July QST out

[HENRYPOL at aol.com]

Not sure when this issue arrived at the PO box; was on business trip (no, not
fishing) first of week.

Front cover photo of some Sweds raising a KLM KT34.

Contest related articles: Results 95 ARRL 10 Meter Contest; An Improved
Multiband Trap Dipole Antenna; Product Review - JPS NIR-12 DSP; The Droopy
Loop (a stealth antenna!); and (how timely) QSLing W4KFC Phone Contest
Operations from KV4 and KZ5 (just kidding! :-)).

Other notable items: DC Currents - FCC looks at restrictions on antennas; The
Radio Sky, Part 2; Comparison of HF Digital Protocols; Product Review - AEA
DSP-232 Data Controller; DXCC Honor Roll listing; and lots more...

The 95 QST/QEX/NCJ issues are now available on CD ROM.  It sure would be nice
to get a CD ROM with all the back issues (prior to 95) of NCJ and QEX.  Hard
copy back issues of QST are readily available at most hamfests and some
libraries; however, I have never seen any issues of NCJ or QEX.

Interesting new ad from Icom for the IC706.  You can now get a free phone (as
in telephone) card for up to $70 of long distance phone calls.  What's next!
 Maybe Kenwood will offer a kitchen blender, coffee maker, or cellular phone.
 Don't forget, its got to appeal to the truck stop crowd.

Hmmm, seems that I remember working a KZ5... on 6 SSB back in the 70s, don't
remember the call.  Maybe I'll check the QSL box, and call.  Your move.

73 and good reading,
Henry Pollock - WB4HFL
henrypol at aol.com


>From w2vjn at rosenet.net (George Cutsogeorge)  Sat Jun 22 00:35:05 1996
From: w2vjn at rosenet.net (George Cutsogeorge) (George Cutsogeorge)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 23:35:05 GMT
Subject: Pacific North West Convention.
Message-ID: <M.062196.163505.21 at ppp018.rosenet.net>

I would like to share a room and/or the drive to Portland for the PNW 
Convention.  I will be leaving from the Roseburg, OR area on Friday afternoon 
July 19th and returning Sunday morning.  The convention hotel has my 
reservation.
----
George Cutsogeorge,  W2VJN
Umpqua, OR.


>From pib2822 at iperbole.bologna.it (Claudio Veroli I4VEQ)  Fri Jun 21 17:41:27 1996
From: pib2822 at iperbole.bologna.it (Claudio Veroli I4VEQ) (Claudio Veroli I4VEQ)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:41:27 +0200 (METDST)
Subject: Contesting at IQ4A....on HAMRADIO 96.
Message-ID: <199606211641.SAA06336 at accursio.comune.bologna.it>


If you want to know strategies, operating techniques and... all secrets
(HI!) of the M/S station IQ4A, don't lose the 
---------------------------------------------
CONTESTFORUM by DARC and BCC 
Saturday, June 29th - hall 2 room B 09:30 a.m.
at the HAMRADIO in Friedrichshafen 
June 28 to June 30, 1996
----------------------------------------------
I4VEQ Claudio
I4LCK Franco
I4EAT Fausto
I4IND Francesco
of the IQ4A team, will be very glad to show you 

"contesting at IQ4A.."

We should be very glad to meet you.
 
See you in Friedrichshafen 96. 

                                       73 de Claudio I4VEQ.     

e.mail: pib2822 at iperbole.bologna.it





>From 0005543629 at mcimail.com (David & Barbara Leeson)  Fri Jun 21 17:55:00 1996
From: 0005543629 at mcimail.com (David & Barbara Leeson) (David & Barbara Leeson)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 11:55 EST
Subject: Torque Comp.
Message-ID: <51960621165515/0005543629DC6EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

In my recent post, I said that YS is based on "C".  NI6W and I exchanged
quite a bit of mail and conversation about this issue, and I sent him
a detailed analysis of the differences between "C" and "E", including
excerpts from my copies of "E" and ASCE 74.  K6STI sent me a note
indicating that the new version of YS is or will be based on "E" (I'm
not sure of the status of the release).

YS is easy to use, has lots of data about materials and tubing in easy-
to-access form, and was a lot of work for NI6W (who by the way is a
professional in the mechanical area).  It might answer a lot of antenna
strength questions, just as YO and AO answer electrical design questions.

But of course, the real proof of the pudding is in the building of the
real antennas.

73 de Dave, W6QHS