Fabulous report from the front. How I wish I was there with you all. Best of luck to all of the competitors. See you ops on the air this weekend. 73 from Tennessee. (Thunderstorm-ridden zone 8) -Kirk
I agree with Oms. Unfortunately, it's apparently OK to violate this rule, at least in phone SS. Last year, several stations reported hearing the winning multi-op simultaneously on more than one band.
We didn't have the time to do that, as we were in the middle of trying to win a contest ourselves. Besides, there were several comments on 3830 afterwards about it, and I just assumed it would be a c
Or move all important nets to 14150.5? :-) 73 -Kirk K4RO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo
Can anyone verify if the VE8AT NCDXF beacon is operational? I'm not hearing it on any band these days. 73 -Kirk K4RO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest
Over the last few years I've been starting to see the light here, and am beginning to feel the same way about the big DX contests. Just because I feel that I am competitive doesn't mean that I someho
We in the TCG thought some of you might find this interesting. The TCG Radio Active report is one way that we encourage more contesting activity in the state of Tennessee. Kudos to Greg K4KO for main
I've noticed some Sprint operators repeatedly do not QSL a completed Sprint QSO. Some of those operating in this fashion are in the top ten, and my guess is that they are off making a QSO on the seco
I don't have a complete list of the W1AW/4 setups. Hopefully the others will check in with their list. We ran 15M and 80M CW from K4RO. Operators were K4AMC, WO4O, K3CQ and K4RO. We used the followin
Congrats on the new challenge Tom. Ingore the turkeys; most of us are very grateful that you have taken on what will at times be a thankless job. (I'm sure you know this well from DXCC.) N1ND left ma
Yes, usually. I would send W1AW's call a second time like "W1AW QSL TU DE K4RO" Hopefully this would let the mystery caller know that you just finished working W1AW, and not him. Sometimes an extra p
My check is also 76, and I used to have the same problem in SS. It is almost as bad as my name on phone NAQP, which is lousy. The last two years of SS, I ran at a slightly lower average CW speed (31
Another thing I've not seen mentioned yet is the fact that it is a lot easier to stay motivated for an entire contest IF you have a chance at winning it. I seriously doubt that most of the guys that
Are you certain that the recordings were made at the same sample rate (measured in kHz) and word size (8-bit vs. 16-bit?) Different soundcards can exhibit different default settings, depending primar
How about the IC-7700? http://www.ab4oj.com/icom/ic7700/main.html 73 -Kirk K4RO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
I noticed that in the 2007 WPX CW contest, the call VE8CDX was active from station VE3NE. I only knew this from reading their 3830 score post after the contest. I remember thinking to myself that the
Tree, could you elaborate on why you feel this way? Is it because you feel that some two radio guys are making pseudo "round robin" QSO's, with the "intervening" QSO starting on another band before t
The potential advantage of SO2R is more efficient use of time, accomplished by listening while transmitting. This technique was explained in detail almost 14 years ago by K1ZM in the National Contest
Ward, you almost made me spit my coffee out OM! :-) Does anybody remember a skill called IDENTIFYING STATIONS? It works like this. We TUNE the band, and when we hear a signal, we try to IDENTIFY IT.
WOW. I made 26,000+ contest QSOs in 55 contests this year, and I thought that I was keeping busy! One station that I heard in EVERY contest was AA3B (and usually K4BAI also...) These guys know the RE