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Info-Hams Digest Fri, 1 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 358
Today's Topics:
ARLB029 Tornadoes bring out hams
ARLX014 RSGB meeting scheduled
Can you tell me what these memory chips are?
HDN Releases Question
Hot Water 100
Obscenity on ham bands (2 msgs)
reward notice (2 msgs)
STOP SENDING HAMS ON USENET CRAP !!! (3 msgs)
SUMMARY:2m HT Recomendati
Talking to seismic packages over a radio link
This Week on Spectrum 04/02/94
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Date: 31 Mar 94 18:10:19 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: ARLB029 Tornadoes bring out hams
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB QST @ ARL $ARLB029
ARLB029 Tornadoes bring out hams
ZCZC AG93
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 29 ARLB029
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 07:40:27 -0700
From: tribune.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: ARLX014 RSGB meeting scheduled
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX014
ARLX014 RSGB meeting scheduled
ZCZC AX46
QST de W1AW
Special Bulletin 14 ARLX014
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:30:49 BST
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!pipex!crosfield.co.uk!axg@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Can you tell me what these memory chips are?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <2nc823$b2@reznor.larc.nasa.gov> zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov (Joseph M Zawodny) writes:
>Hi,
>
> I have some memory chips that I need more info on. Specifically, I
>have these chips:
>
> KM41C1000AJ-8
> KM41C1000BJ-8 Is this really different from the AJ?
> KM41C4000AJ-8
> M5M44410AJ A Mitsubishi chip
>
>I am reasonably sure the first two are 1Mbit x 1 chips. I hope the third is a
>4Mbit x 1 chip. I hope the fourth is also a 4Mbit x 1 chip, but fear it is a
>1Mbit x 4 instead. I intend to use these chips in having some SIMMs made up
>for a PC.
You are right - the first 2 are Samsung 1M x 1 DRAM's 80ns - the BJ is
likely to be a mask revision or a die shrink to improve speed performance
The 3rd is a Samsung 4M x 1 DRAM 80ns
The 4th is 4M x 1 but you may have the pt no wrong - it should be
M5M44100AJ
FYI the Mitsubishi 1M x 4 DRAM would be M5M44400AJ
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 13:15:40 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!ab5sm@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: HDN Releases Question
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Cecil A Moore (Cecil_A_Moore@ccm.hf.INTel.COM) wrote:
: Text item: Text_1
: The HDN release information was posted on info-hams on Mar. 26.
: It said that DSPMORSE.ZIP was located in HAMSRC. I FTPed to both
: ftp.fidonet.org and ftp.halcyon.com and found no files in the
: HAMSRC directory. I am a novice at Internet stuff... did I do
: something wrong? Where is DSPMORSE.ZIP?
: Lee, (ab5sm) I can't figger out your email address from the header...
: help?
: 73, Cecil, kg7bk@indirect.com
: (I do not speak for Intel on Internet)
the two internet sites listed in the announcements have been spotty
but i am working on getting an FTP host permanently and will eliminate
the current problem of files not arriving soon enough or having been
removed by the time someone tries to ftp them.
in the meantime .. i will place the files on hold for those that e-mail
me with a specific request in the appropriate directory.
dspmorse.zip can be retrieved at ftp.netcom.com in /pub/ab5sm/hamsrc
please let me know when you have it so i can remove it from the directory
and i hope to have the ftp site problem resolved soon
thanks for your post and interest in the Ham Distribution Net.
lee - ab5sm Intenet: ab5sm@netcom.com
ab5sm@p4txnp.uscourts.gov
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ab5sm@netcom.com
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 13:54:12 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!greg@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Hot Water 100
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1994Mar30.200102.13806@cnsvax.uwec.edu> drumm@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
>I wanted to get a working radio going so fast that I didn't shop around.
Well, sometimes shopping around just leads you to regret what you
should have bought, and didn't...
>I bought an old heath kit HW100 for $150.00 I guess it doesn't matter
>much now, but is this average going price or did I get ripped off.
Not bad. Not a ridiculous bargain, but not bad either if it's a solid
rig (only time will tell, since Heath rigs have been known to have
intermittents related to their kit origins). Add an audio filter for
CW, and a dummy load to tune up into.
>Danny,
>N9VOX
>.......................................................................
>General Exam in two weeks, wish me luck (or at least time to study)
>
With a call like 'VOX' you really need that General...
73
Greg
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 06:57:05 GMT
From: news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!jherman@ames.arpa
Subject: Obscenity on ham bands
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <2nadnh$1a6@hplvec.lvld.hp.com> scott@lvld.hp.com (Scott Turner) writes:
>
>(PS - Does anybody in Hawaii ever work 75 phone? I'd love to get my
>last state on the band, but I've never even heard a Hawaiin station, let
>alone been able to contact one!)
Scott: We don't have phones out here - the sharks kept eating the phone
lines between here and you folks. We only have CW.
You'll get the natives angry if you misspell `Hawaiian' - when they get
mad they start eating white people... ;)
Jeff NH6IL
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 02:25:52 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcomsv!skyld!jangus@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Obscenity on ham bands
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <1994Mar30.191633.19995@news.unr.edu> destree@unr.edu writes:
> Along the same lines, to my knowlege there was only one time that
> I swore on the air. I had just wrecked my car, smashing into the side of
> a mountain cliff. It was about 7 AM, and I autopatched my dad to come
> help me. I wasn't hurt, but I was still shaken up.
I stopped wearing a VOX headset in traffic for this reason. I used to drive
to Mission Viejo from Torrance every morning. One fine day while somewhere
near Costa Mesa some scumbag in a Porche cutt me off causing me to have to
lock up the brakes on a 1 ton crew cab. Needless to say, I made some choice
comments about his parentage and sexual habits an so on. Then I heard the
squelch tail from the repeater. (oops). Then I heard someone else inquire
as to who just said that. I said, "You really don't expect me to identify
after that do you?" They agreed and we talked for about 20 minutes about
various bad drivers. I did ID on the second turn around, but I switched to
PTT operation from then on.
Amateur: WA6FWI@WA6FWI.#SOCA.CA.USA.NOAM | "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: Wed, 30 Mar 94 18:06:14 GMT
From: netcomsv!netcomsv!skyld!jangus@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: reward notice
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <9403301509.AA16015@metro.mccneb.edu> pmarsh@metro.mccneb.EDU writes:
> [Unsigned Public Notice]
> A reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of EDDY
> CURRENT, charged with induction of an 18-year-old coil, named MILLI
> HENRY, who was found half choked. CURRENT escaped Weston Primary Cell
> and was missing since Faraday.
>
> Noted in The mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results ("mini-JIR")
> This is reprinted with permission. You do NOT have permission to copy
> this document for commercial purposes.
> For subscription information, send e-mail to: jir@mit.edu
What gives them the exclusive right to something that has been floating
around Amateur circles for the past 50 years? (or more)
Amateur: WA6FWI@WA6FWI.#SOCA.CA.USA.NOAM | "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: 1 Apr 94 10:03:08 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!mipg.upenn.edu!yee@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: reward notice
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
[Humorous post deleted]
Jeffrey Angus writes:
> What gives them the exclusive right to something that has been floating
> around Amateur circles for the past 50 years? (or more)
Their lawyers. Even if the material is indeed in the public domain
and the company in question is entirely in the wrong, a lawsuit would
bankrupt any individual. Thus, the individual must kowtow to any
party with enough money to hire mercenaries. Sad but true.
The question, then is whether JIR is willing to set their dogs on any
"violators."
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411 Blockley Hall | EMAIL : yee@mipg.upenn.edu
418 Service Drive | VOICE : 1 (215) 662-6780
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 (USA) | FAX : 1 (215) 898-9145
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Date: 31 Mar 94 14:42:43 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!news.Brown.EDU!NewsWatcher!user@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: STOP SENDING HAMS ON USENET CRAP !!!
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <764973671snx@bsdihi.atr.bso.nl>, dihi@bsdihi.atr.bso.nl (Dick
Hissink) wrote:
> It happens again and again. Every couple of weeks six tremendous large
> files with AMATEURS ON USENET. This times each part from the six even
> three times. I think al the FCC's and PTT's like it, because it keeps
> my modem so busy....
>
> ok, ok, I know it is a lot of work to keep this list updated and, ok it
> is usefull to know who you can reach by usenet. But why not this alternative:
>
> AMATEURS ON USENET: Those interested can download the latest updated
> version by ftp form server....
>
> This saves a lot of unnecessary downloadtimes, my phonebill and I must
> say some irritation.
> What do Y'all think of my idea??
I like the idea. The thing I object to is my callsign being attached to an
internet address.
Tony
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== Anthony_Pelliccio@Brown.edu (Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR)
== Box 1908, Providence, RI 02912 Tel. (401) 863-1880
== All opinions expressed are those of the individual, and not those
== of Brown University.
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Date: 31 Mar 94 12:55:30 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!att-out!cbnewsj!k2ph@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: STOP SENDING HAMS ON USENET CRAP !!!
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 09:38:14 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!al434@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: STOP SENDING HAMS ON USENET CRAP !!!
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In a previous article, dihi@bsdihi.atr.bso.nl (Dick Hissink) says:
>ok, ok, I know it is a lot of work to keep this list updated and, ok it
>is usefull to know who you can reach by usenet. But why not this alternative:
>
>AMATEURS ON USENET: Those interested can download the latest updated
>version by ftp form server....
A lot of us out here do not have full blown access, with ftp, to
Internet and find it very helpful and useful to have the articles posted
from time to time. 73. . . David.
--
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David George.........Internet: al434@freenet.carleton.ca
VE3UOL.....QTH: Dunrobin, Ontario, Canada.
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Date: 30 Mar 94 20:33:00 GMT
From: hotmomma!brent!steve.allen@uunet.uu.net
Subject: SUMMARY:2m HT Recomendati
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
harland@otter.mech.ubc.ca (Harland MacKenzie) writes:
>Summary of 2m HT recomendations:
>First the specific features that people use/like is laid out
>then I will list responses by manufacturer.
>Responses to date: 14
[etc.]
Thanks, Harland. Good work. Very much appreciated, even though I'm
not in the market for a ht.
-Steve N2WSA
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 07:36:34 EST
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!noc.near.net!mv!lmr!rapp@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Talking to seismic packages over a radio link
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
sak@igloo.essc.psu.edu (Sridhar Anandakrishnan) writes:
> Hi all, a novice question on radios and radio-modem links.
>
> I have an experiment where a bunch of seismic packages (refteks) are
> scattered over the Antarctic ice sheet. They are all within about 40
> km of a central site. I would like to interrogate them about their
> state-of-health from this central site. I don't need a high-speed
> link (I am not downloading seismic data over the radio, just some
> relatively small strings of data).
>
I have some good news for you! Yes, you can do it with off-the-shelf
equipment, and even better news: There's a guy at McMurdo (Antarctica) who's
done it! You want to get ahold of Al Oxton <oxton@atsvax.rsmas.miami.edu>. (
or oxton@mcmurdo.gov ) Tell him I gave you his name. He did something similar
up here in New Hampshire using commercial radios with packet controllers. I
was involved with the project just a little bit, but it was so many years
ago, I've forgotten most of it. You don't need full duplex, btw.
Larry
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Colebrook, NH 03576-0158 CIS 72427,2567 fax +1 603 237 8430
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Date: 30 Mar 1994 22:42:41 -0500
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!starcomm.overleaf.com!not-for-mail@@
Subject: This Week on Spectrum 04/02/94
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
This week on Spectrum we will feature those Mexican boarder blaster
radio stations. Our guest is Mike Venditti. Mike was one of the
guiding forces behind station XERF and has a unique perspective on
the south of the boarder radio scene.
Next week Spectrum will feature a look at TV/FM dxing with Joe
Eisenberg. Joe is an expert at chasing the troppo and E skip. He
will be bringing his bag of classic airchecks with him. Don't
forget to tune in on April 9'th.
Saturday April 16'th Spectrum will look at the world of weather
satellite monitoring and weather fax.
We will do our listener appreciation day on April 23'rd with
answers to your paper mail, e-mail and phone calls.
Don't forget April 30'th Spectrum will be broadcasting live from
the Dayton hamfest. Larry Steal and I will be on the scene giving
you the total Dayton report.
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
SB SPCL ARL ARLX014
ARLX014 RSGB meeting scheduled
RSGB meeting scheduled
The Radio Society of Great Britain has scheduled its 1994
International HF and Islands on the Air Convention for October 7 to
9, 1994.
Included this year is a 30th birthday party for IOTA.
The convention will be held at the Beaumont Conference Centre in Old
Windsor, Berkshire. More than a dozen speakers already have signed
on, including Peter Casier, ON6TT, one of the 3Y0PI Peter I Island
expedition operators, and Roger Western, G3SXW/ZD9SXW.
For more information, contact E. N. Cheadle, G3NUG, Further Felden,
Longcroft Lane, Felden, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP3 0BN.
(Telephone/fax: +44 442 62929).
NNNN
/EX
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
I was really hoping that question had been settled once and for all.
I guess not. Here's what the two newsgroups are for:
rec.radio.amateur.misc Amateur radio practices, contests, events, rules, etc.
rec.radio.info Informational postings related to radio. (Moderated)
Rec.radio.amateur.misc is for amateur radio. Rec.radio.info is for
information postings about radio. If the hams on usenet list is to
be posted to usenet, it belongs in rec.radio.amateur.misc, as it is
related to amateur radio..
73,
Bob K2PH
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Bob Schreibmaier K2PH | UUCP: ...!att!mtdcr!bob
AT&T Bell Laboratories | Internet: bob@mtdcr.att.com
Middletown, N.J. 07748 | ICBM: 40o21'N, 74o8'W
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 07:21:46 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!malgudi.oar.net!witch!ted!mjsilva@network.ucsd.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
References <Cn8ttu.AHI@news.Hawaii.Edu>, <1994Mar26.180734.6273@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <bote.764956814@access1><2nadq2$hfn@crcnis1.unl.edu>
Reply-To : mjsilva@ted.win.net (Michael Silva)
Subject : Re: Plain old repeaters
In article <2nadq2$hfn@crcnis1.unl.edu>, Gary McDuffie Sr (mcduffie@unlinfo.unl.edu) writes:
>bote@access1.digex.net (John Boteler) writes:
>
> >gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
> >>Mr. Herman wrote:
> >>>Gary: I'll be disappointed if your repeater beeps.
>
> >>Sorry, you're disappointed. It does "roger beep" to signal user
> >>carrier drop and timer reset. We run near zero tail so remote base
> >>operators aren't locked out. We tried it without the beep, but users
Other stuff deleted...
>Okay... I'll bite. Have we quit building full duplex remote bases now?
>The remote shouldn't care if there is a zero tail or a 20 second tail.
>What gives?
>
Our full-duplex radios allow transmitting on one band while receiving
on the other band. I don't know of any frequency-agile rigs that can
simultaneously transmit and receive on the same band. That would
require a repeater-type duplexer that was electronically tunable and
*tiny*. Remote basing requires simultaneous transmission and reception
for each direction, so full duplex remote basing would require the rig
to be transmitting two signals and receiving two signals all at the
same time. When remoting to a repeater, I have to wait for the repeater
to stop transmitting so the remote stops transmitting, so it is in a
position to receive my signal and turn around.
73,
Mike, KK6GM
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
SB QST ARL ARLB029
ARLB029 Tornadoes bring out hams
Tornadoes bring out hams
Members of the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service have been
extremely active and visible during and following tornadoes that
struck several southeastern states on Sunday, March 27.
In Alabama, more than 70 amateurs in 10 counties participated in the
state's 2-meter weather spotting net, as well as in damage
assessment following the storms, according to Herb Griffin, N4ZOV,
president of the Calhoun County Amateur Radio Association, an ARRL
Special Services Club. The National Weather Service in Birmingham
received the reports via W4CUE, repeater station of the Birmingham
Amateur Radio Club.
Carol Boothe, KE4HJU, was cited by Griffin and others for yeoman
service as net control on the 2-meter net, conducted through
repeater station WB4GNA, with its wide coverage from the highest
point in Alabama, atop Mt. Cheaha.
In Georgia, where the state's ARES net was activated Sunday
afternoon following reports of tornadoes in Alabama, amateurs manned
ARES nets in 12 counties in the storm's expected path. Local
2-meter net reports were funneled to the Georgia ARES Net on 3975
kHz, with liaisons to both Alabama and South Carolina. From there
spotting reports were relayed to state Red Cross Headquarters in
Atlanta.
Georgia ARRL Section Emergency Coordinator Dot Fennell, KA4HHE, told
an interviewer for WJCL-TV in Savannah about Amateur Radio's role in
storm communications. ''Doppler radar is wonderful,'' she said, ''but
the human eye is the best weather instrument.''
The ARRL welcomes reports and photos from amateurs involved in these
operations.
NNNN
/EX
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