Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 04:30:08 PST 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 #1171 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Sun, 30 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 1171 Today's Topics: ARLB088 Resolution becomes law ARLP044 Propagation de KT7H ARRL to change "Silent Keys" label in QST? Keeping in touch by Ham radio: round the world flight SUBSCRIBE 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: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 19:10:28 EDT From: w1aw@arrl.org Subject: ARLB088 Resolution becomes law SB QST @ ARL $ARLB088 ARLB088 Resolution becomes law ZCZC AG53 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 88 ARLB088 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT October 28, 1994 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB088 ARLB088 Resolution becomes law The ARRL's joint resolution supporting Amateur Radio was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 22, 1994. The resolution passed both houses of Congress on October 7. The new law, PL 103-408, asks for ''reasonable accommodation'' in the operation of Amateur Radio in homes, automobiles and public places. More information on this successful League initiative appeared in QST for September, October, and November. NNNN /EX ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 19:11:51 EDT From: w1aw@arrl.org Subject: ARLP044 Propagation de KT7H SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de KT7H ZCZC AP58 QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 44 ARLP044 From Tad Cook, KT7H Seattle, WA October 28, 1994 To all radio amateurs SB PROP ARL ARLP044 ARLP044 Propagation de KT7H Solar flux was down slightly last week. There was a disturbance centered on October 23 when the A index was 41. Conditions were stable until October 22, and then the K index started climbing. By the next day it had reached six, and conditions did not stabilize until late on the 25th. Solar flux should drop gradually until the first week in November, then reach 90 again by mid month. Unfortunately, poor conditions are forecast for the DX contest this weekend, but the disturbance may not occur until late in the contest on Sunday. Poor conditions should continue for the next few days. Sunspot Numbers for October 20 through 26 were 75, 62, 55, 35, 37, 30 and 78, with a mean of 53.1. 10.7 cm flux was 90.1, 87.8, 85.5, 84.2, 82.2, 89.5 and 92.6, with a mean of 87.4. Some correspondents have asked why the solar flux quoted in this bulletin sometimes varies slightly from that given on WWV for the same date. An example is October 18 when we gave a solar flux of 90.5, but WWV reported 90 instead of rounding off to 91. Since the observatory in Penticton, BC reported 90.5 for that date, the only obvious conclusion is that the Space Environment Service Center is sometimes using funny rules for rounding numbers. An example in this report would be October 25 when Penticton reported 89.5, and WWV reported 89 instead of 90. Yet on October 22 when the flux was 85.5, WWV reported it as 86, which is the conventional approximation. The path projection for this week is for the center of the United States to Central Europe during this weekend's DX contest. 80 meters looks good from 2300 to 0730z, and 40 meters from 2200 to 0900. 30 meters should be open from 1400 to 1600 and again around 1900 and possibly 2100. 20 meters should be good from 1500 to 1900. 17 meters may be open some days around 1600 to 1700. 15 meters and above does not look promising at this time, although there is a chance of openings on 15 meters around the same time as a 17 meter opening. NNNN /EX ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 23:10:05 -0500 From: wcoyle@delphi.com Subject: ARRL to change "Silent Keys" label in QST? How about changing the "Silent Key" title to "Dead Bug"? William Coyle WCOYLE@DELPHI N30GH ------------------------------ Date: 29 Oct 94 13:31:33 GMT From: imotion@iu.NET (Howard Goldstein) Subject: Keeping in touch by Ham radio: round the world flight Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 14:53:08 GMT From: gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes: >>In article jwdxt@csn.org (Jim Deeming) writes: >> >>Does anyone know the rules and regs about operating amateur radio >>equipment from an aircraft? One ham I talked to seemed to think the FAA >>might have some problems with this... > >[...] For >commercial carriers only, the *particular* piece of equipment must >be certified not to cause interference to the *particular* aircraft's >systems before airborne operations may be permitted. Thus the general >attitude is "forget it" because the testing required to make this >certification would take the aircraft out of operation for too long >a period. The FARs take a slightly more casual attitude with private >aircraft operations. > Sidebar note, the longest running US round-the-world aircraft trips carrying AR are probably those of the space shuttle. For the SAREX-II project, around six hams went to the cape to verify EM compatibility. Four lucky ones got to dress up in bunny suits and venture to the flight deck to bang packets back and forth against the TNC setup on the workshop floor. Howie N2WX -- -- Howard Goldstein imotion@iu.net InfoMotion, Inc. CIS:75006,702 ------------------------------ Date: 30 Oct 94 09:58:14 GMT From: Sean@g0oanint.DEmon.co.UK (Sean Sharkey) Subject: SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE info-hams@UCSD.EDU Reply to: Internet sean@g0oanint.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.200] AMPR.ORG g0oan@g0oan.ampr.org [44.131.19.194] AX25 g0oan @ GB7HSN.#32.GBR.EU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 23:25:56 -0500 From: Leland Van Koten References<1994Oct18.144755.186@drager.com> <384obd$16e@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Subject: Re: Logging systems??? Ryan C. Welty writes: >: I use Logic for Windows. It automatically controls and logs information >: from my FT-767 (and I'm fairly certain it handles the entire Yaesu line, >: to the extent available by each rig.) It provides: > >Is there any similar software availible for a Kenwood ts-450? Ryan -- According to their literature, Logic 4 interfaces to any RS-232 interfaceable Icom, Kenwood, Ten-Tec and Yaesu rigs. I'm also a satisfied customer of Logic 3 for DOS and am going to upgrade to Logic 4 for Windows. I don't use this feature, but I've never heard any complaints about it. I agree that I'd get CT for serious contesting, but I'd still have Logic for routine operating and then import the data from CT. As it is, my contesting is pretty casual, so Logic is fine for my purposes. (With an inverted V that is about 35 feet at the peak as my primary HF antenna, I don't have much CHOICE about being only a casual contester -- it's depressing enough to see my score at the end of the contest; if I could see it in real time, I'd probably give up an hour into most contests ;-}.) Lee, KE3FB in Md. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 21:36:19 -0500 From: wcoyle@delphi.com References<37jh0l$8ck@eugene.convex.com> <1994Oct14.041541.6006@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, <37subu$n35@crcnis1.unl.edu> Subject: Re: ARRL And Gay Hams Settle Complaint Listen, what YOU do behind the closed doors of YOUR bedroom (or car, or men's room stall) is YOUR business, it certanly is not grounds for starting a radio club all for yourself. If I started a radio club only for heterosexuals, or only for whites, or only for green eyed half Polish half Irish people who talk with a lisp, it would still be wrong. Amateur radio is NOT meant to promote anything of the sort. If you want to have an all homosexual club of some sort, your more than welcome to, but using the Amateur radio service as a platform for promoting your sick lifestyle is just not proper. Like I said, keep it in YOUR bedroom, and no one has a problem with it, you don't see me screaming from the mountaintops "I'm HETEROSEXUAL" give me my own radio club, do you? ===================================================== William A. Coyle No Company WCOYLE@DELPHI.COM No School N30GH No Time "Any man who gives up long term freedom for short term safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." Benjamin Franklin A.R.R.L, Mobile Sixers,TRiARC,N.R.A. =================================================== ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #1171 ******************************