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Info-Hams Digest Thu, 16 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1469
Today's Topics:
ARLP049 Propagation de KT7H
Best low-cost WEFAX SW/HW
Bravo, Bravo +, etc. pager options and programming ?
HDN Releases
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 15:05:16 +0000
From: sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!demon!abacus!dmb@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: ARLP049 Propagation de KT7H
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <$arlp049.1993@ampr.org>, MB Grant <marcbg@netcom.com> wrote:
>SB PROP @ ARL $ARLP049 ARLP049 Propagation de KT7H ZCZC
>
>Sunspot Numbers from December 2 through 8 were 85, 97, 99,
>89, 95, 99 and 84, with a mean of 92.6. 10.7 cm flux was
>104.3, 105.6, 105, 101, 103, 107 and 105.1, with a mean of
>104.4.
07/12 DH: Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 103/052
CO: 10.7 FLUX=107.0 90-AVG=097 SSN=099 BKI=2212 5334 BAI=016
08/12 DH: Observed 10.7 cm flux/Equivalent Sunspot Number : 107/057
CO: 10.7 FLUX=105.1 90-AVG=097 SSN=084 BKI=5565 5331 BAI=038
DH: Dave Horsfall
CO: Cary Oler
Dave Horsfalls reports give 52 and 57 as the "Equivalent Sunspot Numbers"
for the 7th and 8th. Cary Oler reports SSN=099 and 084 for these dates, which
ties in with this report. What is the difference between "Equivalent Sunspot
Number" and sunspot number ?
Also why do the 10.7 flux figures differ ? Is there a geographic factor
involved somewhere ?
-David.
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Date: 14 Dec 1993 14:20:00 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nigel.msen.com!ilium!gdls.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Best low-cost WEFAX SW/HW
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I'd like to explore Weather FAX at a reasonable cost. I noticed several commercial packages around $100 or so (AEA, SSC, etc) and one shareware with a homebrew interface.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to go. I would like to keep the cost less than $150, as that's all my dog has saved up for my Christmas present :-)
Thanks
Bill
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 17:58:37 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!btoback@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Bravo, Bravo +, etc. pager options and programming ?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1993Dec14.012520.27012@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mwgordon@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Mike Gordon) writes:
> Due to a career change, I will be back to using a pager soon. About
>four years ago, I was on a Bravo, now I see that the paging companies are
>pushing a variety of numeric pagers, including the Bravo + (or 2?), Bravo
>Express, the Freespirit (rounded looking moto pager) and those CHEAP NEC
>models. I'd like to stay with a Motorola, (I hear nothing but problems
Since you posted this in the amateur radio newsgroup, I'll tell you that
my DJ-580 has a built-in pager with priority override. It operates any time
I'm within a mile or so of the PacTel Paging transmitter, which is a mile
or so up the road from my office. You'll have to learn what your own
alert tone sounds like, though, since I can't seem to get the DJ580 to
decode the page -- it just plays the audio. :-)
> Also, has anyone figured out how to program a Bravo through the 3
>contacts near the battery? (Without having to pay the paging company big
>$ to do it?)
Oh-oh. Sounds like you're one of those nasty, nothing-short-of-criminals
that Motorola is after :-).
> On a more serious note, last time I was on a pager, my call-in number
>used to be occupied by a "dealer". (And I don't mean a used car dealer.)
The paging company _should_ be willing to give you a new number. I suddenly
started getting pages for number "5000" at random times up to a dozen
times a day. I called the paging company, and they offered to change
my PIN. (They noted that I had a five-digit PIN, which (unbeknownst to me) was
status symbol of some kind, and thought I should keep it unless the
problem got out of hand.) I still get one or two pages a week; if anybody
on the net is doing it, YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG PIN!!! :-) They also said
that they'd abate the charges if the volume got to the point that I was
charged extra for it.
-- Bruce Toback
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 00:49:05
From: sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!news.oc.com!utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!ocitor!FredGate@network.ucsd.
Subject: HDN Releases
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
The following files were processed Tuesday 12-14-93:
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MOPT116.EXE ( 284614 bytes) Utilities for MSYS ver 1.16 packet
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MSYS116.EXE ( 339136 bytes) MSYS ver 1.16 packet radio BBS
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MSYSUSR.ZIP ( 17011 bytes) MSYS ver 1.16 USER MANUAL
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