[RRDXA] [WRTC2002 0658] W1AW/5 IARU 2002 Bulletin #2 (fwd)
Walter Skudlarek
[email protected]
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:53:50 +0200
wm5r schrieb:
> BULLETIN #2
> 19 June 2002
>
> Central Texas in High Gear for W1AW/5:
> ARRL Headquarters Station to Operate in IARU HF World Championship
>
> Central Texas area contesters are gearing up for the 2002 IARU HF World
> Championship the weekend of 13-14 July. Six area contest stations will
> be signing W1AW/5, representing the United States of America as the ARRL
> "Headquarters Station." W1AW/5 will be competing against other IARU
> member society headquarters stations such as Germany's DA0HQ, Great Britain's
> GB5HQ, Spain's EA4URE, and Singapore's 9V9HQ.
>
> "We expect to have as many as 40 dedicated operators, mostly from the
> Central Texas DX & Contest Club, involved in this effort," organizer
> Richard King K5NA said. "We want to produce the best score ever done from
> the USA by any HQ station effort in the past and threaten, if not beat,
> the best of the European HQ stations."
>
> Six stations in five central Texas counties will be involved in the contest
> effort. W1AW/5 will be operating on each of the twelve band-modes available
> in the contest for the entire 24 hour long contest period. W1AW/5 will
> be operating 160SSB, 160CW, 80SSB, 80CW, 40SSB, 40CW, 20SSB, 20CW, 15SSB,
> 15CW, 10SSB, and 10CW. Station owners have been working hard to
> prepare for the big event. All of the twenty meter monoband yagis at
> K5TR have been built and installed in the past year. N5TW has recently
> added omni-directional capability to his 160 meter four square at the
> flip of a switch. Substantial improvements to the antenna farms have
> also taken place at K5NA, N5CQ, NX5M, and W5KFT. All of the stations
> have been involved in intense contest simulations and planning.
>
> W1AW/5 planned operators include: K5NA, K5DU, KI5DR, N5ZC, K5YA, K2UR,
> K5TR, K5NZ, WM5R, W5XD, N5TW, AF5Z, N5IW, W5TA, N5DUW, W5RQ, WS4G, W5TD,
> EA4AHD, NX5M, N5XJ, N5JA, W5PF, W5IDX, KB5NFZ, KB5ZFO, W5KFT, K5PI, N5AW,
> KE5C, K5TSQ, W5VX, N5CQ, N2LA, and others to be determined. A map
> of the station locations, near Austin, TX, is online at:
> http://www.ctdxcc.org/iaru2002.html.
>
> ARRL Headquarters will handle all QSL requests. QSL via W1AW: 225 Main
> Street, Newington, CT 06111, USA. Please do not send QSL cards to the
> W1AW/5 station owners or operators.
>
> Please direct comments or questions about W1AW/5 in the 2002 IARU HF World
> Championship to Richard King K5NA at [email protected]. For more information
> about the Central Texas DX & Contest Club visit http://www.ctdxcc.org/.
>
>
> Station Matrix
>
> Band Station County Grid Antennas
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 160CW N5TW Williamson EM10dp Four Square, with buried radial system
> Beverages at 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225,
> 270, 315 degrees
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 160SSB NX5M Burleson EM10ri Inverted V @ 85'
> Vertical T @ 104'
> Beverages at 10, 45, 80, 110, 130, 160,
> 270, 300, 315, 330 degrees
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 80CW K5NA Travis EM10fk Sloper Dipole NE @ 168'
> Sloper Dipole NW @ 168'
> Sloper Dipole S @ 168'
> Two element phased vertical array NE
> Two element phased vertical array NW
> Two element phased vertical array S
> Dipole @ 60'
> Beverages at 45, 135, 315 degrees
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 80SSB K5TR Blanco EM00uf Sloper Dipole NE @ 120'
> Sloper Dipole NW @ 120'
> Sloper Dipole S @ 120'
> Dipole N-S @ 130'
> 1/4 wave vertical
> Three to five Beverages
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 40CW K5NA Travis EM10fk Cushcraft XM240 @ 197' rotatable
> Cushcraft XM240 @ 132' fixed NE
> Cushcraft XM240 @ 67' rotatable
> Cushcraft XM240 @ 95' rotatable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 40SSB W5KFT Llano EM00st Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 150', rotatable
> Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 67', fixed NE
> Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 80', rotatable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 20CW N5TW Williamson EM10dp M2 5-element monobander @ 130', rotatable
> M2 5-element monobander @ 86', rotatable
> M2 5-element monobander @ 43', rotatable
> Force 12 3-element monobander @ 65', fixed
> SE
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 20SSB K5TR Blanco EM00uf 6-element monobander @ 90', rotatable
> 6-element monobander @ 40', fixed NW
> 6-element monobander @ 90', fixed NE
> 6-element monobander @ 40', fixed NE
> 4-element monobander @ 60', fixed SE
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 15CW W5KFT Llano EM00st Hygain 155CA @ 135', rotatable
> Hygain 155CA @ 90', fixed NE
> Hygain 155CA @ 45', fixed NE
> Hygain TH7 @ 70', rotatable
> Hygain TH7 @ 35', fixed NW
> Hygain TH7DX @ 60', rotatable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 15SSB K5NA Travis EM10fk Cushcraft XM515 @ 168' rotatable
> Cushcraft XM515 @ 127', fixed NE
> Cushcraft XM515 @ 86', fixed NE
> Cushcraft XM515 @ 45', rotatable
> Cushcraft X9 @ 100', rotatable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 10CW N5CQ Travis EM10bg Force-12 C-3 @ 195', rotatable
> Force-12 C-3 @ 155', rotatable
> Force-12 C-3 @ 125', rotatable
> Force-12 C-3 @ 95', rotatable
> Force-12 C-3 @ 65', rotatable
> Force-12 C-3 @ 35', rotatable
> Force-12 C-3 @ 30', fixed SE
> Force-12 C51XR @ 60', rotatable
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 10SSB NX5M Burleson EM10ri Three-element yagi @ 87', rotatable
> Three-element yagi @ 70', fixed NW
> Six-element yagi @ 51', fixed NE
> Three-element yagi @ 35', fixed W
> Five-element yagi @ 104', rotatable
> Five-element yagi @ 80', fixed NW
> Six-element yagi @ 72', fixed NE
> Five-element yagi @ 56', fixed SE
> Five-element yagi @ 40', fixed SW
> Four-element yagi @ 40', fixed NE
> Four-element yagi @ 35', fixed NW
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" [email protected]
> University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
> Department of the Computer Sciences VP, Central Texas DX & Contest Club
> Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
> Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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