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Info-Hams Digest            Sat,  1 Oct 94       Volume 94 : Issue 1081

Today's Topics:
                        DOES ANYONE USE 2M AM?
                         Expose - Wouff-Hong
                      Ham Radio & More Stations
                    Radio Shack Violation (2 msgs)
                             TJ1JR ACTIVE

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 16:35:02 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!newstf01.cr1.aol.com!newsbf01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: DOES ANYONE USE 2M AM?
To: [e-mail]

What is the most popular 2 M AM freq? All I have xtals for is 145.380 but
I doubt anyone still uses it.

Does anyone have a schematic for a xtal oscillator to lock a Gonset 2/6 M
AM rig's receiver?

- Rob, N1NTE

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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 13:42:04 GMT
From: newsgate.melpar.esys.com!melpar![e-mail]
Subject: Expose - Wouff-Hong
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Iain Philipps) writes:

>With all the talk of Wouff Hong (sic) I decided to search my magazine
>archives as a research project. Not surprisingly, I turned up a singular
>reference, which I quote below verbatim:-

>"Wouff-Hong:    the ultimate amateur radio torture instrument for those
>                causing unnecessary interference. It was originally
>                mentioned by The Old Man (Hiram Percy Maxim) in a facetious
>                QST magazine editorial decrying rotten QRM (interference).
>                Other fearsome amateur radio torture instruments are the
>                Rettysnitch and the Uggerumph."
>                           - Ham Radio Horizons, July 1978, page 52

>SO ... it would seem that those newsgroup participants who claim membership
>maybe ought to settle down :-)

     Visit an ARRL-sponsored convention, and you will probably find that
there is on the agenda a "Wouff-Hong" initiation scheduled for Midnight
on one of the days the convention is in progress.  Attend the initiation
and learn the secret of why the Wouff-Hong exists and its purpose.  At
the conclusion of the ceremony, you will be given a nice certificate,
suitable for framing, which designates you as a member in the Royal
Order of the Wouff-Hong (R.O.W.H.)

     More than that, I cannot say.....

     73,

       Paul, K4MSG    (R.O.W.H. '76)

(|_|)  Paul H. Bock, Jr. K4MSG     Internet: [e-mail]
 | |)  Principal Systems Engineer  Telephone: [phone] x2062

   "You can have my bug when you can pry my cold, dead fingers from
    around it....." - anonymous radiotelegraph operator

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 22:08:07 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!indirect.com![e-mail]
Subject: Ham Radio & More Stations
To: [e-mail]

Ham Radio & More Station List:
The following list can change often....

Alabama:    WHRT, 860am,  Hartselle
            WAJF, 1490am, Decateur
Arizona:    KFNN, 1510am, Phoenix
Colorado:   KBCO, 1190am, Denver/Boulder
Conneticut: WATR, 1320am, Hartford
Illinois:   WKTA, 1330am, Chicago
            WBGZ, 1570am, Alton
Indiana:    WPDJ, 1300am, Huntington/Ft. Wayne
Kentucky:   WMTA, 1380am, Central City
Massach:    WSSH, 1510am, Boston (50,000 watts)
            WKPE, 1170am, Orleans
Missouri:   WBGZ, 1570am, St. Louis
N. Carolina:WEEB, 990am,  Fayetteville
            WCRY, 1460am, Raleigh/Durham
            WNCT, 1070am, Greenville
Nebraska:   KICS, 1550am, Lincoln
Oklahoma:   KTMC, 1400am, Mcalester
Utah:       K26DI, channel 26 tv, Castledale


Ham Radio & More is on the Talk America Network. It is aired live every Sunday
at 6:00pm EST, originating from Phoenix, Arizona. It can be heard via TVRO
satellite on Spacenet 3, Transponder 9, 6.8 audio. Our toll free listener call-in
line is 1-800-298-TALK. The originating station number is 1-602-241-1510 for more
information. Any radio station can air the show FREE OF CHARGE.

73, Len, KB7LPW

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 15:57:05 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!nntp.msstate.edu!nntp.msstate.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Radio Shack Violation
To: [e-mail]

Is it any more of a `violation' for someone to pick up an ht on the rs
counter and `kerchunk' a repeater as it is for someone who does NOT have
a driver's license to start the engine of a car in a showroom?


If a tree falls in the forest...:-)
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John Patrick Lestrade               |
cnesta::lestrade  or SSL::lestrade  |
[e-mail]             |

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 09:52:44 -0500
From: cs.utexas.edu!convex![e-mail]
Subject: Radio Shack Violation
To: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Parker) writes:

>Just to be curious I went back to the same store.  There
>was a different salesman and I was still able to key the unit.
>I don't know if this is a wide spread problem or only in this
>store but if I was the repeater owner I wouldn't want some
>puttz like me kerr-chunking my repeater.

Does the HTX-202 have a keylock or a PTT lock?  Or is that asking a
bit much for the salesman to invoke  :-)

David

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 18:08:02 -0400
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!newstf01.cr1.aol.com!newsbf01.news.aol.com![e-mail]
Subject: TJ1JR ACTIVE
To: [e-mail]

TJ1JR Randy Jones arrived in Cameroon in July and will by active for the
next four years.  I am his QSL manager.  We meet weekly on the air to
exchange log info, and after we are done, he has indicated that he is
willing to stay on freq for 15-30 mins and work a few stations to give
them a new one.  If you are interested in receiving updates via Internet
as to when and what freq he will be on, send me your Internet address and
ask that you be added to my update mailing list for TJ1JR.  Last week we
were able to put through about 35 stations, so if you don't get through at
first, don't worry.  He will be on weekly.

                     [e-mail]

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 13:16:12 -0700
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <35ut3f$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: Restrictive Covenants: I can't have *any* antenna?

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Tiller) writes:

>So there's no room for a pooly written rule to be challenged where the intend
>is _not_ so  clear?  My reading of that rule's intent is to preclude antennas
>that challenge cable's monopoly, _not_ limit other radio services (such as
>cellular phones, ham radio, etc.)  I think a well reasoned challenge to this
>rule would be a boost to hams and possibly the community by showing how hams
>can help out in times of emergency.  My neighbors know who to come to when
>they've got loved ones they want to contact in a disaster area!!!

Just a quick note of response.  Of course there is room to challenge a
POORLY written rule.  This one is not poorly written in my humble legal
opinion.  If you hired me to look at it, I would tell you not to waste
your $10,000 in legal fees because your chances of beating it are
slim to none.  I would challenge you that you need to read your own
contracts before signing, and that reading this rule clearly bans
outside antennas, regardless of your personal definition of the words
in the rule.  The point is that the "legal" definition of what is
said there is important, not the ham radio "technical" one.  This just
doesn't fly in the Courts I visit.

Your point about hams helping in an emergency is near and dear to a lot
of ham's hearts.  Realistically though, it is NOT important to a majority
of non hams I run into.  I make presentations to townspeople for
antenna permits, and when I mention the hams helping in an emergency,
most of them laugh.  It is embarassing.  The non ham often thinks that
cell phones and the local town have it all together just fine, and there
is no need for these hams to help out.  There is no arguing with a lot
of these folks, they just won't listen.  This sort of attitude is
changeable, possibly, by ALL of us working a little at a time to show
the non hams that ham radio is of great use in an emergency and that
hams are generally very good neighbors.

Clark
.....................

Clark Savage Turner, Graduate Student Researcher

Department of Info. and Computer Science    1514 Verano Place
Irvine, CA. 92717                Irvine, CA. 92715
[phone]                    [phone]

WA3JPG, QRP #3526, active on HF, VHF and UHF.
Admitted to practice law in California, Massachusetts, and New York.
ARRL Volunteer Counsel

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Date: 30 Sep 1994 17:10 CDT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!elroy.uh.edu![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>┤
Subject : Re: Radio Shack Violation

My radio shack keeps the ham HT's behind the counter.  On one occasion I
asked the manager (well, rather quized him) about their policies on the
ham radio equipment.  These were basically the questions I asked, and
the answers he gave:

Brad: Do you know what ham radio is?
Manager: Yes.

Brad: If someone wanted to transmit with the ham equipment, would you ask
    to see their license?
Manager: Yes.

Brad: Would you recognize a ham license if you requested to see it?
Manager: No. I've never seen one.

Brad: Are you aware that their is one class of license that is not authorized
    to transmit with your HT radios?
Manager: No.

Brad: Have you been briefed by your superior(s) on policies concerning ham
    radio equipment that you sell?
Manager: Yes.

Brad: What did they tell you?
Manager: It's ok to sell it to anyone, but remind them to read the
        advisory that comes with the radio.

Brad: What does the advisory say?  Have you ever read it?
Manager: No, I have not read it. But I think it tells the customer not
        to transmit on this radio without a proper license.

Brad: How many radios have you sold?
Manager: I'v personally sold 4, the store has sold about 15, I think.


Well, what do you conclude about our conversation?  I think that upper
and middle Radio Shack management are aware of policies and are instructed
to make sure that Store Managers know the policies, but most store managers
are probably in the dark about what they are actually selling.

I think it might be a good idea that the TX STOP function come ENABLED
from the factory.  Then, the customer should learn how to DISABLE it before
they can talk on the radio.  What do you think?

We also have to keep in mind that Radio Shack, in a nut shell, is not
too much different than other ham stores.  I've walked into ham stores
before and have keyed microphones without the sales person asking to see
a license ... go figure.

--
Brad A. Killebrew N5LJV, EMT-B        | Student of Computer Engr Technology
President, University of Houston ARC  |    University of Houston, Texas
Internet: [e-mail]                |  U of H Amateur Radio Club  WB5FND
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