Hi All,
This message is directed to those contesters who participated in the Jan
95 NAQP SSB Contest. Unfortunately, I have a bit of bad news. In the
process of sending logs to the SSB contest honcho Steve N4TQO, a box of logs
was lost thanks to UPS. An exhaustive search has turned up nothing
unfortunately. I thought something like this could happen someday. I just
didn't expect it to happen the FIRST time I sent him the logs. We will be
taking appropriate steps to avoid this problem next time.
On a somewhat brighter note, we do have a large number of the logs.
They were in a seperate shipment that did get delivered properly. Listed
below are the callsigns of the logs we have on hand now. If you participated
in the Jan 95 NAQP SSB Contest, and do not see your call listed below, PLEASE
RE-SUBMIT YOUR LOGS IF POSSIBLE, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Please send them
directly to Steve, N4TQO. His E-mail address and new home address are listed
below. Please try to do so within the next week or two. I have the list of
score rumors from last January and an extra effort will be made to contact
the people on the score rumors list that are not on the Internet. Again, I'm
very sorry for any inconvience this may cause you. Thanks much for your
cooperation and understanding.
73, Bob W9NQ
Mail logs to:
Steve Merchant, N4TQO
1795 Cravens Lane
Carpenteria, CA. 93013
E-Mail them to : MERCHANT@CRL.COM
These are the logs WE HAVE in our possession. They are listed in order of
claimed score.
K0GU WB5VZL N4ZZ VE3EJ W5ASP KW8N KI3L N6NF N6KI XE1/AA6RX AB6FO VE4VV K7SV
N4ZC WA7BNM NW6S KB4GID K5DX N0BSH AA3B K0OAM W0OSK K8HVT W6UQF N1PBT N3BGV
WA3HAE VE7NF WA6SDM N3IXR KA3NUM K0EJ KB1GW W1IHN KK7A KS2G VE5GC N1GPY K9MMS
VY1JA KE4GY AB6YL AA4GA K8JLF WA6KUI N4AA VA3SYL W8UPH KN5H W9RE KI7Y KD1VE
K8CV KA9FOX W1FJ W4OGG WB8BUQ AA9AX K5ZD AA0CY K2MM AC4ZD AC4ZO K1IU KD0AV
W5KI N1QKG W0JF KI0E
Multi's: KS9K VE6JY N5JBM K6XO
>From Peter G. Smith" <n4zr@netcom.com Mon Apr 10 13:37:01 1995
From: Peter G. Smith" <n4zr@netcom.com (Peter G. Smith)
Subject: SprINT
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9504100538.A6458-0100000@netcom20>
Well, that was a lotta fun (NOT)! Right at 0000 a monster thunderstorm
roared through our area and zapped something on either an electric fence
charger or some piece of power company equipment. Either way it
developed into a constant S9 noise level on 20. Conditions also seemed
lousy, with no signals over S9 except N6TR's (briefly). Net result 3 Qs,
and after half an hour I went off the air and did my taxes instead! Now
THAT's desperate.
Low point was being called for a second QSO by N6TR after about 20 minutes
and having to say "too soon." I assume, BTW, that a repeat QSO that is
too soon for one party doesn't count for either one -- right?
73, Pete
N4ZR@netcom.com
"Better, faster,cheaper -- choose any two"
"No no no -- it's WEST Virginia"
>From John Pescatore <jpescato@CapAccess.org> Mon Apr 10 13:49:51 1995
From: John Pescatore <jpescato@CapAccess.org> (John Pescatore)
Subject: cancelling prop info
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9504100849.D15043-a100000@cap1.capaccess.org>
On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Lee Wical wrote:
> several of you folks on the "contest web" asked me for prop info.
> i tried to serve those overseas contesters who don't have rapid
> access to wwv/wwvh services.
> the synops wants me to stop this service. this i have done.
>
> i'll try to find the proper forum for same. if a forum is know to you,
> i'm open for your suggestions. again sorry. lee
I liked it, especially the more plain English form it was in.
Oh well.
(Rich Boyd KE3Q)
>From John Pescatore <jpescato@CapAccess.org> Mon Apr 10 13:44:02 1995
From: John Pescatore <jpescato@CapAccess.org> (John Pescatore)
Subject: Is this frequency in use?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9504100800.B15043-b100000@cap1.capaccess.org>
On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Peter Casier wrote:
>
> You know what bothers me in a contest? Guys coming right on your working
> frequency and starting 'CQ contest, CQ contest,...'.
> I was just processing my 9Q5TT WPX log, when I found my CT noteS file back.
>
> During the test, I noted the calls of guys who tried to take my frequency
> without even bothering if it was in use or not. Two of them I remember very
> well, a SP9 and a TM2. All the others QSYd after I made it clear the
> frequency was in use, but those two did not care. On the contrary, they just
> put their voice keyer on autorepeat and probably went off for a coffee or
> something, because they did not even make QSOs.
>
> There should be a possibility to forward the calls of these kinda people to
> the contest committee. If more than x number of people complain about the
> same station, they should be disqualified. That is my opinion.
>
> Certainly if you are DX, and have difficulties, due to limited power or
> antenna setup, but still want to play along, it is very frustrating, once
> you have a pretty clear frequency, to find one of those <censored> stepping
> on you.
>
> Indeed the bands can get crowded and you will always splatter here or there,
> but it is only normal you ask if a frequency is in use before taking it.
>
> Sorry, had to get this off my chest, was getting nervous reading my notes
> file again.
>
> Peter
> ON6TT
>
> p_casier@box.eunet.be
Things are not always as they appear. In this kind of situation, where
the people just CQed nonstop and didn't make QSOs, it's always possible
someone was using a bogus call, or bootlegging someone else's, just to
cause trouble. So, don't definitively conclude it was the fault of
the guy whose callsign you heard.
(Rich Boyd KE3Q)
>From junger@mtn.er.usgs.gov (John Unger) Mon Apr 10 13:59:43 1995
From: junger@mtn.er.usgs.gov (John Unger) (John Unger)
Subject: Grid Loc musings
Message-ID: <9504101259.AA14650@mtn.er.usgs.gov.er.usgs.gov>
I should have known that I was in trouble right from the start.
After running all the contest stations that I could find on 40 (5),
I switched to 20, looking for the big opening to Europe. What I
worked were the very same 4's and 3's that I'd just logged on 40...
With 20 about as dead as the proverbial door-knocker, I spent the
rest of my contest time on 40. My single, non-U.S. dx contact was
9A2OB. My "winning" strategy centered around slowing down to 20 wpm
and coaxing the QRP ops who answered my CQ TEST (there was also a
QRP contest this weekend) to give out their names and grid locs....
High points - the patience and helpfulness of other amateurs was
wonderful. At least four times, non-contest stations answered my
CQ but didn't know their grid locations and then called me again
a few minutes later with that information for my log!! The 35-mile
bike ride I took during a break on Saturday afternoon in the
spring-like 75 degree sunshine (maybe _that's_ when 20 was open).
Finding out how well Tree had set up tr to handle the grid
contest exchange.
Low points - dragging myself out of bed at 0530 EDST Sunday
morning to "go out with a bang" and finding 40 apparently just as
dead as 20 had been the day before. I couldn't believe how bad
40 was; maybe I'll go check my antenna leads... The beautiful
weather made me feel guilty about staying inside and contesting;
hence the approx 3hr 30min operating time. There's just too much
yard work to do this time of year in VA!!
Station - Three TS-950's with Alph 87A's to dual, three-element 40
meter beams and three, six-element 20-meter monbanders on my
180-foot tower -- NOT!!!
REAL Station - TenTec Corsair II, pumping out its meager watts to a
40-meter dipole up about 35 feet (the trees aren't growing fast
enough) and a 20-meter triplex beam at the same height. How come
no one ever asks me what a triplex beam is? I'm sure that many hams
don't know any more about this antenna than I did before I read my
copy of a 25-year old ARRL Antenna Book. FYI, it's a GREAT wire
antenna; two, three-wire, half-wave folded dipoles spaced about 3
meters apart horizontally giving a calculated 5.5 dB gain. It's
just hard to rotate after it's strung up between those trees...
Final thoughts -- The Grid Loc contest has the makings of being a
lot of fun; I like the idea of having all of those multipliers,
but maybe not for every band. I hope the next time the band
conditions are better and we can get more ops on the air. Thanks to
the organizers of the contest!!
Score (pretty lame...)
Single Op - CW only
40 -- 35 QSO's 26 mults
20 -- 6 QSO's 6 mults
1312 whooping points (but I did get 10 new trees planted...)
73 - John, W3GOI
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