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Date: Mon,  4 Jul 94 16:05:39 PDT
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Info-Hams Digest            Mon,  4 Jul 94       Volume 94 : Issue  742

Today's Topics:
                         CW - THE ONLY MODE!
                          DXCC Country List
                        Extra-teressial beacon
                          GB3RAL relocation
                             HDN Releases
                    Help with No Scratch mag mount
                     Let's be Careful Out There!
         looking for info on 2mtr repeaters in santa cruz ca.
                       Morse Key for disabled?
                          QST H/Brew Isoloop
                      Radio For Backcountry Use
                        simnplex on two meter
                            Sun spot data?
                   Text transmission over FM radio?
                  WALA repeater locations and freqs

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Date: 4 Jul 94 17:03:31 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CW - THE ONLY MODE!
To: [e-mail]

This CW dilemma has been around since the beginning of the hobby.

I have had the same experiences and problems that everyone else
has had while trying to learn the code. I've asked the exact
same questions...how do you copy behind??...how do you head
copy??...how do you increase your speed??...how do you make
it over the 10-11 wpm hump?? I've tried everything...code tapes,
computer code practice programs, W1AW code practice sessions,
learning words at 20+ wpm, and on the air practice.

I wish that I could say that "X" was the way my code went from
0 - 15 wpm in 3 days. ( Don't we all!! :-( :-) )

There is no magic or easy way to learn the code. The only way is
practice...many hours of concentrated practice. Any way you can
get it...contests, on the air QSOs, code tapes, code oscillator
practice with a friend, W1AW code practice sessions. Anything you
can do to immerse yourself in the code. Soon you will find yourself
copying behind, hearing full words, and copying in your head.
It really is amazing!!

For some the code comes easy and to others like myself it
takes time. The biggest thing is to enjoy it and don't get
discouraged that you are not progressing as fast as you would like.
Another thing that I have kept in mind during my learning process is the
deep history behind the code and its marriage with the art of radio!!

I am still not up to the level that I would like to be...40-50 wpm,
but, I am progressing and having a great time in the process. At
this point, I can copy in my head 7-9 wpm QSOs, use the paper and
pencil method for 10-15 wpm QSOs, and can copy a lot of words
at 20-25 wpm. I remember when first hearing 20 wpm and not being able
to pick out single characters (It seems sort of slow now). During my
learning process, I have met a bunch of neat people on the air and
hope to meet more of the same in the future!! Thanks to all who
have been patient and kind when I had to ask for a QRS or PSE NAME
AGN?? !!

Heres hoping that all your CQs go answered and that your code
speed increases at least 5 wpm this month!!


               cheers - Warren

--
Warren E. Lewis                                 [e-mail]
Technical Support Division                    [phone] x6542
SAS Institute Inc.                                         PP-ASEL
Cary, NC                                      KD4YRN      DOD#0021

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 94 07:04:25 -0800
From: amd!amdahl!grafex.sbay.org![e-mail]
Subject: DXCC Country List
To: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (W M Brelsford) writes:
>The current ARRL DXCC country list (07/01/94 version) follows.
>Changes include the addition of Eritrea (E3), deletion of Penguin
>Islands (ZS0) and Walvis Bay (ZS9), and prefix changes for Yemen
>(4W back to 7O), Malyj Vysotskij Island (4J1 -> R1MV), Franz
>Josef Land (4K2 -> R1FJ) and R1AN as an additional prefix for
>Antarctica and South Shetland Islands.

>This list is available via
>    - occasional Usenet posting.
>    - ftp from ftp.cs.buffalo.edu (as pub/ham-radio/dxcc-k2di) and
>        other Amateur Radio archive sites.
>    - email from the ARRL Information Service -- send a message
>        containing the line "send dxcc-k2di" to [e-mail].

Also available from HAM-server.

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Date: 4 Jul 94 15:32:59 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Extra-teressial beacon
To: [e-mail]

   Hello OMs

   There are miles over miles of 50Hz power lines across the globe,
streaching in any direction you can think of. Most of them are delivering
power in a 50Hz frequency.

   What happens if we sinchronize all power stations across the globe to
be in the same phase? Could we possibly transmit this 50Hz signal out to
space, maybe to be used as a radio-lighthouse, or a UFO beacon of some sort?

   The wavelength is 6000Km... at this wavelength it will be difficult
for the signal to cross the ionosphere, but on the other hand, the output
power is far larger than any common transmitter known today... the sum of
the earth's population power consumption!!!

    Please let me know what you think
                73 Erik

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Date: 4 Jul 1994 13:03:06 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!keele!potter![e-mail]
Subject: GB3RAL relocation
To: [e-mail]

The UK 28MHz beacon GB3RAL ceased operation from the Rutherford
Appleton site at Slough on 30 June.   The beacon should by now
be operational again from its new location near Didcot, sending
a long dash and de GB3RAL QRA IO91IN.  It is now being maintained
by the Rutherford-Appleton Lab RC.

Other parameters are unchanged but the different characteristics
of the site may well mean that some people get a better signal and
others a poorer one.

Martin Harrison G3USF
IARU Region 1 HF Beacon Coordinator

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Date: Sat, 02 Jul 1994 12:06:08
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!convex!egsner!wb9rxw!kf5iw!rwsys!ocitor![e-mail]
Subject: HDN Releases
To: [e-mail]

The following files were processed Saturday 7-2-94:


HAMANT    [ HamDistNet: Antennas Design and Propagation ]
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JPOLE.ZIP    (  20052 bytes)  J-pole Design Program V1.1 for any
                              freq, by WA2ISE

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               20052 bytes in 1 file(s)


HAMLOG    [ HAM: Amateur radio logging programs ]
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HMLOG461.ZIP ( 361663 bytes)  Ham-Log V4.61 by HB9CQV /English &
                              German DOCS

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              361663 bytes in 1 file(s)


HAMMODS   [ HAM: Radio and equip modifications ]
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AK10.ZIP     (  51752 bytes)  Amazing Kenwood control program
DIAL-525.ZIP (  49854 bytes)  NRD-525 computer control program
SMCON140.ZIP ( 122956 bytes)  R8 Smart Control Program

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HAMNEWS   [ HAM: Bulletins and Newsletters ]
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ANART815.ZIP (   6885 bytes)  ANART Bulletin #815 06/26/94
ARLD038.ZIP  (   2753 bytes)  06/30/94 ARRL DX Bulletin - DX
ARLX018.ZIP  (   2124 bytes)  06/30/94 - Eastern VHF/UHF meet
ARLX019.ZIP  (   1897 bytes)  06/30/94 - Video's winner
ARRL0510.ZIP (  11100 bytes)  ARRL Newsletter Vol13 No9  05/10/94
ARRL0526.ZIP (  12110 bytes)  ARRL Newsletter Vol13 No10 05/26/94
ARRL0615.ZIP (  10849 bytes)  ARRL Newsletter Vol13 No11 06/15/94
HOD006.ZIP   (  49774 bytes)  Ham on Disk #6 vol 1
RACES332.ZIP (   2693 bytes)  RACES Bulletin #332 06/27/94
RACES333.ZIP (   2866 bytes)  RACES Bulletin #333 07/04/94
WICEN051.ZIP (   3424 bytes)  WICEN Bulletin #051 06/19/94

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              106475 bytes in 11 file(s)


HAMPACK   [ HAM: Packet Communications programs ]
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APRS503A.ZIP (1019238 bytes)  Automatic Packet Report system
                              V5.03 by WB4APR
APRS504U.ZIP ( 160467 bytes)  Automatic Packet Report System
                              V5.04 Update by WB4APR
LL232EXE.ZIP ( 434228 bytes)  Lan-Link v2.30:MS-DOS packet
                              software by W3/G3ZCZ
NPF220A.ZIP  ( 329779 bytes)  G8NPF message system v2.20a, reqs
                              BPQ405 or later

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             1943712 bytes in 4 file(s)


HAMSAT    [ HAM: Satellite tracking and finding programs ]
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SPC0627.ZIP  (   5010 bytes)  Space News 06/27/94
SPC0704.ZIP  (   3933 bytes)  Space News 07/04/94
WXMAN.ZIP    ( 261027 bytes)  Receive weather maps using sound
                              blaster card

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              269970 bytes in 3 file(s)


HAMSRC    [ Ham: Program Source Code ]
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HP48PACK.ZIP (   2389 bytes)  Source code for HP 48 Packet
                              program, by KC1SX

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                2389 bytes in 1 file(s)


HAMNEWS   [ HAM: Bulletins and Newsletters ]
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ARLX018.ZIP  (   2124 bytes)  06/30/94 - Eastern VHF/UHF meet

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                2124 bytes in 1 file(s)


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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 16:14:34 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!harvee.billerica.ma.us![e-mail]
Subject: Help with No Scratch mag mount
To: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Tom Bodoh writes:
>I thought it was very good advice.  Some people use magnetic mounts so they
>can easily move from car to car - or be able to avoid theft.  For those folks
>magnetic is best.

then there are those of us that use <clang!> parking <clang!> garages <clang!>
on <clang!> a <clang!> regular <clang!> basis.

--- eric
--
HOME: [e-mail]  HAM  ka1eec
WORK: [e-mail]   617.386.4687
source of the public's fear of the unknown since 1956

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Date: 4 Jul 94 15:34:02 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Let's be Careful Out There!
To: [e-mail]

>to some degree. What I really don't understand is 2 meter mobile gear, out of
>the box, that transmit from 140 to 150 MHz (sometimes much wider). Receiving
>is no problem. But transmitting? For one it is illegal to transmit outside of
>the amateur band (with the exception of MARS and possibly another).

the assumption has been and still is that YOU operate the station.  YOU know
how to put the radio on the right frequencies and so on.  This is a great
honor we receive in these days of "users are stupid" design.

Even with "Idiot-proof" controls, the idiots will still find a way.

It's no different with VHF equipment than it is with HF equipment.  I guess I
don't have an immediate problem with this.


bill wb9ivr

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Date: 4 Jul 1994 16:58:54 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!udel!news2.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!tequesta.gate.net!gate.net![e-mail]
Subject: looking for info on 2mtr repeaters in santa cruz ca.
To: [e-mail]

I am visiting some friends in santa cruz and forgot my repeater directory.
would someone please e-mail the repeater freq,offsets,pl tones. to me
thanks,  73  de larry benjamin
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 22:17:40 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!sitka.wsipc.wednet.edu!egreen!egreen![e-mail]
Subject: Morse Key for disabled?
To: [e-mail]

Chdeck with Handi hams in Golden Valley MN.

There are all sorts of novel ways to design paccles for keyers.  NASA
adpoted a light activet servo system for astronauts that follows the
motion of the eges to steering mechanisms.  A lot of quads use this
system to steer wheelchairs.

Keep up the hamming!

73, John
AE7P

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Date: 4 Jul 94 10:29:30
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!ee-news![e-mail]
Subject: QST H/Brew Isoloop
To: [e-mail]

Howdy All,

  This is an interesting thread -- I'm seriously looking at building a
40m-to-20m loop antenna for my apartment balcony.  My current design is an
inductivly coupled loop (like the QST article) with a octagonal main loop
made out of copper water pipe (like the ones in the ARRL antenna book).
I'm still working on the design of the tuning cap -- I'm still trying to
determine what is the best thing to do that's also easy to build, and cheap
too! (it looks like commercial vacuum variables or air vars with
sufficiently high voltage ratings are a bit steep for my wallet)

  I'm interested to hear about other's experiences -- and where to get the
Ted Hart/N5QJR book.  When I get this beast built; I'll summarize the
results to the net.

Tnx es 73,  Bill/KO6CD

--
 Bill Bencze                               [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 21:21:39 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!prodigy.bc.ca!espresso.prodigy.bc.ca![e-mail]
Subject: Radio For Backcountry Use
To: [e-mail]

I'm interested in finding out what type of radio is suitable for
backcountry emergency use. I posted a question to rec.backcountry and was
told that this would be a more appropriate newsgroup. Some of the
questions I have include:

-Frequencies used (is CB useable, are there repeaters)
-Suggestions for small handhelds with enough power to transmit in remote
areas
-Any other suggestions or recommendations

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Paul
-----

Paul Antaki
Prodigy Technologies Corporation         Phone: [phone]
1100-1190 Hornby Street                    Fax: [phone]
Vancouver, B.C.                         e-mail: [e-mail]
V6Z 2K5

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 22:06:01 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!sitka.wsipc.wednet.edu!egreen!egreen![e-mail]
Subject: simnplex on two meter
To: [e-mail]

I've done this a few times in Hawaii, where customs seem to be
different.  I also call CQ on 2m cw and SSB.  I anderstnad the
"Moniroring" business came about when people decided that if they could
hear their repeater, there was no sense to call CQ

Actually, calling CQ on simplex is the kosher way to do it, although sems
as if few people do.  I also do it while mountaintopping and contesting.

Well, as long as we can find someone to talk to, we don't need to be on
Internet.

73, John
AE7P

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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 14:25:55 -0400
From: newsflash.concordia.ca!altitude!interso.hip.cam.org![e-mail]
Subject: Sun spot data?
To: [e-mail]

Where can I find sun spot data information?

Thanks for your help

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 22:21:51 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Text transmission over FM radio?
To: [e-mail]

I'm trying to find out how easy it is to send text (ascii) over standard
FM radio frequencies.  More specifically, how many characters per second
do you think one could send at say, 100 MHz?

Any ideas where I could find out more information reports, people) who
know a lot about this technical subject?

Thanks in advance for anyone who helps out.  I appreciate it.

Victor V.

--
                                             [e-mail]

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Date: 04 Jul 1994 17:46:23 GMT
From: network![e-mail]
Subject: WALA repeater locations and freqs
To: [e-mail]

My wife and I are planning to drive up to the Bay Area very soon.  In the past
we've mostly just used Condor--which works *very* well, by the way--but
there's a friend in the Bay Area I like to be able to contact, and I haven't
been able to convince him to get a 220 rig.  So, I'd like to try using WALA.
I have a very old list of their repeaters, but I'm sure it's way out of date.
Does anyone out there have current info on this system?  I managed to at least
*hear* the weekly net last night.  Unfortunately the club remote base didn't
have quite enough oomph to get me checked in, going into PV from San Diego.  I
copied the address to write to for a map, but we need the info right away if
we're to use it for this trip.

73 and thanks in advance,
-Randy Gobbel, KD6ULI
Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

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Date: 4 Jul 1994 12:04:22 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!apple.com!apple.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>╟
Subject : Re: QST H/Brew Isoloop

[e-mail] (William J. Bencze) writes:

>  This is an interesting thread -- I'm seriously looking at building a
>40m-to-20m loop antenna for my apartment balcony.


I also live in an apartment (3rd floor) with a small balcony.

During the field day weekend (contests are great times to experiment
with antennas, with so many people listening for you :-) I slapped
together the distributed-capacitance loop that has been appearing on
the last couple of issues of CQ Magazine (the most recent one in the
July issue, I think).

This is basically a two turn loop made up of 300 ohm TV twinlead.
There is enough distributed capacitance that the loop resonates with
nary a capacitor (a little open stub, also made up of 300 ohm twinlead).
Must have been quite lossy, since the 2:1 SWR bandwidth was rather
broad.

I only subjected two stations to the torture of having to copy a weak
station: one station was in Alberta, and the other in South Texas.
Both stations came back to the first call from me on 20m.  I was
dumping 50 watts SSB into the loop from the SF Bay area.

So, it is possible to get out with very simple loops.

On receive, the makeshift loop was maybe one to two S units worse than
the usual antenna system I use, which is a 13 foot vertical whip and a
6 foot counterpoise (you can view it as an L shaped antenna, off-center-
fed to get 50 ohm match and inductively loaded to resonate on 20m) on
the same balcony. (This latter antenna worked Peter I Island with 100
watts SSB.)

73,

Kok Chen, AA6TY                [e-mail]
Apple Computer, Inc.

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Date: 4 Jul 94 14:53:54 GMT
From: news.delphi.com!BIX.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <edh.772904399@hpuerca>, <[e-mail]>8
Subject : Re: Temp. Conversion Chart: F & C?

[e-mail] (Kurt Rieder) writes:

>Actually, we have a difference here... MHz and KHz... etc, never
>equal each other, while F and C do !!!

Try zero (MHz, Feet, Dollars).

Regards,
Doug Hamilton    KD1UJ    [e-mail]    Ph 508-358-5715
Hamilton Laboratories, 13 Old Farm Road, Wayland, MA  01778-3117, USA

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 94 16:35:27 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!uos-ee!ee.surrey.ac.uk![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <edh.772904399@hpuerca>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Temp. Conversion Chart: F & C?

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (hamilton on BIX) writes:
|> [e-mail] (Kurt Rieder) writes:
|>
|> >Actually, we have a difference here... MHz and KHz... etc, never
|> >equal each other, while F and C do !!!
|>
|> Try zero (MHz, Feet, Dollars).
|>
You cant have zero dollars as then you havn't got any dollars
If you are counting in feet, I assume you only get as far as two, you certainly
cant have negative ones (unlike dollars).

You can't have zero MHz unless the big bang theory is incorrect.

No flames please, it's a joke.

Mike

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