In my opinion, it would be unfair to expect contest particapants to
totally avoid a DX window. I would hate not to turn in a log because I
accindentally transmitted in a DX window. The 160 mtr contest rules
does not say that you must avoid the window unless working DX, It
merely strongly suggests that you do, according to the ARRL bandplan.
Very hard to enforce a non-rule.
I was slowly S&P'ing up the band until I came to an open freq., Then I
attempted a run. The "Police" said: dx pse qsy. I replied sri and
moved. I looked at the freq., and yes, I was on 1831 Mhz. I hadn't
forgotten about the window, just didn't realize where in the band I was
at the time. Should this eliminate me from the contest? Guess I will
just stop then. Won't be many op's left at this rate though. By the
way, it probably wasn't the Police; they're rarely that friendly.
I am not a lid. I followed the rules of the contest and the FCC. I am
an Amateur Extra, and I AM ALLOWED TO OPERATE ON 1830-1835 MHZ without
anyones permission if the freq. is clear!
That said, I try to follow the band plan, and from what I heard, so did
most hams. Except for a few occasions, I heard mostly NA hams calling
DX.
By the way, I am new on this forum, although I have been reading the
mail for a while. I keep having to re-subscribe occasionally. Is
there a limit to how much mail you can receive without sending any?
73, Don DON RUSSELL@ECR.KNOX.COM
>From McCarty, DK 'Dav" <DKMC@chevron.com Fri Dec 8 21:21:13 1995
From: McCarty, DK 'Dav" <DKMC@chevron.com (McCarty, DK 'Dav)
Subject: K5GN CQ WW DX CW (long)
Message-ID: <CPLAN065.DKMC.243521130095342FCPLAN065@ION.CHEVRON.COM>
From: McCarty, DK 'David'
To: OPEN ADDRESSING SERVI-OPENADDR
Subject: K5GN CQ WW DX CW (long)
Priority:
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CQ WW SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 25-Nov-95, 26-Nov-95
Callsign Used : K5GN
Operator : K5GN
Category : S.O.A.B.
Default Exchange : 59904
Name : David K. McCarty
Address : 8603 Manhattan Drive
City/State/Zip : Houston, TX 77096
Country : United States
Team/Club : Texas DX Society
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
___________________________________________________________
160CW 63 63 163 38 16
80CW 188 183 507 66 23
40CW 841 820 2365 99 33
20CW 427 423 1145 109 38
15CW 489 479 1316 98 29
10CW 56 55 104 22 16
___________________________________________________________
Totals 2064 2023 5600 432 155
Final Score = 3287200 points.
Station: K2UA/5, Sealy, TX
160/20: TS930 (front end very deaf from input excesses)/Alpha 76
80/15: FT-1000D/Henry 3K
40/10: Collins S-Line/Alpha 78
386 with N6TR LOG 5.23
160: half-wave sloper NE; 1000' beverage NE, 300' SE/NW, 500' SW/NE
80: 2 el Quad fixed NE, tops at 135'; inverted Vee at 130'; shares beverages
w/160
40: most of a 4-el KLM at 165'; 2 el quad fixed NE, tops at 100'; inverted
vee.
20: 4/4 at 130'/80'
15: 6/6 at 135'/90', 5el fixed SE at 45'
10: 6 el at 105'. 5el fixed SE at 30'
Continent List K5GN CQ WW CW 95 SOAB
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 2 4 11 18 23 17 75
VE calls = 7 13 32 38 29 2 121
N.A. calls = 13 17 26 32 23 5 116
S.A. calls = 6 5 13 30 28 23 105
Euro calls = 30 84 347 109 304 0 874
Afrc calls = 1 5 6 22 16 3 53
Asia calls = 0 3 29 16 4 0 52
JA calls = 3 45 329 146 44 0 567
Ocen calls = 1 7 27 11 8 4 58
Unknowns = 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Total calls = 63 183 820 423 479 55 2023
Unknowns on 20 = X5BYZ
K5GN CQ WW CW 95 SOAB
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
0 0 0 13 10 11 3 37 37
1 11 0 0 20 0 0 31 68
2 5 25 0 0 0 0 30 98
3 0 40 2 0 0 0 42 140
4 1 0 61 2 0 0 64 204
5 0 13 12 4 0 0 29 233
6 8 9 18 1 0 0 36 269
7 0 5 83 0 0 0 88 357
8 0 2 71 0 0 0 73 430
9 1 1 82 0 0 0 84 514
10 0 1 68 0 0 0 69 583
11 2 0 35 0 0 0 37 620
12 2 24 0 0 0 0 26 646
13 0 19 0 32 0 0 51 697
14 0 0 3 11 105 0 119 816
15 0 0 0 7 47 2 56 872
16 0 0 0 8 23 14 45 917
17 0 0 0 25 16 0 41 958
18 0 0 0 26 0 2 28 986
19 0 0 0 15 2 6 23 1009
20 0 0 0 3 17 3 23 1032
21 0 0 0 24 0 2 26 1058
22 0 0 0 23 13 3 39 1097
23 0 0 0 33 36 0 69 1166
0 0 0 0 32 6 2 40 1206
1 0 1 7 80 0 0 88 1294
2 17 0 0 0 0 0 17 1311
3 3 0 36 0 0 0 39 1350
4 6 6 7 0 0 0 19 1369
5 2 5 22 1 0 0 30 1399
6 0 8 35 3 0 0 46 1445
7 0 0 60 0 0 0 60 1505
8 1 11 16 0 0 0 28 1533
9 4 4 14 0 0 0 22 1555
10 0 1 47 0 0 0 48 1603
11 0 6 6 0 0 0 12 1615
12 0 2 1 22 0 0 25 1640
13 0 0 3 2 23 0 28 1668
14 0 0 0 0 73 0 73 1741
15 0 0 0 0 50 1 51 1792
16 0 0 0 5 25 0 30 1822
17 0 0 0 9 21 12 42 1864
18 0 0 0 10 5 2 17 1881
19 0 0 0 4 3 0 7 1888
20 0 0 14 3 0 3 20 1908
21 0 0 2 7 2 0 11 1919
22 0 0 42 0 1 0 43 1962
23 0 0 60 1 0 0 61 2023
TOTAL 63 183 820 423 479 55
K5GN CQ WW CW 95 SOAB
1. 25 573
2. 14 448
3. 15 340
4. 04 72
5. 05 72
6. 08 70
7. 16 56
8. 03 44
9. 13 38
10. 20 30
11. 11 25
12. 09 23
13. 32 21
14. 33 21
15. 07 17
16. 06 16
17. 31 14
18. 17 13
19. 30 13
20. 10 12
21. 02 11
22. 01 10
23. 38 10
24. 19 9
25. 36 8
26. 39 7
27. 27 7
28. 24 7
29. 35 6
30. 12 5
31. 28 5
32. 21 4
33. 40 4
34. 37 3
35. 18 3
36. 26 3
37. 22 1
38. 34 1
39. 29 1
(No Zone 23 worked, though I heard UA0YAY on 20.)
257 Band changes
Went in knowing I was tired (heavy landscaping work all week before; sick
kids keeping me up at night; fixing antennas on Friday morning. Still
managed to go all 48, but probably should have slept, looking back at some
relatively unconscious hours on Sunday! Thought about doing single-band
instead, but then All-Band is just so much fun, I couldn't resist.
160: As everyone else has said, "WOW!" I usually get distracted by 160,
and this time was no exception. The difference was that I was working stuff
instead of just being tantalized by it. Friday night was fantastic, working
everything heard except the FG5 alligator. The sunrise peak didn't really
happen to Europe, but the early opening was better than I've ever seen in
November. The big gun JA's were in for hours, too. Saturday night was a
completely different band, but still very good.
80: Very tough, as usual. Worked most things heard, but very few mults to
the west. Nearly everything was east of here, and the farther east, the
harder to get. Found new mults as high up as 3580. 3V8BB's pileup was a
unique sound Friday night--Europe had him wrapped up completely. At least
the weather was not too noisy; hearing was not as big a problem as usual.
40: The money band, even though the 40M beam is yet to be repaired from
spring wind damage. Made me wonder what would have happened with a complete
antenna? Europe went out for several hours each evening after dark, but
before and after was very good. Amazed at how late the western and northern
stations stayed workable, right through the JA run. Some of the best
conditions to the west were well after sunrise, when I had to be on 20/15.
Oh well, that's all-band for you.
20: Plus and minus. Usually minus. Couldn't get a run going when the
signals were good out of Europe; went to 15 and stayed there too long;
nothing doing when I came back from 15. However, after dark on Saturday was
the best JA run on 20 in recent memory! Finally got the multiplier up on
20. Next step is the Q's.
15: Fantastic short European run on Saturday morning. Had the rate meter
over 200 for a few minutes. Then the QSK vacuum relay went out. By the
time I figured it out and got it reconfigured to another radio, the opening
was fading. Good rate after that, but never so good as that first half
hour. Sunday was "almost open", with a wider geographic opening, but only
the bigger stations making the trip.
10: Almost zip, even from here in the south. Noticed parts of the antenna
on the ground Friday afternoon, figured it wouldn't hurt much. 3B8/N6ZZ was
in for hours off and on, but not much else and not very many SA stations
worked. Thought I heard/worked JA3ZOH on scatter, but too doubtful to
count. Really cool to snag VE2/N6AA on scatter! Not a peep out of Europe.
Biggest problem with lids was on 40M, where a certain KY1 multiop station
provided QRM by firing up on my frequency while I was listening to the guy I
was working. Not once, not twice, but five times over the weekend! Once he
persisted long enough to prevent me from completing a QSO with a VK9X
(double mult) whose call I never got corrected before he left in
exasperation, never to be heard from again.
Also getting tired of people calling and calling no matter what the DX
station comes back to. Just slows things down for all.
Overall, it's interesting to have the spots disappearing and the score
nearly level with two years ago! With the terrific low band conditions it
is really hard to keep up with the Eastern guys, but the contesting is still
quite fun. More hours of pileup busting and less of running, I guess.
Congrats to K0RF and W9RE on their fine scores from our zone. And thanks
again to my host, Dennis, K2UA/5. Here's to next year!
73,
Dave K5GN
dkmc@chevron.com
>From milewski@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Steve Milewski) Fri Dec 8 21:34:10 1995
From: milewski@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Steve Milewski) (Steve Milewski)
Subject: Omni-6 Firmware change coming.
Message-ID: <01HYKEIEF6FM8Y5GS6@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>From: Bill Fisher <bill@akorn.net>
>Subject: Omni-6 Firmware change coming.
...much cut...
>I used this rig for the first time in a contest this past weekend in the
>160m contest. I had my IC-761 next to it and could switch the 160m
>antenna to either radio. It's hard to describe, but I felt much less
>fatigued while using the Omni-6. It is a joy to listen to.... The best
>feature is the RF GAIN which actually works like I believe it is supposed
>to work. When increased the band noise will slowly fade (S meter will
>decrease too) but any signal over a certain level will still come through
>at it's normal strength. You may say big deal... but it really is nice!
I agree. In many low band situations where the noise level is quite high, I
find myself backing the rf gain to just about the 1 o'clock position and
boosting the af gain.
It really helps pick out otherwise totally uncopiable signals.
Steve Milewski
milewski@oregon.uoregon.edu
Ham: AA7FL
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