Many such signals between 6.4 and 6.8 but a vy strong one on 6449 would've been in its death throes but the bigger signals would've still been coming through. I heard absolutely nothing, so I think y
Snipped from my ARRL DX SSB 2014 (10m only) 3830 report..and this was not even the best year for sunspots. Anyone who endured more than 3 hrs this w/e deserves a medal. I gave up after 2 hrs and 42 m
It's a funny thing, the human brain. I love contesting, CW/SSB..even a tiny tiny bit of RTTY. I interviewed to be an ATC back in the day, and even passed the initial test, but then my career took ano
For contests like RDX and WPX where the exchange is a serial #, do you: . Go as fast as always. (34-36wpm) , risking your qso partner busting the #,but keeping rate high. . Go a bit slower (30-32wpm)
I really opened a can of worms, eh? Somehow my thread has taken 3 or 4 directions and even changed names a couple times. Leave it to me to start something. At least there's no name calling ! Hope to
Hey Jeff, Yes, it's cheating. I will never reply during a contest, HOWEVER, I usually don't instantly delete the email later when I read it. After I look at the callsign. I say to myself, "do I recog
Very happy Tim and his team were able to do this for the teens. I did work them on a few bands and recognized NN1C's voice actually. I didn't recognize the other voices, but after reading/viewing Tim
Pretty cool Jim. I would love to have something like this, fill in each county with a colour, in real time, as I work them, interfaced with N1MM+ Good job in GA QP this weekend btw. I would've never
Hey guys n' gals, I am not against FT# contesting, but I certainly won't pretend to understand it. (nor am I a Luddite) IMO, if you remove too much of the human element from the picture, the 'rush',
Sorry, but you?re wrong Hans. Even if you use a call history file, there is no way for me to ?know? (unless I am psychic) where anyone in the USA is because their callsigns are not tagged to a State(
I would agree that SOME of the human element has been 'enhanced', but I am still decoding CW by ear (and SSB too of course, although someday I am sure SSB contests will be digitized. Someday.....if I
Hi guys-thanks for all the 'WPX Q's this past w/e. Would any of you that are very successful doing 'dual run' be willing to share your N1MM+ setup and perhaps answer a few emails (off list of course!
My sentiments agree with most of the previous posters. I think there should be a "Digital VHF" contest and then another one for CW/SSB.perhaps broken out to either CW or SSB. *(just like many HF mult
Not a chance Jim ! I do admit I had DXCC and many hundreds of grids before WAS on 6m. (Hawaii was my holdout), but I can say without hesitation that if I could've worked Hawaii in 2 yrs on FT8(or RTT
Hi Dan, I am late to the party. I am not your best resource, but will tell you that I contest here on ~2.2acres LP (and even some HP) nearly interference free with no filters and no stubs ! (gasp!) M
<snip> Time to go back to contesting. Has anyone actually been active on the air? Any plans for this weekend? -- Tom/K1KI co-admin Bless you Tom ! Never before over the last two and a half decades on
I don't do very many RTTY contests, so certainly don't represent the majority of the digi-dudes you'll get replies from. However, I think I may represent many of us in the Northern hemisphere trying
I likely won't be on for SS SSB, so yesterday I (probably) made my very last QSO with Jay's station. I was very fortunate to have Gerry clipping along at his usual 38wpm+ or whatever, and snuck in un
I worked one stn with a check of "20"..that's right, "20" (I am sure many worked this stn as well) I had to process that one for a second..brain locks up..uhhhh, wha? Then, because I was doing an 83/
Like many of you, I am sure I have Paul in the log hundreds of times. Like a few of you, Paul was one of those (depending on the contest) would say something like "oh, there you are" or "GA MIKE" or