The Dayton Hamvention will be held May 19-21, 2000, and the Contest Forum will take place Saturday afternoon, May 20, at Meadowdale High School from 1 to 4 PM. I have openings for a few more speakers
Announcing the 2000 Dayton Hamvention(R) Contest Forum The Contest Forum will be held Saturday, May 20, 2000 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM at the Meadowdale High School auditorium. The speaker lineup is as fo
I have a couple of open slots for speakers for the Contest Forum at the Dayton Hamvention, May 15, 1999. Some great invited papers will be announced shortly. Topics of interest at the high end of con
Doubt it no longer. I remember 1-pointers. They were dropped in my contesting lifetime...I think maybe 1968, the same year as the x 1.25 multiplier for low power stations was dropped. Doug, K1DG (fee
Nay, nay, Hamburger Breath! You didn;t win, but it was a strong second-place showing. That K1DG guy won. Again. What's that? 10 in a row now? How *does* he do it? The results were sent to all major r
Any resemblance between this fine new event and the Real Poisson d'Avril Contest (tm) is either purely coincidental or the basis for a really good lawsuit. Imitation is the sincerest form of litigati
** Announcing the 1999 Dayton Hamvention(tm) Contest Forum ** The contest forum will be held Saturday, May 15 from 9:00 AM to 12 Noon at Meadowdale HS in Dayton (5 minutes from the Arena). The prelim
I goofed up the URL for the Hamvention Forum schedule. The correct one is: http://www.hamvention.org/forums.html Thanks to an alert reader for pointing out the error. I will remove three URLs from my
Please refer to the URL given previously for COntest Forum Speakers. N6TJ/ZD8Z will be unable to attend due to an unforeseen work commitment. Standing in for him will be DIck Norton, N6AA. His talk i
Attention contesters ! I am assisting the staff of CQ in updating the CQ Amateur Radio Almanac. I need your help in updating two sections of the book of interest to the contest community. 1. Highest
Recently I asked for people to report their highest contest rates for inclusion in the Year 2000 CQ Amateur Radio Almanac. Some really good rates have been reported...keep 'em coming. Also, alert rea
Attention contesters ! I am assisting the staff of CQ in updating the CQ Amateur Radio Almanac. I need your help in updating two sections of the book of interest to the contest community. 1. Highest
Recently I asked for people to report their highest contest rates for inclusion in the Year 2000 CQ Amateur Radio Almanac. Some really good rates have been reported...keep 'em coming. Also, alert rea
A while back, someone sent me a video about how to fix an intermittent problem with the TS940. It occasionally goes slightly unstable resulting in chirp on both transmit and receive.The fix involved
A while back, someone sent me a video about how to fix an intermittent problem with the TS940. It occasionally goes slightly unstable resulting in chirp on both transmit and receive.The fix involved
The SSTV gang gripes about SSB contesters on 14235. The pig farmers gripe about 75 SSB during SS. Now the CW guys are griping about RTTY contests (but going on RTTY to do it!). And right after the CQ
CALL FOR SPEAKERS The 1998 Dayton Contest Forum will be held Saturday, May 16. I have several slots open for speakers. I am looking for top-level speakers to give talks on High-end Contesting topics.
One thing to avoid is the use of "cute" phonetics. Perhaps they are cute and clever on 2M FM, but a contest is an exercise in operating efficiency, so stick with phonetics that are punchy and underst
Some reports from M8M ("Mucho Ocho Macho", per K5MM) A lot of people have asked me for signal reports from "over there". Here's what I wrote down during a few band sweeps. Remember, these are one-sho
Early returns from the 1998 Poisson d'Avril Contest... -- AA3JU declared to the world: You all forgot this year but I didn't! So then that makes me the winner. 1 QSO with N3SWA (Yelled down the stair