I am four miles west of the edge of Great Bay, an Atlantic Ocean inlet. Can I run a ground wire there to get the salt water effect, or do I need to go another three miles, across the bay to the actua
Since nobody using a decoder could possibly be competitive, who cares? Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation Atlantic City _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Oleg: While I do not speak for the contest sponsors, I would think, to paraphrase The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, "tribander" can mean just about whatever you want it to mean. The intent of the
This is a copy of my comments to Jeff, K1ZM, on his posting on the NCJ's WRTC blog: Jeff: This is a great report, very informative. I'm sure the overall story about WRTC-2010 will be fascinating; I h
"Thanks for the tip on how to defeat the skimmer. You may rest assured I'll be changing speeds between test and call this November. Since you all are so into 'technology upgrades', any further SDU (S
CT1BOH wrote: "When one looks at the growth of QSOs during 48 hour contests (notably maximum QSOs in the CQWW SOAB CW category in the past decades: 50's 1277 QSOs 60's 2623 QSOs 70's 4505 QSOs 80's 5
Barry: Beginning with contact number two, give each contact one QTC. Moral dilemma solved. This will occupy your time so you won't grit your teeth as much about the restricted CW operating segments f
Much ado about nothing, methinks. The real problem is when you mistype an O (oh) for a 0 (zero) and lose a contact. They are right next to each other on the keyboard, eh? That QWERTY guy, Christopher
I thought Hans was talking about sending the *QSO number* from last year, not the CK. Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation Atlantic City -- your 'check' Hans. I know that you are the 'enforcer' of the s
Good. Now swap the NAQP CW and SSB weekends so we don't have to put up with the RTTY Roundup (or whatever it is) QRM and all will be well. There is still time to do so. Thanks. Jim Cain At the (tempo
Dear OMs OH1WZ, OH7WV & OH6KZP & co: Ref: http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/PU/PU.html Wonderful, fantastic reading, great job! Thank you. Cheers, Jim Cain, K1TN Crivitz, Wisconsin (in the USA Black Ho
I have a suggestion for RTTY RU people this weekend: stay above .060 on all bands. Respectfully submitted for your consideration. Jim Cain At The New (temporary) K1TN Superstation 6 miles east of Mou
While the RTTY weenies running high power make one contact per minute this Saturday I will be nosing around "their" frequencies, making two contacts per minute in the NAQP CW with my receiver passban
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Read "The Mind of the Contester," QST, July 1990, and "Packet With a Purpose," QST, August 1990. The author of those articles correctly predicted every issue currently on this reflector, and more, 20
Dave: Thanks for the reminder, OM. Let's not forget that "The Man Who Broke the Bank" was written by G. Franklin Montgomery, W3FQB, of Bethesda, Maryland. His name is not in the QRZ.com database so h
Every time I move, which is often, I have to find out what my grid square is so I can send it in some contest. Fortunately, that's only once a year, in the Stew Perry Top Band Distance Challenge. It'
I think trying distance-based scoring in the ARRL DX Contest might be really fun, presuming that it would be used to assign points to each contact according to Great Circle distance and retaining the
It used to be a DX contest, now it's a rate contest. All of them are rate contests. Of course it's fun to run a pileup. But it's also fun to tune around and find somebody really far away and spend so
Hank: Maybe your comments (below) were tongue-in-cheek, but you may be on to something. There is a greater concentration of monetary wealth in the D.C.-to-Boston corridor than anywhere else in the U.