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From: ham@wam.umd.edu (Scott Richard Rosenfeld)
Subject: Re: Format of Code Exams?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:16:49 GMT

In article <C02yu3.GIF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> jahern@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu writes:
>I'm studying up for my Extra code exam, and got to wondering: Is the
>exam multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank? The FCC Rule Book says
>the format is up to the VEs, but what is the norm? Does it depend
>on whether the VE group is ARRL or W5YI, etc.? I'd think the 
>multiple choice would be MUCH easier, no? Naturally, I plan to be
>at the point where it won't make any difference, but it is helpful
>to know what to expect when going into an exam.
>
>Finally, is 7 correct out of 10 passing or not? I thought it was, but
>my SuperMorse program said I failed when I got 7 out of 10. [Yes,
>I know the program is not the final judge, but I would have guessed
>their criteria would be the same as "real exams".]

>

I have never seen a code exam given as multiple choice.  I have heard of it,
but never actually been there to see it done.  I have done around 70 exams
under W5YI (that I have been the contact for), and I have NEVER given a
multiple choice code exam.  I have also done a few exams with the Laurel (MD)
VEC, and all of theirs have been fill-in-the-blank.

My guess is that nearly every exam you go to will have a fill-in-the-blank
code test.  7 out of 10 IS a passing score.

Scott  Good Luck  NF3I
From: gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: WEFAX format == News Photo format ?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:18:23 EST
Organization: Gordon's Pinetree * Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

brosen@BBN.COM (Bruce L. Rosen) writes:

> Does anyone know if the format used by AP, Reuters, et. al., to send news
> photos is the same FAX format used for WEFAX transmissions.  In other
> words, can I copy news photos with my AEA FAX package?  If the answer is
> "yes" ... any info. out there for likely frequencies and transmission
> times for news photos?

A few years ago, I was up at Science North in Sudbury, ON, and they had a 
ham setup with a fax setup.  They were demonstrating the fax setup by 
printing out a Reuters photo (which I still have, btw).

Hope this helps...

  --G

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From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Re: Online Repeater Directory! Watch For It!
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:21:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.175014.15457@ms.uky.edu> johnr@mik.uky.edu (John S. Roberts, Jr.) writes:
>
>Sounds good to me.  I'm not sure about the GPS interface as I haven't ever  
>messed with one.  What I was planning on you entering some sort of location  
>identification.  Maybe some sort of grid system where it would then find  
>repeaters who based on your direction of travel and their locations and power  
>outputs would be likely to be reach able from your location.  I'm still  not  
>quite sure how the user is supposed to enter his/her location in though.  I  
>think that letting the program know about the interstate system so that you  
>could enter a road way, your direction of travel, and your mile marker and it  
>would know where you were.  What do you all think?

Just allow the program to talk the NMEA 0183 protocol on a serial
port. GPS or Loran receivers will then be able to tell it exactly
where you are. That's what I'm doing with my Loran. The geographical
database you need is available on a single CDROM. Add in a gyrocompass
and a doppler DF unit and you'll have a complete autoresolving auto-DF
system. It will continually tighten the position box as you establish
a baseline by driving along and will sound the bell when the box reaches
a preset delta and show it to you on the map.

Gary

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From: furuta@cs.umd.edu (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Why "Y" on repeater ID's?
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:43:15 GMT
Reply-To: furuta@cs.umd.edu
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

Well, my CW skills aren't quite up to speed yet, but I *think* that
when some of of the local repeaters id they prepend a "Y" onto the
front of the call, for example "YKC3K/R" for the KC3K repeater.  I
also think I'm hearing this for the local shuttle rebroadcasts
"YWA3NAN" for "WA3NAN".  Am I really hearing this?  What's the
significance?

Thanks.

					--Rick
					  N3JGF
					  furuta@cs.umd.edu
From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
Subject: Re: Hot Rigs, was: Radio Robbery
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:05:18 GMT

>>I know the feeling, I had my Yeasu FT-727R ripped off some time ago.
>>
>>I've always thought there should be some clearing house for the serial
>>numbers of stolen equipment. We all look for great deals on used
>
>There is !
>It called the police dept. Call your local cop shop, tell them you are
>about to purchase a Blarvitz model 10 Serial 1234 and ask them to check
>it out ( tips and leads database)
>

Are they connected nationally? I understand that most property stolen
here (Phoenix) ends up in L.A.. I envision a system dedicated to ham
radio equipment and related electronics, that would be simple and fast
to use from anywhere in the U.S.. I just don't know how it would be
subsidized.

John

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From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 430mhz band under th
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:57:25 GMT
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Destructive Testing Systems

In article <1hpui6INNss2@network.ucsd.edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>In article <1992Dec28.235041.1@ttd.teradyne.com> rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:
>>If you've only got a few users, then you're not making very efficient
>>use of the spectrum, are you?  Does the fact that you've got $$$ give
>>you the right to lock up a piece of the scarce spectrum resource for
>>a 'closed' repeater ?
>
>Jealous?
>
>In any case, my system shares the channel with others in the area; we've
>agreed to cooperate in the matter of PL tones, antenna patterns, and the
>like.
>
>Remember that a channel isn't in use only when someone's mouth is
>spewing on it.  It's also in use when people are only listening.
>	- Brian

I find that a very curious idea. You're saying that someone can occupy
a frequency merely by listening to it. So if I'm listening on the output
frequency of a repeater, that repeater can't transmit because I'm occupying
the channel and to transmit would be malicous interference. I don't think
so. Listeners have no control of spectrum and can't use it up by listening.
Only transmitters in active transmission use up spectrum.

Gary

Gary

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Subject: ALINCO DJ-580 HT
From: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Date: 26 Dec 92 11:21:00 GMT
Reply-To: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * 501-985-0059 * Public Access Usenet

Victor,

Studies have shown the AEA "Hot Rod" 2 meter antenna to be one of the
most effective (as defined by percentage of radiated power).

Morris
From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Cable ID
Date: 20 Dec 92 13:40:14 GMT
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group


The cable you describe is called twinax. It's available in 75 ohm and
92 ohm. The Wang cables are 75 ohm and the 92 ohm stuff is used on big
IBM iron.

An easy way to identify the impedance of the cable is to terminate it
in a good 50 ohm dummy load and transmit into it while taking a VSWR
reading. Then you can simply calculate the impedance from the mismatch.

Gary KE4ZV
From: xile@hardy.u.washington.edu (Roberto Camama)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Anyone familiar w/ Seattle-Eastside clubs,Icom USA facility?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:23:28 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: pnw
Reply-To: xile@u.washington.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

some questions:
	1)  Is there anyone familiar with clubs in the Seattle-Eastside 
		region, especially any around Redmond and Bellvue?
		Does anyonw know of the clubs' meeting times?
	2)  Does anyone know of amatueur-radio related activities in the
		 Seattle-Eastside region from now till mid-January?

	3)  Does anyone know what goes on at the Icom USA facility in
		Bellvue?  (just curious)

Thanx in advance
R. Camama 
KB2CLL/7
From: saswel@unx.sas.COM (Warren E. Lewis)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Novice HF Recomendations/Questions?
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:35:48 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu
Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

Hello!!

  I have just become interested in Ham Radio and I am presently
hard at work studying for my Novice written and 5 WPM code
tests.

  I also have been pondering what kind of HF rig I should start out 
with?  I have been reading and looking in the Ham Rags (73 and CQ) 
and the variety of equipment and models is quite perplexing.  I really 
don't want to spend much more than $700 to set up my "Shack."  What 
kind of rig/shack can I set up for this kind of money?  What kind of used 
rigs are out there?  What brands and models should I stay away from?  
Where can quality used rigs be found?  Also what features should I look
for in a rig?  When are the next HamFests scheduled for the Central North 
Carolina Area? 

  Thanks   - Warren

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From: chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV)
Subject: Re: Soldering radials to SO-239's
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 16:56:03 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Electrical Engineering
Distribution: na
Keywords: antenna construction soldering

In article <1992Dec31.131300.1333@cbfsb.cb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
>In article <1htdmvINNmrn@life.ai.mit.edu> moisan@silver.lcs.mit.edu (David Moisan) writes:
>>As some of you are aware, there are many designs for 1/4-wave VHF
>>antennas that use an SO239, BNC or N chassis-mount connector upon
>>which the radials are soldered (to the mounting holes).
>>
>>I've tried to build one such antenna using coathangers as the elements.
>>But try as I might, as hot as I get the connector (with a 100-watt gun
>>newly-purchased), the coathanger will not take solder.
>>
>>It's occurred to me that some coathangers are aluminum (don't work,
>> do they?! :))  Yet the coathanger I tried _was_ steel, or so I thought.

I can's say that aluminum coathangers don't exist, just that I have never
seen one.   All the cheap metal ones I've seen are steel.

>>
>>Has anyone had actual experience?  What materials, if not coathangers, do 
>>you use in *your* designs?
>>
>
>1) Never use steel as the material for a radial.  It is useless;
>   you need to use a good RF conductor like copper or aluminum
>   (brass, in a pinch).

Steel works just fine.  What do you think the commercial 5/8 wave whips are
made out of?  Why stainless steel of course!  What do you think your car
roof (also known as "the ground plane" is made of?  Steel.

Steel is not a great conductor, but then the currents in a 1/4 wave groundplane
type antenna aren't all that great either.  It would take some very
sophisticated test equipment to measure the difference in signal emitted from
a steel 1/4 wave ground plane antenna (at 2m) and one made of silver.
(Note: At 80m, you would probably have a different story entirely!)

The reason that you were having trouble soldering the steel coathanger is
that you need to use a good flux.  Rosin is not active enough to make the
job easy.  You should use something like soldering paste which is a Zinc
Chloride flux.

Also, the plating on imported SO-239s is often chrome or nickel which doesn't
solder very easily.  Any kind of plating on Amphenol's or King's should solder
ok.

73,

Chuck Harris - WA3UQV
chuck@eng.umd.edu

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From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Subject: Re: Realistic DX-160
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:00:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.071745.3632@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>
>Sounds easy enough. One thing though--Does  lineing up the pointer on
>one mark re-calibrate the main dial calibrate the dial for all the marks?

About as good as it was when it came from the factory. That's to say,
not great. Getting analog dials to track within 3% of actual bandspread
is often tough. That's about the same as analog voltmeters. You learn
to live with it, and use the crystal calibrator a lot when setting the
dial.

Gary
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Lawrenceville, GA 30244     |                     | emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu
From: jahern@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Jud Ahern)
Subject: Format of Code Exams?
Originator: usenet@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:22:51 GMT
Reply-To: jahern@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu
Organization: School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma

I'm studying up for my Extra code exam, and got to wondering: Is the
exam multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank? The FCC Rule Book says
the format is up to the VEs, but what is the norm? Does it depend
on whether the VE group is ARRL or W5YI, etc.? I'd think the 
multiple choice would be MUCH easier, no? Naturally, I plan to be
at the point where it won't make any difference, but it is helpful
to know what to expect when going into an exam.

Finally, is 7 correct out of 10 passing or not? I thought it was, but
my SuperMorse program said I failed when I got 7 out of 10. [Yes,
I know the program is not the final judge, but I would have guessed
their criteria would be the same as "real exams".]

Thanks,
 
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From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: X or K band microwave components
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 04:34:42 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

I'm suffering from sticker shock.  

I'm working on a radar-based vehicle performance analyzer for the magazine.  
I'm currently using an old police radar head for the RF section.  I
called Advanced Receiver Research today to inquire about a Gunnplexor.
I was floored by the price.  $369 for a 20 mw K-band unit.  That's a 
BARE gunnplexor.  No electronics.  I can buy a whole damn police
radar from MPH industries for that money.

So now my question.  Is there any other source for Gunnplexor-type
devices in that power range?  I've played around with microwave
motion detectors and while they work and are fairly cheap, the power
is low and does not provide the needed range.  Also, I'm looking for
a source of narrow beamwidth antennas.  ARR's 17 db horn is rated at
a beamwidth of 35 degrees.  Most police radars are spec'd at 1 to 2
degrees.  The horns are pretty simple.

I'm looking for small OEM quantities of Gunn devices and antennas
because I plan on offering a hard-to-find parts kit of this device.
If you have a source, please provide me with contact information,
as much of my library was burned in a fire last year.

Thanks in advance

John
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From: oler@rho.uleth.CA (Cary Oler)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for 29 December
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:07:51 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
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Originator: daemon@ucsd.edu

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From: n2gj@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Gerry Jurrens)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Clever Phonetics Needed--WK3C
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 07:04:03 EST
Organization: Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey

Let me add my vote to a total ban on clever phonetics!  I remember with 
my old call, late into the contest, I was calling out:
  
Whiskey Baker Two Very Tired Turkey.....
   
Then when I got my "new" call, which are my initials, I got a note from a 
local journalist who ran a column on ham radio in the paper, who sent me 
about fifty ideas for phonetics from "Greasy Junk" to "Grand Jury."
   
It gets kinda silly at times.....73,

Number Two Grape Juice  <over and out>

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From: Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov>
Subject: Re: UPS gives up on 220? (was Re: 430mhz band under th)
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:56:44 GMT

In article <8227@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
writes:
>In article <C00u1E.8FJ@NeoSoft.com> jreese@NeoSoft.com (Jim Reese) writes:
>>Actually, UPS has withdrawn it's application for licenses in the 220 band.  
>
>Really? Has anyone else applied for licenses there? (Probably so, but we can
>hope...) Maybe it's time to petition to get the frequencies back?

Jay, UPS (Ugly Poacher of Spectrum) was one of 5 or 6 applicants for a
nationwide license for 220 MHz allocations.  It is true that UPS, the original
instigator of the 220-222 MHz grab, has withdrawn *it's* nationwide
application, the others have not.  In addition, there are approximately 60,000
license applications on file for regional, or so-called "local" licenses.  What
happened here is the old infamous frequency lottery/make a quick buck by
getting you, your friends, and your dog in the pool and hoping for an
allocation.  Then if you get one, you can sell your option or if you don't, buy
one or collaberate with others that did.  I have even seen info-mercials on
late night TV describing how "You too can become rich by filing for a FCC
license - and we will tell you how for only $129.95".  It was presented solely
as an investment opportunity - nothing more.  Forget about the supposedly
critical need for additional commercial spectrum.  Totally disgusting, isn't
it?  In the meantime, not a SINGLE license has been issued for 220-222 MHz
commercial operations, and all amateur use on 220-222 MHz was terminated over
16 months ago.  The FCC has not indicated when or *if* a lottery will ever take
place for these "local" licenses, nor has it been able to resolve a number of
disputes over the nationwide allocations.  UPS grew tired of the waiting and
the substantial legal expenses incurred and has gone to a 800 MHz nationwide
system - which they should have done in the first place.  Methinks there is
something rotten somewhere in the woodpile in Washington that we call the FCC.

                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
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From: gallaghe@gdc.com (Robert Gallagher)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: JVFAX 5.0 New User Information
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:38:56 GMT
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I am looking for any information on JVFAX 5.0.  I have been using it for several
days with some success.  I have been monitoring 8.078.1 Mhz which I believe is
transmitted from Fairfax,Va. (pls. correct me if I am wrong)  I am using the 
simple 741 op-amp demodualator circuit given in english.doc.  The biggest
problem I have found is that start and/or stop tones are not always detected.
I guess I have some kind of setup problem with the software.  Additionally, I 
also find that contrast for global images is not that great.  I am assuming this
is due the demodulator circuit used.  

The kind of information I am looking for is software setup and/or additional 
frequencies I can monitor. In particular vhf frequencies if any exist.
Also, is there any other demodulator circuits that
I build that will provide better performance?

Thanks in advance.

Robert Gallagher - N1CXH
      
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