wow, this is the first I have heard of this! I wish somebody would have said something directly to me first.In 1996 and 1997 as K4JYO i got 1st place in Alabama in CQWW 160 Test. In 1999 as K4WI I go
cool! I checked my log and show worked them 10/29/88 21 MHz ssb and 10/29/94 7 MHz ssb.... that would have been using my old call K4JYO. Man, time flies when you are having fun lol! 73's Cort K4WI St
It was 20/9 earlier this morning peaking 40 degrees from Alabama 14000 to 14003 khz... still there now at 1740 GMT but not very strong about S-3... 73's Cort K4WI 73, Zack W9SZ On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 a
yesterday morning it was strong S-9 plus toward 40 deg from west central Alabama. I could copy it from 13998.3 to 1403.6 and then it dis-appeared and hasn't been back since. Hard to tell! 73's Cort K
Back in the good old days when the solar peak was here and I had the 10 mtr 4 hi 7 el stack up, I would run into the same scenario... a Euro would tell me that there was another stateside on my freq.
hello Dennis, I enjoyed your email and think it was spot on. I don't use ft8/4 and don't think they should be allowed .... maybe they should have their own contests. I spent quite amount of time in t
well, sure hate to miss this one but my announcement 01/01/2020 regarding mixing digi with CW/SSB/RTTY contests still stands. K4WI/NA4W will no longer compete in any contests that permits FT8 to comp
well after many hours of trying to sort out the problem with my FT5000+KPA1500 not switching bands with Writelog, it turned out the current firmware update (2.48) that Elecraft has listed for the KPA
hey Mike and All, I use two keyboards just for one radio (ft5000) and it works out quite well. Both keyboards are the small versions: first one is USB wireless with trackball/scroll wheel going to co
I finally got her to accept the letters ZERO... or else she wasn't going in the log. A lot of folks use a prefill not realizing they are not 100% accurate and need updating regularly... a small perce
wow got two CQ mags today... Feb and Mar....March had the results of the 2020 CQWW RTTY DX test and I got all excited to see how I came out with my SOHP 15 mtr effort. BUMMER, looked at the article a
I wondered who WW1X was.... Friday evening 15 minutes before the start WW1X was calling CQ TEST on 28000.3.... at 0000 I gave them a call for my 001 and they gave me back 5nn 001 but 5 minutes later
I am with you 110% Kostas on the ft8 bullcrap. I have spent years and thousands of hours since 1959 achieving my goals and consider that time some of the best time spent in my life. I have 355 DXCC..
I thought I had all the electrical issues identified from the lightening strike a week ago Wednesday.....but yesterday morning went to move the tribander to Europe and nothing. The rotator is a yaesu
took a look a this and oh oh.... looks like they listed KW4I Barry as the 15 mtr SB USA winner instead of me! Hope this gets fixed in the records! K4WI Cort Chris Tate - N6WM wrote on 9/14/2021 12:
I can answer this one for sure... I am located west central Alabama (32.4/-87.6 ... EM62ef) and working Scandinavia on 10 meters my late afternoon their darkness was part of my contest game plan. The
The French Team has been a top pocket job in their expedition to Guadeloupe.... got them on 9 bands CW 160-10 all human to human! I did work them on 10 SSB to ask if they might do 6 meters which woul
getting ready for WPX this weekend and was just wondering if there is any way to increase the FONT size in the Gritty window? I really like Gritty as my 2nd decode window beside MMTTY but the screen
I am starting to think seriously about putting in some sort of solar power on my roof to get some distance from the power grid. I have heard all sorts of opinions on a lot of noise generated from the
well it's not local.... talking with my buddy Drew K8YFM in Richmond, Va and he can hear it too. What in the world is this weird signal on 50.230.5.... it varies in strength and sometimes stops. Neve