Tom Taormina, K5RC Virginia City NV 7QP - May 6-7 - <http://www.7qp.org/>www.7qp.org Armadillo Reunion - June 24-25 - <http://www.consultpr.com/Armadillo.htm>http://www.consultpr.com/Armadillo.htm Q
The first running of the 7th Call Area QSO Party is coming the weekend of May 6-7. We are hoping to build on the tradition of the Armadillo Runs and activate every county in 7-land for the Party. We
Just got this from I2UIY http://www.i2uiy.it/k7sb.html Tom Taormina, K5RC Virginia City NV 7QP - May 6-7 - <http://www.7qp.org/>www.7qp.org Armadillo Reunion - June 24-25 - <http://www.consultpr.com/
The Texas DX Society and friends will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Great Armadillo Run of 1986 with Special Events Station K7A. The operation and reunion will be held in Virginia City,
Next weekend is the 20th Anniversary Great Armadillo Reunion in Virginia City NV. It is a two-day event over Field Day weekend. We will be operating K7A Special Events Station for FD. Distinguished g
The Great Armadillo Reunion is history and was a resounding success. 37 TDXS members, rowdies and friends gathered in Virginia City, NV last weekend to share old stories and renew old friendships. We
Gee, Richard. It was WA5LES. Guess all of our memory lanes need re paving. Perhaps we should do a NAQP where we send our old calls instead of our names? Tom Taormina, K5RC Virginia City Nevada USA Ho
Nice. I used a couple of ty-wraps. K7BV calls me Tommy TyWrap Tom Taormina, K5RC Virginia City Nevada USA Home of NACHO - W7RN and RANN - K7RC Web Site: http://k5rc.cc/ ______________________________
Gene is too modest to acknowledge the great contributions he also made to the success of K2GL and the legacy of Buzz Reeves' innovations in contesting. Tom Taormina, K5RC Virginia City Nevada USA Hom
I applaud Randy's suggestion, except... The 12 and 24 hour categories need not be contiguous. Why not let the competitors choose their on-time based on their ability to spend time on the air? Yes, a
The second running of the 7th District QSO Party is coming up shortly, the first weekend in May. Last year's event was a resounding success but we only activated 209 of the 259 counties in the distri
This is starting to sound like the discussions of 30 years ago about packet that led to SO-A class entries. Part of the future of our hobby is symbiosis with computers and the Internet. I suggest tha
If it is a 1:1 balun, use the coax choke in the new antenna handbook. It isn't new, but Dean Straw has determined that wrapping the turns of coax on a form and keeping the turns parallel is much more
I'm glad to hear the positive reviews of the K3. I seriously considered it but chose a FT200D instead. The reason may not be germane to many, but I host a lot of guest ops who cannot deal with menu-d
I did not mean to minimize the capabilities of the K3, but almost any contester can sit down in front of an MP (or 2000) and not have a long learning curve. In the 70's, I had S-Lines and Drake C Lin
I have another take on this, Dave. Copper wire is still the most conductive and it can be soldered. The aluminum wire around a stainless or zinc plated screw will eventually become cathodic and cause
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Okay brain trust, I am looking for recommendations for 160 receiving antennas. I have tried a number of beverages and they do not yield the desired result here in the high desert with no ground refer
Excuse the bandwidth, but I have struck out on the conventional WriteLog resources. Does anyone have WriteLog running on Windows Vista with DirectIO enabling a LPT port? Most everything in WriteLog i
After enduring the horrors of parallel port emulation in newer computers over the last couple of years, I am finally abandoning WriteLog for WinTest. The coup de gras was trying to get the DX doubler