There is an unknown here which I would have no control over. The op at the other end may very well have copied my call correctly but typed it wrong. I've done it myself. I did it on Field Day this ye
Show of hands - how many of you feel a letdown after the contest ends ... not because you lost or didn't do as well as you hoped you'd do, but rather just because the contest was over? (I raise my ha
I guess he's a ham, although I don't know his callsign. But I think hams in the FCC are rarer than they used to be. Prose Walker W4BW, former FCC chairman, is still quite active. He can often be foun
It always seemed to me the thing with 13 wpm was that the characters were the same length/speed as about 10 wpm, but the character spacing was reduced to make the speed faster. When 15 wpm was sent,
The only thing I can see wrong with the website survey is that some members aren't on Internet. Maybe it should be announced in the front pages QST that a survey is being done at the website. This ma
I'll bet most members and quite a few of the officials of the ARRL don't even know its history. I had the luxury of being in a radio club that had a library of QST's going back to the 20's and having
It would be interesting to know how many of those 160,000 members are active on the air. The 25,000 callsigns noted show these people ARE active and on the air. Same with the 10,000 contesters. It wo
Reiman Publications in Greendale, Wisconsin (http://www.reimanpub.com) has managed to put together 10 magazines which are completely paid for by subscription fees. (Alas, none are ham radio magazines
There seems to be a number of people who get fascinated with RADIO. I don't think it has ever been a large percentage of the population. When I was in high school, 4 out of a total of about 800 stude
I believe I was one of the people who purchased the software and built my own board from scratch for the DIGICOM. Great little program. I got several years of use out of it. I know of at least one DX
A couple years ago at Field Day I fell asleep late into them night while working 40 CW. I awoke to the sound of the keyer going "dah-dah-dah ..." as my hand was pressed against it. I have no idea how
I wouldn't blame you a bit! Maybe we'd have to change the domain name to kontesting.com ? Zack W9SZ -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-
This whole thing brings up several interesting questions. Who ARE these mysterious majority of ARRL members? What do they do with ham radio? What do THEY want out of the ARRL, or do they even care? T
If he doesn't want to work anyone else, then don't work him! I say it's his loss. I'd work anybody, anywhere except I have a virus of some sort and can't talk. I tried making some QSO's in the contes
You never know what to expect on eBay. Sometimes a real deal comes along. It depends on what the bidders are willing to pay, as well as what the sellers want to get for an item. I have seen in the pa
Or a Wouff Hong ... or a Rettysnitch ... or an Uggerumph Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailma
Yes! I bought a secondhand TS-850SAT a couple years ago and I love it. It has enough bells and whistles to really help out in a contest. It's been adequate for me so far. Mine came with the DRU-2 CW/
I don't ever think I found this out. How do you remedy it if a DX station busts your call? Do you have to contact him and have him correct the call in the log he submitted to LOTW? Zack W9SZ ________
DXCC plays by different rules than contest rules. Martti Laine wrote an article a couple years ago that was published in QST about being off by one character in the logs. It's apparently perfectly ac