K5SL with that "Intense Look" at SARA FD 2007

ARRL Field Day June 23/24 2007

The Shreveport Amateur Radio Association is again hosting ARRL Field Day
at the Pavilion near the Arthur Te ague Parkway Boat Launch Ramp

All are welcome, Hams and non Ham Radio OPS alike
A special station will be provided with a Licensed radio "coach" for those wishing to talk on the air

We are also operating 3A with one of those stations set up for those ops that prefer a slower QSO rate, in other casual operation versus "contest style"

We welcome amateurs from other clubs and even non club members
to join us

Hamburgers and Hot dogs will be cooked Saturday and everyone is welcome while the supplies last, donations are welcome but not required for the food and drinks consumed.

Bottom line is we will have fun and we want as many people from the public as well as fellow Ham radio ops to come join us !

Those that enjoy working at a faster pace are encouraged to step up to the plate in either the Phone or CW Trailer and work em fast and furiously as they can

The scenery on the Red River is always pleasant on the eyes
the camaraderie is bar none !

Those that wish to assist in set-up
we begin that task around 3 pm Friday June 22

73

Steve
Steven L. Smith
KG5VK

July Radio Sport IARU Contest

In the July QST you will soon receive, dates for the IARU HF Championship
dates are erroneously listed as July 7-8. The correct dates are July 14-15
as shown in the April QST contest announcement. The Web version of Contest
Corral also has the correct dates. Wednesday's issue of the Contester's Rate
Sheet (http://www.arrl.org/contests/rate-sheet/) will carry a bulletin
alerting readers to the error.

Please relay this information to your club newsletter editor or Webmeister.

Sorry for the eror - this slipped past the sleepy-eyed Contest Corral
editor, namely me.

73, Ward N0AX

SDXA Members Meet BS7H DXpeditioners

This picture was taken Saturday morning, 9 June 2007, at Ham-Com in Plano, TX right after the BS7H forum. Standing in the back row, left to right, are San K5YY, Tom N4XP, Paul K4UJ, and Mike K9AJ. Kneeling in the front row, left to right, are Steve KG5VK, Randy K5SL, and Marsh KA5M, all SDXA members and all very grateful to have worked BS7H.

73,

Marsh, KA5M

HamCom and The BS7H Presentation....

Wow !

As I race back from Atlanta
I get an email that points out a conflict of dates in my Calendar with my
Planned trip to Huntsville for the Big Hamfest

So while attempting to determine if I can make it
I decide to do HamCom if a buddy or two can join me for the ride there

I'm in Missippi and still on the road, exhausted
I call Ray AD5ZT and he say he would love to go to HamCom (Ray has never been to any Ham Fest)
I then Call Marsh KA5M and Randy K5SL) and find out they are both already there
Marsh informs me of the BS7H presentation scheduled for 10 AM Saturday at Ham Com
I tell him I'll be there !!!!

It was 4 and a half hours of rest out of the car and then Off to Plano Texas for HamCom

The trip was worth it !!!!

Ray bought a new radio for his Jeep
I bought a few small things
and had an over whelming time meeting some of the BS7H memebers

Marsh, Randy and myself (The three of us from our area that worked the BS7H crew)
had our photo done with the BS7H team members that were at HamCom
we will have the photo posted here later

On top of that I got to meet Gary WF5I,
talk about a really neat guy - Tice he has been number one on the DXCC Honor Roll - Wow !

That was one short inexpensive Hamfest but way Fun !

73
steve
KG5VK

THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. CQ WPX CW

THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. The CQ World Wide WPX CW Contest,
VK/Trans-Tasman 80-meter CW Contest, ARCI Hootowl CW Sprint and the
MI QRP Memorial Day CW Sprint will certainly keep contesters busy
this weekend. Please see May QST, page 97, and the ARRL and WA7BNM
contest web sites for details.

ARRL Divisions and Our State Section web sites....

The websites vary greatly
ours seems more ARES and Traffic totals centered

Is traffic and ARES the only thing happening with our Division ?

Where would we turn if we wanted state or regional news ?

Who is the big gun VHF/UHF Dx op in our state ?
Who is the Elmer of the year, is there such a thing ?

The SARA Website Rocks, thanks to Ellen and we can be very proud of it
we can help the division and region websites by sending them feed back.

I would like to see more news about our region and Division in QST but that is not going to happen, they just don't have the room for anything other than traffic and new hams in the division news within QST

http://www.arrl.org/sections/?sect=LA

The same person that manages our great website for SARA manages the state website
so she only needs our feed back
Placing the burden on her without us helping provide feedback is wrong and will not help
when you have something news worthy drop Ellen a note about it.

steve
kg5vk

I just got an Email from our Division Director asking for input...

He has taken the time to send out a survey for our feed back
Please provide him your input !
If You did Not get the survey send him an email request for it his email is wd4q@arrl.org
yes that is .org

73
steve
KG5VK

http://www.radio-sport.net/

Now available at http://www.radio-sport.net - a new internet site
devoted to news about ham radio contesting.

Featuring interviews with contesters, the goal of radio-sport.net
is to tell the story lines of our contests, with coverage modeled
on what you might read in your newspaper sports section.

The main focus as we go on-line today is the CQ WPX CW at
the end of May. You will see that the top three world single-op
finishers from last year are out, making WPX 2007 a wide open
shootout.

Radio-sport.net is also unveiling rankings of the top contesters
in the world, based on contest results over the past year. Our
first #1 ranking goes to John Crovelli, W2GD.

Please stop by to take a look...and don't be surprised if you get
an email from me with questions about what you're doing in an
upcoming contest or how your last contest effort went.

73 Jamie Dupree NS3T

40 Phone Tent F.D. 2 element Colinear Array

Today while it was too wet in the yard to mow

I spent it building a two element Colinear Array for 40m Phone

It is no small antenna (260 feet in length)
But even laying on the ground the Antenna analyzer read 1.2 vswr at 7.200 Mhz

I think even if this antenna is only 6 or 7 feet above the ground in the trees on the river bank it will perform well for us.

I plan on waiting tell after FD to re-install my 80m double bazooka here at KG5VK, so we will also have it available for F.D.

Next is to see if I can repair the mosely classic 33 that is in mu antenna junk box
for our F.D. Tri-bander

73
steve

SDXA Supports SARA FD

Members of the SDXA chipped in to pay for the rental of a trailer to be used by SARA as an operating position during Field Day 2007. Thanks to all who contributed!

73,
Marsh, KA5M

RTTY Blog

http://rttycontesting.com/rttyblog.html
New Blog just getting started

73
steve

BS7H Dxpedition 1997 Video on U Tube WOW !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y50WgagQIxM

about 14 minutes long video
watch the Recon Plane Buz them

No Joy yet here on a QSO !

steve

This is wild The Split Police dot Com.........

http://www.k6sgh.com/splitpolice.htm

some of the side notes in these post are way over the top !

OMG - talk about getting publicly marked as a Lid

73
steve
KG5VK

W5B/52

We had a fantastic turn out with over 27 members at the site over this past week-end

612 QSO's
Lots of great publicity on www.eham.net for SARA

The WX even cooperated !

73
steve
KG5VK

scores compared we only need 300 more Q's ....

300 more Q's and corrct copy of the New Foundland call in the log
and we could have been First place in the REGION box !

1

KG5VK

165,268

1,046

79

M

LA

72

24

80

449

418

99

Shreveport ARA

(+KA5M, K5SL, NZ5S, KJ5SZ, KH2DF)

1

KA1ARB

212,640

1,329

80

M

NC

79

24

420

467

429

13

Potomac Valley Radio Club

(+WB1ADR)

KA1ARB was first in our Region we were 4th

Tenth place in overall Top Ten Box for our Category went to............

1

NK7U

212,000

1,325

80

M

OR

75

17

223

298

478

326

Snake River Contest Club

(+KL2A)

this seems wrong because KA1ARB has a score of 212,640 versus NK7U 212,000
that additional 300 Q's would have put us in the mix for the Top Ten overall if we did the correct call on the missed multiplier

We still did very good, another 300 Q's and we will move way up in the standings.

73
steve

LCR -Log Checking Reports- Very informative

Amazing That I have not seen these before,
they have apparently been around for at least 4 years....

Here is some insight from the LCR of our 2006 SS Phone entry.........

There were 21 dupes found.  You might have marked these dupes.
For electronic logs, all dupes (marked or unmarked) are treated
the same with no penalties.


TIME ON CALCULATION
-------------------
2103-0723 =  621
1225-0200 =  816
        ------
On time = 1437 minutes (max of 1440).

CALLSIGN CHECK RESULTS
----------------------
VY2QT is a busted call.
The correct call is VY2TT.  
Not good we busted a call for a needed Multiplier
- we Lost our sweep !

You had 43 calls in your log which were not found in the
database of good callsigns.  
27 of them have been judged to be incorrect. 
These will be removed from your score -
along with an additional penalty of one QSO per
per busted callsign.
Unique percentage =  1.4

There were 39 exchange errors found.
These QSOs will be removed from your
score with no penalties.
Example:
QSO #151: Received QSO# 87 should be 27 AE6RF

There were 16 bad cross check QSOs removed.
You had one not-in-log.
There will be a penalty of one QSO for this.

SCORE SUMMARY
-------------
 Raw QSOs = 1177
    Dupes = 21
Busted QSOs = 82
Penalty QSOs = 28
Time Expired = 0
Final QSOs = 1046 
Band Breakdown (160-10): 0   80  449  418   99    0
QSO Points = 2092
Multiplier = 79
--------------------------
Final score = 165268
Error rate =  7.1%
(100 X (Busted QSOs / Duped QSO total))

BUSTS FOUND IN OTHER LOGS
-------------------------
The following information shows contacts you made
that were removed from the other station's log.
These are not deducted from your score. 
They are listed for your information only.

Example...
AJ9C: KG5VT is a busted call. 
The correct call is KG5VK.
Number busts found in other logs = 39 (0.0%)

We still increased our score and moved up in the
Region box EVEN without a sweep !

We even managed first place in our Division
without the Sweep

so even though we will all be amiss the sweep mug
for 2006 we did dam good !

I will be analyzing line scores of our nearest comp

73
steve
kg5vk

The Results from 2006 ARRL SS phone.......

As hoped our team moved up one notch in the region box for our category

Last year our goal was just that and to of course make first place in our ARRL Division, we did both...........

In 2005 we just made the region box with 5th place

Here is the Chart from the website ...

Southeast Region (Delta, Roanoke and Southeastern Divisions)
WP3R	364,800	B
KP2TM	311,200	B
W5WMU	253,280	B
N4OX	246,400	B
NN3W	241,280	B
N4PN	196,320	A
KZ2I	150,080	A
K4EJ	133,440	A
N8II	126,126	A
AE5T	113,600	A
KC5R	100,800	Q
NA4BW	64,834	Q
NX9T	54,604	Q
N0HT (N3JW,op)	35,140	Q
KI3O	30,820	Q
NI1N	264,640	U
W4NF	229,760	U
K2WK	198,720	U
N4LR	172,960	U
N4BAA	161,760	U
KA1ARB	212,640	M
W4MYA	189,120	M
WW4LL	172,640	M
KG5VK	165,268	M
K4TS	161,120	M

and now for even greater news.................................

FIRST PLACE DELTA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Delta
Single Operator High Power Phone	W5WMU	Icom
Single Operator Low Power Phone	AE5T	Icom
Single Operator QRP Phone	KC5R	Icom
Single Operator Unlimited Phone	N4OGW	Icom
Multioperator Phone	KG5VK	Icom
School Club Phone	W5YM	Icom

And look at that AE5T Rick Saffel, got 1st place Delta division in the Low Power category so us local guys did darn good in our Division this year !

Our Team did awesome !

2007 will offer us more reasons to shoot for the overall Top Ten Box
I will have 6 antennas in the arsenal for 75 meters
The newests antenna being a pair of Coaxial Bazzookas at 60 feet Phased with a WX0B stack match box (allowing us to select direction and phasing)
Thanks to everyone for your support I will let you know as soon as the Clean Sweep mugs have arrived !


By the way a measely additional 46,733 points and we would have made the overall Top Ten Box

How many q's is that not sure but my guess is about 500
in a day or two I will know excatly how many more Q's we must have to improve our rankings once again

If anyone wants to join our team simply email me my callsign by way of arrl.net or qrz.com


73
steve

http://www.KG5VK.com

AD5ZT, Ray visits my shack

I recently met Ray during a visit to his home and Ham shack
However I failed to take a camera with me on that journey
Ray is a recent Licensee, an avid long time fly fisherman and talented photographer
Ray recently visited here and I grabbed this quick image
during a break from some Tower/Antenna Maintenance that Ray was assiting me with.

A very Kewel Contest Video

I found this very professional video of the OT5A Club superstation's CQ WPXoperation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LX3dfg0Wg

Their setup in the World War I "Fort of Lier" is amazing!
It is apermanent club location,but it has the feel of Field Day with generators etc.

They have a fullkitchen cooking mealsetc.

ON-Land is very serious about contesting, that is for sure!

Tim K6GEP