Welcome to Geekland! Put up the biggest antenna you can afford, just as high as you can get it. If it stays up, it is neither big enough nor high enough. (This has been said a few times before--Proba
In aviation, there is the tiresome, to me, comment from traffic controllers who cannot see a particular portion of a landing site, that "Landing will be at your own risk." Funny, I always feel that I
After being out of contesting for most of 10 years, except for occasional sporadic activity, I am going to try to get on the 10M contest in Dec, and I need some "modern-day" advice: I have an old CT
On Nov 18 I posted questions under "Getting back into contesting", and have received many informative answers from folks who took the time to share their thoughts with me. I would specifically like t
Very Nice, Hans. My gal asks: If a contester pays professionals to put up his tower, as I paid a professional to dig a hole, do the steel cage, and supervise the concrete pour for the base, then is h
Another difference is that for Sailboat Races, etc, the competitors must submit their entry ahead of time. There is no joining the race while it is in progress nor sailing along with the racing fleet
My guess: If the casual contester had to register to play casually, that portion of the participation would drop to almost nothing. 73, Rusty, na5tr _______________________________________________ CQ
Greetings, All; Personally, if I am going to venture offshore in a boat costing, presumably, many thousands of dollars, with a sizeable commitment of time, energy and skill, I am going to have a radi
The issue at Atlanta Hartsfield is twofold: Delta can refer to both the airline and the taxiway, so it is not misunderstanding the phonetic of "D", but what is meant by "D". The other issue is that m
Greetings, all: I believe an issue with respect to limited hours entries, as well as some other "dumbed down" categories, is that the ops/stations with the biggest scores are the most influential in
In Bill's suggested category 1. for strictly limited hardware setup, I would like to suggest that a limitation on tower/antenna height might be useful. It could be 50 or 60 or 70 feet, or maybe 15 or
I have finally figured out how we can handle all this: You look on K1TTT's analysis to find out who the Casual Contesters were who used Packet/Telnet (Gasp!) who did not submit logs and THOUGHT they
Mark, I do not know the circumstances, so I cannot comment. In my high school ham radio club, there were a couple of hams who were regularly dating a girl in the club, and later told me they consider
Mark, I'm glad nothing illegal occured, and it is now no Big Deal. Rusty _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
Soma Garmin GPS handhelds will allow the choice of location formats, and in some cases one of the choices will be the Maidenhead format. I have a Garmin 196, and it does so. I expect others will also
There is a general loss of liberty for many groups. I have an active interest in float plane flying, general aviation flying on wheels, rifle competition, hunting generally, ham radio competition, an
Nine Nine Three Won maybe? 73, Rusty, na5tr _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
Noting that: "Action and decisions of the CQ WW Contest Committee are official and final." as mentioned, why not let the CQ WW Contest Committee DQ Randy if they think it appropriate? He is hardly hi
Sounds to me as though askiing "Does you know where ...?" is soliciting assistance. If after such a solicitation some assistance is received, then the solicitator has knowingly placed himself in the
IMHO, encouraging the current casual group of contesters to stay on for a full 12 or 24 hours in order to have a chance for a competitive prize rather than a personal mental goal will result in more