I had missed this change in the WPX rules, which I deplore, and I'm glad that N6MJ et al have taken up the cudgels. In my opinion it never made any sense to merge assisted and unassisted. Even thou
The Classic overlay was introduced in CQWW as a way to meet proponents of a 24-hour class (like me) halfway. I was told at the time that the "boy and his radio" limitation was intended to pacify the
One of the RBN server nodes serving retail clusters failed this morning in a way that kept clients connected but with no data flowing. While we work to fix this, we urge "retail" cluster sysops to m
Pete's example is certainly terrible, and I have no problem with not working any of the unsought callers in that case. It's worth mentioning, however, that not all pileup situations are so unambiguo
When trying to decode callsigns for the RBN, the CW Skimmer Server software developed by VE3NEA relies on proper CW spacing to determine what is part of a callsign and what isn't. This can result in
Hi Joe - to be honest with you, I don't know. The details of VE3NEA's decoding algorithms are proprietary. Just from experience, I'd say that the most important thing is to be regular, and not to d
Has anyone had any experience with Remoteqth.com? From their website, they seem to have an extensive line of RX and TX antenna switching gear, and claim a number of installations at big stations in
The rule says, "The portable prefix must be an authorized prefix of the country/call area of operation." It goes on, "KH6XXX operating from Ohio must use an authorized prefix for the U.S. 8th distri
So far, at least, FT8 is restricted to a relatively small slice of the bands. As long as that remains true, I'm with Jeff. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at <http: