I would think that from your suggestion you have looked at the Oceania DX contest.. This is a very popular contect in VK and ZL and its rules are prefixs count on every band eg JA1 160 though ten is
Its subtle isn't it Doug... When almost all of southern Oceania has a HF 120 watt output CW power limit I cringe when I see various Dxpeditions to the Pacific publishing on the web that they are usin
Surely an April 1 hangover.... A net that runs ten hours per day ?? They are obviously passionate about their cause... We have a similar problem in VK with the 7060 net on 40M - if you are contesting
This sounds like a great opportunity for DX stations to know that 14.300.0 will be a clear spot when NA is open...I fully support the petition... :-) tongue in cheek....cu all on 14.300.00 in the nex
We had an incident reported in VK of a foundation grade licencee reporting in daily to a 20M net while he sailed from VS6 to VK6....out of band... with all due respect as has been pointed out these p
I have found the diet versions very effective, my voice seems to go hoarse with Coffee but un-sugared versions are very good either Red Bull or "V" - Drinks with sugar like Mother or Red Bull definit
well done Art, Another legend of the PC keyboard loose on the bands...I thought I was the only one..during the ten metre my keyboard randomly decided it wanted to respond to rf... call CQ or push any
Sounds pretty cool Mike... In the best tradition of real men don't read the instructions - I found out in the ARRL ten metre that Writelog has a key re-mapping feature built in...I have only used Wri
I bought several Keyspan units (4 port) and they are in use at VK7ZE, VK7XX, VK6AA (VK2IA) and VK4TI everyone has reported them as reliable in differing RF environments.. They are used as the basis o
Bias from my home station is towards CW due to very high local QRN from everything imaginable...however a narrow CW filter gets rid of that and makes this location usable.. My preference is SSB conte
Budget $1000 yeh right....OK ... one of my Elmers used to say a SSB signal regardless of how simple the rig is will get you on air what you do after that is up to you..within the budget everything wo
Bill, As much as we like to think of changes for the betterment of contesting people are slow adopters..for example if the Assisted category was taken on board in the way that the traditionalist woul
... [show rest of quote] JARL; ALL ASIAN and JIDXC That makes some bigger non USA contests embracing the technology... -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/CQ-WW-CC-Update-tp4417042
I am chasing a bit of direction - I have a new tower on the way and two TH6 antennas - OK old hat but they are in stock.. I realized that the constraint would be that they would limit flexibility if
Simply run up the programme you would like to use and check out the list of available radios...bearing in mind some need various other things to work..like the rs232 units on Icoms and the older Yaes
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writelogger/ The existing Writelog Yahoo group is unsupported - non functional....as an alternative I have setup this Yahoo Group... Regards to all Writelog Users who pr
The Australian Shires Contest Held the weekend prior to the second Monday of June every year. Starts: 06.00 UTC Saturday, June 12, 2010 Ends: 06.00 UTC Sunday, June 13, 2010 I. Contest Period: 24 hou
Totally agree Peter - HFTA is one of the best tools in a contesters cabinet...we modeled all the towers and antennas at our station using it before installation and the scores are starting to get acc
The VK SHIRES Contest is on again - there are no rule changes but we have two QLD Shires that have amalgamated. Tactics in the VK Shires include - Making sure you work multipliers on both modes (they