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The Telecom Digest for November 20, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 294 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
GPS Group to FCC: No Upper MSS Band for LightSquared (Bill Horne)
Please contribute to keeping Wikipedia free of ads (Bill Horne)
Net Neutrality gains a little ground (Bill Horne)
Re: SIM card cutters (Joseph Singer)
Re: OT: Electronics store with classic parts (Fred Goldstein)

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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:09:24 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRN.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: GPS Group to FCC: No Upper MSS Band for LightSquared  
Message-ID: <4EC7D4B4.8050204@horne.net>

It seems that LightSquared's difficulties are multiplying.

GPS Group to FCC: No Upper MSS Band for LightSquared

    The Coalition to Save Our GPS sent a letter today to the FCC
    asking the agency to "promptly rule" that LightSquared be barred
    from using the upper mobile satellite spectrum (MSS) band for
    high-powered terrestrial operations.  Previous tests of
    LightSquared's 4G broadband transmitters in the upper MSS band
    resulted in widespread GPS interference issues.

Rest at:

http://www.ainonline.com/?q=aviation-news/ainalerts/2011-11-08/gps-group-fcc-no-upper-mss-band-lightsquared

I got this link from the Cybertelecom-l mailing list.

Bill

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Bill Horne
(Remove QRN from my address to email me directly)




Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:25:41 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRN.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Please contribute to keeping Wikipedia free of ads 
Message-ID: <4EC7E695.1080408@horne.net>

I made a contribution to Wikipedia this morning, and I recommend that 
other readers do so too. They do good work.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en

-- 
Bill Horne
339-364-8487




Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:45:58 -0500
From: bill@horneQRN.net (Bill Horne)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Net Neutrality gains a little ground 
Message-ID: <20111119184558.GA25962@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Here's a report on the Senate's decision to abandon the effort to void
the FCC's "Net Neutrality" rules in the United States. The report
notes that President Obama had promised to veto the resolution if it
were passed, and I suspect that the Republican minority in the Senate
didn't want to give the White House any ammunition to use in the
election next year, but it's still nice to see that Net Neutrality -
even in the watered-down version the FCC is pushing - has a chance.

   Neutrality Rules Survive Repeal Threat, CDT 

   Earlier today, the Senate voted not to advance a joint resolution
   to repeal the FCC's open internet rules. President Obama had
   promised to veto the measure, which passed the House in the spring,
   but it's good news that it won't have to come to that -- and that
   the rules have the support of the Senate. Not that the rules are
   out of the woods entirely; they still face a court challenge from
   Verizon.

http://cdt.org/blogs/andrew-mcdiarmid/1011neutrality-rules-survive-repeal-threat

(My thanks to the Cybertelecom-l mailing list for the link)

Bill

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Bill Horne
(Remove QRN from my email address to write to me directly)

If your mem'ry serves you well
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favors done
    - Bob Dylan




Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:32:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: SIM card cutters 
Message-ID: <1321723934.14003.YahooMailClassic@web161510.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:25:44 +1100 David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> I had a client ask about having to get a new mini-SIM to use in an
> iPhone and transferring all the existing contacts from a standard
> sized SIM to it.
>
> I did a bit of research and found that people are cutting down the
> standard SIM to the new size and are still able to use it, and there
> are actually tools for this on sale (in places like eBay).

First of all [we] need to get [the] terminology a bit corrected.  The
SIM commonly in use in mobile devices for at least the last 10 (and
likely longer) years is the mini SIM.  The original full sized SIM
cards were credit card sized cards.  Mini SIM cards, [which are]
generally what most people use today, are usually broken off the
full-sized card.  The "micro SIM" is even smaller than the mini SIM.
All SIMs whether full sized, mini or micro SIM have the same grid of
the card's "brain."

Refer to this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module#Formats

As for adapters: 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=microsim+adapter

for cutters:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=microsim+cutter

Hope this helps.




Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:08:06 -0500
From: Fred Goldstein <fgoldstein.SeeSigSpambait@wn2.wn.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: OT: Electronics store with classic parts 
Message-ID: <20111120030801.5FCF453E1@mailout.easydns.com>

At 11/19/2011 03:20 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
>...
>Actually, there are still vacuum tubes in some telephone equipment today.
>
>Now, let's have some fun: name the "All American Five", and explain
>why they got that name.

What, doesn't everyone remember the AA5?  It was the most common
design of vacuum tube AM radio, especially common for clock radios.
It had five vacuum tubes.  The main feature was its cheapness, its
ability to avoid having a power transformer.  The tubes had filament
voltages that added up to 117 volts, and were wired in series with
each other.

While I remembered this in vague terms, the wackpedia has an article
about it, listing several generations of AA5 tube sets.  I only
remembered the miniature-tube version, which was my bedside clock
radio for some years.

  --
  Fred Goldstein    k1io   fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
  ionary Consulting
http://www.ionary.com/

  +1 617 795 2701 






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