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- INFO-HAMS Digest Fri, 15 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 1025
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- Today's Topics:
- Antennas
- DAYTON '90 !!
- FT-470, the continuing saga...
- Interception of E-Mail by spies
- The un-net on 10meters on Satur (2 msgs)
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- Date: 16 Dec 89 01:03:30 GMT
- From: wuarchive!cec2!news@eddie.mit.edu (Frank C. Robey X5569)
- Subject: Antennas
- Message-ID: <1989Dec16.010330.22182@cec1.wustl.edu>
-
- In article <12549900427007@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> (Steve Bertsch) writes:
- >In a few magazine articles I've seen the terms 'near field' and 'far field',
- >but I can't find any mention of these terms in any of the radio or
- >electronics texts I've tried. Can anyone define these terms?
-
- The definition that I use in my research is that far-field is when an arriving
- signal appears to be a plane wave across the aperture of the antenna or array.
- The transmitted signal will tend to expand spherically - that is, lines of
- constant phase take on a spherical shape. When the sphere appears to be a plane
- at the receiving array then the radiation source is in the far field. The
- deviation from being in a plane is usually specified to be within so many
- degrees or wavelengths,
- thus the near and far field boundary will vary with wavelength (frequency),
- and antenna aperture (size).
-
- There is also a MIL- spec. which has a similar definition, although I can't recall
- what the number is right now. It has something to do with RF interference
- susceptability.
-
- Frank Robey
- fcr@saturn.wustl.edu
-
- -Gonna get my ticket one of these days.
-
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- Date: 16 Dec 89 01:39:09 GMT
- From: cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
- Subject: DAYTON '90 !!
- Message-ID: <30500327@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
-
- > DAYTON is comming up soon and will be here faster than you think
- > (APRIL 27, 28, and 29). There was some talk about a USE-NET meeting as
- > well as a calling frequency. This year we should try the same. I would
- > like to nominate 223.60 (dir) as the calling channel as 2 meters is
- > useless.
-
- How about ALSO having 440.60 for us higher ups? Maybe someone can bring
- a simplex crossband repeater between these two bands and run it in their
- car in the parking area?
-
- --Phil Howard, KA9WGN--
- <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
-
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- Date: 15 Dec 89 23:16:07 GMT
- From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!uci-ics!turner@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clark Turner)
- Subject: FT-470, the continuing saga...
- Message-ID: <25897B37.3442@paris.ics.uci.edu>
-
- Bill writes:
- >Yaesu's FT-23R have this "tracking" front-end. They removed it in hopes of
- >achieving a more sensitive rcvr in the -411 and -470. Ooops. Works great in
- >the faraday-cage lab, but otherwise.... As reported earlier, they have the
- >"fix" for this for the -470, just send your radio in to them. Why it's
- >not a similar repair for the -411 is not clear to me.
- >
- >Bill -KI6DG
-
- I am quite curious about other owners of the FT470 and their experiences with
- the intermod problem. As Bill explains, there is a "fix" whereby the IF
- frequencies are changed in the HOPES of avoiding the local signals. The
- Yaesu engineer at Cerritos which I spoke to said that such a change was
- UNLIKELY to help in the general case. He said that the "fix" was used for
- some specific problems that occurred out in Illinois (somewhere in the
- midwest) where the IF was under direct attack by a local 2KW repeater signal.
-
- Has anyone else out there asked Yaesu for the "fix" and what were the results?
- I am hesitant to send my radio away for several weeks for the "fix"
- (which they offered to do) if the improvement is marginal. The radio is
- usable to me as it stands, and I like it in my hand rather than out at the
- shop. Any other info?
-
- P.S. Apparently Yaesu has just brought the price of the Ft470 down by about
- $50.00! It is now the cheapest (at the local ham emporium) of the big
- three (Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu) - but the alternative Alinco - which is a bit
- stripped down - is yet cheaper.
-
- ----------
- Clark S. Turner "When the going gets weird,
- WA3JPG the weird turn pro."
- turner@ics.uci.edu -Hunter Thompson
- ----------
-
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- Date: 15 Dec 89 23:34:59 GMT
- From: cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utah.edu!thomson@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Rich Thomson)
- Subject: Interception of E-Mail by spies
- Message-ID: <1989Dec15.163459.11586@hellgate.utah.edu>
-
- In article <30036@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> pierce@lanai.UUCP (Brad Pierce) writes:
- >Incidentally, what is the constitutional basis for the
- >"National Security" justification that seems to outweigh
- >all other considerations?
-
- It is not a power explicitly derived from the Constitution. It comes
- from the National Security Act of 1947, the piece of legislation signed
- by Truman that formed the National Security Council -- a select group
- of appointed people that reports only to the president. See Bill Moyer's
- excellent work "The Secret Government: Constitution in Crisis" for an
- analysis of the NSA/NSC with regards to the constitution in the context
- of the Iran-Contra scandal.
-
- >Which agencies of the government
- >have the right to classify different information as secret
- >and which have the right to review these decisions?
-
- I believe that the NSC has both the right to classify and declassify
- information, but I'm not sure about subordinate groups (FBI, CIA, etc).
-
- >-- Brad
- -- Rich
- Rich Thomson thomson@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!thomson
- "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with
- us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain
- too cheap, we esteem too lightly." Thomas Paine, _The Crisis_, Dec. 23rd, 1776
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- Date: 16 Dec 89 00:15:00 GMT
- From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
- Subject: The un-net on 10meters on Satur
- Message-ID: <30500328@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
-
- It would be nice if the ARRL were to schedule the 10 meter contest (which
- proportionally should interest college students more, since that tends to
- be a place where lots of new novices and techs concentrate) at a time when
- it is NOT getting into FINALS WEEK for colleges and universities.
-
- Can someone suggest a better time? It needs to be between the latest term
- starting times (late Sept and early Feb) and a few week BEFORE finals (i.e.
- mid Nov and early April) and must avoid SPRING BREAK. These are the times
- most students can reasonably expect to be interested in operating, given
- their usually hectic studying schedules that always get worse as the terms
- progress.
-
- --Phil Howard, KA9WGN--
- <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
-
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- Date: 16 Dec 89 00:23:00 GMT
- From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
- Subject: The un-net on 10meters on Satur
- Message-ID: <30500329@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- > frequencies. Your not allowed to be on the standard fm simplex frequencies
- > like 146.52. They've gone so far as to completely eliminate any possibility
- > of getting more people interested in the activity by people being aware
- > that the activity is occuring.
-
- I don't want some contest overrunning the whole band. I'd like to see ALL
- contests restricted to some portion of each band they operate on so that
- those who don't want to operate the contest can still find a frequency.
-
- > Yes, I admit that contests have a severe habit of disrupting normal net
- > operations. I don't really have a good answer for that either. Even
- > if you set up restrictions on where the contesters can play, there will
- > be a net in that particular portion that gets derailed, and thus people
- > get upset. There are no restrictions on where nets can be set up after
-
- Rotate the positions. Nets are not playing by rules (besides FCC).
-
- > all! Gee, maybe net operations should be restricted to certain areas
- > of the bands. ;-) Point is that depending on which activity your
-
- By whom?
-
- > playing at(which you nominally assume is the most important thing going ;-)
- > your going to be upset when someone else interferes with it.
-
- > The best answer seems to be to try to be as tolerant as possible of
- > all activities, and understand that what the other fellow is doing
- > is just as important to him as your pursuits are to you.
-
- How do you tolerate an invasion? At least nets stick to their frequency.
-
- --Phil Howard, KA9WGN--
- <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
-
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