I got a note from Ron-AA5DX the other day with the following interesting annoucement. Please follow up directly with Ron. Thanks. --Trey, N5KO -- A recent arrival (the birth of a healthy baby boy) ha
Yep. It's mind-boggling that I would come back to a miscopied call and the caller wouldn't bother to correct my mistake. I think the reason this is happening so much is that guys can't copy the code
6300 QSOs. No zone 2. No zone 23. No zone 26. No zone 39. On the other hand, when is the last time you worked zone 40 on five bands and zone 29 on four? And when is the last time you worked zone 12
80 meters was rough. Europe was hard to work this year, but the W's were even harder to work! I knew that when I had to dig to work KC1XX that I was in trouble. Ugh! In fact, 160 was more productive
Yep. But it goes both ways. When we visited Ceuta in 1993 and did a M/M on SSB, I was on 40. There was a big effort that weekend from Sri Lanka, 4S0AA or 4S0DX or soemthing like that. I heard them o
Yep, and we should eliminate the various power categories too. Too many guys claiming low power who are running amplifiers. That's easy to say when you operate from a country that has a digital tele
Have you ever noticed that contest results take so long to appear in magazines that sometimes you can't remember whether or not you actually operated the particular contest you are reading about at t
In a word, yes. Did you find it annoying that back in The Old Days[tm] the ARRL required you to use offical ARRL contest summary sheets and log sheets and to submit an Op Aid 6 dupe sheet with your
Randy has summarized the situation very well. I think the 30-hour SOAB WPX format was very good, and I still think that the new 36-hour format is a mistake. I would love to see the contest go back to
Yes, there will be a pileup contest again this year at Dayton. I also heave heard that since Skimmers are a technological advance not unlike logging programs, participants will be allowed to bring th
I like surveys! A better question would be: Who feels that taking an off-time in a contest is MORE fun than spending 6 hours in front of the radio when there is no one to talk to? [I am raising my ha
Go ahead, answer it HONESTLY! :-) --Trey, N5KO _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contes
Don G3XTT has the story right, because he was there. :-) And now for the rest of the story... In the early 1990's there was a thing called the "ARRL Format" for submitting contest QSO data to the ARR
I am sad to report that Steve Merchant K6AW (ex-N4TQO, W6EMS) passed away this morning at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara after a brief illness. I received the news from his brother this morning. S