Hi to the Contest gang.
Well the 10 meter band is in the doldrums again.
After some exciting openings in the last two weeks,
things were horribly flat on 10m for the CQWW_CW.
Heard nothing at the start of the contest, and only a few JA's
last night. So nearly gave it away.
Today for the last session, the 10 M band opened from
the South Pacific to North America for the last 4 hours
of the contest.
First thru were:
Nov 24. UTC Call
---- ----
1956 W4YV
2007 K5GN
2008 W3LPL
2013 N2RM
2014 N4QQ
2018 N3RR
2020 N4MM
2045 K5NA
2047 W4QJ
2144 W6KFV
2147 K0RF
2148 AB7KS
2151 W7EKM
2157 N7HUS
2159 W7EU
2200 K6VX
2303 W0AIH
2304 N7RO
2205 W7RN
2005 WA5PAE
2006 K4CSB
2207 K3LR
2209 N6NR
2214 K5NU
2219 WH6R
2220 K9OM
2221 N5NT
2223 WA3OCG
2226 KL7HF
2229 N6ND
2230 NL7G
2247 KH8/N5OLS
2252 N2IC
2258 N5NMY
2257 KS4LC
2300 K6TAR
2315 K6XV
2317 N6GDS
2238 JH5ZJS
2342 VK4XA
2347 K8CC
Thanks to these dedicated operators who will never quit!
-sorri for my shaky CW.
PS:
Solar flux over the contest was 83, 91 and 100. Any forecasts
for the ARRL 10 meter contest dates of December 14-15?
Cheers for now,
Martin ZL1ANJ
< jmellis@ihug.co.nz >
***
Tom Wylie wrote:
>
> Hi guys, and thanks to those who worked me - GM6X. - 40m SOSB.
>
> Well, its 2215 on Sunday night and well may you ask - why is he
> here and not on the rig?
>
> Well things did not go quite according to plan at GM6X. Our site is on a
> hill top
> farm in the south west area of Scotland (home of GM4NFC -actually).
> I normally borrow a laptop computer for the contest, but this time I left it
> too
> late and had to us my trusty old 386, with CT. However, the computer
> didnt like the linear and fell over every time it was keyed. Got it sorted -
> well almost just before the start of the Contest - but guess what - Murphy
> beat
> us to it. Dont know what the problem was but propogation on the Friday
> night/ Saturday morning was very poor. Likewise the early morning long path
> DX
> opening didnt happen. Went to bed hoping for a short path opening to VK/JA
> -
> Yes you guessed it - didnt happen. We had a blizzard and snow storm on the
> Saturday night/Sunday morning, lost the rotator on the 40m beam, lost
> the computer several times and finally lost the electricity supply to the
> farm about
> 1300 on the Sunday.
>
> So this year's test was a dead loss. Less than 1,000 Qs......
> Poor condx, very heavy rain/snow static, computer problems, high noise level
> and finally no power killed not only the station but the enthusiasm. Had to
> drive home through a blinding blizzard..........
>
> How I wish I was in southern California- where it never rains
> -------------------
>
> CU guys in the ARRL
>
> 73 de Tom
>
> GM4FDM (GM6X)
>From w7ll@juno.com (Dale Belcher) Mon Nov 25 03:37:46 1996
From: w7ll@juno.com (Dale Belcher) (Dale Belcher)
Subject: Reset Alpha
Message-ID: <19961124.203748.14766.5.w7ll@juno.com>
After 6 hard faults the Alpha 87a will not reset. How can it be reset or
problem resolved?
Send reply to;
W7WW@juno.com
Or
W7LL@juno.com or post it on the reflector.
Thanks in advance.
>From hwardsil@wolfenet.com (Ward Silver) Mon Nov 25 05:58:10 1996
From: hwardsil@wolfenet.com (Ward Silver) (Ward Silver)
Subject: Floating concrete
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961124215449.22479E-100000@gonzo.wolfenet.com>
> At 11:43 AM 11/24/96 -0800, Charlie Deel wrote:
> > Reply to: RE>Floating concrete
> >
> >Ken,
> >
> >Concrete ships float for the same reason steel ships float, they displace a
> >volume of water greater in weight than the weight of the material used to
> >construct them. Having built and raced concrete canoes in college I have
> >seen
> >it firsthand. But, you fill a steel or concrete ship with water, and they
> >sink like a rock (re: Titanic). Concrete support foundations will not float,
> >since they do not displace a volume of water greater in weight than the
> >foundation concrete itself.
> >
> >Cliff W4CE
>
>
> Isn't it more likely that what happens is that the wet sand above the anchor
> does not exert the same resistance to the guy-wire's pull as when dry? Less
> cohesive soil (like saturated sand) would tend to flow around the anchor
> block, allowing the guy wire gradually to pull it to the surface. I know
> this could happen in my Rohn-standard application, because the anchor blocks
> are not heavy enough by themselves to handle the maximum guy wire pull they
> could theoretically sustain. They rely on the weight of the earth above
> them, and its cohesion with the surrounding soil. Fortunately, mine aren't
> in sand, but I had a worried few days this summer when the area around one
> guy anchor flooded.
>
Next time there's a flood in your area...go look at the filling stations
where the underground tanks popped out of the ground. They floated their
way up because the water table rose. The water fills the space between
soil grains and exerts the same amount of hydrostatic pressure as for a
pool of the same depth. (All this from an electrical engineer with a
civil engineer for a father...) I doubt that a concrete anchor block
would 'float'...the disruption of the sand cohesion due to the
introduction of water as a lubricant sounds much more reasonable.
Anything hollow would truly 'float', though.
73, Ward N0AX
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