I want to reinforce Dan's comments... Many of the bad J7zeroJ (and the 4zero1A )spots were likely due to bad typing. [BTW I was on a professional committee in the very early 1970's when attaching key
I put fat, white, rubber furniture tips (aka crutch tips) on the RIT controls of my ts-930 and icom 756pro. The former took one such tip (probably 5/8"); the latter needed a smaller black tip inside
MDC once was *Maryland *Delaware and district of *Columbia. Once DE became its own section, MDC became *Maryland and *District of *Columbia or MD + DC without the dup on D Bob, w3idt -- .............
Congratulations to Gene, w3zz (ex w3bqv, k1anv), my car-pooling member to the PVRC(NW)/Frederick meetings for many years (though our joint history seems to go back to the late 1950's in New England c
At some point in the recent past (1970s?) the "MDC" section - {M)aryland + (D)elaware + district of (C)olumbia - was split into "DE" and "MDC" - now just MD + DC. Bob, w3idt -- ex DC resident .......
Peter, others, "435 multipliers": Interesting comment... Hope you don't mind a little historical information... The District of Columbia (DC) is NOT a Congressional District as are the "435 multiplie
All, The (175 mile radius) club circle rule dates from the early 1970s, and was enacted to prevent large "virtual" contest clubs from having members, in effect, from throughout the United States. Als
Extending the discussion of eyeglasses... My eyesight is bad enough that one pair of progressive lenses would leave only a very narrow slit focused on any one distance (bi- or trifocals would of cour
Charlie, hs0zcw, is right: Slowing down to the caller's speed used to be standard; but now, *very* few ops will do so (maybe we should keep a list to make public). I even have a function key programm
John, I think you missed one of my comments (below) in this thread (and reminded me that there was on other item I could have added): a. You said, "If you call someone, they assume that you were alre
...snip To borrow from a recent CQWW thread, should an op be DQed for walking a "Sunday driver" through the exchange information without requiring the Sunday drive to perform the difficult task of pa
As others have tried to point out: Seeing the monitor(s), keyboard, radio(s), etc., without eye strain is a major human factors issue in contest station design. Prior to my recent cataract surgery (b
There MAY be another phenomenon re 1980's checks... (Daughter) K3MIM was initially licensed in 1989 (as KA3UBJ). When starting 'serious' SS/SSB (from the W3LPL dx-contest station) she found "89" gene
So I'm looking for ideas as to why someone should do contests. Anyone? Joe WB9SBD What you want to find is an article written by W2SKE (Major CBS honcho in the 1950s and 1960s): The Battle Of The Ham
While beginning to fiddle with RTTY in the recent past, I entered the NAQP RTTY contest... Had spotting ON, so Multi-Op per NAQP rules. Made ONE contact. Was at the end of the Multi-Op listing in NCJ
I remember an old article by L B Cebik . . . Newest version, cites Cebik's (w4rnl, sk) work: http://ncjweb.com/features/QEX-Leeson-Broadband-Dipole.pdf (QEX November/December 2018) Bob, w3idt .......
I explicitly ask that responders speak slower and use long phonetics. As posted in the PVRC reflector on this same topic, I'll use US geography based Whiskey Three Indiana Delaware Tennessee (or Wash
One solution to the multiple State QPs and same-named counties problem is to use STANDARD CENSUS / ANSI COUNTY (numeric) codes. Gives a little challenge to copy the codes correctly: I live in MD 031
Meant to include list of standard county codes: https://www.census.gov/prod/techdoc/cbp/cbp95/st-cnty.pdf One solution to the multiple State QPs and same-named counties problem is to use STANDARD CEN
*Allow separate credit for working a station on each of three modes on the same band (CW, SSB, digital).* [With reference to VHF contests] I have a long standing proposal before the ARRL Contest Adv