Hi, Does anybody has serious data about trees and forest absorption on top band ? 73's , Gilles / VE2TZT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.
During ARRL DX, On 160m, I got a 5991n6n, 3 times repeated, I think the guy sent his licence year ! About 50 VE/W had answered to my CQ's . I think ARRL should communicate more on the basic rules of
After every major contest, this question is raised by some purists or some non-contesrers upset by having been unable to use his/her usual frequency in his/her usual mode. It is a wrong interpretatio
1) I have started the contest just having programmed my logging software to have T for 0 as cut number. When I came over #1000, I became obliged to give up and go back to original 0 because I got a
Same thing for me. I use a 250 Hz filter and sometimes I need to switch on the 500 Hz one to listen the station calling me, listening by the way the adjacent running station. The funniest is went a s
Here, I use fluorescent lights as often as possible (when warn-up delay or color is not a concern) and their are far to be a rfi problem today. In the future, if incandescent are banned, I am afraid
I am very impressed by the huge quantity of postings about this topic. For 2 or 3 years that I have been a subscriber to this reflector, It seems to be the most important subject for years. And what
I am absolutely OK with what you are saying about antennas. My purpose was not to tell that ''SO2R'' should be a separate category, but just that the ''assisted'' one, for the same reasons as ''SO2R'
Sorry to get some bandpass on this endless topic but the judicious example of Joe, W4TV : had helped me to understand the ''opposite" points of view. And from where the difference is coming. If we su
As a regular, lowly attractive callsign CQing guy, after a CQ, it, sometimes, happens to have several simultaneous answers. In this case, I can suppose that all the answerers know my callsign. Then,
Rowland, Very nice description of our usual QRN/QSB nightmare. I think that 3?9 is a good way to say what piece of information is missing. Sometimes the guy is able to send several times only the mis
What you do not anticipate Tim is that soon, everybody will have access to a free remote RX close to his QTH and nobody will be longer able to know what kind of contact he is making. Gilles VE2TZT _
-- Original Message -- In Amateur Radio you have the word "radio" You are confusing radio-communications and communications. Your assertion should be right if you had wrotten "development of new radi
An other way to show one's disapprobation without giving the victory to the ''no-code digital mode dunderheads'' is to run the contest without respecting this rule, having the fun of the contest, se
Yes but now add to that on the second radio a SDR/panadapter or a Flex 3000 display, you will just have to click on the peaks of the spectrum display to tune and have the callsign decoded by your ''
Hi everybody, I am not very familiar with the CQWW VHF Contest. As I did not find any mention about spotting assistance in the rules, I presume that it is authorised for single op. But with all the p
That's one of the reasons why I keep audio records of all of my contests. In such a situation, including when I receive a QSL card ''not in my log'' I listen to what happened. Then I can take a clear
Since the beginning, I was believing that the WRTC was comparable to a sort of Olympics. In that spirit, every nation can send only a limited number of players.Then even if there are many very good o
Always the same topic coming back periodically from ''old good times'' addicts. Very symptomatic : ''because SCP uses information ... compiled by others'' That looks pretty like the definition of a .
For those who did not understand, ''generating your own electricity'' was ironic to say that if you open that door with SCP versus assistance, you will always find someone more purist than you to pus