dead pirate horse
W5XD at delphi.com
W5XD at delphi.com
Tue Mar 29 08:56:48 EST 1994
I took one more swipe at the dead software piracy horse while
it was still breathing but, unfortunately, a time warp passed
through Round Rock at that very instant and my crack appeared
in cq-contest land 5 or 6 days later--long after the buzzards
had carried the last remains away. My apologies. To avoid
future embarassment, I will attempt to maintain an element of
timelessness in my comments.
Wayne, W5XD
>From kl7y at backwood.com (DAN ROBBINS) Tue Mar 29 05:18:34 1994
From: kl7y at backwood.com (DAN ROBBINS) (DAN ROBBINS)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 05:18:34 GMT
Subject: wpx redux
Message-ID: <940329051327468 at backwood.com>
A couple of comments and a wpx score:
1. Re the propagationally disadvantaged - while Alaska does
have some exciting propagation once in a great while, it is
generally much worse than even the legendary "Black Hole."
I know, I used to be a W9. Check with KL7RA if you don't
believe me. In all fairness, I think VE7ZZZ may have even
worse propagation than Alaska does, but I'm not sure.
2. In line with that, we ran WPX M/M and had about 12 hours
of fair propagation, and 36 hours of bad to very bad. 10
and 160 were virtually useless. 80, 40 and 15 all benefited
greatly from the 12 hour window on Saturday, but outside of
that they were pretty poor. Even the normal JA run on 40
just never happened. Most of the time we had only 2 or 3
ops at the station, but with only 20 producing regularly,
there wasn't a need for any more.
3. KL7Y WPX SSB M/M
160 5 1
80 224 23
40 594 86
20 2610 689
15 1180 227
10 34 1
TOT 4650 1027 13.9M
4. One time I arrived home to see a huge Great Horned Owl
perched on an element tip of the 20 meter beam. I rushed in
the house to fire up the amp (negative reinforcement,
heh,heh), but he flew away before the 8874's warmed up.
Unfortunately, the element never returned all the way to the
horizontal and to this day it doglegs earthward. Fortunate-
ly, the antenna played fine, and if you have ever worked
KL7Y (or WL7E or NL7G) in contest on 20, I hope you got
through right away and didn't have to 'owl too long. Post-
contest stupor humor.
Dan, KL7Y
>From H. L. Serra" <hlserra at teetot.acusd.edu Tue Mar 29 15:01:36 1994
From: H. L. Serra" <hlserra at teetot.acusd.edu (H. L. Serra)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 07:01:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: WPX PH Rumors #1
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9403290734.C9558-7100000 at teetot.acusd.edu>
Charlie- Please add 6E2T score to WPX PH rumors:
6E2T M/S 2393 Qs, 598 Pfx, 3.693M points
73, Larry N6AZE
>From H. L. Serra" <hlserra at teetot.acusd.edu Tue Mar 29 15:53:21 1994
From: H. L. Serra" <hlserra at teetot.acusd.edu (H. L. Serra)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 07:53:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 6E2T M/S
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9403290721.M9558-a100000 at teetot.acusd.edu>
6E2T WPX PH score:
Qs Pfx
160 12 2
80 254 63
40 329 47
20 651 178
15 1082 248
10 65 20
TOT: 2393 558 3.693M Pts
M/S with Tijuana Club and W6UQF, K2VIV, N6KI, KD6QK, N6AZE at Puerto
Nuevo, Baja California, Mexico. Rain and deadly mud pit on Friday (never
got vertical to work except briefly on 160M). Sunday AM dead until about
1900Z when 10M opened briefly and 15M opened really well (our best
band--40+% of Qs). COLD! Colder than ARRL CW DX from same spot. Scenery:
Many coeds from UC prancing around on spring break. Marv K2VIV chats one
up in the jacuzzi-- she is a classmate of his son's at UC Irvine! Oh well.
Good time had by all-- low key starter contest. Harv's (KD6QK) trailer
with 40ft crank up tover and tri-bander played well, and 80/40M dipole
saved the day when vertical didn't want to load with new capacitance hat.
73, Larry N6AZE
>From Joel B Levin <levin at BBN.COM> Tue Mar 29 16:15:05 1994
From: Joel B Levin <levin at BBN.COM> (Joel B Levin)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 11:15:05 -0500
Subject: Field Day Record?
Message-ID: <20569.764957705 at bbn.com>
| In 1984 there were a possible 700
|bonus points that you could get, so I figure the highest score you could
|get with 3756 Qs (all CW of course) and 700 bonus points would be (at the
|150 watt level) 3756x2x2+700=15,724. The record, however, is printed as
|17,194 points.
[Amazing what people have time to notice :-)]
| Am I missing something? Is this a typo? If you can help,
|please let me know. Thanks. N6DLU.
Maybe the published QSO count didn't count the novice station (did
they have them in those days)?
/J
>From tim.ellam at logical.cuc.ab.ca (Tim Ellam) Tue Mar 29 12:06:00 1994
From: tim.ellam at logical.cuc.ab.ca (Tim Ellam) (Tim Ellam)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 07:06:00 -0500
Subject: VE6SH QRP Score
Message-ID: <5365.1000.uupcb at logical.cuc.ab.ca>
VE6SH QRP Single Band 15M
145q 112m 38998 points 16 hours of operating time
Work(as usual) interfered...may be time to give up QRP for the next few
years!
Equipment:
Modified Icom 751
5 el Wire beam at 50'
Cushcraft R5
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>From Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at unbc.edu> Tue Mar 29 16:38:06 1994
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at unbc.edu> (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 08:38:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: wpx redux
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9403290806.E20710-0100000 at unbc.edu>
On Tue, 29 Mar 1994, DAN ROBBINS wrote:
> In all fairness, I think VE7ZZZ may have even
> worse propagation than Alaska does, but I'm not sure.
This year I suspect it was worse than *everyone* else :-)
It will be a day or two before we have all the logs merged and some
results to post, but I can make some comments on how the weekend went.
10m: Opened for about 4 hours Saturday (1100-1500 PST). Worked maybe
45 stations. *Could* have worked 500 if all the W's hadn't had their
antennas pointed at South America. No opening at all Sunday.
15m: Not as good as it could have been. I managed a reasonably good
JA run Sunday, but not much DX to be heard all weekend. I doubt we
broke 1500 Q's.
20m: Disappointing doesn't begin to describe it! Open to Europe but with
a lot of auroral flutter making QSOs difficult. I made most of my
contacts by pointing the steerable beam north and working Ws off
the back (the radiation angle off the front is too low to work
much closer than W4 or VE3). Had a fairly good run into Europe
Sunday morning for a few hours. We worked maybe five stations in
the Pacific. Total Q's for this band was around 2000.
40m: Probably the best band all around. Lots of JA. We made our multipliers
on this band.
80m: Wasn't bad until the relay box for the 4-square array started on fire.
(Moral: never switch antennas while pumping 2KW through the relays!)
We ran the rest of the weekend using one leg of the 4-square. We just
weren't loud enough to be competitive, which is a shame as Japan was
pretty loud early Sunday morning.
All in all the low bands were the best, but lots of brute force and
digging in the mud on 20 and 15 were what got the QSO count up.
--lyndon VE7TCP/VE6BBM
>From tim.ellam at logical.cuc.ab.ca (Tim Ellam) Tue Mar 29 12:11:00 1994
From: tim.ellam at logical.cuc.ab.ca (Tim Ellam) (Tim Ellam)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 07:11:00 -0500
Subject: Dallas
Message-ID: <5366.1000.uupcb at logical.cuc.ab.ca>
It appears American Airlines cannot get me back to Calgary from Dayton
in one day this year which means I have to overnight in Dallas. Do any
of you ops in Dallas know if their is a Hotel right at DFW Airport(ie:
in or close to the terminal?)
Thanks
Tim VE6SH
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>From Doug Grant <0006008716 at mcimail.com> Tue Mar 29 17:39:00 1994
From: Doug Grant <0006008716 at mcimail.com> (Doug Grant)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 12:39 EST
Subject: Club Territory
Message-ID: <85940329173958/0006008716NA2EM at mcimail.com>
Hmmm...how about a micro-club category with a 1.75 mile radius?
If I pick the center just right (somewhere in the southwest corner of
Windham, NH), I can get K1DG, K1TR, N6BV/1, WE1F, NV1J, and KM1H all in
it...and the only water would be parts of Kendall Pond and Canobie Lake. If
CQ goes bust someday, and K1AR moves back to Windham, watch out!
On a serious note, I need to get started on updating the CQ Amateur Radio
Almanac for the 1995 edition. Since the 1993-94 contest season is almost
over (just the WPX CW and Poisson d'Avril left now), I'm looking for new
claims for all-time highest contest rates, biggest HF antennas, etc. Include
all relevant details for rate claims (contest/mode/hour/band,op/station);
log extract not required unless you really want to send it - honor system
prevails. Any neat photos would also be appreciated.
73,
Doug K1DG
K1DG at mcimail.com
"See you at the Dayton Contest Forum!"
>From tim.ellam at logical.cuc.ab.ca (Tim Ellam) Mon Mar 28 12:11:00 1994
From: tim.ellam at logical.cuc.ab.ca (Tim Ellam) (Tim Ellam)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 07:11:00 -0500
Subject: multi/single
Message-ID: <4948.1000.uupcb at logical.cuc.ab.ca>
I agree with VE6GK's comments, lets leave this alone. He and I run
almost identical stations, same qth etc and we both use 2nd rigs...our
scores are often within a few points of each other..the 2nd rig is a
godsend on Sundays!
Like Rick says: qrp ops need all the help we can get!
Tim VE6SH
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>From oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Tue Mar 29 20:06:23 1994
From: oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 14:06:23 CST
Subject: owls
Message-ID: <9403292006.AA04179 at astro.as.utexas.edu>
One time I arrived home to see a huge Great Horned Owl
perched on an element tip of the 20 meter beam.
....
Unfortunately, the element never returned all the way to the
horizontal and to this day it doglegs earthward.
Dan, KL7Y
I've heard of putting imitation owls on your antenna to ward off the
smaller birds, but now I realize it could backfire and attract the
real thing as well. What scares owls away? (although that just
makes the problem even worse...).
Derek aa5bt
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