I got on the SP for a short time... I found that a significant number of the stations I worked apparently heard EN73 as R 73... They would panic and send 'grid?' before I could qsy <they thought> Now
Tom, Just a thought for the future - and we have discussed this before... Noise cancelling headsets are like a whole new world... I have brought my Lightspeed ANC sets home from the airplane and used
As an old timer, I still have crystals... As I read your post, Bill, I had two thoughts.. !. You are a dangerous man... 2. I like it... Entrants will post their frequencies with the contest committee
Last week, I heard a DX station calling CQ on CW... As soon as I called him he came back, "hi dennis'... Which is fine except on cw I am doc... On phone I am denny... Only my wife calls me dennis, an
I get a kick out of folks, who when THEY want some operating restriction that the regs don't call for, they start labeling other ops as "inconsiderate", or some other pejorative name... I would sugge
One thing that always amuses me is reading about the Pentagon doing research on sleep deprivation in soldiers... They spend a bloody fortune on that stuff... Yet, here we are with thousands of hams w
Actually I did buy a new contest radio 'today' - for the 06 CQWW... In my declining years, with the children raised, and the retirement fund topped off, I can afford any radio I want... I did conside
I have been trying to ignore this thread but: 0 pointers are not all zero for the contestor calling you... He may need you to fill that USA zone in his log... That QSO is not zero for him... He may b
WIndows XP cannot dedicate an I/O port with no interrupts and will continue time slicing all serial, parallel, and usb I/O (even with no other programs running, due to internal interrupt calls) Smoot
Bob, my compliments to the gang for the massive improvement in getting certificates out in a timely fashion... denny / k8do -- Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car
Well, I'm trying to understand the thrust of N4XM, Paul's discussion... I would appreciate Paul explaining how he sees the Cabrillo log as defective... Don't get too technical for my old head... In l
I went through the exact same scenario last year about this time... Discovered at that time I could only get on a waiting list at Commander with estimated delivery of May 07, and that QRO was shuttin
Sounds like quite a project, Rick... Thinking about the pattern it certainly will be a DX antenna, but when you are trying to run all of Europe in a contest it is really a rifle shot antenna... I wil
Riley Hollingsworth was blunt during his recent lecture... It boiled down to: 'Turn on your radio. If you don't like what you hear change frequency or change bands. Still don't like what you hear? Tu
Right or wrong, the Patriot Act has given our bureaucrats enormous power - especially over aliens attempting to enter this country, even temporarily...... Obviously your friend has gotten on the wron
BTW, this weekend will be my first phone contest since the USA 80m phone allocations changed after CQWW phone last year... At that time I speculated about unhappiness on the part of the DX who normal
It's now 20:03 UTC and there are a bunch of guys on 20 meters working SS ** If I had neard them I would have assumed it was just long delayed echoes from last years contest... The interpretation of r
Look, it is dead simple - you LOG what the *&%($#@ dx station SENDS - period! denny / k8do -- Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. ________________________
The 1000D was not designed to be used remotely, so a connecting controller is going to have to do a bunch of work arounds... The Omni 7 is designed to run directly off the internet or a LAN and is a
My contest station uses a NetGear wireless router between the computers and N1MM Logger to run things, also wireless keyboards and rodents... Got rid of a bunch of nagging RFI problems that way and p