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Info-Hams Digest            Sat, 27 Nov 93       Volume 93 : Issue 1394

Today's Topics:
                   6 Meter Transceiver Advice ? ? ?
                           Calculating SWR
                     Emergency use of modified HT
                      FT530 receiver problems??
                       HAM radio question pools
                           Heathkit parts?
                       Is my Kenwood TH78 dead?
                      Kenwood TS-440-S FOR SALE
                        RADIO SHACK / INTERNET
                    Using modified HT in emergency
                      VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 26 N
               WANTED: comments on IC-4SRA HT (2 msgs)
                            What is RATT ?

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 15:21:36 GMT
From: gsm001!gsm001.mendelson.com![e-mail]
Subject: 6 Meter Transceiver Advice ? ? ?
To: [e-mail]

In article <2d6k02$[e-mail]>
   [e-mail] ([e-mail]) writes:


  [e-mail] (John H. Taylor - K3ZKA) writes:

  >>I am interested in getting a pair of used 6 meter transceivers for my
  >>father (KD4BWR) and myself; he is a no-code tech and we will use them for
  >>scheds.

  >>Would like to know what would be a good, economical choice?

>Six meter rigs are fairly rare, and usually sucked up quick at hamfests.
>One pretty good option is to get some commercial two-way radios, that were
>previously tuned on a frequency in the high end of the low-VHF range
>(40-50 MHz), and recrystal them and retune for the ham band.  I've had
>lots of good succes with Motorola Motracs and others.

Note that these are FM and therefore limited in range (except via repeaters).

I was able to pick up a pair of Yaesu ft620b's at a hamfest for $300. These
are all solid state, but the are old enough to be am/cw/ssb without fm. They
run about 10 watts pep on ssb.

I have a verticle antenna (about 20db loss when the xmit antenna is
horiz) and I can work some of the local hams with horizontal beams on 6
meters.


I was able to hear WA0KBZ last meek. He is in Cuba, Missouri
and I am in Philadelphia  (about 1200 miles). He was using 10 watts and
6 element beam. I was using 10 watts and a dipole. He could not hear
me. :-( This was, of course the day before I put up the antenna. It was
sitting in the box at the time.

With 10 watts and beam you should be able to work 100 miles or so with no
problem. If you have an swr meter that works on 6 meters, you might want to
try an old tv beam.


BTW, If you think it is hard to find people to talk to you on 2m ssb, try
6m ssb.

73,

Geoff.
--
I used to talk to myself.....  Now that I am a ham, I send code to myself:
-... --- -.--   - ... .. ...  --. ..- -.--   .. ....   .-- .. . .-. -.. .-.-.-

Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ    [phone]  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 20:08:16 GMT
From: news2.uunet.ca!uunet.ca!lhaven.UUmh.Ab.Ca!combdyn![e-mail]
Subject: Calculating SWR
To: [e-mail]

How do you calculate SWR?  I have a power meter...and I can measure the forward
and reflected power.  How to I take the two values to determine the SWR?

Right now I have forward power of 5 Watts and reflected power of 0.1 Watts,
what SWR would that correspond to?

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 23:52:49 GMT
From: spsgate!mogate!newsgate![e-mail]
Subject: Emergency use of modified HT
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> Jeff Herman,
[e-mail] writes:
>If the ARRL were to get involved in defending hams to the FCC your
>membership dues would be 10X what they currently are. {There was
>an article from the ARRL many months ago discussing this very topic -
>quite a bit of their budget goes for legal defense as I recall -
>someone please amplify this.}

Jeff,
   Jim didn't advocate an expenditure of budget in any real sense.  He
and I feel some well placed phone calls and a written press release can
make a large stink in the San Diego community.  If you don't think Public
Opinion counts look at the grief Janet Reno puts up with.  This doesn't
require a major effort, just a few calls.  The time spent in expressing
the opinion of hams around the country (from what I read on the original
thread most hams felt it was a stupid act) would be well spent.  But
maybe a PUBLIC statement might be a bit strong from a national
organization.

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Date: 18 Nov 1993 10:28:22 -0800
From: swrinde!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!nic.csu.net!temp.ctp.org!temp.ctp.org![e-mail]
Subject: FT530 receiver problems??
To: [e-mail]

I have noticed that my FT530 receives some of our local repeaters when it
is tuned slightly off of the known freq. For example the 145.23 may come
in a little better at 145.225 and 145.235.  Any ideas??

--
____________________________________________________________________________
Steven Adams
internet - [e-mail]
HAM      - KD6KGJ
Packet   - KD6KGJ@n6qmy.#nocal.ca.usa.na

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Date: 28 Nov 93 02:38:45 GMT
From: netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu![e-mail]
Subject: HAM radio question pools
To: [e-mail]

   Hi everyone!
      I am looking for the person on the INTERNET that
        distribute the HAM radio practice question pools
         to get an amateur radio license. If you're the
          one or know how I can contact him, then can you
           e-mail me on how I can contact him. I have made
            a program that might be of value for adding to the
             distribution of the question pools.
        Thanks for your time
           Nhut Tran
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Date: 20 Nov 93 16:00:03 GMT
From: news.columbia.edu!psinntp!psinntp![e-mail]
Subject: Heathkit parts?
To: [e-mail]

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, [e-mail] (Scot Silverstein M.D.) writes:
>Are Heath parts still available now that the company has left the kit
>field?

>I need a new cabinet for an HR1680 rcvr, and the plastic dial scale as
>well, to restore the cosmetics of my hamfest acquisition.  ($40!)

file: heathpts.txt updated November 6, 1992

Heathkit parts:

It took me several phone calls and transfers to get a direct phone number
for Heathkit parts. Let me share this with you all.

Heath Order Desk
455 Riverview Dr
Benton Harbor MI 49022
616-925-5899

info de KA1CV
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Asked recently if Heath was still providing 10-meter-modification
information for the SB-1000 linear amplifier, I did some research
via telephone and learned that technical consultation on Heath
products over 1 year old--that is, out of warranty--will cost you
$5 for the first 5 minutes and 75 cents per each additional
minute. "Have your VISA or MasterCard ready."

I got this by stepping through the telephone tree accessible
through Heath's "Technical Consultants" number (616-925-4914,
Mon-Fri 8A-4:30P ET). I got this number from the recent Heath
catalog with a cover sheet headlined "Heath Alive and Well--Shifts
Business Focus from Kits to Education." Other phone numbers and
info of possible use in that catalog include

"order by phone 24 hours a day" 1-800-253-0570 (Mon-Fri 8A-5P ET
to check on an order already placed)

"...by fax...." 1-616-925-4876

"...by mail" PO Box 8589, Benton Harbor MI 49023

"...through CompuServe..." "FREE CONNECT TIME for Heath shoppers.
Place your order right from your computer. Type GO HTH at any ! or
OK prompt for instant viewing of the Heath online catalog."

Customer service, Mon-Fri, 8A-5P ET 1-800-253-5700 "to check on an
order already placed or for answers to questions about returns and
exchanges"

Parts Replacement and Service Mon-Fri 8A-5P ET 1-800-253-0570
("please have the part number ready when you call. To inquire
about product service,, call 1-616-925-3273, Mon-Fri 8A-4:30P ET")

Catalog subscription: "To order a FREE Heath Catalog, 1-800-44-
HEATH 24 hours day 7 days a week."

                       *      *      *

Bill Johnson, president of Heath Company, elsewhere on that cover
sheet: "I think our kits are going to be missed out there and I
know we're going to miss making and selling them. But there's a
time for all things in this world, and the time for electronics
kits is over--at least for now. But who knows? Maybe they'll come
back--like rock 'n' roll or skinny ties."

The members and HQ staff would like to thank the following people for
their contributions to this information file:

KA1CV
WJ1Z

Send any additional information or changes to [e-mail].

73 from ARRL HQ.

-----
Ed Hare, KA1CV                  [e-mail]
American Radio Relay League
225 Main St.
Newington, CT  06111            If you tie a strip of colored cloth to
[phone] - voice          part of your body, the tribe acts
ARRL Laboratory Supervisor      differently!
RFI, xmtr and rcvr testing
-----

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 20:16:38 GMT
From: nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!uchinews!cdsmail!bml4380.cpg.cdc.com![e-mail]
Subject: Is my Kenwood TH78 dead?
To: [e-mail]

There is a warning on some of the rig mod bulletin boards about
this.  The problem is that pins on the back side of the PCB that
is mounted on the front half of the TH78 can come into contact
with the volume control housings mounted on the PCB on the other half
of the unit.  My radio had this problem until I put electrical tape
across these housings.  Symptoms were: Display blanking momentarily
and the unit power cycling, sometimes causing memory erase, when
pressure was applied to the front of the unit or to the volume controls.
I originally thought that it was a loose battery connection, until I read
the message on the bulletin board.

   Open up the radio and you will see what I mean, if the above
explanation is confusing (I just reread it, and it confused me).  Believe
me, the fix is simple and it works.

Mark Olson   AA0MH

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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 14:10:37 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Kenwood TS-440-S FOR SALE
To: [e-mail]

I have a Kenwood TS-440-S for saale with 200 watt Power Supply. Any offers?
--
                                             [e-mail]

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Date: 25 Nov 1993 00:14:20 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!yfn.ysu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: RADIO SHACK / INTERNET
To: [e-mail]

  Does Radio Shack have an Internet address?

  Merle

  Still waiting for my license...

  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 02:39:43 -0600
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!elvex65.acns.nwu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Using modified HT in emergency
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (David Stark) wrote:

>  > From: [e-mail] (Rick Nimtz)
>  > Organization: Univ of Notre Dame
>
>  > wasn't so lucky. The sheriff department had him state that he used the
>  > police frequency illegally and persuaded him to surrender his modified
>  > HT. It was not mentioned if the FCC got involved or not.
>
>     Oh, no, not this again.  :-)
>
>     It is unfortunate that hams who take chances like the above aren't
> familiar with the laws under which we operate.  For example, the Sheriff had
> no business confiscating a radio.  That is Justice Department jurisdiction.
> They most especially had no business confiscating property if they filed no
> criminal charges.  That is "unreasonable search and seizure".  And, ref the
> above statement, they can't file criminal charges because violations of FCC
> regulations are a Federal prerogative.

      Just a quick note.  Peace Officers(i.e. county sheriffs, municipal
police officers, etc.) can make arrest for Federal offenses. Case law will
prove up this point. The offender and evidence are then turned over to the
Justice Department for prosecution.  Additionally, property can be
confiscated without criminal charges being filed.  It's done legally every
day.
>
>     Somebody should advise this ham to get a lawyer and sue for the return of
> his transceiver.  The only regulations violated were use of a
> non-type-accepted transmitter on a Part 90 channel, and transmitting without
> the proper license for the frequency used.  Neither of those violations can be
> prosecuted by a local police agency.  Also, he could make a case in his own
> defense for "emergency" use of the frequency for a bona fide emergency.  (He
> should have notified the FCC Engineer in Charge of his radio district of the
> emergency asap after it happened, to protect himself.)

--
Jeff S. Burklin
N9UVB
E-Mail: [e-mail]

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Date: 28 Nov 93 01:24:00 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!ernie.almac.co.uk!almac![e-mail]
Subject: VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 26 N
To: [e-mail]

-> I would like to repeat some comments allready made before.  It concerns
-> the removal of the Bulletin Identification Number of the notes.  During
-> the week I received from Spain notes which I edited a month ago.  The
-> BID number has been removed and replaced with a local

I sometimes import some of the packet bulletins on this newsgroup into my
BBS but I always have to import from my own call - or the originating
station would appear in White Pages with my BBS as his address.

Why can't the various people putting packet bulletins here leave one line
of the packet header - so that the White Pages will pick up the correct
address and also anyone wanting to reply can use SendReply ?

i.e.   SB xxxx @ xxxxx < xxxxx $xxxxx
Title
R:931126/2234Z @xxxxxx  or whatever it is


* RM 1.2 00964 * Martin Briscoe - Inverness-shire - Scotland

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Date: 28 Nov 1993 01:45:08 GMT
From: galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: WANTED: comments on IC-4SRA HT
To: [e-mail]

>From everything I've read about it, it seems to be
>continuous coverage.  Is this true?

I bought my IC-2SRA about two years ago, and there are no gaps in coverage.
 I don't know what effect the laws "protecting" cellular phone conversations
have had on recent models.

Ted Trost
Internet: [e-mail]  Delphi: TEDTROST  CompuServe: 71175,1043
Amateur Radio call pending.

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 15:06:08 GMT
From: gsm001!gsm001.mendelson.com![e-mail]
Subject: WANTED: comments on IC-4SRA HT
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>
         [e-mail] (Scott Ehrlich) writes:

>As I continue to budget my money, I am beginning to eye the ICOM IC-4SRA HT.
>
>I'd really like to know the performance of the wide-coverage receive
>side of the radio.  From everything I've read about it, it seems to be
>continuous coverage.  Is this true?


Look at the w2a. The receiver coverage is the same, but since there is no
fm/am switch, the choice is fixed by the factory. This prevents you from
listening to your favorite FM broadcast station :-(

You only have one antenna instead of 2 (throw away ICOM's and get a
Larson or similar) and you get 2m/440 xmit too.

As for frequency coverage, I have received aircraft on the 108-136 band,
and 902 mhz band repeaters (there is one at about 925 around here).

A friend has received his fire company on about 46mhz on one, but I have never
heard anything on 6 meters on mine.

Note that a "mod" has to be performed to open the receiver and that the
coverage is NOT CONTINUOUS.

Now that has been said to appease the legal people, the mod is via keyboard
and the coverage is about 40mhz to 300mhz on 2 meters and 300 to 9?? on
the 440 side.


73,

Geoff.
--
I used to talk to myself.....  Now that I am a ham, I send code to myself:
-... --- -.--   - ... .. ...  --. ..- -.--   .. ....   .-- .. . .-. -.. .-.-.-

Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ    [phone]  [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 01:27:02 GMT
From: munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!perot.mtsu.edu!raider!theporch!jackatak![e-mail]
Subject: What is RATT ?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] writes:

>
> >Kevin Anderson, kb9iua, asks:
> >
> >Is RATT another way to talk about RTTY (and derivative) modes?
> >Does it stand for "radio amateur teletype" by any chance
>
> Depends on who you want to listen to.  Some say that one
> was the Navy's way of saying radio teletype and the other
> was the rest of DoD's way.

I do not know the origin but when I was in the Army (10 years ago) our
Radio teletype vans were always refered to as RATT RIGS and the operators
were RATS or RATTOs.

73 de Bruce/KQ4TV

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 14:36:15 GMT
From: swrinde!emory!kd4nc!ke4zv![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Reply-To : [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject : Re: Miss Manners in the Novice Sub-bands? G's silliness.

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>The best way to see if something is a language, is do an MRI on a fellow,
>and see if Brocha's (or is it Wernicke's...) and other speech processing
>areas of the brain are active at the time of hearing the code.  I would
>believe that they are.

You could verbally *spell* the words to the person and their language centers
would be active too, but that doesn't mean that spelling is a language.
It's the natural language *words* being spelled that are units of language
(when coupled with grammatical structure). Stepping back one level further
to an aural encoding of the alphabet used to spell words, Morse is certainly
even further divorced from language.

Gary

--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          | Where my job's going,  | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems | I don't know. It might | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             | wind up in Mexico.     | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |          -NAFTA Blues  |

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 14:27:28 GMT
From: swrinde!emory!kd4nc!ke4zv![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Reply-To : [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject : Re: CONELRAD-what was it?

In article <[e-mail]> Ed Ellers <[e-mail]> writes:
>Gary, they did have a few actual tests of CONELRAD for broadcast stations --
>the idea was to run at very low power, so the lower efficiency at 640 or 1240
>was not such a problem.  The last such full-blown test as far as I know was in
>late April 1961, right after the Bay of Pigs flap.

Before my time. I didn't start working in broadcast until 1964. Another
maybe interesting bit of trivia, however. There was one AM station in
the US that was authorized to run 500,000 watts in case of emergencies.
It's a Cincinnati station, WLW, whose monster tower is north of the city
on the right of I-75 as you're heading to Dayton. A former co-worker was
a transmitter engineer there, and had some great pictures of the transmitter
plant. Seems the government wanted an alternative to CONELRAD where they
could blanket the country, at night one assumes, with a single transmitter.
The PA tubes are taller than a man.

Gary

--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          | Where my job's going,  | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems | I don't know. It might | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             | wind up in Mexico.     | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |          -NAFTA Blues  |

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Date: 22 Nov 1993 16:28:49 GMT
From: olivea!inews.intel.com!ilx018-bb.intel.com!ilx049![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>owl
Reply-To : [e-mail]
Subject : Re: Using modified HT in emergency

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Gary Morris @ignite) writes:


|> Two weeks later, he got a letter from Bill Kahn (communications coordinator)
|> for the SO, telling him to meet with Kahn and an FCC person.  He was given
|> the choice of having to ``forfeit'' or be prosecuted by the federal
|> government.

He should have gone out and bought the most beat-up falling-apart old
used HT he could find, and given them that...

--

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Doug Braun     Intel Israel, Ltd.      M/S: IDC1-41
               Tel: [phone]   [e-mail]

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