Long ago, I suggested to the FCC that one simple solution would have been to double up the number in the callsign, at least for the continental 48, so I'd be W51GN if I operated for one-land. (And WP
And therefore you LIKE being THE REASON THE WRONG STATION WON THE CONTEST? Because his error in copying your exchange, that would have been caught in the log checking and would have reduced his final
My friend Don has won he Chesapeake Bay Governor's Cup overall in his 38 foot sloop, so I asked him to answer Randy's Question, has a GPS had inpact on sailing? His answer: Absolutely GPS has a big i
About $25 if you don't tip. --Original Message-- From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:30 PM To: kd4d@comcast.net Cc: cq
Since it was not correctly addressed to a valid postbox at ARRL.ORG, the ARRL email server couldn't/wouldn't reply - I'm certain that domain (and every email domain) gets sent THOUSANDS of emails sen
An intelligent reading of the RULES, which only two posters seem to be unable to do, show they ONLY address the SCORING and not what you can do with respect to operating hours. Plus we have already h
WIDE or any characters won't work in contests where the exchange is always numeric, where letters are expected to be cut numbers and not text. I discovered this in the Ukraine contest this past weeke
You said: "I prefer mouse clicking instead of slowly turning VFO knob over empty band." Here are my metrics and other comments on Assisted from the ARRL CW DX: Qs min rate Spots Worked 1284 1405 54 U
When I was KG4CS at Guantanamo Bay, I got to climb the Navassa Island swinging ladder, in July 1971, for the only solo DXPedition there, and climbing the ladder was a piece of cake; the challenge was
Hope these are not truncated: Note that 16% were licensed in this century, and another 20% were licensed after 1980. W5GN's 1352 QSO Distribution of ARRL "YEAR LICENSED" CHECK IN 2014SSB CK Cum. Freq
My original post was with plain text with fixed font, and the post that I received back was also fixed font, collimated, with no truncation, fully displayed. A couple of hams sent their received emai
"I would even dare to say I would love to see a bigger rotation of participants." I remember when Notre Dame won the GE College Quiz Bowl for the Fifth Time way back in the 50s, and GE feared continu
At least for the WPX CW contest, N1MM and N1MM+ both decode the cut number for the serial, so you can type exactly what you hear and see the transcribed numbers. I was surprised to find the CQ WW doe
I always reply WN5XXX/QRP de W5GN/QRO. 73 Barry, W5GN I strongly agree. I've worked a fair number of contests (and sometimes chase DX) running 5w, but would never use QRP with my call. It's just plai
N1MM's created Cabrillo File has the first ten characters of the longer name, so I assume that is the defined length of the NAME FIELD for the NAQP Cabrillo file, and there hopefully is no problem. T
I had planned to wait until after the contest deadline to share this experience with you but now that it's been well publicized, there is no reason to wait. Contest weekend was superb. This was the t
"As Good Neighbor pointed out, Cabrillo supports long field sizes -- it is the logging program implementation that is the issue. All us N1MM users will lose those contacts because your cabrillo will
After last week's experiment, I was planning to honor another Carl, my college dorm mate while at Notre Dame, but by using his last name, Yastrzemski, except that it's 11 characters. 73 Barry, W5GN I
Could we provide a 10 meter repeater with a delay line, so you could hear your own audio before the contest? Barry, W5GN It would seem the use of computer sound cards as voice keyers is the root caus
Five years ago, on the 75th anniversary of the IRTS: In September 2007 the Irish Radio Transmitters Society organised "CQIR - Ireland Calling", a contest to celebrate the society's 75th anniversary -