Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160
> On 12/3/2011 7:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: > >> he reason there are not >> more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be >> an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. >> > Yes.As a protest of scoring rules that make it an "east coast works > Europe and ignores everyone else" contest, I'm putting in a few hours > running QRP so I'm working only the west coast guys. I'll be on full > time for the Stew Perry. > > 73, Jim K9YC > Not that it makes a fart in a windstorm worth of difference to the ARRL, but I have done the same, I gave a few contacts to west coast stations and will not participate in the contest. Another reason is the amount of deaf stations that seem to be on the band for this one. The ratio of S9 plus signals that cannot copy someone calling is at all time highs. Stew is the contest for 160. 73 Merv K9FD/KH6 ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160
Not much different for the CQ 160 either. We tried to operate it from V47 twice and we were ignored while we made huge numbers of contacts in the ARRL DX SSB test... Mike W0MU W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net On 12/3/2011 8:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: > That's the one thing that irks me about ARRL 160. The reason there are not > more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be > an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. > Stations turn on their CQ machines and make it very difficult to impossible > to work anything outside the US from here. I don't participate anymore. > IMHO N7RT > > > - Original Message - > From: "VE2TZT" > To: > Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 4:27 PM > Subject: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160 > > >> Do not give up guys, in this saturday morning in QC we had some great >> strong >> and clear signals with europe at the end of they night. In fact the ARRL >> 160m problem is that there are not enough participants outside NA. Even if >> the conditions are there, we have few people at the other side. >> This evening (Saturday)1 hour after my SS I got several good signals from >> EU >> that was not the case yesterday, but always the same few EU participants. >> >> The conditions can improve at any time that's the magic of the band >> >> Gilles VA2EW VE2TZT >> >> >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "james soto" >> To: >> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 5:38 PM >> Subject: Topband: cq 160 >> >> >> Been testing the inverted L that i install few weeks ago.last night work >> couple caribbean stations and also few north american .band been pretty >> noisy at this end.but this morning was less noisy. work few VE and north >> america pretty easy , i just run 100 watts( no amplifier ). >> I notice that few north american station with real good signal here (kp2 - >> st croix), were not copying they just keep calling without space between >> cq's. >> >> kp2bh/ kp2dx >> jimmy >> ___ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK >> >> ___ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > ___ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160
On 12/3/2011 7:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: > he reason there are not > more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be > an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. Yes.As a protest of scoring rules that make it an "east coast works Europe and ignores everyone else" contest, I'm putting in a few hours running QRP so I'm working only the west coast guys. I'll be on full time for the Stew Perry. 73, Jim K9YC ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160
On 12/3/2011 11:09 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote: > That's the one thing that irks me about ARRL 160. The reason there are not > more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be > an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. > Stations turn on their CQ machines and make it very difficult to impossible > to work anything outside the US from here. I don't participate anymore. > IMHO N7RT > > > Harvey, Another reason (for the lack of DX participation) is that the ARRL 160 meter DX contest is patently unfair to those of us who live in the U.S. Territories and for the purpose of this contest are considered non-DX. I have tried for a decade to get the ARRL CAC and HQ to realize the dis-service this is to not allow us to compete with other DX stations. Only a few have even bother to respond to me. Lumping us together with ARRL sections is discriminatory and prevents even a major effort from even getting listed in the results which only show the top 10. So the second night I only worked Europeans in silent protest. I did put K1LZ, Krassy in the log even after he left me out of his on TB at both ST0R and 3D2R, two places I urgently needed. (I did work 4W6A, T32C and H40KJ on TB with ease). I am not vindictive but sometime people have to take a stand for what they believe in. The ARRL 160 meter affair for me is a bummer and it is about time the CAC and HQ realizes that if they want a large DX turnout (maybe they don't care). then they will begin in revamping the rules so they do not discriminate against those in the U.S. Territories. There press release regarding this years event seem to indicagte they hadbut the posted rules were the same as before. What confusion. I will be on for the Stew Perry contest becasue it *is* fair and even someone with 100 watts to a piece of wire can have fun, and if you are QRP even more. Herb, KV4FZ St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160
That's the one thing that irks me about ARRL 160. The reason there are not more stations outside of US participate is that this contest turns out to be an ARRL 160 Sweepstakes at least this is my opinion from the Westcoast. Stations turn on their CQ machines and make it very difficult to impossible to work anything outside the US from here. I don't participate anymore. IMHO N7RT - Original Message - From: "VE2TZT" To: Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 4:27 PM Subject: Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160 > Do not give up guys, in this saturday morning in QC we had some great > strong > and clear signals with europe at the end of they night. In fact the ARRL > 160m problem is that there are not enough participants outside NA. Even if > the conditions are there, we have few people at the other side. > This evening (Saturday)1 hour after my SS I got several good signals from > EU > that was not the case yesterday, but always the same few EU participants. > > The conditions can improve at any time that's the magic of the band > > Gilles VA2EW VE2TZT > > > > - Original Message - > From: "james soto" > To: > Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 5:38 PM > Subject: Topband: cq 160 > > > Been testing the inverted L that i install few weeks ago.last night work > couple caribbean stations and also few north american .band been pretty > noisy at this end.but this morning was less noisy. work few VE and north > america pretty easy , i just run 100 watts( no amplifier ). > I notice that few north american station with real good signal here (kp2 - > st croix), were not copying they just keep calling without space between > cq's. > > kp2bh/ kp2dx > jimmy > ___ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > ___ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: Top band conditions suring ARRL 160
Do not give up guys, in this saturday morning in QC we had some great strong and clear signals with europe at the end of they night. In fact the ARRL 160m problem is that there are not enough participants outside NA. Even if the conditions are there, we have few people at the other side. This evening (Saturday)1 hour after my SS I got several good signals from EU that was not the case yesterday, but always the same few EU participants. The conditions can improve at any time that's the magic of the band Gilles VA2EW VE2TZT - Original Message - From: "james soto" To: Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 5:38 PM Subject: Topband: cq 160 Been testing the inverted L that i install few weeks ago.last night work couple caribbean stations and also few north american .band been pretty noisy at this end.but this morning was less noisy. work few VE and north america pretty easy , i just run 100 watts( no amplifier ). I notice that few north american station with real good signal here (kp2 - st croix), were not copying they just keep calling without space between cq's. kp2bh/ kp2dx jimmy ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: cq 160
I run into that problem "they just keep calling without space between cq's." often myself. My guesses are, they are either not even listening, just trying to keep their claim to that frequency by the never ending cq's. I say it that way, because they don't seem to even leave enough space between their never ending, automated cq's, to even hear a station if they was one attempting to answer. Or maybe they have some really good directional antennas and are listening towards some part of the globe I'm not on, hi hi. Then again it could be their receive capabilities are being limited by QRN/QRM that I can't hear. But it is pretty upsetting when you have waited until the big gun stations are in bed, so you will not have to compete with them in the pileups, and can hear the station calling cq so well, and yet it seems your answers to their endless calls are being ignored. You are not alone Jimmy. GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 12/3/2011 4:38 PM, james soto wrote: > Been testing the inverted L that i install few weeks ago.last night work > couple caribbean stations and also few north american .band been pretty noisy > at this end.but this morning was less noisy. work few VE and north america > pretty easy , i just run 100 watts( no amplifier ). I notice that few north > american station with real good signal here (kp2 - st croix), were not > copying they just keep calling without space between cq's. > > kp2bh/ kp2dx jimmy ___ UR RST IS > ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: cq 160
Been testing the inverted L that i install few weeks ago.last night work couple caribbean stations and also few north american .band been pretty noisy at this end.but this morning was less noisy. work few VE and north america pretty easy , i just run 100 watts( no amplifier ). I notice that few north american station with real good signal here (kp2 - st croix), were not copying they just keep calling without space between cq's. kp2bh/ kp2dx jimmy ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: FW: ARRL 160
-Original Message- From: jeremy maris [mailto:jer...@maris.plus.com] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 1:35 PM To: sebdesnCC Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 Conditions not brilliant from G4AQG. Only worked 16 states including VE; worked into LA, TX and STX. Couldn't raise AZ but heard someone. Generally not much to be heard and overall signals were very weak compared to the last couple of years. Nothing heard this year from the north mid west, let alone west coast. Condx worse that last weekend I think. I like ARRL 160 because its a good way to get 160 WAS - hoping for ND MS and AK later this evening ( I know I'll not get HI ... ) Jeremy G3XDK/G4AQG On 3 Dec 2011, at 19:26, sebdesnCC wrote: > Did not hear any in Colo... > Bud W0HG > > > On 2011-12-03, at 11:03 AM, Gary Smith wrote: > >> Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults & 3,118 points. >> Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have >> been doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do >> love the 160 contests. > > > > ___ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: 160 Conditions from ORG
Worst conditions in a long time last night. Worked a couple of VE2,3, 6 an 7s, KL7, KH6, all the 6's 7', and most all 8, 9, and 0s. GA, KY, TN, VA, AR, LA lone CE and XE. Didn't bother staying up or getting up for the JA openings. 45 mult's so far but only 100 Qs, usually 2-300 Qs and 55-60 first night. Big lack of 1, 2, and 3s PJs where fairly strong but I didn't break the pile ups. Hope tonight is better. Rick, N6PE = ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: raingutter antenna for ARRL 160
Bill's post prompted me to relate this "antenna" I used last evening in the ARRL 160. I attached a wire to the bottom of the raingutter on our single level duplex and fed it againstground with two radials get on for the 'test. The gutter is probably around 100 ft total lengthand maximum height 12 feet around the duplex. Live in a C C & R neighborhood with no trees near. The gutter was very noisy on receive but seemed to get out. SWR was low and didn't need the tuner. Made one contact, then 5, 10, 15...By 1 am almost 100 Qs in the log running 100 watts. Most contacts were within a few hundred miles,but some out to New York, Maryland, VE5 and even ZF2AH. Heard PJ2T. Not an antenna I would choose if alternatives, but was able to hand out some contacts. - Jon N0JK KS > From: Bill Cromwell > Subject: Topband: Great antenna adventure with Murphy > To: topband@contesting.com > Message-ID: <1322878454.1973.5.camel@lancelot> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Whew! > > Day three of my great antenna adventure. This is my third QTH to use > this 135 foot end fed wire.> Bill KU8H ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested
Gary, Yep.. it applies to reactance.. but I am not quite sure that the 1:1 is working and I need to run the swr curve on the antenna to verify if it is correct or not. I agree it was a little hard to figure out what ON4UN was trying to say and the fact that I was not going to use the exact core he was advocating made the problem worse. But what was even worse was some of the bad formulae in the original Misek book.. ugh! It didnt track some of the stuff currently in use by the guys. The beverage is partially over a stream and the resistance of the earth is really good so I have initially only installed one 4 ft ground rod at each end. I have two more to install at the feed end. Thanks again Jim - Original Message - From: "Gary Nichols" To: wa3...@comcast.net Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 9:53:08 AM Subject: RE: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested Jim, the 4X rule is referring to the "reactance" of the windings and NOT the turns ratio. Your reflection transformer should probably be a 1:1 ratio with the primary center tapped and connected to the secondary which the other end goes to ground. A good ground is necessary at both ends of the antenna. The information in ON4UN's book is accurate although very confusing...de gary, kd9sv -Original Message- From: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of wa3...@comcast.net Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:32 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested OK the Beverage is up, transformers installed, and coax hooked up. Let me refresh everyone’ memory - I put up a 490 ft window line beverage which turns out to be headed 30deg magnetic (best I could do on short notice) and it has a termination transformer as opposed to the open/short termination. I have noticed several things: 1. I am not impressed with the front to back. I don’t think it is all it should be but I have not measured it. 2. Although I did work YN2CC last night I have not heard but one station from Europe . 3. There appears to be some discrimination off the side of the antenna. The 8’s, 9’s etc are down as much as 20db. Having said all of this I started rereading all of the literature and think I may have discovered a problem with my transformers. I noticed that some calculated the transformers based directly on the impedance of the line/ surge z. By this I mean they calculated the transformer turns based directly on say 50 ohms for the primary and 450 ohms for the secondary. When I designed my transformers I used the rule of 4 like is done with broad band transformers so that the turns would be calculated on 200 ohms for the primary and 1800 ohms for the secondary. DID I ERR?? This might be why there is no front to back like there should be and maybe even the why I can’t seem to hear the Europeans. Luckily changing the transformers is an easy task. Comments please ! Jim WA3MEJ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: ARRL 160
Did not hear any in Colo... Bud W0HG On 2011-12-03, at 11:03 AM, Gary Smith wrote: > Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults & 3,118 points. > Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have been > doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do love > the 160 contests. ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: H40KJ
Hi Tbanders, loaded log already three times but some kind of error apears. 2011-12-03 11:13:44 LOTW_QSO: 2011-12-02 18:13:33 LOTW_QSO: [Additional QSL notices suppressed] 2011-12-03 11:13:44 LOTW_QSO: 2011-12-02 18:14:04 LOTW_QSO: Processing terminated with an unexpected failure. System administrator has been notified. I am woring on that, please be patient. 73 Jacek SP5DRH/H40KJ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested
George, Thanks for taking the time reply.. and yes you understand.. like I told another respondee its about technical excellence and understanding ! Ya gotta understand why your doing something. My core was a FT114-75 and using the rule of 4 I wound 24 turns center tapped for the secondary and 8 turns for the primary (50 to 450 feed transformer) and yes the ration is the same so maybe not too far off after all. I have a large assortment of ferrites here but just didnt have the correct one for this (I would like to have had some of the ones that W8JI used) but am waiting to get enought to meet the minimum order requirements of the vendors. My gut is telling me however that the termination is not correct and I did not have time to sweep the SWR of the antenna yesterday or today. Part of my problem is that there is so much crap on the web that there is a fair amount of wrong and half right info out there. I would like to have measured the surge Z but when I tried I got a lot of BCST interference that disturbed both the MFG and AEA analyzers. Consequently I am not real sure what Z to wind the termination transformer to. Again thanks for the reply .. and thanks to all of the others who have replied Jim - Original Message - From: w4...@aol.com To: wa3...@comcast.net Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 8:32:04 AM Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested Guess I still don't understand, as the impedance ratio is still the same, 9:1, and hence the turns ratio is still the same also, 3:1 I think what you are driving at is to rather than making the turns one and three, to make it say, three and nine, or four and twelve... this gets more turns on the core, and can reduce variations due to physical location on the core... Often this problem takes care of itself due to the turns ratio being an odd numberlike lets say, matching 50 ohm line to say 900 ohm load... 900/50=18, and sq rt of 18 is about 4.2... well, kinda hard to get 4.2 turns, but can get 42 to 10, and that could drop to 21 to 5 for the same ratio... think you can follow the math OK,, and see how often the odd impedance matches often require the turns ratio that would meet the rule of 4 in terms of multiple turns for both primary and secondary. I really enjoy working with antennas, as that was my major interest in College... got my BSEE from Clemson in '62, now retired for 12 years, and really never did work in my field of interest. Started out with Fllorida Power & Light as a protective relay engineer, then to DuPont in Textile Fibres making type 6 and type 6-6 nylon, and my last 30+ years with GE, mostly in Quality Assurance Management. Hard to realize I will be 73 soon, and retired for 12 years now... Have enjoyed ham radio since age 12-13 when assigned W4BUW. Have fun with the antenna work... I am a firm believerr in the antenna being the most important element in the station, in that it is there that you get reciprocity of gain, both in receive and transmit. Transmission line loss is often a big factor, moreson at the higher frequencies I enjoyed 160M work but am not on that band now... got my DXCC there, and that was my goal... Let me know how the toroid works out. If you have an MFJ antenna analyzer, a neat check is to take a non-inductive carbon resistor and place it as the antenna load, then check the SWR at the desired freq to see how the turns ratio came out one other factor I'm sure you know is to get the correct core material, so that it does not reach saturation, usually not a problem at the lower frequencies... If you are building a library, Amidon has a good pub, and of course there are several good ones, Sevik comes to mind... 73 & GL on the antenna work!!! de George, W4BUW -Original Message- From: wa3mej To: w4buw Sent: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 1:07 am Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested The rule of 4 is basically to ensure there is enough inductance I think (geeze its been a long time since I studied this) but you multiply by 4 and get 1800/200. This is done with broadband tranformers but I thought it was also for conventional transformers.. evidently not - Original Message - From: w4...@aol.com To: wa3...@comcast.net Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 12:03:09 AM Subject: Re: Topband: Beverage up but maybe has problems comments requested Not familiar with any rule of 4, or what it means... if you are looking at a 50 ohm transmission line, and a 450 ohm drive impedance for the Beverage, then 450/50=9. Turns ration then would be the square root of 9, which is 3, or 3:1 turns ratio. Just plain olde math... 73, George, W4BUW -Original Message- From: wa3mej < wa3...@comcast.net > To: topband < topband@contesting.com > Sent: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 10:31 pm Subject: Topband: Beverage up
Re: Topband: ARRL 160
Lots of 1, 2, 3, 4, and a few loud VE3 stations out here in Wyoming last night. Several Carrib stations, no Europe. I had to use the receive 4-Sq a few times while running, then forgot to go back to the vertical. Sorry about that :-) Wayne, N7NG -Original Message- From: topband-boun...@contesting.com [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eddy Swynar Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 11:41 AM To: g...@ka1j.com Cc: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160 On 2011-12-03, at 11:03 AM, Gary Smith wrote: > Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults & 3,118 points. > Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have > been doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do > love the 160 contests. Hi Gary, The conditions just do NOT seem to be there---at least not that I can detect... Only DX stations heard & worked here were "VP2M" & PJ5". Nothing from overseas at all. And the furthest west that I could get was Colorado! Not a single California, Oregon, or Washington State station to be had anywhere. I wonder if the west coast has conversely noticed a shortage of 1's, 2's, & 3's...? Still, I've made 283 QSOs so far, basically just holding down a frequency, & doing a wee bit of S & P'ing. We'll see what to-night brings... Good luck, & my vy ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: ARRL 160
On 2011-12-03, at 11:03 AM, Gary Smith wrote: > Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults & 3,118 points. > Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have > been doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do > love the 160 contests. Hi Gary, The conditions just do NOT seem to be there---at least not that I can detect... Only DX stations heard & worked here were "VP2M" & PJ5". Nothing from overseas at all. And the furthest west that I could get was Colorado! Not a single California, Oregon, or Washington State station to be had anywhere. I wonder if the west coast has conversely noticed a shortage of 1's, 2's, & 3's...? Still, I've made 283 QSOs so far, basically just holding down a frequency, & doing a wee bit of S & P'ing. We'll see what to-night brings... Good luck, & my vy ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: ARRL 160
Gary- Within your post are some indications of confusion. I think your computer is NOT dead, but either the cable to the monitor is out, or the monitor is bad. If the computer was indeed dead, you could not have transferred data from it. You said you moved the monitor; why don't you check again? Bill--W4BSG - Original Message - From: "Gary Smith" To: Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 10:03 AM Subject: Topband: ARRL 160 > It was at QSO #8 I think it was when I moved the monitor to be more > ergonomic with the radio, HI-Z triangular controller & key when I > looked and the computer was dead. Power to the cord so it's either a > dead PS or motherboard. Unsure but will figure it out later. Started > up computer #2 & after getting data from the dead computer > transferred to it 2 hours later, kept going. > > Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults & 3,118 points. > Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have > been doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do > love the 160 contests. > > Gary > KA1J > ___ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Re: Topband: ARRL 160
On 12/3/2011 12:03 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > It was at QSO #8 I think it was when I moved the monitor to be more > ergonomic with the radio, HI-Z triangular controller& key when I > looked and the computer was dead. Power to the cord so it's either a > dead PS or motherboard. Unsure but will figure it out later. Started > up computer #2& after getting data from the dead computer > transferred to it 2 hours later, kept going. > > Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults& 3,118 points. > Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have > been doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do > love the 160 contests. > > Gary > KA1J > ___ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK Thanks for the QSO Gary. I had not intention of even getting on. My station was operated via Icom(s) RS-BA1 remote control from NYC by N2TTA (Yuri) just to test the remote setup. The ARRL DX (160) is the poorest excuse for a contest ever devised by HQ and CAC. It treats KP1, KP2, KH6, KH0, KH8 as non-DX. There is no way we can be competitive against other W/VE. I have begged and pleaded with the CAC to look at this but this has fallen on deaf ears. The contest does not attract DX and is a waste of time compared to SP and CQ events where the DX stations on TB are in the thousands. Herb, KV4FZ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Topband: ARRL 160
It was at QSO #8 I think it was when I moved the monitor to be more ergonomic with the radio, HI-Z triangular controller & key when I looked and the computer was dead. Power to the cord so it's either a dead PS or motherboard. Unsure but will figure it out later. Started up computer #2 & after getting data from the dead computer transferred to it 2 hours later, kept going. Sure was little DX on this end in CT, only 8 mults & 3,118 points. Much less than last year. Interesting that overall the bands have been doing nicely for DX, I'm looking forward to CQWW160 for DX. Do love the 160 contests. Gary KA1J ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
