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Info-Hams Digest            Wed, 18 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  542

Today's Topics:
                              3Y0PI QSL
                           address for AH8J
                     Azden PCS-2000 battery type?
                     Digital Delay Circuit Ideas?
                        Good Electronic Texts
                   Gun Owners: Protect your Rights!
                       How to suscribe to QST?
      Income Opportunities from Investment Banker - Interested?
                       MAIL ORDER PC PUBLISHING
                   Man named Loomis invented radio?
                    Need help with German Repaters
                       Re strange 154.46 xmtns
                          sacred frequencies
             What's the going price for a used TR751A???
                    Willful Interference (3 msgs)

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Date: 18 May 94 13:54:53 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 3Y0PI QSL
To: [e-mail]

After two other hams in my town received their QSLs from Peter 1, I
was begining to wonder if mine would ever arrive.  I got it
yesterday!!!  Another one under my belt that I don't have to worry
about now...
            73's Evert WA5OJI



        Evert R. Halbach   WA5OJI
Internet - [e-mail]
Phone    - [phone]
Snail    - P.O. Box 2168   Thibodaux, La. 70310

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Date: 18 May 94 14:19:57 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: address for AH8J
To: [e-mail]

Does anyone have an address for AH8J? Must be a pretty new call. He
doesn't show up in the Buffalo database.

                        73,
                        Scott
---
Scott Ginsburg            Voice: 508-436-3836
Wellfleet Communications  Internet: [e-mail]
2 Federal St.             Amateur Radio: WA2CJT
Billerica, MA 01821

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Date: 18 May 94 15:10:28 GMT
From: agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uknet!nessie!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk![e-mail].
Subject: Azden PCS-2000 battery type?
To: [e-mail]

Hi,

I have one of these radios, but I bought it second-hand and I'm
trying to find out the type of battery I should install for
memory backup, as the battery holder is empty at the moment.

Cheers,

Ian.

--

[ Ian Chard, Systems Integration |  "In the noise and heat of what they call  ]
[ Email:       [e-mail] |   here the 'flying scissor-beans'..."      ]
[ NTS: G7OMZ @ GB7ODM.#16.GBR.EU |                                            ]

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Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:31:51 GMT
From: ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub2!ranger!lawdept.daytonOH.ncr.com![e-mail]
Subject: Digital Delay Circuit Ideas?
To: [e-mail]

I'm designing a clock to be driven by my local frequency standard.  My goal is
to be able to set the second mark to better than 1 millisecond (and I hope
eventually much better than that).

To do this, I need to build a variable delay that I can use to slew the
seconds marker.  Actually, I'll need a couple of delays, starting at a higher
frequency for fine adjustment, and finally running at a lower one for course
adjust.  Obviously, for stability reasons I want to do this digitally and not
with some sort of analog delay.

Any suggestions on CMOS devices (probably a presettable counter?) that
would work well here?  The larger the count range in a single chip, the
better.

Thanks...

John   AG9V
[e-mail]

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Date: 17 May 94 21:44:00 -0500
From: blkcat!org!fidonet!z1!n109!f239![e-mail]
Subject: Good Electronic Texts
To: [e-mail]

       I have come across some electronic textbooks that I think are
really pretty special.  If you are studying for an amateur license
upgrade, or for a commercial radio license (like I am) and want to
really get a good understanding of electronics without an engineering
degree, you may want to give these books a look.
       There are a series of nine books, all based on a military
electronic training course, which have been revamped completely for a
non-military audience.  These books take you from zero to quite
proficient in each subject area with no fuss.  The pace is fast enough
to keep the more knowledgable interested, but not so fast that you are
assumed to know anything that is not in the book.
        Titles in the series include:
Solid state devices
Amplfiers
Propagation, transmission lines and antennas (my favorite)
Microwave
Wave-generation circuts, etc. etc.
       Cost is $10.95 for each book plus shipping.
       Order from Lathrop Publications, Box 207, Upper Marlboro, MD
20773.
       He has ads in the most recent CQ and other ham magazines.
       73, Dave AA5NU
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Fidonet:  David Edger 1:109/239
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: 18 May 94 13:51:44 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Gun Owners: Protect your Rights!
To: [e-mail]

>| "No one NEEDS the HF frequencies, especially for some dumb ..hobby..
>Like all analogies, yours has a weakness: were HF frequencies designed
>to kill people?
>Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)

given the technophobic luddites and chicken littles that seem to pervade
society today, you can probably find more than a few people that are willing
to subscribe to the idea that they are being killed by incidental RF energy
exposure.

one local case, has people that moved next to Patrick AFB raising cain over
the Air Traffic Control radar and the military radars there causing them to
suffer diseases because they know they're being exposed since they can hear
the buzz on the radio....and it's not like they just plopped those down on the
base last month.....

we also have the folks upset over the new doppler radars being installed by
the US NWS - montel williams had a show that sensationalized the "dangers of
the NEXRAD systems" - improved severe weather detection notwithstanding.

they don't want to be exposed to radio waves AT ALL! of course natural radio
is OK because it's a natural occurance rather than a synthetic man-made radio
wave. (same logic that says a chlorine atom comes in 2 flavors - "organic" and
"ionic"...jeez some folks need to take high school chem for the first time..)

a defense is to show that even if there is an effect, it's potential is small
compared to the greater good of being able to call for the fire department or
police that can more quickly respond due to radio dispatching....especially
when they arrive on a scene and determine they either need more or less help
and can notify the other units directly....

this can be extended to personal communications like cell radiophones and
such.

bill wb9ivr

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Date: 18 May 1994 08:54:15 -0400
From: newshub.sdsu.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!dtix.dt.navy.mil!oasys.dt.navy.@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
Subject: How to suscribe to QST?
To: [e-mail]

To order QST, send your name, address to:
  American Radio Relay League
  223 Main Street
  Newington, Connecticut 06111
    attn: QST subscription dept.

I believe the current price for the subscription is $30 which includes
a year's membership in the ARRL.

If you want to call for further info, the number for the
ARRL is 203-666-1541.


Ken Stuart, W3VVN

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Date: 19 May 94 01:57:01 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Income Opportunities from Investment Banker - Interested?
To: [e-mail]

Please send inquiries/replies to:   [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 17:05:56 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!news.eecs.nwu.edu!tellab5![e-mail]
Subject: MAIL ORDER PC PUBLISHING
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Kenneth Hines) writes:
>Computer Owners: Earn 100% Commission Using & Selling
>The Mail Order PC Disk Publishing Start-Up Kit!
>Send for FREE details NOW!
>
>Send to:
>        Donald E. Hines
>        xxxxxxway Blvd.
>        Lancaster, Ohio 43130
>
>Please send $1.00 to cover shipping & handling! (A MUST)
>or call 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx and upload file xxxx.PUB directly
>off my computer.
>
>Thanks
>

Now that's what I call advertising!

---
   Jack Albert  WA9FVP             Fellow Radio Hacker
                     Tele [phone]
   Tellabs Operations, Inc.     FAX  [phone]
   1000 Remington Blvd.         [e-mail]
   Bolingbrook, IL  60440

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Date: 18 May 94 15:12:13 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Man named Loomis invented radio?
To: [e-mail]

Loomis' experiments were actually rather well documented, given the almost
pseudo-science style of these early attempts at wireless communications.
Loomis received a patent for his system, and tried to raise money to implement
a commercial wireless network.  His New York backers were wiped out in one of
the frequent financial "panics" of the 19th century.

His patent was #129,971

His experiments were mentioned in Scientific American, Feb. 16, 1878;
Feb. 15, 1879; and Feb 22, 1879.

He died in 1886.

Our Field Day group operates from a site about 1/2 mile from the site Loomis
used in the late 1860s and early 1870s (We're on the same ridge, one `peak'
(or what passes for a peak in the Blue Ridge) south of his site).


Kerry Kingham, WA4BQM           [e-mail]
U.S. Naval Observatory
Washington, D.C.

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Date: 18 May 94 13:19:39 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!siemens![e-mail]
Subject: Need help with German Repaters
To: [e-mail]

I am planning a trip to Munich Germany this summer and I
need information on German repeaters on 2 meters FM.  I
plan to take my HT with me if I can.

Also I need information on how to get a reciprocal license
for Germany.

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks

Dave Post
WA2QIK
Siemens
Princeton NJ
[e-mail]

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Date: 18 May 94 22:53:42 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re strange 154.46 xmtns
To: [e-mail]

    David Checkett WG0Y asks about automated/computerized
    transmissions on 154.46 MHz.

    Karl Beckman WA8NVW replies that the freq 154.46375 is
    allocated primarily for electric utility one-way
    communications for load control.

My FCC 90.63 suggests that 154.45625 MHz is also a likely prospect.

BOTH freqs are shared with Local Govt, Petroleum, Forest Products, Special
Industrial, Business and Manufacturer Radio Services, so power companies
are not necessarily the only source of this traffic.  I suspect that Karl
is on target with the most likely user.  154.46375 can be used up to 300w,
154.45625 is limited to 20 watts fixed, or 2 watts mobile.

Paul Marsh   N0ZAU   Omaha    [e-mail]

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Date: 18 May 94 13:24:53 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: sacred frequencies
To: [e-mail]

Erich Franz Stocker <[e-mail]> writes:

>Also, I guess that kc was used because it is supposed
>to show a long term connection with radio.  However, kc was always
>incorrect as used because it was always supposed to be kc/s.  A time
>unit has to be provided to give a proper frame of reference. 14300
>kilocycles doesn't really provide any real useful information. One of the
>reasons that hertz is used is because it is a unit for cycle per second.

That argument doesn't wash.  Kilocycle is MORE descriptive than kilohertz -- the
first tells you HALF of what the unit is, while the second tells you nothing
unless you already know what a "hertz" is defined as.

The fact is that kc and Mc were just as well understood without the "/s" as
kHz and MHz are now.

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Date: 18 May 94 16:11:17 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: What's the going price for a used TR751A???
To: [e-mail]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me the going price for a used Kenwood TR751A
multimode 2 meter tranceiver?

Thanks and 73

TJ, kv2x
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Date: 18 May 1994 16:05:35 GMT
From: nothing.ucsd.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Willful Interference
To: [e-mail]

The second or third time someone takes an axe to the guy's electric
meter he'll probably get the concept.

But first I'd see if the local TV station is interested - they are
always looking for dirty laundry to air.
    - Brian

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Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 16:38:06 GMT
From: brunix!pstc3![e-mail]
Subject: Willful Interference
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
    [e-mail] (Jim Grubs, W8GRT) writes:

|> During a repeater war between two repeaters about 75 miles apart
|> which insisted on using the same pair, with one upside down, the
|> winning side accomplished it by sneaking to the other town and
|> putting a small battery powered white noise generator near the
|> site. The resulting noise desensed the receiver so much the
|> repeater was unuseable unless you were close enough to hit it
|> with a snowball. None of the victims thought to use a non-FM
|> receiver for tracking possible QRM and thought the problem was
|> inside their hardware.
|>
|> Do the same to this turkey. Render it impossible for him to hear
|> without even setting foot on his property. He'll soon tire of
|> talking to himself.

Interesting concept. You condone jamming jammers then? I thought that
type of mentality was limited to 27mhz.

Then again, 27mhz, 144mhz... Its all the same today.


MD
--
-- Michael P. Deignan
-- RI Center For Political Incorrectness & Environment Ignorance
-- 'Have you hugged your chainsaw today?'

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Date: 18 May 94 20:33:00 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: Willful Interference
To: [e-mail]

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[e-mail] (Michael P. Deignan) writes:

> Interesting concept. You condone jamming jammers then?

In a word, YES.

> I thought that
> type of mentality was limited to 27mhz.

Why do you take the position that non-violent self-defence is
wrong? The FCC won't act.

> Then again, 27mhz, 144mhz... Its all the same today.

Aha, an anti-no-coder!!



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Date: 18 May 1994 16:30:52 GMT
From: usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!trmmstocker.gsfc.nasa.gov!@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>ews
Subject : Re: Need Advice

In article <[e-mail]> Patrick Tatro,
[e-mail] writes:
> LONG LIVE HF and GOD BLESS the MORSE CODE
>
> **** Just Poking a little fun ****
> 73's
> Patrick  N0WCG


LONG LIVE SPARK, AM and TUBES!! Down with CW, packet, ICs.   -:)


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*  Erich Franz Stocker                    *
*  N3OXM                                  *
*  [e-mail]             *
*                                         *
* My ideas are my own and do not represent*
* the opinions of the federal government, *
* NASA or Goddard Space Flight Center.    *
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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:32:49 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!ftpbox!mothost!lmpsbbs!NewsWatcher![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Was this a bad idea?

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(edwin.m.schaefer) wrote:

> A similar case arises in aviation. The FAA rules say (paraphrased) that the
> pilot  in  command  is  the final authority as to the safe operation of the
> aircraft, and that the pilot in command my deviate from  any  rule  to  the
> extent  necessary  to  meet  an emergency.  However, these statements don't
> operate to prevent enforcement of the same or other rules after  the  pilot
> has exercised this "authority" in case of an emergency.  For example, it is
> a separate violation of a rule against "careless or reckless" operation  to
> allow  oneself to get into a situation where the emergency "authority" must
> be exercised.
>
> So, there's a kind of Catch-22 situation in that the law or  rule  may  say
> you  can  break other rules in some circumstances - but it doesn't say that
> the rule against breaking rules can't or won't be enforced.
>
> Better not tempt the enforcers - unless it really will save _your_ life.
> --
> Ed Schaefer                  K9JMA ham radio           N97178 aviation

Note that the FAA rule says the PILOT, not John Q Public, who has not
already been certified as a pilot. And in my first comment I also stressed
that the Part 97 wording applies ONLY to licensed stations, not John
Unlicensed Public. Some folks appear to be quoting far more than what is
printed in black and white.

As I said the first time: Was it legal? NO. Should you do it again?
Absolutely!

--
Karl Beckman, P.E.              <  Genius may have its limitations, but  >
Motorola LMPS- Analog Data      <  stupidity is not thus handicapped.    >
                                <                      - Elbert Hubbard  >
The statements and opinions expressed here are not those of Motorola Inc.
Amateur radio WA8NVW @ K8MR.NEOH.USA.NA         NavyMARS VBH @ NOGBN.NOASI

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Date: 18 May 94 23:54:52 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!prairienet.org![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2r5r5c$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Reply-To : [e-mail] (Dan Hughes)
Subject : Re: Best AA NiCads?


For what it's worth, I recently bought an Eveready nicad charging station
(about 15 or 20 bucks) that charges AA, AAA, C, and D in three hours.
I've used it with my Radio Shack nicads, and they work fine with this
system.  (After the batteries are charged--three hours--the little red
light goes out to indicate they are ready for use.  I assume the charge
is stopped or lowered when this happens?

Also--this unit charges 9-volt nicads too, but it takes a full 12 hours
to get them up to 100%.  Why the difference in 9V vs. everything else?
Maybe because you're charging 6 cells vs. one cell?
--

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