Hal: Nice job, nice writing. Taking a long view of things is always good. I think that DX contests are for Republicans, and Sweepstakes is for Democrats. I will be on in the CW SS, hoping to contribu
Remember way back, when everybody in the U.S. switched from Daylight Saving Time to Normal Time on Saturday night of the CQ WW SSB contest? Well, thanks to the geniuses in the U.S. Congress, who exte
Barry, is that magnetic north or solar north? k1tn/2 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-
Great! One less hour of darkness means 20 will open to Europe earlier, right? What time would that be? k1tn/2 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
I lived five miles from the Indiana/Ohio state boundary and used to have to start SS an hour later than the W8s a stone's throw away. Except in the years when we were on the same time, which varied,
Coincidentally, just this week, the PBS show Globe Trekker featured a young woman host climbing the Matterhorn, on the Swiss/Italian border. I thought of Jim Lawson, W2PV, who, unless my memory has c
Maybe the same way "this happen"K1TN 111 55 4 4 /s/K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/
I know two Americans who operated on the ham bands from Viet Nam 40 years ago. They did not have "licenses," so they just made up XV call signs. In one case, I have seen an actual QSL card. I expect
Not always. QRZ.com shows the wrong grid square for me (the one I moved out of six years ago) and when you "Load Map" on QRZ.com the map shows that (wrong) grid square, too. QRZ.com grid square list
"The ARRL DX Contest format is designed to have US and Canadian Section multiplier emphasis."Wrong. The ARRL DX Contest uses States, not ARRL sections, for multipliers.How many ARRL elected officials
A week or two ago the "web survey" question on the front page of the arrl web site was "About how many CW QSOs do you think you made in 2008, excluding contest contacts?" I checked "Less than 5," whi
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously worked at a stand-up desk, and look where that got us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_desk K1TN/2 ____________________________________
Geoff: What photo? I'm sure the genius engineers who read this reflector will have answers for your corrosion problems. Maybe a sealed closet with some sort of absorbent chemicals inside. I don't rem
See below. Wow, I have no idea what this is about. I earn my living, such as it is, as a technical editor, translating geekspeak into English for civilians, so I'd like to think I'm not exactly brain
Rick: I know your heart is in the right place, somewhere behind your rib cage. But the Sprint will always have a limited clientele. 1) The Sprint is no fun with low power and limited antenna. Call on
Maybe during the 48 hours of the ARRL DX Contest, CW, the Desecheo K5D operators will limit themselves to the non-contest bands ... i.e., 30, 17, and 12 meters. And to phone operating. That would be
According to the K5D web site, Desecheo is: The 6th most-needed DXCC entity world-wide. The 3rd most-needed DXCC entity in Europe. The 2nd most-needed DXCC entity in Asia. This is probably from The D
How is it possible that on this reflector the VY2ZM score is listed in the claimed scores while I find no VY2ZM posting on 3830? K1TN/2 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mail
If I win everything, why not engrave the little plate on my plaque to read: K1TN Top World Top North America Top USA One plaque. But it "uses up" three plaques. That leaves a slush fund for two more
I think that SO2R in a Sprint is madness. K1TTT's packet reports are a public service, but no good deed goes unpunished. Dubya was a cheerleader at Philips Andover Academy. The day that contest rules