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Info-Hams Digest Fri, 21 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 62
Today's Topics:
Best logging program?
CT (was: Contest Logger)
DSP Audio Filters
Fs in callbook
Gin Pole Dealers???
Help wanted: Assembler TSR
ORBS$021.MICRO.AMSAT
ORBS$021.MISC.AMSAT
ORBS$021.OSCAR.AMSAT
ORBS$021.WEATH.AMSAT
Ramsey FX Transceivers
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Date: 20 Jan 1994 20:49:34 GMT
From: library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!jericho.mc.com!fugu!levine@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Best logging program?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Check out the new Log Windows in the new AEA catalog that
came out this week.
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Bob Levine KD1GG 7J1AIS VK2GYN formerly KA1JFP
levine@mc.com <--Internet email Phone(508) 256-1300 x247
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Date: 21 Jan 94 22:24:47 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: CT (was: Contest Logger)
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Angelo_Glorioso_Iii@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Angelo Glorioso Iii) recently
asked:
> I am looking for a Contest logger that will support ARRL format for
>electronic filing for ARRL RTTY ROUND-UP contest. If you know of one,
>please let me know where I can ftp it??
To which someone (unsigned posting) replied:
>I'm told the standard by which all others are judged is CT by Ken
>Wolff, K1EA, at 221 Old Littleton Road, Harvard, MA 01451. I don't
>know if it's available for download anywhere, but I'm sure you could
>contact Mr. Wolff directly.
There is an ancient version of CT out there for free, but CT is now a
commercial product. You've got the author correct, but the latest
information for ordering or inquiries is
K1EA Software
5 Mt. Royal Ave
Marlborough, MA 01752
508 779-5054
There is also a CT bbs which will give you the latest updates, ordering
information, etc. The bbs number is 508 460-8877. The bbs won't do you
much good other than finding out how to order, price, etc. unless you
are a registered user of CT.
Of course, I have no affiliation with K1EA Software, Harvard Radio, Inc.,
K1EA, etc. I just thought that people would like to know where to find out
more about CT...
73,
Scott WO1G
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Scott Sminkey email: sasminkey@eng.xyplex.com
Software Sustaining Engineering voice: 508 952-4792
Xyplex, Inc. fax: 508 952-4887
295 Foster St. (Opinions, comments, etc. are mine,
Littleton, MA 01460 not Xyplex's...)
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Date: 21 Jan 94 21:38:09 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: DSP Audio Filters
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I have an IC-765 with the 250Hz optional CW filters. I use a Timewave DSP-59
with it, although I modified the radio so that the DSP is ONLY in the detector
audio branch (not in the monitor audio---I didn't like what it did to
my sidetone!).
I find that it's extremely effective filtering the background noise on
the higher
bands, less so on 160/80/40 (the noise characteristics are very
different on the
low bands). I find that 99.9% of the time I just keep the DSP in line,
in the noise
reduction position (I'm 99.9% CW). It's really nice to use it on SSB to
eliminate
carriers, assuming the carrier isn't louder than the DX I'm trying to hear. The
white noise reduction mode works very well, reduces fatigue, and actually helps
pull some weak signals through the background noise.
I don't use the super-narrowband CW filters very often. They don't give any
significant improvement over the 250Hz crystal filters in the rig's IF (and the
IF filters ring less). The notch filter in the rig is also preferable
for heterodynes
because the IF won't pump as it does with the DSP.
All in all, I think the DSP-59 is worth the investment, especially if
you modify
your radio so that it only DSPs the detected audio.
73 Mike N6MZ mikemr@microsoft.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 14:38:08 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpfcso!hplvec!bagdy@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Fs in callbook
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
According to "10-10 International News", January 1994, pg. 24:
FD1xxx and FE1xxx
have CHANGED TO: F5xxx
Regards,
Mark Bagdy
bagdy@hpmtaa.lvld.hp.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 03:31:01 GMT
From: swrinde!gatech!wa4mei.ping.com!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Gin Pole Dealers???
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <CJuFuq.14wz@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> galen@picea.CFNR.ColoState.EDU (Galen Watts) writes:
>Anybody know who sells gin poles and related hardware? I'm looking for
>all the parts except the pipe, since I have some aluminum pipe and don't
>want to pay trucking for something so light.
>Antenna season approaches....
Well of course Rohn sells gin poles and hardware. They're rather proud
of them, however, got to pay that liability insurance. I bought a kit
from a fellow in the flea market at Dayton last year. Good sturdy
construction, but not quite as slickly engineered as Rohn's product.
Only cost $49 though, I couldn't build one myself that I'd trust for
less. It's your life of course, but Rohn makes the best. Unless you
have access to magnaflux equipment, which I do, I'd be somewhat leery
of using the product of some garage shop. Fall on your head it might.
Gary
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Date: 21 Jan 94 21:13:01 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: Help wanted: Assembler TSR
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I would like to hire someone to write a very small TSR in Assembler. If
you have experience with these and would like to earn $100 for a couple
of hour's work, please contact me.
MRO
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Michael R. Owen, Ph.D. a.k.a.: W9IP
Department of Geology Northern Lights Software
St. Lawrence University Star Route, Box 60
Canton, NY 13617 Canton, NY 13617
(315) 379-5975 - voice - (315) 379-0161 (6-9pm)
e-mail: MOWE@SLUMUS FAX - (315) 379-5804
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Date: 21 Jan 94 13:59:00 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: ORBS$021.MICRO.AMSAT
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-021.D
Orbital Elements 021.MICROS
HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR THE MICROSATS
FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX January 21, 1994
BID: $ORBS-021.D
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
Satellite: UO-14
Catalog number: 20437
Epoch time: 94019.24162783
Element set: 957
Inclination: 98.6014 deg
RA of node: 105.9995 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0010476
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Mean anomaly: 88.9061 deg
Mean motion: 14.29817627 rev/day
Decay rate: 4.8e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 20830
Checksum: 322
Satellite: AO-16
Catalog number: 20439
Epoch time: 94019.23294962
Element set: 758
Inclination: 98.6092 deg
RA of node: 107.0729 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0010727
Arg of perigee: 271.4260 deg
Mean anomaly: 88.5694 deg
Mean motion: 14.29873575 rev/day
Decay rate: 4.3e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 20831
Checksum: 327
Satellite: DO-17
Catalog number: 20440
Epoch time: 94018.78193383
Element set: 757
Inclination: 98.6093 deg
RA of node: 106.8996 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0010796
Arg of perigee: 272.2002 deg
Mean anomaly: 87.7944 deg
Mean motion: 14.30011640 rev/day
Decay rate: 5.5e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 20826
Checksum: 311
Satellite: WO-18
Catalog number: 20441
Epoch time: 94019.24446275
Element set: 758
Inclination: 98.6091 deg
RA of node: 107.3686 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0011348
Arg of perigee: 270.7621 deg
Mean anomaly: 89.2257 deg
Mean motion: 14.29988067 rev/day
Decay rate: 3.2e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 20833
Checksum: 322
Satellite: LO-19
Catalog number: 20442
Epoch time: 94019.23252273
Element set: 757
Inclination: 98.6097 deg
RA of node: 107.5781 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0011714
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Mean motion: 14.30081798 rev/day
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Satellite: UO-22
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Checksum: 259
Satellite: KO-23
Catalog number: 22077
Epoch time: 94015.07021241
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Checksum: 280
Satellite: AO-27
Catalog number: 22825
Epoch time: 94015.23688085
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RA of node: 92.4839 deg
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Checksum: 323
Satellite: IO-26
Catalog number: 22826
Epoch time: 94015.22892069
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Inclination: 98.6706 deg
RA of node: 92.4916 deg
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Epoch rev: 1586
Checksum: 313
Satellite: KO-25
Catalog number: 22830
Epoch time: 94014.64339549
Element set: 256
Inclination: 98.5722 deg
RA of node: 90.7900 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0010843
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Epoch rev: 1578
Checksum: 291
/EX
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Date: 21 Jan 94 14:04:00 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: ORBS$021.MISC.AMSAT
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-021.M
Orbital Elements 021.MISC
HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR MANNED AND MISCELLANEOUS SATELLITES
FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX January 21, 1994
BID: $ORBS-021.M
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
Satellite: MIR
Catalog number: 16609
Epoch time: 94017.58944630
Element set: 99
Inclination: 51.6174 deg
RA of node: 222.2409 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0004684
Arg of perigee: 210.2206 deg
Mean anomaly: 149.8392 deg
Mean motion: 15.59692386 rev/day
Decay rate: 9.870e-05 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 45255
Checksum: 323
Satellite: HUBBLE
Catalog number: 20580
Epoch time: 94019.23512510
Element set: 429
Inclination: 28.4680 deg
RA of node: 112.6612 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0005975
Arg of perigee: 331.6281 deg
Mean anomaly: 28.3980 deg
Mean motion: 14.90430063 rev/day
Decay rate: 8.38e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 714
Checksum: 269
Satellite: GRO
Catalog number: 21225
Epoch time: 94017.58973420
Element set: 56
Inclination: 28.4617 deg
RA of node: 196.8700 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0003735
Arg of perigee: 311.7439 deg
Mean anomaly: 48.2817 deg
Mean motion: 15.39842307 rev/day
Decay rate: 3.648e-05 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 3369
Checksum: 309
Satellite: UARS
Catalog number: 21701
Epoch time: 94018.13837617
Element set: 464
Inclination: 56.9833 deg
RA of node: 40.3077 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0005136
Arg of perigee: 99.2913 deg
Mean anomaly: 260.8424 deg
Mean motion: 14.96334028 rev/day
Decay rate: -1.27e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 12847
Checksum: 294
Satellite: POSAT
Catalog number: 22829
Epoch time: 94015.20627603
Element set: 247
Inclination: 98.6671 deg
RA of node: 92.4771 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0009664
Arg of perigee: 287.5870 deg
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Decay rate: 4.5e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 1586
Checksum: 331
/EX
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Date: 21 Jan 94 13:56:00 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: ORBS$021.OSCAR.AMSAT
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-021.O
Orbital Elements 021.OSCAR
HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR OSCAR SATELLITES
FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX January 21, 1994
BID: $ORBS-021.O
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
Satellite: AO-10
Catalog number: 14129
Epoch time: 94012.88782746
Element set: 252
Inclination: 27.1999 deg
RA of node: 346.8463 deg
Eccentricity: 0.6020165
Arg of perigee: 145.8302 deg
Mean anomaly: 274.3239 deg
Mean motion: 2.05879874 rev/day
Decay rate: -3.37e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 7958
Checksum: 340
Satellite: UO-11
Catalog number: 14781
Epoch time: 94018.53148342
Element set: 658
Inclination: 97.7944 deg
RA of node: 40.2143 deg
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Mean anomaly: 328.1509 deg
Mean motion: 14.69124335 rev/day
Decay rate: 2.35e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 52833
Checksum: 287
Satellite: RS-10/11
Catalog number: 18129
Epoch time: 94016.19941791
Element set: 854
Inclination: 82.9244 deg
RA of node: 81.1944 deg
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Arg of perigee: 85.2443 deg
Mean anomaly: 275.0217 deg
Mean motion: 13.72329684 rev/day
Decay rate: 4.6e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 32906
Checksum: 302
Satellite: AO-13
Catalog number: 19216
Epoch time: 94013.76090682
Element set: 865
Inclination: 57.8727 deg
RA of node: 273.6690 deg
Eccentricity: 0.7205576
Arg of perigee: 332.7751 deg
Mean anomaly: 3.3757 deg
Mean motion: 2.09726934 rev/day
Decay rate: -5.86e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 4277
Checksum: 343
Satellite: FO-20
Catalog number: 20480
Epoch time: 94018.51659842
Element set: 652
Inclination: 99.0147 deg
RA of node: 198.7340 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0540754
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Mean anomaly: 37.4685 deg
Mean motion: 12.83223815 rev/day
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Satellite: AO-21
Catalog number: 21087
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Epoch rev: 14911
Checksum: 304
Satellite: RS-12/13
Catalog number: 21089
Epoch time: 94018.81286753
Element set: 656
Inclination: 82.9239 deg
RA of node: 122.2331 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0029532
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Mean motion: 13.74033348 rev/day
Decay rate: 3.7e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 14813
Checksum: 312
/EX
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Date: 21 Jan 94 14:02:00 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: ORBS$021.WEATH.AMSAT
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORBS-021.W
Orbital Elements 021.WEATHER
HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR WEATHER SATELLITES
FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX January 21, 1994
BID: $ORBS-021.W
TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
Satellite: NOAA-9
Catalog number: 15427
Epoch time: 94014.01154683
Element set: 677
Inclination: 99.0744 deg
RA of node: 62.5335 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0014570
Arg of perigee: 297.2963 deg
Mean anomaly: 62.6724 deg
Mean motion: 14.13579715 rev/day
Decay rate: 1.35e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 46856
Checksum: 324
Satellite: NOAA-10
Catalog number: 16969
Epoch time: 94013.95089539
Element set: 576
Inclination: 98.5115 deg
RA of node: 27.6470 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0014289
Arg of perigee: 60.6937 deg
Mean anomaly: 299.5669 deg
Mean motion: 14.24857313 rev/day
Decay rate: 8.5e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 38064
Checksum: 354
Satellite: MET-2/17
Catalog number: 18820
Epoch time: 94019.09840418
Element set: 255
Inclination: 82.5397 deg
RA of node: 27.1822 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0015166
Arg of perigee: 239.2617 deg
Mean anomaly: 120.7049 deg
Mean motion: 13.84704972 rev/day
Decay rate: 4.1e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 30172
Checksum: 300
Satellite: MET-3/2
Catalog number: 19336
Epoch time: 94018.57372231
Element set: 257
Inclination: 82.5389 deg
RA of node: 69.5600 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0015877
Arg of perigee: 278.6887 deg
Mean anomaly: 81.2437 deg
Mean motion: 13.16963263 rev/day
Decay rate: 5.1e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 26356
Checksum: 332
Satellite: NOAA-11
Catalog number: 19531
Epoch time: 94013.91338651
Element set: 478
Inclination: 99.1575 deg
RA of node: 359.1629 deg
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Arg of perigee: 204.5750 deg
Mean anomaly: 155.4889 deg
Mean motion: 14.12949930 rev/day
Decay rate: 1.26e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 27343
Checksum: 313
Satellite: MET-2/18
Catalog number: 19851
Epoch time: 94019.18866258
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RA of node: 262.7081 deg
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Mean anomaly: 70.6423 deg
Mean motion: 13.84355686 rev/day
Decay rate: 6.9e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 24707
Checksum: 331
Satellite: MET-3/3
Catalog number: 20305
Epoch time: 94017.89422067
Element set: 971
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RA of node: 13.8911 deg
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Mean anomaly: 48.3353 deg
Mean motion: 13.04401542 rev/day
Decay rate: 4.4e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 20330
Checksum: 267
Satellite: MET-2/19
Catalog number: 20670
Epoch time: 94019.25203231
Element set: 757
Inclination: 82.5477 deg
RA of node: 326.7663 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0014849
Arg of perigee: 201.4548 deg
Mean anomaly: 158.5995 deg
Mean motion: 13.84186662 rev/day
Decay rate: 2.4e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 18001
Checksum: 317
Satellite: FY-1/2
Catalog number: 20788
Epoch time: 94016.17645587
Element set: 873
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RA of node: 41.1276 deg
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Mean anomaly: 284.3802 deg
Mean motion: 14.01335636 rev/day
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Checksum: 313
Satellite: MET-2/20
Catalog number: 20826
Epoch time: 94019.19169044
Element set: 756
Inclination: 82.5267 deg
RA of node: 264.5225 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0014575
Arg of perigee: 102.3761 deg
Mean anomaly: 257.9031 deg
Mean motion: 13.83571054 rev/day
Decay rate: 9.4e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 16715
Checksum: 303
Satellite: MET-3/4
Catalog number: 21232
Epoch time: 94016.77549633
Element set: 664
Inclination: 82.5405 deg
RA of node: 276.6395 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0012441
Arg of perigee: 202.6707 deg
Mean anomaly: 157.3867 deg
Mean motion: 13.16458614 rev/day
Decay rate: 5.0e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 13143
Checksum: 299
Satellite: NOAA-12
Catalog number: 21263
Epoch time: 94015.96922581
Element set: 886
Inclination: 98.6363 deg
RA of node: 46.9897 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0012686
Arg of perigee: 321.9099 deg
Mean anomaly: 38.1181 deg
Mean motion: 14.22357548 rev/day
Decay rate: 1.57e-06 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 13889
Checksum: 349
Satellite: MET-3/5
Catalog number: 21655
Epoch time: 94018.52836753
Element set: 660
Inclination: 82.5520 deg
RA of node: 222.4234 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0012361
Arg of perigee: 209.0115 deg
Mean anomaly: 151.0325 deg
Mean motion: 13.16826870 rev/day
Decay rate: 5.1e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 11676
Checksum: 269
Satellite: MET-2/21
Catalog number: 22782
Epoch time: 94018.89845223
Element set: 256
Inclination: 82.5520 deg
RA of node: 324.7383 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0021299
Arg of perigee: 286.9901 deg
Mean anomaly: 72.8924 deg
Mean motion: 13.82996980 rev/day
Decay rate: 3.9e-07 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 1945
Checksum: 341
/EX
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 03:03:36 GMT
From: swrinde!gatech!wa4mei.ping.com!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Ramsey FX Transceivers
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <CJu4CH.yuI@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> galen@picea.CFNR.ColoState.EDU (Galen Watts) writes:
>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.
Not Japanese, it was AMF. What a bowling pin setting machine company
thought they knew about motorcycles I don't know, and apparently neither
did they.
>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?
Heath idiot proofed their kits. They weren't better designed than their
competition, and they certainly weren't cheaper, but they were designed
to be easily built without tricky alignment or the need for special test
equipment. If you want cheaper than assembled equipment, you are going to
get kits that aren't perfect. Today's assembled gear costs less than a quality
kit, as Heath discovered to their bankruptcy. The original Heathkits were
paper bags of parts and a mimeographed sheet of instructions. In the days
of simple hand wired tube factory gear, that was cheaper than assembled. But
today with complex machine assembled products, a kit that's going to work as
well, and is fool proof to assemble, is going to cost *more* to produce and
market.
People who buy kits thinking they'll save money are fooling themselves. With
a quality kit you're going to pay *more* for the priviledge of doing the
assembly, or you're going to get a kit that requires you to be your own
test engineer, and sometimes redesign engineer. That's not bad. It forces
you to learn a lot more than the "insert leads A and B in terminal 3, solder
two" of Heathkit days where all you learned was how to follow directions.
Think of a kit as a more convienent way to do homebrew construction.
Gary
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 03:16:57 GMT
From: swrinde!gatech!wa4mei.ping.com!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <CJFF8p.56v@spk.hp.com>, <1994Jan11.150658.25191@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <940118.46856.LEEVANKOTEN@delphi.com>
Reply-To : gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman)
Subject : Re: BRAIN CANCER, LEUKEMIA FROM HAM RADIO
In article <940118.46856.LEEVANKOTEN@delphi.com> Leland Van Koten <LEEVANKOTEN@delphi.com> writes:
>
>Thanks for the very informative post. Although it is impossible to say with
>certainty that there is NO risk, from EMR, it is clear that if there IS a risk,
>it is a very low one. When one compares the possible risk from EMR to very
>clear and significant risks that we all take every day, any risk is obviously
>insignificant.
That's absolutely true. People need to get a grasp of proportion when
it comes to evaluating risks. There's no such thing as a risk free activity
or product, but ham radio is safer than skydiving, or driving a car. It's
probably safer than drinking milk, certainly safer than taking asprin.
This is a case similar to nuclear power. The risks of nuclear power are
tiny compared to the known risks of coal fired generation, yet the latter
is accepted while the former is feared. The *possibility* of an invisible
threat frightens the ignorant more than the visible threat of the known.
>Interestingly, a clearly documented producer of cancer in both animals and
>humans is excess caloric intake, and when I look around a lot of hamfests, if
>there is excess cancer in hams, that may be the reason rather than exposure to
>EMR.
Actually, it's dietary fat intake that's the supposed risk factor, not
the calories themselves. On the other hand, Eskimos have the lowest
incidence of heart disease and colon cancer of any studied group, and
their diet is extremely high in fat. Go figure.
>None of the power line studies of which I am aware have been
>adequately controlled for such things as socio-economic status, etc., but
>places such as New Jersey are apparently nevertheless rushing to impose taxes
>on emitters of EMR on the theory that EMR is carcinogenic. I have even heard
>predictions that EMR litigation will be the "new asbestos litigation."
>
>Let's hope that the news media don't feed the sense of hysteria that many
>people feel when confronted by something they don't understand, and that we dt
>end up spending billions of dollars dealing with a problem that may not even
>exist.
This is one case where the media, at least the electronic media, is going
to tread very lightly. Their own ox is being gored here.
Gary
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 18:55:33 +0000
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!dis.demon.co.uk!llondel.demon.co.uk!dave@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <2hfek9$a5@orion.cc.andrews.edu>, <WOSBORNE.94Jan18080511@gauss.nmsu.edu>, <1994Jan18.201820.13828@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>de
Subject : Re: Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon
In article <1994Jan18.201820.13828@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> blake@lonestar.utsa.edu (M Blake Schreckenbach) writes:
>I remember reading somewhere that the Lost Ark of the Covenant was really an
>extraterrestrial sub-space transceiver, left behind by the same beings that
>gave some of their construction and architecture expertise to the Egyptians,
>Mayans, etc.
>
No... read the description more carefully. You will find that the Ark of
the Covenant is basically a *large* capacitor (wooden box with metal inside
and metal outside). Penalty for unauthorised contact was a lightning bolt,
although presumably you got let off if it was raining :-)
Dave
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