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Info-Hams Digest            Sat,  9 Jul 94       Volume 94 : Issue  768

Today's Topics:
                Amateur calls on auto license plates?
                Anyone experienced with Cushcraft R7?
                           Contest Question
                     Denver area Ham radio stores
              Does CW as a pre-req REALLY work? (2 msgs)
                    IPS Daily Report - 09 July 94
                      Kenwood TH-79A info wanted
                           License Renewal
                          Micor cabinet keys
                      Microphone cnversion help
                   Passed the test, time to wait...
                       Pittsburgh Mentor Wanted
                           QSL cards to YU
                    SAREX Status 7/10 at 1:00 UTC
                              subscribe
                          T-Hunting Article
                             weather freq

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Date: 9 Jul 1994 21:37:40 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!usenet.elf.com!rpi!psinntp!JH.Org!JH.Org![e-mail]
Subject: Amateur calls on auto license plates?
To: [e-mail]

In <2vk24c$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Bate) writes:


>You are absolutely right. Also, thieves can look up your address in
>the callbook and have a field day while you are in your car.

In New York anyone can go to the DMV office where you pay parking
tickets and stand on line to get the name and address for any plate,
for a small fee (?).  Last month I saw a piece on the local news
saying that there will be a way to get the same info over the phone
for about $15!  This is supposed to be protection for people buying
used cars only to find out that their buying a stolen car.

So a thief with a stolen cell phone can use a stolen credit card to
get info on _any_ plate!  Comforting, no?

>73's
>john, ki7hs/4

Steve (who used to be WA2WSQ and is gonna go for the no-code!)

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 14:52:03 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Anyone experienced with Cushcraft R7?
To: [e-mail]

Herb Rosenberg ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Subject: Anyone experienced with Cushcraft R7?
: Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.antenna
: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
: Summary:
: Keywords:

The Cushcraft antennas are wonderful with one caveat:  the R-7 has a
propensity to blow traps if you use any power level over perhaps 100
watts.  This is a very well-known problem with the R-7, and is apparently
inherent in the design.

The R-5, which is identical except that it does not cover 40 meters and
has better 20 meter bandwidth, does not have this problem.

Both antennas perform very very well.

In my opinion the best system is to go with an R-5, and string a dipole,
shortened if necessary, for 40 meters.  Except for dxing, often a dipole
does better on 40 due to polarization and angle of radiation (higher).

The R-5 is a truly wonderful antenna.  I've worked the world with mine,
using only 100 watts.

The R-7 is probably OK if you won't be running over 100 watts.  I still
would go with the r-5 due to the foregoing.

73.


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                                             [e-mail]
                                             Glendale, CA
                                             AB6WR

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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 01:19:29 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!witch!doghouse![e-mail]
Subject: Contest Question
To: [e-mail]


In article <rohvm1.mah48d-290694121130@136.141.220.39>, John E. Taylor III ([e-mail]) writes:
>By strict legality, the _station_ is licensed, as well as the operator.
>You're operating his station, therefore you sign with the station's
>callsign.
>
>There's a justification I've heard for using your own callsign: the owner
>of the station temporarily transfers ownership of the station to you for
>the duration of the contest, which makes it _your_ station, and you're
>entitled to use your own callsign.  If anybody were to question that sort
>of thing carefully, I doubt it would hold up, but I suspect the FCC has
>better things to do (like reducing the backlog on new licenses!).
>

It'll hold up; Part 97.103(b) covers this situation exactly.  All the
station owner has to do is note in the station log (not required, but
a good thing to have) the date and time the owner made someone else the
control operator, and the time the owner resumed control.

73...joe



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Joe Salemi, KR4CZ               Internet: [e-mail]
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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 18:20:12 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn![e-mail]
Subject: Denver area Ham radio stores
To: [e-mail]

Wwhitby ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Does anyone know of any good ham radio stores in Denver, Colorado.  I will
: be there next week and might need to get something that I am bound to
: leave at home.

: Thanks in advance,

: Warren Whitby
: [e-mail]
: 73s de KE4ITL

: P.S. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me the Denver area 2m repeater freqs.


Denver has a Ham Radio Outlet where you can Rx and turn dials.

Jon <KB0MOI>

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Date: 9 Jul 1994 10:44:02 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: Does CW as a pre-req REALLY work?
To: [e-mail]

Remember, all of the lids that operarate SSB had to pass a 5 or 13 or 20
words per minute test to be able to operate on those HF bands that they
trash.  CW didn't seem to work as a filter to keep those poor operators
out, did it?

I still think a person's desire to obey the rules and be professional
determines what kind of operator he or she will be, not the fact that they
have passed a CW test.

Warren Whitby
[e-mail]
73s de KE4ITL

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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 20:13:48 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!witch!doghouse![e-mail]
Subject: Does CW as a pre-req REALLY Work?
To: [e-mail]


In article <2vldmh$[e-mail]>, Wwhitby ([e-mail]) writes:
>Now on to my plan.  Why can't we designate a portion of the HF SSB
>frequencies for no-code people.  The test for the no-code HF frequencies

Because the IRU treaty that governs ham radio operations worldwide
forbids it for now.  Until the treaty is changed, knowledge of morse
code is required to access frequencies below 30MHz.

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: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 23:12:50 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!ipso![e-mail]
Subject: IPS Daily Report - 09 July 94
To: [e-mail]

SUBJ: IPS DAILY SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL REPORT
ISSUED AT 09/2330Z JULY 1994 BY IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES
FROM THE REGIONAL WARNING CENTRE (RWC), SYDNEY.
SUMMARY FOR 09 JULY AND FORECAST FOR 10 JULY - 12 JULY

No IPS Disturbance Warning is current
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1A. SOLAR SUMMARY
Activity: very low

Flares: none.

Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 086/029

GOES satellite data for 08 Jul
       Daily Proton Fluence >1 MeV:   5.6E+05
       Daily Proton Fluence >10 MeV:  5.8E+04
       Daily Electron Fluence >2 MeV: 1.8E+07
       X-ray background: A6.2
Fluence (flux accumulation over 24hrs)/ cm2-ster-day.

1B. SOLAR FORECAST
             10 Jul             11 Jul             12 Jul
Activity     Low                Low                Very low
Fadeouts     None expected      None expected      None expected

Forecast 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number for 10 Jul: 085/027

1C. SOLAR COMMENT
None.
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2A. MAGNETIC SUMMARY
Geomagnetic field at Learmonth: quiet

Estimated Indices : A   K           Observed A Index 08 Jul
    Learmonth       04  2111 2211
    Fredericksburg  04                          05
    Planetary       05                          05

Observed Kp for 08 Jul: 2211 3222
2B. MAGNETIC FORECAST
DATE      Ap    CONDITIONS
10 Jul    05    Quiet.
11 Jul    05    Quiet.
12 Jul    05    Quiet.

2C. MAGNETIC COMMENT
None.
-----------------------------------------------------------
3A. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION SUMMARY
                LATITUDE BAND
DATE        LOW            MIDDLE         HIGH
09 Jul      normal         normal         normal
PCA Event : None.
3B. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION FORECAST
                LATITUDE BAND
DATE        LOW            MIDDLE         HIGH
10 Jul      normal         normal         normal
11 Jul      normal         normal         normal
12 Jul      normal         normal         normal
3C. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION COMMENT
NONE.
-----------------------------------------------------------
4A. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC SUMMARY
MUFs at Sydney were near predicted monthly values

Observed T-index for 09 Jul:  30

Predicted Monthly T-index for July is 30.

4B. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC FORECAST
DATE   T-index  MUFs
10 Jul    30    Near predicted monthly values.
11 Jul    30    Near predicted monthly values.
12 Jul    30    Near predicted monthly values.

4C. AUSTRALIAN REGION COMMENT
None.

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IPS Regional Warning Centre, Sydney       |IPS Radio and Space Services
RWC Duty Forecaster   tel: [phone]  |PO Box 5606
Recorded Message      tel: [phone]  |West Chatswood NSW 2057
email: [e-mail]  fax: [phone]  |AUSTRALIA

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 94 13:44:51 -0500
From: news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: Kenwood TH-79A info wanted
To: [e-mail]

Joseph Hong <[e-mail]> writes:

>Does any one has production information (spec) for Kenwood TH-79A?  It
>should replace TH-78A.  Radio Center (Kansas City) gave me a $469 quote.

Joseph:
I happen to be in a local amateur radio shop last week and actually saw the
th-79a.  It is a solid little ht.  They had just gotten them in.  They didn't
have a spec sheet.  They gave a quote of $499, and this store...Gifler
Electronics in Park Ridge NJ is very reasonable...so you got a good price.  I
would be
interested in finding out what you learn about the TH-79a...I am looking for
a ht myself.

[A

>Fannie Mae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016

How are things in DC.  I lived there from 73 to 87.  Fannie Mae can't be
that far north of Georgetown...spent many an afternoon and evening there.
73
-Joe Keenan

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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 15:45:56 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!harvee.billerica.ma.us![e-mail]
Subject: License Renewal
To: [e-mail]

>In <[e-mail]>, William A. Kirsanoff writes:
>Jim, WK1V (sorry, I didn't capture his address) writes:
>        My point, Eric, is what if the FCC came to your house and caught
>        you operating? You present an expired license.  What proof do you
>        have that you submitted a renewal application?
>
>Hopefully, Eric kept a copy of his 610 on file, and will attest to the fact
>that he mailed it on or about the date the original was signed. Ideally, he
>has a postal receipt, or perhaps sent it registered, although I doubt it.

to answer your questions, no, i would, and I didn't (and I wish I had).
I just got my arrl 610, filled it in, attached one of my many photocopys
 of my license and poped it in the mail the same day (well, maybe the
same week :-)

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

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 18:46:51 UNDEFINED
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!insosf1.infonet.net!s083.infonet.net![e-mail]
Subject: Micor cabinet keys
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Barts) writes:

>Someone broke into our repeater building and stole the key to our repeater
>cabinet (of all things!).  Of course we don't have a duplicate.

>The repeater is a Motorola Micor in its cabinet.  Does anybody know if the
>locks on these things is uniquely keyed or is it a generic key?  We have a
>key blank but no way of knowing how to cut it.  Anyone have experience with
>these things?


Go to your local Motorola two-way shop and ask for a 2135 key.  They probably
have several hundred collected from numerous installs over the years.

Jerry, W0CI

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Date: 10 Jul 1994 03:02:18 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!heifetz.msen.com![e-mail]
Subject: Microphone cnversion help
To: [e-mail]

Howdy,
I have an old ElectroVoice microphone, type 630 hi Z, which I would like
to fit with an element for use with my TS-440. The only info that I could
find in the Kenwood owners manual about the microphone was that it was
dynamic. Duh??

I have the toll free number to EV but I would like to have all the info I
need before I speak with them. What frequency response and or
characteristics should I look for in an element??

Thanks in advance.

Bill Koechig, N8PKA
Pontiac,MI

e-mail preferred

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 94 13:38:34 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: Passed the test, time to wait...
To: [e-mail]

Scott Hopson <[e-mail]> writes:

>Well I passed the No-Code Tech test, now I guess I'll have to wait,
>what is it 2-4 months before I can talk on the air. Well, I don't
>plan to sit idley by waiting for that ticket. I'm going to try to
>get the General done before my first license arrives, who knows,
>maybe I can get advanced before the FCC gets around to allowing
>me to talk on the air.

Hi Scott:  Congratulations!  I am basically in the same boat.  I passed the
tech with code last month,  I passed the general theory today (took the advanced
theory but failed it).  I will take the advanced theory again next month.  I
have a feeling were are looking at four months at least before our tickets
arrive.
good luck and 73
-Joe Keenan

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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 94 09:01:59 -0500
From: news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: Pittsburgh Mentor Wanted
To: [e-mail]

I would like to sit and observe a Pittsburgh, Pa. area ham in operation.
The reason is that I am going to sail to Bermuda next summer in a 35' boat
and feel that a ham and SSB license would be an active safety feature.
I need to get a feel for what is involved before deciding on just the
SSB or to get a ham license.
Stan Winikoff
412-261-6400 (office)

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Date: 10 Jul 1994 03:06:00 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!heifetz.msen.com![e-mail]
Subject: QSL cards to YU
To: [e-mail]

Since the disasterous events that have take place in former Yugoslavia,
what is the best way to get QSLs out to contacts over there?? Is the
bureau address still good?

Just a thought.

Bill Koechig, N8PKA

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Date: 10 Jul 94 01:08:54 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SAREX Status 7/10 at 1:00 UTC
To: [e-mail]

SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-65.002
SAREX Status 7/10 at 1:00 UTC

Silver Spring, MD, July 10 1994 at 1:00 UTC

At approximately 22:30 into the flight of STS-65, the Shuttle Amateur Radio
Experiment was set up and activated.  One orbit later, as the Shuttle
passed over the southern portion of the US, the Bair Middle School in
Sunrise Florida had an opportunity to chat with Commander Bob Cabana,
KC5HBV.  During the conversation, he looked out the window and reported
seeing partly cloudy weather as he passed over Florida. The Bair Middle
school had an outstanding horizon-to-horizon contact.  The team at the
school reported that 22 students talked with Commander Cabana during their
contact opportunity.

Gil Carman from the JSC ARC reports that element set JSC-004 varied from
the orbit 16 state vector by 15 seconds.  A new element set, JSC-005 has
been generated and is provided below.


STS-65
1 23173U 94105A   94190.62548630  .00052344  00000-0  15762-3 0    52
2 23173  28.4641   0.7490 0002728 316.9968  43.0429 15.90169039   166

Satellite: STS-65
Catalog number: 23173
Epoch time:      94190.62548630   =    (09 JUL 94   15:00:42.01 UTC)
Element set:     005
Inclination:       28.4641 deg
RA of node:         0.7490 deg           Space Shuttle Flight STS-65
Eccentricity:     .0002728              Keplerian element set JSC-005
Arg of perigee:   316.9968 deg          from NASA flight Day  2 vector
Mean anomaly:      43.0429 deg
Mean motion:   15.90169039 rev/day              G. L. Carman
Decay rate:     5.2344e-04 rev/day^2      NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev:              16
Checksum:              293


Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, for the SAREX Working Group

/EX

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Date: 9 Jul 94 12:00:31 GMT
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Date: Sat,  9 Jul 1994 17:09:15 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!svarbbs![e-mail]
Subject: T-Hunting Article
To: [e-mail]

I've been asked by a radio magazine to prepare an article about
T-hunting. What I'm looking for are answers to the following questions:

1. Do you have any funny/interesting T-hunt stories that you would like
to share?

2. Do you know of any clever techniques/shortcuts that a T-hunter can
use to find the hidden transmitter?

3. If you have ever operated the hidden transmitter, have you used any
special techniques to throw the T-hunters off track? This would include
changing the polarization, transmitter power, etc.

4. Where are some novel places that a transmitter has been hidden.

73s

Brian Webb, KD6NRP
P.O. Box 6484
Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-6484

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Date: 9 Jul 1994 23:08:03 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!FNALO.FNAL.GOV![e-mail]
Subject: weather freq
To: [e-mail]

    Don't forget 162.475 that seems to be a popular one around the midwest.
                    73's


    Mike/N9SAV
    NIARC SPLIT/146.58T/147.66R

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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 01:26:40 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!witch!doghouse![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2vejjq$[e-mail]>, <Ey$[e-mail]><[e-mail]>h
Reply-To : [e-mail] (Joe Salemi)
Subject : Re: Does CW as a pre-req REALLY Work?


In article <[e-mail]>, Jeffrey Herman ([e-mail]) writes:
>That's why the entire VE system should be thrown out. Witness the
>current scam in L.A. We need an authoritative body to administer
>the exams. After all, do we as drivers administer driving exams?
>Do those who are aircraft pilots administer pilot license exams?
>

Oh, come on -- you really want to smear the 30,000+ VEs who volunteer
their time and efforts to run the tests honestly and fairly because of
a few bad apples in one location, who were in fact caught at it?
Don't you think that folks have gotten drivers or pilots licenses by
bribery?  There's always going to be someone who tries to take
advantage of the system for personal gain -- that's no reason to throw
out the whole system.




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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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