Maybe just stop the fixing of logs via big club data smashing of members' logs with a very short turn in time, like 3 hours after contest end? Modest part of the proposal? 73 -- Charly, HS0ZCW ______
As long as the contest categories remain as they are, the only thing that galls my craw is that "some operators" do join others to massage and correct their logs via means beyond live radio contacts.
The standard is called Typing Height to use because likely you will have a keyboard on the main table surface. This link gives you a chart to go with your body height. http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v4
I am trying to put my 205CA HyGain antenna back up after wind blew tower over. I need one boom piece, the 81 inch one from many HyGain yagis. HyGain wants nearly $700 just to ship this item to me in
Chinese ops are on almost 24/7 on freq of 14.270 plus or minus 10kc. If you can not hear any China in that freq range, likely that time of day/night is not good for that path. Their frequent operatio
Hurray for insisting that every contact contains both call signs on BOTH ends of the QSO. Now maybe I will not have to wait hours for some "rapid runner" to i.d. Too, it used to be that the FCC REQUI
When is a country also a state?... in KL7. A guy with a KL7 call sign can move to Kansas and legally use that call sign there, his being in America in both instances. However, due to backward DXCC ad
I know that ARRL bashing is an indoor sport when hams get together, and maybe we ask too much, but at risk of being banned from yet another reflector for saying what the "inner circle" of hamdom does
Which DXCC entity has the third largest population of licensed hams in the world? -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com h
Tree, is it ok for me to rent my shack to any licensed ham to use remotely from anywhere to my shack in Thailand? I guess the renter would have to get a Thai license and use that call sign or maybe i
I am a S&Per. I can stand in this CW Contest assemblage and admit it. I am not proud of it, but I know with some many step process, I can't live with it. So I want all you big gun Runners, often on s
Lets face the facts of today's contesting. The situation is no longer a guy with 100 watts and a dipole, carefully tuning the bands, carefully copying frequent I.D.ing, and logging on paper. Today, a
Here is the text of all that needs to go over the air in today's contesting............ You Hear... "Test" at 50 wpm. You Send... K1xxx, your call sign once. You Hear... "K1xxx, tu." You Send.... tu
I enjoy trying to use the English language to be specific and expressive. Here is my latest effort.............. The CW Skimmer is an obscene perversity of ham radio. All the art and skill of this el
Dave, et al..... Very few automated CW methods allow a person to win a CW contest WITHOUT KNOWING ANY CODE except the CW Skimmer, partly due to the accuracy of this cursed system. True, spots can giv
Dave, any time a trend gets a name, like Luddite, that name substitutes for thinking (like a name for a racial type of person). Further, it is typical of rigid personalities to reject reasoned critic
All I remember from my pair of 419 is the supplied paper diagram was upside down AND backwards ! Beware. Charly -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing li
As HS0ZCW, I run pile ups of 8 to 10 callers at once, often more, any day I am on the air and prop. is good. Altho HS is not really rare, I have a huge sig into EU and the ops there will call me out
There are many scams on ham gear on eBay, at least. The one I know involves hams trust to send money the same time as the seller "sends" the product... never sends, of course. Also, there is the offe
Flash, QST, to all Radio Amateurs.... I carry word from the other side... of the date line. It is noon December 21 here in Thailand and the world appears to be ok, so far. More, as things do not deve