Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:01:51 +0100
Dear contesters, For those of you that don't like to do RTTY or just want a break from the WPX RTTY contest, please look for PA station during this edition of the Dutch PACC contest this weekend. The
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:58:08 +0100
Gentleman, I think the rules are very clear about this. There are 4 multi-operator entries: - Multi-op, Single transmitter High Power: Only one transmitter allowed so you can not use a second radio t
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:57:19 +0100
Contesters, Just wandering about this one: Is it possible for two single operators, lets say one SO on 40 meter and the other SO on 20 meter, to use the same club call sign during the upcomming ARRL
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:23:01 +0100
Robert and Ron, Robert, I'm not sure what you mean with *"mist" (sic)* but I guess it's not much good. Sometimes some of you people forget that not everybody in the world is a native English speaker.
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 22:26:33 +0100
Bob W5OV, I now realize I misspelled the word "mist" which means the same as "haze" or "fog". It should have been "missed" of course. To bad my spell checker missed that one ;-) Now I can place your
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:15:51 +0200
Well, I'm really happy with my Pro Set Plus from Heil but I do only SSB. I hear a lot of Elecraft guys have pretty good experience with Yamaha CM-500 headsets. Don't how they will play with the FT 10
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:33:55 +0200
I just wish we would have a program like this in Europe... I went to the CTU in Wyboston UK in 2009 which was great. The program in Dayton howevers looks really fantastic! Have fun and keep up the go
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:37:47 +0200
Last year the CTU in Friedrichshafen was in German and although I speak a little German it's not enough to comfortably follow presentations. Furthermore the CTU program in Dayton is much more extensi
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 21:14:06 +0100
Hello all, The score of PI4DX is incorrect. I don't know what went wrong but it's impossible that we worked 860 countries. Unfortunately one of our members was a little bit to quick to put it on the
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:20:38 +0100
The things that people do to save a few bucks... Op dinsdag 8 november 2011 schreef Telegraphy.com (trogo@telegraphy.com) het volgende: now available thru Amazon.Com (search for Rufus Roo) shipping.
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 17:31:33 +0100
Dima, Not sure if this is relavant but for M/2 stations there is no 10 minutes rule. Instead you may switch bands only 8 times per clock hour. Furthermore, M/2 stations may use both transceivers to r
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:30:10 +0100
Hi Jim, I had an simmilar experience but I only operate phone. We use a 6 over 6 stack at 120 feet and when I called "CQ contest PI4DX" and released the footswitch real quick I could often hear the l
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:46:55 +0100
I did get some good echo's on video. Watch this video and listen to the station comming back to my call at 1m25s. Can you tell who it is? It was a bit strange typing with one hand and holding my iPad
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:53:35 +0200
Zrinko, You have got a good point. They way I read it is that going form 20m SSB to 20m CW and back again to 20m SSB counts as two band/mode changes. I do feel this should be made more clear in the c
N6YG (sorry, you didn't sign with your name), Yes it does. Furthermore, the robot will send you an email to confirm it received your log in good order. If there is anything wrong with your log it wil
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:28:36 +0200
I completely mist the second part of his question. As others have stated, correcting the log after the contest is considered cheating. There is, however, nothing wrong with checking and correcting er
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:20:07 +0200
Phillip, As far as I know it is common practice for contest sponsors to mark a contact as "Unique" if the contact only appears in your log and the other opp didn't send in his log (wich is to be expe
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:49:08 +0200
Hello Joe, Try using Google. I was able to find te following links on the first few tries: http://www.ncjweb.com/wrtc2010blogs.php http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Some-Interesting-WRTC-Statistic
I'm not sure if that is allowed. The rules also state: 4.2.2.1. You are not allowed a second radio that works only multipliers. That said, I don't how a sponsor is able to determine weather the conta
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:30:48 +0200
Hamlog doesn't do contests. I have it on my iPad but I'd rather use my laptop with N1MM. Maybe Maclogger will do the trick but it will set you back 31,99. 73, Maarten PD2R Op woensdag 18 juli 2012 sc