In a message dated 7/10/04 6:32:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, k1ttt@arrl.net writes: My guest op reported to me that hg6n was calling cq on top of him.... ok, so what. Then a few minutes later he repo
Globs are also made by (heat generating) continuous arcing, which could be charge bleeding or corona caused by excessive charge arcing/streaming at the tips. (See 80m mobile antenna tips vaporized/bl
In a message dated 7/29/04 8:08:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ah3c@frii.com writes: The comments pouring in are fascinating. I was intrigued by the spider ball design after seing several installed on
Sanding down the crack sure makes it disappear, but at the same time I would be thinning the wall of the tube a little in this place. Any comments? Depends what kind of crack it is. If it is from the
In a message dated 8/17/04 5:27:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, k5iid@sbcglobal.net writes: But I am in a quandry over how to build the desk. I can't use my old station desk, so will have to build somet
This name thing during the contest is IMHO redundant and who needs it. If things are reaaaaly slow and you know the operator's voice, than maybe, but many times the calls are operated by guests or mu
You'd care if you busted your butt assembling your station, and competing and operating ethically, finished #2 in a major category, and #1 was cheating. Tell me I'm wrong... Stu KC1F I know what you
admirable to want to be a 'pure' amateur radio operator. I support wholeheartedly this person's desire to go back to basics. Where it runs afoul, IMHO, is in trying to force that sentiment on others
This proves those of us with XYL's should multiply our score by 1.3125 to compensate when there is a 48 hour contest. And you not counting in-laws :-) Had one situation, back in VE3BMV days, when in-
operation on the high seas, outside of the territorial waters of the country (defined for these purposes only as 12 miles).<< Sooo, if you were outside of territorial waters of your country (W) but a
do we want? - Real-time scoring? - Instant final results? [1]<< Why don't we start with getting contest results in 30 days, instead of 9 months like some time to "born" bastard? Lets post the complet
score reporting during a contest is primarily by those who are interested as spectators or by those who are competitive participants.<< This OF is interested in doing his best job in allotted time an
SICK! That's why the Computeradio DR1 - "Dream Radio One" station will fit in a carry on luggage, with PA1 to follow later, also to fit in carry on. Check http://www.computeradio.us/expedition_pack.h
Yes, and not everyone can afford to build multi tower antenna systems, but, that doesn't stop me from sending logs in... There are also single band categories for stations with limited resources and
Factors affecting scoring are (if someone hasn't figured it out yet :-) Biggest, baddest, most efficient antenna system. Able to transmit the big signal everywhere, able to selectively receive from d
us take our hobby more seriously than our work. To each his own. -- Bill W6WRT<< Tell me about it! I quit IBM to make mo'mony, so I can get badder QTH and station. Didn't think it would take 17 year
SO2R has made it very difficult for me to consider operating a single band contest. All that free time just sitting around with nothing to do during CQs makes them so boring! 73, Barry W2UP--<< Not s
listings on the web. Web data has the permanence of snow in Florida. There's nothing like opening up a good ol' "hard copy" magazine and seeing your call in print -- even when it's for a measly four
"public service", and providing communications for walkathons, etc.<< Like them guys need to read QST to push the PTT button and yak on handheld? How many SOTBers does it take to equal spending of on