I received this today and thought it to be pretty darned relevant to this list. Read what this young man has to say. I can say for sure "Been there, done that", and thanks to K4VX I'm where I am toda
Ya... a real time saver those cut numbers are. I can certainly understand why those top-notch ops choose to send them. This is a very good demonstration of how many ops don't think. This is just lik
I got rid of one of my FT-1000MPs prior to going to Finland and I sold the other one while I was there. It is a FB radio, but I got tired of hearing about key clicks and something about the receiver
I'll give you my non-technical, experienced-based answer to your question: The KT34XA is an awesome antenna on 10 meters. I assume the KT36XA is too. I think the 7 ele 10M M2 will be clearly better,
I have won two plaques for WPX participation. Have yet to receive either of them. The first one was from 4 or maybe 5 years ago. I have also sent emails to N8BJQ with no response. So I have to ask...
If you are interested in joining our teams for February, please drop me a note. I had a hard drive failure this past week and lost everyone's email addresses from the last Sprint. Will help me a lot
The CW Sprint is this coming weekend. I'm trying fill our 4th team with members. We have lots of new guys on our teams, so don't be worried about having never tried it before. You'll be on a team wit
Yea right. Not even close to being likely. Most of the CW Sprint activity will be between these frequencies. Suggest you RTTY fans stay above 7050Khz and we'll stay below 7050Khz. 73 Bill Fisher --
Joe, The general band starts 7025Khz. You are expecting our contest to take place between 7025Khz and 7035Khz? I don't think so. Hey the good news is that the CW Sprint will only be there for about 2
If you look at the breakdown of the QSO's for most competitors, you will notice a big drop on 80 meters. For example, I worked 135 on 20 meters, 144 on 40 meters, and only 100 on 80 meters. This Spri
A few of us decided after the last CW Sprint to pool resources to field an all south (mostly SE) CW Sprint team. This was insprired partly because we were having trouble fielding 10 man teams from ea
I just noticed that GreatDomains.com has Contest.com listed at $150,000. I gotta tell you guys... anyone offers me 1/2 that for Contesting.com & I'm outta here! :) 73 Bill Fisher -- CQ-Contest on WWW
In the latest QST K1ZZ comments that "survey after survey has show that contesting results are the least read item in QST". Survey Question: Have you seen any survey asking what you read in QST? http
Discovered this product this month & thought it might be worth mentioning for you contesters-on-the-go types... Basically, you can tune the elements for any frequency from 20 meters through 6 meters.
Looking for some more southern folks to round out some of our CW Sprint teams for this weekend. You don't have to worry about being an expert. We will probably have 2 teams of guys who are either new
If you want a VHF Sprint, then start one. Call it the VHF Sprint. Be sure to make it a sprINT format so you and the other 2 guys you can hear won't run out of things to do. For you guys with kids ou
Re: Bi-Annual Subscription Request Contesting.com & eHam.net Users I have been hosting the Contesting.com and eHam.net web sites and mailing lists on my network since 1996. In the beginning, my compa
Following up on Jim's (N6TJ) comments regarding packet (I was one of the folks that mailed him privately in complete agreement with his views on this subject). My personal feeling is that the rule ma
The past few years we have seen a rise in the number of stations that start on 40 meters in the CW Sprint. I think the SMC guys started this to help make sure they work each other before 40 goes long
I'm all in favor of the Sprint date change. 1) No FOC Marathon to run in to. 2) No RTTY contest to run in to. 3) No Valentines Day conflict to sacrafice XYL points 4) Probably more quiet band conditi