Field Day is the golden opportunity to DEMONSTRATE and to HELP newer hams to
sit down and contest on HF, in the hope of interesting some in doing more in
hamming than asking how good they are getting into the local repeater on
their handheld.... these technicians, both code and no code, are the future
of ham radio... the ARRL membership is now 52% technician class... (our local
club is more like 60%)... for those of us who contest on HF, and especially
for those who prefer cw, that could seem depressing... it shouldn't be... at
the SVARA club meeting last night the question was asked of the technicians,
"How many of you are planning on upgrading?"... all but one person held up
their hand... this is good news, folks!!!! there are contesters, and dxers,
and brass pounders in that crowd... they just don't know it yet... it is OUR
job to expose them to the world beyond their handheld...
I will be at the club, field day site... The cq contest video will be running
continuously outside the trailer... my pampered radios will be set up for
PHONE ( oh gawd, gag me with a D-104).. I will be running around literally
DRAGGING the unwary into the trailer and sitting them down in front of the
rig saying, "You gotta try this... You JUST gotta try this...What a blast!"
... I will be using the line (shamelessly stolen from this reflector) about
the "biggest, global, video game in real time", as I show them how the
software logs the contacts, computes the score, displays the sections, etc...
I WILL be contesting at field day... although you WILL beat me in the score,
I challenge you to beat me where it counts... making new contesters...
Cheers ... Denny
>From tbarnett@lexmark.com (Tyler Barnett) Mon Jun 10 13:40:16 1996
From: tbarnett@lexmark.com (Tyler Barnett) (Tyler Barnett)
Subject: Field Day memories
Message-ID: <199606101241.AA18379@interlock.lexmark.com>
Recalling what Doug, WD8AUB just said about FD.
I haven't missed a FD since 1971, and wasn't licensed until 1972.
FD was the experience that got me into radio and contesting.
In earlier years, we operated W4MRF/4 (My Radio Friends), which had a good
swing on CW.
I went from 5wpm to 15wpm during the '72 FDweekend, and got my Advanced that
year.
One year we had a surplus Army generator that had horrible spikes and blew out
every Drake power supply we had. One Heathkit was left.
Another year we got attacked by a bumper crop of hard-shell bugs in the
evening. There were so many of them that the tent floor was not visible in
places. You sort of crunched when you walked around.
One year it got down close to freezing, and another was so hot we tried sitting
with our feet in a bucket of ice water to cool off. We had read an article
that said it would keep your blood cool, and hence you wouldn't sweat. Didn't
work.
The last several years have been more civil, and we hope to work you from
N4AR/4.
Tyler N4TY
>From frank_n2ff@usa.pipeline.com (FrankFallon) Mon Jun 10 14:13:27 1996
From: frank_n2ff@usa.pipeline.com (FrankFallon) (FrankFallon)
Subject: PED trainer help
Message-ID: <199606101313.NAA04860@pipe4.t1.usa.pipeline.com>
Andy, I had a similar problem with a version of PED that I
down loaded from Hiram - the ARRL BBS - I got a another copy
of the program from another source and had no problem at all.
I had a visitor in the shack and he ran out and bought a
"plug and play" sound blaster card so he could play with the program.
I can't remember the source of the good program but it was one of two
FTP mentioned in one of the ham publications.
Good luck. The program is worth the effort.
73 de Frank ....
>From palooka@pyrotechnics.com (Joe Pontek, K8JP) Mon Jun 10 14:32:56 1996
From: palooka@pyrotechnics.com (Joe Pontek, K8JP) (Joe Pontek, K8JP)
Subject: Contesters & FD (was: Re: fraud (and switch to new topic))
Message-ID: <199606101332.IAA31295@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com>
>
>Field Day is the golden opportunity to DEMONSTRATE and to HELP newer hams to
>sit down and contest on HF, in the hope of interesting some in doing more in
>
>I WILL be contesting at field day... although you WILL beat me in the score,
> I challenge you to beat me where it counts... making new contesters...
>
>Cheers ... Denny
>
Amen, Denny!
I made the comitment last year to do this for 2 years, atleast. I have been
busting butt on another antenna, helping the FD chairman plan the affair (he
needs the credit, not me), and had many get excited about contesting,
increasing their code speed, up grading, etc. last year. I'm really looking
forward to this year! I done a couple of programs on contesting and DXing
during this last year for local clubs, including showing the CQ Contesting
video, slides of trips to VP5 and the antenna farm. Always an exciting
response! I have had three new contesters come out of last years effort,
hopefully more this year!
73, K8Joe"Palooka"
K8JP, K8JP/VA2, VP5/K8JP, VP5JP, ex-K8HKM
palooka@pyrotechnics.com
snail mail:
Joe Pontek, K8JP
P. O. Box 59573
Schaumburg, IL 60159-0573
(847) 885-8871 (home)
(847) 519-7420 (work)
(847) 619-3250 (FAX)
U.S.A.
>From k0wa@southwind.net (Lee Buller) Mon Jun 10 16:08:57 1996
From: k0wa@southwind.net (Lee Buller) (Lee Buller)
Subject: Contesters & FD (was: Re: fraud (and switch to new topic))
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960610150857.00698f24@southwind.net>
At 08:32 AM 6/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Field Day is the golden opportunity to DEMONSTRATE and to HELP newer hams to
>>sit down and contest on HF, in the hope of interesting some in doing more in
>
>>
>>I WILL be contesting at field day... although you WILL beat me in the score,
>> I challenge you to beat me where it counts... making new contesters...
>>
>>Cheers ... Denny
>>
My Reply....
YES...YES...and YES. We've been doing this now for four years at our local
FD. There is still a large amount of people who like to dink with it, but
when I fired up the CW station and outscored two other sidebands stations by
twice the QSO number...people started to notice. IT was nice that we won
the catagory. Cuz of the CW ops...which they never did before.
They never did anything more than dipoles and S & P around the bands.
Now, I have about 40 guys who look forward to kicking butt on FD. We now
have beams up for all stations. More wire antennas for each band...and the
VHF 6 meter guys are always out there ready to find a 6 meter opening which
is a freebie band.
These guys have gone from goof balls to rabid contesters in four years.
Unfortunatly, they only think in terms of FD and not any other contests . I am
working on them.
See you guys in FD...W0BZN - Newton Amateur RAdio Club
lee
k0wa@southwind.net
Lee Buller
k0wa@southwind.net
>From jdcolson@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Jack D.Colson) Mon Jun 10 17:36:15 1996
From: jdcolson@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Jack D.Colson) (Jack D.Colson)
Subject: Vanity Calls
Message-ID: <9606101636.AA29250@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
>From jake@mail05.mitre.org (Jacob Handwerker) Mon Jun 10 17:42:28 1996
From: jake@mail05.mitre.org (Jacob Handwerker) (Jacob Handwerker)
Subject: Update on FREE IONSOUND HDX HF Propagation Software
Message-ID: <960610124227.13549@mail05.mitre.org.0>
Because of the large number of requests for the IONSOUND HDX HF Propagation
Software, I will be glad to furnish it FREE by E-Mail without shipping/handling
charge as indicated previously for actual sending of the disk. Therefore, do
NOT send any money or IRCs.
I would also appreciate it if anyone out there has the facility to accept and
reply automatically to such requests by downloading of this DX/contest-related
software. If so, please let me know.
73 de Jake, W1FM
>From aa8u@voyager.net (AA8U) Mon Jun 10 19:34:05 1996
From: aa8u@voyager.net (AA8U) (AA8U)
Subject: FT-900AT Help Pse
Message-ID: <199606101834.OAA26312@vixa.voyager.net>
At 08:30 AM 6/10/96 EDT, you wrote:
>Ugly,
>I'm no technician, but I have the FT-900CAT with the 250 Hz cw filter
>which was installed by the dealer. When I use the filter I only get one
>side of the carrier, which is the way you would expect it to work. Wonder
>if the filter in your rig was installed incorrectly?
>
>Good luck!
>
>Jay/K4OGG
Thanks for the info Jay. I finally took a peek....no cw filter. Several
users also responded with good info. With no low IF filter in NAR mode I
guess this is normal.
I finally got in touch with the owner of this radio, Bil AA8GL. What a super
fellow! He has ordered a 500 Hz AND a new low IF SSB filter and is having
the pair express mailed to me to install! How do you ever adequately thank
someone that would do all that?
Hope to work you from ZK1 in July.
73 for now,
Ugly
AA8U ZK1AAU
--------------------------------
Bil YOU ARE A SUPER DUDE !!
--------------------------------
PS Many thanks to all that responded to my original plea for advice. I
learned a lot. This Reflector sure is a neat learning tool!
>From hwardsil@wolfenet.com (Ward Silver) Mon Jun 10 19:52:27 1996
From: hwardsil@wolfenet.com (Ward Silver) (Ward Silver)
Subject: Morse Code Palindromes
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.93.960610114538.4724C-100000@gonzo.wolfenet.com>
Now HERE'S something for the active minds on these reflectors...if Morse
Code has one dit in the grave this should liven it up a bit.
What is the longest palindrome of Morse Code characters? The entire
sequence has to read the same in either direction. The spacing can be
altered between the forward and reverse directions. i.e., L (.-..) can be
IN (.. -.) when reversed.
I got this idea from a Puzzles column in one of my myriad magazines.
Can't claim originality on this one. K1AR's column in CQ this month has a
nifty anagram of "Contesters"..."No Rest, Etc." This provoked my
palindromic tendencies, so try:
Dennis, sign it! Set "No Contesting is sin", Ned!
Any others? Maybe a DXing one? "DX" would be tough in a palindrome...
73...er...37, Ward N0AX
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Mon Jun 10 20:31:38 1996
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: Morse Code Palindromes
>What is the longest palindrome of Morse Code characters? The entire
>sequence has to read the same in either direction.
I'm not sure whether I posted this way back or not, but I'm so proud
of thinking it up that I have to air it again. Find two first names
that are palindromes in CW, with 6 letters each. Ward and Urng would
be an answer if it were 4 letters - and if Urng were a first name (it
might be in Africa?).
>73...er...37, Ward N0AX
Wouldn't that be 73 backwards as well? Come back, sunspots...
Kereu AA5BT, G3NMX
oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
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