On August 10, 1973, I received my Novice license and called my first CQ. (You were supposed to log your CQ's back then and I dutifully logged my first CQ on 80 M. LOL!) 50 years, all 340 countries an
Hi, Does anyone know if the YCCC SO2R Box can successfully support 2 computers in an SO2R configuration? I have already asked several knowledgeable people and they are not sure. The SO2R mini can NOT
John, Thank you for your response and information. I wanted to do this on both CW and SSB, and thought that 2 YCCC SO2R boxes might work as you suggested, but a few SO2R guys familiar with the YCCC S
Hi Dick, Thank you for your email. That is fantastic information and I believe that is EXACTLY what I am looking for! I need to read your reply again and reflect on the options that you have laid out
Hi, I am looking to buy one ORIGINAL YCCC SO2R box (NOT the SO2R Mini) in excellent working condition. Does anyone have one that they are willing to part with? Please email me OFF-LIST with price and
Congrats to Manu! In the 2023 CQWWSSB I broke the 60 minute US rate record - most qso's ever made by a single op while operating stateside - this past weekend as KQ2M. KQ2M made 330 qso's in 60 minut
Very cool George. Yes, I was talking about the CQWW DX Contests, but thank you for sending that link. Up until now I never knew that the CQWW and CQWPX websites had Top Rates pages, for both modes an
I can only speak for myself, but any time I work someone outside of a contest, I always give an accurate RST even when it might be hard to copy. I feel that an accurate RST conveys meaningful informa
Hi Martin, The simple answer to your question is "It depends". I will give the perspective of a contest opr. focused on making the best score possible. A top level op is evaluating everything, second
Hi All, I have a total of several thousand qsl's from contest qso's that I need to send out to about 20 different country QSL bureaus. DL, EA, F, G, I, JA, ON, SP, etc. For countries where I have onl
Yuri, Years ago, when WAEDC switched to a 24 hour format, I thought that was ridiculous and said so, and I stopped operating in it until they changed the rules back to allow 36 hours operating time a
On many occasions during ARRLDXCW I was using my FT1000MP with a PAIR of 250khz filters and then adding the Notch filter (manually tuning back and forth), IPO and shift/width (manually tuning back an
Hi Mike, Yes, this IS annoying. My experience has been that in a large % of cases, I actually have to KNOW that the callsign is incorrect in order to repeat their call with ? and then hope that they
A year ago, I cited and took issue with a well-known contester in New England who was self-spotting in a DX contest under a foreign call. It was disingenuous at best, as well as being unnecessary. An
Hi Paul, Not to change the subject but, if "All required elements of a contact must be exchanged via amateur radio.", then how do contacts made via remote qualify? Is the internet considered to be Am
WOW Paul - what a truly disappointing response! First, the ARRL, when whomever decided unilaterally to treat remote the same as just using a keyer, they did so without ANY open discussion with the co
JP, If you are going to quote me, then at least make a good-faith attempt to get it right. from my previous post: "First, the ARRL, when whomever decided unilaterally to treat remote the same as just
Paul, Your response was disappointing because it ignored what I wrote previously and your follow-up reply (cited below) also ignored what I objected, to in detail. It was obvious that you either didn
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