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From: MUSCHINSKE%39A.DEcnet@scfb.chinalake.navy.mil (39A::MUSCHINSKE)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: FCC woes, what can be done?
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:40:00 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
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The problem with fees is that they go into the general fund.  If they
went directly back to the activity where they were collected, that would
be one thing.  I personally don't want to fund studies of the sexual habits
of the Mongolian lousewort beetle ;-).  On the other hand, if the money
went back to the FCC, it could disappear down other rat holes.  Ex.  
Congress mandated re-regulation of the cable industry, but neglected to
fund it.  (SIGH!)

73, Erich
AX.25:     KA6AMD @ WA6YBN.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA
Internet:  muschinske%39a.decnet@scfb.chinalake.navy.mil
From: ccoprfm@prism.gatech.EDU (Monte Freeman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Yaesu 530 and Alinco DJ-580
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:48:00 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hello,

 I'm sure the new super-wiz-bang Yaesu hand-held was talked about here back
when it was introduced. At the time I wasn't in the market for a new ht. I am
now since someone decided they needed my radio more than I did and removed it
from my car without bothering to ask me... :-(

 I now have the chance to get either the Alinco DJ-580 or the new Yaesu FT-530.
HRO here in Atlanta got 10 of the new Yaesu's in yesterday and they only have
one left now.

 What I need is either a place where I can find an archived article or two
about the Yaesu or someone else who has one to tell me a little about it. I have
the marketing glossy for the Alinco, but the Yaesu is new enough that HRO here
in Atlanta doesn't have any yet.

 I have to give HRO an answer by about noon Eastern time today (12/18/92), so
if this message gets off my site and to anyone who can help out, I'd really
appreciate it....

    Thanks and 73,

   KC4GPW


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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: little@nuts2u.enet.dec.com (nuts2u::little)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: RE: 2 m range
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:59:51 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

"dwilson@s850.mwc.EDU (David L. Wilson)" writes:

>In actuality, the line-of-sight horizon in miles is about 1.22
>times the square root of the height in feet.  This was used to

Well I know that is the textbook answer, but it's not very close to
reality.  Given a little power and some beam antennas, it's pretty easy to
work distances out to 250 miles or more with great regularity at antenna
heights much less than the table predicts.  There is a VHF net that
operates out of Ohio (WA8NJR and others) every week (was Monday night, but I
think that perhaps it has shifted to Sunday night.)  I know there are
stations in my area with antennas under 100', and some under 60' that hear
them every week and that's a distance of 250 miles.

With my station 150 W, 15' beam up 40' (when the antenna is up) I worked
schedules with stations in Iowa (150 miles) very reliably and Ohio (250
miles) 80 % of the time or better.  The Iowa station was regularly S9+10 or
more and usually the only time we couldn't make it was due to excessive QRM
caused by nearby storms.  A nearby station here with a 29' yagi up about
90' was able to make the Ohio schedule every time he tried over a several
month period.

I've heard many reasons given from regularly occurring tropo ducting to
scattering to whatever.  Whatever it is, it's definitely well beyond the
"radio horizon".

73,
Todd
N9MWB
From: jwl@ferrari.cray.com (Jim Lynch)
Subject: Re: Poteniometer ratings:  Is that max value or min value?
Reply-To: jwl@ferrari.cray.com (Jim Lynch)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.  Eagan, MN.
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:32:49 CST

In article <yVqTVB2w165w@n3eop.pgh.pa.us>, paul@n3eop.pgh.pa.us (paul) writes:
>alanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom) writes:
>
>> In rec.radio.amateur.misc, jerryp@key.COM (J. R. Pendleton) writes:
>> 
>> >When a schematic calls for a potentiometer of some value (ex 15k ohms) is th
>> >the maximum or minimum value of that potentiometer?
>> 
>> It is the nominal value.  15k +/- 20% would be between 12 and 18k.
>> 
>> ...
>> >  Failing that, I'm wondering about the possibilities of using a 10 or 20 ko
>> >  pot in its place.  I'm reluctant to do that - I figure the engineers at 
>> >  heath would have used a cheaper part if they could get away with it.
>> >  Could I use a 5kohm resistor in line with a 10kohm pot?
>> 
>> It depends on the circuit.  A 10k pot and 5 k resistor would work, with
>> of course less adjustment range.
>
>First, assuming that there are no other resistors across the two outer 
>legs of the pot, you can add one to the next _larger_ size.
>
>Assuming that you are using Radio Shack parts, the next size larger than 
>the desired 15K ohms is a 50K ohm pot.  Remember the "product over the 
>sum" formula for parallel resistors?
>
>R1 * R2
>-------   =  final resistance
>R1 + R2
>
>Plug in 50K for R1, and 15K for final resistance, and you get:
>(All resistances divided by 1K for simplicity)
>
>50 * R
>------  =  15
>50 + R
>
>50R = 15(50 + R)  =  750 + 15R
>
>35R  =  750
>
>R = 21.4(K), which is close enough to the standard 22K.
>
>Simply take a 22K fixed and a 50K pot, and put the 22K across the outer 
>legs of the pot.  There... you have a 15K pot.

I don't think so....

That's ok if you want to turn a linear pot into a non linear one, or
an audio taper into something else.  Don't expect the center of the
pot to give you 7.5K in the above example (assuming a linear pot).

Use your ohm's law to figure out the resistance of that circuit with
the wiper in the center of the pot.

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From: oo7@ut-emx.uucp (Derek Wills)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: phonetics
Keywords: fernettix
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:42:21 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss) says:

>In article <1gocfnINNfo@spool.mu.edu> jason@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Jason Hanson) writes:
>> I have thought of no good phonetics for N9LEA! Any help would be appreciated.

>Grumble, not another string of notes about good phonetics.  Really ! :-(
>What a waste of time and resources.  My I suggest you find a frequency not
>in use, call cq, qrz or whatever and ask someone on the air.  

Right.  I would try something like, oh, say 14.313, it will keep you
occupied for hours.

If the original poster really can't think of anything to fit common
letters like L, E and A, he is a Lazy Exasperating A*****e.

Bah Humbug!


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
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From: v027197@stortek.com (George Noyes)
Subject: Re: Tandy Bashing
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.  Louisville, CO
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:45:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.150649.17513@pool.info.sunyit.edu> gpmh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Patrick Hurley) writes:
>
>Now my complaint:
>
>     I now agree wholeheartedly with many of the opinions
>that were expressed here.  I recently had the privilege of
>visiting a local Radio Shack and receiving assistance from a
>rude, unprofessional, discourteous, and technically
>incompetent salesperson.  The mere fact that this person was
>incompetent did not bother me as much as the fact that he
>insisted on proving it to me in a rather boisterous fashion.
>All of this in front of a co-worker and a store full of
>people.... at no additional charge!!!
>     After considering the situation for some time, I
>returned to the store to make the manager aware of my
>displeasure.  To my amazement, the manager did not respond
>and he actually walked away and answered two lengthy phone
>calls in the middle of the discussion. 
> 
I have experienced both the above observations and the opposite at various
Tandy based stores.  This phenomenon is not strictly a "Tandy" only phenomenon, but happens in any "service" organization, with the same predictable results.
People who work for Radio Shack/Tandy as sales people do not exactly make a
"killing" in salary.  I'm not sure if they work for a salary or commission or
a combination (I'll have to ask a friend who works for them and find out, but
I know its not a whole lot more than minimum wage when your a peon salesperson).Hence, the people who work there, probably have little experience working with
people or in sales, and it should be up to the "manager" to teach them.  
Perhaps, we as customers need to atleast be aware of this and accept a little
moderation, but.........

So let me leave you with this thought and quote (stolen from the "1min 
Manager", who's author contributes this quote to an old Greek saying),
"The fish rots out from the head" - meaning, the manager of an operation
sets the "example" for the subordinates.  Hence, its no wonder the salesman
responded like his manager.  This is a sad but not unusual case.  I'd say
the manager and district manager need to get their heads out of their butts
and get their people trained to handle the "service" they have.... or they
won't need to worry about having a "service".

The Radio Shack's I have been frequenting have curteous and helpful sales
people (not knowledgeable all the time, but you can't have everything..)

:-)

73's de George W1XE  

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From: labelle@hfglobe.intel.com (George La Belle)
Subject: HELP working AO-21
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:38:15 GMT


	I have been trying, without success to work AO-21 on FM. I've
	been told the up is 435.016 for 145.987 down. I have been figuring
	the up needs to be udjusted down in freq 3 KHz for every 1 KHz the
	downlink is dopplered up. (i.e. I hear it at 145.988, so I uplink
	at 435.013) Is this correct?

	I hear the satellite at full quieting thru 80% of the pass using a
	discone. I'm running 40 watts up with a TS-790, is this sufficient?
	If not, why not?

	Also, the last few days, a woman speaking a foreign language
	(seemingly stored in the bird) has been broadcasting thru some of
	the best part of the pass! What the heck is that?

		Thanks,
		George
		WB6YZZ
From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Longwires at VHF
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:15:53 GMT
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group

In article <14570558@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> alanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom) writes:
>>6 wavelengths per leg works out to something like 180 feet from
>>end to end.
>
>Of course, I meant to say "rotatable"
>
>>AL N1AL

Six wavelengths at channel 2 is about 108 feet, and at channel 13 about
24 feet. Rotating a rhombic for the lower part of the band would be
a challenge, but at the high end it's doable. A Vee beam would be
easier, and nearly as good.

Gary KE4ZV
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: frankb@sad.hp.com (Frank Ball)
Subject: Re: 6 Meter Radio Shack HTs!
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:44:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HewlettPackardSantaRosaSystmsDiv,RohnertParkCA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

jeffrey.n.jones (jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com) wrote:
& In article <1992Dec17.113000.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> wday@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
& > spikes@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Bill Spikes) writes:
& >> Long post about modifying Radio Shack TRC-503 and TRC-505 walkie talkies
& >> to 6 meters.
& 
& >> These GOTTA be modifiable to 6 meters. The output power should be raised
& 
& Are these AM, FM or SSB? 

All the consumer 46/49 MHz stuff is FM.

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: edw@sequent.com (Ed Wright)
Subject: Re: Tandy Bashing
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:30:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.150649.17513@pool.info.sunyit.edu> gpmh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Patrick Hurley) writes:
>First my question:
>
>     Does anyone know of an address and/or name for the Tandy
>corporation where an unhappy customer can send a complaint??
>
>Now my complaint:
>
>     It wasn't that long ago that I watched all the Tandy
>bashing that was taking place on rec.radio.amateur.misc.  At
>the time I read all of the posts and continued to do business
>at Radio Shack because they did carry some products I was
>interested in and up until recently, their most annoying
>habit was to ask for the last four digits of my phone number.
>
>ALL OF THAT HAS CHANGED!!!!!
>
>     I now agree wholeheartedly with many of the opinions
>that were expressed here.  I recently had the privilege of


Call Tandy at Dallas Ft Worth
I did after a like experience, and I found about two weeks later
when the new manager took over, he began training his people.
I'm real happy now.
I also notice that if he gets in a new salesperson who is less than
apt, I just ask him to ask the manager to wait on me. They get 
the message.

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From: tskelton@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Tom Skelton)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: test ** don't read
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:40:01 GMT
Reply-To: tskelton@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Tom Skelton)
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

Sorry for bandwidth waste..running test to see if local mail fixed.
tnx! tom wb4iux
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From: mac20@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Michael A Cecere)
Subject: Re: NASA SELECT
Reply-To: mac20@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Michael A Cecere)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:57:50 GMT

Does anyone know a NASA select freq in the amateur bands for New York City
area?
I have heard it on out Long Island 448.425 i think it was, i could be wrong
:)

Thanks much.
Mike
WB2ZLW

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From: park@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Chongsun Park)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Help for operating privileges in Korea
Keywords: Privilege, HAM, Korea, UHF, VHF
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:35:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Dec14.153553.28155
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

Hello, netters.

I had been a Korean HAM, and now have a US licence. I want to buy 2m or
440 MHz HT near future. But I will return to Korea in about 2 years .   
So, I want to buy one which I can use in Korea without any problem.
I will appreciate for any information about operating privileges above
6 meters(if possible detailed like 144-148Mhz etc.) or letting me
where I can get such information.

Thanks in advance.

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From: chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV)
Subject: Re: Halogen Lamp/Dimmer causes interference Help!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 19:04:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Electrical Engineering

In article <1992Dec14.054828.3554@news.acns.nwu.edu> jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss) writes:
>In article <1g5lrjINNlh9@topaz.bds.com> ron@topaz.bds.com (Ron Natalie) writes:
>>> Yup, you got it.  Simple is it not?  It is also a poor design.  A Good design > would use a Zero Crossing SCR.
>>
>>A Zero Crossing SCR would only be usable here if you were just turning on
>>and off the light.  To dim it in any sane sense requires the dimmer firing
>>during the non-zero parts of the wave form.
>>
>
>Not quite.
>You just switch between cycles to keep the noise low.  The more cycles that
>conduct (averaged over time) cause the bulbs to burn brighter.  Just adjust
>the duty cycle to vary the amount of light.  There are probably some glue

Yumm, yumm, that should flicker verrry nicely!  Let's see, if you want 10%
output, turn on 1 cycle in 10, that should give you an exceedingly nice 6Hz
flicker.  Zero crossing SCR, I don't think so...

73,

Chuck Harris - WA3UQV
chuck@eng.umd.edu
From: carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett)
Subject: Re: Clever Phonetics Needed--WK3C
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:18:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Dec18.020856.9299@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> stevel@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Steve Lancaster) writes:
>In article <6097@naucse.cse.nau.edu> rrw@sunset.cse.nau.edu (Bob Wier) writes:
>>
>>Now, if you want something REALLY difficult, try
>>my call WB5KXH -
>
>How bout wb5 Kong's Xylophone Hammer
>
Or maybe:
     We Built 5 Kilowatt X-ray Horns
     We Borrowed 5 Kinky, Xeroxed Handbooks
     Washington Bribed 5 Kind Xenophobic Hungarians

Gee, none of those are really very good, though.  You're right.  Your's is
a little harder.

Carter R. Bennett, Jr. - Scientist | "Oh my God!  I _AM_ a nerd!!!"
carter@scilab.lonestar.org - home  | - C. Bennett, Sept 25, 1992, after
carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org - work  | realizing he had been talking about
KI5SR          | market availability of "preconfigured" Toll-House cookies.
From: Dick Dillman <ddillman@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:53 PST
Subject: Re: Literature
Nf-ID: #R:1992Dec10.225132.1439@samba.oit.:-1021805747:cdp:1457900005:000:1190
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!ddillman    Dec 13 17:53:00 1992



Greetings:

Regarding the Belden catalog, I'd say it's very useful.  There's a lot of
stuff listed besides coax, but the listing for each coax product shows
information like loss in db per 100ft. at several frequencies, etc.  I'm
sure they'd send you one.

As to the tone finder, I didn't buy the one you mentioned but instead
purchased the CD-1 made by Connect Systems, Inc.  It's sitting next to
me now (down, boy).  This little box decodes CTCSS, DTMF and, allegedly,
DCS.  The instructions put me off a bit as they said the audio for the
unit had to be derived from a receiver stage before the de-emphesis circuit -
this after the "guy on the phone" assured me the tape output of a scanner
would do.  Making an internal would be a bummer here as we plan to use
the box on several different radios.  So anyway, as you might expect, I
just attached it to the tape output to see what would happen.  After a
but of judicious tweaking with the internal gain control (in the CD-1),
it reliably decodes CTCSS and DTMF.  For the latter, it repeats what it heard in 
in 4 digit groups after the carrier goes away.  But no joy on DCS so far.
I expect that for that one really must "go inside".
From: v027197@stortek.com (George Noyes)
Subject: Re: CRYSTAL RADIO
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.  Louisville, CO
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:21:44 GMT

In article <iTNHVB1w164w@warell.lonestar.org> root@warell.lonestar.org (q) writes:
>Is Philmore no longer in business? There is no greater joy'
>than to move the catwisker around trying to get the best 
>reception. Oh yes, the good ol days. If you passed the catwisker,
>you went on to the one-tube receiver--where's the No. 30 tube.
                                                     ^^^^^^^

Gee, that's pretty modern, you must mean the predecessor:  01A tube
:-) de George Noyes, W1XE
From: enge@almaden.ibm.com (Roy Engehausen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: RACES Bulletin #253
Date: 20 Dec 92 06:31:41 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

BID : $RACESBUL.253


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.253                                 DATE: Dec. 21, 1992
SUBJECT:  TEC - Portable radio batteries - Part 2/2

     If hams are to be part of the solution -- and not another
part of the communications problem -- it is obvious that their
communications gear must always be as ready as they are to
work.

     This brings us back to those nicad batteries with which hand
held radios are usually supplied.  Nicads are great for many,
even most purposes.  They are cheap, and can be recharged many
times.  But they are much like the big communications failures
that can be expected in emergencies - THEY WILL QUIT EXACTLY WHEN
NEEDED THE MOST!

     The solution, of course, is the alkaline battery case
normally available as an inexpensive accessory to your hand held
radio.  And a supply of alkaline batteries that can keep you
going indefinitely, with minimum off-the-air time, and without
a/c power sources for nicad chargers that probably aren't
available.

     Disaster response agencies would do well to keep a supply of
fresh AA size alkaline batteries on hand, for their Amateur Radio
auxiliary resources.

--- Bill Musladin, Assistant State RACES Radio Officer, N6BTJ
EOM



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From: mellob@cary103.its.rpi.edu (Brett A. Mellor)
Subject: Toyota
 
Reply-To: mellob@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:30:18 GMT

     I remember reading in a couple magazines about people who were

	very upset because they just bought their new toyota before
	
       	reading in the manual that you can't operate a two-way radio

	with more than 10 watts output. I don't remember the specific
	
	side-effects. (check the manual.)

			-Brett,  N1LAG
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: maessm@rs6312.ecs.rpi.edu (Mathieu J. Maessen)
Subject: Re: 6 Meter Radio Shack HTs!
Reply-To: maessm@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:12:24 GMT

In article <50030040@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, spikes@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Bill Spikes) writes:

|> These GOTTA be modifiable to 6 meters. The output power should be raised
|> up a bit too. Somebody on the net has already posted about this a few moons
|> ago, and there must be others that have tried this. Any help, pointers to
|> someone, or stories would be appreciated. A 6 meter HT for 25 bucks! (or 40)
|> I hope to learn from somebody elses mistakes here before I butcher her radios.

One of the hams im my local area (Northern New Jersey) has done this to a cou-
ple of crystal-controlled walkie-talkies.  According to him, it only involves 
a crystal swap and retuning of the tuned circuits.  He put in crystals for 
52.525, and he uses it for communications when he is at a hamfest.  Not sure 
how much range he gets out of them, though.
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