Yes, Field Day in the early morning hours is a good time for creative phonetics. Back when I lived in WV, I quite remember operating W8SP (the Mountaineer Amateur Radio Association, in Fairmont) in t
Heard plenty of VA SSB activity on 75. Ben _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
OTOH, for us pop-gun (or, as I call it, Bedsprings Brigade (as in compared to the tower-and-beam crowd, we might as well be loading up old metal bedsprings)) stations, there's not much advantage to t
Indeed. S&P rate suffers if you don't. Ben -- Ben Coleman nj8j@benshome.net "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." Paul Tomblin ____
Welcome to the CQ-Contest mailing list. We've been doing that for years. Ben -- Ben Coleman nj8j@benshome.net "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow mig
What's next? A Bedsprings QSO Party? Ben -- Ben Coleman nj8j@benshome.net "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." Paul Tomblin ______
On 4/29/2021 2:17 AM, Dick Frey wrote: Four concurrent QSO parties this weekend are unique in that you can play in all four without having to change logs in N1MM. If you reside in one of them - 7th a
tune, copy, type the call in, be told it's a dupe, and repeat. I'm one of those unassisted S&P single ops with not-so-great antennas (I refer to my shack as "Bedsprings Brigade Manor" (as in compared
Given that there's going to be many people with the same idea in mind, I question that you can depend on 'knocking off stations instantly'. You may very well click on the band map and find you're fig
No experience on Siri, per se, but based on how often I have to repeat things to the Google Assistant, I'm not sure if I'd want to depend on even modern commercial voice recognition for voice skimmer
Much the their credit, the SEDXC updated their contest rules for what will hopefully be a very popular DX contest. It might be good to notice that this is strictly a local event: -- Who: Licensed SE
Anyone else peeked at the Sep/Oct issue of NCJ yet (available from the QSO Magazines web site/app)? Updated rules are also at https://ncjweb.com/NAQP-Rules.pdf. Major change seems to be the addition
Which probably keeps the number of spots manageable. Ben -- Ben Coleman nj8j@benshome.net "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." Pau
One possibility is to use the 6-digit numbers generated by TOTP generators like Google Authenticator. That gives you a new random 6-digit code every 30 seconds. As Two Factor Authentication becomes m
I note the link to the contest rules merely points to the main ARRL contests page. So far I've been unable to find the rules for this contest on there, or on the arrl.org contest calendar page. Ben -
My brother AA4LR often comments that contesting is audio games (as opposed to video games). Ben -- Ben Coleman nj8j@benshome.net "I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner t
Awhile back, I was watching a classic Doctor Who episode where this exchange happened: "What are we going to do now?" "Keep it confused, feed it with useless information. I wonder if I have a televis
Anyone else finding that the CQ WW VHF Web log uploaded rejects logs with Qs on 7/15/2023? I just tried to upload my log and every Q on the 15th give the error "Line 31 Bad date or outside of contest
It appears that the published email address for submitting MARAC contest logs redirects to marac23[at]earthlink.net, and that the email server that does the redirecting is blocked by a blocklist used
I use the general log (called DX in N1MM+) for making non-contest QSOs during the contest. I normally leave one in my operating log database, just in case. If I need to make a non-contest QSO, I swit