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Info-Hams Digest            Thu, 10 Mar 94       Volume 94 : Issue  273

Today's Topics:
                 ***FOR SALE, TNC, Computer, Modem***
                            1x1 Callsigns
                       1x1 Callsigns? (2 msgs)
                [News] Auctioning Rules set up by FCC
            Angus vs Herman (was: Body Parts by J. Angus)
                       DX: ATTN Bay Area Hams!!
                  Grounding and lightning protection
                             ICOM IC-2GAT
                  Need a better antenna for my HT...
                            noise blankers
                              Post 2430
                       QSL's? VI9XN ZL7FD ZS8MI
                    QST review of Dual-Bander HTs
                      Smith Chart in Postscript
                           Ten-Tec question
                             Want TM-421A

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 18:21:02 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: ***FOR SALE, TNC, Computer, Modem***
To: [e-mail]

***FOR SALE***
1. 2 128 Commodore computers
2. 1 Commodore Scope
3. 1 Disk Drive
4. Okidata Printer
5. PK-64 Modem and TNC

I am posting this for a freind, please respond if interested, PRIVATELY.
WILL SELL CHEAP!!!

Paul Gaspari   N3PMH

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 19:04:53 -0600
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu![e-mail]
Subject: 1x1 Callsigns
To: [e-mail]

Bob Levine ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Has anyone seen anything in print about whether the vanity
> callsign program (someday) might allow 1x1 calls?

You have an opportunity tell the FCC what you want by sending them comments
on the vanity NPRM. If enough people request that 1X1 callsigns be made
available it might happen. We might also request the A0 and A1 prefixes
be opened up.

Kris AA5UO
[e-mail]

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Date: 10 Mar 94 17:44:29 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!noc.near.net!jericho.mc.com!fugu![e-mail]
Subject: 1x1 Callsigns?
To: [e-mail]

Has anyone seen anything in print about whether the vanity
callsign program (someday) might allow 1x1 calls?

(for info, a 1x1 is like K1X)


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Date: 10 Mar 1994 20:56:50 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news1.oakland.edu!vela.acs.oakland.edu![e-mail]
Subject: 1x1 Callsigns?
To: [e-mail]

They should allow for ANY combination of legitimate US-amateur allocated
calls.  If I remember correctly, In the US, the call must BEGIN with "A,
K, N, or W" then have a SINGLE DIGIT NUMBER and followed by at LEAST one
letter.

SO... W8A, would be OK.

I already sent in a request for MY choice, NNN6N.

Run it though your head in morse code then eat yer hearts out fellas!

73 =paul= WB8ZJL

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 19:52:18 GMT
From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu![e-mail]
Subject: [News] Auctioning Rules set up by FCC
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeffrey D. Angus) writes:
>
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>  >
>  > Thought this might be of interest to everyone. If 11M goes up for bid
>  > lets each kick in a few bucks to win it back...
>  >
>  > Jeff NH6IL
>
>  So tell me, good buddy, where are all them there CB critters going to go?

Oh, that's easy. We'll give 'em a no-code license  and send 'em up to the
VHF/UHF bands (oops - forgot this isn't .policy).

While we're on the subject, until recently I had an older FT-101 xcvr -
it was an early 70's model - analog tuning and solid state except for
PA tubes in the final. The band switch included an 11 meter position.
This 11m slot has always perplexed me, since the amateur service lost
11m back in the 50's; why would a 70's era rig still carry 11m?

Jeff NH6IL

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 20:09:32 GMT
From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu![e-mail]
Subject: Angus vs Herman (was: Body Parts by J. Angus)
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeffrey D. Angus) writes:
>
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>  [ yapp yapp yapp yapp ]
>
>  > Jeff#1 NH6IL
>  >
>
>  You sound like a small dog with a bladder problem.
>

<usual crap deleted>

The only way that this pest will stop is for me to not respond to his
continuous baiting. Therefore, as a service to the readers of this net,
I promise not to reply to any more to this bad-natured little boy's
attacks. [His parents must be soooo disappointed that he never grew up.]

>  Jeff-1 Still the original (Some things just can't be improved)

73 to you Jeffrey D. Angus,
Jeffrey D. Herman NH6IL

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Date: Tue,  8 Mar 94 11:04:00 -0600
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!cld9![e-mail]
Subject: DX: ATTN Bay Area Hams!!
To: [e-mail]

Ralph Leighton
Friends of Tuva
March 6, 1994

Dear Ham Friends,

I am sending this appeal to all hams in the Bay Area from San Jose to San
Francisco.  Please read this letter carefully and give it your utmost
consideration.

In the summer of 1992, as a group of visiting American tourists was about to
board a small aircraft in Tuva, a faraway land nestled between Siberia and
Mongolia-for a flight to Irkutsk, a woman approached them with a worried look
on her face and a large envelope in her hands.  The envelope contained X-Ray
photographs of her daughter, Tanya, who suffers from an unsightly birth defect
that has made her face too wide.  Tanya's mother pressed the envelope into the
tour leader's hand, and asked him to help.

The leader contacted me, as he knew my organization is interested in Tuva.
Our main activity has been to share the joy of discovering this remote land,
especially its culture of nomads herding a wide variety of animals-from
cattle, sheep and goats to yaks, camels, and reindeer - all in a relatively
small area the size of Washington State.  Most remarkable is the vocal
technique by which a solitary Tuvan can sing two, sometimes three notes.

Friends of Tuva is not experienced in charity work.  But happily, with the
help of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, a connection was made with
Interplast, Inc.of Palo Alto,a charity that makes the miracle of corrective
plastic surgery available to children like Tanya free of charge.  Amy Laden,
Director of Medical Services, informed me that the doctors at the Stanford
Medical Cenbter have offered to perform this heroic operation for Tanya on
April 23.

For the surgery to take place, a host family needs to be found who can open
their hearts and home to Tanya and her mother for up to eight weeks beginning
on April 12.  It would be best if you live within an hour's drive of Palo
Alto, as several doctor visits will be necessary.  I know it's a lot to ask,
but could you be a host family?

If you, as the host family, cannot drive Tanya and her mother to Stanford
University Medical Center and back, volunteer drivers can be solicited.

Finally, if someone you know speaks Russian, their services are needed as
well, especially for the doctor visits.

If you could help as a host family, as a driver, or as an interpreter, please
contact Amy Laden, Director of Medical Services at Interplast, at (415) 424-
0123 during business hours.  If you can think of someone else who might be
able to help, please contact them, and tell them about the situation.  With
your or your friends help, we can give little Tanya a new and Happier life.

Sincerely,

Ralph Leighton
Founder and Director

P.S.:
Kongar-ool Ondar, one of Tuva's premier throat singers will accompany Tanya
and her mother to California, and will perform at several fundraising events.
(He will stay with me in Los Angeles.)  As thanks for hosting Tanya and her
mother, Ondar will be happy to sing for you and any guests you invite for a
party.  There is nothing like hearing (and seeing) throat singing up close,
with no microphones, in an intimate setting.

Source:      Pat Barthelow
             AA6EG @ K6LY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM
             4947 @ MGS.COM
Background:  Pool, G., 1994, "Tune In To Tuva," Worlradio, March, p. 16.
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 │ [R2.00o] │ Usenet │ Nitelog BBS │ Monterey CA │ 408-655-1096

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 21:10:44 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!ukma!hsdndev!dartvax.dartmouth.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Grounding and lightning protection
To: [e-mail]

     I am going to be installing a VHF/UHF vertical base station
antenna on the roof of my fraternity house in the next week or two.
Before I do, however, I am really interested in learning about what
steps I can take to help protect the house against lightning.  The
antenna is about 7 feet tall and the tip of the antenna will be about
40' off the ground.
     Is there a book or other source of information that someone could
recommend to me?  While I'm not terribly worried about this (there are
plenty of other structures nearby that are a lot taller than 40') I
would like to take whatever reasonable precautions I can.
     Thanks.
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Kenneth E. Harker  N1PVB        Dartmouth College  Amateur Packet Radio
[e-mail]  Hinman Box 1262    [e-mail]
[phone]                  Hanover, NH 03755  or n1pvb-5 on 144.99
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             (PGP Public Key now available on request)

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Date: 11 Mar 1994 02:03:22 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news1.oakland.edu![e-mail]
Subject: ICOM IC-2GAT
To: [e-mail]

I am looking for a good technical person that can help me with my radio.
THE SQL WILL NOT WORK! AND IT IS DRIVING MY CRAZY. All I can hear is a
hummmming and hissssssing noise. However, the radio performs fine with
this problem. Has anyone ever had this problem or even better know what
I can do to correct it?    I would prefer fixing it myself if possible.

Any information would be helpful.

Thanks

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Date: 10 Mar 94 18:36:46 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!piccolo.cit.cornell.edu!crux2![e-mail]
Subject: Need a better antenna for my HT...
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (PaulG105) writes:
B
  Paul,  look at the 73 plans for a portable 2m quad
antenna.I've built one from their plans and it works
GREAT!. Cost me about $6 and lets me hit all the repeaters
around here on low power.
  -Jeff Luszcz
  [e-mail]
  N2TIQ

(sorry about the attribution above to you of my reply,
  my termi is screwed up right now so....)
 73
  -J

>Does anyone have any good antenna plans for a 2m HT???

>Thanks,
>Paul Gaspari
>N3PMH

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 20:11:15 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!att-out!att-in!cbnewsm![e-mail]
Subject: noise blankers
To: [e-mail]

Those of you who have never needed to use the "decorative knob"
labled noise blanker should consider yourselves fortunate.
I find the one on my ts 440 does just fine when some mysterious
noise appears.

Shel Darack  WA2UBK
[e-mail]
.

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 09:23:05 CST
From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
Subject: Post 2430
To: [e-mail]

Sorry gang about that post.  I got confused and by the time I realized
what I had done the message was already posted!!  Oops.  Won't happen
again.  Thanks for being so kind.  Ian

[e-mail]-
The Inquiring Mind BBS, Winnipeg, Manitoba  204 668-8845

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 21:59:58 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!fp2-st-affairs-11.uoregon.edu![e-mail]
Subject: QSL's? VI9XN ZL7FD ZS8MI
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Carole L. Hamilton) wrote:

> Has anyone received QSL cards from the DX operations:
>    VI9XN  December 1993
>    ZL7FD  November 1993
>    ZS8MI  December 1993.

I'm still waiting for my card on ZS8MI and my QSO goes back to May or June
1993.

--
Steve Milewski
[e-mail]
Ham:AA7FL
*** Save the environment - Ship a logger to Japan ***

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 19:10:32 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!serval!fili![e-mail]
Subject: QST review of Dual-Bander HTs
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeffrey D. Angus) writes:
>
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>  > Unfortunately ftp.std.com does not allow anonymous logins!  They expect you to
>  > pay.  No thanks, I'll look elsewhere.
>  >
>  > -Bob Longo
>  > KE6EQY
>
>  Really? When did this happen? Did this happen to you or are you passing on
>  anecdotal information from someone else?
>
>
>
> Amateur: WA6FWI@WA6FWI.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA  |  "You have a flair for adding
>Internet: [e-mail]       |   a fanciful dimension to any
> US Mail: PO Box 4425 Carson, CA 90749   |   story."
>   Phone: [phone]               |            Peking Noodle Co.
>



    This is true!!!  I encountered the same thing.  Use
    world.std.com instead.  It wasn't charging as of yesterday
    and has the exact same stuff as std.com.



        Scott Davis

        EE/CS WSU

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 16:18:19 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!mv!ka1dt.mv.com![e-mail]
Subject: Smith Chart in Postscript
To: [e-mail]

Quite a while ago, someone posted a good Smith Chart as a postscript file.
I've since lost mine, and would like to find it again.

Anyone still got it around??

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Dave Knight                    home -- [e-mail]
                                            work -- [e-mail]

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 18:39:05 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news1.oakland.edu!vela.acs.oakland.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Ten-Tec question
To: [e-mail]

Not to rise to the defense of decorative knobs, but Ten Tec had a wonderful
noise blanker in the old Triton IV series of radios.  In my friend's
1972 Dodge Charger, it dropped 40db over S9 ignition noise to NOTHING!!!

wb8zjl

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Date: 10 Mar 94 20:55:27 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!usc![e-mail]
Subject: Want TM-421A
To: [e-mail]

I am looking for a Kenwood TM-421A, 35watt 440 FM XCVR, in reasonable
condix, for a reasonable price. Email your quote, please. Tnx.

Dick



--
 Richard Mead, Computer Services Engineer           [phone]
 University Computing Services,  University of Southern California
 NET: [e-mail], AmericaOnline: DICKMEAD, Hamradio: WB6NGC@K6VE

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 13:12:23 -0800
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!news.tek.com!cascade.ens.tek.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <2l3nuj$[e-mail]>, <2l7q87$[e-mail]>, <2lnlon$[e-mail]>for-mail
Subject : Re: JARGON

In article <2lnlon$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gregory Lapin) writes:
>>[e-mail] (Jesse L Wei) writes:
>>: Now this is my question:  do hams *ever* talk about anything besides what
>>: kind of rig (s)he's got, ham problems, ham equipment, etc?  As a waiting
>>: (as in for my ticket) prospective, I've liistened to  the local repeaters,
>>: and personally, the conversations seem pretty boring if that's all you
>>: ever talk about.  Have I missed anything? or something?  Is the purpose
>>: of ham radio to talk about the technicalities of it?  I know that the
>>: whole nature of it requires technicality, but isn't there more to
>>: it than that?
>>:
>>: --jesse (still waiting)
>
>Techni-speak (I made it up) can be fun:  Like the time I discussed wire
>antennas for 2 hours with a guy in England who said he lives near G5RV.
>
>Greg KD9AZ

You forgot to mention the guy who calls his wife-mate on two meters to
tell her his will be home in two minutes. Or the average how is the weather,
pain in the back, etc. Most of two meter stuff is like that.

After about a year of being in ham radio, I talked to a guy on 80 meters
that told me about his experiences in the Merchant Marine during WWII. He
got torpedoed twice or three times as I recall. Now that was a more inter-
esting conversation.

When the sunspot cycle was up I used to get on 15 meters and ragchew with
the Europeans. That was alot of fun and you meet some interesting people...
and also work some nice DX.

Terry
KI7M

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 16:47:17 GMT
From: fluke![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <2lmgtm$[e-mail]>y
Subject : Re: Guy Tower with Phillistran Non-metallic ?

In article <2lmgtm$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gary McDuffie Sr) writes:
>half of the top set of guys Phillystran. Does anyone have any good
>ideas of how to join the upper Philly with the lower steel?  Or, is
>this more trouble than it's worth. I already OWN the new steel, and
>I'm trying to save a little $$ on the Philly.

It's easy. You simply use galvanized thimbles and cable clamps. Use 4 clamps
per end for Philly, and 3 per end for steel. This only applies to the new
generation of phillystran. The old type requires the potted end fittings. In
fact normal installation is to use steel ends as a vandalism deterrent.

Once you clamp the phillystran, you put rubber end caps with silicone over
the cut end to keep water from wicking into the phillystran.

--
Chuck Bowden / WB7R / [e-mail] / [phone]
Fluke Corporation / MS 232E / PO Box 9090 / Everett WA 98206-9090

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Date: 10 Mar 1994 20:07:10 GMT
From: swrinde!news.dell.com!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!ecsgate![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>-f
Subject : Re: Ten-Tec question

In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Steve Milewski) writes:

>I've used the noise blanker on my Omni VI to help cut out electric fence
>interference and some engine noise from the log trucks on the fire road
>next to my antenna location.

I took the electric fence in my shack down.  Wouldn't load.

steve
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 13:28:28 GMT
From: amiserv!vpnet!tellab5![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Sound Blaster stupidity

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeffrey Herman) writes:
>
>But keep in mind that they're NOT ads because the item is not for sale
>yet (even though the price was posted for us).
>
>>[e-mail]    Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc.    [phone]
>
>Jeff NH6IL

The amount that I gave is what it cost me to build one 3 years
ago.  I guess I should have elaborated.


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                     Tele [phone]
   Tellabs Operations, Inc.     FAX  [phone]
   1000 Remington Blvd.         [e-mail]
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