THE TEXAS QSO PARTY sponsored by the Texas DX Society. 1400Z May 3 to
2200z May 4, 1997. Exchange RST and State (Province, Country, or Maritime
region). Texas stations use RST and County. Stations may be worked once per
band/mode. Texas mobiles may be worked once per band/mode from each county.
Catagories for single and multi op, multi single and multi multi, Texas
mobile single
and multi op, QRP single and multi xmtr, and a Club Aggregate catagory. Score
two points per phone QSO and three points per CW and other digital mode QSO.
Multipliers: non -Texas stations use number of Texas counties worked - a
total of
254 plus Armadillo County mystery station. Texas stations use number of
Texas
counties, states, Canadian Provinces, and DX countries (less USA, Canada,
Hawaii
and Alaska). Add bonus points to your final score: Non - Texas stations add
one
hundred points for EVERY ten Texas mobiles worked per band/mode. Texas
stations add one hundred points for EVERY ten Texas mobiles worked per
band/mode. Texas mobiles add five thousand points per every five counties
covered
with at least five contacts per county and add one hundred points for EVERY
ten
Texas mobiles worked per band/mode. Suggested frequencies: CW - 30 khz up.
Phone - 25 khz up in General class segments. VHF - 50.200 144.200
Send logs and dupe sheets (if over 200 QSOs) by June 5, 1997 to TDXS, POB
540291, Houston, TX 77254 or Email to W5HNS@aol.com. For a complete set
of rules see TDXS website http://wb5fnd.tech.uh.edu:80/~tdxs/ or Email
and/or
SASE to W5HNS. TQP is supported by NA Contest Software from LTA @ (216)
565-9950 .
>From n0ss@socketis.net (Tom Hammond) Sun Feb 16 03:07:30 1997
From: n0ss@socketis.net (Tom Hammond) (Tom Hammond)
Subject: Deeyenda Virus alert ** HOAX **
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970216030730.0067cb34@mail.socketis.net>
REGARDING THE *** HOAX *** WARNING OF THE DEEYENDA VIRUS
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE WHICH FOLLOWS THE FIRST FEW LINES OF THE
'WARNING'
Trey: Sorry for taking up so much bandwidth, but this may SAVE
a lot more bandwidth in the future.
73 - Tom Hammond N0SS
py2ny@supernet.com.br (PY2NY), wrote:
>> Subject: [BitBucket] Virus alert
>> I received this msg from a fellow ham, may be of interest to all:
>> Joe (PY2AUC)
>>
>>**********VIRUS ALERT**********
>>
>> VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ!
>>
>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.
>>If you receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda",
>>DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately!
>>Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Deeyenda"
>>nationwide, if you get anything like this DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE!
>>It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterates anything
>>on it. Please be careful and forward this e-mail to anyone you care
>>about.
=== THE ABOVE IS A HOAX === PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING...
[CIAC] INFORMATION BULLETIN
H-05 Internet Hoaxes: PKZ300, Irina, Good Times, Deeyenda, Ghost
November 20, 1996 16:00 GMT
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PROBLEM: This bulletin addresses the following hoaxes and erroneous
warnings: PKZ300 Warning, Irina, Good Times, Deeyenda, and
Ghost.exe
PLATFORM: All, via e-mail
DAMAGE: Time lost reading and responding to the messages
SOLUTION: Pass unvalidated warnings only to your computer security
department or incident response team. See below on how to
recognize validated and unvalidated warnings and hoaxes.
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VULNERABILITY New hoaxes and warnings have appeared on the Internet and old
ASSESSMENT: hoaxes are still being cirulated.
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Introduction
The Internet is constantly being flooded with information about computer
viruses and Trojans. However, interspersed among real virus notices are
computer virus hoaxes. While these hoaxes do not infect systems, they are
still time consuming and costly to handle. At CIAC, we find that we are
spending much more time de-bunking hoaxes than handling real virus incidents.
This advisory addresses the most recent warnings that have appeared on the
Internet and are being circulated throughout world today. We will also address
the history behind virus hoaxes, how to identify a hoax, and what to do if you
think a message is or is not a hoax. Users are requested to please not spread
unconfirmed warnings about viruses and Trojans. If you receive an unvalidated
warning, don't pass it to all your friends, pass it to your computer security
manager to validate first. Validated warnings from the incident response teams
and antivirus vendors have valid return addresses and are usually PGP signed
with the organization's key.
PKZ300 Warning
The PKZ300 Trojan is a real Trojan program, but the initial warning about it
was released over a year ago. For information pertaining to PKZ300 Trojan
reference CIAC Notes issue 95-10, that was released in June of 1995.
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes10.shtml
The warning itself, on the other hand, is gaining urban legend status. There
has been an extremely limited number of sightings of this Trojan and those
appeared over a year ago. Even though the Trojan warning is real, the repeated
circulation of the warning is a nuisance. Individuals who need the current
release of PKZIP should visit the PKWARE web page at http://www.pkware.com.
CIAC recommends that you DO NOT recirculate the warning about this particular
Trojan.
Irina Virus Hoax
The "Irina" virus warnings are a hoax. The former head of an electronic
publishing company circulated the warning to create publicity for a new
interactive book by the same name. The publishing company has apologized for
the publicity stunt that backfired and panicked Internet users worldwide. The
original warning claimed to be from a Professor Edward Pridedaux of the
College of Slavic Studies in London; there is no such person or college.
However, London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies has been
inundated with calls. This poorly thought-out publicity stunt was highly
irresponsible. For more information pertaining to this hoax, reference the
UK Daily Telegraph at http://www.telegraph.co.uk.
Good Times Virus Hoax
The "Good Times" virus warnings are a hoax. There is no virus by that name in
existence today. These warnings have been circulating the Internet for years.
The user community must become aware that it is unlikely that a virus can be
constructed to behave in the manner ascribed in the "Good Times" virus
warning. For more information related to this urban legend, reference CIAC
Notes 95-09.
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes09.shtml
Deeyenda Virus Hoax
The "Deeyenda" virus warnings are a hoax. CIAC has received inqueries
regarding the validity of the Deeyenda virus. The warnings are very similar
to those for Good Times, stating that the FCC issued a warning about it,
and that it is self activating and can destroy the contents of a machine
just by being downloaded. Users should note that the FCC does not and will
not issue virus or Trojan warnings. It is not their job to do so. As of this
date, there are no known viruses with the name Deeyenda in existence. For a
virus to spread, it must be executed. Reading a mail message does not execute
the mail message. Trojans and viruses have been found as executable attachments
to mail messages, but they must be extracted and executed to do any harm. CIAC
still affirms that reading E-mail, using typical mail agents, can not activate
malicious code delivered in or with the message.
Ghost.exe Warning
The Ghost.exe program was originally distributed as a free screen saver
containing some advertising information for the author's company (Access
Softek). The program opens a window that shows a Halloween background with
ghosts flying around the screen. On any Friday the 13th, the program window
title changes and the ghosts fly off the window and around the screen. Someone
apparently got worried and sent a message indicating that this might be a
Trojan. The warning grew until the it said that Ghost.exe was a Trojan that
would destroy your hard drive and the developers got a lot of nasty phone
calls (their names and phone numbers were in the About box of the program.)
A simple phone call to the number listed in the program would have stopped
this warning from being sent out. The original ghost.exe program is just cute;
it does not do anything damaging. Note that this does not mean that ghost
could not be infected with a virus that does do damage, so the normal
antivirus procedure of scanning it before running it should be followed.
History of Virus Hoaxes
Since 1988, computer virus hoaxes have been circulating the Internet. In
October of that year, according to Ferbrache ("A pathology of Computer
Viruses" Springer, London, 1992) one of the first virus hoaxes was the
2400 baud modem virus:
SUBJ: Really Nasty Virus
AREA: GENERAL (1)
I've just discovered probably the world's worst computer virus
yet. I had just finished a late night session of BBS'ing and file
treading when I exited Telix 3 and attempted to run pkxarc to
unarc the software I had downloaded. Next thing I knew my hard
disk was seeking all over and it was apparently writing random
sectors. Thank god for strong coffee and a recent backup.
Everything was back to normal, so I called the BBS again and
downloaded a file. When I went to use ddir to list the directory,
my hard disk was getting trashed again. I tried Procomm Plus TD
and also PC Talk 3. Same results every time. Something was up so I
hooked up to my test equipment and different modems (I do research
and development for a local computer telecommunications company
and have an in-house lab at my disposal). After another hour of
corrupted hard drives I found what I think is the world's worst
computer virus yet. The virus distributes itself on the modem sub-
carrier present in all 2400 baud and up modems. The sub-carrier is
used for ROM and register debugging purposes only, and otherwise
serves no othr (sp) purpose. The virus sets a bit pattern in one
of the internal modem registers, but it seemed to screw up the
other registers on my USR. A modem that has been "infected" with
this virus will then transmit the virus to other modems that use a
subcarrier (I suppose those who use 300 and 1200 baud modems
should be immune). The virus then attaches itself to all binary
incoming data and infects the host computer's hard disk. The only
way to get rid of this virus is to completely reset all the modem
registers by hand, but I haven't found a way to vaccinate a modem
against the virus, but there is the possibility of building a
subcarrier filter. I am calling on a 1200 baud modem to enter this
message, and have advised the sysops of the two other boards
(names withheld). I don't know how this virus originated, but I'm
sure it is the work of someone in the computer telecommunications
field such as myself. Probably the best thing to do now is to
stick to 1200 baud until we figure this thing out.
Mike RoChenle
This bogus virus description spawned a humorous alert by Robert Morris III :
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: ROBERT MORRIS III Read: (N/A)
Subj: VIRUS ALERT Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Warning: There's a new virus on the loose that's worse than
anything I've seen before! It gets in through the power line,
riding on the powerline 60 Hz subcarrier. It works by changing the
serial port pinouts, and by reversing the direction one's disks
spin. Over 300,000 systems have been hit by it here in Murphy,
West Dakota alone! And that's just in the last 12 minutes.
It attacks DOS, Unix, TOPS-20, Apple-II, VMS, MVS, Multics, Mac,
RSX-11, ITS, TRS-80, and VHS systems.
To prevent the spresd of the worm:
1) Don't use the powerline.
2) Don't use batteries either, since there are rumors that this
virus has invaded most major battery plants and is infecting the
positive poles of the batteries. (You might try hooking up just
the negative pole.)
3) Don't upload or download files.
4) Don't store files on floppy disks or hard disks.
5) Don't read messages. Not even this one!
6) Don't use serial ports, modems, or phone lines.
7) Don't use keyboards, screens, or printers.
8) Don't use switches, CPUs, memories, microprocessors, or
mainframes.
9) Don't use electric lights, electric or gas heat or
airconditioning, running water, writing, fire, clothing or the
wheel.
I'm sure if we are all careful to follow these 9 easy steps, this
virus can be eradicated, and the precious electronic flui9ds of
our computers can be kept pure.
---RTM III
Since that time virus hoaxes have flooded the Internet.With thousands of
viruses worldwide, virus paranoia in the community has risen to an extremely
high level. It is this paranoia that fuels virus hoaxes. A good example of
this behavior is the "Good Times" virus hoax which started in 1994 and is
still circulating the Internet today. Instead of spreading from one computer
to another by itself, Good Times relies on people to pass it along.
How to Identify a Hoax
There are several methods to identify virus hoaxes, but first consider what
makes a successful hoax on the Internet. There are two known factors that make
a successful virus hoax, they are: (1) technical sounding language, and
(2) credibility by association. If the warning uses the proper technical
jargon, most individuals, including technologically savy individuals, tend to
believe the warning is real. For example, the Good Times hoax says that
"...if the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in
an nth-complexity infinite binary loop which can severely damage the
processor...". The first time you read this, it sounds like it might be
something real. With a little research, you find that there is no such thing
as an nth-complexity infinite binary loop and that processors are designed
to run loops for weeks at a time without damage.
When we say credibility by association we are referring to whom sent the
warning. If the janitor at a large technological organization sends a warning
to someone outside of that organization, people on the outside tend to believe
the warning because the company should know about those things. Even though
the person sending the warning may not have a clue what he is talking about,
the prestige of the company backs the warning, making it appear real. If a
manager at the company sends the warning, the message is doubly backed by the
company's and the manager's reputations.
Individuals should also be especially alert if the warning urges you to pass
it on to your friends. This should raise a red flag that the warning may be
a hoax. Another flag to watch for is when the warning indicates that it is a
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) warning. According to the FCC, they
have not and never will disseminate warnings on viruses. It is not part of
their job.
CIAC recommends that you DO NOT circulate virus warnings without first
checking with an authoritative source. Authoritative sources are your computer
system security administrator or a computer incident advisory team. Real
warnings about viruses and other network problems are issued by different
response teams (CIAC, CERT, ASSIST, NASIRC, etc.) and are digitally signed by
the sending team using PGP. If you download a warning from a teams web site or
validate the PGP signature, you can usually be assured that the warning is
real. Warnings without the name of the person sending the original notice, or
warnings with names, addresses and phone numbers that do not actually exist
are probably hoaxes.
What to Do When You Receive a Warning
Upon receiving a warning, you should examine its PGP signature to see that it
is from a real response team or antivirus organization. To do so, you will
need a copy of the PGP software and the public signature of the team that
sent the message. The CIAC signature is available from the CIAC web server
at:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/
If there is no PGP signature, see if the warning includes the name of the
person submitting the original warning. Contact that person to see if he/she
really wrote the warning and if he/she really touched the virus. If he/she is
passing on a rumor or if the address of the person does not exist or if
there is any questions about theauthenticity or the warning, do not circulate
it to others. Instead, send the warning to your computer security manager or
incident response team and let them validate it. When in doubt, do not send
it out to the world. Your computer security managers and the incident response
teams teams have experts who try to stay current on viruses and their warnings.
In addition, most anti-virus companies have a web page containing information
about most known viruses and hoaxes. You can also call or check the web site
of the company that produces the product that is supposed to contain the virus.
Checking the PKWARE site for the current releases of PKZip would stop the
circulation of the warning about PKZ300 since there is no released version 3
of PKZip. Another useful web site is the "Computer Virus Myths home page"
(http://www.kumite.com/myths/) which contains descriptions of several known
hoaxes. In most cases, common sense would eliminate Internet hoaxes.
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[Disclaimer]
>From trey@cisco.com (Trey Garlough) Sun Feb 16 04:22:24 1997
From: trey@cisco.com (Trey Garlough) (Trey Garlough)
Subject: En: [BitBucket] Virus alert
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.856066944.trey@scv-cse-4.cisco.com>
| There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.
| If you receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO
| NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately! Some miscreant is
| sending email under the title "Deeyenda" nationwide, if you get
| anything like this DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! It has a virus that
| rewrites your hard drive, obliterates anything on it. Please be
| careful and forward this e-mail to anyone you care about.
Please forward the following important bulletin to each and every
person you know, really!
--Trey, N5KO
==========
GoodTimes Email Virus FAQ:
Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix
Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its
socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will
put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide
your car keys when you are late for work.
Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you
nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and
shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your
back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such
is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully
those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It
will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's
voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous
and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of
mauve.
Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave
bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers
with your new snowblower.
>From joentam@transend.com.tw (Joe and Tam BV/N0IAT) Sun Feb 16 07:06:21 1997
From: joentam@transend.com.tw (Joe and Tam BV/N0IAT) (Joe and Tam BV/N0IAT)
Subject: ARRL DX and Power Rule(s)
Message-ID: <199702160706.PAA03007@keelung.transend.com.tw>
>Hi,
>Been reading this group for several months but the first time
>to send a message here.
>
>I've a question about ARRL DX cw contest:
>
>Is it legal to enter/sign the high power classification even if using low
>power? If I am signing "KW" (since it's easier to send that 100 or ATT or
500 or
>5TT) am I doing anything 'wrong' as far as contest rules go?
>
>I notice lots of JA's now sign KW instead of the familiar 500 -- I believe
>this is due to new power rules. I also note the UA0's now signing KW
>when the previous limit was 200 watts (yea...right, I know, but still it WAS
>the "written" limit though all the club stations I visited proudly displayed
>the 3KW and 5KW amps "under the shelf").
>
>thanks,
>Joe
>BV/N0IAT in Taipei TAIWAN Republic of China.
>PS Nice run last night on both 40 and 80M. Thanks for the
>packet spots to those that spotted me. Now if only I had
>a top band antenna...hmmm.
>
>From N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB) Sun Feb 16 15:12:32 1997
From: N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB) (Jim George, N3BB)
Subject: LA9HW contest info web page
Message-ID: <v02120d02af2cccb9b31b@EIM-Mac-1.5tcp>
Note I ommitted the "~" in the URL. Thanks to N5OKR for the info. See the
full URL below.
73, Jim
---------> Beginning of forwarded message <---------
>X-Sender: n5okr@pop.erols.com (Unverified)
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>To: N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB)
>From: Greg Altig <n5okr@erols.com>
>Subject: Re: Good info
>
>At 18:22 12-02-97 -0600, you wrote:
>>Stumbled accross a good resource for contests:dates, rules, previous year's
>>scores, etc. It's the "LA9HW Main Page," at
>>
>>http://home.sn.no/home/janalme/hammain/html
>>
>>Nice one-stop for *every* contest on any day/month with all backup.
>>
>>BTW, where can I find all-time records for contests? Is there a site for
>>this info?
>>
>>73, Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>Hi Jim,
>
> You may have heard this already, but there needs to be a [~] after
>/home/ and before "janalme"......
>
>http://home.sn.no/home/~janalme/hammain/html
>
> Thanks for the info....it's a great link!
>
>73 de Greg
>
>
> _ ______________________________________________ _
> / )| Greg Altig, CWO2 USN N5OKR/EA7HAL/ZB2JL |( \
> / / | Libertytown, MD Proud to be PVRC | \ \
> _( (_ | "De Recta Non Tolerandum Sunt" | _) )_
> (((\ \>|_/->______________________________________<-\_|</ /)))
> (\\\\ \_/ / \ \_/ ////)
> \ / \ /
> \ _/ \_ /
> / / \ \
>
---------> End of forwarded message <---------
>From N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB) Sun Feb 16 16:15:37 1997
From: N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB) (Jim George, N3BB)
Subject: 40 meter SSB on low end
Message-ID: <v02120d00af2cde7a1479@EIM-Mac-1.5tcp>
I would like to describe a major problem we have here in Texas, and
probably this affects the entire southern rim of the USA. It has been
getting worse and worse, until during the ARRL DX Contest, it was
unbearable. The problem is spanish speaking SSB stations between 7000 and
7030. These are strong here-20-30 db over S9. They appear to use both LSB
and USB. I don't know if they are pirates or licensed stations. They come
on about an hour before SRT and leave about an hour after SRT here. It is
almost impossible to work the morning JA run thru them. What used to be
our major opening to Asia is now a total mess here.
Does anyone have info as to who these stations are? Can we get help from
the Mexican Amateurs and the Mexican Amateur Radio Association? There are
rumors here that there is a "Wx net" but I cannot believe that the mess
scattered over the botton 30 Kz of the band is anything organized. It
sounds like non-licensed stations, but I can't tell for sure. I don't know
how far north they go in terms of loud QRM, but this is destroying the
ability of anyone here in this part of the world to do anything at all on
40 in a CW contest as we lose the entire sunrise run time of about two
hours to Asia. Although this is a public forum, and I haven't asked the
ARRL privately to help, it may be an area where the League can get the XE
officials to assist.
I would be interested in comments from N7DD, W0UN, N2IC, etc who were
prominent on 40. How loud are these guys there, and were you affected the
same way? I had planned to go 40 single band, but ended up with a light
part-time effort due to work pressures, however anyone trying to work high
rate runs from Central Texas would be lucky to get 40 an hour versus 100 an
hour with the terrible QRM that covers the CW bands down here at this time.
If this problem can't be solved, we are in for a fundamental problem as
the 40 meter CW band will be lost pretty soon here for this prime part of
the day.
73, Jim George
>From thompson@mindspring.com (David L. Thompson) Sun Feb 16 18:19:42 1997
From: thompson@mindspring.com (David L. Thompson) (David L. Thompson)
Subject: 40 meter SSB on low end
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970216132029.2f0f9540@pop.mindspring.com>
N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB), you wrote:
>I would like to describe a major problem we have here in Texas, and
>probably this affects the entire southern rim of the USA. It has been
>getting worse and worse, until during the ARRL DX Contest, it was
>unbearable. The problem is spanish speaking SSB stations between 7000 and
>7030. These are strong here-20-30 db over S9. They appear to use both LSB
>and USB. I don't know if they are pirates or licensed stations. They come
>on about an hour before SRT and leave about an hour after SRT here. It is
>almost impossible to work the morning JA run thru them.
I spoke to a friend of mine in El Salvador and according to his Government's
Communications Department most of these stations are illegal drug and arms
runners. They purchase ham gear and just get on the air. They have been
hunted down when operating 6.5 and 7.35 Mhz so they have moved into the 40
meter ham band as the Latin American governments don't have the manpower or
money to chase them out.
I hear them here in the evenings too and some now operate just above 7100
even though the BC interference is bad. So far they have not moved into the
7040 to 7100 band because of licensed SSB operating there and QRM. They will
move if QRMed to just below 7.0.
My contact says this has been before the OAS Communications committee but is
low priority. They also have the illegal 10 meter issue (out of banders
between CB and 10 meters that spill over to 28. 0 to 28.5). These are hobby
people for the most part and quickly move.
These need be reported to the ARRL and FCC altho mot much can be done from
our side.
Dave K4JRB
BTW: OAS = Organization of American States (NA-SA) (right, Fred).
>From mzyd108@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (5B4WN) Sun Feb 16 14:30:34 1997
From: mzyd108@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (5B4WN) (5B4WN)
Subject: Any Contesters in San Diego?
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970216142606.25867C-100000@granby>
Hallo there,
I apologise for the bandwidth.
I will be in San Diego (La Jolla area) during the first week of
April and would have loved to meet some Contesters from there for an
eyeball QSO.
Many thanx,
73s Marios (5B4WN/G0WWW)
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>From kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin) Sun Feb 16 20:09:51 1997
From: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin) (Dale Martin)
Subject: 40 meter SSB on low end
Message-ID: <01BC1C13.35498BE0@pm0-38.hal-pc.org>
On Sunday, February 16, 1997 12:19 PM, David L.
Thompson[SMTP:thompson@mindspring.com] wrote:
>N3BB@easy.com (Jim George, N3BB), you wrote:
>>. The problem is spanish speaking SSB stations between 7000 and
>>7030. These are strong here-20-30 db over S9. They appear to use both LSB
>>and USB. I don't know if they are pirates or licensed stations. .
<snip>
>I spoke to a friend of mine in El Salvador and according to his Government's
>Communications Department most of these stations are illegal drug and arms
>runners. They purchase ham gear and just get on the air. They have been
>hunted down when operating 6.5 and 7.35 Mhz so they have moved into the 40
>meter ham band as the Latin American governments don't have the manpower or
>money to chase them out.
>
<snip>
>My contact says this has been before the OAS Communications committee but is
>low priority. They also have the illegal 10 meter issue (out of banders
>between CB and 10 meters that spill over to 28. 0 to 28.5). These are hobby
>people for the most part and quickly move.
>
>These need be reported to the ARRL and FCC altho mot much can be done from
>our side.
>
>Dave K4JRB
>
>BTW: OAS = Organization of American States (NA-SA) (right, Fred).
>
>
>
Dave,
The OAS sounds as effective as the Department of Interior. They
issued a report some time ago saying that there is to be no travel
to Desecheo island because drug smugglers are using the island
as a way station of some sort.
Lessee.....
We have a Navy, Marines, Army, and Air Force. Let's put them to
work!!! Some of them seem to be getting into a bit of trouble since
the cold war is over. I am sure they could use some good PR. Here's
a list of things they might work on:
1. Clean up Desecheo. Spratley, too. What the heck!
2. Clean up SSB problem on the lower end of 40m.
3. Clean up 75m: Go after those ongoing, no-timetable-needed,
roundtable nets that so often disrupt contests.
4. Clean up 20m: Go after all the nets. Force them to consolidate into
one big net on one frequency (14.230?) freeing up space for the contests
73,
Dale Martin, KG5U
kg5u@hal-pc.org
http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
>From 0004504465@mcimail.com (Eugene Walsh) Sun Feb 16 22:27:00 1997
From: 0004504465@mcimail.com (Eugene Walsh) (Eugene Walsh)
Subject: Good Times FAQ
Message-ID: <32970216222723/0004504465DC2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
IT TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!!
>From janalme@sn.no (Jan Almedal) Sun Feb 16 22:28:23 1997
From: janalme@sn.no (Jan Almedal) (Jan Almedal)
Subject: LA9HW contest info web page
Message-ID: <199702162233.XAA15634@mail1.sn.no>
At 09:12 16.02.97 -0600, N3BB wrote:
>Note I ommitted the "~" in the URL. Thanks to N5OKR for the info. See the
>full URL below.
>>At 18:22 12-02-97 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Stumbled accross a good resource for contests:dates, rules, previous year's
>>>scores, etc. It's the "LA9HW Main Page," at
>>>
>>>http://home.sn.no/home/janalme/hammain/html
>>>
>>>Nice one-stop for *every* contest on any day/month with all backup.
>>>
Hi all.
Just to make sure there is no confusion about the URL. It is:
http://home.sn.no/~janalme/hammain.html
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The logic of the WWW makes the URL:
http://home.sn.no/home/janalme/hammain.html work as the same.
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During the weekend I have been experimenting with a new Frames version of
the site, unfortunately without the expected results. I have problems with
controlling the different frames. If your browser support frames, you might
take a look at http://home.sn.no/~janalme/main.html and tell me what you
think. I will continue the search for the solution.
Another thing, I have bought myself a new QTH, so from the fall season I
will be back on the air!
73 de
Jan / LA9HW
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NRRL HF Contest Manager
Complete HF Contest Calendar: http://home.sn.no/~janalme/hammain.html
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