North Coast Contesters Banquet

Tue Mar 8 09:33:35 EST 1994

During the Dayton weekend I'd like to attend the North Coast Contester's
Banquet; who do I contact about tickets/reservations etc?
Bert, W1IHN
bmichaud at vnet.ibm.com

>From terwill at leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger)  Tue Mar  8 17:24:53 1994
From: terwill at leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger) (Paul Terwilliger)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 17:24:53 GMT
Subject: ARRL DX SSB Results
Message-ID: <znr763147493k at leotech.mv.com>

Bruce, WA7BNM wrote:

>    A number of us here in Southern California were annoyed by the
>    big East Coast contest stations (the ones that we will see at
>    the very top of the results) sitting in the DX window on 80m
>    calling CQ Contest, when there were DX stations in the Pacific
>    trying to work the U.S.  For this particular contest, there should
>    be a gentleman's agreement for U.S. stations to not use the 80m
>    DX window as run frequencies.
> 

Forgive my ignorance, but exactly _where_ is the DX window?

Paul, NX1H  (@ K1RX)

>From terwill at leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger)  Tue Mar  8 18:08:31 1994
From: terwill at leotech.MV.COM (Paul Terwilliger) (Paul Terwilliger)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 18:08:31 GMT
Subject: QSX 7019
Message-ID: <znr763150111k at leotech.mv.com>

Jon, SM3OJR writes:

> This year I heard something on 40m that feels like a step in the wrong 
> direction. Some US stations were
> calling CQ listening on frequencies below 7040. I believe that they got many 
> QSO's by doing so, but the
> problem is that SSB is not allowed between 7000 and 7040 in IARU region 1.
> 
> Please try to stick to listening frequencies over 7040...

I'd love to listen above 7040, but with at least 2-dozen european big
guns cqing all night long, there just isn't any room.  And operating
split makes it all but impossible to maintain a clear frequency.  At 
least by listening below 7040 I can hear once in a while.  It's sort 
of like having a "DX window" for the USA.

Looking at it another way, the USA side of 40 is 150 kHz wide, but 
the DX side is just 60 kHz wide.  60 kHz just isn't big enough for 
a phone band...

73,
Paul, NX1H (chief op at K1RX M/S)

>From mwilson at arrl.org (Mark Wilson)  Fri Mar  4 13:00:16 1994
From: mwilson at arrl.org (Mark Wilson) (Mark Wilson)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 94 08:00:16 EST
Subject: Dunestar filters
Message-ID: <592 at mw>

Has anyone had a problem with Dunestar filter failures?

At the K1KI ARRL CW multi-multi, we got to talking about 
interstation interference since there wasn't much else to
do and the operators had brought an impressive collection
of filters and stubs.

K1CC mentioned that he has had a couple of Dunestar filter 
failures on 10 meters (yes, he observed the power rating). 
N6BV brought a Dunestar that we used on the 10/80 meter
station without any problems, and he had used it extensively 
on all bands at home.

Anyone else notice problems with the Dunestar on 10 meters?

Please send replies to mwilson at arrl.org.

Thanks.

Mark Wilson, AA2Z 

>From tree at cmicro.com (Larry Tyree)  Tue Mar  8 16:59:47 1994
From: tree at cmicro.com (Larry Tyree) (Larry Tyree)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 08:59:47 PST
Subject: NCJ Sprint changes in the wind
Message-ID: <9403081659.AA10994 at cmicro.com>

The NCJ Sprint Contest Committee is considering swapping the CW and Phone
Sprint weekends starting in 1995.

This is being done to eliminate conflict with the FOC Marathon which is
held concurrent to the February CW sprint.

We propose swapping both weekends (February and September) to eliminate
confusion.

If you have any comments concerning this change, please forward them to
any of the committee members:

    aoniswan at ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu  K7GM    Rick Niswander
    tree at cmicro.com             N6TR    Larry "Tree" Tyree
    trey at tgv.com                WN4KKN  Trey Garlough

Tree N6TR
tree at cmicro.com

>From Jay Kesterson K0GU x6826 <jayk at bits.fc.hp.com>  Tue Mar  8 18:01:37 1994
From: Jay Kesterson K0GU x6826 <jayk at bits.fc.hp.com> (Jay Kesterson K0GU x6826)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 11:01:37 MST
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <9403081801.AA16359 at bits.fc.hp.com>

> Forgive my ignorance, but exactly _where_ is the DX window?

Isn't that the small slice of 75m where JAs can operate and W6RJ and N5AU
in the past always tried to see how bad they could splatter on each other
all night long? :-)

Peace, Jay K0GU              jayk at fc.hp.com

>From Skelton, Tom" <TSkelton at engineer.clemsonsc.NCR.COM  Tue Mar  8 19:45:00 1994
From: Skelton, Tom" <TSkelton at engineer.clemsonsc.NCR.COM (Skelton, Tom)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 11:45:00 PST
Subject: FW: QSX 7019
Message-ID: <2D7CF43B at admin.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>

Jon, SM3OJR writes:

> problem is that SSB is not allowed between 7000 and 7040 in IARU region 1.
>
> Please try to stick to listening frequencies over 7040...

Looking at it another way, the USA side of 40 is 150 kHz wide, but
the DX side is just 60 kHz wide.  60 kHz just isn't big enough for
a phone band...

73,
Paul, NX1H (chief op at K1RX M/S)

That's just life on 40 meters;  love it or leave it.  If you listen below 
7040,
you miss some Q's.  If you listen above 7040, it is bedlam.  Think how
the "American" phone portion of 40 sounds in Europe!  Jon and Paul
are both right on their respective comments, and I agree with both of
them, but I feel better about honoring "gentlemen's" agreements on
dx windows.  If you want something to complain about, how about all
the darn amtor in the 7070 to 7090 part of the band?  Talk about
difficult on the ears!  OOOppppsssss....   ;-}

73, Tom WB4iUX

>From DKMC" <dkmc at chevron.com  Tue Mar  8 20:32:53 1994
From: DKMC" <dkmc at chevron.com (DKMC)
Date: 08 Mar 94 12:32:53 PST
Subject: QSX 7019
Message-ID: <199403082033.AA27865 at portal.chevron.com>

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 Paul, NX1H (chief op at K1RX M/S) writes:

 >Jon, SM3OJR writes:

 >> This year I heard something on 40m that feels like a step in the wrong
 >> direction. Some US stations were
 >> calling CQ listening on frequencies below 7040. I believe that they got
 many
 >> QSO's by doing so, but the
 >> problem is that SSB is not allowed between 7000 and 7040 in IARU region
 1.
 >>
 >> Please try to stick to listening frequencies over 7040...

 >I'd love to listen above 7040, but with at least 2-dozen european big
 >guns cqing all night long, there just isn't any room.  And operating
 >split makes it all but impossible to maintain a clear frequency.  At
 >least by listening below 7040 I can hear once in a while.  It's sort
 >of like having a "DX window" for the USA.

 >Looking at it another way, the USA side of 40 is 150 kHz wide, but
 >the DX side is just 60 kHz wide.  60 kHz just isn't big enough for
 >a phone band...

 This seems the equivalent of a European choosing something like 7142 as a
 listening frequency.  Would we hear K1RX/NX1H calling him there?

 Is the IARU Reg. 1 band limit not enforced, or only enforced by some
 governments?

 73,
 Dave

 David K. McCarty, K5GN
 dkmc at chevron.com