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Subject: [SECC] Re: SECC Digest, Vol 3, Issue 6
From: fdennin at numail.org (fdennin@numail.org)
Date: Fri Mar 7 18:40:47 2003
Jeff & ALL,

Count me in for breakfast or lunch if the date is good.  Newnan is obviously 
good for me but will go anywhere.

73....Fred WW4LL



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>    1. need some help
>    2. Re: need some help (Gary McConville)
>    3. Re: need some help (David L. Thompson)
>    4. Re: need some help, TO1A
>    5. ARRL SSB DX - KT4ZB
>    6. None (Dick Bentley)
>    7. ARRL DX SSB LOG WA4TII
>    8. new e-mail (Rick Dougherty NQ4I)
>    9. Re: need some help (John Laney)
>   10. SECC Meeting
>   11. TO1A and other thoughts (Scott Straw)
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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:53:41 EST
> From: ROG1984@aol.com
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> Subject: [SECC] need some help
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> CT DID NOT RECOGNIZE TO1A
>  WHAT COUNTRY IS IT.
> ------------------------------
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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:38:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gary McConville <wb4sq@yahoo.com>
> To: ROG1984@aol.com, secc@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SECC] need some help
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> Martinique (prefix = FM)
> 
> Gary - WB4SQ
> 
> 
> --- ROG1984@aol.com wrote:
> > CT DID NOT RECOGNIZE TO1A
> >  WHAT COUNTRY IS IT.
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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:50:31 -0500
> From: "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
> To: <ROG1984@aol.com>, <secc@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] need some help
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> 
> TO1A was FM.
> 
> Does anyone know if RN0CT aws UA0 or just a special Russian prefix?  Boy was
> he loud on 40 SSB.  I worked UA9MA several weeks ago and he was only 5/7.
> 73 Dave K4JRB
> 
> > CT DID NOT RECOGNIZE TO1A
> >  WHAT COUNTRY IS IT.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:51:27 EST
> From: Kt4zb@aol.com
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SECC] need some help, TO1A
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>    Current ct 9.87 along with updated cty files will give you  TO1A as 
> Martinique. I don't think it was in ct prior to CQWW last October but has 
> been added since.
> 
>    Good luck - glad you worked them, I missed them on 40 and 15m.
> 
> 73 - Jere, KT4ZB
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:08:41 EST
> From: Kt4zb@aol.com
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> Subject: [SECC] ARRL SSB DX - KT4ZB
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> ARRL DX Contest, SSB
> 
> Call: KT4ZB
> Operator(s): KT4ZB
> 
> 
> Class: SOAB LP
> QTH: GA
> Operating Time (hrs): Approx 13 hrs
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:   0      0
>    80:    26    20
>    40:    12    11
>    20:    93     47
>    15:    135   52
>    10:    160   60
> -------------------
> Total:  426     190     Total Score = 242,250
> 
> Club: South East Contest Club
> 
> Comments:  Very low key contest as I'm still recovering from the flu. All 
S&P 
> (save the voice), low power and all wire antennas. Enjoyed it as always - 
> worked my first SU during a contest so that was a real treat.  Very good 
> conditions on Sunday - it would have been very difficult for me to have 
found 
> any space to try and run. 10m was active all the way to 28.800.  Look for me 
> in WPX, plan to be on a lot.
> 
> Jere, KT4ZB
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:16:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dick Bentley <k2uft@yahoo.com>
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> Subject: [SECC] None
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> Ed, K4SB - it should be noted that the proper name for
> the club is the South East Contest Club, 4 words not
> three.
> 
> Dick  K2UFT
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> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 04:40:17 EST
> From: ROG1984@aol.com
> To: SECC@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] ARRL DX SSB LOG WA4TII
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> DID NOT DO ALL THAT WELL THIS YEAR.
> 
>     ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 2003
> 
> 
>       Call:      WA4TII
>       Category:  Single Operator
>       Power:     High Power
>       Band:      All Band
>       Mode:      SSB 
>       Section:   GA
> 
>       BAND     QSO    QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
> 
> 
>       160       18       54   3.0       17
>        80       51      153   3.0       39
>        40       87      261   3.0       54
>        20      214      636   3.0       68
>        15      619     1857   3.0       79
>        10      280      840   3.0       74
>      --------------------------------------
> 
>      Totals   1269     3801   3.0      331  =   1,258,131
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:39:27 -0500
> From: "Rick Dougherty NQ4I" <nq4i@contesting.com>
> To: <secc@contesting.com>
> Subject: [SECC] new e-mail
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> Hi all...new address nq4i@contesting.com good bye to compuserve after 13 =
> years...it just got worse and worse...not supported either...thanks to =
> Bill at Akorn.net and now I have a great address...de Rick=20
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 09:04:21 -0500
> From: John Laney <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
> To: ROG1984@aol.com
> Cc: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [SECC] need some help
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> FM, Martinique.  Hope this doesn't make it a loss of a country for you. 
> The only other FM I heard was FM5AN on one band.  Type in the callsign
> field in CT TO1A=FM and it will correct everything.  Don't worry too
> much about this since the Cabrillo file doesn't even know what you are
> counting as a multiplier.  The Cabrillo checker counts the countries its
> own way and would have given you credit.  Nevertheless, making the
> change in CT will make your claimed score right and your log will be
> correct in case you are looking back years later and wonder what that
> was.  
> 
> 73,
> 
> John, K4BAI.
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 9:31:14 -0500
> From: <ku8e@bellsouth.net>
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] SECC Meeting
> Message-ID: 
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> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  Is there any interest in another informal SECC meeting/lunch ??? I think 
the 
> last one we had was up in Dunwoody about a month and half ago was with K4OGG 
and W4ATL.  I
am open to anywhere in the Atlanta area. Anyone have any suggestions or is the 
Pandera
Bread, where we have met before, OK ???
> 
> Somewhere on the south side of Atlanta ( Newnan??) would be better for me 
since
> I am down by Columbus now... but if the interest is there I would drive to 
Dunwoody
again....  Now would be a good time since we have come to a break in the 
contest season
before WPX.... Anyone ???
> 
>                            73's Jeff
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:54:58 -0500
> From: Scott Straw <scottstraw@mindspring.com>
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] TO1A and other thoughts
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> 
> I updated my country list and re-scored.  TO1A was an added multiplier for 
> me (I fixed this before i submitted to ARRL, but after I submitted to 
> 3830).  My final claimed score was raised to 20511  129 contacts, 53 
> multipliers.
> 
> I had set 100Q's as my goal for my SOSB 10M effort, and ended up with 91 on 
> that band.  If I had found another hour with that band, I would have made 
> my goal, I think.  It would have had to have been at the start of the 
> event, not the tail.  As the hours waned, it was hard to find unworked 
> stations - I guess this is common.
> 
> There were only about 3-4 stations, less than half a dozen for a fact, that 
> couldn't hear my 25W's well enough for a contact.  Some stations took extra 
> time and eked out my call, and for them I am grateful. At one point I heard 
> S9SS(?) very high on 10M (28.618?)  the pile up was so large, that every 
> other DX station down the band was calling "QRZ?" with no takers... I 
> seized that moment for all it was worth.
> 
> Saw an article at Contesting.com about the Contest Within a Contest 
> (CWC).  My time during ARRL DX SSB was limited to about 10 hours. I would 
> be interested to see what others who only worked a limited number of hours 
> did by comparison.  I also think that if I had the mind set of, "since I 
> can't do the whole 48, let me do as much of the 24 as I can," I might have 
> put in a few more hours. Don't most logging programs track your operating 
> time / off time?  Mine does, and as best I can tell, it keeps track of 
> breaks longer than 30 minutes.  If this is user defined, or contest form 
> defined, I haven't determined yet,but in either case it is a great tool.
> 
> My naive comments is that contesters ought to decide on 24 or 48 and then 
> submit a log that shows no more than the declared number of hours of 
> operating time (off time would have to be 30 minutes in length or 
> more).  Any one who logged 25 or more hours of operating time would be 
> judged in the 48 hour category.  It would seem hard to "cheat," i.e. delete 
> contacts to whittle down the log to a 24 hour length, because you would 
> show up on other logs? Right?
> 
> Would somebody please tell the newbie to quit asking so many questions?
> 
> Scott
> KB4KBS
> 
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