Some years ago I was ragchewing with Jack Troster W6ISQ. Jack said he grew up near Bellflower, IL (which is about 25 miles from here). I had seen a farm/railroad stop on maps of the area labeled simp
I'm just glad there is very little, if any, of this in VHF contesting. 73, Zack W9SZ <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_t
Hi, does anyone have a room during the Hamvention at either the Crowne Plaza or Dayton Grand in Dayton that they would be willing to share? I plan on being there Thursday through Saturday nights. 73,
I don't remember things as well as I used to, but I believe I was in that contest when I was a Novice and made maybe 125 QSO's. I think it was a week long. You got on whenever you wanted to during th
I guess we could only expect that a new venue would have some bugs to iron out. Overall, I had a great experience and was impressed. Here are some comments, not in any particular order or importance:
That was my experience. On Friday I left the Crowne Plaza at 8:30 am and finally got into a parking space at the fairgrounds at 11:15 am. Almost three hours in line and I think for a while the line o
Yeah, when I saw Alex at Dayton, I didn't think to ask where he lived now. We're Facebook friends and he sent me a message that he was in Oregon for a few years and in Washington for about a month no
I'm confused. Those links are only to definitions of terms, not to any regulations. 73, Zack W9SZ <div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /> <table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;">
Wow, this conversation sure took a turn from "Where is Alex living now?" 73, Zack W9SZ <div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /> <table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;"> <tr> <td st
I was curious about the same things. I have not yet used JT65 but I got very interested in it after a presentation at the VHF Weak-Signal Forum at Dayton this year. I have downloaded the software and
Ward Silver N0AX gave a presentation at the annual SMC get-together last year called "Ham Radio 2.0" which is what ham radio is in the 21st century. It was a fascinating, thought-provoking presentati
Yeah, I think that states it better. The basic idea being to let them do what they want with new technology and don't decry them for it. Encourage it. 73, Zack W9SZ __________________________________
Sorry, the "get out of the way" was my poor choice of words. That isn't really what I meant. You're right; there's a lot more to it than cluster spots and remote operating. I haven't watched that vid
A lot of us log on paper in the VHF contests. I still do when I'm operating as a rover or portable. It takes some time to transfer the logs over into the computer. I think it's reasonable. 73, Zack W
How do they happen to be operating with that callsign, then? Is it illegal for them to use that callsign? Inquiring minds want to know. 73, Zack W9SZ _______________________________________________ C
I guess most people started at contest start and were done in 24 hours? I had very few hours to operate; I thought I'd get a significant number of QSO's during the last couple hours. I heard nothing
There are a lot of other contests that do that. I like the uniqueness of SS. I think that point should stay the same. At this point in the solar cycle, I guess it's going to be mainly a low band cont
How would you know, anyway? You could look back through my records and maybe find that I've had the W9SZ call since 1977. But you wouldn't be able to easily find the call I had before that. Or when I
Interesting. Several of us in SMC were monitoring it yesterday. I am going to make a report to Intruder Watch. 73, Zack W9SZ <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_camp
The rule you quoted specifically states "after the contest." KU8E said it happened during the contest. Is there a rule for "during a contest"? 73, Zack W9SZ <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_mediu