I had a discussion recently with Art RX9TX about the UA9 boundary between Europe and Asia, hence presumably between CQ Zones 16 and 17. One can't tell the true geographic continent and CQ Zone of a U
Yes but.... I have serious problems with "Tango" in my callsign. On tough QSOs, it's recognized as "Echo" at least 30% of the time. So then I have to repeat with Tokyo or Toronto - Tokyo seems to wor
When all this happens, we need AT LEAST 7125-7150 permitted by FCC and supported by IARU/ARRL as the new 'Phone DX Window, for worldwide transceive contacts. (Just like 3790-3800 in each Jan QST "Gui
Jose - As you say, it's not an IARU Region 2 rule which prevents the Lower 48 states from operating 'phone below 7150 - It's a U.S. FCC rule. Anyone who can arrange to operate from the U.N. club stat
Rick, I'm sure the propagation gurus will explain it to us, but that Scandinavian 10M opening is not unusual, good conditions or bad. In Texas it normally peaks just before our sunset, i.e. far into
Hmmmm. As an interested non-contesting observer, I have a question. Why would contesters be willing to spend thousands - or tens of thousands - of dollars to build a great station, and then worry abo
Folks: Aren't we getting a bit too emotional to make logical points supporting our case? That "large swath of spectrum" which Rich so covets is 10 KHz, which is 4% of the total 'phone spectrum availa
I spent a lot of my childhood in East Kent, a few miles from Frank's home, and we had a number of QSOs chatting about my favorite part of the UK. Finally met Frank on that visit to Dayton. He was a
Mal, Somehow I seem to recall this conversation before - many times! The 40M band just isn't big enough, and a major contest in any mode spills over "normal" boundaries, and gets the folks on the oth
Based on the righteous anger about wicked SSB contesters displayed on this reflector for these many days, may I assume that when CQWW/CW comes around, the true believers will keep all QSOs below 7040
....but by gentlemen's agreement just up to 7040, right Zik? - and CW ops ARE gentlemen (or gentlewomen) aren't they Zik? John, NT5C. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailin
Rich, I think you'll find that DXCC has a very different set of rules from contesting. So far as I can tell, you can operate from anywhere within one DXCC Entity to accumulate your DXCC scores. With
Our discussions always concentrate on how to bring more young people into ham radio, and then how to keep them interested/involved. How can one argue with that noble objective. But there's another po
9V1YC was 57/58 into Texas on 7085 SSB, calling CQ as the contest began. He was getting no answers, but that didn't prompt him to QSX up for USA! (It wasn't James operating). In fact, one of the char
There's another interesting 10M propagation mode which happens most summers, and doesn't seem to depend much on the state of the sunspot cycle. That's "side-scatter" between N America and Europe. I'm
I think (and hope) that you're being a bit too pessimistic Dennis. My observation - certainly in our Contest/DX club CTDXCC - is that serious contesting has become a hobby for "upper-middle-aged" fol
I'm somewhat surprised at the comments about poor conditions during CQWW/SSB. On the higher bands, sure, but what can one expect. But I thought 40M was extremely good. Europe pounded in of course, bu
Tack, It's so that normal hams can find somewhere to operate every weekend. 73, John, NT5C _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lis
Hmmmm. I think that attitude is very hard toward this young fellow David. I'm a serious DXer and not a contest entrant, but if you had highlighted me in that way, I would have told you where to stuff