I am getting ready to take a repositioning cruise with Lindblad on the National Geographic Endeavour in association with CasualDX. Leave Papeete, Tahiti Oct 13 and end up on Easter Island the first d
Agree, now that the power limit is output, not input to the plate, a CLEAN amplifier is an amplifier unless you are running a W7RM op with seperate amps for each band in another room to cut down on
The downside of no spotting in contests is that I was on Easter Island for a few hours the first night of the CQWWPhone. Set up on 15M and called CQ forever. Tried calling the big guns and got "Too w
A couple of years ago was doing my usual S&P from Kansas on 15M I think. S9SS was way over S9 calling CQ with no takers. I had already worked him, but in an act of encouragement called him to tell hi
An interesting approach would be to look at the number of individual stations that the "big boys" worked or data from the dup lists to see how many got on for a few contacts and didn't really contest
Just for fun I'm putting up a 2el HalfSquare beam for 40M for probably a one time use in the ARRL DX Phone. I know what I hear in Kansas, but wondering if there is a list or such of BAD frequencies a
Decided that I might try 40 Phone for the WPX. Threw up a couple of corner-fed half squares: one on Eu and the other SA/JA. Better than 2 S units difference in signals in the favored/unfavored direct
I've been trying to decode XM Radio's CW on some regular announcements. Really loose characters: STTB or something like that and then a pileup bit. Wish they had done something interesting with that
So why do I set my Windows computer clock to Casablanca time rather than UTC? N0UU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.cont
Great program! Suspect using that won't put you into Assisted category as no calls or frequencies are listed. N0UU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
Saw a spot on DXSummit today for VK9LA: "Long path, female operator." To my surprise there was a very strong JA on frequency with a female operator! N0UU _____________________________________________
To many destinations, don't trust the airlines. Use the more secure (and expensive) services such as Luggage Free. N0UU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Cont
I'm not in anyway going to going to be a big time contester, but it would be fun to have a DX HF contest where distance was the major factor. That would give a few more points to us in the Midwest fo
Jamie is a well respected journalist working for a very respected media outlet. He is serving the contest community in trying to bring news together in an organized WEB format. Since he is not doing