-- Here is a politically incorrect answer: If you are the person who is inheriting the frequency, and you think the TU from the departing station might have gotten obliterated by a quick caller, don'
It was the TS-930 that used LSB on cw. I had one too, and now use "cw-reverse" on the TS-850. I also think most people tune from the low end of the band to the high end. I think you get more "collisi
Jim, You stopped quoting the lyrics just before my favorite part, which describes current band conditions between the US west coast and Europe: "You are receding. A distant ship's smoke on the horizo
Don't forget the Low Power Sprint tonight. http://www.pvrc.org/lpsprint_2006/rules.htm There's also a RTTY contest going, so Sprint ops will probably have to use the Extra portion of the cw band on 4
-- Actually, WN5N/7 counts as WN7. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mail
-- You should be able to find a nice SB-220 with good tubes for $600 or less. Add Electronic Bias Switching to reduce plate current to zero between dits and dahs (Ameritron will sell you a circuit bo
With roofing filters, 250Hz filters, DSP, etc. I think it is possible to totally lose situational awareness of the band. What you, in your expensive high-tech bubble, think is a clear run frequency,
Here's a 4-port PCI board that I use with XP SP2 (WL, N1MM) and DOS (TRLog). It does irq sharing, so only one irq is required for all four ports. $31, including 3-day shipping. http://www.newegg.com/
-- I have the Dunestars. My local buddy W7WW has the ICE boxes. There are two thing I don't like about the ICE 6-band box: 1. The signal path goes through 12 sets of relay contacts in series. I have
My previous posting sure looked ugly. I hope this one comes out better. These were unofficially posted to the WRTC reflector by S56A. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ 2006 WRTC Final Results QSO Total
-- Mark, They are good, but not THAT good! I think you are looking at the QSO Points column, rather than QSO's. The #1 team had 2369 QSO's. Team #46 had 1018. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . ______
-- I remember that contest. In fact, my wife Jacki will never let me forget it. She went into labor with our second son on the night before the contest, (appropriately, Halloween). I drove her to the
Many rigs have a line level audio output, picked off before the final audio amp, for use with phone patches or rtty decoders. You can run that to the LINE IN jack of a soundcard and listen to the aud
How about a $66 homemade PNR headset with noise reduction 10-15dB better than Heil, and 3-6dB better than David Clark? http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00218.html Dave
I have an old AEA CK-2 Contest Keyer, but I've lost the instructions. Can someone please scan and e-mail them to me? I think I just need the sheet with the keypad command codes. Thanks in advance. Da
I received the CK-2 instructions. Thanks to all who replied. 73 Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com htt
I just noticed that the price of Writelog logging software has dropped to $30. I think it used to be $75. Maybe this is old news, but I just noticed it. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . ____________
-- Original Message -- From: "Gary Jones" <garyejones@cmaaccess.com> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:10 PM Subject: [CQ-Contest] RTTY contest software I have found t
I would send 1AW 5NN4 There is another option, to send "1AW? KN" Never ask the pileup to call again, unless you didn't get any fragment of a callsign at all. When this happens, I intervene manually,
-- On 160, you must be thinking of N6LL, not K6LL. I can barely work Texas on 160. N6LL is a 160 specialist. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ . _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte