Seems there is a station sending out e-mails asking people to correct his exchange for the ARRL DX Contest. Seems that perhaps the power he sent was too high. I am AMAZED that anyone in radiosport th
running Not sure packet makes that much of a difference. True - it can give you a big boost for short periods of time, or alert people to an otherwise undiscovered opening, but overall, it might not
Without looking - who can answer these? 1. Who won the SS CW contest in 1966? 2. Who did the writeup? No - they weren't the same person. Recently - I stumbled on a 8X10 picture from WAY back (like 19
Hello fellow contesters. Let me preface this message by first saying that I believe 99.9 percent of contesters play by the rules. This message talks about the 0.01 percent who don't. Also - let me sa
Thanks for all the advice and ideas (both on the list and off). Sorry - I will not name names here on this forum. However, here is what I am doing so you are aware: - The sponsor (the ARRL) has been
All - I am very sad to pass on the news that "JZap" (aka John Zapisek), K2MM (ex WB2DRW), has recently passed away. John was very active back in the 70's in both traffic handling and Murphy's Maraude
All - As many of your have pointed out during the past month, the URL for the Stew Perry contest pages has not been working. Since this was a server operated by K2MM (who is now an SK), a new home ha
The Preliminary results for the September CW Sprint are now posted here: http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintcwprelim.php Congrats to Trey, N5KO on another victory. 73 Tree N6TR _____________________________
The results for the 16th annual Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge are now posted. http://www.kkn.net/stew/ Don't forget the Stew Warm-up coming on October 20/21. The next big Stew is on Dec 29/30
The results for the Summer Stew are now available at our new URL for Stew stuff - http://www.kkn.net/stew. We have also added a fun story to the big Stew results which are also available at the same
The Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge warm-up is coming tomorrow. Full rules and results are available at our new web page http://www.kkn.net/stew/ Hope to hear you on 160 meters tomorrow. 73 Tre
The results for the Stew Perry Warmup are now posted. Yes - the contest has only finished 12 hours ago - but we have received almost 100 logs already. As more logs come in - they results will be upda
While what Randy said is true - log what what was sent - I do feel that the KL7 should have added something to indicate what country he is in. In some cases - it isn't possible to deduce what country
If you are without a radio and want to listen in on some SS CW action - you can listen to the W7RM operation here: http://www.liveatc.net/embed/n6tr.html Many thanks to Dave, KM3T, for helping with t
I guess I am not seeing the correlation between the two. The nature of the way the radio works is that the human is interfacing to what is happening in the RF playground using a "modem" if you will (
The results for the PreStew event from October are now posted. Many thanks to the 200+ people who sent in their log. You can find the results and rules for the BIG Stew coming up in a couple of weeks
Once again - the real time scores as the checking process unfolds can be found on the Stew Perry web page. http://www.kkn.net/stew 73 Tree N6TR _______________________________________________ Stew Pe
GUN. No reply. I call again. And again. No replies. Well - I am the big gun that K3KU speaks of. As it turns out - YES - I was working someone on the other radio when he called - but I was all prepar
Interesting 24 hours on this "frequency". Again - I am sorry I wasn't able to answer K3KU right away. It certainly was my intent. All of this discussion about not hearing anything for 7 or 8 seconds
K1SD asks: Since I am the log checker for the NAQP - I have access to all of the logs. I did some poking around with the logs from August - and pretty much found an equal number of QSOs taking place