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</ x x \> The </ x x \>
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| @ | Hogs of Entropy | @ |
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/\__^__/\ present... /\__^__/\
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BUUUURP BUUUURP
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The Beef on Ham
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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<<-HoE->>
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By, Jeager
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Release Date: 09/10/94
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Hey, you Turkey! Listen up!:
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Amateur Radio:
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What it is,
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what you can do with it,
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and how to get into it.
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Hello all, I have received a great deal of e-mail on the subject
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of Amateur "Ham" Radio and many people wanted to have a quick into on
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what the heck "Ham" was. To save time (and hard disk space), I'm going to
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post this little article on the HoE line of wonderful, great, fun-loving,
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superior documents that will be SO meaningful that the world will never be
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the same again. Oh, and hopefully this will answer some of your questions,
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too.
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Ham...(besides a great snack)...What it is:
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Amatuer Radio is a way to communicate! By talking, tapping a morse
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code key, typing at a keyboard(something most of you can handle I think),
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or even looking into a video camera, you can communicate with people two
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blocks away or some where in Europe!! Too easy you say? There must be a
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catch, right? Well, kinda. You need a liscense to talk on the Ham Bands.
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But, AH-HA!, you will find out (if you don't hit the Esc or Control C key)
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the fact is that the liscense is really easy to get! Yeah HOH!
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The Ham Bands are divided you into three parts: HF, VHF, and UHF.
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(Got that now?)
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When you get the basic, no-morse-code-required-to-operate
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liscense, you get FULL prividleges on the VHF and UHF (Local) bands, but
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you get no prividleges on the HF (worldwide) bands. When you pick up
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your 5 words-per-minute (wpm) code test, you get some prividleges on the
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HF bands. More about this later. (Oh yeah: even though you might not
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have the HF bands, you can still talk to people worldwide. More about that
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later, too. Also later, more about how to kill small animals.)
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What you can do with it:
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There are many ways to communicate over the Amatuer Bands. Here
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are just a few of the most interesting:
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(Basic information: the signal that you transmit when you
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do nothing to it (like not speaking into the microphone or
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when you don't hit the morse code key) is the carrier. You
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modulate the carrier with your voice or your morse code
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signal. Now was that hard? You catching it already!)
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Morse Code/CW: This is communication via the ol' morse
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code. It is very easy to learn with some
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software for your machine and some spare
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time. I like this mode because it is much
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easier to hear a beep than a voice in poor
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band conditions. Alot of people still use
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this mode on HF.
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AM and SSB: This are the two most commonly used voice modes
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on HF today. Remember what I said about modulation
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and carriers? AM is when you modulate the top and
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bottom of the carrier. (If you looked at it on an
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oscilloscope (sp), you will see a bar in the middle
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with two sine waves, one on the top and one on the
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bottom. SSB (Single SIde Band) is similar. Instead
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of modulating both the top and bottom, it modulates
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just one of the two (Upper Side Band or Lower Side
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Band) side bands.
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FM: Just typical FM. You probably listen to it every day on 93.3mhz or
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103.9mhz. The sound quality is great, and it is the most common
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mode on VHF and UHF.
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Packet: This is the mode you want to try!! It's like doing BBSing
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over the radio! Imagine: getting your e-mail without a
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phoneline! Full and FREE access to the INTERNET!!!! (yes,
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it's one of the perks offered to us by the US Goverment...
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Imagine that.) Talking to people all over the world
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REAL TIME through node hopping. (I have been talking to
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people in Britan alot lately.) AND THIS IS ON VHF!!!
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ATV: Yes, you can send full color and full motion broadcast quality
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pictures over the airwaves. Well, shit. What else is there to
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say about it?
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Now some of the rules:
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- No talking about politics
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* Get all the jokes out now:
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* "POTATOE!"
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* It wouldn't be wise to threaten anyone's life or safety
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either.
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- No talking about religion
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* It's not a place for political or religious debates!
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- No jamming people's signals
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* A mean thing to do, anyway.
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- You must identify every 10 minutes and at the end of every QSO
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(conversation)
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* Needed for security
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- You must have a liscense
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* Key.
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- No cursing (You can't imagine how fucking hard that is for me.)
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* You know what a curse is, poop head!
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And, finally, the liscensing process....
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Step 1
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- Go to Radio Shack and buy either the book NO CODE PLUS (Gordon
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West) or NOW YOUR TALKING (ARRL). They cost $10 and $20, respectively.
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The difference is that N.Y.T. tells you much more on how to build antennas,
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which radios to buy, and things like that, while N.C.P. tells you more
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about the test questions themselves. I recommend the former (N.C.P), since
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that is what helped me ace my two tests.
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Step 2
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- Read the book. There are 300 multiple choice questions in the
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first part which you must know. They are really, really easy, and you
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will breeze through that section. The first test consists of 30 questions
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picked from the pool. The second part consists of 275 questions and the
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second test is 25 questions. That's about it.
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Step 3
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- Take the test. They are given at many different locations. Look
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in the back of your study manual for phone numbers or these locations.
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(To Philadelphia people: the most popular site to take this test is at the
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Franklin Institude. The test is given on the first Thursday of every
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month. If you are going to be there, be there between 6:00 and 6:30pm.
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The volunteers lock the doors to the room a 6:30 SHARP! Call the club
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station anytime at (215) 448-1139. Bring $5.75 for the test taking fee.
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(I think that is the cost now. Call the number I gave you to make sure.)
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Step 4
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- Tell me, that would be nice.
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Step 5
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- Wait for your liscense. During the mean time, I'll try to get you
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set up with some used equiptment so you can listen to the way people
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operate on the air. You can't transmit until you get your call letters
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from the FCC (That took about two months for me, but now the wait time
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is down).
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Okay, there is a HELL of alot more, like antenna design and disaster
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communications that you can get into, that I didn't tell you about. Make
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sure you check your local radio club, too. (You know hat number I told you
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about before? (Philly People again: Call that number to join PhilMont
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Mobile Radio Club. That's the club I belong to. They run the test
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sessions and also have a station down at the Franklin Institute. It's
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a good club!)
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Have fun and peace! :-)
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J Jeager
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a 3 Internet: XTL00014@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU
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g R Packet: N3RCS@KE3CZ.#EPA.PA.USA.
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e C or gimme E-Mail on Mogel-Land
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