The best conditions I have ever experienced in a contest were in the black hole during the WPX CW contest. The worst conditions I have ever experienced in a contest were in the black hole during the
I'de like to remind everyone that rate sheets for previous efforts from some of the high scoring stations are available at http://www.contesting.com. I would like to request that if you are a top ten
Well I'm a 4-square owner and I am going to disagree with you to a point. This winter I did some comparisons with N4RJ on 80M CW. Val is running a inverted-V extended length dipole with the ends pul
Thanks to Tine for the news on WRTC-2000. Regarding the USA selection criteria: In the 1996 event clubs were asked to chose one competitor for the competion. For the most part this worked out. Howeve
Nathan has written another addition to the first article he wrote on OWA Yagi antenna design. This is a yagi with wide bandwidth, wide F/B, and 50 ohm direct feed. There are a couple of new designs i
Anyone who may have downloaded the OWA article in it's MS Word format this morning, please be aware that the file was infected with the LUNCH virus (whatever that is). I got it cleaned with McAfee ju
The rule was added one year after I operated the WPX CW contest as single-op, multi-transmitter. I checked with N8BJQ before the event to see if such an operation would be DQ'ed. Since there was no
Anyone else notice how noisy 20 meters was this weekend? N5TJ tells me that this has been normal for the band the past few weeks. I used my single European beverage Sunday afternoon for RX. It was th
Not so surpising Gary. People dont avoid the WPX because of the Memorial Day weekend conflict. That was just a convenient excuse. I think the 1-point QSO's will be great next year. But after this we
Hmmmm... A lot of guys like this audio mixing stuff. Not me. You need a 2-pole 3 position rotary switch. Draw the switch out on a piece of paper. You'll be able to figure it out from there. One pole
When you send an email to the League with your log attached, the email generates an automated response. This is called an auto responder. We use it all of the time for people who use us as an ISP. Th
NO!! That's not what I said. I'm sorry, I assume too much knowledge of email. The mail just got dumped from the relay point that also generates the auto response. They had no idea that your log wasn'
A few more points that have been discussed here in the past that are worth more air time... 1) The lower loss the stub cable is, the sharper the Q. 2) Using multiple stubs: If you seperate them by 1/
Hi Jim, Yes I agree most guys do like to check for typos. I think they could put something in the rules, what about... This contest ends a 00Z. Post contest log checking is restricted to only visual
Let me try to refocus this discussion. 1. Is it OK to tape record the contest and play it back after the contest (before sending in the log) to correct copying mistakes during the contest? 2. Is it O
Just a reminder for you folks doing IARU this weekend, there are pretty good maps available at the ARRL WWW Site. Check out the following: http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/ituzones.gif More
Posted on TowerTalk by W7WHY: There are some VERY big scores from guys using nothing but 14g wire. KT3Y and KQ2M are both scoring at the top of the list in the most competitive categories and neither
No matter what software you use, you should always keep copys of different versions of the software on your system named for the version. For example, this weekend I started the IARU with NA 10.30. I
I signed K6T after each and every QSO during WRTC96. I believe my partner did also. Following Mr Norton's logic, one would assume that we would have finished at or near the bottom of the list. We wer
Auto correct has nothing to do with what Trey documented. Auto correct is used when you send the + key for confirming/logging the QSO. When you send your report to a station in CT during S&P you can