The tricks are: 1) Make the two antennas quite identical. 2) Choose the heights at which they are mounted carefully so that the match is identical on each. Also, choose the heights so that the lower
Ultimately the correct answer depends on the effectiveness of the microphone over the air. If the desk mic. has the edge in talk power then all of the convenience of a headset mic does you no good. h
Before we begin with this project, we need to protect it against likely future squabbles with some sort of "public license". If we are contributing to the CQ-Contest reflector without a public licens
Elect Corp of America P/N ECA 1171 might possibly be adapted to your purposes. This is the transformer used in the Henry 2K-4 amplifier circa 1986. This transformer is 7.5 inches tall but only 6.25 i
This kind of request is a little like asking the CQWW SSB contest to stay off of 20 Meters. the the The We -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-c
This one is not a bad suggestion. In fact, it might actually make sense to abandon the old frequency plan for the sprint -- probably derived from the old CD parties (3535+/-,7035+/-,14035+/-) -- in f
Tree, how about moving the recommended frequencies for the sprint down the band a little bit -- on all bands. I realize that there is some activity all of the way down to 7000 or at least close to th
QST magazine used to print the DXCC listings once each month. When they first began this practice there were no DXCC members yet, only a race to be the first, and the race was quite limited in number
Right. The DXCC is international by it's nature, and position in the rankings of the DXCC determine the international stature of individual DXers, within the US and outside. The ARRL, by sponsoring t
Some one help me; who was it that wrote "You'll find the answers that you are looking for in a carefully written survey, you'll find the truth elsewhere!" -- or words to that effect... -- CQ-Contest
Thanks to all who've written to tell me that the quote came from Darrell "Never be a sucker again!" Huff in his lecture circuit tours in the early 1950's. That's not the name I was looking for, but I
First of all, I'd like to apologize for putting Jim Maxwell on the spot with this one, he shouldn't have to be the only one taking the heat for this. I don't want anyone to misunderstand me. My attac
While operating at multi-multi stations I've run across similar problems. Most typically everything works perfectly right before the contest while things are being tested. The rig keys fine until the
One could take a more pragmatic view than Clive does below. A certain degree of pragmatism is appropriate in contests. It's like this: no matter how careful you are, in the course of a 48 hour contes
Brings up an interesting dilemma. A given operator enters the ARRL contest from the state of TN with a callsign of KP4XXX. K1TTT calls him, thinking he is in Puerto Rico. KP4XXX thinks he hears TK1TT
5nnttt = 599 000 = 599 (1)000 Usually 5nn nnn would be sent for 599 999 = 599 (1000 - 1) Is it possible that 5nn n(nn) was sent to you and you miscopied? "5nn n" -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.co
Nothing to get excited about -- probably just guys who think they can help out their club scores by edging their friend's scores higher. They probably have agreements with friends to spot each other.
I'd hope that you weren't suggesting that the group of multi operations that ran without packet this last contest were somehow violating the spirit that you've expressed below. In none of the posting
SO2R implies all of the following: 1) simultaneous receive on any two frequencies 2) simultaneous receive on one band while transmitting on any another band with minimal interference 3) instant (mill