CQ WW v. ARRL DX from S56A perspective
Marijan.Miletic at IJS.si
Marijan.Miletic at IJS.si
Wed Feb 23 11:15:03 EST 1994
Hi contesters,
I am delighted to read so much about recent ARRL DX contest and
I'd like to add my reasons for participating in this event.
In the good old sixties at YU1BCD we used WW II vintage SX-25
from USA and scraped German RL12P35 tubes for 50W CW driving
40m long multiband Windom wire antenna.
The only DX we could reasonably work were USA stations!
I still remember our first 15m transverter using 19.6 MHz quarz
to move signals into noisy MW AM band. It was build in Feb to work just
6 USA stations in excelent condx. W3MSK was a very dificult callsign!
Late Gus Browning, W4BPD did lot of good CW operating, W4KFC
was even our legend, W9WNV improved pile-ups handling by an
order of magnitude but unfortunately spoiled everything by
bad QSL practice and nonconfirmed QRA.
So we learned what high competition means mainly from USA ops and
later from fantastic Japanese.
The beauty of regional contests is that one needs only good,
fixed antennas which can be made even with wires.
Working West Coast from Eastern EU is a great challenge involving some
LP props. There are lot of nice W7 mults, not to mention VE from #3 upwards.
Even some W4,5 are very exotic! There is also enough time to sleep in the
morning hours (even more in VK/ZL contest).
It was in 1976 when I first visited USA, listened to your quiet ham
bands and decided that I'll never repeat my callsign. I also understood
high multipliers as signals all around the world were reasonable loud.
Someone asked me if we get Kazakh, ex UL in contests and that question has
the same meaning as working Mexico from USA. So 6D2X this weekend had the
loudest XE signal after fabulous K0DI operation in 70s.
My prefered contest is WAE as I like chassing DX. Cluster helps a great
deal, so the computer logging, especially with email. DARC tried with
USA state multipliers for a few years but contest quickly distorted into
sumer WVE repetition!
I am surprised by the lack of comments on CT1BOH CQ WW change of scoring
and mine proposal to start CQ WW 160m at 16:00Z. Is this purely WVE forum?
73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU.
>From DKMC" <dkmc at chevron.com Wed Feb 23 16:44:57 1994
From: DKMC" <dkmc at chevron.com (DKMC)
Date: 23 Feb 94 08:44:57 PST
Subject: Remote Switching Boxes
Message-ID: <CPLAN065.DKMC.5250.1994 0223 0840 0840>
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From: McCarty, DK 'David'
To: OPEN ADDRESSING SERVI-OPENADDR
Subject: Remote Switching Boxes
Date: 1994-02-23 10:29
Priority:
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Need some advice on remote switching boxes. We are looking at the DX
Engineering 5 position model and the Ameritron 5 position switch, model
RCS-8V.
Anyone have good/bad experiences with these?
We also are looking at the DX Engineering upper lower both phase boxes and
their feed system for the 4-square. Any experience with these?
Please reply to the address below; will summarize for the group.
If there was also some discussion in the past (i.e., before I got on the
reflector in Dec. 93) please help me pinpoint the time frame so I can get
the archive.
David K. McCarty, K5GN
dkmc at chevron.com
>From len at ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) Wed Feb 23 17:04:20 1994
From: len at ariel.coe.neu.edu (Leonard Kay) (Leonard Kay)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:04:20 -0500 (EST)
Subject: KY1H ARRL CW M/M SCORE
Message-ID: <9402231704.AA01800 at ariel.coe.neu.edu>
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 1994
Call: KY1H Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi Multi
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 43 123 2.9 31
80 302 879 2.9 68
40 730 2169 3.0 95
20 1054 3147 3.0 111
15 779 2325 3.0 102
10 108 306 2.8 52
--------------------------------------
Totals 3016 8949 3.0 459 = 4,107,591
Operator List: KY1H,NJ1F,KB1W,KM1P,K1MBO,AA1AS,
KB2R,WA2CJT,NT2X,KF2MM,KJ4KB,AK4L
Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
The general consensus was that while the bands were flat, they could
have been much worse. 10M opened from around 1400Z to 2100Z both days, and
we still did get JA runs on 20 and 15 (does 10-15 JAs in an hour count as
a run?). Worked SU2MT on 80 and 40, but not above....
We all had a blast, and tnx again to Dave KY1H for his wonderful
contest cuisine!
Len KB2R
>From w2sc at emc.com (Tom Georgens) Wed Feb 23 13:17:34 1994
From: w2sc at emc.com (Tom Georgens) (Tom Georgens)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 08:17:34 EST
Subject: ARRL Score
Message-ID: <9402231317.AA29137 at emcc>
Call: W2SC Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 20 60 3.0 18
80 148 444 3.0 50
40 597 1791 3.0 84
20 641 1923 3.0 81
15 716 2148 3.0 79
10 47 141 3.0 32
--------------------------------------
Totals 2169 6507 3.0 344 = 2,238,408
Equipment:
940, 930, AL1200, TL922
TH7 @ 86', TH7 @ 54', 402CD @ 92' and 80/160 wires
Comments:
- Conditions were not great but they were much worse for the two
weeks leading up to the contest and the day after.
- Activity was way down. It seemed like I was working the same
guys over and over on each band. I did not have the same feeling
in the CQWW.
- Best hour was 138 (with a band change). 5 hours over 100 but lots of
hours under 20.
73, Tom
georgens at emc.com or
w2sc at emc.com
>From terwill at leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger) Wed Feb 23 19:12:17 1994
From: terwill at leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger) (Paul Terwilliger)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 19:12:17 GMT
Subject: K1TR's ARRL DX CW results
Message-ID: <znr762030737k at leotech.mv.com>
Since K1TR is off for a week of skiing at Killington (talk about
pile-ups!), I'm posting our Multi-2 results.
Operation was at the Derry, NH QTH of K1MNS. This is half of
the former site of multi-multis as K1ST, etc. (The other half
was K1FWE, who moved last fall.)
Operators were: K1TR, NX1H, K1JKS, K1RX and K1XM.
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 40 120 3.0 36
80 289 858 3.0 68
40 964 2892 3.0 102
20 1081 3243 3.0 113
15 815 2445 3.0 99
10 88 264 3.0 48
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Totals 3277 9831 3.0 466 = 4,581,246
Looks like a dead heat with N3RS for second place.
Antennas:
160 - Inverted L
80 - 4-square array (elevated radials)
40 - 40-2CDs at 77' and 155'.
(we put these up last month; one of the coldest Januarys ever...)
20 - 5 at 80'.
15 - 4/4 at 45' and 90', plus 4 south at 50'
10 - 5/5/5 at 30, 60 and 100'.
Some Observations:
1) Had a late QSY to 15 on Saturday morning that cost probably 100 QSOs.
2) It never felt like we had our usual killer 20M signal.
3) JA's seemed especially lacking here in NH.
4) CT 8.52 seemed quite stable. Only about 3 "register dumps to DOS"
all weekend. Even ran under OS/2 on one computer, so we could
keep geoclock running in another window.
5) While the 10-minute rule is difficult, it didn't seem all that bad.
We only got stuck once or twice burning off extra minutes CQing on
a dead band. Maybe it should be changed to a 5-minute rule?
6) We'll be signing K1RX as multi-something (depends on who shows up)
in ARRL SSB.
Our Breakdowns:
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 15 31 26 28 28 29 157 4.7
South America 6 12 20 25 25 29 117 3.5
Europe 18 242 864 924 715 18 2781 83.3
Asia 1 2 35 90 30 0 158 4.7
Africa 1 5 15 15 16 7 59 1.8
Oceania 0 2 22 24 12 6 66 2.0
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... 37/19 101/26 5/5 ..... ..... 143/50 143/50
1 . 42/6 43/18 10/9 . . 95/33 238/83
2 1/1 5/2 40/12 11/6 . . 57/21 295/104
3 . 15/7 38/6 4/2 . . 57/15 352/119
4 7/6 12/2 20/4 6/3 . . 45/15 397/134
5 5/5 34/9 44/3 . . . 83/17 480/151
6 2/2 23/4 27/1 8/1 . . 60/8 540/159
7 1/1 7/1 63/3 . . . 71/5 611/164
8 1/1 7/3 28/0 5/3 ..... ..... 41/7 652/171
9 . . 13/2 34/11 . . 47/13 699/184
10 . 2/1 12/3 25/8 . . 39/12 738/196
11 . 1/0 5/3 105/7 . . 111/10 849/206
12 . . 1/1 72/4 46/20 . 119/25 968/231
13 . . . 53/10 95/12 . 148/22 1116/253
14 . . . 41/5 96/8 . 137/13 1253/266
15 . . . 21/0 108/10 12/12 141/22 1394/288
16 ..... ..... ..... 20/1 83/4 18/13 121/18 1515/306
17 . . . 19/2 57/5 13/6 89/13 1604/319
18 . . . 74/4 18/6 2/1 94/11 1698/330
19 . . . 60/3 9/5 11/5 80/13 1778/343
20 . . 19/0 47/2 6/3 2/1 74/6 1852/349
21 . . 50/1 18/5 7/5 . 75/11 1927/360
22 . . 67/3 8/3 16/0 . 91/6 2018/366
23 . 11/3 36/1 17/3 5/2 . 69/9 2087/375
0 2/2 18/1 11/0 10/2 3/1 ..... 44/6 2131/381
1 . 6/1 22/1 . . . 28/2 2159/383
2 3/3 5/2 6/1 1/0 . . 15/6 2174/389
3 3/3 3/0 20/3 . . . 26/6 2200/395
4 5/4 1/0 19/0 5/0 . . 30/4 2230/399
5 8/7 10/1 6/1 . . . 24/9 2254/408
6 2/1 20/0 31/3 1/1 . . 54/5 2308/413
7 . 8/1 43/2 2/0 . . 53/3 2361/416
8 ..... 2/0 32/0 2/0 ..... ..... 36/0 2397/416
9 . 1/0 3/1 1/0 . . 5/1 2402/417
10 . 1/1 4/0 4/0 . . 9/1 2411/418
11 . 3/2 1/1 42/0 4/0 . 50/3 2461/421
12 . . . 42/1 18/3 . 60/4 2521/425
13 . . . 36/0 52/1 7/4 95/5 2616/430
14 . . . 13/0 55/0 4/1 72/1 2688/431
15 . . . 33/1 52/3 5/1 90/5 2778/436
16 ..... ..... ..... 46/2 39/2 2/2 87/6 2865/442
17 . . . 57/0 20/0 5/1 82/1 2947/443
18 . . . 45/2 9/3 2/0 56/5 3003/448
19 . . . 30/2 5/3 4/0 39/5 3042/453
20 . . 16/1 20/2 3/0 1/1 40/4 3082/457
21 . . 45/0 12/2 2/1 . 59/3 3141/460
22 . 12/2 49/0 3/0 5/1 . 69/3 3210/463
23 . 3/0 43/1 7/1 1/1 . 54/3 3264/466
DAY1 17/16 196/57 607/87 663/97 546/80 58/38 ..... 2087/375
DAY2 23/20 93/11 351/15 412/16 268/19 30/10 . 1177/91
TOT 40/36 289/68 958/102 1075/113 814/99 88/48 . 3264/466
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