Well said, Charly! Bill, N3RR No real news to most of us but maybe more striking in signal-poor South East Asia-- contests GET HAMS ON THE AIR. Then, no contests equals lots of artificially dead band
I am in the process of converting my single radio contest station to SO2R. This may be of interest to some of you. Phase 1 was gutting (literally) my ham shack and reconstructing it for 2-radio, mult
My website is: http://users.erols.com/n3rr/ --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Martin , LU5DX Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 8:19 AM To: Bill H
I have never used a foot switch in all of my years contesting as a single-op (1970 - present). (I have used a foot switch at other people's QTHs in a multi-op environment, MS & MM). I have always use
Dick, You don't state what rigs you will use. The price of repair or replacement of these rigs is important to the answer to one of your questions: "How can I make sure I don't fry the Rx front end(s
HI Bob, Today, I've updated my website with photos & technical descriptions of my SO2R implementation that I briefly describe below. Go to: http://users.erols.com/n3rr/ My SO2R station uses band swit
Kelly, What you describe happens all the time, in one form or another (he got call wrong, he sent your report before you sent his & he then sent "QRZ", etc. You did the right thing. If the pileup res
Hi Dick, Almost exactly 1 year ago, I was where you are now in the SO2R planning stages. Two quick things: 1. The monitor position you mention is too high. Long-term neck, back, head & eye fatigue, o
Since at least 2011, the ARRL has been publishing the top 5 accurate stations, in several USA & DX categories, for the ARRL DX CW and ARRL DX SSB contests in terms of lowest error rate. These are pub
The purpose of presenting an "accuracy" measurement is motivation, right? Listing the top-accuracy-ops is supposed to motivate others to achieve that high level of accuracy, right? Making public the
Any serious contester using this combination of equipment: ICOM Radio + Acom 2000A + N1MM Logger? I am working to integrating the above set of gear (IC-7800 radio) into my SO2R station and I would li
Absolutely, Charly - Professional GOLF! Each player keeps the score of their competitor on each hole. (there are other rules re: scoring, but that answers your question) Bill, N3RR Unique Radiosport
Paul, These links below will benefit you greatly if you haven't found them on the Internet yet: Scroll to the bottom each link below, otherwise you will miss some of the answers to your questions: Th
So, Pete, it's just SOA, HP or LP or QRP, for the first 24-hours logged, with 60-min off times, right? How about SO2R? I know you said you weren't going to operate SO2R, but it's allowed in your cont
Randy, Intuition usually is insufficient compared to engineering. Earlier this year, I purchased a complete design and fabrication of a stub filter package from Top-Ten devices for my SO2R station. G
Pete, I couldn't agree with you more! I shake my head every time I hear a cut number, before I go into 'translation mode' to figure out what the heck the actual number was that was sent. Bill N3RR _
Art, The CM-500 comes with a bias adapter (uses two AAA batteries) for those rigs that do not provide the voltage for the electret mic in the CM-500. ICOM & K3 provide the voltage, so you won't need
I use the AS-RXFEP RX Front End Protector on each of my IC-7800s. http://www.arraysolutions.com/images/AS-RXFEPdatasheet.pdf I operate my station as a SO2R, M/S or Multi-2 station. The AS-RXFEPs have
Rich, Let me respond to your questions and I'll also comment on several of the comments you have received from others, so far. First of all, let me state my understanding of your 2nd tower: 3 triband