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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Re: New Radio Shack Scanner (BOGUS!).  What we really want. . .!
From: julian@bongo.UUCP (Julian Macassey)
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:07:20 GMT
Reply-To: julian@bongo.info.com (Julian Macassey)
Organization: The Hole in the Wall  Hollywood California U.S.A.

In article <27890023@hpsad.sad.hp.com> frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Frank Ball) writes:
>*/ hpsad:rec.radio.amateur.misc / ron@pilot.njin.net (Ron Natalie) / 10:04 am  Jul 27, 1992 /
>*> How about the Ham 6m band 50-54MHz?
>*> Or 108-118...
>
>108-118 is aircraft navigation stuff.  No voice.  Does anyone want to
>listen to that?  You aren't trying to land you plan with your scanner
>are you?


No, he wants to be ready when VORs carry voice ID and commercials which
will pay for all the spiffy new FAA ATC computers.

	Then again, he could want it so he can listen to VOR IDs now
and practice his Morris. 

	It has to be more fun than listening to cellular phone calls.




-- 
Julian Macassey, julian@bongo.info.com  N6ARE@K6VE.#SOCAL.CA.USA.NA
742 1/2 North Hayworth Avenue Hollywood CA 90046-7142 voice (213) 653-4495
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: pcompton@hebb.uoregon.edu (Paul E. Compton)
Subject: Re: Origin of NOAA?
Organization: Dept. of Psych - U of Oregon
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 08:27:55 GMT

In article <Brr6u8.L2B@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, awpaeth@watpix.waterloo.edu
(Alan Wm Paeth) writes (among other things):
> 
> The National Oceanographic and Aeronautic Association does own/operate the
> US Weather Service, ot grant reciprocity to former NOAA officers).
> 
>    /Alan W Paeth
>    VE3AWP/KD3XG
> 

Funny, I always thought it was the "National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration"!!
 
Paul E. Compton
Brain Electrophysiolgy Laboratory
Deptartment of Psychology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1227

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From: rdg@world.std.com (Richard D Goldstein)
Subject: Re: 92 Camry Mobile
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:03:31 GMT

jrr@scamp.concert.net (Joe Ragland) writes:

>I am having trouble getting info from Toyota about installing 
>146 Mhz and 440 Mhz rigs in a 92 Camry.  All they say is "don't
>do it".  The owners manual states at the front of the book to not
>install two-way radios and it repeats the statement in the section
>on air bags.  Certainly, I don't want to key the rig and have the
>air bag deploy...:-)

>So, I'd like to hear from anyone who has a rig in a 92 Toyota Camry.
>What would be helpful is type of rig, where mounted, power used,
>location of antenna, routing of coax, and type of antenna.

>Certainly, with proper installation it can be done in a way that
>doesn't interfere with auto computers, air bags, etc.

>Thanks.

>--joe
>  W4BZL



Joe,

I have a new 92 Camry and an ALINCO DJ-F1T with a 12 volt/5 watt battery pack
which I use from inside the car with a RubberDuckie antenna all the time
although I did stick my arm though the window and key up the radio the first
time before I tried it! ?;-)   Anyhow, no problems.  I also have an NEC P200
handheld cellular phone which I use with a RD antenna inside the car, too.

But perhaps I have just been lucky!   

Good luck and 73   Rich G.  KA2TMT
-- 
Richard D. Goldstein
Schiller & Kusmer
Patent Attorneys At Law
(617) 227-5454 Telephone
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: henne@fit.gmd.dbp.de (Peter Henne)
Subject: APT-Sats: Status JULY 26, 1992
Organization: GMD
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:17:24 GMT

Observed at station 50.7 NLat, 7.1 ELon, JULY 26, 1992

NOAA-9:      APT 137.62 On
NOAA-10:     APT 137.50 *OFF*
NOAA-11:     APT 137.62 On
NOAA-12:     APT 137.50 On
Meteor 2-19: APT 137.85 *OFF*
Meteor 2-20: APT 137.85 ON again
Meteor 3-4:  APT 137.30 On

NOAA-10 is off due to VHF-Conflict with NOAA-12 until
JULY 30 (as from wxsat-mail-info). Meteor 2-19 reached
the morning-terminator and is off now, APT-activity was
taken over by Meteor 2-20. Only the image is transmitted,
*NO* synch-bars, greyscale and aperture-data.The problem
is persistent since last activity-period. Nevertheless
the pictures are of good quality.

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|Peter Henne (henne@fit.gmd.dbp.de)        |
|German Nat.Research Center.f.Comp.Science |
|D-5205 St.AUGUSTIN 1                      |
|Fed.Rep. of Germany                       |
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From: derry@milton.u.washington.edu (Derry Lyons)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Origin of NOAA? (Was Re: amateurs in history)
Keywords: but yes
Date: 27 Jul 92 06:45:39 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

Government humor?  Oh, I've got a million of 'em.  Working for
NOAA, I have no idea how they get their acronyms, but here are
two of my favorite:

RACE (Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering) - the
group I'm in, but the name doesn't reflect the timeline...

ARC (Acoustic Research Center) -- NOAA's ARC...get it?

I'm sure there are million more...  :-)  Derry


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux)
Subject: Re: Electronic Repeater Diretcory (was Re: 2-m Repeaters)
Reply-To: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: New Technology, Inc.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:08:42 GMT

While browsing through the Atlanta Ham Radio Outlet store this
weekend, I saw a nice "road atlas" type repeater directory. Each page
contained a simple state map, with major highways, and repeater
listings were annotated where appropriate- frequencies, offsets, and
so on.

I can't remember the name of the book, and I don't remember whether it had 911
or autopatch data shown.

-- 
Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG          | I shouldn't bitch / I shouldn't cry
robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov   | I'd start a revolution but I don't have time.


Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: ron@pilot.njin.net (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: New Radio Shack Scanner (BOGUS!
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:39:31 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Well perhaps if Radio Shack as purveyors of Cellular Telephone
equipment would stop encouraging such legislation as ECPA (which
they supported), then you wouldn't have to worry about whether
certain pieces of your merchandise would suddenly become illegal.
I suppose Radio Snack sells more telephones than scanners, but
still, there's also a move out to hit up the Cellular people for
making false claims of security (there actually is none) of cellular
communications.

-Ron

Brandywine Communications (the commercial side of Deleware Amateur
Radio) has a truck that has the slogan "The convenience of a radio,
with the privacy of a phone."  (or is it the other way around, I
snicker everytime I see that).
From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: AVAILABLE: The Novice, Technician and General Question Pools
Date: 24 Jul 92 10:30:52 EDT

robinson@porter.geo.brown.edu (Darrin Robinson) writes:
>AVAILABLE from imbrium.geo.brown.edu:/pub/hamradio/software
>I have the Novice, Technician and General MS-DOS (IBM) based
>question pools available on imbrium.geo.brown.edu.  These were
>downloaded form Ccmpuserve's Ham Forum... at an expense!  So,
>if anyone has the Advanced and/or the Extra pools, let me know,
>I'll archive them here.  Note that this IS Shareware and donations
>to the author are appreciated and recommended for a job WELL done!

All of the exam pools are available as freeware Hypercard stacks written by
Diana L. Syriac, and can be ftp'd from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/ham-radio and
the other usual ftp suspects.  Note that you need a Macintosh to make use
of these, but, hey, you need a Macintosh anyway :-).

Also, the pools are available as text from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/ham-radio
(and no doubt many other places).  I don't know if there are any freeware DOS
programs, but I wouldn't be at all surprised; shareware authors should try to
pick niches that aren't already full, unless they have done an INCREDIBLY
excellent job...
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: paulf@w6yx (Paul Flaherty)
Subject: Re: ARRL Bulletin 68 ARLB068
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:52:43 GMT

jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:

>Is there a real new approach out there?

Of course there is.  Having been a teenager less than a decade ago myself,
I can tell you that new technology is *very* attractive to someone of that
age group; it gives you something to talk about with your friends.  There
is a definite social phenomenon that supports high tech hacking groups, and
that is the need for teenagers to fit in with a group.  Communications
technologies expand the size of that group.  The folks I ran around with
in junior high and high school were a bunch of MECC/MTS hackers from all
over the state of Minnesota.

I was always peripherally interested in ham radio, but two factors were
responsible for redirecting my attention elsewhere.  One was the CW
requirement, which seemed antiquated and silly.  The other was the difficulty
in finding anyone under the age of 30 who was interested.   Hanging around
with a bunch of old Pheezers doesn't do much good for your image.

Clearly nothing can be done directly about the latter factor; we're stuck
with the demographics we have.  The best that we can do is to make the
service more attractive to *groups* of teenages, not necessarily individuals.

Bob, Phil and others have proposed numerous such changes over the years here.
The codeless tech is probably the most obvious one.  Less obvious work has
included dumping the antiquated content restrictions, and the HF packet STA.

All of these proposals involve change, and nearly all of them have been
met with considerable resistance and denial, especially by organizations
that should have known better.

--
-=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX/5W1JX  |"Anyway, nothing can beat Good Old American
->paulf@Stanford.EDU          | Know - How." -- Harry Canyon, _Heavy Metal_
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (jeffrey.n.jones)
Subject: Re: You've got it tough?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:34:43 GMT
Keywords: Another fun thread

In article <1992Jul24.205327.12331@convex.com> tonyp@convex.com (honey bunny) writes:
>You say you've got it tough?
>
>When I was a novice, we didn't have telegraph keys;
>
>We ran A-0 emission, plugged our transmitters into the 
>switched wall outlet, and stood by the doorway, toggling
>the light switch.

You call that tough? That's nothing!

We had it so bad that we ran 0-0 emission. We would stand on our roofs,
put our hands to our mouths and scream out our dit dahs!!! I tell ya mac
you aint' heard nothing 'till you hear some guy scream dah d... and you
knew some poor sap either lost his voice or fell off his roof. That'll send
chills down your spine! 

Jeff


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 jeffj@seeker.mystic.com   |      then we run the risk of failure.
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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Origin of NOAA? (Was Re: amateurs in history)
Keywords: but yes
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:34:52 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


In article <derry.712219539@milton> derry@milton.u.washington.edu (Derry Lyons) writes:
>Government humor?  Oh, I've got a million of 'em.  Working for
>
>ARC (Acoustic Research Center) -- NOAA's ARC...get it?

Now that we are on to cute acronyms - I had a colleague who worked on
SHEEP - Space Hardware Environmental Evaluation Program.  He promptly
created two sub-programs.  One was SHEEP DIP for the part Done In-house
Primarily, and the other, the contracted-out portion, was SHEEP DUNG for
Done Under Nebulous Guidance.
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art."
        Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
From: wb9omc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: QRP SSB net starting...
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:10:53 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

turner@safety.ICS.UCI.EDU (Clark Savage Turner WA3JPG) writes:

>A couple of QRP ARCI members plan to start an SSB QRP net of some sort.
>The "first pass" will be this Saturday at 1900 UTC on or about
>28.322.  Max, KA9JKK and Clark, WA3JPG will be there to start.

	If you are referring to the weekend of Aug. 1 and 2, be warned.
The 10-10 fall SSB contest is this weekend, might be a lousy time to start
a net.....

	Many of us would respect your right to use the frequency,
myself included.  Unfortunately, there are many contesters who do
not feel that way....

Duane
WB9OMC
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV)
Subject: Re: "Readability, Strength" signal reports
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:49:18 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Electrical Engineering
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul23.155104.8942@eng.umd.edu> chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV) writes:
>
>The "key click" is caused by too sharp a transition between carrier on and
>carrier off.  It is more pleasant sounding to let the power ramp up for a few
>milliseconds.

oops!  I meant, of course, "carrier off" and "carrier on"!  sorry

Chuck Harris - WA3UQV
chuck@eng.umd.edu
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (James H. Haynes)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: amateurs in history
Keywords: but yes
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:42:54 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Jul20.230236.22281@convex.com> tonyp@convex.COM writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.132740.0105090@locus.com> marcoh@lear.bos.locus.com (Mark Heroux) writes:
>}Ham was the son of NOAA.  NOAA is best remembered for his work
>}in connection with meteorology.
Yes, he invented rain, as I recall.
>Meteorology? I thought he pioneered digital handshake-communications.
>Everyone's heard of NOAA's ARQ...
No, it was the arc he invented.
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art."
        Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
From: oo7@ut-emx.uucp (Derek Wills)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: signal strength reports
Keywords: how it's done
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:27:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

turner@safety.ICS.UCI.EDU (Clark Savage Turner WA3JPG) asks:

>I don't have the handbook in front of me, but what are the standards
>for the Readability and Strength signal reports?  I am constantly
>assaulted with silly reports like "five by one" or "five by zero"
>where the operator on the other side seems to use his (her) S-meter
>(now, THERE'S an accurate standard!!! :-) for the Strength report.
>It's a bit silly since the "0" purportedly means zero signal strength,
>thus impossible copy.

>S-meter differences aside, and debates about the objectivity of such
>reports reserved for another day, what are some of the standard definitions
>for Signal Strength that we all use out there in ham radio land?  I would
>love to have some useful heuristic to help me give more meaningful
>reports.

S9 means the signal is loud, S7 means it's pretty loud but not the loudest
thing around, S5 means that if you're not using headphones you put them on,
and S3 means you hold your hands over the headphones or lean close up against 
the loudspeaker.  S1 means there's nothing there.   S9 can also mean "I need 
your QSL card".

Works for me -


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
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: CRT radiation into ham rcvrs
From: rusty@anasaz (Rusty Carruth)
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:36:34 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

In article <5814.2a6f034e@hayes.com> bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.124413.27165@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
>> In article <5798.2a6b0ad5@hayes.com> bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) writes:
>>>In article <9g=m-lm.nagle@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>>>>        The Mac 13" color monitor emits 60Hz magnetic fields strongly
>>>> enough to interfere with a telephone handset at 3'.  
>
>BTW, I've received confirmation from employees at Apple that this report
>of emissions of strong magnetic fields interfering with telephone handsets
>is entirely BOGUS.
>
Perhaps the bogosity statement is true WRT Apple monitors (having NO
experience with same), HOWEVER! - I have a really nice Magnavox Multisync
monitor at home that plays HAVOC with the ENTIRE 10M novice SSB portion
pretty much whenever its on (severity depends upon whats on the display -
you can sometimes tell when the scene changes by what happens on the radio!).

>....

>Indeed, the whole lot is FCC Class B certified. I doubt you could say
>the same for Suns or ATT workstations.

My PC is class B (including the monitor, I think - now I'm going to 
have to check!), but that does not alter the fact that 10m is pretty
much useless when I have the computer on...

Rusty@anasazi (aka mr. callsign project)
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From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Gasping Geezer
Date: 17 Jul 92 16:28:31 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League

From: ehare@arrl.org (Ed Hare KA1CV)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Demote Extra Class Lids (etc)
Date: 16 Jul 92 08:40:53 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League
 
In rec.radio.amateur.misc, <tonyp@cnvxla.COM> (good, Conan - good!) writes:
>In article <9207160803.aa04146@COR5.PICA.ARMY.MIL> jkeller@pica.army.mil (Jero
me Keller, PPD) writes:
>}(RE: "Don't throw me in the Briar Patch...." comment by one of our very
>}best, Ed Hare....."Does that make him a Gasping Geezer?") 

Ed Hare writes:
 
>Just for the record, I was not the one who originally posted the "briar patch"
>comment. I may have done a follow-up, but my email gets so busy that
>I really don't remember. :-). I'm still a bit young to be a true Gasping
>Geezer, but I am in apprenticeship under Jim Kearman. :-) (He'll get me
>for that!)
       
>    Does that make him "Hare Rabbit"?       (bah-dump)
 
>Groan. Keep in mind that I have been hearing "Hare" jokes since I was a 
>wee lad (the prelude to Gasping Geezerhood). I only laugh at new ones.
 ^^^^^^^

I understand the first time Ed heard that one, it was Marconi
who said it. Or, was it Edison?

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From: MROWEN%STLAWU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Owen W9IP)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Perseids correction
Date: 31 Jul 1992 08:54:01 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

The upcoming Perseids "storm" _should_ occur at about
2200 UTC on August 11.  Better time predictions will be
available after the fact.  :)

Mike Owen
MROWEN@STLAWU
From: wright@morekypr.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Not all 911 ops are DIM BULBS
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:16:26 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

>Date: 26 Jul 92 05:12:22 GMT
>From: usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary@network.UCSD.EDU
>To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
>
>References <14kmgdINNee3@network.ucsd.edu>, <1992Jul24.022151.3937@ke4zv.uucp>,
>  <Jul.24.13.33.33.1992.24176@pilot.njin.net>
>Reply-To : gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
>Subject : Re: Is it "business" if I use and autopatch to...
>
>In article <Jul.24.13.33.33.1992.24176@pilot.njin.net> ron@pilot.njin.net (Ron
>  Natalie) writes:
>>Dialing 911 on a cell phone some systems is not likely to be the most
>>expedient way to get help.
>
>Most cell systems route you to a central dispatch center that will ask
>what county you are calling from and transfer your call to the correct
>agency. The few that don't should have the wrath of the Public Service
>Commission brought down on them. On BellSouth systems 911 is always a
>free call, even for units that are deliquent in their bills and have
>had their regular service disconnected.
>
>On the other hand, dialing 911 via an autopatch will often result in
>emergency response units being sent to the *repeater* location. Even
>if you explain to the dim bulb answering the phone that you are calling
>from a mobile unit, they will still push the button that transfers the
>location information to the police or fire department. That information
>is the *repeater's* address. Then the repeater *trustee* starts getting
>$100 fines for false emergency calls and discontinues autopatch service.
>
>Gary KE4ZV
>

Gary

I beg to differ with you on your statement of "Even if you explain to the
dim bulb answering the phone that......."

I have been a 911 dispatcher starting in 1982 . I know some of my fellow
dispatchers seem to be not all there but we have standing orders to go by
<WHICH I DON"T AGREE WITH ALL THE TIME>.  If a dispatcher is PROPERLY trained
no matter what shows up on the E-911 call screen, that dispatcher should
ALL WAYS ASK WHAT IS THE LOCATION OF THE INCENDENT.  Who knows, You could be
calling on a TIN CAN and a STRING.......Here in Kentucky every Dispatcher
is mandated BY LAW to attend a 40 hour Basic Dispatch Course and then he/she
must aquire within 2 years a mandated 8 hour refresher <INSERVICE> and must
pass another written test.  When you go through Dispatch Basic your final
test not only is a written test but you are put at the testing centers radio
console and you will receive apx 4 911 calls "TRUE EMERGENCY CALLS" 4 calls
for service all via telephone and have apx 6 radio units to handle all almost
at one time.....

I KNOW KENTUCKY'S DISPATCHERS ARE TRAINED!!!!!!!!!

Tim Wright  KD4OVM
WRIGHT@MOREKYPR.BITNET

Morehead State University Police
Office of Public Safety
Police Communications

BTW:  WE train right beside the Police Officers we work with. We do are best
to do our job right but the Officers don't understand our Job anymore than
they do theirs......8-)
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