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Info-Hams Digest            Thu, 26 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  579

Today's Topics:
                          10M open (2 msgs)
                    2M Base/mobile station wanted
                        Bizarre QST Statement
                    Converting Mitrek to 6 meters
                                IDing
                            Internet Virus
                  Looking for questions of FCC exam
                         PRB-1:  How Strong?
                     Radio networking - with PC's
                     Site to look up frequiencies
             Six Meter FM Freqs (was: Six Meter Opening]
                             SSB Filters
           wanted: advice on forming new amateur radio club

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Date: 26 May 1994 09:28:29 -0600
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu![e-mail]
Subject: 10M open
To: [e-mail]

10m was open on earlier this week at 10:30 pm mtn time. It was
covering CA,AZ,WA,OR,NV, coming into Utah

so check out 10 and if noone is on it still might be open, a quick
CQ won't hurt.

Jon KG7TE
Christian KB7HAP

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Date: 26 May 1994 18:10:45 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!nova.sti.nasa.gov!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov![e-mail]
Subject: 10M open
To: [e-mail]

In article <2s2f6t$[e-mail]>,
Christian X Nielsen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>10m was open on earlier this week at 10:30 pm mtn time. It was
>covering CA,AZ,WA,OR,NV, coming into Utah

Boy, things are REALLY bad when 10m is considered "open" when CA can
talk to UT. Sigh!

_ Larry, K3TLX
  [e-mail]

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Date: 24 May 1994 20:49:55 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com![e-mail]
Subject: 2M Base/mobile station wanted
To: [e-mail]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a 2M mobile rig.  Really for packet and home applications.
I'd like to spend < $150 ... doesn't have to be state of the art but
must have PL etc.

thanks es 73,

Paul
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Date: 26 May 1994 18:17:00 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!ncd.com!newshost.ncd.com!sheridan.ncd.com![e-mail]
Subject: Bizarre QST Statement
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Stephen Baker) writes:
|> WRT my earlier post,  my rig is an FT-101ZD with two 6146's though I forget if
|> they're A's B's etc. I beleive there's an FT-102 and FT-901 that have 6146
|> finals, though I was surprised to learn the 101E and other earlier ones didn't.
|>
|> My first rig was a homebrew one tube "full gallon" 75 watt novice cw rig built
|> from a schematic in the handbook in 1960, the final was, you guessed it, a 6146.
|> --
|>
|>
|> Stephen P. Baker                                phone:  [phone]

Ah-HAH!

So my memory isn't quite as bad as I suddenly thought it must me ;-)

We all forgot that their are half a dozen incarnations of the FT101. (Though
I will with head in hand admit that I WAS thinking of an FT101A (does this
date me just a bit...I remember them when they were NEW ;-))  For that
matter, when I bought my FT901, it was only a few years old, and I new the
TWO previous owners...thus thought I was getting a good deal on the radio
cuz I new what it had already been through.

Anyway, back to the original dicussion...my first SSB was a sweep tube
rig as I mentioned, the TR3, and I got 15 years of service out of that
dude before I finally sold it a few years ago.  (Replaced the sweep tubes
twice I think over that period of time...and yes it was a *&%($ to neutralize.)
The tubes got replaced due to incessant use and age, not because they
weren't hardy enough.  I had a grand time with that radio!

Steve KA6S

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Date: 26 May 1994 17:27:31 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!col.hp.com![e-mail]
Subject: Converting Mitrek to 6 meters
To: [e-mail]

    Has anyone converted low band (39 to 50 MHz) Mitreks for use in the
6 meter amateur band? Do the radios tune directly into the band or are
component modifications required?
    Thanks in advance.

                        Derek Toeppen
                        WA0ZTI
                        [e-mail]

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Date: 26 May 1994 14:17:07 -0400
From: newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: IDing
To: [e-mail]

In article <2rt9dh$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (John Derry) writes:

>> Also, if you say "What is  your QTH?", what you are saying is
>> "What is your what is your QTH?"

No, QTH is "My location is"....   QTH? is "What is your location?"

So "What is your QTH?" is really  "What is your (QTH)?"  (parens for
clarity).
and, similarly, "What is your what is your location?" (I assume you
meant that) would be rendered "What is your QTH??"

I"m not sure how to say ?? in phone, as distinct from ?, but there
you have it.

I find QTH to be confusing because it is also used to mean "home",
although people sometimes ask for my "home QTH", as opposed to my
"present QTH"

QSL? is equally confusing, because I take it to mean "You know what I
mean?", but sometimes is really means "Send me a QSL card" (Unusual
for 2 meter repeater use, but I encountered one such on New Years
Eve...)

QSO however, is a useful term in voice... it doesn't mean just
"conversation", but "radio conversation".  One does not have a QSO on
the telephone, or in person.

The other use for these abbreviations in phone is to help people
remember them - without such constant use, some may not remember the
right common Q signal on CW.  Judicious use of Q-signals in phone
doesn't bother me... but indiscriminate use sure does!

Best wishes!   Best wishes!     (would that be "73s" or "146"?)
Jose    KD1SB

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 06:39:59 GMT
From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu![e-mail]
Subject: Internet Virus
To: [e-mail]

Gang: Just got this via email. I do not attest to its authenticity.

Jeff NH6IL
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Date:     Wed, 25 May 1994 16:55:32 -1000
Subject: ALERT - Internet Virus

From:           FRANK H POTTER@G6HQTRS@MCAS CHERRY PT
Subject:        INTERNET VIRUS ALERT!
Date:           Wednesday, May 25, 1994  7:31:08 EDT

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Virus has been discovered on Internet that is disguised as CD-ROM shareware.

Unknown hackers have illegally put the Chinon name on a destructive
shareware file and released it on the Internet. This catastrophic virus
is named "CD-IT". -- DO NOT DOWNLOAD. IT WILL CORRUPT YOUR HARD DRIVE.
The program, allegedly a shareware PC utility that will convert an
ordinary CD-ROM drive into a CD-Recordable (CD-R) device, which is
technically impossible, instead destroys critical system files o on a
user's hard drive. The program also immediately crashes the CPU, forces
the user to reboot and stays in memory.

Widest dissemination is requested.

Frank Potter
CSSO

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Date: 26 May 1994 18:11:28 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!chaos.biophys.upenn.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Looking for questions of FCC exam
To: [e-mail]

Mock FCC license exam programs running on IBMPC can be obtained from the FTP
site:
         oak.oakland.edu "/pub/msdos/hamradio/"

under the file names: ext21.zip adv21.zip,gen21.zip,tec22.zip,nov22.zip

73 de DJ N2YKP/AA

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 18:13:39 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!eff!news.kei.com!world!news.bu.edu!att-in!gw1!nntpa!bigtop!longs![e-mail]
Subject: PRB-1:  How Strong?
To: [e-mail]



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Date: 26 May 1994 18:23:04 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nntp.uio.no!nntp-oslo.uninett.no!nki.no![e-mail]
Subject: Radio networking - with PC's
To: [e-mail]

Hi all !!

We are a few students at NKI College of engineering who are
considering to do a project on Radio networking.

I know that there exists equipment for doing this...but I dont
know where.

I would like to get in touch with companies or persons who are
dealing with radio-networking pc's.....we need as much info as
we can get hold of.

So...what do we wanna do ?

To say it in a (too) simple way....we want to "replace" the
existing coax-cable in the network with radio-signals....
preferably digital ones....but we dont know yet.

ANY help or hints would be higly appreciated !!!

Thanks.


Yours 0rjan Sandland

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Date: 26 May 1994 17:55:57 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM![e-mail]
Subject: Site to look up frequiencies
To: [e-mail]

Dave Bushong ([e-mail]) wrote:
: [e-mail] (BruceG7809) writes:

: >In article <[e-mail]>,
: >[e-mail] (David Sharpe) writes:

: >I am also interested in the ftp or site to look up frequencies for
: >scanners
: >Please inform me of newgroup or ftp...
: >Thanks


Telnet to tcomeng.com    password is FCC.

Also, get the December or Yanoff lists.  They list many ftp sites for odd
and eclectic stuff.  They're usually on the .announce or .help newsgroups.

: Try
:     rec.radio.scanner

: which is quite active.  Also, I'll send you a pretty good list via email.

: Dave, KZ1O

: --
: Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.

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Date: 26 May 1994 15:20:44 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!col.hp.com![e-mail]
Subject: Six Meter FM Freqs (was: Six Meter Opening]
To: [e-mail]

I said:
   I've usually spent my 6M time on SSB (50.125 and up) but last
   weekend played around with FM on the band. It seems that (like 10 FM),
   everyone hangs out on the calling frequency (52.525). Are there
   other preferred FM simplex frequencies commonly used?
Jim Kurdzo said:
  When the band gets really hot, it usually spills over onto 52.490.
  Sometimes in the fury on 52.525 I just give my call and say "moving to
  52.490".  You would be surprised how many guys follow you over there!

Jack, K9CUN said:
  I may be wrong but I think there is a band plan for thesix-meter band.

-------

Jack, I think you are right, there is a 6M (FM) band plan in the Repeater
Directory. However, I am not sure it is actually practiced. One problem
is that 6M remote bases are often stuck on one frequency (the calling
frequency). Our local group is thinking about putting up a 6M remote, but
with some frequency agility... hence the questions about which other
6M FM simplex frequencies to program/crystal.

Anyone else have any experience in this area?


Bob Witte / [e-mail]  / Hewlett Packard PMO / KB0CY  / [phone]

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 19:27:41 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news.Vanderbilt.Edu![e-mail]
Subject: SSB Filters
To: [e-mail]

and [e-mail] (PFEIFFEM_2) comments...

Subject:Re:SSB filters

Vince,
   Didn't Collins make mechanical filters for the 75A4.  Don't know the freq,
but they should be good ones if you can find them.

                                    K5WIM

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 15:06:25 GMT
From: agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!cs.utk.edu!stc06r.CTD.ORNL.GOV!ornl![e-mail]
Subject: wanted: advice on forming new amateur radio club
To: [e-mail]



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Date: (null)
From: (null)
Wayne Overbeck's article in June CQ presents a realistic assessment of PRB-1
and the courts.  Having been extremely involved in the David Evans, NQ0I,
case cited in his article, I can safely say, that in the 10th Circuit,
PRB-1 isn't worth the paper it was written on.

As to the difference between CQ and QST coverage, you have got to understand
that THE ARRL DOES NOT PRINT BAD NEWS  !  They have clearly decided that
it is against their editorial policy.  When NQ0I won in Federal District
Court, they gave it lots of publicity.  When that decision was overturned
in Federal Appeals Court, nary a word was said in QST !

If you read the tiny print of the ARRL Board of Directors, Executive
Committee minutes in the June QST, you will see an item about Chris
Imlay, N3AKD, ARRL General Counsel, briefing the committee on the
possibility of the FCC modifying PRB-1 to give it more power.  What
did Mr. Imlay tell the committee ?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Steve London, N2IC/0
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 11:41:54
From: usc!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews!ornews.intel.com!ccm.hf.intel.com!@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
To: [e-mail]

References <2rqthm$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>net.edu
Subject : Re: Obstructing justice

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sandy Lynch) writes:

>: Well sure, that's Canada. Here in the US we still have the tatters
>: of a Bill of Rights. In a nearby local town they ran a vicious
>: speed trap. A farmer put up a sign just outside the city limits that
>: read, "Warning, speed trap ahead run by local parasites." They took
>: him to court trying to get it taken down, but they lost. The truth
>: is still a defense in this country.

>Presumably the "truth" you cite is the "local parasites", eh?
>Nothing libelous or slanderous there .... truth is truth ... I like it.

According to the dictionary:
Parasite - a person who lives off another or others and gives no useful return.

Doesn't sound too far fetched to me.


Brett Miller N7OLQ                  [e-mail]
Intel Corp.
American Fork, UT

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Date: 26 May 1994 18:07:26 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!ncd.com!newshost.ncd.com!sheridan.ncd.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2s0pqo$dc2$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>cd.com
Subject : Re: Bizarre QST statement

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Greg Bullough) writes:
|> In article <2s0pqo$dc2$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steve Wilson) writes:
|> >
|> >Just for the record, I'm pretty sure that the FT101 uses 6146s.
|>
|> Just for the record, there are as many 6146s in FT101s as there are in
|> RCA televisions.
|>
|> Greg


Ok, I stand corrected on the above, though a blanket statement that
Yeasu is out because they never designed a hybrid rig that used
6146's is also incorrect.

Steve

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 19:05:14 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Bizarre QST statement

>
>The 6JS6c sweep tubes used for finals in the 101E are difficult to neutralize.
>The rig was designed for the NEC 6JS6c, which went out of production circa

Does someone know what finals are used in the FL101, which is the tx
counterpart in the FR101/FL101 twins?

73 Dave WB0GAZ [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 17:03:24 GMT
From: telesoft![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>│╝
Subject : Re: 2 meter thru-glass

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gary Coffman) writes:
>>#2) what are its disadvantages?

>The primary disadvantage of thru-the-glass antennas is that the coax
>isn't properly decoupled for stray RF.
...
>This leads to the typical problems of RF in the cabin.
>It's often so bad that the coax does the majority of the radiating.

So, how can one properly decouple the coax to minimize the stray RF if
we choose to go with the thru-the-glass?  I already have a hole in the center
of the roof where the 220 1/4 wave is located, and have a cellular thru-the-
glass mounted in the top-center of the rear window.  Would grounding the coax
at the base of the thru-the-glass antenna solve the decoupling problem?

>Then there's the other problem of having the radiator mounted below
>the greenhouse. The pattern is asymmetric. Never mind the radiating
>coax for a minute, the whip itself fires RF through the cabin.

Why would the whip fire RF thru the cabin, on any thru-the-glass antenna
(mounted on the rear window) I've seen the entire whip is above the glass
and about 95% above the roof itself (depending on the exact shape of the roof).

--GaryM
--
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Alsys Inc.                  Packet:   KK6YB @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA
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Date: 26 May 1994 19:12:29 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usenet.elf.com!sundog.tiac.net!news.sprintlink.net!bga.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2rupp2$[e-mail]>, <2rvui4$[e-mail]>du
Subject : Re: Amp-Hours for a Battery

There is a relationship between open-circuit voltage, temperature and
state of charge.  Panasonic publishes a technical pamphlet for their line
of sealed gel-cell batteries which contains a graph yielding the
percentage of charge remaining for any given open circuit voltage.
The cell temp is important, Panasonics reference temp is 77 F.  Open
circuit voltage means that the battery has been neither charged or
discharged for several hours.

But *roughly* an o-c voltage of 12.9 -13.0 means 100% and 11.9 - 12.0
means about 10%.  The relationship is not perfectly linear but is close
enough that if I read 12.45 V I assume a 50% charge remaining, etc.
Caution: I have also found that this only works with a battery that is in
good condition.  Abuse by severe overcharge or 100% depletion will change
the o-c voltages and render this method unreliable.

I frequently buy gel-cells at hamfests and carry a small DMM with me.  I
never buy a battery that is outside of the 12.0-13.0 range and its got to
be a real bargain if it reads below 12.5!

Also, another thing I look for is any bulge or depression on the sidewalls
of the battery.  I don't know what the cause of this is, but in my
experience it has been a sign that complete failure of the battery is
imminent.

Patrick McGu

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