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Info-Hams Digest Sun, 19 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1478
Today's Topics:
APT/WEFAX gear and Kenwwod HF wanted
Frequencies in use: a FAQ?
Heathkit user's nets?
Intercom info available from author
R/C Aircraft
Where are all the young enthusiasts?
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 01:14:01 GMT
From: cs.yale.edu!ccsua.ctstateu.edu!white@yale.arpa
Subject: APT/WEFAX gear and Kenwwod HF wanted
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I'm looking to purchase APT/GOES gear: preamps, downconverters,
receivers or modified scanner, demodulator cards.
Also looking for a good HF transceiver or twins (Kenwood)...
73s de N1QVE
Harry
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 10:31:31 -0700
From: orca.es.com!cnn.sim.es.com!msanders.sim.es.com!user@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Frequencies in use: a FAQ?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <2ekmulINN28r@dns1.NMSU.Edu>, gereiswi@nmsu.edu (George S.
Reiswig) wrote:
>
> I am hoping that someone may be able to help me out with what may
> be a stupid FAQ, but which I can't find the answer to.
> How does one find frequencies in use in certain geographical areas on
> 2m/70cm and police, etc., bands? I also need offsets for the repeaters,
> access tones and so forth. The only resource I know of (from Radical
> Shack) is, shall we say, less than comprehensive.
> I am particularly interested in the Colorado/New Mexico area.
> Thanks in advance for the help.
--
ARRL Repeater Directory, $6.95. Lists by state and location within state
the repeaters, who runs them, frequencies, offsets, capabilities, and
whether open or not. Pocket size book, will fit in shirt pocket. Also
covers 440 and some other frequencies (I only looked at 2M, so can't
remember what else it has). Lots of info for a bargain price. Check your
local ham store or mail order from AES or equivalent.
Milt
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Opinions, thoughts, &cetera are my own (when I can remember them).
"He flies the sky KB7MSF
Like an Eagle in the eye UTAH
of a hurricane that's abandoned."
America
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 00:02:51 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!btoback@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Heathkit user's nets?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1993Dec16.214021.20858@zds-oem.zds.com> (Earl Morse) writes:
>Is anybody aware of any Nets that meet for the purpose of discussing
>the repair, restoration, modification, and collecting of Heathkit
>equipment?
That is positively the saddest thing I've read in this newsgroup. <sigh>
-- Bruce Toback
(built my first Heathkit in 1965 at age 9.)
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 00:34:53 GMT
From: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx10!jmaynard@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Intercom info available from author
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
A couple of months or so ago I mentioned that there were plans running around
for a homemade VOX intercom that was designed for aircraft use, but would also
be useful for multiop contesting. I've finally found the info again.
If you're interested, drop email to Dave Allen, WB0TAQ, at davea@col.hp.com.
He'll pass along an ASCII schematic, parts list, and information document. The
folks who have built it so far report good success with it, although Dave
cautions that some extra bypassing may be necessary in a high-RF environment.
I haven't built it yet, though it's on my list of things for the next Field
Day...
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"A good flame is fuel to warm the soul." -- Karl Denninger
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 14:49:17 -0700
From: orca.es.com!cnn.sim.es.com!msanders.sim.es.com!user@uunet.uu.net
Subject: R/C Aircraft
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <kHXFec2w165w@p-cove.UUCP>, wolfman@p-cove.UUCP (Aaron Smith)
wrote:
> Dan Raneri N2OQN <DCR117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
> > You ask: 'What kinda money we talkin?'
> >
> > Anywahere from $500.00 on up... The B-29 mentioned above must have cost
> > MANY thousands of dollars... ($10,000 ... $50,000 ... etc) I don't
> > know... In order to get a bird up in the air as you would like, you must be
> > looking at a pretty big ship. Something in the 30-40-50 lb range, with all
>
> Not neccessarily... If he can find a small enough computer board for it,
> such as a gutted out laptop with a pcmcia slot, he could get pretty
> small.. The TNCs aren't all that big, and I bet he could find a small
> radio... Now the weight of all that could pose a problem to where he
> would have to go with a bigger plane..
>
> > these computers and sensors and packet radio things... That will cost
> > easily into the thousands of dollars... Propellers for airplanes like these
> > cost $15.00 to $40-$80, and when you break them on landings, which WILL
> > happen, probably, you get to replace... :-(
>
> It will cost a hefty ammount of money, and it would be quite a gut
> wrencher if he crashed it :( ...
>
> Aaron
I have a Sr Falcon with a .60 size engine on it: total worth with radio
(used equipment being as it is) is around $250. I have carried in excess
of a pound of weight in it without hardly noticing. It is one that I use
for a 74 mile cross country race course, and load it up with about 30 fluid
ounces of fuel. On one race I simply strapped a pint can on the outside of
the fuselage. The last race ran us through a small hail storm which
punched about 20 holes in the top of the wing, but we didn't notice until
after landing it.
Anyway, a Sr. Telemaster, nice .60 size engine, and decent radio isn't any
more than a dual band mobil radio. The Telemaster will carry quite a bit,
and is relatively easy to fly. My masters thesis resulted in us designing
and building a 10 ft span, twin engine plane that weighed 35 lbs. It was
supposed to carry TV equipment and telemetry. But that was to be someone
else's project. We just designed, built, and flew the plane on a budget of
$4000. It can be done quite easily much cheaper with existing kits.
Brigham Young University has a crew with several planes that carry cameras
actuated from the ground. They do airborn geological and other types of
surveys. One of their members gave our model club an hour and a half
presentation at a club meeting one night.
The .60 size props are only $3-5.
Go for it, but get some flying help, or enlist an already RC flyer to help
with your project.
Milt.
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Opinions, thoughts, &cetera are my own (when I can remember them).
"He flies the sky KB7MSF
Like an Eagle in the eye UTAH
of a hurricane that's abandoned."
America
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 02:31:27 GMT
From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!sage.cc.purdue.edu!blumb@purdue.edu
Subject: Where are all the young enthusiasts?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
aj@sage.cc.purdue.edu (John Dormer) writes:
> I guess that because there are fewer of us young ones around nowadays, there
>is a statistical decline in the number of motivated ones. It's the 100th
>monkey theorem a lot of times; 1 starts washing its food, soon 10 do, then
>over a period of time, the numbers gradually increase to about 100 doing
>this in a colony of 5000. Then, suddenly, they all start doing it.
> In an age where the 100th monkey is watching Beavis and Butthead, is it
>much wonder why us geeky types concentrate on the neato stuff?
For those of you who aren't in the Purdue area, I'd like to comment on John
Dormer's apt. and the equipment therein.
His apt. qualifies as the proverbial "geek"'s residence.
But hey, watching all those flashing lights and listening to the hum of the
power supplies, now tha was one of the primary motivations for me to get a
ham radio license.
The other motivation is the Kenwood TS820S that my greatuncle is giving me
once I get my General Class license.
:)
--
Bill Blum N9VLS blumb@sage.cc.purdue.edu Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
Reality is for those who can't handle subscribing to IASFM and Model Railroader
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