I will be travelling to Cairo on business in late October, and never having seen the sights, am planning to take a few days off to see the sights, and hopefully to get on in CQWW SSB. There is one sm
Lucozade bottles, with their extra wide mouth, are simpler and more efficient. I know, I know, too much information! 73 Gerry GI0RTN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
A USB signal exists, or at least should exist, only on the upper side of the carrier. The W3 big gun was probably acting entirely within the terms of his licence by operating with a carrier frequency
The Youtube clip below shows the sort of serious, safety-of-life-at-sea, emergency that explains just why 14.300 needs to be kept clear. After all, the whole world doesn't revolve around contesting:
across pistols. Having taken part in a "big gun" Eu HQ station over a number of years now, I can honestly say it's one of the most fun things in radio even when doing a band/mode slot (15 SSB one ye
At least in CQWW and contests that have a similar M/S rule (e.g. IOTA), M/S is by far my favourite category of entry. However, if I wanted to add a new category to contesting, rather than a M/1 clas
It can't be. The big concentrations of contesters are still in Europe and the eastern US. The place to win will still be in the Atlantic basin. There's no way someone in VE7, 3D2, JA, 5Z or VU can pr
The game is fair. We all know the rules when we start. If obtaining a world winning score is your aim, we all know the most advantaged geographical locations. We know the local topography that is goi
Long words you got there! I think you meant to say, 900 words per hour, or 15 words per minute. Still not exactly a master typing challenge, but a bit different! 73 Gerry GI0RTN _____________________
bad. We had finally managed to scare up a mini JA run on 160 from G6PZ around their sunrise time in the last few hours of WWCW last year, and were particularly hoping that maybe a few other Far East
Except there is no evidence that there are "fewer and fewer contestants" in HF contesting; quite the reverse actually. We're not just seeing record scores and record participation in the big internat
N6AA has done as well. N5ZO is trying and there may be others. 73 Gerry GI0RTN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contestin