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- Info-Hams Digest Tue, 1 Nov 94 Volume 94 : Issue 1177
-
- Today's Topics:
- 4U9U - where is he located?
- AM AIRBAND INFO
- ARRL Letter, October 26, 1994
- DX Palindrome (was CW Palindrome Game!)
- Info on hallicrafters S27
- MOBILE ANT HELP
- NoCal OO goes after Packet BULLetins (2 msgs)
- No code Techs and CW...
- No License to Extra Leap? (2 msgs)
- Questions on this and that
- Tulsa OK - Hams Stores/Nets?
- Yaesu FT-5200 Crossband Operation ?
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 20:40:46 GMT
- From: dearnshaw@worldbank.org
- Subject: 4U9U - where is he located?
-
- In article <390rft$or2@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>, <eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov>
- writes:
- > Path: worldbank.org!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!eos1.larc.nasa.gov!eckman
- > From: eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov (Richard Eckman)
- > Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
- > Subject: 4U9U - where is he located?
- > Date: 30 Oct 1994 19:17:17 GMT
- > Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
- > Lines: 9
- > Message-ID: <390rft$or2@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
- > NNTP-Posting-Host: eos1.larc.nasa.gov
- >
- > I head a station operating in the contest today signing
- > 4U9U in CQ zone 36, which would place him in southern
- > Africa. Despite sticking around for awhile, he never gave
- > his country. I assume that this is a UN employee, but
- > does anyone know where he was operating from?
- >
- > Richard Eckman KO4MR
- > NASA Langley
- > eckman@eos1.larc.nasa.gov
- Rich,
-
- He was located in Burundi (9U). I believe it was Paul, F6EXV, so may well end
- up counting for something!
-
- -- Darrell.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 31 Oct 1994 14:33:09 -0500
- From: dtiller@gnd0.rmc.edu (David Tiller)
- Subject: AM AIRBAND INFO
-
- VEKINIS Peter (pve@dg13.cec.BE) wrote:
-
- : A friend of mine who works in search and rescue is looking for an HT that
- : can handle AM airband xmit plus FM xmit. It turns out that Search and Rescue
- : personnel wear equipment on them and they cant be asked to have even more
- : equipment in their suits.
- : Does anyone know of a rig that can handfle AM transmit and FM, in otherwords
- : offer 118-136MHz AM plus the FM band. He needs AM to talk to the Chopper S&R
- : personnel and FM to talk to Police etc. An amateur radio HT that is
- : modifiable would do nicely.
- : Thanks,
- : Peter, KC1QF
- : pve@dg13.cec.be
-
- There is one, I've seen it listed in flying mags like AOPA. I think it's
- made by airking or ICOM.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 10:54:00 EST
- From: "Palm, Rick, K1CE" <rpalm@arrl.org>
- Subject: ARRL Letter, October 26, 1994
-
- The ARRL Letter
- Vol. 13, No. 20
- October 26, 1994
- Faster licensing:
- FCC sets date for electronic filing
- On October 24 the FCC released a 7-page Order amending its amateur
- rules, effective December 20, 1994, to reflect what the Commission calls
- "nonsubstantive procedural changes":
- * To permit electronically filed data from VECs (paper applications
- also will still be accepted);
- * To authorize operation as soon as the new license data appears in
- the amateur service licensee data base, rather than (as now) when the
- license document has been delivered (details of how the new licensee can
- determine his call sign will be announced later);
- * To add a new rules section, "Examinee Conduct," to emphasize that an
- examinee must comply with the instructions given by the administering VEs;
- * To treat "Technician Plus" as a license class;
- * And to provide for a "renewal short form," which the FCC says will be
- mailed to licensees in advance of their expiration date beginning sometime
- in 1995. The FCC added that renewal applications would be accepted no more
- than 90 days before the expiration date.
- Because of the nature of these rule amendments, there is no notice or
- comment period required by federal law. Again, these changes do not take
- effect until December 20, 1994.
- FCC seeks changes in two UHF bands
- The FCC on October 20 adopted a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to
- convert a block of spectrum from federal government to commercial use,
- including two UHF bands shared by Amateur Radio on a secondary basis with
- the government.
- The proposal, in ET Docket 94-32, would allocate 2390 to 2400, 2402 to
- 2417 (both shared by amateurs), and 4660 to 4685 MHz to the Fixed and Mobile
- Services. The FCC is required by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
- 1993 to adopt rules for such a reallocation by February 10, 1995.
- The proposal calls for licensing to be accomplished through competitive
- bidding. In a news release, the Commission said it is requesting comment on
- alternative approaches, including "continued use of some of this spectrum by
- the amateur community."
- The FCC said it received a number of responses to its Notice of Inquiry
- on the proposed reallocations, including formal comments from "the amateur
- community" (primarily the ARRL). More information was in October QST, p 83.
- In another proceeding, ET Docket 94-124, the FCC is proposing to open a
- number of bands above 40 GHz to commercial use. The only one that
- potentially affects amateurs is 76.0 to 77.0 GHz, which is adjacent to our
- primary allocation at 75.5 to 76.0 GHz and is part of the 76.0 to 81.0 GHz
- band that amateurs share on a secondary basis.
- FLOODS BRING OUT
- TEXAS VOLUNTEERS
- The FCC on October 19 declared a "Voluntary Communications Emergency"
- as Texas amateurs provided service during flooding in the southeastern
- portion of the state and particularly in the Houston area. That morning,
- North Texas Section Emergency Coordinator Joe Brown, K5UPN, reported that
- several statewide and emergency nets were in around-the-clock operation.
- Some of these nets, like the Texas RACES Net and the Central Gulf Coast
- Hurricane Net, were handling emergency and priority traffic only. The other
- nets were handling information requests and health and welfare traffic.
- As a result of the net activity, the FCC's Houston office issued a
- statement saying "All Amateurs are requested to cooperate by recognizing the
- existence of a voluntary communications emergency and therefore
- relinquishing the use of frequencies between 3967 and 3973 and between 3972
- and 3978 kHz and between 7245 and 7251 kHz for the handling of emergency
- traffic."
- On Thursday, October 20, ARRL South Texas Section Manager Alan Cross,
- WA5UZB, reported by telephone that ARES teams were heavily involved in
- emergency communications. At the time, he didn't notice any ARES personnel
- shortages. Radio amateurs were active at Houston-area Red Cross shelters,
- assisting fire departments and sheriff departments, according to plans
- already in place. Many radio amateurs were also staffing emergency
- operation centers.
- Cross also mentioned the burning gas pipelines at the San Jacinto
- River. He was concerned that in due time, the ARES operators would need
- reinforcements. The North Texas Section had already contributed ARES
- personnel to help.
- By late Thursday, emergency nets were back to their normal operating
- schedules. Joe, K5UPN, reported a large number of health and welfare
- messages and related traffic being handled. On Friday, Brown reported the
- same kind of activity on the local and section nets. -- Steve Ewald, WV1X.
- NEWSMAN BILL LEONARD,
- W2SKE, IS DEAD AT AGE 78
- Bill Leonard, W2SKE, a former president of CBS News, died October 23 in
- Laurel, Maryland. He was 78.
- Leonard, an avid DXer and contest operator in the 1960s and 1970s, was
- an advocate for Amateur Radio, writing, for example, an article for Sports
- Illustrated in 1958 entitled "The Battle of the Hams." It described the
- "sport of DXing" and Leonard's role in it from the contest super station of
- Buzz Reeves, K2GL, in New Jersey.
- Leonard said in 1981 that he was interested in radio as a child in the
- 1920s, and received his first amateur license, W1JHV, while a student at
- Dartmouth College in 1934.
- After graduating in 1937, Leonard went to work as a reporter for the
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, Post-Telegram. After serving in the US Navy from
- 1941 to 1945, where he was involved with electronic countermeasures against
- German radio-controlled bombs, he joined CBS News in 1945.
- As CBS president, Leonard was credited with the selection of Dan Rather
- as CBS Evening News anchor, as a member of the team that developed the "60
- Minutes" newsmagazine, and of helping develop techniques to predict election
- outcomes.
- Asked in 1981 about the future of Amateur Radio, W2SKE said "I have a
- hunch that Amateur Radio is going to get more and more tangled up with
- amateur computer technology." He also said "My bet is that ham radio, in
- one form or another, will be around 100 years from now."
- A profile of W2SKE appeared in March, 1981, QST. Bill Leonard leaves
- his wife, the former Norma Kaphan Wallace, and six sons.
- FCC ESTABLISHES NEW
- INTERNATIONAL BUREAU
- The FCC has created an International Bureau to handle international
- telecommunication and satellite programs and policies and to represent the
- Commission at international conferences and negotiations. The bureau will
- have three divisions: Telecommunications; Satellite and Radiocommunication;
- and Planning and Negotiations.
- This new bureau is a major part of the FCC's overall reorganization
- announced last summer.
- COMICS FUNDING SOUGHT
- All kids like comics. Every year ARRL HQ provides some 50,000 copies of
- an Archie ham radio comic to amateurs, who then give them to interested
- youngsters as part of the League's effort to tell them about Amateur Radio.
- Print runs of 100,000 (the minimum) cost about $19,000. The comics come with
- a reply card for more information and a list of companies and clubs that
- have contributed to the comics program.
- So please help, by asking your club to consider giving $50, $100, $250
- or what your members can afford -- or ask your club newsletter editor to run
- this article in the next issue. Contact the ARRL Educational Activities
- Department for details. And thanks.
- BRIEFS
- * W1AW has reoriented its beams for 10, 15, and 20 meters to provide
- better coverage of the southeastern states. The 120-foot tower now has upper
- antennas on those bands pointed west and lower beams, fed in phase, pointed
- south. The work was done by
- station manager WA1MBK and operator WB9RRU.
- * Last summer, London's Science Museum announced that its Amateur Radio
- exhibit station, GB2SM, would be closed down because its time had passed.
- The Radio Society of Great Britain went to work, and now says that the
- museum has agreed to discuss "providing an innovative, state-of-the-art,
- hands-on exhibit to replace the existing station." In the interim (GB2SM
- will close November 7) the RSGB hopes to find a way to at least keep the
- famous call sign on the air.
- * The latest HQ staff member to get an amateur ticket is Media
- Relations Assistant Jennifer Hagy, sporting N1TDY.
- And November QST's "Behind the Diamond" victim Bill Moore, NC1L, has
- been promoted to DXCC supervisor.
- Speaking of November QST, did it seem fat to you? At 272 pages it was a
- record!
- * German Astronaut Ulf Merbold, DP3MIR, has been active from the
- Russian space station Mir, but a power supply problem prevents him from
- using his digital voice memory and reduces his activity to only a few
- passes a day over Europe. DF5DP, the Deutscher ARC Coordinator of Satellites
- and Space Projects, said they do not have details about the problem because
- questions and answers about DP3MIR are relayed via the Moscow control
- center, a process that "turned out to be very complicated."
- DP3MIR will stay aboard Mir until about November 3.
- * The United Kingdom has lowered the minimum age for its full amateur
- license. Previously 14, the age has been lowered to 10 years, provided that
- the applicant has held a Novice license Class A or B for a full year and
- then passes the exam for either a full Class A or Class B ticket.
- * The Dayton Amateur Radio Association is once again accepting
- applications for its scholarship program, open to all FCC-licensed amateurs
- who will graduate high school in 1995. The DARA offers eight scholarships of
- $2000 each. For more information and application forms write to DARA
- Scholarship Committee, 45 Cinnamon Court, Springboro OH 45066.
- * As noted last issue, the "Big Dish" Earth-Moon-Earth operation from
- VE3ONT on the first weekend of the ARRL EME Contest October 29 and 30 was
- canceled. Now, however, in addition to likely having the dish available for
- the second weekend of the Test, November 26 and 27, the operators may be
- able to use it on November 24 and 25 as well. If so, they plan to operate on
- 50, 432, and 1296 MHz on those days (and on 144 MHz during the contest). All
- this was still tentative as we went to press.
- 10 years ago in The ARRL Letter
- A letter from the FCC's Private Radio Bureau Chief Robert Foosaner
- clarified what was permissible during Amateur Radio support of the New York
- City Marathon. The prohibition against "business communications" became more
- of a concern because the marathon was, in 1984, awarding prize money for the
- first time. Foosaner said that of the three specific services amateurs
- planned to provide at the event -- a medical network, crowd-control
- logistics, and lead runner position -- only the latter was questionable,
- because news services could use the amateurs' communications to provide them
- with information. Foosaner recommended that lead runner information be
- passed on commercial frequencies.
- The matter of "business communications" continued to be a thorny one
- for amateurs until the summer of 1993, when the FCC acted to ease
- prohibitions on "business communications." The FCC in 1993 also agreed with
- the League that proposals from commercial broadcast interests to allow
- Amateur Radio to be used in dissemination of information was not desirable.
- In 1983 the FCC had changed the way hams' transmitter power was to be
- measured, from dc input to PEP output; AM operators in 1984 began lobbying
- for special consideration, since the change in the rules actually reduced
- the amount of power they were legally allowed to run. The matter was not
- finally settled until the early 1990s.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Nov 94 14:59:04 GMT
- From: Wayne_Estes@csg.mot.COM (Wayne_Estes)
- Subject: DX Palindrome (was CW Palindrome Game!)
-
- > Name a DXCC country where the term used to refer
- > to the inhabitants is a palindrome.
-
- I heard that one on the National Public Radio word game last weekend.
-
- *** Nauruan (residents of Nauru) ****
-
- Wayne Estes WD5FFH wayne@csg.mot.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 31 Oct 1994 16:50:37 -0600
- From: dave@flowserver.stem.com (David Adams)
- Subject: Info on hallicrafters S27
-
- Greetings! Just picked up a hallicrafters s27 (freebie...bad shape).
- Was wondering if anyone would like to tell me anything about this
- rig... have some manuals coming, but would like to hear from anyone
- who knows anything about it....
-
- 73 de dave,n9uxu
-
- Actually, it's great to look at...nice case, dials, etc...but I would
- guess the tubes and transformers are all shot!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 18:58:48 GMT
- From: ehare@arrl.org (Ed Hare (KA1CV))
- Subject: MOBILE ANT HELP
-
- Carl S Short (shortcs@mail.auburn.edu) wrote:
- : Hello all, Can anyone suggest to me the best way to route an antenna
- : cable for a mobile vhf ant through a c. 1985 Buick Rivera? Thanks in
- : advance.
-
- : 73 de Sim, KB5JAW
-
- Here are the GM bulletin numbers for the GM installation guidelines:
-
- Buick 93-9-1
- Chevrolet 93-24-9A
- Oldsmobile 93-I-07
- Pontiac 93-9-1
- North American Truck 93-9-23
- Canada 93-8A-104
-
- Saturn allegedly has a video on mobile installation, but none of the dealers
- seem to know about it. I have a call into one of my low friends in high
- places. :-)
-
- If anyone would like a copy of the GM installation guidelines, send a 9X12"
- SASE with two units of postage *and* a specific request for the "GM
- Installation Guidelines" to the ARRL Technical Department Secretary, 225
- Main St, Newington, CT 06111. A copy has been reprinted in the ARRL book --
- Radio Frequency Interference -- How to Find It and Fix It.
-
- 73 from ARRL HQ, Ed
-
- --
- Ed Hare, KA1CV, ARRL Laboratory, 225 Main, Newington, CT 06111
- 203-666-1541 ehare@arrl.org
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Nov 1994 17:48:08 GMT
- From: hanko@wv.mentorg.com (Hank Oredson)
- Subject: NoCal OO goes after Packet BULLetins
-
- In article <1994Oct30.230409.12576@news.csuohio.edu>, sww@csuohio.edu (Steve Wolf) writes:
- |> Robert Casey (wa2ise@netcom.com) wrote:
- |> :
- |> : As Gary K____ (sorry, forgot your call) (the guy at a destructive test lab)
- |> : pointed out, the FCC considers all the packet posts as 3rd party traffic.
- |>
- |> Please do advise when and where the FCC made such a determination. Please
- |> post the text!
-
-
- Well Steve, you already have the text.
-
- It is called "part 97", and is the rules we operate under.
-
- Please read it, doing so will help you understand the discussions
- about 3rd party traffic that are going on here.
-
- ... Hank
-
-
- --
-
- Hank Oredson @ Mentor Graphics Library Operations
- Internet : hank_oredson@mentorg.com "Parts 'R Us!"
- Amateur Radio: W0RLI@W0RLI.OR.USA.NOAM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Nov 1994 17:42:24 GMT
- From: hanko@wv.mentorg.com (Hank Oredson)
- Subject: NoCal OO goes after Packet BULLetins
-
- In article <1994Oct28.035950.1419@news.csuohio.edu>, sww@csuohio.edu (Steve Wolf) writes:
- |> Todd Little (little@iamu.chi.dec.com) wrote:
- |> :
- |> : In article <CyCEKB.7Hq@wang.com>, dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
- |> :
- |> : |>Again, this discussion is not about speech content, but one-way
- |> : |>communications.
- |> :
- |> : Good, I'm glad you see our point then. The communication is two-way. I
- |> : send a packet to the PBBS and it sends me an acknowledgement. What is
- |> : one-way about that? The content may be construed as one-way, but the
- |> : communication is definitely two-way. That is unless you set up your
- |> : beacon text to be a 10 line cookie recipe. ;-)
- |> :
- |>
- |> The acks for the ax.25 protocol are little more than the op at W1AW looking
- |> at the power meter and seeing that watts are going into the antenna. The
- |> acks mean the data is reaching the other BBS. We don't know where the bits
- |> go from there. All we have in the ax.25 is a remote wattmeter.
-
- So what you are saying is that when I call 7P1AAA on CW, hoping to work
- a new country, all I have to do is watch my wattmeter and verify that
- I responded to his CQ, and I have a valid QSO?
-
- What point are you attempting to make?
-
- The ACK does not come from W1AW, it comes from the station W1AW
- is in QSO with, includes W1AW's callsign plus the callsign of the
- station W1AW is in QSO with. The ACK contains TWO callsigns.
-
- "Earth to Steve ... please engage brain ..."
-
- ... Hank
-
- --
-
- Hank Oredson @ Mentor Graphics Library Operations
- Internet : hank_oredson@mentorg.com "Parts 'R Us!"
- Amateur Radio: W0RLI@W0RLI.OR.USA.NOAM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Nov 94 13:41:14 GMT
- From: William=E.=Newkirk%Pubs%GenAv.Mlb@ns14.cca.rockwell.COM
- Subject: No code Techs and CW...
-
- >The largest class of ticket holders in Ham radio are
- >technicians, and I would sure like to see everyone who wants an
- >upgrade to get one, but when someone comes into a testing
- >session and has been studying CW for 2 weeks, and wants to pass
- >the 13wpm, I get kinda riled up.
- >Wcoyle@delphi.com N3OGH
-
- (in another message, n3ogh says he's been a ham for around 3 years now..)
-
- <sigh>...newbies. why would you ever get riled up over that? some people
- don't have a problem learning code - comes naturally to them - others have to
- struggle.
-
- So the candidate has been studying only for 2 weeks. did he pass or not?
-
- Anyone that can pass the tests deserves the welcome of their fellow hams.
-
- what about those guys that come in and go from nothing to extra in one hop
- (we've had several over the years here...some were hams once and let their
- license expire, others were/are professional CW operators (military intercept,
- shipboard radio op, etc.)).
-
- there are guys out there that design radio equipment for a living and aren't
- even hams! yes, they might even eschew a license because they don't want to
- be associated with "amateurs"....
-
- bill wb9ivr.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:35:46 GMT
- From: klg5646@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Gerling )
- Subject: No License to Extra Leap?
-
- In article <CyJoDL.8sz@nntpa.cb.att.com> dara@physics.att.com (Shel Darack) writes:
- >
- >Sure, some guy walked in and did the 20 wpm cw and theory exams
- >through Advanced. It was getting late so they told him he would
- >have to come back next time for the extra theory. Which he did.
- >I was a VE at the session when he passed the theory.
- >Shel
- >
-
- Maybe the VE's just wanted him to come back so they could get another
- $5 or $6 for another testing session.
-
- -Freff
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:22:58 GMT
- From: tja@netcom.com (T.J. Alessi)
- Subject: No License to Extra Leap?
-
- Arthur Chandler (arthurc@crl.com) wrote:
- : Has there ever been anyone who walked into a licensing examination with
- : no license at all, passed everything, and walked out amateur extra? If
- : not, what's the biggest leap anyone has heard of? I took someone to an
- : exam site, and he went from Tech + to Advanced in one leap -- passed the
- : 13 wpm, general, advanced, and even the extra exam. Couldn't quite handle
- : the 20 wpm, however.
-
- Yes. I an a VE in our area and we had a guy in his 20's who had moved to
- the USA the previous year.
-
- Walked in, passed 20WPM took all exams Novice to Extra and nearly aced all
- of them. We were amazed.
-
- --
- --------------------------[ T.J. Alessi - WB1L ]-----------------------------
- T.J. Alessi & Associates * PO Box 16781 * Stamford, CT 06905 * 1.203.969.1880
- Internet:TJA@Netcom.Com or via WWW URL=ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/tja/home.html
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:50:07 GMT
- From: bigdon@eskimo.com (Don Anderson)
- Subject: Questions on this and that
-
- <38nks8$8io@abyss.West.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
-
-
- RE: "Shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits"
- -
- There is another good one on CW, rarely heard now days.
- It originated on the "Chicken-Fat" CW net which I don't believe meets
- regularly but some of the survivors are still active (emphasis on the
- chicken).
- -
- This one goes: dit dit dit di-daahhhhhh
- -
- It is supposed to be analogous to a chicken
- going: buck buck buck ba-baaawwwwkkk
- -
- It was the farewell transmission for those checking out of the net. To
- do it right you need a straight key to get the correct duration on the
- last "element." The real pro's, with well developed dexterity and
- coordination, could even wiggle the VFO slightly on the daahhhhh for
- proper effect.
- -
- Illegal as hell, of course.
- -
- Don N7EF
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 14:42:20 GMT
- From: casey@mksol.dseg.ti.com (casey j romanski)
- Subject: Tulsa OK - Hams Stores/Nets?
-
- Can someone help me find ham retail stores in the Tulsa area
- and 2 meter swap nets?
-
- Thanks!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:08:21 GMT
- From: goldfarb@falcon.rd.ray.com (Marc E. Goldfarb )
- Subject: Yaesu FT-5200 Crossband Operation ?
-
- I recently purchased a Yaesu FT-5200 2m/70cm mobile transceiver
- and was told at the time of purchase that it permitted cross-
- band repeat. I can't seem to locate this function in the
- manual. Is there a modification required to do this?
-
- Also, The "P" key on the microphone is unused according to the
- manual. Is there a way to program this key. It would be very useful
- to toggle bands using this key to answer a call on 440 when the 2m
- VFO is active, and vice-versa.
-
- Any replies, by e-mail, would be greatly appreciated.
-
- 73,
- Marc WB2ELF >>
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Marc E. Goldfarb, PE e-mail: goldfarb@tomcat.rd.ray.com
- Raytheon Co., Adv. Device Center address: 358 Lowell St., Andover, MA 01810
- phone: 508-470-9955 fax: 508-470-9058
-
- DISCLAIMER: Any opinions expressed in the foregoing message are solely the
- author's, and do not represent the position of the Raytheon Company.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- --
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Marc E. Goldfarb, PE e-mail: goldfarb@tomcat.rd.ray.com
- Raytheon Co., Adv. Device Center address: 358 Lowell St., Andover, MA 01810
- phone: 508-470-9955 fax: 508-470-9058
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:10:53 GMT
- From: zlau@arrl.org (Zack Lau (KH6CP))
-
- References<1994Oct31.021040.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> <n7ryw.32.00171C3C@teleport.com>, <1994Oct31.195548.844@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>
- Subject: Re: Contacting the MIR. Help!
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- Gary Coffman KE4ZV (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote:
- : In article <n7ryw.32.00171C3C@teleport.com> n7ryw@teleport.com (William Roth) writes:
- : >In article <1994Oct31.021040.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> asirene@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
- : >> Can anyone tell me the minimum requirement to work the MIR.
- ^^^^^^^
- : Unfortunately, this is bad advice. An analysis of all possible passes
- : for a LEO sat shows that it will spend the majority of the time you
- : are in it's footprint at an angle of less than 30 degrees above the
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- Gary's inappropriate and lengthy analysis deleted.
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- Gary's analysis makes sense if you are interested maximizing the
- time you can work MIR, as opposed to just working them once.
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- Advantages of the MIR overhead:
- Minimum path loss--shortest distance, fewer obstructions
- Good possibility of low background noise
- If you are in Hawaii or someplace similar
- the competition is out of range.
- Minimal doppler
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- Zack Lau KH6CP/1 2 way QRP WAS
- 8 States on 10 GHz
- Internet: zlau@arrl.org 10 grids on 2304 MHz
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