Summary on cementing a co...

[K8DO at aol.com]

I suspect that the majority of the contest reflector users, like myself, do
not use the web...I am interested in contesting and ham radio... I have zero
time and zero interest in 'surfing the net'....Thus, info placed on the web
ceases to exist for me...Suggest that info compiled from messages generated
through the contest reflector be placed back on the reflector...If the info
is of sustained interest, you could ask Trey to place it in the FAQ file...
Thanks.... Denny   k8do at aol.com

>From Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com  Sat Jun 10 14:57:00 1995
From: Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com (Kenneth G. Kopp)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 08:57 EST
Subject: Bravo Jim Maxwell
Message-ID: <41950610135714/0006485696PK4EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

Jim's posting about tolerance for other's interests should
be required reading for.  Well said, Jim!

73! de Ken Kopp/K0PP
k0pp at mcimail.com


>From Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com  Sat Jun 10 15:40:00 1995
From: Kenneth G. Kopp" <0006485696 at mcimail.com (Kenneth G. Kopp)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 09:40 EST
Subject: IOTA vs 10-10 $
Message-ID: <01950610144010/0006485696PK3EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

If the IOTA organization is making anything (and I doubt they are)
it must be "peanuts" compared to the 10-10 scam.  Wish I was the 
one that thought this one up!  From the number of --CONTEST-- QSL's
(especially from SS) I get wanting 10-10 numbers, it appears that 
LOTS of people have fattened this cow!

Seems like the last 10-10 # I remember was in the high 60K's ... 
they're probably above 70K by now ... that's at least $700,000+ 
this group has garnered ... they even want you to pay $1.64 to 
receive a how-to-join information letter!

There, I feel better, and I'm putting my soapbox away ... 

73! de Ken Kopp/K0PP
k0pp at mcimail.com


>From oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills)  Sat Jun 10 21:13:15 1995
From: oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 15:13:15 -0500
Subject: IOTA vs 10-10 $

	>If the IOTA organization is making anything (and I doubt they are)
	>it must be "peanuts" compared to the 10-10 scam.  Wish I was the 
	>one that thought this one up!  From the number of --CONTEST-- QSL's
	>(especially from SS) I get wanting 10-10 numbers, it appears that 
	>LOTS of people have fattened this cow!  (K0PP)

I paid a grand total of $5 some years ago so as to get a 10-X number.
I still have the number and have never paid them a penny since.  At
the time I thought it might be one of those "DXer's arsenal of weapons" 
things, where some rare DXer comes on and is only interested in 
collecting 10-X members' numbers.   It also helps in their CONTEST
since you are a 2-pointer instead of a 1-pointer or some such thing.

What's more, my number (which I absolutely refuse to give out in 
"dollars and cents") ends in 007, so it was $5 well spent.

Maybe.

Derek AA5BT, G3NMX
oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu

>From jreid at aloha.net (Jim Reid)  Sat Jun 10 23:07:02 1995
From: jreid at aloha.net (Jim Reid) (Jim Reid)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:07:02 -1000
Subject: CW Obsolete?
Message-ID: <199506102206.MAA21053 at hookomo.aloha.net>

Hi All,

CW obsolete?  The pilot rescued in Bosnia was found first
by the AC-130 where his manual CW "Badger 52" was recognized as
his unique, ( secret known only to him )  identifying signal, and not
available automaticaly  at the push of a button on his emergency
com set.

Seems knowledge of CW is really useful in our nation's and others
need for a " trained pool of operators"  ready and able to receive
and respond to even low-tech radio signals in times of someone's
emergeny.  Note the trained pool of operators is one of the justifications
for the existence of amateur radio operators licenses per the 1934
Communications Act;  and our continued use of some pretty valuabe
spectrum space.
73 and Aloha,
Jim Reid, AH6NB (Happily retired on the Island of Kauai)
Hawaii,  USA     Email: jreid at aloha.net