Watching all the discussion about which sections people had trouble finding,
I couldn't resist going through my SS log to see which sections were easy
and which were not. Here are the counts I found (out of 1100 total):
AK 1 PAC 1 YU 1 MS 2 PQ 2 WY 2 MAR 3 MB 3 NE 3 ND 3 NV 3
SD 3 VI 3 VT 3 MT 4 PR 4 SB 4 SC 4 SK 4 AL 5 ME 5 BC 6
EWA 6 WTX 6 ID 8 LA 8 RI 8 WMA 8 AR 9 DE 9 IA 9 ONT 9 SFL 9
SJV 9 AB 10 WVA 10 AZ 11 NFL 11 NLI 11 NM 11 OK 11 SF 11 UT 11 SDG 12
MO 13 ORG 13 LAX 14 KY 14 NH 14 SNJ 14 SV 15 TN 15 NC 16 KS 17 WPA 17
GA 18 ORE 19 NNJ 20 EB 21 IN 23 EPA 24 CT 25 MDC 27 NTX 28 WNY 28 WI 29
ENY 30 MN 30 VA 30 STX 31 WWA 31 EMA 32 CO 32 MI 35 OH 44 SCV 44 IL 57
Based on this, I'd say the place to be this last weekend was Mississippi!
(I knew that funny looking money my KY relatives left me would be worth
something someday.) The NE stations I found were all low sequence number
calls going S&P--and they didn't come by until late in the game. But who
would have believed so many MT and UT stations? (And I didn't even work
K6XO.)
-Bruce, AA6KX (operating from SCV)
>From Larry Schimelpfenig <lschim@mailstorm.dot.gov> Tue Nov 8 20:22:53 1994
From: Larry Schimelpfenig <lschim@mailstorm.dot.gov> (Larry Schimelpfenig)
Subject: TS940 SHORTCOMINGS?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9411081553.A23197-a100000@mailstorm.dot.gov>
I'm kinda hesitant to send this, but I don't know of a better way to get
expert opinions. I'm thinking about graduating from my trusty ole IC735 to
a TS940. Seems to me that I've heard the 940 isn't any good in a multi
environment due to phase noise from the transmitter. Something also tells
me phase noise was a problem in the receiver of early serial numbers. Can
anyone tell me of any pitfalls with the 940 and if there are any serial
number series to avoid? About 80% of my operating is cw. I have a friend
with a real clean radio which has a couple of IR 500hz filters in it.
Maybe the phase noise on receive isn't a problem because running low
power, if I can't hear them due to phase noise they probably won't hear me
anyway! Kind of like my short beverages on the low bands. I can't work
everything I hear now, so extending the beverages might be another effort
in futility! Appreciate ur comments.
73 de Larry K7SV in Virginia - lschim@mailstorm.dot.gov
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