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From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
Subject: Re: Stupid questions
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:41:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.003713.10172@netcom.com> crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp) writes:
>In article <85828@ut-emx.uucp> mouli@ut-emx.uucp (Chandramouli. V) writes:
>>
>>I found this in our ONLINE encyclopedia.  Apparently the origin of
>>'HAM' is still unclear.
>>
>>
>>  HAM RADIO
>>  in
>>  Academic American Encyclopedia (database on UTCAT PLUS system).
>>  Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publishing, October, 1992 update.
>
>>
>>The leading organization of amateurs in the United States and
>>Canada, the American Radio Relay League based in Newington,
>>Conn., was founded in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>He also was the son of the man that invented the firearm silencer.

Slight correction: HP Maxim of the ARRL was the man that invented the 
firearm silencer. It was his father that invented the Maxim Machine Gun.
I guess he was tired of the noise from his father's invention, and decided
to quiet down the barnyard a tad:-)


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 08:46:50 EST
Reply-To:     "Alfredo E. Cotroneo" <100020.1013@COMPUSERVE.COM>
From:         "Alfredo E. Cotroneo" <100020.1013@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject:      IRRS-Shortwave 02-09 UTC

Effective today December 27, 1992, IRRS-Shortwave will be on the air on a
series of additional test transmissions for on 7,125 kHz, and exactly
between 02:00-09:00 UTC daily. Our daily schedule on the same frequency will
remain unchanged until further notice. Test transmissions between 02-09UTC
will continue until mid-January 93.

Between these times IRRS-Shortwave transmissions are being reported also
outside our main target area (Europe), and particularly in Africa, Far East,
Australia, NZ, and the Americas. Reception reports are welcomed at:
NEXUS-IBA, PO BOX 10980, I-20110 Milano, Italy, or via e-mail:
100020.1013@compuserve.com (Compuserve: 100020,1013).

NEXUS-IBA is a non profit association based in Milano, Italy, which operates
IRRS-Shortwave and IRRS-Globe Radio Milano on FM in Milano. On SW and FM
NEXUS-IBA broadcasts programmes originating from its members, including
United Nations Radio, UNESCO, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, and religious
broadcasters. For additional info you may also call NEXUS-IBA in Milano on:
+39-2-2666 6971 or +39-337-29 7788.



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From: tconboy@uswnvg.com (Terry A. Conboy)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: IRRS-Shortwave SCHE0193
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:14:33 GMT
Organization: U S WEST NewVector Group, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

The recent post of the use of 7125 kHz by IRRS indicates that N. America
is part of the target area for these broadcasts.  This frequency is
allocated to the amateur radio service in North America and should
not be a target area for broadcasts.

I'll admit that a 10 kW omni is only a minor issue, compared to the
normal gigawatt ERPs...

73, Terry N6RY

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From: Monty@vnet.ibm.com (Bryan Montgomery)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:28:27 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Re: Stupid questions
Reply-To: Monty@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Havant UK
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

>> is it similar to VOR (or is that ROV (record on voice)?)?
>
>Nope. I think VOR is "Vector Over Radio" for pilots

In the UK aviation world, VOR stands for VHF Omni-directional Radio
which means that information is sent out to enable the receiver to
determine its location relative to the receiver (plane).

>
>> What does HAM (as in HAM enthusiast) stand for?
>
>Legend has it that it is a slang from the Brits: "Allo! Didja 'ear
>that Colin got 'is 'amater ticket? Ya' 'e's an 'am now!" And from
>there came "ham" ar amateur radio.

Well, I never - you learn something every day!

>
>> What is "BFO to hear SSB voice and CW (code)"?
>
>Radio uses the heterodyne difference between a carrier frequency
>and another frequency to make the sound.  It takes two frequencies
>to make it work.  Both SSB and CW have only one frequency (CW only
>carrier, SSB only the second frequency)  In order to hear either,
>a second frequency needs to be inserted.  That's what the BFO does.

I don't think there is, but ... is there a simple way to add BFO? I have
a quite good multi-band receiver that works pretty well on random wire
for SWL but it is only AM/FM/WFM and I was wondering what difference BFO
would make - if available.For reference, the radio is a YUPITERU MVT-7000

Thanks. Have a good Christmas, Happy New Year to one and all.

                     From
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From: tmrdpsrs@engvms.unl.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: "Newsline" on 1860 kHz
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:52:46 CST
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: engvms.unl.edu

	I was tuning through the 160m ham band on Dec 28 at 0030 UTC and heard
a news program for amateurs called "Newsline".  The frequency was 1860 kHz AM.
It was kind of faint, but it had information about amateur frequency allocations
and other news of interest to the amateur community.  Does anybody know any more
about these broadcasts?  I heard the call sign WA0RCR (?) and I think this must
be the person producing the broadcast.

Thanks in advance,

RON SYNOWICKI
TMRDPSRS@ENGVMS.UNL.EDU

Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: computer as tone gen
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: rec
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:20:08 CST



> This note describes how you can use your computer as an accurate
> audio-tone sweep generator to tune musical instruments and check
> the frequency of a digital shortwave receiver.

One needs to be very careful about making this kind of claim.

Unless you have some pretty sophisticated hardware (which is in any
case not likely to be supported by your BASIC interpreter), your PC
doesn't have the capability to generate a frequency "sweep". What it
does is sequentially step through the frequencies supported by the
tone generator hardware, at a rate determined by your program.

The number of tones and their spacing is hardware dependent. On the
PCs and clones I have been around, the accuracy of the tones generated
by a SOUND command (or its equivalent in other BASIC dialects) is within
only a few Hz - good enough only to do a very rough job of zero-beating
the synthesizer in your receiver, and certainly not good enough for
musical purposes. (On other, more multi-media oriented machines such
as Amigas and Ataris, the tone generation hardware may have finer
resolution.)

Moreover, the only thing that you learn from zero-beating your receiver
against your PC is that they have different time standards. There is no
_a_priori_ method of knowing which is correct; in fact, your receiver is
probably right and your computer wrong, since for respectable receivers
frequency accuracy is specified and tested at the factory, and frequency
accuracy is not even a significant design goal for your average PC.

People who need frequency accuracy in their computer hardware buy time
standards which are specially engineered for the purpose.

Jeff Carroll
carroll@herndon.cray.com
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Panasonic RF-B45?
From: tdenbo@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Denbo)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:05:16 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I saw this radio at a local retailer for $200.  How does it compare with
the Sangean ATS-803A and the Sony ICF s?

Thanks
Tom Denbo

Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: norris@athena.mit.edu (Richard A Chonak)
Subject: what about WEWN?
Organization: me
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:26:31 GMT

They're on the air now, but going by the September schedule, they're
only on half the transmitters.

Does anyone have a more recent transmission schedule?

Thanks...
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: medha@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (keshav.havnurkar)
Subject: Sangean 803-A schematic
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:44:11 GMT

Hi
 My Sangean 803-a sw receiver seems to be malfunctioning.
After using for about 1 hour , the frequency suddenly starts
drifting ( as if in 'search' mode ). I plan to dig around the circuit
Can somebody help me with the schematic diagram /service manual
of this beast ?
(I am willing to pay the cost )

Thanks
keshav@mhcnet.att.com
From: ransoff@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: News in English of Latin America?
Date: 3 Jan 93 02:07:37 -0500
Summary: English news of Latin America?
Keywords: News English Latin America
Distribution: world
Organization: Georgetown University

Is there a good program in english
or french on shortwave, audiable in North America, which provides 
coverage of news in Latin America? I have friends in Colombia
and wouild appreciate more news of events in that country.

So far the best news I have found in English or French comes from
Spanish National Radio at 0000, 0100 or 0500 utc om 9.530. 
Although *Monitoring Times* reports Radio Nacional from Colombia with
ocassional English at 2330 on 11.822.5, I have never successfully 
located this station.

Any reccomendations for current Latin American news in English or 
French?

Thanks!

-------
Rick Ansoff
ransoff@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu

Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: medha@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (keshav.havnurkar)
Subject: VOA on MW
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: nj
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:55:21 GMT

Hi
Yesterday ( Sunday 20/12 ) I was tuning the AM dial on my clock-radio
at about 23:20. Near the dial setting of about 1000 KHz ( dial
accuracy highly suspect ) I heard VOA english broadcasting. The
reception was cristal clear. To identify the station frequency,
I tried to get it on my SONY walkman with digital tuning ( 10KHZ step )
But I could not get the station across complete AM band.
The announcer on VOA kept announcing "This is MONDAY morning"
even though it was only 23:30 EST. At about about 00:00 Hrs
the station went off the air for about 2 minutes and then back again
However the reception after midnight was not very good.

Any pointers to the station freq ?

Thanks
keshav@gouda.att.com
From: David Nafissian <dnafissian@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:18 PST
Subject: Hams:  Contacts in SOMALIA??
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1458200019:000:1757
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dnafissian    Dec 28 10:18:00 1992


 
TO:  Ham radio operators of the world
 
FR:  David Nafissian, Across Network Facilitator,
     The PLANET Project (sm)
     >> People Linking Across Networks <<
 
RE:  CONTACTS IN SOMALIA??
 
Allow me to introduce the PLANET project:
 
PLANET is a consortium of educational telecommunications networks
dedicated to exploring cross-network communication.
 
The AT&T Learning Network, Learning Link, Big Sky Telegraph, TENET
(Texas statewide educational network), the International Education and
Resource Network (I*EARN), and the FrEdMail (FRee EDucational
electronic MAIL) Network are creating an infrastructure across which
teachers and students may collaborate on each other's ** humanitarian,
multicultural, action-oriented telecommunications projects.**
 
We are currently running a project dedicated to the exchange of
information and support and assistance between the students of 
Somalia and the students of the rest of the world.
 
However, we are relying on news media for our information coming
out of Somalia, as we are having difficulty establishing an email
link in Somalia.  This one-way communication is insufficient for
our goals.
 
A fellow networker writes:
 
> [A] ham radio operator with a internet link can take an email message,
> put it into his PC, and have the PC tap out the morse code directly
> from the ascii file.  Similarly, incoming morse can be translated into
> an ascii file and then dumped on to internet.
 
Do any of you hams have 1) a ham contact in Somalia, and 2) an
internet address, and 3) the willingness to help potentially
thousands of students to broaden themselves, and be of service
to the world?
 
Please send replies to David Nafissian at dnafissian@igc.apc.org.
 
Thanks and Happy New Year.
 
--David
From: cd651@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wally L. Blume)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: WRTH
Date: 31 Dec 1992 16:03:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cd651@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wally L. Blume)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



   Has anyone recieved a copy of WRTH for 1993 yet? I put in an order 
at the bookstore well over a month ago, they said it's targeted release
date was middle Dec. I went by the store a couple of times to inquire 
and they always give the same story, something about it being on
back-order. Has it been released yet? Does it even exist? One of the last
few pages in my 1992 WRTH says the deadline for the 1993 WRTH was in
October of 1992. Is this a publisher thing or should I look for another 
bookstore? Has anyone who ordered from Grove gotten theirs yet?
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
From: mam28@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Realistic DX-370
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:03:13 GMT

In article <eZ31VB2w165w@bluemoon.use.com> johnw@bluemoon.use.com (John L. Wilkerson Jr.) writes:
>    I grabbed one here for about $30.  What I want to know is if there are
>any mods that will eliminate the gap of coverage between 7.3 Mhz and 9.5
>Mhz.

Me too, please!


>
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From: crisp@netcom.com (Richard Crisp)
Subject: Re: Icom R7100?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:38:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.191547.14@sfpp.com> longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo) writes:
>Please forgive me if this is not the right place to ask this question, or if is
>has been asked before (I just got my news working last week).
>
>I am considering buying an Icom R7100.  What is the general feeling on this
>radio.  What are its good points?  Its bad points?  Are there any better units
>available?
>

I have one and also and R7000. The R7100 is missing some niceties like a record
jack on the front, but honestly it's performance is better than the R7000 so
I can live with this sort of thing. To date I haven't been able to get it
to work with my computer control programs intended for the R7000, but since
they aren't written for it, it isn't a real surprise to me. The RF performance
is really good. I like it better than my R7000, but the 7000 is still a 
very good receiver too.

The R7100 like the R7000 isn't really a scanner. It does have scan capabilites,
but it isn't optimized for this class of service. The scan speed is improved
over the R7000, but it is a long way from a pro2006 in that capacity. This
is fine with me as I use it for other purposes besides scanning the local
police or fire etc.

Like the R7000 it has the 10.7mhz IF output available through a backside mounted
connector which I find very useful when connected to a spectrum display unit
such as a spectrum analyzer etc.

Like the R7000 it runs hot too when powered off of AC. I haven't tried it
on DC power so I cannot comment on that. Unlike the R7000, all of the
bandwidth controls are on the front, so you don't have to flip a switch on
back to differentiate between wideband and mediumbandwidth FM. Also the 
sideband selector is also a front mounted switch to make it easier to toggle
between LSB and USB. 

It is a fine receiver like the R7000 but not a scanner. To date I haven't
had the opportunity to test its sensitivity with a an RF generator above
1GHZ, so I cannot comment on its performance there. It does well on FLTSATCOM
action though. So at least in the 300mhz range it is very sensitive.

>With the recent signing of the no-scanning-cellular radio ruling, will radios
>like the R7100 be hard (or impossible) to get?
>

I can't say for sure, but I can say that if you buy an R7100 in Germany, you
will find this beautiful wideband receiver gutted to the extent that it will ]
only tune the ham bands. That is right! 144, 220, 440, and 1.2gig bands only.
Those creeps int he government will likely butcher up our band accessibility
too. Don't wait until they dry up like the "assault rifles" did after the 
Stockton tragedy: buy yours today!



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Richard Crisp                 Cupertino, Ca.                crisp@netcom.com
(415) 903-3832 wk                                         (408) 253 4541 fax
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: What is Synchro Detect?
From: tdenbo@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Denbo)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:16:20 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

I'm not familiar with the term Synchro Detect.  Could someone explain how
it works and what advantages it has.

I'm also looking for a cheap SW rcvr.  Any suggestions?

Thanks
Tom Denbo
From: gsrfy@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: All-India Radio Broadcasts to the South Pacific
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:47:12 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au
Originator: daemon@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au


	Radio All-India
	Broadcasts to South Pacific Region

The other day I happened to hear some nice Indian music from All-India
Radio, can anyone tell me about  this station's regular broadcast schedule
to the South Pacific region ?

Thanks in advance
Rick Yuan

#! rnews 1265
From: 8809787l@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: RE:IRAN, AFGHANESTAN, THE ARABS etc. ( CORRECTION )
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:40:41 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

Doostan Salam Arz Mekonam

I would like to acknowledge that I made a mistake in my last posting regarding
the origin of the Arian tribes of Siberia. This was pointed out to me by 
Dr Khamsehpour of Warwick University (UK). I am extremly greatful for the
doctors kind assistance. 

The error was that I had suggested that the Arian tribes of Siberia had
originated from Northen Europe and had split into two parts in 1000BC one group
moving to Northen India and the other to Iran. But the correct account (which
can also be found in some of the references which I also posted to SCI) is that
the siberian tribes did not come from Europe but miggrated in three directions
one moved into Northen India, the other to Iran and the third group into
Northen Europe. So we as Iranians did originatly come from the siderian tribes
( Arian ) but not from the ones which migrated and populated Europe.

I again wish to thank Dr Khamsehpour for his advice.

Ghorbaneh Hamegy

Payam Pourbeik

#! rnews 831
From: 8809787l@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help needed to setup KERMIT on SLS for a hayes compat modem
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:50:03 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

Dear readers

I have SLS running on my 486DX machine and I also have kermit runing in the SLS 
environment. I have a hayes compatable fax/modem connected to com2 ( serial
port 2) how can I tell kermit which is running under LINUX (SLS) that I want it
to access com2 ( ie. what device name do I have to use).

Thank you in advance, please email me if you have a solution to my problem.


Yours faithfully

Payam Pourbeik

University of South Australia
School of Electronic Engineering

P.S. My modem is also auto-dial and auto-answer
2400 baud

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