Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 04:30:08 PDT From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #464 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Thu, 28 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 464 Today's Topics: personal autopatch calls 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 Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". 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: 28 Apr 1994 08:54:29 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!elendir@network.ucsd.edu Subject: personal autopatch calls To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Mont Pierce (montp@vortex.eng.sc.rolm.com) wrote: >I read recently that the FCC ruled that it is now permissable to make personal >calls via autopatch to conduct personal tasks such as making a doctors or >dentists appointment. Can anyone out there answer the following: You»re lucky overseas. In Europe, don»t think about autopatches. First, local comms are charged, and it is absolutely forbidden to carry out a talk with a non-ham. Come on, order a pizza for me :) Vince, F1RCS. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 1994 19:20:16 +1000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!kralizec.zeta.org.au!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu To: info-hams@ucsd.edu References <2ou8jm$dim@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, , t Subject : Re: radio in caves In article , Mark Cheeseman wrote: >The Cave Rescue Squad here in NSW has a gadget called a Michie phone, which >is basically a high impedance field telephone. It has a single insulated wire >that is dragged through the cave, and periodic breaks in the insulation allow >the underground handset to be connected where needed. The circuit is completed >through the operator and the damp cave surface. > Yes, and they work a treat (pity about having to string all that wire around though :-) About $20 of components (741 op amp, box, switches, speaker etc) outperformed my FT-470 100 feet underground... For working above ground (up to 10,500 feet in one case :-) I prefer the Yaesu, though! 73 de Richard VK2SKY > >-- >Mark Cheeseman cheese@active.asstdc.com.au Fido: 3:712/412.0 [+61 2 399 9268] > AX.25: VK2XGK@VK2OP.NSW.AUS.OC Ph +61 2 353 0143 Fax +61 2 353 0720 ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #464 ******************************