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- From: Ken.Kuzenski@p1.f1.n3641.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Kuzenski)
- Newsgroups: triangle.radio
- Subject: AC4RD de KD4EUW
- Message-ID: <728018705.AA00307@psybbs.uucp>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:36:14 GMT
- Sender: fredmail@psybbs.uucp
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- In a message to Ken Kuzenski <24 Jan 93 17:57> Bill Ewald wrote:
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- > KK> is.) There's a new echo here; Tri_Radio. Not a lot of
-
- BE> Is AB4VJ here?
-
- No, last time I talked to Terry he was pretty busy with his
- new job and some other stuff; said he wasn't hitting the BBSs
- much anymore.
-
- > KK> Still playing with the packet stuff? How's it going?
-
- BE> Everything works reliably here, but I'm still learning about
- BE> traffic and PBBS capabilities.
-
- I'll expect a full report shortly. :-)
-
- > KK> I'm playing with a gadget I got from William Nolle (from the
- > KK> Shortwave echo) that decodes weather faxes and displays them
-
- BE> Is the satellite you receive in geosychronous orbit, and do
- BE> you tune the same frequency each time? I have STSORBIT here and
-
- This will work for weather sats, with the right receiver (138 MHz
- area, and a filter wider than for NBFM but narrower than for FM
- broadcast, they say) but I've been using it to get wefaxes on HF.
- NAM in Norfolk is pretty reliable here, even with the bands lousy.
-
- I spent Saturday afternoon getting quite decent charts from NAM;
- now, the big question is what the devil to *do* with 'em. But it
- was fun fiddling with it. I'm loaning my Sony portable to the guy
- at work who started all this; he's been trying with a cheap portable
- with analog tuning, and he's having a miserable time.
-