Are there any more outgoing QSL services that will take stateside cards? I have a stack of cards from USA guys who did not send SAE/SASE that I would answer if I could just stick them in one envelope
<< The USA QSL Buro ws the only outlet, but they gave it up several months ago stating there was a lack of interest. I found that out when I received my 2" stack of cards back. There are two Buros fo
<< Let the flames begin... 73, Fred, K3ZO No flames, Fred. You are right, many of us have changed our perspectives and become more pragmatic. We did not used to time budget ham radio. Today, it is ju
I was reading the ARRL's lament about the DXCC program not paying for itself in the new QST. I have a simple answer to their fiscal dilemma. Allow us to send stateside cards to the incoming QSL burea
To further complicate matters, they have been active on the CW bands all weekend, working W stations, but not giving a contest exchange. I wonder how many logs they wound up in? Tom, K5RC/7 -- CQ-Con
<< Yesterday I sent a carefully thought out, detailed and courteously worded contest/DX related proposal to an ARRL Board member. The exact subject is irrelevant, and so is the the question of his ag
<< Single Op: One radio..... period. Single Op-Two radios: One op, two radios. Multi Op-Single Radio: As many operators as you want, one radio...period. Multi Op-Two radios: As many operators as you
<< Jim: The correct response to your last sentence.....in two words.... is HELL NO. Any reasonable ham radio operator knows that /QRP is not part of ANY call sign throughout the world. It is just add
<< Frankly I find your technique to be the one in question Tom. You obviously knew it was not ZL2RR's frequency, yet you dump in your callsign on K5ZD's frequency. If I were ZD I would have given you
'Ya know, it's always something. I test drove K7GJ for the first time in a DX phone contest last weekend and about every third QSO, the guy would miss the prefix, even though I said "Kilo Seven" or "
<< How about a score (no, not officially sanctioned, just for a fun comparison) that is the result of station/operater PRODUCTIVITY. Each entrant can operate as many hours as they want to. Take your
<< For those of you who vigorously dispute or "contest" my opinion, remember this: it is only my opinion - one of nearly 6 billion in the world..... but here it is. Remember my desire to stay within
I have nearly completed my collection of photos of the famous and infamous for my presentation at Visalia. I would still like to have some more good photos, especially from east of the Rockies. Does
<< If they continue with that stupidity, this will be my last trip. Dayton is an enigma. If you look at the whole event dispassionately, who would want to go to an event with a nasty environment, poo
<< Then what do they have on their helmets ? What is the attraction then ? >> Visalia is just a concentration of the hard-core DXers and Contesters. They have only one program session, plus lots of B
Why don't you guys lock yourselves up in a room at Dayton and design your ideal contest and find a new sponsor. That's how the NAQP came into being. I still believe that an international grid square
<< but this is the contest reflector, and Field Day is NOT a contest but an emergency preparedness exercise..........perhaps that comment would best be directed to the emergency preparedness reflecto
Just a reminder to Visalia attendees this weekend, I will be presenting "Where Are They Now?" on Friday evening at 8:15PM. It is a great collection of photos and stories about famous and infamous DXe
Why not recruit someone who draws congressional boundaries to help you? That way everyone could recruit anyone they wanted, couldn't discriminate against poor operators and their club territories wou
I want the equivalent of a farm subsidy. How may points do I get for staying home and not seeing you at all? :-) Tom, K5RC -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative