Mobile engine noise
KR4DL at aol.com
KR4DL at aol.com
Thu Feb 1 11:24:47 EST 1996
Ed: Ford has published a technical service bulletin, no. 93-15-6, that
describes their noise-suppression kit for the fuel pump. I understand there
have been mixed results with it. I haven't done it on my Explorer, but
intend to, soo. Let me know what works..I have exactly the same problem.
73, Steve
>From john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) Thu Feb 1 16:45:57 1996
From: john.devoldere at eunet.be (John Devoldere) (John Devoldere)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 16:45:57 +0000
Subject: ON4UN 160 M SCORE AND STORY
Message-ID: <199602011644.RAA08293 at box.eunet.be>
THE 1996 CQ WW 160 M CW CONTEST
SCORE:
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QSO'S: 1275
1SO POINTS: 8995
STATES: 47
COUNTRIES: 79
SCORE: 1,133,370 POINTS
CATEGORY: SINGLE OP
OPERATOR: ON4UN
THE STORY:
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The contest starts as usual with trying to work a JA. In these years of low
sunspot activity this is much easier than in the "high" years. After having
worked the multiplier, I start cleaning up the European stations. No point
in wasting time trying to work JA's. A DX is worth only two European
stations, and you can work them much faster.
The XV7 station is said to be active in the contest (from Hanoi), but he has
only one frequency, 1827. I still need him for a new coun-try, but don't
think we will hear him with all the contest QRM. Anyhow it's S9 plus QRM all
around 1827...
The conditions seem to be "fair" to the USA, but pile-ups are moderate.
Around 03:00z the Mid-West starts coming in and from then on the skip
lengthens to Texas, New Mexico etc. At 05:22 Mike, N7ML is the first W6/7
worked, followed one minute later by N6DX, and a few minutes later by Bob,
W7LR also in MT. All were really loud! No more West Coast was worked, and
the only multiplier before sunrise was 6D2J. At 07:50 I am off to bed for
some sleep.
At 15:3z (45 minutes before sunset) I am back. It's working European
stations until my first DX at 19:00z (EX8W) followed shortly later by a good
signal from VK2BJ. Some of the rarer Europeans are worked (Z3, LX, ZA, GU,
GD). At 19:30z the band is wide-open to Japan (2 and a half hours before
their sun-rise). I work a string.
I worked Mark, ON4WW from his home QTH on Friday evening. He was leaving for
9X on Saturday early morning, and gave me a sked for Saturday evening. At
21.00z sharp 9X4WW calls me for a nice multiplier. In the next half hour I
work two other African sta-tions: 6W6JX (very strong!) and 7X2VZK. Mark,
5N0MVE was the only other African station worked.
I run across a huge pile up for 1A0KM. Won-der if this is the "real" one?
Anyhow, hordes of Europeans must have worked him.
The first W is worked at 22:40 (W2VO). The band starts opening really well
to the states at 23:30z the mid-West starts coming in at 00:30, and Ks
(W0CM), AR (K5GO) are added to the multiplier list. At 01:08 N6SS in
Arizona calls me with an excellent signal. This is early! The band remains
excellent to the US all through the night until sunrise, but never really
stretches all the way to the West Coast. The only W6 worked is Glen, K6NA,
and KX7VG in Utah. In total 2 W6's, and four genuine W7's (two in MT, one in
AZ and one in UT) were worked.
My last multiplier was PT7BZ at 07:30z, just on my sunrise.
Being single op non-assisted, I am forced to switch being working pile-up
and do some search and pound across the band looking for pile-ups where the
rare multipliers are. While doing so, I call every station (DX or European)
that's not yet in my log. One very amazing thing happened to me in this
contest. On at least 20 (TWENTY) occasions, the station I called came back
with "wkd B4", while this clearly was not the case. This can happen once or
twice in a contest, but not 20 times! With some stations it took a bit of
convincing to give me a "real" QSO. This happened ONLY with European
stations. I wonder what happened? Did the computer let me down? Maybe it did
not log some contacts? After the contests I listened to the entire recorded
con-test, and ALL QSO's were in the log. Maybe someone wanted to harm me and
worked a bunch of European stations with my call while I was running a
pile-up somewhere? Who will tell?
I have only one funny story: UR5KDX. kept telling me to move out of the
DX-window ... As I did not react, he started jamming me. Hell, I can
understand the purpose of the DX window (it's great), but if the DX (that's
we ??) must also stay out of there, who is going to work who ??? ... Maybe
we have to explain the poor man what's DX for the US organisers of the contest.
After the first night, ands in view of the local "factory generated" QRM, I
was convinced this year's results would not be as good as last year's. But
the much improved condition to the US on the second night soon made it clear
that maybe I would break the 1 Mi point barrier after all. And yes, almost
3 hours before sunrise we went through the 1 Mi point barrier. I ended with
approx. 150 more QSO's than last year (1275 QSO's) and with 1.13 Mi points,
which is nearly 20 % better than last year's score. Last year we worked 340
US + Canadian stations, this year 460! I nevertheless worked fewer
multipliers (80 countries and 47 states, vs. 82/47 in 1995). In the US I
made all W!,2,3,4,5,6,8 and 9 states, missed N and S.D. in the W0 district,
and missed all but AZ, MT and UT in the 7th district. From Canada we worked
the easterly provinces (VO1 through VE3).
No sign of the XV7 station, nor from 9V1XQ who's been on 160 in the week
prior to the contest. From Europe I missed GJ, HB0, 3A, but worked a number
of the rarer ones: EA6, HV, OH0, C3 etc. No EA8, nor CU! Besides the 460 US
+ Canadian stations I worked from N/S America: 6D2X, 8P9DX(very strong but
deaf like hell, half of Europe vcalled him, and I had to call for at least
20 minutes before getting through!), JG3KIV/6Y5, PJ9Z, PT7BZ, PY0FF, TO5T
(strong), TI1C (Strong as always), YV1OB (who else), P40WA (deaf like
8P9DX), P40I (got mMike on my first call!) and 9A3A/4U.
Without the chemical plant QRM I am sure I would have been able to dig into
the prover-bial "third layer" of North American stations which would
undoubtedly have given me a few more W7 stations. Maybe next year we'll have
160 m contest without handicaps?
73
John, ON4UN
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John Devoldere (ON4UN-AA4OI)
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>From Jimmy R. Floyd" <floydjr at Interpath.com Thu Feb 1 16:19:23 1996
From: Jimmy R. Floyd" <floydjr at Interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 12:19:23 -0400
Subject: CQ 160 Mtr CW Contest 96 Scores III
Message-ID: <199602011723.MAA21987 at mail-hub.interpath.net>
1996 CQ 160 METER CW CONTEST
Raw Scores
Compiled by
WA4ZXA
Date Posted 02/01/96
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!
Please do not submit scores to CQ-Contest Reflector. Send them to me
or the 3830 Reflector.
CALL HRS SCORE Q'S PTS ST/VE DX
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Single/OP/QRP
K0GU 42,222 278 681 52 10
KA1CZF 34,272 300 46 5
VE7CQK 680 20 85 7 1
Single/OP/HP
VP9AD 1,220,880 1630 58 62
VE3EJ 743,971 1287 6953 59 48
G0IVZ 542,016 863 5646 41 55
VE9AA 443,515 678 4145 56 51
WB9Z 430,008 1123 59 55
KC8MK 416,193 1084 58 54
AA5BL 411,000 1165 57 50
W3GH (W9XR) 353,052 1057 58 50
W4MYA 16 331,886 925 3286 54 44
WZ3Q 309,309 963 54 47
K8FC 195,608 703 57 41
K1KI 5 180,928 412 50 38
K2WK 8 177,570 503 51 39
K3JT 173,512 808 56 26
WR30 172,172 746 2002 56 30
NW6N 162,488 669 55 21
C31LJ 12 157,006 512 14 44
N6ZZ 148,068 675 55 26
NC0P 144,780 770 76
OZ1AXG 143,496 350 1993 17 55
W8CAR 140,778 687 1782 52 27
K0EJ 13 131,978 637 1714 52 25
NI8L 12 131,824 638 1712 52 25
OI6YF (OH6YF) 129,584 439 2314 6 50
N3RR 10 122,122 498 47 30
AI7B 120,085 634 1645 56 17
KR4DL 103,842 461 1282 52 29
VE6KRR 95,703 350 1679 52 5
KF3P 6 91,500 432 1220 51 24
WB9HRO 13 91,242 506 58 16
WV5S 89,836 480 55 19
VE6JY 81,114 245 53 13
AB5YG 81,114 518 1229 51 15
K9JF/7 15 75,768 451 1114 56 12
K9MA 5 62,510 333 54 16
K8MR 4 51,035 370 49 10
KC0EI 47,100 347 52 7
N8ATR 44,840 180 590 47 29
W5ASP 6 41,667 321 57
N4OGW/9 3 32,480 215 46 12
WE9V (KS9K) 3 25,596 180 474 43 11
N8RR 2 17,360 84 34 18
Single/OP/LP
K7SV 217,168 816 58 40
KM9P 18 179,742 750 87
VE6WQ 120,734 366 1802 55 12
W5FO 117,068 621 56 18
K04EW 18 103,464 602 55 17
WA6KOI 80,036 501 54 14
WO1N 79,560 420 1105 52 20
K7FR 77,452 478 1156 56 11
KU8E 17 72,964 430 1073 50 18
WX9E 59,085 387 54 11
AL7PT 56,865 221
K9WIE 12 54,492 422 956 52 5
AA7BG 33,276 218 50 9
NW8F 32,791 281 643 43 7
WA8YRS 7 31,311 288 639 49
W3CPB 9 30,381 213 46 11
KM0L 23,348 191 449 45 7
WA7VNI 21 18,630 159 405 46
KE5FI 10 17,850 141 350 42 9
WA7BNM 5 16,468 153 42 4
K5NA 4 14,085 135 313 40 5
KJ6HO 12,768 118 304 36 6
NM1Q 3 6,238 71 28 3
Multi-Single
W1KM 789,538 1380 58 60
KY1H 551,464 1273 4754 58 58
K3WW 448,690 1088 58 52
SL3ZV 376,112 758 4274 24 64
WX0B 176,064 801 55 29
K8DO 25 157,850 872 57 20
DL8OBC 85,332 348 1641 13 39
Mutlit-OP
W2GD 837,000 1515 58 70
DK1NO 482,349 799 4683 35 68
AB4RU 462,735 1108 3955 59 58
WD9INF 202,895 940 56 29
N6DX 200,260 733 2356 57 28
G4BUO 198,922 416 2518 29 50
K7OX 133,200 674 1850 72
K6XO/7 116,178 694 56 11
K3KO 101,634 511 53 25
W6GO 57,120 309 840 55 13
AA8SM 43,859 309 719 49 12
AB6FO 40,016 225 656 49 12
N7AVK 25,000 125 42 11
WB0O 1,404 17 12
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Remember that I do not change anything sent to me. If the scores are
wrong then you need to send email to the people who gave me the scores.
I will only orrect scores that are sent to me by the person with the
score. Classes are according to how they were sent to me.
Read my statement above and it will answer all the questions about MS and
MO.
73's Jim
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