Ah...there WAS a drawing then? I was in that room (the one with the working bar and which took cash) on the same floor as the banquet all evening and no one so much as pulled out, much less called o
Hear, hear!!! I agree. This was my first Dayton convention. I would have loved to have particpated/competed had I realized that the hospitality suite I was in (down the hall from the banquet room by
Duct tape works well. I'm not a frequent SSB contest participant. Also, a few years ago, I threw out a couple of my old boom mic/headsets (the headphones were shot). For one SSB contest I did get int
I especially like that eternal favorite "You're," as in... "You're 1C Kansas" Now, THAT gets old, too. (I wanna yell back "No, I'm not! I'm 2A South Texas!") 73, dale, kg5u
There seems to be a lot of activity in those groups.... Check the sign I found on a highway outside Austin: http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u/index.html 73, dale, kg5u
What AHZ asked for was who was who among the OJ calls... Is this what you are after, Jim.... http://wrtc.jouni.net/cgi-bin/pos.pl?hpng=WRTC 73, dale, kg5u
Isn't WRTC a big social event, too? If it was in with any other big time contest or it's own contest, it seems to me that that might take away from the social gathering aspects of the event. 73, dale
The pig-farmers and coal-miners on 75? Does anyone have K3EST's correct e-mail address?? Both the mailto on the CQ Magazine web page and the K3EST@mother.com bounce. 73, Gary +++++++++++++++++++++++
Ken, The info is available 24/7 online: http://www.arrl.org/contests/calendar.html?year=2002 http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.html http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/ http://www.cq-amateur-ra
My local Barnes & Noble (Clear Lake-Houston, TX) carries QST, CQ and 73, along with a a couple of SWL/Scanner type mags, electronic hobbyist mags and even a Britsh electronics hobbyist magazine. I h
I think the reminder article is fine as a reminder and as an enticement to non-contesters to try their hand. Personal contact might be more effective. What's the percentage these days of electronic l
Hi, Bill. This is reminiscent of when I bought a brand new ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs at Bookmaster a year or two ago. Word had spread via the Internet that the Handbook was on sale for $8. Th
Peter, I did a search on yahoo.com using "geochron" in the search field. Netted a couple of hits. One happens to be Geochron Enterprises http://www.geochronusa.com/ 73, dale, kg5u
Can't miss what we never had. There's been a Contest Corral listing upcoming contests in QST for years. But, I don't remember and, after going back to 1998 mags, don't find a QST contest column or an
Isn't that (one contest=one communication) pushing it a bit? My understanding is that a 'communication' is a QSO. According to The FCC Rule Book (ARRL, ISBN: 0-87259-245-6), page 6-4, the Q&A explain
I like that....get your coax in a knot.... and I do tune on and come back from time to time. Yessirreebob. There's nothing like poor operating practices (the hypocrites) piled on poor operating prac
Which, in turn is nothing more than a warm-up for the Texas QSO Party, September 28-29, 2002. If you can't be a Texan, you can at least work one (or more). http://www.k5vuu.com/tqp/ 73, dale, kg5u
The ARRL website carries a listing of every section's ARRL-Affiliated ham radio clubs, most of whom have e-mail addresses. I counted 117 in Texas, alone. Along with the QRP groups, don't forget FISTS