (Jeffrey D. Angus) Subject: Re: HOW TO REPROGRAM 2WAY RADIO-MOTOROLLA Message-ID: References: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:27:08 GMT Vector Boy writes: > I have a motorola 2-way radio that has 2 channels on it (model radius > p200), and would like to change the frequency. I opened it up, and > there > is just one big metal box inside of it. Please e-mail me if you have any > ideas. Or, if you are familiar with use of this particular radio. Please > e-mail me as well. Congratulations on your purchase of a Motorola radio. Now all you have to do is find the Motorola Radio Service Software, Radio Interface Box and appropriate cable to reprogram your radio with. Or take it to a Motorola service center and see if you can talk them into programming it into the Amateur band. (And if their software will allow amateur band frequencies.) 73 es GM from Jeff -- Amateur: WA6FWI@WA6FWI.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA | "It is difficult to imagine our Internet: jangus@skyld.grendel.com | universe run by a single omni- US Mail: PO Box 4425 Carson, CA 90749 | potent god. I see it more as a Phone: 1 (310) 324-6080 | badly run corporation." From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:38 1996 From: VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Date: 28 Feb 1996 15:28:46 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h1sbe$1vu6@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> References: <4gsf2u$rth@crc-news.doc.ca> <1996feb27.154554.25536@schbbs.mot.com> >Tony KC7HDT >(who has taken and passed the "code" test, and retains no desire >whatever to use "cw") Ditto. And I resent the fact that I had to waste my time learning something that I will never use, simply "because it's the rules." When the sole reason for requiring something is "because it's the rules", then it's time for the rules to be changed. -Drew in Sunny Central Florida- KF4DDM From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:39 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: ARLB013 Question pool committee Message-ID: <1996Feb28.170758.12180@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <1996Feb27.161728.7372@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4h0ohe$es6$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:07:58 GMT In article <4h0ohe$es6$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Hans Brakob <71111.2 60@CompuServe.COM> writes: >You just don't get it, do you! FCC rules, paragraph 97.523 states >"ALL VEC's must cooperate in maintaining one question pool...." > >The ARRL is one (of many) VEC. > >The ARRL and other VEC's, because they declined to join this >"umbrella" organization, were denied (by that organization) >the right to participate in maintaining the question pool. They weren't denied the right to join the organization, they *declined* to join. It would seem to me that the ARRL had the opportunity to participate, but the *ARRL* was the one who refused to do so. >Loyalist or not, it has nothing to do with "500 pound gorillas". I'd say it has everything to do with 500 pound gorillas. The ARRL wanted things on *their* terms, or they were going to pick up their marbles and go home (and call Uncle to get their way anyhow). Now there might be good reasons why the ARRL refused to participate, but there has been no statement of those reasons published by the ARRL. The minutes don't say a thing about why the ARRL declined to participate. That being the case, the ARRL looks the villian in this case for refusing to cooperate. Just because the ARRL is adhering to the letter of the regulations doesn't make their position look good. The ARRL already has an image problem in some quarters, and this move doesn't help it one bit. The ARRL has a history of wanting things its own way, and not joining with any other group unless the joint venture is really just a captive creature of the ARRL. The breakaway of the Canadians and the recent turnabout by the coordinators over the SPOC issue are results of reaction to such perceptions about captive creatures of the ARRL. The ARRL needs to make the case *why* it refused to participate clear, otherwise this just looks like another example of the 500 pound gorilla throwing its weight around. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:41 1996 From: jmaynard@k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB013 Question pool committee Date: 28 Feb 1996 18:32:47 GMT Message-ID: References: <1996Feb27.161728.7372@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4h0ohe$es6$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> <1996Feb28.170758.12180@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: jmaynard@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu On Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:07:58 GMT, Gary Coffman wrote: >They weren't denied the right to join the organization, they >*declined* to join. It would seem to me that the ARRL had >the opportunity to participate, but the *ARRL* was the one >who refused to do so. This is semantics. The rules don't say that there shall be an umbrella organization, just that all of the VECs must cooperate. If the other VECs exclude the ARRL, then there's no cooperation. >Now there might be good reasons why the ARRL refused to >participate, but there has been no statement of those >reasons published by the ARRL. The minutes don't say a >thing about why the ARRL declined to participate. That >being the case, the ARRL looks the villian in this case >for refusing to cooperate. I agree that the ARRL needs to explaint heir refusal to join the umbrella organization - but that doesn't mean they should be excluded from a process that the rules mandate they be included in. >and the recent turnabout by the coordinators over the SPOC >issue are results of reaction to such perceptions about >captive creatures of the ARRL. You've been hearing only one side of the SPOC story - the one spread by SERA, in an effort ot make themselves look good. The truth is that the SPOC hasn't chaned in focus or implementation one iota from what was decided in St. Louis from today. It is SERA that has done the about-face, after realizing that they looked petualt and silly over their previous stand. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can http://k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "Are we going to push it to the edge of the envelope?" -- Pinky "No, Pinky. We may, however, reach the sticky part." -- The Brain From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:42 1996 From: barry@indireect.com (Barry Rose) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Repeater freq's in CA, NV, AZ, UT?? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 22:01:02 GMT Message-ID: <4h2rc6$f7p@globe.indirect.com> References: <4h2837$91g@rhea.glo.be> <31349FFF.434B@ix.netcom.com> In article , ken.thompson@KS.Symbios.COM (Ken Thompson) wrote: > > >>Why don't you buy the ARRL handbook for $8.00. You can get one >>at any HAM radio Store > > >because so much of the data in it is out of date or incorrect. There is a new repeater directory out. It has listing sorted in many ways. There is information on my clubs homepage. http://www.indirect.com/www/ara. My club is selling the southwestern version which covers 5 states. Check it out. 73 Barry Rose K7YYM From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:43 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: horowitz@nosc.mil (Alan M. Horowitz) Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt w Message-ID: <1996Feb28.225828.9163@nosc.mil> References: <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> <4ghpcg$ooo@brokaw.comm.mot.com> <4ghv84$gbh@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <4gnm45$j0p@news.ios.com> <3131FAD8.72E2@boulder.vni.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:58:28 GMT The airport radar dish is likely fed with waveguide that won't even propagate your 144-Mhz energy. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:44 1996 From: UNXA67B@prodigy.com (David Fields) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: GMRS Radio ??? Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:11:06 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h2quq$1l58@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> Of what use might an individual find the GMRS system? Is the Repeater coverage better or even equivelant to that of the 440 meter ot 2 meter? Would there be ant specific features to look for as an indevidual rather than an organization? Can these repeaters be used as an autopatch as with other amature repeater systems on other bands? I know, I know. I ask too many questions, but if I do not, than I do not learn. Thank you all for your responses in advanse. 73's Dave From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:45 1996 From: edellers@shivasys.com (Ed Ellers) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 29 Feb 1996 04:26:42 GMT Message-ID: <4h39u2$5al@news.paonline.com> References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> <4ga2mr$lhu@anomaly.ideamation.com> In article <4ga2mr$lhu@anomaly.ideamation.com>, kd1hz@anomaly.ideamation.com says... >You run 9600 baud over HF? Wow. I'm impressed. You must be the EE of all >EEs. It doesn't take an EE to run 9600 bps on HF -- just somebody with a wideband transmitter and a willingness to break the rules. :-) (Actually, things might get interesting if hams are able to start using advanced digital modulation modes in the next few years. Zenith's 8-VSB system can transmit 19.3 Mbps in a 6 MHz TV channel with room to spare, and there's a project going on to transmit compressed digital audio -- using 96-128 kbps of data -- in the AM broadcast band *under* regular AM broadcasts, so a station can run AM and digital stereo on the same frequency through the same rig!) -- Ed Ellers, KD4AWQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:45 1996 From: POSTMASTER@mcimail.COM (POSTMASTER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: NON-DELIVERY: Info-Hams Digest V96 #180 Date: 29 Feb 96 04:35:00 GMT Message-ID: <50960229043505.POSTMASTERPJ3EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Your message of Wed Feb 28, 1996 11:34 pm EST , message ID 23960229043432/0003765414DC3EM, could not be delivered to: Frank C. Morris / MCI ID: 0007186758 This mailbox is no longer valid. If you need additional information please co ntact MCI Mail Customer Support at 800-444-6245 (U.S. only) or 202-833-8484. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:46 1996 From: edellers@shivasys.com (Ed Ellers) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: 29 Feb 1996 04:46:11 GMT Message-ID: <4h3b2j$5al@news.paonline.com> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> In article <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu>, Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu says... >I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, >and I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters >off. They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a >hunt it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me >down in 15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) > >Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. >I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em >work to find me. :) I heard one guy a while back built up an automated "fox" that he hid in a fake tombstone and set up in a cemetery. My own idea for a hiding place would be in a car that is *not* known to be owned by a ham and that has a fixed (not power) AM/FM antenna; this again would use an automated transmitter fed into the factory antenna. A power antenna wouldn't be quite so convincing because you usually don't see them up while parked. (What would be really dirty, IMHO, would be to do this with an old GM car that had a windshield antenna!) -- Ed Ellers, KD4AWQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:47 1996 From: cdrom.info@infoplus.com (Cdrom Info) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: NEW! Ham Radio CDROM Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 05:30:33 GMT Message-ID: <9602290122047209@infoplus.com> Distribution: world NEW! - January 1996 Edition -------------------- Ham Radio CDROM with Windows based Callsign Database ---------------------------------------------------- Information Plus sells a superb Ham Radio CDROM featuring: * Callsign Database with Windows, DOS, OS/2, UNIX interfaces (Over 1,000,000 callsigns from 12 countries) * Thousands of PC compatible Amateur Radio Programs * Radio Modifications, WAV files for TNC Testing For more information send email with subject text including HAM ^^^ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:48 1996 From: nrhblack@datatamers.com (N.R.H. Black) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: CUSEEME sked anyone? Date: 29 Feb 1996 06:48:10 GMT Message-ID: <4h3i7a$3de@news.datatamers.com> I have a new toy - cuseeme with a connectix quickcam. Would anyone care for a sked roughly 0500Z any day, my IP address is dynamic so if yours is too we would need to exchange IP addresses out of band. 73 cu Henry G4NOC, KK6JR pse qsl email nrhblack@datatamers.com tks k From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:49 1996 From: hcooper@vidiot2.corp.es.com (Harrison Cooper) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: YES!! Good PR Date: 29 Feb 1996 07:12:16 -0700 Message-ID: <4h4c80$1vv@vidiot2.corp.es.com> Summary: Time picture/notes Keywords: pr Check it out!! March 4th issue of Time on page 20. Local heroes. Picture and paragraph of amateur radio helping out in time of need during Oregon flooding. Nothing negative, all positive. -- | Harrison Cooper | email : hcooper@es.com | | Hardware Design | Phone : 801-588-7929 | | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. | Radio : N7KST 147.04 R, | | Salt Lake City, Utah 84158 | 1G617 Davis County ARES 147.42 S | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:50 1996 From: orbelld@pcbe.edu.on.ca (David Orbell) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: 'cell driving' illegal Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:46:57 -0500 Message-ID: I live in Ontario. Recently heard of someone getting a ticket for operating their cell phone while driving. I didn't realize their was a law against this. I've heard that this is enforced in Australia. How does this apply to us operating mobile rigs while driving. Is the stipulation relative to not doing anything which is making it unsafe for driving the vehicle? I think of the many public related utilities which use and rely on 2 way communication while doing their job. Is their a distinction between cell phones and 2 way radio's? Dave VE3RRN From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:51 1996 From: mikemiller@dsm1.dsmnet.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB010 FCC call sign update Date: 29 Feb 1996 09:27:26 GMT Message-ID: <4h3rhu$ts@dsm6.dsmnet.com> References: <$arlb010.1996@arrl.org> , Reply-To: mikemiller@dsm1.dsmnet.com In article , rfm@urth.eng.sun.com (Rich Mc Allister) writes: >In article smith_j@WVLINK.MPL.COM (J im T. Smith) writes: > >>I am curious. >>I received my KB8YVN call sign last spring. I watched for my sign to show >>up in QST, but it never made it. A friend of mine checked the latest >>updates a few months ago to see if my sign had made the list. It never >>did. > >Don't understand. The April 1, 1995 list showed KB8YQE and the >May 1, 1995 showed KB8ZEI. YQE >Rich >-- >Rich McAllister (rfm@eng.sun.com) Jim - Your call is on the July '95 edition of QRZ CDRom as being issued 4-10-95 and expiring 4-10-2005 and is a technician call. Mike N0JAS From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:52 1996 From: CSLE87@email.mot.com (Karl Beckman) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Dates of the Dayton Hamvention? Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:12:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4gtsaf$lhl@news.one.net> <4h1f0r$gde@tilde.csc.ti.com> In article <4h1f0r$gde@tilde.csc.ti.com>, Joe Fitter BV/N0IAT wrote: > May 17/18/19 I believe. It moved this year (normally it > is at the end of April). Goal is to improve the weather! > > Too bad many foreign hams will miss either the CA DX convention > or the hamvention now...the new dayton date no longer allows > for a combined trip! Oh well... > > By the way, anyone reading this have a hotel reservation in > Dayton that is not being used???? Travel agent here says > all hotels booked...HELP! Thanks, Joe > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Amateur Radio: BV/N0IAT Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China > > ex. 7J1AOF (Japan) YU3/N0IAT (Slovenia) KA0ZDH (Novice) > Licensed Radio Amateur since 1986. Comments are mine only. > ---------------------------------------------------------- The "new Dayton" weekend also conflicts with Armed Forces Day. That makes it awfully hard for the MARS staff to support their own activity and also attend Dayton. However, there's a rumor circulating that someone might set up a MARS Super-station on the grounds, in a local hotel, or at a nearby military installation. Stay tuned - literally! -- Karl Beckman, P.E. < If our English language is so > Motorola Pvt Data Systems < precise, why do you drive on the > Schaumburg, IL / Parma, OH < parkway and park on the driveway? > (847) 576-0992 / (216) 265-2092 ** Opinions expressed here do not represent the views of Motorola Inc. ** -- By sending unsolicited commercially-oriented e-mail to this address, the sender agrees to pay a $100 fee to Motorola Inc for proofreading services. -- Amateur radio WA8NVW NavyMARS NNN0VBH @ NOGBN.NOASI From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:53 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: BAJ44566@pcvan.or.jp Subject: RE:PACKET-INTERNET GATEWAY?? (OD5SK) Message-ID: <960229194426.2736@pcvan.or.jp> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:44:29 GMT Hi Samir OD5SK , here is Takeshi JN1RII , a HAM in Japan. >if anyone knows >the E-mail & packet address of a Packet <--> Internet Gateway. I know one of available gateway you*re searching in the US. The following is the HOME PAGE. If you can , check it as soon as possible , bye. >http://www.ccecu.com/kilgore/hamradio.htm --------------------------------------------------- Best Regards. Takeshi Tsunemoto AX25. Packet Radio : JN1RII @ JH4RMH.12.JNET1.JPN.AS E-mail : BAJ44566@pcvan.or.jp Locator PM95XV , Kashiwa City Chiba Pref. JAPAN (B From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:54 1996 From: mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us (ML, Michigan, USA) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: WANTED: ICOM T21A & IC-2000H mods Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:25:57 GMT Message-ID: <4h49iv$4pb@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Please email mods to mlamb@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us. Thanks! 73, KB8VBA From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:55 1996 From: femens@iquest.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Time Req'd for CW competancy Date: 29 Feb 1996 14:53:44 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h4elo$a25@polo.iquest.com> References: <4h0a4k$47t@netnews.mis.net> > jgkamm@mis.net writes: > I just started learning CW around a month ago and can handle around 7 WPM. > I wonder about others' experience in building speed to 13 WPM. How long ca n I > expect if I work 1 hour/day? I can't tell if I'm "on course" ! Well, years ago, I passed my Novice test in June and then passed the General i n September -- but I didn't "work" at it. If you've mastered 5 wpm and want to p roceed to General ASAP, get your Novice and get yourself ON THE AIR. No amount of spending X ho urs a day "working" on your code speed will advance you as much as actually getting on the air and working CW. When you're working on the air, it is communication, not practice or work. If you make a practice of working people who push your envelope just a little, you'll advance your code speed to 13 and beyond without your even being aware of it. I've particip ated in many VE exam sessions, and whether it is 13 or 20 wpm, those who get their practice on the air advance more quickly, copy better and are less likely to be distracted if some one across the room rattles a piece of paper than those who have spent theit time practic ing with code tapes or computer generated material. 73 and good luck Frank Emens, Huntsville Alabama "femens@iquest.com" "Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before." From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:56 1996 From: cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher K Greenhalgh) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt w Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:08:28 GMT Message-ID: <4h4fhc$baj@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> <3131FAD8.72E2@boulder.vni.com> <1996Feb28.225828.9163@nosc.mil> In article <1996Feb28.225828.9163@nosc.mil>, Alan M. Horowitz wrote: >The airport radar dish is likely fed with waveguide that won't even >propagate your 144-Mhz energy. He was refering to the metal of the dish rotating, and bouncing the signal that way...not trying to "make" a harmonic from mixing the 2 signals together. Take care. -- Christopher K. Greenhalgh, N8WCT Computer/Electronic Tech. II at The Ohio State University E-Mail: ckg+@osu.edu (cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Radio : n8wct@w8cqk.#cmh.oh.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:58 1996 From: cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher K Greenhalgh) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 'cell driving' illegal Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:15:24 GMT Message-ID: <4h4fuc$bd0@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: In article , David Orbell wrote: >I live in Ontario. Recently heard of someone getting a ticket for >operating their cell phone while driving. I didn't realize their was a law >against this. >I've heard that this is enforced in Australia. There is a law in some states that dont allow you to operate a *HANDHELD* cell phone while driving. I would imagine other countries have adopted this law too, but it doesnt apply to "hands free" cell operation. >How does this apply to us operating mobile rigs while driving. Is the >stipulation relative to not doing anything which is making it unsafe for >driving the vehicle? I have never seen this law apply to anything but cell phone operation. It does not include two-way, CB, or Ham operation. >I think of the many public related utilities which use and rely on 2 way >communication while doing their job. Is their a distinction between cell >phones and 2 way radio's? Yes, as said above, the laws that I have seen, only pertain to handheld cell phone operation. I suppose somewhere it may be different, but I have NEVER heard of ANY law restricting any other type of communications. Take care. -- Christopher K. Greenhalgh, N8WCT Computer/Electronic Tech. II at The Ohio State University E-Mail: ckg+@osu.edu (cgreenha@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) Radio : n8wct@w8cqk.#cmh.oh.usa.noam From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:08:59 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Message-ID: <1996Feb29.163900.17171@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> <312E0831.3D5F@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:39:00 GMT In article Fred writes: >how the hell could he have a General Class Radio/Telephone Oerators >ticket from his US Navy days if he has no kind of FCC license. Once upon a time they *did* expire you know. >This is >starting to sound like a wimp that cannot even grasp the concept of any >kind of personal effort. BTW--when I was in the Navy you got a >Radio/Telegraph Operators license as was required by Maritime law for >shipboad radio OPs. You hadda know morse to get that!!!!!!!!!!! Good >thing I got a pair of hip boots to wear. It's getting pretty deep. As I recall, military operators aren't required to hold commercial certificates of any kind. So if he did get a commercial ticket, it was of his own choice, and outside his military duties. Of course, once upon a time naval ROs were required to know Morse, but that wouldn't apply if he were a radar tech. In that case he may have chosen to get a commercial General Radiotelephone with radar endorsement for use when he returned to civilian life. (This isn't intended to defend the outlawry expoused by the flamer, just an attempt to show your counter arguments aren't sufficient.) Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:00 1996 From: Hans Brakob <71111.260@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB013 Question pool committee Date: 29 Feb 1996 17:18:31 GMT Message-ID: <4h4n57$fa8$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> References: <1996Feb28.170758.12180@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Gary, ARRL did not "gather up their marbles and go home". Their marbles were confiscated and they were removed from the game because they declined to pledge allegiance to NCVEC. The question pool committee cannot be a committee restricted only to members of the NCVEC, Inc. There is no agreement between the FCC and the NCVEC, Inc. The agreements are between the FCC and the individual organizations that serve as VECs. The QPC is a child of FCC, not NCVEC, so NCVEC cannot impose "conditions" on participation. The FCC rules bind all VECs to cooperate in maintaining a question pool for each written examination element. A few VECs, even a majority of VECs, cannot unilaterally create a corporation as a mechanism for maintaining the pools and then exclude other VECs who do not choose to participate in that corporation. ARRL is not alone in choosing to not participate in the corporation, but even if they were, it would make no difference. By the way, since the question pools are public, there is no particular advantage to a publisher to be on the committee. You and I could publish study guides just as easily as ARRL or W5YI. With your brains and my looks, we would corner the market. -- 73, de Hans, K0HB --Support your local Amateur Radio clubs. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:01 1996 From: ring@porky.cb.att.com (Warren Ring) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Can someone give me the dates of the Dayton Hamvention? Date: 29 Feb 1996 18:10:23 GMT Message-ID: <4h4q6f$q1g@nntpa.cb.att.com> References: <4gtsaf$lhl@news.one.net> <3134C3ED.2836@netusa1.net> In article <3134C3ED.2836@netusa1.net>, Steve Lewis wrote : >David Wallace wrote: >> >> See subject. >> >> Thanks!! > > >May 17th, 18th, and 19th. >Maybe I'll see you there. >Also Dayton Hamvention has it's own page you might check in there >for more info, I'd give you the address But I don't have it in my >bookmarks, (I'll have to remedy that). Try these: http://www.panix.com/clay/ham/events.html#fests http://members.aol.com/hamvention/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warren Ring / AB6QE | Columbus, Ohio | ring@hercules.cb.att.com Trying to manage programmers is like trying to herd cats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:02 1996 From: gray@news.humberc.on.ca (Kelly Gray) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 'cell driving' illegal Date: 29 Feb 1996 19:49:56 GMT Message-ID: <4h5014$g3o@dns.humberc.on.ca> References: David Orbell (orbelld@pcbe.edu.on.ca) wrote: : I live in Ontario. Recently heard of someone getting a ticket for : operating their cell phone while driving. I didn't realize their was a law : against this. : I've heard that this is enforced in Australia. : How does this apply to us operating mobile rigs while driving. Is the : stipulation relative to not doing anything which is making it unsafe for : driving the vehicle? : I think of the many public related utilities which use and rely on 2 way : communication while doing their job. Is their a distinction between cell : phones and 2 way radio's? : Dave : VE3RRN As I understand it, there is no law that specifically bans the use of cellphones while driving. instead, the law says that a driver must be concentrating his attention on the road, rather than on the interior of the vehicle. This means that yes, you can be fined for using a 2 way radio while driving. In practice the law is only rarely enforced, unless you are doing something particularly stupid. I suspect that part of the reason the law is so lax is because of the obvious court challenge: why is it acceptable for the police to use radios while driving, but not acceptable for anyone else? Kelly VE3VGP From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:03 1996 From: jmaynard@k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB013 Question pool committee Date: 29 Feb 1996 21:29:03 GMT Message-ID: References: <1996Feb27.161728.7372@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <4h0ohe$es6$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> <1996Feb28.170758.12180@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> <1996Feb29.170614.17425@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: jmaynard@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu On Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:06:14 GMT, Gary Coffman wrote: >Again, the ARRL excluded *itself*. Until the ARRL explains that action, >it has no cause for complaint. The lack of cooperation is all on the >ARRL side as far as I can see. Hans Brakob explained this one better than I can. I'd like to see your answer to his explanation. >So, are you claiming that the Drafting Committee hasn't offered >articles of incorporation for an independent coordinator's body >to be called the "National Frequency Coordinator's Council" No, I am not. > in >contradiction to the St. Louis decision to let the ARRL do it? This is the crux of the matter: SERA, in its ARRL-bashing zeal, misinterpreted the result of the St. Louis meeting. That meeting did not decide to "let the ARRL do it"; it decided to take advantage of the ARRL's infrastructure and willingness to support the function under policies and procedures set forth by the coordinators. That's _EXACTLY_ what the NFCC proposal is. >Is that a SERA fabrication? Or is that what the Drafting Committee >actually wrote? If you agree that the text is in the cover letter, >how can you claim that it is not in contradiction to the St. Louis >decision? You quoted the cover letter accurately. You've simply been listening to the SERA spin on the St. Louis meeting instead of the truth. That is why I think that SERA's recent PR blitz about its about-face is hypocritical claptrap designed to make them look good. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can http://k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "Are we going to push it to the edge of the envelope?" -- Pinky "No, Pinky. We may, however, reach the sticky part." -- The Brain From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:05 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc From: midgard@nycmetro.com (SARUMAN) Subject: CB conversion for HAM use? Message-ID: <707.6633T987T1350@nycmetro.com> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 21:38:12 GMT Howdy folks, I was just going thru some of my stuff and found my old Walkie T' s Both are 3 channel 3 watt units. one Lafayette one Radio Shack. Is it possable to get Crystals for Frequencies other thatn the 40 CB Channels for use with these units? Any other Mod's needed? Thanx for the help folks. The Crystals in these are socketed if that matters. I've been out of this for Years. Midgard Graphics 3D Animation and Special FX for the hobbyist videographer Email: midgard@nycmetro.com -- Drop into #amigacafe on IRC's undernet for a chat sometime -- A man of many hobby's master of none. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:06 1996 From: warnergt@postoffice.ptd.net (George Warner) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:15:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fmimn$kgv@is05.micron.net> <4g6kv7$jmq@news.onramp.net> <4ga2mr$lhu@anomaly.ideamation.com> <4h39u2$5al@news.paonline.com> In article <4h39u2$5al@news.paonline.com>, edellers@shivasys.com (Ed Ellers) wrote: > In article <4ga2mr$lhu@anomaly.ideamation.com>, kd1hz@anomaly.ideamation.com > says... > >You run 9600 baud over HF? Wow. I'm impressed. You must be the EE of all > >EEs. > > It doesn't take an EE to run 9600 bps on HF -- just somebody with a wideband > transmitter and a willingness to break the rules. :-) 9600 bps does not require a wideband transmitter. It will fit within the bandwidth of a standard audio channel. Despite this, I still don't think the rules allow it. George Warner warnergt@postoffice.ptd.net http://home.ptd.net/~warnergt From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:07 1996 From: ka9mvp@ix.netcom.com(Gregory Pawlowski) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Newsline by e.mail? Date: 29 Feb 1996 22:38:20 GMT Message-ID: <4h59ss$mfd@reader2.ix.netcom.com> I need the address of the server and the message to get Newsline by e.mail . I read the previous postings regarding same but lost them . From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:08 1996 From: willmore@whelk.cig.mot.com (David A Willmore) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Date: 29 Feb 96 22:56:46 GMT Message-ID: References: <4gm6sl$1eas@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4h10si$29e@morgoth.sfu.ca> paul1@news.sfu.ca (Paul Erickson) writes: >Interesting, does this mean that because people can talk without knowing >how to read and we therefore do not need to teach the alpahbet? CW is the >most basic form of communication possible, and to eliminate it is to >promote a fundamental illiteracy. The digital modes should be enjoyed >and developed, but someone who is not willing to develope even a basic >facility for the most basic mode available doesn't belong there. 'CW is the most basic form of communication possible...' That's one for the quote file. Given a lot of the 'conversation' that goes on in the HF bands, I'd have to agree that 'basic' defines it quite well. Knowlege of the alphabet is necessary to write, to spell, to sort, to read, etc. Could you explain, again, how knowlege of other digital modes depends on CW? I can see from a theoretical point how understanding CW as a modulation scheme is useful to understand later modes, but that in no way implies a need to be proficient in its practice. BTW, how's your semiconductor physics? How are your boolean logic skills? Maybe you should practice them a bit more before you post--they are the most basic form of modern computing. People who don't understand them don't belong here... Cheers, David Disclaimer: I am not a representitive of and do not speak for Motorola. From lwbyppp@epix.net Fri Mar 01 21:09:08 1996 From: vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb, Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 23:55:33 GMT Message-ID: <4h2q26$9e2@news.mcn.net> References: <4h20m5$4hl@uwm.edu> In article <4h20m5$4hl@uwm.edu>, herb@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Nathan Ryan Gingras) wrote: >LET IT GO FOR CHIRIST'S SAKE !!!!!! EVERYONE IS SOOOOO SICK OF HEARING >ABOUT THIS!!! > >AND QUIT CROSS POSTING!!!!!! > > > >Why does everyone have to act so condesending to CB'ers? They are happy >where they are, and just because you have a ham license and they don't >doesn't make you superior. (Whoever came up with the 'no code=no > >Nate, KB9LSX > No they're not. If CB'ers were happy where they were, they wouldn't modify their radios for illegal out of band operation! Vince, KB7ADL 73 From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:24:55 1996 From: mpeek@swcp.com (H. Milton Peek) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.travel-l Subject: Re: TRAVEL ROUTES/ADVENTURES Date: 24 Feb 1996 20:48:27 GMT Message-ID: <4gntir$4kn@sloth.swcp.com> References: Philip V. Wood (lnuwodp@reading.ac.uk) wrote: : Hi, : I'm currently looking for interesting travel routes and : expedition/adventure ideas, for a good few months travelling/exploring. : Anywhere in the world, the more obscure the better! : does anybody have any ideas!? : Let us know! : Philip lnuwodp@reading.ac.uk : ta. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:24:56 1996 From: hbcsc274@csun.edu (jerry wang) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Learn CW Software for your PC Date: 25 Feb 1996 11:08:32 GMT Message-ID: <4gpfvg$r1r@dewey.csun.edu> If you missed it before, I still have a program that I wrote to help amateurs learn CW. It is on my web page at http://www.csun.edu/~hbcsc274 Check in the Software section for it. If you don't have access to a web browser, email me and I can uuencode it and email it to you. Jerry Wang KE6UUX From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:24:57 1996 From: asken@primenet.com (Ken Fredstrom) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: WEFAX Software Date: 25 Feb 1996 20:59:01 -0700 Message-ID: <31312f5c.3525609@news.primenet.com> References: <4gr1cs$fv4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> On 26 Feb 1996 01:11:56 GMT, Mike Hatzakis <71251.1124@CompuServe.COM> wrote: You may want to try the program JVFAX version 7.0 or 7.1 I have the PK-900 and use jvfax to receive wx and sstv, but it wont send using the pk-900. The 232 uses the same pins and etc as the pk-900. KEN >I am looking for shareware program for wefax on a pk-232. I am >not thrilled about paying $100 for aea software and would rather >pay a sharewre. > >Anyone know if one is around...? > >Mike WB2TBQ From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:24:58 1996 From: Mike Hensley Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Mod for new ICOM 2000 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:10:40 -0800 Message-ID: <31316B00.19EE@digital.net> Does any one have the mod for the new ic-2000 vhf radio?? Thanks, Mike From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:24:59 1996 From: randall518@aol.com (Randall518) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: HISTORY OF THE YAESU FT-101 ? Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:22:03 -0500 Message-ID: <4grg1r$ead@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <1996Feb24.210102.114751@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Reply-To: randall518@aol.com (Randall518) Yaesu may be able to provide you the information you seek. Call them in California. I have seen the Yaesu 101 series for sale several times on the local packet system and at some hamfests. Amateur Radio Trader, a bi-monthly swap mag, has a separate Yaesu section. I disagree with 500 and up price.. I have seen the EE and EX models go for as little as 250-300 dollars. I had a 101EX that unfortunately got dropped by UPS on it's way to being aligned. It was a great radio, did close to 300 watts out, and had a good receiver. Part of the problem with this series is thAt some of the 101 series radios had 11 meter capability and others could be modified real easy. Therefore, some of the used stuff is not up to ham specs. If you can find one, buy it.. they really are one of the better radios from the 1960's and 1970's Randy N2VQD From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:01 1996 From: dougrand@i-2000.com (Prowler) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Mounting detachable faceplate in car - Help! Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:24:36 GMT Message-ID: <4gquf8$3g2@i-2000.com> References: <4gl2oj$mbt@post.its.mcw.edu> Hello Simon, My solution was to buy an extra ash tray from the dealer (I don't smoke.) The ashtray was some sort of plastic material which I was able to cut with my moto-drill and cut out the exact size of the faceplate from the radio (Alinco DR600). It looks as if it came with the automobile and when I am through with either the auto or the radio, I'll just install the new ashtray I purchased while the car was new and no one will ever know. I used a trunk lip mount for the antenna. Doug, KN2Y simont@post.its.mcw.edu (Simon Twigger) scribed: xxHi there, xxI have recently bought a Kenwood TS742 2m/70cm dualbander which has a xxdetachable face plate to allow the radio to be installed in the trunk xxand the contols to be up front within reach. I have the radio installed xxunder the passenger seat and the wires from the battery are in place xxwithout any problems. I am now trying to find a way to mount the xxfaceplate, preferably without doing anything permanent to the car. xxI was wondering if anyone can give me any tips on how this might be xxaccomplished? If I have to drill some holes somewhere inconspicuous xxthen so be it, but Im trying to avoid it if I can. I have a Honda Civic xx'94. xxI have seen pictures of faceplates mounted on mobile phone 'goose xxnecks' (flexible arms mounted to the car floor) which look very neat xxand tidy. Has anyone used this method and how easy is the installation xxof the goose neck? xxThanks for anyone who can help me here. xx Simon, AA9PW xxMedical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:01 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: dasosnin@emi.net (David Sosnin) Subject: 10-10 Number Reply-To: dasosnin@emi.net Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 01:03:41 GMT I used to have a 10-10 number a long time ago. I have lost the number. Is there a way I can find out what it is or apply for a new one? I need the name and address to get the information from. Thanks in advance. David Sosnin N4TTN Lake Worth, FL From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:02 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.misc From: shelj@holli.com (Jeffery Shelton) Subject: Re: mod for ft1000mp needed Message-ID: References: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:25:06 GMT In article , shelj@holli.com says... > >need mod for yeasu ft1000mp can anyone help??? >thanks jeff e-mail=shelj@holli.com > got it thanks.......jeff From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:03 1996 From: kovar@zeus.ia.net (Jack Kovar KE0AX) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: dualband radio favorites? Date: 26 Feb 1996 03:36:42 GMT Message-ID: <4gr9sa$qhc@hera.ia.net> I would value your unbiased thoughts on what you all feel to be the best dualbander mobile and hand held unit in current production? It would not hurt to throw in a few comparisons to past radios as I could be talked into a oldie but goodie mobile. My local feedback has pushed me into purchasing FT-51r's for handhelds for wife and I. At this point I have no negative comments to share on operation of these units. I smile everytime I use it as if Yeasu realy got this one right. Even down to the extra audio output. If anyone else has software for the ft-51r please email me with comments. It would be handy to know of other options you all find helpful too. Thanks for you interest in helping, Jack and Jana KE0AX and KB0VEA kovar@ia.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:04 1996 From: Peter Coffee AC6EN <72631.113@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Truth in hamming Date: 26 Feb 1996 04:07:26 GMT Message-ID: <4grblu$d8o$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> >> a lonely, pathetic wretch Oh, come now. The same could be said of stamp collectors, gardeners, or weight lifters. All of these can be solitary pursuits. I would counterargue that the true ham is someone who extends his personal interest in radio into one or more of the areas of education, public service, and/or technical experimentation, enhancing the appeal of technical careers to the young and enhancing the value of radio technologies to those who rely on others to make those technologies useful. And many hams do most of their hamming in the company of friends, family, or perfect strangers whose notion of "a ham" is "one of those nice people with the radios who help us out with _______." The existence of lonely, pathetic hams in a sample that does not meet scientific selection criteria says more about the person who chose the sample than it says about the population of hams. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:05 1996 From: Peter Coffee AC6EN <72631.113@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Truth in hamming Date: 26 Feb 1996 04:12:36 GMT Message-ID: <4grbvk$d8o$2@mhade.production.compuserve.com> >>> For the most part they just sit on their butts. My gosh, you're right. It's just been brought to my attention that at least 50 per cent of all hams make less than average contributions to the missions of the amateur service. What a sorry state of affairs. Past experience suggests that it would be a mistake to think that the irony intended above is too obvious to bother pointing it out explicitly. My point is that mediocre contributions by the majority of any group are the norm, and not a reason to reduce the opportunities for the exceptional contributions made by the few. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:06 1996 From: flanders@znet.groupz.net (Jerry Flanders) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: QRM from my Shack Computer Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 04:17:00 GMT Message-ID: <4grc2k$8m9@news1.sunbelt.net> References: <4g725i$11g@power2.powernet.co.uk> <312F61A3.12EF@athena.csdco.com> Richard Kiefer wrote: >Ian James wrote: >> >> I have an IBM clone computer in the shack which I use for Internet and >> hope to use for radio logging. However, the QRM from the computer >> doesn't allow me to operate successfully on most bands. >> >> Does anyone know of a simple way of eliminating this interference? ========================================================== I just don't let it get into the receiver. I now use a well shielded rig (ICOM 751 / Ameritron AL1200), and 100% shielded coax (9913) to an antenna switch box located outside near the antennas. I once used ladder line with an antenna tuner in the shack (all within 5 feet of the computer), and had problems. You may be letting it into the rig with a poorly shielded antenna tuner, or ladder line, etc. Measure the interference strength first, then disconnect your antenna and cover the connector on the rig with aluminum foil. If this knocks the interference way down, just look for ways it is leaking into your rig's antenna line. If this doesn't knock it down, your receiver might not be very well shielded. Jerry W4UKU flanders@groupz.net From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:08 1996 From: dsipe@calweb.com (David Sipe) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: 1.2 Ghz Repeater Info Needed Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 07:25:42 GMT Message-ID: References: <4gd8hn$ben@news.anet-dfw.com> > Does anyone know of commercially available 1.2 GHz repeaters, or > commercially available components (receivers, transmitters, duplexers)? ICOM makes a 1.2GHz repeater, about $2500. It's 10 watts out. I don't remember the exact model number, but AES sells them. I have set one up, but due the the lack of good commercially available antenna, I have had mixed results. I also used a Down East Microwave 70 watt PA (if I remember correctly, about $350) with it. If you use this combo, you will need a good quality 3db 15W attenuator since the output of the Icom is not adjustable (can be set only to 1W or 10W) and the PA has a 6W input power limit. WACOM in Waco, Texas makes a nice 4 cavity duplexer with over 100db isolation TX to RX on a 12Mhz split (about $750). Overall size is small, the entire duplexer mounts on a 5.25 inch high 19" rack panel. ---- 73 David KD6QFZ dsipe@calweb.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:09 1996 From: Mike Gathergood Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: 2m use in France Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 08:50:47 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <825324647snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk> References: Reply-To: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk In article pwright@tam2000.tamu.edu "Paul A. Wright" writes: > A friend of mine and I are planing a trip to France this Spring and want to > take along our 2m HT to use with Magmount antennas. We have written to get > information on repeaters and have received some. However, I understand > that they use tone frequency that may be hard to set. Please send any > information that could be used in planning our trip. Thanks, Paul A. > Wright Try whistling - it works on most UK repeaters (which also require a 1750 Hz tone). 73 Mike * QRV around 0800 and 1800 most weekdays on GB3HL * G4KFK * (Hillingdon 433.075/434.675) and also 51.83 MHz * From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:10 1996 From: Mike Mayer Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt w Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:24:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3131FAD8.72E2@boulder.vni.com> References: <4gf3p8$ba5@news.ios.com> <4ghpcg$ooo@brokaw.comm.mot.com> <4ghv84$gbh@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <4gnm45$j0p@news.ios.com> Seems to me another nasty thing would be to poing your fox transmitter yagi from a block or so away at anything that rotates, like a bank sign, restaurant sign, etc. It would be like the rotating baffle in a microwave oven - reflecting the signal everywhere every couple seconds. I suppose you COULD also point it a rotating radar dish near an airport to scatter your signal, but you'd probably also wind up eating jail food for beaming a 100W VHF signal at an FAA radar. Mike -- ^v^v^v^v^v^v PV-WAVE: Where it's @! http://www.vni.com ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ Michael Mayer, Senior Technical Support Engineer Amateur Radio KB8RJO Visual Numerics, Inc. 32915 Aurora Rd. Suite 160, Solon OH 44139 USA Email: mayer@boulder.vni.com Human: 216-248-4900 Fax: 216-248-2733 v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v Good * Cheap * Quick (pick any two) ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:10 1996 From: mlwstory@ix.netcom.com(Milissa Story ) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Ham radio suppliers Date: 26 Feb 1996 15:44:45 GMT Message-ID: <4gskhd$s81@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> I recently moved to the Norfolk, Virginia area. Can anyone tell me where the nearest Amateur radio supplier is? Please provide a phone number if you have it. Many thanks! Milissa From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:13 1996 From: "joseph c. hawkins" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Pager Problems Date: 26 Feb 1996 17:23:57 GMT Message-ID: <4gsqbd$emt@tel.den.mmc.com> Does anyone have any info (schematics) on Pagecom or Minitor II pagers? Our Vol service has several in need of repair and any info would be appreciated. Thanks Joe From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:14 1996 From: craigp@ncia.com (Craig Petersen) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Service Manual Date: 26 Feb 1996 22:02:57 GMT Message-ID: <4gtamh$rb9@lassen.cnw.com> Hello and thanks for reading this. I need to know where I can get my hands on a service manual for a costal navigator vhf-25 marine radio. I want to re-crysta lize it for 2 meter packet. Any information would be very helpful.......73's.......N7UQA From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:15 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: tracyson@iglou2.iglou.com (Ekenneth Tracy Son) Subject: Buisness radio. Message-ID: Summary: Looking for good Ge vhf radio or other. Keywords: Good vhf buisness band radio. Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:31:39 GMT Hello. I am looking for some information. Where could I buy a good used vhf buisness band radio computer programed for the two meater band. I would like to have such a radio with 10 memories or more. I would like to have some telephone numbers or addresses of Radio sails places that specialize in this type of thing. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:15 1996 From: djmd@one.net (David Wallace) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Can someone give me the dates of the Dayton Hamvention? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:08:35 GMT Message-ID: <4gtsaf$lhl@news.one.net> See subject. Thanks!! From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:16 1996 From: Jan-Martin Hertzsch Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Guernsey WWW announcement Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:54:59 +0100 Message-ID: <3132C6E3.41C6@agnld.uni-potsdam.de> References: <4gmsqo$vlc@news.guernsey.net> <4gq7td$e4h@panix.com> Clay Irving wrote: > > In <4gmsqo$vlc@news.guernsey.net> sgibbs@guernsey.net (Steven Gibbs) writes: > > >Guernsey amateur radio WWW pages are indexed at > > >http://www.guernsey.net/~am-radio/ > > > ... > > When I tried it: > > File Not found > > The requested URL /~am-radio/ was not found on this server. > ... When surfing the net, I found this URL: http://www.guernsey.net/~amateur_radio/ which leads to Steven's pages. Via http://www.guernsey.net/ one finds other pages on amateur radio. BTW, my own amateur radio page is http://www.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/~martin/Funk.html (in German, and probably our computer will be down until next week ;-( ). vy 73, Jan-Martin From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:18 1996 From: skubi@angela.inria.fr (Skubiszewski Marcin) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Learning code with a computer (Was: Best Code Learning Tapes?) Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:36:07 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gv8d7$r5g@news-rocq.inria.fr> References: In article , lui@netcom.com (Stephe n Lui) writes: > I have several computer programs, but they seem better for > practicing after you learn code. I disagree, except if your programs are especially crappy. Everything you need is a possibility to choose you character set, the character speed and the overall speed. For example, you can start with learning e i s h 5, individual characters sent at 14 WPM, overall speed 3 WPM, then increase overall speed up to 6 WPM (you do not change the character speed). Then, you learn this way t a u v 4. Then, you mix these things and get a charset containing e i s h 5 t a u v 4. And so on. Programs are much better than tapes, because you are free to chose your speed and charset. Also, a program I wrote allows you to vary the relative probabilities of characters. This is a very useful feature, which a tape cannot give you. I introduced this feature because I had huge problems learning b and d, so I increased their frequencies so as to learn them fast. Another use for this feature is as follows. You have already learned 20 characters, and are learning l f y q AS. You operate as follows: - Learn l f y q AS - Then, use a charset where f y q AS have a high probability, and the characters you have previously learned are also present, with a significantly lower probability. This way, you continue learning the new stuff, and you also learn not to confuse it with old stuff. For example, correctly copying AS while l might be present is a different and harder task than copying AS while you know that l is absent. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:19 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: o10022@a81.corp.mot.com Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:45:54 GMT Message-ID: <1996Feb27.154554.25536@schbbs.mot.com> References: <4gsf2u$rth@crc-news.doc.ca> In article <4gsf2u$rth@crc-news.doc.ca> Jim Cummings writes: > VUBS79A@prodigy.com (Drew Durigan) wrote: > >(none) > > > > In both our countries, in order to gain access to operation on the amateur bands, > one must pass an examination in order to gain access to the amateur allocations > below 30 MHz. Therefore, there is a very good reason to have Morse code testing -- > with it, under the current certification schemes currently in place by both > administration in your country, and mine, and most others, is that it provides > legitimate access to those frequencies. Otherwise those who wish to operate on > those frequencies would be opening themselves to prosecution. My preference is the > legal way. > To me, that series of statements makes no sense. Yes, people who transmit on any frequencies should be "legal". That means that they should be licensed, thus meeting the requirements of the particular license. No argument there ... and no relevance to the morse code debate either. There is no TECHNICAL reason why "code" skills should be required for a license to use HF. One can easily and effectively argue that the "morse" requirement is completely obsoleted by contemporary technology, continues to exist due to arbitrary decisions, and obviously is not an effective barrier to keeping ill-behaved people off of HF. I still believe that the "pro-code" arguments condense to two wishes: a. "I had to learn it so you ought to ..." b. temporarily deterring competition in use of the HF bands I passed the "code" simply because it was a license requirement, though I've no interest in it whatever. 73, Tony KC7HDT (who has taken and passed the "code" test, and retains no desire whatever to use "cw") From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:20 1996 From: TyBryner@sisna.com (Tyson Bryner) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: AM signal amplifier? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:11:16 GMT Reply-To: TyBryner@sisna.com Message-ID: <31333b27.960085@news.sisna.com> Does anyone have, or know of a place where I can get a schematic for an AM broadcast signal amplifier? Or where such a device can be purchased? If so, could you please email me? Thanks, 73 Tyson Bryner KC7DPA From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:21 1996 From: Scott Armstrong Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Battery question Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:19:09 GMT Message-ID: <4gveed$2ro@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> I have a question on purchasing a replacement battery for my Icom W2A transcie ver. The battery that came with the radio is 7.2 V and 1000 mAh. However, the repla cement batteries that I have found are 1200 or 1400 mAh (the Icom replacement, 1000 m Ah, at $100 is a little too pricey). Can anyone please let me know which would be the most suitable choice for a battery? Also, can anyone let me know if they've had any positive or negative experiences with regards to different battery manufacture rs (ie Periphex, Battery-Tech, etc...)? Any responses can be either posted here or sent via E-mail. Thanks in advance... Scott Armstrong Stevens Institute of Technolog y SARMSTRO@VAXA.STEVENS-TECH.EDU From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:22 1996 From: Andre Brandao Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: TS140S vs FT840 Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:20:06 GMT Message-ID: <4gveg6$cth@ci.ist.utl.pt> Im a SWL station andd soonly I will be an Ham so Im thinking to buy one of the following radios: TS140S or FT840. I would like to have your opinion about these radios. Please send me it via E-mail to l42303@alfa.ist.utl.pt Thank you very much, 73! CT01191 Andre Brandao From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:23 1996 From: Dave Maciorowski Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap Subject: Re: 1.2 Ghz Repeater Info Needed Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:21:01 GMT Message-ID: <4gveht$3jf@reader2.ix.netcom.com> References: <4gd8hn$ben@news.anet-dfw.com> >ICOM makes a 1.2GHz repeater, about $2500. It's 10 watts out. I don't remembe r >the exact model number, but AES sells them. I have set one up, but due the th e >lack of good commercially available antenna, I have had mixed results. The Comet base station/repeater antennas for this band are horrible. Our coverage is very spotty even line-of-sight! I understand that Austin Antennas (in Maine, I think) have a good reputation. ----- Dave Maciorowski, WA1JHK Colorado Repeater Association, Inc. Serving Colorado with Voice and Data, 6-Meters to 1.2 Gig Internet: wa1jhk@ix.netcom.com or wa1jhk@amsat.org CRA: http://www.rmsd.com/hamradio/cra/cra_news.html From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:24 1996 From: Dave Maciorowski Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.swap Subject: S-COM Repeater Controllers Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:24:30 GMT Message-ID: <4gveoe$3jf@reader2.ix.netcom.com> S-COM has just opened an e-mail Discussion List to support its line of Repeater Controllers and Accessories. This promises to be a good place to ask questions and read announcements of new products. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to majordomo@rmsd.com. In the text of the message, type the line "subscribe scom" (don't type the quotes). You will get back a confirmation message. They also have a new Web page at http://www.rmsd.com/scom/ ----- Dave Maciorowski, WA1JHK Colorado Repeater Association, Inc. Serving Colorado with Voice and Data, 6-Meters to 1.2 Gig Internet: wa1jhk@ix.netcom.com or wa1jhk@amsat.org CRA: http://www.rmsd.com/hamradio/cra/cra_news.html From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:25 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.scanner From: gregl@iglou.com (Gregory A. Law) Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Message-ID: <31334209.88091006@news.iglou.com> Reply-To: gregl@iglou.com References: <4csf3v$bgo@news.mcn.net> <4d4g0r$7eb@netport.com> <4d6u7n$qik@news.mcn.net> <4da7b5$3k4@jupiter.planet.net> <4dhtig$5pl@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dokh9$7gj@pegasus.starlink.com> <4e0088$t1g@brutus.bright.net> <4e2j9r$m65@netport.com> <4e6osq$l11@news.mcn.net> <4ed2jo$s1j@netport.com> <4f3q9o$f5e@news.ecn.bgu.edu> <4fa64n$qpe@netport.com> <4fi74f$rjb@over.mhv.net> <4gb4pa$182@news.onramp.net> <4gdj1c$hm5@news1.radix.net> <4gi2c5$1vj@reade Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:41:10 GMT On 22 Feb 1996 15:33:25 GMT, Rod Dinkins wrote: >Here in San Diego we have a club with over 800 members -- many many with >No-Code Tech Licenses. I and many many others think the No code licenses >are a great addition to Amateur Radio. See my articles of accomplishments >of same. > >As for big gun stations -- we have a group of QRPers here, several who >have worked DXCC (all CW or SSB) with less than 5 watts and modest >antennas such as a Cushcraft R5 mounted 8 foot off the ground. Not easy or >for the faint-hearted but DEFINITELY achievable. I find it quite refreshing each time I learn of others that enjoy working QRP. I have a fairly modest station consisting of an Icom IC-701 with a 40-meter dipole in the attic of my apartment. I may not be able to work Australia at the flip of a switch, but I always get a contact when I call CQ. >Don't let a few "bug" you when the majority welcomes you. Agreed. I don't read the rec.radio.* news groups often because I'd much rather enjoy a curteous conversation on HF than read the bickering that goes on here. --- Greg KE4DPX Morse Code: The universal language spoken around the world. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:26 1996 From: "Arkady I. Voloshin" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: REQ:Looking for E-mail address of the US/Int`l Callbook Date: 27 Feb 1996 23:18:38 +0300 Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: root@remo1.saratov.su Please, could anyone prompt an E-mail address of the Callbook Editorial Staff. Any help would be appreciated. Best regards, 73! Ark UA4CC Saratov, Russia From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:27 1996 From: wsoon@primenet.com (Bill Soon) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Keypad Mod For Yaesu Ft-51r Date: 28 Feb 1996 07:28:01 -0700 Message-ID: <4h1oph$2bj@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4gae74$ol5@cloner4.netcom.com> Reply-To: wsoon@primenet.com Post them here and share them with the rest of us too! -- -- Bill, KF6ZO jerky@ix.netcom.com(Harry Kopolovich ) wrote: >There has been various rumors that there are keypad mods for the yaesu >ft-51r. If you turn off the power and while turning the radio back on >press the vol/sql and call buttons you will get to a weird screen. One >of the known changes is to change the deviation in the mic. > If anyone knows of any further mods please send me e-mail at >Jerky@ix.netcom.com >Kb2uzv wsoon@primenet.com http://www.primenet.com/~wsoon/ From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:28 1996 From: vinyn1vc@aol.com (VINY N1VC) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Need 1n78 point contact mixer diodes Date: 28 Feb 1996 12:13:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4h22f5$qcp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: vinyn1vc@aol.com (VINY N1VC) For my old HP-8551 spectrum analyzer. If you have any I could sure use them. Thanks beforehand -Viny Coppola From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:29 1996 From: dhughes@efn.org (Dick Hughes) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Sneaky suggestions for fox in foxhunt wanted.. Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:40:23 GMT Message-ID: <3133e85b.3431619@news.efn.org> References: <614.6622T1404T199@moor.slip.uky.edu> Wally@moor.slip.uky.edu (Walter R Francis) wrote: > >I am going to be the fox in a foxhunt here in Lexington, KY March the 3rd, an d >I am looking for suggestions on how I can be sneaky and throw my hunters off. >They've been waiting the winter (as every time I thought about having a hunt >it was nasty or really cold) and I am afraid they're going to track me down i n >15 minutes due to being so anxious.. :) > >Any suggestions on what I could do to throw them off would be appreciated. >I've a couple ideas, but hopefully I can get some better ones and make 'em >work to find me. :) > >Thanks.. > I had two real winners many years ago that should get some kind of award. I'll tell you about one. Two of us hauled a 6-meter AM Gonset Communicator and a car battery in a kids wagon to the top of a hill near the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds. That should tell you how long ago it was. A couple of miles to the west was an airport that was called Bracket Field. Maybe still is. A few days before the fox hunt, I recorded several minutes of a helicopter flying around the air field. I knew that there would be helicopter rides during the fair. You can see what's coming can't you? I could watch the traffic below using binoculars and could tell when a hunter was in the area. As soon as they got close, and making sure the helicopter was down by the air field, I would play the tape in the background. In those days, we talked continuously. You could see the mad scramble to turn around and head for the helicopter. Being several hundred feet up kept the signal wierd enough to screw up the signal strength. No one had direction finders in those days, and relied on S-meters and how loud the signal was. I kept this up for about 2 hours until one of my buddies finally figured it out. He was the only one to find me that night. I will tell you about the other one some other time. Dick Hughes - W7LVA From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:30 1996 From: cnc23a@b4pph13e.bnr.ca (Ken Edwards) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Whatever happened to AC-SSB ?? Date: 28 Feb 1996 15:51:55 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <4h1tmr$n7p@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> A few years ago ther was alot of talk about Amplitude Compandored Single-Side Band communications. Haven't heard much about it lately. Any pointers on info ? -- ====================================================================== Ken M. Edwards, PE Nortel, Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 905-4769 email: cnc23a@bnr.ca All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer or co-workers, family, friends, congress, or president. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:32 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) Subject: Re: Jeep Cherokee and mounting moblie rigs.. Message-ID: <1996Feb28.163058.11924@ke4zv.atl.ga.us> Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) References: <31338791.5781@mail.voicenet.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:30:58 GMT In article <31338791.5781@mail.voicenet.com> watty w rites: >Anyone have experience mounting a mobile rig in a Jeep Cherokee? >We just got a new one and the XYL couldn't bear any "holes" in it yet. I am >probably going with a Uniden 2510/2600, so I can't go with a underseat/remote >head configuration. Any help is appreciated. There's a hitch mount for the 10 meter whip that you can use. It doesn't require any *obvious* holes. You do have to drill a hole to pass the coax out, but that can be hidden by the rear bumper. Of course you need to have a trailer hitch on the vehicle to do this. You need an antenna you can hinge over, however, or you can't open the hatch. Hustler and Comet have suitable masts. It you use a hitch extension bar, you can use something like a Hamstick, but you have to bend it pretty sharply to let the hatch rise. (Obviously, you can just throw a magmount on the roof for VHF/UHF, but a 10 meter whip needs to be too long for that to be practical.) As to mounting the radio, there aren't many good options unless you have a remote head setup (then you can mount the radio body in the cavity at the right rear of the vehicle). About the best you can do is to mount the radio against the passenger side of the center console. With a fairly slender radio, that doesn't interfere with the passenger very much, and you can still see and reach the controls easily. With a remote head, your options expand tremendously. If you have a remote setup that doesn't have the mike cord attached to it, you can put the head on the overhead console and bring the mike cable up from under the seat. That works nice, a friend of mine has his rig installed in his Cherokee that way. Or, if you were going with a VHF/UHF rig, the Standard 5718 with all the controls and the display in the mike makes things real easy. You could also use one of the cellular phone stalks to mount the head up from the floor (you can bend the stalk mount legs to conform to the right side of the transmission hump and come up right beside the console, I did that on my Comanche.) Unfortunately, these stalks aren't strong enough to hold an entire radio. If you try that, it'll shake like the devil when you drive. I made a sheetmetal clamp that fits over the lip of the instrument cluster of my Cherokee which lets me mount my IC-706 head directly in front of me (offset a bit to the right so I don't have to reach through the steering wheel to tune it) for a heads up display. I really like that. Gary -- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | Due to provider problems Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | with previous uucp address es 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | Email to ke4zv@radio.org Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | | From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:33 1996 From: herb@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Nathan Ryan Gingras) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.cb, Subject: Re: No Code = No Brain = C.B. Date: 28 Feb 1996 16:42:45 GMT Message-ID: <4h20m5$4hl@uwm.edu> LET IT GO FOR CHIRIST'S SAKE !!!!!! EVERYONE IS SOOOOO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THIS!!! AND QUIT CROSS POSTING!!!!!! Why does everyone have to act so condesending to CB'ers? They are happy where they are, and just because you have a ham license and they don't doesn't make you superior. (Whoever came up with the 'no code=no brain=cb' crap) How about this: cross-post = dillusion of grandeur = pro-coder = no life = dumbass. Nate, KB9LSX From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:34 1996 From: Mikel Potts Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Where to find SuperMorse? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:05:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3134FBEC.2521@wolfenet.com> References: <4gumom$5pc@erinews.ericsson.se> Reply-To: mikelp@wolfenet.com ebcjoon@ebc.ericsson.se wrote: > > Do I need to say any more? > I had it before but by a mistake i deleted it from my > harddisk. Do any one know a ftp-site where i can find the program? > > 73 from Johan Eriksson, Stockholm, Sweden. > Try ftp://ftp.barc.org/pub/hamradio/dos/theory-and-morse/ Mikel KB7POT From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:35 1996 From: mauricea@glo.be (Maurice Andries) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Repeater freq's in CA, NV, AZ, UT?? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:36:28 GMT Message-ID: <4h2837$91g@rhea.glo.be> Hi everybody, For our summer holidays we will be traveling to the southwestern US and since I always take a tranceiver with me when traveling I would like to know as many frequencies as possible along the following route. Los Angeles-Las Vegas-Grand Canyon (south rim)-Monument Valley-Grand Canyon (North rim)-Las Vegas-Sequoia Nat. Forest-Sacramento-Napa Valley-San Fransisco-Los Angelles (SF-LA via highway 1) pse send your replies via e-mail to the address below. Thanks bye, Maurice (mauricea@glo.be) PGP key on request From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:36 1996 From: mwcook@cris.com (Mike Cook - AF9Y) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,aus.radio.amateur.misc,uk.radio.amateur Subject: The Weak Signal Challenge - 1 Year, No Winner Date: 29 Feb 1996 03:18:01 GMT Message-ID: <4h35t9$b5t@spectator.cris.com> The Weak Signal Challenge - 1 Year, No Winner For the last year, I have sponsored a weak signal contest from my web page (http://www.webcom.com/~af9y/). Hundreds have attempted to extract the call of this weak Morse code signal using various signal processing techniques. So far, all have failed. I know it is possible to extract the call letters using a combination of signal processing and the "ears" of a well trained operator. I am now increasing the prize to $100 for the first correct identification of the calling station. I believe the winner will have to break new ground in signal processing techniques. I've made available a text list of all possible calls to neutralize any recognition advantage that an experienced operator would have. The challenge is a one minute digitized recording of a weak moonbounce signal. The Morse code signal is just above the noise but is strong enough to allow copy of my call letters (AF9Y) near the middle of the one minute period. The mystery station is sending a simple repeat of his call and my call. The characters "DE" may or may not be between the two calls. The file is called unkn422.wav and is available from: http://www.webcom.com/~af9y Additional information is available in the web page. de Mike, AF9Y http://www.webcom.com/af9y Work: mwcook@itt.com Home: mwcook@cris.com From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:38 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: dstock@hpqmdla.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton) Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:23:07 GMT References: <4h10si$29e@morgoth.sfu.ca> Paul Erickson (paul1@news.sfu.ca) wrote: : CW is the : most basic form of communication possible, and to eliminate it is to : promote a fundamental illiteracy. So anyone who lived their life before the birth of Mr Morse has to have been "fundamentally illiterate"? Now, really! Is this some "New literacy" like "New math", where the likes of Ovid, Aristotle, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare are excluded ? No, that's ridiculous. We cannot bandy around general terms like literacy, we have to get specific. Morse Code OOK signals have a number of benefits: Suitability for minimalist apparatus Readable by ear in presence of noise and interference Minimal spectral occupancy Global familiarity with an ASSOCIATED FAMILY of abbreviations Active population of users There are other ways of getting various ones of these advantages, and some more recent modes can now challenge it on weak signal work (or did someone volunteer for a suicide mission to send the data back from Voyager as hand-sent Morse?). However, the package of benefits of Morse code is still very useful indeed. Though the purpose of the legislation of Morse tests (co-existance with priority users [CW equipped], in shared bands) has now been fulfilled, the advantages still remain. The real incentives remain. It is the one mode you can't just buy in a shop. Personal effort and commitment are needed. I just happen to think that the rewards are more effective in creating long term users than the compulsion has been. Too many people trumpet the delights of CW, and then go on to act as if it wasn't good enough to survive on its own merits if ever confronted with free choice. Cheers David GM4ZNX From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:38 1996 From: frankl@powergrid.electriciti.com (Frank E. Littlebury) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Alinco ALR-206T Packet Pin-out? Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:49:31 Message-ID: Have the subj radio and a PK 232 MBX. Trying to hook up. Anyone have the mic pinout for the radio? MFJ's breakout box was of no use either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. email frankl@electriciti.com 73, Frank KE6WOE From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:39 1996 Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc From: lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui) Subject: Mods/Comments for Yaesu FT-51R Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:12:23 GMT Does anyone who owns a FT-51R have any comments on the unit or the programming software? Does the unit truly only receive to 470MHz? The magic number for me is 471.1375MHz, the frequency of our local police, which I like to monitor. Does anyone know of any mods for the FT-51R (preferably keyboard) to extend the RX range? The unit is so small that I would think any hardware mods would be difficult. Stephen (Iching to buy an HT, as soon as I can decide which one!) From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:41 1996 From: Scotty Neustadter Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: ARLB013 Question pool committee Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 19:24:21 -0600 Distribution: world Message-ID: <313651C5.6379@iquest.com> References: <$arlb013.1996@arrl.org> <4gqas7$k8r@news.hal-pc.org> <4h1fmb$kin@cc.iu.net> Bill Newkirk wrote: > > In <4gqas7$k8r@news.hal-pc.org>, sid@hal-pc.org writes: > >Would someone explain to me what this is all about? > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org > > what i got out of it was that the VECs aren't all in agreement > about forming a corporation. and the arrl is the 800 pound gorilla > here. i would think it might be risky to not have the arrl on board > on something like this. > > anyway, the claim is that the folks in the corp aren't working with > the folks not in the corp and that the "outsiders" have input that isn't > being considered...and the FCC expects the various VECs to work together > on question pool maintenance. > > Bill Newkirk WB9IVR The Space Coast Amateur Technical Group > Melbourne, FL duty now for the future of amateur radio > Lombardi's 1st Law of Business: > Companies succeed in spite of their best effort. If they succeed at all. The full story is NOT in the ARRL bulliten -- the ARRL directed NCVEC not to communicate with its employees nor to do anything that could be construed that ARRL was participating in NCVEC. NCVEC just followed ARRL's instructions -- ARRL then realized that they had cout off their own nose and are too egocentric to resind their original letter to NCVEC. From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:42 1996 From: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments Message-ID: <8BBB4F6.0029004279.uuout@hobbs.com> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 21:10:00 -0400 Distribution: world Reply-To: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) To: jcumming@clark.dgim.doc.ca Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 JC>I would venture another reason. Those who cherish Morse code for amateur >communciations realize that if Morse code testing is completely abolished, f >r >newly minted amateurs will bother to take the time and effort to learn the c >. As >a result, their membership will shrink to proportions to such an extent that >ey >will become known as "a special interest group", an anathema to those who ta >a >conservative view of life (not a criticism of those who espouse conservative >eals, >just an observation, thank you). In other words, I would have no one to talk to on HF... --- OLX 1.53 --------------> 73, de NK2U <---------------- * Origin: CyberNet BBS Lyndhurst, NJ (1:2604/151) .....oooooOOOOOo http://www.intac.com/~cono __,-----. ---+_________#_ The Roy Hobbs BBS sysop@hobbs.com |________| |__|___________} Node 1: 201-641-7307 ooooo oo ~ ooO-O-O-O == oo\ Node 2: 201-641-3126 From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:43 1996 From: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments Message-ID: <8BBB4F6.0029004278.uuout@hobbs.com> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 21:10:00 -0400 Distribution: world Reply-To: roland.stiner@hobbs.com (ROLAND STINER) To: o10022@a81.corp.mot.com Subject: Re: Convincing Arguments for CW Tests in 1996 O>I passed the "code" simply because it was a license requirement, >though I've no interest in it whatever. I thought so too in the beginning. Said I would just pass the code requirement to get the HF privileges... After passing the Novice and getting on the air though, I started to like it. Now it is the only mode I use on HF. I am not saying that everyone will be like me, but if you don't try it, you will never know. Obviously you did learn the code and you don't like it, that's fine, at least you tried it. --- OLX 1.53 --------------> 73, de NK2U <---------------- * Origin: CyberNet BBS Lyndhurst, NJ (1:2604/151) .....oooooOOOOOo http://www.intac.com/~cono __,-----. ---+_________#_ The Roy Hobbs BBS sysop@hobbs.com |________| |__|___________} Node 1: 201-641-7307 ooooo oo ~ ooO-O-O-O == oo\ Node 2: 201-641-3126 From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:44 1996 From: Vincent Biancomano Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Drawing Schematic Diagrams on FCC Exams Date: 29 Feb 1996 21:21:36 GMT Message-ID: <4h55d0$838@zeus.ieee.org> References: <4fvspi$1ps1@theory.tc.cornell.edu> <4g8tm5$tb9@news1.sunbelt.net> <4ganou$fro@falcon.eag.unisysgsg.com> <4gg3u5$470@zeus.ieee.org> <4gi3ks$5a9@zeus.ieee.org> <4giqia$3lta@theory.tc.cornell.edu> Second response to Kevin re: schematic drawing Only a few responded to your original post, not enough to verify that schematic drawing was not a requirement in the 60s. At FCC's New York office, as stated previously, it was a requirement til at least August 1967, and probably beyond. Given that a person reports they were not required to draw schematics (and taking it that their memory of the event is accurate), one might conclude the drawing of schematics may have been an undeclared option at various FCC offices across the land at that time. Which in itself would be very curious. Regards, Vince, WB2EZG From lwbyppp@epix.net Thu Mar 07 10:25:46 1996 From: sid@hal-pc.org Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc Subject: Re: Help: I have a few questions Date: 29 Feb 1996 23:09:31 GMT Message-ID: <4h5bnc$ahp@news.hal-pc.org> References: > ds5w@avery.med.Virginia.EDU (Diane Schleifer) writes: > I have a HP palmtop and wanted to know what I can do with it > using a packet radio. My machine has a serial port, an IR port > (which I can't imagine would be needed), and a PCMCIA type II > slot. It runs DOS and it's own OS. I want to recieve internet > e-mail on it using a packet radio (I heard you can). I was > wondering how big these radios are, how I can find if there is > a receiver in my area, how much all this costs and how to set > it up. Please e-mail me @ ds5w@virginia.edu > > > Dan a serial port is fine. BayPac sells a TNC with software for about $50. The TNC connects your computer to your 2 meter radio. Most people start out with 2 meter. You would have to load the packet software into your HP. It is not big. To get onto the internet you will have to find a "wormhole", which would be a packet node which allows conections to the internet. In Houston we use one provided in the nearby town of Sugarland. I think I saw a list of internet wormholes in QST a few months ago. Good luck. I stoped using packet when I got onto the internet via phone lines. About the only thing you can receive is email and chat lines via packet internet connections. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sid George, CPA sid@hal-pc.org ._ _... ..... _.._ .._ http://www.hal-pc.org/~sid -------------------------------------