- 101. Re: [CQ-Contest] Learning Morse (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:41:33 -0500
- NA5TR says: "and trying to type without error which would create busted calls hasn't been any faster." Rusty, I'll add a comment, but realize that I operate almost entirely CW (lots of traffic net ex
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-11/msg00190.html (9,375 bytes)
- 102. [CQ-Contest] JT contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:53:37 -0500
- Seeing K4ZW's post on CQ-Contest about the JT 'Test this weekend reminded me of a story W3ZZ told about the old days of the QSO quota in ARRL CW DX. (For the newer guys, you were allowed only five QS
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-11/msg00191.html (7,385 bytes)
- 103. Re: [CQ-Contest] CW Keying Cable (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:53:07 -0500
- Well, yes, I've had a few transistors fail, too. I remember in 1973 my Heathkit AR-19 Receiver (AM-FM-Stereo) started distorting as it warmed up. I held an ice cube against the various transistors in
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-11/msg00206.html (9,865 bytes)
- 104. [CQ-Contest] Sending the req'd exchange (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:04:36 -0500
- If this thread does not die soon, I am going to have to stop reading the Reflector for a while. Anyhow, was there not a thread here a year or so ago, when some European deliberately omitted the repor
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-11/msg00317.html (7,086 bytes)
- 105. Re: [CQ-Contest] Malicious Interference during SS (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:09:26 -0500
- "if the section is not populated enough to field at least 5 stations during a contest then it should not be necessary to work it." I'm sure the person who posted this is getting the message that the
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-12/msg00137.html (7,991 bytes)
- 106. Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ contests results (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:47:05 -0500
- "Why we still have to wait eleven months to know the definitive results?" Even though I know nothing about how the humans do the job, or even who they are, or about computers, I'll add to DL8MBS comm
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-12/msg00363.html (7,980 bytes)
- 107. Re: [CQ-Contest] Public Logs (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:14:18 -0500
- For top tier logs, one sort-of valid reason is that it might reveal your winning operating strategies and knowledge of esoteric band openings. I'd like not to believe that it's because the extra scr
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-12/msg00490.html (7,345 bytes)
- 108. Re: [CQ-Contest] Public Logs (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:23:10 -0500
- "I think you answered your own question, Art. ... The fun is in the outwitting, and in some cases even the bluffing. Learning should be both challenging and rewarding, not spoon-fed." I agree with al
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2008-12/msg00515.html (8,640 bytes)
- 109. Re: [CQ-Contest] 3X6A (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:04:39 -0500
- The postings from AD1C, W8FJ, and W9ZS prompt me to tell two related stories. First, in ARRL DX CW this past Sunday morning I was filling in at W3LPL on 40M. Calling CQ toward JA/Pacific some time we
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-02/msg00389.html (7,920 bytes)
- 110. Re: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting Rationale (or, The Curmudgeon Awakes) (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:38:31 -0400
- I'm surprised that K0HB -- "A Boy and His Radio" -- has not already melted the Reflector with his response to this one. My own belief is that the risk of overloading the spotting network had nothing
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-07/msg00278.html (8,415 bytes)
- 111. Re: [CQ-Contest] Self spotting rationale (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:06:56 -0400
- 'But there's a strong market for both manual and player pianos. Why would anyone buying a manual piano want to "judge" how the player piano should operate? Isn't that why there is both assisted and u
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-08/msg00006.html (8,012 bytes)
- 112. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rule Interpretation (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:07:00 -0400
- "I'm sure they'd have a field day interpreting 'The Spirit of radio or contesting' "That one might even make it to the Supreme Court!" I dunno. Maybe Field Day is not contestable for attorneys, eithe
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-08/msg00047.html (7,201 bytes)
- 113. Re: [CQ-Contest] Chairs (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:30:35 -0400
- If the higher quality ones are budget busters, take a look at Staples "Culley" model, number 555381. The one I got for myself was so satisfying that I got five for W3LPL (hey, my budget can't support
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-08/msg00058.html (8,526 bytes)
- 114. Re: [CQ-Contest] K4BAI (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Boyars" <art.boyars@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:21:25 -0400
- I was privileged to operate with John (and a bunch of other top-notch guys -- "Let your house be a meeting place for sages; sit in the dust of their feet; and drink in their words thirstily." ) in a
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2009-08/msg00249.html (8,406 bytes)
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