Women & CQ

Sat Sep 3 21:11:50 EDT 1994

Round One---
    Sold the Henry 2K4. Traded Tower and HF for Atty Fees. Then found a new
one that was better than DX....

Round Two----
    Thought I had it made for first 8 years. She thought playing cards with
relatives more fun on Thanksgiving weekend than CQWW. Sold the Amps, Sold
the tranceivers, sold the towers. Sold the business. Paid Atty Fees and
Split......Dx was better....

Round Three----
    Searched high and low for a really good one. Our families were thousands
of miles away. Don't have to worry about CQWW any more. Lived with her for a
year. Found she could balance checkbook, cook, clean and be better than DX...
Grew older and wiser. Found that if I didn't stop this DX thing I wouldn't
have a retirement EVER......After 6 years I can honestly say that 2-3 major
contests a year is enough. I still can't stand cards, but a hot romantic
weekend on the town to a concert usually helps balance the powers....

Bottom Line...
    It's not likely serious contesters can maintain a relationship. If
that's the driving point you're better off working DX!

Bob Kile, KG7D
via internet"rkile at delphi.com"

>From stevem at w8hd.org (Steve Maki)  Sun Sep  4 01:37:18 1994
From: stevem at w8hd.org (Steve Maki) (Steve Maki)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 20:37:18 -0400
Subject: Vertical Yagi antennas
Message-ID: <199409040037.UAA27305 at w8hd.w8hd.org>

>Has anyone had experience with either modeling, or real time >performance
of vertically mounted yagis? 
>
>ken.silverman at atlas.ccmail.airtouch.com
>
>
Just an unscientific observation:

My 80 meter antenna started off as a 200' tower holding up (on ropes) 3
vertical, center fed dipoles, spaced 120 deg. apart around the tower, fed 1
at a time thru a relay box. They are about 30' from the tower. They exibited
about 10 or 12 db FB (I believe the tower and undriven dipoles are all
acting as reflectors, to some degree) and worked so well that I decided to
expand the concept.

I suspended a half wave director 30' in front of each driven element (cut
about 3% short). Average FB is now around 15-20 db.
The antenna just seems better. I'm convinced I've got some parasitic action
happening, but am curious as to the what effect the ground is having on this
thing. W8WA modeled it for me on some program or another and claimed the
ground was not too important.

73
--
Steve Maki K8LX
stevem at w8hd.org

>From stevem at w8hd.org (Steve Maki)  Sun Sep  4 01:47:15 1994
From: stevem at w8hd.org (Steve Maki) (Steve Maki)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 20:47:15 -0400
Subject: Vertical Yagi Antennas
Message-ID: <199409040047.UAA27467 at w8hd.w8hd.org>

BTW, concerning my 80 mtr antenna:

The bottom of the elements are all about 5' above ground. In fact, to switch
them from phone to cw, I make a single adjustment of length on the bottom
ends only. Apparently, having the feed point offset a little is not too
important.

73
--
Steve Maki K8LX
stevem at w8hd.org

>From Patty Winter <winter at apple.com>  Sun Sep  4 02:16:06 1994
From: Patty Winter <winter at apple.com> (Patty Winter)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 18:16:06 -0700
Subject: WOMEN & CQ
Message-ID: <9409040116.AA04912 at apple.com>

Simple solution: Show your wife that whiny, one-sided posting,
and if she has any sense she'll divorce you and you'll be free
to contest any time you like.

Every couple has conflicts over how they prefer to spend their
spare time. Some compromise is in order on both sides. Kevin
implies that his wife expects him to do all the compromising;
on the other hand, maybe he isn't willing to do any. That's 
their business. But postings that imply that women are ipso
facto an impediment to contesting, DXing, etc. don't help anyone. 
(Not to mention being an insult to the many talented female
contesters and DXers out there in radio land.)

It is unfortunate that many of the major contests fall on 
holiday weekends, but surely there must be a solution--maybe
full-time contesting in one year's CQWW and the next year do
part-time contesting and part-time family visiting. Solutions
can be found if people are more interested in finding solutions
than in whining and blaming.

Patty N6BIS

>From Peter G. Smith" <n4zr at netcom.com  Sun Sep  4 02:27:45 1994
From: Peter G. Smith" <n4zr at netcom.com (Peter G. Smith)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 18:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Lightning protection summary
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9409031822.A11498-0100000 at netcom11>

I have completed work as well summarizing responses to my query about 
lightning protection.  It runs over 45K, so I'll only E-mail it on 
request, and only with a certain amount of trepidation.  This is such an 
important subject that I hope everyone will read and heed the caveat at 
the start of the summary.

73, Pete                                       
N4ZR at netcom.com
"Better, faster,cheaper -- choose any two"

>From Danny Eskenazi <0005720561 at mcimail.com>  Sun Sep  4 03:10:00 1994
From: Danny Eskenazi <0005720561 at mcimail.com> (Danny Eskenazi)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 21:10 EST
Subject: HF remote equipment
Message-ID: <01940904021010/0005720561PK3EM at mcimail.com>

Thinking seriously about remote operating, the amp and beam on Asia cannot cocoexist with my neighbors prime time 5-11 TV evenings. No he doesnt want
cable, and the old RCA he got rid of  for his new $1000 whiz-bang TV was
tvi proff, but not this new one! So.....anyone done successful HF remote
TX and RX with off the shelf stuff? AEA has a box Ive listened to. Anyone
have any software that emulates the front end of a rig on a computer screes?
screen? Might feel stupid calling CQ DX on my phone handset ..but then
again..it beats no CQing at all. Ill try and compile answers for anyone
who is interested. Pse QSP any ideas, thoughts, or names. 73 Danny K7SS.mcimail

>From David O. Hachadorian" <0006471356 at mcimail.com  Sun Sep  4 05:31:00 1994
From: David O. Hachadorian" <0006471356 at mcimail.com (David O. Hachadorian)
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 23:31 EST
Subject: ARRL 125 Celebration
Message-ID: <34940904043143/0006471356PK2EM at mcimail.com>

For those of you out there who have an ARRL appointment, such as Official
Relay Station, the 125th Memorial Celebration going on through Sept 11 is
really a kick. I've worked over 1000 qso's in five hours so far. 20 is like
a bottomless pit full of people waiting in line for a qso. Rules are in
August QST on page 46.

Dave, K6LL
k6ll at mcimail.com