And, to "pile on, sorta," to Lew's post, I'd like to continue toi promote your participation (that's "your" as those of you who'll be operating during the SP) in the QRP ARCI's Top Band Sprint the ev
Hopefully lots of QRP entries, like myself - looking forward to a fun event and sure hope to work lots of ya! 72, Jim R. K9JWV _______________________________________________ Remember the PreStew com
Scott - I and other 160 QRP ops conduct what I'll call "little runs" during 160 events ..... just head up or down the band 'till you don't hear any alligators, park and call CQ....I find I can acquir
Art - based on the myriad replies to K9MA's query re obtaining a run frequency that I have perused I'll suggest a rearranging of your "answer": a) stay on the edges of the fray - select "quiet freque
Ward has suggested an attractive manner to obviate the sometimes divisive topic of leveling the geographic playing field for contests; e.g. for us U.S. residents, it may be as simple as choosing to b
The ARRL favors it, Jim, therefor it must be all good, correct???????????? 72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV -- http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0728/FCC-16-96A1.pdf This could
Congratulations, Ward -- in the order you presented them within your post, you: 1 ) paid lip service to those of us who are devotees of narrow band comms and find the idea of fighting for spectrum sp
By the bye......waving the "emergency com banner" while arguing for RM11708 is specious! It is totally wrong to buy into the "give it up for Emcomm" because, in practice during Emcomm, the cell phone
Tom: what could go down in Winlink that would affect most users? The Internet, I suspect, or a virus in the majority of the CMSs or RMSs??? I'm not very knowledgeable on the "workings" of Winlink but
There was no "Like" button for this or I wdda pushed it a dozen times!!!! The thing about not being able to attract new blood to ham radio because are data rates are antiquated is a bit silly. Why wo
Bye the bye -- there is one easy out of this entire melee.................set up one's antenna farm for 630 and 160 meters with an occasional excursion "up to" 80 meters to see if it has become conta