Hi Lee. Go to this web-site and download GeoClock. http://www.clark.net/pub/bblake/geoclock/ It is a real neat program and one thing it lets you do is put the cursor on your qth and drag the mouse to
Hi Dale. Better yet, goto http://metacrawler.com. When you use this search engine, it uses all of the ones you mentioned plus some more--all at the same time. If it's findable, you can find it with M
Hi Bob. According to Hyperlog, 39.10 N and 118.80 W is DM09CC. 73 Tom W7WHY -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
Is there any place to E-mail the NAQP logs. I didn't see anything in the rules about that. Thanks Tom W7WHY -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-co
Hi "Bubba". Some of these guys are getting really good at this. I worked some stations that I was sure were M/S, and saw their postings as SO. I worked some guys on 80, switched to 160 and there they
Hi all I've been looking around for a 2nd radio for contesting to go with the 840. I thought maybe a TS-440 as a friend here in town has one. I checked the want ads on QTH.COM and was surprised. Ther
I agree! 3 CW and 1 SSB. Lets change the starting time for a couple of them to 1500 or something. Think of all the 10 meter Q's. 73 Tom W7WHY -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-conte
Great idea!! If a person was a winner, then his (or her) log could be sent to a log checker, and the rest to the reflectors. This contest has go to have the best format of any going now. Go for it!!
Hi Yuri. Evidently you have never listened on 17 meters. If those people I hear up there are "technically minded", I must have been listening to different people than you. I hear people talking about
Probably wants to see how the trees made it :-) Tom -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
Hi Jeff. How do you edit a sys file? I looked in my msdos.sys, and it is not a text file. It is system-read only file. Tom W7WHY -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administr
Hi All. I have seen on most of the computers that are running Win95 that you pretty much loose control of your computer in less you know what you're doing. My son has it on his, and he can't run dos
How about the DX contests? Should people be able to call CQ in the window? There are people working DX there that are not in the contest. The window is only a befefit to some not all of the people. O
Hi John. It probably uses a switching type power supply to charge the chair. Those things are wide band signal generators. Some TV sets have terrible supplies in them. Then can be quieeted down, but
Hi Bill. Sometimes I think people forget the real reason for contesting. It is supposed to be FUN. I guess to some people it is a lot more than that. Maybe there should just be 2 classes, fun and ful
Hi Bill. If you have ever looked through any old QST magazines from the 50's, they used to put what kind of equipment each section winner was using. Took a couple of pages, but it was interesting to
Hi All I just restarted a subscription to CQ magazine after not getting it for about a year and a half. Boy, was I surprised when it came! It seems pretty darn thin. I was looking at the April 1992 C
Hi Fred. A lot of people don't despair because they can't win, it's just that it gets very boring when you are operating a contest and you can't work the stations you are hearing because you have wor
Hi Dale. Lots of times when a person gets older his threshold of hearing shifts. What used to be comfortable isn't any more. I have a good frend here in town and he constantly calls me about 15 cycle
Hi Fred. I can't agree with that statement. A lot of guys are in the same boat as I am. I lost my job of 32 years in November so my company can make more profit. Now I have a lot more important thing