73 every people.
I believe that is time to Work All Europe have separate class for Low Power and
High Power participants, like other big contests.
It's almost impossible to us, LOW Power stations, to have condx to make more
points than "big guns".
>From becker@shell.portal.com (Tony and Celia Becker) Wed Aug 9 01:42:41 1995
From: becker@shell.portal.com (Tony and Celia Becker) (Tony and Celia Becker)
Subject: Texas geographical advantage?
Message-ID: <199508090344.UAA22621@nova.unix.portal.com>
Rich Boyd, KE3Q, wrote:
>Noting the Texas DX Society's NAQP scores and knowing how SS usually
>goes, I wonder, is it unanimous that Texas is the
>place to be for domestic contests? 73
Just a note that for Sweepstakes Rich is refering to the Medium size club
category, which is quite competitive. i.e. the second and third place
Medium size clubs are not far behind the Texas club score. =20
In the Unlimited size, the four coast clubs rule by shear number of logs
submitted.
It just depends on how you slice it.
AE=D8M, Tony Becker - becker@shell.portal.com - Silicon Valley, U.S.A.
>From gejones@whale.st.usm.edu (Gary E Jones) Wed Aug 9 05:20:43 1995
From: gejones@whale.st.usm.edu (Gary E Jones) (Gary E Jones)
Subject: Tic-rotors
Message-ID: <9508090420.AA73847@whale.st.usm.edu>
Several fellows in the reflector recently have expressed an interest in
the TIC - Ring rotors. Seems that great minds run together.... as I have
been considering buying several ring rotors recently rather than some
more of my great monster swing arm assemblies, which work just fine, but
cost out fairly close to the ring rotors, so I considered buying several
instead of more fabrication. When I was in Dayton in 1993, I managed to
pick up some folders on the little TIC-ring rotor which was on a show special
for $595. It appears that the Standard price may have been about $700.00.
Well, I called them and although they are very nice fellows, I asked the price
and was told that the little one was $1,200 and the big model was $1,500 !!!!!
Now, that is a price increase!!!! And at that price, me and quite a few
others will obviously decide to stay with conventional rotors for their
installations..... Now, this is my opinion.... but it is clear to me that
if they could be happy with $700.00 in 1993, there is absolutely nothing that
is producing that kind of price increase other than sheer greed and
realization that they can probably sell them to the super stations that
just don't care about the cost of equipment... If people will spend $5,000
to $8,000 for a transceiver and an 87a costs a mere $6,000, then there
must lots of fellows who will pony-up $1300 to $1500 for a ring rotor...
Oh well, bet there is someone else out there that would be able to
produce these at a fraction of the cost and still make a nice profit!!!
Any takers? If so, keep my e-mail address.!!!
Regards
W5VSZ
>From Jeffrey Clarke <jdclarke@freenet.columbus.oh.us> Wed Aug 9 05:39:19 1995
From: Jeffrey Clarke <jdclarke@freenet.columbus.oh.us> (Jeffrey Clarke)
Subject: Early team score Florida Contest Group
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9508090017.A22565-c100000@acme>
On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, James White wrote:
> I) Congratulations TDXS for a great showing - you guys are really awesome
> ....many many moons ago K7VPF wrote a letter to NCJ stating how he would
> like to do some domestic contesting from TX - since then the WA5LES /K5PFL /
> K5LZO secret has been outta the bag!
>
> II) Dear K8MR, re the Sprint you mentioned, the bulk of us were at the W1CW
> QTH that weekend - doing endless antenna work..........at least we Social
> Security collecting retiree types here in Florida know our own sexual
> identity - Erin is a woman's name, fellas......what has happened to Mad
> River, have they all turned into girlie-men?
Jim... We used the name Erin since the remains of hurricane Erin
was raining down on our party... We could't think of anything
better to use... it was a kinda of spur of the moment thing!!!
BTW I think we set an all time record for the number of operators
in a NAQP Multiop... I think at last count we had 16 operators or
so !!!
>
> III) Dear K5GA are you sure your score is correct - aren't you off by one
> mult? I never found that Kansas station willing to QSY - I planned on
> catching one during the last 4 hours on 40 so I could move him to 20 meters,
> I was SO sure I'd find another one......a Kansas in the hand is worth
>
> IV) Congratulations to the Florida Contest group for again improving its
> NAQP scores, and having three members break Florida's NAQP record score! The
> totals below are first numbers in, more exact totals to follow....any one of
> you who didn't have FL on 5 or more bands wasn't on in the contest, period!
>
> NP4Z had a radio smoke 10 minutes into the contest - necessitating his
> making up new cables for the backup radio, then that was followed by a
> software crash necessitating changing from NA to N6TR in mid contest!!!!! I
> am not going to cry any more about four Friday night hours of being unable
> to get the Omni VI and NA to talk to each other without crashing. Changing
> your logging program on the fly, WOW! Felipe (for the inquiring, Pipe is the
> nickname for Felipe in P.R.) gets the DieHard award.....no, he's more like
> the Energizer battery - he keeps running and running, and running,
> and.......
>
> FLORIDA CONTEST GROUP AUGUST NAQP TEAM
>
> K1ZX 704 X 212 149,248 ('KKN syndrome?)
> AC4NJ (WC4E, op) 637 X 206 131,222 (host from Hell)
> AC1O/4 620 X 188 116,560 (80M antenna broke)
> WD4AHZ 519 X 175 90,825 (mr dependable)
> NP4Z 530 X ? (see above-Pipe still merging logs)
> ------------
> guesstimate: 585K
>
> ....thanks to everyone who worked us - we appreciate your support! That is
> unless you're that guy in Kansas who didn'y QSY for me - grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, zx k1zx@mcimail.com
>
>
>From James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> Wed Aug 9 10:12:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> (James White)
Subject: Fwd: Tic-rotors
Message-ID: <25950809091252/0006492564PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
.....to quoteth W6QHS:
"if they can build a washing machine that lasts for years...."
YES - EVERYONE KEEP THEIR EYES AND EARS OPEN FOR RESONABLY PRICED
ROTATORS! The ridiculous prices all the rotor manufacturers ask is out of
hand....we need a good rotor line at reasonable costs.
A typical rotator (for inside the top of the tower) for large
arrays/stacks is needed by our Contest Community. I love my Create RC5B3,
but am really glad I bought it 10 years ago and not at today's pricing..they
seem to have the right track as far as worm drive. And agreed, the TIC
rotors need to have a competitor willing to keep them in line as well.
As a demographic we contesters are a small market percentage, I
think we spend far more on our equipment on average though...I think W4ETO
understands this. But how do we as a community drive the market? The only
hope we have is for someone who is already in a manufacturing capacity
building whatzits to enter the rotor business as well....and he would need
to have to have been a ham who out changed out Ham-? ring gears, and pots on
Rotobrake 400s....etc. He probably would need to be a wealthy sort looking
for rotors for his multi-op station and after becoming as disillusioned as
the rest of us decided to back this venture.
OR! He could hire W6QHS as a design consultant engineer!
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Jim, zx
----this was in no way intended as an unabashed advertisement for W6QHS, or
W6QHS' book when I started out - well, alright, if you are a contester and
haven't read Dave's book I recoomend you do....there I've said it.
-----------------
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Date: Wed Aug 9 00:47:11 1995
From: Gary E Jones
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TO: * James White / MCI ID: 649-2564
Subject: Tic-rotors
Message-Id: <60950809042006/0003765414DC2EM>
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Several fellows in the reflector recently have expressed an interest in
the TIC - Ring rotors. Seems that great minds run together.... as I have
been considering buying several ring rotors recently rather than some
more of my great monster swing arm assemblies, which work just fine, but
cost out fairly close to the ring rotors, so I considered buying several
instead of more fabrication. When I was in Dayton in 1993, I managed to
pick up some folders on the little TIC-ring rotor which was on a show
special
for $595. It appears that the Standard price may have been about $700.00.
Well, I called them and although they are very nice fellows, I asked the
price
and was told that the little one was $1,200 and the big model was $1,500
!!!!!
Now, that is a price increase!!!! And at that price, me and quite a few
others will obviously decide to stay with conventional rotors for their
installations..... Now, this is my opinion.... but it is clear to me that
if they could be happy with $700.00 in 1993, there is absolutely nothing
that
is producing that kind of price increase other than sheer greed and
realization that they can probably sell them to the super stations that
just don't care about the cost of equipment... If people will spend $5,000
to $8,000 for a transceiver and an 87a costs a mere $6,000, then there
must lots of fellows who will pony-up $1300 to $1500 for a ring rotor...
Oh well, bet there is someone else out there that would be able to
produce these at a fraction of the cost and still make a nice profit!!!
Any takers? If so, keep my e-mail address.!!!
Regards
W5VSZ
>From David Robbins KY1H <robbins@guid2.dnet.lmco.com> Wed Aug 9 11:57:03 1995
From: David Robbins KY1H <robbins@guid2.dnet.lmco.com> (David Robbins KY1H)
Subject: tnx cw info
Message-ID: <199508091053.GAA14917@franklin.vf.mmc.com>
ok, tnx everyone for info on cw trainers. i got supermorse and numorse
from oak.oakland.edu yesterday and gave them to him last night to try out.
he had supermorse running in a few minutes, but was still trying to install
numorse when i talked with him last. numorse is big, 918k zip file to start
with then a windows install program that unpacks the stuff that was just
unzipped and installs it in windows... not sure of final size yet.
73, Dave KY1H Robbins@guid2.dnet.lmco.com
>From kiddi@marel.is (Kristinn Andersen) Wed Aug 9 11:53:03 1995
From: kiddi@marel.is (Kristinn Andersen) (Kristinn Andersen)
Subject: Phase steering for arbitrary antennas?
Message-ID: <9508091105.AA25860@marel.is>
Hi,
I am installing a couple of long wires (80m long each) with an included
angle of approx. 45 degrees.
This may be used as a V-antenna if the two wires are fed with a balanced feeder
(in which case the feed currents to the wires differ by 180 degrees). Now,
it occurred
to me to try introducing ARBITRARY phase difference between the two wires
and thereby
steer which radiation lobes add and which cancel each other.
So, I envision a matching network between the coax from the transceiver and
the two wires,
providing (preferably continuous) tuning of the phase difference to the
wires. Has anyone come
across literature on the subject or have an idea of how to implement this?
I intend to use these
wires for 160m, 80m and possibly 40m. So, this phasing device may have to
do some impedance matching,
as well.
Please respond to me directly and I will summarize for the list, if the
results see promising.
73 de TF3KX
kiddi@marel.is
>From kiddi@marel.is (Kristinn Andersen) Wed Aug 9 11:58:07 1995
From: kiddi@marel.is (Kristinn Andersen) (Kristinn Andersen)
Subject: Writing on contesting from Iceland
Message-ID: <9508091110.AA28482@marel.is>
Someone from the list sent me a mail before I went on summer vacation, asking if
I would be willing to write an article on contesting from TF-land. Now,
that I'm
back, scanning through my saved E-mail at work, I don't find this inquiry.
Whoever was asking, please send me a note again!
73 de Kristinn, TF3KX
kiddi@marel.is
>From Marijan Miletic <s56a@ljutcp.hamradio.si> Wed Aug 9 13:25:26 1995
From: Marijan Miletic <s56a@ljutcp.hamradio.si> (Marijan Miletic)
Subject: WAE LP by PY2NY
Message-ID: <70322@ljutcp.hamradio.si>
I support PY2NY initiative for WAE 100W class as it is very popular in EU from
CQ WW statistics.
But I am sure that he can use 100W and beat KL7 or Pacific stations with
unlimited power!
73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU probably absent from WAE as XYL wants to go to coast!
>From Marijan Miletic <s56a@ljutcp.hamradio.si> Wed Aug 9 13:31:04 1995
From: Marijan Miletic <s56a@ljutcp.hamradio.si> (Marijan Miletic)
Subject: More KISS
Message-ID: <70325@ljutcp.hamradio.si>
In my recent posting about FT-1000 I intentional used 1mF for one milifarad!
It is funny that we would use 1000 microfarad instead as we do with 60dB. Why
not round-up to nearest sensible unit? BTW small m stands for 1/1000 part in
EU and WW and Greek letter mu is used for 1 part in million but unfortunatelly
it has no ASCII symbol! Do we write 100n instead of 0.1 uF because of it?
Under present low sunspots, the above is contest of engineering logic...
73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU.
>From jeffrey (j.) wittich" <jwittich@bnr.ca Wed Aug 9 14:11:00 1995
From: jeffrey (j.) wittich" <jwittich@bnr.ca (jeffrey (j.) wittich)
Subject: NAQP results - AC4ZO
Message-ID: <"2538 Wed Aug 9 09:17:09 1995"@bnr.ca>
AC4ZO Single Op All Band CW Loc: NC Power 150W
band QSO's mults
60 8 6
80 49 23
40 101 35
20 156 40
15 26 14
10 15 7
Total 355 125 SCORE: 44,375
Sent: Jeff NC
Rig: TS450S/AT
Antenna: G5RV (even on 160 meters)
Location: Cary, NC
Thanks for the fun. See you all in November Sweepstakes.
73, Jeff - AC4ZO
***********************************************************************
jwittich@b4pph107.bnr.ca *** CW ops let their fingers do the talking.
AC4ZO *** BNR claims they know nothing of my employment here.
***********************************************************************
>From mpickard@netcom.com (Mike Pickard) Wed Aug 9 15:11:51 1995
From: mpickard@netcom.com (Mike Pickard) (Mike Pickard)
Subject: K7NPN NAQP Results
Message-ID: <199508091411.HAA20092@netcom17.netcom.com>
Category: Single Op All Band Mode: CW Power: 100w
Exchanged Info: Mike WA
band qsos pts mults
160 o o o
80 11 11 4
40 75 75 35
20 175 175 43
15 81 81 36
10 51 51 24
Total 393 393 142 SCORE: 55,806
Club: Western Wash DX Club
Eqpt: TS-140S A3S@50FT with dual slopers on 40-80-160
Running NA on 386
Comments: Openings on 10/15 made it a fun contest. High noise on low bands
made for a dissapointing run for the finish but had a great time. TKS to All
and see you in the phone version. 73 de Mike K7NPN mpickard@netcom.com
>From becker@shell.portal.com (Tony and Celia Becker) Wed Aug 9 13:04:36 1995
From: becker@shell.portal.com (Tony and Celia Becker) (Tony and Celia Becker)
Subject: ISO Engineering Units in ASCII and fun-netics
Message-ID: <199508091506.IAA10529@nova.unix.portal.com>
Mario, S56A, N1YU, writes:
>EU and WW and Greek letter mu is used for 1 part in million but=20
>it has no ASCII symbol! Do we write 100n instead of 0.1 uF because of it?
No, just use the lower case "u" for the greek "mu" If the unit were,
hypothetically, one Bismol you would express the series in ASCII or (eg
email) thusly:
factor symbol meaning eg. meaning
1/1000 m milli mB milli-Bismol
1/1000000 u micro uB micro-Bismol
1/1000000000 n nano nB nano-Bismol
1/1000000000000 p pico pB pico-Bismol
1/1000000000000000 f femto fB femto-Bismol
etc.
(Since it is the silly season. :)
Always Earning Zero Money,=20
AE=D8M, Tony Becker - becker@shell.portal.com - Silicon Valley, U.S.A.
>From Floydjr <floydjr@nando.net> Wed Aug 9 17:36:03 1995
From: Floydjr <floydjr@nando.net> (Floydjr)
Subject: NuMorse
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950809123449.9060A-100000@merlin.nando.net>
I saw were someone had gotten Numorse off an ftp site. Was wondering
where and how I could find it. Tnx for any help.
73's Jim // WA4ZXA
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