I need to do a portable operation for one of the contests and am looking for a good generator. The Honda EU2000i looks good from a weight and sound standpoint and gets rave reviews in the mobile home
Boy, I'll bet it would make the 160 meter contest a lot more exciting from Oregon if they would let us work Europe on 160. 73 Tom W7WHY Actually, I liked it better in the 60s when the east coast coul
From Zero Land Did a simple S&P op on phone to try out the Orion. Sunday afternoon pointed the antenna NE looking for New England. Dead. Called CQ once and got an immediate reply from a SM6, then no
Anyone operate /MM from a cruise ship? What do you need to do to get permission? 73 Jamie WW3S I took my ft-817 to Antarctica on the Lindblad ship. Captain gave me permission to operate. The radio op
I agree fully. From my temporary hilltop location, Eu opens here in Kansas an hour earlier than from my home 3 miles and 400 ft lower away. I have had KL7 reply to my call with "Didn't know the band
Can't remember if this was one of the groups using a voice recorder, but when I worked them on a 2nd band finally figured out that I had the wrong call for the first contact. The worst is the guy wit
A bit more utopian, I know the league is a bit strapped for cash, but it can't cost too much for each contest scorer who already has all of the entries in Cabrillo format to send a composite of logs
I'll take a different frustration on this: The past few years I've been operating from a 400 ft hill, single band 4 el on either 10M or 15M from a temporary crank up tower. Kenwood TS-940 to Dentron
could potentially have a right to move me off the frequency since either I am not getting out or not doing something right. Sort of: Being a relative newby with a temporary nice location, I made the
What do you do for the WPX QSO with the North African station that just replies "59 no number" I listened for a while and that is the same report for everyone, but was working a good string. N0UU. --
As an occasional contester, but a committed builder, I ran into this 20 years ago. When living in Wichita, I built a Martin style 160 only/CW only RX/TX using: A MCL 23 dbm mixer couple to the anten
Getting ready for the CW WPX. Use CT for logging. Any comments about good software to record the contest using SB board (for my personal log checking)? Could use a different computer with Windows. Th
Anyone have the protocol that they use for the B-1 bomber pilots that fly from the KC area to Kosovo and back with several refuelings and no place to sleep in the back? I know from the KC paper and
There was a comment here about continuous CQing with little rate. This brings up a question: In the last hour of the CQWWSSB I (central Kansas) was pointed at JA (317 degrees from here) on 10 Meters