Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 04:30:21 PDT From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Digital-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Digital@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #197 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Thu, 16 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 197 Today's Topics: KAM Plus Cockpit Troubles (newbie wannabe) Mac or IBM? open letter from amateur digital music producer Railroad track as an antenna? Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Digital Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-digital". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Jun 94 01:13:57 -0600 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!nntp.msstate.edu!nntp.memphis.edu!tecvax.stim.tec.tn.us!ceddlemon@network.ucsd.edu Subject: KAM Plus Cockpit Troubles (newbie wannabe) To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu I purchased a Kam Plus last Fall, hooked it up to play with it for a few days and had to set aside for several months during a period of a serious family illness. Last Dec. and Jan. I had lots of fun seeing the packet messages from the unit using my Icom HT and '386 computer. Last week I hooked it up again and can't seem to get it to put any messages up on the screen. I've tried using it with a BC-142XL scanner so that I could easily confirm packet activity on 145.01, 145.03, etc. The RcV light comes on as before but I'm wondering if I got over in the TERM mode of this unit where there are a ton of features (PAKTOR, CW, etc) and could have engaged something that is not allowing the paket signals to be processed? Should I try to reset the unit back to the NEWUSER state and start over? I'm sure I could find a local who could try it out for me. The computer hookup seems OK. ie I can give it commands and the unit responds. The disk from Kamtronics came blank ... believe me it was unformatted! Someone told me to give the Paket 5.1 program a try before and that's what I'm using right now. Someone else told me just to use a simple terminal emulator program ... and I could do everything I needed to do. The KAM manuals are readable but mean little to me as a newbie packet wannabe. I understand what being said but there's little there for a newuser. Any suggestions on where I might start to see if this unit is only suffering from my setting one of those zillion other parameters outside the NEWUSER mode? Charles EMail replies to ceddlemon@stim.tec.tn.us PS I've told the KAM to use COM2 at 1200 baud since mouse is on COM1. The commands from the keyboard seems to get into the unit OK. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jun 94 06:09:56 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!apple.com!apple.com!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: Mac or IBM? open letter from amateur digital music producer To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu In article <1994Jun15.114247.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, wrote: >My name is H. Collado. I am a DJ for WESU WEsleyan's College radio station. I >am interested in using computers to produce new musical forms. I am not sure >of which route I should take: IBM and compatibles or Macintosh? I'm responding via a posting so that other people will also know that there is a newsgroup for this sort of discussion: comp.music. The topic might also be appropriate in one of the comp.advocacy groups. :-) Patty -- ============================== Patty Winter ============================== Apple contractor Internet: winter@apple.com Sunnyvale, California AMPRNet: 44.4.4.44 "Here I've been talking with the most intelligent people in the world, and I never even noticed." --Columbo ================================== N6BIS ================================= ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jun 94 06:55:37 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!spartan.ac.BrockU.CA!s9898198@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: Railroad track as an antenna? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu I have heard a legend that a college radio station (either at MIT, Tufts, or Swarthmore) welded antenna to railroad tracks, and peeved the FCC by broadcasting nationwide. Is this true? If anyone knows, please email me (or post here) If you do know, could you please direct me to some documentation regarding this legend if you can. This is very important! Thanks in advance. ______________________________________________________________________________ James R. Storm | Accounting Student | This message was brought to you by s9898198@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca | the letters M, Q, and the number 6 (905) 227-9571 voice | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #197 ******************************