It has been several years since I spent much time in SS let alone CW SS. This year I had a little time to spend on it and my Morse ability, while never very good, was and is rather rusty (and will li
Tom beat me to it. Back in the mid '90s a friend and I gathered a lot of interest in the club and local ham community by doing multi-op efforts in SS, CQ WW, and IARU HF Championship. We never tackle
And then came Vanity Insanity for the rest of us in the '90s. I'd entertained the idea for several years and always thought that it would only be worthwhile to get a 1x2 and to get rid of the lousy K
For those that like the current MS class I say leave it in place. That said, I do think that there is a place for a true M1 class. Some years back three of us operated CQ WW DX and had a lot of fun.
Technically, they wish to lay claim to a 3 kHz slice of spectrum from 14.300 to 14.303 MHz which is truly unprecedented. I've checked into the various Kansas section nets for years and it is not unus
Because doing so would rob them of their power to control the frequency? Just a thought. 73, de Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears
Just now I took a look at 3580 kHz with Fldigi in PSK31 mode and counted 8 to 10 streams plus W1AW in a 2 kHz slice of spectrum. I have found that a lot of the casual QSO ragchews that used to happen
While not technically billed as a contest, ARRL Field Day brings out its share of anti-contest rhetoric. I find it interesting that in the wake of the recent CQWW CW 'test we have heard a lot of, not
Maidenhead subsquares would seem to fill this role nicely. Here at mid lattitudes (I'm near 40 deg North) my locator of EM19qu defines an area of about 3 miles lattitude and 4.5 miles longitude (4.83
I've not used a Keyspan in an RF environment, but I have a pair of IO Gear USB to serial converters and have noted no issues with my 100 Watt station. I also have a pair of no-name USB to serial adap
Add August, 1968, p. 10, paragraphs 3 and 5. Referenced from the October article. 73, de Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this i
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I figure that information learned on the air as an incidental part of operating the 'test doesn't put me in an Assisted category. Especially working S&P in a conte
Looking around at the rest of USA pass times, the answer may seem to be, "Yes!" Me either, Fun is the name of the game for me and KISS figures heavily into that. Look at the major sports in the USA a
And I've been using a computer logger of some sort for every contesting event ever since my second Field Day participation in 1987. What's your point? We should not straight-jacket the new contest ba
All from the same mode of the 'test? That's 40 years! Or do half SSB and the other half CW and shorten to 20 years. Or throw in both modes of WPX and get it done in 10 years. ;-) Now, is anyone worki
That must be the reason I had two fail on separate occasions, the first about a month after I bought it and the second about six months later. No longer trusting it and thinking it to be a lemon I tr
How is this a reflector? Where I come from they're called mail lists. No one else but hams have mis-named this function a "reflector". 73, de Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the be
I agree whole-heartedly. John offers excellent advice. 73, de Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux,
Unless the radio now includes an EULA provision prohibiting the public dissemination of tests and benchmarks as some companies do with their software. As more things move toward software, such shenan
I'm not sure, although I'd bet the ARRL contest administrator has a say. You're not dreaming. Our club is quite small, and, yes, we're aging and we've never been able to field enough ops to keep two