How about from the DX side - never, ever let more than two QSO's pass without sending your callsign. That way, I won't have to blindly call you. When I operated PJ2T at 200+ an hour on CW in the '02
OK - How about an update from....last night. While most of you were watching the Super Bowl, I was flying US Airways from Hartford-Charlotte-Knoxville, arriving home at 11 pm. I did not take a carry-
Actually I thought this would be the case, at least for the power supply and the headphones/SO2R box/cables/discs in the cardboard box. The power supply was wrapped --no tape-- in clear bubble wrap.
April, sports fans - APRIL. There is a big old gap in the 'serious' CW contest schedule between ARRL DX CW the 3rd weekend of Feb and WPX CW at the end of May. As I have to skip WPX CW because it is
It's way early for this, of course, but while it's fresh in your mind I'm gathering soapbox/anecdotal information for the QST article for 2004 ARRL DX CW. Anything you want me to know - you think you
The Orion will have this as an option via a future firmware upgrade. It was actually ready for the Orion prior to ARRL DX CW but making a change to the options available for CW PTT the week before a
Someone wrote to me privately: Ah, OK - I got ahead of myself. I thought we were discussing hot-switching linear amplifiers and the need to PTT control them to avoid losing the beginning of a CW tran
transceiver "asserting" the PTT line to the xcvr to switch it, instead of using But there are rigs that will do that (protect your amp) without needing to use the PTT line from the computer to do so.
with two jobs can keep trying to improve their level of competition and improvement if they know that something along the way will create a complication for some part of their weekend.<< Highly commi
Amuse me, can we rehash a tired old debate for a little while on the reflector? Make sure to read all of this before flaming me, because the status quo for CQ WW CW works for me at the moment. But I
those particular holidays are only holidays in the US. These are world-wide contests with participants from all over. Why should the contests be changed just because it's a holiday in the US? If we
What do you say when someone who has helped you out and been a significant inspiration suddenly is gone? W4AN was one of the greatest contest operators who ever lived. He always will enjoy that honor
Page 77, complete with smiling picture taken by N2AA at WRTC-2002. Very missed - what a loss for the hobby and for contesting. Scott W4PA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,0
I think that clever fellow was K5ZD. Considering Randy is the current USA WPX CW score record holder, it's advice well taken. CU this weekend...but not too much on 160 :-) And hopefully with a more c
BPL versus ham radio was also discussed on National Public Radio this morning including an interview with Dave Sumner, K1ZZ. Click this link, then scroll down to the piece entitled "FCC Looks To Unc
Yes - without restarting the debate on what the best setup for SO2R is, having two radios of equal performance is a good element of an ideal operating console. Even better is two good HF rigs that ar
Hello W4 and W5 contesters, Bill Fisher, W4AN, organized and named the Southeast Sprint Coalition a few years ago to try to make us W4's and W5's competitive with the west coast CW Sprint teams. Tenn
<<<smiling>>> - that was on 20 meters during the '99 CQ WW CW. I was operating the secondary radio on 20m at the K3LR M/M when that spot appeared and I raced over there, and was astonished at the pi
Ken, Thanks for the report on signals from over there. Louder in New Zealand than the locals on 40 meters was not quite what I was hoping for in SS CW :-) but it's good to know that we're putting in
Mouth ahead of head - I just read that the rockcrusher signal we were putting into New Zealand was 80m, not 40m. Have to say *THAT* makes all the low band antenna work we've done worth it! W4PA -- Ke