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From: leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Closed repeaters
Date: 6 Jan 93 02:35:40 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbootay.sw.stratus.com

In article <1iddd6INNhfi@tamsun.tamu.edu>, willis@cs.tamu.edu (Willis Marti) writes:
|> Two points, both of which I believe Mr. Curtis has missed.

OK, so far so good.

|> One, anyone who thinks 'public' means open access ignores case law and
|> fact, whether it's land, freeways, military bases or whatever.  After all,
|> the FCC has already said (for example) you can't transmit 1kw on 104.9Mhz
|> (readers outside the US not already ignoring this thread, please substitute
|> your own example}.  The highway analogies are fatally flawed; try just
|> talking about amateur radio.

By public I meant like the park.  Open for ALL of the public to use.
Ham radio frequencies are open to everyone who can pass the test. You
will not find age, sex, race, income level, or any of that stuff on
the form.

|> Two, while Part 97 & a license gives one a basic right to transmit, there
|> are restrictions.  The rules say you may not jam a transmission; they also
|> admonish us to use good operating practice.  Anyone want to argue that
|> operating simplex on a (known) repeater input frequency is good practice?
|> Or sending various DTMF tones 'just to see what happens'?  Or trying to find
|> the PL or control tones for a 'closed' system you've been asked not to
|> use? What one *can* do is always more than what one *should* do.

Is having a 440 closed repeater which only gets used four minutes a week
good amateur operation?  If simplex and open pairs are everywhere MAYBE,
but with only TWO simplex frequencies in the local band plan and NO
available pairs it SURE ISN'T.  This machine exists to stroke someones
ego and to allow four or five people to have a quiet intercom.  That
pair could be shared with ten other machines just like it using PL/CTCSS
and no one would even notice.  People using simplex freqs do it all the
time, I know I do.  But getting them to go along with this is impossible.
All you get is "Why should I?  The coordinator gave me the pair.  It's
my frequency get lost."

You aren't jamming the repeater if it isn't TXing.  The machine can be
quiet for days, but if they hear anything on the frequency they'll go
nuts.  All you'll hear after that is "This is my repeater and my
frequency stay off it."  This isn't making good use of the available
frequencies.  I don't care what they say, all they own is the repeater
hardware, not the frequency.

If you aren't actively using the frequency get out of the way.  If you
don't want someone else's signal repeated turn the thing off.  Not using
the frequency and then screaming when someone, who has equal right to,
does is a joke.  There isn't room for that kind of operation on the
VHF/440 bands anymore.  Stop crying and start sharing, the world is
getting crowded.
From: phantom@pro-haven.cts.com (Tiffany Keller)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: New Licensees: When did you test?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:34:15 -0600
Organization: ProLine [pro-haven] - Pariahs' Haven BBS, 409/846-3177, 9600-300
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Howdy...

        I tested for an upgrade on Sept. 26th and got my license Dec.
26th.....that's right at 3 months.....
        Good luck.....

        73...

        T. Keller
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From: Kirk.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Kirk Smith)
Subject: Re: DJ-580 soft case
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:26:57 GMT

I'm considerign the purchase of a DJ-580T as well (Alinco, for those
not in the know), and notice the brochure only shows the ESC-17 case,
which is presumably for the 7.2V battery or the AA battery case.  Since
I plan on getting a couple of 12V packs, I'm wondering if a longer case
is available?  The AES catalog only shows one case for the DJ-580T.

-ks
9 weeks and still waiting.

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From: tim@ais.org (Tim Tyler)
Subject: Re: Just How Good Is the R-9000?
Organization: UMCC
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:03:28 GMT

   My understanding of the R-9000's panaramic display is that it has a
maximum bandwidth of only 100kHz.
 
   If this is true --or even if it is 1MHz wide-- it simply isn't enough for
serious HF or VHF/UHF monitoring to justify buying the 9000 instead of just
getting the R-71A (or R-5000) was well as an R-7100.
 
    The $4000 you'd spend on the R-9000 caould easily buy a separate R-7100,
R-71, ~10MHz bandwidth spectrum display, & still have plenty of $$ left over
to put towards a tower or something!


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From: stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cliff Stoll)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Stalking the Wily Hacker -- Dayton Hamvention Talk
Date: 11 Jan 1993 09:28:16 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Hi Gang,

Several hams have asked me about speaking at Dayton;
here's the scoop:  Yes, I've volunteered to speak at the
Dayton Hamvention on Saturday April 24, after dinner.

For more info, don't write me; contact the Dayton Hamvention folks.


abstract:  STALKING THE WILY HACKER
           Cliff Stoll  K7TA

Someone breaks into your computer.  What do you do?  
Slam the door?  Call the police?  Ignore the problem?

When a German hacker broke into our lab, we decided to 
silently watch him and quietly track him back.  For a year, 
we watched as he broke into over forty military computers around the world.
Turned out that he was spy, passing information to the Soviet KGB.  

I used the same skills to catch this hacker that you find in 
vhf rabbit hunts: direction finding, stealth, and luck.

What techniques did this guy use to crack into computers?  Where 
are the holes in our systems?  How do you trace someone 
hiding in the worldwide computer networks?  Who was willing 
to help -- and who wasn't?  

My talk, "Stalking the Wily Hacker" will address these 
questions.  I guarantee a fun time for all.

The Cuckoo's Egg, the book describing this incident, is on 
sale at most good bookstores, and all not-so-good bookstores. 
This book tells the true story of tracking a spy through the 
maze of computer espionage.


Cliff Stoll graduated from Buffalo Public School #61 with a blue 
star for good attendence.  Later, he repaired pinball 
machines, printed T-shirts, and received a PhD in planetary science.  
Cliff has appeard on the PBS/NOVA documentary, 
"The KGB, the CIA, the Computer and Me".  In his spare time, 
Cliff pieces quilts, works 40 meter CW, and squeezes lumps of 
bituminous coal into diamonds.

There are two spelling mistakes in this announcement.

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From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Subject: Re: NASA Project Dante & Compressed Video?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:51:39 GMT

In article <POPOVICH.93Jan5104642@morningside.cs.columbia.edu> popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:
>> Considering how much trouble they have had just keeping it's legs attached,
>> I can't imagine them keeping a high-speed packet network running.
>> 
>> And anyway, when the legs fall off again, they can always drag it back out
>> with the fiber-optic cable.   :-)  or is it :-(
>
>Low blow!  Besides, that's about what happened in Antarctica :-).  The
>legs stayed on, but their fiber-optic cable didn't unreel properly.
>It developed a kink, and when they tried to straighten it out, the
>fiber broke.  Mission scrubbed.  Sigh.

Nasa can't seem to get cable reel's to work on the ground or in space. Sigh**2.

I think the fiber was carrying real-time video from each of the feet, other
places and normal telemetry.  I could how it would have been difficult 
to transmit this much data with antenna aiming and power consumption issues
involved.

The video carried on the networks was obviously compressed.  I wonder how
much other data gets routinely carried between Antartica and the rest of
the world.  There's probably more bandwidth available, but carrying
full bandwidth TV reports is probably not high on the list.


-- 
Jerry S. Weiss	  "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the antimatter!"
j-weiss@nwu.edu    Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School
From: BOB@WINROCK.ORG (Bob Hambuchen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Grove Enterprisex
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:54:57 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu


To Dave, N2RTU:
The Grove Enterprises number is 1-800-438-8155.
They are great to do business with and publish an excellent magazine
for those of us who like to monitor the airwaves.

Bob
N5OMW
From: jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (jeffrey.n.jones)
Subject: Re: NASA Project Dante & Compressed Video?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:18:14 GMT

In article <01GT47Y1CA0G8WVYPA@TSU.BITNET> PORTER04%TSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>Fellow Netters,
>   I was watching the news around New Year and saw the reports
>from MT. Erebus, Antartica. The video from there was rather strange
>looking, as though it was being compressed in the extreme(looked
>like only movement was being updated per frame). What I'm wondering
>is, what method of compression was being used. Also what comm system
>was used to get the video back so  quickly. I am told that use of
>DOMSATS in equatorial orbit is not possible, maybe INMARSAT? It all
>looked very interesting>

Along those same lines, I was floored to find out they were using a
cable to transmit commands to Dante. Seems like it would have been a whole 
lot easier to have had repeaters on the edge of the volcano and ran high 
speed packet to control the robot. Maybe as a ham these things occur to me.

73!

Jeff
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From: PORTER04%TSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Nashville on 2-meters
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:49:00 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

> Subject: Info-Hams Digest V93 #49
> Message-id: <9301120504.AA16525@ucsd.edu>

> Date: 11 Jan 93 13:35:11 CST
> From:
>  swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!ukma!netnews.louisville.edu
   !w
>  kuvx1!kallits@network.UCSD.EDU
> Subject: Nashville 2-meter frequencies
> To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

> I am interested in finding 2-meter repeater and packet frequencies
> for the Nashville, TN or central TN area.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>                               Tim Kallio
>

      In the Nashville area, 2-meters is highly changeable. I'll try to
   give it my best shot:

        Repeaters known to be friendly:
        147.015, 146.91, 146.88, 145.47
        also 145.37, 147.18 if up.
   (I'm sure I left some out, but ...)
      The rest vary from: up, dead, unknown, or in some cases under
   a peculiar form of "private" status, where passerby are allowed
   to talk there if they say things the owner likes to hear, but
   only selected locals will be found/allowed. The ARRL Guide will
   give some additional frequencies. Conditions change often, so
   take your best shot.
      There is also some simplex activity such as 146.49, and 146.52,
   and ATVer's on 144.34, all pretty friendly.
      The packet scene has BBS's on 144.99, 145.61 and .67.
   Also the DX cluster is on 145.75, ROSE has been on 145.03/05/07.
      You didn't ask, but I will add that the 222mhz band listings
   in the Guide are generally up to date with all open machines,
   except for 224.08, which is apparently closed and/or dead by
   now. Packet is scarce on this band, but check 223.60-.80 .
   Hope this helps, have a good time.



   de Curt N4MEY@W4HHY.TN.USA.NA
   PORTER04@TSU.BITNET

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From: oler@rho.uleth.CA (Cary Oler)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for 03 January
Date: 4 Jan 93 08:15:24 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

!!BEGIN!! (1.0) S.T.D. Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for DAY 003, 01/03/93
10.7 FLUX=125    90-AVG=139        SSN=078      BKI=5435 3333  BAI=024
BGND-XRAY=B3.3     FLU1=2.1E+06  FLU10=9.8E+03  PKI=5445 3433  PAI=024
  BOU-DEV=082,050,030,071,023,027,031,032   DEV-AVG=043 NT     SWF=00:000
 XRAY-MAX= C6.4   @ 0001UT    XRAY-MIN= B2.9   @ 2359UT   XRAY-AVG= B5.0
NEUTN-MAX= +001%  @ 2000UT   NEUTN-MIN= -003%  @ 2115UT  NEUTN-AVG= -1.0%
  PCA-MAX= +0.1DB @ 0915UT     PCA-MIN= -0.4DB @ 1015UT    PCA-AVG= -0.0DB
BOUTF-MAX=55424NT @ 0419UT   BOUTF-MIN=55385NT @ 1957UT  BOUTF-AVG=55409NT
GOES7-MAX=P:+119NT@ 1929UT   GOES7-MIN=N:+000NT@ 1018UT  G7-AVG=+073,+029,+009
GOES6-MAX=P:+140NT@ 1931UT   GOES6-MIN=E:-039NT@ 1257UT  G6-AVG=+091,-002,+039
 FLUXFCST=STD:128,130,135;SESC:128,130,135 BAI/PAI-FCST=018,018,010/018,018,012
    KFCST=3335 6333 3335 6333  27DAY-AP=005,014   27DAY-KP=2111 2321 2233 4334
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!!END-DATA!!
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: cep4478@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.E. Piggott )
Subject: Re: Who do repeater coordinators represent?
Originator: cep4478@ultb
Keywords: trunk, trunks, trunking
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:17:35 GMT


Don't trunked systems assume that the channels are used relatively
infrequently?  I am told that when the trunked system is overstuffed,
you key your mic and don't get a channel so you have to wait.  However,
conversations between police cars, taxis, etc. seem more "bursty" than
ham conversations - the whole conversation is fairly short.

Sounds neat, I'd like to hear more about these potential trunked ham
experiments.  It'd be nice if someone would post a description of
these trunking systems in commercial use (how they acquire a free
channel, when they give that channel up, how a receiving radio knows
that it's group is on a particular channel, etc.)

Chris
-- 
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President                                       wz2b.ampr [44.69.0.1]
Rochester Institute of Technology               wz2b @ WB2PSI.#WNY.NY.USA.NA
Amateur Radio Club K2GXT                        CEP4478@RITVAXA.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: tad@ssc.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: 430 mhz band under th (now private/closed repeaters)
Organization: very little
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 22:49:56 GMT

In article <1i3an0INN2iv@network.ucsd.edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>SoCal has long had a "test pair" - you have to get your machine working
>on the test pair before you can get a full-on coordination.  Last time
>I keyed up on the test pair in Los Angeles, I brought up five machines
>simultaneously.  Lord only knows how many other repeaters there were on
>the channel that DIDN'T run the same PL as I was using!
>
>I've only keyed up one system on the test pair here in San Diego this
>evening.  It seems to be carrier squelch.  There might be others with
>different PLs.
>	- Brian


Western Washington has long had a test pair on 2 meters for "garage
repeaters."  The coordinators ask that everyone run low power at
low elevation and use PL.

A few years ago a guy moved to the area and brought his 2 mtr machine
with him.  He promptly put it on a hilltop running high power on
the "test pair", and pretty much told everyone to shove it!

It didn't last long....he and the repeater are gone.


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From: flloyd@l1-a.West.Sun.COM (Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE])
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Collins R-388 receiver
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:02:50 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Phoenix, AZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-a.west.sun.com

In article <1993Jan8.193047.6284@mlb.semi.harris.com> RSUMPERL@JAGUAR.ESS.HARRIS.COM (05991 SUMPERL RP) writes:
>
> I recently purchased a Collins R-388 from a US Government auction. I have
>yet to fire it up. Can I get some comments on this receiver as to performance
>vs the $150 I paid for it.


Well there was a time when an R-388 would have been considered 
a real find but these days it's just another old tubed boat
anchor.  Ok, if you're a collector then maybe it means something
to you but for serious stuff, it's mostly just good for short
wave broadcast listening.  

For $150 is should have all the knobs, covers and hopefully a 
manual.  Another key indicator is the dial.  If it's white then
you're really lucky, if it's yellow then it's probably old and
worn out.  The last one I had did not switch bands well due to
a worn out gear train assembly - but it worked.  I sold it for 
something like $65. 

-fred


I'll meet you on 40 meters tonight with my R-388 and ARC-5
transmitter...  (often heard back in the late 60's)



-- 
[ Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ                             Fred.Lloyd@West.Sun.COM ]
[ Sun Microsystems,           Southwest Area Solaris Transition Manager ]
[ Phoenix, AZ                                            (602) 275-4242 ]
From: BOBPRIEZ@selu.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: HAMFEST
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:38:46 GMT
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

     
       HAMFEST :  SATURDAY, JANUARY 16TH  1993
                  UNIVERSITY CENTER (COLUMBUS DRIVE)
                  SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
                  HAMMOND, LOUISIANA

The Southeast Louisiana Amateur Radio Club Hamfest is FREE and offers swap
tables, meetings and dealer exhibits of new ham gear.  VE test sessions and
amateur radio forums are also scheduled.  The one-day fest opens at 9:00am 
and closes at 3:30pm.  Chairman: E. Bush, N5NIB, 331 Rock Road, Hammond, LA
70401  (504-567-1261).   Exit at Hammond from I-55 or I-12 and follow signs
or talk-in on 147.000 (-600).

73, WB5FBS

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: unbham@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (UNB Amateur Radio)
Subject: RFI susceptability of new... vcr's
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:35:38 GMT

I can use my handheld to eject the tape from my vcr....


Just some trivia
Derek

For those who have ever tried IRC - internet relay chat, I have written
a little server that offers some goodies like allowing you to lookup
people in the amateurs on usenet list, services like the nasanews,
aurora watch and a hurricaine watch, plus a weather server that allows
you to get the weather in your area.


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From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Re: 1200Mhz is not a microwave band!
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:02:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan05.220530.19633@eng.umd.edu> chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV) writes:
>In article <rrgd50-050193130047@222.5.80.3> rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com (Chris Terwilliger) writes:
>>by the way...has anyone ever used tried to modulate old oven parts???
>>Seems like a good project for someone with an oven they don't use any
>>more...
>
>Magnetrons are seriously noisy in both frequency and in amplitude.  The power
>supplies in the ovens are typically 1/2 wave rectified and unfiltered.
>About all that magnetrons are good for is heating and high power pulse
>emissions such as radar.

There was an article in 73 a year or so ago about converting a microwave
oven to a FM ATV transmitter. The guy used injection locking to keep the 
magnetron on channel, and better power supply filtering. Note that the
current limiting inherent in the original power supply is important. It
protects the magnetron in case of a flashover.

Gary

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From: perry@phil.utmb.edu (John A. Perry)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: del
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:02:28 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

delete fbq@ricard.utmb.edu
quit

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From: kallits@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Nashville 2-meter frequencies
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:35:11 CST
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

I am interested in finding 2-meter repeater and packet frequencies
for the Nashville, TN or central TN area.  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated.
                              Tim Kallio
From: jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John Ackermann)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: DRAKE TR-7(A) XCVR
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:42:43 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department

root@june.cmp.rpi.edu (J.R. Ordon) writes:

>Has anybody out there owned or used the Drake TR-7(A) xvcr???

>I'd like to know it's good and bad points & How would it compare
>in performance to rigs like the Icom 751A & Kenwood TS-830s..

I've had a TR-7 for a bunch of years now.  Compared to today's radios,
it's sadly lacking in bells and whistles (and that's an
understatement...) but the basic RF is very good; I think only the very
best of today's radios top the receiver performance.  One fairly major
problem (to some folks) is that since the radio uses a PTO rather than a
synthesizer, it does drift a bit as it warms up.  I've heard of units
that moved as much as 500Hz from cold to operating temperature, but mine
is more like 100Hz.

-- 
John R. Ackermann, Jr.         Law Department, NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio
(513) 445-2966		       John.Ackermann@daytonoh.ncr.com
Packet Radio: ag9v@n8acv.oh    tcp/ip: ag9v@ag9v.ampr [44.70.12.232]