W5WMU
BillK5GA at aol.com
BillK5GA at aol.com
Wed Jul 20 17:22:48 EDT 1994
As a long time guest operator from W5WMU, the thread has been something else
concerning the "power-thing". Further, as a guest operator, I have a vested
interest in what is being said. I cannot let judgement be made upon myself.
So, let it be known that anyone anytime can come to the station and check
what I am running.
I can assure you that in stateside contests (ie SS etc) it will be hard for
anyone to beat me from this station. I'm too good an operator to have to use
gas/nitro/soup/smash. I have location, a huge selection of antennas, and I
have an operating finess in the upper tier.
I will be at W5WMU for the CW NAQP running TS-930S tranceivers. I will have 5
to be exact in front of me. I believe they put out 100-120 watts depending on
which one it is. They will be configured such that I can be on any one band
in an instant. The antennas,,,well, all should know what they are by now. The
contest community will have an opportunity to see what can be done. If I'm
30db over 9, then that's life....tough. But at least by reading this letter
in advance, the community will know ahead of time what the competition from
W5WMU is both in hardware and operator.
73
Bill K5GA.
>From fish at crl.com (Bill Fisher (KM9P) Concentric Systems, Inc.) Wed Jul 20 22:03:03 1994
From: fish at crl.com (Bill Fisher (KM9P) Concentric Systems, Inc.) (Bill Fisher KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 14:03:03 -0700
Subject: Grounding
Message-ID: <199407202103.AA28404 at mail.crl.com>
I'm about to pour the bases of 3 towers at my mountain field day QTH that
will hopefully be a mountain QTH some day.
I would REALLY appreciate some opinions on what to do for grounding these
towers and the hard line that will run up them. I have 75 ohm CATV stuff of
various sizes. I don't want to break these lines at the base of the tower.
I don't leave my stuff connected to antennas when it's not in use, so I'm
not trying to prevent lightening damage potential by 100%.
Thanks
Bill Fisher, KM9P
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Bill Fisher, KM9P
Concentric Systems, Inc. (CSI)
404-442-5821 Fax 404-667-1975
>From Steve Harrison <sharriso at sysplan.com> Wed Jul 20 22:57:08 1994
From: Steve Harrison <sharriso at sysplan.com> (Steve Harrison)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 17:57:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: FW: K7SS QRP? (NOW: sign ur postings pse!)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9407201708.C14405-0100000 at eagle>
On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Randy A Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I wish everyone would at least sign their call to the postings. Lots of us
> > are
> > "mailer challenged" and have no idea who posted something. thanks!
> > 73,Tom WB4iUX (Tom.Skelton at ClemsonSC.NCR.COM)
> >
> I think this is kind of like the guy on 75m, who hears people calling a
> station, so he calls. He works the DX. Then asks on frequency, "Anybody
> know what that guys call was/is?"
>
> If ya' can't hear 'em, ya just don't know who they are. Randy, K5ZD
>
The implication I get from Randy's comment is that if Tom had waited,
sooner or later the author of the original message would have signed his
call herein. This thread keeps popping up every so often simply because
there are many incompetent mailers out there that a number of us are
stuck with, and which strip off almost all of the header info except the
subject and the "reply to:" address which is the reflector's address.
These mailers often do NOT show you who the original author was nor
his/her address. As a for example, I bet Tom has no idea what Randy's
SMTP address is because Randy did not bother to include it in his
message, and Tom's mailer software stripped off all the IMPORTANT info in
the header. That's why I finally switched from my employer's E-mail on
Microsoft Mail to UNIX-emulator SW, and now use a mailer called PINE
which runs on our UNIX host machine (which does the actual connecting to
the Internet).
Dick Norton, N6AA is a consultant, and has access to the Internet
sporadically through his various customers. Several months ago, he was
forced to use Microsoft Mail, and because there were so many of us who
don't make a habit of including our SMTP address with our signature, he
could not personally respond to many messages.
Let's not start this thread again; let's just resolve to include our
address on messages for which we might reasonably expect to receive a
personal comment. It doesn't take more than another 5 to 10 seconds to
type in your address!
73, Steve KO0U/4 <sharrison at sysplan.com>
>From Steve Harrison <sharriso at sysplan.com> Wed Jul 20 23:34:19 1994
From: Steve Harrison <sharriso at sysplan.com> (Steve Harrison)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 18:34:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: FW: K7SS QRP? (NOW: sign ur postings pse!)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9407201819.H14405-0100000 at eagle>
>
> Assuming the dx isn't one of those guys who only IDs every 15
> minutes and the QSB doesn't take him away before the next time...
> /JBL KD1ON
>
Yeah...I think some of these guys with the 70 foot and up towers have
forgotten that QSB and relatively-short band openings mostly happen to
atom-squishers with 30-foot push-ups and SB200s...
On the other hand, I could not believe how many people I heard work
somebody during FD and promptly ask for the callsign. Since I had
generally been calling the other guy for several minutes (we ran QRP at
our site this year), I KNEW he had just IDed on the last QSO. Really dumb,
a real time-waster, and obviously not trained by a competent
contester....Steve, KO0U/4 <sharrison at sysplan.com>
>From Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com Wed Jul 20 06:07:00 1994
From: Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com (Kenneth G. Kopp)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 00:07 EST
Subject: K7SS QRP?
Message-ID: <31940720050713/0006485696PK3EM at mcimail.com>
Hello Kevin!
Out here on the left coast Danny is so well thought of and so famous
for his QRP efforts that we easily recognize a spoof when we see one.
73! de Ken Kopp/K0PP
>From Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com Thu Jul 21 05:50:00 1994
From: Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com (Kenneth G. Kopp)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 23:50 EST
Subject: FT-990/FT-1000 ref
Message-ID: <10940721045001/0006485696PK1EM at mcimail.com>
I blundered and deleted the posting for the FT-990/FT-1000
reflector. Can someone forward it to me, please?
73! de Ken Kopp/K0PP
>From Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com Thu Jul 21 06:06:00 1994
From: Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com (Kenneth G. Kopp)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 00:06 EST
Subject: CT VER 8.XX scoring
Message-ID: <11940721050611/0006485696PK3EM at mcimail.com>
Has anyone else noticed that CT Ver 8 scores FD wrong, or am I the
only one with this problem? Our club used my Ver 8.16. It assigned
4 points to CW Q's and 2 to SSB Q's. Have I missed a posting on this?
Did anyone use Ver 9 on FD this year?
73! de Ken Kopp/K0PP
>From Robert Wood <w5robert at blkbox.COM> Thu Jul 21 14:59:10 1994
From: Robert Wood <w5robert at blkbox.COM> (Robert Wood)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 08:59:10 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: FT-990/FT-1000 ref
Message-ID: <9407210859.aa00726 at blkbox.COM>
>
> I blundered and deleted the posting for the FT-990/FT-1000
> reflector. Can someone forward it to me, please?
>
> 73! de Ken Kopp/K0PP
No problem Ken,
it was posted to the DX reflector however.
send subscribe with callsign to :
990-request at xyzoom.info.com
good luck, Robert WB5CRG
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