OUR 25th ANNIVERSARY YEAR! March 1985 #294 hllUe $3.00 Canada $2.50 USA o r A CWCIP Publication Special Report: Volunteer Examiners HAM-DAY ' 8 5 Are You Ready? Ten Million Resistors: The Incredible Digiohm PRIVATE EARTH STATIO o The Standard o f Excellence in HF Base Stations m«; The IC·751 Is the most • FM Mode Standard IC-SMb desk RC-IO exter Operating From 'ZV1 the advanced transcetver avail • High-grade FL-44A 455KHz nal controller, and a variety of IC-751 is also available with an able today. It's a competI SSB filter filte optional internal AC power non grade ham recetver. a • 32 tunable Memories with supply, the IC-PS35...for the 100KHz to 30MHz cont'l"NJ lithium bane!)' baCkup wiming edge in field day FILTER SPECIFICATIONS ous tuning ~ICO'It'eI"age • 100% DutyCydeTransmitter .... - competition. <- - ,.;:;; recetver AND a full-featured • Passband TUrUng ..- _ '.... 1KHz! ex: all ~ solid-state' ham • 1ZV operation .. band trammftter. TheIC-751 • Adjuste'lOle AGe S'l'ANOAAO "JUERS also covers the new WARe • Adjustable Noise Blanker ... aw .<n -~- II ~~~ bands. MARS frequencies, • RIT/XIT with separate ,WlI,PlrT)lllAL R· lIO ~" " -.... - - ,'" and Is AMTOR compatible. readout .'j.l,)lIS j~ 1"3<BI • IC-HMI2 Microphone with , ,. II*",,- Important Standard Up/Down Scan '-' O _ A .- Features. Compare these • Continuoos~ adjustable O"lOIIlAl.,. TfRS ." important standard features in transmit power 0"" ~-- ." this "top of the line" base ... ~- ",-n~ ..-~ _. station: Options. IC-8010 speeeti o·~ "~.",. " The IC-751provides superior synthesizer. internallC-PS35 <0- o·u .. perlormance for all amateur 0.' - • 100KHz - 30MHz Receiver power supp~. external rC-PSlS <0- ,,~ radio operarors...from novice _ o a.n • IOSdB dynamic range or Ie-PS30 system supply, to extra class. See the IC-751 • OSK - full break-in CW I(-SMB reo-came desk m«, at your local ICOM dealer. 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RIehard Phenll Chrts SdNlokIt DESIGNERS Di.... Ritson D-DAY th at those few people who thing, we're doing. There isn't ""dO<'" think they've heard of amateur any way we're going to get new The recent demand by the ASSOCtATES radio are confusing it with ca. hams jf people don't even know Robert a.J<.. wazGFE ARRl Board that the General lt makes an old-time ham our hobby exists. John Edw.rcb I02U Manager increase the number Bill Gosney KE7C proud, right? There have been occasional of hams this year was indeed CtIOd H.rria VP2ML demonstrations of ham sta entertaining. Okay, if we're going to get Or. "'lor(; LN...-y WA».JR tions at fairs and malls, but Bill Put......,k WMlTF The fact is that amateur ra recruits into amateur radio, our those I've seen are long on Peler Slili1l K2Q"'W dio has gollen to be one of the first step Is to help make the hams sitting there doing incom better kept secrets in our coun general public aware of what prehensible things and short on "'DVERTlSlNG try. Recent eurveve have shown ou r hobby is -what, if any- Involving the public In even the 1-8llll-441-«03 slightest way. Oh, we may offer SAlES IiIAH...GER Jim Glay W1XU to take and deliver a message ASSISTANT SALESM"'N"'GER lor passing people, but when Nilne)' ClilmPil the message Is delivered weeks SALES REPRESENT nVE later In garbled form, some of Rosa Kenyon KA1G V the Impact of this approach is lost. GR...PHIC SERVICES DIRECTOR Ham exhibits tend to put em Christine Deslrempes phasis on newer technology M...NUF"'CTURING M...N...GER too-another confusing situa Susan Gross tion. How many of the general TYPESETTING M...N...GER Dann!s Cll/Islenaen public will have even the faint FILM PREP M...N...GER est Idea of what Is going on as Robert M. Villeneuye a ham ATTY printer clu nks PHOTOGR...PHY M...N...GER away, churning out paper or Nathaniel Heynes printer artwork? Phooey. G~HICSSERVICES SUPERVISOR So let ' s get cracking on D,wn ",, !thew, something more pracllcal-a real live demonstration of ama VICE PRESIDENTIGENERAL teur radio. And let's set this up .....N...GER Oebf, Wetr...bM for Sunday, March 24th, so we VICE PRESlDENTIf'INANCE can aH get involved at once. Aooef Murplty You could pass the word to ASSISTANT GENERAL M...N...GER some OX stations, asking them M'tt smith KA11EI to be sure to be around on the ASSISTANT TO VPIf'INANCE 24th to help Impress visitors to Dominlq.... smith ham shacks all around our DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATION country. WIlli..., P. l-Iowilr(J ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MAH...GER Your Job Is to make sure that Fr'" SmIth you get any friends or neigh· DIRECT AHD NEWSSTAND SALES bors over on the 24th so you Ma R can demonstrate amateur radio Ralno Wlreln to them. This may be on a OX 1«11»43.(1728 band or over a repeater-either DlRECTOJIOF CREDIT SALES way you will have to explain AND COlLECTIONS WIlli..., Y. Boyer what you are doing (hopefully In plain language) and then let them get on the air and talk est, PUBLISHER OF THE MONTH wilh hams and other similar vis- John C. Bumett To " '«,cut QSl., /NIl! tI In .........1:... 10 73.80 Pine Sl_. Peterborough NH 030t58. Ann; OSL01' the Monlll.Winners _ • OiIe , _ SUbscfiplionlor exterl$ionl lo 73. Enlriell noIln eli !'epee cannot be KeePted. Continued on page 55 4 73 for Radio Amateurs · March, 1985 Pocket-size performers! Standard versions. R X . • • EDITED BY PERRY DONHAM KW10 Ham-Day'BS The $10 deposit will be refunded when you return your old PROMs. ~~ Elmer Cited MARK MARCH 24th on your calendar. That's H-Day, the day that every amateur in the United States will invite one person TEACHING KIDS about ham radio has into his shack 10 demonstrate what ham earned Peter Kemp KA1KD an award from radio is all about. Don't worry about sham the Connecticut Department of Education. pooing the carpets or serving a five-course Cited by the Commissioner of Education dinner, Just ask someone over and make a as " ... an outstanding vocational practice, few contacts. Whip out your hand-held and one worthy of emulation by other make a telephone call on the local auto schools," Pete's course is taught during patch. Chat across town or across the the school day and offers students the op world, but be sure thai somebody is there portunity to learn the fundamentals of 10 watch and take part. ARS W2NSDI1 will electronic communication, culminating in Peter Kemp KA1KD (right) receives the 1984 be on the air from 1500 to 2100 UTe; look for us around 14.255 MHz or drop us a line (you guessed itl) a Novice-class license. VIP Merit Award from Connecticut Commis Pete says that he has Elmered hundreds of sioner of Education Dr. Gerald Tirozzi. and we can make a schedule tor a contact. new Novices through the course, and that Use any mode and band you feel ccmtort the state is evaluating the program for poe the Association. The repeater is used ex able with, but please don', let your hobby store Inclusion in the curriculum of every elusively for OX spotting and contest an down. Remember: March 24th. Pass It on. school In the state! nouncements, and anyone within Its three Display Replay state coverage area (PA, OH, and WV) Is Hiss and Pop welcome to join in. Whaf'sNew? KENWOOD TR·2SOO OWNERS: Has your FOR THOSE STALWARTS who still mont LCD turned a nice shade of black? If it has, tor the ten-meter band for signs of life, I Kenwood will mail you a free replacement have a very nice list of ten-meter beacon display. Call the company at (213)-639-9000 SHAMELESSLY STOLEN from The Ground stations, compiled by Joe Gumina K20LG, and ask for Amateur Parts Supply. Wave, newsletter of the 51. Paul Radio that can be yours for the price of an SASE. Club, are a few Items to round out every Super Fly! The list seems to be pretty complete, with ham's shack: about sixty stations spanning the range of -For those who keep blowing fuses, 30 28.175 to 28.992 MHz. If you would like a Amp fuses marked "3 Amps." copy, drop an SASE in the mail to 73 Mag -Antenna tower holes, in assorted sizes GOING TO DAYTON this year for the big azine, 80 Pine Street, Peterborough NH and depths. Why dig when you can buy a Hamventlon? Fred Mala W5YI reports that 03458, Attn: 10m Beacon. hole ready-made? The design has been im Piedmont Airlines is offering a 35% dis proved by threading them-If you move, count to hams flying to Dayton on Pled DXtra Special simply unscrew them and take them mont. The offer is good for a ten-cay along! period centered on April 27, 1985, and is -Antenna grease. One application is all 35% off the normal coach rate-about as "QRX" CONGRATULATIONS go out to that is needed-standing waves are lucky cheap as you can go without needing a Don McDaniel KJ30, the 1984 Outstanding if they hang on lying down! parachute. To make a reservation , call DXer, as determined by the Western Penn -Everett Dirksen lozenges. A fine product (800)·334-8644 and ask Ellie Goforth for the sylvania DX Association. Don is an active that makes SSB sound like AM. These toz W5YI Hamventlon Special. Fred says that member of the club and appears regularly enges provide a golden voice, as com a lot of the credit for this great deal should pared with the sliver voice of the William on the 145.37·MHz repeater operated by go to Maurice Booth WD4RGU, who Is the Jennings Bryan lozenges sold by ccmpetr Customer Service Manager for Piedmont tors. in Dallas. See you at the show! Supplies are limited, so be sure to send GLBUpdafe your blank check today! Big Picfure PACKETEERS USING GlB TNCs, in par ticular those using them as diglpeaters, should contact GLB for an update of their THE VfUHF ADVISORY COMMlnEE of software. PK·1 software prior to version 3.5 the ARAL is soliciting comments on a pro will not digipeat multiple frames with mul posed ta-cm band plan. The VUAC is tiple digipeaters; if a PK-1 Is specified as trying to formulate a plan that will accom part of a multi-repeater link, only the first modate all of the current users of the frame in any transmission will be re band, as well as allow for future modes peated. To get the update, send your An ecstatic Wayne Albert KB3KV (right) and techniques that may be developed. In PROMs or a $10 deposit to GLB Electron presents the WPDXA Outstanding DXer addition, the VUAC is investigating the ex Ice, 1952 Clinton Street, Buffalo NY 14206. Award to Don McDaniel KJ3Q. changes and procedures used in EME and 73 for RadIo Amateurs - March, 1985 7 up In the future. The network, both real time and store-and-forward, is growing fast." If you are working on a similar sys tem, Hank would like you to get in touch with him at his Cal/book address. Hank will also provide copies of MailBox-Just mall him an 8" disk with return postage. /'-- 7 Voice From Above LISTENING FOR THE SHUTILE?lheGod dard Amateur Radio Club at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, retransmits live audio from the Space Shuttle on nearly all STS missions. Pat Kilroy WD8LAQ explains that club sta tion WA3NAN transmits on 3860, 7185, and 14295 kHz, starting about one hour before rttt-ott and ending about one hour after the Shuttle lands. Off times coincide with the astronauts' sleep periods. Mr. Hello, Chip MOTOROLA has finally released a long awaited member of its M68000 micropro "Now here's an exclusive new feature . . ." cessor family. The original MC68000, found in several micros currently on the market, uses 32-bit internal data representation but meteor-scatter communications, with an outdone themselves with their latest ven has only 16-bit-wide external buses. Moto eye toward a standard system. Everyone's ture! Engineers from the FCC New York rola's new MC68020 fills the communica ideas are important, and you can contact District Office and Special Agents from US tions gap by providing full 32-bit-wide data the VUAC by writing Mark Wilson AA2Z, Customs raided Granada Electronics in streams, both Inside and out. Incredibly, the AARL Headquarters, 225 Main St., Newtnq Brooklyn, seizing over 2700 pieces of gear chip can address up to 4 gigabytes of mem ton CT06111 . with an estimated value of one-nett million ory and runs around 3 million instructions dol/ars! The rigs Included CB transceivers per second (MIPs). What's really impressive Space Aces capable of operating on unauthorized tre is that all of this power has been condensed quencres and of using excessive transmit onto a die that's roughly 350 mils square! ter power. The items were manufactured in The processor is object-code-compatible NASA SAYS "OK" to the planned ham-in the Far East and were allegedly imported with the rest of the 68000 family. What can into the US for illegal sale. In another ac space flight of Dr. Tony England WIORE you do with such a chip? All sorts of ham tion, Customs agents arrested Lawrence and John·Davld Bartoe W4NYZ coming up applications spring to mind. How about Wallach of lW Sales, Lynbrook, New York, on April 17th. It sounds as if the astronauts voice-recognizing repeaters? Or automatic for allegedly selling non-type-accepted CB are packing their entire shack for the tri p phone-contesting stations? The price is rea transceivers which were illegally brought In addition 10 the z-meter rig used by Dr. sonable-487 bucks-so be sure to buy a into the US. LW and Granada were the sub Owen Garriott W5LFL, Tony and John few extra for spares! ject of a two-veer Commission lnvesttqa David will be carrying HF and SSTV equip tion into the importation and marketing of Oracle ment on board. The entire setup will be illegal equipment. very flexible, allowing S$TV on len and two meiers, a two-meter to len-meter repealer Off Hands (similar 10 the OSCAR and AS transpon COMING UP IN 73: In April you can take a ders), and of course the a-meter mode sneak preview of the Dayton Hemvenncn. used on the W5l Fl mission. The antenna the radio amateur's Mecca. And May to be used Is an unusual design-a form THE NEXT STEP toward an automatic brings our annual spring antenna issue, of matching device will be used to excite message-delivery system has been made packed with aerials of every shape and the entire payload bay. Interestingly, both herein New England. Hank Oredson WeRLI size, just In time for that antenna work hams must apply for an FCC waiver for the has added store-and-forward message you've been planning all winter. Of course, mission, as only Extra-class licensees are handling to his popular Xerox 820-based every Issue is full of the kinds of things eligible for space operation (both astro packet bunettn-boerc software. The sys you've grown to appreciate in 73, and we'll nauts hold General-class tickets). Watch tem allows a message left on one mailbox be bringing in a few surprises during our " QRX" for late-breaking hem-In-space to be passed along until it reaches Its In 25th anniversary year just to keep you on news. tended recipient. According to Hank, "The your toes. distribu ted-mes sage stare-and-fo rward Fuzz Busters! Kudos system is growing very rapidly. In the Boa ton area, K1BC, WQRLI, WB20SZ, and KAH are all using auto-forwarding. In Ari· REMEMBER 0&0, tnc., of Shelby, North zona, K7PYK is available, linked to W0RLI SO MANY PEOPLE help make " QRX" hap Carolina? They were raided by Federal via HF. Other EASTNET mailboxes now on pen each month, and it's always a plea Marshals last year and faced fines of up to the air. . .include W31Wl and KS3Q in the sure to thank them. This month, help came $10,000 for distributing Illegal CB equip Washington DC area, WB2MNF in New from the W5Y/ Report, Westllnk, Gateway, ment. The raid netted nearly $140,000 Jersey, and W1AW-4 In Newington. At and numerous other hams who support worth of gear. Well , the Feds have really least nine other stations should be coming this column with their cards and letters. 8 73 for Radio Amateurs. March, 1985