To the Contest and flham FQP reflectors. With the addition of 1 point QSOs to the WPX, I hope that everyone who has been so vocal about making changes to the contests to make them better will indeed
Floridians will be out in force this weekend for the re-birth of the Florida QSO Party...full rules are at the website listed at the bottom of this message as well as all the major amateur publicatio
The following e-mail was just read....the Florida QSO Party log checker K1TO reports the good news that: Congrats to the persistent WA3HAE, although he will not get "the orange broom" for working all
With solely self motivated ends solely in mind I encourage anyone with any ideas on a different way to delineate club territory to chime in... For those new to my personal pet peeve, here goes (old t
"I propose that clubs in the medium and unlimited categories be allowed to define their club territory as including any and all members that are located within the same state as the club's address of
Dr B sez that: Finally anyone who buys me dinner at Dayton gets 3 points, buys me a drink 2 points, talks to me 1 point. So, if I talk to you on Thursday night, Friday Night, and Saturday Night at th
...after getting to the Dayton airport earlier than planned on Sunday, hoping that mebbe we could catch another flight, it was necessary for me to scramble to get to the gate. Thanks to some verbal e
The members of the Florida Contest Group at the Hamvention were all wearing buttons... These buttons are to help fund the Florida QSO Party. They can be personalized any way you want and are availabl
WD4RCO de K4OJ Dave, Thank you for your interest in the Florida Contest Group. We appreciate the referral by your Georgia friends as to which club you wanted to associate with, hi! Many of the operat
Excuse my ignorance on this topic, but I did not know there was a "file" or log of packet activity available...I gather that on somebody's hard drive there might be a "log" of what was spotted during
some of us jump ship in midstream....converting from single to multi-op.....how do you handle that one, Chas? 73, Jim, K4OJ Florida Contest Group - visit our website at: http://www.4w.com/deemer/fcg.
Agreed, Doug Power bending is about as low as you can go - those who seek to level the playing field by breaking the rules are lower than low...while we all laugh at the sight of big amps in some of
W8FAW sez: "This hides the section winner somewhere in the middle of each listing." Tom, Tom, Tom...... Don't you understand, there are many winners, and none of the entrants are losers! You are not
Reminder: Florida QSO Party Logs are due May 26th, with the holiday K1TO may make an exception and give y'all a few days......put your Monday off to good use - e-mail your logs to Flqsoparty@aol.com
The Florida Contest Group, sponsor of the newly revived Florida QSO Party is pleased to announce the expansion of our contesting club. We have always welcomed all Florida contesters into our ranks. T
Barry...you are making this WAY too hard... Audio from left rig and right rig go to a rotary switch, 3 position, two poles... The "left of center" position is left rig audio in BOTH left and right ea
To: Frank Butler, W4RH ARRL S/E Division Director Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR ARRL S/E Division Vice Director cc: ARRL Contest Dept/Billy Lunt, CQ-Contest E-mail Reflector Last year when I got the results
I am very pleased to see the ARRL is taking this stance. Many, including myself, were worried they would try a band aid approach of publishing the scores in NCJ. By redoing the results and reprinting
I have had two 1500W rigs on in the same sub-band, particularly in the 10 Meter contest, and it is tough to isolate them....listening on the second rig without being trashed by yourself on the first
I must concur.... Massaging of logs post-contest is not (IMHO) in the spirit of the contest. This all got big a few years back when a noted DXpedition type went to someplace exotic and operated from