we all have cameras, maybe we could just send in pictures? mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick H
when did serious contesting start? i bet a long time ago. contest chairmen are still holding contesting at this time up as sacred. what rules would evolve if contesting started yesterday? you're damn
Nowadays the loneliest contest of the year for me is the CQ WPX. In any contest the number of mulit mulit on the band sets the tone. They set like islands a calm sea waiting for you to call them, thu
Other than guys like me who participate in contest divisions that all the technology in the world (as i have laboriously shown time and time again) makes little or no difference in your score........
it is pretty well known that i don't have an FT1000 MKIVIIX mod IV with 12 roofing filters, but I cannot see how anyone could work a CW radio contest without being able to send and receive the code b
i tried this idea on my wife and ended up sleeping on the back porch with the dog mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 57 But Looks 27 Mom publishes simple
WAIT!! Isn't the most wonderful sound you can hear is either 1) your name, 2) your call, 3) thankyou? I love to send my call, hear my call, sometimes CQing on 80 CW at night I will send it 7 or 8 tim
let a station only win in a particular division only once every 5 years if club spongers a plaque, no one associated with the club can win it if the ARRL sponsors a contest no one associated with or
here i think i am getting out of serious contesting and i just downloaded a log sheet for the Linc Cundell memorial OT cw contest pretty hard to leave the fold mike w7dra> ___________________________
everyone know about my ARC5s and 810s so I will not go into that. But there is one type of assistance I do use. It will be 0600z or so and I will start sending CQ on 3560 kcs for a while and then put
lest talk about cheating for a minute. cheating as this reflector is saying, is a negative thing (breaking the law, hurting someone) somewhere in philosophy/ethics there is a statement that people al
since 90 % of my contesting is on 160 i usually don't get many QSY requests. if i get a 40 meter request, i would have to get up, leave the 160/80 meter cabin, walk and to the other end of the proper
somewhere on the internet is a group called the "single digit contest club" where you work one and only one contact..........and send your log in! i guess you could work up to 9 contacts and still be
taking out the 5NN is a bad idea for those of us who think slowly. contacts are so fast nowdays it is over before i even know it has happened. what is this crap of running stations only sending their
This is the best summation of the eras of contesting I have seen. I seem to have better understood the natural fall of my ability in ballroom dancing than my kicking and screaming fight against all t
got my license in 1955 in seattle.........and i had heard tales about people fainting during the exam, and would you believe it i they carried out a guy who fainted........... mike w7dra ____________
i am going to take my battery tube regen receiver, and my 6AU6/5763 rock bound MOPA and a 130 foot wire to my backyard picnic table and sign K6LL W7DRA 1A WWA mike w7dra, retired from active contesti
my daughter is taking a radio course leading to a license, through her Mormon church. she lives in an out of the way place (minimal fire, police) and the church is embarrassing ham radio as a means o
i love spell check and not wearing glasses when i type, plz replace embarrassing with embracing sorry mike w7dra http://cqww.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CQ-WW-for-Dayton-Contest _____________
Against my better judgement I snuck out of contest retirement to participate in the CQ WPX. Friday night was terrible, but I did manage 5 contacts, with NR6O best DX. With any luck maybe 5 more Satur