You're missing the all-important 9th man - Best Cook.... Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- Wilbur Wright, 1901 _____________
I've had this happen before, early in my contest carreer. I remember after one particular Field Day (yeah, I know, it's not a contest), having listened to SSB for over 24 hours, I drive home and went
I LIKE it! It's not zero, but it's close enough to zero that you won't waste a lot of time looking for them. Weird part might be using fractional points. How about you get one point after working N s
I only spent about 5 hours working the contest, but I called CQ a lot. I noticed this, too. And I was signing after every QSO. My only guess is that sometimes the timing is wrong when people tune the
My previous experience in past 160m contests is just the opposite -- everyone has their filters cranked so far up that if you aren't exactly zero-beat, you can call and call and call and they won't h
On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:17 PM, <ku8e@bellsouth.net> <ku8e@bellsouth.net> wrote: For the purposes of the ARRL 160m contest, the window is 1830-1835 kHz. See Rule 6.1: "6.1. The segment 1.830 to 1.835 sho
During the sunspot low, which we are virtually in now, it's hard to tell what to expect. 10m may barely open at all, or it could be filled with activity. Odd propagation modes may present themselves,
Maybe, just maybe, those Caribbean stations ARE "real" DX for those guys who don't have RX antennas? Perhaps we should have the DX stations send in their resume and the ARRL will let them know if the
While it is clear that contest rules don't necessarily apply to nonparticipants, who make contacts but do not send in a log -- it is interesting to note that non-participants do NOT necessarily have
There's a few people who work several Qs on this band. W4AN used to say, "if you are working 160m in SS, you are losing." Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousa
For SS Phone 2004 (LP), I warmed up a nice frequency on 20m a halfhour before the contest. When the contest actually started, the QRM level went so high that the frequency became unproductive within
I'd wonder if you want AFC on at all when CQing. If more than one caller calls you at the same time, what frequency will the program tune to? You also might have nearby QRM that might cause the AFC t
In thinking of narrow shifts, you can theoretically get down to extremely small values. If you think of FSK as two OOK symbols spaced a short distance apart, there comes a point when the sidebands of
It takes a lot of effort to get a big M/M station ready for a contest, any contest. If you look at the rules for domestic contests, most don't allow M/M operation. For NAQP, you can operate M/2. That
So, what are these two basic secrets? Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- Wilbur Wright, 1901 ________________________________
While the 3700-3800 window is obviously a typo, if you were operating in 3794, you were smack dab in the middle of the DX window of 3790-3800 kHz. I can see why users of this window might object to a
NO! Absolutely not! Allowing High power in the NAQP would ruin, spoil and destroy its character. NAQP is a low power contest. The rules clearly state that you cannot run an external amplifier, and yo
1) It's low power only. 2) It's only 12 hours long. (Family friendly) 3) Six bands in a domestic contest. (except for RTTY) 4) Multipliers count per band, so there's strategy. 5) Exchange is super-ea
That's part of the challenge! For about five years now, I have been using "Bill" in the CW portion and "George" in the Phone. "Bill" is short and distinctive on CW. Using "George" is alliterative wit
A dipole at a modest height will work well on 40m, but I had a lot of trouble with 80m using a dipole at 30-40 feet. I did some modeling with MMANA, and it's pretty obvious why - at that height, just