--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00027 Date: 04/26/98 From: BLAKE BOWERS Time: 08:47pm \/To: MICHAEL STRATES (Read 0 times) Subj: Off Topic Message from The UK.... On (24 Apr 98) Michael Strates wrote to Jeff Edmonson... -=> Quoting Jeff Edmonson to Trevor Bates <=- MS> Yawn.. I just made a quick phonecall to ARRL Headquarters in MS> Newington, they're looking into that license of yours Trevor. You're MS> not going to MS> have it for long, to say the least. Actually, according to Phil Kane, in the FCC echo, what he is doing is completely legal. As long as he recieves mail that is sent to that address, it is legal. --- PPoint 1.98 * Origin: KD4RME, The POINT of it all.... (1:284/99.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00028 Date: 04/25/98 From: LEIGH PREECE Time: 09:20pm \/To: ROB DENNIS (Read 0 times) Subj: Off Topic Message from The UK.... Hi Rob, 22-Apr-98 01:16:32, Rob Dennis wrote to Trevor Bates Subject: Off Topic Message from The UK.... TB>> I need to contact people in the USA that would be willing to let TB>> some ofus fido users here in the UK use their Snail Mail TB>> addresses in the usa... This is so that several people here in TB>> the UK can sit the AARL amatuer radio exams here in the UK.. RD> This is an invitation to commit fraud Trevor. Please do NOT post RD> this again in this echo. Check your FCC rules - there is absolutely no fraud taking place at any stage - also check Trevor's replies in other echoes. Here in the UK, the Licensing Authority allows anyone from any country a license whereas the FCC insists on a US mailing address. Both countries use reciprocal arrangements, thus making the license valid in either country. I too challenged Trevor over this, being in the UK myself, but after contacting the FCC and RA in the UK, found it to be totally legal. As for being off-topic - you are the moderator and apologies for this followup - end of topic for me in the echo. Till Next time then eh ?, Leigh..... --- Terminate 5.00/Pro * Origin: I wrote it - blame me ! Leigh Preece, Staffs. UK. (2:250/563.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00029 Date: 04/28/98 From: JEFF EDMONSON Time: 05:02am \/To: H. BRO-NIELSEN (Read 0 times) Subj: Off Topic Message from The UK.... > And what category of licence are obtainable by "post"? > Please enligthen us .. He can't. His access has been cut in this echo for not less than 30 days. 73 = Best Regards -Jeff KA5THB Moderator HAM, Co-Moderator HAM_TECH --- FMail 1.02 * Origin: Electronic Avenue BBS 210-533-5668 San Antonio, TX (1:387/510) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00030 Date: 04/25/98 From: IVY IVERSON Time: 07:40am \/To: H. BRO-NIELSEN (Read 0 times) Subj: Foreign licensing -=> On 04-27-98 05:56, H. Bro-nielsen (2:237/29) said to Trevor Bates,<=- -=>"About Off Topic Message fro...,"<=- HB> Wednesday April 22 1998 03:20, Trevor Bates wrote to All: Hi, Bro; TB> No its not... The USA AARL and the UK RA have an agreement that UK TB> citizens may take the USA exam and apply for a Recipricol Licence here TB> in the UK... The ONLY requirement is that we have a mail address in TB> the usa as the fcc will not send licences out of the country! HB> How is that practically done... i stress that the person do have an HB> US-address, but how do one take the exam as such... ?? The American Radio Relay League, (The U.S. "headquarters" for Ham radio, for lack of a better term), has thousands of VE's, (Volunteer Examiners), around this country, and also has VE teams in the UK, and possibly elsewhere in the world. The ARRL is only one of several orginizations that have VE teams. These VEs in other countries give tests to earn or upgrade American Ham licenses to people who are planning to visit or move to the U.S. The VEs in Europe will also give the tests to Americans who are visiting "over there." The licenses or tests are NOT available by mail! The only catch is that to get an American Ham license while you are in a different country, you MUST have an adderess in the U.S., because the FCC will ONLY mail them to United States addresses. HB> And what category of licence are obtainable by "post" ? None! Zero! Nil! Nada! Nyet! Period! There was a time, many years ago, when the FCC would mail the test for Novice to a General-class or higher licensee so that they could give it to prospective Novices, however that has been discontinued. Now the only way to get or upgrade any American Ham license is to take an examination (or several) in front of three accredited VE's. HB> Please enligthen us .. I hope I have done so. HB> By the way it's not to get a license i'm asking (have two.. hi.. os3rc HB> and oz5bbs) but more going for blunt curiosity.. Belgium and Denmark, eh? So you can operate in AT LEAST those two countries - and possibly more - using licenses issued by those two countries. The American licenses are the same way, and people with American or Canadian callsigns can also operate in both countries without getting an additional license. HB> Rgds / 73 OS3RC/OZ5BBS DE KB9QPM 73 Ivy ... Hams do not necessarily come from the land of sky blue water! -- Ŀ SysOp: Ivy's WALL BBS - 6 Networks 920-457-9255 IMHO: 5 WPM for EVERYONE. KB9QPM/AE as of 11/19/97 www.bigfoot.com/~IvysWallBBS ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- TriToss (tm) 1.03 - (Unregistered) * Origin: Ivy's WALL BBS - Sheboygan, WI 920-457-9255 (1:154/170) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00031 Date: 04/25/98 From: IVY IVERSON Time: 06:13pm \/To: ROB DENNIS (Read 0 times) Subj: Noise... -=> On 04-27-98 14:38, Rob Dennis said to Ivy Iverson,<=- -=>"About Noise......,"<=- Hi, Rob; RD>> If someone wants to reach me on 80m they better be able to get over RD>> an S-9 noise level or forget even trying... II> That sounds like me TRYING to check into the Weather Net on 3985 in the II> morning... The usual QRM runs a SOLID S7-S8, some days it's S9+10, and the II> net manager, about 150 miles from here, usually peaks at S8-S9. This II> does NOT make for solid QSOs. And if I can't hear 'em I can't send the II> WX. I GOTTA get that G5RV built and in the air! :-/ One saving possability as far as the WX net goes: There is a Ham in another town about 50 miles (around 75 KM?) from here that can hit the main local 2M rptr, and when condux are reaally BAD, he occasionally checks in on it and picks up the local WX reports and relays them to the WX net. (When the mail's gotta get through, Hams can usually find a way!) :-> RD> Ivy hydro is down the road right now playing with their hardware and RD> trying to find the source of the noise levels. RD> It was so bad this weekend that anyone with rabbit ears on a TV or RD> any radio tuning the shortwave bands would have heard nothing except RD> this constant buzz. I hope they get it fixed soon,as I am putting up a RD> new 160/80m dipole this weekend and would at least like to try it out RD> for Rx and TX. Sounds good! Please let me know how it works for you, (when you got it up, that is). The only problem with a dipole is that if your noise is coming from the power (hydro) lines, that's horizontally polarized, so you will probably get more QRM instead of less than a vertical. From the sound of it, they probably have a bunch of insulators arcing or more than likely cracked during the big storm. If it's in the low tension lines it will probably have a strong 60 Hz component. OTOH, if it's a higher-pitched frying noise, it's more likely corona discharge. If you have the time and a portable HF RX, you could probably help them locate the problem: Just drive up and down the road while listening to your HF RX. (A DF antenna probably will NOT help you here because the signal is being radiated from the whole line, not just one point.) You will probably find that it peaks at one wavelength intervals as you drive down the road, parallel to the line, so when you find the highest peak you are probably very close to it. At that point, cut back the RF gain, either with the RF gain control or by reducing the antenna, etc. You should be able to pin it down to a single pole or transformer. Of course, if there are a lot of arcs/corona discharges it will make it a lot harder. If you find the strongest signal but there are no bad insulators nearby, look for a feed taking off to one side within a pole or two either way. The problem is probably down that line. (I have read of such cases, though have never encountered one.) Good luck! Please keep me informed. 73 DE KB9QPM Ivy ... I wonder what happens if I touch these two wires togeZZZZZZZAP!!! -- Ŀ SysOp: Ivy's WALL BBS - 6 Networks 920-457-9255 IMHO: 5 WPM for EVERYONE. KB9QPM/AE as of 11/19/97 www.bigfoot.com/~IvysWallBBS ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- TriToss (tm) 1.03 - (Unregistered) * Origin: Ivy's WALL BBS - Sheboygan, WI 920-457-9255 (1:154/170) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00032 Date: 04/28/98 From: ROB DENNIS Time: 04:36pm \/To: LEIGH PREECE (Read 0 times) Subj: Off Topic Message from The UK.... In a msg of <25 Apr 98>, Leigh Preece writes to Rob Dennis: TB>>> the UK can sit the AARL amatuer radio exams here in the UK.. RD>> This is an invitation to commit fraud Trevor. Please do NOT post RD>> this again in this echo. LP> Check your FCC rules - there is absolutely no fraud taking place at any LP> stage - also check Trevor's replies in other echoes. Here in the UK, he LP> Licensing Authority allows anyone from any country a license whereas he LP> FCC insists on a US mailing address. Both countries use reciprocal LP> arrangements, thus making the license valid in either country. I'll check with the -Canadian- rules body here,the Canadian IOC and the Radio Amateurs of Canada and see what they have to say about this rrangement. Same goes for the FCC if someon in the States would be so kind as to check on that and NETMAIL me the answer. For now it will remain OFF TOPIC as I have asked. LP> I too challenged Trevor over this, being in the UK myself, but after LP> contacting the FCC and RA in the UK, found it to be totally legal. LP> As for being off-topic - you are the moderator and apologies for this LP> followup - end of topic for me in the echo. LP> Till Next time then eh ?, Thanks, Leigh. --- GoldED 2.42.G1219 * Origin: VE3SJN....Moderator....HAM_TECH (1:163/506.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00033 Date: 04/29/98 From: TONY SZABLOWSKI Time: 08:59pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Motorola question I've got a Motorola Maxtrac mobile and if anyone can tell me what the one pin from the 5 on the back of the radio does. It's supposedly for ignition control. Does this mean it's a floating circuit where I can hook a line from a switched(ignition controlled) open fuse slot to that pin to have the radio turn on/off with the ignition key? Or is this something totally different? Thanks in advance. Tony --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.3 * Origin: The Merchants of Venus, Colonia NJ, 908-388-4742 (1:2630/122) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00034 Date: 04/30/98 From: RAY WADE Time: 11:30am \/To: ROB DENNIS (Read 0 times) Subj: Off Topic Message from The UK.... On (28 Apr 98) Rob Dennis wrote to Leigh Preece... RD> I'll check with the -Canadian- rules body here,the Canadian IOC and RD> the Radio Amateurs of Canada and see what they have to say about this RD> arrangement. Same goes for the FCC if someon in the States would be RD> so kind as to check on that and NETMAIL me the answer. RD> For now it will remain OFF TOPIC as I have asked. Rob I am sending you by netmail the answer I got in the FCC echo when I asked Phil Kane about this. Phil, in case you don't know, was a district director for the FCC for many years. He is now retired from the FCC and practices private communication law as an attorney. He says this is perfectly legal and is necessary because the FCC will not mail licenses or correspond with a licensee at other than a US address. ... White noise: Full spectrum. Pink noise: Filtered. Black noise: Rap. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: K5JCM, Tulsa OK (1:170/302.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00035 Date: 05/01/98 From: JOHN MUDD Time: 06:51am \/To: TONY SZABLOWSKI (Read 0 times) Subj: Motorola question TS> Does this mean it's a floating circuit where I can hook a line from a TS> switched(ignition controlled) open fuse slot to that pin to have the TS> radio turn on/off with the ignition key? Or is this something totally TS> different? Thanks in advance. Years ago, the radios we had in our service vans (Motorola's, but I don't remember the model) would not transmit with the ignition off. Perhaps that is what you have there. Good luck, de W0TLO John --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: The Politically Incorrect! (1:106/1010) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 188 HAM TECH Ref: F5G00036 Date: 05/01/98 From: CO-MODERATOR HAM_TECH Time: 11:59pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Bi-Weekly Rules Posting ECHO RULES: 1) Keep it technical, Amateur Radio orientated. 2) Keep it clean. No flames, cussing, racial remarks, etc. 3) Modifications that allow Amateur Radios to transmit out of band are allowed and can be posted on the echo if they meet the following: o No TX Amateur to CB band Modifications. o No TX Amateur to Cellular Phone Band Modifications. o No TX Amateur to Military Air (not MARS/CAP) VHF/UHF Modifications. o ALL Amateur call signs must be included; to and from. o NO 'TO ALL' OOB TX MODS!!!! ****************************************************** * THERE WILL BE NO WARNINGS FOR MILITARY AIR * * VHF/UHF TX MODS. YOU WILL BE GONE! * * NO EXCEPTIONS! * ****************************************************** It is suggested that if you and the receiving party have netmail, send the actual modification netmail. IF not, you may post it on HAM_TECH provided you add this simple statement / warning along with your call signs: "This modification will allow the transceiver to transmit out of the legal Amateur Radio frequency bands. It is your responsibility concerning the operation of the transceiver on frequency bands outside your legal Amateur Radio Bands." I will see MARS/CAP call signs included for MARS/CAP mods. 4) No Citizen's Band (CB) radio discussions except conversions to Amateur Radio. 5) For sale items belong on for sale echos. Remember: 'ON TOPIC' is anything inside the realm of the rules. NO 'TO ALL' OOB TX MODIFICATIONS!!! Moderator: Rob Dennis, 1:163/506.4 Internet: ve3sjn@igs.net Assistant Moderator: Jeff Edmonson, 1:387/510 ka5thb@bigfoot.com --- FMail 1.02 * Origin: Electronic Avenue-San Antonio,TX 210.533.5668 (1:387/510)