I think the leaders should have to send in recording because a consistent rate of four-a-minute on phone is very dubious. However, it should be against the rules for the operators to LISTEN to their
My first contest log to Clublog got an answer saying some of my submitted call signs actually indicated a different entity name than my own log program showed. Is my log program defective or what is
Banned for years from the NJ DX reflector, my only way to reach any help is this site. Can anyone give me an email address to get my plea for help DIRECTLY to a human being, not a site with out of da
My answer is Never Refuse. That includes dups where it is faster to work them than to explain. Includes rude who tell me to QSY. Includes those moving in .5 kc away. Includes those who have told me o
Then there is "the buddy" who either sits at your elbow and spots you or just listens often and spots you often. I know of a case of each where the spots were disproportionate to others in the area.
I have fought LOTW and won. I have typed in one of two paper logs and have sent to LOTW all that plus all other contacts via contests and regular operating. Thus, HS0ZCW contacts, just under 10,000,
I have extensive practical experience with lightning and also collect first person reports. I know for sure one inch is not enough to foil nearby strikes' energy. I have seen two to three inch discha
Fernando, also consider being in South East Asia, 2858 miles from Tokyo and 4637 miles from Turkey, and still be labeled ALL in one group called "Asia." The ARRL and CQ contests are American contests
Let's see, it costs a half MILLION dollars for 20 guys to go to a remote DX location and operate for two weeks. What is the cost of placing a remote station there that can operate 24/7 indefinitely ?
I got somehow a huge roll of about #20 springy aluminum wire and put it all out in various lengths, running some down into a nearby lake. Pity the current homeowner when he begins a garden. Wire work
The contest scoring critiques have shown that the scoring is incoherent. The technique was ok when the contests were invented... for a few N. East Coast American stations. Giving the S. Caribbean inc
Dayton, prediction, will not move. Orlando Hamfest will overtake Dayton size soon. Dallas/Plano hamfest will be soon be second or hold onto third. Visalia remains the most satisfying hamfest and it w
In line with the current DXpeditions' draconian rules about "abusers".... and DXpedition ops and contest ops are both involved..............give me that sinking feeling: -I live where NO ONE ever cal
In my part of the world where English is definitely a second language and where some hams here think of every contact as a ragchew, I really doubt those rates ... if done in this region. One ham who
Is there a site on the Web that will play all kinds of radio noise and then tell what that noise is and where it comes from? I would also like to hear, identified, the famous phase noise. Any help pl
Stop making things difficult. Just get a filter or two and put them in. Either ICOM brand or INRAD (which no longer lists CW filters for the 706, but maybe the IC-703 or other rig will do same) and f
I noticed the same thing on both CW, especially, and phone where if I was given a QRZ and I sent my call twice with no break between, nevertheless the other station began sending after my first I.D.
Bob, The reason for sending my call twice, with normal word space between, is that many hotshots send faster than can receive and they can not copy an H followed by and S correctly, I use speed knob
nearby, if anyone bothers to get on, and a couple hi power JAs. OOOOOOOH pins and needles. 0000Z is 7AM in my shack, just when dawn wipes out the JA run and leaves me with a quiet lunch looking at t
What a wonderful rule set for Stew Perry ! I love it ! See, I can say something positive. Charly HS0ZCW -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Co