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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 221, Issue 26
From: "GIWagner@k5kg.com" <giwagner@k5kg.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 12:30:57 -0400
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I met OH2BAD at the OH0W station back in the 80’s.  I commented about his call. 
 He told me that when he got his call years before he did not speak English.  
After learning English, he then realized the significance of OH 2 BAD!

Geo K5KG 

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>   1. Re: Laptops for mobile.... (Jim Brown)
>   2. Re: Laptops for mobile.... (rjairam@gmail.com)
>   3. Re: Quality for Laptop Audio/Mic (Michael Adams)
>   4. Re: What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest? (k7lxc@aol.com)
>   5. Re: Laptops for mobile.... (Michael Dinkelman)
>   6. Re: What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest? (Don Butler)
>   7. Re: What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest? (kq2m@kq2m.com)
>   8. CQ WPX strategy (Mike Smith VE9AA)
>   9. Re: What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest? (Bernie)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 02:40:45 -0700
> From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: "cq-contest@contesting.com" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Laptops for mobile....
> Message-ID:
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> 
>> On 5/29/2021 5:13 PM, Keith Dutson wrote:
>> Is there a way for me to measure the noise?
> 
> No easy way to MEASURE it, but there are several suggested methods in 
> the app note on my website about Building Contest Scores by killing 
> noise. One of "go-to" noise probes is a vintage Kenwood TH-F6A talkie, 
> which has widband RX, from either a built-in loopstick or the coax 
> conector (defaults to the loop below 10 MHz, the coax above, but can 
> switched in software). The RX is a block of wood, but it works well 
> close up to noise sources. My starting point is just above the AM BC 
> band, in AM mode, and I probe around the suspect. If it hears noise, our 
> antennas probably will too. Several other radios are listed, as well as 
> SDRs that can function as a poor man's spectrum analyzer.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 08:35:41 -0400
> From: "rjairam@gmail.com" <rjairam@gmail.com>
> To: Michael Dinkelman <mwdink@gmail.com>
> Cc: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Laptops for mobile....
> Message-ID:
>    <CAMCyBs5PTmrN7GnMo7XG_j4R+--Zq0irJqF1i+1Ypo4gCk80-Q@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> I used my 2018 MacBook Pro in the K2EZ VHF rover for June VHF in 2018.
> I have a 45 watt USB-C PD adapter. that connects to 12V DC.
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/Gearmo-Type-C-Output-Charger-Laptops/dp/B072P6J47F/
> 
> We didn't have RFI issues once I put a ferrite bead (3 turns) on the
> USB-C PD input to the laptop. There was a slight "hash" on 6m and HF
> without it.
> 
> So it is possible. I haven't tried PC laptops yet, mostly because I
> don't have any, except my work laptop which can't be used for radio
> contesting.
> 
> PD makes things a lot easier to run laptops off a car's 12V supply but
> I always had a car adapter for all of my laptops, as I just like to be
> prepared.
> 
> I don't like inverters as they add bulk and also inefficiency. I do
> use inverters for other things but not my computers.
> 
> 73
> Ria, N2RJ
> 
>> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:24 PM Michael Dinkelman <mwdink@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is about contesting...  mobile contesting
>> 
>> The laptop I use for mobile is nearing its end after about 10 years
>> of general use  and mobile. Now just mobile as I didn't care about
>> OS  (it's WIN8) as long as it ran N1MM+. But it has become
>> unreliable even after full factory resets.
>> 
>> My main laptop, a high powered workstation is great, but not so good for
>> mobile. It doesn't have a mobile supply for vehicle use and while I have
>> tried
>> quiet inverters, the real noise from battery charging seems to be
>> internal  to
>> the laptop.
>> 
>> It would be good to find a reliable laptop that can run off vehicle
>> power (even with a dedicated
>> accessory supply). It doesn't need to be a workhorse and cheaper would
>> be great. It just
>> needs to run N1MM+ and not generate  RF on it's own. Unfortunately,
>> cheaper may mean less
>> RF suppression and susceptibility. I'd appreciate comments from folks
>> who actually run laptops mobile.
>> (I can look at specs all day on the web but that  doesn't tell you much
>> until you turn it on in
>> a vehicle.)
>> 
>> cheers
>> dink, n7wa
>> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 15:07:23 +0000
> From: Michael Adams <mda@n1en.org>
> To: "cq-contest@contesting.com" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Quality for Laptop Audio/Mic
> Message-ID:
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> I'm using these with my K3's (not K3S): 
> https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N905VOY
> 
> They are not perfect, but they're good enough for my needs, given that I 
> prefer to have the radios on separate sound devices than default Windows 
> audio.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Adams | mda@n1en.org
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+mda=n1en.org@contesting.com> On Behalf 
> Of JimKC4HW
> Sent: Saturday, 29 May, 2021 10.03
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Quality for Laptop Audio/Mic
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation for the Audio/Mic Spliter for a single plug 
> laptop?
> 
> Or what do you recommend for an external sound divice for digital modes?
> 
> Jim/KC4HW
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 16:08:42 +0000 (UTC)
> From: <k7lxc@aol.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> Message-ID: <1261142905.794950.1622390922274@mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> ? ? I always thought OH2BAD was a good one. Turns out he was a Lutheran 
> pastor in the Church in the Rock in Helsinki.
> 
> ? ? And who can forget Waxahatchee Nicaragua 4 Knickerbocker Knickerbocker 
> Nicaragua. Just glad he wasn't portable somewhere - hi.??Cheers,Steve? ? K7LXC
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 19:46:49 -0700
> From: Michael Dinkelman <mwdink@gmail.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Laptops for mobile....
> Message-ID: <4b8e5deb-db0f-5c97-422c-41773f1e31f2@gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> 
> 
> Thanks to all for your inputs!
> 
> cheers
> dink, n7wa
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 17:55:13 -0600
> From: "Don Butler" <n5lz@comcast.net>
> To: "'Randy Thompson'" <k5zd@outlook.com>,    <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> Message-ID: <000001d755af$3c3011e0$b49035a0$@comcast.net>
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> 
> The call that I will never forget was 6E5EBE .... not even sure if it was it
> was used in WPX or CQWW contest .... it goes back to the 1980s or early
> 1990s ....  those guys probably still hold the record for "most dits
> transmitted during a single weekend"
> 
> Don N5LZ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces+n5lz=comcast.net@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Randy Thompson
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 12:17 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> Not sure about weird or unusual, but a QSO that has stuck in my mind from
> many years ago was working A35NN in and ARRL DX CW contest.  His exchange
> was 5NN NN.  I remember it took me a few QSOs listening to figure it all
> out!
> 
> Randy K5ZD
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=outlook.com@contesting.com> On
> Behalf Of AB1J via CQ-Contest
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 10:25 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> 
> What's the most unusual or weird prefix you have ever worked?
> 
> GL in the contest.
> 
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@outlook.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Fri, May 28, 2021 2:13 am
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> One of the fun things about the WPX contest is the number of multipliers.?
> Every new prefix worked helps build the score. Ray NM2O has looked at the
> TI7W log from last year and made a list of the USA prefixes worked.
> 
> See
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcqwpx.com%2
> Fblog%2Fsome-wpx-statistics%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C31a1860c46dd429fb0d108d
> 92181bbe1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637577663350606041%7C
> Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC
> JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=byZUTyFhQsv%2BxHrxAT4JMvhVU8%2BTiB1Z8Dw%2BZMJC
> FZ4%3D&amp;reserved=0 for details.
> 
> Want to be rare this weekend?? Find a prefix that is not usually active and
> put it on the air!
> 
> 
> Randy K5ZD
> 
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> I6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=3xpahj0Uulv7By2UcWq4JjQd3U38mBgAqW
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 20:07:54 -0500
> From: kq2m@kq2m.com
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Cc: aa6dx7388@gmail.com, kfrog007@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> Message-ID: <4a08711969644c4ad9a48909287e2f11@kq2m.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> 
> In the 1977 ARRLDXCW contest, I remember working C3PO and R2D2.  :-)
> 
> I also remember working RG8U in CQWWSSB around that time, and, not long 
> after that, RG8X.
> 
> Commonly worked were F0OL, Z1LCH, PH0OEY
> 
> Actual calls were OH2BAD, and a few callsigns ending in ASS, one of 
> which was worked by many stations in a DX contest.
> 
> Best CW calls, if sent ~ 50 WPM, were 5E5E and EE5E.  There may also 
> have been a 5H5SH but I'm not sure.   :-)
> 
> One of the stranger SSB calls from decades ago had to be TG0FRACAP.
> 
> 73
> 
> Bob KQ2M
> 
> 
>> On Thu, May 27, 2021, 10:38 PM AB1J via CQ-Contest
>> <cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> What's the most unusual or weird prefix you have ever worked?
>> 
>> GL in the contest.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Ken, AB1J
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 23:04:07 -0300
> From: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQ WPX strategy
> Message-ID: <008d01d755c1$3e14f950$ba3eebf0$@nbnet.nb.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> I messed up my 3830 submission?deleted ? of it by accident, so nobody saw
> the comment I was going to make about strategies in this contest.
> 
> 
> 
> If you go assisted and have a small to medium station, I think you can
> really make some wicked good score by just clicking on the mouse and don?t
> get held up on any one station?.they are all pretty much worth the same pts
> in terms of multipliers.  The exception would be an off continent low band
> mult?worth a little more, but not much.
> 
> 
> 
> If you are a medium to larger station,(and are NOT assisted) then my advice
> harkens back to a book most of us (in NA) read when we were very small (5-6
> yrs old).  The book series was ?Dick and Jane?.  My favorite line from them
> was ?Run Spot Run, see Spot run !? (or words to that effect).
> 
> 
> 
> I am on the lower end of what I?d like to think is a medium sized station.
> (just lotsa wires)
> 
> 
> 
> Even though I went ?Classic? this time, I found I could make a pretty good
> score by running as much as possible?.then, when things dried up, I swept
> the band by spinning the big knob (looking for mults or easy Q?s) and then
> changed bands most times.
> 
> 
> 
> Run, spot, Run.  See spot run.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike VE9AA
> 
> p.s.-leading zeros and cut #?s should be strongly discouraged in serial #
> contests.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 05:14:16 -0400
> From: Bernie <bernie@dailydx.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> Message-ID: <9E3FC381-E1DB-45DB-9B10-5C2E6846220E@dailydx.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset=utf-8
> 
> One I won?t forget (and I know it was a pirate) was EI5ISH sent around 40 
> WPM. I must admit I did not get it the first time it was sent. 
> 
> Bernie McClenny, W3UR
> 
> Editor of: The Daily DX (1997-2021)
>      The Weekly DX (2001-2021)
>      How's DX? (1999-2021)
> 
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> 
> 
> On May 31, 2021, at 3:13 AM, Don Butler <n5lz@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> ?The call that I will never forget was 6E5EBE .... not even sure if it was it
> was used in WPX or CQWW contest .... it goes back to the 1980s or early
> 1990s ....  those guys probably still hold the record for "most dits
> transmitted during a single weekend"
> 
> Don N5LZ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces+n5lz=comcast.net@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Randy Thompson
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 12:17 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> Not sure about weird or unusual, but a QSO that has stuck in my mind from
> many years ago was working A35NN in and ARRL DX CW contest.  His exchange
> was 5NN NN.  I remember it took me a few QSOs listening to figure it all
> out!
> 
> Randy K5ZD
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=outlook.com@contesting.com> On
> Behalf Of AB1J via CQ-Contest
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 10:25 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> 
> What's the most unusual or weird prefix you have ever worked?
> 
> GL in the contest.
> 
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@outlook.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Fri, May 28, 2021 2:13 am
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> One of the fun things about the WPX contest is the number of multipliers. 
> Every new prefix worked helps build the score. Ray NM2O has looked at the
> TI7W log from last year and made a list of the USA prefixes worked.
> 
> See
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcqwpx.com%2
> Fblog%2Fsome-wpx-statistics%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C31a1860c46dd429fb0d108d
> 92181bbe1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637577663350606041%7C
> Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLC
> JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=byZUTyFhQsv%2BxHrxAT4JMvhVU8%2BTiB1Z8Dw%2BZMJC
> FZ4%3D&amp;reserved=0 for details.
> 
> Want to be rare this weekend?  Find a prefix that is not usually active and
> put it on the air!
> 
> 
> Randy K5ZD
> 
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> I6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=3xpahj0Uulv7By2UcWq4JjQd3U38mBgAqW
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