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From: grady@public.BTR.COM ( )
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: HF microphone?
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:47:12 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. For info contact: info@BTR.COM

The microphone element on the
supplied mike with my IC-735
stopped working.  While waiting to
have it repaired under warranty,
can anyone suggest a good desk
mike that you've had good luck
with on this kind of rig?

Tnx de@y Grady kn6cp

-- 
Grady Ward  grady@btr.com  Moby Lexicons (707) 826-7715
From: enge@almaden.ibm.com (Roy Engehausen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: RACES Bulletin #247
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:45:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsd.9211121246.AA15381
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
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Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

Msgid : $RACESBUL.247


TO:    ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
INFO:  ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
       ALL AMATEURS U.S.         (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM:  CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
       2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA  95832  (916)262-1600
       Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
RACESBUL.247                                 DATE: Nov.  9, 1992
SUBJECT:  OPS - The Net Control Station - Part 1/2

     We were recently asked our views on what a Net Control
Station (NCS) is and does in government (RACES, CAP, etc.)
communications.
     To me a Net Control Station serves one key purpose -- that
of insuring the smooth functioning of the network.  It performs
this function by:
    1.    Maintaining discipline of the network, including
procedure and
protocols.  (It sets the example during training.)
    2.    Ensuring that traffic is passed expeditiously.
    3.    Maintaining the integrity of the network.
    4.    Maintaining a close watch for potential frequency and
technical problems and for signals of its own or interfering
networks.
     An NCS should be located where it can best perform its
function.  It should be in good contact with all net stations.
It should be in a facility that provides adequate and reliable
power, space, access and backup communication means.  The working
environment of the operator should be protected to reduce non-
network distractions.
     Located at the emergency scene?  Preferably NO.  Located at
a home station?  Can the above criteria be best met there? If so-
YES.
(To be continued in Part 2 of 2 parts)

EOM

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From: kludge@shepard.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: rec.radio.amateur.cw
Date: 13 Nov 1992 18:45:12 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: shepard.larc.nasa.gov

In article <22s7TB1w165w@pranny.uucp> lee@pranny.uucp (Lee Reynolds) writes:
>How about one?  So we can get the CW wars into it and out of here?

What CW wars?  I thought everybody agreed that AM was the only way to go.
It's definitely time to start up some good plate modulation vs. screen grid
modulation flames here in this group.
--scott
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke)
Subject: Re: Speaking of code...
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:02:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov05.213616.6628@mixcom.com> kevin.jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
>
>I have an MSEE.  I am not a HAM (yet).  My specialty is software

You have an MSEE.  Are we supposed to genuflect?
This should relieve you of passing a code test so you can
operate below 30MHz?  Why don't you tell that to the FCC?

Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com
Organization: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:27:35 -0500 
From: "Paul J. Dujmich" <paul+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: RTTY Question

Does anyone know the frequencies of currently operating RTTY BBS's
on 20 and 40 meters? Again...I'm not talking about AMTOR aplink stations
but straight baudot RTTY bbs's. Thanks much

Paul
WA3TLD
From: bwilkins@iat.holonet.net (Bob Wilkins n6fri)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Where have all the good (6) calls gone...
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:18:16 GMT
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)

KD6OTA just received his new call last saturday after waiting six weeks.
He had just upgraded to general that morning. In 6 land you have to be an
advanced to get a 2x2 .

bob n6fri
From: WFAUST@NOMVS.LSUMC.DU (Wm. Bryant Faust, IV)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Ham Radio Causes Cancer
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:01:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsd.9211121802.AA05419
Organization: ucsd usenet gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

> In rec.radio.amateur.misc, jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (jeffrey.n.jones) writes:
>
> >In the 92 ARRL Handbook there is article by a doctor on the Cancer and
> >RF. To make a long story short there was a slightly higher incidence of
> >some rare form of lukemia and that was about it. He used death certificates
> >as the basis of his research. Interesting article.
>
> Dr. Milham's famous study purporting to show that ham radio causes cancer
> is one of those publications that everybody talks about, but that no one
> has actually read.  It was published in a hard-to-find journal on
> eipdemiology.  I managed to obtain a copy and have read it.
>
> AL N1AL

Do you have tht exact reference (journal, vol, issue, page) for this
article.  Sorry to have to post this to the net, but your sig does
not have an email address, and part of the from: line didn't make
it through.

Bryant, N5GWF
wfaust@nomvs.lsumc.edu
From: oo7@ut-emx.uucp (Derek Wills)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Russian QSLs
Keywords: and oblasts
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:22:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: ut-emx.83152
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

rdewan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rajiv Dewan) says:

>>The GO list is good place to start and make a list of call signs from
>>those lands that you are looking for.  This strategy will not help those
>>looking for Worked all Oblasts or some such award.

I don't think the Oblast awards are still being given, are they?  I was
a few short of 100 confirmed when the changes happened in the USSR.  They
didn't ask me first...   Now I have well over 100 confirmed but doubt that
there is any point in sending a list of them to Box 88.

Sorry if I gave people the impression that the bureau was still working
for ex-USSR cards, I was really replying to someone who asked whether cards
ever came from [Russia] via buro, and the answer is that they do, but the
other part of the answer is that they might not do so in the future.


Derek Wills (AA5BT, G3NMX)
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, 
Austin TX 78712.  (512-471-1392)
oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu 
oo7@emx.utexas.edu
From: randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: FAQ - 2m Recommendations?
Keywords: handheld, 2m, aviation, marine xmit
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:49:27 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

jerryp@key.COM (J. R. Pendleton) writes:

>The time has finally come for me to buy an HT.  Afterall I do need something
>to get talked-in to the swapmeets where I can buy parts for my HF boat anchors,
>right? :-)

>After doing some thinking and reading recent reviews in the magazines, I came up
>with a set of requirments and nice-to-haves.

>  1.  Requirement : Rx and Tx coverage of all of 2m (I think they all do that, right?)


You've got it!  


>  2.  Requirement : Rx capability in the aviation bands.  (I about broke my neck
>      at the Reno Airshow trying to listen to the cockpit converations on the
>      aviation ht owned by the guy behind me)


Some 2m HTs can do this.  The Kenwood TH-27A,  Alinco DJ-580T (dual band),
and the Icom 2SRA (receives 25-905 MHz) are a few of them.  However,
wide band receive HTs are more susceptible to intermod and spur interference.
When you get something, you give up something.

>  3.  Requirement : Scanning.  Funny story:  I was playing with a friends two
>      meter HT with scan and I found a college football coaches frequency.
>      Interesting (profane) stuff.  Came home and bought a scanner.  It was
>      also a lot of fun listening to the Amtrak crew on my recent train trip.

The models I mention have lots of scanning features.  No problem on almost
all of the HTs available.

>  4.  Nice-to-have:  Tx and Rx in marine bands.   No flames please.  I sail. Its not 
>      illegal if I don't emit and if I do have to emit, I'll be more than happy 
>      to tell it to the judge afterwards.  (I do have a marine vhf)


Not possible.  Ham and marine rigs must have different FCC type acceptance.
You will not find this.  There is NO rig that can legally transmit on
a ham band and a band used by another service.


>  5.  Nice-to-have: DTMF, CTCSS and all the other initials.  Might be fun, but
>      this is not my primary operating mode, its not all the important to me.

Almost all of today's HTs have this.

>Any comments (not flames) on the requirements?

>Any make and model suggestions?  I've seen and old kenwood I like but....

>New and used suggestions (I prefer used, I don't want to tie a whole lot money 
>up in a secondary operating mode) are both welcome.  I also wouldn't mind 
>street pricing information.

You will probably be forced to buy a new one.  Very few older ones
can receive the aircraft band.

73 DE KK6MY

-- 

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Project Manager, MIS Sales/Marketing Systems    uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: USA-built HT's (where to find...)
Date: 12 Nov 1992 15:37:16 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <994uTB1w165w@ricksys.lonestar.org> rick@ricksys.lonestar.org writes:
>Alinco rigs are made in Japan with a "strong support office" in
>Torrence, CA.

...and a strong support netter, Jay Appell, KA1SNA. (No, I don't have his
email address.)

Standard radios are made, according to the box, by Marantz Japan Co. Anyone
know if this company is any relation to the Marantz audio outfit of 60s and
70s vintage here in the States?
-- 
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.
     We survived Jimmy Carter; we'll (probably) survive Bill Clinton.
From: enge@almaden.ibm.com (Roy Engehausen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: RACES Bulletin #246
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:34:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsd.9211121235.AA15191
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

Msgid : $RACESBUL.246


TO:    ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
INFO:  ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
       ALL AMATEURS U.S.         (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM:  AUXILIARY RADIO SERVICE
       CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
       2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832   (916)262-1603
       Landline BBS (FIDO) open to all: (916) 262-1657
RACESBUL.246                                 DATE: Nov.  2, 1992
SUBJECT: MGT - The manager's resource data - Part 2/2

     In one quick step you can update and catalog all materials
by adding to your files the RACES BULLETINS-BY-TOPIC print version
recently issued by State OES. The material is indexed and categorized
by topic and printed in 3-ring binder format form. Just add the
binder and 232 valuable bulletins are instantly available, plus
numerous forms and references.
*** connect request:KJ6Q
     The additional materials include the following that were NOT
in the bulletins:
1. an eleven page RACES Policy Guide.
2. a thirteen page Net Control Station Responsibilities Guide.
3. a four page "The Volunteer, a Valuable Human Resource".
4. Standards for the RACES.
5. a four page Strike Team guide.
6. a County Training Plan for RACES Personnel.
7. Using Tactical Calls.
8. Organization Flow Charts.
9. Forms.
10. Maps and other articles of various nature.
11. Organization Chart with relationship to local governments.
     The print version of RACES BULLETINS-BY-TOPIC is available at cost
($10 payable to State of California; includes mailing in US) from RACES,
Telecommunications  Division, Office of Emergency Services, 2800
Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832. It's a valuable reference
works for the manager and the radio officer.
                   ---Cary Mangum, W6WWW, Chief State RACES Radio Officer

EOM


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: paulf@umunhum.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of Morse Code (and MicroSats)
Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Organization: The Three Packeteers
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:46:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.021345.11013@hubcap.clemson.edu> andy@newton.cs.clemson.edu (Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS) writes:
>  That might be an argument in favour of CW, but it is not an argument
>in favour of the CW requirement.  As has been said many times before,
>there have been many arguments in favour of CW, but not one in favour
>of requiring CW in order to be able to use the HF bands for voice and
>other digital modes apart from CW.

Not so.  Demonstrating the utility of CW lends credence to the argument that
CW is a skill that the average (read general class) amateur should acquire.

As for access to HF, there's the oft cited treaty restriction.  My read
of the ITU at this point is that this requirement is UNLIKELY to disappear
anytime some, as the majority of countries continue to support the Morse
requirement.

--
-=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX/5W1JX  | "Just name a hero, and I'll prove he's a bum."
->paulf@Stanford.EDU          |  -- Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC (ret)
From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Question: Health hazards of handheld transcievers
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:56:09 GMT
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

In article <1992Nov3.190742.8283@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>,
    paulf@calvin.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty) writes:

| Yes, and most importantly, that is all his study found.  A reputable
| epidemiological study has controls for other cofactors which Milham's
| study did not -- in particular, there is a higher than average incidence
| of smokers in the amateur radio group.

Not to mention that they're more likely to be exposed to chemicals such
as solder flux, PCB etchant etc.

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
dave@esi.COM.AU                ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave
           Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?"
From: shoppa@almach.caltech.edu (TIM SHOPPA)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: "Digital" instead of "Morse" requirement?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 14:18 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: almach.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Just a modest proposal...

CW can be regarded as a digital communication mode.  Many now argue that it
is now archaic and irrelevant (actually, I personally use CW as my main
mode).  Other digital modes (from Baudot RTTY to high-speed packet) can
be thought of as a modernization of CW.  Why not allow the replacement of
the CW requirement with a test over the more modern digital modes?  I don't
mean replacing 13wpm morse copying with 110 baud ASCII copying (even though
I have met people who could copy ASCII and Baudot by ear!!), I mean a
test covering the general principles of digital modes.  I think this would
attract many bright, young, technically interested people to amateur radio.
Of course, those who already know CW could opt for the "old" Morse test
when getting or upgrading their licenses, as this is still a very useful
digital mode!

					Tim (Shoppa@erin.caltech.edu)
					KA0BTD
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: Re: Speaking of code...
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:51:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

In article <1992Nov9.161014.27887@ryn.mro4.dec.com> brewer@anarky.enet.dec.com  writes:
>	buying warm bodies.  What's sadder, is that 
>	the personal satisfaction of learning, studying
>	and obtaining a license will be lost as we edge
>	more toward giveaway licenses with appliance 
>	radios.

I think you just lost me.  How is knowing CW relevant to building your
own radio?  Or do the radios YOU build have such low power/simple
design that they're only useful for CW?

-- 
Marc Unangst, N8VRH         | "There are two ways to solve this problem:
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | the hard way, and the easy way.  Let's start
                            | with the hard way."
                            |   - W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: meh0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Austin TX clubs??
Reply-To: meh0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:09:18 GMT


Im moving to Austin in a few weeks.

Any ham clubs there??
I am mainly intrested in Packet...

I also dont have my license yet, might get it in austin

please send info via e mail

OH, one more thing....  I need a place to live
anyone need a roomie???

JC
		
			MEH0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
			engineering student
			professional daydreamer
			aspiring mad sciencist
			and bad speller.
From: Kirk.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Kirk Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: UHF/70cm frequencies
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:30:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

It's amazing how much I'm posting now that my license is on the way.  Sooo
many questions.

Since I'll be making my entry into ham radio on the 70cm band, I've got
a few questions.  The charts from the ARRL printed in "Now You're Talking"
say the band goes from 420-450MHz.  What's the breakdown here?  Are there
generally accepted uses for this bandwidth?  The repeaters I've heard
are all between 440 and 450MHz, but what about other stuff?  Simplex?  Should
I just pick something, ANYTHING, and use it?  Should I stay above 440MHz?
I understand ATV and repeater control stuff is below 440, but I can't
find anything that tells me what's what.  So I've passed my exam, and
"Now I'm Talking", but I don't know where to talk.  Does the ARRL 
Repeater directory spell all of this out?  The only thing the NYTalking
book says is a calling frequency for 2m, and some simplex freqs for 220.

I don't want to seem like a total newbee and ask the first person I
talk to on a local repeater all of these questions.

Please email or post, I'll get it either way.

-ks

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From: north@Apple.COM (Don North)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 15 minute quick charge Ni-Cad RC Racing batteries to power an HT?
Keywords: batteries, nicad
Date: 9 Nov 92 05:06:07 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Nov6.190320.14852@midway.uchicago.edu> gary@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Here's a query.  Ni-Cads used for RC racing cars can be had in 
>7.2V packs @ 1700 mA.  They are designed to be "quick charged"
>in 15-20 minutes.
>
>It would seem that this would make great "emergency power" insofar
>as it significantly reduces the recharge time.  Even a "quick charge"
>for traditional Ni-Cads is usually 60 minutes.  RC batteries can
>be recharged in 1/4 the time.
>
>Why don't people use these batteries (RC Model Racing) for external
>power sources for HTs?  Maybe I'm missing something....

Well, I have used model car batteries in the past to power both portable
scanners and more recently HT's. Works great; all you need to do is build
an adapter cable for the model car battery connector to match your radio.

On another point, I have also been using a model-car-battery peak-charger
to quick charge the standard HT battery packs (Alinco 7.2V/700ma EBP20N,
Yaesu 7.2V/600ma FNB-17).  This is an AstroFlite model 110 DC/DC auto-peak
charger.  Runs off 13.8VDC input (car battery, shack p/s), has an
adjustable charge rate (1-5A, I usually set it to 2A for the HT packs),
and goes into trickle-charge mode after it has detected the voltage
peak of the pack being charged.  No timer needed; set and forget.
Typically it takes just 15-20 min to recharge a spent HT pack.

So far I've probably been thru a dozen or so discharge/charge cycles, and
the HT packs seem to be holding up just fine.  Time will tell if they
can take the higher charge rate stress; but it sure is conveinient so far.

The most difficult part was making the adapters from the model-car style
battery connector (a 2-pin molex-style job) to the appropriate HT pack.
On the Alinco I came in thru the top (where the HT connects); on the Yaesu
pack I came in thru the standard 1/8" mini-phone jack charge port on the back.

Anybody else tried doing this (except KD6IOB who gave me the idea)?

Don
KD6JTT
-- 

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...!apple!north     north@apple.com      NORTH      KD6JTT     etc,etc,etc

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From: f1jtl@carina.unm.EDU (laurent d nis 92jun18 thomin)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Famous hams...
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:57:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: carina.9211122257.AA04260
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

I worked LU1?? 2 years ago on 40 m CW during a contest. I got his QSL card early this year via buro and realized that the station was that of the president of the republic of Argentina (Carlos Menem). In fact his call IS LU1CM isn't it?

73 de F1JTL  *** WX3W/5
From: rdewan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rajiv Dewan)
Subject: Help: Info on TOKO 455KHz filters
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:06:47 GMT

Rajiv                                 
aa9ch    
Address: r-dewan@nwu.edu
Phone:   None. Only CW.
And occasionally AMTOR.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: mebly@eng.umd.edu (Mark E. Bailey)
Subject: Contest Morse Keyers - reccommendations?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 22:49:57 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

I need to upgrade my old keyer.  I am looking for recommendations.

Requirements:
  Iambic keying with dot/dash memories
  Memories for contest exchanges
  automatic serial numbers
  easy to use
  9V battery power (preferred) or 12-volts

Will any of you happy owners of the perfect keyer please reply via e-mail?

If I get sufficient interest, I'll summarize the responses.

PS:  Hurry, the CQ WW CW test is coming soon...

Thanks and 73.


-- 
Mark Bailey     KD4D          Motto:  Life's too short to drink cheap beer.
mebly@eng.umd.edu             Disclaimer:  I didn't really say this.
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