I also noticed a lot of dupes in the ARRL RU contest last weekend. My first one was only 16 minutes into the contents and this same K8 duped me again on the same band later. There are many ways this
There was never a penalty for working dupes. You just had to removed them from your log and not take the QSO credit for the second or third QSO. I was never good at maintaining a running dupe sheet w
If Ft4 is faster than RTTY why did all of the RU winners make so few FTx(so called digital) QSOs? BTW I thought RTTY was a digital mode. John KK9A (W4AAA in 2020 Roundup - 100% RTTY QSOs) Ed, I am bo
Thanks for clarifying this, Tim. CQ Contests are fantastic and the magazine does a good job of covering these events. I always thought that advertisers pay the majority of magazine costs but I would
You're not asking too much. One of my homebrew 20m beams has a 40m OptiBeam interlaced on the same boom and at 100 watts there is no 20m interference at all except right on the harmonic. Make sure th
I have not been a DXer in decades. I had a small station at my parents home and I would spend many hours a week tuning the bands and calling new countries on CW and Phone hoping to work them. I guess
Having a remote receiver only a few miles away offers a huge advantage in single band contests over stations with everything on a single property. SO2R on 160m is normally pretty tough to do. Imagine
You can purchase plastic tubing at McMaster-Carr in a variety of types and sizes. If you cannot find something that fits the 1 1/4" Cushcraft element you may have to bore the inside diameter of the i
Those are two completely different animals, one is lightweight and has LDMOS finals that need an antenna tuner or a perfect antena and the other uses a ceramic tetrode that can tolerate 3:1 SWR. A te
I have little RF amplifier knowledge however I believe that your 66:1 SWR comment is for pulsed service which has a much lower duty cycle than a typical amateur radio transmission, especially the pop
Personally I prefer that stations just say the state name. In most cases it is quicker and clearer, at least to me. Perhaps people in other countries feel differently however I do not recall ever hav
I did not notice the NA sort of the raw scores until your post. This works well but with so many awards for US op's an additional US tab would be nice. The finial results will have a very nice sortin
Terry, the method you just described works quite well, you can even see well beyond the top ten claimed scores in a category. Thanks for passing this information along and also for your previous work
Thanks Randy for filling in temporarily and a special thanks to Bud, AA3B for volunteering for this position. Bud is a serious competitor in just about every contest imaginable and a great pick for W
Eventually the earth's magnetic poles will flip and you will be beaming backwards using the compass alignment method. John KK9A Good thing HF antennas generally have relatively wide beam width if you
That sounds like a good plan, Rich, we could be due for this magnetic pole change. The reversal pattern was every 200,00 to 300,000 years and it has now been 780,000 years since it last occurred. Joh
I don't see this as a S&P time saver - if you tune across someone and catch the last seconds of their transmission and only hear "TEST", you still have to wait again to copy their callsign. John KK9A
My guess is that Jim is referring to someone that sends CQ TEST (or CQ WPX) - their callsign and then TEST again at the end. You can tell that they are in the contest by the CQ TEST. John KK9A Ron No
Let's not force super-human ops into the assisted category. Perhaps a single transceiver non-assisted category would be nice for regular humans at average stations. John KK9A Jeff, What I am hearing
It is not even possible for U.S. ops to join the PJ2T team. Travelers who have been physically present in the United States within the past 14 days are not allowed to enter Curacao, except for legal