"If I remember correctly Once Upon a Time Class D stations were not supposed to call CQ ??" I don't know about "once upon a time", but the Rules do not disallow it now. I just looked. The Rules for F
Responding to K7QQ's direct reply, below. Yeah, as I was hitting "Send" I realized Rex was asking only abt history. My only additional point was my own feeling that Class D CQ >>should<< be prohibite
"She had no health problems or family history of thrombosis, and only one known risk factor, birth-control pills." To our detriment, most of the Contest community is not subject to that known risk fa
On the PVRC Reflector, a fellow asked: "Is there a high power dummy load around the DC area that I could borrow for a week or so? Happy to pick up and return." NN3W responded: "My understanding is th
I have avoided reading this thread, but I did happen to notice this post from K2QMF: "If you were operating S/O Unassisted and a buddy called you on the land line to ask how you were doing in the con
I had just been thinking about this issue when Paul, NG7Z, posted here (Subj: Submitting SO2R log): "Should I put in one or two transmitters in the Cabrillo header for the RTTY contest? I was SO2R."
N4ZR writes "Anyone remember NV6O? He had all sorts of fits with that call on CW. I remember once in a *phone* NAQP calling him as 'N4BO.' " I remember a CW contest (I think it was a CD Party) from w
We had important out-of-town company thru the Thanksgiving weeked (until Tuesday evening), so I did not get to make my trek to the W3LPL MM. All I got to do was an hour or so of here-and-there demons
Responding to W5OV (below) -- Not at all, Bob, not at all. When I say that the DX did not, as far as I could tell, acknowledge my report I did NOT mean the typical: "CQ TEST 4Q2OM" "k3ku" "K3KU 5NN41
Thanks, Bob. I guess I should have worked harder to explain it the first time. 73, Art K3KU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://li
W0YK said: "The sport simply requires wind propulsion in its definition of sailboat racing." Obviously. But continuing the (risky) analysis by analogy, would sailboat racing allow, were it possible,
During this discussion K0SR said "However I don't see any way to move times around that won't have a negative impact on somebody." I've got no input, but I just have to thank and praise the person wh
I use the old K6LL solution, passsed along to me by W3LPL. I doubt that either Dave or Frank use this anymore, but, doing as little 'phone contesting as I do, it has worked for me for several years.
You are quite welcome. Glad to share. One change: After I sent the posting last night, I realized that #14 wire is probably too light. Having gotten some rest for my eyes, I can read the markings on
I can't resist. I have not read all the discussion in detail, but there seems to be a near-consensus that dueling CQs is immoral if done on a single band, mainly because it uses up too much spectrum.
Jim, Sounds reasonable. (I do think that eventually technology will move us to where SO can run two freq's (maybe a "skimmer" copying on each channel). Would it be immoral then? Or would we not care,
A friend has a wav file of telegraphy Morse that he wants to use in a presentation. That is, it has clicks instead of beeps. He wants to verify that its content is appropriate. Does anybody out there
I got a couple of good suggestions about displaying the cloicks so I could translate them, but ... W0UO actually can copy that stuff!!! I sent him the file and he whipped the text back to me. Amazing
Time to lighten up here a little. You may read/send these two stories at any speed you wish; you do NOT have to send your call; and Multi-Single entrants may CQ on the second radio while reading. Ski
"Keep a printed copy of the software manual at the operating position. A help screen is no substitute, especially if the problem is the fact that you can't GET to the help screen. There is a saying i