Archives?
K7LXC at aol.com
K7LXC at aol.com
Tue Feb 27 18:11:39 EST 1996
I was told that somewhere exists an "archive" of contest reflector
traffic. I couldn't find anything like that in the reflector "help" area.
Where does it exist and how do I access it? I'm still new at this and
appreciate your help.
73, Steve K7LXC
"Up The Tower" now appears in CQ Contest magazine
>From Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> Tue Feb 27 23:13:19 1996
From: Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> (Eddie Stark)
Date: 27 Feb 96 18:13:19 EST
Subject: secrets
Message-ID: <960227231319_100560.3667_EHK46-6 at CompuServe.COM>
Personaly, my secret to try to be the best is:
do a contest to win it, and that's all. Not to participate, but to win. For that
I go someplace to be close Europe or to be close the U.S.
Also a few years calling CQ contest it helps
Best regards
EA3NY (EA9AM CQ WPX SSB 1995)
>From Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> Tue Feb 27 23:13:04 1996
From: Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> (Eddie Stark)
Date: 27 Feb 96 18:13:04 EST
Subject: EA6URP DURING SSB ARRL DX CONTEST
Message-ID: <960227231303_100560.3667_EHK46-3 at CompuServe.COM>
Dear Contesters;
I have just a few minutes to tell you that I will be on EA6URP for the SSB ARRL
DX CONTEST. My station will be:
1.- FT-1000D Yaesu
1.- AL- 82 Ameritron
1.-TH-7DXX Hy-Gain 10-15-20
1.- D-40 Cushcraft 40
1.- Sloper Home made 80
1.- Computer with CT program
10.- fingers
1.- mouth
1.- foot (with foot-swich included)
See you on my log
QSL's are "free" via Bureau. ?bizare?, no, I don't think so !
Eddie Stark
EA3NY
(EA9AM CQ SSB WPX 1995)
(EA6URP CQ SSB WW 1995)
>From Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> Tue Feb 27 23:13:09 1996
From: Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> (Eddie Stark)
Date: 27 Feb 96 18:13:09 EST
Subject: Western Sahara in CQ WPX SSB 1996
Message-ID: <960227231309_100560.3667_EHK46-4 at CompuServe.COM>
Dear friends:
*I have plans to operate from S0 land. Western Sahara will be my next
destination to run the CQ SSB WPX contest. I will be alone, Mono-operator,
multiband, high power.
*The antennas and equipemment arrived last week to destination; Western sahara
territory.
*Normaly I am using Yaesu transceivers. In my shack I have a FT-1000D, but It
was impossible to bring it with me, ( I did it normaly in EA9AM and EA6URP) but
transport this excelent equipement in the middle of the dessert is no possible.
Any way I do not hesitate to take the FT-900. This excelent transceiver do an
excelent job, and I saw in some photos that good contesters are working with the
TS-850, I thought that with the FT-900 I can do better, much better.
*The antennas was also a big problem. What can I use?. But I did not think too
much longer, I decided for the Cushcraft A4S for 10, 15 and 20 meters. For 40
meters I will work with another Cushcraft antenna, the D40. I used it in Melilla
(EA9 CQ SSB WW 1994) and in balearic island (EA6 CQ SSB WW 1995), and I am very
happy with it. For 80 meters I will use a new antenna from Cushcraft, the new
vertical. Of course I must have lot's of radials. The desert is not very good
for that!!.
*Maybe you want a speak about power, let's talk!. The linear I will use is the
FL-7000 from Yaesu. 500~600 watts output. Full automatic. and of course, no
tubes. Normaly I use the Ameritron amplifier. NEVER FAILED!!! but this time I
have no power to use more watts. Of course the Yaesu is Full automatic and it
will be great for me, I will be only for the pile-up!! hi hi.
*I also sent a power generator. The bigs generators from S0 are not open all
day, for that i must sent one to have full power during the 36 hours of contest.
Well now it's time to leave, I must prepare all transceivers to go to EA6
tomorrow for the SSB ARRL DX CONTEST.
Best Regards
EA3NY
(EA9AM CQ SSB WPX 1995)
(EA6URP CQ SSB WW 1995)
S01LYNX, S01EA
>From Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> Tue Feb 27 23:13:15 1996
From: Eddie Stark <100560.3667 at compuserve.com> (Eddie Stark)
Date: 27 Feb 96 18:13:15 EST
Subject: Thanks to everybody (EA9AM in WPX 1995 SSB)
Message-ID: <960227231314_100560.3667_EHK46-5 at CompuServe.COM>
Dear Contesters;
I would like to thank to all who worked my during CQ WPX SSB 1995. My bigest
thanks are for all JA stations who were calling more than 5 hours. As maybe you
know I won the CQ SSB WPX contest, second place is P40R. I worked 4300q's and
P40R 4900, but because of lot's JA stations I did 1022 multipliers. The
difference betwen P40R and me was 70.000 points, (Very close, UFFFF!).
Best regards to all, thank-you again and see you next SSB WPX in S0 land. I will
be on Western Sahara for the contest. I will participate Mono-operator,
Multiband, High power.
See details on other reflector e-mail.
Eddie Stark
EA3NY
(EA9AM CQ SSB WPX 1995)
(EA6URP CQ SSB WW 1995)
S01LYNX, S01EA,.....
>From oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Tue Feb 27 23:51:01 1996
From: oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:51:01 -0600
Subject: KM9P: 10 strikes and you're out! de W2CRS
>>I've always thought that there should be a rule in contesting...
>>If you don't work someone in 10 CQ's and someone calls you on
>>it, you MUST move.
That 10th CQ is going to be a mighty long one -
Derek AA5BT, G3NMX
oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu
>From Tyler Barnett <tbarnett at lexmark.com> Wed Feb 28 00:08:50 1996
From: Tyler Barnett <tbarnett at lexmark.com> (Tyler Barnett)
Date: 27 Feb 96 19:08:50 EST
Subject: Charge Card Warranties
Message-ID: <199602280005.AA06089 at interlock.lexmark.com>
This is probably the wrong place to ask this question, but here goes:
When you buy a kilo-buck radio, and use your charge card, I hear that
IF you use the right charge card, you can get certain tangible benefits like:
- Double warranty
- Insurance
- Credits toward a new car, etc :-)
I am leading a sheltered life, having one Mastercard with $0.00 balance, and no
annual fee.
No, you can't have it, but I'd like to find another one to use specifically for
this purpose.
Has anyone got a real VISA/MC winner out there, and used it as such?
Regards, Tyler N4TY
>From n3rr at cais.cais.com (Bill Hider) Wed Feb 28 00:34:11 1996
From: n3rr at cais.cais.com (Bill Hider) (Bill Hider)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:34:11 -0500
Subject: Tic-Ring EMI
Message-ID: <199602280034.TAA03466 at cais.cais.com>
At 05:04 AM 2/27/96 -0500, AB5YG at aol.com wrote:
>Forgot to mention that I eliminated the EMI to the Tic-Ring Control Box by
>doing the following:
>
>1. Plugged control box into grounded outlet! I had it plugged into a 2 wire
>ext. cord --yuk!
>2. Installed .1ufd 100V caps from each terminal on control unit to ground.
>3. Fixed tower ground - 1 1/2" copper straps from each leg just above bottom
>joint to individual ground rods all tied to the "common ground".
>4. Installed Polyphaser rotor MOVs just above the ground straps ----
>
>Now -- The LED does not light nor does the position meter deflect (with
>control unit power off) on any band running 1500 watts out into the slopers
>or beams.
>
>73's - Bill - AB5YG
>
>
I have done all but # 2 above and now have #4 wire to ground on tower, but
will add 1.5 inch strap this spring.
I haven't had any prob (knock on galvanized steel) w/TIC meter/pots...
Bill, N3RR
>From n3rr at cais.cais.com (Bill Hider) Wed Feb 28 00:48:05 1996
From: n3rr at cais.cais.com (Bill Hider) (Bill Hider)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:48:05 -0500
Subject: Charge Card Warranties
Message-ID: <199602280048.TAA05289 at cais.cais.com>
Good question, but most charge cards have stopped this "service". Exception
I know is AMEX, at least for now. So, buy your CONTEST rig with the right card!
Bill, N3RR
At 07:08 PM 2/27/96 EST, Tyler Barnett wrote:
>This is probably the wrong place to ask this question, but here goes:
>When you buy a kilo-buck radio, and use your charge card, I hear that
>IF you use the right charge card, you can get certain tangible benefits like:
>- Double warranty
>- Insurance
>- Credits toward a new car, etc :-)
>I am leading a sheltered life, having one Mastercard with $0.00 balance,
and no
>annual fee.
>No, you can't have it, but I'd like to find another one to use specifically
for
>this purpose.
>Has anyone got a real VISA/MC winner out there, and used it as such?
>Regards, Tyler N4TY
>
>From Bill Fisher, KM9P" <km9p at akorn.net Wed Feb 28 00:51:29 1996
From: Bill Fisher, KM9P" <km9p at akorn.net (Bill Fisher, KM9P)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:51:29 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Attenuators
Message-ID: <199602280051.TAA18336 at paris.akorn.net>
AA7FL asks:
>Bill:
>
>Do you find that you have to run your attenuator often?
I had originally complained on the TenTec reflector about the lack of a 10db
position on the attenuator. I received so many emails asking if I actually
used an attenuator, that I thought I would answer here.
YES!! I use an attenuator OFTEN (Never on 15 or 10). It's always in line
during the SS on 40 and 20. It's amazing what a little attenuation will do
for you some times. KR0Y used to use beverages on 20M at K4VX during SS to
achieve the same result.
73
Bill
>From Big Don <bigdon at eskimo.com> Wed Feb 28 00:53:18 1996
From: Big Don <bigdon at eskimo.com> (Big Don)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:53:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject: How to Separate Tubing?
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960227164622.7577B-100000 at eskimo.com>
On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, David & Barbara Leeson wrote:
> [...]
> If that doesn't work you are left with carefully cutting the outer
> tubing in a spiral with a hacksaw so it separates from the inner tube,
> then making up a splice with new tubing, including a piece that fits
> around the larger tube. Or you can simply replace the larger tube with
> a new one at this point.
If the desperation level reaches the point of cutting the outer tubing,
a better way to do it is with a Dremel Moto-tool and the infamous
"dangerous disc" cutting wheel (those half-millimeter thick carbide
discs that explode if they bind up in the cut).
With this tool, you can make a straight cut down the tubing axially,
sometimes it even takes two cuts 180 deg apart, and pry it apart
sufficiently to loosen the inner tube. The advantage is it is re-usable
with a couple of extra clamps.
The cuts can be made with surgical precision, I've even used this method
to separate aged mufflers from exhaust pipes.
Big Don
>From kb8pk at tc3net.com (Kevin J. Grammes) Wed Feb 28 00:57:24 1996
From: kb8pk at tc3net.com (Kevin J. Grammes) (Kevin J. Grammes)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:57:24 -0000
Subject: KG8PE, how did you get interested in contesting?
Message-ID: <01BB0577.E1672120 at tc3dialin04.tc3net.com>
K1ZX asked how I got interested in contesting....well....=20
After I got my license I was looking through a drawer in our operating =
desk and I saw a couple of awards. I asked my dad what they were and he =
said that they were from contests and he told me what a contest was.=20
My teacher was also a ham (a contester K8AQM) and I had seen that he =
had a lot of awards too. I wanted awards!!! In 1994 my teacher invited =
me over for the California QSO Party multi op. I really enjoyed that =
and from then on I was hooked. In the last year and a half , I have =
mostly operated from our station low power Icom 737a, and Mosley PRO67B =
at 65 ft. and INVVEE for 80m (no 160 ). When my sister was thinking =
about getting her license I let her operate some of the 95 California =
QSO Party as a multi op , she also enjoyed it. I think the best way to =
get other hams interested is to let them over and operate a contest from =
a big station as multi-op. But the best way to learn the skills is with =
low power and work for it.(don't be an alligator)
73 , Mike KG8PE
via internet: kb8pk at tc3net.com
KB8PK writes- I continue to push Mike to enter and operate contests so =
he can see if you set goals and commit to making the goal you can =
usually do it , I hope this spills over into everday life. With =
teenagers there are many competing interests , ie. computers , video =
games , etc. and sometimes he is more interested in other things, but =
the fact remains this hobby has all that and more available ( the =
logging program and cw operating if presented correctly can be viewed as =
a real time game) . I was licensed when I was 13 and wish I had his =
abillities when I started out. This hobby helped build my background and =
latter , directly led to my current career choice (air traffic control). =
I would urge anyone with any interest at all in promoting youth =
involvement to make some time available to present this hobby , and =
contesting in particular to young people either in scouting , church =
groups , local schools or colleges etc. I have found you will usually =
find one person in a group who will take an interest and if given =
motivational guidance will continue on in this hobby. There are a =
couple of local hams here in Mich.
Ted K8AQM and Mike KG8CW who have done this with Mike and I personally =
express thanks for ther time. 73 de Kevin KB8PK
>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> Wed Feb 28 00:55:26 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Steven Sample)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:55:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: N6TR Comments CQ 160 SSB contest & Hogging a frequency
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960227194049.1599A-100000 at iglou>
Dr. Bafoof:
There you go again!!! Who took your muzzle off this time, the Green Hornet?
You know, I cannot guarantee your safety if you keep coming out with
ideas such as these that malign 160 meters! Remember, some of us LIKE
rubber rooms, and we hand out on 160 95% of the time. Don't be messin'
around with our territory! I'll be the Hornet doesn't know you talk like
that!
Any more of these outbursts from you, and I'm going to seek the most heinous
punishment known to ham-radiodom...the dreaded FISH HEAD GAS CHAMBER!!!
Your good friend and Wedge (head) operator...
Steve (Junior) (Slim) (Whitman) Sample / AA9AX
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Spike Lazar wrote:
> > N6TR:
> > I guess it would be nice to come up with a magic formula that minimizes
> > having to monopolize spectrum to work guys at 15/20 an hour all night long,
> > and shutting out fresh meat. Without that, I guess I will have
> > to take advantage of such opportunities as they come along to maximize
> > the number of stations I can hand out QSOs to.
>
> > KM9P:
> > I've always thought that there should be a rule in contesting... If you
> > don't work someone in 10 CQ's and someone calls you on it, you MUST move.
> > Then we'd find out who the ops are and those that are not. Or at least
> > we'de shake things up a bit. Doubt K1AR would have to move from 14.150.5
> > though.
> **************************************************************************
>
> Since the 160 meter contests are monobanders, the activity just doesn't
> justify a two day event. Especially with three major 160 events almost
> back to back.
>
> You run good rates the first day and waste spectrum the second by endless
> cq's. If all of us endless cq'ers qsy above 1900, it will just repeat itself
> at the top end of the band, nothing is gained nothing is lost. Less than
> 10% of the participants in this contest put in a full time effort, so whats
> the sense of another marathon?
>
> In the beginning this contest was a good idea at the time, but the
> participants, equipment and antennas have evolved, and who really knows
> what the purpose of the contest is now?, It has the least strategy of
> any major event! (My strategy is to sleep with my nose on F1)
>
> Stop the insanity, let me out of this rubber room (160 meters), help they're
> coming to take me away away, they're coming to take me away! (FHG)
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Dr. Bafoofnik, **** (call witheld by asylum keeper)
>
>
>
>From Bill Turner <wrt at eskimo.com> Wed Feb 28 01:41:37 1996
From: Bill Turner <wrt at eskimo.com> (Bill Turner)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:41:37 -0800
Subject: How to Separate Tubing?
Message-ID: <199602280142.RAA15741 at mail.eskimo.com>
At 04:53 PM 2/27/96 -0800, Big Don wrote:
>If the desperation level reaches the point of cutting the outer tubing,
>a better way to do it is with a Dremel Moto-tool and the infamous
>"dangerous disc" cutting wheel (those half-millimeter thick carbide
>discs that explode if they bind up in the cut).
-snip-
-------------------------------------------------------
Please be aware that there are two thicknesses of Dremel cutting wheel
available. The thinner one will break with the slightest provocation, but
the thicker one is pretty tough in comparison. It WILL break if it gets
bound up badly enough, but I'd say it is at least ten times stronger.
73, Bill W7LZP
wrt at eskimo.com
>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> Wed Feb 28 01:42:45 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Steven Sample)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:42:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: 160 Contests
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960227202428.1599E-100000 at iglou>
On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 Dave.Wilson at conner.com wrote:
> I will starty the ball rolling, here are my list of requirements for 160
> contests, please let me know what you think.....
>
> 1 Each contest to last from "local dawn to dusk" not from 'x' hours Zulu
Hummmmm.....Naaaaah!
> 2 Points based upon radial measurement from stations QTH.
Hummmmmm....O.K. Good idea!
> 3 Band split into 3, .....non participants....US EAST + US West.....DX....
Hummmmm....What about the MIDDLE?????? (Guess where I'm from?)
> 4 DX to US qsos can only be between windows ie split freq only.
Hummmmmm...Splits are a pain. Naaaaah!
> 5 Each organiser must appoint someone who's job is to tune the band logging
> infringements. Disqualification rewards bad operating behaviour.
Huuummmmmm....Will these Kilocycle Kops have rank? These kops need
to have quasi-judicial immunity and a term of several years during
which they can make their "band busts" without fear of reprisal or
fear of losing their status. O.K.
> 6 QSO must include serial number, lets reintroduce some skill into the qso
Hummmmm...O.K. by me. How about a six-digit serial number which
must have at least one alphameric and one numeric operand? Perhaps
we could send encrypted exchanges, then send a secret decoder to the
contest chairperson under seperate cover!
I sleep during the daylight anyway. I don't think most of us low power
hackers can raise enough stink during midday to arouse our rate clocks.
Anyway...I can't speak for everyone. These 160 tests are fun, but there
are pros and cons that seem to tailor themselves to each operators
private life and whims. In my case, I have a high-angle radiator (160
meter loop at 50 feet), and am not competitive in a DX test on 160. I am
very competitive in a domestic test on 160 however, although the guys
with better (or multiple) transmitting antennas seem to edge me out. I
find 160 to be my favorite contest band, but for the reasons described
above-I find the ARRL 160 meter test to be much more to my liking. I
stay out of the window because it has dense concentrations of deadly Fish
Head Gas or Anchovie Paste Acid Gas (per Doctor Baffoffnik).
No sharks here!
> Thats enough to begin with, I will await the shark attack...
>
> Thouhts, ideas, grumbles and mumbles, lets hear it all and lets DO SOMETHING!
>
> Regards to you all, without you 160 would be really boring!!
>
> Dave AA0RS / G3SZA
> >
I agree, Dave. And 160 (along with you participants) is NOT boring. I
love it!
73... Steve / AA9AX
>From Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com Tue Feb 27 01:05:22 1996
From: Fred Hopengarten" <k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com (Fred Hopengarten)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:05:22 EST
Subject: Contesters/Stock Market Correlation
Message-ID: <313258d3.k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com>
Has it ever occurred to you that there is a correlation
between contesting and the stock market?
OH2BH is visiting with telecommunications officials and
travelling to places like Albania, North Korea, China,
Macau. Hmmm. Perhaps Nokia is expanding into new
international markets like crazy.
W6QHS is a fun kinda guy and things he does work. I'll bet
California Microwave is a pretty interesting place.
K1EA is employee #11 at Stratus Computer. They build a nice
computer. He leaves, the company announces layoffs.
K3NA is selling like crazy for Alcatel overseas (how else do
you think he gets those frequent flyer miles?). They must
have something interesting going on.
KJ4VH seems to be overseas a lot. UPS is creating a bigger
presence globally.
K1DG seems to be absent on business trips a lot. I'll bet
Analog-Devices is doing well.
I am sure that there are other stories out there involving
contesters that just don't come to mind at the moment.
Furthermore, while AC1O/4 and K2SX are contester stock
market analysts, I'm not.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. [After, therefore because of.]
A Latin expression for a logical fallacy. I understand that
stock market analysis by anecdote is not characterized by
rigorous causal relationships. However, I would remind you
of these facts. In 1990, Continental Cablevision owned 46
percent of my company, Channel One. They proceeded to buy
out my shares and those of my partner. After I was gone,
things only got better for Continental Cablevision, which
sold out to U.S. West today.
--
Fred Hopengarten K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
home + office telephone: 617/259-0088 (FAX on demand)
internet: k1vr at k1vr.jjm.com
"Big antennas, high in the sky, are better
than small ones, low."
>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> Wed Feb 28 00:55:26 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Paul Ramey)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:55:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: N6TR Comments CQ 160 SSB contest & Hogging a frequency
Message-ID: <16000107.058d at ram.net>
Dr. Bafoof:
There you go again!!! Who took your muzzle off this time, the Green Hornet?
You know, I cannot guarantee your safety if you keep coming out with
ideas such as these that malign 160 meters! Remember, some of us LIKE
rubber rooms, and we hand out on 160 95% of the time. Don't be messin'
around with our territory! I'll be the Hornet doesn't know you talk like
that!
Any more of these outbursts from you, and I'm going to seek the most heinous
punishment known to ham-radiodom...the dreaded FISH HEAD GAS CHAMBER!!!
Your good friend and Wedge (head) operator...
Steve (Junior) (Slim) (Whitman) Sample / AA9AX
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Spike Lazar wrote:
> > N6TR:
> > I guess it would be nice to come up with a magic formula that minimizes
> > having to monopolize spectrum to work guys at 15/20 an hour all night long,
> > and shutting out fresh meat. Without that, I guess I will have
> > to take advantage of such opportunities as they come along to maximize
> > the number of stations I can hand out QSOs to.
>
> > KM9P:
> > I've always thought that there should be a rule in contesting... If you
> > don't work someone in 10 CQ's and someone calls you on it, you MUST move.
> > Then we'd find out who the ops are and those that are not. Or at least
> > we'de shake things up a bit. Doubt K1AR would have to move from 14.150.5
> > though.
> **************************************************************************
>
> Since the 160 meter contests are monobanders, the activity just doesn't
> justify a two day event. Especially with three major 160 events almost
> back to back.
>
> You run good rates the first day and waste spectrum the second by endless
> cq's. If all of us endless cq'ers qsy above 1900, it will just repeat itself
> at the top end of the band, nothing is gained nothing is lost. Less than
> 10% of the participants in this contest put in a full time effort, so whats
> the sense of another marathon?
>
> In the beginning this contest was a good idea at the time, but the
> participants, equipment and antennas have evolved, and who really knows
> what the purpose of the contest is now?, It has the least strategy of
> any major event! (My strategy is to sleep with my nose on F1)
>
> Stop the insanity, let me out of this rubber room (160 meters), help they're
> coming to take me away away, they're coming to take me away! (FHG)
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Dr. Bafoofnik, **** (call witheld by asylum keeper)
>
>
>
>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> Wed Feb 28 00:55:26 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Paul Ramey)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:55:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: N6TR Comments CQ 160 SSB contest & Hogging a frequency
Message-ID: <16000107.058e at ram.net>
Dr. Bafoof:
There you go again!!! Who took your muzzle off this time, the Green Hornet?
You know, I cannot guarantee your safety if you keep coming out with
ideas such as these that malign 160 meters! Remember, some of us LIKE
rubber rooms, and we hand out on 160 95% of the time. Don't be messin'
around with our territory! I'll be the Hornet doesn't know you talk like
that!
Any more of these outbursts from you, and I'm going to seek the most heinous
punishment known to ham-radiodom...the dreaded FISH HEAD GAS CHAMBER!!!
Your good friend and Wedge (head) operator...
Steve (Junior) (Slim) (Whitman) Sample / AA9AX
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Spike Lazar wrote:
> > N6TR:
> > I guess it would be nice to come up with a magic formula that minimizes
> > having to monopolize spectrum to work guys at 15/20 an hour all night long,
> > and shutting out fresh meat. Without that, I guess I will have
> > to take advantage of such opportunities as they come along to maximize
> > the number of stations I can hand out QSOs to.
>
> > KM9P:
> > I've always thought that there should be a rule in contesting... If you
> > don't work someone in 10 CQ's and someone calls you on it, you MUST move.
> > Then we'd find out who the ops are and those that are not. Or at least
> > we'de shake things up a bit. Doubt K1AR would have to move from 14.150.5
> > though.
> **************************************************************************
>
> Since the 160 meter contests are monobanders, the activity just doesn't
> justify a two day event. Especially with three major 160 events almost
> back to back.
>
> You run good rates the first day and waste spectrum the second by endless
> cq's. If all of us endless cq'ers qsy above 1900, it will just repeat itself
> at the top end of the band, nothing is gained nothing is lost. Less than
> 10% of the participants in this contest put in a full time effort, so whats
> the sense of another marathon?
>
> In the beginning this contest was a good idea at the time, but the
> participants, equipment and antennas have evolved, and who really knows
> what the purpose of the contest is now?, It has the least strategy of
> any major event! (My strategy is to sleep with my nose on F1)
>
> Stop the insanity, let me out of this rubber room (160 meters), help they're
> coming to take me away away, they're coming to take me away! (FHG)
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Dr. Bafoofnik, **** (call witheld by asylum keeper)
>
>
>
>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> Wed Feb 28 00:55:26 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Paul Ramey)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:55:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: N6TR Comments CQ 160 SSB contest & Hogging a frequency
Message-ID: <16000107.0590 at ram.net>
Dr. Bafoof:
There you go again!!! Who took your muzzle off this time, the Green Hornet?
You know, I cannot guarantee your safety if you keep coming out with
ideas such as these that malign 160 meters! Remember, some of us LIKE
rubber rooms, and we hand out on 160 95% of the time. Don't be messin'
around with our territory! I'll be the Hornet doesn't know you talk like
that!
Any more of these outbursts from you, and I'm going to seek the most heinous
punishment known to ham-radiodom...the dreaded FISH HEAD GAS CHAMBER!!!
Your good friend and Wedge (head) operator...
Steve (Junior) (Slim) (Whitman) Sample / AA9AX
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Spike Lazar wrote:
> > N6TR:
> > I guess it would be nice to come up with a magic formula that minimizes
> > having to monopolize spectrum to work guys at 15/20 an hour all night long,
> > and shutting out fresh meat. Without that, I guess I will have
> > to take advantage of such opportunities as they come along to maximize
> > the number of stations I can hand out QSOs to.
>
> > KM9P:
> > I've always thought that there should be a rule in contesting... If you
> > don't work someone in 10 CQ's and someone calls you on it, you MUST move.
> > Then we'd find out who the ops are and those that are not. Or at least
> > we'de shake things up a bit. Doubt K1AR would have to move from 14.150.5
> > though.
> **************************************************************************
>
> Since the 160 meter contests are monobanders, the activity just doesn't
> justify a two day event. Especially with three major 160 events almost
> back to back.
>
> You run good rates the first day and waste spectrum the second by endless
> cq's. If all of us endless cq'ers qsy above 1900, it will just repeat itself
> at the top end of the band, nothing is gained nothing is lost. Less than
> 10% of the participants in this contest put in a full time effort, so whats
> the sense of another marathon?
>
> In the beginning this contest was a good idea at the time, but the
> participants, equipment and antennas have evolved, and who really knows
> what the purpose of the contest is now?, It has the least strategy of
> any major event! (My strategy is to sleep with my nose on F1)
>
> Stop the insanity, let me out of this rubber room (160 meters), help they're
> coming to take me away away, they're coming to take me away! (FHG)
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Dr. Bafoofnik, **** (call witheld by asylum keeper)
>
>
>
>From GOOSE WD8LLD <GOOSTER at delphi.com> Wed Feb 28 04:30:03 1996
From: GOOSE WD8LLD <GOOSTER at delphi.com> (GOOSE WD8LLD)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:30:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: vcr interference
Message-ID: <01I1Q4Z9ISOY9FSCH7 at delphi.com>
Something that I tried that works very well on the cable is the use of a
commom mode rejection filter. You can get all the parts at your local Radio
Shack. You will need the following:
2) 75 ohm (coaxial) to 300 ohm (twinlead) transformere
1) 300 ohm (twinlead type) high pass filter.
1) 75 ohm coaxial jumper
Disconnect the cable from the TV or VCR and connect the jumper in its place.
To the open end of the jumper and the now open end of the Cable, commect the
transformers. Now connect the twinlead outputs of the transformers to the
300 ohm high pass filter.
This type of filter breaks the shield of the coax along which most of the RF
from the ham xmtr travels. It was written up in CQ about 6 years ago and
works very well here at WD8LLD. Incidently, the cable leakage
through this filter is negligible due to the extremely short lead lengths on
the 300 ohm side of the transformers (for those of you that are worried
about the guys from the cable company that are now roaming around with the
leakage sniffers).
Give it a try, you'll like it and the total cost ia about 10 bucks!
73..........de Goose, WD8LLD "gooster at delphi.com"
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