Can some one tell me where these stations operated from and a possible route
for them .......Worked them in the WPX CW test.
Thanks
Joel WU1F
>From Roy Hradilek <73374.2465@compuserve.com> Tue May 30 22:52:31 1995
From: Roy Hradilek <73374.2465@compuserve.com> (Roy Hradilek)
Subject: AD5Q: A WPX from Hell
Message-ID: <950530215231_73374.2465_DHS71-1@CompuServe.COM>
In many parts of the country, a contester's worst nightmare is a
propagation scenario where the East Coast can run Europe and we can't.
This is always the case on the low bands, but on 20 Meters? This has
been a frustrating weekend. I usually do well in this contest. I went
single band 20 again, because I don't have a beam on 40 yet.
With a 2x1 prefix and a pipeline into the east coast, I always get off
to a flying start. It's hard to work DX with so much stateside calling,
but this is only a problem the first night. I kick back and enjoy the
rate. My first hour was 125 (131 last year), and by the end of the
night I still hadn't heard ANY stateside stations with a higher number
than mine. However, there was no late night path into Russia as in
prior years. Nighttime Russia/EU runs are usually good from here
because the East Coast is down on 40 doing what is impossible west of
the Mississippi (and at double the QSO points).
Saturday morning: As usual, the 1's 2's & 3's staked out the entire
band for themselves before the band opened here. It was not hard to
squeeze in between them and start running, but this year my rates were
only about 20 per hour during the peak of the band openings. Worse: 90%
of these were zero point stateside stations. The Europeans weren't
calling me, but the East Coast was running them like crazy all morning
and afternoon. For all the CQing I did this weekend, only a few dozen
Europeans were worked on runs. The rest were search and pounce, and
most of them had big numbers. Only the European big guns were copyable
here, and there weren't enough of them. It was Dupe City with relent-
less S&P work. The evening runs of JA's were so-so.
Finally late Sunday afternoon I started getting EU to call me on runs,
but the daytime noise level here was about S6 (possibly because of
nearby storms). Few were actually copyable, and I still couldn't get
the rate up. Europe never did open up well enough to punch a hole
through the East Coast. I haven't had this problem before on 20. Did
the guys with the big stacks do OK on 20 down here?
My final score was over 200 contacts short of last year, and about
300,000 points off. It sounds like most East Coast ops are reporting
improved scores over last year because of their constant exclusive
access to Europe. Last year 20 was great for the first day, then the
band shut down for everybody: Very democratic.
Bottom Line: 1095 x 570 --> 835,620 Average 1.34 points per QSO.
Equipment: FT-890 & 800 Watts to a KT34-XA at 104 feet.
ad5q@wa4imz.#setx.tx.usa.na or 73374.2465@compuserve.com
>From Lee Hiers <0006701840@mcimail.com> Tue May 30 23:17:00 1995
From: Lee Hiers <0006701840@mcimail.com> (Lee Hiers)
Subject: WPX CW - AA4GA
Message-ID: <75950530221757/0006701840PJ1EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
CQ WORLD WIDE WPX CONTEST 1995
Call: AA4GA Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
40 10 0 0.0 10
20 20 0 0.0 20
--------------------------------------
Totals 30 0 0.0 30 = 0
Equipment Description: TS440, TH7, Dipole
Comments: Low power. One hour, I guess. Uh, I went fishing.
Caught some too.
CU in SS!
73 de Lee
aa4ga@mcimail.com
>From Sig <0006481603@mcimail.com> Tue May 30 23:33:00 1995
From: Sig <0006481603@mcimail.com> (Sig)
Subject: 95 WPX Score - N3RS
Message-ID: <40950530223304/0006481603PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
The following is the N3RS SOA WPX CW Contest score:
BAND QSO's PREFIXES ANTENNA
160 9 5 Deltaloop @ 135ft
80 128 43 140 ft high Force-12 rotary dip.
40 431 166 3 element yagi @ 140 ft
20 1204 448 5/5 elements @ 117/77 ft.
15 84 29 4/4 elements @ 130/87 ft.
10 5 1 4 elements @ 87 ft (lower stack
not used due to conditions)
-------------------------------
TOTALS 1861 692
Score = 3,767,248 points.
Rig: IC-765 and Alpha 76PA
Best band was 20M by far. Best hour was 111 QSO's.
Saddest Story:
My favorite band, 40M, was nearly useless for the majority of
the prime time. Some sort of roaring noise covered the entire
band with a peak signal level of over S-9. I normally copy many
signals on 40 that are just above the noise, but at S-6 to S-9,
that removed most of my run potential. This was most frustrat-
ing and nearly caused me to quit. The noise also appeared on
20M, but was much weaker and far less annoying.
I can't say I didn't have fun, but at times I was wondering why I was doing
such bad things to my body. Conditions were terrible, with 15M barely open-
ing for a few minutes to europe with essentially no run potential.
I have looking for other SOA scores, but I guess I was the only one that used
packet. With a node here at the station, it is hard for some people to believe
that I didn't take advantage of packet. To tell the truth, packet in this con-
test was a waste of time! I don't think I worked more than 3 stations as a
result of having packet connected. Folks along the east coast just seemed to
want to work SSB and chase BV9P (as though he was moving much!).
de Sig, N3RS
(longing for some sunspots!)
>From George Cook <george@epix.net> Wed May 31 00:03:41 1995
From: George Cook <george@epix.net> (George Cook)
Subject: N6VI/KH7 WPX score
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950530185849.14809B-100000@peach.epix.net>
On Tue, 30 May 1995, Floydjr wrote:
> one. Marty states above that he was at home. How do you sign as a portable
> anything from your home. This is no flame at Marty but a question about
> the rules of the contest. I am advanced in NC. If I do what he did then
> next year I can sign KX4/WA4ZXA. I don't know if that would fly or not, but
> it seems the same as what Marty did. I just picked the KX4 as it fits the
> advance callsigns. I would like someone explain this one.
>
> 73's JIM // WA4ZXA
Well first you must know that Marty ALWAYS did sign N6VI/KH6 which is
entirely correct if you are a W6 (california) call and don't want to give
it up when you move to Hawaii. I think a KH6 will get a lot more
attention at any time than a W6. Also as a KH6 you are DX and that
changes the rules of a LOT of contests.
I admire Marty for moving quickly and using the /KH7 but it did cause a
lot of confusion in the ranks. But hey a win is a win.
And no you could not really legitamatly sign /KX4 unless you were mobile
in 4 land but I could if I came to vist you. I really gave some thought
about signing AJ2/AA3JU from the car and driving about 15 miles east into NJ.
GC
*************************************************
* George Cook AA3JU Bangor, PA FN21 *
* george@peach.epix.net AA3JU@N3IQD.EPA.USA.NA *
* If you're not FRC remember:............... *
* .......There's no shame in being 2nd best! *
*************************************************
>From H. L. Serra" <hlserra@teetot.acusd.edu Wed May 31 00:25:50 1995
From: H. L. Serra" <hlserra@teetot.acusd.edu (H. L. Serra)
Subject: Speaking of cover shots ...
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505301606.B18515-0100000@teetot.acusd.edu>
>
> Did anybody notice the "room service" bell on the desk of the W6EEN shack -
> front cover of the March 95 issue of CQ?
>
> Why?
The MULTIPLIER bell. We have a nice brass one that we mount on the end of
the table at 6E2T. OPR rings it every time a new MULT is worked. Friday
night of ARRL DX CW (when 80M and 160M were cooking) it sounded like a
San Francisco cable car (where driver plays tune on the bell) in our beach
house in Ensenada. Try it, you'll like it for multi-ops. 73, Larry N6AZE/6E2T
>From McCarty, DK 'Dav" <DKMC@chevron.com Wed May 31 02:02:18 1995
From: McCarty, DK 'Dav" <DKMC@chevron.com (McCarty, DK 'Dav)
Subject: K5GN WPX CW SOAB
Message-ID: <CPLAN065.DKMC.381202180095150FCPLAN065@ION.CHEVRON.COM>
From: McCarty, DK 'David'
To: OPEN ADDRESSING SERVI-OPENADDR
Subject: K5GN WPX CW SOAB
Priority:
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A good rule: Never miss the first hour of WPX.
So, when did I arrive at K2UA? 0035. Hours on the freeway...
Bottom line:
80 20 76 3.80 FT-1000D, Dipole at 135.
40 787 3046 3.87 Broken 4 el KLM at 170. 2 el wire quad at 100' NE.
20 736 1238 1.68 4/4 135/80
15 210 284 1.35 6 el at 135'
10 9 19 2.11 6 el at 105'
tot 1762 4663 2.64
wpx 688 score 3.21 Meg.
This is a better score than it felt...
The daytime 20m conditions were awful. I got knocked off the air by
a t-storm on Saturday morning. Literally. I was grounding the
antenna switches when a nearby stroke ionized the air inside the
beverage switch. I had my hand on it. Only blew a small relay in the
QSK circuit, for which there was a spare, fortunately. Just last
weekend, Dennis and I had replaced the light (18 gauge) copperweld of
the two main beverages with hard drawn 14 gauge stranded, because
lightning had vaporized the lighter wire.
The rest of the time, while they weren't overhead, they just wouldn't
go away. Constant crashes on 20 and down: Either the QRN was bad or
the signals were weak or both. Only for a short time on Saturday and a
little
longer on Sunday (when no one was on) were the big gun Europeans up over
S-9. And it seemed the littler guns didn't come up as much.
Does the sequence below sound familiar? Some of you may have heard
this and wondered why GN can't hear those *loud* Europeans:
%%% = QRN
GN: CQ TEST
DX: %%1A%%
GN: 1A?
DX: O%%%%%
GN: 1A?
DX: OK%%%% %%%%O%%%%
GN: OK1A? 5NN1024
DX: OK1A%%%% 5%%%%3
GN: OK1A? UR CALL?
DX: OK1A%%%K1AO%%%
GN: OK1AO?
DX: %%1%%%%%1AOZ
GN: OK1AOZ UR NR? NR?
DX: 5NN%%% 5NN%%3 5N%%%03
GN: ?NR?
DX: %%%%%%%%%%103 5N%%1%%%%
GN: FB OK1AOZ TU K5GN
DX: G3NK%%%
GN: G3NK? 5NN1025
DX: %3NK%%%3N%% %%%%70
GN: G3NK?
DX: G3N%%%G%%%C%%%
GN: G3NKC? NR?
DX: G3NK%%%NN%%% 5%%%70
GN: G3NKC? AGN?
DX: %%%KC 5NN1%%%
GN: QSL TU K5GN
...and the cycle continued. I called this a run...and the really
frustrating thing is how the 54th AA8 to call me was always just
Q5 and zero beat with the weaker Eu, and insistent that his
call contained "G3" or whatever I came back to instead of him.
A lot of the DX would just give up. (I guess ole 'ZD had already
provided the K5 mult...)
They would be Q5 but for the crashes, and I just don't know how
the static crashes *know* how to land right on top of the last
letter of the guy's call on 3 out of 3 repeats.
Didn't matter if it was 20 40 or 80. Always the same. And guys on
the east coast at 100 watts to a tribander were running them:
W3: CQ TEST
DX: %%%%%%%%%%%% (ALL I COULD HEAR ANYWAY)
W3: G3FGN 5NN1201
DX: %%%%%%3%%%
W3: TU W3...
DX: %%%%%%%%%
W3: UU5JJ 5NN1202
ETC.
What is a big stack? My 204/204 at 130/80 just felt like a two
element wire beam all contest long. 15 was neat (quite a few S0
Euro's) and 40 was good when it was open (especially to JA) but 20
just almost was never there. That noise on 40 was strange, but I
thought it was just a different kind of static...
40 worked pretty well despite the beam looking more like a fern branch
than a yagi. Bottom view (looks worse in a proportional font):
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It took power at a reasonable SWR without shorting, and had the front-to-
side of a rotary dipole, so I guess it was OK. Big summer project ahead.
I didn't operate last year, but did the year before and managed the top
ten. No way this time, I'm sure.
Contesting is fun even when the bands stink. That's probably the most
amazing thing. That and how the East coast scores go *up* with zero
sunspots...hope all enjoyed it. Even worked the OJ and the HV, and
heard HS50A on 15 (they didn't answer, but VS6WO did).
73
Dave K5GN
dkmc@chevron.com
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