This year's running of the Tennessee QSO Party is almost upon us! The contest runs from 1800z Sunday, September 7 until 0300z Monday, September 8, 2008 from 160M to 440 Mhz. In addition to the wonder
Great idea, Steve! And when you "decompress" from the Sprint and need a contest "fix" on Sunday, look for me and all my rowdy Tennessee buddies in the TENNESSEE QSO PARTY starting 2PM EDT Sunday afte
In one session of the weekly Thursday night NS, the Northern California Contest Club-sponsored weekly Sprint, in the sent exchange instead of sending your name you sent your ORIGINAL callsign. This w
On the 3830 reflector, Andy N2NT asked: "...Anyone for moving the Feb sprint an hour earlier or to 160m? Well, at least till the spots come back..." Interesting ideas, Andy. In the Northern Californi
Mike and Steve, You both make very good points about the participation. So, I got curious and looked at the published results for previous February Sprints. The list below shows the number of station
Pete wrote.."The problem? It lists all QSO parties simply as "QSO Party", so if you want to multi-task among them, you get confused." Here is an N1MM Logger work-around that I've used successfully. I
Why is it now still necessary to have a "U.S." and a "foreign" phone segment on any band which is allocated exclusively to amateur radio? Ted W4NZ This brings up an interesting point. Is it really th
The Week 8 NS Ladder scores are now posted (http://www.ncccsprint.com/results.htm). Please look them over to be sure that your score is there and it is correct. If you should find an error, please no
The NS Ladder competition, http://www.ncccsprint.com/ladder.htm continues this Thursday 0230-0300Z(Friday UTC). It's Week 9 of our 14-week series. See http://www.ncccsprint.com/next_ns.htm for schedu
I remember in discussions of contesting strategies during the '70's, there was the idea that the better signal report you sent the other guy, the "snappier" his response to you would be, saving you t
There are only four weeks remaining in this year's NS Ladder competition. Week #11 happens this Thursday night 0230-0300Z(Friday UTC). See http://www.ncccsprint.com/ladder.htm This year, your top 9 s
In April this year Tennessee lost a long-time TCG member and fellow contester/DXer, Donald Wayne Jones N4TN (formerly W4DMS). Don was a native of Kingsport, a US Army veteran (spending 3 years in ET3
Sorry, Hans, but you've already spilled the beans on your intent and now it's irrelevant how or where you get the variable check. Not to worry though, even the ethics professor at Contest University
Holy dupes, that form has a 6-26-2002 issue date!!! I just know K7SS is grinning about this! 73, Ted W4NZ <snip> (and I am somewhat surprised and disappointed that you can't still download an OpAid 6
A nice lady at the Crowne Plaza front desk told me that the CP had met with organizers of the Dayton Hamvention (DARA?) and the organizers had refused to sign a contract (as apparently in the past) w
Chase the mobiles...win a plaque The 2010 Tennessee QSO Party from 1800z Sunday, 5 Sept. - 0300z Monday, 6 Sept. 2010 The rules may be found here: http://www.tnqp.org/html/rules.htm We'd like to invi
I think you all have overlooked one of the well-known secrets of "little-pistol" contesting: ** Think and Act like a Big Gun ** It's kinda like one of the principle of success - if you want to be suc
I think 40m is not the only problem. Isn't there a similar conflict between RTTY and CW on 80m? It's the same amount of spectrum. 73, Ted W4NZ --Original Message-- From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting
On 80m I don't think the international sub-bands play very much of a part for most of the U.S., rather it's the NA to NA QSO's and low-power CW stations competing for spectrum with high-power RTTY th