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BT &nbsp &nbsp Break in text. Used as a separator between thoughts or a pause. Also something good to send when your mind goes blank or you are talking to someone in your shack, etc.

WX IS CLDY BT AGE HR IS ….

AR &nbsp &nbsp End of message. Use when you are through sending info, and turning it over to the station you are working. Also used when answering a CQ.

blah, blah, blah, hw? AR KB3BFQ DE K3WWP K. – or – To answer KB3BFQ’s CQ, KB3BFQ DE K3WWP AR

K &nbsp &nbsp Go ahead. Used to tell the station you are working you expect him to transmit now. Use after a CQ to invite someone to answer you. Do not use K after you answer someone’s CQ since you don’t know he is going to answer you, use AR.

HW? AR KB3BFQ DE K3WWP K

See General Sprint Rules for rules common to every NAQCC sprint [http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel/sprintrules.html]

RULES specific to this month’s sprint:

Date and time:
Thursday, Sep 21, 0030-0230 UTC
(Remember that’s Wednesday evening here in the USA)

Bands Used This Month:
80 meters, 40 meters, and 20 meters

Special Award:
For the most QSO’s with Canadian stations.

Entry Deadline:
All entries must be RECEIVED before 2400Z on Sep 27, 2006. So submit as soon as possible, especially regular mail entries.

Results (to be posted after the entry deadline):

SWA Category
Call QSOs Mbrs Pts Mul Sco Bonus Final Awd 80-40-20 Antenna

GAIN ANTENNA Category
Call QSOs Mbrs Pts Mul Sco Bonus Final Awd 80-40-20 Antenna

# – Top score from a previous non-winner

* – Special Award (Most Canadian QSO’s) entrants:

Special Award (Most Canadian QSO’s) winner:

Had a nice 80M CW QSO with Jim, K8DEH. He had a great signal from Ohio, solid fist, nice speed. His speed wasn’t too fast, but I still had problems copying. I need to keep working on my copying to build up some speed.

Here some of Jim’s info from QRZ.com:

I was a Novice, KN8DEH, in 1954 – 1955 until I got into school and sandlot baseball. I ran a homebrew 6146 on 40 meters to a folded dipole strung between my father’s house and a telephone pole. My receiver was a BC348Q. After a stint in the Navy, college, marriage, kids, grandkids, and now retirement, I am again finding interest in my old childhood hobby. Although it has been 50+ years, it’s still fun to work CW. The current RIG here is an old Kenwood TS-520se (also running ICOM 746PRO purchased at 2006 Dayton Ham Fest) into a fan dipole up about 25FT in the trees. Look forward to meeting you on the air…..

I’m hoping I’ll get to work Jim again soon.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm

The Scots Guide to Electronics

This course is designed to help you learn about components, circuits, and the use of electronics. You can explore the contents in whatever order you wish.The emphasis is on providing information starting at the ‘absolute beginners’ level, but we hope eventually to provide material of use to anyone interested in electronics and its applications …

The watch has 3 modes for telling the time.
Using a bulit in speaker that refracts the sound off your wrist through the solid stainless caseback it sounds out the time in Morse Code (http://www.tokyoflash.com/images/morse-audio.mp3).
If thats to hard to follow, you can press a button to see the time in Morse Code on the LED display.
If that’s still too hard to decipher or your running out of time, one more press of a button you can see the time in regular digit form.

Stimulate your mind and learn to tell the time in Morse Code.

The quality is second to none with 150 grams of solid stainless, this watch is built like a Navy Seal!
With its high polish strap & mirrored lens – in bright sunlight you could even signal in Morse Code.

* Time only
* 12 & 24 hour mode
* AM / PM in 12 hour mode
* Audio Morse code time
* LED Morse code time
* Regular digit time mode
* 1 Year Warranty
* Polished Mirror finish
* The only Morse Code watch in the world!

http://www.tokyoflash.com/viewwatch76C1morse-code-watches.html

From the G4ILO’s Shack: http://www.g4ilo.com/index.html
I am pleased to announce a successor to my popular HF band propagation program HFProp (http://www.g4ilo.com/hfprop.html). VOAProp has a similar user interface, but uses the VOACAP propagation model. Developed over 50 years by the US Navy Research Laboratory and the Institute of Telecommunications Sciences, with sponsorship from Voice of America, and validated using thousands of reception reports from Voice of America short wave radio listeners, VOACAP is probably the most accurate HF propagation model available.

VOAProp will show you the typical expected propagation for any month and time of day, from now back to the earliest days of radio. It can also generate a point to point propagation chart showing the best time of day, and band, to try to make a contact with any given location.

I finished the main board for the T-238+ and all the tests check out. I applied power and the LCD came to life with it’s start up messages and the red LED came to life blinking away.

I’ll work on the modem board tomorrow.

Step 1. Press the A/B key to choose the band (example 144/VHF or 440/UHF)
Step 2. Press the VFO key
Step 3. Select your frequency for the main tuning knob, or directly from the keyboard
Step 4. Selecting TONE, press the F Key and there will be a flashing number select F-1, press OK on the joy stick, and the OFF will flash turn the main tuning knob to ON, and then press OK again. The T will show in your display.
Step 5. Press the F Key again go to F-2, press OK, and the PL number will flash turn the main tuning knob to the desired PL/Encode, and press OK again.
Step 6. Memory Entry press the F Key then MR Key, the memory number will flash turn the main tuning knob to desired memory location, and then press MR Key to store your selection. To recall memory just press the MR Key again.

Had a CW QSO with W1PID who was very patient as we worked through QRN and my left foot.

Tnx Jim!

http://www.pcpractice.com/CW/