W4PA: The Shelby (NC) Hamfest is also near 20,000. I agree that Friedrichshafen is excellent. I went in 1997 and it was a delight to see so many Europeans, Asians, Africans, etc. You can also hand de
I've lost it & only dreamt of a continental top-scoring effort in the previous millennium, but those should take at least five years to arrive. I don't know about RTTY, but CQWW CW & SSB Plaques ofte
K3BU: properly used (on salty beaches). It's deja vu all over again...didn't we have this conversation once before (see post from 21 March below). More refined modeling shows the small 3-stack has pe
Hi Yuri, "Just the facts ma'am". You claimed Low Power in the 2000 CQ WW SSB but High Power in the 2000 CQ WW CW, not Low Power as you stated...unless both your 3830 post and your entry to CQ were wr
VE4XT: verticals? Particularly in a DX-pedition setting? Answer: a LOT more effort. Answer: more like 2 S-units (11.7 dBi). Gain Summary (NEC-2, HFTA, YO7, etc.): 1. Single 4-square over salt water =
Hi Kelly, VE4XT wrote: Nobody ever said they were always better than stacks. The question was, originally, about portable operations such as the Team Vertical forays. Sorry...just trying to shine the
the desired radiation angle it's useless. For example your single 6el Yagi (if 1W.L. high) has a radiation angle of 14 degrees. Depending on conditions the optimum angles for 10m can be much lower. T
Hi Jose, I had a few questions about your analysis: 1. Jim sends his call as his acknowledgement. Don't you at least send a "TU" or "R"? That should be compared against time for "ZD8Z". 2. Have you a
N9RV: inter-continental QSO's. Why? The CQ 160 is the most popular Topband contest going. Throttle it back to 5-points for DX and you have another ARRL 160. Make scoring distance-dependent and you ha
George W2VJN has set up a reflector at Inrad for anyone wanting to discuss possible new products. Here is the list info page: http://mail.inrad.net/mailman/listinfo/list_inrad.net and a few comments
Here's another reason I dislike Packet. Saturday night I was running EU on 1823.5 since 0142z. About 50 Q's and 1.5 hours later, 9K2MU calls at 0321 for a new mult. Yippee! A few minutes later VE3**
http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/ScienceAviation/Sleep_Deprivation.jsp 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://l
W3TX: to create code practice sessions in mp3 http://www.k7qo.net/ http://www.k7qo.net/cwfiles.html 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@co
N7NG: "New Zealand has been issued the E5A-E5Z call sign prefix block for the exclusive use of the Cook Islands. Sorry guys...Jose has already been issued E5E, ensuring that he will win every future
Bob, you should certainly contact Scott W4PA at TT since he recently reported the high-claimed USA SOABHP score in the CQ WW CW using 2 Orions in SO2R at NT1Y. I don't use SO2R, but I have not notice
items in bag #2 were unwrapped/unpacked and thrown back into the Tourister bag randomly, bubble wrap and T-shirts stuffed into top of the suitcase with nothing in them. TSA inspection card present. N
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/02/18/2/?nc=1 Interesting statistics at the bottom of the article. With the exception of the IARU, categories showing significant growth are either digital modes
Can this be enforced? Not really. It can be exposed however, maybe bringing shame on the offender. This is a threat to us who play by the rules, in a big way. may as well make it legal for all classe
the end it tells the station who stumbles on you that you are calling CQ. If he just hears your callsign he does not know if you're CQing or just calling someone. So seems logical to have it in the e
strongly agree with you. Like a lot of things in life, the correct answer might not be the majority answer. Isn't that why a small minority consistently wins contests? Unless of course you happen to