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From: rabassa_ao%ncsd.dnet@gte.COM (NW2M reply: rabassa_ao%ncsd.dnet@gte.com)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Heathkit Schematic for keyer (HD-1410) Wanted
Date: 20 Aug 1992 08:21:09 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu



Help !!!!  I am looking for the schematic or assembly instructions
books for the Heathkit keyer model HD-1410.  Will gladly pay
repro and mail costs.  Please contact me first,  E-mail or phone.

Thanks !   Al

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: harp@bnr.ca (Alan Harp)
Subject: Re: Cushcraft R-7 antenna???
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Research Triangle Park, NC
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:39:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.212323.21534@sco.COM> rogerv@sco.COM (Roger Vortman) writes:

>I would like to solicit comments on the R-7 antenna.  Please mention
>how you have it mounted, how you would compare it to other antennas that
>you have had, and overall performance.  I am interested in groundwave
>performance as well as skip.

>Also, has anyone gotten frustrated and added a ground plane to it?  Does
>it perform well enough without added ground radials?

>Thanks.

>-Roger (KE6GL)
I have posted here before about my frustrations with the R7.  The complaint
and only complaint I have was that the WARC band traps didn't resonate
where they were supposed to.  The worst was the 30 meter trap.  A guy
named Jeff at Cushcraft told me how to adjust them and I finally got mine
to where I could use it without an antenna tuner.  I use it on a Motor home.
I don't want to have to use radials.  The Motor home is fiberglass with
a Steel frame underneath.  I have it mounted to the ladder which was
floating or un grounded.  I added a strap on the bottom that connected
it to the frame.  It doesnt compare to having four elements at 70 feet.
It works like a vertical.  You can work DX with it.  Have worked all
continents in one week end with it and conditions were really lousy.
I guess the balun and 7 whiskers at the bottom reduce the need for
radials.

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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: sbaker@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (Stephen Baker )
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: FT-101ZD
Date: 17 Aug 1992 10:47:11 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

I recently  acquired an FT-101Z with the D upgrade (digital freq. counter
display), and love it.  I now would like to add to it and have the following
questions:

	Is there an anonymous FTP site which might have text files on
	modifications for this rig?

	Is there anyone out there who has successfully added the WARC 
	bands to it?

Thanks.


Stephen P. Baker                                phone:  (508) 856-2625
Lecturer in Biostatistics                               (508) 856-2440 fax
Department of Academic Computing                        (413) 253-3923 home
University of Massachusetts Medical School      e-mail: sbaker@umassmed.bitnet
55 Lake Avenue North                                    _. .____ __. _ __._
Worcester, MA 01655
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: jreese@NeoSoft.com (Jim Reese)
Subject: Re: ICOM IC2-GAT QUESTION
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:04:38 GMT

The DTMF level pot on the IC-2GAT is located on the front panel PC
board.  If you've never dissassembled one of these before, be careful
not to ruin the switch cover.  It can be easily broken.  

The DTMF pot will be the only pot on the front board.  It's a surface
mount trimpot about 3/16" square.

Good luck.

-- 
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        Jim Reese, WD5IYT            |   "If at first you don't succeed...
     jreese@sugar.neosoft.com        |        Use a bigger hammer!"
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: "Destinated" (was: Re: Q-codes (was Re: QST Content))
Summary: What it really means
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:07:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Aug16.040703.27679
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Actually, "destinated" does mean something useful -- it means "marked with
a destination," as in "messages destinated for Georgia."

As for _people_ being destinated, I don't know...!

-- 
==========================================================================
Michael A. Covington, Ph.D. |  mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu  |  ham radio N4TMI
Artificial Intelligence Programs | U of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602  U.S.A.
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey)
Subject: Standard C5608DA 800MHz rx keyboard mod file
Keywords: mods
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:18:07 GMT

copied from packet:
 Msg# TSF  Size #Rd  Date  Time From   MsgID        To
 3497 BF   1349   1 08-Aug 0826 WB1ERG 7404_WB1ERG  ALL@USBBS ()
 Sb: Standard 800 mhz mod

The message I left earlier on the Standard C5608DA Dual Bander Mod for 800 to
1000 mhz was incorrect, you do not need the Mod Kit from Standard to receive
on 800 to 1000 mhz.. If you put your rig in scan mode you will find that
it does receive .... Standard said it would not receive without the 800 kit.
I just found it does. 
.. In case any of you did not read the mod, all you do is Hold the FUNC key
and push the up key and you are on 800 or 900 mhz , to reverse this just FUNC
key and the Down Key, Wa La... enjoy
Steve WB1ERG
==============================================================================
Note: I haven't tried or verified this, proceed at your own risk.  WA2ISE
From: seanp@undr.org (Sean Petty)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Emergency power recommendations?
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:56:42 GMT
Reply-To: Sean Petty <undr!seanp@gvls1.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Organization: The Underground - Pennsylvania



        I am in need of some help with an emergency power source for a
        rig I am using at home (FT-2400).. In the event of a power
        failure, I'd like to be using my radio for possible emergency
        comms, but I need a source.  Granted, I could use the old car
        battery, or even a UPS, but I'd like to cull the creative wisdom
        of fellow amateurs and see if there is a better/cheaper way to
        do what I need.  I would only need the power for say, 6 hours,
        80% of which would be monitoring (2 Amps) and the other 20%
        transmitting (16 Amps)..

        Any help is greatly appreciated.

        Sean    N3LQN

---
Sean Petty                           undr!seanp@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM
ICBMnet: 39'58'12"N 75'84'26"W       seanp@undr.org
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith)
Subject: Re: Emergency power recommendations?
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:44:20 GMT

In article <89LqPB8w165w@undr.org> Sean Petty <undr!seanp@gvls1.GVL.Unisys.COM> writes:
>
>        I am in need of some help with an emergency power source for a
>        rig I am using at home (FT-2400)..
[...]
>        do what I need.  I would only need the power for say, 6 hours,
>        80% of which would be monitoring (2 Amps) and the other 20%
>        transmitting (16 Amps)..

Hmm, that's almost 20 amp-hours.  I'd look for a surplus place (H&R
maybe?) with 25AH Gates Cyclon batteries (lead-acid 'damp' cells, no
outgassing, no acid to worry about, all the usual benefits of
lead-acid) and build a float charger for it, or float it off the (well
regulated) power supply that's running my base rig.  In fact, that's
what I'm doing...  :+)

Willie Smith
wpns@pictel.com
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From: turner@safety.ICS.UCI.EDU (Clark Savage Turner WA3JPG)
Subject: Old Kenwood Parts
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:25:43 GMT

Just a note....I had recently picked up an old handicapped Kenwood TS 520
and needed parts.  I looked around, and eventually found that Pacific
Coast Parts (designated by Kenwood to handle their parts out here) can
get (or stocks) lots of parts for these 20 + year old radios!!  That's
good news for those of us who like to fiddle with the old things.

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

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: fms@sw.stratus.com (Faith Senie)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: "Destinated" (was RE: QST Content)
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:42:10 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Aug11.192121.21070@xn.ll.mit.edu>, tom@xn.ll.mit.edu writes:
> [In response to my comments about the word "Destinated" being so awful,
>  our hobby being one of communications, and the human jaw being more robust
>  than the human wrist...]
>
>     Trust a woman to know about the "indefatigability" of the
>  human jaw!
> every time i get destinated from now on i'll think of it.
> 

This from a fellow we've nicknamed "Timeout Tom", who runs 80 watts mobile 
so that people can hear him on the input when (not if, but when) he's timed
the repeater out...   :-) :-) :-)

(Sorry, Tom, I figured I just _had_ to answer this one on the net!)


> many nouns have become verbs to enliven our modern language
> we need a new word to describe a good time out on repeaters
> and there must be hundreds of other spots open for them
> how about a smiley encapsulated list submitted by the good
> people out there?
> 

Gee, Tom, as soon as I figure out what you just asked for, I'll see
if I can't dream something up... :-)


73 de Faith N1JIT

-- 
Faith M. Senie            InterNet: fms@vos.stratus.com
Stratus Computer, Inc.    InterNet: fms@hoop.sw.stratus.com
55 Fairbanks Blvd.       Pkt Radio: n1jit@ka1srd.ma.usa.na
Marlboro, MA 01752           Phone: (508)460-2632

"I'm afraid I don't know very much about Romulan Disruptor settings" --Spock
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: IC-24AT - what U means
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:54:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Aug20.225430.6197
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <ignacij.714280935@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
>My IC-24AT, after wideband conversion has a holes in its coverage. 
>It receives 360-410, 420-450,460-. There are gaps in 410-420 and 450-460,
>when U is displayed instead of the memory number. It has also gaps in the
>VHF range, altough I am not sure now where. 

I believe the U indicates the PLL is unlocked, ie it ain't working at that
freq.  

The problem with the antenna connector is common with the IC xSA and 
IC xSAT as well.  I'm not aware of any fix.

WB9MRI
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY))
Subject: Re: Kenwood Service SUCKS!!!
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:48:31 GMT

In article <14491@mindlink.bc.ca> Jim_Sollows@mindlink.bc.ca (Jim Sollows) writes:
>I had a wonderful experience with the folks at Kenwood recently. I had a
.......
>reply. I followed his advice and bought a new pack --- on my new ICOM handheld.

Gosh, I thought by now EVERYONE knew that only ICOM makes quality equipment
AND repairs it.. (with the possible exception of some American made stuff,
which unfortunately either costs to much, or doesn't offer as many bells and
whistles as  many consumers have come to consider more important than the
basic functionality... Like me :)

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: taber@ultnix.mro1.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Subject: Re: Best way to leard Morse code?
Reply-To: taber@ultnix.mro1.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Organization: KC1TD@KB4N.NH.USA.NA.EARTH.SOLAR_SYSTEM.UNIVERSE.MIND_OF_GOD.01463
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:14:54 GMT


In article <1992Aug17.215810.10076@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, karayan@rigel.uucp (24112-karayannopoulos) writes:
|>
|>Along the same lines, there is a set of CW tapes out there that 
|>teaches copying CW by WORDS, rather than characters.  Is anybody
|>familiar with it?  How good is it?
|>

Those are the QSO Master(tm) tapes.  They're not bad.  They're not for learning
code to pass the test -- rather they're for learning "QSO code."  They 
consist of common abbrieviations and phrases repeated over and over and over 
and over....

At first, I didn't think it was that great because if you catch part of a
phrase, you know what the rest of it is going to be, but after listening in 
the car for a few days I realized that's the point.  Most QSOs are very 
stylized and if you get used to the sound of 73 ES CUL OM you don't have 
to decode the letters.  Even if they don't send exactly those characters, 
the common ones drip into your unconscious and you only "hear" the ones 
that don't fit the pattern.  It's really helped in my QSO confidence.

On the other hand, while any code work helps, these tapes are not oriented
toward the exams or, say, traffic handling where the content is more free-form. 
--
                                             >>>==>PStJTT
                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

I never knew I was a Republican
Until I married into a family of Democrats.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,news.answers
From: andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner)
Subject: Re: A Common Enemy (was Re: Code Free License)
Originator: andyw@aspen32
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:18:18 CDT


In article <1992Aug17.231542.6913@afit.af.mil>, jmiller@afit.af.mil (Jeffrey C Miller) writes:
> In article <409@arrl.org> jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman) writes:
> > (lots deleted)
> >
> >Oh, how I envy the National Rifle Association! So long as the 
> [...]
> What do all of the above have in common?  Yep, you guessed it:
> money!  They've got it and we don't.  What's worse, the average
> ham doesn't even care about these threats until they directly
> threaten his interests.  What's that, you say?  Maybe we should
> have a national organization to combat these threats?  Hmm...
> sounds good to me...

Except that there's no handy clause of the constitution to
point to and cry foul. I don't think it mentions anything
about "...bearing radios...". PRB-1 doesn't really compare
does it ?
-- 
andyw.	N0REN/G1XRL

andyw@aspen.cray.com	Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc.	(612) 683-5835
From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Neat-o new license (stock)
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:26:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

In article <1992Aug18.210920.23113@convex.com> tonyp@convex.com (honey 
bunny) writes:
> P.S. - I don't know if they are still available, but 25
> years ago, when I got my Amateur Extra, you could write 
> to the examination point, and get a offical A-E station
> license form. It was blue ink on white paper, and looks
> quite impressive. 

I have seen such a certificate, but don't know how to get one now.  Anyone 
know?

************************
* These are my opinions only.*
************************
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: mont@netcom.com (Mont Pierce)
Subject: Re: questions about G5RV antenna
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 19:03:50 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: na

In article <1992Aug14.211802.1111@gvl.unisys.com> rossi@gvlf9-q.gvl.unisys.com (Pete Rossi) writes:
>
>WHY DOES EVERYONE keep saying  "my G5RV does not have a balun" ???????
>
>He bought this G5RV and it came with a balun -- connected between the
>300 ohm twin lead and the coax.  
>

You're not suppose to NEED a balun, the twin lead feed line is suppose to
act as a matching section to match 75ohm coax to the antenna.  

I'm curious, is it a 1:1 balun or 4:1 balun?

I too use a 20m 1/2 wave dipole at 10-15 feet high (slopes a little) and
it works great.  It doesn't have a balun either, just solder the coax 
directly to the antenna.  They're easy enough to make and string up, if your 
cousin is really interested in 20m he should build one.  Personally, I like
having several antennas in the air, then when you hear someone you can switch
to the antenna that works best to work them.

73,
-- 
Mont Pierce

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From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: QST, in my opinion...
Date: 16 Aug 92 12:38:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: ke4zv.1992Aug16.123845.18429
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group

In article <1992Aug14.144618.5547@cs.yale.edu> ewing-martin@CS.YALE.EDU (Martin Ewing) writes:
>
>One thing that QST might do would be to have a "My turn" column for
>general opinion pieces, including hopefully some from Fred.

They do, it's called Op-Ed. AA6YD wrote one in the Feb 92 issue that
ought to be required reading for DXers before they're allowed to fire
up the kilowatts every day. But then denial is part of the problem
isn't it?

I thought Fred's critique of QST was pretty accurate. It *is* a club
newsletter, that's what it's supposed to be. The Feb issue has 3
pages of administrivia, 15 pages of modestly technical content,
and 101 pages of DX and public service lists and trivia, followed
by 110 pages of advertising. Now the Summer issue of Communications
Quarterly has 87 pages of solid technical material, 15 pages of
advertising, and 2 pages of administrivia. If it were monthly,
that would represent 29 pages of solid technical information a
month. The July 73 has 24 pages of technical material, 8 of DX
oriented material, 9 of product reviews, 3 from Uncle Wayne,
and the other 44 pages are advertising and fluff. A representative
issue of the late lamented Ham Radio has 43 pages of solid technical
material, 3 pages of DX fluff, 3 pages of administrivia, and 40
pages of ads. A representative QEX, Sept 91, has 5.5 pages of
technical material, a CW filter (sigh). And the rest of the 20
page issue is a flawed article on calculating the mass of the
Earth (sorry Paul), fluff, Gateway old news, and ads. I don't 
subscribe to the DXer's wet dream, CQ, so no page counts there.

Technical content in percent by page count:

Communications Quarterly	83.6%
Ham Radio			48.3%
QEX				27.5%
73				27.3%
QST			       	 6.6%

Magazines selected at random from the pile on the desk. Technical
content determined by presence of a circuit diagram, math, and
similar features pertaining to technical *radio* being present
somewhere in the article. 

It should be clear that QST is the *least* technical of the listed
ham magazines. I think that's sad for the official organ of a
technical hobby. I get several club newsletters here, and most
of them run around 8 pages. On an average month, 5 of those pages
will contain technical articles or tips and the remaining 3 will
be club business and local ads, for 62.5% technical content. That's 
a whole lot better than the ARRL's club newsletter. But, ARRL's 
membership is only around 150,000 out of the 450,000 or so amateurs 
in the US, about 33%, and the majority of ARRL members *may* be 
uninterested in technical subjects. I haven't seen a survey, I'm
just assuming the ARRL does market research like most publications. 
So I guess the club paper is about what the members want.

Gary KE4ZV
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Art and Engineering
Summary: The art of conciseness and economy
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:15:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Aug16.041504.27835
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

W3OTC makes some excellent points about the duty of the engineer to 
produce an _economical_ design.

As for the fan controller with 40 components, if it's as bad as it
sounds, then I suspect it's the result of the same kind of incompetence
that produces 750-page doctoral dissertations:  The author (designer)
simply puts in everything but the kitchen sink!  He starts with a block
diagram, sees no need to simplify any of the blocks, does not think
about making some of the blocks much smaller by changing the specs
slightly, or making a block do double duty, etc. etc.

There are people who cannot write concisely, and there are people who
cannot design concisely.  I think it's much the same problem.
-- 
==========================================================================
Michael A. Covington, Ph.D. |  mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu  |  ham radio N4TMI
Artificial Intelligence Programs | U of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602  U.S.A.
==========================================================================
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: tgs@genrad.com (Trevor G. Smith)
Subject: Re: QSL manager for FO5BIF?
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:27:28 GMT


That was almost certainly FO5BI sometimes /p sometimes not.

QSL via FD6HSI or F6HSI whichever appears in the callbook.

For some reason the  french give you a larger callsign to reward your upgrades.

vive la difference!

73 Trevor G3WQO AB5EU still exiled in Texas.
From: JMG%TNTECH.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jeff M. Gold)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: QST-->NCJ
Date: 17 Aug 1992 07:37:43 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Here is my opinion... remember no matter what the situation
you will always get over 100 complaints to every 1
compliment... people usually take the time to voice their
opinions only when they feel they need to complain...too
bad.


I like to contest.. but not seriously... so I really don't
need the NCJ... but I sure do need the information posted in
QST and like to see the results afterwards...

I will say it over and over again.. I love the magazine..
read each issue at least 2 times and have built a few small
projects from it and hope to build some more.

I don't like to read about packet.. but who cares.. the
articles are there if I decide to read about them.. can't
think of any magazine for any sport or hobby where every
article would appeal to every reader.. would have to be have
a very narrow scope and very few pages.

I have only been in the hobby for about 1 year... but the
ARRL sure has helped me get interested in new parts of the
hobby and support the parts I am already interested in.


73s de Cookeville, TN
Jeff, AC4HF
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