Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 04:30:18 PDT From: Ham-Equip Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Equip-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Equip@UCSD.Edu Precedence: List Subject: Ham-Equip Digest V94 #377 To: Ham-Equip Ham-Equip Digest Sun, 16 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 377 Today's Topics: Davi Wanted For Yeasu Ft-11r IC2410H mods needed ICOM IC-W21A ADVICE Kenwood TK-240 help!! Kenwood TS-50 vs Yaesu FT-900 REAL BASIC CW Ques. Spilsbury portable HF gear WTB: Radar gun... 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: 15 Oct 94 20:42:00 -0500 From: David.Edger@f239.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Edger) Subject: Davi Wanted For Yeasu Ft-11r Very simple to open the receiver: hold down the up and down arrows and simultaneously turn on the radio. This will open up either the FT11R or the FT41R. Both work very well. 73 Dave AA5NU --------- Fidonet: David Edger 1:109/239 Internet: David.Edger@f239.n109.z1.fidonet.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 16:44:21 GMT From: atla0001@gold.tc.umn.edu (Howard C Atlas) Subject: IC2410H mods needed I need a listing of mods for the IC2410H. I am especially looking for the crossband repeat mod at this time. I tried finding it via FTP, but I am not sure where to look. Please post information here, or if you know where the xband mod is via FTP for sure, let me know. Thank you in advance for your assistance! -- /----------------------------------------\ /-------------------------------\ ! Howard Atlas ! atla0001@gold.tc.umn.edu ! ! ! Howard.C.Atlas-1@umn.edu ! ! University of Minnesota, Twin Cities ! ! \----------------------------------------/ \-------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 05:58:09 GMT From: aw871@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jim Wishner) Subject: ICOM IC-W21A ADVICE hello...i am considering upgrading my 2-meter equipment (i have ana kenwood 2500, circa about 1982). i am looking at an ICOM IC-W21A, which is on sale. i am not familiar with this unit, and going through over 2 years of QST wasn't much help. i did notice ICOM has some sililarly- named units (e.g. IC-W21AT) but the one i'm looking at is the W21A. i would appreciate any comments, criticisms, or experiences you have had with this model. i find the subjective observations of hams much more whrthwhile than the comments in the trades. pse post replies here, or send to my e-mail address listed below. thanks...i will acknowledge all responses 73's...kd0lb jim jwishner@mpr.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 03:37:15 GMT From: ab910@lafn.org (Matthew Davies) Subject: Kenwood TK-240 help!! Got this smallish hand held from a paramedic buddy that had been using it as a back-up radio. The price was right, free. Now I have a slight problem of reprograming it. It seems to need a jumper inside, but I have no idea what to jump to what. It has no keypad. Any ideas? Thanks. Matthew D. -- ***************************************************************************** Trust No One ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 15 Oct 1994 14:24:06 -0400 From: n3odx@aol.com (N3ODX) Subject: Kenwood TS-50 vs Yaesu FT-900 Does anyone have any opinions regarding the new FT-900 mobile HF rig from Yaesu in comparision to the popular Kenwood TS-50? I was set on buying a new TS-50 for mobile operation and then I saw the ads for the FT-900 now I am decided what would be the best choice. Any comments/opinions/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 73 de Dave/N3ODX n3odx@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 09:58:48 GMT From: zcapl34@ucl.ac.uk (Redvers Llewellyn Davies) Subject: REAL BASIC CW Ques. rgoetze@pica.army.mil writes: >I'm new at EVERYTHING - this group, amatuer radio, everything. >I'm just learning code and would like an inexpensive source for >a (probably the wrong terminology) tone generator/code key. It >would be helpful to hear the sounds and practice keying. I know >places like Radio Shack used to sell items like this, but I can't >seem to find a source. Thanks for any help. Use a pitzo-electric buzzer or a 555 timer. You should be able to pick up the former at Radio Shack. Regards Red, GW0TJO ------------------------------ Date: 15 Oct 1994 00:41:41 GMT From: djwang@nmrsg.biophys.upenn.edu (DJ Wang) Subject: Spilsbury portable HF gear Hi John, I got the info from a fellow ham (VA3YH): Spilsbury Communication Systems a division of Spilsbury & Tindall Ltd. 120 East Cordova St., Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6L 1L1 Telephone is (604) 684-4131 Haven't got time to call them. If you find out something let me know. 73 D.J. Wang N2YKP ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 02:46:11 GMT From: jnormandin@umassd.edu (JERRY NORMANDIN) Subject: WTB: Radar gun... In article <4212@dsinet>, daveb@dgtl.com (David Breneman) writes: >JERRY NORMANDIN (jnormandin@umassd.edu) wrote: >: In article <373pj9$600@news.it.gvsu.edu>, hutchine@river.it.gvsu.edu (E.Hutchinson-N8XHP) writes: >: > I am looking to purchase a CHEAP, USED radar gun...X or K band >: >is not important. Wanted to take surveys in the area for school project. >: MAKE SURE YOU USE CAUTION WHEN YOU USE THE RADAR GUN!! THEY CAUSE CANCER! >: That's why Laser RADAR is now used! > >THAT'S NOT QUITE TRUE!! :-) If you drive around in a car 10-12 hours >a day for 10 years with a radar gun in your lap, you'll definitely >hard boil the ol' familial eggs. That's just natural selection at work. >I'll brush off the fact that there is no such thing as "Laser RADAR", >and comment that LIDAR accounts for only a small percentage of the >tax-collector's arsenal. It's cumbersome, expensive, may pose health >threats of its own (ie, shining coherent infrared laser light into the >eyes of millions of motorists year after year could be dangerous as >well - although not to Officer Friendly). > > >-- >David Breneman Email: daveb@jaws.engineering.dgtl.com >System Administrator, Voice: +1 206 881-7544 Fax: +1 206 556-8033 >Product Development Platforms >Digital Systems International, Inc. Redmond, Washington, U. S. o' A. Hows does LIDAR calculate speed? I thought Laser Doppler Radar uses DOPPLER Doesen't the unit have to transmit a burst of light, pick it up on a photodetector, and calculate the time it took? And then try again calculate the diffrence. i LE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 22:59:24 From: slc@execpc.com (Stephen Castner) References<374dng$4b9@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <94100921505400104@g4udt.demon.co.uk>, <37mc4v$n2e@sashimi.wwa.com> Subject: Re: TH-79A mods wanted!!! >: In article <374dng$4b9@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, Mark Butterworth writes: >: > >: >I just ordered a Kenwood TH-79A HT and already want to mod it the >: second >: >it arrives. Does anyone have mods for extended RX? > To quote a friend with the Nick ANIMAL stopy crying and start buying! >Pick yourself up a Motorola VHF radio, and toss it around a bit drop it >from five feet and it will still work... Try that with the Kenwood. >Now back to the point.. Find somebody out in your area that can program >the radio for you, and set it up as you wish... NOW even though you may have >police fire and other freqs. that you are not legal to talk on leave transmit >disabled. This radio will hear better most likely, and can be programmed >with a few of your favorite repeaters, or left for the emergency usage only. > The GP300 VHF 16 channel 15 if you set up for scan.. >you can also have it mute the MDC or the brap near the beginning or end >of the transmission. Most of all in the Quake prone Cali, you will not >worry about it when it falls off the shelf... You may even drop it at time >just to watch peoples eyes pop out of their head, even more so when all >they use is the Japanese radios.. I have from four feet or so to concrete, >and then I keyed the repeater I use, the radio still works! The radio with >a charger and battery should run about $300 at a ham fest, and about $500-$600 >new... > That is what I would do... besides it is more fun, the radio is plain, >and people are not into picking up a plain looking device and playing with it >after all the cool buttons and the such are missing... UNLESS you get the >radio with the phone pad on it.. But it is still plain when placed >by a Japanese radio.. >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >73 DE N9SRW On the Air >Leif Ericksen 442.975+ 114.7PL && 442.900+ 114.7PL MDC 1200 >phantom@gagme.wwa.com If you can hear it does it matter? >n9srw@fishfar.org >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You made no sense at all Leif. He never ripped on a Motorola. He just wanted MODS! Leave him alone. Don't be a a punk looking for a fight.. geezzzzz :) Steve, N9VBC. PS> You need extended RX and TX if you are in CAP or Mars, anyhow. With the new CAP freqs, you need a "Japanese" radio to work both Ham and CAP. You should know more about the subject.... ------------------------------ End of Ham-Equip Digest V94 #377 ******************************