Band QSO's points
80 47 47
40 86 86
20 71 71
_________________________
TOTAL 204 204 X 39 multipliers = 7,956
Fun, as usual, with NA 8.05---appreciated the patience of more than a
few ops who suffered thru my fumbling with the keyboard. Tnx
Note: my tri-bander tower is an oak tree amongst other oak trees. I
have it lashed to the tree, using rope, at 25 feet off the ground. To
rotate it I must put the ladder up, carry the beam down to the ground,
dissamble it, turn the boom, relocate the elements, reassamble the boom,
climb back up, and lash it back to the tree! I only rotate it once,
prior to the contest, in one favored direction---WEST for NA Sprint.
73, Bert, W1IHN
>From mraz@maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris Mraz) Wed Sep 22 16:19:10 1993
From: mraz@maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris Mraz) (Kris Mraz)
Subject: Sprint Rule Question
Message-ID: <9309221519.AA11808@maverick.aud.alcatel.com>
An after-the-contest question:
Do names have to be received and spelled correctly? Or is anything close
acceptable? With a name like Kris it could be spelled Kris or Chris. I don't
want to have to spell it out each QSO.
Kris, AA5UO
>From blunt@arrl.org (Billy Lunt KR1R) Wed Sep 22 15:10:18 1993
From: blunt@arrl.org (Billy Lunt KR1R) (Billy Lunt KR1R)
Subject: PA QSO Party
Message-ID: <1864@bl>
ARRL HQ received the rules for the Pennsylvania QSO Party
too late for publication in Contest Corral.
The Pennsylvania QSO Party is from 1600Z October 9 until
0500Z October 10 and 1300Z-2200Z October 10.
The classes are Single Op, Multi-single, multi-multi,
mobile, portable and Novice/Tech; power levels are QRP (<5),
Medium (<150), and QRO. Work PA stations only (PA station work
everyone).
Exchange sequential serial number and ARRL/RAC section (PA
stations exchange serial number and county). stations on county
lines give one number, but all counties may count as multipliers.
Score 2 points/CW QSO on 160 and 80; 1.5 points/CW QSO on
20, 15 and 10; and 1 point/QSO on phone. Multipliers are PA
counties (67 total); PA multipliers are PA counties, ARRL/RAC
sections and 1 for DX (max 150). Bonus multipliers: multiply
score by 2 if QRP, and by 3 if Novice/Tech. Mobiles count 500
points to final score for each PA county from which you made at
least 10 QSOs.
Awards. Club competition. Send logs to be received by
November 15 to PA QSO Party, Nittany ARC, PO Box 614, State
College, PA 16804-0614. If you have questions, you can contact
K3CM @ W3YA.PA.USA.NOAM.
>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> Wed Sep 22 16:48:05 1993
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> (Trey Garlough)
Subject: Administrative Note
Message-ID: <748712885.542798.GARLOUGH@TGV.COM>
First a historical note:
The CQ-Contest mailing list started as a project with a few fellow
contesters who had Internet access and who wanted to discuss
contesting in a less painful forum than the net.ham-radio net.news
group. The initial subscribers were WN4KKN, KM3T and WB2EKK. The
initial setup of the list was delayed about two weeks while we tried
to think up a name for it. We picked up a few more folks along the
way before WB2EKK sent an invitation to join the list to every ham in
the entire world he knew of who had an email address -- at the time
about 20 people. These were the days that messages to CQ-Contest
numbered 15 per month rather than 15 per day. This was sometime in
early 1991. In early 1992 I stared saving these messages, as if
anyone would ever want to read them a second time.
In late 1992 (I think), WB2EKK took the contest mailing list public
in his column in the NCJ. The CQ-Contest mailing list now has about
300 direct subscribers in 15 DXCC countries and an unkown number of
readers via redistribution channels. The is not so surprising when
considered in the context of the Internet itself, which is growing
at the rate of 40% per *month.*
Now the administrative note:
I have set up a file server with an archive of the old postings.
They have names like CQ-CONTEST-ARCHIVE.YYYY-MM. There are also
files named CQ-CONTEST-ARCHIVE.YYYY-MM-INDEX, which are "headers all"
listings of the mail files. You can retrieve these files by sending
mail to FileServ@TGV.COM. For instance, if you wanted to get the
the message file from July, 1993, you would send send a message to
FileServ@TGV.COM with the command "SENDME CQ-CONTEST-ARCHIVE.1993-07"
in the body of the message.
I'm not sure that these old messages are too interesting, but it's
an Internet resource I would like to offer to the contesting community.
In time, I plan to make other stuff available via the file server.
As a final reminder, let me reiterate that the email address of the
file server robot is FileServ@TGV.COM, so be sure to send your commands
there rather than to the CQ-Contest mailing list.
--Trey, WN4KKN/6
>From Rick, K7GM/4" <AONISWAN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU Wed Sep 22 17:02:36 1993
From: Rick, K7GM/4" <AONISWAN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU (Rick, K7GM/4)
Subject: Name copying in Phone Sprint
In response to AA5UO, and anyone else who may have wondered, names for
Phone Sprint have to be copied so they sound ok when pronounced. So,
Kris and Chris are ok, as are Carl and Karl, and as are Buthead and
Butthead.
Rick, K7GM/4
>From Skelton, Tom" <TSkelton@engineer.clemsonsc.NCR.COM Wed Sep 22 19:38:00
>1993
From: Skelton, Tom" <TSkelton@engineer.clemsonsc.NCR.COM (Skelton, Tom)
Subject: FW: NA SPRINT Results
Message-ID: <2CA09BD3@admin.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>
To
rotate it I must put the ladder up, carry the beam down to the ground,
dissamble it, turn the boom, relocate the elements, reassamble the boom,
climb back up, and lash it back to the tree! I only rotate it once,
prior to the contest, in one favored direction---WEST for NA Sprint.
73, Bert, W1IHN
Don't feel bad: to rotate my 40 m beam, I have to climb up 80 ft,
attach a rope to the boom, remove the u bolts, reattach the antenna
to a different tower leg, and reattach the u bolts. When I can afford
a new mast then I will be able to rotate both the 40 and 20 meter
beams. 73, Tom WB4IUX
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Wed Sep 22 17:16:13 1993
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: FNU
Message-ID: <9309221616.AA11993@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Tom WB4IUX says:
Another interesting DX QSL chintzy op: I was happy to catch S92LB
on 10m a few years ago for a new band country, and promptly qsl'ed.
He, quite surprisingly since I had heard some concerns, very promptly
qsl'ed back to me. However, he enclosed cards for 2 other W/K stations
with no SAE or envelope. Just addressed cards -- I guess he expected
me to forward them on.
Yeah, SS92LB asked me if I could send him an astronomy textbook (I used
my work address for the SAE). I did, and never heard anything more from
him. YN3CC/YN1CC did exactly the same thing to me. Cleaned me out of
my free publishers' samples too :-) To be fair, one of them sent 7 IRCs
(I think it was S92LB), and since it was a free book sent at the cheapest
rate I didn't lose out, although he wasn't to know that. Oh well.
I was surprised that neither op chose to even send a card thanking me,
but at least my conscience was clear. 73, Tom WB4IUX
Same here when I have sent cards on, never any thanks. On the one occasion
someone did it for me I wrote and thanked them. Tom and I are just Swell Guys
I guess. But it makes you wonder whether the person who doesn't thank you
for forwarding a card is the sort of person who will forward one to you when
the time comes.
Anyone failed to work Mellish Reef? Seems you have to try hard not to
do it, I had 5 Qs in 12 mins yesterday (no, not all the same band/mode).
No challenge at all - yawn..
Derek AA5BT
>From gswanson@arrl.org (Glenn Swanson) Wed Sep 22 19:36:00 1993
From: gswanson@arrl.org (Glenn Swanson) (Glenn Swanson)
Subject: Passing it on...
Message-ID: <55965@vec1>
I once received several cards from JT7AA (one for me, several for others
stateside). No note, but the intent was evident. I duly mailed the others
out and got 1 nice note back. I got one return "no forwarding address".
I waited bout a year, looked up the US call and resent the returned card,
it finally went to the DESERVING Dxer and he wrote a nice note of thanks.
Guess there's 3 of us nice guys out there now huh? HI I'm sure there's
lots of this quietly going on by other DXers. It works so what the heck.
73, Glenn KB1GW
>From k3lr <k3lr@telerama.pgh.pa.us> Wed Sep 22 19:41:41 1993
From: k3lr <k3lr@telerama.pgh.pa.us> (k3lr)
Subject: MASTER.DTA
Message-ID: <199309221841.AA28627@telerama.pgh.pa.us>
With respect to the post by AA1AA concerning the mixup of US stations,
do not look for a fix anytime soon. According to K1EA, this is a low
priority item. As the data is real good, I don't think the problem is
worth the wait for a fix.
The new .DTA files were mailed to all CQ Contest guys who sent disks
to WR3G and they are posted on the CT BBS. I am planning on using
them this fall, and suggest you download one and see for yourself.
WR3G set the filter to 7 for this run. This means the callsign must
show up 7 times before it is added to the .DTA list. This results in
a very clean .DTA.
WR3G is still looking for more .BINS to make the next .DTA. Please
send Scott your 1992 and 1993 .BINs and he will send you a new .DTA
when he makes the next run.
Scott Jones WR3G
93 White Ave.
Sharon, PA 16146
Include $1.00 for return postage.
Scott needs W6, W7 logs to help the JA database.
73,
Tim K3LR
>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> Wed Sep 22 21:55:40 1993
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> (Trey Garlough)
Subject: Test message
Message-ID: <748731340.53798.GARLOUGH@TGV.COM>
Please ignore.
>From sellington" <sellington@mail.ssec.wisc.edu Wed Sep 22 16:57:15 1993
From: sellington" <sellington@mail.ssec.wisc.edu (sellington)
Subject: Horizontal Receiving Loops
Has anyone tried a shielded horizontal loop for receiving on 80
or 160? According to ELNEC, a loop 2 meters square and
2 meters off the ground should reject vertically polarized noise
and high angle signals quite well. It looks like one could even make
an array out of 2 or 3 of them. I'm not sure shielding it is
necessary, but the pattern otherwise does have a vertically
polarized component in some directions.
Scott K9MA
>From trey@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Trey Garlough) Thu Sep 23 00:24:15 1993
From: trey@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Trey Garlough) (Trey Garlough)
Subject: test -- ignore
Message-ID: <9309222324.AA02363@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
Please forgive this additional test.
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