Back in the 1960's-70's is seemed as if some stations would purposely have clicks or splatter as a way of keeping others off their back. In those days we didn't have receivers that had the ability to
I was alerted that my K3S was generating a bit of crap that sounded like hot switching the amp. It turned out that the default TX Delay setting of 008 was a tad too short. Changing it to 009 resolved
In the AA I worked no less than 3 Asians giving me their age as 15! They were good ops too!! The ops were at BY1CY, RA9P and RA9L. TA7AZC is 21. By the same token, the oldest was RX9CM (he had me by
This is really sad news. Please help Dan if you can Pete, W1RM W1RM@Comcast.net FYI Dan Street K1TO, who served for 18 years as FCG president, suffered a critical injury in early August while working
Some of you will remember Roger, W1AX as one of the giants in Eastern MA. Roger didn't have a big station, in fact by today's standards, it was very modest but he made up for that with incredible ski
OK so this weekend was the CQMM DX Contest. A gentle affair run by the CWJF, a Brazilian CW group. No pressure, no big prizes. So here I am calling CQ MM. I get 4 or 5 callers, all jammed on top of e
Rule number 1, work 'em as fast as you can Rule number 2, work 'em as fast as you can ... I get that of course but in the time it takes do go through this stupid exercise 2 or 3 times, there might ha
Oh I remember that one very well. Last hour of CQWW CW and I was doing single band 15, needing zone 6. I came upon this blur of dits and dahs and it took me a few repeats to get it right. Pete Chamal
First, you have to define what winning means to you. Are you looking at single op? Multi-2, M/M? What category? Assisted? Unassisted? What mode? What is the scope? Top in the world? Top in your conti
Many of you know me as a CW man. Running a phone pileup is sort of a different kettle of fish. I'm the manager for K2D in the 13 colonies event. Many of the guys and gals who are staffing K2D have ra
Thanks Rich. I just shared your comments with the team. Some of them are experienced contesters, some not. A few are very green but eager to help. Pete Chamalian, W1RM W1rm@comcast.net Pete, I was li
Now this is going to sound odd coming from a die-hard CW guy but as one who sips the cup of RBN CW spots, I can tell you there is need for a lot of improvement in that technology. Voice RBN would be
The opt out I mentioned is based one way the particular node connected to handles serving RBN spots. I know there are some distribution nodes that offer the ability to accept or not accept RBN spots.
Ray, some thoughts... Are you both using the same spot source? By that I mean are you both connected to the same telnet station? Not all telnet stations are interconnected so it is possible that you
Do you have the new Synthesizer board(s) in the K3? If not, that's the first step. Pete Chamalian, W1RM W1RM@Comcast.net I'm curious to know - except maybe on 160 or VHF, most of my receiving problem
I would offer that all low power records be cast in stone and a completely new set be created. As you point out, the 50 watt difference is huge and not just on the low bands! Pete Chamalian, W1RM W1R
I, too, worked W4KFC. I was in the middle of a run on 20 when I saw the spot for W4KFC on 80. Like a moth to the flame, I stopped the run and went to 80 to work KFC. Growing up in contesting, Vic was
A word of caution about this stuff. If you read the fine print on some, they say there can be some negative impact on the heart. Most of us aging contesters have some degree of heart disease so be ca
The grand lady of contesting, Ellen White, W1YL, is SK. No specifics yet but I'm sure there will be lots of tributes and details about what's next. At least Ellen is once again reunited with her belo
I would like to have a serious discussion regarding contest burnout. I'm not interested in nasty or snide comments but rather a real discussion on those, like me, who are suffering from it and have o