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Bonus Station Info:
Goooood morning... I've had the pleasure of being a bonus station in the TDW on 2 separate occasions several years ago. Here's what to consider: 1) There's usually 4 bonus stations in the known world, extending out beyond infinity. 2) Be prepared to spend a lot of time with "B.I.C." (Butt in the chair) 3) The time commitment listed in 2) is very important, as it's necessary to give as many 070r's a chance to work you on multiple bands. 4) 160 m isn't imperative, but copious amounts of 2) on the $$$ bands of 40m, 20m and 15m is a prerequisite. 5) The macro, "cq cq cq TDW de <MYCALL>, Bonus Station k" is a real kick. Kinda hard to be humble about, ya know? Alotta alotta alotta cq'ing and some search and pounce. (I've found that search and pounce works extremely well when you qsy to a different band.) All considered, the only "rule" I'd change ? (I'm glad you asked!) More Bonus Stations, maybe 6?, but still a prerequisite of a pretty much a clean sweep to earn the big bonus. I hope this helps those applying for "Bonus Station" and for those "searching & pouncing". BTW, W3KM has a program, "GenLog" that works perfectly for almost every contest. Download it, update the 070 membership file from David's fantastic Club Membership Icon website, at: http://hamclubs.info/, and you're ready to go! GenLog is free and covers many contests, digital, cw and ssb, for those with a mic in their shack. I'll be using my highest angle of radiation antenna this year, a Gap Titan that radiates equally poor in all directions. Milt. N6MG 070-650 LONP #76 Chairman, 070 Club's ad hoc Cheerleading Committee. "Although there were no tree's destroyed in the sending of this message, there were several billion electrons that were highly inconvenienced."
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Re: Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
David Westphalen <n4dlt@...>
I would like to be a bonus station de N4DLT #1872 ----------------------- 73, David - N4DLT Echo Link Node #396255 Phone: 704-472-8475 Reply Email: n4dlt@... n4dlt@... n4dlt@... To: 070@... From: 070@... Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:24:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [070] Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations I would like to be a bonus station. N4DLT
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From: "william brooks kx4wb1@... [070]" <070@...> Sent: April 20, 2015 2:31 PM To: 070@... Subject: Re: [070] Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
I would liketo try it.
William
KX4WB
On Monday, April 20, 2015, Matthew King mrk.twg@... [070] <070@...> wrote:
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Re: [070_contest] Re: Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
Matthew King - KK4CPS <mrk.twg@...>
We write contest rules not to dictate to anybody how to spend their radio time or to see how we can micromanage an op's macros, but to give all of us a fair, KNOWN framework in which to have our contests. Many people have enjoyed these structured events over many decades (not just 070 contests) and I certainly hope many more will begin to participate and enjoy an activity that I personally find quite fun. Many clubs (10-10 and EPC come to mind as two prominent examples) require the member number to be exchanged. Other things may be required in addition to it, generally including SPC and other contest specific bits. I believe 10-10 even has a contest in which they request your 10-10 #, your 070 #, and your EPC # to boot. EPC contests generally require the EPC # and SPC, along with other specific information depending on the contest. There may come a time (though I certainly hope there's not) that we aren't able to use David's automagical scorer. Right now he devotes a lot of time and effort towards it so that we may enjoy it. I don't foresee that changing, but who knows? We definitely need to appreciate the awesome tools that he's made for us as 070 Club Technical Director and show him our rich appreciation. Here's a contribution from the CONTEST 2.0 initiative: ALL 070 sponsored contests will require as an exchange a MINIMUM of two pieces of information: 070 Member # and S/P/C. This rule will not preclude a presently non-existent "proper" RST/SER contest that would not require this exchange. I'd hate to see anybody not participate in our upcoming contests because of a disagreement with one of the rules, but should that be one's prerogative, then so be it. We just don't need to hear about it on the list. There is a duty of an owner/moderator of a list to maintain integrity, a positive direction, and to quell animosity among the list's members. As such, I will begin to moderate those with a proclivity for "fussing" or "rabble rousing." This is not something I anticipate needing to do very often at all, as this list tends to stay on course quite well of its own volition. Civilly debating the merits of various rules can be fun. Rantings are not fun, they are not welcome, and, frankly, won't be tolerated. If you have an "I can't sleep so I'll type instead" "fuss session" in mind, then send it to me, the Club Director OFF THE LIST at kk4cps@.... The buck stops here. Anybody failing to heed this warning will find themselves moderated at best. I hate saying things like this, folks. Please just keep the list a positive place for all. Things can most certainly get out of hand in contest-land, just as any other game can. I don't believe we've come anywhere near that point with our rules, nor do I believe we will. Our computerized scoring has been a boon to the club, especially with the automatic award checker, but it still has a fair amount of human oversight. Maybe that's the key. Now that this unpleasantness is behind us, let's move on with the PODXS 070 Club Three Day Weekend Contest! ~WOO HOO!~ 73
Matt King KK4CPS 070 #1708 LONP #261 PODXS 070 Club Director
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Ted pegduck56@... [070_contest] <070_contest@...> wrote:
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Brazil Endorsement
Ted <pegduck56@...>
if you are working on that, 10m has several stations at this time (at least from OR) 73, Ted K7TRK 5:05PM 00:03z
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Re: Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
David - N4DLT <n4dlt@...>
I would like to be a bonus station. N4DLT
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From: "william brooks kx4wb1@... [070]" <070@...> Sent: April 20, 2015 2:31 PM To: 070@... Subject: Re: [070] Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations I would liketo try it. William
KX4WB
On Monday, April 20, 2015, Matthew King mrk.twg@... [070] <070@...> wrote:
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contests
FYI This is what happens when contests get too serious. What computer checking of logs this happens. Hopefully PSK won't come to this.
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Re: 31 FLAVORS CONTEST RESULTS
Craig AC4M
Hello Ivor and the group,
I have not involved in awhile to step out of the way for others, I have noticed years ago the contacts rates were dropping off and less action on all bands. Maybe some of the problem is coming from operators , like a really silly exchange that has nothing pertaining to the contest and lots of silly macros in general, I could say my name is Craig and he/she will say 599 100% copy Jonathan (auto grab from database), wow I just wasted my time sense he/she will not read the screen or to lazy to type in my name or grab from screen or someone answering after I have been CQ ing "CQ Contest" and they have no clue I was in a contest, What!? 50% of the conversation is understanding what is being sent and letting the person know that he/she does understand, if you do not understand then you find out by the internet , ask a question etc. My point being you do not see as much of these problems with people using RTTY in contest, Why is PSK different?? Is it because a different breed? People's IQ is lower? What in the heck is the deal with some of the PSK ops. How do you even fix it? It is like people are not taking PSK as a serious mode as a contest or Dxepedition (ie. BPSK63) mode because of operators actions. I have done about all I know to do to help the situation and it drives me mad and that is after 20,866 BPSK31 QSO's
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Re: [070_contest] Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
Jeannie Dopson
I can say I was a bonus station last year and had a blast. Anyone who gets a chance should it is a lot of fun! Jeannie KF5PDM Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 20, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Matthew King mrk.twg@... [070_contest] <070_contest@...> wrote:
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Re: 31 FLAVORS CONTEST RESULTS
JT Croteau <jt.tobit@...>
Ivor, OM. I really miss digital mode contesting and hope to be back on the air soon. I think I placed 2nd in the 2007 TARA Rumble QRP category and I have a PA QSO party certificate here for PSK as well. 72
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:08 PM, 'ivor peters' m5ply@... [070] <070@...> wrote:
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31 FLAVORS CONTEST RESULTS
m5ply@...
hello all pskers. ive just been looking at the results, of
the
31 flavors contest.
first of all well done to the winners.but
iam
very sad to see that only 29 members
took
part, out of two thousand plus.
only one from Europe. that was me.
so come on members support your
club/group
and take part.
our committee sends a lot of time, putting these
contest
together.
now that's of my chest, iam looking to the three
day event.
so good luck to those how will take
part.
my 73 to all
m5ply/ivor/0292
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Re: Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
William B
I would liketo try it.
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William KX4WB
On Monday, April 20, 2015, Matthew King mrk.twg@... [070] <070@...> wrote:
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Three Day Weekend Bonus Stations
Matthew King <mrk.twg@...>
REQUEST FOR BONUS STATIONS FOR 2015 THREE DAY WEEKEND!!! The 2014 Three Day Weekend Contest Top Dog was Charlie, K8IJ. Charlie is our former sticker/certificate guru, and will be most welcome as our Top Dog Bonus Station in this year's contest. Having been one last year, I can tell you that being a Bonus Station is a very neat opportunity, where you should be able to give out your call many times, be rather competitive with pile of of calls seeking you out, and see what "running a frequency" is all about. Ask any other former Bonus Station and I believe you'll get the same story - it's a lot of fun! You'll get a custom sticker and certificate for being a Bonus Station, so you'll have a couple of rare ones on your wall as well. At least one more of our "old guard" stations has volunteered, and we can certainly count on them for many hours of operating. I'd love to see some of the newer guys take this opportunity to be on the business end of a pile up! We need at least two more people to sign up. Please let me know by May 1st if you'd like to be a Bonus Station. 73
Matt King KK4CPS 070 #1708 LONP #261 PODXS 070 Club Director
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Re: 160m psk or 6m?
David Westbrook
From the complete (all years) endorsement checker database (~1,686,000 PSK Q's): total: 8,116 on 160M and 1,483 on 6M band month count firstyr lastyr 160M 01 1472 2004 2015 160M 02 1279 2003 2015 160M 03 332 2003 2015 160M 04 138 2004 2015 160M 05 72 2008 2013 160M 06 35 2005 2014 160M 07 23 2006 2014 160M 08 30 2004 2014 160M 09 139 2000 2014 160M 10 1602 2002 2014 160M 11 1405 2004 2014 160M 12 1589 2001 2014 6M 01 8 2005 2014 6M 02 7 2007 2013 6M 03 8 2004 2013 6M 04 13 2005 2012 6M 05 307 2002 2014 6M 06 719 1992 2014 6M 07 364 1992 2014 6M 08 25 2005 2014 6M 09 9 2007 2013 6M 10 5 2006 2011 6M 11 6 2001 2014 6M 12 12 2003 2010 select band, substr(qso_date, 5,2), count(*), min(substr(qso_date,1,4)), max(substr(qso_date,1,4)) as ct from qso where mode like '%PSK%' and band IN ('160M','6M') group by band, substr(qso_date, 5,2) order by 1,2; hey, we're nearing the 2M mark in the endorsement checker db!!! w00t!! --david
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:11 PM, w3hf@... [070] <070@...> wrote:
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Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in..
JEFF WALSH
rrr on Sam ...I have worked him many times JEFF WALSH W3WMU #1673 BUBBAWOOD WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS STURGIS, MS.
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:58 PM, "Martin Tuip ajax@... [070]" <070@...> wrote: Sam is a great contact. Look up his setup on his qrz page -------- Original message -------- From: "JEFF WALSH jeffwalsh1644@... [070]" 070@...> Date:04/18/2015 4:38 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 070@... Subject: Re: [070] Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in.. HI BUz ...i just finished with FK8DD/M in and saw u trying to get em .... go up a little bit on band .... i will send u a call JEFF WALSH W3WMU #1673 BUBBAWOOD WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS STURGIS, MS. On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:31 PM, "'Mike Miller' lists@... [070]" <070@...> wrote: Hi Daniel,
I have my upper signal level set at -20dB, signal range 70dB and the squelch I adjust as needed. It isn't too critical for psk31, remember that the signal browser has its own squelch. I don't know that the -20dB is optimum, I don't remember what the default was. Good luck, have fun Mike kc9doa #1040 On 18 Apr 2015 at 15:52, buzcut36@... [070] wrote: > Mike what do you keep your Viewer squelch at? and upper signal > limit? just want to dial this in!! >
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Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in..
Martin Tuip
Sam is a great contact. Look up his setup on his qrz page
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-------- Original message -------- From: "JEFF WALSH jeffwalsh1644@... [070]" <070@...> Date:04/18/2015 4:38 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 070@... Subject: Re: [070] Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in.. HI BUz ...i just finished with FK8DD/M in and saw u trying to get em .... go up a little bit on band .... i will send u a call JEFF WALSH W3WMU #1673 BUBBAWOOD WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS STURGIS, MS. On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:31 PM, "'Mike Miller' lists@... [070]" <070@...> wrote: Hi Daniel,
I have my upper signal level set at -20dB, signal range 70dB and the squelch I adjust as needed. It isn't too critical for psk31, remember that the signal browser has its own squelch. I don't know that the -20dB is optimum, I don't remember what the default was. Good luck, have fun Mike kc9doa #1040 On 18 Apr 2015 at 15:52, buzcut36@... [070] wrote: > Mike what do you keep your Viewer squelch at? and upper signal > limit? just want to dial this in!! >
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Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in..
JEFF WALSH
Lots of South American callsigns coming into MS now on 10m JEFF WALSH W3WMU #1673 BUBBAWOOD WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS STURGIS, MS.
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:41 PM, "JEFF WALSH jeffwalsh1644@... [070]" <070@...> wrote: HI BUz ...i just finished with FK8DD/M in and saw u trying to get em .... go up a little bit on band .... i will send u a call JEFF WALSH W3WMU #1673 BUBBAWOOD WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS STURGIS, MS. On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:31 PM, "'Mike Miller' lists@... [070]" <070@...> wrote: Hi Daniel,
I have my upper signal level set at -20dB, signal range 70dB and the squelch I adjust as needed. It isn't too critical for psk31, remember that the signal browser has its own squelch. I don't know that the -20dB is optimum, I don't remember what the default was. Good luck, have fun Mike kc9doa #1040 On 18 Apr 2015 at 15:52, buzcut36@... [070] wrote: > Mike what do you keep your Viewer squelch at? and upper signal > limit? just want to dial this in!! >
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Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in..
JEFF WALSH
HI BUz ...i just finished with FK8DD/M in and saw u trying to get em .... go up a little bit on band .... i will send u a call JEFF WALSH W3WMU #1673 BUBBAWOOD WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS STURGIS, MS.
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:31 PM, "'Mike Miller' lists@... [070]" <070@...> wrote: Hi Daniel,
I have my upper signal level set at -20dB, signal range 70dB and the squelch I adjust as needed. It isn't too critical for psk31, remember that the signal browser has its own squelch. I don't know that the -20dB is optimum, I don't remember what the default was. Good luck, have fun Mike kc9doa #1040 On 18 Apr 2015 at 15:52, buzcut36@... [070] wrote: > Mike what do you keep your Viewer squelch at? and upper signal > limit? just want to dial this in!! >
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Re: new guy here please don't bash my skull in..
Mike Miller <lists@...>
Hi Daniel,
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I have my upper signal level set at -20dB, signal range 70dB and the squelch I adjust as needed. It isn't too critical for psk31, remember that the signal browser has its own squelch. I don't know that the -20dB is optimum, I don't remember what the default was. Good luck, have fun Mike kc9doa #1040
On 18 Apr 2015 at 15:52, buzcut36@yahoo.com [070] wrote:
Mike what do you keep your Viewer squelch at? and upper signal
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Re: new guy here please dont bash my skull in..
David M (AJ4TF)
Good. Enjoy psk 31!
de AJ4TF 070# 1479
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KF1BUZ
Mike what do you keep your Viewer squelch at? and upper signal limit? just want to dial this in!!
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