Whatever non-contest digital activity exists above 3600 can easily move below 3600. Just listen any evening to the 3750-3600 region. You will hear some CW and PSK31 and almost no RTTY or other data m
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I'll defer to someone else on that question. I have no experience with those allocations. If the FCC has ignored them, they
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I agree with nearly everything Peter says, but he doesn't mention one thing I have noticed over the years: N1MM is prone to bugs. Many times I have seen a new re
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- FWIW: I have compared the DXP-38 against MMTTY using two separate computers with the same audio feed and MMTTY wins hands down, especially in digging weak signal
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Keep in mind that the "Sierra Tango X-ray" phonetics were developed by the ICAO for use between aircraft and control towers in lands where English was NOT the na
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Try MMTTY with a radio designed for RTTY such as the ICOM IC-746PRO or the IC-756PRO3 and you may have a different opinion. I have not used an FT-1000D, but I ha
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- The day we have to use Madison Avenue marketing hype to attract newcomers is the day I quit ham radio. I want newcomers who are fascinated by the idea of generat
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- A top level contester has to have a lot of technical knowledge to get there. Good enough for me. Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-C
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- The only true measure of contesting "health" is the number of log submissions, adjusted for sunspot numbers. All of the other "arguments" are just so much hot ai
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Agreed, that would be a great moment. If you want to stay in the single-op unassisted class, ignore it. If you want to slide up 7 and work the VE8, you are now i
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Why 15 meters at this point in the sunspot cycle? I'd think 20 would have gotten you all you could handle. Bill, W6WRT __________________________________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- If that guy tells you "Jay is up 7", AND YOU GO THERE, you are indeed assisted, just the same if he were in your shack on a second radio and yelled it across the
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- The underlying problem is that certain groups of hams think they "own" certain frequencies or windows, just like with the SSTV group on 20 or the CW ops on 160.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I take it to mean that the words in parentheses are there to clarify what is meant by "nets" only, not to "spotting assistance" AND "nets". If the author had wan
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- "Assistance" in the context of contesting means from a human being who is feeding you information about another station. A bandscope does not display information
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Contest secret, Part 2: Try RTTY. You can do an entire contest without speaker or headphones, in absolute silence. XYL approved. :-) Bill, W6WRT ________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I disagree, provided you are using the crossed ellipses of the MMTTY tuning indicator or a real scope with the same. Once the ellipses are crossed at 90 degrees
<snip> "First, meeting on the air during a contest to arrange strategy, compare multipliers, or organize contacts places all participants in the Assisted category in ARRL and most other contests. <s
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Before the contest, it's just a suggestion. During the contest it's assistance. He's telling you where to look for mults/QSOs. How could it NOT be assistance? Be
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Everyone with any common sense knows what "single op" and "unasissted" mean. There are only a very few ops who want to receive assistance and still claim to be s