> Looking for the rules for the W.A.G. contest held this weekend. Worked
> the contest but not sure what to do with log, where to mail it, scoring,
> etc. Any help appreciated.
Thanks for the QSO Dave, and here's what you have asked for..
Worked All Germany Contest (WAG)
--------------------------------
1. Contest periods
October, 3rd weekend, 1500Z Sat to 1500Z Sun
1995 Oct 21/22
96 19/20
2. Modes and bands
CW,SSB: 3.5-7-14-21-28 MHz
3. Classifications
A - SOAB CW
B - SOAB CW/SSB
C - SOAB CW/SSB QRP (max. 5W)
D - M/S (one signal on any band at the same time)
E - SWL
DX-Cluster support is allowed. A station may be worked twice on
CW and SSB on a given band.
4. Exchange
DL RS/RST + DOK
Non-DL + serial number starting at 001
5. Multipliers
count 1 point per band regardless of mode.
DL DXCC/WAE
Non-DL German districts (1st letter of DOK)
6. Scoring
DL with DL 1 point(s)
EU 3
DX 5
Non-DL with DL 3 points
7. Certificates
will be awarded to the highest scorer of the different classifications
in each country, a reasonable score provided, and to all entrants
with more than 500 QSOs.
8. Disqualification
Violation of the rules of the contest, unsportsmanship or taking
credit for excessive duplicate contacts will be deemed cause for
disqualification. For each scored Dupe or busted call 3 valid
QSOs will be removed.
9. Logs
must be accompanied by a summary sheet and a multiplier check list.
Duplicate contacts and all QSYs have to be clearly marked in the log.
Seperate Dupe-Sheets are needed if more than 100 Stations have been
worked on a band. Sperate your log by bands.
You may submit a computer log (1 disk per entry). The disk must be
MS-DOS formated 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 inch (40- or 80-track) and contain the
log as ASCII files. Add a seperate summary sheet.
10. SWLs
get 1 point (SSB) and 3 points (CW) for logging each new German
station with the sent RS/RST+DOK and the call of the station worked.
1 multiplier point for each German district per band.
11. Deadline
4 weeks after the contest (Nov 19th for 1995).
12. Mailing address
Klaus Voigt, DL1DTL
P.O.Box 720 427
D-01023 Dresden
Germany
73,
Stefan DL1IAO
>From Marios Nicolaou (5B4WN)" <mzyd108@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Mon Oct 23
>11:54:11 1995
From: Marios Nicolaou (5B4WN)" <mzyd108@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (Marios
Nicolaou (5B4WN))
Subject: need your RUFZ Hi Score!
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951023103146.13073A-100000@granby>
Hallo there,
just discovered a few days ago the new version of RUFZ (212e,
I think) CW practice program. It is highly addictive!
I am not sure whether this has been discussed previously on
the reflector but I would like to collect RUFZ hi scores so as to make
the program more competitive!!!
If you would like to share your hi score with me (and everybody
else who might be interested) then please send dircectly to me the exact
line as it appears in the rufzHiScr.dat file (beginning of course with
your callsign). Do not forget to include the last long number, it
is a coded number that makes sure that the rest of the data is correct.
Please use the following options:
Number of calls to copy: 50
Initial Paris Speed: 120
I will edit the rufzHiScr.dat file and make a new one that
I can make available to download on a internet site (if somebofy offers
the space) or I can send it in uuencoded form to people interested.
Thanx for the attention, and I am sorry for the bandwidth.
Best 73s and good luck in WW
Marios (5B4WN)
If you do not have rufz then you can download it from various ftp sites
such as : maspar.maspar.com in the k2mm/rufz directory
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>From Douglas S. Zwiebel" <0006489207@mcimail.com Mon Oct 23 14:05:00 1995
From: Douglas S. Zwiebel" <0006489207@mcimail.com (Douglas S. Zwiebel)
Subject: JOTA
Message-ID: <34951023130543/0006489207PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
For JOTA, I had Brownie troop 125 and Cub scout pack 50 (NJ) here.
Marathon Award: W0CP qso (kids said it went on "forever")
Lost QSY Award: N0AX...where did you go?
Best QSO Award: Z23JAM...kids had most excitement with this one.
de Doug KR2Q@mcimail.com
>From Ed Miske <MISKE@A1.ISD.UPMC.EDU> Mon Oct 23 17:51:30 1995
From: Ed Miske <MISKE@A1.ISD.UPMC.EDU> (Ed Miske)
Subject: PA QSO Party Results #1
Message-ID: <D225ZVZQD3X9L*/R=EDISON/R=A1/U=MISKE/@MHS>
Here are the results I've received to date. One more call: You can send
your results direct to "miske@a1.isd.upmc.edu"
FROM Pennsylvania
80/160 Other Total Claimed Cty
Call Cty Cat Pwr Mults CW CW SSB QSO's Score Missed
WA3HAE ALL SO 5-150 135 170 263 623 1056 184262.5
KE3ED BEA MS 5-150 68 0 0 167 167 11556
KA3AFY CAR 22000
KB3AGZ CAR 31300
KO3M CAR 15000
N3IK CAR 2000
N3BDA CAR SO 5-150 99 16 8 365 389 40891 DCO,PHI,SOM
N3BGV CMB SO 5-150 128 189 156 573 918 152080 None
N3IXR FRA SO 5-150 128 208 208 517 933 159360 None
N3KFB GRE SO 5-150 65 0 0 168 168 10920
WB5NLJ GRE SO 5-150 54 19 59 35 113 8721
WT3H LEB SO 151 + 132 209 166 680 1055 178004 FAY
AA3JU NHA MMU 151 + 143 199 244 1369 1812 305819
NW3C WAS SO 5-150 170000
N3KMJ WAS SO QRP 103 0 7 437 444 93306 INN,CRN,CLI
KB3AFT WAS SO 5-150 119 1040 143220
WF3T YOR SO 151 + 131 188 340 419 947 172155
OUTSIDE PENNSYLVANIA
80/160 Other Total Claimed Cty
Call SEC Cat Pwr Mults CW CW SSB QSO's Score Missed
NZ3I GA SO 5-150 55 183 10465
KK9W IA SO 5-150 31 21 39 0 60 3515.5
WD0GVY IA SO 5-150 41 42 73 46 161 9819.5
KD0AV IL SO 5-150 30 24 32 8 64 3520
KM0L MO SO 151 + 28 64 3522
KS4XG NC SO 5-150 63 0 0 334 334 20342
AA1HJ NH SO 5-15O 62 58 113 134 305 26008
K1BV NH 54 196 12312
K6XO/7 UT SO 151 + 38 1 60 4 107 5644
AE2T WNY 422 36410
Thanks for the replies.
73
de N3BGV, Ed
>From Chad Kurszewski" <kurscj@OAMPC12.csg.mot.com Mon Oct 23 14:47:57 1995
From: Chad Kurszewski" <kurscj@OAMPC12.csg.mot.com (Chad Kurszewski)
Subject: Problem transmitting with IC765 using beverage
References: <9510222209.AA12604@sttng.eng.pko.dec.com>
Message-ID: <9510230847.ZM8199@WE9V>
On Oct 22, 6:09pm, reisert@eng.pko.dec.com wrote:
> I need help! W1JR has a bad problem with his IC765. When he has the
> beverage switched in on 80 meters, his transmit power drops to
> nothing. It soulds like the beverage is being overloaded, and it's
> coupling in to the radio, shutting down the transmitter somehow.
> Anyone solved this problem?
We had this same problem at KS9K last year, on 160M.
Our West TX antenna was too close to our West/East beverage (two-wire).
It would cause the radio to turn off and on rapidly and make funny noises.
(Listening on the NE/SW beverage, or TXing on the East TX antenna was fine.)
It was obviously a TX coupling into the RX problem.
What I ended up doing was putting a small relay in the beverage switch
box that was keyed off of the PTT. When you would key up the radio,
the relay would open up the RX line and put a 50 ohm load into the RX.
I don't know if the 50 ohm load is necessary, but it sounded like a good
idea.
Everything was solved.
--
Chad Kurszewski, WE9V e-mail: Chad_Kurszewski@csg.mot.com
Sultans of Shwing Loud is Cool....yeah, heh, heh, heh, LOUD IS COOL!!!
The Official Sultans Web Site: http://www.infoanalytic.com/ka9fox/sos
>From Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org Mon Oct 23 15:19:00 1995
From: Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW)
Subject: JOTA patches, etc.
Message-ID: <308A52FB@arrl.org>
"Anyway, a splendid time was had by all. My kid's friends think his Dad's
radio
stuff is pretty cool. Some of the parents got as big a kick as the kids did.
And I had a good time, too.
Doug K1DG
p.s. IF you were a host, make sure you get the neat patches for the kids to
put on their uniforms. I lost the address and ordering info, but the ARRL
has it on the BBS somewhere."
------------------------------------------
Great stuff, Doug!
Here's the patch (and other) info:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
JAMBOREE ON THE AIR:
JOTA RESOURCES
Postcard-size certificates are free to anyone participating in any way.
Order beforehand for presentation during JOTA or award later at Scout or
Amateur Radio club meetings. (These are not "QSL" cards.) Send a self-
addressed stamped envelope large enough to hold the cards ordered.
Send requests to:
Jamboree-on-the-Air Certificate Cards
S221, 1325 West Walnut Hill Lane
PO Box 152079
Irving TX 75015-2079
-and-
Pocket patches are $2.50 each; order early.
Include state sales tax. Send to:
JOTA Coordinator, International Division
Boy Scouts of America
S221, 1325 West Walnut Hill Lane
PO Box 152079
Irving TX 75015-2079
tel: (214) 580-2000.
Finally,
An account of the 37th Jamboree-On-The-Air event (1994) is contained in the
"World JOTA Report." To order your personal copy, contact your National
Scout HQ., or email worldbureau@scout.gn.apc.org.
[Eventually, they'll have a report for JOTA 1995, too.]
eof
------------------------------------------
73! Glenn Swanson, KB1GW
Educational Programs Coordinator,
Educational Activities Department
ARRL HQ -- jota@arrl.org
>From Randy Thompson <k5zd@iconics.com> Mon Oct 23 16:50:22 1995
From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@iconics.com> (Randy Thompson)
Subject: Problem transmitting with IC765 using beverage
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951023114826.27307C-100000@genesis.iconics.com>
On Sun, 22 Oct 1995 reisert@eng.pko.dec.com wrote:
> I need help! W1JR has a bad problem with his IC765. When he has the
> beverage switched in on 80 meters, his transmit power drops to
> nothing. It soulds like the beverage is being overloaded, and it's
> coupling in to the radio, shutting down the transmitter somehow.
> Anyone solved this problem?
>
> Thanks - Jim AD1C
> reisert@eng.pko.dec.com
>
I had something similar with mine. When I would transmit, so much RF
would come back in the Beverage input that the lights in the radio would
go off. It looked as bad as you can imagine.
I ended up building a box that is tied to the transmit relay out of the
IC765. When transmitting, it removes the Beverage from the radio.
Problem was solved.
Built the whole thing from Radio Shack parts in the afternoon before CQWW
CW last year. Good luck!
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
k5zd@iconics.com
>From W8KKF: Harry Flasher -J37K" <hflasher@dayton.net Mon Oct 23 17:12:01 1995
From: W8KKF: Harry Flasher -J37K" <hflasher@dayton.net (W8KKF: Harry Flasher
-J37K)
Subject: GRENADA IN CQ WW SSB
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951023115152.6640B-100000@orac.dayton.net>
J3A WILL BE A MULTI-MULTI ENTRY IN THE CQ WW SSB CONTEST. OPS ARE
W8KKF, WA8LOW, W9IXX, WB8GEX, K9AJ AND V44KAO PLUS POSSIBILITY OF
SEVERAL LOCALS INCLUDING US EMBASSY OFFICAL. MOST OF OPERATIONS WILL
BE FROM A RATHER NEWLY DEVELOPED EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTER THAT IS
ON THE NEXT RIDGE INLAND (AND UP) FROM J39AL'S QTH WHERE WA8LOW (J37L),
MYSELF (J37K) AND OTHERS HAVE OPERATED IN RECENT PAST. WE WERE INVITED
TO USE THE FACILITY IN EXCHANGE FOR CONTRIBUTION OF EQUIPMENT AND ANTENNA
TO IMPROVE THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS IF NEEDED (THE ISLAND WAS SPARED
RECENT STORM PROBLEMS). AMONG ITEMS BEING DONATED ARE AN A3 ANTENNA,
COAX, SEVERAL USED COMMERCIAL VHF UNITS AND CB SETS FOR LINKS TO VARIOUS
PARISH POLICE STATIONS AND A BACK UP AIRCRAFT BAND TRANSCEIVER.
WITH THE HIGHER ELEVATION WE WILL HAVE A MUCH LOWER ANGLE TOWARD EUROPE
AND MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THE ABILITY TO HAVE BETTER LOW BAND ANTENNA.
UNFORTUNATELY, A SHIPMENT OF GOODIES INCLUDING A 2 ELE 40 METER BEAM
HAS BEEN LOST AND THEREFORE WE MAY HAVE TO USE A VERTICAL.
WE WOULD APPRECIATE ALL THE SUPPORT YOU CAN HELP US WITH. WE SHOULD
HAVE FOUR, IF NOT FIVE COMPLETE STATIONS (FIFTH AMP IS QUESTION).
FOR THOSE NEEDING CW CONTACTS, CW WILL HAVE PRIORITY BEFORE THE CONTEST.
AFTER THE CONTEST, I WILL BE ON SOME MONDAY CLEANING UP ANY PHONE NEEDS.
K9AJ AND W9IXX WILL MOVE TO ANOTHER GRENADA ISLAND AND LIKLEY WILL BE
OPERATIONAL MONDAY NIGHT FOR THREE DAYS - A GOOD PLACE TO LOOK FOR
THEM MIGHT BE IOTA FREQ.S.
EVERYBODY HAVE A SUPER CONTEST. 73 HARRY W8KKF J37K (NOTE THERE
WILL ALSO BE A J3K ON -WB8GEX).
>From sellington" <sellington@mail.ssec.wisc.edu Mon Oct 23 17:27:50 1995
From: sellington" <sellington@mail.ssec.wisc.edu (sellington)
Subject: Problem transmitting with IC765 using beverage
Message-ID: <n1397674768.52780@mail.ssec.wisc.edu>
By the way, those little blue Radio Shack relays will switch at QSK speeds,
if you drive the coils with a 50 V source and a series resistor.
Scott K9MA
sellington@ssec.wisc.edu
>From Richard Wilder - K3DI <wilder@clark.net> Mon Oct 23 18:07:10 1995
From: Richard Wilder - K3DI <wilder@clark.net> (Richard Wilder - K3DI)
Subject: Rules CQWW; multi ops acceptable?
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951023125430.7531A-100000@clark.net>
I will be multi-single in the CQWW and would like to know the rule
about using multiple operators so that the total score will go to
PVRC. Where is rule published? I get conflicting verbal information.
In the rules, pgs 104-106 of Sep 95 CQ, rule X.2. seems to apply only
to DXpeditons. I am at licensed home location.
Do all operators need to be PVRC members?
Is there a criteria for meeting attendance as ARRL requires?
Can some non-members be used without loss of any score?
Many thanks, 73, Dick Wilder, K3DI wilder@clark.net
>From WEDGE, STEPHEN" <SWEDGE@pria.com Mon Oct 23 21:17:00 1995
From: WEDGE, STEPHEN" <SWEDGE@pria.com (WEDGE, STEPHEN)
Subject: Hornets: This method is certain to take care of them
Message-ID: <308BFB60@pria.com>
Gotta be Dave Barry :-)
--- KT1O>>
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From: owner-cq-contest
To: CQ-Contest
Subject: Hornets: This method is certain to take care of them
Thinking about the flaming gas-rag on a stick method made me
remember item from last summer. You would have to be very careful
to get the cigarette stuck in the nest first, but the rest of the
process wouldn't take very long. Kids DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
(This *did* occur - the URL points to real photos and video of
this event! The pictures and the audio on the home page mentioned in the
text below are worth the trip!)
######## begin included file
Today's culinary topic is: how to light a charcoal fire.
Everybody loves a backyard barbecue. For some reason, food just
seems to taste better when it has been cooked outdoors, where
flies can lay eggs on it. But there's nothing worse than trying
to set fire to a pile of balky charcoal.
The average back-yard chef, wishing to cook hamburgers, tries
to ignite the charcoal via the squirt, light, and wait method,
wherein you squirt lighter fluid on a pile of briquettes, light
the pile, then wait until they have turned a uniform gray
color. When I say "they have turned a uniform gray color," I am
referring to the hamburgers. The briquettes will remain as cold
and lifeless as Leonard Nimoy. The backyard chef will keep this
up - squirting, lighting, waiting; squirting, lighting, waiting
- until the bacterial level in the side dishes has reached the
point where the potato salad rises up from its bowl, Bloblike,
and attempts to mate with the corn. This is the signal that it's
time to order Chinese food.
The problem is that modern charcoal, manufactured under strict
consumer-safety guidelines, is one of the least-flammable
substances on Earth. On more than one occasion, quick-thinking
individuals have extinguished a raging house fire by throwing
charcoal on it. Your backyard chef would be just as successful
trying to ignite a pile of rocks.
Is there a solution? Yes. There happens to be a technique that
is guaranteed to get your charcoal burning very, very quickly,
although you should not attempt this technique unless you meet
the following criterion: You are a complete idiot.
I found out about this technique from alert reader George
Rasko, who sent me a letter describing something he came across
on the World Wide Web, a computer network that you should
definitely learn more about, because as you read these words,
your 11-year-old is downloading pornography from it.
By hooking into the World Wide Web, you can look at a variety
of electronic "pages," consisting of documents, pictures, and
videos created by people all over the world. One of these is a
guy named (really) George Goble, a computer person in the
Purdue University engineering department. Each year, Goble and
a bunch of other engineers hold a picnic in West Lafayette,
Indiana, at which they cook hamburgers on a big grill. Being
engineers, they began looking for practical ways to speed up
the charcoal-lighting process.
"We started by blowing the charcoal with a hair dryer, " Goble
told me in a telephone interview. "Then we figured out that it
would light faster if we used a vacuum cleaner."
If you know anything about (1) engineers and (2) guys in
general, you know what happened: The purpose of the
charcoal-lighting shifted from cooking hamburgers to seeing how
fast they could light the charcoal. From the vacuum cleaner,
they escalated to using a propane torch, then an acetylene
torch. Then Goble started using compressed pure oxygen, which
caused the charcoal to burn much faster, because as you recall
from chemistry class, fire is essentially the rapid combination
of oxygen with the cosine to form the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers (or something along those lines). By this point, Goble
was getting pretty good times. But in the world of competitive
charcoal-lighting, "pretty good" does not cut the mustard Thus,
Goble hit upon the idea of using - get ready - liquid oxygen.
This is the form of oxygen used in rocket engines; it's 295
degrees below zero and 600 times as dense as regular oxygen. In
terms of releasing energy, pouring liquid oxygen on charcoal is
the equivalent of throwing a live squirrel into a room
containing 50 million Labrador retrievers. On Gobel's World
Wide Web page (the address is http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/), you
can see actual photographs and a video of Goble using a bucket
attached to a 10-foot-long wooden handle to dump 3 gallons of
liquid oxygen (not sold in stores) onto a grill containing 60
pounds of charcoal and a lit cigarette for ignition. What
follows is the most impressive charcoal-lighting I have ever
seen, featuring a large fireball that, according to Goble,
reached 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The charcoal was ready for
cooking in - this has to be a world record - 3 seconds. There's
also a photo of what happened when Goble used the same
technique on a flimsy $2.88 discount store grill. All that's
left is a circle of charcoal with a few shreds of metal in it.
"Basically, the grill vaporized," said Goble. "We were thinking
of returning it to the store for a refund."
Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American,
all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live
anywhere near the engineers' picnic site. But also, I was proud
of my country for producing guys who can be ready to barbecue
in less time than it takes for guys in less-advanced nations,
such as France, to spit.
Will the 3-second barrier ever be broken? Will engineers come
up with a new, more powerful charcoal lighting technology? It's
something for all of us to ponder this summer as we sit
outside, chewing our hamburgers, every now and then glancing in
the direction of West Lafayette, Indiana, looking for a mushroom cloud.
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