Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:56:27 -0500
http://dayton.akorn.net/pipermail/topband/2004-April/019316.html -- (Note: I have changed my primary personal email account. Please replace your address book or alias listings of kharker@cs.utexas.ed
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:20:02 -0500
There is no way to guarantee that you will avoid this. In fact, it is a very common problem in six meter contesting, and not uncommon on ten meters, where the skip zones or Eskip paths can be very sh
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:51:54 -0500
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/04/05/101/?nc=1 -- (Note: I have changed my primary personal email account. Please replace your address book or alias listings of kharker@cs.utexas.edu with kenh
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:36:04 -0500
http://www.eham.net/articles/8102 http://www.contesting.com/articles/520 -- (Note: I have changed my primary personal email account. Please replace your address book or alias listings of kharker@cs.u
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:02:55 -0500
I think this is not terribly uncommon amongst serious single-banders and during single-band contests such as the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. I've done it (once, poorly) with a setup (at K5TR) that involve
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 07:45:42 -0500
Actually, yes, what I did above could be done with just a single Yaesu FT-1000MP with dual simultaneous receive. -- (Note: I have changed my primary personal email account. Please replace your addres
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:11:19 -0500
I am one of many people who really appreciates what K1TTT has been doing. It has been clear to many of us for years and years now that there has been a fair amount of cheating via cleverly-disguised
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:58:15 -0500
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:23:25PM +0100, CT1BOH - José Carlos Cardoso Nunes wrote: I've seen several of these attempts to quantify how much packet spotting helps or does not help a contest st
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:06:35 -0500
This Saturday local evening (8 May 2300 UTC to 9 May 0300 UTC) is the 50 MHz Spring Sprint radio contest, sponsored by the East Tennessee DX Association: http://www.etdxa.org/2004_spring_sprint%20rul
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:23:17 -0500
A year and some ago, I built some maps showing the locations of U.S. contesters in several ARRL contests. Using the exact same techniques, I've added more maps from the recent year or two of results
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:31:54 -0500
I'm looking for a station from which to operate the IARU contest next month in northeast Oklahoma, southwest Missouri, or northern to central Arkansas. I'd prefer to do SOHP Phone Only, but I'd also
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:18:49 -0500
I'm starting to adapt my code to draw maps from Cabrillo logs as well as the ARRL line scores database. The team at PJ2T sent me their logs from the 2004 ARRL International DX Contest, CW and phone,
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:05:10 -0500
Let's consider an analogy with television. When I was born, it was a five channel world. When I got to junior high/high school, it was becoming a fifty channel world with cable television (albeit not
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:04:26 -0500
The QST Review of the $11,000 USD Icom IC-7800 is now online: http://www.arrl.org/members-only/prodrev/pdf/pr0408.pdf Nothing in the ARRL review would lead me to believe that the IC-7800 is capable o
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:25:40 -0500
A lot of ops do not know what their ITU zone is. But if you ask them, they will always know what state they are in. Many might even know their grid square or their lat/lon. If this can all be gone th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:03:47 -0500
Austin Summerfest DX and Contest Forum Program Announcement == The Central Texas DX & Contest Club (CTDXCC) is proud to be the continuing sponsor of the DX and Contest Forum at Austin Summerfest. The
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:45:27 -0500
I have kept track in some of my recent phone contest operations of the number of QSOs I make with stations that are being operated by female voices. I know that gender recognition through voice chara
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:29:12 -0500
I actually inquired around with some folks I know at the League, and as far as I can tell, the ARRL has never had any statistics on the male/female ratio of either ARRL members or Amateur Radio servi
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:24:32 -0500
To anyone who might plan a last-minute trip to Austin, Texas for the Austin Summerfest radio convention (including the DX and Contest Forum sponsored by CTDXCC) here are some additional additional in
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:36:44 -0500
The Central Texas DX & Contest Club (CTDXCC) was very excited by the turnout at the DX and Contest Forum of the 2004 Austin Summerfest Amateur Radio convention. Attendance peaked at around 100 for ou