you, It would be better than 500 messages trying to sell me ointments to enlarge certain body parts. No, seriously, somebody else mentioned that also via private message, and I've reconsidered the p
Yes, it's a very short list --None above this line-- ARRL DXCC ARRL WAS --None below this line-- 73, de Hans, K0HB -- _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contes
the Which is why I decide what my check this weekend will be about 10 minutes before 2100Z. If you depend on a data base to automagically fill my "Check" I guarantee you will get it wrong. 73, de Ha
I think you're picking fly-specks out of the pepper pot. this. Lessee -- I've got an "Official ARRL Membership Card" around here somewhere. You are in the "SCV" Section and KL7J is in the "AK" Secti
It also makes a compelling case for keeping your BIC (Butt In Chair). Quack shoulda stuck around for those missing 18 minutes! Beep beep de Hans, K0HB -- ____________________________________________
You can actually REMEMBER what they sent a year ago? 73, de Hans, K0HB (Check variable from year to year) -- _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
fancy...whatever turns me on during the doldrum periods of a contest. Back in my youth on the Guam, 9V1OI was always "Nine Virgins and One Old Idiot" and Anita was always "Zed Ess One Twilight Zone"
Rather than wonder about it, I asked "the Desk". Nobody checks with FCC and you won't be DQ'd for the wrong check in SS. Next subject? de Hans, K0HB Hi Hans, Many amateurs like to let others know whe
To give you something to copy! The beauty of SS is that you have to actually copy something that the computer program can't automagically figure out from your call prefix. In other words, you get the
blog is clearly identified and what they say is clearly visible and searchable. It is authoritative within that context. be identified as the Blogger, along with contact information...along with all
Careful you don't bring on a heart attack doing all this mountain climbing in the mole hills. 73, de Hans, K0HB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@con
the my I _always_ use my middle name, even here. Come to think of it, the FCC doesn't even put my first name in their data base. Now I 'spose I'm even more notorious! Which is precisely why my check
Why would you want to? The serial number does not affect score, it is just a piece of info exchanged between stations. For that matter, SS rules do not prescribe that the numbers start at "1", only
I don't THINK so! If I'm down to the short rows in SS this weekend, calling "CQ SS CQ SS ESPECIALLY VE8 DE K0HB" and someone pops on freq and says "Jay is up 7", that's not a "spotting net" and I'm
Quote me chapter and verse. Otherwise this rule applies: "Everything not specifically prohibited is mandatory." Beep beep, 73, es GL in SS, de Hans, K0HB -- Robinson!!! calling "CQ SS CQ SS ESPECIALL
don't interesting Just to educate myself, I ran this weekends SS Phone in the "Single Op Unlimited" mode with an RF packet feed. After that experience, I don't know why we worry about it! Rather tha
SCP (I never use it). (who station A was thing but A kept citing LAST YEAR, now I'm long time) in SS. and nothing exchange to "test" skill made (unless your point Yeah, what Doug said!!!!!! For thos
in John, Just don't tell us here that you're going to operate in CQWW, or at least don't tell us you're operating HF! Bad enuf that you're a ZERO-POINTER if I work you, but worse yet if I get DQ'd.
Sean, Thanks for the QSO on 7257.8 this past weekend. (Yes, I looked it up.) "Monitoring" conveys no protection nor ownership of a frequency. I have a copy of the ARRL "net guide" here, and it runs w