> Can anyone tell me the correct and actual dates for this year's CQWW DX
> test...particularly the CW test date???
I think the standard dates for CQWW are last full weekend in October
for phone, and last full weekend in November for CW.
While we're on the subject, there is frequently a misconception on
Field Day (I know, not a contest, but guess where all contesters come
from?). It is the 4th full weekend in June. It is sometimes an issue,
because there are sometimes 5 weekends in June, and many people think
it's the last because it usually is.
CQ-Contest magazine has it (FD) wrong in their list of standardized
contest dates, by the way.
73, Rod N4SI
The DXer formerly known as N9AKE
(c) 5 November, 1996
>From ve6nap@oanet.com (Gerald Caouette) Wed Feb 12 07:46:43 1997
From: ve6nap@oanet.com (Gerald Caouette) (Gerald Caouette)
Subject: WPX CW weekend
Message-ID: <33017563.7357@oanet.com>
My vote is to leave it alone.....
A true contester is always able to schedule or the time slot.
In regard to conditions being more or less optimum it all depends on
what SOL ( the sun ) has in store for us....
NOW IF THE CONTEST IS CUTTING INTO YOUR BASS FISHING SCHEDULE....
Try a real fish ( a big northern pike ) some time... [;)
73
de ve6nap@oanet.com
Gerald Caouette
>From timo.klimoff@ktm.vn.fi (Klimoff Timo) Wed Feb 12 07:45:25 1997
From: timo.klimoff@ktm.vn.fi (Klimoff Timo) (Klimoff Timo)
Subject: WPX Weekend
Message-ID: <9702120945.aa25@ktmtiimi1.ktm.vn.fi>
The last weekend of April Contest Calendar:
Helvetia Contest (HB9)
SP DX RTTY Contest
Nebraska QSO Party
Holyland DX Contest (4X)
Ontario QSO Party
plus domestic contests in Japan and Finland.
But how about the second weekend of June?
73 Timo OH1NOA
Contest Club Finland
email: timo.klimoff@ktm.vn.fi
>From timo.klimoff@ktm.vn.fi (Klimoff Timo) Wed Feb 12 10:32:50 1997
From: timo.klimoff@ktm.vn.fi (Klimoff Timo) (Klimoff Timo)
Subject: Contest Club Finland
Message-ID: <9702121232.aa50@ktmtiimi1.ktm.vn.fi>
Interested in contesting in Finland?
Visit CONTEST CLUB FINLAND WWW-home page:
http://www.teuva.fi/yritykset/mantila/ccf.html
It is not always so easy, check pictures of OH0AM CQ WW 160 1997 pedition:
http://www.teuva.fi/yritykset/mantila/oh0am.html
73 Timo OH1NOA
editor of PileUP! magazine
>From abrogdon@arrl.org (Brogdon, Al, K3KMO) Wed Feb 12 14:56:00 1997
From: abrogdon@arrl.org (Brogdon, Al, K3KMO) (Brogdon, Al, K3KMO)
Subject: Re; WPX CW date - Another conflict
Message-ID: <m0vugB1-0004ohC@mgate.arrl.org>
>From: ve2zp
>To: cq-contest
>Subject: Re; WPX CW date - Another conflict
>
>In a message reported by Ernesto LU6BEG, Steve N8BJQ noted a JA domestic
>contest, and the new ontario QSO Party as possible conflicts for the last
>weekend of April. There is also the venerable Swiss "H-26" contest, which
>has been on the last weekend of April for many years. No matter what
weekend
>is nominated for the WPX CW, if it is to change, there will be a conflict
with
>some small contest or other.
> ...
>Is there a serious, thoughtful person out there who can taek on the job of
>developing and compiling a concensus of the need for a new date, then do
the
>additional work of negotiating with the sponsors of contests who may be
>obliged to move because of it?
>
>73, Dave VE2ZP/VE9CB
>Packet: VE2ZP@VA3TCP.#EON.ON.CAN.NOAM
>InterNet: ve2zp@va3tcp.ampr.org
_________
I know this is a heretic thought on this reflector, but it should be
obvious that there are too many contests. If you look at some of today's
"contests," you will see some quite ridiculous ones....
There was one of late where the rules went on and on for several lines
to describe the additional multiplier to use that was determined by the
temperature inside the shack (the lower the temperature, the higher the
multiplier; last year's winner was given his plaque posthumously after he
froze to death halfway through the contest). I figure someone could go to
the Yukon, bundle up in extreme foul-weather clothing, operate outdoors in
that contest, make fifteen contacts, and produce an all-time record score
because of his stupendous temperature multiplier....
Another contest, sponsored by a chapter of an Oceanic national ham
organization, had quite unconventional rules written by (I am not making
this up) a 13-year-old YL. That international contest was for 80 meters and
VHF operation only.
Puh-leeze!
Seems to me that what ham radio really needs is to have fewer contest
weekends and then concentrate all the contests on those weekends. Then have
similar exchanges for every contest, so the truly dedicated contester can
make QSOs all weekend, participating in, let us say, ten contests
simultaneously. After the contest, then do a computer-sort to generate
entries in all ten contests, using the same contact base for all.
Then details could be worked as to which would be "the contest
weekends."
The major flaw in this logical plan is that you could never get a
majority of the contesters to agree on a plan or a schedule.
Like so many things in ham radio today, we are still trying to make
old, outdated ideas work here on the eve of the 21st millennium, when it
would be far better to introduce some thrilling new ideas.
In case any of the readers are wondering just who the hell this guy is
who's making such an outrageous, off-the-wall suggestion, allow me to
introduce myself. I did my major contesting back in the 1960s. Never was a
big gun, just a medium pistol. My best effort ever earned 11th place in the
world, single-op all-band, in the CW CQ WW DX Contest one year (I think it
was 1963). So perhaps you might concede that I have contesting credentials.
Good WPX story: One year in the early 1970s, I made arrangements to
operate NN3SI at the Smithsonian Institution in the CW WPX Contest. For
those who don't know, the Smithsonian is administered by the Federal
government. Bureaucracy runs rampart there, as it does anywhere within the
Beltway. It was VERY difficult for me to get permission to operate, get
checked out, get the photo ID made, go into the building after hours, etc,
etc, etc.
BUT--- at that time, NN3SI was the ! --> ONLY <-- ! NN prefix in
the whole, wide, ever-loving world!! Man, I could just TASTE the pileups to
come as I waded through the BBS (bureaucratic baloney stuff)....
The big weekend rolled around. I went down to the station. The other
participants in the contest were so frantically busy making contacts that NO
ONE ever tumbled to the fact that NN was a unique prefix! Pileups? I never
even got a run of TWO stations in a row! It was S&P all weekend, until I
got so disgusted that I shut down.
Take it away, guys....
73, Al, K3KMO
PS: I made up the part about the frozen plaque winner, but I did NOT make
up the part about the temperature multiplier. If you don't believe me,
check it out.
>From thompson@mindspring.com (David L. Thompson) Wed Feb 12 15:40:55 1997
From: thompson@mindspring.com (David L. Thompson) (David L. Thompson)
Subject: Lost E-mail
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970212104137.2b4772a4@pop.mindspring.com>
Gang,
I am in the midst of upgrading my CPU speed/more memory and going to a new
version of mindspring. Well the new CPU chip ran slightly too fast for the
ole compaq motherboard so I lost my old mindspring E-mail before I turned
down the Mhz slightly. Messages between 4 feb and 11 Feb were lost. I know
I had several CQ WW 160 inquiries including one from ON4UN. Please re-send!
This does not affect the logs sent to cq160@contesting.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dave K4JRB
Cq WW 160 Contests Director
>From floydjr@interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) Wed Feb 12 15:33:30 1997
From: floydjr@interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) (Jimmy R. Floyd)
Subject: NA SPRINT SSB Jan 97 FINAL POSTING
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970212153330.1b2ff258@interpath.com>
NA SPRINT SSB JAN 97
Raw Scores
Compiled by: WA4ZXA
<floydjr@interpath.com>
Date Posted: 02/12/97
******** FINAL POSTING ********
CALL SCORE QSO'S MULTIS
________________________________________________________________________
High Power
K6LL 13,296 277 48
AG9A 12,624 263 48
K7SS (@W7TSQ) 12,192 254 48
K6LA 11,985 255 47
N3BB (N5KA) 11,704 266 44
K9JF 10,836 258 42
KC6CNV 10,485 233 45
WB0O 10,209 249 41
K5NZ 9,548 217 44
W5ASP 9,331 217 43
W3GH (KB3AFT) 9,116 212 43
K5OT 8,976 204 44
K4MA (@AA4NC) 8,694 207 42
W6KY (@K6XT) 8,651 211 41
W6EEN (KI7WX/6) 8,342 194 43
K7RI (K7ST) 8,284 218 38
W7ZRC 8,073 207 39
N6HC 6,765 205 33
N5LZ 5,250 150 35
KM0L 4,736 128 37
K5GN 4,650 150 31
WA7BNM 3,240 108 30
VE9AA 2,700 100 27
W6MVW 377 29 13
AG9A 263 48
Low Power
N7LOX 6,650 190 35
K0EJ 3,600 100 36
WA7BNM 3,240 108 30
WB0OLA 3,136 98 32
KR4YL 2,280 76 30
W4PA 2,232 72 31
N2NL 1,608 67 24
K1HT 1,342 61 22
K6RO 555 37 15
Team Scores
SCCC 80,434
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NO ATTACHMENTS !!! Attachments will not be posted or should NOT be sent to
me or the relfector.
REMEMBER THESE SCORES ARE UNOFFICIAL AND THIS IS NOT WHERE YOU SEND ANY
LOGS!! ^^^
If you did not state what power you were running I put you in High Power.
If that is wrong just emial me and I will change it.
73 Jim
**********************************************************
* Jimmy R. Floyd (Jim) Thomasville, NC *
* *
* Amateur Call: >> WA4ZXA << *
* Internet Address: >> floydjr@interpath.com << *
**********************************************************
>From floydjr@interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) Wed Feb 12 15:33:26 1997
From: floydjr@interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) (Jimmy R. Floyd)
Subject: WPX RTTY 97 Scores II
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970212153326.1b2f380c@interpath.com>
1997 WPX RTTY CONTEST
HIGH CLAIMED SCORES
Compiled by: WA4ZXA
<floydjr@interpath.com>
CALL HRS SCORE Q'S PTS MULTI
---------------------------------------------------------------------
SOP/HP/AB
VA3MM 30 657,951 706 2261 291
SM5FUG 30 549,824 618 1936 284
S56A 22 254,881 398 1363 187
VE6RAJ 28 175,338 407 1146 153
K3MM 1,283,660 1208 3460 371
K2PS 29 680,372 853 2209 308
N2DL 597,144 715 2148 278
NO2T 565,964 787 1972 287
K0KO 412,915 733 1535 269
K4BU 339,192 642 1346 252
WB5B 22 261,144 554 1209 216
WA4GKM 226,198 494 1057 214
K0RC 17 153,426 427 843 182
K9USA (KA6A) 148,749 363 831 179
ND5S 89,644 257 614 146
K0FG 17 87,822 300 574 153
NA2M 72,000 260 500 144
KEWW 52,997 161 113
SOP/LP/AB
YL2KF 393,000 524 1572 250
VE6KRR 194,810 456 1210 161
UR5IBG 26 114,756 292 876 131
JE2UFF 86,436 193 686 126
VE2AXO 13 79,532 213 674 118
VE4COZ 67,116 233 476 141
VE7QO 19 55,770 210 507 110
SM5AAY 24 50,710 169 461 110
AA5AU 474,842 796 1733 274
N1RCT 30 369,984 658 1504 246
NX4W 233,453 594 1117 209
KA2CYN 131,378 341 806 163
KD8FS 107,894 355 739 146
KF2OG 102,054 316 699 146
W2JGR/0 18 69,504 268 543 128
KF9LI 63,720 268 531 120
AC6DR 39,936 210 416 96
K7EX 17 25,935 153 273 95
KA5T QRP 9,558 80 177 54
K0BX 9,381 87 159 59
Single Band
80M
DJ3IW 176,644 294 158
40M
VE7SAY 32,376 106 426 76
AC0M 24 115,362 326 754 153
KQ4QM 73,512 229 576 127
W2UP 50,034 122 538 93
20M
I2EOW 503,041 620 1529 329
SM3KOR 6 95,418 236 558 171
YO3JF 58,438 215 479 122
VE6JY 6 40,404 166 364 111
VE7/KB7QEQ 38,913 163 357 109
KC4B 25 204,048 411 872 234
MULTI/SINGLE
OH2AG 497,827 635 1837 271
VE6RAJ 29 175,797 407 1149 153
W5WW 611,940 923 1974 311
AF4Z 600,799 870 1957 307
OPERATOR LIST
OH2AG G0VTQ,OH2GI,OH2LU,OH2SS
W5WW W5WW,K5MR,N5MTS
AF4Z WT4I,KT4DI,K4AW,NF4F,KT4FY,AF4Z,K4PX
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
PLEASE NO ATTACHEMENTS !!!! They will not be posted !!
THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL SCORES! I AM NOT A LOG CHECKER! DO NOT SEND ME ANY
LOGS!
73 Jim
**********************************************************
* Jimmy R. Floyd (Jim) Thomasville, NC *
* *
* Amateur Call: >> WA4ZXA << *
* Internet Address: >> floydjr@interpath.com << *
**********************************************************
>From floydjr@interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) Wed Feb 12 15:33:37 1997
From: floydjr@interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) (Jimmy R. Floyd)
Subject: NA SPRINT CW Jan 97 Scores
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970212153337.36879854@interpath.com>
NA SPRINT CW JAN 97
Raw Scores
Compiled by: WA4ZXA
<floydjr@interpath.com>
Date Posted: 02/12/97
CALL SCORE QSO'S MULTIS
________________________________________________________________________
High Power
K7RAT (N6TR) 16,752 349 48
K1KI 16,752 349 48
K6LL 16,368 341 48
K5GN (@W5KU) 16,238 353 46
N2IC 15,885 353 45
K5ZD 15,732 342 46
K4AAA (N4VJ) 15,640 340 46
N6AA 14,832 309 48
K5GA 14,740 335 44
N2RM (N2NC) 14,319 333 43
W2RQ 14,300 325 44
N2NT 13,975 325 43
N6ZZ 13,816 314 44
AG9A 13,725 305 45
N6TV 13,508 307 44
K6NA 13,503 300 45
K6LA 13,332 303 44
N5KO 13,287 309 43
N4AF 13,275 295 44
K4AMC 13,113 279 47
W9RE 13,112 298 44
KW8N 12,980 295 44
K3WW 12,804 291 44
AC6T 12,771 297 43
KT3Y 12,735 283 45
AA3B 12,690 282 45
N6VR 12,672 288 44
KC6CNV 12,408 282 44
K9NW (@W9UP) 12,384 288 43
N5OT 12,100 275 44
K9NW 12,096 288 42
W6RGG 12,012 273 44
K5OT 12,006 261 46
KE3Q 11,954 278 43
K4LT 11,739 273 43
W1WEF 11,720 293 40
K4NO 11,660 265 44
AA4NC 11,656 248 47
K9BG 11,562 246 47
AA4GA (@W4WA) 11,044 251 44
KU8E 11,004 262 42
WC4E 10,962 261 42
W9XR 10,780 245 44
N5RZ (@WF5E) 10,660 260 42
WB0O 10,640 280 38
K3CR (KB3AFT) 10,621 247 43
KG5U 10,584 252 42
W9YH 10,416 248 42
KO7X 10,414 254 41
W5ASP 10,374 247 42
K4RO 10,374 247 41
KO7X 10,127 254 41
N4ZR 10,120 253 40
N9IG 10,040 253 40
KM0L 9,880 247 40
N6ER 9,760 244 40
N5LZ 9,728 256 38
W9WI 8,970 230 39
N3RD 8,346 214 39
KW9KW 7,176 184 39
N5TJ 6,713 137 49
K3MD 6,321 227 43
K6AW 6,194 163 38
KJ9C 5,883 159 37
W2VJN 5,214 158 33
K8KFJ 3,910 115 34
NU4Y 989 43 23
Low Power
NM5M 13,800 300 46
K5NZ 11,266 262 43
K5NZ 11,223 262 43
K7SV 11,180 260 43
K2SQ 10,701 261 41
K7GM 10,692 243 44
W4EF 10,560 240 44
K1HT 10,105 235 43
K4FXN 9,635 235 41
W4ZW 9,090 202 45
N0AX 8,991 243 37
W4PA 8,800 220 40
N5TU 8,680 217 40
W7ZRC 8,580 220 39
K9PG 8,323 203 41
N2NL 7,141 193 37
AB5LX 7,120 178 40
N7LOX 6,948 193 36
WO4O 6,882 186 37
KB0IHM 6,588 183 36
WD4AHZ 5,904 164 36
WI9WI 5,746 169 34
WB0OLA 5,544 154 36
N3IXR 5,544 154 36
N9GG 3,808 112 34
KA8OKH 3,324 98 33
K0EJ 3,120 104 30
W1HIJ 2,937 89 33
K7BG 1,104 48 23
K5TR 792 44 18
K8MR 42 7 6
Team Scores
SCCC 131,929
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NO ATTACHMENTS !!! Attachments will not be posted or should NOT be sent to
me or the relfector.
REMEMBER THESE SCORES ARE UNOFFICIAL AND THIS IS NOT WHERE YOU SEND ANY
LOGS!! ^^^
If you did not state what power you were running I put you in High Power.
If that is wrong just emial me and I will change it.
73 Jim
**********************************************************
* Jimmy R. Floyd (Jim) Thomasville, NC *
* *
* Amateur Call: >> WA4ZXA << *
* Internet Address: >> floydjr@interpath.com << *
**********************************************************
>From jmarchand@ecrm.com (MarchandJohn) Wed Feb 12 16:09:53 1997
From: jmarchand@ecrm.com (MarchandJohn) (MarchandJohn)
Subject: "Contester" interferes w/ pc: Help!
Message-ID: <n1356376471.13214@macgtwy.ecrm.com>
BOY, doesn't it warm your heart to see just how far a devoted amateur =
radio
operator will go to keep peace in the neighborhood??
Just one hint; make sure you get your yearly contest schedule in writing =
and
notarized before July.. >;)
Best wishes in your new Multi-Op catagory.
73,
John, K1RC
__________________________________________________________________________=
_____
From: John Nicholson on Tue, Feb 11, 1997 19:09
Subject: "Contester" interferes w/ pc: Help!
To: CQ-Contest@tgv.com
I know there may be better places to post this, but the smartest
hams hang out on this reflector & I need advice, so here goes:
My neighbor 300' away had an Aptiva 120MHz pentium. No matter
what I did, I still got into her computer speakers. Being a good
ham (let's pretend I didn't notice her long blonde hair, ok?) I
offered to come up with a solution. With that in mind,
I put .01 caps on the speaker leads, wrapped the speaker
leads around RF choke torroids, and put a brute force telephone
filter on her modem. But the speakers STILL picked up my ssb and cw
(I run 200w out...3 el Quad up 60'). I even switched out speakers
and have had the same problems. The good news is...
...in the meantime, she fell in love with me, moved in, learned the
code, is taking her Tech Plus this weekend...and we are getting
married in July!...
...but he bad news is I still haven't found a solution to the Aptiva!
Does anyone have any experience with this pc...and what I can do next?
As you can see, I'll go to any extent to get this problem solved... :)
John K7FD and Annette (KC7U??)
>From n0ss@socketis.net (Tom Hammond) Wed Feb 12 17:48:19 1997
From: n0ss@socketis.net (Tom Hammond) (Tom Hammond)
Subject: Drake help
Message-ID: <199702121748.LAA23800@mail.sockets.net>
Greetings:
Yeah, I know this isn't the Drake Tech Support hot line, but I can't
think of a better place to find ops who have used Drake C-Lines in the
past, so please forgive the bandwidth, and any replies, PLEASE replt
DIRECT to my personal e-mail address and NOT here on the reflector!!!
Trey: I bet your indulgence.
I'm helping an ex-contester get back on the air. He has a Drake C-Line
which was put up for a few years (maybe 3-4 years at most), but which
now exhibits a problem I've seen before in my own C-Line (years ago)
but which I can't recall the fix for.
The symptom is this:
When in the CW mode, with the VOX set for semi-breakin, any time the
key is depressed, the rig goes into TX, generates a sidetone and output,
but then almost immediately returns back to RX mode, even though the
key is still depressed. If I key fairly rapidly, the VOX will hold the
rig in TX mode MOST of the time, but not always.
When I had my C-Line (N5TJ/KR0Y/KB0RC where are you now?), I seem to
recall having had this problem and that it was a quick and easy fix.
I've tried a BUNCH of different settings of the VOX sensitivity/delay
but none seem to solve the problem.
Any suggestions will be appreciated (DIRECT) and this will be the last
time I post this question here.
Thanks to all for your time and any possibly help. I'd like to get this
fellow back on the air, and don't want to have to get INTO the rig unless
I have to do so.
73 to all,
Tom Hammond N0SS
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