[Mldxcc] [NCCC] CQ 2007 DX Marathon Score

[SHIRLEY ROSE]

Jim,
    Thank you for your offer.  Based upon scheduled contests I see our spring meeting schedule as 26 Jan, 23 Feb, 15 Mar, 19 Apr, 17 May and 24 Jun.  Please let me know your preferred date for the presentation and I will get you on the calender.  The MLDXCC meets at the Mountain Mike's Pizza at Martell (near Jackson). 
   
    As you will need 90 minutes it would probably be beneficial to all if you could do a Phase I and a Phase II at a later date.  Please advise if you need the MLDXCC to provide any presentation aids. 
   
    We will buy you lunch and provide an attentive and appreciative audience.
   
  Thanks,
   
  Mr. Shirley L Rose--AA6K
  Vice President, MLDXCC  

Jim Brown K9YC <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
  I would be happy to do that. I need about an hour to present it so 
that everyone understands it. 

I have another presentation on RFI that leads into the common mode 
choke concepts. It requires more like 90 minutes. That sounds like 
a lot, but no one seems to doze off when I do it. So I could do 
one for one meeting, the other for another meeting a month or two 
or three later. Or, I can do the common mode choke presentation as 
a stand-alone. 

73,

Jim K9YC

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:03:05 -0800 (PST), SHIRLEY ROSE wrote:

>Jim,
> An overview of the "tutorial on common-mode chokes" would 
make a great presentation topic for a MLDXCC Club meeting.
> 
> 73 de AA6K
> Shirl 

>Jim Venneman wrote:
> Greetings,

>I decided to enter the CQ Magazine DX Marathon for 2007 in the 
Unlimited Class. My final Score for 2007 = 239 countries + 40 
zones = 279 points. Not bad for the bottom of the solar cycle. I 
don't expect to even come close to competing for a top score in 
this event in this class, but it was great fun anyway. Along the 
way - I managed to pick up 14 all-time new countries, which has 
pushed my DXCC total to 316/329. 

>I have to say again that this was fun. It sure helped make the 
year go by in a much more interesting way. For one thing - in 
spite of the low sunspots, I worked DX entities during the year 
that I hadn't worked in years (for example - my QSO with 4K5D 
(Azerbaijan) was my first QSO with that country in almost 42 
years!). For another thing - working "garden-variety" DX took on 
much more importance. My QSO with GI3DZE on 12/8 ended many months 
of simply missing this easy-to-work country. 

>I should also point out that many QSOs during the year were made 
at ESP levels, with stations that were fading up and down around 
the noise level. Thanks, K9YC, for your tutorial on common-mode 
chokes. Once I installed common-mode chokes on all four of my 
feedlines last spring, my ambient noise level went down an 1-2 S-
units! I don't believe that many of those ESP level QSOs would 
have been possible otherwise. Since my QTH is only a block away 
from Highway 49 in Auburn, with all of the various businesses 
located along the roadway, there are plenty of local noise sources 
for me.

>Already looking foward to what 2008 has in store. Oh - and by the 
way - Happy New Year to all!!

>Jim -WX6V- 


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