Both antenna systems are incredibly impressive.I visited the Jim Creek Station at Marysville WA in the mid 70s. The antenna is supported between large pylons betwen three mountain tops. Huge wires f
Bill, There has been a lot of dicussion regarding choppy cw on this reflector and others. Many have found that by stopping other applications running in the background has helped. I'd suggest you do
Guess I just don't notice the lousy cw generated by Win Test or Writelog running under XP! Hope no-one else notices it.... 73 de Larry K7SV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest
running under XP! Hope no-one else notices it....Hey guys that was a tongue in cheek response to Dennnis's comment regardingchoppy cw. Some folks experience the problem and some don't. I use both WT
While I have no experience with the TH-3JR, I have been pleasantly surprised with the performance of the A3S. As I tried to do SO2R with one tower, I had an A3S fixed to the west at 30 ft on the 75 f
note and I am including George's reply below. The real question I have is -- Has anyone taken a KLM KT34XA with the 15M problem and modified it with the M-squared upgrade kit and had the antenna per
A lot of good suggestions based on lots of experience have been provided. I tend to agree with Andy AE6Y, to start out small and build up. As has been discussed in another thread on this reflector, S
operators do. Anyone who does it any other way is a machine operator, a computer operator, a data operator - describe it how you like, they're not CW operators. We can argue technology forever, but
Congratulations on your new organization! 73 de Larry K7SV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listin
Very nice write-up by Dan. Vic was a super CW op. While I really enjoyed chasing all the mobile ops around the state during FQP, I'm really going to miss hearing N4TO in there! RIP my friend. 73 de L
Dick, When you're recording the audio, are you using a headset with boom mike? Do you have audio monitor turned on on the rig? If so, perhaps the level of the monitor is set higher than it was before
Bob, Here are the rules regarding QSY, taken from the NCJ web site: Special QSY Rule: If any station solicits a call (by sending CQ, QRZ?, "going up 5 kHz," or any other means of soliciting a respons
What I'm about to relate here may very well be posted at other spots on the Inet, but I haven't had much luck in finding it, so this will hopefully be helpful to contesters using the Elecraft K3 on p
Speaking for EY8MM, K1SE, K4EC, K4EU, K4ZW, NR4M, N2YO, W4DF, WA4JUK and myself, many thanks to Jim AD1C for sponsoring the M/M plaque that the NR4M crew received this week. This plaque is just one o
K2DG should have been listed as K1DG of course! _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-conte
I'm looking for anyone who has done M/M with two transmitters on a band in the CQ WPX contests. The problem we're realizing is serial numbers. Separate serial number sequences are used on each band f
"Pet peeve: QRZ <dx call> "AD1C" AD1C 59 <zone> "Thanks 5904" <dx call> So I did work him or not? Did he lose my puny signal in the QRM/QRM/QSB? Please say SOMETHING besides just your call. One stati
Al Crespo (F5VHJ) and George Fremin III (K5TR) both make very valid points. I think the question is, how would the rule change affect the following considerations? 1. Would we gain or lose activity?
"Yeah, the RTTY Roundup is starting to look like a better option for that weekend" I think Steve N2IC expressed my sentiments with his comment. While I normally prefer CW contests, I think that joini
As far as I am concerned, Hans succinctly hit the nail on the head when he said "If it points you to a QRG outside your current audible passband which contains a new callsign or a new multiplier, it