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- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 21:28:34 PST
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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #357
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-
- Info-Hams Digest Thu, 31 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 357
-
- Today's Topics:
- Ham Radio FTP area on World
- Kill that intermod!
- ORBS$091.2L.AMSAT
- ORBS$091.MICRO.AMSAT
- ORBS$091.OSCAR.AMSAT
- ORBS$091.WEATH.AMSAT
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-
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 21:00:19 MST
- From: tribune.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!rec-radio-info@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: Ham Radio FTP area on World
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- This is a periodic reminder that the Boston Amateur Radio Club maintains an
- FTP area on world.std.com (192.74.137.5) in pub/hamradio.
-
- This area is accessible via: anonymous ftp, gopher, and World Wide Web
- (and possibly other methods I'm not yet aware of). World is not
- *fsp*-able yet (I asked them).
-
- Via Gopher, the easiest path to the area is by selecting the following
- from World's main menu:
-
- 18. Membership and Professional Associations
-
- 3. Boston Amateur Radio Club
-
- And go from there...
-
- Please feel free to browse through the area.
-
- If anyone has any questions about it, please do not hesitate to e-mail me.
-
- Also, up-to-date copies of the files on the ARRL's information server
- (info@arrl.org) are available in the directory pub/hamradio/ARRL/Server-files.
-
- All text files are uncompressed, so they are both retrievable and
- viewable via Gopher and World Wide Web. (If you have any troubles with
- any text file, please e-mail me).
-
- Source code for programs is always welcome. It can permit people to use
- those programs on other computers with other operating systems.
-
- Scott
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 31 Mar 1994 21:59:11 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!kabuki.EECS.Berkeley.EDU!kennish@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Kill that intermod!
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <CnJpA6.6C@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, Alan Bloom <alanb@sr.hp.com> wrote:
- >The only problem is that it might be hard to get at the output of the
- >radio's front-end filter for testing. Another method to obtain the
- >same information would be to plot the 3rd-order intercept point as a
- >function of tone spacing. Plot it with tone spacing (frequency)
- >on a logarithmic axis so you can get in-band and out-of-band info
- >on the same chart. That would actually be more useful information
- >than Ken's method.
-
- How about just using the squelch break as an indicator. That's
- the event that is annoying anyhow, and that's what the user
- will see. The problem with the IP3 vs. tone spacing is that
- you have lots of combinations. A 5 MHz spacing in band may
- behave differently than 5 MHZ out of band since the overall
- sensitivity is different. If you know what level of
- signals cause the non-linearity, and know the transfer function,
- you will be able to compute the intermod rejection the tone
- pair of your choice -- I agree with Al that his method will
- create a nice graph, and may be easier to interpret.
-
-
- >I'm not sure what the block diagrams of these radios look like, but if
- >they are using a low-frequency first IF (10.7 or 21.4 MHz) without
- >image-reject mixers, then the image rejection will be 0 dB. How do
- >they get around the problem? Up-convert to a high first IF?
-
- No, use an adjustable image reject filter. My FT-530 has
- a set of three varactor tuned IR filters in the front end.
- Works for image rejection, horrible for intermod. That's how
- an old analog AM radio works, though they use a set of auxiliary
- caps in the main tuning capacitor instead of varactors.
-
- The FT-530 uses a single BJT for a mixer for UHF, and a single
- JFET for VHF -- yes CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP
-
- The Yaesu uses a 15.25 MHz for VHF and 47.225 MHz for UHF.
- I suppose it would have been better for them to use a high
- IF for VHF also, but then you get IF interference when in
- dual band receive. Gee, I wonder how ICOM is dealing with
- these problems in their tri-bander.....
-
- -Ken
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Apr 94 03:53:00 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: ORBS$091.2L.AMSAT
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-091.N
- 2Line Orbital Elements 091.AMSAT
-
- HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT
- FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX April 1, 1994
- BID: $ORBS-091.N
-
- DECODE 2-LINE ELSETS WITH THE FOLLOWING KEY:
- 1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ
- 2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ
- KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN
- G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM
-
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- AO-10
- 1 14129U 83058B 94090.04857020 -.00000126 00000-0 10000-3 0 2727
- 2 14129 27.1828 334.6164 6021586 166.4731 222.3171 2.05878019 81175
- UO-11
- 1 14781U 84021B 94088.54614116 .00000310 00000-0 60435-4 0 6772
- 2 14781 97.7907 106.9891 0011724 159.5745 200.5932 14.69179967538610
- RS-10/11
- 1 18129U 87054A 94087.86953292 .00000048 00000-0 35789-4 0 8859
- 2 18129 82.9247 28.2040 0010048 247.5026 112.5060 13.72333957338899
- AO-13
- 1 19216U 88051B 94089.57476926 -.00000405 00000-0 10000-4 0 8979
- 2 19216 57.8673 260.4952 7210521 338.0957 2.2906 2.09726187 44366
- FO-20
- 1 20480U 90013C 94089.46791516 -.00000026 00000-0 82466-5 0 6724
- 2 20480 99.0274 256.2045 0541263 157.7469 204.8111 12.83224806194031
- AO-21
- 1 21087U 91006A 94087.23338553 .00000093 00000-0 82657-4 0 4487
- 2 21087 82.9383 202.5987 0035057 312.0281 47.7812 13.74536472158468
- RS-12/13
- 1 21089U 91007A 94087.91832396 .00000073 00000-0 62203-4 0 6754
- 2 21089 82.9180 70.9759 0029421 335.5442 24.4319 13.74038100157622
- ARSENE
- 1 22654U 93031B 94089.09349977 -.00000105 00000-0 00000 0 0 2486
- 2 22654 1.5156 104.5135 2923641 175.5080 188.1427 1.42202601 77
- UO-14
- 1 20437U 90005B 94089.78002368 .00000055 00000-0 38442-4 0 9775
- 2 20437 98.5902 175.6151 0011994 63.2614 296.9794 14.29833748218380
- AO-16
- 1 20439U 90005D 94089.20880979 .00000052 00000-0 37099-4 0 7778
- 2 20439 98.6002 176.2024 0012329 65.1942 295.0533 14.29888159218318
- DO-17
- 1 20440U 90005E 94089.24080620 .00000063 00000-0 41255-4 0 7769
- 2 20440 98.5996 176.5305 0012438 64.3153 295.9310 14.30027317218339
- WO-18
- 1 20441U 90005F 94090.19431294 .00000051 00000-0 36697-4 0 7786
- 2 20441 98.6012 177.4806 0013046 61.5324 298.7177 14.30002526218473
- LO-19
- 1 20442U 90005G 94089.26815097 .00000060 00000-0 40132-4 0 7767
- 2 20442 98.6013 176.8020 0013338 63.8292 296.4260 14.30097329218359
- UO-22
- 1 21575U 91050B 94088.19621400 .00000082 00000-0 42436-4 0 4782
- 2 21575 98.4399 164.2896 0007602 162.2933 197.8526 14.36902851141598
- KO-23
- 1 22077U 92052B 94089.40023487 -.00000037 00000-0 10000-3 0 3735
- 2 22077 66.0807 84.9415 0012132 306.9711 53.0198 12.86285590 76650
- AO-27
- 1 22825U 93061C 94090.23004933 .00000064 00000-0 43978-4 0 2745
- 2 22825 98.6599 166.8062 0009628 75.4070 284.8171 14.27615820 26560
- IO-26
- 1 22826U 93061D 94090.21670618 .00000050 00000-0 37923-4 0 2741
- 2 22826 98.6600 166.8192 0010132 76.2498 283.9812 14.27718516 26561
- KO-25
- 1 22830U 93061H 94089.19391177 .00000061 00000-0 41952-4 0 2773
- 2 22830 98.5601 163.8935 0012606 49.5068 310.7222 14.28043381 26423
- NOAA-9
- 1 15427U 84123A 94081.96146229 .00000121 00000-0 88127-4 0 7596
- 2 15427 99.0648 131.4010 0015937 101.6666 258.6297 14.13600524478169
- NOAA-10
- 1 16969U 86073A 94082.90887763 .00000064 00000-0 45657-4 0 6589
- 2 16969 98.5123 94.5094 0012333 216.3165 143.7179 14.24874536390466
- MET-2/17
- 1 18820U 88005A 94089.18881615 .00000060 00000-0 40354-4 0 2751
- 2 18820 82.5443 331.4359 0018219 45.0857 315.1779 13.84712261311424
- MET-3/2
- 1 19336U 88064A 94089.83574800 .00000051 00000-0 10000-3 0 2727
- 2 19336 82.5443 19.1260 0018339 97.2779 263.0433 13.16965918272948
- NOAA-11
- 1 19531U 88089A 94083.23885812 .00000062 00000-0 58133-4 0 5722
- 2 19531 99.1670 70.0925 0012545 15.7107 344.4450 14.12969487283226
- MET-2/18
- 1 19851U 89018A 94089.36906685 .00000056 00000-0 36961-4 0 2749
- 2 19851 82.5194 206.7454 0015814 87.7360 272.5605 13.84360092256784
- MET-3/3
- 1 20305U 89086A 94090.37821933 .00000044 00000-0 10000-3 0 149
- 2 20305 82.5542 323.7875 0006847 112.9105 247.2662 13.04412938212758
- MET-2/19
- 1 20670U 90057A 94088.50123196 .00000024 00000-0 79036-5 0 7761
- 2 20670 82.5419 271.7609 0017267 14.3017 345.8619 13.84189951189594
- FY-1/2
- 1 20788U 90081A 94090.21888621 -.00000052 00000-0 -61897-5 0 9301
- 2 20788 98.8335 112.8405 0013476 222.0473 137.9657 14.01311217182780
- MET-2/20
- 1 20826U 90086A 94089.84563327 .00000049 00000-0 31369-4 0 7851
- 2 20826 82.5242 208.2980 0011952 268.4342 91.5449 13.83575783176926
- MET-3/4
- 1 21232U 91030A 94089.43280640 .00000051 00000-0 10000-3 0 6830
- 2 21232 82.5388 225.2547 0014229 26.7101 333.4745 13.16460745140997
- NOAA-12
- 1 21263U 91032A 94074.00396538 .00000180 00000-0 10013-3 0 9646
- 2 21263 98.6278 103.8182 0013418 145.8585 214.3456 14.22379795147143
- MET-3/5
- 1 21655U 91056A 94088.27818630 .00000051 00000-0 10000-3 0 6902
- 2 21655 82.5574 173.1754 0014560 41.6370 318.5859 13.16828652125949
- MET-2/21
- 1 22782U 93055A 94089.43710956 .00000034 00000-0 16948-4 0 2855
- 2 22782 82.5458 268.8400 0023835 84.7709 275.6182 13.83003171 29200
- POSAT
- 1 22829U 93061G 94089.68812903 .00000066 00000-0 44108-4 0 2670
- 2 22829 98.6555 166.3095 0011064 65.4928 294.7409 14.28014942 26490
- MIR
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- 2 16609 51.6462 216.9197 0015558 91.3363 268.9434 15.58441517493803
- HUBBLE
- 1 20580U 90037B 94089.87951733 .00001063 00000-0 91113-4 0 4621
- 2 20580 28.4691 18.9736 0006088 352.0216 8.0277 14.90551165 17696
- GRO
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- 2 21225 28.4619 72.9760 0003357 25.2579 334.8185 15.40487736 44468
- UARS
- 1 21701U 91063B 94088.55112080 -.00002513 00000-0 -19868-3 0 4983
- 2 21701 56.9828 118.1810 0004332 96.2144 263.9383 14.96463997139015
- /EX
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Apr 94 03:47:00 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: ORBS$091.MICRO.AMSAT
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-091.D
- Orbital Elements 091.MICROS
-
- HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR THE MICROSATS
- FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX April 1, 1994
- BID: $ORBS-091.D
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- Satellite: UO-14
- Catalog number: 20437
- Epoch time: 94089.78002368
- Element set: 977
- Inclination: 98.5902 deg
- RA of node: 175.6151 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0011994
- Arg of perigee: 63.2614 deg
- Mean anomaly: 296.9794 deg
- Mean motion: 14.29833748 rev/day
- Decay rate: 5.5e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 21838
- Checksum: 351
-
- Satellite: AO-16
- Catalog number: 20439
- Epoch time: 94089.20880979
- Element set: 777
- Inclination: 98.6002 deg
- RA of node: 176.2024 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0012329
- Arg of perigee: 65.1942 deg
- Mean anomaly: 295.0533 deg
- Mean motion: 14.29888159 rev/day
- Decay rate: 5.2e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 21831
- Checksum: 325
-
- Satellite: DO-17
- Catalog number: 20440
- Epoch time: 94089.24080620
- Element set: 776
- Inclination: 98.5996 deg
- RA of node: 176.5305 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0012438
- Arg of perigee: 64.3153 deg
- Mean anomaly: 295.9310 deg
- Mean motion: 14.30027317 rev/day
- Decay rate: 6.3e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 21833
- Checksum: 297
-
- Satellite: WO-18
- Catalog number: 20441
- Epoch time: 94090.19431294
- Element set: 778
- Inclination: 98.6012 deg
- RA of node: 177.4806 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0013046
- Arg of perigee: 61.5324 deg
- Mean anomaly: 298.7177 deg
- Mean motion: 14.30002526 rev/day
- Decay rate: 5.1e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 21847
- Checksum: 294
-
- Satellite: LO-19
- Catalog number: 20442
- Epoch time: 94089.26815097
- Element set: 776
- Inclination: 98.6013 deg
- RA of node: 176.8020 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0013338
- Arg of perigee: 63.8292 deg
- Mean anomaly: 296.4260 deg
- Mean motion: 14.30097329 rev/day
- Decay rate: 6.0e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 21835
- Checksum: 312
-
- Satellite: UO-22
- Catalog number: 21575
- Epoch time: 94088.19621400
- Element set: 478
- Inclination: 98.4399 deg
- RA of node: 164.2896 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0007602
- Arg of perigee: 162.2933 deg
- Mean anomaly: 197.8526 deg
- Mean motion: 14.36902851 rev/day
- Decay rate: 8.2e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 14159
- Checksum: 332
-
- Satellite: KO-23
- Catalog number: 22077
- Epoch time: 94089.40023487
- Element set: 373
- Inclination: 66.0807 deg
- RA of node: 84.9415 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0012132
- Arg of perigee: 306.9711 deg
- Mean anomaly: 53.0198 deg
- Mean motion: 12.86285590 rev/day
- Decay rate: -3.7e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 7665
- Checksum: 306
-
- Satellite: AO-27
- Catalog number: 22825
- Epoch time: 94090.23004933
- Element set: 274
- Inclination: 98.6599 deg
- RA of node: 166.8062 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0009628
- Arg of perigee: 75.4070 deg
- Mean anomaly: 284.8171 deg
- Mean motion: 14.27615820 rev/day
- Decay rate: 6.4e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 2656
- Checksum: 317
-
- Satellite: IO-26
- Catalog number: 22826
- Epoch time: 94090.21670618
- Element set: 274
- Inclination: 98.6600 deg
- RA of node: 166.8192 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0010132
- Arg of perigee: 76.2498 deg
- Mean anomaly: 283.9812 deg
- Mean motion: 14.27718516 rev/day
- Decay rate: 5.0e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 2656
- Checksum: 309
-
- Satellite: KO-25
- Catalog number: 22830
- Epoch time: 94089.19391177
- Element set: 277
- Inclination: 98.5601 deg
- RA of node: 163.8935 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0012606
- Arg of perigee: 49.5068 deg
- Mean anomaly: 310.7222 deg
- Mean motion: 14.28043381 rev/day
- Decay rate: 6.1e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 2642
- Checksum: 300
-
- /EX
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Apr 94 03:45:00 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: ORBS$091.OSCAR.AMSAT
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-091.O
- Orbital Elements 091.OSCAR
-
- HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES
- FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX April 1, 1994
- BID: $ORBS-091.O
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- Satellite: AO-10
- Catalog number: 14129
- Epoch time: 94090.04857020
- Element set: 272
- Inclination: 27.1828 deg
- RA of node: 334.6164 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.6021586
- Arg of perigee: 166.4731 deg
- Mean anomaly: 222.3171 deg
- Mean motion: 2.05878019 rev/day
- Decay rate: -1.26e-06 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 8117
- Checksum: 283
-
- Satellite: UO-11
- Catalog number: 14781
- Epoch time: 94088.54614116
- Element set: 677
- Inclination: 97.7907 deg
- RA of node: 106.9891 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0011724
- Arg of perigee: 159.5745 deg
- Mean anomaly: 200.5932 deg
- Mean motion: 14.69179967 rev/day
- Decay rate: 3.10e-06 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 53861
- Checksum: 341
-
- Satellite: RS-10/11
- Catalog number: 18129
- Epoch time: 94087.86953292
- Element set: 885
- Inclination: 82.9247 deg
- RA of node: 28.2040 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0010048
- Arg of perigee: 247.5026 deg
- Mean anomaly: 112.5060 deg
- Mean motion: 13.72333957 rev/day
- Decay rate: 4.8e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 33889
- Checksum: 316
-
- Satellite: AO-13
- Catalog number: 19216
- Epoch time: 94089.57476926
- Element set: 897
- Inclination: 57.8673 deg
- RA of node: 260.4952 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.7210521
- Arg of perigee: 338.0957 deg
- Mean anomaly: 2.2906 deg
- Mean motion: 2.09726187 rev/day
- Decay rate: -4.05e-06 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 4436
- Checksum: 338
-
- Satellite: FO-20
- Catalog number: 20480
- Epoch time: 94089.46791516
- Element set: 672
- Inclination: 99.0274 deg
- RA of node: 256.2045 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0541263
- Arg of perigee: 157.7469 deg
- Mean anomaly: 204.8111 deg
- Mean motion: 12.83224806 rev/day
- Decay rate: -2.6e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 19403
- Checksum: 305
-
- Satellite: AO-21
- Catalog number: 21087
- Epoch time: 94087.23338553
- Element set: 448
- Inclination: 82.9383 deg
- RA of node: 202.5987 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0035057
- Arg of perigee: 312.0281 deg
- Mean anomaly: 47.7812 deg
- Mean motion: 13.74536472 rev/day
- Decay rate: 9.3e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 15846
- Checksum: 318
-
- Satellite: RS-12/13
- Catalog number: 21089
- Epoch time: 94087.91832396
- Element set: 675
- Inclination: 82.9180 deg
- RA of node: 70.9759 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0029421
- Arg of perigee: 335.5442 deg
- Mean anomaly: 24.4319 deg
- Mean motion: 13.74038100 rev/day
- Decay rate: 7.3e-07 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 15762
- Checksum: 315
-
- Satellite: ARSENE
- Catalog number: 22654
- Epoch time: 94089.09349977
- Element set: 248
- Inclination: 1.5156 deg
- RA of node: 104.5135 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.2923641
- Arg of perigee: 175.5080 deg
- Mean anomaly: 188.1427 deg
- Mean motion: 1.42202601 rev/day
- Decay rate: -1.05e-06 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 7
- Checksum: 273
-
- /EX
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 1 Apr 94 03:49:00 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: ORBS$091.WEATH.AMSAT
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-091.W
- Orbital Elements 091.WEATHER
-
- HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR WEATHER SATELLITES
- FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX April 1, 1994
- BID: $ORBS-091.W
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- Satellite: NOAA-9
- Catalog number: 15427
- Epoch time: 94081.96146229
- Element set: 759
- Inclination: 99.0648 deg
- RA of node: 131.4010 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0015937
- Arg of perigee: 101.6666 deg
- Mean anomaly: 258.6297 deg
- Mean motion: 14.13600524 rev/day
- Decay rate: 1.21e-06 rev/day^2
- Epoch rev: 47816
- Checksum: 312
-
- Satellite: NOAA-10
- Catalog number: 16969
- Epoch time: 94082.90887763
- Element set: 658
- Inclination: 98.5123 deg
- RA of node: 94.5094 deg
- Eccentricity: 0.0012333
- Arg of perigee: 216.3165 deg
- Mean anomaly: 143.7179 deg
- Mean motion: 14.24874536 rev/day
- Decay rate: 6.4e-07 rev/day^2
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-
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 21:00:13 MST
- From: tribune.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!rec-radio-info@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: Welcome to rec.radio.info!
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Archive-name: radio/rec-radio-info/welcome
- Last-modified: $Date: 1994/01/02 22:00 $
- Version: $Revision: 1.06 $
-
- *** Welcome to rec.radio.info! ***
-
- Welcome to rec.radio.info, a group that aims to provide a noise-free source
- of information and news for the entire rec.radio hierarchy.
-
- Two introductory articles about rec.radio.info are posted to the group and
- to news.answers every two weeks. You are now reading the first article, which
- explains what rec.radio.info is, and answers some Frequently Asked Questions.
- The second article is titled "Submission Guidelines", and you only need to
- read it if you want to submit an article to rec.radio.info.
-
- You can skip to the next section of this article by searching for the next
- " -- " string. The sections available are:
- - What is the purpose of rec.radio.info?
- - Why are messages almost always cross posted to rec.radio.info?
- - What is a 'follow-up', and what does 'moderated' mean?
- - OK, so now I know what 'moderated' means. Tell me more.
- - What type of material is considered inappropriate?
- - I do not have access to news, how can I get the information posted to
- rec.radio.info?
- - Will the material appearing in rec.radio.info be archived somewhere?
- - I have a regular posting with timely information, is there a way to
- speed up it's delivery, or automate for more convenience?
-
- -- What is the purpose of rec.radio.info?
-
- The purpose or charter of rec.radio.info is to provide the Usenet community with
- a resource for information, news, and facts about any and all things radio.
-
- All the other rec.radio groups are intended for discussions and general chit
- chat about radio. Rec.radio.info will contain informational, factual articles
- only. Follow-ups are redirected to an appropriate other group, and further
- discussion (if any) will not take place in rec.radio.info.
-
- In order to ensure that rec.radio.info contains only appropriate articles, it
- was decided to create the group as a moderated newsgroup.
-
- -- Why are messages almost always cross posted to rec.radio.info?
-
- It provides a "tag" for each article to be assembled into a filtered
- presentation in rec.radio.info (even with cross-posting, only one message, with
- a unique Message-ID, is propogated across the net). This tag also facilitates
- a pre-existing method of dropping or cancelling the articles locally within the
- discussion groups if you don't want to see them. This accommodates individuals
- who want to separate the bulletins from the discussions, discussions from the
- bulletins, as well as those who are adamant about not reading another
- newsgroup and wanted to see everything all in one basket.
-
- With the total size of Usenet (in number of newsgroups and total traffic)
- doubling every year or so, this is no insignificant contribution to reducing
- information noise and chaos. Making the discussion groups a catch-all, and
- making extra newsgroups filters on that catch-all, is also the most realistic
- way to implement such a scheme (It's not intuitively obvious what the charter,
- contents, and general appropriate topics for each and every newsgroup are.
- Seeing FAQ's and charter/intro postings in the home newsgroup is beneficial
- for new readers).
-
- By cross-posting one only is adding a few tens of bytes to each bulletin (to
- specify the extra group on the Newsgroups line), but are adding the capability
- for very powerful filtering features available on most news servers,
- listservers and readers. Your local news guru could probably explain these
- features in more detail.
-
- In rn, for example, according to Leanne Phillips in her rn kill-file FAQ, add
- a line of the form:
- /Newsgroups:.*[ ,]rec\.radio\.info/h:j
- either in ~/News/KILL (if you don't want to see rec.radio.info articles
- anywhere) or ~/News/rec/radio/amateur/misc/KILL (if you don't want to see them
- just in rec.radio.amateur.misc). The latter method means your kill file will
- only be consulted during rec.radio.amateur.misc (and hence runs more
- efficiently), and will probably work for most people.
-
- In nn, according to Bill Wohler in his nn FAQ, add a line of the form:
- rec.radio.info:!s/:^
- in ~/.nn/kill (if you don't want to see rec.radio.info articles anywhere), or
- put the following lines:
- sequence
- rec.radio.info
- rec.radio.
- at the end of ~/.nn/init in order to see all the rec.radio.info bulletins first,
- then read the remaining rec.radio.* without the bulletins.
-
- -- What is a 'follow-up', and what does 'moderated' mean?
-
- If you are new to Usenet and are not familiar with the terminology, you might
- want to read the general introductory articles found in the newsgroup
- news.announce.newusers. Doing so will make your life on the net much easier,
- and will probably save you from making silly beginner's mistakes.
-
- If you think that at this moment you are reading an echo, a conference, or
- a bulletin board, I'd also strongly suggest a trip over to
- news.announce.newusers.
-
- For the rest of this article, I will assume you have a basic knowledge of
- Usenet terminology and mechanics.
-
- A moderated group means that any article that needs to be posted to the group
- has to be accepted by the moderator of the group. Since we need to ensure that
- followups to an article (discussion) do not show up in the rec.radio.info
- newsgroup, the `Followup-To:' header line contains a newsgroup that is
- appropriate for disussions about the specific article.
-
- -- OK, so now I know what 'moderated' means. Tell me more.
-
- Rec.radio.info is a moderated newsgroup, which means that all articles
- submitted to the group will have to be approved by the moderator first.
-
- The current moderator of the group is Mark Salyzyn. Submissions to
- rec.radio.info can be posted, or e-mailed to:
-
- rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
-
- Comments, criticisms, suggestions or questions about the group can be e-mailed
- to:
- rec-radio-request@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
-
- But before you do so, please be sure to check out the "Submission Guidelines"
- article.
-
- The influence of the moderator should be minimal and of an administrative
- nature, consisting chiefly of weeding out obviously inappropriate articles,
- while making sure correct headers etc. are used for the appropriate ones.
-
- -- What type of material is considered inappropriate?
-
- There are three broad categories of articles which will be rejected by the
- moderator:
-
- 1) Requests for information: rec.radio.info is strictly a one-way street. I
- receive information in my mailbox; I then post it to rec.radio.info.
- Requests for specific information belong in the normal discussion newsgroups.
- If your request gets answered, you might consider passing the answer on to
- rec.radio.info, though. Especially if you can edit it into a informational,
- rather than a discussion, format.
-
- 2) Obvious discussion articles, or articles that appear unsubstantiated.
-
- 3) Commercial stuff: a relatively unbiased test of a radio product would be
- accepted, but any hint of for-profit might be reason for rejection. For three
- reasons: This is not the purpose of the list, for-profit is a controversial
- topic, and this list may be passed onto Amateur Packet Radio (where
- for-profit is prohibited except under certain provisos).
-
- rec.radio.swap (or possibly comp.newprod) may be more deserving of the
- posting in any matter.
-
- Similarly, copyrighted material generally cannot be used. If it's TRULY
- worthwhile to the net, I would recommend obtaining permission from the
- copyright holder. Please note the source, and if permission was given. I
- reserve the right to make the final decision concerning appropriateness in
- all situations. In most cases, a brief summary of, or pointer to, the
- copyrighted information may be all I can allow.
-
- -- I do not have access to news, how can I get the information posted to
- rec.radio.info?
-
- brian@UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) has kindly supplied a mail list server for
- rec.radio.info. Non of the articles will be digested, due to their size, so
- you will receive individual mailings for every article posted to the group.
-
- Mail sent to radio-info@ucsd.edu will be forwarded to the moderator and
- thus is an alias to rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
-
- To subscribe and unsubscribe via the listserver; the format for that is
-
- sub address radio-info
- unsub address radio-info
-
- where 'address' is your full mailing address. Send this request to
-
- listserv@ucsd.edu
-
- Note that the server will automatically delete any address that bounces mail.
- If you leave the address portion blank, it will try to deduce your address
- from the mail headers. This may not work if you are on bitnet, milnet or
- some other non-Unix host, so it is recommended to put your return address
- in any case. For example:
-
- sub mymailbox@myhost.mydomain.mil radio-info
- or
- sub MEMEME01@DMBHST.bitnet radio-info
-
- or something like that.
-
- -- Will the material appearing in rec.radio.info be archived somewhere?
-
- Yes. Still firming up details at the moment but here is a preliminary list:
- - unbc.edu as maintained by Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@unbc.edu>
- - nic.funet.fi maintained by Risto Kotalampi <rko@cs.tut.fi>
- saved to /pub/dx/text/rec.radio.info currently stored as
- numbered files.
-
- Effectively this means that anything you post to rec.radio.info will be
- permanently stored, so your work will not be lost.
-
- -- I have a regular posting with timely information, is there a way to
- speed up it's delivery, or automate for more convenience?
-
- Yes, there is! It may take a bit of chatter with the moderator, but we are
- willing to take responsible people and provide them the means of posting the
- articles directly from their site. We will try everything we can as we fully
- realize that DX (distant signal) and astronomical data can be somewhat
- transitory. We are also willing to allow regular posters of information the
- same courtesy, even if the information is not as time critical.
-
- We refer to this as self-moderation, which is partly based on the model for
- news.answer. This requires co-operation and good will to be beneficial to
- the community in the rec.radio hierarchy.
-
- I suggest reading the posting guidelines for more information. I am open to
- suggestions.
-
- I thank the following individuals for their input into this article:
- rec.music.info moderator Leo Breebaart rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
- rec.radio.broadcasting moderator Bill Pfeiffer wdp@gagme.chi.il.us
- Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU pschleck@unomaha.edu
- Ian Kluft, KD6EUI ikluft@uts.amdahl.com
-
- --
- Mark Salyzyn -- Moderator rec.radio.info
- Submissions to: rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
- Administrivia to: rec-radio-request@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
- * Requests for information do *not* belong in rec.radio.info *
-
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