WSWSS sprint Wednsday, 21 August 1996

Fri Aug 16 10:06:05 EDT 1996

The First Annual WSWSS VHF and Above Sprint

7 P.M. to 11 P.M. local time, Wed. August 21, 1996

The Western States Weak Signal Society presents the First Annual WSWSS VHF
and Above Sprint.  The object is to QSO as many stations in as many
different grids as possible on the bands 50 MHz and up during the four hour
contest period.

Classes: Single Operator, Multi-Operator, Low Power (25 watts or less) and 
Rover.  A rover is one or two amateurs operating from more than one grid; 
no captive rovers or "grid circling" allowed.

Exchange: ARRL four character grid locators. Signal reports are optional.

Scoring:  Same as the ARRL June VHF QSO Party. 

Awards:  The highest entry from each ARRL-defined Region (West Coast,
Midwest, etc.) and the highest entry from each ARRL section within 
the West Coast Region only, in each of the above classes will receive a 
handsome award certificate from the Western States Weak Signal Society.

LOG SUBMISSION DETAILS

(A) Entries must be postmarked no later than 30 days after the end of the 
contest.  No late entries can be accepted. Use ARRL June VHF QSO Party 
forms, a reasonable facsimile, or submit your entry on diskette.  Mail your 
entry to NI6G, or send your entry to ni6g at psnw.com via the 
Internet. 

     (1) Official entry forms are available for download from 
http://www.psnw.com/~n7stu under the filename wswsslog.zip (10,490 
bytes). 

     (2) You may submit your contest entry on diskette in lieu of paper logs.
The floppy diskette must be IBM compatible, MS-DOS formatted, 3.5 inch (40 
or 80 track).  The log information must be in an CT (v.7 or v.8) .bin
file or an ASCII file, following the ARRL Suggested Standard File Format, 
and contain all log exchange information (band, mode, date, time in UTC, 
call of station worked, exchange sent, exchange received, multipliers 
[marked the first time worked] and QSO points). One entry per diskette.  An 
official summary sheet or reasonable facsimile with signed contest 
participation disclaimer is required with all entries. 

     (3) Entries sent via Internet should include a summary sheet file in
lieu of a paper summary sheet.

     (4) Entries with more than 200 QSOs total must include cross-check 
sheets (dupe sheets).

All diskettes become the property of the WSWSS and are not returnable. 

Send logs, summary sheet, and S.A.S.E. within 30 days to Erik Dean NI6G,
3813 N. State Av., Fresno, CA 93722. Results will be posted by Oct. 31 in
the WSWSS Newsletter.

Further information and/or a copy of the announcement for your club 
newsletter can be obtained by SASE to NI6G at his callbook address or 
contact Erik @ ni6g at psnw.com.

The latest official version of the rules can be found at:
 	http://www.psnw.com/~n7stu/sprint.html

73, Robert N7STU/YB2ARO, DM07aa/OI52ee

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>From robrk at fyi.net (Robert Morris)  Fri Aug 16 20:46:02 1996
From: robrk at fyi.net (Robert Morris) (Robert Morris)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:46:02 -0700
Subject: September QST out
References: <960815214911_502447810 at emout17.mail.aol.com>
Message-ID: <3214CFFA.1EEB at fyi.net>

HENRYPOL at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Monday saw the arrival of CQ Contest.  However, on the way home from work,
> stopped by WB4VIM's to transact one of those can't-wait-until-next-hamfest
> deals.  And there on his operating desk was the September issue of QST.
>  Strange, I thought.  Was off work Wednesday enjoying (?) a day running
> errands with the kids, so I made a special effort to swing by the PO box, but
> still no QST.  I thought - this is not good, maybe my Life Membership finally
> ran out!  Don't remember seeing my name/call listed as SK.  So I checked
> again today, Thursday, and it was finally here, along with a sample copy of
> Worldradio and another interesting magazine - American Heritage of Invention
> & Technology (articles on birth of cable TV and airline black boxes).  As I
> thumbed through the Worldradio, I noted an article titled "W4KFC is heard
> again".  My first thought was WOW, talk about your really
> long-delayed-echoes.  Then I thought that maybe those recently discovered
> Martian microbes were really inteligent and that they were pirating old ham
> calls.  And someones EME antenna accidently strayed off the Moon and picked
> up a Martian LEO repeater operator.  So I read further; seems that Ken Clark,
> K4OKZ has obtained his father's old call via the vanity call sign system.
>  Just think, in 2260, on space world Babylon 5, when some ham, using an old
> museum-piece radio picks up a stray signal from W4KFC, he will not know
> whether it is Ken or Vic.
> 
> OK, so I have rambled enough, so what's inside this issue of QST....
> 
> Contest related items:  Heavy-Duty HF Propagation-Prediction/Analysis
> Software - Part 1; SWR Analyzer Tips, Tricks and Techniques; Six Meters and
> Beyond on Mt. Greylock; Happenings - WRTC-96; and Results - 96 ARRL
> International DX CW.
> 
> Other interesting items:  High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
> (HAARP); Miniature Charge Controller; WRC-99 Survey; The Global Positioning
> System; The Wolf-Hong and Rettysnitch - Lost Traditions? (are these secret
> contester weapons?); Product Review - Index Laboratories QRP Plus, Comet
> CA-HV HF/VHF Mobile Antenna, MFJ-906 6-meter antenna tuner, and Sigmatech DX
> Peeper DX PacketCluster CW decoder; and more....
> 
> 73 and good reading,
> Henry Pollock - WB4HFL
> henrypol at aol.com

Another issue of "main article advertisements" ?
I have no room to talk, having not built anything worth
writing about...

Bob - K2RK

>From rrossi at btv.ibm.com (Ronald D Rossi)  Fri Aug 16 17:52:57 1996
From: rrossi at btv.ibm.com (Ronald D Rossi) (Ronald D Rossi)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:52:57 -0400
Subject: VOAWIN Question...
Message-ID: <9608161652.AA30977 at btv.ibm.com>

I was hoping to play around with the VOA Propagation program running to improve my CONTESTing.  Unfortunately I was informed that I was missing a Roman Font of some sort when I ran the program.  One of you folks out there must have run into this problem and tamed it.  If you have run into the problem this short description should be enough.  The program installed properly as well as DBOS (whatever that is).  No clue in the readme.

Personal replies and I will post the solution pending other interest.

CU NAQP tomorrow from VT...Big Blue Contesters!

-- 
73 de N1PBT...ron (rrossi at btv.ibm.com) <><

>From csmith at eos.hitc.com (Chris Smith, NR3O)  Fri Aug 16 18:58:42 1996
From: csmith at eos.hitc.com (Chris Smith, NR3O) (Chris Smith, NR3O)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:58:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: FYI:  WWW Electronic Component Suppliers List
Message-ID: <9608161758.AA28311 at eos.hitc.com>

Web page with a very good listing of electronic component suppliers:

http://www.ee.washington.edu/eeca/text/suppliers.html#surplus

(I know, this has nothing DIRECTLY  to do with contesting or dx, but
most of us still build and fix stuff and need the occassional part.  This
list helped me find a source for air variable caps I needed for my next
project.)

>From ae2t at localnet.com (Al Gritzmacher)  Fri Aug 16 21:35:46 1996
From: ae2t at localnet.com (Al Gritzmacher) (Al Gritzmacher)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:35:46 -0400
Subject: OOps!!
Message-ID: <199608162030.QAA25212 at buffalo1.localnet.com>

ALEX A.P. MEYER wrote:
> 
> EVER DROVE YOUR CAR INTO THE GARAGE WITH THE HF MOBILE ANTENNE ON THE
> BACK OF THE CAR AND WERCKED THE ANTENNE?
> 
> I MUST NOT BE THE FIRST ONE THAT DID THIS. AND THEY ARE NOT CHEAP
> NOWADAYS.
> 
> HAVE ROLL UP DOOR WITH REMOTE CONTROLL UNIT.
> 
> CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO THIS REMOTE ANTENNE,SO IT  WILL DISABLE THIS
> REMOTE CNTROLL UNIT, WHEN THE HF MOBILE IS ON THE BACK OF THE CAR?
> 
> OR DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSIBLE SUGGESTION TO THIS PROBLEM.
> 
> '73 ES DX............ALEX.......................

Why does it not surprise me that this guy did drive into the garage and
wreck his "ANTENNE"?

My question is: was his Dad mad at him for scratching the car and was he old
enough to drive?? My 10-year old writes and spells better than this guy.
Maybe it's an English-as-Second-Language problem... I didn't see a callsign,
so I can't tell.

I think he should put the KEYS in the trunk when he puts the antenna on!!!

Al Gritzmacher  AE2T     Internet: ae2t at localnet.com
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