Thanks for all of the replies and information so far. Here are some answers to questions people have asked me, plus some additional details about my station and TVI. The neighbor used to be on rabbit
Why stop with Mexico? What about the states of the different central American countries? Are they any less deserving to count than Mexico? 73s John AA5JG _____________________________________________
Because Central America is part of North America! 73s John AA5JG _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/
Falcon or Raven would fit with the theme of Saturday! 73s John AA5JG _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mail
I have to respectfully disagree with this one. Yes, the objective is the same, but how we chase that objective has greatly changed. For example, there was another email on this reflector just minutes
I do have the chuckle at these spots. Busted calls like this do serve to penalize those who rely too much on the internet and never copy what is actually being sent, so maybe they are a good thing! 7
But clusters do lead to some of the bad behavior, like calling a DX station you can't hear just because he was spotted on the cluster. I do think they have reduced the listening skills of many newer
But suppose I decide to enter single op unassisted. During the contest, a local friend tells me where to find a new multiplier. Don't I then have to change to assisted? Or just not send in a log then
How do the mini sized 2 element tribanders like the Cushcraft MA5B and Mosley Mini 32 compare to a full sized 2 element like the Mosley TA32 and HyGain TH2? Do they give up much in performance when t
What is the wisdom of having the NAQP the same weekend as the January VHF contest, given that the ARRL more or less sponsors both contests? It would seem that moving it to the following weekend would
That is sure sad news. Joop gave me one of my first F2 QSOs on 6m, as well as P4 on quite a few other bands. Condolances for his family. 73s John AA5JG _______________________________________________
A few years ago the experts were predicting that this might be one of the largest sunspots peaks ever due to the solar conveyour. Now they are saying we might not get any sunspots. I guess no one rea
I am helping with some research about ideal calls in terms of DXing and contesting, and was rereading some of the old posts about ideal letters in a callsign. I wonder if some combinations can be too
I have enjoyed the responses so far about a callsign being too short, and what might be optimal. Here is another question related to this topic If you were trying to build a callsign that would get t
Interesting propagation in the ARRL DX contest tonight. I was surprised to find 20 open nicely tonight to Japan and Siberia around 10:30pm locally. Made quite a few QSOs to those areas. However, I al
It also may be that you aren't bothing them, but they are worried that the stations who might call them, who might not have as good of receivers, will be QRMed by you and pass them by as well. ______