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In rec.radio.amateur.misc, jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (jeffrey.n.jones) writes:

>You know if you read the posts here you would get the impression that the
>CW portions of the various bands were deviod of any activity at all. In fact
>the exact opposite is true as they are crowded and extremely active! Can't
>tell you how many times I have given up trying to find a spot to call CQ
>and went over to the phone portions where there is much less activity. 

Another factor is that, since CW signals take much less bandwidth than SSB,
the CW bands SEEM much less crowded than they really are.  I once did a
study (admittedly a number of years ago) where I very slowly tuned the HF
bands, counting the number of different signals heard.  I was careful to
tune at a constant number of kHz/minute so as not to bias the results.
I found that, counting the Novice bands, there were actually more CW 
signals than SSB.  

I suspect CW may have lost a little ground since then, but I bet the
ratio still isn't all that far from 50/50.  And the CW bands are effectively
smaller now because of the increased space reserved for digital modes.

AL N1AL

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: Ham Radio Causes Cancer!
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:49:27 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

alanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom) writes:

>     "... This large population-based study indicates that amateur radio
>     operator licensees in Washington State and California have significant
>     excess mortality due to acute myeloid leukemia, multiple myeloma,
>     and perhaps certain types of malignant lymphoma.  Avocational and/or
>     occupational exposures to electric and magnetic fields should be among
>     the possible etiologies considered in explaining this excess mortality."

>That's about as close as a scientist writing in a technical jourmal will
>ever get to saying "ham radio causes cancer."  


No it isn't. What is is saying is that there appears to be a correlation
between hams and higher rates of cancer mortality.  Write this 1000 times:
"Correlation does not beget causation."  Many people innocently confuse 
correlation with causation; the media and certain groups do it agressively
intentionally.  For example, there is a correlation between those people
who have ham licenses and those who own handi-talkies.  One cannot
conclude that having a ham license causes HT ownership.

Analyzing cancer excess mortality is notoriously error-prone.  Small
samples, as in the above case are famous for generating false correlations
that are discredited with more extensive study.  Indeed quite often
large scale studies frequently directly contradict the results of small
studies.  Being a nuke, I have more than a passing interest in this.
I'd suggest taking what he said for what it is, a correlation that may
or may not have a basis and then keep an ear to the ground for further 
developments.

John
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From: psafj@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr G Milligan)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: #### NEED DTI's PHONE NUMBER ####
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:29:33 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Distribution: uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk

Could someone please email the latest phone number of the Amateur Radio
Licencing divison of the DTI (uk).  Am i correct in saying that they were
moving to the docklands ?. Thanks.


Greg Milligan
Department of Psychology.
University of Warwick.
West Midlands.
Postcode code CV4 7AL.
UK.
InterNet: psafj@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Janet: psafj@uk.ac.warwick.csv
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: LICENSE DELAYS
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:29:57 GMT

Here is an interesting observation:  Some members of the local
radio club finished a license course in mid-November 1992.  Two men
from the course took their no code tech exams just before
Thanksgiving; they are still waiting for their tickets.  A woman
from the same class took a novice exam on December 12th and just
got her KB8... call last Friday (about five weeks).

It appears that the one remaining person processing applications on
Tuesdays in Gettysburg must process X number of applications from
each application category.

My application was for an HF tech in the middle of September; it
took the VEC+FCC about 12-1/2 weeks to process.

Oh well, it is just some time to go shopping for your rig.  Can't
complain too much seeing as it sure didn't cost much to get my
license. :-)

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: burago@genesis.nred.ma.us (Paul Coebergh)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Scanner MOdification
Keywords: Uniden scanner modifications
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:37:04 GMT
Organization: Genesis Public Access Minix  +1 508 664 0149



hello..

I recently purchased a Uniden Bearcat 200xlt scanner. It states that this scanner does not scan the cellular band. There is, however, a modify this..i've heard..is there anyone on this net..who would be able to explain to me how this is done..
many thanks in advance..

-Paul C.-
From: alanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:45:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Transmitting 50-178 & 300-512?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, jones@sj.ate.slb.com (Clark Jones) writes:

>Willie Smith (wpns@miki.pictel.com) wrote:
>: Can you even build a PLL that works over more than an octave without
>: resorting to esoteric tricks that are unlikely to be found in
>: commercially available radios?
...
>BTW, there are several commercially available recievers that use PLLs for
>the LO and cover from ~0.1MHz to ~30MHz.  That's >8 octaves...

But the PLL doesn't cover 8 octaves.  Typically these radios use a first 
IF of, say, 45 MHz or so and use a PLL tuning between 45.1 and 75 MHz
to cover the .1 to 30 MHz range.  

There's no fundamental reason why a PLL can't go more than an octave,
though.  The main problem is making a VCO that tunes over such a wide
range with good stability, low phase noise and a linear tuning curve.

AL N1AL

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: swirsky@adobe.com (Robert Swirsky)
Subject: Re: Marge Simpson's sister is a ham!
Keywords: Simpsons, YL
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:02:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.143403.16112@crd.ge.com> mallick@crd.ge.com writes:
>I don't know how many of you caught "The Simpsons" last night, but during one scene when
>Marge's cigarette-puffing, Gorgon-like sister is lamenting her lonely life and lack of a
>child, she says something like "I still have my ham radio".  The picture shifts to a radio
>with a zillion knobs with some foreign-sounding voice coming out of the speaker; the
>translation sub-title said "I have a ham radio."
>
>Is this ARRL-approved advertising? :-)
>

I enjoyed seeing her radio. 

The only other Ham Radio reference I've ever seen on a television sitcom was
an episode of Hazel. It went like this:

	The kid in the Hazel household (I forget his name after 20 years)
	befriends a new neighbor who is an amateur radio operator. Shortly
	after, everyone in the house starts experiencing TVI.

	The new neighbor ham is blamed for the TVI and a feud starts.

	Eventually, the ham traces the cause of interference to an electric
	blanket (!) in Hazel's house, and everyone apoliges to each other. 


---
73 & 88
Robert A. Swirsky AF2M
"Another EXTRA for NO-CODE!"
From: ehare@arrl.org (Ed Hare - KA1CV)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Who is the ARRL? (was Re: Extra Class Question Pools)
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:17:46 EST
Organization: American Radio Relay League

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, root@jackatak.raider.NET 
my friend, (Jack GF Hill - Sysop [HOME]) writes:

Stuff about the question pools and the ARRL mail server deleted.

>I'm not the League, just an OF Life member who thinks it's neato that HQ 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>is on InterNet!
>73 ES GUD LUCK
>Jack

Jack and I have developed a bit of a friendship, so I can give him a
bit of what-for and still be within the bounds of good taste. :-), 

so:

SHAME ON YOU, Jack!!! :-).

As I go out into the world to represent ARRL Headquarters at ARRL 
Conventions, I am often one of the guest speakers at one of the
banquets or dinners. In my introduction, it is often pointed out 
that the League Convention is lucky to have someone from the League
present at the dinner. I stand up, say how glad I am to be
there, and start to point out that I am not the only one from the
League at the dinner -- in fact, as I look around the room at the
number of League diamonds on all of the name badges, I see that there
are LOTS of people from the League there. The American Radio Relay 
League is NOT just in Newington, CT! It is a large collection of
members, Division Directors, Field appointees and the Headquarters
staff. We are only a PART of the ARRL, an important part, IMHO, but
only a part. The real League is out in the world, on your local repeater,
or in a 20-meter pileup trying for a new one. The real League is
found at your local club, or on your local traffic net or packet
bulletin board. The true nature of ARRL is not what we (the HQ staff
make it), but is what the rest of us (all the people "out there")
make it. Its true strengths (and weaknesses) are found in the 
local programs, clubs, membership activities, traffic nets, publicity
events, ham classes, volunteer-examiner teams, and in just plain old
operating!

I even find that I sometimes have to remind MYSELF that ARRL is not
just to be found in Newington. It is found all over the US (and overseas
through associate members and full members with military addresses). 
So, Jack, I must correct your mis-understanding --- you ARE the League,
as much as I.

So, in closing, 73 to the ARRL from a member of the ARRL Headquarters
staff, Ed -- KA1CV

-----
Ed Hare, KA1CV                  ehare@arrl.org
American Radio Relay League
225 Main St.
Newington, CT  06111            You will never put the puzzle together  
(203) 666-1541 - voice          if you keep putting all the pieces
ARRL Laboratory Supervisor      back in the box.
RFI, xmtr and rcvr testing  
-----
From: little@nuts2u.enet.dec.com (nuts2u::little)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: re: Real NoCodes
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:06:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:

>
> bunch of drivel insulting a portion of the amateur radio community
> deleted for sake of brevity...
>

As he has demonstrated in previous posts and mail message, Mr. Deignan
goal in life is to make an ass of himself.  Such childish behavior
usually indicates a lack of maturity, fear of the group being taunted,
or a misguided attempt at getting attention.  Or perhaps the only
contribution he knows how to make is in the form exemplified by his
posting.

Personally I find it both sad and amusing.  It's sad because I suspect
his attitude is more a reflection of the general fear and hatred that
seems to be permeating society in general.  It's funny because I always
get a kick out of someone making a complete fool of themselves.

Who knows, perhaps due to some stroke of luck his life or well being
will be dependent upon the actions of someone from the group he
attempts to denigrate.  Certainly would be just deserts.

Like the slime that attempt to interfere with repeaters, the best
thing to do is ignore him.  Without an audience, he'll be deprived of
the attention he apparently is so desperately trying to get.

73,
Todd
N9MWB
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: sharon@world.std.com (Sharon M Gartenberg)
Subject: Re: I love/hate Wayne Green!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:14:52 GMT

tcain@brtph87.bnr.ca (Tom Cain  WB8OUE) writes:

>I agree wholeheartedly!!  I enjoy all of 73, but, Wayne's editorial is
>what makes the mag unique and always the first thing I read.  Amateur
>radio NEEDS a rabble-rouser and Wayne does a great job at it! 

There's a difference, in my opinion, between a "rabble-rouser" and an
"egomaniac." My problem with Mr. Green is that, ultimately, one gets the
impression from his pieces that he, personally, is more important than 
anything he writes about. It's always HE did this, HE did that, HE has
done so many wonderful things. ... Blech. Perhaps this has changed
recently -- we get the magazine because my husband likes it, but the only
thing I look at is the 73 International section.

There are enough self-important bores in this world one is forced to listen
to. I certainly don't feel like voluntarily using my precious spare time
to read one every month!

Sharon KC1YR  
-- 
Sharon Machlis Gartenberg
Framingham, MA  USA
e-mail: sharon@world.std.com
From: mallick@crd.ge.com (John Mallick)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Coax voltage - How to computer?
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:11:39 GMT
Reply-To: mallick@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Corp. Research And Development

In article <C17KuI.2IB@ms.uky.edu>,  hgpeach@ms.uky.edu (Harold G. Peach, Jr.) writes:
|> A recent posting regarding voltage on twin-lead prompted me to ask
|> a question I have had for some length of time:  How do you compute
|> the transmitted voltage on a coax, given the power?  You have
|> the impedance of the coax to work with, but some ham friends have
|> told me SQRT(RP) adjusted for RMS does not yield an accurate transmitted
|> voltage or current.
|> ---
|> Harold G. Peach, Jr.                              Home Phone:  (606) 271-6393
|> University of Kentucky, Lexington               Campus Phone:  (606) 257-3335
|> hgpeach@ms.uky.edu                                       FAX:  (606) 258-5842
|>   (Opinions above are expressed as a student of the University of Kentucky)

If the load is purely resistive and matched to the impedance of coax (a VSWR of 1) then
your SQRT(R*P) is OK (adjusted for RMS of course).  If the load is not purely resistive,
then the easiest way to do this is to use the Smith Chart.   Check out some antenna books
or the new ARRL publication on the Smith Chart.  If the VSWR is >1, then the voltage and
current on the line are position (and frequency) dependent.
-- 

John A. Mallick WA1HNL
GE Corporate Research and Development
Schenectady, NY 12301
From: dbillon@stein.u.washington.edu (Damien Billon)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: TH78, DJ580, ICW2 ...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:02:27 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu


  I am looking for a 2 meter/440 MHz handheld transceiver. Many of them seem
to have problems because of the cellular phones (UHF band): intermod, desense..

  Did someone try to compare them (in term of sensitiveness to these
disturbances) ?

  It is a well-known problem in France. I don't know if it is as important
in the US ?

73, damien, FC1PLI.         Please answer to dbillon@u.washington.edu
From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: illegals (was: Re: Radio Shack Business Band Radio)
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:59:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing Sciences

In article <1993Jan21.183435.1083@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, randolph@est.enet.dec.com (Tom Randolph) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1993Jan20.125802.2749@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>, dj1@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes...
|> >>
|> >Here is a RS flame but when I was in there the guy said:
|> >"No problem, just use it no liscense required!"
|> 
|> Yah, this brings up something I've been wondering about. What are we, as hams,
|> to do when something like this occurs?
|> 
|> For instance, here in Massachusetts there is a local for sale/wanted magazine,
|> one of the catagories of which is "radios and electronics". I very often see
|> ads in there like:        Acme 40 channel CB, modified for 100 channels and
|>                           increased power. Call Joe 123-4567
|> 
|> I'm extremely tempted to tear out the page, apply a highlighter, and forward it
|> to the FCC. Comments, anyone?

The same ads can be seen in Pennysaver/PaperShop/WandAds all over 
the country.  Do you honestly believe that the employees of the 
FCC lead such a sheltered life that they have never seen one of 
these rags??

I would think the most obvious answer is that they real don't care.
If they did care, they could keep an army of agents busy running
sting operations.  All they have to do is answer the ad, go to the
guys house, buy the item and bust him. But as I said, they don't care.
And based on that you should be able to imagine where your gesture
would end out if you actually did mail a copy to them.  

bill    KB3YV

-- 

   Bill Gunshannon     | "There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Reardon" Francisco
   bill@cs.uofs.edu    |  said softly, "except one; the refusal to think."
                       |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>   
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: klimasewski@fccvde.enet.dec.com (My name is...)
Subject: WEFAX/PRESS PHOTOS
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 25 JAN 93 10:54:53    


This might interest those that have a Satellite dish.

Over the weekend I was successful in copying wefax pictures (S3 ch17 @1.88 and 
1.93MHz) and Press Photos on K2.

The demodulator and software is made by SOFTWARE SYSTEMS 
CONSULTING, called WEFAX/GOES. It consists of a piece of hardware that 
connects to the end of an RS232 cable. The hardware has two cables with 1/8th
plugs. One for HF fax and the other for VHF. This plugs into the ext. speaker
jack.

I connected the descrambler output port of my receiver which is a 0-8MHz video
output port to the rf input port of a shortwave receiver that has an 
FM mode and tuned in the freq range of 1.88MHz,1.93MHz (S3) and 4.020MHz (K2). 

Pictures looked great! Has anyone else tried this using a TVRO??


                             Ken
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: HTs at Disneyland
From: Aaron Morrison <MORRISON@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:41:52 EST
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services


In article <HIDEG.93Jan19185621@spsd630a.erim.org>, hideg@spsd630a.erim.org
(Steve Hideg) says:
>
>In article <C140I7.65L@panix.com> oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
>
>>Anybody have similar information on Disney World?
>>(In Florida)
>
>I went there about 3 years ago. The one time I tried to bring my HT in, the
>moron at the gate *yelled* at me that I cannot bring a radio into the park.
>
>_________________________
>Steve Hideg  N8HSC
>
>hideg@amadeus.erim.org

A quick look at a repeater directory showed me the following:

147.30 + offset     WA4ABQ  run by the Walt Disney ARC

The directory shows it to be open with an autopatch.

I haven't personally been able to hit this repeater to verify this. (I
only have a 2W battery for my HT and I live just too far east in
orlando :-/  and I dont go that direction much.)

I have no idea whether the park allows 2way radios or not, so don't blame
it on me if you can't get in with em.

I don't work (or have ever worked) for the Walt Disney Company (or
companies) -- but I think it might be nice to one of these days.

73's

---------------------------- Qapla'reH! ----------------------------
               Morrison@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu (Aaron Morrison)
            University of Central Florida, Orlando Florida USA
--------------------------------------------------------------------
If it's there and you can see it -- it's real
If it's not there and you can see it -- it's virtual
If it's there and you can't see it -- it's transparent
If it's not there and you can't see it -- you erased it!
From: michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Marge Simpson's sister is a ham!
Keywords: Simpsons, YL
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:09:15 GMT
Reply-To: michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Broadcast Sports Technology, Crofton. Maryland.

In article <1993Jan22.143403.16112@crd.ge.com> mallick@crd.ge.com writes:
 >I don't know how many of you caught "The Simpsons" last night, 
 >but during one scene when Marge's cigarette-puffing, Gorgon-like 
 >sister is lamenting her lonely life and lack of a child, she says 
 >something like "I still have my ham radio".  The picture shifts to a radio
 >with a zillion knobs with some foreign-sounding voice coming out 
 >of the speaker; the translation sub-title said "I have a ham radio."

                          (####)
                        (#######)
                      (#########)
                     (#########)
                    (#########)
                   (#########)
   __&__          (#########) 
  /     \        (#########)   |\/\/\/|     /\ /\  /\               /\
 |       |      (#########)    |      |     | V  \/  \---.    .----/  \----. 
 |  (o)(o)       (o)(o)(##)    |      |      \_        /       \          /
 C   .---_)    ,_C     (##)    | (o)(o)       (o)(o)  <__.   .--\ (o)(o) /__.
  | |.___|    /____,   (##)    C      _)     _C         /     \     ()     / 
  |  \__/       \     (#)       | ,___|     /____,   )  \      >   (C_)   <
  /_____\        |    |         |   /         \     /----'    /___\____/___\ 
 /_____/ \       OOOOOO        /____\          ooooo             /|    |\
/         \     /      \      /      \        /     \           /        \
  

Yes, now you mention it, they DO look like some of my local radio club
members! 

-- 
Michael Katzmann                  >   Broadcast Sports Technology Inc.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	         <    Crofton, Maryland. U.S.A
Amateur Radio Stations:           >     
NV3Z / VK2BEA / G4NYV / AAR3VK   <    opel!vk2bea!michael@uunet.uu.net
From: bjstaff@zds-ux.UUCP (Brad Staff)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: General Class Licence - HELP!!!!
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:23:04 GMT
Organization: Zenith Data Systems

> Could someone tell a good way to prepare for the general class
> license? I am looking for a book that contains the material and
> the general class question pool. Also, some tapes for code.

I wasn't too impressed with the Gordon West materials.  The ARRL General
Class License Manual and the GGTE Morse Tutor (software) is good.

73,

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