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From: jeffj@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (jeffrey.n.jones)
Subject: Re: Real NoCodes_, Now CW and reality
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:19:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.104432.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> jcraig@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>In article <N1-ls*8y0@lemsys.UUCP>, clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
>For low band DXing, CW shines where packet et al. wouldn't have a chance.
>
>> you're such a big fan of it, it is still used by people who _enjoy_ working
>> CW for it's challenge.
>
>It's no more of a challenge than talking.
>
>> Code is going to die sooner or later. 
>
>The CW sub-bands are more acitve than ever.
>
>I can understand your being offended by anti-no-code sentiments, but 
>making unfounded remarks about CW can only serve to discredit you.
>Most people who bother to learn it (ie 25-30 wpm) think it's great fun...
>really!

You know if you read the posts here you would get the impression that the
CW portions of the various bands were deviod of any activity at all. In fact
the exact opposite is true as they are crowded and extremely active! Can't
tell you how many times I have given up trying to find a spot to call CQ
and went over to the phone portions where there is much less activity. 
You can yell and scream that code is dying and it's a waste of time but
the truth is it is alive and well and doing fine. Sorry to rain on your
digital parades. There are to many of us who take great delight in doing CW
and who are having a great deal of fun with it. Hearing those dits and dahs
and writing it all down has a certain magic to it. Working QRP CW and having
a contact with Italy one night as I did is one of the many joys of CW. 
The ability to build cheap gear for CW is another reason I am attracted
to Morse Code. Also it is just plain fun and I believe I would have missed
so much if it wasn't a requirement for HF. It is a major part of Ham radio
no matter how people rail against it. Probably will be for a good long time.
73!

Jeff
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From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
Subject: Re: Real NoCodes... ?????
Organization: Small Business Systems, Incorporated, Smithfield, RI 02917
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:01:42 GMT

slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:

>Although I do not currently have any sort of ham license... :-(  I am studying
>for one of those *GASP!!!*  No-Code licenses you apparently abhor! 

Good for you! Be sure to particularly study operating practices, which seem
to be lacking tremendously on the part of the cb-transplants we have here.

MD
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From: fc1jso@stna7.stna7.stna.dgac.FR
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: TH78, i need help
Date: 20 Jan 93 08:51:25 GMT
Organization: ucsd usenet gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu


Hello all,

I bough a Kenwood TH78 E last week, and i try RX expansion mode
by pressing PTT + VFO then Power ON.
It work good, but when i am scanning VHF band on 50 MHZ, there
is a beep for each steep scanning .... What does it mean this beep ?
Does the receiving really effective ?

Does it possible to receive 80 to 108 MHZ on Wide FM for hearing
radio-diffusion ?

Is somebody had made mesurements on RX attenuation on different
band the TH78 can receive ?

Many thanks for all.

Frederic

Granger@stna7.stna.dgac.fr


From: joes@hpwala.wal.hp.com (Joe Smulowicz)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:30:53 GMT
Subject: Call book on-line??
Organization: Hewlett Packard Medical Products Group
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Reply-To: joes@hpwarbz.wal.hp.com


Hi,

Does anyone know how to get access to the on-line call book? I'm told there is
one.......

					     Thanks.

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From: dls@freedom.genrad.com (Diana L. Carlson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Real NoCodes
Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:42:42 -0500
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: freedom.genrad.com

In article <C1Fn0M.4tF@anomaly.sbs.com> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>>When the no-code
>>license was created, it was intended to bring new amateurs into the fold, and
>>with them, a certain amount of technical experts in various fields who
>>have been
>>put off of amateur radio by the requirement to learn a clearly archaic
>>mode of
>>communication.
>
>And, at the same time, they watered down the Tech/General theory exam.
>
>Hell, if its pure volume of new hams you want, why don't we just make
>people fill out and send in 610s to the FCC. To hell with the exams!

Sorry, Michael, you're wrong. They did NOT water down the Tech Theory
exam when the no-code license came into being.  In actual fact, the Tech
Theory exam was EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEFORE, with three questions deleted.
I know, cuz I updated my Hamstack at the time to handle this.

Any watering down of the Tech/General Theory exam happened well before
the existence of a no-code license.  Don't blame the no-code license
for that.

Diana

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Subject: Antenna Specialists Announces BBS
From: steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler)
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:14:45 EST
Organization: Voice Systems Branch, NASA - Kennedy Space Center

From the pages of the January, 1993 issue of Communications Magazine:

"The Antenna Specialists Co. has activated a new Remote Bulletin Board System
which provides access via modem to its bank of technical information, as well
as cognizant individuals in the comapany's engineering and technical services
departments. The service is free of charge to Antenna Specialists customers,
communications systems operators, RF engineers, and RADIO AMATEURS [emphasis
added] to help speed up the process of acquiring precise information needed
about communications antennas and RF site management. The new RBBS, accessible
24 hours a day, provides a diverse menu including the latest product 
specifications; digitized A/S antenna patterns; applications notes; trade show
schedules; seminars; and even some pastimes like "KING," an electronic trivia
contest. The system features an individual contact service providing a way to
communicate with various A/S departments with either "public" or "private" 
messaging. The system offers "files" capability, permitting downloading of
data by users. It also features a comprehensive online "help" utility and
complete "tutor" to familiarize the user with the new RBBS. Modem
communications format is 300/1200/2400-N81; phone: 216-349-8693. Contact 
personnel are listed in the introductory message."


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From: quent@teal.csn.org (Quentin Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Macintosh s/w??
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:26:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: teal.quent.727892812
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

ftp.apple.com also has some ham stuff -- I looked recently and there were
two morse trainers and a Mac version of Phil Karn's TCP/IP packet software.
From: jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Tracking the Digital Fox?
Summary: Rotating Antenna RDF systems
Date: 26 Jan 93 07:11:56 GMT
Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Organization: COmmittee to Maintain Independent Xenix

In article <1993Jan25.100714.5093@titan.ksc.nasa.gov> steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler) writes:
>How difficult would it be to DF a packet station on 1) a clear channel with
>only the fox transmitting, and 2) on a shared channel with multiple users?
>This could be a new source of aggrevation for the fox hunting masochist!
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>internet: steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov
>NASAmail: (site:smtpmail,id:<steve(a)vulture.ksc.nasa.gov>)

Nothing to it.  The rotating quad antenna RDF that
displays the signal strengths vs angle of rotation
will easily differentiate multiple transmitters,
multipath, moving stations, grunge, and other
abominations.  The major limitation is that it's
currently too big to operate portable and must
be mounted to a structure or an automobile.  See
73 magazine "Homing In" section, Oct 92 and Nov 92.
There is also a computerized version in the Jan 93
and Feb 92 issues.

These rotating antenna RDF systems may look like
Rube Goldberg contraptions, but solve the basic
limitation of Doppler type RDF systems.  Dopplers
can only DF on *ONE* carrier at a time.  Another
advantage is that the antenna has gain, while the
typical doppler is no better than a 1/4 wave whip.

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From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
Subject: Re: Real NoCodes
Reply-To: hdavies@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:08:05 GMT

It seems that radio amateurs are not only divided by their knowledge
of Morse Code.

They are also divided by their possession (or not) of a sense of humour.

But given how socially dysfunctional many of them (us) are, I'm not at
all surprised.

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Regards,

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From: jahern@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Jud Ahern)
Subject: re: ANTENNA HANDBOOK
Originator: usenet@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:29:31 GMT
Reply-To: jahern@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu
Organization: School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma


In article <1jr0e3INNnbn@shelley.u.washington.edu> dbillon@stein.u.washington.edu (Damien Billon) writes:
>
>  I am looking for a good antenna handbook describing how to build HF, VHF,
>UHF... antennas. Any idea ?
>
>73, damien, FC1PLI, dbillon@u.washington.edu
>

Sure: The ARRL Antenna Handbook. Also the ARRL Antenna Compendium,
although I haven't actually seen and used the latter. You might
also very well find what you need in the ARRL Handbook, which is
probably one of the best investments a ham can make. All are
available directly through the ARRL, or through many dealers.

73 aussi, mon ami

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From: jcraig@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Re: Real NoCodes_
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:14:32 GMT

In article <N1-ls*8y0@lemsys.UUCP>, clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
> behind it because I decided that I wasn't going to lower myself to your
> boot-licking toady level and pick on other hams, regardless of their
> 
Maybe you've "picked on" many "other hams" by your following remarks.
>
> "bad" habits.  Since we are moving into the digital age, there is no _need_
> for code anywhere, although it can be used.  As I'm sure you know, since

For low band DXing, CW shines where packet et al. wouldn't have a chance.

> you're such a big fan of it, it is still used by people who _enjoy_ working
> CW for it's challenge.

It's no more of a challenge than talking.

> Code is going to die sooner or later. 
> Comunications is evolving, period.  Some people will keep it alive for
> entertainment, but that percentage will probably grow smaller and smaller
> as time goes on. 

The CW sub-bands are more acitve than ever.

> In Canada, the theory tests (Advanced level) supposedly
> got harder since the code was removed, to compensate.  Even at that, I
> found them trivial at best.

Hmmm, maybe they should require canidates to draw a detailed schematic 
of a 6 stage superhet and be able to explain everything from its grid leak 
bypass to the pentagrid converter.  It wasn't that long ago that this was 
required for the _non_ advanced DOC certificate. 

>  clemon@lemsys.UUCP clemon%lemsys@xenitec.on.ca  | 1B Electrical Engineering
>
 
I can understand your being offended by anti-no-code sentiments, but 
making unfounded remarks about CW can only serve to discredit you.
Most people who bother to learn it (ie 25-30 wpm) think it's great fun...
really!

Joe VO1NA.
Xref: sparky rec.radio.amateur.misc:22907 rec.radio.swap:3632
From: kagoos@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.swap
Subject: 2 Meter Repeater Power Amp Suggetions wanted
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:41:52 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University


I am looking for suggestions to buy a 2 meter Repeater Power amp. I have looked
at several manufacturers including Mirage who make Repeater Power Amplifiers
(100% Duty Cycle). The amp should have a drive of about 10 Watts and output of
about 100 Watts.

If you have any suggestion's or comments please send me a e-mail message.

Thanks in advance,

Suresh N9GSA


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From: Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.hf.INTel.COM (Cecil A Moore)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: DSP and the Future
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:53:12 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

There's nothing magic about 455 KHz for an IF frequency.  In the '50s,
I had a Hallicrafters SX-??? that had a 50 KHz last IF frequency.  Thus,
instead of having to sample at 1 MHz, such an IF frequency could be 
sampled at 120 KHz or so, well within the range of present-day DSP chips.
An added bonus is that the 50 KHz IF filters already have a sharply
selective response.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: Larsen "kulduckie" w/ HT - is it worth it?
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:09:31 GMT

I've got both the Larsen kulduckie and the RH-77B.  The RH is
definitely a better antenna as 2x the price, of course.  The Larsen
is a heck of a lot handier in close quarters.  Both of the above
are miles better than what comes with the DJ-580.

Another hint:  try the Alni dual band telescoping antenna; its real
nice, though not a rubber duck.

Bill


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From: joes@sw.stratus.com (Joseph Spriano)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Marlboro Boys club ham club ???
Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:15:49 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: billtcat.cac.stratus.com


Hi a while ago someone on the net told me that the Marlboro boys club had a ham
club and I called them but I have since lost the contact there and the #. 

The reason I ask it that I went out and purchased a Alinco DJ-580 last week. I
figured if I got the radio I would get sick of only being able to listen to it.
Well I have been studing on my own but just not geting motivated. Now I have the
radio and plenty of motivation to get my Tech + .  And after only having the
radio for a weekend I want to be on it. But cannot :( 
 

So can someone help me get the number/contact person. I am pretty sure it it the
Marlboro Boys Club but not certain... Or any other place that offers to help with
studing that is local to me is ok too. 

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From: alanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:24:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Log-Yagis
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, edgar@tid.ES (Eduardo Garcia Lopez) writes:


>In the Radio Handbook (Willian I. Orr, 20th Edition), a PL Yagi for 50 MHz is
>described. It is reported that this antenna combines the bandwith of a log-pe
>riodic antenna and the gain of a Yagi in a notably shorter boom. It is compo
>sed of an active log-periodic part and some parasitic directors.

In a true log-periodic, only a few of the elements are active on any 
given frequency.  An LP is much bigger for a given gain than a Yagi -- you
trade off size for bandwidth.

In a LP Yagi, the Yagi driven element is replaced by a small LP array.
In other words, you have a small (typically 2 or 3 element) LP antenna
with one or more parasitic elements (reflector and/or directors).
The driven LP array is nice and broadband, but the parasitic elements
are not.  You probably do get a little better bandwidth than a standard
Yagi, but nothing like you would get with a true log periodic.

AL N1AL

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From: bwilkins@iat.holonet.net (Bob Wilkins n6fri)
Subject: Re: Radio Shack Business Band Radio
Organization: the cAVe group
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:47:56 GMT

rossi@gvlf9-q.gvl.unisys.com (Pete Rossi) writes:
: 
: What exactly is required to get one of these licenses.  Cost?  Etc?
: Do you have to be a "real" business?  Or could an individual get a 
: license too?

The FCC years ago divided up the spectrum up into many small segments. The
different user groups each got a slice. Each radio service has a set of
rules that govern operation. Business is Business..Amateur is
Amateur...Taxi is taxi ...  An individual could licence in the personal
radio service GMRS. Yes it is class A cb .. using repeaters in the 462 MHz
uhf spectrum.  462.675 is monitored by many community watch groups.
Watch for rs to be selling a portable in the GMRS 462MHz service soon.

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From: lthvbibl@vbibl.vsek.lth.se (Helena Klein V-bibl)
Subject: HELP! ATTENTION...Please read my message.
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:19:54 GMT

Hallo all radioamateurs!!

I hope anyone of you active radioamateurs could help me searching for a 
person I unfortunately have lost contact with for several years ago.

Since I happen to know his "radiocallingnumber" he used at that time and he 
had a lot of contacts all over the world - I hope this would be a way to get 
in touch with him.

His name is Hezie Schnitzler and he lived then in Petah Tiqva in Israel for 
about 10 years ago. His radiocallingnumber he then used was/is: 4 Z 4 T V (
Tango Victory).

I hope someone can help me and I look forward very much to getting some 
response. Thanks in advance for helping

Best regards from Helena (Lena) Klein in Lund in Sweden

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Telephone: +46 46 109243, Telefax: +46 46 104427, Telex: 33533 LUNIVER S
E-mails: Helena.Klein@vsek.lth.se
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: rick@cs.sunysb.edu (Richard Spanbauer)
Subject: Re: Real NoCodes
Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:47:27 GMT

In article <kd1hz.1@anomaly.sbs.com> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>                         REAL NOCODES
>                     By Michael P. Deignan
>                     kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com

	[ text deleted ]

>And yes... Every one of these actually happened.
>Have any others? Email them to me!
> 
>  Michael P. Deignan, KD1HZ               
>  Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com               I'm not a bigot,    
>    UUCP: ...!uunet!anomaly!mpd             I hate everyone...  
> Telebit: +1 401 455 0347                 

	Mike, don't you have something better to do than collect 
	a list like this?  Having more folks in the ARS serves us
	all and whether or not they can operate a particular mode
	ought not to make a subclass of them.  My advice?  Either
	make a list that pokes fun at everyone (ie all license class)
	or find something else to amuse yourself.  73 OM 

					Rick Spanbauer WB2CFV
					SUNY/Stony Brook
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:02:38 -0500 
From: Mike.Blackwell@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Call signs

How can I find out how the FCC is currently allocating call signs? I.e.
- if one were to get a general class license right now, what format call
sign could you expect? Just curious, that's all.  Thanks!  -mike-
From: billg@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Bill Gingras)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:23:44 GMT
Subject: MFJ HF Vertical Question.
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc


After living in an apartment for three years, which effectively forced
me off the air, I'll be moving into a house next month.  That means I
should be able ti get back onto HF again.  Does anyone out there have
any experience or knowledge about the new MFJ multiband vertical
antenna?  This is a top loaded, 1/2 wave antenna for (I believe) 10-40M
which doesn't need ground radials and is only about 12 feet in length.

Also, which bands are still active and resonably reliable should I elect
to put up a dipole or two?   

- Bill G

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