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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 94 15:36:20 PDT From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup <info-hams@ucsd.edu> Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #448 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Sat, 23 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 448 Today's Topics: ANARTS RTTY BULLETIN 805 17/04/94 Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for 20 April FT416 and "PO5" Ham radio stores in the Boston area is RS DSP available from Marymac's ? Kenwood TH-78A *OR* Yaesu FT-530 Newbie needs info novice? ped411i.zip - Hams: CW pileup trainer in virtual reality Pet Peeve SS Jeremiah O'Brien Normandy voyage (2 msgs) Send Replies or notes for publication to: <Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu> Send subscription requests to: <Info-Hams-REQUEST@UCSD.Edu> Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". 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: 22 Apr 1994 11:27:45 +1000 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!aun.uninett.no!trane.uninett.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!news.ci.com.au!eram.esi.com.au!not-for-mail@network Subject: ANARTS RTTY BULLETIN 805 17/04/94 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu [ ANARTS - Australian National Amateur Radio Teletype Society ] ANARTS BULLETIN 805 17/04/94 SUNDAY TRANSMISSION SCHEDULES 3.545 MHz 0930 UTC VK2BQS (Jim) 7.045 MHz -3 0030 UTC VK2CTD (Col) 14.070 MHz (amtor/fec) 0030 UTC Not this week. 14.091 MHz 0030 UTC VK2BQS (JIM) 146.675 MHz 0030/0930 UTC VK2JPA (PAT) 144.850 MHz (ax25 bbs) VK2JPA AT VK2RWI 146.675 MHz (rtty mmbbs/repeater) VK2RTY Views expressed in this news bulletin are not necessarily those of the Broadcast Officer, the Relay Officers, or of the Society. Please note -- there will be no FEC relay 17th and 24th April. ------------------------------------------------------------- ARTB032 RESOLUTION GAINS MAJORITY --------------------------------- QST DE W1AW ARRL BULLETIN 32 ARLB032 FROM ARRL HEADQUARTERS NEWINGTON CT APRIL 12, 1994 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS ARLB032 RESOLUTION GAINS MAJORITY THE AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE JOINT RESOLUTION, H. J. RES. 199, NOW HAS A MAJORITY OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AS COSPONSORS. ON APRIL 11, FOUR ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF COSPONSORS BROUGHT THE TOTAL TO 220, (OF WHICH THREE ARE NON VOTING DELEGATES). THE FOUR ARE: REP. JAMES TALENT (R-MO), DEL. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON (D-DC), REP. THOMAS RIDGE (R-PA), AND REP. DON YOUNG (R-AK). THE RESOLUTION SEEKS FORMAL RECOGNITION OF THE VALUE OF AMATEUR RADIO TO THE COUNTRY, WOULD SUPPORT AMATEUR RADIO AS ''NATIONAL POLICY,'' AND WOULD ENCOURAGE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO FACILITATE AMATEUR RADIO AS A PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ENCOURAGING NEW TECHNOLOGIES. INCLUDING RESOLUTION SPONSOR JIM COOPER (D-TN), THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTING SPONSORS IS 218. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 434 REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE. MORE ON THE RESOLUTION AND THE LEAGUE'S EFFORTS IN WASHINGTON WERE IN APRIL QST, PAGES 47 TO 50. (This sounds very interesting. Is it possible to have something similar happen here? The Amateur Service has just proved its worth with the drastic bushfires ... only the Amateurs held the communication systems together on the Central Coast in New South Wales, for instance. Previously Amateurs have helped with the big storms that went through central coastal districts in New South Wales. Maybe the WIA (Federal) could start working in this direction ???) ------------------------------------------- SP DX RTTY Contest April 23-24, 1994 part 2 Sponsored by: Polski Zwiazek Krotkofalowcow (PZK). Organised and run by Polish Radiovideography Club (PKRVG). Multipliers: Count each DXCC country and each SP province on each band. (Band multipliers). Also, each continent (6) will count once, not once per band. Note: CQ zones do not count as multipliers. QSO points: 1. Count 2 (two) points for QSO with your own country. 2. Count 5 (five) points for QSO with countries on your continent. 3. Count 10 (ten) points for QSO with countries not on your continent. Final score: Total QSO points x total multipliers x number of continents (max 6). SWL rules apply as above. Logs: Use separate log sheets for each band. Logs must show Band, Date and Time in UTC, Callsign, Message sent and received, country multiplier and points claimed. Entries with more than 100 QSOs must submit duplicate check sheets. Multiple operator stations should include names and callsigns of all operators. Those submitting logs on disks: please send us your computer disk. IBM, MS-DOS compatible disks are encouraged. The format we prefer is your CT.BIN file, for example; SP2JPG.BIN, or your K1CC.DAT file, or your SP1LOP.DBF files. If you use a different program than mentioned above, the generic format we want is a separate file for each band, containing vertical single column of calls in chronological order. Disqualification: Violation of the rules of the contest or taking credit for incorrect QSOs or multipliers, or duplicate contacts in excess opf 3 per cent of the total made, will be deemed sufficient cause for disqualification. The decisions of the SP DX RTTY Contest Committee are final and not contestable. Deadline: Logs must be received by 15 June 1994 to qualify. An extension may be granted if requested. Mail logs to: CQ SP RVG Test SP DX RTTY Contest Manager Christopher Ulatowski, SP2UUU P.O. Box 2530 81-963 GDYNIA 1 POLAND Please assist this new Contest to get off the ground. (Ed). Good Contesting. IPS weekly report ----------------- 8 April - 14 April 1994 Issue No 15 Date of issue: 15 April 1994 INDICES: Date 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 10cm 073 073 075 074 074 074 079 A 29 39 31 29 23 24 (20 estimated) T 36 18 09 02 12 20 22 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY Solar activity was very low throughout the period. The geomagnetic field at Learmonth (WA) was active on 8th April, Active to minor storm on 9th, unsettled to active with occasional minor storm periods 10th-11th, unsettled to active 12th-13th, and mostly unsettled with brief active to minor storm periods on 14th. Ionospheric F2 critical frequencies at Sydney on 8th were near predicted monthly values. Frequencies then became depressed at times by up to 30 per cent, otherwise near normal, until the end of the period. Spread F and strong sporadic E were observed at times on 11th-12th April. FORECAST FOR THE NEXT WEEK (15 - 21 April) SOLAR: Very low to low GEOMAGNETIC: Unsettled, then coronal hole induced active to minor storm levels are expected to start on 17 April. IONOSPHERIC 20 per cent depressions are expected on 18 April, otherwise near normal to 15 per cent depressed. Courtesy of IPS Radio and Space Services ---------------------------------------- There are neither VK2SG RTTY DX notes or ARRLDX notes available this week due to poor propagation, we presume. Sorry about that, although I have had someone search on the Universities system in the Ham files and the notes are not there either ... So this will be a short broadcast. --------------------------------------- Coming events 1994 April 23rd-24th 1ST WW SPDX RTTY Contest May 14th-15th Volta RTTY WW Contest Paper for Teleprinters ---------------------- Please, PLEASE, does anyone want some teleprinter paper, I have boxes of it. It is triplex paper (three sheets of paper, two sheets of carbon paper), you can have it for the cost of freight (you pay the freight). This paper will work in any pressure machine, or even typewriters, no good for tractor machines. When you unroll it you finish up with three rolls of paper and two rolls of carbon paper. The paper you can use, the carbon -- well you can give it to the children to mess up the house. Don't worry about the amount you want, I have enough. Contact Syd VK2SG, phone 02-631 2576 or ok in the call book. --------------------------------------- Society information The Society may be contacted at : PO Box 860, Crows Nest 2065 Australia, for such matters as membership and general enquiries. Enquiries can also be made by packet to the President (Col) VK2CTD, or the Secretary (Pat) VK2JPA @ VK2RWI or whatever substitute is being used at present. News items may be sent to Broadcast Officer PO Box 60 Blacktown 2148 Australia, or by packet to VK2JPA @ VK2RWI. Email address for the Broadcast Officer is : patl@conmusic.pitt.su.oz.au The Society welcomes news items on any digital subjects from anywhere in the broadcast footprint. We know we reach ZL and sundry South Pacific islands. We are looking forward to news from your areas to let other amateurs know what you are doing in the hobby. Hope to hear from you. 73s de Pat VK2JPA Broadcast Officer That concludes the ANARTS BULLETIN 805 17/4/04/94. Inserted by VK2BQS Jim, ANARTS Vice-President. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2AAB.NSW.AUS.OC PGP 2.3 dave@esi.COM.AU ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave available ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 22:14:07 MDT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for 20 April To: info-hams@ucsd.edu /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ DAILY SUMMARY OF SOLAR GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY 20 APRIL, 1994 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (Based In-Part On SESC Observational Data) SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY INDICES FOR 20 APRIL, 1994 --------------------------------------------------------- !!BEGIN!! (1.0) S.T.D. Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for DAY 110, 04/20/94 10.7 FLUX=086.2 90-AVG=094 SSN=041 BKI=3334 2211 BAI=011 BGND-XRAY=A5.5 FLU1=5.7E+05 FLU10=1.4E+04 PKI=3333 2212 PAI=010 BOU-DEV=035,032,030,043,015,015,006,008 DEV-AVG=023 NT SWF=00:000 XRAY-MAX= B6.1 @ 1836UT XRAY-MIN= A4.6 @ 2120UT XRAY-AVG= A8.7 NEUTN-MAX= +002% @ 2320UT NEUTN-MIN= -002% @ 2055UT NEUTN-AVG= +0.1% PCA-MAX= -0.7DB @ 2310UT PCA-MIN= -1.4DB @ 2355UT PCA-AVG= -1.1DB BOUTF-MAX=55336NT @ 0313UT BOUTF-MIN=55309NT @ 1939UT BOUTF-AVG=55326NT GOES7-MAX=P:+000NT@ 0000UT GOES7-MIN=N:+000NT@ 0000UT G7-AVG=+079,+000,+000 GOES6-MAX=P:+125NT@ 1840UT GOES6-MIN=N:-075NT@ 0343UT G6-AVG=+098,+027,-038 FLUXFCST=STD:125,130,130;SESC:125,130,130 BAI/PAI-FCST=010,010,010/010,012,018 KFCST=2225 4221 2225 4221 27DAY-AP=016,013 27DAY-KP=4325 4222 3233 3333 WARNINGS= ALERTS= !!END-DATA!! NOTE: The Effective Sunspot Number for 19 APR 94 is not available. The Full Kp Indices for 19 APR 94 are: 5- 3- 4- 4- 2+ 2o 3- 3- The 3-Hr Ap Indices for 19 APR 94 are: 38 14 24 23 10 8 12 12 Greater than 2 MeV Electron Fluence for 20 APR is: 3.0E+08 SYNOPSIS OF ACTIVITY -------------------- Solar activity was very low. The largest flare of the past 24 hours was a B6/SF at 20/1836Z in Region 7701 (N07W00). This region has shown growth in white light. Region 7704 (N08E65) is still a small H-type group and has not flared since yesterday. Solar activity forecast: solar activity is expected to be very low to low. A small C-class flare is possible in Region 7701 or Region 7704. The geomagnetic field was quiet to active. Geophysical activity forecast: the geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled. Event probabilities 21 apr-23 apr Class M 01/01/01 Class X 01/01/01 Proton 01/01/01 PCAF Green Geomagnetic activity probabilities 21 apr-23 apr A. Middle Latitudes Active 35/15/15 Minor Storm 15/10/10 Major-Severe Storm 05/05/05 B. High Latitudes Active 30/15/15 Minor Storm 20/10/10 Major-Severe Storm 10/05/05 HF propagation conditions were near-normal over all regions today. Transpolar and transauroral circuits experienced occassional minor signal degradation during the local night hours. No changes are expected for these regions and near-normal propagation should persist over the next 48 to 72 hours. COPIES OF JOINT USAF/NOAA SESC SOLAR GEOPHYSICAL REPORTS ======================================================== REGIONS WITH SUNSPOTS. LOCATIONS VALID AT 20/2400Z APRIL -------------------------------------------------------- NMBR LOCATION LO AREA Z LL NN MAG TYPE 7701 N07W00 117 0130 CSO 05 004 BETA 7702 S12E08 109 0010 BXO 09 005 BETA 7704 N08E65 052 0040 HRX 02 002 ALPHA 7703 N09E18 099 PLAGE REGIONS DUE TO RETURN 21 APRIL TO 23 APRIL NMBR LAT LO NONE LISTING OF SOLAR ENERGETIC EVENTS FOR 20 APRIL, 1994 ---------------------------------------------------- BEGIN MAX END RGN LOC XRAY OP 245MHZ 10CM SWEEP NONE POSSIBLE CORONAL MASS EJECTION EVENTS FOR 20 APRIL, 1994 -------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN MAX END LOCATION TYPE SIZE DUR II IV NO EVENTS OBSERVED INFERRED CORONAL HOLES. LOCATIONS VALID AT 20/2400Z --------------------------------------------------- ISOLATED HOLES AND POLAR EXTENSIONS EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH CAR TYPE POL AREA OBSN 76 N48W38 S10W68 N03W83 N50W45 177 ISO POS 025 10830A SUMMARY OF FLARE EVENTS FOR THE PREVIOUS UTC DAY ------------------------------------------------ Date Begin Max End Xray Op Region Locn 2695 MHz 8800 MHz 15.4 GHz ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ------ ------ --------- --------- --------- 19 Apr: 1145 1153 1156 SF 7702 S14E27 1241 1247 1255 B1.6 SF 7701 N08E21 1622 1700 1716 C2.1 2N N08E85 B1650 U1659 1705 SF 7702 S13E25 1718 1724 1731 SF 7701 N08E19 1942 1948 2001 B2.2 2303 2311 2323 B1.1 REGION FLARE STATISTICS FOR THE PREVIOUS UTC DAY ------------------------------------------------ C M X S 1 2 3 4 Total (%) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- ------ Region 7701: 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 002 (28.6) Region 7702: 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 002 (28.6) Uncorrellated: 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 003 (42.9) Total Events: 007 optical and x-ray. EVENTS WITH SWEEPS AND/OR OPTICAL PHENOMENA FOR THE LAST UTC DAY ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date Begin Max End Xray Op Region Locn Sweeps/Optical Observations ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ------ ------ --------------------------- 19 Apr: 1622 1700 1716 C2.1 2N N08E85 III,V,Loop 1942 1948 2001 B2.2 III NOTES: All times are in Universal Time (UT). Characters preceding begin, max, and end times are defined as: B = Before, U = Uncertain, A = After. All times associated with x-ray flares (ex. flares which produce associated x-ray bursts) refer to the begin, max, and end times of the x-rays. Flares which are not associated with x-ray signatures use the optical observations to determine the begin, max, and end times. Acronyms used to identify sweeps and optical phenomena include: II = Type II Sweep Frequency Event III = Type III Sweep IV = Type IV Sweep V = Type V Sweep Continuum = Continuum Radio Event Loop = Loop Prominence System, Spray = Limb Spray, Surge = Bright Limb Surge, EPL = Eruptive Prominence on the Limb. ** End of Daily Report ** ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 94 15:37:03 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!hopper.acm.org!ACM.ORG!SMITHSON@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: FT416 and "PO5" To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Just curious if anyone knows what the "PO5" on the front of the radio means. No reference in the manual. 73! -Brian n8wrl smithson@acm.org ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 1994 18:22:39 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu!yee@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Ham radio stores in the Boston area To: info-hams@ucsd.edu This is rather short notice but it turns out that I will be in Boston in two days (i.e. April 23, 1994) and will have a few hours to kill. Can anybody recommend 1) a ham radio store to go to or 2) a surplus electronics outfit? Thanks. -- Medical Image Processing Group | Conway Yee, N2JWQ 411 Blockley Hall | EMAIL : yee@mipg.upenn.edu 418 Service Drive | VOICE : 1 (215) 662-6780 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 (USA) | FAX : 1 (215) 898-9145 ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 1994 02:16:46 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!jxs18@network.ucsd.edu Subject: is RS DSP available from Marymac's ? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I am interested in buying the Radio Shack DSP. Is it available from Marymac's with their usual 10% off list price (no tax and includes shipping) ? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 13:04:25 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Kenwood TH-78A *OR* Yaesu FT-530 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <9403207668.AA766857282@smtpgty.anatcp.rockwell.com> William_A._Kirsanoff@smtpgty.anatcp.rockwell.COM (William A. Kirsanoff) writes: > >As I noted >above, I use the CTCSS feature to mitigate the intermod. Note that CTCSS >does delay the squelch opening about half a second, so those who quick-key >get the beginning of their sentences clipped. This is a chronic problem with Kenwood CTCSS circuits in both their handhelds and their mobiles. Other brands don't have this slow CTCSS detect problem. The only people I ever hear complaining about missing the beginnings of transmissions on my repeater, CTCSS in and out, are Kenwood owners. I had one fellow tell me that the first letter of the CW ID on the repeater was missing because his Kenwood never unsquelched fast enough to let him hear it. The repeater's CTCSS circuit is very fast, actually appears quicker than the carrier squelch, and the CTCSS decoders in my Yaesu and Alinco radios never miss the first part of anyone's transmissions. This is a Kenwood exclusive design defect. (One of many IMHO.) 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 | | ------------------------------ Date: 20 Apr 94 23:42:16 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!portal.gmu.edu!news@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: Newbie needs info To: info-hams@ucsd.edu As a teenager I did my bit on AM and FM using EL 6146s (if I remember correctly, or may be 4146s. It's been a loooong time). I would like to start once again; I have severed though my ties with radio almost completely. These days I just breath, eat, think Software Requirements :-) Can someone point me to the right direction? FAQ, sources, .... Since I am trying to finish my dissertation I won't be looking around for answers, so any e-mail that kind souls out there would send would be very much appreciated. Thanks is advance John Savvidis isavvidi@gmuvax.gmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 04:52:59 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!cslye@network.ucsd.edu Subject: novice? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I am wondering if I will be able to use 2 meter with only a novice permit? I want to go for tech, but just wondering if it is worth it.. Since I only plan on using 2meter... Also is there a quiz type program out there for a mac or IBM (or even unix, this way I can use it with out having to run dosemu :) Is there a internet site with alot of stuff on it that would have this sort of thing? -- cslye@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 94 07:58:31 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!simtel.coast.net!msdos-ann-request@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: ped411i.zip - Hams: CW pileup trainer in virtual reality To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I have uploaded to the SimTel Software Repository (available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors): pub/msdos/hamradio/ ped411i.zip Hams: CW pileup trainer in virtual reality PED is a pileup trainer for IBM PC and Sound Blaster users. You can run a 9 station pileup as long as you like. 18 stations when using Sound Blaster PRO or Pro Audio Spectrum 16! 1 station with beep sound for users without sound card. New super pileup mode supported. ped.txt README file ped.jpn Japanese version of ped.txt (may not make sense on your DOS) ped.exe Executable wwph.ped Data file japanint.ped Data file Author: MasIII H. Kozu (JE3MAS) Room 906, 10-20, Chuo 3-chome, Joto-ku, Osaka, 536, Japan Internet: KHD00751@niftyserve.or.jp FreeWare. Uploaded upon request from the author. masa // JH3PRR // kitagawa@ee.ES.Osaka-U.AC.JP Masahiro Kitagawa // Electrical Eng., Engineering Science, Osaka Univ. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 01:33:40 GMT From: nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!arm@uunet.uu.net Subject: Pet Peeve To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <CoMH3v.ID2@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> alanb@sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom) writes: >Andrew Mitz (arm@helix.nih.gov) wrote: > >: You have hit one of my pet peeves squarely on the head. If I have >: asked for information on speech recognition and I get 1) outdated >: (thus ill-informed) opinions about speech technology, > >Well, I'm not an expert on speech-recognition technology, but based on >the reading I do in technical publications, I expect you will be >disappointed if you depend on it as a way to send Morse code. >While there has been remarkable progress in recent years in the field, >I believe practical commercial applications are still limited to >recognizing specific words or phrases. And even that requires training >to a specific speaker's voice characteristics. The most advanced >systems are pushing at the problem of general-purpose speech >recognition, but the problem is not yet solved, at least using hardware >that you could afford. Well, that is a few years old. With the introduction and improvement of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) method of recognition, all three elements of reconition have improved (vocabulary size, parsing continuous speech, and speaker independence/noise immunity). Depending upon who's implementation of HMM you choose, you can run 2000 word vocabulary continuous independent speaker recognition on a PC, or much larger speaker-dependent vocabularies. In this case speaker-dependent is prefered. Some of the speaker-dependent systems (we are still talking PC, e.g. 486 with 8 Meg memory) begin with a restricted vocabulary for a new user, then build a model of that user automatically over time. This avoids specific training. >If there's more recent progress that I'm not aware of, I would be glad >if someone could give me a reference. The best article I have seen is in the most recent issue of Computer Design. At the end they list 8 or 9 companies that sell speech recognition products. I have been calling and asking for literature the past few days, but still hope someone out in computer land has prior experience. > >By the way, if you ask for advice, please don't get mad if you don't get >the answer you want. People tend to get gun-shy about posting when they >get flamed for trying to help. Sorry, just a pet peeve... -- andy -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Mitz, Biomedical Eng., Nationl Institutes | Opinions are mine alone of Health Animal Center, Poolesville, MD | arm@helix.nih.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 17:29:55 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcom3!faunt@network.ucsd.edu Subject: SS Jeremiah O'Brien Normandy voyage To: info-hams@ucsd.edu More info 210430ZM 29.20N 116.15W crs 165deg spd 12.5knots There's an info hotline at 415-616-9015, which says among other things, that radiotelegrams can be sent to people on the O'Brien by call KFS at 415-762-6588. 73, doug ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 1994 18:53:21 -0700 From: nntp.crl.com!crl2.crl.com!not-for-mail@decwrl.dec.com Subject: SS Jeremiah O'Brien Normandy voyage To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604 (faunt@netcom3.netcom.com) wrote: : More info : 210430ZM 29.20N 116.15W crs 165deg spd 12.5knots : There's an info hotline at 415-616-9015, which says among other : things, that radiotelegrams can be sent to people on the O'Brien by : call KFS at 415-762-6588. : 73, doug --- WRONG!!! THE NUMBER FOR RADIO STATION KFS IS 415-726-6588 WE ARE OPEN 24 HOURS 7DAYS. PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECT NUMBER! THANKS 73'S DE KFS ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #448 ******************************