Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:55:59 -0800
Maarten, I believe what you are proposing is disallowed by ARRL DX Contest rule 3.1.2.2. "The same callsign may not be used by a different operator(s) to generate additional single band entries." You
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:05:55 -0700
Some oldies but goodies: http://www.contesting.com/libraries/download/4/K2UA%20Two%20Radios.PDF http://n6tr.jzap.com/tworadio.html http://www.trlog.com/two_radio_tutorial.shtml http://www.trlog.com/t
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:11:56 -0800
I hope everyone is excited about the ARRL 10 Meter Contest this weekend! This should be the best propagation conditions on the band in years. For those of you who haven't operated in this contest sin
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:03:50 -0700
John Warren NT5C passed away recently. Although he was not a contester, John Warren NT5C's distinctive English accent was a fixture on the phone bands (especially 40 meters) during major DX contests,
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 19:44:36 -0700
A while back, I began researching some of the changes made over the years in the ARRL and Canadian sections used in the Sweepstakes (mostly using the online QST archive at http://www.arrl.org/qst/).
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:14:40 -0700
A few people have pointed out that I goofed on the last entry in the timeline. It should say Ontario South (ONS) created. I would love to fill in a lot of the gaps between 1930 and 1970, but research
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:13:41 -0700
Jack, I looked up the results article for the 1979 Sweepstakes ("Results, 46th Annual ARRL November Sweepstakes" by Tom Frenaye K1KI and Bill Jennings K1WJ, QST, May 1980, pp. 77-86). It is clear tha
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:48:21 -0700
Just to be clear, that was 478 sweeps across both the CW and phone weekends together. The 1979 results for both weekends were presented in a single article in the May, 1980 QST. But yeah. -- Kenneth
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:28:56 -0700
Or, I should say both contests, as CW and phone were each two weekends back then. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharker.com/ _________________________________________
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:11:51 -0800
I'm mostly with you on this, but... the Internet is very useful for weather radar storm tracking during a contest weekend with any kind of severe storms in the area. I've shut down operations when it
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 21:21:37 -0500
There is even a reference to Heathkit: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/wwvb-time-radio/ 73 de WM5R _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 21:03:06 -0800
Are there any muti-op stations in England that could use another operator for the first day of CQ WPX Phone? I will be flying out of Heathrow on the 29th, but I am available all day on the 28th. -- K
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:01:30 -0500
http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/1993-02/msg00078.html Ken WM5R _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/ma
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:25:27 -0600
Here is my perspective. For background, I was first licensed at age 20 while attending college and Im now 44. In addition to HF and VHF contesting, I am active in IARU-style Amateur Radio Direction F
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 09:25:02 -0800
Robert W5AJ pointed out to me that we had not updated the ARRL RTTY Roundup records with 2016 contest results. I've updated the records and forwarded these on to the ARRL Contest Branch for official
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 20:21:35 -0800
I've refreshed these records with a couple of corrections: 1) IT9 stations were incorrectly being put in a separate DXCC entity from Italy (IT9 is a separate multiplier/entity for CQ and WAE contests
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:59:34 -0500
I see that the FMRE has requested 7060, 7130, and 14120 be kept clear for emergency traffic related to Hurricane Willa, which made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane last night. Its not clear if thes
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 10:26:41 -0600
It is with sadness that we learned yesterday afternoon about the passing of Dick Kriss AA5VU. Dick was a long-time active member of the Central Texas DX & Contest Club (CTDXCC). Primarily a DXer, Dic
119 dupes in my log, but I had 94 in last years log, so it was not that many more than normal. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com _______________________________________________ CQ-Co