I'm no sailor, but to me the bigger issue is why so many people are heading out into the open ocean with only ham radios for communication... 73, Blake N4GI __________________________________________
"If you plan to travel more than a few miles offshore, plan to purchase an MF/HF radiotelephone or mobile satellite telephone, an emergency position indicating radio beacon, or EPIRB, and a second V
Not a fair comparison, Jim. Applying for bank credit is much simpler than getting LOTW to work. 73, Blake N4GI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@conte
I've had a K2/100 in the shack for a couple of months now with my MP, and have operated a a few contests. Some observations: - SWR foldback is wicked agressive, the rig chokes on my ICE 419's. The SW
guys! Here here! Perhaps Bob Marley was really singing about the packetcluster? blake n4gi -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional D
Author: "Blake M. Meinecke" <n4gi@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:58:13 -0500
reading front demographic easy Guess I'm not part of the main the demographic. The main reason I got a K2 was because of the small size. Lugging my Mark-Five through airports and to multi-ops was a b
Wow. Send it back telling them their rigs' frequency readout is miscalibrated by 0.001 mhz :-) 73, Blake N4GI -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 no
It's "not that complicated" for stateside entrants, but DX stations need to mail copies of licenses, ID's, etc to the ARRL. Think about it: airmail stamps, photocopying, addressing envelopes, mail se
Author: "Blake M. Meinecke" <n4gi@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:33:54 -0400
I've got both a regular 1998 MP and a K2/100. I mainly use the K2 as radio 2 and have noticed many of the things John mentions, but I need to put 2 beefs on the list: 1) The radio has NO CW PTT!!! Th
I'd guess it's due to the unbelievable support they provide for them. I toasted the 10M section in one of mine (high SWR on 10 and 200W exciter)... They offered to send me the parts FOR FREE or I cou
I tried this with my girlfriend one time... She said that she would attend a hamfest with me, but I had to go shoe shopping the next weekend for an equivalent number of hours. Yep. That was the end
-- Original Message -- From: "Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc@r66.ru> We need to change rules so that it is not beneficial to use packet anymore. Legalization of self-spotting for all categories..... ? 73, Bla
I've used Writelog for quite a while. After everything is set up, I put my mouse off to the side, and don't touch it at all. It has fully programable F-keys and macros which can be used to even furth
My (one) city lot tower is 55 feet tall. I'll have to get some dirt and make a 5' high mound around the base. 73, Blake N4GI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ
Yes. Having (and using) an unusual name in the NAQP is a frustrating handicap. I can almost hear the backspace key strokes the other guy is hitting during the silence following each time I send <blak
Yep. I helped someone with a pair a while back. Same thing happened. I beat my brain thinking it was something I did wrong involving the LPT band data source (kenwood rigs). We called on a real RF en
I don't think the QSO party traffic is any more burdensom than scads of recent messages about how the crusty old guys called CQ in the "days-o-yore"..... Blake N4GI
K3FT: Me neither. And here's a "second gunman on the grassy knoll" theory to go along with this "investigation": What if the spotted stations couldn't handle the pileups efficiently, and their rate a
I disagree. I think it should be made totally anonymous. We don't need a license to use Telnet... why the need to log in with a call sign? At least then there would be no data to crunch and no method