yes, my antenna of choice is a full wave piece of wire, end fed from the time share condo patio, unless i have tvi, then i cut it in half, and run out two halfwaves at whatever angle there are trees,
Any contest activity in the 1.9 Mhz JA portion of the band, or is it all in the 1.8 Mhz section of the band? Thanks Mike W7DRA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list
those of us who feel CX is the greatest contest, i modify the ruleds a bit-i work 10 stations with the same equipment. so you (P40A) are sitting there in the ARRL DX running; know you are being worke
KCJ topband is the most restrictive open contest that i know of. don't work anyone if you won't send in a log. only active participants count mike w7dra ______________________________________________
one category that has not been brought up as yet: start the contest with a broken radio, fix it, and continue the contest. i am in this category more often than not................ mike we'd ________
On 02 Aug 2006 00:20:52 -0500 Doug Smith W9WI <w9wi@earthlink.net> writes: do you know how WIDE 50 Khz is? look at the upper 1.9 Mhz section for the JA KCJ topband contest where everyone is congregat
as a ready my hw16 for Hawaii, what do they say, it is easier to seek forgiveness than ask permission? mike w7dra in my mind i can still can see the chesterfield amp blown up on the tarmac __________
there i was, upstairs in a B&B in Canterbury with my HW16 signing M/W7DRA/P during the end the HA dx contest on 80m with an HA spending FIFTEEN MINUTES helping me get the exchange correct. hats off t
In the Oceania contest it is good to stay in one place so people know where to find you. I plan to be rock bound on 160 for that reason (and I that would have to build a VFO for the band) mike W7DRA/
and don't forget the donated (by aVK) baseball cap mike w7dra (the wife likes to wear it) _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://list
If you receive a log by a major player participating in a popular division, I would assume the log could be completely checked by software, as no caveats need be addressed. Lets look at this scenario
I would like to comment "waiting for the band to open" is now done automatically by computer sending "CQ TEST" hour after hour to an empty band........"just in case" so is that "operating time?" mike
K1TTT writes: where time between qso's is greater than the off time limit, if you don't log a contact for 30 minutes or so the automatic checkers may count it as time off when you were hard at work t
slowly i am coming to the realization why i have not received an award in CQWW 160 CW LP for the past 8 years or so. I can write in the SOAPBOX portion of the CAB file the hours i worked, but it is t
for you died in the wool CW types (pun intended), the eXtreme World Wide CW challenge is this weekend http://www.alg.demon.co.uk/xcw/2006rules.htm mike w7dra _________________________________________
and then there is the CQWW in which you are operating SOSB on a mostly unused band, waiting for HC8N or some such station to appear (or reappear), and you work a W for no points or multipliers, just
and the dead horse gets beaten one more time................. now my turn again. if i am operating one of those oft neglected categories in the CQWW and want to keep the auto log checkers off my cas
On might i suggest that we all start eating healthful foods, exercising, and taking up Yoga. mike w7dra _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.c
here is another one; got on 20 Saturday afternoon and worked one on station. got a call that i had to come in to work (work is 105 miles from my home) and worked one more from my "work" apartment on
you mean that the 80m novice band is above the SSB portion? mike w7dra .............an oft user of the 80m novice band................. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mail