In 1976 the ARRL sponsored a one-time contest to celebrate the bicentennial of the USA. It was so popular that the same weekend was used the next year (1977) for a new contest, and that would be the
I can think of at least two possible paths forward. (1) Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant (there are others) are very good at understanding what I say, as well as what visitors wit
In case you need it, app to interlock different Flex radios was shared by 4O3A before he departed for CQWW @ 3B8M: https://tinyurl.com/5hdw274t Ranko is with the team there, but antennas are down unt
Robbi, Robi, Very interesting indeed. Another way to determine signal differences between two or more antennas is to calibrate two WSPR transmitters -- 100 or 200 mW is plenty of power -- and use one
The first interview on the below-linked clip is with a college freshman, KD3ALD, describing his propagation research project in which contesters may be interested. Link: https://youtu.be/VGoP7hYjGhQ
Pete, WRL has on-line contest logging that will work with literally anything that can access the Internet. They are working with the WRTC-2026 organizers and seem to know what they are doing, but of
Pete and all, Earlier this morning the WRTC 2026 Organizing Committee released information on the real time log scoring system that they are developing with WRL for the July, 2026 competition in Engl
Ed, You are correct. WRL's "bread and butter" service features real time logging directly to the cloud, but in this WRTC implementation the logging most definitely is locally on the contestants' lapt
I would add to Gerry's caution that, unique to Canada, the only proper (legal) way to identify as a reciprocal operator is by your U.S. call sign FOLLOWED by the portable designator. It is "K3ZJ/VY1"
Yes, that is exactly what it means. For FCC licensees, U.S. citizenship is required for the licensee to use the FCC license (a) to operate in Canada under the bilateral convention; (b) to operate in
To remain a jointly cooperative contest as in the past, precedent is that RAC & ARRL sections are the multipliers, as determined by their respective national societies. 2012: Sept. 1, Ontario section