My $0.02 worth, for what little it's worth: I enjoy playing assisted. I have a little pistol station comprised of wires in trees and barefoot power, and I play to have fun. For me, rate=fun and getti
[Distribution trimmed; groups I'm not subscribed to removed.] I just grep'd through the logs from my cluster node. You were mostly spotted correctly, with a few stray ON2IC's and a couple of N2TC's a
The good news is that for CQ WW RTTY, you're probably already feeding the audio you hear to a computer for decoding. There are plenty of apps out there that will record incoming audio to an mp3 file.
As someone else mentioned, I'm skeptical that authentication would be as effective as some might hope, especially given the challenges of securely propagating authentication across the hive of the sp
However, using a skimmer, even a private-not-connected-to-the-spotting-network skimmer, still makes you assisted. RAC rules consider SO(A) to be M/S. Since I play for fun rather than competitiveness,
The problem I run into is that a few of the monitors I use in my shack/office are at that awkward distance where neither "distance" nor "reading" lenses really work, begging the use of progressive or
Over the summer, I joined the Mac family when I was looking for a lightweight laptop with decent power, good battery life, and the ability to charge off USB-C. I got it because my work laptop is so l
Assuming the logger is picking up the frequency from the radio...if you make 3 or more QSOs without a material change in frequency, it's probably safe to assume that you're running. -- Michael Adams
FWIW, awhile back I picked up a "gaming chair" from SecretLabs. They aren't cheap, but they are less expensive than Aeron Millers. I liked it so much for my shack that I picked up another for my work
In fairness to the IOTA contest organizers, the rule on remote operating is consistent with IOTA's rules for the eligibility of operations to count for IOTA's general awards. Previously, the operator
(Note: this email focuses on the IOTA award program, NOT the IOTA contest.) The rule quoted is old. There was an update pushed in the past few months: https://www.iota-world.org/info/directory/rules-
More generally, CEPT TR/61-01 refers to a "CEPT radio amateur license", which "can be included in the national license or be a special document issued by" the authority licensing the callsign. When y
You are correct that CEPT doesn't specify a citizenship requirement. Any citizenship requirement comes from the CEPT license issued in the "home" country. The CEPT license document for US licensees c
"Golden Horseshoe" is a term used by the provincial government to describe the region in for transportation and development planning purposes. If GH isn't widely recognized in that area, it might be
I wasn't part of the discussion, but I assume folks in Hamilton and the Niagara region pointed out that they aren't really in the GTA as it is known for non-sweepstakes, non-RAC purposes. To use the
When it comes to the question of the appropriateness of editing a log based on notes taken during a contest, I offer this thought (with the obvious caveat that I am not a contest organizer): Let's sa
After a contest, copies of my contest log go to the contest adjudicator, Super Check Partial, and my primary station log in DXKeeper. Everything in my DXK log also ends up in LOTW, eQSL, Clublog, and
It's probably worth mentioning that most email clients / web interfaces have the ability to support folders and automatic filtering to those folders Learning how to use such functionality goes a LONG
Try this: https://la8aja.com/modestats/index.php 2023 seems to be only through 8 November. Since that excludes WW CW, here's what 2022 looked like: CW: 17.5% FT8: 58.7% Phone: 15.5% RTTY: 2.9% PSK: 0
Would it be an "elmee"? -- I am not sure if I asked this here, and if I did sorry for the repeat! I honestly do not remember any answers if any were offered. Ok an "Elmer" is a ham, that helped begin