WF3T arrl dx results
bill.lumnitzer at paonline.com
bill.lumnitzer at paonline.com
Thu Feb 23 14:49:46 EST 1995
Category: M2
Station used: N6CQ
Operators: WF3T, N6CQ, K3MQH, KV3J
Band QSO Mult
160 45 29
80 219 70
40 726 91
20 1188 106
15 468 85
10 49 30
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Totals: 2695 411 ==> 3.3 Meg
Almost another field day although not as bad as cqww. Numerous computer
crashes screwed up our 15m total due to lost time. Lost an AL-1200 to
a vhf parasitic early Sunday and couldn't round up a replacement loaner for
several hours. AG6K mods are now installed (albeit a bit late)! Vswr on
40m beam climbed to 4:1. Interstation interference as bad as ever and newly
built W3LPL rx filters made no difference. I'm determined to locate the
rain gutter or other diode that is the root of my rectification problem!
73 de Bill, N6CQ/3
>From K. Caruso x226-6935 <caruso at netcad.enet.dec.com> Thu Feb 23 20:09:37 1995
From: K. Caruso x226-6935 <caruso at netcad.enet.dec.com> (K. Caruso x226-6935 <caruso at netcad.enet.dec.com>)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:09:37 EST
Subject: WO1N M/2 ARRL DX CW Results
Message-ID: <9502232008.AA03114 at us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
WO1N M/2 @ K1TWF's Mode: CW
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 37 111 3.0 27
80 134 402 3.0 54
40 551 1647 3.0 77
20 1053 3141 3.0 93
15 530 1590 3.0 81
10 50 150 3.0 28
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Totals 2355 7041 3.0 360 = 2,534,760
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Operators: K1TWF, WT1T, WB1ELA, WA1TET, AA1HF, WA1W, WO1N
Equipment: TENTEC OMNI, FT1000D, AL1200, Yaesu FL1000 amp
Ant: 160M 3/8 inverted L at 60', 80M dipole at 80',
40-2CD at 60', TH7 at 50', A3 at 55'
Highlights:
- Working VK5GN on 160M a full half hour or more after our sunrise Sunday
morning. I could hear him fine (3x4?) but didn't even attempt as the pileup
was fairly heavy. I was tuning around looking for mults (where was KH6CC
anyways?) when I came across 'GN again. I commented to K1TWF I couldn't
believe I was still hearing him. Threw our call out on a lark and doesn't
he come back to me! Talk about adrenaline rush! First VK on 160 for us.
- Running all day, both days, on 20M. Sunday was a little tougher holding the
freq, you got to be fast on the key when you hear a "?" because it generally
meant someone wanted to grab your freq. I do recall employing some of the
more ruthless techniques learned at our recent contest U to keep some of the
big guns off of us, and they work ;-)
- WA1TET finding an 8P9 Sunday morning on. A new mult for us, but this guy
obviously didn't have a clue there was a contest going on and he wasn't
exactly a speed demon either. 'TET slowed down, worked him extracting the
exchange through basically a standard QSO. You know: GM OM, TNX FER QSO BT
UR RST 599 BT NAME IS X BT RIG IS...just before the completion of the Q we
spot him on the cluster. All hell broke loose on this poor guy once he signed
with us! We figured that cost our competition a dozen Q's ;-)
- One of those KODAK moments. I got tied up in work and missed the start, but
I'm told about 5min before the contest start K1TWF and WT1T decided to load
up the AL1200 on 10M. In doing so the protection light bulbs on the QSK card
blew. Trip to Rat Shack for some new bulbs, a little surgery and its ready
to be put back on the air. By this time I'm working 80, the ops shut down
the spare amp, swap in the AL1200 and begin to load it up. FLASH! I turn
around, and, if I had a camera I'd be rich. The look on their faces was worth
a megabuck! Surgery again, this time to replace two main fuses and reposition
the plate wire(?). It worked fine after that, or at least until we tried to
load it on 10 again....
- WA1TET asking how I felt about band edges ;-(
- QRP'ers. I've never worked so many European QRP'ers as I did this weekend.
- Playing around with the OMNI and computer on Saturday and forgetting what our
run frequency was for a few minutes while we tried to boot someone of his
frequency ;-( SRI....
- K1TWF snagging 4 new mults in the last couple of minutes on 40M. This put
us well over 2.5M and the numbers above reflect a first pass at cleaning
out all the WO1N's in the log (some stateside guys are persistent in working
us in a DX contest aren't they?). We are hoping our best score ever from
K1TWF's will stand at above 2.5M after we clean up the logs a bit more.
I hope everyone had as much fun as we did on this one. CU in the next one!
Ken
WO1N
>From tree at cmicro.com (Larry Tyree) Thu Feb 23 21:15:03 1995
From: tree at cmicro.com (Larry Tyree) (Larry Tyree)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 13:15:03 PST
Subject: Incomplete exchanges
Message-ID: <9502232115.AA19697 at cmicro.com>
Inbetween not sending an exchange and sending one is the practice I
have heard by some recent hotshots which is to send NN instead of
5NN. Some of them send ENN instead of 5NN.
I don't like ENN and probably won't work people who are doing that, but
NN is going too far and isn't an exchange. If you hear this, please
don't support the practice by working them.
Tree N6TR
tree at cmicro.com
>From john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) Thu Feb 23 21:38:16 1995
From: john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) (John Devoldere)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:38:16 +0000
Subject: DIMENSIONS KLM KT34A
Message-ID: <199502232138.WAA10204 at box.eunet.be>
The president of our contest club, ON4AFZ, has recently bought a second hand
KT34A (the 4 element tribander). He has taken the antenna aprt to clean it
etc. He has no instruction sheets.
Can anyone help with the assembly dimensions? I'll be glad to pay for the
expenses. Plesase send by Mail to ON4UN, Box 41, B9000 Ghent, Belgium, or
fax to +32 9 362 64 55.
Thanks you and 73
John, ON4UN
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John.Devoldere at eunet.be Call us in all major 1995 contests: OT5T
John Devoldere (ON4UN-AA4OI)
POBOX 41
B-9000 Ghent (Belgium)
>From john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) Thu Feb 23 21:38:20 1995
From: john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) (John Devoldere)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:38:20 +0000
Subject: CQ 160 PHONE CONTEST
Message-ID: <199502232138.WAA10208 at box.eunet.be>
Mark, ON4WW, will be operating the CQ WW 160 Phone as OT5T from the station
of ON4UN.
Please give him a call.
73, John, ON4UN
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John.Devoldere at eunet.be Call us in all major 1995 contests: OT5T
John Devoldere (ON4UN-AA4OI)
POBOX 41
B-9000 Ghent (Belgium)
>From john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) Thu Feb 23 21:38:24 1995
From: john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) (John Devoldere)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:38:24 +0000
Subject: ARRL PHONE CONTEST
Message-ID: <199502232138.WAA10214 at box.eunet.be>
Mark, ON4WW, will operate the ARRL Phone contest as OT5T, monoband 80 meters
(from the station of ON4UN). Please give him a tough time with a hughe US
pile-up!
73, John, ON4UN
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John.Devoldere at eunet.be Call us in all major 1995 contests: OT5T
John Devoldere (ON4UN-AA4OI)
POBOX 41
B-9000 Ghent (Belgium)
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