you talk about 10 meters being shut down, you should try 160 sometime. working 6 in 15 hours, hearing the partial calls of 6 others, lonely city. i heard HC8L several times, the few minutes he got up
there is a lot of people who come back to me, and are busy making other contacts at 10wpm (hand key speed) - no fluff (tnx 73 etc repeats, etc), its the old one bullet one bear concept. during the la
with the advent of the UBN and busted calls, even big guns are sending exchanges like N6TR W7DRA 599 03, their call, your call, and the exchange. i send with a hand key at 12 WPM, and i do have troub
i can see a senior class as the JAs do, over 70, maybe 75, but over 80 would be better. for the Rrussian dx contest this weekend i still have the umph at 63 to drag my hq120 and 810 pa with associate
ive had good luck with OOs. i call up the local one here when i am putting a new amp/antenna tuner etc on line and he checks my 2nd and 3rd harmonic radiation levels mike w7dra On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18
tubes! tubes! tubes! you can use packet but only if using only tubes (including the power supply, have any extra 5U4s?) if you can build a tube compatible Internet ready computer to go along with you
i have written an article for the NCJ that discusses the correct way to build a 100 watt output contest final (a follow up to the article found on page 44 of the November 1956 CQ magazine, at that ti
We should all go back and read the Sports Illustrated article about DX contests, and be proud of our honesty and fairness. Period. mike w7dra> -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland!
i just received in the mail my first in world award for last year's SEANET contest, it was dated in November 2003, received here in April 2004. not too shabby, SEANET organizers thanks mike w7dra --
what about the south sea islanders during WWII who were taught "this sound goes with that mill key" they reportedly could copy perfect press while maintaining a conversation in their own language for
i did the JIDX on 80m with my HW16 and 160 meter vertical, and heard loud JAs S&P the loud Dx stations and then disappearing, without ever calling any CQs. it made us weak weak weak stations not have
and then there are those $%^&%$@% abbreviations but the exchange would have to be a no brainier, something you see, not something you have to think about or make a judgement on; ie, a real RST this w
all good and fine, but answer the only important question: how to do you get 100 ops or so to frequent both 80 and 160 meters in a JIDX or RDX or CQ-M contest? _______________________________________
i link fed my raised radial top loaded verticals for 160 meters with radio shack 300 ohm twin lead, practcially no loss. its quite a high quality twin lead................. __________________________
Nobody has yet mentioned the HW16 with the HG10 vfo, you can get a set for about $100. Good working radio, puts out 50w which is more than adequate, easily modified to 160 if necessary, not a whole l
interesting, look at the AADX site under each year's results "number of participants" getting back to the 1997 results does look like there was a little more activity. looking at my 1980 AADX logs i
talk about new and different contest rules: someday someone is going to come up with a percent per band rule: total score will be determined by a %: 160-3%, 80-10%, 40-25%, 20-35%, 15_25%, 10-2% if y
i might have rocks in my head, but i am thinking about trying a SOSB160 this Oceania dx contest from Hawaii, i would be centrally located for VK/JA/W, and should be able to work everybody with 50 wat
well, no luck on 160 but worked 4 on 80 cw the AADX test. where are all the JAs? i looked back at my record of the AA results from 1978/79/80/81, and i was working 20 - 30 JA stations per year on 80
for one who flew to Hawaii for the '95 CQWW and missed the contest by a week, i did check when July the first was, which i think is still Canada Day............ mike w7dra On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:19:4