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From: sam@wa4phy.ampr.org (Sam Drinkard)
Subject: Icom 229-H transmitter slow to start
Organization: Garden City Gateway, Augusta, GA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:36:36 GMT

I've been using the 229-H in packet service for about 2.5 years now, and have
just recently noticed that the transmitter doesn't want to go to full output
power at keydown.  If I connect the mic to it and let it stay keyed for several
seconds, it will eventually come up to full power.  The xmitter IS working,
even tho it does not always come up full power.  Anybody else seen this kind
of behavior with the 229-H ?

...SD 
.

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From: jonathan@nova.decio.nd.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Subject: Kenwood TH28A Mods (here they are)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:33:44 GMT

I just got the following. I CANNOT VERIFY THIS. However I do know the
aircraft (hold F down then LOW) toggle does work.


From: LAIRDPG@lub001.lamar.edu
Subject: Re: TH28A mods? Anyone?
 
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 19:59:26 PDT
 
TH28A Mods:
 
1) Remove the 4 screws holding the radio together.
2) With your finger in the battery bay, separate the two parts.
3) The inside of the keypad case has a copper RF shield.  Move this shield
    out of the way by removing the 2 screws and bending it up and away from
    the PC board.  (There may be double sticky tape holding the shield to
    the IC.)  Under the shield you will find a large IC surrounded by
    an array of diodes, as follows:
 
                    +-------+
                    |       |
                    |   IC  |
                    |       |
           D D D D  +-------+
           1 1 1 1
           5 4 3 2
 
                   D D D D
                   1 1 9 8
                   1 0
 
    (The diode numbers are read vertically.)
 
    NOTE: Diodes D15 & D14 are NOT present in the American version.
 
4) Remove diodes D8 and D10.
5) Install one of these diodes in D14.
 
This enables the following three extended modes:
 
    1) Extended receive from 360 Mhz to 400 Mhz.
    2) Extended receive from 400 Mhz to 520 Mhz.
    3) Extended transmit/receive from 136 Mhz to 174 Mhz.
 
in addition to the existing aircraft frequencies of:
 
    4) Receive from 118 Mhz to 136 Mhz. (AM)
 
(AM and FM are switched automatically according to the frequency range.)
 
To switch between the modes, press the [F] key for one second, then
press the [LOW] key.  This will switch between:
        a) Amateur VHF band (136 Mhz to 174 Mhz).
        b) 340 Mhz band (340 Mhz to 400 Mhz).
        c) Aircraft band (118 Mhz to 136 Mhz).
 
To get the extended amateur UHF receive, press the [BAND] key while in the
136 Mhz to 174 Mhz mode.
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From: jseboldt@pnet51.orb.mn.org (John Seboldt)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Did you get pc board for R1? (Aug 92 QST)
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:25:07 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

rdewan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rajiv Dewan) writes:
>
>
>A couple of months ago I sent in a request along with a check for
>a PC board for the R1 receiver featured in the Aug 1992 QST.  I
>have not heard from the company or received the board yet.  
>
>I would like to hear from you if you tried to get the same board
>and have or have not received it yet.
>
>Rajiv
>aa9ch
>r-dewan@nwu.edu


I haven't ordered one, but have wanted to.  In any case, I have an E-mail
address for the author, Rick Campbell, KK7B:

   rlcampbe@mtu.edu

I wrote him and got an answer recently, because I wanted to ask him about his
single-signal version he mentioned in the article.  He said he had a lot of
inquiries, and it would be coming out in the proceedings of a VHF conference
coming up. I didn't save his reply, so I have to ask him again.

:                John Seboldt...Minneapolis, MN...                  :
:           As a ham, K0JD...as a human...well, you judge!          :
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From: phantom@pro-haven.cts.com (Tiffany Keller)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Single frequency radio
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:26:14 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-haven] - Pariahs' Haven BBS, 409/693-8262, 9600-300

Howdy!
        
        I have an old Radio Shack Crystal Controlled scanner that will scan
4 channels.....I'm not sure of the model Number as I am at our Club Shack
right now.....Perhaps someone else out here in netland knows that model
number.....I think that they were discountinued a while back though.....
        If you can find one at a swap meet of somethin', you should be able
to get it pretty cheap due to the newer technology...;-)  (It has 4 LEDS
and they are marked channel 1, 2, 3, and 4...Not very fancy at all...)
        
        Later.....

        T. Keller
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From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: DTMF on 2 meters handhelds
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 07:38:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.040530.10475@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> of
  rec.radio.amateur.policy, 
  morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris) writes:
> >  
> > Patrick, I hope this helps you.  I have a question for you concerning the 
> >1750 tone burst.  Is this required just before the first contact on the
> >repeater to activate the repeater after a period of non-use?  Or is it
> >required periodically so that the repeater will not "time out".  Does the
> >repeater carrier drop between transmissions (during pauses in a
> conversation)? 
> >Some repeaters here in the USA have short "tails".  That is, the repeater
> >carrier will drop with 1 to 4 seconds after the input signal stops.  If
> >this occurs, do your repeaters require another 1750 tone burst?
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing how that works also - and what do you do
> with the subaudible region of the audio?  Do they filter it out?  Do
> they pass it (allowing users to have a selective call system)?  Or what?
> 

As a dual country licencee, I think I can answer this:

European repeaters require a 1750 Hz tone to bring them up.  The tone is
sent at the highest audio amplitude.  It is required only to activate the
repeater once it goes down; European repeaters tend to have longer "tails"
than their US counterparts so in general there is no need to re-beep the
repeater during a QSO.  If the repeater drops carrier, however, yes, it
will need a second tone burst.

	/N9ITP - SM4TKN

P.S: If someone knows how to put together a 1750 Hz oscillator that I can
put on my Kenwood TH-215A I would really appreciate it.   It is quite
awkward to monitor a repeater to wait for someone to bring it up so I can
give a call.
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From: pschleck@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU)
Subject: Re: My comments on Docket 92-136
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:29:25 GMT

jmcoving@unccsun.uncc.edu (John Covington WN4BBJ) writes:

>In article <1992Oct2.205914.7286@europa.asd.contel.com> pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
>>Does anyone have the full text of  PR Docket 92-136 on line somewhere?
>>I'd like to get a copy.....

>I think I have a copy around here that someone posted.  I'll post it
>in a couple of days if someone else doesn't.

No need to, really.  It's available via anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.buffalo.edu under /pub/ham-radio/pr_docket_92-136.  My original
post had an expire time of Dec. 1 (the deadline for REPLY comments)
but I doubt most new sites will obey it... :-).

>By the way, the comment deadline on 92-136 was October 1st.
>So if you haven't filed original comments already, they may not
>read them (I think they have sometimes read late comments anyway but 
>not with any regularity).  I filed my own comments in this matter
>on the 29th and had to send them Priority mail to be sure they
>arrived by the deadline.

Yeah, I was a bit paranoid too and sent it Certified. I got the green
card back indicating that they received it on the 29th (my comments were
similar to Phil's, advocating the simpler test).  What is potentially
interesting is that if anyone uses your comments in reply comments they
have to send you a copy.  A good way to find out if you are really
listened to :-).

--
73, Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU

pschleck@unomaha.edu

Celebrating 60 years of the Univ. of Maryland ARA - W3EAX (1933-1993)
From: tommy@arghouse.UUCP (Tom Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Subject: Re: Is It Legal To Use Autopatch To......
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 13:36:43 PDT
Distribution: us
Organization: The Listening Post

John,
  Here's what I understand from the regs:

1) Calling a business is fine, as long as the call is not business related.  
   You can't call your boss to tell him/her you'll be late, but you can call 
   a friend and arrange a non-business meeting.

2) Getting prices via HAM radio is a bit fuzzy.  If you're talking to one of 
   the business selling the product, that may be illegal.  If you're wife is 
   telling you how much it here and there, and you're on the way to get one,
   that may be legal.  I wouldn't try it either way, personally.

3) Calling someone to order a pizza may be legal.  The analogy told me is: 
   You can't order the pizza over the air, but you can call home to request 
   the order.  Refer to #2 for pizza prices.

4) Why would you call a radio station?  To claim a prize?  You can't be the 
   fifth caller as you would profit from the call.  And I don't think you
   can be retransmitted over WKRP anyway.

5) Calling the police for a non-emergency should wait until you get home.
   A non-emergency call (other than, maybe, highway information), can be
   construed as a business call.

6) See #5 for the Parks and Rec. Department and local or state Government
   offices.  Unless the call is personal where the recipient nor you makes a 
   business gain or loss, then wait till you get home.

7) Calling a business is legal, even if they DO state the name of the 
   company (I don't know many that don't).  To call your father at work is 
   okay, providing it's personal.


Now, considering all that and putting it into a summary, it may read:
        Transmissions over Amateur Service bands to a business, or via 
autopatch to a business are legal providing the call is strictly of a 
personal nature and that no business is conducted (even arranging a business 
luncheon or calling in late), except when deemed necessary by the FCC 
Engineer-In-Charge in cases of emergency (rations for the fire crew can be 
ordered by patch if you're an emergency operator at the time).

The old rule from the old school was NO BUSINESS CALLS, EVER!  But times 
have changed, the rules have been rewritten, and common sense is at work (in 
this instance).

I hope this helps you.

------------------
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From: k9jma@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (edwin.m.schaefer)
Subject: Re: How to Transfer a Call Sign
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:34:56 GMT

In article <9209301238.AA15303@ucsd.edu> William=E.=Newkirk%Pubs%GenAv.Mlb@ns14.cca.CR.rockwell.COM writes:
>>passed away 4 years ago. Shortly after that, I called the FCC in San Francisco
>>and they told me there isn't anyway I can do this. I have an Advanced Class
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Mr. Ed would be shocked - you got the answer straight from the horse's mouth 
>and you don't believe them...8-).

No, the FCC is much closer to the other end of the horse. :-)

>
>Currently calls are not reused.  Your dad's call was retired when he passed 
>on.  There was for a time a way for clubs to acquire such calls for club 
>stations and such and for a while extras could ask for a specific call, but 
>all that's gone now and calls are dealt from the top of the deck (K3VOA not 
>withstanding).
>
>73 bill wb9ivr

I have to say neigh to the above argument.  FCC staff are under the saddle,
Congresspersons' staff are in the saddle (to stick with the horsey theme).

FCC staff may well choose to oblige congressperson's staff in any particular
case. Your congressperson will do whatever it thinks right - you probably
wont't get what you want - but its good to let the congress know that their
bureaucrats aren't filling your need - and you may get lucky.

73 de Mr. Ed
From: rogerm@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Roger Myers)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:13:41 GMT
Subject: How to Transfer a Call Sign
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy


Hello Fello Hams,

     Does anyone know of any way I can tranfer my dad's call sign to me? He
passed away 4 years ago. Shortly after that, I called the FCC in San Francisco
and they told me there isn't anyway I can do this. I have an Advanced Class
license and so did he. Any info on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Roger Myers  WB7PJS
Lewis Myers  W6CAZ
From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Subject: Re: ...no traffic and we're QRU...
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:48:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: qualcomm.1992Oct6.174853.2088
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc

In article <1992Oct6.131341.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> jcraig@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>Using QRT for "clear" or QSL for "roger" is akin to using phonetics on CW... 
>a waste of bandwidth.

Absolutely. But you have to realize that using obscure jargon instead
of plain, understandable English makes you sound much more
knowledgeable and important to any laymen who happen to be listening.
It helps to keep the bands less heavily loaded by scaring away any
such laymen impertinent enough to entertain thoughts of getting a ham
license.  And it also helps obscure the fact that (usually) no real
information is exchanged in an amateur QSO anyway.

--Phil (ducking rapidly)
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From: pschleck@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU)
Subject: Re: My comments on Docket 92-136
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:31:21 GMT

Excellent comments, Phil.  I hadn't realized that one of the motivations
for the 1972 Eye Bank Docket was protection of the then-monopoly on
telecommunications by the Bell System, thanks for putting that in.

The part about Usenet and Fidonet being shared resources with community
guidance and self-enforcement was also right on the money.

Let's hope the FCC chooses to "do the right thing" on this issue.

--
73, Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU

pschleck@unomaha.edu

Celebrating 60 years of the Univ. of Maryland ARA - W3EAX (1933-1993)

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From: shalamsk@dewey.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Paul Shalamskas)
Subject: Re: SAREX Interference Solution?
Keywords: complete waste of bandwidth
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 00:31:15 GMT

In article <7443@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <11197@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> bill@platypus.uofs.edu 
>	                                               (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>Maybe we should just get the FCC to put things back the way they used to be.
>>No repeaters below 146.000!!
>
>Good luck. What do you propose to do with the thousand or so repeaters
>nationwide in that range? Tell them to shut down and lose their (not
>inconsiderable) investment? Try to cram them into a band already overcrowded
>in the first place - the very reason that the 144.5-145.5 band was allocated
>to repeaters in the first place? Or is there another solution in your pocket?
>-- 

      Hey, that's life... what did they do with all the 220 - 222 MHz stuff?

      There are too many voice repeaters that are unused... here in Hawaii
      the 2 meter repeater frequencies are all occupied, and it's nearly impossible 
      to find a repeater that is actually in use, even during rush hour!
      I bet things are the same in most places.

      Repeaters are NOT the main reason for the existence of Ham Radio.

                        de John Shalamskas, KJ9U / KH6
From: dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca (Dennis Breckenridge VE6TCP)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Subject: Re: How to Transfer a Call Sign
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:32:55 GMT
Organization: Alchemy Mindworks, Edmonton, Alberta

rogerm@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Roger Myers) writes:


>Hello Fello Hams,

>     Does anyone know of any way I can tranfer my dad's call sign to me? He
>passed away 4 years ago. Shortly after that, I called the FCC in San Francisco
>and they told me there isn't anyway I can do this. I have an Advanced Class
>license and so did he. Any info on this would be very much appreciated.

>Thanks in advance,

I too had to go through the nonsense of changing callsigns here in Canada. 
It took two letters, one from the person with the callsign I wanted and one
from me authorizing the D.O.C. to release my callsign. What happens in 
Canada if a license is not renewed, Communications Canada will dump that
callsign into the "free" pool. We can request our own suffixes up here in 
the frozen north.

Now in your situation, the executor of the estate of your dad has full 
legal title to represent him, so a letter of intent written by said 
executor should do it for your dad's side. A letter from you should 
release your callsign back into the pool should work for you. 

I had to fly to the Vancouver office with both letters and discuss this
at length with the D.O.C. officials (I was a VE7 and Vancouver is the 
office for VE7's) and then check with the Edmonton office (VE6 land) 
with the same two letters. After a month of the fog clearing in the 
minds of the government workers at the D.O.C. I finally received my 
new call and corrected station license (of course they typo'ed the 
address, not too bad for them considering last year they gave me 
a sex change and called me Denise, but this is the Canadian system 
at it's finest :-()
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From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Quebec court rules that taped cell-phone conv. can be reported
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:55:18 GMT

This particular topic may or may not have come up here before, but
I thought it is interesting.

Someone had taped a cell-phone conversation between 2 political aids
in Quebec.  The tape, or a copy, or a transcript (etc) found its way
to the media.  An injunction was put out that prevented the disclosure
of the contents of the tape, but the provincial court just ruled that
the press could now report on it.

So, like, I was under the impression that evesdropping on private
communications was ok so long as either 
a) it was not taped or
b) it was not taped for playback to another party.

Does this kind of court ruling fly in the face of existing regulations?

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From: steinman@is.morgan.com (Jan Steinman)
Subject: WANT: info on reciprocal licensing in Switzerland
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:15:57 GMT

I hold a current Technician license (N7JDB), and will be moving to
Switzerland for an extended period. Can someone tell me what I have to
do to operate in Switzerland while I'm there? Please email; I'll
summarize. Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Subject: Re: SAREX Interference Solution?
From: steveb@inst-sun1.tmc.edu (Steve Bednarczyk)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 19:08:29 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

In article <11197@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
>Maybe we should just get the FCC to put things back the way they used to be.
>No repeaters below 146.000!!
>bill    KB3YV

YES!!!   And no FM either!!! There just doesn't seem to be any spirit of
cooperation left in amateur radio any longer. We now have what appears to be a remote base on 144.200 Mhz in the Los Angeles area now.  FM simplex on 144.100
CW part of the band. We used to have a reasonable amount of self-control
and respect for 'negotiated' sub-bands.  No longer! The attitude, at least inthe urbanized areas seems to be "Part 97 says I can operate here so I'm gonna!"
Steve NJ6J
 
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