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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 04:30:44 PDT
From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-space@ucsd.edu>
Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu
Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu
Precedence: Bulk
Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #212
To: Ham-Space
Ham-Space Digest Tue, 2 Aug 94 Volume 94 : Issue 212
Today's Topics:
ANS-210 BULLETINS
New
OSCAR Freqs?
Welcome to rec.radio.info!
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We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text
herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official
policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there.
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 21:44:25 MDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: ANS-210 BULLETINS
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-211.01
AMSAT-UK PHONE NUMBER CHANGE
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 211.01 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD JULY 30, 1994
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-211.01
AMSAT-UK Land-Line Phone Numer Changes For Non-UK Callers
Some of you will be aware that as from 1995 April 16, all UK telephone area
codes will change. With five exceptions listed below, all will simply
acquire a leading digit "1".
Thus for example, when calling Amsat-UK from overseas, after 95-APR-16,
you will ring +44 181 989 6741.
^
+---- Additional "1"
Key: "+" is your code for International access, "44" is UK, and "181" is
the new code. (The present code is "81").
>From 94-AUG-01 until 95-APR-16 both new and old codes will work to allow
these changes to be phased in.
They are designed to ensure that Britain has enough dialling codes to last
well into the next century.
Remember, the old area codes will cease to work after 95-APR-16; the new
ones are already activated.
So start changing your memory phones and databases now!
And of course, beware the overlap problem that will plague us for a couple
of years while old numbers persist in written material, and the new numbers
appear early. You should be able to tell the difference, as NONE of the
present day "old" UK codes commences with a one.
The five exceptions mentioned, which will have completely new area codes,
are:
City Old Code New Code
-----------------------------
Leeds 532 1132
Sheffield 742 1142
Nottingham 602 1159
Leicester 533 1162
Bristol 272 1179
-----------------------------
[The AMSAT News Serive (ANS) wishes to thank James Miller (G3RUH) for this
bulletin item. ]
/EX
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-211.02
WEEKLY OSCAR STATUS REPORTS
HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 211.02 FROM AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD JULY 30, 1994
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
BID: $ANS-211.02
Weekly OSCAR Status Reports: 30-JUL-94
AO-13: Current Transponder Operating Schedule:
M QST *** AO-13 TRANSPONDER SCHEDULE *** 1994 Jul 11 - Sep 12
Mode-B : MA 0 to MA 90 | Omnis : MA 230 to MA 30
Mode-BS : MA 90 to MA 120 |
Mode-S : MA 120 to MA 122 |<- S beacon only
Mode-S : MA 122 to MA 145 |<- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF
Mode-S : MA 145 to MA 150 |<- S beacon only
Mode-BS : MA 150 to MA 180 | Blon/Blat 180/0
Mode-B : MA 180 to MA 256 | Move to attitude 230/0, Sep 12
[G3RUH/DB2OS/VK5AGR]
DO-17: DO-17 still continues to transmit its voice message on a downlink
frequency of 145.825 MHz.
RS-10: WC9C reports that RS-10 has been performing well. Although the CW
Robot was off for about a week, it is now back on. Since WC9C got back on
around Field Day after being off for a few months he has noticed a change
in the satellite's 10 meter antenna pattern. Now it is about 6-10 dB weaker
as it approaches and is stronger as it passes by. This was just the oppo-
site just a few months ago. Does anyone know if the "parent" spacecraft
orientation has changed? Last week the Special Event Station WA3NAN was on
29.391 MHz and heard lots of station trying to working them. [WC9C]
AO-10: KC6EIJ reports that AO-10 is putting down excellent signals but now
suffers from NO OPERATORS! He suggests that before you start you satellite
operations each day, take a "listen" to AO-10 and find out how it is doing.
DON'T WRITE OFF AO-10 YET BECAUSE IT STILL HAS A LOT OF LIFE LEFT! [KC6EIJ]
UO-22: Operating normally. [K6OYY],
KO-23: Operating normally. [K6OYY]
KO-25: Operating normally with lots of activity. Numerous stations have
noted the element sets for KO-25 are not accurate, but are usable. A sim-
ilar problem happened on a previous OSCAR satellite launch, in that case
the launch vehicle, or parts thereof were being tracked, instead of the
satellite of interest. [K6OYY]
The AMSAT NEWS Service (ANS) is looking for volunteers to contribute weekly
OSCAR status reports. If you have a favorite OSCAR which you work on a
regular basis and would like to contribute to this bulletin, please send
your observations to WD0HHU at his CompuServe address of 70524,2272, on
INTERNET at wd0hhu@amsat.org, or to his local packet BBS in the Denver, CO
area, WD0HHU @ N0QCU. Also, if you find that the current set of orbital
elements are not generating the correct AOS/LOS times at your QTH, PLEASE
INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. The information you provide will be of
value to all OSCAR enthusiasts.
/EX
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 02:07:00 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!iat.holonet.net!wwswinc!barry.davis@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: New
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
VBARNET BBS is now carrying this conference.
--- Squish v1.01
* Origin: VBARNET * USA * (410)761-3406 or 922-8947 * PCB & OS/2 (1:261/1458)
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 17:12:25 GMT
From: world!ewp@uunet.uu.net
Subject: OSCAR Freqs?
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
drice@crl.com (Dennis Rice Jr) writes:
>How do I found out what frequencies the OSCAR satelites use?
>Dennis
>--
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dennis Rice drice@crl.com
> NAU Flagstaff, AZ drr1@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
> Call Sign: <I take the test Aug. 6)
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anyone could post the frequencies of the digital satellites?
Thanks in advance.
Edson
ewp@world.std.com
--
-- Edson
ewp@world.std.com
<EOF>
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 21:00:08 MDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!rec-radio-info@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Welcome to rec.radio.info!
To: ham-space@ucsd.edu
Archive-name: radio/rec-radio-info/welcome
Last-modified: $Date: 1994/01/02 22:00 $
Version: $Revision: 1.06 $
*** Welcome to rec.radio.info! ***
Welcome to rec.radio.info, a group that aims to provide a noise-free source
of information and news for the entire rec.radio hierarchy.
Two introductory articles about rec.radio.info are posted to the group and
to news.answers every two weeks. You are now reading the first article, which
explains what rec.radio.info is, and answers some Frequently Asked Questions.
The second article is titled "Submission Guidelines", and you only need to
read it if you want to submit an article to rec.radio.info.
You can skip to the next section of this article by searching for the next
" -- " string. The sections available are:
- What is the purpose of rec.radio.info?
- Why are messages almost always cross posted to rec.radio.info?
- What is a 'follow-up', and what does 'moderated' mean?
- OK, so now I know what 'moderated' means. Tell me more.
- What type of material is considered inappropriate?
- I do not have access to news, how can I get the information posted to
rec.radio.info?
- Will the material appearing in rec.radio.info be archived somewhere?
- I have a regular posting with timely information, is there a way to
speed up it's delivery, or automate for more convenience?
-- What is the purpose of rec.radio.info?
The purpose or charter of rec.radio.info is to provide the Usenet community with
a resource for information, news, and facts about any and all things radio.
All the other rec.radio groups are intended for discussions and general chit
chat about radio. Rec.radio.info will contain informational, factual articles
only. Follow-ups are redirected to an appropriate other group, and further
discussion (if any) will not take place in rec.radio.info.
In order to ensure that rec.radio.info contains only appropriate articles, it
was decided to create the group as a moderated newsgroup.
-- Why are messages almost always cross posted to rec.radio.info?
It provides a "tag" for each article to be assembled into a filtered
presentation in rec.radio.info (even with cross-posting, only one message, with
a unique Message-ID, is propogated across the net). This tag also facilitates
a pre-existing method of dropping or cancelling the articles locally within the
discussion groups if you don't want to see them. This accommodates individuals
who want to separate the bulletins from the discussions, discussions from the
bulletins, as well as those who are adamant about not reading another
newsgroup and wanted to see everything all in one basket.
With the total size of Usenet (in number of newsgroups and total traffic)
doubling every year or so, this is no insignificant contribution to reducing
information noise and chaos. Making the discussion groups a catch-all, and
making extra newsgroups filters on that catch-all, is also the most realistic
way to implement such a scheme (It's not intuitively obvious what the charter,
contents, and general appropriate topics for each and every newsgroup are.
Seeing FAQ's and charter/intro postings in the home newsgroup is beneficial
for new readers).
By cross-posting one only is adding a few tens of bytes to each bulletin (to
specify the extra group on the Newsgroups line), but are adding the capability
for very powerful filtering features available on most news servers,
listservers and readers. Your local news guru could probably explain these
features in more detail.
In rn, for example, according to Leanne Phillips in her rn kill-file FAQ, add
a line of the form:
/Newsgroups:.*[ ,]rec\.radio\.info/h:j
either in ~/News/KILL (if you don't want to see rec.radio.info articles
anywhere) or ~/News/rec/radio/amateur/misc/KILL (if you don't want to see them
just in rec.radio.amateur.misc). The latter method means your kill file will
only be consulted during rec.radio.amateur.misc (and hence runs more
efficiently), and will probably work for most people.
In nn, according to Bill Wohler in his nn FAQ, add a line of the form:
rec.radio.info:!s/:^
in ~/.nn/kill (if you don't want to see rec.radio.info articles anywhere), or
put the following lines:
sequence
rec.radio.info
rec.radio.
at the end of ~/.nn/init in order to see all the rec.radio.info bulletins first,
then read the remaining rec.radio.* without the bulletins.
-- What is a 'follow-up', and what does 'moderated' mean?
If you are new to Usenet and are not familiar with the terminology, you might
want to read the general introductory articles found in the newsgroup
news.announce.newusers. Doing so will make your life on the net much easier,
and will probably save you from making silly beginner's mistakes.
If you think that at this moment you are reading an echo, a conference, or
a bulletin board, I'd also strongly suggest a trip over to
news.announce.newusers.
For the rest of this article, I will assume you have a basic knowledge of
Usenet terminology and mechanics.
A moderated group means that any article that needs to be posted to the group
has to be accepted by the moderator of the group. Since we need to ensure that
followups to an article (discussion) do not show up in the rec.radio.info
newsgroup, the `Followup-To:' header line contains a newsgroup that is
appropriate for disussions about the specific article.
-- OK, so now I know what 'moderated' means. Tell me more.
Rec.radio.info is a moderated newsgroup, which means that all articles
submitted to the group will have to be approved by the moderator first.
The current moderator of the group is Mark Salyzyn. Submissions to
rec.radio.info can be posted, or e-mailed to:
rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
Comments, criticisms, suggestions or questions about the group can be e-mailed
to:
rec-radio-request@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
But before you do so, please be sure to check out the "Submission Guidelines"
article.
The influence of the moderator should be minimal and of an administrative
nature, consisting chiefly of weeding out obviously inappropriate articles,
while making sure correct headers etc. are used for the appropriate ones.
-- What type of material is considered inappropriate?
There are three broad categories of articles which will be rejected by the
moderator:
1) Requests for information: rec.radio.info is strictly a one-way street. I
receive information in my mailbox; I then post it to rec.radio.info.
Requests for specific information belong in the normal discussion newsgroups.
If your request gets answered, you might consider passing the answer on to
rec.radio.info, though. Especially if you can edit it into a informational,
rather than a discussion, format.
2) Obvious discussion articles, or articles that appear unsubstantiated.
3) Commercial stuff: a relatively unbiased test of a radio product would be
accepted, but any hint of for-profit might be reason for rejection. For three
reasons: This is not the purpose of the list, for-profit is a controversial
topic, and this list may be passed onto Amateur Packet Radio (where
for-profit is prohibited except under certain provisos).
rec.radio.swap (or possibly comp.newprod) may be more deserving of the
posting in any matter.
Similarly, copyrighted material generally cannot be used. If it's TRULY
worthwhile to the net, I would recommend obtaining permission from the
copyright holder. Please note the source, and if permission was given. I
reserve the right to make the final decision concerning appropriateness in
all situations. In most cases, a brief summary of, or pointer to, the
copyrighted information may be all I can allow.
-- I do not have access to news, how can I get the information posted to
rec.radio.info?
brian@UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) has kindly supplied a mail list server for
rec.radio.info. Non of the articles will be digested, due to their size, so
you will receive individual mailings for every article posted to the group.
Mail sent to radio-info@ucsd.edu will be forwarded to the moderator and
thus is an alias to rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
To subscribe and unsubscribe via the listserver; the format for that is
sub address radio-info
unsub address radio-info
where 'address' is your full mailing address. Send this request to
listserv@ucsd.edu
Note that the server will automatically delete any address that bounces mail.
If you leave the address portion blank, it will try to deduce your address
from the mail headers. This may not work if you are on bitnet, milnet or
some other non-Unix host, so it is recommended to put your return address
in any case. For example:
sub mymailbox@myhost.mydomain.mil radio-info
or
sub MEMEME01@DMBHST.bitnet radio-info
or something like that.
-- Will the material appearing in rec.radio.info be archived somewhere?
< Dated information here >
Yes. Still firming up details at the moment but here is a preliminary list:
- unbc.edu as maintained by Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@unbc.edu>
- nic.funet.fi maintained by Risto Kotalampi <rko@cs.tut.fi>
saved to /pub/dx/text/rec.radio.info currently stored as
numbered files.
Effectively this means that anything you post to rec.radio.info will be
permanently stored, so your work will not be lost.
-- I have a regular posting with timely information, is there a way to
speed up it's delivery, or automate for more convenience?
Yes, there is! It may take a bit of chatter with the moderator, but we are
willing to take responsible people and provide them the means of posting the
articles directly from their site. We will try everything we can as we fully
realize that DX (distant signal) and astronomical data can be somewhat
transitory. We are also willing to allow regular posters of information the
same courtesy, even if the information is not as time critical.
We refer to this as self-moderation, which is partly based on the model for
news.answer. This requires co-operation and good will to be beneficial to
the community in the rec.radio hierarchy.
I suggest reading the posting guidelines for more information. I am open to
suggestions.
I thank the following individuals for their input into this article:
rec.music.info moderator Leo Breebaart rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
rec.radio.broadcasting moderator Bill Pfeiffer wdp@gagme.chi.il.us
Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU pschleck@unomaha.edu
Ian Kluft, KD6EUI ikluft@uts.amdahl.com
--
Mark Salyzyn -- Moderator rec.radio.info
Submissions to: rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
Administrivia to: rec-radio-request@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
* Requests for information do *not* belong in rec.radio.info *
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End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #212
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