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- Info-Hams Digest Sun, 8 May 94 Volume 94 : Issue 502
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- Today's Topics:
- A new type of ham radio club / station ....
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- Date: 7 May 94 12:32:05 GMT
- From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!ddsw1!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: A new type of ham radio club / station ....
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I would like to run the following idea of starting a top-notch
- ham radio club by the net community.
-
- Here is my idea of a ham radio club:
-
- - maximum of around 10 members.
- - $50 to $75 / month membership. With 10 members that
- amounts to a 'club income' of $6000 - $9000 a year.
- - Nice and heafty sign up fee of, let's say, $300.
-
- Now that I got your attention throwing around some big numbers,
- here is what that club would do:
-
- - Buy / rent some room somewhere.
- - Every member would have a key to that room.
- - This room would be filled with state-of-the-art
- equipment:
- 1. REAL good and big antennas (theory: if the last
- storm didn't blow them down, they were not high
- enough). Like how about a 120 foot tower.
- 2. Nice low band rig with all the goodies, like
- amplifier, filters, RTTY, AMTOR, ...
- 3. Satellite station with nice antennas.
- 4. VHF and UHF equipment which is `real cool.'
- 5. Packet radio related equipment.
- 6. Repeater
- 7. Computer
- 8. Telephone line, dial up facility.
- 9. Anything else you could dream of? Like
- repair equipment: oscilloscope, spectrum
- analyzer, generator for a field day, ..
-
- Or to summarize: we would build the worlds best ham radio
- station.
-
- The basic idea is to `pull resources.' Instead of having
- 10 OK type of stations at home we would have one BIG/SUPER
- station somewhere at a location accessible to everyone.
-
- What do you think about this idea? In particular if you lived
- in the Chicago area would you be interested in starting such
- a station/club?
-
- One last word: when I was at Purdue I discussed that idea briefly
- with the Purdue ham radio club members (via their electronic mailing
- list). Some of the responses were negative to a degree which totally
- surprized me - one member wrote that if he knew what call sign that
- super station had, he would not even communicate with us.
-
- So, please no flames, and stuff like that. My basic idea is to pull
- resources to the highest possible degree - and not to look at a
- ham radio club as a monthly meeting opportunity and to additionally,
- may be, fund a repeater.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Your feedback is welcome. If you send your reply to svb@dlogics.com,
- it will reach me a little faster.
-
- Stephan Bechtolsheim
- KX9G, DF4CK
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- Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 04:38:18 GMT
- From: agate!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!csdfg@ames.arpa
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- References <LEVIN.94May5165528@medea.bbn.com>, <1994May6.133640.2630@venus.cmc.ca>, <2qegt6$o5e@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Subject : Destinate
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-
- My Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged Second Edition sez:
-
- destinate, v.t to design or appoint.
-
- destinate, a. appointed; destined. [Obs.]
-
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- 73 de KB7ZGX
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