Richard, mine was also, and there were other reports. I was told it would be reshipped due to the printer error. -- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 01:32:23 +0000 From: Richard King <richard.k5na@gm
Charly is right, PVC tape alone is no good at all. After trying many things, and hating coax seal and liquid goops, my gold standard has been to wrap once with self amalgamating tape (Scotch 2242 o
Jim, Thanks for that fun piece of nostalgia! I remember the WA1STN days well. From CD parties; I was too puny to work the DX tests back then with my 35 foot wire at mom and dad's house. I also rememb
Contest Friends, I want to believe in the honesty of fellow contester 5B4ALX (and I have no reason not to believe) and I also want to believe in the common sense and fairness of the CQ Contest sponso
Hi, No significant prop to EU, from Ohio? That kind of blows my mind, what leads you to that conclusion? There should be a few hours at least on 20, 40 should be VFB all evening and night, and 80
My pleasure Frank. Congratulations to you and your team! 73, Drew K3PA -- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:29:47 -0400 (EDT) From: donovanf@starpower.net To: cq-contest@contesting.com Subject:
Gents, If I understand correctly, single band is the same as 2018. You get the same credit, but you are competing against all band stations. No advantage. 73, Drew K3PA -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Jan
Friends, I am very sad to announce the passing of fellow contester Steve Lufcy, K0OU. Steve passed away quietly on Saturday after a battle with cancer. Steve was an active member of the Kansas City C
Contest Friends, My best NAQP CW hour was Aug 2018, 182/hr. No SO2R for that. 73, Drew K3PA ________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:22:27 -0800 From: Dean Wood <cqden6de
Contest Friends, What I see over and over in FT8 threads, and a few other similarly hot topics, is that too many of us cannot discriminate between what is interesting to us, and what is valid for oth
Friends, The FT4/FT8/etc threads have become rather endless and most simply express individual preferences. I have my own preferences (those who know me will guess with confidence), but that in itsel
Friends, I would like to announce that Kansas City Contest Club has a new callsign. KCCC is commemorating our recently lost and highly esteemed member Steve Lufcy, K0OU. Steve recently lost a battle
Joe, I don't recommend that approach for FD. The problem is, it will protect the front end, BUT, if signals are so strong that it kicks in, you are putting a diode in line with that big RX signal. It
Ed, I share your sadness on this. I wrote the ARRL DX results for a few years and generally managed about a 3 to 4 page article for the print version. A more in depth version that I wrote was placed
All, As usual, I think Frank (LPL) gets it right. The opportunity here is not so much to satisfy our egos with a nice long article that we are smart enough to find online, but to use the pages to enc
Doug, "ES" is similar to an American Morse ampersand, this the use. 73, Drew K3PA -- Message: 7 Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 22:34:33 -0400 From: Douglas Zwiebel <dougzzz@gmail.com> To: cq-contest@contestin
John notes that he had many noise sources, not just one. A phasing unit isn't going to help him. That's a job for reduction at source, or DSP. 73, Drew K3PA Send CQ-Contest mailing list submissions t
Joe, You are correct that high SWR will cause high voltages that can damage a bandpass filter capacitor. However, a decent filter is rated to 2:1 at least. If your SWR is expected to be high, one wor
The CD parties were awesome, the most contest fun I ever had. Not only do I miss them, I miss having a dedicated CD (communication department) as a central ARRL concept. And that's No Joking Matter.
With regards to the comments from AA and BB, I say "si si". Really cool, but contesting? No thanks. Even DX, pretty boring. Same experience re 6M modes drying up. But if you like it, go for it... 73,