That's fabulous Jim - thank you for sharing that! It's all true - I can speak to it from fortunate personal experience. It's part of what makes contesting so addictive and exciting for me, even after
I haven't, but I often stand for long periods of time while operating during a phone contest. I sometimes stand while I am operating CW, but it is much harder to operate and log that way than on SSB!
Hi Jim, Don't forget the two most important things of all: 1) Adequate sleep each night (most often dismissed and/or neglected by busy people) 2) Adequate hydration each day - drink plenty of water 4
Facts and the truth do not change. What people choose to believe and why is a different matter. Bob, KQ2M Perspectives and "truth" always is in flux. de Doug KR2Q ____________________________________
My response was based on the movie clip. To your point about medicine, what I wrote still applies. The facts never changed, but what the doctors chose to believe and why was/is a different matter. "F
Hi Jim, I would argue that the facts did not change, we just didn't know all of them yet, which of course was to our detriment. Even later on the facts about the original strains did not change when
Hi, I am in the final process of building a bunch of K9YC chokes. I made 5/8" vent holes in the Carlon boxes and then bought some to cover the holes. I though it was plastic screen - turns out it is
On Saturday in CQWWSSB I heard some very strange noises on 10. One was a constant multi-toned carrier that was simultaneously transmitting between about 28.815 mhz and 29.125 mhz. It was extremely lo
Foot Switch for me thanks. I eat/drink at the radio in between cq's. You don't want those sounds going out on the air. There are also the other in-shack noises, upstairs noises, family noises/communi
Hi, I'm hearing very good things about these two new radios FTDX10 and FTDX101MP - I'm wondering what, if anything, you have heard and how they compare to the FT1000MP which I have used for the past
I want to thank the many ops who were kind enough to their thoughts, experiences and insights on on the FTDX10 and the FTDX101MP vs. the FT1000MP as well as on other radios. I have never chased tech
Last week I was noticed that my single band ARRLDX contest records and those of my fellow contesters had been "disappeared", and I suspected that they were eliminated because now self-spotting was al
Thanks to K3ZJ for providing the link to the ARRLDXSSB records, and for anyone interested, if you substitute CW for SSB in the web address, you can also see the ARRLDXCW records as well as of 2015. R
Hi, I need another DVK for my working contesting museum LOL! - Seriously, does anyone have one lying around? Cables and power adapter would be helpful too but not required. You do? Does it work? What
I self-spotted quite a bit this past weekend after vowing NOT do do so before the contest. But, having been spotted so little in past contests, especially on SSB, I decided to test the hypothesis tha
Hi Stan, You have beautifully summarized my feelings on the unfairness for a given station of SSB spots or lack of them, that I have seen and experienced over the years in DX contests. Some beauty pa
Hi, I am looking to create some sort of easily accessible and searchable database that will hold basic info of the approximately 1,000,000 qsos's that I have made since getting licensed 50 years ago
Scoreboards are informative and fun to watch, and this usefulness brings about my main objection to their use being allowed by the NON-Assisted ops; that watching a scoreboard provides valuable infor
I don't operate in contests so that other people can watch me. It's fine if they want to watch or listen to me, but it doesn't motivate me. I operate because I enjoy it and because it's fun. I do wat
Scoreboards provide a multitude of information and different ops use that info in different ways to different effects. The score at any given point basically tells you who is ahead or behind in aggre