why is it that my anti virus software dings when i try to access the CQ-M web site? would like to view the 2006 CW results................ mike w7dra _______________________________________________ C
i love it. now i no longer get a virus warning but the whole site is written in Russian. my guess is that they are working on the problem mike w7dra _______________________________________________ CQ
we need a year with 137 weeks!!!! we need a lottery to decide which contest is to be run!!! we need most contests to be bi-yearly!!!! we need to get a life and each person only operate 8 contests a y
if you work an old man using a hand key with a chirpy signal who has to stop and write down all contact information, and he is from washington state, go right ahead and speed away, but if he is in ne
with a good inverted L working the contest from nebraska is like shooting ducks with a shot gun, the ducks being tied to posts in the ground. but with a poor inverted wire, it is like shooting flying
i get several (less than 10) requests like "hope to work you in the contest", or "will be looking for you" when i do a dxpidition like the CQWW160, but with no way of me knowing either my transmit fr
I get more and more tired of entering my logs into TR after a contest. I am still typing away trying to get my CQWW160 long into TR. Hell to get old. Mike W7DRA ______________________________________
ues, i guess with the advent of chat rooms computers and automatic sending everything is suspect. as ZK1DRA i just bought 500 post cards at the hotel and wrote all the information on them and then ha
this last ARRLDX on 160 i have particullarly good run (10 stations in an hour), and i would have given out some "139s" if one was giving out actual RSTs. at my house 449 is a LOUD signal but 5NN is u
but, if you as a single operator can operate a contest and record a contact and the transmitting/recording process does not affect the other contestants in the contest, what is the problem? in the p
i did that pole thing once, with the glowbugs: education, profession, hw many HB RXs built, HB TXs built, approx number of tubes in your collection, it went on with 15 different categories. if i had
i did not get robot answer back from the JIDX group after i sent in my (TR) log. i see no "logs received" comments on the JIDX web site. hope all is well in river city, i find no quick robot answer u
talk about classic ( and remember a classic 57 chevy was not a classic in 1957), how many in a big contest (CQWW?) use only a stick and a mechanical key? (with no computer help at all) mike w7dra ___
i am working hard on getting the dial on the 80m HRO60 working correctly, and have read in the NEQP about some of the gingko types operating SO4C (single operator 4 contests), well, i am going to try
why standardize anything? contest exchanges are getting shorter, more curt, more efficient. do you want a shorter, more curt, more efficient, bowl of ice cream, or apple pie? just so your computer ca
when in contest operation at the prestigious premiere pacific northwest 160 meter contest super station (the one that has the swivel chair) , and using an NC183 coupled to a BC453 Q5er, i like to hea
depends where you are. as ZK1DRA in the cooks and managing 5 or more callers at a time ? is a real pain. at home as W7DRA where the word "rate" fits more with the word mortgage than ham radio, a ? is
from glowbugs: You need one of those motor driven HRO's that National built as a scanning receiver during WW2. Use a foot switch to control Start-Stop. mike w7dra ____________________________________
Wait. Right now the best operators with the best equipment and good luck win. Add Skimmer to the mix and the best operators with the best equipment and good luck still win. If skimmer would allow a m
take 1000 contest operators, and segregate them according to equipment used: % low end (me, HRO 60, Viking ranger, etc, dipole) % medium (FT101, TS520, tribander) % high end (TS930, FT1000, two anten