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                            13 Nov 1994

 This is a weekly  unofficial bulletin  of news and  views from  ZL
amateurs. It  does not  represent any  official viewpoint,  and all
opinions are those of the contributor.

Change to 40 metres
------------------- From ZL1AMW
  The  overwhelming opinion  from my  request last  week was  for a
change to 40  metres, so I now  give notice of a change.   From the
evening of Wednesday 16th November the ZL1AMW selcal will shift  to
7045KHz (mark note, tune to 7047.125 LSB for most types of modems).
The newsletter next week will transmitted on 7045KHz also.

PacketPet for Windows
--------------------- From RadCom Magazine.
  The September issue of RadCom  (RSGB magazine) has a review of  a
new piece  of software  released by  PacComm  called PacketPet  for
Windows.
  The review is very complementary, the programme includes all  the
features  expected of  windows,  with the  ability to  run multiple
sessions,  (each warning of  a connect while minimised).   You have
the  usual colour and  layout controls,  split screens  under mouse
control, lots of  screen buttons, an integrated text editor  and an
internal macro language.
  The programme can be linked with standard .WAV files to  announce
connections  to you out  your sound card... what  more can you wish
for?
  I have not  seen this product advertised here  in ZL,but a letter
to  your usual  PacComm supplier  may be  worthwhile.   The RadComm
review copy came from Siskin Electronocs in the UK.
- inserted by ZL1AMW

More Windows Packet
------------------- From ZL1AMW
  A  bulletin  by Bill,  ZL4TCO  details  another programme  called
PKTWIN by  G4YFE, which seems to  offer many of the  same features.
Bill os  offering copies of  this shareware programme,  drop him  a
note at ZL4AA BBS, or by post to his callbook address.

Selcal off-air!
-------------- From ZL1AMW
  I came out  to my shack on Friday  evening after a hard  week, to
experience the  shock of seeing my Selcal transceiver sitting there
dead and cold....
  The trusty TS440 gets  a bit of a hammering with the  RTTY usage,
so I  am often  dread  this happening....  and I  started  checking
things out.
  First  - the radio  was cold,  with no dial  lights at all,  so -
check the power supply.   The supply  looked OK, so  I got out  the
trusty multimeter, and pulled the plug on the TS440 to check supply
there.  It  was all OK, so horrors, the  problem must be inside the
radio!
  I moved  the radio to the  bench and took off the  bottom cover -
looking for any damage or something similar, and found nothing,  so
I checked  the power on the back of the  connector, and - no volts!
Pull the plug out  and there is volts on the pins, but  when in the
rig (whether the radio is on or off) and there is no voltage.
   To  cut a  long  tale a  bit  shorter, I  tracked it  to  a high
resistance  fuse, the  in-line glass  cartridge holder  supplied by
Kenwood in their  power lead.  It  looks as if  this fuse has  been
running a bit  hot, and the  internal wire  (well, a  bit of  metal
strip in this case) had curved and loosened itself from the solder.
A touch with a soldering iron at both ends, and all is well again.
  While  I am frustrated  that the station can  be put off-air that
easily,  it was  certainly the  lowest cost-repair that  could have
been imagined.


 That concludes the Data News for this week, this sheet is prepared
at the  shack of ZL1AMW  from contributions sent by  post, RTTY and
packet. Text is also obtained from packet BBS stations, and Selcals
on 7045/3545khz.
 This  news is  transmitted weekly  on Sunday  mornings at  0930hrs
(local) and repeated at 1900hrs. Both transmissions are on 3545khz.
It is first sent in Baudot at 75  baud, then repeated in AMTOR mode
B (FEC) on both occasions.
 73 to all from Alan, ZL1AMW, 20 Lorne St., Hamilton.

SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM ZL1UWV@PINN.NACJACK.GEN.NZ  (Carl Trommel)
===============================================================
 
I am leaving New Zealand in three weeks.  (Moving to the Gold Coast - 
Australia)
I will be no longer be able to POST the ZL DATA NEW to Internet.
I'm looking for a volinteer to take over this horrible (Just joking) job.
Can YOU help???  My C64 will soon be packed away...so please reply 
promptly THANK YOU!!

 ...Carl
