Handicap
Zack Widup
w9sz at prairienet.org
Sat Sep 30 19:49:11 EDT 1995
>
>No, they should be required to reduce their output power by 3db for each
>contest that they make the top 10. When they finally drop out of the top 10,
>they can then increase their power by 3db until they make the top 10 again.
>With this rule, KR0Y would probably be down to about 2 watts in the
>CW Sprints.
>
> Scott N1EE/6
... and STILL WIN!
I think operating skill and experience make the big difference. It takes
a lot of contesting to get that (I'm still learning) but I'll bet the top
ops can stay up there in the ratings with very limited stations!
73, Zack W9SZ
>From zs6nw at lia.infolink.co.za (Jan van Niekerk) Sun Oct 1 04:52:32 1995
From: zs6nw at lia.infolink.co.za (Jan van Niekerk) (Jan van Niekerk)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 01:52:32 -0200
Subject: CQ WW RTTY Score
Message-ID: <199510010352.BAA03431 at lia.infolink.co.za>
Hello!
ZS6NW CQ WW RTTY contest 1995 results
QSOs QSO Pts Countries Zones USA Mults Total
624 1851 64 23 33 120 222,120
Category: Single op single band high power unassisted.
Band: 15 meters.
Jan van Niekerk
PO Box 11285
Brooklyn
0011
South Africa
>From Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv at VNET.IBM.COM Sun Oct 1 02:19:07 1995
From: Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv at VNET.IBM.COM (Robert A. Wilson)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 95 18:19:07 PDT
Subject: California QSO Party Next Weekend! Reserve Your County.
Make 100 QSOs and earn yourself a handsome Calif. QSO Party T-shirt.
Place in the top 20, and receive a bottle of fine California Wine.
Rules are on page 127 of October QST. Free CQP software is available
from AE6Y at AOL.COM and AD6E at AOL.COM.
We are promising to have all 58 California Counties on the air. Here's
the list of volunteers, many of whom will be operating "Field Day" style
on special county expeditions. Some will even count as double-multipliers
operating from county lines. Who am I missing? Send updates to
N6TV at VNET.IBM.COM.
73,
Bob, N6TV
1995 Calif. QSO Party Coordinator
**** Reserve Your County List Follows ****
County Station(s)
--------------- ----------------------------------------------------
(mobile) N6RPL
Alameda K6BZS,W6BB(KN6OT)
Alpine N6KI(+N6AZE,KM6SN,N6KD)
Amador AC6DQ(SSB),K6BPB(CW)
Butte KN6EL,AE0M,WB6AKF,AB6QR,KI6AN
Calaveras N6TNX
Colusa NG0X
Contra Costa KG6LF
Del Norte K6HY(lim)
El Dorado N6VKK,WB6IRC(+W6OAT,AA6MC)
Fresno KG6F(lim),KC6ESL(lim),W6DPD
Glenn KM6RH,KD6JUI(CW only)
Humboldt W6JTI
Imperial N7CW(+KD6QK),WZ7V,KE6UP,KK6XN/m,N2MAU,N6SMW
Inyo KE6SXE(op W1PH)
Kern KD6WPK
Kings AA6GZ
Lake W6ISO
Lassen NF7P(lim),KJ6MD(lim),K6JKC
Los Angeles AB6FO,WB6NFO,WA6BIL,KD6DAE,KC6X,W6ZH,W6OUL,K6DMN,W6SD
Madera KD6FW,N7STU(lim)
Marin W6ZQK/m(lim),WA6CTA
Mariposa N6BT(Saturday)
Mendocino KB6LZW,KK1A/6(lim)
Merced N6ZB(+KS6H)
Modoc K6RN
Mono KM6OH(m/m),WA6GDS(NZ6N)
Monterey N6NM,WD6CKT
Napa AA6GM
Nevada K6SMH
Orange N6HC,W6OUL
Placer WA6ZNM
Plumas KF7AM(CW only)
Riverside WA6FIT,AA6U,W6OUL
Sacramento K6FO,W6NKR,K6DR,K6SG,N6BFN
San Benito KD6WI(@KG6GF)
San Bernardino W6HAL,W6OUL
San Diego W6MVW,N6YZJ,KK6XN,N2MAU,W6UQF,N6SMW,WB6MSE,KM6FW
San Francisco W6BIP,AC6AH
San Joaquin KJ6DL
San Luis Obispo W6BHZ(KC6QOQ+),W6TKF,W6UM
San Mateo N6NF(lim)
Santa Barbara N6AZR(lim)
Santa Clara W6PRI, N6WLF, N6TV
Santa Cruz KG6I,NS6V(lim),AB6EQ(+KD6NOS)
Shasta AA6KX,WJ6Q(lim)
Sierra WB6RXE
Siskiyou NI6T(@K6VX),WA6OZZ
Solano W6JSB
Sonoma WW6D(lim),WN6W(lim)
Stanislaus WA6TKV(+KD6KKP,KN6SO)
Sutter NV6O(+KJ6TC, KN6OX)
Tehama W6JEX,K6AAW(lim),KN6WI,KC6IPF
Trinity AA6KX
Tulare WA6FGV(lim),KC6HJJ
Tuolomne KI6PG(lim),N6UUG
Ventura N6VR(AC6T, op.)
Yolo K3EST(lim)
Yuba AE0M
>From floydjr at nr.infi.net (jim floyd) Sun Oct 1 02:45:28 1995
From: floydjr at nr.infi.net (jim floyd) (jim floyd)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 21:45:28 -0400
Subject: UPDATE VI
Message-ID: <199510010145.VAA24402 at larry.infi.net>
CQWW RTTY CLAIMED SCORES 1995
Compiled by
WA4ZXA
---------------------------------------------------------------------
OPERATOR CLASS SCORE QSO's PTS QTH DX ZONES
---------------------------------------------------------------------
SINGLE OP/HP ALL BAND
P40JT 1,664,569 1485 4369 ? ? ?
K1NG 1,347,367 1381 2711 181 224 92
S56A 1,254,800 1228 3137 322 78
VY2SS 1,047,510 1257 ? 123 159 57
N4CC 710,940 957 1734 169 157 84
WE9V 703,131 1066 1937 159 139 65
K2PS 621,750 805 1658 142 164 69
NA4M 430,810 757 1286 147 122 66
WA3WJD 314,534 541 986 133 125 61
W3GG 302,872 472 1048 94 133 62
W7LZP 256,563 682 983 147 67 47
VS6BG 217,536 434 1133 38 57 97
NA2M (HP or LP) 148,560 376 619 106 86 48
JH7QXJ 143,500 313 875 37 81 46
WA6SDM 140,499 426 603 124 61 48
SINGLE OP/LP ALL BAND
4X6ZK 804,528 938 2718 41 194 61
AK5KD 639,846 1112 1734 180 122 67
4X0A 487,012 758 2234 40 131 47
KA4RRU 437,987 754 1373 125 134 60
KA1SIE 399,434 754 1442 119 112 46
WA4ZXA 285,948 512 1014 110 115 57
WB2HMF 127,160 313 578 96 80 44
KB2POP 105,225 352 575 85 64 34
KF2OG 95,634 317 506 92 61 36
N7UJJ 93,696 370 488 110 42 40
WA5JWU 45,474 167 286 73 50 36
N2VYU 1,548 30 43 18 9 9
SINGLE OP/ASSISTED
NO2T 498,624 729 1484 121 149 66
V31JU (UN or ASST) 421,852 734 1604 133 86 44
JR5JAQ 355,266 517 1462 46 132 65
N2OL 307,840 634 ? 296
N2FF 293,601 525 1023 114 114 59
KE7GH 186,935 587 763 145 54 46
OH2LU 158,388 338 788 29 125 47
SINGLE OP/SINGLE BAND
10 Meters
15 Meters
ZS6NW 222,120 624 1857 33 64 23
N4SR 21,084 117 251 21 41 22
20 Meters
JA5EXW 255,910 565 1630 43 81 31
N1OAZ 114,600 426 955 41 63 16
VE7OR 92,575 349 805 45 45 25
VE6WQ 83,625 299 669 44 55 26
JR2BNF/1 31,920 121 336 21 48 26
K3EST ? 113 ? 21 39 14
40 Meters
K1IU 185,277 674 1227 54 71 26
ZS6EZ 87,000 275 ? 39 50 20
W2UP 83,760 380 698 49 50 21
WF5E 53,954 352 509 50 35 21
KN6DV 46,552 363 506 51 22 19
80 Meters
MULTI SINGLE/HP
OT5T 1,983,016 1551 4166 248 142 86
VP5C 1,845,152 1767 4232 185 182 69
WU3V 1,388,862 1337 ? ? ? ?
DF7RX 1,325,280 1164 3012 232 122 86
PI4COM 1,108,357 1046 2687 120 214 77
K2TW 868,436 1089 136 188 74
WA4QVD 744,640 1153 2080 157 139 62
PI4CC 620,165 753 1885 81 182 66
N9ITX/7 545,490 1066 1653 158 109 63
VK9LZ 517,000 784 2219 79 91 63
PI4ZLD 470,463 627 1563 73 164 63
N9ENA 199,045 ? ? ? ? ?
MULTI SINGLE/LP
AA5AU 630,400 929 1600 166 151 77
K8UNP 562,872 803 1497 147 158 71
KF4KL 432,928 665 1304 132 138 62
T99MT 287,523 553 1389 65 107 35
MULTI OP/MULTI
W3LPL 2,154,387 2045 3953 214 237 94
Several have asked for the address to send their logs, so here it is:
Roy Gould, KT1N
CQWW RTTY DX Contest Director
P.O. Box DX Stow
MA
01775
USA
Deadline December 1, 1995
The above address came out of CQ Magazine, July 1995. Hope this helps
everyone with that problem.
When you see a number between the QTH and the DX column it means that
the station added those two together and sent it to me. If they send
me a split of them I will update it.
Don't forget that info beside your call like this (UN or ASST) means
that you never sent which you were. If I do not know then I put you
in the higher one. Let me know if I have anyone in the wrong class.
73's Jim // WA4ZXA @N4ZC <> floydjr at nr.infi.net
ps: Remember if you send me your breakdown I cannot repost them on
the reflector. If you wish for everyone to see the breakdown you will
need to send them to the reflector yourself.
>From Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham at HK.Super.NET Sun Oct 1 03:47:39 1995
From: Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham at HK.Super.NET (Mr. Brett Graham)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 10:47:39 +0800 (HKT)
Subject: VS6BG AP Sprint score
Message-ID: <199510010247.KAA15816 at is1.hk.super.net>
Band Qs Ms
40 40 28
20 8 7
Total: 48 x 35 = 1680
Missed the first 53 minutes. Better activity this time, but conditions
were down. No EU & only a few NA on 40.
73, VS6BrettGraham aka VR2BG bagraham at hk.super.net
>From k4sb at ix.netcom.com (Edward W. Sleight ) Sun Oct 1 04:34:52 1995
From: k4sb at ix.netcom.com (Edward W. Sleight ) (Edward W. Sleight )
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:34:52 -0700
Subject: Fwd: Plumbing a Tower
Message-ID: <199510010334.UAA23150 at ix2.ix.netcom.com>
>"How do you center the plumb bob"?
>
Sorry, but the wind acts on any object as a function of how much time
the object is subjected to the wind. The general rule I believe is
17' per second per knot.
But, to the question. Take 2 pieces of 1/4 plywood larger than the
tower. Place against end of tower and give smart smack to area over
each leg. This will indent the leg into the plywood, which then can be
drilled to the leg size. Make a carbon ( plywood?) copy of the first
piece of plywood. Measure the distance with the edges of the holes and
mark exact center. Three lines from the opposite leg will then
intersect at the exact center of the tower. Drill small hole there. Do
same with second piece of plywood. Now cut second ( or first ) piece of
plywood so you remove the wood around the holes to the outside so that
you can seat the piece INSIDE the tower at the lowest point. Fit other
piece to top of section. ( I really like to have about 12' apart.) Tie
plumb bob to string and thread through bottom of top plywood and
secure. When bob is exactly over the small hole in the bottom piece,
the tower is perfectly vertical. ( incidentally, one mistake people
make when visually sighting a pole or tower is that they cannot
compensate with their eyes for the far foreground) Finally, the top
section ( with a longer string of course ) can be set in place as the
tower grows. That bob must exactly center over the original bottom
piece. Don't kid yourself that tower sections are all perfectly
drilled. Finally, when on top of tower, take plywood ( after fitting
guys of course and putting proper tention on them ) and sail it off
into the blue.
73, Ed, K4SB
>From Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs at solaria.sol.net> Sun Oct 1 04:41:05 1995
From: Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs at solaria.sol.net> (Gary Schwartz)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 22:41:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: more on guywires and insulators
Message-ID: <Pine.3.02.9509302258.A14053-b100000 at solaria.sol.net>
On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Stan Griffiths wrote:
> I certainly hope they have changed the composition of Phillystan since the
> last time I played with a piece of it. As an experiment, I strung it up in
> my garage at a 45 degree angle from the floor to the ceiling. Then I took
> an ordinary book match and proceded to light it on fire at the floor. It
> burned with a lot of black smoke and dripping flaming black goo, still
> burning as it hit the floor. The flames crept right up the Phillystan and I
> finally put it out. I am sure it would have burned to the top and set my
> garage on fire!
>
> I had visions of the neighborhood kids lighting my guy system on fire and
> the black flaming goo landing on my roof and burning my house down. If they
> didn't think of that, they might be able to bring my tower down with a
> pocket knife and a little patience. How do you Phillystran users protect
> against this kind of vandalism?
>
> Stan W7NI at teleport.com
Most people that I know that are using Phillystran use steel guy wire the
last 15-20 feet, just for this reason. All it takes is a pocket knife...
73,
Gary K9GS (You have to STOP the Q-Tip when there's resistance !)
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>From w7ni at teleport.com (Stan Griffiths) Sun Oct 1 08:43:17 1995
From: w7ni at teleport.com (Stan Griffiths) (Stan Griffiths)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:43:17 -0700
Subject: Tower Climbing Guards
Message-ID: <199510010743.AAA04519 at desiree.teleport.com>
>As the kids in my neighborhood get older, I think it's time to
>consider an anti-climbing guard around the base of my tower.
>
>I have seen articles in the past (long before I had a tower) but
>can't seem to locate the articles now. How do you folks do it?
>
>73, Kirk WR3O
I have to admit that I don't do it although I know I should. Rohn sells
some "anti-climb" hardware mounted on a bottom section of their more common
towers that amounts to a hinged sheet metal "door" on one face of the tower
and permanent sheet metal on the other two faces. The "door" is kept locked
with a padlock and with the door closed and the other panels in place, there
is no place for the first 10 feet or so to get a handhold or a foothold.
You could accomplish essentially the same thing by installing "hardware
cloth" (looks like heavy square-hole screen with the wire crossings soldered
together) which you can obtain in rolls of many many feet and 4 feet wide.
A wrap of this stuff around the tower at the bottom and another wrap just at
the top of the first wrap will protect your tower for the first 8 feet.
Attach it to your tower with short lengths of twisted wire and keep all the
sharp twisted ends inside. Use hardware cloth with squares about 1/4 inch
on a side, too small for fingers and toes.
The "anti-climb" section for 25G is called an 25ACL ($459 dealer price, West
Coast). For 45G it is called a 45ACL ($669.60 dealer price, West Coast).
Do you really want to know what it costs for 55G? I didn't think so.
Now that you have settled on using hardware cloth, they way you climb past
it is to lean an eight-foot step ladder against the tower.
Stan W7NI at teleport.com
>From Jose Carlos Cardoso Nunes <ct1boh at telepac.pt> Sun Oct 1 11:07:27 1995
From: Jose Carlos Cardoso Nunes <ct1boh at telepac.pt> (Jose Carlos Cardoso Nunes)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 10:07:27 GMT
Subject: opt
Message-ID: <199510011007.KAA18421 at webpac.telepac.pt>
I wonder if t
>From w7ni at teleport.com (Stan Griffiths) Sun Oct 1 10:26:25 1995
From: w7ni at teleport.com (Stan Griffiths) (Stan Griffiths)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 02:26:25 -0700
Subject: Protecting Your Tower
Message-ID: <199510010926.CAA12923 at desiree.teleport.com>
Thanks for all the responses I got regarding how to protect your tower from
vandals if it is guyed with Phillystran. You all had basically the same
answer that I thought of myself back in 1977 . . . use steel cable for the
bottom 20 feet or so. I was wondering if there were any new ideas on this.
Apparently not.
Please allow me to share an idea with you that has worked extremely well for
me for the last 20 years or so.
Like many of you, I have some close neighbors with some cheap electronic
entertainment devices. Also, like many of you, I used to be very active in
several contests per year and I would occasionally get an RFI complaint that
could usually be resolved with some effort. One particular neighbor,
however, chose not to confront me with the RFI he was suffering with,
instead, reporting me to the FCC repeatedly, until finally, he stumbled onto
the right kind of a complaint . . . he could hear me in a transistor radio.
He had been complaining about hearing me in his three tape recorders
(purchased at K-Mart) and the FCC would not cite me on that complaint.
Well, anyway, I finally got this letter from the FCC instructing me, in no
uncertain terms, to get over there and check out this RADIO RFI problem. I
had 10 days to respond.
At the time, I was working as a Sales Engineer at Tektronix and my expertise
was microwave spectrum analyzers. I had about $200,000 worth of
demonstrators at my disposal for checking out this problem. When I called
on my neighbor, he informed me that it wasn't the radio interference that
bothered him, but the tape recorder interference instead. I showed him my
official letter from the FCC (that HE initiated) and showed him there was no
mention of tape recorder interference in it. He explained that the FCC
would not take a complaint about tape recorder interference from him and I
asked him if he knew why. He said it was because the FCC is just another
worthless government body that doesn't give a damn about the little guy. I
tried to explain the real reason but of course got no where. Of course I
insisted we get on with testing for RADIO interference because I had no
option but to answer the FCC's letter. It was only when I told him that I
would have to answer that it was because of the complainant's refusal to
cooperate that I was unable to determine the nature and extent of any RADIO
interference, that he let me run any tests. Surprise! Surprise! I was
clean except for a little 2nd harmonic from 10 meters that could cause some
trouble on channel 2 TV. I fixed it with a lowpass filter and gave a full
report to the FCC. The FCC was happy. My neighbor, however, was still unhappy.
With the FCC report out of the way, I told my neighbor that I would be glad
to try to help him resolve his tape recorder problems. I borrowed an
excellent tape recorder (a Wollensak) from work (Tektronix) and showed my
neighbor that Tek's tape recorder was perfectly free of RFI while all three
of his were blown away when my Dad was transmitting in my shack. This
REALLY made him angry. I then told him that I had a good chance of being
able to help him fix his tape recorders, too, but we would have to agree on
some ground rules before I could actually work on his recorders, especially
since he had showed extreme hostility toward me at the beginning and
throughout these tests. He had to agree that I was not to be held
responsible for the continued maintenance and future failures of his
recorders if I helped him take care of the interference. He totally
rejected that idea and said I would be completely responsible for anything
that happened to his tape recorders if I dared to touch them. We were at an
impasse and I told him there was nothing more I could do and that I would be
operating on the following weekends and to expect interference at those times.
He had interference! He sent his son-in-law banging on my hamshack door
with threats of violence. His son-in-law had been observing in the news a
recent rash of power company tower bombings and suggested to me that my
tower could come dowm the same way! All it would take is quarter stick of
dynamite in the right place. I knew he was right and it seemed like there
was nothing I could do to protect against it. A determined vandal will
scale fences, fend off guard dogs, defeat alarms, and do almost anything
else if necessary. I was REALLY worried.
I think it was my wife who suggested I take a look at our insurance
coverage. I called our insurance agent and we had a discussion about
insuring my towers against vandalism. He assured me that they were covered
in our home-owner's policy and I told him I wanted to make certain the
coverage was adequate since I had had a real threat of serious damage from a
neighbor. I also told him that I had put my three towers up for a total
cost of about $5000 but I wanted them covered for replacement by brand new
material professionally installed and that would run about $15,000 if they
were destroyed. He wrote a rider on our policy and the fee was very modest
and certainly well worth every cent.
Right here is where I had a stroke of genius, if I do say so myself! I
decided to let my neighbor know about my insurance policy. Being a
salesman, I know that the way you deliver the message is critical to your
success and I knew just how to deliver this message!! I called on him
personally and informed him that I had solved my tower problem. He said,
"You mean you got that @#&*% interference fixed?"
I said, "No, as we discussed before, the interference is YOUR problem. My
problem is that your son-in-law has threatened to blow my towers down and I
can assure you that I feel safe and confident that he will not do it now."
"Oh yeah, what makes you so &%*$ sure!"
"Here are the facts: I paid about $5000 in cash to buy the material to
build those towers and antennas. Most of it was used and I got it at
bargain prices. All of the labor was either my own or friends who helped me
for free. It will cost my insurance company $15,000, which they will pay me
in cash, if those towers happen to come down. Do you have ANY IDEA what a
set of towers I could put up for $15,000??? I'm excited! I can hardly wait
to find out!"
He was speechless. In fact he has been speechless on this subject for 21
years. I don't get on the air much anymore which I guess is part of the
reason I don't hear from him. I also mentioned that the insurance company
has his name and the name of his son-in-law on file and if anything bad
happens to my towers, he should expect a call from an insurance
investigator, the local police, and the FBI since deliberately tampering
with a Federally licensed radio station is a Federal crime. It is clearly
in his best interests that my towers remain as they are, standing tall in my
yard, and he fully understands this now.
I know this is not the "touchy, feely, friendly" solution that leaves you
and your neighbors as best friends, but I don't think that was in the cards
in this situation. I hope there is an idea or two here that might do you
some good should you need it. Sorry for being so long-winded but that was
quite probably the most satisfying "contest" I have ever won . . . and I
have the trophies standing in my yard to prove it.
Stan W7NI at teleport.com
>From De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> Sun Oct 1 13:24:20 1995
From: De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> (De Syam)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 08:24:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Contest Resolution at IARU Region 2 Conference
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951001080613.412A-100000 at cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
I just returned from the IARU Region 2 Conference at Niagara Falls, ON,
Canada, where the Canadian national society, Radio Amateurs of Canada,
proposed a resolution for a "contest-free zone" on 20 meters.
A number of the delegates attending this conference, which is held every
three years and brings together the national radio societies of North,
Central and South America and the Caribbean, complained about contest
operators' insensitivity to others on the bands, with one delegate from a
Caribbean island describing how, in the middle of handling emergency
traffic during the recent Hurricane Marilyn, a German operator broke
into the emergency net and insisted on being given a number in the WAE
SSB Test, saying that the island was a new multiplier for him.
In the end, the delegates felt that declaring a contest-free zone was
impractical, and opted for the following language instead, which, at the
request of outgoing IARU Region 2 President Alberto Shaio, HK3DEU, I am
putting on this reflector:
(begin text)
RESOLVED:
THAT IARU REGION 2 REQUEST CONTEST SPONSORS TO INCLUDE IN THEIR CONTEST
ANNOUNCEMENTS A REQUEST THAT CONTEST PARTICIPANTS OBSERVE GOOD OPERATING
PRACTICE IN THEIR SHARING OF THE AMATEUR BANDS WITH AMATEURS ENGAGED IN
OTHER TYPES OF OPERATIONS AND THAT SUCH OPERATIONS BE ACCORDED
APPROPRIATE COURTESY BY CONTEST OPERATORS.
(end text)
The only other contest matter taken up by the Conference
indicated strong support for the IARU HF Championship. All
Member Societies of IARU Region 2 were urged to participate in the
1996 contest with their club calls. ARRL was the originator of
the resolution that, after modification, was passed without
opposition.
Very 73,
Fred Laun, K3ZO
Editor, IARU Region 2 News
>From De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> Sun Oct 1 13:29:33 1995
From: De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> (De Syam)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 08:29:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: ZP5JCY
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951001082438.412B-100000 at cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
During the IARU Region 2 Conference in Canada this past week, I asked
Paraguay's delegate ZP5HSB why I hadn't heard ZP5JCY (ZP0Y) in recent
contests.
The answer was a sad one: ZP5JCY's only child, a son age about 18
months, has been diagnosed with cancer. ZP5JCY has completely abandoned
ham radio in order to spend all of his time and resources trying to save
his son's life.
Very 73,
Fred Laun, K3ZO
>From De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> Sun Oct 1 13:35:05 1995
From: De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> (De Syam)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 08:35:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: PJ9EE
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951001082942.412C-100000 at cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
At the IARU Region 2 Conference in Canada this past week, I was told by
Netherlands Antilles delegate PJ2HB that Chet, PJ9EE/PJ2CC, host of
countless contest operations over the years, is in bad shape health-wise.
Apparently Chet ignored a cut on his leg which he had sustained while
diving. This later caused infection which affected the bone and caused
the leg to be amputated. Chet is now with relatives in Wisconsin and
will probably not return to the islands.
Very 73,
Fred Laun, K3ZO
>From Jan Seay <jans at muskox.alaska.edu> Sun Oct 1 16:45:18 1995
From: Jan Seay <jans at muskox.alaska.edu> (Jan Seay)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 07:45:18 -0800 (ADT)
Subject: Tower Climbing Guards
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951001074228.2410C-100000 at muskox.alaska.edu>
We make our own, based on the basic Rohn design. Go to
a plumbing shop and have them break a sheet (4X8'?) into
a triangle of the proper OD for the tower section. Bolt
together the ends after putting on tower, then a padlock
and hasp completes. Verry effective and cheaper than the
Rohn version.
On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Stan Griffiths wrote:
> >As the kids in my neighborhood get older, I think it's time to
> >consider an anti-climbing guard around the base of my tower.
> >
> >I have seen articles in the past (long before I had a tower) but
> >can't seem to locate the articles now. How do you folks do it?
> >
> >73, Kirk WR3O
>
> I have to admit that I don't do it although I know I should. Rohn sells
> some "anti-climb" hardware mounted on a bottom section of their more common
> towers that amounts to a hinged sheet metal "door" on one face of the tower
> and permanent sheet metal on the other two faces. The "door" is kept locked
> with a padlock and with the door closed and the other panels in place, there
> is no place for the first 10 feet or so to get a handhold or a foothold.
>
> You could accomplish essentially the same thing by installing "hardware
> cloth" (looks like heavy square-hole screen with the wire crossings soldered
> together) which you can obtain in rolls of many many feet and 4 feet wide.
> A wrap of this stuff around the tower at the bottom and another wrap just at
> the top of the first wrap will protect your tower for the first 8 feet.
> Attach it to your tower with short lengths of twisted wire and keep all the
> sharp twisted ends inside. Use hardware cloth with squares about 1/4 inch
> on a side, too small for fingers and toes.
>
> The "anti-climb" section for 25G is called an 25ACL ($459 dealer price, West
> Coast). For 45G it is called a 45ACL ($669.60 dealer price, West Coast).
> Do you really want to know what it costs for 55G? I didn't think so.
>
> Now that you have settled on using hardware cloth, they way you climb past
> it is to lean an eight-foot step ladder against the tower.
>
> Stan W7NI at teleport.com
>
>
>From sawyers" <sawyers at cacd.rockwell.com Sun Oct 1 17:53:47 1995
From: sawyers" <sawyers at cacd.rockwell.com (sawyers)
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 95 10:53:47 cst
Subject: Re[2]: Shooting Tower Guy Points
Message-ID: <9509018125.AA812562909 at ccmgw1.cacd.rockwell.com>
Ed Gilbert said:
>The worst case guy wire tension occurs when the wind comes
>from a direction that bisects the angle between 2 guys.
This is really a nit and not meant to detract from Ed's general
presentation.
Actually the worst case on three way guyed tower is when the incoming wind
is perpendicular to one the guys.
If the wind is coming straight down the guy toward the tower, then you have
one guy resisting the wind and doing so in its strongest direction. So you
have one effective guy. The other two just add wind load.
If the wind bisects the angle between the guys, then you have two guys
resisting the wind although working at a 60 degree leverage disadvantage.
Each guy is supplying the equivalent of the cosine of 60 degrees times its
tension to resist the wind. But you still have 2 of them working into the
wind. So you have 2 x cosine 60 = 1.0 effective guys.
If you have the wind perpendicular to the one of the guys, then it does not
contribute any thing to resisting the wind. You also have a down wind guy
that doesn't contribute anything to resisting the wind. Both of these guys
stabilize the tower, but you only have one guy working into the wind. In
this case the one guy working into the wind is working at a 30 degree
leverage disadvantage. So you have 1 x cosine 30 = .866 effective guys. So
this is typically the worst loading case for guy loads.
This makes a difference if you are calculating total guy loads and anchor
reactions.
I think the wind bisecting the guys typically gives the worst compressive
load on the tower, but don't hold me to that.
This only applies to three guys radial spaced. Four guys are a slightly
different animal but you get the drift.
Wind directions are specified in the EIA-222 Standard.
de n0yvy Steve Sawyers PE
My company and I agree on at least one thing: My opinions are my own.
>From XTFF35A at prodigy.com (MR CHARLES A CULLIAN) Sun Oct 1 19:28:35 1995
From: XTFF35A at prodigy.com (MR CHARLES A CULLIAN) (MR CHARLES A CULLIAN)
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 14:28:35 EDT
Subject: 10 min M/S rule
Message-ID: <013.02180477.XTFF35A at prodigy.com>
Re: N3RD coments
I couldn't agree more, but why stop at 3 stations. If you start
counting 10 mins after a contact is made, then why not try everywhere
until you suceed in starting the ten minute clock??
I liked the old way a lot better too.
>From w7ni at teleport.com (Stan Griffiths) Sun Oct 1 20:37:19 1995
From: w7ni at teleport.com (Stan Griffiths) (Stan Griffiths)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:37:19 -0700
Subject: 10 min M/S rule
Message-ID: <199510011937.MAA19353 at desiree.teleport.com>
>
>Re: N3RD coments
>I couldn't agree more, but why stop at 3 stations. If you start
>counting 10 mins after a contact is made, then why not try everywhere
>until you suceed in starting the ten minute clock??
>I liked the old way a lot better too.
I liked it the ancient way when the word "single" meant "one".
Stan W7NI at teleport.com
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