Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Look at Backblaze for secure off-site backup - http://www.backblaze.com This allows you to create an encryption phrase that only you know (they do not know or store it) so what goes over the web and into their servers is encrypted and secure. 73 de David, M0XDF (43 yrs in IT, 18 working for a bank and very careful about my data). -- To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. -Proverb On 25 Jun 2013, at 04:25, Hop - AC8NS wrote: For secure backups use two removable terabyte drives that you rotate to an off-site, preferably secret, storage facility at whatever interval is comfortable for you. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
When I built my tower computer about a decade ago, I phoned in the order to one of the familiar parts places. To verify my credit card info, the guy started asking me questions about my personal property, etc. He knew the type of vehicle, year, even the color of it, as well as other information about me. That woke me up. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Jeff Herr To: d...@w3fpr.com ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation you are doing it every day. Verisign, the banks, they ARE the cloud. They have all your info .now. -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 9:11 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Phil, IMHO, that is a wise decision. While the cloud is supposed to be secure, I have my doubts. The only thing I would consider committing to the cloud would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now, my RAID file server serves that purpose quite nicely, although it does not offer me off-site backup storage in case of a major disaster. I can write my backup data periodically to DVDs and keep them at a different location should I deem that necessary. I do not have anything that is classified, so am most concerned about data recovery in case a disaster totally destroys the drives on my file server. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/22/2013 11:47 PM, Phil Kane wrote: Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
- Original Message - From: Jon Kåre Hellan hel...@acm.org To: Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 3:20 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation But of you do use the cloud, the NSA keeps a backup for you. Very useful. Jon LA4RT Den 23. juni 2013 kl. 05:47 skrev Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org: Very useful for the NSA, not so useful for you. The NSA has massive write-only memory. Bits go in, but they do not come back out. For secure backups use two removable terabyte drives that you rotate to an off-site, preferably secret, storage facility at whatever interval is comfortable for you. 73 Hop - AC8NS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
But of you do use the cloud, the NSA keeps a backup for you. Very useful. Jon LA4RT Den 23. juni 2013 kl. 05:47 skrev Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org: On 6/22/2013 9:28 AM, Doug Person wrote: Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot of the user interface rendering onto the client. Not at all like dumb terminals. The Cloud is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe did. And we are only scratching the surface. Better to think of cloud computing as distributed computing. Properly done, its hard to tell where the client stops and the server begins. Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot of the user interface rendering onto the client. Not at all like dumb terminals. The Cloud is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe did. And we are only scratching the surface. Better to think of cloud computing as distributed computing. Properly done, its hard to tell where the client stops and the server begins. And that would be the point. 73, Doug -- K0DXV On 6/21/2013 9:08 PM, Phil Kane wrote: On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: And computing in a cloud really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud. Computing in a cloud is nothing more than an updated version of mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s. Now where did I put that VT-100 ?? G 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
On 6/22/2013 9:28 AM, Doug Person wrote: Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot of the user interface rendering onto the client. Not at all like dumb terminals. The Cloud is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe did. And we are only scratching the surface. Better to think of cloud computing as distributed computing. Properly done, its hard to tell where the client stops and the server begins. Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Phil, IMHO, that is a wise decision. While the cloud is supposed to be secure, I have my doubts. The only thing I would consider committing to the cloud would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now, my RAID file server serves that purpose quite nicely, although it does not offer me off-site backup storage in case of a major disaster. I can write my backup data periodically to DVDs and keep them at a different location should I deem that necessary. I do not have anything that is classified, so am most concerned about data recovery in case a disaster totally destroys the drives on my file server. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/22/2013 11:47 PM, Phil Kane wrote: Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
you are doing it every day. Verisign, the banks, they ARE the cloud. They have all your info .now. -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 9:11 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Phil, IMHO, that is a wise decision. While the cloud is supposed to be secure, I have my doubts. The only thing I would consider committing to the cloud would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now, my RAID file server serves that purpose quite nicely, although it does not offer me off-site backup storage in case of a major disaster. I can write my backup data periodically to DVDs and keep them at a different location should I deem that necessary. I do not have anything that is classified, so am most concerned about data recovery in case a disaster totally destroys the drives on my file server. 73, Don W3FPR On 6/22/2013 11:47 PM, Phil Kane wrote: Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Ron D'Eau Claire To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with horizontal polarization. 73 Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Aren't many repeaters collocated with other commercial equipment on those giant (1500') broadcast towers we see all over the plains? My ham buddies in NE Iowa tell me this is generally the best anyone can do, even if it costs a bit. Matt Zilmer W6NIA -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard Fjeld Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 7:35 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Ron D'Eau Claire To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with horizontal polarization. 73 Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
I just made a round-trip from Florida to Montana in the past two weeks, scanning the 2M and 70CM simplex channels and repeaters along the way. In 6 days on the road I heard exactly one conversation. And it was on 146.520 between two 18 wheeler hams on I-90 in South Dakota. Larry N9JY On 6/21/13 10:35 AM, Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.com wrote: Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
When you travel our direction (winter time for you snowbirds) you are invited to utilize a very active 2-Meter repeater system known as the EAARS Network. Go to http://www.eaars.com/eaarsnetwork.html for information and map locations of the various nodes. 2 Meters is very alive and well in the southwest US. Also see http://nm5ml.com/ for total New Mexico coverage. Good luck in your travels. de Milt, N5IA -Original Message- From: Larry Ewan Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:01 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation I just made a round-trip from Florida to Montana in the past two weeks, scanning the 2M and 70CM simplex channels and repeaters along the way. In 6 days on the road I heard exactly one conversation. And it was on 146.520 between two 18 wheeler hams on I-90 in South Dakota. Larry N9JY On 6/21/13 10:35 AM, Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.com wrote: Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6429 - Release Date: 06/21/13 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
I use a small yagi vertical (13B2) for one of my FM antennas for a while. With it @ 65' and 50w could work repeaters as far as 170 miles away most of the time. Using a good preamp and 165w about 225 mi or so. -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard Fjeld Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:35 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Ron D'Eau Claire To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with horizontal polarization. 73 Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2242 / Virus Database: 3199/5929 - Release Date: 06/21/13 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Some clubs are fortunate to be on them. And speaking of tall towers, here is a video about climbing them. This is not for the faint of heart. I did not see any way to use safety lines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: mzil...@magellangps.com To: rpfj...@embarqmail.com ; r...@cobi.biz ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:58 AM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Aren't many repeaters collocated with other commercial equipment on those giant (1500') broadcast towers we see all over the plains? My ham buddies in NE Iowa tell me this is generally the best anyone can do, even if it costs a bit. Matt Zilmer W6NIA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.comwrote: repeater activity is almost dead... == There are about 30 repeaters audible from my QTH, some on 2M and some on 440. My 2M/440 radio is turned on and scanning them much of the time. Some days I hear no conversations. There are some weekly nets, and a sometimes a few commute-time chats. But VHF/UHF activity here in St. Louis County seems to be a fraction of what it was 40 years ago, even though I think there may be more repeaters today. Some of the repeaters are rigged to hook into the global linking system so that somebody here can work somebody, for example, in Australia via local repeaters. I've heard that used only a couple of times. Our DX club has a calling frequency that in days past was frequently occupied with tip-offs, DX chat, and general ragchewing, but even that has fizzled down to almost nothing. Tony KT0NY __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
I think that's true in many places, Dick. Ten years ago, there were some repeaters here in the greater LA area that were hopping 24/7. Now, with many of them...silence. I have no idea what caused the change. 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 6/21/2013 7:35 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Cellular telephones and Twitter accounts. = -Original Message- From: Jim Lowman Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:05 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation I think that's true in many places, Dick. Ten years ago, there were some repeaters here in the greater LA area that were hopping 24/7. Now, with many of them...silence. I have no idea what caused the change. 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 6/21/2013 7:35 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was. Dick, n0ce - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6430 - Release Date: 06/21/13 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which involved me in a lot of the former]. I read one paper, from Japan I think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that portable phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved. I said to my cube-mate, Have you seen this?, and he said, Yes, what do you think about it? I replied, That'll never work, and besides, who would want to carry one of those phone bags around with them everywhere? That's my answer to Jim's question. I also read about this US DoD program to put multiple satellites in orbit to allow ground devices to determine their position. I figured, DoD? This will be a huge boondoggle. LORAN-C is now defunct. Being in the comm/computer/defense biz, my wife asked me if we wanted to sign up for this thing called an Automated Teller Machine card at Wells Fargo. I suggested we not bother, just one more card, Believe me, this isn't going to catch on, who wants a machine giving them their own money? The only time I've been an early adopter is with Elecraft [K3 #642], and not even then all the time [K2 #4398]. And computing in a cloud really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 - www.cqp.org On 6/21/2013 4:05 PM, Jim Lowman wrote: I have no idea what caused the change. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: And computing in a cloud really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud. Computing in a cloud is nothing more than an updated version of mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s. Now where did I put that VT-100 ?? G 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which involved me in a lot of the former]. I read one paper, from Japan I think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that portable phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved. Wow! ATT had cellular service (AMPS) under development in 1979 and put the first system on the air in 1983. What was the novelty that it had to be written up in IEEE-VTS (I was a chapter chair of VTS in that era)? Was it that the Japanese also had it under development in that same time frame? 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 Life Senior Member - IEEE From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Phil Kane wrote: Computing in a cloud is nothing more than an updated version of mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s. Now where did I put that VT-100 ?? G Not even close. I've done both and they are categorically different. Mainframes were single highly-reliable, very fast, extremely expensive systems. The cloud is a swarm of unreliable slow systems. My laptop is faster than most of our cloud instances. Systems need a total redesign to run well in a cloud. wunder -- Walter Underwood K6WRU CM87wj __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal for SSB and CW. Kevin. KD5ONS On 6/20/2013 5:46 PM, Harlan wrote: I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams. Harlan NC3C Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
I keep my 13 element 2m beam horizontal for SSB work. I have some kind of pulsating interference from an unknown source in the FM portion of the band for it to be of much use. Mike KI0HA On 6/20/2013 7:46 PM, Harlan wrote: I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams. Harlan NC3C Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
I have mine horizontally oriented for SSB and CW. It's an old 10-element beam and seems to do OK for FM repeater use as well. -- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - We do DX! On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:04 PM, kevinr kev...@coho.net wrote: Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal for SSB and CW. Kevin. KD5ONS On 6/20/2013 5:46 PM, Harlan wrote: I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams. Harlan NC3C Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation
Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with horizontal polarization. 73 Ron AC7AC __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
