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From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: CQ DE, MS, RI, SD, VT, WV
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:13:27 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

in article <9208262002.AA22254@cod.nosc.mil> price@cod.nosc.mil (James N. 
Price)
writes:

>I have only 6 states left to work on the RS satellites (RS-10 and
>RS-12).  These are low orbiters; RS-10's uplink is on 2 meters
>downlink on 10 meters, RS-12 is up on 15 meters and down on 10.

You lucky ham, living where you can work HI on a low orbiter!  I should 
have worked HI while I lived in Calif - now I'll never get Mode A WAS 
unless someone can tell me how to work HI from MA!  (BYW, good luck - I've 
just started operating on RS-10; I think we worked a week ago).

Bill AI6E/1

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wtr@mitre.org
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From: stevew@netcom.com (Steven Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Uselessness of ARES/RACES
Summary: So the Red Cross are fools?
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:44:25 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <7865@public.BTR.COM>, grady@public.BTR.COM ( ) writes:
> Hey! I'm not saying that hams _can't_ be useful 
> in an emergency -- I'm just saying that only a
> fool would _rely_ upon them.                                          

First let me introduce myself... I'm the ARRL Section Manager
for the area that you and Patty both live in.  We have a combined
ARES/RACES organization here so my DEC appointments have equivalent
RACES titles.    

Now back to the title of my Post.  In Santa Clara County Hams
have pretty much become the backbone of Red Cross emergency 
communications, i.e. they depend on us heavily.  That includes
being able to put sufficient numbers of operators in the field
on a Weekday night for a Hazmat spill, or in the middle of the
day for a search and rescue operation that RC was supporting.
We've done both just in the last couple months.  

Just two weeks ago this area sponsored the "Emergency Response
Institute" attended by both amateurs and professionals from 
all over the state to help train our ham emergency managers.
Alot of people give their time and energies in attempting to 
be prepared.

I mention all of the above just to point out that the hams around
here take this stuff VERY seriously.  The Red Cross and others 
acknowledge our efforts and support us in various ways.  We reply
in kind.  It's a mutual support system.  Point is that in this
area at least the hams are well integrated into RC plans, as
well as local and county government.  

If you are right then you live in an area whos emergency managers
and city officials are fools, or if I'm right in pointing out that
we are taken seriously and have proved to be dependable from the Lexington
fire, Loma Prieta Quake, the recent fires up in Calaveras etc where
Santa Clara hams volunteered to the more mundane activities supporting
RC communications, then our city/county fathers are wise indeed to 
depend on help from willing civilian /trained volunteers.  

(Note:  State politicians are exempted from the above statment about being
        wise....Day 61 without a state budget....grrrrrrrrr) 
 

Considering the above plus the on going efforts down in Florida/Louisianna
right now I'd say your posting is not only in error, but pretty poorly
timed.  Try again when you can support your claims.

Steve Wilson KA6S
From: weare@bostech.COM
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Uselessness of ARES/RACES
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:23:51 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

concert!rti!jbs@RUTGERS.EDU writes:

	I was pleased to see signs along the interstate through (I
	believe it was) Massachussetts indicating that someone with
	some sort of emergency services organization monitored 146.52 -
	it didn't say anything else (except I think there may have been
	a call sign given as well), so I wonder what non-hams made of
	it...

	Anybody in MA know any particulars on this service?

The signs you are referring to (unless there are others) are along I-495,
in the Acton area.  The callsign is WB1G??, which is a club repeater, I
believe.  The MA State Police monitor that repeater.  At least, that
is the way it used to be.  From what I heard, the repeater used to be
located at a ham radio store in Acton that has since gone defunct (due
to the Massachussetts version of the Canadian cross-border shopping
phenomenon; as far as I know there are now *no* ham radio
stores actually in MA), so I don't even know if the repeater still 
exists.  The signs do, I saw them a few weeks ago.

Non-hams, in my experience, don't have a clue what the signs are, but it
doesn't matter. 'cos they've got no way to access the repeater, anyhow.
Incidentally, the same stretch of Interstate has radio emergency call
boxes every mile or so, the only place I've seen roadside assistance
eqpt outside of UK (though those use landlines).  Unfortunately, these
radio boxes are reputed to be always broken.

My club repeater also has a link to the State Police, but you have to use
the phone patch to speed-dial them, and it isn't advertised like the one
in Acton.  When someone actually used it once, it caused great excitement
in the club.  Maybe we need some signs, too.

As a final point of interest, I've noticed that signs telling how to
get State Police help from a cellular phone have appeared along some MA
highways.  They're rather cryptic (picture of a cellular twisty
antenna, with "* SP" written underneath), but it's a good idea.  Helps
to clear up the inevitable accidents just that much faster.
----
Jed Weare, NF1Z / G3VVH        weare@bostech.com
Boston Technology              (617) 246-9000 x3519
100 Quannapowitt Parkway
Wakefield, MA 01880.
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Sexist Statement
Summary: NOT!
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:41:31 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <486@arrl.org> jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman) writes:
>In rec.radio.amateur.misc I wrote:
>>...
>>arranged. C'mon, guys. Get your clubs going, and send me
>
>One of the women who read this group gently pointed out 
>the sexism in that statement. By now, I should know better.

Nonsense!  Just go 500 miles west and you'll find people who regularly
address groups of females as "guys."  There _are_ parts of the
country where it's done.

Down here _nobody_ is addressed as "guys" -- we don't use the word.
It's "y'all".
-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
+ VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Sexist Statement
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:10:55 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League

In rec.radio.amateur.misc I wrote:

>By the way, I especially liked Gary's suggestions about
>transmitter hunting. The beauty of this sport is, you
>don't need a license to take part. There are some hunts
>where hunters ask the hidden-transmitter operator questions,
>but a hunt for hams and non-hams could certainly be
>arranged. C'mon, guys. Get your clubs going, and send me
                  ^^^^ 
>some photos. 

One of the women who read this group gently pointed out 
the sexism in that statement. By now, I should know better.
I apologize to her and other women, who are, of course,
more than welcome to start transmitter hunts and send
photos. 73.

****************************************************************

JIM KEARMAN, KR1S                    Voice: 203-666-1541 ext 279
ARRL Assistant Technical Editor	     FAX:   203-665-7531
Author of `The DXCC Companion'	     ARRL Headquarters
Editor of `Now You're Talking!,'     225 Main Street
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: schro@nessos.sni.de (W.F.Schroeder)
Subject: FRG9600 serial interface info needed
Keywords: YAESU,FRG9600,CAT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:58:10 GMT

i am writing a control program for the FRG9600 connected to an
IBM-compatible PC and need to know what's inside the 'official'
interface box.  If you have one, please take a look at the schematics
and tell me what you see.  If you have access to an optical scanner
maybe you can send me a uuencoded GIF,TIF,BMP,PCX...  file. 

Background info:
The FRG9600 made by YAESU is an AM/FM/SSB receiver for 60-905MHz.  The
unit has a built-in TTL level serial interface.  To connect it to the
serial port of a personal computer you need a TTL to RS232 interface. 
YAESU sells such an interface, but it is expensive and so i built
my own using a MAX232 chip.  To make the program work with the original
interface i need to know what's inside that box. 

Thank you for your time

73 de Django  DL5YEC
From: MOSIER@iris.uncg.EDU (Steve Mosier)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Excellent customer service story
Date: 27 Aug 1992 13:17:43 -0700
Organization: University of NC at Greensboro
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Here's another one...

The transmitter final section of my ICOM 2AT failed last year.  I put it in a
box with the note, "My 2AT died.  Please fix it and return to me at [address]. 
My credit card number is [--].  Thanks."  I walked it up to the post office and
sent it parcel post to the ICOM facility in Atlanta (got the address out of the
ICOM catalog I picked up at a hamfest) on Monday morning -- no phone call, no 
pre-repair queries, no explanation, nothing but a blind parcel post package.  
On Friday afternoon of that same week, UPS drove up with it.  The repair and 
full re-alignment was about $50.  I was IMPRESSED!!

There is something mighty satisfying about having a no-bells-and-whistles rig
and getting a simple, fast, no guff-repair job on it.  Takes you back to a
simpler time, doesn't it?

steve - W3GRG
mosier@uncg.bitnet
mosier@iris.uncg.edu


Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: Kirk.Smith@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Kirk Smith)
Subject: Re: Uselessness of ARES/RACES
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:04:39 GMT

In article <7865@public.BTR.COM> grady@public.BTR.COM ( ) writes:
>Hey! I'm not saying that hams _can't_ be useful 
>in an emergency -- I'm just saying that only a
>fool would _rely_ upon them.                                          
>                                                                            
>In fact, I think ARES and RACES groups would                            
>be much more useful in an emergency if they
>were to rip out all their radios from their             
>antenna and light-bar festooned vans and install
>coffee urns and a donut bar in order to assist
>the _real_ professional police and fire-fighters.
>                      

Am I the only one that suspects someone is just egging us on to get a
reaction out of us?  I notice it's posted from a public account..  Humm...

--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
From: furuta@cs.umd.edu (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: How do I get Ham plates?
Keywords: n
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:48:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1992Aug26.223630.15699@nntp.uoregon.edu> johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin) writes:
>In article <4124@n7kbt.rain.com>, john@n7kbt.rain.com (John Opalko) writes:
>
>>	+ You'll get the old-style (yellow) plates, not the ones with the
>>	  tree.  (Shucks. I like the tree plate.)
>
>Really? I hate them with a passion, and had been wondering how I can get
>the old-style ones... I'll go apply for my ham license forthwith!!
>
>
>-- 
>John Martin                                        johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
>Institute of Neuroscience,   University of Oregon,    Eugene, OR,    97402

Psst.  Here's a secret.  Your messages are leaking out of Oregon!  But it's
OK, I can see you tried!  In any case I've been looking for an opening to
raise a question for some time, and here it is!

I was taken by a CT ham plate I saw the other day on I-95 whilst caught in a
traffic jam.  Regular blue plate with nothing to distinguish it from regular
CT plates *but* a lightning bolt right after the prefix.  Neat!

Anyone know of other states with special graphics on the ham license plate?

						--Rick
From: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Excellent customer service story
Date: 30 Aug 92 00:44:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada

In article <1992Aug25.075227.20226@walter.cray.com> jwl@sedist.cray.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.041412.20959@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>|> One might add that the way Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix continue to
>|> dominate the test equipment market is by providing _first rate_ customer
>|> support (even to people who picked up a piece of gear for $20 at a
>|> hamfest!).
>|> 
>|> They figure (correctly I think) that they need to be appreciated by
>|> _everybody_ who is connected with electronics in any way, not just the
>|> few that control large amounts of money.
>|> 
>
>I am reminded of the time when I was a lowly college student and sent off
>to Fairchild Semiconductor for some info on an integrated circuit that I was
> interested in using in a project.  They sent me a very nice letter explaining
>that they couldn't be bothered with my request and that they only dealt with
>their distributors and to contact one of them.  A week later I called
>the very nice lady at Motorola and was sent a ton of spec sheets, application
>notes, etc.  Now let's see, which company is doing well in the semiconductor
>business?  8^)
>
>Jim.
>
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst,  Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
>Southeast District, Phone: (404) 631-2254, Email: jwl@sedist.cray.com
>Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Yeah, I remember scenarios like this.... some wouldn't give the time
of day, and others supplied the parts (evaluation parts!) gratis to
complete the project... who would I buy from again???  

Remember, nobody legislated smarts... so how many comply voluntarily?
-- 
==========================================================
Patrick D. Buick EMT, EET  | Internet: buick%belay@uunet.uu.net
Belay Enterprises Inc.     | Internet: buickp@cuug.ab.ca
Calgary, Alberta, Canada   | UUCP:...!calgary!pixel!belay!buick
From: jdelancy@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: [ANS] New Ham Calls
Date: 28 Aug 1992 19:12:02 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

m07777@mwvm.mitre.org (LEO BOBERschmidt) writes:
>The latest call signs issued by the FCC as of 1 August 1992 are:
>
>          Extra   Advanced   General/Technician   Novice
>3rd Area: AA3BN   KE3EN      N3NCS                KB3AHH
>4th Area: AV4TL   KQ4DG      ***                  KD4ROY
>*** = All call signs allocated from this block of calls.  In the 4th Area,
>      all General, Technician, and Novice calls come from the same call
>      sign allocation block.
>*
>*        LEO
From: steve.woodward@betabbs.newton.ma.us (Steve Woodward) 
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: RE: CELLULAR FREQUENCIES
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:49:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Beta BBS -=- Newton MA -=- (617)244-7053
Reply-To: steve.woodward@betabbs.newton.ma.us (Steve Woodward) 

-> >Huh?  If memory serves, I've never seen a television UHF dial that
-> went >beyond 60 in the first place.  And I know for a fact that I've
-> never >heard of a UHF station higher than 54 (the local UHF PBS
-> affiliate). I have a 27" Zenith console model that can be tuned to
-> channels 60-83.  Furthermore, there is a channel 63 in our area.  Of
-> course,

        We have a channel 68, WQTV, in our area.
                                                                                                   
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: spe_pa@physik.uni-paderborn.de (Peter Alteheld)
Subject: Looking for a 10GHz Prescaler
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:51:09 GMT

		
Can anybody out there tell me whether 10 GHz-prescalers are commercially 
available ? Which manufacturers offer these prescalers ?
Who distributes them in Germany (if someone knows) ?
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: unbham@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (UNBARC)
Subject: Re: $ANS-242 BULLETINS
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 02:16:15 GMT

Can someone tell me where the ARRL and AMSAT transmit their bulletins.

I believe it is via RTTY and our club is now able to receive it.

Thanks
ve1djb
From: woods@glas.rtsg.mot.COM (Simon Woodworth)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Weather coating for aluminum antenna
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:00:50 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

In Info-Hams-Digest #883 Andrew Mitz writes:

>I am building an antenna out of aluminum and I want to coat it
>with some sort of weather sealant.  The antenna will be cleaned
>periodically with high pressure hot water, so  the sealant must
>withstand the high temperatures.  Any suggestions?

Hi Andrew,
   If you're talking about painting the aluminium tubing, I
wouldn't bother treating it at all. The aluminium will oxidise on
the surface and this provides a more than adequate shield against
the weather. Also, you'll avoid localised electrolytic reactions
in areas where the paint may peel off. This is especiaaly likely
to happen if you have brass or steel (I may be wrong on the exact
metals here) fittings on the antenna.
   If you want to seal the insides of tubes or other parts of the
antenna against water incursion, I suggest you get the sort of
silicone sealant that you squeeze out of a gun. Evo-Stik make a
semi-translucent colourless silicone sealer which will withstand
temperatures of over 200 degrees Celsius (400+ degrees Fahren-
heit). I've used it for sealing the edges of baths and things
like that.
   I should add that I'm drawing the information on painting
aluminium form a sailing book, which is quite emphatic about NOT
painting aluminium-hulled boats.
   Best wishes,
   Simon.

=================================================================
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Motorola (Ireland) Ltd.,        |  Don't blame my employers
Cork, Ireland.                  |  for anything I say! :-)
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From: michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Packet, Clover, Piccolo, bandwidth.
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:53:15 GMT
Reply-To: michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann)
Organization: Broadcast Sports Technology, Crofton. Maryland.

In article <9208261537.AA19587@swgen-t> pjml@swmis.nerc-swindon.ac.UK (Pete Lucas) writes:
 >Seems to me that we have a problem! This months RADCOM has a diatribe
 >against HF-packet written by some Antipodean type.
 >
 >I accept that HF packet as currently practised is *not* good, but i dont think
 >AMTOR is an answer. AMTOR is a byte-oriented protocol; therefore it
 >limits the nature of what can be sent. Normal AMTOR has uppercase letters,
 >figures, minimal punctuation. Thats it. Even worse than conventional RTTY!
 >
 >What is needed is a protocol that is not byte-oriented, so we can use it to
 >ship binary files, and non-ASCII text; then it could handle cyrillic, Kanji
 >etc. with few problems, as well as fax.
 >
 >The method of encoding; PSK is not good (for all the reasons already
 >discussed). Something like Piccolo is far better; this was *designed* to
 >be used on noisy HF paths with the S/N ratio being unity or less! Problem is,

It always struck me as the best feature of Piccolo (incidentally isn't it
restricted to Baudot (5 level) characters), was its resistance to errors
because of long correlation time (character length vs bit length). HF
propagation seems to cause burst error problems more often, which
is where FEC amtor mode B comes in.  

These days with convolutional encoders/viterbi decoders down around the $20
mark, this approach would seem to be a better bet for HF digital than trying
to bandage up piccolo or other 1960s technology.

BTW if anyone is SERIOUS about giving this approach a try, I'd like to
design up a viterbi modem and do some tests. Drop me some e-mail if you're
interested.

-- 
Michael Katzmann	  >	Broadcast Sports Technology Inc.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~	 <	Crofton, Maryland. U.S.A
Amateur Radio Stations:   >
NV3Z / VK2BEA / G4NYV	 <	opel!vk2bea!michael@uunet.uu.net
From: heacock@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Doug Heacock)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Fritzed relay, Drake comes through
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:28:03 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Thanks to all who responded to my query concerning a fritzed relay in
an old Drake TR-3 transceiver.  Several people suggested a perfectly
workable solution, but most wondered why I hadn't thought to call
Drake.  When I bought the rig last year I wrote Drake for a manual and
was sent a curt reply indicating that they could no longer support
such an old unit, so I figured it was probably a waste of time.

Some suggested that I call Drake's service department and try again.
I did that this afternoon, and spoke with a very friendly chap who
sold me a relay upgrade kit for my rig.  It should arrive early next
week.

So, maybe Drake is okay after all... :-)

-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Doug Heacock, Academic Computing   | heacock@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu |
| Services, The University of Kansas | heacock@ukanvax.bitnet     |
| Lawrence, KS 66045                 | Amateur radio: N0NZQ       |
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From: rrw@elden (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Odd callsign that turned out to not be
Date: 30 Aug 92 23:27:49 GMT
Originator: rrw@elden.cse.nau.edu


 In the early '70s I operated extensively from the U. of Colorado's
 club station in Boulder, W0YQ.  That had a certain nice symmetrical
 sound in the YQ on CW...

 - Bob Wier

  ---------- insert favorite standard disclaimers here ----------
                   College of Engineering
      Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona
  Internet: rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu | BITNET: WIER@NAUVAX | WB5KXH
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: range
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:26:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep2.202659.3160
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1802dvINN1ns@sam.ksu.ksu.edu> electro@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric L Patterson) writes:
>how far might 30 watts @224 MHz travel (optimum conditions) 
>how about poor conditions?

Optimal conditions would be spacecraft to spacecraft, or spacecraft to
ground... assuming typical receivers with dipole antennas, the range would
be maybe 10,000 miles.

On earth, transmission is basically line of sight.  From one tall mountaintop
to another, maybe 100 miles.  In town, on the ground, 3 miles.



-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
+ VOTE NO GEORGIA LOTTERY - we need not imitate mistakes of other states.
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