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Info-Hams Digest            Fri, 26 Aug 94       Volume 94 : Issue  961

Today's Topics:
                               40m Ant
               APP Connectors for 12V Power Connections
                                Clubs
            FCC license renewal processing time data point
                       How lucky you guys are!
                        Internet gateway to p
                         learning CW (2 msgs)
                        Manual for RS HTX-100
                         Radio Shack HTX 202
                         Re(2): Ham ftp sites
                   Who makes Quick-Reference cards?
                   Why Some people hate Wayne Green
                          Yaesu FT-840 Mods?
              You have been a ham too long when you ...

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 12:51:58 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!rohvm1![e-mail]
Subject: 40m Ant
To: [e-mail]

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

> >
> >    Does anyone know of a way to make an incunspicuos antenna for 40 meter?
> >    I live in an apartment now but i
> >    would like to be able to dx on 40m.
> >                        thanks Rob
> >
> Try a loop antenna.  There is one in the May, 1994 issue of QST with
> dimensions for 40m.

Also consider an indoor, coil-shortened dipole.  See the ARRL Antenna Book
for information on shortening dipoles.

Or how about a mobile whip stuck out a window, with a quarter-wave
counterpoise underneath (assumes you're above the second floor, and that
you'll retrieve it when you're not operating--just chuck it out the window
when you're on the air, and haul it back in when you stop).

--
John Taylor    (W3ZID)     |  "The opinions expressed are those of the
[e-mail] |   writer and not of Rohm and Haas Company."

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 16:02:09 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!news.tek.com!gv-gate.gvg.tek.com!gvgadg![e-mail]
Subject: APP Connectors for 12V Power Connections
To: [e-mail]

I remember seeing a write up a couple of years ago about using
APP (Anderson Power Products) connectors as a 'standard' for 12V power
connectors. Does anyone have that standard that they could pass
along to me?

73
Randy
WA2AGE

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Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:43:07 -0400
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: Clubs
To: [e-mail]

Does anyone know if there are any Amateur radio clubs in the Sylvania,
Ohio area. Sylvania is a suburb of Toledo, Ohio.

thanks,

Andy - WB3LCN
[e-mail]

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 15:35:25 GMT
From: haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!w3eax.umd.edu![e-mail]
Subject: FCC license renewal processing time data point
To: [e-mail]

I passed my Advanced test on June 18.  As of yesterday, it has been
67 days since then.  (I receive my mail late in the day, and that is
when I count the day.)

My General took two months -- Feb. 5 to Apr. 5.  My Novice took even less
time -- Nov. 6 to Dec. 21.

My thanks to NF3I, Scott Rosenfeld, who was at all three exam sessions;
I have promised him dibbs on my Extra exam (when I'm ready for it.)

--
Benjamin Schultz, N3RUR/aa
President, U of MD Amateur Radio Association
       (W3EAX)

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Date: 26 Aug 94 17:31:00 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: How lucky you guys are!
To: [e-mail]

I joined the ham section of internet to learn about ham radio and be in
touch with people who may be able to help me, or exchange information with
me on ham subjects. We all have out own stories to tell, dont we?

Well, I am getting dismayed with all the items about how expensive  amateur
radio in the US. Radio Shack called Rip-Off Shack? Icom service costs?

What the hell is the matter with you? Want ham radios free? What do you
think the chips in them radios cost? Nothing.

Hell, a Kenwood TS50S costs $1700 in Europe. You can buy it for less than
$1000 in the US. A call for three minutes to a manufacturer costs an average
of $20 here. Shipping, dont even ask. And you americans complain?

Remember that amateur radio manufacurers arent in ham radio for major league
profit. Icom sells marine radios for two to three times the price of 2 meter
radios (marine radio is much simpler). Kenwood the same and so is Yaesu.
They make their money in these so-called commercial rigs.

Granted there are exceptions. AEA, as far as I am concerned overcharges. The
cost of the bits and pieces of the PK-232 was calculated at $56.75. They
sell it for $320!!!!!! Thats ridiculous. I am sure there are others like
that.

However, on the whole, we are associated with an industry where profit is
not the word you hear often. Look in the pages of QST? How many little
companies are there trying to offer products for our use. Thousands. No
other industry sector can offer that, not even computers.

When I started in the Computer business in 1975, the intel 8080 was just
coming out. The microcomputer industry was just starting. Little companies
run and owned by dedicated individuals started offering products. Not for
profit but because they believed their product was better than the
competition's. By 1990, little companies dissappeared from view in the PC
industry. Amateur radio still has them, and they will be around for ever.

We should feel happy we live in an industry not run by profit but quality,
choice and adventure. It has been like this for years and will be like this
by the year 3000 (assuming the FCC allows it).

So if you want to complain about prices, if you are being overcharged, start
a forum called "rip-off' and upload messages there, not here.

Peter Vekinis, KC1QF/ON9CGV

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 05:56:58 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!stat!aznetig![e-mail]
Subject: Internet gateway to p
To: [e-mail]

-> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
-> Path: stat!primenet!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!paladin.american.edu!h
-> From: [e-mail] (Redvers Llewellyn Davies)
-> Subject: Re: Internet gateway to packet radio in W
-> Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
-> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 18:23:40 GMT
-> References: <32tson$[e-mail]>
-> Organization: University College London
-> Lines: 24
->
-> [e-mail] (paulv) writes:
->
-> >Hi there,
-> >Some time ago I read something about the possibility of reaching the
-> >packet radio network in the US through an Internet gateway.
->
-> >Does someone knows this gateway? How to reach/address??
->
-> >Thanks....Paul(PA3APA)
->
->
-> There are two gateways... and only one of which I can remember and th
-> N6QMY.  I forgot the other one as he refused traffic from countries n
-> allowing 3rd party traffic (IE: The UK for example).  N6QMY refused t
-> register me as GW0TJO but liked other G0's (I can only assume I am do
-> something wrong *SOB*)  Still, if someone can reproduce the instructi
-> N6QMY again, I would also be very much in appreciation.
->
-> Red
->
-> GW0TJO
->  ^
->  ^
->  +------ Wales.


Try using the WB7TPY Gateway...David runs a very reliable and friendly
service...


[e-mail]

1st Line:  Packet:  wxxx@xxxxxx etc.


Reverse Packet to Internet:

SP [e-mail]

1st Line:  Internet:  xxxx@xjkjddxx etc.


73 de Dan


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Date: 25 Aug 1994 16:58:07 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!ceylon!news2.near.net!info-server.bbn.com!news![e-mail]
Subject: learning CW
To: [e-mail]

In article <33fpa9$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (ted kell) writes:

   Well, as one of those in the process, _and_ the latest requester for code
   s/w :) , it seems to me that there are two skills here.  One is learning the
   code itself, and the other is copying QSOs.  True??  Not true??

I guess you could put it that way . . . but you'd also have to say
that the two skill mostly overlap.
                                    Anyway,
   it would seem that the computer would be a good substitute for a code
   practice machine to learn the code and get your speed up a bit.  Then you
   would be able to start making sense of what you hear on the air.  This may
   be utter nonsense, but thats the theory.  Anyone have contrary opinions?

It's worked for me :-)

    /JBL   KD1ON
=
Nets: [e-mail]  |  "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's
POTS: [phone]  |  bureau that morning.  Wide-eyed and distraught, she
ARS:  KD1ON          |  stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
                     |                    -- S. J. Perelman

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 16:48:29 GMT
From: psinntp!moose![e-mail]
Subject: learning CW
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>In article <3397dj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Derek
>Wills) writes:
>> ...
>> I'm curious to know whether those who learn it from computer programs
>> that send perfect code in a quiet room find it a shock once they get
>> on the air and have to contend with real people sending code, fading
>> signals, QRM, all that stuff?   Is it easy to make the transition to
>> the real world?
>> ...
>
>I dunno for sure, Derek, but my guess is that very few people actually use it
>on the air. They learn it to pass the tests (which are sent in perfectly
>formed, non-QRM'ed fashion) and then don't use it. There are exceptions, of
>course.
>
>No flames, please...just making an observation with no value judgements
>attached.
>
>73...   Mark   AA7TA

So what is the difference from when I learned the code from records/tapes
back in the early 60's?   I still listened to HF to "hear" actual QSO's.
I see no difference from learning from a Computer - Tape - or yeh a vinyl
record.  I still have my 78rpm LPs from the U.S. Army Signal Corps - this
hiss, and scratches sound like an HF QSO :-)

Rod - KB3MK

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 15:53:22 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.aero.org!sparky1.aero.org![e-mail]
Subject: Manual for RS HTX-100
To: [e-mail]

Does anyone know if Radio Shack publishes a service
manual for the HTX-100 10 meter xceiver?

The local RS has been, shall we say, less than
helpful.

Thanks,
cantrell wa2vxu

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 14:21:05 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov![e-mail]
Subject: Radio Shack HTX 202
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Scott Hopson) says:
>
>
>Anyone know what modifications are available for this radio.
>
>It's an inexpensive but nice 2 meter handheld from Radio Shack.
>Does the job just fine....
>

<sigh>

There are NO mods for the HTX-202 for extended anything.  It ain't designed to
have anything other than 2 meter signals go in or out through a helical filter.

I add bigger battery packs, better antennas, and speaker-mikes to mine.  They
do help make them more handy.

Of course, I don't miss the intermod and overloading wide-band receivers are somewhat
prone to.

Great radio for a single band, and cheap (relatively) too.  I have a pair of them.

--Rich, KE4GNK

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Date: 24 Aug 1994 14:32:07 -0000
From: news.cerf.net!gopher.sdsc.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re(2): Ham ftp sites
To: [e-mail]

>
> Hi Dennis,
>
> Say I've requested a catalog from Tucker Electronics about umpteen times
and
> have yet to see a copy hit my mailbox.
>
> Could you please see that a current catalog is sent to me?

A catalog for Ham equipment will be in the mail this afternoon or in the
morning
and you're now on the mailing list.  Based on the newsgroup this came from
I'm
assuming you don't need/want a test equipment catalog - If I'm mistaken, let
me
know and  I'll have you added there as well.

I'm not sure why you weren't put on before, but it's now taken care of and
you'll
get catalogs forever (you only THOUGHT it was hard to get on a mailing list -
just wait till you try to get off of one   ;)   ).  If you don't get this one
in the next
week or so, send me another message and I'll tell the boss I need to
hand-deliver
a catalog (I need to get out of the heat for a while anyway).

Dennis Little  - Official programmer with that catch all clause at the end
                          (and other duties as needed - I've even played
receptionist).
Tucker Electronics

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 10:43 CDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!elroy.uh.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Who makes Quick-Reference cards?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Steve Phillips) writes...
>I would like to know where/who sells Quick-Reference cards for
>HTs/mobiles/HF radios.
>
>Thanks ahead of time,
>
>
>Steve Phillips  KD6SBP        Internet:   [e-mail]
>Beckman Instruments Inc.      Phone:      [phone]
>2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-10 Fax:        [phone]
>Fullerton CA 92634            Disclaimer: Opinions are mine, not Beckman's
>Old dog owners don't die; they just drop on recall!

I made one for the Kenwood TM-733A if you want it.

--
Brad A. Killebrew N5LJV, EMT-B        | Student of Computer Engr Technology
President, University of Houston ARC  |    University of Houston, Texas
Internet: [e-mail]         |  U of H Amateur Radio Club  WB5FND
AMPRnet : [e-mail]    |      [e-mail]
Packet  : n5ljv@f6cnb.#setx.tx.usa.na | Box 85-T2, 4800 Calhoun, 77204-4083
AT&Tnet : 713-852-8523  Fax [phone]  | For info, finger [e-mail]

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 11:31:01 -0400
From: newstf01.cr1.aol.com!search01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: Why Some people hate Wayne Green
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
William=E.=[e-mail] writes:

>just a guess, did you tell Wayne this?

What good would it do?  He would just include it in his editorial or
letters and trash me like he's done with others who have dared to disagree
with him.

I got some flames from the above post.  I have always lived by the axiom:<
never ask anyone to do something you are not prepared to do yourself>.
That's why I object to him writing and not doing.

BTW, I do enjoy the rest of 73.

Warren Whitby
[e-mail]
73s de KE4ITL

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 15:10:24
From: news.sprintlink.net!news.world.net!news.teleport.com!ip-ca.teleport.com![e-mail]
Subject: Yaesu FT-840 Mods?
To: [e-mail]

Can anyone direct me to mods for the new Yaesu FT-840?  Thus
far, the only ones I've seen cover the FT-890, which uses a lot
of the same subsystems internally. But I am not inclined to try those
on a "similar" radio like the 840 - which, by the way, I think is one
hot little rig.

I'd appreciate any help.


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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 15:14:24 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!usenet.elf.com!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu!dolphin!ed@@
Subject: You have been a ham too long when you ...
To: [e-mail]

drive past somebody you know, instead of tooting beep - beep on the car horn,
you beep  -.-.--.-

Somebody was compiling these.  Can somebody mail me a copy of the compilation.

    73


    Ed  N3SDO
    [e-mail]

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 15:05:24 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!nntp-server.caltech.edu!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!hopscotch.ksr.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <roh033.mah48d-230894074204@136.141.220.39>d.res
Subject : Re: CQ/Ham Radio Magazine history

[e-mail] (John E. Taylor III) writes:
>I suspect Gary is right that the circulation boost would have been
>temporary, because I couldn't imagine a more incompatible readership than
>the techies of HR and the contesters of CQ.  They gave some lip service
>about putting technical articles into CQ, but they never did (and I hope
>you don't call the drivel they do publish, "technical").

Actually, they did, sort of:  there were a few leftover HR articles that
got published in CQ immediately after the sale.  Fortunately, my "subscription"
to CQ ran out at just about the same time they did :-).

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Date: 25 Aug 1994 15:43:47 GMT
From: haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!w3eax.umd.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <33cs46$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <33fhe5$[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: FLAME the FCC

If the FCC has 5-6 terminals and only ONE person to operate them ONE day a
week, how about if some brave people descend upon Gettysburg one fine
day and help the poor FCC person out?  I would love to help -- schedule
permitting, of course; school starts soon.

--
Benjamin Schultz, N3RUR/aa
President, U of MD Amateur Radio Association
       (W3EAX)

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 16:05:12 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.ess.harris.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2E59C42A@smtp>, <[e-mail]>tyson.e
Reply-To : [e-mail]
Subject : Re: Airband transmit... oops

In Article <[e-mail]> "[e-mail] (Christopher Cox)" says:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]  (Robert C. Lokerson) writes:
> >
> >Well, even if technically feasable (AM/FM, etc) to quote president Nixon:
> >"It would be wrong".
> >
> >Legal aircraft radios need to be certified for that use.
>
> Since when does Holland come under the auspices of Nixon (or, indeed, anyone
> in the US?).
> --
> Chris
>
>    Chris Cox  W0/G4JEC                        [e-mail]
>    Network Analyst                                NIC Handle:   CC345
>    North Memorial Medical Centre                  Tel: [phone]
>    3300 Oakdale Avenue North                      Fax: [phone]
>    Robbinsdale, MN  55422
>
>                 Europeans consider 100 miles a long way.
>                 Americans consider 100 years a long time.
>

Oops. Missed those two letters at the end.




  R.C. LOKERSON (BOB)      MAIL ADDRESS:      VOICE : 407.729.2257
  HARRIS MDSO/MIS/DCC/ATG     HARRIS E.S.S.   SMTP  : [e-mail]
  BLDG 15/RM 838              P.O. BOX 37     CCMAIL: RLOKER01
  PALM BAY, FLORIDA           MELBOURNE FL    FCC   : WA3PKX
                              32902           HOME  : 407.725.8024

  (I WROTE IT, NOT MR. HARRIS)

"Mache'tes dont kill people, people kill people." NRA (Natl Rwandan Army)

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Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:33:45 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!ccnet.com!ccnet.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <32p4qg$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: 2m/11m crossband QSO: legal?

Dave Bushong ([e-mail]) wrote:
: [e-mail] (Charles A Daley) writes:

: >Then again, just for the sake of discussion...

: >This suggests that if the repeater in question had a link to 11 meters
: >(perish the thought...:) ) then all would be okay???  The one-way
: >transmissions would be gone and the repeater would complete the
: >requirement for an amateur station.

: I'd rather tap a direct feed from talk.bizarre through my TNC than
: put up a 2-meter to 11-meter link using my license.

If you send it over the packet network, I can feed it to a dec-talker and
distribute it on 11meters... who would know the difference?    ;)  :)

One night I was listening to the local amateur poc repeater when I heard
a lot of upset folks who were ready to call the fcc monitoring station.
Seems the local hams had tired of 75meters and had put their hf remote on
11meters...the cb ers were complaining loudly of amateur intruders!

Bob

--
     Bob Wilkins                     work    [e-mail]
 Berkeley, California                home    [e-mail]
     94701-0710                      play    n6fri@n6eeg.#nocal.ca.usa.noam

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