I am not sure about this, but perhaps CQ Magazine is a for-profit business whose reason for existence is to sell magazines, rather than to spend time and money preparing the contents of their magazin
I'm confused - is the debate whether verticals or yagis makes you a better operator in the contest, or is the debate whether verticals or yagis give you stronger transmitted and received signal stren
For the record, I loved N6KI's idea. But if this is real emergency traffic, then what about moving the dedicated emergency frequency to one that is virtually guaranteed to always be clear, and yet wi
Need a part-time op for ARRL DX SSB? I will be in Mexico on business through 2 PM Saturday March 6. After that, I am available to hop a puddle jumper to come assist in your contest operation for the
Cool idea guys - yet another thing to draw a contester's focus toward the PC and away from the radio. I'm still waiting for one of you software gurus to write the ultimate contesting program, which w
OK guys, I'm going to give away my secret for how to call CQ correctly in a contest. Don't say I never gave ya nothin'.......... CALL CQ IN THE WAY THAT YIELDS THE HIGHEST RATE OF NEW (NON-DUPE) QSO'
Hi all, I recently received the report of the errors in my CW Sweepstakes log. While I made only a handful of copying errors, there were a large number of people who "copied" my check as "66", when i
Call me old-fashioned, or even a "purist", but I think the idea of getting fills for YOUR QSO by listening to somebody ELSE's QSO are slightly off the mark. As far as I'm concerned, that violates the
Is it my imagination, or has transmitted audio quality gotten significantly worse in recent years? I would have thought that all the technological advances in radios would make transmitted audio qual
I have no idea what we are getting at here, but statistically speaking, if you graph the (z+c)/q value and draw a best fit curve, the only ones that are noteworthy are #2 & #7 which are slightly abov
On the more serious side: Forgive me if this question is ignorant - I have never set up a station to use packet so I don't know anything about how it works, but... would it be possible to somehow aut
I was originally going to reply to the below with the observation that every time you call CQ you are spotting yourself - you are saying "Here I am, please call me, I am on this frequency and I am lo
It's time for me to buy a new laptop computer. I need it for general every day use (Internet, Wordprocessing, Spreadsheets, etc.), but would ideally like to also be able to use it for contesting. Are
What a fantastic piece of software! Guys (and gals) - let me be the first to say this: Although Alex has distributed MorseRunner as FREEWARE, is there anyone out there who doesn't feel that it's wort
My initial thought was to tell him/her that you're sorry, but that this request "seems odd", and that you are a firm believer in the principle that once the contest is over, it is over, and that all
Knowledge is power. Anything you can learn and remember from past contests (at your station or at other stations in the same geographical area, if you can find people willing to share their old logs
I think that somebody really needs to tell Dan Henderson or whomever is the contest/web guy at ARRLto supress any information that could have been used in the exchange (except for the obvious - the c
Correction, Mauri: Obtaining a fair, equal setup IS actually an achievable goal. It is entirely possible to measure contester skill on a level playing field, to find out who is really the best. It's
Does anybody here happen to have (or know where I can get) any photos of the former antenna farm at the former W2YV QTH in Lagrange, NY? I am attempting to purchase a property that is right near ther
Given the huge amount of bandwidth (pun intended, read on) given to the phonetics issue, I thought it would be interesting to examine the underlying communication theory: In the spoken word, the vowe