Actually, I find that useful. During the K7C expedition, I often could not hear the station at all. I wondered if my rig was broken, or my feedline disconnected. To realise that other people could no
Impossible? I don't think so. Inconvenient? Certainly. Difficult? Maybe. The K2 is different from other radios in some ways. Amplifier keying is one of those ways. The K2 will assert amplifier keying
Why would you need to renew a certificate for an old callsign? Once you've uploaded all the QSOs for that callsign, you might as well let the certificate expire. There's no reason to renew it. You on
Actually, it's probably simple math. It's been a long time since I dealt seriously with queuing theory, but its certainly true that most Markovian (and many non-Markovian) processes will tend to "clu
I don't know what you mean by someone "makes a download". You don't download in LoTW, you upload QSOs. When contacts match, a QSL is issued to the certificate -- this is true even if the certificate
At 44, I don't consider myself "old". And radio is still magic. I disagree. Most kids never have the opportunity to know about it. We've done too good a job of keeping it a secret. My daughter's midd
OK, first, you have to realise that 40m in a DX Phone contest is the absolute worst QRMfest you can ever imagine. The problem is that in regions 1 and 3, the band is only 100 kHz. So, most of the act
There's certainly a lot of "bedsprings" contesters out there. (defined as those without monobanders or stacks) In fact, most contesters fall into this category. The guys with huge antenna farms and l
The lowest I heard was SV1CVY, who was at 7000.5, which, in my book, is out of band. He was calling CQ. Yeah, it's easy to just complain about this, but think about the entire situation. There's curr
In four more weekends, it's CW's turn to hijack 40m.... Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- Wilbur Wright, 1901 ______________
On 40m, that's Standard Operating Procedure -- call endless CQs listening simplex, when there are hundreds, if not thousands of stateside stations who would love to call, if you were only listening u
You have to use what works. I was at NQ4I's this weekend, but I've empirically found that use of slightly non-standard phonetics works. If I send Alpha Alpha Four Lima Romeo, there are lots of errors
At Atlanta-Hartzfield airport, the main hub for Delta Airlines, things get confusing when they refer to "Taxiway Delta". They have been using "Dixie" for this purpose for years. So even in an ATC env
I'm just grateful that someone has taken the time to call me, and I do my best to try to dig them out. Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man e
A sincere statement, and a slightly serious one. I'm sure we HAVE an ITU representative, but I couldn't even begin to guess who it might be. Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "
I use something similar to this. It is a K1KP-style voice keyer. The original K1KP keyer used a voice recording module from radio shack, and actually ran the output across the microphone. My design i
So, why does this reference just leave a bad taste in my mouth...? <big grin> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- Wilbur Wrigh
As I read the ARRL regulation by bandwidth petition, voice operation would be legal down to 7100 kHz, although the bandplan would probably encourage it to be higher to make some room for high-speed d
Why remove the USA stations? This means that if those USA stations submit logs, the contest judges will find a NIL in their logs where they worked you. Furthermore, that contact might be a valid mult
Which is why I'm still busy logging and missed the deadline for the Poisson d' Avril.... Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- W