Art, K6XT and I did a multi-single from his place this past weekend. Ended
up with 1220+ Qs, a clean sweep, and 188K! Quite a change for me going
from my barefoot transceiver (or sometimes QRP) and a tri-bander at 35
feet, to an IC-781 plus Alpha into monobanders at almost 200 feet! Surely
was easy to hold onto a frequency.
The amazing part to me is that *every* section called us at one time or
another, including VY1JA at about 1800Z on Sunday morning for #77. In
fact, I had worked 76 sections by about 0700Z on Sat. evening. I guess I
understand a little better about what you big guns feel like, including the
boredom on Sunday of calling CQ repeatedly and getting one answer in 10 or
more calls. They do come out of the woodwork, tho.
Condx were definitely down from the past couple of years, especially with
10 meters dead. But the QRM level was pretty intense most of the time on
15 and 20.
73rds--Jim, K6ZH, CK 63, SDG
>From Bob Souza <bob@may18.lkg.dec.com> Mon Nov 1 17:40:20 1993
From: Bob Souza <bob@may18.lkg.dec.com> (Bob Souza)
Subject: ped and logitech soundman
Message-ID: <9311011740.AA02720@may18.lkg.dec.com>
Has anyone had any luck getting ped to work with a logitech soundman?
I have the soundman set up to be soundblaster compatible, and it works
with everything else, but ped hangs when it starts. It doesn't hang
if the card isn't there, or if I change the card's interrups or address.
It those cases it just uses the internal speaker.
Thanks
bob we1f
>From Bill Kelsey <kelsey@csn.org> Mon Nov 8 21:35:53 1993
From: Bill Kelsey <kelsey@csn.org> (Bill Kelsey)
Subject: PJ1B
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9311081451.D23669-9100000@teal.csn.org>
On Mon, 8 Nov 1993, Larry Tyree wrote:
>
> That technique of asking a station to move using a different call is
> pure bullshit!! The log easily should be multi-multi. This is my
> personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion of the CQ contest
> group (not yet anyhow).
>
> Tree N6TR
> (member of CQ contest committe)
I agree - second only to using the telephone to drum up multipliers....
73 - Bill - N8ET
>From Bob Carpenter <carpente@cartoon.bt.co.uk> Wed Nov 3 17:06:34 1993
From: Bob Carpenter <carpente@cartoon.bt.co.uk> (Bob Carpenter)
Subject: CQWWSSB93
Message-ID: <3330.9311031706@brains.cartoon.bt.co.uk>
Provisional Scores for CQWW for G0KPW are as follows:
10m 900qsos 153dxcc 28zones
15m 2750qsos 173 40
20m 2750qsos 160 39
40m 1200 149 39
80m 1200 102 22
160m 600 62 12
Total 9900 799 180 20.2M pts.
Weren't we lucky with condx, not as good as last year but a lot better than the
previous week.
We will strive to do better next year, there are several improvements already
in hand..hi!
Regards Bob G4BAH.
>From bhorn@netcom.com (Bruce Horn) Tue Nov 2 03:32:21 1993
From: bhorn@netcom.com (Bruce Horn) (Bruce Horn)
Subject: CQWW Score
Message-ID: <9311020332.AA17550@netcom3.netcom.com>
Competed in single op, unassisted, all band, low power category.
As you see antenna effectiveness drops off noticeably below 14 MHz.
Spent the entire contest S&P, except for the last hour when I ran
JAs on 10 meters.
Would like to see score summaries of stations who operated QRP.
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 0 0 0.00 0 0
80 17 36 2.12 7 6
40 49 125 2.55 12 22
20 185 512 2.77 29 64
15 303 863 2.85 29 80
10 165 465 2.82 17 38
----------------------------------------------------
719 2001 2.78 94 210 => 608,304
10 meters was definitely not up to last year when I worked
twice as many countries using only an R-7 vertical.
73 de Bruce, WA7BNM
>From long@empire.ece.ucsb.edu (Steve Long) Mon Nov 8 21:45:24 1993
From: long@empire.ece.ucsb.edu (Steve Long) (Steve Long)
Subject: N6VR SS Results
Message-ID: <9311082145.AA03783@empire.ece.ucsb.edu>
N6VR Multi; Prec = B; SB section
Ops: Steve, AC6T; Ray, N6VR; Steve, N8SR
1321 x 77 = 203k
>From jlgiasi@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (John L. Luigi Giasi) Mon Nov 8 22:35:41 1993
From: jlgiasi@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (John L. Luigi Giasi) (John L. Luigi Giasi)
Subject: Multi-single and other call use (Was: PJ1B)
Message-ID: <9311082235.AA17177@umassmed.UMMED.EDU>
These ethics and envelope-edge of the rules issues seems to send
list traffic through the roof (and tack 2+ hours to contest club meetings!)
Maybe NCJ needs a pro/con column on just these type of issues...
(no slam at anyone, especially our dear list maintainer.. hi Trey!)
Then again, most of the editorials get to these things... at least
one side of them....
I think the problem comes with the territory... self policing and
self reporting entwined with competition is always open to
interpretation, even when all players feel they are well within the
bounds of ethical behavior.. never mind the few (and I feel there
are very few), who may actually be thinking "screw the rules"....
if you make the portable op (or any station participant op) invalid for
the entire contest.. who are the real losers? I would think those who
are out to have fun will lose out...
Ops at the major M/S would care less, they could come up with a workaround.
The struggling M/S on the other hand, (are there any of these in the carribean?
There sure are in the states.) Will have a harder time attracting some ops...
Say I promise K1VR I will stop by on sunday morning to take some slack in
the schedule... could I accidently DQ both myself and VR becuase I made
some Q's from home on Friday?
How can we prove that PJ4/XXXX was opping from PJ1B equipment,
maybe he 'went out to the car' and worked the DX from his mobile..
(or something like that)... How can I prove, I was legit? Should we
log who is in the shack during qsos as well?
I agree that in the example presented PJ1B is double-dipping, but
I believe hardcoding rules to prevent such 'violations' will up the ante.
Using a PJ1 operation as an example of a super-serious group with
a lot of resources, more than most. Suppose the group works out
setting up a second station PJ1ZZZ a few miles away, who wanders the
bands and asks mults to QSY to the PJ1B running frequency (heck they
might as well be linked into PJ1B's ct-network via 2m)..
Is this any different than a packet cluster? How separate is separate?
We could say "if they are friends?" ..boy that would be weak!.. and
besides, I tend to think that most everbody I work as friends.. (hey
they worked me!.. gotta count for somthing!) ... especially those
who are in the log 20 or so times a year (quite a few 'enemy' contesters).
How will it effect the guys who rag-chew with DX buddies or work big mults
under their call on a second (third, whatever) radio while the run station
is going guns? What happens if they check the M/S log after a ragchew with DX
buddy and say "don't forget to work (M/S call) on 20m".
Could I DQ an 'enemy' station opping from the same island by running up and
down the band and asking everbody to QSY and work the 'enemy', hoping somebody
tells?
What if PJ1B(mult) calls them, having the DX say "You're a dupe" and then
PJ1B asks for the QSY? If this is OK, do we want everybody doing it?
On a case by case basis, yeah.. but do we have the time/energy for
that level of checking/confirmation? I wish we did, but I think it
is too much to ask of the WW committee, or the league, or most
contest sponsors...
Thinking too hard on a Monday..
--
John L. Luigi Giasi, AA1AA jlgiasi@umassmed.ummed.edu
System Programmer
Scientific Computing, IRD
University of Massachusetts Medical Center ..._._
>From William Ralston" <William_Ralston@iegate.mitre.org Mon Nov 8 18:47:04
>1993
From: William Ralston" <William_Ralston@iegate.mitre.org (William Ralston)
Subject: AI6E/1 Late CQWW Results
Message-ID: <9311082352.AA26680@mbunix.mitre.org>
AI6E/1 Late CQWW Results
Better late than never, I guess...
Country: United States
Category: Single Operator
Low Power
QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
Totals 779 2127 2.73 99 293 => 833,784
Kind of disappointing after lots of antenna work to get everything up to 50
feet - I didn't even equal my last year's score.
I still have QSO's showing up in the CT .BAD file, even though I fixed the
.CTY file with the latest changes. Nothing is showing up in the .ZON file,
and the score seems to be computed correctly. The entries are all VE2's and
a few W/K's, which for some reason it thinks should be in different zones.
Any suggestions?
It was interesting as an unassisted search-and-pouncer how you can tell which
DX stations had been "spotted", and which hadn't. One African station had a
huge pile up, and another was CQing about 10 kHz away with nobody answering!
Bill AI6E/1
wtr@mitre.org
>From William Ralston" <William_Ralston@iegate.mitre.org Mon Nov 8 18:57:08
>1993
From: William Ralston" <William_Ralston@iegate.mitre.org (William Ralston)
Subject: AI6E SS CW Results
Message-ID: <9311090000.AA27144@mbunix.mitre.org>
AI6E SS CW Results
Single op, "A", full 24 hours
782 x 74 = 115,736
I missed VE2,VE8,KL7. I was going to blame it on propagation - signals from
the north sounded watery like there was aurora. I must have tuned right over
VY1JA on 40m at the end and not hear him. I couldn't bring myself to give up
my blistering 35/hour rate runs at the end of the contest to go mult hunting
on 15m. :-) ....... ah, make that a :-(
This is the last time with only 1 radio.
Maybe I should give up and just buy an assortment of colored coffee mugs.
Bill AI6E
wtr@mitre.org
>From Jim Stevens" <ki4hn@vnet.IBM.COM Mon Nov 8 18:31:12 1993
From: Jim Stevens" <ki4hn@vnet.IBM.COM (Jim Stevens)
Subject: CW SS Results
Band QSOs
80 117
40 116
20 62
15 52
10 0
---
347 X 69 Sections = 47,886
Details: Low power, 18+ hours, No WY,ND,SD,PAC,AK,MAR,SK, TS440S,
Cush AP-8 vert, 40M Vee, 80M Vee, CT
Comments: My first halfway serious CW SS. I had a lot of fun, but I still
got a lot of CW improving to do. Also first time to use CT to
key rig (I built the LPT circuit in CT manual). I'll never do
another CW test w/o computer keying. What a joy! Thanks to
all who worked me.
73 and see you in Phone SS,
Jim Stevens, KI4HN
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