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Info-Hams Digest            Wed, 22 Jun 94       Volume 94 : Issue  693

Today's Topics:
                                "73's"
                      "Looking for a few hams"!
                "Renewal" reusable alkaline batteries
                6Mtr E-Skip:Europe to USA-Last Sunday
                    AEA IsoLoop - Opinion (2 msgs)
                            Dumb question
                     Dummy load as antenna?  Yup!
                          Flagstaff hamfest
                             Honk it out.
         Immediate licensing?  Bad implementation.. Good idea
                          Kenwood Tech Line
                   Motorcycle Mobile - 73 Magazine
                         ND freqs. wanted...
                          Old QSTs available
                        simnplex on two meters
          Transmission Line Impedance: Why so many? (2 msgs)
                US & British Virgin Is. frequencies??
                 Waiting for License? Wait some more

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 16:04:03 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!asuvax!chnews![e-mail]
Subject: "73's"
To: [e-mail]

Ray Wade ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Now go back to your book and look at how 73 is supposed to be used...on
: CW! K5JCM

Which reminds me of how you just misused CW. "73" _cannot_ be sent over a
Continuous Wave, i.e. unchanging frequency, phase, and amplitude.  But
everybody knows what you mean when you say CW even if you are misusing it...
same with 73.

73, KG7BK, OOTC, [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:17:10
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.onramp.net!news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com!s146.phxslip.indirect.com![e-mail]
Subject: "Looking for a few hams"!
To: [e-mail]

The Ham Radio & More Show, heard each Sunday at 6:00pm EST, is
looking for guests to be interviewed live on the show. Dates are open
starting in September. The show is currently heard on 23 stations in
the country and via 3 different satellites on the Talk America Network.
Guests should have a desire to discuss a particular ham radio
related topic of current interest that they are knowledgable on and
passionate about, or if they are involved in a particular aspect of
amateur radio, like radio control planes, repeater co-ordination, etc., and
what to publicize it, please e mail me.
73,
Len, KB7LPW

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 10:56:02 -0400
From: newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: "Renewal" reusable alkaline batteries
To: [e-mail]

In article <1994Jun21.171233.9272@hayes>, [e-mail] (Bill
Coleman) writes:

>Nicad memory is largely a thing of myth.

I've lived with nicads of all kinds for years, and have found the
myth to be reality.

>Nicads have a pretty long self-discharge rate.  And I don't see why
you
>couldn't pop a set of fully charged nicads in like you do the
renewals.

It may be weeks after recharing that I need a set.  I've seen nicads
lose a substantial charge after this time.  I'm confident that my
Renewals after the same time will have retained much more of their
full charge.

Danny Goodman

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Date: 22 Jun 94 14:51:53 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!ruuinf!ruunfs.fys.ruu.nl!faculty.chem.ruu.nl![e-mail]
Subject: 6Mtr E-Skip:Europe to USA-Last Sunday
To: [e-mail]

If there's interest I will post the stations I worked during the opening.
As far as I can ascertain my best DX during that opening was W5EU
i.e. PA3FYM (JO22) wkd W5EU (EM12) (!!!)

This is approx. 8000 km. I worked EM12-square before during a F2-opening
a few years ago. The 'most favorite' locator was FN42 (New Hampshire??)
and I managed to work a few VE3's too in EN93.

Enjoy,

Remco (wkd DXCC #107, cfmd DXCC #88 *sigh*) PA3FYM, JO22OF

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:42
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU![e-mail]
Subject: AEA IsoLoop - Opinion
To: [e-mail]

In article <2u9ji1$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (DGoodman) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ray
>Wade) writes:
>
>>Dummy loads are RREEAAALLLYYY quiet!
>
>But they won't let you work 230 countries with 100 watts.
>
>Danny Goodman AE9F/6

Or 242 (cfmd) with 150w.  (Like you, Danny, I need SU for my Iso-WAZ)

  -- 73 de Chris Thomas, AA6SQ (ex-WA6HTJ) ([e-mail])
     "A happy Isoloop user"

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 16:32:38 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn![e-mail]
Subject: AEA IsoLoop - Opinion
To: [e-mail]

Has anyone had any experience with the MFJ Super Hi-Q Loop?  How does it
compare with the AEA Isoloop?

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 10:04:19 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!gt-news!clampman.gatech.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Dumb question
To: [e-mail]

This may be a no-brainer to you guys, but I'm a non-electronic type person
with little interest in ham radio except as it may or may not affect
me or my family when practiced by others. My new neighbor just put up a
GIANT radio antenna that is, because of a slight difference in the
elevation of opur houses, exactly on a level with my upstairs bedrooms, and
right at 120 feet from where we sleep. I know from the lights in her house
(and my FM radio, which is suddenly being blown off the air) that she does
most of her transmitting between 10pm and 2am, while my family and I sleep,
right in the plane of the antenna.

Is there any risk here?

It also happens to be precisely between the only place I can put a TV
satellite dish, and the SE sky. Have I just lost my access to the
satellites,
or will I be able to "see through" the antenna.?

I'd appreciate e-mail, as I don't read this group regularly [See
line 1 :^)].

Chuck Lampman
[e-mail]

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 15:44:44 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Dummy load as antenna?  Yup!
To: [e-mail]

Ever wonder just how much RF a dummy load radiates?

I was trying out a Yaesu FT-707/FC-707 setup with a dummy load
for my parents-in-law, seeing what the alignment was like, and
seeing what kind of power I could put out.  Of course, I was
transmitting into the FC-707's built-in dummy load.

I went tuning around, and here's somebody at S9 + 20!  On the
dummy load!  So I waited for him to finish with his QSO, and
xmitted into the dummy load at about 25 watts, and not surpris-
ingly, he answered, and we had a nice qso.

Turns out has was N3CAU, a ham living about 800 feet from my
house.  Even when he throttled down to 25 watts, he was still
a strong S9.  We exchanged cards by hand a couple of days later.

We've vowed to try it again at 1 watt or so, and this time I
want to try it into the Heathkit Cantenna...

Scott NF3I

--
73,                            _________   _________  The
                            \ /  Long   Original
Scott Rosenfeld  Amateur Radio NF3I  Burtonsville, MD     |   Live    $5.00
  WAC-CW/SSB  WAS  DXCC - 125 QSLed on dipoles __________| Dipoles! Antenna!

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:10:17
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com!s146.phxslip.indirect.com![e-mail]
Subject: Flagstaff hamfest
To: [e-mail]

In article <2u7qtg$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>Path: indirect.com!asuvax!chnews!news
>From: [e-mail]
>Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.amateur.misc,intel.ham-radio,az.general
>Subject: Flagstaff hamfest
>Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 15:34:12 PDT
>Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler AZ.
>Lines: 29
>Distribution: world
>Message-ID: <2u7qtg$[e-mail]>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: wb7asr.ch.intel.com
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>Xref: indirect.com rec.radio.swap:25043 rec.radio.amateur.misc:61837 az.general:682



>ARCA (Amateur Radio Council of Arizona) is hosting the Fort Tuthill

>(Flagstaff), Arizona HAMFEST/FLEA-MARKET on July 22nd, 23rd, & 24th, 1994.

>Fort Tuthill is located at the Flagstaff, Arizona airport exit #337,
>3 miles south of I-40, on I-17.

>Raffle tickets are $2.00 each, 3 for $5.00, or 60 for $100.00

>PRIZES: Grand prize:  Yaseu FT-840 HF radio
>        First prize:  Dual-band transceiver
>        second prize: MFJ-249 antenna analyzer/freq counter
>        early prize:  Astron RM35 power supply

>FREE admission      TAIL GATE $10.00 per space     CAMPING $5.00 per night

>Activities include: Ladies programs
>                    ARRL fourm
>                    Club booths
>                    Ham of the year award
>                    Repeaters owners meeting
>                    T-hunt
>                    VE exams
>                    Junque sale on Sunday
>                    "HUGH" swap market

>TALK-IN freq: 147.080+
>              442.125+

A GREAT hamfest with commercial exhibitors, and hams from many
different states! It's a biggie! Don't miss The Tuthill Hamfest.
73,
Len, KB7LPW

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 16:49:43 GMT
From: nothing.ucsd.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Honk it out.
To: [e-mail]

Sure, add to the noise pollution and violate the law (misuse of an
emergency warning device).  But it's ok, you're encouraging the spread
of ham radio.

Feh.
    - Brian

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 15:31:16 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!blkbox![e-mail]
Subject: Immediate licensing?  Bad implementation.. Good idea
To: [e-mail]

Teacherjh ([e-mail]) wrote:

: I believe that if the VEC submits on paper, the FCC has to manually
: process that paper... if it is electronic, then there is less paper
: shuffling at the FCC.  That would allow the FCC to go faster.

: Jose  KD1SB

I agree that something definitly has to be done about the long
wait for licenses.  ARRL VEC is now saying 16 weeks from the
time the FCC gets the paperwork.  Egads!  No wonder attracting
people to the hobby is no hard.

George Guillory
K?????? (Still waiting, 14 weeks)

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Date: 22 Jun 94 16:57:28 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Kenwood Tech Line
To: [e-mail]


Bryan D. Young [[e-mail]] asks:

        Does anyone have the number for Kenwood Technical Support or know
        where I can find a service manual for a TS440S.(?) (He ment to put
        a question mark here, really!)

Kenwood America's phone number is: 310-639-9000, hours are M-F 9:00-4:00
pacific time. This is in Long Beach, California, and this is where the
technicians are located. I don't know how much tech support they provide
over the phone however. They also run a BBS at 310-761-8284.

Parts and manuals are sold through a distributor, Pacific Coast Parts:
800-262-1312.

_____________________________________________________________________
Wm. A. Kirsanoff              Internet: [e-mail]
Rockwell International        Ham: KD6MCI
[phone]
Alternate Internet: [e-mail]
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Who are you? * I am number 2. *  Who is number 1? * You are number 6.
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Date: 22 Jun 1994 15:03:47 GMT
From: koriel!newsworthy.West.Sun.COM!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!webrider![e-mail]
Subject: Motorcycle Mobile - 73 Magazine
To: [e-mail]

Greetings -

I was told that a fairly recent issue of 73 magazine tested different
headsets for motorcycle helmet use.  I would very much appreciate it
if someone could let me know which issue, so I can try and track it
down, or give me a quick summary of what they found and recommend.  I'm
presently trying to set up my motorcycle for mobile use and am preparing
to buy the headset pieces for my helmet, and also starting to set up the
wiring.  A related question would be suggestions as to the circuitry that
would allow a radar detector alarm to break into the earphones even while
having a QSO.

Thanks much for any information,

Steve

---
--
-- Steve Bunis,  Sun Microsystems  ***DoD 0795***     93-ST1100
--               Itasca, IL       ***AMA 682049***     ***STOC 008***
--                 ***HRCA HM125617**    ***HSTA 5334***
--                    *** N9VLP ***   "This Space for Rent"
--

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:09:09 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains![e-mail]
Subject: ND freqs. wanted...
To: [e-mail]

Hi all;
    I am interested in compiling a list of all frequencies used in
North Dakota.  Included would LF, HF, VHF, UHF, etc. Also if anyone can,
please include amatuer repeater frequencies used in state.  This list
will eventually include not just the 'normal' PD/FD/SO etc frequncies,
but private businesses, amatuer freqs, and any other interesting things
that you may have heard.
    Once I have completed all this compiling, I plan on posting it to
all news groups that applies for greatest dissemination and accesibility
to anyone who monitors anything.
    If anyone has any frequencies thatg may be of interest to others
or is especially interesting, please email me your lists, or whatever.
    If you are interested in getting this list as it is updated,
please send me your email address and I will be happy to send them to
you.  NOTE:  I wil not send via snail mail as this is expensive.
    If you are located in the local Minot or Bismarck area, I have
already compiled a list of about 5 pages that you may be interested in.
Let me know.

Happy Monitoring !!!!!!!

John Murphy
email: [e-mail]

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Date: 22 Jun 94 16:51:59 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!aries![e-mail]
Subject: Old QSTs available
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Jeffrey Herman) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>Although I am not a ham I have for years been dragging some old QST's around
>>with me.  These are mostly from the 30's into the 50's and mostly complete
>>although no longer pristine.  Anyway I would like to get rid of them,
>>preferably to someone who can pick them up in the Champaign-Urbana IL area.
>>
>>So the first person (if anyone wants them) who can arrange to pick them up
>>can have them.  If you email me and I don't respond someone else got them.
>>

>PLEASE PLEASE donate them to a library so that a large number of people
>can enjoy reading them rather than to a collector who will store them
>away out of sight. Your nearest college library will gladly accept them
>- contact the science/technology reference person - they will know
>the worth of those journals.

>Jeff NH6IL

I got 'em, and I intend to read them and share them with friends who appreciate
the value. I am not a collector of any thing except for the time it takes to
enjoy something, learn from it, and pass it on. There weren't as many years as
first thought, but I am greatful for what there was (abt 60 or 70 issues).
What is neat is that there are a couple of 1929, 1930, etc. issues. The first
one I picked up, flipped open to an article on building a xmitter, I read
"The transformers in this project are not difficult to build...........", and
then went on to give a lesson on how to build a transformer, giving design
equations, and instructions on how to build the laminations, etc. Kind of an
eye opener. I guess I'll finish that 100amp supply that I need to wind 17
turns of #12 four times on the xformer....that already has a primary. Poor
baby that I am having to make my own secondary winding....
Anyway relax Jeff, but thanks for your concern and attitude on this. I agree.


Chuck Hawley.....KE9UW.....Urbana, Illinois
[e-mail]
School of Chemical Sciences, Electronic Services
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 16:57:34 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!master.cs.rose-hulman.edu![e-mail]
Subject: simnplex on two meters
To: [e-mail]

I'm always amazed when I call CQ on 2-m simplex and get an answer.  Last
weekend I spent a lot of time operating mobile.  Every time I called CQ on
simplex, I got an answer.  A whole new way to operate on 2 meters.

Jack, K9CUN

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Date: 23 Jun 1994 01:00:55 +1000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!spectrum.apana.org.au!ion.apana.org.au!aurora.apana.org.au![e-mail]
Subject: Transmission Line Impedance: Why so many?
To: [e-mail]

David Stockton ([e-mail]) wrote:
>    300 Ohm is easy to justify...   what's the feedpoint Z of a half-wave
> FOLDED dipole ?

>   David  GM4ZNX

~292.5 ohms.

JM.
--

James Morris                         ..._ _._ ..___ __. ..._ ._
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:11:35 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvsnz![e-mail]
Subject: Transmission Line Impedance: Why so many?
To: [e-mail]

Cecil A. Moore -FT-~ ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Tom Bruhns ([e-mail]) wrote:
: : This is easy to see if you realize that the
: : max current is at the load, ... Tom -- K7ITM

: By Golly, Tom, I think you're on to something. If the maximum current is
: at the load and the load is resistive, then the load is soaking up
: more power than the generator is putting out... that's pretty efficient.

Flap, flap, flap, "Caw, caw!", munch, munch -- Oh, yummy, that tasted
good.

Oops.  I really should have been talking about square roots of the
mean squared current, with that mean taken along the length of the
line...but I slipped a cog, thinking, "SWR decreases as you get
away from the load, and therefore the ratio of max to min current
decreases, and therefore (in a blind leap) the max current decreases.
Since power is lost in the line, the max current does increase toward
the generator, but I think if you look at it carefully, you will indeed
find that net loss decreases with increased line impedance, if you
keep the conductor resistance constant and don't get the line spaced so
wide that radiation enters in or insulation loss becomes a factor.
That's for a constant load resistance; it's even better if the load
can be made to always match the line.

Thanks for keeping me honest, Cecil!  ;-)

Cheers, Tom -- K7ITM

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 12:28:22 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!freenet3.scri.fsu.edu!freenet3.scri.fsu.edu!not-for-mail@@.
Subject: US & British Virgin Is. frequencies??
To: [e-mail]

[ Article crossposted from rec.radio.scanner ]
[ Author was Bruce M. Marshall ]
[ Posted on 22 Jun 1994 12:23:15 -0400 ]

Does anyone have any frequencies of interest for the Virgin Islands? I
will be staying on St. John. Also does anyone know any 2M or 70CM
repeater frequencies and where they are? I have been going to USVI &
BVI for many years but have never taken any radio equipment before.

Thanks,

Bruce N4USH

--
Bruce M. Marshall  [e-mail]  voice 615 481 0990  fax [phone]
--
Bruce M. Marshall  [e-mail]  voice 615 481 0990  fax [phone]

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Date: 22 Jun 1994 15:53:43 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!blkbox![e-mail]
Subject: Waiting for License? Wait some more
To: [e-mail]

For those of you who are lurking in the group and waiting for
your license, I have bad news.

I just talked to the ARRL VEC and they said that the current
wait is 16 weeks from the time that the FCC gets the paperwork
from ARRL.

The VEC manager reports that there are 16,000 license actions
pending at the FCC.  As reported previously there ar 1 or 2
people processing the applications once a week.

Perhaps I should have titled this message

"DEATH OF A NEW HAM"

(I guess I will just be a lookie Lou on Field day.)


George Guillory
[e-mail]
K????? (Still waiting, 14 weeks)

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