[CQ-Contest] October QST out

[K4tmc at aol.com]

Front cover is a collection of photos from WRTC-2000, with a related and 
detailed article inside.  Also, this month's editorial, "It Seems To Us…" is 
about camaraderie, of which the WRTC-2000 was a great example.

Contest related items:
WRTC-2000, A Test of Teamwork in "The Green Piece of Europe"
The Parasol - A 160 Meter Vertical Antenna with a Difference
Results - 2000 ARRL International DX Contest
Rules - 2000 ARRL November Sweepstakes
Product Review - West Mountain Radio RIGblaster Rig-to-Sound-Card Interface
Technical Correspondence - A 1.9 MHz Inverted-L Antenna
QRP Power column - Power is No Substitute for Skill (including QRP contesting 
& DXing Tips)
YL News - A Front-Row Seat for WRTC-2000; Join the Contest Crowd

Other interesting items:
DC Currents column - ARRL Collecting Restrictive Covenants Tales
Chesterfield Islands, TX0DX (Dxpedition to a new DXCC entity)
A Basic Stamp Morse Call-sign Generator (construction project)
A 146 and 445 MHz J-Pole Antenna
Some Desoldering Tips and Techniques
Microwave Bands - Use 'Em or Lose 'Em!
An Easily Constructed 30 and 40 Meter Trap Dipole Antenna
Product Review - Grundig Satellit 800 Receiver; Radio Shack HTX-245 Dual-band 
HT
Hints & Kinks - simple PVC center insulators, TS850 VCO instability, and 
repairing old headsets
Happenings - Amateur Radio Titan Lew McCoy, W1ICP, SK
How's DX? - profiles of 3 DXers on top of the DXCC list (W2BXA, W2AGW, K6ZO)
New Products - Elecraft K1 two band QRP transceiver; W4RNL, L.B. Cebik's 
Antenna, Tales and Technicals articles on CD-ROM; Array Solutions rotatable 
tower side mount 

Ads:
The latest editions of the ARRL Handbook (2001) and Antenna Book (19th Ed.) 
are now available. 
Elecraft has picture of the new K1 QRP transceiver sitting atop their K2.

And there is more….

Remember…only 41 more days to prepare for CQ WW DX SSB!

73,
Henry Pollock - K4TMC
Raleigh, NC 


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