You might want to ask the Scandinavians about rotating sponsorships. The national associations of the Scandinavian countries rotate sponsorships of the SAC contests each September. It has often been
Dana: I think the multi-single rule is essentially the same in CQ WPX as is the rule for CQ WW. You can have another transmitter which can work only multipliers on another band from the "run" station
Wait a minute! All the logging programs I am familiar with log the frequency of the receiver at the time that the "enter" command is given. Or maybe more accurately, it records the frequency of the m
A few "serious contesters" have been, for one reason or another, unable to pass the Extra class exams, even with no code requirement. Some of you may remember that, after incentive licensing, the fam
Hello all: This is a reminder that this weekend will be the Georgia QSO Party, April 11 and 12. Georgia has the second highest number of counties in all the states with 159 counties (TX has 254). The
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:44:10 -0400
Hello all: Less than 30 hours until the annual GA QSO Party. Saturday 18Z to Sunday 04Z and Sunday 14Z to 24Z. We have commitments to activate all 159 counties this year, after missing only one count
Thanks to Paul, VE3TA, for pointing out that I had the incorrect URL for the GA QSO Party home page in my earlier message. The correct one is: http://gqp.contesting.com/ Sorry for that and hope I did
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 04:29:40 -0400
The way it was scored for human in-person participants this year, as it was explained to us by K0VBU, was that there was no penalty for busted calls. The log checking program was simply counting the
I guess I'll have to go back and read the CQ Magazine announcement again. When it was announced at the contest forum in Dayton, I understood that remote receiver sites would be limited to the same CQ
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:58:29 -0400
The only reservation I have about short recognition periods in contests is the possibility that it encourages people to operate only 6 hours (or 12 or 24) and quit, when they would have operated long
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:58:21 -0400
I know it's hard with SO2R, but I recommend listening to what your computer is sending, at least for a time at the beginnng of each contest. Twice, I have heard big contest stations sending one call
I will be at a seminar at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Tuesday through Friday, July 7-10. It appears that I will have Tuesday and Wednesday late afternoons and evenings f
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:33:44 -0400
Inspectors are welcome at my station or anywhere I am operating as far as I am concerned. I hope they can avoid being too disruptive. I have been operating at multi op stations in the US and abroad s
I have already responded privately to Scott as to his suggestion for everyone to log C6APR first in the contest this weekend. I think it is excellent, except for the fact that we have no provision in
Well, one reason to continue to use LSB on 40 is that there are still a significant number of mostly older rigs in use that do not have selectable sidebands. The only SSB available on a given band is
Sending the call sign as a part of the exchange (at a reasonable speed) is a very good way of advertising to those who have just tuned across your frequency. Much better than having to send a new CQ
Hello ham friends: For those of you who can operate during the day tomorrow, Veteran's Day in the United States, approximately 9 AM to 5 PM EST (1400 to 2200 UTC), the Columbus Amateur Radio Club wil
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:58:54 -0500
Thanks to all of you who helped the Columbus Amateur Radio Club honor veterans on Veteran's Day by working N4I and the other Veterans Day Special Event stations. I am sorry we at N4I didn't have a be
Why not suggest QRS SS operations on 7100 to 7125, 14101 to 14125 and 21100 to 21125 and just for the future 28100 to 28125? Particularly on 40M, I think this would be a good idea. The SKCC Sprints h
Author: "John T. Laney III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:51:51 -0500
I am planning to go to Bonaire for CQ WPX 2010 for M/S. It would likely have been with three ops (KU8E for sure). With the rule change, I guess two ops will be all that we can keep busy. But, I am co