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Info-Hams Digest            Thu, 28 Jul 94       Volume 94 : Issue  850

Today's Topics:
              Anonymous message failed (wrong password)
                   Anyone have a current DXCC list?
                    ARC-5 series equipment wanted
                  Did CB's used to require licenses?
                       Digital Spectrum Offer!
                          ham humor (2 msgs)
                    NOS like program for the Mac?
                        Ramsey SlyFox (2 msgs)
                 REQUEST: Help finding WWV receiver!
                          Saving on Postage!
                    VHF TV freqs to be phased out?
                  Voltage of rechargeable 9V NiCd's?
                         WANTED: Please read!

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 04:32:51 UTC
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi![e-mail]
Subject: Anonymous message failed (wrong password)
To: [e-mail]


     I've just preformed the HTX-100 mods and it doesn't seem to work.
 Has anyone used this mod successfully?


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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:37:08 +0000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!imcldn.demon.co.uk![e-mail]
Subject: Anyone have a current DXCC list?
To: [e-mail]

In article <314b2n$[e-mail]>
           [e-mail] "Eric J. Reiter" writes:

> Subject: Anyone have a current DXCC list?
> Could someone email me or post a current DXCC list?
>
> 73,
> Eric
> WI2N
>

Probably easier to get it from arrl direct

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73's Mike G7OBS

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Date: 28 Jul 1994 08:40:15 -0400
From: cambridge.village.com!cambridge.village.com![e-mail]
Subject: ARC-5 series equipment wanted
To: [e-mail]

Go ahead and laugh...so it HAS tubes.

 I'm looking for an ARC-5 series receiver, mainly as a tinkering device.
I fondly remember these from my station when I was a Novice (far too long
ago to comtemplate) and have gotten the nostalgia bug once again.

 If you have a complete system (xmtrs, receivers and the rack) that would be
too much to hope for, but shipping could be a problem. i'm in the Boston
area, and would like to pick up if possible.
 Failing that, anybody got an old military-style receiver they want to sell?
I know about Fair Radio, but their prices are exorbitant, and frankly I can't
afford to drop a couple of hundred on something that doesn't work.

Thanks, and pardon the nostalgia - Al Richer - [e-mail]

                    ex-WA1YHY

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 14:51:26 GMT
From: spcuna!starcomm.overleaf.com!n2ayj![e-mail]
Subject: Did CB's used to require licenses?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but when I was about 10 (1975), I
>had a CB license and a little CB base station.  I remember at that
>time that I had a CB license, but I don't remember if they were
>actually *required* or not.

Yes, they were required and actually ENFORCED. I once had to make a
"monetary forfeiture" - not a fine, mind you - for "failure to
identify". The rules were something like 1 minute on, 5 minutes off,
or vice-versa, and you had to ID at the beginning and end. CB was (is?) a
mixed BUSINESS and PERSONAL use band and everybody had to share nice.
(Had this argument once with a CB STORE OWNER, who insisted CB was
not for commercial use. But, I digress...)

The only reason they got me was because I DID identify, but (purportedly)
not within the limits of the FCC rules. I was "advised", BTW, that
there was no recourse; FCC says pay-up, or get off the air. Needless to say,
in light of grosser violations of the rules going on in my own neighborhood,
I got bent and named names. I had to flee to ham radio; I'm a CB refugee. :{)

The band was actually decent in the mid- to late-sixties. The truckers
deregulated CB during the gas "crisis", and it got completely out of
control when "First Mama" (Betty Ford) proposed the No-Sanity License.
It was already a no-brainer; fill in form, send $4.

I've worked under my father's license (family was included) KBQ0811,
my own KLI6534 ("You got that one DOOOOOONESBURY"), and even had
a club license for Jersey Meadowlands Radio, an emergency monitoring
group, KATH2996(?).

I had some good times on CB, met some decent folks, and learned enough
about radio to stir my interest in Amateur Radio. When CB was good, it
was very, very good. (I think you'll find most of the type of people
I remember from CB up on GMRS now, if not in the ham bands.) But, IMO,
CB now is living proof of what happens when you get something for nothing
and nobody's minding the store.

--
Stan Olochwoszcz, N2AYJ - [e-mail]
"This whole dot-dash concept sounds interesting, Mr. Vail. Why don't you let
me look over your notes on the train to the Patent Office?" - S.F.B. Morse?

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 11:12:30 -0500
From: news.delphi.com![e-mail]
Subject: Digital Spectrum Offer!
To: [e-mail]



After reading many posts regarding the unfairness of
the code requirement and the elitism of CW ops, and
superiority of one mode over another, I suggest an
alternative.

First:
A) It is a given that the ARRL will not support ths and
i honestly hope that i am wrong.

B) An influx of new hams is taking place and many of these
operators are interested in digital modes.

C) The future of amateur radio is getting licensed now.

with that said, here 'tis.

The usenet r.r.a.?? newsgroups constitute a watershed of
hams with a de-facto interest in digital communications
and radio-theory.  The opinion of these participants vary
widely (as evidenced by the constant bickering!).  These
factors combine to provide a forum for the development
of a proposal for the modifications of the current state
of HF spectrum management.

Proposed Alterations:

1) Novice Priv's to include digital-specific allocations, for
example: 7075-7100; 14075-14100; similar allocations on one
or more WARC bands.

2) Generation of an additional written exam, specific
to the theory, implementation, and practice of digital modes.
Coverage of data types, data rates, modulation techniques,
bandwidth, hardware, on-air protocols, Propagation, RFI. and
FCC regulations is expected.

I believe that the resulting impact would be to avail a large
number of hams of spectrum prioritized for digital modes.  This
would be in keeping with the "technology infusion" theme of the
no-code.  No-code Techs are REAL hams with strengths that have
nothing to do with triodes and air-variables.

WARNING! Flame Bait Ahead....

Q. How valid is a technology that is undergoing a spare-parts shortage?

ASIC's and microprocessors are cheap, reliable, versatile, and were
developed to REPLACE tubes, crystals, hartley oscillators, and
the like.  Forcing 75 year old technology to be the yardstick for
amateur radio places the future of the hobby in jeopardy.

Ahem....

If the energy of the Usenet participants was directed to change, the
potential exists for a shift forward in the status of Ham Radio.

Any Takers???

pete brunelli, N1QDQ
[e-mail]








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Date: 28 Jul 1994 17:16:50 GMT
From: europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov![e-mail]
Subject: ham humor
To: [e-mail]

In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Jerry B Altzman) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>,
>Steven L Goldstein <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>I was explaining to my wife last night that some hams refer to their
>>children as harmonics. When she asked why, I explained that, for example,
>>if you were transmiting a signal on 7 MHz, there'd be a harmonic at
>>14 MHz, then a smaller harmonic at 21 MHz, kind of like a family.
>
>Unless you're into parthenogenesis, why not refer to them as intermods? You
>need two signals for that...
>
>>Steve, KB2PWM
>
>//jbaltz
>jerry b. altzman   Entropy just isn't what it used to be      [phone]
>[e-mail]   [e-mail]  KE3ML  (HEPNET) NEVIS::jbaltz

I don't know.  Sometimes, they seem more like parisitic oscillations to me ;)

---
Paul (Cliffy) Palmer, -.- . ....- .. -.. --.
New Technology, Inc.
700 Boulevard South, Suite 401
Huntsville, Alabama 35802

Internet:    [e-mail].
Telephone:    [phone]

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Date: 28 Jul 1994 15:11:38 GMT
From: news.columbia.edu!bonjour.cc.columbia.edu![e-mail]
Subject: ham humor
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Steven L Goldstein <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I was explaining to my wife last night that some hams refer to their
>children as harmonics. When she asked why, I explained that, for example,
>if you were transmiting a signal on 7 MHz, there'd be a harmonic at
>14 MHz, then a smaller harmonic at 21 MHz, kind of like a family.

Unless you're into parthenogenesis, why not refer to them as intermods? You
need two signals for that...

>Steve, KB2PWM

//jbaltz
jerry b. altzman   Entropy just isn't what it used to be      [phone]
[e-mail]   [e-mail]  KE3ML  (HEPNET) NEVIS::jbaltz

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Date: 28 Jul 1994 13:54:29 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!cat.cis.Brown.EDU!adis-204.adis.brown.edu![e-mail]
Subject: NOS like program for the Mac?
To: [e-mail]

I'm trying to hook up 3 Macs to a SL/IP dedicated connection. I know that
on DOS boxes you can use KA9Q's NOS but I'm curious if there's anything for
a Mac?

The way the system will be hooked up is the 3 machines will hook up via
localtalk to a fourth which has the dedicated SL/IP connection. At this
point each machine is assigned an IP addr and the SL/IP box acts as a
router.

HELP!

--
== Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR
== [e-mail], Tel. [phone] Fax. [phone]
== The opinions above are my own and not those of my employer.

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 14:34:31 GMT
From: world![e-mail]
Subject: Ramsey SlyFox
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>The 73 article also said:
:
>
>
>Now I get it.  If I want to build a RAMSEY kit and make it work, I
>just need to also buy a wired unit and copy the wired one exactly.
>Too bad if the kit instructions do not tell you everything to do, the
>beginner ham can just send it back and pay a large fee to RAMSEY to
>repair it.
>
:
>
>Has anyone every built a kit and had it work?
>
>Every review I have read about their kits indicated something was
:
:

I don't have any experience with RAMSEY kits, so I have no comments on this
particular case.  However I do have some experience from the other side of
the fence.

I used to sell kits for Slow Scan TV.  It was very easy to assemble.
Not Heathkit style instructions but pretty explicit.  The parts checklist
was sorted by physical location.  Descriptions of the parts were included.
e.g. R17 - 47k (yellow violet orange gold)

When ever orientation was important (e.g. diodes), it was very explict in
CAPITAL LETTERS.  The PC board has a silk screen with all part locations.
You get the idea.

Most kits went together and worked perfectly.  But there are a few people
who shouldn't be allowed near a soldering iron.  Several kits came back
to me in pretty bad shape: components in the wrong places, huge solder
bridges, and damaged components.  In general the people were very irate
and blamed me instead of their inability to RTFM and solder properly.

(Remember, this is not a flame on Joe.  I don't know whether the RAMSEY
instructions are adequate or not.  I'm just telling you about my own
unpleasant experience in selling kits.)

I have a rather uncommon philosophy toward business:

    Customer satisfaction should ALWAYS be the top priority.

In all cases I repaired the boards, or replaced them with brand new
assembled and tested ones at NO CHARGE.  I gave up selling kits.
Now, I only sell the product assembled and tested.  A very common
complaint is lack of audio output. The solution: adjust the audio output
level pot as described in the manual!!


John WB2OSZ


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Date: 28 Jul 1994 04:23:05 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!gopher.sdsc.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews!scorpion.ch.intel.com![e-mail]
Subject: Ramsey SlyFox
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>The 73 article also said:
>
>The manual does not specify any adjustments to the
>spacing of these coils after assembly.

Joe, Here's a quote from a previous followup posting by John Ramsey:

"Tue, 26 Jul 1994 17:00:34 rec.radio.amateur.misc Thread  377 of  432
Article 35821         Re: Ramsey SlyFox    Respno   1 of   6
[e-mail]    Delphi ([e-mail] email, 800-695-4005 voice)

The manual clearly states to spread the coils for max power output. We
purposely have the coils wound with a 'tad' too much inductance...
73, John"

Looks as if the guy who wrote the article in 73 didn't bother
to read the manual just like you didn't bother to read the followups.

>Too bad if the kit instructions do not tell you everything to do, the
>beginner ham can just send it back and pay a large fee to RAMSEY to
>repair it.

Too bad you don't know what you are talking about. You could have at
least read the followups before you turned on the flame.

>you can design your own from scratch with less frustration.

Maybe you can, but I'm a digital guy myself. I have built one FTR-146,
two FX-146's, and one FX-440... all work fine.

>Has anyone every built a kit and had it work?
>Joe Wilkes >WA2SFF

I personally know of hundreds on the air and working fine. I wrote an
article for 73 a couple of years ago about adding EPROMs for frequency
control. I have had contact with hundreds of satisfied Ramsey customers.
The only unhappy ones blew up their transceiver by performing some
stupid action like spreading the coils with a metal screwdriver while
transmitting.

73, Cecil, KG7BK, OOTC  (Not speaking for Intel)

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Date: 27 Jul 1994 18:36:56 -0000
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!feenix.metronet.com!tucker![e-mail]
Subject: REQUEST: Help finding WWV receiver!
To: [e-mail]

Hi, I am from Tucker Electronics and Computers.  We sell the Sangean ATS-800
shortwave receiver for $89.  It will cover WWV on 5,10 and 15 Mhz.  It is not
the world's best shortwave receiver, but it's portable and will offer much
better performance than a kit (which we do have available as the MFJ-8100K
$59.95).  If you are interested, you can call us at 1-800-527-4642 or via
Internet.  Hope this helps.

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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 19:48:20 GMT
From: psinntp!arrl.org![e-mail]
Subject: Saving on Postage!
To: [e-mail]

I got yet another letter forwarded from my parents with enough
postage to pay for the International Airmail rate!

This isn't necessary--Hawaii happens to be on of the 50 states.
You can send a letter there with a mere 29 cents and it will receive
the same service if you addressed it to someone across town :-).

This also applies to US possessions and US diplomatic mail, though
the latter often doesn't like to publicize their addresses....

You can even send cards to American servicemen at APO addresses at
the first class rate.  I once got a card from an HL9 station (South
Korea) in a mere 36 hours.

As a final example, amateurs in the Virgin Islands can
use s.a.s.e.s franked with US stamps.

Does the U.S. postal service really
deserve a tip for excellent service?


--
Zack Lau  KH6CP/1           2 way QRP WAS
                           8 States on 10 GHz
Internet: [e-mail]   10 grids on 2304 MHz

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Date: 28 Jul 94 16:04:31 GMT
From: news.delphi.com!BIX.com![e-mail]
Subject: VHF TV freqs to be phased out?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Michael Silva) writes:

>This morning I heard a ham state that all VHF TV channels were to be
>reallocated to other services by 2008, with broadcast TV then limited
>to the UHF channels. I heard this on a scanner, so I couldn't ask him
>about it. Does anyone know if this is true?

>Mike, KK6GM


NO, NO, NO!  He got it all wrong.  The FCC has determined that television
is a hopelessly inefficient means of rotting the brains of the American
people.  By the year 2008, ALL TV is to be phased out, to be replaced
by the new INFORMATION HIGHWAY.  Operation is intended to be quite
simple:

   Step 1:  Insert your head in a microwave oven.

   Step 2:  Turn it on.

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: 27 Jul 1994 22:00:28 -0700
From: nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com![e-mail]
Subject: Voltage of rechargeable 9V NiCd's?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>
> Howdy.  What is the nominal voltage of a rechargeable (Eveready) 9 volt NiCad?
>
> Due to the proliferation of all this UL-unapproved ham stuff on the market,
> I have become large consumer of 9V batteries.  I decided to switch to
> rechargeables and went out and bought a charger and 4 batteries.
> I charged the batteries per (charger) mfgrs instructions for 10 hours.
> Afterwards, the NiCads only read about 8.5 volts.  On the package of the
> batteries is the lone marking USE 7.2V - what does that mean?  The charger,
> made in PRC, puts out about 10.5 volts, no load.  Is this normal?
>
> Thanx for reading this blurb.
> ............................................................................
>                      73 de Walt Kornienko - K2WK (FRC)
> [e-mail]  K2WK > W2JT or [e-mail]
> ____________________________________________________________________________

Yeah, NiCads usually run a little bit lower voltage than their
alkaline counterparts.

--
_________________________________________________________________________
       Dennis Rice                         [e-mail]
       NAU Flagstaff                       [e-mail]
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Date: 28 Jul 1994 00:05:36 -0400
From: agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!chaos.dac.neu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: WANTED: Please read!
To: [e-mail]

        !!! HAM RADIO AND TUBE STUFF NEEDED !!!


1. I am in search of the following item: 7N7 locking octal vacuum tube for
a 1946 era television.  This request is a relay for another ham who does
not have Internet access.

If you have one, please contact me.  See contact points below.



2. The Tufts University Amateur Radio Club, W1KN, Medford, Mass. is in the
process of putting together a digital communications network. Their
ultimate goal is to permit someone who connects to be able to jump out to
anywhere else - say, to Canada, or Chicago - wherever!  They also plan to
interface the network to the Internet!

In order for this to work, equipment is needed.  Their cash has been
depleted, so any equipment they do get is via donations.  Also, since
their cash is gone, none of it is insured.  If they get a lightning blow,
and it all goes down, or if anything is stolen or fails, it's down.

On behalf of their club (I am assisting), I am asking for donations of
ANYTHING you can offer - radios, coax, connectors, cash for equipment
and/or insurance for the equipment, computers, TNCs, you name it.


If you can help with any of the above, please let me know.

I can be contacted via any of the following means:


Internet: [e-mail]

Phone: [phone] (Northeastern Univ. Amateur Radio Club, W1KBN)

U.S. Mail: Scott Ehrlich, c/o NUARC, 503 Hayden, 360 Huntington Ave,
           Boston, MA. 02115, USA

Again, any help with either or both of the above items would be GREATLY
appreciated!


Thanks much!


Scott


--
Scott Ehrlich, Amateur Radio Callsign: wy1z   [e-mail] [AX.25 Packet]
How to reach me: [e-mail] [Internet], [e-mail] [TCP/IP Packet]
Boston ARC ftp archives: ftp oak.oakland.edu /pub/hamradio
Boston ARC Web page: http://www.acs.oakland.edu/barc.html

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 00:35:11 -0500
From: news.delphi.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Did CB's used to require licenses?

Lewis De Payne <[e-mail]> writes:

>Hey, I used to be KBL6905 in Los Angeles, before interim CB licenses existed.
>You see, at a certain point CB's were being sold by the bushel, and the FCC
>was being flooded with license apps, and nobody waited for their license to
>arrive in the mail.  As a result, you received an "interim license application"
>with the CB radio you bought.  This consisted of some random letters, followed
>by a blank area where you would put in your zip code.  So, while waiting for
>your real license, you had an interim license of something like KKCB90032 as
>your callsign.

Actually the zip code calls had three letters -- the K, the first initial of
your first name, and the first initial of your last name.  The ones with four
letters were FCC assigned, and came when it was clear that they were about to
run out of three-letter prefixes.  (The very first CB calls started with a
NUMBER signifying the CB region -- similar to districts in ham calls, but not
the same numbers -- a letter indicating what year the license was issued, and
four digits.  This was changed in the early 1960s when someone informed the FCC
that the numbers-first calls did not meet the Radio Regulations of the
International Telecommunications Union because they did not begin with a prefix
assigned to the United States.)

Some of the other fixed and mobile services use similar calls with a different
length -- police and fire radio systems usually have three letters (starting
with
K) and THREE digits, while Instructional Television Fixed Service microwave
systems have three-by-three calls starting with W.  Satellite uplink stations
used to have two-by-two calls (ESPN's uplink is WQ35), though the FCC isn't
requiring them any more; TV stations' studio-to-transmitter links usually have
three-by-two calls beginning with a K.

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