[CQ-Contest] Sweepstakes Plaques - Where are the sponsors?

[Tom Horton]

Eric,
  I'm pretty sure that the sponsors will accept individuals as
plaque sponsors....don't gotta be a club...
Go for it.
Tom K5IID




At 19:08 07/09/01 -0400, k9gy at ix.netcom.com wrote:

>I went back and looked at 1998 and 1999 plaque
>sponsorship. This is "disturbing"!
>
>The percentage of plaques not being sponsored:
>
>2000 SSB 67.4% (86 total, 58 unsponsored)
>
>1999 SSB 67.4% (86 total, 58 unsponsored)
>1999 CW  65.9% (85 total, 56 unsponsored)
>
>1998 CW  23.5% (68 total, 16 unsponsored)
>1998 SSB 36.8% (68 total, 25 unsponsored)
>
>I have never won a plaque,
>but if I did, I would want it to be sponsored...
>
>Let's all check with our clubs and lower these percentages!
>
>73, Eric K9GY
>
>Note: 2000 CW left out because I could not get to the results.
>
>
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>From Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net  Tue Jul 10 07:06:49 2001
From: Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net (Marijan Miletic)
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:06:49 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: Computer Interfaces
References: <4.2.0.58.20010709182304.00a47f00 at pop.mw.mediaone.net>
Message-ID: <003301c10906$82280880$2c48fea9 at pentium>


I guess I inverted Yaesu and Kenwood :-)  It's been a millenium since I
interfaced FT-1000D and TS-850 and I remember they needed inverted TTL levels.
I made MAX-232 CI-V recently just to discover that TTL TX short circuit curent
is nicely limited to 8 mA but I don't like much HF hash from switcing capacitors
voltage inverters.  Good old MC1489 does all the work for me including RS-232 TX
with internal 2K pull-up to +5V.

73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU

----- Original Message -----
From: "k8cc" <k8cc at mediaone.net>
To: "Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net>
Sent: 9. julij 2001 22:34
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: Computer Interfaces


> At 04:53 PM 7/9/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >K8CC wrote:
> > > >http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/ts850_mods.txt
> > >
> > > While down at WP3X in 1998, W0GJ and built up this circuit for use with
our
> > > TS-850s.  In neither case did it work.
> >
> >Simple circuit sugested can work with Yaesu but TS needs inverted RS-232 to
> >radio signals just like IC CI-V.
> >
> >73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
>
> Mario,
>
> I'm sorry but that's not true.
>
> I have built homebrew RS-232 converters for the FT-1000D and TS-850 radios
> I own.  The signals to/from a Kenwood radio idles at a low level (0V) and
> the data bits asserts high (+5V).  RS-232 idles at zero or negative
> voltage, and the data bits assert high (positive).  By limiting the voltage
> swing in the range of 0-5V (i.e., TTL/CMOS) RS-232 can interface with a
> Kenwood radio.  This is exactly what the "simple circuit" does, using
> clamping diodes or zeners.
>
> The signals to/from a Yaesu radio idle high (5V) and the data bits assert
> low (0V).  Icom, Ten-Tec  and JRC radios are the same way.  MAX-232 and
> similar interface ICs perform this inversion and make a nice single chip
> solution for these radios.
>
> 73,
>
>


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