Maybe not in a contest, but someone has been doing that on 40 CW for years. I still hear it every once in a while. Someone shows up and starts handing out "5NN" and gets a pileup and no one even know
Cool! I wish I had worked more of the stations listed. It was my first year in this contest and I hope to do better next year (don't we all!) :-) 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________
Aww ... what fun are you? (Just kidding) - I can see that in international contests nonstandard phonetics can be a problem. But I've had a lot of fun with them on Field Day (which isn't really a cont
When you're operating 10 bands portable from a Toyota, one QSO per band is about all you can handle. :-) 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
In the 1800's we had "English As She Is Spoke". Now we have Babelfish. See: http://www.zompist.com/spoke.html 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-
Except in WPX when the USA is good for at least 900 different prefix multipliers. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:
I got a data sheet in the mail recently from Dallas Semiconductor about their MAXQ3120 microcontroller. It says the following: "Give a group of engineers an ADC, and someone will discover how to reco
He's got a good one - he can say Kilo Seven Sweep Stakes. Maybe I ought to try Whiskey Nine Six Zero on the local repeater and see what happens? :-) 73, Zack W9SZ ____________________________________
If you're talking HF, I think the LMR400 would be overkill. But if you're talking about VHF-UHF, the LMR400 would be your best bet. It's far better than RG213 above 400 MHz. 73, Zack W9SZ ___________
I was looking for stations in the entire CW section of the bands but did notice that the segment 7000-7015 had fewer stations than the rest of the band. I even heard some DX calling CQ below 7005 dur
I am really impressed with my TS-850 during CW contests. The 500 Hz CW filters plus the IF tuning and notch are superb for narrowing down the "acceptable" bandwidth. I had no trouble chopping out the
I remember about 10 years or so ago V73C running 5 watts was incredibly loud here on 40 CW in the ARRL DX contest. I couldn't believe my ears. I worked him later on outside the contest and he swore h
It depends on the situation. I was never able to get much of a run going in the contest, but during the last few hours I found a space around 7038 where I called CQ. There was a station up about 200
Heehee - maybe a new addition to the exchange, too? Monitoring power could wreak havoc in the ARRL DX contest for the DX stations: "But you sent '100'. Your web interface says you're running 95 watts
Then I guess I wasn't the only one to experience that! You mean that's not what happens all the time? :-) Actually, CT runs fine on my computer when I start it in DOS mode and run the latest DOS vers
It's great to see that there are a lot of casual contesters in SS. Some don't follow the rules exactly. I heard one station trying to explain in detail to another station what the "check" was. I had
So are you the first Rover to participate in Sweepstakes? You GOTTA do the same route for the January VHF SS! :-) I worked both. Tree seemed to be all over the place, and Tor was heard several times
I don't know how many years I worked November Six Hot Chocolate. I haven't heard the ops there use those phonitics in a while, though. I told the op at W2GD once that he ought to use Whiskey Two Grat
You know, when I started installing satellite dishes 20 years ago (was it REALLY that long ago?!? Wow!) I had the thought that you could include the entire shortwave spectrum as a sub-band in a satel
I also liked: OK2PAY (if the price is right) ON4JUL (that MUST'VE been in honor of our Independence Day!) WX3MAS (Bethlehem PA, where else?) ST0RY (tell us, please!) I'm still waiting for someone to