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Info-Hams Digest            Sat,  7 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  499

Today's Topics:
                      2 meter lingo publication
                         AEA Antenna Analyser
                  Finally here (re: callsign delays)
                 FT-530 AM Mode on 800 Band Possible?
         Licencing cost (was: Canadian Reciprocity) (2 msgs)
                     Luck Hurder ... gone:( Why?
                    This Week on Spectrum 05/07/94
                 TM5TSM Chunnel opening ham callsign
                            UPS COD FIASCO

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 13:36:40 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!venus![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
|> statements and their definitions that the new ham can expect to
|> hear on 2 meters, thus allowing themselves to assimilate easier into
|> the 2 meter culture. For example:
|>
|> "We'll catch ya later down the coax"
|> "Forty-Rodgoes on that"
|> "We'll pass you our very best of seventy-threes"
|> "[CALLSIGN] For ID"
|> "Don't get me wrong, I really like the code, but... wouldn't you
|>    rather hear their voice?"
|>
|> Naturally, be sure to include a translation as to what the term is
|> really supposed to mean, as if you were speaking normal English over
|> the telephone.

Michael:  I hate this type of lingo and am generally pleased it
is not too common on 2-meters.  May I suggest that we discourage
it rather than document it.   This isn't CB radio!

Peter

Peter A. Stokes ______________________ Voice & Voice mail: [phone]
Engineering Applications Support ____________________ FAX: [phone]
Canadian Microelectronics Corporation ________________ Net: [e-mail]
Kingston, Ontario, CANADA ________________________ Radio: VE3ZXT @ VE3CDY

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Date: Fri,  6 May 94 18:17:00 +0000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!ernie.almac.co.uk!almac![e-mail]
Subject: AEA Antenna Analyser
To: [e-mail]

I wonder if anyone has any experiences of the SWR-121 Antenna Analysers
that AEA make ? They seem to have just arrived in the UK. Do they make any
others covering wider (non-amateur) frequency ranges - would much prefer
at work to take one of them up a hill-top rather than a complete sweep
generator and spectrum analyser !




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Date: 6 May 1994 17:19:13 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Finally here (re: callsign delays)
To: [e-mail]

Here is another data point for those of you still waiting..

Took test: Feb 12
Received license: May 5th

Callsign: N9WUD

And they used the new 610 for my application.

73, de N9WUD
Melissia


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**********************         Melissia Fore       **************************
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Date: 6 May 1994 16:32:33 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!solaris.cc.vt.edu!spcuna!news.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.boxhill.com!hill![e-mail]
Subject: FT-530 AM Mode on 800 Band Possible?
To: [e-mail]

Can other owners confirm the following limitations of the
AM mode on the FT-530?

VFO    Band    AM Possible?
-----    ------    ------------
Left    2m    Yes
Left    70cm    Yes
Left    800Mhz    No (neither AM nor FM.  Not tunable)
Right    2m    No
Right    70cm    No
Right    800Mhz    No (FM Only)

I ran across this limitation of the right-hand VFO when
trying to listen on the 800 Band in AM.
Doesn't appear to be possible.

Anyone else try this?

(Replies cc:'d to [e-mail] appreciated)

73!
Ken Stamm  N2TIA             BBBB          H  H  i  ll  ll
([e-mail])            B   B         H  H      l   l
BoxHill Systems Corporation  BBBB  ooo x x HHHH ii   l   l
161 Avenue of the Americas   B   B o o  x  H  H  i   l   l
New York, NY 10013           BBBB  ooo x x H  H iii lll lll
Tel: (212)989-HILL (4455)
Fax: [phone]        S y s t e m s C o r p o r a t i o n

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 12:41:09 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA![e-mail]
Subject: Licencing cost (was: Canadian Reciprocity)
To: [e-mail]

In a previous article, [e-mail] (Roger Thompson) says:

>
>Roger (VE9RI)
>
>*****************************************
>Roger J Thompson
>[e-mail]
>
>System Admin.  Industry Canada
>Saint John, N.B.
>*****************************************
>
Oh boy!   Nice to see all the DOC/Industry Canada people participating in
this newsgroup. I guess it's about time to bring up my pet peeve.

Why is it that we have to pay so much for our station licences every year.
Last year it was $23.00, this year it was $24.00. Where will it end?
Where is all the money going? Is it to pay for your Internet access? <grin>

Our cousins to the south pay less than $6.00 U.S. for a license that's
good for 10 YEARS!!!!

Couldn't we do something along the same lines up here?  Perhaps DOC could
charge extra for value-added services, like "vanity" callsigns, address
changes, etc., and charge a lower rate for the basic licence.

Just a thought!

de va3rr (YES! a vanity call)
also aa8lu (ya takes what ya gets)
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Date: 6 May 1994 14:59:12 GMT
From: yar.cs.wisc.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Licencing cost (was: Canadian Reciprocity)
To: [e-mail]

Russ Renaud <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Our cousins to the south pay less than $6.00 U.S. for a license that's
>good for 10 YEARS!!!!

Actually, we don't pay a thing for the license.  The $5.xx goes for testing
fees.  So, in theory, you can pay that once and have a license for life...
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Jason J. Hanson        |   1510 Tripp Circle #VI309   |  [phone]
Univ. of Wisconsin     |    Madison, WI 53706-1294    |  Ham: N9LEA (Extra)
--  [e-mail]      =*++*=      n9lea@wd9esu.#scwi.wi.usa.noam  --

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Date: 6 May 94 14:48:24 GMT
From: yale.edu!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!BIX.com![e-mail]
Subject: Luck Hurder ... gone:( Why?
To: [e-mail]

I've been following this discussion since it first popped up and
several points occur to me.

First, yes, I do agree that ARRL management probably has been
advised by counsel not to comment.  Basically, the idea here
is that they can't be sued for what they don't say.

That does not, however, mean I buy the argument that we should then
assume there are important facts we don't know and that if only we
did, then surely we'd concur with the ARRL management action.  To me,
that sounds a little too much like Nixon's Secret Plan.  Let's be
frank:  these people work for us.  That's why we pay dues.  We have
both a right and duty to see to it that the ARRL is managed well
and fairly.

I can only try to judge the evidence I have in front of me.  That
evidence is that Luck Hurder was a consistently helpful, enthusiastic
fellow who worked very hard.

Now, some have suggested that Luck may have been hard to manage, as
if this might be the "real" reason he's been fired.  Well, again, let
me be frank:  that's too bad.  I don't care.  His managers weren't
being paid to enjoy life and surround themselves with a bunch of
bootlickers.  As most good managers will admit, virtually ALL really
good employees -- the ones who can make a real positive difference
in any organization -- are hard to manage.  That's the job.  Take
it or leave it.  If you just can't cope with that simple fact, you
should not be a manager.

Ultimately, I don't give a damn how miserable Luck may/may not have
made life for his managers.  I do care how well the organization
performs for all of us who are paying for it.  And I do, sadly, suspect
that dismissing Luck is not the way to make it work better.

Regards,
Doug Hamilton    KD1UJ    [e-mail]    Ph 508-358-5715
Hamilton Laboratories, 13 Old Farm Road, Wayland, MA  01778-3117, USA

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Date: 6 May 1994 08:33:16 -0400
From: spcuna!starcomm.overleaf.com![e-mail]
Subject: This Week on Spectrum 05/07/94
To: [e-mail]

This week's Spectrum will feature the world of weather satellites.  Our
guest is Jeff Kelly.  Jeff is an expert at weather satellite imagery.
He will tell us how to demodulate and decode those exciting pictures
from space.  You can be your own meteorologist this week on Spectrum.

On Saturday May 14'th we will take a look at Digital Audio Broadcasting
or DAB.  This high-tech system of broadcasting is in the wings and
should be here near the end of the century.  A few systems have been
proposed for dab and a standard hasn't been decided as of yet.  Our
guest will be Ted Schober.  Ted has been on the leading edge in the
world of DAB and will give us a look into the radio of the future.




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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 00:03:45 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!brunel![e-mail]
Subject: TM5TSM Chunnel opening ham callsign
To: [e-mail]

In article <2qd4h1$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]> writes:

>  Hi !
>
>  Today, the chunnel France-England is finally opened. To commemorate this
> "historic event" (?) the special callsign TM5TSM has been granted for the
> French side, while G0CT will be active in England.

                     ^^ Should be GB0CT

>  Both callsigns are valid today and throughout the week-end.
>
>  Frequencies are as follow :
>
>  CW : 3.520 - 7.020 - 14.020 - 21 - 28.020 - 144.080 - 432.080
>  SSB: 3.660 - 7.060 - 14.270 - 21.270 - 28.670 - 144.230 - 432.230
>  FM : 145.450 - 433.500
>
>  A special quadricromic QSL card bearing the callsign of both stations will
> be sent.
>
>  Vince, F1RCS
>
> --
>  ENST - Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France

73 Nick, G7ENS

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 11:36:06 GMT
From: gsm001!gsm001.mendelson.com![e-mail]
Subject: UPS COD FIASCO
To: [e-mail]

David Feldman ([e-mail]) wrote in rec.radio.swap:

: In January I sold several pieces of equipment through r.r.s - several were
: shipped UPS COD. What ensued was a fiasco that I hope you can avoid in the
: future. .........

All from the people that ate 220-222mhz and then decided they didn't want it.

Personaly, I think all hams should avoid UPS.

Geoff.


--
"I am number six. Others come and others go, but I am always number six."
(From the movie "Eminent Domain".)

Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ    [phone]  [e-mail]

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Date: 6 May 1994 11:09:53 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!psgrain!news.tek.com!cascade.ens.tek.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2q8nhu$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>ns
Subject : Re: Spectrum Show 30 Apr 94

Yes, you are right, the line goes "a man hears what he wants to hear and
desregards the rest." That much is true. Works both ways I would say.
Having read your article I found it seemed to bounce back and forth and
I wasn't sure weather you were flamming the pirate (as you call them
micro) broadcasters or weather you were supporting them. Being how the
article was meant to be said over the air and not in written form I suppose
speach inflection would have made it clear what side you were supporting.

I wasn't aware that the Class D license (I believe that is what it was
called) had been elliminated. My old high school used to have our own
radio station that I believe was under this type of license. The signal
wasn't allowed to be heard over 100 feet or meters from the school grounds
as I recall.

As far as this having anything to do with the amateur radio subject of
this group, NOT! As far as my only being aware of the what is happening
on the amateur band and not shortwave or whatever, SO WHO ARE YOU To
JUDGE! Are you aware of who I am or anyone else for that matter? NO WAY
BigSteve.

You say no one has complained about your column but me. Well I suggest
you are "disregarding" other peoples comments on this group. I have
seen some. Take your non-amateur topics and put them on an appropriate
group.

Terry, KI7M

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