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Subject: WPX Single OPing
From: km9p@aol.com (km9p@aol.com)
Date: Sat Dec 25 21:58:00 1993
OK... I havn't operated WPX for the last couple of years, but I would like to
ask you all (y'all) what you think of this 36 hour operating limit?

In my opinion the contest wasn't broken in the 1st place.  The reason it was
changed to 36 hours was so the DXpeditioners could have more operating time,
and be more likely to go out of the country for the contest.  

It's been 2 years and there are no more DXpeditions now than there was when
it was 30 hours.  This is another rule change that gives the east coast even
more of an advantage than it already enjoys... Me included.  Give the guys
out west a break and change it back to 30 hours!

73

Bill, KM9P


>From Richard Hallman <0006135537@mcimail.com>  Sun Dec 26 05:23:00 1993
From: Richard Hallman <0006135537@mcimail.com> (Richard Hallman)
Subject: Club area??
Message-ID: <91931226052319/0006135537NA4EM@mcimail.com>



     Im confused......I know the Club Radius is 175 miles from the
clubs defined center.    Is that 175 Nautical Miles (6,080.2 ft = 1 mile)
or the standard of 5,280 feet for 1 Mile??

          Thanks!     Rich   KI3V/7   KI3V@mcimail.com

>From John W. Brosnahan" <broz@csn.org  Sun Dec 26 16:05:40 1993
From: John W. Brosnahan" <broz@csn.org (John W. Brosnahan)
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <199312261605.AA11253@teal.csn.org>

KI3V/7
 
Rich, it seeems only fair that if the club center is in the middle of an
ocean and all members reside in that ocean then nautical miles is appropriate,
but for landlocked clubs the traditionally accepted mile (5280ft) that has
been used by all clubs, that I am aware of, is the right answer.
 
But the real question is whether the power limit is really 1500 watts or is 
it 1500 nautical watts?
 
73  John  W0UN     broz@csn.org

>From Geoffry S. Howard" <GHOWARD@KENTVM.KENT.EDU  Sun Dec 26 18:16:59 1993
From: Geoffry S. Howard" <GHOWARD@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (Geoffry S. Howard)
Subject: From K8MR to ALL



>From   : K8MR
Date   : 21-Dec-1993
Time   : 1409Z

I guess I've been doing too much operating from home to keep up with
how multi-single is operated these days.  It seems to me that calling
a station is just as much a part of working a station as is saying
"5904", so that calling is using the other band even if a QSO does not
immediately result.  I never would have guessed that m/s reverts to
multi-multi every 10 minutes.  Likewise calling CQ on another band to
establish a run frequency (while the old run station was still running)
strikes be as a blatent violation, to be done only because of the low
chance of getting caught.

A more interesting question to me is:  How many transmitters/signals
can be used by a single operator assisted station?  I read the rules
(in both ARRL and CQWW) to say the only restriction is that the one
operator does all the work. If he can keep 6 memory keyers or DVK's
going, go right ahead.  The rules list single op assisted as one of
three categories (single op, SOA, and multi-operator), so the one signal
rule for single op applies no more than any of the multi-operator rules
would apply.

This question first came to mind during the last ARRL DX contest.
Interestingly in his talk on single op assisted (s/o distracted?) at
the Dayton contest forum last year, K3WW independently raised the same
question. Have any of the big s/o assisted people been using this
interpertation of the rules?  If not, why not?   Is this any more of
a stretch of the rules than 4 or more transmitters at a time in M/S?

By the way, as I refer to the rules for CQWW while sending this, I
see that the 500 meter circle/no remote receivers rule appears to
apply only to multi-operator stations!  Any single ops out there ready
to start looking for your remote controlled receiver site in Europe for
next fall?

73 -  Jim Stahl  K8MR    Internet via W0CG  (ghoward@kentvm.kent.edu)
                           Packet @ W8GRG.NEOH.OH.USA

>From aa2du@attmail.com (J P Kleinhaus )  Sun Dec 26 19:59:15 1993
From: aa2du@attmail.com (J P Kleinhaus ) (J P Kleinhaus )
Subject: miles etc.

Happy Holidays to all!  On the question of statute versus nautical miles, the 
ARRL uses statute miles.  If a measurement is submitted in nautical miles (some 
of the Pratas Island docs were), they are converted before any action is taken.
        I am not convinved that we should think about consolidating the 
Single-op and Single-op/Assisted categories.  The allegation that the top 
single-op guys use packet anyway is not to be taken lightly.  I for one would 
be pretty pissed-off if that's how someone thought I won a Single-op contest.  
In all of the recently published results, the SOA entries always have less Q's 
and more mults than the Single-op entries.  It's not hard to figure out who's 
doing what and when they're doing it it!

73 de J.P., AA2DU
aa2du@attmail.com

>From Jeff Bolda <0005782837@mcimail.com>  Mon Dec 27 01:44:00 1993
From: Jeff Bolda <0005782837@mcimail.com> (Jeff Bolda)
Subject: 10 Meter Contest Score Rumors      Last Issue
Message-ID: <94931227014449/0005782837PK1EM@mcimail.com>

A few more scores came in since last posting.
Thanks to all who sent in their scores.
Good luck in '94
 
wc4e@mcimail.com
 
 
 -- MIXED MODE HIGH POWER --
 
AC4NJ (WC4E OP) 2462  182  1.112 M
WK4Y            1905  215  1.033 M MIX HP?
W5WMU           1962  198    995 K
K6LL            1962  155    791 K 
W9XT            1382  173    676 K 
W1FEA           1500  150    620 K
K0TT            1493  164    592 K
W3USS(K8OQL OP) 1339  156    582 K 
W7RM            1362  143    569 K
K5NW             945  103    470 K
K2WK            1089  149    450 K 
VE3RM           1236  154    435 K 
N5OCD            718  148    286 K
K6XO/7           278   81     69 K
K2MM             180   62     34 K
 
A22MN                        900 K 
 
WANTED : K3ZO
 
 -- MIXED MODE LOW POWER -- 
 
W3EP           1105    158   495 K
KZ1M            883    166   432 K 
AB6FO          1030    119   365 K 
K1TR            655    135   258 K
N7LOX           825    107   251 K 
KG6LF           935     75   145 K 
WT3P            109    109    83 K
K8JLF           274     97    81 K 
KU4A            458     71    75 K
W3CPB           192     64    46 K
NV6O            197     64    33 K
KD1ON           207     64    31 K
KZ4H/7          156     62    30 K
N9LJX           148     48    22 K
KI4HN           141     50    23 K
N2ALE/6          55     23     3 K
 
  -- MIXED QRP --
AA2U            800   147     324 K 
WA7BNM          467    85     105 K 
VE5VA           242    27       6 K 
 
  -- CW HIGH POWER --
N2AA           1037   110     460 K 
N8RR           1072   101     433 K 
KP4TK           919    98     361 K 
WD8AUB          824   108     356 K 
K1JKS           874    96     335 K
W3GN            747    93     281 K 
N3RS            514    92     189 K 
AD5Q            492    89     175 K
K3WW            530    81     171 K 
KI6FE/7         385    45      69 K 
W1IHN           212    63      53 K 
K2TW            197    42      33 K 
 
 -- CW LOW POWER --
W5HUQ           680    80     217 K
K7GM/4          352    80     116 K 
KY3N            319    64      81 K 
WN3K            248    54      53 K
KJ4KB/1         151    47      28 K
 
 -- CW QRP --
 
 -- SSB HIGH POWER --
K4VUD         2149     101    434 K
NY1E          1836     111    407 K 
N2RM          1700     113    384 K
WB2BZR        1047      90    188 K 
W9UP (N0BSH)   809      67    108 k 
WK1J           520      79     82 K 
KE2OI          355      99     66 K
W0OSK          421      48     37 K 
 
 -- SSB LOW POWER --
K6SVL         1274      70    178 K 
WB1HBB         800      101   161 K 
NY3C           188       77    42 K 
N6UXB/T        205       41    16 K 
KB4NT          117       36     8 K
 
 -- SSB QRP --
 
 -- MULTI-SINGLE -- 
W3LPL         2325      252   1,633 M
N2NU          2039      227   1.293 M
NU4Y          2336      186   1.162 M
KY1H          1646      211   1.010 M
AA5VC         1352      193     729 K
KA2DRH        1500      171     681 K
KE9I          1823      158     669 K
W4AQL         1539      165     665 K
XE2/K9VV       903      135     342 K 
K5OJI          664      151     312 K 
AA5UO          656      140     224 K 
KD4VMD/T       761       63      96 K
KA1OQH         301       93      56 K
AA9AX          166       60      31 K

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