I made a discovery on the perpetual problem of wearing glasses and headphones at the same time -- the discomfort you get where the headphones press on your ears, which press on your glasses behind yo
On two stations on the same band at the same time, or same subband, many of us do this every year in FD with a station on CW, another on SSB, and sometimes a third one on RTTY/digital. There is some
Yes, they are readily available here in the U.S., hence you should be able to find many to choose from on-line. I bought my Sony pair from Best Buy, a big U.S. chain. There were several makes and mod
How about doing this for SS phone too? Whether it's "needed" or not, it'd be fun. It was on CW. 73 - Rich, KE3Q _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@cont
First, WA3FET told me that this popular annual subject had come up again and he and I agreed it was best if we stayed out of it. He did note to me that most of the comments were supportive of me/us,
Fixing a couple things: First paragraph, change it from "What does he do that?" to "Why does he do that?" Second to last paragraph, where I said, "Each of it gets..." change it to "Each of us gets...
Re-reading my original comment on this KP4 Sweepstakes thing, I want to clarify -- KP4 loses daylight on Saturday earlier than almost everyone else in SS, and the Pacific section keeps it the longest
Felipe, thanks for listening and thinking I was working for it in SS. I would like to think that anybody who listens and/or is paying attention, not just this year but over many years, can make some
Well, thank you. You're bringing up another philosophical point about SS and contesting in general, that I often think about, which is "the contest is never over." By that I mean, my theory is that a
I think K3FT, in the subject line of his message, meant KE3Q, not N3OC. Apologies to N3OC. N3OC, Brian McGuinness, was in K3FT's mind, no doubt, because N3OC has just moved to a new QTH and put up a
Personally, I think whatever phonetics you want to use -- or not -- to communicate what your section is is fine. I have noticed that some people have trouble understanding when I say "Puerto Rico," b
On a SS check of 00, zero zero, being a disadvantage, I see it kind of the opposite, as an advantage, because all those dahs, what I call "dah heavy" is easier to understand that a lot of dits or som
I agree that the best SOA ops know how to use it well, when to use it and when not. I recall a phone DX contest when N3RR and I were each doing 175 per hour just grabbing spots. If you do that well,
I had a number of "sixes" send their section as SD. I automatically converted that to SDG until I realized that one of the sixes I was working probably was, I recalled, in South Dakota, so I logged i
I don't think I agree, though I wouldn't characterize it as "stupidity." Seriously, there are people who get on and make their first QSO ever and plenty who don't have any idea what section they're i