[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 164, Issue 36

Thu Aug 25 05:00:19 EDT 2016

SSB Contest -?Tuesday, Tonight, 10:30pm EDT (0230-0300z Wednesday),
30-minute SSB contest.? Please bring a friend and introduce a new contester
into the mix.? A friendly group always willing to help.

The Phone Fray is weekly and mirrors NAQP SSB; exchange name and S/P/C,
mults per band.

Suggested center frequencies are:? 21.325, 14.250, 7.175, 3.800 (try to
avoid 3.790-3.800, and lower is better), 1.875.

Note:? Please make sure to check up above 7225.? It's been a bit congested
around 7175.? Also, on 80, check low to about 3750.

15 is usually open at the start, then folks move down to 20, 40, 80, and
Q's are had on 160 in the last five minutes.

Rules are here:? http://www.perluma.com/Phone_Fray_Contest_Rules.pdf

Join the free Yahoo Groups Reflector for communications:?
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PhoneFray/info

No logs, just report scores to http://www.3830scores.com

Please forward this email to your clubs and amateurs that might be
interested.?? Great for new contesters and veterans alike.

Thanks!

73, Dean, NW2K

Hi Dean,

Some of us are General class so going below 3.800 is not an option.
It has been a fun contest when I have time to enter.

Best 73,
Charles, W2CSI,
http://w2csi.com

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM, <cq-contest-request at contesting.com> wrote:

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>    1. Re: How to start a run (kd4d at comcast.net)
>    2. FW: RM-11708: To my fellow CW, RTTY,      and other narrow band
>       digital mode users: (Allen Brier N5XZ)
>    3.  How to start a run (Jeff Clarke)
>    4. Phone Fray - SSB Test - Tonight (dfaklis at frontiernet.net)
>    5. Re: How to start a run (Timothy Holmes)
>    6. HFTA .PRN Help (FritzOAQ)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:00:05 +0000 (UTC)
> From: kd4d at comcast.net
> To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Hi Jim:
>
> Thanks for the late QSO!  We were a M/2 or I would probably have taken the
> last hour as
> off-time.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark, KD4D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Brown" <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: "cq-contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 5:06:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run
>
> On Sun,8/21/2016 2:13 PM, Carol Richards wrote:
> > Note...very little off time is taken because the last 2 hours are
> > usuall non-productive.
>
> Hi Carol,
>
> This may be a bad decision -- here on the west coast, we often can't
> work east coast mults until later. KD4D called me on 80 about ten
> minutes before the end of the contest, and I often work new mults on 80
> and 160 right up to the end.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:42:09 -0500
> From: "Allen Brier N5XZ" <n5xz at earthlink.net>
> To: <echo at w5eco.org>
> Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] FW: RM-11708: To my fellow CW, RTTY,      and other
>         narrow band digital mode users:
> Message-ID: <011801d1fcf0$53a4b9b0$faee2d10$@earthlink.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
>
> To my fellow CW, RTTY, and other narrow band digital mode users:
>
>
>
> I mentioned at the last BVARC meeting that I would provide additional
> details regarding RM-11708. I have been in contact with Ted Rappaport N9NB
> regarding this, and I would like to copy to you what he sent me:
>
>
>
> >>
>
> "Today's ham radio RTTY stations use a well-known signaling convention
> based
> on the baudot code, and this code uses a speed of up to 300 baud, the
> maximum signaling speed allowed in the FCC rules for HF. This coding scheme
> has a natural emission bandwidth of just under 500 HZ. A fast CW signal has
> an emission bandwidth less than 200 HZ. Psk31 uses less than 100 HZ. Jt65
> uses about 200 HZ bandwidth
>
> or so.
>
>
>
> By asking the FCC to remove  the 300 baud rate limit on HF, the ARRL was
> simply asking the FCC (in their petition 11708 filed in November 2013) to
> remove an antiquated term and remove the baud rate speed limit (which was
> naturally about 500 Hz bandwidth). That seemed fair enough. But, sadly,
> the
> ARRL asked the FCC to replace the existing 300 baud rate limit with a 2.8
> kHz emission bandwidth limit, the same bandwidth limit as SSB signals!
>
>
>
> Thus, the ARRL asked the FCC in Rm 11708 to allow any data signal,
> including
> future RTTY or pactor or new wideband marine modem data signaling types to
> be introduced with up to a 2.8 kHz emission bandwidth! This would wipe out
> the narrow RTTY and CW signals of today, and hog the low end of all the HF
> bands. The ARRL tried this same thing in 2005 but in the SSB spectrum with
> its failed RM 11306. In 2007 the ARRL withdrew its petition to the FCC
> since
> hams were very upset.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, what's really bad now about RM 11708 is that the ARRL never
> withdrew it, and last week the FCC took it as a proposed rulemaking. This
> is
> the last stage before accepted law!
>
>
>
> What is abysmal is the FCC took the ARRL's ideas of eliminating 300 baud
> limit in HF, but has tentatively ruled that any data signal may use an
> UNLIMITED bandwidth. This means wide band signals of arbitrary bandwidth
> will key up on CW and RTTY stations!
>
>
>
>
>
> A published NPRM means the FCC is about to enact it as law, so unless there
> is MASSIVE outcry to both ARRL officials and the FCC in both the commenting
> period and the "reply to comment" period, the precious HF lower
> CW/data/RTTY
> bands may be lawfully overrun by serial tone military modems and digitized
> voice signals and lots of other stuff with vicious signal  bandwidths of
> 2.8,5, 10, 20 and 25 kHz!!!! Big walls of impenetrable QRM!! Good bye CW
> and
> RTTY and DX! Hello Internet and Facebook for boaters  -:(  "
>
> <<
>
>
>
> What we are asking you to do is to contact the FCC and express your
> disapproval of this proposed rule. We have until October 11, 2016 to submit
> comments and reply comments by November 10, 2016.
>
>
>
> You may submit comments, identified by WT Docket No. 16-239, by any of the
> following methods:
>
> *         Federal Communications Commission's Web site:
> <http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/> http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/. Follow the
> instructions for submitting comments.[CLICK ON "SUBMIT A FILING"]
>
> *         Mail: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW.,
> Washington, DC 20554.
>
> *         People with Disabilities: Contact the FCC to request reasonable
> accommodations (accessible format documents, sign language interpreters,
> CART, etc.) by email:  <mailto:FCC504 at fcc.gov> FCC504 at fcc.gov or phone:
> 202-418-0530 or TTY: 202-418-0432.
>
>
>
> There is a 60 day " comment" period after NPRM 11708 published in the
> federal register, and then after that 60 day window, there is a further 30
> day "reply to comment" window where everyone can critique and agree or
> disagree with some of the previously filed comments.
>
>
>
> "If we are to successfully revise (it's too late to repel) this frightful
> proposal, which is in the very last stages of official approval at the
> Commission (gulp!), we must have tens of thousands of well-reasoned replies
> that specially call for bandwidth limits!!! Both during the reply period,
> and then ALSO during the Reply to Comment period, we need tens of thousands
> of comments so the FCC sees this is a problem ! Otherwise, there is no hope
> and they will accept the NPRM as written and published in July 28,2016!"
>
>
>
> What to say? Well, I have a sample letter I can provide to each and every
> one of you (I may just copy it to another post). I will also be providing a
> list of top ARRL leaders to contact also with your concerns.
>
>
>
> If Ted Rappaport N9NB sounds familiar, he is the Founding Director of NYU
> Wireless and New York University's Tandon School of Engineering and was
> mentioned in the latest issue of QST on page 9 on his work in millimeter
> waves.
>
>
>
> So please, if you are concerned about this at all, contact the FCC via one
> of the methods above as soon as possible. If you have any questions, feel
> free to contact me via email.
>
>
>
> Also, please forward this to as many other reflectors as you can.
>
>
>
> Allen R. Brier N5XZ
>
> 1515 Windloch Lane
>
> Richmond, Texas 77406-2553
>
> (281) 342-1882 (Home)
>
> (713) 705-4801 (Cell)
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:20:27 -0400
> From: Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest]  How to start a run
> Message-ID: <99466.6691.bm at smtp115.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> I believe the antenna that W8TAH described is NOT a dipole because he
> mentioned he feeds it with open wire feeder. A center fed zepp cut for 80
> meters is usually about 130-135 long and fed at the center with 450 ohm
> open wire line. The antenna patterns I described are on the W4RNL webpage
> and maybe the ARRL antenna book. I would imagine that if this antenna was
> fed with some type of 50 Ohm coax the pattern would be different.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Droid
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:24:50 +0000 (UTC)
> From: "dfaklis at frontiernet.net" <dfaklis at frontiernet.net>
> To: "cq-contest at contesting.com" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Phone Fray - SSB Test - Tonight
> Message-ID: <608726837.195029.1471947890115 at mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Please post to your club's reflector -
>
> SSB Contest -?Tuesday, Tonight, 10:30pm EDT (0230-0300z Wednesday),
> 30-minute SSB contest.? Please bring a friend and introduce a new contester
> into the mix.? A friendly group always willing to help.
>
> The Phone Fray is weekly and mirrors NAQP SSB; exchange name and S/P/C,
> mults per band.
>
> Suggested center frequencies are:? 21.325, 14.250, 7.175, 3.800 (try to
> avoid 3.790-3.800, and lower is better), 1.875.
>
> Note:? Please make sure to check up above 7225.? It's been a bit congested
> around 7175.? Also, on 80, check low to about 3750.
>
> 15 is usually open at the start, then folks move down to 20, 40, 80, and
> Q's are had on 160 in the last five minutes.
>
> Rules are here:? http://www.perluma.com/Phone_Fray_Contest_Rules.pdf
>
> Join the free Yahoo Groups Reflector for communications:?
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PhoneFray/info
>
> No logs, just report scores to http://www.3830scores.com
>
> Please forward this email to your clubs and amateurs that might be
> interested.?? Great for new contesters and veterans alike.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 73, Dean, NW2K
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:26:18 +0000
> From: Timothy Holmes <taholmes160 at gmail.com>
> To: Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net>, cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to start a run
> Message-ID:
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>
> Yes, the antenna is fed with window line.  I dont remember the exact length
> of feeder, but its close to 32 feet.  Its got an LDG 4:1 balun and some
> coax to make the shack entry
>
> Tim
> W8TAH
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:10 AM Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > I believe the antenna that W8TAH described is NOT a dipole because he
> > mentioned he feeds it with open wire feeder. A center fed zepp cut for 80
> > meters is usually about 130-135 long and fed at the center with 450 ohm
> > open wire line. The antenna patterns I described are on the W4RNL webpage
> > and maybe the ARRL antenna book. I would imagine that if this antenna was
> > fed with some type of 50 Ohm coax the pattern would be different.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Droid
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> --
>
> Tim Holmes - W8TAH
> Sent from my LG Stylo
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:17:53 -0400
> From: "FritzOAQ" <fritz at k4oaq.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] HFTA .PRN Help
> Message-ID: <00e601d1fd49$23509aa0$69f1cfe0$@k4oaq.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
>
> I just received my new ARRL Antenna Book and am having a ball using the
> HFTA
> pgm on CD.
>
> My stn is located in Southwest VA (specifically Dublin, VA) & I'm not sure
> which .PRN file I shud be using.
>
> I'm thinking the W4-KY files might be the closest to me. I assume the data
> for these .PRN files are collected from a specific location.
>
> Is there somewhere I can find the data collection points for these files?
>
> Fritz K4OAQ
>
>
>
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