On 15th August, Tree wrote... "... Rules can be found here http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.rules.txt" ** Hi All, Does anyone have an inkling as to when the results for last year's Stew Perry event mig
Interesting points, all... My personal observation on all this...? If the Ham population roughly follows general demographics, here in Canada some 70+% of us have computers, or access to the internet
Hi Gang, One of these days some nostalgic type will sponsor a contest wherein no computerized logging will be allowed, computerized CW character generation will be verboten, spotting of any type will
Hi Andrew, For the less-than-half-a-minute it might take to do so, simply work them... Why be rude & otherwise "turn off" a fledgling future contestor...? He / she will learn soon enough the error of
"...You might be right on that. Some others have mentioned the fact that you can 'get within 200 cycles' of another station and just keep on operating. What it that other station has a 400 or 500 cyc
Hi John, SHAME ON YOU for simply tossing away those SWL cards like that...! Seriously!!! Did you ever consider the fact that such actions could very well have "turned-off" more than one budding wanna
"...But I've been an SWL for over 20 years myself and the SWL hobby is definitely on the decline..." ** It's no wonder the hobby is on the decline... I was shocked upon my return to casual SWL'ing la
Hi Ralph, This is totally unsubstantiated with any personal "...blood, sweat, & tears" on my part, but I recall reading somewhere years & years ago (the "NCJ", maybe...?) that in order to experience
Hi Guys, This is all very interesting to me... With the influx of technology into the game in its many derivatives, I foresee the time when radio sporting will be like automobile ownership, i.e.: --T
Hi Guys, I agree that "...practice makes perfect", but in radio contesting one has to combine a large number of hardware / software / skills / talents / physical attributes / mental attitude / etc. t
Good Day All, I wonder if any of you guys use the contest logging software by EI5DI called "SD"...? It's been the perfect tonic for me here, in that all I ever used it for was the post-contest loggin