Ham Radio Internet Compendium

Mon Apr 18 11:04:16 EDT 1994

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Subscription, removal, all other administrative issues should be sent to
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CT Software Users Reflector:

Send broadcast messages to: CT-USER at MLO.DEC.COM 

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 subscribe CT-USER - subscribe to a mailing list
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 HELP - receive a help file
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 get ct-user file.name - sends the file that has the given name

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ARRL:

 DXCC                   dxcc at arrl.org
 Awards (WAS, etc.)             awards at arrl.org
 Contests                       contests at arrl.org

The ARRL has FOUR (4) ways to enter ALL ARRL contests.

Within 30 days after the contest, send your entries via:

INTERNET - ASCII summary sheet and ASCII log file (following the ARRL
Suggested File Format) to contest at arrl.org

ARRL BBS - ASCII summary sheet and ASCII log file (following the ARRL
Suggested File Format) BBS up to 14.4-k baud telephone: (203) 665-0090

DISK - Paper summary sheet and ASCII log file (following the ARRL Suggested
File Format) 3.5 or 5.25 inch diskettes (high or low density)

PAPER ENTRY - Official forms or reasonable facsimiles, Summary sheet, logs,
dupe sheets

Mailing Address: ARRL Contest Branch 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111

Online callbook:

 Telnet to callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000

Online propagation information:

 finger solar at xi.uleth.ca
 finger daily at xi.uleth.ca
 finger aurora at xi.uleth.ca

FCC items available by anonymous FTP

FCC's Daily Digest, news releases, some public notices, and speeches by
Commission officials are accessible. FTP to "anonymous at fcc.gov". The
password is your INTERNET address.

Online QSL information:

Send a message with DX callsigns in the body to qsl-info at aug3.augsburg.edu

Gopher:

An incomplete list of ham radio related repositories accessible via Gopher:

 COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU
 CHEOPS.ANU.EDU.AU
 OAK.OAKLAND.EDU

Send any corrections, additions, deletions to ka6a at uiuc.edu

73 de Jim, KA6A

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Microelectronics Laboratory
University of Illinois
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Urbana, IL 61801
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>From Gerard Jendraszkiewicz" <jend at midway.uchicago.edu  Tue Apr 19 00:35:25 1994
From: Gerard Jendraszkiewicz" <jend at midway.uchicago.edu (Gerard Jendraszkiewicz)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 17:35:25 CST
Subject: Submission of WPX scores
Message-ID: <63330.jend at midway.uchicago.edu>

Can anyone tell me the internet address of who to send in the WPX scores to.
? I read a message a while back but cannot find it now that I need it.
Thanks Jerry KE9I jend at midway.uchicago.edu

>From USACLU::MMI"@nmpost.nmp.nokia.com (Marko Myllymaki 450-4020x107  Mon Apr 18 21:12:37 1994
From: USACLU::MMI"@nmpost.nmp.nokia.com (Marko Myllymaki 450-4020x107 (Marko Myllymaki 450-4020x107)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 20:12:37 GMT
Subject: BV5AF QSL route
Message-ID: <940418201237.6068 at nmpost.nmp.nokia.com>

Some of You have asked where to send QSLs for BV5AF WPX SSB operation.
Bolon, BV5AF has told me that he can take care of replying cards and his
address is:	Dr. Bolon Lin, BV5AF
		P.O. Box 39
		Changhua 50099
		Taiwan, R.O.C.
So, if You need BV card for something, Your best bet is to send QSL direct
to him, and be patient in him replying, it will take some time.
Best 73 de Marko AB6NJ/OH6DO

>From Sean Kutzko <kutzko at eagle.sangamon.edu>  Tue Apr 19 01:04:45 1994
From: Sean Kutzko <kutzko at eagle.sangamon.edu> (Sean Kutzko)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 17:04:45 -0700 (CDT)
Subject: 6Y WPX Expedtiion-Special Call

Hey, everybody. After posting my notice to go to Jamacia for the WPX CW
contest this May, I've received SEVERAL notes from PRefix hunters asking
to find a different prefix other than 6Y0.

	I spoke with Wenty, 6Y5IC (my host for the trip) this afternoon,
and have been assured that another prefix is quite possible. I'm looking
at 6Y7, which has never been activated.

So, for those of you who wrote requesting I get another prefix, rest
assured; it's in the works. I'll probably go with 6Y7M instead of 6Y0DX.

Other plans for the trip remain on track.

73 CUL de Sean KF9PL
Springfield, IL

>From Hodge Thorgerson David Cameron-INBA <hodge at redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx>  Tue Apr 19 01:22:08 1994
From: Hodge Thorgerson David Cameron-INBA <hodge at redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx> (Hodge Thorgerson David Cameron-INBA)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 18:22:08 -0600 (CST)
Subject: sprINT results
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9404181807.A17812-0100000 at redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx>

Saludos.  Hats off to Tree and John for the fine reporting on the most
recent event.  Guess I better retire now and keep my record unblemished :-)
Can anyone explain to me how CORNO got "repaired" after its transformation
to CORRO?  Is CORNO a known word out there in sprINT land?

On another note, having missed Visalia some 6 or 7 years in a row now,  
I'd appreciate any anecdotes or important happenings during the event that
anyone would care to share with me DIRECTLY, of course.  Please respond to
     hodge at redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx

Hasta pronto,  David  XE1/AA6RX

>From Jim Reisert AD1C  18-Apr-1994 2111 <reisert at wrksys.enet.dec.com>  Tue Apr 19 02:08:28 1994
From: Jim Reisert AD1C  18-Apr-1994 2111 <reisert at wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim Reisert AD1C 18-Apr-1994 2111)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 21:08:28 EDT
Subject: WPX Logs bounced!
Message-ID: <9404190108.AA22692 at us4rmc.pko.dec.com>

The logs I sent to:

	  sdb at AG9V.AMPR.ORG

bounced with the following error:

	   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
	421 ag9v.ampr.org (tcp)... Deferred: 
	Connection refused by udcps3.cps.udayton.edu

	   ----- Recipients of this delivery -----
	Bounced, cannot deliver:
	   <sdb at ag9v.ampr.org>

Does this mean we're stuck mailing them in?!?!

73 - Jim AD1C

>From barry at w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner)  Tue Apr 19 01:27:36 1994
From: barry at w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 00:27:36 GMT
Subject: Summary - grounding
Message-ID: <Pc5Zkc2w165w at w2up.wells.com>

SInce a bunch of you asked for summary of replies, here's the gist of 
them:
By all means, ground the shields at the base of the tower. Some suggest 
grounding them at the top too.
A quote from one of Polyphaser's newsletters said "Do NOT, I repeat,
do NOT, coil up a few loops of coax. According to them (contrary to 
everything else I've heard) the added inductance may acutally increase 
coupling of a lightning strike to the coax.
Geeze - seems Polyphaser is one of the few written sources of info, and 
they contradict a lot of what everyone else sez. WHo to believe? 
Inquiring minds want to know!!
73 Barry

Barry N. Kutner, W2UP       Usenet/Internet: barry at w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA                 Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
                            Packet Cluster: W2UP >K2TW (FRC)
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>From J.P. Kleinhaus" <kleinhaj at iia.org  Tue Apr 19 02:55:14 1994
From: J.P. Kleinhaus" <kleinhaj at iia.org (J.P. Kleinhaus)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 21:55:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Radial Inquiry (fwd)
Message-ID: <199404190155.AA15453 at iia.org>

Forwarded message:
>From Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr%k1vr.UUCP at uunet.uu.net  Mon Apr 18 13:56:15 1994
From: Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr%k1vr.UUCP at uunet.uu.net (Fred Hopengarten)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 08:56:15 EDT
Subject: Radial Inquiry
Message-ID: <2db28374.k1vr at k1vr.UUCP>

For technical reasons which no one has yet satisfactorily
explained, I cannot put out anything on the Contest
Reflector, so AA2DU has relayed the following inquiry.
Please respond to either the reflector or to K1VR at:
k1vr!k1vr.UUCP at uunet.uu.net

                       Radial Iqnuiry

     I have a four element vertical phased array on 40
meters to the northwest of my 100 foot tower.  I have a two
element vertical phased array on 80 to the East of my 100
foot tower.  I load the 100 foot tower on 160 with a gamma
rod to 61 feet and an Omega match.

     The 40 meter array has 40 radials, each 40 feet long,
per vertical.  The 80 meter array has 40 radials, each 70
feet long, per vertical.  The tower has 70 radials, each 90-
130 feet long.

     I think my signal most needs improvement on 160 (the 40
meter problem was solved long ago by putting up a 40-2CD 2
el. Cushcraft, at 90 feet on a TIC RingRotor).  I am adding
radials to the 160 system.  In the past, I've tried to
solder 160 meter radials to bus wires in the 40 and 80 meter
fields when they crossed.  I did not solder radials to
radials, just radials to bus wires.  I mean that, for
example, in the 80 meter system, radials which head from one
vertical to another are soldered to a bus wire which runs
across the field, half-way between the two verticals.

     Soldering 160 meter radials to the bus wire in the 80
meter field, and to the two bus wires in the 40 meter field
is a real pain.  If you were adding more radials to the 160
meter antenna, would you continue to solder to bus wires, or
would you just lay radials across radials and let them be?

     [Raising the radials is not an acceptable answer,
they'd interfere with my Beverage receive antennas, and
cross the nice yard (play area) which my kids use heavily.]

     So, I repeat:  If you were adding more radials to the
160 meter antenna, would you continue to solder to bus
wires, or would you just lay radials across radials and let
them be?

     Replies will be summarized and reflectorized.
-- 
                      Fred Hopengarten K1VR
           Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
     home + office telephone:  617/259-0088 (FAX on demand)
             internet:  k1vr!k1vr.UUCP at uunet.uu.net
"Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low."

>From wr6r at netcom.com (albert crespo)  Tue Apr 19 04:56:01 1994
From: wr6r at netcom.com (albert crespo) (albert crespo)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 20:56:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: wpx
Message-ID: <199404190356.UAA25398 at netcom12.netcom.com>