(long) W1AW IARU HF
frenaye at pcnet.com
frenaye at pcnet.com
Sat Jul 15 20:11:34 EDT 1995
Original message:
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 23:30:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "H. L. Serra" <hlserra at pwa.acusd.edu>
> Subject: Re: (long) W1AW IARU HF
> To: frenaye at pcnet.com
> Cc: cq-contest at tgv.com
> Hi Tom- Can any League member use W1AW for a particular contest from
> another QTH/station (e.g. K1KI), or is such use limited to present or
> former League employees?
> 73, Larry N6AZE
The trustee for W1AW is ARRL Executive Vice President Dave Sumner, K1ZZ.
He's the one who decides how and when the call is used.
Of course the primary use is the daily W1AW information bulletins - and
almost all operating efforts from the building at ARRL HQ in Newington are
secondary to that, meaning that when W1AW was active on Field Day a couple
of weeks ago, the effort had to be interrupted for about 15 minutes an hour
from 4 PM until 1 AM Eastern time. That doesn't make for a particularly good
effort, and really messes up your concentration as an operator (very
annoying!) . Actually, during the IARU HF contest one really unhappy person
was quite concerned when we were running stations when it was bulletin time.
We assured him that the bulletins were going on as scheduled.
Over the past 15 years or so W1AW has been used at a couple of ARRL national
conventions (W1AW/5 W1AW/4 W1AW/6 I think), and for a couple of Field Day
efforts off the HQ location.
Previous efforts in the IARU HF Championship have not been as successful as
anyone would have liked, in part because of the priority we place on keeping
W1AW bulletins going like clockwork. In fact, the group that helped out last
year (WB2DIN, WN3K, etc) suggested a different QTH would be best. W1AW is
designed for multiband bulletins and for casual visitor use, it isn't a well
designed multi-op contest station.
I began talking with Dave early this year about how the ARRL might mount a
more competitive effort in the IARU HF Championship in 1995, and volunteered
to do the organizing. In the past we've been way back in the pack in the
category where IARU society HQ stations compete against each other, loosing
badly to many European radio societies many times smaller than ARRL. There
was some pressure to set up in the same style as the HA DL or S5 teams, where
they have stations set up at different QTHs all over town (or the entire
country). In the end, that was too radical an idea...
I offered my QTH for a couple of reasons: it is set up for a multioperator
effort, using the W1AW callsign here would not compete against any other USA
multi-op efforts in this contest, I'm also located in Hartford County, and
I'm a Vice President of ARRL.
We started with a goal of 6000 QSOs and 4th or 5th place, about 30% more QSOs
than the best effort in the past, and couldn't be happier that we ended up
with nearly 10,000! It was a very, very good group of operators. We haven't
heard from the HG95HQ or DA0HQ groups yet but suspect they beat us handily
because of their experience, station layout and because we enjoyed working so
many USA stations at 1 or 3 points instead of 5 pointers outside North
America.
I'm certain you won't see us sign as W1AW from here in ARRL SS, ARRL DX, or
CQWW - but next year we just might do IARU HF CHampionship again! The ARRL
should be at the top of the list of HQ scores.
73 - Tom
PS - Sorry we missed working you - we did catch N6AZR though...
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E-mail: frenaye at pcnet.com
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffield CT 06093
Phone: 203-668-5444
>From Morao Esteban <z801183a at bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> Sun Jul 16 15:02:07 1995
From: Morao Esteban <z801183a at bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> (Morao Esteban)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Dx cluster via the net updated
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9507161037.A8271-0100000 at bcfreenet>
Hi,
here is a resume of my message abt connecting to packet clusters via the
internet.
I play around with them, and boy! the information is almost real-time,
it feel like you are a local station.
Any questions? E-mail me direct
Hope everyone have fun...
73 de Steve W4/YV5DTA
z801183a at bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
1. WD5B Little Rock, Ark via WD5B gateway: telnet 205.153.140.12
2. F6CNB, Sugarland, TX via F6CNB gateway: telnet 44.76.5.138
3. VE7CQD via VE7TPG gateway: Netrom only from a gateway to VE7TPG:YVRARG,
then "c uhf ve7cqd"
4. PY2XB-6 via PY2BJO-5:SPAULO gateway: telnet 44.174.2.11
5. IK5PWK-6 via IK5QGO gateway: telnet 44.134.208.213
6. KI8W-2 via N8IT:SAPGATE gateway: telnet 198.108.208.213
<<Stuff Deleted>>
tnx/73 Mike
Mike Bragassa
Amateur Radio: AA5NK, R3/AA5NK
E-Mail:
USA: bragassa at mcia.com
Russia: bragassa at glas.apc.org
Hi Steve. LOTS of clusters via the internet.
telnet to: sapgate.freeway.net
c dxclus
or
c badx
or
c crv - c g6crv-10 - c dxlivs
or
c 4c0589 - dxc
There are MANY more, but those should get you what you want for now. good luck
Yes, try this jewel.
http://www.clinet.fi/~jukka/
This has a DX-cluster, World call books (Buckmaster), 425 dx news and several
other goodies.
de KR7Y, Hugh
kr7y at netway.net.
-----
Try ik5qgo.ampr.org and enjoy it.
Kensuke Nakajima
JA0RYN/7
e-mail: knaka at riec.tohoku.ac.jp
>From Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham at HK.Super.Net Sun Jul 16 15:37:29 1995
From: Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham at HK.Super.Net (Mr. Brett Graham)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 22:37:29 +0800
Subject: VS6BG A-P Sprint score
Message-ID: <199507161437.AA00716 at is1.hk.super.net>
51 Qs 20m, 11 Qs 40m, 45 mults for 2790.
73, VS6BrettGraham aka VR2BG bagraham at hk.super.net
>From Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham at HK.Super.Net Sun Jul 16 15:37:49 1995
From: Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham at HK.Super.Net (Mr. Brett Graham)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 22:37:49 +0800
Subject: IARU high claims #2
Message-ID: <199507161437.AA00723 at is1.hk.super.net>
>From left to right, call, Qs/Zs/HQs or Qs/(Zs+HQs), score & comments.
Additions or corrections to me, please. Since input is dribbling off,
I'll make one last post later next week.
Single-op CW:
N2IC 1766/130/43 1203734
W1WEF 1797/96/56 1077224
K5GN 1500/138/48 1010285
K3ZO 1671/(157) 1003701
WX0B 1429/(154) 833872 op:NM5M
S50D 1466/104/55 772422 op:S57AD
K7SV 1119/(153) 640917
AA4NU 1442/(117) 578816 op:K0EJ
N6ZZ 1128/95/35 530140
WX9E 1352/85/35 508800
N4TQO 1090/89/27 496016 @AG6D
WN3K 1059/73/41 436506
KR0Y 742/(139) 390000
N0BSH 1001/(122) 373198 @W9UP
WV5S 879/84/33 372294
N6KI 881/88/18 331674
WB0O 714/(121) 312906
N0DH 761/(115) 290835
KO9Y 676/72/38 258940
N4OGW 567/55/31 151618
KK9W 407/46/23 90045
W3GOI 350/40/9 61299
VS6BG 271/48/11 58351
W3CPB 228/34/33 47302
KD0AV 183/(36) 20412
AA8SM 137/24/12 18396
N7ENU 121/25/10 15295
NG3K 104/32/15 ?
Single-op phone:
WB2K 1355/100/52 734312
WS1A 1313/87/43 603850
WA7FOE 1310/91/23 486552
VE6JY 852/(139) 478438
N3ADL 1016/82/41 396798
JH5ZCP 844/78/28 384356 op:JR5JAQ
KQ4HC 718/81/38 240142
N1PBT 610/57/29 116616
XJ7CFD 550/51/13 113152 op:VE7CFD
JH4RHF 298/48/30 95628
W1INF 510/37/16 68476 op:KB1GW
KG6LF ?/?/? 53463
XE2AC 72/(26) 5512
Single-op both modes:
KF3P 2246/119/62 1530174 @W3LPL
AA4NC 1687/(159) 965522
KF0H 1745/(148) 941428
K3WW 1068/82/49 513520
WJ2O/TF 1370/59/41 441600
KB2R 1030/71/46 405288 @K1KP
K2PS 718/67/32 282942
W6XR/2 815/59/19 204594
AA8OT 520/70/33 171392 @W8LT
N2MZH 584/60/37 160632
NS0B 360/66/32 119364
N3BDA 192/43/18 41480
WA7BNM 183/35/17 31044
W9SZ 166/31/19 22900
K2YJL/M 93/(8) 1400
Single-op unknown:
N2BCC 1175/95/40 630585 @N2RM
PI4ZLD 210/37/31 44880
Multi-op:
IR4T 2544/123/82 1954060 ops:I4UFH I4JMY I4YSS IK4IEE IK2QEI IK2HOG
WX0X 1940/146/57 1382024 @K4VX ops:K4VX AG9A WX3N
N3BB 1967/119/39 1078192 ops:N3BB AA5RB
K9SD 1327/(169) 814411 ops:KW0A WW9L KA0GGI KC9AL
NC0P 1577/(131) 692204 ops:NC0P WD0GVY WA0ETC WO0V WA0FLS WR0G
KA4RRU 1309/(149) 626992 ops:KA4RRU K3TLX KJ4VG
N3KZ 1300/80/49 535092 ops:WI2E WI2N
NF8R 1087/(140) 457940 ops:NF8R KA8D
N5EA 1010/(112) 411000
K6XO 1175/(80) 300000 ops:K6XO AB7GM KI7WX W0MHS
KX8D 564/67/38 168000 ops:N9DHN N9WHG
IARU HQ:
W1AW 9765/177/77 6898894 ops:K1ZZ K1KI K1TO W1OD K1CC W1RM AA2Z
K5FUV N6BV
S50HQ 8000/?/? ?
IARU HQ cheat sheet:
8J3XHQ JARL
DA0HQ DARC
EM5HQ UARL
ER7A ARM
GB5HQ RSGB
HB9A USKA
HG95HQ MRASZ
IY2ARI ARI
LT4E RCA
LY1RMD LRMD
LZ7A BFRA
OL1HQ CRK
OM5HQ SARA
OT5H UBA
R3HQ SRR
S50HQ ZRS
SK3HQ SSA
SP0HQ PZK
TM5M REF
W1AW ARRL
XE1LM FMRE
XJ7RAC RAC
YR0A FRR
YU0HQ SRJ
YV5AJ RCV
Z30RSM RSM
4V100RC RCH
73, VS6BrettGraham aka VR2BG bagraham at hk.super.net
>From MEC <danmec at inet.uni-c.dk> Sun Jul 16 15:55:29 1995
From: MEC <danmec at inet.uni-c.dk> (MEC)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 16:55:29 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: XMATCH - Antenna tuner
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9507161646.A20729-0100000 at inet.uni-c.dk>
In the NCC there is an ad from N4XM, but he wants 3 dlrs just to send you
info about what he is selling, which does not make sense to me.
Is anybody using this device, and what is so special about it ?
If it is patented, which he claims, there is nothing to be secret about.
Anybody out there who can through some light on this ?
73 rag OZ8RO
>From Don Anderson <bigdon at eskimo.com> Sun Jul 16 16:21:32 1995
From: Don Anderson <bigdon at eskimo.com> (Don Anderson)
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 08:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 40 over 20.
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950716075457.4351B-100000 at eskimo.com>
On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, George Cutsogeorge wrote:
> For a number of years I used a 2 element shorty forty,402BA,
> at 12 feet above a 204BA. When first installed I ran patterns
> on both beams and they were as expected. Performance of both
> antennas was very good. The 40 was somewhat modified, but thats'
> another story. After a year or so a strong wind came through
> and the 402 was rotated on the mast about 20 degrees with respect
> to the 204. The vswr was radically changed in both resonant
> point and minimum value. Also, it seemed that it didn't play
> well. The 204 was un changed. I would guess there is a 40
> meter resonance in the 204 that nulls when the booms are lined
> up.
>
I have a KT34XA at 85' and a 40-2CD at 70'. The 40 is side mounted on
the tower. Thus both antennas can be rotated independently. Tower is
Rohn 25 with guy sets at 22', 44', 66', and 70' (3/16" cable broken with egg
insulators every 9'). Both antennas work fine and their respective SWR
curves look almost exactly like those shown in their respective manuals.
Holding one antenna in a fixed position and rotating the other has a slight
effect on SWR's, maybe 0.3 SWR units max change at the point of worst
interaction on the most affected band. Don't remember alignment(s) where
this occurred but checked it all out thoroughly 4 years ago when it all
went up and interaction is not a problem.
Don N7EF
> Don't know if any are still in use, but 20 years ago there were
> a lot of very successful stations in the FRC using a 402 over
> a TH-6.
>
> George, W2VJN.
>
>
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