HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: davew@tfs.com (Dave Whitlock)
Subject: Re: Kenwood Service SUCKS!!!
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:27:23 GMT

I have a simular Kenwood service tail of woe.  I recently had an indirect
lightning strike.  Besides killing my 386, modem, DRSI board and laser
printer, it also did some damage to the front-end of my TS-430's receive
section.  This lowered the sensitivity to the point where I could just hear
a 100 watt friend across town.  Not so hot for QRP DX.  In addition, the
dial encoder had been getting steadily worse over the last year.  This is
a common problem with TS-430s.

So I sent it off to Kenwood service.  After three weeks with no word, and
several phone calls, I had this little conversation:

Kennwood: "We cannot guarantee work on a radio that was hit by lightning."

Me: "OK."

Kenwood: "We will not do work we cannot guarantee."

Me: "In other words, Kenwood will not fix a radio if it has ever been hit by
lightning?"

Kenwood: Silence

So, when the radio came back, I shipped it off to Hall Electronics in San Jose.
I'm also in the market for a new HF radio.  Kenwood is off my list for good
and I'm looking hard at Ten-Tec.

Dave Whitlock N7FZY

"
From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: How to power a PC motherboard from car battery?
Date: 17 Aug 1992 00:02:42 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

mark@ve6mgs.uucp (Mark G. Salyzyn) writes:
>No need, the PC motherboard is rated for operation to +14, the power
>supply, for 12 Volts, only guarantees this level of regulation as well
>(actually 14.5V Max in the specs).

But watch out for the disk drives, which are generally NOT rated that
loosely.

And you need to do something about the 50v+ spikes on the line whilst
the engine is cranking.
	- Brian
From: KTM%32868.DEcnet@consrt.rockwell.com (32868::KTM)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE INFO-HAM
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:35:29 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
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From: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us (Eric S Johansson)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Converting 49MHz toy radios.
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:02:12 GMT
Reply-To: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <30316.9208171324@swmis.nsw.ac.uk>, Pete Lucas writes:
>Has anyone converted 49MHz radios to 6 meters successfully? It looks like a
>relatively trivial task to convert the types with crystal-controlled receivers.
>A pair of these things appropriately recrystalled could be just what i need for
>a short-haul (1/2 mile) 9600-baud packet link; 100 milliwatts is enough to
>cover the path reliably.

is there anything in the rules stating that you can't run it in the 49mhz
band for packet? 

--- eric
-- 
HOME: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us  HAM  ka1eec
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From: gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Cellular Frequencies
Keywords: cellular, legal
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:04:40 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <1568@anagld.analytics.com> sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn) writes:
>This may be a FAQ, but is tuning in to cellular frequencies legal?  I had
>thought that listening to the freqs was legal but you couldn't record them
>or anything like that.  I thought that anything transmitted was legal to 
>listen to.  I'm just struggling with a little moral question...

As far as I know, listening to cellular freqs is illegal.  However,
listening in on cordless phones isn't, as long as you keep what you
hear to yourself.  

Or has the law changed since then?


Chris


-- 
Chris Bovitz              |    "I demand that you shoot me now!"
Department of Meteorology |    
Univ of Wisc - Madison    |       -- Daffy Duck
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From: pjml@swmis.nerc-swindon.ac.UK (Pete Lucas)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Converting 49MHz toy radios.
Date: 17 Aug 1992 05:27:24 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Has anyone converted 49MHz radios to 6 meters successfully? It looks like a
relatively trivial task to convert the types with crystal-controlled receivers.
A pair of these things appropriately recrystalled could be just what i need for
a short-haul (1/2 mile) 9600-baud packet link; 100 milliwatts is enough to
cover the path reliably.
_______________________________________________________________________________
 --G6WBJ-- Peter J.M. Lucas ! The problem lies not in the unanswered questions,
  PJML@SWMIS.NSW.AC.UK      ! but in the unquestioned answers'  -J. Paul Sartre
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From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Whatsawally?
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:28:47 EDT
Organization: American Radio Relay League

;From: ees1mw@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK (Mike Willis)
;Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
;Subject: Re: QST Content
;Date: 7 Aug 92 08:35:33 GMT
;Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
;Lines: 19
; 
;In article <363@arrl.org> jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman) writes:
;>
;>Oh, boy. I've really stepped in the doo-doo this time. I assume
;>Kok is referring to "Wally and Mike." There is a rationale at 
;>work here. So, exclusively for Internet readers, this is it:
; 
;Presumably Wally is the Wally? I always wondered why you chose those
;names, now I can ask the author.
; 
;Does "a wally" mean the same in the USA as it does in the UK?
; 
;I get my QST by surface mail so it tends to arrive over a month late. How
;about an article on exporting USA equipment, at USA prices to the rest of
;the world.
; 
;Credit cards seem the best way to do it.....but what about customs
;clearance and shipping?
; 
;Are USA dealers happy to supply overseas? Can the USA taxes be deducted?
; 

I have no idea what "wally" means in the UK, and, after 
reading this posting, I'm not sure I want to.

"Wally and Mike" is a series of fiction pieces appearing
in QST, purporting to help old timers deal with newcomers.

The late Wallace I. ("Wally") Youngs, K2IHO, was a neighbor
of mine when I got started in ham radio. He was also a role
model, father figure, etc, etc. I picked the name "Mike"
because it sounded All-American. 

Speaking of all this, I'm running out of call signs to use.
Anyone care to "donate" a call?

I have bad feelings about an article on exporting American-
made equipment. Most of the major American manufacturers
have overseas outlets, and would probably get sued by
these outlets if they circumvented them. I realize the
VAT in England is steep, but wouldn't you still have to
pay duty?

If you insisted, I'm sure a VISA, MasterCard or American
Express card would be the way to go. Your account would
be billed in pounds-equivalent to the dollars. 

Maybe other readers have better ideas on exports to Europe.

By the way, I've been on vacation, which is why it took me
so long to answer. 73, Jim

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ARRL Assistant Technical Editor	     FAX:   203-665-7531
Author of `The DXCC Companion'	     ARRL Headquarters
Editor of `Now You're Talking!,'     225 Main Street
ARRL License Manuals,		     Newington, CT 06111
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From: sprouse@n3igw.pgh.pa.us (Ken Sprouse)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: QST Content Revisited
Summary: I'll go along with that.  Lets see more construction and how to
	 articles and less contest info (fill?)
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:37:36 GMT
Organization: Sprouse Consulting, Oakmont, Pa.

In article <1992Aug3.175949.25789@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
> Field Day" are ok once in a while, but I wouldn't want to see many of
> them unless they are *really* well done. More interesting to me are
> stories that lead to technical solutions. Steve Cicara's old columns
> in Byte are an example. Great stories and cute technical solutions.

I agree.  You can have well written articles that entertain as well as
teach.  I thought Cicara's stuff in Byte was excellent.  His article on
a "Computer controlled wood stove" sparked my interest (no pun intended)
in home control projects.  Lets bring back Carl and Jerry!  Anyone
remember them?  I started following their adventures in grade school and
learned a lot from the stories.  Just my two cents worth.

73's

-- 

Ken Sprouse / N3IGW       sprouse@n3igw.pgh.pa.us      Oakmont, Pa.

GEnie mail KSPROUSE /  Packet radio n3igw@w2xo.pa.usa.noam
From: dubner@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Joe Dubner)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:30:07 GMT
Subject: RCA VEETAC TCXOs Needed
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

Can anyone give me a pointer to a small quantity of "channel elements"
(TCXOs) used in old RCA VEETAC Series UHF and VHF radios?  A friend
(Dave, WA7QKD) has a couple of RCA repeaters that have been removed from
commercial service but they have no oscillators.  He asked me to see
what the notes community could scare up.

Dave would be most grateful and would be willing to reimburse costs or
trade something from his fabulous junkbox.  (In the past, his junkbox
has yielded solar panels, tower, and gel-cell batteries -- speaking from
my personal experience :-)

73, 
Joe, K7JD

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From: cookav@catipult.anatcp.rockwell.COM
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Huge Antenna at Augsburg
Date: 14 Aug 1992 13:16:47 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu

Greetings...
Nick, KD4CPL wrote about seeing a huge, round antenna in the area near 
Augsburg, wondering what it was.

That antenna is an AN/FLR-9 receiving antenna, used for WORLDWIDE monitoring
and direction finding.  I worked there in the mid '70s, when the Army 
Security Agency had the facility.  The ASA no longer exists, and I don't 
know who owns the facility now.

What did I do there?  Worked on model 28 Teletypes...

73,
Alan, N7CEU




Alan V. Cook
Rockwell International
(714) 762-0843
(714) 762-0662 - FAX
From: ffjal@alaska.edu (John Lehman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Paddles, portable
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:38:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Re the discussion of portable paddles for backpacking -- I made an iambic
paddle from a pair of copper shipping staples, some screws, a rubber band
and a piece of wood. It weighs only a couple of ounces and works fine if
you either hold it down with your non-keying hand or use a rubber band
to fasten it down.

de al7jj
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: harp@bnr.ca (Alan Harp)
Subject: Re: 9D - Legitimate Operation?
Keywords: 9D0RR,9D2RR
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Research Triangle Park, NC
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:01:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.134507.2615@worldbank.org> dearnsha@wizard.worldbank.org writes:
>Two stations have recently been reported signing the 9D prefix. The
>stations were: 9D2RR on SSB, and 9D0RR on CW. They haven't been too active
>but the local packetcluster indicated that one of the operators name
>was Romeo (no doubt of 3W0RR fame). The 9D prefix is allocated to Iran
>(EP). Does anyone have any further information on this station? Is it
>legitimate (I've not seen anything in the newsheets about it)?

>Thanks... Darrell NR3Y/G4MZF
> 
Yep Romeo is roming again.  (Listening over about 15KHZ of 20 meters
last night).  

Did you read the last OPDX bulletin?  It was posted right here.
9D is allocated to Iran.

****************************************************************************
* Alan Harp K4PB     *     Bell-Northern Research      *   CW FOREVER      *
* mail: harp@bnr.ca  *   Research Triangle Park, NC    *                   *
****************************************************************************
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Differences IC-W2A etc
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:23:20 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <memo.572863@cix.compulink.co.uk> dplumb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>> I really think you check out the Standard C558. 
>> It has all the features that you want and is a very solid 
>> rig. Looks good to. The C528 is the older version it also 
>Do you have any details on the Standard C558, it hasn't hit these shores yet. 
>Is it time to ditch the C528? What more can they add to a hand-held? 
> 
>73 Dave G7MIL 

The back of the unit is equiped with high efficiency solar cells and can
recharge its battery pack if exposed to high light levels.  It has a
built in cw-identifier that works in cross-band repeat mode.  The
combination of features allows the unit to be easily used as hamsat.
Getting it into orbit is your problem ;-).

Kidding aside, there a few things left to add, but something has to be done
to increase the usability of the features they already have.  Its always
going to be hard to lay out the features logically, yet keep the most
commonly used features handy.

73 WB9MRI
From: jkearman@arrl.org (Jim Kearman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: FT101B woes
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:46:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: arrl.447
Organization: American Radio Relay League

;From: multi@erich.TRiumf.CA (Ya'akov Miles,TRIUMF,Canada,V6T2A3,Tel 604-222-104
;7)
; 
;I have a sick FT101B.  Specifically the plate won't dip , the load control
;has no effect, and it only puts out 20 watts maximum.  Have changed finals,
;with no improvement.  Operated rig into high SWR and it suddenly behaved
;this way.  The local amateur repair shop is unable to diagnose the problem,
;let alone fix it.  Does anybody have any solutions?  Please post EMAIL to
; 
;postbox         <miles@mindlink.bc.ca>  rather than at this address.
; 
;                                        Thanks,
;                                        Y.N. Miles,
;                                        <VE7-ALQ>
; 

My first guess would be the coupling capacitor between the final
amplifier plates and the pi network. 

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

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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From: sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Cellular Frequencies
Summary: Is Llistening to cellular calls legal?
Keywords: cellular, legal
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:54:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division

This may be a FAQ, but is tuning in to cellular frequencies legal?  I had
thought that listening to the freqs was legal but you couldn't record them
or anything like that.  I thought that anything transmitted was legal to 
listen to.  I'm just struggling with a little moral question...
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
From: robbins@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Huge Antenna at Augsburg
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:42:37 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug18.130238.26866@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, waco@cbnewse.cb.att.com (john.l.broughton) writes:
> In article <9208142017.AA0fc7@catipult.anatcp.rockwell.com> daemon@ucsd.edu
> (The Devil Himself) writes
> 
>>Greetings...
>>Nick, KD4CPL wrote about seeing a huge, round antenna in the area near 
>>Augsburg, wondering what it was.
>>
>>That antenna is an AN/FLR-9 receiving antenna, used for WORLDWIDE monitoring
>>and direction finding.  I worked there in the mid '70s, when the Army 
>>Security Agency had the facility.  The ASA no longer exists, and I don't 
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   Does that mean my ASA insignia pins are now more valuable?  Please observe
>   30 seconds of silence for the ASA.  Never saw the antenna at Augsburg, but
>   we had a nice array of towers and wires at Rothwesten, near Kassel.
> 
>>know who owns the facility now.
>>
>>What did I do there?  Worked on model 28 Teletypes...
>>
>>73,
>>Alan, N7CEU
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Alan V. Cook
>>Rockwell International
>>(714) 762-0843
>>(714) 762-0662 - FAX
> 
> 73,
> 
> John L. Broughton, WB9VGJ
> AT&T
> Naperville, IL
> john.l.broughton@att.com
> att!john.l.broughton
> 
> Former 058 (morse code interceptor, ASA)
> 
> QSA IMI K
From: michaeln@hpcvnb.CV.HP.COM (Mike_Nason)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 01:15:48 PDT
Subject: Re: RS-10 on 10m
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc

 i work rs10/11 on once in awhile so here's my 2 cents worth. 
   1 the metal chair you were using for the ground plane is a little small
and the back of the chair may tend to make the pattern too directional. 
   2 the tone you heard could have been from a number of things including
the computor u were using to give you the tracking information. 
   3. you may have been having too much shielding from the wiring in the 
appartment you were in. 
   I haven't tried using the 2600 for satellite but i have used a rs tx100
with mixed results. the internal noise is a bit high for me but i have read 
a note here where someone had disconnected the finals on one and was using
a tranverter for mode B. so it couldn't be too  bad. 
  I have worked rs 10 with a 2510 with a bad antenna once so it should work. 
try listening for rs10  with your radio in your car or somewhere away from
where you had it last time and see it you have a "birdy" on the beacon
freq. if so try the higher beacon. i usually work rs10 with a dipole so if
nothing else you can take a couple of 8 foot wires and make one that you could
hang on the roof or on the gutter outside. it gets you away from the ground
plane requirement. 
  if you don't have a birdy in the radio at the beacon freq you may have to
try turning a few things off to  find the source. most of the ssb contacts i 
work are in the 29.370-29.390 area. i hope this helps. 73's mike nason KA7HBB
From: carndt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chris Arndt)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Kenwood TM-741 mobile rig - INFO WANTED
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:13:34 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <9397.2A85EBF1@stjhmc.fidonet.org> ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) writes:
> >I have a friend who has a Kenwood TM-741 mobile rig and got the 
> >optional
> >tone board for it.  The question is, how to get the microphone DTMF 
> >pad 
> >to allow direct frequency entry and/or whatever else the tone board 
> >allows
> >you to do through the microphone keypad.  Any info would be greatly 
> >appreciated.
>
>
>Nothing.  The DTMF board is for decoding of DTMF from the receiver to open 
>squelch ... it allows you to monitor a frequency and not have the squelch 
>open until a certain sequence of DTMF comes across.
>

I sure wish David Dodell had left the attribution line on this quote.

Then I could Email the original poster with the instructions. Mr. Dodell
is incorrect. I use the DTMF mic for freq entry all the time. 

>
From: Bruce_Fingerhood@qmee.mail.cornell.EDU (Bruce Fingerhood)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: SSTV w/MFJ1278?
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:19:04 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu


                       Subject:                               Time:10:16 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          SSTV w/MFJ1278?                        Date:8/17/92
I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is using or has tried to
use an MFJ 1278 on HF SSTV.  I am trying, with little success so far.
Thanks and 73,

Bruce Fingerhood
KA7I
From: jdelancy@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: [ANS] Huge Antenna at Augsburg
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:40:39 GMT
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsd.edu


The antenna was sometimes referred to as a CDAA (Circular Displaced
Antenna Arry -- I think that's right).  It was (and still is)
quite a thing, but I dont have the real estate for one (yet).
From: rossi@gvlf9-q.gvl.unisys.com (Pete Rossi)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Dualband HT recommendations?
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:12:42 GMT
Organization: Paramax Systems Corp (A Unisys Company), Great Valley Labs, PA

In article <3519@atlas.tegra.COM> vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) writes:
>
> I too dropped my W2A, from about 3 feet...works fine, but scratched the front
> of the case and cracked the battery rail.  Which brings up another point. How
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have a IC-24AT (same battery packs)  I haven't dropped it... yet ;-)

Can this be replaced/repaired?   Just in case...

=================================================================
Pete Rossi - WA3NNA                  rossi@gvl.unisys.com

Paramax Systems Corporation - a Unisys Company
Electronic Systems - Valley Forge Labs - Paoli, Pennsylvania
=================================================================
From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: Orbiting FM Repeater ?
Keywords: satellite
Date: 15 Aug 92 13:05:51 GMT
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group

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* 
transponders of limited power and FM is most definitely *not* encouraged. 
SSB or CW are the preferred emission modes for use through these satellites. 
There *is* a mode S transponder that takes FM signals up on 435.xxx and 
downlinks them in the 2.3 GHz band, but it's of limited availability and 
limited use. The 200 kHz wide mode B linear transponders, or translators, 
allow many SSB and CW signals to occupy their passband at the same time. 
This is different from a FM repeater where only one signal is recovered 
and regenerated at a time. FM is not an efficient use of transponder power 
since the full carrier power is present even when no intelligence is being 
passed.

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.

Gary KE4ZV
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc