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From: turner@safety.ics.uci.edu (Clark Savage Turner)
Subject: Re: Help with QRP.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:58:56 GMT
Distribution: na

Such a general question about QRP operation is really hard to answer,
except in generalities.

I personally have backpacked into remote areas with radios.  I have really
enjoyed the experience.  I have frequently taken VHF / UHF handies with
me with a twin lead J-pole and set up in relatively high places, and done
quite well, even from "remote" locations.  However, VHF and UHF will NOT
get out of valleys when you are far from repeaters.  (There are ways to
do this, but they involve a lot of complications, like satellite
transceivers or cross band repeating HT's hung on a nearby hill - usually
not the sort of stuff you want to do when wilderness backpacking.)

I have also taken HF, and had a real ball.  This can take up a bit more
space and battery capacity, but solar power with rechargeables is a real
option for QRP rigs.  I usually take an Argonaut with a lantern battery
(probably about 7 + pounds) in the bottom of my backpack.  I carry an
antenna tuner, a length of 300 ohm twin lead and a lot of thin wire
with nylon cord to attach it to trees or rocks.  If you want to go out for
more than a week without re-supply, you need to have a large capacity
backpack to fit it all, and you need to be in good shape (or moving slowly)
to carry the extra pounds.  I usually move slowly, and take my time in
finding good sites to camp at.  I have been really successful working
80-10 meters SSB from my tent, sometimes being called a "liar" because
people won't believe that I am really a backpacker camped out in the
wilderness running 5 watts with a long wire.  That's OK as long as I
have a reasonable QSO otherwise!

I have also taken smaller CW only rigs for 40 and 20, like the old
Ten Tec PM3A.  You can find these cheaply at hamfests, and they work
fine.  You can easily remove them from their cabinets and make them smaller
and lighter.

Commercially, MFJ makes the rough equivalents to the above, somewhat improved,
I am told, but you will pay over $150 for a kit.  It is well worth it though,
if you will do a lot of QRP / portable work, and/or if you like to build
things.

I would advise you to pick up a copy of QST, look through the ads in the
back for rigs and stuff, and you will find several QRP parts / kits suppliers.
Write to them for catalogs.  If you become really interested, and want to
band together with fellow QRP'ers, there are a couple of active clubs
where the members do stuff like this all the time.  I belong to one:  the
QRP ARCI.

Good luck

.....................

Clark Savage Turner
Safety Critical Software Group			home:
Department of Info. and Computer Science	1514 Verano Place
Irvine, CA. 92717				Irvine, CA. 92715
(714) 856 4049					(714) 856 2131

WA3JPG, QRP #3526, active on HF, VHF and UHF.
From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Op Ed in QST
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:22:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: arrl.441
Organization: American Radio Relay League

In article: ewing-martin@CS.YALE.EDU (Martin Ewing)
 
;In article <l8lijvINN5lp@west.west.sun.com> flloyd@L1-A.West.Sun.COM (Fred Lloy
;d [Phoenix SE]) writes:
;>
;>
;>QST is first and foremost, a club newsletter.  Second, it's a 
;>revenue source and third, it's a technical contest journal. 
;>Let's examine these points.
;>
;....1,000 lines deleted...
; 
;>Well, that's it, my opinion of QST.  Any comments?
;>
;>-fred
;>
;>-- 
;>| Fred Lloyd  AA7BQ,  Systems Engineer          Fred.Lloyd@west.sun.com |
;>| Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation                   ...sun!flloyd |
;>| Phoenix, AZ    (If it's a fact, I believe it!)         (602) 275-4242 |
; 
;A fine critical essay!  But how about the Vision Thing?  I.e., what SHOULD
;QST be like?  What other magazines, ham or otherwise, have a format that
;would appeal to Hams As They Are Today?  (People, Road & Track, Rolling 
;Stone, Hustler?)
; 
;One thing that QST might do would be to have a "My turn" column for
;general opinion pieces, including hopefully some from Fred.
; 
;73, Martin, AA6E 
;

	QST has an Op Ed column, to which readers are encouraged to 
	submit articles with opposing or controversial points of view.

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ARRL Assistant Technical Editor	     FAX:   203-665-7531
Author of `The DXCC Companion'	     ARRL Headquarters
Editor of `Now You're Talking!,'     225 Main Street
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From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ))
Subject: Re: QST, in my opinion...
Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:57:33 GMT

gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:

>I think that's sad for the official organ of a
>technical hobby.

Fortunately, ham-radio isn't a technical hobby. Maybe it is to you, but it
doesn't *have* to be to anyone unless they want it to.

I will admit that the various section information, DXCC lists, etc., have
little or no interest to me - but who am I to judge for the remainder of
those in the ARRL?

I believe that the ARRL needs to have more than one publication - or,
perhaps one publication with several inserts, of which you get that
insert that interests you the most. So, you have general information and
advertisements, club news, and then a special-interest section which
highlights those aspects of the hobby you are interested in most?

Expensive to produce? Well, moreso than today's QST, I'm sure. However,
in the long run, you maximize the influence of QST's presence on the
hobby, by making it something each ARRL member looks forward to receiving,
not something they simply receive and toss aside.

MD
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From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
Subject: Re: Empire of the Radio (PBS)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:45:39 GMT

Bill Coleman writes:
> Saying that
> > the Frency guy invented the superhet would be a bit
> > like saying that the airplane was invented, not by
> > the Wrights, but by the first person to make a
> > paper airplane.  
> 
> Our own US government, in the form of the Smithsonian Institution, 
insisted
> that Langley, and not the Wrights, invented the first airplane for more 
than
> 45 years.
> 
> To this day, there's still a bit of resistance within the Smithsonian.

Yeah, well, just goes to show how wrong folks
can be sometimes.

************************
* These are my opinions only.*
************************
From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: QST Content
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:30:24 EDT

julian@bongo.UUCP (Julian Macassey) writes:
>	But then it is also up to all of us to point out incorrect
>usage and keep the language concise.

I refer you to the research article

	Canute, King; "Response of the diurnal tidal cycle to authoritarian
	stimulus", J.Irr.Res., .....

(gee maybe I ought to write up such an article and submit it...)
From: gsteckel@fric.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 60Hz magnetic fields in your house
Date: 18 Aug 1992 23:08:49 GMT
Organization: Omnivore Technology, Newton, Mass. (617)332-9252
NNTP-Posting-Host: fric.east.sun.com
Keywords: health hazard, or not significant

>In article <1992Aug17.223420.25847@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes...
>>Was reading a late copy of IEEE Spectrum articles on the possible, but
>>undetermined, health hazards of 60Hz magnetic fields.  Mostly from 
>>powerlines.  Article mentioned that one source of such fields are unbalanced
>>current flows in the house's safety grounds.  

If you have a substantial current in your safety grounds (> a few milliamps)
in a home, you have a _substantial_ safety hazard.  The safety grounds should
NOT be carrying current in normal operation!  Call an electrician (a good one).
An ampere in the safety ground is a death or fire waiting to happen.

Some industrial equipment dumps more than that into the safety ground.
This equipment is marked as such and shouldn't be used in the home.
(Like some minicomputers, antiques etc. - I remember the RH-10 being so marked)
	geoff steckel (gwes@trilobyte.com, gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, despite the From: line.
This posting is entirely the author's responsibility.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Can a felon be a ham?
From: clmorgan@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:38:55 EST
Distribution: usa

In article <3486@key.COM>, jerryp@key.COM (J. R. Pendleton) writes:
> We all know of hams that *should be* convicted of felonies :-), but a 
> question was put to me a few days ago:  Can a convicted felon, on parole,
> recieve a amateur license?
> 
> I know the FCC will look in askance upon you, if you used a radio in the
> commission of a crime, but if the crime did not involve radio would a 
> license be granted?  Or does the loss of rights that accompany a felony
> conviction also include a loss of amateur privileges?
> 
> That leads me also to ask: "What happens if a licensed amateur is thrown
> into the big house?  If the license isn't automatically revoked, and given
> the size of todays QRP and packet rigs, the possibility of a new contest
> award arises:  WAP - Worked All Prisons.  Hey, I bet they could even have
> a section report in QST!  A untapped source of new ARRL members!  Are you
> listening ARRL?
> 
> (Big Smiley - But the first question was a serious inquiry)
> 
>                                                       Thanks
>                                                       jerryp
>                                       (An associate ARRL member because
>                                        I have never bothered telling them
>                                        I got my license)
> 
> 
> -- 
> J. R. Pendleton, who does not speak for Key Computer Labs or Amdahl Inc.
>  uucp: jerryp@key.amdahl.com  Voice : (510)623-2146  Amateur : KC6RTO
>       "Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines"
>           "An Independant dealer of Mary Kay Beauty products"


Some time ago, I asked a similar question of a VEC.  The reply was that anyone
(not otherwise prohibited) could hold a license.  The ONLY place that ham exams
COULD NOT be given, though, was inside a penal institution.

Whether or not a person holding a license before incarceration could retain it,
wasn't clear.

BTW, for the WAP award, would it have sub-categories depending on the level of
security; i.e. honor farm, "country club", work release, minimum, maximum, etc.?

73 >< Carl 
  K8NHE
From: sford@arrl.org (Steve Ford)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: APLinks and RTTY MBOs
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:45:43 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League

Does anyone have a current list of active AMTOR APLink stations
*and* RTTY MBOs?

Thanks...

Steve, WB8IMY
ARRL
From: JMG%TNTECH.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jeff M. Gold)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Help with Paddles
Date: 14 Aug 1992 08:22:40 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Help appreciated:

I am looking for a rugged set of paddles to put with my QRP
backpacking setup.  Schurr in Germany makes a set of
mini-paddles that are fairley expensive, but look real
solid.  G4ZPY makes some but they don't look rugged enough.
The Vibroplex brass racer and certainly the Benchers would
never hold together.

Thanks

73s de Cookeville, TN
Jeff, AC4HF
IN%"JMG@TNTECH"
From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: NCJ
Date: 9 Aug 92 15:26:46 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League

Erik Sorgatz has posted about contest writeups in QST
and suggested they be published elsewhere. Well, we
have NCJ, and I guess contest writeups could go there.
But I can't make that decision. Your division
directors can, though.... Addresses in each issue
of QST. The League is a democratic organization. I
urge every member to take advantage of that fact.
73,
Jim

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JIM KEARMAN, KR1S                    Voice: 203-666-1541 ext 279
ARRL Assistant Technical Editor	     FAX:   203-665-7531
Author of `The DXCC Companion'	     ARRL Headquarters
Editor of `Now You're Talking!,'     225 Main Street
ARRL License Manuals,		     Newington, CT 06111
ARRL Instructor Guides		     e-mail: jkearman@arrl.org
Author of `Wally and Mike' stories

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From: wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith)
Subject: Re: PL-259 on 9913 -- Help!
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:39:53 GMT

In article <LLLqPB4w165w@undr.org> Sean Petty <undr!seanp@gvls1.GVL.Unisys.COM> writes:
>
>        I spent almost an hour tonight trying to work a UHF connector on
>        the end of a piece of Belden 9913, with little success..

Your first problem is trying to use PL-259s with 9913!  PL-259s are
rated to 300 MHz, though I'm a little leary of using them for 2M.  Use
N-type connectors (rated to 11 GHz) and (if you really must) adapters.
OTOH, if you are using 9913 for HF and other audio frequency
applications, why bother?

Willie Smith
wpns@pictel.com
From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 9D - Legitimate Operation?
Keywords: 9D0RR,9D2RR
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:30:26 GMT
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA


In article <1992Aug12.134507.2615@worldbank.org>, dearnsha@wizard.worldbank.org writes:

> Two stations have recently been reported signing the 9D prefix. The
> stations were: 9D2RR on SSB, and 9D0RR on CW.

9D0RR is definitely Romeo.  I have worked him on both CW and SSB, I
suspect the 9D2 callsign is bogus.  Accreditation by the ARRL DX
Awards Committee depends on many things - not just obtaining written
operating permission, but also having proof of entrance to and exit
from a country.  No doubt Romeo has all these things, he has been OK
in the past.  Ed, NT2X (his liason in US) does not have any
reservations about this operation.  However, as with all DX, work
first, worry later.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, dit@maths.aberdeen.ac.UK (David Tock) writes:

>One of our collaborators (a company called Ford) has recently built some kit
>for the work we are doing. This includes a 486 based PC. It runs off the car
>supply, but they said they had to go through a DC-DC converter (and much else)
>to remove to 300 to 400 volt spikes present in a car electrical system! They
>found that simply filtering did not work. ...

Wait a minute...  Two-way radios operate off car 12V systems all the time,
and I can assure you that they do not use 400V-rated components!

When I was designing radios at Drake (before they got out of the business)
a simple L/C filter was all the power conditioning required.  And even
that was mostly there just to clean up ignition noise.

AL N1AL
From: harp@bnr.ca (Alan Harp)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Q codes etc
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:58:17 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Research Triangle Park, NC

I don't really read, just skim through all this stuff.  I think
if you want to use QSL QRZ etc on phone go for it.  If you want
to make up silly names and use them instead that's OK too.  If
you are an ex law enforcement person or CBer you might use the
10-4,  10-10 etc although you might get QRM'd. 

However if you live in south Florida or watch "COPS" on TV you
may notice that the Miami Police Dept uses Q signals on their
voice radio.

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* Alan Harp K4PB     *     Bell-Northern Research      *   CW FOREVER      *
* mail: harp@bnr.ca  *   Research Triangle Park, NC    *                   *
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From: hawk@oakhill.sps.mot.com (George Hawkins)
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:25:45 GMT

In article <3540@atlas.tegra.COM> vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) writes:
>
>
>In article <1992Aug19.141239.17666@gvl.unisys.com> rossi@gvlf9-q.gvl.unisys.com (Pete Rossi) writes:
>   In article <1992Aug19.040440.19793@cs.wisc.edu> gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:
>   >In article <1568@anagld.analytics.com> sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn) writes:
>   >>This may be a FAQ, but is tuning in to cellular frequencies legal?  I had
>   >>thought that listening to the freqs was legal but you couldn't record them
>   >>or anything like that.  I thought that anything transmitted was legal to 
>   >>listen to.  I'm just struggling with a little moral question...
>   >
>   >As far as I know, listening to cellular freqs is illegal.  However,
>   >listening in on cordless phones isn't, as long as you keep what you
>   >hear to yourself.  
>
>   Hmmmm..  Let's see if I got this right.....
>
>   It`s illegal to *listen* to cellular frequencies, but it is OK for your
>   radio to *scan* through the cellular frequencies??   Just don't *listen*
>   to anything you may hear.     Yep.. That must be it!   :-)  :-)  :-)
>
>
>Yup thats it.  And if I read a recent article correctly there is a
>bill pending that would close this glaring loophole and make scanners
>(or at least ones that do 800 meg?) illegal.
>
>
>jv <- "Be afraid.  Be very afraid."
>
>
>
>The inability of snakes to count is actually a refusal, on their part,
>    to appreciate the Cardinal Number system. -- "Actual Facts"
> _____
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It won't matter about scanners once DIGITAL cellular gets implemented.
GSM [europe] is already selling encrypted cellulars today!

regards 

George Hawkins

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From: flloyd@L1-A.West.Sun.COM (Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE])
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: QST, in my opinion...(long)
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:28:30 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Phoenix, AZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-a.west.sun.com

In article <16tp9kINNfvc@network.ucsd.edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>So how many of you are planning to attend the ARRL National Convention
>and make your views known to whichever ARRL officials are brave enough
>to show up?

Good idea but, I could buy a new handheld with what it would cost me
to attend.

-fred

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: phil@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Phil English)
Subject: HELP WITH NEWS SERVICE
Keywords: HELP WITH NEWS SERVICE
Organization: Lockheed Santa Cruz, CA.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:06:43 GMT

 	AM LOOKING FOR THE TRANSMISSION  FREQ. AND TRANSMISSION TIMES FOR 
THE REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, NETHERLANDS. PLEASE EMAIL RESP.
				THNX PHIL
From: ehare@arrl.org (Ed Hare - KA1CV)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Converting 49MHz toy radios.
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:32:50 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, pjml@swmis.nerc-swindon.ac.UK (Pete Lucas) writes:

>Has anyone converted 49MHz radios to 6 meters successfully? It looks like a
>relatively trivial task to convert the types with crystal-controlled receivers.
>A pair of these things appropriately recrystalled could be just what i need for
>a short-haul (1/2 mile) 9600-baud packet link; 100 milliwatts is enough to
>cover the path reliably.

Peter,

These beasties don't put out 100 milliwatts any more. Mine measured about
3 milliwatts first try. 

I did it quite nicely for the Radio Shack single-channel model that was
just discontinued. :-(. I haven't had a chance to look at the new model
to see how easy it would be. A few coil changes (ferrites), a MMIC ($4.00)
and a change of two crystals (about $30.00 or so) got me to about 50 mw.
Luck Hurder tried it on slower packet and it worked just fine. The RS model
is a dual conversion superhet with fair sensitivity.

Email me for paper copy from my engineering notebook.

73, Ed.


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From: kipper@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kip Ingram)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Vertical antenna for a covenant-restricted lot?
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:15:05 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Hi.  My wife and I are building a house, and naturally enough outside antennas
are not allowed.  However, my lot is big (about 200x200 feet), so I think I've
got room for a really good ground system.  I've been contemplating setting 
things up so that I can just run out and erect a vertical whenever I want to
use my gear (the garage will hold a 25' antenna).  I noticed that the HyGain
Dx88 was about 25' long and will cover all bands, and that it is self
supporting (no guy wires).  

This scheme would imply that the vertical is mounted at ground level.  There
are trees around, but nothing like a forest or anything.  

I figure that since most of my operating will take place at night, the 
neighbors will never even know that the thing exists.  If I do want to do 10m
during the day, I thought I could just stick a specially cut quarter wave
vertical out there; that shouldn't attract too much attention.

What do you all think?

Thanks,
Kip Ingram
kipper@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu