In a message dated 96-01-20 00:35:15 EST, you write:
> I do follow N4IN's rule about removing contacts in doubt
Dave,
There are many reasons for unique calls showing up in contest logs. They can
be non-contesters cajoled into a QSO, a sloppy fist on the part of the
sendor, a unique propagation path, a slim, or unintentional error. In
general, log checkers are well intentioned in their quest for fairness and
improving the quality of operation. However, they are people with their own
predjudices and opinions often competing in the same contest they are
judging. Therefore, it is important that they avoid anything that can be
faulted as subjective or arbitrary. While there is some correlation between
uniques and bad contacts some checkers have given this factor far more weight
than due. I personally was victimized by a biased checker that used his
authority to denigrate me along with several of my freinds. The damage is
irreversable to have been humiliated in print without ever having been able
to defend oneself. Please, do not impose a change to a log unless proof of
an error is established. The errors missed are compensated for by added
penalty to the errors proven. One thing we found is that ANY log can be
disqualified of the checker is intent on doing so. Fortunately, 160 meter
contest logs are the cleanest of any contest despite marginal conditions.
Also, any change that would alter ranking should be presented to contestant
prior to publication. I'm sure N4IN would have deleted the QSO if I could
have been heard by UN2L on 160 who was 579 nearly one hour after local
sunrise. Don't penalize excellence even if it may be "UNIQUE".
Darrell, N6DX
>From Brian K. Short" <ke7gh@primenet.com Sun Jan 21 19:37:13 1996
From: Brian K. Short" <ke7gh@primenet.com (Brian K. Short)
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <01BAE837.FE421960@ip21-037.phx.primenet.com>
My first VHF mountaintop adventure. Also, my first trial of the
KB6KQ loop antennas which have been collecting dust for months now.
Antenna setup was effortless. Location was about 8000' and all of
the surrounding trees were burned in a large fire a few years ago.
Folks asked us to operate 432, but we had no plans for that band, so
we just hooked up a 2m JPole and worked 2 strong Phoenix stations
about 100 miles away despite polarization difference! We took no
bricks and just ran a bare bones operation, but next time...
73 de Brian (KE7GH)
PS: The 2 Steve's had fun too (at least they say so)!
ARRL VHF SWEEPSTAKES -- 1996
Call: KE7GH Country: AZ DM-44
Category: Limited-Multi
BAND QSO QSO PTS GRIDS
50 15 15 6
144 42 42 9
432 3 6 3
-----------------------------------
Totals 60 63 18 = 1,134
Operator List: KE7GH / KJ7DN / KC7OMT
Equipment Description:
FT-736/TS-690 KB6KQ Maxi-Loops (2m/6m), Larsen Mag Mount (2/440 FM)
2m JPole (432)
>From Brian K. Short" <ke7gh@primenet.com Sun Jan 21 19:46:56 1996
From: Brian K. Short" <ke7gh@primenet.com (Brian K. Short)
Subject: KE7GH (4hr) VHF SS Score
Message-ID: <01BAE839.3C582720@ip21-037.phx.primenet.com>
Excuse the bandwidth! Forgot the subject...it was just a 4 hour operation!
Please send personal Email for KB6KQ loop comments, if desired! 73 de Brian
My first VHF mountaintop adventure. Also, my first trial of the
KB6KQ loop antennas which have been collecting dust for months now.
Antenna setup was effortless. Location was about 8000' and all of
the surrounding trees were burned in a large fire a few years ago.
Folks asked us to operate 432, but we had no plans for that band, so
we just hooked up a 2m JPole and worked 2 strong Phoenix stations
about 100 miles away despite polarization difference! We took no
bricks and just ran a bare bones operation, but next time...
73 de Brian (KE7GH)
PS: The 2 Steve's had fun too (at least they say so)!
ARRL VHF SWEEPSTAKES -- 1996
Call: KE7GH Country: AZ DM-44
Category: Limited-Multi
BAND QSO QSO PTS GRIDS
50 15 15 6
144 42 42 9
432 3 6 3
-----------------------------------
Totals 60 63 18 = 1,134
Operator List: KE7GH / KJ7DN / KC7OMT
Equipment Description:
FT-736/TS-690 KB6KQ Maxi-Loops (2m/6m), Larsen Mag Mount (2/440 FM)
2m JPole (432)
>From Michael H Bragassa <bragassa@hal-pc.org> Sun Jan 21 21:44:46 1996
From: Michael H Bragassa <bragassa@hal-pc.org> (Michael H Bragassa)
Subject: Pointing Yagis into wind
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960121152544.9191B-100000@hal-pc.org>
On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Steven Affens wrote:
> I'm more concerned about rotor destruction or having the mast torqued off
> true direction within the rotor than antenna damage. So what I have tried
> on numerous occasions is release the brake during heavy winds and let the
> array (TH6 and 2el 40 both pointed in the same direction) seek its own
> direction just as a wind vane would. EVERY time, the array ends up
> "beaming" right into the wind and settles down. Virtually NO strain on the
> rotor. (assuming a fairly constant wind direction)
>
> So there's by 2 cents... find your array's "happy" point re the wind and
> leave it there.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> Steve K3SA
>
> Steven C. Affens
> k3sa@access.digex.net
>
YES, SIR!..And this is what 'worked" for me in 8 years, ro so at the REAL
WINDY CITY: Casper, Wyo. (ex NS7Z).
But as one post asked: Determine your objective or purpose. Mine was to
take care of my T2X rotor . This was pre-Create, etc rotor experience
days. My stack of TH7 es 2 ele 40 was 'eatin T2X ONLY when I became
greedy and turned the stack while to 70+ mph chinooks were blowing.
I always pointed directly into or away from the winds > These were
reasonably balanced antennaes..So no problem like Bill/W0ZV brought out
about the big ..unbalanced 20 yagi.
Even though I had a wind gauge, I let the antennaes find their 'happy
point' after pointing into the wind and set the brake.. In order to keep
the mast from 'may-poling, I did pin the mast/rotor. This was in the
event...something did..'give' and the stack went to May-polling, it
wouldn't continue to wrap around the mast pipe and pull mystation out the
window (hi). (One time, one of the rotor U bolts broke. I knew my
antennae was off..a bit. Climbed up to the flat top and there were about
8-10 wraps of the coax.. )
As previously mentioned: It's not a perfected science.. The chunooks
would die of ..a bit.. and in the above case the stack..took off in a
different direction...and kept going.
This was the only time I ever had a problem while 'pointing-in' to the
wind.
73 Mike , AA5NK
Conroe, TX, USA
> >
>From pete <n4kw@citrus.infi.net> Sun Jan 21 22:36:31 1996
From: pete <n4kw@citrus.infi.net> (pete)
Subject: Yagi Matching
Message-ID: <199601212236.RAA14947@moe.infi.net>
A month away from the ARRL DX Contest and my T-Match develops an
intermittent. The same thing happened last year and I thought I had fixed
it once and for all. I have a five element 20meter Yagi on a 46 foot boom
and I have been using a T-Match but have had to fix the match once a year
since I put it up. Needless to say I don't particularly care to take down a
140lb antenna on a yearly basis. I am about to change the present antenna
mount to the PVRC mount and first check out the match while the boom is
along side the tower. If it turns out to be the same type of problem as the
last time I will consider changing the matching system. I have been
considering the merits of both the gamma and the hairpin and would like to
solicit your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks and 73's Pete N4KW
n4kw@citrus.infi.net
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