DARC WORKED ALL EUROPE CONTEST -- 1995
Call: PA3ERC Country: Netherlands
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QTC Cty Mult
160 0 0 0 0
80 11 0 3 12
40 100 138 24 72
20 193 186 28 56
15 4 10 2 4
10 0 0 0 0
================================================
Totals 308 334 57 144 = 92,448
Equipment Description:
Transceiver : Kenwood TS-950SD
Amplifier : Kenwood TL-922 (400 watts)
Antenna's : 10/15/20 FB53 5 el. tri-bander
40 KLM Rotary dipole
80 Wire dipole
Logging : CT-9.23
Operating time: 12 hours
Club Affiliation: Contestgroup Oude Maas
Remarks: I realy enjoyed the contest, this year I didn't lost any QTC's
in CT. CT worked beautiful without problems. I hope next year
more US stations will participate in the WAE, it's a great
contest. I noticed that many stations didn't give a way any
QTC's, they always said "NIL" while I was sure they had plenty
to give, for those stations: don't be a shame, just say I don't
give a way QTC's that saves EU stations asking for them again
and again without any result. I'm looking forward to run the
WAE phone from the "other side" from VP5.
73 de Rob
Rob Snieder PA3ERC
member of Contestgroup Oude Maas PI4COM/PA6WPX
Internet e-mail : norf@euronet.nl
Packet Radio : PA3ERC@PI8MBQ
PacketCluster : PA3ERC > PI8DXC
>From Richard L. King" <0007131253@mcimail.com Mon Aug 14 18:06:00 1995
From: Richard L. King" <0007131253@mcimail.com (Richard L. King)
Subject: Return of the Octopus
Message-ID: <31950814170613/0007131253PJ2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
Jim is getting old and his memory is suffering like the rest of us. His
information was close but not exact. It was not WA5LES/K5PFL (K5RC/K5NA)
that had the octopus system for SS. It was WA5LES and K5LZO. The set-up
was explained to me by K5RC who claimed the anti-octopus rule that was
adapted afterwards should have been named after them.
Their set up had two operating positions on two desks that faced each
other. They had two electro-mechanical counters that they could see
that always had the next SS number to send on it. When one of them made
a QSO, he would slap a button that would update the counter by one at
both places. Their rigs were interlocked so that only one of them
could transmit at a time. But the end result was that one of them was
always transmitting.
An added interesting fact was that at the side of the two operating
positions was a large dup sheet hung on the wall that was about 3 feet
high and 6 feet long. Their two wives at the time had the responsibility
to write the calls on the dup sheet using large marking pens so that
both operators could see the oversized dup sheet from his operating
position. The wives were always listed as being additional operators
in QST. Of course, now that we all have computers for duping, wives
are no longer necessary. (Let's see if that starts a thread?)
I don't think the octopus rule still exists anywhere? I wonder if I
should consider incorporating it in my new station I will be building
in the Austin area. Yes, for those of you who haven't heard, the K5NA
station in NY will be dismantling in the next few months. It has been
a good run here and I have really enjoyed it. I just hope I'm not
getting too old to do it all over again at a new site. We'll see.
73, Richard
K5NA@MCIMAIL.COM
>From ke7gh@primenet.com (Brian Short) Mon Aug 14 18:32:26 1995
From: ke7gh@primenet.com (Brian Short) (Brian Short)
Subject: M/S 2 Radio CW Lockout?
Message-ID: <199508141732.KAA27319@mailhost.primenet.com>
In my previous post, I did not make all assumptions clear.
I am considering the 2-radio, 2-computer, 2-operator CW case where only
one transmitter should be on the air at a time (e.g. M/S). It is easy to
presume I was thinking of SOP.
A couple people pointed out that the N6TRLog program will solve the problem
completely for the 2-radio, 1-computer, 1-operator case. This I know and I
do enjoy the N6TR program. It is a complete solution for the SOP case as far
as I know.
I suspect the PTT signal on the LPT port could be used to build a simple
lockout for the case I am considering. Especially with the variable delay
that can be configured for the PTT signal. That would eliminate the chopped
up mess on radio #2 that I referred to.
If anyone has any experience with this, I would appreciate it. Any comments?
Thanks for the bandwidth.
73 de Brian
>From gjk@hogpa.ho.att.com (Gerald J Kersus) Mon Aug 14 17:52:37 1995
From: gjk@hogpa.ho.att.com (Gerald J Kersus) (Gerald J Kersus)
Subject: EVE vs Beverage?
Message-ID: <9508141652.AA24121@hogpc.ho.att.com>
This past Spring, before I took down my 540-ft NE Beverage, I quickly put
up a EWE per the QST article. They wre parallel and about 150 feet apart,
so there may have been some interactions. On 80M, the Beverage was
significantly better under noisy conditions. HOWEVER, the EWE was still
much better than an inverted-vee: signals I could barely hear on the
inverted-vee were Q-5 on the EWE. I don't believe there was any station I
could hear on the Beverage that I could not copy on the EWE. I was very
impressed by the EWE. Results on 160 M wre similar, but less
dramatic. I'll probably trek through the woods and put up the NE
Beverage again this October. I plan on putting up two EWEs for other
directions (S & W) since I don't have the real estate to put up Beverages
that are more than 200 feet long in these directions.
Gerry, W1GD
gjk@hogpa.att.com
>From KE2PF <0002017515@mcimail.com> Mon Aug 14 20:10:00 1995
From: KE2PF <0002017515@mcimail.com> (KE2PF)
Subject: KE2PF WAE S/O SCORE
Message-ID: <00950814191000/0002017515PL1EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
WORKED ALL EUROPE CONTEST
KE2PF SINGLE OP, 35 HOURS OF OPERATION
BAND QSO QTC CTY MULT ANTENNA
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
80 194 194 30 120 PHASED VERTICALS
40 452 446 39 117 3EL AT 90FT
20 758 752 45 90 4EL OVER 4EL
AT 50 AND 100FT
15 12 12 9 18 5EL AT 75FT
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTALS: 1416 1404 123 345 = 968,760 POINTS
Good conditions the first day, not good the second day. It was
very frustrating to hear N3RD, KC1XX, and others running guys
on 15 that I couldn't even hear, so I decided to try to move
multipliers as much as possible on 40/80 where they are worth
more. The rule allowing packet helped keep me interrested the
second day when things got slow; it allowed me to chat with
AB2E when things got real slow.
I noticed the loud "rushing noise" often complained about
on 40M Saturday night and 20 meters both afternoons. The
sound was exactly the same on both bands. Instead of it being
broadcast hash could it possibly be another version of the
"Russian Woodpecker" over-the-horizon-radar? I remember
years back when the "Russian Woodpecker" was on that it shifted
frequencies around, similar to this new hash I hear.
Club Affiliation: Frankford Radio Club
73, Dave KE2PF
KE2PF@MCIMAIL.COM
>From KE2PF <0002017515@mcimail.com> Mon Aug 14 21:07:00 1995
From: KE2PF <0002017515@mcimail.com> (KE2PF)
Subject: WAE and QTCs
Message-ID: <82950814200728/0002017515PL4EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
Ive seen a couple messages asking why non-european stations always
say "no" or "later" when asked for QTC's. I made 1400 QSO's and
sent 144 QTC groups. I always try to send a full group of 10 QTCs
so the station would't have to come back for more (I had a few
who wanted more even after 10 were sent!). There were far more
than 144 stations asking for QTC's, so I had to say "nil" to them,
I just didn't have any more to send.
I also try to not send them during good run times. Lets say I
have a 120 QSO/HR rate going. It takes about 2 minutes to send
a full group. If I send 10 groups, that is 40 QSO's I just lost
(2 QSO's per minute). It adds up! During slow times I always
sent QTC's when asked, If I had them. Only a couple times I
wouldn't. Periodically I would notice a packet message
"XXX mult answering CQ's on 20M". If I needed that multiplier
I would keep CQing. I'm afraid if the multiplier hears someone
sending QTC's, he may not wait and move on.
I know several stateside stations who try to save QTC's for
the second day which usually has slower rates, however I never
saved them. Im too afraid conditions might bomb and Id be
stuck with a couple hundred I couldn't send :-)
73, and see you in next years WAE CW,
Dave KE2PF
KE2PF@MCIMAIL.COM
Congrats to KC1XX and VP2MDE on their BIG numbers!!
>From biss@epg.nist.gov (Robert Biss) Mon Aug 14 16:12:23 1995
From: biss@epg.nist.gov (Robert Biss) (Robert Biss)
Subject: cq cover photo's
Message-ID: <Q02FA018@washer.NIST.GOV>
----------
X-Sun-Data-Type: text
X-Sun-Data-Description: text
X-Sun-Data-Name: text
X-Sun-Content-Lines: 22
X-Sun-Content-Length: 888
I thought that this idea would get started on its own a week or two ago but
it seemed to have fizzled by the wayside because of some other controversy
that arose at the time....
How many of you feel the way that I do about CQ's covers....THEY JUST DON'T
HAVE ENOUGH CAPTION....
I know that there have been several every year that have really peaked my
interest in regards to building a CONTESTING antenna farm on a small to
mediocre sized lot.... I'd like to know more of what some ofthem have tried
and settled on...
Wouldn't it be nice if some of our fraternity friends put out a caption of a
paragraph or two (or more) on the reflector telling us just what is in those
cover shots!!!!
How about it....anyone out there that can talk some of these cover guys into
some text!!!! Anyone else interested????
Contest season is coming!!!!
73's....bob K3ZNV
BISS@EPG.NIST.GOV
>From barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) Mon Aug 14 22:26:11 1995
From: barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Subject: WAE CW
Message-ID: <cyBu0c1w165w@w2up.wells.com>
I posted score yesterday, but never saw the post reflected back. Sooo, I
apologize if this is a dupe msg, but original seems to have gotten lost.
BAND QSO QTC Cty Mult
160 0 0 0 0
80 40 40 13 52
40 218 217 33 99
20 401 401 38 76
15 28 28 9 18
10 0 0 0 0
================================================
Totals 687 686 93 245 = 336,385
Op time = 12 hours
Comments:
For a laugh - some clown kept coming back W2DWN (get it? W2UP/W2DWN)
Another clown kept telling me "its TEST not NST." Hey, anything to save a
little time!
Impressive signal on all bands - SP7GIQ. There may have been others as
loud or louder, but it's rare to hear such a good signal from Eastern
Europe.
SWR way out of sight on 80. Guess the water in the coax I dicovered a few
months ago is finally taking its toll. Time to replace it, if it ever
cools off outside.
QTCs... Too much asking for QTCs. To answer someone's earlier post, I
basically agree with what KE2PF said. I don't want to interrupt a good
run for QTCs, and lose the pileup. I even programmed one of the Function
keys to say NIL! I like to give them out when have 10, not one or two.
Also, if station asking for QTCs is weak (especially on 40 or 80) I don't
like to give them cuz of all the repeats needed.
15 meters was strange. Several loud DLs, Gs, Is, but very few signals
heard. Was envious of the W1s running on 15, and LU4FM moving stns to 10
meters!
73 Barry
--
Barry N. Kutner, W2UP Internet: barry@w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
Packet Cluster: W2UP >WB2R (FRC)
.......................................................................
>From Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd@CapAccess.org Mon Aug 14 23:26:57 1995
From: Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd@CapAccess.org (Rich L. Boyd)
Subject: cq cover photo's
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91-FP.950814182607.388I-100000@cap1.capaccess.org>
I agree with K3ZNV -- for antenna covers it would be nice to have a
description of what we're seeing...homebrew 5-el 20 on a 48' boom,
homebrew 3-el 40 on a 48' boom (and the antenna heights too), that kind
of detail.
Rich Boyd KE3Q
>From Frank Donovan <donovanf@sgate.com> Tue Aug 15 00:24:34 1995
From: Frank Donovan <donovanf@sgate.com> (Frank Donovan)
Subject: Phased Beverages! (was: EVE vs Beverage?)
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950814191242.14096A-100000@jekyll.sgate.com>
If u want to try a really excellent receiving antenna try a pair of
phased Beverages! A pair of 580 foot Beverages, fed in phase, with sloped
feeds and terminations, spaced 275 feet side-by-side, shows a pattern
remarkably similar to a 3 element Yagi! The side-by-side spaced
in-phase Beverages result in nearly total cancellation of signals
arriving from the sides. The sloped feeds and terminations (for about 60
feet) are critical to obtaining excellent front-to-back ratio.
This same concept will work on 80 or 40 meters (or even higher
frequencies!) by scaling the dimensions.
You can model Beverage antennas and other antennas in close proximity to
the Earth with EZNEC or AO among others. MININEC based models WILL NOT
model Beverages or other antennas close to the ground.
73!
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com
On 14 Aug 1995, sellington wrote:
> >Does anyone have info on a comparison of a single element EWE vs a
> >one to two wavelength Beverage for 160/80M contesting/DXing use?
>
> I modelled them a while ago. The numbers aren't handy, but the two
> wavelength beverage is certainly far superior to a EWE. A one wavelength
> beverage probably is also superior, though perhaps a sufficiently
> large EWE would be close.
>
> Scott K9MA
> sellington@ssec.wisc.edu
>
>From scotty@iquest.com (scotty neustadter) Tue Aug 15 01:25:39 1995
From: scotty@iquest.com (scotty neustadter) (scotty neustadter)
Subject: New Contest Radio
Message-ID: <199508150030.TAA26967@vespucci.iquest.com>
Got a copy of the New product info on the Yaesu FT-1000MP
Features
Enhanced Disgital Signal Processing, 4 random noise reduction
settings, selectable bandpass filtering with adjustable low and high cut off
responses, and transmitted audio enhancement with four voice response
equalization technique. Also has an automatic seek notch filter which will
identify and eliminate heterodynes and carriers.
Has Collins Mechanical Filter (2.7KHZ) for SSB, (std) Optional 500HZ
Collins Mechanical available as well as xtal filters for 2.0KHZ and 250HZ.
Can cascade mechanical and xtal filters.
Two VFO knobs, separate in band rx, modes and filtering can be
different. 0.625HZ resolution on DDS. Full feature contest memory keyer
built in (Keypad Required). RS-232C level converter built in. Build in
antenna tuner. 100 watts out. 110 VAC, 220VAC or 13.8 VDC power.
Selectable antenna jacks, rx only antenna jack included.
Transverter Jack, direct freq display of VHF or UHF freq.
Separate optimized FET RF preamps for high and low bands.
Quick Memory Bank system for instant recall of memories.
Supposed to be available around Sept 1. Believe there will be a demo at the
Huntsville, AL Hamfest this coming weekend. Price rumored to be around $3000.
Scotty Neustadter, N4PYD
President, North Alabama DX Club
Huntsville Hamfest Chairman
Internet: scotty@iquest.com
MCI Mail: N4PYD Fax: 205 880 9530
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he
needs more of it than he already has. --Descartes
>From k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek K2MM) Tue Aug 15 02:09:28 1995
From: k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek K2MM) (John Zapisek K2MM)
Subject: C-3 Gain Figures
Message-ID: <9508150109.AA00901@greylock.local>
Several readers have replied to my posting about the gain figures used by
Force-12 to describe their antennas (specifically, the C-3). I had said
that I did not find it useful for them to compare their C-3 over average
ground at some convenient height against a dipole in free space.
The replies mostly said that the F-12 literature also contains gain figures
of a more conventional nature -- i.e., apples vs. apples.
Glad to hear it. That sounds more like the Force-12 I'm familiar with.
Guess I should check out their literature myself. If I had a QTH where I
could put up one of their antennas, I surely would have by now!
Thanks to all who sent replies: Bob/N6IP, Pete/N4ZR, Bruce/WA7BNM,
Wes/N5WA, and John/ON4UN.
73 all! --John/K2MM
>From James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> Tue Aug 15 02:59:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> (James White)
Subject: Fwd: Octopus QFU
Message-ID: <25950815015952/0006492564PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
...............jeezus, you know Rich is right, they say that the memory is
the second thing to go - I forget what the first was.....
My appologies to Chuck, Mr Cigar, K5LZO - oops! Oh well, at least I had the
station right ('LES).......
K3ZZ informs me that at the other end of the octopus he had wrastled with
was noneother than K1ZND (K1ZZ)....it is nice to see that so many of our
brethren are still within the CONTEST sub-fraternity....although some seem
to have been heading higher and higher in frequency.
I have also heard of the N2AA 20 meter station's battles of operators as to
whether the run statyion or the mult station should be the one to
x-mit...stories of N2AA and K2SS flashing papernotes at one another as to
why THEY should have the ball (i.e. "Double Mult" vs. "Great Run")... I
still say anybody who doesn't love CONTESTING is nuts.
......Rich I appreciate your bailing me out - you see I haven't been
sleeping well this week - Grandchild number 5 is due at any minute now
(running a day or two late so far) and when the fone rings at night Teresa
(Gammaw) and I tend to end up wide awake...there sure is a lot of crap on TV
at 3:00 AM. I am getting paranoiod, it seems phonecalls (wrong numbers) keep
happening - every night....the grandchildren have had a history of 0-Dark:30
arrivals, so we have been trying to turn in early to be prepared for the
inevitable 'phone call.
.....I gather from your duping comments that we should perhaps recommend to
the N.O.W. gals (oops, women = "P.C.") that they officially thank K1EA,
K8CC, N6TR et al for their helping liberate wives, I mean significant
others, from duping! Did you seen his comments, Susan, thoughts?
G'nite - time for some hot cocoa and then off to bed after I find that
damned BenGay...where the hell did I put it..............
zx
-----------------
Forwarded Message
Date: Mon Aug 14 14:03:00 1995
From: Richard L. King
EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
MBX: 0007131253
TO: * James White / MCI ID: 649-2564
Subject: RE:Return of the Octopus
Message-Id: <23950814191532/0003765414DC1EM>
Source-Msg-Id: <31950814170613/0007131253PJ2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
Jim is getting old and his memory is suffering like the rest of us. His
information was close but not exact. It was not WA5LES/K5PFL (K5RC/K5NA)
that had the octopus system for SS. It was WA5LES and K5LZO. The set-up
was explained to me by K5RC who claimed the anti-octopus rule that was
adapted afterwards should have been named after them.
Their set up had two operating positions on two desks that faced each
other. They had two electro-mechanical counters that they could see
that always had the next SS number to send on it. When one of them made
a QSO, he would slap a button that would update the counter by one at
both places. Their rigs were interlocked so that only one of them
could transmit at a time. But the end result was that one of them was
always transmitting.
An added interesting fact was that at the side of the two operating
positions was a large dup sheet hung on the wall that was about 3 feet
high and 6 feet long. Their two wives at the time had the responsibility
to write the calls on the dup sheet using large marking pens so that
both operators could see the oversized dup sheet from his operating
position. The wives were always listed as being additional operators
in QST. Of course, now that we all have computers for duping, wives
are no longer necessary. (Let's see if that starts a thread?)
I don't think the octopus rule still exists anywhere? I wonder if I
should consider incorporating it in my new station I will be building
in the Austin area. Yes, for those of you who haven't heard, the K5NA
station in NY will be dismantling in the next few months. It has been
a good run here and I have really enjoyed it. I just hope I'm not
getting too old to do it all over again at a new site. We'll see.
73, Richard
K5NA@MCIMAIL.COM
>From ni6t@ix.netcom.com (Garry Shapiro ) Tue Aug 15 03:26:55 1995
From: ni6t@ix.netcom.com (Garry Shapiro ) (Garry Shapiro )
Subject: Phased Beverages! (was: EVE vs Beverage?)
Message-ID: <199508150226.TAA25425@ix9.ix.netcom.com>
You wrote:
>
>If u want to try a really excellent receiving antenna try a pair of
>phased Beverages! A pair of 580 foot Beverages, fed in phase, with
sloped
>feeds and terminations, spaced 275 feet side-by-side, shows a pattern
>remarkably similar to a 3 element Yagi!
ovanf@sgate.com
I'd love to, Frank, I really would! But, curiously, I am one of those
few people who just don't have the real estate to put two 580-foot
wires side-by-side, spaced 275 feet. Darn! :>}
Garry, NI6T
>From Dr. Eugene Zimmerman" <ezimmerm@DGS.dgsys.com Tue Aug 15 04:08:29 1995
From: Dr. Eugene Zimmerman" <ezimmerm@DGS.dgsys.com (Dr. Eugene Zimmerman)
Subject: Fwd: Octopus QFU
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950814225645.15016G-100000@DGS>
Jim
Back in 1976, my friend Paul Nugent W1NJX/3 in Annapolis decided that he
wanted a two letter call and one with two of the same letters. He
thought that the ZZ combination would be a good idea. AT the same time I
was looking for a 2 letter call and chose the double letters for my last
name even though the call ended in a dot - not so good on cw I thought.
Well I thought I got the call W3ZZ and Paul got K3ZZ. There has been
constant confusion over this for 20 years even tho Paul has studiously
avoided operating VHF and for the most part I have limited my efforts
under my call in HF contests.
But now I find that I really don't know my own call. Since you say
> K3ZZ informs me that at the other end of the octopus he had wrastled with
> was noneother than K1ZND (K1ZZ)....it is nice to see that so many of our
> brethren are still within the CONTEST sub-fraternity....although some seem
> to have been heading higher and higher in frequency.
Paul who has been called Gene by the DX stations for 20 years is no doubt
even more confused.
Oh well, I better check into this further. Where did I put my
license??? I seem to have forgotten . . . .
73 Gene W3ZZ
FM19jd 50 => 3456
BTW, this sounds like the fellow a few months ago who said that his
amateur radio hero was Gus Browning W4KFC. Now there would have been an
operator of truly heroic proportions!!
>From kf3p@cais.cais.com (Tyler Stewart) Tue Aug 15 04:40:05 1995
From: kf3p@cais.cais.com (Tyler Stewart) (Tyler Stewart)
Subject: NAQP Phone Team
Message-ID: <199508150340.XAA01710@cais.cais.com>
I'm looking for one, if anyone wants a lowly east coast NAQP score!
73, Tyler KF3P
>From k4sb@ix.netcom.com (Edward W. Sleight ) Tue Aug 15 04:52:18 1995
From: k4sb@ix.netcom.com (Edward W. Sleight ) (Edward W. Sleight )
Subject: Fwd: Re: K3ZO's "don't ask first" philosophy
Message-ID: <199508150352.UAA19123@ix8.ix.netcom.com>
Without pointing a finger at anyone, isn't the simple truth that if you
can hold the frequency, it's yours. If you can't, you'd do better to
consider another frequency.
That full wave ( baloon ) vertical I used in the last CQ160 did exactly
that, in spite of the fact the amp went qrt about 30 mins into the
thing. 200 watts into that thing was more than sufficient to discourage
anyone from QRZ, although about a dozen did try, among them a very
prominent 3 ( NOT K3ZO ) and an overly optimistic 2.
73,
ed
>From k4sb@ix.netcom.com (Edward W. Sleight ) Tue Aug 15 05:07:05 1995
From: k4sb@ix.netcom.com (Edward W. Sleight ) (Edward W. Sleight )
Subject: Fwd: New Contest Radio
Message-ID: <199508150407.VAA03087@ix4.ix.netcom.com>
Before everyone gets too excited about the new Yaesu, wait till you
see the spec sheet on the new Kenwood. Just one secret for now, it has
NO filters, well actually it does, but not as we know them. IRC will no
longer be a problem for owners of this one.
73, Ed
K4SB@IX.NETCOM.COM
>From Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka@dumpty.nal.go.jp> Tue Aug 15 06:46:12 1995
From: Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka@dumpty.nal.go.jp> (Takao KUMAGAI)
Subject: I was unhappy(Re: NCJ - happy ending)
Message-ID: <199508150546.OAA14536@dumpty.nal.go.jp>
on 95/08/12, Derek Wills writes:
Congratulation to Derek
But I had the un-happy ending and I gave up to subscribe NCJ.
I had a full collection of NCJ since #1 was issued and I loved
to read it to gain the current contest breeze in USA for nearly 20
years.
I sent a renewal for subscription by fax in late 92. No copies
arrived by mid 93. So I sent another fax to send all the previous
issues because I did not want to miss any issues. Then 3 previous
issues and current one arrived. Okay my collection was completed.
Then I renewed in late 93 by fax but none was received so I sent
another fax to the NCJ circulation department but no answer (ofcourse
no NCJs). Should I sent the FAX every month to get the reply??
I was very unhappy with recent NCJ circulation dept.
sigh..
---------
Tack Kumagai JE1CKA/KH0AM
TEL:81-30-066-6408, FAX:81-423-93-4449
Internet: je1cka@nal.go.jp
>From Eugene Walsh <0004504465@mcimail.com> Tue Aug 15 07:31:00 1995
From: Eugene Walsh <0004504465@mcimail.com> (Eugene Walsh)
Subject: Sucking Up to LPL!
Message-ID: <00950815063100/0004504465PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
Gents;
Well, well;
Just when I thought I had seen everything,
someone (NI6T) bashes Frank Donovan for telling
us about his 2 bevvies side by side! I, for one,
want to hear about extraordinary things, like these
beverages, which enhance the "Art" of listening,
especially in contests.
Frank is deserving of great admiration for
his activities in building that station over a
period measured in decades. He has been very
clever. His ability to recognize an opportunity
to get towers, coax and other stuff is legendary.
As far as I know, he ain't rich. He has focused
pretty well on doing these things, and has managed
some pretty good steps, over the years, to having a
really fine station. K2GL he is not, but he has built
a wonderfully competitive multi-multi station. Just a
few years ago he sold his house, bought a nice chunk of
antenna growing land out in the boonies, and built another
house. Why should someone feel strange about this? Even
you, whoever you are, could do this if you focused on it.
I never did what LPL did, and I figure it is
my own damned fault - whatever the reasons. A little
thought, and you might come up with the same conclusion
about what you do not have.
The incredibly wonderful thing about what W3LPL has
done is that with drive, focus, hard work, a few smarts and
a break or two, this could be done by any of us. This is
NOT a deluge of money, but a true application of focused
energy over a large number of years. I want to hear about
any part of Frank's extraordinary efforts which he is willing
to tell us about.
N2AA
>From Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka@dumpty.nal.go.jp> Tue Aug 15 08:24:07 1995
From: Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka@dumpty.nal.go.jp> (Takao KUMAGAI)
Subject: RUFZ hiscore & hint
Message-ID: <199508150724.QAA15352@dumpty.nal.go.jp>
Burt's record was broken by N8RR now.
And here is his hint.
These scores are another world to me..
(Beyond my ability)
---------
Tack Kumagai JE1CKA/KH0AM
TEL:81-30-066-6408, FAX:81-423-93-4449
Internet: je1cka@nal.go.jp
=== RUFZ Score Listing === (last revised 8/15/95)
42610 N8RR 216 416 7.267900
40654 W2UP 38 416 7.146600
39037 DF4PA2 8 390 7.655900
36807 KC5NWX 7 367 7.779200 (=KR0Y)
34299 DL8WAA 397
32070 K1AR 20 367 5.647600
31710 DL3DZZ 19 367 7.180100
31688 K1DG 24 367 5.530400
31101 JE1JKL 20 347
29778 K3WW 24 347 5.567600
28859 JH0KHR 1 347 6.360500
27596 KE2PF 44 328 5.580000
24895 K5ZD 24 328
24785 SM3OJR 13 328 6.021400
24267 JH0NZN 27 312 5.771800
23915 N3RS 23 312 4.683600
21948 KR2Q 32 284 4.236900
21281 KJ4VH 23 284 4.658000
21133 JA0FVU 22 284 5.068200
21116 ND3F ? 297
20744 JE1SPY 15 312
20571 AD1C 4 297 3.900300
19076 K1IU 15 271 3.818100
======
How to get RUFZ program
ftp://maspar.maspar.com/pub/k2mm/rufz/rufz.zip
ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/o/oolon/rufz.zip
mail:info-contest@dumpty.nal.go.jp
with
#get rufzpack.uue
in the body of the message.
------- je1cka@nal.go.jp forwards -------
From: <RFPWR@aol.com>
To: je1cka@nal.go.jp
Subject: rufz
1 42610 N8RR 16 416 7.267900
PS: The number of attempts is 216, not 16: I cleared the rfzhiscr.dta file
after each 100 attempts. After about 150 attempts with the built in computer
speaker, I decided to try something different.
Not wanting to pull the mother board and hard wire an earphone connection to
my computer, I took the computer out of its case and placed a cheap
microphone next to the audio transducer. Then I fed the microphone into a
Radio Shack audio mixer/amplifier, and plugged my Heil headphones into the
mixer.
It works well enough to make an immediate difference in my ability to hear
the s/h, a/u, g/z combinations at high speed. Not exactly a high tech
solution, but it was easy and worked. Now if only the weather would cool off
enough for me to get my antennas hooked up and back on the air.
73, Chas N8RR
------- End of forwarded message -------
>From Frank Donovan <donovanf@sgate.com> Tue Aug 15 11:39:22 1995
From: Frank Donovan <donovanf@sgate.com> (Frank Donovan)
Subject: Phased Beverages! (was: EVE vs Beverage?) (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950815063900.30095B-100000@jekyll.sgate.com>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Frank Donovan <donovanf@jekyll.sgate.com>
To: Patrick Collins <pcollins@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Phased Beverages! (was: EVE vs Beverage?)
Hi Pat!
Half wave spacing is what you want (275 feet on 160M), regardless of
Beverage length. With this spacing, signals arriving off the side of the
phased Beverages will be 180 degrees out of phase. A pair of 1000 foot
Beverages will have quite a narrow beamwidth, so u mite want to preserve the
ability to run a single Beverage as well!
For those who do not use 3 element Yagis on 40M, you can get similar
receive performance with a phased pair of 145 foot Beverages spaced 70 feet
side-by-side. The same idea will work on 20 meters, if u scale it down.
BTW, several large military facilities use very large Beverage receiving
arrays up to 30 MHz and higher to obtain low sidelobe performance (about
-40 dB) with narrow beamwidths!
73!
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com
On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Patrick Collins wrote:
> What would a good spacing for a pair of 1000' beverages for 160?
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Pat Collins pcollins@freenet.columbus.oh.us
> NZ4K
>
>
>
>From James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> Tue Aug 15 12:58:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> (James White)
Subject: ZX busts another call!
Message-ID: <31950815115813/0006492564PK3EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
....jeezus, I did it again...sorry Gene, I agree that despite the dits it is
a gud suffix, and think Phil N6same (among others) agrees, too!
thats K5LZO not K5PFL
and W3ZZ not K3ZZ
.......if I was in California I would really worry about the next strike!
zx
still awaiting Grandchild #5 (and a good nites sleep)
>From cady@mainman.ee.montana.edu (Fred Cady) Tue Aug 15 15:21:55 1995
From: cady@mainman.ee.montana.edu (Fred Cady) (Fred Cady)
Subject: Old solar flux numbers
Message-ID: <199508151421.IAA04642@mainman.ee.montana.edu>
Does anybody know of a web or ftp site with old solar flux records?
I want to see what actual conditions were for the end of November
1993 and 1994 to compare some miniprop runs with actual conditions
in the CQWW contests of those year. Does anybody have these records
or know where I can find them?
Thanks, Fred KE7X
ieefc@msu.oscs.montana.edu
Fred Cady (ieefc@msu.oscs.montana.edu)
>From millersg@dmapub.dma.org (Steve Miller) Tue Aug 15 16:35:04 1995
From: millersg@dmapub.dma.org (Steve Miller) (Steve Miller)
Subject: Old solar flux numbers
Message-ID: <m0siO1A-00029GC@dmapub.dma.org>
> Does anybody know of a web or ftp site with old solar flux records?
>
> Thanks, Fred KE7X
Try this from the Solar Radio Group of the National Research Council Canada:
http://www.drao.nrc.ca/web/solar.shtml
you should be able to get solar flux data from there.
You may also want to check out the National Geophysical Data Center:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
The Solar Terrestrial Physics area also contains ionospheric and
geomagnetic data
--
Steve Miller
millersg@dmapub.dma.org
WD8IXE - Ridin' the aethereal waves
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