Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 04:30:24 PDT From: Ham-Equip Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Equip-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Equip@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Equip Digest V94 #190 To: Ham-Equip Ham-Equip Digest Thu, 16 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 190 Today's Topics: Mc Daniel Report 3/5 Mc Daniel Report 4/5 Mc Daniel Report 5/5 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-Equip Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-equip". 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: 12 Jun 94 22:09:30 +1000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.pronet.com!csource!unique!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Mc Daniel Report 3/5 To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu >>> Continued from last message Part 3 of 5 NASA'S POSSIBLE MOTIVATION In 1960, a report titled "Proposed studies on the implications of peaceful space activities for human affairs" was delivered to the chairman of NASA's Committee on Long-Range Studies. The report was prepared under contract to NASA by the Brookings Institute, Washington, DC. The report outlines the need to investigate the possible social consequences of an extraterrestrial discovery and to consider whether a discovery should be "kept from the public" in order to avoid political change and a possible "devastating" effect on scientists themselves - due to the discovery that many of their own cherished theories could be at risk. The concept of withholding information on a possible extraterrestrial discovery conflicts with an understood NASA policy to the effect that information on a verified discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence should be shared promptly with all humanity. A report on the cultural aspects of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is presently being prepared SEEN-BY: 50/40 632/348 386 998 635/210 502 503 800/2 3 851 862 870 ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 94 22:09:31 +1000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.pronet.com!csource!unique!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Mc Daniel Report 4/5 To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu >>> Continued from last message Part 4 of 5 RECOMENDATIONS Given the importance of the subject and the urgent need to take action, I have put forward the following recommendations. These recommendations apply to the Mars Observer mission in the event the spacecraft is recovered, and to any future missions, including a mission specifically to replace the Mars Observer. * Assuming Mars Observer is not recovered, NASA will select a spacecraft carrying instrumentation capable of achieving high-resolution imaging of the Martian surface at least superior to that of the Viking missions of 1976, and having the highest degree of camera flexibility possible, including pointing capability. * NASA and any private contractor who may be involved in imaging, by agreement, will assign a level of priority to the suspect landforms that will ensure the obtaining of high-resolution photographs of these landforms, using all means at their disposal, subject only to uncertainties beyond their control. This priority level will be entered into the imaging Target Data Base and taken into consideration in mission SEEN-BY: 50/40 632/348 386 998 635/210 502 503 800/2 3 851 862 870 ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 94 22:09:33 +1000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.pronet.com!csource!unique!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Mc Daniel Report 5/5 To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu >>> Continued from last message Part 5 of 5 FOOTNOTES (1) Among them: Dr Robert M. Schoch, Associate Professor of Science and Mathematics (Geology), Boston University; Dr Horace Crater, Professor of Physics, University of Tennessee Space Institute; Dr David Webb, Professor of Space Education, Research and Technology at Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, Florida; Dr Thomas Van Flandern, former Head, Celestial Mechanics Branch, US Naval Observatory; James Berkland, former Assistant Professor of Geology, Appalachian State University; and L.J. Angstrom, the great grandson of the famous physicist A.J. Angstrom and Director of the prestigious Angstrom Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. (2) Although the official decision that the craft was "lost" came on Saturday evening, 21st August, announcement of the loss was delayed until the morning of 22nd August. (3) Reference 15, pages 489-90. (4) Reference 15, page 523. (5) Ibid, page 499. (6) Information as of 22nd September 1993. (7) 164 feet. The proper description is "50 metres/pixel" where a pixel is the smallest bit if digital information in an image. SEEN-BY: 50/40 632/348 386 998 635/210 502 503 800/2 3 851 862 870 ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jun 94 06:56:27 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-equip@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-Equip Digest V94 #190 ******************************