- 1. [CQ-Contest] Typing practice (score: 1)
- Author: "James Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:38:54 -0400
- Blame the idiot who put oh next to zero on the keyboard. Someone could write a little program to scrub a Cabrillo log for errors like this before submission. i.e., "P Four OH is not a valid prefix."
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-08/msg00066.html (8,126 bytes)
- 2. [CQ-Contest] CT (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:33:56 -0500
- There's an old saying, "Dance with the one who brought you." CT brought all of us who were contesting in 1987 to the party. Actually, CT threw the party. Jim Cain, K1TN ______________________________
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-07/msg00685.html (6,904 bytes)
- 3. [CQ-Contest] BIG 80m antenna (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:41:43 -0500
- If this antenna stays up for more than four hours, seek immediate medical help. Jim Cain, K1TN/9 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-07/msg00834.html (6,832 bytes)
- 4. [CQ-Contest] Operating methods or equipment? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:30:50 -0500
- With apologies to The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, A good operator in times of poor equipment is better than a big station in times of a poor operator. (Big Prize to the first person to e-mail to m
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-07/msg00877.html (8,586 bytes)
- 5. [CQ-Contest] Indiana QSO Party this weekend, too! (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 08:49:37 -0500
- I see that the New England QSO Party (this weekend) is offering some culinary prizes, chowdah, lobsters, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and stuff. I am soliciting sponsors for the following Indiana QSO P
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-05/msg00043.html (8,075 bytes)
- 6. [CQ-Contest] CW on Tonight Show (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 06:16:51 -0500
- Ref. The Tonight Show, Friday, May 13, 2005: How Cool! Congrats to Ken (K6CTW) and Chip (K7JA). You two really did all of us proud. We knew it was a no-contest, even though Ken was handicapped by hav
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-05/msg00170.html (8,994 bytes)
- 7. [CQ-Contest] UBN (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:26:19 -0500
- In the 2004 CQ WW CW, my version of CT would not recognize TO4A, so I entered it as FM/TO4A to keep track of multipliers. I submitted the log that way instead of removing the "FM/" and lost four Qs a
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-05/msg00238.html (7,458 bytes)
- 8. [CQ-Contest] Stew Perry Topband Challenge (long) (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:13:22 -0600
- I don't get out very well on 160 Meters but was determined to make a few QSOs in the Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge a couple of weeks ago. The trials and tribulations were so monumental that w
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00026.html (10,670 bytes)
- 9. [CQ-Contest] Verticals (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:22:38 -0600
- Maybe if you took the verticals out of the bags.... _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00081.html (6,717 bytes)
- 10. [CQ-Contest] Secrets of Contesting Chapter 15 (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:53:22 -0600
- Re KH6IJ, In 1973 my young friend Jim White, K4OJ, did a terrific characterization of Nose, KH6IJ, on CW: Dah di Dah, ....................................... Dah ................................. Di
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00279.html (7,241 bytes)
- 11. [CQ-Contest] The battle of the Call Signs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:22:27 -0600
- In trying to revive my interest in contesting this fall I loaded CT for DOS into an old laptop. I felt like CT was running my call sign together when it sent it on CW, so I reprogrammed my call sign
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00323.html (7,925 bytes)
- 12. [CQ-Contest] Re: Which coax jumpers reduce SO2R interference (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:56:15 -0600
- These comments make sense if you are into RF. 20 years ago I got out of radio and got seriously into high-end analog audio (amassing more than 3,000 LPs in the process). If I had a dollar for every e
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-02/msg00025.html (8,395 bytes)
- 13. [CQ-Contest] Seeing is believing (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:10:59 -0600
- I saw this on the Top Band reflector from Tree, N6TR: program, I can see signals that you can't hear. I was able to clearly see SM5EDX and CT1EEB." I did a search on Acronym Finder for FFT (17 possib
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00027.html (7,554 bytes)
- 14. [CQ-Contest] W7RM SK (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:47:50 -0600
- "... Noon in Maryland is 9 A.M. in Washington State. It's raining, naturally. One graduate student's mind is not on his first class of the day, but rather on the last, and how he can avoid it. Only t
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00188.html (9,370 bytes)
- 15. [CQ-Contest] Contest ON/OFF times (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:34:17 -0600
- There are two kinds of people: Those who divide people into two groups and those who don't. There are contesters who remember Rubber Clocking and contesters who don't. I am intimately familiar with R
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00309.html (8,824 bytes)
- 16. [CQ-Contest] 10M NAQP Weirdness (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:28:57 -0500
- Thomas: This was your opportunity to work yourself. Sort of a unique unique, something for the log-checkers to hyperventilate over. Think teeter-totter, or an M.C. Escher drawing. This could lead to
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-01/msg00152.html (10,638 bytes)
- 17. [CQ-Contest] 10M NAQP Weirdness (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:45:28 -0500
- Re W7RN's echo experience, I don't get all this tooth grinding over solar system distances and conspiracy theories. Isn't this really a metaphysical question? To wit: A valid contact is a 2-way conta
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-01/msg00170.html (10,167 bytes)
- 18. [CQ-Contest] Feb 04 QST op-ed article (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:09:11 -0600
- The U.S. phone band allocations are smaller than the rest of the world's phone bands to give non-Ws a "U.S.-Free Zone." I'm grateful that we have CW bands (Non-Phone Zones). Famous quote: "Contesting
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-01/msg00272.html (9,920 bytes)
- 19. [CQ-Contest] K4OJ (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:08:44 -0600
- He was quite a guy, and I knew him. 30 years ago, Jim White and I cooked up outrageous schemes that sure seemed hilarious at the time. Like, "KH6IJ is using up all the dits in the universe and there
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00280.html (9,951 bytes)
- 20. [CQ-Contest] K4OJ recognition (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:52:36 -0600
- Thom: Your points are well taken. It's all about politics, knowing the "right" people, and shameless self-promotion. None of which apply to Jim White, K4OJ. Two years ago I tried to nominate the most
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00320.html (8,129 bytes)
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