Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:41:38 -0500
How widespread is this practice? Everyone talks about it but I've never heard any statistics. Given human nature, I assume the worst, too, but some real data would be better. Everyone talks about ali
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:45:11 -0500
Better to ask the log checkers. However, when I operated from KH6 and had a packet pileup, some well known unassisted guys would show up on a pretty regular basis. Just chance? Only they, and the log
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:36:29 -0500
Well, maybe they have to, to save time. The worst thing I ever heard was 4T100MP sending their call as 4T1TTMP. Of course, it could have been even worse as 4TATTMP, a really bad ATTeMPt. I wrote them
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:10:51 -0500
Don't get down too much on cut serial numbers. It could be worse - cut number grid squares. See you in the Stew Perry from ENNA. 73 - Jim K8MR (Located in Grid Square ENNA) --Original Message-- From:
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:52:05 -0500
Yet another take: In what radio service do the operators deliberately confuse things by using cut numbers, especially when there is QRM, QSB, weak signals, etc?. I thought real "radiomen" would consi
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:52:41 -0500
I have no dog in this fight. First, my operations in any of the contests mentioned for qualifying will probably be assisted. Second, if I do qualify I probably will not be competing in the WRTC. That
Author: Davor Kucelin via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:32:29 +0000 (UTC)
I agree with 4O3A in this case as many others "1. Number of contests for qualifying to maximum - 8 (eight). It will give more chance to simpler stations and will make qualifications more attractive.
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:59:47 -0500
And why is it, that the only part of their call that comes through in QRM and QSB is the "/QRP"? It never fails. K4XS In a message dated 12/18/2014 11:27:01 A.M. Coordinated Universal Ti, k9yc@audios
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:10:27 -0500
I usually operate assisted. Thanks to the committee for listening to the contesters and doing the right thing. K4XS In a message dated 12/18/2014 2:55:10 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim, dl1mgb@wrtc20
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:24:14 -0500
I can think of only one instance where it would be correct to send the CQing station's call...if two stations are CQing on the same freq and you call one of them. That's it! K4XS In a message dated 1
Author: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:16:17 -0500
I have no problem with guys running QRP who use good operating procedure. They don't send 5 WPM or 40 WPM, and don't sign the useless "/QRP". Most of us "elite guys" have run QRP successfully in cont
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:52:45 -0500
I'm not QRP, but with low power and simple antennas this situation arises on occasion. I quit after making three calls, make sure the running station is marked in the bandmap and move on. I'll come b
Author: W6ph--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 19:34:30 -0500
Is it some holdover by ancient OF's who always do/did paper logging and cannot get a grip on modern reality? _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:11:01 -0500
Is there a more recent NCJ cumulative index than the one through 2007 by K5ZD et al? Specifically I'm looking for the article by K3LC on modeling mobile antennas. I don't find an obvious hit in the a
Author: Alan Dewey via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:23:39 -0500
Jim; Try the ARRL On-Line index at: http://www.arrl.org/arrl-periodicals-archive-search It looks like Al had an article in the May, 2007 issue on this subject. Is that the one you were looking for? 7
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:55:48 -0500
QSL & thanks. That looks like what I'm looking for. I'll know for sure when I get home from spending Christmas with my daughter in NJ. 73 - Jim K8MR Jim; Try the ARRL On-Line index at: http://www
Author: Rudy Bakalov via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 17:25:30 +0000 (UTC)
You may want to run some analysis to make an educated tradeoff, based on specific location and antennas in mind. My rural VE3 QTH is 1200' ASL and antennas do perform differently than expected- the 9
Author: K5KG Email via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 12:17:54 -0600
Mike, you pose an interesting question - hilltop or oceanfront. It depends on so many things, of course. Not the least of which is what will the xyl allow, hi. However, that aside, verticals on a bea
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 08:57:35 -0500
Do consider the issues of keeping a waterfront antenna system working given all the salt water corrosion issues. Check out the stories of what maintenance PJ2T has to go through. 73 - Jim K8MR Is the
Author: ko7ss--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 08:31:06 -0800
Last year I had a similiar choice when moving my station. A mountaintop or flat desert as far as the eye could see. The desert isn't salt water but enough radials can be put under an elevated vertica