Paul: I capture Dennis K0CKD's spreadsheet of 160 Meter Allocations several years ago, and maintain it at: http://www.k8nd.com/Radio/Planning/CQWW160/160FrequencyAllocation.pdf No guarentee of accur
Some years ago, Dennis Peterson N7CKD/K0CKD compiled a spreadsheet of Topband frequency allocations around the World. He placed this Excel spreadsheet on his web site. I picked it up for my own use s
G'day Oleg: Thanks! Permitted power? SSB OK for entire frequency range? 73, Jeff Maass K8ND Station Manager PJ2T, Caribbean Contesting Consortium CCC Web Site: http://www.pj2t.org PJ2T Slide Show: ht
Extracted from 3830 posting: full report at http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2009-01/msg02222.html ** Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me! (http://www.k8nd.com/Radio/Planning/CQWW160/Clown_
Depressed? Pessimistic? Quite the opposite! The longer the dang lowband-killing, noisegenerating pox stay away, the better! Give me a Maunder Minimum for the New Millennium! 73, Jeff K8ND __________
I'm about to sell off four of my iambic paddles: two HAL FYO, one Hamco Trinidad, and one mystery FYO-type paddle that someone here might help to identify. No one tries more CW paddles than contester
Thanks for all of the replies to my inquires on my FYO-type "Mystery Paddle"! (http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/CQ-Contest/2009-09/msg00127.html) I even found repair parts for my broken padd
You are quite welcome, Jim! Always glad to pass out my rare section! I'll give you a call in two weeks from the *very* rare and recently established "South of Maine" section as PJ2/K8ND. 73, Jeff K8
I am tracking down a problem at PJ2T. We have used Winkeyer USB devices with Writelog for several years, and suddenly cannot get the Winkeyers to work. This is an issue on three stations where they w
No longer than 15 minutes after posting, I found the solution here. The good news (to me!) is that I have resolved the problem. Seems that when the batteries were removed, the battery jumper was not
G'day Rick: No, the Winkeyer USB is an integrated solution. It uses the WK2 chip, and the USB is integrated onto the single board. BTW, the newer ones have no battery jumper to confuse the dozey tour
Having a contest station in Paradise is not all drinks in the pavillion and high QSO rates (although there are plenty of those, too)! Maintenance of the station is a major issue for any facility inst
G'day David: This has been my favorite contest for 35 years, since my early contesting days at W8LT at Ohio State University, where we routinely made the box in Multi-Op. However, ARRL now wants to
I neglected to note that each of the three SDR-IQ receivers were set to monitor the same 88-KHz section of 160 Meters, centered at 1.840 MHz (1.800 MHz through 1.888 MHz). 73, Jeff K8ND ____________
Jim W8WTS and I operated the CQWW 160 CW Contest from the PJ2T contest station, and used three on-site instances of CW Skimmer to provide assistance in spotting. Bottom line: CW Skimmer is an essenti
I'm interested in getting as much of the contest as possible, preferably recorded somewhere in the USA. If you have recordings of some/all of the contest, let me know and we can figure out how I migh
CW Skimmer v1.6 has been released! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxatlas_group/message/1848 I've been waiting for a fix for the Super Check Partial bug in v1.5. That version did not filter calls usin
I'm trying to whittle down all the Amateur Radio "stuff" in my small house. I have 129 old issues of the National Contest Journal for which I'd like to find a home. The collection is incomplete, but
The NCJs are gone. Thanks to all the many who replied! I have a taker from one of my home contest clubs. 73, Jeff K8ND _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
I have extracted some download-friendly segments of the 160 meter CW Skimmer recordings from the PJ2T station on Curacao on the first night of the 2009 CQWW 160 Meter CW Contest. The recordings are o