From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 15:30:23 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08258 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:30:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <34929-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:29:44 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34851-64362>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:27:52 -0400 Received: from usr02.primenet.com (vole@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.5.102]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA68682 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:27:47 -0400 Received: (from vole@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10146 for qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:27:47 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199706291927.MAA10146@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:27:47 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: vole@primenet.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Joe Gervais To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD Report: Rogue ScQRPion in the Mountains X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Howdy Folks! So how'd your Field Day go? A full report from ScQRPion FD HQ on the Mogollon Rim should follow soon, but I got home first so I'll give you the scoop on my Rogue ScQRPion FD Expedition. A few months back I'd committed to a backpacking trip to the San Francisco Peaks (Flagstaff, AZ). Too bad I hadn't checked the calendar - turned out it was FD weekend. Doh! Not a problem. I'd been wanting to try truly portable QRP for awhile, and operating FD from Humphreys Peak (12,600+ ft of lung-thrashing fun) sounded like a great way to get started. Wouldn't be able to operate with the rest of the ScQRPions though. :( Flash forward to the afternoon before Field Day. I'm desperately trying to tune up my just-built Sierra 20m module, and my dummy load is MIA. My "Treeline Raider" antenna is still just a mental blueprint. And I was supposed to be on the trail (a 3-hour drive away) 4 hours ago. Once again my fine planning is paying off. :-) 4:30pm - Chaos. Finally I get the 20m module happy, and the parts for the AB7TT "Treeline Raider" antenna system are ready to go. Too bad my soldering gun isn't. ARGH!!! I could generate more heat on the connection by leaving it in the AZ sun! Finally limp a few connections together (much to the amusement of my non- ham backpacking friend) and we hit the road. 9:30pm - Trailhead. Beautiful starry night at 9000 ft above sea level. The Milky Way is so bright it's almost comical. A few satellites wander lazily across the sky. (No really! If you've ever been under *truly* dark skies, you know what I'm talking about.) We turn on the flashlights and hike in about a mile before settling down for the night. 5:30am - Wake up. Morning arrived too fast, as usual, and by 6:30am we're hiking through large stands of aspen trees and little meadows of mountain wild flowers. Sure beats workin'! :) The sound of wind howling high in the treetops hints that the peak may be a little interesting today. My hiking partner isn't used to altitude, so we take it slow and easy. 10:00am - Treeline. Trees are gone, and we finally meet face- to-face with the wind we've been hearing. Yowza! Judging from cloud shadows moving across a large meadow below, the wind's pushing a steady 40mph. This could be fun.... Another mile of trail and 1200 ft of elevation to go. I stash my Fedora hat in some rocks for safe keeping and pull on the balaclava. 11:30am - The Peak. The 40mph wind must be at least 50mph sustained, with 60mph gusts. Some folks are literally crawling up the last pitch to avoid being blown over. Luckily my 35-lb pack gives me just enough mass that I can lean at a 45 degree angle into the wind and keep walking. We are having fun. :) Various groups of folks are huddled by a low rock wall. One guy makes the mistake of standing up with his hat on. It leaps off his head instantaneously, at lightning speed. Nice flat trajectory. Probably landed in New Mexico. (Hey Jay, did you find a hat out there?) Needless to say, my antenna ain't goin' up! :( We all break out the muchies and spend an hour or two enjoying the view (Grand Canyon to the NW, Crater Nat'l Monument to the east, etc.). 'Course with the howling wind we look like nervous marmots, popping our head above the windbreak just long enough to catch a glimpse of the incredible scenery, then ducking back down. 3:00pm - Treeline again. Figure I have to at *least* set up my station and see how it works! Antenna goes together smoothly as curious hikers look on. I explained to several of them what amateur radio is, what Field Day is about, and that I'd be putting out a couple watts of power to contact hams all across North America. Hey, I get FD info booth bonus points! :) 3:15pm - On the air. Sierra, tuner, AA battery pack ready. Fire it up and 20m is alive! Mostly with signals that my exhausted brain can't copy! Finally my neural circuits stabilize and over the next 45 minutes I work 8 stations spread across AL, IL, GA, LA, MN and WNY. High altitude hamming fun! Reluctanly I shut down at 4:00pm. My friends have gone ahead without me and I need to get off the mountain. 9:30pm - Home. I'd wanted to drive across the Rim to where the rest of the ScQRPions were operating, but we'd gotten off the mountain a bit late and my friend had to get back to Phoenix. But hey, it was a blast! And while on the peak I saw a *great* site to operate from next year, all 24+ hours. I'll give it a trial run during the ARS Flight of the Bumblebees next month. Look forward to hearing how the rest of you did! Cheers de AB7TT, -Joe, vole@primenet.com, AZ ScQRPions (Phoenix) "And then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with... A HERRING!" From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 18:06:12 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA13470 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:06:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <34925-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:05:35 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34897-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:04:34 -0400 Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA56438 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:04:31 -0400 Received: from weyl.math.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa02963; 29 Jun 97 18:04 EDT Received: from localhost (rli8m@localhost) by weyl.math.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA08518 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:04:29 -0400 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:04:29 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: rli8m@weyl.math.virginia.edu Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: "Ralph L. Irons" To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD- 1B VA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Family commitments prevented me from joining the Knightlites at Lake Gaston, NC, but managed a backyard "in the tent" FD, sharing operations with wife Kim, KD6WJK, and logging with kids Carl and Sarah. With antennas only for 80 and 40m, we managed 101 CW QSOs and 99 SSB QSOs, using the Centennial for about 40 QSOs on 80m. We also attended a cub scout daycamp program, a girl scout planning session, and my boy's best friend's birthday party. As my rig chirped to a halt, dragging two dead batteries behind it, the last station I worked sent "N7RI 1B IN VA? IMPOSSIBLE". The fog in my mind equalling that in his, I replied "U NUTS?" That was my final transmission. 72, Ralph N7RI Charlottesville VA From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 19:15:56 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15275 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:15:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35098-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:15:43 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34879-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:14:43 -0400 Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA31707 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:14:36 -0400 Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.5/(97/05/21 3.30)) id TAA25196; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:14:35 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from [206.173.23.53] (ts042d17.hil-ny.concentric.net [206.173.23.53]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.5) id TAA17275; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:14:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706292314.TAA17275@newman.concentric.net> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 97 16:16:12 +0000 Reply-To: tgordish@concentric.net Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: tgordish@concentric.net To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: SST Field Day Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-To: "qrp-l" X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO QRP Folk, This was my first real Field Day experience. I had assisted with one a few years back, mostly just setting up and eating food, but this one was for real. I had to run 1 E because I wasn't about to set up outdoors in the 106 deg. heat here in Yuma. That would be sort of like a reverse FYBO! I ran at home using a gel cel and my 20m version of the SST and a dipole antenna. First Impressions- Wow! what speed are those stations running at! I bet they are cruising at better than 20 wpm. Does anyone know? I was able to get the callsigns from listening to the station call many times repeatedly. They could have saved themselves alot of wasted RF power just by cutting their speed. Let's just say I sent "AGN" a few times. After getting the feel of this event I was able to make 29 contacts operating of and on from the beginning of the contest to 9:30 pm local. Stations contacted ranged from HI (yea! I got HI) to NJ. I'd say coast to coast is not bad for 3w! I think for something a little more relaxing I think the next contest I run will be Strait Key Night. I think that will be a little more my style. 73 de Tim & Aretta Gordish KB9LGJ & N0YDG Yuma, AZ QRP-L #457, ScQRPion #25, IDEA, ARRL Rigs: 38-S, 20m-SST WAS on 30: 17 confirmed **All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, we walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever" Micah 4:5** From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 19:31:42 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15813 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:31:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35146-64362>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:29:46 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34947-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:29:04 -0400 Received: from groucho.santarosa.edu ([198.189.21.74]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA40810 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:28:58 -0400 Received: (from jwatrous@localhost) by groucho.santarosa.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA08551; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 16:28:53 -0700 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Jun 97 16:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: jwatrous@groucho.santarosa.edu Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: John Watrous To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Re: SST Field Day In-Reply-To: <199706292314.TAA17275@newman.concentric.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-To: tgordish@concentric.net X-Cc: Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO All those stations were running automatic keyers and I found many not listening, at least listening they way you should in the QRP region of 40. Also, I visited our local club during FD and they were running 100 watts right at 7040. But I too had a fun first FD with my SST. I found it really hard at night when the band got dense, but during the day I worked the country. John, K6PZB On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 tgordish@concentric.net wrote: > QRP Folk, > > This was my first real Field Day experience. I had assisted with one a > few years back, mostly just setting up and eating food, but this one was > for real. I had to run 1 E because I wasn't about to set up outdoors in > the 106 deg. heat here in Yuma. That would be sort of like a reverse > FYBO! I ran at home using a gel cel and my 20m version of the SST and a > dipole antenna. > > First Impressions- Wow! what speed are those stations running at! I bet > they are cruising at better than 20 wpm. Does anyone know? I was able > to get the callsigns from listening to the station call many times > repeatedly. They could have saved themselves alot of wasted RF power > just by cutting their speed. Let's just say I sent "AGN" a few times. > > After getting the feel of this event I was able to make 29 contacts > operating of and on from the beginning of the contest to 9:30 pm local. > Stations contacted ranged from HI (yea! I got HI) to NJ. I'd say coast > to coast is not bad for 3w! > > I think for something a little more relaxing I think the next contest I > run will be Strait Key Night. I think that will be a little more my > style. > > 73 de > > > Tim & Aretta Gordish > KB9LGJ & N0YDG > Yuma, AZ > > QRP-L #457, ScQRPion #25, IDEA, ARRL > Rigs: 38-S, 20m-SST > WAS on 30: 17 confirmed > > **All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, we walk in the name > of the Lord our God for ever and ever" Micah 4:5** > > From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 20:18:06 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16795 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:18:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35255-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:17:51 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35019-64362>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:16:52 -0400 Received: from resuba.com (wa3nna@resuba-CP038.H0.philagate1.microserve.net [198.70.191.2]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02954 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:16:44 -0400 Received: (from wa3nna@localhost) by resuba.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA08465 for qrp-l@lehigh.edu; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:16:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199706300016.UAA08465@resuba.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:16:45 -0400 Reply-To: wa3nna@resuba.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Pete Rossi To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: WA3NNA QRP FD REPORT X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO - - - FIELD DAY 1997 REPORT - - - CALL : WA3NNA ENTRY CLASS : 1B - battery (1 operator) SECTION / LOCATION : SNJ Saturday: Beach - between 23st and 24th Street; Ocean City, NJ. On the beach; About 75 yards from the ocean. Sunday: Back deck of place where I was staying in Ocean City, NJ. RIG : OHR 400 (5 watts CW - 80, 40, 20 meter) ANTENNA : Saturday : Kite supported vertical wire. 20 meters: 1/2 wave 33' wire w/pi tuner 40 meters: 1/2 wave 66' wire w/pi tuner 80 meters: 1/4 wave 66' wire w/o tuner Sunday : 33' horizontal wire about 15 feet above ground. POWER SOURCE : 12V Ni-Cad battery pack TOTAL ON-AIR OPERATION TIME : About 8 hours total FINAL SCORE : 80 meters 4 QSOs 40 meters 73 QSOs 20 meters 30 QSOs ----- TOTAL 107 QSOs (x2 points) CW (x5) 5 watts = 1070 points 100% emergency power = 100 points Operation from a public place = 100 points -------------- TOTAL SCORE = 1270 points COMMENTS : Who turned off the fan? Were were the winds? Had lots of trouble keeping the kite antenna wire up on Saturday. The kite would fly fine but did not have enough lift to support the 66' wire. For the first 2 hours or so the wire was more like a 45 degree angle. Who would think that 66' of #22 bare wire would be all that heavy? I started up right on time; first QSO at 1800z and I planned to stay on the beach until at least 8:30 or (just before dark) so but the winds just TOTALLY DIED OUT around 6 PM ... and down came the kite. ABSOLUTELY NO WIND at all! So enough was enough. I packed up an headed back more than 2 hours ahead of schedule. Winds Sunday did not seem any better so rather than lug all of the junk back to the beach, I just set up on the back deck of where I was staying with a 33' piece of wire running all over the place. I expected it to load up on 20 and it worked so-so but I did not expect it to tune/work on 40 but much to my surprise, I was able to make some contacts there to. But it certainly was nowhere near as good as the vertical wire on the beach. Also the noise level was much higher buried in between all of the other houses. Sure enough, the breezes started to pick up about 1 PM on Sunday.. to late to do much about it. Anyway for all of the wind problems on Saturday I felt like I spent most of the afternoon playing with the kite trying to keep the wire up off the ground and with the poor antenna on Sunday, I managed to only fall 30 contacts short of last years score. LESSONS LEARNED: ;-) I spent so much time re-orienting the kite, which means less time under the beach umbrella operating = more sunburn :-( There sure of a lot of loud stations out there who can't hear. Pete Rossi - WA3NNA wa3nna@pete.reusba.com From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 22:04:35 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA19599 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:04:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35009-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:04:00 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34871-64362>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:02:59 -0400 Received: from w3eax.umd.edu (w3eax.umd.edu [128.8.198.73]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA39377 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:02:53 -0400 Received: (from ham@localhost) by w3eax.umd.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA07293; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:25:58 -0400 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:25:55 -0400 Reply-To: ham@w3eax.umd.edu Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Scott Rosenfeld NF3I To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: For all who missed Field Day 1997 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-To: qrp-l , eax@w3eax.umd.edu X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO It was AWESOME! 80m didn't "go long" like it did in November sweeps, and VHF pretty much stunk around here. Org: Laurel, MD ARC Call: W3LM Class: 2A, battery, 100w output QSOs: CW, about 400 SSB, about 750 Ants: 6 el. tribander @ 35', G5RV, 80/40 trap dipole Rigs: Yaesu FT-890, IC-740, IC-735, Drake TR-7 Ops: Maybe 7 or 8 Crowd: Occasionally swelling to 25 Notes: Lots of people hanging around shooting the breeze. A sizable handful of visitors Notable facts for QRP-L: Fellow QRP-L calls heard/wkd - N4BP (Bob), AA8EB (Mike), AB7TK (I spoke to Randy's FD co-conspirator), and AE0Q (Glenn). We had a blast. Grabbed freq's, ran 'em, held 'em, worked on 20m phone run for over 2 hours averaging 60/hour. * Scott Rosenfeld NF3I Burtonsville, MD FM19mc QRV 80-10/6/2/440 * *** 6m 75 grids worked on 8 watts *** HF 140 cfmd * QRP-L #147 *** ** QRP ARCI #9054 ** DXCC/WAS/WAC *** 100% dipole powered HF/6m ** * 301-549-1022 h / 301-982-1015 w *** Hamfest, life's simple joy * From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 22:14:49 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA19997 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:14:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35231-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:14:29 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34951-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:13:42 -0400 Received: from mgate.arrl.org (root@mgate.arrl.org [205.217.201.2]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA65295 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:13:34 -0400 Received: by mgate.arrl.org (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0wiVyE-0004ihC; Sun, 29 Jun 97 22:13 EDT Received: by mgate.arrl.org (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0wiVyD-0004ihC; Sun, 29 Jun 97 22:13 EDT Message-Id: <33B716B7.3E0@arrl.org> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:15:19 -0400 Reply-To: zlau@arrl.org Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Zack Lau To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: W1VT FD operation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO I decided to try a mostly 6M single band QRP FD operation from Mt Equinox VT (didn't spend much time on 2 or 432). Nothing in the way of solid openings, but I worked stations in MS, OK, KS, NE, GA, and FL--and one DX station not in the contest--W6JKV/J6. Rather wide distribution of single hop E skip... 5 watts PEP from a homebrew transceiver into a 4 el yagi (either at 9 ft or 3800 + 9 feet...) Rough contact estimates 6M SSB --69 6M CW--18 6M FM--4 2M SSB--3 432 SSB--2 BTW--the ARRL Book QRP Power has a reprint of my September 1995 QEX article on building a 6M transverter. These circuits are quite useful for putting Rick Campbell's R2/T2 on 6M. --Zack W1VT From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 22:26:22 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20393 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:26:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35278-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:25:46 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34937-64362>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:24:50 -0400 Received: from x9.boston.juno.com (x9.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.25]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA42305 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:24:46 -0400 Received: (from wa5whn@juno.com) by x9.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id WuF25130; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:23:34 EDT Message-Id: <19970629.202242.6567.0.wa5whn@juno.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:23:34 EDT Reply-To: wa5whn@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: wa5whn@juno.com To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Field Day, 2A, NM, W5BI WOW !! from grid square: DM66na X-Cc: w5bi@flash.net X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,14-15,18-19,22-23,28-29,32-35,37-38,40-41,43-44, 47-48,50-51,53-60,63 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: O QRP-Lers, WOW !! Where do I start ? First, I had tried Cecil's suggestion on 40 meters, drooping one leg of the G5RV on 40 meters. Yes, it works, Tnx for the suggestion. I was on CW, from grid square: DM66na @ 9,600 feet asl. 70+ feet Ponderosa Pines were home to 4 antennas this year. Don't You love it when You can bring along a deep cycle battery, and the specific gravity indicates that the battery still shows that it is fully charged after the event. W5BI (W5BI, WB5LYJ & WA5WHN) had run an Icom 706 into 2 bazooka antennas & 20 meter dipole ( phone, QRO). I had run my Ten-Tec Scout (throttled to 5 watts) into a G5RV. The lowest antenna was at 60 feet, and the highest was close to 80 feet. Amazing, as we get older, our aim improves with a sling shot. Some of the these old Ponderosa Pines, at our Field Day site, are older than our Country (USA), and rose quartz (boulders) every where. I did not work one Alaskan station. The G5RV, one lobe was favoring Alaska, and NW USA. WOW !! Lots of WWA, and Oregon section stations worked. On cw, my bandpass was set @ 250 Hz, and there were several stations on the very same frequency, calling CQ FD. Amazing, something about 14 lbs. of groceries being placed in a 12 lbs. sack. 15 meters was open on Sat. & Sun. almost all day. On Sunday, I had thought 15 meters was only open to California, until I had worked KH6RS (1A, Pacific). 20 meters was open all 24 hours. I had worked numerous neighbors in Arizona, & stations in the South Pacific. 80 cw, with QRP, was a challenge, but I had repeatly worked stations on the East Coast. I was pleased to work so many QRP-Lers, during this contest. In fact, You can tell who the QRP People are, they still send "QRL ?", during a contest, and will have a short QSO, during a contest. I had heard several JA's in the Contest. One had keep trying to copy me, but the QRM was fierce, on 20 cw. Photos will be in the W5BI URL (http:.//www.flash.net/~w5bi/). Wait, they are not there yet. We had made slightly less than 600 contacts, without really pushing it (Phone-QRO, CW-QRP). Did anyone loose a Fedora Hat ? The wind was blowing, and we did see one fly by @ 9,600 feet. Some love struck Crow was chasing it. ;-) (Hello AB7TT) The Milky Way & a few meteorites did make gazing into the sky worth while, late @ night. This year, the electrical storms had bypassed us, and we did not have one electrical failure. WB5LYJ had cooked a hot pot of "posole". Friends, Food & Frequenices were superb this year. 72...Jay, WA5WHN PS Don't forget, NA5N, W5BI, WB5LYJ & I will be operating (QRP & QRO) from a Special Event Stn, this coming week (check the W5BI URL for details). From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 22:32:02 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20577 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:32:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35293-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:31:01 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35236-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:30:00 -0400 Received: from hil-img-8.compuserve.com (hil-img-8.compuserve.com [149.174.177.138]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA41683 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:29:58 -0400 Received: by hil-img-8.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id WAA02618; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:28:46 -0400 Message-Id: <970630022807_70511.3041_IHD73-1@CompuServe.COM> Date: 29 Jun 97 22:28:07 EDT Reply-To: 70511.3041@CompuServe.COM Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: "Wilford D. Lindsey" <70511.3041@CompuServe.COM> To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: WA3NNA QRP FD REPORT X-To: "INTERNET:wa3nna@resuba.com" , "W.D. (Doc) Lindsey/K0EVZ" <70511.3041@CompuServe.COM>, QRP-L Discussion Group X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Pete: >> There sure of a lot of loud stations out there who can't hear. << A comment re the loud stations who could not (would not?) hear--I agree. Seemed to me that some of the loud hams really enjoyed *sending* CQ-FD rather than actually working someone. So there would be spots where these huge and seemingly endless CQ-FD's were with *several* guys fruitlessly trying to respond, but in vain. I thought the point was to send...then listen...then send again if no one is calling back. "Communication" is 2-way, isn't it? I would think someone at the FD site would wake up and realise that "nothing is happenin', man". Seems to me part of the problem may be using computers for everything, from automatic keyers to automatic logging. Maybe it is just too automated, etc. I am not a Luddite and am comfortable with CW at 40 wpm, but still sometimes found it impossible to get even a DIT in between the end of one CQ and the beginning of the next. Incredible. BTW, this is in no way sour grapes. I logged 119 QSO's including one in Belgium (!), another in Hawaii, and working 34 states plus all but two provinces in Canada. So getting out was not the problem. Perhaps consideration might be given to recommended spacing? (I also realize that some of this continuous sending is done to keep control of a given frequency.) My setup was very basic = Sierra at 2 watts to a SLV/W6MMA powered by a marine battery. With seemingly lots of power remaining. Also used an Autek QF-1 filter and Kenwood headphones. Paddles were the Schurr,.even though the package says don't take them outside, etc. SSHHHH... Just a few thoughts. 72/73, --Doc/K0EVZ qrp-l 861 norcal 2050 cqc 414 mn-qrp 19 nj-qrp 69 ak/qrp 139 ARCI 9398 ARRL WAS 49/38 DXCC 47/39 <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sierra Argosy 525 Argo 515 HW-9 Explorer II-30 SW-30 Norcal 40a Emtech 40-40 SW-40 TT 1340 A&A Gary Breed 30 49er 38S Schurr Paddles MFJ 259 MFJ 941D TNT/2 Windom SLV/W6MMA HB G5RV Autek QF-1 RS DSP-40 "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler"--A. Einstein From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 22:51:59 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21269 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:51:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35315-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:47:29 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35283-69224>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:46:32 -0400 Received: from sierra.psnw.com (root@sierra.psnw.com [205.199.144.107]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA31643 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:46:29 -0400 Received: from fresno3-03.psnw.com (fresno3-03.psnw.com [206.43.246.67]) by sierra.psnw.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA11529 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706300246.TAA11529@sierra.psnw.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: kd7s@psnw.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: kd7s@psnw.com (Bill Jones) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Perfect Field Day Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: kd7s@mail.psnw.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Friends, This year's F/D activity was as close to being perfect as anyone can hope for. I operated 1-B (battery) single-op, from Kings Canyon Nat'l Park in the central California Sierra mountains. The weather was warm during the daytime but a bit on the chilly side at night at 6,500 ft. a.s.l. I built a brand new antenna for the event and it appeared to work quite well. It was a bi-square for 20 meters with a switch at the top to transform it into a full-wave loop on forty. I used two lengths of nylon line to activate the switch. The slingshoot/fishing reel combination got a support rope up 70 feet in the tall trees. I used my Icom IC-728 at 4 watts output and an 88 Ah gel-cell for power. The battery voltage went from 12.76 volts Friday afternoon (when I set up) down to 12.52 volts by Sunday afternoon. I made just over 200 contacts in the twelve or so hours I operated. This year I didn't see a single bear (unlike a couple years ago when I had one run through my camp at mid-day.) The park rangers were very cooperative and my fellow campers didn't complain that my transmitter was messing up their TVs. The highlight of the whole weekend was working several members of this list. It doesn't get much better than this. ============================== Bill Jones - KD7S <>< Sanger, California Reply to kd7s@psnw.com ============================== From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Sun Jun 29 23:55:35 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA22918 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:55:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35382-64362>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:54:59 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35346-57198>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:54:34 -0400 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA50945 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:54:32 -0400 Received: from sgidal.dallas.sgi.com ([169.238.80.130]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id UAA06552 for <@sgi.com:qrp-l@lehigh.edu>; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:54:29 -0700 env-from (adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com) Received: from chuck.dallas.sgi.com by sgidal.dallas.sgi.com via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/911001.SGI) for <@sgidal.dallas.sgi.com:qrp-l@lehigh.edu> id WAA19599; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:54:27 -0500 Received: (from adams@localhost) by chuck.dallas.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id EAA04329 for qrp-l@lehigh.edu; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 04:54:26 +0100 Message-Id: <199706300354.EAA04329@chuck.dallas.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 04:54:26 +0100 Reply-To: adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com (Chuck Adams) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: NORTEX FD 1A X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: O Gang, Got up Saturday at sunrise after a long week at work and excited about the first day of field day. Just seemed like yesterday that it was that time last year. Looking like a nice day in progress. The plan was to meet with the gang at McDonalds near the park to have breakfast together and get some ideas discussed about last minute issues. Hey, you don't think that everyone has everything done come the day of field day do you? Got to the restaurant at the appointed time of 8am and Smitty NA5K, Mike Dooley N5BGZ, Dick Kapalczynski ex-AA2WJ, Bob Kmak K5WO, and myself had breakfast. You can't start field day on an empty stomach. We left the restaurant at 9am and when we got to the FD site, a park in North Dallas/Richardson that we use for a lot of the in the field events. Bill Pierrand K5JHP and Baity Bartel W2LQ were already there. Bill manages every year to get all the equipment, tables, logs and scratch paper, antennas and just about everything we need into the back of his pickup with a small camper cover. We couldn't do field day without him. Mike Dooley has the neatest setup for antenna supports and I will try to describe it and he can correct any errors that I make. Paul Harden can draw up the diagrams for his hints and kinks. Take 8' sections of 2x2's and join them using L-metal pieces about 1 or more feet long (also 2" on a side). This metal has the oval openings about every inch or so. Drill holes in the 2x2's and use two L-pieces with screws and bolts to hold the pieces together and the metal forms a hollow square tube for support. Goes together rather fast. Last year we used 3 16' supports each made up of two 8' sections using the above technique. We used one to hold two ends of two 140' long wires end-fed, one SSE and one NNE. This year we made a 32' section for the center section and used two 16' sections for support of a dipole with 140' per side. Dipole oriented lengthwise ESE-WNW. This antenna worked super. Fed with 450 window line and we used a Dentron tuner, but any good tuner will do the job nicely. This antenna played nicely at 5W and most likely the antenna of choice from now on. Mike hammered 4 wooden stakes into the ground 16' from the point where the center support was placed, two parallel with antenna either side and two at right angles to the direction of the antenna. 32' section has eye-bolts at the 16' point and the top for the guy lines (nylon rope also obtained from home depot). Neat idea from Mike was another eye bolt with 32' loop of rope used as a mechanism for raising and lowering the antenna just in case. He tied the guys to the middle support and to the stakes on each side and we raised the mast and then tied off the other guys. It was too simple. You had to be there to believe it. We almost felt like we had to go back and do it again the hard way. It just wasn't the FD way to get off so lucky. Thanks Mike for the antenna work. Oh, using #14 stranded house wire with insulation. Works great and cheap. Not for backpackers though. Rest of the setup was done in short order and we were ready to rock and roll. Appointed time came around and we started off with a bang. I was logger and Dick was the paddler. Using K5JHP's TenTec Scout with WM-2 and Dentron tuner we were at 5W and we started on 20m. Envirotronic 501F paddle of Bill's. We went from 1pm to midnight and then we tore it all down. We did it long enough to get it out of our systems and we didn't feel like taking a lot out of ourselves trying for any 24 hour effort. Let it be noted that we used W2LQ for our call. The biggest problem was the number of repeats asked for on the section. NTX just doesn't seem to be in the minds of FD'ers. I'm sure the 2-call in 5-land kept people on their toes. Trust what you copy the first time gang. I had to beat on Smitty after dark when he was operating to go after the KH6 and he was in PAC. This on 20m. We did not hear AK at all. Worked a 29A in NH and another 20A somewhere during the day as I recall from memory. I can probably quote you about 50 or more calls worked, kinda like playing cards and remembering hands. Let it also be known that I did not make a single contact or call a single CQ. I just sat in a lawn chair when I wasn't logging and running the DUP sheet. I did holler "DUPE" and "BEFORE" from the chair once in a while when I heard a call come up on the speaker. :-) First FD that I ever remember not working a single station. The purpose of the exercise is to get operators experienced. Mike Dooley is now ready for the Extra code test. He takes his test on Saturday July 5th. Good luck Mike. On the discussion of code speeds for FD. The high speed guys are running at 30wpm and better. Those are the competitive groups. You gotta do a lot of operating all year to keep that up. FD is slow compared to SS though. IMHO. We had fun and some thunderboomers in the area and a slight shower about sunset. Beautiful cloud formations to 35K feet and red light of the setting sun and cooler temps than earlier in the day. Good thing a breeze was blowing all day. Thanks to all the visitors that dropped by during the day. You meet a lot of people at these things. I left out all the calls of all the rest of the gang and I'll try to remember as many as I can. W5WO Wayne (yes, we have W5WO and K5WO), Jack N5KSJ, Larry N5OSG, and that's all that I can recall right now. My apologies to any omissions. I hope the sunburns weren't too severve and no bites from the critters in the fields. Next year dudes and duddetes. dit dit Chuck Adams K5FO CP-60 adams@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/adams/ WIMPS: Qs=039 30m=32 17m=5 12m=0 States=23/05/00 DX=03/00/00 QSLs=014 From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 00:22:58 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA23409 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35302-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:22:17 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34866-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:21:06 -0400 Received: from krypton.nmr.Hawaii.Edu (krypton.nmr.Hawaii.Edu [128.171.55.13]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA39293 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:20:59 -0400 Received: by krypton.nmr.Hawaii.Edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01735; Sun, 29 Jun 97 18:20:07 HST Message-Id: <9706300420.AA01735@krypton.nmr.Hawaii.Edu> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 97 18:20:07 HST Reply-To: mike@krypton.nmr.Hawaii.Edu Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: mike@krypton.nmr.Hawaii.Edu (Mike W. Burger) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Survived FD X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: O This was my first QRP field day. The site was magnificant, a large park/campground/botanical garden at the foot of the mountains on the windward side of Oahu. Fortunately the local weather was well understood, so tarps suspended over the picnic tables, tents, umbrellas and lots of plastic bags were brought by all. There was the club QRO station and my TenTec back by itself 40 feet away on its own table. As fate would have it, CW did not seem to be catching anyone, and I am painfully rusty through too much fun with VHF stuff. But I did make a couple of contacts on SSB on 80, 40 and 20 meters. After many hours, it seemed like the world was full of alligators. I was heartened by the fact that the QRO station was also having to slug away to get contacts. Interestingly enough, they made about 20 times as many contacts with 20 times as much power, just coincidence no doubt. I also called a number of times on 30 meter CW and answered a number of CQ's there, but no answers. I was using about 200 feet of wire from a tree with a tuner, ground stake and a set of counterpoise wires. I was blown away with the receiver performance. Compared to my limited space antenna systems forced on me by the home QTH, a real antenna was overwhelming. Even though I could not quite get it to load on 160, I even heard one station calling on that frequency range. Saturday evening I did well on 20 meters. Sunday morning 20 opened about sunrise to the mainland as expected, but everyone must have had their beams pointing east. I heard many many stations, probably from the QRP power levels leaking off the back of their antennas, but a couple of hours of calling everyone I heard calling CQ Field Day netted not one contact. I guess Saturday evening at least a few people had trained their antennas to the west. 40 meters was pure chaos. Sunday morning it was so overwhelmed by the strong Japanese AM broadcast stations literally shoulder to shoulder, that I could barely make out just one weak SSB station crammed into one of the narrow cracks. 80 meters in the dead of night was loaded with signals, but it seems that 2800 miles was just too much air for the five watts. Several people said they were hearing me and tried to drag the info out, but just could not make the contact. The motorcycle battery was fantastic. It is a 12 amp hour unit. The rig draw 2.1 amps on transmit. After 14 hours of service, however, the battery arrived home with excellent voltage and lots and lots of left over charge. With the duty cycle it was getting, it was hardly phased. All night was visited by explosive episodes of high winds lifting and cracking the tarps like whips, sudden downpours about four times an hour and sometimes both high winds and rain at the same time, causing one to flip open the umbrella to guard the rig from rain driven horizontally under the tarp. The picnic bench seat was hard as the rock of ages. But the setting was beyond description, surrounded by plants that looked like a set for some prehistoric movie, mountains shrouded in a solid mass of clouds, wind, rain, and cool temperatures, but still surprisingly comfortable with just a little preparation. Besides if you positioned the propane lantern just right, the moderate breeze between strong downbursts would blow the heat right across the operating position. All the trees and bushes had little metal tags giving the common and scientific names, a nice touch... I could have done without the 500 yelling, hymn singing Christians in the adjacent campground, but they all crashed at 10:30 Saturday night and did not start moving around Sunday morning until after 7. All in all, a fabulous night of camping, outrageous plant life, scenery, wind, rain, antennas, rigs, experimenting, yelling into microphones "Pacific Pacific Pacific Pacific PAPA ALPHA CHARLIE!!" only to hear the other station say "Right, we have you as Pennsylvania, QRZ field day." Mike Burger AH7R Honolulu County Grid: BL11ch QRP-L #1053 FISTS #3225 ARS #240 "Under the Bee's ... 28" From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 03:41:35 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA04444 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 03:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <34965-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 03:41:01 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34837-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 03:40:06 -0400 Received: from mx2.techline.com (mx2.techline.com [205.134.192.17]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA69509 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 03:40:01 -0400 Received: from Pbill (ip225.techline.com [205.134.197.240]) by mx2.techline.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA04878; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:39:59 -0700 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970630073851.006c8430@mail.techline.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 00:38:51 -0700 Reply-To: bill@techline.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Bill Todd To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: NW QRP Club FD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-To: nwq-l@scn.org X-Cc: qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU X-Sender: bill@mail.techline.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Hello Group - I am still totaling up the score, but it looks like we put in a fine effort for the 4th NorthWest QRP Club's Field Day excercise. Even if we don't break the 2A catagory, the Bay Center Field Day experience will go down as the most FUN of them all. We had a super group of operators, good antennas, great weather, interested visitors, and hundreds of neighborhood kids to pester us with numerous questions (and eagerly snatch up cans of pop and cookies by the ton). I should have the total score put together tomorrow sometime. Thanks again for all of you who helped out! Bye for now - CUL - Bill-N7MFB http://www.techline.com/~bill From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 05:36:18 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA12265 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:36:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35063-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:35:37 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34936-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:34:20 -0400 Received: from dfw-ix5.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix5.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.5]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA46202 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:34:14 -0400 Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix5.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA16775 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 04:33:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from den-co11-03.ix.netcom.com(204.31.232.163) by dfw-ix5.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id smac16746; Mon Jun 30 04:33:26 1997 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970630093235.1b37b1e2@popd.ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 03:32:35 -0600 Reply-To: v31ry@ix.netcom.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: AE0Q V31RY To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: AE0Q Field Day, Colorado Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: v31ry@popd.ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: O AE0Q Field Day, Colorado (Seven Sparks and a Gap) Location: 30 mi west of Denver at 10,500 ft asl, in a big meadow Call: AE0Q Class: 1A, 100w output (using batteries and 4A solar panel) QSOs: CW, 600 SSB, 260 Ant: Wire Vee-beam directional E/W, 350 ft on each leg Rig: Kenwood TS-450s/AT, LDG Autotuner, DSP-59+ filter, laptop running 'CT' Ops: 7 hams and one soon-to-be-ham (WN0B, AE0Q, KL7ED, K0KI, K4ZI, N0SP, WA0KBT) Worked K7SZ on a couple of bands, and chatted with op Paul AA4XX in early morning on 80 cw. They had a good QRP signal on 80! Conditions on 80m were best I've heard in 7 yrs of operating from the same site with same antenna. From Colorado, I was working both coasts all night. Lower-than-usual noise level. Had good runs on 15 and 10m during the days. Great food, mild weather and no rain made for a perfect Field Day.. Thanks to everyone that we worked! 73 -- Glenn ---------------------------- "Remember, any tool can be the right tool!" Red Green AE0Q / V31RY ex: GM5BKC, ZB2WZ, SV0WY, WA0VPK v31ry@ix.netcom.com --SOWP 5558-M, QCWA LM, ARRL LM, NCVA-- http://www.qsl.net/ae0q From ripowell@mpna.com Mon Jun 30 06:38:24 1997 Received: from one.net (mail.one.net [206.112.192.107]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA13064 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mpna1 (port-31-31.access.one.net [206.112.210.189]) by one.net (8.8.4/8.7.5) with SMTP id GAA15115; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:38:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970630105849.006a399c@smtp.mpna.com> X-Sender: ripowell@smtp.mpna.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:58:49 -0400 To: qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU, Joe Lauben , William McFadden From: Richard Powell Subject: Heard at the 1997 FD "QRP Under the Fire Tower" Status: RO Operated with the gang from Athens, OH, 1A Battery, total QRP, .- .- ---.. . -... .- .- ---.. . -... .- .- ---.. . -... -.- What a great group! Wow, that fire tower is REALLY up there! *^%*&$% didn't bring a hammer. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!(Thanks to that station on 6M :) ) What kind of bug is that? it's bringing it's own ground support crew! 500 feet of wait-a-minute bushes, this sucks. Quick,,, what letter is dah-dit-dah-dah? really, what letter is dah-dit-dah-dah? (this after operating about 8 hrs at a bazillion WPM.) OOOOOO, coffee! 19A? did he say 19A? KY? oh yeah,,, that's south of here! Die bugs die! I think I just worked 2 stations at the same time! 73 /rick +-------------------------------------------------------------+ |Richard Powell 513-942-2542 (h) | |Systems Integration 513-403-5083 (c) | |Vertical Solutions Inc. 513-891-7997 (w) | |http://www.vertsol.com 513-891-8063 (f) | |ripowell@mpna.com http://www.mpna.com/ripowell | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 08:29:58 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15474 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35035-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:29:31 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34851-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:28:41 -0400 Received: from oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (wmcfadde@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu [132.235.1.2]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA65656 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:28:25 -0400 Received: (from wmcfadde@localhost) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15458 for qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:28:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706301228.IAA15458@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:28:24 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: wmcfadde@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: William McFadden To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Athens OH FD Report MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-To: qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU (qrp-l) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: O The Athens Country Amateur Radio Association once again fielded a QRP Field Day effort in class 1A-Battery. A full report with photos will be posted soon to my web site (URL in sig) but in the meantime here is a preliminary report: This year the ACARA operated from beneath the fire tower of the Waterloo Experimental Forest in Southeast Ohio. We had one HF station, a VHF station, a 2m packet station, and an RS-12 satellite station. For HF we used my QRP+ and erected an 80/40m fan dipole, a 330' vee-beam, a 20m delta loop, and a 40m delta loop. All HF antennas were suspended, at least on one end, from the fire tower. All HF QSOs were on CW. HF operations (and 2m packet and RS-12 operations) occured in a tent. HF operators were WD8RIF, AA8EB, and WB6JBM, with logging help provided by KC8GLI and WB6JBM's some Matt. The VHF station operated 6m SSB and 2m SSB/CW. The VHF antennas included a 2-element 6m yagi and a 4-element 2m yagi on top of a rotatable 50' carbon-fiber mast, a 3-element vertically oriented 2m yagi on a mast clamped to the camper, and a 2m colinear mag-mount about 70' up the tower. VHF operations took place under the awning of the camper. 2m was very inactive, but 6m was hopping, with many openings to Texas. VHF operators were N8XWO, WD8JLM, and KC8GLI, with additional fill-in help by WB6JBM and WD8RIF. The satellite station consisted of my IC-735 at five watts and a 10m/15m fan dipole mounted close to the ground. The single contact I made via RS-12 was a first for me and was quite a thrill. The satellite operator was WD8RIF with help from WB6JBM. The site was wonderfully quiet, both audibly and electrically. Unfortunately, the trees were very dense and the open area wasn't quite large enough to allow us to properly erect the vee-beam. I haven't analyzed the logs yet, but a preliminary look shows that we worked 333 QSOs on HF CW, 60 on 2m and 6m SSB, 1 on 2m CW, 1 on 2m packet, and 1 via satellite RS-12. 72, Eric -- W. Eric McFadden WD8RIF Athens OH wmcfadde@ace.cs.ohiou.edu http://ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu/~mcfadden From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 08:55:27 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA16241 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:55:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35114-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:54:56 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35036-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:52:59 -0400 Received: from x12.boston.juno.com (x12.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.26]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA39785 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:52:53 -0400 Received: (from k8cv@juno.com) by x12.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id I_B27845; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:51:36 EDT Message-Id: <19970630.124752.10070.1.k8cv@juno.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:34:33 GMT Reply-To: k8cv@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: k8cv@juno.com (Walt D Amos) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: ANOTHER fd report............ X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,10-20 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Hi : Did FD from home 1E and QRP naturally ! Got two radios in the days just before the outing. First test contact with the scout at QRO 50 watts was T32Z and then turned it down to 5 watts and worked KH6AFS. So with that I was ready for FD. In all the scramble to get the battery hooked up and working I put 12v battery and my 5 amp power supply on the same line and with the power supply off promptly blew it up with voltage coming in the wrong way. Not to smart of a start. Did mostly SP , search and pounce, and only made 3 ssb contacts just to see that it would do it. My, that scout sure is a nice radio, stiff knob and all ! Bottom line......... 238 qso's 2350 cw pts + 15 ssb pts X 5 pwr mult + 0 bonus = 2,365 score Walt K8CV We're just a small sub-group of an eclectic corner of a dying hobby..... From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 10:26:33 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19585 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35214-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:24:39 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34859-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:23:58 -0400 Received: from mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (mtigwc03.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.33]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA66207 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:23:51 -0400 Received: from LOCALNAME ([207.116.42.90]) by mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA5048; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:23:20 +0000 Message-Id: <19970630142318.AAA5048@LOCALNAME> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:23:20 +0000 Reply-To: SSLYON@worldnet.att.net Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: SEAB&SHARON LYON To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD: 1-A CT, W1QK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-To: qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU, w1qk@snet.net X-Sender: SSLYON@postoffice.worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Our local club ran 2-A at a site on Candlewood Lake near Danbury CT, BUT Dan, W1QK ran QRP 1-A under his own call with a cranked-down TS-850 to either a 600' Loop, 40M Quad Loop (vert.), or a Tri-(bulation)-bander. Worked 80, 40 & 20 CW for a total of around 3,900 points. Don't know how that will rank, but it sure impressed the QRO guys in the club. We pay a LOT of attention to antenna issues and it seem to pay off in our results. F.Y.I. the 600' Loop can be put up by 2 people in less than 45min. Sling-shot got to the 4 support trees ranging from 60-80 ft. high. =s= "Seab" Lyon - AA1MY Bethel, CT; FN-31-HJ ARCI#9253; QRP-L #574 NEQRP#511; ARRL; QCWA From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 10:39:25 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20121 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:39:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35246-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:33:59 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35237-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:32:42 -0400 Received: from dancris.com (user1.dancris.com [204.177.80.10]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23181 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:32:07 -0400 Received: from ki7mn.dancris.com by dancris.com (8.8.5/DANCRIS-1.2) id HAA28049 for <>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:30:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199706301430.HAA28049@dancris.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:30:14 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: ki7mn@dancris.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Bob Hightower To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Field Day Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: ki7mn@dancris.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Along with everyone else, I had a great time at Field Day, my first that was purely CW and QRP. Set up Friday morning, and got the SLV up about 8' with elevated radials. The comparison with the ground mounted configuration didn't show much improvement, and the tuning was obvioiusly difficult due to the height of the coil above ground. But, with the MFJ-901B tuner, that wasn't really a problem. The best setup was of course with the G5RV at 40'. Didn't get a chance to use Cecil's 27' drop wire off the end, as the Forest Service insisted that we couldn't tie wires or ropes to trees.. dumb! Finally got the word that it was OK (all the wire was already up), as long as there were no 'dangling wires'. I had to explain that it was FD, and that there were thousands of Hams in the woods with wire tied to trees, and that it would all come down on Sunday. Dave Yarnes (W7AQK) noted that the FS had chained a picnic table to a tree very tightly, so that would have to come off too :^). The rig was the Ten-Tec Argo II at 5 watts into the G5RV with the OHR WM-1 and LDG Autotuner. Worked great! I didn't work hot and heavy, and only made about 40 contacts, but reached from Hawaii to WNY and MA, and down into GA, AL and AR in the South. As noted by someone else, lots of WWA and ORE stations on the air. Overall, I'm really pleased with the effort, as I wasn't out to gather points, but to have fun. Did contact a few on the list, but can't remember the calls, and my log is at home. I still don't understand how anyone can make any contacts if they don't listen. Several stations seemed to call CQ endlessly, with lots of takers, but wouldn't listen long enough to hear them before going into the CQ loop again. The xyl tried the N/T station, but got frustrated and only made 5 contacts. Her code is just not quite up to FD speeds, even on that band. Auto keyers and keyboards, I expect, plus all the adjacent noise. Not a good experience for someone trying to build speed when the recognition isn't too solid at that. Back to the Codeboy and tapes until she gets past the tests. The Az ScQRPions had a good contingent up there, with Floyd NQ7X, Brian W5VBO, Dave W7AQK, Gary AB7MY and Dan N7VE scattered throughout the forest. Maybe someday we'll get organized into a club group, but I doubt it...too much fun this way. 73, Bob KI7MN (ki7mn@dancris.com) Chandler, AZ Grid DM43bi Lat 33.334500 Long -111.87260 NorCal #1221 ARCI #8918 Qrp-l #271 CQC #274 AK QRP #30 ARRL http://www.dancris.com/~ki7mn WIMPS: QSO's=18 30=18 17=0 12=0 States=15/0/0 DX 0/0/0 QSL's=5 From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 11:02:17 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA21022 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:02:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35003-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:01:40 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34939-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:00:38 -0400 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA31905 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:00:34 -0400 Received: from sgidal.dallas.sgi.com ([169.238.80.130]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id IAA14063 for <@sgi.com:qrp-l@lehigh.edu>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:00:32 -0700 env-from (adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com) Received: from chuck.dallas.sgi.com by sgidal.dallas.sgi.com via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/911001.SGI) for <@sgidal.dallas.sgi.com:qrp-l@lehigh.edu> id KAA24729; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:00:29 -0500 Received: (from adams@localhost) by chuck.dallas.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA06424 for qrp-l@lehigh.edu; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:00:28 +0100 Message-Id: <199706301500.QAA06424@chuck.dallas.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:00:28 +0100 Reply-To: adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com (Chuck Adams) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD Update X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Gang, I've had a number of emails and also from the number of posts there were a lot of people seeing the same thing, i.e. no response from calls to certain stations calling CQ. Here are some scenarios. Pick one: 1. FD brings out a lot of people that don't operate the rest of the year. Good News: It brings out a lot of people that don't operate the rest of the year. Bad News: It brings out a lot of people that don't operate the rest of the year. 2. FD setups are FD setups. Unless you are the person providing the equipment the station is new and sometimes cumbersome to operate. New keyers with some strange or new programming sequences, paddles which the owner won't let you adjust, antenna setups that are sometimes questionable .... On the keyer, when programmable, put in CQ FD sequence, exchange, and another button for class only and another for section for repeats. Also note. Use proper spacing between characters all the time. Heard a lot of continuous characters run together. CW is all about timing. 3. There is a lot of background activity going on and at some point and time a distraction may occur that causes you to be missed when you call. 4. RIT left in wrong position. 5. No RIT. 6. The rig you are operating on is offset by some delta-f unknown to you. What good ops will do is move over a 100 Hz on the next call and try this two or three times and then move on. Just how bad do you need the contact? Since there are no section multipliers in FD you could work another station down the band in the time it would take you to get the station you are calling. Come back later when you are bored. :-) 7. Beginners, lots of beginners on the air. Now to me this is the best news of all. Elmers: take the time to show them the ropes. Stick with them. Without any new blood coming down the line FD will die. In fact the hobby will die. So if the other station asks for repeats give them. Be patient. I always say that that same individual will not forget and will come back next year to haunt you when they get better. :-) 8. Some mentioned receiver desensitivity. We saw that even on the TenTec Scout. Dallas is crowded and there are a large number of clubs out on FD and some near us at other parks and running 100W and near the frequency. And for the groups that you hear with classes like 10A and up, they most likely are fighting the opposite mode on the same band, so they just might not be able to hear you. ... and the list could go on. Working FD or a contest is something that takes time to hone a new set of skills. It is not like the day-to-day operating of a typical ham. And it's not something that a number of people care for or want. It's just something else to do and it is the only exercise that gets a number of people with different interests operating together as a team at one time. There are a relatively large number of high speed CW ops. They will operate almost every and any exercise. That's why they are where they are. So, knowing that fact, what you gonna do? Practice, practice and more practice will help. Smitty NA5K and I ran over to one of the neighboring FD sites just to see how they were doing. They had five stations set up and only four in operation. Not a single CW station. That's why there are 2 points per for CW. The 20m station was using a vee-beam (only 1 lambda to a side) with angle of 110 degrees between legs and it was only 6' in the air. How well do you think that will work? And another thing, it was quiet at the site and they were not using headphones. At the NORTEX FD site you could read the stations at 50' or better. Of course having only one rig (well there was an attempt at 6m again but we didn't make the 10 contacts like last year) allows one to crank up the volume a little higher. I think our Q rate was up from last year (better antenna?) (K5FO didn't op), so I don't think FD was down across the country. It is an exercise to test equipment, operators, and antennas. ARRL results in QST will tell the tale. We heard them we worked them. If you didn't have fun and/or had problems getting contacts then a reconfiguration may be needed in the setup. I will always believe that antennas are #1 at any power level. Physics at work and Maxwell's Equations work at any power level. Ask the Zuni Loopers about antennas. That is their speciality next to having fun. So chalk up another FD experience and look back and figure out what was done right and throw out what was done wrong. It's a new day. Oh, another hint and kink. Smitty and the gang worked on putting the 450 ohm window line on the dipole. The line was already on a insulator and on another dipole which was cut off and about 4" on wire left to solder the new 140' legs to for connection. The group was using a small pencil sized butane torch. They put flux on the wire after it was wrapped then while heating the wire someone else applied the solder. They jumped several times after coming in close contact with the flame. HOT. OK gang, I suggested they wrap the solder around the connection on the next one and then heat it. Smitty thought that was neat and that I should pass it on. I use it all the time even when using a soldering gun on antenna wire(s). Works for me. Keeps you away from the heat. Also gives you a free hand to work with. Gives you practice for winding toroids. :-) I think we outta bring back the /portable, e.g. W2LQ/5 or K5FO/5, requirement on the callsigns during FD. It'll keep the comments from happening like the /KH6 had from PA. That's interesting, PA/PAC :-) dit dit Chuck Adams K5FO CP-60 adams@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/adams/ WIMPS: Qs=039 30m=32 17m=5 12m=0 States=23/05/00 DX=03/00/00 QSLs=014 From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 11:29:58 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22504 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35144-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:26:52 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34959-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:25:20 -0400 Received: from host.warwick.net (host.warwick.net [204.255.24.254]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02829 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:25:18 -0400 Received: from LOCALNAME (w171-03.warwick.net [208.199.17.13]) by host.warwick.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA21355 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:25:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <33B7FA80.6280@warwick.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:27:12 -0700 Reply-To: kw3u@warwick.net Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Jim To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD Report MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01KIT (Win16; U) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO FD 1B EPA KW3U WHEW!!!Its over and I can't wait til next year. Main Thought: It was a blast and I had a really nice time as always. Location: At the bottom of the mountains where the Delaware River courses thru with whitewater canoes and rafts full of YL'S that make Baywatch look conservative. Equipment: Argonaut 505; Mfj tuner; solar panel with cyclon 6pack battery; long wire(2 or 3 hundred ft,,didn't measure.) Other less meaningful items included a REAL shaky card table; big citronella bucket(more on that later); and a cooler with unspecified beverages. OH yes my navy flameproof straight key(never leave home without it). Results: 40m - 30; 15m - 14; 20m - 13; 80m - 70 The Fun part: The op's that reallly tried hard to get correct exchange during the qsb fades, even the bigs stns. Ops that took the time to send 73/GL/GM/dit dit. Had experienced nothing but courtesy all over the bands and really liked running into familiar calls from other contests. Working the Novices on 80/40..Man they were really trying..I love it. Nostalgia: For about the last five FD's I've been hauling around this old citronella bucket which always provides lotsa entertainment in the late evenings and this year was no exception. Some of the winged critters had Really big wingspans and talk about crashing and burning, they put on a kamikaze routine fer a while. Probably sent up fm Texas to scare me and keep my score down. Strangeness: I'm probably not the only one who has experienced this? Late in the night worked an old 1X2 call with a hollow sound and got a cold feeling on my neck and the propane lantern was acting funny; I tried to send with my best fist to this guy...It was one weird feeling... better reach into the cooler again... Finally: Enjoying the FD stories, keep em coming. The argo 505 is terrific(even tho it doesn't have the cw filter..sigh) 72 Jim kw3u From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 12:01:08 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA24211 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:01:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35254-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:58:28 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35076-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:57:34 -0400 Received: from mailhost.cyberhighway.net (qmailr@mailhost.cyberhighway.net [205.139.62.187]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA40640 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:57:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 3542 invoked from network); 30 Jun 1997 16:01:23 -0000 Received: from ts1-28.eug.cyberhighway.net (HELO ?206.26.237.44?) (206.26.237.44) by mailhost.cyberhighway.net with SMTP; 30 Jun 1997 16:01:23 -0000 Message-Id: <199706301557.LAA40640@nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 97 08:56:51 -0700 Reply-To: russ@natworld.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Russ Carpenter To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Solo QRP Field Day in Oregon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-To: "QRP-L List" X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO I had expected to backpack to my favorite volcano for 1997 Field Day, but the weatherman predicted some nasty stuff for Saturday. So I took a logging road to a ridge closer to home, in a more sheltered location. This spot isn't as dramatic as the volcano, but has wildflowers, sweeping views, an east-facing cliff, and lots of wildlife. My only companions during Field Day were blue and ruffed grouse, mountain quail, and blacktail deer. The deer cracked me up. They couldn't see me inside the tent, but I could see them. They were curious about this artifact that had suddenly appeared in their domain, and walked right up to the tent. About three feet away they could hear the CW sounds from my headphones. Their eyes bugged out, their ears went straight up, and they eased away with little sideways steps. I had lots of downtime during this Field Day, experimenting with different logging approaches and radio gear. And I got a pretty good night's sleep. I ended up with 221 Qs. Right now, logging is the big issue for me. I just can't seem to find a logging system that is compact, fast, efficient, visible in daytime glare and nighttime dark, and operates on lightweight batteries. Oh--the other challenge is the rear end. Mine gets mighty sore. The biggest surprise was QRP SSB. For the first time in a Field Day environment, I decided to give it a try, using a QRP Plus. Got 35 Qs on 40 meter SSB during the day, and I could have done much better if I'd known what I was doing. Very entertaining. Russ Carpenter, AA7QU McKenzie River, Oregon From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 12:37:50 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26963 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:37:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35095-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:36:40 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34994-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:34:20 -0400 Received: from Fe3.rust.net ([204.157.12.254]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA35514 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:34:16 -0400 Received: from LOCALNAME (pontiac-81.rust.net [209.69.64.181]) by Fe3.rust.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA10245 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <33B80ABC.5B6D@rust.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:36:28 -0700 Reply-To: hires@rust.net Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: "Floyd Soo, W8RO" To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: USECA Mega QRP Field Day MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-To: QRP-L X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO 1997 USECA QRP Field Day Initial Report Location: Romeo, Michigan (30 miles north of Detroit) Callsign: KK8M (Novice/Tech: KB8TAS) Class & Section: 17A MI Guest List: Over 200 people signed in, with MANY more that didn't! WX: Absolutely beautiful! Clear, 80s in the days, 60s in the evenings! Extra Curricular Activities: The Classic-Rock band "QRM" played into the wee hours late Friday evening, several B-B-Qs & pot-luck meals (with the USECA sponsored "Steak-Out" on Saturday), chaperoned kids corral, numerous horses, peacocks, sheep, kitty-cats, and other farm animals to observe and feed, and even some classic automobiles "cruised" in! The USECA QRP Field Day was another rousing success! A good time was had by all that stopped by. Plenty of food and drink was on hand and of course, plenty of rigs, antennas, feedlines, campers, tents, etc. Some of the antennas that were out of the ordinary (dipoles, quads and yagis) were: phased 1/4 wave verticals on 80M, 1/4 wave vert and caged dipole on 40M, several wire arrays pointed at strategic directions for a couple of the higher bands and 5 sloping dipoles concentric around a common tower that was steerable via a relay box at the feedpoint. Rigs were mostly full sized rigs turned down to 5 watts, Omni-VI, FT-990s, TS-850s and 450s, IC-735s and 706s, etc. Plenty of auto, marine, industrial and truck batteries abound! One observation that I made was that there were many YLs and teens there operating! That is very encouraging for our family oriented, socially active club! LOTS of newly licensed hams young and old came out to see what ham radio was all about! Saturday evening, one of the Detroit Classical Music stations broadcast a 1-hour show featuring one of our members, who was a professional harmonica player. It just fo happened that the DJ is also a ham, so ham radio and Field Day came up numerous times! Another observation, many skeptics about QRP operations were surprised that 5 watts really can make a good showing in contest (and general communications) situations! Lots of myths dispelled about HAVING to run QRO! I will post the station results here as soon as they are compiled! Thanks for all the interest in what we are doing here in the Detroit area! 72, Floyd Soo, W8RO Past President, USECA Net Manager and Board Member, Collins Collectors Association QRP-L #392 hires@rust.net http://www.rust.net/~hires From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 16:35:29 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06935 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:35:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35016-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:33:01 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34958-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:31:58 -0400 Received: from labs-n.bbn.com (LABS-N.BBN.COM [128.89.0.100]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA23234 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:31:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199706302031.QAA23234@nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 97 16:31:17 EDT Reply-To: malman@BBN.COM Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Joel Malman To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: unusual QRP FD this year X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Folks, I set up 1B, battery, with a 'long' Vee feed with 450-ohm ladder line about 30-40 foot high. Elevation: 1500 in upstate New York. 4 watts cw 5 watt PEP SSB. 39 Sections worked. Total operating time: 8.5 hours ... Results: Band Q's =========== 80 SSB 39 40 cw 20 40 SSB 05 / A lot of QRN ! 20 cw 26 2m FM 02 / Local Simplex ---------- Total Q 92 For sure, not high on the point scale, but a 10 on the fun scale! I would never have expected how easy it was to work 80 meter SSB with 5 watts PEP. What a gas! See you all next year at FD! /joel wa1qvm (malman@bbn.com ... Concord, Ma.) WIMPS: Qs=179 30m=161 17m=17 12m=01 States=25/04/00 DX=050/12/01 From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 19:08:58 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11422 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:08:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35008-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:08:17 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34847-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:59:55 -0400 Received: from x7.boston.juno.com (x7.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.24]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA31717 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:59:49 -0400 Received: (from k7sz@juno.com) by x7.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id SpC01445; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 18:59:12 EDT Message-Id: <19970630.065109.7175.7.k7sz@juno.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 06:50:58 utc Reply-To: k7sz@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: k7sz@juno.com (Richard H. Arland) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Wyoming Valley QRP Commandos FD Score X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,4-5,8-9,12-13,17-18,21-23 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Gang: Just got back from the FD site (stayed an extra nite to recouperate and to compare the SLV/MMA against a 40 mtr dipole...more on this later) and it looks like we did OK. Preliminary QSO count is in excess of 500. We didn't get a SATCOM station on the air....not enuff operators....and we "think" we have a packet QSO...gotta dig that one out of the Lan-link disk capture file. In all we had 9 Commandos present for duty (5 defectrors to the local MURGAS club in the 11th hour) and we had FUN! Dean, N2TNN came in from New Jersey and Paul, AA4XX, came up from North Carolina. The Sierra was our mainstay for CW (the T-T Argo 509 on loan from K6URI had dial drive problems) and an FT-301S was our SSB station. An Icom IC-502 was used on 6 meters along with a 202 for 2 meter "linear mode". A brace of Icom 228s served on voice and packet. I'll post our score as soon as I do the computer crunching and manual add-ons from paper logs (yes, we had computer problems.....N6GA was responsible for that!....Hey, I gotta blame somebody!) 73 rich K7SZ From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 20:52:52 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA14164 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35072-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:50:37 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34998-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:49:16 -0400 Received: from x3.boston.juno.com (x3.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.22]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA54180 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:49:05 -0400 Received: (from wb2vuo@juno.com) by x3.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id UoB27208; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:46:32 EDT Message-Id: <19970630.204506.4455.0.wb2vuo@juno.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:46:32 EDT Reply-To: wb2vuo@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: wb2vuo@juno.com (William K Hibbert) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: BARK FD '97: the Rough figures X-To: qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU, n2tuk@frontiernet.net, cg091@freenet.buffalo.edu, EVMAN@ix.netcom.com, bobkowa@netacc.net, billy@frontiernet.net, djw@dos.nortel.com, wfking@kodak.com, kg2f@frontiernet.net, wb8ygg@juno.com, rindiano@rpa.net, duanekf2jc@aol.com, kf2xc@frontiernet.net, n2uio@frontiernet.net, X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-2,4-5,10-11,16-17,19-49,51-53,58-71 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO BARK ran as K2BRK (N2TUK on N/T), running battery powered 5A class in WNY. 14 members present, 5 Transmitter on the air (PLUS Packet and VHF !!! ), Dipoles of various sorts were present on all bands and FUN, FUN, FUN !!! The most fun I had was to pick up the elements for the TH-3 (stored in my barn) and hear them BUZZ_Z_Z_Z_Z_Z........... I put them down, beat a hasty retreat and observed that the buzzing came from White-Faced Hornets that had nested in the tubing. We ran a 1.5-wave Sloper for 15 instead... Spare gear paid off again. The Ten Tec 509 was DOA Saturday, so the NEW (to me) Swan SS-15 was pressed into service on 15 and I switched 40 over to the IC-735. The HTX-100 for the Novice/Tech station was also flaky, but N2CK had another HTX-100, so we were able to get the Novice/Tech station on the air under N2TUK's call... This is rough, from memory as the log sheets are over at KF2XC's being entered 80 Mtrs - Argosy and crossed dipoled CW - 25 Q's SSB - 100 Q's 40 Mtrs - IC-735 and Dipole CW - 40 Q's SSB - 30 Q's 20 Mtrs - Argo 556 and inverted Vee CW - 35 Q's SSB - none 15 Mtrs - Swan SS-15 and 1.5-wave sloper CW - none SSB - 20 Q's 10 Mtrs - Scout and rotating dipole CW - none SSB - 15 Q's 10 Mtrs N/T - HTX-100 and dipole SSB - 5 Q's VHF - FT-690 on 6M/FT-530 on 2M (2-el yagi on 6 and J-Pole on 2) SSB/FM - 10 Q's Packet - FT-530/Toshiba laptop/Baycomm/J-Pole 40 Q's A slew of bonus points, including a message to the SM for WNY section via packet (!!!) about 1100 points for bonuses Our final tally is going to be 3100 - 3300 points depending on actual QSO counts, which I don't have here with me. The Fun was right up there, and everyone had a blast. Not only that, but the stations went together without a hitch. It was almost as if everyone knew what they were doing! Not necessarily true, but a nice thought... No floods, no T-storms, not many bugs, the food was plentiful....... What else can I say? See you next year! 72/73, Keith, WB2VUO, QRP-L #582, scQRP 40, 100% QRP Tech Specialist (ARRL/WNY), ARRL Life Member, Trustee, NQ2RP/B 10 Mtr QRP Beacon (QRP @ 28.287 MHz) "In the Depths of the Great Bergen (NY) Swamp...FN13ac" Packet - wb2vuo@w2im.#wny.ny.usa.noam *** Email - wb2vuo@juno.com SnailMail - CBA *** Phone - 716.494.1239 "My Night Light runs more power than my Rig!!!" From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 21:01:48 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14310 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:01:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35088-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:01:03 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34944-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:00:14 -0400 Received: from m10.boston.juno.com (m10.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.195]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA67837 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:00:04 -0400 Received: (from k8wi@juno.com) by m10.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id U`M24201; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:56:22 EDT Message-Id: <19970630.195557.5031.0.k8wi@juno.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:56:22 EDT Reply-To: k8wi@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: k8wi@juno.com (bill r isbister) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: TOP GUN qrp fd station X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,18-19,21-22,26-31 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Field Day Report from Team 20CW at USECA, Macomb County, Michigan. As part of an 17alpha effort our goal was to become top gun of the USECA Field Day Event. We began our quest by utilizing a TS570D at 5w output into a 3 element 20m mono bander at 45ft. On hand we also had a delta loop up approx 30ft. (Having a young pajama clad geek on hand came in handy too), in the form or should we say person of Don/WX3M, CW wizard and dedicated op deluxe. The rest of our station consisted of Walt/WB8E, who studied cw all winter so he could operate for an hour and make his ten contacts; Bill/K8WI, who also studied over the winter months so he could wander off to 40 phone and operate; Dennis/KB8YYC, President and Grand Wazoo of USECA, aka/Mr. Terminal Tech, who probably didn't study much of anything and spent most of his time wondering when it would be time for a nap. Team effort is indeed a key element for the success of any station. Dennis provided the key and Bill and Walt had the elements. Don knew how to operate. Seriously, a great team that worked deligently for the past year in putting together a winning station. Our qso count of 280, which was highest of all 17 stations reflects how well this team planned and then worked for duration of the contest. We don't know if 280 is actually low or high but from sea level we feel this was an outstanding performance. A word about 40phone, it's tough making qrp/ssb contacts. It's a fight for just about every one. We did manage to hold a frequency for a short while Sunday morning, but most was hunt and pounce. Total qso were 118 for 40ssb. 73/72 Bill/K8WI From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 21:05:41 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14456 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:05:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35101-55892>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:05:00 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35016-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:03:47 -0400 Received: from postal.atlanta.net (postal.atlanta.net [155.229.2.2]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA72515 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:03:44 -0400 Received: from rbe-1 (venus02.atlanta.com [155.229.56.18]) by postal.atlanta.net (8.8.5/8.8.0) with SMTP id VAA03498; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:03:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <33B8575F.2B5E@atlanta.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:03:27 -0400 Reply-To: rbe@atlanta.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: "Bob Edwards, W4ED" To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD 1B-QRPp, W4ED MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cc: "Ron Pace, AA4RP" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; U) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO My first try at 950 MW Field Day. Q rate was lower than what I like, so may run 5000 MW next time. Operated daylight only. Seemed that the less crowded bands 10/15/20 were much easier to work than 40. Very few strong stations listened for my weak signal, or, like suggested earlier, maybe they were half asleep. Never got even a nibble on my CQs. Logged on paper, with pencil, which was fast enough for my slow Q rate. In the shack, I use EXCEL & macros which is much faster. Rigs were NN1G for 20/40 and mod FT-840 for 15/10. Ant was TFR 20/40 mtr wire vertical tilted about 10 degrees. Had only a couple FL contacts and the rest were several states away, including VE5, VE2, WA, MT, NM, TX, the mid-west and the north-east. Believe this was due to the low take off angle of the vertical. Powered by two solar panels and a marine battery. 10 mtrs - 2 15 mtrs - 28 20 mtrs - 37 40 mtrs - 7 ---- 74 HF CW QRPp contacts in FD 1997 -- /| Bob 72/73 / | | / |\ http://www.qsl.net/w4ed /| / E | \ W4ED nr Atlanta @EM73wt /_|/____|__\_ ...."QRP", more from less.... [\--======-/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 22:20:24 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16646 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:20:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35053-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:18:58 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34899-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:17:49 -0400 Received: from ganymede.frii.com (ganymede.frii.com [208.146.240.5]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA35386 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:17:46 -0400 Received: from jameymac (ftc-0119.ppp.frii.com [208.146.242.51]) by ganymede.frii.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA04772 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:17:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <33B8695C.74CF@ditell.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:20:12 -0600 Reply-To: bfollett@ditell.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Bob Follett To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD, Mobile style MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Gang: My belated FD report. I had to travel to Colorado Saturday for my upcoming daughter's wedding. In an effort to salvage something for FD, I threw the 20M hamstick on the car, my MFJ tuner, and FT747. Since I had to drive one end of Wyoming to the other, I let my XYL drive at noon, local, and started operating 1-C WY on SSB. With a poorly tuned antenna (res. for cw), I got about 40W out. In three hours, I worked 47 stations, including both Dakotas, NH and RI before crossing the boarder to Colorado. The ANC-4 did a great job in knocking the car noise down, and I was pretty much limited by the "ears" at the other end. I guess I should submit my log, even though of short duration, since there couldn't be too many mobiles operating in WY.... Sunday, I threw a 1/2W with counterpoise up on daughter's roof, hooked up my EZ Match with Rainbow swr bridge, my 20M SST and made 11 contacts in a couple hours just to help some of the other stations out. Unfortunately, I got on just before noon, local, and at noon, the number of stations dropped by about 90% as their 24 hours were up. SST worked great, and my cw copying was ok once I got back into the swing of it. 73, Bob AB7ST in the heat of Ft Collins, CO through Sunday. From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Mon Jun 30 22:43:50 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA17200 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:43:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35092-43602>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:43:28 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35035-23630>; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:42:11 -0400 Received: from mx2.techline.com (mx2.techline.com [205.134.192.17]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA67632 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:42:06 -0400 Received: from Pbill (ip210.techline.com [205.134.197.225]) by mx2.techline.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA29339; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:41:08 -0700 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970701024010.006c4c28@mail.techline.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:40:10 -0700 Reply-To: bill@techline.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Bill Todd To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: NorthWest QRP FD Report Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-To: nwq-l@scn.org X-Cc: qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU, holly_irick@msn.com X-Sender: bill@mail.techline.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO The NorthWest QRP Club Field Day event, here in Bay Center, WA was a great deal of fun. We improved our score from last year. In fact...we had about a 1/3rd increase in CW contacts from 1996 (with 252 CW QSO's, as compared with 153 CW QSO's last year). If I did my calculatin' right, our overall score improved too. In 1996 we had a score of 2895 points - and this year it looks like we will have 3615 points for a 2A operation. That improvement included an extremely laid back Sunday morning, when we could only get one station going. The rest of the group just wanted to chat and drink coffee - (I said we had a fun time, remember?). Details Our 20 meter station put out a pretty good signal this year, what with a 2 element quad about 60 feet up at the high point. That was a pretty good trick to hang a quad without using spreaders. We just hung it between high tree limbs and spread it apart, and aimed it towards the South East. Thanks go to Brian, K7QF for helping me fine-tune this monster. The antenna was originally a 3 element quad, but Brian "tactfully" suggested that I was attempting a bit of overkill, so we reduced it to a 2 element at the last minute..hi. Roy, W6EMT let us use his nifty antenna analyzer gizmo to be sure it was resonant. We really didn't have a dedicated 15 meter antenna, so we just used the 40 meter Delta Loop, and tried N7MOB's vertical for awhile too (I need to improve our 15 meter antenna for next year...). Mark, WF7M let us use his 80 meter dipole for 80 and also for (at times) 40 meters, and Mark really put in a Yomen's effort by sticking with 40 meter CW for a total of 7 hours! (Ouch). WF7M managed to make 3 satelitte contacts on a single pass (good work Mark!!). Brian, KV9X pounded the brass late into the eveinig on 20 meters, and helped to get our packet station on the air too. Thanks for the use of the laptop Brian! Marcia, KB7MCW was handy doing the logging and help to keep us from aying "HOT DAM*" when we got another section. K7WUW, Gerry - let us use his 2 meter Boomer antenna, and although he didn't operate, he gave us our needed packet contact and also helped us to pass our Section Manager message along its' way. K7NPS, Jim helped us to remember the need to take it easy. He also made all out 2 meter FM contacts with all the locals (thanks Jim). We had so much fun...about 1/2 the operators dropped what they were doing, and took a long walk on the beach, led my your roving reporter, N7MFB. We had all the regular bonus points - including (this time) a message sent to our local ARRL Section Manager. _______ I could go on and on, but you folks have other Field Day reports to read. So, I'll close this report by saying thanks to all of the operators, the non-operators who contributed too, and the hundreds of local kids who swiped more than one (allowed) soda from our cooler (hi). BCNU next year! CUL - Bill-N7MFB http://www.techline.com/~bill From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Tue Jul 1 07:17:44 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA10045 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:17:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <34981-23468>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:17:11 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34832-54448>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:16:20 -0400 Received: from volta.ee.calpoly.edu (rheiss@volta.ee.calpoly.edu [129.65.26.107]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA56792 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 07:16:12 -0400 Received: (from rheiss@localhost) by volta.ee.calpoly.edu (8.6.12/ELEE) id EAA12780 for qrp-l@lehigh.edu; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 04:16:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199707011116.EAA12780@volta.ee.calpoly.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 04:16:10 -0700 Reply-To: rheiss@volta.ee.calpoly.edu Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Robert Everitt Heiss To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: KO6KA FD 1B Battery X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO This year I returned to my desolate corner of Los Padres National Forest, about 120 16' longitude and 35 23' latitude. It's near a condor refuge but the only bird in sight was a hummingbird, go figure. The weather was absolutely clear and typical for dry season; I brought a thermometer to check out the temperature extremes which were 102F in the shade down to 46F at dawn. That shade was imported in the form of a canopy since there isn't much forest to speak of. I'd recommend a hat and sunblock instead of the ten-dollar "dining canopy" because it's so frustrating to set up solo, it flaps very noisily in a light breeze, and responds to moderate gusts by ejecting the center pole and sagging onto the operator's head. My other discount store purchase worked out much better. It was a folding table with light but sturdy aluminum frame and a nice rectangular size. Such a luxury to have a table and chair; I don't always bring them when camping. Operating time was less than 14 hours because I started the setup so late Saturday and got some sleep after midnight. The QSOs totalled 134 including 8 on SSB and 10 by calling CQ. Break down was a stubborn 15 QSOs on 15m, a tardy 48 QSOs on 20m, and a brisk 68 QSOs worth of the hot 40m action. Rig in use was the nearly worn out Ten-Tec Argonaut 509 pumping 3 to 4 watts into a trap vertical. Actually four different verticals and two different radial systems because I was having fun running some experiments. I sent with a paddle and logged with a pencil; no big deal with the dupe sheets so nearly empty. I worked VE7NSR, AA7QU, and N6GA to mention few of the other folks out there having fun. 73, Rob Heiss KO6KA CP-30 rheiss@volta.ee.calpoly.edu From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Tue Jul 1 10:56:20 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA16981 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:56:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <34932-23468>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:55:59 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34850-34990>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:54:33 -0400 Received: from ihgw2.lucent.com (ihgw2.lucent.com [207.19.48.2]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA45513 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:54:29 -0400 Received: from emsr1.emsr.lucent.com by ihig2.firewall.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-L sol2) id JAA14433; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:47:15 -0500 Received: by emsr1.emsr.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.2 Solaris/emsr) id KAA06523 for lehigh.edu!qrp-l@cbig1.firewall.lucent.com.smtp; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:54:17 -0400 Received: by emsr1.emsr.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.2 Solaris/emsr) id KAA06220 for lucent!lehigh.edu!qrp-l; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:54:03 -0400 Message-Id: <199707011454.KAA06220@emsr1.emsr.lucent.com> Date: 1 Jul 97 10:47:00 -0400 Reply-To: jfitton@lucent.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: jfitton@lucent.com To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: W1FMR FD Content-Type: text X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO QRP-L (and others) There was no official QRP-NE FD operation this year. FD manager Bill Acito said that no one (except him and I) showed enough interest. On Saturday, I operated solo FD from a picnic area along the NH seacoast in the company of a nice lady (not a black widow) who helped me set up. I used a Gusher 20m (N2CX design) dipole hung from a Black Widow (fishing pole), a GM-20 rig, and a Solo 8 (Rick Littlefield) speaker. I had forgotten my (ATU) tuner and was grateful to have a 40m Gusher antenna kit, very easily converted to 20m. Antenna set-up and experimentation continued, until things seemed to work very well. It was wonderful and scenic at the park overlooking a fishing harbor. I had the chance to answer a lot of questions from passer-by. Just as 20m, the station, and I seemed to perk up, the park closed (8 pm). 72/73 Jim, W1FMR <>< jfitton@lucent.com From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Tue Jul 1 14:00:08 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA26020 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:00:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <34953-54448>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:59:34 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34931-34990>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:58:58 -0400 Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.235]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA49628 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:58:49 -0400 Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel1.hp.com with ESMTP (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20104; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:58:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA147069927; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:58:48 -0700 Received: from ooringer (ooringer.sr.hp.com) by wolf.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA003389926; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:58:46 -0700 Message-Id: <33B94556.26BD@qsl.net> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 10:58:46 -0700 Reply-To: we6w@qsl.net Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Ed Loranger To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: WE6W FD Report (Short) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: loranger@qsl.net X-To: Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion X-Cc: we6w@qsl.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/725) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Pre-P.S. I'm curious how other QRP-ers in the San Francisco Area did on 40 Meters. It was so noisy and crowded. Maybe I did OK. ------------------------------------- I had a great time!!!!!!!!! Setup: OHR-100, Straight key, 30 Ft FD Vertical. Cold beer and Polish Dogs. Neena, my Rotweiller/Lab puppy doing the logging 8^)... And pulling on the Guy line Flags. Working the entire time on 40 Meters. The QRN was so bad and all, but hung in there with my 4 Watts from my OHR-100 rig. Only got 55 QSO's. But considering I had to call some station over 10 times to get in, not too bad. I accepted the challenge on 40 Meters. It was obvious from the start that QRN would limit my contacts. I took this in stride. So, figuring to beat the odds, I dilligently worked only 40 Meters. I had a lot of fun with Pencil, dupe sheet and the high winds. My old bugler tobacco can filled with spare connectors kept paperwork in check. Also, my metal stand, with magnet held the dupesheet nicely. A rubber band kept the ends from flopping around in the wind. All of my pre-FD testing and equip. set-up checks paid off since I ended up with an AOK operating configuration. Even had a little 12V light that worked great! Total quiet here in the backyard with the headphones and a 12V Car battery! Thought I was camping. Chris only got 1 qso (54 Me, 1 Chris). But he only worked about 4 hours total. He stayed on 40 Meter Novice. I probably should have suggested another band. Oh Well. Only slept between 10:38 to 1:30 Local. Then back to bed from 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM Local. Put in another hour and got 8 more qso's. All in all, I think I did pretty good for my first solo field day. Next year I think I'll go camping somewhere far away and near a mountain top. My field Day vertical sure worked well. (I've posted my antenna design on my web page.) Hope you all kept warm. I had my portable kerosene heater throwing out the heat for most of the night and still almost have a full tank. Probably bring it with me next year -- It's the small one and not for backpacking -- but great for a Car-access camp. 6500 BTU's. By the way, my .1 Lb headphones were awesome. Logs submitted to ARRL and ARCI. Ready for the next one. 73 and bcnu. -Ed Loranger -- 72/73 de we6w qrp es cw ONLY (From non-ham to extra in one day!) HW-8;OHR-100, Pixie2, Johnson Viking II w/VFO. QRP-L#1068/Norcal#2227/ARCI#???? grid CM88ok mailto:we6w@qsl.net http://www.qsl.net/we6w From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Tue Jul 1 15:02:11 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28405 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:02:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35122-54448>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:01:48 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34977-54448>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:00:48 -0400 Received: from franklin.lisco.com (root@franklin.lisco.com [206.26.90.1]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA56932 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:00:43 -0400 Received: from edson.jeff.lisco.com (wash4-9.lisco.com [206.26.90.129]) by franklin.lisco.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08039 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:01:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <33B954C0.13FC@lisco.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 14:05:03 -0500 Reply-To: edson@lisco.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Dave Edson To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD, Firsts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO First FD, first time using just completed Emtech NW40 with TiCK, and first time on air. Phew.... WOW! It was fun! I had a ball this FD - we (the club K0BPR in the sunny corn fields of Iowa) had put up a 550' horizontal loop, using in one corner a front loading tractor as a base with an extended 30'ft ladder cradled in its *arms* topped with a 10' pole - a sight to see, and trees and other objects completing the loop. An HW9 and my NW40 at 5 watts were alternating as the operating station. I was *blown* away by the fact that: Hear them, work them. The local QRO ops were most impressed with the QRP operation. The Emtech got a lot of nice looks too, as it really ran great. I was very proud of it! Fortunately, we had a very experienced cw op so I could see how it is done. I was taken back by the speed of it all, and it took a while (and a trip to the novice portion of 40) to do my first contact. Had to get up and walk around after each contact from the excitment! I'm now more inspired than ever with this new found world of QRP! Thanks to all! 73, David aa0pf From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Tue Jul 1 17:06:05 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03634 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:06:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35198-34990>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:01:15 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35192-34990>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:00:38 -0400 Received: from anshar.shadow.net (anshar.shadow.net [204.177.71.2]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA39524 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:00:11 -0400 Received: from hyper (hyper.shadow.net [204.177.71.251]) by anshar.shadow.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA12218; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:46:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: n4bp@shadow.net Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Bob Patten To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: N4BP FD 1A, Guano Reef Bashful Perverts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-To: 3830 Reflector <3830@akorn.net> X-Cc: Peter Rimmel , Kris Mraz , Tim Cotton , Marty Blustine <75463.2664@compuserve.com>, David Novoa , Markus Hammelmann , Mitch Louis , Bruce Phegley , X-Sender: n4bp@hyper X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO CALL CLASS SEC SCORE CQ QSOs Phone QSOs Total QSOs ==== ===== === ===== ======= ========== ========== N4BP QRP 1A SFL 7820 673 58 731 Pervert List: N4JBW, W4OVU, WD4JNS, WV5Z, DL5OBZ, N4BP Mitch, Bruce, Julio, Kevin, Markus, head pervert Location: Fiesta Key on Long Key, FL (alias Guano Reef) at mm70 Stations: HF: TS-130V and "ugly vertical" on sea wall. VHF: TM-241A for 2M FM and packet (0 QSOs!) Yaesu 6M SSB & CW Two 110 A/H solar charged batteries to run each station. Julio, WD4JNS came down with bronchitis just before the weekend, but loaded up his van with gear and food before collapsing in bed. Bruce, W4OVU drove the van down for him. Mitch, N4JBW filled in for Julio as chief cook and fed us royally. During the weekend, not a drop of rain, not a single mosquito, but temps (and humidity) in the 90's - it was HOT! Only two minor equipment malfunctions: My MFJ DVK developed an intermittant from the start causing us to abandon the idea of a beacon CQ on 6M. We wasted time trying to make QSOs on 6M with my 3 el Yagi before we discovered that Bruce's home made quad had it beat by at least 20db - might have been the 1000 feet or so of coax though. :-( We were able to make several packet connections with nodes up and down the Keys, but couldn't find a "human" to make a FD exchange with us. There were also no 2M FM sigs to be heard except for various repeaters... The HF setup worked flawlessly although condx were terrible at the start. We made up a lot of ground though on Saturday night and Sunday. Our plans for a 5/8 wave 40M vertical were dashed by the lack of wind to hold up our parafoil - leaving us with the ugly vertical topped with a Hustler 40M mobile resonator. But, surprisingly, we could hold a freq on 40M and had runs close to 60 per hour. On Sunday, at one point, I was able to hold NA's rate meter at 96/hr for several minutes. The three HF ops (N4BP, WV5Z, DL5OBZ) all have very differing operating techniques, but rates were quite comparable. When Markus, DL5OBZ learns to copy direct to keyboard (instead of first writing the calls on paper) he will be a killer contester! We set up before the contest and so were limited to 24 hours of operating. Actually, I planned it that way since I had to work overnight Sunday - that was one tough night at the TV station. I had brought a half gallon of ice cream for a quick "victory celebration" but conveniently forgot it until after we left Guano Reef. Bruce, Kevin, and I pulled into a Burger King on Marathon Key and ordered drinks to go with our three way split of the trophy! Markus and friend came to the house Monday noon to return my tent and so got to share what was left. I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot of the details, but wanted to get this posted while it was reasonably fresh in my mind. My sincere thanks to all my assistant perverts who did a fantastic job! Bob Patten, N4BP Plantation, FL n4bp@shadow.net http://www.shadow.net/~n4bp/n4bp.htm Brass Pounder BBS (954) 472-7715 From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Wed Jul 2 08:54:20 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA09058 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35129-34890>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:53:50 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35116-33350>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:53:09 -0400 Received: from crimp.amp.com (crimp.amp.com [198.80.3.102]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA70194 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:53:04 -0400 Received: by crimp.amp.com id AA12483 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for qrp-l@lehigh.edu); Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:53:03 -0400 Received: by crimp.amp.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Wed, 2 Jul 1997 08:53:03 -0400 Message-Id: <199707021253.IAA70194@nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:49:44 -0400 Reply-To: damichael@amp.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Dana Michael To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Field Day Report : 1B QRPp 1 watt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-To: qrp-l@lehigh.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Field Day Report from W3TS: Class: 1B, Battery, QRPp 1 watt, CW only Op: W3TS single operator Location: Field near Church Lane, Halifax, Pa. Rig: Homebrew Superhet CW Xcvr 160-10 Meters Ant: 300 foot long wire, 10 foot high at feed point , went west 100 feet and up 50 feet over a tree and went more west for 200 feet to a smaller tree 15 foot high. No termination resistor. Power source: 2 car batteries and small homebrew solar panel 18V at 300 Ma. Op time: About 17 hours, took a long nap from 12 Midnight to 4:30 AM, plus some breaks 80M 134 QSOs 40M 136 QSOs 20m 113 QSOs 15M 24 QSOs For a score of 4,070 Comments: I had to work hard for every QSO. I tried to hold a frequency near 3560 and 7040, but both times frequency robbers took them. So that is the W3TS effort for this year. 73 de Mike W3TS From owner-qrp-l@lehigh.edu Wed Jul 2 09:46:13 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA10739 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35171-33350>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:39:36 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35080-33350>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:38:36 -0400 Received: from piper (piper.eeel.nist.gov [129.6.65.1]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA19690 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:38:29 -0400 Received: from [129.6.65.101] by piper (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA12116; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:35:58 -0400 Message-Id: <34530.owen@piper.eeel.nist.gov> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 09:35:29 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: owen@piper.eeel.nist.gov Sender: owner-qrp-l@lehigh.edu Precedence: bulk From: "James C. Owen, III" To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Field Day--RULES X-Sender: owen@piper.eeel.nist.gov X-To: qrp-l@lehigh.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO While reading the reports of Field Day and seeing how much fun everyone had I observed one apparent mistake some made. These include folks from qrp-l, boatanchors and a few other lists. They didn't READ THE RULES. I have seen reports of 2B with more than 5 amateurs, 1A with 1 person, etc. Check your class designation. Class A= Club or non-club of 3 or more licensed operators. Class A/battery= above but an output of 5W or less and power by battery or solar. Class B= One or Two person non-club Class B/battery= see A/battery Class C= Mobile Class D= Home station using commerical power Class E= Home station using emergency power. The rules are easily down-loaded from the ARRL info server. Our report, from memory, for K3AA was 925 contacts operating 3E. About 500 were CW. Rigs Icom 701, Kenwood TS-450 and TS-850. Antennas were 80M inverted-V; 40 M inverted-V, sloper, 3 Ele KLM Beam @ 60'; 10-15-20 M Hygain TH6DXX @ 60'. Now of course on Thursday we had a severe storm that DESTROYED the rotors (broken ring gears?) so we had to ARMSTRONG the beams. Did you ever try to armstrong rotate a 3 Ele 40m beam? The beams were pointed W for the whole contest which meant we missed all of New England and the East coast on 10-15-20, bummer. Glad all had fun--after all that's what it's all about--well that and proving that you can operate in an emergency. 72/73 Jim K4CGY qrp-l #72 Trustee of K3AA. From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Wed Jul 2 12:20:00 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA18522 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35152-12364>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:14:08 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35092-34890>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:12:55 -0400 Received: from x7.boston.juno.com (x7.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.24]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA51407 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:11:44 -0400 Received: (from k7sz@juno.com) by x7.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id SbF10222; Tue, 01 Jul 1997 18:51:02 EDT Message-Id: <19970701.064311.7119.2.k7sz@juno.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 06:43:01 utc Reply-To: k7sz@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: k7sz@juno.com (Richard H. Arland) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: QRP Commandos' FD Score X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-6,8-11,13-14,19-20,23-24,28-29,32-33,37-38,42-44 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Gang: The Wyoming Valley QRP Commandos went into the fracus as a 2A Battery entry. Did the prelim number crunching today during lunch hour. WITHOUT any of the MIckey Mouse bonus points, the Commandos raw score is 4320. Bonus points should jack that up to about 4920. 502 QSOs, about 2/3s were CW and the rest SSB/FM and one packet. There were 10 people who showed up to help but only 6 who actually operated, so this speaks quite well of our core of operators. Unlike past years, 80 meters seemed to be our "money maker" on both CW and SSB, followed by 20 meters. 40 meters just didn't play well this year. Heard some E-skip on 6 this year but our location and antenna was not anaywhere near optimal, but watch out next year....we WILL be on 6 with a vengence. Wilderness Sierra on CW and a Yaesu FT-301S on SSB. (T-T Argo 509 on standby. .Thank God we didn't need it!) IC-502 for 6 meters and an IC-202 for 2 meters (linear mode) and two IC-228s for FM (voice and packet). Antennas: Radio Works Carolina Windom 80 for CW, Radio Works SuperLoop for the SSB station, 3 element MFJ 6 mtr beam, and two Arrow 2 meter beams, plus PAR omnis for 6, 2 mtrs and 70 cms (we had the IC-402 but didn't fire it up). Thanks to Joe, WA3WMI and Lou, KA3ICD, the "Battery Barons" of Larksville, we had enough 12 volt deep cycle batteries for the contest plus enough spare power to start arc welding! Trailer Park Patti (my better half) provided the evening meal on Saturday and my 3 year old grand daughter, Kielan, provided the comic relief (normally I do this, but this year I decided to let Kielan have center stage). A great time was had by all....plans for next FD include a possible trip down to North Carolina as "hired guns" for the KnightLites and a spring time IOTA DXpedition to Ocracoke (sp) island in March or April (again, with the KnightLites). 73 rich K7SZ From owner-qrp-l@lehigh.edu Wed Jul 2 15:56:49 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28772 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:56:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35391-33350>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:56:01 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <35049-33350>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:54:57 -0400 Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA73682 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:54:54 -0400 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.8.5/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id OAA07006; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 14:54:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ilbx.mot.com (ilbx.mot.com [129.188.137.185]) by pobox.mot.com (8.7.6/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with SMTP id OAA10750; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 14:54:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: by ilbx.mot.com (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA19593; Wed, 2 Jul 97 14:54:40 -0500 Received: from MOT; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:41:00 -0500 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:41:00 -0500 Reply-To: Dan_Tayloe-P26412@email.mot.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@lehigh.edu Precedence: bulk From: Dan Tayloe-P26412 To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD Report from AZ, N7VE X-To: azqrp@dancris.com, qrp-l@lehigh.edu X-Mailer: Worldtalk (4.1)/STREAM X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Wow! FD was a real blast! First things first, equipment: 40, 20 & 15 meter mono-band homebrew cw transceivers Power: 40m: 0.75w 20m: 0.75w 15m: 0.35w Antenna: 500 ft horizontal loop up about 60 ft Class: 1A battery (I probably should have been class 1B) Location: Near Strawberry, AZ, at about 6000 ft on the rim. I had only Saturday available to work the contest. Since the contest starts at 11:00 local time, I got in about 7 hours of operation before packing things in and calling it a day. I decided to try out milliwatt levels this year just to see what it was like. Since I was running such low power, I decide to stick to "hunt and pounce" tactics. I started out on 20m. At the start, things were *very* tough. With all the activity, I had a difficult time being heard. After a bit, I went up to 15m for about 45 minutes, where things were a bit more spread out, and did well there until I worked the band out. I then dropped down to 40m and worked a number of CA stations and more or less emptied that band of workable stations. By the time I got back to 20m, things had calmed down a bit, and I was able to make headway on that band. I stayed primarily with 20m, with occasional trips to 15m to pick up a few more contacts there. As the afternoon progressed, I discovered that people became more "hungry". I found that my success rate (stations contacted vs. stations attempted) rose to almost 33%, and that using only 750 mw! Surprisingly, in most of the unsuccessful contacts, I was at least heard (QRZ? AGN?). I found most people *tried* to copy my tiny signal. I would have *loved* to stick around and work Sunday. Hungry ops have good ears! QRP or QRPp folks can use this to *great* advantage. At that late stage in the contest, one might even try calling CQ, since many ops may be sifting the band for fresh contacts. I quit a bit after 6:00 p.m. local time. 20m was starting to thin, and 40m was getting lively, but I was picking up an intense amount of QRN from some distant thunderstorm. When the stronger signals get tough to work, who could copy my 3/4 w? After packing up, I dropped by to see Floyd, NQ7X (one of several of the Az ScQRPion crew in the area). While listening his rig using a vertical, I discovered 40m was almost QRN free! It was obvious that the 500 ft loop was "hearing" a lot differently than the vertical. I guess I should stayed on longer. Not everyone had bad QRN! Next time out, I think I will try setting up both. Sift the band once with the loop, then switch to the vertical. At the end of 7 hours, I had 84 contacts in 31 states, extending from Hawaii (AH6RS) to the west to New Hampshire (N1NS) to the east. Coast to coast and then some on 750 mw! I learned a lot about QRPp contesting amongst the alligators. Being a novice at this, it seems I could do much better, even given 750mw power levels. Next year I will be more prepared. I would like to hear how other milliwatters did. I don't believe I have seen any FD reports from single op milliwatt QRPers. - Dan Tayloe, N7VE, Phoenix, AZ, Az ScQRPions, QRPL # 696 From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Wed Jul 2 22:06:36 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA11056 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:06:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35265-12364>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:06:08 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34870-12364>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:05:02 -0400 Received: from emout08.mail.aol.com (emout08.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.23]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA54180 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:04:54 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by emout08.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id WAA09714 for qrp-l@lehigh.edu; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:04:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <970702220212_744114684@emout08.mail.aol.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:04:23 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: AlK0FRP@aol.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: AlK0FRP@aol.com To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: Colorado FD X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO Not official yet about 820 q's , 400 down from last year , very poor condx. No 6m not much 10m very disappointing. great WX and antennas went up and down without a glitch. Well maybe one broken el on the 6m beam. May have we got beat this year ???? Again this is totally unofficial but did talk to Paul KF7MD and thats we can up with still mearging files fron all computers. I NEED 4 EL at 150 ft on 80M to keep the 3 am to 6am going any sugestions. 2el delta was not enough. Official later , In Califorinia this week will be canoeing in the boundry waters next week. will be on 40m with Sierra. Al K0FRP Al K0FRP From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Wed Jul 2 23:14:07 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12921 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:14:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35294-12364>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:09:55 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34871-12364>; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:07:55 -0400 Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA54041 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:07:42 -0400 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.8.5/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id WAA13610 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:07:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from azbx.mot.com (azbx.mot.com [129.188.127.40]) by pobox.mot.com (8.7.6/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id WAA18345 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:07:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by azbx.mot.com (1.37.109.24/16.2) id AA180879258; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:07:38 -0500 Received: from MOT; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:03:00 -0500 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:03:00 -0500 Reply-To: Bob_Tellefsen-CNSE97@email.mot.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Bob Tellefsen-CNSE97 To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: N6WG FD (pretty windy) X-Mailer: Worldtalk (4.1)/STREAM X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO After a week away from QRP-L, I'm still plowing through the digests. Oh, well, I get to read everyone else's FD stories. Might as well tell ours, too. The Alameda County Radio Club (Castro Valley, CA, on SF Bay), under the call of yours truly, N6WG, went out to our usual site in a local county park. Used to be a great Eucalyptus forest, but the park district decided they needed a firebreak in this forest. Guess what got cleared? Our favorite FD site, now known as Bald Knob. We did catch them in time to plead for a few trees to be left, and it still works for us as a FD site. (Plus a few steel trees we bring along.) At least we have a nice view of San Francisco Bay. Haven't seen our score yet, as our record keeper is still trying to figure out all the scribbled logs he gets every year. Maybe by club net next Monday night we'll have a first report. We take QRP contesting seriously, up to a point. When our outstanding barbeque cook calls DINNER, the joint shuts down tight, and we all go chow down. Usually have a few visitors, like our Pacific Division Director (knows a good chow site when he finds one), and various family members. My wife brought my 94 year old mother up to the site, and she had a great time. Got our antennas up, finally. Real wind blowing up there on the Knob, with 2- ounce slingshot weights being blown sideways. Support strings snaked through the trees following the classic Drunkard's Walk. We had several antennas hung from the same trees, so had to organize them with a bit of care. The club treasury buys the box of cord we use to hang antennas, and the purchasing committee got a real "buy" this year. After several antennas came down, including my prize 40m half-square, we realized why it had been such a great "deal". Next year back to the good stuff. Fortunately, I also had a 40m dipole up on some Radio Shack TV mast sections so we stayed on the air. Tried to salvage the half square by rehanging the dropped end so that the normally- vertical leg was horizontal. That corner was only 10 ft off the ground. Turned a fine antenna into a long skinny dummy load. Bummer. I worked the 40m cw tent, QRP, naturally. The rig was my Kenwood TS-180 (ol' Kenwood to his friends), plus a couple of keyers. We were lucky to have the services of Bob White, WO3B, this year, and Bob Buckley (Buck, W6HOR), both accomplished paddlers. WO3B brought his LogiKey, which I hadn't seen before, and I brought my Island Keyer with Island Memory for its first outing. Properly used, that's as good as having an assistant. Didn't use it for CQing a lot, but boy did it help with the repetitive stuff. Gave us time to scribble in the log while the keyer pumped out 8A 8A EB EB for our exchange. On 40m cw, at least, we never identify as QRP. We just take the world head on and let the chips fly. Now, those guys over in the 40m and 20m ssb tents, they carry on a lot and will try anything for a sympathy contact. Dwight, WA6NAE, brought his 20m SST and made 35 contacts on it during a quiet period. His antenna is a 20m half-square with a half-square reflector. Working the east coast stations is like shooting ducks in a barrel. WO3B brought his shiny new 20m SST also, and used Dwight's antenna for a bit. Now his rig is "experienced" too. On 40m we logged 228 contacts, about 15% over our previous best. First time we've had enough bodies to run the station for 24 hours. Enjoyed seeing what we could really do. Now, next year with at least two good antennas . . . Did run across Bill, KD7S, and a few others whose calls I've forgotten just at the moment. From the reports I've read so far, there were a lot of familiar names and calls behind some of the unfamiliar calls we worked. Anyway, we all had our usual great time. Once we get the score figured out and turned in, we'll have to wait for November QST to see if we made our goal, lucky 13. We've taken first place in 8A Battery 12 years in a row now. Would be nice to do it again. 73 to all, Bob N6WG From owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Thu Jul 3 01:34:08 1997 Received: from fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU (fidoii.CC.lehigh.EDU [128.180.1.4]) by oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA15899 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 01:34:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Lehigh.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with SMTP id <35356-68112>; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 01:33:23 -0400 Received: from nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU ([128.180.1.26]) by fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU with ESMTP id <34947-23826>; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 01:32:08 -0400 Received: from m7.boston.juno.com (m7.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.196]) by nss2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA56895 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 01:24:03 -0400 Received: (from gsurrency@juno.com) by m7.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id NXZ03757; Wed, 02 Jul 1997 13:59:16 EDT Message-Id: <19970702.105813.10246.1.gsurrency@juno.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:56:57 -0700 Reply-To: gsurrency@juno.com Sender: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU Precedence: bulk From: gsurrency@juno.com (Gary L L Surrency) To: "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" Subject: FD report, etc. (long) References: <9707028678.AA867843739@mtsmtpgate.microtest.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 2-3,7-10,12-14,17-18,20-23,28-29,36-37,44-45,50-51, 57-59,62-63,67,73-74,78-79,90-91,93-94,96-116 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO I noticed something interesting: If I called the weakest signals I could hear, up around 14.060 - 14.070 on 20m, I almost ALWAYS got a response! Could it be those signals were from fellow QRPers? ;-) OTOH, a lot of VERY strong signals I heard would NOT reply, but just went on calling CQ FD. Maybe it WAS as some of you have posted; they had so much QRM and QRN from their FD setup site, they really couldn't hear anything below an S9. <:-p Pity. Yep, I heard it too. There were some QRL? 's heard, and I was absolutely flabbergasted to hear THAT during a contest! (:-o Did ya hear those buzzing, chirping, signals on 20m? Man, it sounded like 40m when I lived in Fla near Cuba! But these weren't Cuban staions! Whoa! Better check that gear, boys! Haven't tallied up the Q's I made; there weren't that many, but I haven't unpacked yet! Most interesting thing that happened: During operation on Sat, a hummingbird flew over my aluminum folding table and hovered about 2 feet from me and the rigs! He looked around, and then made a beeline off thru the woods. I saw him flying about and heard him make odd vibrating tweets the whole time I was at the campsite. Cool. The elevation was about 7200 feet, and the campsite area was above the entire surrounding terrain. Sat afternoon it became pretty windy and dusty, so I took the XYL and 4 yr old for a little ride down to the bottom of the Blue Ridge Canyon to see the lake there. We also went back toward Payson 10-15 miles to a little store at Happy Jack's / Clints Well for a few missing supplies. If you have a Az map, this area is North of Payson about 30-40 miles between the Mogollon Rim and Mogollon Plateau. On Sunday morning, I became quite fatiqued and decided to pack it in before the winds started up again and began the trip back to the Phoenix / Chandler area. I just gotta get a programmable keyer / keyboard before the next contest. The old injury in my keying hand starts to bother me after just a couple of hours of paddle operation, to say nothing of the work involved in setting up a campsite. Maybe something will turn up at the Ft.Tuthill hamfest the end of this month. The wife also couldn't sleep Sat night and kept me up much of the time. She is epecting our second child in late Dec., and has nauseau / anxiety attacks all night. She also heard some raccoons dragging away something she left out on the picnic table and forgot to put away. My 4 yr old daughter April slept like a, ahem, baby. Although Bob KI7MN and Dave W7AQK had some trouble with the Forest Service rep, the fellow we met seemed interested in ham radio and FD. He watched me wrist-rocket the antenna line up into the pines and commented that I used the easy method, compared to casting a line with a fishing rod. He didn't seem to mind at all this activity in the National Forest camprground. Go figure............... Bob, KI7MN sure had a nice FD setup! He and xyl N7XJW were setup near Dave W7AQK and about 100-200 yds west of me and my xyl, KC7MML. I enjoyed stopping by and chatting with them for a few minutes. Also made some FD points with a nice lady who walked by as I was preparing to leave. I explained a lot of what ham radio is all about, and suggested she look for "Now You're Talking" at a Radio Shack store if she was interested in finding out more. The usual comments, like "How'd you get that wire so high up in the trees?" and "Are you going to talk to people all over the world on that?" I explained that some hams also use satellites for communications, thanks to Arthur C. Clarke and his marvelous imagination and vision. "Arthur C. Who?" "You know, he wrote "2001, A Space Odyssey."" "Oh", she replied. We saw several shooting stars and some of those satellites passing overhead during the clear night skies. The Milky Way was easily discernable in the light-pollution free forest night. Also made out Mars and Venus. Gotta count up the Q's and unpack the gear, but I had a lotta fun and didn't go at it too hard. Mostly enjoyed the beautiful country and cooler weather. It was nice to see some of the other ScQRPions, including champion Fox hunter, Floyd, NQ7X. I heard Dan, N7VE and Brian W5VBO, although I didn't try to track them down. I tried to stay away from the other guys' frequencies as they operated to prevent QRMing then. That is one small disadvantage of being relatively close to a group. My dipole was fed with tuned feeders at about 50-60 feet, and was end-on to the other ScQRPion members so perhaps that minimized any RF directed their way. Still, it was amazing how loud 2-5 watts can be when you are less than 500 feet way from the transmitting station. But I could still operate at the opposite end of the band from the local ops with the rigs I took along. You know, in all the years I've been a ham, I think this was the first FD I've ever participated in! Equipment in use: two 7 A/H gell cells Tac-1 for 40m Tac-1 for 80m Ark30 for 30m ragchews (none made, tho) OHR100 for 20m MFJ-948 tuner MFJ-259 antenna analyzer Bencher BY-1 homebrew keyer for the OHR100 (external) 100 feet of 300 ohm twinlead 130 ft dipole 72, AB7MY Gary Surrency Chandler, AZ (Near Phoenix), QRP-L #571, AZ ScQRPions