Sunday sprint

[00pmbarkey at bsuvc.bsu.edu]

I think this is a great idea.  I've only operated a couple of sprints,
but I know that I'd be able to go in a lot more of them if they didn't
conflict with other Saturday night goings-on.

   -- Pat
      WA8YVR

>From fish at crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P  Concentric Systems, Inc.)  Thu Sep 22 14:58:02 1994
From: fish at crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P  Concentric Systems, Inc.) (Bill Fisher, KM9P  Concentric Systems, Inc.)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 06:58:02 -0700
Subject: CQWW CW Writeup
Message-ID: <199409221358.AA28238 at mail.crl.com>


I think that Randy's point about the close race in the single operator
category is worth mention.  This is something that doesn't happen every
year.  Or maybe N5RZ making the top ten from west Texas.  These are the type
of things that should be mentioned in the writeups.  They are not
immediately obvious to the reader, and they don't happen every year.  

Spending a paragraph on K1AR winning USA S/O is wasted bandwidth.  We ALL
know John is a superman in S/O DX contesting here in the USA.  What would be
more interesting is mentioning that John made the top ten in the world from
the USA.  Maybe put something in there about the last time someone besides
John accomplished this feat!

The writeup should not be a recapitulation of the top ten boxes.  It should
point out things that are not immediately obvious to the reader.

Did anyone else notice in CQWW SSB that W7RM was the ONLY station not in W1,
W2 or W3 to make a box in the "major" categories.

See ya
---
Bill Fisher, KM9P
Concentric Systems, Inc.  (CSI)
404-442-5821  Fax 404-667-1975


>From debry at iris1.sb.fsu.edu (Ron Debry)  Thu Sep 22 15:30:22 1994
From: debry at iris1.sb.fsu.edu (Ron Debry) (Ron Debry)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 10:30:22 -0400
Subject: cluster in contest
Message-ID: <9409221430.AA12724 at iris1.sb.fsu.edu>


yes, you are missing something bill.  packet spotting and eventually the
cluster was pioneered by our club, the YCCC to help the club score.  yes,
you are helping your competition by spotting something on the cluster, but
more importantly you are helping your club score.  now if you live in an
area without a contest club, or you don't belong to one, then you may not
see the purpose of spotting during a contest.  but in this area, and others
with major contest clubs, the cluster is a way for the whole club to benefit
from the ears of everyone.

73, Dave KY1H  Robbins at guid2.dnet.ge.com



Spotting nets by contest clubs goes back well before packet, even.  All
of the big clubs had or used the local 2 meter DX repeaters to some
degree or another.  By the mid 70's the NCCC (at least, probably 
other clubs as well) had a very well-organized, very effective 2M
spotting net.  Volunteer ops took shifts as net control, and kept
a list of spots as they were called in.  Multi-op operations with
enouigh manpower could monitor the repeater full time.  The club's
philosophy, however, was to have as many 2-3 person multi-op stations
as possible.  Every 15 minutes the net control op would read off the
list of spots called in over the past 15 minutes.  All the 
operator had to do was pull of the headphones at 0000, 0015, etc
for a minute or so.  A lot of single-ops even entered the M/S
catagory to help the club.  And, just like today, there were 
always rumors that some single-op or another was cheating by listening
to the 2M net.

73,

Ron WA6DGX
debry at bio.fsu.edu


>From mraz at maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris I. Mraz)  Thu Sep 22 15:44:49 1994
From: mraz at maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris I. Mraz) (Kris I. Mraz)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 09:44:49 CDT
Subject: CATV feedline
Message-ID: <9409221444.AA04767 at maverick.aud.alcatel.com>

I've obtained a quantity of CATV coax cable that I'd like to use for feedline
runs out to a future tower/antenna. Can someone help me identify this cable.
I have some from two manufacturers. They are marked as follows:

TFC T10 K CATV
and
1994 COMMSCOPE INC (no other markings other than foot markers)

Both are 11/16" o.d. with 1/8" center conductor.
Both have solid aluminum shield and have foam dielectric.

Is this "standard" CATV cable? By "standard" I mean is this the 75 ohm stuff
other people are using for ham installations? Any precautions I should be
aware of?  Thanks.

73
Kris AA5UO

>From tree at cmicro.com (Larry Tyree)  Thu Sep 22 15:35:33 1994
From: tree at cmicro.com (Larry Tyree) (Larry Tyree)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 07:35:33 PDT
Subject: Sunday sprints - ask your wife!!
Message-ID: <9409221435.AA07953 at cmicro.com>


I asked my wife which night she would rather have the sprints on.  I
got a totally unexpected answer = SATURDAY.

The reason is that we have two kids, who she takes care of during the time
I am at work.  She has to also take care of the kids by herself when I
am sprinting.  Having these times broken up makes them easier.  If the 
sprint was on Sunday, then it would run right into Monday morning.

Also, I think that after these many years, if there was really a strong
feeling that it should be on Sunday, it would of already been done.

So my suggestion to those who are in charge of the sprint is to leave it
on Saturday...  and the same for the internet sprint.

Do you folks on the east coast really want to end the contest at midnight
on Sunday?

Tree N6TR
tree at cmicro.com

>From jholly at hposl42.cup.hp.com (Jim Hollenback)  Thu Sep 22 16:15:24 1994
From: jholly at hposl42.cup.hp.com (Jim Hollenback) (Jim Hollenback)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 08:15:24 -0700
Subject: CQ WW CW Results
Message-ID: <9409220815.ZM25140 at hpwsmjh.cup.hp.com>

On Sep 21, 10:27pm, Randy A Thompson wrote:
> Subject: CQ WW CW Results
> 
> For those of you still reading, did anyone notice the box listing number 
> of QSOs worked on each continent?  Europeans made nearly 50% of their 
> QSOs with each other.  AND ONLY 7% WITH NORTH AMERICA!  And 30+% with 
> Africa.  These numbers can't be right!?
> 

I would guess they are pretty close. If each state of the US were a mult and
worth 2 points, I bet you would see a very high percentage of the contacts
in the NA log being NA to NA contacts. In Europe you have many mults close
by, (i.e, NY to FL, or less) all worth 2 points and LOUD. Africa? That is 
less than a CA to NY QSO in Europe. Again LOUD and worth 3 points and a
mult. NA is a couple mults, 3 points each and weak. What would you work?

Jim, WA6SDM
jholly at cup.hp.com