Congratulations on earning your General, Jacob! If you have done some VHF contesting in the past and want to try out your new band privileges in some HF contests, of course you can use the FT-857. Is
The elog utility from JARL actually works FB to convert a Cabrillo log to the "Jabrillo" format. Of course, had they put a link to that page on the AA Contest site we could have saved numerous electr
I've used an FT-920 since returning to ham radio three years ago. With over 21K QSO's and a substantial portion of those DXing and contesting with a pair of Carolina Windoms, I consider the 920 the f
Congratulations on earning your General, Jacob! If you have done some VHF contesting in the past and want to try out your new band privileges in some HF contests, of course you can use the FT-857. Is
The JARL log submission template is a unique non-Cabrillo format. If you read the instructions on the AA Contest website, you'll soon understand why few non-JA's bother to spend the time to create th
There is no high power category in NAQP. I totally screwed up by not remembering the rules and will be sending a checklog only. George W1EBI -- End of Original Message -- ____________________________
Ian, you could start with "The Sprint Survival Web Page" at: http://n6tr.jzap.com/sprint.html 73, George W1EBI --Original Message-- From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@
Yep, those are the (CW) dates. Gosh, according to my log everyone sent actual RST reports back then. George W1EBI Phone was February 6th and 7th and March 5th and 6th. CW was February 20th and 21st a
On Saturday, April 9, the Yankee Clipper Contest Club held its annual election meeting. The following were elected to serve as officers for the April 2005-March 2006 club year: President: K1RX, Mark
There was such a public outcry over a recent "wardrobe malfunction" on CBS that NBC chose to edit ER only four days later. I rarely get involved in mass controversies, but I've sent a note on this on
What you heard was "5NNNN" for 599 99. One guy sent sent "5nnnnn" for 599 99, another sent "5NN 73"--but who measures output power to that precision :-) George W1EBI --Original Message-- From: cq-con
In retrospect, I was out of line with my reply to the original email. Yes, the contest was over but not the log deadline. I was guilty myself two years ago in asking a similar type of question and go
(snip) Besides, now that CW has been dropped from most jurisdictions, I would expect CW allocations to gradually disappear. (snip) David, I sincerely hope your expectations do not ever materialize. C
Tom Lewis wrote a terrific book in 1991, "Empire of the Air--The Men Who Made Radio." It was made into a special on PBS a few years ago. One paragraph particularly struck me: "Despite Edwin Howard Ar
Rin, this is a very neat application! I only tried it for a few minutes, but it is very realistic. Especially at this early hour after trying to hear weak signals in AACW for a few hours :-) A "virtu
According to 3830 there are lots of non-Asian scores being submitted in LP category. If I read the rules correctly, only Asian stations compete as both LP and HP entries. Non-Asian stations enter as
You'll get every Z-based amp in response to this! The Kenwood TL-922 meets all your criteria. It's built like a brick outhouse and has great cooling. Without QSK, though, it's not every op's contest
Baloney. Once the contest starts there is NO guarantee that any station will come back to you even if you have a "warmup" QSO and get a "S9+20" report. Pre-contesting warmup is NOT contesting. It's n
Take any set of a few thousand individuals and, regrettably, there is bound to be a cheat or two among them. I got flamed by a guy who really (and profanely) disagreed with my suggestion that pre-con
VK0DX came up as Macquarie instead of KC4. Didn't check 3D2XA, but I think it was correct as Fiji and not Rotuma. George W1EBI -- End of Original Message -- __________________________________________