Good requirements, Bob. You would enjoy how I described the "three major purposes" of NCCC in one of my editorials for our newsletter: "· Win contests. · Learn how people win contests.
For starters, reduce the size of "Travelling with My Radio" articles from three pages to one or two. And you don't need more than one or two such articles per issue. I think there were four in the la
FWIW, I use both approaches at my Truckee, CA QTH with no problem. My shack is about 150' from the antenna which, unfortunately, points straight back at it when beaming the East Coast. I run 1.5KW. I
M/S band change restrictions such as ARRL's create a lame category in which the scoring potential for multiple operators in a given time span is lower than the scoring potential for one operator. Thi
I care a lot, Jim, but I don't know what to do about it. Forty years ago, growing up on the East Coast, I was always hearing about "those California Kilowatts <wink>." There was also a lot of rubber
The article says 16,000 consumers in Cincinnati are using it. What has been the feedback from local hams? /Rick Jim Monahan wrote: Reflectees: BPL article headlined on MSN today: http://equipped.msn.
I'm not much of a carpenter so I've always been partial to flush doors. You beg, borrow or buy two 2-drawer file cabinets and put the door on top. You make a lower shelf out of 1x12" shelving materia
A few years ago I wrote up a detailed argument that an individual entry should be allowed to count for one of EACH of the following: 1. Individual entry class, i.e. SOABHP, SO20LP, SOUNL, etc. 2. Loc
Gee ,,, I'm sorry, Tree. Have you sought counseling? Lobotomy may help. Perhaps your brain can be proven correct. Best wishes for an eventual recovery. ;-) /Rick N6XI
I thought ARRL CW 2003 was remarkably well behaved in this respect. I recall only two blatant attempts to steal my frequency, one succesful, one defeated, in about 21 hours of operation, mainly on th
Strongly suggest you punt this approach. Put a second partition on your disk, install Win 98 and run both CT and TR out of DOS windows under 98. When you boot to XP, it can read your 98 partition alt
Wow. Ideas like: * real-time leader boards via the Internet (sliced and diced by category and locale at viewer's discretion) * real-time club standings * How am I doing versus X1XYZ? * band status re
I don't think you're missing anything, although I'd certainly like to check out the Orion. From what I heard earlier, the Orion has similar operational flexibility to an FT-1000MP. The second rx is a
Actually, this would be an ideal venue for an initial experiment with Internet Augmented Contesting. Is anyone out there willing and able to implement some form of real-time or periodic reporting of
This is not exactly what you want, Eric, but it is a chance for me to rant about my pet peeve: Once upon a time there was a contesting category called multi-single defined as several operators sharin
Thanks for your considered response, Kelly, I guess you are in the camp that believes that whatever can be regulated, should be regulated. It's an honorable position, just one with which I disagree.
Huh? So I guess baseball would be more popular if the players wore masks and the announcer said things like "It's a sharp grounder to I Don't Know ... underhanded toss to What, Out ... back to Who, D
Although I believe Walt is incorrect about the rules (Many contests do explicitly prohibit self-spotting.), his suggestion to post the calls of likely self-spotters is good. The chess community took
If you are having problems with a TS-930 and the Top Ten Devices DX Doubler, check out their new app note: http://www.qth.com/topten/apnote12.htm Dave N3RD and George W2VJN of Top Ten were very helpf
That's right, John - To maximize score, you operate to the standards of the log checking program, not the published rules. Those who write log checking software do the best they can to make it jive w