From wang!elf.wang.com!ucsd.edu!info-hams-relay Fri Mar 1 17:43:48 1991 remote from tosspot Received: by tosspot (1.63/waf) via UUCP; Sat, 02 Mar 91 21:38:12 EST for lee Received: from somewhere by elf.wang.com id aa09082; Fri, 1 Mar 91 17:43:46 GMT Received: from ucsd.edu by news.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-shadow-mx) id AA19834; Fri, 1 Mar 91 09:38:19 -0500 Received: by ucsd.edu; id AA12012 sendmail 5.64/UCSD-2.1-sun Fri, 1 Mar 91 04:30:36 -0800 for nixbur!schroeder.pad Received: by ucsd.edu; id AA12003 sendmail 5.64/UCSD-2.1-sun Fri, 1 Mar 91 04:30:31 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odb -oQ/var/spool/lqueue -oi -finfo-hams-relay info-hams-list Message-Id: <9103011230.AA12003@ucsd.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 04:30:29 PST From: Info-Hams Mailing List and Newsgroup Reply-To: Info-Hams@ucsd.edu Subject: Info-Hams Digest V91 #192 To: Info-Hams@ucsd.edu Info-Hams Digest Fri, 1 Mar 91 Volume 91 : Issue 192 Today's Topics: ARRL DX #10 FOR SALE: Loral Phase Locked Microwave Oscillator High cost of magazines Marvin Callsign Server misc questions RTTY/FAX technical specs needed Subscribe TH77AT TS-850: Good News / Bad News Visalia DX Convention Wanted DUPLEXER Wanted Sony 2010 or Grundig 500 SW Receiver Wanted Sony 2010 or Grundig SW Receiver 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: Fri, 1 Mar 91 06:49:06 EST From: skitch@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (M. Squicciarini) Subject: ARRL DX #10 To: info-hams@ucsd.edu ZCZC AE16 QST DE W1AW DX BULLETIN 10 ARLD010 FROM ARRL HEADQUARTERS NEWINGTON CT MARCH 1, 1991 RELAYED BY KB8NW/OBS & BARF-80 BBS TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS We wish Steve, W9NUF, with the Northern Illinois DX Association, a speedy recovery after returning home yesterday from a stay in the hospital. Since Steve could not write the DX bulletin this week, we want to thank Paul, KB1BE, with the Connecticut DX Association for the following DX information. FROM THE DXCC DESK. Today, March 1, 1991 is the first day that the 7O1AA and 7O8AA QSL cards will be accepted by the DXCC desk for the new Yemen Republic. Many of the 7O8AA QSL cards were shipped in packages at bulk rate. They were not accepted by the Postal Service of France and have been returned. QSL managers in France will have to individually stamp the envelopes and ship them from France. ETHIOPIA, ET. ET2A, Jack, is active daily on 21300 KHz around 1830 UTC operating both net and split operations. Also, check 28580 and 28600 KHz around 1900 UTC. Both Jack and second operator, Scott, are Americans working with the Red Cross in Ethiopia. QSL via Peter, WB2WOW. BANGLADESH, S2. VK9NS, Jim Smith should be en route to Dhaka shortly. He has permission for CW, SSB and RTTY and expects to operate for two weeks after arriving late on March 10th. His call sign will be either S21U or his requested call of S21JS. QSL via VK9NS. CAMEROON, TJ. TJ1BJ is now active on 75 meters on Saturday around 0500 UTC. Check for split operation on 3675 KHz and 3795 KHz. Also, on Saturdays and Mondays, look for him around 1230 UTC on 21303 KHz. QSL via K4UTE. CYPRUS, BRITISH SOVERIGN BASES, ZC4. Glynn, G4MVA is now stationed here for the next two years. He will sign ZC4CZ on all bands with emphasis on CW. ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX PHONE CONTEST. Good Luck this weekend, March 2 and 3, in the annual ARRL International DX PHONE Contest. It runs a full 48 hours from 0000 UTC Saturday, March 2 until 2400 UTC on Sunday, March 3. Remember that the 10, 18 and 24 MHz bands are excluded from the contest. Logs may be submitted on IBM compatible, MS-DOS formatted diskettes, either 3.5 or 5.25 inch, 40 or 80 track. The log information must be in an ASCII file, following the ARRL Suggested Standard File Format and containing all log exchange information. Good Luck on DX de KB8NW/OBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 91 04:25:14 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!mwf@apple.com (Manfred W Frey) Subject: FOR SALE: Loral Phase Locked Microwave Oscillator To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Have for sale several Narda/Loral Phase Locked Microwave Signal Sources. Units utilize fundamental transistor oscillator with high Q coaxial cavity, followed by broadband stable step recovery diode multiplier. Broadband sampling circuits are used to phase lock oscillator to a high stability reference which may be either an internal self contained crystal oscillator, an external primary standard or VHF synthesizer. Applications include free-running and phase-locked sources, modulatable transmitter sources for voice and video applications and manually- or automatically-tuned microwave synthesizers. The size is approx. 3x3x4 inch. Runs at -20V. Output power on SMA-F connector typ. 10-50mW which depends on frequency and configuration. Asking $75.- per unit. For details and available frequency ranges contact: mwf@cup.portal.com Tel 408-926-9249 Tel 408-926-3090 answering machine 1947 Half Pence Way San Jose, CA 95132 ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 91 17:01:59 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!cep4478@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (C.E. Piggott) Subject: High cost of magazines To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I'm not sure if y'all have had the chance to see it, but the new CQ publication "Communications Quarterly" is pretty neat. It's expensive (the cover price is nearly $10/issue), but it is to come out every three months, and it is jam-packed with technical information. At least in the first issue, no fluff about contests, DX'ing, etc. and a distinct lack of the "Build-your-own-whiz-bang-qrp-hf-rig" article that appears every 2-3 months is all the other semi-tech rags. Just thought I'd mention it. For everybody who always claimed "there's no good technical magazine any more!" now there is one, though it's a tad on the expensive side. From the first issue, it looks worth it. 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: Thu, 28 Feb 91 15:12:29 EST From: Robert Carpenter Subject: Marvin Callsign Server To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Marvin has been reported as "Host is unreachable" for about a week. Is this real, or should I see my system administrator? 73, Bob W3OTC ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 91 01:35:10 GMT From: agate!iodine.cchem.berkeley.edu!eric@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (eric peterson) Subject: misc questions To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Hello, It has been awhile since I was active in hamming and I've been reading the newsnet to pick up some tidbits, which has generated some questions too. First, what is info-hams? Second, what is the purpose of the different categories, some of which seem to overlap? I subscribe to the following: rec.ham-radio rec.radio.amateur.misc rec.ham-radio.swap rec.radio.swap Are there others? What exactly are the privileges granted the new no-code techs? I was under the impression that this was going to be an operate only on 6m and above type of license, but I think I read about someone operating in the HF bands with one. thanks, eric -- Eric Peterson eric@iodine.cchem.berkeley.edu Department of Chemistry ------------------------------ Date: 15 Feb 91 14:32:42 GMT From: vlsi!ulkyvx.bitnet!dpharp01@g.ms.uky.edu Subject: RTTY/FAX technical specs needed To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I'm interested in building a RTTY/FAX decoder from the ground up (less the receiver). What I need is a good reference book on the various formats currently being used. Nitty-gritty details such as common frequency shifts, speeds, timing and sync information, etc. Any ideas? David Harpe University of Louisville ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 13:16:00 -0500 From: Subject: Subscribe To: info-hams@ucsd.edu Our unique mailing address is multi@reg.triumf.ca Please (re) subscribe me to info-hams. Y.N. Miles, VE7-ALQ ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 91 05:05:00 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!orbit!pnet51!hca@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (H. Atlas) Subject: TH77AT To: info-hams@ucsd.edu The person that originally modified my TH77AT tore the trace on the negative side of C124 completely off the board. Could someone please contact me with a description of where this trace originally ran so I can run a jumper to it? My schematic shows C132 and C133 connected closest to C124. I would like a diagram or description of where 132 and 133 are so I can reconnect the capacitor. The radio is currently working without this capacitor connect- ed. As I previously posted, I would also like to find out where the green jumper wire should be attached to enable 400-512 RX and TX. I believe it runs from IC10 to one side of C124 (yellow electrolytic). Also, does anyone know if the service manual is available yet, and the cost? Thank you, Howard Atlas UUCP: {amdahl!bungia, crash}!orbit!pnet51!hca ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!hca@nosc.mil INET: hca@pnet51.orb.mn.org S.S.D.D. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 91 21:22:43 GMT From: cct.brunel.ac.uk!lw90sdk@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen D Kennedy) Subject: TS-850: Good News / Bad News To: info-hams@ucsd.edu In article <1454@west.West.Sun.COM> Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, flloyd@L1-A.West.Sun.COM writes: > I'd have to say that the bad points greatly outweigh the good ones by an > overwhelming margin. I would certainly buy the rig again without hesitation... Personally, that would make me NOT buy the rig [-:-) Steve, G0LRI @ GB7DGK (packet) ************************************************************************* * Mail: lw90sdk@cct.brunel.ac.uk (Stephen D Kennedy) * ************************************************************************* * Queen fan and Beatlemaniac. * * "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one *... * I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one" * * (John Lennon, 'Imagine') * ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 91 15:08:47 GMT From: pacbell.com!pacbell!pbhyf!sjhawk2@ucsd.edu (Stephen J. Hawkins) Subject: Visalia DX Convention To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I am planning to attend the International DX Convention in Visalia,CA.. in April. If there is anyone else out there on the net planning to go, send me some mail. Maybe we can get together over a beer. I have not been in a couple of years, but I managed to get a room in the hotel and I am looking forward to it. Hope to see some of you there. Steve Hawkins WV6U 73 49 0100 1001 ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 91 20:38:19 GMT From: beguine!Jeffrey.Perry@mcnc.org (Jeffrey Perry) Subject: Wanted DUPLEXER To: info-hams@ucsd.edu I am a new HAM and a member of the Northeastern Radio Club. We have a repeater we are trying to get setup on 145.31 We are using two antennas about 100ft away from each other (at the far corners of a rooftop on campus) and we are still experiencing desense and intermodulation interference. We are looking for anyone who might have an extra 2m Duplexer. We are operating on negative duplex. Once we remove the interference we will be able to run 45watts instead of 2! Any donations or information would be greatly appreciated! Oh i should tell you that we are using two 2m radios not a repeater box. Thanks in advance! Jeffrey Perry N1ILY (tech in jan, new ham in dec 90) ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 91 02:23:29 GMT From: sun-barr!newstop!exodus!itlwrk.Eng.Sun.COM!tbasche@decwrl.dec.com (Todd Basche) Subject: Wanted Sony 2010 or Grundig 500 SW Receiver To: info-hams@ucsd.edu HI, I am looking for a short wave receiver , that is portable. I have looked at the Sony 2010 and the Grundig 500. I have also heard that the Sony 2001 is almost the same as the Sony 2010, is that the case ? Does the 2001 have the synchronous detector, are the specs the same overall ? Does anyone out there have one of these they are looking to sell ? (Now that the war is over) Thanks, Todd Basche alias tbasche@sun.com 415-336-4821 ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 91 01:39:59 GMT From: sun-barr!newstop!exodus!itlwrk.Eng.Sun.COM!tbasche@decwrl.dec.com (Todd Basche) Subject: Wanted Sony 2010 or Grundig SW Receiver To: info-hams@ucsd.edu HI, I am looking for a short wave receiver , that is portable. I have looked at the Sony 2010 and the Grundig 500. Does anyone out there have one of these they are looking to sell ? Thanks, Todd Basche alias tbasche@sun.com 415-336-4821 ------------------------------ End of Info-Hams Digest ******************************