W7IVX

Charley.Shaffer at ci.seattle.wa.us Charley.Shaffer at ci.seattle.wa.us
Fri Feb 2 07:03:19 EST 1996


     Was someone on here looking for W7IVX?  He is a silent key.  It was 
     approximately in the late 1980's that he passed away.  He lived in or 
     near Coos Bay, Oregon, and had a big signal on 75 meters.
     -Charley, K7NW

>From Jimmy R. Floyd" <floydjr at Interpath.com  Fri Feb  2 14:27:57 1996
From: Jimmy R. Floyd" <floydjr at Interpath.com (Jimmy R. Floyd)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 10:27:57 -0400
Subject: CQ 160 Mtr CW Contest Scores 96 IV
Message-ID: <199602021531.KAA02388 at mail-hub.interpath.net>

1996 CQ 160 METER CW CONTEST
Raw Scores

Compiled by
WA4ZXA

Date Posted 02/02/96


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

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

ON4UN                         1,133,370     1275      8995      47     79
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
K1IU                10          250,357      570      2581      51     46
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
N4BP                             48,768      302       762          64
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                11           59,085      387                54     11
K9WIE               12           54,492      422       956      52      5
AA7BG                            33,276      218                50      9
NW8F                             32,791      281       643      43      7
N2BIM                            32,214      225                47     12
WA8YRS               7           31,311      288       639          49
W3CPB                9           30,381      213                46     11
AL7PT                            26,221      512                45      6
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
KC7KUH                           81,575      494      1255      54     11
WA3WJD                                       635      1874      57     35


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

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL SCORES!!!! DO NOT TRY TO SEND ME LOGS!!! I do not
have anything to do with CQ Magazine or this contest. 

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



>From jreid at aloha.net (Jim Reid)  Fri Feb  2 19:32:03 1996
From: jreid at aloha.net (Jim Reid) (Jim Reid)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 09:32:03 -1000
Subject: International Impacting Emergencies and Contesters
Message-ID: <199602021932.JAA24878 at hookomo.aloha.net>

My antenna tower zone variance request and use permit had
been held up for 6 months by the Kauai County Planning
Commission chairman and one of the island Deputy
District Attorneys.  Had lots of help from ARRl volunteer
attorney from Maui,  who was writing letters and visiting
Kauai and Board of Health Director of the state of Hawaii
in Honolulu,  as one of my neighbors had raised the issue
of electromagnetic radiation hazards probable from my
High Power 1.5 kW station just over the fence from his
kids and pet's play yard!  So we were trying to clear
two hurdles:  the visual impact issue and the radiation
hazard issue. All was at a standstill until September 17th,
1992,  when Huriccane Iniki wiped out almost everything
here on the island,  including all public communications and
power;  both were out for over a month,  over the entire island!

However,  my HF gear came thru just fine, as did about 25 feet
or so of my antenna support.  My big 4-el quad was almost
totaly demolished,  except for the driven element, the matching
xfrmr at  the feed point and the coax.  One day after Iniki,   I  got
a neighbor who had a generator going (he was working for
an on-site construction company that used generators at
remot construction projects--generators soon became more
valuable on this island than just about everything else,  except
perhaps food)., to allow me to run a long extension to his generator
and get power to my rig.  We thru the driven element of the quad after
untangling it from among the mess of the rest of the boom and quad
elements,  up over the top of my "tower".  There,  it formed a very
useful 20 meter band horizontal loop.  With that I easily got into 
contact with the 14268 UN emergency net links in California and
Washington.  Spent the next two or three weeks sending traffic of all 
sorts off island,  took practically no traffic in,  as there was actually
no way to distribute it.  But many,  many residents, and the Waimea
hospital used my station for hearlth,  welfare,  and supplies request
to the mainland, Canada,   Japan,  and Europe,  all relayed via the US mainland
of course.

At the very first post-Iniki meeting of the Planning Commision,   my zoneing
variance and use permits were granted with no discussion of any
of the negative  issues raised by my neighbors;  they had been withdrawn!
I was even awarded some bottles of Jack Daniels by my neighbors!
My compromises I had offored months before were accepted,  and now
my neighbors and I get along just fine.  They seem secure in knowing that
emergency communications will probably be available right next door
next time they will be needed.  I now have my own  5kW Honda
generator;  which reminds my,  I better go start it up and let it run for
awhile,  also check the fuel and oil levels,  we never know when a
good storm may sweep across Kauai again,  tho hurricane "season"
is over for now,  still,  very strong winter low fronts are crosing the 
Pacific just
to our North,  wouldn't take too much for one of them to divert South a
bit to hit our 22N latitude.  Pays to be ready out here.

73,   Jim, AH6NB


>From Mike Fulcher <kc7v at primenet.com>  Fri Feb  2 20:34:17 1996
From: Mike Fulcher <kc7v at primenet.com> (Mike Fulcher)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:34:17 -0700 (MST)
Subject: KC7V Antenna Farm
Message-ID: <199602022034.NAA08143 at usr2.primenet.com>

Bill, W0ZV, asked me to post a description of my antenna farm that appeared
on the cover of CQ Magazine's Feb issue.

I am flattered that CQ published it!

I live 30 miles Northeast of downtown Phoenix on 2 1/2 acres of desert land.
If any of you have heard of the Boulders resort, I am just 3 miles from it.

The picture is looking toward the Southwest. There are 4 towers, 3 are 100
feet tall and 1 is a 50 ft. crankup.

The front tall tower (right) has 4/4/4/4 on 15 meters (20,52,84 and 116
ft.).  The bottom 3 are fixed EU.  At 102 ft is a 2 el Force 12 80m beam.
There is an 11 el 6m beam on a Tic rotating ring at 60 ft.

The 2nd tower (left front) has 4/4/4/4 on 10m (20,44,68,92 ft.) all fixed on
Asia.  There is a 6 el 20 at 60 feet on a Tic rotating ring and another 6 el
20 at 102ft.  A 3 el KLM 30m beam rests on the mast at 118 ft.

The 3rd tall tower (center) has a 4 el 40m M2 at 102 ft. and 7/7/7/7 on 10m
(20,52,84,116 ft)..with the bottom 3 fixed on EU.  There is also 6/6 KLM 6
el 15m beams fixed on Asia at 40 and 70 ft.

In back, (just to the left of the first tower) is the crankup.  It has a C3
tribander at about 60ft., a 4 el 17 Force 12 at 54 ft. and a 6 el 12m DX
Eng.) at 48 ft.

Intermixed between the 3 big towers is a 4 square 80m vertical array.  They
are shortened Force 12 verticals elevated 10ft on a section of Rohn 25.
Each has 4 elevated radials.  I use a quarter wave sloper for 160m off one
tower with the top at 95ft.  I also have an 80/160 sloping dipole facing SW
off another tower at 95ft.

Things are a little crowded on 2 1/2 acres.  The big towers are about 75 ft.
apart on an L shape, but everything works well.  I have not tried a multi
single yet, but plan too in the future.

The rigs are a FT1000 MP and a TS 930s.  Amps are an Alpha 86 and Alpha 76CA.  

I have 5 beverages spread out (across the neighboring 2 1/2 vacant acres)
which run anywhere from 550 to 650 ft.

I have not tried to shunt feed the 2 Saguaro cactus.

CU on the bands.

73 de Mike
KC7V
                        ===================
                         Mike Fulcher KC7V
                       VooDoo Contest Group
                         kc7v at primenet.com
                ("VooDoo" - White magic from Africa)       


>From De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu>  Fri Feb  2 20:47:15 1996
From: De Syam <syam at Glue.umd.edu> (De Syam)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 15:47:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: K3ZO Comments, CQ 160 Meter CW Test
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960202154426.17333B-100000 at assembly.eng.umd.edu>

K3ZO Comments re CQ 160 meter contest.
 
In order to be different I decided to concentrate on the REF CW
Contest this year, where I had 305 QSOs.  Since it didn't start
until 0600 GMT Saturday I played around in the 160 contest some on
Friday night.  Conditions were OK but thunderstorms in W4-land made
QRN a bit heavy.  The window was pretty well respected and I got
some DX there.  I4JMY had a surprisingly strong signal, better than
John, ON4UN.  Hard to believe at times that he was in Europe.
 
I chanced to listen Saturday night at about 0100 and found the band
very quiet and good to Europe, so I stayed for a while.  Called a
number of Europeans including some outside the window who were
holding their own with the W's.  Then I nestled in a little above
1840 and started running people, and I estimate that one-third of
my callers were Europeans.  After playing with antennas I found
that my 80-meter half sloper was a good receiving antenna for them. 
Normally that antenna has S9+ line noise on 160 but some rain had
quieted down my principal source of line noise, a 69-kv line about
1-1/2 blocks from the house.
 
I missed the JA opening both mornings, but did have 4X4NJ call me
for an Asian QSO.
 
The 79 10-pointers were a pretty good ratio to my 542 total QSO's,
and I thoroughly enjoyed the nine hours I put into this contest.
 
The rig is a TS-830-S driving a Titan 425 and the antennas are two
half-slopers to the SE and W off 140 feet of Rohn 80 tower, which
also holds 80 and 20 meter monoband Yagis.
 
                                      Very 73,
 
                                     Fred Laun, K3ZO              
   




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