Bob (and other new folks), What the Wardster said; and let me tell you it never ends. Once I got over the fact that I would almost always be out-gunned by someone somewhere, I started to enjoy the ga
Wait a minute! From what I've seen, Gator doesn't even wear shirts when he operates?? :-) K4 Rotten Op _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.co
That's how I do it. I QSL every card 100%. Many ops contact us in contests specifically for the card. I can't possibly ignore that basic fact, no matter what the work load. At ~20,000 QSOs per year,
I just realized that the CQ 160 CW Contest marks the end of my first decade of contesting. The first log I ever submitted was for the 1994 CQWW 160 Meter CW contest. My call at the time was WR3O. I w
Oh my, this news hurts terribly. Jim was obviously a beacon of energy and enthusiasm from the day I met him at Dayton ten years ago. I was a budding new contester, and he would point at me and say "g
My vote is for the CALLSIGN at the END of a CQ, with NOTHING after that. By the time I've actually tuned into your signal, I'm fairly sure that you are calling CQ contest; all I need is your call. If
This has been a tough time. I barely know what to write, and it's been a week now. Here is what it was like for me to know W4AN. Bill and I were only two months apart in age, and I was pretty much in
I imagine the spectrum recorders could be a useful tool for contest adjudicators, especially with a coordinated effort of strategically placed recievers and time-stamped digital recordings. But they
Were they loud? If so, my guess is that they thought you were clicking them, and then guessed it must have been an MP since the unmodified ones can click badly. I know -- I've modified a few MP's for
Do you keep a Station Notebook? I'm talking about a binder (or perhaps computer documents) where you keep track of station design and construction. What parameters do you keep track of? Which do you
Interesting question Tim. Since I discovered the near real-time GOES X-Ray data online, I have kept the running graph available during contests as a single op. I never thought of propagation knowledg
I confess, I was the lid who pulled this stunt. At least it got a good laugh from the K4JNY crew. My face probably looked like a 3-500Z at 1kW RTTY. Thanks for giving us the QSO OM. It had been a tou
I had six pots burn up before I found an alternative. The burn was happening at one end of the pot, and not on the wiper. Same place every time. I never could figure out what was causing the problem.
It's time for the January CW NAQP, one of the best little contests running. Power is limited to 100 watts output, and the contest is only 12 hours long, with 10 hours of maximum operating time. The c
<Final posting to CQ-Contest requesting TCG NAQP CW teams.> There is still plenty of time to join a TCG team for CW NAQP. Here are TCG NAQP CW Team Players as of 01/09/2003 K4LTA Bill FT K4MA Jim FT
This happened to me several times. My guess is that someone moved a station to within a hundred hertz of me without listening first to see if the frequency was busy. A blind move, if you will. -Kirk
I can't help but wonder if an unusual name is a hinderance to the NAQP score, particularly in the SSB contest. In the CW contest, it's not as much of an issue I suspect because 1) the name is spelled
I'm all for it Tom. Interestingly, a similar discussion just broke out on the TCG reflector. Specifically, that a serious guest op who has someone help him (e.g. fix an antenna) DURING the contest ha
I guess that "home/guest" is another one of those areas that can't be defined to everyone's satisfaction. To me it seems pretty obvious what a "home" station is -- a station primarily built and paid
I think I've figured something out (more or less on my own, amazingly) about contesting and "fairness." The truth is, contesting is probably quite fair indeed. While we can always find someone with a