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Info-Hams Digest            Sat, 29 Jan 94       Volume 94 : Issue   85

Today's Topics:
        House Resolution 2623 to limit amateur radio liability
                       Sideband Technology Inc.

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:33:29 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!marcbg@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: House Resolution 2623 to limit amateur radio liability
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

103rd Congress                                                  10/15 Print
1st Session                                                     (Text Only)
 
                                 H.R.2623
 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 in order to facilitate utilization
       of volunteer resources on behalf of the Amateur Radio Service.
                     ________________________________
 
                      IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                               June 13, 1993
 
     Mr. Slattery introduced the following bill; which was
     read and referred to the Energy and Commerce Committee
                    __________________________________
 
                                  A BILL
 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 in order to facilitate 
utilization of
volunteer resources on behalf of the Amateur Radio Service.
 
     Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
 
SECTION I. SHORT TITLE
     This Act may be cited as the "Amateur Radio Volunteer Services
Act of 1993." 
SECTION II. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE
     (a) Findings. - The Congress finds and declares that - 
          (1) Since 1982, following the enactment of P.L. 97-259,
the Federal Communications Commission has been authorized to
utilize volunteer assistance of licensees in the Amateur Radio
Service for:
               (A) the preparation and administration of amateur
radio license examinations, and 
               (B) on-air monitoring for violations in the Amateur
Radio Service;
          (2) these volunteer services provided by individual
amateur radio licensees have greatly enhanced the self-regulatory
character of the Service, and have saved the Commission countless
hours of staff time and other resources; and           
          (3) the success of these volunteer programs to date
should be noted, encouraged and expanded;
          (4) Public Law 102-538 now authorizes the Commission to
accept the voluntary, uncompensated and unreimbursed services of
amateur radio organizations in administration of club and military
recreation station call signs; 
          (5) a principal threat to the continuation of each of
these programs is the perception that volunteers put personal
assets at risk in the event of actions against them, as the result
of their provision of the volunteer services;
          (6) this perception may result in non-participation of
volunteers or withdrawal from volunteer service; 
          (7) the protection of voluntarism in these specific
programs, through clarification and limitation of the personal
risks assumed by the volunteer in connection with such
participation in these enumerated programs, is necessary and
reasonable.
 
 
 
Amateur Radio Volunteer Services Act of 1993.
Page Two
 
     (b) Purpose. - It is the purpose of this Act to -
          (1) protect the provision of volunteer services to the
Federal Communications Commission as provided for in the 
 
 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, in the administration of
the Amateur Radio Service; and
          (2) sustain the availability of volunteer programs which
benefit the Amateur Radio Service, which has provided a model of
self-administration and self-enforcement among the radio services
administered by the Federal 
Communications Commission. 
 
SECTION III. FACILITATION OF VOLUNTEER SERVICES TO THE FEDERAL
COMMUNICATIONS      COMMISSION IN PROGRAMS BENEFITTING THE AMATEUR
                    RADIO SERVICE
 
     Section 4(f)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended
[47 U.S.C. 4(f)(4)], is hereby amended to include a new
subparagraph (K) to read as follows:
          (K) Except as provided otherwise herein, no
     individual licensee in the Amateur Radio Service who
     provides volunteer services pursuant to subparagraphs
     (A), (B) and (C) of this paragraph, or pursuant to
     paragraph (g)(3)(B) hereinbelow, shall incur personal
     financial responsibility for any alleged damage, loss or
     injury from any act or omission of the volunteer from the
     provision of such volunteer services, if such individual
     was acting in good faith and within the scope of such
     individual's official function and duties in providing
     the volunteer services as defined in subparagraphs (A),
     (B) or (C) of this paragraph, or as defined in paragraph
     (g)(3)(B); and provided that such damage, loss or injury
     was not caused by willful and wanton misconduct by such
     individual.

-- 
Marc B. Grant       214-231-3998
marcbg@netcom.com   Amateur Radio N5MEI
marcbg@esy.com      Richardson, TX

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 22:17:22 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil!news@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Sideband Technology Inc.
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

In <CKAu6K.4Hy@freenet.carleton.ca>, ab376@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mike Ligeza) writes:
>
>
>Recently liberated from our corp. lab, what appears to be a VHF
>Transceiver.  Rig was built by Sideband Technology Inc. of Scottsville
>N.Y. Model number is the ACSB Pioneer 1000.  Appears to be a 4 Channel
>Xtal controlled with Xtals for 154.450 Mhz.  Looks like a straight forward
>VHF rig from the Main board, but underneath is another board chock full of
>chips in what appears to be the audio section.

The ACSB means amplitude compandored side band.  Not exactly the same
thing as a "normal" VHF-FM rig.  Best used to talk with other ACSB
rigs.....

P.J. Rovero                   Internet: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil
Code OC/Rv                    Packet:   kk1d@k6ly
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 22:42:43 -0500
From: library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

References <19940112231936OSYSMAS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, <1994Jan14.005918.1@auvax1.adelphi.edu>, <2h7a43$89b@crl2.crl.com>
Subject : Re: why 29.94 fps?

Les Reeves <lreeves@crl.com> writes:
 
>In other words, what sort of digitization of video is going on in these
>frame synch boxes?  As good as D2?  Almost D1?
 
The sampling rate is almost always 14.31818... MHz, or four times subcarrier;
older units used eight bits (same as D-2 and D-3), but newer ones use ten-bit
processing.
 
-- Ed Ellers, KD4AWQ

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 22:40:55 -0500
From: library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

References <1994Jan12.031818.27269@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <19940112231936OSYSMAS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, <1994Jan14.005918.1@auvax1.adelphi.edu>t
Subject : Re: why 29.94 fps?

<schmidt@auvax1.adelphi.edu> writes:
 
>Most every little two-bit local station now has frame synchronizers these days,
>I think the least expensive ones are only a few thousand dollars now.  If so,
>their colorburst frequency is set by their local reference, and not the
>network.  Also some cable systems use processing which destroys the burst
>integrity.  therefore, don't count on this way of calibrating your frequency
>counter....
 
Dunno about the others, but NBC provides its OWN frame synchronizers to each
affiliate as part of their KU-band downlink package.  So that's one item down
right there.
 
(P.S.  A cable system near Louisville accidentally carried a scrambled ABC net
feed on a spare channel one day; I was visiting a friend in that town who has a
new TV with a caption decoder, and it turned out that line 21 is *not* affected
by the encryption.  I was able to get perfectly good captions over a scrambled
picture!)
 
-- Ed Ellers, KD4AWQ

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