Hans, I thought the same thing, but Sean at HQ says no on the main ARRL site. The scores have been released, however, and you can see them at http://aptos.arrl.org/contests, which Sean says is "an of
I ran across four 74LS145N decoder-driver ICs that go in the TS-850. This is the chip than can fail in the presence of too much RF, as noted on N6TR's page. I have three of them. Contact me directly
Help! My ham shack PC is a laptop running Windows Vista. This week it suddenly developed some kind of issue and now will not boot properly. I was unable to return to at least two restore points (the
Pete, I just love your figure of speech. LMAO! Rick, WW3DE Metaphorical loom-smashing aside, I think that this development will have little impact in the world of single-op contesting, given the rule
I use N1MM Logger + the MMTTY engine http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/. Both are free. Since I have only USB ports on my PC, I use a USB-to-serial adapter with the RIGblaster plus to send FSK with m
I'm with Ryan on this one, and I'm a mostly CW op going back more than a half-century now. We don't impose restrictions or recategorize ops who use software to SEND CW exchanges; why should using sof
We were en route from London to Boston a few years ago. I'd packed an FT-817 to do a little operating while visiting Germany. On the return leg the clerk tagged all our luggage under my wife's name f
There was a movie -- Phenomenon, I believe -- where John Travolta was able to copy RTTY in his head. Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Why not? It's not like FD is a real contest where you turn in complete logs. There's no specific or general prohibition in the rules either. You might come up with an educational program on this topi
This event, specifically an IARU event, not an ARRL event, has been around for years. Why the sudden confusion? The event calls upon participants to send their "ITU zone." The page http://iaru.org/i
Huh??? Waste of time? Sending the other station's call sign has been a part of the SS exchange for as long as I can recall - going back some 30 years since SS became a "must" event for me - no matte
Sorry, Steve. I misread the intent of your comment. The station replying should send the call sign of the other station, of course, but the station answering is, indeed, under no specific obligation
Okay, I was going to stay out of this one too, but the best phonetics I've NEVER used are: "World War Three Destroys Earth." Happy Thanksgiving to all! 73, Rick / WW3DE ______________________________
Can't we all just get along? If you have time to get worked up about this sort of thing, you have way too much time on your hands. Pick your event, and try your best to work around the other activity
I reviewed the IC-756PROIII for QST more than five years ago, and I own one. It's not the greatest radio for really busy bands (I operate primarily CW), but it has some features I would hate to part
The PROII has a notable "thump" in QSK. An external keyer helps, but ICOM fixed this in the PROIII. The 756Pro is very useable as a contest CW rig. It does have some drawbacks: 1. Close in IMD is not
Yes, he did. I made the mistake of assuming off the top that he was talking about the last model. My bad. The IC-756PRO represents the IF DSP technology in place at the time of its design in the 1990
Well, as long as everyone is chiming in: The very last thing I want to hear in a transmission from a station soliciting contacts in any way, shape or form is that station's call sign. Broke my own ru
I was inadvertently ambiguous in my late night/early morning posting. My apologies. Here's an example of what I meant: 1. TEST (or CQ) TEST WW3DE WW3DE [Avoid the inclination to add "TEST" here, sinc
My *preference* when concluding one contact and moving on to the next (especially in the unlikely situation [for me] that I have multiple callers) would be to send "TU QRZ." That way, if you just "ha