Thanks to all who help point me at some contest history for my program
at the local club.
Here is my outline for the contest presentation at the
local club meeting. The best source of information on contest
history is the series of articles in the CQ Contest magazine and
the CQ Amateur Radio Almanac. I have the entire presentation in
powerpoint (except the 35mm slides) if anybody would like to have
a copy of it. I can email it but it is about 600K bytes!
73, Fred KE7X
CQ Contest, CQ Contest . . .
Fred Cady - KE7X
4M5I, C6AHX, 4M5X, 6Y4A
Introduction
About Contesting
History of Contesting
Types of Contests
Components of Contesting
Contesting History
ARRL DX
1st International Relay Party - 1927
2 weeks long!
200 Contacts!
CQWW DX
1939 Radio Magazine, 1948 CQ
Field Day
First notice June 1933
62 Q's, 28 sections
Emergency Preparedness Theme
Field Day about 1960 (Slide)
Field Day 5 kW Generator (Slide)
The equipment was primitive but the operators were
intense. (Slide)
WRTC - World Radiosport Team Championship
1990 - Seattle
1996 - San Francisco
2000 - ?
Types of Contests
Frequency Bands
HF, VHF/UHF
All Bands (160 - 10m)
Single Band (10m, 160m)
Duration
4 hour Sprint, 24 hour, 48 hour
SSB, CW, Mixed Mode, RTTY
Number of Operators
Single Op (SO)
Single Op Assisted (SOA)
Multi-Single (MS)
Multi-Multi (MM)
WPX (Work Prefixes)
DX
Local
Field Day
Components of Contesting
Planning
Operating Skills
Propagation
Antennas
Equipment
Operating Skills
Speed, Accuracy, Endurance
Running a Pile-up is a Gas
Propagation
Band Planning
Normal Vs Abnormal Paths
Tools
Geoclock
MOF/LOF
Miniprop
Beacon Wizard
Geoclock (slide)
http://www.clark.net/pub/bblake/geoclock/index.html
K1TTT MOF/LOF (slide)
http://www.berkshire.net/~robbins/software.html
Miniprop
Beacon Wizard
Antennas
Loud is Good, but ...
Design
Front-to-back Vs Gain
Related to propagation analysis
Radiation angle
Diversity
Need lots of antennas
Double beaming and tail gunning
C6AHX - Treasure Key, Bahamas, 1994 (slides)
4M5X - Caracas, Venezuela, 1995 (slides)
6Y4A - Discovery Bay, Jamaica, 1997 (slides)
Equipment
Transceivers
Amplifiers
Coax (miles)
Antenna Patch Panel
WX0B Stack Matcher
Station Engineering
Inter-station Interference
Bandpass filters
Coax stubs
Antenna placement
Grounding
Stations
C6AHX (slides)
4M5X (slides)
6Y4A (slides)
6Y4A (Video)
Computers
Logging
CT
NA
LOG
PED CT Simulator (demo)
Computers
Networking
Internet
Radio Interference
6Y4A
6Y4A Computer Setup (slide)
Strategy
Work Stations Fast
Multipliers
Cluster spots
Passing mults
In-band multing
Camaraderie
Group Dynamics
Motivated and goal oriented operators
Bright People
Dayton Hamvention
Contesting Reflector
www.contesting.com
Radio Club of Venezuela (slides)
Where Do I Start?
Lots of Contests
GHRC Field Day
All above plus
Emergency operations
GHRC Field Day 1998
June 27, 28
Battleridge Cabin
2 SSB, 1 CW Stations?
Station Captains
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