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- Info-Hams Digest Sat, 4 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 622
-
- Today's Topics:
- IPS Daily Report - 03 June 94
- Legal Protections for Hams
- Ten Tec Omni VI
- TenTec Omni VI anyone?
-
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- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 23:31:38 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!ifi.uio.no!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!metro!ipso!rwc@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: IPS Daily Report - 03 June 94
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- SUBJ: IPS DAILY SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL REPORT
- ISSUED AT 3/2330Z JUNE 1994 BY IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES
- FROM THE REGIONAL WARNING CENTRE (RWC), SYDNEY.
- SUMMARY FOR 3 JUNE AND FORECAST UP TO 6 JUNE
-
- IPS Warning 15 was issued on 26 May and is still current.
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- 1A. SOLAR SUMMARY
- Activity: very low.
-
- Flares: none.
-
- Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 68/02
-
- 1B. SOLAR FORECAST
- 04 June 05 June 06 June
- Activity Very low Very low Very low
- Fadeouts None expected None expected None expected
-
- Forecast 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 70/05
-
- 1C. SOLAR COMMENT
- None.
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- 2A. MAGNETIC SUMMARY
- Geomagnetic field at Learmonth: unsettled to active
-
- Estimated Indices : A K Observed A Index 2 June
- Learmonth 19 3334 4343
- Fredericksburg 15 21
- Planetary 20 19
-
- Observed Kp for 2 June: 4444 3333
-
-
- 2B. MAGNETIC FORECAST
- DATE Ap CONDITIONS
- 04 Jun 20 Unsettled to active.
- 05 Jun 20 Unsettled to active.
- 06 Jun 20 Unsettled to active.
-
- 2C. MAGNETIC COMMENT
- Disturbance expected until 7 June due to a coronal hole. Activity is
- not expected to exceed active levels locally for the remainder of the
- disturbance period.
- 3A. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION SUMMARY
- LATITUDE BAND
- DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH
- 03 Jun normal fair-normal fair
- PCA Event : None.
- 3B. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION FORECAST
- LATITUDE BAND
- DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH
- 04 Jun normal normal fair
- 05 Jun normal normal fair
- 06 Jun normal normal fair
- 3C. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION COMMENT
- Global HF propagation conditions are expected to improve slightly for
- the remainder of the geomagnetic disturbance currently in progress.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- 4A. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC SUMMARY
- MUFs at Sydney were near predicted monthly values
-
- Observed T index for 03 June: 31
-
- Predicted Monthly T Index for June is 30.
-
- 4B. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC FORECAST
- DATE T-index MUFs
- 04 Jun 25 Near predicted monthly values.
- 05 Jun 25 Near predicted monthly values.
- 06 Jun 25 Near predicted monthly values.
-
-
- 4C. AUSTRALIAN REGION COMMENT
- Local propagation conditions remained normal-fair yesterday, with
- occasional sporadic E layer. Normal conditions are expected for the
- next three days.
- --
- IPS Regional Warning Centre, Sydney |IPS Radio and Space Services
- email: rwc@ips.oz.au fax: +61 2 4148331 |PO Box 5606
- RWC Duty Forecaster tel: +61 2 4148329 |West Chatswood NSW 2057
- Recorded Message tel: +61 2 4148330 |AUSTRALIA
-
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-
- Date: 3 Jun 1994 23:27:21 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!ncd.com!newshost.ncd.com!sheridan.ncd.com!stevew@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Legal Protections for Hams
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <Cqtq3s.Fu1@ss3.magec.com>, pegood@ss3.magec.com (Peter E. Goodmann) writes:
- |> -How about protection from lawsuits related to TVI, telephone interference,
- |> and other forms of RFI caused by poorly designed consumer products and/or
- |> Part 15 devices operating on frequencies assigned to the Amateur service?
-
- I see a couple of problems with the above.
-
- First, consider that the state doesn't have any authority in the areas of
- TVI, RFI, or the design quality of consumer goods. The original poster is
- running for a STATE legilature. (FCC has authority for all of the above,
- and has claimed such will through federal preemption of same.)
-
- The second problem I see with the statement Pete made is the assumption that
- these consumer goods are "poorly designed." Such goods are designed to meet
- specific standards put in place by FCC, et al. Part of what I use as a
- working description of a good design is whether the product does the required
- job for the cheapest manufacturing cost. From this point of view, designing
- in protective circuitry to eliminate interfernce from an amateur radio station
- as an example, isn't required, would make the product cost higher, and therefore,
- doesn't meet the metric I mentioned!
-
- This isn't to say that I wouldn't like to see such protective circuitry in
- consumer electronics. The reality of being a designer in the consumer world
- is that these protections AREN'T required, and consequently aren't there. The
- place to go bang on is either Congress, or the FCC who DOES have the authority
- to mandate such design practices. You simply aren't going to see them there
- until it is mandatory. I guess my main points are that the original poster
- isn't in a place to help, and the designers aren't the ones to blame.
-
- Lastly, part 15 devices are allowed to run on Amateur service frequencies
- due to FCC policy. Again, this is the place where any corrections are going
- to start, though I doubt such will ever occur. ARRL DID comment about
- possible interference when the new part 15 rules were adopted. Their comments
- fell on deaf ears.
-
- |> On a VERRRRRY loosly related subject, how about eliminating the
- |> "industrial exemption" clause in your state's engineering registration law?
- |> These exemptions, which most if not all states have, allow unlicensed
- |> "engineers (who may not even have any engineering education or experience)
- |> to practice as engineers as long as they only design manufactured goods. Would
- |> you allow an unlicensed physician, who can only kill one person at a time to
- |> practice medicine? How abount an unlicensed automtive "engineer" who could
- |> kill many people with a single mistake?
- |>
- |> Thanks, and good luck!!
- |>
- |> 73,
- |> Pete Goodmann, P.E., NI9N
- |>
- |>
-
- Responding to the above is the REAL reason I'm posting! Pete, as soon as
- a PE license has RELEVANT material, i.e. tests me on items that are relevant
- to design field I'm in, then I'll consider going and getting a PE. Currently,
- the PE is an absolutely USELESS piece of paper for me and at the same time has
- NO bearing on the field I'm in. If I were designing bridges or buildings this
- wouldn't be true, but the current test structure in CA doesn't come close to
- being relevant to computer design! For instance, there just isn't that much
- need to apply fluid flow theory to designing a new PC. I need to know about
- computer architecture, computer languages, functionality available in current
- logic families, compatibility between logic families, EMI, RFI considerations,
- etc. Most of the above ISN'T covered on the PE last time I looked. The fact
- is that they would ask me things that I forgot soon after I graduated that have
- no bearing on what I see as a practicing engineer in a commercial setting.
- Consequently, the test does NOTHING to insure that I am competant to practice
- in my particular specialty.
-
- So, to answer your question...Would I want an unlicensed automotive "engineer"
- to design the vehicle I'm riding in... I suspect I already am ;-) So, I guess
- I wouldn't mind! Certainly, there have been vehicle recalls over the years
- due to design mistakes, but if memory serves, alot of these were due to
- management decisions, not engineering decisions, i.e. the design flaw was
- discovered, but management swept the issue under the rug. Happens all the time.
- How would a "licensed" engineering staff have made a difference here?
-
- __
- Steve Wilson, KA6S - PE ;-)
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 14:00:10 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!claude!zds-oem!news@network.ucsd.edu (Reid Simmons - r.simmons@zds.com)
- Subject: Ten Tec Omni VI
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2sg7ts$d7c@search01.news.aol.com> jduffy@aol.com (JDuffy) writes:
- >In article <espen.329.000CEB08@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no>,
- >espen@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no (Espen Olsen) writes:
- >
- >
- >>How is the Omni VI really? In some time we'll have to buy a new rig
- >at LA1K
- >>to replace the old IC751A. The Omni VI looks like a good rig out
- >from the
- >>ads/specs/etc..
- >
- >>Does anybody here actually operate one of these? How is it like?
- >
- >A friend of mine lent me his Omni while he went on a 2 week vacation.
- > Boy is that rig fantastic. The audio was like nothing I have ever
- >heard from a ham receiver. It was a beautiful and fun radio to use.
- >Got nothing but great reports while using it. As soon as I get the
- >money saved up, I'm ordering one. Also understand that TenTec's
- >service can't be beat. I don't think you'll go wrong in buying it.
- >Plus, it will help employ Americans instead of Japanese.
- >
- >Duffy de WB8NUT
-
-
- I have had my OMNI VI for just about two years now. I ordered one
- when TEN TEC first anounced it. In short it is without a doubt the
- best rig I have ever used in my 33 years of hamming (I never had any
- Collins stuff though). This includes a whole bunch of Rice boxes
- (Kenwood, Icom, Yahoos) that I couldn't wait to get rid of! My
- OMNI VI has made hamming fun again - something the rice boxes just
- coudn't accomplish.
-
- Reid NZ8K
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 13:57:55 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!claude!zds-oem!news@network.ucsd.edu (Reid Simmons - r.simmons@zds.com)
- Subject: TenTec Omni VI anyone?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2sg7ts$d7c@search01.news.aol.com> jduffy@aol.com (JDuffy) writes:
- >In article <espen.329.000CEB08@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no>,
- >espen@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no (Espen Olsen) writes:
- >
- >
- >>How is the Omni VI really? In some time we'll have to buy a new rig
- >at LA1K
- >>to replace the old IC751A. The Omni VI looks like a good rig out
- >from the
- >>ads/specs/etc..
- >
- >>Does anybody here actually operate one of these? How is it like?
- >
- >A friend of mine lent me his Omni while he went on a 2 week vacation.
- > Boy is that rig fantastic. The audio was like nothing I have ever
- >heard from a ham receiver. It was a beautiful and fun radio to use.
- >Got nothing but great reports while using it. As soon as I get the
- >money saved up, I'm ordering one. Also understand that TenTec's
- >service can't be beat. I don't think you'll go wrong in buying it.
- >Plus, it will help employ Americans instead of Japanese.
- >
- >Duffy de WB8NUT
-
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