Does the ARRL Support Radiosport?
John D. Nicholson
jnichols at ednet1.osl.or.gov
Fri Jul 14 14:49:24 EDT 1995
>Is it me, or does anyone else have a hard time dealing with the fact that
>QST makes NO MENTION WHATSOEVER on its August, 1995 cover of either the 10M
>'test, or the RTTY test? The results of both are contained inside!
>
>
>Ladies and Gentlemen, if you agree with me, get out your keyboards,
>typewriters, pens/paper or whatever and get writing to your Director, and
>HQ.
>
>73,
>Steve KC2X
Good luck. My dealings with HQ have taught me that
they are a publishing business, not a voice for you or
me. It's the 90's and like most big operations, they
have an answer (probably stored somewhere as a Macro)
for everything. But it won't be the one you were hoping
for...
In the meantime, I've found other sources for contesting
and dx-related information. And that I have QST to thank
for!
John K7FD
Grumpy Heights, Oregon
>From De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> Fri Jul 14 22:53:07 1995
From: De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> (De Syam)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:53:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Bullet Proof Telephones
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950714174939.14397B-100000 at cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
I have found that the products produced by TCE Laboratories, 2365
Waterfront Park Drive, Canyon Lake, TX 78133, phone: (210) 899-4575
are first rate. The owner, Tom Bruce, WA5???, is sometimes a bit slow
on delivery, but the phone does not receive interference under any
conditions at all, period!
His model TPXL-D is a standard touchtone without any bells and
whistles, sells for $59.95. Any complaining neighbor of mine gets one
from me for free as long as they can prove that I'm really bothering them
and it's not just an attempt to get a free phone. It has dried up all my
RFI complaints and I now operate in any contest I wish in blissful peace!
Well worth the expense!
Bruce's phones were among those used by the FCC in their famous RFI
test. His proved to solve RFI problems about 98% of the time.
Very 73,
Fred Laun, K3ZO
>From ki8w at grfn.ORG (Barry Martz) Fri Jul 14 23:15:25 1995
From: ki8w at grfn.ORG (Barry Martz) (Barry Martz)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 18:15:25 EDT
Subject: Field Day Score 6A
Message-ID: <9507142215.AA12282 at grfn.ORG>
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>From barry at w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) Fri Jul 14 22:39:07 1995
From: barry at w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 21:39:07 GMT
Subject: Antenna models
Message-ID: <wVX98c1w165w at w2up.wells.com>
I wonder if there is an ftp site somewhere that has files of antenna
models for the common commercial antennas? I'm considering purchasing
ELNEC or EZNEC but understand it is a time consuming process to model the
antenna. Surely someone has already done it... What say?
73
--
Barry N. Kutner, W2UP Internet: barry at w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
Packet Cluster: W2UP >WB2R (FRC)
.......................................................................
>From Thomas J. Wall" <0006130613 at mcimail.com Sat Jul 15 01:03:00 1995
From: Thomas J. Wall" <0006130613 at mcimail.com (Thomas J. Wall)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 19:03 EST
Subject: Results of Alpha 87A Survey
Message-ID: <30950715000303/0006130613DC2EM at MCIMAIL.COM>
Tnx to all who replied to my query about the 87A. I had 19 replies of which
13 were from 87A owners. All but one were happy with the amp's performance.
The lone dissenter has had his back 4 times in 2 yrs.
The PIN diode failure problem seems to have disappeared. The most common
"soft" failures in operation are due to high SWR/reflected power followed by
high, low or fluctuating line voltage. Five used the 781/87A combination and
reported no problems.
So it appears that if you can keep the SWR below 2:1 the 87A should do the
job. By the way there were several comments about lousy customer service
from ETO, which unfortunately is nothing new.
Sorry I can't print all the comments but I get charged by the word! Tnx
again to all who responded, it looks like it's an 87A for me.
73 de Tom K2TW at mcimail.com
>From James Brooks <0005851359 at mcimail.com> Sat Jul 15 01:35:00 1995
From: James Brooks <0005851359 at mcimail.com> (James Brooks)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 19:35 EST
Subject: AP Sprint - Last Reminder
Message-ID: <93950715003539/0005851359NA4EM at MCIMAIL.COM>
Last reminder of this contest in a few days. As this was a little
too late to publish, we are posting (for the last time - I promise!)
to CQ-CONTEST in hopes that others will distribute. Sorry for the
bandwidth.
Have fun.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Asia-Pacific Sprint
-------------------
Objective: To work as many stations within the defined Asia-Pacific
region in the 2-hour time limit.
Winners: Each DXCC country, continent plus one overall.
Winners receive a cool Asia-Pacific contest T-shirt.
Date: Sunday July 16
Time: 1230-1430 UTC
1. Bands 20m & 40m
2. Mode CW
3. Power limit: 150W output
4. Category: Single op, Single radio.
5. Exchange: RST + Serial # beginning with 001
6. Points: 1 point/QSO with each station in Asia Pacific region.
7 Dupes: Same station can be worked only once on the same band.
8. Mults: 1 mult/prefix (once only - not once per band) (WPX rules)
9. CQ'er QSY's at least 1 KHZ after a QSO.
10. Final Score: Points x Mults
Asia-Pacific countries for this contest:
(coutries from Asia side Pacific Rim to 180 degrees)
3D2(all), 1S/9M0, 9M2, 9M6/8, 9V, BV, BY, C2, DU, FK8, FW, H4, HL,
HS, JA, JD1/Ogasawara, JD1/Marcus, KC6 (Belau), KH2, KH9, KH0, P29,
T2, T30, T33, UA0, V6/KC6, V7, V85, VK1-9(all except VK9X & VK9Y),
VS6, XU, XV/3W, XX9, YB, YJ, ZL(all except Chatham & Kermadec),
Results posted to: CQ-CONTEST at TGV.com, AP-SPRINT at dumpty.go.jp and
(hopefully) NCJ.
Rules and results will be distributed by the automated info-server.
Send a request mail to: info-contest at dumpty.nal.go.jp
with the command in the body: #get ap-sprint.rule
All logs must contain complete QSO information plus a summary sheet
and your T-shirt size.
Japan Logs:
Post: Tack Kumagai, P O BOX 22,
Mitaka, Tokyo 181, JAPAN
Outside Japan:
Post: James Brooks
15 Balmoral Road #03-08
Singapore 1025 SINGAPORE
Log deadline: E-mail: 72 hours, Post: Postmarked by July 24
Asia-Pacific Contest Electronic Log Submissions
==================================================
Will gladly accept the electronic logs by email!
The log & summary sheet must be in the ASCII format. (No binary
files please)
Please send your Elec-log to: 9v1yc at equator.lugs.po.my
Sample Summary Sheet
--------------
ASIA PACIFIC CW SPRINT CONTEST
CALLSIGN USED:
OPERATOR:
COUNTRY:
DATE:
BAND QSOs POINTs PREFIXES
7
14
--------------------------------------
Total
SCORE:
Comments;
Signature: Date:
____________________________________________________________________________
(TYPE or PRINT)
NAME CALL
Address:
City :
Prefecture/State:
Postal Code:
Country:
____________________________________________________________
Sample Log
Any ASCII file output from CT/TRLOG/NA/ZLOG etc logging software
will be accepted.
BAND MM/DD/YY HHMM CALLSIGN RSTNR RSTNR NEW POINT
SENT RCVD MULT
20 07/16/95 1310 JE1CKA 599001 59917 JE1 1
40 07/16/95 1312 9V1YC 599002 59916 9V1 1
40 07/16/95 1316 VS6BG 599003 59922 VS6 1
20 07/16/95 1317 JE1JKL 599004 59931 1
[END]
>From James White <0006492564 at mcimail.com> Sat Jul 15 03:19:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564 at mcimail.com> (James White)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 21:19 EST
Subject: Antenna model software
Message-ID: <00950715021900/0006492564PK3EM at MCIMAIL.COM>
Barry
....yeah, sure - someone can give you the results for the commercial
antennas already "done"....but, at least for me, the fun part is playing
with those manufacturer's designs - treating them as "raw material" only. By
varying element lengths and/or spacings to improve upon their design - or,
better yet to make the antenna what you want it to be...most beams
commercially are designed to be everything for everyham - I like CW and all
my antenna models are maximized for "025"...they are (hopefully) very loud
at say 14025, and I don't care about 14250 - I can see through the modeling
software how I can get my gain improvement, perhaps at the sacrifice of
bandwidth...or conversely YOU pick another parameter and maximize for it (it
could be f/b or impedance...or it can be all of these, you are in control,
just push the buttons on your '486 and smile)
....elnec IS very hard to use, but the results are frighteningly
powerful...you may want to start off with a simpler program like K4VX's or
YAGINEC to get your feet wet....it is a little like the teenager who starts
by innocently smoking a joint at first, then finds himself with tracks up
and down his arms....like drugs, antenna modeling programs are very
addictive.
....And it is true what they say about the antenna modeling programs - they
are great at helping you win contests; you just get one in the hands of your
competitor, and he will be a slave to his computer for weeks or maybe months
as he learns and enjoys the modeling programs - and look out if you are "AR"
- as in Anal Retentive! (sorry, John) It is 2:30 AM and you will find that
you can take things a little too far very easily...as in optimizing that
GAIN by tenths of a dB with iteration after iteration of a design, designs
where you just added a quarter inch to an element! (BUT IT IS BETTER! I'LL
DO IT AGAIN - you laugh now)
....software for yagi antenna design is like CT/NA/TR logging software is to
CONTESTING; once you use it you won't go back to the pencil and paper again.
My first experience with the designing of a yagi optimized via computer
modeling has been VERY successful, and I am anxious to do it again...
TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT!
Jim, K1ZX
...if I move the first director farther away from the driven element, and
then lengthen the second director............
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