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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #326
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-
- Info-Hams Digest Thu, 24 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 326
-
- Today's Topics:
- 10 GHz EME question
- Anyone gotten Dayton spaces yet?
- CD-ROM QRZ! vs Buckmaster
- FT-530 Receive Problem Followup
- Grid Squares & Lat/Long (2 msgs)
- Hamfest Listing
- Info-Hams Digest V94 #325
- Kenwood (TS-850) Computer Interface Info Wanted
- Latest callsigns assigned list?
- Regency Radio
- Scanner Laws in Northern VA?
- Software-general exam
- Voice mail on a repeater?
- want Propagation Algorithm
-
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-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 22:36:42 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!vipunen.hut.fi!jsi@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: 10 GHz EME question
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- > Is 46m dish any better than a 4m dish on 10 GHz EME ?
-
- 10 GHz EME with a big dish has been tried before. In June 1987 OH2TI, RC of
- Helsinki University of Technology, together with OH2AV, RC of Nokia
- Corporation, put a serious effort to make the first ever 10 GHz
- EME contact with Goliardo Tomasetti, I4BER. Antennas used were 14m and 32m
- radiotelescopes in Helsinki and Bologna, respectively. At OH2TI, we had a
- 8W TWT while I4BER was running 1W. The result was a one-way QSO. I4BER heard
- us with a good signal but we didn't copy him. We had started, due to some
- delays in Bologna, well behind schedule and run soon out of time. At the same
- time we figured out that we had been listening him on a wrong frequency,
- Goliardo called us to tell that he had to go QRT. The radioastronomers wanted
- to have their antenna back to real research. Well, I thought that's exactly
- what we were doing ... ;-)
-
- With some more time available it might has well been a two-way contact.
- Unfortunately, we never got a second chance because it turned out to be
- impossible to find a common time slot during the next months, both antennas
- being in intensive research use. A few months after our experiment we lost the
- 10 GHz EME band in Finland to "paying customers". So, that was the end of it.
- As everyone knows the W5s and W7s made the first ever 10 GHz EME QSO on
- Aug 1988, about a year after our test. This year it looks like we will get
- the band back (10.368 - 10.370 GHz), so who knows what will happen.
-
- So, what kind of signals did we experience ? Well, our own echoes were strong
- and solid. Every single dash and dot was returned unchanged off the moon (for
- more than 30 mins ). The signal was clean, not distorted like some of the Ws
- with smaller dishes have reported. Maybe this was due to the narrow beamwidth
- (0.17 degrees). It is hard to estimate the S/N but I would say it was around
- 10 dB. Theoretically our echoes should have been (with the NF 4.2 dB Rx)
- about 20 dB above noise. To refresh my memory I just listened the two
- tapes again. The first one contains OH2TI's echoes recorded by myself. The
- other one contains our echoes recorded by I4BER. On both tapes the signal is
- clean and solid. The rapid libration fading is there but it's not bad. On
- 432 MHz I have got used to much worse (with OH2PO's 16m dish, 3 deg bw).
-
- A quick calculation shows that with same power and same Rx but a 4m dish our
- own echoes would have been 1 dB below the noise ! A 4m dish has a beamwidth
- of about 0.5 degrees, so this clearly proves that it pays off to have bigger
- antenna on transmit. In the case of VE3ONT things get trickier because
- a 46m dish has a much smaller beamwidth (0.05 deg) than the apparent moon
- diameter and a small dish has a beamwidth equal to or larger than 0.5 degrees.
- This is why VE3ONT will suffer from over 200 K moon temperature while the
- small station has cold sky behind the moon, and thus benefits on receive.
- Does VE3ONT's big gain compensate the lost reflection area ? I don't have
- the answer to this one. It seems to me that the optimum beamwidth is smaller
- than 0.5 degrees. How much smaller, I don't know.
-
- I4BER was hearing his echoes clearly with 1W (68 dB, 0.07 deg). Assuming
- that the NF of his Rx was about the same than ours (I recall it was better),
- I4BER should have heard us 7 dB better than we heard our own echoes,
- providing the under illumination effect was neglible. The tapes are hard to
- compare because mine was recorded with audiofilter on and the other tape was
- recorded without one. I would say however that the signal is stronger on my
- tape. Also, providing the under illumination didn't exist, I4BER should have
- heard his own echoes about 25 dB above noise with his 1W ! I don't think that
- was the case.
-
- Jukka OH6DD Internet: jsi@hut.fi
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 22:36:27 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.net.csuchico.edu!charnel!olivea!news.bu.edu!att-in!fnnews.fnal.gov!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Anyone gotten Dayton spaces yet?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2msbrn$491@gdls.com> turini@gdls.com (Bill Turini) writes:
- >I've been patiently waiting, but have not heard from the Dayton folks
- >about sale spaces. Nor have I heard on the local repeaters about anyone
- >getting a reply. Has anyone out there gotten a space or any comments
- >from the Dayton folks?
- >
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >Bill
- >
-
- I received my tickets and parking permit on 18 Mar. The cancelled check came
- in my bank statement on 20 Mar.
-
- Regards,
-
- Paul Kasley wa9vyb
-
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Batavia, Illinois
- kasley@chip.fnal.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 19:43:36 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!news.boxhill.com!ariel!ken@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: CD-ROM QRZ! vs Buckmaster
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- >> For the CD-ROM users out there, I was wondering if someone could give me
- >> the pro and/or cons of these two CDs. I'm trying to find the best one
- >> (obviously). I've seen QRZ! cd for $29.95 and the HamCall for $50.
- >> Anyplaces I might be able to get them cheaper?
- >> John W. Herndon - jwh@kaiwan.com
- >
- >I have QRZ? and HAMCALL. If it is amateur radio QTHs you need, then
- >my HAMCALL is more comprehensive than my QRZ?. My QRZ only has US and
- >Canadian QTHs but HAMCALL has many other countries. I keep saying *my*
- >version as there may be updated versions by now.
- >Russell Lee G6GL george@golflima.demon.co.uk
-
- I have the QRZ! CDROM, and bought it specifically because the callsign
- databases inside were not encrypted in any way.
- The callsign databases are simply comma-separated one-line-per-call
- text records.
-
- I liked this because I'm using the call database on a UNIX (Sun)
- system, and can easily write database massaging code in Perl.
-
- Oh, and yes, QRZ! was significantly cheaper. I got mine mailorder
- for $15 + shipping.
- $50? I guess the Buck$master name is appropriate.
-
- Can anyone comment regarding pros/cons of the HamCall product?
-
- 73 de Ken N2TIA
-
-
- Perhaps this may sway your decision one way or another.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 19:08:07 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!news.boxhill.com!ariel!ken@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: FT-530 Receive Problem Followup
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- leber@panther.warm.inmet.com (Thomas Leber) wrote:
-
- >Last night, I started playing with the VHF and UHF VFOs simultaneously,
- >and suddenly heard the same type of interference, but this time it
- >was full scale, and it was coming in on the UHF side. A little experimentation
- >indicated that for a given 2 meter frequency, the unit generated a spur at
- >3.172845 times that frequency. Example: 145.13 generates 460.475. The noise is
- >exactly like the weaker noise I hear in 2 meter, but it pegs the S meter.
-
- For what it's worth, I can reproduce this symptom on my FT-530
- exactly. A bit annoying, but I also like the HT a lot.
-
- 73
- Ken Stamm N2TIA BBBB H H i ll ll
- (ken@boxhill.com) B B H H l l
- BoxHill Systems Corporation BBBB ooo x x HHHH ii l l
- 161 Avenue of the Americas B B o o x H H i l l
- New York, NY 10013 BBBB ooo x x H H iii lll lll
- Tel: (212)989-HILL (4455)
- Fax: (212)989-6817 S y s t e m s C o r p o r a t i o n
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:48:19 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!indyvax.iupui.edu!medicine.dmed.iupui.edu!JAY@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Grid Squares & Lat/Long
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Thank you for all the help. I must have written down the wrong figure because
- I am actually at 86' not 89' longatude.
-
- Thanks to everyone for their help! I'll try to be more careful next time.
-
- Jay
-
-
- >: Jay Sissom wrote:
- >: >: Hello!
- >: >
- >: >: Lattitude: 39' 39.303 N
- >: >: Longatude: 89' 10.550 W
-
- >: >: When I feed these numbers into the programs, I get EM59JP. When I
- >: >: look on the map, EM59 is in Illinois and I live in Indianapolis, IN.
- >: >: Is the map wrong, or is the basic program wrong?
- >[other responses deleted . . .]
-
- >april's qst has an article describing how to generate grid squares. take a
- >look.
-
- >regards, richard kd6lwd
-
- >rspear@sookit.jpl.nasa.gov
- >all disclaimers apply
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 22:20:42 GMT
- From: telesoft!garym@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Grid Squares & Lat/Long
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In <2msdd6$ju8@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> wade@n1bwt.enet.dec.com (Paul Wade) writes:
- >-I recently borrowed a GPS device to calculate my Latitude & Longitude.
- >-Lattitude: 39' 39.303 N
- >-Longatude: 89' 10.550 W
-
- This is 3 degrees West of Indianapolis, about 180 nm. If you're in
- Indianapolis (39.77N 86.16W) then the GPS device gave you the wrong numbers
- or you wrote them down wrong.
- --GaryM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 20:35:26 -0500
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!news1.digex.net!access.digex.net!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Hamfest Listing
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I've been searching around for a listing of upcoming hamfests, and have
- been unable to find one. So, I've decided to do the next best thing -
- create my own.
-
- My goal is to periodically post a comprehensive listing of upcoming
- hamfests, for the entire US (if the list gets too large, it could be
- broken up into regions).
-
- This is where you all come in - I need for people to email me with
- details of upcoming hamfests that they are aware of. The information I
- need is:
-
- The name of the hamfest, the location, the date/times, And anything else
- pertinent (cost, name of contact, etc).
-
- Please send the information to me at: cps@access.digex.net
-
- Thanks,
-
- Chris
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Mar 94 00:07:19 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #325
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- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 15:59:47 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!att-out!nntpa!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Kenwood (TS-850) Computer Interface Info Wanted
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <hawley.764522745@aries>,
- Chuck Hawley <hawley@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
- >adam@panix.com (Adam Epstein) writes:
- >
- >
- >> A friend is interested in getting details about the computer
- >>interface "box" used with the Kenwood TS-850. Has anybody built one
- >>for themselves (rather than buying Kenwood's)? Does anybody have
- >>schematics? I'm sure that recommendations of commercially available
- >>software and other hints and kinks would be appreciated as well.
- >>Email to me (adam@panix.com) and I'll forward your replies.
- >
- >> -Thanx
- >> -Adam (N2DHH)
- >The box is just opto isolators on the signal lines driven by and driving
- >ttl to line driver level converters (5v to +/-10v). Look thru QST for an
- >article.....it'll probably cost about the same if you do it right.
- >Chuck Hawley KE9UW.
- >
-
- Check out my article in Feb. 93 QST "Everything You Always Wanted To Know
- About Computer-Controlling Modern Radios" (I didn't pick the title :). It
- has plans for a Kenwood interface that is opto-isolated and implements the
- handshaking lines as well as the data for complete compatibility.
-
- I also still offer the parts kits listed at the end of the article. Prices
- are the same, ($47 for Kenwood kit, $44 for Icom/Yaesu/Ten-Tec) but the
- address is now:
-
- CW Technology
- 7328 Timbercreek Court
- Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1181
-
- COD Orders Only (add $5) at 800-547-7479
-
- The kits include PCB and all board mounted parts. You provide case and
- 8-15V supply.
-
- NOTE: ARRL has the PCB layouts and the parts are readily available - you
- do not have to buy anything from me.
-
- E-mail if you need more info
-
- --
- Wally Blackburn Clinton-Gore - Socialist Leadership
- wrb@ccsitn.cb.att.com for the 90s!
- Amateur Radio Station AA8DX I'm the NRA.
- *More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than from my gun!*
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Mar 1994 03:24:29 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!bigfoot.wustl.edu!cec3!jlw3@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Latest callsigns assigned list?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Bill Northup (northup@hoop.sw.stratus.com) wrote:
- : : I have not seen any postings recently on turnaround actual time.
- : : A few months ago, there were many notes on here giving actual times.
- : : Some were much sooner than reported by the FCC. I guess they were being
- : : conservative in the recorded message.
- : :
- : : Milt, K9QZI
- : :
-
- : The last upgrade that I received (march 12) was 10 weeks.
-
- OK, guys, I've now waited 91 ways--13 weeks, and have heard nothing. Should
- I 1) keep waiting, 2) call W5YI (I took it with them in dallas, and over
- spring break I called--before I could even say my name, they said to keep
- waiting; it was at 12 weeks then) again, or 3) call the FCC? Help me out;
- I'm getting impatient.
-
- --jesse (call goes here)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 17:37:24 -0800
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!barrnet.net!nntp.crl.com!crl2.crl.com!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Regency Radio
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I couldn't find a netnews group for commercial radio questions so... I'm
- looking for someone with a schematic on a Regency(Realm) H256B 16 Channel
- Scan VHF Transvr. I have a transistor Q105 in the control panel bad, it
- is marked Motorola but the number must be for Realm only...
-
- Thanx for the help ....reach me e-mail
-
- Mike Davis
- Atlanta, Ga.
-
- tyton@crl.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:06:25 -0500
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!pbs.org!jernandez.pbs.org!user@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Scanner Laws in Northern VA?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Excuse the interruption. There is a law against carring scanners in
- Northern VA ( and I am sure other states like NJ) unless you have a permit.
- These permits are issued to volunteer rescue workers primarily. My question
- is, "Are licensed Amateur radio operators excused from getting the permit?"
- Thank you in advance.
-
- John J. Ernandez
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 18:25:07 -0600
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Software-general exam
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- : IF anyone knows of the existance of a shareware/freeware program that
- : presents random questions from the current General exam (a practive exam
- : program), please let me know where I might download a copy.
- : Thanks,
- : Joe Coles
- : jcoles@pubcon.fort-worth.tx.us
- : KC5BSK
-
- The following two anonymous ftp sites have question pools for ham radio question
- pools for all classes.
-
- 1). ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:
-
- "/pub/ham-radio/"
- quest-pool-advance, quest-pool-general...etc. in TEXT format.
-
- 2). wuarchive.wustl.edu
- "/systems/ibmpc/msdos/hamradio"
- ext21.zip, adv21.zip, .... nov22.zip which run on IBM PC.
-
- 73
-
- D.J. Wang E-mail: djwang@sneezy.biophys.upenn.edu
- MMRRCC, Radiology Department, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- 418 Service Dr. Basement, Blockley Hall
- Philadelphia, PA 19104
- ( >> Seven weeks and counting.........................)
- ive.wustl.edu
- "/systems/ibmpc/msdos/hamradio"
- ext21.zip, adv21.zip, .... nov22.zip which run on IBM PC.
-
- 73
-
- D.J. Wang E-mail: djwang@sneezy.biophys.upenn.edu
- MMRRCC, Radiology Department, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- 418 Service Dr. Basement, Blockley Hall
- Philadelphia, PA 19104
- ( >> Seven weeks and counting.........................)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:50:27 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Voice mail on a repeater?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <bote.764487800@access3> bote@access.digex.net (John Boteler) writes:
- >
- >Is voice mail something that many hams want on their
- >favorite repeater?
-
- I don't. I don't even want a phonepatch on the repeater. Make that I
- *especially* don't want a phonepatch on a repeater. I want a repeater
- to be as unobtrusive as possible, simply a bent pipe to extend my
- radio range. It's a gathering spot for conversation, not a paging
- service, an answering machine, or a substitute for a cellular phone.
-
- Gary
-
- --
- Gary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
- Destructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
- 534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
- Lawrenceville, GA 30244 | |
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 00:29:49 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rbloom@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: want Propagation Algorithm
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I am trying to obtain material originally written by the BBC
- external services: Propagation algorithms for HF, and a
- model of the Ionosphere, done by Fricker. I have some listings
- but need the original "science documents" that explain
- (otherwise, one has no hope of eliminating errata) them.
-
- Any help appreciated.
- Ron
- WA6MQC
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:08:11 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!arrl.org!zlau@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <2mn2rd$ol0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, <1994Mar23.162557.7558@arrl.org>, <1994Mar24.030016.23680@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>
- Subject : Re: RF and AF speech processors. Was: FT-990 vs TS-850
-
- Gary Coffman (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote:
- : In article <1994Mar23.162557.7558@arrl.org> zlau@arrl.org (Zack Lau (KH6CP)) writes:
-
- : >could prevent this effect? Even before DSP, didn't people use split
- : >band audio processing to reduce the content of harmonics?
-
- : Sure, and still do in broadcasting, but it isn't either easy or cheap,
- : and the results still aren't that great. You have to process in 1/3
- : octave bands, and there are a lot of them at the lower end of the
- : voice spectrum. You also have to adopt a control strategy that doesn't
- : alter the amplitude relationships between octaves too much, or the
- : time relationships *at all*, otherwise you screw up the frequency
- : and phase response on a dynamic basis. That sounds *really* bad,
- : worse than just harmonic distortion. Broadcast engineers seem to
- : spend half their lives tinkering with the audio processing equipment.
- : It's really easier to modulate, limit at RF, filter, and demodulate
- : again rather than process properly at AF.
-
- So why don't these broadcast engineers just use RF
- modulator/clipper/demodulators? :-). There were probably
- others, but even QST published "Audio Processor Using
- RF Clipping" back in February, 1981. The author generated
- a SSB signal using the phasing method and demodulated it
- after clipping.
-
-
-
- --
- Zack Lau KH6CP/1 2 way QRP WAS
- 8 States on 10 GHz
- Internet: zlau@arrl.org 10 grids on 2304 MHz
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 23:26:58 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!world!drt@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <JAY.12.2D905A2E@medicine.dmed.iupui.edu>, <Cn538t.Ht3@world.std.com>, <n1gakCn6KvE.MC9@netcom.com>
- Subject : Re: Grid Squares & Lat/Long
-
- Scott Statton (n1gak@netcom.com) wrote:
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- : Jay Sissom wrote:
- : >: Hello!
- : >
- : >: Lattitude: 39' 39.303 N
- : >: Longatude: 89' 10.550 W
-
- : >: When I feed these numbers into the programs, I get EM59JP. When I
- : >: look on the map, EM59 is in Illinois and I live in Indianapolis, IN.
- : >: Is the map wrong, or is the basic program wrong?
-
- : And Dave Tucker Replies:
- : >
- : >Well, the World Almanac says the coordinates for Indianapolis are
- : >
- : >39.7678 N
- : >86.1628 W
- : >
- : >So I'd say that, gadget or no gadget, your Lat/Long figures are wrong.
-
- : Well -- seeing as 39.65505N x 86.1758 is just a few miles from the
- : figure in the World Almanac, I'd guess that the original article has a
- : typo.
-
- Right, it sure could be a flipped "6". More likely than a typo is a
- transcription error from the GPS device, since the coordinates given in
- the original article really are in Illinois.
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- -drt
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