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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 94 14:40:30 PDT
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Info-Hams Digest            Sun, 10 Apr 94       Volume 94 : Issue  400

Today's Topics:
                                  73
                        Anyone Bicycle Mobile?
                       Delivery Failure Report
                          EME + PC + ROTATOR
                         FCC Delays (2 msgs)
           how's FM broadcast for freq. standard? (3 msgs)
                    Logging program for Macintosh
                      Low cost antenna required
                           Q: ICOM ICM 700
                     SAREX Update & Keps 4/10/94
                        Undeliverable Message
                        WWV Antennas (2 msgs)

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 16:11:02 -0400
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: 73
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Greg Bullough) writes:

>Who careses anyways????
Maybe your English teacher!

73sss de John KA3DBN

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 10:06:13 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: Anyone Bicycle Mobile?
To: [e-mail]

>I hope to be bicycle mobile on 2 meters this summer. Any suggestions on
>equipment and antennas would be most welcome.
>--
>Michael J. Malloy                          Amateur Radio N9WJV
>Medical College of Wisconsin               Compuserve 70334,3563
>Milwaukee, Wisconsin                       Internet [e-mail]
>
>

I used to use a 5/8 mounted on a plate on a rear carrier. It worked quite
well. You will need a large batter for power or your time will be linited.
I would get one of the vox capable hts and you are going to have fun
getting a headset to work with a helmet. It is a blast though. It tests
your conditioning too. My voice would change a little into the wind up a
hill. :-)
                   Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
                   "Bailar es Vivir"
                   PGP2.3 key at key servers or upon request

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Date: 10 Apr 94 16:53:08 GMT
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Subject: Delivery Failure Report
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 19:16:13 +0000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!warwick!uknet!demon!kanga.demon.co.uk![e-mail]
Subject: EME + PC + ROTATOR
To: [e-mail]

Hi Gang,
I have a PC and a pair of K400 rotators
(ele + az) looking for some software
do drive these for EME work, any ideas?
TTFN

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 20:47:22 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!blackhole.delmarva.com!blackhole.delmarva.com![e-mail]
Subject: FCC Delays
To: [e-mail]

Anyone have a feel for how long licenses take to get from FCC Gettysburg?
Last I heard it was 10 weeks :-(

I passed my Tech this morning ( and bought some code practice stuff :-)
The VEC said (jokingly, I hope!) that I could be up to 20 wpm by the time
I see a license.

    - John

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 21:26:55 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cesn5.cen.uiuc.edu![e-mail]
Subject: FCC Delays
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (John K Scoggin Jr) writes:

>Anyone have a feel for how long licenses take to get from FCC Gettysburg?
>Last I heard it was 10 weeks :-(
>
>I passed my Tech this morning ( and bought some code practice stuff :-)
>The VEC said (jokingly, I hope!) that I could be up to 20 wpm by the time
>I see a license.

>    - John

>---

Good Luck!  I took my exam back on Feb. 12 in central Illinois hoping to
get my callsign by Hamvention (Last weekend in April).  I have heard recently
that some ppl have waited up to 13 wks for there callsign.

Still hoping to get it in time

    ------- Melissia

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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 14:24:33 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv![e-mail]
Subject: how's FM broadcast for freq. standard?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Lyle Kraft) writes:
>
>    Unless someone can correct me,  I believe FM broadcast is allowed
>    +/- 2KHz.  Same for broadcast TV audio/video.  AM broadcasters are
>    allowed +/- 20Hz.  Nowadays with the availability of cheap, accurate
>    freq. counters I'm sure they're all much closer than this.

No, it's half that amount. FM and TV tolerance is +/- 1000 Hz, AM is
+/- 10 Hz. As to your latter comment, don't bet on it. The rules now
only require checking frequency once a month.

Gary
--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 14:19:17 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv![e-mail]
Subject: how's FM broadcast for freq. standard?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alan Bloom) writes:
>Tom Randolph ([e-mail]) wrote:
>
>:I just acquired one of the Optoelectronics 1200 MHz handheld freq counters. In
>:looking for a simple, cheap way to calibrate it, I note that it picks up the
>:nearby FM broadcast station as 107.2999 MHz when I connect a rubber duck. how
>:close can I assume those guys are? The way the counter is set up, the higher
>:the standard freq, the better your calibration. Zero-beating WWV won't get me
>:as close as something less definitive at 100 MHz or higher.
>:-Tom R.   N1OOQ   [e-mail]
>
>Why not call up the broadcast station and ask them?  Ask to speak to the
>chief engineer.

He probably won't know. Ask for the operator on duty, he can give you
moment by moment readings off his display, if he still has one. Note
that FM broadcasters only have to maintain a tolerance of +/- 1000 Hz from
their assigned frequency.  Note also that their assigned frequency may
have up to a 10 kHz offset from normal channel center if they're close
spaced with another station. So *ask* what their nominal carrier frequency
is, don't assume its the nominal channel center.

The same goes for TV broadcast. Note too that we aren't required to
maintain a Type Accepted frequency monitor anymore, and only have
to have our transmitters checked once a month for compliance to the
+/- 1000 Hz rule, sometimes with an Opto counter. :-(

Go with zero beating WWV.

Gary
--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 14:31:34 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv![e-mail]
Subject: how's FM broadcast for freq. standard?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Silva) writes:
>In article <2o4h56$[e-mail]>, Ken A. Nishimura ([e-mail]) writes:
>>
>...stuff deleted...
>
>>Most FM stations use a FLL to keep their transmitters on frequency by
>>dividing their output frequency by some factor and comparing that
>>with a known accurate lower frequency reference.  Note that dividing
>>a FM signal also divides the deviation index by the division ratio.
>>Thus, by dividing by 5 or so, the FM signal can be guaranteed not
>>to exceed a deviation of 2.405, and the carrier never disappears and
>>will always be of proper phase, assuming that the signal corresponds...
>>
>
>You're not saying they use their *modulated* signal as the input to
>their frequency comparator, are you?  That would cause the carrier to to
>re-modulate itself to cancel out it's original modulation as it tried
>to stay on center frequency!  If you tried to pick out just the
>carrier in a divided-by-five signal you'd need a bandwidth of less than
>10Hz (at approx. 20MHz), and, dividing or not, you'd end up with a
>uselessly small capture range.

No. All you need is a low pass filter in the PLL error loop with a
cutoff of less than 10 Hz. Since many transmitters *modulate* the
transmit VCO, there's no point where you can get carrier without
modulation in the transmitter. This is the same way your synthesized
2 meter HT works. It doesn't have a narrow bandwidth filter to
"pick out" the carrier either, just a low pass response in the error
feedback network so it smooths out *long term* frequency error, but
not the audio modulation.

Gary
--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 13:44:03 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: Logging program for Macintosh
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
writes:

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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 14:32:23 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv![e-mail]
Subject: Low cost antenna required
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>I require some info on designing a low cost antenna to rural communities
>where signal levels are fairly low. Thus a low cost outdoor antenna is
>required.

What frequency?

Gary

--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 14:38:24 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de![e-mail]
Subject: Q: ICOM ICM 700
To: [e-mail]

Hi there !

anbody out there had experience modifying an ICOM ICM 700
for use as an amateur RX/TX ?

thanks, wolfgang

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Date: 10 Apr 94 16:17:33 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SAREX Update & Keps 4/10/94
To: [e-mail]

SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-59.009
SAREX Update & Keps 4/10/94

Greenbelt, MD, April 10, 1994 at 16:00 UTC

After the successful check pass yesterday, the SAREX Working Group has had
several reports of packet radio operation and some general voice QSO
operation during the Shuttle passes over the U.S.  In addition, the
St. Bernard High School in Playa Del Rey, CA had a very excellent school
group pass this morning (Rev 19).  A total of seven questions were asked
by the students.

The official SAREX element set for today will be GSFC-007.  This
element sent was generated by Ron Parise, WA4SIR of the Goddard Space
Flight Center.  Gil Carman, WA5NOM reports that the predictions using
GSFC-007 differed from JSC-009 by approximately 20 seconds.  GSFC-007
follows:


 STS-59
 1 23042U 94020A   94100.26164012 0.00018681  11051-4  10679-4 0    75
 2 23042  56.9969 260.0497 0009381 274.0340  85.9677 16.20558915   145

 Satellite: STS-59
 Catalog number: 23042
 Epoch time:      94100.26164012         (10 APR 94   06:16:45.71 UTC)
 Element set:     GSFC-007
 Inclination:       56.9969 deg
 RA of node:       260.0497 deg          Space Shuttle Flight STS-59
 Eccentricity:    0.0009381                  Keplerian Elements
 Arg of perigee:   274.0340 deg
 Mean anomaly:      85.9677 deg
 Mean motion:   16.20558915 rev/day      Semi-major Axis: 6596.1671 Km
 Decay rate:       0.19E-03 rev/day*2    Apogee  Alt:        223.97 Km
 Epoch rev:              14              Perigee Alt:        211.59 Km


 NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 007.
        The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
        node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
        into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.

Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO for the SAREX Working Group

/EX

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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 20:43:54 +0000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!llondel.demon.co.uk![e-mail]
Subject: Undeliverable Message
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>To:            [e-mail]
>Cc:
>Subject:       Info-Hams Digest V94 #396
>
>Message not delivered to recipients below.  Press F1 for help with VNM
>error codes.
>
>    VNM3043:  Todd [e-mail]@PWC.HDQ
>
>------------------  Error number Explanation Follows -------------------
>
>VNM3043 -- MAILBOX IS FULL.
>
>   The message cannot be delivered because the
>   recipient's mailbox contains the maximum number of
>   messages, as set by the system administrator.  The
>   recipient must delete some messages before any
>   other messages can be delivered.
>
>   The default limit is 1000 messages.  Administrators
>   can set lower limits if required using the Change
>   mailbox settings function available in the Manage
>   User menu (MUSER).  The 1000 message limit is the
>   maximum allowed by the Mail program.  If this limit
>   is reached, the recipient must delete some of
>   the messages before the mailbox can accept any more
>   incoming messages.

Oh well, at least it makes a change from the usual 'unknown host' problems.
Catch is, you can 't send him an email to tell him his mailbox is full :-)

Dave
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Date: 10 Apr 94 21:03:54 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: WWV Antennas
To: [e-mail]

Text item: Text_1

> But WWV is using just vertical dipoles (not phased, as with WWVH). There
> are certainly higher gain antennas than a dipole that will still retain
> an omnidirectional `orientation'.  Jeff NH6IL

Hello again, Jeff.  My point is that one cannot change the gain of an
antenna system without changing the radiation pattern.  In that
process, while Hawaii may enjoy an increase in signal level,
Arizona may suffer a decrease in signal level.  Who's going to
be forced to suffer because of the antenna system change?

73, KG7BK, [e-mail]  (I do not speak for Intel)

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Date: 10 Apr 1994 21:25:49 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!kabuki.EECS.Berkeley.EDU![e-mail]
Subject: WWV Antennas
To: [e-mail]

I think that people are applying 2-D thinking to a 3-D
world.  There are two main ways of getting "gain", both
of which involve concentrating power in one direction
at the expense of another.  WWVH uses what is known
as a broadside or endfire (can't remember which it was
from the description) array of vertical dipoles to create
a pattern, which when viewed from above, appears to
concentrate its power to the west.

However, there is another way to concentrate power, which
is what most FM broadcast stations do.  If you look at
a single dipole vertically oriented, you will see that it
has a omni pattern viewed from above.  Fine.  If you
now view it from the ground, a lot of power goes up into the air,
some of it at nearly 90 degrees to the ground.  (An ideal
dipole has a null at 90 deg.)  Now, recall what you learned
about HF propogation.  Power that is sent nearly straight
up has a much lower chance of skipping (being refracted) than
one with a low angle of incidence.  Thus, that power is most likely
being wasted.  A stacked dipole of proper phasing (two dipoles
on top of another) can use constructive interference to put more
power closer to the horizon rather than up in the air.
This puts more power into the low angles of incidence which are
much more likely to be refracted and/or reflected back down
to earth.  Note, however, that the omni pattern as viewed
from above is NOT disturbed.  This is how one gets "omni"
gain.  FM broadcasters do this to put as much power as
possible into the horizon.  Not much advertising potential high
up in the air.....


Ken

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Date: (null)
From: (null)
*** Logging ***
<Ham Radio Station Logbook>
 HyperCard stack that stores and displays radio contact information.
Automatically stamps entries with time and date. Contacts can be sorted by
frequency, call sign, or date of contact. Includes report formats, a "Q-code"
reference list, and on-line help.  SanSoft, 892 E. Quail Place, Highlands
Ranch, CO 80126. (The same program appears to be available from Heizer
Software, 1941 Oak Park Blvd., Suite 30, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523.)

<FDLog!>
 Contact logging and duping program. Can transmit any of ten programmable CW
messages. Generates real-time statistics on QSO rates.  System One Control,
3900 85th Ave N, Suite 200, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443.

<MacContest 3.5>
 Allows real-time or post-contest logging of a wide variety of contests. Checks
for dupes, figures scores instantly, and offers various printouts. Interfaces
to TNCs for CW and RTTY contests, to DX packet clusters, to Kenwood
transceivers, and to MacinTalk for easy post-contest entry.  Gerald Eberle,
HB9CEY, P.O. Box 13, CH-4417 Ziefen, Switzerland.

<LOGic>
 (Macintosh version scheduled.) Lets you define the rules determining dupes
(such as once per band or once per contest). Displays heading, distance, and
other information about the country being worked. Automatically enters contact
time; if interfaced directly to a radio, also enters the frequency, band, and
mode.  Shows status toward earning amateur-radio awards. User-definable
database fields. Exchanges data with other programs.  Personal Database
Applications, 2634 Meadow Bend Court, Duluth, GA 30136.

<HF Logger 1.2>
 A real fine HyperCard logging program! (hey... thats all I got!) N0QGQ

<Simple Log .2b>
 This little utility is a handy way to create a logging file that you can later
import into any data base for analysis, etc. It also shows you that just about
anyone can use Think C and create something on the Mac! Let me know if you'd
like the source code. WD1V @ WA1WOK.NH.USA.NA Author is John Seney - WD1V,
e-mail address is [e-mail]. For a copy of this program, mail a SASE disk
mailer and 800K disk to: John D. Seney, WD1V, 144 Pepperidge Dr., Manchester,
NH 03103
 System 7

<Marathon>
 Contesting/logging- Have seen references to (March 92 CQ magazine) and heard
good things about MARATHON by N 0 IOS. I believe a demo was available for $8.
Last address known is: Kevin Krueger, N0IOS, 1780 Ruth St., St.Paul, MN  551O9

73 for now.... c u on the shortwaves
Terry Stader - KA8SCP
America Online Ham Radio Club Host
Macintosh Amateur Radio Software List Maintainer
Internet: [e-mail] (files <28K)  or
          [e-mail] ( files >28K)
KA8SCP@WA1PHY.#EMA.MA.USA.NOAM
[e-mail] [44.56.4.82] Mac
[e-mail] [44.56.4.120] DOS Clone
(they're BOTH pc's!)

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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 14:37:11 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: how's FM broadcast for freq. standard?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jim Duncan) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alan Bloom) writes:
>>Why not call up the broadcast station and ask them?  Ask to speak to the
>>chief engineer.
>>
>Most FM stations, including mine, that use recent FM exciters typically
>end up being +/-100 Hz. of the exact assigned carrier frequency.  So
>this would work out to roughly 1 ppm. accuracy.  You can't take this
>totally for granted, of course, since the FCC requires only +/- 2 kHz..

Around here, I am unhappy to report that there are a lot of stations that
just barely meet the +/- 2 kHz requirement and at least one that doesn't.
(Admittedly one of them is using a 1952 vintage RCA exciter that was designed
originally for the 40 MHz band, which RCA resold as an 88 MHz exciter by
replacing the final 6146 stage with a frequency doubler, and as a result
the drift is multiplied).

Most of the stations out here in rural VA don't have engineers on-staff
any longer, and they only fix things when they become catastrophically
broken.  This does not tend to result in the best quality signal making
it out over the air.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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