- 121. [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX Contest exchange (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Fri Aug 20 16:49:11 1999
- I sent the following ideas to my CAC rep concerning the issue of changing the ARRL DX Contest exchange: I think the ARRL exchanges should be changed, as power levels are either a) a lie, or b) obscur
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-08/msg00155.html (9,435 bytes)
- 122. [CQ-Contest] ARRL exchange (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Mon Aug 23 12:14:17 1999
- The current DX exhange in the ARRL contest is Report Power, and yet working a lot of high power stations, or a lot of low power stations, etc. is not the point of the contest, either. Whether a stati
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-08/msg00178.html (9,277 bytes)
- 123. [CQ-Contest] ARRL Proposals (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Thu Aug 26 22:01:07 1999
- I do not believe that the League has made a proposal to change the ARRL DX contest exchange to include grid squares. We know they've asked the CAC to think about alternatives to the present exchange,
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-08/msg00238.html (8,269 bytes)
- 124. [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX Contest exchange (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Fri Aug 20 16:49:11 1999
- I sent the following ideas to my CAC rep concerning the issue of changing the ARRL DX Contest exchange: I think the ARRL exchanges should be changed, as power levels are either a) a lie, or b) obscur
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-08/msg00416.html (9,577 bytes)
- 125. [CQ-Contest] ARRL exchange (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Mon Aug 23 12:14:17 1999
- The current DX exhange in the ARRL contest is Report Power, and yet working a lot of high power stations, or a lot of low power stations, etc. is not the point of the contest, either. Whether a stati
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-08/msg00439.html (9,274 bytes)
- 126. [CQ-Contest] ARRL Proposals (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Thu Aug 26 22:01:07 1999
- I do not believe that the League has made a proposal to change the ARRL DX contest exchange to include grid squares. We know they've asked the CAC to think about alternatives to the present exchange,
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-08/msg00499.html (8,262 bytes)
- 127. [CQ-Contest] Announcing Collegiate CHampionship web site! (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Wed Sep 15 21:52:04 1999
- The North American Collegiate Championship radio contest web site now has a new home and a new style. The old link will take you to the new location automatically. The new location of the Collegiate
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-09/msg00071.html (8,306 bytes)
- 128. [CQ-Contest] Collegiate Championship combined claimed scores (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Mon Dec 6 13:35:12 1999
- It looks like the combined scoring in the Collegiate Championship will be kind of closer than we had thought. We've recently calculated the combined claimed scores (that we know about) based on the a
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-12/msg00047.html (9,733 bytes)
- 129. [CQ-Contest] ARRL 10M rule violations (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Wed Dec 15 14:49:30 1999
- This was the relevant rule in force for the 1999 contest. The entire rules are on-line at (http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-10m.html). 6. Miscellaneous: 6.4 The frequencies from 28.3
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-12/msg00144.html (9,425 bytes)
- 130. [CQ-Contest] Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Thu Dec 16 18:44:07 1999
- The recent discussion here about listening to your own transmit signal has gotten me thinking about something. I've been seeing ads for wideband handheld receivers (like the Yaesu VR-500) that do lik
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-12/msg00176.html (7,625 bytes)
- 131. [CQ-Contest] beverages on 28 (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth E. Harker)
- Date: Sun Dec 19 13:27:19 1999
- I had a very interesting experience with a 160M beverage antenna on 10 meters. It was during the 1999 ARRL DX Contest, Phone, Saturday night, around 0000 to 0200 UTC if I remember correctly. I was op
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1999-12/msg00197.html (9,702 bytes)
- 132. [CQ-Contest] Serial ports and packet (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Thu Feb 5 23:59:04 1998
- I imagine someone else here must have thought about this before... At the U.T. club station, we have two tables full of radio gear - one with the HF station and the other with the VHF/UHF weak signal
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-02/msg00049.html (8,672 bytes)
- 133. [CQ-Contest] farewell to the reflector (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Wed Mar 4 20:25:49 1998
- Thus spoke Bruce Lallathin: Well, in all fairness, most employers are not in the medical or life insurance business either, and yet almost all employers of any size provide for their employees' needs
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-03/msg00080.html (9,525 bytes)
- 134. [CQ-Contest] Ethical question (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Thu Mar 12 12:11:45 1998
- This happened to me once during ARRL DX SSB. I was calling CQ to Japan (If I remember correctly) and a weak station was trying to call me, but the signal was just at the noise floor and I couldn't se
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-03/msg00224.html (9,352 bytes)
- 135. [CQ-Contest] Palmyra - More (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Mon Apr 20 03:20:40 1998
- Thus spoke Jim Reid: I've actually just finished reading the book _And the Sea Will Tell_ by Bugliosi. I thought it was an interesting read and recommend it for those curious. I'm not sure I necessar
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-04/msg00336.html (20,401 bytes)
- 136. [CQ-Contest] Club Areas (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Wed May 13 22:17:04 1998
- Thus spoke Zack Lau: I would say that in Texas, this isn't the case. Sure, inner city areas have relatively sparse "serious" VHF contester populations for all those familiar reasons of antenna restri
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-05/msg00124.html (9,754 bytes)
- 137. [CQ-Contest] INNOVATIVE IDEA?? (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Fri Jul 31 14:32:29 1998
- This would be interesting, but not entirely meaningful. If the scoring system changes, most contesters would probably re-evaluate their strategies and adapt to maximize their scores, and such an anal
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-07/msg00284.html (10,244 bytes)
- 138. [CQ-Contest] 160 NOISE (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Mon Dec 7 00:37:15 1998
- This isn't about 160 meter noise as such, but I can give you an example of a noise situation where the JPS and MFJ noise cancelling units won't do much good. We've had a JPS unit up at N5XU before a
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-12/msg00021.html (10,552 bytes)
- 139. [CQ-Contest] QSO B4... NO YOU DIDN'T! (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Tue Dec 8 10:31:08 1998
- Thus spoke Tom Hammond: The proper thing for your contest software to do is to mark it as a dupe, give it 0 points, but leave it in the log. If your software is actually removing dupes from the log,
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-12/msg00025.html (8,953 bytes)
- 140. [CQ-Contest] QSO B4... NO YOU DIDN'T! (score: 1)
- Author: kharker@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Earl Harker)
- Date: Thu Dec 10 13:45:12 1998
- Thus spoke Tom Osborne: Tr Log will do this with a radio that is interfaced to the computer. -- -- Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin Ama
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/1998-12/msg00051.html (9,423 bytes)
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