INFO-HAMS Digest Fri, 17 Nov 89 Volume 89 : Issue 898 Today's Topics: Returned mail: User unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 19:38:48 -0800 From: MAILER-DAEMON@decwrl.dec.com (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While talking to /usr/bin/mail11v3: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550-DPDMAI::HICKS; %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user HICKS at node DPD04 <<< 550 550 ... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by decwrl.dec.com; id AA01591; Fri, 17 Nov 89 19:38:48 -0800 Message-Id: <8911180338.AA01591@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Nov 89 19:34:00 PDT From: info-hams@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Subject: INFO-HAMS Digest V89 #896 To: "hicks" Return-Path: <@consrt.rok.com,@consrt.rok.com,@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:info-hams-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil> Received: from consrt.rok.com by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 18:33:09 PDT Received: from consrt.rok.com by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 18:29:02 PDT Received: from lcs.mit.edu by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 18:27:06 PDT Received: from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa27707; 17 Nov 89 22:26 EST Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 18:15:26 MST From: INFO-HAMS-REQUEST@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Reply-To: INFO-HAMS@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Subject: INFO-HAMS Digest V89 #896 To: INFO-HAMS@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Message-ID: <8911172227.aa27707@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> INFO-HAMS Digest Fri, 17 Nov 89 Volume 89 : Issue 896 Today's Topics: Returned mail: User unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 16:55:18 -0800 From: MAILER-DAEMON@decwrl.dec.com (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While talking to /usr/bin/mail11v3: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550-DPDMAI::HICKS; %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user HICKS at node DPD04 <<< 550 550 ... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by decwrl.dec.com; id AA04406; Fri, 17 Nov 89 14:26:52 -0800 Message-Id: <8911172226.AA04406@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Nov 89 14:22:00 PDT From: info-hams@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Subject: INFO-HAMS Digest V89 #894 To: "hicks" Return-Path: <@consrt.rok.com,@consrt.rok.com,@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:info-hams-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil> Received: from consrt.rok.com by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 13:20:33 PDT Received: from consrt.rok.com by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 13:15:21 PDT Received: from lcs.mit.edu by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 13:13:00 PDT Received: from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa26917; 17 Nov 89 17:11 EST Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 14:15:12 MST From: INFO-HAMS-REQUEST@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Reply-To: INFO-HAMS@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Subject: INFO-HAMS Digest V89 #894 To: INFO-HAMS@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Message-ID: <8911171711.aa26917@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> INFO-HAMS Digest Fri, 17 Nov 89 Volume 89 : Issue 894 Today's Topics: customer feedback to manufacturers - suggestion How does one become an OO? Need Hallicrafters S-53 info New subject: Tesla vs gau OO's and "Policy" Returned mail: User unknown Wanted: Modifications for Kenwood TM-731A ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Nov 89 16:31:29 GMT From: unmvax!ogccse!littlei!eagle.hf.intel.com!collier@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: customer feedback to manufacturers - suggestion In article <275@ssc.UUCP> tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes: > >If you guys don't think Japanese manufacturers listen to U.S. hams, >talk to Chip Margelli, K7JA at Yaesu. I agree. When I bought the FT727R with the first version of firmware, I was dissatisfied with a lot of the little firmware program quirks. I fed them back to the small ham dealer who sold me the radio, and she passed them on to Chip. A number of the changes did make it into the second firmware version, and (aside from the size of the radio) I was a happy FT727R owner (who has since upgraded to the FT470). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 15:14:12 EST From: Michael_Edelman%Wayne-MTS@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: How does one become an OO? I'm interested in OO-dom, particularly when I hear some of the %@$#! on 20 and 80- including a certain Net that once found its way into this list. How does one become an OO? What are the requirements? I'm an advanced (obvious, from the call) licensed for about 10 years. Do I pass? --mike ke8yy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 13:24:12 EST From: Michael_Edelman%Wayne-MTS@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: Need Hallicrafters S-53 info Anyone have a Hallicrafters S-53 schematic/alignment data? I'll pay postage and costs, of course, on request. ke8yy Wayne State University / 5925 Woodward / Detroit, MI 48202 Michael_Edelman@um.cc.umich.edu (reliable) Michael_Edelman%Wayne-Mts@um.cc.umich.edu (direct) MEDELMAN@WAYNEST1 / 1-313-577-0742 / fax: 1-313-577-5500 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 16:54:11 GMT From: shlump.nac.dec.com!koning.dec.com!koning@decuac.dec.com (Paul Koning) Subject: New subject: Tesla vs gau In article <89111609053575@masnet.uucp>, greg.trice@canremote.uucp (GREG TRICE) writes: > Path: shlump.nac.dec.com!decuac!haven!aplcen!uunet!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canrem ote!greg.trice > From: greg.trice@canremote.uucp (GREG TRICE) > Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio > Subject: Re: New subject: Tesla vs gau > Message-ID: <89111609053575@masnet.uucp> > Date: 15 Nov 89 15:19:00 GMT > Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada > Lines: 15 > > But both systems are ARBITRARY. Neither is really better than the other. > I really cannot see that a system based on the distance from the North > Pole to the Equator passing through Paris (based on an incorrect survey) > and various properties of water is any more logical than one based on > the average length of a man's foot. > It is about time that all these units were swept away and replaced by a > logically consistent set based on universal physical constants such as > the velocity of light in vacuo, Planck's and Boltzmann's constants and > the universal gravitational constant. > The much-vaunted "consistency" of SI only comes about by giving some > quantities fictitious dimensions divorced from physical reality. B and H > should logically have the same dimensions (which they do in cgs units) > as should D and E. A thoroughly confusing situation. > --- > * Via ProDoor 3.1R Of course both (or rather, ALL) systems are arbitrary. That includes systems based on physical constants, if we ever get any such systems, because you would have to choose WHICH of the many constants are to be considered the fundamental units and which the derived units! But I think you missed my earlier point. The merit of the SI system does not lie in how the meter was originally chosen. Some fraction of the circum- ference of the earth is no better than the length of King Henry's foot, nor is the length of a meter more or less "convenient" than the length of a foot. Instead, the reason the SI system is superior is that it is a complete and coherent system. It is the only such system, though cgs comes fairly close. If you read Dutch, I have an excellent reference I can point to for a more detailed discussion ... :-) As for why Planck's constant etc. aren't used to define units, that's very simple: they cannot be measured with the same accuracy as the things that ARE being used to define units. When that changes, the definitions may change too. This has already happened in one case mentioned: the speed of light in vacuo IS now used to define the meter. But it wasn't when the definition came up for review in 1960, since c could not then be measured accurately enough to compete with the Krypton lamp. By 1983 this has changed, so the definition of the meter changed. paul, ni1d ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 17:48:43 GMT From: mips!wyse!stevew@apple.com (Steve Wilson xttemp dept303) Subject: OO's and "Policy" In article <7725@ttidca.TTI.COM> sorgatz@ttidcb.tti.com (Erik Sorgatz - Avatar) writes: >>organization. That should give you a clue is to how few OO's we >>have in the 5 counties I cover...I need more...any volunteers? >> -------------- > Right here. Of course, you'll have to junk that antique-notion about OO's >being only-EXTRAs..or having held a TECH for 4 years...Think you can stand >that? :-) OOC tells me it's impossible...our SM echos this...what do you >say? Erik, First off, your a little out of my territory. I'm responsible for the Santa Clara Valley Section in Nothern California. The requirements to be an OO currently are. This is from memory so if I goof... 1) Licensed for 4 years. 2) Member of ARRL(This is a league sponsored program, thus this requirement) 3) Tech or above. 4) Pass a self-training course after initial appointment to become members of the Amateur Auxilary to the FCC Field Operations Bureau. I don't remember the exact details concerning No. 1, but I'd guess its something like "have held a Tech or higher license for over 4 years." Extras have to meet the same qualification as far as the license period. I don't set these standards, there set in Newington. I just abide by them. What is really needed is someone with a mature outlook. These preliminary standards are just front end requirements. Its up to the SM/OOC to make an appointment(depending if the SM has delegated this responsibility to the OOC). What I look for is someone who isn't going to take the attitude that he's a band-cop, or that he is going to single-handedly straighten everything out. Now this is a value judgement on my part as to whether an individual is qualified. Thats part of my job description as OOC. I'm actually looking for someone that will do the job but doesn't enyoy it. That sounds like clashing goals, but I'm after someone whos motives are to do the job because it needs to be done, not because of some sort of power trip. If you meet these requirements then go talk to your SM/OOC and apply! 73's de Steve KA6S ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 12:29:09 -0800 From: MAILER-DAEMON@decwrl.dec.com (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While talking to /usr/bin/mail11v3: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550-DPDMAI::HICKS; %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user HICKS at node DPD20 <<< 550 550 ... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by decwrl.dec.com; id AA21688; Fri, 17 Nov 89 12:29:09 -0800 Message-Id: <8911172029.AA21688@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Nov 89 12:25:00 PDT From: info-hams@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Subject: INFO-HAMS Digest V89 #893 To: "hicks" Return-Path: <@consrt.rok.com,@consrt.rok.com,@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:info-hams-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil> Received: from consrt.rok.com by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 11:23:13 PDT Received: from consrt.rok.com by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 11:18:33 PDT Received: from lcs.mit.edu by consrt.rok.com with SMTP ; Fri, 17 Nov 89 11:18:02 PDT Received: by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa15649; 17 Nov 89 13:10 EST Received: from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa15318; 17 Nov 89 13:05 EST Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 10:15:19 MST From: INFO-HAMS-REQUEST@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Reply-To: INFO-HAMS@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Subject: INFO-HAMS Digest V89 #893 To: INFO-HAMS@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Message-ID: <8911171305.aa15318@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> INFO-HAMS Digest Fri, 17 Nov 89 Volume 89 : Issue 893 Today's Topics: AR on TV, now celebrities customer feedback to manufacturers fcc question pools FTP Access to FCC Stacks and Morse Code Program Help for obtaining licenses in other countries radar laws? References for Info on Gel Cells To QSL, or not to QSL? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Nov 89 15:40:29 GMT From: enterprise!kirk@sun.com ('Captain' Kirk DeHaan) Subject: AR on TV, now celebrities >From article <8911170805.AA23062@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by faunt@CISCO.COM (Doug Faunt N6TQS 415-688-8269): > The newest Newsline claims that Marlon Brando has had many different > ham calls, and that a biographer is looking for people who may have > had contacts with him. I looked up Brando on marvin, with no results. > He probably has a real name that he has on his license. >From what I heard his callsign is not a US callsign. Does marvin have international callsigns also? ******************************************************************** * 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan | "There's a lot to be said * * Sun Microsystems Inc. | For a blow to the head" * * | * * net - kirk@sun.com | Blue Oyster Cult * * packet - n6sxr.ampr.org | * * | * ******************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 14:10:52 GMT From: shlump.nac.dec.com!tallis.enet.dec.com@decuac.dec.com (Jim Reisert) Subject: customer feedback to manufacturers In article <30500285@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes... >> If you guys don't think Japanese manufacturers listen to U.S. hams, >> talk to Chip Margelli, K7JA at Yaesu. >> >Might be interesting to talk with him if he has the time. Maybe I could >also tell him why I have decided not to buy anything from Yaesu. Maybe he >could even reverse those reasons? He'd have some work to do. According to the December issue of CQ Magazine, Yaesu will be supplying the radios for the upcoming Bouvet operation in February. I guess this would be the real test to see if they can keep up with the Joneses (Kenwood and ICOM). jim, AD1C (If I won't work them, should I blame *their* rigs for not being able to pull me out of the pileup? ;-) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@tallis.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!tallis.enet!reisert 295 Foster Street P.O. Box 1123 Littleton, MA 01460 ------------------------------ Date: 16 Nov 89 17:20:39 GMT From: ism780c!kirkd@RAND.ORG (Kirk Davis) Subject: fcc question pools Hello all again, Did have much luck that last time, so I'll post just once more. Anyone got the new tec pools in machine readable format??? pls email or post or call (213/453-8649 x3233). tnx, -kbd- (kirkd@ism.isc.com -or- uunet!ism780c!kirkd) ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 15:51:59 GMT From: tank!pbhx@handies.ucar.edu (Peter B. Hayward) Subject: FTP Access to FCC Stacks and Morse Code Program (Corrected posting) The archives at the University of Chicago have now been updated with the most recent versions of Diana Syriac's hypercard stacks for the ham exams. Novice V2.0 Technician V2.0 General V1.0 Adanced V1.0 Also in the archive is a morse code program. Using FTP, login as anonymous with any password. The files are in /pub/public -- Peter B. Hayward N9IZT University of Chicago Computing Organizations pbhx@tank.uchicago.edu .........mimsy!oddjob!tank!pbhx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 08:47:03 EST From: pescatore_jt%ncsd%gte.com@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: Help for obtaining licenses in other countries There have been a number of messages looking for information on getting licensed to operate on vacation outside of the U.S. (I guess the cold weather is starting!). The ARRL has everything you need to know about obtaining a license, and will send you (free of charge! no SASE or green stamp!) the info and forms for most countries. Call 203-666-1541 and ask for information on reciprocal licensing. Yes, you actually have to resort to copper wire, and actual human intercourse. Your reception at customs in the incoming country will vary quite a bit. It helps a lot to have a ham from the host country meet you at the airport. Jim Talens N3JT wrote a good article for QST on this topic, somewhere around the Fall of 1988. 73 John WB2EKK @N4QQ or PESCATORE_JT%NCSD@GTE.COM ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 15:43:29 GMT From: psuvm!bhb3@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Subject: radar laws? I have the specs on the MPH Industries K-55 radar gun. It is by far the most commonly used unit by police departments. The output power is less than 100 milliwatts. I beleive that you don't have to be lisenced to use under 100 mW. To the best of my knowledge police are not lisenced. With regard to the legalities of jamming: FCC regs permit the reieving of any frequency, but specifically forbid use of the airwaves for illegal purposes. The subject of jamming has been heavily discussed on rec.autos and jamming would fall under state laws of "obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties, etc." Radar detectors are pretty much cut and dried legal(except in D.C., Conn., and maybe Maryland) since they are just recievers. Brent H. besler ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 16:08:07 GMT From: iris!ford@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Gary Ford) Subject: References for Info on Gel Cells In article <7120094@hpcupt1.HP.COM> bmp@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Brian M. Perkin) writes: >I was sure I had an article at home on the care and feeding >(charging) of gell cells. As I rumaged through stacks of >magazines, I didn't find what I thought I had read only >a few weeks ago. Does such an article ring a bell with anyone? >Can anyone provide me with a good reference? > >Thanks in advance >Brian Perkin - N6RSW > Take a look at "A New Chip For Charging Gelled-Electrolyte Batteries," by Warren Dion, N1BBH, in QST, pp 26-29, June 1987. I have used the circuit described to maintain a charge on a 6.5 Ahr gel cell for my VHF & UHF HTs for about a year and a half -- works fine. Charging current is from either a wall transformer or a 5W solar panel. Gary Ford, N6GF ------------------------------ Date: 16 Nov 89 23:46:31 GMT From: hpda!hpcupt1!hprnd!hprmokg!barry@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Barry Fowler) Subject: To QSL, or not to QSL? PJML@IBMA.NERC-WALLINGFORD.AC.UK ("Pete Lucas writes: >Question: Why do hams insist on QSLing? etc. etc I enjoy sending and receiving QSL cards. I don't collect stacks of them but I always QSL when requested and I enjoy a QSL from a good friend that I meet over the air. A conversation can be forgotten over a year or so but I always find it enjoyable to "go through the stack" and be pleasantly reminded of an old friend. It's kinda like looking through an old photo album... it's nostalgic. My reason for getting on the air isn't simply to "add to the stack". I enjoy meeting people over the waves. I'm not a "5-9 QSL" conversationalist. I don't usually QSL to "locals" unless I run into them repeatedly and set up a schedule or the like. ("old fart" talk coming...) Yes, I have been licensed for 21 years. I have lost contact with many of the high school era friends I met "back then" but I can still browse through the stack and remember the 10 meter nets on an otherwise dead SSB band that we had weekly. I recall when someone on "one of those damned cards" used to suggest to go out, at a spur of the moment and grab a pizza or go to the local school and whack a tennis ball around. I still can look at the QSL card from my first contact (Okinawa on 40 CW). I still can look at the same for my second contact (WA6EYN, who later became a real good friend of mine, he lived about 5 miles away). I can still look at the card from the person that got me interested in ham radio (WN6DNA). Do we have the same satisfaction getting on a repeater on 2 meters? Most likely, the answer is "no". We really had a lot of fun on the air and were on daily. I also look at cards from more recent contacts with the similar pleasure. VHF as we know it didn't seem very interesting then. I have never QSLed or received a QSL from a VHF contact. Maybe that's why QSLing is on the decline. There are a lot of people hanging out on two meters. 'A lot of mobile "I'm 10 minutes from home, do you need anything at the store" conversations and nets where people say their call letters to one another without much else to say. Believe it or not, we even had CW nets in high school and ENJOYED it! There wasn't as much grumping then, with a greater number of operators on the band. QSL cards are a great tradition of amateur radio. It was (and is) just another fraternal aspect of the hobby. I hope that aspect isn't obsolete. - .... .- - ... .- .-.. .-.. ..-. --- .-.. -.- ... --..-- Barry WB6JZL ------------------------------ End of INFO-HAMS Digest V89 Issue #893 ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 17:02:28 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!rm1!couric@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Carl Couric) Subject: Wanted: Modifications for Kenwood TM-731A I just got a new TM-731A. Does anyone have/know of the mods to allow for 1) 440 out of band recieve. and 2) repeater via the TM-731A operation. Some places charge $$$ for this but since I have a EE degree, I should know how to handle a soldering iron... Besides half the fun is doing it yourself! Thanks in advance: Carl (KB4RLS) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R. Carlton Couric, Racal-Milgo, (305) 846-6706 and NO COLLECT CALLS! 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