Bulletins from the Pacific Packet Radio Society - page 047

information. I will send a copy of this request to other groups.

Incidentally, I spoke at length with Pete WB9FLW, our ' "Beta test coordinator" in St. Louis. He was very happy that all three Vancouver boards being used to demonstrate packet radio there worked the first time they were turned on I This is the kind of thing that will convince people that packet radio is coming of age .

Thanks for your help.

73, Den

P. S. I will speak to Rip Monday to pass information on the AMSAT modulation schemes, and to get the transponder performance data. We're also getting an L-band exciter and power supply to test our L-band transmitter project, which now has the backing of the University of Arizona E.E. Department.

FILE QST.82.04.13.0.K6HWJ

Date: 13 April 82
From: Cal K6HWJ
Subject: Clegg FM-21's
To: Hank KA6M

I just talked to Lance Ginner, K6GSJ, about his experiences with the Clegg FM-21's on the YCZ 220 MHz repeater. His advice was not to touch them with a 10-foot pole. Apparently there was a group purchase of (commercially built) units a few years back, and they all required considerable reworking to make them useable for the 220 repeater. I think the final output transistors kept blowing up. You might want to talk to Lance yourself to find out first-hand just what the problems were. It sounds like the "kit" form would not be very suitable for those members who aren't RF experts.

FILE QST.82.04.15.0.AA4KB

ARRL BULLETIN NR 32 FROM ARRL HEADQUATERS NEWINGTON CT
APRIL 8, 1982 TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT

At an Open Agenda meeting on April 1, 1982, the FCC eliminated two sections of the Amateur Regulations, as part of an ongoing review of rules to prune out those which are no longer necessary. Section 97.71 required an adequately filtered DC plate power supply for transmitters operating below 144 MHz. Section 97-74 required a means of measuring frequency independent of the transmitter itself. Cancellation of these two rules represents a change in regulatory philosophy from how to observe the rules to what the results should be. Other rules still in place require that an amateur signal be clean and that it be in band. The same meeting adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which would provide for new frequencies for model control in the 72 to 76 MHz

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