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From: roh8@aber.ac.uk (The Grim Reaper)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Starting off in packet radio...
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:39:40 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

I am very interested in getting into packet radio. I currently don't have
an amateur license but am studying towards this at the moment. However, I
know relatively little about packet radio and general radio equipment. If
someone could either point me in the direction of useful info on this
or take the trouble to tell me something about it, I would be grateful.
I am particularly interested in info relating to the kind of services
available via packet, the price of packet and ordinary radio kit and
the kind of things that actually can/can't be done via packet.

Apologies if this is rather a newbie question, but then I am somewhat
of a newbie.


Grim...

Oh yes, I would mainly welcome info from people in the UK as things like
regulations and price  is probably different elsewhere, however any relevant
info would really help.
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From: coolguy@unkaphaed.UUCP (Guy Shechter)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: INTERNET/PACKET
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 05:58:54 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy

How does one forward mail from the internet to packet.
How does one forward mail from packet to the internet?

Thanks
guy

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From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:21:23 GMT
Subject: Re: 2400 bps,1200 baud,DSP(was New Packeteer Frustration)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet

> Hey, here's a way to pick that nit:  TV is analog in the horizontal
> dimension, digital in the vertical dimension.


Nope; "digital" != "discrete samples."

"Digital" means "represented by digits (numbers)", period.


Bob Myers  KC0EW   Hewlett-Packard Co.      |Opinions expressed here are not
                   User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
myers@fc.hp.com    Fort Collins, Colorado   |sentient life-form on this planet.
From: Jay.Townsend@f3.n346.z1.spk.wa.us (Jay Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Remarks on PK-88 vs. TINY-2 (?)
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:40:25 GMT

In a message of <10 Sep 92>, Craig Lemon VE3XCL wrote to All:

 CLV> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet


 CLV>         Does anyone have any comments re: the AEA PK-88 vs. the 
 CLV> PaComm
 CLV> TINY/2?  I've decided to buy one or the other of these low-end TNCs 
 CLV> for
 CLV> VHF/UHF use and I just wanted the net's expert opinion.

Tiny 2 is nice. Can use Net Rom if you want.

 * Origin: Radio Therapy BBS (1:346/3)
From: bad1679@cs.rit.EDU (Bernard A Doehner)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: (none)
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:48:25 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

X-System: Amiga 500 /3 megs RAM/52 MB HD:
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

Hello Greg,

  Sorry for replying to the whole group, but I was unable to reconstruct
the proper email address for Greg.  

>    I use two computers when I packet. These are IBM386 (usualy with SP5) and
> Amiga2000 (with AHP software). I am also interested in exchange of software for
>  these two machines.

I use an Amiga 500 and a Tandy 200 for Packet Radio.  I have never heard
of AHP software.  Could you describe it further please?  For Packet, I
use Jr-Comm (regular Term Program) and AmigaNOS (Network Operating
System) and would be willing to send you these if interested.


Greg, please reply to me direct!  My Bitnet address is: bad1679@ritvax
and my Internet address is: bad1679@ultb.isc.rit.edu.      

Thanks and 73/55   de Bernie NU1S/OK8EAS
From: tskelton@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Tom Skelton)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: MFJ 1274 on packet/WEFAX
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:21:33 GMT
Reply-To: tskelton@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Tom Skelton)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

Will be helping get a friend going on packet (packetcluster - tm) this
weekend with his new MFJ 1274 turbo.  He also wants to receive WEFAX
transmissions -- he bought the starter kit from MFJ (but I don't know
what that includes -- software??).  Can anyone give me advice on best
frequencies, times, and software for WEFAX? We are located in South
Carolina...tnx! 73, Tom WB4IUX


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From: M.Willis@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Mike Willis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet,rec.radio.swap,chi.wanted,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: Grace DSP Unit For Sale
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:52:19 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH

In article <1992Sep8.053914.29907@src.umd.edu>, tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes:
|> In article <q#rn_5_.joe@netcom.com> joe@netcom.com (Joseph Jesson) writes:
|> 
|> >This is the L.L. Grace DSP-12 Multi-Mode Communications DSP universal 
|> >packet modem.  The DSP-12 supports HP packet, RTTY, ASCII, VHF packet, 
|> >PSK satellite telemetry.  Specs include:
|> 
|> Tell us Joe, what was it like using the DSP-12?  Did you use it
|> for PSK satellite?  What are your feelings about it (you can wait
|> till ya sell it if its anything bad of course!)
|> 
|> de N3HAU

I wish I had the money right now. These things are over $1000 equivalent in the UK
and that is for the basic model!

Mike
From: BTITMARS%ESOC.BITNET@vm.gmd.DE (BARRY TITMARSH)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: FLEXNET software
Date: 5 Sep 1992 03:04:41 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Hello i notice that the flexnet software is not on any FTP Site
should it be uploaded. ? this might help those who have problems getting
this code for the hardware
let me know if there is a demand for the code to be on UCSD.EDU then
it will be uploaded
Yes or No ?
Barry...
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
From: tim@shovel.Prime.COM (Tim Cantin)
Subject: Re: MFJ-1278 TNC/etc
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:40:02 GMT

Darnit, I did have a question. We heard that someone had written a shareware
program to control the MFJ-1278 that costs $5 or something to register. Anyone
else heard of this, and know where I can get it? I've already checked the
usual ftp sites (wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and wuarchive.wustl.edu) under
hamradio and packet and didn't find anything. Thanks in advance!

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
From: jcv26@cas.org (Jon Vander Hill)
Subject: Packet DX?
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Distribution: rec
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:25:48 GMT


I like what I hear about packet and am seriously looking at putting a
packet rig together.  What sort of DX opportunities are there with
packet?  How does it compare with more traditional phone or CW DX-ing
on HF?

Jon Vander Hill, N8PAP
jon@cas.org
From: WB4WOR@iris.uncg.EDU (CHARLES LAYNO (WB4WOR))
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: TPK (FBB Terminal Program)
Date: 16 Sep 92 00:36:54 GMT
Organization: University of NC at Greensboro
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

DOes anyone have a copy of TPK the FBB User Terminal Program? I have a French
copy, but since I don't read, French, it isn't much help. The docs in English,
would be nice.

TNX
Charles
WB4WOR

WB4WOR@IRIS.UNCG.EDU
From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: Remarks on PK-88 vs. TINY-2 (?)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:52:55 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Private UUCP "Twig" Node
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

        Does anyone have any comments re: the AEA PK-88 vs. the PaComm
TINY/2?  I've decided to buy one or the other of these low-end TNCs for
VHF/UHF use and I just wanted the net's expert opinion.

--
 Craig Lemon VE3XCL (Advanced) - Kitchener, Ontario. Amiga B2000  OS 2.04
 +1 519 741 0297    +1 519 578 7817              | 1A Electrical Engineering
 clemon@lemsys.UUCP clemon%lemsys@xenitec.on.ca  |  University of Waterloo
 IP/Packet: ve3xcl@ve3xcl.ampr.org [44.135.84.51]|        Fall 1992
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
From: winter@sequent.com (Robert Winter)
Subject: where do I get info
Summary: Info on packet radio
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:10:33 GMT
Keywords: info

I am a ham long since expired (WD8PAB).  I have breen watching this
group for a while and it has renewed my interest in amateur radio.  I
specifically am interested in information on the type of equipment,
license level, etc. that I would need to get into packet radio.

If anyone can mail me anything or point me to a book I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Robert Winter
Sequent Computer Systems
Costa Mesa, CA      
winter@sequent.com
...uunet!sequent!winter
From: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet
Subject: INTERNET/PACKET
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 11:32:06 mst
Organization: St. Joseph's Hospital/Medical Ctr, Phoenix, AZ

On <Fri, Sep 11 05:58>, UUCP (coolguy@unkaphaed.UUCP Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 
05:58:54 GMT) wrote: 

 >How does one forward mail from the internet to packet.
 >How does one forward mail from packet to the internet?

** Please note ... do not send international traffic to stations that the 
United States does NOT have 3rd party agreements with.  Those are being killed 
at the gateway **


                    How to Use the wb7tpy.ampr.org
               Internet <-> Amateur Packet Radio Gateway


From Internet/Usenet/Bitnet/Fidonet to Packet:

Send email to "gate@wb7tpy.ampr.org" on Internet or "gate at 1:114/15" 
     on fidonet.

The first line of text must be:

Packet: user@callsign.hierchial.address

ie

Packet: wb7tpy@wb7tpy.az.usa.na

-----

From Packet to Internet/Usenet/Bitnet/Fidonet:

send email on packet to "gate@wb7tpy.az.usa.na"

The first line of text must be:

Internet: user@site.domain


Any questions can be sent to:

ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (Internet)
wb7tpy@wb7tpy.az.usa.na (Packet)

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From: bad1679@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.A. Doehner)
Subject: Frequencies available for use at Solar Car Races?
Followup-To: bad1679@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Bernie Doehner NU1S,OK8EAS) 
Originator: bad1679@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:51:47 GMT


Hi All,

I am on the Solar Car Team and am researching possibilities for intervehicle
communications during the upcomming  DOE Sunrayce Solar Car Race.

We will have about 5 vehicles (including the solar car) and have a max range  
requirement of 50 miles (for talking to the scout car).  All other vehicles 
will only need a range of at the most 5 miles. 
The team has used 460 mhz. GMRS radios before, and could use these again
for short range communications.  But what we need is a reliable long range
link.   

Is there a frequency (band) on low band that we could use for this purpose?
If so, please send me specifics about it.  

Thanks..
             Bernd


Subject: 
Expires: 
Reply-To: bad1679@ultb.rit.edu ()
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Distribution: usa
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Keywords: 


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TCPIP: nu1s@rit.nu1s.ampr.org [44.69.0.37]
UUCP (home): rimmer!vader!root@digtype.rochester.ny.us
Newsgroups: rec.radio.noncomm
From: Nigel.Allen@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Nigel Allen)
Subject: El Salvador: HELP RADIO VENCEREMOS!
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:38:27 GMT

 * forwarded from misc.activism.progressive 
 * via: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>

/* Written  3:42 pm  Sep  5, 1992 by gn:zenzontle in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "HELP RADIO VENCEREMOS!" ---------- */
##################################################################

                          El Salvador:
                     HELP RADIO VENCEREMOS!

##################################################################

     Since last 24 August, the FMLN's radio is in danger of being
silenced for a long time; its 1500 watts transmitter, exhausted
after 11 years of civil war, stopped broadcasting. Now Radio
"Venceremos" can only cover the area of San Salvador, the capital
city; but the situation can become even worse.
     The FMLN's radios are vital part of the popular political and
ideological struggle; they have to compete with a sophisticated
commercial network and the government's millionaire propaganda
machine.
     For more than 12 years, Radio "Venceremos" survived all the US
and Military Dictatorship's attempts to destroy it; tens of FMLN
fighters gave generously their lives to defend it.

     Help to keep Radio "Venceremos" alive!

     Send a (tax deductible) donation, a blank or recorded
cassette, compact discs, etc., to:

El Salvador Solidarity Campaign
c/o THE RED ROSE CLUB
129 Seven Sisters Road
London N7 7QG
UNITED KINGDOM

                         Radio Venceremos
                         Scharnhorst Strasse 6b
                         5000 Koln 60
                         DEUTCHSLAND

Radio Venceremos
555 Bloor St. West
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M5S 1Y6

                         Radio Venceremos
                         Apartado Postal 05-209
                         Metrocentro
                         San Salvador, EL SALVADOR
                         Centro America.

(end of forwarded message)
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.noncomm
From: cumminje@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (James E. Cummings)
Subject: Dr. Demento
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:39:33 GMT

Distribution: world

Does anyone know when Dr. Demento left Westwood One and why?

James Cummings
Promotions Director
WMHD 90.5 FM
Terre Haute
From: gt4503e@prism.gatech.EDU (Tracy K. Wood/KD0UP)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.noncomm
Subject: Canadian FM Transmitter Source
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:59:17 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Recently a Canadian rec.radio.broadcasting/rec.radio.noncomm reader posted a 
query about sources for 10 watt FM transmitters.  He has a source right in his
own country :

                             Radius International
                             81-260 Adelaide Street East
                             Toronto, ON  M5A 1N0
                             FAX 416-769-9008
                             PHONE 416-769-4288

The company custom produces one-half and ten watt transmitters, mostly for 
customers in remote parts of Canada.  Prices quoted in 1990 were C$ 1500 and 
C$1850 respectively.   I do not know if stereo versions are available.

The company may be hard to reach as the telephone (perhaps) shared with a 
community arts group.   Radius's point of contact is Bob Stevens.

                             Tracy

Tracy K. Wood,  Graduate Student,  (Amateur Radio KD0UP/4)
Georgia Institute of Technology, PO Box 24503, Atlanta GA 30332 USA
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt4503e
Internet: gt4503e@prism.gatech.edu  or   sigcen@chmsr.gatech.edu
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Georgia Institute of Technology, PO Box 24503, Atlanta GA 30332 USA
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt4503e
Internet: gt4503e@prism.gatech.edu  or   sigcen@chmsr.gatech.edu
From: woodcock_bw@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.noncomm
Subject: Radio station needs help
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:37:58 EDT
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

Hello,
	My name is Bryan Woodcock. I am music director at a small college radio
station in Hickory, NC. We are having major technical porblems with the audio 
board and am looking for a new one. If you have any friends who happen to have a
board they are not using please e-mail me or call me at 704-eat-shit ext.658.


					any help would be greatly appreciated,
					Bryan Woodcock
					woodcock_bw@alice.lrc.edu

					LRC BOX 7873
					hickory, NC 28603
Newsgroups: rec.radio.noncomm
From: rlray@eos.ncsu.edu (RICHARD LINDBERGH RAY)
Subject: HELP ON PROJECT
Followup-To: rec.radio.shortwave, rec.radio.swap, triangle.radio, 
Originator: rlray@c00806-247dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSIT/RECEIVE
Reply-To: rlray@eos.ncsu.edu (RICHARD LINDBERGH RAY)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:07:20 GMT



I am presently working on a senior design project at NC State and need help
finding a transmitter/receiver.  It must have the following specifications.


     At least five channels of information transmitted from one site
     Low level transmission capability (approx. 25-30 feet)
     (Muting capability would be a plus)

     The receivers must be lightweight and tuneable each of the five channels


Any information on locating such a system would be greatly appreciated.

I cross-posted this to several groups.  
E-mail responses please.

Thanks
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: carruthers@brandonu.ca (Kai'ckul)
Subject: Canadian Call Letter Query
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada 
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:18:58 GMT

Just wondering if any station in Canada has the call letters CBGB yet?
If not, I'd like to apply for them.  =)

Sean
BU Radio, Station Manager (Interim)


Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: heifetz!rphroy!engin.umich.edu!dcho@uunet.UU.NET (David R. Cho)
Subject: NPR radio stations!help!
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:37:58 GMT

There is a radio program this Monday on Nation Public Radio
Broadcastings and I need to tape it off the radio.  Unfortunately,
I am having difficulties finding local radio stations that will
broadcast this program.  I need to know if there is some database
where I can find such stations that support NPR, at an ftp site
or whatever.  

I am in desperate need of finding a local station, thanx for any 
help you guys in the net can give me.  
 
Specifically, I think the program is called "great performances" or
something like that.  I just discovered that my sister will be playing
on that program.  Please respond to me by mail.

dcho@engin.umich.edu
,

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: "Julian Lorkin" <9LORKIN@WINVMJ.VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject: UK long range DX on AM...
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: IBM
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:57:52 GMT

Hi folks,
   I've recently taken a holiday down in Penzance, at the furthest tip
of Cornwall, and took advantage of the fact that at Lands End all but
20 degrees of the horizon is filled with the Atlantic, so conditions
really could not be better for long range listening - very few other
stations to get in the way!
   Anyway, from the Land's End car park (!) this is what I could hear
on a very normal car radio on AM...

Freq Stren Country Miles Station
kHz  1to5  O origi Aprox ID
---  ---   ------- ----  --
612  1     Irish   320   Nationwide 2 FM (Limerick)
801  2     Engl    80    Devonair AM
810  1     Scot    650   BBC Scotland
855  2     Engl    ?     BBC South Midlands (?)
954  1     Engl    80    Devonair AM
1017 1     Engl    350   BBC Shropshire
1026 1     Chan I  130   Jersey Radio
1152 3     Engl    60    Plymouth Sound (97FM symucast)
1170 1     Engl    120   Swansea Sound
1323 1     ?       ?     Unidentified BBC (Chris Mills Pop history show)
1341 1     N Ire   620   BBC Ulster
1368 1     IofMan  500   Manx
1440 2     Luxy    500   Luxembourg
1458 5     Engl    80    BBC Devon
1460 5     US      ?     Unident US
1548 1     Engl    130   BBC Bristol

Mileage is approximate (from a diary map!)
Signal strength is 1, very good, no fading at all, to 5, very bad fading.

The BBC Scotland station is one of the longest range DXes I've picked up,
but even better is the station from the Isle of Man on 1368, which (in
the old book I have) is listed as having 750 watts.

BBC Devon, on 1458, was getting some bad interferance from a station on
1460. I couldn't hear a proper ID, but it seemed to be mainly a talk
station, with American accents: the weather report dealt with the eastern
part of the States. No doubt with a better radio I could have got a
decent ID.

I've ignored the main BBC stations, 1 to 5, who all came booming accross.

On FM, Pirate FM came in weakly, on 102.8, but that was about it for
ILRs. Too far west I guess.

[Moderator's Note:  So you actually DID log a  .. 'Pirate in Penzance' ?
Sounds like a great name for a play :-).  GROAN.]

Julian Lorkin.

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Call-Letters From Hell!
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Systems Research Center, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:21:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.070510.12600@gagme.chi.il.us> adam@wam.umd.edu (Adam L.
Greenberg) writes:
>We're the flagship campus for the Maryland System, and we got WMUC, but I
>think that the University of Maryland/Baltimore County's campus in
>Catonsville got the all-time loser, which IMHO I'm glad we didn't get:
>It's WUMD.  Try saying THAT a few times an hour.

Does the WMUC callsign originate from "Maryland University College"?
How long has WMUC been around, anyway?

-Thomas

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting