Mats, If you were to come through San Francisco or San Jose, I'm sure you could find a chair in one of several contesting stations in NCCC territory. 73, Jim K9YC Thanks for interesting info.... Then
There are two, but they fill up in about an hour when the available rooms are released on a given day at 10 am pdst. :) There are other good hotels in town and rooms are available, but they're not wi
The JT9 and JT65 windows have been jumping this winter. I've been monitoring for about a month, in hopes of working SC and VT to complete QRP WAS on 160. I was successful a few weeks ago in completin
Given the very nice scoring system, I tried to work this contest, but with very little success. Conditions were absolutely lousy in Northern California during the contest period, and many of the acti
I think most participants think the wording SHOULD be as cited by Alan below. Why is it that it has not been changed? The current wording is terrible. On a couple of occasions, I've added dummy dupe
Yes. The cost of international postage and shipping have made paper QSLs a luxury that few of us can afford. Sure, having a paper card for a rare or difficult QSO is nice, but those costs have made i
Thanks Ted. Last I looked at the website, no mention was made of that. I also support eQSL with my home call, but not for county expeditions. W6OAT and NI6T got me interested in the CQ Field award. T
I was lucky enough to get in on one of the group kit buys of the YCCC SO2R box. It's a winner! 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesti
I have exactly the same question. Modern cities are a terrible place to try to do ham radio. I don't know of a single contest station within the city of San Francisco; AB9H and WO9S operate one of tw
Only one of which managed to get on the air in RTTY RU. 73, Jim K9YC W3DQ KE3X NN3RP K3VOA 4U1WB W3HAC To name a few... 73 Rich NN3W On 1/10/2017 1:25 PM, Jim Brown wrote: I have exactly the same que
The only way I know of is replacement. I had one here, replaced it with 4O3A's 6x2, which was about 20 dB better (measuring both units on the bench). Not long after that, 4O3A introduced the new 8x2,
Jorge, Both the 6x2 and 8x2 from 4O3A can be controlled from the same band decoder used to control the six pak. Control wiring for the 6x2 terminates on two DB9 connector, and for the 8x2 on two DB15
Jozef, I am merely stating what I learned by studying the plots that W4TV sent me. He was unwilling to loan me a unit to measure. I would be happy to measure one if it were sent to me. I am well awar
That depends on the quality of your radios (and amplifiers), the nature of your antennas, and their proximity to each other. I have never observed an isolation issue with my Array Solutions SixPak. I
My qualifications are generally well known. At the time I requested the unit to measure, I had recently published a review of a half dozen band pass filter units. That review is still on my website.
The subject says it all. You'll need great ears to hear my 5W, but at least I'm using a full size quarter wave, and the huge rains (nearly 3 ft in January) seem to be helping with ground loss. :) I m
The good thing about WPX is that you don't have to be able to work a ton of EU stations to be competitive. WPX is a "work everyone" contest. I expect 80, 40, and 20 to be the money bands, plan to be
And some are logging me as IL, even though I moved to W6 in 2006. :) I have N1MM Logger Plus create Call History files from my own logs, one for each contest. I use them as a sanity check on callsign
Remember that NAQP events are all 100W max power, no assistance permitted except for Multi-Ops. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
I operate both assisted and non-assisted, depending on the contest and my goals. When operating assisted, I use VE7CC's software to filter his cluster to feed me spots from spotting stations in my re