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Subject: CQ WW v. ARRL DX from S56A perspective
From: Marijan.Miletic@IJS.si (Marijan.Miletic@IJS.si)
Date: Wed Feb 23 11:15:03 1994
Hi contesters,

I am delighted to read so much about recent ARRL DX contest and
I'd like to add my reasons for participating in this event.

In the good old sixties at YU1BCD we used WW II vintage SX-25
from USA and scraped German RL12P35 tubes for 50W CW driving
40m long multiband Windom wire antenna.  

The only DX we could reasonably work were USA stations!  

I still remember our first 15m transverter using 19.6 MHz quarz 
to move signals into noisy MW AM band.  It was build in Feb to work just
6 USA stations in excelent condx.  W3MSK was a very dificult callsign! 

Late Gus Browning, W4BPD did lot of good CW operating, W4KFC
was even our legend, W9WNV improved pile-ups handling by an 
order of magnitude but unfortunately spoiled everything by
bad QSL practice and nonconfirmed QRA.

So we learned what high competition means mainly from USA ops and
later from fantastic Japanese.  

The beauty of regional contests is that one needs only good, 
fixed antennas which can be made even with wires.  

Working West Coast from Eastern EU is a great challenge involving some 
LP props.  There are lot of nice W7 mults, not to mention VE from #3 upwards.  
Even some W4,5 are very exotic! There is also enough time to sleep in the 
morning hours (even more in VK/ZL contest).

It was in 1976 when I first visited USA, listened to your quiet ham
bands and decided that I'll never repeat my callsign.  I also understood
high multipliers as signals all around the world were reasonable loud.

Someone asked me if we get Kazakh, ex UL in contests and that question has
the same meaning as working Mexico from USA.  So 6D2X this weekend had the 
loudest XE signal after fabulous K0DI operation in 70s.

My prefered contest is WAE as I like chassing DX.  Cluster helps a great
deal, so the computer logging, especially with email.  DARC tried with
USA state multipliers for a few years but contest quickly distorted into
sumer WVE repetition!

I am surprised by the lack of comments on CT1BOH CQ WW change of scoring 
and mine proposal to start CQ WW 160m at 16:00Z.  Is this purely WVE forum?

73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU.

>From DKMC" <dkmc@chevron.com  Wed Feb 23 16:44:57 1994
From: DKMC" <dkmc@chevron.com (DKMC)
Subject: Remote Switching Boxes
Message-ID: <CPLAN065.DKMC.5250.1994 0223 0840 0840>


 Microsoft Mail v3.0 IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
 From: McCarty, DK 'David'
 To:  OPEN ADDRESSING SERVI-OPENADDR
 Subject:  Remote Switching Boxes
 Priority:
 Message ID: DA5C70A5
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 Need some advice on remote switching boxes.  We are looking at the DX
 Engineering 5 position model and the Ameritron 5 position switch, model
 RCS-8V.

 Anyone have good/bad experiences with these?

 We also are looking at the DX Engineering upper lower both phase boxes and
 their feed system for the 4-square.  Any experience with these?

 Please reply to the address below; will summarize for the group.

 If there was also some discussion in the past (i.e., before I got on the
 reflector in Dec. 93) please help me pinpoint the time frame so I can get
 the archive.

 David K. McCarty, K5GN
 dkmc@chevron.com



>From len@ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay)  Wed Feb 23 17:04:20 1994
From: len@ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) (Leonard Kay)
Subject: KY1H ARRL CW M/M SCORE
Message-ID: <9402231704.AA01800@ariel.coe.neu.edu>



                   ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 1994

      Call: KY1H                     Country:  United States
      Mode: CW                       Category: Multi Multi
 
      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
      160       43      123   2.9       31
       80      302      879   2.9       68
       40      730     2169   3.0       95
       20     1054     3147   3.0      111
       15      779     2325   3.0      102
       10      108      306   2.8       52
     --------------------------------------
     Totals   3016     8949   3.0      459  =   4,107,591

     Operator List: KY1H,NJ1F,KB1W,KM1P,K1MBO,AA1AS,
                    KB2R,WA2CJT,NT2X,KF2MM,KJ4KB,AK4L

     Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club


The general consensus was that while the bands were flat, they could
have been much worse. 10M opened from around 1400Z to 2100Z both days, and
we still did get JA runs on 20 and 15 (does 10-15 JAs in an hour count as
a run?). Worked SU2MT on 80 and 40, but not above....

We all had a blast, and tnx again to Dave KY1H for his wonderful
contest cuisine!

Len KB2R

>From w2sc@emc.com (Tom Georgens)  Wed Feb 23 13:17:34 1994
From: w2sc@emc.com (Tom Georgens) (Tom Georgens)
Subject: ARRL Score
Message-ID: <9402231317.AA29137@emcc>


     Call: W2SC                     Country:  United States
      Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES


      160       20       60   3.0       18
       80      148      444   3.0       50
       40      597     1791   3.0       84
       20      641     1923   3.0       81
       15      716     2148   3.0       79
       10       47      141   3.0       32
     --------------------------------------

     Totals   2169     6507   3.0      344  =   2,238,408


Equipment:

940, 930, AL1200, TL922

TH7 @ 86', TH7 @ 54', 402CD @ 92' and 80/160 wires

Comments:

- Conditions were not great but they were much worse for the two
weeks leading up to the contest and the day after.

- Activity was way down.  It seemed like I was working the same
guys over and over on each band.  I did not have the same feeling
in the CQWW.

- Best hour was 138 (with a band change).  5 hours over 100 but lots of
hours under 20.

73, Tom
georgens@emc.com  or
w2sc@emc.com

>From terwill@leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger)  Wed Feb 23 19:12:17 1994
From: terwill@leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger) (Paul Terwilliger)
Subject: K1TR's ARRL DX CW results
Message-ID: <znr762030737k@leotech.mv.com>

Since K1TR is off for a week of skiing at Killington (talk about 
pile-ups!), I'm posting our Multi-2 results.

Operation was at the Derry, NH QTH of K1MNS.  This is half of 
the former site of multi-multis as K1ST, etc.  (The other half
was K1FWE, who moved last fall.)

Operators were:  K1TR, NX1H, K1JKS, K1RX and K1XM.

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES

      160       40      120   3.0       36
       80      289      858   3.0       68
       40      964     2892   3.0      102
       20     1081     3243   3.0      113
       15      815     2445   3.0       99
       10       88      264   3.0       48
     --------------------------------------

     Totals   3277     9831   3.0      466  =   4,581,246

Looks like a dead heat with N3RS for second place.

Antennas:
160 - Inverted L
80 - 4-square array (elevated radials)
40 - 40-2CDs at 77' and 155'.
     (we put these up last month; one of the coldest Januarys ever...)
20 - 5 at 80'.
15 - 4/4 at 45' and 90', plus 4 south at 50'
10 - 5/5/5 at 30, 60 and 100'.

Some Observations:

1) Had a late QSY to 15 on Saturday morning that cost probably 100 QSOs.

2) It never felt like we had our usual killer 20M signal.

3) JA's seemed especially lacking here in NH.

4) CT 8.52 seemed quite stable.  Only about 3 "register dumps to DOS"
   all weekend.  Even ran under OS/2 on one computer, so we could
   keep geoclock running in another window.

5) While the 10-minute rule is difficult, it didn't seem all that bad.
   We only got stuck once or twice burning off extra minutes CQing on
   a dead band.  Maybe it should be changed to a 5-minute rule?

6) We'll be signing K1RX as multi-something (depends on who shows up)
   in ARRL SSB.


Our Breakdowns:

                 160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America     15   31   26   28   28   29  157     4.7
South America      6   12   20   25   25   29  117     3.5
Europe            18  242  864  924  715   18 2781    83.3
Asia               1    2   35   90   30    0  158     4.7
Africa             1    5   15   15   16    7   59     1.8
Oceania            0    2   22   24   12    6   66     2.0


HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT  CUM TOT  

   0    .....    37/19   101/26     5/5     .....    .....   143/50  143/50 
   1      .      42/6     43/18    10/9       .        .      95/33  238/83 
   2     1/1      5/2     40/12    11/6       .        .      57/21  295/104
   3      .      15/7     38/6      4/2       .        .      57/15  352/119
   4     7/6     12/2     20/4      6/3       .        .      45/15  397/134
   5     5/5     34/9     44/3       .        .        .      83/17  480/151
   6     2/2     23/4     27/1      8/1       .        .      60/8   540/159
   7     1/1      7/1     63/3       .        .        .      71/5   611/164
   8     1/1      7/3     28/0      5/3     .....    .....    41/7   652/171
   9      .        .      13/2     34/11      .        .      47/13  699/184
  10      .       2/1     12/3     25/8       .        .      39/12  738/196
  11      .       1/0      5/3    105/7       .        .     111/10  849/206
  12      .        .       1/1     72/4     46/20      .     119/25  968/231
  13      .        .        .      53/10    95/12      .     148/22 1116/253
  14      .        .        .      41/5     96/8       .     137/13 1253/266
  15      .        .        .      21/0    108/10    12/12   141/22 1394/288
  16    .....    .....    .....    20/1     83/4     18/13   121/18 1515/306
  17      .        .        .      19/2     57/5     13/6     89/13 1604/319
  18      .        .        .      74/4     18/6      2/1     94/11 1698/330
  19      .        .        .      60/3      9/5     11/5     80/13 1778/343
  20      .        .      19/0     47/2      6/3      2/1     74/6  1852/349
  21      .        .      50/1     18/5      7/5       .      75/11 1927/360
  22      .        .      67/3      8/3     16/0       .      91/6  2018/366
  23      .      11/3     36/1     17/3      5/2       .      69/9  2087/375
   0     2/2     18/1     11/0     10/2      3/1     .....    44/6  2131/381
   1      .       6/1     22/1       .        .        .      28/2  2159/383
   2     3/3      5/2      6/1      1/0       .        .      15/6  2174/389
   3     3/3      3/0     20/3       .        .        .      26/6  2200/395
   4     5/4      1/0     19/0      5/0       .        .      30/4  2230/399
   5     8/7     10/1      6/1       .        .        .      24/9  2254/408
   6     2/1     20/0     31/3      1/1       .        .      54/5  2308/413
   7      .       8/1     43/2      2/0       .        .      53/3  2361/416
   8    .....     2/0     32/0      2/0     .....    .....    36/0  2397/416
   9      .       1/0      3/1      1/0       .        .       5/1  2402/417
  10      .       1/1      4/0      4/0       .        .       9/1  2411/418
  11      .       3/2      1/1     42/0      4/0       .      50/3  2461/421
  12      .        .        .      42/1     18/3       .      60/4  2521/425
  13      .        .        .      36/0     52/1      7/4     95/5  2616/430
  14      .        .        .      13/0     55/0      4/1     72/1  2688/431
  15      .        .        .      33/1     52/3      5/1     90/5  2778/436
  16    .....    .....    .....    46/2     39/2      2/2     87/6  2865/442
  17      .        .        .      57/0     20/0      5/1     82/1  2947/443
  18      .        .        .      45/2      9/3      2/0     56/5  3003/448
  19      .        .        .      30/2      5/3      4/0     39/5  3042/453
  20      .        .      16/1     20/2      3/0      1/1     40/4  3082/457
  21      .        .      45/0     12/2      2/1       .      59/3  3141/460
  22      .      12/2     49/0      3/0      5/1       .      69/3  3210/463
  23      .       3/0     43/1      7/1      1/1       .      54/3  3264/466
DAY1    17/16   196/57   607/87   663/97   546/80    58/38    ..... 2087/375
DAY2    23/20    93/11   351/15   412/16   268/19    30/10      .   1177/91 
TOT     40/36   289/68  958/102 1075/113   814/99    88/48      .   3264/466



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