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Info-Hams Digest            Thu, 20 Oct 94       Volume 94 : Issue 1137

Today's Topics:
                       Army MARS - Houston Area
                        call granted < 8 weeks
                    CANADIAN RED CROSS AMATEUR NET
                     Code Programs/Sound Blasters
        Earth Ground (was: ARRL And Gay Hams Settle Complaint)
             Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then
                              Hong Kong
                            Is this legal?
                        Kindness and ham radio
                            laser replies
                          Logging systems???
                   Need info from foreing callbook
                     Power company QRN!! (2 msgs)
                         Richard Clark N6UZS
                       Touch Tone Paging (DTSS)

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 08:27:50 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Stephen E. Farlow)
Subject: Army MARS - Houston Area

I am looking for someone to talk to about getting involved with Army MARS
in the Houston, Texas area --- or Air Force MARS.
My phone number at work is 713 945-7579. A home phone will be given only
via e-mail to a legitimate responder. I would prefer, however, the name
and phone number of someone to talk to and get apps for this.
Please respond soon.
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email : [e-mail]
Stephen E. Farlow           Amateur Radio Call:  KJ5YN
Houston, TX.

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 11:21:08 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Poretsky)
Subject: call granted < 8 weeks

N3TOP was granted on 10/18.  Aprox. 7 weeks after taking the
test through the Laurel VEC at FAR Fest '94 G'Burg.

73's

JeffP

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 15:24:16 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Robert Sharp)
Subject: CANADIAN RED CROSS AMATEUR NET

The Canadian Red Cross Society (Nationial Office) invites all
amateur stations affiliated with the Canadian Red Cross to participate
in The Canadian Red Cross Amateur Net.

The net will be conducted in the 20m band on 14.125 .
The net will be conducted every Sunday at 2pm Eastern time starting
on Nov 6 1994.

The net control station will be VA3CRC which is the amateur radio station
located at the Canadian Red Cross Headquarters in Ottawa.

for more information contact your local branch of the Canadian Red Cross,
or contact VA3CRC@VE3KYT via ax25 packet radio.

--
 Bob Sharp VA3RCS, internet: [e-mail]  AX25:va3rcs@ve3kyt
   The Regionial Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton Emergency Measures Unit
              Net Manager- Emergency Measures Radio Group
 The opinions stated above are not necessarily those of the R.M.O.C.

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 15:03:17 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jim Hollenback)
Subject: Code Programs/Sound Blasters

Tim Wright KD4OVM ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Anybody know of a Code Program that uses a sound blaster system?
: If you do and it is available FTP E-mail me the address Please.
: thanks

: Tim Wright  KD4OVM

: [e-mail]

Super Morse, on oak.oakland.edu.

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Date: 20 Oct 94 08:40:00 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Earth Ground (was: ARRL And Gay Hams Settle Complaint)

[e-mail] wrote:


>Jeffrey Herman <[e-mail]> wrote:

>>Now, Dave said that he hoped hams would be more tolerant than the
>>rest of society concerning the activites of gays. But why should
>>society have to change their innate  feelings to suit a mere 2% who
>>choose to participate in these nauseating acts? Maybe that 2% should
>>be more tolerant of our feelings.

>EXCUSE me.  There's a difference between "changing your innate feelings"
>and not beating up people.

>Let me phrase that slightly differently.  You have the right to be
>disgusted by whatever you want to be disgusted by.  That does *not* mean
>that anybody, anywhere, should be discriminated against, beaten, hounded,
>harrassed or killed because of what they do behind closed doors with other
>consenting adults.

>Your feelings and your words reflect poorly on yourself and on the Amateur
>Radio Service.  If you want to be bigoted, I won't try to stop you.  But,
>for everybody's sake, keep your ignorance and hatred to yourself.

This is a bunch of crap.  Ignorance and hatred?  Come on, you fool, its not
ignorance and hatred, its pure and simple disgust at the thought of someone
being perverted and the system allowing, no forcing others to accept that
perversion as socially acceptable behavior.  You faggots are doing something
that goes against every conceivable law, whether it be moral, natural,
biological, legal, or religious.  I don't hate you, I don't hate anyone.
Hate is what the gays have for those like me.  But that doesn't mean that I
have to tolerate your presence or like being forced to treat you and you
sickening ilk as "normal" and "acceptable alternative".

"...beaten, ...or killed..." I agree that this is wrong and I would defend
you if I were to witness this.  I think it was Voltaire who said "I will
fight to the death against what you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it."  "Hounded, harassed"?  You got it.  Being queer is not
your right.  You are adversely effecting me.  You have caused my health
insurance rates to skyrocket; you have caused the quality of health care to
plummet due to the fact that you are spreading disease.  You have begun the
disintegration of the moral fabric of this country by disrupting the family
and burdening society with yet another special interest group that has only
hedonistic self interest at heart.

Lets face it - your whole motive for being what you are is to attract
attention to yourself and to saturate yourself in a selfcentered social
order that cares nothing but for its own motives and "feels-good" self
interest.

I have nothing but pity and disgust for you and your kind.  I view you and
your kind as no different than any other sex-criminal such as child
molesters, beasteality practitioners or rapists.  You got a problem, and you
wont admit it.  Somehow, the incomprehensible winds of political correctness
have blown your way.  I hope that we can fix this situation and get you some
help before its too late.

What does this have to do with Amatuer radio?  Nothing, except unfortunately
that I had hoped that there would be some organization such as the ARRL that
would have the guts to stand up and say NO, we will not conform to PC and
support homosexuality.  I had hoped that there would be safe refuge from the
sickening weirdness and hell-bent evil of homosexuality in the health and
wholesomeness of the airwaves.  But it is not to be.  I suppose that things
will have to decay further before the average man in the street says "Hey,
I've had enough and this has got to stop!"

May God have pity on your troubled souls,
Doc Elliott KE4KUZ
INTERNET:  [e-mail]
My opinions are my own.
73s to all.

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 19:53:17 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Joe Gervais )
Subject: Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then

In article <383enb$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Jenkins) writes:
>
[SNIP]
>As a result of my very brief experience so far, I've got a question:  in
>my other two contacts, the other party sent so fast that I could hardly
>copy anything.  When it was my turn, I asked him (her?) to QRS, but that
>seemed to turn them off, and they said "let's QRT," (blaming it on QRM,
[SNIP]
>
>I did notice that I seemd to be sending my callsign interchanges faster
>than I was ready to copy, so I have deliberately slowed that down in the
>hopes that it will convey to possible contacts the speed at which I'm
>prepared to copy.
>
--

That may have been most of the problem. Some folks are likely
to be turned off when they answer an 18-wpm CQ only to be asked
to QRS to 10-13. Still, would have been nice if they had told you
that rather than just terminating.

>
>You know, I *swore* that I wouldn't like CW, that it was anachronistic
>and technically obsolete.  All that notwithstanding, I think it's going
>to be a helluva lot of fun!  I have a borrowed QRP rig, an antenna, and a
>desire to communicate--all advice is appreciated...
>

Congrats! The same thing happened to me - dappled in CW
to start since it was all I had available. Lost all interest
in voice/digital pretty quick. :) Never had so much fun
before. Working across North America on 5 watts and a low
inverted-vee is great! Still want that beam though... :)

QRP is alot of fun, but it does take some thought towards
strategy. A good one (for starting out) is to answer the
calls of the loudest signals on the band. Calling CQ isn't
the best strategy to start but don't be afraid to do it,
particularly if the band is good.

Which leads to the key point - know your propagation
conditions. Monitor WWV (5000, 10000, 15000 KHz) to
check the bands. 14100 has a network of beacons, I believe.
Also, tune in around the QRP calling frequencies.

Try getting on the qrp mailing list. I believe you send
email to [e-mail] and put "subscribe qrp-l"
in the message body.

Feel free to email if you want more info.

>
>David F. Jenkins
>Decision and Information Sciences
>University of Houston
>KC5JRR
>

73 and good luck!

-Joe
[e-mail]

KD6PRD - "QRP means never having to tell the neighbors you're sorry."

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 13:32:11 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Scott F. Migaldi)
Subject: Hong Kong

In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>
> Can anyone recommend good ham equiment stores in HK?  I am interested
> in a new HT, scanner and other adult toys.
>
> Thanks for your direct replies.
>
> Earl, 4z4tj
> [e-mail]

First just about any electronics store in Causeway Bay or in Kowloon
will have ham Hts, sconners, and the like. There is also a good
electronics area called Sham Shui Po. I have been to HK to by
electronics and my friends have bought ham gear there. Go ahead and
bargin with the dealers and make sure you get what you want.
--
Scott F. Migaldi, KF5JQ   e-mail:[e-mail]
The opinions expressed are my own and my cat's. They are not my
employer's.
**"A long time ago being crazy meant something, nowadays everyone is
crazy" -- Charles Manson**

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 11:34:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Is this legal?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steven L Goldstein) writes:
>I live in New York State and my brother-in-law is presently living in
>Colombia, South America. He's not a ham but has a short wave radio. Would
>it be legal for me to make a one-way transmission intended for him to
>hear, or are amateur radio transmissions only legal if they're 2-way w/
>other hams?

One way broadcasts are prohibited except under certain restricted
conditions. Your proposed use doesn't fall into that category.
You *could* be in a two way contact with another amateur and
talk *about* things you'd like to tell your brother-in-law. If
he *happened* to be listening, he'd get the message. Now this
is called a strawman transaction under the law, but it's unlikely
the FCC would prosecute.

Gary
--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | [e-mail]
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 11:02:54 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Kindness and ham radio

In article <383ppl$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>In article [e-mail],  [e-mail] (Gary Coffman) writes:
>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>>
>>>A special LID of the year award to Monique, F1***   Monique, if you're
>>>reading this, did it occur to you to actually listen on the input for
>>>all those rare DX stations that you thought you were working?
>>
>>Excuse me, but operating simplex on a repeater input is very bad
>>form indeed. Our FCC would consider it malicous interference if
>>it were done deliberately.
>
>Well, Gary, I frequently *listen* on input, as Mike mentions, to see
>if I am in simplex range of a station I'm talking to via a repeater.
>If we are in simplex range, then I'll, using the repeater, agree on a
>frequency and move.  Nothing malicious about that.

Sure, nothing wrong with that, but it seemed Mike was complaining
that the repeater users were preventing him from DXing. That sounds
like he intended to use the repeater frequency for simplex communications.

Gary

--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | [e-mail]
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 13:35:57 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Scott F. Migaldi)
Subject: laser replies

> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Marsh) writes:
>
> >My observations have been that the traffic-light controllers are
> >watching for the strobe lights on emergency vehicles, rather than
> >lasers.  Plectron (spelling?) is one brand of equipment that puts
> >a rather fast-pulsing (5-10/sec?) strobe light on fire trucks and
> >other emergency vehicles, aimed forward.  A complementary
> >receiver lens on selected traffic light standards sees the
> >flashing, and sets the traffic signals appropriately.
>
> >> [Can you] turn all of the traffic lights green like emergency
> >> vehicles do?"
>
There is no rule as to what color the lights turn. Some communities
have set it up so that the lights in all direction turn red. This stops
all traffic and the emergancy vehicles can drive on through without to
much fear of an idiot thinking he can beat the lights.
--
Scott F. Migaldi, KF5JQ   e-mail:[e-mail]
The opinions expressed are my own and my cat's. They are not my
employer's.
**"A long time ago being crazy meant something, nowadays everyone is
crazy" -- Charles Manson**

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 15:54:53 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ryan C. Welty)
Subject: Logging systems???

Todd Little ([e-mail]) wrote:


: I use Logic for Windows.  It automatically controls and logs information
: from my FT-767 (and I'm fairly certain it handles the entire Yaesu line,
: to the extent available by each rig.)  It provides:

Is there any similar software availible for a Kenwood ts-450?
ryan
============================================================================
| Ryan Welty               H: 821.7458 W: 844.4059 | It is a wonderful,    |
| Chief Engineer      kr4oq@bbs.k4ry.#cenal.al.usa | powerful place...     |
| WEGL FM91.1              [e-mail] | where there is faith. |
============================================================================

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 17:29:54 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jim Reisert)
Subject: Need info from foreing callbook

In article <37vosa$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John Keith) writes:

> John Keith ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : Could some one with a current foreign callbook please confirm the following:
>
> :     ZS3KC    C.B. "Jack" Anderson Box 1232 Swakopmund 9180 Namibia
>
> I think his call is now V51KC.

Good luck - I have never received a QSL card from this guy.

Also note that IRCs are NG in South Africa/Namibia, so send CA$H.

73 - Jim AD1C

--
Jim Reisert AD1C                Internet:  [e-mail]
Digital Equipment Corp.         UUCP:      ...decwrl!eng.pko.dec.com!reisert
146 Main Street    - MLO5-2/M16    Voice:     508-493-5747
Maynard, MA  01754        FAX:       [phone]

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 08:55:27 -0400
From: Jim Geist KO4ER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Power company QRN!!

[e-mail] (Kirk Baxter) writes:

>I've been facing S9+ power line noise for months, and about a month ago,
>the crew which tracks down noise did identify the problem hardware.
>However, my problem is now that the company just simply can't seem to get
>anyone out to fix the problem.

>What can be done?  Has anyone else had (and solved) a similar problem.
>Please, no comments about calling the FCC, since they certainly would be


Good luck. I had some fierce QRM (nor QRN... N=natural, M=manmade)
a few months ago. I called the power company and made a point of NOT
mentioning the fact I was a ham. I told them it was interfering with
the TV (oh my GOD!!) and the AM bdcst band. The investigator was out
3 days later, and a week after that a crew came out and replaced
the lightning arrestor on the pole. They even gave me the bad arrestor.
At that time I told them I was a ham and described how bad the QRM
was on the amateur bands.


Three weeks later the problem resurfaced. I have called a few times
to complain but have not been given the time of day. I believe they
put amateur band QRM complaints on very low priority.

If you're getting interference on your tv set, you're in luck. Play
that up when you complain and don't mention you're an amateur radio
op!

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 13:38:20 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ben E. Cline)
Subject: Power company QRN!!

In article <[e-mail]>  writes:
    [snip]
>
> Our local power company (Kansas City Power & Light) has a very noisey
> power system.  For hams and SWLers, it's terrible trying to hear much of
> anything in certain parts of town (and I live in an area with mostly
> underground lines).
>
> I've been facing S9+ power line noise for months, and about a month ago,
> the crew which tracks down noise did identify the problem hardware.
> However, my problem is now that the company just simply can't seem to
get
> anyone out to fix the problem.
>
> What can be done?  Has anyone else had (and solved) a similar problem.
> Please, no comments about calling the FCC, since they certainly would be
> of no help.  Short of taking a chain saw and cutting down a few poles,
> what can be done?

When a friend of mine couldn't get help from the power company, he
wrote a letter to the FCC outlining the problem and copied the CEO
of the power company.  I assume the FCC was too busy to act on the
letter, but someone at the main office of the power company
saw the copy of the letter and the power company fixed the problem.
This was a large, regional power company, but a similar technique
might work for a city power company.

73, Benjy

--
Benjy Cline, AC4XO
Virginia Tech Computing Center
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 14:08:11 UTC
From: [e-mail] (WD40)
Subject: Richard Clark N6UZS

This message is reguarding my everlasting desire for N6UZS, Richard Clark's
anus.  We have many regular encounters.  Since I have popped up,
numberous others have popped up, such as WD4A, WD5000 & WD500 to name a few.
This is to let you know, thanks to richard clark, homosexulality is alive
& well in ham radio... on the 147.435 repeater in Los angeles, CA.

   I urge all gay hams to contact richard clark if you are seeking anal
pleasures....  Like me, enroute to 501 west brentwood in orange, ca at
this time.

  Those that dont know about the 147.435 repeater:  It is mostly
non-homosexual, except when richard clark & is wd40 buddies are out.
The rest of the time it is jammed by KD6KEK in marina del rey, ca
(frank richard).  Other jammers who are closer to the machine, so they
can do more damage, but who arent on the radio all day (usually) are
KC6PQW ted sorensen the tird and this PUU guy.  Thank god jeffery
bregal KD6NBD is in jail (we hope).  The 435 repeater in LA, CA certainly
seems to attract the worst in ham radio.


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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 11:37:00 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Touch Tone Paging (DTSS)

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John O. Feher) writes:
>Hello Everyone!
>
>'s wonderin' whether touch tone paging should/shouldn't work via a repeater.
>When I try it simplex, I page the other HT and it opens up its squelch,
>no problem whatsoever. Same thing doesn't work when going through a
>repeater. Would it not work cause the repeater shifts the touch tone
>frequencies and they are therefore not recognized by the receiver
>expecting the codes. I did indeed wait till the repeater kicked in to
>release the three codes, even done it manually ... without success.
>
>Whatsgoinon?!

Most repeater controllers mask inputed Touchtones (tm). This is to
provide a bit of security for control functions of the repeater that
may be entered on the input frequency. That makes TT signaling schemes
via repeater fail.

Gary

--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | [e-mail]
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 11:21:16 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)

References<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Re: WTB: Radar gun...

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>LASER DOPPLER RADAR DOES EXIST! HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR LOCAL TV STATION GETS
>THOSE NICE WEATHER RADAR MAPS? SOME ARE MICROWAVE BUT SOME ARE LASER DOPPLER!
>ALSO THE FAA IS LOOKING INTO BUILDING A WINDSHERE DETECTION DEVICE, it uses
>guess what ...... LASER DOPPLER RADAR. Raytheon may be awarded this project.

Laser doppler radar *does* exist, and is being used by a few US police
departments. (I've handled one of the units used by the Georgia State
Patrol.) This is totally different from the old VASCAR time and
distance equipment. However, local TV doppler weather radar is *not*
laser, it's Ka band equipment manufactured by Harris. (I service this
stuff.) The FAA windshear measuring radar is also *not* laser. It's
UHF RF at 449.0 MHz (right in the amateur 70 cm band's repeater input
segment, not pretty).

The laser speed measuring doppler radar unit I handled has a TV
camera sensitive to the IR frequency used by the laser unit as
an aiming device. You can clearly see the spot reflected off the
car in the viewfinder. The unit is setup so the officer can videotape
the bust. The speed reads out in characters keyed into the video
picture. If you try to stealth the car, it's obvious in the camera
viewfinder, and all the officer has to do is move the point of aim
slightly, to a piece of chrome, the windshield, a headlight, a parking
light reflector, etc until he sees the spot reflection, then he's got
you.

The only way I can see to beat this system is an active IR jammer.
It'd have to be really powerful too because even a functioning
headlight, which pumps out lots of IR, won't blind the system.

Gary

--
Gary Coffman KE4ZV          |    You make it,     | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | [e-mail]
Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     |

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Date: 20 Oct 1994 09:40:18 -0500
From: [e-mail] (David Horak)

References<[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>, <383ueh$[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Earth Ground (was: ARRL And Gay Hams Settle Complaint)

In <383ueh$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael A. Atkinson) writes:

>Jeffrey Herman <[e-mail]> wrote:

>>Now, Dave said that he hoped hams would be more tolerant than the
>>rest of society concerning the activites of gays. But why should
>>society have to change their innate  feelings to suit a mere 2% who
>>choose to participate in these nauseating acts? Maybe that 2% should
>>be more tolerant of our feelings.

>Let me phrase that slightly differently.  You have the right to be
>disgusted by whatever you want to be disgusted by.  That does *not* mean
>that anybody, anywhere, should be discriminated against, beaten, hounded,
>harrassed or killed because of what they do behind closed doors with other
>consenting adults.

I haven't beated, hounded or harrassed anyone.  I just don't see the
need to make such a big deal about *forcing* normal people to accept
your behavior and give you special privileges for something you choose
to do with your sex life.  I don't see hetero monagamous men coming out
of the closet proclaiming, "I take my SO up the old dirt road once in a
while and I'm proud of it!  You better accept that and give me what I
want or else!"

>By the way, while I don't have definitive numbers, I hear that about 10% of
>the US population is not-heterosexual.

I heart the other day that it is a little over 2% for men and a little
less than 2% for women.  No way is it 10%.

David

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