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Date: Mon,  9 May 94 10:28:56 PDT
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Info-Hams Digest            Mon,  9 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  506

Today's Topics:
                                (none)
                       ** New Ham Radio BBS **
                              10M beacon
              30Mhz - 40Mhz range, who uses it? (2 msgs)
               << Looking for Ham cdrom disk for BBS >>
                             Cruise Ships
                digital speech transmission for HAMs?
                            FCC computers
                    Help with Homemade Capacitors
              Licencing cost (was: Canadian Reciprocity)
                       Looking for "SuperMorse"
                  personal autopatch calls (3 msgs)
                               Sick Ham
            Speaker-Mics for Kenwood HTs  (advice wanted)
                         Was this a bad idea?

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Date: 9 May 94 13:00:22 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (none)
To: [e-mail]

To:   [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Butternut HF6V info...
Subject: Butternut HF6V info...
News-Software: UReply 3.1

I just purchased an HF6V without any documentation.  Is there
someone out there that would be willing to make a copy available
to me?

73 de N1PBT...ron

Ron Rossi

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Date: 9 May 94 15:47:41 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ** New Ham Radio BBS **
To: [e-mail]

    Warmest Greetings,

    Just some information for Phoneline BBS users out there. There is
a new BBS in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada which supports 14.4 baud- 705-522-8381.
Along with files it also has Ham echoes for people to write into. As of yet
this phone line BBS is not connected to Packet.  Try it out and let my know
what you think,  Thanks,

73's de Guy VE3 XGQ
Co-Sysop of the Sudbury Amateur Radio BBS
Fidonet address 1:224/50

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Date: 7 May 94 17:51:37 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!vipunen.hut.fi![e-mail]
Subject: 10M beacon
To: [e-mail]

Jeff NH6IL writes:
>Back to radio: Does anyone know if there is an international coordinating
>body for 10M beacons?

 You can contact Martin Harrison G3USF, e-mail: [e-mail]
 He is the HF-beacon coordinator in IARU Region 1. I'm not sure who are the
 coordinators in other regions but these things are more or less global.

 HF-beacon list by G3USF (March '94) is available via ftp at ftp.funet.fi:
 /pub/ham/freq-lists/beacons/bcn_ww.hf

 Jukka OH6DD

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Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 08:12:03 -0500
From: psinntp!pbs.org!jernandez.pbs.org![e-mail]
Subject: 30Mhz - 40Mhz range, who uses it?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Stuart Hawkins) wrote:

> Does anyone know who/what uses the 30Mhz to 40Mhz frequency range?
> I have a European 35Mhz transmitter for my RC aircraft.
> I would like to know if it's safe to use it in the States.
> Does anything conflict? Military possibly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart


        This frequency range is still used by volunteer fire and rescue squads in
rural areas. And MOST IMPORTANTLY by STATE POLICE AGENCIES. While some
states, like VA, have moved their SPD to 159 MHz, there are still a good
deal of frequencies and states using the 30 MHz band.
--
John J. Ernandez
Communication Systems Engineer
Public Broadcasting Service

E-Mail [e-mail]    Member:PRR Technical & Historical Society
Phone: [phone]                Southern Railway Historical Association
Amateur Radio: KA2YAP

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 14:55:25 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!cherokee!walter!dancer.cc.bellcore.com![e-mail]
Subject: 30Mhz - 40Mhz range, who uses it?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Stuart Hawkins <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Does anyone know who/what uses the 30Mhz to 40Mhz frequency range?
>I have a European 35Mhz transmitter for my RC aircraft.
>I would like to know if it's safe to use it in the States.
>Does anything conflict? Military possibly?

First point: Even if the frequencies you ask about are not being
used, you'll be violating FCC rules using 35MHz for radio control
anywhere in the United States.

The 30-40MHz band is populated by all types of users, police,
fire departments, first aid, and other "land mobile" users.

Standard Disclaimer- Any opinions, etc. are mine and NOT my employer's.
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Date: 9 May 94 15:52:04 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: << Looking for Ham cdrom disk for BBS >>
To: [e-mail]

    Warmest Greetings,

    I'm looking for a CDROM disk that can be used in a BBS that is
Ham related. I have heard of the BUCKMASTER cdrom but I know nothing else
about it. Could someone please help,  Thanks

73's de Guy VE3 XGQ

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Date: 9 May 94 14:02:04 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Cruise Ships
To: [e-mail]

Tnx info Marty.  Guess with all the complications on trying to
operate from a cruise ship, the only alternatives are write a letter
and hope you are allowed to possibly use their antennas or maybe best
to forget about it and catch up on the hamming when I get home...

                    73's Evert WA5OJI

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Date: 9 May 94 17:25:24 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: digital speech transmission for HAMs?
To: [e-mail]

Text item: Text_1

>But nevertheless it must be possible to use digital voice over
>a 10 kHz FM channel.  Gerrit, PA3BYA.

It is entirely possible but why bother if one QSO still takes up
one whole repeater? The problem with digital voice on existing
repeaters is that it is not as good as NBFM yet. The strongest
signal on a repeater input will capture the receiver shutting out
weaker signals. Thus you only get one conversation possible at a
time with digital voice, just like now. I have had 4800 bps digital
voice running, but it is not as good as NBFM. And increasing the
bps rate to get better voice reproduction just widens the band-
width required to more than NBFM requires.

Presently, for the same fidelity over the same bandwidth, NBFM is
better than digital voice. The problem is a lot worse on HF where
we are limited by silly rules to 300 bps max.

73, KG7BK, [e-mail]  (I do not speak for Intel)

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 03:13:49 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!perot.mtsu.edu!raider!theporch!jackatak![e-mail]
Subject: FCC computers
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Matthew B Cravit) writes:
> On 25 Apr 1994 16:10:44 GMT, strange alien beings caused Bill Gunshannon (bil
> > In article <[e-mail]>, kevin jessup <kevin.
> > |> BTW, what kind of computer are thay running over in Gettysburg?
>
> > Last time I heard (quite a while ago) it was a SPERRY 1100 runing EXEC-8.
> > A PDP-11/23 running RSX11 (or RT11 for that matter) would run circles aroun
> > it.
That comment isn't really worthy of a response, since all the
1100/2200 systems I worked on would easily BURY an MVS box...but how
hard would that be?  ;^)

> This Sperry is quite possibly still what is in use.
Actually, it is NOT a Sperry or Unisys... it is a truly ancient
Honeywell 200/2000 machine of late 1960s vintage that is programmed in
EasyCoder, an AutoCoder (you gotta be OLD to know what that is!  ;^)
type language... economics is why they still are trying to run it...
Federal administrative systems are among the very LAST to be updated.
Look at the mess the Social Security Admin was in not long ago...and
the FCC administrative computing is even less visible... save to hams
on on the UseNet groups! ;^)

> because the FCC is junking their Sperry and moving to a PC LAN this
> month (supposedly electronic filing by the VECs will then be possible
> by the end of June).
Geez... PC LAN... WOW.... NOT!!!! Too bad they couldn't get a real
computer that supported their needs easily and would have some growth
to it... Bad Boy Bill Gates didn't write DOS for future...just lits of
silly people gave him money to keep it obscure.

Oh well. I do hope electronic filing happens before the 1997 WARC...
but you'll turn blue if you hold your breath... making a PC LAN
actually work is no trivial event...
73,
Jack, W4PPT/Mobile (75M SSB 2-letter WAS #1657 -- all from the mobile! ;^)

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Date: 6 May 94 21:26:43 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!srgenprp!news.dtc.hp.com!hplextra!hpldsla![e-mail]
Subject: Help with Homemade Capacitors
To: [e-mail]

I have made numerous caps for different purposes, like Tesla coil etc.

General formula is  C=@ A/d
where @=dialectric constant
A=area of foil
d=thicknes of the glass

@ for iron-sealing glass is 8.3
@ for soda borosilicat is 4.8
@ for 100% silicon dioxide is 3.8

Dialectric strength for std.glass is about 10kV/mm

If you send me measures of your cap I will be  more specific.

from the log of AA6AD

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 12:53:24 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!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] (Ross Alexander) says:
>
>Our licenses are lifetime, too.  It's the *station* license that costs $26
>per annum.

No, it's your "certificate of proficiency" that does not expire.

BTW, my station licence cost $24.00 to renew this year.  I think that that
some commercial people (boaters and such) pay $26.00 for their station
licence.

>
>regards,
>Ross ve6pdq

vy 73
Russ va3rr/aa8lu
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Date: Mon, 9 May 94 13:52:49 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!news2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!dg-rtp!ripav33![e-mail]
Subject: Looking for "SuperMorse"
To: [e-mail]

My father is looking for a DOS program called "SuperMorse", or at least
that's what he thinks the name is.  It's supposed to help you study the
morse code, generate test for the different license classes, etc.
Does anyone know where I can pull this off the internet, or where it can
be purchased, if it indeed does exist.  thanks
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UNIX Release Integration        Internet: [e-mail]
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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 13:36:14 +0000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu![e-mail]
Subject: personal autopatch calls
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Brad Ward) writes:

>  >I read recently that the FCC ruled that it is now permissable to make
> personal
>  >calls via autopatch to conduct personal tasks such as making a doctors or
>  >dentists appointment. Can anyone out there answer the following:
>
>         It's nice to have, but I wonder why anyone would use the autopatch
>         to make doctors or dentists appointments.
>
> ... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.

Your advice SUCKS. What in the world is the autopatch for? WRONG.
Whatever YOU answered, its WRONG. Thats because whatever I DECIDE to
use it for I CAN use it for (within the law). Why should the law limit
it to, essentially, anything but running a business on ham radio, and
then an idiot like you come along and LIMIT IT FURTHER, to WHATEVER YOU
FEEL is 'inappropriate'????????
  We dont need bully channel-cops like you around. Go beat your kids
into submission again and get the hell off this newsgroup. We already
have part 97 and its QUITE CLEAR on what it allows and doesnt allow,
and the intent of the latest change was CLEARLY to ALLOW amateurs to do
things like order pizzas and make dentist appointments on the patch.
The economics of patches in areas where each call costs money dictates
the use of the patch only when necessary... in areas where all local
calls are free, IT DOESNT. So, USE THE PATCH WHENEVER YOU FEEL LIKE IT,
HAMS.. Just stay within the LAW, not the holier-than-thou ideals of
no-brain OLD FARTS like THIS GUY!!!!

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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 14:21:34 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hplextra!hplb!hpwin055.uksr!hpqmoea![e-mail]
Subject: personal autopatch calls
To: [e-mail]

ham this. ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <[e-mail]>
: [e-mail] (Brad Ward) writes:

: >  >I read recently that the FCC ruled that it is now permissable to make
: > personal
: >  >calls via autopatch to conduct personal tasks such as making a doctors or
: >  >dentists appointment. Can anyone out there answer the following:
: >
: >         It's nice to have, but I wonder why anyone would use the autopatch
: >         to make doctors or dentists appointments.
: >
: > ... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.

: Your advice SUCKS. What in the world is the autopatch for? WRONG.
: Whatever YOU answered, its WRONG. Thats because whatever I DECIDE to
: use it for I CAN use it for (within the law). Why should the law limit
: it to, essentially, anything but running a business on ham radio, and
: then an idiot like you come along and LIMIT IT FURTHER, to WHATEVER YOU
: FEEL is 'inappropriate'????????
:   We dont need bully channel-cops like you around. Go beat your kids
: into submission again and get the hell off this newsgroup. We already
: have part 97 and its QUITE CLEAR on what it allows and doesnt allow,
: and the intent of the latest change was CLEARLY to ALLOW amateurs to do
: things like order pizzas and make dentist appointments on the patch.
: The economics of patches in areas where each call costs money dictates
: the use of the patch only when necessary... in areas where all local
: calls are free, IT DOESNT. So, USE THE PATCH WHENEVER YOU FEEL LIKE IT,
: HAMS.. Just stay within the LAW, not the holier-than-thou ideals of
: no-brain OLD FARTS like THIS GUY!!!!


   Having read the basenote and these responses, I must say that I find
Brad Ward's advice sound. The response from the gentleman at Harvard has
convinced me that I would not want to have any telephone call about my
personal health transmitted on an amateur repeater. You never know who's
listening  ;-)

      David   GM4ZNX




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Date: 9 May 1994 15:00:10 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!bigfoot.wustl.edu!cec3![e-mail]
Subject: personal autopatch calls
To: [e-mail]

ham this. ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Your advice SUCKS. What in the world is the autopatch for? WRONG.
: Whatever YOU answered, its WRONG. Thats because whatever I DECIDE to
: use it for I CAN use it for (within the law). Why should the law limit
: it to, essentially, anything but running a business on ham radio, and
: then an idiot like you come along and LIMIT IT FURTHER, to WHATEVER YOU
: FEEL is 'inappropriate'????????
:   We dont need bully channel-cops like you around. Go beat your kids
: into submission again and get the hell off this newsgroup. We already
: have part 97 and its QUITE CLEAR on what it allows and doesnt allow,
: and the intent of the latest change was CLEARLY to ALLOW amateurs to do
: things like order pizzas and make dentist appointments on the patch.
: The economics of patches in areas where each call costs money dictates
: the use of the patch only when necessary... in areas where all local
: calls are free, IT DOESNT. So, USE THE PATCH WHENEVER YOU FEEL LIKE IT,
: HAMS.. Just stay within the LAW, not the holier-than-thou ideals of
: no-brain OLD FARTS like THIS GUY!!!!

Oh great.  Somebody else who thinks that USING CAPS WILL DRIVE YOUR POINT
ACROSS better.  Well, it doesn't make any difference, except that if you
do it again, you enter the privilaged few who enter my kill-file.

Now I'm not arguing that your point is invalid--I feel that the autopatch
should be taken advantage of whenever possible (assuming, of course, a
legitimate reason and the unavailability or difficulty in finding a land-line)
but we don't need bully-er's like you here.  This is supposedly to be a
friendly forum, believe it or not, or do you want to form a newsgroup
alt.flame.brad.ward.for.having.his.own.opinion.and.advice?????
Gees!!!  Why wouldn't someone not want to use an autopatch???  How would like
everybody in a 50 mile radius from the transmitter know that you're going
in to the doctor to treat um. . .impotence???  Just a case in point!  If you
don't like his opinion or advice, fine; but you don't have to try to reduce
him to nothing, it'll backfire on you!!!!

--jesse (FCC is still sitting on my application)

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Date: 9 May 1994 14:44:22 GMT
From: tymix.Tymnet.COM!niagara![e-mail]
Subject: Sick Ham
To: [e-mail]

>>My Dad is an older Ham who does not get to spend much time on the air anymore
>>and has never really become interested in computers.  He is currently very sick
>>and a few QSL cards would sure cheer him up.  His call letters are K3NSN and I
>>assume his address is listed in the callbook.
>>>
>>>Call-Sign: K3NSN                    Class: GENERAL
>>>Real Name: CHARLES I WAUGH JR       Birthday: DEC 8, 1920
>>>Mailing Address: 1602 CRESTON ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA  19149
>>>Valid From: NOV 25, 1986            To: NOV 25, 1996
>>
>Err, with a name like "Kensy-Rudick", I'm a little surprised her "dad" is
>named Waugh.

Ms. Kensy-Rudick was asked about this on CIS and she confirmed that this
gentleman was, indeed, her father.

I, too, was concerned about the name issue, but she cleared it up and added
a warm thanks to all who might be able to send her father a card.

This is not to say that Mr. Waugh may not some day turn out to be another
"legend,"  :-)  but at least he seems to be quite legitimate now.

My card went off yesterday.

73,

Dick, W6OLD
--
Dick Flanagan, W6OLD                             w6old@n6qmy.#nocal.ca.usa.na
[e-mail]                                 CIS:73672,751 GEnie:FLANAGAN

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Date: 9 May 94 16:25:54 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Speaker-Mics for Kenwood HTs  (advice wanted)
To: [e-mail]

<[e-mail]> (Marc Wollemborg) writes:


     I'm interested in getting opinions as to which of the four Kenwood
     speaker-mics would would be best for use in a high noise environment.
     Basically I'm going to be carrying my HT around an airport tarmac and
     I want to know which speaker-mic would have the best audio output with
     the volume turned up.

I would recommend a GOOD earmic for that environment. IMHO a bull horn on
the shoulder is not always enough on a flight line. The noise cancellation
of the ear piece will make it much easier to hear the radio. I made the
mistake of going for a cheap earmic, the problem is low audio out when I
transmit, I have since played with a better earmic that did not cost that
much more and had good results. Of course, you do look like you're talking
to yourself when you use one, but I do that anyway. :-)

73

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Date: 9 May 1994 14:42:40 GMT
From: yale.edu!noc.near.net!hopscotch.ksr.com![e-mail]
Subject: Was this a bad idea?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Sir Hoagy) writes:
>"This is unlicensed Matthew T. Rupert.  I've got a bad accident
> out here at <such and such>.  Need ambulance and emergency response.
> Will stand by and repeat"

>Since I was unlicensed, was it illegal for me to use my radio
>on an amateur frequency for this situation?

According to the Communications Act of 1934, if life or property was at
stake, it was not illegal for you to use any radio communications equipment
at hand for emergency communications.

You did precisely the right thing.

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