One year I was posted on the packet cluster as WH4X instead of W5VX. I noticed that I was listed as having 6 qsos with that call! :-) Bill W5VX Hello, I received my UBN report for CQWW CW 2009 and th
I tend to agree with Roy. I send and receive a lot of cards. I only send cards directly to the new band countries that I work at this point. I agree that getting cards from Cuba is a problem, but the
I was trying to remember why we quit having CD parties. They were my second favorite contest. Any of you old guys remember? Bill W5VX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailin
Thanks to all for their recollections. It is coming back to me that the NAQP was phased in about the same time that the CD parties went away. Too bad the 4 CD Parties were fun. NAQP is fun too it jus
60+ pages of cool stuff from the old days. Bill W5VX --Original Message-- From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ilkka Korpela Sent: Sunday, S
I have been getting lazy as of late but my practice is to do all of my QSLing chores at one time. When I get a box of cards from the bureau I use my logging program to generate QSL cards for all the
If you can find a Alpha 87A it is a pretty good amp, but pretty expensive like all the autotune amps are. My station is very similar to yours including the FT2000. Incidentally I have a nice first ru
My call has been posted on the cluster on several occasions in contests as WH4X instead of W5VX and showed up in several logs! Bill W5VX Because there is no mailing address on Midway, there will be n
I think this is a very interesting attitude. Most entrants know they have no chance of winning so they just fool around in the contest, leaving the propagationally (is that a word?) favored stations
This is an old issue. We tried to deal with it back in the 70s when I was on the CAC. Rick is exactly right and there is no doubt. The facts speak for themselves. The idea that if one station can win
I support this idea. I always upload my logs to LOTW whether I enter the contest or not. I feel like that the ARRL has never been entirely on board with LOTW. We were promised that other awards would
You know Pete, I was watching one of those infomercials yesterday on TV and they were advertising a keyboard with pretty big keys and the letters on the keys were much larger. I was thinking that it
The results sure seem to be one sided...QSL bureaus are still very valuable. QSLing direct has gotten ridiculously expensive! I use the bureau almost every month. Bill W5VX Hi, This is bit out of top
Pete and I have gone through basically the same process in the QSLing business. I figured out that QSLing was going to be a problem for me a number of years ago and I only have about 1/2 the number o
One thing that I have a problem with is the fact that some DX stations QSL for EVERY CONTACT via the bureau. With DXBase I have the option of knowing which stations that I have QSLed to and on what b
I have sent and received QSLs from him and I never use IRCs so I must have sent money. Since the price of postage in EU seems to have gone up lately I have stopped sending my $2 bill and started send
I think the question of whether to use cut numbers or not depends on whether it is going to save time and keep accuracy good. My judgment is that if a person sends me cut numbers it will increase my
I thought I would check out the WPX provision on LOTW this morning. I have a bunch of prefixes from all the contests over the years and I thought it might be cool to have the certificate. I went thro
I guess that my original idea was that of comparing the relative value of the certificate. The two certificates that I value most are 5BWAZ and DXCC. Now 5BWAZ certificate requires only 200 confirmat
The original subject of this thread was actually regarding the cost of using the LOTW confirmations for WPX. Somehow it has morphed into a criticism of the sorters of the QSL bureau. Frankly I am not