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21. Re: [CQ-Contest] [Yaesu] Best HF rig under $900 (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:07:30 -0800
Randy, While I really like my FT-847 as it is, as you say, a good all around radio, I would be hesistant to recommend it for serious contesting. I used mine during the CQ 160 CW contest and it suffer
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-02/msg00267.html (9,924 bytes)

22. Re: [CQ-Contest] Does size matter? (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:35:34 -0800
Somebody has to originate every "first spot", so at least a few are still finding them the hard way. 73 de Mike, W4EF........................... _______________________________________________ CQ-Con
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00184.html (9,118 bytes)

23. Re: [CQ-Contest] biggest 20M array in the world ? (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:15:04 -0800
I talked to the guy the other day who built ZZK's antenna. He said it was 13 elements on a 165' boom. The boom was Heights Aluminum tower with a 3 dimensional truss to stiffen it. Rotator was a prop
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00256.html (10,942 bytes)

24. Re: [CQ-Contest] Real emergencies (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:34:16 -0800
Arguments over the minutia of part 97 aside, you also have to consider the realities of enforcement. Even if what W5KFT did was actually illegal, I seriously doubt that the FCC would have revoked W5K
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00503.html (11,117 bytes)

25. Re: [CQ-Contest] Real emergencies (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:13:05 -0800
Yes, maybe there was cellphone coverage and yes, maybe there was a callbox, and then again, maybe he was between callboxes, and maybe he didn't have a cellphone, and maybe he was just nervous and wor
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-03/msg00518.html (12,962 bytes)

26. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest amp for sale (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:36:43 -0800
Gosh, only 350 watts of drive for 1/2 power, Tree! Now I know how you do so well in SS. And all this time I thought it was because of superior operating skill :):) Mike, W4EF........................
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-04/msg00040.html (7,849 bytes)

27. Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest amp for sale (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:41:46 -0800
Boy, I took that one hook line and sinker, Tree http://www.cpii.com/eimac/catalog/140439.htm Mike, W4...EGG..on...FACE _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-04/msg00041.html (9,248 bytes)

28. Re: [CQ-Contest] Reply to: Comparing Apples to Basketballs - Let'schangethe ARRLDX Contest Rules (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:38:23 -0700
Bob, no matter how much you implore us to accept the validity of your arguments, you are just not going to garner any sympathy from anyone west of Mississippi on this one. I suspect I am not alone in
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-04/msg00099.html (11,011 bytes)

29. Re: [CQ-Contest] RCA(PHONO) JACK TO PL-259 ADAPTOR? (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:37:52 -0800
Radio Shack use to sell them, Hank. Not sure if they still do, however. You can also get them mail order from The RF Connection: http://www.therfc.com/adapt.htm price is $1.50 each (this guy has real
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-01/msg00013.html (10,239 bytes)

30. Re: [CQ-Contest] Feb 04 QST op-ed article (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:35:38 -0800
That would work fine for smaller contests like the Sprint, NAQP, state QSO parties, etc. Of course one can argue that these contests already do this on their own naturally (activity tends to cluster
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-01/msg00240.html (11,576 bytes)

31. Re: [CQ-Contest] Airport security and ham gear - yesterday (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:28:34 -0800
That's appalling, Scott. Did it say on the TSA card - "we are stupid flunkies, but because we are government employees working under the banner of homeland security, we can F$% up your stuff with imp
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00048.html (9,754 bytes)

32. Re: [CQ-Contest] Sprint SSB Audio (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 00:00:09 -0800
Yes, that portable zero of whom you speak was clearly in the "3rd hour" of the Sprint. I have been know to behave similarly starting around 0230 UTC. Fortunately, the press is not around to cover my
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00108.html (8,023 bytes)

33. Re: [CQ-Contest] K4OJ SK (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:51:12 -0800
Well said, John. We all take ourselves too seriously from time-to-time and Jim was always there to remind us to lighten up and enjoy the ride. I remember when we got our vanity calls K4OJ and W4EF ba
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00268.html (12,151 bytes)

34. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL CW DX, J6DX Pwr?? (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:23:16 -0800
Alan, If you are not interested in competing for score, the cabrillo format will let you designate your "category:" as "checklog". I used my call from three different station locations this weekend
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-02/msg00403.html (9,878 bytes)

35. Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Sprint is a good idea (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:33:42 -0800
I would like to see a Sprint Team like concept brought into the ARRL DX contest, whereby teams would be required to have represenatives from each of the geographical areas of the United States and C
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00463.html (11,737 bytes)

36. Re: [CQ-Contest] DX Sprint is a good idea (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:14:20 -0800
I agree. I have a +12 degree elevation mountain behind me going towards Africa and the middle east. My MUF is much lower than for the nearby flatlanders. Stacks won't fix that (I would still have a
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00517.html (10,218 bytes)

37. Re: [CQ-Contest] oo report (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:51:04 -0800
Rick, I would say that the OO is incorrect in this case. Its possible that you had some IMD products that were falling below 14.150 MHz, but certainly your fundamental modulation sidebands were up ab
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-03/msg00543.html (10,221 bytes)

38. Re: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:59:14 -0800
get away with cheating (i.e claiming SO when they are SOA) and the contest sponsors makes shoot. It Hi Jeff, With all due respect, should we also get rid of amplifiers and transmitters? It is probabl
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-04/msg00021.html (11,838 bytes)

39. Re: [CQ-Contest] Becoming a better operator? A TEST! (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 15:46:44 -0800
that I think you screwed up by using paper money, Bob. If you throw enough quarters, dimes, and nickels at or near the base of your tower, eventually you will form a continuous conductiing ground pl
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-04/msg00067.html (8,774 bytes)

40. Re: [CQ-Contest] ANOTHER SMELLY SUBJECT (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:46:02 -0800
Back in the late 80's when I stilled lived in Ohio, there was this Italian guy with a 4 element full-size Yagi at 150'. I think he ran "big gas" into it. In the late afternoon, he would be an honest-
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2004-04/msg00081.html (10,507 bytes)


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