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Info-Hams Digest Tue, 1 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 101
Today's Topics:
2-Meter in London and Dublin?
3CX800A7 Transmitting Tubes
Amateur Radio Newsline #859 29 Jan 94 (resubmit)
Bounty & Antipodes Is. N.Z.
FCC Database Online For Calif.
Hy-Gain Phone
Mail-order toroids, RF transistors, Help!
Motorola Micor Repeater
Motorola Mitrek Repeater
Not Re: FCC form 610-V
QST article on batteries
WWCR 5.810MHZ 8pm 12pm Eastern(CHECK IT OUT!!)
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Date: 1 Feb 94 08:53:42
From: munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!larry.larc.nasa.gov!partos@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: 2-Meter in London and Dublin?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
My wife and I are planning a visit to London and Dublin in March.
Should I take my 2-meter HT?
Are repeaters available? Is the band allocation the same as the US
(144-148 MHz)? Are the frequency steps the same (5 khz)on my HT)?
And, finally, what about a license? Do I need a reciprocal license; if
so how do I go about getting one?
Any help or advice much appreciated. Dick KE4AZJ
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Date: 1 Feb 94 18:06:36 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: 3CX800A7 Transmitting Tubes
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Looking to buy Two ea Subject Tubes, call Sam W2DDN,
Tel.area code 201-335-5732, between 4-9PM EST.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 22:53:21 MST
From: mvb.saic.com!unogate!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Amateur Radio Newsline #859 29 Jan 94 (resubmit)
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
The electronic publication of the Amateur Radio Newsline is distributed
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Newsline. The text is transcribed from the audio service by Dale Cary and
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The following is a QST
The ARRL files against an instant ham radio ticket and the Red
Cross asks hams for help.
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ARRL FILES AGAINST INSTANT LICENSE
The ARRL said that it would challenge any move toward the
creation of an instant ham radio license and it has now put its
words on paper and sent them off to the FCC. This, in comments
opposing the commission generated proposal to grant immediate on
the air privileges to amateur examinees before a license is
issued by the Commission.
The League says that it stands by its previous statement in
opposition to a petition for rule making that resulted in the
FCC's proposal, in PR Docket 93-267. At that time, the ARRL said
in response to a petition by the Western Carolina Amateur Radio
Society VEC that such a system was both unlawful and a would be
detrimental to enforcement. The League said that the FCC had,
as recently as 1987, denied such a concept and that the absence
of an up to date database of such temporary call signs would make
both self regulation by amateurs themselves and rules enforcement
by the Commission more difficult.
The League now says that suggestions in the NPRM that
precedents for such a plan exist in other services are incorrect
and has reiterated its opinion that such a plan is inconsistent
with the international radio regulations. Instead, the ARRL has
emphasized that electronic filing of applications with the FCC
would accomplish the same goal. This, of reducing the wait to
get on the air, while maintaining total FCC oversight of
licensing.
As we've reported, AMSAT North America is in full agreement
with the ARRL but the rival National Amateur Radio Association,
many VEC's and several prominent radio clubs have gone on the
record of favoring an instant licensing plan. NARA and a number
of radio clubs say that in lieu of self assigned call signs, each
VEC should have a previously assigned block of calls that it can
issue on the spot. Most of those in favor of instant licensing
are however demanding that the FCC include better safeguards
against bootlegging than are in the original commission proposal.
The reply comment cutoff date for this proposal is February 10th.
Look for a decision on this one fairly early.
*****
ARRL BOARD MEETING HELD RECENTLY
A frigid Hartford, Connecticut was the scene for this years
first annual meeting of 1994 for the ARRL's Board of Directors.
The temperature was below freezing outside, but not so in the
meeting hall itself.
Board members spent their meeting covering a variety of topics
affecting amateur radio. A League committee will look into the
possibility of offering group legal defense insurance to league
members involved in lawsuits over antennas and rfi. The league
wants to loosen some of the rules governing spread spectrum
techniques. In fact the ARRL says it will file a petition for
rulemaking seeking to remove overly restrictive rules concerning
the use of spread spectrum communications. Board members adopted
an interim report and band plan recommendation for amateur use
219 to 220 Mhz. That one mhz slice has been proposed for limited
amateur use including packet communications. And the first steps
may be starting to change the 40m novice subband. A League
committee will consider possibly relocating that band. The
committees report is due in July. You will be getting a reminder
from League when your license is about to expire. That new
practice will also include sending a 610 form to help encourage
amateur radio license renewal.
A lot of what the ARRL board decided last week will definitely
affect your day to day ham radio operations for years to come.
*****
LEAGUE AT THE NAT
The ARRL is inviting Broadcast professionals and others to
visit its booth at the annual convention of the National
Association of Broadcasters, to be held March 21st through the
24th at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The booth, manned by ARRL Public Information Manager Steve
Mansfield, N1MZA, has in past years attracted several hundred
amateurs and former amateurs. Steve will be on hand to field
questions from those in broadcasting who are interested in
Amateur Radio. The League will be in Booth number is 2703.
*****
RED CROSS NEEDS HAMS
In the wake of the January 17th Northridge earthquake, the
Los Angeles chapter of the Red Cross says that it is in very
desperate need of hams to provide help on weekdays and weekday
evenings filling shifts in its quake relief shelters. Weekdays
pose a real problem for the Red Cross as many of their volunteers
have regular jobs. If you are coming to Los Angeles, have a two
meter hand-held and have at least six free hours, please call Jim
Prince at area code (213) 739-4510. This Red Cross says that
this work is vital to those made homeless by the recent quakes,
so please consider donating some time.
*****
WESTLINK REPORT NEWSLETTER ISSUE DELAYED
The Northridge earthquake has taken yet another toll. This,
in the ability of a popular ham radio newsletter to get its next
edition in the mail.
If you are a subscriber to the Westlink Report ham radio
newsletter, you may be wondering where edition number 665 is.
While it is true that Publisher Burt Hicks, WB6MQV is looking to
sell the publication, that's not the reason for the delay in your
getting the latest work. Hicks says that last weeks California
earthquake is to blame.
"While I was sitting at the keyboard at 4:30 in the morning
when the quake hit. It's only by the grace of God that I wasn't
killed as things came flying off the tops of bookcases and
speaker shelving. The computer was hit and sent flying. It took
me a couple of days to find it after unburying it. Yes, the
issue will come out. But, it is going to be a couple of weeks.
My apologies to our readers." Burt Hicks, WB6MQV, Editor of
Westlink Report.
While we had Burt on the phone we also asked why he has
decided to bow out of the ham radio publishing arena after
fourteen years.
"It has become quite a burden on us with my work schedule
shift at a Hollywood TV station. I work all night five days a
week. Then I have four children to keep me awake the rest of the
time. It's becoming increasingly difficult, I don't know maybe
it is just old age. I still love the newsletter, but at a
certain point your body can only handle so much." Burt Hicks,
WB6MQV, Editor of the Westlink Report.
Hicks says that he plans to continue publishing the Westlink
Report until a suitable buyer comes along. He says that he will
only sell out to an individual or group that promises to uphold
the same commitment to moral and journalistic integrity started
by his predecessor Joe Schroeder, W9JUV, in his HR Report. Hicks
adds that the next edition will soon be in the mail.
*****
THIS WEEK IN AMATEUR RADIO UPDATE
A quick correction. A few weeks ago we reported on the return
of This Week in Amateur Radio to the satellite bands.
Unfortunately we got the transponder wrong. This Week in Amateur
Radio can be found on Galaxy 3 Transponder 17 with 5.8 MHz audio,
not on Transponder 19 as reported.
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NO DAYTON BUSSES
If you are planning to attend the 1994 Dayton Hamvention,
better plan to drive your car out to the Hara Arena convention
venue. This is because Hamvention planners have announced that
they will not be providing free bus service to hotels and motels
this year.
The problem is simply one of cost. Dayton first began
providing the free bus service after land adjacent to the Hara
Arena was made off limits for parking. Over the years, the cost
of providing the free bus service has soared until it topped the
ninety thousand dollar mark. That's simply more than the
Hamvention can afford to pay.
But over the past twelve months, much of the old parking
adjacent to the Hara Arena became available once again. Its now
privately owned, so there will be a nominal daily charge to be
decided by the owner of each lot.
Getting the parking spaces back means that the Hamvention can
cut back this expensive transport service, Now it needs to
provide shuttles only to outlying parking facilities such as the
Salem Mall. According to Hamvention General Chairman Dave Grubb,
KC8CF, this will be a savings of over forty-five thousand
dollars. Money that can better be spent on improving other
aspects of this yearly event.
Grubb adds that the Hamvention Planning Committee is also
working with the Dayton Chamber of Commerce and the city's
Convention and Visitors bureau. This, to see if either will help
to underwrite the cost of running busses from the various hotels.
In lieu of that, the Hamvention is also trying to get the hotels
and motels to provide this service for their guests.
The bottom line is that a few out of town visitors who fly to
Dayton for the Hamvention may be inconvenienced by this change,
but the enhanced on-site parking may make things a lot easier for
the vast majority of Hamvention attendees who drive.
*****
TAPR MEETING
Tucson Amateur Packet Radio better known as TAPR has
scheduled its annual meeting for March 4th to 6th at the Best
Western Inn at the Airport in Tucson. The meeting will feature
presentations and papers on several new hardware projects,
discussions, and hands-on demonstrations. The afternoon session
on Saturday will feature a mini-symposium on future directions in
amateur packet radio. For more information contact Program
Chairman Keith Justice, KF7TP, at (602) 461-8687, or contact
TAPR at 8987-309 East Tanque Verde Road, Unit Number 337, Tucson,
Arizona 85749. Their voice mail system number is (817) 383-0000
and the fax line is (817) 566-2544.
*****
QSL STATISTICS
In DX, the ARRL says that its members in 1993 sent about 7
and a quarter tons of QSL cards to the ARRL Outgoing QSL Bureau,
and the Bureau shipped them out. This was a total 2,182,000
cards for DX destinations.
The US Incoming QSL Bureau's volunteers sorted just over two
million cards in 1993, as well.
*****
QSL ROMEO
Cards for the 9D0RR operation should be sent to Edward
Kritsky, Box 715, Brooklyn, New York 11230. The former address
of Box 776 belongs to Romeo Stepaneko and is now being used
only for his personal business. The change applies only to 9D0RR
cards. All other cards for Romeo still go to the Box 766
address.
*****
VIDEO WINNER
Emmy award winning producer Rich Moseson, NW2L has won yet
another honor. The ARRL reports that his video titled Ham
Radio Horizons was a finalist in the New York Festivals
International Non-Broadcast Media competition for 1993. The
awards were presented January 14th in New York City.
The 49-minute program introducing non-hams to Amateur Radio is
part of the CQ Communications video library, which also includes
videos on satellite operation, DXing, contests, and packet radio.
Executive producer Rich Moseson is also ARRL Section Manager for
Northern New Jersey.
*****
For this week, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
You can write to us at Post Office Box 463, Pasadena, CA 91102.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:59:42 GMT
From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!bluegrass.ecn.purdue.edu!wb9tow@purdue.edu
Subject: Bounty & Antipodes Is. N.Z.
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Greetings all. My curiousity abounds...How far from N. Z. are
the Boundy and Antipodes Is? They appear to be close to the limit
for "country" status...Not that we need more "new" countries, but
as a DXer, we sit and wonder....vir 73 es gl to all on Peter I
steve
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 17:26:07 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!tweek@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: FCC Database Online For Calif.
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <hatunenCKI4Mx.4HD@netcom.com> posted to the Usenet Newsgroup(s)
rec.radio.scanner,alt.radio.scanner,ba.broadcast,rec.radio.amateur.misc
hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:
>
>I did not see any introduction to carefully read.
>
>What I was hoping for was antenna locations. Are these available in the
>database?
I too was hoping for a little different implementation. I noticed that
you must exactly match the Licensee name (MC DONALDS REST works whereas
MC DONALDS does not work) as it is in the licensee field.
I suspect that this is just an early version of the software and it is
still being revised. If this is so, a couple of features I would like
to see would be a secondary search criteria (do you know how many licensee's
there are for 154.6) such as city, zipcode, and maybe partial matches of
the licensee.
I do however realize that you (tcomeng) are providing a service and asking
nothing in return (cept name recognition). Thank you for providing this
lookup service.
tweek@netcom.com tweek@tweekco.uucp WWIVNet 1@511 DoD #MCMLX
I'd rather get my cable service from the phone company,
than my phone service from the cable company.
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Date: 1 Feb 94 16:57:53 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: Hy-Gain Phone
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Could not reply direct..... Phone number of Hy-Gain in Lincoln NE. is
(402) 467-5321
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 18:04:08 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!ntuix!ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg!asirene@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mail-order toroids, RF transistors, Help!
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Hi,
Can some kind hearted HAM help me order some parts from Amidon
Associates Inc. I do not have the catalog so I do not know how much to
send, how much for shipping, minimum order. This is for sending to
Singapore where toroids are non-existent. I am also in need of MRF472 or
MRF476. The toroids I am interested in are:-
4 x FT37-43 core
2 x FT50-43 core
2 x FB73-801 ferrite bead
73 de 9V Daniel 4 x T-50-6 core
2 x T-37-6 core
Would appreciate any help for ordering these stuffs. Need them
fast. I need 2 MRF-472 (or MRF-476 if 472's are not available) and also
a 14 mHz fundamental crystal. What is the fastest way I can get hold of
these? Tks.
73 de 9V Daniel
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 17:02:50 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.umr.edu!crunch.nuc.umr.edu!sidener@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Motorola Micor Repeater
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 17:06:15 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.umr.edu!crunch.nuc.umr.edu!sidener@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Motorola Mitrek Repeater
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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Date: 31 Jan 1994 18:19:53 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!news.bbn.com!news!levin@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Not Re: FCC form 610-V
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <CKCqDA.EpK@world.std.com> dts@world.std.com (Daniel T Senie) writes:
}Read the February QST!!! Lots of coverage on the subject.
And while you've got the issue open, don't forget to glance at the
"Behind the Diamond" sidebar about the new WMA Section Manager,
auther of the quoted article :-).
}---------------------------------------------------------------
}Daniel Senie Internet: dts@world.std.com
}Daniel Senie Consulting n1jeb@world.std.com
}508-365-5352 Compuserve: 74176,1347
/JBL
===
Nets: levin@bbn.com | "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's
POTS: (617)873-3463 | bureau that morning. Wide-eyed and distraught, she
KD1ON (@KB4N.NH.USA) | stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 18:02:09 GMT
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!spud!geraldg@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: QST article on batteries
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
QST printed an article a few montha ago on batteries. Would someone please post
or e-mail to me the appropiate biographical information? Thanks.
Regards,
Gerald
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Gerald W. Garcia, P.E. N5UMB Motorola Inc., MD: TX30/OE37
Senior Design Engineer 6501 Wm. Cannon Dr. West
geraldg@spud.sps.mot.com Austin, TX 78735-8598
(512) 891-2806 (voice) (512) 891-8315 (fax)
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Date: 31 Jan 94 12:28:31 CST
From: munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!cdsmail!timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!cb@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: WWCR 5.810MHZ 8pm 12pm Eastern(CHECK IT OUT!!)
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Harry E. Cline writes:
Don`t forget the Hour of the Time with William Cooper! They are
usually entertaining and address subjects you won't here elsewhere.
There are good reasons you don't hear this stuff elsewhere: it's
hogwash. Among Cooper's beliefs, and central to them, is that a group
called the Illuminati is a secret worldwide conspiracy that's directing
all the disasters. If I have it right, they're promoting socialism as a
means to enslave the population. I agree the guy can be entertaining,
but when you start thinking he makes sense, better get away from it for
a while.
Chris Brewster E-MAIL ADDRESS: cb@cray.com
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