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Info-Hams Digest            Tue,  9 Aug 94       Volume 94 : Issue  889

Today's Topics:
                   [Q] 10-10 info needed in 4 area
            Any recent Group A call signs in ITU region 7?
                            Cost of a KHz?
                      Cost of KHz? (re-visited)
                         Ham Software Pirates
                       Icom 735 Production Run
                           Jeremiah O'Brien
                    MARS Radio System Mailing List
                    Mobile Radio in Dodge Caravan?
                      Wanted, Kenwood RZ-1 mods
                        WANTED:KDKFM-2030 Mic
                       Yaesu ft530 vco tune up

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Date: 9 Aug 1994 14:36:40 GMT
From: newsgw.mentorg.com!srp![e-mail]
Subject: [Q] 10-10 info needed in 4 area
To: [e-mail]

I participated in a part of the 10-10 contest last weekend and
found it to be exciting, not just in the contest but also ragchewing
with the others.

I was able to make 6 states and 2 countries on 10 meters (not very
good I admit but time was a limiting factor).

I would like to join the 10-10 club. I need to send my 10-10 log to the
area 4 coordinator but don't know who it is. I would appreciate any other
into that you might have to pass along as well.

73's

john (ki7hs/4)

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Date: 6 Aug 1994 18:31:07 GMT
From: news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com![e-mail]
Subject: Any recent Group A call signs in ITU region 7?
To: [e-mail]

Has anyone in in ITU region 7 ungraded to Amateur Extra class recently
and gotten a Group A (one-by-two or two-by-one; four-character) call sign?

If so, please email me, [e-mail].
                        Thanks,
                            Doug, KC7DNV

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Date: 5 Aug 1994 18:48:26 GMT
From: ftpbox!mothost!delphinium.cig.mot.com!rtsg.mot.com![e-mail]
Subject: Cost of a KHz?
To: [e-mail]

How much do you think a 1 KHz slice of spectrum would cost you?  The re-
sults of the first FCC auction for RF spectrum were summarized in Comm-
unications Week Magazine.

Ten nationwide licenses were awarded to six paging companies.  These mobile
licenses were sold in the first auction of RF spectrum.  The companies plan
to offer a new generation of data messaging and digital paging services.

      Company            Cost        License Information
==========================   ===============   ===========================

Paging Network of Virginia     $117 Million    Three 50 KHz licenses

KDM Messaging Co.        $160 Million    2 paired 50 KHz licenses

Nationwide Wireless Network    $ 80 Million    1 paired 50 KHz license
                                $ 47.5 M        Paired 50/12.5 KHz license

Bell South Wireless        $ 47.5 M    Paired 50/12.5 KHz license
AirTouch Paging            $ 47 Million    Paired 50/12.5 KHz license

Pagemart II, Inc.        $ 38 Million    50 KHz unpaired license

Source:  Communications Week, August 1, 1994, page 3.

Hmmmm....le'see now, in the KDM case above that's 2 X 50 KHz pairs for a
total of 200 KHz of RF spectrum.  $160 Million / 200 KHz = $800 per KHz.
I guess a 3 KHz wide SSB channel will cost me $2400!!  Hmmmm...le'see
now, mebee I can buy 14.313 MHz + or -.  Mebee I could get a discount on
14.313 with all of the undesirables driving down property values.

Now the CW vs. Fone crowd will have some hard numbers to argue about.
Not only does CW save spectrum but it costs less as well.

John Maenpaa    WB9JEJ        WB9JEJ @ W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM
[e-mail]   (Standard disclaimer:  My comments only)

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Date: 5 Aug 1994 19:27:22 GMT
From: ftpbox!mothost!delphinium.cig.mot.com!rtsg.mot.com![e-mail]
Subject: Cost of KHz? (re-visited)
To: [e-mail]

My buddy in the next cube just pointed out that I was off by a factor of
1000 in my cost per KHz calculation:

> Hmmmm....le'see now, in the KDM case above that's 2 X 50 KHz pairs for a
> total of 200 KHz of RF spectrum.  $160 Million / 200 KHz = $800 per KHz.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        This should be $800 per Hz!!
                        A KHz costs $800,000

I guess a 3 KHz wide SSB channel will cost me $2,400,000!!  I stand corrected
and am heading to the store for new calculator batteries.

John Maenpaa    WB9JEJ        WB9JEJ @ W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM
[e-mail]   (Standard disclaimer:  My comments only)

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Date: Mon,  8 Aug 94 13:57:00 -0500
From: iat.holonet.net!wwswinc![e-mail]
Subject: Ham Software Pirates
To: [e-mail]

References: <edh.775848997@hpuerca>

Ed:

 > Maybe I'm wierd, but I even register shareware games my kids pick up and
 > use (if they try it and trash it, the shareware company failed to make a
 > "sell"). And if I'm trying out some piece of shareware and its "time"
 > expires before catching my continuing interest, I del the thing from my
 > hard disk: I haven't got space to waste with stuff I'm not using!

I don't think you're weird -- if you are, then so am I because I share the
same philosophy!

//Steve//


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Date: 9 Aug 1994 13:36:10 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!ucssun1![e-mail]
Subject: Icom 735 Production Run
To: [e-mail]

I heard recently that the Icom 735 has been in continuous production
longer than any other currently manufactured rig.  This raises a few
questions:

1. Is it true?
2. How many years?
3. Is this a record?

--
Jerry Palsson AA6KI
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 15:51:45 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!netcom11![e-mail]
Subject: Jeremiah O'Brien
To: [e-mail]

The new information on the Jeremiah O'Brien is that it's in Portland,
Maine, where she was built.  She should be there another week, and
then will proceed down the East Coast with stops at Baltimore,
Jacksonville and Miami.
If you visit her, try to get the radio ops to set up a schedule for CW
operations in the ham bands for general contacts.
73, doug

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 1994 21:31:26 -0600
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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 18:26:48 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!sitka.wsipc.wednet.edu!egreen!egreen![e-mail]
Subject: Mobile Radio in Dodge Caravan?
To: [e-mail]

I have moounted my rig overhead between the front seats on my Chevy van.
It's easy to reach and doesn't take any leg room.  I use a Larsen glass
mount on the side window behing the driver's seat.  Power cord is just
run to the lighter.

73, John  AE7P

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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 04:17:52 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Wanted, Kenwood RZ-1 mods
To: [e-mail]

Todd Wilburn ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Tom WB7ASR ([e-mail]) wrote:

: : Does anyone have "any" mods for the Kenwood RZ-1 scanner?
: : If so, I would appreicate copies of them.

: try FTP oak.oakland.edu
: /pub/hamradio/mods/kenwood

: The RZ-1 might be there...It's a good source of mods

Tom, if you find any mods that are worthwhile, let me know, too. I have 2
RZ-1's and they are great. I would buy any used one I could find. 73 Tom KI6BL
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Date: 8 Aug 1994 22:44:26 GMT
From: eng.iac.honeywell.com!ws08.iac.honeywell.com![e-mail]
Subject: WANTED:KDKFM-2030 Mic
To: [e-mail]

WANTED:KDK FM-2030 Mic. Need not be in wonderful condition. I have one that the PTT button is broken on. I would even take a whole radio for some $$ if you have one that is broke or just needs a new home.


--

Dave Phillips                            |   "Takeoffs are optional,
Phoenix, AZ, USA                         |    Landings are mandatory,
[e-mail]         |    Pilot error is not an accident,
KB7JS                                    |    All airplanes have personalities."

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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 04:06:01 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Yaesu ft530 vco tune up
To: [e-mail]

Jerry B Altzman ([e-mail]) wrote:

: You mean, it doesn't cover the entire 438-450 MHz band as advertised? Or you
: want it to transmit out-of-band, illegally (CAP doesn't work on UHF yet,
: don't know about MARS)?

I have a friend with a commercial repeater on a splinter.  It would be
nice to be able to carry one radio to access to both amatuer & commercial
repeaters.  My 530 only transmits up to 462.  It would be nice also to
use it as a GMRS radio.  And dont give me any of this type acceptance
BS.  I've checked the thing on HP spectrum analyzers.  I sit next to a
8568B for eight hours a day. (barf)

--
POP: Persistant Online Procrastination             [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 12:31:07 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>│╖
Reply-To : [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject : Re: 2m/11m crossband QSO: legal?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Tony Pelliccio) writes:
>> My dad is in Florida and I've been trying to get him to go for his first
>> license for some time now, to no avail.
>
>Yeah...  Why is it we just can't seem to get our fathers to get their license?
>I, too, have been trying for a few years now and all he can seem to do is point
>out how much the initial startup costs might be.  Of course, he has an
>expensive CB and base antenna, lots of photography, prospecting, hunting,
>camping, diving equipment...  Maybe he just doesn't have time. :-)

More likely he's afraid he'll embarrass himself on the test.
My uncle is the same way about lots of new things. He claimed he
didn't have a VCR because they're too expensive. When I bought him
one, he admitted that the real reason was he was afraid he couldn't
learn to program it. I left it with him, and six months later he's
taping, editing, and using that thing in ways *I* haven't figured
out how to do. :-)

The moral is, if you want them to take up amateur radio, you've got
to let them work themselves into it at their own pace and in their
own way. Buy them a radio and hook it up for them. Give them a copy
of "Now You're Talking", and *back off*. With no pressure, they'll
play with it and figure out that they *can* do it.

Gary
--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 02:26:38 GMT
From: news.acns.nwu.edu!news.eecs.nwu.edu!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <31tiq4$[e-mail]>net
Subject : Re: .52 beacon legal? (was: Amateur Radio Newsline #885 31 Jul 94)

Peter Laws (plaws@comp..uark.edu) wrote:
: [e-mail] writes:

: >David R Tucker <[e-mail]> writes:
: >
: >>I was under the impression that automatically controlled beacons on 2
: >>meters were restricted to 144.275-144.300 (97.203d).  How, then, can
: >>this be legal?  And anyway, does continuous MCW on the National
: >>Simplex Frequency, even locally, qualify as good practice?
: >
: >
: >Here Here!
: >I found this very disturbing as well, and i thought that
: >it showed baltant disregard for the band plan.  146.52

: What was really sad, IMHO, was that no one on our local net caught it!  (I
: would have commented, but my QTH is in a hill shadow from the repeater)

: Refresh my memory: Is it *illegal* or just poor operating practise
: (clearly, it's the latter).

No, it seems clear now that it's illegal as well.

-drt

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|David R. Tucker     KG2S         8P9CL            [e-mail]|
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Date: 8 Aug 1994 09:09:34 -0700
From: galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!cronkite.nersc.gov!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!apple.com!apple.com!@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>le.com
Subject : Re: What to do with old OST's

[e-mail] (Walter Spector) writes:

>Our local library carries a few years of back issues of QST as well.
>I suspect they have a similar policy.

>Walt
>----
>Walt Spector                             "Today is the dawn of a new age,
>([e-mail])                   if only (click!)"
>Sunnyvale, California                The Biederbecke Affair



Walt, if it is the Sunnyvale library you are talking about, they
have semi-annual bound volumes back to the 40s, I think.  And fiches
for the era before that.  The last time I used that service was maybe
two years ago.  Maybe they have changed since...

They won't let you take the bound periodicals home...

The Sunnyvale library is probably a little unusual.  Take a look
at the zip code statistics in the U.S. callbook for the zips which
begin with 940.

73

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

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 14:42:13 GMT
From: world![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <31r3b6$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>.ch
Subject : Re: Technician No Code

In article <[e-mail]>,
Gary Coffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Davin Bentti) writes:
>>
>>[*snip*]
>>Warning: The following are the words of a newbie... :-)
>>
>>But can't I get my NCT passed and while my documents are on the way study
>>for
>>the Morse Code?  I thought I read I can take the 5wpm test _any_ time after
>>I passed the NCT test.  That way I thought I could get involved with ham
>>radio sooner, and expand as my skills grow.  Just because I take the NCT
>>dosn't _limit_ me from moving up, right?
>
>That's correct. The only consideration is that the FCC doesn't want more
>than one license application per applicant in the pipeline at once. That
>won't be an issue in upgrading from Tech to Tech Plus since all you need
>is the CSCE from the VE. But if you upgrade to General, you should wait
>until you get your Tech license before sending in the General paperwork.
>The VEC will normally hold your application in this case.
>
>Gary

Actually, there is now an official Tech Plus license being generated by
the FCC, so that's no longer a special case.

Regardless, there is NO reason to delay taking any tests, and you should
NEVER need to check the "application already in the works" box on the form
610 unless you have directly sent a form to the FCC (change of address
or renewal, for example). The VEC will take care of holding the paperwork
for subsequent upgrades and will work with you (they need a copy of the
paperwork you get from the FCC -- your license with the upgrades to date shown)
to process the subsequent upgrade.

By all means go and take tests when you are ready, and sign /AG or /AA or
/AE as required and enjoy getting on the air. No reason to delay operating
just because some paperwork might take a few months to get completed...

Dan

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Daniel Senie                 Internet:     [e-mail]
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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 12:20:57 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <3253la$[e-mail]>, <3255ar$[e-mail]>, <325tks$[e-mail]>
Reply-To : [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject : Re: Help!  How to Improve my CW Speed?

In article <325tks$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Henry B. Smith) writes:
>
>I would like to add one more tidbit of advice.
>
>Sometimes, when I am copying "in the head", it helps to visualize the words
>appearing in front of my eyes. (I have designated this as the
>"Gary Coffman Human Modem Technique" :-)

Thanks, I think. That method doesn't work for me. I understand that
some people's imaginations are strongly visual and that they can picture
a blackboard in their mind and see the letters appear on it. I can't
even visualize the blackboard. Other people claim they see the words
floating across their minds. I guess I'm not good at visualization
because that doesn't work either. For people who can "picture" things
in their heads, it may be a good technique to try.

For the rest of us, there is another way to get letter perfect high
speed copy. That's by using a keyboard for copy. Most people have
no trouble typing 60 WPM, many are much faster. I do about 120 WPM
on the keyboard. This get's around the pencil and paper plateau where
you simply can't get the letters down as fast as they are coming in.
Press wireless operators, and military intercept operators, are trained
to copy this way. In WWII, non-English speakers who didn't even know how
to read were trained in this method and copied thousands of messages
error free without understanding a single word.

The trick to this method is to simply condition the subconscious to
automatically activate the correct finger to hit the right key when
the ear hears the letter sound. No conscious input should be allowed
to interfere because it just slows the process down. You do this by
drill, just the same way you learned to touch type. I have an old
friend who was an intercept operator in WWII and a press wireless
operator before that. This is the way he was trained to copy, and
it's amazing to watch him do it. He can carry on a conversation with
you while he's copying and never miss a letter of the incoming message.
He actually has to roll the paper up to see what he copied. His conscious
mind is totally uncoupled from the process. He says he can copy 60 WPM
5 letter groups for hour after hour with this method.

Now *that's* what I call a real human modem.

I use a different method that works for me. I just scratch down the
dots and dashes, using a shorthand stroke format I developed, and
sight read the resulting text. I can read that shorthand as easily
as I read normal alphabetic text. This is the way Sammy Morse originally
did it, except he used a machine to make the marks while I do it by
hand to meet legal requirements for the tests. Of course it isn't
terribly fast. In normal operating, I let a machine do it too.

Gary
--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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