NCJ CTT&T column

Wed Mar 13 21:42:02 EST 1996

my outgoing e-mail is QFU, hope this gets off my disk and headed your way,
Gary.

....all I gotta say about two radio contesting, other than it is great, is
that after doing it you realise how much time is wasted using your brain to
listen to yourself call cq! If we don't recognize our own cq's by the time we
start contesting...well, I guess we never will! 

After the recent cq-contest reflector discussion of how many unanswered cq's
are frequently sent by big guns...all I can say is guys - they aren't CQing,
they are listening (on another band)......oops, the secret is out.

Jim    K1ZX

>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com>  Thu Mar 14 02:41:18 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Steven Sample)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:41:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: ON4UN and his tubes
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960313212450.29675B-100000 at iglou>

On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Bill Coleman AA4LR wrote:

> >It's time to go back to the 813's, please eliminate blower noise.
> >Nothing like a quiet shack and all your regrets may be over.
> 
> Why have a blower at all? Aren't there adequate conduction-cooled tubes out
> there.
> 
> For that matter, why aren't there more solid-state amplifiers? Certainly in
> the nearly 50 years since the invention of the transistor engineering a
> solid-state amp can't be THAT difficult. It may require more protection
> circuits, but hey, the recent Alpha's have all that.
> 
> >            Dr. Bafoofnik ****
> 
> WHO is this guy?
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR      Mail: aa4lr at radio.org
> Quote: "Not in a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> 
> 
"THIS GUY" happens to be one of the heros of amateur radio.  His virtual 
operating skills rival that of the best heart surgeon, thus; the moniker 
"Doctor Bafoofnik".  Using the patented "Flying Wedge" operating system 
devised in a marathon guzzling session at a contest suite during the 1993 
Dayton Hamvention at Stouffer's by W3GH, the Good Doctor (AKA W9XR) and 
AA9AX, Bafoof has laid waste to many megacycles of spectrum.  When there 
is no active contest, the Doctor has turned to the Internet to strike 
fear into the hearts of other contesters and Wannabes with his 
Kung-Fu-like wit and salty (ie: anchovie acid paste) anecdotes.  Known as 
the keeper of the Royal Fish Head Gas cylinder of the ages, he and the 
Green Hornet toil night and day (on contest weekends) to find the cure 
for new strains of that deadly scourge of contest shacks.  As he told me 
only this evening, "Why didn't someone tell us thirty years ago that 
chewing on solder was bad for us?"

Yes...next time someone asks YOU who Dr. Bafoof is, you will know how to 
properly respond.  He IS Ham Radio!!!  He is the CW (vs. phone) as Peanut 
butter is to jelly;  as day is to night;  as Fish Head Gas is to Argon 
gas;  as some second-rate midwestern station is to a first-rate east 
coast (or Pennsylvania) Superstation; etc.  Get the point???  He is MY 
IDOL!  (So is the Green Hornet!)  The tears are falling into my 
programmable keyboard now, so I shall turn away from this emotional 
issue.  73, and please.....NEVER FORGET THE GOOD (NO...GREAT!) DOCTOR!

Steve/AA9AX> 

>From Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka at dumpty.nal.go.jp>  Thu Mar 14 02:48:41 1996
From: Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka at dumpty.nal.go.jp> (Takao KUMAGAI)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:48:41 +0900
Subject: Past Press Release and Q&A
Message-ID: <199603140248.LAA04025 at dumpty.nal.go.jp>

For Your Information

Past WRTC PRESS RELEASES #1-#6 and Q&A are now retrievable.

	file_name       size(byte)	contents
	wrtc-faq        20817	Q & A about WRTC-96
	wrtc-pr1        1757	Press release #1
	wrtc-pr2        1684	Press release #2
	wrtc-pr3        2040	Press release #3
	wrtc-pr4        7728	Press release #4
	wrtc-pr5        1553	Press release #5
	wrtc-pr6        3825	Press release #6

You send a command email to
	wrtc-info at dumpty.nal.go.jp

With the following command or commands in the body of the message.
(Do not forget to start with "#get")
ex.
#get wrtc-faq
#get wrtc-pr1

These commands will be processed and answered back to your From: 
or Reply-To: address automatically.

     ==== Let's support "WRTC-96"! =====

If you have any problem, contact me directly.
	---------
	Tack Kumagai JE1CKA/KH0AM
	TEL:81-30-066-6408, FAX:81-423-93-4449
	Internet: je1cka at nal.go.jp

>From Eugene Walsh <0004504465 at mcimail.com>  Thu Mar 14 03:05:00 1996
From: Eugene Walsh <0004504465 at mcimail.com> (Eugene Walsh)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 22:05 EST
Subject: ON4UN's Tubes & Bafoofnik
Message-ID: <02960314030520/0004504465DC3EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

Gents:

Well, there are 3 people who always hear me
on 160 or 80 Meters, whether I am using an 
antenna or, perhaps, the top end of a broken 
D string from the old banjo.  They are 4X4NJ, 
OH2BH/anywhere and ON4UN.  I have worked ON4UN 
on 160 running 25 watts to a metal "Out basket" 
on my desk!  What a shocking surprise to learn 
that he does it all with his "Tubes".  And here 
I was, about to raise a glass of Hoegaarden in salute.

Re: Dr Bafoofnik;  Someone said "WHO is this guy?"
It's about time we had a decent "Masked Man" around here.

73 N2AA

>From WF3T <steve.steltzer at paonline.com>  Thu Mar 14 07:49:55 1996
From: WF3T <steve.steltzer at paonline.com> (WF3T)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 03:49:55 -0400
Subject: WARNING Antenna Aloft! and WRTC96

Ugly wrote:
snip
>
>It was about this time that a chill ran down my spine as I cruised down I-94
>half aware of my surroundings. You see, I work for the local electric
>utility as a Power Quality Engineer. This background and a little common
>sense and imagination brought horrific scenes to my mind of the entirely
>possible and lethal consequences of launching a conductor into the air by
>balloon (or by kite).
>

Hmmm, what about the entirely possible horrific and lethal consequences of
driving down the Interstate half aware of your surroundings?  :-)

And my 2 cents worth on WRTC: Sounds like somebody has a personality/ego
problem. I think it's the greatest thing to happen to contesting since the
first one. Kudos to all involved in making this a reality. 
                                                                73, Steve

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