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From: edh@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Ed Humphries)
Subject: Re: Ringo Ranger II performance
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:21:44 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC Atlanta

In <ll42laINNh4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> wdh@oversteer.Eng.Sun.COM (Dennis Henderson) writes:

>The Ringo Ranger II performed much better than a Jpole for me.   I replace 
>a Jpole with a RR-II using the same mast and coax.  Repeaters that were not 
>workable with the Jpole became reliably workable with the RR-II. 

>The jpole was the American Legion unit which is popular in No Cal and well built.   

Just a note from the other side: I have built and sucessfully used
copper tube jpoles for several years using the tried and true
trim and try, slide and match method. Once done, these are clean
on transmit and rx was good as far away as any Ringo I've tried.
I dislike the capacitive connection used on the A.L. units, although
I understand they work well too if they are properly tuned with the
antenna _in place_ (move the wrapped section slightly up or down
the pole and spread the windings (or compress slightly) as needed).

I also installed a R.R. II for the Williamson Co. Texas emergency
operations center. While it was okay, I was never happy with the
vswr on 440 and even felt like the 144 was marginal no matter how
carefully I adjusted it. Granted this was a side mount on the
tower, and a copper jpole might not have done any better. But I
do appreciate the mechanical simplicity of the copper-pole at the
home QTH.

Cheers, Ed Humphries N5RCK HP CRC Atlanta GA
From: johnr@agnostic.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Info-Hams Digest V93 #35
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:03:13 GMT
Organization: None
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

unsubscribe me i mean
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From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com ("Jim Reisert, AD1C  07-Jan-1993 2340")
Subject: ARRL DX Bulletin #1 - January 8, 1993
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 20:39:49 PST
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ZCZC AE27
QST de W1AW  
DX Bulletin 1  ARLD001
From ARRL Headquarters  
Newington CT  January 8, 1993
To all radio amateurs   
 
SB DX ARL ARLD001
ARLD001 DX news
 
Thanks go out this week to Tom, VR2GO, Harry, OM3EA, and the
Register Citizen newspaper for the items in this week's bulletin.
 
CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS.  On January 1, the dissolution of
Czechoslovakia took effect.  The telecommunications authorities of
the two new nations have agreed that OK and OL call signs be used in
the Czech Republic and OM in the Slovak Republic.
 
The address of the QSL bureau for OK1 and OK2 amateurs continues to
be PO Box 69, 11327 Praha 1.
 
A new society, the Slovak Amateur Radio Association, has been
established to represent OM amateurs, with Anton Mraz, OM3LU, as
president, and Harry Cincura, OM3EA, as QSL manager.  Its address is
PO Box 1, 85299 Bratislava.
 
ERITRIA.  The people in this republic are expected to be voting on
independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-supervised referendum
sometime in April.  
 
The DX Advisory Committee, DXAC, is awaiting the results of this
vote before any recommendation on the DXCC status of Eritria.
 
INDIAN OCEAN TRIP.  Bernhard, DL2GAC, will be in India from mid
January through early February on a fact finding mission for a
proposed Indian Ocean DXpedition.  He hopes to operate as 8Q7CQ in
February for a day or more, and then move on and operate as H44MS
for approximately two months.
 
CONTEST WEEKEND.  The Japan International DX CW Contest is this
weekend.  It runs from 2200z Friday through 2200z Sunday.
 
HONG KONG.  Tom, VR2GO, reports that a UK amateur has been
erroneously claiming to be his QSL manager.  The proper QSL route
for VR2GO is Tom Ewing, GPO Box 9887, Hong Kong.  Tom adds that VR2
is the new call sign prefix being issued for Hong Kong.  VS6 calls
will be gradually phased out before 1997.
NNNN

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: ham@wam.umd.edu (Scott Richard Rosenfeld)
Subject: Re: Need a 3rd hand for Soldering!?
Keywords: question
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 12:56:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.222522.20042@news.columbia.edu> hyx1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Harry Y Xu) writes:
>I always feel like my 2 hands are not enough when soldering.
>1 hand holds the soldering iron;
>1 holds the solder;
>another hand is needed to hold the component, or the pliers that hold the
>component to prevent over-heating.
>
>Does anyone have a smart solution?

Yup.  Get yourself a table-top vise.  Nice, free-standing, with a heavily 
weighted base.  If you have a workbench that you can drill into, your 
choices are very broad.  As for where to go to get it:

You can probably pick up something Craftsman at Sears, or something else
at the local hardware store.  There's also a company in California called
Jameco that sells stuff like tools, breadboards, and irons, that would
probably sell a bench-type vise.

Scott
NF3I

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: cohler@vxcrna.cern.ch (Mike Cohler)
Subject: Pye Bantam circuit diagram
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:00:00 GMT

I have a Pye Bantam with a 'problem' and I very much need a circuit diagram
to fix it.   Does anyone have a circuit diagram for this transceiver or
who can tell me where I might be able to get one ?

Any help appreciated.... prefer email responses.
Thanks
Mike

==============================================================
|                                                            |
|        Mike Cohler -  preferred email address:             |
|                       MDC1@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK                 |
|                   ie  MDC1%VAXA.YORK.AC.UK@UKACRL.BITNET   |
|                                                            |
|        UK PPL and Glider Pilot                             |
|                                                            |
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From: kinne@oswego.Oswego.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: WANTED: HAWAII!!
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:43:16 GMT
Reply-To: kinne@oswego.Oswego.edu ()
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Originator: kinne@cloy.oswego.edu

Folks:
	Good morning...  I have been working on my Worked All States
award for some time now.  I have gotten to the point where I need to
contact and confirm only ONE MORE STATE: the elusive HAWAII!  My
"hurry" is that I may be moving in a few weeks and if I cannot get
HI by that time, I will, of course, have to start all over again.

	Are there any HI stations on the Net who would like the help
me?  I would really appreicate it!  After three years of working on this
(on and off til this possible move put the fire into me) I find it amazing
that I only have one more state to find.  My worry is that I have never
heard HI on the air and I wonder how much of that is due to the location
of my station.  I'm able to put about 150 watts into a G5RV layed on the
roof of a 3rd floor, 175 year old building (great for history, rotten
for radio since the phone lines where layed before Bell was
born and the building's electrical system doesn't know the meaning of
the word "ground.").

	If there are any HI stations on the Net who would like to be
directly responsible (via the LAST needed contact) for a fellow
operator finally getting his WAS before he moves, PLEASE contact me via
return email so we can talk about setting up a sked.  N2IKR can
operate on SSB, CW, and RTTY.  I'd PREFER the contact be SSB because
I have far more experience in that than the other two, but I am
very willing to experiment!

	I would greatly appreciate any help the Net could give me!
HAWAII, where are you?  8-)

					73!
					Doc Kinne, N2IKR
					kinnerc@snymorva.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: ralexander@irnbru.enet.dec.com (Robin Alexander)
Subject: HELP: ICOM IC2SE Mods & US info Wanted
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:09:34 GMT

Hi,

I recently acquired a 2nd hand IC2SE H/H. I`m gonna be
visiting the US at the end of the Month for the SuperBowl
and wondered if anyone had any info on how to mod the set
for the US frequency allocation???

BTW I`m also keen to find out about any good Ham stores 
in the San Francisco / San Leandro / North L.A. 

Can anyone e-mail me any info on repeaters in the area as
it`s too late to send off for the ARRL List.


Thanks

Robin Alexander

ampr     	: gm4yed@gb7san.gb.eu
internet 	: ralexander@irnbru.enet.dec.com

Entry Level Systems Product Business Unit,
Digital Equipment, Scotland.
+44 292 883375 (DTN 823-3375)


Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: MSUORANTA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mika Suoranta Tkkk)
Subject: Re: Soldering radials to SO-239's
Organization: Turku School of Economics, Finland
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:10:29 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1993Jan03.233009.4649@uhura.neoucom.edu> wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu writes:

>  (on having trouble soldering to an SO-239 chassis mount socket)
>  
>  Try roughing up the surface with a file; it will wet with solder
>  much more easily.
		
	And wet both parts (SO-239 and wire) seperately before
	soldering them together. I have made many 1/4 GP antennas
	for 144MHz using SO (or UHF) connectors and 2mm wire.
	Works fine and very,very inexpensive...


			73 Mika




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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: zardoz@hfglobe.intel.com (Jim Garver)
Subject: Re: Ringo Ranger II performance
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:00:48 GMT

In article <ll42laINNh4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> wdh@oversteer.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>The Ringo Ranger II performed much better than a Jpole for me.   I replace 
>a Jpole with a RR-II using the same mast and coax.  Repeaters that were not 
>workable with the Jpole became reliably workable with the RR-II. 
>
>I am glad I made the switch. 
>
>...Dennis Henderson, N6TTW, 146.535
>
>ps:  I can't comment on ruggedness in harsh winters.  I live in California.  
>No problems in 1.5 yrs.  
>

My Ringo Ranger with a home-made II section has held up well from being 
whipped on top of a 60' Cedar tree for 4 winters of strong gusty winds.  
I bought it used for $20, disassembled it and ScotchBright'ed the sleeves,
applied NoAlOx or Penetrox on the joints, and reassembled it with stainless
steel hardware.  I've done this to 3 of them and after careful tuning they
work great.  I don't thing the extra decoupling section of the Ranger II
is effective or worthwhile.  The Ringo's gain is considerable over a 1/4 wave
drooping radial vertical which tells me that the alledged feedline radiation 
of Ringos is not bad enough to worry about.
IMHO Ringo antennas have an excellent Price/Performance ratio which I can't
say about Diamond or Comet.  They've also been around a lot longer and used
bargains are widely available. 
If you want performance use a 4 bay collinear array of dipoles giving an
honest 9 dbd gain in the cardiod pattern.  Otherwise build a twinlead J-pole
or buy and fix a used Ringo.  Where are the used isopoles?  I had a 440
isopole and its mechanical construction sucks.

WA7LDV
From: delancy@chesapeake.ads.com (J.D. Delancy)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Licensing changes for change of address?
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:14:14 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu


omh@cs.brown.edu writes:
>Sorry to ask such a dumb question, but have you tried getting a form 630

My pappy always said that the only dumb question was the one that was
not asked.  FCC 610's can be had from the ARRL (they have an 800#)
or I can mail you one since I have a few in my VE stock pile (need
your mail address).

Probably a good idea to let them know what the current mailing address
and station location are.  I remember some years back a W5 didn't have
an up to date address on file with the FCC.  They had a couple of monitoring
station citations for him but they kept coming back "return to sender".
Eventually, he decided it wa time to renew and the FCC let him have it...

jd--k1zat
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 430mhz band under th
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:54:13 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1id31iINNsim@west.West.Sun.COM> flloyd@l1-a.West.Sun.COM (Fred Lloyd [Phoenix SE]) writes:
>True.  Case in point:  If you find a frequency which is not
>occupied and put up a repeater on it, and then the coordinating body
>says "You can't do that!", you can tell them to take a hike.  They
>have to demonstrate that you're interfering before there's any 
>case.  And even then, they have to cooperate with you.  
>Needless to say, you may be right but you may not win any friends
>along the way.

Actually, the coordinating body could coordinate someone _else_ on the pair,
and then you'd be interfering with a coordinated repeater.

Before you say that that's not the case, note that we were told that that
would be acceptable by the Dallas FCC Field Office.. 

Flouting your local coordinating body is not the way to go about it.

BTW, I agree that the coordinator would do well to coordinate you on the
channel - if, and only if, his procedures allow it. Practically speaking, he's
not going to go looking for trouble. If, on the other hand, you're 50 miles
away from the neighboring repeater on the channel, and the minimum separation
is 85 miles, he's not going to be able to coordinate you there, and putting up
a repeater anyway is just going to start a fight.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
      "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
              -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of All Fears_
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: Dayton Hamfest Camping
Keywords: Dayton
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:32:43 GMT

Several years ago, I stayed at a KOA campgroud that was (if memory
serves me right) one exit west of the route 48 exit on I-70 on the
north side of I-70.  It was relatively inexpensive and fairly easy
to make reservations on short notice.

The weather is quite variable at that time of year in the Dayton
area.  Bring the longjohns and your swimsuit.  When I stayed at the
KOA, it got down to 33 degrees F.  Another time I stayed at a motel
on I-75 just north of 70 and the low was 76 degress.

73,
Bill


-- 
Bill Mayhew      NEOUCOM Computer Services Department
Rootstown, OH  44272-9995  USA    phone: 216-325-2511
wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (140.220.1.1)    146.580: N8WED
From: William=E.=Newkirk%Pubs%GenAv.Mlb@ns14.cca.CR.rockwell.COM
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: License Delays
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:11:12 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

>>Besides, and more important, that DOESN'T generally go to the
>>volunteer examiners.  It goes to the _volunteer examiner
> 
>New factoid (for me).  Thought the *team* got it. Goes to the League, eh?
>Or Fred.

and they have to justify the collection of the money (what you take in you 
have to spend on running the coordination job).

bill wb9ivr
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: tedk@gagme.chi.il.us (Ted G. Kekatos)
Subject: Northern Illinois - BIG HAMFEST - JAN 31 1992
Originator: tedk@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:18:29 GMT


Note: Please help to spread the word about this event.

-------------------------------------------------------

>>>>    Northern Illinois  - BIG HAMFEST    <<<<<

Wheaton Community Radio Amateurs (WCRA)

Sunday, Jan 31, 1992      Gates open at 8 a.m.

Odeum Expo Center, Villa Park, IL

VE Sessions, Flea Market, Commercial Tables,
Free Parking, Handicapped Accessible, Seminars.

Talk-in: 145.39- (WCRA Repeater)
         --------

Admission: At Door - $6.00,  Adv. $5.00

Contact:
Wheaton Community Radio Amateurs
P.O. Box QSL
Wheaton, IL  60189

708/629-8006   or    708/629-8889

----------------------------------------

Some WCRA members who should have advance Tickets for sale are:
 Naperville/Lisie Area:
  Mark Spieglan, 708/224-4863
  Doug Totel, 708/224-2410

----------------------------------------


Ted G. Kekatos, N9IXE
tedk@gagme.chi.il.us
708.390.0200 (w)
312.889.7401 (h)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: tkivivuo@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Toni Kivivuori)
Subject: New HAM - related directory at nic.funet.fi
Organization: University of Helsinki
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:29:01 GMT


New ham directory at nic.funet.fi :

/pub/ham/schema - directory for schematics.

Any schemas which may be useful others, may and should be uploaded to there.
Specially, ham related schemas, like preamplifiers, power amplifiers etc.
The format of file, should be PCX, TIFF, GIF, EPS, PS or ASCII. OrCad or
EasyPC files are ok too, but I'am not sure how common those are.
 
/Toni 

--
Tkivivuo@nic.funet.fi OH2LNM
-- 
Toni Kivivuori                              |  Hamradio, feel the real thing 
InterNet : Tkivivuo@kruuna.helsinki.fi      |  Speed kills - Use DOS!        
BitNet   : Tkivivuori@finuha                | " What whistling comes, will
Packet   : OH2LNM @ OH2NJR.FIN.EU           |   whistling go " (c) Doppler
From: dwarner@ub-gate.ub.com (Dave Warner)
Subject: Re: QSL cards from SWLers (was Re: Ham transmissions-a hypothetical situation)
Organization: Ungermann-Bass
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:38:21 GMT

In article <1icp0aINNmiv@transfer.stratus.com> fms@sw.stratus.com (Faith Senie) writes:

>In article <1993Jan5.161735.17871@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan5.085312.22208@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu
>>(Simon E. Booth) writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>>
[more....]

>What does one reply to a SWL card?  I got one recently, and didn't realize
>that some sort of reply was appreciated.  Just a note saying thanks? or is
>there something more that should be done?  I'd hate to leave the guy hanging
>if he's expecting some sort of reply...

IMHO what most SWL's are looking for is a return QSL card or just a note 
with your callsign, transmitter type/location/power, etc., and confimation 
of the Date/Time of the QSO referenced on the SWL card.  SWL's have  
contests/collections, too.  Most reception reports are to Non-Amateurs (
Radio Moscow, etc.), but confirmation is REALLY appeciated.




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dwarner@ub-gate.UB.com                   otherwise stated.

"Gallows, n.  A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the
leading actor is translated to heaven.  In this country the gallows is
chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it". - A. Bierce
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: tedwards@eng.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards)
Subject: EARTHWINDS?????
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:27:56 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

I noticed the EarthWinds balloon is preparing for launch in the
next few days.  Does anyone still have the info on what
ham radio operations will be going on during the mission?????

de N3HAU
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 1200Mhz is not a microwave band!
Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:03:15 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <9301051454.AA02438@tix.timeplex.com> taylor@tix.timeplex.COM (Seth Taylor) writes:
>Since so called "microwave ovens" operate in the UHF designation
>frequency range why don't we call them a "UHF" ? Think about that
>one.


   "It's below 1 GHz, so it's effectively DC."
      -- Dr. P. Steffes


Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey)
Subject: Re: 144Mhz band reject and band pass filter
Keywords: source other than handbook
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:02:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.140142.5491@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> nk30@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (JEFF ZELL NK3O) writes:
>	I am trying to remove or attenuate a 144Mhz signal from entering my tv.
>I am looking for a band reject filter for the tv sets and a band pass filter
>for the transmitter. I have searched the handbook and their is a bandpass
>filter for the transmitter,is their other sources? The filters impedance must 
>be 75 ohms in and out and 300 ohms in and out. Any ideas? 

You might want to try a transmission line trap.  It's a 1/4 wave stub, open
end at far end looks like a short at the freq you want to trap.  

length in inches = (2953 K)/freq in MHz, where K= 0.66 for coax, 0.83 for 
twin lead.  Make it a little longer, and nibble away in small pieces till
you attenuate the annoying frequency.  

I've made these, and it's easy, and works pretty well.  you can get 20 30dB
or so attenuation.  
------
source: Television  Engineering Handbook, Benson, isbn 0-07-004779-0, pg 13.68
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: n4tii@kd4nc.uucp (John Reed)
Subject: Re: Amiga software questions
Organization: KD4NC HAM Packet Radio Gateway
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:06:43 GMT

GREG@PLSZUS11.BITNET writes:

>Hi all,

>I am looking for FTP addresses wher I can find HAM (Packet) software for
>Amiga comp. There are a lot of places with AmigaNOS but what about other
>kind of programs? Wher can I find software for Satellite tracking, Fax,
>TNCs, telemetry?
>I have some files from nic.funet.fi /pub/ham/amiga (ham1..ham6.LHW). But
>there are some problems when I try to use my LHW on it. Is there anybody
>who use these files and can help me to extract it?

>Thank you in advance,


>73 de Greg,   (GREG@PLSZUS11

I used LZ when I FTP'd those files and had no trouble decrunching all 
of them.  They were no trouble at all.  Be careful with the HAM3.  It 
is supposed to have a virus in it or something.
 
Good luck.

73 de John
n4tii

n4tii%kd4nc.uucp@gatech.edu




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