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- Info-Hams Digest Sat, 29 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 85
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- Today's Topics:
- House Resolution 2623 to limit amateur radio liability
- Sideband Technology Inc.
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- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:33:29 GMT
- From: netcomsv!netcom.com!marcbg@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: House Resolution 2623 to limit amateur radio liability
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- 103rd Congress 10/15 Print
- 1st Session (Text Only)
-
- H.R.2623
-
- To amend the Communications Act of 1934 in order to facilitate utilization
- of volunteer resources on behalf of the Amateur Radio Service.
- ________________________________
-
- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- June 13, 1993
-
- Mr. Slattery introduced the following bill; which was
- read and referred to the Energy and Commerce Committee
- __________________________________
-
- A BILL
-
- To amend the Communications Act of 1934 in order to facilitate
- utilization of
- volunteer resources on behalf of the Amateur Radio Service.
-
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
- the United States of America in Congress assembled,
-
- SECTION I. SHORT TITLE
- This Act may be cited as the "Amateur Radio Volunteer Services
- Act of 1993."
- SECTION II. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE
- (a) Findings. - The Congress finds and declares that -
- (1) Since 1982, following the enactment of P.L. 97-259,
- the Federal Communications Commission has been authorized to
- utilize volunteer assistance of licensees in the Amateur Radio
- Service for:
- (A) the preparation and administration of amateur
- radio license examinations, and
- (B) on-air monitoring for violations in the Amateur
- Radio Service;
- (2) these volunteer services provided by individual
- amateur radio licensees have greatly enhanced the self-regulatory
- character of the Service, and have saved the Commission countless
- hours of staff time and other resources; and
- (3) the success of these volunteer programs to date
- should be noted, encouraged and expanded;
- (4) Public Law 102-538 now authorizes the Commission to
- accept the voluntary, uncompensated and unreimbursed services of
- amateur radio organizations in administration of club and military
- recreation station call signs;
- (5) a principal threat to the continuation of each of
- these programs is the perception that volunteers put personal
- assets at risk in the event of actions against them, as the result
- of their provision of the volunteer services;
- (6) this perception may result in non-participation of
- volunteers or withdrawal from volunteer service;
- (7) the protection of voluntarism in these specific
- programs, through clarification and limitation of the personal
- risks assumed by the volunteer in connection with such
- participation in these enumerated programs, is necessary and
- reasonable.
-
-
-
- Amateur Radio Volunteer Services Act of 1993.
- Page Two
-
- (b) Purpose. - It is the purpose of this Act to -
- (1) protect the provision of volunteer services to the
- Federal Communications Commission as provided for in the
-
-
- Communications Act of 1934, as amended, in the administration of
- the Amateur Radio Service; and
- (2) sustain the availability of volunteer programs which
- benefit the Amateur Radio Service, which has provided a model of
- self-administration and self-enforcement among the radio services
- administered by the Federal
- Communications Commission.
-
- SECTION III. FACILITATION OF VOLUNTEER SERVICES TO THE FEDERAL
- COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION IN PROGRAMS BENEFITTING THE AMATEUR
- RADIO SERVICE
-
- Section 4(f)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended
- [47 U.S.C. 4(f)(4)], is hereby amended to include a new
- subparagraph (K) to read as follows:
- (K) Except as provided otherwise herein, no
- individual licensee in the Amateur Radio Service who
- provides volunteer services pursuant to subparagraphs
- (A), (B) and (C) of this paragraph, or pursuant to
- paragraph (g)(3)(B) hereinbelow, shall incur personal
- financial responsibility for any alleged damage, loss or
- injury from any act or omission of the volunteer from the
- provision of such volunteer services, if such individual
- was acting in good faith and within the scope of such
- individual's official function and duties in providing
- the volunteer services as defined in subparagraphs (A),
- (B) or (C) of this paragraph, or as defined in paragraph
- (g)(3)(B); and provided that such damage, loss or injury
- was not caused by willful and wanton misconduct by such
- individual.
-
- --
- Marc B. Grant 214-231-3998
- marcbg@netcom.com Amateur Radio N5MEI
- marcbg@esy.com Richardson, TX
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 22:17:22 GMT
- From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil!news@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Sideband Technology Inc.
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In <CKAu6K.4Hy@freenet.carleton.ca>, ab376@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mike Ligeza) writes:
- >
- >
- >Recently liberated from our corp. lab, what appears to be a VHF
- >Transceiver. Rig was built by Sideband Technology Inc. of Scottsville
- >N.Y. Model number is the ACSB Pioneer 1000. Appears to be a 4 Channel
- >Xtal controlled with Xtals for 154.450 Mhz. Looks like a straight forward
- >VHF rig from the Main board, but underneath is another board chock full of
- >chips in what appears to be the audio section.
-
- The ACSB means amplitude compandored side band. Not exactly the same
- thing as a "normal" VHF-FM rig. Best used to talk with other ACSB
- rigs.....
-
- P.J. Rovero Internet: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil
- Code OC/Rv Packet: kk1d@k6ly
- Naval Postgraduate School
- Monterey, CA 93943
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 22:42:43 -0500
- From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <19940112231936OSYSMAS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, <1994Jan14.005918.1@auvax1.adelphi.edu>, <2h7a43$89b@crl2.crl.com>
- Subject : Re: why 29.94 fps?
-
- Les Reeves <lreeves@crl.com> writes:
-
- >In other words, what sort of digitization of video is going on in these
- >frame synch boxes? As good as D2? Almost D1?
-
- The sampling rate is almost always 14.31818... MHz, or four times subcarrier;
- older units used eight bits (same as D-2 and D-3), but newer ones use ten-bit
- processing.
-
- -- Ed Ellers, KD4AWQ
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 22:40:55 -0500
- From: library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <1994Jan12.031818.27269@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <19940112231936OSYSMAS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, <1994Jan14.005918.1@auvax1.adelphi.edu>t
- Subject : Re: why 29.94 fps?
-
- <schmidt@auvax1.adelphi.edu> writes:
-
- >Most every little two-bit local station now has frame synchronizers these days,
- >I think the least expensive ones are only a few thousand dollars now. If so,
- >their colorburst frequency is set by their local reference, and not the
- >network. Also some cable systems use processing which destroys the burst
- >integrity. therefore, don't count on this way of calibrating your frequency
- >counter....
-
- Dunno about the others, but NBC provides its OWN frame synchronizers to each
- affiliate as part of their KU-band downlink package. So that's one item down
- right there.
-
- (P.S. A cable system near Louisville accidentally carried a scrambled ABC net
- feed on a spare channel one day; I was visiting a friend in that town who has a
- new TV with a caption decoder, and it turned out that line 21 is *not* affected
- by the encryption. I was able to get perfectly good captions over a scrambled
- picture!)
-
- -- Ed Ellers, KD4AWQ
-
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