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Info-Hams Digest            Sat, 28 May 94       Volume 94 : Issue  586

Today's Topics:
                               "for ID"
                       "portable"  was "for ID"
                               10M open
                       Ahhhhhhhhh all the time
                Amateur Radio Newsline #875  20 May 94
                     ARLB048 Vanity play replies
                     ARLP021 Propagation de KT7H
                        Ham Radio few problem
                                IDing
               Need CW/RTTY IBM software for interface
           PRB-1 access and approaching city hall (2 msgs)
                         What does HAM mean ?

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Date: 27 May 1994 16:19:43 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!neoucom.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news.ysu.edu!yfn.ysu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: "for ID"
To: [e-mail]

NH6IL writes:
> >Like "Ahhhh my name is Fred.   Ahhh my QTH is,   Ahhhh my >rig is a ,
>  Ahhhhhh Ahhhhh Ahhhhhhh my antenna is Ahhhh".
>
> That's done so that their VOX continues to key the xmtr; otherwise at
> every pause their xmtr would drop off and you'd miss the first syllable
> (at least in the older gear) of their next spoken word.
>
> Jeff NH6IL
The other, even older reason goes back to the very annoying
characteristic of older rigs and "Linears" which used large,
noisy relays to switch from TX to RX.  Besides a clipped first
syllable, the operator and listener would both be subjected to the
sound of a loud "THWACK" (onomatopoea?) when the relays kicked over.
Operators using speech clippers and compressors added to the
interesting characteristics of the changeover sound.  The long
AAAAAhhhh's did indeed minimize this. It is still odd, though,hearing
people do it on VHF repeaters.
---
Chuck Reti  Detroit MI   WV8A
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: 28 May 94 15:04:51 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!master.cs.rose-hulman.edu![e-mail]
Subject: "portable"  was "for ID"
To: [e-mail]

Howdy,

I year or so ago I asked the following trivia question on a local 2-m net.

           When are you required to sign "portable", as
           in "This is K9CUN portable"?

As you might imagine this caused a very nice discussion on the net.

And the correct answer astounded more than a few hams.


73 de Jack, K9CUN

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Date: 27 May 1994 19:46:29 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!hookup!news2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!rain.org!coyote![e-mail]
Subject: 10M open
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Larry Novak) writes:

>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]


Larry, let's accenuate the positive:  while HF conditions are downright
crummy at the present, there are lots of newly licensed "coded" Techs and
Novices who only have HF SSB priveleges on 10 meters.  To them, talking
to a station 1000 miles away via sporadic-E propogation must be much more
exciting than the squelch tails on the local 2 meter repeater.

73 from Santa Barbara DE KM6JE/Leigh.

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Date: 28 May 94 14:47:54 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!master.cs.rose-hulman.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Ahhhhhhhhh all the time
To: [e-mail]

Howdy,

> What about guys that keep saying "Ahhhhhh" all the time?
>
>                                           __
> Isn't that the international phonetic for BT?
> --
> Rich McAllister ([e-mail])

=======================

C'mon! Ahhhhh Everybody knows that's Ahhhhh to keep the VOX from Ahhhhh
dropping out Ahhhhhhh.

73 de Jack, K9CUN

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Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 14:42:38 MDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!ve6mgs![e-mail]
Subject: Amateur Radio Newsline #875  20 May 94
To: [e-mail]

The electronic publication of the Amateur Radio Newsline is distributed
with the permission of Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, President and Editor of
Newsline.  The text version is edited from the original scripts and
transcribed from the audio reports by Dale Cary, WD0AKO, and is first
published in The Radio & Electronics Round Table on the Genie Online
System.

If you have any comment, suggestion, or news item you would like to submit,
send them via E-Mail to [e-mail] or [e-mail].
You can contact Newsline at [phone].  It is a combination answering
and FAX machine, if you have a FAX to send, wait for the voice prompt and
press your fax-send button.

All other information and disclaimers are in the text header below.

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  Sorry for the delay in getting Newsline this week.  My wife
 Kay went into labor before I had it fully transcribed!  I am
 proud to announce that we have a happy, healthy and very hungry
 baby girl named Jamie Alexis Kay Cary who was 7 lb 2 oz and 18.5
 inches.  After 13 hours of labor we didn't get much else done.

                                   Sincerly,
                                   Dale Cary - WD0AKO


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                      The following is a QST

   The FCC says that some spectrum is now up for sale, but the ham
 bands are not included.  Also a fifteen year old from Louisville,
 Kentucky has been chosen as 1994 Young Ham of The Year.  Meet
 Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP on Newsline Report number 875 coming your
 way right now!

(*****
             FCC TO HOLD SPECTRUM AUCTIONS THIS YEAR

   The radio spectrum is now officially up for sale.  At least a
 part of it is, according to Federal Communications Commission
 Chairman Reed Hundt.
   Hundt says that his regulatory agency will hold frequency
 spectrum auctions this summer and fall.  The frequencies up for
 grabs are to be used to expand mobile communications.  The FCC
 Chairman says that this emerging industry has the potential to
 become one of the biggest in the United States with an
 estimated 87 million customers or more by the end of the century.
   In a related matter,  Chairman Hundt told the Washington Post
 that he wants the FCC to promote competition in the communications
 industry, especially for cable TV.  In that way he says the agency
 could eliminate rate regulation almost entirely.
   At this time the auctioning of spectrum by the FCC does not
 appear to hold the potential to impact on ham radio.  But with the
 ham bands considered a valuable commodity by many non-amateur
 business interests, this is a situation that will have to be
 watched carefully for the future.

(*****
                       2300 MHz COMMENTS

   The FCC has issued a Notice of Inquiry on the reallocation of
 spectrum from federal government use and has designated the
 proceeding as ET Docket 94-32.  If approved, some 50 MHz of band
 space would be transferred to private sector use, possibly as
 early as this summer.
   The reallocation is called for under the Omnibus Reconciliation
 Act of 1993.  It requires the Department of Commerce to identify
 200 MHz of spectrum below 5 GHz to be reallocated within the next
 15 years.
   The spectrum recognized for immediate reallocation is at 2390
 to 2400 MHz, 2402 to 2417 MHz, and 4660 to 4685 MHz.  Amateurs
 share the first two ranges.  The Commission said that there are a
 number of factors associated with existing allocations of the
 bands that will affect their potential for private sector use.  It
 is specifically asking for input on whether the proposed
 reallocations would adversely affect amateur operations,
 especially amateur satellites.
   The Commission says that the Department of Commerce expects
 that the amateur service community can satisfy the majority of its
 spectrum requirements in the remaining 35 MHz left after the
 proposed reallocation.  It also believes that current use of the
 13 cm band by amateur stations is light compared to use of bands
 lower in the spectrum, but it notes that use may increase for
 amateur-satellite, high-speed computer data links, amateur TV, and
 other wide-band applications.
   The Department of Commerce says that it excluded the 2400-2402
 MHz band from consideration for reallocation in order to protect
 existing amateur satellite operations.
   The FCC has set a comment deadline is June 15th to file on
 ET Docket 94-32.

(*****
                            SLOW CODE

   Slow-code, the name given to an Amateur Radio Industry Group
 proposal to lower the General class code speed requirement to 10
 words per minute is gaining far more support than criticism in ham
 radio circles.  Most of the packet radio postings on slow-code
 have praised the industry groups leadership in this area.  Some
 even say that the proposed lowering of the code speed does not go
 anywhere far enough with five words per minute being suggested
 instead.
   Hams who favor the five words per minute morse code say that
 this will allow some sixty to seventy thousand technician class
 operators, licensed prior to the Novice Enhancement action of the
 mid 1980's to buy high frequency radios and immediately go on the
 air.  This is because any Tech licensed prior to Novice
 Enhancement as already passed the General Class theory test and a
 five word per minute code exam.
   A five word per minute General class code speed would also do
 well for the sagging ham radio support industry and the nations
 economy.  This, since it could conceivably generate an instant
 sixty to one hundred million dollars in sales of transceivers,
 antennas and associated equipment.  With the continually shrinking
 dollar to yen exchange ratio, slow-code might even stimulate the
 creation of new ham radio manufacturing plants here in the United
 States and create thousands of new jobs.
   Slow code is also getting support from users of various public
 bulletin boards.  An unofficial poll being conducted on America
 Online by Newsline is so far five to one in favor of the Amateur
 Radio Industry Group's Slow-Code proposal.
   The Amateur Radio Industry Group has not announced any firm
 date as to when it plans to file its slow-code rule making request
 before the FCC.  Nor has there yet been any reaction to this
 proposal from either the American Radio Relay League or the
 National Amateur Radio Association.

(*****
                    RUSSIAN MAIL THIEVES

   If you have been waiting a long time for a QSL from Russia and
 have not received it, this might be the reason.  According to Ed
 Kritsky, NT2X, a recent article in a Russian newspaper has
 announced arrest of several alleged mail thieves at Moscow's
 Central Post Office.
   Four suspects would pick up mail at Sheremetyevo International
 airport near Moscow then drive their trucks to a nearby woods.
 There they reportedly opened the bags and rip envelopes open,
 seeking valuable enclosures such as foreign currencies and IRCs.
 The piles of torn envelopes were then dumped on the spot, as
 trash.  The four were caught only when they became careless and
 started opening mail at the Post Office warehouse.
   The newspaper report says that Russian Postal Service security
 people was helpless to combat the thievery.  In fact, they pretty
 much missed the whole thing.  So you might want to mail out
 another QSL in case its been over a year since you sent out the
 first.

(*****
                   YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR 1994

   Sometimes its a lot of little things in life that really pay
 off.  If you don't believe us just ask Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP of
 Louisville, Kentucky.  On Thursday May 12th, -- on her fifteenth
 birthday -- Allison found out that she had been selected to
 receive the 1994 Westlink Report Young Ham of the Year Award.
 Newsline was listening in when Allison found out the news.

   "Let's say I said to you right now, and really meant it,
 congratulations, Happy Birthday and you ARE the Young Ham of the
 Year, how would you feel?"  Westlink.
   "I would be very excited."  Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP.
   "Well you better be excited, congratulations you're the
 winner!"  Westlink.
   "Are you serious?"  Allison Zettwock, KD4CKP.
   "I'm as serious as I can be.  Congratulations Allison, you are
 the 1994 WestLink Report Young Ham of the Year."  Westlink.
   "Thank you!"  Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP.

   Allison Zettwoch was chosen as 1994 Young Ham of the Year
 because of a lot of little things.  She took it upon herself to
 become a ham after reading about the hobby in a youth magazine.
 Then she took out after her parents, and in short order her father
 Larry -- a 757 pilot for US Air was sporting the call sign KR4IF
 and her mother Daneen became known as KD4FNO.  Only her younger
 brother Evan is still not hooked and Allison says she is working
 on him.
   But Allisons recruiting efforts go well past family ties.  She
 is credited with being the inspiration that lead to the licensing
 of the Zettwoch's closest friends.  Their becoming hams has truly
 made this a multi family affair.

   "There's another family here we do, that we work with, that are
 best friends, there's like three hams in the family.  We may be on
 different sides of town, but we coordinate to pick up each others
 kids and things like that.  I mean it's very useful device there,
 not just, you know for friends type talking, but if I'm on this
 side of town I'll pick up your kid if you'll pick mine up over
 there.  Sometimes it's three o'clock you'll here the Metcalfs and
 the Zettwochs coordinating who is picking up who and will you feed
 the dog today because we didn't make it home."  Larry Zettwoch
 explains.

   According to John Embry, KR4RL who nominated her, Allison
 continues to be a motivating force among the young people in ham
 radio in and around the Louisville area.  Embry says that two of
 the youngsters that she recruited into the hobby have become true
 ham radio leaders in their own right.  One of them,  Shannon
 Metcalf, KD4RER, is already serving on the board of Directors of
 a major Amateur Radio club.
   Embry also says that Allison continues her activities of
 recruiting young scouts into the ranks of ham radio.  At the
 recent South Louisville Community Festival, she actively discussed
 ham radio with every person with ventured by the station and
 display.

   "We live in the south end of our city.  And we have different
 groups like we have the Corvette Club come and we had the police
 there with the talking police car and everything.  I set up an
 amateur radio station to demonstrate to the community what amateur
 radio is."  Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP.
   "Whose idea was it?"  Westlink.
   "Mine!"  Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP.

   In addition to all of this, Allison Zettwoch still manages to
 maintain a remarkable 4.0 grade point average.  She is already
 taking ground school instruction in anticipation of getting a
 private pilots license as soon as she turns 16.
   KD4CKP says that she loves scuba diving and will be going
 to China this coming summer as a part of a special school
 sponsored event.  And least we forget,  Allison has just assumed
 the duty of Editor of Watts New, the official newsletter of the
 Amateur Radio Transmitting Society of Louisville.  She says that
 she does all of the ham radio volunteer work because:

   "I enjoy helping people get into the hobby."  Allison Zettwoch,
 KD4CKP.

   Allison Zettwoch, KD4CKP will receive her award the evening of
 Saturday, June the 4th at the Sea Pac convention banquet in
 Seaside, Oregon.  On hand to make the presentation will be
 Westlink Report Editor - Publisher Burt Hicks, WB6MQV,  Yaesu
 USA's Kevin Karamanos, WD6DIH and Newsline Producer Bill
 Pasternak, WA6ITF.  It was Pasternak who created the Westlink
 Report Young Ham of the Year Award program back in 1986.  Yaesu
 USA has served as corporate underwriter ever since.

(*****
               GENIE TO HOME INTERNET NEWSGROUPS

   Two items from the ham radio area on the General Electric
 Consumer Information Service better known as GEnie.  First, as an
 experiment, the GEnie Radio and Electronics BBS will be bringing
 its users the radio-related Newsgroups from Internet.  If you are
 a Genie subscriber you will soon see several new topics in
 categories 4, 6, 7 and 16 that are in reality the text of messages
 from some of the Internet Newsgroups.
   GEnie says that its users will be able to send and receive
 messages between its posted topics and the respective newsgroups.
 They add that this is purely experimental at this time.

(*****
                   NA5E QUITS AS GENIE SYSOP

   Also, effective June 1st, the Genie Radio Roundtable will be
 under new management.  After nearly seven years as sysop, Larry
 Ledlow, NA5E has decided to step down to pursue a number of
 writing and education projects.  Larry's replacement is Glen
 Johnson, currently sysop of the GEnie Sports Roundtable.  Johnson
 is described as an active ham with an extensive knowledge of the
 GEnie system.  NA5E says that he will remain on-line and will
 continue to visit the Radio Roundtable as time permits.

(*****
                         ANNE RINALDO

   Anne Rinaldo, the wife of ARRL Technical Relations Manager Paul
 Rinaldo, W4RI has died.  Mrs Rinaldo passed away at 5:45 AM
 Eastern time on Tuesday, May 17th after an accidental fall and
 head injury that she suffered almost a week ago.  A memorial
 service was scheduled for today, Friday, May 20th in Bryn Athyn,
 Pennsylvania.  Other arrangements are pending.  Our prayers go out
 to the Rinaldo family on their tragic loss.

(*****
                          DXAC VOTES

   In DX, and by unanimous vote, the ARRL DX Advisory Committee
 has passed a recommendation to delete Walvis Bay and Penguin
 Islands from DXCC accreditation.  The DXAC says that these two
 entities no longer meet the DXCC criteria following their
 turnover to Namibia by South Africa.  This recommendation has been
 sent to the Awards Committee along with a suggested retroactive
 effective date of March 1, 1994.
   And In another ballot, the DXAC has voted down a proposal to
 add additional single band awards to the DXCC program.  The
 committee also decided against adding a 10-Meter DXCC Honor Roll
 being sought primarily by no-code Techs.  Committee members
 instead expressed support for the mode-specific Honor Rolls that
 now exist.

(*****
                     CAROL PERRY RECOVERING

   As regular Dayton Hamvention goers know, two of the highlights
 of that event are the Educators and Youth Forums hosted by New
 York City teacher Carole Perry, WB2MGP.  Over the past several
 years these have become among the best attended of the Hamvention
 forums.  But only days before Hamvention '94, Carol Perry had to
 inform the Hamvention planners that she would not be there because
 the doctor had told her that she needed immediate spinal surgery.
   Bob Grove, WA4YPQ of Monitoring Times Magazine and our own
 Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF stepped in to share duties at the Educators
 gathering.  Former Hamvention General Chairman Noel Mc Kewon,
 WB8QQC picked up the reins for the standing room only Youth Forum.
   But the Hamvention still wanted Carol to be a part of this
 years festivities.  So it arranged for Henry Feinberg, K2SSQ of
 ATT would go to Carole's home and videotape introductions to each
 of her sessions.  A telephone line was also installed at the Hara
 Arena to permit Carole to listen in on the forums if she felt that
 she had the strength.  We will let Carole tell you the rest of the
 story from here:

   "Arrangements have been made to telephone my hospital room on
 Saturday at a quarter to eleven in the morning when the Youth
 Forum began so that I could say hello to the people and welcome
 them and feel as though I was part of the forum.
   But unbeknownst to us at ten o'clock that morning, I had to
 vacate the room and the phone was disconnected.  And I was
 discharged that morning from the hospital and a friend came to
 pick me up along with my daughter and pulled the car up in front
 of the hospital.
   By a quarter to eleven we were seated in the car, but it really
 bothered me that that phone call was going to be missed.  And that
 nobody would understand why I was not there to receive it.  So
 what I did was I borrowed my friends cellular telephone from the
 car and made several calls to try to get through to the arena in
 Dayton.
   Finally I was connected to somebody that was in the forum room.
 At which point I expressed my regrets that I wouldn't be able to
 participate in the teleconference call because the obvious
 reasons and that I wished everybody well.
   But in true ham tradition I was told to hang on the line and
 the next thing I know I was listening on my portable telephone to
 people coming in and sitting down at the forum at Dayton.  Noel Mc
 Kewon and Bill Pasternak were there, I was able to say hi to them.
   My voice was evidently being projected through the PA system
 there so that the folks in the room who were now assembled and
 knew what was going on could hear me.  I not only got to hear the
 people coming in and sitting down and wishing me well, but in
 addition I was given the incredible opportunity from the car right
 outside the hospital talking through the cellular telephone to be
 able to welcome the people to the forum, to thank the children for
 participating and for expressing my desire, that since this is the
 forum that is nearest and dearest to my heart, that I do all year.
 That everybody support the children and look to bring more
 youngsters to the forum next year.  And to thank everybody who was
 involved in letting me do that.
   So it was a spectacular experience for me and as I retell it to
 other hams, they just shake their head, because probably only hams
 could arrange to do something like this.  I was really a super
 super thing and it started part of me on the right road to
 recovery."  Carole Perry, WB2MGP.

   We are glad to tell you that the surgery appears to have been a
 complete success.  Carole is recuperating at home.  Get well
 wishes can be sent to WB2MGP at Post Office Box 131646, Staten
 Island, New York 10314.

(*****
   And for this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
 You can write to us at Post Office Box 463, Pasadena, CA 91102.

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Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 19:54:38 EDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!noc.near.net!usenet.elf.com!rpi!psinntp!arrl.org![e-mail]
Subject: ARLB048 Vanity play replies
To: [e-mail]

SB QST @ ARL $ARLB048
ARLB048 Vanity play replies

ZCZC AG13
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 48  ARLB048

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Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 19:54:06 EDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!noc.near.net!usenet.elf.com!rpi!psinntp!arrl.org![e-mail]
Subject: ARLP021 Propagation de KT7H
To: [e-mail]

SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP021
ARLP021 Propagation de KT7H

ZCZC AP35
QST de W1AW
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 21  ARLP021

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Date: 28 May 94 15:16:35 GMT
From: brunix!pstc3.pstc.brown.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Ham Radio few problem
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Roger Bly) writes:

> Good!  Several of us in San Diego are also writing letters, petitioning,
> jamming, etc. to shut down closed repeaters in the amateur service.
> probably get more organized.

Yup folks, another fine example of how to "quantity before quality"
attitude in Ham Radio is swelling our ranks with "fine" operators who
think that jamming is perfectly acceptable.

10-4!

MD

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Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 02:37:33 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!witch!doghouse![e-mail]
Subject: IDing
To: [e-mail]


In article <2s2vas$[e-mail]>, Sir Hoagy ([e-mail]) writes:
>I was taught to say "This is KB8SGL monitoring(or listening)" when
>I am just pokin' on a channel, waitin' for a QSO.  I hear this:
>"This is AB1CDE listening on 146.88"
>
>Why the hell do you need to tell me the frequency I'm listening to?

This has become quite common in areas with a lot of repeaters, and the
prevalance of rigs than can scan memory channels.  You can sometimes
have a better chance of a QSO if you say the repeater/freq you're
listening on, because someone who's scanning a bunch of repeaters
knows which one to go to to talk to you.

73...joe



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Joe Salemi, KR4CZ               Internet: [e-mail]
Compuserve: 72631,23   FidoNet: 1:109/136   MCI Mail: 433-3961

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Date: 28 May 94 11:41:55 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Need CW/RTTY IBM software for interface
To: [e-mail]

Hi,

Thanks for looking at my post.   My friend has a HAL COMMUNICATIONS CORP
CRI-100 computer RTTY/CW interface which he purchased at a ham fest.  This
converts RTTY or CW sound into TTL or RS-232 signals.

His problem is that he doesn't have the computer software for
the IBM compatible PC to make it work.

My question is this:  Does anyone know of anywhere on the net where
software is located which will decode/encode CW and RTTY  from/to  RS-232
voltages (COM PORT)?   I should be able to make software like this work
with this interface given enough documentation for the program is included
with the program.

Thanks,
Jeff Johnson
KF8UW
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C> (A)bort (R)etry (I)nfluence with large hammer

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Date: 27 May 1994 16:14:28 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!asuvax!pitstop.mcd.mot.com!mcdphx!schbbs!mothost!delphinium.cig.mot.com!rtsg.mot.com![e-mail]
Subject: PRB-1 access and approaching city hall
To: [e-mail]

I would like to get a copy of PRB-1 via anonymous FTP,
telnet, email etc.  Does anyone know where I could get
such info (and any related documents)?

Also, I've heard some horror stories about how hams in
the surrounding Chicago suburbs have had to battle the
local town-halls.  Being a new home-owner, I am concerned
about these issues.  Last week I bought a house in a town
(Lake Zurich, IL) with several (5-10) hams in my neighbourhood
according to the CD-ROM database but none of them have
towers.  I guess they could be inactive - but NO towers in
my part of town??  It's a little intimidating.

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Date: 28 May 94 14:05:00 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: PRB-1 access and approaching city hall
To: [e-mail]

Patrick J. Rundall ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I would like to get a copy of PRB-1 via anonymous FTP,
: telnet, email etc.  Does anyone know where I could get
: such info (and any related documents)?

: Also, I've heard some horror stories about how hams in
: the surrounding Chicago suburbs have had to battle the
: local town-halls.  Being a new home-owner, I am concerned
: about these issues.  Last week I bought a house in a town
: (Lake Zurich, IL) with several (5-10) hams in my neighbourhood
: according to the CD-ROM database but none of them have
: towers.  I guess they could be inactive - but NO towers in
: my part of town??  It's a little intimidating.


: From other local suburbs, I've heard hams make comments like:

: "Don't say you need a permit for a 'tower' rather 'an
: antenna support structure'.  'Tower' raises red flags
: and leads to trouble."

: "Be careful when approaching your local government - there
: have been cases where hams have asked about the existance
: of such ordinances and a week later the city council passed
: a new tower restriction that they had never considered."

: "Unless there is a DX'er in your town that happens to be a
: good lawyer with lots of time on his hands, don't bother
: putting up a tower you'll have to take down."

: "Don't ask for permission - it's easier to ask forgiveness!"


: Now I realize that this may be 50% urban folklore and 50% truth
: but comments like these are quite intimidating.  Any guidance
: would be appreciated.

: I do know that when we were looking into building a house with one
: of the local builders that put up these big developments (~200
: homes) I was told "You want to put up a TV antenna - that's fine,
: but a ham antenna?"....   After digging through some papers, "I'm
: sorry but we have a 'community covenant' separate from the town
: ordinances that states 'no satellite dishes, or external antenna
: allowed - period'".   The manager equated ham antennas with never
: mowing the lawn, leaving broken/rusting cars in the yard and painting
: the house plaid.  This is especially stupid because their big concern
: was "aesthetics" - however, at both of the developments I've been to
: by this builder there were cell-sites (~150' towers) with-in a mile
: of their little Utopia.  Needless to say, I told them how dumb this
: was and walked out.

: How does PRB-1 help those that moved into one of these communities
: (this one was by Cambridge Homes - one of the largest builders in
: Chicago-land) and later decide that they'd like to become hams?
: I guess future hams are doomed to attic, tree, flagpole and rubber-
: duck antennae.


: Pat - WZ0H -

This month's CQ has an excellent article about PRB-1.  You should read it
straight away, as it answers most of your questions, or at least gives
one point of view regarding such.

You can get a very detailed package regarding PRB-1 from the ARRL.  The
package includes court cases and other goodies, and is quite helpful.

Good luck.

73
--
                                             [e-mail]
                                             Glendale, CA
                                             AB6WR

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Date: 27 May 1994 17:02:09 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews![e-mail]
Subject: What does HAM mean ?
To: [e-mail]

Ron Collins ([e-mail]) wrote:
:  -=> Quoting [e-mail] to All <=-

:  cm>In my opinion, it probably originated in antiquity as
:  cm> a shortening of the cockney way of pronouncing amateur (Hamateur).
:  cm> You will hear a lot of other explainations but this one seems the
:  cm> most likely to me.

:     'Allo Cecil! As a "Real Live Cockney" from the East End of London, I 'ave
: never 'eard of this one!
:     'ave a nice day!
:     Ron, VK5RY in Souf Haustralia.

'Allo Ron, we 'ave a dozen or so Englishmen working 'ere at Intel and they
agree that in England, the word "ham" is a slang form of the word "amateur"
and the term originated before radio was invented. They think it probably
originated long, long ago in the theatre, as in an actor 'amming it up.

Ham, 'am, and amateur could be closely related. Are you familiar with the
term 'am as applied to an actor (usually an amateur actor)?

73, KG7BK, [e-mail]

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Date: 28 May 94 14:01:17 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <2s5g88$[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Ham Radio few problem

Roger Bly ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <[e-mail]>,

: Good!  Several of us in San Diego are also writing letters, petitioning,
: jamming, etc. to shut down closed repeaters in the amateur service.  We should
: probably get more organized.

: I said it before, but the FCC is willing to consider a "close repeater ban".
: There there are several commissioners (I know one personally) that are
: sympathetic to our cause.  They say the request (RFR) must come from the amateur
: community or politically they can not act.  I have not been active on lobbying
: the ARRL... attacking the coordinating bodies might be a new angle on this...

: PS. My wife is a communications lawyer... What school are you going to?

: Roger Bly
: --

: Roger Bly
: [e-mail]

I will be attending the USC Law Center this fall.  BTW, hope you're
kidding about the jamming.  We should all work within the law.

The idea of getting up a petition is a good one.  The concept I favor is
that closed repeaters would be legal, but they would simply not be
coordinated.  Therefore any time a closed or private repeater conflicted
with a repeater coordinated as open to all licensed amateurs, the latter
would have the right of way.

Southern California is ripe for reform of the 440 band coordination.  It
is scandalous that it has become almost silly to bother buying a dual band
HT, as the 440 band is effectively closed to all but a few good old boys.

73
--
                                             [e-mail]
                                             Glendale, CA
                                             AB6WR

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

Date: (null)
From: (null)
SB QST ARL ARLB048
ARLB048 Vanity plan replies

Vanity plan replies

The ARRL has filed reply comments in the FCC's proposal to institute
a ''vanity'' call sign program (in PR Docket 93-305).  The League said
that the vast majority of the 109 comments filed on the proposal
favored it, in general, with the major concerns being how to fairly
administer it.

There were fewer than five comments opposing the proposal and, while
they made what the League called ''thoughtful and important points,''
they did not seem to represent more than a small minority opinion.

The ARRL in its reply comments said that the issue of cost already
had been settled, in that amateurs themselves would pay for the
privilege of selecting a call sign.

Regarding Silent Key call signs, the League said that by giving
family members and clubs the first opportunity to apply for such
call signs, ''well known and respected'' amateurs' call signs could be
preserved.

The League said that a proposal by Frederick O. Maia, W5YI, to
establish a ''Vanity Call Sign Administration'' program in the private
sector, was not only not permitted within FCC's mandate from
Congress, but would be cumbersome and bureaucratic, while adding no
value for the applicant.

The League urged the Commission to proceed with a Report and Order
on the ''vanity'' call sign proposal, incorporating the minor
modifications suggested in the earlier ARRL comments.
NNNN
/EX

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

Date: (null)
From: (null)
"Don't say you need a permit for a 'tower' rather 'an
antenna support structure'.  'Tower' raises red flags
and leads to trouble."

"Be careful when approaching your local government - there
have been cases where hams have asked about the existance
of such ordinances and a week later the city council passed
a new tower restriction that they had never considered."

"Unless there is a DX'er in your town that happens to be a
good lawyer with lots of time on his hands, don't bother
putting up a tower you'll have to take down."

"Don't ask for permission - it's easier to ask forgiveness!"


Now I realize that this may be 50% urban folklore and 50% truth
but comments like these are quite intimidating.  Any guidance
would be appreciated.

I do know that when we were looking into building a house with one
of the local builders that put up these big developments (~200
homes) I was told "You want to put up a TV antenna - that's fine,
but a ham antenna?"....   After digging through some papers, "I'm
sorry but we have a 'community covenant' separate from the town
ordinances that states 'no satellite dishes, or external antenna
allowed - period'".   The manager equated ham antennas with never
mowing the lawn, leaving broken/rusting cars in the yard and painting
the house plaid.  This is especially stupid because their big concern
was "aesthetics" - however, at both of the developments I've been to
by this builder there were cell-sites (~150' towers) with-in a mile
of their little Utopia.  Needless to say, I told them how dumb this
was and walked out.

How does PRB-1 help those that moved into one of these communities
(this one was by Cambridge Homes - one of the largest builders in
Chicago-land) and later decide that they'd like to become hams?
I guess future hams are doomed to attic, tree, flagpole and rubber-
duck antennae.


Pat - WZ0H -

================================================================================
"Opinions are mine, not Motorola's, blah, blah, blah..."

Pat Rundall                                                                 WZ0H
Electrical Engineer, GSM RF Planning/System Integration and Test Group
Cellular Infrastructure Group
Motorola
================================================================================

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

Date: (null)
From: (null)
SB PROP ARL ARLP021
ARLP021 Propagation de KT7H

Solar flux was down this past week.  From May 20 through 23
geomagnetic conditions were quiet, with the A index below ten each
day, and K indices at one or zero about 25 percent of the time.

While solar flux is declining again, geomagnetic disturbances are
expected to rise.  Look for solar flux to drop to around 70 after
the first of the month, and disturbed geomagnetic conditions caused
by a recurring coronal hole to peak around May 31 and again on June
3.  The high A and K values should gradually taper off, but probably
won't reach normal until mid June.

We could see some disturbed conditions during the WPX CW Contest
this weekend, with the A index rising to 20 or 30.

Soon we will be seeing a shift to Summer radio conditions, with
higher noise levels on the low bands, increase in sporadic-E short
skip propagation on higher frequencies, lower optimum frequencies
for daytime propagation, and improving high frequency propagation
during the evening.

Last week there was an error in the mean value given for solar flux.
Instead of 89.8 it was really 91.2.

Sunspot Numbers from May 19 through 25 were 48, 35, 35, 31, 26, 22
and 12, with a mean of 29.9.  10.7 cm flux was 90.6, 89.8, 87.7,
84.6, 81, 77.9 and 74.2, with a mean of 83.7.

The path projection for this week is from Bridgeville, Delaware to
the Aland Islands, OH0.

80 meters should be open from 0100 to 0230z and 40 meters from
2330 to 0500.  30 meters may be open most days from 2230 to
0100, and every day from 0330 to 0600.  20 meters should be open
most days from 1830 to 2030, and some days may open as early as
1500.  Conditions do not look good at this time for frequencies
above 20 meters.
NNNN
/EX

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Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 00:56:24 GMT
From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2s130r$[e-mail]>, <2s26h0$[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: 6146A vs 6146

Seems that there's still a lot of hams with radios containing tubes (at least
in the finals); there's a newsgroup dedicated to tubes, tube-type radios,
and radio history - the articles arrive via email, maybe 20-25 per day.
If anyone would like to subscribe send an email to:

                      [e-mail]

and ask to be placed on the list. To post an article use the above address
but drop the `-request' part.

Lots of very knowledgable folks on `boats' - very enjoyable reading.

73,
Jeff NH6IL (who's first station, as WA6QIJ, was a DX-60 and an HR-10)

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