The Florida Contest Group, the first contest club organized in the state of Florida will be meeting this weekend in Miami and next weekend in Orlando. This week's meeting will be in conjunction with
"Snoop" N0AX as in Doggy Dawg? ..................my name is Ward and I wanna do a test ...................our teams the HipHops and we gonna beat the rest .....................if you don't work us yo
Ted Kazinski is my new qsl manager, enjoy your qsl card. I am sure we will get a bang out of it, by the way...he has a nice shack, portable, too! k4oj@ij.net -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesti
KC5AJX.....if your callsign is not catching the operators attention with the Kilo Charlie Five part what makes you think the other part of your call is better at doing it? It is not rate fanaticism..
I enjoyed the ton of spots I saw in the ARRL DX but was appalled at some of what I saw spotted....callsigns which were obviously broken....some of them posted by stations which I would have thought w
Rick, For what it is worth I received a lot of e-mail telling me my response to you was a lil harsh....they assumed you were a kid, and I assumed that since you were subscribing to CQ-Contest you wer
Well, it's apparent that it is VERY common for the big boys not to log same-country QSOs. what is the BFD.... just work em and move on guys...simple, its not like the olde days where we had to sweat
Have you been to the website for the Florida QSO Party lately? The Florida Contest Group is pleased to announce that thanks to support of numerous individuals and clubs from both within and outside o
Less than a month 'til the Florida QSO Party! No, the FQP is not an ARRL DX a WPX or other "major" but it is about to become the next major QSO party... Why? Activity.... How come there's activity? B
In the spirit of the code of the olde west, N5KO states that: If the single op category is changed to 24 hours of on-time (with five off periods allowed), then west coast station N5KO *WILL DEFEAT* M
KR2Q brought up a really good point, since those interested in a 24 hour shootout are indeed excited about leveling the playing field, why wait for the rules to change, maybe it is not even needed! Q
Thanks in large part to help from members of the Florida Contest Club I am happy to report that it looks like we will definitely be able to activate all 67 counties of Florida in the upcoming Florida
I stand by "Nuthin, but nuthin will eliminate the advantage the East Coast has to EU." The advantage is in the distance, the propagation, the length of open propagation, when DX goes to other bands t
The TH7 uses the same boom to mast bracket as the 204BA ( think ).... That has a flat vertical plate which another aluminum plate that is bent into a "U" shape mates with, capturing the boom between
So, like, your supposed to leave the Crowne Plaza??????????????? Wow - that's right - when you recover from the night before (not) you use those honed contesting skills, including the ability to stay
Like usual....it is the last minute and yes, I will indeed go to Dayton...and yes, I do NOT have a room at the Crowne Plaza....if you know of someone who has an extra please let me know ASAP!!!!!! Th
.....let's tear up Field Day.......yea.....lets see...... Excuse me, Tom.... but this is the contest reflector, and Field Day is NOT a contest but an emergency preparedness exercise..........perhaps
W7EW further expounds on why he thinks the WPX was a better contest, and adds "But I want contesting to become stronger with more participants from all over" HEAH EVERYONE - These are the wisest word
CONTESTERS! County Hunters Fellow Amateur Radio Operators Lend us your ears...... With a week to go until the re-birth of the Florida QSO Party it is with pride that I announce to you that ALL 67 of
It is said if you give an "x" amount of monkeys typewriters with an indefinite period of time, all the great literary works will have been written. On the otherhand, if you give an infinite number of