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> Top Band Digest Tuesday, October 13 1998 Volume 01 : Number 558
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> In this issue:
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> TopBand: W98ITU
> Re: TopBand: W98ITU
> TopBand: Re: W98ITU
> Re: TopBand: W98ITU
> Re: TopBand: W98ITU
> TopBand: Propagation and GPS markers
> TopBand: Re: W98ITU
> TopBand: The delicate dilema of the pile-up
> Re: TopBand: W98ITU
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> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:57:09 -0500
> From: "Jon K. Jones" <jkjones@fn.net>
> Subject: TopBand: W98ITU
>
> W98ITU showed up on 1.820 around 0250 utc. I believe this
> station is operating in conjunction with the ITU conference which gets
> underway October 12th through November 6th in Minneapolis, Mn.
> Does this station count as a DXCC country like 4U1UN and 4U1ITU?
> - - N0JK
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:28:26 EDT
> From: JBaumgarte@aol.com
> Subject: Re: TopBand: W98ITU
>
> Don't know about country status--(doubt it), but it is at Paul Bittner, W0AIH
> station.
>
> John, N0IJ
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:17:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ward Silver <hwardsil@WOLFENET.com>
> Subject: TopBand: Re: W98ITU
>
> > W98ITU showed up on 1.820 around 0250 utc. I believe this
> > station is operating in conjunction with the ITU conference which gets
> > underway October 12th through November 6th in Minneapolis, Mn.
> > Does this station count as a DXCC country like 4U1UN and 4U1ITU?
> > - N0JK
>
> This small geopolitcial entity is long known to the residents of Minnesota
> and Wisconsin, but only suspected outside of The Black Hole. It is none
> other than the Republic of Bittnia. A theocracy, Bittnia prosperes under
> the benign sovereignty of the Rev. Paul Bittner using the state callsign,
> W0AIH.
>
> Bittnia, a mountain kingdom shrouded in mystery and regalia, is best known
> for its exports of high-quality RF. The resident population of Bittites
> undergoes dramatic fluctuations every fall with the onset of contest
> season as migrant workers converge on Shak, the capital.
>
> The harvest typically takes place in a frantic gleaning over a period of
> 48 hours. Permanent residents of Bittnia prepare all year for the crop,
> erecting and maintaining the metal towers and racks from which the RF is
> selected and cured. These structures can be seen for many miles,
> invoking and reinforcing the awe of nearby residents, many of whom sit in
> their living rooms trying to receive distant broadcasts of football on
> Sunday afternoon, and saying, "Awww!"
>
> While many have suggested Bittnia is most deserving of DXCC status as a
> separate entity, the jovial Bittner eschews such accolades, preferring
> instead to remain a comfortable haven to the workers where the
> time-honored fall cornucopia refreshes all whose sensitivities are so
> tuned.
>
> Hail Bittnia!
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
> DXCC Mistorian
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:01:23 EDT
> From: k6se@juno.com (Earl W Cunningham)
> Subject: Re: TopBand: W98ITU
>
> I operated as KH5ITU and KG5ITU when I was W5RTQ in '74 and '75, but it
> only counted as Houston, USA.
>
> 73, de Earl, K6SE
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:22:30 -0400
> From: "ike" <ike@1st.net>
> Subject: Re: TopBand: W98ITU
>
> Same here, operated KZ8ITU May 75. Counted as
> Belmont County, Ohio.
> 73
> Ike, K8IP
>
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> > From: Earl W Cunningham <k6se@juno.com>
> > To: jkjones@fn.net; topband@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: TopBand: W98ITU
To: <topband@contesting.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 12:01 PM
> >
> >
> > I operated as KH5ITU and KG5ITU when I was W5RTQ in '74 and '75, but it
> > only counted as Houston, USA.
> >
> > 73, de Earl, K6SE
> >
> >
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:18:05 +0300
> From: Vaino Lehtoranta <vaiski@dlc.fi>
> Subject: TopBand: Propagation and GPS markers
>
> >Now for a more interesting topic:
> >Over the summer there has been a large increase in the number of digital
> >markers on 160.
> >
> >73 Tom, W8JI
>
> I haven't seen anyone to comment on these 'markers', so I'll do it now.
>
> The frequencies Tom mentioned are occupied by Hyperfix navigation system,
> which have been operating for two or three decades now. Closest of them
> to us are in Sweden on the Baltic coast, many of them are in UK.
> The Hyperfix signal is rather complex and sounds as if multi-frequency one.
> In addition to those there are Russian BRAS and RS-10 navigation systems
> spreading all over the topband. They sound like a series of dashes.
> As these signals are used for hydrographic purposes, they are more
> active during summer time.
>
> 73 from Vaino, OH2LX, IARU Region 1 Auroral Studies coordinator
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:17:41 -0500
> From: Ralph Fedor <rfedor@cloudnet.com>
> Subject: TopBand: Re: W98ITU
>
> During the ITU conference in St. Paul, the call sign W98ITU will be used
> from multiple sites in the Dakota Division. For example, on Oct. 11 it was
> used from my station where we ran a "mini" multi-multi. There are probably
> 20 - 25 different QTH's that will host the call during the next month.
>
> It definitely does not count as a new country.
>
> 73-
> Ralph - K0IR
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> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:19:20 +0800
> From: Steve Ireland <sire@omen.com.au>
> Subject: TopBand: The delicate dilema of the pile-up
>
> After the terrific conditions that existed on 160m between Western Australia
> and North America the past weekend, I decided to put fingers to keyboard on
> a somewhat delicate matter. It is a problem that just about every station
> that is termed DX faces - how do you deal with a pile-up in a fair manner?
>
> During the good conditions that can prevail, in a somewhat unpredictable but
> spectacular manner, during the winter topband season, I work three types of
> operator - the died-in-wool topband types (like myself) whom I work every
> season (and some cases every week); the first timers, who may have a modest
> antenna or use low power; and - a category which fits somewhere between the
> two - the died-in-the-wool topband types who have turned to using a modest
> antenna or low power.
>
> The trouble with good conditions is that everybody gets excited and calls
> and it is hard to please/work everybody. Although I try and work my old QRO
> mates, my old QRP mates and first timers, someone inevitably gets left out.
> Not that VK6VZ is anything special by the way, it's just that I happen to
> carry the tag 'DX' and live in a Zone that you can count the number of
> active topbanders on the fingers of one hand.
>
> Actually, I'm not knocking the VK6VZ position on the 160m food chain - it's
> a nice position to be in, apart being so far from everywhere else and never
> hearing South America.
>
> When conditions are really good, I try and give the QRP types and the first
> timers a VK6 contact, because it's the only shot they get. On the other
> hand, I also like to say hello to my old QRO mates, who are the life and the
> soul of the band for me, especially when conditions return to their usual
> awfulness.
>
> Over the last few days, I have received some e-mails from people saying that
> they have been trying to work VK6 for a while and can never get
> past/through/around the dreaded pile-up because the large pile of regulars
> who are calling me. My usual reply in these situations is that I always
> have an ear open for the new callsigns and if you are on the band regularly
> enough, you will always work me eventually, as long as your signal is
> audible at this end. Just to prove this, why, I even worked one station
> running 100W and a modest antenna twice on Sunday night - once using his own
> call and once for his club station.
>
> The station that was worked twice uses what he calls the 'constant presence'
> approach to DXing - which is what I was taught by my 160m elmer as the only
> way to work DX on the band - you've got to be there every day, for as long
> as possible, ready, listening and calling as smartly as you can.
>
> To help the odds in the very good conditions, I guess it is a matter of me
> (and the other DX) trying some 'QSX up 1' type stuff in a bid to spread
> stations out a little bit and make things even fairer still. On the other
> hand, when the band is crowded during good conditions, QSXing can be a good
> way to upset people by taking up bandwidth.
>
> Recently, I had this startingly unoriginal idea about special 'first
> timer/QRP' nights, but after some thought realised these would inevitably
> fall on nights when the 160m conditions were bad...
>
> What it comes down to this is us DX will always do their best to keep
> everone happy, by whatever means is at our disposal - receiving antennas,
> QSX 1 up, etc. However, anyone out there who really wants to work VK6 or
> any other 160m DX can help the DX and themselves by putting up the biggest
> Tx antenna they can and running as much power as they are legally
> entitled/can afford to make our job as DX easy as possible.
>
> After all, this 160m DXing is a cooperative sort of thing AND a competitive
> sort of thing after all. Sometimes it makes my ears - and head - ache - and
> it ain't always just the band noise that does it. Ouch, who threw that
> brickbat?!!
>
> Vy 73,
>
> Steve, VK6VZ
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:01:17 -0400
> From: Tom Frenaye <frenaye@pcnet.com>
> Subject: Re: TopBand: W98ITU
>
> Nope... W98ITU is in use at the ITU conference in Minneapolis. N98ITU will
> be used during CQWW at W0AIH's QTH. Counts as zone 4/USA...
>
> -- Tom
>
> At 09:28 AM 10/13/98 -0400, N0IJ wrote:
> >
> >Don't know about country status--(doubt it), but it is at Paul Bittner, W0AIH
> >station.
> >
> >John, N0IJ
> >
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Very well done Ward. Congratulations on your imagination and
writing skill. 73
Tony, W4FOA
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