>>> >Most of you might be older than me (I am 28 years-old) and
>>> >I am curious to know when the first CQWW and the first ARRL
K3> International
>>> >Contests happened?
>>> >
>>> >At that time they already had SSB and CW? Or AM and CW?
>>>
>>> aren't they cute when they're that young?
>>
>>Yeah, didn't you all still use spark gap back then?
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>-- Ray, WQ5L, age 28, CK 81
>>
>
>I was mentioneing about categories! Perhaps my english is not good enough.
K3> No reason to make fun. Would you like to establish a conversation in
K3> Portuguese?
>It would be better (for me at least!).
>
>Hey! I still don't know when the first CQWW happened. I think you don't
K3> either(HI!)
>
>73,
>
>Carlos - PY1CAS
>
K3> WELL anything under 30 sounds REAL young to me.
K3> I consulted the EXCELLENT 1996 CQ Amateur Radio Almanac, edited
K3> by K1DG and WZ1R. They have done a great job for the most part.
K3> CQWW first run in 1939 probably with phone and CW the same weekend
K3> 1940 event cancelled
K3> the contest as we know it began both modes separate weekends
K3> in 1948.
K3> I suspect this is accurate information, although there are a few
K3> errors in Gavels won by FRC in ARRL SS and ARRL DX contests, which I
K3> suspect will be fixed in the 1997 issue.
K3> 73 Chas K3WW
Another bit of interesting SS nostalgia is that it originally ran for a
whole WEEK(or was it two?) and the exchange consisted of actual traffic
(messages). Back in the late 50's and early 60's I seem to remember that
there were TWO weekends for EACH mode.
73 Bill N6CQ
>From jefft@atlanta.com (Jeff Tucker) Fri Nov 1 12:26:00 1996
From: jefft@atlanta.com (Jeff Tucker) (Jeff Tucker)
Subject: True North in one sentence
Message-ID: <199611011727.MAA07644@postal.atlanta.net>
I'm not sure I agree with this disagreement, or the next statement made.
First, reread what the original poster said. He didn't say anything about the
published time for sunrise, or 12:00 on your clock or anything else. He said
the time between local sunrise and local sunset. If you think about the earth
rotating within the circle of light the sun throws onto it, your tower will
rotate
into that circle at some time and rotate out of it at some time. Halfway
in between, your tower will be in a line from the sun through your tower, to
the point of rotation, i.e. the true North Pole. Thus, your shadow should
point north.
This is only all the time for people who live north of the Tropic
of Cancer. For people who live South of the Tropic of Capricorn, the shadow
always points south. For people in between (don't I wish), it varies, either
straight south or straight north.
As for the statement about Mercator projections, I don't think this has anything
to do with Mercator projections. Beam headings should always be calculated
on a great-circle map, which definitely isn't Mercator. And, the software we
use does it this way internally, too. So, if you use a great-circle map
centered
on your location, and have your true north sited properly, your beam headings
will always be right on. The magnetic north pole should not be involved at all,
so you don't need to worry about declination.
73
Jeff N9HZQ
----------
From: k4sb@avana.net
Sent: Friday, November 01, 1996 11:51 AM
To: Jeff Tucker; cq-contest@tgv.com; n3rr@erols.com
Subject: RE: True North in one sentence
No, that isn't so unless you live exactly on a longitude which seperates
2 time zones, or if you live exactly on the spot where the data is
referenced, which is unlikely because most of it is referenced to an
airport, with exceptions.. You must adjust your Local Apparent Noon by
adding the degrees and seconds to the longitude and coming up with your
true noon time. Obviously, shadows in Savannah, GA pointing due north do
not coincide with those in Atlanta.
Good idea though, however I fail to understand why everyone just doesn't
use the North Star. It's easy to see, and directly true north.
However, it all seems an exercise in futility since most beam heading are
derived using a Mercator projection, ( which is distorted ) and thereby
issue magnetic headings, which must be adjusted for East/West deviation.
Ed
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Name: ed sleight
E-mail: k4sb@avana.net
Time: 11:51:23 AM
This message was sent by Chameleon
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Jeff Tucker, N9HZQ
Williams Consulting, Inc.
jefft@atlanta.com
>From jjr@databook.com (Jim Reisert) Fri Nov 1 17:49:53 1996
From: jjr@databook.com (Jim Reisert) (Jim Reisert)
Subject: FTP site for NA cty files
Message-ID: <9611011749.AA09394@sttng.databook.com>
On Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:57:15 CST, Hoeft, Roger V wrote:
> I bit-shredded (deleted) a mail message pertaining to the ftp site for
> the new NA cty files. I'm particularly interested in the cty files for
> the SS this weekend. If anyone knows the site, please forward it to me.
ftp://boss.databook.com/AD1C/nacty.zip
Or send E-mail to ct-user-REQUEST@databook.com and put:
GET country.dat
GET history.cty
in the body of the mail message.
- Jim AD1C
--
Jim Reisert <jjr@databook.com> Databook, Inc., Danvers, MA
http://www.tiac.net/users/ad1c/ http://www.databook.com/
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Fri Nov 1 18:20:18 1996
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: True North in one sentence
>>No, that isn't so unless you live exactly on a longitude which
>>seperates 2 time zones, or if you live exactly on the spot where
>>the data is referenced, which is unlikely because most of it is
>>referenced to an airport, with exceptions.. You must adjust your
>>Local Apparent Noon by adding the degrees and seconds to the
>>longitude and coming up with your true noon time. Obviously,
>>shadows in Savannah, GA pointing due north do not coincide with
>>those in Atlanta.
Note that the original poster did *not* say to do this at local noon,
he said to do it at the average time of sunset and sunrise, and he is
poifickly correct. The actual time when the sun is due south does
of course depend on your longitude, and even at a fixed place it varies
by about 15 or 20 minutes over the course of a year because of three
different effects that are too boring to go into here.
Derek AA5BT (shortly to become AA5BT)
oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
>From ik0hbn@isa.it ( IK0HBN ) Fri Nov 1 19:00:30 1996
From: ik0hbn@isa.it ( IK0HBN ) ( IK0HBN )
Subject: Help for Orion 2800
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19961101200053.1ce79322@net.isa.it>
Hi everybody.
I could like linking my Orion 2800 rotator to my computer to use it with the
"Shift+F10" option of CT (automatic beaming of antennas). Manual of rotator
speaks about of linking to RS232 port, but I have not the wiring schematic.
Socket on rotator control box is a female DB9 and I have to link it to a
male DB25 on computer. Any idea?
Thanks since now.
Sante
Sante LILLO (IK0HBN)
Localita' Saineta, 3
01030 Bassano in Teverina (VT) Italy
home telephone: +39 (0) 761-407543 (FAX on request)
E-mail: ik0hbn@isa.it
packet adr: IK0HBN@I0INU.IUMB.ITA.EU
DX cluster : IK0HBN > I0JBL-6
>From nt5c@easy.com (John Warren) Fri Nov 1 23:34:11 1996
From: nt5c@easy.com (John Warren) (John Warren)
Subject: True North in one sentence
Message-ID: <1365270864-232413310@BANJO.EASY.COM>
|No, that isn't so unless you live exactly on a longitude which seperates
|2 time zones, or if you live exactly on the spot where the data is
|referenced, which is unlikely because most of it is referenced to an
|airport, with exceptions.. You must adjust your Local Apparent Noon by
|adding the degrees and seconds to the longitude and coming up with your
|true noon time. Obviously, shadows in Savannah, GA pointing due north do
|not coincide with those in Atlanta.
Ed; I think you misunderstood the suggestion. Nobody said anything about
Noon - local, apparent, or anything else. What was proposed was looking at
the shadow direction halfway between your LOCAL sunrise and sunset. Since
local SR and SS are determined by your LOCAL longitude, that should work.
(I'm sure there is a little asymmetry, but I'll bet it's small). Such an
obvious idea I don't know why I didn't think of it, hi! If we ever see the
sun again here, I'll check it.
I must be in a snippy mood today, because I'll take issue with your
comments on the Mercator projection too. Isn't that a geographic not a
magnetic projection?
Also, our beam headings surely must be derived from an azimuthal projection?
John, NT5C.
>From gswanson@arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW) Fri Nov 1 18:21:00 1996
From: gswanson@arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW) (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW)
Subject: Vanity notes:
Message-ID: <m0vJOEU-000fGkC@mgate.arrl.org>
Greetings,
Some might ask what I meant by:
"Meanwhile, Gate 2 remains in temporary limbo."
To explain, here is the text of a W1AW Bulletin from
yesterday (30 Oct. 96). This is the latest as of today,
1 Nov. 96, too.
Vry 73, Glenn, KB1GW
--------------------------------
FCC computer glitches put Gate 2 on hold
Once again, the word from Gettysburg is "next week." Maybe it was early
Halloween gremlins, but unexpected problems that have plagued the amateur
computer system at the FCC's Gettysburg office all week have all but
eliminated any chance that Gate 2 vanity call signs will be issued in time
for this weekend's ARRL November Sweepstakes CW contest. Hams antsy to learn
when they'll get one of their vanity requests have besieged the FCC with
phone calls this week. A spokesman at Gettysburg said Thursday, however,
that he doubts that the FCC will be ready to issue any vanity call signs
until sometime next week. "I'm 90% sure it's not going to make it this
week," he said.
Some optimism flared when October 30 grants appeared in some call sign
databases, leading to speculation that the vanity call signs might soon
follow. However, the FCC has announced that any grants dated after October
24, 1996, are invalid because many of them were erroneous.
The unspecified computer problems are not related to the vanity call sign
program. FCC personnel in Gettysburg already have entered data from the more
than 4500 first-day Gate 2 applications, and are poised to start granting
licenses once the computer problems are resolved, the spokesman said. The
FCC anticipates that event could happen "by the end of next week." It's not
known how long it will take to process all of the first-day applications,
since this will be the first time the FCC has run the program using "live"
data. Before processing, however, the FCC wants to "be sure everything is
going to work well," the spokesman said. In the meantime, hams are asked to
be patient and to refrain from calling the FCC to inquire about the status
of their vanity call sign applications.
>From w2vjn@rosenet.net (George Cutsogeorge) Fri Nov 1 03:50:30 1996
From: w2vjn@rosenet.net (George Cutsogeorge) (George Cutsogeorge)
Subject: True North in one sentence
References: <961101165840_71111.260_EHM50-1@CompuServe.COM>
Message-ID: <M.103196.195030.65@ppp054.rosenet.net>
It is obvious when looking at the Geochron that the sentence is true.
George
----
George Cutsogeorge, W2VJN
Umpqua, OR.
http://www.qth.com/topten
>From k0wa@southwind.net (Lee Buller) Fri Nov 1 20:04:17 1996
From: k0wa@southwind.net (Lee Buller) (Lee Buller)
Subject: CQ SS K0WA
Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961101200417.006be6f8@southwind.net>
Ladies and gentlemen....
Well, it looks like my friend Mike won't have his new call issued by
Saturday for SS start-time. As all of you, Mike is disappointed, but
hopefully he will have it for SS-SSB. So, look for K0WA in the fray
(multi-op). Look for us on 160 too...we will have a massive signal on the
band....5/8 wave verticle with more radials than I want to count and a
receiving loop.
"Light the fires and kick the tires...we're looking for multipliers"
Lee
k0wa@southwind.net
NR1 B K0WA 66 KS
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