The skip length on 15 from SW NM was never that short. We had, what I nickname "Hudson River propagation", because it used to happen so often on 10 meters from Colorado. It means that not much was wo
There are several pictures on the CD contained in the 4th edition of ON4UN's Low Band DXing book. I bet WM5R can help you. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-C
I envy the way the east coast crowd can CQ above 3800, and get EU to call below 3750. It doesn't work that way for us out west, trying to run JA. The JA/USA windows are 3750-3753 and 3792-3803. That
Not QSLing a completed Sprint QSO is definitely not okay ! However, don't necessarily expect something like "TU" or "QSL". It might be something as simple as "R", "E E", or (my favorite) "T". Hope to
Could we please move these 3Y0 discussions to a DX-related reflector ? Please remember, this is a Contest reflector ! 73, Steve, N2IC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailin
Vitor, I recently went through a similar experience converting a KT-34XA to a KT-36XA. To solve the problem, I first took the antenna down and removed each element from the boom. I erected a temporar
I'm sure every contester has been plagued by power line noise at one time or another (or all the time !). Using a combination of HF, VHF and UHF radios, I can usually isolate the noise to 2 or 3 pole