Hello everyone,
there is another topic that really strikes me besides not signing every
one to three contacts. It's the way that some stations confirm or better
don't confirm the caller's callsign. This year it was extremely bad as I
operated QRP and several times it was like this:
XX1XXX: XX1XXX TEST
DL2HBX: DL2HBX
XX1XXX: DL2? 5NN00
DL2HBX: DL2HBX HBX 5NNA4
XX1XXX: TU XX1XXX TEST
I could just guess from the timing that the contact had been ok but
often there were some other stations in the background that might also
have been DL2's or just DL's or whatever...
So please...
CONFIRM THE CALLER'S CALLSIGN, AT LEAST THE PARTS MISSED ON THE FIRST OVER!
And by the way: There were neither DL2SBX, nor DL2HDX, nor DL2SDX, nor
DL2HBN, nor DL2VBX, nor DL2HBQ, nor DL2IBX, nor DL2HB, nor DL2HTX, nor
DL1HBX, nor DL2HBA QRV this weekend! As my computer did most keying
this weekend I am sure that this is not what I had sent...
In my .NOT file there are 15 stations that *definately* miscopied my
callsign (see above) and several attempts to correct it failed due to
stronger stations answering the next CQs. I am sure there are many of
the non-confirming stations that miscopied my call as well.
73! Uli, DL2HBX
P.S.: I had a great time as SO/QRP/All band this year (at DA0IU site):
42 hrs, 1030 Q's, 87 Z, 283 C => 757k raw score
P.P.S.: Can anyone name me some person's email address responsible for
the ARRL DX contests? Tried BLUNT@ARRL.ORG ten days ago and
CONTEST@ARRL.ORG three days ago with no reply at all...
Ulrich Ann (DL2HBX) | Internet: ann@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de
TU Braunschweig | u.ann@tu-bs.de
>From Sig <0006481603@mcimail.com> Thu Nov 30 18:32:00 1995
From: Sig <0006481603@mcimail.com> (Sig)
Subject: N3RS M/S CQWW CW SCORE
Message-ID: <85951130183258/0006481603PK2EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
The following is the N3RS M/S story for the CQWW CW Contest:
The operators who worked so hard and kept an optimistic view despite the
fact that K1AR was in our class again were N3ED, N3RD, KY2T and N3RS.
We had 3 stations set up. Two are permanent operating positions with full
flexibility to be on any band that is not already in use. These positions
are fully automated, with the exception of amp tuning, which is still
accomplished by using a lookup table to set the two controls. W3LPL rx fil-
ters are automatically switched as the radio changes bands (thanks to a TOP
TEN Devices decoder), as are the ICE bandpass filters that eliminate the last
residual interference between the 20M and 15M stations. The antennas on
these bands are very close together and white noise generated in the last
stage of the transceiver raises the noise floor of the other station unless
something is done about it. The ICE filters work exceedingly well.
The third station was only capable of going on 160M or 20M. It also had ICE
filters switched by the radio and a set of manually switched W3LPL Rx filters.
Beverage antennas are available to all three stations via ICE Signal Split-
ters.
Although we all shared operating responsibilities on all bands, the principal
operators on each band were:
160M N3ED/KY2T
80M N3RD
40M N3RS
20M N3ED
15M N3RD
10M KY2T
The score breakdown is:
BAND QSO's POINTS Pts/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 64 171 2.67 17 62
80 303 850 2.81 25 86
40 1439 4139 2.88 39 135
20 957 2787 2.91 39 148
15 770 2243 2.91 28 122
10 30 73 2.43 13 28
--------------------------------------------------------------
TOTALS 3563 10263 2.88 161 581
Score => 7,615,146 Points
Station Equipment:
Station 1 IC-775DSP/ALPHA 76PA
Station 2 IC-765/ALPHA 76PA
Station 3 TS-950SDX/ALPHA 76PA
Antennas:
160M 105 ft tall top loaded vertical with 4 elevated (15') radials
80M EF-180A Rotary Dipole @ 140' and 4V Phased Array
40M 3 element HyGain 402B Long John @ 140'
20M 3 Stack of Home-brew 5 element 36' boom Yagis @ 117'/77'/37'
15M 3 Stack of Home-brew 4 element 30' boom Yagis @ 130'/87'/46'
10M 2 stack of Home-brew 4 element 24' boom Yagis @ 50'/22' and
a single 4 element Cushcraft Yagi at 87'
Beverage antennas for NE (550'), S (400') and W (400')
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults N3RS CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Single
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 6/6 23/23 90/27 11/9 ..... ..... 130/65 130/65
1 13/13 26/9 47/19 12/10 . . 98/51 228/116
2 5/5 24/11 30/18 2/2 . . 61/36 289/152
3 7/7 26/4 43/8 . . . 76/19 365/171
4 2/2 23/6 32/12 12/12 . . 69/32 434/203
5 12/12 85/4 . 4/4 . . 101/20 535/223
6 1/1 46/3 17/9 2/2 . . 66/15 601/238
7 . 8/8 55/8 2/2 . . 65/18 666/256
8 ..... 2/2 82/4 ..... ..... ..... 84/6 750/262
9 2/2 1/1 51/2 . . . 54/5 804/267
10 1/1 1/1 27/5 4/4 . . 33/11 837/278
11 . 2/2 4/4 45/16 5/5 . 56/27 893/305
12 . . 1/1 136/21 24/24 . 161/46 1054/351
13 . . 1/1 86/14 94/24 . 181/39 1235/390
14 . . 1/1 7/7 137/12 . 145/20 1380/410
15 . . . 5/5 87/9 6/6 98/20 1478/430
16 ..... ..... ..... 8/3 47/8 5/5 60/16 1538/446
17 . . . 61/4 10/10 1/1 72/15 1610/461
18 . . . 39/5 7/7 2/2 48/14 1658/475
19 . . 46/0 7/5 2/2 2/2 57/9 1715/484
20 . . 99/5 . 4/4 5/5 108/14 1823/498
21 . . 56/1 16/2 2/2 1/1 75/6 1898/504
22 2/2 . 48/2 24/6 . . 74/10 1972/514
23 3/3 2/2 52/1 2/2 . . 59/8 2031/522
0 3/3 4/4 35/3 ..... ..... ..... 42/10 2073/532
1 . . 14/0 11/0 . . 25/0 2098/532
2 . 1/1 24/1 4/3 . . 29/5 2127/537
3 1/1 . 34/1 . . . 35/2 2162/539
4 . 11/1 38/1 . . . 49/2 2211/541
5 3/3 10/0 29/0 . . . 42/3 2253/544
6 1/1 1/0 73/0 . . . 75/1 2328/545
7 1/1 1/1 76/1 . . . 78/3 2406/548
8 ..... 1/1 75/1 1/1 ..... ..... 77/3 2483/551
9 . . 71/0 . . . 71/0 2554/551
10 . . 47/0 . . . 47/0 2601/551
11 . 1/1 14/0 66/1 . . 81/2 2682/553
12 . 1/1 1/1 137/4 3/3 . 142/9 2824/562
13 . . 1/1 16/0 130/4 1/1 148/6 2972/568
14 . . . 1/1 118/4 4/4 123/9 3095/577
15 . . . 1/1 73/3 . 74/4 3169/581
16 ..... ..... ..... 79/1 10/1 1/1 90/3 3259/584
17 . . . 74/0 2/2 1/1 77/3 3336/587
18 . . . 13/0 15/1 . 28/1 3364/588
19 . . 24/1 4/2 . . 28/3 3392/591
20 . . 39/1 2/2 . 1/1 42/4 3434/595
21 . . 41/0 9/1 . . 50/1 3484/596
22 . 2/2 6/1 49/0 . . 57/3 3541/599
23 1/1 1/1 15/0 9/1 . . 26/3 3567/602
DAY1 54/54 269/76 782/128 485/135 419/107 22/22 ..... 2031/522
DAY2 10/10 34/13 657/13 476/18 351/18 8/8 . 1536/80
TOT 64/64 303/89 1439/141 961/153 770/125 30/30 . 3567/602
UPLOAD OFF
I am sending this via a secondary Internet interface that I have and do not
usually use. If you have any comments or questions, please send them to me
at Sig@Locke.CCIL.org This is my normal address. For some reason (my un-
familiarity with E-Mail) I was unable to get this message out after repeated
attempts.
73 & CU in the ARRL Contest.
de Sig, N3RS
>From n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) Thu Nov 30 18:36:10 1995
From: n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) (LondonSM)
Subject: N2IC/0 CQWW CW M/S Writeup
Message-ID: <9511301136.ZM4839@dr.att.com>
Even from the black hole, it was a remarkably fine weekend.
160: 63/18/46 Antenna: 1/4 wavelength sloper, 600' beverages NE, E, SE, SW,
NW
Without question, the best 160 meter propagation ever experienced for a major
contest. Worked 28 EU - could have worked more if we put the RUN station on
160 more often to work other EU who weren't a new multiplier. Could tell no
difference in condx between Friday night and Saturday night - just ran out of
new mults we could hear the 2nd night. JA opening was very average. Never
heard VK, ZL or AH0T, despite lots of listening. Also missed ZD8Z - the other
locals say the only time they heard him, he opened up on top of HH2PK, causing
nothing but confusion.
80: 119/24/64 Antenna: 1/4 wave GP with 4 elevated radials, 600' beverages
Good condx, but not exceptional. The usual big gun western EU stations were
worked, while the usual alligator eastern EU stations CQ'd in our face. If you
are a big gun EU station, and did a lot of CQing and didn't work us, you most
likely fall into the "alligator" category. Could have worked more JA, but the
rate on 40 and 20 was always better. Don't think we worked more than 1 VK and
1 ZL. Nothing heard from the usual VK6 gang. What happened ?
40: 883/37/108 Antenna: 3 element KLM at 120'
Big Wow ! With this antenna, EU has seldom been runnable in the past. This
weekend - we could run EU at 2100Z. The MUF was too low to work much EU during
the night (0200Z-0700Z), but more runnable EU from 0800Z-1200Z - being able to
beam to both EU and JA simultaneously would have been a big help. Sunday
afternoon was fun running EU the last 3 hours of the contest, but the rate
wasn't that good. 500+ JA stations - thanks ! Paid to keep checking 40 for
mults into late morning (1700Z) - VS6WO, HS7AS and DX9C were copyable right
through midday.
20: 1230/38/128 Antenna: Stacked KT-34XA's @ 115', 65'
Good condx and great rates while the band was open, but closed to EU before
1800Z both days. Had personal best 147 hour to EU at 14Z Saturday. Kept
having to pinch myself to remind myself I wasn't operating at K1EA ! Early
opening to EU on Sunday AM (began around 1130Z) cut short running JA on 40.
Thanks again to the JA gang for 400+ QSO's.
15: 180/27/83 Antenna: Stacked KT-34XA's @ 115', 65'
The black hole really got us on 15. Short, weak western and southern EU
openings provided mults, but no rate. Surprised to work a few eastern EU
Sunday at 1245Z (1 hour before sunrise), but band never really opened for
running. Frustrating to have SU2MT CQ in our face (K0RF couldn't get his
attention either). Surprised at how many hours of propagation we had to
3B8/N6ZZ each day. JA openings were no better than EU openings. Never heard
AH0T.
10: 21/10/15 Antenna: Stacked KT-34XA's @ 115', 65'
A VHF band ! The morning east coast packet postings of ZS and other goodies
were totally inaudible here. VP5FOC and NL7G pretty loud on Sunday. Never
heard VK, ZL or KH6.
In summary, you couldn't ask for a better weekend at the bottom of the sunspot
cycle. Thanks to NQ0I and N2PNG for their fine operating.
Steve, N2IC/0
n2ic@dr.att.com
>From claver@noao.edu (Chuck Claver) Thu Nov 30 18:44:02 1995
From: claver@noao.edu (Chuck Claver) (Chuck Claver)
Subject: N7DD (NJ6D) 40M CQWW score
Message-ID: <9511301844.AA08396@taco.tuc.noao.edu>
N7DD 1995 CQWW Score:
from Tucson, Arizona.
40M single band, single-op, high power, unassisted, Zone 3:
1047 QSO 37 Zones 108 Countries = 432673
Guest op: NJ6D
Equipment: FT1000MP + Henry 3K Ultra
Antennas : 3elm full size @100ft, 3elm KLM at 70ft
Comments:
My first single op effort ever, and first contesting in more than 10 years.
It was LOTS of fun!!! I learned much and hope to do better next time around.
Jim (N6IG)... give me a little more experience... ;-) fabulous effort!!
As far as the conditions go... It was the weekend the Earth ('s geomagnetic
field) stood still. I had a good 6 hour JA run the first night, but the second
night was not as good. However, good propagation on the second night made
up for it. I spent all of the second night splitting between JA and Europe.
Where was zone 12? Is there any political unrest in Chile? or do Chilean's
not like CW?
Cheers to all,
de NJ6D
Chuck Claver
claver@noao.edu
>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> Thu Nov 30 18:51:48 1995
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> (Trey Garlough)
Subject: signal to noise ratio
Message-ID: <817757508.706672.GARLOUGH@TGV.COM>
[]
A CQ-Contest subscriber writes:
> I am personally getting tired of reading continual inane attempts
> at one-upsmanship by these people who have nothing to contribute
> except allusions to the size of their penises and how they eliminate
> bodily waste during contests. Is this really the purpose of this
> forum? Maybe once is funny, I'm not sure, but over and over again
> I am sure is not funny.
His point is well taken. I think the following excert from the
Freqently Asked Questions list addresses this issue well:
"Unlike PacketCluster, many people pay $$$ when they receive messages.
Some people pay per message, some per byte. Therefore, please take
this into consideration when writing a response. Would you pay $0.50
to read the message that you just wrote?"
Because of the number of subscribers to this list, it's up to each and
every one of us to think twice about whether we are really adding
anything of value to the discussion before posting a message to
mailing list. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
--Trey, WN4KKN/6
>From jreid@aloha.net (Jim Reid) Thu Nov 30 18:45:42 1995
From: jreid@aloha.net (Jim Reid) (Jim Reid)
Subject: Vanity calls
Message-ID: <199511301845.IAA27340@hookomo.aloha.net>
Aloha to All,
I made a terrible error when writing in a way which seems to
have blamed the ARRL for delaying the Vanity Call program
implementation. I was wrong, and I apologize. See the
great note I got from Norm, WA1CCQ at ARRL below.
Jim, AH6NB
>From: "Bliss, Norman, WA1CCQ" <NBLISS@arrl.org>
>To: "Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org>,
> "'Jim Reid'" <jreid@aloha.net>
>Subject: RE: Vanity calls
>Encoding: 78 TEXT
>
>
>Hi Jim,
>your message concerning the petitions for reconsideration in the vanity call
>sign program was passed on to me. Just for the record, you were incorrect in
>stating "ARRL has requested, and FCC approved that in order to obtain a
>deceased relatives call, one had to have a license grade equal to or higher
>than the long gone relative's class". ARRL's only petition for
>reconsideration in the Vanity program was, except for persons eligible to
>apply in gate 1, to require that applicants be limited to call signs from
>the call area appropriate for their mailing address. The FCC granted that
>only for regions 11, 12, and 13, that is, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean
>and Pacific Insular Areas. It denied it for the continental US. Our petition
>would not have delayed the onset of the program. There were four other
>petitions filed by individuals or clubs dealing with other issues.
>
>The petition dealing with license class necessary to get a deceased
>relative's call sign was filed by a private individual; ARRL had nothing to
>do with it. That individual has also filed one of the four new petitions for
>reconsideration. By the way, the change does not require that an applicant
>have a license class equal to or higher than the original holder, it
>requires that they have a license class eligible to hold that call sign now.
>The difference is that many old timers holding 1x2 call signs issued in the
>1920s had only General or Advanced class licenses, since (except for the
>Novice class) it wasn't until 1978 that the FCC introduced a system that
>differentiated call signs by license class. So even if somebody's
>grandfather only had an Advanced class license, under the new rules the
>applicant would still have to have an Extra class license to get it.
>
>73,
>
>Norm Bliss, WA1CCQ
>Regulatory Information Branch Supervisor
>ARRL HQ
>nbliss@arrl.org
>Telephone: (860) 594-0200
>FAX (860) 594-0259 (att. NFB)
>
> ----------
>>From: Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW
>>To: Hennessee, John, KJ4KB; Bliss, Norman, WA1CCQ
>>Subject: FW: Vanity calls
>>
>>FYI
>>(From the CQ-Contest Reflector...)
>> --GS
>> ----------
>>From: Jim Reid
>>To: V.LONG.SA
>>Cc: cq-contest
>>Subject: Re: Vanity calls
>>
>>Return-Path: <jreid@aloha.net>
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>>Aloha,
>>
>>The vanity system was approved by Congress in August, 1993!
>>The FCC beauocrats/Comments/Response and new form 610V
>>generation approval has been going on all this time. Somebody
>>else has recently filed another request to overturn a recent
>>FCC decision in this area. ARRL has requested, and FCC approved
>>that in order to obtain a deceased relatives call, one had to have
>>a license grade equal to or higher than the long gone relative's class,
>>Now an appeal has been entered against that decision!
>>
>>This appeal and review process can evidently go on forever.
>>
>>So. though the vanity program is still approved and viable US
>>law, God alone knows when the final review and form and program
>>and etc., etc., etc. will be over and Gate 1 will open.
>>
>>73, Jim, AH6NB
>>
>>
>
>
73 and Aloha,
Jim Reid, AH6NB (Happily retired on the Island of Kauai)
Hawaii, USA Email: jreid@aloha.net
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