For what its worth, I subscribe to the idea that unassisted means just that. It means I sit in front of my radio, plotting every move without the aid of the cluster, RBN, even grey line charts. I tun
I would hardly call Joop a friend but we did work many, many times over the last several years. Interestingly enough, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation today promoted a show on Monday dealing wit
Since 1970 I have used VE1AL and before that VE1JN. I can count the number of errors using a call ending with a dit on the fingers of one hand. 73 Al, VE1AL John; The one thing I have heard is that y
When I lived in Ontario in the mid-70s through 1987, I had to get a VE3 callsign. I was told to pick three unissued calls from the Callbook and because I had listened to W3CRA so often and loved the
When I broke (barely) 1200 QSOs in a test, I couldn't sleep I was so excited! 73 Al, VE1AL I remember in the 70's myself if I broke a 1000 qso mark in a 24 hr test I was happy! Joe WB9SBD The Origina
I just read the latest e-mail on this reflector and then sent my logs at 0255. This is the message I received within one minute: Russian DX Contest 2012 Callsign: VE1AL Entry: SOAB-CW-LP Reported QSO
Yes, I realize it is the beginning of a new month. But I uploaded to LoTW before midnight last evening and still have not seen anything. I did get a message saying the upload had been placed in queue
I totally disagree with you, Charles. And as you may recall, this issue has been a bugaboo for me for many years. The simplest resolution to this problem is for the FCC to simply issue an order to ev
I'd go several steps further, Doug. Personally, I believe the Contest Committee should mandate that every station be required to give his call after every QSO. Today, I figure I totalled 30 minutes (
Hold on, Joe. How can you send his call in the exchange if you don't know what it is??? 73 Al, VE1AL Or a retaliation to all the slow ID'ers. Ya know the guys that ID maybe once every 20 qso's or wor