Pretty much the same here in central Illinois. I was with the K9CU group in Urbana. I worked 20 CW until 1 AM when the band started to get weak and I only heard 3 or 4 signals of stations I'd already
We had a "minimalist" FD this year at K9CU. Small rigs, no amps, low dipoles, one tribander about 15 feet off the ground. We weren't out to be competitive, just to have fun, socialize a little and g
The new and fancy tools a contester has at his disposal are a lot of fun and some enhance contesting quite a bit. But if I were to have to give up some of them, I'd propbably do it in this order: 1)
You must be referring to the Poisson d'Avril Contest? I thought I won that last year by default ... on porpoise, even. 73, Zack W9SZ "One man's drink is another man's Poisson ... " - "Riders of the P
I spent a half hour calling 7P8DA on 40 CW last night ... does that count? Oddly enough, he peaked on my loop antenna way after his sunrise and when everyone else who was piling up seemed to quit. Wh
I am not connected (no pun intended) with Anderson or West Mountain Radio other than being a happy customer, but I would HIGHLY recommend the Anderson Power Poles and something similar to the West Mo
Looks like a worm at work. What happened most likely is that someone received the e-mail you described from the CQ-Contest robot and then got the virus/worm. The worm program picked that e-mail at ra
Windows allows you to make an appearance of two extensions. A period is an acceptable character in a file name. Actually, only the one after the last period is the effective extension. I often back u
I think some thought and logic should be applied. If the unique is likely a busted call, maybe it should be labeled as such. If someone logs W9SG in a CW contest and I show up in others' logs around
Last year I started into a contest (I forget which one now) and just couldn't get into it. Conditions weren't good. I worked two stations and gave up. If one of them doesn't send in a log, the other
I think he was referring to the receiver of the guy trying to hear the QRP signal. Of course, a QRP station is going to hear a station running 1 kW + tons of aluminum in the air, and hear him well. T
IMO a person who does this is participating in the contest but is not participting in the competition. You can't DQ someone who doesn't send in a log. He is not being "allowed" to self-spot; it's mor
KH2D has lived in Florida for a couple years now. He just signs "KH2D". I think he probably gets a few people upset with him when they find out he's not in Guam, but it's legal. 73, Zack W9SZ -- The
I always thought it meant "QSL Later" (I will QSL after I receive yours). It seems most people who say QSLL mean they will not originate a QSL but will reply after receiving yours. 73, Zack W9SZ -- T
I would like to participate in LotW but all of my logs for the last 35 years are on paper except for contest logs for the last 6 years or so. (The only significant DX logs out of that are maybe for t
I remember that! Whatever happened to Dr. "Spike" Bafoofnik, anyway? And can he use the name "Spike" now without getting sued? We won't know until we open the box and look. But then all those radio w
As an afterthought, I realized that the Many-Worlds Interpretation of QSO Logging indicates that it doesn't matter whether Schroedinger's cat ate the logs or not, they are still available at the noda