Callsigns & Famous Hams

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Tue Dec 21 12:50:45 EST 1993


Doug K1DG sez:

>And just to whet your appetite, did you know that the 
>authors of *both* "The Joy of Sex" and "Everything You 
>Always Wanted to Know About Sex" were hams? (and some 
>people think hams are just nerds...).

That must be where the term "makin' bacon" came from!!

Happy Holidays!  - Scott KA9FOX at aol.com

>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH at TGV.COM>  Tue Dec 21 17:56:14 1993
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH at TGV.COM> (Trey Garlough)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 09:56:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: University club stations
Message-ID: <756496574.295885.GARLOUGH at TGV.COM>

>   (1) When was the last time a University club station placed in the
>       top ten in single op/all band CQWW, ARRL DX or SS?

The University of Texas Amateur Radio Club (W5EHM aka W5 Echo Hotel Motel)
has placed in the top ten of the multiop Phone SS in recent years.  And
the Georgia Tech club (W4AQL) is real active and does well in these things.

--Trey, WN4KKN/6

>From oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills)  Tue Dec 21 18:40:04 1993
From: oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 12:40:04 CST
Subject: University club stations
Message-ID: <9312211840.AA15944 at astro.as.utexas.edu>

WA8YVR says/asks:

	>>University club stations are no longer hotbeds of ham radio contest
	>>activity.  I don't know whether this is because (a) no young people
	>>are going into ham radio anymore, (b) the changing economics of 
	>>competitive contesting has made it impossible for University stations
	>>to compete, or (c) the RFI problem has virtually shut these stations
	>>down.


	  >> When was the last time a University club station placed in the
          >> top ten in single op/all band CQWW, ARRL DX or SS?

Club stations rarely operate single-op mode.  The Univ of TX station
W5EHM has won STX in M/S Sweepstakes a number of times, both modes,
and made Top Ten nationwide in SS.  KA5WSS used the station single-op
to come in the top ten in the IARU HF contest a year or two ago.

University club stations are there largely to train new hams, we encourage 
newer members to take part in contests, but if we were out to win we would 
lock the door and not let anyone in who had not had lots of contest 
experience.

Our club boasts such past members as Trey WN4KKN, George WB5VZL and
James KB1CM who is now 9V1YC and an op at VS6WO in both CQWW contests
this year.  A current member of the club is 2 countries short of DXCC
Honor Roll, making all QSOs from the university club station.

Still, contesting and DXing activity has fallen off at our club in
the last 2-3 years - most of the new club members are at a license
level lower than General, many with no-code licenses.  Whether this
is good or bad is not for me to say.

Derek AA5BT

>From k2mm at MasPar.COM (John Zapisek)  Tue Dec 21 18:52:29 1993
From: k2mm at MasPar.COM (John Zapisek) (John Zapisek)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 10:52:29 PST
Subject: Whatsamatter U.
Message-ID: <9312211852.AA26025 at greylock.local>

> [Fred/K1VR]  . . . try being in a pileup with . . . K2WR . . .

Rich Gelber runs barefoot to a Hustler mobile whip stuck outside the window
of his Nth-floor Manhattan apartment.  Please, please, let me be in a pileup
with K2WR!

> [Fred/K1VR]  . . . W9YT . . . I guess U Wis gets the award for graduating
> the most good contesters.

W2SZ comes to mind, but Fred may have a point -- he did say "graduating".
Too many of us Zed members flunked/dropped/thrown out of RPI.  Fred/K2TR,
myself, and countless others just spent too much time up at the shack!
("Name here is Fred.  That's F-Fred, R-Red, E-Ed, D-Dead.  Fred.")

> [Tom/K5TM]  But as Rose Bowl time approaches, we can all agree that the
> hated Pac 10 never even came close.

Seems all too true.  I went to Berkeley years later to finish my BS and
found W6BB overly dead, contest-wise.  And nearby Stanford's W6YX is known
best for its excitement-inspiring 14.100 beacon!

73.  --John/K2MM

>From Dave Pascoe <pascoe at MathWorks.COM>  Tue Dec 21 18:59:19 1993
From: Dave Pascoe <pascoe at MathWorks.COM> (Dave Pascoe)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 13:59:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Club stations
Message-ID: <199312211859.AA02309 at MathWorks.COM>

Trey wrote:

>The University of Texas Amateur Radio Club (W5EHM aka W5 Echo Hotel Motel)
>has placed in the top ten of the multiop Phone SS in recent years.  And
>the Georgia Tech club (W4AQL) is real active and does well in these things.

While not quite as well known as the other club stations, the
University of Pennsylvania club station (N3KZ, ex-W3ABT) has produced
the following contesters:

WA2BFW
W3XU
KR2Qrp
KM3T
KH6CP
+ N3HW (Trustee for a long time)
WN3A

I hope I didn't miss any......

73 es Merry Christmas
de Dave KM3T
km3t at mathworks.com



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