I believe it a French term , "Farts qui Parle", which roughly translates to "Phone Operator" Jim K8MR -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contes
The Mad River Radio Club is pleased to announce that it will again be hosting the "Suite in the Sun" at the Dayton Hamvention, Friday and Saturday May 18 and 19. Located in spaces 3858-3860, we'll be
With the turn of the year, the words "Field Day" actually came up over the weekend. With the pending elimination of new Novice Licenses, will there still be a "Novice" station provision in FD? -- CQ-
Last weekend in the ARRL CW contest I heard and worked European stations up to about 7070 or so. Was this an infringement of the Region 1 Band Plan, and did it cause a lot of hard feelings in the SSB
Go ahead and name the names, so long as you can also document the time, frequency, etc. Several years I was the victim of what I considered an egregious frequency theft by N2RM. I mentioned it in a c
If you want a category to increase Sunday SS activity, feel free to join the one I "invented" some years back: Single Op Multi Station Although last year I only made it to three stations (I had been
The Mad River Radio Club and the North Coast Contesters are joining together to host the second annual "Suite In The Sun" at the 2000 Dayton Hamvention. The SITS will be in flea market (oops, it's no
requires I suppose different people will have different reasons, but to me the reason to single it out is that SO2R promotes frequency monopolization. Since a SO2R guy never leaves a CQ frequency to
This weekend is the ARRL June VHF QSO Party. This is the biggest VHF contest of the year. Of course if you are an active VHF op you already know this, but if you are someone who owns an IC-706, IC-74
Having finally put to rest the question of Field Day "novices", perhaps now is a good time to consider the effect of restructuring in another contest, the 10 meter contest. The 28300-28350 kHz "no-co
W6TKV asked: Have been following this thread, and have been surprised not to hear from a "special interest" group". That is, the guys who see how many Q's they can make and still achieve a score of z
For all the worry about correctly copying 100 or ATT or 99 or whatever, does/will anyone check to see if signal reports are logged correctly? Will super-check-everything assume that the signal report
I'm old enough (CK 64) to remember the 1 point SS qso, although I can't remember actually having had any such contacts. I suspect that few people claimed them, but rather put down whatever they thoug
Time to schedule another Honor Sprint - this is the time of year people seemed to want to run a practice sprint. May is full of gardening, Dayton, CQ-M, and Memorial Day, so how about the second week
Well, I guess I get the honor of having the last zero-point WPX score ever, in the 1998 CW WPX contest! Now that the stupid zero point qso is history, I might even borrow a cool prefix call sign and
Back in the Good Old Days, hospitality suites at Dayton meant a rather small room on an upper floor of whatever hotel (Sheraton, Admiral Bimbo, Stouffer's, etc.), packed with people and with crowds f
etc. Hey Dave, Are you bummed out that you aren't in Box Elder County and therefore can't be the hunted in the Box Elder County Utah QSO Party this weekend? ;-) (BTW, has everyone checked out those r
writes: should DUMBING How about the dumbing down effect of using the computer to send your CW? It sure took a lot more skill in the Good Ole Days to get that bug or paddle to come out with the right
Think of SS, and the vast horde of W8's - and the state that is usually up at the top of the most worked section list - yes, OHIO! After some years of an Ohio QSO Party, and sometimes two of them, sp
<< Yeah, SOA is a ridiculous category for SS. Much worse than SOA in WPX. I'll predict that the SOA entry in SS NEVER wins a division. That's not the point of SOA in SS. The point is for all the smal