Al, You (and WN0L) are not quite correct. In his example, if the other station logged him as KN0L, WN0L will get credit for the QSO. If the call is off by one character, but otherwise is correct in t
A simple solution is to publish results on the web 2 months after the magazine has been published. Those that wish to subscribe will continue to do so and I don't think a policy such as this will sig
Depends on power level and how you supress the other signal (stubs, bandpass filters or both. I have both). My 402CD is 9 ft from my high TH7 and no problems barefoot, and can get within 10-15 Khz of
I believe you guys are missing the point. The results WILL be available to all. ARRL gives a preview to members one month prior to publication for all to see. I don't think this is an unreasonable me
Jan, You state below: What almost none of those opposing the proposed action have addressed is how does ARRL cope with declining membership, declining advertising revenue, and deficit financing? For
Steve, Quoting you from another thread, do you have facts to back that up? I've always had the impression (mine and others) that CQ isn't worth the paper it's printed on, and the only reason it survi
If the goal of the ARRL is to fragment the amateur community further, they will succeed. Removing DXing, contesting, and other HF activities from the limelight will only further isolate the no-code t
The question should be generalized, and not just apply to contesting. I submitted an article about an early packet radio system (Digicom for the C-64) back in 1987. QST rejected it. 73 publshed it. A
Why not take the SO2R analogy one or more steps further: MS was supposed to be a bunch of guys splitting up the 48 hour op-time of one radio (sounds very civilized to me!) However, technology has cha
As a "two mode" contester (CW and RTTY), I agree with Tyler one hundred percent. As I've said before on the RTTY Reflector, IMO, there are way too many minor RTTY contests, and I would much rather se
Jim, I wonder if the surveys included and were cross-correlated to purchases of amateur-related equipment? I believe that would provide much more valuable "bottom line" information, not only to the L
Hi all, I made the following comments in my 3830 writeup, and received a few emails agreeing. Would be interested in hearing other comments... As I was unavailable for contesting Sunday, I decided to
It didn't only happen to VEs. I got called by a few stateside guys too. I gave them a report and went on to the next QRZ. First, it's quicker than yelling at them. Second, better not to piss off the
Yeah, it was real nice last night having all the SSB QRM covering up PW0T on 1814 CW. Prime offender was S57M CQing, but a bunch of stateside guys kept calling him. Barry -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Intern
Why don't we just figure the area of the 175 mile circle (let's see... pi r squared ==~96000 sq miles), and allow any shaped figure. My club borders will be 10 miles wide and 9600 miles long. It incl
On another note, at least one Italian sent 500 for power. New rules there or one honest ham in the country? :.) Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Internet: w2up@mindspring.com Newtown, PA Frankford Ra
Mark, The batteries in a UPS are lead-acid, same as a car battery. They do wear out after a while. I have 4 UPSs between home and office. I've replaced batts in 2 of them, I'd say averaging 4-5 years
Jim, I'd like to add a few comments, having gone through some noise problems myself recently. The first thing the power company noise guru (also a ham) did was turn my house power off at the main bre
Another interesting tidbit in the ZF2MM (vs. 8P5A) packet saga. If one were thinking maliciously, one could also provide misinformation via packet to make life difficult for a contest DXpedition. For