N4OGW/9 CW Sprint:
80: 73
40: 94
20: 63
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230 X 38 = 8,740
Team: Dead Lizards
Lots of fun...running 700W and 40m dipole. Surprised that I got out as well as
I did on 80m with a 1/2 size antenna.
Torsten n4ogw@uiuc.edu
>From Tim Totten, KJ4VH" <kj4vh@iglou.com Tue Sep 13 02:12:15 1994
From: Tim Totten, KJ4VH" <kj4vh@iglou.com (Tim Totten, KJ4VH)
Subject: Let's Hear it Officially....
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9409122049.A4232-0100000@iglou>
On 12 Sep 1994, Steve London, N2IC, wrote:
> Okay K3EST, KR2Q, K1AR and all you other CQWW log checkers out there, I want
> to know exactly what you are going to enforce for M/S for CQWW 1994:
<good questions abt 10-min rule deleted>
While we're looking for clarifications...
Was there ever an official policy statement regarding the use of
individual operator's call signs to solicit QSOs in a multi-op?
Someone raised the question after at least one M/S allegedly did this
last year. The topic came up agn this wknd at the W9DXCC convention, and
no one knew if it had been resolved officially.
I'll attempt to illustrate with a fictional (so far) scenario:
Assume I'm part of a M/S team at VP2MU. The "run" stn is cranking 'em
out on 15 (using the VP2MU call, of course). I'm sitting at the "mult"
stn, but instead of tuning the band and working all the new mults I can
find, I call CQ with my personal call (VP2MDH), then when a new mult
shows up, I say, "O.K., now I'm VP2MU. You're 59 08."
Or maybe I just tune across a stn which is not a new mult on 20, but
would be a mult on 15 (the run band). Can I call the stn as VP2MDH, then
say, "Hey, can you pse call VP2MU right now on 21214?"
I'm sure there are several similar scenarios where a M/S or M/M op might
be tempted to work stns with his or her personal call to solicit a QSO
for the multi-op call. Indeed, it appears these techniques were used by
at least one serious multi-op team last year, and they "got away with it."
So my question is, will the committee accept these techniques this
year? If so, does the contesting community really feel this is
desirable? Is there some reason the CQ WW rules don't include a clause
requiring only one call sign be used? Should one be considered for 1995?
-------------------------------------------------------
Tim Totten, KJ4VH kj4vh@iglou.com
Kentucky Contest Group Fax +1-502-239-7766
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>From Steve Miller <millersg@dmapub.dma.org> Tue Sep 13 02:28:05 1994
From: Steve Miller <millersg@dmapub.dma.org> (Steve Miller)
Subject: Half Square Antenna
Message-ID: <m0qkMfH-00014gC@dmapub.dma.org>
<ken.silverman@atlas.ccmail.airtouch.com writes:>
> <stuff deleted>
>
> Does any one have any experience with the half square, with the
> feed point in either position? Is this antenna a player when
> used over a good ground (salt water)? What problems might I have
> with the antenna?
>
<more stuff deleted>
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> Thanks again for all your input, you're a great bunch of people!
>
> Ken WM2C
> ken.silverman@atlas.ccmail.airtouch.com
>
Hi Ken,
We used a half square at W8LT, the Ohio State ARC, in the mid 1980s. It was
a temporary antenna we strung in the football stadium. It was supported by
flagpoles across the open end of the horseshoe with the broadside pattern
facing North-South. Accounting for sag, the top of the antenna was about
100 feet high. We used versions for 75 and 80 meters. We fed it at the
corner with 300-400 feet of RG-8X (we used smaller coax to reduce sag).
The SWR was quite good and the antenna was a great performer.
W8LT also has a 600 foot longwire at 90 feet with the main lobe on europe.
The half square performed at least as well as the longwire and usually better
for DX. We noticed a big advantage with the half square after european
sunrise - I suspect this was mostly due to polarization. We also tried a
bobtail placed broadside to europe and fed at the fifty yard line. It
worked pretty good but one side of the stadium was blocking the path to
some extent. The half-square, with its additional height and less blockage,
worked better. One of the ops (NZ4K) logged 250 countries on 75/80 in one
season mostly with the halfsquare. Once, I was able to break a long-path
pile to YB0WR running 100 watts. Give it a try, it's a pretty simple
antenna that has worked very well in my experience. If you place it over
salt water, it will give much better low angle performance than astroturf
(HI!) It will still be better than the natural turf now in place at Ohio
stadium. Good luck. Steve
--
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| into the future .... | Box 340277 Beavercreek, OH 45434 |
| (Steve Miller) | Email: millersg@dmapub.dma.org |
>From moriyama@civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Toshiyuki Moriyama) Tue Sep 13 03:59:27
>1994
From: moriyama@civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Toshiyuki Moriyama) (Toshiyuki Moriyama)
Subject: Half Square Antenna
Message-ID: <199409130259.LAA01368@yamashiro.civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
At 6:04 PM 94.9.12 +0900, ken silverman wrote:
>Feed at top corner:
>---->___________
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
>
Shoe Box antenna is looks like this.
Shoe Box is bented at 1/8 wavelength of Windom.
_________: :___________________ 80m/40m/20m/10m Windom:length 40m
__: :_______ Shoe Box(80m/40m/20m/10m)
| | :length 40m(vertical:10m)
| |
| |
| |
Feed point is 1/6 wave length from the end.
Z is 200-300ohms. Needs 4:1 or 6:1 balum for 50ohms coaxial feeding.
I used Shoe Box at WPX CW 94 from AH0T on 80/40m. But not USA & EUs
call. I feel Shoe Box is not instead of beams, but easy to use for
expedition.
de JA6VZB/AH0T/KC6VW/V63BM
>From Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr@k1vr.jjm.com Tue Sep 13 07:55:02 1994
From: Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr@k1vr.jjm.com (Fred Hopengarten)
Subject: EXCUSE.CT
Message-ID: <2e754cc8.k1vr@k1vr.jjm.com>
Now that N6XI has opened up the subject of contest excuses,
it can be told: CT was ahead of the world on this one.
Take out any version of CT after 5.0 or so (i.e. CT 5, CT 6,
CT 7, CT 8 . . . dunno if it's in CT 9 or not). Make your
call K1VR. "Enter" a contest. WRITELOG. Look at the
Summary Sheet (*.SUM). Note that a line that you've never
seen before now appears, right next to the place where you
edit in your equipment list.
"Excuse: ________________________________________________"
As a lawyer, Ken felt I'd be best off in prose. N6XI has
numericized the issue. Nonetheless, I am proud to say that
I've had a computerized opportunity to submit my excuses to
contest organizers for years now.
Another undocumented feature (but when I was writing the
manual, you didn't expect me to document my own special
feature, did you?).
By the way, over the years, exactly three guys have found
that feature in the course of trying to open up the code in
CT. Or at least three have mentioned it to me at Dayton, or
on the air. Can't say I remember who they were, but I was
impressed by their computer expertise.
--
Fred Hopengarten K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
home + office telephone: 617/259-0088 (FAX on demand)
internet: k1vr@k1vr.jjm.com
"Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low."
>From len@ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) Tue Sep 13 04:24:09 1994
From: len@ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) (Leonard Kay)
Subject: /125 and contesters
Message-ID: <9409130324.AA06712@ariel.coe.neu.edu>
>The whole thing convinced me even more that when the chips are down
>and conditions are rough, the best person to have on the other end
>is a DXer or contester. Of course, I should really post this in a
>non-contesting group where contesters are continually being vilified
>for trashing the bands during contests - in fact, of course, we are
>practising for emergency work. I'd rather have KR0Y et al on the
>
>Derek AA5BT, G3NMX
>oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
>
Maybe we as contesters should take this opportunity to generate
a flood of letters-to-the-editor to QST to point this out.....
Are you listening, Mark? :-)
Len KB2R
len@ariel.coe.neu.edu
>From Hodge Thorgerson David Cameron-INBA <hodge@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx> Tue
>Sep 13 04:23:18 1994
From: Hodge Thorgerson David Cameron-INBA <hodge@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx> (Hodge
Thorgerson David Cameron-INBA)
Subject: Sprint
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.940912211818.9125G-100000@redvax1>
Saludos,
I sat down in front of my friend's station after a HUGE, wonderful meal
and some 30 minutes to go before zero hour. How does this stuff work
again? I managed 235 X 38 for 8930 points. About 700 watts out, a LP
and dipoles for antennae. How many points do I get on the N6XI scale for
being outside the "good latitude zone"? ;-)
Thanks for the Qs. David XE1/AA6RX hodge@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx
>From len@ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) Tue Sep 13 04:32:56 1994
From: len@ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) (Leonard Kay)
Subject: GWB /125
Message-ID: <9409130332.AA06720@ariel.coe.neu.edu>
>
>Agreed. It was a pleasure to work the guys who could spit out "fiftynine dxfr"
>instead of "five and nine, ah, do you have all my information?". And it must
> ...
>
>Bill
>
>Bill Standerfer * Hewlett-Packard Company
>CFI-A, IA, ME * VXI Systems Division
>bills@lvld.hp.com * Loveland, CO 80539
>Baron N222AB - KF0DJ - Pikes Peak 253 * 303-679-2378
>
Especially when it takes LESS TIME to say '59 DX Field Rep'
than it does to say '59, ah, do you have all my information?' :-)
Reminds me of once a long time ago when, listening to the radio one day
on Long Island, New York, the traffic copter guy said, 'And there's a
really big accident on the GWB', for which the DJ chided him by pointing
out there are just as many syllables in Gee Double U Bee as in George
Washington Bridge...... :-)
Len KB2R
len@ariel.coe.neu.edu
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