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When I first got on for the November Sweepstakes many moons ago, I recall asking someone why QSOs were worth two points, any why the (then paper) logs allowed you to put down a point value for the QS
Yeah, but...the name of the ARRL section is "Sacramento Valley" not "sugar victor". And the rules say to send your ARRL section name. But I agree, it is probably best to get into the habit of saying
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... 1) My score was up from 4.1 Meg to 5.58 Meg, nothing to sneeze at. But... 2) N6RT operated at W6EEN as NE6N and I think he cleaned my clock. We
Absolutely correct! In fact, I would like to encourage dozens, if not hundreds, of folks from around the country to relocate to NV and experience this for yourselves. Please be sure to ALL get on for
Actually, it is only at 20 feet. And it is only useful as a RX antenna on 10 meters, but boy what a difference it makes during periods of high sun noise. The high antennas always seem better on TX. I
Well, it seems I too have fallen victim of a well-known K3 operation not logging a 160 meter QSO with me in the CQWW CW 'test. Oh well, it is probably karma catching up with me for having not logged
The May QST arrived today 'way out west here, and of course I looked at the CW SS results first off. Interesting comments in the writeup about "tougher log checking", saying that "log checking was th
Ken, welcome to the club! As many astute readers of this reflector will recall, I went down a similar road a couple of years ago. However, there was one distinct difference: two of the top ten statio
There has been a great deal of discussion both at Visalia and among the CAC about the "need" to increase the radius of ARRL "Local clubs" for competition in ARRL contests. Members of our local club,
I am surprised this announcement hasn't generated much comment, I guess people are too busy trying to fix the CQWW point structure which, IMHO, isn't broken. If it were, why would the activity in CQW
Gee...in recent years, I have always thought IG9/IH9 were the best places to operate a CQ contest, I haven't seen too many committee members go there? 73, Jim N6IG -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.co
like 2 to 1 to expand the local club radius from 20 miles to 35 miles. As president of the River City Contesters (a local club), I have opposed this change as unneeded, as have all of our members. Bu
I believe there are legitimate situations where a station could have one CW QSO, one SSB QSO, one CW QSO, etc., in the log and still only have one signal on the air at any given time. The test descri
Sorry, Trey, I tried to follow your wishes. I put you in my log for the P d'A contest...in fact, I put you in many times per band. And, to make sure my score got in to the contest sponsors in time, I
I am pleased to report receiving a nice certificate in the mail the other day from CQ for the 1995 CQWW CW for First W6/second US 40 meter single band. They may take a while, but the certificates do
I read Tree, N7TR's...oops, I mean RICH, N7TR's <g> comments on two radios in SS phone with interest. I too have never used two radios in Phone SS, and I won it one year not too long ago. But I would
Of course they should call high power stations! As much as I mumble and grumble about "those darn QRP stations" when they call me in a contest, forcing me to pull them out of the noise, they represen
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Jim Pratt <n6ig@netcom.com> writes: The English language is an interesting thing, is it not? I read the sentence above as: "Should stations in the QRP class c
I read Tree, N7TR's...oops, I mean RICH, N7TR's <g> comments on two radios in SS phone with interest. I too have never used two radios in Phone SS, and I won it one year not too long ago. But I would