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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #449
- To: Info-Hams
-
-
- Info-Hams Digest Sat, 23 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 449
-
- Today's Topics:
- Acceptable use of HAM radio (2 msgs)
- Confiscated HT
- dual band: is (one of) Yaesu, Icom, or Kenwood a good choice?
- HF/6M USED RIG PRICE SURVEY
- HTX-202
- Jeremiah O'brien 22 Apr
- Missing: Good HF Propagation
- Propagation is back!
- rec.radio.amateur.vhf.plus (?)
- The Confiscated HT Story (was Illinois anti scanner legisla)
-
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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: 22 Apr 1994 12:39:24 -0700
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!ctp.org!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Acceptable use of HAM radio
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Is it proper and legal to use Amateur Radio for the following:
-
- 1: My church (non-profit) is having a picnic. Can a few of us HAM's who
- belong use our HT's (at low level, simplex of course) to help coordinate
- the event?
-
- Steven Adams
- sadams@ctp.org
-
- --
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Apr 94 02:41:06 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: Acceptable use of HAM radio
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Steven Adams <sadams@eis.calstate.edu> writes:
-
- >1: My church (non-profit) is having a picnic. Can a few of us HAM's who
- >belong use our HT's (at low level, simplex of course) to help coordinate
- >the event?
-
- Yes you can, assuming your church is not paying you to act as its
- radio operator.
-
- ..Neil, N3DF
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 1994 12:44:15 -0700
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!ctp.org!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Confiscated HT
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- If my HT had an extended tx and I had use of a comercial freq. through my
- business (We have a repeater set up around 452 mhz), could I use my HT
- to communicate through the repeater (legally)??
-
- If no...Why not??
- As long as I don't tx out of bounds, have the correct PL set- what's the
- harm?
-
- Steven Adams
- sadams@ctp.org
- --
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 23 Apr 94 13:21:00 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!iat.holonet.net!kbsbbs!clinton.peebles@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: dual band: is (one of) Yaesu, Icom, or Kenwood a good choice?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- To: pone@renzland.org
-
- P>Hi. I'd appreciate some pointers as far as the relative quality of dual band
- P>handheld transceivers. I've seen units by Yaesu, Kenwood, and Icom (the FT-
- P>0,
- P>TH78A, and IC-W2AT). And I was wondering if there were significant differenc
-
- I have an ICOM W21AT and it's great. With a keyboard mod., it can
- receive from 50MHz - 999MHz. Will work as a cross-band repeater, you
- can monitor 2m/2m, 2m/70cm, or 70cm/70cm. Great little radio. The
- March/94 issue of QST did a review of dual band hand helds.
-
- * QMPro 1.52 * No, I'm NOT an Extended Character.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 94 21:19:14 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!biosci!barrnet.net!informix.com!informix.com!informix.com!randall@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: HF/6M USED RIG PRICE SURVEY
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- USED HF & 6m RIG PRICE SURVEY
- 22 Apr 1994 Version
-
- Here is a list of actual transactions involving buying
- and selling of used HF amateur radios.
-
- I have absolutely no affiliation with any ham-radio-related
- business. Rigs are sorted by maker, model, and price. All
- transactions were made within the past three years. I welcome
- any additional responses; please indicate maker and model of
- your used rig, date bought/sold, how sold (Usenet, retailer,
- on air, private, etc.), price, condition, and any accessories
- or options. This survey is limited to used HF and 6m rigs only.
- For prices on new rigs, consult the AES catalog, or call a
- ham retailer for a quote. ("List" prices are usually much
- higher than actual quoted prices.)
-
-
- Make Model How Sold Price(US$) Extras Comment
- ----- ---- -------- ---------- ------ -------
-
- ATLAS
-
- 210X OnAir $150 None Good condn,6/93
-
- COBRA
-
- 148 Hamfest Foothl $70 None CB convrtd to 10m
-
- COLLINS
-
- 75S3B/32S1 Usenet $500 Spkr,PS good condn
-
- DRAKE
-
- TR-3 Retailer $300 None fair condn
- TR-5 Internet $300 CW flt,PS good condn
- TR-4 Hamfest Foothl $275 spkr,mic,PS fair condn
- TR-4 Hamfest Foothl $300 spkr,mic,PS fair condn
- R-4C/T-4C OnAir $200 PS,VFO separate rcvr/xmtr
- fair condn
- TR-7 Usenet $600 3 flt, PS good condn
-
- HEATHKIT
-
- HW-8 Hamfest $75 none no manual,need align
- HW-8 Hamfest $80 none needed work,4/94
- HW-8 Hamfest Evnsvl $115 PS good condn
- HW-101 Private $125 CW flt,mic,PS,spkr good condn
- HW-101 Private $150 CW flt,mic,PS,spkr good condn
- HW-101 Usenet $200 CW flt,mnl,PS,spkr needed some work,3/92
- Mohawk/Mrdr Private $80 mic,mnl TX/RX pair,1960,7/93
- SB-101 Usenet $110 CW flt good condn
- SB-104A Private $150 VFO,PS,mic,mnl needed work,7/93
- SB-200 Private $200 none good condn,10/93
- SB-200 YelloSht $325 New tubes good condn
- SB-300/400 Usenet $125 CW/AM flt,spkr,mnl poor condn,4/92
- SB-300/400 Usenet $225 CW/AM flt,spkr,mnl good condn,5/93
- SB-303 Usenet $100 Cw flt, manual rcvr, good c, 8/92
-
- HALLICRAFTERS
-
- S-19 Private $95 None good con, 6/92
- S-38 Hamfest $35 None good con, 6/92
- S-120 Usenet $60 None good con, 6/92
- SX-42 Usenet $135 None fair con, 6/92
- SX-101 Hamfest $160 None good con, 6/92
- SX-110 Usenet $85 None good con, 6/92
-
- HAMMERLUND
-
- HQ-145 Private $45 none good condn
- HQ-145 Private $85 none good condn
- HQ-170 Hamfest TRW $250 spkr new condn
- SP-200 Hamfest $45 no PS good condn,9/93
-
- HENRY/TEMPO
-
- One Hamfest NC $140 none fair condn
- 2020 NutsVolts $75 none fair condn
-
- ICOM
-
- IC-551 Private $350 FM 6m rig, new condn
- IC-575H Retailer $500 None 6m, 7/93,poor condn
- IC-575H Retailer $720 None 6m, 5/93,good condn
- IC-575H Retailer $1000 None 6m, mint, 6/93
- IC-720A Hamfest Lvrmr $400 CW flt near new condn
- IC-730 OnAir $400 none fair condn
- IC-735 Usenet $600 None good condn
- IC-735 Usenet $700 CW flt, keyer good condn
- IC-735 Private $800 Keyer,spkr,PS 1 yr old, w/paddle
- IC-740 Hamfest NH $575 PS,CW flt,FM good condn
- IC-740 Dayton $650 CW flt good condn
- IC-745 Usenet $600 PS,keyer,CW flt good condn
- IC-745 Dayton $650 PS,keyer,CW flt good condn
- IC-751 Retailer $700 CW flt new condn
- IC-751 Hamfest NC $750 PS,CW flt,keypd w/speech modl
- IC-751A YlloSht $850 None 1 yr old
- IC-751A Retailer $1150 PS,CW/SSB flt good condn
- IC-761 Private $1300 none good condn
- IC-765 Usenet $1600 3 CW flt new condn
- IC-765 QST Clasfd $1788 none new condn
- IC-765 Retailer $1800 none fair condn
- IC-765 Usenet $2000 w/all options good condn
- IC-781 OnAir $3500 none good condn
- IC-781 QST Clasfd $4000 none new condn
-
- JOHNSON
-
- ValiantI Hamfest TRW $150 None fair condn
- VikRanger Hamfest TRW $100 None fair condn
-
- KENWOOD
-
- TS-120S OnAir $300 none fair condn
- TS-120S Usenet $350 PS fair condn
- TS-140 Private $550 none new condn,7/93
- TS-140 Private $700 CW flt new condn,7/92
- TS-140S Private $500 none new condn,9/93
- TS-180S Usenet $450 FC,CW flt fair condn
- TS-430S Private $500 none good condn
- TS-430 Private $600 FM bd good condn
- TS440S/AT OnAir $750 2 flt, ant tunr new condn
- TS440S/AT OnAir $850 2 flt, ant tunr new condn
- TS-520 OnAir $300 None good condn
- TS-520 Private $325 mic,CW flt good condn, 9/93
- TS-520 Private $350 mic,manual,meter good condn
- TS-520 Private $450 Heath amp,mic good condn
- TS-520S Private $300 Heath amp,mic FC, good condn
- TS-520S Usenet $375 CW flt,MFJ tuner good condn
- TS-520SE YlloSht $350 VFO,spkr
- TS-520SE OnAir $500 VFO,spkr,CW flt,
- mic
- TS-530S Private $425 none good condn
- TS-530S Private $550 spkr,desk mic good condn
- R-599A + T Private $175 separate Rcvr/Xmtr needed repair
- TS-690 OnAir $1800 CW flt,PS,stab,VM new condn, w/6m
- TS-820 Hamfest NJ $400 none fair condn
- TS-820S Usenet $165 none needed repair
- TS-820S Usenet $575 CW flt,MFJ ant tr, prob with display
- spare finals
- TS-830S Hamfest LA $600 none good condn
- TS-830S Hamfest Cincin $600 none good condn
- TS-830S Retailer $650 desk mic good condn
- TS-850S/AT OnAir $1250 3 flt, ant tunr new condn
- TS-940SAT Usenet $1150 spkr,desk mic, good condn
- ant tunr,CW flt
- TS-940SAT Retailer $1450 VM,spkr,ant tunr good condn
- TS-950S Retailer $2000 none good condn
- TS-950S Retailer $2000 all options new condn
-
- RADIO SHACK
-
- HTX-100 Hamfest Foothl $150 none sale in 1991, 10m
- HTX-100 Retailer $159 none RdoShk tent sale, 10m
-
- SWAN
-
- 350 Retailer $175 PS,spkr,spr tubes good condn
-
- TEMPO/HENRY
-
- One Hamfest NC $140 none fair condn
- 2020 NutsVolts $75 none fair condn
-
- TEN-TEC
-
- Century 21 OnAir $150 None good condn
- Century 21 Usenet $165 None new condn
- Corsair 1 Retailer $595 CW flt good condn
- Omni D Private $370 PS,CW flt,keyer good condn
- Omni D Private $400 None good condn
- Paragon Private $1650 PS,FM,CW flt new condn
- Triton IV YlloSht $200 None
- Triton IV YlloSht $300 PS,CW flt, NL No mic, good condn
- Triton IV YlloSht $300 PS,CW flt, NL,mic
-
- UNIDEN
-
- HR-2600 Usenet $160 None Good condn, 10m
-
- YAESU
-
- FT77 Private $440 VFO New condn
- FT101B Private $400 scope,PhP,spkr,FC Good condn
- FT101E Usenet $350 none
- FT101EE Retailer $400 none w/warranty,fair condn
- FT620B Private $175 none 6m,9/92
- FT-726R Usenet $600 2m,70cm,Sat VHF rig
- FT-726R Retailer $950 6m,2m,70cm 6m+VHF rig
- FT747GX Retailer $550 CW flt good w/warranty
- FT767GX Usenet $850 6m,2m HF+VHF rig, good cond
- FT767GX YelloSht $1375 6m,2m,70cm HF+VHF rig, good cond
- FT767GX OnAir $1440 6m,2m,70cm,flt,spk HF+VHF rig, good cond
- FT1000 OnAir $2000 none good condn
-
- ABBREVIATIONS
-
- 2m Two Meter band module included
- 6m Six Meter (50 MHz) band included
- 10m Ten Meter (28 MHz) band only
- 70cm 70 Centimeter (440 MHz) band included
- Amp Linear amplifier
- Bd Board
- CW flt CW narrow filter
- FC Frequency Counter
- Flt Filter
- FM FM unit
- Foothl Foothill hamfest (California)
- Lvrmr Livermore, California
- mnl Manual
- mic Desk mic
- NC North Carolina
- NL Noise limiter
- NutsVolts Nuts and Volts Periodical
- OnAir Sold through on-the-air contact or packet
- PhP Phone Patch
- PS Power Supply
- Sat Satellite unit
- Stab Extra stable oscillator
- TRW TRW Swap Meet (Los Angeles CA)
- VFO External VFO
- VM Voice Module
- YlloSht Yellow Sheet Ham Trader Periodical
-
-
- --
-
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Randall Rhea Informix Software, Inc.
- Project Manager, MIS Sales/Marketing Systems randall@informix.com
-
-
- --
-
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- Randall Rhea Informix Software, Inc.
- Project Manager, MIS Sales/Marketing Systems randall@informix.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 23 Apr 94 14:18:41 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!prairienet.org!bpea@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: HTX-202
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In a previous article, cslye@netcom.com (Cameron Slye) says:
-
- >Well now that I have the tower cleaned up and ready, what antenna should I
- >get for a HTX-202?
-
- I just got an HTX-202 myself. A couple of days ago I made a J-Pole
- antenna using the 2 meter dimensions found in the "Plumber's Delight"
- article in the April 1992 73 magazine (p16+). The parts cost less
- than $6.00 and the antenna works GREAT!!!!! Very easy to build, I
- highly recommend this project.
-
- Good Luck -
-
- 73 de Bruce,N9WKE
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 23 Apr 94 18:26:13 GMT
- From: agate!library.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!netcom4!faunt@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: Jeremiah O'brien 22 Apr
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- These are from WB6PLG's postings on packet
-
- 22nd noon 23.36N 111.05W Crs 127 deg T, spd 11.7 knots.
-
- 73, doug
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 1994 19:40:43 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!fc.hp.com!news.lvld.hp.com!scott@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Missing: Good HF Propagation
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Andrew M. Cohn (andy@clark.net) wrote:
- : Scott Richard Rosenfeld (ham@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
- : : Missing: Decent HF Propagation. Last seen about 2 weeks ago, floating
- : : through the ether at around 14.020 MHz. However, it has been slowly
- : : going away for about 4 years, since I last worked India with my dipole.
-
- : Sorry, Scott (and the rest of you). I am responsible for your missing
- : propagation. Couple of weeks ago, I got back on HF with a new 40m QRP rig,
- : and took the liberty of borrowing your prop. I'll return it as soon as I
- : get bored. -andy
-
- Nope, sorry it's my fault. Every time I align one of my radios,
- propagation dies. The last really poor propagation coincided with
- aligning my R4-T4X. This time I got my TR4 back on the air and
- realigned it. Both times I thought I'd screwed things up since I
- couldn't hear any signals better than about S3-4.
-
- Wonder how the Sun's corona knows what I'm doing? Perhaps the next time
- I align a rig, I'll post a major geomagnetic storm warning. Sure prop's
- getting better. It's been several weeks since I've worked on any of my
- radios!
-
- Scott Turner N0VRF scott@hpisla.LVLD.HP.COM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:57:01 GMT
- From: fluke!chuckb@beaver.cs.washington.edu
- Subject: Propagation is back!
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 23 Apr 94 20:45:28 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!ccnet.com!ccnet.com!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: rec.radio.amateur.vhf.plus (?)
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Paul Flaherty (paulf@abercrombie.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
-
- : I'll see if I can come up with some sort of automated listserver this
- : weekend, and set it up. If folks really want to set up a newsgroup, that's
- : okay too; I probably won't tie the two together.
-
- Please post to the newsgroups when you get this going. Thanks
-
-
- --
- Bob Wilkins work bwilkins@cave.org
- Berkeley, California home rwilkins@ccnet.com
- 94701-0710 play n6fri@n6eeg.#nocal.ca.usa.noam
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 94 12:17:17 GMT
- From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!neoucom.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!mercury.wright.edu!desire.wright.edu!matrix.cs.wright.edu!isoper@ucbvax
- Subject: The Confiscated HT Story (was Illinois anti scanner legisla)
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- >
- > There have been two articles in the San Diego Union, they are on the
- > bulletin board at HRO. Here is a summary of the first one, I don't have
- > a copy of the second article.
- >
-
- [stuff deleted from orignal post]
- >
- > It states that Boyer tried to get help on five other repeaters but
- > couldn't get anyone, they also tried a cellular phone but couldn't
- > connect because they were ``in a ravine, toward the bottom of a
- > canyon''. He then rode up the trail a half mile and tried again from a
- > better spot but still couldn't get through, at that point they decided
- > to try the SO frequency. The article says `` "I look and this guy's
- > bleeding, he's taken a head trauma," Boyer said. "I came on, gave my
- > call sign - I wasn't trying to hide - and said, 'I'm a radio amateur
- > with emergency traffic.' The dispatcher said, 'Go ahead.'" ''
- >
-
- I can relate to this after witnessing several serious traffic accidents
- while traveling on IR70 between Dayton, OH and Washington DC. Either no
- monitors repeaters or wants to help, except on a rare occassion. Out of
- approximately 7 accidents reported, I made one contact via Ham radio for
- help.
-
-
-
- > Two weeks later, he got a letter from Bill Kahn (communications
- > coordinator) for the SO, telling him to meet with Kahn and an FCC
- > person. He was given the choice of having to ``forfeit'' or be
- > prosecuted by the federal government.
- >
- > There are several quotes from different people including this one
- > from county Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who represents that part of the
- > county. ``"The frequencies are protected for public-safety emergencies,"
- > Jacob said. "Well, this individual had an emergency.''... ``"I think
- > anyone in the same circumstances, including myself, would do the same
- > thing."''
-
- >
- > I understand there was a fuss of some kind between the Sheriff's office and the
- > County Supervisors over this. I'm more concerned about the FCC Engineer who not
- > only let this happen, but participated. Perhaps Gary or someone else from the
- > San Diego area could post an update.
-
- What we have here is a classic example of the BS politics that dominates this
- country today. That is, the "Monday Night Quarterbacks" calling the shots
- after the incident to assign blame for the failure to secure their radio
- networks. My opion is Boyer saw a situation requiring clear headed thinking
- weighed and executed his options in methodical manner to a successful
- conclusion. However, the petty local and federal bureaucrats proably with
- nothing better to do than screw with someone saw a golden oportunity to
- promote their careers by creating a mountain of paperwork that in the end
- will accomplish nothing more than to prosecute someone who tried to help
- another person in an emergency.
-
- Maybe these bureaucratic idiots might feel a little differently if their
- lives were on the line next. Maybe the person who encounters them might
- say well...I cannot call for help because I will lose my license....so
- I guess I might as well walk 10 miles to my car drive to the nearest
- town and get help...hey bud I ll be back in about 4 hours or so.
-
- This is a prime example of how America is burying itself in paperwork and
- civil litagation to the point society will cease to function from fear
- of prosecution.
-
- 73, Wes WB8CEH
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Apr 1994 19:35:58 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!lapin@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <765648032.AA04784@psybbs.durham.nc.us>, <2o41f4$lb5@news.iastate.edu>, <randall.766446966@informix.com>
- Subject : Re: 6m Equipment?
-
- In article <randall.766446966@informix.com>,
- Randall Rhea <randall@atlas.informix.com> wrote:
- ...much deleted...
- >
- > I LISTEN TO 6M OCCASIONALLY, BUT I NEVER HEAR ANYONE. Openings on
- > 6m are rare when compared to the HF bands. Sporadic E (Es) is the
- > backbone of 6m DX. (more information on Es is below) For hams in
- > far northern latitudes (say 50 degrees and above), aurora openings
- > are common in early evenings around the Equinoxes. F2 propagation
- > allows world-wide communication around peak sunspot years.
- >
- > HOW OFTEN ARE THERE F2 OPENINGS? F2 propagation, the kind that we
- > know and love on 20 meters, occurs rarely on 6m. Only at the peak
- > times of the sunspot cycle, a few years out of each eleven, does the
- > band open up for F2. When it does happen, the band becomes a frenzy
- > of activity, and behaves similar to 10 meters. In the last cycle,
- > there were many openings in 1989 through 1991, but that cycle had an
- > unusually long period of peak activity. Openings occur most often
- > in Autumn during the daytime. A few stations have worked 100 or
- > more countries, but they have been patiently working the fleeting
- > openings for many years. The March, 1993 QST magazine has an
- > excellent article on 6m propagation that shows a correlation between
- > solar flux and openings.
- >
- > HOW IS TROPO PROPAGATION ON 6M? The ordinary ground-wave tropo
- > range on six isn't quite as great as on two. There are a number of
- > reasons. Since there are so many other propagation modes on six,
- > people don't try so hard on tropo. Antenna gain often is higher on
- > two. Noise is lower on two. At least in the summer, stations like
- > W3BWU (Pittsburgh), W3IDZ (northern NJ) are easily worked from
- > Maryland with the beam pointing at them, and can be heard at almost
- > any pointing. They are in the 150-W class.
- >
- > HOW IS METEOR PROPAGATION? Any area workable by meteors can be
- > worked more easily by Es or aurora. Even though meteor bursts are
- > much stronger and longer on six than on two, little use has been
- > made of them. There has been a VERY little meteor-burst packet work
- > on six. W3OTC had the first such contact (with W0RPK). W3XO worked
- > him a few years later.
- >
- > WHAT ABOUT IONOSCATTER? Some people think it's really meteors, but
- > every weekend morning there are a number of nearly- kilowatt
- > stations working each other on SSB at distances of about 600 - 1000
- > miles by ionospheric scatter. Sigs are weak, and it takes good
- > beams, height, and power, but it is very reliable. See the old NBS
- > papers by Bailey, Bateman and Kirby, et al. Bateman and Kirby
- > were/are hams. Ross Bateman recently died. Dick Kirby continues as
- > head of ITU in Geneva.
- >
- > HOW IS AURORA? It is much easier than on two. SSB is usually
- > intelligible. Point north about dusk, most commonly in March and
- > October/November. Lots of people in the far northern latitudes work
- > this mode when it happens.
- >
- > WHAT ABOUT SPORADIC E (Es)? Es is the most common propagation mode
- > on 6m. The term "sporadic" is accurate: stations can pop in and
- > then fade quickly. I would monitor 50.125 and 28.885 MHz to check
- > for Es. Es has little or nothing to do with the sunspot cycle; it
- > is much more a function of the time of year. Es is most common in
- > June, but can appear from May to August, and around Christmas, here
- > in northern latitudes. In addition to the common single-hop range
- > of 500 - 1500 miles, there are quite a few double- and-more hop
- > contacts on 6m. Now that a number of Europeans are on six, we find
- > that they can be worked from the US east coast each summer.
- > Likewise the Caribbean stations work all over the US. The US west
- > coast can work Hawaii, Alaska, and Mexico. You will also hear some
- > hams on June DXPedition trips to Mexico and the Caribbean; they are
- > easy to work in the late afternoon or early evening, even with 10W
- > and a vertical. The VHF contest in the middle of June is also a
- > good time to work Es.
-
- I have always found that when my TV picture on Channel 2 looks bad, 6
- meters is fabulous. We can usually see Channel 2 from far away (either in
- the Milwaukee area or from across Lake Michigan) beating with our own WBBM
- in Chicago when sky-wave propogation is better than it ought to be in the
- 50 MHz neighborhood.
-
- Greg Lapin
- KD9AZ
- glapin@nwu.edu
-
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-
- Date: 24 Apr 94 05:13:04 GMT
- From: unix.sri.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!abercrombie.Stanford.EDU!paulf@hplabs.hp.com
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <2p96nm$7k6@hebron.connected.com>, <paulf.767130549@abercrombie.Stanford.EDU>, <2pc1d8$qmk@ccnet.ccnet.com>(
- Subject : Re: rec.radio.amateur.vhf.plus (?)
-
- rwilkins@ccnet.com (Bob Wilkins n6fri) writes:
-
- >Paul Flaherty (paulf@abercrombie.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
-
- >: I'll see if I can come up with some sort of automated listserver this
- >: weekend, and set it up. If folks really want to set up a newsgroup, that's
- >: okay too; I probably won't tie the two together.
-
- >Please post to the newsgroups when you get this going. Thanks
-
- It's done and working. LISTSERV requests should go to:
-
- vhf-request@w6yx.stanford.edu
-
- --
- -=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "The National Anthem has become The Whine."
- ->paulf@Stanford.EDU | -- Charles Sykes, _A Nation of Victims_
-
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- Date: (null)
- From: (null)
- The SF was 87, A index 9, and K index 2.
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