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Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #264
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Info-Hams Digest Tue, 8 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 264
Today's Topics:
Amateur Satellite Information?
ARRL server (3 msgs)
copying cw on typewriters
Definition of CW speeds
DOVE Keps
FT-530 Receive Problem Followup (2 msgs)
HDN Releases
help identifying a tube
QSL route for T30JJ
Satellite progs on World
Why no 10 meter activity??
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Date: 8 Mar 94 22:39:35 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!softage.demon.co.uk!zawada@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Amateur Satellite Information?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I'm looking for information on receiving packet radio satellites on VHF.
I've got a packet radio decoder and VHF receiver, what I need is....
Name Of Satellite
Frequency
Type of transmission (aerial type)
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mark
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Mark Simpson
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Date: 8 Mar 94 17:36:10 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ctc.com!news.cs.umb.edu!hsdndev!admii!ovation!ramcad.pica.army.mil!mellis@network.
Subject: ARRL server
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Oh sure, as soon as I post a msg regarding the inability to get into
ftp.std.com, I try it again, and get in.
Sigh.
.... Mark E. Ellis <mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil>
PA&TD Workplace Automation Group
SMCAR-QAH-P, Bldg 62N, Ext. 5817
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 04:12:59 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcomsv!skyld!jangus@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: ARRL server
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <CMCwwB.2vJ@pica.army.mil> mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil writes:
> Oh sure, as soon as I post a msg regarding the inability to get into
> ftp.std.com, I try it again, and get in.
>
> Sigh.
>
> .... Mark E. Ellis <mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil>
> PA&TD Workplace Automation Group
> SMCAR-QAH-P, Bldg 62N, Ext. 5817
> Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
I'd suspect Walt did it. Ask him if hes controlling the access now by
remote control. (CW of course, after all, this IS amateur radio....)
Amateur: WA6FWI@WA6FWI.#SOCA.CA.USA.NA | "You have a flair for adding
Internet: jangus@skyld.grendel.com | a fanciful dimension to any
US Mail: PO Box 4425 Carson, CA 90749 | story."
Phone: 1 (310) 324-6080 | Peking Noodle Co.
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Date: 8 Mar 94 17:34:48 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ctc.com!news.cs.umb.edu!hsdndev!admii!ovation!ramcad.pica.army.mil!mellis@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: ARRL server
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
>>Does anyone know what happened to the ARRL server? I have been trying to
>>get files, but haven't gotten anything.
>
>I believe that the files at the ARRL server are also available at
>ftp.std.com
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Great. Now if only ftp.std.com would allow anon-ftp connects.
ncftp ftp.std.com
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
Login failed.
NcFTP 1.0 PL2 (20 Jan 93) Ready.
FTP ()->
Been doing that for several days now.
.... Mark E. Ellis <mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil>
PA&TD Workplace Automation Group
SMCAR-QAH-P, Bldg 62N, Ext. 5817
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
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Date: 8 Mar 94 09:51:53 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!idmb-secretary.tamu.edu!user@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: copying cw on typewriters
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <CMBIKE.6J9@ucdavis.edu>, ez006683@chip.ucdavis.edu (Daniel D.
Todd) wrote:
> ps. If the professor was a Ham "Gilligan's Island" would have lasted only
> three episodes. (unless he was a no-code :-)
No, that wasn't the problem. Think back to an early episode when they
still had the transmitter (before Gilligan ruined it, of course). They had
some type of ham or marine-band transmitter, but they were using a portable
AM or FM radio for a receiver. No wonder they never heard the search
parties :)
Troyce
KC5CBI
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Date: 8 Mar 94 21:24:31 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!battin@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Definition of CW speeds
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
I am writing a code-practice program for my Amiga computer, and
I wonder if anyone can give me a definitive answer to exactly
how many milliseconds long a dit at 18 wpm is supposed to be?
The only references I have say that wpm is defined for 5-letter
words. But, since letters vary in their dit content, I assume that
this is supposed to be some sort of "average" letter. Does the FCC
say in some regulation (not in Part 97 that _I_ can find) how
many dits an "average" word or letter should be composed of?
Note that this would be different for messages composed of random
letters, and messages composed of plain-text. In fact, plaintext
that has a lot of ham-style abbreviations will have different letter
frequencies than other sorts of plaintexts. Throw in proceedural symbols
like AR and SK, various punctuation marks, numbers and what-not, and
you can see why I'm looking for the real, "definitive", definition.
FWIW, Morse used the number of pieces of type in a printer's type case
to determine letter frequencies when he assigned various seqences
and if you compare the results with other people's data concerning
letter frequencies you'll see some real differences.
So, just what _is_ the _exact_ standard? (Assuming that there _is_ one.)
[I know, I'm talking about differences that are very small, but still
I'd be surprised if there isn't some better standard than simply saying
"x wpm = x (undefined) words of 5 (undefined) letters per minute". The
simplest such standard I can think of is to simply _define_ some particular
x wpm as composed of dit units of y milliseconds, thus my question above.
Since the ARRL uses 18 wpm character rate in their code exams for 5 and 13
wpm tests, I figured that there must be some standard by which they are
going.]
--
Gene Battin
battin@cyclops.iucf.indiana.edu
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Date: 9 Mar 94 07:33:33 GMT
From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
Subject: DOVE Keps
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Hello
Would you please send me the latest Keps for DOVE DO-17.
Many thanks
Graham Tilbury
ZS5GMT
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Date: 8 Mar 94 21:55:38 GMT
From: yale.edu!noc.near.net!inmet!panther!leber@yale.arpa
Subject: FT-530 Receive Problem Followup
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
OK, all of you who have been following my adventures with Yaesu, trying to
resolve interference heard around 145.13, here's some more info:
The Service people at Yaesu claimed not to have been able to reproduce the
problem, so I had them return the radio to me. I've been living with it for
a couple of weeks now, mostly ignoring the problem, since it's really not
severe.
Last night, I started playing with the VHF and UHF VFOs simultaneously,
and suddenly heard the same type of interference, but this time it
was full scale, and it was coming in on the UHF side. A little experimentation
indicated that for a given 2 meter frequency, the unit generated a spur at
3.172845 times that frequency. Example: 145.13 generates 460.475. The noise is
exactly like the weaker noise I hear in 2 meter, but it pegs the S meter.
I'd say it's likely that these phenomena are related. I checked the schematic
for crystals that oscillate around 3.1728, but didn't see any. Can any of the
more technically savvy of you out there suggest the culprit?
I like this HT a lot, and I'd like to be able to eliminate this if possible.
Cheers,
Tom
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Tom Leber N3QKV <leber@panther.warm.inmet.com> Intermetrics, Inc. Warminster PA
"Smother technology and it rebels." - Max Headroom
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 05:17:23 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcom.com!wy1z@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: FT-530 Receive Problem Followup
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <CMD8wr.4y@inmet.camb.inmet.com> leber@panther.warm.inmet.com (Thomas Leber) writes:
>OK, all of you who have been following my adventures with Yaesu, trying to
>resolve interference heard around 145.13, here's some more info:
>
>The Service people at Yaesu claimed not to have been able to reproduce the
>problem, so I had them return the radio to me. I've been living with it for
>a couple of weeks now, mostly ignoring the problem, since it's really not
>severe.
>
>Last night, I started playing with the VHF and UHF VFOs simultaneously,
>and suddenly heard the same type of interference, but this time it
>was full scale, and it was coming in on the UHF side. A little experimentation
>indicated that for a given 2 meter frequency, the unit generated a spur at
>3.172845 times that frequency. Example: 145.13 generates 460.475. The noise is
>exactly like the weaker noise I hear in 2 meter, but it pegs the S meter.
>I'd say it's likely that these phenomena are related. I checked the schematic
>for crystals that oscillate around 3.1728, but didn't see any. Can any of the
>more technically savvy of you out there suggest the culprit?
>
>I like this HT a lot, and I'd like to be able to eliminate this if possible.
>
>Cheers,
>Tom
>
>--
>---------------------------
> Tom Leber N3QKV <leber@panther.warm.inmet.com> Intermetrics, Inc. Warminster PA
> "Smother technology and it rebels." - Max Headroom
I just keyed in the frequencies you mentioned into my 530, and the 2m
side has an S9 signal on the meter, but no 'Busy' indication on the LED.
The 440 side has a constant S3/S5 signal, with an intermittent 'Busy'
indication.
Just letting you know...
Scott
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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 13:25:12
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!m2.dseg.ti.com!ernest!egsner!wb9rxw!kf5iw!rwsys!ocitor!FredGate@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: HDN Releases
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
The following files were processed Saturday 3-5-94:
HAMANT [ HAM: Antenna design and calculation programs ]
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HELIX-20.ZIP ( 32328 bytes) Calculate circularly polarized
antenna gain by OH0NC
LOGYAG16.ZIP ( 32928 bytes) Design yagi w/log-cell feeding for
high gain by OH0HC
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65256 bytes in 2 file(s)
HAMELEC [ HAM: Electronic Drafting, ccalculation programs ]
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KFACTOR.ZIP ( 23737 bytes) Calculate stability factor K, by
PA3AIF
NOISE.ZIP ( 25237 bytes) Calculate noise figure for
deviation of gamma optimum -by
PA3AIF
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48974 bytes in 2 file(s)
HAMMODS [ HAM: Radio and equip modifications ]
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IC2SAT-1.ZIP ( 732 bytes) Extend frequency range of ic2sat
TS50-1.ZIP ( 1405 bytes) Increase output power of Ts-50 to
200W
WG010.ZIP ( 303655 bytes) Control Program for JRC NRD-535D
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305792 bytes in 3 file(s)
HAMNEWS [ HAM: Bulletins and Newsletters ]
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ARLD011.ZIP ( 2203 bytes) ARRL DX Bulletin 02/24/94
ARLD012.ZIP ( 554 bytes) ARRL DX Bulletin 02/28/94
ARLP008.ZIP ( 1055 bytes) ARRL Propagation Bulletin 02/25/94
NEWS0225.ZIP ( 7391 bytes) News Line 02/25/94
OPDX149.ZIP ( 3570 bytes) Oh / PA DX Bulletin 02/28/94
RTDX0225.ZIP ( 1615 bytes) RTTY DX Bulletin 02/25/94
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16388 bytes in 6 file(s)
HAMSAT [ HAM: Satellite tracking and finding programs ]
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AMSAT057.ZIP ( 4398 bytes) AmSat News Bulletin #057 02/26/94
ARLS011.ZIP ( 975 bytes) ARRL Satellite Bulletin 02/25/94
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5373 bytes in 2 file(s)
HAMTRAIN [ HAM: Amateur Radio training material and cw progs ]
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SM410.ZIP ( 149427 bytes) Super Morse 4.10 - Morse Code
Trainer
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149427 bytes in 1 file(s)
Total of 591210 bytes in 16 file(s)
Files are available via Anonymous-FTP from ftp.fidonet.org
IP NET address 140.98.2.1 for seven days. They are mirrored
to ftp.halcyon.com and are available for 60-90 days.
Directories are:
pub/fidonet/ham/hamnews (Bulletins)
/hamant (Antennas)
/hamsat (Sat. prg/Amsat Bulletins)
/hampack (Packet)
/hamelec (Formulas)
/hamtrain (Training Material)
/hamlog (Logging Programs)
/hamcomm (APLink/JvFax/Rtty/etc)
/hammods (Equip modification)
/hamswl (SWBC Skeds/Frequencies)
/hamscan (Scanner Frequencies)
/hamutil (Operating aids/utils)
/hamsrc (Source code to programs)
/hamdemo (Demos of new ham software)
/hamnos (TCP/IP and NOS related software)
Files may be downloaded via land-line at (214) 226-1181 or (214) 226-1182.
1.2 to 16.8K, 23 hours a day .
When ask for Full Name, enter: Guest;guest <return>
lee - ab5sm
Ham Distribution Net
* Origin: Ham Distribution Net Coordinator / Node 1 (1:124/7009)
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Date: 8 Mar 94 22:22:44 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!fc.hp.com!myers@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: help identifying a tube
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Val Breault (vbreault@rinhp750.gmr.com) wrote:
> I just got a high power tube and am wondering what it's characteristics
> might be. It's an Eimac 3CW20 000A7. If it's worth something to someone
> I may consider selling it, but it will make a great conversation piece in
> the event no one does.
The 3CW20,000A7 is a power triode rated at a maximum plate dissipation of
20 kW @ 110 MHz. Max. plate voltage is 7 kV, max. plate current 4.0 A.
According to my trusty old Eimac handbook, it takes 7.5V at 99A to run the
filament, and uses a combination of forced-air and water cooling. Anything
else you need to know about it?
(This is an impressive tube from a ham perspective, but it's *far* from the
heftiest thing that Eimac offers. Their catalog is an interesting read....)
Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
Advanced Systems Div. |those of my employer or any other
myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
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Date: 8 Mar 94 22:06:36 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!fc.hp.com!allanw@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: QSL route for T30JJ
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Does anyone know the QSL route for T30JJ operating from Tarwa(?)
Island in the Marshalls in the South Pacific?
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 09:14:59 GMT
From: cns!rickvg@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Satellite progs on World
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <762554227snz@isis.demon.co.uk>, Ian Smith wrote:
>Ah, but which version of STSPLUS is it ? The damned thing gets updated
>two or three times a year, or so it seems. The version numbering is pretty
>unusual as well. For what it's worth, the latest I've seen is 9353, which
>if I recall the method makes it the last week in '93. 9333 was the last
>*major* upgrade.
>
Yep, it is updated practically monthly. I have 9405 right now. A nice
program. Especially when the shuttle is up and running.
73 -- Rick
Rick von Glahn
rickvg@cscns.com -- Internet (preferred)
74620,637 -- Compuserve
N0KKZ@W0GVT.#NECO.CO.USA -- packet radio
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Date: 8 Mar 94 17:08:59 GMT
From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!constellation.ecn.purdue.edu!wb9omc@purdue.edu
Subject: Why no 10 meter activity??
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
elendir@enst.fr (Elendir) writes:
[with refernce to ten meters]
> The band is not ccompletely closed, but the openings are quite rare, and
>rely mostly on sporadic E, since the MUF is seldom wandering above 20 MHz.
For what its worth, what I am hearing on 10M from central Indiana
is mostly stuff from the Caribbean Islands. During last weekends contest,
I heard a whole *bunch* of stuff including Aruba, something VP2E that I
don't recall and so forth. I worked Haiti (a new one for me) and
US Virgin Islands (another new one for me) ; and sometime back VP2VF who
I might add seems like a real gentleman of ham radio - and was very
prompt on returning a QSL, I might add.
So for those curious about 10 meters, you might swing the old beam
around that way and see what you can get.
In fairness, though, I'd imagine that 10 meters is really going to
*suck* this summer. There might be some good short skip openings in
the evenings - that's how I got about 1/3 of the states I've worked on
ten. I still need Illinois, Michigan and Ohio (with a 10-10 number)
to get the 10-10 WAS award. Perhaps some summer short-skip will do it!
Duane
WB9OMC/QRP plus a hair......
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 05:10:41 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!wy1z@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <1994Mar8.160707.22022@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>, <YEE.94Mar8115002@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu>, <CMCwwB.2vJ@pica.army.mil>
Subject : Re: ARRL server
In article <CMCwwB.2vJ@pica.army.mil> mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil (Mark Ellis) writes:
>
>
>Oh sure, as soon as I post a msg regarding the inability to get into
>ftp.std.com, I try it again, and get in.
>
>Sigh.
>
> .... Mark E. Ellis <mellis@ramcad.pica.army.mil>
> PA&TD Workplace Automation Group
> SMCAR-QAH-P, Bldg 62N, Ext. 5817
> Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
If you need any further assistance, please let me know.
Scott
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| Scott Ehrlich Amateur Radio: wy1z AMPRnet: wy1z@wa1phy.ampr.org |
| Internet: wy1z@neu.edu BITnet: wy1z@NUHUB AX.25: wy1z@wa1phy.ma.usa.na |
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Date: 8 Mar 94 21:13:18 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!kenman@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <1994Feb23.113305.7405@hemlock.cray.com>, <CMC9EB.Kr1@news.Hawaii.Edu>, <CMCruE.8n6@ucdavis.edu>iastate.
Subject : Re: Sound Blaster stupidity
In article <CMCruE.8n6@ucdavis.edu> ez006683@chip.ucdavis.edu (Daniel D. Todd) writes:
>of QST. Lots of companies advertise before the product is actually
>available. (Sorta like President Clinton and the health care program)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hope QST does a product review on this one. I want to see the dynamic range
and the two-tone third-order intercept point.
--
Ken Anderson N0ZEM Kenman@iastate.edu PH: 515.294.8996
126 Soil Tilth Bldg., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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