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Info-Hams Digest            Thu,  5 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  493

Today's Topics:
             **Looking for Baycom Modem Boards Pre-made**
                  2 meter lingo publication (2 msgs)
                digital speech transmission for HAMs?
                       GB2RS News 8th May 1994
                   Gun Owners: Protect your Rights!
                       How to make a diplexer?
               monitoring CB ch 9 / REACT organization
              New license class but same old call sign!
                        PacketCluster Commands
                         Was this a bad idea?

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Date: 6 May 94 03:14:57 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: **Looking for Baycom Modem Boards Pre-made**
To: [e-mail]

Warmest Greetings,

    I am looking for cheep pre-made Baycom modem boards. The Club here
in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada would like to get Ham operators with little
money onto packet.  So please email me with any information you may have
on Baycom modem boards and i'll try to get these boards so that we don't
have to etch them ourselves.

    Thank you for your time,

    73's de Guy VE3 XGQ

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Date: 5 May 94 20:19:10 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.bu.edu!att-in!nntpa![e-mail]
Subject: 2 meter lingo publication
To: [e-mail]



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Date: 5 May 94 20:55:28 GMT
From: agate!news.ossi.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!info-server.bbn.com!news![e-mail]
Subject: 2 meter lingo publication
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
   I'm currently working on a publication entitled "The 2-meter Lingo
   Guide: A Handbook For The New Ham". I'm looking for various
    [etc]

The same old song again.  Clown.

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Date: 5 May 94 19:07:50 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!hypnos!voxbox![e-mail]
Subject: digital speech transmission for HAMs?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Cecil A. Moore -FT-~) writes:

> Stefan Wimmer ([e-mail]) wrote:
>
> : Does anybody know, how they do it? And, is there a kind of chipset
> : available for own experiments? Or can commercial phones be modified for
> : HAM use?   Stefan Wimmer
>
> They simply have the bandwidth and we don't. They have eight wires coming
> in, digitize the voices into eight time slots at 64kb, send the 64kb out
> over a broad band wireless (microwave), demod into eight voices at the
> other end, and send them out over eight wires.
>
> We don't have wires coming in, we have channels, more akin to cellular.
> We could do analog or digital cellular but not with our present HTs.

How about if we didn't insist on having it sound like a natural voice?


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| Jim Grubs, W8GRT   Voxbox Enterprises   Tel.: [phone] |
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Date: 5 May 94 18:53:43 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!demon!llondel.demon.co.uk![e-mail]
Subject: GB2RS News 8th May 1994
To: [e-mail]

Good morning. It's Sunday the 8th of May and here is the GB2RS news
broadcast, prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain.

And we start this week with news of a dedicated group from North Wales
and the Wirral who have been awarded a prestigious award for outstanding
services to amateur radio in the Republic of Ireland. Tony Jones,
GW4VEQ; Martin Vernon, GW6HVA and Dave Fernant, G4PGO were awarded the
Pat Conway Memorial Cup for designing and building a packet radio mail
link. The new link allows amateurs all over Ireland to connect into the
European and Worldwide packet radio networks through the Isle of
Anglesey, the North Wales coast and Merseyside. The award was presented
by the President of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society Jim Ryan, EI3DP
at the IRTS Annual General Meeting in Donegal. This is the first time
that this special award has ever been made to non Irish Nationals.

The Arfon Repeater Group has reported a fault in the link between GB3AR
and GB3AN. The fault is not apparent to users of GB3AN as the repeater
will initiate the link, but since the audio is not heard on GB3AR, no
contact would be made. The Group apologises for any inconvenience this
may cause and hopes to rectify the problem shortly.

The Bracknell 70 centimetre repeater GB3BN, became operational again on
Saturday the 30th of April. The repeater is located north of Bracknell
in Berkshire and operates on channel RB0, which has its output on
433.0MHz and input on 434.6MHz. Further details and/or reports should go
to the repeater keeper G4DDN, whose address is correct in the RSGB Call
Book.

Two-metre repeater GB3KN, was scheduled to be switched on last Friday
the 6th of May following a site change. The repeater is located north
east of Maidstone in Kent and operates on channel R4, which has its
output on 145.7MHz and input on 145.1MHz. Reports should go to the
repeater keeper G3YCN, whose address is correct in the RSGB Call Book.

Now some items of HF DX news from the weekly RSGB DX News Sheet which is
edited by Brendan McCartney, G4DYO.

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Date: 5 May 94 08:02:54 EDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!malgudi.oar.net!mercury.wright.edu!desire.wright.edu!matrix.cs.wright.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Gun Owners: Protect your Rights!
To: [e-mail]

> [e-mail] wrote:
> : Gun owners protect your constitutional rights!
>
> Thank you for posting this to the wrong newsgroup.  If you had put it
> in the appropriate gun-related newsgroup, I wouldn't have known about
> it.  Now I can call my Congressman and urge him to vote YES on any
> bill that bans assault rifles.
>
>

    Maybe if the Hams would have cross placed Info on the piece of crap
        Electronic Privacy Act bill it would have helped defeat it. Just
    remember Congress views themselves as the only source of common
    sense in this country. This means everyone including you are
    incapable of making logic decisions on your own. I know this
    making a big generalarization but, every time I read about
    congressional legislation it regards banning some item from
    the people.

    Besides being a competetion shooter I do not believe my 8 shot M1
    Garand (which is on the ban list) is an assault rifle. In fact,
    I have not heard of any Ghetto shoot outs involving them at all.
    However, I have seen and heard of Ham Radio equipment being used by drug
    dealers to avoid detection and capture by law enforcement officals.
    Just think about this as food for thought, your local congressman
    finds out a FEDERALLY Licensed program (namely Ham Radio) is aiding
    and abetting nasty criminal activity (suppling ham equipment through
    dealers without a 5 day waiting period). It's an election year, and
    crime reduction is the current rage amongst the Politicians,
    legislation involving the mandatory background check plus 5 day
    waiting period to purchase all Ham equipment could become a reality.
    Additionally, since most forms of digital communications are not readily
    "monitorable" by local law enforcement a strict ban of these forms of
    communication would be enacted.

73 Wes WB8CEH


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Date: 5 May 94 19:46:49 GMT
From: agate!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!ctp.org![e-mail]
Subject: How to make a diplexer?
To: [e-mail]

That's not a diplexer schematic in the previous post.  It's essentially a
VHF / UHF splitter, which is really just hi pass and lo pass filters in
the same box.  Diplexers use exotic things like cavities and magic T's.
What?  You've never heard of a magic T?

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Date: 5 May 94 07:39:20 EDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!malgudi.oar.net!mercury.wright.edu!desire.wright.edu!matrix.cs.wright.edu![e-mail]
Subject: monitoring CB ch 9 / REACT organization
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ed Bathgate) writes:

> The police used to monitor CB, even the PA state police had signs
> on the turnpike that they monitored CB ch 9.  Baloney!  I tried to
> get help for a broken down motorist several years ago, to no avail
> until I drove to state police building, walked in and told dispatcher
> the situation.  What bugged me, he had a cobra CB not 5 feet behind
> him, turned off & unplugged!  USELESS!

    The reason for this condition is the fact the dispatchers at the
    various Police agencies usually are annoyed by the constant
    noise level generated by the CB.

    I used to work as a Police Officer, and upon occassion had to
    work dispatch, so I know what it is like at times.

>
> Is there still a REACT organization in existance?
> Does anybody know how to contact them?


    REACT exists they usually advertise in Popular Communications magazine
    every month. However, if most local units are like the one in Dayton,
    OH they have move to UHF in the GMRS bands. I see their members every
    once in a while strutting around at an accident scene jabbering into
    usually a Motorola HT90 or similar wearing their orange vests. Most
    of the members I have met usually are "wannabe" cops, rather than
    interested in helping someone.

>
> Is this something ARES would have an opinion on or even want to
> mess with?

    My experience is Amatuer radio is slightly better than REACT. I have
    been able to at least complete 20% of accident calls I originated
    over the past 15 years on 2 meters. (I drove through OH, WV, PA, MD
    and VA on business or pleasure alot since the late 70's.)
>
> Is there a "standard" simplex emergency freq on 2m, 220, or 440?

    Not that I am aware of, however if there is, it will be listed in
    the ARRL Repeater Guide or similar publication.



73 Wes WB8CEH

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Date: 5 May 1994 11:47:06 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!inews.intel.com!ilx018.iil.intel.com!ilx049.iil.intel.com![e-mail]
Subject: New license class but same old call sign!
To: [e-mail]

Hi,

I recently got my Advanced license in the mail (upgraded from General).
It took about 9 weeks, which is guess is better than average these days.

BUT, I was disappointed to find that I didn't get a new call sign.
It's still the old (and crummy) N1OWU (say it three times).  I'm certain
that I checked the box for a new call, since I didn't like this one.
Has the FCC changed their policy about issuing new call signs for upgrades?

Doug Braun  (4X/N1OWU)

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Date: 5 May 1994 13:45:34 +0300
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!lehtori.cc.tut.fi![e-mail]
Subject: PacketCluster Commands
To: [e-mail]

Just my thoughts of that PacketCluster Software.
I don't remenber what version we run in our local
node (OH3RCE), but it's not too good. Really hope
that someone will do better...

One of the biggest oddities is that You can disable all the
other commands, but not WX-announcements. And there are some
fellows, who just log in to give:" WX/F Has been raining lately!"
and then they just take disconnect. That's not fun when it happens
too often!
It also doesn't know how to handle O's with dots, and we do really
need those in our native language.

There are also several minor bugs, but perhaps those doesn't need
to be listed here.

Waiting for better days...

Pete
oh3mep


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* Petri Keskinen * Kitiniitynkatu 7a3 * 33850 Tampere * Finland * Europe *
*****************************  oh3mep@oh3rce *****************************

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Date: 5 May 94 19:15:59 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!hypnos!voxbox![e-mail]
Subject: Was this a bad idea?
To: [e-mail]

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[e-mail] (Sir Hoagy) writes:

> Since I was unlicensed, was it illegal for me to use my radio
> on an amateur frequency for this situation?
>
> I'm telling myself "No, since it was a valid emergency".  However,
> I dunno.  Would someone help me with this one?  I'm still wondering
> if I was right/wrong.

Threat to human life or safety? YOU BET IT WAS O.K.!!!! Don't
let anybody talk you out of it.


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| Jim Grubs, W8GRT   Voxbox Enterprises   Tel.: [phone] |
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And from Market Reef, a group of operators will sign OJ0/Own-call from
either Saturday the 15th or Sunday the 16th, depending on the weather,
for three days. Operation will be on all bands, CW, SSB with some RTTY.


Now the events for today Sunday the 8th of May:

The Midland Amateur Radio Society, Drayton Mobile Radio Rally is being
held at Drayton Manor Park, Tamworth, Staffordshire, situated off the
A4091 road. Doors open 10.30am. The event features trade stands, club
stands, a flea market and a car boot area.

The Yeovil QRP Convention is being held at the Preston Centre, Yeovil.
Doors open at 9am. The event features traders orientated towards QRP,
kits, components etc. Also features a club bring and buy stall, QRP
station demonstrations, displays of home built rigs and vintage
communication equipment. And there are talks covering propagation,
construction and RSGB matters. Talk-in will be on channel S22 by GB2LOW.

Next the two events we know of for next Sunday the 15th of May:

The Dunstable Downs Radio Club 11th Annual National Amateur Radio Car
Boot Sale is to be held at Stockwood County Park, Luton, Bedfordshire,
located near junction 10 of the M1 motorway. Doors open at 10am. The
event features trade stands, club stands and a car boot area. Other
attractions include admission to the Environmental Open Day, free entry
to the Mossman Collection of Horse Drawn Vehicles, craft museum and
carriage rides. Details are available by telephoning 0582 451057 but
please phone only between 6 and 8pm.

The Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club Parkanaur Rally is to be held at the
Silverwood Hotel, Lurgan, County Armagh. Doors open at 12 noon. The
event features trade stands, a bring and buy stall and an RSGB Book
stand. Refreshments will be available. Talk-in is on two metres, channel
S22. For further details contact Bill, GI7BQH on 0693 61298.

HF contest news now:

The fifth in this year's series of RSGB QRS (Slow Morse) Cumulative
Contests will take place tomorrow Monday the 9th from 1900 to 2030 UTC
between 3.54 and 3.58MHz. See April RadCom page 8, for further details
and January's RadCom, page 83 for the rules. Novice licensees are
particularly encouraged to participate as contacts with Novice calls are
worth quadruple points.

The CQ-M Mixed Mode (Russian) Contest takes place during next weekend,
starting at 2100 on Saturday the 14th and finishing at 2100 on Sunday
the 15th of May. The contest uses CW and SSB on all bands from 1.8MHz to
28MHz but excluding the WARC bands. May RadCom page 20 gives some rules
and entry details.

Next some VHF contest news:

The RSGB 432MHz to 24GHz Contest will finish today Sunday the 8th at
1400 UTC. See February RadCom, page 83 for further details.

The RSGB 144MHz Single, Others and SWL Contest takes place from 1400 UTC
on Saturday the 21st until 1400 UTC on Sunday the 22nd of May. There are
four sections, Single operator fixed, Single operator Portable, Others
and Listeners. Another category is Single operator fixed, operating for
6 hours continuously, but starting at any hour on the hour. See the
February edition of RadCom for further details.

The first of the RSGB Back-Packers 144MHz Contests is scheduled to take
place from 1100 until 1500 UTC on Sunday the 22nd of May. This is a new
type of contest and full details can be found in January's RadCom.

Special event stations active in May include:

GB0CT, Channel Tunnel, will be aired by members of the British Rail
Amateur Radio Society from New Romney Railway Station, near Folkestone,
Kent. At the same time TM5TSM, will be operational from Wimereux Town
Hall near Boulogne. Both stations will be operational until today,
Sunday the 8th of May, on 80, 40, 20 and 2 metre and 70 centimetre
bands.

GB2PW will be operated today, Sunday the 8th, by members of the
Southdown Amateur Radio Society from Polegate Windmill. This celebrates
Windmills Day.

GB0SND, Special Needs Activities, will be operated by members of the
Havering and District Amateur Radio Club from the Hargreaves Campsite,
Little Heath, Romford. The occasion is the Ilford East Scouts Special
Activities day for physical and mentally handicapped members during
today Sunday the 8th, from locator JO01BN, WAB Square TQ48.

Next Saturday, the 14th, members of the Barking Radio and Electronics
Society will operate GB2WBD and GB4WBD to commemorate the twinning of
Witten in Germany with Barking and Dagenham. Operation will be on HF,
VHF and on packet.

And now the solar factual data

The period from the 25th of April to the 1st of May saw enhanced
conditions on the HF bands up to the 1st of May. Then, as forecast, a
magnetic storm occurred, seriously affecting the higher latitudes. Only
one very small flare was reported on the 28th - a B3.9. The spot indices
tended to rise over the period with the mean being 48. The solar flux
levels declined slightly from 83 units on the 25th down to 75 units on
1st May, with the period averaging 78 units. There has been a rapid
general decline in solar flux levels since last December, when the mean
levels were about 100, down to present levels about 80 units. The 90 day
flux mean on April 27th was 91.

The geomagnetic Ap indices were quiet for most of the period, with the
30th of April being very quiet with an Ap index of only 2 and with HF
band conditions being excellent. It had all the indications of a
pre-auroral enhancement. The 1st of May saw a magnetic storm commence,
taking levels up to 34 units. The period averaged an Ap of 8.8 units.
The X-Ray flux is only slowly recovering from the collapse at the end of
March; the period averaged A4.6 units, but varied considerably day to
day. The state has been 'nil nothing to report' throughout the period.
The aa indices, as supplied by the British Geological Survey for the
period 19th to 25th April, were very quiet giving daily averages of only
17.7 nanoTeslas, about K2, with many periods of only 8 nanoTeslas.

I'll repeat the figures. Spots - 48; Flux - 78; Ap index - 8.8; X-ray
flux - A4.6.

Now the ionospheric data for Central France:

Due to the holiday we have data only for the 25th to the 28th. The F2
daytime critical frequencies at Poitiers, as reported by Meudon,
averaged 7.4MHz. The darkness hour lows averaged 3.4MHz.

I'll repeat the figures. Highs - 7.4MHz; lows - 3.4MHz.

Now the ionospheric data for the north:

During the period of available data, the F2 daytime critical frequencies
at Ekaterinberg were about 6.9MHz, and the darkness hour lows about
4.5MHz.

I'll repeat the figures: Highs - 6.9MHz; lows - 4.5MHz.

And lastly the solar forecast:

This week, the quieter side of the sun will be looking our way, solar
flux levels are expected to be at about the 80s. The geomagnetic levels
are expected to be just unsettled. Ionospheric MUFs for north/south
paths in the south are expected to be about 24MHz during daylight, and
14MHz for the darkness hours. East/west paths will be well down on these
levels due to the seasonal changes now taking effect. Northern stations
may be affected by the passage of a coronal hole on the 13th and 14th,
but HF conditions are expected to be generally better than of late.

And that is the end of the solar information.

Finally in the main news, SSL has informed the Society that as of last
Wednesday morning, the latest callsigns issued were in the G0 Uniform
Victor and G7 Sierra India series, and Novice calls in the 2 0 Alpha
Hotel and 2 1 Charlie Yankee series.


GB2RS, the news broadcasting service of the Radio Society of Great
Britain, is transmitted in the 80, 40, 6 and 2 metre bands.

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GB2RS is prepared by the Radio Society of Great Britain
Tel [phone]  Fax [phone]

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Date: 5 May 94 20:17:42 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!fp2-st-affairs-13.uoregon.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <2q5slb$[e-mail]>p2-s
Subject : 3Y0PI QSLs update

In article <2q5slb$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Terry Burge) wrote:

> As I recall the QSL manager for either CW or SSB for 3Y0PI was
> KA6V. She just passed away. So the cards will be a little late in
> coming I suspect.
>
> (arranging someone else to handel them and such)


Ron Vincent WJ7R, visited with Jerry AA6BB the other day.

He told me that Jerry is obviously very bereaved over Joannie's passing but
has not put anything aside because of it.

The labels are all printed for the 3Y0PI cards. The cards themselves were
supposed to arrive on April 27th. They did not.

Jerry has apparently said that as soon as the cards come in from the
printer, the labels will be affixed and ALL cards will be out within a week
of their arrival!

Our local DX group has offered to help with the process but we were told
that it's not needed 'cause everything is under control.

We will, however, be working on sorting Joannie's remaining bureau cards
for all the other stations she manages.
--
Steve Milewski
[e-mail]
Ham:AA7FL
*** Save the environment - Ship a logger to Japan ***

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If you find a definition for "destinated," please include it.
My American Heritage dictionary doesn't show it, although I think
Webster's New Collegiate said it meant something to the effect of
"having met your destiny."

73,
K2PH

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