Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 19:31:44 -0400
....of course the subject line should've read WRTC-2018 "qualifying events"......, but I've had a cpl people ask me what I meant. It was intended to be a clever play on words that didn't quite make t
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:38:55 -0400
Hey Tony, I don't often comment on this reflector, but read it quite often. I've gone assisted about 50% of the time the past couple years, mostly just in the slower contests, just to increase my enj
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:01:41 -0400
Kelly, (de VE9AA) I would not have logged the QSO.(you are not VE3XT and that?s who he has, in ON, in his log) Every once in a while someone will have decided that I am VE8AA and QSL or R a QSO that
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:44:34 -0400
Seems to me we've been down KP4KE this road before. A few times in fact. I have no idea what to suggest. Check qrz.com for KP4KE for just a couple examples. Check the pictures. (carefully) dit dit Mi
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:43:39 -0400
I still say giving them a contact without telling them it doesn't count in the contest makes it worse for everyone. Marv N5AW My response sometimes (usually on CW) is to ignore, but I found that it w
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:00:25 -0300
Hey Lloyd, First, thanks for all the KH6 Q's over the years. I do it all the time in up to 5 contests at once. Sometimes depending on settings/computer speed etc. it may not be lightning quick to tog
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:54:50 -0300
Although we tend to be semi serious contesters here in FN66 (NB) most of the time, a VE9 friend of mine is thinking we might like to do a laid back FD here in a couple weeks. This means 2 rigs and 2
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:22:13 -0300
I watched what I could of the live streaming video last night of the WRTC presentations, but here in the hinterlands of VE9, where we are still getting power, phone and Internet restored after post t
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:40:06 -0300
Thanks a lot Randy. Appreciate the info. Hopefully someone will step forward soon ! Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB The recorded videos of the Closing Ceremony are available online
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:11:23 -0300
I wish to thank the sponsor of the 10m plaque for the OM/OK DX contest. (and the contest committee as well!) WOW-it's nice. I appreciate it. I recall digging hard for every single QSO. Though the QSO
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:15:55 -0300
When 10 is dead, my go-to band is 15m?.(who?s isn?t?) Having 15m RFI is a PITB. All RFI stories welcome. I guess I have been lucky the past few decades as I have rarely had RFI, even when QRO. I have
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:09:31 -0300
The following is from Al, VA1MM but I 100% support him. See my own (VE9AA) comments below his: VA1MM: A group of us contesters here in the "MAR" section feel the time has come to announce the end of
Ron, We're NOT special-that's my point exactly. We are SEPARATE PROVINCES. Tell me what US STATES are lumped together as a single multiplier? NONE, that's how many. __________________________________
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:43:29 -0300
The ARRL sponsored NCJ sprints require MAR, whereas the ARRL NCJ NA QSO parties allow Provinces. Some ARRL contests require MAR, whereas some require NB, NS & PEI. There seems to be little in the way
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:07:36 -0300
My apologies Dave. I made the assumption they were "ARRL sponsored"...I knew you published them, so jumped to conclusios and was mistaken. Sorry about that. I certainly know when to say I am wrong. A
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:48:45 -0300
Ward, Thanks for your always very well thought out, reasonable and consistently entertaining emails. It brings a smile to my face quite honestly, to see an email from you in my inbox (even if I am ha
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:08:28 -0300
Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB Yes!!! de VE1RGB == Ward, Thanks for your always very well thought out, reasonable and consistently entertaining emails. It brings a smile to my face quite hone
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:30:03 -0300
Andy was unable to send to the list for whatever reason, so I am fwding it on his behalf. Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB Mike - Would you please forward this to the group. Hopefully it will a
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:09:08 -0300
Ward, Thanks for the insight. I have contacted Sam in the past and he said he was going to pass it along to the Advisory committee but never heard back. I have not heard from VE4BAW, RAC president, b
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:51:59 -0300
Thanks All, I shall once again proudly renew my RAC membership and WILL play in the ARRL SS contest this weekend (as time allows) sending MAR per the rules. I, too, hope some kind of communication ca