K6IF "Does anyone have an audio recording of part or all of an SSB Sprint that they would share with me?" I think I heard part of it on the network news immediately after the Iowa Democratic primarie
The 2,003 Running of the Florida QSO Party is again scheduled for the last weekend in April - falling on the 26th/27th of April in 2,003. Florida weather is excellent at this time of yeat making mobi
I think the NAQP has finally cemented its presence by virtue of the tremendous amount of club activity - many radio clubs are using it for training purposes in prep for Sweepstakes, etc and the incre
I am pretty sure the group has nailed what happened, when I would ask a station to QSY quite frequently I had preprogrammed a function key to say QSY to: XXXX frequency.... GUILTY. sometimes I got lu
this topic has been beaten over and over and over on CQ-Contest...but like every other time I will contribute $ .02... You have an individual with one set of gray matter sitting in a chair - hem and
N5NJ penned the following on the CQ-Contest reflector: Of course, we all developed our won methods of dealing with all of this that made it manageable, but my point is really focused on all of those
Along the lines of the age olde wisdom: "Don't fix it if it ain't broke" I say NO to changing scoring formats...I find it fascinating to compare scores of the last cycle versus the current one - this
My take: The creation of a 24 hour category will only end up hurting the 48 hour competitors... WHY? if I am only going to operate 24 hours I sure as heck am not gonna pick the hours when the sun is
When the FCC re-opened pick a call there were endless discussions on this reflector about what letters were good to have in a suffix and those that definitely were NOT! e,i,s and h were poor choices
To contest fans who just love a good write-up full of insights as to the competitor's successful strategies or an analysis of how propagation played a role I have a suggestion for you... go to: http:
There is an excellent letter in the correspondence column of April QST. N5QYC points out very well that contesting serves as a ruler for us to measure our station and operating abilities... noting wh
Spring is here! One of the rights of Spring, or at least April, is the changing of the county map for the Florida QSO Party. The 67 Florida counties shown on the home page of the FQP are colored Gree
61 of the 67 Florida counties already have operators indicating their intention to operate from them. I feel certain once again we can say that all of the Florida Counties will again be activated for
If you are on this list or know the email address for one of these folks I would appreciate your forwarding it, thanks! 73, Jim, K4OJ 7S3A 8S5A AA4BN AA9KH AB5FS AE1D GM3POI HA5FA HAOIT JA1KQX K0OAL
The Florida Contest Group is proud to announce we have a new web site address for the Florida QSO Party... The old web site will continue to work for a while longer but we encourage you to use our ne
One of the joys of living in Florida is dealing with what we refer to as Love Bugs...they swarm twice a year. One of those times is in the Spring - simultaneous with the running of the Florida QSO Pa
Many pieces of e-mail have entered my in-box in the past day regarding the Love Bug and how it is such a big problem for Florida mobilers in the FQP. Many have said this is due to an experiment gone
It is now Friday morning, April 25, 2003 here in Florida.... By now you might have seen some e-mail mentioning the upcoming Florida QSO Party, well... it starts tomorrow, and runs on Sunday, too. As
Please report back to me and I will summarize and re-post back out the crunched data... If you were on this past weekend in the Florida QSO Party please respond as follows: Florida Participants - Who
FQP Mobile Entries from K4FCG/M....and a long story - hit delete now or be sucked in! Before we get too far along team K4FCG/M (K4OJ + N4KM) would like to extend our thanks to the following: a) N4OX