I think it should be able to drink vodka. Maybe after 4 or 5 bottles it won't be able to use those three hands! 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
I hope so. Somehow it just doesn't seem right to me. I could set up a remote receiving site for 160 meters in Europe and be able to hear hundreds of stations I might never hear in the USA. People in
I think the key is in the words "amateur radio communications" you stated below. Anything that uses a link or part of one that is not radio for any distance takes it out of the amateur RADIO category
What if 20 meters and 160 meters aren't open at the same time? 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
Fascinating, Brett. Supposedly ZC4 was also the souirce of the shortwave spy numbers transmissions from the station known as "the Lincolnshire Poacher." It disappeared about a year ago and hasn't bee
Yeah, the Mossad have many transmissions a day in their spy numbers system. I listen to some of them at least once a week. The British "Cherry Ripe" station which is supposedly transmitting from Guam
Well, I would have to look at how "false and deceptive" something is. Everyone wants a high score in a contest. So what affects the score and what doesn't? In SS, if you use a different check than th
Me either. Like I said, if it changes a score or results and is done to gain an unfair advantage, it becomes inportant. If it does none of those things, who cares? 73, Zack W9SZ _____________________
Our local club had a great site on a farm that we used for decades. Then either the farm got sold or the owners got too old and we lost that site. We tried several others for some years but they just
I have not used Writelog but my computer running XP has a ZIP drive, printer and scanner on the LPT port and all work fine. Maybe it's a problem specific to the Writelog software when running XP? 73,
I don't know how they determine this. Do they look at the times in other peoples' logs? What if you work several people in a row whose clocks are all off by a few minutes? It could happen, no matter
There is no rule that says I have to operate in every contest that comes along. If I don't like the rules, I won't operate in a contest. This has beena big deal with some Rovers in some of the VHF+ c
Yes but why 10 minutes? Why not one or two minutes? 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman
Maybe you cannot overload the Internet, but what about overloading the operators? Let's assume everyone is self-spotting and the spots are coming across at a nice casual rate - about 4 a second. How
Yeah, he can go portable to California and operate from SCV. Better yet, go to NWT and operate from VY1. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Cool! As a note on #1, it's a sure bet that if you don't log a QSO, the other guy is going to request a QSL. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-C
How does the age first licensed in the "Total average data" work out to 7 if the averages in the 3 categories below that are between 16 and 18? Interesting results! I guess I'm close to typical for U
This is getting pretty absurd if you ask me. Maybe the rules should be changed slightly to say "only one OPERATOR can contribute to the final score ..." That would eliminate the local pizza delivery
I only see that applying to the particular station that is considered an "entrant." I would assume that one of the ops making a go of it from his home station as a single op is using a different call
I don't have too many "pet peeves" in contesting, but one of them is the station/operator who calls CQ and by the time I've said/sent my call once in response, they're well into another CQ. And I hav