[CQ-Contest] TS940S trouble

[Bill Turner]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:28:43 -0500 (CDT), Zack Widup wrote:

>The PLL board was covered with an adhesive cement to keep
>the components from falling off the board.  Why they do this I don't know;
>I've never had any components I've soldered correctly fall off a homebrew
>board!

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Most likely the adhesive is there to keep the components in place during
machine soldering.  We often did this in the avionics manufacturing
industry, although it was normally done to individual parts as needed,
not to the entire board.

Bill, W7TI


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>From Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com  Fri Aug 10 19:58:00 2001
From: Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com (Leigh S. Jones)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:58:00 -0700
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: To the "Best of the Best"
References: <H00015800a378773.0997425034.tms1.han.telia.se at MHS>
Message-ID: <016a01c121ce$6108f0c0$ede3c23f at kr6x.org>


I had the very great pleasure of both operating with some of the big
antennas that you describe and climbing the towers.

W6VSS who now holds the callsign K6UA, really represents two different
generations of the same contest station.  Dale's location is in
rolling hill country in the area North and East of San Diego --
several miles North and West of the location of contest station W6KP,
and South/West of W6EEN.  From that location his geographical path to
Europe is slightly advantaged by comparison to coastal Californian
stations such as the Pasadena location of W6ITA (who became W6RR).

I operated from Dale's station in the 1970 ARRL DX contests.  The 5
element 40 meter antenna (on a 100 foot telephone pole) was a wonder
to operate, as were all of the station antennas at that time.  He ran
a 6/6 stack on 20 meters on a Big Bertha rotary pole, a 5/5 stack on
15 meters on an extremely heavy duty 71 foot Tri-ex rotating tower
that had once been erected in Hawaii by Cam Pierce, 6/6 on 10 meters,
a rhombic pointed at Europe for 80 (plus wire antennas for other
directions), 6 separate single ended single band 4-1000A amplifiers on
a huge communal 2400V three phase power supply with rock steady
voltage outputs.  There were two separate S-lines at each of 6
operating positions. The operating team included K6EVR and (on 40
meters it was mostly:) K0RF (then K6SEN) plus his father K6RF, and
many stars of the contesting world.

K6UYC (now K6RR) competed against Dale; Bob's station also sported a 5
element 40 (130 feet high).  W6ITA ran 3 elements on 40.

----- Original Message -----
From: <Jan.E.Holm at telia.se>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: To the "Best of the Best"




     Talking about big antennas, how about that big 40 at K6UA/W6VSS
     back in the 60´ties, must have been some big scores made by
     good op´s from Dales site (maybe K6EVR), I´m not old enough to
know,
     know I worked those guys in the late 60´ties when I was a novice
     runing flee power but dont remember what kind a signal they had.
     Also from reading old CQ´s I understand that W6HTA/W6RR back
     then was a major contest force since he seemed to win a lot.

     73, Jim SM2EKM
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W4KFC was my idol in mid-60's PVRC. Not only did he work three
stations
at a time, but also his hand-written log looked like a draftsman's
careful lettering!

I'm pretty sure it was W3GRF who had an 80m beam back then, full size
elements on a Rohn 25 boom. A little better than verticals and
longwires!

73,

Rick N6XI

Tom Osborne wrote:

> K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
>
> >     I agree. Martti is one of the best pile-up managers around.
> >
>
> Anyone remember Vic, W4KFC?  He won a bunch.  Also W9IOP, W3GRF
> and W3BGN.  May not have the rates that the newbies have, but
> what to expect with 100 watts and verticals and longwires and
> single beams.  They were way before stacks. computers, etc.  73
> Tom W7WHY


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