I feel like a kid compared to you guys - I'm 65 :-) Anyway, I, too, no longer have the competitive contesting bug. I was never a fan of doing 48h marathons. However, in the 2000s decade I decided to
Could someone explain how the tuning knob works again? Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman
Rule for consideration for next year: You can work yourself for QSO points once every 10 minutes. Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
I will be in JA next month and it appears I will have a free evening in Tokyo on April 5. Any JA contesters want to get together for an eyeball QSO or dinner? I will be staying in a hotel in Shinjiku
There was a young man of Nantucket.... Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-con
I reviewed my LCR, as well. As usual, about 10% of those I worked lost points for busting my zone (4), including several top ten guys. Two reasons for this, both easily preventable: 1. Copy what you
I have been doing a fair bit of international travel since Covid restrictions ended. I've had the 5 vaccinations. I caught Covid once (Jan 2023), most likely from a lunch break in a ski lodge. It was
Some guys post their rate sheets with their scores onthe 3830 website. K5ZD is one who regularly does. Suggest you look there in the Comments section. Barry W2UP _____________________________________
As some of you may have noticed, ARRL added a Wire Antennas overlay to SS 2023. This is NOT in N1MM (I was told Limited Antennas is not a recognized Cabrillo 3.0 overlay), On the ARRL SS log submissi
Thanks for the replies. I see now that the Overlay is "hidden" and exposed on the web form only after clicking the single=op button. See you in SS with my wire antennas! 73, Barry W2UP ______________
I was surprised to see, on 3830, quite a few SO2R entries in the limited antenna overlay. Based on my own single, multiband dipole, I presumed that SO2R wasn't possible, unless using a triplexer (or
However, I've never seen a winning score from that 2x0 call from the Côte d'Ivoire - TU Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com ht
You had fun making it difficult for the "real" participants by screwing with the exchange? If you're not submitting a log, nobody cares about your power, assistance, etc., but send the correct info t
I rate N3ZN and Begali paddles equally superb. While the N3ZN paddles aren't as shiny, they cost significantly less. Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
I use an email address on qrz.com that I don't use anywhere else. Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
I also upload it to Clublog. Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
When I just make a few QSOs in a contest that I stumble across by tuning the bands, I always make a minimum of 3, just so I don't appear as a fabricated QSO. I've never made any QSOs in CQMM because
Sorry, Pete, but that's not a valid excuse. I've told this one before, but it's worth repeating for a laugh: Speaking of DXing and callsigns, one time, there was a big pile up on some DX station in w
Happens to me all the time, Jim. Every major contest, about 10% of the exchanges are entered wrong. In my case, I've lived in zone 4 for 15 years now (though I have done an occasional remote from zon
You are missing the point, Bill. Eliteness has nothing to do with it. It's all about sunrise/sunset times and how long the band is open to a particular area. The EU opening in MO is about 90 minutes