Things that no longer get published

K8DO at aol.com K8DO at aol.com
Fri Oct 13 14:30:16 EDT 1995


In a message dated 95-10-12 19:43:05 EDT, you write:

>Joe - Pleasse explain to me why every medical journal/textbook I 
>subscribe to or get an offer to buy costs anywhere from 2-10x as much on 
>CD-ROM than on paper?

Well, they are hoping that your stethoscope compresses the carotid arteries
to the point that you won't notice the price differential...   :)

Seriously, the paper cost is a red herring.... Yes, it is up... But that sure
didn't stop them from selling 40 _extra_ pages to MFJ ! ...  Now do a page
count and keep track of how many pages have paid advertising on them... Do
you know what a quarter column ad costs?  How about a 4 color page with bleed
edges?... I did a 4 second count on this issue and got 270 pages (a page is
one side of a sheet), excluding the front cover page... 111 had no
advertising on them and 159 did, meaning 59% of pages contain paid
advertising.... Looks like a cash cow to me...

A major overhead at the ARRL is salaries, retirements, benefits, office
expenses... Look at the masthead and count the names  Pick an average salary
figure and add a third to that for bennys (absolute minimum, probably higher)
then multiply by the body count... Whoa, makes your eyes cross, hmmm?... 

Denny  K8DO

>From Robles Rodriguez, Pablo" <S927153 at rmece17.upr.clu.edu  Fri Oct 13 06:56:10 1995
From: Robles Rodriguez, Pablo" <S927153 at rmece17.upr.clu.edu (Robles Rodriguez, Pablo)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:56:10 +800
Subject: DX REFLECTOR
Message-ID: <17EE6BF61A3 at rmece17.upr.clu.edu>

HI GUYS

    THANKS FOR THE KIND REPLIES, ALREADY GOT THE RIGHT ADDRESS.
    
                                            73 ES DX!
                                              PABLO

>From Swanson, Glenn,  KB1GW" <gswanson at arrl.org  Fri Oct 13 19:04:00 1995
From: Swanson, Glenn,  KB1GW" <gswanson at arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn,  KB1GW)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 14:04:00 EDT
Subject: A challenge to contesters....
Message-ID: <307EA973 at arrl.org>


Greetings,

Apologies in advance for the bandwith--it's for a good cause...
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"So guys, I think we need to be more positive."  <= Tree N6TR
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Looking for something "positive" folks?

Try these:

1) Invite some Scouts over to your killer CONTEST station for the
    Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) next weekend. (Might be a good
    shakedown cruise for CQWW the following weekend....)

JOTA:
  Runs from when you awake Saturday AM on 21 Oct., (well, Okay, 0100 hours 
local),
  until you go to bed Sunday nite, 22 Oct., (Okay, 'til 2359 hours local 
time.)

  You have exactly one week to get moving and DO something POSITIVE!!!

2) Don't want all those young-ins underfoot while you're running the 
plumbing to your
     water-cooled CONTEST computer?
  How about inviting some of your fellow licensed hams--Technician class ops 
(gasp)--over durning JOTA? You be the control op, let them sign your 
call--legal as long as you're in the room with 'em--or sign 
"their-call/your-call," using your privileges.
  Hey, maybe you could ask 'em to help out: "Hey guys (and gals), I'm going 
out to install my new 160--meter, log-periodic antenna, wanna help?" (Or 
walk the Beverages, etc.) While your at it, ask them to stop by during CQWW 
the next weekend for some CONTEST action.

     They (Tech's or Scouts) might enjoy talking with young folks from all 
around the world on HF from your CONTEST station. Here's your chance to do 
something to either introduce young folks to Amateur Radio (Scouts), or give 
some Technician class operators a change to "taste" HF operating.  Get on 
your local repeater and invite some Techs over for next weekend. Or, look in 
the white-pages of your local phone book for "Boy (Girl) Scouts of America" 
and offer to host a handful of Scouts (Boy,Girl,Cubs, Brownies,whatever) 
during JOTA 1995, the 38th Jamboree On The Air.

Do something positive!  Interest young folks in Amateur Radio!  Offer your 
station!

Finally, here's the suggested frequencies for JOTA:

 - - - - - - - - cut here- - - - - - - - - - - - - -

WORLD SCOUT FREQUENCIES

Band   SSB (phone)
80 m    3.740 / 3.940 MHz
40 m    7.090 MHz--(7.290 MHz in ITU Region 2)
20 m   14.290 MHz
17 m   18.140 MHz
15 m   21.360 MHz
12 m   24.960 MHz
10 m  *28.990 MHz

*Note: On 10 meters, try 28.350 MHz, where US "Novice" class licensees may
participate.

Band   CW (Morse code)
80 m    3.590 MHz
40 m    7.030 MHz
20 m   14.070 MHz
17 m   18.080 MHz
15 m   21.140 MHz
12 m   24.910 MHz
10 m   28.190 MHz

(Note: Of course you can try 2-meter packet, HF packet, SSTV, etc. etc., 
etc.)

 - - - - - - - - cut here- - - - - - - -

  To receive an electronic version of the ARRL JOTA package send an e-mail 
message to: info at arrl.org   Leave the subject line blank and in the body of 
your message put: SEND JOTA.TXT   <--A file that is chock full of 
information will be sent to you from the ARRL information server.

  If you have FCC rules questions or concerns regarding control 
operating/third-party issues, etc. --> Send the ARRL info server a message 
(with no subject), just put
SEND PART97.TXT (in the body of your message), and Part 97 will be returned 
to you via e-mail.

Most important of all--have fun!

73, Glenn Swanson, KB1GW
Educational Programs Coordinator,
e-mail: jota at arrl.org
American Radio Relay League
"SINCE 1914--OF, BY AND FOR THE RADIO AMATEUR"

>From James Brooks" <9v1yc at equator.lugs.po.my  Fri Oct 13 18:16:52 1995
From: James Brooks" <9v1yc at equator.lugs.po.my (James Brooks)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:16:52 +0000
Subject: AP Sprint logs wanted
Message-ID: <307e90f7.equator at equator.lugs.po.my>

                         
Hi all,

Final scores in a few days, but one last check.


2nd AP Sprint logs received:           
---------------------------
DL/W6RGG

JA1AAT   
JF1SQC   
JH1DYV   
JL1ZAZ   
JG3KIV    
JH3AIU   
JL3SBE     
JR3RIU    
JH7WKQ    
JA0TEA/9   
JE0UXR  
JH0KHR    
7K4BHA   

K1KI
K0GU
N2AA
N6ZZ
W2VJN

US1I
VS6BG
VS6WO
VK1FF
VK4TT
VK5GN
W2VJN
YB0ASI
9V1YC


WANTED: N5RZ, W8RSW, K7LR, K7JYE, KD6EWT, RW0LZ, S56A, HL2IBC
        JA1XEM, JA0GHZ, JA6UBK, JF1WMY, 7J6CCV/1, VR2GO.
        

And if you don't see your callsign here and you participated, 
please send me your log by E-Mail. I'll still take them if
you've got them, and final results will be out once I get any 
last minute logs.


E-Mail:   9V1YC at equator.lugs.po.my


Post:  James Brooks
       15 Balmoral Rd, #03-08
       Singapore 1025  SINGAPORE


Post (JA only): Tack Kumagai, P O BOX 22, 
                Mitaka, Tokyo 181, JAPAN


73's                      

James 9V1YC

>From Larry Tyree <tree at cmicro.com>  Fri Oct 13 21:02:32 1995
From: Larry Tyree <tree at cmicro.com> (Larry Tyree)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:02:32 -0700
Subject: Just the facts...
Message-ID: <199510132002.NAA01029 at cascade.cmicro.com>


Don't read this message unless you are willing to believe contest 
announcements are going to continue to be published in QST.

If you want to know what the contest announcements are going to look
like in QST after this new policy is in effect...  open your October
QST and look at the Sweepstakes announcement.

When you get your November QST, look at the ARRL 10 and ARRL 160 
announcements.

While these don't have the full rules, they have enough information
for most people to get involved.

Contests will continue to be announced in QST.  (repeat after me).

This is intended to be a postive change to encourage more newcomers
to the sport.  When I wrote my message this morning, I hadn't realized
that the ARRL had beat me to this great idea.

I think many of us need to relax on this issue and cut the ARRL some
slack.  There are real people there who DO care about the sport
of contesting and are FIGHTING for us.  The type of response they 
got to this action WITHOUT ALL THE FACTS is inappropriate and very
discouraging to them.

Tree N6TR
tree at cmicro.com


>From n2ic at drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM)  Fri Oct 13 18:46:39 1995
From: n2ic at drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) (LondonSM)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:46:39 -0600
Subject: Egg-on-Face
Message-ID: <9510131146.ZM5358 at dr.att.com>


Naturally, just after I sang the praises of my TS-950SDX CONTEST radio, it
broke !

Before I box it up and ship it to California, and therefore won't have it back
for CQWW Phone (and probably not SS CW), I thought I would tap the collective
expertise of the CONTESTING community.

Here's what happened and the symptoms:

I was listening on 80 meters this AM, switching between various beverages,
dipoles and verticals, when I suddenly had an S-7 noise level.  Through the
usual process of diagnosis and elimination, I found that the S-7 noise level
was there even when NO antenna was connected.  The noise sounds like white
noise - no real modulation.  It varies in strength from band-to-band, but is
the same within a band.  Switching thru the attenuator steps has a very small
effect - maybe 1 dB drop in the noise for each 6 dB attenuation switched in.
Switching on the AIP drops the noise considerably.  BTW, signals that are over
S-7 can be heard - the receiver is still functioning.

Any 950 (or maybe even 940 or 930) owners ever experience this before ?  What
was the fix ?

Still wiping the egg off my face,
Steve, N2IC/0
n2ic at dr.att.com

>From David C. Patton" <mudcp3 at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu  Fri Oct 13 22:04:34 1995
From: David C. Patton" <mudcp3 at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C. Patton)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:04:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: N6AA-ZoneHunter
Message-ID: <199510132104.QAA14516 at ecom1.ecn.bgu.edu>

N6AA in CQWW CW.  At least these are his single-ops where
listed!  This doesn't count efforts where he was a multi-op
nor anything before 1974!

KH6RS  2738904 3157 123 171 W6DGH 74
YV4AGP 2816094 2752 101 245 W6DGH 75
9Y4VT  3438644 3400  93 248 W6DGH 76
9Y4VT  4697304 3992 122 275 N6AA  77
9Y4VT  3769259 3152 117 286 N6AA  79
9Y4VT  6116945 4505 128 329 N6AA  80
9Y4VT  5803776 4288 133 325 N6AA  81
9Y4VT  6929450 4927 131 342 N6AA  82
9Y4VT  7153434 4961 127 359 N6AA  83
9Y4VT  5595040 4290 124 316 N6AA  84
EA9IE  5731360 4252 113 339 N6AA  85
9Y4VT  8191246 5099 146 396 N6AA  86
9Q5NW  7586300 4768 150 385 N6AA  87
SU1ER  6134568 4519 124 332 N6AA  88
TU4B   6668200 4097 152 398 N6AA  89
FR5DX  5788041 3737 153 366 N6AA  90
A61AC  5847840 3736 148 410 N6AA  92
7Q7OO  7173846 4630 134 388 N6AA  93
VK8TM  3475170 2830 135 287 N6AA  94


Where in 1995?

73, Dave Patton, WX3N
mudcp3 at uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

>From peterj at netcom.com (Peter Jennings)  Fri Oct 13 22:13:55 1995
From: peterj at netcom.com (Peter Jennings) (Peter Jennings)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 14:13:55 -0700
Subject: CQP Result Summary (10/13/95)
Message-ID: <199510132113.OAA21058 at netcom14.netcom.com>


Anyone know N8LXS, W6EEN, W1FEA/6 scores?
-------------------------------------------------------------

Call      Category     Mult    Score   QSO    CW

NB1B      MA     SO H   58   102,544   747   274  (@W1KM)
KI4HN     NC     SO H   58    98,890   729   248  (@N4ZC)
W5ASP     TX     SO     58    87,058   650   201
K4XU      IL     SO H   58    85,608   631   214
N2AA      NJ     SO     57    84,360   622   236  (no Napa)
K6XO/7    UT     SO H   58    76,908   581   164
WD0GVY    IA     SO H   57    74,613   296   239  (no Kings)
WA3HAE    PA     SO L   57    66,348   462   240  (no comment)
N3BGV     PA     SO L   56    49,840   357   176
N3IXR     PA     SO L   52    47,476   349   215
K0GU      CO     SO H   57    46,911   345   133  (no Inyo)
K5GA      TX            55    41,690   306   146
KG8PE     MI     MS L   50    38,350   300   170  KG8PE(12) Sara(9) KB8PK(30)
KE2VB     NY     SO     51    37,332   314   104
KR0Y      TX     SO L   55    35,915   279    95
N1KWF     NH     SO H   56    29,792   251    30
K1DG      NH     SO H   54    29,376   247    50
N6ZZ      TX     SO H   50    29,100   194   194
W3FG      MD     SO L   51    27,438   205   128
K4PQL     NC     SO H   45    27,135   201   201
N4YOS     AL     SO L   48    25,680   196   143
KM0L      MO     SO H   49    24,696   183   138
KR2Q      NJ     SO H   53    23,956   183    86
N1PBT     VT     SO L   52    22,308   202    25
AA4GA     GA     SO L   46    16,560   156    48
VE6DBH    AB     SO     46    15,272   166     0
K7FR      WA     SO L   45    14,850   129    72
WI0R      KS     SO L   43    14,706   117   117
K8MR      OH     SO H   40    12,480   104   104
K3WW      PA     SO     45    12,105   121    27
VE5FN     SK     SO H   47    10,998   113     8
KS4XG     NC     SO L   45    10,620   118     0
KK5EA/4   AL     SO H   40     8,960   112     0
AA0XZ     MO     SO L   34     8,670    85    85
PY2NY     Brasil SO L   26     3,458    53    27
AC5CT     TX     SO                    109
K1TN      CT     SO L                   73    73  (classic station)

WB6IRC    ELDO   MS H   58   279,502  1995   829  WB6IRC AH8L AA6MC AI6V W6OAT
AB6FO     LAX    SO H   58   258,274  1802   849
W6REC     SAC    SO H   58   247,544  1821   626
AC6T      VENT   SO H   56   225,008  1657   704  (@N6VR)
AB6WM     SCRZ   SO H   58   221,908  1601   624
AA6KX     SH/TR  SO H   58   214,658  1538   645
KM6OH     MONO   MS     58   200,448     ?     ?
N8SR/6    LAX    SO H   55   173,910  1054  1054  (@N6DX)
AE6Y      SCLA   SO L   57   172,881  1215   603  (no HI)
N6KI      ALP    MS H   55   167,+++  1128  1000? N6AZE N6KD N6KI (no ID,HI,AK)
WA6GDS    MONO   MS H   56   164,248  1179   575  WA6GDS NZ6N
N7CW/6    IMP    MS H   58   161,008  1175   426  N7CW  KD6QK
KG6LF     CC     SO L   58   141,752  1222     0
WA6TKV    STAN?  MS H   58   140,244  1063   292
N6NM      MTRY   SO H   57   123,576   795   578
KN6EL     BUTTE  SO L   55   122,980   829   578
AB6EQ     SCRZ   MS H   56   120,344  1028    93  AB6EQ KD6NOS  (no HI/AK)
WA6CTA    MARIN  SO H   54   114,210   819   477
AA6MV     SCLA   MS     58   110,490   801   303  AA6MV N6ULI
K6NP/M    SUT    MS L   53   103,800   768   424  see below
K6LRN     FRES   SO H   55    88,935   626   365
WA6AUE    NEV    SO H   51    69,921   457   457
AB6YL     SCLA   SO H   54    65,556   550   114
N6BT/6    MARIP  MS L   54    56,538   438   173
AE0M      YU/BU  MS L   46    42,366   359   203  AE0M N0BBS
KG6I      SCRZ   SO H   51    40,239   340   109
KJ6HO     LAX    SO L   44    34,012   313   145
WM2C/6    CC     SO H   47    27,307   207   167  (@K6ZM)
NF6H      ORNG   SO L   43    15,265   139    77
N6RPL     ORNG   SO L   41    11,234   137     0
KO6LB     SOL    SO L   34     8,228   121     0
KO6CL     SCLA   SO L   18     2,592    49    46


note: K6NP/M  (Mobile,N6UXB,KJ6TC,KO6OU,KN6OX, NB6G, NV6O) - QSL via NV6O

-------------------------------------------------------------

Complete logs can be sent via email to  cqp-1995 at kb.org

Corrections and additions to this list should be sent to me.

Peter   AB6WM                               peterj at netcom.com

NEW! V31DX Home Page:  http://mall.turnpike.net/~jc/v31dx.html


>From Filip.Jonckers at ping.be (Filip Jonckers)  Fri Oct 13 22:50:07 1995
From: Filip.Jonckers at ping.be (Filip Jonckers) (Filip Jonckers)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 22:50:07 +0100
Subject: OT5L qrv in cqww & testing this weekend
Message-ID: <199510132150.WAA19534 at ping1.ping.be>


OT5L will be back in the running this year !!

OT5L is the special clubcall of the UBA section NOL contest team.

After building a new contest QTH during the last 2 years - with the
help of a lot of UBA-NOL members - the qth is finally ready to be used
for contesting.

We have 5 former army shelters modified into
    - 1 main station
    - 2 secondary stations / swl shacks
    - 1 dispatch center (packet, dx-cluster, repeater)
    - 1 resting & dining shelter
    - 1 bathroom & material storage

The antenna's instqlled at this moment:
    - 2 beverage receiving antenna's
    - 160m 90 feet vertical
    - 80m  4 element vertical array
    - 40m beam
    - 20m beam
    - 10m beam
    - 15m beam


The CQ WW SSB '95 contest team:
Operators:
    - ON4AEK, Theo
    - ON4AKL, Luc
    - ON4BR,  Carlo
    - ON6NL,  Anton
    - ON6ZX,  Marc

Guest Operator: Reg, VP8BPZ, GW8VHI

Technical Crew:
    - ON6JZ, Hubert  (Lineair amp's)
    - ON1AFN, Filip  (computer network, dx-cluster, packet, dispatch)
    - ON7WK,  Guido  (catering & support)
    - ON7YP, Andre   (towers & support)
    - ON4AST, Richard (support)

The station will be testing during the weekend of the 14 & 15 october and
probably also the weekend before the 'big one'.
The calls used for the tests will be ON5LL (clubcall UBA-NOL), ON6NL, ON4AEK
and ON4AKL.

Hope to meet you on the band, serious signal reports are very appreciated !


+----------------------------------------
Filip Jonckers
   ON1AFN
e-mail:     Filip.Jonckers at ping.be
HAM packet: on1afn at on4aic.lim.bel.eu
+----------------------------------------


>From RBQG08A at prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)  Fri Oct 13 23:09:44 1995
From: RBQG08A at prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:09:44 EDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <013.02874464.RBQG08A at prodigy.com>


REVIEW
HELP
QUIT


>From RBQG08A at prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)  Fri Oct 13 23:12:09 1995
From: RBQG08A at prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:12:09 EDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <013.02874570.RBQG08A at prodigy.com>


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>From RBQG08A at prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)  Sat Oct 14 00:05:13 1995
From: RBQG08A at prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:05:13 EDT
Subject: Really sorry
Message-ID: <013.02877278.RBQG08A at prodigy.com>

Hey folks,

I'm really sorry.

Needless to say, I will find somewhere else to spend my time.  Since
I obviously can't master this system, I feel sure someone will make 
sure
that I am unsubscribed.

Chris
ke0rd




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