Being April Fools Day, I thought I'd share with you a list of broken cluster
spots given out during ARRL DX CW weekend. Some were so bad (and funny) that
I started keeping a list while operating 15m at W0AIH. Here you go... enjoy!
Busted Correct
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A59F AH8F
BE2T 6E2T
DL1IA DL1IAO
EA8AS EA8ZS
G4CMY G4CNY
HH3PK HH2PK
JA1YBA JA1YDU
PJ8S PJ8H
SH1QZ S51QZ
SH9A S59A
SH0K S50K
V2BAS V26AS
V31JJ V31WW
V7R V7A
Z6LWZ UZ6LWZ
ZF8BI ZF8BS
ZF2BS ZF8BS (was ZF2 before test)
5H2PK HH2PK
5T1T HT1T
6E2A 6E2T
...and I thought my code was bad!
73 Scott KA9FOX@AOL.COM
>From Eugene Walsh <0004504465@mcimail.com> Sat Apr 2 05:18:00 1994
From: Eugene Walsh <0004504465@mcimail.com> (Eugene Walsh)
Subject: S & M
Message-ID: <33940402051833/0004504465PK3EM@mcimail.com>
A most profound entry by WM2C! Read the rules for any test u wanna
enter; follow the rules and have fun. If you want to win, put in
the effort to learn how (For each particular event) and, if you
keep at it and do what u gotta sooner or later it works.
If you aint doin it cuz you love it, you should be doin sump'n
else.
My hat is off to those who push the limits of what can be done.
That, for sure, is what its all about.
73, Geez N2AA
>From AGDM25A@prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) Sat Apr 2 07:15:48 1994
From: AGDM25A@prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT)
Subject: SOA = 2nd CLASS?
Message-ID: <013.00537886.AGDM25A@prodigy.com>
WHY are there two separate single op categories? Almost every year the top
single ops clobber the SOA's. Someone will probably post a note here
xplaining how its easier to run up a huge score running Q's instead of
chasing mults. But it seems to me that if some of the "superstar
single-ops" entered SOA, they'd make astronomical scores.
So why don't they? Is SOA 2nd class? Is there some kinda stigma against
accepting help from a packett network? Are you perceived as a whimp for
not "going alone"?
Look at SOA entries in ARRL DX. Most of them are just guys trying to make
some points for their club. Very few "serious" entries.
SOA's scores are listed separate, after the state scores. Why not simply
print them in the normal state/call district listing and mark them with an
asterisk if you like.
Please spare the argument about equipment burdens for a packett setup.
Dust off your Commodore 64, pickup a AEA PK64 at the local swap for 50 bux
and feed it with your scanner. No PACKETT CLUSTER in your remote QTH? Use
one of the 30m HF backbones.
SOA is FUN! It removes some of the boring loneliness of Single-OP. Put
out some spots, chase some down. Read the WWV numbers each hour. Ask ur
buddy across town how many he has on 20.
Stop segregating the single-op who uses packett. He's just trying to have
a little fun!
73 Kevin ... WA8ZDT
>From XMSJ29A@prodigy.com (MR JAMES A WHITE) Sat Apr 2 16:48:18 1994
From: XMSJ29A@prodigy.com (MR JAMES A WHITE) (MR JAMES A WHITE)
Subject: I've solved it!
Message-ID: <013.00538672.XMSJ29A@prodigy.com>
Joe Walsh, famous rock musician of the seventies and wellknown (except for
N1EE) ham...is he really better known to us in the contest committee as:
SON OF N2AA ????????????
conincidence? I think not!
Inquiring hams want to know!
de K1ZX
>From XMSJ29A@prodigy.com (MR JAMES A WHITE) Sat Apr 2 16:48:27 1994
From: XMSJ29A@prodigy.com (MR JAMES A WHITE) (MR JAMES A WHITE)
Subject: Will I see you in the lobby?
Message-ID: <013.00538673.XMSJ29A@prodigy.com>
..what is it with all these guys...do they forget how much fun they have
during contest weekends or what? For me it is such fun that I wanna have
more of it, so I work on my station, and TRY to listen to multiple radios
at once...(emphasis on try added)...Perhaps this is just the internet
version of the 3830 excuse league...
"well we had a cold and the dog pulled the rig off the table when he bit
through the coax and got that RF burn that forced me to take him to the vet
during the European opening and my vox was broke so we had to operate PTT
which was a bear because the only switch we had to do that with was the
hand held mike switch so we had that on the operating table next to the
keyboard and since it was code we had to squeeze the mike button when we
were sending with our dominant hand so guess that helps explain why we only
made _____ this weekend."
...if you have to justify your performance to someone else after the
contest you may need to analyze who or why your doin this for! A lot of
guys have found their best contest adversary is themselves and by competing
against him gained great satisfaction-pushing their own envelope so to
speak...try it - you'll like it....oh yeah, after you have beat urself
enough times, you start beating other guys, and when when you really kick
the sh** out of yourself, you win...cool........guess that means winning
contesters are really masoquists.........surprise surprise, knew that all
along! Anyone ever take your picture at 0001 Sunday night after its
over-bet you really look like hell...but your smiling, what a sick bunch!
...personally, my goal is to close down the lobby at Dayton everynight and
still make the forums! de K1ZX
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Sat Apr 2 23:03:04 1994
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: EME contests
Message-ID: <9404022303.AA03446@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Following on George III WB5VZL's comments about the ARRL EME contests
conflicting with the CQWW phone and CW contests this year - can someone
tell me what dictates the choice of the weekend for the EME contests?
Things that occur to one include the desire to have the moon up all day
rather than all night, so as not to inconvenience people's sleep schedules
(but that means new moon, and thus perhaps significant solar noise?). This
is obviously not right anyway, as the EME contest dates this year are closer
to full moon, and thus dictate nocturnal activity by particpants.
So is it the moon's declination? - full moon would give the longest time
above the horizon in a 24-hour period during the winter, for those in the
northern hemisphere (and contests mainly favor the northern hemisphere hams,
witness the dates of the CQWW and ARRL world-wide contests). The restriction
to a weekend is of course understandable, but there is always a weekend
within 3-4 days of a full (or new) moon, in any month. And the declination
of the moon reaches roughly the same maximum once a month. so there must be
more to it. The constraints must be pretty severe, as I'm sure the EME
contest organizers are aware of the clashes with the biggest phone and CW
contests of the year.
I hope the answer is not so obvious that I'll be ashamed to admit to being
an astronomer.... if is is - well - I don't usually bother with nearby
things like the solar system, that's just stuff that gets in the way of the
more interesting things.
Derek AA5BT
>From Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> Sat Apr 2 23:49:02 1994
From: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> (Randy A Thompson)
Subject: single/multi
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9404021826.A28892-0100000@world.std.com>
On Thu, 31 Mar 1994, j.p. kleinhaus wrote:
> I suppose part of the confusion comes from the fact that different contests
> have different rules. In the ARRL SS you *are* allowed to transmit a CQ
> on two bands at once. In the CQWW DX and the ARRL DX contests, the second
> radio is used basically to S&P because the rules sya no more than one
> band may be used at a time or something like that. It is dangerous
Wow! I never realised that the SS rules allow a single op to use
multiple transmitted signals at the same time. All this time I have been
careful to only transmit on one band at a time. Look out next year. I
am confident that it would be possible to keep up with CQing on 3 bands
on Sunday afternoon. I can't wait!
Randy, K5ZD
>From Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> Sun Apr 3 00:14:08 1994
From: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> (Randy A Thompson)
Subject: Help
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9404021958.A28892-0100000@world.std.com>
I am looking for a good off-line Internet mail reader program. You know,
the kind that downloads all your messages so you can read/reply to them
off-line. I can't afford all the connect time to read all this mail!
Send responses direct and I will summarize for the reflector.
Randy, K5ZD
>From Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> Sun Apr 3 00:15:56 1994
From: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> (Randy A Thompson)
Subject: Future of Single Op? (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9404021912.A28892-0100000@world.std.com>
Following is forwarded for K1VR.
On Thu, 31 Mar 1994 21:31:06 -0500 (EST), "Randy A Thompson"
<K5ZD@world.std.com> wrote:
why do we need two categories?
K1VR: For a techno reason, I am unable to respond to the
reflector, as it won't reprint and distribute remarks which
come through a relay. (Take a look at my internet address
and my return address.) You may excerpt and relay this
response.
K1VR: We need two categories because they create 20
slots in the top ten, doubling my chances. I need all the
help I can get.
--
Fred Hopengarten K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
home + office telephone: 617/259-0088 (FAX on demand)
internet: k1vr!k1vr.UUCP@uunet.uu.net
"Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low."
>From Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> Sun Apr 3 00:22:41 1994
From: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> (Randy A Thompson)
Subject: QSLs, QSLs and more QSLs
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9404021954.A28892-0100000@world.std.com>
I have the contesters problem of dealing with mass quantity of QSL
cards. To which I see two basic solutions:
- Take the offensive and just have the computer send a card to everyone
(possible expensive).
- Be reactive and only answer QSLs that come in (time consuming).
I am leaning toward trying solution #2 for my W1 operations. Can anyone
suggest a computer logging software package that will accept import from
CT/NA and has very good QSLing capability. I am not ready to convert
from my had written casual operating logs, but I see it in the future.
So real-time logging functions are important too.
Another feature that would appeal to me is the ability to export to a
database application such as Paradox.
Responses direct please. Thanks for any suggestions or recommendations!
Randy
K5ZD@World.std.com
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Sat Apr 2 20:53:26 1994
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: SprINT
Message-ID: <9404030253.AA06625@astro.as.utexas.edu>
117 Qs, worse than last time and more people ahead of me.
People are taking this thing more seriously so it's becoming
less fun. Changed all the Buttheads to Ed. With a Derek
and a Derrick in there, all I heard after a few minutes was
a Derk and a Dirk now and then, although one of them seemed
to revert Derek later. Must have been a Steve in there
sending Steve to everyone for a while, lot of those around.
One man, one radio and four pencils - thanks to all for the
fun. I think.
Derek aa5bt
>From Ed Gilbert <eyg@hpnjlc.njd.hp.com> Sun Apr 3 04:32:04 1994
From: Ed Gilbert <eyg@hpnjlc.njd.hp.com> (Ed Gilbert)
Subject: Internet sprint
Message-ID: <9404030335.AA12815@hp.com>
44 qsos, 1 hour.
Terrible conditions on 20m. I qrt after the first hour to watch
Duke/Florida game so didn't make it to 40m. Good signals from
k6ll, ab6fo, w5asp, and aa5bt. Everyone else was weak and
fluttery, and strong qrn made it even worse.
Didn't hear any obvious name mangling this time.
Anyone else notice that the stations with the highest numbers
were the ones heard the least often?
73,
Ed Gilbert, WA2SRQ
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Sat Apr 2 21:55:44 1994
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: Internet sprint
Message-ID: <9404030355.AA07461@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Anyone else notice that the stations with the highest numbers
were the ones heard the least often?
73, Ed Gilbert, WA2SRQ
Can't say I noticed this, that N6TR fellow was everywhere... I tended
to get called by the Big Guys more often than I called them so I guess
they cruise around pretty fast.
Interesting that Ed classed me among the loudest people - someone in a
previous SprINT told me that I was louder than they had ever heard me.
I guess the SB-220 must be a de-amplifier and I'm gonna run all the
big contests without it now!
Deek aa5bt
>From Jim Reisert AD1C 02-Apr-1994 2323 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> Sun Apr
> 3 05:19:24 1994
From: Jim Reisert AD1C 02-Apr-1994 2323 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim
Reisert AD1C 02-Apr-1994 2323)
Subject: EME contests
Message-ID: <9404030419.AA24132@us4rmc.pko.dec.com>
I think perigee (moon closest to Earth) is the single biggest factor - there
is a several dB gain difference between apogee (moon furtherst from Earth)
and perigee. When the signals are only several dB out of the noise to begin
with, this can make the difference between whether stations QSO or not.
I think 2nd biggest factor is northerly declination, since the majority of
EME operators tend to be in northern latitudes.
73 - Jim AD1C (47 states confirmed on 432 MHz, many via EME)
>From j.p. kleinhaus" <kleinhaj@mary.iia.org Sun Apr 3 06:25:17 1994
From: j.p. kleinhaus" <kleinhaj@mary.iia.org (j.p. kleinhaus)
Subject: Future of Single Op? (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9404030057.A4585-0100000@mary>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fred Hopengarten <jjmhome!k1vr!k1vr@uunet.uu.net>
To: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com>
Cc: kleinhaj@mary.iia.org, jlgiasi@umassmed.ummed.edu,
reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Future of Single Op?
On Thu, 31 Mar 1994 21:31:06 -0500 (EST), "Randy A Thompson"
<K5ZD@world.std.com> wrote:
why do we need two categories?
K1VR: For a techno reason, I am unable to respond to the
reflector, as it won't reprint and distribute remarks which
come through a relay. (Take a look at my internet address
and my return address.) You may excerpt and relay this
response.
K1VR: We need two categories because they create 20
slots in the top ten, doubling my chances. I need all the
help I can get.
--
Fred Hopengarten K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
home + office telephone: 617/259-0088 (FAX on demand)
internet: k1vr!k1vr.UUCP@uunet.uu.net
"Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low."
>From peterj@netcom.com (Peter Jennings) Sun Apr 3 07:01:50 1994
From: peterj@netcom.com (Peter Jennings) (Peter Jennings)
Subject: Visalia Room available
Message-ID: <199404030601.WAA08928@mail.netcom.com>
Larry, AA6MV, has decided he would rather be DX than talk about it, so
he is going to VP2M that weekend. So, I have a room available at the
Holiday Inn for Friday and Saturday night.
It's a one bedroom suite at $85 a night.
Anyone not have their room reserved yet?
Peter AB6WM peterj@netcom.com
--
>From robert penneys <penneys@freezer.cns.udel.edu> Sun Apr 3 14:21:50 1994
From: robert penneys <penneys@freezer.cns.udel.edu> (robert penneys)
Subject: Skunked big-time on CQ-INT
Message-ID: <9404031321.AA06755@freezer.cns.udel.edu>
Well, I got up the nerve to use TR log the first time instead of NA and it made
me rather crazy. The first time I had a dupe it threw it out and I couldn't
find a way to disable whatever did it. So......... 6 Qs. Will work with this
program before next one. Sorry to drop out. Bob
Bob Penneys, WN3K Frankford Radio Club Internet: penneys@pecan.cns.udel.edu
Work: Ham Radio Outlet (Delaware) (800) 644-4476; fax (302) 322-8808
Mail at home: 12 East Mill Station Drive Newark, DE 19711 USA
>From peterj@netcom.com (Peter Jennings) Sun Apr 3 16:34:21 1994
From: peterj@netcom.com (Peter Jennings) (Peter Jennings)
Subject: Visalia Room available
Message-ID: <199404031534.IAA06956@mail.netcom.com>
Larry, AA6MV, has decided he would rather be DX than talk about it, so
he is going to VP2M that weekend. So, I have a room available at the
Holiday Inn for Friday and Saturday night.
It's a one bedroom suite at $85 a night.
Anyone not have their room reserved yet?
Peter AB6WM peterj@netcom.com
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