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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 02:51:28 PDT From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup <info-hams@ucsd.edu> Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: List Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #1095 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Wed, 5 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 1095 Today's Topics: 2-meter multimode FOR SALE Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for 03 October DXCC - Time for change : messages from DX circuit FYI HF rig turns off the VCR?? IPS Daily Report - 01 October 94 Liscense.... No code Techs and CW... QSL INFO: V26X,V26Y,V26Z Scarborough Reef - DXCC status Yaesu 5200- How do u like? Send Replies or notes for publication to: <Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu> Send subscription requests to: <Info-Hams-REQUEST@UCSD.Edu> Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 19:38:53 GMT From: phb@syseng1.melpar.esys.com (Paul H. Bock) Subject: 2-meter multimode FOR SALE FOR SALE: Yaesu FT-290R Mk II 2-meter SSB/CW/FM multimode, 25 w. output, 10 memories, 2 VFOs, scan. Absolutely mint, new condition. $500.00 brings it to your door. Very nice compact radio, but I prefer a HF rig & transverter setup. (|_|) Paul H. Bock, Jr. K4MSG Internet: pbock@melpar.esys.com | |) Telephone: (703) 560-5000 x2062 (work) (703) 882-4745 (home) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 0:31:21 MDT From: oler@ultrix.uleth.ca (Cary Oler) Subject: Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for 03 October /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ DAILY SUMMARY OF SOLAR GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY 03 OCTOBER, 1994 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (Based In-Part On SESC Observational Data) SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY INDICES FOR 03 OCTOBER, 1994 ----------------------------------------------------------- !!BEGIN!! (1.0) S.T.D. Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for DAY 276, 10/03/94 10.7 FLUX=074.2 90-AVG=078 SSN=022 BKI=6775 5443 BAI=065 BGND-XRAY=A1.0 FLU1=8.1E+06 FLU10=1.8E+04 PKI=6766 6453 PAI=062 BOU-DEV=144,***,***,***,075,066,058,027 DEV-AVG=046 NT SWF=00:000 XRAY-MAX= A2.0 @ 0120UT XRAY-MIN= A1.0 @ 2031UT XRAY-AVG= A1.2 NEUTN-MAX= +001% @ 0440UT NEUTN-MIN= -003% @ 1955UT NEUTN-AVG= -0.9% PCA-MAX= +0.0DB @ 2110UT PCA-MIN= -0.1DB @ 2055UT PCA-AVG= -0.0DB BOUTF-MAX=55227NT @ 0154UT BOUTF-MIN=55158NT @ 1648UT BOUTF-AVG=55189NT GOES7-MAX=P:+000NT@ 0000UT GOES7-MIN=N:+000NT@ 0000UT G7-AVG=+073,+000,+000 GOES6-MAX=P:+123NT@ 2015UT GOES6-MIN=E:-038NT@ 0449UT G6-AVG=+100,+037,-006 FLUXFCST=STD:074,074,074;SESC:074,074,074 BAI/PAI-FCST=050,035,028/060,040,030 KFCST=3334 4444 2224 4233 27DAY-AP=015,028 27DAY-KP=1335 3322 3445 5344 WARNINGS=*GSTRM;*AURMIDWRN ALERTS=**MAJSTRM !!END-DATA!! NOTE: The Effective Sunspot Number for 02 OCT 94 was 20.0. The Full Kp Indices for 02 OCT 94 are: 1- 0+ 1- 2+ 2- 3- 2o 4+ The 3-Hr Ap Indices for 02 OCT 94 are: 3 2 3 9 6 13 8 31 Greater than 2 MeV Electron Fluence for 03 OCT is: 3.1E+07 SYNOPSIS OF ACTIVITY -------------------- Solar activity was very low. Solar activity forecast: solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. The geomagnetic field has been at quiet to unsettled levels until 02/2230Z when activity increased to minor to severe storm levels. This activity is believed to be due to a favorably positioned recurrent coronal hole feature. The greater than 2 MeV energetic electron flux has been mostly normal to moderate. At about 03/1400Z the flux exhibited a rapid rise to peak in the high range at about 03/1600Z. STD: A full-disk Yohkoh x-ray image showing the fairly large size of the northern polar coronal hole extension which appears to have affected geomagnetic activity over the last 24 hours, has been appended below. Geophysical activity forecast: the geomagnetic field is expected to be at major storm conditions on day one then becoming minor storm levels the second day of the forecast. Active conditions are expected on day three. Event probabilities 04 oct-06 oct Class M 01/01/01 Class X 01/01/01 Proton 01/01/01 PCAF Green Geomagnetic activity probabilities 04 oct-06 oct A. Middle Latitudes Active 20/30/30 Minor Storm 30/30/30 Major-Severe Storm 30/20/20 B. High Latitudes Active 20/20/30 Minor Storm 30/40/30 Major-Severe Storm 40/30/20 HF propagation conditions were below-normal to occasionally disturbed and near-useless for the high to upper-middle latitude paths and particularly those which crossed the night sectors. Lower middle and low latitude paths were also slightly below-normal with near-normal to poor propagation reported. Some geomagnetic and auroral ionospheric perturbations may have been sufficiently strong to produce VHF backscatter propagation on frequencies in excess of 100 MHz between 00:00 UTC and 09:00 UTC. Periods of strong geomagnetic and auroral activity are expected to continue during the local night sectors and result in continued disturbed propagation conditions, particularly on transauroral or transpolar paths. Conditions may begin improving slightly over the next 24 to 36 hours, although nothing particularly substantial is expected until about 06 October. Improvements will be slow. STD ESTIMATED CORONAL HOLE BOUNDARY LOCATIONS DERIVED FROM YOHKOH X-RAYS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VALID AT 23:30UTC 02OCT94 "!H!" = Highly probable coronal hole locations. "!W!" = Weak x-ray emissions (possible weak coronal holes). !!! ! ! DOY=276 VALID=23:30UTC 02OCT94 !H! N58E90 N56E69 N50E57 N46E42 N35E30 N28E22 N19E16 N14E16 N11E14 !H! N12E10 N16E09 N22E02 N23W04 N19W09 N14W11 N10W15 N05W15 N05W17 N08W20 !H! N10W24 N09W28 N06W31 N04W34 N04W39 N06W39 N09W40 N12W39 N16W32 N19W29 !H! N25W31 N28W35 N33W35 N34W23 N42W24 N49W23 N52W19 N58W16 N65W21 N72W31 !H! N72W51 N68W90 ! ! !H! S86E90 S62W08 S64W41 S68W90 ! ! !W! N05W15 N05W17 N00W16 S02W17 S06W15 S08W13 S10W15 S13W15 S16W18 !W! S18W25 S20W30 S22W37 S24W35 S28W34 S32W35 S32W28 S26W23 S22W17 S20W13 !W! S14W11 S10W12 S08W10 S06W10 S02W11 N02W13 N05W15 ! ! !W! N11E14 N08E13 N07E11 N04E10 N02E12 S04E19 S06E22 S10E23 S16E18 !W! S22E12 S26E12 S30E06 S32E02 S34E03 S34E11 S34E16 S28E23 S32E28 S38E32 !W! S46E35 S48E43 S36E43 S26E37 S22E27 S13E31 S06E27 S00E25 N06E18 N11E14 !!! COPIES OF JOINT USAF/NOAA SESC SOLAR GEOPHYSICAL REPORTS ======================================================== REGIONS WITH SUNSPOTS. LOCATIONS VALID AT 03/2400Z OCTOBER ---------------------------------------------------------- NMBR LOCATION LO AREA Z LL NN MAG TYPE 7783 S07W20 102 0050 HSX 02 001 ALPHA 7784 S05E31 051 0100 HSX 02 001 ALPHA REGIONS DUE TO RETURN 04 OCTOBER TO 06 OCTOBER NMBR LAT LO NONE LISTING OF SOLAR ENERGETIC EVENTS FOR 03 OCTOBER, 1994 ------------------------------------------------------ BEGIN MAX END RGN LOC XRAY OP 245MHZ 10CM SWEEP NONE POSSIBLE CORONAL MASS EJECTION EVENTS FOR 03 OCTOBER, 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN MAX END LOCATION TYPE SIZE DUR II IV NO EVENTS OBSERVED INFERRED CORONAL HOLES. LOCATIONS VALID AT 03/2400Z --------------------------------------------------- ISOLATED HOLES AND POLAR EXTENSIONS EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH CAR TYPE POL AREA OBSN NONE VISIBLE SUMMARY OF FLARE EVENTS FOR THE PREVIOUS UTC DAY ------------------------------------------------ Date Begin Max End Xray Op Region Locn 2695 MHz 8800 MHz 15.4 GHz ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ------ ------ --------- --------- --------- NO EVENTS OBSERVED. REGION FLARE STATISTICS FOR THE PREVIOUS UTC DAY ------------------------------------------------ C M X S 1 2 3 4 Total (%) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- ------ Uncorrellated: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 ( 0.0) Total Events: 000 optical and x-ray. EVENTS WITH SWEEPS AND/OR OPTICAL PHENOMENA FOR THE LAST UTC DAY ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date Begin Max End Xray Op Region Locn Sweeps/Optical Observations ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ------ ------ --------------------------- NO EVENTS OBSERVED. NOTES: All times are in Universal Time (UT). Characters preceding begin, max, and end times are defined as: B = Before, U = Uncertain, A = After. All times associated with x-ray flares (ex. flares which produce associated x-ray bursts) refer to the begin, max, and end times of the x-rays. Flares which are not associated with x-ray signatures use the optical observations to determine the begin, max, and end times. Acronyms used to identify sweeps and optical phenomena include: II = Type II Sweep Frequency Event III = Type III Sweep IV = Type IV Sweep V = Type V Sweep Continuum = Continuum Radio Event Loop = Loop Prominence System, Spray = Limb Spray, Surge = Bright Limb Surge, EPL = Eruptive Prominence on the Limb. SPECIAL INSERT: YOHKOH FULL-DISK X-RAY IMAGE -------------------------------------------- 02 October 1994, 23:20 UTC North .. ..... .,.,,,,,,,::::,,,,,.... . ...,,,,,,.. .,,:::::;;;;-----;;:::,,.... ....,,:;;-;;, ..,,,,,,:::;;;--+--;;::,,,... ...,,::;;-;:,, Polar Coronal .,,,,,,,,,,,:;:;----;;::,,.. ..,,:::;;;;:,...... 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South KEY: East and west limbs are to the left and right respectively. Emission strength, from minimum to maximum are coded in the following way: [space] . , : ; - + | ! 1 2 3 4 * # @ Units used are arbitrary, for illustrative purposes. Get "showasc.zip" from "pub/solar/Software" at the anonymous FTP site: ftp.uleth.ca (IP # 142.66.3.29) to view these images on VGA screens. Remove all but the image data before typing "showasc filename". ** End of Daily Report ** ------------------------------ Date: 5 Oct 94 14:55:00 GMT From: pve@dg13.cec.BE (VEKINIS Peter) Subject: DXCC - Time for change : messages from DX circuit FYI ALL, this is my original message. Obviously the topic is hot. Please read it and discuss it as you like. Peter, KC1QF pve@dg13.cec.be ================================================================ -> This is my original message. ================================================================ I read with interest the messages to and fro concerning Scarborough reef. I am amazed that people are going to sit down and talk about this forever (it seems). The DXCC doesnt have much of a policy. Lets face it, alot of rules are arbitrary. I mean, the 225 mile rule? the 75mile rule? They dont apply everywhere, do they? Why 75 or 225, Why not 10, or 1000. Whats going to happen next? When there is enough pressure to have new countries, will they lower it to 50 mile separation through intervening states or 10 miles or what? Perhaps 225 miles is too much; maybe they should do it 100 miles. Then we will instantly have another 100 'countries' and so on. Even as the rules stand, why is SV5 a new DXCC, when an Island off Ireland isnt. SV5 sure as hell isnt 225 miles away, is it? And so on. If the ARRL wants the DXCCprogram to be respected, then I suggest they make a real change and stick to it. Make a DXCC program based on real countries plus remote territories. Thats it. No miles, no separation, nothing. Let the politcal world decide, not an advisory panel who sets arbitrary limits and separations. This way, you will never have to change it. Never. The only changes will happen because of global changes. And these arent decided by committee. Lets see what kind of comments I get on this one..... Peter, KC1QF =============================================================== Peter, I tend to agree, mostly. This comes from someone who is currently sitting at around 325 current "countries" (I need cards that count from Libya, Tromelin, and Andaman and Nicobar). To my way of thinking, only real countries should count as countries. Alaska and Hawaii are not countries. Peter I is a rock off the coast of Antarctica, not a country. Desecheo is a wildlife preserve, not a country. The American Virgin Islands are not a country. Neither is Puerto Rico (but that's another story). I haven't really thought about remote territories. However, I suspect this is where we got started with what constitutes a country in the first place! Could be wrong though -- it happened long before my time. My inclination is to go just with real countries and not open the door for starting this madness all over again. 73, Bob K2PH -- -------------------------------------------------------- | Bob Schreibmaier K2PH | UUCP: ...!att!mtdcr!bob | | AT&T Bell Laboratories | Internet: bob@mtdcr.att.com | | Middletown, N.J. 07748 | ICBM: 40o21'N, 74o8'W | -------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================= Peter - I have chased DX for more than 35 years...have 5BDXCC and my TOP OF THE HONOR ROLL plaque...and I can't make any sense out of an awful lot of the things we call countries. I have long thought that DXCC would still attract plenty of hams (maybe even more) if the list really made sense. But I wouldn't bet a rejected QSL card that we will ever see any really sensible changes toward a meaningful and consistent understanding of the DXCC criteria. Thanks for your posting and your thoughts. -Dave- K9FN ============================================================= Peter, To tell you the truth, I'm not sure how many were "real" QSOs. As you know, most DX QSOs are signal report, QTH, name, wx, rig, 73. I worked a lot of my countries with that format. Without thinking, I would suspect that maybe half of my countries were worked in DXpedition format. 59, next. 59, next. I tend to make that QSO and not think much about it afterwards. Sometimes, I'll get out an atlas and find out where exactly that place was. Sometimes not. Hmmm... seems I've gotten awfully cavalier about this in my old age! I wonder if that is a common phenomenon? 73, Bob K2PH ============================================================== I agree. Perhaps you also want to send your answer to the DX circuit so others can see it. And by the way congrats. However, I wonder the following: from all the QSOs you have had to make up 325, how many were real QSOs and how many were 59s. Did you learn more about the place after the QSO or not? Peter, KC1QF pve@dg13.cec.be ========================================================== I think you nailed it, Peter. We are supposed to work them. WE don't tell THEM if they are a country or not. I've been absent from hamming and DXing for about three years. I returned to a dicsussion of the status of a semi-submerged reef? I think when you have worked all these real countries on all bands, or any way you wish, you should enjoy this accomplishment, put your award up on the wall, then take your lady out for dinner or play with your grandchild. You did it! Now, do something else. 73 ... Bob K5SIV 153-2401@MCIMAIL.COM =========================================================== My inclination is to go just with real countries and not open the door for starting this madness all over again. 73, Bob K2PH =========================================================== There are indeed awards based on "nations", WorldRadio or something similar runs one. There is also a "Worked all UN Countries" award, this is listed in the K1BV awards directory. I got something like Certificate #5, which tells you not that it is hard to do, just that it is not a popular award. But it's there if you want it. Actually, the UN list of "countries" has almost as many quirks and inconsistencies as the DXCC list. I type as one who is not on the DXXCC Horror Roll. I don't even have the Hoogovens-Estel Steel Award for working hams who perform shift work at the blast furnace in Ijmuiden (Netherlands) - PAs work 10 members working on 4 different shifts. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up (p. 119 of my K1BV directory). Derek AA5BT, G3NMX oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:37:29 GMT From: ehare@arrl.org (Ed Hare (KA1CV)) Subject: HF rig turns off the VCR?? In article <Cx3sK1.EIp@tandem.com> hausman@patch.tandem.com (hausman_john) writes: : >Has anyone ever seen anything like this? My transmitter (on certain : >frequencies) causes the VCR to stop playing. Many of these problems are caused by common-mode pickup on the coaxial cable or antenna feedline hooked up to the VCR. (A simple explanation is that a common-mode signal is the signal picked up on the shield of the coax, or by both wires of the twin-lead antenna.) Common-mode pickup is also sometimes a problem on the AC wiring. A quick diagnosis: disconnect the antenna or cable from the VCR. If the problem goes away, it is clearly coming down the antenna lead or cable. Then, if it is a coaxial cable, touch the ground of the F connector on the cable to the ground of the F receptacle on the VCR, without screwing it back on. If the problem reoccurs, it is almost certainly common-mode. If that is the case, you can cure it by disconnecting the antenna or cable input while in playback, or by putting a common-mode choke on the cable or feedline. The file rfisourc.txt on the ARRL info@arrl.org server (or at the FTP site at oak.oakland.edu) tells you where to buy one. You can also make a common-mode choke from a F-240-43 ferrite core; wrap about 10 turns of the coaxial cable or feedline onto the ferrite core. If worse comes to worse, try a common-mode choke on the AC line, along with a differential-mode (brute-force) AC line filter (Radio Shack catalog 15-1111). If the VCR is connected to an antenna, a high-pass filter will often work in place of the common-mode choke. On a cable system, a high-pass filter is not needed unless there is a severe leak in the cable. 73 from ARRL HQ, Ed -- Ed Hare, KA1CV, ARRL Laboratory, 225 Main, Newington, CT 06111 203-666-1541 ehare@arrl.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 23:12:14 GMT From: rwc@flare.syd.ips.oz.au (Regional Warning Centre) Subject: IPS Daily Report - 01 October 94 SUBJ: IPS DAILY SOLAR AND GEOPHYSICAL REPORT ISSUED AT 01/2330Z OCTOBER 1994 BY IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES FROM THE REGIONAL WARNING CENTRE (RWC), SYDNEY. SUMMARY FOR 01 OCTOBER AND FORECAST FOR 02 OCTOBER - 04 OCTOBER ----------------------------------------------------------- 1A. SOLAR SUMMARY Activity: very low Flares: none. Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 75/13 GOES satellite data for 30 Sep Daily Proton Fluence >1 MeV: 3.3E+05 Daily Proton Fluence >10 MeV: 1.4E+04 Daily Electron Fluence >2 MeV: 5.9E+07 (normal) X-ray background: A2.0 Fluence (flux accumulation over 24hrs)/ cm2-ster-day. 1B. SOLAR FORECAST 02 Oct 03 Oct 04 Oct Activity Very low Very low Very low Fadeouts None expected None expected None expected Forecast 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number for 02 Oct: 75/13 ----------------------------------------------------------- 2A. MAGNETIC SUMMARY Geomagnetic field at Learmonth: quiet Estimated Indices : A K Observed A Index 30 Sep Learmonth 5 3211 1111 Fredericksburg 3 5 Planetary 3 5 Observed Kp for 30 Sep: 2222 1111 2B. MAGNETIC FORECAST DATE Ap CONDITIONS 02 Oct 10 Quiet to unsettled 03 Oct 10 Quiet to unsettled 04 Oct 20 Unsettled to active COMMENT: Minor storm levels are expected 4-5 October due to coronal hole. ----------------------------------------------------------- 3A. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION SUMMARY LATITUDE BAND DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH 01 Oct normal normal normal PCA Event : None. 3B. GLOBAL HF PROPAGATION FORECAST LATITUDE BAND DATE LOW MIDDLE HIGH 02 Oct normal normal fair 03 Oct normal normal fair 04 Oct normal fair poor HF Comms are expected to be degraded during interval 4-5 October, particularly at high lats. ----------------------------------------------------------- 4A. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC SUMMARY Observed DATE T-index MUFs at Sydney 01 Oct 26 near predicted monthly values Predicted Monthly T-index for October: 20 4B. AUSTRALIAN REGION IONOSPHERIC FORECAST DATE T-index MUFs 02 Oct 25 Near predicted monthly values 03 Oct 25 Near predicted monthly values 04 Oct 20 Near predicted monthly values COMMENT: Degraded HF comms expected 5-6 October due to anticipated coronal hole induced disturbance. Ionospheric response to anticipated magnetic activity may be stronger during this rotation due to change of season. -- IPS Regional Warning Centre, Sydney |IPS Radio and Space Services RWC Duty Forecaster tel: +61 2 4148329 |PO Box 5606 Recorded Message tel: +61 2 4148330 |West Chatswood NSW 2057 email: rwc@ips.oz.au fax: +61 2 4148331 |AUSTRALIA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 07:56:01 +0000 From: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk (Mike Gathergood) Subject: Liscense.... > License "L-I-C-E-N-S-E" :-) Don't you mean L-I-C-E-N-C-E ? At least that's what it says on mine! 73 Mike G4KFK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 20:40:46 GMT From: phb@syseng1.melpar.esys.com (Paul H. Bock) Subject: No code Techs and CW... ryanm@u.washington.edu (Ryan Mcneilly) writes: >going around. If it wern't for the no code TECH I would not be a ham >since I didn't have the patience or desire to learn it in the beginning. >The NCT (No-Code-Tech) gave me an easy avenue into ham radio. However, >now I desire to get onto HF. My solution is not to petition the FCC to >grant NCT access to HF but to learn code. I think it is necessary to >have hurdles at each increase in privlages to make people move forward, >and to learn more than they previously did. I plan on following the >rules rather than changing them. I don't see myself using CW very much >when I first get on HF, but QRP holds my facination. Since QRP is best in >CW I will probably be using it in the future. Good for you! It was exactly with the hope that hams like yourself would *wish* to advance that the NCT was created in the first place. >Slaming the NCT as lazey is a dumb approach. All I needed was a regional It's worse than that; it's petty, destructive, and reflects on the lack of character of those who participate in it. >I would suggest showing new NCT hams what HF offers in CW, voice, data, >and video rather than shame them. Shaming me has the opposite effect on >me then what was desired, I get in your face and slam back. I won't go Two comments: First, your suggestion is excellent, and that is exactly what the *real* amateur radio operators are doing, quietly and behind the scenes in many cases. As for the "network prowlers" and "phone band whiners", don't engage in *their* tactics by "slamming back." All they want is for someone to "notice" them, so just go your own way and seek out the good guys when you need help. There are a lot more of them around than you realize. >I may not get it till Jan or Feb but I am working on it! --Ryan And when you do get on HF, drop me an e-mail and we'll schedule a nice, leisurely CW QSO and I'll try to show you that it can be a very pleasant way to communicate - not the only way, to be sure, but a good way nevertheless. 73 DE K4MSG (since '57) (|_|) Paul H. Bock, Jr. K4MSG Internet: pbock@melpar.esys.com | |) Principal Systems Engineer Telephone: (703) 560-5000 x2062 "You can have my bug when you can pry my cold, dead fingers from around it....." - anonymous radiotelegraph operator ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 10:48:00 GMT From: oopdavid@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (D.RODMAN) Subject: QSL INFO: V26X,V26Y,V26Z The Western New York DX Association announces the following QSL information for the mini-DXpedition to Antigua. V26X is QRT. V26Y & V26Z are QRV for one week more. V26X via N2HIW V26Y via W2KKZ V26Z via WF2S 73, Dave KN2M ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 1994 17:05:34 GMT From: eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov (Richard Eckman) Subject: Scarborough Reef - DXCC status I just received the new issue of "QRZ DX", a DX information weekly bulletin, which contained an open letter from Chip Margelli, K7JA, regarding Scarborough Reef and its DXCC status. In the letter, Chip implores active DXers to open discussion on the issue. I feel compelled to add a few words. Recently, the DXAC voted to change the DXCC rules in an attempt to define a minimum size for a DXCC country. I imagine that this was due to the Scarborough application and the potential for similar applications for DXCC country status. I've been struck by the strange attitudes of many hams towards the DXCC institution. It's certainly a worthly goal for a DXer to work and verify 100 countries. Some may argue it's too easy these days, given the plethora of "countries" to choose from. Yet, there seems to be no end to the hams with their compasses and rulers seeking to find yet another speck of rock as a potential candidate for DXCC status. To me, this is a pity. It brings the concept of DXCC into ridicule, particularly from non-DXers when frivilous, ill-considered applications are brought before the DXAC for consideration. There is enough political volatility in the world to ensure that new DXCC countries will continue to be formed (and perhaps deleted) as countries fracture or otherwise redefine themselves. It seems unnecessary to "help" the process along by finding a rock in the Pacific to call a new DXCC "country". Chip's arguments for the acceptance of Scarborough Reef seem to center around the Chinese Radio Sport Association's efforts in organizing the recent DXpedition. The CRSA's efforts are certainly commendable, but I fail to see how the acceptance/non-acceptance of the reef's DXCC status will impact on the future of Chinese or Asian ham radio growth. The argument seems wholly fallacious. Chip states that Scarborough "clearly fell within the DXCC country qualificiation specifications." But the reef is barely more than a few rocks, sometimes above water at low tide. To accept such a landmass as a DXCC country is lunacy and invites tremendous potential abuse from a myriad of future applications for any rock that meets the minimum land separation requirements from its parent country. I'm personally thrilled that the DXAC voted to revise country size requirements before this issue gets entirely out of hand. I'm all for working another new DXCC country. But, let's use some common sense and not warp the rules of the DXCC. Richard Eckman KO4MR Hampton, VA eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 07:51:10 +0000 From: Mike@g4kfk.demon.co.uk (Mike Gathergood) Subject: Yaesu 5200- How do u like? Hi Bill. I have been using an FT-5200 with the remote head option for about a year now. I'm afraid I can't recommend them for the following reasons: 1/ I feel that I was totally misled about the function of the remote head. Although the head can be easily detached from the head mount, the transceiver needs to be unscrewed from the remote cable. Worse still, the securing screws aren't 'captive' types, and are therefore easily lost. Can anybody explain the sense in designing a transceiver with a quick-release head, but no quick-release transceiver? 2/ If you find (as I did) that the 3 metre cable ain't long enough, you can't just buy the longer cable - Yaesu only sell the longer cable with another remote head unit. Serves me right for buying a new car I 'spose! 3/ The transmitted audio of the FT-5200 is awful. I've taken the rig back to the importers, but the best they could do was to crank up the peak deviation to 8 KHz - any less and my dulcet tones weren't audible to other mobiles above their own vehicle noise. 4/ The receive performance, particularly on UHF, is atrocious. 70cm is unusable in the centre of London due to breakthrough from other services on UHF (taxis, couriers, broadcast links, etc...) Even locally (a small village on the outskirts of Slough), 2m suffers from breakthrough from a paging system. 5/ A fault that I've not yet experienced myself, but has been reported by several friends - they have a nasty habit of popping their front panel lamps if you start the car while the rig is switched on. Having had previous Yaesu rigs that have totally locked up (FT-230 and CPU-2500) when starting the car, I always switch the rig off first. 73 Mike G4KFK Sysop - The CQ Centre BBS - 2:252/320 Node 1 - 44 753 595468 Node 2 - 44 753 592726 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 17:45:07 GMT From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) References<1994Sep30.172734.23514@news.csuohio.edu> <lestrade.780958492@Ra.MsState.Edu>, <Cx3HH4.7Co@pica.army.mil> Subject: Re: Radio Shack Violation mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil (Mark Ellis) writes: >In article <lestrade.780958492@Ra.MsState.Edu>, lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu >(John Patrick Lestrade) writes: >>Is it any more of a `violation' for someone to pick up an ht on the rs >>counter and `kerchunk' a repeater as it is for someone who does NOT have >>a driver's license to start the engine of a car in a showroom? >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Start the car? No. Drive the car? Yes. >If you transmit on the thing (the radio, not the car, smarty) without >a license, you are in violation. If you kerchunk a repeater, without >identifying, license or not, you are also in violation. Although that >only applies to license holders, since if you didn't have a license, what's >to identify? > .......Mark The reason for identifying is for the purpose of clearly making the source of the transmissions from the station known to those receiving the transmissions. If you wanted to follow the ID rule, you could always say "This is (read the name off of the Radio Shack employee's name tag) testing at Radio Shack". I'll bet that would get the transmitter disabled. -- Dave Bushong OPEN/image Recognition Products ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #1095 ******************************