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Info-Hams Digest Tue, 18 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 51
Today's Topics:
73: Solar battery charger article request
Anyone know of a callsign server?
ARRL DX Bulletin #1 - January 4, 1994
ARRL DX Bulletin #3 - January 12, 1994
BRAIN CANCER, LEUKEMIA FROM HAM RADIO
Cancer and You
CW Books
FM Broadcast (Technical Aspects)
FY5FY ?
New QRZ Ham Radio CDROM
QRD?
Ramsey FX Transceivers (2 msgs)
Short 160m Dipole
Still need FM5CW route
Top 20 repeaters
Unix ham radio control program
VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 14 January
WANTED: CALL SIGN SERVER IN INTERNET
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 10:45:44 PST
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!crash!slic!mikey@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: 73: Solar battery charger article request
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
> In article <2h9m39$8u6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jchang@mit.edu (John Chang)
> >
> >Does anyone know where to get solar panels inexpensively? Real Goods
> >(800-762-7325) sells a 10-watt Solarex panel for $149 + shipping,
> >which seems high to me.
>
> Well of course, everything Real Goods sells is two to three times higher
> than you can get it elsewhere. It's that "green" label don't you know.
> Try Northern Hydraulics, they have a 40 watt panel they sell for $99 with
> charge controller.
$.40 per watt is great and with a controller to boot. Tell us
where these guys are and/or their phone number please.
-- Mike Shirley San Diego, CA USA HAM:WB6WUI
mikey@slic.cts.com guaranteed: mikey@crash.cts.com
mikey-pkey@slic.cts.com will send you my PGP Public Key
pgp-info@slic.cts.com will send you some info on PGP
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 06:01:52 GMT
From: olivea!charnel!rat!zeus!trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu!snorris@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Anyone know of a callsign server?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Does anyone know if and where a callsign server exists? I thought I saw
some discussion on this a while ago, but I didn't get around to reading
the posts. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Sean
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Sean Norris snorris@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu
--KE6BTE-- Electronic Engineers do it with less resistance.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:12:35 -0700
From: usenet.coe.montana.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!usenet@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: ARRL DX Bulletin #1 - January 4, 1994
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
ZCZC AE98
QST de W1AW
DX Bulletin 1 ARLD001
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:13:28 -0700
From: olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!usenet@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: ARRL DX Bulletin #3 - January 12, 1994
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
ZCZC AE01
QST de W1AW
DX Bulletin 3 ARLD003
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Date: 17 Jan 94 15:55:02 GMT
From: news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!netsys!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!news.duke.edu!duke!wolves!psybbs!fredmail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: BRAIN CANCER, LEUKEMIA FROM HAM RADIO
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
on <Jan 11 14:49>, Ken Edwards to All said:
KE> True that the hand-helds are 1/2 w, but the EM fields are much
KE> more intense (literally right against your skull). The
KE> police handhelds typically are the 'walkie-talkie' style and
KE> they have also learned to point the antenna away from the
KE> body (head in particular), thereby greatly reducing the
KE> field intensity. The EM field intensity has an inverse [...]
KE> We have through research seen various effects on the body at
KE> various frequencies. Example, your microwave is set at a
KE> particular frequency that will excite water molecules,
KE> thereby creating heat. At 27 Mhz (CB frequencies), the EM
KE> field has an affect on the sleep center of the brain.
Which is why, I suppose, so many of the guys on 11 meters sound
as though their brains aren't fully engaged--they're fighting
off sleep! ;-)
73 de Ken, AC4RD--also in Raleigh!
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Date: 16 Jan 1994 20:36:01 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!astro.as.utexas.edu!oo7@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Cancer and You
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
rich@mulvey.com suggests:
>>taaron@netcom.com (taaron@netcom.com) wrote:
>>: Tell me, if ham radio causes cancer, why is it that all the ham radio
>>: club meetings are filled with old people with few health problems other
>>: than normal ones for their age?
>Then how come it seems like all we hear in our QSO's is RST, rig,
>and the other op's Ailment Of The Week? :-)
It's only those hams who are in good enough shape to lever themselves
out of their operating chairs and stagger out of the house who can make
it as far as the club meetings.
Derek "not the comfy chair!" 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: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 22:07:10 GMT
From: wri!pea@uunet.uu.net
Subject: CW Books
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Can anyone recommend some good books on copying code??
Next test date is in March here, and I want to be ready
to "ace" the 13wpm general class code test. I'm using
SuperMorse and listening to code on my radio. I remember
hearing about a book or two that describes how to copy
behind and gives other hints and tips on copying code.
Any recommendations or suggestions would be appreciated.
Bruce
s
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 03:05:00 GMT
From: mvb.saic.com!unogate!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!ntuix!ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg!asirene@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: FM Broadcast (Technical Aspects)
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Gary Coffman KE4ZV mentioned:-
>1) redesign the modulator to do 75 kHz deviation.
Yes this is certainly the case, if he wanted to broadcast
WFM (which I suppose is the idea anyway).
>2) redesign the PLL synthesizer to cover the new range.
I don't know about this, there are some handhelds which already
cover (on RX) these bands or at least very close. I suspect then that
those PLLs have the inherent ability to receive the 88-108 without
redesign. What needs to be changed is the controller. Similar things
have been done in some mods for handhelds. Given that the PLL can already
reach the frequency, it must be that the computer automatically disables
TX on unauthorized bands and I presume this could be over-ridden manually
or something similar. Just a theory.
>3) rebuild the driver and PA output networks.
Probably, if you want maximum efficiency and its a high power
unit so you don't destroy output section.
:) 73 de Daniel
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 02:33:36 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!gdstech!gdstech!bat@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: FY5FY ?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
FY5FY is via Didier Bironneau, BP 166 Koutou 97310,
French Guyana.
--
*-----------------------------------------------------------*
* Pat Masterson D12-25 | KE2LJ@KC2FD *
* Grumman Data Systems | 516-346-6316. *
* Bethpage, NY 11746 | bat@gdstech.grumman.com *
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 05:16:29 GMT
From: world!dts@uunet.uu.net
Subject: New QRZ Ham Radio CDROM
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <9401161828591.gilbaronw0mn.DLITE@delphi.com> gilbaronw0mn@delphi.com (Gilbert Baron) writes:
>>gilbaronw0mn@delphi.com (Gilbert Baron) writes:
>>
>>>>Announcing the new QRZ! Windows Ham Radio CDROM
>>>>
>>>>Well, we've finally finished it and there are a bunch of new features.
>>>>First off, in addition to the DOS search program, we now have a
>>
>>>Have you corrected the birthdates. All of the listings for Rochester
>>>Minnesota for instance list the Birth Date as 1 day after the
>>>actual. How did such an error get in the thing?
>>
>>
>>Maybe this is how QRZ! figures out if someone has wholesale
>>pirated their CD. I have QRZ! but haven't even bothered to
>>check if my own data is correct on it, maybe I should :-).
>>
>>I did find my FT-990 mod, which was posted to the Internet, in
>>there. Perhaps I should ask Fred for a free copy on the next
>>release :-) :-).
>>
>>73
>>
>>Kok Chen, AA6TY kchen@apple.com
>>Apple Computer, Inc.
>>
>I wrote to QRZ (email) anbd they said the birtday error was only an early
>release. I guess i got took at the hamfest? Anyhow they said it has been
>corrected. They can't spend the money to remove deceased hams though!
>
> Gil Baron, El Baron Rojo, W0MN Rochester,MN
> "Bailar es Vivir"
> PGP2.3 key at key servers or upon request
>
>
Uh, folks, Fred Lloyd posted a note here about the date of birth error a few
weeks after the spring CD came out. A new program for that disc was immediately
posted to an FTP site that fixed the problem. The new (fall) disc does not
have this problem.
Dan Senie N1JEB
--
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Daniel Senie Internet: dts@world.std.com
Daniel Senie Consulting n1jeb@world.std.com
508-365-5352 Compuserve: 74176,1347
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Date: 17 Jan 94 11:35:41 CST
From: news.cerf.net!pagesat.net!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!hounix!mwk!gleason@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: QRD?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I was listening to a folk music CD yesterday, and heard a song
that had some morse code at the beginning...it used a Q signal
I wasn't familiar with, and couldn't find in the ham doccos I
had laying around...anyone know what "QRD" means?
Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
gleason@mwk.com
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Date: 18 Jan 94 16:01:04 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: Ramsey FX Transceivers
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Text item: Text_1
> That's all well and fine, but do you honestly believe that consumers
>have an obligation to do the product engineering that the manufacturer
>should have done in the first place?
>Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS Rochester, NY
As a matter of fact, I do. I went through the exact same thing with
Harley Davidson during the '70s. Harley's were lousey then and now
they are the most successful motorcycle company in the world. If
everyone had your attitude, Harley would no longer exist.
73, Cecil, kg7bk@indirect.com
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 16:55:29 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!newncar!csn!yuma!galen@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Ramsey FX Transceivers
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <940118080104_2@ccm.hf.intel.com> Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.hf.INTel.COM (Cecil A Moore) writes:
>> That's all well and fine, but do you honestly believe that consumers
>>have an obligation to do the product engineering that the manufacturer
>>should have done in the first place?
>>Rich Mulvey Amateur Radio: N2VDS Rochester, NY
>
>As a matter of fact, I do. I went through the exact same thing with
>Harley Davidson during the '70s. Harley's were lousey then and now
>they are the most successful motorcycle company in the world. If
>everyone had your attitude, Harley would no longer exist.
>73, Cecil, kg7bk@indirect.com
Didn't H-D change ownership around this time? I seem to remeber Hogs were'nt
a good buy in the 70's and early 80's but after Americans bought it back from
the Japanese parent company, quality shot thru the roof.
Maybe Ramsey should sell now, and buy back in about ten years.
I believe kits should be engineered better than assembled gear, since there
are more variables and less quality control with kit assembling as opposed
to factory assembling and testing.
Many people buy kits because they can't afford assembled. If they can't afford
assembled, how can they afford the test gear to get a poorly designed kit to
work?
Maybe Ramsey should pre-assemble and test things like synths and filters.
Galen, KF0YJ
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:40:51 -0500
From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!yvax.byu.edu!cunyvm!rohvm1!rohvm1.mah48d@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Short 160m Dipole
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1994Jan14.133016.11917@syma.sussex.ac.uk>,
mpfb8@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Reed) wrote, in part:
> What I would like to do is get up a 160m dipole, SHORTENED to the length
> of, say, an 80m dipole so that I could leave it up permanantly -
> I have thought about inserting some L in the centre of each leg to
> effectively lengthen it but when you work out the values, the coil would
> be large / long / lots of turns if it were to be low loss / high Q.
Don't worry about the loss in the coils; it'll be small relative to the
loss from operating less than a quarter-wavelength above ground. I'd
adjust the antenna length and coils for about a quarter of the way from the
bottom end of the 160-m band, put the coils about in the middle of each leg
of the dipole, and use a tuner to cover the whole band (which is, in fact,
what I plan to do when I get around to it :-) ). Because you're working
at relatively low frequencies, I suspect you'll have to live with the large
inductances. You might reduce the size of the coils a bit by winding them
around a ferrite core _of the proper material_. Make sure it's a suitable
material for 160 meters.
--
73 de John Taylor W3ZID
rohvm1.mah48d@rohmhaas.com
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 02:40:40 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!psinntp!gdstech!gdstech!bat@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Still need FM5CW route
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
The reported route we have for FM5CW is via the French
QSL Buro. That address is on p. 18A of the 94 callbook.
--
*-----------------------------------------------------------*
* Pat Masterson D12-25 | KE2LJ@KC2FD *
* Grumman Data Systems | 516-346-6316. *
* Bethpage, NY 11746 | bat@gdstech.grumman.com *
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 07:33:39 GMT
From: hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!cisco-slip9.acc.virginia.edu!user@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Top 20 repeaters
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I need help.
Somewhere I remember reading in QST about the top 20 (or 30?) repeater
frequencies. That is, those frequencies most frequently used for
repeaters.
I don't have access to my QSTs right now. Can someone direct me to this
information on the Net (or even better, just mail me the freqs)?
Please respond by mail if you can to: glm6m@poe.acc.virginia.edu.
Any response is appreciated.
MNI TNX es 73,
de WQ3U
______________________________________________________________________
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ..."
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 03:32:45 GMT
From: munnari.oz.au!metro!extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU!terryd@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
Subject: Unix ham radio control program
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
cmoore@mothra.rose.hp.com (Chris Moore) writes:
>As an offshoot of my project of writing an X11 logging program, I've decided
>I'd like to tackle writing a generic radio control program for Unix-like
>systems. My idea is something like this:
> - A server process could be configured with information about what kind(s)
> of radio(s) you have, what serial ports to use, etc.
> - The server would accept connections from other processes that want
> to interface with the radio.
> - The server would communicate with the processes using some kind of
> generic radio control protocol.
Sounds like a great idea Chris.
I set up a channel on niksula.hut.fi some time ago for discussions for
development for Amateur Radio applications for Linux, feel free to use
it if you want, noone has thus far :)
Its the HAMS channel (terrible name, but it needed to be short)
To join the HAMS channel of the Linux-activists mailing list
send mail to
linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi
with the line
X-Mn-Admin: join HAMS
at the top of the message body (not the subject).
Terry
--
--- Terry Dawson, terryd@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 10:07:19 GMT
From: unix.sri.com!headwall.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!infinet!n8emr!bulletin@hplabs.hp.com
Subject: VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 14 January
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
==============================================================
| Automatic relayed from packet radio via |
| N8EMR's Ham BBS, 614-895-2553 |
==============================================================
SB DX @ WW $RTDX0114
VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, 14 January
VK2SG RTTY DX Notes for week ending 14 January 1994 (BID RTDX0114)
Our information this week came from 9X5LJ, DJ3IW and the Central
Europe DX Cluster Node DB0SPC, I5FLN, IK5AAX and the IK5PWJ Packet
Cluster, W2JGR And The NJ0M NODE of the Twin-Cities DX Packet Cluster,
WA1MPB, WA4MCZ, W5KSI, WX5L and ZS5S. Thank you all for your
assistance.
Bandpass
Friday 7
0912-14080 5W1KT
0942-14086 S53AX
1208-21084 VK6HD
1235-14091 VK4FRT
1327-21091 FG5FI
1335-21082 4U1ITU
1346-21085 4X6UO
1354-21090 OD5PL
1545-21085 C6A/AA5AU
1607-21088 VP5/WA0VQR
Saturday 8
0336- 7080 VP5/WA0VQR
0942-14088 K5KWG/ZA
1109-14084 UX0KC
1159-14083 US8AR
1252-21091 OD5PL QSL HB9CRV
1338-21090 5R8DS
1341-21087 4X6UO
1423-14082 YL2GD
1425-14089 OK1AJN
1518-14090 LY1BZB
1630-14088 J28JJ
1803- 7040 UR0HQ
1810- 7040 UN5PR
1815- 7041 4X/OK1FGC
1819- 7035 S52OR
1821- 3590 YL1ZR
1823-14084 WH6I
1832- 7039 4Z85TA
1834-28082 PJ2MI
1838-28084 A22MN
1841-28082 HP2CWB
1845-28077 HH2PK
1859- 7041 RZ1AWT
1908- 7033 TA2FT
1910- 7032 SV1ATS
2123-14101 C6A/AA5AU
2127- 7038 CN8NP
2134-21078 PJ0/N9FTC
2155-14076 A22MN
2206- 3578 SV2BFN
2215- 7035 VK6HD
2217- 7038 UZ9CWA
2241-21093 KP2N
2309- 7037 HH2PK
Sunday 9
0012-14086 VP5/WA0VQR
0150- 7075 UR0HQ
0234- 7087 S57MM
0234- 3590 C6A/AA5AU
0341- 3601 HP1XBH
0521- 7078 8P6AW
0637-14082 UU2JI
0657-21084 UN5PR
0705-14083 UX0FF
0900-14083 BZ1QL
0902-21086 HL9FC
0941-14086 VK7YP
1053-21086 CU1AC
1055-21091 UR5LBX
1101-21081 A45ZX
1107-21078 UR0HQ
1115-14087 KP2N
1142-28082 V50CM
1201-21081 S57MM
1241-21082 J28JJ
1252-21084 9K2IC
1329-21098 GU4RWP
1331-21085 PJ2MI
1335-21088 A22MN
1351-21095 SV2BFN
1352-21082 4Z85TA
1356-21083 HH2PK
1406-21098 HP1XBH
1414-21102 HP1AC
1453-21075 C6A/AA5AU
1454-21082 XE1/DJ6OV
1600-21093 GI0KOW
2148- 7039 VK6HD
2325-14092 HS0A
Monday 10
Typical report 'the day after contest'
1349-14084 LY2ZZ
1720-14086 VP5/WA0VQR
1751-21088 PJ0/N9FTC
Tuesday 11
1345-14088 RW6XW
1434-14084 UX0KC Ukraine
1440-14085 GI0AIQ
1452-14087 UT5RP
1556-21084 VQ9WL
1626-21090 5R8DS
1652-21086 PJ2MI
Wednesday 12
0109-14086 S92ZM
1053-14085 LY2BBF
1142-28082 U50CM
1303-14083 VQ9TS
1308-14083 A45XC
1638-21088 S53J
1706-21083 5R8LD
1909-14084 TZ6FIC
1913-14084 P4/W1EKT
Thursday 13
WWV A= 23 K= 3
2153-14088 V50PV
Notes of Interest.
St Peter & St Paul, PY0. The three week DXpedition that was to take
place 10 January will be delayed til 20 January and will be for two
weeks. QSL RTTY contacts to Karl, PS7KM.
Peter 1 Island, 3Y. This DXpedition is on schedule and the first
members of the group should be on the Falklands now. Look for VP8BZL
for a few days from Pt Stanley. Arrival on Peter 1 around 1 February,
departure on 16 February.
For next week's bulletin, send your Bandpass and Notes of Interest to
Jules, W2JGR @ W2TKU.#SRQ.FL.USA.NA
Remember, DX Don't Sleep.
GL DE Bob, WB2CJL @ W5KSI.@NOLA.LA.USA.NA
/EX
SP KT7H @ N7DUO.WA.USA.NA
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 19:46:54 EST
From: qualcomm.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: WANTED: CALL SIGN SERVER IN INTERNET
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I am looking for a call sign server a-la buckmaster
accessible on line through the internet...
i thought that there was one in buffalo???
sites and login appreciated
tnx de N1QDQ
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
--
James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!wrksys.enet.dec.com!reisert
146 Main Street - MLO3-6/C9 Voice: 508-493-5747
Maynard, MA 01754 FAX: 508-493-0395
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
--
James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!wrksys.enet.dec.com!reisert
146 Main Street - MLO3-6/C9 Voice: 508-493-5747
Maynard, MA 01754 FAX: 508-493-0395
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