- 1. 24-Hour DX 'Testing (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Wed Mar 10 14:51:12 1993
- I've been reading the mail about 24- vs. 48-hour DX contesting for the past few weeks. There have been many points to which I've been tempted to respond, but I've found that by waiting a few days, us
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-03/msg00145.html (9,126 bytes)
- 2. 24-Hr Single-Op Assisted (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Mon Mar 22 17:16:27 1993
- Let me put the "bottom line" up-front: Consider making the Single-Op ASSISTED category a 24-hour event. Do not limit actual operating time, but let the op carve out a contiguous 24-hour segment for s
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-03/msg00277.html (8,536 bytes)
- 3. ARRL.CTY Anomaly (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Thu Mar 25 10:49:25 1993
- While writing a program to parse ARRL.CTY, I discovered the following anomalous line: The copy of ARRL.CTY I'm using came from this e-mail reflector about a month ago. I'd guess that CT is robust eno
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-03/msg00293.html (6,387 bytes)
- 4. "Busted" calls. (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Mar 26 17:52:47 1993
- I'm reminded of a moonbounce contact my friend Dick/WA2AAU thought he had made. Signal reports were exchanged and copied at both ends. Dick heard the DX station QSL. Only afterward did he find out th
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-03/msg00316.html (6,936 bytes)
- 5. More Fun With ARRL.CTY (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Tue Mar 30 23:29:32 1993
- My previously mentioned interest in parsing ARRL.CTY relates to the generation of an index of secondary prefixes for use as an operating aid. Some year I'm gonna get it together and buy a PC for the
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-03/msg00347.html (7,429 bytes)
- 6. Trapped Again (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Tue Apr 13 18:53:23 1993
- The discussion here on Cq-Contest about fixing traps was, for me, very timely. I managed to blow up my CushCraft R-7's 30-meter trap for the second time Sunday night. (Amazing what you can do with th
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-04/msg00086.html (7,526 bytes)
- 7. Field Day Solar (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Wed Apr 28 21:59:51 1993
- Bruce: Interesting FD trivia. I have some observations based on your reporting of the relevant rules. The field-day rules about not charging batteries -- even from solar cells -- while in use do seem
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-04/msg00178.html (7,991 bytes)
- 8. Morality Issue (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Apr 30 12:18:32 1993
- Sorry, John/W0RUE, but I just can't pass this up. Don't you read your own e-mail? So, if we do nothing, it'll stay the same. --John/K2MM
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-04/msg00198.html (6,152 bytes)
- 9. Pre-CT (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri May 28 23:47:12 1993
- In 1990 when I started to emerge from ham-radio hibernation, I picked up a copy of the ARRL Operating Manual edited by Bob Halprin, K1XA. It's copyright 1990. Chapter 7, "Contests", was written by Cl
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-05/msg00193.html (7,255 bytes)
- 10. Coding of Contest Entries (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Wed Jun 9 12:09:12 1993
- Hmmm. Guess I better get a longer call-sign. --John/K2MM
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-06/msg00044.html (6,169 bytes)
- 11. CQ Zip-Code Test! (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Thu Jun 10 14:51:44 1993
- Thought I'd share this excerpt from a private reply I just sent to Tim/NU6S. Might be worth a snicker or two. --John/K2MM
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-06/msg00055.html (6,650 bytes)
- 12. Corn-Tasters' Sour Mash (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Wed Jun 16 13:24:21 1993
- Stayed out too late again last night. . . . Ward/N0AX > DF4RD has let the secret out...Contester Beer! Len/KB2R > I homebrew, and . . . I already have a stout called That's one for the record book! A
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-06/msg00103.html (6,968 bytes)
- 13. Cheap E-Mail For Silicon Valley (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Jun 18 12:10:55 1993
- If you live/work in/near Silicon Valley, and are currently paying for Internet e-mail access, you might be interested in the following CHEAP alternative: $13 setup, $6/month, free 100kB/month, $0.02
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-06/msg00114.html (6,759 bytes)
- 14. CQWW.PX Op-Aid (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Jun 18 12:44:33 1993
- Jim/AD1C recently distributed an updated CQWW.CTY here on cq-contest. (Thanks, Jim!) From it I've produced a prefix op-aid called CQWW.PX. This is an updated version of the ARRL.PX op-aid I made avai
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-06/msg00115.html (7,809 bytes)
- 15. E-Mail Addrs For K1ZZ K1KI (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Jul 9 14:31:08 1993
- E-mail addresses for Dave/K1ZZ and Tom/K1KI were recently posted here on cq-contest by Rus Healy, NJ2L, Senior Assistant Technical Editor (QST). Here they are: Look out, Dave! --John/K2MM
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-07/msg00037.html (6,563 bytes)
- 16. SIMTEL20 Script (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Jul 23 16:36:35 1993
- Jim/WA6SDM posted a neat little script for getting files from SIMTEL20. Jim is fortunate to be using HP UNIX which *does* have the command "/usr/bin/mailx". Most other UNIX's do not. If that's you, t
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-07/msg00203.html (9,312 bytes)
- 17. Coax vs Hardline Help (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Sun Jul 25 22:45:12 1993
- On the 25th day of Juu-ly, Fred Hopengarten wrote to me: Gee, Fred, nice of you to share your perplexion with ALL of us on the reflector. Good thing it didn't stop you from supplying an answer ;-) 73
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-07/msg00208.html (6,511 bytes)
- 18. Robot stations. (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Fri Jul 30 18:32:59 1993
- Tree: Are you in control of your kids just because you begat them? Len: My friend Joe/WA2SPL had to apply for an STA to run unattended HF packet on 40m. Seems like unattended robot contesting would
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-07/msg00250.html (6,635 bytes)
- 19. We Robots (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Sun Aug 1 14:38:23 1993
- A couple of interesting quotes: Alan is mostly right, but there's merit to Jim's sentiment that the shift is not necessarily bad. I've noticed a common thread running through the pro-equalization pos
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-08/msg00002.html (9,019 bytes)
- 20. We Robots (score: 1)
- Author: K2MM@MasPar.COM (K2MM@MasPar.COM)
- Date: Mon Aug 9 12:55:17 1993
- Rick/N6XI: Thanks for the kind words. I thought your previous posting made sense. Replying to messages as you read them is a blessing/curse of e-mail. No reason to feel embarrassed. Other postings ha
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1993-08/msg00060.html (8,358 bytes)
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