Skip, KG4QDZ caught an omission in the latest Rate Sheet. There IS, in fact, a VHF contest scheduled: 50 MHz Fall Sprint - 2300Z Oct 25 - 0300Z Oct 26, sponsored by the Southeastern VHF Society. The
I got a little careless with the cut-and-paste for the WAE RTTY rules in the 5 November issue of the Contester's Rate Sheet (http://www.arrl.org/contests/rate-sheet/) The correct rule is that everybo
I screwed up AGAIN. own CONTINENT, not country. Sigh. Thanks for the corrections and I apologize for any elevated blood pressures I may have caused. 73, Ward N0AX Mis-Editor of the Contester's Rate S
It also does wonders to consider your breathing when confronted with such a long message as in Sweepstakes. If, before you launch into it, you take a breath, you can say it all in one, well-modulated
If you'd like to spice up a December meeting or newsletter, I have a 10-question "Holiday" quiz dealing with Christmas Island and related topics. Send me an email and I will send you the PDF file, wh
Contesters, I accidentally omitted two important contests from the latest ARRL Contester's Rate Sheet newsletter (http://www.arrl.org/contests/rate-sheet/) - the RAC Winter Contest and the Stew Perry
Hi Folks, Please note that Kid's Day is this coming Sunday, January 4th and not Saturday, January 3rd as published in the Contester's Rate Sheet. The correct rules can be found on page 50 of the Dece
Does anyone know if there will be a Hawaii or South Dakota QSO Party in August of 2002? Emails are bouncing from the 'last known' addresses for these contests. 73, Ward N0AX QST Contest Corral Editor
Many times operators that tried to tell ME what MY class and section was, instead of reporting their own. They would say something like, "UR 3A CO" or "You're 1B in Kansas" when I was clearly 2A in W
And you're exactly right. If it's promoted as a contest - even lightly - we'll lose a lot of folks that just don't want to be or think they can be "competitive". Without getting into the psychology
"Please copy" is probably the littlest, most insignificant of our fish to fry. It is hardly more of a vermiform appendix than our own repetitive and useless "599". If we decide to beat the newbies up
Jim - none of the email addresses I have for you work. Please reply! Anyone having a current email address for Jim, I would appreciate receiving it (privately, so as not to pester the rest of the sub
Thanks for the addresses - Jim has been located. 73, Ward N0AX -- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts -- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --
I have been suggesting an "Experimental" category in regular contests for just this kind of activity. There's really no reason why not to try it in, say, CQ WW except for it not meeting the requirem
technically Exactly. Contesting is NOT about which mode gives the most 'reliable transport'. In fact, the more reliable the transport mechanics, the less opportunity for the operator to get involved
Hi all, I'm writing up the ARRL DX Phone contest reports for both QST and the ARRL Web site. I'm looking for stories, scores, tall tales, photographs, and interesting tidbits from the contest. DX per
Marlin P. Jones (www.mpja.com) has a number of inexpensive switching supplies that I've used for a variety of things - accessories, small rigs, repeater controllers - with good results. 73, Ward N0AX
But the real reason, of course, is to tone up those operating skills for the Washington State Salmon Run on September 21st and 22nd! http://www.wwdxc.org/salmonrun/ 30 days and counting! Seriously -
In the upper half of the solar cycle - 10-meters, which can go from VHF-like, sporadic-E to massive high-signal F-layer openings in a matter of hours. In the bottom half of the solar cycle - 160- or