Had a hunt around the net, looking for a good map of Russian prefixes and call sign areas. Couldn't find one. Decided to make my own - its now at my site. Help yourself. Look in the Map section. Clic
An interesting piece of information has just turned up.... Background: I was working on an overlay map for North America, and discovered a number of discrepancies amongst available reference sources
DO WE HAVE ANY HAMS FROM CHINA ON THIS LIST ?? I am trying to get hold of a correct list of Chinese prefix allocations. The one I have is copied below, but I believe there may be an error in it. I ha
Hahahaha - nearly wet myself reading that !! I suppose you're referring to the famous zone list here: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/wazlist.html I was thinking of starting a small competition to sp
Since mentioning the errors on CQ magazine's Zone List: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/wazlist.html in a previous post, I have received a large number of requests for (what I believe to be) the corr
Who's shack is this ? http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/00b9a680/1146f67f 73s Tim EI8IC -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional
I believe that time is wasted with 'CQ TEST DE W7DRA W7DRA TEST', because subconsciously or not, ending the transmission with 'test' or callsign does not give the receiving operator 100% assurance th
Only if your timing is bad. With hand keys and paddles you can put in the space that identifies the difference between the next letter and a new word. When I was taught CW in Merchant Navy school, th
I have graphic images of contest allocations on my website: HF Contesting > Contest Bandplans 73s Tim EI8IC www.qsl.net/ei8ic also mirrored at www.mapability.com/ei8ic for those South American IP's c
Free Russian prefix maps still available.... Plain vanilla, suitable for printing: http://www.qsl.net/ei8ic/maps/russia.html JavaScript version, with added information about zones, oblasts, regions,
A new operating resource is now available on my website: Enter your 6-digit Grid Locator code, and the webpage will generate a short path, long path and distance list from your QTH to each of the cur
No postal codes in Ireland !! But everyone has a Maidenhead Locator... 73s Tim EI8IC www.qsl.net/ei8ic www.mapability.com/ei8ic Home of the Global Overlay Mapper Read the Dec'03 QST review online. Ma
The most comprehensive prefix maps on the Web are now available for free download. 34 new maps, available separately or in a combined zipped archive. http://www.qsl.net/ei8ic/maps/maps.html#pre 73s T
You have got to be joking, right ? One of the greatest cities in the world, some of the finest art anywhere on the planet, the best food, the most beautiful women, and you want to talk contesting ???
Following an enquiry from Roger D Johnson <n1rj@adelphia.net>, I have been investigating the dividing line between CQ Zone 16/17 in UA9S/T. Most of the ham loggers and zone lists, including CQ's own
Well, that's a different question. If you want all of UA9S/T/W to change from zone 16 to zone 17, I guess you would have to ask the CQ board. Don't hold your breath until it happens, though !! 73s Ti
Sorry, Stu, but your map is faulty. I have made a quick map of the area, and added names of relevant places. http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/orenburg.gif (152Kb) You can clearly see the sweep of the
Thanks for a fascinating email, Richard. I hope you will write an article on this for QST someday soon. This raises the interesting possibility of someone setting up a station in whatever exotic DX l
A bit of research, and the links actually can be made to work, for the demo versions anyway... Go to http://www.cabrillotools.com/Downloads.html and click View > Source to see the webpage source code
I'd always assumed that 'Over and Out' was the commercial equivalent of 'Going QRT, just listening to your final', though in 30+ years of operating, I've never heard 'Over and Out' on the ham bands.