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Info-Hams Digest            Thu,  8 Sep 94       Volume 94 : Issue 1007

Today's Topics:
                2m/440 repeaters in the I-95 corridor
        Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta: phonetic alphabets (repost)
                      Callsign Servers (2 msgs)
            HELP. Got a freebee but don't know what it is!
                         In plain English...
              Need comments on 2 Ham books @ Radio Shack
                           New HDN Releases
                          Origin of "Elmer"?
                      PD/Shareware Morse Trainer
                 question to save time from a virgin
                             Tube Source
                           VEC Testing Help
                         Wanted:  Good Woman!
                       WHERE IS JVFAX7 (2 msgs)
                      Wouff hong specs req'd...
          You dont do this on the air why do it on the net?

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Date: 8 Sep 1994 14:22:59 GMT
From: netnews.upenn.edu!cronkite.ocis.temple.edu!astro.ocis.temple.edu![e-mail]
Subject: 2m/440 repeaters in the I-95 corridor
To: [e-mail]

Andy Domonkos ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Also try 146.73 (-) when you're in Southern NJ. This is the Wilmington,DE
: machine and has tremendous reach from Cherry Hill, NJ to the Del/MD line.

I know it's trivial, but I'm going to post it anyway.  I-95 doesn't
go to southern NJ, it runs down the PA side of the deleware, right
through Philly.  I'm sure this Wilmington repeater is just as good
there.
--
                                          Joe Avins
                                          [e-mail]

                  *    Avins's Absolute Law of Creativity:  "There    *
                  *    is exactly one absolute law of creativity."    *

I read my e-mail more regularly and reliably than than I read net.news.

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Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:07:56 GMT
From: newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov![e-mail]
Subject: Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta: phonetic alphabets (repost)
To: [e-mail]

In article <34l63s$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>
>           Phonetic Alphabets (Alpha Bravo etc)
>
>There is a widely known alphabet Alpha Bravo ... Yankee Zulu.
>Such alphabets are variously known as phonetic alphabets,
>radio alphabets and spelling alphabets. This collection
>currently includes alphabets for the following languages:
>
>     English, French, German, Dutch, Flemish, Italian,
>     Rumantsch, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish,
>     Finnish, Russian and Chinese.
>
>This posting is a repeat of the one of 23rd July.
>

.....


>
>From a book entitled "The Complete Morse Instructor..." (1944):
>
>able baker charlie dog easy fox george how item jig king
>love mike nan oboe peter queen roger sugar tare uncle victor
>william x-ray yoke zebra

The above alphabet was the official US military, or at least
US Navy, alphabet in use at the time of the changeover to the
current NATO alphabet now used by the military. I learned it
my first year in 1955, and then immediately in the latter
part of 1955 had to learn the new version which is still used.
(That new NATO version used ALFA and not ALPHA.)

Incidently, william, x-ray, yoke, and zebra lived on, and may
still be in use, in the Navy as classifications for the various
classes of damage control readiness on ships on the theory,
I guess, that the condition was a term and not a phonetic
abbreviation. Why rewrite all those manuals? Then again, they
never did worry about issuing new instructions. Maybe it was
so the old timers would have something to reminisce about, like
CW.

Bob Kirk
N3OZB


>
>[The same alphabet is described as "Used by Armed services of
> USA & GB" in the ARRL 1945 Handbook. Entries cited in variants
> of this alphabet: affirm, cast, hypo, inter, negat, option,
> over, prep]
...

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Date: 8 Sep 1994 10:56:44 GMT
From: zib-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de![e-mail]
Subject: Callsign Servers
To: [e-mail]

Hello!

Sometime ago I tried to ftp callsign.cs.buffalo.edu, however anonymous ftp
doesnt seem to work. Any sugestions?

73, Mority DL5UH

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Date: 8 Sep 1994 12:05:48 GMT
From: news2.near.net!noc.near.net!chaos.dac.neu.edu!bach.coe.neu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Callsign Servers
To: [e-mail]

In article <34mqlc$[e-mail]>,
 <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Sometime ago I tried to ftp callsign.cs.buffalo.edu, however anonymous ftp
>doesnt seem to work. Any sugestions?
>
>73, Mority DL5UH



You need to type 'telnet callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000' instead of FTP,
since you will not be transferring any files.

Also, don't miss the four-part series in QST magazine called "Exploring
the Internet" from Sept - Dec.

73,
Scott

--
Scott Ehrlich, Amateur Radio Callsign: wy1z   [e-mail] [AX.25 Packet]
E-mail addresses: [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, 8 Sep 1994 15:00:56 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.bu.edu!gw1.att.com!nntpa!cbfsb!cbnewsf.cb.att.com![e-mail]
Subject: HELP. Got a freebee but don't know what it is!
To: [e-mail]

someone I know said they were throwing out a transciever. I of course
stopped that from happening and said I would be glad to take it off
thier hands.

  The Unit says  TAD   AL-165

FCC ID: C??8DFM AL-165

 TAD America Corp.


 Appears to have 6 channels.  selectable by a rotary switch on top.


 The previous owner doesn't have a manual.


    Anyone out there have one of these and/or a manual that they might be
willing to part with or photocopy??


   Thanks,

      Andy Cropley

        N2ZAM

     [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 12:53:20 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!rohvm1![e-mail]
Subject: In plain English...
To: [e-mail]

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

> Recall the true story I posted on here a while back concerning a ham
> who worked on a 2M amp with the cover open for a couple hours - the
> next morning he woke up blind. He said while working on the amp
> he felt *nothing* - no heat, no pain, no discomfort. This story
> was originally passed over the QRP email group from an M.D.
> conducting research on the subject.

Is this actually documented someplace?  I'm skeptical, although I suppose
that, given a very precise, unfortunate set of circumstances, it could
happen.  It's more likely with ionizing radiation, though.  There was a
fascinating internal report at a company for which I once worked,
documenting injuries to two chaps who worked on an X-ray unit while it was
powered up.  They didn't feel a thing, but shortly thereafter (next day),
they began to developed massive tissue necrosis (the flesh died!) and had a
bunch of problems.

Again, that was ionizing radiation, which is different from RF.

>
> It's the cummulative exposure one should be concerned about.

Why?  The established mechanism of microwave injury is heating of the body
part.  Remove the heat and the effect stops.  Any damage that _was_ done,
of course, remains until the body repairs it, so a bunch of frequent
exposures is _almost_ as bad as a single exposure of the same magnitude.
But the body will repair most damage caused by thermal effects.  It's not
like, say, lead poisoning, where the toxin remains in the body and
accumulates with each subsequent dose.

--
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: 8 Sep 94 22:28:32 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Need comments on 2 Ham books @ Radio Shack
To: [e-mail]

>Does the FCC ever rewrite question pools before they expire? I'd
>hate to screw up the exam because a question or two have been
>changed.

the FCC does not.  the VEC question pool committee does.  next up is the extra
class question pool....

73, bill wb9ivr

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Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 10:37:03
From: seas.smu.edu!rwsys!ocitor![e-mail]
Subject: New HDN Releases
To: [e-mail]

The following files were processed Monday 09-05-94 by the Ham Dist Net
Please allow 48 hours for files to arrive at the HDN Anonymous FTP Site.

 HAMDEMO         HAM: Amateur Radio Software Demo Programs
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ID_NA490.ZIP   514,079 ID-Logic AM/FM Simulator for windows
 ID_SW490.ZIP   528,306 ID-Logic SW Simulator for windows
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1,042,385   bytes in 2   file(s)


 HAMEQUIP        HAM: Radio and equipment modification distribution
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SMCON141.ZIP   126,145 Smart R8 Control v1.41 for Drake receiver
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 126,145     bytes in 1   file(s)


 HAMNEWS         HAM: Ham Bulletins and Newsletters
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 AK8Y.ZIP         1,955 AK8Y Special Event Station 09/10/94
 ANART824.ZIP     6,382 ANART Bulletin #824 08/28/94
 PFQ0828.ZIP     11,670 VK2PFQ President's address / WICEN News
 RSGB0904.ZIP    10,140 RSGB Bulletin 09/04/94
 YNET008.ZIP      2,765 YouthNet Bulletin #008 09/04/94
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 32,912      bytes in 5   file(s)


 HAMSAT          HAM: Satellite tracking and finding programs
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 AMSAT246.ZIP     6,045 AmSat Bulletin #246 09/03/94
 OBS245.ZIP       6,513 AmSat Orbital Elements #245 09/02/94
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 12,558      bytes in 2   file(s)


 HAMSWL          HAM: Shortwave broadcast schedules
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 KOL.ZIP          2,269 KOL - Israel SWBC Sked 08/28/94-03/31/95
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 2,269       bytes in 1   file(s)


 Total of 1,216,269 in 11 file(s)


Official Ham Distribution Net FTP Server :    ftp.iea.com    /pub/borg/hdn
Official Ham Distribution Net E-mail     :    [e-mail]

Official U.S. Postal Service Address     :    Ham Distribution Net
                                              P.O. Box 50003
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                                              [phone] 8N1 14.4k v32b
                                              Logon: Guest;guest

 * Origin: Africa - Asia - Australia - Europe - USA/Canada - S. America (1:124/7009)

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Date: 6 Sep 94 16:40:11 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!fonorola!infoshare!@@ihnp4.ucsd.edu
Subject: Origin of "Elmer"?
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Stan Olochwoszcz N2AYJ) writes:
:>> Who started this "Elmer" stuff, anyway?  Was I just hiding under a rock
:>> for the last 30 years?
:>
:I got my license in March, 1979 and Elmer was pretty strongly entrenched
:by then. It was so much a part of my initial exposure to ham radio
:that I have always assumed Elmer-ing was one of the grandest of ham
:traditions. I'm surprised (disappointed?) to find out that Elmer is
:such a young guy. ;-)

    'Re: Origin of "Elmer"?'

    Try "Fudd"           ;-)

SRI, I couldn't resist.

--------------------
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG        John Coutts Library Services Limited
[e-mail]            Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
(or [e-mail], [e-mail])

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Date: 8 Sep 1994 12:07:02 GMT
From: news2.near.net!noc.near.net!chaos.dac.neu.edu!bach.coe.neu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: PD/Shareware Morse Trainer
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Kevin der Kinderen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I've got a friend interested in learning the code and would like to know a good morse
>trainer that he may be able to get off the Internet. If you have successfully used any of
>these programs to both "learn" the code and get your speed up please let me know.
>The program can be for a PC or a MAC.
>
>Thanks and 73,
>Kevin, kj4qf
>
>[e-mail]



Check out the archives on oak.oakland.edu:/pub/hamradio

You may also want to get the file(s) /pub/hamradio/00-Index.txt and
/pub/hamradio/0-Index2.txt

73,
Scott

--
Scott Ehrlich, Amateur Radio Callsign: wy1z   [e-mail] [AX.25 Packet]
E-mail addresses: [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, 8 Sep 1994 07:15:00 +0000
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.sprintlink.net!demon!microvst.demon.co.uk![e-mail]
Subject: question to save time from a virgin
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>
           [e-mail] "Larry Osborne" writes:

> looking for program that allows an ibm to read commodore language or
> converts commodore to ibm. i have a log program with 1400 data entries
> and i would rather not have to re-enter. got one?
> a
>
> ----
> Top Of The Rock BBS - Lilburn, GA         SYSOP: Steve Diggs
> UUCP: totrbbs.atl.ga.us               Snailmail: 4181 Wash Lee Ct.
> Phone: [phone]                           Lilburn, GA 30247-7407
>
If all else fails, better to use 2 comms packages and a nul modem cable
than to type anything longer than one's name!
--
Anthony R. Gold G3SKR & AA2PM

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 01:36:39 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.duke.edu!concert!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!galen.med.Virginia.EDU![e-mail]
Subject: Tube Source
To: [e-mail]

I tried RF Parts for a rectifier tube, but they were in the
middle of a move a couple of weeks ago and gave me the name of
a really helpful outfit called:

Antique Electronic Supply
6221 South Maple Ave.
Tempe ,AZ 85283

voice [phone]
fax [phone]

I have no interest in this company except that they keep my
boatanchor in tubes. I ordered, they sent, works for me. :-)
--
73,
de Bill   KE4JSU    [e-mail]

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Date: 8 Sep 1994 11:22:38 -0400
From: gti.gti.net!gti.gti.net![e-mail]
Subject: VEC Testing Help
To: [e-mail]

: There's something like a dozen VECs around the country -- see the headings on
: Bart Jahnke's recently posted exam schedule for names and addresses. The big
: ones are ARRL and W5YI (not sure who #3 is now).

And W5YI is cutting back I think.

Glen
WB2MPK

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Date: Wed,  7 Sep 94 18:00:00 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!iat.holonet.net!wwswinc![e-mail]
Subject: Wanted:  Good Woman!
To: [e-mail]

 H >    WANTED:  GOOD WOMAN WHO can cook, work 30
 H >    wpm, Bench test equipment and manage a pile-up.
 H >    Must have Alpha and Antenna Farm.  Please send
 H >    photo of Antenna Farm!  Mike, <address deleted>.
 H >
 H > Hope he has a big mailbox for all those cards and letters that
 H > are sure to pour in! :-)

Doug:  This was posted on the Amateur Radio Net BBS system.  I am
amazed how posts from internet get posted and reposted on other
online services.  I also heard about this ad at our local amateur
radio club meeting last night.  Would be interest in hearing from
you if you receive this reply.
Joe
---
 * OFFLINE 1.54 * KB2RCN/aa, [e-mail], Elizabeth, N.J.

--- QScan v1.12b / 01-0220
 * Origin: The Dx Connection Bbs Teaneck New Jersey (1:107/593)

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 10:24:04 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!pukrs7.puk.ac.za!inbelpc2.puk.ac.za![e-mail]
Subject: WHERE IS JVFAX7
To: [e-mail]

I saw a message on the local ZS packet network that JVFAX 7 is available on
the net.

Can anybody tell me where it is ?

Keith (ZS6TW)
 Potch Univ.       Email :                     Tel:
 Potchefstroom        [e-mail]      Voice [phone]
 West Transvaal                                   FAX   [phone]
 South Africa



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Date: 8 Sep 1994 15:44:48 +0300
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!gate.compart.fi![e-mail]
Subject: WHERE IS JVFAX7
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Keith Laaks) writes:

>I saw a message on the local ZS packet network that JVFAX 7 is available on
>the net.
>Can anybody tell me where it is ?

Try ftp.funet.fi:/pub/ham/misc/jvfax70.zip

/Markku, OH2BQZ

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Date: 8 Sep 94 11:54:34 -0230
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.unb.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!leif![e-mail]
Subject: Wouff hong specs req'd...
To: [e-mail]

   I saw a photo of a wouff hong in last month's QST (p.13) and was
wondering if anyone had a parts list, construction specifications, and
alignment instructions for someone who might be interested in building
this instrument.  I don't recall seeing any QST articles on homebrewing
wouff hongs, nor have I come across any kits in the advertising section.
This amazes me as no radio club should be without one...

73 Joe VO1NA



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Date: 8 Sep 1994 11:14:25 +0300
From: EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!proffa.cc.tut.fi![e-mail]
Subject: You dont do this on the air why do it on the net?
To: [e-mail]

VEKINIS Peter ([e-mail]) wrote :

> All one has to do is add their address line after their name, not very
> difficult is it?
> After all, I am on a PC running Windows, on a huge Lan Manager network, via
> an SMTP gateway, not on a UNIX box connected to internet. I am certrainly

Get yourself a copy of "Hams on Usenet" list, which include most active
participants of the rec.radio.amateur.* hierarchy. I see no point of
including your .sig in every post in a heated debate, it is just a waste
of bandwidth.

However, if someone makes a one time request (and thus not yet in the
HoN-list) and expect a reply by e-mail, then I think that it is polite to
append a .sig.

                Paul OH3LWR


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Date: 8 Sep 1994 06:54:40 -0700
From: nntp.crl.com!crl4.crl.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <34aarm$[e-mail]>,<34iob1$[e-mail]>, <34kkuk$[e-mail]>, <34kpuh$[e-mail]>rl.com
Subject : Re: Need comments on 2 Ham books @ Radio Shack

In article <34kpuh$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Steven Jackson) wrote:

> Re: Radio Shack's "No Code Plus".
>
> My question is, have the question pools changed at all since
> new rules have been passed that change the answers to some of
> the questions, such as the "pizza rule"? The cover reads
> "Questions and Answers Effective July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1997",
> but business use questions are now wrong.

Questions whose answers are rendered incorrect by recent changes in
FCC rulings are supposedly eliminated from the active question pool by
the VEC / VEs.  If you find such a question remaining in -your- test,
flag it, and bring it to the VE's attention.

The question pools are updated periodically by a panel of volunteers,
acting with input from the general Amateur population.  They are not
made "official" until after significant FCC and public interaction.
Questions whose answers are no longer correct are to be removed from
the -local- question pool.

Good luck with the test!

Lou
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