From radiojoe_k8om at msn.com Mon Jan 5 10:20:26 2015 From: radiojoe_k8om at msn.com (Joe Hungate - K8OM) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:20:26 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] How to change a light bulb Message-ID: Jason (or anyone else up to the task), Here?s a good job for you........... http://www.fark.com/vidplayer/8546161 73, Joe ? K8OM From rhaendel at q.com Mon Jan 5 15:05:37 2015 From: rhaendel at q.com (Rich Haendel) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:05:37 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] QSL card special Message-ID: Cool QSLs has a special offer. WWW.COOLQSL.COM. 1000 Deluxe full color front (glossy) and color back QSL cards for 35 Euro + shipping 2000 cards for 65 Euro + shipping. 73 Rich W3ACO From rhaendel at q.com Mon Jan 19 15:12:21 2015 From: rhaendel at q.com (Rich Haendel) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:12:21 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Minutes of Jan 16, 2015 Meeting Message-ID: <8FC89C463BEF41FEBB3C8A8E597205C9@dell755> EIDXA meeting minutes January 16, 2015 Meeting called to order at 7:30 PM CST by Jason Joens, NR0X 1.. There were 39 hams in attendance 2.. 2014 Annual financial sheet was reported and the January 2015 checking account balance sheet was also shown. 3.. The October 2014 meeting minutes were noted and included in the January 2015 Newsletter. 4.. Three new hams were voted into membership, Willy Robison KC0JFQ, Joe Leto, W0IW and Ed Guzis, W9TW. Congratulations to all. 5.. A spreadsheet of upcoming DXpeditons was shown. There was a short discussion of an effort to activate Bouvet. After some discussion it was decided not to contribute to any of them. 6.. Three members were appointed to the DX committee which is empowered to make recommendations to the group for future contributions. The DX committee includes, Glenn, W0GJ, Joe, K8OM and Rich, W3ACO. 7.. Rich, W3ACO, asked for an audit committee to be formed to review the finances of EIDXA. The audit committee consists of Tom, WB8ZRL, Rick, N0YY and Bob, W0GXA. A meeting time and place will be arranged in the near future by e-mail. 8.. Repeater and Packet report: Tom, WB8ZRL reports both are working fine. 9.. Glenn, W0GJ gave a brief preview of Navassa Dxpedition coming up between Feb 1 and Feb 15. He also gave hints to be successful at capturing K1N for an ATNO. We need to listen ! Frequencies will not be published nor will the Club Log leader board be used. 10.. After a short break, a video of the VK0IR 1997 Dxpedition to Heard Island was shown. The effort of those who participated was remarkable. Rich W3ACO From ww0e at q.com Wed Jan 21 14:49:27 2015 From: ww0e at q.com (Jerry Rappel) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:49:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [EIDXA] The ARRL Library Goes Live! In-Reply-To: <6ABE1EFC-E65C-4BA5-A758-7DFA8364FD64@gmail.com> Message-ID: <487774554.1112965.1421869767910.JavaMail.root@md17.quartz.synacor.com> The ARRL Library Goes Live! http://www.arrl.org/news/the-arrl-library-goes-live __,_._,___ -- Jerry WW?E From rhaendel at q.com Wed Jan 21 18:48:34 2015 From: rhaendel at q.com (Rich Haendel) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:48:34 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Fw: Chesterfield Island 2015 DXpedition Request for Support Message-ID: <1E883546A5734308A04185F8C8F7CC8E@dell755> Hello all, I received this from K6GFJ today. He is soliciting donations. TX3X is not scheduled until October this year. As I showed at our last meeting, TX3X is rated #26 and gets a score of 85 points. Keep this DX pedition in mind for discussion at our next meeting. 73 Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Ross Forbes To: rhaendel at q.com Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:43 PM Subject: Chesterfield Island 2015 DXpedition Request for Support Chesterfield Island will be activated by a team of 12 operators in October, 2015. Preparations for the DX-pedition are progressing very well. We have a team of highly qualified operators who will be on the air 24 hours a day with six stations. Our license application arrived in New Caledonia and is working its way through the licensing authority in France, we requested the call sign TX3X. The team is paying for their own travel and living expenses to and from New Caledonia. Our DX-pedition requires a boat which is our major expense. We charted the working yacht Evohe which has a proven record including trips to Kermadec Islands, Campbell Island and Mellish Reef. Attached is a summary of our planned DX-pedition, we are seeking support from your organization and other l DX foundations and clubs, worldwide. 73, Ross, K6GFJ Member of the Chesterfield DXpedition team From ku0a at mchsi.com Wed Jan 21 20:07:45 2015 From: ku0a at mchsi.com (Nelson Moyer) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:07:45 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] EP6T Message-ID: <011e01d035df$dabc7f70$90357e50$@mchsi.com> I hope we didn't donate to EP6T. They are by EU for EU. NA has 7% of QSOs and most of those are in the 4th call area. Obviously, Rockall hasn't rocked NA. This operation is the poster child for why I object to funding an operation up front unless a clear track record has been established. I don't buy pigs in pokes. I was hoping for a RTTY QSO, but they refuse to operate RTTY on 20 meters between 1430-1600 UTC, which is the only predicted opening on the high bands for zeros. I can't hear them well enough to call on my vertical on 30 or 40 meters. Email to their pilot hasn't altered their pattern. This group certainly isn't a candidate for DX'pedition of the year! Nelson, KU0A From tnvinson1 at gmail.com Thu Jan 22 08:52:11 2015 From: tnvinson1 at gmail.com (Tom Vinson) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:52:11 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] EP6T workable on 14033 up 3 @ 1345z Message-ID: Finally some propagation on the EP. 20m the best right now. NA only. GL/DX Tom, NY0V From tnvinson1 at gmail.com Fri Jan 23 11:19:55 2015 From: tnvinson1 at gmail.com (Tom Vinson) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:19:55 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] EP6T on 18083 up 2 at 1615z Message-ID: Got a decent signal and is workable. Go get 'em EIDXA! 73 Tom/NY0V From eidxa at mailman.qth.net Thu Jan 29 10:28:08 2015 From: eidxa at mailman.qth.net (Jonathan via EIDXA) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:28:08 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [EIDXA] W0XO SK Message-ID: <1786567000.1501809.1422545288146.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Good morning,?My grandfather, Leslie V. Johnson passed away on Aug 22, 2014 peacefully. I mention this here because a google search yielded a post mentioning his death. At 98 he had lived a full live and had no qualms about powering down by then. He worked for Collins Radio for 40 years and received a Bird Wattmeter and watch with a plaque as a commemorative gift. Grandpa Johnson, as I call him, was meticulous in his notes, and fortunately some of those copious jottings were preserved for posterity. He was on the air with me just weeks before his death; we had a sked on 40M for the last few years that we kept sporadically between St. Paul or Buffalo, MN and his Sharwood Dr. NE QTH in Cedar Rapids. Grandpa ran a 45' sloper into a tree tuned with a homebrew pi tuner from a TS450S Grandma bought him upon his retirement from Collins. (He never could afford a Collins radio, but many of his homebrew projects include Collins parts from their surplus sales.) Les was a very self-effacing man, even asking me to take down his QRZ.com information and photo I had been carefully curating. Now my house is full of his homebrew creations, a simple hollowstate QRP transmitter and regen receiver, and a dozen or more keys of all sizes and shapes. I also was bequeathed his callsign, which I use remembering that he was a real ham. I will always try to reach his level of organic knowledge of radio electronics, but will always be an "appliance assembler and modifier" in comparison.?He also encouraged me and my mother to follow in the hobby, she is KB0LOK now living in Borlange, Sweden, and I am W0XO (formerly KC7FYS, 7J1AWL, XV2OC) living in St. Paul, MN. Thank you for mentioning him on this list. Grandpa generally eschewed associations with local hams in his last decades, but he was constantly monitoring and knew of many of you as his radio brethren.?Very best 73,?Jonathan Haynes? From rhaendel at q.com Thu Jan 29 17:06:55 2015 From: rhaendel at q.com (Rich Haendel) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:06:55 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] re Bouvet Message-ID: <1726F3A70AE849318E4AFE3EEA6A2CCB@dell755> I got a note from Mark, ON4WW re his single op DX pedition to Bouvet. He has 130K euros, about 1/2 the needed amount to proceed. He is delaying his decision but it appears he will not go. EIDXA has not pledged nor contributed to 3Y0. 73 Rich W3ACO From eidxa at mailman.qth.net Sat Jan 31 07:34:42 2015 From: eidxa at mailman.qth.net (Bob Lee via EIDXA) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 07:34:42 -0500 Subject: [EIDXA] K1N Message-ID: <8D20B696C5B3624-C1C-5B14@webmail-vm056.sysops.aol.com> Posted at DX World at 6AM... NAVASSA NEWS FLASH II ? Team member W6IZT says: ""Let the adventure begin! Helicopter trips to Navassa start in a few hours. Weather looks good!"" Bob Lee W0GXA "CW forever" From eidxa at mailman.qth.net Sat Jan 31 16:37:21 2015 From: eidxa at mailman.qth.net (Bob Lee via EIDXA) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:37:21 -0500 Subject: [EIDXA] Fwd: [cwops] K1N Navassa Update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D20BB53AA2F01E-18A4-79B1@webmail-m231.sysops.aol.com> From the CWops reflector... Bob Lee W0GXA "CW forever" -----Original Message----- From: John Miller webaron at gmail.com [cwops] To: NCDXC Discussion List ; MLDXCC ; redxa1 ; NCCC Main Reflector ; PAARA board ; cwops Sent: Sat, Jan 31, 2015 3:11 pm Subject: [cwops] K1N Navassa Update Greetings from Jamaica, Don't believe those K1N cluster spots......all pirates. First 3 operators just landed on Navassa. I'm scheduled to fly over tomorrow. We should have 1-2 stations on by tomorrow night. 4-6 by Monday night hopefully. We're getting there. Keep checking navassadx.com. Click on NEWS for latest updates. 73 John, K6MM __._,_.___ Posted by: John Miller Reply via web post ? Reply to sender ? Reply to group ? Start a New Topic ? Messages in this topic (1) VISIT YOUR GROUP New Members 3 ? Privacy ? Unsubscribe ? Terms of Use . __,_._,___ From rhaendel at q.com Sat Jan 31 18:29:23 2015 From: rhaendel at q.com (Rich Haendel) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:29:23 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no Message-ID: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> The Chiltern DX club (England) has a nice article in the January 2015 issue, about whether the ClubLog leader board feature is turned off for a DXpedition improves the percentage of uniques or not. Analysis was done for about 30 recent DXpeditions having both leader board turned off for some and on for others. Conclusion, it has no statistical impact ! There seems to be many other factors that influence percentage of uniques. 73 Rich W3ACO From eidxa at mailman.qth.net Sat Jan 31 19:00:28 2015 From: eidxa at mailman.qth.net (Bob W0GXA via EIDXA) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:00:28 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no In-Reply-To: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> References: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> Message-ID: Hunting band slots. A disease that hasn't struck me yet. Maybe when I retire. Bob > On Jan 31, 2015, at 17:29, Rich Haendel wrote: > > The Chiltern DX club (England) has a nice article in the January 2015 issue, about whether the ClubLog leader board feature is turned off for a DXpedition improves the percentage of uniques or not. Analysis was done for about 30 recent DXpeditions having both leader board turned off for some and on for others. Conclusion, it has no statistical impact ! There seems to be many other factors that influence percentage of uniques. > > 73 Rich W3ACO > ______________________________________________________________ > EIDXA mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/eidxa > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:EIDXA at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From jhetrick at bitjanitor.net Sat Jan 31 19:19:46 2015 From: jhetrick at bitjanitor.net (Joe Hetrick) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:19:46 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no In-Reply-To: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> References: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> Message-ID: <20150201001946.GQ4789@frodo.bitjanitor.net> Actually there were 69 DXPeds sampled and only *3* of them had LB turned off. I don't think that's a good enough number given the spreads for uniqs they showed in the plots. Additionally, I think a missing component are uniqs/ATNO across time: meaning, a very long dxpedition, I would guess, would have a different distribution of dupes/uniqs/non-atno as the DXPed goes on. I think understanding that distribution would be critical to understanding how you get more uniqs and ATNO in the log as quickly as possible with various changes in operating/online scoring/leaderboards whatever. Why I think this is important is that for a short dxpedition, or, more critically, for a truncated dxpedition (as has happend in the past year with VK9MT), the important number would be the number of ATNO in the first several days of the DXped. I would expect that there are fewer uniqs the longer a DXPed is on the air, which changes the picture over a suitcase trip that was QRV for 72 hours before the sea lions moved in and ate their rations/K3's. I would still theorize that hunting for leaderboard stats would also be at a high during the first parts of the DXped, which would be in competition with ATNO/Uniqs (all of us new guys are still trying to get in the log since we weren't QRV in the 90's when a lot of these places were last activated..). The shorter the dxped, the less time to get on the LB, and the less time to get an ATNO. *Their* conclusion is that it has no statistical impact, but, I think their data needs to have more points to really draw a valid conclusion. There seem to be strong feelings from some sections of CDXC that appear to like the concept of the LB, because the column by Nigel (In the DX Window), G3TXF, makes the case that K1N should consider turning LB on. Nothing wrong with the competition of the LB, but, I think that a more interesting LB may be one that takes into account log submissions that contain all activations of a DXEntity--that would give the big guns their limelight, especially if dupes across activations resulted in penalty to their LB score. 73, VKN On 31 Jan 17:29, Rich Haendel wrote: > The Chiltern DX club (England) has a nice article in the January > 2015 issue, about whether the ClubLog leader board feature is turned > off for a DXpedition improves the percentage of uniques or not. > Analysis was done for about 30 recent DXpeditions having both leader > board turned off for some and on for others. Conclusion, it has no > statistical impact ! There seems to be many other factors that > influence percentage of uniques. > > 73 Rich W3ACO > > ______________________________________________________________ > EIDXA mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/eidxa > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:EIDXA at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Joe Hetrick perl -e 'print pack(h*,a6865647279636b604269647a616e69647f627e2e65647a0)' BOFH Excuse: It must have been the lightning storm we had (yesterday) (last week) (last month) From ku0a at mchsi.com Sat Jan 31 20:22:44 2015 From: ku0a at mchsi.com (Nelson Moyer) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:22:44 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no In-Reply-To: References: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> Message-ID: <002001d03dbd$990c7c70$cb257550$@mchsi.com> Bob, if you ever thing that you might want to turn in band slots for the Challenge Award, don't wait until retirement to start. Some of those band slots won't be around again for many years due to the solar cycle and world political intrigue. I started working band slots before the Challenge came along, so when it arrived, I had a big head start. I'm still missing around 20 entities on 10 and 12 meters (need DXpeditions to those during solar maxima), but I've worked down to less than 10 entities needed on 15/17/20 meters. P5 is the only one I haven't worked on 20 meter, confirming the conventional wisdom that 20 meters is the best DX band if you have to choose only one band. I'm near 300 on 30 and 40, a little over 200 on 80, and a little over 100 on 160. 6 meter is the killer for us in Iowa, and I only have 29 there. So go ahead and work what you can hear now, because you may never get another chance. Nelson, KU0A -----Original Message----- From: EIDXA [mailto:eidxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob W0GXA via EIDXA Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:00 PM To: Rich Haendel Cc: EIDXA Subject: Re: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no Hunting band slots. A disease that hasn't struck me yet. Maybe when I retire. Bob > On Jan 31, 2015, at 17:29, Rich Haendel wrote: > > The Chiltern DX club (England) has a nice article in the January 2015 issue, about whether the ClubLog leader board feature is turned off for a DXpedition improves the percentage of uniques or not. Analysis was done for about 30 recent DXpeditions having both leader board turned off for some and on for others. Conclusion, it has no statistical impact ! There seems to be many other factors that influence percentage of uniques. > > 73 Rich W3ACO > ______________________________________________________________ > EIDXA mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/eidxa > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:EIDXA at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ EIDXA mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/eidxa Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:EIDXA at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From jlscr at mchsi.com Sat Jan 31 22:38:15 2015 From: jlscr at mchsi.com (Jim Spencer) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:38:15 -0600 Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no Message-ID: <310F279F28DE4EC185984DB52E3D9F4A@JimHP> Interesting comments. It seems to depend on a number of factors. Without any supporting data I believe that any encouragement of making a large number of band and mode contacts hurts the chances of poorer equipped stations trying for ATNO's or additional band/mode contacts. The exception would be a very well equipped DXpedition with a smart strategy and good operators along with a long time frame and great propagation. If they are begging for contacts all the time on all the bands, they have saturated the market! EP6T might be an example of the mirror image situation! I know I had great expectation for that operation having EP confirmed on just 20 and 15. They were on all of the bands but I just couldn't hear them and others report the same. I could have worked them on 20 but have that on both modes. I tried to work them on 17 where I heard them twice with weak signals--no luck. I sure didn't blame my poor showing on the Leader Board--being in the Midwest probably had the most to do with it or my own poor station or operating techniques. Poor in that they didn't get the job done. People on both coasts had a dozen or more slots filled. I'm not aware of anyone in Iowa doing that but a station like NR0X or N0NI would have had the best chance. Like I always say, if you don't like the US politics, move to another country. If you don't like the Midwest propagation, move to a coast! A cheaper alternative is to bitch! 73, Jim W0SR -----Original Message----- From: Rich Haendel Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 5:29 PM To: EIDXA Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no The Chiltern DX club (England) has a nice article in the January 2015 issue, about whether the ClubLog leader board feature is turned off for a DXpedition improves the percentage of uniques or not. Analysis was done for about 30 recent DXpeditions having both leader board turned off for some and on for others. Conclusion, it has no statistical impact ! There seems to be many other factors that influence percentage of uniques. 73 Rich W3ACO ______________________________________________________________ EIDXA mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/eidxa Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:EIDXA at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From Jim at FarmPond.net Sat Jan 31 19:59:23 2015 From: Jim at FarmPond.net (Jim) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:59:23 -0000 Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no In-Reply-To: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> References: <2F83A346424B45E6A2B2287DA808F994@dell755> Message-ID: <75B6E94E47E6434EAFD1155616E2361A@JimHP> Interesting comments. It seems to depend on a number of factors. Without any supporting data I believe that any encouragement of making a large number of band and mode contacts hurts the chances of poorer equipped stations trying for ATNO's or additional band/mode contacts. The exception would be a very well equipped DXpedition with a smart strategy and good operators along with a long time frame and great propagation. If they are begging for contacts all the time on all the bands, they have saturated the market! EP6T might be an example of the mirror image situation! I know I had great expectation for that operation having EP confirmed on just 20 and 15. They were on all of the bands but I just couldn't hear them and others report the same. I could have worked them on 20 but have that on both modes. I tried to work them on 17 where I heard them twice with weak signals--no luck. I sure didn't blame my poor showing on the Leader Board--being in the Midwest probably had the most to do with it or my own poor station or operating techniques. Poor in that they didn't get the job done. People on both coasts had a dozen or more slots filled. I'm not aware of anyone in Iowa doing that but a station like NR0X or N0NI would have had the best chance. Like I always say, if you don't like the US politics, move to another country. If you don't like the Midwest propagation, move to a coast! A cheaper alternative is to bitch! 73, Jim W0SR -----Original Message----- From: Rich Haendel Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 5:29 PM To: EIDXA Subject: [EIDXA] Clublog Leader board yes or no The Chiltern DX club (England) has a nice article in the January 2015 issue, about whether the ClubLog leader board feature is turned off for a DXpedition improves the percentage of uniques or not. Analysis was done for about 30 recent DXpeditions having both leader board turned off for some and on for others. Conclusion, it has no statistical impact ! There seems to be many other factors that influence percentage of uniques. 73 Rich W3ACO ______________________________________________________________ EIDXA mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/eidxa Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:EIDXA at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html