I *wish* I lived in the USA or EU in order to be able to qualify this time. Ever see Canada on a map? Our huge country has 2 sections (East and West). Sure, I am near Maine, USA so positioned pretty
Every time I operate a major phone contest (which isn't too often nowadays) I get called by USA stations on 14.140 or 7.080 if I choose to operate there. (usually I am looking for EU's if I am down t
Contests from various sponsors, (CQ, ARRL, NCJ, RAC, DARC, RDXC etc) and Awards from the ARRL/CQ are 2 different kettles of fish. You know who really cares what plaques you have on your wall? You! I
"W3WN: Imagine the chaos is one state contest used sections and the next state contest used states! Oh, the humanity!" VE9AA: I think that's a little bit of tongue-in-cheek or baiting on your part Ro
I *usually* have SCP loaded, updated and ready to go?.most of the time. The truth? I rarely rarely ever look at it. I am not a touch typist or quick on the mouse, so it?s of very little benefit to me
p.s.-typing K9T into N1MM+ logger (if that?s the one you use) does NOT bring up 26 suggestions by the way. To my count , it brings up 13, of which 3 or 4 can really be ruled out right away. In other
So far, everything John, W2GD has said makes perfect sense and I agree with him. He has more experience than a lot of folks here. Some would do well to listen to folks with lots of experience. You ca
I guess in the VT QSO party it's a thing. I sent an email to Mitch, W1SJ to voice my displeasure/concern. and http://www.ranv.org/vtqso.html ".CONVERSATION WARC Contesting? Perhaps you missed it. I c
Jim, So that I do not misinterpret you.you are then in support of WARC band contesting? Today VT, tomorrow Maine, next week the New England QSO Party, then the Florida QSO party, then CQWPX (Ok, I kn
All: I find that very disappointing that folks would support contesting (of any kind) on a WARC band, as the WARC bands have always been "contest free zones". A refuge for non contesters. I'm as acti
Why is it.you fellas with 3 and 4 letter contesting callsigns send them twice? (or more) I was on 80m Sat night and 40m Sunday night, with huge signals into EU (and presumably vice versa) and was run
Frank is spot on and that's exactly how I do it most of the time. Since I am a relatively slow typer, this works in my favour. E7DX calls in..I type E7D <enter> and then X. With only the T/R delay an
Yup, like most of you, I got called by quite a few of them this past w/e. Sometimes a mult, sometimes not. Often loud. Usually QRQ. I do cut them a very small amount of slack if they are "loud" (fair
Is it reasonable to assume I could locate all my coax stubs 165' away from the shack outside at the antenna switch? Currently I run SO2R with no band pass filters, nor coax stubs, but I have a 'relat
Thanks to Tom for pointing me to this great document by K9YC. I shall review it. No room in the shack for stubs, as its literally ½ of a vy small bedroom. I may try to find room in the garage (20 awa
I am not a lawyer-but pretty sure this is against the rules in most contests (soliciting QSO's outside and during the competition) Anyways. we should all be asking ourselves what was the motivation o
I can kinda see where youre coming from Jeff, but what weve seen here is a contest with real time log checking (video!) for the masses. It also gives the unfair advantage of hearing/seeing your QSO.
Thanks for posting this Randy. Was good to hear what I sounded like in V4 on SSB...shame I wasn't a bit louder, but all wire antennas here - oh well ! Glad to work you on 3 bands. I did a very par
Bob/KQ2M is right. During disturbed (or worse) condx, the southern W3/W4?s often kick my butt into EU even though I am about ¼-1/3rd of the way closer than some of them. Not that it may be especially