btw, I'm looking forward to working my buddy Knickerbocker 9 Psychotic Gnat in the phone SS later this month... Sorry, I must be just missing my old WA2 Sasumi Tsumami Mommy callsign.... ____________
Just to play devil's advocate on this issue: Let's say I'm a Single Op Unassisted entrant, and I have an SO2R station, and I am currently running on 20M, and a friend comes over and sits down at my s
Some interesting thoughts have been voiced on this issue. In hindsight, my original post could have and should have used a lot fewer words: I personally feel that if I am made aware of the callsign a
This issue has a very simple solution, which I used both times someone worked me this weekend without sending their call as part of the exchange. I responded to their exchange by sending: CALL? And t
To restate the obvious, by the laws of physics, the playing field is not level. It is far too complex to ever be rendered level by any artificial means (i.e. scoring adjustments.) Any attempt to do s
Im usually QRX on here, but I just have to jump in and make a comment, Pete. You are saying that you hope someone (a fellow ham) fails as a business when his business is to trade his valuable time,
Seeing all the notes about remote operation again, I am reminded of why I unsubscribed from the list last time, and why I am about to do so again. I would like to hear someone who is opposed to conte
As I type this, I am sitting here fuming mad and deliberating on whether to keep plugging away in the CQWW SSB contest or just shut off the PC and radio. Blessed with three young children (two toddle
Hi Larry, By any chance do you happen to have a recording of the contest which demonstrates that I "kept on calling and covering up DX that was calling" you? If so, I would very much like to hear it.
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of another one of the great operators and station builders.Richard Strand KL7RA passed away at 7:11 PM last night at Providence Alaska Medical Cente
I have been silently reading the huge outpouring of arguments on this topic, and decided to add one more email onto the pile, despite the fact that I'm sure just about everyone is sick of this topic
I agree with most of Kelly's post, but I have a slight correction / elaboration / justification on two of the items: If the running station is fairly sure, but not 100% positive, that they got the ca
In looking at the Stew Perry preliminary results, I noticed right away that my "BEST DX" (N5IA) was also the Best DX for MANY other stations. Which makes it pretty reasonable to assert that N5IA has
Hopefully the sponsor will chime in and clarify this, but when I read the following: "must record the transmitted and received audio as heard by the operator " I understood that to mean that I must r
I will most likely be in Dallas the weekend of Phone SS. Are there any multi-ops in or near Dallas that could use a part-time op? Sure would love to take advantage of my trip and experience what Phon
Hoping somebody out there has got the Series S 403A bandpass filters. I have a set of them that have been sitting here new in the box for a year or more. I want to use them this weekend but I don't k
I'm playing a little in the ARRL DX contest and I've noticed something new that I don't recall from previous years. Several DX stations have sent their power as zero watts. I've received 5NN T, 5NN T
Another possible explanation is that the big gun was answering the CQ of some far off station that you could not hear. Another possible explanation is that the big gun was tuning with the second vfo