Good to hear from K1PX about his stint doing certificates for a CQ contest... Someone who earns a certificate would have sent in an entry & in that entry there should be a postal address. To have to
SM0JHF spoke of his experience taking HF equipment around the world: Unless the radio is on the schedule for your station license here, or you have an import license for it, bringing it in is unlawfu
VE4XT might have forgotten something when he posted: Like a winking smiley face? You must be joking Kelly. International delivery one month later? We wish. That would almost make the ridiculous inter
A little less than a year ago, I asked on cq-contest whether or not anyone had received confirmation after sending their REF entry in by email. The only reply was from EI8IC, who had been asked by F5
Anybody have a chance to compare the footprint of the "standard" DIN jack to that of the one used by Kenwood & Yaesu? If they're the same, then why not change the jack to something that matches plugs
K8CC added: They're most certainly PCB-mounted, but that should only stop the most dedicated QCAO types. DIN = German Institute for Standardization, but looking any further requires Euros & I've only
AB0MV asked how the casual contester is to know where a TO# call is. Good question. You can't. They're French. After SECAM & yellow headlamps, TO4T being in FG is to be expected - northern hemisphere
I'm increasingly finding that if there was a way to, I'd request folks _not_ to spot me. It used to be that before the Internet got involved, from the other side one could see how spots propagated on
NS3T noted that he "spotted" YP3A. I've noticed that I from time to time make similar "spots". I suspect these are Internet-originated & in the quest to have a quiet word with the other "me", have at
N7ZG replied to K8IA: I just learned that our telecom authority has not been able to get a bearing on this signal. I first reported it a week or two before IARU - after I was finally able to get a be
W1EBI replied to N7MAL: Very, very few contests use proper Cabrillo. Congratulations to JARL for going with Jabrillo - rather than twist Cabrillo into something proprietary & still call it Cabrillo -
JF1SQC added: Not sure how to do the latter - as UA9CDC pointed out, there is no JARL anything in Cabrillo specification. Where is All-Asia contest in the definition of CONTEST: field? If it is not i
JF1SQC added: Yes, that is a better way to put it. The word "Cabrillo" clearly implies the Cabrillo standard. There is one other thing - QSO template. If JARL were to indicate which _existing_ Cabril
N7MAL continued: Nobody can implement Cabrillo for AA, as the two basic things that need to be in the Cabrillo specification are missing for AA: a defined name for the contest (for the CONTEST: field
VE4XT added: Yes, if you want to do more than be able to operate & log standard QSO info, TR might not be the right thing for day-to-day use. Otherwise, it's flexibility is fantastic. I have yet to f
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NZ7G added: At first it looked like we'd be spared - but that wasn't to be. There were times when proximity worked to my advantage, but the rest of the time the band was a lost cause when it was on.
VK2CZ reported: I suspect that was coincidental. It's louder here & doesn't seem to take notice of my presence before firing up, or my firing up after it had already been on. "Ditting" doesn't seem t
It was suggested to me that perhaps I've been using some obscure Q-signals. QSN = report QTF = bearing So, I repeat: "Please, more reports that include bearings (where possible) & any additional info