The questions I would ask are, "did you make the QSOs," "what did he ask you to change?" If it were me and I DID make the QSOs but there's something about the way they were logged incorrectly, either
I'm sorry to hear that you won't use LOTW -- whatever your objections (and this one is VERY picky) -- LOTW saves everyone who needs a DX QSL from you an average of $3.50 per card, a dollar figure tha
On Fri,8/7/2015 7:10 AM, George Harlem wrote: This is a no-brainer. As is the practice of not sending a card unless the other ham also puts his log on LoTW. Huh? Back in the day when you and I were f
If you think the Bureau system is "superb" you probably don't use it. The Bureau system is essentially broken. MANY hams do not participate, some countries do not have bureaus, and it is VERY VERY sl
Do what you like with it. You know my policy. I have adopted it for the reasons stated. :) Some complain that LOTW doesn't work for most awards other than ARRL awards. It COULD, if those administerin
You sent me a stack of cards to prove some point that I've forgotten, and I ignored them. 73, Jim _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com htt
On Sat,8/8/2015 9:24 AM, Oliver Dröse wrote: To my mind it's plain theft, sri. I've done quite a number of projects myself, published in magazines and on the web, etc. I do this for my own pleasure (
The best place to study this is in the early chapters of the ON4UN book, where he talks about situations like this. Someone suggested HFTA. HFTA applies ONLY to horizontally polarized antennas. David
Simple. The magazine and newspaper business has been in trouble since the rise of the internet. CQ is on the edge financially. It's not what they WANT to do, it's what they CAN do. 73, Jim K9YC _____
Sending magazine issues out months late or sometimes not at all is a SYMPTOM of financial problems. So is turnover of long time staff. CQ has been struggling for a while. They have been very supporti
I'm seriously thinking about buying an SDR for spectrum analysis, but would also like it to work with Skimmer feeding spots to my K3s. The two radios I'm considering are Perseus and the new ANAN 10e.
Yes. After 4 years of learning, I'm still a mediocre at SO2R, but I keep trying to improve. Another thing I learned long ago about S&P is to keep moving. If you stick with someone who isn't respondin
Mike double-posted this to another reflector, where I referred him to a piece I wrote for the latest NCJ. http://k9yc.com/LocatingStubs.pdf Advice already posted here about looking for leakage and ha
On Tue,9/8/2015 8:23 PM, Jeff Clarke wrote: Wondering how those of you using a Six Pack antenna switch hookup your stubs? I have two coax cables from the Six Pack coming into the shack going to each
On Tue,9/8/2015 9:24 PM, donovanf@starpower.net wrote: That "growly" signals you're hearing are harmonics of your transmitted signal generated by unintentional radiators, especially switching power s
Covered in the app note. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
An important quibble, David. Because Vf varies slightly with frequency, the MEASUREMENT of a harmonic suppression stub at the frequency of the harmonic. For a typical RG213 coax, the difference is en
Yes, it can matter a LOT where along the line stubs are inserted. See my piece in NCJ, or here. http://k9yc.com/LocatingStubs.pdf 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
The choice of contests seems to be quite poor. From NorCal, I had roughly 90 minutes opening to Germany during WAG. K6XX, a superb operator with a great antenna farm on a mountaintop 70 miles S of Sa
Whatever committee made this mess needs to be told that they screwed up part of their job. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.c