10m from the Southern Hemisphere (it is summer here) can be quite extraordinary and unpredictable. If conditions even half cooperate, you will work a lot more than you ever expect. AND don't be put o
Firstly the Cabrillo Spec "contest lists" are dated. I've actually written TWO contest loggers (in dBase3+ and MS Excel) which cover off all the contests I can enter from Oceania... In essence, after
Dear all, I hope Montenegro has far better fortunes with proper recognition than the 2nd last 'NEW' country to come onto the ham radio scene. Specifically 'Timor Lorosae' or in English 'Timor Leste'.
With only my HF antenna in the air at this stage [7ele - 10m yagi], heard a few little squeaks on 10m from FD stations over the weekend... but what impressed me was around 0400z Sunday, a 4D Ohio sta
A trip report and some photos for both the CQWW SSB and ARRL 10m events in 2006 from the Nothern Territory, Australia. David Burger VK2CZ operating as VK8AA ____________________________________ -- Th
I will be QRV for a few hours in WPX SSB from 9M8 - A IEEE Region 10 meeting over the weekend 25/26 March. I've love to catch up with any ham in / around East Malaysia - given the hassles about secur
Hi, Just a note from Australia about club / station participation rules for some contest events down (under) here.. "Stations can be located within a 500m circle OR within the boundaries of the prope
Hi all, I'm asking any (and every) station located in Oceania who participated in the ARRL DX SSB Contest this year to send me a note and maybe a photo or 3. I'm ghost writing a web report and data a
Hi, Just a quick heads up about my recent attempt at the VK 40m SSB record back in Oct'06.... As Maxwell Smart says.. missed it by that much ! VK Record Score - 208,748 Qso's - 782 Zones - 29 Countri
Dear Mr Andrei Stchislenok, The CQWW score degradation you observed based on the 3 percent of lost QSO's and 3.9 percent of lost Mults.. hinges on a key attribute on how the CQWW events are scored. Y
Woops, also mean't to mention, that taking the square root of the final scores gives a near perfect comparison of the "level of effort" put in by stations (in your category of course).. This works fo
** PLEASE NOTE - The Oceania DX SSB contest runs the same weekend WITH a time window overlap ! The same serial number (for any NA station) can be used for BOTH CaQSOP as well as the OCEANIA DX SSB ev
Radio Weekend on Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Operating as ZL7M, Prepared by David Burger VK2CZ ( k3hz@ieee.org ) Holding a number of engineering and radio volunteer positions this year has affected
Just adding to the observations of George K5KG.. I also have a couple of these radios, and have noticed a very similar effect. While George's radio died every few minutes in the heated battle of an I
Hi, if there any ham operator in QUEBEC CITY want to catch up Sunday afternoon 21st Sept'08 for a coffee, chat etc, please drop me a direct e-mail at k3hz@ieee.org .or. SMS at +61414328877. This long
Hi all, Just a pre-emptive feeler about maybe finding a contest op chair at an established station for 24H around the ARRL DX Contest event within cooee (ie 1.5h drive or flight) from Newark Airport,