Why make the category "Deed restricted?" There has been a lot of complaining that it is impossible for new contesters to compete with the "big boys" for many reasons ... big antennas, SO2R, etc., etc
If you want "awesome hi-fi audio" take it to the broadcast bands. Amateur radio is a communications service where "communications quality" not hi-fi is the standard. Six and ten KHz response voice s
Not true ... digital operation is not permitted in spectrum allocated to phone. The changes on 80 and 40 will push a substantial amount of domestic digital activity right into the middle of Advanced
Bill, We weren't talking about 160 meters which seems to have "special status" and be exempt from the FCC's own logic in the Report and Order: Bull - there is considerable domestic digital activity a
Self-enforcement will never fly. As long as one competitor has the ability to push the envelope the others will do so in order to stay competitive. The only thing that will fix the "problem" is unifo
Sorry, as long as the situation exists as it does ... no legal impediment to the rest of the world operating below 7040 on phone and a situation where the majority of the world does not operate trans
I'm saying that a contest sponsor cannot enforce anything more restrictive than the regulations of the particular country in which the station is operating. To do so opens the very real possibility o
Self-restraint is complete BS in this context. As has been stated again and again, the issue is available bandwidth. If there are no clear frequencies for a big gun station to hear on HE WILL FIND O
Nonsense ... there have been problems in Region 1 for 30 years. It's just that the number of problem makers and number of "big gun" station have been small enough that it has been easy for you to bu
Yes, your analogy is flawed. Another band is not "another town" it's another road, perhaps a road less traveled, but another road to making QSOs. In the case of 40, if you're looking for domestic QS
Ron, The rest of this debate is really pointless but this needs a response: The voluntary bandplans are all based on "normal conditions" and "should." Most of them contains language that says in effe
Hans, I posted a more detailed reply on the Writelog reflector. The short answer is the capability to "dual control" ANY WinKey based keyer must be provided by the controlling software. If the softwa
W7MAL asks: Why is it that certain licensees think they should have a "right" to any frequency or set of frequencies free of QRM 24 x 7 x 365 whether they are using them at the time or not? Why is it
Filipe, To the best of our information (and the programmers looked hard) none of the USB to parallel adapters support the bit mapped I/O that the parallel controlled SO2R boxes require. 73, ... Joe S
Already exists ... they're called WinKey (single radio) and WinKey2 (two radio) by K1EL. See: www.k1el.com. The bare ICs are $6 and $10 each. Complete kits are $47 and $59 each. 73, ... Joe, W4TV ___
Picking a QRP calling frequency on top of the R1/R3 RTTY frequency was foolish in the first place. Why bother to change it ... the old fools who want it can run their nets there and hand feed the co
If starting new today, for day to day logging I would look at: DXLab Suite www.dxlabsuite.com Logger32 www.logger32.net for contest logging I would look at: N1MM Free Contest Logger www.n1mm.com (SSB
Steve, We've been replacing every lamp in the house that gets more than occasional use with compact fluorescent lights and I notice no change in the general noise level - in spite of a wire antenna t
Anybody interested in organizing a North American SSTV Sprint? It could be scheduled for WPX Phone weekend. 73, ... Joe, W4TV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
For many of the more rare DXCC entities the DXCC desk requires documentation that the operator was actually in the entity - usually stamped passport and "landing permits." It would be rather difficul