Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 07:42:42 -0700
You could put up a lot of antennas on 57 acres: http://cgi.ebay.com/Titan-1-ICBM-Missile-Base-Located-in-Washington-State_W0QQitemZ4455060285QQcmdZViewItem -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenhark
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:53:59 -0700
Results of the 2005 ARRL 10 Meter Contest are now online: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2005/10meter.pdf -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ___________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:23:20 -0700
I hope everyone is getting excited about the upcoming IARU HF World Championship contest. This is a fun 24-hour-long contest in which you can work everyone and have a blast on the air. Here are some
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:45:33 -0700
So, there have been several posts referencing maps or lists of information about ITU zones: JF9EXF: http://www4.plala.or.jp/nomrax/ITU/ ICOM: http://www.icomamerica.com/downloads/WorldMap_ITU_LR.pdf
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:55:31 -0700
In orienteering or adventure racing you generally do not know how the competition is doing. In many individually-timed or scored competitions (bobsled, high jump, downhill skiing) you have no idea ho
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:29:25 -0700
You seem to be confusing a log checking and scoring process with what will actually happen on the air. Let's say for argument's sake that points from unique QSOs were removed from a log's score in th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:47:19 -0700
Is it just me, or is "Learning from your Log Checking Report" by K6LA (QST, Sept. 2006, pp. 40-41) the first article that is related to contesting, but not an ARRL contest results article, that has b
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:00:16 -0700
http://www.wrtc2006.com/WRTC_radioSW.htm lists the logging software used by each station in WRTC 2006. Only six different logging programs were used by the 46 teams. The following breaks down the usa
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 07:34:42 -0700
SD (another logging program that seems to be predominantly used by Europeans) I have been informed is both (a) Windows based nowadays, but (b) only suited to single-operator use, and therefore not re
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:38:20 -0700
http://www.wrtc2006.com/WRTC_radioSW.htm lists the transceivers used by each station in WRTC 2006. Twenty-one different transceiver models were used by the 46 teams. The following breaks down the usa
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:15:30 -0700
Operators that are inclined to cheat today would still lie about the conditions under which they attained their scores. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ ___
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:29:41 -0700
The verb "bust" has a pretty particular meaning in the world of Log Checking Reports, but I'm not sure it's that specific meaning that you mean here. If it's busted, as in you know you copied their c
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:24:46 -0700
"Tom Hogerty, KC1J, has assumed the reins of the Contest Branch within the ARRL Membership Services Department. With nearly 19 years of experience in various positions at ARRL Headquarters, Hogerty m
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:38:45 -0700
I'm going to be travelling to the Bay Area for business next week. I will probably have dinner plans most of the week, but I know I'm free on Monday night, the 18th, assuming my flight into SJC is on
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:58:53 -0700
ARRL members can vote for the QST Cover Plaque award for the September, 2006 edition of QST. One of the candidate articles from that issue is K6LA's "Learning from Your Log Checking Report", one of t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:29:17 -0700
This email reflector is not sponsored by CQ Magazine. It was originally organized and sponsored by four contesters: W4AN (SK), KM3T, N5KO & AD1C. That doesn't mean that you can't ask that question, o
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:39:09 -0700
I don't understand how that could be at all. The vast majority of TQP participants did not self-spot, and those that did seemed to use a different SSID on the cluster system than the call they were u
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:50:54 -0700
This article is now about 1.5 years out of date, but... http://www.contesting.com/articles/647 ...the conclusions for ARRL contests are: * HF contests that involve DX activity have shown steady growt