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- Info-Hams Digest Tue, 7 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1432
-
- Today's Topics:
- Direct from Hubble spacewalk coms logged this evening
- RACES Bulletin #303
- W5YI's coverage of "temporary callsigns"
-
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-
- Date: 6 Dec 93 08:52:12 GMT
- From: usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!transfer.stratus.com!jjmhome!pig!die@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Direct from Hubble spacewalk coms logged this evening
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Several of us located in different parts of the US were able to
- hear the UHF suit to orbiter communications from the two crew members
- during the Hubble solar array repair eva Sunday evening.
-
- Solid copy was first logged on orbit 59 by John Trollinger in
- Norfolk Va who used a 12 turn helix to pick the signal up. A minute
- after he reported hearing KT on 279.0 I was also able to log the carrier
- in Lexington Mass (but too weak to hear the voice) on a dipole in the
- clear about 30 feet above the ground with a screen reflector behind it
- facing south feeding a GASFET preamp directly mounted at the antenna (a
- turnstile).
-
- A weak carrier on 279.0 was also noted in Dallas Texas during
- orbit 59 by Lyn Kennedy.
-
- During orbit 60 at 2:34 AM EST Richard Crisp heard the signal
- from San Jose California using a 6 turn helix directly feeding a R-7100.
- He was able to recover AM voice and heard quite a strong signal.
-
- Later that pass I saw signal on both 259.7 and 279.0 from Lexington
- Mass and was able to observe the FM cardio telemetry on 8 khz subcarriers
- (approximate - I did not make exact measurement) on the 259.7 signal
- alternating with what sounded like 10-20 second bursts of about 300 baud fsk
- which I presume is some kind of suit telemetry. The heart rate was
- considerably elevated - I would guess that installing solar panels in
- space is really hard work. AOS in Lexington was 2:45:20 AM (approx)
- and LOS was 2:55:50 (also approx). I noticed about a 100-200 hz fming
- of the AM carrier frequency by the audio - there must be some
- power decoupling problems in the radio.
-
- I was able to get more than enough signal on the 279.0 KT link
- to receive AM voice on this pass but there was not much talking. John
- Trollinger was able to hear this pass well too.
-
- I tried to find the orbiter to suit link on 296.8 but heard
- nothing. Unfortunately this freq is obscured at my QTH by a strong
- cable leak (video sidebands) and weak signals are not visible over this.
- John Trollinger in Norfolk also reported negative luck hearing 296.8.
-
- The two suit to orbiter links are continuous carrier and can be
- readily id'd by the characteristic doppler shift. I presume the orbiter
- to suit link is not continuous but keyed by the shuttle audio system.
- The 259.7 link was about 3 khz higher in freq than the the 279.0 link
- which seemed about on freq.
-
- I shall have to dig up my reference material about the links
- I'd be curious to know the EIRP of the suits. I have often heard
- the shuttle on UHF in the past during launch on high inclination
- missions and occasionally during other parts of missions during which they
- left the transmitter on. But this was the first time I have heard
- comms from the actual EVA suits.
-
- The video on NASA select has been spectacular. And I have the
- delusion (not had time to measure) that the signal is a couple of db
- stronger on F2/13 than it usually is. Or the video is less noisy for
- some other reason (not that it is ever terribly noisy - this is just
- a videophile observation - it is well over threshold on my dishes
- and always has been except when I used a 5.5 footer).
-
- Some day I'll try 2M SAREX if there ever are any passes one can
- communicate on without special prior arrangement.
-
-
- David I. Emery - N1PRE - Lexington Mass.
- Former senior technical consultant (and currently unemployed drunken bum)
- Internet: jjmhome!pig!die@transfer.stratus.com (preferred) or die@world.std.com
- UUCP: ...uunet!stratus.com!jjmhome!pig!die Phone + fax: 1+(617)-863-9986
-
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-
- Date: 7 Dec 93 07:00:26 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: RACES Bulletin #303
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Bid : $RACESBUL.303
-
-
- TO: ALL ES, CD, AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTORS VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CALIFORNIA
- INFO: ALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832 916-262-1600
- LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657
- RACESBUL.303 RELEASE DATE: December 6, 1993
-
- SUBJECT: MGT - Team building - Part 3/3
-
- At our own site we opened the doors to volunteers in 1985
- and accepted fifteen after screening eighteen applicants. We have
- never advertised since. Word of mouth is the best recruiter. If
- you are doing things that appeal to the type of people you want
- doing them, they will come. They naturally tend to be the type
- that will be a credit to our organization. They tend to be
- producers because they see what the others are doing with and for
- you. They tend to require little training. Most of the training
- needed has nothing to do with communications but concentrates on
- your organization and procedures. You may be pleasantly surprised
- at the duties and the unexpected talents they bring with them, as
- well as the duties for which they will volunteer.
- If your mission is clearly defined and you express your
- goals and personal expectations, you will not be swamped with
- applicants. You will get quality -- not quantity. Don't be
- reluctant to state that up front. This tends to discourage the
- joiners, ID card collectors, the "wanna bees" and the like.
- Regrettably, it is the latter that gives volunteers a bad name.
- Properly stated and administered, as their manager you can avoid
- or minimize that problem.
-
- EOM
- Station of Origin:W6WWW@KD6XZ.#NOCAL.USA.NA
-
- -----------------
- RACES Bulletins are archived on the Internet at ucsd.edu in hamradio/races
- and can be retrieved using FTP.
-
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-
- Date: 2 Dec 1993 21:47:41 GMT
- From: qualcomm.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!arctic2!cravitma@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: W5YI's coverage of "temporary callsigns"
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <1993Dec2.163624.5800@cs.brown.edu> md@maxcy2.maxcy.brown.edu (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
- >
- >The only other "pitfall" is that if you are licensing hundreds of new
- >hams each year, that eventually as a contact VE your /AT identifiers
- >are going to get really large. KD1HZ/AT12345 may be a bit much for
- >someone to pound out on a key, but nothing is perfect.
- >
-
- How about doing this : KD1HZ/T(year)(number). So the first ham you
- license next year would be KD1HZ/T931. The 500'th would be KD1HZ/T93500.
- Or, if you wanted to keep the call signs shorter, use hexadecimal.
- (So, that 500th ham would have the temporary call sign KD1HZ/T931F4.)
- You would then be able to license 4,096 hams per year before the
- suffix became 7 characters.
-
- Or, going further, how about simply using 1 digit from the year. Calls
- would repeat every 10 years, but if you make the temp. callsign only
- valid 10 years (like FCC licenses are now) and make them
- non-renewable, that should present no problem. So then that 500th ham
- would only need to use KD1HZ/T31F4. Much more reasonable.
-
- I like it though. Simple and workable idea.
-
- 73,
- Matthew (Waiting for my callsign - 4 weeks and counting)
-
- --
- Matthew Cravit | "So I sent him to ask of the
- Michigan State University | owl, if he's there, how to
- East Lansing, MI 48825 | loosen a jar from the nose
- E-Mail: cravitma@cps.msu.edu | of a bear..."
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- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 17:25:31 GMT
- From: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx10!jmaynard@uunet.uu.net
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <8kmRDc1w165w@opus-ovh.spk.wa.us>, <2dvabk$3og@mailer.fsu.edu>, <gregCHMBrt.Err@netcom.com>
- Subject : Re: ARRL's callsign admin position
-
- In article <gregCHMBrt.Err@netcom.com>, Greg Bullough <greg@netcom.com> wrote:
- >As far as I can tell, the ARRL's position is that they are the one and only
- >voice of Amateur Radio in the US,
-
- They _are_ the only organization for _all_ hams. I may not agree with them all
- the time, but there simply is no alternative.
-
- > 1) The League's history of opposing any petition which does not
- > come through them, as a matter of routine (a.k.a. 'not invented
- > here' syndrome')
-
- Bosh. They have supported many petitions they did not originate; one example
- that springs immediately to mind is the one about restricting responsibility
- for retransmitted communications, which was originated by a couple of hams
- here in Texas, K5FOG and N5GAR.
-
- > 2) Having been told by League officers and staffers that if I
- > left the ARRL, I was giving up all of my representation in
- > Washington (as if I don't vote in Federal elections?).
-
- ...but your representation as a voter is not necessarily the same, or even
- close to the same, as your representation as a ham via ARRL. ARRL has the only
- ham radio lobbyist in Washington.
-
- > 3) Having watched, over the years, the ARRL's vigorous
- > opposition to anyone or anything which presumed to encroach
- > on 'its' territory. Particularly unfortunate, IMO, have been
- > some of the underhanded efforts to silence anyone who would
- > either compete for a role or present an opposing opinion.
-
- Such as? (Wayne Green is an oft-cited example, but if he's the best you can
- come up with, you simply don't have a case: he's consistently predicted doom
- and gloom, and been consistently wrong. He's no more than the Howard Stern of
- ham magazines.)
-
- >In the ARRL's defense, I think that much of this has been in the honest
- >belief that it is necessary to present the FCC bureaucracy with a united
- >front. The latter is probably sensible, where possible.
-
- More than just sensible: essential.
-
- > However, the
- >League, in its zeal to do the best thing for the hobby, has all too
- >often forgotten that this is a pluralistic society.
-
- As a democratic organization, it is obliged to follow the wishes of the
- majority of its members. If you don't like what it's done, then use the
- mechanisms in place to change it.
-
- >It seems to me that the Board of Directors would do well, in presenting
- >position papers to the FCC, to pursue a policy of also bringing forward
- >an occasional 'dissenting opinion,' from within the ranks of amateur
- >radio. In doing so, they would increase their stock by demonstrating that
- >they truly ARE representative of amateur radio as a whole.
-
- No; this would destroy their credibility totally. It would present the League
- as being uncontrollably wishy-washy.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "The road to Usenet is littered with dead horses." -- Jack Hamilton
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