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Info-Hams Digest            Thu,  6 Jan 94       Volume 94 : Issue    8

Today's Topics:
          Connecting multi-line phone to single-line outlet.
                  Experience w BayPac/Mac/Softkiss?
                          How does it work?
                           Info on station
                        RAMSEY KITS NOT TOO G
                          Repeater database?
                   Superball Balloon Launch Update
                              TNC wanted
                       TOYOTAS AND MOBILE RIGS
                           Where's my QST?

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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 02:58:04 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Connecting multi-line phone to single-line outlet.
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]> posted to the Usenet Newsgroup(s)
rec.radio.amateur.misc
[e-mail] (Jay Adams) writes:
>
>I recently came into possesion of an old multi-line telephone.  OK, I
>dug it out of the trash.  It's one of those that has the five clear
>buttons on the front along with a red "hold" button.  It has a big
>bundle of wire coming out of the back of it.  I'd like to connect it
>to a single-line outlet.  How can I do this?

It sounds like a 565 6 button key set.

>
>Inside the phone, the big bundle of wires is connected to a terminal
>strip where the terminals have labels like: 1R, 1T, 1H, L1, LG, 2R,
>2T, 2H, L2, LG, etc, five times.  My guess is that I should disconnect
>the big bundle of wires and hook the four wires in my single-line
>(black, red, green, and yellow) outlet to four of the 1R, 1T, 1H, L1,
>LG terminals.

#1. Give up any hope of having the HOLD circuit work once you get the
    phone working.  You need the Big Relay box for that.  The same goes
    for the neat little lights.

#2. Connect the two active wires for you phone line (usually red and green)
    to:  1R  1T       for line 1
         2R  2T       for line 2
         etc... up to line 5  Be carefull... there is an extra row between
  the line four and line five terminals.

#3. To get the bell working, (usually it is set for operation off of the
    control box as well) you must set it to single line bridging...
     "x" = line number
       lead to bell      connection on block
  SL-RED  A  on block
  SL  K  on block
  BLK  xT on terminal
  RED  xR on terminal

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Date: 6 Jan 94 21:12:23 GMT
From: agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic.csu.net!computer_ctr.sonoma.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Experience w BayPac/Mac/Softkiss?
To: [e-mail]

I'd like to hear from someone who has experience with
the BayPac BP-1 using softkiss in a Mac ennvironment.
I'm thinking of buying the BP-1 and using it with
my Powerbook 100 as a way to get onto packet.  I'm
looking for encouragement or warnings.  Please
send e-mail.  Thanks.

David
AB6XR

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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 03:15:22 GMT
From: cs.yale.edu!wcsub.ctstateu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: How does it work?
To: [e-mail]

In article <2ghta6$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Richard Furuta) writes:
> Well, maybe it's relevant to radio and maybe not, but I'm sure that
> someone here can explain this to me!
>
> I'm sure that many of you are familiar with the anti-theft stickers
> that have appeared especially on tapes and CDs.  About an inch square,
> the adhesive-backed underside contains a set of concentric traces
> along the edge surrounded by a different colored border that blobs
> over one of the corners into the center.  Disabling the device seems
> to involve sticking a patch of some sort on top of it.
>
> So what's the mechanism and how does it work?
>
>      --Rick
>        KE3IV
>        [e-mail]
>

On a semi-related topic, I am curious about the card-key system that our
workplace has recently installed.  The trade name is CardKey, and the
supplier told our executive that it was the "latest state-of-the-art"
equipment.

The cards do not need to be passed through a reader, just within 6 inches
of the box on the wall.  The system records the time, date, door, and
the serial number of the card (read employee.)

I am curious how this technology works if anybody out there in cyber-space
would like to share this info.  Perhaps I am being paranoid, but I also
suspect that the device can read a card much farther away, i.e., it
could track an employee's movements even if the employee did not use
it to operate the door.  Does anybody want to comment on this?

Thanks in advance,
Jim

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Date: 6 Jan 94 22:48:37 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!nbc.ksu.ksu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Info on station
To: [e-mail]

During the 10m contest in Mid-December, I heard a very strange call.
Looked in the DXCC list and didn't find it listed anywhere.  The call was
M1DX.  Looked in the prefix allocations, and it is listed as a Great Britain/
Northern Ireland call, so I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this
call, and hopefully QSL information for them.  Also wanting to know the best
way to QSL DX stations (Direct, QSL Bureau's, ETC).  Any help would be
greatly appreciated by a ham new to HF!

73 Everyone DE N0YAX -sk-


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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 16:04:30 -0500
From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!psuvm!cunyvm!rohvm1![e-mail]
Subject: RAMSEY KITS NOT TOO G
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
wrote, in part:

>
> [e-mail] (Gary Coffman) writes:
>
> > I've built Heathkits and Ramsey kits. Ramsey is more fun.
>
> As the unproud owner of an non-working Ramsay 40m receiver, I would
> rather the damn thing worked!
>
> Ramsay kits may be cheaper, but since they seldom work, and if they do,
> seldom work well -- it's just not worth the trouble.

I built one of the Ramsey 40-m QRP transmitters--really simple, about half
a dozen components.  When it didn't work, I figured I'd done something
wrong, and would trouble-shoot it when I got the chance.  Haven't yet
gotten the chance, but it sounds like the problem may not have been me.
This discussion thread may provide me incentive to see just what was wrong
(oscillator works, but not the final), but also to homebrew rather than
buying another Ramsey kit.

--
John Taylor    -    W3ZID
[e-mail]

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Date: 7 Jan 94 02:05:18 GMT
From: netnews.upenn.edu!iat.holonet.net![e-mail]
Subject: Repeater database?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Andrew Funk) writes:
: In article <2gfgip$[e-mail]>,
: Richard Mitchell 1026 <[e-mail]> wrote:
:
: >If someone really wanted to steal the repeater (or whatever), why
: >wouldn't they just go on a foxhunt to find it?  I dunno, but
: >around here the physical locations aren't kept secret.  In talking
: >with other club members, its usually pretty easy to find out where
: >the repeater is.
: >
: >Maybe we just get along better over here...or maybe i'm just niave.
: >
:
:
: Believe me, this is a *real* problem in the NYC area.  We've had several
: coordinated repeaters in this area physically attacked or stolen,
: apparently by thoseinterested in putting up systems of their own, or whao
: have already out up uncoordinated systems.
:
: Hopefully this will not spread outside the more populated metro areas, but
: I wouldn't count on it.
:
: 73, Andy
: --
:         ______________________ Andrew Funk, KB7UV ______________________
:        |     President, Tri-State Amateur Repeater Council  (TSARC)     |
:        | ENG Editor/Microwave Control, WCBS-TV Channel 2 News, New York |
:        | Internet: [e-mail]      Packet: kb7uv@kb7uv.#nli.ny.usa |


Out here in the West where many repeaters are at good locations served by
solar power, the repeater Clubs usually tell people that the repeater is on
Tall Mtn when the repeater is really on Taller Mtn three miles away.

The reason for this is theft of solar panels and repeater systems
including vary expencive control equipment. I sure hope that when someone
publishs the locations of these repeaters, the owners are notified so that
they can up the insurence and prepare for loss. Hey get a life! Please
don't destroy what is out there for your use. Greed envy and lust are all
players in this game.

In Northern California the Repeater trustee can list his repeater by local
city or mountain top. I see only TWO mountain tops listed out of the one
thousand repeaters. Does this tell you anything?

bob
--
Bob Wilkins n6fri             voice 440.250+ 100pl san francisco bay area
[e-mail]             packet n6fri @ n6eeg.#nocal.ca.usa.na


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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 10:57:32 -0700
From: cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!nebulus!ve6mgs![e-mail]
Subject: Superball Balloon Launch Update
To: [e-mail]

                  Superpressure Balloon Launch Update

Due to the approach of a major winter storm the launch of SuperBall
1-94 from Logan Utah Municipal Airport has been delayed.  The next
attempt will be Thursday, January 6 at 2100 UTC.  If the weather is
still not favorable, further attempts will be made Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday at 1500 UTC.

The Utah Balloon Team is a cooperative group from Utah State
University, Logan, Utah, members of the amateur radio community, and
Winzen International.  The nylon superpressure balloon for this
flight is 76 feet in diameter.  It was manufactured and donated by
Winzen International of San Antonio, Texas.  The expected daytime
float altitude of this helium filled balloon will be 120,000 ft
(36,660 meters). Some loss of altitude is expected to occur at night
and regained during the day.  Theoretically the technology is
capable of maintaining a payload at altitude for long periods of
time, potentially years.


PAYLOAD -

The payload will weigh 4 kilograms, or 8.8 pounds.  It will
consist of the following subsystems:

1. A primary data payload containing:
  - A five channel Magellan GPS receiver
  - An external air temperature sensor
  - An internal payload temperature sensor
  - A battery voltage sensor
  - A differential pressure gauge
  - A 1/2-watt VHF MCW telemetry transmitter
  - A one-watt 15-meter telemetry transmitter
  - A black-and-white CCD television camera
  - A UHF ATV transmitter.


2. A cutdown package containing a VHF command receiver, DTMF
decoder and barometric switch.

3. An ultra lowpower secondary data payload onboard containing a
60-milliwatt 10-meter CW telemetry beacon.

4. Three Lithium battery packs: one for the primary payload, one
for the secondary payload, and one for the cutdown package.


OPERATING FREQUENCIES -

The balloon can be monitored on the following frequencies:

145.871 MHz (1/2-watt): MCW telemetry beacon with a four-minute on
cycle and a 15 minute sleep cycle.  This transmitter will operate
with the call sign of N7YTK, transmitting data from instruments
listed above.  (This transmitter will also operate through the
Russian RS-10 amateur satellite, which has a downlink frequency
29.371 MHz, plus or minus Doppler.)

21.229 MHz (1-watt): CW beacon on the same duty cycle and sending
the same data as the two-meter telemetry beacon, with a call sign
of WB8ELK. (It will also operate through the Russian RS-12 amateur
satellite, which has a downlink frequency of 29.429 MHz, plus or
minus Doppler.)

434.00 MHz (1-watt): Black-and-white ATV using a CCD camera.  ATV
will be available intermittently as commanded from the ground.

28.322 MHz (60-mw): CW telemetry sent every minute.  This secondary
data payload will have the call sign of WB8ELK, and will transmit
pressure altitude, internal temperature, external temperature and
battery voltage.

MISSION PURPOSE -

The purpose of the SuperBall 1-94 mission is to certify this
superpressure balloon technology for long-duration flight and to
test our ability to control and receive data from a high-altitude
research balloon for an extended period of time using amateur
radio.

Our first plateau of success on this mission will be achieved if
we operate through a complete sunset/sunrise cycle at a constant
pressure altitude.  Our second plateau will be a flight lasting a
week.  Our third plateau will be a complete circumnavigation of
the globe.  Anything after that is gravy.

Observers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Martin Marietta and
Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory will be present
at the launch.  These people are potential users of the
superpressure balloon for a Martian mission.

Gil Moooe, N7YTK, plans to chase the balloon for the first 24
hours to make certain that we have good telemetry and video
through one sunset/sunrise cycle and to handle cutdown if
required.  After that, data retrieval will be performed by hams
in the flight path footprint, as coordinated by net control, John
Luker, KA7QBC.


FLOAT PATH -

The float path of the balloon is very difficult to predict
since the polar breakout usually occurs is this time of year
frequently resulting in strong north south currents.  It
is currently our best guess that SuperBall 1-94 will in
the initial few hours, as it ascends through the lower
atmosphere, move rapidly (50 to 100 knots are possible) to the
east toward the southwestern Wyoming border, but as it enters the
calmer air at 70,000+ feet it will follow a slow (2 to 7 knots)
western track from Logan, over Elko, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; San
Francisco, California; and from there out over the Pacific.

If the balloon shows no threat of interfering with controlled
airspace, as it reaches the coast, it will be allowed to continue
on its journey.  We are assuming at this point an east to west
path at an average speed of 5 knots.  We will leave the rest you
your imagination.


HF NET AND QSL'S -

An HF net will be conducted by John Luker, WB7QBC on the day of
the launch, and subsequent days on 7230 KHz +-QRM.  This net will
alert interested hams down range of the balloon's path, and
coordinate the collection of telemetry.  A special QSL card will
be sent to those who provide copy of telemetry or beacon reports.


Please send this information to John Luker,
[e-mail].  If you do not have access to email you
may also mail, via SnailNet, reports to John's home: 1226 W 725 N,
Clearfield UT 84015.and will advise down-range listeners of the
latest developments.  He will also post this information on an
Internet special interest area called "balloons" for those who can
telnet to uugate.aim.utah.edu.  The Utah Balloon Team would
appreciate the forwarding of any telemetry copied to John's address
along with pertinent information, including the receiving station's
location, UTC date and time, signal report, and receiving
equipment.

Video tapes of any received ATV transmissions from the balloon
would also be appreciated.  At this point we only anticipate
turning the camera on during the first two days, but command
access to the ATV system by down range hams is available by
requesting the frequency and DTMF codes from Gil Moore, N7YTK
(internet [e-mail]).  The camera will be pointed
up at the balloon rather than the ground on this mission since
our main concern is the condition of the balloon.


TELEMETRY FORMAT -

The modality of the telemetry will be Morse Code and depending on
the band will be either CW or FM-MCW.  The exact data block
layout will be posted as a bulletin on internet
[e-mail] sometime shortly after launch.
(The format was being changed at the time of this writing.)


MISSION UPDATES -

We will continue to do periodic computer predictions based upon
the telemetry we receive back from the on board GPS receiver and
information from NOAA.  We will be depending largely on
down-range listeners to provide this information to us as rapidly
as is possible.  We do NOT plan on a chase beyond what Gil has
planned for the first 24 hrs, obviously, since we would like to
let it fly as long as possible.


PRINCIPAL PLAYERS -

The principal players in this mission to date are listed below in
alphabetical order, together with their amateur call signs,
office and home telephone and FAX numbers and Internet addresses,
where available:

Bruce Bergen, KI7OM, [phone] (o), [phone] (h),
[phone] (fax).  [e-mail] (internet), -
Launch communications and packet bulletin coordinator.

Bill Brown, WB8ELK, [phone] (h), [e-mail]
(internet) - Primary and secondary data payloads supplier.

Larry Epley, [phone] (o), [phone] (h), (201) 690-
9927 (fax)  - Balloon manufacturer and launch advisor.

Phyllis Gray, [phone] (o), - Balloon manufacturer and
launch advisor.

Collin Lewis, [phone] (o), [phone] (h), (801) 750-
2963 (fax), [e-mail] (internet) - Launch
director.

John Luker, WB7QBC, [phone] (h),
[e-mail] (internet) - Net control operator.

Gil Moore, N7YTK, [phone] (o), [phone] (h), (801)
750-2492 (fax), [e-mail] (internet) - Principal
Investigator.

Phyllis Moore, [phone] (h) - Chase vehicle relief driver.


Pete Sias, WB0DRL, (913) 823-80027 (o), [phone] (h),  ATV
subsystem supplier.

Randal Thornley, N7YSV, [phone] (o), [phone] (h &
fax), [e-mail] - Cutdown subsystem supplier.

Clint Turner, KA7OEI, [phone] (h), [phone] (fax),
[e-mail]  (internet) - Command receiver
supplier.

Stan Wellard, N7UXE, [phone] (o), [phone] (h),
[phone] (fax),  Systems environmental tester.


FUTURE BULLETINS -

Information on the missions progress is now available through
Internet by making a telnet connection to uugate.aim.utah.edu,
logging on as "guest," and issuing the command "a balloons"
followed by "l."

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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 01:17:10 GMT
From: olivea!charnel!rat!zeus!trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu![e-mail]
Subject: TNC wanted
To: [e-mail]

I am looking for a TNC to use with a Kenwood Th28A handlheld. If
anyone out there in netland has one that they would like to get rid of,
please drop me some E-mail with the brand, model, condition, and asking
price. I would prefer the smallest unit that I could get, but I won't be
really picky since this will be my first TNC, and I just want to see
what it has to offer. It doesn't have to have all kinds of features,
just enough to provide basic functionality. Thanks in advance for any
help and/or suggestions.


Sean



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--KE6BTE--      Electronic Engineers do it with less resistance.
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 12:49:34 GMT
From: mdisea!mothost!lmpsbbs![e-mail]
Subject: TOYOTAS AND MOBILE RIGS
To: [e-mail]

In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Richard Furuta) writes:
}In article <[e-mail]>,
}Bruce Burke Sp App <[e-mail]> wrote:
}[...]
}|For what it's worth, They tend to ignore the fact it is possible for a 100 watt
}|mobile to pull up along side of you and dump that energy into your vehicle - with
}|a potential for damage.
}[...]
}|S The antenna cabling must be routed no
}|closer than 20 cm (about 8) to any ECM
}|or other onboard computer/sensors.
}[...]
}|Please note the electronic control unit (ECU)
}|the most sensitive to RF is located in the
}|passenger compartment under the dashboard
}|on the passengers side.  This is the primary
}|module to keep RF away from. Installing the
}|antenna outside at the rear left would
}|optimum since it would place it as far from this
}|ECU as possible.  The chips inside the ECU are
}|MOSFETS, very easily damaged by static
}|electricity, stray RF, etc.
}
}I guess I can't quite picture the scenario where an adjacent vehicle
}could come within eight inches of (in particular) the ECU without
}there being some other, more pressing, collision-related factors.
}
}     --Rick
}       KE3IV
}
}


Generally the cabling, excluding the coax, does not contain significant amounts of
rf energy. (Or at least it shouldn't if properly designed)
You would get far more by having someone pull up along side of you at a
stop light and transmitting - that's my point. -Bruce, WB4YUC, el YUCCO

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Date: 6 Jan 94 22:38:51 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Where's my QST?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Scott Richard Rosenfeld) writes:

 >Can anybody tell me what the January QST looks like (front cover)?  I don't
 >remember getting mine, and would like to maybe jog my memory.  I can't find
 >it anywhere, so I'm thinking that maybe I never got it!

Hmm.. Hi Scott... mine is quite distinctive. It says JANUARY 1994 on
the front cover!






Okay, for all you people who can't take a joke and would bitch about
me not giving the real answer (yes, there are dozens of you!)...

Scott, the cover is full of postage stamps from all over the world.

Happy New Year to all and 73,
Gary (the other one)

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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 14:26:11 GMT
From: news.sprintlink.net!dg-rtp!webo!dg-webo![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <2gdjdr$[e-mail]>ri
Reply-To : [e-mail]
Subject : Re: DEP May Impose Fees On YOU!

In article <2gdjdr$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Sherrod Munday) writes:
|>
|> I wouldn't worry too much... After all, most (almost all?) devices
|> which
|> operate with radio frequency have to have emissions within safe
|> limits in
|> order to be sold.  (Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the only
|> thing
|> which would make sense to me.  So it doesn't sound like they will
|> make too
|> much  money off this scheme, if this rumor is indeed true (And to
|> that
|> end, I make no claims and heave no evidence either way)).
|>

I heard a broadcast of the Ham Radio Newsline on 1/4/94.  In it they
mentioned
a per antenna fee.  I got a very distinct impression that this bill is
directed
at RF transmitting equipment.

I would worry.  There may be exemptions planned, but it may increase
taxes in
your town as well as limit your amateur privleges.   All of my town's
vechicles
have tramsmitters, as well as the handhelds they operate.

Oh, almost forgot.  The per antenna fee mentioned was $600.00.

Between the comercial and amateur communities in NJ, I would think there
is
enough clout to stop this.   Of course if no one does anything,
well....

Phil


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Date: 7 Jan 1994 02:27:04 GMT
From: olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!grissom.larc.nasa.gov![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2gdjdr$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>ec
Subject : Re: DEP May Impose Fees On YOU!

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>I heard a broadcast of the Ham Radio Newsline on 1/4/94.  In it they
>mentioned
>a per antenna fee.  I got a very distinct impression that this bill is
>directed
>at RF transmitting equipment.

Yes, but everything with an oscillator in it is RF transmitting equipment.
If you don't believe me, put a radio next to your terminal. It's radiating
plenty.  Inadvertently perhaps, but still enough to tax.

What?  You won't tax it because it doesn't radiate enough?  Well what
about Joe QRP over here, who is running a few miliwatts with a transmitter
powered by rotting tomatoes?  How can you tax him?

It just gets so difficult to devise a law to do what everybody expects it
to do that it either gets thrown away or turns into an unenforceable mess.
And hey, maybe it'll encourage QRP operation?  We can always hope...
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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