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Info-Hams Digest Sat, 8 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 12
Today's Topics:
"vanity" calls
Good Service
Ham club at a University
Help finding: BPQAX25.EXE
How does it work?
Limit on amount of homebrew, was ...Re: TOYOTAS AND HAM RIGS
ORBS$007.2L.AMSAT
This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #41
This Week on Spectrum 01/08/94
TOYOTAS AND HAM RADIO
What Kind of Antenna Is This?
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Date: 8 Jan 94 01:56:11 GMT
From: ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!astro.as.utexas.edu!oo7@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: "vanity" calls
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
gdm@eieio.ualr.edu (G. Douglas Mauldin) says:
>>2. If your list of ten specific callsigns is exhausted by the time
>>your application makes it through the mill, your existing callsign becomes
>>the eleventh choice and you will be charged $7.00 per year for the rest of
>>your life for the privilege of continuing to use your old callsign.
Are you sure about this? I didn't read it that way at all.
>>and my trying to get, say, K5EE, the shortest (in CW) callsign in the
>>United States.
To be picky, N5EE, NE5E and AE5E are even shorter.
W5EE and WE5E are the same length as your example.
And K5EE is alive and well and active on CW. The
only way you could get his call is if he wants to
give it up, and if he wants to give it up, you might
wonder why.
I just had 2000 QSL cards printed, I don't think I
want to change my call just yet...
Derek "cheap cheap" Wills (AA5BT, G3NMX)
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas,
Austin TX 78712. (512-471-1392)
oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
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Date: 7 Jan 94 14:01:28 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Good Service
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
After a bad experience with another company I thought I would relate a
good experience
I recently purchased and old Yaesu 301S QRP rig. I really am starting to
appreciate it. .The case is in good shape but some screws are missing
and some special fasteners on the top part of the case. Just for the
heck of it I thought I would call the toll free number and see If I
could get replacements. I was put through from the operator to parts
immediately. I explained to the gentleman what I was looking for. He
made sure he understood my request, took my name, address and phone
number and said he would reference them in the computer and send them
right out in the mail and enclose the bill... no charge on pre-payment..
.sounded good, but I got worried about the cost.. didn't want to spend
more than I paid for the radio. The gentleman said, the screws are about
5-10C each and the other parts not much more.. I decided to splurge.
I really enjoyed the way I was treated and sure hope I get the parts.
Have a good weekend.
73
Jeff, Ac4HF
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 03:26:23 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!sknapp@ames.arpa
Subject: Ham club at a University
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <2gget3$q5b@tuegate.tue.nl> philip@stack.urc.tue.nl (Philip Komen) writes:
>Shawn C. Masters (smasters@fame) wrote:
>
>> I've started to put together an amateur radio club here at
>> George Mason University. I was wondering if anyone out there had any
>> words of wisdom/expereince in starting such clubs. Please e-mail me to
>> keep the bandwidth usage down.
>
>Just go on! I am a member of a club station here on the university, in a
>matter of fact i am the vice-president of the club. It's very nice to see
>people that were never interested in the radio hobby, just having fun with
>packet or so.
My advice? Keep the club intresting!!!
Our club got in a rut. We appointed someone (Brant, take a bow) to
find a special activity for each month we have a meeting. We have had
many fine presentations, and our membership is becoming more
intrested.
Oh, and a good constitution never hurts. :)
________________________________________________________________________
Steven M. Knapp Computer Engineering Senior
sknapp@iastate.edu Vice President Cyclone Amateur Radio Club
Iowa State University; Ames, IA; USA Durham Center Operations Staff
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 16:12:03 GMT
From: EU.net!sunic!kth.se!news.kth.se!pme@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Help finding: BPQAX25.EXE
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
And what should that program do ?
You are not looking for bpq packet switch ?
/Peter Enderborg, SM0OHI
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Date: 8 Jan 94 00:49:29 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!othello.ucdavis.edu!ez006683@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: How does it work?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
These units were, if they are the ones I am thinking of, pioneered in the
tire industry and by the British police. The patents are held by Hugh's
and they are a litle more complicated than has been so far indicated.
They are also alterable via the readers. The British police used them to
keep track of the football fans. They were given out as fan ID cards.
The police at the games could use some sort of hand held reader to mark
fighting fans without telling them. The next time the fans went to a
game the detectors at the gate would notify the police that a trouble
maker was entering and give them his name. I this in the journal
"Science" from around June 1990. I'm not at all sure this is the right
date.
The tire industry used them to allow big trucking firms to keep a data
base of tire histories. This way they would be able to tell how many
times the tires had been retreaded, how many miles/months ago it had been
last serviced, etc. While the readers are pretty expensive, I've heard
that the actual IC's are around US$.05-.10
In fact when I received my new computer a couple months ago there was the
telltale sticker on one of the plastic baggiesthat came in one of the
boxes. So it looks like Gateway 2000 uses the same technology to track
their distribution.
If anybody missed the first part of the thread the initial post is
included below
Cheers es 73
Dan
Richard Furuta (furuta@cs.tamu.edu) wrote:
: Well, maybe it's relevant to radio and maybe not, but I'm sure that
: someone here can explain this to me!
: I'm sure that many of you are familiar with the anti-theft stickers
: that have appeared especially on tapes and CDs. About an inch square,
: the adhesive-backed underside contains a set of concentric traces
: along the edge surrounded by a different colored border that blobs
: over one of the corners into the center. Disabling the device seems
: to involve sticking a patch of some sort on top of it.
: So what's the mechanism and how does it work?
: --Rick
: KE3IV
: furuta@cs.tamu.edu
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Date: 8 Jan 94 00:33:46 GMT
From: walter!dancer.cc.bellcore.com!not-for-mail@rutgers.rutgers.edu
Subject: Limit on amount of homebrew, was ...Re: TOYOTAS AND HAM RIGS
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <2gk163$ku@news.acns.nwu.edu>,
Gregory Lapin <lapin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wrote:
>In article <9401071154.AA11626@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>,
>Robert Carpenter <rc@cmr.ncsl.NIst.GOV> wrote:
>>WHERE DO I BUY FCC TYPE APPROVED HAM GEAR ????????
>All commercial ham gear must be FCC type approved (that's a rule that was
>changed from when I started in ham radio).
>
>If you look on any of your modern commercial gear you should see an FCC ID
>number on the tag with the serial number.
>
>The only non-type approved equipment that can be used is homebrew, and then
>only if you make one of a kind per year and hf+ (<144 MHz) external RF power
>amplifiers, again only one of a kind per year.
>Greg Lapin KD9AZ
Please note, there is NO limitation on the amount of homebrew
equipment that any ham can build. I don't know where Greg got this
idea, but it is totally incorrect as stated above. The ONLY limitation
on homebrew equipment I am aware of is in the construction of 10 (11)
meter linear amps. Perhaps that is what Greg was thinking of?
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Bill Sohl (K2UNK) BELLCORE (Bell Communications Research, Inc.)
Morristown, NJ email via UUCP bcr!cc!whs70
201-829-2879 Weekdays email via Internet whs70@cc.bellcore.com
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Date: 7 Jan 94 14:02:00 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: ORBS$007.2L.AMSAT
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-007.N
2Line Orbital Elements 007.AMSAT
HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT
FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX January 7, 1994
BID: $ORBS-007.N
DECODE 2-LINE ELSETS WITH THE FOLLOWING KEY:
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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
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2 19216 57.8718 275.2489 7205805 332.1178 3.3712 2.09722778 42585
FO-20
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2 20480 99.0174 183.0203 0541189 2.6742 357.7056 12.83223163182445
AO-21
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UO-22
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KO-23
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Date: 8 Jan 94 03:34:25 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #41
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Here is a summary of news items covered on Edition #41 of "This Week in
Amateur Radio", North America's satellite-delivered audio bulletin service,
for the week ending 14-Jan:
1. FCC Releases Notice of Proposed Rule Making for "Vanity" Call Signs
2. ARRL Lists Landline Services Carrying Full Text of PR Docket 93-305
3. Commission Kills Club/Military Station Administration Program
4. AMSAT/WJ9F Announce Resumption of AO-16/Pacsat Experimenter's Days
5. League Opens Nominations for Brier Instructor/Teacher Awards
6. Packet Stations Reminded to Maintain BID Integrity of ARRL Bulletins
7. Taiwanese/Finnish Amateurs Activate Pratus Island, Team Includes OH2BH
8. "The RAIN Dial-up" from Chicago
9. Crew of 15th Main Expedition Scheduled for Launch to MIR Platform
10. "YL Spotlight" with Carli Drake, WB1BTJ
11. "EZSATS" with Dave Mullenix, N9LTD
12. OPDX/NODXA Present Third Annual DX Survey, Deadline is January 31st
13. "Gateway 160 Meter Net Report" with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR
14. Weekly Propagation Forecast with George Bowen, N2LQS
15. "DX Window" with John Yodis, K2VV
16. Membership in "FISTS" Swells to Over 1000, Morse Lovers Invited
17. DX News and Special Event Stations with George Bowen, N2LQS
18. "Amateur Radio Newsline" from Los Angeles - Edition #852
19. "DXing the AM and FM Broadcast Bands" - First in a Series
Funding for the program's transmission costs and production expenses were
provided this week by a grant from Chris Huber, N6ICW, and the N6ICW Repeater
Group of Sacramento, California, which carries "This Week in Amateur Radio" in
South Lake Tahoe on 145.15 MHz and in Sacramento on 147.195 MHz.
"This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur radio news and information
service, in audio newsmagazine format, which is produced by Community Video
Associates, Inc., a non-profit, charitable, tax-exempt foundation based in
Albany, New York. The program is carried on the "Omega Radio Network" each
Saturday at 7:30 PM (EST) on the Galaxy III commercial communications
satellite, transponder 17 (9H), 5.8 MHz wideband audio (4.040 GHz), located at
93.5 degrees west longitude in geosynchronous orbit, and can be heard on
various VHF/UHF repeaters throughout the United States and Canada, as well as
on 160 meters. Contact your local amateur radio club or repeater operator if
"This Week in Amateur Radio" is not being heard in your area.
Production and transmission expenses are underwritten by contributions from
repeater system operators, amateur radio clubs, and individuals. For further
information, contact Stephan Anderman, WA3RKB, at 518/877-7374, George Bowen,
N2LQS, at 518/283-3665, or Adrian Sebborn, N1JWO, at 413/458-8219. You may
also reach them via amateur packet @ WA2UMX.#ENY.NY.USA.NA and on various
landline bulletin board services.
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Date: 6 Jan 1994 21:57:04 -0500
From: kb2ear.ampr.org!starcomm.overleaf.com!not-for-mail@princeton.edu
Subject: This Week on Spectrum 01/08/94
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
This week's Spectrum will feature an interview with Ian Mcfarland. Ian
has been a very popular fixture in the swl scene for almost a quarter of
a century with his programs on Radio Canada International and Radio
Japan. His following in the communications hobbyist community is great
and you will have an opportunity to talk with him this Saturday on
Spectrum.
Spectrum airs on WWCR 5.810 MHz at 03:00 UTC Sundays. If you have
access to a satellite dish you can hear the program on the Omega radio
network on Galaxy III transponder 17 at 5.8 wideband audio.
--
Spectrum, "The Communications Magazine You Read With Your Ears."
WWCR, Nashville, TN, USA, 5810 KHz.
Omega Radio Network, Galaxy III, Ch 17, 5.8 MHz., Wide Band Audio
03:00 UTC Sunday, 22:00 EST Saturday.
Box 722, Holmdel, NJ, 07733-0722, USA
spectrum@overleaf.com, askspectrum@attmail.com, spectrumshow@genie.geis.com
+1 800-787-SPECTRUM, +1 908-671-4209
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Date: 8 Jan 94 03:36:16 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: TOYOTAS AND HAM RADIO
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Ok, ok, so I'm stupid. Ham radios are now Type Accepted. Does this include
a limitation on RF on the power cables (inside the ham bands) ??
73 and eating crow,
Bob W3otc
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Date: 8 Jan 94 01:38:39 GMT
From: world!dbr@uunet.uu.net
Subject: What Kind of Antenna Is This?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1994Jan7.214214.17828@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
richard chalk <rchalk@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>dbr@world.std.com (Dan Reiner) writes:
>
>>A mobile antenna I've seen in various cities, almost exclusively on
>>municipal vehicles, looks sort of like a folded sheet of cardboard
>>lying upright on the long side. In other words, it's about four inches
>>high, ten inches long and maybe an inch thick.
>
>This is most likely a VHF Slot antenna, with the slot running horizontally
>under the bar. A horizontal slot will radiate Vertically polarized signals,
>and the biggest advantage of this design is low physical profile....ideal
>for Busses, etc.
>
>Richard
>
Thanks for the info, Richard. Do you know of any articles or published
construction info? If a ham antenna can be made low-profile enough,
radio thieves might ignore the car...not to mention carwashes.
Thanks again -- Dan.
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 19:49:28 GMT
From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu!martin@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <2ghta6$rj3@news.tamu.edu>, <1994Jan6.221522.1@wcsub.ctstateu.edu>, <CJ9u4M.6Jn@news.iastate.edu>u
Subject : Re: How does it work?
I don't know for an absolute fact about the Card Key system
mentioned in an earlier post, but it is probably a RF-actuated device in
which the card reader illuminates the card with a radio frequency that
may or may not change frequently, but serves to provide electric power to the
identifier unit which is a small IC burried in the card along with a metalic
trace which serves as an antenna. When the card is near the reader, the
RF field is rectified to form DC which powers the little transmitter in the
card. This transmitter probably starts sending a series of digital bursts
containing the unique serial number of the card.
If I am wrong, let's here from somebody who knows more about it.
Oklahoma has a system called "Pikepass" in which one pays a turnpike
toal by depositing money into an account. You, then, have a little
palm-sized sealed device which fits on the driver's side windshield. When
you drive through the toal booth area, you can just buzz right past the gate
and a signal from a little dish mounted overhead wakes up your Pikepass and
identifies your car, or rather, your account to the data base. When your
account gets low, you get a note from the Turnpike Authority advising you
that you need to feed the account, again, and you also see a sign which
flashes "Low Balance" or something like that when you go through.
Each month, you get a statement from the Turnpike Authority showing
wheree you used the system and how much money is left.
We have a Cardkey system at Oklahoma State University, but our cards
are the magnetic stripe variety and don't appear to be anything special.
This is all pretty far off the subject, but the techniques used to
make some of these electronic identifiers work do involve radio and are good
examples of cleaver design.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 22:23:34 GMT
From: ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub2!torynews!kevin@uunet.uu.net
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <2gepc1$58r@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, <2gi3tr$oe6@crcnis1.unl.edu>, <gregCJ9M8u.9tv@netcom.com>
Subject : Re: Where's my QST?
In article <gregCJ9M8u.9tv@netcom.com> greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
>
>This solid technical content was selected by the same editorial staff
>(at the member's expense) which no doubt smugly belittles W2NSD's monthly
>ramblings in '73.'
>
>We can't cover Lambda, but choo-choos and stamps are relevant, eh guys?
>
Jeez, Greg, get a life. I see no smiley here, I guess you are just
dying to open up that flame-bait can again. Sorry, you'll receive no
help from me.
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