Hi Frank! Good info, thanks. Maybe this helps explain why my indoor dipoles, surrounded by rebar and wiring in the walls, metal window frames, etc, don't seem to exhibit the expected pattern. In fact
Joe: I managed it but it took a long time ... The K9CT slide show is 164 pages long. One wonders how much file size could be saved just by eliminating the blue background "wallpaper." Jim Cain, K1TN
I don't think this is a matter of encouragement or publicity. Hundreds of ops participate in the CW Sprint and they surely are aware of the SSB Sprint, but only a few of them choose to participate in
Move closer to salt water. K1TN/4 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
It would help if you had mentioned where you are traveling to. North Dakota for Sweepstakes? North Korea for May Day? -- wonder, and worry, how many problems will I face traveling with all sorts of r
Getting through an airport check-in anywhere has little or nothing to do with powering up your transceiver with a bagful of D batteries. It's about looking and acting "normal" and playing nice with t
Holy cow! I made 21 QSOs in the SAC CW on Sept 20 and 21, logged on paper. This morning, Sept 29, I built/typed a Cabrillo log, QSO-by-QSO, went to the SAC robot site to paste it in and submit it, an
The stats for the ARRL DX Contest are all positive, too, I believe. I think contest participation is pretty high now thanks to our Baby Boom generation (born 1946 to 1964), especially those of us bor
The discussion of takeoff angles, Fresnel zones, "earth," and so on, was pretty well settled in 1903 by Dr John Ambrose Fleming FRS, in his "Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy." Once you connect Flemi
Everybody loses a few contest Qs due to operator failure on the other end, or, horrors!, failure on the home front. It sucks but it happens. I see that nearly all the CQ WW CW 2014 SO disqualificatio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOKcbqk-OZ8 73 Peter" Wow, that automaton wearing headphones in the video is really life-like. K1TN/4 _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
Incidentally, TO7A does *not* appear in the "Disqualified" list at the end of the Station-by-Station Line Scores (on-line version). K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mai
A comment deadline of May 30 and final rules announcement of June 1 doesn't allow much time. K1TN -- The CQ WW Contest Committee is pleased to provide a preview of the rules for the 2015 CQ WW DX Con
25 years ago some genius wrote in QST magazine that some contesters were using computer logging but refused to send their log on disk to the contest sponsor because they feared that would allow their
I believe the rules for all serial-number-exchange contests require consecutive serial numbers. Clarence Darrow Bradenton, Floriduh _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
Almost 20 years ago, a guy I worked with, an MIT grad, told me that his teen-aged daughter sent e-mails to friends and then called them on the telephone to see if the e-mail got through. K1TN/4 _____
Every time I tuned 20 and 15 Meters all I could hear were EU guys taking QTCs. I waited, then called, got beat by another station who proceeded to send them 10 QTCs. And so on. So I just quit. No cer
Hi Dave, I recognized that antenna right away, it's a Larson E. Rapp model from sometime in the early 1960s. Rapp wrote occasionally and suspiciously for the QST magazine for some years but QST seems
If you drop depth charges does that make you "Assisted?" K1TN/4 -- "Closest thing I can liken radio contesting to is competitive fishing or fishing derbies. You are in the same pond or lake or stretc
This thread has become really depressing. As others have noted, the point is to get in the contest. I'll be there, with my random wire aerial from an apartment: an apartment I paid for and a station