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Info-Hams Digest            Tue, 26 Oct 93       Volume 93 : Issue 1271

Today's Topics:
                            BAUD VS BAUDS
        Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for 26 October
                   GAY INTERNATIONAL HAM RADIO CLUB
            German new Zip Codes(?) QSLing and Greenstamps
           ICF 2010 - Reception Probl.in CA - Help needed !
                            need qsl route
                             Postal rates
                   questionable repeater operation
                random selection of memory TS-450/690
                    SAREX Keps & Update: 10/26/93
                        Ten Tec PTO mechanics
                        VSWR Conversion chart
                 Where is thenet08.zip and tn210.zip?
                       Yaesu FT-990 Comments...
                      ZA1QA - Anyone Get a QSL??

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Date: 26 Oct 1993 22:07:08 GMT
From: meaddata![e-mail]
Subject: BAUD VS BAUDS
To: [e-mail]

Matthew B Cravit <[e-mail]> writes:

cravitma> As I have always used it (as a computer person soon to hopefully be a
cravitma> technician-class ham), I have always said "baud" as a synonym for
cravitma> "bps" or bits-per-second.

[ Personal Pet Peeve Mode ON ]

   "Baud" != "Bits Per Second" for many current modem modulation
protocols, including V.32 (9600 bps, 2400 baud) and V.32bis (14400
bps, 2400 baud).  Baud as a term has pretty much ceased to be useful.

   Since this is The Net, I know someone will correct me if I'm wrong,
but I believe the "baud rate" is the rate at which the amplitude of a
signal is changed.  Newer protocols also vary the phase of the signal,
in order to convey more information with each amplitude change.

   I don't know where "bauds" came from.  It's just not used in the
computer industry, as far as I can tell.  I've only ever seen it in
ARRL publications.


cravitma> 73 de MC (no callsign, since no license)

   Well, for goodness sake, get that fixed!!!  :-) :-) :-)


KD2MT
--
David Myers         "You guys listen to managers        [phone]
Mead Data Central          much too often."        Fabrication Systems
P.O. Box 933                 My manager               [e-mail]
Dayton, Ohio  45401    28      2/5/93      7   [e-mail]

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Date: 27 Oct 93 03:22:41 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for 26 October
To: [e-mail]

!!BEGIN!! (1.0) S.T.D. Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for DAY 299, 10/26/93
10.7 FLUX=088.5  90-AVG=094        SSN=067      BKI=2032 2544  BAI=017
BGND-XRAY=B1.2     FLU1=1.2E+06  FLU10=9.3E+03  PKI=2132 2434  PAI=014
  BOU-DEV=017,004,025,011,012,071,042,055   DEV-AVG=029 NT     SWF=00:000
 XRAY-MAX= C5.9   @ 0045UT    XRAY-MIN= B1.0   @ 2348UT   XRAY-AVG= B2.2
NEUTN-MAX= +000%  @ 2335UT   NEUTN-MIN= -006%  @ 0410UT  NEUTN-AVG= -2.2%
  PCA-MAX= +0.1DB @ 1345UT     PCA-MIN= -0.5DB @ 0125UT    PCA-AVG= -0.0DB
BOUTF-MAX=55362NT @ 1906UT   BOUTF-MIN=55321NT @ 1658UT  BOUTF-AVG=55351NT
GOES7-MAX=P:+000NT@ 0000UT   GOES7-MIN=N:+000NT@ 0000UT  G7-AVG=+075,+000,+000
GOES6-MAX=P:+146NT@ 1909UT   GOES6-MIN=N:-067NT@ 1153UT  G6-AVG=+091,+017,-039
 FLUXFCST=STD:090,090,090;SESC:090,090,090 BAI/PAI-FCST=025,015,010/030,035,030
    KFCST=3224 3233 3224 2111  27DAY-AP=015,012   27DAY-KP=1134 4433 3433 2123
 WARNINGS=
   ALERTS=**SWEEP:II=3@0048-0057UTC
!!END-DATA!!

NOTE: The Effective Sunspot Number for 25 OCT 93 is not available.
      The Full Kp Indices for 25 OCT 93 are not available.

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Date: 26 Oct 1993 14:20:00 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!nic.umass.edu!noc.near.net!jericho.mc.com!fugu![e-mail]
Subject: GAY INTERNATIONAL HAM RADIO CLUB
To: [e-mail]

In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Donnelly R. Bledsoe) writes:
>Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604 ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: I asked George Wilson, W4OYI, the president of ARRL about this at a
>: small forum with him at Pacificon, with Chris Imlay, the ARRL General
>: Counsel present, about this, this weekend.
>: He said that the only reason the ad is not currently in QST is that
>: LARC has not resubmitted the ad since the Board explicitly stated the
>: policy that would result in the ad being accepted and printed.
>: Apparently the complaint is still active in CT.  If the ARRL has made
>: this movement towards conciliation, why hasn't LARC responded, by
>: placing the ad, and dropping the complaint?
>: curious,
>: 73, doug
>
>Doug,
>
>The problem here is that the complaint is about discrimination, not ad
>placement.  The ARRL refuses to address the issue in the complaint and to
>engage in any dialogue that will lead toward resolution, instead sticking
>to "the ad is acceptable" line of reasoning.  Here's why, as nearly as I
>can understand ... by saying that LARC's ad is acceptable, they believe
>that LARC's complaint is no longer valid and that it is moot.  Our counsel
>has been informed by the state investigator that the complaint is not
>moot.  LARC believes that to go ahead and run the advertising without
>resolution of the underlying issue will undermine its own complaint.  So,
>until the ARRL will discuss the real issue of discrimination, the issue of
>advertising cannot be resolved.  LARC is ready and willing to discuss it
>and to seek an amicable resolution.  And yes, the complaint is still
>active in CT.
>
>Thank you for your comments.  73 ... Don, WB6LYI
>--
>               Don Bledsoe, WB6LYI          [e-mail]
>


Don,

As an ARRL Member, I can understand the refusal to accept an ad that is
written in an offensive manner to anyone with normal moral standards.
However, if the ad was tasteful and didn't mention anything such as crude
sexual behaviour, than it is probably ok.

Can you reprint the EXACT wording of the ad?

Also I would much rather see the ARRL spending my membership money on Amateur
Radio related matters.  Would you please just get on with re-submitting the
ad (a tasteful version if it wasn't before) so the net can once again be
filled with no-code debates or Radio Shack HT mod questions?


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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 04:09:24 GMT
From: netcon!bongo![e-mail]
Subject: German new Zip Codes(?) QSLing and Greenstamps
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (M. Squicciarini) writes:
>
>I just read in WorldRadio that Germany just revamped its
>zip code system there by making all the address in the
>callbook incorrect.

 I wonder how many years it will take before Buckmaster have
all the D calls listed with the new postal codes?

 Anyone want to open a book on this one?

 Other than that, I am sure the German Bundespost will be able
to deliver mail addressed to obselete post codes. They may punish you
by delaying it for a while though.
--
.sig file has been packed away for the move - it's in there with the manuals

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Date: 26 Oct 93 19:30:44 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxh.cso.uiuc.edu![e-mail]
Subject: ICF 2010 - Reception Probl.in CA - Help needed !
To: [e-mail]

In article <2ajnop$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Donald R. Putnick) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>,
>Lalith Subramanian <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Welcome to California, the great shortwave wasteland in the West!
>I also own a Sony 2010 and live in California (Los Angeles area).
>I've experienced the same reception problems.  I've tried a variety of
>antennas: longwire (with and without antenna tuner), trap dipole,
>active antenna.  I keep coming back to my indoor 48-foot dipole made
>from split speaker cable and merely draped around my listening room.
>I don't even consider trying to receive anything below 5MHz - too much
>noise.  I have a friend in our local SWL club who routinely listens to
>African stations, but he uses a tabletop and an outdoor antenna.
>I have resigned myself to (1) my opinion that the 2010 can't handle much
>of an external antenna, and (2) my opinion that to successfully DX from
>California requires a _tabletop_ and a _quality_ outdoor antenna.  I would
>love to be proven wrong.

I think this could be said for DXing in general.  California is an especially
hard for picking stuff up (though in the Rockies there are some especially
varied conditions so you all can feel lucky!), but they have the best
window on Asia.  Europe is dicey except for the big guns (BBC et al).

But my point is that for serious DXing only a tabletop will do.

--
+---------------+-------------------------+----------+-------------------+
| Brent Irvine  | CREDO QVIA ABSVRDVM EST | :) :) :) | [e-mail] |
+---------------+-------------------------+----------+-------------------+

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 13:21:57 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!freenet2.scri.fsu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: need qsl route
To: [e-mail]

if you can help me with the fallowing please advise
sd7sm
jn1how
z30b or z3ob
4o9w
z32fk

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Date: 26 Oct 1993 21:09:38 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Postal rates
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (M. Squicciarini) writes:

     I would like to assemble a comprehensive table of postal
    rates from around the world and compile that information
    along with the exchange rates.  I will post the information
    so everyone can use it.

    73 -- marty -- nr3z                 [e-mail]

But why?  How am I going to buy those stamps unless I go abroad ...
in which case the rates are easily available?

Seems like much work for no benefit to me.  Why not save yourself
the time?

-drt
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|David R. Tucker KG2S 8P9CL                       [e-mail]|
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Date: 27 Oct 93 04:51:20 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!iat.holonet.net![e-mail]
Subject: questionable repeater operation
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Bill Jones) writes:
: About a year ago I was traveling in the northeast, and a friend who lives
............... ..
: repeater has been "broadcasting" for about a year all the qso's on the
: 220 side of the system over the 440 output, but no input has been possible
: through the 440 input. I presume that the repeater owner had the capability
: of opening up the 440 link for his own use, but other than that, I can't
: imagine why anyone would do such a thing. I don't think there is anything
: illegal about this operation, especially in light of how little 440 is used,
: but it's kind of annoying to hear all this activity, and hear the beeps
: from bringing up the repeater, but not being able to get in.
: Doesn't seem like a very appropriate use of spectrum to me.  Any comments?
:

In California where the 440 spectrum is probably used more than any other
vhf band, the activity of remoting one-way onto a 440 repeater frequency
is called warehousing the channel. If there is NO receiver the operation
is quite questionable. Many times there may be a dead receiver or
touch-tone access will bring it alive. The major amateur private common
carriers all practice this to some extent to keep itenerant traffic to a
minimum. The idea of warehousing is to show some form of activity on a
frequency to keep some deserving group from using the frequency. Many
groups have five to ten repeaters amongst them and can't possibly keep it
all going so you see a lot of .... out there.


--
Bob Wilkins n6fri             voice 440.250+ 100pl san francisco bay area
[e-mail]             packet n6fri @ n6eeg.#nocal.ca.usa.na


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Date: 26 Oct 1993 23:03:02 GMT
From: news.service.uci.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu![e-mail].
Subject: random selection of memory TS-450/690
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] writes:

>Howdy:

>I don't remember if I've asked this before.  SRI

>Does anyone know how to randomly select a particular memory on the
>TS-450/690?

>I would like to enter a memory location on the keypad and access it
>without going to MEM mode and having to sequentially step, one at a time,
>to the desired memory.

>Darn!  You can do it on a TS-440.

>tnx es 73 de Jack, K9CUN


This has been a sore spot for a good friend who is blind. It seems
ridiculous not to have access from the keypad. If you come up with any
fix for this, please post it with a prominent subject entry or email
me.

73,
Gary McDuffie, Sr.          //                 ---o------\./------o---
Scottsbluff, Nebraska   \\ //    [e-mail]    ---o----/|\----o---
AG0N@AG0N.#WNE.NE.USA.NA \X/ _____________________________|

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Date: 27 Oct 93 03:17:18 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SAREX Keps & Update: 10/26/93
To: [e-mail]

SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-58.024
SAREX Keps & Update: 10/26/93

The extremely successful school group contacts have cleared three school
group backup passes for possible general QSO opportunities.  While the
SAREX Working Group cannot fully guarantee availability, there is a high
probability that the STS-58 crew will be ready and waiting to take general
calls over the continental U.S. on these passes.  These opportunities
include passes on orbit 145 at MET 9 days 0 hours 6 minutes (10/27 at
14:59 UTC), orbit 178 at MET 11 days 1 hour 42 minutes (10/29 at 16:35 UTC)
and orbit 192 at MET 11 days 22 hours and 29 minutes (10/30 at 13:22 UTC).

School group highlights today include two horizon-to-horizon opportunities
for the Lycee Gaston Febus school in Pau, France, where 15 questions were
answered, and the St. Barnabas Episcopal School in Houston, Texas where 12
questions were answered.  During the French contact, one student asked
Shuttle pilot Rick Searfoss, KC5CKM, if the crew could see satellites from
space.  Rick explained that indeed they could.  He stated that during this
mission they have had visual sightings of the Russian Space Station MIR and
NASA's Gamma Ray Observatory.  The Gamma Ray Observatory was built by TRW
for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and was lofted into orbit on the
STS-37 mission.  (STS-37 was the first mission with an entire crew of ham
radio operators--Ken Cameron, Jay Apt, Linda Godwin, Steve Nagel & Jerry
Ross).

Hams across the U.S. and around the world have been working the Shuttle
Columbia on both voice and packet.  This morning's voice pass over the U.S.
had both Bill McArthur, KC5ACR and Marty Fettman, KC5AXA, firing off
callsigns in classic DX pileup style.  General QSO operations thus far can
be summed up with one word---outstanding.  The SAREX team wishes all of you
the best of luck in your endeavor to work the shuttle.

Gil Carman of the Johnson Space Center compared a recent state vector to
element set GSFC-025 and found only a two second difference.  Therefore,
there will be no new SAREX element set released today.  GSFC-025, generated
by Ron Parise, WA4SIR is provided below for those who did not receive it
yesterday.

 STS-58
 1 22869U 93065A   93298.61712570 0.00112657  77536-5  20892-3 0   259
 2 22869  39.0200  82.4277 0014476  28.5134 331.6466 16.00068904  1136

 Satellite: STS-58
 Catalog number: 22869
 Epoch time:      93298.61712570         (25 OCT 93   14:48:39.66 UTC)
 Element set:     GSFC-025
 Inclination:       39.0200 deg
 RA of node:        82.4277 deg          Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
 Eccentricity:    0.0014476                  Keplerian Elements
 Arg of perigee:    28.5134 deg
 Mean anomaly:     331.6466 deg
 Mean motion:   16.00068904 rev/day      Semi-major Axis: 6652.3600 Km
 Decay rate:       0.11E-02 rev/day*2    Apogee  Alt:        283.60 Km
 Epoch rev:             113              Perigee Alt:        264.34 Km


 NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 025.
        The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
        node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
        into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.

Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO for the SAREX Working Group

/EX

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Date: 26 Oct 93 21:42:50 GMT
From: news.service.uci.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!ucivax![e-mail]
Subject: Ten Tec PTO mechanics
To: [e-mail]

Anyone out there have experience with the Ten Tec PTO assemblies?  I
have a Corsair (and an OMNI) using the PTO and one has a frequency
"twitch" when I tune around, it seems mechanically induced in the PTO.
It is slight, and the signals just seem to "warble" a bit as I tune.

I know that there are rebuild kits from Ten Tec (and they are pretty
cheap?), but any tips on the assembly or adjustment?  The vernier is
so very smooth - I like it, and want the actual tuning to sound just
as smooth.

Clark
.....................

Clark Savage Turner, Graduate Student Researcher
Safety Critical Software Group   home:
Department of Info. and Computer Science 1514 Verano Place
Irvine, CA. 92717    Irvine, CA. 92715
[phone]     [phone]

WA3JPG, QRP #3526, active on HF, VHF and UHF.

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Date: 26 Oct 93 19:47:36 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!srgenprp![e-mail]
Subject: VSWR Conversion chart
To: [e-mail]

Dana Myers ([e-mail]) wrote:

: For export, you need to recalibrate the Bird wattmeters to read
: in voltage watts, not current watts.

For the convenience of the Internet community, I have compiled the
following conversion chart from SWR to VSWR:

  VSWR
   |
10 -                                                              *
   |                                                   *
 7 -                                         *
   |                                  *
 5 -                           *
   |                      *
   |                 *
 3 -             *
   |         *
 2 -      *
   |    *
   |  *
   |*
 1 *------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|---
   1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9      10
     SWR
AL N1AL

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 15:21:41 GMT
From: overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!lynx!chaos.dac![e-mail]
Subject: Where is thenet08.zip and tn210.zip?
To: [e-mail]

If anyone can point me to any FTP or FSP site carrying these two programs,
I'd be very happy.

Thanks much in advance.

Scott

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| Scott Ehrlich         Internet: [e-mail]                         |
| Amateur Radio: wy1z          AX.25: wy1z@wa1phy.#ema.ma.usa.na              |
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|        Know your weaknesses, show your strengths - Anonymous                |
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Date: 26 Oct 1993 15:17:19 GMT
From: noc.near.net!jericho.mc.com!fugu![e-mail]
Subject: Yaesu FT-990 Comments...
To: [e-mail]

Without quoting your entire text, you mentioned that LSB was the only
mode available for packet.  Does this imply that there is no FSK input
for any digital modes (RTTY, PACTOR etc...)

If so, this is amazing.  I use a TS850 with FSK and my 500Hz cw filter
for RTTY and can't imagine going back to LSB mode like I had to with
the older TS440.

Terrible oversight if true.  Is it true for all modern Yeasu rigs?


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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 21:11:33 GMT
From: swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com![e-mail]
Subject: ZA1QA - Anyone Get a QSL??
To: [e-mail]

Steve Milewski ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
: (Darrell Earnshaw) wrote:
: >
: > Did anyone ever get a QSL from the Globex operation in Albania (ZA1QA, I think
: > was the call)? I worked these folks on 80 meters, and would love to get ZA
: > knocked off my wanted list. I've sent two requests to Globex (plus a number of
: > $1 bills), but no response. Anybody got any ideas??
: >
: > -- 73 Darrell NR3Y
: >
: Come to think of it... I never received my card either. It's been quite
: awhile ago, too.

: There was a picture of the card in QST, if I'm not mistaken, about a year
: ago but I've never seen the genuine article.

: Steve/AA7FL

Well, at least your experience is in line with mind. I have heard of others
that sent in $'s and got nothing back...oh, well, some day I'll work a ZA
that feels like returning a card when I send mine.

73, Jim, WA6SDM

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Date: 26 Oct 93 13:08:17 CST
From: swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!jpunix!mwk![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2agaqq$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Bird watt-meters can't be exported?

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Dana Myers ) writes:
> In article <2agaqq$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gregory K Doerschler) writes:
>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dave Horsfall) writes:
>>>So, what's with the "Not available for export" notation across the
>>>photo of the Bird meter in the Barry ads?  Too delicate?  Upsets
>>>someone's monopoly?  Munitions?  Classified equipment?
>>
>>The meter would have to be recalibrated to read foreign watts.
>>
>>                                                     Greg
>
>
> Don't be silly.  There is no such thing as foreign watts.
>
> For export, you need to recalibrate the Bird wattmeters to read
> in voltage watts, not current watts.
>


  DOn't be silly. There are two reasons. One is that they can't be
sold anywhere they use 50Hz line power, since rigs that use this
line power generate low frequency watts. The other problem is that they
can't be used in the SOuthern hemisphere, since the Coriolis force
of the earth's rotation causes RF generated down there to rotate
in the opposite direction than the meter expects, so it tries
to read backwards....

  Glad I could clear up these technical issues...

Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
[e-mail]

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