From kcdxc at mailman.qth.net Wed Feb 4 11:08:20 2015 From: kcdxc at mailman.qth.net (Dragan Davkovski via KCDXC) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KCDXC] 5 year old passes HAM radion exam Message-ID: <1415816807.1338842.1423066100233.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> 5-year-old passes ham radio exam | ? | | ? | | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | | 5-year-old passes ham radio examArmature radio, or ham radio as it's commonly called, can be a hobby for some and a mission for others. | | | | View on www.9news.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | ? | 73 Dragan K?AP From drew at whisperingwoods.org Sun Feb 15 18:33:14 2015 From: drew at whisperingwoods.org (=?windows-1252?Q?Drew_Vonada-Smith?=) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:33:14 -0600 Subject: [KCDXC] Vertical or yagi parts 20/15/10 Message-ID: Guys, ? Does anyone have a three band trap vertical like a 12AVQ or even half a driven element from a trap yagi hanging around they want to sell?? I want to scrounge a cheap 20/15/10 solution for SO2R use.? Can?t put up another tower at this time and want to experiment with a simpler solution. ? 73, Drew K3PA ? From Jeff.Blaine at epak.com Mon Feb 16 15:41:45 2015 From: Jeff.Blaine at epak.com (Jeff Blaine) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:41:45 +0000 Subject: [KCDXC] 2015 dues are DUE NOW Message-ID: Greetings KCDXC members... 2015 brings us to the new year and club dues are - well now due. I guess that's why they are called dues. Proceeds of the club dues fund these 3 activities of the KCDXC... The annual Dayton Pileup contest, club financial support of the big and rare DXpeditions (like K1N) - and for the club's annual end of the year party. Send your $20 of hard earned coin of the realm over to Mike AB0X. Paypal, mail or by hand - he will take whatever you are able to pass his way. We have a really great line up in Feb with KF0Y showing a couple of very slick home brew projects that you will want to be sure to catch. See you all at the club meeting NEXT MONDAY - 23 Feb. 73/jeff/ac0c From Jeff.Blaine at epak.com Thu Feb 26 23:48:50 2015 From: Jeff.Blaine at epak.com (Jeff Blaine) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 04:48:50 +0000 Subject: [KCDXC] K1N - Lotw - club vs. personal contributions Message-ID: I've had a few guys ask me about the K1N early LoTW for the sponsors. The discussions vary but the theme is - the KCDXC provided funding for K1N - but the club members individually who worked K1N have not benefitted from the early LoTW upload. Could I, on behalf of the KCDXC, appeal to K1N and see if our members could get preferential treatment. Here is my position, pulled from the most recent discussion on this topic: ------- ...If every club that sent in a grouped donation provided a list to the K1N guys, they would easily have thousands of callsigns to look up and arrange early LoTW confirmations for. The KCDXC would have about 65 alone - and as the big DX clubs go, we are in the small category. I suppose that some amount of computer list massaging would do the job if that capability exists on the dxpedition's end. I just don't have the balls to tell those guys that they should take a list and get the loTW confirms done as part of what we expect for our couple-hundred-buck contribution. If I were them, I would send back a message and ask "can you really be serious?" To my thinking, the dxpeditions leaders and principles are signing huge personal financial loan guarantees and making big funding investments for what is (now) normally hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on a dxpedition. That's on top of the time and effort and physical risk to participate. Why they would do that in the first place is beyond my comprehension - but I'm very happy they do. The KCDXC's support of the major and rare dexpeditions is specifically to provide a tiny bit of assistance to these groups to offset their expenses. It's not a way to get an expedited LoTW confirmation.... -------- I do not mean to be harsh to our club members who's hard earned money pays the club's bills. But it does need to be put into perspective. About 60% of the clubs revenue each year goes toward dxpedition support. That means about $12 of the $20 dues is being spread out to 3-4 of the most important and most rare of dxpeditions. That comes out to $1 / month for a KCDXC member. While every little bit helps, I do not feel it is reasonable at all to demand special privileges at our level of support when the overall bill for K1N (as an example) cost $500,000. If an early confirmation is important to you then by far the best way to do that is to look at what the dxpedition posts as their upload reward procedure for individual donations. And follow that procedure exactly. 73/jeff/ac0c From kcdxc at mailman.qth.net Fri Feb 27 06:59:16 2015 From: kcdxc at mailman.qth.net (Mike ZooLoo via KCDXC) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KCDXC] K1N - Lotw - club vs. personal contributions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <588249242.1072883.1425038356973.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Agreed, but I'm also just not in that big of a hurry.? I think deadline for most awards annual listing is December 2015? What's the rush?? 73, Jim (AA0MZ) P.S. Your email did remind me I'm behind in KCDXC dues !!! On Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:49 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: I've had a few guys ask me about the K1N early LoTW for the sponsors. The discussions vary but the theme is - the KCDXC provided funding for K1N - but the club members individually who worked K1N have not benefitted from the early LoTW upload.? Could I, on behalf of the KCDXC, appeal to K1N and see if our members could get preferential treatment. Here is my position, pulled from the most recent discussion on this topic: ------- ...If every club that sent in a grouped donation provided a list to the K1N guys, they would easily have thousands of callsigns to look up and arrange early LoTW confirmations for.? The KCDXC would have about 65 alone - and as the big DX clubs go, we are in the small category.? I suppose that some amount of computer list massaging would do the job if that capability exists on the dxpedition's end.? I just don't have the balls to tell those guys that they should take a list and get the loTW confirms done as part of what we expect for our couple-hundred-buck contribution.? If I were them, I would send back a message and ask "can you really be serious?" To my thinking, the dxpeditions leaders and principles are signing huge personal financial loan guarantees and making big funding investments for what is (now) normally hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on a dxpedition.? That's on top of the time and effort and physical risk to participate.? Why they would do that in the first place is beyond my comprehension - but I'm very happy they do.? The KCDXC's support of the major and rare dexpeditions is specifically to provide a tiny bit of assistance to these groups to offset their expenses.? It's not a way to get an expedited LoTW confirmation.... -------- I do not mean to be harsh to our club members who's hard earned money pays the club's bills.? But it does need to be put into perspective.? About 60% of the clubs revenue each year goes toward dxpedition support.? That means about $12 of the $20 dues is being spread out to 3-4 of the most important and most rare of dxpeditions.? That comes out to $1 / month for a KCDXC member.? While every little bit helps, I do not feel it is reasonable at all to demand special privileges at our level of support when the overall bill for K1N (as an example) cost $500,000. If an early confirmation is important to you then by far the best way to do that is to look at what the dxpedition posts as their upload reward procedure for individual donations.? And follow that procedure exactly. 73/jeff/ac0c -- Its not how many watts you have, its the SIZE of your watts that matter! -- Johnny Marshall, W0JM-SK _____________________________________________________________ KCDXC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/kcdxc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:KCDXC 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 mcrabtree at kc.rr.com Fri Feb 27 10:14:49 2015 From: mcrabtree at kc.rr.com (Mike Crabtree) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:14:49 +0000 Subject: [KCDXC] K1N - Lotw - club vs. personal contributions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I agree 100% with you, Jeff. Even though I didn't need K1N for anything but Rtty, I sent a donation when I ordered qsls thru OQRS. DXers for years have supported DXpedition groups that go to rare spots. It keeps our phase of the hobby alive. If you take the time to get acquainted with the guys that do these DXpeditions, it's clear that they make no money on the QSLs. Most trips cost the ops a large sum out of their own pocket. We must depend on guys like K4UEE, W0GJ, K0IR, WB9Z, etc., to go to these rare spots so we can meet our DXCC goals! I think the club donation doesn't qualify you for free LOTW qsls. If you can't make a $5-10 donation out of your own pocket, you might be in the wrong hobby. 73, AB0X Old Fart ------ Original Message ------ From: "Jeff Blaine" To: "'kcdxc at mailman.qth.net'" Sent: 2/26/2015 10:48:50 PM Subject: [KCDXC] K1N - Lotw - club vs. personal contributions >I've had a few guys ask me about the K1N early LoTW for the sponsors. > >The discussions vary but the theme is - the KCDXC provided funding for >K1N - but the club members individually who worked K1N have not >benefitted from the early LoTW upload. Could I, on behalf of the KCDXC, >appeal to K1N and see if our members could get preferential treatment. > >Here is my position, pulled from the most recent discussion on this >topic: > >------- > >...If every club that sent in a grouped donation provided a list to the >K1N guys, they would easily have thousands of callsigns to look up and >arrange early LoTW confirmations for. The KCDXC would have about 65 >alone - and as the big DX clubs go, we are in the small category. I >suppose that some amount of computer list massaging would do the job if >that capability exists on the dxpedition's end. I just don't have the >balls to tell those guys that they should take a list and get the loTW >confirms done as part of what we expect for our couple-hundred-buck >contribution. If I were them, I would send back a message and ask "can >you really be serious?" > >To my thinking, the dxpeditions leaders and principles are signing huge >personal financial loan guarantees and making big funding investments >for what is (now) normally hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on a >dxpedition. That's on top of the time and effort and physical risk to >participate. Why they would do that in the first place is beyond my >comprehension - but I'm very happy they do. The KCDXC's support of the >major and rare dexpeditions is specifically to provide a tiny bit of >assistance to these groups to offset their expenses. It's not a way to >get an expedited LoTW confirmation.... > >-------- > >I do not mean to be harsh to our club members who's hard earned money >pays the club's bills. But it does need to be put into perspective. >About 60% of the clubs revenue each year goes toward dxpedition >support. That means about $12 of the $20 dues is being spread out to >3-4 of the most important and most rare of dxpeditions. That comes out >to $1 / month for a KCDXC member. While every little bit helps, I do >not feel it is reasonable at all to demand special privileges at our >level of support when the overall bill for K1N (as an example) cost >$500,000. > >If an early confirmation is important to you then by far the best way >to do that is to look at what the dxpedition posts as their upload >reward procedure for individual donations. And follow that procedure >exactly. > >73/jeff/ac0c > >-- >Its not how many watts you have, >its the SIZE of your watts that matter! -- Johnny Marshall, W0JM-SK >_____________________________________________________________ >KCDXC mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/kcdxc >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:KCDXC at mailman.qth.net > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >