Except that then you may be stomping on Canadian and DX SSB ops. Either way, TX B4 RX will get you honours status at Lids U. 73, ve4xt -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Adm
Anyone who heard W2NQ last year berating contesters' lack of operating ethics on the air will love this: Today, as I was playing in CQP, I tuned across 14.200 to hear a certain W2 calling a bunch of
According to the rules as published in Oct. 1997 QST (can there be a better source?) the other station's callsign is not part of the required exchange; I quoth: ``4) Exchange: A consecutive serial nu
So, has anyone thought about the Year 2000 thing and how this will affect SS? Will we have to start sending 4-digit checks, or is this not a problem until the century is old enough that amateur radio
K4OJ brought up an interesting point. My last posting should have included that omitting the other's call sign may not be the smartest thing to do if there's confusion about who's calling whom. -- CQ
I'll admit to being a tad rusty on regs, but I seem to remember reading that the only requirement is to ID oneself. ID on the part of the other station is HIS responsibility. 73 k. -- CQ-Contest on W
Has anyone tried a folded inverted L? If the folded theory holds for inverted Ls, this should improve bandwidth and perhaps make it easier to match. 73, kelly -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contest
Hi, if you're one of these guys, I want to hear from you! I'm writing the QST report for 2001 ARRL SS Phone, and I need to talk (type) to you about your station and your effort. Please e-mail me at v
Oh, great, now on Sunday afternoons on 15 we'll have 250kHz of snoring... Keep that VOX off, please. On the bright side, I guess having the run station nod off mid-Q is a great way to find a CQ frequ
Hi, I guess this whole thread is preaching to the converted. I don't imagine too many ops who aren't at least casual contesters subscribe, so I'm not sure what the point of the thread is. Be that as
Here's the thing: the people who won't bother to look at the line scores on the Web are the same people right now who don't bother to look at the line scores in QST. Line scores have limited appeal -
Heck of an idea! Perhaps the robot engineers could add a subroutine that compiles a mailing list from incoming e-mail submissions that could then be used (in late Oct. for SS, for example) to shotgun
That would be a neat contest, though I wonder the extent to which you could convince ops whose stations aren't already equipped to do the digital modes. It is, of course, easier now with sound card a
At what point do we say enough with new rules? If we addressed every little gripe on this reflector with a new rule, contest announcements would be about as brief as War and Peace. The periodic repri
All this talk of the TS 570 vs. TS 850 (not even a contest in my book, in favour of the 850) raises a wider question: are ANY of Kenwood's current production radios competition grade? At the risk of
Hello all, I was in Austin earlier this month on business when we drove (north, I believe) out of the city past a 3M facility that had a tall windmill tower and several nice-looking HF and VHF antenn
One of the things I love about SS is it is the great propagation equalizer. Sure, WP3R gets better prop than anybody, but SS is still a contest where you don't need to be somewhere along an ocean to
I can see it being mistakes, I can see it being some people trying to "slip one in." Any time that I've been CQing outside the U.S. phone bands and asked a U.S. caller if they were entitled to operat
Hi all, Has anyone heard how Pat or Ray, or any other cq-contest devotees, have made out with Katrina? I'm sure our thoughts are with anyone in the storm's path. 73, kelly ve4xt _____________________