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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #39
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-
-
- Info-Hams Digest Sat, 15 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 39
-
- Today's Topics:
- 1274 clock chip
- Dayton Hamvention Registration/Tickets
- DIPOLES FED BY LADDER LINE - Q
- Good cheap RF-signal generator for home?
- Hamfests in Eastern Pennsylvania/Northern NJ
- Ham test Questions, Canada
- HDN Releases
- Help
- Land mobile mailing list?
- New QRZ Ham Radio CDROM
- Packet-Internet gateways
- QSL help pse
- safety of HT antennas
- Signaling Device Wanted
- Site Security
- Still need FM5CW route
- Vaccuum Tubes, Lots of them!
-
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-
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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.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 20:31:10 GMT
- From: newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!clouso.crim.ca!hobbit.ireq.hydro.qc.ca!macjmh.ireq.hydro.qc.ca!houlejm@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: 1274 clock chip
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <9401120450122855@arbbs.simivalley.ca.us> TOM PERKINS,
- tom.perkins@arbbs.simivalley.ca.us writes:
- > >Does anyone out there know what the clock chip is for an
- > >MFJ 1274 TNC? This is a device that can be user installed
- > >so that the real time clock does not have to be set every
- > >time the unit is powered up. MFJ has one available for
- > >about 30 bucks...but if its a $1.98 item from Digi-Key I'll
- > >buy it from them. Coming from MFJ I really don't think it
- > >can anything very special...Thanks
- >
- > >Paul Anderson WB0ZRD at AT&T Bell Labs in Denver.
- >
- > Paul - I came into this discussion late, so if you found the $1.98 (or
- > equivalent) part from somewhere else, could you let me know how much and
- > where?
- >
- > I will be putting my 1274 on line for HF packet forwarding in a few days
- > and didn't know about the clock chip. Guess I don't have one now.
- >
- > Thanks!
- >
-
- I have an MFJ 1270. When I read about that clock chip I remembered having
- seen something similar from Dallas semiconductor. It was a Dallas DS1216C.
- Having access to one, I tried it and sure enough it worked.
-
- It cost more than $1.98 I do not have the current US price.
-
- --
- Jean-Marie Houle houlejm@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
- Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec Tel (514) 652-8083
- 1800 Mtee Ste Julie Fax (514) 652-8435
- Varennes, Quebec
- Canada, J3X 1S1
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 00:02:27 GMT
- From: munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!rpal.rockwell.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!uceng.uc.edu!roach.occ.uc.edu!schriste@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Dayton Hamvention Registration/Tickets
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I have gone to the Dayton Hamvention for the last 3 years, and have
- dutifully filled out the ticket stub w/ name and address. Someone told
- me that would get me on a mailing list to receive yearly flyers
- (with the early-purchase ticket price) but so far no luck.
-
- Is anyone out there affiliated with the group in Dayton which runs
- this thing, and could get my name on the list for these flyers?
- If so, please send me E-mail.
-
- Thanks!
-
- Steven
-
- --
- Steven V. Christensen
- schriste@ddt.eng.uc.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:32:37 GMT
- From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!ae517@ames.arpa
- Subject: DIPOLES FED BY LADDER LINE - Q
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In a previous article, MAYNARD@URIACC.URI.EDU () says:
-
- >Please excuse my laziness in not researching this myself...
- >
- > I just bought an antenna tuner and want to put up a dipole fed
- > by 450 ohm ladder line, for use across 160-10 meters. The longest
- > one I have located commercially is one 135ft long with 100ft of
- > feed line
-
- W2FMI's article in the Nov 93 issue of CQ postulated that an 80 metre
- dipole fed with a quarter wave feed line (at 80 metres) would be the "worst
- case" scenario for a multi-band antenna.
-
- He goes on in the article to say that that a 102 foot dipole fed with 31
- feet on ladder line would not present as high a voltage to the balun than
- the previous example.
-
- He then suggests that if one were to enlarge the second antenna to 160
- foot flat top and 90 feet of ladder line, this would have yet better
- efficiency on 160 metres and still present manageable (sp?) impedances to
- the balun on 80 and 40 metres and above. I built the balun he suggested in
- the articlebut have yet to try it; with a new baby in the house, spare
- time is a precious commodity indeed!
-
- de VA3RR/AA8LU
- in beautiful downtown Ottawa
-
- --
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 13 Jan 1994 10:15:59 -0600
- From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.cic.net!news.plexus.com!news.plexus.com!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Good cheap RF-signal generator for home?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Hi I am looking for a good but cheap RF-signal generator
- for use at home. It should be able to reach 150 MHz at
- least but would prefer 512 Mhz. Thanks in advance.
- 73 de kf9cs in appleton,wi . .... ..
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 14 Jan 94 20:30:51 GMT
- From: ogicse!uwm.edu!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!ns1.cc.lehigh.edu!sts0@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Hamfests in Eastern Pennsylvania/Northern NJ
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I am loking for hamfests in Eastern PA or Northern NJ. Preferably one where
- ther are a lot of vendors of used and new computer equipment. Any suggestions
- or pointers to a list would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Thanks,
- Steve Spang
- sts0@lehigh.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 18:39:22 GMT
- From: usc!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!newshub.ariel.cs.yorku.ca!cs922150@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Ham test Questions, Canada
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- hi friends,
- i am going to take the Canadian amateur basic licence test at the end of this
- month. I need to look at a past exam so that i am fimilar with the lay out of
- the test etc. So i some one has copies the please could you post them on the
- network or mail them to
- cs922150@ariel.cs.yorku.ca
-
- thanks in advance
-
- Choy
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 06:30:08
- From: seas.smu.edu!utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!ocitor!FredGate@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: HDN Releases
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- The following files were processed Wednesday 01-12-94:
-
-
- HAMANT [ HAM: Antenna design and calculation programs ]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- SOL25-3.ZIP ( 67120 bytes) Plot solar flux & sunspot data
- using W1AW propagation bulletins -
- by WQA4TTK
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 67120 bytes in 1 file(s)
-
-
- HAMLOG [ HAM: Amateur radio logging programs ]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- CQP25.ZIP ( 182837 bytes) California QSO Party Contest
- Logging Program, by WB6YIK
- SS25.ZIP ( 179733 bytes) ARRL Sweepstake Contest logging
- programby WB6YIK
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 362570 bytes in 2 file(s)
-
-
- HAMNEWS [ HAM: Bulletins and Newsletters ]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- ARLB001.ZIP ( 1287 bytes) BID Reminder 01/04/93
- ARLB002.ZIP ( 1608 bytes) Vanity Calls 01/04/94
- ARLD001.ZIP ( 1452 bytes) ARRL DX Bulletin 01/04/94
- ARLD002.ZIP ( 3056 bytes) ARRL DX Bulletin 01/06/94
- ARLP001.ZIP ( 1896 bytes) ARRL Propagation Bulletin 01/07/94
- ARLS001.ZIP ( 1503 bytes) ARRL Space Bulletins 01/06/94
- ARLX001.ZIP ( 1451 bytes) ARRL Special Bulletin 01/05/94
- OPDX141.ZIP ( 5813 bytes) Ohio/Pa DX Bulletin 01/01/94
- RACES306.ZIP ( 2023 bytes) RACES Bulletin12/27/93
- RACES307.ZIP ( 2169 bytes) RACES Bulletin 01/03/94
- RSGB1226.ZIP ( 7808 bytes) RSGB Bulletin 12/26/93
- RTDX1231.ZIP ( 2791 bytes) RTTY DX Bulletin 12/31/93
- VK2WI01.ZIP ( 4726 bytes) VK2WI Bulletin Weekly Bulletin
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 37583 bytes in 13 file(s)
-
-
- HAMSAT [ HAM: Satellite tracking and finding programs ]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- OBS375.ZIP ( 6072 bytes) Orbital Elements 12/31/93
- SPC0103.ZIP ( 4217 bytes) Space Bulletin 01/03/94
- VESTER.ZIP ( 436627 bytes) SSTV/FAX480/WEFAX program by K3BC
- for Jan.'94 QST article
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 446916 bytes in 3 file(s)
-
-
- HAMSWL [ HAM: Shortwave broadcast schedule distribution ]
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- SCDX2192.ZIP ( 7706 bytes) Sweden Calling DX #2192 01/04/94
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 7706 bytes in 1 file(s)
-
-
- Total of 921895 bytes in 20 file(s)
-
- Files are available via Anonymous-FTP from ftp.fidonet.org
- IP NET address 140.98.2.1
-
- Directories are:
- pub/fidonet/ham/hamnews (Bulletins)
- /hamant (Antennas)
- /hamsat (Sat. prg/Amsat Bulletins)
- /hampack (Packet)
- /hamelec (Formulas)
- /hamtrain (Training Material)
- /hamlog (Logging Programs)
- /hamcomm (APLink/JvFax/Rtty/etc)
- /hammods (Equip modification)
- /hamswl (SWBC Skeds/Frequencies)
- /hamscan (Scanner Frequencies)
- /hamutil (Operating aids/utils)
- /hamsrc (Source code to programs)
- /hamdemo (Demos of new ham software)
- /hamnos (TCP/IP and NOS related software)
-
- Files may be downloaded via land-line at (214) 226-1181 or (214) 226-1182.
- 1.2 to 16.8K, 23 hours a day .
-
- When ask for Full Name, enter: Guest;guest <return>
-
- lee - wa5eha
- Ham Distribution Net
-
-
- * Origin: Ham Distribution Net Coordinator / Node 1 (1:124/7009)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 13 Jan 1994 20:19 MST
- From: csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis@library.ucla.edu
- Subject: Help
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I would like to get a ham licence and I don't know how to do it can anyone help
- me please.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 15 Jan 94 17:05:27 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: Land mobile mailing list?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- >
- >Date: 13 Jan 1994 18:44:48 GMT
- >From:
- >usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upe
- >nn.edu!depolo@network.ucsd.edu
- >Subject: Land mobile mailing list?
- >To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
- >
- >Does anyone have the subscription address for the land mobile mailing list?
- >
- > --- Jeff
- >
- Jeff,
-
- This should be the info you need.
-
- If you want to be added or removed from the list or if your email address
- has changed contact me:
-
- dec@dfv.rwth-aachen.de or cellular-request@dfv.rwth-aachen.de
- ====================== ===================================
-
- SUBSCRIBE
-
- Please do NOT mail to cellular@dfv.rwth-aachen.de for subscription !!!
-
-
- If you want to distribute an article to all members of the
- mailing list please write to:
-
- cellular@dfv.rwth-aachen.de
- ===========================
-
-
- Ken Cuddeback Phone: 415-903-7569
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 208-837-4833
- 1227C East 2950 South Fax: 208-837-6545
- Hagerman, Idaho 83332-5830 kcuddeba@cisco.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 15 Jan 1994 11:41:15 -0800
- From: news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!apple.com!apple.com!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: New QRZ Ham Radio CDROM
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- gilbaronw0mn@delphi.com (Gilbert Baron) writes:
-
- >>Announcing the new QRZ! Windows Ham Radio CDROM
- >>
- >>Well, we've finally finished it and there are a bunch of new features.
- >>First off, in addition to the DOS search program, we now have a
-
- >Have you corrected the birthdates. All of the listings for Rochester
- >Minnesota for instance list the Birth Date as 1 day after the
- >actual. How did such an error get in the thing?
-
-
- Maybe this is how QRZ! figures out if someone has wholesale
- pirated their CD. I have QRZ! but haven't even bothered to
- check if my own data is correct on it, maybe I should :-).
-
- I did find my FT-990 mod, which was posted to the Internet, in
- there. Perhaps I should ask Fred for a free copy on the next
- release :-) :-).
-
- 73
-
- Kok Chen, AA6TY kchen@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 14 Jan 1994 02:02:54 GMT
- From: usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!jtriolo@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Packet-Internet gateways
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- >I have finally completed my collection of packet <-> internet gateways.
- >I have placed the information on world.std.com in
- >pub/hamradio/packet-internet
- >
- >If anyone has any updated information, please e-mail me.
-
- Hopefully some of the amprnet listings are more reliable then WA4ONG
- (44.62.0.1) here in Richmond. He goes down without warning and leaves us
- isolated (since he's the main link for ax.25 mail and the ONLY site for
- netmail.). I'll be sure to download the list.
-
- 73 de Jason, KD4ACG
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Jason D. Triolo -- Colonial Heights, VA | ----------------------
- Amateur Radio: KD4ACG | This space for rent.
- Internet : JTRIOLO@delphi.com | Call today!
- Fidonet : 1:264/219.1 | ----------------------
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 15 Jan 1994 11:30:59 -0800
- From: news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!apple.com!apple.com!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: QSL help pse
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- bat@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Pat Masterson) writes:
-
- >YS1X via W3HNK.
- >XF4JC via XE1ECR.
- >V47WZ might be WZ8D.
- >HH2PK might be KA9RLJ.
- >
- > We are uncertain abiut these last 2. If you get confirmation,
- >or other info, please let me know.
-
-
- KA9RLJ was the QSL mgr that HH2PK himself was giving out during the
- WAE RTTY Contest. However, I don't have a card back yet after a month,
- so I can't absolutely confirm.
-
- The last issue or so of WorldRadio list HH2PK with a P.O. Box in
- Port-au-prince.
-
- I haven't tried the latter route yet, I am patient. He is really
- not that rare. Worked him again during the RTTY Roundup last week.
-
- 73,
-
- Kok Chen, AA6TY kchen@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 19:04:08 GMT
- From: netcomsv!netcom.com!wa2ise@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: safety of HT antennas
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2h78ldINN9r2@orb.apana.org.au> craig@orb.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
- >Is there anything that can be done to minimise the ammount of RF radiated
- >around the brain by handheld transmitters? Perhaps different antenna
- >styles, or maybe running the output of the HT to a seperate, fixed
- >antenna on a car roof? This is not very appropriate for field use, so
- >what could we do to get the field strength near the brain as low as
- >possible besides reducing transmit wattage.
- >
- One solution (which you may have thought of, or seen used) is to get a
- magnetic mount 2 meter antenna, if your talkie has a BNC connector for
- its rubber duckie. When you're in the locomotive, stick the magmount
- up in the air a few feet from the window (away from immediately nearby
- objects, a broad somewhat flat area is best, have antenna vertical).
- (I would have thought the locos would have had built in dashboard radios,
- and an AM/FM cassette player? :-) ). Anyway, this would get the RF away
- from your body, and probably improve reception. A 2 meter antenna should
- work reasonably well on radios on 160 MHz.
-
- Wave to the guy with the camera, he likes to photograph freight trains and
- box cars (he's my brother).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:58:41 -0500
- From: usc!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!yvax.byu.edu!cunyvm!rohvm1!rohvm1.mah48d@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Signaling Device Wanted
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2h3a1l$i1t@agate.berkeley.edu>, ep208@garnet.berkeley.edu
- (Charles Woodson) wrote, in part:
-
-
- > Since we have HAM licences, at HT for each person seems like a good
- > possibility. Some sort of digital squelch could be used. But they
- > both feel the HT is too big and heavy.
- >
- > What they say they want is a device that can receive a few numbers
- > like the pagers, and one that can send a few like an HT.
-
- Have you checked out something like the Icom 2-SAT? Small size is
- currently a major selling point, and some of the latest generation may be
- even smaller; the 2-SAT fits almost anywhere. It has an option available
- which allows coded paging, i.e., you can set it so the transmitting unit
- must enter a set of tones on the touchtone pad to open the squelch of the
- receiving unit. This is in addition to the CTCSS tone squelch which is
- also available as an option. All this stuff fits right inside 2-SAT's tiny
- case. Sounds to me like just what you want.
-
- --
- 73 de John Taylor W3ZID
- rohvm1.mah48d@rohmhaas.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 06:41:30 GMT
- From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!jherman@ames.arpa
- Subject: Site Security
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Gang,
- I'm still a couple hundred articles behind because I was gone for 3
- weeks, but I wanted to pass along the following with regard to repeater
- site security:
- Back in the late 70's I was considering installing a remote base to
- facilitate getting into the L.A. area with a better signal. My plan was
- to dig a small vault only large enough to hold the necessary equipment;
- a vent pipe, leading from the vault to slightly above ground level would
- be hidden by replanted brush. The coax would run underground to a nearby
- tree which would have supported and hidden the antennas and solar panal.
- Weatherproofing might have been a problem, but if the output power
- was kept low no vent would have really been necessary - what little heat
- generated would have been absorbed by the cool soil. But then this begs
- another question: Isn't dry soil a rather good insulator against heat?
- I never followed through with this idea; I wonder if anyone has ever
- tried this, though.
-
- Oh, anyone remember the Clegg FM-27? It was the very first transceiver
- to cover the entire 146-148 MHz portion of 2 meters without requiring
- xtals. I had the 27B model.
-
- Jeff NH6IL
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 14 Jan 94 21:37:19 GMT
- From: ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!fp2-st-affairs-11.uoregon.edu!user@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Still need FM5CW route
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Not only can I not find this route, several other hams have asked me to
- e-mail it to them if someone responds to this posting.
-
- Any ideas of where it goes? I don't have a recent North American callbook
- to check if the operation was by someone who's native to the island or if
- it was a visitor.
-
- Thanks for any help.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 15:42:16 GMT
- From: netcomsv!netcom.com!greg@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: Vaccuum Tubes, Lots of them!
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2h2dubINNe3g@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> kayd@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Kayd) writes:
- >The Oregon State University Amateur Radio Club has a couple thousand vaccuum
- >tubes. These tubes vary from military/commercial, new/used, and in original
- >boxes. We hope to sell the tubes in a lot to form an annuity for the club to
- >use for future developments.
-
- I guess since this is posted in the 'misc' group for amateur
- radio, instead of the 'swap' group, that the poster is inviting
- comment:
-
- Wouldn't it be a nice thing if the OSU ARC, instead of using its
- wind-fall to advance its own direct interests, could find a way
- to provide a service to the ham radio community by, say, starting
- a program of reconditioning equipment for school stations and
- for young hams, and providing a source of vacuum tubes for others
- who are doing the same?
-
- Just a thought.
-
- Greg
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 08:58:21 -0800
- From: info-hams-relay@ucsd.edu
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 13 Jan 94 15:54:05 GMT
- From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex.com!horak@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <2gv7jp$3e0@netfs.dnd.ca>, <1994Jan12.092451.1134@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>, <2h1ag4INNbhq@abyss.West.Sun.COM>nvex.com
- Subject : Re: Portable 2m Antenna for Mountaineering???
-
- I have hiked several times with my Cushcraft 4 element 2 meter beam. If you
- need the extra gain from a beam, it works great and is not overly bulky to
- carry if you pack it into a tube or keep it in the original box. I use
- wingnuts to speed the assembly process and have a portable tripod to mount
- the thing. It's sort of home-brewed out of a similar design I saw in the
- ARRL handbook. Anyway, like someone else said here, the AEA Hotrod is a
- great little telescopic antenna that outperforms a duck several times over.
-
- David N5OFQ
-
- ------------------------------
-
- End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #39
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