I'm glad someone else noticed! I've always kinda wondered if "one-way skip" was real, but this weekend made a believer out of me. On all bands, but it seemed especially on 20, I had many instances w
Well, maybe, but maybe not. If you log me as "K0SB" instead of "K0HB" then LoTW won't show me a match, but I'll still get credit for the Q and your UBN report will show a busted call. If I remove the
What is a POPKIN-GRAM (or don't I want to know)? 73, de Hans, K0HB -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VHS! http://home
to be say outside of I think it proves that Sweepstakes still has a connection to it's roots, and that habits are persistent and passed on to the next generation. Sweepstakes was originally a traffi
Pete, I think it is perfectly reasonable, except for the part about "I will no longer respond to QSLs sent to me via the bureau system." That seems arbitrarily "hardnosed", especially since you prop
You can get a current version of CT (free now) at http://www.k1ea.com, but it won't run on your old 286. (Of course, neither will TR or NA). Since you have experience with CT, that might be the way t
I'm not enuf of an Excel guru to pull it off, but the public information would seem to be available from Dinks messages (or even more from the ARRL score site later on) to build a scatter chart of "b
I have uploaded all my surviving electronic logs (had a bad computer crash in 1995, so logs from 1986-1994 have evaporated) to both LOTW and eQSL. Hey, it's free, so I'll do it so long as it stays th
Super check partial is being discontinued. We will now be required to actually copy callsigns off the air. Next they're going to turn off the "auto-populate" robot which fills in the zone, and we'll
Depends on your budget. If you don't want to break the bank, I'd shop around for a used IC-761, 765, or 775. All three of these are good radios "out of the box", but when properly loaded with filter
year doing US/VE ? A here? I don't know..... maybe because it's just flat-out fun, and in a pleasant environment to boot! Hey, I'd much rather guest op at KV4FZ than VY1JA in November! (Nothing agai
My old 1900's model WIN98 Compaq 345MHz/128Meg ram is getting a little short of horsepower for many applications, and it's probably time to upgrade. What solutions are available in current-production
out Nope. It was sponsored by the St. Paul Radio Club, the multipliers were MN counties, and QSO-points were based on termperature reported in the exchange, the lower the better. 73, de Hans, K0HB -
that work That would be my choice. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VHS! http://home1.pacific.net.
What a great collection of responses!!! After sorting though 53 answers (direct and over the reflectors) the answer sort of bubbled to the top, and is blindingly obvious once I thought about it. I've
KH2D came by his call honestly as a long-time resident of KH2, and his 'ranting' was not about people who kept their call after leaving a particular QTH, but rather about scum who captured desireable
The zero-pointers don't bother me a bit (it's a lot faster to send "5NN 4" than to argue), but last weekend at "The Farm" (W0AIH) I was amazed (and amused) at how many zero-pointers came back later
Second the motion. 73, de Hans, K0HB -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VHS! http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~jamesb/ -- _
to The solution is simple. Just before the contest, flame all your buddies and acquaintences on the reflector. Then they'll be pissed off at you and won't be your friend for a couple of days, so you
-- http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb hurts a I Wayne, It really sucks that someone is ripping you off by selling fake registration codes. Really. But it wasn't "the contesting community" who did it