ZW2A in CQWW RTTY Contest

Wed Sep 25 14:13:14 EDT 1996

-- ZW2A (Brazil/Zone 11) will be in 28/29 Sep CQWW RTTY Contest.
QSL to PT2BW preferrably via the Buro.
73, Ari  
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ariosto Rodrigues de Souza         Internet E-mail: pt2bw at brnet.com.br
P.O. Box 03.858                    Packet BBS: PT2BW at PT2WWV.#DF.BRA.SA
70084-970 Brasilia, DF - BRAZIL    Voice:  +55(61)347-5882 or 349-5548 
Home address:SQN 315, Bl."C", Ap.608 - 70774-030 Brasilia, DF - BRAZIL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>From syam at Glue.umd.edu (De Syam)  Wed Sep 25 15:40:40 1996
From: syam at Glue.umd.edu (De Syam) (De Syam)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:40:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CONTEST related post!
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.960925103751.3757A-100000 at y.glue.umd.edu>

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Bill Fisher KM9P wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, AA8U wrote:
> 
> > you take off time to rest, what times do you take off, 
> 
> You can't sleep the first night if you expect to make the top 10.  Sleep 3
> hours the 2nd night.

Sorry but this old fart (age 58) needs to sleep the first night if I don't
want to fall asleep in the middle of the European run Saturday morning.
I have forced myself to sleep about 1 and a half hours the first night
for the last ten years and it hasn't dropped me out of the top ten yet.

                                         Very 73,

                                      Fred Laun, K3ZO  

>From km9p at contesting.com (Bill Fisher KM9P)  Wed Sep 25 16:17:03 1996
From: km9p at contesting.com (Bill Fisher KM9P) (Bill Fisher KM9P)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:17:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re K3ZO: making top ten SOAB
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960925110653.13191A-100000 at paris.akorn.net>

> 
> Sorry but this old fart (age 58) needs to sleep the first night if I don't
> want to fall asleep in the middle of the European run Saturday morning.
> I have forced myself to sleep about 1 and a half hours the first night
> for the last ten years and it hasn't dropped me out of the top ten yet.

So what Fred is telling you is that you can move to the east coast and
sleep more.  :)  

I still maintain that if someone not blessed with a W1, W2, W3, or W4 QTH
expects to make the top ten USA, they better not be too sleep happy.  1.5
to 3 hours the 2nd night is generally the equation used by me and I am
generally playing catch up like Ugly will be doing.  I'll bet W9RE and
N2IC aren't sleeping the first night.

73

>From wi0r at southwind.net (Troy Majors)  Wed Sep 25 16:37:31 1996
From: wi0r at southwind.net (Troy Majors) (Troy Majors)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:37:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: The Callsign Contest
Message-ID: <199609251537.KAA11553 at onyx.southwind.net>

To: cq-contest at tgv.com

AA> Maybe we need a callsign "Was-Is" contest in which the exchange is your old
AA> callsign followed by your new callsign.  It would be a Sprint type 4 hrs in
AA> length Saturday evening on 20-40-80/75 metres only, but you didn't have to
AA> necessarily QSY.

AA> Typical exchange: KZ1ZZZ KA5M W5XX K

Hey, not a bad idea!  Seriously, the exchange would be a
challange.  And almost everyone has at least one old call 
or two in their history. You could require the recipient 
of the exchange to send it back to you to for verification. 
----------
a: CQ CS DE KA5M KA5M K

b: W0XYZ 

a: W0XYZ 599 KZ1ZZZ K

b: KA5M KZ1ZZZ 599 WN0XYZ K

a: W0XYZ WN0XYZ R TU
---------
a: CQ CS DE KA5M KA5M K

Only one problem, do we have room for any more contests on
the calander?

|-)  
73
Troy WI0R

---
 þ RM 1.31  þ Eval Day 75 þ 

>From cady at mainman.ee.montana.edu (Fred Cady)  Wed Sep 25 14:42:14 1996
From: cady at mainman.ee.montana.edu (Fred Cady) (Fred Cady)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 07:42:14 -0600
Subject: Balun Burnups
Message-ID: <199609251342.HAA05344 at mainman.ee.montana.edu>

>Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 07:44 PDT
>From: Bill Sattler <bills at halsey.com>
>To: cq-contest at tgv.com
>Subject: Re: Ferrite question
>
>	Pete, just wanted to let you know I once built a run of baluns out of 73
>material because the specs looked better.  They all overheated and melted
>the baluns.  I now use the 43 material which works well at HF and does not
>overheat.  I'd encourage you to check your baluns with high power for some
>time before putting them up in inacessible places.
>73
>Bill
>N0XX
>bills at halsey.com
>DX Engineering
>
W7LR did some test of current baluns and overheated them as well.  Does
anybody know what the loss mechanism is?  Eddy currents or somesuch?  I
kinda thought, from reading Maxwell's book, that the ferrite beads
increased the reactive impedance looking down the outside conductor of
the coax and that this increased impedance reduced the current flow.  If
there is heating (ala KT34XA traps :)) its gotta come from somewhere.  

73, Fred, KE7X

>Fred Cady
>Department of Electrical Engineering
>Montana State University
>Bozeman, MT  58717
>email: fcady at ee.montana.edu or, if that doesn't work,
>ieefc at msu.oscs.montana.edu
>
Fred Cady (ieefc at msu.oscs.montana.edu)
Department of Electrical Engineering
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT  59717
(406)-994-5976 (Voice)
(406)-994-5958 (FAX)