In a message dated 95-10-12 19:43:05 EDT, you write:
>Joe - Pleasse explain to me why every medical journal/textbook I
>subscribe to or get an offer to buy costs anywhere from 2-10x as much on
>CD-ROM than on paper?
Well, they are hoping that your stethoscope compresses the carotid arteries
to the point that you won't notice the price differential... :)
Seriously, the paper cost is a red herring.... Yes, it is up... But that sure
didn't stop them from selling 40 _extra_ pages to MFJ ! ... Now do a page
count and keep track of how many pages have paid advertising on them... Do
you know what a quarter column ad costs? How about a 4 color page with bleed
edges?... I did a 4 second count on this issue and got 270 pages (a page is
one side of a sheet), excluding the front cover page... 111 had no
advertising on them and 159 did, meaning 59% of pages contain paid
advertising.... Looks like a cash cow to me...
A major overhead at the ARRL is salaries, retirements, benefits, office
expenses... Look at the masthead and count the names Pick an average salary
figure and add a third to that for bennys (absolute minimum, probably higher)
then multiply by the body count... Whoa, makes your eyes cross, hmmm?...
Denny K8DO
>From Robles Rodriguez, Pablo" <S927153@rmece17.upr.clu.edu Fri Oct 13
>06:56:10 1995
From: Robles Rodriguez, Pablo" <S927153@rmece17.upr.clu.edu (Robles Rodriguez,
Pablo)
Subject: DX REFLECTOR
Message-ID: <17EE6BF61A3@rmece17.upr.clu.edu>
HI GUYS
THANKS FOR THE KIND REPLIES, ALREADY GOT THE RIGHT ADDRESS.
73 ES DX!
PABLO
>From Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org Fri Oct 13 19:04:00 1995
From: Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW)
Subject: A challenge to contesters....
Message-ID: <307EA973@arrl.org>
Greetings,
Apologies in advance for the bandwith--it's for a good cause...
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"So guys, I think we need to be more positive." <= Tree N6TR
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Looking for something "positive" folks?
Try these:
1) Invite some Scouts over to your killer CONTEST station for the
Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) next weekend. (Might be a good
shakedown cruise for CQWW the following weekend....)
JOTA:
Runs from when you awake Saturday AM on 21 Oct., (well, Okay, 0100 hours
local),
until you go to bed Sunday nite, 22 Oct., (Okay, 'til 2359 hours local
time.)
You have exactly one week to get moving and DO something POSITIVE!!!
2) Don't want all those young-ins underfoot while you're running the
plumbing to your
water-cooled CONTEST computer?
How about inviting some of your fellow licensed hams--Technician class ops
(gasp)--over durning JOTA? You be the control op, let them sign your
call--legal as long as you're in the room with 'em--or sign
"their-call/your-call," using your privileges.
Hey, maybe you could ask 'em to help out: "Hey guys (and gals), I'm going
out to install my new 160--meter, log-periodic antenna, wanna help?" (Or
walk the Beverages, etc.) While your at it, ask them to stop by during CQWW
the next weekend for some CONTEST action.
They (Tech's or Scouts) might enjoy talking with young folks from all
around the world on HF from your CONTEST station. Here's your chance to do
something to either introduce young folks to Amateur Radio (Scouts), or give
some Technician class operators a change to "taste" HF operating. Get on
your local repeater and invite some Techs over for next weekend. Or, look in
the white-pages of your local phone book for "Boy (Girl) Scouts of America"
and offer to host a handful of Scouts (Boy,Girl,Cubs, Brownies,whatever)
during JOTA 1995, the 38th Jamboree On The Air.
Do something positive! Interest young folks in Amateur Radio! Offer your
station!
Finally, here's the suggested frequencies for JOTA:
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WORLD SCOUT FREQUENCIES
Band SSB (phone)
80 m 3.740 / 3.940 MHz
40 m 7.090 MHz--(7.290 MHz in ITU Region 2)
20 m 14.290 MHz
17 m 18.140 MHz
15 m 21.360 MHz
12 m 24.960 MHz
10 m *28.990 MHz
*Note: On 10 meters, try 28.350 MHz, where US "Novice" class licensees may
participate.
Band CW (Morse code)
80 m 3.590 MHz
40 m 7.030 MHz
20 m 14.070 MHz
17 m 18.080 MHz
15 m 21.140 MHz
12 m 24.910 MHz
10 m 28.190 MHz
(Note: Of course you can try 2-meter packet, HF packet, SSTV, etc. etc.,
etc.)
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To receive an electronic version of the ARRL JOTA package send an e-mail
message to: info@arrl.org Leave the subject line blank and in the body of
your message put: SEND JOTA.TXT <--A file that is chock full of
information will be sent to you from the ARRL information server.
If you have FCC rules questions or concerns regarding control
operating/third-party issues, etc. --> Send the ARRL info server a message
(with no subject), just put
SEND PART97.TXT (in the body of your message), and Part 97 will be returned
to you via e-mail.
Most important of all--have fun!
73, Glenn Swanson, KB1GW
Educational Programs Coordinator,
e-mail: jota@arrl.org
American Radio Relay League
"SINCE 1914--OF, BY AND FOR THE RADIO AMATEUR"
>From James Brooks" <9v1yc@equator.lugs.po.my Fri Oct 13 18:16:52 1995
From: James Brooks" <9v1yc@equator.lugs.po.my (James Brooks)
Subject: AP Sprint logs wanted
Message-ID: <307e90f7.equator@equator.lugs.po.my>
Hi all,
Final scores in a few days, but one last check.
2nd AP Sprint logs received:
---------------------------
DL/W6RGG
JA1AAT
JF1SQC
JH1DYV
JL1ZAZ
JG3KIV
JH3AIU
JL3SBE
JR3RIU
JH7WKQ
JA0TEA/9
JE0UXR
JH0KHR
7K4BHA
K1KI
K0GU
N2AA
N6ZZ
W2VJN
US1I
VS6BG
VS6WO
VK1FF
VK4TT
VK5GN
W2VJN
YB0ASI
9V1YC
WANTED: N5RZ, W8RSW, K7LR, K7JYE, KD6EWT, RW0LZ, S56A, HL2IBC
JA1XEM, JA0GHZ, JA6UBK, JF1WMY, 7J6CCV/1, VR2GO.
And if you don't see your callsign here and you participated,
please send me your log by E-Mail. I'll still take them if
you've got them, and final results will be out once I get any
last minute logs.
E-Mail: 9V1YC@equator.lugs.po.my
Post: James Brooks
15 Balmoral Rd, #03-08
Singapore 1025 SINGAPORE
Post (JA only): Tack Kumagai, P O BOX 22,
Mitaka, Tokyo 181, JAPAN
73's
James 9V1YC
>From Larry Tyree <tree@cmicro.com> Fri Oct 13 21:02:32 1995
From: Larry Tyree <tree@cmicro.com> (Larry Tyree)
Subject: Just the facts...
Message-ID: <199510132002.NAA01029@cascade.cmicro.com>
Don't read this message unless you are willing to believe contest
announcements are going to continue to be published in QST.
If you want to know what the contest announcements are going to look
like in QST after this new policy is in effect... open your October
QST and look at the Sweepstakes announcement.
When you get your November QST, look at the ARRL 10 and ARRL 160
announcements.
While these don't have the full rules, they have enough information
for most people to get involved.
Contests will continue to be announced in QST. (repeat after me).
This is intended to be a postive change to encourage more newcomers
to the sport. When I wrote my message this morning, I hadn't realized
that the ARRL had beat me to this great idea.
I think many of us need to relax on this issue and cut the ARRL some
slack. There are real people there who DO care about the sport
of contesting and are FIGHTING for us. The type of response they
got to this action WITHOUT ALL THE FACTS is inappropriate and very
discouraging to them.
Tree N6TR
tree@cmicro.com
>From n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) Fri Oct 13 18:46:39 1995
From: n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) (LondonSM)
Subject: Egg-on-Face
Message-ID: <9510131146.ZM5358@dr.att.com>
Naturally, just after I sang the praises of my TS-950SDX CONTEST radio, it
broke !
Before I box it up and ship it to California, and therefore won't have it back
for CQWW Phone (and probably not SS CW), I thought I would tap the collective
expertise of the CONTESTING community.
Here's what happened and the symptoms:
I was listening on 80 meters this AM, switching between various beverages,
dipoles and verticals, when I suddenly had an S-7 noise level. Through the
usual process of diagnosis and elimination, I found that the S-7 noise level
was there even when NO antenna was connected. The noise sounds like white
noise - no real modulation. It varies in strength from band-to-band, but is
the same within a band. Switching thru the attenuator steps has a very small
effect - maybe 1 dB drop in the noise for each 6 dB attenuation switched in.
Switching on the AIP drops the noise considerably. BTW, signals that are over
S-7 can be heard - the receiver is still functioning.
Any 950 (or maybe even 940 or 930) owners ever experience this before ? What
was the fix ?
Still wiping the egg off my face,
Steve, N2IC/0
n2ic@dr.att.com
>From David C. Patton" <mudcp3@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Fri Oct 13 22:04:34 1995
From: David C. Patton" <mudcp3@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C. Patton)
Subject: N6AA-ZoneHunter
Message-ID: <199510132104.QAA14516@ecom1.ecn.bgu.edu>
N6AA in CQWW CW. At least these are his single-ops where
listed! This doesn't count efforts where he was a multi-op
nor anything before 1974!
KH6RS 2738904 3157 123 171 W6DGH 74
YV4AGP 2816094 2752 101 245 W6DGH 75
9Y4VT 3438644 3400 93 248 W6DGH 76
9Y4VT 4697304 3992 122 275 N6AA 77
9Y4VT 3769259 3152 117 286 N6AA 79
9Y4VT 6116945 4505 128 329 N6AA 80
9Y4VT 5803776 4288 133 325 N6AA 81
9Y4VT 6929450 4927 131 342 N6AA 82
9Y4VT 7153434 4961 127 359 N6AA 83
9Y4VT 5595040 4290 124 316 N6AA 84
EA9IE 5731360 4252 113 339 N6AA 85
9Y4VT 8191246 5099 146 396 N6AA 86
9Q5NW 7586300 4768 150 385 N6AA 87
SU1ER 6134568 4519 124 332 N6AA 88
TU4B 6668200 4097 152 398 N6AA 89
FR5DX 5788041 3737 153 366 N6AA 90
A61AC 5847840 3736 148 410 N6AA 92
7Q7OO 7173846 4630 134 388 N6AA 93
VK8TM 3475170 2830 135 287 N6AA 94
Where in 1995?
73, Dave Patton, WX3N
mudcp3@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>From peterj@netcom.com (Peter Jennings) Fri Oct 13 22:13:55 1995
From: peterj@netcom.com (Peter Jennings) (Peter Jennings)
Subject: CQP Result Summary (10/13/95)
Message-ID: <199510132113.OAA21058@netcom14.netcom.com>
Anyone know N8LXS, W6EEN, W1FEA/6 scores?
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Call Category Mult Score QSO CW
NB1B MA SO H 58 102,544 747 274 (@W1KM)
KI4HN NC SO H 58 98,890 729 248 (@N4ZC)
W5ASP TX SO 58 87,058 650 201
K4XU IL SO H 58 85,608 631 214
N2AA NJ SO 57 84,360 622 236 (no Napa)
K6XO/7 UT SO H 58 76,908 581 164
WD0GVY IA SO H 57 74,613 296 239 (no Kings)
WA3HAE PA SO L 57 66,348 462 240 (no comment)
N3BGV PA SO L 56 49,840 357 176
N3IXR PA SO L 52 47,476 349 215
K0GU CO SO H 57 46,911 345 133 (no Inyo)
K5GA TX 55 41,690 306 146
KG8PE MI MS L 50 38,350 300 170 KG8PE(12) Sara(9) KB8PK(30)
KE2VB NY SO 51 37,332 314 104
KR0Y TX SO L 55 35,915 279 95
N1KWF NH SO H 56 29,792 251 30
K1DG NH SO H 54 29,376 247 50
N6ZZ TX SO H 50 29,100 194 194
W3FG MD SO L 51 27,438 205 128
K4PQL NC SO H 45 27,135 201 201
N4YOS AL SO L 48 25,680 196 143
KM0L MO SO H 49 24,696 183 138
KR2Q NJ SO H 53 23,956 183 86
N1PBT VT SO L 52 22,308 202 25
AA4GA GA SO L 46 16,560 156 48
VE6DBH AB SO 46 15,272 166 0
K7FR WA SO L 45 14,850 129 72
WI0R KS SO L 43 14,706 117 117
K8MR OH SO H 40 12,480 104 104
K3WW PA SO 45 12,105 121 27
VE5FN SK SO H 47 10,998 113 8
KS4XG NC SO L 45 10,620 118 0
KK5EA/4 AL SO H 40 8,960 112 0
AA0XZ MO SO L 34 8,670 85 85
PY2NY Brasil SO L 26 3,458 53 27
AC5CT TX SO 109
K1TN CT SO L 73 73 (classic station)
WB6IRC ELDO MS H 58 279,502 1995 829 WB6IRC AH8L AA6MC AI6V W6OAT
AB6FO LAX SO H 58 258,274 1802 849
W6REC SAC SO H 58 247,544 1821 626
AC6T VENT SO H 56 225,008 1657 704 (@N6VR)
AB6WM SCRZ SO H 58 221,908 1601 624
AA6KX SH/TR SO H 58 214,658 1538 645
KM6OH MONO MS 58 200,448 ? ?
N8SR/6 LAX SO H 55 173,910 1054 1054 (@N6DX)
AE6Y SCLA SO L 57 172,881 1215 603 (no HI)
N6KI ALP MS H 55 167,+++ 1128 1000? N6AZE N6KD N6KI (no ID,HI,AK)
WA6GDS MONO MS H 56 164,248 1179 575 WA6GDS NZ6N
N7CW/6 IMP MS H 58 161,008 1175 426 N7CW KD6QK
KG6LF CC SO L 58 141,752 1222 0
WA6TKV STAN? MS H 58 140,244 1063 292
N6NM MTRY SO H 57 123,576 795 578
KN6EL BUTTE SO L 55 122,980 829 578
AB6EQ SCRZ MS H 56 120,344 1028 93 AB6EQ KD6NOS (no HI/AK)
WA6CTA MARIN SO H 54 114,210 819 477
AA6MV SCLA MS 58 110,490 801 303 AA6MV N6ULI
K6NP/M SUT MS L 53 103,800 768 424 see below
K6LRN FRES SO H 55 88,935 626 365
WA6AUE NEV SO H 51 69,921 457 457
AB6YL SCLA SO H 54 65,556 550 114
N6BT/6 MARIP MS L 54 56,538 438 173
AE0M YU/BU MS L 46 42,366 359 203 AE0M N0BBS
KG6I SCRZ SO H 51 40,239 340 109
KJ6HO LAX SO L 44 34,012 313 145
WM2C/6 CC SO H 47 27,307 207 167 (@K6ZM)
NF6H ORNG SO L 43 15,265 139 77
N6RPL ORNG SO L 41 11,234 137 0
KO6LB SOL SO L 34 8,228 121 0
KO6CL SCLA SO L 18 2,592 49 46
note: K6NP/M (Mobile,N6UXB,KJ6TC,KO6OU,KN6OX, NB6G, NV6O) - QSL via NV6O
-------------------------------------------------------------
Complete logs can be sent via email to cqp-1995@kb.org
Corrections and additions to this list should be sent to me.
Peter AB6WM peterj@netcom.com
NEW! V31DX Home Page: http://mall.turnpike.net/~jc/v31dx.html
>From Filip.Jonckers@ping.be (Filip Jonckers) Fri Oct 13 22:50:07 1995
From: Filip.Jonckers@ping.be (Filip Jonckers) (Filip Jonckers)
Subject: OT5L qrv in cqww & testing this weekend
Message-ID: <199510132150.WAA19534@ping1.ping.be>
OT5L will be back in the running this year !!
OT5L is the special clubcall of the UBA section NOL contest team.
After building a new contest QTH during the last 2 years - with the
help of a lot of UBA-NOL members - the qth is finally ready to be used
for contesting.
We have 5 former army shelters modified into
- 1 main station
- 2 secondary stations / swl shacks
- 1 dispatch center (packet, dx-cluster, repeater)
- 1 resting & dining shelter
- 1 bathroom & material storage
The antenna's instqlled at this moment:
- 2 beverage receiving antenna's
- 160m 90 feet vertical
- 80m 4 element vertical array
- 40m beam
- 20m beam
- 10m beam
- 15m beam
The CQ WW SSB '95 contest team:
Operators:
- ON4AEK, Theo
- ON4AKL, Luc
- ON4BR, Carlo
- ON6NL, Anton
- ON6ZX, Marc
Guest Operator: Reg, VP8BPZ, GW8VHI
Technical Crew:
- ON6JZ, Hubert (Lineair amp's)
- ON1AFN, Filip (computer network, dx-cluster, packet, dispatch)
- ON7WK, Guido (catering & support)
- ON7YP, Andre (towers & support)
- ON4AST, Richard (support)
The station will be testing during the weekend of the 14 & 15 october and
probably also the weekend before the 'big one'.
The calls used for the tests will be ON5LL (clubcall UBA-NOL), ON6NL, ON4AEK
and ON4AKL.
Hope to meet you on the band, serious signal reports are very appreciated !
+----------------------------------------
Filip Jonckers
ON1AFN
e-mail: Filip.Jonckers@ping.be
HAM packet: on1afn@on4aic.lim.bel.eu
+----------------------------------------
>From RBQG08A@prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) Fri Oct 13 23:09:44 1995
From: RBQG08A@prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <013.02874464.RBQG08A@prodigy.com>
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>From RBQG08A@prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) Fri Oct 13 23:12:09 1995
From: RBQG08A@prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)
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>From RBQG08A@prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) Sat Oct 14 00:05:13 1995
From: RBQG08A@prodigy.com (MR CHRIS D ADAMS) (MR CHRIS D ADAMS)
Subject: Really sorry
Message-ID: <013.02877278.RBQG08A@prodigy.com>
Hey folks,
I'm really sorry.
Needless to say, I will find somewhere else to spend my time. Since
I obviously can't master this system, I feel sure someone will make
sure
that I am unsubscribed.
Chris
ke0rd
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