RULES: TQP 96

[W5HNS at aol.com]

TEXAS QSO Party  May 4-5  1996
Sponsored by the Texas DX Society
1400Z  May 4  to 2200Z May 5


Classes:
Single op, Multi-single and Texas Armadillo Expedition
Mixed Mode Only


Exchange:
Send QSO# and Texas County or State/Canadian Province


Rules:

Texas stations work everyone.  Others work Texas only.
Only one transmitted signal at a  time.  CW QSOS must be made in CW subbands,
except on 160.  Work stations once per band/mode for QSO points, work Texas
Armadillo stations again on same band or mode as they change counties for
multiplier credit only.  Mults count only  once regardless of band or mode.
 CW - 1.805 and 40 khz up,  Phone - 1.850, 3.850, 7.230, 14.250, 21.300,
28.450.

Scoring:

Score 2 pts/QSO on phone and 3 pts/QSO on CW.  Final score is QSO points x
Texas  Counties (max 254).  Texas stations multiply by states, Canadian
 Provinces and Texas Counties.  DX counts for QSO points only.

Awards:

Texas Wine Baskets and plaques to top class finishers.
Special awards to Texas Clubs with most logs submitted.
Special awards to multi-single and Texas Armadillo Expedition with the most
Novice/Tech operators( list them with a /T or /N in your list of operators on
summary sheet).
Work 50 or more Texas Counties for Special Commemorative Cap.
Work all 254 Texas Counties for free air fare to the 1996 Houston Ham
Convention!

Send logs and summary sheet via mail, disk or E-mail within 30 days.

Texas DX Society  POB 540291  Houston, Texas 77254
E-mail: KB5YVT at AOL.COM
Results will be posted on the Internet Contest Reflector or sent with a SASE
or via E-mail.

TQP 96 is supported by NA Contest Software from LTA @ (216) 565 9950 and TR
Contest Software @ (512) 416 -7010

>From AA3JU George Cook <george at epix.net>  Thu Mar 21 00:55:04 1996
From: AA3JU George Cook <george at epix.net> (AA3JU George Cook)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:55:04 -0500
Subject: Dxpeditions for Contests
Message-ID: <199603210051.TAA18570 at epix.net>

At 10:32 AM 3/19/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I echo Ed's thread...The vast majority of our team has a hard time financing
>one trip to V2 let alone 4..or even TWO ( I wish)..Contest Dxpeditioning is a
>year round effort and is done by guys who refuse to do less than whats
>humanly possible to make points for the club. We JUST DO IT! I find the new
>rules a great chance to further inter club competition and frankly I'm
>EXCITED! We'll see you from V26B ARRL Phone 97 come hell or high water. There
>might even be a 1 year spot open at CQ96 Phone for a top notch 40 meter op
>while KA2AEV ties the knot.


The thing that just KILLS me with this whole thread is that the West coast
boys all complain that we have an unfair advantage on the east coast.  Now
for a short drive into Mexico you have the advantage on US!!!!  The playing
field gets leveled and still no joy in Mudville.

For what it is worth I am saving my pennys everyday to take a DXpedition
someplace warm next winter 1 to do a contest and 2 cause my wife looks good
in a bikini. I checked with the FRC treasurer and asked him what I should do
with my expense report and he said.............   Oh yeah this goes out over
TCPIP packet too right so I better not tell you  what he said.

AA3JU  george at epix.net    AA3JU at W3PYF
Proudly  F R C...........
"FRC When second best just isn't good enough!"


>From Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka at dumpty.nal.go.jp>  Thu Mar 21 02:27:29 1996
From: Takao KUMAGAI <je1cka at dumpty.nal.go.jp> (Takao KUMAGAI)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:27:29 +0900
Subject: Need help for RUFZ Version up
Message-ID: <199603210227.LAA03091 at dumpty.nal.go.jp>

Your help will be appreciated for RUFZ.

There have been numbers of requests to support the Sound card 
by the next RUFZ version up. 

Matt, DL4MM has been affected by PED very much and decided to 
support the sound card(may be Sound Blaster compatibles). 
But he does not have enough informations on the SB programming 
by Turbo-PASCAL(V6.0). If you have any info on SB interface, 
your help will be greatly appreciated. 

He will be email reachable at 
DL4MM <KOLPE at t-online.de>

And the RUFZ Top list is now available by email server. The list 
will be revised every Tuesday. You can distribute the list at any 
manner without any modification.
*Please let me know if you archive RUFZ program or top list in 
your web/ftp site.

Send an email to;
info-contest at dumpty.nal.go.jp

with the command in the body of the message;
#get rufztop.list

Regards
	---------
	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 21 02:28:00 1996
From: Eugene Walsh <0004504465 at mcimail.com> (Eugene Walsh)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 21:28 EST
Subject: Soviet Invasion of Puerto Rico for WPX!
Message-ID: <33960321022833/0004504465DC2EM at MCIMAIL.COM>

Multi-Single operation from WP4U 
for WPX SSB contest.

Operators:    WP4U
              WP4G
              RC2AR (AA3BG)
              RX3QA (KB2WBQ)
              EW1WZ (KB2WBP)
              UH8EA/EZ5AA
              UR5LAW/UB5LAW

Thet nwill be making a full court press, if they
can get someone to lock up the rum.

QSL to AA3BG  Box 766, Brooklyn, NY 11230

WP3/

WP3/
WP3/AA3BG QSLs to N2YXA (ex UB5XAZ and UZ9JWE)

Go Gettem!!


>From Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com>  Thu Mar 21 02:39:55 1996
From: Steven Sample <aa9ax at iglou.com> (Steven Sample)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:39:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: WPX Calls
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960320205434.28022A-100000 at iglou>

On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Spike Lazar wrote:

> Dear Slim Whitman,
><SNIP>

Dearest Herr Doktor Bafoof:

 It's so good to hear from you again!  It was only yesterday that I was 
wondering if something was wrong, since I had received no bafoonery since 
late Monday or Tuesday evening.  I was about ready to cancel my order for 
contest dinner tickets, since Palmer (son/N9JRZ) and I absolutely refuse 
to give our tickets to any other ticket-taker but you.  Of course, we 
realize that you were trained and operate under the supervision and 
watchful eye of the famed Green Hornet.  You seem to have an air (FHG) 
about you.  Perhaps it is your salty (anchovie paste!) wit!?!  At any 
rate, it sounds like you are ready to cut-loose (no pun intended) in the 
operating chair, or at least what's left of it.  (I understand that Fish 
Head Gas destroys springs and other metal parts in swivel chairs.)
  
> O'boy I can't wait to Bafoofinize all those poor wannabees who are going to 
> show up again for the wpx.  You know the type, generally speaking,  they're
> the good guys who are just having just a normal weekend rag chewing about
> their latest bladder surgery or their homebrew dipoles.  An imagine the gall
> these poor misguided turkeys have for not operating in the antenna or
> surgery windows and occuping my valuable contest spectrum!
> 
> Being a lowly misplaced W9 in W3 Land is my perfect opportunity to assign
> myself a new call. I have my voice keyer loaded up a week in advace, it
> really sounds great! Cq Contest Cq Contest Wiskey Nine ** potable
> World War Three! That should get me results!
> <SNIP>

I like your spot!!!  I had contemplated doing something really different 
this year...something that would attract lots of action from prefix 
wannabees:  I was considering getting in my car and operating mobile as

             AA9AX Portable /AA9  !!!    Whaddayathink!

I figure that would be good for an extra, say....400-500 Q's!!!  Don't 
tell anyone about my idea, though:  I want to spring it on the entire 
contest community ala a new secret weapon-type thing like KM9P, WN4KKN, 
or someone like that may invent!


> The really cool thing is, the ones with the normal prefixs, I can bust their
> gonoidals for calling with me those zero point qso's! Generally the few who
> are obnoxious enough to hang in there and actually work me are the same ones
> who high up in the wpx honor roll. They always qsl with a sase and I always
> steam off the stamps and return them to the post office for a refund.
><SNIP>

Each year I call you in the WPX, but since we stop and gab for a while as 
everyone else gets agitated waiting, I don't log the Q because it doesn't 
seam like a contest thing.  It's more of a radio social outing.  That's 
why I have returned your QSL each year without a confirmation.  But I 
want to go on record as swearing that I have not stolen the stamp off 
your SASE's.  It's just kind of like they "fall off".  The Post Office 
must be using some inferior glue, because it looks like it's really 
thin-as if it's been in a humidifier or a steam jenny.
 
> Each year with the profits realized from the wpx, I wine & dine the contest
> committee at Dayton, and it does work. I was influential enough to have the
> wpx rules changed from 30 to 36 hours, remember how long all the purest
> complained about that. This year I'm going to lobby them to extend the
> contest for the full 48 hours. Also I'm going to lobby on behalf of dem
> loco clubs to have the rule changed to 500 miles, this should help those
> loco's beat those unlimitted fat cat clubs. 
><SNIP>

And I thought it was the hint I dropped to the Green Hornet that brought 
about the elongated contest period.  I told him that I don't get to spend 
much time on the air, but when I do get the chance-I often found that the 
contest had ended before I was able to make my social QSO with Dr. Bafoofnik.
I figured that the Hornet had made arrangements to extend the contest 
period so I could interrupt your pile-up at my convenience.  The only 
problem I usually have when I hear you is being quick-enuf on the key or 
DVP to edge-in between your robotic/automated endless cq's.  Do you 
remember the time your antennas blew down and all you had was 160 meters 
and you called "Beam Me Up, Scotty" in CW all nite rather than "CQ"?  I 
thought that was really cute.  And the neatest thing was that it didn't 
slow down your rate one bit.  You still ended up with 1565 Q's and NO 
mults (prefixes) for a score of ZERO (again).  I swear, I just don't see 
how you can do it!
 
> Yes sir Slim, I'm  all set to beat one of the notable wpx records of all
> times, which I hold. The most cw wpx qso's and mults without ever scoring
> a point, look it up for yourself.
> <SNIP>

See what I mean?!?!

> Your humble servant,
> 
> Dr. Bafoofnik **** (Call witheld)
> If you don't ask, I won't tell
><SNIP>

I still am not certain of your real identity.  Palmer and I will meet you 
for dinner again Friday Nite at Dayton (This year maybe KN8Z can get 
there on time and in good health so we can a   overeat and I can catch up 
on the Miller Lites I have been missing on this diet for 3 months!!!
I think I'll put a private dick on the case...perhaps that sharp young 
sleuth-KA9FOX.  

Bye the way, do you remember the subscribe address to N0AX's new Skoch 
tape and tie reflector?  It sounds a lot more interesting than some of 
the stuff we have to read on here!  Don't you agree?

Talk to you soon, Foofie, and remember to bring the Valentines Day candy 
I sent you.  We can share a bite at Dayton as you tell me about your 
stamp collection.

YOUR humble servant...

Slimbo   -   AA9AX/AA9