EI5DI wrote: I'd go along with that, but with three unambiguous conditions. Paul, your conditions explicitly forbid use of SDR and even bandscopes. We are NOT blind in the contests! Young operators w
EI5DI wrote: so long as the only thing crossing the boundary of the property is amateur band RF (corresponding to the band(s) and mode(s) of entry). I wonder if you are aware that modern SDR converts
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/UM3RTA6Bs-7PeqA_kHzlzUxhHJEN1MTXl25b2cnxFI8n7v2oDuHaMFwCJLDBJxw2e5C5fPA1NNcNKaROvpLW/MorseRunner1.wav This is my first short audio recording of 3 minutes fight of CW Expe
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5522125/CWExpertMR.wav should be better link. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S5ham/files/ has the original published copy as MorseRunner1.wav I tried to load this audio to Yout
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6901283&id=671887639 I finally achieved good sync of CW Expert robot with Morse Runner simulator runing 200+ QSO/hour at 30 wpm on single caller, no QRM. QRN mak
I am bit late with notification due to some unexpected and unforseen tech problems with heavily protected N1MM Logger. I plan to use Low Power SO2R setup with FT-1000MP and newly aquired TS-480. Ante
EI5DI wrote: My point is that the RBN is new technology (and all technology is good, right?) which will soon sweep away the old technology (cluster). I rarely agree with Paul but above he stated the
I was thinking of "fairness" as the playing field on 10 m this weekend was definitely skewed toward VK including Z21DXI :-) Nobody even in W/VE couldn't hear my 100W into 4L. Reminds me of 6 m activ
N4ZR wrote: From what W3LPL has told me, I am pretty confident that I can simply parallel the output of the 6 filters, but can I also parallel the inputs? I very much doubt that W3LPL told you that!
I was surprised to find K1TTT repeating the same mantra about high impedance of W3LPL filters in his free e-book. I did some quick simulations with AADE and I have to correct myself first - parraleli
EI5DI proposes: 1) Single Operator SO 2) Single Operator Hybrid SOH (uses other comms technologies or multi-channel decoders) We got local definiton for the first category: Brontosaurus on the Stone
K3FIV description of 1975 radio identification program reminds me of similar 1990s project of one big EU multinational company done for the police of an oil rich Middle Eastern country. Hams try to d
AA5JG wrote: 20 years ago we never would have imagined assisted categories and the controversy concerning the DX cluster and spotting during a contest. 1. Kudos to Dr DX amazing piece of software. I
I was using S50ARX combined spots from local CW Skimmer and DX Cluster. W3LP was often decoded which might further sugest hand send CW. I was annoyed with a frequent USA callsigns with 3 symbols. Onl
W5ZN wrote: Long hours of intense on-air competition is much more exciting and rewarding to me than long hours of intense blogging on the internet! Exalted rewarding sense comes from two-way nature o
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/science/14poker.html?src=me&ref=science I found this story of virtual honesty technologically relevant to our games! Robots are not perfect and even IBM supercompute
K5ZD wrote: The experience of the journey is far more important than the place in the standings. I couldn't agree more visiting Tunisia after yasmine revolution! My YU friends explained me WPX M/S ru
I only wish old mults only rule for M/S is returned especially in forthcoming improved propagations. OC Hrane, YT1AD of 3V8BB fame has been visiting Tunisia often since 1990s, developed special relat
I uploaded modified 1991 DOS Pascal version of stereo wave file CW decoder sfft.pas at http://code.google.com/p/cw-expert/. 121 callsigns are found from KCDXC 1998/9 audio. Recent improvements go to
PY CQMM CW becomes worldwide contest this year and partly overlaps with YU DX CW. Both use fixed exchanges and you may have more fun in both sending RST, ITU zone and abreviated continent string at o