Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 16:34:46 PST From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Info-Hams-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Info-Hams@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Info-Hams Digest V93 #1424 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Sat, 4 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1424 Today's Topics: Alinco DJF1T-HP dead CENSORSHIP WARNING FT530 receiver probl Hamradio with deer hunting! Help: dotted decimal address of arrl.org HYPOCRISY WARNING (was Re: Pyramid Schemes) Poor Man's Spectrum Analyzer --- comments? Reporting Constant QRM: who? Standard C620 Xmit mod? (2 msgs) Talk America Radio Netwo W5YI's coverage of "temporary callsigns" Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2 Dec 93 12:44:14 -0700 From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!yvax.byu.edu!physc1.byu.edu!peterson@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Alinco DJF1T-HP dead To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <2didjd$m01@hecate.umd.edu>, nnyx@w3eax.umd.edu (Rich N3NYX) writes: > > I purchased a new ALINCO DJF1T-HP, and ever since the day I bought it, I > have been having problems with it. The first problem was with the > keyboard lighting (only half of the keyboard would light). Then I have > been having problems with the internal ribbon cables, which would > intermittently cause loss of certain functions. And just recently, > the radio started to smoke and has ceased to function at all (now > at the shop for gut replacement) :(. > Has anyone had any problems with their ALINCO DJF1T-HP? > > Thanks. > I have had one for about 8 months now and it has worked flawlessly. The only problem (which has just surfaced) is that it appears to have some dirt in a couple of the buttons and behaves somewhat erratically on two functions. Bryan Peterson, ki7td ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 1993 04:49:57 GMT From: world!news.bu.edu!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!gilbaronw0mn@uunet.uu.net Subject: CENSORSHIP WARNING To: info-hams@ucsd.edu >Come on over to the SBS folks. We have a bulletproof feed. People can >bitch, whine and complain about things you post to no avail. And so what is SBS. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 09:42:00 -0500 From: psinntp!channel1!ken.smith@uunet.uu.net Subject: FT530 receiver probl To: info-hams@ucsd.edu C>In article <2cges6$agf#eis.ctp.org> sadams@temp.ctp.org (Steven Adams) C>writes: >I have noticed that my FT530 receives some of our local C>repeaters when it >is tuned slightly off of the known freq. For C>>iexample the 145.23 may come n a little better at 145.225 and C>145.235. Any ideas?? > C>This is because of the wide bandwidth of FM transmissions (I believe). C>Because FM transmissions take up so much bandwidth, the transmissions C>can be heard slightly off-frequency. But this doesnt explain why the repeater might sound _better_ when tuning the radio off frequency. It sounds like his radio might be off frequency. I suggest resetting the CPU before anything else. Also, FM on VHF is narrow banded. Ken --- CmpQwk 1.31 #364 I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. ------------------------------ Date: 2 Dec 93 19:00:13 GMT From: concert!corpgate!news.utdallas.edu!convex!convex!news.oc.com!merlin.etsu.edu!gumaer@decwrl.dec.com Subject: Hamradio with deer hunting! To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Hello to all you hams! I went deer hunting with my father (KA5ZEH) last weekend in Texas and decided to take another hobby with me: Hamradio! We both had TH28's and decided to use them for two reasons: 1)emergencys 2) To call eachother when one of us was ready to go. It worked out really well. There wasn't any interference with static (due to the dtmf squelch) and it didn't interrupt the hunt. I have posted this because I believe that there is someone out there that likes to hunt too. I wish I could tell the story better but . . . . you know how college students are. Hi! I also took my Ten-Tec Omin-D with me and erected a home-made dipole. It worked well. I had contacts with: K3SFS, N7YGE, KA1NTA, & KM6YI . Each person was on a different band (ecpt. K3SFS & N7yge which were on 10 m) The others ranged on 15m and 40m. BTW, this was a 40m diploe that I erected, but of course, I used an ant. tuner. Well 73 All and good luck with all. Merry Christmas and have a safe Happy New Year. Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Gumaer (KA5YUV) | Vice-President-Elect Radio East Texas State University gumaer@merlin.etsu.edu| Editor Radio E.T.S.U. Newsletter |Phone (903) 886-2084 (on weekdays) | (903) 356-2253 (on weekends) |FAX (903) 886-2084 |Ham Radio 146.78 or 147.02 Mhz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AKA: Don Begal in Duelmasters, Jurine DM61 Goomar in Adventures Guild, Antar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 04:05:39 GMT From: mvb.saic.com!unogate!news.service.uci.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!lambda.itc.Virginia.EDU!jeg7e@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Help: dotted decimal address of arrl.org To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <1993Dec3.091238.10071@han.hana.nm.kr>, Lee Kwangweon wrote: >Hi ? Hi? >I'm faced difficulty to reach ARRL. >Our Name resolution server cannot resolve the address 'arrl.org'. >Is anyone who knows the dotted decimal address of 'arrl.org'. >Please let me know ! That's because there is no such IP address. Try this nslookup set type=mx arrl.org >Thanks in advance. You're welcome, in restrospect -- Any opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of The University. __________________________________________________________________________ \ \ / Jon Gefaell, Computer Systems Engineer | Amateur Radio, KD4CQY \/\/ A UNIX guy doing Netware - ITC/Carruthers | -Will chmod for Food- \/ The University of Virginia, Charlottesville | Hacker@Virginia.EDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 1993 23:46:55 GMT From: olivea!koriel!newscast.West.Sun.COM!abyss.West.Sun.COM!sunspot!myers@uunet.uu.net Subject: HYPOCRISY WARNING (was Re: Pyramid Schemes) To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article Lxz@news.Hawaii.Edu, jherman@uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jeff Herman) writes: >In article aj467@Freenet.carleton.ca (Bill Macpherson) writes: >> >>When you see this crap on the net, everyone of you should reply E-mail to >>the originators account, with the entire message intact. Maybe his local >>node will boot him off the air. Maybe they'll catch wind and turn him in. >>What do you think. >> >>-- >>Bill VE3NJW Advanced Amateur >>Packet Address : VE3NJW@VE3KYT.#EON.ON.CAN >>Freenet Address: aj467@Freenet.Carleton.ca > >Not to worry, for Julf at anon said he would pull the guy's plug >if those posts continue. > >Jeff NH6IL Goodness, you mean Jeff "CENSORSHIP WARNING" Herman actually supports the censorship of someone's Usenet access based on the content of the messages they send? :-) --- * Dana H. Myers KK6JQ, DoD 466 | Views expressed here are * * (310) 348-6043 | mine and do not necessarily * * Dana.Myers@West.Sun.Com | reflect those of my employer * * This Extra supports the abolition of the 13 and 20 WPM tests * ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 19:33:12 GMT From: yuma!galen@purdue.edu Subject: Poor Man's Spectrum Analyzer --- comments? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu What's the address/phone number of this company? Galen, KF0YJ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 01:19:31 GMT From: nntp.ucsb.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!a3bee2.radnet.com!cyphyn!randy@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Reporting Constant QRM: who? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu For the past couple of years this one guy ( who everyone knows ) has been causing malicious QRM on 80 40 10 and 2 meters...using others call signs, doing everything possible to irritate everyone and daring everyone to 'do somthoing about it' ... then proclaims we can not. He now practically owns a local repeater, that a club has put a lot of\ time/effort/money into.. and we've run out of legal ideas to have him stop. I don't wanna hear jazz about 'go pin his coax' ... go 'speak to him' ... as he's been spoken to many many many times.... and when he was a CBer, the CBers shot his antenna, roped his antenna, and someone cut out a 5 foot section of his coiax, replaced it with black garden hose.... and he came back for more, worse than before. WHO do we send our logs of all his doings to? Some of us have been logging all his qrming, and it's gotten to where it's time to send this in to some one. Do we send this to the ARRL...if so WHO? Can it be done via Internet? Or by US Mail? I've been asked to ask here, and will forward USFUL replys back... tnx 73 (I hope) -- Randy KA1UNW If you get a shock while servicing your equipment, "Works for me!" randy@192.153.4.200 DON'T JUMP! -Peter Keyes You might break an expensive tube! ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 93 06:08:01 GMT From: koriel!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!sranha!sramhb!sramha!funa@ames.arpa Subject: Standard C620 Xmit mod? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <2djgme$lhq@hpchase.rose.hp.com> stan@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Stan Witherspoon) writes: |I am looking for any info on how to get a Standard C520 (Japanese |version of C628A 440/1.2 dual band HT) to transmit in the American |section of the 440 band. It currently transmits from 430.000 to 439.995 |(the Japanese 70 cm band) I have the mods to extend the receive (same |mods as for the C528A) but the transmit mods for the C528A doesn't work. If you can find J mark (J word in triangle) side the serial number, you can not transmit mods anyway.J mark rig is no way for transmit mods. BUT one way for transmit mods.If your rig is first lot in J mark. use some DTMF code , you can transmit mods. First lot in J mark of C520,C620 cpu have bugs :-). I have it. This rig have trasmit mods in spite of J mark. -- ( $B3t (B) $B#S#R#A7PM}It (B $B=.66 (B $BL4?M (B $B!?!@ (B |% mail ff@sran197.sra.co.jp TEL.03-3234-2655 $B!? (B $B#J (B $B!@ (B |get HELP LIST $B"+K\J8$K=q$/ (B $BFb@~ (B 82-2004 $B!1!1!1!1 (B |^D $B$G (BOK. (Subject $B$K=q$$$A$c%@%a (B) |% ff mail-service $BI would like to compile a listing of broadcast stations across the SE>country which carry the Talk America Radio Network. Scott, I have the listing. You might have to neaten up the layout because of word wrap etc. I guess this will save you a bunch of work. OUTPUT POWER STATE CALL FREQ DAY/NIGHT CITY ADI ----- ---- ---- ----------- ---------------- ------------------------ AK KBYR 700 1000/500 Anchorage Anchorage AL WAVU 1560 N/A Daleville Dothan WDLK 1450 250/250 Alexander City Alexander City/Dadeville #WTKI 1450 1000/250 Huntsville Huntsville #WTNW 1230 1000/250 Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa AR #KEWI 690 250/ Benton Benton/Little Rock #KHWN 1320 5000/5000 Fort Smith Fort Smith AZ #KFYI 910 5000/5000 Phoenix Phoenix #KJAA 1240 1000/250 Globe Globe CA KTOX 1440 N/A Needles Needles CT WNLC 1510 10000/5000 New London New London WPOP 1410 5000/5000 Hartford Hartford FL WWAB 1330 1000/ Lakeland Lakeland WIPC 1280 1000/500 Lake Wales Lakeland/Winter Haven WEND 760 N/A Brandon Tampa WBRD 1420 1000/ Bradenton Tampa/St.Pete WAOC 1420 1000/ St.Augustine Jacksonville #WBZT 1290 5000/1000 West Palm Beach West Palm Beach #WPDQ 690 50000/10000 Jacksonville Jacksonville #WQBQ 1410 5000/ Leesburg Orlando WLAS 910 N/A Jacksonville Jacksonville WTMC 1290 5000/1000 Ocala Ocala WEBY 1330 N/A Milton Pensacola GA WSSA 1570 5000/ Morrow Atlanta ID #KCRD 1490 1000/250 Chubbock Pocatello KFRD 580 N/A Boise Boise IL WTIM 1410 1000/ Taylorville Taylorville IN #WMDH 1550 250/250 New Castle New Castle WGAB 1180 N/A Newburgh Evansville WGL 1250 1000/1000 Ft.Wayne Ft.Wayne WAMJ 1580 1000/ So.Bend So.Bend #WPDJ 1300 500/ Huntington Huntington LA KMLB 1440 5000/1000 Monroe Monroe MA #WSSH 1510 50000/50000 Woburn Boston WSRO 1470 1000/ Marlboro Boston #WDIS 1170 1000/ Norfolk Boston WGAW 1340 1000/250 Gardner Gardner WBSM 1460 N/A New Bedford New Bedford #WHTB 1400 1000/250 Fall River Fall River #WMSX 1410 1000/ Brockton Brockton WPEP 1570 1000/ Taunton Taunton MI WKYO 1360 1000/1000 Caro Flint/Saginaw WKZO 590 5000/5000 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo CKLW 800 50000/50000 Winsdor, Ont. Detroit MN KNSI 1450 1000/250 St.Cloud St.Cloud MO #KCGQ 1220 250/ Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau #WDKD 1280 1000/ Clinton Clinton NC WLAS 910 5000/5000 Jacksonville Jacksonville WQNX 1350 N/A Aberdeen Raleigh #WCRY 1460 5000/ Fuquay-Varina Raleigh #WEEB 990 5000/ Southern Pines Fayetteville WHPY 1590 5000/ Clayton Raleigh #WBMS 1340 1000/250 Wilmington Wilmington NJ WTTM 920 1000/1000 Trenton Trenton WIFI 1460 N/A Florence Trenton NM KQEO 920 1000/500 Albequerque Albequerque NY WHUC 1230 1000/250 Hudson Hudson #WVKZ 1240 1000/250 Schenectedy Albany OH WATJ 1560 N/A Geneva Cleveland #WYWR 1330 500/1000 Campbell Youngstown PA WTRN 1340 1000/250 Tyrone Tyrone WCHE 1520 250/ West Chester Philadelphia WGMR 101.1 N/A Tryome Altoona RI WADK 1540 1000/ Newport Fall River, MA WKRI 1450 1000/250 West Warwick Warwick #WICE 550 1000/500 Pawtucket Providence SC WHHR 1130 N/A Hilton Head Hilton Head TN WWTN 99.7 N/A Manchester Nashville TX KDNT 1440 5000/500 Denton Dallas KTSM 1380 5000/500 El Paso El Paso KGVL 1400 1000/250 Greenville Greenville UT #KSGI 1450 1000/250 St.George St.George VA WTON 1240 1000/250 Staunton Harrisonburg WGAT 1050 1000/ Gate City Kingsport WTAR 790 5000/5000 Norfolk Norfolk WA KLAY 1180 N/A Tacoma Seattle WI WCWC 1600 5000/5000 Ripon Ripon #WTOG 1590 1000/500 Platteville Platteville WV #WQBE 950 5000/1000 Charleston Charleston WKOY 1240 1000/250 Bluefield Bluefield Notes: N/A = not listed in my 1982 White's Radio Log book # = callsign has changed since my 1982 White's Radio Log book WTKI was WFIX WTNW was WTBC KEWI was KBBA KHWN was KWHN KFYI was KJJJ KJAA was KGJM WBZT was WIRK WPDQ was WAPE WQBQ was WZST KCRD was KKLB WMDH was WCTW WPDJ was WHLT WSSH was WITS WDIS was WJMQ WHTB was WALE WMSX was WAMK KCGQ was KZYM WDKD was KDKD WCRY was WAKS WEEB was WCEL WBMS was WAAV WVKZ was WWWD WYWR was WHOT WICE was WGNG KSGI was KDXV WTOG was WSWW WQBE was WKAZ --- Ken Smith AA1DR Director - Editor North Shore Repeater Association Swampscott MA Internet: ken.smith@channel1.com AX.25 Packet: AA1DR @ K1UGM.MA.USA.NA --- CmpQwk 1.31 #364 My toughest fight was with my first wife. - Ali ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 00:24:31 EST From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!mystis!dan@network.ucsd.edu Subject: W5YI's coverage of "temporary callsigns" To: info-hams@ucsd.edu md@maxcy2.maxcy.brown.edu (Michael P. Deignan) writes: > dan@mystis.wariat.org (Dan Pickersgill N8PKV) writes: > > > The FCC, in an agreement with the ARRL, established a "ham-cop" as you > > call it. THAT was the FCC's intent. And NO, according to the above > > mentioned document (and the way the ARRL interprets it), self-policing > > means Hams policing Hams, NOT Hams policing him/herself. > > Well, gee Dan, I don't know *how* I could be wrong. After all, just > yesterday after mentioning that I personally check each new contact > I make in the callbook, etc., I was called a "ham-cop" with a penis > fixation. > > In fact, after being shown the err of my ways, I've decided to write > a counterpart to "My Gun, My Penis - An NRA GunOwners Bible" called > "My D104 Lollipop, My Penis - A Ham-Cop's Overview of Regulating > The Amateur Bands". > > > > The Amateur > Auxiliary, Official Observers, Local Interference Committiees, et. al. The > > Amateur Auxiliary is responsible for maintance monitoring and amateur to > > amateur interfearance. > > You *MUST* be kidding. Around here, these things either don't exist, or > they are next to worthless. > > You know that the Rhode Island Section Manager and OOC does? Takes phone > calls from separated wives complaining about their husbands "talking about > them" on amateur radio. The SM calls the OOC, the OOC calls a *relative* > of the ham to "tell him to stop talking about her like that on the air". > > *THAT* is what our League officials do in RI. > > > > That was 1982, where have you been? Policing yourself and ignoring the > > actions of others? If you are serious about wanting the situation to > > improve, get involved in the solution. > > Oh, but Dan, I wouldn't *possibly* want to get involved. To do so would > prove that I have an impotence problem. If you are not willing to work within the system to come up with a soultion, then stop complaining about it. If you took the time to do any research on the subject, you would know the answer. Since your comments show an ignorance of the situation, rules and the FOB of the FCC's stated postion, I can only assume that you have no desire to improve the situatuion. How could you bitch about it if you helped solve it. If you took the time to find out you would know that LIC's, after entering an agreement with the OOC and FOB can deal directly with the FOB. If the state of the Auxiliary in your area is as bad as you say, it is the fault of the more experianced hams in the area that have failed in their responsibilites. (And ALL of THEM have at least 5 WPM code by the way). -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dan Pickersgill N8PKV | 'Pots have handles, Magazines have | | dan@mystis.wariat.org | Personals, Hams have Names' | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Crime in America is a thing of the PAST!!! | | The Brady Bill is Law. | -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 10:05:19 From: pravda.sdsc.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!nntp.nta.no!RADIO.NL.NUWC.NAVY.MIL!keith@network.ucsd.edu To: info-hams@ucsd.edu References <2di6g3$ja@wrdis02.robins.af.mil>, , IL Subject : Re: Life is too short for 2 KW!!!!! In article slm@world.std.com (slm) writes: >I wouldn't necessarily hold up AM broadcasters as an example for us all! >There's a commercial AM station more than 3 miles away ... I hear them all >the time in my telephone (clear enough to pick out news, traffic reports, >etc.) As a ham, and particularly as a ham who occasionally has been known to fire up the 4-1000A/833A rig and run 1000 watts of AM on the ham bands (at least before the power law changed), I am appalled that another ham would make this misinformed statement. I used to be heard in things ranging from the telephone to the kitchen oven, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with my transmitter or the way I was operating it. If a device that is not designed to pick up radio frequencies does in fact pick them up, the fault is in that device... *not* the transmitting device. If the device being interfered with *is* designed to pick up radio frequencies (i.e. a tv or radio), the fault is not so clear. Regards, Keith (WA2Q) --- keith@radio.nl.nuwc.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 15:13:32 GMT From: EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!news.cs.tut.fi!jps@uunet.uu.net To: info-hams@ucsd.edu References <2df2jt$q5v@cc.tut.fi>, <2di6g3$ja@wrdis02.robins.af.mil>, <2dj6ar$gb3@panix.com>news.fu Subject : Re: Life is too short for 2 KW!!!!! In article <2dj6ar$gb3@panix.com> oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes: >In <2di6g3$ja@wrdis02.robins.af.mil> lakeith@robins.af.mil (CONTRACTOR Larry Keith;653 CCSG/SCT) writes: > >>Keskinen Petri (oh3mep@lehtori.cc.tut.fi) wrote: > >>Stuff deleted... > >>: Pete > >>: * Life is too short for QRP! * >>No! Life is too short for 2 KW amps that splatter halfway up the >>band! > >Why is everybody picking on my call sign? ;) > Maybe you make/made miserable amplifiers??? B) Or is it a mistake? Hi! > >-- >Carl Oppedahl AA2KW >Oppedahl & Larson (patent lawyers) >Yorktown Heights, NY >voice 212-777-1330 -- ** Jukka Salonen OH3NLP * E-mail: jps@cs.tut.fi ***************************** ** Addr: Sorva ************************************************************** ******** 37120 Nokia ********* Too old to Rock and Roll, too young to die.*** ******** Finland ************************************************************ ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V93 #1424 ****************************** ******************************