- 1. [CQ-Contest] Operating Methods or Equipment? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dennis O'Connor" <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:51:54 -0400
- Discouraging, ain't it? Well, take heart, there is room for major improvements in your future scores, but not in his... Power helps, but look at the scores of the QRP guys, and you will see that ante
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-07/msg00831.html (8,462 bytes)
- 2. [CQ-Contest] license class and m-m op's (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 04:59:31 -0700
- The Third Party rule is a law left over from another era that no longer has any reason to exist today... The entire point of Third Party Rule was to protect the national telephone monopolies from com
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-05/msg00148.html (8,491 bytes)
- 3. [CQ-Contest] Noisy shack? Here's the cure (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 05:19:43 -0800
- A high dollar, but effective solution, is ANR (electronic noise canceling) headsets for aircraft... I have the Lightspeed headsets for my plane, 20XL and Twenty 3G models... As soon as you turn on th
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00235.html (8,271 bytes)
- 4. [CQ-Contest] Need an address to mail a beverage transformer (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:20:29 -0800
- Recently on one of the contesting.com lists, a canadian ham posted a request for information on making a beverage transformer... I dropped him an email and promised to wind and send him one.. This mo
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00289.html (8,223 bytes)
- 5. [CQ-Contest] The battle of the callsigns (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:16:48 -0800
- So anyone with a 2x3 call might as well take up stamp collecting, eh... OTOH, not is all as it seems... Over the years I have been working on recruiting new contestors into the hobby... I have watche
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-01/msg00301.html (9,859 bytes)
- 6. [CQ-Contest] NAQP RTTY (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:23:43 -0700
- awwww right, count me in... part time (too damned old to stay up all night, besides I gotta go outside the shack to take a whiz every 20 minutes) junk equipment (clapped out pk-232 running Pakratt of
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-07/msg00102.html (8,250 bytes)
- 7. [CQ-Contest] NAQP RTTY (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:48:10 -0700
- Just a couple notes to help out your effort. 1. everyone is low power in this one 2. you don't have to stay up all night, its only 12 hours total 3. you have to take 2 hours off in 1/2 hour or longer
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-07/msg00115.html (10,600 bytes)
- 8. [CQ-Contest] cqww ssb spotting report (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 05:27:03 -0800
- I only understand about 1% of the points that Dave is making here, but the one thing I totally understand is that I am 100% glad I don't have any form of internet, or packet radio, telnet, dx-cluster
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-11/msg00029.html (9,828 bytes)
- 9. [CQ-Contest] Zone 27 (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 07:07:39 -0800
- Who was the greyline zone 27 on 80 meters this morning (sat am) about 1130Z... I heard him working a station and giving his exchange then he faded down here in Michigan before I could get his call...
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-11/msg00757.html (7,416 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CQ-Contest] Zone 27 (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:25:32 -0800
- Hmmm... My own naivete got me on this one... I contest for fun, not blood... It turned out that I didn't even get back to the office until this morning (Monday) to read the replies; being that I do n
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-11/msg00774.html (8,701 bytes)
- 11. [CQ-Contest] Here we go again (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:27:54 -0800
- Second Place is First Loser [disclaimer] Just kidding [/disclaimer] ** Even kidding it is just plain wrong... I operated CQ WW CW, part time... I knew that with a few wires for antennas I would not b
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00019.html (9,444 bytes)
- 12. [CQ-Contest] Here we go again (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:06:34 -0800
- Case in point: CQWW this past weekend, I invited a college age friend came over to watch me operate 80M SB SO LP UNassisted... Boring for him of course, after about 3 minutes... So, I said, why don't
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00021.html (9,951 bytes)
- 13. [CQ-Contest] Anonymous/pseudonymous posts (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 04:40:19 -0800
- Well, EVen so, it's nice to know who is posting... How's about tossing your name or call at the bottom of each post, even if it is not in the address, eh? Cheers, Denny - k8do -- Mailblocks - A Bette
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00024.html (7,533 bytes)
- 14. [CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:37:03 -0800
- Equipment does not the contestor make! Every time I have Greg, K8GL, over to the shack and he sits down at the key paddle, I hang around with my mouth open (attracting flies as usual) as he casually
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00184.html (9,566 bytes)
- 15. [CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:53:31 -0800
- Who beat me? A station from the Black Hole. Whupped me pretty good, too. Go figure. -- Bill W6WRT ** That's the negative resistance, power amplifying, neodymium/tellurium/aluminum alloy that Power Un
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00185.html (9,278 bytes)
- 16. [CQ-Contest] What SO2R has done to me... (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:06:20 -0800
- I am still working on my setup that will allow me to listen close to my CQing frequency while transmitting. (New category? Yuri, K3BU.us ** Ahem, let me recommend an all tube receiver with a 4CX5000
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00186.html (7,985 bytes)
- 17. [CQ-Contest] RE: Here we go again (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:31:44 -0800
- The decision of the ARRL to not publish scores has the appearance (to me) that they are positioning themselves to get out of the contest business... They (apparently) see their future (and their adve
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00188.html (7,968 bytes)
- 18. [CQ-Contest] Chiming in -- SO2R (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:38:25 -0800
- Congratulations to both of you, and welcome back... Having said that, let me now note that I didn't have even a single pile up trying to work me in Michigan with my K8 prefix... Denny - k8do ** A nic
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00189.html (9,114 bytes)
- 19. [CQ-Contest] RE: CN2KM - Anyone know the op? (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:11:09 -0800
- Jim, my pleasure to work you on 20 before the contest... I did an 80M single band push, so didn't get a chance to log you during the contest... Anyway, the ease of going in and out of spilt frequency
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00190.html (8,442 bytes)
- 20. [CQ-Contest] ARRL and Contesters (score: 1)
- Author: dennis o'connor <k8do@mailblocks.com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 07:06:31 -0800
- Incidentally, for those who think cw or contesting is declining, they should have been on 160m this weekend. Even K1ZZ was there. 73,W4NZ ** I made a single pass across the band Saturday night, worke
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-12/msg00259.html (9,787 bytes)
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