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- INFO-HAMS Digest Fri, 20 Oct 89 Volume 89 : Issue 784
-
- Today's Topics:
- ARRL DX NR 42
- ARRL NR 75: EARTHQUAKE TRAFFIC
- ARRL NR 76: PACKET ADDRESSING
- Gateway 6-Oct-89 P 1 of 2
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- Date: 20 Oct 89 10:57:20 GMT
- From: n8emr!gws@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Sanders)
- Subject: ARRL DX NR 42
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- ARRL DX NR 42 ARLD042 10/20/89
-
- THANKS TO KB1BE AND THE CONNECTICUT DX ASSOCIATION FOR THE FOLLOWING
- DX INFORMATION.
-
- LAOS. ZOLI, HA5PP, CONTACTED A FEW DAYS AGO IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY,
- STATED THAT HE PLANS TO BE IN LAOS AROUND NOVEMBER 1 SIGNING XW5PP.
- THE RECENT CW OPERATION WAS THE WORK OF A SLIM, ACCORDING TO ZOLI.
-
- ANGOLA. LU6ELF/D2A IS REPORTED TO BE WITH THE UN PEACE-KEEPING
- FORCES, AND STATED THAT HE WOULD BE IN ANGOLA FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
- HE HAS BEEN WORKING AROUND 21340 KHZ AROUND 1800Z AND ON 21062 KHZ
- AROUND 1900Z. LU6EJP AND CE7ZK HAVE STATED THAT HE IS TRYING TO
- OBTAIN THE NECESSARY PAPERWORK FOR DXCC ACCEPTANCE. AS WITH ANY
- QUESTIONABLE OPERATION, WORK HIM FIRST, WORRY LATER.
-
- AFGHANISTAN. YA5DD, ANOTHER QUESTIONABLE, YET MUCH-NEEDED STATION,
- GIVING THE QSL ADDRESS AS RESA, PO BOX 111, KABUL 1118, AFGHANISTAN,
- HAS BEEN ACTIVE ON 14250 KHZ AROUND 0400 TO 0500Z AND 21195 KHZ
- LISTENING UP AT 1730Z DURING THE LAST WEEK. AGAIN, TIME WILL TELL
- ON THE STATUS OF THIS ONE.
-
- CHINA. BZ1FB, MENG, ON 28580 KHZ AT 0005Z, IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY
- ASIAN STATIONS ON 10 METERS WITH GOOD SIGNALS. ANOTHER, BZ4RDX, ON
- 14024 KHZ AT 0010Z, AND ANOTHER, BZ4RCC, ON 28543 KHZ AT 0015Z.
- FURTHER, JAPANESE AND KOREAN STATIONS ARE MOST EVIDENT AT THIS TIME
- ON A BOOMING 10 METERS.
-
- ROTUMA. BING, VK2BCH, WILL AGAIN OPERATE FROM THIS RECENTLY ADDED
- DXCC COUNTRY IN LATE OCTOBER FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, FEATURING 10 AND 6
- METERS, WITH BEAM ANTENNAS THIS TIME. QSL TO HIS HOME CALL.
-
- PDR OF YEMEN. FOR WHAT ITS WORTH, ANOTHER RUMOR HAS FOUR USSR, UA,
- OPERATORS WITH PERMISSION TO OPERATE 7O AT THE END OF NOVEMBER FOR A
- WEEKS DXPEDITION OR SO. TIME, AGAIN, WILL TELL.
-
- EAST MALAYSIA. AKI, JA5DQH, AND ROSS, 9M2AX, WILL BE ACTIVE AT THE
- END OF OCTOBER FOR 10 DAYS ON ALL BANDS. AKI WILL BE IN THE CQ WW
- SSB DX CONTEST, BUT WILL OPERATE CW BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONTEST.
- THEY EXPECT TO BE ACTIVE UNTIL NOVEMBER 7, USING THE CALLSIGN OF
- 9M8AX. QSLS GO TO THE HOME CALL OF AKI, JA5DQH.
-
- BHUTAN. VU2JX HAS STATED THAT HE AND THREE OTHER VU STATIONS HAVE
- PERMISSION TO OPERATE FROM THIS MUCH NEEDED COUNTRY. THE DATE OF
- POSSIBLE ACTIVITY WILL BE FEBRUARY, 1990. JIM SMITH, VK9NS, IS ALSO
- REPORTING PROGRESS IN OBTAINING PERMISSION FOR BHUTAN AFTER A
- THREE-YEAR EFFORT. DXERS, KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. ITS WHET YOUR
- DX APPETITE TIME. AR
-
- --
- Gary W. Sanders (gws@n8emr or ...!osu-cis!n8emr!gws), 72277,1325
- N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 [Ohio AMPR address coordinator]
- HAM/SWL/SCANNER BBS (1200/2400/PEP) 614-457-4227
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 Oct 89 10:55:24 GMT
- From: n8emr!gws@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Sanders)
- Subject: ARRL NR 75: EARTHQUAKE TRAFFIC
-
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- ARRL NR 75 ARLB075 10/18/89
-
- ARRL OFFICIALS IN THE EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED AREAS REPORT THERE ARE
- RELATED AMATEUR NETS ON 144 AND 220 MHZ. A STATEWIDE OES NET HAS
- CONVENED ON 3952 KHZ. AMATEURS ARE ADVISED TO MONITOR THIS AND
- OTHER EMERGENCY NET FREQUENCIES, BUT DO NOT TRANSMIT ON THESE
- FREQUENCIES EXCEPT IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE.
- ULTIMATE PRIORITY MUST BE GIVEN TO IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY RELIEF
- COMMUNICATIONS.
-
- NATIONAL TRAFFIC SYSTEM OFFICIALS ADVISE THAT WELFARE INQUIRY
- TRAFFIC BE ROUTED VIA NORMAL NTS PATHS. PRIORITY IN HEALTH AND
- WELFARE TRAFFIC HANDLING MUST BE<x~RDED TO MESSAGES ORIGINATING IN
- THE AFFECTED AREAS. AMATEURS SHOULD ADVISE THE PUBLIC TO ATTEMPT
- NORMAL TELEPHONE SERVICE FIRST BEFORE INITIATING AN INQUIRY VIA
- AMATEUR RADIO. MESSAGES SHOULD CONTAIN COMPLETE ADDRESS AND PHONE
- NUMBER. USE ARL-NUMBERED TEXTS.o>jROL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SITUATION BELONGS WITH AMATEURS IN THE
- AFFECTED AREAS. AR
-
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- --
- Gary W. Sanders (gws@n8emr or ...!osu-cis!n8emr!gws), 72277,1325
- N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 [Ohio AMPR address coordinator]
- HAM/SWL/SCANNER BBS (1200/2400/PEP) 614-457-4227
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 Oct 89 10:56:15 GMT
- From: n8emr!gws@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Sanders)
- Subject: ARRL NR 76: PACKET ADDRESSING
-
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- | N8EMR's Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1) |
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- ARRL BULLETIN 76 ARLB076 10/19/89
-
- HF PACKET MANAGERS ADVISE AMAT==PPROPERLY ADDRESS AND FORMAT
- PACKET NTS HEALH AND WELFARE INQUIRIES. USE THE COMMAND ST XXXX AT
- NTSXX WHERE XXXX IS THE FIVE DIGIT ZIP CODE AND XX IS THE TWO LETTER STATE CODE. ARRL HQ ADVISES THE USE OF PROPER NTS FBRMAT FOR ALL
- PACKET MESSAGES SENT WITH THE ST COMMAND, AND USE OF A ARL NINETEEN
- ADDRESSEE FOR THE TEXT OF HEALTH AND
- WELFARE INQUIRY MESSAGES, WHICH
- RESULTS IN A MESSAGE PREAMBLE CHECK OF ARL THREE. CONTACT FIELD
- SERVICES, ARRL HQ FOR MORE INFORMATION. AR
-
- --
- Gary W. Sanders (gws@n8emr or ...!osu-cis!n8emr!gws), 72277,1325
- N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 [Ohio AMPR address coordinator]
- HAM/SWL/SCANNER BBS (1200/2400/PEP) 614-457-4227
-
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-
- Date: 20 Oct 89 11:01:04 GMT
- From: n8emr!gws@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Sanders)
- Subject: Gateway 6-Oct-89 P 1 of 2
-
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- | N8EMR's Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1) |
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- GATEWAY: The ARRL Packet-Radio Newsletter -
- Volume 6, Number 2 - October 6, 1989
-
- ROSE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULED FOR VETERANS' DAY
-
- The Radio Amateur Telecommunications Society (RATS) and the New Jersey
- Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club (NJITARC) are co-sponsoring the
- first RATS Open System Environment Symposium (ROSES-1) on November 11 from
- 8 AM until 6 PM at the Hazell Center on the NJIT campus in Newark.
- Admission and parking are free for all attending. Talk-in will be on
- 145.19 MHz. ROSES-1 will be a packet-radio forum for new users, PBBS
- SYSOPs and network gurus, which will focus on OSI-based or "Open" systems.
- There will be technical talks and round table discussions on packet-radio
- operation, software and hardware developments, as well as license exams
- (provided by the Bergen Amateur Radio Association from 8 AM until 11 AM),
- equipment demonstrations, a TNC tune-up clinic (bring your radio and TNC),
- and network planning sessions for switches and PBBSs.
-
- For testing information, contact Pete Adely, K2MHP, at 201-796-6622. For
- more information including speaker requests, contact
-
- Gordon Beattie, N2DSY, Telephone 201-387-8896
- or via electronic mail at
- n2dsy@kd6th (packet radio),
- n2dsy@kd6th.nj.usa.hamradio.org.iso (iso/packet radio)
- n2dsy@hou2d.att.com (internet) or
- 72417,652 (CompuServe EasyPlex).
-
- NEW ADDRESS FOR TEXAS PACKET RADIO SOCIETY
-
- The Texas Packet Radio Society has a new address. If you have had a letter
- to TPRS returned recently, please mail it again to:
-
- Texas Packet Radio Society, Inc.
- PO Box 50238
- Denton, TX 76206-0238
-
- from Greg Jones, WD5IVD
-
- BY4WNG GETTING ON PACKET RADIO
-
- A recent letter from BZ4RDX states that the club station at the University
- of Nanjing (BY4WNG) has been on RTTY and now wants to get on packet radio.
- They are interested in receiving written material on packet radio. If you
- have any to spare, why not put it to good use over there and mail it to:
-
- Ni, BZ4RDX
- Box 1827
- Nanjing 210018
- Peoples Republic of China
-
- PIGEON-HOLING BULLETINS
-
- With the steady increase of messages arriving at our PBBSs, users have no
- way to effectively search the messages for specific items of interest
- without downloading the entire list and manually searching the Subject
- fields. This is an incredible waste of valuable air time on intensely
- congested networks.
-
- Sending a bulletin (SB) to ALL is redundant. Bulletins are intended for
- anyone to read, so why address all types of bulletins to ALL? By utilizing
- the TO field to separate bulletins into a few specific categories, we can
- pigeon-hole 90% of all the bulletins being sent. Although each regional
- area may add a few more categories, let's try to keep this as simple and
- uniform as possible so users will get used to the categories.
-
- Here is a proposed list:
-
- TO: Topic
- 4SALE Items for sale or trade
- WANTED Things wanted.
- HELP Requests for information, help, questions, etc.
- MODS Requests or information concerning equipment modifications
- CLASS Ham (or other) license class announcements
- EXAMS Ham (or other) examination announcements
- CLUB Club events, meetings, announcements
- HAMFST Hamfest or flea market announcements
- MAP Maps
- MAPKEY Keys to maps
- NETWRK Announcements about the packet-radio network
- LIST Lists (PBBSs, available material, frequencies, repeaters, etc)
- INFO Information about anything (servers, help files)
- ALL Anything not covered above.
-
- In addition, some suggestions for topics not generally sent by users:
- SAT All satellite related material
- PROP Propagation reports
- DX DX reports
- QST ARRL/CRRL bulletins not covered above
-
- Specific equipment could also be addressed:
- MFJ MFJ products
- AEA AEA products
- KAM Kantronics products
- PACCOM PacComm products
- C64 Commodore C-64 computers
- AMIGA Amiga computers
- PC IBM PC, clones and compatibles computers
- MAC Apple Macintosh computers
-
- The only way this will work is if users use these categories when sending
- bulletins. Your local SYSOP does not have the time to edit your messages.
- Please specify a category and help reduce the clutter on the airwaves.
-
- Most users cannot check in to their local PBBS every day to examine the
- message list. If they check in once per week, they may have 50 or more
- messages to sort through. The network cannot take it, users cannot take
- it and SYSOPs cannot take it. Let's fix this problem before it is totally
- out of control.
-
- from Mark Marston, KA1NNN @ KA1NNN
-
- DISTRIBUTION AND HIERARCHICAL ROUTING NAMES SOUGHT
-
- Gordon Beattie, N2DSY, is collecting information for an Amateur Radio
- directory service. The items he is looking for are outlined below, but in
- short, please send him the distribution group names and the hierarchical
- routing names that are used in your area.
-
- The results will be posted in all the usual places with the intention of
- reducing conflicts and helping the packet-radio community evaluate what
- enhancements are needed to handle future growth. It will also provide a
- few references for folks wishing to add new names to the list.
-
- Distribution Group Names
-
- Please send the distribution list of names used in your area to distribute
- bulletins, group messages, etc. Examples of these include: "all@allbbs,"
- "rats," "all@nynet." This includes private lists such as "ratsmbr" (rats
- members). In the case of distribution group names, please include the
- current distribution and any limitations on who may use this list when
- addressing a message.
-
- Hierarchical Routing
-
- Please send the hierarchical routing entries used in the rfc822-like domain
- strings found in messages. These usually include a "#" at some point in
- the string.
-
- What to Send
-
- Please send the following information with the entry:
- 1. Entry,
- 2. Region or group using the entry,
- 3. Responsible individual/club/net (include contact information, if known),
- 4. Systems supporting it (if known),
- 5. An example of how this is used (command lines and sample messages in and
- out of the system performing distribution would be helpful),
- 6. The format of the BID associated with the distribution name, for
- example, is there a special character sequence used with the messages or
- is the number sequential or a date, etc.,
- 7. Message type(s) used in conjunction with the group name, hierarchical
- routing designator, etc. (for example, "traffic," "bulletin,"
- "private,"),
- 8. Any notes which would improve understanding of the above.
-
- Send your replies to any of the following:
-
- n2dsy@kd6th (packet radio),
- n2dsy@kd6th.nj.usa.hamradio.org.iso (iso/packet radio)
- n2dsy@hou2d.att.com (internet)
- 72417,652 (CompuServe EasyPlex)
-
- If you have any questions or comments send them to N2DSY via any of the
- electronic mail addresses listed above or telephone him at 201-615-4168
- (office) or 201-387-8896 (home).
-
-
- RSGB DATA SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE
-
- The proceedings of the First (1988) and Second (1989) Radio Society of
- Great Britain (RSGB) Data Symposiums are now available from RSGB. For more
- information, write to:
- David Simmonds, G3JKB
- RSGB
- Lambda House
- Cranborne Road
- Potters Bar
- Herts EN6 3JE
- England
-
- GATEWAYCONTRIBUTIONS
-
- Submissions for publication in Gateway are welcome. You may submit
- material via the U.S. mail to:
- Gateway
- Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
- 75 Kreger Drive
- Wolcott, CT 06716-2702
-
- or electronically, via CompuServe to user i.d. 70645,247 or via Internet to
- 70645.247@compuserve.com. Via telephone, your editor can be reached on
- evenings and weekends at 203-879-1348 and he can switch a modem on line to
- receive text at 300, 1200 or 2400 bit/s. (Personal messages may be sent to
- your Gateway editor via packet radio to: WA1LOU @ W1AW.)
-
- The deadline for each issue of Gateway is the Saturday preceding the issue
- date (which is typically a Friday).
-
- --
- Gary W. Sanders (gws@n8emr or ...!osu-cis!n8emr!gws), 72277,1325
- N8EMR @ W8CQK (ip addr) 44.70.0.1 [Ohio AMPR address coordinator]
- HAM/SWL/SCANNER BBS (1200/2400/PEP) 614-457-4227
-
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