Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 04:30:10 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 #134 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Fri, 11 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 134 Today's Topics: Bosnian Ham Address Dayton Parking Field Day Logging Program help Microwave oven shielding (2 msgs) Nude amateur radio clubs Operating in Canada? So what happened to the Kenwood TR-751 & TR-851 ? 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: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 20:47:43 GMT From: netcomsv!netcom.com!wy1z@decwrl.dec.com Subject: Bosnian Ham Address To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <9402092126.AA29848@umassmed.UMMED.EDU> sbaker@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (Stephen Baker) writes: >I have been expecting to find out the call sign of a ham in Bosnia who is >operating "clandestinely" from some bosnian refugees. I just received what the >translaters obtained, it is like (but not exactly): > > > 378-88-813-164 > >(I modified a couple of digits in case it is somehow traceable) > >This is obviously not a call sign, or recognizable as a frequency. I wonder if >it is an i.p. address for a packet mail network. It bears a slight resemblance >to an internet i.p. address. The ham in question is purportedly located in >Mostar, Bosnia and I am attempting to locate a way to pass health and welfare >traffic. Thanks. > > >-- > > >Stephen P. Baker phone: (508) 856-2625 >Lecturer in Biostatistics (508) 856-3131 fax >Department of Academic Computing (413) 253-3923 home >University of Massachusetts Medical School e-mail: sbaker@umassmed.ummed.edu >55 Lake Avenue North -.- -.. .---- .--. ..-. >Worcester, MA 01655 nslookup comes up with the following: Server: meceng-9.coe.neu.edu Address: 129.10.9.191 Name: [378.88.813.164] Address: 122.88.45.164 I did this from my Northeastern University account. It could also be a phone number, though I don't know how the Bosnian phone system works. Hope this helps. -- =============================================================================== | Scott Ehrlich Internet: wy1z@neu.edu BITNET: wy1z@NUHUB | | Amateur Radio: wy1z AX.25: wy1z@k1ugm.ma.usa.na | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Maintainer of the Boston Amateur Radio Club hamradio FTP area on | | the World - world.std.com pub/hamradio | =============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 1994 16:42:41 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!master.cs.rose-hulman.edu!news@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Dayton Parking To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Howdy, Our ham club, Wabash Valley Amateur Radio Assn., goes to Dayton (~200 mi) in a chartered bus (one-day stay). Costs us 25$ per person. The bus drives right up to the front door and lets us out. Then it stays in the parking lot where we can go to it and "take a load off" or get food from our coolers. (Dayton HF food ain't too good.) If one buys stuff, (s)he can stash it on the bus instead of lugging it around all day. Our bus stops for breakfast in the morning and for dinner in the evening on the way back to Terre Haute. Why don't YOUR club look into this scheme? It's the ONLY way to fly. 73 de Jack, K9CUN ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 1994 16:27:24 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!master.cs.rose-hulman.edu!news@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Field Day Logging Program To: info-hams@ucsd.edu > As far as we're concerned, any learning problems are worth suffering > through, because of the ultimate gains. Why not use WD9EYB's H-P 48 program for logging AND duping? 73 de Jack, K9CUN ------------------------------ Date: 11 Feb 94 11:32:23 GMT From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu Subject: help To: info-hams@ucsd.edu help ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 94 16:54:50 GMT From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex.com!horak@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Microwave oven shielding To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I have a question to ask. While playing with my new Tropez 90 MHz phone the other day, I tried putting it into both of my microwaves (no I didn't nuke the phone :') and I guess I expected the shielding to cut off the signal, thereby causing the out of range indicator to beep. The phone was still able to communicate with the base. If the microwave cannot attenuate 900 MHz, is it really attenuating the GHz stuff? Would someone care to comment on the type shielding used in these ovens? David ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 17:14:24 GMT From: adobe!swirsky@decwrl.dec.com Subject: Microwave oven shielding To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article horak@convex.com (David Horak) writes: >If the microwave cannot >attenuate 900 MHz, is it really attenuating the GHz stuff? Would >someone care to comment on the type shielding used in these ovens? > I did a similar experiment with my Motorola pager, which operates in the 900MHz band. I was looking for locations in my house where the pager would indicate it had no signal (little antenna icons appear on the display!) and tried inside the microwave. Sure enough, the pager couldn't hear anything in there. I don't know why it wasn't a suitable Faraday shield for your phone! -- Robert "AF2M" S-W. "Yet another FCC-tested pre-Bash extra who supports No-Code licensing! :) " ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 1994 11:43:15 GMT From: mvb.saic.com!unogate!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!andy@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Nude amateur radio clubs To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Gary Davis (gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu) wrote: : I heard a strange story on the CBC last evening. The report was on : the increasing interest in nudism in the Winter months. To promote : this festive and relaxing activity additional interests where specified. : There is, according to the CBC, a nudist amateur radio club. Is this like 'operating barefoot'? Where to they clip the HT's external speaker-mike? ;-> k4adl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 10:42:44 EST From: library.ucla.edu!agate!apple.com!gallant.apple.com!mumbo.apple.com!Adrien_Glauser%magic-bbs.corp.apple.com@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Operating in Canada? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu >[ Article crossposted from rec.radio.amateur.policy ] >[ Author was David R Tucker ] >[ Posted on Tue, 8 Feb 1994 01:29:30 GMT ] > >Today I called the FCC in Washington and spoke to Tom FitzGibbon, who >works in the Amateur Radio section of the Private Radio Bureau. He >told me that the FCC exercises no jurisdiction over radio stations in >Canada, that a US-licensed amateur operating there under the >reciprocal agreement was free to use any frequency or mode authorized >by the Government of Canada, and that the same was true for all other >foreign countries as well. > >-drt This is true if you are just passing through here and not planning on staying here to live. If you plan to stay here to live you must contact the Departement of Communications and they will issue you a callsign for the area in which you will be residing. Otherwise for just passing through you can use you current callsign and indicate that you are mobile within one of the VE areas in Canada. Adrien ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 1994 22:42:03 -0500 From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!nobody@network.ucsd.edu Subject: So what happened to the Kenwood TR-751 & TR-851 ? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Upon trying to buy a Kenwood TR-851A, I was told that it was "quietly discontinued" by Kenwood. Does anyone have any idea why? Does anyone have a good suggestion for a good 440Mhz base unit ? I don't really need the all-mode capabilities of the 851, but I liked the idea that it didn't have teenie-weenie controls to make it fit in a car nicely. 73's Brian KA3BRZ -- Brian Cuthie Systemix Software, Inc. brian@systemix.com ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #134 ****************************** ******************************