*************************************************************************
Call: W1IHN Country: United States
Mode: CW Only Category: Single Operator/High Power
Totals 212Q's 43 St/Pr 20C's ==> 53,424 Points
*************************************************************************
Really interesting conditions: by the time the other station gave you
the exchange, the sig faded out, never to return!!! ZS as loud as W6!!!
Bert, W1IHN (Raleigh, NC)
>From Dick Powell, WK1J" <powell@akocoa.enet.dec.com Mon Dec 13 15:06:58 1993
From: Dick Powell, WK1J" <powell@akocoa.enet.dec.com (Dick Powell, WK1J)
Subject: WK1J - 10 Meter Contest Score
Message-ID: <9312131506.AA03093@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
ARRL TEN METER CONTEST 1993
Call: WK1J Country: United States (NH)
Mode: SSB Category: Single Operator High Power
MODE QSO QSO PTS STATES COUNTRIES
CW 0 0 0 0
SSB 520 1040 46 33
-----------------------------------------
Totals 520 1040 46 33 = 82,160
Equipment Description:
IC765, Mosley TA33 Roof Mounted @31 ft., G5RV @45ft. AMP Supply
LK550 @400Watts
Comments:
Operated 11 hours between getting the Xmas Tree and putting out the
Xmas lights. Run Rate was really slow compared to last year. Big
surprise was having ZL1ANJ call me at 22:04z on Sunday followed by
WH6CQH at 22:31z. Thanks to all who hung in there and worked me.
Dick, WK1J YCCC
>From alan@dsd.es.com (Alan Brubaker) Mon Dec 13 15:24:26 1993
From: alan@dsd.es.com (Alan Brubaker) (Alan Brubaker)
Subject: 10 M contest.
Message-ID: <9312131524.AA27262@dsd.ES.COM>
It ain't dead yet!
K6XO/7 Utah Mixed mode High Power
Mode QSOs W/VE DX
CW 149 30 9
SSB 129 32 10
Total 278 62 19 69,498 (9 hours)
No beam this year for the first time in many years. Antenna was a half-wave
sloping dipole. Worked all states in the first through fourth districts.
Only worked 4 W5s (LA, TX and NM). Only missed NV in the 7s. Missed IL and
only worked 2 W9s. No W0s worked at all! No EU but got ZD8VJ in AF. No VK.
Heard 3 JAs on CW Sunday afternoon and only worked one of them. The meteor
scatter QSOs sure paid off in some extra multipliers. A bit of a struggle
but it is worth it when your rate is this low. Thanks to all of the folks
who dug down deep for my weak signal.
Alan, K6XO
"Life's too short for QRP." - N6TU
>From WB1HBB 13-Dec-1993 1048 <wrothberg@pfloyd.enet.dec.com> Mon Dec 13
>15:49:59 1993
From: WB1HBB 13-Dec-1993 1048 <wrothberg@pfloyd.enet.dec.com> (WB1HBB
13-Dec-1993 1048)
Subject: 10 meter score (and more)
Message-ID: <9312131549.AA05351@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
In spite of conditions, I achieved my personal best this past
weekend.
Q's States/Prov Countries Total
800 55 46 161,600
Single Op/Low Power Phone only
Hours: 21
Kenwood TS-940S
Mosley TA33M @ 55'
Memorable moments:
1) Two consecutive hours on Sat afternoon of
100+ Q's/hr. (132 and 127). I've never done
better than 90.
2) Almost "lost" it on Sunday. Worked N8ULK
and then N8ULM consecutively. I asked "Why
do you sound like the same person?" My radio
answered back with two voices simultaneously,
"We're twins!" I must have been getting
giddy, 'cuz I lost the next 5 minutes laughing.
3) Working folks from the reflector who remembered
my call sign and took a second or two to say
"hi". It's nice to be recognized.
Bummers:
1) DX stations who think everybody is on the
Cluster and knows their call sign so they
don't ID. I wait for 20 minutes only to find
out I've already worked them.
2) Line noise.
I worked a lot of stations backscatter. I missed a lot of
stations because they didn't know what backscatter was! All in
all, a great weekend!
Warren, WB1HBB (New Hampshire)
>From gt5830b@prism.gatech.edu (KUNKEE,DAVID BRYAN) Mon Dec 13 17:23:52 1993
From: gt5830b@prism.gatech.edu (KUNKEE,DAVID BRYAN) (KUNKEE,DAVID BRYAN)
Subject: 10 meter Contest Results
Message-ID: <199312131723.AA04970@prism.gatech.edu>
Here's our summary from W4AQL (GA):
ARRL TEN METER CONTEST 1993
Call: W4AQL Country: United States (047)
Mode: CW Category: Multi Single
MODE QSO QSO PTS STATES COUNTRIES
CW 476 1908 49 27
SSB 1063 2126 50 39
-----------------------------------------
Totals 1539 4034 99 66 = 665,610
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Operator List: N2CEI, AE6E, WA4ABY, K0DI
Equipment Description: TS-940S Alpha 77 TH-6DXX and TH5 Mark II
Club Affiliation:
MAILING ADDRESS:
GA Tech Amateur Radio Club W4AQL
Box 32705 Georgia Tech Station
Atlanta, GA 30332
-------------------------------------------------------------------
What a great Contest, where else can you see F, Es, and Scatter
demonstrated so plainly in one weekend?
I agree with Gene, RY0F made my day and about that time I thought I
was hearing another "R" station as well, R6L? I don't know but I
do know we were short on the receive side, our biggest problem
at W4AQL. Wanted to put up a five element monbander but near-gale
force winds Saturday morning removed that possibility.
Dave Kunkee, K0DI
>From DKMC" <dkmc@chevron.com Mon Dec 13 17:37:56 1993
From: DKMC" <dkmc@chevron.com (DKMC)
Subject: Don't Change CQ WW MS Definition
Message-ID: <CPLAN065.DKMC.1155.1993 12 13 0936 0936>
Microsoft Mail v3.0 IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
From: McCarty, DK 'David'
To: OPEN ADDRESSING SERVI-OPENADDR
Subject: Don't Change CQ WW MS Definition
Priority:
Message ID: 7699001B
Conversation ID: 7699001B
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The interpretation of the rule for multi-single in CQ WW under which I have
operated is to allow multiple signals at one time with the ten minute rule
applied as a 10-minute window to the time of the contacts made. This
follows from the verification problem, as Jim, K1ZX, noted.
I must agree with Tim, KJ4VH, that the rule should NOT be modified. As with
Randy, K5ZD, I have been at MS efforts in which up to four transmitters were
active at once on different bands, not to mention receivers; the rule was
not broken, just the ten-minute window carefully defined by the operators in
real time. This maximization of score and the interplay between operators
required to achieve it IS A MAJOR PART OF THE FUN IN CQ WW MS. The goal is
to do it without having to throw out Q's and mults in the post-contest log
check.
The ARRL definition of multi-single allows only one transmitted signal and a
strict ten-minute rule (no multiplier allowance as in CQ WW). In slow
periods (like trips to 160M) the ten minute rule is applied as in CQ WW--as
a ten minute window.
As to station design, effective stations can be built simply, as long as you
pay close attention to inter-band interference. This is a requirement for
any multi-single contest station, as listening on the other bands while
transmitting is very useful; transmitting on two bands simultaneously only
makes the interference problem more complex.
Change the station to fit the rules, not the rules to fit the station.
By the way, the ARRL definition of multi-two is more difficult to achieve,
station-wise, than the CQ WW MS because the MS only has to search and
pounce. The M-2 has to be able to RUN them on two bands at once.
Don't mess up a good thing, please.
David K. McCarty
K5GN
dkmc@chevron.com
|