A bunch of airlines are now using the Internet to sell unused tickets at the
last moment. I've attached the weekly message from American Airlines so you
can subscribe if interested. I've also seen someone (Northwestern?) offering
a whole 757 full of seats from Chicago to Hong Kong (or somewhere like that)
on an auction basis (somthing like the highest 250 bids get a seat). This
may be useful for those last minute decisions to contest somewhere outside of
the black hole for example.
73 Tom
---------------Original Message---------------
American's new Net SAAver Fares are the easiest way to save on American
Airlines and American Eagle. These low fares are good for travel for this
weekend only -- leaving anytime Saturday, June 15, 1996 and returning anytime
the following Monday or Tuesday.
For travel this weekend, call 1-800-344-6702 and ask for our special
Net SAAver Fares. If you're booking through your Travel Agent, be sure to
give them the special eight hundred number and have them refer to
Net SAAver fares when making your reservation.
These special low fares go fast -- so make your reservation today. If
you would like to learn more about the domestic US destinations listed,
please
check our route map in the Service Information area of the AA web site at
http://www.amrcorp.com/aa_home.
For the following markets, travel may originate in either city:
Roundtrip
Fare Market (Airport Code)
--------- ----------------------------------------------
$69 Chicago (ORD) - Springfield, IL (SPI)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Shreveport, LA (SHV)
Miami (MIA) - Sarasota, FL (SRQ)
$79 Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Beaumont/Port Arthur, TX
(BPT)
New York City (JFK Arpt only) - Syracuse, NY (SYR)
$89 Chicago (ORD) - Evansville, IN (EVV)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Amarillo, TX (AMA)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - San Antonio, TX (SAT)
$129 Chicago (ORD) - Atlanta, GA (ATL)
Chicago (ORD) - Denver, CO (DEN)
Chicago (ORD) - Houston, TX
(IAH - Intercontinental Arpt only)
Chicago (ORD) -
White Plains/Westchester County, NY (HPN)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Albuquerque, NM (ABQ)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Denver, CO (DEN)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Omaha, NE (OMA)
$159 Chicago (ORD) - Tucson, AZ (TUS)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Hartford/Springfield, CT
(BDL)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Orange County, CA (SNA)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - San Diego, CA (SAN)
Miami (MIA) - Boston, MA (BOS)
Miami (MIA) - Newark, NJ (EWR)
$189 Chicago (ORD) - Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Washington, DC
(National or Dulles Arpts)
For the following international markets travel must originate in the
domestic US city:
Roundtrip
Fare Market (Airport Code)
--------- ----------------------------------------------
$89 Chicago (ORD) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (YYZ)
$159 Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(YYZ)
$160 Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - Guadalajara, Mexico (GDL)
Leaving anytime this Saturday, June 15, 1996 and returning anytime the
following Monday or Tuesday. Seats are limited. Fares apply to nonstop
flights only and may not be available on all flights. Fares are subject to
change without notice.
Call 1-800-344-6702 or ask your Travel Agent to call the same number.
Refer to Net SAAver fares.
Reduced rate fares are available only during the specific week in which
they are published via Internet E-mail. Tickets must be purchased within 24
hours of making reservations. Seats are limited. Fares may not be available
on all flights and are subject to change without notice. Tickets are
nonrefundable; however, changes to your ticket may be made if you pay a $50
service charge and meet the restrictions applicable to the new fare.
International fares are subject to government approval. Government taxes and
fees of up to $48, varying by destination, are not included and may vary
slightly depending on currency exchange rates at the time of purchase. Local
airport charges up to $12 per round trip may be collected in addition to the
advertised price. Offer not available in conjunction with any American or
other airline's discount, coupon, or promotional offer. A portion of travel
may be on American Eagle, American's regional airline associate. Net SAAver
Fares is a trademark, and American Airlines and American Eagle are registered
trademarks of American Airlines, Inc.
----------End of Original Message----------
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E-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444
>From n6ig@netcom.com (Jim Pratt) Thu Jun 13 00:52:32 1996
From: n6ig@netcom.com (Jim Pratt) (Jim Pratt)
Subject: Fwd: Pre-WRTC Poll
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9606121601.A14419-0100000@netcom10>
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 BK1ZX70SFL@aol.com wrote:
> What function does this Poll serve?
>
> Are we betting on others' operating skills as we feel will be needed for this
> particular contest as we forsee it will unfold? Is it that some of us feel it
> would be (pick something, i.e. :) sherely a domestic competition and the best
> SS team will sweep it....or a DX contest and the DX will take it?????
My impression will be that the poll will serve to point out those people
who are:
a) the most well known
b) the most well liked.
Whether there is any correlation to the operating skill of the
competitors remains to be seen...
73 Jim N6IG (teammate of K4UEE)
>From steve.steltzer@paonline.com (WF3T) Thu Jun 13 05:48:52 1996
From: steve.steltzer@paonline.com (WF3T) (WF3T)
Subject: Reply to Kenwood
For those with an interest, here's a copy of my reply to Paul Middleton,
KD6NUH, Kenwood's director of marketing. Feel free to forward it to other
mailing lists if you so desire. There IS power in numbers. And a sincere
thank you to everyone who has taken the time to write/email Kenwood, and to
me expressing support. Send your email now, maybe CONTESTING will still be
around in 5 or 10 years.
>
>Dear Mr. Middleton,
> Congratulations on a very well presented defense of your decision
to market Kenwood products through CB and truckstop distributors. You should
have been a politician. However, I think you may find the average Amateur is
a bit smarter than the average voter, sir. Quite frankly, your
response/official policy is a bunch of unmitigated bull crap. Declining
Amateur population? I think you'd better check the license figures.
Declining hamfest attendance? I don't know what is happening in Calif, but
on the east coast I KNOW that's BS. They were towing cars away for lack of
parking at Timonium. Declining sales of Amateur equipment? Maybe for
Kenwood, but I suggest you check Yaesu's figures, since their FT1000D and
now FT1000MP, are kicking Kenwood's butt in the HF arena. A typical
politician's ploy, a decrease in the rate of increase must be a cut. As I
said before, BS.
> Amateurs who use the HF spectrum are well aware of the results of
unregulated marketing to the general public. Unlicensed South/Central
American and Indonesian stations are all over the bands, using SSB and AM in
CW portions of the bands, 26 to 28 MHZ is full of truckers and pirate base
stations now. Yep, a million unlicensed truckers on worldwide bands is just
what the hobby (or is it Kenwood's sales figures) needs.
> Mr. Middleton, I would suggest if you truly have the good of the
hobby that provides you with a living in mind, to put your money where your
mouth is, and carry out all of the things in your response EXCEPT the CB
distributor marketing plan. Or is the real truth that you care about nothing
but increased sales? In this day of worship of the almighty dollar, where
ethics and moral values take a back seat to profit and stock price, it seems
there are only 2 things you can do to get people's attention: physically
hurt them or take money out of their pocket. I state again: If you proceed
with this marketing plan, I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER KENWOOD PRODUCT OF ANY
KIND WHATSOEVER, and will continue to urge every licensed Amateur I can
contact to do the same.
> Sincerely,
> Steven G. Steltzer
> WF3T
*\* steve.steltzer@paonline.com (WF3T) *\*
*\* Harley Davidson Inc. *\*
>From rlboyd@CapAccess.org (Rich L. Boyd) Thu Jun 13 03:15:23 1996
From: rlboyd@CapAccess.org (Rich L. Boyd) (Rich L. Boyd)
Subject: TIC and RTS
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91-FP.960612221156.16689J-100000@cap1.capaccess.org>
I've often thought of the disadvantage Dave Leeson mentions with a
rotating tower -- that all the antennas are pointed the same direction
when beaming different directions simultaneously might be a nice option
to have many times. Wouldn't having an RTS --and-- ringrotators on it
address this? Have zero (north) on the TIC mean lined up with the other
antenna(e) and 45 left or 45 right (or whatever) would have to be
mentally added or subtracted from the "main" indicator? I could see
someone writing software that runs on a PC that would keep track of this
better, control all the rotators, "counter-rotate" the "off-direction"
ones, etc. to maintain their headings when the tower itself rotators.
At one time the "state of the art" in big gun towers was Telrex's Big
Bertha (I guess). Same problem, everything points the same direction,
not today's state of the art where you wanna be able to beam different
directions. Ringrotators should fit the Big Bertha as well as an
RTS-tower and bring these up to the current state of the art. ??
73
Rich Boyd KE3Q
>From km9p@contesting.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P) Thu Jun 13 03:25:42 1996
From: km9p@contesting.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P) (Bill Fisher, KM9P)
Subject: Sidemount Summary - short
Message-ID: <199606130225.WAA00801@paris.akorn.net>
I received a lot of mail on this one. Thanks to all. The consensus was to
use the one by IIX in Illinois.
K1KP:
Grab a copy of NCJ and look up IIX.
They have a nice sidemount pictured. Call between 7-10 pm central time
and talk to Doug. He'll tell you that the side mount is $189 plus about
$13 UPS. He suggested a Ham-M rotor to turn a 40-2CD on it. I'm trying
to find one used, but if I can't, I'll call back and place the order.
Oh- BTW - it gives about 300 degrees of rotation.
-Tony, K1KP, fisher@hp-and2.an.hp.com
73
Bill, KM9P
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