and then there is my gripe..............ss4ss drops down to 160 by request of w1abd, ss4ss works w1abd, sends one maybe two CQs and off he goes.................but wait!!!! the 15 or so of us working
any dogs on the property?? mike w7dra a couple of CQWWs ago i had the long arm of the law out, some neighbor noticed me putting down my "portable beverage" down the street at 11pm and the police foll
i guess in a 24 hour classification you would not HAVE to work the whole 24 hours, just work 15 minutes and you still could go in the overlay.............you could work only 15 minutes and go in the
as a retired contester, but.........Hawaii? Soft island breezes? October? 2104? OCDX?.....but i digress...........with the advent of modern contesting equipment most (CW contests anyway) cram themsel
www.hawaiiqsoparty.org somehows I wheedled my way into receiving the honored privilege of being a "bonus station" in the upcoming contest. I will be S&Ping on 40m and 20m with the HW16 during the day
OM2500? OM4000? I remember when Rush Drake ran single band push pull 833a amplifiers ...a hushed silence follows................I am still using one if his tubes - photos can be provided mike w7dra _
there are still some of us there......3540 to 3560...............mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ Click to get NetZero DataShield and stay protected from hacker
Now that I have joined the single digit contesting community, for the first time in at least 10 years I have entered a log in the SS contest. What? You have never heard of single digit contesting? Go
against my better judgement, i plan to enter this year's CQWW. i send with a hand key at about 16 WPM (if you can believe the RBN), and i feel that there is a bell curve of happiness and satisfaction
and like a mixed sports league, there has to be so many women on the field to have a complete team, 11 total with 4 women, only three women, you have to subtract one man, so you run with 10 mike w7dr
i find the NAQP a big bother, since i travel 2k miles with a couple of rocks in my pocket to visit grandkids that weekend (just over) and pull out the dx20 and arc5 receiver out of my daughters garag
i don't understand this........the two things evertbody likes to hear is their own name and thankyou. sometimes i send my call a couple of extra times just because............ mike w7dra w7 dra w 7 d
there seems to be some sort of weird philosophy among contesters and especially contest organizations that you can compare scores over the years the contest has been in existence. seems that usually
since I have became a member of the single digit contest club, I have reentered the vicious dog eat dog world of contest operating last night at 0607Z........... I worked RT0C on 40m CW. I heard him
W7RM? Some years ago he came over to my house and sold me a few of his 833a tubes, one of which is in my 160 meter amp. A charming man, he had my wife giggling........ mike w7dra ____________________
ok, i loaded (i think) N1MM logger into my windows 7 computer. it says it won't run unless i put in the latest additions. this makes no sense to me after much looking on the HQP site i think it says
thanks everybody for the replies! I am entering the world of 21st century of ham radio! mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ The #1 Worst Carb Ever? Click to Learn
I am a card carrying member of the SEATTLE CHAPTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PIRATES (they needed a bass player who could sing Hawaiian War Chant). the thought of entering a contest AGAIN without having t
SSB only? what is SSB? that is a mode i have never heard of mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ The #1 Worst Carb Ever? Click to Learn #1 Carb that Kills Your Bloo
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