Here in Europe we just tune the band and hear a lot of Taxi dispatch stations from Moscow if there is propagation, if it is really open you also hear the cars. 73 Peter I find a good way to see if 10
Hi Tony, It all will depend on the height of yor planned antennas. As long they will not produce useful low angle radiation below 6° those 5.8°degrees will do no harm anyway. Best is to simulate it w
Nothing is easier then reading a Cabrillo log into a contest programm, at the same time the program calulates the claimed score 73 Peter At WRTC-2006, I found it interesting that the log adjudicators
Many do not even know that something like 3830 exists 73 Peter Seems to me it's an issue of "courtesy" to your fellow competitors. MOST EVERYONE would like to know how well or poorly they did in a co
Over the day 30-50 QSOs are possible here, but just 2 and 5 pointers which still count 73 Peter Dave, CQing for 8 hours on a dead band isn't contesting. It's unnecessary pain. Do you operate the 10m
Interesting was to listen on 7240, a station from KL7 land worked pileup with Europe simplex! Somebody told him that is is illegal and he had to work split, then he worked split with Europe but liste
I also would like the big guns and rare multis to first work the weaker stations during their pileups not to make me wait ;-)) 73 Peter Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote: "Work RTTY contests to learn SO2R sk
It was exactly my idea to work the CQ WWWDX SSB SB20m with my SDR-1000 as I learnt what this radio is able to provide. When I started the contest it worked quite nicely for me, and by 13:00Z I obtain
Hi Paul, What I donīt understand. Why do you always question the rules of a contest, especially if you donīt even participate? You want the report taken away from the WPX exchange and here the callsi
Yes, great again. I really enjoyed the photos of the large 80/160m fullsize yagis on the 100m tower at Arkala. 73 Peter --Original Message-- From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest
Those antennas look almost finished on the photos and as from their website it seems that activity is planned for this weekend. A good chance to hear big signals from them. 73 Peter Does anyone know
Another perspective would be to have the pileup station signing its call as part of the exchange instead after its TU. The massive pileups following a TU is already totally covering the callsign give
During CQ160m SSB last year I was called twice within minutes that my harmonic did strong interfere to the dx portion of 80m on 3794kHz while I started running on 1897kHz. One caller was 80km away fr
Only if they run split ;-)) Who needs more then 2kHz in a phone contest? 73 Peter On 17, the split is 42/58 khz data/phone, and on 12 it's 40/60. A dozen or so phone contesters can fill the entire ba
Same is true for the Europeans I heard during the recent ARRL contest cqing on 14.350, they will have missed lots of qsos beside being answered also by many US stations. 73 Peter I think US stations
I guess, that is one of the LUSO towers from Japan. http://www.luso.us/tower.html Have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFc1ZrhQGWU Sorry to hear about the poor weather 73 Peter --Original Messa
Spotting is absurd, donīt we have radio edquipment including receivers anymore? 73 Peter I can only imagine if Wal-Mart, Target, and K-Mart were not allowed to advertise their stores were open for bu
I do not see your point of misuse. Partner for instance is just a stack of calls heard by the second operator and time shift is a tool to correct the time offset caused by a pc clock. With clock you
Yes, Field Day inspections are standard for probably 30 years in Germany. Always fun and very interesting for the inspectors to see and learn what the competition does. 73 Peter Haven't inspections b
The suppressed sideband is not the problem, even with the typical suppression of 30db. LSB on 7125.5 gets the unsuppressed sideband below the limit of your band plan and using USB on 14.150.2 gets yo