Doug, Nothing personal, but I, and others, are attempting to make those who don't care understand how folks that DO. See comments interspersed. If you were, I suspect you might understand the issue.
Because NAQP is basically designed for a boy and his 100W radio. No amp, no assistance. Use of spots changes the nature of the contest. One of the most fun aspects of these contests is team competiti
This fundamental rule works for ANY antenna. Connect it to your radio. If the noise level from the antenna is at least 10 dB higher than the noise level with no antenna and a 50 ohm resistor at the a
That was NOT EVEN CLOSE to being true at my QTH, especially on SSB. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contest
Our club (NCCC) has done several group purchases of this generator, and we've had very good experience with them. It will run a 100W rig AND a 600W power amp on CW or SSB in economode (we use K3 and
Let me emphasize that the Honda 2000i is not a "noisy" generator. We've seen the noise on CQP expeditions when it was parked directly underneath a tri-bander on a 30 ft mast. AND we set up ina very q
I also experience this operating from NorCal -- during the first hours of a Topband contest, we hear a lot of the better equipped stations east of Chicago, but almost without exception, they don't he
With the rave reviews, I tried it on this weekend's ARRL DX CW log. Count me seriously unimpressed. Several years ago, someone did a presentation of a half dozen log analyzers, and links are on the N
Today was the first time in a long time I've witnessed this very bad practice, bad because it dumps your callers on top of a dozen or more other running stations. Two stations did it Sunday afternoon
Many thanks to all the great operators who worked to pull my QRP signal out of the noise. I am amazed at your ears and your skill! Contesting from Northern California is hard enough, but reducing pow
I wasn't aware of asymmetrical propagation to/from your area. Thanks for that. Very good on the 40M effort. You seem to have hit on something with the phased verticals. It's well known, of course, th
That's the first I've been aware of D4C ever working split. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com
I encountered relatively few dirty signals this weekend, perhaps due to my location in W6. A couple of JAs were nasty on 15M, even though they were barefoot. I'm guessing something Yaesu. My buddy WB
It did NOT work well in this case -- his pileup was on top of A35T. You thought it worked well because you were much farther away. From NorCal, I had a front row seat, just as you do for EU and AF. W
We do indeed. Randy, are you listening? I even started a brief discussion about this on the N1MM reflector when a guy asked for a macro to only ID after 3 QSOs. I said that this is not often enough,
On Mon,2/22/2016 6:33 PM, Jukka Klemola wrote: K3 can be set to click. Just set the rise and/or fall times too short i.e. sharp and listen k# click. That can be done with most JA rigs, but the K3 key
Not GOOD ones, and not if you know how to read the display. The P3 is quite accurate, and compares quite well with my $1,000 ANAN 10E (as long as the 10E is not overloaded). Most web sdr receivers sh
I don't think anyone would criticize you for pausing a beat to work a tailender, but if you have a decent signal, S&P stations are continuously tuning past you, we need to identify often enough that
On Tue,2/23/2016 1:26 AM, Paul O'Kane wrote: That is normal. Any station 60db above the noise appears, and is, wider at the noise floor than one that is 6db above the noise. If the stations have simi
Start by studying the fundamentals, then study the performance of various rigs. I've made three posts on this topic in the last 24 hours, and posted links to the answers to your questions. You could