OTOH, as long as WW CW is on the weekend after Thanksgiving, I will *never* be able to be on hand for the beginning of the contest... (because I work Fridays until 2230 CT - 0330 Saturday UTC - and T
While not wishing to wade into this debate, I wonder whether this is something that will come to a head over the next few years? Something fundamental has changed since the last sunspot minimum: SO2R
Does the existence of this thread suggest that simply reclassifying the offending stations isn't enough? When the results come out and W9WI shows up as #4 SOA instead of #7 SO, who except W9WI is goi
freq and then 10 up heard the same guy trying to bust a pileup. stations are replying to the CQ and get no answer because the guy is up 10 on the 2nd radio in the pileup. I would suggest that's a rat
Is that really much different from using the other VFO to make a quick multiplier hunt between fruitless CQs? I guess I figured "SO2R" meant the ability to listen on one radio *while transmitting* on
I've seen it done at K3LR. (works great! - Ward is as good at multiplier hunting as he is at writing...) Still, my impression is that being able to receive on one band while transmitting on the same
I've already done this for my homebrew general QSO logger. Of course, it's a lot easier to write an ADIF export routine than it is to do ADIF import! (I have, however, successfully done ADIF import t
I wouldn't have separate phone and CW dipoles for the same band if they're on the same tower. I think you'll have interaction problems. There are a number of ways you can go. - Cut them for the middl
I use a 2m 5/8 mag-mount in the rain gutter. It's no Yagi but it works plenty of QSOs, including about a dozen Europeans (and VY1JA) back at the peak of the cycle. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (N
NOOOOOO!!!!! -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com first call: WN9NME Only other previous call: WB9NME _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest m
Just to be clear... Bob's suggestions are a good idea, but they will NOT prevent your email address from being forged to virus spams, nor will they prevent you from receiving the "bounce" messages th
I know with identity theft problems here in the U.S., I'd be reluctant to mail copies of my personal documents to a foreign organization. Maybe what's needed is for the League to delegate authority f
<grin> Does it make a difference if the information in the database was previously copied by you personally, or was obtained from others? (My super-check-partial database is created strictly from my
Amen. Unfortunately some of us saw it coming. This is not the first blatantly lobbyist-based piece of radio-related action to come out of the government recently. - IBOC, where the "guard bands" betw
When operating Sprint at N4ZZ... Don has one Alpha 87 and one regular manual-tuning amp. (89 IIRC) I set up the manual amp on 40 meters and use that rig only on 40. The other rig is hooked to the aut
For comparison, using a "not-WPX" call: W9WI was spotted ten times in somewhat less than 36 hours. I ended up with roughly 1,250 QSOs. (including dupes) The proportion was similar in my log. (conside
Maybe it's time for a bit of creative civil disobedience? I suggest we all simply ignore this new rule. Operate the same way you would have if it didn't exist; submit your Cabrillo file the same way
We find it very useful at W4CAT. The antennas there are reasonably well-matched but not exceptionally so. (1.6:1 or better) I suppose we might lose a few dozen watts to mismatches but I think we more
I think Bill has a valid point. I don't think QSK would fix it, and it definitely doesn't only happen when you pause. It's true that if you scratch the QSO, it's the other guy who gets dinged. On the