AA4GA idea - ARRL Help?
BK1ZX70SFL at aol.com
BK1ZX70SFL at aol.com
Sat Jun 8 13:38:53 EDT 1996
AA4GA thanks for not volunteering, you Cracker!
Like Lee, I want to make sure my wish list is a full 25 "available"
choices.....and I too wanna know who was/is who. Unlike the last time we did
this stuff I doubt there will be an issue of NCJ devoted to old vs new calls.
Heah KB1GW how about a Vanity Callsign Reflector for us all to get daily
email from since we all don't get enough already, right? Send message with
subscribe in the text to: Vanitycallupdate-request at arrl.organ????
Get your CQ-Contest Mag yet? Nice T-Shirt SM2EKM! I don't know about that
photo of the tower worker in the full body harness, here in Florida he would
sweat to death in that outfit...albeit "safe". K7LXC we do a lot of work in
shorts, someone once said they were a good idea so stuff didn't get snagged
in the pantsleg fabric, an old wives tale? And check out that photo on page
11 - who is that OLD fart that UB5WE is holding up, some codeless tech no
doubt? I got your negatives, pops, right here.
Heah 'GA, did AB4RU use the US Mail, UPS or Fed Ex for his application?
Question.....will we have new calls in time for the Fall contest
season......I'd say its possible, but more likely I will get mine on Monday
November 4th, the day after CW SS!
Jim zx k1zx at contesting.com
>From TREY at TGV.COM (Trey Garlough) Sat Jun 8 18:11:40 1996
From: TREY at TGV.COM (Trey Garlough) (Trey Garlough)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 10:11:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions
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6. Related Mailing Lists
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7.01) Contest Log Submissions
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scorekeeper. He compiles the "score rumors" that are posted to the
3830 and CQ-Contest reflectors.
Contest Name Address
ARRL Contests contest at arrl.org
CQ WPX n8bjq at erinet.com
DARC Worked All Europe (WAE) 100712.2226 at CompuServe.com
NCJ Sprint (CW) tree at contesting.com
NCJ Sprint (SSB) aoniswan at ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu
North American QSO Party (CW) w9nq at ccis.com
North American QSO Party (SSB)merchant at silcom.com
7.02) World Wide Web
Contesting On-line http://www.contesting.com/
ARRL Contest Branch http://www.arrl.org/contests/
CQ Contest Magazine http://www.access.digex.net/~cqmag/
National Contest Journal (NCJ) http://www.waterw.com/~ncj/
KA9FOX Web Page http://www.4w.com/ham/ka9fox/
LA9HW Web Page http://www.sn.no/analme/hammain.html
OH2KI Web Page http://mpoli.fi/~leif/oh2ki.html
WB2K Contest DXpedition Registry http://www.mordor.com/wb2k/dxmenu.html
CT by K1EA Software http://www.ve7tcp.ampr.org/Software/ct/
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This FAQ was written by Trey Garlough, WN4KKN (trey at cisco.COM) and
converted to HTML by Jim Reisert, AD1C (AD1C at tiac.net). Many thanks to Jim
and to everyone else who has contributed to this FAQ.
>From gunnar.unger at mailbox.swipnet.se (Gunnar Unger) Sat Jun 8 18:16:37 1996
From: gunnar.unger at mailbox.swipnet.se (Gunnar Unger) (Gunnar Unger)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 19:16:37 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Logg-checking
Message-ID: <199606081716.TAA20156 at mailbox.swip.net>
I have been involved in some log-checking work regarding testlogs both for
CW and SSB. Can anyone give me some advice about computer checking programs?
Even if there are not so many logs to check, I would prefer to use a
computer programme!
Regards
SM5AAY, Gunnar Unger
>From TREY at TGV.COM (Trey Garlough) Sat Jun 8 20:09:10 1996
From: TREY at TGV.COM (Trey Garlough) (Trey Garlough)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 12:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WPX single op
Message-ID: <834260950.127287.TREY at tgv.com>
> VK5GN writes:
> WPX was always my favourite contest. It was possible to do
> quite well even from the far ends of the earth "down under"
> with the 30 hour provision ..... when I got the strategy
> correct.
> The new structure just suits those operating from the best
> place calling CQ and operating with all the cerebral
> proficiency of the average intellectually challenged
> cockroach!
> Write in your vote for the return of a contest with real
> strategic challenge on your CW entry summary sheet.I will.
It's twue, it's twue! I know Martin will laugh when he reads my
comments written from the W6 perspective, because I'm certian he
considers California to be propagationally blessed in comparison to
South Australia. Nonetheless, I feel these observations scale fairly
well across the planet.
Let's look at why WPX "works" as a 30 hours contest, and doesn't work
as a 36 or 48 hour contest.
o The distance from Boston to Frankfurt is 3668 miles. When things
are going right from W1/W2 you see about 21 hours/day of productive
CQing time into Europe. Under the old 30-hour system, the trick as an
east coast single op was to pick the best 15 of these 21 hours to get
your 30 hours.
o The distance from San Francisco to Frankfurt is 5698 miles, via the
auroral zone. Under current conditions, from W6 you see about 0.5
hours/day of productive CQing time into Europe. The distance from San
Francisco to Tokyo 5124 miles. From W6 you see about 13 hours/day of
productive CQing into Asia. If things are going right, and you
actually get the full 26 hours of DX propagation you are "entitled"
to, then your only concern is figuring out how to pass the time during
that 27-30th hours, probably doing something like working a raft of
0-point W stations and maybe VK5GN.
o Multipliers are only counted once, rather than once per band.
Therefore western USA stations are only penalized 1X for their
inability to work Europe, rather than 6X as in "real" DX contests.
o Japan counts as more than one multiplier. In fact, you can maybe
work 150 different JA prefixes. This is nothing compared to the 600
or so European prefixes you might work in a weekend, yet the ratio of
Euro/JA prefixes (600/150) is much more equitable than the ratio of
Euro/JA DXCC countries, which is something like 50/1.
As you see, this is an outline for a fairly competitive activity for
those of us who have trouble contacting Europe. Under the 30 hour
format it was possible for me to operate under the illusion that I was
competitive, since I had 26 hours during the weekend that I was able
to work meaningful stuff. After all, I was only spotting the east
coast about a 20% advantage in on-time working DX, and that raft of
USA stations I worked during the dead hours would actually yield some
multipliers which helped negate this deficit.
But for those of us living out here, to move the bar from 30 to 36
hours is like saying "let's spot the east coast an *additional* 20%
advantage over the west coast." Right. As if that makes the WPX
a more interesting contest. NOT!
And the official reason for changing the contest from the 30-hour
format to the 36-hour format? "To improve the contest by encouraging
more single-op DXpeditions."
Personally, I find this explanation most confounding for WPX, yet I
would find it compelling for ARRL. Let's say a single op works 300
multipliers in ARRL CW. Consider what would happen if ten additional
CA/Carib countries were activiated by single-ops as a result of some
rule change (such as making expeditions count for club scores): there
would be an additional 60 easy multipliers available during the
contest. Increasing everyones multiplier total from 300 to 360
would be a great improvement!
Now consider WPX. Say a single op works 750 prefixes in WPX SSB.
Consider what would happen if ten additional CA/Carib countries were
activiated by single-ops as a result of some rule change (such as
increasing the on-time from 30 to 36 hours): there would be an
additional *10* easy multipliers available during the contest,
increasing everyones multiplier total from 750 to 760! Am I the
only one who feels this isn't such a great improvement?
I feel that ARRL and CQWW would lose a lot of their appeal to the rank
and file if single op DXpeditions came to an abrupt halt. But if this
happened in WPX, then I can't honestly say I'd notice the difference.
By the way, has the actual number of single op DXpeditions increased
since this initiative? Nope.
Whereas the 36-hour format has failed in its attempt "to improve the
contest by encouraging more single-op DXpeditions," I propse we send
it to the scrap heap and revert back to the more competitive 30-hour
format.
--Trey, WN4KKN/6
>From va3wto at pathcom.com (Rui Wittwer) Sun Jun 9 00:20:32 1996
From: va3wto at pathcom.com (Rui Wittwer) (Rui Wittwer)
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 19:20:32 -0400
Subject: Ameritron al-1200 info please,email was not correct,got no reply`s.
References: <31B8CDE6.62A2 at fpathcom.com> <31B974E6.10BE at fpathcom.com> <31BA060A.6366 at fpathcom.com> <31BA08C8.2B9C at pathcom.com> <31BA0A14.2375 at pathcom.com>
Message-ID: <31BA0AC0.51EB at pathcom.com>
Hello dear AL-1200 USER`S,i will like to inform you about a few thing`s
on my new al-1200,so please i will like some comments if thing`s do not
look right.
With 100 w i do get around 1500 w on the external meter by Diamond but
on the amp it does not show more than 900.
With 30 what`s I do get only 700 w out, also I do not now if this is
grease on contact`s or dust but for the 3 time i ad some arching some
one told me this was grease on contact`s and it will go away after a
few
hour`s of operation.
Hv look`s good,around 3700 on rx and on tx drop`s to around 3600.
Please i will like some coment`s on these obsevation`s on my amp
al-1200.
73 de Rui.
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