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Subject: WT1O CQWW CW SOLP AB UNASSISTED
From: bmelvin@benthos.com (bmelvin@benthos.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 14:27:50 1996
                  CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST  1996


      Call: WT1O                     Country:  United States
      Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator Low Power
Unassisted

    BAND      Q's      Z's     C's
      160       19           7      11
       80      106          13      49
       40      148          19      60
       20      362          20      82
       15      413          20      75
       10        6             4       5
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   1054      83     282  =>  1,086,970

Station:

TenTec Omni D with new 500 Hz Filter ( tu TenTec for the quick shipment)
KT34A @ 95'
80 meter inverted V @ 90'
40 meter Loop @ 75'
N4KG vertical with 4 raised radials for 160

First serious DX contest and reached my goal of 1 Mil and 1K Q's.  First
night really slow with 40 really poor.  Sat morning realized pileups for
VK/ZL would be impossible.  Heard a VK working a big gun so moved up
freq and hit the F1 button twice.  VK in the log.  Sat morning on 20
very frustrating when my freq was stolen numerous times just as the rate
meter was over 100 (the problem with low power, no one can hear us).
Mostly S/P for multipliers the whole day.  Only 454 Q's the first day.
Sat night more S/P because 40 was again useless.  At midnight made the
decision to stay up late to find the remaining Carribean mults that I
was missing realizing that if I had a good day on Sunday I would kick
myself for not getting them Sat nite.  Late at night, trying to break
pileup for 3E1DX on 40 heard him QSY to 80 and thought, my chance to get
him on 80!  Followed him up there only to have him tell me I had already
worked him on 80.   Never did find him again on 40.  Decided at 0800 to
get some sleep.  Up 3 hours later and had an incredible 15 meter run on
the same freq for 5 hours.  First 3 hours were 78, 83, and 78.  Later on
20 at 1800 had a ZS and 4Z4 call in a span of 3 minutes for new ones,
now I know what its like to have mults call you.  Missed breakfast which
in turn required Malox late in the day, but well worth it.  D44BC put me
over 1 Mil.  Spent last 2 hours CQing on 40 because I was too tired to
S&P. Had HZ1HZ call me, another first, and relinquished my freq to the
hord of Europeans that pounced on him.  Incredible, my new favorite
contest.  73, Bob WT1O









>From windev@inetmarket.com (Gerry Hull)  Tue Nov 26 20:43:34 1996
From: windev@inetmarket.com (Gerry Hull) (Gerry Hull)
Subject: Free Telnet-to-RS232 Software
Message-ID: <199611262043.PAA26256@top.monad.net>

I've built a telnet client which will echo to an RS-232 port.
This is great if you want to feed an cluster's internet gateway
into CT.

It's for Windows95/NT.  You'll have to dedicate a system to
being the packet gateway.

You can get it from http://www.inetmarket.com/hamstuff.

It's in beta -- try it out and provide feedback.

It will always be free, even in the final version.

Please, no flames.  The rules (CQWW, anyway) do not prohibit the
use of internet packet gateways.  Anyway, half the spots you see 
on your local cluster come from internet links.

73,

Gerry, AK4L (soon to be.... day 2 vanity applicant patiently waiting) 
also VE1RM, ex VE1SPI, CY0SAB, VP2M/VE1RM
Op at KY1H, W2SZ/1, VE9DH and many other M/S and M/Ms over the years...
Visit the VB9DH web page @ http://www.inetmarket.com/ve9dh
email: ak4l@inetmarket.com  web: http://www.inetmarket.com/hcc


>From k1vr@juno.com (Fred Hopengarten)  Tue Nov 26 21:44:58 1996
From: k1vr@juno.com (Fred Hopengarten) (Fred Hopengarten)
Subject: Lessons Learned (Long)
Message-ID: <19961126.164319.5495.11.k1vr@juno.com>

     I am not an engineer, but I play one for contest
weekends.  Each contest weekend seems to teach me (or, for
those lessons not yet fully learned, reteach me) a few
lessons.  Here are the lessons from this fall:

Trees Grow

     When AA1AA showed up to operate WW Phone, he discovered
that he couldn't rotate the middle TH6 (side-arm mounted) in
the three stack.  Cure:  Bought gaffs; climbed tree; cut
interfering branches.

     Lesson:  Rotate all antennas BEFORE the contest
weekend.

Old Fashioned N-Connectors Cannot Be Used Outdoors

     I discovered last winter that the center pin of a male
N connector had withdrawn after many years of fine service.
This reflector's fine gentlemen informed me that I should be
using the new, self-locking, N connectors.  They were
designed to prevent just such an occurrence.  But the TH7 on
my low tower died just two days before WW CW.

     After four trips up the low tower, I concluded it was
not the balun, nor connection to the driven element.  The N
connector at the transition from hardline to RG-213 drip and
rotator loop that had failed.  Replaced this jumper with one
that had UHF connectors on both ends and inserted one UHF to
N connector adaptor.  Problem solved.

     Lesson:  You can't own too many adaptors.  Never use an
old style N connector outdoors again.

Watch Out for the Current Points

     To improve signal into the Caribbean (a direction not
favored by my two element vertical phased array), I
installed an 80 meter dipole at an average height of 75
feet, fed with 300 ohm twinlead, through a Johnson KW
Matchbox.  The Matchbox was zapping, SWR was NOT great, one
computer was going bonkers, and at times I had to cut back
the IC-765 drive to the AL-1200 linear so that output would
not exceed 400 watts.  Solution:  Cut 11 feet off the
twinlead.  Why 11 feet?  The length must be significant
enough.  I figured 11 feet was a quarter wave on 15, which
seemed like "enough."

     Why twinlead feed?  Makes going from CW to phone easy.
Just retune the antenna coupler.

     Lesson:  A current point in the feedline inside the
shack is bad for business.

Let The Radio Breathe

     The second radio (I was in the SO2 class) was a TS-930,
on a second shelf.  I placed a piece of open cell foam UNDER
it to hang down and provide a place for my wrist to rest
while tuning.  Sunday afternoon the TS-930 died.  The
frequency and function LED's just stopped working and I had
a black screen.  The radio stopped hearing.  The radio was
hot.

     I turns out that I had blocked the air intake to the
TS-930 and it had gone to thermal cut-off.  Whew.  Nothing
toasted.  Put a big gel pack from my cooler on top of the
radio and two hours later, minus the foam pad, it started up
again.  What a relief.

     Lesson:  Always let the radios breathe.  Provide
clearance for air in and out.

Flaky Relays Do Not Cure Themselves

     I have six independent ICE bandpass filters.  They were
fine.  But one of the two relays selecting the BPF's (and
keyed by a Top Ten Devices box) was flaky.  I discovered
this only minutes before the contest started.  In general I
use plug in relays to permit easy substitution, but I bought
this nifty set of 10 Amphenol relays with BNC connectors at
Dayton because it looked so NEAT.  One relay won't always
pull closed.  I can easily wire in a spare located elsewhere
on the board, but I didn't have time.  Having discovered the
problem, and the cure (tap the part that pulls to the
energized coil), I figured I could last the contest.

     Sadly, when the 160 situation started acting up Sunday
at EU sunrise (01z), and I was in sleep deprivation, I
forgot that I had already found and cured this problem.  So
I found it and cured it all over again.  But it ate up an
hour.  And in the middle of a contest, there are no good
hours to give away, as every hour has its purpose.

     Lesson:  Next time leave a note if a problem does not
have a permanent cure.  Cure the problem before the next
contest by rewiring.

First blush score:  1917   117   386   2.8M Unassisted
CQ96CW

>From floydjr@Interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd)  Tue Nov 26 22:03:25 1996
From: floydjr@Interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd) (Jimmy R. Floyd)
Subject: CQWW CW 96 Scores II
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19961126220325.258f7c62@interpath.com>

CQWW CW 1996
RAW SCORES

Compiled by
WA4ZXA
(floydjr@interpath.com)

Date Posted: 11/26/96


CALL                 HRS     SCORE     QSO'S    PTS   ZONES     DX
_______________________________________________________________________

S/OP/HP/Unassisted

P40W (W2GD)              13,302,226    6559   19391    159     527
4V2A (9A3A/HH2AW)         7,550,737    5657            135     406
3DA0NX (JM1CAX)           4,517,898    3305    9779    120     342
7Z5OO (K3UOC)             4,004,400    3356    9400    111     315
YB1AQS                    3,628,008    2515    7374    136     356
YL8MM (YL2KL)             2,482,800    2504    4138    144     456
VO1MP                40   2,092,480    1909    5030     96     320
ZS6SA                21     950,988    1403    4171     66     162
OI6KZP               35     852,021    1164    2309     81     288
OH8BQT               28     635,797    1011    2071     69     238
DL4YAO                      272,640     540     960     75     209

K5ZD                 46   5,634,678    3150    9177    144     470
W1KM                 44   5,300,000    3181            139     441
N2NT                      4,932,482    2839    8126    137     470
K4AAA                42   4,467,336    2789    8093    139     413
N2LT                      4,433,000    2721            132     430
K3ZO                      4,189,419    2521            141     446
W9RE                      3,074,760    2033    5694    130     410
N2IC/0                    2,990,000    2005            148     379
N4AF                      2,544,373    1820    5161    122     371
N4CW (K4PB)               2,283,380    1654    4708    111     374
AA4S                      1,758,200    1333            123     349
K6LA                 44   1,743,600    1658    4359    128     272
K0EJ                 35   1,593,651    1184    3259    126     363
N9GG                 28   1,321,240    1383             85     255
W6XR                      1,321,240    1383             85     255
K9MA                 35   1,280,970    1065    2979    115     315
WZ6Z                      1,276,626    1340            115     223 
K9BG                 24   1,260,000    1056            119     313
N4TO                      1,253,362     893            128     378
WB0O                      1,233,064     991            128     326
K9BZ                 34   1,217,160    1061    2940    114     299 
KV1W (K1MBO)         40   1,156,237    1151    3313     85     264
K4RO                      1,030,316     886    2374    116     318
W4AU                 17     448,092     644    1844     61     182
NO2T                 17     376,968     404    1112     88     251
N3ADL                17     314,352     350             90     243
NS0B                        275,520     359     960     83     204
K4NA                 10     156,006     262     729     59     155
AJ2U                 10     115,434     234             58     140
K7JJ                         55,640     165     428     48      82
W8PT                 10      50,148     148     398     37      89
WA1CFS                       23,400     128     234     30      70


S/OP/LP/Unassisted

G4KIV                     1,654,624    2302    3566    103     361
VE1GN                     1,062,096    1237    3161     83     253
SM7TUG                      385,825     958    1403     55     220

KN4T                      1,807,548    1270            123     393
WT1O                      1,086,970    1054    2978     83     282
NA2U                        927,465     861    2409     94     291
WO4O                 38     707,124     726    1948     98     265
N4YDU                       654,372
WA7BNM               24     627,579     740            110     199
KJ9C                 34     399,921     466             87     240
W1EQ                        364,672     508             66     193
N2RD                        352,692     446    1212     74     217
K8GT                        235,040     351     904     69     191
W3CP                 11     130,071     251             50     141
WD4AHZ               10     111,813     221     611     49     134 
WB0OLA/9                     59,052     171     399     50      98
AB5LX                11      54,404     175             45      89


S/OP/Assisted

EY8MM                     1,196,814    1429    3459     97     249
S50U            LP          330,974     725    1006     71     258
JH9VSF/9                    219,924     365             96     150

K1NG (KI1G)               5,137,682    2560    7403    158     536
W2UP                 37   4,900,500    2569    7425    145     515
K3WW                      4,695,828    2413    6926    148     530
W2XX (@KE2NL)             4,243,620    2299    6610    141     501
AA1K                 42   3,687,344    2033    5816    146     488
K3NZ                      3,100,436    1713            136     492
K3MD                      2,449,770    1557    4418    135     420
K3KO                      1,658,232    1209    3415    114     374
K2ONP                40   1,537,004    1153    3229    118     358
K6AO (K6PU)          27   1,210,276    1001    2732    130     313
N4ZJ                      1,125,099     898    2517     99     348
N8BJQ                       602,980     611             98     267
K1SM                 14     521,520     589    1640     77     241
N1CC                 12     512,000     605                300
K3SA                  7     312,550     416    1175     70     196 
K3AR                 15     306,768     343     924     81     251
K3PP            LP   10     157,368     251     664     70     167
KK5GT           LP           58,254     166     399     55      91
AB5SE           LP           55,152     155     383     50      94


S/OP/QRP

VE7CFD (VE7CQK)             109,625     397             53      72

K1RC                 21     458,700     562    1529     67     233
KA1CZF                      305,102     436    1178     71     188
N1AFC                       254,400     445             46     154
KV8S                 16     250,240     400    1088     62     168
K5IID/8              28     238,283     374     997     68     171


Single Band

160M
G3XTT           HP          170,085     967             23      92
SV8CS           HP           50,920     589             10      66

K8MK                         51,840     249             19      71
AA8U                         20,025     131             18      57
K8SM            HP            3,526      39      86     13      28

80M
LA9GX                       228,125    1224    1825     27      98

W1MK                        340,000     977             28      94
K4MA (@AA4NC)                39,961     185             16      71

40M
ZS6P (ZS6EZ)    HP          910,784    2018             35     117
TM7XX (F5MUX)   HP          517,533    1777    3099     38     129
JN3WYD                       70,576     293     802     27      61

W7TO (K7BV)     HP          423,423    1060    2960     37     106
NX7K            HP   20     306,348     729    2084     39     108 
AB4RX           LP           98,550     267             32     103
AA2SZ                                   242     665     33     108

20M
GM6V (GM3WOJ)   HP   21     534,400    1518    3340     38     122
C31LJ           HP          477,034    1585    3482     27     110 
VE7AV                       265,000     870             32      93
LY6M (AC6WL)    LP          262,190     816    1670     37     120
S56A            LP          211,756     559    1268     38     129

NI8L                 27     732,240    1564    4520     39     123
W4PA (@K4FW)         40     585,718    1293             36     125 
K2KW/6                      527,363    1225    3359     36     121
NU6S (@WC6H)    HP   23     450,447    1017    2833     36     123
KO9Y            HP   14     213,738     512             34     113

15M
PP5BRV                       27,510     228             17      25

N5KA            HP          336,003     912    2383     32     109
N4BP            HP   20     239,360     670    1870     28     100
K6AW (@N6RO)         27     210,483     767    1799     30      87

10M
W4YV            HP           13,041                     19      44


Multi/Single

J6DX                     12,251,850    7512            149     267
DL6RAI                    6,133,338    3612    8049    170     592
XE2L                      5,834,565    5036   11787    146     349
RW2F                      5,400,000    3600            175     597
DF3CB                     4,064,000
OI7T                      3,683,910    2855    5339    160     530
DK0EE                     3,649,625    2600
OE1A                      3,600,000    
IQ4T                      3,515,967    2830            124     443
VE6JY                     2,813,952    2670    6144    129     329
RW9OWD                    2,350,400    2072    5200    112     340
UN8FB                     1,567,800    1633    4020     97     293

K1ZZ                      5,985,904    2789    8024    159     587
W4WA                      5,401,205    2758    7705    159     542
K8LX                      4,695,372    2560    7348    151     488
WX7K                      4,004,945    2414            156     439
W3GG                      3,567,045    2100    5955    135     464
KB1H                      3,157,954    1872    5389    132     454
NX0I                      2,594,506    1773            144     414
N2FF                      1,767,663    1375            113     358
NN7L                      1,579,000    1350            133     288
K6RO                      1,307,440    1071    2770    133     339
LY1DS                         9,240      76     140     23      43


Multi/Multi

PI4COM                    9,295,273    6442   12119    174     593
ZM2K                      6,418,116    4506            137     349

N2RM                     15,031,566    6305   17622    180     673 
W3EA                      9,254,188    4193            167     615
K1TI                      7,870,284    3768            155     574
K1TTT                     7,818,528    3837   10623    160     576
KS9K                      7,509,086    3684    9959    166     588
K2LE                      7,091,418    3529            153     557
K8CC                      6,775,514    3581            165     538
K0RF                      5,607,410    3063    8186    167     518
K3ANS                     4,984,749    
W7RM                      4,312,560    2880    7701    155     405
W6BA                      3,792,613    2185    6127    164     455
K7FR                      1,166,424    1160    3144    116     255


********************************************************************

OPERATORS LIST

CALL                 OPERATORS          

Multi/Single

W4WA            W4WA,KB4GID,AE6E,KE4ZQD,AA4GA
NN7L            AA7CQ,NN7L
NX0I            NX0I,AK0A,K0RWL,KM0L
K1ZZ            K1ZZ,K1RO
IQ4T            IK4HVR,I4IFL,IK4SXJ,I4DZ,I4NNY,IK4WMH,IK4OMU
LY1DS           LY1DS,LY1DR
K8LX            K8LX,N8EA,WA8ZDT
DL6RAI          DL2NBU,DL4RDJ,DL6RAI
DK0EE           DL4MDO,DK6WL,DK2OY,DL4MCF
DF3CB           DL4MEH,DF3CB,DL5MFF
WX7K            KV0Q,KT0F,WB0HBS,WX7K
VE6JY           VE6BF,VE6WQ,G3OUF
N2FF            N2FF,N2LSK,KF2ER,AA2XY,KG2HV,AA2GC
K6RO            K6RO,KC6X,K5KT
RW9OWD          RA9OW,RW9OW,UA9OIL,UA9OLW,UA9OIW,UA9OAO
UN8FB           UN7FAR,UN8FM,UN9FB,UN9FM,UN7FK
XE2L            XE2DV,N6HC,K6LL,N6VR,N6WS
W3GG            W3GG,AA3KX,WD3I
KB1H            KB1H,K1DW,K1EBY,NB1U,AA1CE


Multi/Multi

K2LE            K2LE,W2AX,N2UN,N1BB,NB1B,K1CB
ZM2K            ZL2AIZ,ZL2AGY,ZL2AHC,ZL2BA,ZL2IR,ZL2BSJ,ZL2AL
N2RM            N2RM,N2AA,N2NC,WH2Z,W2REH,N2NU,K2WI,WW2Y,K2BM
K3ANS           N2BIM,AJ2U,N2KJM,N3JGX,K2ANS,N3XKG
K7FR            K7FR,W7MNO,KB0EBH,KA7EKL
K1TTT           K1TTT,KB1W,NT2X,AB2AP,KB2ZIC,WR2I,AA1AS,UR5LAW
W7RM            K7NT,N6TR,K9JF,W2VJN,N0AX,N7EPD,WJ7R,W7YAQ,K5ZM,W7BX
                AA7KF,KQ7I,K7RO,K7OQ
K1TI            K1TI,W1MD,K1CA,K1TR,K1BG
K0RF            AA0RS,K4XU,K7TD,K0AV,K0RF,KI0G,N0AH,W1XE
W3EA            WB3FIZ,WB3LFZ,K3WJV,WB2R,WE3C,WU3M,W8FJ,W3FV,W3EA
KS9K            KS9K,AG9A,N1RR,NB9C,K9GL,K9NW,K9PG,KA9FOX,WE9V
W6BA            W6BA,N6AW,W6RW,N6RT,KC6CNV,N7QQ,K6CU,W6HT,K6WS,
                K6HMS,W6SR
PI4COM          PA3BBP,PA3BWD,PA3CAL,PA3ERC,PA3EWP,PA3GBQ

*********************************************************************

REMEMBER NO ATTACHMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY WILL NOT BE POSTED !!!!

REMEMBER ALSO IF YOU SEND JUST SINGLE OPERATOR YOU GO INTO UNASSISTED !!

73 Jim
           ********************************************************** 
           * Jimmy R. Floyd  (Jim)   Thomasville, NC                *
           *                                                        *
           * Amateur Call:              >> WA4ZXA <<                *
           * Packet Node:               >> N4ZC <<                  *
           * Internet Address:          >> floydjr@interpath.com << *
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>From ac1o@gate.net (Walter Deemer)  Tue Nov 26 22:22:08 1996
From: ac1o@gate.net (Walter Deemer) (Walter Deemer)
Subject: The KN4T 40-Meter Story (104 DXCC, Low Power!) (long)
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19961126222208.00d36cbc@pop.gate.net>

My low power effort in the CQ WW last weekend generated a surprisingly-high
104 countries on 40 meters.  I thought some of you might be interested in
the story behind that rather large number of mults.

I started the contest on 40, as I always do these days; there aren't enough
DX stations on 20 on Friday night (and far too many US stations chasing what
few there are) for me to do anything decent there, and competing with the
Northeast big guns on 80 with my low-power signal is next-to-impossible in
the early hours of the contest.  My usual Friday-night strategy is to start
at 7030 and S&P my way up the band, but that usually yields a bunch of Q's
with stations that are on all weekend.  So I decided to generally lurk up in
the weeds (great term, N0AX!) above 7050, trying to pick up some more casual
stations plus some mults that may not have been discovered by the Packet Mob
during the early confusion.  My first Q was 3V8BB (a good omen!), and I also
got 3DA0NX and 9K2/YO9HP early on.  I then found a hole at 7067; during the
short but productive run that followed I was called by a T7, an IS0, and
ZS6SA (I keep the beam pointed a little south of Europe, trying to make
things like that happen!).  I was quickly driven off the frequency, though
(low power stations get used to it), but found 4L7AA and NL7G to make up for
it as the first hour ended.

I spent the 01Z hour mostly S&Ping, and in the process got contacts with
6W1AE, CN8BK, 3C5A and 9J2SZ (plus a GU).  The 02Z hour was more of the
same, but yielded Q's with a TA1 and a HP along the way.  Then I found a
good spot just above 7050; I got 52 Q's in the 03Z hour (remember, I'm
running low power from way down in South Florida; that's big-time stuff for
me!)  The run petered out at the end of the hour, but I found and worked a
TA2, TU2 and 7Q7 right afterwards.  Another run in the 04Z hour got the
last-100 rate meter up to 50(!) at 0424; then I somehow managed to work JY8B
at 0500 and 3G1X at 0800.  Along with my EU and Caribbean mults, this
brought me to 310/79 when I called it quits at 0815.

I didn't even attempt the pre-sunrise Oceania/Asia 40-meter opening Saturday
morning; chances of a low power station getting through the West Coast wall
are a lot better (although still not great) on Sunday.  So I started on 20
at dawn Saturday, and didn't come back to 40 until 2240, when I nabbed 9U5DX
and D44BC, then, miraculously, found 7Z5OO without a pileup and worked him,
too.  Along with some more EU mults, this brought my 40-meter totals up to
339/85 after 24 hours.

Day Two: I had ignored 80 and 160 the first day, but had to spend some time
there the second night to try to get at least some multipliers, and 40 thus
took somewhat of a back seat the second night.  But quick checks of the band
in the 01Z hour (I was just using one radio, by the way) got me 5V7A, 9Y4H
and PY2NY, and I worked ZD8DEZ, 5X4F, and EM1KA in the 02Z hour (along with
four Caribbean/SA mults -- including PZ1DV, who called me!).  I then lucked
upon 4X7A in the next hour, along with 8R1K and HK6KKK -- and managed to
break through the massive A61AJ pileup at the very bottom of the band in the
04Z hour (well, I broke through after the mob simmered down some).  I then
worked ZL3CW at 0606, and decided to call it a night with 99 40-meter mults
in the log.

I got back on at 1030 to try to work some Asia/Oceania stuff (along with
trying to clean up the Caribbean on 160, where I only had 8 multipliers).
But conditions seemed really terrible; the only mult I got on 160 was
N2RM(!), and the sometimes-big JA opening on 40 generated only five
contacts.  But I also managed to get through to VK1FF on 40 (who later
called me on 20 -- long-path; that man has GREAT ears!)  plus KH0DQ and a
RZ0, and HC5AI added one last SA mult to bring me up to my final total of
432 Q's and 104 countries on 40.  (The JA opening on 20 during the last two
hours of the contest was much too productive for me to try one last shot at
40, which I suspect would have yielded me another mult or two but would have
held back my overall score -- which broke above 1.8M in the last half hour
of the contest.)

And so that's how little old me, operating low power, ended up with 104
countries on 40 last weekend.  It helped that I managed to get some runs
going both nights; CQing is the only way to get a lot of those less-common
EU countries (as I've found out the hard way over the years; my inability to
run well on 20 kept me under 100 countries there, for example).  And years
of low-power S&Ping have taught me to quickly recognize the unusual on a
band -- and how to bust small-to-medium sized pileups, if I must, to get a
mult.  (Clue: my TX RIT is in constant use in the process.)  In addition,
conditions had to be pretty darn favorable from FL into EU this past weekend
(was the MUF just above 7 MHZ on the FL-EU path and just below 7 MHZ farther
north for a while?)  Whatever the case, I did do well on 40 -- and it was
sure a nice way to break in the new call!!

(For those who are interested in digging further, my breakdown sheet and log
are available on my website at: http://www.4w.com/deemer/96cqww.txt).

73 -- and thanks! -- de Walt, KN4T (ex-AC1O)
     
Walter Deemer, President, DTR Inc. 
"Walter Deemer's Market Strategies and Insights"
151 NE Naranja Avenue, Port St. Lucie, FL 34983

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