ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: VP2E/WJ2O Country: Anguilla
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
Power: 99 Watts
Band QSO Points Mults Last Year
160 144 432 33 32 11
80 521 1563 51 396 49
40 919 2757 55 859 57
20 889 2667 56 942 57
15 713 2139 54 950 58
10 632 1896 50 1058 56
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Totals 3818 11454 299 4237 288
Score 3,424,746 3,660,768
Congratulations to Larry, K3TLX (C6AHE) for beating me. I'm getting used to
the 2nd place slot.
Only excuse: Rates were so low Sunday morning that I took a nap that I
almost never got up from. End result 400 Q's less than last year but a few
more mults.
Thanks for you guys that moved to other bands with me. Are they're hams in
Wyoming? I believe there was much more Canadian participation this year.
VE2 can sometimes be rare but I must have worked 20 of 'em.
The ops on 160 are very polite. One station at a time gave their call until
I cleaned them all up. I actually had a good rate there.
Both mornings were slow because Europe was so strong. It's better when
operating in the Carrib. if Europe is dead. But, if Europe is not comming
in, a lot of casual US operators will quit. I couldn't wait for 10 meters to
open (about 10 am EST each morning) so somebody would work me. New lesson to
me: sleep mornings (6 to 9 am local) when Europe is open to the US.
The best way I know to keep multi-multi stations from asking me if I'll
change bands is to work them on all bands the first day. I wasn't asked even
once and I'm not disappointed.
What great fun . . . when's the next one?
73 es CUL, Dave, WJ2O
>From Doug Grant <0006008716@mcimail.com> Sat Feb 25 21:25:00 1995
From: Doug Grant <0006008716@mcimail.com> (Doug Grant)
Subject: ARRL DX CW Rumors V2
Message-ID: <40950225212504/0006008716NA3EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
ARRL CW DX CONTEST SCORE RUMORS
from 3830 and Internet
Breakdowns are 160-10 L-R
v 2.0 25 Feb 95
a few scores reported via Internet fell in the bit bucket...sorry
MM
W3LPL 9.23M 5307-580 150/57 733/95 1399/126 1745/130 1165/118 115/54
K1KI 7.67M 5040-509 97/44 507/81 1429/114 1753/124 1159/104 95/42
K3LR 7.23M 4559-529 88/42 568/92 1360/119 1344/116 1101/108 98/52
K1TR 7.1 M 4879-486 59/35 737/88 1126/108 1718/116 1161/101 78/38
N2RM 5.9 M 4013-491 154/48 558/81 1055/103 1312/115 830/97 104/47
KY1H 5.4 M 3899-467 74/41 517/82 904/96 1460/115 867/93 77/40
KY3N 4.97M 3568-465
K3ANS 3.86M 2912-445
W0AIH 3.29M 2556-430
K1KP 2.86M 2495-383 1 tower
WX0B 2.5 M 2390-367
M2
K1AR 7.66M 5054-506 55/36 610/87 1346/113 1714/118 1247/110 82/42 at K1EA
N3RS 6.6 M 4391-504 66/37 475/84 1225/112 1417/118 1136/111 72/42
N2NT 6.47M 4218-512 79/44 556/85 1065/111 1272/116 1154/109 92/47 at NF2L
K8AZ 4.37M 3337-438 40/33 196/67 904/99 1223/100 914/103 60/36
W1CW/4 3.85 3028-425 43/30 317/72 814/92 921/95 786/86 147/50
WD8LLD 3.3M 2668-407 50/33 159/66 645/87 1070/101 689/90 55/30
WF3T 3.3 M 2695-411 at N6CQ/3
WO1N 2.5 M 2359-360
W6GO 2.4 M 2427-331
K9UWA 2.3 M 2067-383
W9KDX 2.3 M 2048-380
N7ML 2.1 M 2267-312
NC0P 2.06M 1979-347
MS
W3BGN 4.01M 2931-456 98/48 335/80 749/93 960/99 728/94 61/42
N2NU 3.89M 3024-429 73/42 433/79 655/80 1003/101 824/97 36/30
NK7U 1.23M 1744-236
N2IC 1.19M 1466-271
W6REC 856K 1186-241
SOA
K3WW 3.3M 2608-422 66/45 264/76 687/86 872/94 671/88 48/33
K5NA 3.1M 2369-436 47/39 248/76 654/93 634/97 742/96 44/35
AD1C 2.8M 2351-403 at KC1XX
K1IU 2.3M 2043-373 no 40M ant
K2WK 2.0M 1817-378
AA3B 1.9M 1833-344
KC1F 1.8M 1926-312
K2PS 1.6M 1578-334
N3RR 1.5M 1294-376
K2SX 1.36 1445-313
W1NG 1.25 1173-358
W2UP 1.16 1281-303
KF2O 987K 985-334
N6ZZ 944K 1081-294
K4XU 912K 993-307
K3SA 882K 1018-290
W1YK 835K 1043-267 KM1P opr
WA1G 660K 825-267
K1FWF 360K 450-267 part time
SO
KM1H 3.7M 3215-384 62/36 324/67 833/80 1081/95 881/82 34/24 KQ2M opr.
K5ZD 3.5M 3087-378 70/35 230/64 816/83 986/92 942/81 43/23
W1KM 3.2M 3018-354 47/29 430/69 875/84 1008/85 616/63 42/24
N4RJ 3.0M 2685-371 KM9P opr
W2SC 2.87 2677-357
N6BV 2.86 2840-336
K3ZO 2.86 2617-365
KT3Y 2.55 2665-318 wires only
K1ZZ 2.20 2070-355
W9RE 1.97 1990-331
K2XA 1.43 1416-338
K0EJ 1.10 1391-263
K9MA .98 1222-267
WB5VZL .91 1126-271
K8MR .72 986-243 18 hrs
K0KX .62 839-249
W2VJN .59 954-206
AA6KX .57 904-210
K4AMC .32 615-177 12 hrs
SOLP
K2SG 1.46M 1626-299
K7SV 1.45M 1421-342
WA0QOA 801K 1100-234
SO QRP
AA2U 526K 741-237
K7FR 267K 606-147
W4MYA 160 158-58 26K
W0ZV 160 153-52 24K
W1MK 80 929-89 248K
AA6TT 80 320-61 58K AA5B opr
VE2ZP 20 1489-112 500K UU2JX opr
VE9ST 20 1552-105 475K
KC2X 20 1326-107 436K
K4VX/0 20 1221-102 373K W9WI opr
W1IHN 20 919-97 267K
WA6KUI 20 401-80 96K
W5VX 15 879-91 240K
N4BP 15 807-89 215K
KE3Q 10 146-56 22K
DX
C6AHE LP 3.5M 3943-298
VP2E/WJ2O LP 3.4M 3818-298
XE1/AA6RX LP 3.0M 3166-321
KP4VA LP 2.9M 3599-272 KP4TK opr...no 160
KH6RS LP 2.5M 3082-269 N0AX opr
F6FGZ HP 1.9M 2882-219
VK5GN HP 1.3M 1864-232 N6AA op
VS6BG HP 255K 708-106 15 hrs
DL2HBX QRP 71K 319-74
KL7RA 40 173K 996-58
6E2T M2 5.8M 5799-331
KL7Y M2 3.5M 4096-289
V31TP MS 3.8M 4092-307
HG1S MS 2.1M 3113-229
EI7M MS 2.1M 3032-229
S51QA 15m 515 47 72,615
S56A LP 496 116 172.260
S59AA SOAB 588 131 230.691
S50D M/S 1963 189 1,113,021
S59KW 80m 508 42 64.000
S51W 80m 394 45 53,190
S50C 80m 419 39 49,023
73,
Doug K1DG
k1dg@mcimail.com
>From Sergei Kulyov <skulyov@freenet.columbus.oh.us> Sat Feb 25 21:33:50 1995
From: Sergei Kulyov <skulyov@freenet.columbus.oh.us> (Sergei Kulyov)
Subject: CQ Magazine E-Mail address wanted!
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9502251646.A21450-9100000@acme>
On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Eugene G. Sidorov wrote:
> Gee, does anyone have any E-Mail address of CQ Magazine?
>
>
> ---
> 73, "Jerry" UA9AR.
Try e-mail K1AR, he is the general manager of CQ:
p00259@pslink.com
John Dorr, K1AR
Uspekhov!
Sergei
AA8OT es UA3AP
>From Bill Straw <0007359114@mcimail.com> Sun Feb 26 03:13:00 1995
From: Bill Straw <0007359114@mcimail.com> (Bill Straw)
Subject: Query
Message-ID: <01950226031310/0007359114PJ4EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
It says in this week's TIME magazine that Kevin
Mitnick, the big time hacker that was caught last
week, was "an accomplished ham radio operator."
Does anyone know his callsign, was he ever into
contests? Since he has so much time on his hands
now, maybe I should give him a call and he could
help me figure out how to get my packet station
going.
( note the posting time of this message, during
the CQ 160 DX, I repeat DX, contest. Reading time
magazine is turning out to be much more exciting)
73's BILL WB0OOOOOOOOOOOOO Northern NDAK
Current Temp is 9F Today's high 14F
>From steve.wilson@almac.co.uk (STEVE WILSON) Sun Feb 26 00:47:00 1995
From: steve.wilson@almac.co.uk (STEVE WILSON) (STEVE WILSON)
Subject: Alpha 91B Amplifier
Message-ID: <8A4406B.025601C624.uuout@almac.co.uk>
During the recent CQWW 160m contest I was lucky enough to guest operate
the station of G3ZEM. Bob has a pretty powerful 160m station with an
inverted vee at 110ft and several beverages which provided amazing
reception, especially to the USA. I have never experienced 160m
conditions like that ever before, and I'm still wondering at the
strength of some of the USA mid-west stations. The QSO I made with
KL7RA ranks as the best - KL7 from western EU is a pretty hard path on
160m, but signals were amazingly loud. We ended up with a score of 785K
which unfortunately didn't quite match (ON4UN) OT5T's score - but we'll
be back again next year! Logging was with EI5DI's excellent 'Super-Duper'
and we were linked throughout to our local PacketCluster GB7YDX which helped
in our Multi-Single effort. We used a Kenwood TS-950SDX and an Alpha 87A
amplifier which did a really neat job of work. ETO certainly know how
to build a linear amplifier - I was VERY impressed.
I would like to replace my ageing TL-922 amplifier with an Alpha unit -
unfortunately, the Alpha 87A costs about 6000 English pounds with UK
import tax and shipping by UPS. I've seen a couple of adverts for the
Alpha 91B (Svetlana Alpha?) in the 'DX Magazine' and written to Ray
Heaton at Alpha for more details. That was about four weeks back, but
despite sending dollar bills for return postage I've heard nothing! At
$US 2298, the Alpha 91B looks like an affordable buy and I'm very
interested in knowing more.
Subsequently, I have heard that the Alpha 91B has been dogged with
problems and that the Russian 3CX800A tubes are particularly fragile. I
would be very interested to hear if anyone on this reflector has any
experience of the Alpha 91B from a user perspective? I apologise if
this topic has been covered before on here - I'm very new to the CQ
Contest reflector.
73 de Steve G3VMW (steve.wilson@almac.co.uk)
Steve Wilson
* 1st 1.11 * QWK . The VHS of offline mail formats
>From k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek K2MM) Sun Feb 26 03:51:39 1995
From: k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek K2MM) (John Zapisek K2MM)
Subject: Kevin Mitnick
Message-ID: <9502260351.AA21884@greylock.local>
> [Bill/WB0O] TIME magazine [says] that Kevin Mitnick, the big time hacker
> that was caught last week, was "an accomplished ham radio operator."
Figgers ;-)
> Does anyone know his callsign . . .
The 92 callbook gives this hit:
Kevin D. Mitnick, N6NHG
14744 Leadwell St.
Van Nuys, CA 91405
General, DOB 63 Aug 06
> . . . was he ever into contests?
No hits in any of my logs (SS, WPX, NAQP, Sprint, 160m, 10m). --John/K2MM
>From scott@6.microbbs.us.com (Scott Lieberman) Sun Feb 26 00:30:16 1995
From: scott@6.microbbs.us.com (Scott Lieberman) (Scott Lieberman)
Subject: Sprint woes
Message-ID: <5d0_9502252033@microbbs.us.com>
N2IC says I should be doing at least 250 in the CW Sprint.
Feb **1982** CW Sprint
Top W1 Scores
K1KI 279-41-11,234
K1AR 298-37-11,026
K1DG 292-37-10,804
N1EE 272-39-10,608
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
W1WEF 270-39-10,530
K1BW 280-36-10,080
So, at least in that one Sprint, it seems I knew what I was doing! (I wonder if
being only 23 years old had anything to do with it? :-) This was with a
TS-820, SB-200, tribander and dipoles on 80 and 40. I think the reason I did
so well from New England is that I do much better on 40 and 80 than on 20,
possibly because I have trouble with stations 50 miles away that are only S2
but are capable of covering up my signal on the east coast.
Regarding N2IC'sadvice to not spend the first 2 hours on 20 meters...
Thanks for the tip- I still think I will go back to 20 at 0150Z or 0200Z for
some multipliers, but I guess I need to go to 40 at 0130Z or so.
--
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>From abraun@alb.med.itc.com (Alan Braun) Sun Feb 26 01:26:13 1995
From: abraun@alb.med.itc.com (Alan Braun) (Alan Braun)
Subject: V31TP in ARRL DX contest
Message-ID: <9502265173@alb.med.itc.com>
V31TP made over 4000 QSO's in the recent ARRL DX CW contest. We will be
sending QSL cards to ALL stations worked via the buro once they are
printed. Therefore it will not be necessary for anyone to send us cards.
Thanks for all the Q's! 73 - Alan V31EV/NS0B and John V31TP/WC0W
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* Alan Braun MD, NS0B * Internet: abraun@alb.med.itc.com *
* Jefferson City, MO * Packet: NS0B@N0LBA.#cmo.mo.usa.noam *
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>From abraun@alb.med.itc.com (Alan Braun) Sun Feb 26 01:21:03 1995
From: abraun@alb.med.itc.com (Alan Braun) (Alan Braun)
Subject: Working W's in DX contests
References: <9502241936.AA10589@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
Message-ID: <9502264863@alb.med.itc.com>
In Article <9502241936.AA10589@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com writes:
> I think if you had just worked the JA and moved on, you would have been a
> lot better off.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
Jim - I thought about that but decided against it for several reasons:
1. I'd already seen (through operating before the contest) how quickly a
pileup to JA or EU develops...2 or 3 Q's and then an eruption as the
packet cluster spots hit.
2. The band was so full of people at the time that it had taken me 10
minutes just to find a place to call CQ and I didn't want to have to leave
my run frequency, which is what would have happened if a pileup got
started.
3. The guy I was operating with, whose radio it was and in whose cousins'
house we were staying, said NOT to. He finished 5th in the world in
single op from V3 last year and was out for blood this time.
I'm sure, since the JA was persistent enough to keep calling me for half
an hour when he knew I was hearing him and ignoring him, that V3 would
probably have been an all time new one for him. Actually I felt a little
sorry for him. I was a DXer long before I was a contester (and still am
in fact). In a contest from my home QTH, if I find a new DXCC counter
while I'm S & P'ing (doesn't happen much anymore with over 300 confirmed!)
I'll throw rate and score out the window and slug it out in the pile until
I work him, no matter how long it takes. But doing a contest from a DX
location, particularly an area-specific contest like the ARRL DX contest,
is a totally different ball game and has to be played by different rules -
now that I've done it myself I realize why. 73 - Alan V31EV/NS0B
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* Alan Braun MD, NS0B * Internet: abraun@alb.med.itc.com *
* Jefferson City, MO * Packet: NS0B@N0LBA.#cmo.mo.usa.noam *
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>From Ed J. Young <youngej@saturn.uaamath.alaska.edu> Sun Feb 26 12:23:36 1995
From: Ed J. Young <youngej@saturn.uaamath.alaska.edu> (Ed J. Young
<youngej@saturn.uaamath.alaska.edu>)
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <9502261223.AA06252@saturn.uaamath.alaska.edu>
Testing distribution. Ignore this message.
NL7FU
>From Dighton@ix.netcom.com (Jonathan Hutchins) Sun Feb 26 14:08:16 1995
From: Dighton@ix.netcom.com (Jonathan Hutchins) (Jonathan Hutchins)
Subject: Contest Exchanges
Message-ID: <199502261408.GAA22618@ix2.ix.netcom.com>
Maybe we should have a contest where the exchange is the
serial number of the radio you're using. . .
Jon/AB4MT
>From mhd@krk.fi (Markus Hamro-Drotz) Sun Feb 26 13:46:24 1995
From: mhd@krk.fi (Markus Hamro-Drotz) (Markus Hamro-Drotz)
Subject: unsubscribe
Message-ID: <9502261346.AA19697@krk.fi>
unsubscribe
>From Randy Thompson <k5zd@iconics.com> Sun Feb 26 17:01:34 1995
From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@iconics.com> (Randy Thompson)
Subject: Unacceptable QSO's ??
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950226115954.7460D-100000@genesis.iconics.com>
On Fri, 24 Feb 1995 fish@crl.com wrote:
> Tom (W2SC) and I were talking off line and he mentioned that he didn't
> consider his QSO with the V44 station a good one since the guy wasn't
> sending a power number with the reports. He and I both asked the guy for
> the power and he gave it to us, but Tom still feels this is not a good QSO
> since it wasn't part of the exchange.
>
If he gave you a power he is good. After all, that's the exchange! If
he did not give you a power, but you heard it from another QSO, then I
would count it.
This happens a lot with the guys who aren't in the contest.
DX contests are just call copying exercises anyway. If they wanted us to
actually copy the exchange, they would require an exchange that has
information value.
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
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