I don't know about you guys with REAL glasses, but I am now wearing "dime-store readers" when I operate contests. I hook the ear hooks over the tops of the headphone ear covers. With the dime-store g
an This would be an appropriate time to comment on how W4AN used to wax poetic about his years building his station with two radios running sumultaneously so he could practice thinking about 2 QSOs
wrote: I remember back in the winter of '03. Those were cold, long nights, yes sir. Me and the boys had nothing to do but sit inside and stare at the fire, waiting for spring to thaw all that cold.
Hello friends, I will be visiting J. in September (I'll try to get on for the NA Sprint if possible) and have need for the following: What is the best source of snap-on ferrite for telephone/cat5 cor
I read Barry's post to imply that after a few QSOs, Judy lost interest. Ken brings up an interesting point about women in contesting. I appreciated Merri's exhaustive post. I have not done any measu
Last time K6LL posted this I ran out and bought two. I live in a small town with a small Staples. They had one in stock and had another shipped up from The Big City (40 miles) with no hitches. Over t
I also want to remind Ron that a highly efficient contest op probably spent enough time on that frequency to hear ...WN3VAW K or [the end of something] followed by [silence] And then did what any co
I bet Matt happened to be on the frequency they decided to QSY to from another band without listening first (not that I would have any experience with this [hi]). I know I had to squeeze in a couple
and Parties by using ARRL sections as multipliers.... But you forget the CD party counted multipliers only once regardless of band. I say bring back the good old days - I was a LOT better at THAT! (
Hello contesters, I have enjoyed 3 personal bests in the past 5 weeks. My station is coming along nicely and I am ready to get serious about contests again. I was just working on my 10M log to get it
I have received a number of responses basically saying "take the contact out" because "it's not a valid QSO." The implication is that if the other guy won't answer my request for fills then he deserv
All names are definitely not created equal. I used to really hate the "weird name thing," as K4OJ can tell you, but then I got a life and got over it. Since then I have even been known to use an odd
So I am guessing the answer to my question is there is not a way to do what I want. Either I take the hit for being an idiot or I impose the hit on the innocent guy. I don't like either option. Tree?
I agree. I think mostly I'm skittish because of my personal situation. I was a decent, active operator up until about 1991, prior to the days of UBN reports (I got a benchmark because my logs were us
Hardly. It was due totally to my own stupidity, and presumably we are all not equally stupid. My guess is some of us are stupider than others. Therefore I think the statement: is not true...? Mark,
Yeah, well, at least this issue has a forum where everyone agrees it is pertinent. At the WARC this issue is well understood and well regulated (from what I understand). In "every-day contesting" we
Gosh, Tom, I had no idea. I'm really sorry. Bet THAT hurt! debates I would read every word, but don't have what it would take to compile it. I hope somebody reading this does. That would make for gr
"Op And remember the Op-Aid 6 had no "X" column because there were no (public anyway) calls with suffixes beginning with "X". In 1977 when all the new calls came out, there was no place to put the "
"single Make no mistake, I don't like packet. However, when setting up for my first ever serious multi-single (ARRL 10M) at my own station, I figured I'd better get on packet, because it would simply
I can officially vouch for this. These kids today have it too easy. Thy don't know what it was like in the good old days. Back when I was their age.... Mark, N5OT Geezer In Training (GIT)