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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 11:30:16 PST
From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup <info-hams@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #1177
To: Info-Hams
Info-Hams Digest Tue, 1 Nov 94 Volume 94 : Issue 1177
Today's Topics:
4U9U - where is he located?
AM AIRBAND INFO
ARRL Letter, October 26, 1994
DX Palindrome (was CW Palindrome Game!)
Info on hallicrafters S27
MOBILE ANT HELP
NoCal OO goes after Packet BULLetins (2 msgs)
No code Techs and CW...
No License to Extra Leap? (2 msgs)
Questions on this and that
Tulsa OK - Hams Stores/Nets?
Yaesu FT-5200 Crossband Operation ?
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 20:40:46 GMT
From: dearnshaw@worldbank.org
Subject: 4U9U - where is he located?
In article <390rft$or2@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>, <eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov>
writes:
> Path: worldbank.org!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!eos1.larc.nasa.gov!eckman
> From: eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov (Richard Eckman)
> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
> Subject: 4U9U - where is he located?
> Date: 30 Oct 1994 19:17:17 GMT
> Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
> Lines: 9
> Message-ID: <390rft$or2@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: eos1.larc.nasa.gov
>
> I head a station operating in the contest today signing
> 4U9U in CQ zone 36, which would place him in southern
> Africa. Despite sticking around for awhile, he never gave
> his country. I assume that this is a UN employee, but
> does anyone know where he was operating from?
>
> Richard Eckman KO4MR
> NASA Langley
> eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov
Rich,
He was located in Burundi (9U). I believe it was Paul, F6EXV, so may well end
up counting for something!
-- Darrell.
------------------------------
Date: 31 Oct 1994 14:33:09 -0500
From: dtiller@gnd0.rmc.edu (David Tiller)
Subject: AM AIRBAND INFO
VEKINIS Peter (pve@dg13.cec.BE) wrote:
: A friend of mine who works in search and rescue is looking for an HT that
: can handle AM airband xmit plus FM xmit. It turns out that Search and Rescue
: personnel wear equipment on them and they cant be asked to have even more
: equipment in their suits.
: Does anyone know of a rig that can handfle AM transmit and FM, in otherwords
: offer 118-136MHz AM plus the FM band. He needs AM to talk to the Chopper S&R
: personnel and FM to talk to Police etc. An amateur radio HT that is
: modifiable would do nicely.
: Thanks,
: Peter, KC1QF
: pve@dg13.cec.be
There is one, I've seen it listed in flying mags like AOPA. I think it's
made by airking or ICOM.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 10:54:00 EST
From: "Palm, Rick, K1CE" <rpalm@arrl.org>
Subject: ARRL Letter, October 26, 1994
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 13, No. 20
October 26, 1994
Faster licensing:
FCC sets date for electronic filing
On October 24 the FCC released a 7-page Order amending its amateur
rules, effective December 20, 1994, to reflect what the Commission calls
"nonsubstantive procedural changes":
* To permit electronically filed data from VECs (paper applications
also will still be accepted);
* To authorize operation as soon as the new license data appears in
the amateur service licensee data base, rather than (as now) when the
license document has been delivered (details of how the new licensee can
determine his call sign will be announced later);
* To add a new rules section, "Examinee Conduct," to emphasize that an
examinee must comply with the instructions given by the administering VEs;
* To treat "Technician Plus" as a license class;
* And to provide for a "renewal short form," which the FCC says will be
mailed to licensees in advance of their expiration date beginning sometime
in 1995. The FCC added that renewal applications would be accepted no more
than 90 days before the expiration date.
Because of the nature of these rule amendments, there is no notice or
comment period required by federal law. Again, these changes do not take
effect until December 20, 1994.
FCC seeks changes in two UHF bands
The FCC on October 20 adopted a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to
convert a block of spectrum from federal government to commercial use,
including two UHF bands shared by Amateur Radio on a secondary basis with
the government.
The proposal, in ET Docket 94-32, would allocate 2390 to 2400, 2402 to
2417 (both shared by amateurs), and 4660 to 4685 MHz to the Fixed and Mobile
Services. The FCC is required by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1993 to adopt rules for such a reallocation by February 10, 1995.
The proposal calls for licensing to be accomplished through competitive
bidding. In a news release, the Commission said it is requesting comment on
alternative approaches, including "continued use of some of this spectrum by
the amateur community."
The FCC said it received a number of responses to its Notice of Inquiry
on the proposed reallocations, including formal comments from "the amateur
community" (primarily the ARRL). More information was in October QST, p 83.
In another proceeding, ET Docket 94-124, the FCC is proposing to open a
number of bands above 40 GHz to commercial use. The only one that
potentially affects amateurs is 76.0 to 77.0 GHz, which is adjacent to our
primary allocation at 75.5 to 76.0 GHz and is part of the 76.0 to 81.0 GHz
band that amateurs share on a secondary basis.
FLOODS BRING OUT
TEXAS VOLUNTEERS
The FCC on October 19 declared a "Voluntary Communications Emergency"
as Texas amateurs provided service during flooding in the southeastern
portion of the state and particularly in the Houston area. That morning,
North Texas Section Emergency Coordinator Joe Brown, K5UPN, reported that
several statewide and emergency nets were in around-the-clock operation.
Some of these nets, like the Texas RACES Net and the Central Gulf Coast
Hurricane Net, were handling emergency and priority traffic only. The other
nets were handling information requests and health and welfare traffic.
As a result of the net activity, the FCC's Houston office issued a
statement saying "All Amateurs are requested to cooperate by recognizing the
existence of a voluntary communications emergency and therefore
relinquishing the use of frequencies between 3967 and 3973 and between 3972
and 3978 kHz and between 7245 and 7251 kHz for the handling of emergency
traffic."
On Thursday, October 20, ARRL South Texas Section Manager Alan Cross,
WA5UZB, reported by telephone that ARES teams were heavily involved in
emergency communications. At the time, he didn't notice any ARES personnel
shortages. Radio amateurs were active at Houston-area Red Cross shelters,
assisting fire departments and sheriff departments, according to plans
already in place. Many radio amateurs were also staffing emergency
operation centers.
Cross also mentioned the burning gas pipelines at the San Jacinto
River. He was concerned that in due time, the ARES operators would need
reinforcements. The North Texas Section had already contributed ARES
personnel to help.
By late Thursday, emergency nets were back to their normal operating
schedules. Joe, K5UPN, reported a large number of health and welfare
messages and related traffic being handled. On Friday, Brown reported the
same kind of activity on the local and section nets. -- Steve Ewald, WV1X.
NEWSMAN BILL LEONARD,
W2SKE, IS DEAD AT AGE 78
Bill Leonard, W2SKE, a former president of CBS News, died October 23 in
Laurel, Maryland. He was 78.
Leonard, an avid DXer and contest operator in the 1960s and 1970s, was
an advocate for Amateur Radio, writing, for example, an article for Sports
Illustrated in 1958 entitled "The Battle of the Hams." It described the
"sport of DXing" and Leonard's role in it from the contest super station of
Buzz Reeves, K2GL, in New Jersey.
Leonard said in 1981 that he was interested in radio as a child in the
1920s, and received his first amateur license, W1JHV, while a student at
Dartmouth College in 1934.
After graduating in 1937, Leonard went to work as a reporter for the
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Post-Telegram. After serving in the US Navy from
1941 to 1945, where he was involved with electronic countermeasures against
German radio-controlled bombs, he joined CBS News in 1945.
As CBS president, Leonard was credited with the selection of Dan Rather
as CBS Evening News anchor, as a member of the team that developed the "60
Minutes" newsmagazine, and of helping develop techniques to predict election
outcomes.
Asked in 1981 about the future of Amateur Radio, W2SKE said "I have a
hunch that Amateur Radio is going to get more and more tangled up with
amateur computer technology." He also said "My bet is that ham radio, in
one form or another, will be around 100 years from now."
A profile of W2SKE appeared in March, 1981, QST. Bill Leonard leaves
his wife, the former Norma Kaphan Wallace, and six sons.
FCC ESTABLISHES NEW
INTERNATIONAL BUREAU
The FCC has created an International Bureau to handle international
telecommunication and satellite programs and policies and to represent the
Commission at international conferences and negotiations. The bureau will
have three divisions: Telecommunications; Satellite and Radiocommunication;
and Planning and Negotiations.
This new bureau is a major part of the FCC's overall reorganization
announced last summer.
COMICS FUNDING SOUGHT
All kids like comics. Every year ARRL HQ provides some 50,000 copies of
an Archie ham radio comic to amateurs, who then give them to interested
youngsters as part of the League's effort to tell them about Amateur Radio.
Print runs of 100,000 (the minimum) cost about $19,000. The comics come with
a reply card for more information and a list of companies and clubs that
have contributed to the comics program.
So please help, by asking your club to consider giving $50, $100, $250
or what your members can afford -- or ask your club newsletter editor to run
this article in the next issue. Contact the ARRL Educational Activities
Department for details. And thanks.
BRIEFS
* W1AW has reoriented its beams for 10, 15, and 20 meters to provide
better coverage of the southeastern states. The 120-foot tower now has upper
antennas on those bands pointed west and lower beams, fed in phase, pointed
south. The work was done by
station manager WA1MBK and operator WB9RRU.
* Last summer, London's Science Museum announced that its Amateur Radio
exhibit station, GB2SM, would be closed down because its time had passed.
The Radio Society of Great Britain went to work, and now says that the
museum has agreed to discuss "providing an innovative, state-of-the-art,
hands-on exhibit to replace the existing station." In the interim (GB2SM
will close November 7) the RSGB hopes to find a way to at least keep the
famous call sign on the air.
* The latest HQ staff member to get an amateur ticket is Media
Relations Assistant Jennifer Hagy, sporting N1TDY.
And November QST's "Behind the Diamond" victim Bill Moore, NC1L, has
been promoted to DXCC supervisor.
Speaking of November QST, did it seem fat to you? At 272 pages it was a
record!
* German Astronaut Ulf Merbold, DP3MIR, has been active from the
Russian space station Mir, but a power supply problem prevents him from
using his digital voice memory and reduces his activity to only a few
passes a day over Europe. DF5DP, the Deutscher ARC Coordinator of Satellites
and Space Projects, said they do not have details about the problem because
questions and answers about DP3MIR are relayed via the Moscow control
center, a process that "turned out to be very complicated."
DP3MIR will stay aboard Mir until about November 3.
* The United Kingdom has lowered the minimum age for its full amateur
license. Previously 14, the age has been lowered to 10 years, provided that
the applicant has held a Novice license Class A or B for a full year and
then passes the exam for either a full Class A or Class B ticket.
* The Dayton Amateur Radio Association is once again accepting
applications for its scholarship program, open to all FCC-licensed amateurs
who will graduate high school in 1995. The DARA offers eight scholarships of
$2000 each. For more information and application forms write to DARA
Scholarship Committee, 45 Cinnamon Court, Springboro OH 45066.
* As noted last issue, the "Big Dish" Earth-Moon-Earth operation from
VE3ONT on the first weekend of the ARRL EME Contest October 29 and 30 was
canceled. Now, however, in addition to likely having the dish available for
the second weekend of the Test, November 26 and 27, the operators may be
able to use it on November 24 and 25 as well. If so, they plan to operate on
50, 432, and 1296 MHz on those days (and on 144 MHz during the contest). All
this was still tentative as we went to press.
10 years ago in The ARRL Letter
A letter from the FCC's Private Radio Bureau Chief Robert Foosaner
clarified what was permissible during Amateur Radio support of the New York
City Marathon. The prohibition against "business communications" became more
of a concern because the marathon was, in 1984, awarding prize money for the
first time. Foosaner said that of the three specific services amateurs
planned to provide at the event -- a medical network, crowd-control
logistics, and lead runner position -- only the latter was questionable,
because news services could use the amateurs' communications to provide them
with information. Foosaner recommended that lead runner information be
passed on commercial frequencies.
The matter of "business communications" continued to be a thorny one
for amateurs until the summer of 1993, when the FCC acted to ease
prohibitions on "business communications." The FCC in 1993 also agreed with
the League that proposals from commercial broadcast interests to allow
Amateur Radio to be used in dissemination of information was not desirable.
In 1983 the FCC had changed the way hams' transmitter power was to be
measured, from dc input to PEP output; AM operators in 1984 began lobbying
for special consideration, since the change in the rules actually reduced
the amount of power they were legally allowed to run. The matter was not
finally settled until the early 1990s.
------------------------------
Date: 1 Nov 94 14:59:04 GMT
From: Wayne_Estes@csg.mot.COM (Wayne_Estes)
Subject: DX Palindrome (was CW Palindrome Game!)
> Name a DXCC country where the term used to refer
> to the inhabitants is a palindrome.
I heard that one on the National Public Radio word game last weekend.
*** Nauruan (residents of Nauru) ****
Wayne Estes WD5FFH wayne@csg.mot.com
------------------------------
Date: 31 Oct 1994 16:50:37 -0600
From: dave@flowserver.stem.com (David Adams)
Subject: Info on hallicrafters S27
Greetings! Just picked up a hallicrafters s27 (freebie...bad shape).
Was wondering if anyone would like to tell me anything about this
rig... have some manuals coming, but would like to hear from anyone
who knows anything about it....
73 de dave,n9uxu
Actually, it's great to look at...nice case, dials, etc...but I would
guess the tubes and transformers are all shot!
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 18:58:48 GMT
From: ehare@arrl.org (Ed Hare (KA1CV))
Subject: MOBILE ANT HELP
Carl S Short (shortcs@mail.auburn.edu) wrote:
: Hello all, Can anyone suggest to me the best way to route an antenna
: cable for a mobile vhf ant through a c. 1985 Buick Rivera? Thanks in
: advance.
: 73 de Sim, KB5JAW
Here are the GM bulletin numbers for the GM installation guidelines:
Buick 93-9-1
Chevrolet 93-24-9A
Oldsmobile 93-I-07
Pontiac 93-9-1
North American Truck 93-9-23
Canada 93-8A-104
Saturn allegedly has a video on mobile installation, but none of the dealers
seem to know about it. I have a call into one of my low friends in high
places. :-)
If anyone would like a copy of the GM installation guidelines, send a 9X12"
SASE with two units of postage *and* a specific request for the "GM
Installation Guidelines" to the ARRL Technical Department Secretary, 225
Main St, Newington, CT 06111. A copy has been reprinted in the ARRL book --
Radio Frequency Interference -- How to Find It and Fix It.
73 from ARRL HQ, Ed
--
Ed Hare, KA1CV, ARRL Laboratory, 225 Main, Newington, CT 06111
203-666-1541 ehare@arrl.org
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Date: 1 Nov 1994 17:48:08 GMT
From: hanko@wv.mentorg.com (Hank Oredson)
Subject: NoCal OO goes after Packet BULLetins
In article <1994Oct30.230409.12576@news.csuohio.edu>, sww@csuohio.edu (Steve Wolf) writes:
|> Robert Casey (wa2ise@netcom.com) wrote:
|> :
|> : As Gary K____ (sorry, forgot your call) (the guy at a destructive test lab)
|> : pointed out, the FCC considers all the packet posts as 3rd party traffic.
|>
|> Please do advise when and where the FCC made such a determination. Please
|> post the text!
Well Steve, you already have the text.
It is called "part 97", and is the rules we operate under.
Please read it, doing so will help you understand the discussions
about 3rd party traffic that are going on here.
... Hank
--
Hank Oredson @ Mentor Graphics Library Operations
Internet : hank_oredson@mentorg.com "Parts 'R Us!"
Amateur Radio: W0RLI@W0RLI.OR.USA.NOAM
------------------------------
Date: 1 Nov 1994 17:42:24 GMT
From: hanko@wv.mentorg.com (Hank Oredson)
Subject: NoCal OO goes after Packet BULLetins
In article <1994Oct28.035950.1419@news.csuohio.edu>, sww@csuohio.edu (Steve Wolf) writes:
|> Todd Little (little@iamu.chi.dec.com) wrote:
|> :
|> : In article <CyCEKB.7Hq@wang.com>, dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
|> :
|> : |>Again, this discussion is not about speech content, but one-way
|> : |>communications.
|> :
|> : Good, I'm glad you see our point then. The communication is two-way. I
|> : send a packet to the PBBS and it sends me an acknowledgement. What is
|> : one-way about that? The content may be construed as one-way, but the
|> : communication is definitely two-way. That is unless you set up your
|> : beacon text to be a 10 line cookie recipe. ;-)
|> :
|>
|> The acks for the ax.25 protocol are little more than the op at W1AW looking
|> at the power meter and seeing that watts are going into the antenna. The
|> acks mean the data is reaching the other BBS. We don't know where the bits
|> go from there. All we have in the ax.25 is a remote wattmeter.
So what you are saying is that when I call 7P1AAA on CW, hoping to work
a new country, all I have to do is watch my wattmeter and verify that
I responded to his CQ, and I have a valid QSO?
What point are you attempting to make?
The ACK does not come from W1AW, it comes from the station W1AW
is in QSO with, includes W1AW's callsign plus the callsign of the
station W1AW is in QSO with. The ACK contains TWO callsigns.
"Earth to Steve ... please engage brain ..."
... Hank
--
Hank Oredson @ Mentor Graphics Library Operations
Internet : hank_oredson@mentorg.com "Parts 'R Us!"
Amateur Radio: W0RLI@W0RLI.OR.USA.NOAM
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Date: 1 Nov 94 13:41:14 GMT
From: William=E.=Newkirk%Pubs%GenAv.Mlb@ns14.cca.rockwell.COM
Subject: No code Techs and CW...
>The largest class of ticket holders in Ham radio are
>technicians, and I would sure like to see everyone who wants an
>upgrade to get one, but when someone comes into a testing
>session and has been studying CW for 2 weeks, and wants to pass
>the 13wpm, I get kinda riled up.
>Wcoyle@delphi.com N3OGH
(in another message, n3ogh says he's been a ham for around 3 years now..)
<sigh>...newbies. why would you ever get riled up over that? some people
don't have a problem learning code - comes naturally to them - others have to
struggle.
So the candidate has been studying only for 2 weeks. did he pass or not?
Anyone that can pass the tests deserves the welcome of their fellow hams.
what about those guys that come in and go from nothing to extra in one hop
(we've had several over the years here...some were hams once and let their
license expire, others were/are professional CW operators (military intercept,
shipboard radio op, etc.)).
there are guys out there that design radio equipment for a living and aren't
even hams! yes, they might even eschew a license because they don't want to
be associated with "amateurs"....
bill wb9ivr.
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:35:46 GMT
From: klg5646@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Gerling )
Subject: No License to Extra Leap?
In article <CyJoDL.8sz@nntpa.cb.att.com> dara@physics.att.com (Shel Darack) writes:
>
>Sure, some guy walked in and did the 20 wpm cw and theory exams
>through Advanced. It was getting late so they told him he would
>have to come back next time for the extra theory. Which he did.
>I was a VE at the session when he passed the theory.
>Shel
>
Maybe the VE's just wanted him to come back so they could get another
$5 or $6 for another testing session.
-Freff
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:22:58 GMT
From: tja@netcom.com (T.J. Alessi)
Subject: No License to Extra Leap?
Arthur Chandler (arthurc@crl.com) wrote:
: Has there ever been anyone who walked into a licensing examination with
: no license at all, passed everything, and walked out amateur extra? If
: not, what's the biggest leap anyone has heard of? I took someone to an
: exam site, and he went from Tech + to Advanced in one leap -- passed the
: 13 wpm, general, advanced, and even the extra exam. Couldn't quite handle
: the 20 wpm, however.
Yes. I an a VE in our area and we had a guy in his 20's who had moved to
the USA the previous year.
Walked in, passed 20WPM took all exams Novice to Extra and nearly aced all
of them. We were amazed.
--
--------------------------[ T.J. Alessi - WB1L ]-----------------------------
T.J. Alessi & Associates * PO Box 16781 * Stamford, CT 06905 * 1.203.969.1880
Internet:TJA@Netcom.Com or via WWW URL=ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/tja/home.html
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:50:07 GMT
From: bigdon@eskimo.com (Don Anderson)
Subject: Questions on this and that
<38nks8$8io@abyss.West.Sun.COM>
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
RE: "Shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits"
-
There is another good one on CW, rarely heard now days.
It originated on the "Chicken-Fat" CW net which I don't believe meets
regularly but some of the survivors are still active (emphasis on the
chicken).
-
This one goes: dit dit dit di-daahhhhhh
-
It is supposed to be analogous to a chicken
going: buck buck buck ba-baaawwwwkkk
-
It was the farewell transmission for those checking out of the net. To
do it right you need a straight key to get the correct duration on the
last "element." The real pro's, with well developed dexterity and
coordination, could even wiggle the VFO slightly on the daahhhhh for
proper effect.
-
Illegal as hell, of course.
-
Don N7EF
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 14:42:20 GMT
From: casey@mksol.dseg.ti.com (casey j romanski)
Subject: Tulsa OK - Hams Stores/Nets?
Can someone help me find ham retail stores in the Tulsa area
and 2 meter swap nets?
Thanks!
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:08:21 GMT
From: goldfarb@falcon.rd.ray.com (Marc E. Goldfarb )
Subject: Yaesu FT-5200 Crossband Operation ?
I recently purchased a Yaesu FT-5200 2m/70cm mobile transceiver
and was told at the time of purchase that it permitted cross-
band repeat. I can't seem to locate this function in the
manual. Is there a modification required to do this?
Also, The "P" key on the microphone is unused according to the
manual. Is there a way to program this key. It would be very useful
to toggle bands using this key to answer a call on 440 when the 2m
VFO is active, and vice-versa.
Any replies, by e-mail, would be greatly appreciated.
73,
Marc WB2ELF >>
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Marc E. Goldfarb, PE e-mail: goldfarb@tomcat.rd.ray.com
Raytheon Co., Adv. Device Center address: 358 Lowell St., Andover, MA 01810
phone: 508-470-9955 fax: 508-470-9058
DISCLAIMER: Any opinions expressed in the foregoing message are solely the
author's, and do not represent the position of the Raytheon Company.
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--
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Marc E. Goldfarb, PE e-mail: goldfarb@tomcat.rd.ray.com
Raytheon Co., Adv. Device Center address: 358 Lowell St., Andover, MA 01810
phone: 508-470-9955 fax: 508-470-9058
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:10:53 GMT
From: zlau@arrl.org (Zack Lau (KH6CP))
References<1994Oct31.021040.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> <n7ryw.32.00171C3C@teleport.com>, <1994Oct31.195548.844@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>
Subject: Re: Contacting the MIR. Help!
Gary Coffman KE4ZV (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote:
: In article <n7ryw.32.00171C3C@teleport.com> n7ryw@teleport.com (William Roth) writes:
: >In article <1994Oct31.021040.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> asirene@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
: >> Can anyone tell me the minimum requirement to work the MIR.
^^^^^^^
: Unfortunately, this is bad advice. An analysis of all possible passes
: for a LEO sat shows that it will spend the majority of the time you
: are in it's footprint at an angle of less than 30 degrees above the
Gary's inappropriate and lengthy analysis deleted.
Gary's analysis makes sense if you are interested maximizing the
time you can work MIR, as opposed to just working them once.
Advantages of the MIR overhead:
Minimum path loss--shortest distance, fewer obstructions
Good possibility of low background noise
If you are in Hawaii or someplace similar
the competition is out of range.
Minimal doppler
--
Zack Lau KH6CP/1 2 way QRP WAS
8 States on 10 GHz
Internet: zlau@arrl.org 10 grids on 2304 MHz
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