I have watched a few avid and good contesters arrive on the continent of Asia and wake up to the fact that most major contest rules are written for North America. Many then reduce their aspirations a
I never wait for an I.D. I just call. Because I have not computed my minutes spent sipping water, etc., I dont care. If everyone would do the same, all these minute minders will get the idea. IS this
Unique Radiosport Aspect of Contesting is in those cases where credit is only given for a contact IF BOTH contesters send, receive, and record the contact information correctly. This is a quite uniqu
Not golf re my point...... golf scores do not depend on the cooperation of a fellow golfer. Whatever a golfer does is entirely his own biz, not helped nor hurt by a fellow golfer .... and each golfer
Along with E2E, a new call sign has been approved for use in Thailand and it is E2X. The first is given to the national ham club, RAST, and the other to another club in Thailand. Shorter can be bette
August 3, the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand is hosting its monthly meeting at the newly rebuilt club station, HS0AC. Anyone near Bangkok should drop in. It is on the campus of the Asian Institute
Reactions......... -OMG, this camera is fooling us, it makes the Earth appear to be curved whereas we all know it is flat. -The neighbors are TOTALLY protected from lightning. -there is a shortage of
There is over twenty years of observation of the absorption (?) of incoming HF signals in a latitude band of about 25 degrees width and seemingly along the MAGNETIC equator. Consistently, signals com
I will be SOABLP as E2E in Thailand for the upcoming AA Phone. Many Thai ops will be on break during Sunday national club meeting mid-day local time. 73 -- Charly, HS0ZCW ____________________________
Here is a more full story on the Switchable Band Pass Filters....... The I.C.E. 419 well known for years is made and sold by I.C.E. Rated at 200watts, the current version is 419B for $318USD. It has
Correction from my earlier message re the 419B product.......... Sadly I.C.E. founder, W9SU, is now SK. The web page, www.icemfg.com does not go to a page offering I.C.E. products. I hope Jay at Arra
Dave, I try to copy what is sent, including those stupid cut numbers....... just what comes in goes into my log. The way the old telegraphers had to do. Charly -- Charly, HS0ZCW _____________________
Today, it makes sense to make everyone honest by calling LOW power 200 pots of wire, ooooh watts of power. The 100 w was due to transceivers of the day the rule adopted. Time has marched on to 200 w.
The travel standards in Asia are much different and not at all easy. Several nations do not allow transmitters or even receivers to be brought into the country. Some have long delays waiting for lice
Pardon me, but one can make anything containing anything and make it just light up... even compute or deliver song or be a pacemaker in your chest. Just making an item light up is so silly as an insp
easy answer......... -automated call sign reporting and -click to find and -click to log, -more easy mode that way and lower power still works ok, efficient. -more better code readers. de hs0zCW -- C
To OP DXpedition or contest, I am in Thailand; I will call you whenever you are loud to me. I will ignore your directional CQs because you are very loud at that time, and because you will NEVER call
I want my blockers, running backs, and even receivers to be as big as humanly possible (and some are). WIDE shoulders and beefy bodies. But it could be that someday NFL will be flag football and CQ W
Great, we have the freq police, the UP police, and now the Rig Police. If I am op within the law, I will be darned if I allow any self appointed Rig Police to dictate my rig choice. Charly -- Charly,
Contest cheating, Freq Police, anger rants, and other odd or negative operator behavior on the air (and off) finally explained by science ! The problem is exposure to aluminum ! OMG, a ham's love of