Front cover photo of the ARRL flag with a photo colage of Field Day 2000
operations from VA3RAC; with a feature article inside.
Contest related items:
Gain without Pain, A Beam Antenna for Field Day (delta loop beam hung from
tree)
A Different Kind of Kid's Day (event date is June 16 - Be There!)
The D68C Story (and their ARRL CW DX efforts)
VA3RAC, Canada's 35A Field Day Extravaganza (re cover photo)
Short Takes - Heil Sound HS-706 Headset
Hints & Kinks - A Radio/Data Interface Connection; Rubber Skirts for Small
Knobs
Product Review - Ten-Tec Jupiter HF Transceiver
YL News - Top Scores from the YLRL YL-OM contest
Results - 2000 ARRL Sweepstakes CW
Other interesting items:
Up Front in QST - Field Day 2000, A Fond Look Back (2 pages of pictures)
2001 W1AW HF Digital Run Results
Simple RF-Power Measurement (with simple homebrewed instruments)
ZS2AA, South Africa's Grand Old Lady of the Airwaves
The Arkansas Catfish Dipole (20-meter dipole using fishing poles)
Test Your Knowledge (crossword puzzle with a focus on hamfests)
Product Review - Yaesu VR-5000 Communications Receiver
How's DX? - The Pitcairn Islands, a New DXCC Entity Amongst Them?
The Help Desk - Antenna and Tower Safety
The World Above 50 MHz - 24-GHz EME is Next
Op-Ed - Antenna Aesthetics
And more...
73 & High Rates,
Henry Pollock - K4TMC
Raleigh, NC
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>From Marijan Miletic" <Marijan@Miletic.net Wed May 16 08:16:24 2001
From: Marijan Miletic" <Marijan@Miletic.net (Marijan Miletic)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] USA WRTC 2002 Team Selections
Message-ID: <000701c0ddd8$1dff02e0$2c48fea9@pentium>
Tree, N6TR wrote:
>It could be argued that the only statistic that the operators really
>have control over is their error rate as that has very little to
>do with the quality of the station. I hope that this statistic
>will at least be mentioned.
Statistically speaking, K1TO and N5TJ won WRTC twice from USA and EU, N5TJ was
#3 at WRTC-1990 and he made a great CQ WW score from EA8BH recently, where we
put him on the list of the best ops WW?
73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
P.S. I might beat him at Dayton CW pile-up :-)
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