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In a message to Ken Kuzenski <24 Jan 93 17:57> Bill Ewald wrote:

 > 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.