I third that motion. The 10 M contest is fine; you just use a different strategy when the band isn't open much. Sorry for those guys that had no propagation at all. Don't get impatient, I have been t
This is a great review for QSLing. It is also reassuring. I have comments about a couple of items. "3. Send via Air Mail. If you know the DX station has postal theft problems, send via Registered Mai
I have done a lot of experimenting with printing QSL information on my QSL card. I think that most QSL Managers would prefer to have all the info on one side of the card. I can print up to three QSOs
I had forgotten to mention that I use to little round stamp saying confirmed by W5VX also. I had a hard time finding one of these, but I am sure that someone makes these as a specialty item if you kn
I called before my last submission and was told to follow the procedure Steve gave below. I did it and I had no problem. I think the one area that has been a little complicated is sending in cards fo
I worked him too about 30 minutes before the contest started. Bill, W5VX Did anyone else copy T93J in the ARRL test or was I hearing things? I thought that Bosnia had transferred over to the E7 prefi
Pete, Can this be fed into a regular packet cluster? Bill, W5VX Hi Clive - the spots I'm making available on the Internet are generated by a US$13 (that's right, $13, in kit form) 20M SoftRock SDR ta
I was just thinking that something like this could do away with the self spotting stuff that seems to have everyone in an uproar. Just start up several of these in different areas of the country and
Maybe we could learn something about 160M propagation. Bill W5VX It occurred to me that a possible use of a Skimmer-type application might be for propagation analysis. Given that: a. Skimmer and a wi
I just don't understand where we are going with this. It appears that folks want to pick the technology that suits them and call it fine. (SO2R, or propagation software, or logging software, or remot
I have always felt like using a remote station was somewhere just outside what I considered fair. I have had the experience of owning a home that was not conducive to having a good antenna or running
I agree with this as well. My wife tells me that I don't like change - and she is right! I understand a lot of the arguments that are made for change in my head, but in my heart I wish they had, for
David, I guess that I have heard this argument one to many times. The idea that because there is a microphone or wire attached to my radio, my radio is the same as remote is just a silly extension of
I bought a couple of gallons of paint at Home Depot the other day and I am pretty sure that this is the tool they gave me to open the paint cans. Bill, W5VX Take a look at the picture of the tool nex
Thanks Dennis, I guess that the RFI problems in these headphones must be pretty common. Since I sent the original e-mail and an e-mail to Bob Heil, I think I have fix....at least one that works for m
I was checking my LOTW QSLs today and a thought just crossed my mind. I have just crossed the boundary of 9,000 LOTW QSLs. (I am sure that I am a "piker" compared to many others.) I have 8 file boxes
I believe that it is a waste of our precious green bandwidth. Bill W5VX <quote n0ax> Special Bulletin - The Rate Sheet Is Changing In the works for a while, the ARRL Contester's Rate Sheet is undergo
Pete, You are exactly right. It is easy to see that the DXCC desk is hopelessly overwhelmed and it is going to stay that way. We all thought that LOTW was going to save us from these ridiculous waits
Mike, It is too easy for us to play the "what if this or that" game. I can't speak for Pete, and he and I don't always agree. I do believe that we fundamentally agree on this point. I suggested that
I didn't get it either, and I get plenty of unwanted HTML e-mails. Bill W5VX Well, it didn't make it here, Dick. I wonder whether that nice HTML content is causing all the spam filters to zap the ema