Yeah, but looking at the average age of the contester, what's gonna happen in 10-15 years when they are all gone? Tom W7WHY -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrati
Hi Tree Yeah, but it's cumbersome taking the laptop into the "reading room" with me :-) 73 Tom W7WHY -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest
But, is that what the ARRL wants to do? Here's an excerpt from a fictional story in QST, "Wally and Mike: The Flood" "I wanted to get my ham license when I was in high school but I didn't like morse
I put up some wire verticals for 10 thru 30 meters in a tree, all hooked to the same feedline. Laid a bunch of radials around the feedpoint. Use that on the second radio and works great. Probably as
Or "Hey Bill, I'm really smoking. Too bad someone don't spot me to help me out. Now remember, I'm not asking you to do that just making a comment." Yeah, right. Tom W7WHY
Hi Larry I got one for operating closer to the band edge than that. On 40, before I got the extra, I was chasing an EA station and got a pink slip from the FCC for operating on 7024.75 MHZ. I was 25
I have a FL-2100B here, and after a few hours in a RTTY contest, it used to get so hot (running 250 watts)the power would start to drop off. I found a couple of old computer power supply fans and set
It seems funny that we got along for YEARS without PacketCluster and now for some reason, if we didn't have it, contesting would come to a screeching halt. Geez!! Tom W7WHY
That seems kinda like a cheap shot to me. Exactly what were you insuating when you wrote this? That he is the only one on this reflector who celebrates Easter? If so my friend, you are sadly mistaken
The best contest going by far is the Poison 'de Avril contest which has been running on April 1st for some time (haven't seen any announcement yet this year). You can operate any mode you want, any c
Why is it sent? I never hear anyone sending /LP or /QRO. Tom W7WHY Hal: Get an extra power connector or cable for the rig. Then get 2 battery holders, each for 4 "AA" cells. Attach the battery holder
There is something fishy here. I know for a fact, the log I sent to him last year had a higher score than he claimed. In fact I found out that there were quite a few others that had higher scores tha
And don't forget, we had to have an appointment from the ARRL to participate in that one. There were sure a lot of ORS's and OBS's around then. 73 Tom W7WHY