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From: jdelancy@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: [ANS] mail alias for old rigs
Date: 14 Aug 92 01:06:37 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

>I've created an email alias on my machine specifically to be
>a distribution point for messages concerning old rigs.  The
>name of the alias and the means to reach it is:
>
I'd like to see that; does names like Swan (500C) and
Galaxy (V Mark II) qualify?

jd--K1ZAT
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: cookav@catipult.anatcp.rockwell.COM
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Kenwood TH-78 Mods
Date: 12 Aug 1992 09:44:26 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Greetings...
There was recently a very nice article about the TH-78 mods that particularly
address the cloning features of the radio, with step-by-step instructions.
If anyone still has a copy of this article would you please post it again, or
e-mail it to COOKAV@catipult.anatcp.rockwell.com?
73




Alan V. Cook
Rockwell International
(714) 762-0843
(714) 762-0662 - FAX

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: harp@bnr.ca (Alan Harp)
Subject: Ten Tec Omni VI
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Research Triangle Park, NC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:36:34 GMT

Some time ago someone posted a review of the Omni VI.  I wonder if
you could post it again or send it to me E mail.


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From: wn9nbt@ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Chasey)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: CQ Vermont
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:11:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Since my post to work a Utah station on HF phone was very successful,
(thanks Alan & others) I thought I'd try again.    I have all 50 worked
for WAS, but the Vermont station I worked, that promised to QSL right
away, has not been heard from after 2 QSL's and an SASE since I worked
him the first part of June.   Would some kind Vermont ham be willing to
meet me on 20, 40, or 75 SSB within the advanced class license limitations ?
Around 0400 UTC, or between 1100 and 1230 UTC is almost always OK for me, 
but obviously, I'd be willing to work around your schedule.   Lunch times 
are OK too.

Please let me know via email, since I don't get to read this group often
enough.....Thanks --  Dave "bit by the 50 mile limit" Chasey - WN9NBT

-- 
Dave Chasey - Hardware Systems Engineer
Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285  (317) 494-6425
Internet: wn9nbt@ecn.purdue.edu  UUCP: pur-ee!wn9nbt
From: penneys@pecan.cns.udel.edu (robert penneys)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Add 800MhZ to PRO-2021 Rad Shk scanner?
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:48:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

My buddy has a Radio Shack PRO-2021 scanner which goes up to the 380-512 MHz b   band.  Newer models include the 800 meg band. Is there any way to upgrade his   unit to cover 800?

Tnx Bob WN3K
From: cvm@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Peterson Radio, still in business?
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:01:33 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University

Does anyone know if Peterson Radio is still in business and how to contact them
if they are?  I have a phone number of 712-233-7539.  This number has been
disconnected.

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From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Frequency Counters
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:06:25 GMT
Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA


I finally decided to but a frequency counter and of course I didn't
save the info that went around a couple of months ago.

Which is the "best" small portable counter for portable and bench use.
I am probably looking at Startronics and Optronics.

Email and I will summarize.

jv


``Bunnies believe in deeds, not words.''
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From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- MLO3-6/B9 -- DTN 223-5747)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Look for UA1A/KC1YR
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:43:09 GMT
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Sharon was spotted on the YCCC PacketCluster on 20 SSB last night.

You might know her as "sharon@unixland.natick.ma.us"

73 - Jim AD1C

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From: jerryp@key.COM (J. R. Pendleton)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Can a felon be a ham?
Keywords: Felony ham
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:40:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Employer not involved in this.

We all know of hams that *should be* convicted of felonies :-), but a 
question was put to me a few days ago:  Can a convicted felon, on parole,
recieve a amateur license?

I know the FCC will look in askance upon you, if you used a radio in the
commission of a crime, but if the crime did not involve radio would a 
license be granted?  Or does the loss of rights that accompany a felony
conviction also include a loss of amateur privileges?

That leads me also to ask: "What happens if a licensed amateur is thrown
into the big house?  If the license isn't automatically revoked, and given
the size of todays QRP and packet rigs, the possibility of a new contest
award arises:  WAP - Worked All Prisons.  Hey, I bet they could even have
a section report in QST!  A untapped source of new ARRL members!  Are you
listening ARRL?

(Big Smiley - But the first question was a serious inquiry)

                                                      Thanks
                                                      jerryp
                                      (An associate ARRL member because
                                       I have never bothered telling them
                                       I got my license)


-- 
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 uucp: jerryp@key.amdahl.com  Voice : (510)623-2146  Amateur : KC6RTO
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From: klimasewski@fccvde.enet.dec.com (My name is...)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: spark plug interference
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:07:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Can someone recommend a brand of spark plug wires that will help
reduce spark plug interference on hf reception?
I am already using resistor type spark plugs.
The car is a 1974 Malibu Classic, 350 engine

                                     Ken
From: dit@maths.aberdeen.ac.UK (David Tock)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: How to power a PC motherboard from car battery?
Date: 17 Aug 1992 00:41:48 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

One of our collaborators (a company called Ford) has recently built some kit
for the work we are doing. This includes a 486 based PC. It runs off the car
supply, but they said they had to go through a DC-DC converter (and much else)
to remove to 300 to 400 volt spikes present in a car electrical system! They
found that simply filtering did not work. The other problem was maintaining
stability. The board may be rated up to 14 volts, but is it rated down to 7?

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From: rja@batcomfs.Eng.Sun.COM (rja@sun.com)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: QST, in my opinion...
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:14:57 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: batcomfs

In article <9208141327.AA17284@ucsd.edu> William=E.=Newkirk%Pubs%GenAv.Mlb@ns14.cca.CR.rockwell.COM writes:
>>Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ...
>
>>habit of expiring, and taking a tree or two with them when they go.
>
>fred - we can grow more trees.  You'd have a more sound critique of the League
>and QST if you leave the enviro-wacko stuff out.  Magazines today use thinner 

    I think he was joking.

>paper than ever and in general the amateur mags have less pages than they did 
>a decade ago.

    Perhaps, although I can't be certain, Fred was trying to make a
    point that he really could care less about Joe-Bob-Henry-Jake "Mr.
    QRP" Smith dropping dead at his station at 99.5 years of age :-).

    I've seen this "let's list the dead" stuff before in other hobbies,
    and I've always wondered about it.  Surely these people who are
    dropping off weren't REALLY the saints their "silent key"/"broken
    wand", etc., listings make them out to be?
>
>Last I checked, QST wasn't available on newsstands.  If anything, I would 

    I can get it at Tower Books locally, but they carry lots of
    stuff you can't get at newstands.
--
    Robert Allen, rja@sun.com		DISCLAIMER: I said it, not my company.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: awinterb@diana.cair.du.edu (Art Winterbauer)
Subject: Re: RS-10 on 10m
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:27:51 GMT

I've listened to a few of the RS-10 passes in the last couple
of weeks.  The rig is an ancient GPR-90 boat anchor (made about
1957 or so) and a wire wrapped around the ceiling (20 meter
halff wave).  I also operate from an "indoor" environment.  The
signal was S-6 at peak.  However, when I switched to the
Isotron "dummy load" antenna, secreted away in a hidden spot
on the roof of the townhouse, with about 50' of coax to it,
the signal went completely away.  So, in this case, a good
indoor antenna (untuned!) was superior to a marginal outdoor antenna!
I heard no tones on the beacon freq here (Denver).  But, make
sure your xtal oscillator frequency standard is turned off!

73 de Art, N0OQS

.

-- 
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Internet:  awinterb@du.edu OR awinterb@diana.cair.du.edu

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Subject: Re: Orbiting FM Repeater ?
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:35:05 GMT
Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc

As quoted from <1992Aug15.130551.13344@ke4zv.uucp> by gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman):
+---------------
| In article <77558@ut-emx.uucp> wdlee@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (david lee) writes:
| >Netfolks,
| > My buddy just told me about an FM repeater on board a satellite.
| >He said the uplink freq. is near 430 MHz, and the downlink
| >is 145.985 MHz. What is the designation of this satellite?
| >I need to look up its orbital elements in the NORAD lists.
| >Do you know the designation? or the exact uplink freq?
| 
| Well, what you are describing sounds like Mode B operation. It's definitely
| *not* FM. Both Oscar 10 and Oscar 13, when it's in mode B, take a 435.xxx 
| uplinked signal and downlink it in the 145.xxx band. But these are *linear* 
| 
| Now you may already know all this and are asking if there really is an FM
| repeater using these frequencies aboard an amateur satellite. If there is, 
| I haven't heard of it. Seems to me it would be useless from congestion
| most of the time.
+---------------

Surprise!  AO-21 is in fact doing this --- and yes, it *is* ordinary NBFM, not
the usual sideband.  Downlink 145.985, uplink 435.195 if I remember correctly;
it's in operation 4 minutes out of every 10 with 9600 baud packet taking up
the rest of the 10 minute period.  (Actually, there seems to be another speed
of PSK packet as well, but I have only an unbuilt PSK modem kit and no SSB
gear to use it with so I have no idea what speed it is.)

It's busy, but no worse than your average pileup.

NOTE:  I remember the downlink frequency but am unsure about the uplink.
Check with someone who *KNOWS* before you transmit!

++Brandon
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Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: k9jma@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (edwin.m.schaefer)
Subject: Re: QST, in my opinion...
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:33:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.144618.5547@cs.yale.edu> ewing-martin@CS.YALE.EDU (Martin Ewing) writes:

        quotes and other stuff deleted here

>One thing that QST might do would be to have a "My turn" column for
>general opinion pieces, including hopefully some from Fred.
>
>73, Martin, AA6E 

QST has had at least two such pieces in the recent past. I remember one of
them especially well because it voiced a gripe I also have about the fact
that a lot of people don't keep their address current with FCC and so it is
getting hard to send QSLs to Callbook QTH - let alone get returns. Another
dealt with the deadly effect that EMC/RFI will likely have on ham radio as
we all crowd into subdivisions with close neighbors and lots of very
susceptable devices - no wonder we have all those restrictive covenants.

I think that these are a very good feature of QST and hope that there
will be many more such articles.

73 de Ed K9JMA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 60Hz magnetic fields in your house
From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:23:00 GMT
Reply-To: frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
Keywords: health hazard, or not significant
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1992Aug17.223420.25847@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes...
>Was reading a late copy of IEEE Spectrum articles on the possible, but
>undetermined, health hazards of 60Hz magnetic fields.  Mostly from 
>powerlines.  Article mentioned that one source of such fields are unbalanced
>current flows in the house's safety grounds.  

	In general, the greater hazard should be from high currents closer to
	you. Distance is crucial, cause field goes by 1/r-squared.

	This means to me that if I'm on the second floor in my bedroom, I'm
	getting a lot more magnetic field from a nearby air conditioner drawing
	10 amps running the compressor and fan motors, than from the un-
	balanced current in the neutral line.

	However, IMHO, anytime the risks get so low that the epidimologists have
	a tough time separating out the signal from the background noise, the
	actual hazard to any one person is so low as to be insignificant. In
	the case of power lines, epidimology studies barely indicate something
	for linemen, (bou't half the studies see nothing, the other see some-
	thing just barely above natural occurence.) Since power linemen are	
	continuously exposed to much higher fields than you would be in your 
	house, I would worry much more about things like driving to work or
	crossing the street. Statistically they are more dangerous.

   Frank R. Borger - Physicist    __       Internet:  Frank@rover.uchicago.edu
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From: amb@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: ARRL Hudson Division Director
Date: 17 Aug 92 07:28:57 GMT

I seem to remember seeing the views of the aforementioned individual in
this forum -- is he reachable via the net somewhere, or was the data
secondhand?  (And if anyone has name/phone number/callsign info handy,
't'would be much appreciated...)

andrew
kb2ozr
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Warning: Not-so-linear Amplifiers
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:26:11 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


Well, now, if you want to use them for 10M FM or CW, they should
work fine, shouldn't they?
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art."
        Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: harp@bnr.ca (Alan Harp)
Subject: Re: For something fairly ancient...
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Research Triangle Park, NC
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:05:56 GMT

In article <103360109@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> wayne@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Wayne Covington) writes:
>Recent items on old/obscure vacuum tubes reminded me of something...  How
>many of the old-timers amongst us remember what a 0Z4 is, what equipment
>it was typically found in, and how it worked?  No fair looking it up until
>you've thoroughly searched your memory!

>Wayne
>KD0EA
OK an OZ4 is a voltage regulator tube.  It works much like a zener diode
does today only at higher voltages.  I will sink current from a power
source until the desired voltage is achieved.  The more current it 
has the brighter it glows.  Zeners are very dull.  They don't glow
until their power rating is exceeded.


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* mail: harp@bnr.ca  *   Research Triangle Park, NC    *                   *
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From: Jay.Townsend@f3.n346.z1.spk.wa.us (Jay Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Meet The Director
Date: 15 Aug 92 04:55:14 GMT

In a message of <13 Aug 92>, Jim Kearman wrote to All:

 JK> The ARRL forum is THE place to confront your elected 
 JK> officials, ask hard questions and make suggestions. It may
 JK> not be the perfect way, but it will work if you take the
 JK> initiative to go and make yourself heard.

 JK> Of course, you could always suggest and moderate a forum of
 JK> your own, to which you could invite the director.

I would suggest that a nice phone call works a lot better and what a better way
to spend a saturday afternoon than in an exchange of ideas and a persusaion
session.  I do like the last suggestion a lot tho.  We actually invite ours to
parties :-)


 * Origin: Radio Therapy BBS (1:346/3)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Date: 22 Aug 92 12:36:42 GMT
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group

In article <1992Aug21.063607.17093@usl.edu> jab0684@usl.edu (Boudreaux Jean A) writes:
>Well, my sister the attorney as well as a recent issue of Popular 
>Communications assures me that it is currently legal to listen
>to cellular phone frequencies.  She says that the Supreme Court
>has consistetly upheld the right of people to listen to anything
>that they can receive.  P. Comm. also mentions proposed legal changes 
>which would limit the ability of police to tape cellular communications
>.  This would give them the same status as landline phones
>in terms of getting permission to 'tap' them and use them as evidence, but
>only as far as police are concerned.

The Supremes may eventually rule on the ECPA, but to date US Attorney's
are using it to prosecute people who have been caught listening to
cellular calls. Now the cases so far have been blatent, such as listening
to politician's cellular calls, but the statute has not been struck down.
Has your sister the attorney actually read the ECPA, or looked at the
case law resulting from it's use? Or is she just guessing?

Gary KE4ZV

PS *I* think it's a stupid law too, but that doesn't make it any less
the law right now. Remember that Bill Clinton's legislature passed a
law declaring that the value of pi was 3.0 too. Politicians don't seem
to understand the difference between physical law and government law.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: jwl@sedist.cray.com (Jim Lynch)
Subject: Re: spark plug interference
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:25:38 CDT

In article <1992Aug18.141732.1342@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, klimasewski@fccvde.enet.dec.com (My name is...) writes:
|> 
|> Can someone recommend a brand of spark plug wires that will help
|> reduce spark plug interference on hf reception?
|> I am already using resistor type spark plugs.
|> The car is a 1974 Malibu Classic, 350 engine
|> 
|>                                      Ke
Unless things have changed since I was a part of the auto business,
don't do that.  Use either resistor plugs or wires but not both.  I always
had good luck with resistor plugs.  Used Autolite mostly.  Never had any
luck with Champions, however.  If you still have interferrence, look at
the cap, rotor, coil and wires for cracks, breaks and other problems.  It might
not be the plugs.  Try another set of plugs.  Be sure all of the wires are
seated good on both ends.  Be sure all of the ground wires are in place to the 
motor, hood, etc.  They seemed to have stopped putting grounds on hoods, but
I think they still did in 1974.  

And finally, buy a radio with an good noise blanker! 8^)

Jim.

-- 
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Southeast District, Phone: (404) 631-2254, Email: jwl@sedist.cray.com
Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
From: spikes@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Bill Spikes)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:28:13 GMT
Subject: Re: How to fix the League (was Re: AARL vs ARRL)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

>From sorgatz@avatar.tti.com Wed Aug 12 13:32:08 1992

>             So far not one of the ARRL staffers have offered a real
>reason *why* the League insists on code proficiency beyond the ITU regs
>requirement of 5 WPM...can you answer that for me and this assembly? Please.
>..the FCC claims they would be willing to DROP the 13 and 20 WPM tests from
>the incentive scheme but that the ARRL insists on keeping them.


If this is true, I can't recall EVER seeing a private enterprise holding
up the gov't as the gov't was trying to move forward, in a non-threatening way, 
for so long.

Don't use the greenies/environment arguements, they either aren't that old, or
have been acted upon.


Any other examples?



Bill
wb6rzg

(Before you look, an "old tech", sheesh...)