First you can put me in the camp that prefers to have a real card in on my wall from the station made contact with, and I don't consider my self one of the OT in ham radio. I haven't had my license 1
Hey Jeff I see another reason for taping a contest. We have operators and contestors wanting to use EQSL'S instead of the real thing ( let us not start that thread again please guys and gals), in the
Hello All First I would like to state that KC5AJX is now QRV on all bands in contests. I passed my General Class test Thurs 4 27 00, so now when 10 meters shuts down in the contests I can follow the
Hello all. I didn't,t get in on the start of this thread, But I can't agree on the statements in the post below. First the real and easiest answer IS antenna improvements if you can't hear em you can
-- I too just received my report, this is the first real serious effort for me in a contest, and I am very pleased with my score. I lost 1368 points 7 Qso and 1 mult because of 3 busted calls and 1
-- I too just received my report, this is the first real serious effort for me in a contest, and I am very pleased with my score. I lost 1368 points 7 Qso and 1 mult because of 3 busted calls and 1
Hello all, I just order a new computer YEAH. I have have to use the old computer in the shack Yuck! My question is I need to get Ham software for the old computer( the computer for the shack is a Com
Thanks to all who sent me replies to my request for logging software. I can see if I need input on a subject this is the place to go The results for any that are interested are as follows; DX4win 4 L
Ok here are some thoughts from a Tech Plus. IMHO the idea is not a good one as some else said there would be no incentive to upgrade. I have been working on getting my code speed up for a long time,
Well Hans I have to disagree with you on this statement. I've been on Ten Meters since 1993 and I have to say that almost half of the contacts I've made have been with General class and above. When
-- Scott I try to use my complete call in contests, but having a 2x3 cal it is hard if not impossible to get my call in befire the CQing satation starts calling CO again. Sometimes if I say my call
Well I got a lot of GOOD info from the replies and a few flames but I even found some gems in the flames!! First let me clear up one point I only used the "last two" when that is what I heard been se
Hello All I am finally geting ready to put in the base for my first tower project. I have 40 ft of Rohn 25 and plan to add another 30ft to it to make 70ft total height. I want to be able to fold this
we are the Steve this statment puzzles me. I'm a tech plus and I usally run 15 and 80 meter SSB during field day. I also give up my position to non-hams during fiels day so they can try out operating
First let me say that I'm no CW op and I don't work the cw contests. Now that I have disqualified myself as have any right to tell you how to work a cw contest you can delete this. It is my understan
I know it is kinda of late for this but I was going over the rules for the 10 meter contest this weekend. I almost never look at the awards because I figure that I am not competitive enough to win (p
Hello all. Well I just had the best time I ever had in a contest. I probably didn't win any awards but I rack up the best score I ever had from this little pop gun station ( TS 940 and a Butternut ve
Hello all AS I posted earlier I had a great time in the contest. I had a few problems but they were all part of the game. I missed working Croatia and Slovenia (sp) because of a few W1 stations wipin
all this discussion about the non contest zone on 10 meters is going to be moot soon anyways. The FCC is going to get rid of the Novice and Tech+ one way or another and there will be no more novice/t
there. == This would be fine if the Novices and Tech + ops had all of 10 meters to use but the simple fact if you move the Contest free zone above 28.500 then the ones who will use the contest free