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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 00:08:44 PST
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Info-Hams Digest            Sun, 23 Jan 94       Volume 94 : Issue   66

Today's Topics:
                         Antenna for repeater
                  Anyone know of a callsign server?
                           callsign servers
                               CW Books
                       Getting my FT-101 tuned
                          Kenwood TS430 Mod
                       LARC VP2E DXpedition '94
                    Radio Clubs Near London wanted
                   RAMSEY FX TRANSCEIVERS (3 msgs)
                          ThickLAN Ethernet
                        What could this mean?

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Date: 17 Jan 94 13:45:30 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!fauern!rrze.uni-erlangen.de!x.cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de![e-mail]
Subject: Antenna for repeater
To: [e-mail]

hello out there

we are a small group of ham-amateurs who want to build a 70cm repeater
on a mountain (1456m) in bavaria .
(germany)
we want to use a antenna like kathrein k732021 vertikal
does anybody have such a antenna oder does know a contact-adress
to companies like "kathrein" ??
the antenna is a 8 dipol field with 10dB gain
if you have such antennas or information
please contact  [e-mail]
tnx for reading this

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Date: 22 Jan 94 01:06:44 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!think.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!gmd.de!dearn!barilvm!vms.huji.ac.il![e-mail]
Subject: Anyone know of a callsign server?
To: [e-mail]

>
> I did:
>     telnet callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000
> yesterday without any problem.
>
> The machine: callsign.cs.buffalo.edu real name is:
>         electra.cs.buffalo.edu   (128.205.32.2)
>
> Clem.
> 73
>
I just tried it from here and got to it okay, but then had problems because I
couldn't get any of the usual log ins to work. What is the log in Proceedure?
Or do you have to be a registered user?

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Date: 21 Jan 1994 11:29:27 -0800
From: library.ucla.edu!news.ucr.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu![e-mail]
Subject: callsign servers
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Daniel D. Todd <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I was trying to access the buffalo callsign server but I keep getting an
>error.  Is this a network problem a local problem or an operator problem.
>
>othello% telnet electra.cs.buffalo.edu 2000
>telnet: service to this port is not available
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Dan
>

Dan,

On my stupid machine, I have to be more specific:


   telnet electra.cs.buffalo.edu /PORT=2000
                                 ******

Hope this helps.    -Stan (N6YYV)

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Date: 21 Jan 1994 19:31:56 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu![e-mail]
Subject: CW Books
To: [e-mail]

In article <2hoigj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Connie Christie) writes:
>No, you do not have to pass the 5 WPM test if you've passed the
>13 WPM test.
>
>Yes, you can go straight to General Class in one session, i.e.,
>by passing the two written elements and the 13 WPM code test at
>one sitting.

Point of information:  It is now *three* (3) elements:  2, 3(a), and 3(b).

73, Will N0RDV/AE
--
Will Turner,  N0RDV         ---------------------------------------------
[e-mail]        | "Are you going to have any professionalism, |
[e-mail]    | or am I going to have to beat it into you?" |
[e-mail]    ---------------------------------------------

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 13:55:38 -0800
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mcws![e-mail]
Subject: Getting my FT-101 tuned
To: [e-mail]

I suggest you read the manual.  If you can, pick up a service manual
for the unit.  You will be surprised at how easy it is to do most of
these things yourself..  73 DE K6DDX

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 19:31:04 GMT
From: amd!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Kenwood TS430 Mod
To: [e-mail]

I am planning on using my Kenwood TS430 with a 6 meter transverter.

I would be nice if it could tune above 30 MHZ.

Does anybody know of a Mod that will allow a TS430 to tune above
30 MHZ

Thanks

Smitty, NA5K
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 16:08:02 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!cronkite.ocis.temple.edu!astro.ocis.temple.edu![e-mail]
Subject: LARC VP2E DXpedition '94
To: [e-mail]

                      FOR RELEASE 1 JANUARY 1994

For more information contact:   Jim Kelly, KK3K       [phone]


                   LARC Announces DXpedition to VP2E

The Lambda Amateur Radio Club (LARC), an international club
for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered hams, shortwave
listeners and computer enthusiasts and their friends and
supporters, will sponsor it's third DXpedition in March 1994
with LARC members planning to operate on HF and OSCAR-13 Mode
B and Mode S from the Caribbean island of Anguilla, British
West Indies.  The team of operators and equipment are planning
to be on the air March 5-10, 1994.

Planned operations will include multi-band and multi-mode HF
and OSCAR-13 Mode B and Mode S.  This may be the first OSCAR-13
Mode S DXpedition for the record books.

The operators making the trip will be Jim Kelly (KK3K), Don
Bledsoe (WB6LYI), Mark Wilcox (KC3XC), Tom Hendrix (KI4ZN),
Howard Wyman (W9BVD), Norm Gray (KF7IK), James Keeth (AF9A),
and Wayne Schuler (AI9Q). QSL for all operators is direct to
current Callbook addresses only.

In March 1992, LARC sponsored OSCAR-13 Mode B DXpeditions to
Anguilla, British West Indies (VP2E) and Tortola, British
Virgin Islands (VP2V) and logged over 900 contacts.

In March 1993, a second team of five LARC operators put the
island nation of Montserrat (VP2M) on OSCAR-13 Mode B and
logged over 1150 contacts.

To make contacting the LARC VP2E DXpedition even more exciting,
the club will automatically mail an engraved certificate to
every station who successfully works either any HF operator
and any OSCAR-13 operator OR any OSCAR-13 Mode B operator and
any OSCAR-13 Mode S operator during the DXpedition.

The club has members in nine countries and local chapters
around the United States.  For membership information, write
the Lambda Amateur Radio Club International Headquarters,
P.O. Box 24810, Philadelphia, PA, USA, or call [phone].

--
Jim Kelly, Amateur Radio Licensee KK3K ([e-mail])
M.A. Candidate - Political Science - Temple University       \
President - Lambda Amateur Radio Club for Sexual Minorities   \
Standard Disclaimers Apply - LARC info: (215) 978 - LARC     / \
******************************************************     /    \

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Date: 19 Jan 1994 23:46:28 GMT
From: swrinde!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!ilium!gdls.com![e-mail]
Subject: Radio Clubs Near London wanted
To: [e-mail]

Well, after months of screwing around I've been given 2 day's notice to ship out
to London.

Question is, are there any clubs in the area around the Hotel Busch (?) in Surrey?
When do they meet? Can a licensed (U.K) foreigner use their club station (if they have
one?  Any hamfests (sorry rallies) in February?  Any information will be appreciated.

BTW, I'll be at British Aerospace.  Hopefully I can get on the Internet from there.

Thanks again,

Bill

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 18:54:36 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: RAMSEY FX TRANSCEIVERS
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>
>Redesign those FX series radios with TIGHTER front-ends -- forget
>wide-coverage -- make 'em tight for the ham bands for improved receiver
>performance. Also, LOWER the price -- how about including the case kit
>for free?

...and f'god's sake give people an option outside of the diode matrix.

Even if it's an add-on kit. A friend of mine and I drew up an arrangement
that used a couple of EPROMs and a thumbwheel switch to twiddle the PLL
lines. Would have cost fifty or so bucks and a lot of time to make one,
probably twenty bucks each in 500 quantity.

Greg

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 19:03:20 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: RAMSEY FX TRANSCEIVERS
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Conway Yee) writes:
>
>> The kits have been improved over the last few years, but $150 for a
>> radio with no case, no mic, no speaker, no PL tone board is TOO
>> EXPENSIVE.
>
>Are they really that expensive?  With automation, labor is no longer
>as large a fraction in the price of electronics nowadays.

...Which leads to another suggestion. Perhaps Ramsey could offer a
'semi-kit' with the board stuffed, tested, and aligned. Work out
your own case and add-on arrangements. Stuffing and wave-soldering
a PC is a miniscule amount of the labor, compared to attaching the
outside wires and getting a persnickety case together.

Greg

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Date: 20 Jan 1994 00:18:33 GMT
From: noc.near.net!news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: Ramsey FX Transceivers
To: [e-mail]


>As a matter of fact, I do. I went through the exact same thing with
>Harley Davidson during the '70s. Harley's were lousey then and now
>they are the most successful motorcycle company in the world. If
>everyone had your attitude, Harley would no longer exist.
>
>73, Cecil, [e-mail]
>
>
Hmmm would that be so bad? Just kidding guys. :-)

                   Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
                   "Bailar es Vivir"
                   PGP2.3 key at key servers or upon request

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 15:23:03 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!att-out!cbfsb!cbnews!cbnewst!cbnewsm![e-mail]
Subject: ThickLAN Ethernet
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|> I think I've seen the answer to this question posted a few moons ago, so
|> please forgive me.  I've run across some Thick-LAN Ethernet coax.  I think
|> it is 50-ohm, but I wonder if anyone has any other details on impedance,
|> loss, etc.  It is the orange jacketed cable and is a little less than 1/2
|> inch dia.

Hi Brian,
  I posted the original query back in the summer.  Everyone was VERY helpful.
I got a bunch of the same stuff.  If the jacket is translucent or thansparent,
it's probably teflon.  Either way, it's good cable.
Here is a brief summary of what folks told me:

   Impedance:       50 ohms (this I already knew from my networking background)
   Loss at 50 MHz:  1.2 dB per 100 feet (better than most (including RG-213),
                    slightly worse than 9913)  ... assuming Teflon
   Velocity factor: 78  ... also assuming Teflon
   Some questioned its ability to withstand UV from the Sun.  Several people
   replied that they've been using it for years with no signs of breakdown.

As you've probably noticed, the shielding is absolutely superb.  Also, if you
have the Teflon stuff, you may actually *ENJOY* (!?!) soldering PL-259's on it.
You can heat it up with NO fear of ruining the cable.  Try THAT with 9913!

If you picked up the cable for free, consider yourself lucky.  This cable is
VERY expensive when purchased new.  I remember forking out lots of our
company's money for this cable back in the Coax Age of networking.  :-)
It's a shame, we have miles of this cable still in the ceiling ... unused.
Hmmm!

73 de Glenn, N3BDA

P.S. Before anybody flames me about using company cable for my ham shack,
     This cable came from one of my wife's customers.  She redesigned their
     network and they gave her the old coax.  It's nice to know that SOMEBODY
     cleans out their ceilings!
--

  Glenn D. O'Donnell, N3BDA       Internet:      [e-mail]
  AT&T Bell Laboratories          Amateur Radio: n3bda@n3dpu.#epa.pa.usa.na
  Allentown, PA                   Home QTH:      Palmerton, PA (Grid FN20eu)

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Date: 21 Jan 1994 19:35:59 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu![e-mail]
Subject: What could this mean?
To: [e-mail]

In article <2hnoka$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (matt roberts) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>, Jack Hamilton <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>The following paragraph appeared in an article in today's San Francisco
>>Chronicle about what local companies are doing to help prepare for the next
>>earthquake:
>>
>>   Finally, in an attempt to encourage the use of amateur (Ham) radios,
>>   which are used by many relief agencies during an emergency, Pacific
>>   Bell has reduced the cost of operating a Ham radio to the basic
>>   service rate of $8.35 a month.  Ham radios are licensed through the
>>   phone company.

My guess is the author of the article screwed up!  It could have been, as
someone mentioned, the rate for a phone patch for a repeater.  I think the
reporter doesn't know what he or she is talking about, and you may call the
paper to talk to the reporter and see for sure...

just my $0.02...

73, Will  N0RDV/AE
--
Will Turner,  N0RDV         ---------------------------------------------
[e-mail]        | "Are you going to have any professionalism, |
[e-mail]    | or am I going to have to beat it into you?" |
[e-mail]    ---------------------------------------------

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Date: 21 Jan 1994 14:16:06 GMT
From: slinky.cs.nyu.edu!longlast.cs.nyu.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2hebl3$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>.cs.ny
Subject : Re: CW Books

|> Am I setting myself up for 'too much' work by skipping over the
|> 5 wpm rate?

I was just going to ask the same type question myself.  I got sm404 working
last night and am very happy with it.  I'm especially happy with the
SoundBlaster compatibility.. it does wonders for the quality of the tone. I
heard a tip a while ago from someone to skip right over 5 wpm and start at
13. Most people have the innate capability to copy faster than five, so you
won't be fighting yourself to stay too slow.

My question/suggestion: I don't know what code tapes sound like, but it seems
to me that software could be written to, using the SoundBlaster card, roll
your own code tapes.  Obviously, I understand that there is human voice
on the tapes, but a sentence library could be saved to disk and played at the
appropriate times while creating the tape.  Instead of buying six or seven
tapes, you can create a new tape as you advance.  Just make a few selections
in the software, such as start speed and end speed, tone in Hz, and word
spacing.  If a person is sampled saying each character or procedural code
once, the human voice could appear on the left track while the code is playing
on the right track. (or vice versa since we drivers sit on the left in
America) Or, some combination of volume of the code and voice can be made until
it's "just right".

For non-instructional speech, the sampling rate can be done at 8MHz.. that's not
the important part of the tape for sound quality, its the code that matters. And
since the code is generated on the fly, it doesn't need to be stored anywhere.

This would also come in handy for groups as they teach a large number of people
code.  They can make custom tapes for everyone.  And with a QSO library like
SM's, a different QSO could be heard on every tape.  The group could still
fulfill their shareware obligations for the software without royalty for
each tape produced, so long as they're not sold.

I had to turn off the DIT DAH display in SM because, as someone warned me not
to do, I found myself counting them on screen and trying to remember.  The
key is what it sounds like.  I even closed my eyes for a while.. that's when
I came up with the idea for the custom tapes..

Does this sound like a good idea?

"Now here's a sample QSO at thirteen words per minute..."
--
Steven Jackson                                              New York University
Assistant to the Chair of Comp Sci       Courant Inst. of Mathematical Sciences
[e-mail], jcksnste@acfcluster        251 Mercer St, Room 411,NY 10012
"Commercial sign in 5, 4, 3, 2...                          commercial sign now"

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 18:29:49 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>du
Subject : Re: Ramsey FX Transceivers

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Cecil Moore) writes:
>
>Instead of ragging on Internet which Ramsey may not see, how about

I think if I owned one of the major ham radio businesses, I'd make
it my business to see internet discussions about ham radio. It's
as important as, say, reading QST.

>convincing John that he needs to upgrade the designs? If more hams
>buy his designs after the upgrade you can bet he will do it.


True, but there is a certain expectation of initial quality. Unfortunately,
John Ramsey has not come across as well as he might to some of the
readership here. Worse yet, he managed to send something to QST for
review which was, put simply, illegal. And he tended, at least as
reported here, to downplay the issue. I suspect someone receiving a
Notice of Apparent Liability from the FCC would not consider it
to be trivial.


>                                      But, like
>the Corvair, bad publicity can destroy a product even though it was
>upgraded to a very good product.

Dangerous analogy, this. After all, the evidence suggests that GM
*knew* there were problems, and let people go ahead and die. Yes,
they eventually fixed the car, and apparently put their best people
on it, considering what a nifty product the last ones were; but did
their having done so only after their customers were killed and maimed,
and following a huge cover-up speak of a product that deserved success?

I don't think so. Consumers were right in avoiding a product where
the manufacturer conspired to hide defects, historically. Trust,
once lost, must be re-earned.

I love to see responsive, responsible, and honest businesses succeed.
Particularly since they seem to be somewhat of an endangered species.

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Date: (null)
From: (null)
Greg

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Date: 19 Jan 1994 22:45:06 GMT
From: koriel!newscast.West.Sun.COM!abyss.West.Sun.COM!sunspot![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Ramsey FX Transceivers

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Cecil Moore) writes:
>Dana Myers ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: >That's why Ramsey offers a free variable cap upgrade PCB.
>: Great.  How many people know they need the upgrade PCB when they
>: don't have the equipment to evaluate the performance of the receiver?
>
>Dana, most people don't have the equipment to evaluate the performance
>of Japanese receivers, either. If something is wrong, it needs to be
>fixed. My IC24AT had a problem and someone fixed it for me.

The difference is that the IC24AT was factory built and then adjusted
by the factory to specified tolerances.  Selling a kit which is highly
sensitive to component tolerances without providing an adjustment
method is considerably different.  I've been insisting that people
who attempt to build and operate VHF and UHF amateur gear really need
to verify the performance of the home-built (including kits) gear,
since VHF/UHF gear is generally more sensitive to component and
construction tolerances than HF gear.  John Ramsey tries to sell
kits that a person can tune with a VOM; this is asking for trouble
if he doesn't go out of his way to engineer the kit to reduce the
influence of component and construction tolerances.


>: Cecil, rather than trying to convince to stop picking on Ramsey kits
>: for theire technical shortcomings, why don't you convince your buddy
>: John Ramsey to spend some hard earned cash going to a course on
>: customer relations?   * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD 466
>
>Just for the record, my major connection to Ramsey is a magazine article.
>I have never met or talked to John Ramsey in person or on the phone. I'm
>a tinkerer and the FX kits allow me to tinker. It gives me pleasure to
>invent improvements and share them.

I thought you wrote him a letter and he responsed (?).  I like to tinker,
too.  I buy really good radios (like Micor, Custom MVP, etc.) and use them
as a platform for careful experimentation.  For the $200 an FX-440 with
cabinet costs, you can buy a Micor, some rocks, the manual, and a handful
of PLL synth chips and go to town...

--
 * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD 466    | Views expressed here are    *
 * [phone]         | mine and do not necessarily    *
 * [e-mail]    | reflect those of my employer    *
 * This Extra supports the abolition of the 13 and 20 WPM tests *

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Date: 21 Jan 1994 19:29:20 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2hebl3$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>.uiuc.
Subject : Re: CW Books

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Gratton) writes:
>If I pass the 13 wpm test, do I also have to pass the 5 wpm
>test? Or in other words; Can I get a General class license
>by passing the written tests for Novice, Technician and
>General and then pass ONLY the General CW test?

As I've just take the Amateur Extra test (and PASSED!!!), I think I can answer
this.  (Along with many other people I suspect...)

NO!!  You do not have to take the 5wpm code test [Element 1(a)].  The only
elements you must have credit for to get a general license are:

    1(b), 2, 3(a), and 3(b).

This is all spelled out, and covered by the Amateur Extra test (for those who
are interested).

73, Will.   N0RDV/AE  (Since 16 Jan 94...just a few more weeks--I mean months!)
--
Will Turner,  N0RDV         ---------------------------------------------
[e-mail]        | "Are you going to have any professionalism, |
[e-mail]    | or am I going to have to beat it into you?" |
[e-mail]    ---------------------------------------------

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