Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 14:03:04 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 V94 #51 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Tue, 18 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 51 Today's Topics: 73: Solar battery charger article request Anyone know of a callsign server? ARRL DX Bulletin #1 - January 4, 1994 ARRL DX Bulletin #3 - January 12, 1994 BRAIN CANCER, LEUKEMIA FROM HAM RADIO Cancer and You CW Books FM Broadcast (Technical Aspects) FY5FY ? New QRZ Ham Radio CDROM QRD? Ramsey FX Transceivers (2 msgs) Short 160m Dipole Still need FM5CW route Top 20 repeaters Unix ham radio control program VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 14 January WANTED: CALL SIGN SERVER IN INTERNET 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: Sun, 16 Jan 94 10:45:44 PST From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!crash!slic!mikey@network.ucsd.edu Subject: 73: Solar battery charger article request To: info-hams@ucsd.edu gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes: > In article <2h9m39$8u6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jchang@mit.edu (John Chang) > > > >Does anyone know where to get solar panels inexpensively? Real Goods > >(800-762-7325) sells a 10-watt Solarex panel for $149 + shipping, > >which seems high to me. > > Well of course, everything Real Goods sells is two to three times higher > than you can get it elsewhere. It's that "green" label don't you know. > Try Northern Hydraulics, they have a 40 watt panel they sell for $99 with > charge controller. $.40 per watt is great and with a controller to boot. Tell us where these guys are and/or their phone number please. -- Mike Shirley San Diego, CA USA HAM:WB6WUI mikey@slic.cts.com guaranteed: mikey@crash.cts.com mikey-pkey@slic.cts.com will send you my PGP Public Key pgp-info@slic.cts.com will send you some info on PGP ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 06:01:52 GMT From: olivea!charnel!rat!zeus!trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu!snorris@uunet.uu.net Subject: Anyone know of a callsign server? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Does anyone know if and where a callsign server exists? I thought I saw some discussion on this a while ago, but I didn't get around to reading the posts. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sean Norris snorris@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu --KE6BTE-- Electronic Engineers do it with less resistance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:12:35 -0700 From: usenet.coe.montana.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!usenet@decwrl.dec.com Subject: ARRL DX Bulletin #1 - January 4, 1994 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu ZCZC AE98 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 1 ARLD001 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:13:28 -0700 From: olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!usenet@decwrl.dec.com Subject: ARRL DX Bulletin #3 - January 12, 1994 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu ZCZC AE01 QST de W1AW DX Bulletin 3 ARLD003 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jan 94 15:55:02 GMT From: news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!netsys!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!news.duke.edu!duke!wolves!psybbs!fredmail@network.ucsd.edu Subject: BRAIN CANCER, LEUKEMIA FROM HAM RADIO To: info-hams@ucsd.edu on , Ken Edwards to All said: KE> True that the hand-helds are 1/2 w, but the EM fields are much KE> more intense (literally right against your skull). The KE> police handhelds typically are the 'walkie-talkie' style and KE> they have also learned to point the antenna away from the KE> body (head in particular), thereby greatly reducing the KE> field intensity. The EM field intensity has an inverse [...] KE> We have through research seen various effects on the body at KE> various frequencies. Example, your microwave is set at a KE> particular frequency that will excite water molecules, KE> thereby creating heat. At 27 Mhz (CB frequencies), the EM KE> field has an affect on the sleep center of the brain. Which is why, I suppose, so many of the guys on 11 meters sound as though their brains aren't fully engaged--they're fighting off sleep! ;-) 73 de Ken, AC4RD--also in Raleigh! ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 1994 20:36:01 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!astro.as.utexas.edu!oo7@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Cancer and You To: info-hams@ucsd.edu rich@mulvey.com suggests: >>taaron@netcom.com (taaron@netcom.com) wrote: >>: Tell me, if ham radio causes cancer, why is it that all the ham radio >>: club meetings are filled with old people with few health problems other >>: than normal ones for their age? >Then how come it seems like all we hear in our QSO's is RST, rig, >and the other op's Ailment Of The Week? :-) It's only those hams who are in good enough shape to lever themselves out of their operating chairs and stagger out of the house who can make it as far as the club meetings. Derek "not the comfy chair!" Wills (AA5BT, G3NMX) Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712. (512-471-1392) oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 22:07:10 GMT From: wri!pea@uunet.uu.net Subject: CW Books To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Can anyone recommend some good books on copying code?? Next test date is in March here, and I want to be ready to "ace" the 13wpm general class code test. I'm using SuperMorse and listening to code on my radio. I remember hearing about a book or two that describes how to copy behind and gives other hints and tips on copying code. Any recommendations or suggestions would be appreciated. Bruce s ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 03:05:00 GMT From: mvb.saic.com!unogate!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!ntuix!ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg!asirene@network.ucsd.edu Subject: FM Broadcast (Technical Aspects) To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Gary Coffman KE4ZV mentioned:- >1) redesign the modulator to do 75 kHz deviation. Yes this is certainly the case, if he wanted to broadcast WFM (which I suppose is the idea anyway). >2) redesign the PLL synthesizer to cover the new range. I don't know about this, there are some handhelds which already cover (on RX) these bands or at least very close. I suspect then that those PLLs have the inherent ability to receive the 88-108 without redesign. What needs to be changed is the controller. Similar things have been done in some mods for handhelds. Given that the PLL can already reach the frequency, it must be that the computer automatically disables TX on unauthorized bands and I presume this could be over-ridden manually or something similar. Just a theory. >3) rebuild the driver and PA output networks. Probably, if you want maximum efficiency and its a high power unit so you don't destroy output section. :) 73 de Daniel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 02:33:36 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!gdstech!gdstech!bat@network.ucsd.edu Subject: FY5FY ? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu FY5FY is via Didier Bironneau, BP 166 Koutou 97310, French Guyana. -- *-----------------------------------------------------------* * Pat Masterson D12-25 | KE2LJ@KC2FD * * Grumman Data Systems | 516-346-6316. * * Bethpage, NY 11746 | bat@gdstech.grumman.com * ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 05:16:29 GMT From: world!dts@uunet.uu.net Subject: New QRZ Ham Radio CDROM To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <9401161828591.gilbaronw0mn.DLITE@delphi.com> gilbaronw0mn@delphi.com (Gilbert Baron) writes: >>gilbaronw0mn@delphi.com (Gilbert Baron) writes: >> >>>>Announcing the new QRZ! Windows Ham Radio CDROM >>>> >>>>Well, we've finally finished it and there are a bunch of new features. >>>>First off, in addition to the DOS search program, we now have a >> >>>Have you corrected the birthdates. All of the listings for Rochester >>>Minnesota for instance list the Birth Date as 1 day after the >>>actual. How did such an error get in the thing? >> >> >>Maybe this is how QRZ! figures out if someone has wholesale >>pirated their CD. I have QRZ! but haven't even bothered to >>check if my own data is correct on it, maybe I should :-). >> >>I did find my FT-990 mod, which was posted to the Internet, in >>there. Perhaps I should ask Fred for a free copy on the next >>release :-) :-). >> >>73 >> >>Kok Chen, AA6TY kchen@apple.com >>Apple Computer, Inc. >> >I wrote to QRZ (email) anbd they said the birtday error was only an early >release. I guess i got took at the hamfest? Anyhow they said it has been >corrected. They can't spend the money to remove deceased hams though! > > Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN > "Bailar es Vivir" > PGP2.3 key at key servers or upon request > > Uh, folks, Fred Lloyd posted a note here about the date of birth error a few weeks after the spring CD came out. A new program for that disc was immediately posted to an FTP site that fixed the problem. The new (fall) disc does not have this problem. Dan Senie N1JEB -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie Internet: dts@world.std.com Daniel Senie Consulting n1jeb@world.std.com 508-365-5352 Compuserve: 74176,1347 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jan 94 11:35:41 CST From: news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!hounix!mwk!gleason@network.ucsd.edu Subject: QRD? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I was listening to a folk music CD yesterday, and heard a song that had some morse code at the beginning...it used a Q signal I wasn't familiar with, and couldn't find in the ham doccos I had laying around...anyone know what "QRD" means? Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants gleason@mwk.com ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 94 16:01:04 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: Ramsey FX Transceivers To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Text item: Text_1 > That's all well and fine, but do you honestly believe that consumers >have an obligation to do the product engineering that the manufacturer >should have done in the first place? >Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS Rochester, NY As a matter of fact, I do. I went through the exact same thing with Harley Davidson during the '70s. Harley's were lousey then and now they are the most successful motorcycle company in the world. If everyone had your attitude, Harley would no longer exist. 73, Cecil, kg7bk@indirect.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 16:55:29 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!newncar!csn!yuma!galen@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Ramsey FX Transceivers To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <940118080104_2@ccm.hf.intel.com> Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.hf.INTel.COM (Cecil A Moore) writes: >> That's all well and fine, but do you honestly believe that consumers >>have an obligation to do the product engineering that the manufacturer >>should have done in the first place? >>Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS Rochester, NY > >As a matter of fact, I do. I went through the exact same thing with >Harley Davidson during the '70s. Harley's were lousey then and now >they are the most successful motorcycle company in the world. If >everyone had your attitude, Harley would no longer exist. >73, Cecil, kg7bk@indirect.com Didn't H-D change ownership around this time? I seem to remeber Hogs were'nt a good buy in the 70's and early 80's but after Americans bought it back from the Japanese parent company, quality shot thru the roof. Maybe Ramsey should sell now, and buy back in about ten years. I believe kits should be engineered better than assembled gear, since there are more variables and less quality control with kit assembling as opposed to factory assembling and testing. Many people buy kits because they can't afford assembled. If they can't afford assembled, how can they afford the test gear to get a poorly designed kit to work? Maybe Ramsey should pre-assemble and test things like synths and filters. Galen, KF0YJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:40:51 -0500 From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!yvax.byu.edu!cunyvm!rohvm1!rohvm1.mah48d@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Short 160m Dipole To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <1994Jan14.133016.11917@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, mpfb8@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Reed) wrote, in part: > What I would like to do is get up a 160m dipole, SHORTENED to the length > of, say, an 80m dipole so that I could leave it up permanantly - > I have thought about inserting some L in the centre of each leg to > effectively lengthen it but when you work out the values, the coil would > be large / long / lots of turns if it were to be low loss / high Q. Don't worry about the loss in the coils; it'll be small relative to the loss from operating less than a quarter-wavelength above ground. I'd adjust the antenna length and coils for about a quarter of the way from the bottom end of the 160-m band, put the coils about in the middle of each leg of the dipole, and use a tuner to cover the whole band (which is, in fact, what I plan to do when I get around to it :-) ). Because you're working at relatively low frequencies, I suspect you'll have to live with the large inductances. You might reduce the size of the coils a bit by winding them around a ferrite core _of the proper material_. Make sure it's a suitable material for 160 meters. -- 73 de John Taylor W3ZID rohvm1.mah48d@rohmhaas.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 02:40:40 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!gdstech!gdstech!bat@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Still need FM5CW route To: info-hams@ucsd.edu The reported route we have for FM5CW is via the French QSL Buro. That address is on p. 18A of the 94 callbook. -- *-----------------------------------------------------------* * Pat Masterson D12-25 | KE2LJ@KC2FD * * Grumman Data Systems | 516-346-6316. * * Bethpage, NY 11746 | bat@gdstech.grumman.com * ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 07:33:39 GMT From: hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!cisco-slip9.acc.virginia.edu!user@uunet.uu.net Subject: Top 20 repeaters To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I need help. Somewhere I remember reading in QST about the top 20 (or 30?) repeater frequencies. That is, those frequencies most frequently used for repeaters. I don't have access to my QSTs right now. Can someone direct me to this information on the Net (or even better, just mail me the freqs)? Please respond by mail if you can to: glm6m@poe.acc.virginia.edu. Any response is appreciated. MNI TNX es 73, de WQ3U ______________________________________________________________________ "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ..." ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 03:32:45 GMT From: munnari.oz.au!metro!extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU!terryd@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Subject: Unix ham radio control program To: info-hams@ucsd.edu cmoore@mothra.rose.hp.com (Chris Moore) writes: >As an offshoot of my project of writing an X11 logging program, I've decided >I'd like to tackle writing a generic radio control program for Unix-like >systems. My idea is something like this: > - A server process could be configured with information about what kind(s) > of radio(s) you have, what serial ports to use, etc. > - The server would accept connections from other processes that want > to interface with the radio. > - The server would communicate with the processes using some kind of > generic radio control protocol. Sounds like a great idea Chris. I set up a channel on niksula.hut.fi some time ago for discussions for development for Amateur Radio applications for Linux, feel free to use it if you want, noone has thus far :) Its the HAMS channel (terrible name, but it needed to be short) To join the HAMS channel of the Linux-activists mailing list send mail to linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi with the line X-Mn-Admin: join HAMS at the top of the message body (not the subject). Terry -- --- Terry Dawson, terryd@extro.ucc.su.oz.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 10:07:19 GMT From: unix.sri.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!infinet!n8emr!bulletin@hplabs.hp.com Subject: VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 14 January To: info-hams@ucsd.edu ============================================================== | Automatic relayed from packet radio via | | N8EMR's Ham BBS, 614-895-2553 | ============================================================== SB DX @ WW $RTDX0114 VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 14 January VK2SG RTTY DX Notes for week ending 14 January 1994 (BID RTDX0114) Our information this week came from 9X5LJ, DJ3IW and the Central Europe DX Cluster Node DB0SPC, I5FLN, IK5AAX and the IK5PWJ Packet Cluster, W2JGR And The NJ0M NODE of the Twin-Cities DX Packet Cluster, WA1MPB, WA4MCZ, W5KSI, WX5L and ZS5S. Thank you all for your assistance. Bandpass Friday 7 0912-14080 5W1KT 0942-14086 S53AX 1208-21084 VK6HD 1235-14091 VK4FRT 1327-21091 FG5FI 1335-21082 4U1ITU 1346-21085 4X6UO 1354-21090 OD5PL 1545-21085 C6A/AA5AU 1607-21088 VP5/WA0VQR Saturday 8 0336- 7080 VP5/WA0VQR 0942-14088 K5KWG/ZA 1109-14084 UX0KC 1159-14083 US8AR 1252-21091 OD5PL QSL HB9CRV 1338-21090 5R8DS 1341-21087 4X6UO 1423-14082 YL2GD 1425-14089 OK1AJN 1518-14090 LY1BZB 1630-14088 J28JJ 1803- 7040 UR0HQ 1810- 7040 UN5PR 1815- 7041 4X/OK1FGC 1819- 7035 S52OR 1821- 3590 YL1ZR 1823-14084 WH6I 1832- 7039 4Z85TA 1834-28082 PJ2MI 1838-28084 A22MN 1841-28082 HP2CWB 1845-28077 HH2PK 1859- 7041 RZ1AWT 1908- 7033 TA2FT 1910- 7032 SV1ATS 2123-14101 C6A/AA5AU 2127- 7038 CN8NP 2134-21078 PJ0/N9FTC 2155-14076 A22MN 2206- 3578 SV2BFN 2215- 7035 VK6HD 2217- 7038 UZ9CWA 2241-21093 KP2N 2309- 7037 HH2PK Sunday 9 0012-14086 VP5/WA0VQR 0150- 7075 UR0HQ 0234- 7087 S57MM 0234- 3590 C6A/AA5AU 0341- 3601 HP1XBH 0521- 7078 8P6AW 0637-14082 UU2JI 0657-21084 UN5PR 0705-14083 UX0FF 0900-14083 BZ1QL 0902-21086 HL9FC 0941-14086 VK7YP 1053-21086 CU1AC 1055-21091 UR5LBX 1101-21081 A45ZX 1107-21078 UR0HQ 1115-14087 KP2N 1142-28082 V50CM 1201-21081 S57MM 1241-21082 J28JJ 1252-21084 9K2IC 1329-21098 GU4RWP 1331-21085 PJ2MI 1335-21088 A22MN 1351-21095 SV2BFN 1352-21082 4Z85TA 1356-21083 HH2PK 1406-21098 HP1XBH 1414-21102 HP1AC 1453-21075 C6A/AA5AU 1454-21082 XE1/DJ6OV 1600-21093 GI0KOW 2148- 7039 VK6HD 2325-14092 HS0A Monday 10 Typical report 'the day after contest' 1349-14084 LY2ZZ 1720-14086 VP5/WA0VQR 1751-21088 PJ0/N9FTC Tuesday 11 1345-14088 RW6XW 1434-14084 UX0KC Ukraine 1440-14085 GI0AIQ 1452-14087 UT5RP 1556-21084 VQ9WL 1626-21090 5R8DS 1652-21086 PJ2MI Wednesday 12 0109-14086 S92ZM 1053-14085 LY2BBF 1142-28082 U50CM 1303-14083 VQ9TS 1308-14083 A45XC 1638-21088 S53J 1706-21083 5R8LD 1909-14084 TZ6FIC 1913-14084 P4/W1EKT Thursday 13 WWV A= 23 K= 3 2153-14088 V50PV Notes of Interest. St Peter & St Paul, PY0. The three week DXpedition that was to take place 10 January will be delayed til 20 January and will be for two weeks. QSL RTTY contacts to Karl, PS7KM. Peter 1 Island, 3Y. This DXpedition is on schedule and the first members of the group should be on the Falklands now. Look for VP8BZL for a few days from Pt Stanley. Arrival on Peter 1 around 1 February, departure on 16 February. For next week's bulletin, send your Bandpass and Notes of Interest to Jules, W2JGR @ W2TKU.#SRQ.FL.USA.NA Remember, DX Don't Sleep. GL DE Bob, WB2CJL @ W5KSI.@NOLA.LA.USA.NA /EX SP KT7H @ N7DUO.WA.USA.NA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 19:46:54 EST From: qualcomm.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu Subject: WANTED: CALL SIGN SERVER IN INTERNET To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I am looking for a call sign server a-la buckmaster accessible on line through the internet... i thought that there was one in buffalo??? sites and login appreciated tnx de N1QDQ ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) -- James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!wrksys.enet.dec.com!reisert 146 Main Street - MLO3-6/C9 Voice: 508-493-5747 Maynard, MA 01754 FAX: 508-493-0395 ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) -- James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!wrksys.enet.dec.com!reisert 146 Main Street - MLO3-6/C9 Voice: 508-493-5747 Maynard, MA 01754 FAX: 508-493-0395 ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #51 ****************************** ******************************