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Info-Hams Digest            Wed, 17 Aug 94       Volume 94 : Issue  926

Today's Topics:
            ANARTS RTTY News Bulletin 822 14th August 1994
                           ARLB067 <title>
                        clip art for QSL card
                        Have You Ever Noticed?
                   IPS Daily Report - 16 August 94
         Kentrol 4.3    -  Windows control of Kenwood HF rigs
Need Repair Manual for JDR Model 2000/3500, BALLENTINE 1042A o'scopes!
                  Ragchewing conversational protocol
                            Regency HR-2A
                   Repeaters at Rehobeth Beach, DE?
                   Slow Code idea by Wayne (2 msgs)
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Date: 16 Aug 1994 22:03:10 GMT
From: news.cerf.net!nntp-server.caltech.edu!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!isclient.merit.edu!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
Subject: ANARTS RTTY News Bulletin 822 14th August 1994
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Dave Horsfall) writes:

>146.675 MHz (rtty mmbbs/repeater)          VK2RTY

Does the RTTY repeater still exist ? Haven't used it for yeras.
Anyone knows if anyone is still active on rtty in Sydney ?

Terry

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 07:06:12 MDT
From: parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs![e-mail]
Subject: ARLB067 <title>
To: [e-mail]

SB QST @ ARL $ARLB067
ARLB067 <title>

ZCZC AG32
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 67  ARLB067
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  August 12, 1994
To all radio amateurs

SB QST ARL ARLB067
ARLB067 title

Report on reallocation

ARRL's effort to protect Amateur frequencies in the 13 cm band from
reallocation is a step closer to success with the release this week
of a report from the FCC to the Commerce Department that strongly
supports continued Amateur Radio presence in the band. The report
disagrees with NTIA's preliminary recommendations that large
portions of the band be reallocated for other uses.

The frequencies that NTIA had identified for possible reallocation
consist of 2300-2310 MHz, 2390-2400 MHz and 2402- 2417 MHz, which
have been shared by Amateur Radio on a secondary basis with
Government services. When the process is completed, FCC will
administer the reallocation of frequencies identified by NTIA.

While the FCC report praised NTIA for its efforts, it stated that
the NTIA proposals require modification. FCC cited concerns in the
Amateur community that reallocation would disrupt Amateur operations
in the band, and that NTIA failed to meet the statutory requirement
that it attempt to determine the extent to which the band could be
shared with the Amateur service. The report noted that ''the largest
factor affecting the future use of these bands is their existing
availability for use by the Amateur service.''

''While we're not out of the woods on this one yet,'' says ARRL
President George Wilson, ''it is beginning to look like the comments
filed by knowledgeable West Coast hams combined with the League's
Washington effort may well succeed in carving out territory for
continued Amateur development in the microwave bands.''
NNNN
/EX

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 23:24:32 EST
From: iat.holonet.net!dbot.com![e-mail]
Subject: clip art for QSL card
To: [e-mail]

IM>I am trying to put together my own QSL cards using Canvas or whatever I
IM>can get my grubby little hands on.  Does anyone know of a source of clip
IM>art suitable for QSL cards?  Stuff like keys, microphones, radios,
IM>antennas, logos etc?  I have ARRL and ARES logos in pcx and cvs formats
IM>already, but I cannot seem to find a repository of other stuff.  Oh, yeah,
IM>how about state map outlines?  Those would also be good....

IM>Thanks to all

IM>Mark - N5RJF

Hello Mark,

You and any others out there needing clipart or other HAM files are
welcome to use my BBS, Database of Tenessee, I have over 5500 assorted
clipart files and also have a few HAM clipart packages.  The files
dealing with ham clipart can be found in library HAM-6 on my board.

The file names are:
ARRLART1.ZIP
ARRL_ART.ZIP
CLIPAR.ZIP
HAM-ART.ZIP

I offer free access to everyone and allow  60 minutes per day
online, all you do is pay for the call.  The numbers are listed below.
(Sorry, the FTP Archive is limited to paid users)

73 de Tim, KD4PYN, Sysop Database of Tennessee

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Date: 15 Aug 1994 18:40:18 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucsnews!newshub.sdsu.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!cat.cis.Brown.EDU!adis-204.adis.brown.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Have You Ever Noticed?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] wrote:

> No offense to the old timers out there but have you ever noticed how often
> they key up on top of each other during a QSO?  I do a lot of listening on the
> HF bands and I find the QSOs of most old timers very informative and very
> interesting.  It drives me up the wall, however, when Joe keys up on top of
> Fred before Fred has unkeyed his mic.  Now they're talking to themselves
> because both are keyed up at the same time.
>
> I run across this at least two or three times a day.  Those experienced rag-
> chewers key up their mics so long that they are required by Part 97 to
> identify at least three times before unkeying.  A pause longer than three
> seconds is taken as a sign the other has unkeyed and, click, two simultaneous
> one-way transmissions ensue.

On HF? I hear it all on the time on VHF. Keying all over each other,
timing the repeater out and this is all in the presence of a courtesy
tone. And yes, it's usually a fossil call sign that causes the problems.
(Please note that a Fossil is anyone who can remember when you had to
touch two wires together for CW.)

--
== Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR                          Tel: [phone]
== Box 1908, Providence, RI 02912       Fax: [phone]
== Opinions herein are mine and not those of my employer. Nyah nyah nyah.

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 23:12:47 GMT
From: news.cerf.net!bengal.oxy.edu!acsc.com!gopher.sdsc.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu![e-mail]
Subject: IPS Daily Report - 16 August 94
To: [e-mail]

SUBJ: IPS DAILY SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL REPORT
ISSUED AT 16/2330Z AUGUST 1994 BY IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES
FROM THE REGIONAL WARNING CENTRE (RWC), SYDNEY.
SUMMARY FOR 16 AUGUST AND FORECAST FOR 17 AUGUST - 19 AUGUST
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1A. SOLAR SUMMARY
Activity: low

Flares: none.

Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number :  77/16

GOES satellite data for 15 Aug
       Daily Proton Fluence >1 MeV:   8.3E+05
       Daily Proton Fluence >10 MeV:  1.3E+04
       Daily Electron Fluence >2 MeV: 8.0E+08
       X-ray background: A7.1
Fluence (flux accumulation over 24hrs)/ cm2-ster-day.

1B. SOLAR FORECAST
             17 Aug             18 Aug             19 Aug
Activity     Low                Very low           Very low
Fadeouts     None expected      None expected      None expected

Forecast 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number for 17 Aug:  80/20

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2A. MAGNETIC SUMMARY
Geomagnetic field at Learmonth: quiet to unsettled

Estimated Indices : A   K           Observed A Index 15 Aug
    Learmonth       10  2333 2222
    Fredericksburg   8                          11
    Planetary       10                          16

Observed Kp for 15 Aug: 4233 4334
2B. MAGNETIC FORECAST
DATE      Ap    CONDITIONS
17 Aug    10    Quiet to unsettled
18 Aug    10    Quiet to unsettled
19 Aug     6    Quiet

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3A. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION SUMMARY
                LATITUDE BAND
DATE        LOW            MIDDLE         HIGH
16 Aug      fair-normal    normal         normal
PCA Event : None.

3B. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION FORECAST
                LATITUDE BAND
DATE        LOW            MIDDLE         HIGH
17 Aug      normal         normal         fair
18 Aug      normal         normal         fair
19 Aug      normal         normal         normal

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4A. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC SUMMARY
       Observed
DATE   T-index  MUFs at Sydney
16 Aug    20    near predicted monthly values

Predicted Monthly T-index for August: 20

4B. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC FORECAST
DATE   T-index  MUFs
17 Aug    20    Near predicted monthly values
18 Aug    20    Near predicted monthly values
19 Aug    25    Near predicted monthly values

--
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: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 20:25:44
From: news.cerf.net!mvb.saic.com!news.alpha.net!pacifier!rainrgnews0!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Kentrol 4.3    -  Windows control of Kenwood HF rigs
To: [e-mail]

***************************************************************************

     KENTROL 4.3 RELEASED:  NEW FEATURES!  NEW INTERNET FTP SITES!

***************************************************************************

NEW VERSION

The latest Kentrol for Windows version has optional fine tuning steps.
And it's still the friendliest, smartest control/logging/memory mgmt
program available for Kenwood HF radios. Kentrol supports VGA/SVGA
displays so it works great with even notebook PCs. Version 4.3 offers
unmatched features: toolbar; scroll bar tuning; selectable bandspread;
selectable tuning steps; built-in  US, Canada, Japan, and Region 1 band
plans; multiple band-stacking registers; memory file handling;
auto-logging of rig, band and UTC date/time, plus comments; keyboard
shortcuts; and much, much more. Edit or print logs and memory files. Full
search & replace. Great online help.

Kentrol is shareware. It costs only $59.95 to register from North America
or $69.95 elsewhere. Registered users get print & xmit enabled, more
memory sets, a 42-page manual and phone/net support. And registration is a
one-time cost; future upgrades are free for downloading.

NEW FTP SITES

Kentrol now has a home on the Internet -- its very own online archive,
acessible by anonymous ftp. Just point your ftp program at
ftp.synapse.net and get kentrl43.zip from the /pub/kentrol directory.

Kentrol is also available from major ham archives worldwide:

The Boston Amateur Radio Club archive at ftp.oak.oakland.edu has
kentrl43.zip in directory /pub/hamradio/pc/ham-utils.

The European site of choice for Kentrol is ftp.funet.fi. At that site the
pathname is /pub/ham/misc/kentrl43.zip.

An Australian mirror of the above is maintained at grivel.une.edu.au.
There, kentrl43.zip is in the /pub/ham-radio/funet/misc directory.

16 Aug. 1994
73 de VE3BGB

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 18:46:32 GMT
From: spstimes.sps.mot.com!mogate!newsgate![e-mail]
Subject: Need Repair Manual for JDR Model 2000/3500, BALLENTINE 1042A o'scopes!
To: [e-mail]

Previous message:
>Hi Folks,
>I am in need of a Manual for a oscilloscope that used to be sold by BALLENTINE
>(based in New Jersy) but not manufactured by them.
>The model number is 1042A(I assume it means 10MHz); It is a 2-channel scope.
>A friend of mine hinted to me that some BNK Precision scopes are similar to the
>one I have and maybe an old issue of Popular Electronics might have published some
>info about the Ballentine scopes.
>I appreciate any information on how to get a copy(hopefully inexpensive!).
*************************************************************************************

This Ballentine 1042A o'scope is very similar(if not identical) to the JDR Model 2000
and Model 3500, also to the A.W.Sperry Model 620C o'scope....
If you have any information on how to obtain a manual for any of these o'scopes please
contact me at:   [e-mail]             ^^^^^^

Thanks a Ton!
TES

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:35:26 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!gopher.sdsc.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!blackbird.afit.af.mil![e-mail].
Subject: Ragchewing conversational protocol
To: [e-mail]

Hi All!

I just got my license a few weeks ago, and I noticed a
conversational oddity that I hadn't expected.  The simplex
nature of conversation is kind of difficult to get used to.
When ragchewing, you *have* to say something when the other
person unkeys their mike.  This is in contrast to normal
conversation, where a person will usually continue to talk
if a response is not elicited.  Sometimes the person I'm
talking to will stop talking, and I won't have anything to
say.  I feel like I can't just sit there, so I have to come
up with some banal comment or something.

Obviously, this phenomena is less of a problem when there
is an actual purpose to the QSO (like a contest or something).
I'm curious to learn if anyone else has this problem, or are
most people simply too talkative anyway?  I'm currently taking
a linguistics course, and we will be studying 'conversation
analysis' in a few weeks.  I'll report back if I find any
theoretical foundation for this type of conversation anomaly.


Alex "not much to say" Kilpatrick

--
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"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God
is crying.'  And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him
is 'Probably because of something you did.'   -- Jack Handey

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 16:25:55 PDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!gopher.sdsc.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews![e-mail]
Subject: Regency HR-2A
To: [e-mail]

In article <32qt0h$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]> writes:
> Mark Symms ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : Hi all,
> :     I tried to post this earlier but I don't think it made it.  I was
> : curious if the Regency HR-2A ( 2 meter mobile crystal controlled ) would be
> : a good radio to use for a packet xceiver?  Do I need CTCSS tones to access
> : the node?  And are crystals still available?
> : Mark
>
> This is a real old rig, and may have been designed to handle wide
> band (+-15khz) FM.  If so, you will be hearing signals on adjacent
> channels.  I ran into this problem with an old Icom IC20.  Had to
> swap out the IF filter.
> If you have the manual for it, check the rx selectivity specs.  You
> could also use sig-gen to test it.
>
>   - Dave  WA3U
>
WA3U states that the HR-2A has a 15 KHz wide IF.
If so, would the HR-2A make a good (ok fair) 9600 baud packet transceiver?
Tom WB7ASR...

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Date: 15 Aug 1994 18:46:05 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucsnews!newshub.sdsu.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.udel.edu!diusys![e-mail]
Subject: Repeaters at Rehobeth Beach, DE?
To: [e-mail]

Drew Cohn ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Anyone been to Rehobeth Beach in Delaware lately? Find any new 2 meter
: repeaters?  Don't seem to see anything in the  repeater directory.

Since you did say __NEW__ repeaters, I don't need to tell you
about old repeaters like the K3JL machine (147.075/224.84) or the
OC machine (147.015 and 44somthinanother) or any of the Dover
machines (146.97, 147.195, 446.500?). Then there is the Seaford
machine (145.210, down for lightening repair) the Delmar machine
in 224.02 and the Salisbury machines (146.895?? and 146.82 pl 156.7).

New machines in Sussex county Delaware would include 147.33 which is
in Rehoboth Beach and 224.44 in Greenwood.

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  Computer Spelunker        |         [e-mail]
  U of Slower-Lower Delaware|------------------------------------------
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  700 Pilottown Rd.         |  is just a bunch of dog doo...
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Date: 15 Aug 1994 13:14:20 -0400
From: barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hpuerci.atl.hp.com!hpuerca![e-mail]
Subject: Slow Code idea by Wayne
To: [e-mail]

Wayne has advocated these ideas for a while now :-)

His concepts about license class _might_ have some
merit in that it _might_ get hams out of sniping
at one another and instead advancing the various
aspects of the hobby.

My only question is about schools. The system isn't
working now to teach basic academic studies. When
it comes to technical subjects things get worse.
And where does the funding come from? Most schools
that have computers have old model Apples (not Macs)
or low-end PC clones with inadequate memory, drives,
displays, and worse software (and often have only
bought ONE copy of DOS for all the machines). The
teachers (mostly) are not computer-literate and I've
talked to many (in several states/regions) who have
not even computerized their gradebooks. (Which really
ought to be minimum teacher usage!)

Obviously if you're talking about adding amateur
radio into the schools, you need decent donated
equipment (keep your SB-100s and give the school
at _least_ a current entry-level soldi-state hf
transceiver, a decent packet station, and good
antennas that are solid and well-placed to do the
basics and also do SAREX). Then you need knowledgable
volunteers who can teach the material AND reach the
age group involved. And coordination that makes a
shuttle launch look like childs play!

Maybe we ought to move this to .policy :-)

Cheers & 73 Ed Humphries N5RCK
Hewlett Packard NARC Atlanta GA

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Date: 15 Aug 1994 18:01:11 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucsnews!newshub.sdsu.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!@network
Subject: Slow Code idea by Wayne
To: [e-mail]

In article <edh.776969848@hpuerca> Ed Humphries, [e-mail]
writes:
> bought ONE copy of DOS for all the machines). The
> teachers (mostly) are not computer-literate and I've
> talked to many (in several states/regions) who have
> not even computerized their gradebooks. (Which really
> ought to be minimum teacher usage!)


I don't agree with that opinion.  I still do a lot
of teaching and have generally rejected computerizing
my gradebook.  I've given it several attempts and the
most productive one was a gradebook program I wrote
myself.  But, even in this one there wasn't enough
flexibility to handle the needs of individual classes,
weather schedules, emergencies, etc.

It is a common delusion to assume that computerizing
something is inherently "better" than the manual
version of something.  Perhaps, in your mind that
makes me "computer Illerate", but I prefer to keep
control of my grade recording and reporting mechanism
myself.  Computer just gets in the way. I don't have
single classes of more than 30 or so and I don't
need a computer to help me keep track of 30 or so
people at a time.  Just a waste of a computer resource
for me.  Others I know find the computerization has
made them more productive and for them computerization
is great. It is for the individual teacher to decide
not for those not on the spot.

73, Erich

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Date: 17 Aug 94 12:24:46 GMT
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Date: 15 Aug 1994 17:30:26 GMT
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Subject: WANTED: The following items
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Date: 16 Aug 1994 19:22:05 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!ccnet.com!ccnet.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <32o4c5$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Repeater Directory?

Dave Rogers ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <32o4c5$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (richard nimtz) writes:

: [snip...]

: |> The phone company used to put dummy entries, names and numbers that didn't
: |> exist in real life, in the telephone directory. That way they could look
: |> at a competitors directory and easily see of they copied the data. Is the
: |> ARRL doing the same thing with the latest repeater directory? There are

: They must be because they list 146.88 here in Dallas and thats a dummy
: repeater if I ever heard one :-)

: In the absence of leadership, we have decided to follow ourselves.

Just be glad there is such a repeater in your area ... there are some listed
here in the Bay Area that are unreal ;-)

Bob


--
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 Berkeley, California                home    [e-mail]
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