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Ahouxc.116 net.ham-radio utzoo!decvax!duke!mhtsa!ihnss!houxf!houxc!3356pbn Fri Nov 13 23:02:56 1981 Arrl bulletins

To: all arrl bulletin readers From: paul newland, ad7i Subject: bulletins, and how i get 'em.

Some folks have asked how i get the bulletins and place them onto the net. What follows is a run through of the sequence of events that i do to re-broadcast them via netnews.

I make it a habit to copy the arrl bulletins from w1aw almost every night at 6 pm EST on 40 meters. For this, i use my heath h89, running comm[]soft software, connected to the HAL ST-6 (it's old technology, but it sure works!) with the ears on 7095.0 KHz. During the broadcast i log all the data to disk, then following the broadcast i edit out all the stale bulletins and try to make any fills that might be needed (i rarely get them all). Next, i run the bulletins through a filter to convert everything to lower case. (The only reason for lower case is that i find it easier to read lower case than upper case; other than that, there's no special reason for lower case.)

The bulletins are then transferred to houxf and from there entered to the net. I don't alway get the bulletins the same day they are released, but a delay of more than 3 days should be unusual.

Because of work commitments, i will be at WECo Denver all of next week (NOV 16) and will be unable to send bulletins via the net, perhaps someone else could pick up the slack.

Paul, ad7i

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