Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 04:30:07 PDT From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: List Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #1152 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Mon, 24 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 1152 Today's Topics: DX Cluster Keyer polarity for 520? Passed my Tech today! Now the wait... QST November 94 issue TUTORIAL: dB & dBm Want to buy crystal controlled 2M rigs. Help! Wayne Green on HR&M this Sunday! 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: 24 Oct 1994 04:52:15 GMT From: Joe Herman Subject: DX Cluster Hi, I've heard that term used all over the place - but I don't know what it is. Could someone please tell me what a DX cluster is? Thanx in advance... --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Joseph Herman |Thought is useless unless accompanied by action- - herman@yu1.yu.edu |Action is useless unless preceeded by thought - - a196@lehigh.edu | - - slammy@chop.isca.uiowa.edu |EMT, postpunk, ham radio, fencing, 'blades - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 23 Oct 1994 23:44:10 -0400 From: jimkd0av@aol.com (JimKD0AV) Subject: Keyer polarity for 520? In article <38ep3a$8pv@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, jimn0oct@aol.com (JimN0OCT) writes: >Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, if you've got a keyer, try it on "neg" or "grid" first. It has "neg" keying so Jim's suggestion will work fb the first time. cul Jim KD0AV (ex-WB0OCT) ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 1994 04:43:23 GMT From: Joe Herman Subject: Passed my Tech today! Now the wait... In note <38di94$pl2@detroit.freenet.org>, ad779@detroit.freenet.org (John Hughes) writes: > >Congratulations: I just received my call --KE4RRG-- on 9-22 after 5 weeks/5 day >That is took exam 9-12...eff date 10-14...received 10-22. This is better than >the 8-10 weeks or more i've been reading about...But have seen a couple of other >5-6 week stories so things at FCC apparently are getting faster...or it's I dunno - I took the exam the same day as you - and I've called the FCC repeatedly - and they have no record of my application...I guess I'm one of the 8 -10 week stories you've been hearing about.. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Joseph Herman |Thought is useless unless accompanied by action- - herman@yu1.yu.edu |Action is useless unless preceeded by thought - - a196@lehigh.edu | - - slammy@chop.isca.uiowa.edu |EMT, postpunk, ham radio, fencing, 'blades - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 94 16:22:00 GMT From: pve@dg13.cec.BE (VEKINIS Peter) Subject: QST November 94 issue Anyone has QST for November? I have been told I am in the Upfront section with my daughter, and wonder which pictures have been published. Look for a picture of a bay, operating posiution with military vertical on the left and solar cells in the background, my daughter Naomi holding a sea snake (great food!) or a picture of the island we went on. Operation was in the north west coast of Greece during June Field day. Thanks for any help. Peter, KC1QF/ON9CGV/EI4GV/SV0GV ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 10:32:54 +0000 From: tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk ("Anthony R. Gold") Subject: TUTORIAL: dB & dBm In article <1994Oct21.175927.13608@news.rlcn.rl.af.mil> defranco@fermi.cs.rl.af.mil writes: > Great introduction - well done, except for one minor nit. > A decibel is always relative. As you clearly demonstrate, > the decibel is the log of a ratio of two quantities. As such, > the resulting number is always relative. By fixing one of > the quantities, say as one milliwatt, you simply define one > of the two. That doesn't make dBm an absolute quantity. > Othewise, great. Likewise, I liked Paul's article. As to concluding that dBm (either A dBm or some quantity expressed in dBms) is not absolute, this simply is an expression of an opinion that the term ABSOLUTE QUANTITY has no meaning whatever. This may be interesting philosphy, but it is not useful engineering. -- Tony, G3SKR & AA2PM ------------------------------ Date: 23 Oct 94 15:39:06 +0800 From: asirene@v9001.ntu.ac.sg Subject: Want to buy crystal controlled 2M rigs. Help! In article <782496821snz@g4kfk.demon.co.uk>, Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk (Mike Gathergood) writes: > Hi Daniel, >> >> YAESU FT-221 > Is this a misprint of FT-223? Hi Mike, Thanks for pointing out the error. I think its supposed to be an FT-211 but I am not exactly sure. I need to consult the list again before I post the correct one. BTW, what is the FT-223? I am also interested in any cheap 2M HT's. Be glad if you can point me in the direction of any. Once again, sorry for the error. 73, Daniel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 03:46:36 GMT From: lenwink@indirect.com (Len Winkler) Subject: Wayne Green on HR&M this Sunday! Wayne Green, publisher of 73 Magazine is the guest this Sunday on the Ham Radio & More show. Wayne will discuss the positive aspects in amateur radio, the future of amateur radio, and how new technologies affect our society in general, and ham radio in particular. That's this Sunday, 10/30/94 at 6:00pm EST on the Talk America Network. See HR&M's affiliate listing or call 602-241-1510 for more info. Or check out the HR&M www page at :http://www.acs.oakland.edu/barc/ham-more/ham-more/html. 73, Len, KB7LPW ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #1152 ******************************