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Info-Hams Digest            Tue, 26 Oct 93       Volume 93 : Issue 1270

Today's Topics:
                     'Vanity' Call Signs (4 msgs)
                        BAUD VS BAUDS (3 msgs)
              GAY INTERNATIONAL HAM RADIO CLUB (2 msgs)
               New in Fairbanks, needs help...thanks..
                         TH-78A battery life
                             vaniry calls
                        Vanity Callsign Rules
                      ZA1QA - Anyone Get a QSL??

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Date: 26 Oct 93 18:58:00 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU!zeus.tamu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: 'Vanity' Call Signs
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (James N. Price) writes...
>This has always been one of my "favorite" topics, i.e. it really
>torques me off that the good ol' US of A is, I think, the ONLY
>nation in world where one cannot get a special callsign of any
>kind.  Ridiculous!
>
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>73--Jim, K6ZH

Hey Jim, how about KC5DNA?  And I'm a scientist to boot!

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Date: 26 Oct 93 19:25:40 GMT
From: psinntp![e-mail]
Subject: 'Vanity' Call Signs
To: [e-mail]

In rec.radio.amateur.misc, [e-mail] (Brian Battles WS1O) writes:
>In rec.radio.amateur.misc, [e-mail] (Alan Bloom) writes:
>
>>...if someone wants to supplement the FCC's budget to the tune of $70 per
>>call sign, why not?
>
>  One thing I wonder: *Can* this program be implemented so as to permit the
>FCC to "keep" the money collected for itself? As far as I know, one can't
>make payments or "donations" directly to any federal agency's bank account;
>it all goes via the General Fund. (For example, I can't mail a check to the
>FDA and expect them to keep it and apply it to food and drug testing.)

Sigh.  The fees in question are administrative fees that would, indeed,
go into the FCC's operating budget.  If the fee gets changed to a one-
time application fee, as ARRL would like, it will still go to FCC.

I know these things because I walked down to the end of the hall here
at ARRL HQ and asked Perry Williams, who coordinates our Washington
activities.  If Brian had bothered to do that, perhaps he wouldn't be
spreading unsubstantiated rumors under the heading:
   "Organization: American Radio Relay League"

The lesson here for the net.readership is: there are some folks at ARRL
HQ whose postings should be ignored because they don't bother to get
their facts straight.
------
Jon Bloom, KE3Z                   | [e-mail]
American Radio Relay League       |
225 Main St., Newington CT 06111  |

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 23:19:15 GMT
From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!en.ecn.purdue.edu![e-mail]
Subject: 'Vanity' Call Signs
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jon Bloom, KE3Z) writes:
>activities.  If Brian had bothered to do that, perhaps he wouldn't be
>spreading unsubstantiated rumors under the heading:
>   "Organization: American Radio Relay League"
>
>The lesson here for the net.readership is: there are some folks at ARRL
>HQ whose postings should be ignored because they don't bother to get
>their facts straight.
>Jon Bloom, KE3Z                   | [e-mail]

Unfortunatly this is true in all organizations.  Hopefully people who read
the news.groups often form a picture of various posters personalities and can
figure out who knows what they are talking about and who likes to see their
name on the screen.

--scott

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Date: 26 Oct 1993 13:28:51 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 'Vanity' Call Signs
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Battles WS1O) writes:

     One thing I wonder: *Can* this program be implemented so as to permit the
   FCC to "keep" the money collected for itself? As far as I know, one can't
   make payments or "donations" directly to any federal agency's bank account;
   it all goes via the General Fund. (For example, I can't mail a check to the
   FDA and expect them to keep it and apply it to food and drug testing.)

     So my guess is that the bucks would go to the general Fund and *maybe*
   the Congress would make some arrangements to appropriate a percentage of
   the dough specifically collected for call signs to go to the FCC's budget.
   But I think that if they smell money, away it'll go to "fight the
   deficit."

Congress appropriates all money.  Basic civics.

Of course, they can to *that* any way they want to.  Or not.

-drt
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Date: 26 Oct 1993 17:58:17 GMT
From: swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!msuinfo!pacific![e-mail]
Subject: BAUD VS BAUDS
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Roy) writes:
>IS THE TERM BAUD LIKE MOST PEOPLE USE OR IS IT BAUDS LIKE THE ARRL FOLKS
>USE?
>Roy

As I have always used it (as a computer person soon to hopefully be a
technician-class ham), I have always said "baud" as a synonym for
"bps" or bits-per-second. It would seem that "bauds" would be like
bits per second^2, or a measurement of the change in the transmission
speed of data. Of course, I may be wrong.

73 de MC (no callsign, since no license)


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Date: 26 Oct 93 21:43:14 GMT
From: mulvey![e-mail]
Subject: BAUD VS BAUDS
To: [e-mail]

The QRPer ([e-mail]) wrote:
: From article <2ajofp$[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Matthew B Cravit):
: > In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Roy) writes:
: >>IS THE TERM BAUD LIKE MOST PEOPLE USE OR IS IT BAUDS LIKE THE ARRL FOLKS
: >>USE?
: >
: > As I have always used it (as a computer person soon to hopefully be a
: > technician-class ham), I have always said "baud" as a synonym for
: > "bps" or bits-per-second. It would seem that "bauds" would be like
: > bits per second^2, or a measurement of the change in the transmission
: > speed of data. Of course, I may be wrong.
: >

: Actually, a baud is a SYMBOL per second.  In a binary system, that is
: the same as a bit per second.  If you transmit more than one bit per
: symbol, a baud does not equal a bit per second.  Such is the case for
: V.32 (9600 bps) modems which transmit at a rate of 2400 bauds
: (+/- 0.01%).

   Actually, it would be more accurate to define it as measure
of state-changes per unit time.  The modulation technique affects the
number of bauds required to transmit a given symbol.

- Rich
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 20:30:34 GMT
From: spsgate!mogate!newsgate![e-mail]
Subject: BAUD VS BAUDS
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Roy) writes:
> IS THE TERM BAUD LIKE MOST PEOPLE USE OR IS IT BAUDS LIKE THE ARRL FOLKS
> USE?
> Roy

Well, here's what Webster says:

  baud \'bo d, 'bo d\ n,  pl baud also bauds
  [baud (telegraphic transmission speed unit), fr. J. M. E. Baudot
  1903 Fr. inventor] (1931)
  :a variable unit of data transmission speed sometimes equal to one bit
   per second

However, here's what the Hacker's Jargon File (Version 2.9.12) has to say,
which is the way I've always understood the term:

   baud: /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per
   second.  Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second.
   The technical meaning is `level transitions per second'; this
   coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no framing or
   stop bits.  Most hackers are aware of these nuances but blithely
   ignore them.

So, I guess the answer to Roy's question is: Yes.

Hope this helps.

73...     Mark    AA7TA

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 06:42:26 GMT
From: news.kpc.com!amd!netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: GAY INTERNATIONAL HAM RADIO CLUB
To: [e-mail]

Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604 ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I asked George Wilson, W4OYI, the president of ARRL about this at a
: small forum with him at Pacificon, with Chris Imlay, the ARRL General
: Counsel present, about this, this weekend.
: He said that the only reason the ad is not currently in QST is that
: LARC has not resubmitted the ad since the Board explicitly stated the
: policy that would result in the ad being accepted and printed.
: Apparently the complaint is still active in CT.  If the ARRL has made
: this movement towards conciliation, why hasn't LARC responded, by
: placing the ad, and dropping the complaint?
: curious,
: 73, doug

Doug,

The problem here is that the complaint is about discrimination, not ad
placement.  The ARRL refuses to address the issue in the complaint and to
engage in any dialogue that will lead toward resolution, instead sticking
to "the ad is acceptable" line of reasoning.  Here's why, as nearly as I
can understand ... by saying that LARC's ad is acceptable, they believe
that LARC's complaint is no longer valid and that it is moot.  Our counsel
has been informed by the state investigator that the complaint is not
moot.  LARC believes that to go ahead and run the advertising without
resolution of the underlying issue will undermine its own complaint.  So,
until the ARRL will discuss the real issue of discrimination, the issue of
advertising cannot be resolved.  LARC is ready and willing to discuss it
and to seek an amicable resolution.  And yes, the complaint is still
active in CT.

Thank you for your comments.  73 ... Don, WB6LYI
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 23:38:28 GMT
From: spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!fc.hp.com![e-mail]
Subject: GAY INTERNATIONAL HAM RADIO CLUB
To: [e-mail]

Donnelly R. Bledsoe ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Doug,

: The problem here is that the complaint is about discrimination, not ad
: placement.  The ARRL refuses to address the issue in the complaint and to
: engage in any dialogue that will lead toward resolution, instead sticking
: to "the ad is acceptable" line of reasoning.

As I understand the 1st amendment, the ARRL can print whatever they
want.  Do the civil rights of LARC exceed those of the ARRL?


: LARC believes that to go ahead and run the advertising without
: resolution of the underlying issue will undermine its own complaint.  So,
: until the ARRL will discuss the real issue of discrimination, the issue of
: advertising cannot be resolved.

What discrimination?  The ARRL refused to print my article.  Do I get to
sue them too?


Perry Scott
AA0ET

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Date: 26 Oct 1993 08:48:42 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu![e-mail]
Subject: New in Fairbanks, needs help...thanks..
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Jack Hamilton) writes:

>This is almost a complete change of subject, but I read recently in
>WorldRadio that car registration if free in Alaska for cars equipped with
>HF gear.  How popular are HF, VFH, and UFH in Alaska?

Hey, Jack! Thanks for the idea... I'll use VFH and UFH in my pricing
of tower jobs. Let's see, a Very Effing High tower project is 2 bucks
a foot per hour. How much is a UFH tower worth?

:) :) :)

73 and grin!
Gary

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Date: 26 Oct 93 20:33:54 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: TH-78A battery life
To: [e-mail]

[gosset@132.248.32.1] writes:


>    I recently bought a Kenwood TH-78A, which so far has performed well. I
>have not detected intermod here in the small city of Cuernavaca or in
>Mexico city. Overall is a fine dual-bander HT.

I like mine too.

>       However, I am somewhat disapointed with battery life. Under normal
>use it lasts less time than similar-rated batteries on other HTs. The
>user manual says that the battery needs several charge-discharge cycles
>before it can function to full capacity. The batteries have already been
>charged 10-15 times. Does someone has a similar problem with this
>handheld?

I have outstanding battery cycle performance. Are you using the battery
saver functions? Also, are you talking more than listening? Transmission,
of course, uses a lot more power than receive. I run a full day with the
low power battery with no problems, but I don't rag chew for hours at a
time either. :-)

>   Also, I would like to know if it is possible to power this unit with DC
>even when it has its batteries connected.

Certainly. If you are using the "low power" battery, just plug the DC into
the top of the radio. If your DC source can stand the current, you will get
a 5 watt output. If you are using the "high power" battery, you need to
plug the external DC into the socket on the back of the BATTERY. Kenwood
did a good job of designing the battery contacts to avoid
connection/overvoltage mix-ups, but you need to know where to plug the DC
in. :-) I was originally told by a retailer the high power battery had to
be charged with the drop-in charger. Not true, the wall charger will work
if you plug it into the back. The droop in charger is faster though, and
real nice. Works with both AC and DC inputs.

 73

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Date: 26 Oct 93 19:24:23 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!lester.appstate.edu![e-mail]
Subject: vaniry calls
To: [e-mail]

All this back and forth really has me confused.  As I understand it,
anyone can now request a call of their choice?  When does this go into
effect?  It costs $7/year?  Is this open to all class licenses?  Just
wanting some clarification.  thanks.

     Shawn
     KE4FPZ

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Date: 26 Oct 93 11:44:13 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Vanity Callsign Rules
To: [e-mail]

In NEWSLINE #844 the story SPECIAL CALLS says:

The FCC "...wants input on the subject of issuing personalized vanity
calls signs...".

Let me propose the following for discussion:

 1. There shall be two classes of vanity callsigns: regular
           and short-term.

 2. The requested regular callsign must be part of the
           callsign pool for your license grade.

 3. The number in the regular callsign must indicate the
           call area of your mailing address.

 4. The callsign must have never been assigned or must have
           been unassigned for two years. [See also rule 8 below].

 5. The vanity fee shall be accessed upon issuance and upon
           every renewal of the license.

 6. Regular vanity callsigns shall be renewable every 10 years.

 7. If the fee is not paid upon renewal a callsign will be
           assigned from the next available sequential callsign from the
           appropriate pool. Regular vanity callsigns will have a one year
           grace period upon expiration.

 8. Previously held callsigns will become invalid and available
           for reissue immediately upon issuance of the regular
           vanity callsign. [The one year grace period in rule 7 is waived].

 9. A special, short-term vanity callsigns shall be available
           for a term of two months.

 10. Short-term callsigns cannot be renewed.

 11. Short-term callsigns shall have a special two letter
            prefix, such as NX, and a two or three letter suffix.

 12. The issuance of a short-term callsign shall not
            invalidate the requester's regular callsign.

 13. Short-term callsigns will not be issued as regular callsigns.

 14. Short-term callsigns shall become available for re-issued
            immediately when they expire.


Kris AA5UO
[e-mail]

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Date: 26 Oct 93 20:28:05 GMT
From: ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!fp2-st-affairs-18.uoregon.edu![e-mail]
Subject: ZA1QA - Anyone Get a QSL??
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Darrell Earnshaw) wrote:
>
> Did anyone ever get a QSL from the Globex operation in Albania (ZA1QA, I think
> was the call)? I worked these folks on 80 meters, and would love to get ZA
> knocked off my wanted list. I've sent two requests to Globex (plus a number of
> $1 bills), but no response. Anybody got any ideas??
>
> -- 73 Darrell NR3Y
>
Come to think of it... I never received my card either. It's been quite
awhile ago, too.

There was a picture of the card in QST, if I'm not mistaken, about a year
ago but I've never seen the genuine article.

Steve/AA7FL

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Date: 26 Oct 93 19:57:05 GMT
From: orca.es.com!olin![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: 'Vanity' Call Signs

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Darrell Earnshaw) writes:
>As the FCC is bound by ITU rules, one assumes that vanity calls must also
>conform to the ITU allocation rules (ie: K, N, W for USA), so the IH8DX example
>wouldn't be applicable. However, it does raise an interesting dilemma as to how
>my logging program is going to deal with all this chaos!
>
>(Pity really, I though the U.S. was one of the last sane places left where
>prefixes didn't change with the weather conditions!)
>
   Don't panic, Darrell...I seriously doubt that the FCC will allow
   anything outside of the current formats (1x2, 1x3, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3).
   I am confident that all such calls must begin with a K, W, N or
   AA-AL, since those prefixes are allocated to the U.S. It would be
   interesting to see the text of the proposal to see if there are
   any details about this. Obviously, IH8DX would have to be an
   Italian station, since they have been assigned the I block of
   prefixes. Of course, if you are from Georgia, and live in American
   Samoa, you could have AH8DX for a callsign, but then you would be
   DX. .... ..


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Date: 26 Oct 93 21:13:32 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <pschleck.751482672@cwis>, <[e-mail]>.ac.za
Subject : Re: Internet address of VOA, BBC ???

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Martin) writes:

>>In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (RICHARD HAREL)
>> writes:
>>
>>>Anyone know if the VOA or BBC or other major government braodcasting
>>>agencies are on the internet ?

>The BBC department unearthed here is concerned with Engineering and R&D.
>They are nothing to do with programme making.

>Please don't bug them.

But are they the people who I can moan to when their relay station in
Lesotho goes on the blink?  Like right now (20:21 UTC on Tuesday 26th
Oct 1993) their transmitter on 3255 khz is off the air.  Normally, in
this part of the world, it's booming in loud and clear.  The
alternative on 6190 khz switches over to Portuguese at 20:30 UTC which
isn't going to help me very much in listening to "News Hour" at 21:00
UTC.  Looks like I'll have to settle for 6005 khz, which has a pathetic
signal at this time of night.  Somebody pissed and tripped over a power
switch in Maseru?

Now imagine if I could send them a short message pointing out this fact
how much embarrasment it could save them all over the sub-continent.
They could then even apologise over the air to us long suffering
listeners and show how wide awake they are.  Or something...

And if they're in R&D they might care to do a few calculations as to
how much postage their organisation could save by putting their
transmission schedules up hot from the press for anonymous FTP.  Or
running a gopher system containing other information such as programme
schedules?  Or setting up some method of receiving reception reports
from monitors by email?  Given enough motivation, it's possible to
capture a bit of audio onto disk, uuencode it and email them the damn
thing within a few minutes.  I mean the possibilities are mind
boggling... and it's fascinating that organisations whose raison d'etre
is communication, such as broadcasting services or radio stations, seem
to have the blinkers on and are actively ignoring something that could
help them cut down on costs.  There are zillions of guys all over the
world with access to email, not to mention FTP etc that also listen to
the radio, believe it or not.  Some of them even do it all
simultaneously.
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