I would bells and whistles and 9 thousand filters. I was researching some info posted by KC1SX (ARRL's Product Tester) and came across W8JI's post which addresses some of the issues being discussed h
consistent (3 -5 an hour, every hour, I mean every hour) you can even tell when he took a sleep break. Sadly, it appears he is the leader in his category. Sort of makes one wonder if he was really ru
From page 102, August 2003 CQ Magazine: "Over the last several years the CQ WW Contest Committee has developed software that allows the detection of packet use. Thanks to the cooperation of all the m
The interference from BPL is so bad you owe it to yourself to see (and hear) this video!!! Please visit this site and comment to the FCC before the window closes August 20. http://www.arrl.org/news/s
At 11:16 AM 8/7/03 -0700, WY6K wrote: How do we make comments to the FCC? Email or written? Addressee and address? Several suggested I summarize how to do this: 1. Go to http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod
Has anyone compared the Etymotic ER-4 or ER-6 to Bose QuietComfort headphones? The ER-4 claims 20-25 dB isolation and ER-6 15-20 dB versus ~10 dB for the Bose (if my memory is correct). http://www.et
AD1C: Brian no longer uses that E-mail address. The only way to contact him is via his US Mail address Not true. His E-mail is bb at n2.net and enter @ instead of " at ". Brian does still sell and su
2003 CQ WW CW and SSB UBN reports available at: http://cqww.com/ But does anyone know what this "Z" means? 1395 Z FP8AP(16) I'm guessing it means an unverified call which is deleted without penalty (
No, I logged 59905 which is the correct zone for FP. The (16) following the station's call means that call was found in a total of 16 logs. In the UBN summary, no QSO points were removed for the Z cl
was of course audible down to 21199 or so. Does anyone care anymore? Sure they were on USB, but isn't it true that no part of our signal is supposed to percolate outside the legal band? I'm sure ther
credits for DXCC Challenge. It is also a wonderful solution for occasional "lost in the mail" problems. This year I was sweating getting my ST0RY card for #310 on 160 to ARRL by September 30. Despite
as you can get to bullet proof). The two key things which will make or break a good contest radio are a good noise floor (MDS) and adjacent channel blocking (BDR). ARRL has a spot someplace on their
The current 42 hour format of the CQ 160 Contests do not allow all areas of the world two full darkness periods. Also, there is no operating time limit which requires serious contestants to CQ at ver
QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 9 ARLB009 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT March 14, 2001 To all radio amateurs ARLB009 ARRL 160-Meter Band Plan Committee seeks input ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, h
W0ETC: Me too!...for 1999 CQWW SSB SOSB/10. I've seen grumbles about CQ's timeliness for plaques and certificates but IMHO they have usually been both prompt and accurate for all CQ contests. Thanks
I just noticed that UBN's for the CQ WW SSB are now available at http://cqww.com/logs/ In checking my results, I felt the UBN output is much cleaner than last year's! Congrats to the log-checking tea