Jeff is spot on about Hope - its a business travel hotel and one designed to serve contractors and overflow DoD personnel who cant get on base accommodations at the base hotel. Double occupancy rooms
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:08:41 -0400
In his interview Randy mentioned that really nobody had it perfect. Probably correct. Plenty of us have given interviews and presentations to clubs and groups - the narrative on location has been pre
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:36:27 -0400
IIRC, based on what was reported at Dayton, about 10 or 12 spots got whacked - bad timing all the way around. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-C
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:10:27 -0400
Later is what I use as well - usually entered in as one of my spare function keys in N1MM. There is an art to QTCs - you don't want to give/take them when you have a good rate, because chances are an
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:44:43 -0400
Ideally yes - in reality, not even close to being possible. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
One other point to note and nobody has mentioned this - if you are a multi transmitter station or doing SO2R , its much easier to say please QSY to 14.202. If youre on 14.202.6 a station might not he
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:47:25 -0400
There has been a viewpoint that people category shop and shoot for low power categories in order to reduce the competition in a given contest in a given reason. Its a well known strategy. 73 Rich NN3
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:14:03 -0400
Where do you get that there are three qualifying districts within NA "Maximum Score is the largest published score in the applicants category from the =Qualification Area= in which the applicants sco
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:57:07 -0400
I saw that and don't see how that changes anything. It says that for EU#6, there can be only one team from YU. You cant have three YU teams representing EU#6. W is allowed multiple teams and three te
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 21:25:07 -0500
There have been a ton of articles on this in NCJ over the years. My regimen is a little bit of a "playing chicken" strategy. I will purposely stay up late on Thursday before a major contest to ensure
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:35:09 -0500
For several contests, the rules address this. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listin
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:48:23 -0500
Yeah, I have to say, DX Codes work great in DX pileups. They're kind of different than contests. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:49:44 -0500
Narrow up your filter and use the RIT. It does work. Or hit Morse Runner for some more practice. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:16:19 -0400
Pretty easy - not all people who are on the cluster like to see skimmer spots. 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://li
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:20:27 -0400
Give me a break: you're creating excuses now. You can fly from San Francisco to Boston for $250 round trip - nonstop. That is not expensive. You can fly from San Francisco to Aruba for as low as $450
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:33:50 -0400
Jesus, it seems like you'll make excuses for anything. And make some bad assumptions. I traveled 88,000 miles last year and was at several conferences with hundreds of other attendees - never got COV
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 10:19:36 -0400
Im more partial to Compuserve octal email addresses. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:47:41 -0400
Chris, DL1MGB is asking about Hamcation in Orlando - not Hamvention in Daytenz... 73 Rich NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:/
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:19:25 -0500
Ive heard good things about the JetStream supplies. 73 RIch NN3W _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:07:35 -0500
I have to chuckle about the multiple stations that state that anyone who is active in the contest is too busy to look at the score board. This couldn't be further than reality. It takes about 3 secon