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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Linear Loading of antennas
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:51:08 GMT
Organization: School of Maths. and Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ

>>> References wanted to linear loading of antennas.

The book "HF Antennas for All Locations" by (G6CJ ???) is published by
the RSGB and has sections on the linear loading of antennas and beams
- and it's intelligible too - not just recipes for designs but the
logic behind their design.

Highly recommended generally, even if you aren't interested in linear
loading ...

Cheers
Giovanni (ZL2BOI)
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From: n2gj@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Gerry Jurrens)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Famous or well-known HAMS
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 09:27:23 EST
Organization: Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey

Watching last night's "Jeapordy" from the Philadelphia Civic Center, I 
was reminded of another famous ham, well-known in the Philly/So. NJ area. 
That's Larry Ferrari, WA2MKI, of Cinnaminson.  For many years, Larry had 
a show on Sunday morning TV on which he played the organ.  My wife's 
grandmother used to watch him every week.  
  
Any other Netters out there who've heard or met Larry?  BTW, he was 
playing the organ on Jeapordy last nite....that's how it jogged my 
memory.
     

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Mathtech/Box 147        | Internet : n2gj@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: tad@ssc.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: How to select band?
Organization: very little
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:55:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.013350.7855@news.columbia.edu> hyx1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Harry Y Xu) writes:
>Good day, OM's and YL's,
>
>A question:  How can one determine the optimum band for a QSO for a certain
>	distance and weather condition?  For instance, if I want to QSO 
>	Florida, California, Europe, and South Africa, which band is best 
>	for which?  How can the band be determined?
>
>Tnx fer the time es 73,
>--
>Harry Xu (KB2LHA)	"Hell has no terrors for pagans."  --Arthur Rimbaud


Get a copy of MiniProp (from W6EL) and load in the location (lat/long)
of your station and the station you want to talk to, along with
the date, bands and solar flux.

The weather doesn't make any difference.

If you want a sample, I can run it to a file and email it to you.


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From: luis@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Luis Pacheco)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Juns
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:51:36 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department

Hello:

  Well I just fell like telling my story.

   Once I got a frq counter and about 4 weeks after that i went in to
   buy the case for it. They were really good about selling it. It turned
   out that the case was for the wrong counter (my fault right I should have
   checked before leaving :-(  ). I call them up (actully the person that sold
   it to me) and was told that it was OK no problem they would change it.
   well since I leave in the valley and only go there after TRW I waited.
   For my bad luck I lost the invoice. I figure no problem they know me. What I
   mistake. To make the story short I still have a case that is not the
   right case for my freq counter.They are very good for selling but
   when it comes to costumer service they suck. I don't even buy connectors
   there anymore. I tell everyone that asks me about them not to buy
   anything there.

   I still can not belive that they could not change a $20 case after I got
   a $200 counter.

   73's

   Luis AB6KM
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: Kirk.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Kirk Smith)
Subject: Looking for..
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:16:28 GMT

I'm looking for an old friend who is a ham.  His name is Mark Rowell,
KC6BPH.  His entry in the callbook still shows him in Los Osos, CA; but
I know he's moved somewhere else in CA and I don't remember where...

I'm hoping to figure out a way to chat with him via a repeater link
or something.  If anyone knows where he's at, please email me.

-ks

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From: sprouse@n3igw.pgh.pa.us (Ken Sprouse)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Famous or well known HAMS
Summary: One more for the list. . .
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:19:12 GMT
Organization: Sprouse Consulting, Oakmont, Pa.

In article <1992Nov8.084029.1761@lub001.lamar.edu>, lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
 > It was interesting to read that the following people were hams:
List of some well known and some not so well known call deleted 
 > Can anybody add to the list?


How about :

Clifford P. Stoll - (K7TA) Author of the "The Cuckoo's Egg"

Worth reading if you haven't done so already.


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke)
Subject: Re: CW the origin of Ham Radio
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:58:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.184255.6921@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>
>      It's amusing to see microprocessor-controlled, frequency-synthized,
>digital-readout rigs being used for CW.  It's like retrofitting a Model
>T Ford for electronic fuel injection.
>
Great idea!  And while doing so, get rid of those pesky, noisy spark 
coils and that magneto at the rear of the engine by adding in
transistorized ignition!

With the pedal operated transmission it had, it would then be quite
up-to-date.  People who don't know how to drive a stick shift car would
be quite at home with that Model T.  (;-)

It shows you what is possible with the old modes when they are
updated with modern technology.

Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com  k2bt
From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Famous or well known HAMS
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:42:00 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing Sciences

A)  Marlon Brando is not his legal name.
B)  His island retreat is Tahiti where he spent a lot of time filming
    Mutiny on the Bounty.
C)  If you have an old US Callbook, you can look him up.  Look for the
    French spelling of Brando.  I don't remember exactly what it is.
    You need an old Callbook because when he officially decided to retire
    to his island home, he let his American license expire.  I believe he
    can be found in the DX Callbook, however.

bill   KB3YV

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From: rovero@skye.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: R-5/7 vs. HF-6V comparison questions
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:48:14 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey CA

I've got the HF-6; it works very well when provided with enough radials.
I recommend the GP-1 radial attachment plate.  The Butternut also works
very well on 40 and 80 meters.

The advantage of the Cushcraft R-5/7 is no radials.  Should take
considerably less time to set up for portable operation.  But neither
version covers 80/75m, and the R-5 doesn't cover 40.

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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,misc.forsale
From: rpadawer@utkvx3.utk.edu (Padawer, Justin Randall)
Subject: KENWOOD TS-450 (no AT) $900
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:52:00 GMT

I have one Kenwood TS-450S without antenna tuner, pristine
condition.  First $900 shipped obo.  Email or telephone.

Randy Padawer, WA4FJF
RPADAWER@UTKVX.UTK.EDU

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From: Kirk.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Kirk Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: New Ham X-Mas List
Date: 22 Nov 92 18:33:41 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

I'm looking for suggestions on what to ask for for Christmas.  I just passed 
my Tech, and am waiting for my license in the mail.  I've got a UHF Icom
(IC-U16) which will put me on the air when the license finally shows up.

It looks like I'll be getting car antennas (Larsen, 1/4 wave, VHF/UHF with
NMO mounts) from my SO's folks, and I'm looking for other items to ask
for (ie: cheap stuff).  I've heard references to the ARRL Handbook.  Is this
a must-have?  How about an FCC rule book?  Does the ARRL version list the
entire CFR for amateur?  Or just interpretations and various other stuff?

I'd like to ask for the new Icom tri-band HT, but I'm a realist and nobody
I know has that kind of loot, especially to spend on me.

I've also seen references to this new handheld that say it's larger than
the other Icom rigs.  Am I dreaming to think there's a possiblity that it
will use the older Icom accessories (ie: for 02AT series)?  Or will Icom
develop YET ANOTHER series of batteries/chargers?  Ugg...

-ks

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From: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us (Eric S Johansson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Distribution: na
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: klm antenna parts suppliers
Summary: looking for klm antenna parts suppliers
Reply-To: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:10:22 -0400

I am looking for KLM antenna parts suppliers.  I have looked for KLM ads 
in QST and 73 and not found any.  I need parts for a klm-13LB antenna 
specificly the plastic insulators holding the driven elements and a 
new director.   

In addition, I would like a copy of the manual that came with the 13LB.  If 
you have a copy in your archives, I'll pay postage and copying costs for a 
good quality photocopy.

Thanks!
--- eric
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: jtg0707@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jui Tien)
Subject: Pro2023(Radio Shack scanner)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:05:40 GMT
Keywords: Uniden ??

Hello.
I own a model Pro2023 scanner by Radio Shack. Does anyone out there
know what model Uniden it corresponds to?

J.T.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: "colin mcgregor" <colin.mcgregor@canrem.com>
Subject: science fiction hams
Reply-To: "colin mcgregor" <colin.mcgregor@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:49:13 EST

This message is aimed at ham radio operators who plan (hope?) to be
at next year's World Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco
(ConFrancisco).

First a bit of history. At the 1991 convention Avery Davis WB4RTP
started a collection of amateur callsigns. Then shortly before this
years convention he sent out a letter to all of the hams he had met
in 1991, attempting to (sort of) organize the hams he encountered.
The result was quite pleasant, having several people at the con
with whom the discussion could switch easily between my two
favourite topics, science fiction and ham radio. Now, I am looking
to help expand on what Avery Davis did last year. I have been in
touch with the hams that I met at the 1992 convention, at least the
ones I have e-mail address(es) for. If I have not been in touch with
you, and you plan to be at ConFrancisco please send me your name,
e-mail address, and callsign.

It looks like we will have a panel on ham radio at ConFrancisco.
What I would foresee for this panel is an introduction to ham
radio, attempting to get people interested in ham radio. This is
something I want to help with but it is not something I can do
alone. I'm not even sure if I ought to be taking the lead in this
one. I know the Canadian rules/regs, but I'm not very familiar with
the U.S. rules/regs let alone how the U.S. V.E. system works (and
I am clueless re: U.K. rules/regs). I'm just getting my T.N.C. for
packet operation up and running, and I don't (yet) have a HF
station up and running. In other words, I don't know enough (yet)
to hope do a successful panel alone. So, who would like to be a
part of (run?) a ham radio panel?

I have been making enquiries about getting my call sign/e-mail
address put in small print under my "regular" name for my
ConFrancisco name badge. It can be arranged, and anyone else who
would like it done on their name badge should contact:
72377.3623@compuserve.com <Kevin Standlee> or ConFrancisco, Attn:
Registrar, 712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598,
U.S.A..

Also, I'm interested in putting on a ham radio party in San
Francisco for science fiction hams and ham want-a-bees. How many
people would be interested?

Finally I have been in touch with a ham who lives in the San
Francisco area who says he MAY (and at this point I will put some
emphasis on the word MAY) be able to get access for ConFrancisco
hams on a San Francisco area 2 metre repeater.

VE3ZAA
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: sngundersen@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: NEW TECH
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:40:17 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

1>rticle <1992Nov20.182337.25413@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>,
>    little@nuts2u.enet.dec.com (nuts2u::little) writes:
>
>| > ...didn't know one end of a resistor from the other...
>| 
>| There's a difference?  No wonder that receiver I built >last night didn't
>| work! ;-)
 
>Of course.  Everyone knows that the electrons have to >travel left-to-right,
>the same way you read the colour bands!
 
NO, NO you have it all wrong holes travel left to right
following the bands thus forcing the electrons to travel
right to left.  Wasn't this on your el 2 or 3a exam?  ;)
This is all null and void if you intend to run your project
on a cement floor. :)
 
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=  Dan Todd  KC6UUD         The right to be heard does not =
=  SNgundersen@ucdavis.edu  automatically include the right=
=                           to be taken seriously.         =
=                              --Hubert Humphrey           =
============================================================
=      I don't speak for the University of California      =
=      and it sure as hell doesn't speak for me !!!!       =
============================================================
 
 
havezitzallzwrongzholesztravelzleftztozright            34211/23/92G
don't know where that last bit came from!!!
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From: glenne@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Glenn Elmore)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:28:37 GMT
Subject: Re: 10GHz Gunn Transceivers wanted
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

Subject: Re: 10GHz Gunn Transceivers wanted
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

> unit is not availible.  I've checked out the M/A gunnplexors but Advanced
> Radio Research wants an arm and a leg.  The Solfan units look as if they 
> will not work due to the lack of a varactor.

Tim,

  The Solfan and similar units should work.  The diode they *might* be
missing if you don't get the whole unit is not the varactor but the
receiver mixer diode (which you do need). Electronic tuning is nice and
makes much higher datarates easier/possible but I plain old Solfan or
similar should bias-push tune well enough for either phaselocking
(HR Mag microwave station series) or modulation (Mbps data link articles).

73
Glenn Elmore n6gn

N6GN @ K3MC      
amateur IP:	glenn@SantaRosa.ampr.org
Internet:	glenne@sr.hp.com
From: batchler@pica.army.mil (Ham)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: dx stamps
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:22:42 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

 oh i forgot to sign off hi
 TNX ES 73 LAING KB3TS THE BEAT GOES ON
From: jennings@abb.COM (UPAC01::JENNINGS)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re:  Using MC3362 for a SuperHet Receiver
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:12:00 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:16:55 GMT
> From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!umn.
> edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!joe@network.UCSD.EDU
> Subject: Using MC3362 for a SuperHet Receiver
> To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
> 
>  I've been experimenting with both the Motorola MC3362 and MC3363 (the
>  3363 is with an RF amplifier built-in).  The chip is fantasic in that
>  is is a complete narrow band FM dual conversion receiver on a chip.
>  The first IF is 10.7 and the second is optimized for 455Khz.  The IF
>  amplifier is also a high gain limiter before the quadature detector.
> 
>  I tried to take the IF amp out and input this signal into a synchronous
>  detector but found the IF is a hard limiter.  After looking at the
>  amplification per stage (the mixer has 16DB of gain), I decided to
>  add a second IF (40DB gain) picked after the 2nd IF filter and applying
>  the external amp output to the second quadrature input (after removing
>  the quad coil).  Makes a terrific synchronous detector!
> 
>  Also, the 1st Local Oscillator was able to be moved to below 7Mhz for
>  low frequency operations.  I minimized the effects of the inductive
>  part of the resonant circuit (lower drift).
> 
>  Anyway, I was thinking about offering the system as a low cost
>  sensitive (.2 uv for the 3363 and .7 uv for the 3362) receiver
>  kit or completed unit.  Specs include:
> 
>    o Double Conversion AM, FM Receiver
> 
>    o Excellect Selectivity - 2nd IF Ceramic, mechanical, Xtal filter (your ch)
> 
>    o Excellent Sensitivity, .2-.7 uv
> 
>    o AM Synchronous Detection, low distortion FM
> 
>    o Frequency Spectrum Display Option
> 
>    o Accurate S Meter
> 
>  GREAT IDEA!!
> 
> 
>    --Joe Jesson 312-856-3645
> 

Joe,
 Why don't you add CW to your receiver kit!

Tom Jennings, KV2X
jennings@abb.com
From: IFF118@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Radar for tresure hunting
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:36:25 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

I am looking for any ideas or references for
use of radar, or let say electromagnetic beam
to look for hidden caves or metal obstacles
in rocks.
Is use of any surplus possible, what freq
whould be the most suitable?
thanks in advance
                 Piotr
From: maessm@jec314.its.rpi.edu (Mathieu J. Maessen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: TS850SAT
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:30:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.+bv1q!g
Reply-To: maessm@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

We have an 850S here at W2SZ (the RPI amateur radio club).  It's a really smooth rig.  good receiver, good transmitted audio, easy to use.

I have two peeves about the rig: The internal speaker is marginal as far as sound quality, so you'd better get an external speaker.  Also with the bar graph metering scheme, it's hard to tell what your power output is.
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From: MROWEN%STLAWU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Michael Owen W9IP)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: 3CX800 on 432 MHz?
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:18:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsd.9211162223.AA05059
Organization: ucsd usenet gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

The 2nd volume of the ARRL UHF/Microwave book, which has
still not seen the light of day as far as I know, will
contain a design for a 3CX800 amp on 432 by K1FO.  Does
anyone know whether details on this amp (or anything similar)
have been published elsewhere?

Michael Owen W9IP
MROWEN@STLAWU
From: M.Willis@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Mike Willis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Paddle usage
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:08:51 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH

In article <1992Nov20.012308.574@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, seligman@CS.Stanford.EDU (Scott Seligman) writes:
|> I'm curious if right-handed hams always use their right hands when
|> using a paddle, or if some of you prefer your left (perhaps to free up
|> your right to write).  Lefties please reverse all of that (what's
|> right is what's left when you've done everything wrong).
|> 
|> Is it standard usage for the "dit" to be made with the thumb, or do
|> I have that backward?
|> 
|> Any ambidextrous paddlers out there?  Do you reverse the paddle

Isn't everyone?
|> (dit/dah-wise) when switching hands?
|> 

I use whatever hand is most convinient, depending on where there is room for the
paddle to fit on the desk.

Similarly with a straight key (which I prefer). Sometimes I switch hands between
characters on a straght key if I need to reach for a pen or somthing. Best to do
this between words. Once you know morse, you can just as easily send with either
hand.


Mike