Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 20:51:51 -0400
I've not been to Hamvention for about four years, but do go to Dayton twice a year for client business. The only decent place left in Dayton is the Marriott.... 73 Rich NN3W 73, Pete N4ZR Check out t
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 19:42:36 -0400
Neal, its a fair amount. $30 or $40 each way (at least the last time I paid). I rent a car for two days and I get the freedom of movement. Last time I rented in Dayton for Hamvention, I paid $30.00 f
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:48:39 -0400
I'm having a slight issue with one thing you've written Bob. You wrote that it is "not OK to go back and correct this after the fact." This seems at odds with what I have heard stations say for years
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:16:28 -0400
As one who spends a lot of time parsing words in regulations and in rules, I'm bothered by some of this discussion. It says that the use of DX cluster, packet, local or remote callsign and frequency
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:09:19 -0400
Ditto. Bad, bad idea. 73 Rich NN3W On 8/5/2013 12:05 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote: Tell you what Bill... If you really want to know "why not", head over to some of the radio forums like QRZ.COM and eH
Have an inverted vee or dipole or loop up for 40 or 80 meters? If so, you've got an antenna on the WARC bands. Antenna timers do wonders. 73 Rich NN3W Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone -- Reply mes
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:41:33 -0400
Bob, its not worth getting worked up over. A lot of the anti contester types can be summed up in a line from a character named Kyle Reese: "Listen, and understand ... It can't be bargained with. It c
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:09:44 -0400
This begs the question -- at what point in a QSO do we cease requiring confirmations? In other words, if you need to copy a confirmation to log a QSO, then how does the station sending the confirmati
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:35:54 -0400
Hello! I've got a client meeting out in beautiful warm Phoenix tomorrow. Should be done by 4:00 and then will most likely be on the red-eye back to DC tomorrow night. Any good suggestions of where to
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:24:46 -0400
Technically true, but if you look at the USA results and USA teams at least, the vast majority of them involve team leaders who stayed entirely within the confines of the USA for their qualifying sco
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:27:41 -0400
I cant blame the Committee. This week I have a campout outing. Potentially I could have switched to the 24 hour category and probably have done rather well. 73 Rich NN3W /Rick Bravo, Steve! I would j
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:16:15 -0400
This is more tangential to contesting, but remember as the DX station, you control the pileup. If you want to run a pileup, you run a pileup. If you want to talk 15 minutes to a station, you do that.
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:37:56 -0500
So how about awarding one point for intra country QSOs involving a different zone. 73 Rich NN3W What happens to the multipliers when you lump in Africa with EU, which to me is the same as lumping in
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:54:01 -0500
You stand up and walk around for a minute or two. Problem solved (at least on the issue of pooled blood). 73 Rich NN3W Sleep deprivation and pooled blood in your legs is what's not healthy. There is
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:48:01 -0500
Possibly true, but every year is a coulda', shoulda', woulda. Thats what makes each year unique. Some would argue that the one year I won SOAB(U) in WW (2006), I won because K5ZD or K4ZW weren't on f
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:31:21 -0500
I see a lot of comments from stations complaining about a USA-EU cabal that limits the fun for others in CQWW. I would submit that the level of fun (or perceived lack thereof) is belied by the fact t
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:42:15 -0500
I'm still waiting for someone to come up with an updated version of Doctor DX! It had amazing sophistication for a C-64 program. 73 Rich NN3W We first have the Dayton Pile up contest. http://www.kcdx
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:38:56 -0500
The best contest simulator I've tried! I still remember that big KX6 pileup on 20 meters ... 73, OH1NOA Timo On 12/16/2013 2:07 PM, Timo Klimoff wrote: Anybody remember C64 and Doctor DX? 73, Jukka O
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:56:34 -0500
Ive tried both. Neither do what Doctor DX did. As KR2Q said, if they develop a Windows version of it, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. 73 Rich NN3W 73, Larry W6NWS I'm still waiting for someone to come up
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:19:52 -0500
I got it to function (sort of) with my Win2K contest radio box. It downloaded fine and it installed fine. My sound card has died so I can see it on the screen but couldn't hear it. Wil try a work aro