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THE NORTHERN CALIFORNtA DX Ci:..UB .. P. O. BO.X 75 - OAKLAND0 CALIFORN.TA . ,...,_ PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR THE BENEli'IT AND INTEREST OF IT'S MEMBERS~FOUNDED 1946 Past Presidents- ........... W6PB PRESIDENT. • ••••• W6L TX W6IKQ VICE PRES•••••••• W6JHV SECo .. TREAS., •••• W6GPB W6TI DIRECTORS ••••••. W6KG 9 W61PH W6WB DX'er EDITOR ••••• K6SSJ W6EJA

MARCH 1960

W6ATO W6SR W6DZZ W6PYH W6GPB

W60MC W6CTL W6LDD W6KO K6AQP W6JK W6MHB W6KEK

Vol. XV No.m

-- PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE ANY OR ALL PARTS OF THE DX 1 ER IS GRANTED...~ PROVIDED FULL CREDIT IS GIVEN TO THE DX'ER

PLEASE SEND ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DX'ER EDITOR TO ARRIVE NO LATER THAN THE SATURDAY PRECEEDING THE REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING.. (Normally this will be the 1st Saturday of the month.) REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS OF the NCDX CLUB ARE HELD ON THE Znd THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH AT THE COlT~ RAMSEY HOTEL IN OAKLAND UNLESS OTHER ~VISE NOTED. PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION$ TO THE DX'ER EDITOR AS FOLLONS: R. W. Thompson ... K6SSJ P. 0. Box 73 Milpitas, California

EDITORS COMMENTS Things have been rather quiet this month as far as DX activity is concern~d other than the contest. We have received exactly two station reports from members and have little to report. It is pretty authentic that Doc Merideth, W5PQA, will be on from East Pakistan in a.pp ... roximately the next 30 days. My source reveals that he will probably use the KWM .. l of Ted Henry's that was used by VUZANI as well as the antesmas of that expedition9 but there is also a possibility that he may get on with a BC-610o His itenerary has been changed somewhat and it is not definitely known when he is scheduled to arrive in East Pakistan 11 but it is fairly certain that when he does he will get on the aire Arrangements have been made for permits etco and it is understood that they are waiting for him at Dacca, Eo Pakistan at the American Embassy9 Legation or Consul whichever they have there. Doa has not been heard from since leaving Hong Kong so if any of you hear him on the air from any of the stations out that way please aak that he c011tact BUl Bennett W7PHO for fur-ther particulars on the East Pa.kiatan operationso

It wns resolv~d by a. 'itOte of th.~ a.unnb,~:r:: of the DX Club that to pxomote more and better DX activity in th~t club, to pro'ride an ·inc~tive for better ope'1t'ating and incre«ued participation in club activities, and to provide recognition for outstanding achievcment 0 the Northern California DX \...~1.1b shall sponsor an award to the outstanding full members .. according to the following policy: . 1. The award shall be (any suitable award/a cup/a plaque) on wbich shall be engraved the name and call of recipient 11 the year and reason for the award.. 2.o

The award may be permanently retained by the recipient.

3. The award shall normally be publicly presented to the recipient at the Joint NCDX and SCDX Club meeting in a presentation ceremony8 by the club president or his de~Jignated alternate., The club president shall arrange for possible publica.titJn in appropriate publications by furnishing photograph and press release of the award ceremony. 4o Nominations may be made in writing to t he Secretary by a club member at any time~ stating full name of candidate, call reasons for nomin= ationl) and containing signature and call of nominating member'! 5., At the meeting prior to the joint DX club meeting, i£ any nominations have been received throughout the year 0 the club president shall convene a meeting of the Award committee to act on such nominations.

6. The Award committee shall consist of the current directors~ inelud.., ing ex.,officio directors., A quorum shall consist of at least 60o/e o£ the committ~teo The club president shall presideo 7. ln the case that one of the committee is nominated for the award. he will not serve on the committee 8 but his substitute shall be selected by the club president to act on the committeeo In the ease the club president is nominated3 be will not serve on the committee, but the Vice .. president will assume his duties. 8. Decisions of the award committee shall be based on the factors listed below, and a candidate shall not be considered for the award unless h~-s score is at least 50 60 70 out of a poasible 100 110., 9.. The award committee shall consider carefully and impartially each nomination submitted and shall give full attention to at least the following factors: Item 11 is shown as "0" acore 11 but for extradorinary accompliahmant or endeavor not properly indicated in the tabulation sagments~ may be used to add any number from 0 to 10 to the cumulative scorea and thereby · giving fair weighting to any unusual quality or accomplishment. Normally. it would not be expected to be usedo Therefore 10 items will have a poBsible total score of 100~ and U items llOo It ie considered practically impossible to fairly give any candidate eithe·r of theee hypot hetically parfec:t scores. 10. A prerequisite of this award requires that the candidate shall not have willingly or lm.owingly violated FCC radio rules and regulations .. (continued)

(continued) THE COMMITTEE WILL DECIDE SCORE IN EACH CATEGORY FROM TO-MAXIMUM SHOWN

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Contributions to amateur radio; a .s sistaDce with technical problems; loan or gifts of parts or eq=• uipment: helping foreign amateurs with OX exped.. itions; helping new amateurs; handling or supply.., ing QSL cards; etc. Attltude toward public on a general basts. and toward neighbora.

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Contributions toward NCDX Club; participation in club activities; participation in contests; att= endance at club meetingao bulletin contributions; technical cqa.tributions, oral and written; spreading word when new country on air; etc.

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Operating ability; copying t hrough QRM or noise; code speed; abUity to cope with confusion; etco

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Perser.arance; effort in listening for new count.. ries; in obtaining missing QSL cards; in striving for DX goals of various sorts, such as certificate& and awards; in ferretting out DX informatioo• etco

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The award committee shall use their peraODal knowledge of each candidates performance 11 and the information provided by nominating amateur& but shall also obtain any additional information it may require from such soueces as it may determine necessaryo Art Frc:maecal) W6SR Chairman

COPY L. Ho Thomas, G6-QB DX Editor So W e Magazine 55 Victoria Street London So W o 1, England

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1960

Dear Mr. Thomas: RE: Con t ests Now that it is impractical for W6AM to enter contests with the hope of runir.tg up a large score you might like to hear a different viewpoint from those generally published in your very fine columns .. To W6AM& contests have always been a sort of "over the air convention", a meeting place where one could hear, work, exchange the equivalent of a "hello" and "how are you?" "'"' meet old £riends and make new ones" liter.., ally by the hundreds-. One weekend of a contest often represents more qso's than all of the rest of the year put togethero When W6AM goes to. an ARRL Convention he tries to see and talk with most every-one there 9 it just makes us feel good to see so many kindred souls in so short a time and at one place. The contests in many respects are sim ... ilar 8 and I hope we can always have theme as well as the more leisurely but fewer qso 8s we have the rest of the year. Anyways I thought you'd like to hear from an old contest man who in times past often pleasantly met more G's in a single contest than would normally occur in a whole yearc No doubt there are others that feel the same wayo W6AM thoroughly enjoyed the last few cmtests 8 making relatively few QSO's compared to previous yearso One record of 1243 phone SS qso•s with differ ... ent stations still standso Most of those 1Z43 phone hams still seem to think t hey are a special ham friend of W6AM. Best regards 0

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I u n de r s tan d from ta.l kiDJ to Ed. Peck, W6LDD, today (Sunday March 6t h» t hat the second half of the Phone Contest has been very poor. His multipliers are as follows: 34 on 10 mtrsw, Z6 on 15 mtrs. ; 19 on ZO mtrso ii 10 on 40 mtrs . and 1 on 80 meters for a total of 90o Total points approximately 43 0 650 in the AM test. I persOilally heard very little actitiity during the day although W6AED a t Marysville has been active and may have racked up a good score for NCDXCo 0

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2529 DeKoven Avenue Belmont~ California Feb. zs. 1960 Dear

Bob~

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picture and the information that you wanted for the station story for the Ma-tch issue of the DXer is enclosed.. If you need the neg= ative just let me know by phone and I will send it alongo It isn 1t much of a shack but when I make my first million I will fix it up"' Hio By the way, I took a nu:mber of hours off from working DX to get my country count straightened up., The figures you have been putting in the DXer under my call are incorrect and it is my faulto I tried to 4"ememb"" er them at the meeting one night and got all fouled upo Too much good booze and food I guess - Hi. Here is the correct picture for the next issue:

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Phone Wkda 88

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This is not impressive CW score but I have cut my new beam to the CW end of the band and hope to do better from here on outo Not much else f»r now. Missed the first part of the C VI contest8 was away on a trip, but did make the first section of the phone contesto Hope to make the second phone part and also the second C W parto 73

Ale W6TXA

De Dono W6TOT Finally sent cards in and now have my DXCC on A and A • In a 1 3 recent QSO, UAlDZ told me there is definite Wrangel I. activity on ZO C W. He thinks call is UAfBQ and says for further details contact UA•KAR or other Dickson Iso stationo Also VPZ's DX and SL going to M011tse:rrat and possibly British Vbgine March lOth thro1,1gh Z7th on AM and C W tO .. lS'"'ZOMo And VUZKV plans CW and AM as VUZKV/ AC3 in Sikldm about March 18tho 73

Don!) W6TOT

$$·$~······*··········~······ W 6 J K advises that he now lives at Z767 Colusa Streets Pinolell Califo Totals: ZZ3 wkdo ., Zll cmfdo .. CW also has DXCC and WAZo

W 6 B V M advises that he has a new address: Don Rinaldi ... W6BVM" 160Z 7th Avenue "" Delano~ California., Totalsg Z79 wkd. - Z77 cmfd.. CW

:Joee W6GPBs advises that -W 6LMZ should be re .. iJlstated to the mailing list, o He just paid \'lP fox- two years.

STATION OF THE MONTH March 1960

Al Huebler

W6TXA

Prof e s s ion - Communications system engineer. Employed at Lenkurt Electric Co., San Carlos, C a 1 if or n i a as Senior Engineer and Manager, Mobile Telephone Applications Engineering Group. Hobbies

DXi n g,

cutting

gem stones and making jew e 1 r y.

Originally licensed as JA2MA, Tokyo, Japan. Served in the Army Signal Corps during WW -II and Korea. Highest rank was Lt. Colonel. Married-

XYL'snameisMargie.

Spent time on 6 meters and 2 2 0 mcs.

Two teenagers, aboyandagirl. Worked 4 countries and 2 6

states.

Presently working 10, 15, 20 and 40 CW and AM. Using a Johnson Valiant which was wired from the kit. S X- 101 rx, Mosely T A- 3 3 Jr. Tribander and a 4 0 meter dipole. Q T H is 592 feet above sea level at the top of the Belmont City Hills. The beam is 35 feet above the ground. 105 Countries

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and 102 confirmed.

Art Fronseca, W6SR, got me interested in hamming as a kid about 24 years ago in San Francisco. I have served on a number of military assignments with Lloyd, W6KG, in both Japan and Germany. My service travels have taken me to 33 countries. Will remain active unless the wind on this pea-pickin hill blows me out for the fourth time - Hi.

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W~ahmgton ~ D. C" ~ A Richmond ViBginia. radio amateur has confessed be.., fore the Senate Racket s Committee today that he is part of the "payola " acan.daii.l e urr0ntly sweeping the natione Mro John Co Random operator of a .rr.ta.teur radio station WA4GML 9 revealed before the committee that be has been receiving "payola" !rom no less than five l eading manufacturers of radio equ.ipmento Committee chairman11 senat or Wayne Ro