I've got a suggestion that may help resolve this impass between those who think single radio stations deserve a category of their own and those who see them as a little bunch of whiners. This would b
Thank you to all who wrote to thank me for putting into words what they had been thinking. To those who misunderstood, let me say that I am not on a campaign to create new categories. I blame myself
I'm going to have to point out that KQ2M's claim as the first SO2R operator is at least a decade late. I was operating SO2R from W6HX in about 1970 and won the SS CW, SS Ph, and ARRL DX Ph contests,
I may be misleading myself, but in my experience the way to get a stiff neck is to look down most of the time -- as in looking down at a paper log sheet as you write in it, or at the radio dial. Or a
Well, I'm going to have to disagree, Bob. I know of at least one early SO2R operator who made real use of the capability. Now, Vic Clark tuned the second receiver in his shack while his mechanical CQ
I quickly read the rebate form that Staples printed out for me on the first monitor that I bought before I bought a second one. I found a statement objecting to "fraudulent multiple" rebate submissio
40 meters provides two different challenges from Maryland in a domestic contest. One challenge is daytime operation, where high angles provide for a lot of relatively local contacts on a very crowded
What would the definition of "Home Station" be? Would that include all stations you own, or only the station that you live at as your primary residence? If W4AN drives to his quiet hilltop QTH, does
I've been holding myself out of this latest round of SO2R bashing and counter bashing simply because I've said it all before. I've become a bit weary of it all. W5XD suggests below that it would be d
I can't say that I agree with either side of this exchange. Frankly, I find a number of operating practices that are common now to be an annoyance. I don't enjoy passing multipliers band to band, and
I can see this. I've got an idea that it would be fun to do Field Day-style contesting in the major contests, especially domestic contests. Out in the Southwestern desert somewhere miles away from po
I've got experience running SO2R horizontally, but not vertically. In the 70's I learned to run two transceivers at W6HX. I wasn't the first to operate this way, but I was one of the early ones. I na
The early 60's ARRL DX contest was a little bit like collecting QSL's for DXCC. The creators of the contest saw no reason to work many guys in each country; as you logged your contact you'd also writ
R.I.T. -- in fact all forms of transceive operation on CW -- came into being well after the creation of Q-signals. Isn't it about time that we had a revised list of Q-signals that includes one repres
I missed the original post on this thread, but I'll try to pick up on the thread mid way. When you go to pick up the tower, equip yourself with a few 2 1/2 to 3 foot long pieces of water pipe in the
Tom, I tend to lean toward extending the American tradition of free speech to Barry as well as to EO6F. Amateur Radio is not and should not be enforced as a "politics free zone", but instead should b