Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:30:22 -0800
If USA-USA QSOs were worth one point apiece, you'd make a lot more than 300 USA-USA QSOs during the weekend. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ______________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:29:57 -0800
Discussing K4XS's 40 meter single band effort in CQWW phone: I think very few stations in the USA will ever achieve a 300 hour in any DX contest. I've only ever seen it happen once myself (K1AR and N
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:22:12 -0800
2.9% dupes does not seem like a lot to me. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 08:38:58 -0800
You mean aside from working to abolish these sacred windows, net frequencies, and other silliness? -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ________________________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:51:22 -0800
One frustrating aspect of fringe propagation on 10 meters from the USA is asymmetric noise. The general ambient level of atmospheric noise gets slightly higher the closer you are to the magnetic equa
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:33:49 -0800
Hmmm... A KL7 did once win the ARRL 10 Meter Contest.... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARTH_MAGNETIC_POLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-12-08-19-36-50 Earth's Magnetic Po
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:14:24 -0800
This opening happens every year in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, as far as I can tell, although it's never happened on both days of the same contest for me. The following are my observations from statio
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:57:45 -0800
I'm surprised that there hasn't been discussion on this reflector of this aspect of WRTC 2006 yet: I know contesters that could very well merit a spot in WRTC who might not be able to afford to go ev
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:14:04 -0800
Here's one idea: http://www.qsl.net/ae0q/contest/dvk_trlog.htm -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest m
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:23:12 -0800
SWLing could definitely benefit your score. I think that listening and finding new stations to work the moment your off time expires would be a much bigger direct benefit to your score than log analy
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:02:12 -0800
I'm going to be unhelpful and point out that the only valid contest IDs are in the Cabrillo 2.0 specification itself: "CONTEST: contest-name The contest-name must be one of the following: AP-SPRINT,
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:11:26 -0800
I think it's an obvious consideration. It is also the reason that most contest rules with off-time requirements explicitly specify something to the effect that "listening time counts as operating tim
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:23:26 -0800
If you are populating a bandmap with the express intention of aiding your score in a contest, you are (IMHO) operating the contest.* And if you are operating the contest before the official start, yo
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:06:19 -0800
The links included in that post were: http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~mak-oxv/engtop.htm http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~mak-oxv/enginfo.htm http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~mak-oxv/englist.htm They seem to all be d
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:28:02 -0800
In North America, "QSO Party" is synonymous with "contest". Many contests with "QSO Party" in their name are taked very seriously by their competitors. Examples include the ARRL June VHF QSO Party, t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:25:49 -0800
The Optimux Pro 50MX headsets are no longer sold by Radio Shack. They were part number 33-1135 if that helps. The headsets were made by Koss and OEMd by Radio Shack under their own Optimus brand name
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 08:22:11 -0800
If anyone from the USA (licensed or otherwise) is interested in attending the IARU Region I High Speed Telegraphy Championship in Primorsko, Bulgaria, September 20-24, it looks like Joe Moell K0OV is
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:02:34 -0800
It's always seeemed odd to me that the Brazilians (et. al.) are in charge of deciding how contesters get selected for Team Canada, Team France, etc. Nobody expects the Bulgarians this year to be sele
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:38:35 -0800
Actually, no. Asking another station to spot you is prohibited to all contest stations in ARRL contests. See the discussion at: (http://www.arrl.org/contests/hf-faq.html#spotting) Doing so should res