A bit off topic, but the League has been getting a bunch of bad press on this list: I booked a cruise to Antarctica on the Endeavor with Lindblad Travel and will be there the first of Feb. Will only
Maybe 30 years ago was assigned for an Army Reserve summer camp to Camp Ripley, MN. Had been active on 160 and phoned one of the big guns living nearby and asked if I could drop by to check out the a
Have a friend who will be on a ship about a thousand miles south of Hawaii the weekend of the WPX. Reading the rules, his prefix will be his W0 prefix as /M doesn't count. But he definitely won't be
Finally got around to submitting my meager log for the ARRL SSB DX: Looks like I had a couple of "senior moments" (memory lapses for the non-native English readers) plus it seems to have accepted the
One thing I've never understood is the obvious conflict with the concept of putting RF on power lines and the very strict rules the Europeans have with having any stray signals feeding back into the
My wife and I are taking one of the set tours of from Bled, Slovenia to Dubrovnik. Looks like I will be in Bled 6March if I skip the bus trip to Ljubljana. Anyone active there if I can convince the w
I do mostly S&P as I really get worn out trying to sort out replies, especially when propagation is just right to JA and Eu. There is a bit of embarrasment when I have to ask for replies..... Won't w
Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid about QSLing, but as I always send a couple of green stamps along with direct QSLs and those go away with LoTW, maybe a bit of dis-incentive to go digital???? N0UU ________
When 10 was open in contests, they were everywhere and I have piles of QSL's to prove the point. (All replied to!) Just got back from two weeks in JA. Spent a couple of hours on the fast train from T
Reminds me of a trip to Hi-Gain many years ago. Manual insertion of all parts on CB equip. One of the stuffers come over to the lead and asked why yesterday she was putting red green blue (I made tha
After the contest, one of my friends who was following a cluster while DXing called to tell me that a DU I worked had spotted me! Now if Zone 22 had just followed up I would have had them all. Of cou
With the recent flap about one of our planes in Afganistan shooting some friendly Canadians while the pilots were on some performance enhancing drug and some past discussion of such for contesting, h
Finished my feeble effort at the ARRL SSB DX. Pretty good ant, 6 el HB on a 44 ft boom at 35 ft. 1KW. Made a mistake thinking that ACE prop program and flux indicated that 10 would be dead, forgettin
Trying to decide whether to work WPX as single band from Kansas on either 10M or 15M. The ACE program and ARRL predicitions both led me to beleive that 10M would be minimal to Eu and JA for the ARRL
On a visit ot W7RM near Seattle perhaps 30 years ago I noted that the linears were all in a separate room (one for each band!) and the operating stations (bring your own Collins S-line!) were well is
Having worked very hard in the WPX with a 10M7 antenna and only working 3 Eu stations, all on backscatter, I would have been encouraged to have heard one on 10M refusing to work me! Band finally woke
Sorry to ask the probably obvious, but: I have been operating some in some of the DX contests from a hill listed on the Kansas Topo maps as Iron Mound. Great time with 10 and 15M single yagis. The 98
I think that David Bloom had the same hereditary clotting factor that runs in my family, Factor V Leiden. Makes the risk of blood clots 4 or 5 time worse. Then sitting in an enclosed tight vehicle wi
Got back from CSVHF a weekend ago. The following Monday was on anesthesia call and was up all night so added doubly to the fatigue. Received a UPS notice that my Orion was due to arrive Tuesday, the