I agree that there should be a way to avoid the expense of printing and sending unwanted certificates and/or plaques. As a moderately active VHF contester, I have received a certificate from ARRL for
But there is a significant rule difference: In NAQP you have to stay on a band for ten minutes. In the DX contests, you can QSY, work a couple of multipliers (or others) and then QSY without the 10 m
No, but that will change once 3D printing becomes a normal household item 73 - Jim K8MR In a message dated 12/11/2012 7:01:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, w2up@comcast.net writes: Aren't those trophie
This is excellent advice. Quite often I encounter something like: CQ TEST K8MR TEST W6#E!^*T#BAI My brain responds much more quickly than my fingers that K4BAI is in that pileup, so I send K4BAI with
Following the Stew Perry Test, K3ZM had a cool 3830 post concerning signs of operating QRP. (He was not QRP this time, but has done so in the past). A brief excerpt: I did not operate QRP again this
An half full/half empty glass observation: Why are there so few MD stations in the NCJ Sprint? And how did I miss Virginia in the last one? The CW Sprint is coming up tomorrow, hint, hint . . . 73 -
Thanks to K2AV for writing this for me. For years I've been doing SOMS - Single Op, Multi Station - in the CW SS. That contest becomes really fun when the rate goes *UP* as the contest goes on. Last
This is a very unlikely scenario. It's not clear if you are worried about this being done by a contest club or a general interest club. If the former, a requirement to cease use of the first call aft
Hi Art, I'm glad I got you suitably coaxed or embarrassed to get on last night. I hope you will forgive me for those first three hours of pain. MD was indeed pretty easy this time, though VA had me n
With lots of experience of being a new guy at different times during CW SS, I respectfully disagree. In my SOMS efforts, the top guys quite often do find me while I am running. The best guys even fin
Let's get back to the simple suggestion most recently made by K2AV (with my enthusiastic second): Simply give people the reasonable opportunity to use a second (or more) call later in the contest, wi
Nothing is stopping anyone, but nearly everyone likes to at least see their name (call) in the lights after it's all over. We don't like being treated like an outcast for showing up under a new ID, h
The present rules, or rules with a no return to a previous callsign, affect only those who wish to submit a log. It does not affect a person whose only interest is inflating the numbers of a friend.
All of this is for CW.... how about phone???????? With the realization that there are several standard phonetic alphabets, and in real life a person will not use the worst one, my nomination for the
Would US states also become multipliers? That would be necessary to put the US and EU on equal footing. But I don't think that would enhance the contest. Working Georgia (W4) for a multiplier is not
I've found a comfortable station layout that is somewhat different from the traditional setup. I start from the usual radio set back on a desk configuration. I have the keyboard on a slide out shelf
Faced with perhaps needing to be out of town for the next several weeks, I checked to see if there were any contests next weekend (Mar 23-24), for which it might be worth taking along my KX3. Lo and
The results of the 2012 Ohio QSO Party have been posted on the OhQP web site, _www.ohqp.org_ (http://www.ohqp.org) Congratulations to category winners: Ohio Single Operator High Power KW8N Ohio Singl
I'm glad we're again talking about 5NN signal reports. Single operator assistance was getting a bit tedious, and it's not quite the season to be discussing the proper CK for Sweepstakes. Please note:
On average, CQWW CW comes before the US Thanksgiving holiday once every seven years, whenever November 1 falls on a Friday. Due to leap years, sometimes the November 1 falling on Friday case gets ski