in The suggestion about car trailers is a good one. When I moved mine, Ken KG7VW used a contractor's trailer for hauling building materials. You might check with some contractor friends about that.
Does anyone know if the Nevada QSO Party is still active? Last year, it was held in early May. I have not received an answer from NW7O - last year's contact. I need to get confirmation in the next fe
In the last two issues of CQ-Contest (and at the Visalia Contest Dinner in 2000) I presented a "paper" on the processes of copying code - i.e. turning bits of audio into logged information. If you're
the role contesters sometimes play. Back in the early 70's or late 60's when the > dam went out in Rapid City, South Dakota one of the Rapid City DX/Contest types had high power mobile DXing setup.
If the following folks are on the reflector, I would appreciate it if they would reply to this message so that I can send them a message. The sources I have for their email addresses have obsolete in
I agree with Martin on this one, although US stations are SUPPOSED to ID with each contact. I don't mind listening to a snappy operator working down the pileup quickly at a good rate, giving his cal
There's a rumor going around that a new "proactive" noise blanker will be introduced at Dayton. When noise is detected, it determines the direction and characteristics of the noise, then it fires off
Last year's big summer news was the WRTC-2002 competition, held in Finland. This year, we don't have a WRTC event, so... Announcing - The WRTC-Style IARU HF Championship 2003 Team Competition! What I
First - I am all for real-time scoreboards being available to everyone. I don't know of any other sport where the participants almost always "fly blind" without knowing how the other guys are doing.
OK, OK...I should qualify "fly blind". I meant that no one knows anything about anyone else's score until the final results are announced. I guess there are probably a few other sports - but they're
CQ Hawaii! Last year, the KH6 QSO Party was sponsored by the Koolau Radio Club on Aug 23-24, but I have not gotten a response to my query about whether they will be sponsoring the contest again this
The WRTC-Style IARU HF Championship 2003 Team Competition We are now about a month from the IARU contest. Since the original announcement there have been some questions asked and some clarifications
Guys and Gals, I made an error in the dates published in the "Contester's Rate Sheet" for the His Majesty, King of Spain SSB contest. The contest is not this weekend, it's NEXT weekend on the 28th an
Thanks to Henry W2DZO, we have a Web page where the rules and team registrations will be announced - http://summitschool.com/faculty/wrtcrules.html. If you have a team that will be competing, please
To all of the QRP WARC-Speed Challengers...the Web page for submitting your totals for June (http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/) will be available shortly. WA7BNM (the creator and host of the page)
Daytime conditions were poor out here on the West Coast, but there was one magic moment. The W7DX 80m CW operator, NG7Z, was pretty surprised to be called by M8AA at 0530Z - dawn on the eastern term
would antennas Igor, Thanks for the excellent question - good one! Clarification - multi-band antennas with individual feed per band are allowed, but are considered a single antenna and may not be s
I should have just said "2 meters" :-) It was the kid's FIRST QSO for cryin' out loud - I wasn't going to give him a bad time about the frequency...and I sent a note to the guy I learned was coachin