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- Info-Hams Digest Sun, 4 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 991
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- Today's Topics:
- VE Test in NJ
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- Date: 4 Sep 1994 00:17:52 -0400
- From: gti.gti.net!gti.gti.net!not-for-mail@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: VE Test in NJ
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- FYI ...
-
- A VE test in NJ that didn't make it on the last exam list from the ARRL:
-
- September 29 - 7:00pm
- Florham Park, NJ
- Morris & Essex Amateur Radio Club
- Contact: Ken (WA2VCI) : 201-377-4776
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- Date: 3 Sep 1994 00:07:49 GMT
- From: tymix.Tymnet.COM!niagara!flanagan@uunet.uu.net
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <Pine.3.89.9408300820.A5777-0100000@bigcat>, <n1gakCvD4B4.65s@netcom.com>, <CvFDGq.5zs@vcd.hp.com>news.b
- Subject : Re: Number of Call Signs
-
- In article <CvFDGq.5zs@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Simpson Balaclava) writes:
- >Is district 7 really out of 1-by-3's?
-
- Yup, it sure is. There are still plenty of 2X2 calls to go around for the
- Advanced and Extras, but Generals and below are already into the KC7*** range.
-
- 73, Dick
- --
- Dick Flanagan, W6OLD w6old@wa6ewv.#nocal.ca.usa.na
- dick@libelle.com CIS:73672,751 GEnie:FLANAGAN
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- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 21:47:12 +0000
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.nosc.mil!crash!news.sprintlink.net!demon!arkas.demon.co.uk!Michael@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- References <1994Aug22.151450.9440@hayes>, <1994Aug29.205116.24390@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <CvBpGF.GCJ@news.Hawaii.Edu>│½
- Reply-To : Michael@arkas.demon.co.uk
- Subject : Re: Ragchewing conversational protocol
-
- In article <CvBpGF.GCJ@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- jeffrey@kahuna.tmc.edu "Jeffrey Herman" writes:
-
- [snip]
- > Out of the 168 hours each week how many hours are the bands used
- > in contesting? Remember, some weekends there are no contests.
- > And even if there is a contest on a particular weekend, use an
- > unused band.
-
- Contests ... some non-ham friends of mine, who heard a "postcode" contest on 2
- m one night, dubbed the activity as "playing taxis"! :)
-
- I don't mind contests as long as the participants don't assume that *everyone*
- on the band is a contest station. I've had some experiences where contesters
- have broken into qso's and asked for numbers. I usually reply with a "sorry,
- mate, I'm not working contest" (I would be calling "cq contest", or answering
- such a call, if I was! :) .)
-
- As for the dictum of using another band ... no, I don't adhere to that. If I
- have a trans-pacific sked, and 20 m only is open for that path, then I'll use
- 20 m - irrespective of the amount of contesting on the band. I work on the
- principle that I pay my licence fee like everyone else (right now I pay two
- ...), and hence I see no reason why I should use another band just because the
- one I want to use is carrying contest traffic.
-
- Given the above, the proviso for using the band for non-contest ops during a
- contest is that there must be a *free* chunk of spectrum in which to transmit,
- of course. Usually this isn't too much of a problem. However, skeds on
- "contested" bands are often punctuated with the words "the frequency *is* in
- use, pal" as someone starts calling "cq contest" right over the top of you or
- your qso partner.
-
- Having said all that, I'll also add that I have had fun in contests -
- especially on HF. I've worked call areas in contests that I've never worked
- again during "normal" dx activities. Contests are certainly an interesting
- means of determining band conditions - I've been amazed at just how well
- 10 m performs when it is supposed to be "dead".
-
- But, like everything, there is an ettiquette to follow in contesting - and I
- strongly believe that this applies to consideration to other, non-contesting
- band users. Often it appears that the actions of a few inconsiderate
- individuals ends up queering the pitch for the majority of considerate
- contesters.
-
- 73's, and happy contesting / qso'ing - whatever you're doing!
-
- --
- Mike Dower
- G0VEY 'Quoth the raven, "Never more".' ... Poe
- VK2ENG
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