As a small station that occasionally does "okay", I would add that it is often most effective to call CQ later in the contest. Let them work all the loud easy ones first and then ops will take more t
Congratulations VY1AAA! I know a little bit about how difficult it is to keep antennas in the air in those conditions and hopefully one day VY0ERC will be as well equipped. We (VE1RUS, VE3KTB) will b
A K3? I wish! Just a TS-480, although we do have a bench now :-) Pierre VE3KTB, chief wire stringer-upper at VY0ERC located at 80N Artic _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mai
This has been a very interesting thread. I'm the father of 3, 17, 15, and 12. My two sons ( 17 and 15) are both "interested" in amateur radio. It's in quotes because they are interested when I ask if
Hi Mike, I do mostly SSB at this point. Hopefully the CW will come back to something usable. I was off the air for 10 years after moving back to Canada. I was also a '0' out of Colorado. I know I am
Hi Jeff, I'm looking at participating in the RTTY Roundup for the first time. I'm a bit perplexed by rule 2.2. Does this mean that once I have stopped operating twice that I'm done for the contest if
Thanks Jeff, Ryan, Richard, and Ed for the explanations. I figured it must be as described, but it's always good to understand the rules. And I will obey the W6SX prime directive! Pierre VE3KTB hi Pi
Mike, I just bought a Zhuque tenkeyless: https://www.amazon.com/Team-Wolf-Swappable-Mechanical-Keyboard-Black/dp/B01BK01GX8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485170889&sr=8-1&keywords=zhuque+keyboard So far, I
Hi folks, Barring unforeseen problems with travel and/or weather, I expect that VY0ERC will be on for the NAQP RTTY test from Nunavut, NU. 73, Pierre VE3KTB soon to be /VY0 __________________________
VY0ERC will be on from the far, far north! Pierre VE3KTB op VY0ERC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailma
I can say that I'm always tickled pink to receive a certificate for my efforts, whether in ONS or VY0. Sometimes I win because I (or we) are the only ones in play. Regardless, I love the competition
It was my first time attending Hamvention and Contest University. Both were a great experience for me. I parked in the furthest out lot on both Friday and Saturday. I didn't attempt to be there at op
Well, if you make VY0 it's own section, then sweeps will be few and far between. To my knowledge the only time anyone has been on in recent times from Nunavut was me, in 2014 or 2015. I called until
You wanna trade? Papa india echo romeo romeo echo... Pierre, French for Peter etc etc Perry? No Pierre.. Pierre... Papa.... Okay copy Peter! No, no, Pierre, Pierre... To be honest I love the NAQP an
Gerry and the CanAm team, Very sorry to hear that the other bastion* of Northern Canadian contesting will be QRT. Knowing you guys were on the air always made it somehow more neighbourly. It may mean
I thought I would chime in here ... I have been the guy in the NT working with wires and low power trying to make myself heard in the south. Probably a bit worse for me as I was in the far north of N
Thanks Rich. We do hope to be there, but the health care infrastructure in most of Nunavut is somewhere between none and zero. So, we are constrained to being very, very careful in how we go about o
As one of the two ops in question, I did wonder if there was a Q code for "Spread out a bit!" 73, Pierre VE3KTB/VY0 Pete - looking at the reports scores on 3830, I see a lot of "84"s showing ________