It is very well known by anyone visiting various stations that more than a few ham stations run 6, 10, or more KW routinely and especially during contests. Besides all the benefits of being very loud
First off, ASIA is a very large place. In contest parlance it exists from Japan to Turkey on the East-West dimension and from Singapore to way up in Siberia on the North-South dimension. For example,
World Radio Team Competition could easily be re-named .... NA/EU Team Competition with some token others thrown in. I like the WRTC, its organizers, and the excitement it adds to ham radio. But, let
I just knew WRTC was a good idea. Charly -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listin
An FT DX-9000d owner responds........... Single Operator/TWO radios is done in the FT-9000, AS I SEE IT, by programming the radio to receive on Antenna 2 while rev and xmit on Antenna 1. This setting
I am guessing that the "first 24 hr" rule brought the big guns out tuning early because they found me running in the first hours instead of coming tuning around in the latter hours of the full weeken
What I hear "foreign" operators say about contests..... By "foreign" I just mean operators who are in fairly rare spots; of course they are residents, not foreigners, where they live. What I hear is
As an owner of a Yaesu FT-9000d transceiver, I can report definitively that the ONE rig WILL DO SO2R. The menu has a selection #177 to switch into "full duplex operation" as the instruction book list
Add to the discussion about missing "rare or semi-rare" stations on contests the fact that the American slant to the huge contests leaves ops in far away places (from usa) feeling that activities are
Seems some smart guys, like the skimmer guys or the RBN crowd, could come up with a sub-audible identifying system that would send the station's call sign with each of his transmissions, especially o
Answer is whatever tones or blips that are sent while I am saying "fivni twenty six," its speed would need to be fast. However the computer driven GS sub-audible system simply grabs this fast sent si
Steve, I read 97.119(b)(1) to apply only when using CW Morse to identify. My GS system would not use Morse, it being too slow. Likely, the FCC would want instructions on how to decode what the GS rea
Rick, what an achievement... really! However, I usually work whoever I can hear; amazing technique, eh? Charly -- Charly, HS0ZCW _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing lis
I really dislike SO2R or SO4R or .... because of the empty CQs with no op present to answer your call to them. Hey out there, I know you can hear me and know you are not listening to your run freq. S
Lost old skills. Where is cursive writing going and then how can we have signatures? What is 682 divided by 26? We only do that by calculator. The mic is broken and we need to send SOS and don't know
At a huge contest station I did this....... Ten meters was my mult assignment but it was dead, really dead. So, bored and using a remote 40 meter antenna, I listened to the 15 meter run station and h
Javier and all.... I am sick of citing things I have actually personally done and have people on the reflectors tell me that somehow they have ESP and just are sure I could not have done that. In my
It is very telling that, until an American ham like me and lately Bob (N6BK+HS), move to South East Asia that we realize just how much ARRL and many CQ contests are skewed to serve the good ole USA/N
If an op has a call sign that will generate a pile up anytime he is on the air, then it is no special thrill to have the inevitable pile up during a contest; actually it is worse. Pile ups are an acq