I checked out 10 last night and noticed that most of the USA becons were audible, some pretty good. I listened around and heard several stations all in the SE - FL and TN. This was after 10P>M> local
John, I have experienced this. I thought it was called scatter or bent propagation or something. It has been a while since I heard this and I can't remember the time of day. Seems like it is in the l
Renner, I just wanted to play the devils advocate for a few a minute. I had a two element and a four element quad for about 10 years back in the 70s. It used real nice fiberglass spreaders. The anten
Barry, I have to agree with Ken, although I have been a ham for 50 years and a life member for 40 years. I may not be a real contester, I suppose. I really like getting my QST, even though the league
Steve, I have noticed the same thing. I always enter my score into 3830, even if I don't enter my score in the contest. Contests are fun for me regardless of my final place in the standings. Sometime
Whoa Ron. What I wrote was a joke...I even put a "winky face" after it. Didn't you notice that the point of my message didn't correspond to the last sentence? Since you are no the first to respond th
Since I am not working the contest I thought I'd tune around and see who had big signals. This was about sunrise this morning on 20 and 40 at about 1230Z. 20 Meters RW1AC +35 ES5TV +25 LY5R +20 OH8L
I don't think this one is much different than the last couple of sunspot minimums. I can remember long periods of "dead conditions" on 10 and 15 being "unpleasant". We had our normal over the pole ac
DXBase works nice for me. Bill W5VX Well after quite a bit of time off the air, I am coming back soon. Wanting to stay as state of teh art with what equipment I have, I am interested in the concensu
My LOTW percentage seems fairly low compared to some of the folks that have responded. I believe that fewer stations upload their logs the longer back we go. I have inputted my logs back trough 1978
This is an interesting idea you have here. I had never thought to compare the e-QSL and LOTW confirmations as a method of checking which was working better. I had just assumed that e-QSL with its eas
Pete, If persons are "DXers looking to work some new countries" (not intending to enter the contest), how then are they " obvious cheaters?" It sure seems that we paint with a broad brush lately when
I disagree. I am sure that there are many field day locations that could be considered "fun". Field day in my area is not. I stopped participating in field day (outdoors/generator) sometime ago. This
Seems like I remember a W6 station that was running an old VOA transmitter, 26 KW, when the FCC caught him...back in the 50's. I guess this stuff isn't a new phenomenon. Bill W5VX --Original Message-
Exactly Doug, Where has everyone been? Many M/S operations have operated with multiple stations. While the multiplier station was working mults the other multiplier station was making a list of stati
I sat here trying to figure out why I ported over from phone contesting to CW contesting and when I did it. I have been contesting for 50 years and to start with I did both. I moved from part of the
I want to add my congrats, as well. I have to admit a few years ago I was really ticked off about the ARRL taking much of the contest coverage out of QST. I have been involved in contesting and life
There are several popular radios that generate significant key clicks. I know one of the major perpetrators was the FT1000. I had one and am embarrassed to say that I used it for several years in con
The TS850 was the rig of choice at 6D2X during the time we had the station up and running and it worked real well. As Gerry said, the Inrad filters make a big difference so you should see if you can
I had the same thing with my WAS section of LOTW. I had many states that weren't showing on the LOTW site. I e-mailed the ARRL staff and explained my problem and they did something at their end and i