Southwest bars woman over T-shirt obscenity
A Washington state woman Airlines for barring her from one of its flights because of a message on her
T-shirt. Lorrie Heasley, a lumber saleswoman, was wearing a shirt bearing the pictures of President Bush,
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice along with a phrase using a swear
word that mimicked the recent film, Meet the Fockers, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. Heasley, who wore
the shirt without incident on the first leg of her flight from Los Angeles to Reno, says she wore it as a "gag" to
amuse her parents, who were to pick her up at the airport in Portland, Ore. "I just thought it was hilarious,"
said Heasley, who felt she should have the right to wear it. "I have cousins in Iraq and other relatives going
to war," she said. "Here we are trying to free another country and I have to get off an airplane in midflight
over a T-shirt. That's not freedom." But Southwest officials say their hand was forced when several
passengers complained about the shirt and its obscene wording. Heasley and her husband ultimately
rented a car in Reno and drove to Seattle. She says she has contacted lawyers from the American Civil
Liberties Union and that she wants Southwest to pay for the last leg of her trip and for expenses associated
with for the drive from Reno to Portland.
0$, round trip ? now that's a fare sale!
About 100 customers on Independence Air got an even better deal than they bargained for during the
airline's most recent fare sale earlier this week. That's because the airline was hit with a computer glitch
while the new sale fares were being loaded into the system, according to The Washington Post .
That allowed customers to nab $0 fares -- yes, $0 -- to any of the airline's 46 destinations. The free tickets
were available for about an hour before company officials realized the mistake. "Nothing like this has ever
happened before," says Independence spokesman Rick DeLisi, though he added the Washington-based
discounter would honor the tickets. As for the fares sale, tickets were supposed to start at $98 round trip
(plus taxes and fees).
PCSAT2 Enabled for 1200 and 9600 Baud Digipeating Operation
The PCSAT2 packet system is enabled for both 1200 and 9600 baud digipeating, and it can also do cross-
BAUD digipeating. That is 1200 up and 9600 down or 9600 up and 1200 down. We had no specific
application in mind, but it is there for experimentation. For 1200 or 9600 use the path VIA ARISS. For cross-
BAUD operation use the path VIA XBAUD. The easiest way to experiment is to use either the Kantronics
KPC-9612+ TNC or the Kenwood D7 or D700 that can both easily switch between 1200 and 9600 baud.
experiment with the shortest TXD delay you can get by with at 9600 baud. Typically for one-at-a-time packets
like APRS, there is not much advantage for operating at 9600 baud, because the TXD delay is often as long
or longer than the data, so the actual throughput advantage on 9600 is more like a factor of 2 than 8.
Perhaps the value of operating at 9600 baud would be in downloading Mail from the PCSAT2 PBBS. That is
the only time when all the delays will be amortized and 9600 baud would give you a significant throughput
advantage. Users are welcome to use the PCSAT2 digipeater for experimentation.
Uplink is 145.825 Downlink 435.275 +/- 10 KHz Doppler
DIGIpeater call is ARISS for 1200 or 9600 DIGIpeater call is XBAUD for cross-baud
PBBS callsign is MAIL The Kenwood D7 and D700 can do either 1200 or 9600 and on either band, but not
both baud rates at the same time. The KPC-9612+ can transmit either 1200 or 9600, but because it is dual
port, it can receive both at the same time.
ALL ABOUT PSK 31
What is it? How does it work? Can I see it in action? Yes, just come to the next BRATS meeting,
Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 PM at the Pikesville Library. Thanks, Les, W3GXT
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