Author: "WT2P - C. 'Fred' Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:20:32 -0500
Same thing here this weekend. Uploading scores has also been intermittent as well, at least from here 73 wt2p _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
Author: "WT2P - C. 'Fred' Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:50:33 -0500
I won't send in a log.... Problem solved, assisted/not assisted/skimmer/noskim/half calf/decaf/latte. -wt2p _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
But now I have to go back and change the log to replace KW with 1000. Or maybe I need sleep? WT2P ATNA -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
Author: "WT2P - C. 'Fred' Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:06:23 -0500
I normally reply with the same info they have on the card.. Most SWL'ers will say who I was talking to (in the rare event I was CQ'ing) - which makes it easier to 'check' that I was on the air at the
Even better, a lot of companies use liquidators to sell comps on ebay for dirt cheap. I picked up from my trading firm in 2008 a dual core Dell precision workstation for $400 sans harddrive. I have s
Author: "WT2P - C. Fred Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:02:53 -0400
Technology is going to continue to move forward, people are not going to stop innovating just because some people don't like new things or change. Imagine where we would all be if the major innovator
Author: "WT2P - C. Fred Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:29:10 -0400
What if I combine my skills of combing the bands in addition to using the new technology? You mean to tell me that being licensed since 1994 was just a total waste of time, I am considered a "lesser"
Author: "WT2P - C. Fred Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:55:14 -0400
That, I have no problem doing on my own. Instead of beating this argument to death on the ... *internet*... I'm actually going to go tune around on my radio. Perhaps if ya'll spent more time using it
Author: "WT2P - C. Fred Johnson" <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:18:05 -0400
Ok... Let me frame it in a context that I am most familiar with (and some of you are as well): High Frequency Trading. Back before the mid 90's. You called in an order down to the NYSE (or CME/CBOT/e
What's going to be next for radio contesting (a vision I see): -Submit 3 DNA samples -Hire a lawyer to certify your results/logs -In order to "keep it pure" you will be penalized for not being within
With all due respect I have been paying attention. I'm also keenly aware of the recent situation(s) that have occurred among the contesting community with respect to cheating. While I agree that ther
That's what the radios and new toys does to all of us naturally ;) Seriously folks, there's so much considerable energy being wasted. How about sitting down and actually mapping out YOUR strategy fo
Author: C 'Fred' Johnson - WT2P <fredwt2p@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:13:35 -0600
Not everyone has a new FT-$90000 (joke) or a K3 they can slap onto a computer.. to the original poster, TR4W or N1MM will do what you want, switching bands in tr4w is a matter of typing in the new ba
The same people who complain about us financial folk who have to report large complicated block trades 5 minutes after they occur rather than instantaneously are ironically the same people who are co
But in reality, given the access and ease of technology it is basically the same.. Even if you are a "remote" station, you will still have ample time to contact the contest committee and explain why
This is the Art of DX'ing... The thrill of the chase for the new one. -2p m _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
First: Thank you Bob for your service. You have done an exemplary job over the years and it is greatly appreciated Secondly (not addressed to Bob): Maybe perhaps he retired because of the constant cr
Amen Andy. I guess all those members of WWYC are poor operators as well? Seriously folks, GET A GRIP. wt2p So very sadly, today's Generation X has no clue on how to operate, and it shows. Oh boy, ski
One approach you could try if you're on a restrictive ISP such as comcast is getting a VPS (I use linode and openvpn to route all traffic from home to the tunnel and then out to the net).. Comcast on
Ladies and Gentlement of CQ-Contest: Excuse my anger, and I'm not speaking for the WWYC (which I went into the HoF 2 yrs ago): I guess the relatively young constesters who came up with this (remote o