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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 17:11:15 PST
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Info-Hams Digest            Sun, 14 Nov 93       Volume 93 : Issue 1346

Today's Topics:
                      Code software for the Mac?
                              DSP units
                    FCC question pools on the net?
                         Fun with Radio Shack
                 How does an American sign in Canada?
                      SAREX Keps & Update 10/28
           Sources of info on older HF gear? (Kenwood, etc)
                     TU-8 tone encoder (kenwood)
                          What do I do now/
                          What do I do now?

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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 01:51:26 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!lynx!chaos.dac![e-mail]
Subject: Code software for the Mac?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Joe Wiggins) writes:

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   Just passed my Technician exam (no license yet) and I want to prepare
   for the code tests.  I have a PC at work and have a fairly nice shareware
   program for it (Super Morse).  Are there any snazzier programs
   available for the PC (free, share, or commercial)?  I have a Mac at home
   and would like to practice there (I really ought to be working at work!).
   Does anyone know of any shareware or commercial programs that will teach
   code on the Mac?

   Thanks,
   Joe

You may want to anonymously FTP into world.std.com in /pub/hamradio

There are directories with respect to the system you want and the type
of program you looking for from that point.

73,
Scott


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Date: 14 Nov 93 17:26:54 GMT
From: sytex![e-mail]
Subject: DSP units
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (John R. Moore) writes:

> I have a Timewave DSP-9 on my TS-430 and I think it works VERY WELL. Nice
> widget - inexpensive also.

Yeah, this little puppy interests me.  Talked to a guy on 17M who raved
about it.  Claimed it suppresses receiver noise too.  I'd like to know
a bit more about its capabilities (and price!).

Any enlightening info on the DSP-9 ?

I'll post a summary to the newsgroup of anything sent to me as mail...

jim - ad4je


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[e-mail] (Jim Arnold)
Access <=> Internet BBS, a public access internet site
Sytex Communications, Arlington VA, 1-703-528-4380

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 06:19:49 GMT
From: pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: FCC question pools on the net?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] wrote:
: Are the question pools for FCC license exams available on the net?

Yes, they are.  Just ftp to world.std.com and check out the
/pub/hamradio directory contents.  Enjoy.
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Digital Jungle Software    Encrypt now; ask me how.   (finger for PGP key)

               All that is required for evil to triumph is
                for {wo}men of good will to do nothing.

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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 18:53:51 EDT
From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!jvnc.net![e-mail]
Subject: Fun with Radio Shack
To: [e-mail]

 Tom WI3P  [e-mail]  or [e-mail] writes:

In article <[e-mail]>, Ed Ellers
<[e-mail]> writes:
>A lot of RS customers got a mailing recently with (1) a coupon for a free
>catalog, and (2) a discount card good for 10% off the regular price of any
>one item each month.

Yep, I got that also.  About a week before my catalog from Ft. Worth and
a letter of apology for charging for the catalog.

(NOTE:  Don't take your 10% card in when you redeemn the coupon for the
 catalog.  The local store is punching the 10% notch on the card for the
 month.  If you don't have your card, they'll give you the catalog and
 forget about the card.)
..................

Same thing happened to me.  I ended up buying an item greater than 15 bucks
and using the $5 coupon.  The sales-droid said "If you buy these tapes for
it, you can use your 10% discount card -- however, the computer came up
with the fact that the tapes were on "special" and thus ineligible for any
other discount.  I told him "forget it."  They do that a lot - caveat
emptor!

73,

Gerry Jurrens, N2GJ
Kingston, NJ


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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 06:07:10 GMT
From: pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: How does an American sign in Canada?
To: [e-mail]

>Can the US government force US citizens to obey US laws
>while they are not in the US?

Just as the United States expects citizens and visitors alike to
obey the "law of the land", other countries expect you to obey
their laws, be it drug smuggling, etc.
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Michael S. Sattler         [e-mail]        [phone]
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               All that is required for evil to triumph is
                for {wo}men of good will to do nothing.

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SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-58.025
SAREX Keps & Update: 10/28

Thursday 10/28/93 @ 08:00 UTC

The last school group contact was completed yesterday.  The Portsmouth HS
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire had a telebridge contact using stations in
California (Ralph Warner, N6MNN) and Texas (Bob Douglas, W5GEL).  The
students asked 5 questions during this bridge contact.

Hams across the U.S. and around the world continue to work the Shuttle
Columbia on both voice and packet.  Moreover, the completion of school
group contacts has cleared several school 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 to take general calls over the continental U.S. on these
passes.  Two of these "scheduled" passes remain.  These include 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).  Please note
that the astronauts operated voice during yesterday's "scheduled" pass
which occurred on 10/27 at 14:59 UTC (Orbit 145).  Also note that hams on

the ground heard or worked the Shuttle Columbia crew on several other orbits
yesterday.

Element set GSFC-031, generated by Ron Parise, WA4SIR, is the official SAREX
set for today.  Please note that there is only a six second difference
between element set GSFC-025 (released two days ago) and element set GSFC-
031.


 STS-58
 1 22869U 93065A   93300.17699070 0.00133671  99048-5  24183-3 0   318
 2 22869  39.0252  71.9896 0012817  34.2105 325.9529 16.00500857  1383

 Satellite: STS-58
 Catalog number: 22869

 Epoch time:      93300.17699070         (27 OCT 93   04:14:51.** UTC)
 Element set:     GSFC-031
 Inclination:       39.0252 deg
 RA of node:        71.9896 deg          Space Shuttle Flight STS-58
 Eccentricity:    0.0012817                  Keplerian Elements
 Arg of perigee:    34.2105 deg
 Mean anomaly:     325.9529 deg
 Mean motion:   16.00500857 rev/day      Semi-major Axis: 6651.1630 Km
 Decay rate:       0.13E-02 rev/day*2    Apogee  Alt:        281.30 Km
 Epoch rev:             138              Perigee Alt:        264.25 Km


 NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 031.
        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

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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 21:14:37 GMT
From: usc!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!ccsua.ctstateu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Sources of info on older HF gear? (Kenwood, etc)
To: [e-mail]

 Is there a sourcebook on out-of-production HF gear, i.e.,
 older Kenwood, Yeasu, Collins stuff? I was fondling a
 Kenwood T-58 (model???) transmitter and recceiver set at
 a hamfest today when a guy next to me bought it out from
 under me. I failed to get the model number, etc. so I guess
 I'm looking for a compendium of specs & pix.
 73s
 Harry [e-mail]

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Date: 14 Nov 93 20:35:47 GMT
From: usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!ucivax![e-mail]
Subject: TU-8 tone encoder (kenwood)
To: [e-mail]

I just got the little TU-8 so that I can do 10 meter FM with PL, as we
seem to need around here.  I didn't get any spec sheet or instructions
though.  Anyone have the instruction sheet (copy?) that I can have....
OR can anyone give me instructions on programming the little thing
for various tones?  It uses dipswitches so I can only put in one tone,
but that seems to be all I need.

73
Clark WA3JPG

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Date: 14 Nov 1993 02:49:05 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu![e-mail]
Subject: What do I do now/
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Douglas J Renze) writes:

>Well, I'm almost ready to got on the air HF-wise for my first time.  I've
>got my random-wire tuner, a tranceiver, a random wire, cables to connect it
>all...all I lack at the minute is a counterpoise (well, multiple counterpoises
>for the 2-3 bands I want to get on to) and an SWR meter, which I should be
>getting in a few days.
> Question:  Now what?  I don't have a clue about what the controls
>on the front of my trusty old HW-101 do (what's a Final?  What's a Drier
>erps...Driver Preselector?).  How do I regulate my power output?  In short,
>what in the world do I do?
> The manual doesn't give me any help, and I don't seem to be able to
>find anything which tells me just how to tweak everything and get on the air!!!

>Any help?

>Peace es 73,

>Doug N0YVW

Now, if that doesn't say something about the current licensing
situation, nothing will.

Gary

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Date: 15 Nov 93 00:23:02 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: What do I do now?
To: [e-mail]

Text item: Text_1

> I haven't sat down in front of a HW101 in years, so I'll restrict
> myself to general advice.  Gary

I had an HW101 back in the dark ages and it didn't need an antenna
tuner (possibly because I couldn't aford one).  With the selectable
inductance and variable capacitors in the pi network output, it has
essentially a medium-range antenna tuner built in as most of the tube-
type rigs of that day did.  I once loaded it up barefoot to a bobwar
fence when my antenna blew down.  That was back in Texas where they
have real bobwar fences. Don't know what the SWR of a bobwar fence is...
I couldn't afford an SWR meter either.

Transistors die under high SWRs.  Tubes usually only complain a bit.

73, Cecil, [e-mail] ...ex-W5DXP
(I do not speak for Intel on Internet)

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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 05:59:17 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!nebulus!ve6mgs![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <edh.753113438@hpuerca>ark
Subject : Re: Amateur Radio Newsline #847

[e-mail] (Ed Humphries) writes:

>[e-mail] (Steve Coletti) writes:
>>On this side of the pond we write our dates as Month/Day/Year.  It's just
>>as confusing to me when I read newsletter posts written in Europe.
>To avoid confusion I prefer to write day-month-year with month
>_spelled_ out (even non-native English speakers recognise this):

Why not use the recognized International Standard instead, Year Month Day,
never failed anyone!  1993-11-05

BTW Canada uses Day Month Year, I think the US is the only place in the
world that uses Month Day Year. Anyone care to disagree?

Ciao, 73 de VE6MGS/Mark -sk-

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