[CQ-Contest] June QST arrives

[K4tmc at aol.com]

Front cover photo of the ARRL flag with a photo colage of Field Day 2000
operations from VA3RAC; with a feature article inside.

Contest related items:
Gain without Pain, A Beam Antenna for Field Day (delta loop beam hung from
tree)
A Different Kind of Kid's Day (event date is June 16 - Be There!)
The D68C Story (and their ARRL CW DX efforts)
VA3RAC, Canada's 35A Field Day Extravaganza (re cover photo)
Short Takes - Heil Sound HS-706 Headset
Hints & Kinks - A Radio/Data Interface Connection; Rubber Skirts for Small
Knobs
Product Review - Ten-Tec Jupiter HF Transceiver
YL News - Top Scores from the YLRL YL-OM contest
Results - 2000 ARRL Sweepstakes CW

Other interesting items:
Up Front in QST - Field Day 2000, A Fond Look Back (2 pages of pictures)
2001 W1AW HF Digital Run Results
Simple RF-Power Measurement (with simple homebrewed instruments)
ZS2AA, South Africa's Grand Old Lady of the Airwaves
The Arkansas Catfish Dipole (20-meter dipole using fishing poles)
Test Your Knowledge (crossword puzzle with a focus on hamfests)
Product Review - Yaesu VR-5000 Communications Receiver
How's DX? - The Pitcairn Islands, a New DXCC Entity Amongst Them?
The Help Desk - Antenna and Tower Safety
The World Above 50 MHz - 24-GHz EME is Next
Op-Ed - Antenna Aesthetics

And more...

73 & High Rates,
Henry Pollock - K4TMC
Raleigh, NC


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>From Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net  Wed May 16 08:16:24 2001
From: Marijan Miletic" <Marijan at Miletic.net (Marijan Miletic)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:16:24 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] USA WRTC 2002 Team Selections
Message-ID: <000701c0ddd8$1dff02e0$2c48fea9 at pentium>


Tree, N6TR wrote:

 >It could be argued that the only statistic that the operators really
 >have control over is their error rate as that has very little to
 >do with the quality of the station.  I hope that this statistic
 >will at least be mentioned.

Statistically speaking, K1TO and N5TJ won WRTC twice from USA and EU, N5TJ was
#3 at WRTC-1990 and he made a great CQ WW score from EA8BH recently,  where we
put him on the list of the best ops WW?

73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU

P.S.  I might beat him at Dayton CW pile-up :-)


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