Hi Ed...
Regarding the ballon vertical.... Any radials? ... Details on the launch
system, balloon, feed system, wire type, etc... Come on.... don't be a
tease....Give us a post on this...
Regarding Fred's 'don't ask'... His philosophy has been much
misquoted/misunderstood... I happen to know that he is a courteous op when
looking for a new run freq, and should be emulated.... especially by the
misguided types who try to take my freq... :>)
You need an operating philosophy for those situations... I favor "The Breath
of the Dragon"... ;>{}
Denny k8do@aol.com
>From Sig <0006481603@mcimail.com> Tue Aug 15 17:05:00 1995
From: Sig <0006481603@mcimail.com> (Sig)
Subject: N3RD WAE M/S SCORE
Message-ID: <73950815160537/0006481603PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
The M/S effort of N3RD in the WAE CW Contest was a two man operation at the
N3RS station. Op's were N3RD and N3RS. The summary sheet and Band Breakdown
follow:
BAND QSO's QTC's CTY's MULT's
80 156 156 28 112
40 506 502 38 114
20 779 777 45 90
15 79 79 22 44
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Total's 1520 1514 133 360
Score = 1,091,160 points
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults N3RD DARC WORKED ALL EUROPE CONTEST Multi Single
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... 3/3 76/23 27/12 ..... ..... 106/38 106/38
1 . 32/12 8/1 . . . 40/13 146/51
2 . 33/2 35/4 . . . 68/6 214/57
3 . 27/2 12/1 . . . 39/3 253/60
4 . 6/0 45/3 . . . 51/3 304/63
5 . 1/1 55/2 . . . 56/3 360/66
6 . . 49/1 . . . 49/1 409/67
7 . . 25/1 . . . 25/1 434/68
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 434/68
9 . . . 6/3 . . 6/3 440/71
10 . . . 94/11 . . 94/11 534/82
11 . . . 94/4 . . 94/4 628/86
12 . . . 27/1 33/9 . 60/10 688/96
13 . . . 27/4 17/3 . 44/7 732/103
14 . . . 17/0 10/3 . 27/3 759/106
15 . . . 35/3 1/1 . 36/4 795/110
16 ..... ..... ..... 23/0 ..... ..... 23/0 818/110
17 . . . 24/0 2/2 . 26/2 844/112
18 . . . 45/1 . . 45/1 889/113
19 . . . 33/0 . . 33/0 922/113
20 . . . 44/0 . . 44/0 966/113
21 . . . 47/0 . . 47/0 1013/113
22 . . 29/0 12/1 . . 41/1 1054/114
23 . . 47/0 2/0 . . 49/0 1103/114
0 ..... 1/1 13/1 ..... ..... ..... 14/2 1117/116
1 . 31/5 2/1 . . . 33/6 1150/122
2 . 12/1 8/0 . . . 20/1 1170/123
3 . . 13/0 . . . 13/0 1183/123
4 . 6/1 19/0 . . . 25/1 1208/124
5 . 4/0 22/0 . . . 26/0 1234/124
6 . . 11/0 . . . 11/0 1245/124
7 . . . . . . . 1245/124
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1245/124
9 . . . 1/0 . . 1/0 1246/124
10 . . . 19/1 . . 19/1 1265/125
11 . . . 24/1 . . 24/1 1289/126
12 . . . 23/1 . . 23/1 1312/127
13 . . . 14/0 . . 14/0 1326/127
14 . . . 13/0 . . 13/0 1339/127
15 . . . 9/0 8/0 . 17/0 1356/127
16 ..... ..... ..... 16/0 3/0 ..... 19/0 1375/127
17 . . . 14/0 4/3 . 18/3 1393/130
18 . . . 24/0 1/1 . 25/1 1418/131
19 . . . 22/1 . . 22/1 1440/132
20 . . . 25/0 . . 25/0 1465/132
21 . . 2/0 18/1 . . 20/1 1485/133
22 . . 20/0 . . . 20/0 1505/133
23 . . 15/0 . . . 15/0 1520/133
DAY1 ..... 102/20 381/36 557/40 63/18 ..... ..... 1103/114
DAY2 . 54/8 125/2 222/5 16/4 . . 417/19
TOT . 156/28 506/38 779/45 79/22 . . 1520/133
Station details and random reflections:
This was the first time all of the stacks were up and running. The poor con-
ditions didn't help, but they seem to have worked well.
80M Force-12 EF-180A dipole at 140 ft.
Developed an intermittent on Saturday and was nearly useless that
evening.
40M Old faithful 3 element HyGain 403B Long John at 140 ft.
Still suffering from that blasted noise generator that cruds up 40M,
but I assume all had to put up with that.
20M Three stack of homebrew 5 element yagis on 36 ft booms @ 117/77/37 feet.
In general, the three stack combo was best for most of the time but
in the early afternoon Dave found that the lower two yagis seemed a
slight bit better on most stations. Never observed the high two or
any of the single yagis as being the best.
15M Three stack of homebrew 4 element yagis on 30 ft booms @ 130/87/46 feet.
15 meters was very spotty. Was able to run a few stations from 1230Z
till around 1315Z on Saturday. Sunday had only a brief period (1530Z
till 1615) when we could get answers on 15M. The last QSO made on
this band occurred at 1751Z(Sat) and 1801Z(Sun).
We tried to keep the station going the full time, but had several hours when
we could not hear/work any europeans. We also had to shut down on the second
evening for 30 minutes as a thunderstorm passed by. Strangely, we suffered sev-
ere static on the 40M beam (50 dB over S-9) prior to any rain falling. The
wind was whipping up & was apparently charged enough to cause what sounded like
rain static. By using the lower two 20M beams we were able to work a few sta-
tions during this pre-rainfall period.
Congrats to KC1XX, Ken and LZ1SA and the K1EA super-station for another great
job. Some day one of their towers is going to fall down and we will finally
beat them - or will we???
73 de Sig, N3RS
6481602@MCIMail.com
>From H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil@seattleu.edu Tue Aug 15 17:46:07 1995
From: H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil@seattleu.edu (H. Ward Silver)
Subject: K3ZO's "don't ask first" philosophy
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9508150906.A4778-a100000@bach.seattleu.edu>
> You need an operating philosophy for those situations... I favor "The Breath
> of the Dragon"... ;>{}
>
> Denny k8do@aol.com
>
Gee, I always have "Breath of the Dragon" come Sunday afternoon, but it
doesn't seem to help! If I'm bad in this life, I'll come back as a
contester's microphone, I guess...
-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.. . -. ----- .- -..- -..-. --...
______________________________
| ---- --------- o o o o |
| | / | | N 0 A X | o o o o | "I don't know why they call it
| ---- --------- | wireless...I've never seen so
| () () /^^^\ () () () | many wires in all my life!"
| O o o o (o ) () () () | From the 1920's and
| O o o o \___/ o o o o o | never more true!
|______________________________|
\_/ H. Ward Silver, N0AX \_/
hwardsil@seattleu.edu
>From H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil@seattleu.edu Tue Aug 15 17:52:57 1995
From: H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil@seattleu.edu (H. Ward Silver)
Subject: A3S Biting Partial Dust
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9508150957.D4778-a100000@bach.seattleu.edu>
Anybody have an email address for CushCraft Cushtomer Service or secret
knowledge of how to check the traps on an A3S? I apparently damaged it
during Field Day (see, it IS contest related) and now have a lossy, wide
bandwidth SWR curve on 20 (too wide, too quiet), SWR greater than 2 on 15
over the whole band, but 10 seems OK. Sounds to me like the outer trap or
traps are shot on one of the elements. Tips on resonant frequency, etc.
would be most appreciated.
73, Ward N0AX
What do I need 15 for, anyway?
>From H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil@seattleu.edu Tue Aug 15 17:58:19 1995
From: H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil@seattleu.edu (H. Ward Silver)
Subject: WAE...Wuzzat?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9508150919.F4778-9100000@bach.seattleu.edu>
Was there a DX contest last weekend? I thought it was the East Coast -
European QSO Party ;-) I worked, maybe, 20 guys on 20-meters, sent one
QTC. That was it from the Left Coast, guys! Heard ZC4C calling without
response...sigh...but no luck getting in a quick Q ;-) Someday the
swallows will return to Capistrano and the sunspots to the middle latitudes.
73, Ward N0AX
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