From n1ea at arrl.net  Sat Aug  4 00:19:29 2007
From: n1ea at arrl.net (David Ring)
Date: Sat Aug  4 00:29:31 2007
Subject: [Fists] Important Update - RAC response IMPORTANT
Message-ID: <b7e6a3ef0708032119h3d63ec25j871ddd133b3c45ec@mail.gmail.com>

I don't know if Dick Singer, K6KSG has posted this to the FISTS
reflector - but because it is so important, I am doing so.

73

David Ring, N1EA


----- Original Message -----
From: RAC HFBPC


Dick de Jim VE1JF (member, RAC HF Band Planning Committee)--

We agree; note the second paragraph of our introduction to the plan:
http://www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.pdf

Our RAC President and VP-International will shortly be attending a
Region 2 Band Planning meeting; they will be presenting and supporting
a strong position paper from us requesting that Region 2 reverse this
position, which compresses both CW and digital. We hope our position
will receive broad support from other Region 2 IARU members.

Please feel free to share this information with others who may be
interested. It appears from at least some of the comments we are
receiving that this item is being disseminated as originated by us;
the actual advocates of below-3600 voice are outside Canada.

73,

Jim, VE1JF

On 8/3/07, Dick Singer/K6KSG <k6ksg@howard-co.us wrote:

Sirs;

Please reconsider your proposal for increasing the use of voice (SSB)
operations below 3.6 MHz in the 80 meter CW band.

We amateur operators in the U. S. use these frequencies for CW traffic
nets and general communications.

The added interference that would occur would be very difficult to
operate CW and pass traffic as well as for general CW communications.

Please reconsider.

Thank You,

Richard Singer/K6KSG
From n1ea at arrl.net  Sat Aug  4 03:45:03 2007
From: n1ea at arrl.net (David Ring)
Date: Sat Aug  4 03:54:45 2007
Subject: [Fists] K1ZZ: Voice below 3.6 MHz
Message-ID: <b7e6a3ef0708040045xffaa1c8t620a8917b6a6c8fa@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sumner, Dave,  K1ZZ <dsumner@arrl.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2007 1:47 AM
Subject: RE: Voice below 3.6 MHz
To: David Ring <n1ea@arrl.net>
Cc: Dick <k6ksg@howard-co.us>





David, I haven't seen any other references to whatever is on the FISTS
reflector -- unfortunately it has been a source of misinformation in
the past, as admirable as the club's objectives and many of its
activities are.

The current Region 2 band plan is here:

http://www.iaru-regionii.org/Region_2_HF_Band_Plan.html

I imagine it will be reviewed at the conference in Brasilia next month.

73,
Dave Sumner, K1ZZ

 ________________________________
 From: djringjr@gmail.com on behalf of David Ring
Sent: Sat 8/4/2007 5:15 AM
To: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ
Cc: Dick
Subject: Re: Voice below 3.6 MHz




Dave,

I thought you might need to see this.

Dick Singer received this email and sent it to me and others in SOWP
- I thought it would be important to send you a copy of this.  I
believe the wrong info was passed via FISTS reflector and I've already
sent this email to the FISTS reflector and to Nancy (I don't know if
it originated with her as I don't receive mail from that reflector but
I have posting rights).

If sending this on to QST editors - strip my comment to you from the
forward - and perhaps Dick Singer's call - the important part is the
information from RAC itself.

73

David Ring, N1EA

On 8/3/07, David Ring <n1ea@arrl.net wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: RAC HFBPC To: Dick Singer/K6KSG
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Voice below 3.6 MHz

Dick de Jim VE1JF (member, RAC HF Band Planning Committee)--

We agree; note the second paragraph of our introduction to the plan:
http://www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.pdf

Our RAC President and VP-International will shortly be attending a
Region 2 Band Planning meeting; they will be presenting and supporting
a strong position paper from us requesting that Region 2 reverse this
position, which compresses both CW and digital. We hope our position
will receive broad support from other Region 2 IARU members.

Please feel free to share this information with others who may be
interested. It appears from at least some of the comments we are
receiving that this item is being disseminated as originated by us;
the actual advocates of below-3600 voice are outside Canada.

73,

Jim, VE1JF

On 8/3/07, Dick Singer/K6KSG <k6ksg@howard-co.us wrote:

Sirs;

Please reconsider your proposal for increasing the use of voice (SSB)
operations below 3.6 MHz in the 80 meter CW band.

We amateur operators in the U. S. use these frequencies for CW traffic
nets and general communications.

The added interference that would occur would be very difficult to
operate CW and pass traffic as well as for general CW communications.

Please reconsider.

Thank You,

Richard Singer/K6KSG
From n1ea at arrl.net  Sat Aug  4 13:46:55 2007
From: n1ea at arrl.net (David Ring)
Date: Sat Aug  4 13:56:53 2007
Subject: [Fists] RAC Bandplan
Message-ID: <b7e6a3ef0708041046x4038b9d1nf96f354dc1822613@mail.gmail.com>

Since RAC.ca web site has been overloaded for a few days now, many
haven't been able to get the bandplan.

I figured out a way to do it - the google search engine cache:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:OFBtYtr5iWsJ:www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.pdf+http://www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.pdf&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera


This is the html version of the file
http://www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.pdf.

 G o o g l e automatically generates html versions of documents as we
crawl the web. To link to or bookmark this page, use the following
url: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:OFBtYtr5iWsJ:www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.pdf+http://www.rac.ca/service/RAC_Draft_HF_Band_PlanR1.
pdf&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera


Page 1

RAC Draft HF Band Plan (July 8, 2007) The RAC HF Band Planning
Committee has prepared a draft document covering the bands 160m to
10m. This plan has been fashioned using the IARU Regional plans as a
model wherever possible. The previous RAC HF Band Plan had not been
revised for some time. The recent changes in band allocations by the
United States Federal Communications Commission and changes in IARU
Region 1 allocations have necessitated changes in the Canadian plan.
This draft document is being made available to the Amateur Radio
operators of Canada and also to the members of the IARU Region 2 HF
Band Planning Committee. No plan can remain static as International
regulations and technology advances. At this time the IARU Region 2 HF
BP Committee is also revising their plan. Since Canada is in region 2,
our plan must be congruent with the overall plan for North and South
America. This Canadian plan uses some of the information from an early
Region 2 draft but will have to be updated when the final version of
the Region 2 plan is released. It is also hoped that some of the ideas
generated by the Canadian committee might be useful to the Region 2
committee. On 80 metres, the use of phone below 3.600 MHz, as it is
being contemplated in Region 2, is included provisionally in the
Canadian plan despite strong reservations by the Committee that it
conflicts with expected growth in usage of digital modes. The
Committee has submitted a position paper asking for possible Region 2
reconsideration of this move. It is anticipated that major revisions
to the 40m plan may be necessary when Short Wave Broadcasting is
eliminated worldwide from the band 7.100 to 7.200 MHz. There are some
unique features of the Canadian plan that need special attention. On
40 metres a phone DX window has been specified, something that the
committee researched and has included as a first. On 80 metres, in
consideration of the major expansion of phone frequencies, special
attention has been given to the phone DX window, expanding it to 3.775
to 3.800 MHz from two hours before dusk until two hours after dawn,
local time. As well as specifying Emergency frequencies and DX
windows, activity centres for IOTA operations, QRP Operation, AM phone
and others, the plan includes very narrow band digital frequency bands
within existing digital assignments. Your comments and suggestions are
valuable in helping the HF Band Planning Committee to make this
document a useful tool for Canadian operators. Please send them to the
following e-mail address: rac.hfbpc.poll@gmail.comPage 2

DRAFT 160m BAND PLAN
(Mar. 23, 2007)
1800 - 1810 CW, Narrow band digital (Notes 1)
1810 - 1840 CW (Notes 1 & 2)
1840 - 1999 CW, Phone (Notes 3 & 4)
1999 - 2000 Beacons

NOTES:
1 - 1800 - 1840 CW may be used anywhere in the band but is normally
used only up to 1840MHz
2 - 1830 - 1835 DX Window
3 - 1905 - 1915 JA CW DX Listening Window
4 - 1850 - 1999 Includes AM and SSTV modes In addition, the following
"Centres of Activity" are recognized:
1810 QRP CW Centre of Activity 1900 QRP SSB Centre of Activity GENERAL
NOTES: ? Where Notes are shown, these activities have priority over
other activities. ? During major weekend Contest activities, activity
in certain modes can spill over into other segments. ? Sideband Usage
Below 10MHz use lower sideband (LSB) ? Phone modes should not operate
closer than 3000Hz to the lower band edge. ? Narrow band digital
modes: All modes using up to 500Hz bandwidth.

Page 3

DRAFT 80m BAND PLAN Rev. 7
(June 26, 2007)
3500 - 3525 CW (Note 1)
3525 - 3570 CW, Phone (Note 2)
3570 - 3580 CW, Phone, Narrow band digital (Note 2)
3580 - 3600 CW, Phone, Wide band, Narrow band digital (Notes 2, 3 & 4)
3600 - 3840 CW, Phone (Notes 5 & 6)
3840 - 3850 CW, Phone, SSTV, FAX
3850 - 4000 CW, Phone NOTES:
1 -
3500 - 3510 DX CW window common to all IARU regions
2 -
3525 - 3600 Intercontinental Phone permitted on a non-interference basis only.
3 -
3580 - 3583 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital
4 -
3590 RTTY DX
5 -
3760 Emergency Centre
6 -
3790 ? 3800 Phone DX Window, expands to 3775-3800 from 2 hours before
dusk until 2 hours after dawn local time In addition, the following
"Centres of Activity" are recognized:
3530 IOTA CW Centre of Activity
3555 QRS CW Centre of Activity
3560 QRP CW Centre of Activity in IARU Regions 1 and 2, 3530 MHz in Australia
3690 QRP SSB Centre of Activity
3735 Image Centre of Activity
3755 IOTA SSB of Activity
3885 AM Phone Centre of Activity
3985 QRP SSB Centre of Activity GENERAL NOTES: ? Where Notes are
shown, these activities have priority over other activities. ? During
major weekend Contest activities, activity in certain modes can spill
over into other segments. ? Sideband Usage Below 10MHz use lower
sideband (LSB) ? Phone modes should not operate closer than 3000Hz to
the lower band edge. ? Wide band digital refers to any digital mode
using more than 500Hz bandwidth. ? Narrow band digital modes: All
modes using up to 500Hz bandwidth. ? Image modes: Any analogue or
digital image using bandwidth up to 2700Hz.Page 4

DRAFT 40m BAND PLAN Rev. 4
(Mar. 19, 2007)
7000 - 7035 CW (Note 1)
7035 - 7040 CW, Narrow Band Digital with other Regions (Note 2)
7040 - 7050 CW, Phone, Narrow Band Digital with other Regions
7050 - 7080 CW, Phone (Notes 3 and 4)
7080 - 7125 CW, Phone, Narrow Band digital (Note 4)
7125 - 7165 CW, Phone
7165 - 7175 CW, Phone, SSTV, FAX
7175 - 7300 CW, Phone (Notes 5 and 6) Notes
1 -
7000 - 7025 DX CW Window common to all IARU regions
2 -
7035 - 7038 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital
3 -
7060 SSB Emergency Centre 1
4-
7065 ? 7090 SSB DX Window
5 -
7240 SSB Emergency Centre 2
6 -
7295 SSB Emergency Centre 3 In addition, the following "Centres of
Activity" are recognized:
7030 QRP and IOTA CW Centre of Activity
7043 Image Centre of Activity 1
7055 IOTA SSB Centre of Activity 1
7090 SSB QRP Centre of Activity 1
7165 Image Centre of Activity 2
7255 IOTA SSB Centre of Activity 2
7285 SSB QRP Centre of Activity 2
7290 AM Centre of Activity GENERAL NOTES: a) Where Notes are shown,
these activities have priority over other activities. b) During major
weekend Contest activities, activity in certain modes can spill over
into other segments. c) Sideband Usage Below 10MHz use lower sideband
(LSB) d) Phone modes should not operate closer than 3000Hz to the
lower band edge. e) Wide band digital refers to any digital mode using
more than 500Hz bandwidth. f) Narrow band digital modes: All modes
using up to 500Hz bandwidth. g) Image modes: Any analogue or digital
image using bandwidth up to 2700Hz.Page 5

DRAFT 30m BAND PLAN
(Mar. 23, 2007)
10100-10130 CW
10130-10140 CW, Narrow band digital
10140-10150 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital Note:
1 -
10142 - 10145 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital In addition, the
following "Centres of Activity" are recognized:
10115 IOTA CW Centre of Activity
10116 CW QRP Centre of Activity GENERAL NOTES: ? Where Notes are
shown, these activities have priority over other activities. ? Wide
band digital refers to any digital mode using more than 500Hz
bandwidth. ? Narrow band digital modes: All modes using up to 500Hz
bandwidth.Page 6

DRAFT 20m BAND PLAN Rev 1 (Mar. 23, 2007)
14000 - 14070 CW
14070 - 14080 CW, Narrow band digital (Note 1)
14080 - 14090 CW, Narrow Band digital
14090 - 14099.5 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
14099.5 - 14100.5 Beacons
14100.5 - 14112 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
14112 - 14350 CW, Phone (Notes 2 & 3)
14225 - 14235 CW, Phone, SSTV, FAX Notes:
1 -
14070 - 14073 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital
2 -
14190 - 14200 SSB DXpedition priority
3 -
14300 Global Emergency Centre In addition, the following "Centres of
Activity" are recognized:
14040 IOTA CW
14055 CW QRS Centre of Activity
14060 CW QRP Centre of Activity
14140 Canadian Cross-country SSB Centre of Activity
14260 IOTA SSB
14285 SSB QRP Centre
14300 Global Emergency Centre GENERAL NOTES: ? Where Notes are shown,
these activities have priority over other activities. ? During major
weekend Contest activities, activity in certain modes can spill over
into other segments. ? Phone modes should not operate closer than
3000Hz to the upper band edge. ? Wide band digital refers to any
digital mode using more than 500Hz bandwidth. ? Narrow band digital
modes: All modes using up to 500Hz bandwidth. ? Image modes: Any
analogue or digital image using bandwidth up to 2700Hz.Page 7

DRAFT 17m BAND PLAN
(Mar. 23, 2007)
18068-18095 CW
18095-18100 CW, Narrow band and Wide band diigtal
18100-18109.5 CW, Narrow band digital (Note 1)
18109.5-18110.5 Beacons
18110.5-18168 CW, Phone (Note 2) Notes:
1- 18100-18103 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital
2-
18160 Global Emergency Center In addition, the following "Centres of
Activity" are recognized:
18086 CW QRP center
18098 IOTA CW
18128 IOTA SSB
18130 SSB QRP Center GENERAL NOTES: ? Phone modes should not operate
closer than 3000Hz to the upper band edge. ? Wide band digital refers
to any digital mode using more than 500Hz bandwidth. ? Narrow band
digital modes: All modes using up to 500Hz bandwidth.Page 8

DRAFT 15m BAND PLAN
(July 8, 2007)
21000-21070 CW
21070-21080 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital (Note 1)
21080-21095 CW, Narrow band digital
21095-21149.5 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
21149.5-21150.5 Beacons
21150.5-21450 CW, Phone, SSTV, FAX (Note 2) Notes:
1 - 21070 ? 21073 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital
2 -
21360 Global Emergency Center In addition, the following "Centres of
Activity" are recognized:
21040 IOTA CW Center of Activity
21055 CW QRS Center of Activity
21060 CW QRP Center of Activity
21260 IOTA SSB Center of Activity
21285 SSB QRP Center of Activity
21340 Image Center of Activity center
21385 SSB QRP Center of Activity GENERAL NOTES: ? Where Notes are
shown, these activities have priority over other activities. ? During
major weekend Contest activities, activity in certain modes can spill
over into other segments. ? Phone modes should not operate closer than
3000Hz to the upper band edge. ? Wide band digital refers to any
digital mode using more than 500Hz bandwidth. ? Narrow band digital
modes: All modes using up to 500Hz bandwidth. ? Image modes: Any
analogue or digital image using bandwidth up to 2700Hz.Page 9

DRAFT 12m BAND PLAN
(Mar. 23, 2007)
24890-24920 CW
24915-24920 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
24920-24925 CW, Narrow band digital (Note 1)
24925-24929.5 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
24929.5-24930.5 Beacons
24930.5-24990 CW, Phone Note:
1 -
24920-24923 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital In addition, the following
"Centres of Activity" are recognized:
24906 CW QRP center
24920 IOTA CW
24950 IOTA SSB
24950 SSB QRP center GENERAL NOTES: ? Where Notes are shown, these
activities have priority over other activities. ? Phone modes should
not operate closer than 3000Hz to the upper band edge. ? Wide band
digital refers to any digital mode using more than 500Hz bandwidth. ?
Narrow band digital modes: All modes using up to 500Hz bandwidth.Page
10

DRAFT 10m BAND PLAN
(Mar 23, 2007)
28000-28070 CW
28070-28080 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
28080-28120 CW, Narrow band digital
28120-28189.5 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital (Note 1)
28199.5-28200.5 Beacons
28200.5-29300 CW, Phone (Notes 2, 3 & 4)
28300-28320 CW, Narrow band and Wide band digital
29300-29510 Satellites
29520-29590 FM repeater inputs
29600 FM simplex
29620-29690 FM repeater outputs Notes:
1 -
28120-28123 PSK-31 Very Narrow Band Digital
2 -
28670-28690 SSTV, FAX
3 -
29000-29200 AM
4 -
29200-29300 Narrow band and Wide band digital In addition, the
following "Centres of Activity" are recognized:
28040 IOTA CW Centre of Activity
28055 CW QRS Centre of Activity
28060 CW QRP Centre of Activity
28385 QRP SSB Centre of Activity
28460 IOTA SSB Centre of Activity 1
28560 IOTA SSB Centre of Activity 2
28680 Image Centre of Activity GENERAL NOTES: ? Where Notes are shown,
these activities have priority over other activities. ? During major
weekend Contest activities, activity in certain modes can spill over
into other segments. ? SSB and AM Phone modes should not operate
closer than 3000Hz to an upper band edge. ? FM Bandwidth is not to
exceed 6000Hz. ? Wide band digital refers to any digital mode using
more than 500Hz bandwidth. ? Narrow band digital modes: All modes
using up to 500Hz bandwidth. ? Image modes: Any analogue or digital
image using bandwidth up to 2700Hz.
From Makos327 at worldnet.att.net  Sat Aug  4 21:44:26 2007
From: Makos327 at worldnet.att.net (Larry Makoski)
Date: Sat Aug  4 21:53:58 2007
Subject: [Fists] Special milliWatt RFTB
Message-ID: <46B52B7A.8030605@worldnet.att.net>

Are you chained to your "QRP KiloWatt"?  Have you ever wanted to try 
milliWatting but were afraid that it might be too hard, or perhaps too 
frustrating; or just plain futile?  This Sunday evening the Flying Pigs 
Amateur Radio Club International will be holding a special milliWatt Run 
For The Bacon!  This is your chance to see just exactly what less than a 
Watt can do!    This challenging, and perhaps eye opening, two hour QRP 
CW Sprint, which is open to ALL radio amateurs, will last from 9:00 - 
11:00PM EDT (0100-0300 UTC Monday).

It will work EXACTLY like a normal RFTB with one important exception - 
you MUST run less that 1 Watt of power!

You may work stations once per band on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 or 10 
Meters.  Suggested starting frequencies are 1.812, 3.562, 7.044, 14.062, 
21.062, and 28.062 MHz.

The exchange is RST, S/P/C (State, Province, Country) and Flying Pigs 
membership number.  If you're not a member of the Flying Pigs, and would 
like to be; then please click on the "membership" hyperlink on 
.http://www.gentzow.com/fpqrp/  Otherwise, non-members can just use 
their output power figure.

You can report your score via the Autolog page which can be found at : 
http://gentzow.com/fpqrp/autolog.asp
or you can mail your logs to the address given on the Autolog page.  The 
deadline for logs is August 12th at 2400 UTC.

Hope to catch you on the air Sunday evening - who will be named the "Top 
Piglet of the Sty"?

-- 
73 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!

http://www.w2lj.qrpradio.com
http://w2lj.blogspot.com/

From stank4uk at rev.net  Tue Aug  7 16:54:09 2007
From: stank4uk at rev.net (Stan Reas)
Date: Tue Aug  7 17:11:29 2007
Subject: [Fists] K4UK Trip to Alberta
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20070807204635.00bdf898@pop.rev.net>

Fellow FISTS members:

My wife and I will be leaving Wednesday afternoon to drive to Reston, VA and spend the 
night with our son.

Thursday morning we will leave Dulles and fly to Calgary, Alberta by way of Toronto.

We will rent a car and visit friends in Olds and Grand Prairie, Alberta and see the sights.
 
We leave Calgary on the 16th and return to Dulles by way of Ottawa. We'll spend that 
night again with our son.

Then we'll drive home on Friday, August 17.

I will take the Elecraft KX1 with me and see what I can work from VE6-land. Might even get 
into VE7-land during our sightseeing.  I will operate on 40, 30, 20 Meters with the KX1

For you folks who are participating in the WARC Band Challenge, I will operating from some 
relatively "rare" grid squares. - Hi !

Incoming mail for the FISTS QSL Bureau will be held at the Moneta Post Office until our 
return and no revisions to the Bureau web site will occur until after I return and have a 
chance to open all the mail.

Keep cool.

73, Stan - K4UK



From fistsc2c at yahoo.com  Tue Aug  7 21:37:43 2007
From: fistsc2c at yahoo.com (Paul Beringer)
Date: Wed Aug  8 10:05:46 2007
Subject: [Fists] Coast to Coast contest announcement
Message-ID: <JDEAIJKJLAPNIGOKCKIDOEDPCKAA.fistsc2c@yahoo.com>

Hello again all FISTS,

I am pleased to announce the 2007 version of the C2C. This year we will hold
the event on Saturday September 29th for 24 hours beginning at 1700Z. That's
10am Pacific, 11am Mountain, 12pm Central and 1pm Eastern. The rules are the
same for individual fists members but there are changes in the scoring for
clubs. Please review the rules at http://www.fists.org/c2c.html In a
nutshell, clubs will no longer work other clubs. Remember, this is an event
to benefit fists members in obtaining 3 point qsos and it is toward that
goal that the rules have been changed. Besides, the club scoring was just
too confusing. Please do take a few minutes to review the club scoring and I
think you'll agree that they make more sense and will ultimately benefit the
members.

I have given a lot of thought to another issue. In the past, we have
encouraged clubs to register with the C2C manager (me) so that a roster of
clubs could be viewed at the C2C web site. #1, it doesn't appear that we
will have an official web site this year and #2, it got to be more work than
it was worth. Clubs on the air will be obvious by their calling "CQ C2C".
Just show up on the air and pound brass as fast as you can!

Please submit your logs within 30 days to me, preferably in text as an
attachment to an e-mail. Please do not send a paper log if you send an
e-mail log. Be sure to include the following information. Date, time, band,
callsign and exchange received in space delimited format. Cabrillo would be
even better as it is the defacto log protocol in most contests. The winners
will be announced sometime in late winter or early spring.

Hope to hear many of you on the air in late September.

73 Paul NG7Z (W7MRC in the C2C)
Coast to Coast manager
fistsc2c@yahoo.com
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From fistsc2c at yahoo.com  Wed Aug  8 23:36:08 2007
From: fistsc2c at yahoo.com (Paul Beringer)
Date: Wed Aug  8 23:45:37 2007
Subject: [Fists] Coast to Coast contest announcement
Message-ID: <JDEAIJKJLAPNIGOKCKIDMEEDCKAA.fistsc2c@yahoo.com>

Hello again all FISTS,

I am pleased to announce the 2007 version of the C2C. This year we will hold
the event on Saturday September 29th for 24 hours beginning at 1700Z. That's
10am Pacific, 11am Mountain, 12pm Central and 1pm Eastern. The rules are the
same for individual fists members but there are changes in the scoring for
clubs. Please review the rules at http://www.fists.org/c2c.html In a
nutshell, clubs will no longer work other clubs. Remember, this is an event
to benefit fists members in obtaining 3 point qsos and it is toward that
goal that the rules have been changed. Besides, the club scoring was just
too confusing. Please do take a few minutes to review the club scoring and I
think you'll agree that they make more sense and will ultimately benefit the
members.

I have given a lot of thought to another issue. In the past, we have
encouraged clubs to register with the C2C manager (me) so that a roster of
clubs could be viewed at the C2C web site. #1, it doesn't appear that we
will have an official web site this year and #2, it got to be more work than
it was worth. Clubs on the air will be obvious by their calling "CQ C2C".
Just show up on the air and pound brass as fast as you can!

Please submit your logs within 30 days to me, preferably in text as an
attachment to an e-mail. Please do not send a paper log if you send an
e-mail log. Be sure to include the following information. Date, time, band,
callsign and exchange received in space delimited format. Cabrillo would be
even better as it is the defacto log protocol in most contests. The winners
will be announced sometime in late winter or early spring.

Hope to hear many of you on the air in late September.

73 Paul NG7Z (W7MRC in the C2C)
Coast to Coast manager
fistsc2c@yahoo.com
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From fistsc2c at yahoo.com  Sun Aug 12 21:46:05 2007
From: fistsc2c at yahoo.com (Paul Beringer)
Date: Sun Aug 12 21:55:53 2007
Subject: [Fists] Coast to Coast contest announcement
Message-ID: <JDEAIJKJLAPNIGOKCKIDEEFCCKAA.fistsc2c@yahoo.com>

Hello again all FISTS,

I am pleased to announce the 2007 version of the C2C. This year we will hold
the event on Saturday September 29th for 24 hours beginning at 1700Z. That's
10am Pacific, 11am Mountain, 12pm Central and 1pm Eastern. The rules are the
same for individual fists members but there are changes in the scoring for
clubs. Please review the rules at http://www.fists.org/c2c.html In a
nutshell, clubs will no longer work other clubs. Remember, this is an event
to benefit fists members in obtaining 3 point qsos and it is toward that
goal that the rules have been changed. Besides, the club scoring was just
too confusing. Please do take a few minutes to review the club scoring and I
think you'll agree that they make more sense and will ultimately benefit the
members.

I have given a lot of thought to another issue. In the past, we have
encouraged clubs to register with the C2C manager (me) so that a roster of
clubs could be viewed at the C2C web site. #1, it doesn't appear that we
will have an official web site this year and #2, it got to be more work than
it was worth. Clubs on the air will be obvious by their calling "CQ C2C".
Just show up on the air and pound brass as fast as you can!

Please submit your logs within 30 days to me, preferably in text as an
attachment to an e-mail. Please do not send a paper log if you send an
e-mail log. Be sure to include the following information. Date, time, band,
callsign and exchange received in space delimited format. Cabrillo would be
even better as it is the defacto log protocol in most contests. The winners
will be announced sometime in late winter or early spring.

Hope to hear many of you on the air in late September.

73 Paul NG7Z (W7MRC in the C2C)
Coast to Coast manager
fistsc2c@yahoo.com
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From Makos327 at worldnet.att.net  Mon Aug 13 23:42:39 2007
From: Makos327 at worldnet.att.net (Larry Makoski)
Date: Mon Aug 13 23:53:16 2007
Subject: [Fists] NAQCC August Sprint
Message-ID: <46C124AF.8060401@worldnet.att.net>

This Tuesday evening, the North American QRP CW Club will be holding its 
monthly sprint.

Here are the particulars:

Date and time:
Wednesday, August 15th, 0030-0230 UTC
(Remember that's Tuesday evening here in the USA)  That's  8:30 - 10:30 
EDT, 7:30 - 9:30 CDT, 6:30 - 8:30 MDT and 5:30 - 7:30 PDT.

Bands - Frequencies:
80M - 3555-3565 kHz (Be courteous to FISTS operating on 3558 kHz)
40M - 7039-7050 kHz (Avoid W1AW on 7047.5 kHz).
20M - 14059-14065 kHz. General:
A particular station may be worked once on each band. Operate CW only.
All licensed amateurs are invited to participate, but only those 
operating QRP (5 watts or less) are eligible for awards.

Call: CQ NA

Exchange:
RST - SPC (State Province or Country) - NAQCC Nr.
(non-Members substitute power level for NAQCC Nr., e.g. 5W, 1W, etc. Be 
sure to add the W.)

QSO Points:
QSO with a Member, 2 points.
QSO with a Non-member, 1 point.

Multipliers:
Each USA state
Each VE province
Each country except W/VE
All multipliers count only once in the contest.

Bonus:
If you use only a straight key for the entire sprint, multiply your 
score by 2.
If you use only a bug for the entire sprint, multiply your score by 1.5.
If you key with anything other than a straight key or bug, there is no 
bonus multiplier.

Categories:
SWA - simple wire antennas - for those using a simple wire antenna per 
NAQCC definition.
GAIN - gain antennas - for those using other than a simple wire antenna.

Special Award:
The purpose of having a special award is to perhaps award a certificate 
to someone who knows they can't win one of the regular 1st/2nd/TNW 
certificates, but would still like one of our beautiful NAQCC 
certificates to display in the shack. Our special award this month goes 
to the one with the highest score who has in his log a station starting 
with A,K,N, and W.

The winner will win a set of CD's features K7QO, Chuck Adams' code 
course designed to increase code speed.  Please see:
http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel//sprint200708.html for further details.

REMEMBER: You HAVE to be a NAQCC member to be eligible to win the CDs; 
and there's still plenty of time to join before Tuesday  night's sprint. 
To join the NAQCC, please visit: http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel//joinup.html

Entry Deadline:
All entries must be RECEIVED before 2400Z on August 21st 2007. So submit 
as soon as possible, especially regular mail entries.

For further information, please visit:  
http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel//sprintrules.html

-- 
73 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!

http://www.w2lj.qrpradio.com
http://w2lj.blogspot.com/

From Makos327 at worldnet.att.net  Sat Aug 18 20:19:56 2007
From: Makos327 at worldnet.att.net (Larry Makoski)
Date: Sat Aug 18 20:30:55 2007
Subject: [Fists] August RFTB
Message-ID: <46C78CAC.8080302@worldnet.att.net>

This Sunday evening the Flying Pigs Amateur Radio Club International 
will be holding its monthly Run For The Bacon.  This is a friendly, two 
hour QRP CW Sprint, which is open to ALL radio amateurs, will last from 
9:00 - 11:00PM EDT (0100-0300 UTC Monday).

You may work stations once per band on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 or 10 
Meters.  Suggested starting frequencies are 1.812, 3.562, 7.044, 14.062, 
21.062, and 28.062 MHz.

The exchange is RST, S/P/C (State, Province, Country) and Flying Pigs 
membership number.  If you're not a member of the Flying Pigs, and would 
like to be; then please click on the "membership" hyperlink on 
.http://www.gentzow.com/fpqrp/  Otherwise, non-members can just use 
their output power figure.

You can report your score via the Autolog page which can be found at : 
http://gentzow.com/fpqrp/autolog.asp
or you can mail your logs to the address given on the Autolog page.  The 
deadline for logs is August 26th at 2400 UTC.

Hope to catch you on the air Sunday evening!

-- 
73 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!

http://www.w2lj.qrpradio.com
http://w2lj.blogspot.com/

From n1ea at arrl.net  Wed Aug 29 21:14:38 2007
From: n1ea at arrl.net (David Ring)
Date: Wed Aug 29 21:15:45 2007
Subject: [Fists] Fun Recording - Storm & Bug
In-Reply-To: <b7e6a3ef0708291807t64cbfe4sd60d13f2abc56a02@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b7e6a3ef0708291807t64cbfe4sd60d13f2abc56a02@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b7e6a3ef0708291814g26134d17ncbb72b7ccbc049cc@mail.gmail.com>

Fun Morse code recording = made by R/O Ed McCarthy, W1YT in 1989 from
Florida, USA.

STORM and BUG - N1EA/MM

http://mikea.ath.cx/www.n1ea.coastalradio.org.uk/Thunderstorm%20and%20Rain%20with%20nature%20sounds.mp3

73

David Ring, N1EA
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From kb1dsb at sover.net  Fri Aug 31 07:44:15 2007
From: kb1dsb at sover.net (Karl)
Date: Fri Aug 31 07:45:40 2007
Subject: [Fists] Upcoming KN0WCW Operations
Message-ID: <000001c7ebc4$42f72900$b1a772d8@your55e5f9e3d2>

September 3 - Frank, W2IX, NY

 

September 27-30 - Benny, K5KV, LA

 

 

