Why don't we try to get a handle on call sign changes by using your old call
for the name in the next Internet sprINT? Aren't we do for one soon, Tree?
73. Ken, K6LA - Ken Six Los Angeles, KWIDELITZ@DELPHI.COM
ex-AB6FO
>From wrt@eskimo.com (Bill Turner) Fri Nov 8 01:34:57 1996
From: wrt@eskimo.com (Bill Turner) (Bill Turner)
Subject: All the new-fnagled contest calls
References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961107153002.4021B-100000@newman.egh.com>
Message-ID: <32858dae.5050570@mail.eskimo.com>
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996 15:52:14 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> How do you pick which call to answer when two or three people=20
>answer your cq? If I guess correctly, it is partially determined by =
your=20
>ability to recognize one or more of those calls as belonging to an=20
>experienced contester. Do you answer the one who is likely to be a=20
>newcomer first, and hope that the experienced contester will wait around=
=20
>for awhile? Or do you answer the contester whose call you recognize and=
=20
>assume the newcomer will wait around? (I don't need an answer for this
>question...)=20
<snip>
-----------------------------------------------
Assuming all the multipliers are the same, I'd answer the loudest one =
first.
The exchange will probably go the quickest and I can go on to the ones =
which
may need some repeats. =20
73, Bill W7TI (ex-W7LZP)
wrt@eskimo.com
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Fri Nov 8 02:11:51 1996
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: sprINT Suggestion - Old Call for Name
>Why don't we try to get a handle on call sign changes by
>using your old call for the name in the next Internet sprINT?
>Aren't we do [sic] for one soon, Tree? 73. Ken, K6LA
Well, (a) I'm not doing another SprINT until the results of the last one
are posted, (b) in the SprINT the names get passed around and there would
be little point in doing that with the new calls, and finally (c) this
would all be very boring for the "silent majority" who have no urge to
change their callsigns and are suffering through all this excitement in
a rather bemused state.
Someone has a .sig that says opinions are like [censored], in that
everyone has one and nobody's interested in the other fellow's, and
perhaps the new callsigns are a little like that....
Christmas must be coming, I'm getting grouchy already -
Derek AA5BT (formerly AA5BT
and shortly to become AA5BT)
oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
>From k0wa@southwind.net (Lee Buller) Fri Nov 8 02:35:59 1996
From: k0wa@southwind.net (Lee Buller) (Lee Buller)
Subject: RG-8 as Capacitor
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961108023559.006c35a0@southwind.net>
Several weeks ago, there was a discussion on the reflector as to feeding a
inverted-L antenna on 160, Mine works great now, but my variable tuning
capacitor is a little light for the KW. Someone was talking about making a
capacitor out of RG-8.
Can some one point me in the right direction to find the information to do
that? I guess you can use the coax's dielectric between the shield and
inner conductor. Anyone have any sucess at doing this???
Your help is appreciated TU
lee
k0wa@southwind.net
>From tomf@neca.com (Tom Francis) Fri Nov 8 02:49:10 1996
From: tomf@neca.com (Tom Francis) (Tom Francis)
Subject: EMF es Newsweek magazine
Message-ID: <199611080249.VAA24973@orion.neca.com>
Not EXACTLY contest related, but it
is interesting...
Read an article in this weeks Newsweek
concerning near-field EMF (pg 68) - apparently
the National Research Council released a study
of all the near-field EMF studies that have
been done over the past few years.
Their conclusion was that EMF alone is not
a primary vector for cancer or other
ailments....
Wonder how this will affect the FCC's
approach to the new EMF restrictions
they recently imposed?
Think the League will push for an amateur
excemption to the rule based on this study
of studies??
73
Tom, NM1Q (tomf@neca.com)
>From AD1C@tiac.net (Jim Reisert AD1C) Fri Nov 8 02:03:31 1996
From: AD1C@tiac.net (Jim Reisert AD1C) (Jim Reisert AD1C)
Subject: Vanity callsigns and CT country file
Message-ID: <199611080303.WAA07003@mailnfs0.tiac.net>
I know a lot of you guys got vanity callsigns whose number does *not*
match the call area you are living in. For example, N5KO in California,
or N9GG in Delaware.
In the past I have added these callsigns into the CT country file, with
zone over-rides so that the proper zone gets logged. This is useful a) if
you're spotted on packet, CT will determine the proper zone in case it's a
new one, and b) you won't show up in the bad zones (.ZON) file.
If you fit the description in the first paragraph, please send me your
CALLSIGN and your CQ and ITU zones. If you don't know, just send me your
STATE and I'll do the rest.
I will be updating the CT country files the weekend of November 16/17. I
need the data by then.
Thanks - Jim AD1C
--
Jim Reisert <AD1C@tiac.net> http://www.tiac.net/users/ad1c/
>From k3lr@telerama.lm.com (k3lr) Fri Nov 8 03:04:45 1996
From: k3lr@telerama.lm.com (k3lr) (k3lr)
Subject: New NA 10.11 on BBS
Message-ID: <199611080304.WAA08988@rallyx.lm.com>
Sorry for the post here. The NA reflector is being repaired.
Version NA 10.11 is on the NA BBS aat 412-528-8877.
New SECTIONS.MLT, UPDATE.DOC, NA.REV, MASTER.DTA and COUNTRY.DAT are
also posted.
73!
Tim K3LR
LTA@contesting.com
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Fri Nov 8 03:08:11 1996
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: EMF es Newsweek magazine
Read an article in this weeks Newsweek concerning near-field
EMF (pg 68) - apparently the National Research Council
released a study of all the near-field EMF studies that have
been done over the past few years. Their conclusion was that
EMF alone is not a primary vector for cancer or other ailments....
Tom, NM1Q (tomf@neca.com)
I read an article recently in The International Journal of Neuroscience
to the effect that low-level EMFs are actually beneficial in certain
neurological disorders. In short, "picotesla flux EMFs applied extra-
cerebrally may influence nigrostriatal DA transmission at pre- and post-
synaptic DA D2 receptor sites". Of course, it might not be that simple...
And other investigators may CONTEST these findings.
Derek AA5BT, G3NMX
oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
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