From wang!elf.wang.com!ucsd.edu!info-hams-relay Thu Feb 28 14:59:47 1991 remote from tosspot Received: by tosspot (1.63/waf) via UUCP; Sat, 02 Mar 91 21:00:32 EST for lee Received: from somewhere by elf.wang.com id aa06732; Thu, 28 Feb 91 14:59:46 GMT Received: from ucsd.edu by news.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-shadow-mx) id AA27069; Thu, 28 Feb 91 09:46:35 -0500 Received: by ucsd.edu; id AA00912 sendmail 5.64/UCSD-2.1-sun Thu, 28 Feb 91 04:30:19 -0800 for nixbur!schroeder.pad Received: by ucsd.edu; id AA00906 sendmail 5.64/UCSD-2.1-sun Thu, 28 Feb 91 04:30:17 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odb -oQ/var/spool/lqueue -oi -finfo-hams-relay info-hams-list Message-Id: <9102281230.AA00906@ucsd.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 04:30:15 PST From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup Reply-To: Info-Hams@ucsd.edu Subject: Info-Hams Digest V91 #191 To: Info-Hams@ucsd.edu Info-Hams Digest Thu, 28 Feb 91 Volume 91 : Issue 191 Today's Topics: DAK SW receiver HELP! Need advice on 10m DX: US<->Europe (2 msgs) Info-Hams Digest V91 #190 Is Someone Using My Call Letters? (2 msgs) Looking for mod info on Radio Shack PRO-2022 scanner Modifications wanted for the ICOM 24AT Really portable (15m-)antenna for QRP field usage. Thanks - from a beginner. TS-440 10Hz mod + Computer Interface Wanted Sony 2010 or Grundig 500 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Info-Hams Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/info-hams". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 16:05:09 EST From: Warren_Tuiskula%es.uucp@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Subject: DAK SW receiver To: lectroid!Info-Hams@UCSD.EDU Can anyone offer any information about the DAK $49.90 digital shortwave receiver? Thanks, Warren KA1JL warren_tuiskula@vos.stratus.com ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 14:52:29 GMT From: eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!stickler@bloom-beacon.mit.edu Subject: HELP! Need advice on 10m DX: US<->Europe To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Here's a good one for you DX enthusiasts... I'm trying to get my brother to get the new code free "Communicator's" license so that I and my family can keep in touch more inexpensively (the international long distance telephone rates are killing me). I'm in Finland and he's in Florida. Because the only realistic DX band he'll have available to him will be 10 meters, I need to figure out what kind of station configuration will work on 10 meters between Finland and Florida. I'm a newcomer myself to amateur radio, so I could really use some expert advice from some of you DX folks. What is the minimum functional station configuration for DX phone communications between Finland and Florida on 10 meters?? How much power will we need? What is the 'best' antenna configuration? What are the best times of the day/year for 10 meters US<->Europe? ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 14:14:31 GMT From: usc!samsung!emory!hubcap!bjb@apple.com (BJ Backitis) Subject: HELP! Need advice on 10m DX: US<->Europe To: info-hams@ucsd.edu stickler@cc.helsinki.fi writes: >Here's a good one for you DX enthusiasts... >I'm trying to get my brother to get the new code free >"Communicator's" license so that I and my family can keep >in touch more inexpensively (the international long distance >telephone rates are killing me). >I'm in Finland and he's in Florida. Because the only realistic >DX band he'll have available to him will be 10 meters, I need >to figure out what kind of station configuration will work on >10 meters between Finland and Florida. Well, I'm afraid the "communicator" (actually Technician) license won't do you any good... it doesn't have the OLD Technician HF bands, but only frequencies above 30MHz (10m is close, but still no cigar). He would need to learn the 5WPM (easy) to get the 28.3-28.5MHz SSB Novice band. Florida is up to it's ears in hams... I'm sure he'll have no trouble getting someone to help him with this. Good luck! --BJ-- (The Mad Lithuanian) ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 14:45:34 EDT From: Larry Jack Subject: Info-Hams Digest V91 #190 To: From: ed like an "I" Is someone using my call letters? asks Scott, KA3HZY I agree with the others that wrote, that your call sign was most likely mis identified; something not too uncommon if it was a DX contact from the US to a nonnative English speaking ham. The "Y" might well have sounded like an "I" to the Dutch station. I seriously doubt anyone was bootlegging your callsign. This all brought back a flash of memories of the time I thought I caught some one red-handly using my call. It occurred in the Washington DC area, and on 6 meter CW, of all places. I heard a station working a fellow in the Midwest return to a "/3" station (for you new hams that is how we used to have to identify we were outside our original licensing districts) with what I could only initially pick out as MY callsign! I listened to the reply from the "/3" station, a strong local, who gave back "...d..e.......K...L...7...G...L...." By now I was seeing red, a local in the Washington DC area on six meter using a my callsign, I was so sure I caught a bootlegger... then he sent ...L..." (De KL7GLL) I turned out we had gotten our lcenses half a world away, almost on the same day and never met until then 20 years later on 6 CW in Washington DC. Anyone is free to search for the moral here. Larry Jack KL7GLK / V77LJ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 12:04:49 PST From: Mike_Beezley.Houston@xerox.com Subject: Is Someone Using My Call Letters? To: Info-Hams@ucsd.edu SCOTT Here's the answer to your mystery: KA3HZI (A) PEGGY J HARVELL 8006 PRINCE GEORGES DR FORT WASHINGTON, MD 20744 DOB: 12 SEP 1944 EXPIRES: 25 OCT 1998 ------------------------------------------------ In case you didn't know there is a Callbook sever out here and you can check for this info. I just did a search on callsigns similar to yours and voila! (Server address: Callbook@Sat.Datapoint:COM) 73 __mike ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 17:27:11 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!evax!utacfd!merch!cpe!stevedak@ucsd.edu Subject: Is Someone Using My Call Letters? To: info-hams@ucsd.edu >Hello, > I'm a ham who hasn't been active for the past several years, tho I have >kept my license in order. I recently was surprised to receive a QSL card from >a gentleman in the Netherlands confirming "our" contact in early January. In a >letter, he said that it was with "peggy" from Maryland, but the call letters >were mine (KA3HZY), and my name is Scott in Pennsylvania. Is there anyway I >can find out if someone is actully using my letters illegally? >Thanks in advance! > > Scott Shay > KA3HZY This is very common among foreign amateurs. Since english is not usually their first language, mixups are frequent. This seems to be especially true during contests. I have received numerous cards from overseas this way. American hams are not immune either. I also have one card from here in the states under the same circumstances. This is more likely what has happened in your case. Pirates who use call signs at all tend to come up with ones that haven't been assigned yet (don't ask me how I know that :>) Steve Dakin WQ5N (really my call... honest) ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 10:16:47 GMT From: usc!sdd.hp.com!horizon!schriber@ucsd.edu (Mike Schriber) Subject: Looking for mod info on Radio Shack PRO-2022 scanner To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I was wondering if anyone has info on modifing the Radio Shack PRO-2022 base station scanner. It comes stock with 200 channels and goes to about 900MHz. Any mod info would be helpfull. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 20:32:52 GMT From: csws12.ic.sunysb.edu!rbabani@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Rajesh Babani) Subject: Modifications wanted for the ICOM 24AT To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Could someome please send me the modifications for the Icom 24AT. I will surrmise to the net if I get more than a few responses. My email address is rbabani@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu Thanks in advance! -- +--------------------------------------------------+------------------------+ | Internet: rbabani@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu | Bitnet: rbabani@sbccvm | | Ametur-Radio: KB2MDA temp. KT +------------------------+ |If you can't remember anything else, remember one thing... | ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 18:09:15 GMT From: hpfcso!hpfcbig!bame@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Paul Bame) Subject: Really portable (15m-)antenna for QRP field usage. To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Both the ARRL handbook and the antenna book have plans for a "portable antenna" made of TV twin-lead which is just a folded dipole. I've made a couple for 10m and they work well and match well to 50ohms. The 10m version probably weighs less than 2lbs(1kg) - maybe less than 1(.5kg) including the built-in twinlead feedline (mine is about 10'), part of which serves as the matching network. -Paul Bame bame@fc.sde.hp.com N0KCL ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 19:35:26 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!biomath.mscs.mu.edu@ucsd.edu (Peter J. Tonellato) Subject: Thanks - from a beginner. To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Approximately one week ago I posted a request for general information about sw-radio listening. Seven responded to my request all offering good insight into both 'trees' and 'forest'. I just want to say that it is very nice of you who have gone out of their way to make things easier for a beginner. I am very happy with my new 'toy'. Last week I was able to listen to radio broadcasts from China, Germany, Australia, Canada, Turkey, Greece, Sweden, England and the USA. I understand that this 'Gee Whiz' attitude is frowned upon by some. But I suspect that it was exactly this feeling that drew the veterans (at least some of them) into the sw and/or ham field in the first place. In addition to my 'gee whiz' feeling. I greatly enjoy listening to all the government positions on international events (e.g. the Gulf War.) I try to be open minded about (in this case) U.S. policies but it is useful to hear what everyone else thinks. Thanks again, hope I can help others in the future. -- Peter J. Tonellato US Mail: Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 Voice: 414-288-5228 (Office) 414-288-7573 (Message) FAX: 414-288-5472 (FAX) Arpa: tone@biomath.mscs.mu.edu ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 91 18:13:47 GMT From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!cep4478@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (C.E. Piggott) Subject: TS-440 10Hz mod + Computer Interface To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Greetings. I have been told by KC3UY and one other person that the widely-published instruction set for the TS-440S contains an error: it says that you can flick the 10Hz display on by snipping diode D-60. I have learned that the diode is actually D-66, snipping D-60 will only frustrate the operator as he will have to re-solder it back and cut another one. Can someone verify this information and notify the simtel20 gatekeeper of the appropriate change? Also, thanks to everyone who responded about the ts-440s command set. I sent replies to everyone (including "metoo's"), but much got bounced, so I didn't ignore you if you didn't get a msg - try again. Chris/WZ2B -- Christopher E. Piggott, WZ2B cep4478@ultb.isc.rit.edu President wz2b.ampr [44.69.0.1] Rochester Institute of Technology wz2b @ WB2WXQ Amateur Radio Club K2GXT CEP4478@RITVAXA.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 91 18:51:27 GMT From: sun-barr!newstop!exodus!itlwrk.Eng.Sun.COM!tbasche@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Todd Basche) Subject: Wanted Sony 2010 or Grundig 500 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I am looking to buy a SONY 2010 or a Grundig 500 SW receiver. If anyone has one of these they would like to sell please contact me. I am looking for a portable SW receiver for general SW listening. Thanks, Todd Basche (tbasche@sun.com) ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest ******************************