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INFO-HAMS Digest            Thu, 14 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue 1018

Today's Topics:
    1989 Third-Party Countries List (SOURCE: "The FCC Rule Book")
                  ARRL Propagation Forecast Bn Nr 49
                  DX Neophyte Wants QSL Manager Info
                          Emergency Van Info
                    FT-470, the continuing saga...
                     rec.radio.shortwave "invite"
                             RST (2 msgs)
                       SouthEast Scanner's list
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 11:45:26 CST
From: [e-mail] (Bob West, WA8YCD)
Subject: 1989 Third-Party Countries List (SOURCE: "The FCC Rule Book")
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

(SOURCE: The FCC Rule Book, Eighth Edition, First Printing, 1989, p.13-13)

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Table 1

International Third-Party Traffic--Proceed with Caution

Occasionally, DX stations may ask you to handle a third-party message to a
friend or relative in the States. This is all right as long as the US has signed
an official Third-Party Traffic Agreement with that particular country, and the
traffic is noncommercial and of a personal, unimportant nature. During an
emergency, out State Department will often work out a special temporary
agreement with the country involved, but in normal times, never handle traffic
without first making sure it is legally permitted.


US Amateurs May Handle Third-Party Traffic With:

C5     The Gambia                 V2     Antigua
CE     Chile                               and Barbuda
CO     Cuba                       V3     Belize
CP     Bolivia                    V4     St Christopher
CX     Uruguay                             and Nevis
EL     Liberia                    VE     Canada
GB     Great Britain*             VK     Australia
HC     Ecuador                    VR6    Pitcarin Island**
HH     Haiti                      XE     Mexico
HI     Dominican Republic         YN     Nicaragua
HK     Colombia                   YS     El Salvador
HP     Panama                     YV     Venezuela
HR     Honduras                   ZP     Paraguay
J3     Grenada                    3D6    Swaziland
J6     St Lucia                   4U1ITU ITU, Geneva
J7     Dominica                   4U1VIX VIC, Vienna
J8     St Vincent                 4X     Israel
JY     Jordan                     6Y     Jamaica
LU     Argentina                  8R     Guyana
OA     Peru                       9G     Ghana
PY     Brazil                     9L     Sierra Leone
TG     Guatemala                  9Y     Trinidad and
TI     Costa Rica                           Tobago


  * Third-party traffic permitted between US amateurs and special-events
stations in the United Kingdom having the prefix GB only, with the exception
that GB3 stations are not included in this agreement.

 ** Since 1970, there has been an informal agreement between the United Kingdom
and the US, permitting VR6TC and US amateurs to exchange messages concerning
medical emergencies, urgent need for equipment or supplies, and private or
personal matters of island residents.

    Please note that the Region 2 Division of the International Amateur Radio
Union (IARU) has recommended that international traffic on the 20- and 15-meter
bands be conducted on the following frequencies:

      14.100-14.150 MHz
      14.250-14.350 MHz
      21.150-21.200 MHz
      21.300-21.450 MHz

    The IARU is the alliance of Amateur Radio Societies from around the world;
Region 21 comprises Member-Societies in North, South and Central America, and
the Caribbean.

    Note: At the end of an exchange of third-party traffic with a station
located in a foreign country, an FCC-licensed amateur must also transmit the
call sign of the foreign station as well as his own call.

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    The above table is excerpted from "The FCC Rule Book" for the information
of amateurs via electronic distribution. For further information, contact the
American Radio Relay League, 225 Main St, Newington CT 06111 [phone].


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Date: 14 Dec 89 15:48:06 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!larry![e-mail]  (Scott Ellington)
Subject: ARRL Propagation Forecast Bn Nr 49
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Until a week or so ago, 20 Meters has been open to the South Pacific every
night around 0400Z.  Lately, that path has been dead, though I hear
stations further south working stations I can't hear.  Perhaps it's
just the winter solstice doldrums.  Or maybe for some reason the D layer
absorbtion is very high along that path lately.

K9MA

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Date: 14 Dec 89 09:23:00 CST
From: "christiansen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DX Neophyte Wants QSL Manager Info

I haven't really done much DX, but this weekend I got ``involved''
in the 10m contest and ran into a few DX stations.  I've scrounged
through the last couple of years of QSTs to try to find the appropriate
QSL managers, with mixed success.  Could someone help me out with
a couple of these?

1) The 4/88 QST says that KD2EU is the manager for V31MZ.
   Is this current?

2) Do VP2EXX and JA6WFM/HR2 have managers?

3) Where SHOULD I be looking to answer these questions myself?!

Thanks in advance.  It is amazing what 100 watts and a whip can do...
--
Reed L. Christiansen  UW Polymerization Reaction Engineering Lab
[e-mail]   [phone]   WM9I @ WD9ESU


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Date: 13 Dec 89 19:19:20 GMT
From: yoda![e-mail]
Subject: Emergency Van Info
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

A while back a chap asked if anybody had set up an emergency van for
field operations with amateur radio equipment. I posted a reply to this
posting, but due to an anomaly in our news software, the posting never made
it to any other sites.

The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club has had such a van for about 5 years
or so. The last time I visited them, it was crammed full of radios, packet
gear, an emergency generator, a crank-up tower, and all sorts of other
equipment. The van was donated by the Santa Barbara Research Center of
Hughs, and quite of bit of custom cabinetry, wiring, mechanic-ing and so
on was done to make it an excellent operating station. I was impressed.
It is one of those large step-van type vehicles, tall enough to walk
around in. I think they even have a coffee pot installed.
For more information, write:

Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
P.O. Box 3232
Santa Barbara, CA 93130-3232

Lyle D. Gunderson  N6KSZ          CIS: 73760,2354     GEnie: L.GUNDERSON
[e-mail]          "Any technology without some attendant risk
350 CB / BYU / Provo, UT 84602   of misuse is probably trivial"  --Loise Kohl

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 11:55:16 est
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: FT-470, the continuing saga...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

CEO summary:
Re: Tunable front ends
I have the same problem with my wife's Kenwood TH25AT. It's designed
to have a wide-band front end so you can tune the 150-162 Mhz range.
Unfortunately, all that RF energy is also present when you're trying
to tune the 144-148 Mhz band. Bearcat scanners used to advertise a
"tracking" front end, which was just a varactor tuned filter that
peaked the front end for the frequency you were listening to. I
suspect that the more expensive commercial radios do the same thing,
at least I bet the synthesized ones do.




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Date: 14 Dec 89 16:10:51 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com![e-mail]  (Steve Dowman)
Subject: rec.radio.shortwave "invite"
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] ( Avatar) writes...
  (mindless drivel on swl'ers being dweebs and anti-Ham)

   Hey Avatar, how are we gonna kiss your ass if you keep talking through
   it?  Sheesh, who are you anyway, The Incredible Iron Ham Man?  Your
   attitude is amusing.  This Ham is cooked!

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Date: 13 Dec 89 12:31:52 GMT
From: hpda!hpwala!hpnjld![e-mail]  (Ed Gilbert)
Subject: RST
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

>Heard during the Ten Meter Contest last weekend:
>
>N3xxx:  "KH6xxx 59 Pennsylvania."
>KH6xxx: "You're 59 Hawaii. QSL?"
>N3xxx:  "QSL. Thanks for Hawaii!  How's my signal out there?"
>
>   :-)

Not as ridiculous as it sounds, given the rubber-stamp 59 that
everyone gives in the contests.  The same question was asked of
me in the 160M contest a couple of weeks ago by a W4, and that
was on CW.

                Ed Gilbert, WA2SRQ

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Date: 14 Dec 89 15:55:53 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (James N. Price)
Subject: RST
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ed Gilbert) writes:
>>Heard during the Ten Meter Contest last weekend:
>>
>>N3xxx:  "KH6xxx 59 Pennsylvania."
>>KH6xxx: "You're 59 Hawaii. QSL?"
>>N3xxx:  "QSL. Thanks for Hawaii!  How's my signal out there?"
>>
>>   :-)
>
>Not as ridiculous as it sounds, given the rubber-stamp 59 that
>everyone gives in the contests.  The same question was asked of
>me in the 160M contest a couple of weeks ago by a W4, and that
>was on CW.
>
>                Ed Gilbert, WA2SRQ

Taken to the extreme:  the K1EA contest program (which is a lovely
piece of software, and the following comment is not intended as a
criticism) *automatically* fills in 599 or 59 as the exchange for
every station you work in a contest.  The issue here is speed, and
frankly exchanges can almost be done away with since once you've
got a person's call, you've made a contact.  You need the exchange
to get the multipliers (states, countries, zones, or whatever),
but the signal report is really superfluous.  In fact, Sweepstakes
manages just fine without an RST.  Perhaps other contests should
follow suit??

--Jim, K6ZH

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 09:34:56 EST
From: [e-mail] (Peter St.Wecker)
Subject: SouthEast Scanner's list
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

   As per my previous message, we now have a South East US scanner mailing
list.  Everyone who sent me a note should have gotten an announcement.  Here
are the details:
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This list is for the exchange of information pertaining to scanner listening
in the South Eastern US.

To request to be added or dropped from this list send mail to:

    [e-mail]

To submit a message to this list send mail to:

    [e-mail]


W. Gregg Stefancik
List Maintainer
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       Peter St.Wecker               Internet:[e-mail]
       [phone]                    UUCP:[e-mail]
      Dept. of Physiology, Univ. of North Carolina,  Chapel Hill NC
         If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research


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