** ANTIGUA EXPEDITION **

[KA2AEV at aol.com]

The Frankford Radio Club members of Team Antigua are once 
again pleased to announce that they will activate The Island 
of Antigua <NA-100> as V26B in 1995.  Our primary goal is to 
be active during the CQWW International SSB Contest on October 
28th & 29th, 1995.  We will be entering the Multi-operator, 
Multi-transmitter catagory as V26B, with operation on all 
bands during the contest period.


"Team" members will be active on various bands and modes both 
before and after the competition period as time permits. We 
will be making special efforts to be active on the WARC Bands, 
160 meters as well as some satellite operations.  KF3P and WT3Q 
will be making special efforts to be as active on RTTY as time 
permits.

Team Antigua would especially like to thank V21AN, V21AR, V21BF, 
and V21C for all of their assistance and for showing us the true 
meaning of Antigian Hospitality.

The Members of Team Antigua are:
V26A     Dale Long           N3BNA      QSL VIA WB3DNA
V26B     Sam Harner        WT3Q        QSL VIA WT3Q
V26DX    Doug Priest       N3ADL       QSL VIA N3ADL
V26E     Darrell Neron     AB2E         QSL VIA AB2E
V26R     Mike Samanka    KA2AEV     QSL VIA KA2AEV
V26T     Dick Ballou        K3MQH       QSL VIA K3MQH
V26U     Bill Hudzik         WA2UDT    QSL VIA WA2UDT
         Tyler Stewart        KF3P       V2 Call unknown at this time
         Tony Kazmakites    WB2P      V2 Call unknown at this time
         Bob Naumann          KR2J       V2 Call unknown at this time

These are the only operators I can confirm at this point. There  
possibly will be some additions made.

In addition,  Team Antigua is offering two oportunities to earn an
award. During the CQWW Contest period.  If you work V26B on 10 
meters thru 75 meters. You will automatically qualify for a 
certificate of appreciation.  But if you work V26B on all of the 
competiton bands, 10 meters thru 160 meters, you will automatically qualify
for an extra special certificate of appreciation from Team Antigua.  To
receive these awards, just submit your QSL requests for V26B to WT3Q for
processing!

The members of Team Antigua look forward to working everyone 
possible. Please remember to Spot us on your local Dx Cluster 
during the contest period. So everyone who would want to try 
for our certificates will be able to!

If you need any additional information. Please feel free to 
contact myself at:

Packet:   KA2AEV @ NY2S.#NLI.NY.USA.NA

E-MAIL:   KA2AEV @ AOL.COM




>From James White <0006492564 at mcimail.com>  Sat Oct 21 15:34:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564 at mcimail.com> (James White)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 09:34 EST
Subject: Grille Technique
Message-ID: <15951021143451/0006492564PK2EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

Tony's piece on the briquettes could only be the work of Dave
Berry...I have been hoping for years that he would become a ham to
better point out hams' unique manorisms......really, the potatoe
salad turning into a blob and trying to mate with the corn - this
HAS to be Dave Barry.

                                zx


>From kk9w at marv.eng.uiowa.edu (David R. Andersen)  Sat Oct 21 17:20:36 1995
From: kk9w at marv.eng.uiowa.edu (David R. Andersen) (David R. Andersen)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 11:20:36 CDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <9510211620.AA06939 at marv.eng.uiowa.edu>

PA QSO Party Results - KK9W

Exchange Sent: KK9W QSO# IA (that's right guys IA, I'll be there in SS too).

Class: Single Op, Unassisted
       Low Power (80W)

Score:

     CW QSO's          QSO Pts

 80CW  21 x 2    =     42
 40CW  31 x 1.5  =     46.5
 20CW  8  x 1.5  =     12

Total QSO Points = 100.5

31 Multipliers

Total Score = 100.5 x 31 + 400 (W3YA twice) = 3515.5 pts.



>From MEC <danmec at inet.uni-c.dk>  Sun Oct 22 03:18:03 1995
From: MEC <danmec at inet.uni-c.dk> (MEC)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 04:18:03 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: 40-meter SSB intruders in CW band
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9510220426.A20816-0100000 at inet.uni-c.dk>



On Mon, 16 Oct 1995 k0od at MO.NET wrote:

>    In addition to those Indonesian pirates, I hear Central American SSB 
> stations most days on 7.003 Mhz around 1200-1400Z. They are quite loud in 
> the US Midwest. I have heard them sign XE and YS amateur calls in 
> Spanish. Anyone know whether these stations are operating legally? They 
> wipe out some of our most useful DX frequencies.   
>        -----------------------------
>        Jeff K0OD  St. Louis, MO  USA

I have just operated from Taiwan this week for 2 days and used 40 CW 
extensively.   Also on the Far East there was a fair amount of ssb 
stations in the CW band,  The JA's were on ssb down to 7030, some of the 
others I could not identify.

I guess the only thing to do is tyo be more active in fill the band with CW.

73   Rag  OZ8RO,  BV2/LA5HE


>From Victor Burns KI6IM / V31VB <vburns at netcom.com>  Sun Oct 22 05:14:51 1995
From: Victor Burns KI6IM / V31VB <vburns at netcom.com> (Victor Burns KI6IM / V31VB)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 21:14:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 40-meter SSB intruders in CW band
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9510212111.A10831-0100000 at netcom20>

> >    In addition to those Indonesian pirates, I hear Central American SSB 
> > stations most days on 7.003 Mhz around 1200-1400Z. They are quite loud in 

Better SSB than PACTOR!  A few enthusiast have made a lot of friends
operating PACTOR low end in the band. 

Victor - KI6IM

>From Randy Thompson <k5zd at iconics.com>  Sun Oct 22 12:05:05 1995
From: Randy Thompson <k5zd at iconics.com> (Randy Thompson)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 07:05:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: JOTA
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951022065759.24423J-100000 at genesis.iconics.com>

A co-worker of mine asked me to help his cub scout den participate in the 
Boy Scouts Jamboree on the Air.  I visited with them on Monday and 
explained what ham radio was all about.  Then 8 scouts (ages 8-9) visited 
my station on Saturday afternoon.

What does this have to do with contesting?

Well, we tried to make a QSO on 20m.  We found a KB5 who also had a group 
of kids and we struggled through a QSO for about 15 minutes.  There was 
occasionaly QRM and kids voices are not made for legible transmission on SSB.

I happened to look at the packet screen and saw a spot for HC8A come up 
on 15m.  I asked the kids if they would like to talk to someone on the 
Galapagos Islands.  They were excited.

We got on freq, made one call, and got him.  I explained to the op, Rich 
N6KT, that I had a group of scouts who wanted to talk.  Rich was great.  
He was loud.  Clear channel.  Great contester audio that was easy to 
understand.  And even better, he could actually understand (figure out) 
what the kids were saying (contesters are the best).  He answered all 
their questions about HC8, his life, contesting, the weather, etc.  We 
talked for a little over 30 minutes.

During the whole time, the kids were entranced.  It was the first time I 
had ever seen this many 8-9 year olds be still.  All of them got a chance 
to talk and some didn't want to give up the mic.

Look for Rich at HC8A all bands this weekend.  He is a GOOD GUY!


Randy Thompson, K5ZD
k5zd at iconics.com