Hi fellow contesters,
I saw a post on here last week (I dont recall who it was from)
but it said something to the effect that FD was great untill
the ARRL included the WARC bands.
Anyway as I read this I thought to myself -- I dont think
that is correct. So I got out my May 1995 QST and looked.
It clearly states that the 10, 18 and 24 Mhz bands are
not to be used for FD contacts. It seems that I recall
that the use of the WARC bands came up last year after FD.
I am sure that hams being hams and wanting to use
their full privilages and favorite bands got on the
WARC bands during FD and made FD contacts - ya cant stop them.
But the ARRL rules for the event do exclude these bands.
--
George Fremin III
Austin, Texas C.K.U.
WB5VZL
512/416-0140
geoiii@bga.com
>From Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd@CapAccess.org Tue May 23 16:38:34 1995
From: Rich L. Boyd" <rlboyd@CapAccess.org (Rich L. Boyd)
Subject: New Blood
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9505231132.F24171-8100000@cap1.capaccess.org>
I started in NR also, then tried SS. I'd been a ham 27 years before I
belatedly did my first FD. I came into ham radio through the
individual study route, not the local club route. Missed a lot of
good cameraderie, etc.
Rich Boyd KE3Q
>From Tom Morrison <t.morrison@liant.com> Tue May 23 12:29:00 1995
From: Tom Morrison <t.morrison@liant.com> (Tom Morrison)
Subject: Contest results out of QST?
Message-ID: <9505231629.AB10165@rmc.liant.com>
Rich L. Boyd KE3Q writes:
> We all have a vested interest in the survival of ham radio "as we
> know it." <stuff deleted>
> K1ZZ at ARRL seems very supportive of contesting.
He had better...several of us still have the negatives!
73, Tom K5TM
Tom Morrison T.Morrison@liant.com
Relativity (division of Liant Software)
Phone: 512-719-7019 FAX: 512-719-7070
>From John Dorr K1AR" <p00259@psilink.com Tue May 23 18:05:51 1995
From: John Dorr K1AR" <p00259@psilink.com (John Dorr K1AR)
Subject: KC6VW : WPX CW 95
Message-ID: <3010330833.2.p00259@psilink.com>
No QSLing to Tosy's QSL manager...hmmm, that's a new twist on using a
manager. :)
-John
>DATE: Tue, 23 May 1995 14:20:20 +0900
>FROM: Toshiyuki Moriyama <moriyama@civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am planning to QRV during WPX CW 95 SOAB HP signing KC6VW.
>QRV on 160m-10m. Especially,160m is 1824.5. QSX 1911 for JAs.
>No WARC, RTTY and diving plan before and after the contest.
>I will concentrate the contest.
>
>All QSLs will automatically send via Buro. Please no direct mail
>to me or my QSL manager JA6BSM without special reason.
>
>Tosy, JA6VZB/AH0T/KC6VW/V63BM/ZF2TY
>Toshiyuki Moriyama <moriyama@civil.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
>Dept. of Civil Eng., Kyushu-Univ.,
>6-10-1 Hakozaki Higashi-ku,
>Fukuoka-city, 812-81 Japan
>
>From R. Torsten Clay" <torsten@mephisto.physics.uiuc.edu Tue May 23 19:00:03
>1995
From: R. Torsten Clay" <torsten@mephisto.physics.uiuc.edu (R. Torsten Clay)
Subject: ARRL FD & WARC bands
Message-ID: <199505231800.AA18897@mephisto.physics.uiuc.edu>
A few years ago, WARC band qso's WERE legal for FD...I remember
while operating N4AR (KY Contest Group) FD, we tried qsying to
18 Mhz for a while, but there was little activity there anyway.
KCG is another contest club that does a "serious" FD
effort (2A).
Tor
n4ogw@uiuc.edu
...
> that is correct. So I got out my May 1995 QST and looked.
> It clearly states that the 10, 18 and 24 Mhz bands are
> not to be used for FD contacts. It seems that I recall
> that the use of the WARC bands came up last year after FD.
> I am sure that hams being hams and wanting to use
> their full privilages and favorite bands got on the
> WARC bands during FD and made FD contacts - ya cant stop them.
>
> But the ARRL rules for the event do exclude these bands.
>
> --
>
> George Fremin III
> Austin, Texas C.K.U.
> WB5VZL
> 512/416-0140
> geoiii@bga.com
>
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