[LeArc] ARRL Contest Rate Sheet for December 04, 2002
Joseph L. Rossmiller
[email protected]
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:28:47 -0600
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Contester=92s Rate Sheet
4 December 2002
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Edited by Ward Silver, N0AX
SUMMARY
o Top Band contests this month =96 ARRL 160-Meter, Top Band Sprint,
Stew Perry Top Band Distance Challenge
o Bob White, W1CW =96 SK
o ARRL June VHF QSO Party results available
o Copperweld Rasslin=92 and Grounding references
o Dualing Operating Systems and the 9 MHz Filter
BULLETINS
o SS Logs due immediately!! CW logs are due on 4 Dec and the SSB
logs will be due on the date of the next issue, 18 Dec.
BUSTED QSOS
o Bob N5NJ found an error in the URL listing tower sites for sale.=20
An extra =93s=94 crept into the address somehow =96 the correct site is
http://www.americantower.com. It=92s not too late to ask Santa=85
ANNOUNCEMENT & NOTICES FOR 4 DECEMBER TO 17 DECEMBER 2002
Logs are due for the following contests: =20
o December 4, 2002 - ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - email to:
[email protected], paper logs to: November SS CW, ARRL, 225 Main St.,
Newington, CT 06111, USA=20
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o December 4, 2002 - NA Collegiate ARC Championship, CW - email to:
[email protected], paper logs to: Collegiate Championship, c/o Ken Harker
WM5R, 927 East 46th Street, Apt 102, Austin, TX 78751, USA =20
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o December 4, 2002 - ARCI Running of the QRP Bulls - Use ARCI on-line
reporting form at http://personal.palouse.net/rfoltz/arci/bulls.htm.
o December 10, 2002 - Arkansas QSO Party - email to: [email protected],
paper logs to: Bill Smith, K1ARK, 2164 Magnolia Drive, Fayetteville,
AR 72703, USA
o December 15, 2002 - High Speed Club CW Contest - email to: (none),
paper logs to: Contest Manager, Lutz Schoer, DL3BZZ, Am Niederfeld 6,
D-35066 Frankenberg, Germany
o December 15, 2002 - WAE DX Contest, RTTY - email to: [email protected],
paper logs to: WAEDC Contest Manager, Bernhard Buettner, DL6RAI,
Schmidweg 17, D-85609 Dornach, Germany
o December 15, 2002 - OK/OM DX Contest, CW - email to:
[email protected], paper logs to: Martin Huml, OK1FUA,
Radioamater Magazine, Vlastina 23, 16 101 Praha 6, Czech Republic
o December 17, 2002 - LZ DX Contest, CW - email to: [email protected],
paper logs to: BFRA, P.O. Box 830, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
The following contests are scheduled:
Note that the following abbreviations are used to condense the
contest rules summaries:
SO - Single-Op; M2 - Multiop - 2 Transmitters; MO - Multi-Op; MS -
Multi-Op, Single Transmitter; MM - Multi-Op, Multiple Transmitters;
AB - All Band; SB - Single Band; S/P/C - State/Province/DXCC Entity;
HP - High Power; LP - Low Power; Entity - DXCC Entity
Top Band Sprint - CW/SSB, sponsored by QRP ARCI, 1800 local time Dec
4 - 0600 local Dec 5 (note local time, not Z). Frequencies:
160-meters only. SO-CW, SO-SSB, SO Mixed-Mode categories, no time
limit. Exchange: RST, SPC and Pwr or QRP ARCI number - work stations
once per mode. QSO Points: members - 5 pts, non-members/different
continent - 4 pts, non-members/same cont. - 2 pts. Score: QSO points
x total SPC x power mult (<250mW x 15, 250mW - 1W x 10, 1 - 5W x7, 5W
x 1). For more information =96
http://personal.palouse.net/rfoltz/arci/top.htm. Logs due 30 days
after the contest to [email protected] or Randy Foltz, K7TQ, Attn:
Top Band Sprint, 809 Leith St, Moscow, ID 83843.
ARRL 160-Meter Contest =96 CW =96 from 2200Z Dec 6 - 1600Z Dec 8. Work
US/VE only, no DX-to-DX QSOs, and reserve 1.830 =96 1.835 MHz for
intercontinental QSOs. Categories: SO-QRP/LP/HP, MS. Exchange: RST
and ARRL/RAC section or ITU region for maritime mobiles (DX sends RST
only). QSO Points: US/VE =96 2 pts, DX =96 5 pts. Score: QSO points x
ARRL/RAC sections + DXCC entities. For more information -
http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-160m.html. Logs due
8 Jan to [email protected] or 160-Meter Contest, ARRL, 225 Main St,
Newington, CT 06111.
Winter 6-Meter Contest - CW/Phone, sponsored by the Six Club, 2300Z
Dec 6 - 0300Z Dec 9. Exchange: RST and grid square. QSO Points:
same entity - 1 pt, DX (incl. KL7 and KH6) - 2 pts. Score: QSO
points x grids. For more information =96 http://6mt.com/contest.htm.=20
Logs due 15 Jan to [email protected] or Sixclub, PO Box 307,
Hatfield, Arkansas 71945.
TARA RTTY Sprint - sponsored by the Troy Amateur Radio Assn, 1800Z
Dec 7 - 0200Z Dec 8. Categories: SOAB-HP, SOAB-LP, MOAB. Frequencies:
80 - 10 meters. Exchange: RS + State/Province or serial number for
DX. Count 1 pt per QSO, multipliers are SPC from each band (US and
VE only count as S/P). Score: QSO points x total multipliers. For
more information - http://www.n2ty.org. Logs due 31 Dec to
[email protected] or William J. Eddy NY2U, 2404 - 22nd Street, Troy, New
York 12180-1901, USA.
PSK31 Death Match, sponsored by the Michigan DX Association, 0000Z
Dec 7 - 2400Z Dec 8. Frequencies: 80 - 6 meters. Categories: SO,
Class 1 (<100W), Class 2 (<25W), Class 3 (<5W). Exchange: Name + SPC.
QSO Points: 20 meters - 2 pts, other bands - 3 pts. Score: QSO
Points x DXCC entities. For more information -=20
http://www.geocities.com/mdxa1/deathmatch.html. Logs due 30 days
after the contest to [email protected] (email only).
TOPS Activity Contest 3.5 MHz - CW, sponsored by TOPS, 1800Z Dec 7 -
1800Z Dec 8. Frequencies: 3515-3560 kHz. Categories: SO, MO, and
SO-QRP. Exchange: RST + serial number (plus TOPS number if a
member). QSO Points: 1 pt same entity (JA, PY, U, VE, VK and W call
areas count as separate entities), 2 pts same continent, 6 pts
different cont. or /mm, add 2 pts for TOPS, TOPS-TOPS QSOs +6 pts,
GB6AQ +10 pts. Score: QSO points x WPX prefixes, counted only once.
Logs due 31 Jan to [email protected] or Helmut Klein, OE1TKW,
Nauseagasse 24/26, A-1160 Wien, Austria.
ARRL 10-Meter Contest =96 CW/SSB - from 0000Z Dec 14 - 2400Z Dec 15,
operate 36 hours max. Categories: SO-QRP/LP/HP in Mixed Mode/CW/SSB,
MS (includes SO stations using any spotting assistance). Exchange:
W/VE (incl. KH6 and KL7) send RST and state or province, DX sends RST
and serial number, maritime mobile send RST and ITU region (1 =96 3).=20
Novices and Technicians add =91/N=92 or =91/T=92 to their calls on CW =
for
QSOs to score extra points. QSO Points: SSB =96 2 pts, CW =96 4 pts, CW
with /N or /T =96 8 pts. Score: QSO points x SPC + ITU regions. Note
that District of Columbia (DC) counts as a separate multiplier. For
more information -
http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-10m.html. Logs due
Jan 15 to [email protected] or 10-Meter Contest, ARRL, 225 Main St,
Newington, CT 06111.=20
28 MHz SWL Contest - sponsored by Lambert Wijshake NL-10175,
coincident with ARRL 10-Meter contest. SO-SSB and SO-CW categories,
no packet. Log the ARRL 10-Meter multipliers and signal report at the
SWL QTH, with a minimum RS/RST of 33/339 and a maximum of only three
stations from each DXCC entity. QSO Points: The first station from a
DXCC entity counts 5 points, the second 3 points, and the third 1
point. Score: QSO points x States and Provinces x DXCC entities.
Logs due 31 Jan to [email protected] or Lambert Wijshake NL-10175,
Kattedoorn 6, 8265-MJ Kampen, Netherlands. To receive the results,
include 2 IRC or 1$.
Great Colorado Snowshoe Run - CW, sponsored by the Colorado QRP Club
from 0200Z - 0400Z Dec 15. Frequencies: 40-meters only. Categories:
SO-QRP (Antenna classes of Wires, Verticals, or Beam) Exchange: RST
+ SPC + Antenna Class + CQC no. or Power. The same station may be
worked up to three times, with 30 minutes between QSOs. QSO Points:
1st QSO with station - 3 pts, 2nd QSO - 2 pts, 3rd QSO - 1 pt.=20
Score: QSO Points x SPC x CQC members. For more information -
http://www.mtechnologies.com/cqc/contests/snow2002.htm. Logs due 17
Jan to [email protected] (ASCII only) or Snowshoe, c/o CQC, PO Box
371883, Denver, CO 80237-1883.=20
DPX (Digital Prefix) Contest - digital modes, sponsored by the
Penn-Ohio DX Society, 0000Z - 2400Z Dec 14. Frequencies: 160 - 6
meters. Categories: PSK, MFSK, RTTY, Hellschreiber, Throb, Packet,
Multimode and SWL. Exchange: name, prefix and 070 Club member number
or SPC. Score: QSOs x WPX prefixes x Power Multiplier (<100 watts x
1, <40 watts x 2, QRP x 3). For more information -=20
http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/070_dpx.html. Logs due 13 Jan to
[email protected] or via the online form at
podxs.com/html/DPX_online_score.html.
Note =96 the ARRL 10-Meter Contest on Dec 14 and 15 is an excellent way
to introduce new contesters to the sport =96 almost the winter
equivalent of Field Day. Be sure to encourage your local club
members to be active, particularly the Tech Plus licensees that may
be a little nervous about exercising those HF privileges. Explain
that not only will there be lots of stations to work, but that the
band will likely be open in directions and at times that they=92ve
never heard before. N6BZA wrote a fine short article about the
contest which is available at http://www.eham.net/articles/740. The
propagation URL published there is incorrect =96 it should be
http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/index.html =96 and is really worth a spot
in your Web bookmarks.
NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Bob White W1CW, SK =96 another legend passes from the scene. Bob
brought the DXCC program into the modern era and was an active CW
contester behind the oft-heard K4OJ call held by his son, Jim. An
excellent tribute to Bob was posted by Jim at
http://www.contesting.com/articles/362 and is well worth a visit.=20
Lew W7EW is in charge of lining up plaque donors for the upcoming
Stew Perry Top Band Distance Challenge (coming up on Dec 28 and 29).=20
This contest is notable for a very interesting slate of awards. If
you=92d like to sponsor a plaque and create your own category, send Lew
an email at [email protected]. For example, N0TT is sponsoring a
plaque for the Top Score from a Single-Op entry whoes age is less
than 21 and who make more than 50 QSOs. Take a look at
http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html for more information.
=93Certificates for the 2001 CQ VHF Contest have been prepared and
mailed with the exception of a few non-US participants whose
addresses we need to find. They should be arriving imminently if they
have not already arrived.=94 Thanks, Gene W3ZZ.
RESULTS AND RECORDS
The results of the ARRL June VHF QSO Party are now available at
http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/index.html. There are both PDF
and HTML versions, along with the nifty sortable-scores. (If you=92d
like to download the results for your own analysis, you can also
download the data as a comma-delimited (CSV format) or tab-delimited
file.) This includes all the usual boxes - top Qs/band, top
mults/band, top Regional scores, etc. The web report is by Ned AA7A
and much richer than the space-restricted version that is published
in the magazine. There are additional tables, graphics and numerous
interesting pictures. (Thanks, Gene W3ZZ)
These aren=92t strictly contest results, but I do so enjoy reading the
Letters of Enforcement on the ARRL Web site at
http://www.arrl.org/news/enforcement_logs/2002/1116.html?nc=3D1.=20
They=92re almost as good as reading your arch-rival=92s log-checking
report.
TECHNICAL & TECHNIQUE
Copperweld Rasslin=92 =96 is there anything that strikes quicker terror
into the hearts of hams? (=93Just shinny up that mast,=94 comes to mind,
but I digress.) The ability of the stuff to stay coiled is legendary
and has ambushed many a wire-hanger. Tom NU7J, contributes the
following idea for getting it straight right off the spool. =93The
trick is to build a straightening die. Drive eight 4-inch nails into
a plank so that the nails hold the spool in place. Four nails guide
the inside of the spool and four guide the outside. I used a 2X8
that's approx. five feet long and heavy enough to prevent the board
from sliding when you pull the wire through the die. Drive three
additional nails into the plank so that the wire coming off the spool
is fed through the 3 nails in an "S" pattern (opposing the natural
curve of the wire =96 Ed). The first nail should be four inches from
the spool. The second nail is 1-7/8 inches from the first, and offset
3/8 inches. The third nail is 3-3/4 inches from and in line with the
first nail. Hold one end of the wire firmly and steadily pull the
wire from the spool through the nail pattern. It also helps to hold
one foot on the end of the board, when pulling the wire. The
resulting straight wire is a pleasure to work with.=94
Grounding is always of interest. The following references on
grounding and bonding were contributed on the Towertalk reflector
(http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/) by Reggie W6ZAP and Chuck
W1HIS:=20
o National Electrical Code (NEC): Article 250 =96 Grounding, Article
810 - Radio and Television Equipment
o The ARRL Antenna Book - 19th Edition: Chapter 1 - Safety First,
Chapter 3 - The Effects of Ground, Chapter 27 - Antenna and
Transmission-Line Measurements
o The ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs 2001 - 78th Edition: Chapter 9
=96 Safety, Chapter 20 - Antennas & Projects, Chapter 22 - Station
Setup and Accessory Projects, Chapter 28 - Electromagnetic
Interference (EMI)
o The ARRL RFI Book - 1st Edition: Chapter 2 - EMC Fundamentals
o Lightning Protection and Grounding Solutions for Communication
Sites - First Edition, January 2000, Published by: PolyPhaser
Corporation, available from Talley Communications, Hayward,
CA,1-800-223-4949, Catalog No. LPGS (cost is around $25).=20
o MIL-HDBK-419A - Grounding, Bonding, and Shielding for Electronic
Equipments and Facilities: An excellent 812 pages reference on all
aspects of grounding, bonding, and shielding. Available as a PDF file
at http://astimage.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/. Search for Document Id:
MIL-HDBK-419A and click on: Document ID: MIL-HDBK-419A=20
Jim W6EU contributes the following helpful suggestion for improving
your technique on phone. "In the name of efficiency, can we begin to
train ourselves to replace the phrase "Please copy..." with the other
station's callsign? Instead of answering my exchange with "Please
copy number 580B W6YXZ 58 SF" say instead, "W6EU 580B W6XYZ 58 SF".
This also confirms that you are indeed talking to the intended
station. It's a good habit to have.=94 Very true =96 listening to the
top operators, one immediately notices a minimum of extra verbiage
like =93you are=94, =93over=94, =93uh=94, etc. Another good thing to =
work on is
breath control, particularly for contests with a long exchange like
Sweepstakes. Take a deep breath as the other operator completes the
exchange, then give them the info in one long exhalation. You won=92t
have to pause and pant for breath in the middle.
Looking for a good stripper? A coax stripper, of course=85what were
you thinking? AES sells an RG-8/RG-213 stripper for about $30. Cable
Experts (http://www.cablexperts.com) also sells them. If you
regularly make cables, these make the job a lot easier. (Thanks, Jon
NA9D)
With the ability to =93boot to DOS=94 rapidly disappearing from the PC
world, many of the standard contest logging programs are finding
their operating system platform threatened. Do we need to have two
PC=92s =96 one for Windows and the other for MS-DOS-based programs? Ed
W0YK contributes this fine overview of how you can have both new and
old programs on one machine. =93I've been running dual boot OS's
(MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 2000 or XP) for three years. I first use
FDISK on a clean hard drive to make a 2GB partition with FAT16
formatting and install MS-DOS 6.22. Then, I install Windows 2000 or
XP, making the rest of the HDD a second partition formatted with
NTFS. Windows sets up a boot menu that allows you to choose which OS
gets booted at boot time. One of them is a default so if you don't
make a choice within a (user-) specified time, the default is loaded.
If you already have Windows installed and don't want to clean your
HDD, then you can use software like Partition Magic to create a FAT16
partition in some free space on your disk. Install MS-DOS and you
have the same setup. I can run PED or RUFZ or TR-Log simulator on the
airplane AND do email and other business work. I can use Windows to
manage my files in the DOS partition and only go to DOS to run the
DOS programs. If I only want to look at my log and do edits on the
way home from an expedition, I often just use a DOS window in Windows
because keying, radio control, TNC, packet, etc. are not needed.=94 Ed
has posted a greatly expanded description at http://www.k1ea.com
under =93CT Hints and Kinks=94. Thanks, Ed W0YK for the post and Jim
AD1C for the host. This technique is also discussed in the article
=93One Computer Running DOS and Windows=94 by W5BAK in the
September-October 2002 issue of National Contest Journal.
A personal discovery worth passing on is Atlas work gloves. These
are cloth gloves with a super-tough textured rubber coating on the
fingers and palms. I have found these to be terrific for outdoors
tower work in cold or wet weather. They=92re particularly good for
climbing. Climbing without gloves leaves your hands frozen by the
time to get to the top and I dislike the cloth and leather gloves for
climbing because the grip doesn=92t feel secure. The Atlas gloves
really grip well and are surprisingly flexible =96 I can securely
handle nuts and lockwashers with them on. The price is also a
pleasant surprise =96 just a few dollars.
CONVERSATION
Wayne N7NG relays the following report from the CQ WW CW PT5A
operation. "We operated PT5A from Boa Vista, about 95 km west of
Florianopolis in Southern Brazil. Flo is about 350 km south of
Curitiba, the home of that famous contester Oms, PY5EG. Boa Vista is
located in the mountains at about 1200 meters above sea level. It has
a wonderful view of mountains all around, but it is often shrouded in
fog. At times, it is not possible to see the uppermost antennas in
the stacks. The PT5A station is owned by Sergio, PP5JR. Sergio is a
doctor, and a really nice guy. The station has three towers at 40
meters, and several others to support wire beams and stacks on all
bands. There is also a four-square for 80 as well as a full size
vertical for Top Band. A number of Beverages complete the outside
hardware. Southern Brazil is a great place for the Ten Meter contest.
Last year, because of a robot-related communications error, Sergio's
record-breaking 1.27 Mpoint score was lost. Despite his busy schedule
as a pediatric heart surgeon, Sergio will try to fit in another
operation as PP5JR in the upcoming ARRL Ten-Meter contest. Here's
hoping Sergio can duplicate last year's winning effort."
Have you ever wondered where the 9 MHz filter frequency comes from
and where it went? This issue, I=92m pleased to present Dr. Megacycle,
a.k.a. Jim Duffy (not the W6EU Jim Duffy mentioned above) with an
explanation of another ham radio mystery.=20
=93The 9.0 MHz IF goes back to the early days of SSB. With a 9.0 MHz IF
and a 5.0-5.5 MHz VFO one could easily cover both 20 and 75-meters by
only switching the input filter or preselector. One band was the
image of the other. So, rather than worry about image rejection you
used it to get a multiband rig. This also gave us the convention of
LSB below 40-meters and USB above as the sideband gets flipped when
going from one side of the IF to the other. When multiband rigs
became popular, the 9 MHz IF was kept by many manufacturers (and ham
builders) since they already had money invested in the filters. 9 MHz
is not a bad choice for an IF even today and I believe that 9.0 MHz
CW and SSB filters can be obtained at reasonable prices from the
G-QRP club if you are a member.
=93With the widespread acceptance of color TV, 3.579 MHz color burst
crystals became widely available cheap. With the even wider
proliferation of microprocessors, cheap crystals at a wide variety of
frequencies became available. Wes Hayward, W7ZOI, popularized the
ladder filter as an easy way to use these crystals in simple IF
filters. In particular, the Cohn filter, with all the crystals and
capacitors of the same value, allowed hams to build quality filters
with nothing more than a handful of precision capacitors and a way to
measure crystal frequencies. A quality filter could be built for
dollars rather than tens of dollars. Receiver building no longer
required the large investment of a crystal filter.
=93The wide variety of crystal frequencies also gave receiver designers
a vast choice of IF frequencies. Some could be rejected right away.
Although 5.0 MHz or 10.0 MHz seems like a fine choice for an IF, WWV
leak-through kills that idea quickly. Similar choices of integer IF
frequencies and VFO frequencies result in other conflicts, either on
the IF frequency or the image frequency. Other poor choices include
IFs in ham bands, images in ham bands, or combinations of VFO and BFO
harmonics and IF frequencies that fall in ham bands or SW bands. This
natural selection process eventually favors weird IF frequencies,
like the 4.915 MHz IF.=94 (Thanks, Jim KK6MC)=20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Contester=92s Rate Sheet wishes to acknowledge information from the
following sources:
WA7BNM=92s Contest Calendar Web page -
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/ ARRL Contest page -
http://www.arrl.org/contests/
SM3CER=92s Web site - http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/
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