Hello all: I need to advise you that the Asia-Pacific Sprint rules were changed a few weeks ago to allow for the use of high power by stations outside the A-P geographical region. Many thanks to K4ZW
Yes. Those who say "if they can hear US stations with 100 watts, they can work US stations with 100 watts" probably haven't tried it very much when a primarily domestic contest is going on. When we a
Steve: I don't know the source of your information that tuning from the top down is better for USB and the reverse on LSB. Maybe my ears are different from that person's, but I think it is much easie
Hello all: Please note below the posting to the FOC reflector from Ellen White, W1YL/4, the mother of Jim White, K4OJ. It is a very sad moment for me personally. 73, John, K4BAI. Dear friends: In Sep
Hello all: Even as our hearts are heavy due to the untimely loss of SECC founder, W4AN, we are planning to carry on with the annual Georgia QSO Party after Bill's memorial service on Saturday. Rules
KE1FO says explaining an unusual contest exchange is easy, but he must be talking about on SSB. It is very difficult on CW. Even some otherwise good CW operators can't seem to copy anything but calls
Rich: The 15-minute per band/mode rule discourages operating on marginal bands, such as 160 and 10M. You are stuck on a band/mode if you make one contact and you may go the next 15 minutes calling CQ
Hello all: One very helpful thing to avoid the confusion as to acknowledging Sprint QSOs would be if everyone possible used full QSK. I know a number of very good contest operators who do not like to
Hello all: The annual Alabama QSO Party will be held this Saturday, Sept. 25, from 1800 to 2400 UTC. The website is http://web.dbtech.net/~dxcc/page0004.htm. This webpage is correct except for the da
No! The CQ WW SSB contest is not next Saturday (and Sunday), but it is Saturday and Sunday Oct 30 and 31. (Actually the CQ Web site says Saturday and Sunday Oct 31-31, but they mean 30-31). So, it sh
It isn't clear that the SS check is always the year of first licensing of the station owner. Many may interpret it to be the year first licensed of the station operator. What is clear is that it must
I'd recommend CT, which is available free, for post contest log preparation. Jim is not quite correct when he says you must "type" in the date and time. With NA, my understanding is that you create a
I have often tried a very well-known Q signal in this situation without often getting results. If, for example, a station is calling me so high that I can't copy him through the QRM of the next runne
The South East Contest Club and the Southeastern DX Club announce the annual Georgia QSO Party on the weekend of April 12-13. Rules may be found at gqp.contesting.com. If last year's results are not
This weekend, April 12 and 13, will be the weekend for the 2003 Georgia QSO Party. Complete information can be found at http://gqp.contesting.com. This includes last year's results, plaques offered,
Hello all: This will be my last general posting about this weekend's running of the Georgia QSO Party. We have had it in July for the past four years and have changed it to April in favor of (we hope
If you will look at the CQ Magazine website, it gives a detailed explanation. What you do is, after your put in your regular category, you add a new line that reads: CATEGORY OVERLAY: TB-WIRES. I typ
I've lost the message, but somebody yesterday needed W4PA's current e-mail address. I find a message from him in March from w4pa@yahoo.com. Sorry for the bandwidth. 73, John, K4BAI.
Brett: I don't know what the answer was, but that happened in 2000. I don't remember what the other club was, but both the Monaco (3A2) society and another society used the same abbreviation. I was i
If he was really saying R2, there should be some way for the contest logging checking to delete anybody's claim for that multiplier from him, but not to penalize the guys he worked for logging what h