WAE 1995 - PW2N

[py2ny at SP-gw.ampr.org]

PW2N will be my callsign during next Work All Europe, next weekend.
I'll operate 80-10 meters, 100 watts. I'm asking to     people   in
Europe to put your antennas to South America, this is the only  way
to us, low power stations, to work on this time, with no propagation
condx!!
QSLs cards will be sent to every QSOs via Bureau.
73 from PY2NY - Vitor

>From Greg Becker <gb546 at bard.edu>  Mon Aug  7 02:10:23 1995
From: Greg Becker <gb546 at bard.edu> (Greg Becker)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:10:23 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Windows 95
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950806210441.22068A-100000 at core.bard.edu>


> -- [ From: Dave Lance * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
> 
> Dont think booting from a floppy is what he had in mind !
> 
> Gee, what is this 1980. I played with 95 a while and went back to good ole
> DOS and Win 3.1 for a while.I did get quite a few things to work but didnt
> trust it with NA or CT.

Gee, what is this? Before you get snippy, find out WHY we were booting 
from a floppy. The machine was used by several other operators during the 
contest, none of whom were familiar with Win95. In addition, we used the 
autosave feature of CT. Booting Win95 with a floppy and batch files gave 
a completely "hands-off, no-brainer" reboot to CT in case of a power 
drop. Sounds like you didn't trust it because you didn't know what you 
were doing...

CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST

Greg Becker NA2N
gb546 at bard.edu


>From Will Sill <will at epix.net>  Mon Aug  7 02:45:43 1995
From: Will Sill <will at epix.net> (Will Sill)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 21:45:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Windows 95
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950806214226.18414A-100000 at mango.epix.net>


On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Greg Becker wrote:

> 
> > -- [ From: Dave Lance * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
> > 
> > Dont think booting from a floppy is what he had in mind !
> > 
> > Gee, what is this 1980. I played with 95 a while and went back to good ole
> > DOS and Win 3.1 for a while.I did get quite a few things to work but didnt
> > trust it with NA or CT.
> 
> Gee, what is this? Before you get snippy, find out WHY we were booting 
> from a floppy. The machine was used by several other operators during the 
> contest, none of whom were familiar with Win95. In addition, we used the 
> autosave feature of CT. Booting Win95 with a floppy and batch files gave 
> a completely "hands-off, no-brainer" reboot to CT in case of a power 
> drop. Sounds like you didn't trust it because you didn't know what you 
> were doing...


Admitting in advance that I regard WINDOZE as a virus, I gotta wonder why
anyone would NEED to use any version of it when CT and NA both run just
FINE in DOS?  Why add additional complexity to what is (after all) a very
simple process? 

will at epix.net - KD3XR - W F Sill, Tunkhannock, PA


>From Ed Gilbert <eyg at hpnjlc.njd.hp.com>  Mon Aug  7 03:14:06 1995
From: Ed Gilbert <eyg at hpnjlc.njd.hp.com> (Ed Gilbert)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 22:14:06 -0400
Subject: wa2srq naqp results
Message-ID: <199508070211.AA107831467 at hp.com>


     band      QSOs     points    mults
    ----------------------------------- 
     160         24        24       12
      80         99        99       33
      40        140       140       39
      20        205       205       44
      15         66        66       27
      10         35        35       18
    ----------------------------------- 
     TOTAL      569       569      173      SCORE: 98,437


Equipment:
3 element HyGain yagis on 10, 15, 20, and Force12 EF-240 on a 50' tower
(this is an example of what W6QHS calls "close stacking" :-).
130' open wire fed inv Vee at 70' for 80 and 160.
Two Icom 765s, ICE filters, Top Ten decoders, NA logging software.


Comments:
Score down a bit from last year, even though propagation on the high
bands was improved.  Totals on 10, 15, and 20 up from last year, but
not enough to compensate for drops on the low bands.  A thunderstorm
came through late in the afternoon causing very high QRN for the
entire contest.  

This was my first naqp using 2 radios.  I probably made 80 or 90 Qs on
the second radio, and it felt like it was helping a lot, but when it
was over I was surprised to find I had done better last year with one
radio.  More practice is needed!  N6ZZ's comments struck home.  

73,

Ed  WA2SRQ