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Info-Hams Digest            Tue,  5 Jul 94       Volume 94 : Issue  746

Today's Topics:
                        AEA IsoLoop - Opinion
            Amateur calls on auto license plates? (3 msgs)
              Does CW as a pre-req REALLY Work? (3 msgs)
                        Extra-teressial beacon
                            F.E.M.A Freq.
                     Humorous Field Day Stories?
                                IC229H
                        QRP- NN1G wiring help?

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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 17:46:09 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!seas.smu.edu!vivaldi!rsd0![e-mail]
Subject: AEA IsoLoop - Opinion
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ray Wade) writes:

> DB> "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool
> DB> all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the
> DB> people all of the time."- Abraham Lincoln, KZ1O
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Gee, I didn't know ole Abe was a ham.

dave

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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 16:19:26 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!qiclab!egreen!egreen![e-mail]
Subject: Amateur calls on auto license plates?
To: [e-mail]

I have had call letter plates for nearly 20 years and never have had a
problem. Actually, lots of pin-head thieves out there think my car is a
government vehicle and steer clear of it.
Also, there is very little resale market for hot ham gear.
The worst I have ever lost is an antenna, and that was mistaken for a CB
antenna during the CB craze in the 70s.

I have successfully run hf, 2 meter and 220Mhz with no problems.

73 and keep on mobiling

John AE7P

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 10:36:37 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com![e-mail]
Subject: Amateur calls on auto license plates?
To: [e-mail]

Jeff Kashinsky ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <2vbdpk$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Dan Hughes) writes:
: |>
: |> I see a lot of vehicles with ham calls on their plates, but I am wary of
: |> doing this for fear that the specialized plates are a billboard to
: |> thieves that there might be expensive radio equipment in the vehicle.
: |>
: |> Any comments pro or con?  Thanks!     ---Dan, N9XDK
: |> --

: One data point:

: My car with call letter plates was recently a target. The in dash
: aftermarket radio/CD player was taken. The 2 meter rig was undisturbed.

: Thieves want what they can turn into ready cash.
: --
: Jeff    WU2A/6
: reply to: [e-mail]
: phone: [phone]

Never had a problem myself and have my license plate since '90 so ...

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Date: 5 Jul 94 15:30:23 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!ulowell!woods.uml.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Amateur calls on auto license plates?
To: [e-mail]

In article <2vbdpk$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Dan Hughes) wrote:
>
> I see a lot of vehicles with ham calls on their plates, but I am wary of
> doing this for fear that the specialized plates are a billboard to
> thieves that there might be expensive radio equipment in the vehicle.
>
> Any comments pro or con?  Thanks!     ---Dan, N9XDK

I've had ham tags on my vehicle(s) since 1983 and have never had a problem.
That doesn't mean I take it for granted either.  I do have the mobile mount
for my two meter rig mounted under the dash.  But the two meter rig hasn't
been in the vehicle for over a year.  I use a handheld when I run mobile now.

Guess when one looks into my vehicle all they see is the mobile mount with
wires terminating into nowhere nearby.  You gonna steal that?  The mobile
rig is in the house being used for packet operations.  Of course if anything
is going to be stolen it will be the RS PA amplifier I plug the audio from the
HT into, along with a dash mounted Motorola speaker.

I have to let you know that I don't have a ham call license plate right now
since moving to Massachusetts.  I have a Veteran's plate.  I don't like having
a lightning bolt going through my callsign like they do here.  Kinda tacky if
you ask me.  But I have call plates from Mississippi, New Hampshire, and
New Mexico.

But how would you like to have a plate with your callsign KA5\MWD?  The \
is certainly not a lightning bolt...but with my present call, WK1V a
lightning bolt wouldn't look good after the "1".  Oh well.  Preference....

Cheers!
-jim-  WK1V


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Date: 5 Jul 1994 13:45:31 -0400
From: news1.digex.net!digex.net![e-mail]
Subject: Does CW as a pre-req REALLY Work?
To: [e-mail]

    It seems the majority of hams think CW is an effective pre-requisite to
get on HF. I'm going to challenge this. (BTW, 90% of my HF ops is CW, before
you start flaming me). I personally prefer CW, it seems like the more
courteous mode, these days. That's my PERSONAL preference. CW is just
another mode of operation after all, like RTTY, packet SSTV, etc.

    If CW is such an effective filter, and all those on HF have 'passed'
this 'initiation' then please explain the poor operating practices on
the bands. It appears that 20, 40, and 80M are practically over-run by
individuals w/a twisted comprehension of what is 'acceptable'. For
example, after verifying that a frequency on 40M was not in use I
started a QSO w/another ham. 5 minutes into our QSO we were interrupted
and told that a net was about to start on that frequency. We didn't
budge, after all nobody 'owns' any frequency, right? There was obviously
clear room around us, but the 'net' moved up 1 khz and started up, totally
interfering w/our QSO in progress. After finishing the QSO I moved up to
see who the 'net' was and heard these fellow 'hams' talking about how I
and the other ham had moved off 'their' net freq and the reply was
'guess our kilowatts' did the 'trick'.

    The more common practice is someone from a 'net' calling others in
the net with no response, right on top of someone calling CQ. Hams call
this kind of practice 'stepping' on someone on CB. What's the difference?

    No radio amateur can say that CW is a really effective filter anymore.
It's pathetic that the tests don't REALLY STRESS 'GOOD' operating practices.
Make the test technically challenging, and make sure the individual knows
his operating procedures. CW should be a mode of operation. I'm still
in favor of some type of CW test but testing at 20 WPM doesn't tell me how
good an amateur is, just that he's fast. (BTW, the previously described
garbage doesn't seem to appear in the Extra-class portions of the bands as
much as it does elsewhere, and that reflects the TECHNICAL challenge of the
test). Give an individual a REAL technical/operational test and reduce the
CW requirements, maybe that will bring in some fresh amateur operators who
will have something TECHNICAL to contribute. The only folks who'll object
are those closed 'net' operators who don't want to give up 'their'
frequencies.

    It took me 17 years of hamming as a General class, vollying between CW
and SSB, to come to these conclusions. I'll stick to CW when I want
courteous, hassle-free operation; I'll venture up on SSB when I'm daring and
want to call CQ on ,oh-no, someone's 'net' frequency. Funny, my ARRL
handbook doesn't list any 'net' frequencies...I must not have the 'net'
version...

    Andy

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 19:37:16 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!sookit![e-mail]
Subject: Does CW as a pre-req REALLY Work?
To: [e-mail]

Andy Domonkos ([e-mail]) wrote:

[many deletions]
: individuals w/a twisted comprehension of what is 'acceptable'. For
: example, after verifying that a frequency on 40M was not in use I
: started a QSO w/another ham. 5 minutes into our QSO we were interrupted
: and told that a net was about to start on that frequency. We didn't
: budge, after all nobody 'owns' any frequency, right? There was obviously
: clear room around us, but the 'net' moved up 1 khz and started up, totally
: interfering w/our QSO in progress. After finishing the QSO I moved up to
: see who the 'net' was and heard these fellow 'hams' talking about how I
: and the other ham had moved off 'their' net freq and the reply was
: 'guess our kilowatts' did the 'trick'.
[more deletions]

andy - i'm not sure who was guilty of poor operating practice ... seems to
me that the two of you could move alot easier than an entire scheduled
net. if i were requested reasonably politely to move for a net, i'm sure
that i would do it.

btw, i'm a tech+ and use code almost exclusively on hf (even tho' 10m
phone *is* fun!).

regards, richard kd6lwd

[e-mail]
all disclaimers apply

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 15:03:08 -0400
From: newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: Does CW as a pre-req REALLY Work?
To: [e-mail]

Let me throw in my 2 cents:

I am a tech class ham and have had my ticket for about 7 months.  I
got my license to get away from the foul mouth people that inhabit
the CB bands.  In all my months of operation (and about a year of
just listening), I have only heard one gentleman use one profane
word, and he immediatley appologized for his slip.  The first time I
listened to HF transmissions on 80 meters, I heard enough 4 letter
words for an R-rated movie.  I have listened to other QSOs and have
heard even more profanity.  I don't talk like that and I don't want
to listen to it.

So, to bring this post to a close, the real barrier for me is not CW,
but it is the desire NOT to listen to a bunch of foul-mouthed CBers
turning our HF amateur bands into other CB bands.  I am very content
with my tech priviliages.  I wonder how many other hams have been
kept away for the same reason.

I don't intend this post to offend anyone, but I just want to let
everyone know that there are other barriers besides learning CW

73s de KE4ITL
Warren Whitby
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 19:25:47 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!darwin.sura.net!jabba.ess.harris.com!news.ess.harris.com!adm01.rfc.comm.harris.com![e-mail]
Subject: Extra-teressial beacon
To: [e-mail]

: 1) There's nobody there
: 2) There's somebody there, but they're just not listening
: 3) There's somebody there, they heard us, but they just don't care
: 4) There's somebody there, they heard us, but they're paranoid
: 5) There's somebody there, they heard us, and they're on their way to take
: over

You left two possibilities out:
6) There's somebody out there, they heard us, but they don't want to
   work QRP planets.
7) There's somebody out there, they heard us, but since we're visitors from
   another call district, they won't answer us on their repeater.

8^)  73, gary n2jgu

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 17:46:38 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!bnr.co.uk!corpgate!news.utdallas.edu!rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com!aur.alcatel.com!aurxc8.aur.alcatel.com![e-mail]
Subject: F.E.M.A Freq.
To: [e-mail]

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 From: [e-mail]
 Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
 Subject: Re: FEMA Frequencies
 Date: 1 Jul 1994 01:23:45 GMT


         Here's the freqs I have, HF/VHF/UHF. I'd be interested to know
 if anyone has picked up anything related on HF.

                      FEMA VHF/HF FREQUENCIES

 VHF: 138.225   141.725   165.6625  UHF: 409.125
      138.575   141.875   166.225
      139.10    141.95    167.975
      139.825   142.025   168.35
      139.45    142.35    169.25
      139.225   143.60    169.60
      139.95    143.625   169.875
      140.025   163.10    170.20
      140.90    164.8625  173.1875
 HF:
 CH.   FREQ    CH   FREQ   CH   FREQ     CH   FREQ
 01    2320    19   6151   37   13633    55   18744
 02    2360    20   6176   38   13744    56   19757
 03    2377    21   6608   39   13780    57   19969
 04    2445    22   7348   40   13783    58   20027
 05    2458    23   7428   41   14450    59   20063
 06    3341    24   8462   42   14776    60   21866
 07    3379    25  10184   43   14836    61   21919
 08    3388    26  10483   44   14885    62   22983
 09    4603    27  10184   45   14899    63   23028
 10    4780    28  11721   46   14908    64   23390
 11    5211    29  11801   47   15464    65   23451
 12    5378    30  11957   48   15509    66   23550
 13    5402    31  11994   49   15532    67   23814
 14    5821    32  12009   50   15708    68   24008
 15    5961    33  12129   51   16201    69   24282
 16    6049    34  12216   52   16430    70   24526
 17    6106    35  12219   53   17519    71   24819
 18    6108    36  13446   54   17649

   All HF frequencies in Khz., most I have heard have been USB.
   Note that the channel's are refered to by "Foxtrot" designators,
   as in "Foxtrot 32".

          FEMA Regions

 Callsign  Location
 WGY900    FEMA Washington, DC
 WGY911    Telecommunications Branch
         District 1
 WGY901    Maynard, Massachusetts
 WGY921    Concord, NH
 WGY931    Montpelier, Vt
 WGY941    Augusta, ME
 WGY951    Hartford, CT
 WGY961    Framingham, MA
 WGY971    Providence, RI
         District 2
 WGY902    NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
 WGY932    Puerto Rico, Civil Defense
 WGY942    Albany, NY
 WGY982    North Trenton, NJ
 WGY992    San Juan, Puerto Rico
         District 3
 WGY903    OLNEY, MARYLAND (Net Control Station)
 WGY923    Harrisburg, PA
 WGY933    Pikesville, MD
 WGY943    Charlestown, WV
 WGY953    Delaware City, Delaware
 WGY963    Richmond, VA
 WGY983    Washington, D.C.
         District 4
 WGY904    THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA (3rd alternate NCS)
 WGY914    Canal Zone, Balboa Heights, Panama
 WGY924    Nashville, TN
 WGY934    Columbia, SC
 WGY944    Atlanta, GA
 WGY954    Montgomery, AL
 WGY964    Jackson, MS
 WGY974    Tallahassee, FL
 WGY984    Raleigh, NC
 WGY994    Frankfort, KY
         District 5
 WGY905    BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN (4th alternate NCS)
 WGY925    Madison, WI
 WGY935    St Paul, MN
 WGY945    Columbus, OH
 WGY955    Springtield, IL
 WGY965    Indianapolis, IN
 WGY975    Lansing, MI
         District 6
 WGY906    DENTON, TEXAS (2nd alternate NCS)
 WGY926    Oklahoma City, OK
 WGY936    Santa Fe, NM
 WGY946    Baton Rouge, LA
 WGY956    Austin, TX
 WGY966    Conway, AR
         District 7
 WGY907    KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
 WGY947    Des Moines, IA
 WGY957    Lincoln, Ne
 WGY977    Jefferson City, MO
 WGY997    Topeka,KS
         District 8
 WGY908    DENVER, COLORADO (1 st alternate NCS)
 WGY928    Pierre, SD
 WGY938    Cheyenne, WY
 WGY948    Bismark, ND
 WGY958    Helena, MT
 WGY968    Golden, CO
 WGY998    Salt Lake City, UT
         District 9
 WGY909    SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
 WGY929    Carson City, NV
 WGY939    Sacramento, CA
 WGY949    Phoenix, AZ
 WGY959    Honolulu, HI
 WGY979    American Samoa
         District 10
 WGY910    BOTHELL, WASHINGTON
 WGY920    Boise, ID
 WGY930    Olympia, WA
 WGY940    Salem, OR
 WGY960    Soldotna, AK
 WGY970    Juneau, AK
 WGY980    Alcantra, AK

 WGY911  Telecommunications
 Management; FEMA HO, Wash DC

 WGY912  FEMA Special Facility
 Berryville, VA

 WGY915  National Communications
 System HQ, Washington, DC

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 19:38:24 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!psgrain!news.tek.com!tekgp4.cse.tek.com![e-mail]
Subject: Humorous Field Day Stories?
To: [e-mail]

I've got one.

It was 1963. I'd just graduated from high school, and was invited by the
Martin Marietta radio club to operate their 20m CW station on the night
shift like I'd done the previous year. The setup was south of Denver on a
sagebrush-covered prairie. We had a KWM-2, and the antenna was a Hornet
Tribander on a 20-foot aluminum tower, guyed to the sagebrush. Rotation was
by means of a rope tied to the boom and also tied off to the sagebrush.

I got off work in the late afternoon, and my Technician-class friend (I'll
call him DR) and I arrived a little before dark. After convincing the on-
duty crew I could handle a key, they left the station to DR and me. After a
while, it seemed to me that we weren't doing as well as I thought we
should. All beams were a little different, and you couldn't always tell by
the physical length of the elements which element in a tribander was the
director, so I wondered if maybe the beam was turned the wrong way. So I
asked DR to turn the beam while I listened to the signals. "Where's the
rotating rope?" he asked. I shone the flashlight out the tent door until it
intersected the rope, and out he went. For a while I didn't hear any change
in signal strength. Then I heard DR mutter, "Man, this sure is tied on
tight!" . . ."Ah, there I've got it". . . About then it dawned on me what
was going on. But too late. "Oh, no!" from DR. . . then the crash, and the
rig went silent. The good news is that it missed the tent. The bad news is
that the beam was completely destroyed. The gamma match was a pretzel, and
the element tubing was collapsed in several places.

We tried to find the owner of the beam but he was asleep, and we decided
not to wake him up to tell him the news. In the meantime, we backed up my
car (actually, my parents') and kluged the feedline to the Master Mobile
whip I had on a bumper mount. We used that antenna until morning. Once in a
while somebody would come by with the comment "Gee, I thought we had a beam
for 20. . ." The dreaded moment arrived when the owner awoke. He was a
forgiving sort and apparently fairly well-heeled. This was his "spare"
beam, and he said to forget it (to our great relief, because we didn't know
how we'd be able to pay for it). He said they'd make a club project out of
fixing it. We put the mobile whip up on the tower and it was the 20m
antenna for the rest of Field Day.

Postscript: I went off to the service (as lots of people did about then).
When I returned I went back to school and ended up rooming with DR at the
U. of Colo. He had been going to school at the Denver extension. One of his
classmates found out he was a ham, and offered to sell him a beam -- cheap.
"What's wrong with it," DR wisely asked. The response: "Oh, it was on a
tower at Field Day a few years ago and some idiot untied the guy rope and
smashed it." He didn't buy it. ("Idiot" or not, he wasn't stupid. . .)

Somehow, Field Day has always seemed so uneventful since. . .

73,

Roy Lewallen, W7EL
[e-mail]

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 12:53:05 -0400
From: newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: IC229H
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Sam Oben)
writes:

Are you leaving the power supply on, or turning it off?  I don't know
much about the circuitry of the 229H but the memory may be drawing
power even when the radio's power button is turned off.  Try turning
off the power on the radio, but keep the power supply on.

BTW, I have a similiar problem with a scanner hooked up to a 12vt.
power supply. When I shut the power supply off for a few days, I will
lose all of the frequencies stored in memory.

73s de KE4ITL
Warren Whitby
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 15:55:02 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!concert!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!galen.med.Virginia.EDU![e-mail]
Subject: QRP- NN1G wiring help?
To: [e-mail]

Howdy,

I have completed the boards for the NN1G kit, but need some
help making sure I wire everything together correctly. If
anyone has *successfully* completed this kit (which I
understand is no small accomplishment) and would be willing to
assist me, I would really appreciate it. I am a newcomer to
amateur radio and this will be my HF rig for a while. I can
send a photocopy of the layout and you can draw lines where the
connections go if that would work for you.

73 and thanks for any help!

Bill
--
Bill McCoy KE4JSU



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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 17:16:40 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!spider!raft.spider.co.uk![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <2vbr5d$[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: CW - THE ONLY MODE!

In article <2vbr5d$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (William J. Turner) writes:
[snip - sending left handed discussion]
>
>I agree about sending and writing at the same time.  (I've done it, but
>it sure wasn't easy!)
>
>However, it does cut down on fumbling for the pencil when you turn the
>conversation over to the other ham.  I'd say go for it!!

Even easier, get into the habit of holding the pen[cil] while sending.
It is awkward at first, but after a while you can tuck the pencil
between some appropriate fingers and paddle away happily. Tricky
to describe - but works well, and the pencil is always - err - to hand
when you need it.

73, John.



--
John Morris != Spider Systems  [e-mail]  GM4ANB@GB7EDN.#77.GBR.EU

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Date: 5 Jul 1994 18:31:17 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2vbr5d$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: CW - THE ONLY MODE!


In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John Morris) writes:
|> Even easier, get into the habit of holding the pen[cil] while sending.
|> It is awkward at first, but after a while you can tuck the pencil
|> between some appropriate fingers and paddle away happily. Tricky
|> to describe - but works well, and the pencil is always - err - to hand
|> when you need it.

So, true.  For me, it was no problem learning to send with my right hand
(I do most things right-handed anyway) and write with my left (I can't
quite write with my right hand yet...).  I hardly ever take my right
hand off the key, except to change the volume or RIT while copying.

It all depends on what you're used to.  I hold pencil (or in my case
pen) in one hand and key in the other.  Neither hand moves far, and it
works out well for me.

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