Author: OM Norby via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:06:40 -0500
Hello Japan, Sri for being OT. I'll be in JA1 and JA4 end of March/early April. If any contester/DXer wants/has time to meet, let me know. Contact through lx1no at yahoo com Tnx for reading, 73 Norby
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:45:33 -0500
The results of the 2015 Ohio QSO Party are now available at the OhQP web site, www.ohqp.org Congratulations to category winners: In State: KW8N Single Op High Power K8MAD (W1NN opr) Single Op Low Pow
Author: George K5KG via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:46:25 -0500
Ok, I will name names. TO7A in FM gets the KEY CLIX AWARD FOR 2016! He was not only massively loud [a good thing], but his clicks were absolutely terrible. At one point, I told him "om bad clix", but
Author: NM5M via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:12:16 -0500
W2LC wins the "Key Click Award". Sunday morning on 20m I had the misfortune of being 2 KHz away from W2LC and his 5KHz wide clicks. Strategy as Randy suggests? I hope not! Eric NM5M http://www.dfwcon
Author: Chris Wynn via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 04:41:58 +0000 (UTC)
I noticed that it seemed worse than I have ever experienced. I ran unassisted this time, as I usually do, and it drove me nuts! ChrisN4XFASEDXCGCG All, Key clicks and GJ0KE were indeed annoying thi
Author: Chris Wynn via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:50:44 +0000 (UTC)
As said by the Governor in Mel Brooks' movie Blazing Saddles, "Harumph, Harumph, Harumph"! OMG... This thread has really gone south. How to get even? How to punish the guy? Don't log who you work? Se
Author: George K5KG via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:57:10 -0500
There were many stations calling DX stations dead zero beat (or nearly so) on their frequency. This, of course, masked who the DX station was responding to, and was commonplace during the entire cont
Author: Roger Parsons via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:57:36 +0000 (UTC)
Sounds reasonable particularly if applied world-wide - but then I don't operate SSB. While we're about it, how about all of us complying with the band plan on 160m? OK, that's not very practicable be
Author: Tony Brock-Fisher via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:49:22 -0500
Which raises the point, why do manufacturers allow a setting that will knowingly cause interference? If they provide the setting, and know what it does because they have implemented it, can't they te
Author: alannottage--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:06:43 -0500
I have an Inrad 400Hz filter in my old radio. Lovely filter (great shape factor) but not much use now that folk are spaced at 300Hz intervals, alas :<( Al G0XBV I used a K3s last weekend and used a d
Author: Pca via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:15:29 -0500
George, Tnx for calling me on many bands. I don't know if you were aware when you posted about TO7A's terrible key clicks and massive signal that the op was almost certainly UT5UGR as he was operatin
Author: jpescatore--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:06:35 -0500
Huzzah - thanks, Doug! Agree 100% When the contesting Wiki still existing, I updated the AARGH! FAQ section to capture issues like these. It was also published in the March 2011 NCJ, but hasn't been
Author: Tony Brock-Fisher via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:45:17 -0500
Yankee Clipper Contest Club is thrilled to announce that it's Matching Gift program for individual donations to WRTC2018 has been fully utilized! Since it's announcement, the program has matched dona
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:14:38 -0500
What happened to all that JA activity? 73, Ken, AB1J In a message dated 3/1/2016 01:40:21 GMT Standard Time, k6mr@outlook.com writes: Ah yes, the early 1970s from the west coast. A million JAs to wor
Author: alannottage--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:16:27 -0500
Not even that, sometimes, Jeff. Station comes back with an error in the callers call and the S&Per just carries on and works them. Heard that again the other week... and it happens on phone too. I do
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:29:08 -0500
I can't speak from the personal experience of Japanese hams, but if I was stuck with a small station in a crowded city where my contest activity consisted in calling the same loud stations in every c
Author: Rudy Bakalov via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 06:34:37 -0800
About a year ago some friends and I looked into this very topic. The goal- turn SSB contesting into CW contesting by revamping the N1MM+ voice keyer. The first step was to find a good algorithm for t
Author: N2WQ via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:29:56 +0000 (UTC)
Dennis, You don't need Watson! See this http://ag1le.blogspot.com/2015/11/your-next-qso-partner-artificial.html Maybe not for phone, but CW and RTTY robots are coming. Would they be in the SO or SOA
Author: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:45:52 -0500
Or will it be long before there is a CQ-Contest chat room where you can make an instant sked to meet on a given frequency for a S&P QSO? That would not be much different from an S&P guys perspective
Author: Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:53:47 -0500
You wrote: But how, exactly, is a little pistol to procure a run frequency when every open band is packed wall to wall, and stacked three deep, with big guns calling CQ? People are painting the worst