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Subject: K8GL CQWW SSB
From: PerryB1237@aol.com (PerryB1237@aol.com)
Date: Wed Nov 2 19:47:11 1994
I'm posting this for a friend.  

Score of K8GL CQWW SSB (single op, single band-20 meters)

563 Qs
 32  Zones
121 Countries 
237,762 Points

Via Perry, WR0G

>From Beryl D. Simonson" <KE3GA@delphi.com  Thu Nov  3 00:59:02 1994
From: Beryl D. Simonson" <KE3GA@delphi.com (Beryl D. Simonson)
Subject: Warning about PDA's Logic
Message-ID: <01HJ0L536SWI9N5KAA@delphi.com>

I've been a Logic user for almost two years and have absolutely no
complaints.  I started with DOS and upgraded to Windows when it became
available.  Dennis gives great support when needed (often forwards his phone
to his home so you can get him on nights and weekends), and has a top notch
product.

The complaints about copy protection just do not make sense.  It takes
seconds to put the disk in the computer when you change your configuration,
and might induce some people to pay for a quality product that would not
otherwise do so.  I find it a bother to use a key in my car and office also,
but at least they stay somewhat secure.

Let's stop beating on people who try to make a living from this business, I
think they do it more out of love for the hobby than to make a real living.
 What we do if we had to buy software form commercial producers--pay $400 or
$500 for a logging or contest program? 

My $0.02 worth.

Beryl
 ===========================================================================
 Beryl D. Simonson             Internet        KE3GA@DELPHI.COM
 Wynnewood, PA 19096           PacketCluster   KE3GA@WB2YOF
                    Frankford Radio Club
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>From Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com>  Wed Nov  2 21:14:12 1994
From: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD@world.std.com> (Randy A Thompson)
Subject: WW Phone Score K5ZD (long message)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9411022115.E740-0100000@world.std.com>

Reflections on the WW Phone from K5ZD.                    

Contest - 2 weeks
Started with an empty room and assembled a station.  All new antennas and 
feedlines.  No idea what works and what doesn't.

Contest - 1 week
Went to LAX for trade show.

Contest - 36 hours
Woke up Thursday morning.  Can't hear out of my right ear.  Monday after 
contest it is diagnosed as a blockage due to wax build-up.  Did the contest
with 1-1/2 ears!

Contest - 24 hours
Sit on balconey at Disneyland Hotel and watch sun go down.  Wonder how
I will ever get home and get things to work.  Much less get motivated to  
do a serious effort.

Contest - 8 hours
Arrive home from red eye flight.  Go to bed.

Contest - 4 hours
Wake up and see if station will work.  One bad coax to replace.
Some computer and DVP problems to solve.  One trip up tower to 
try to fix 20 meter stack (doesn't work).

Contest

Contest begins with about the conditions I expect.  Not too motivated but
operate because I want to see what works.  My wife is not happy that I 
came home and went straight into a contest.  My plan is to quit if 
ANYTHING breaks!

This is kind of fun.  I like the late night band hopping and multiplier
chasing...

Sunrise

Hey!  Where are the Europeans!  K1AR stops by to chat and we compare numbers.
I would never do this, but I don't really plan to be competitive, so
I do.  He is 80 QSOs up (wow!) and 40 mults up (double wow!).

Condx are terrible.  No Europeans on 15m the first day!  All the signals
on 20 have lots of flutter.  Keep grinding away with two hopes: 20m will
be better in the afternoon, and the bands will be better tomorrow.  Decide
my goal will be to chase after K1AR and try to catch him on QSOs and let
the mults take care of themselves.

Good run on 20 in the afternoon.  Next time John and I compare I have 
caught up enough to have some hope.  The competitive fire and motivation
crank up.  He caught some Europe on 15 while I was running on 20, but
I bet the farm that 15 will open tomorrow.

Keep pounding the low bands all night.  Am surprisingly awake, but decide
I will sleep to be fresh on Sunday when the rates will be higher.  Make
myself go to sleep at 0800z for 3 hours.

Sunday

Bands sound better (not great).  No flutter on 20 and 15 opens slowly.
Work G0KPW on 15 and he tells me their 10m frequency.  Put the second
radio there just to see if I can hear him.  I can - and they are very
loud on scatter!  It's an easy QSO so I spend some time chasing mults on 10.  
Work DJ4PT, S51AY.  Can't get an Italian.  Decide I have wasted enough time
and go to 15 to run.

Have an hour over a 100.  K1AR immediatly checks in to tell me he just 
had a 170 hour.  How does he do it?  Is it the 4-stack at K1EA or does he 
just talk real fast?  I am undaunted!

Rest of the contest is a CQ exercise.  I didn't use the second radio much
on Saturday but start to work harder on Sunday.  It pays off in lots of
mults.

Last 2 hours are no good for Europe.  Spend my time chasing South Americans
on 10/15 (amazing how many of them there are).  Work some VEs on 75.
Catch 6 new countries in last 10 minutes on 40.  Makes for a good ending.

Comments

Activity was definitely down.  Bad conditions make it hard for the small
stations to stay on.

160 was great the first night and terrible the second.

This  contest was kind of fun.  Much like my early efforts from Texas.
Lots of hunt & pounce with occasional runs.  Just the way I like it.  
More fun than the 12 hours of straight CQing normally required from W1.

Didn't seem to be as many lids as normal (or maybe I just missed them).
Only ran into a few pile-ups that I walked away from because there were
too many lids.  I did find some mults just when they came on, but never got
through because the packet guys came on so fast.  It is crucial to get 
through early because once the first packet guy gets a QSO, the level
of competition (some of it very obnoxious multi-ops) goes up.

I publicly admit it.  K1AR is pretty good at this stuff.  I was operating
head down the whole weekend.  This is so easy for John that he beats me
AND tunes around the band having ragchews with everyone.  Oh well...
maybe next year when I get the 20m stack working!

Here are the numbers.  See you on CW.

Randy, K5ZD
K5ZD@world.std.com

                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1994

      Call: K5ZD                     Country:  United States
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Single Operator

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES

      160       39       94     2.41     13      25
       80      249      654     2.63     21      71
       40      205      572     2.79     21      70
       20     1083     3160     2.92     33     132
       15      359     1017     2.83     24     102
       10      109      289     2.65     15      44
     ---------------------------------------------------
     Totals   2044     5786     2.83    127     444  =>  3,303,806

Equipment Description:
IC-765 + Alpha 76, TS-930 + L-4B
160m 1/4-wave GP, 80m Inverted vee @90', 40m 40-2CD @110'
20m 205CA @100', 205CA @50'
15m 5-ele @75'
10m 6-ele @67' fixed South
TH7DXX @70'


BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  K5ZD  CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST  Single Operator

HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT  CUM TOT  

   0    .....    .....    .....    66/28    .....    .....    66/28   66/28 
   1      .        .      49/19     9/4       .        .      58/23  124/51 
   2      .      27/18    31/10     2/2       .        .      60/30  184/81 
   3      .      58/21      .       3/1       .        .      61/22  245/103
   4     8/8     24/8     10/5       .        .        .      42/21  287/124
   5    12/8     10/4     10/6       .        .        .      32/18  319/142
   6     6/4     36/4       .        .        .        .      42/8   361/150
   7      .      11/4     10/3      2/2       .        .      23/9   384/159
   8     4/3     10/3      1/1      2/2     .....    .....    17/9   401/168
   9      .       3/1     12/6      1/0       .        .      16/7   417/175
  10      .       6/3      9/4      4/3       .        .      19/10  436/185
  11      .       2/1      2/2     20/10    20/14      .      44/27  480/212
  12      .        .        .      42/15     2/2       .      44/17  524/229
  13      .        .        .      23/3     11/6       .      34/9   558/238
  14      .        .        .      29/8      7/2       .      36/10  594/248
  15      .        .        .      23/2       .        .      23/2   617/250
  16    .....    .....    .....    83/4     .....     6/6     89/10  706/260
  17      .        .        .     119/7       .        .     119/7   825/267
  18      .        .        .     114/8      3/2       .     117/10  942/277
  19      .        .        .      73/6      7/4      9/8     89/18 1031/295
  20      .        .        .      39/2     13/5      9/3     61/10 1092/305
  21      .        .        .      15/1      6/1       .      21/2  1113/307
  22      .        .       8/2     22/6       .        .      30/8  1143/315
  23      .      11/1      4/2      5/3       .        .      20/6  1163/321
   0    .....    .....    .....    30/1     .....    .....    30/1  1193/322
   1      .        .      19/2      3/1       .        .      22/3  1215/325
   2     1/1     12/0      2/0       .        .        .      15/1  1230/326
   3     1/0      3/2      2/2     11/1       .        .      17/5  1247/331
   4     1/0     12/2      2/0       .        .        .      15/2  1262/333
   5     3/2       .      12/2      1/0       .        .      16/4  1278/337
   6     2/1      7/1      4/0       .        .        .      13/2  1291/339
   7      .        .       2/0       .        .        .       2/0  1293/339
   8    .....    .....    .....    .....    .....    .....    ..... 1293/339
   9      .        .        .        .        .        .        .   1293/339
  10     1/0      2/1      1/0      4/4       .        .       8/5  1301/344
  11      .        .        .      24/0       .        .      24/0  1325/344
  12      .        .        .      48/0     15/10      .      63/10 1388/354
  13      .        .        .        .      30/15    16/10    46/25 1434/379
  14      .        .        .        .      28/11    19/8     47/19 1481/398
  15      .        .        .        .     105/14      .     105/14 1586/412
  16    .....    .....    .....    .....    72/6      9/2     81/8  1667/420
  17      .        .        .      81/1      3/2      4/1     88/4  1755/424
  18      .        .        .      77/5      4/2       .      81/7  1836/431
  19      .        .        .      56/1      3/2     16/7     75/10 1911/441
  20      .        .        .      34/1      8/2      4/0     46/3  1957/444
  21      .        .        .      16/3      7/2       .      23/5  1980/449
  22      .        .        .        .      15/2     17/1     32/3  2012/452
  23      .      15/0     15/7      2/1       .        .      32/8  2044/460
DAY1    30/23   198/68   146/60  696/117    69/36    24/17    ..... 1163/321
DAY2     9/4     51/6     59/13   387/19   290/68    85/29      .    881/139
TOT     39/27   249/74   205/73 1083/136  359/104   109/46      .   2044/460

BREAKDOWN by Operating Time/Rate per Band

DAY1  1.1/27   4.7/43   3.3/44  10.6/66   1.4/48   0.3/70    .....  21.5/54 
DAY2  0.5/17   2.0/25   2.4/25   7.7/50   4.1/70   1.9/45      .    18.6/47 
TOT   1.7/23   6.7/37   5.7/36  18.3/59   5.6/64   2.2/49      .    40.1/51 

                              Continent Statistics
K5ZD   CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST    Single Operator

                 160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America     19   91   41   85   56   32  324    15.9
South America      4   25   26   60   59   69  243    11.9
Europe            13  124  123  840  217    5 1322    64.7
Asia               0    1    0   63    2    0   66     3.2
Africa             3    4    9   30   19    1   66     3.2
Oceania            0    4    6    5    6    2   23     1.1



>From Robert Wood <w5robert@blkbox.COM>  Thu Nov  3 03:18:09 1994
From: Robert Wood <w5robert@blkbox.COM> (Robert Wood)
Subject: SOA score/notes
Message-ID: <9411022118.aa20528@blkbox.COM>

Put out 138 spots, worked xf4m,v31dx,v47z,zf2ji,pj1b,&vp2e 5 bands.
160 antenna on ground.  226K total.  (may submit as a S/B if CT 
shows the single band score with multi-band worked)
-- 
73  Robert                    
WB5CRG   

>From AGDM25A@prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT)  Thu Nov  3 04:59:55 1994
From: AGDM25A@prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT)
Subject: SS-PREP
Message-ID: <013.01667197.AGDM25A@prodigy.com>

Recently K3WW and K5ZD have written about their physical preparation prior
to a contest.  K3WW described his pre-contest "ritual" in the ARRL DX test
write-up on page 116 of the October QST, and K5ZD wrote about the physical
preparation of contesting in the Sept/Oct NCJ.  Both authors stressed the
importance of starting the contest well rested with plenty of sleep.  K5ZD
even suggested jogging and physical exercise to build up "endurance".  I
agree .... physical preparation is important.  In light of this important
information, here is the routine I would like to use to prepare for this
weekend's SSCW.

Friday night - Take a loooong hot bath.  Soak in the tub and study the SS
writeup in April's QST.   Then put on my special red fleece Mr. Roger's
pajamas, the ones with the feet sewn in.   Drink one 8oz glass of warm
milk, and dip (3) Oreo cookies in it.  Watch a couple of Ren & Stempe
cartoon reruns, unplug the telephone, put in earplugs, set the thermostat
at 72 degrees, and go to bed at xactly 9:30PM.
Wake up at xactly 6:44AM (my usual routine).  Eat a light breakfast of
jelly toast and decaff coffee.  Don't bother shaving, (I'll do that during
my Saturday night break).

OH, what the hell!  Notice I said its the routine I WOULD LIKE to use...

Actually, my contest physical preparation will go something like this...

Friday morning - Seven year old daughter wakes me up at 6:30AM.  Send her
to school.  Head into work, and run run run flat out for fourteen hours
until 11:30PM.  Then follow co-workers to the local sports bar to unwind.
Finally - home to bed at 2:30AM....  Pop awake five hours later at 7:30A
with a hangover and "buzzzz"  Drink eight cups of coffee - brewed six
scoops of grounds to six cups of water.  Rake the yard leaves or some
obnoxious household chore for three hours.  Fire-up the station about
12Noon, and discover some antenna problem that necessitates climbing up and
down a 120' tower three times in freezing weather with no gloves.  Thaw out
my hands and sit down to rig about ten minutes before the start of the contest.

Actually I don't start the contest without first making a trip to the local
party store for some contest supplies...  a fresh bottle of NO-DOZ 200mg
caffine tablets, a couple eight-packs of Diet Coke, a large bag of Lays
potato chips, a half pint of sourcream for dip, and a dozen chocolate
doughnuts for Sunday morning's breakfast.  If its a phone contest, throat
lozenges and a half pint of Jim Beam.

During the contest I snack on the above and drink full strength coffee as
needed.   I also find an occasional 807 during the slow times Sunday
afternoon helps relieve the boredom.


Unlike K3WW, I don't bother shaving during my Saturday night "break" -
whose gonna see me anyway?
                               CU this weekend ... kevn - WA8ZDT


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