For me ..if it is someone I know well and vice versa it's ..."thanks ..good luck" or something like that ..otherwise ..it's "Thanks for Number 372" ...admittedly it gets weird when it is SSB SS or AR
Rich: Good points ...will do. 73 Steve KL7SB Steve, Why are you sending his exchange back to him? Are you hoping he will correct you if you got it wrong? If so, you are waiting until far too late in
Joe: This is why I think "Radiosport" is the largest part of the future of the hobby. It is what most piques the interest of the younger "nerd set" ...especially for digital modes. It is a good fit f
Hans: I would of course agree with that ..but will add one thing. When I was in college ..I worked at a ship to shore station (Amagansett Radio/WSL) doing CW and SITOR. The Amateur ops in general wer
This is how any 160M contest goes from KL7SB ...where the 160M xmit and rcv antenna is an 80M inverted vee off the tower in an urban area with a high noise floor 1) Work KL7RA (sadly no more) and som
Man ..I read that as "K0CKB gave me a nice 21 year-old." I'm officially aged. 72.5 Steve KL7SB --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Radio K0HB
For me ...24 hours gives me a LOT more incentive to take a shot as SO as opposed to 48. For the most part now ...if I want to be part of a serious operation for one of the 48 hour contests ..I'll fin
I'd have to strongly disagree with this ... That could be a serious penalty for those of us operating in semi or genuinely rare entities. I know anytime I'm in a contest ...operating say on 10M SSB .
Jim/Pete Yeah ..I wanted to ditto that ...this is more about the "seriously casual" op ...who wants to compete ..but just can't manage the true masochism necessary to do 44-48 hours. This actually go
I didn't say Low Power was silly ..I was just pointing out one overlay "tribander, wire antennas, and 100W" as an example of something that was very specific and non verifiable. 73 Steve KL7SB There
Hey all: A number of us in Alaska will be using the name Rich ..for KL7RA in the upcoming NAQP CW Contest. See you then ..and keep an ear out for us ..Low power contest is a tough one for us up here.
I had heard that the DoubleTree wasn't too bad. 73 Steve KL7SB --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Richard F DiDonna NN3W Sent: Sunday, Janua
Uggggggh ....checking out reviews, looks like the Marriott is the best bet. I'll be at the CP ..same as last year ...it wasn't as bad as I had been led to expect, but that is about the best I can say
This seems like much ado about not much ..everyone in the contesting community knows that this is a LP contest. Like any contest, there will be some who just hand out some Qs. I'd rather they stick t
Which location did you check? I checked Wed-Sun at "Marriott at the University of Dayton" at Marriott.com which is the hotel I'm referring to ...no discounts available as best as I can tell ...209 pe
Tom/Kelly Ditto ..even though it's a tough contest from KL7. 73 Steve KL7SB --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom Haavisto Sent: Sunday, Ja
Hi Gerry: Low power contests are a slog from the Northland ..no doubt about it ..especially on SSB ..but I am wondering what bands you were trying at what times? We had a couple of folks operating fr
Hi Rich: I'd check with K9CT ...He's been doing a bunch of proof of concept stuff with Flex. 73 Steve KL7SB I'm trying to wrap my head around how to implement a Flex 6700 in a SO2R environment, h
Hi Jim: Great points. Even under perfect conditions .."one way propagation" is often a reality here ..especially when the bands are marginal. With KL7RA gone, the rest of the Alaska ops have more ...
Like most things ..it varies on conditions. My normal out of the box run speed is 30-32 wpm ..if conditions are good ..especially if I'm running Lower 48 or JA and they are loud ...I'll stick at that