My 940 needs some work, so can anyone suggest the best place to send it? I
have heard horror stories about Kenwood service taking 8+ weeks. Has that
been your experience?
Thanks for your input!
73 -- Jim KC1SJ
>From k5zd@ultranet.com (Randy & Connie Thompson) Tue Jun 25 00:33:11 1996
From: k5zd@ultranet.com (Randy & Connie Thompson) (Randy & Connie Thompson)
Subject: New Contest Stories at www.contesting.com
Message-ID: <01BB6204.37BC5020@k5zd.ultranet.com>
1995=20
K1ZX, Single Operator High Power<Picture>=20
N2NT (op. KZ2S), Single Operator High Power<Picture>=20
K5ZD, Single Operator High Power<Picture>=20
K1TO, Single Operator High Power<Picture>=20
=20
<Picture>Sweepstakes Phone=20
1995=20
N5RZ, Single Operator High Power Category Winner<Picture>=20
AB5KD (op. WB5VZL), Single Operator High Power<Picture>=20
N3BB (op. AA5RB), Single Operator High Power<Picture>=20
VE4GV, Single Operator Low Power Category Winner<Picture>=20
=20
<Picture>ARRL DX Phone=20
=20
1996=20
K5ZD (op. W2SC), Single Operator All Band, High Power=20
K3ZO, Single Operator, All Band, High Power<Picture>=20
=20
<Picture>ARRL DX CW=20
=20
1996=20
K5ZD, Multi-operator Single-transmitter=20
XE2KB, Multi-operator Single-transmitter<Picture>=20
N2RM, Multi-operator Two-transmitter<Picture>=20
K1KI, Multi-operator Multi-transmitter=20
=20
=20
1995=20
K5ZD, Single Operator, All Band, High Power<Picture>=20
=20
<Picture>CQ WPX Phone=20
=20
1996=20
WM2C (at N6RO) Multi-operator Multi-transmitter<Picture>
<Picture>CQ WPX CW=20
=20
1996=20
WP2AHW (W2SC op), Single Operator All Band, High Power<Picture>=20
KE2PF, Single Operator All Band, High Power<Picture>=20
K3ZO, Single Operator All Band, High Power<Picture>=20
K3EST, Multi-operator Multi-transmitter<Picture>=20
=20
=20
While you were all fighting Murphy and other Field Day trauma, I spent a =
cold rainy day converting the best of the contest story e-mails to HTML. =
Looking for some inspiration or ideas in advance of the fall contests, =
visit
http://www.contesting.com/Stories
Here's what's been added:
ARRL SS CW
K1ZX, Single Operator High Power
N2NT (op. KZ2S), Single Operator High Power
K5ZD, Single Operator High Power
K1TO, Single Operator High Power
ARRL SS Phone
N5RZ, Single Operator High Power
AB5KD (op. WB5VZL), Single Operator High Power
N3BB (op. AA5RB), Single Operator High Power
VE4GV, Single Operator Low Power
ARRL DX Phone
K5ZD (op. W2SC), Single Operator All Band, High Power
K3ZO, Single Operator, All Band, High Power
ARRL DX CW
XE2KB, Multi-operator Single-transmitter
N2RM, Multi-operator Two-transmitter
WPX Phone
WM2C (at N6RO) Multi-operator Multi-transmitter
WPX CW
WP2AHW (W2SC op), Single Operator All Band, High Power
KE2PF, Single Operator All Band, High Power
K3ZO, Single Operator All Band, High Power
K3EST, Multi-operator Multi-transmitter
Other
1996 CQ 160M CW Contest, ON4UN, Single Operator, High Power
Enjoy!
Randy K5ZD
k5zd@contesting.com
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
E-mail: k5zd@ultranet.com
11 Hollis Street, Uxbridge, MA 01569
h (508) 278-2355 w (508) 337-6600
>From yv5dta@bridge.net (Esteban J. Morao) Tue Jun 25 00:06:33 1996
From: yv5dta@bridge.net (Esteban J. Morao) (Esteban J. Morao)
Subject: to Code or Not to Code?
Message-ID: <01BB6208.99834D00@yv5dta.bridge.net>
Hello Gang!
long time of not getting into a discusion so I think I am a little rusty =
:)
I think ham-radio at this time has an big competion to survive. With the =
Information Superhighway building up, younger people are turning into =
this rather to spend time to study and lear some code just to talk on a =
radio!
The ARRL and other organizations should start to realized this issue and =
come up with a strategy. I think personaly here in the US all this =
formality to get a liceses priviledges. Back home (at the time i got my =
licese) you only took 1 general written test and a CW test (10 WPM =
Minimum). And I remeber that
porcentage that will pass was almost 50% or so...=20
CW? lets faces the fact, the majority will study CW just to pass the =
test, after this, the totally forget abt it... So I think we should =
start thinking on other way to filter the people...
Comments & Flames direct to me please....
Steve J.
W4/YV5DTA
yv5dta@bridge.net
web:http://www.bridge.net/~yv5dta
SFDXA Web:http://www.bridge.net/~yv5dta/sfdxa.htm
Steve Romagni Morao BSMIS
Systems Analyst=20
Allders International
e-mail:yv5dta@bridge.net
web:http://www.bridge.net/~yv5dta
*****ALL COMMENTS ARE EXCLUSIVE FROM ME AND ME ONLY :) ******
>From 0005543629@mcimail.com (David & Barbara Leeson) Tue Jun 25 01:28:00 1996
From: 0005543629@mcimail.com (David & Barbara Leeson) (David & Barbara Leeson)
Subject: WRTC
Message-ID: <64960625002846/0005543629DC4EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
The World Championship of Radiosport Team Contesting, WRTC 96, can still use
your help. The event is hosted by the NCCC and operated by WRTC 96, a
California non-profit public corporation. Inc. Thanks to those of you who
have already responded. Through the generosity of corporate and individual
sponsors, we're funding a week's lodging, meals, local bus transportation,
station accessories and awards for a substantial group:
52 Teams -- 104 competitors, contest winners from 30 countries
2 Demonstration Teams -- 5-8 operators from BY and YL
20 Judges and 40 Referees -- contesters judging the competition
60 Station Hosts -- volunteering comparable 100w tribander stations
Major funded events you can attend include
Icom Picnic at Coyote Point Park: 3 pm-9 pm, Wednesday, July 10
ARRL/TGV Silicon Valley Tour: 9:30 am-3:30 pm, Thursday, July 11*
CQ/Cushcraft San Francisco Tour: 9:30 am-3:30 pm, Thursday, July 11*
Dinner by Shell Oil: Bus 4:30, event 6 pm-9 pm, Thursday, July 11*
CQ Magazine Competitors' Meeting, 8:45 am, Friday, July 12
Contest preparation and Media Day, Friday afternoon, July 12
The World Radiosport Team Championship Contest, 1200z July 13 to 0600z
July 14 in the IARU World Championship, 52 1x1 Calls, 40-10m, CW & SSB
US Tower/Tied House/Give Pizza Chance Poolside Beer & Pizza Bust:
Noon-3 pm, Sunday, July 14
HRO Awards Banquet: 6-10 pm, Sunday, July 14*
Yaesu Napa Valley Winery Tour: 7 am-6 pm, Monday, July 15*
NCCC/Hy-Gain/Alinco/ETO/AEA/JA/S5 Hotel Hospitality Suites Wed, Thur,
Sun, Mon nights: open to all, free
Events marked * have limited capacity, advance reservations strongly
recommended by email to aa6kx@worldnet.att.net.
Competitors, judges and referees are responsible for their own
transportation costs from the 30 participating countries to the San Francisco
area. We've raised most of our $75,000 budget for local expenses. A
donation of $500 covers our costs for one participant for the week.
With major sponsorship from Icom, Yaesu, HRO, Shell Oil, NCDXF, CQ and ARRL,
the professional video by WJET-TV, donations from Cushcraft, Give Pizza
Chance, Berliner Cohen, US Tower, Alinco, TGV, Hy-Gain, AEA, ETO, and Western
Digital, and special contest software from K1EA, N6TR and K8CC, we've just
about tapped out our sources of corporate funds. We've also received
generous individual donations that have made a big difference. Your personal
financial support can help get us the rest of the way.
We're grateful for whatever you can offer. Donations of $100 or more
are tax-deductible if sent to the WRTC 96 Fund, Northern California DX
Foundation, P. O. Box 2368, Stanford, CA 94309-2368. Many employers
match individual charitable contributions, and the NCDXF accepts
donations of appreciated public stock.
We still have the following new in the box donated equipment for sale:
Yaesu FT900CAT mini-HF with Collins filter, AT, $1275
Alinco DX-70T mini-HF, $775
Hy-Gain TH3Mk4 tribander, $275
US Tower MA550 crankup mast, or $1000 certificate for credit, $800
WRTC 96, Inc. officers and directors are W6RJ, AA6KX, K3EST, W6QHS, W6OAT,
AA6MC, W6RGG, AE6Y. AI6V and WM2C, the current and past NCCC presidents,
have coordinated the NCCC host efforts, and many others are contributing
their time and energy. Thanks for considering this unique event as a
recipient of a personal donation. Contact me at dbleeson@mcimail.com for any
additional information.
73 de Dave, W6QHS
Treasurer, WRTC 96, Inc.
>From 0004504465@mcimail.com (Eugene Walsh) Tue Jun 25 03:37:00 1996
From: 0004504465@mcimail.com (Eugene Walsh) (Eugene Walsh)
Subject: Contester does good in real life!
Message-ID: <01960625023710/0004504465DC1EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
Folks;
Watching an interview show on C-SPAN, with high school
seniors who are winners of the C-SPAN college
scholarship program, who should I see but Sam,
AA0CR, who is another K4VX protege.
Congratulations to Sam.
He said he's going to school in DC, so LPL, you will
probably hear from him.
73 N2AA
>From aa0ob@skypoint.com (Greg Fields) Tue Jun 25 03:48:00 1996
From: aa0ob@skypoint.com (Greg Fields) (Greg Fields)
Subject: FD at W0AIH
Message-ID: <m0uYOAy-0002nsC@skypoint.com>
While many of you went to the great outdoors to participate
in Field Day, five of us treked out to the famous station of
W0AIH. As any real contestor knows, W0AIH is Paul Bittner from
Eau Claire, Wisconson. Over a period of 16 years, Paul has
assembled one of largest collections of small and BIG ant's
in the world. (I really wonder if any Amateur has ever put
up more hardware in one spot. Paul doesn't even know how many
towers and poles he has up.)
We went at it as category 7E, with a large Onan generator
used for emergency power. Even with all these ant's already
in the air, we still put two dipoles and a loop so we could
run two stations on 40 and 80 meters at the same time. What
kind of ant's did Paul already have up that we could use?
40 through 10 meters all have 200 foot towers with stacked
arrays on them. 40 meters has two full sized 3 elements stacked,
a real killer ant! There are many other ant's to choose from.
In fact, there are so many it takes several visits to the
"farm", as it is lovingly called since it is in the beautiful
Wisconson country side, before you aren't so confused by all
the rotars at each position. Oh yes, each band has it's own
position with a 765 or 1000 at it in the main "chalet". The
20 meter position sits a couple of hundred feet away in a old
WWII radio hut. All computers run CT and are networked together.
What was it like for Field Day from such a big setup? Well, on
20 and 40 meter phone there were times where so many were
calling I thought that I was "rare DX". I actually had to
ask only that the "so and so" station give me their report
at times since so many kept calling. I can't remember how many
times people told us we were the biggest signal on the band.
With so many noncontestors participating in Field Day, it takes
some patience to deal with these "novice" pileups. We must of
had at least a hundred calls from dupes on Sunday, many times
with the same station calling several times in a hour. And
a unbelievable number of stations who would work us and then
ask for our call! Hopefully some of these contest novices will
now be hooked. Our second stations on 40 and 80 only netted 300
contacts or so. I think it is because we all became depressed
when we sat down to these positions. After all, these were only
wires and we couldn't always hold a frequency like the stacks
did! No one could steal our frequencies when we were using the
stacks. In the end we netted over 4000 Q's from a "lets have
fun" effort.
Paul, W0AIH, is truly a amazing person. He his a minister with
his own church but, with all his mechanical and electrical
skills you would think he is a trained engineer and machinist.
He has assembled this station from taking down many commercial
towers and designing his own adaptations for Amateur use. Of
course he has had help from many contestors, especially from the
late K0FVF. Paul is in his early 60's but, that isn't slowing
him down. This week he is going to climb a 400 foot commercial
tower! Paul is one of those people who never slows down, he is
a constant bundle of energy. After FD was done and everything
was packed up, we stood and talked to Paul for a hour. Even
though we all had a two hour drive to get home, we didn't want
to stop listening to Paul's stories. His long Amateur career
and many adventures make for great listening. Paul is truly a
amazing person. I sure hope I still have his enthusiasm when
I'm his age. So if you don't know Paul, the next time you hear
W0AIH in a contest, you'll have a idea of what is there and the
unique individual who is behind it.
Those there for FD were AA0OB, AA0SQ, AA0VQ, K0EA, and N0AXL.
73,
Greg AA0OB
Greg Fields AA0OB
aa0ob@skypoint.com
Minneapolis, Minnesota
U.S.A.
>From george@epix.net (AA3JU) Tue Jun 25 03:53:23 1996
From: george@epix.net (AA3JU) (AA3JU)
Subject: Quad elements
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960624230808.33a7ac90@mailhost.epix.net>
Gentelmen:
Recently I queried about the feeding of the contest quad. After much
discussion on the mater I have decided to use seperate feed lines for each
band using 75 ohm matching stubs. This will I think work better for me as I
have intention of phasing a set of 2 element stacked quads (Stop laughing it
might work!)
Anyway what I would like to ask is this does anyone know for sure if the
elements in a quad get hot (temperature) after long duty cycle transmitting
(Contest style) at full power levels (1499 watts). This will determine what
I am going to use as center spacers for the connection at the coax.
Thanks so much for your time.
Also anyone who would like a sumary of the contest quad discussion please
let me know I will be happy to mail it to you. I also have some pretty neat
discussion of over the pole DX on 20 at night if you are interested in that.
George
*********************************************
*George Cook.....AA3JU.....AKA "The Ratman" *
*george@epix.net.....AA3JU@W3PYF *
*http://www.epix.net/~george *
* *
*Proudly Frankford Radio Club......... *
*.......Proficiency Through Competiton. *
*"Not just words but a way of life" *
*********************************************
>From palooka@pyrotechnics.com (Joe Pontek, K8JP) Tue Jun 25 03:24:19 1996
From: palooka@pyrotechnics.com (Joe Pontek, K8JP) (Joe Pontek, K8JP)
Subject: FD is not a contest
Message-ID: <199606250224.VAA14048@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com>
>
>
>I concede to W3ZZ that Field Day is, number one, an emergency
>preparedness exercise. This is easy to concede because it's not
>incompatible with participating competitively. Running up a good score
>and being competitive against our own previous best, last year, or our
>competition help us hone the emergency preparedness skills that are
>inherent in a Field Day operation.
>
>Rich Boyd KE3Q
Bull Crap!!!!!!!!
The Emergency Preparedness is an EXCUSE to have a fun contest! It is a
contest with a built in excuse, if you need it! SET is the emergency
preparedness test. I will send over my three or four new contesters, and I
think I have at least one "Potential Blood and Guts Contester" out of this
group! Geez, I think I have comitted to another year with this general
radio club to encourage participation in contesting!
73, K8Joe"Palooka"
K8JP, K8JP/VA2, VP5/K8JP, VP5JP, ex-K8HKM, ex-KN8HKM
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 george@epix.net (AA3JU) Tue Jun 25 04:03:43 1996
From: george@epix.net (AA3JU) (AA3JU)
Subject: Why I had to wait to become a ham
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960624231827.33a7c73e@mailhost.epix.net>
There is a lot of discussion right now about the future of this hobby.
I want to tell you all here and now why I did not get my ham license 25
years ago when I saw my friend Jim get his and have all that fun with his HW 16
I was too damn lazy to learn the code.
It was really really hard for me in aproaching middle age to learn it.
I set my life aside a bit to get that ticket.
Making Extra was the proudest day of my whole life.
I am today working very very hard on becoming a good contest quality CW op.
I really admire the guys that can chatter along at 50 and 60 wpm and not
miss a call.
I am so very very sad to see where this is all leading.
We discussed recently about young people in contesting. I then stated that
I am not really all that old. And what I see coming is this: That yes
there is going to be a No Code HF license it will be reletively easy to get
too. CW exclusive band plans will cease as the burgeoning numbers of
operators choke the band space that we have. Since these phone only ops
will vastly out number the CW proficient ops they will get there way just as
the codeless ops will now eventually get there way.
Contests will be seen as worthless use of spectrum interfereing with orderly
long distance nets and eventually either outlawed or so horribly interfered
with that contesting will be no fun at all.
At this juncture and I am adressing my elders in this hobby in this sport of
radio contesting why should I continue to work hard to join your ranks?
Please send me no flame mail. I am sad and I am frustrated. What can I do
to help prevent this dark but unfortunately likely scenario from occuring?
GC
*********************************************
*George Cook.....AA3JU.....AKA "The Ratman" *
*george@epix.net.....AA3JU@W3PYF *
*http://www.epix.net/~george *
* *
*Proudly Frankford Radio Club......... *
*.......Proficiency Through Competiton. *
*"Not just words but a way of life" *
*********************************************
>From kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin) Tue Jun 25 04:14:32 1996
From: kg5u@hal-pc.org (Dale Martin) (Dale Martin)
Subject: FD is not a contest
Message-ID: <01BB621A.A528B200@pm1-89.hal-pc.org>
Field Day is NOT a contest. It is an Operating Event.
It's not a contest until the results are published!!
Just a thought...
Dale, KG5U
kg5u@hal-pc.org
http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
----------
From: Rich L. Boyd[SMTP:rlboyd@CapAccess.org]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 1996 9:42 AM
To: cq-contest@tgv.com
Subject: FD is not a contest
I like to use the "judo approach" (use their inertia against them)
approach to the "FD is not a contest" logic:
"All right, FD is not a contest. In fact, there ARE no contests; they're
all operating events."
Rich Boyd KE3Q
>From garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net (Gary Schwartz) Tue Jun 25 04:37:52 1996
From: garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net (Gary Schwartz) (Gary Schwartz)
Subject: CQ Magazine July Cover Photo
Message-ID: <Pine.3.02.9606242252.B7324-b100000@solaria.sol.net>
Great cover photo of Larry, WA4QQV's shack. The pointer to check out the
antenna photos in the CQ calendar was especially nice. It sure looks like
Larry really knows how to put together a nice looking and functional shack.
Now for the burning question........
Does anyone know what is under the sheet in the top of the photo that is
on the cover shot???
It sure looks like it might be one of those "Oh no, Mulvehill is here
TODAY! Honey, got any spare sheets handy?" moments!
73,
Gary K9GS
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