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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #665
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- Info-Hams Digest Wed, 15 Jun 94 Volume 94 : Issue 665
-
- Today's Topics:
- 1750-meter info?
- FM not working in car radio
- Ham Radio Costs at FCC
- VHF Maritime Outrage!!
-
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- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 07:24:15 GMT
- From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!jherman@ames.arpa
- Subject: 1750-meter info?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2tki4b$sja@newshost.lanl.gov> chris.pearcy@hyperion.lanl.gov (Chris Pearcy) writes:
- >Does anyone have info on the "no-license-required" 1750-meter band
- >(160-190 kHz) or the Panaxis CW transceiver kit for that band? Are
- >there many hobbyists on the band? Thanks.
-
- The ARRL email server has a file devoted to this band. Send an email
- to: info@arrl.org and only write:
- index
- quit
- and you'll receive a very long list of available files. Look for the
- 1750M file and order it according to the instruction.
-
- Jeff NH6IL
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 05:42:39 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!skyld!jangus@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: FM not working in car radio
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <2tlqhb$dhv@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> ehle@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:
-
- > I'm a complete non-radio, non-car person but have a frustrating
- > problem with the radio in my '91 VW Jetta:
- >
- > The FM stations fade out as the temperature cools off. First thing in
- > the morning, I get no FM at all. AM's fine. After the car's been
- > sitting in the sun all day, the FM comes back. If it's been a cool
- > day, or the car's been in the shade, the signal is weak.
- >
- > Can anyone tell me what's wrong and how much it's going to cost. I
- > read none of the newsgroups I'm posting to, so I'd appreciate
- > responses directly to my e-mail. Many thanks.
-
- Best guess based on what little you've told me.
-
- You have a windsheild antenna. It has a break in it. As the windshied
- warms up, the break is bridged and the signal magically appears. The
- cost to repear this is either a simple reseating of the connection
- point at the base (usually) of the windshield or could go as far as
- having to replace the entire windshield assembly.
-
- But it definately sounds like a temperature (i.e. expand/contract)
- related problem.
-
- Please let me know what you find out. I like to know when I guess correctly!
-
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 15 Jun 94 10:54:25 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: Ham Radio Costs at FCC
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- Gary Coffman wrote:
- > We're *not* a big sink to the FCC. They spend on average 8 manhours a
- > week on the amateur service. It's the cheapest to administer service
- > that they regulate.
-
- Let's get a few things straight ! Entering the ham license info into
- the computer at Gettysburg may only require 8 staff hours a week (probably
- not a man). BUT......
- 1) Who buys the paper / pays the postage / etc. ? Who DONATED their
- new computer ? Is there a supervisor ?
- 2) Do the FCC/Washington people like W3BE and secretary and maybe
- an assistant DONATE their time? I thought they were paid. Someone
- has to handle the rulemaking petitions and other harassment from
- the hams at large. Or maybe you want this activity delegated to
- the ARRL...who would doubtless do it for free (NOT!) ;-)
- 3) Do the government people who go to the international allocations
- meetings and fend off a certain number of threats to the bands DONATE
- their time?
- 4) Etc.
- Thinking that amateur radio costs the taxpayer no more than the salary of
- one nice lady who types in the license info one day a week is like thinking
- that the only cost in a broadcasting station is the on-air people. You DO
- work for free, don't you Gary ?
-
- 73 de Bob w3otc@amsat.org
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 03:00:19 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!rsiatl!jgd@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: VHF Maritime Outrage!!
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- n1gak@netcom.com (Scott Statton) writes:
-
- >This is probably an unpopular sentiment, but here goes:
- >AFAIK the US is the ONLY nation that charges $0.00 for a life-time
- >amateur license.
-
- >If kicking in a pittance every year (and, face it, genetlpersons, $7
- >per annum is NOT a huge sum of money .. less than 2 cents per day;
- >heck, I lose that much behind the sofa) will warm the cockles/coffers
- >of our government, and maybe make them just a TEENY bit more
- >responsive to us, then it's a good thing.
-
- Hmm. If how much we pay an agency determines how responsive they are,
- we each should have our very own little IRS agent as our personal slaves....
-
-
- >Remember: The amateur service is a big sink to the FCC ... we provide
- >nothing of significant value any more, and we're sitting on hundreds
- >of megahertz of valuable bandwidth.
-
- >How many licensed hams are there in the US now? 200,000 maybe? At $7
- >per ham per year, we're paying merely $1,400,000 p.a. rent on a LOT of
- >real estate...
-
- Whoa, Batman. This presumes the FCC has some sort of title to the radio
- spectrum to dole out to the highest bidder. Funny, I can't find any
- constitutional authority for that. In the FCC's charter to regulate
- the spectrum, it could make a case that the greatest good is for the
- amateur frequencies to be used elsewhere but they certainly can't make
- a case for selling the frequencies. That they now do so is a
- testament to apathetic the population has become.
-
- >P.S. This really kinda goes against my nature -- I'm usually a rabid
- >libertarian.
-
- Boy, you dropped it on this one.
-
- John
-
-
- --
- John De Armond, WD4OQC, Marietta, GA jgd@dixie.com
- Performance Engineering Magazine. Email to me published at my sole discretion
- Clinton at Normandy for D-day is worse than Hitler presiding over the
- Holocaust Museum.
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 07:16:37 GMT
- From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!jherman@ames.arpa
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <Cr9Kyq.EwG@news.Hawaii.Edu>, <CrBrC4.Fn9@news.Hawaii.Edu>, <hk1NH1l.edellers@delphi.com>
- Subject : Re: End of `440 in SoCal' thread (was: VHF Maritime Outrage!!)
-
- In article <hk1NH1l.edellers@delphi.com> Ed Ellers <edellers@delphi.com> writes:
- >
- >Are FM transceivers for those bands as readily available as those for 440?
-
- No. But you know by now that I would always encourage someone to build
- rather than buy. ``Keep the soldering iron hot and the fingers cool.''
-
- >Is "homebrewing" as practical on those bands as on 440 -- referring to
- >special construction techniques as well as availability of components that can
- >operate at those higher frequencies?
-
- I see lots of construction articles in the magazines and books; my '91 Hand-
- book has a chapter devoted to `UHF and Microwave Equipment', and I believe
- the ARRL has entire books devoted to these subjects. Possibly critical
- componenets can be gotten from the surplus market. I read that construction
- techniques are quite different `up there' than what we're used to on the
- lower bands (i.e. 2M). I've heard that it helps to know voo-doo...
-
-
- >Are propagation characteristics on those bands such that they are as suitable
- >for FM voice communication as is 440?
-
- Good question. I'm curious as to what 420-450 characteristics are lost at
- the higher frequencies. Why wouldn't they be suitable replacements for
- VHF? I imagine there's more shadows in high building density areas; less
- refraction, more reflection. Radio waves start behaving more like light.
- I'm hoping someone will point out the critical differences.
-
- Jeff NH6IL
- (when it comes to building, 10M is UHF to me...)
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 15:32:50 GMT
- From: psinntp!arrl.org!zlau@uunet.uu.net
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <2td3t2$6gd@ccnet.ccnet.com>, <Cr9Kyq.EwG@news.Hawaii.Edu>, <2ti78m$q4l@abyss.West.Sun.COM>
- Subject : Re: Microwave bands (was Re: End of `440 in SoCal' thread )
-
- Dana Myers (myers@bigboy.West.Sun.COM) wrote:
-
- : Procuring parts and building working gear for microwave bands is
- : considerably more difficult than building 80m transmitters out
- : of junk televisions. I agree amateurs should indeed get involved
- : on these bands, but these bands are not necessarily valid replacement
- : spectrum for the functions filled by 2m, 70cm, 33cm and 23cm.
-
- I guess this is pretty obvious is you already *know* how to
- build radios out of TVs. But, if you don't have this background,
- I'm not sure how true this really is. I suspect a lot of
- amateurs can no longer tell you what the specialty ICs are
- used in various consumer electronics really do, much less rewire
- them up in amateur applications.
-
- On the other hand, surplus microwave stuff is often more straightforward
- to deal with. You can often figure out what frequency the stuff operates
- with a ruler (if it isn't marked on the case). Much of the circuitry is
- still discretes, or at least nice understandable building blocks, often
- with 50 ohm input and output connections. Thus, some modifications
- consisist of merely tearing out all the junk you don't need, and hooking
- up what you do need.
-
- True, getting 10 watt transistors is still a challenge on most of the
- microwave bands. But, low power microwave parts are relatively easy
- to get and getting easier, as companies realize they have to actually
- sell stuff to stay in business.
-
- --
- Zack Lau KH6CP/1 2 way QRP WAS
- 8 States on 10 GHz
- Internet: zlau@arrl.org 10 grids on 2304 MHz
-
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