Good question. I answer them all. Operating in contess QRP, I do get to call CQ from time to time. When I do, I sometimes open the filters up to 1.8kHz (500Hz being the next step tighter). I'm amaze
Interesting observation. Wasn't W1AW on 40m much higher in frequency years ago....around 7060 or thereabouts? Did they move down to avoid the digital modes? Methinks with the CW portion of the band
Run TRLog's simulator at the highest speed you can copy and see what calls you break the most and why. For me, at high speed (44+), it's B/D, I/S/H/5, 7/Z that give me the most problems. I used to th
A number of times during ARRL DX CW, I found myself in a pileup. Operating QRP, I try to think my way to the QSO. I'll move around a bit (moving about 0.1-0.2 kHz below him is often effective, as is
Heck, Tom. It's worse than that When the DX says "W7WHY 599K", there are a dozen or more of stations (some with familiar callsigns) throwing out their callsign while you are trying to respond -- and
The NPR test is something I wish we had had back when Owen Garriott, W5LFL, was preparing to take ham radio onboard the space shuttle orbiter Columbia during the STS-9 flight. There was no external s
I think so. Wasn't there a KV4 station that used to include something to the effect of "no iron curtain slaves" in his CQ's? I only ever heard him during non-contest periods. I've also heard the 'tra
Let's keep it in perspective: It was ONE person who was doing this.....out of how thousands of people who were enjoying their hobby and the contest irrespective of their personal beliefs.
I'm certain I never heard W2OY, but I do recall the on-the-air use of the phrase as late as the late 60's/early 70's, generally in a humorous vein than actual seriousness. dale, kg5u
I had only a couple of people toss out their last-two during the contest. After about four or five go-rounds with them (don't they ever get a clue????), I would finally say "Use the callsign issued
Great website and service. Thanks, Rich. Also, for anyone checking Texas QSO Party webpage, the correct URL is http://www.txqp.org I've notified Rich via separate e-mail about the change. 73, dale, k
Then there's KAOS (KG5U's Access of Service attack): I, in my contest QRPness, come on a big pileup. hmmm...can't break it...I log on to the local cluster with a bogus call, spot a much rarer statio
I haven't heard the 3 second on/off QRM, but I have been hearing what sounds like some kind of wideband signal from 14024 to 14029, centered on 14026.8. I can just barely hear it on my FT-100 in the
Rick, What we did with the FT-1000MP primary station at ZF1A during CQ WW CW was pretty cool, but it took two ops. The primary operator would be calling cq on the transmitter and main receiver. The
That may be exactly why we don't see such a unit on the market, Bill. The mfr may need 2, 3, 4, or more tons to be sold before it sees a profit. 73, dale, kg5u
Wasn't that fun? My first time doing that was while sitting next to Dave/K5GN as he worked the pileup on 20m during a contest at NR5M many years ago. We had the headphones tee-d together and I would