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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #972
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-
- Info-Hams Digest Mon, 29 Aug 94 Volume 94 : Issue 972
-
- Today's Topics:
- Are ordinary alkalines rechargeable?
- Homebrew Global Positioning System (GPS)
- LOOKING FOR OLD TRANSISTOR RADIOS
- Questions: Digital Scanning, Cellphones, Transmissions
- Station List
- W6RO @ The Queen Mary
- You have been a ham too long...
-
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- herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official
- policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there.
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-
- Date: 28 Aug 1994 17:31:30 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!udel!news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com!bud.indirect.com!dmm@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Are ordinary alkalines rechargeable?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I was in a Radio Shack the other day and I overheard a salesperson selling
- someone a battery charger, and he was clearly claiming that it could recharge
- alkaline batteries. He even sold them ordinary RS alkalines, so we're not
- talking about the newfangled "rechargeable alkalines" which can be recharged
- something like 25 times.
-
- On the air last night someone was complaining about how some RS staffers
- don't know what they're talking about and I chimed in and related this story.
-
- I was then summarily "corrected" by someone else on the air who claimed that
- RS did indeed have a special charger that recharged ordinary alkalines. Not
- wanting to start an argument, I signed off and went to check my new RS catalog.
-
- I found no charger that claimed to charge ordinary alkalines. Furthermore,
- the catalog discussed the various battery types and the only type listed with
- the word "rechargeable" were NiCd's.
-
- I'm aware that in the 70's, there were lots of chargers out there that claimed
- to be able to charge ordinary batteries, including carbon. I think some gov't
- agency finally cracked down on that deceptive advertising, and that's why
- nowadays only batteries that are genuinely rechargeable are labeled as such.
-
- I tried to reach the person who "corrected" me but he had signed off, so
- everyone else in that QSO probably thinks I'm an idiot now.
-
- ARE ordinary alkalines rechargeable?
- Doug
-
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- Date: 23 Aug 1994 07:25:00 +0200
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.coli.uni-sb.de!News.Saar.DE!hit.sb.sub.de!rmk@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Homebrew Global Positioning System (GPS)
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Hello from Germany!
- The Rockwell Comany offers for about 800 DM - 1500 DM GPS-Modules for
- customized applications. The modules have a RS232 interface.
-
- Rainer M. Kreten
-
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- Date: 28 Aug 1994 13:40:31 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!neoucom.edu!news.ysu.edu!yfn.ysu.edu!ap451@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: LOOKING FOR OLD TRANSISTOR RADIOS
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I'm looking for old little transistor radios made in Japan or US from the
- 1950s and 1960s. Willing to pay reasonable prices for these little pups.
-
- Email with what you have.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Randy Padawer
-
- (73 de WA4FJF)
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- Randy Padawer, P.O. Box 1167, Knoxville, TN 37901-1167 U.S.of A
- Internet: ap451@yfn.ysu.edu America Online: GwRepRandy
- Telephone: (615) 637-7263 Ham Radio op: WA4FJF & a groovy guy.
-
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-
- Date: 28 Aug 1994 13:51:21 GMT
- From: psinntp!hk.super.net!hk.super.net!cocw@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Questions: Digital Scanning, Cellphones, Transmissions
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Laurent PELLISSIER (lpelliss@ensm-ales.fr) wrote:
- : Here in France the GSM system is very very inexpensive. In fact
- : some store sell one to you for FREE (but you have to subscribe for one
- : year to a telephone company). Also they are two operators of the GSM in
- : France (a third one is expected for soon!) so the competition between
- : them is very hard and the price decrease a lot. For example in the
- : beginning of the GSM (3 years ago) a such device cost 6000 FF (1 US$
- : for 6 FF) now you can find some at less than 1000 FF. It's totally
- : crazy (especially for scanner listenner). Moreover the GSM system is
- : scrambled so there is no {easy} way to listen them.
- : So I am very surprised to learn that in the US the digital
- : cellphones are so expensive.
-
- Hi,
- AFAIK, (maybe this has been discussed already) UK (and France) has the
- cheapest GSM service available (phones and network). As an example in
- Hong Kong, Motorola 7200 are around HK$ 8800 (1 US$ = 7.73 HK$), Nokia
- 2110 are around HK$10k. The same phones cost about 150 - 250 GBP (UK)
- subject to a one year contract, add about 250 to 300 for no contract
- (usually referred to as ESN free, as the service provider holds it).
- Most of the world uses GSM, USA, Russia and Japan excepted. Great shame.
-
- There are many major operators (service providers) in the UK, four
- digital, two analogue. (2 GSM + 2 DSC [like GSM but at 1.8GHz]).
-
- regards
- Chun
-
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-
- Date: 28 Aug 1994 14:43:44 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!djw@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Station List
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- KICS,1550Khz is in Hastings,Nebraska. It is not in Lincoln.I do not
- receive it very well here in Lincoln as it is only 500 watts days. I
- wish there were a station closer or more powerful so I could give the
- show a listen!!! 73 de Dan --WA0JRD.....................
-
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-
- Date: 28 Aug 1994 11:44:53 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!acs@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: W6RO @ The Queen Mary
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Does anyone know specifically where the Spruce Goose was moved? I visited
- the Goose and the QM back in '86 but heard that someone had bought the
- Goose and moved her up the coast. Any accurate info will be appreciated.
-
- Thanks and 73 de "A.C.", W5EZM in Houston, Texas
-
-
- William A. Kirsanoff (William_A._Kirsanoff@ccmail.anatcp.rockwell.COM) wrote:
- : WA2JGJ writes:
-
- : When I was there several years ago (1992), all you had to do was
- : find the "Radio" room. As I recall, the current radio room is not
- : the same as the room used when the QM was actually in service. The
- : current room was located a deck below and just aft of the bridge
- : (if memory serve me correctly).
-
- : I also read that the QM was closed (or at least Disney, which ran
- : the QM exhibit) and the attraction was closed. But I may not have
- : my facts straight.
-
-
- : Disney did indeed bail out from managing the QM for the City of Long Beach
- : (who actually own her I believe). The Queen has since been reopened with
- : free admission for the self guided tours (much like the original
- : arrangement) and restaurants and the hotel as revenue sources. The radio
- : room is only open part time, I believe during peak tourist times. It was
- : closed last time I was aboard. A call to the Queen Mary (don't have the
- : number, area code is 310) may help with determining the actual operating
- : schedule. Licenses amateurs may operate the station, bring your license.
-
- : 73
-
- : _____________________________________________________________________
- : Wm. A. Kirsanoff Internet: WAKIRSAN@ananov.remnet.ab.com
- : Rockwell International Ham: KD6MCI
- : (714) 762-2872
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- Date: 28 Aug 94 13:36:08 -0500
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!ulowell!aspen.uml.edu!martinja@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: You have been a ham too long...
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <9408281018591.DLITE.davesparks@delphi.com>, davesparks@delphi.com
- (Dave Sparks) writes:
-
- >> Oh well, can't be a VE anymore... :(
-
- > Just out of curiosity, why not? Is that considered a "conflict of
- > interest", or something?
-
- Well Dave, paragraph 97.515(b) says that anyone who owns a significant interest
- in [not me], or is an employee of [I seem to fit in here], any company or
- other entity that is engaged in the manufacture or distribution of equipment
- used in connection with amateur station transmissions [etc.]... is ineligible
- to be an administering VE.
-
- Now I know you are a good ham and have a current copy of Part 97 in your
- shack. Right Dave? Dave? Dave!
-
- 73 de WK1V
- -jim-
-
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