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- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 04:30:11 PDT
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- Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #267
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- Ham-Policy Digest Fri, 17 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 267
-
- Today's Topics:
- CW Argument...The Sequel
- Railroad track as an antenna?
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- Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:36:30 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!asuvax!chnews!scorpion.ch.intel.com!jbromley@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: CW Argument...The Sequel
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
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- >>In <1994Jun15.025318.1@woods.uml.edu>
- >>martinja@woods.uml.edu (JJ Martin) writes:
-
- >>As more and more people enter amateur radio at the no-code level and as the
- >>"old-timers" become fewer and fewer I see the "protect what we have now"
- >>becoming the "let's keep pace with technology."
- ^^^^^^^^
- In article <1994Jun16.131243.6648@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- kevin jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com> wrote:
-
- >That is a very interesting statement! Are you saying that the old-timers
- >are/were MORE interested in "keeping pace with technology" then the new-
- >commers?? That is NOT AT ALL what I have seen. I admit, however, that I
- >have only been licensed as an AMATEUR radio operator for a year and a half.
-
- I say:
-
- I think he was saying exactly the opposite, and agreeing with Kevin's
- observation!
-
- Old Timers --> "protect what we have now" (HF,CW,"traditional order")
-
- Newbies --> "let's keep pace with technology" (V/UHF,new modes, new tech.)
-
- There is a lot of preservationist activity in amateur radio that has
- nothing to do with saving our frequency allocations, and everything to
- do with reliving the "glory" years. It's a dangerous preoccupation.
- While we diddle around worrying about using the right Q signal to take
- a potty break, the spectrum auctions roar on.
-
- jbromley@sedona.ch.intel.com (Jim Bromley, W5GYJ)
-
- {Usual disclaimers apply}
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 04:47:13 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu.!sro@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Railroad track as an antenna?
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- I don't know about Tufts or Swarthmore, but when I was an undergrad we
- draped the feed line through the trees across Memorial Drive,
- connected the coax shield to a ground rod, stuck the center conducter
- into the Charles River and used the Atlantic Ocean as an antenna.
- Boy, were the broadcasters in Europe pissed!
-
- :)
-
- Actually, I would be suspicious of your source--railroad tracks are a
- pretty good ground and consequently a really bad radiator. Trying to
- use the tracks as an antenna would mean shorting the output of your
- transmitter. Not a great gag, unless someone suckered you into it.
-
- In any case, the premise of the legend is contrary to what I know about
- radio feed lines and propagation--even if rail lines could conduct and
- radiate radio waves, the energy would all get radiated or dissipated
- in the resistance of the conductor before it got more than a few
- miles. The same would be true of telegraph lines or power lines.
- It wouldn't work. Don't believe it.
-
- --Shawn, K3HI
-
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- Date: 17 Jun 1994 01:25:46 -0600
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx10.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
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- References <199406142008.NAA16502@ucsd.edu>, <EIh$jexTYtRT063yn@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, <061594092829Rnf0.78@amcomp.com>.
- Subject : Re: license turnaround times..
-
- In article <061594092829Rnf0.78@amcomp.com>, Dan Pickersgill wrote:
- > dratzlaf@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Norby) writes:
- >
- > >I took my tests the last weekend in February. I believe the VE's sent in
- > >the forms 1st of March. Myself, I'm still waiting on my ticket...
- > >
- > >It's been around, what, 15 weeks I think...
-
- > Yep. A friend just got his after 12 weeks. It should be there pretty
- > quickly.
-
-
- Yep, it came today!
-
- Daniel Ratzlaff
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