OK, so I can copy CW just as good as the next guy, but when signals are uber weak or there is QRM/QRN/QSB, I just abhor cut #'s.sometimes parts of #'s can be missing, but I can still figure it out. (
Randy's right. You have to know your audience (& condx). When running EU on SSB I almost never say "New Brunswick". I usually say "November Bravo" (or even "Norway Brazil" the 2nd or 3rd time if they
That's funny Dave. I have had DX ask me either on SSB or CW if "ON" was not correct and I often wondered how NB equaled ON (on either mode). For many years it always confused me. Weird. It wasn't unt
de: VE9AA "A" is a tough one on SSB. (on CW, I love it and it's seldom busted) Victor Echo Nine Alpha Alpha often sounds like VE9Delta Alpha on the DX end for some reason. (My Canadian accent?) If co
Hi Bob/N9GG (et al) I know I saw you having some minor technical troubles over on the N1MM groups.io reflector. I have used a smattering of different logging programs over the years.CT back in the 80
YOU NEVER FAIL TO IMPRESS Doug ! Thinking I'd get a jump on things to make the top 10 box this year I made 2 Q's a day early and will rubber clock the log later. I hope this puts me in the running fo
Yuri, Of course the best way is to just get on every Wednesday at 13z, 19z and 03z (Thu) and call CQ from .028 and up on the contest bands. Practice, practice, practice. Also, N1MMLogger Plus now has
Dick, Since I had a bad case of uvulitis (not nearly as distinguished as it sounds-horrible stuff) I was relegated to CW all weekend and added in the SP DX. No SSB sprint for me. Some of my favorite
Nobody outside Nebraska reporting their scores to 3830scores.com has "dozens of QSO's" on CW in the Nebraska QSO party Stan. If you'll read my message again, you'll see why I was not on SSB. Mike VE9
Stan, My friend... With much respect OM, you are just not reading my text. I am talking about CW, MORSE CODE QSO's AA4TI has 8 CW Qso's for 16 hours work Wa6POZ has a single CW QSO for 8 hours work.
Hello contesting friends. Although W.A.R.D is not a contest, it is an activity event..and as a bonus there are downloadable certificates for the VE/VA/VY stations after the event! CU all tmw (on CW)
Like many of you, it's about time management & your goals. Good contesters will ADAPT to the situation. Sometimes I do a : CQ VE9AA TEST sometimes TEST VE9AA..when things are real slow, maybe a longe
Hey Jeff, What's up? Bee in your bonnet or just fishing? hi I mostly agree with Ed and Dmitri's comments. In just 2 posts they pretty much covered it. How many ops in the shack? (One?, OK, single op
And compare Nates excellent score to that of KC1XX with the big aluminum. Both ops 36hrs/SO2R I'd much rather go up against a single op running 2BSIQ and normal antennas in a normal QTH than an avera
Jeff, (and anyone in favour of making SO2R a separate category) So you fellas/gals would have us create another category based almost entirely on operating SKILL rather than number of people, amount
All this talk about rise time, I didn't even recall that my (Icom) rigs had an adjustable one, or what it was for (until I read this thread) In my manual it gives me 4 options. 2, 4, 6 & 8 millsecond
It's my sad duty to report to the contesting world that Scott Nichols, VE1OP has recently become a SK a few days after he participated in CQWPX CW. The driving force behind the Maritime Contest Club,
I noticed a couple, but really not many. I have no way to know if the vy few bloopers I saw were generated by the RBN or a human. Those 15-20% contest I am assisted, I connect to VE7CC which I find v
Good point ! He must not care, as it's been going on for at least a couple/few years. I am sure he must get many dupes every contest....wouldn't you wonder why, after a while? Either he sends by han
I don't know the answer either, but I suspect, if anything, it's a M/S category, not an "assisted" category. After all, your Dad didn't scour the bands, or log into DXsummit and "feed" you multiplier