[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 192, Issue 16

GIWagner@k5kg.com giwagner at k5kg.com
Mon Dec 10 13:18:06 EST 2018


Sam, I'm not at my computer, but as I recall you right click on a F-key to take you to the CW settings for all of the F-keys.

73, George K5KG

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>   1. N1MM CW send files (Sam Ferris)
>   2. CTY-2815 Country Files - 10 December 2018 (Jim Reisert AD1C)
>   3. At least four more years of solar minimum? (Vytenis Sciucka)
>   4. Re: N1MM CW send files (Trent Sampson)
>   5. Re: N1MM CW send files (Larry (K8UT))
>   6. Re: N1MM CW send files (Mike Smith VE9AA)
>   7. 'Twas the nite before TEN (MX CONTESTERS!) (Mike Smith VE9AA)
>   8. CW Speed.. (Joe)
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> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 11:00:55 -0600
> From: "Sam Ferris" <ve5sf at sasktel.net>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] N1MM CW send files
> Message-ID: <A086B0897F914BB4BB5C3546B440635C at CAC628017X>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Can someone please advise as to how to set the defaults in the CW FKeys.  I
> cannot seem to find it in the manual.
> Thanks
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:57:56 -0700
> From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] CTY-2815 Country Files - 10 December 2018
> Message-ID: <201812100257.wBA2vuRG030658 at outgoing-alum.mit.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> The Country (CTY) Files were updated on 10 December 2018:
> 
>    http://www.country-files.com/cty-2815-10-december-2018/
> 
> For installation instructions, start at:
> 
>    http://www.country-files.com/
> 
> Hover your mouse over the word Contest in the menu, then select the
> software you are using.
> 
> To install the file, follow the link to your software at the top of the page.
> 
> If you are interested in a bigger CTY.DAT for everyday logging, you can get
> it here:
> 
>   http://www.country-files.com/big-cty-10-december-2018/
> 
> Note that the release notes (and Version Entity) for this larger file are
> different than what is shown below.  There is a separate link to them.
> 
> As a reminder, there is an RSS feed of the latest country file announcements:
> 
>   http://www.country-files.com/feed/
> 
> Here are the release notes:
> 
>    10 December 2018 (CTY-2815)
>    VER20181210, Version entity is Canary Islands, EA8
> 
>    Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:
> 
>    * 4U1XMAS is Vienna Intl Ctr, *4U1V
>    * A41CK/ND, A45VU/ND and A47RS/ND are all Oman, A4
>    * A61FK/47ND, A61FK/MD and A61Q/ND are all United Arab Emirates, A6
>    * EA1RCI/CVG is Spain, EA
>    * TO5NED is French Guiana, FY
>    * GB0CQD is Wales, GW
>    * JD1YAB/JD1 is Minami Torishima, JD/m
>    * K2RP, KH7AR, W8RJL and WL7YQ are all United States, K in CQ zone 3, ITU zone 6
>    * K1PQS, K7LTV, N1XK, W1FOX and W9DKB are all United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 7
>    * K2PM, K4AVX, KK4AND, KM4RO, N4ZY, N7ZZ and W0SK are all United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 8
>    * KD9QS, W0MHK, W7IY and WT8WV are all United States, K in CQ zone 5, ITU zone 8
>    * KG4AY is Guantanamo Bay, KG4
>    * K5UBS, KG4BBX and KW1W are all Alaska, KL
>    * N4UK is Puerto Rico, KP4
>    * LU1SF/S, LU4DQ/D, LU9ECE/D, LW2DOD/D and LW9EYP/D are all Argentina, LU
>    * LU7YG/Y and LU9VRC/V are both Argentina, LU in ITU zone 16
>    * 4U1XMAS is Austria, OE
>    * SQ8VPS/YOTA is Poland, SP
>    * R1941OM, RA60MM and UE28DX are all European Russia, UA
>    * UA3FQ/8 is Asiatic Russia, UA9
>    * VE3RSA/7 is Canada, VE in CQ zone 3, ITU zone 2
>    * VK6AV/2 and VK6ZOA/2 are both Australia, VK
>    * VK9ARH and VK9ARH/P are both Christmas Island, VK9X
> 
>    Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:
> 
>    * TC2ISAF/1 in European Turkey, *TA1
>    * 9M4SJSA, 9M4SJSB and 9M4SJSP in East Malaysia, 9M6
>    * EA5EZ/P in Spain, EA
>    * EC5AC/6 in Balearic Islands, EA6
>    * EA8BFH/P in Canary Islands, EA8
>    * GB0FFS, GB0GDS and GB2SAS in Scotland, GM
>    * GB0HAM in Guernsey, GU
>    * GB0WIW, GB100MCV and GB1LSG in Wales, GW
>    * IQ6VP/J, IU5JHK/J and IZ4AIH/J in Italy, I
>    * AL7R, K1SD, K2DT, K4FXN, K9ES, KH2SR, KH6HU, KU4UK, N4IJ, N5VGK,
>      N7BD, W1JCW, W4JUU, W5BEN, W6NF, WD5DAX, WP2C and WP3Q in United States, K
>    * KG4HF, KG4SS and KG4WV in Guantanamo Bay, KG4
>    * AH0A, KB7DDX, KJ4BHO, N2KLQ, W3ZRT and W7EHP in Hawaii, KH6
>    * KC2ERU in Puerto Rico, KP4
>    * LU7VB/U in Argentina, LU
>    * LX9S/J in Luxembourg, LX
>    * OK1KCR/J in Czech Republic, OK
>    * OZ1KR/J in Denmark, OZ
>    * PA1FJ/J, PA3AFG/J, PA3EFR/J, PA3GQS/J, PA6JAM/J, PA6SHB/J, PA6SJB/J,
>      PA6SJS/J, PE2MGA/J, PI4SHV/J and PI9TP/J in Netherlands, PA
>    * SV2CLJ/J and SV2RNY/J in Greece, SV
>    * R0CM/4, R8FF/P, R9XAU/6, RZ9SZ/3 and UA3FQ/4 in European Russia, UA
>    * R140TU, R3CG/8, RA3III/8, RA3TND/0, RA6AEW/0, RU9MV/0, RW4YA/9 and UA0ZDY/9
>      in Asiatic Russia, UA9
>    * UR4VWN/J in Ukraine, UR
>    * VK9FISH in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, VK9C
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> -- 
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:54:52 +0200
> From: Vytenis Sciucka <vytenis.sciucka at gmail.com>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] At least four more years of solar minimum?
> Message-ID:
>    <CAMY=m23PaqF_HQNEE5BvPF+bZkCskA3xg8kQcQsf+csgAH9O=A at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> Interesting. But NOAA is not the only who make predictions.
> Two old players cycle predictions are Leif Svalgaard and David Hathaway.
> Here is what Hathaway says:
> *We predict that SC25 will be about slightly smaller (?95%) the strength of
> SC24, making it the weakest solar cycle in the last hundred years. We also
> predict that,like SC24, SC25 will be preceded by a long extended solar
> minimum. *
> Full article is not available publicly, but abstract can be found here:
> https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018GL078387
> Leif Svalgaard (University of Stanford) predicts:
> 
> *SC25 will be somewhere between SC24 and SC20, provided the Polar Field
> Precursor Relationship holds* (SSN24: 116; SSN20: 152)
> 
> Paper is available at https://www.leif.org/research/Prediction-of-SC25.pdf
> Prediction is on the last page of paper.
> Last prediction that I'm aware of comes from India. I have not heard these
> names before: Dibyendu Nandi andPrantika Bhowmik. Their prediction is
> located http://www.cessi.in/solarcycle25prediction/,and says cycle should
> start in late 2019 and should be highr that cycle 24.
> Lets wait and see.
> 
> --------------------
> Vytenis LY5T
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:26:55 +0000
> From: Trent Sampson <vk4ts at outlook.com>
> To: Sam Ferris <ve5sf at sasktel.net>, "cq-contest at contesting.com"
>    <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] N1MM CW send files
> Message-ID:
>    <BN7PR04MB53783570092951E7B0CA1350F2A50 at BN7PR04MB5378.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
>    
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Hi Sam,
> 
> Make sure you are in CW mode - eg type CW in entry window and press enter or if a rig is attached change mode to CW
> 
> Place mouse over the F Keys in N1MM+ and right click and the edit window for Run and SNP will be bought up
> 
> Edit to your hearts content
> 
> #
> # N1MM Logger+ CW Default Function Key File
> #
> # This file can be used in most CW contests that have a simple exchange
> 
> Trent VK4TS
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Sam Ferris
> Sent: Monday, 10 December 2018 3:01 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] N1MM CW send files
> 
> Can someone please advise as to how to set the defaults in the CW FKeys.  I cannot seem to find it in the manual.
> Thanks
> Sam
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:36:12 +0000
> From: "Larry (K8UT)" <K8UT at charter.net>
> To: "Sam Ferris" <ve5sf at sasktel.net>, cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] N1MM CW send files
> Message-ID: <em1fdb4a8d-d2d3-4eff-9c8a-6e92cd480515 at k8ut-pc>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8
> 
> Sam,
> 
> The N1MM+ documentation on Function Keys, Messages, ad Macros can be 
> found here:
> http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Stored+Messages+and+the+Function+Key+Message+Editor&structure=N1MM+Logger+Documentation
> 
> 
> Or you can watch three short videos that describe Function Keys here:
> http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Instructional+Videos
> 
> -larry (K8UT)
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Sam Ferris" <ve5sf at sasktel.net>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: 2018-12-09 12:00:55
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] N1MM CW send files
> 
>> Can someone please advise as to how to set the defaults in the CW FKeys.  I
>> cannot seem to find it in the manual.
>> Thanks
>> Sam
>> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:46:00 -0400
> From: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] N1MM CW send files
> Message-ID: <000301d4908e$b0791cb0$116b5610$@nbnet.nb.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Sam, (and everyone)
> 
> 
> 
> Please look here:
> 
> 
> 
> http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=23
> 
> 
> 
> What you're looking for is sample function key files, I believe.
> 
> 
> 
> 73 - Mike VE9AA
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone please advise as to how to set the defaults in the CW FKeys.  I
> 
> cannot seem to find it in the manual.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:40:58 -0400
> From: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] 'Twas the nite before TEN (MX CONTESTERS!)
> Message-ID: <001001d49096$5e362d50$1aa287f0$@nbnet.nb.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
> 
> de VE9AA
> 
> 
> 
>> From my ARRL 10 - (2014) 3830 report..MX ALL! - Mike
> 
> ================================================
> 
> Twas the nite before TEN opened and all through the shack
> 
> Not a signal was stirring, for outside it was black
> 
> The dipoles were hung by the tower with care
> 
> In hopes that strong signals
> 
> soon would be there.
> 
> 
> 
> The harmonics were nestled all snug in their beds
> 
> while visions of pileups danced in their heads
> 
> With me in my PJ's and Mom in her thong
> 
> We wondered about DX and where we went wrong
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When out on the snow there arose such a mess
> 
> I sprang from the bed and forgot to get dressed
> 
> Away to the window I flew like a streaker
> 
> Tore open the amp and became suddenly weaker
> 
> .
> 
> The coax was ripped and the new fallen amp
> 
> fell onto the floor and the 'Test was now damped
> 
> But what do my wondering eyes suddenly see
> 
> but a miniature stack of 10m yagis and deer !
> 
> 
> 
> With a little old man, so adept at the key
> 
> this could be our good luck if only it could be....
> 
> More QRQ than Hastifisti and with power to spare.
> 
> Now Dasher, now Dotter, now  all deer he yelled proud
> 
> We doing this right and we're going to be loud!
> 
> 
> 
> On Meteor, Aurora and Backscatter too
> 
> We'll work everyone til the tubes they turn blue.
> 
> To the top of the hill we ran with our tools
> 
> Now dash away, dot away, lids and QRM fools
> 
> 
> 
> As dry dummy loads that before the current that flows
> 
> I will rid you of keyclicks, splatter and gosh Heavens knows.
> 
> So up to the house-top the signals they flew
> 
> With antennas and amplifiers and St. Nicolas too.
> 
> .
> 
> 
> 
> And then in a moment I heard on the stairs
> 
> DX being worked, that was extremely rare
> 
> As I logged with N1MM (plus version of course)
> 
> St. Nick was working them, SSB and on Morse.
> 
> 
> 
> He was dressed all in fur and looking alive
> 
> And his clothes  were all sweaty from working a P5
> 
> A bundle of coax he threw on his back
> 
> And he looked like a Slim, who would never come back
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> His eyes how they looked, his cheeks were puffed out
> 
>> From a SSB pileup that was tuckering him out
> 
> His droll little mouth, behind the headset from Heil
> 
> Did not conceal that rare DX smile
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The stump of his pipe he held tight in his face
> 
> As lots of DX was coming and this was a race !
> 
> He had a big smile and a big gut too
> 
>> From sitting too much and working DXCC on Two.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> He was fast and fat and a right happy old elf
> 
> I looked in the mirror and imagined myself
> 
> A wink of his eye and a twist of the key
> 
> He said 5NN and worked a P3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> He spoke not a word as he worked the Morse code
> 
> This rate behaviour never gets old
> 
> He filled all the stockings
> 
> Between contacts he said
> 
> Once this is done, Mike, you go back to bed !
> 
> 
> 
> Laying a finger up side of his nose
> 
> He started another pileup and the din, it arose
> 
> This is VE9-Santa and you are Five-by-Nine
> 
> I'll work you all quickly and leave no one behind
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> He sprang to his sled and with a nod of his head
> 
> He worked the last contact (Long path to ZD8Z!)
> 
> 
> 
> Away the stats flew to the ARRL
> 
> I'll be back next year people,
> 
> Perhaps from Z2
> 
> 
> 
> He yelled as he faded and went out of sight
> 
> MX, 73 and to all a GN !
> 
> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
> 
> Merry Christmas from new Brunswick
> 
> de Mike VE9AA and family
> 
> 
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
> 
> 
> 
> _._,_._,_
> 
>  _____  
> 
> _._,_._,_
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:08:31 -0600
> From: Joe <nss at mwt.net>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] CW Speed..
> Message-ID: <bbfbc4d0-b752-18b8-3c0b-6e3d86faf93d at mwt.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
> 
> I will never ever understand some OP's.
> 
> In this past weekends 10 meter contest. Most times signals were very 
> weak, often fluttery like being over the pole etc.
> 
> YET! I would hear countless guys going forever at like 40+ WPM.
> 
> I can do 40+ WPM I have the ARRL Certificate to prove it. But when it is 
> all fluttery, and weak as an EME signal, hello, 40+ WPM doesn't cut it. 
> I had countless times where I had to listen to one station for a few 
> minutes to try to make sure I got his call correct, still on many just 
> said screw them, and turned the big knob.
> 
> Yet there was one guy (I had worked everyone I could hear, so was taking 
> a break for lunch) I listened to him rattle off at 40+ wpm with not a 
> single QSO. I hear several try to work him, and keep asking for repeats, 
> but he never slowed down at all and the people like me would just tune away.
> 
> I can fully understand when the band is wide open and you have countless 
> people calling you, to run fast, but when you have gone for more than 30 
> minutes with only partial contacts made ever thing of dropping to 20 or 
> even less?
> 
> Myself when things got slow contact wise I often go way to the top of 
> the activity in the band and go really slow! I mean like 10 WPM or even 
> less sometimes, you would not believe how many new comers are sooo 
> grateful that I did.
> 
> Joe WB9SBD
> 
> -- 
> Sig
> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
> Idle Tyme
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> http://www.idle-tyme.com
> 
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