The voluntary moment of silence suggested in the CW sprint results in the NCJ was for both W4AN and K4OJ. I miss both of these guys a lot. I think it is a fine idea. And I hope you and your guest op
This was broken for a few hours last night. Please try sending your log again - it should no longer bounce. If it does let me know. Thanks -- George Fremin III - K5TR geoiii@kkn.net http://www.kkn.ne
I also would have no problem with a rule like that - I dont think I have started any contests in recent or not so recent memory with a frequecy more than a minute before the contest starts. -- George
mmmmm.... I have found that there are all sorts of things that might not be explicity prohibited by the rules but that many people do not do - some of these activites are clearly frowned on by other
In most contests this is called cheating. I and others have heard stations do this in a contest where it was not allowed and those stations were disqualified. If this is going on you should bring it
I think I qualify as an SO2R op. I am not scared of you adding a category - you want categories? Go check out the WPX contest - it has a category for everyone. I guess when the SO1R category is added
This is easy. You toss that QSO. I would have never logged it during the contest. If I ask for a fill and the guy does not come back or has already moved on then we have not compleated the QSO. -- Ge
I will confess to saying the above. Yeah - well I guess we could go back to the old SS scoring and get one point for sending and one for receiving. None of the contests that I am familiar with have a
mmmmm..... I was what most would describe as a "guest op" when I operated from the W5KFT station. Whenever I did a single op contest I was the only person there - indeed the station owner was 300+ mi
This is just as silly an idea now as it was when it was talked about in the pages of the NCJ in the 70's and 80's. I have been a regular "guest op" at two diffrent stations over the last 20 years. Fi
I dont like having the radio above the surface of the desk as I like to have my forearm resting on the desk. If you are doing two radios correctly you will be tuning for 48 hours - keep that in mind
I was WB5VZL for 20+ years. This seems like a pretty good callsign. Kinda hard to say but the KHZ is catchy as in could you move down 8 Khz? I think K is great prefix and if you are in 8 land then I
There have been a number of posts to this list recently saying that there is no reason for stations to ever just say QRZ or Thanks at the end of a contact. Indeed many posters are of the opnion that
I agree. I thought so too.... in fact AC5AA and I had a long email exchange about using a single Orion as opposed to two other radios because we both read the TenTec discription to be SO2R in a singl
I thought all of the hoop-a-la was about self spotting. As it stands self spotting is cited in the rules of many contests as being forbidden for all categories. Even categories that can use packet. S
Tree is correct - that would be effective. I would like to add that for you and others that do not have antennas for the VHF bands that you can still get on either with the 5/8 wave 2m vertical that
I would be more than happy to start a web page to keep track of high rates. Just like the CQ Almanac used to do - it will be on the honor system. Send me your high rates and I will put them on the we
Very cool. I was thinking of something more along the lines of the old CQ Almanac - it had most of the contests seperated out or maybe it was just the stateside contests like SS seperated out. -- Geo