Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 04:30:13 PDT 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 #1008 To: Info-Hams Info-Hams Digest Fri, 9 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 1008 Today's Topics: ARLD056 DX news FREE 1 YR. JUICEY MAG SUB OFFER - 285+ POPULAR TITLES!!! Hiram Maxim's Flying Machine K7UGA Special Event Station! License turnaround ti Magazines Repost: Kenwood PL setting VEC Testing Help You dont do this on the air why do it on the net? 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. 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Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 1994 12:40:34 -0400 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!nobody@network.ucsd.edu Subject: Hiram Maxim's Flying Machine To: info-hams@ucsd.edu A little credit ought to also be shared with the Scotsman who designed the steam engine for Maxim's plane (didn't he call it the "Enormity"?). That fellow's name was Roberts, and he later emmigrated to America, where he designed an built 2-cycle boat motors--a derivation of which powered many of the first "homebuilt" airplanes in North America. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 08:20:52 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com!s146.phxslip.indirect.com!lenwink@network.ucsd.edu Subject: K7UGA Special Event Station! To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Senator Barry Goldwater's K7UGA call, will be used for a special event station on Saturday, September 17, 1994, in coordination with F.A.R.E., The Family Amateur Radio Event in Scottsdale, Arizona. This will be a massive event with the Sheriff of Maricopa County speaking at 11:00am, and even the department's helicopter landing and on display! The event station will be operating, mostly on 20 meters, from 16:00utc to 21:00utc. A QSL card will be sent automatically for all QSO's. 73, Len, KB7LPW ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 08:58:00 -0500 From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!iat.holonet.net!cencore!forrest.gehrke@network.ucsd.edu Subject: License turnaround ti To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Heh! You may also have been suffering from Attention Deficit Syndrome. All the amateur radio magazines have been mentioning the need to use the new 610 form (initial month for its use was June, as I remember it) several months in advance of that date. If you had been a member of ARRL they sent the new form out unsolicited. --k2bt --- ³ SLMR 2.1a ³ Detour: What you take in de museum. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 1994 14:43:37 -0400 From: dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!er4.rutgers.edu!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: Magazines To: info-hams@ucsd.edu My father was a Ham radio operator and subscribbed to several magazines over the years. He recently passed away and we would like to donate these magazines to anyone who can put them to good use. If interested please send message to: Coonin@eden.rutgers.edu ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 1994 17:16:03 GMT From: news.mtholyoke.edu!pryack@uunet.uu.net Subject: Repost: Kenwood PL setting To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Help! I need the dipswitch settings for a PL of 131.8 for a Kenwood TH-31BT. I'm sure they would be the same as for a TH-41BT. TNX & 73 de Paul, W1ETH/6 -- Paul R. Ryack, M.D., M.P.H. |pryack@mhc.mtholyoke.edu ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 1994 17:16:34 -0400 From: gti.gti.net!gti.gti.net!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net Subject: VEC Testing Help To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Kristin Rachael Hayward (hayward@cs.uchicago.edu) wrote: : Well, admittedly I become easily confused but isn't it that General VE : do what they did before the Novice program was rolled into the VE : program: 1A and 2? : Kristin (WX9T) It used to be that one General class licensee was all that was needed to administer a Novice exam. Then it was two. Now that its all rolled into the VE program, 3 examiners are needed at all testing sessions for all license classes. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 1994 15:45:26 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews!fallout!cmoore@network.ucsd.edu Subject: You dont do this on the air why do it on the net? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Brian Kantor (brian@nothing.ucsd.edu) wrote: : If your news or mail system isn't putting your proper address into the : headers, it doesn't belong on the net. Instead of continuing to pollute : the network with bad software and working around it by putting your : real address into the body of the message, GET YOUR SOFTWARE FIXED. : - Brian Hi Brian, it is not a news or mail system problem. It in an info-hams problem. (Info-hams is a subscription service over email). Even if my email system attaches my correct address, it will be corrupted by the time it is mailed out on info-hams@ucsd.edu 73, KG7BK, OOTC, Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.ch.intel.com (Not speaking for Intel) ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 1994 16:20:36 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!ham@network.ucsd.edu To: info-hams@ucsd.edu References <6467SKQPOFFHIUCELH@mcube.com>, , n.umd.e Subject : Re: In plain English... In article , >> who worked on a 2M amp with the cover open for a couple hours - the >> next morning he woke up blind. He said while working on the amp >> he felt *nothing* - no heat, no pain, no discomfort. This story >> was originally passed over the QRP email group from an M.D. >> conducting research on the subject. > >Is this actually documented someplace? I'm skeptical, although I suppose >that, given a very precise, unfortunate set of circumstances, it could >happen. It's more likely with ionizing radiation, though. There was a >fascinating internal report at a company for which I once worked, >documenting injuries to two chaps who worked on an X-ray unit while it was >powered up. They didn't feel a thing, but shortly thereafter (next day), >they began to developed massive tissue necrosis (the flesh died!) and had a >bunch of problems. > >Again, that was ionizing radiation, which is different from RF. > The story used to pass around our radio club at Maryland about the ham who was up on his tower doing work on the 432 antennas when somebody down in the shack flipped on the 432 rig and 1 kW amp, and sent a CQ. Maybe some other UMers reading this will be able to verify the story. The man went blind from the RF. Granted, 432 is considerably more energetic than is 144 MHz, but it could still, conceivably, happen at 144. -- 73, _________ _________ The \ / Long Original Scott Rosenfeld Amateur Radio NF3I Burtonsville, MD | Live $5.00 WAC-CW/SSB WAS DXCC - 130 QSLed on dipoles __________| Dipoles! Antenna! ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest V94 #1008 ******************************