Hi, I was also surprised by the adoption of LotW. I use only LotW for my own QSLing (but I have a paper QSL manager for those who need QSL from me). I worked 196 entities in the last 3 years, with 15
Hi, I really start to think human beings should not be allowed to participate to contests anymore. They cheat, make errors, complain all the time about rules being unfair... We should decide the winn
Hi Charlie, I second you on all of that, except that Indochina is written in one word (just like Thai-Land or Indo-Nesia) and does not exist anymore in geography. If we talk about the Indochinese pen
Hi Steve, I know that, because people like sometime send me an e-mail to just say thank you or give SWL reports. Several big NA stations also call me just to say 73 even when it's not a contest day a
Hi, Irek SP3SUX should be in Can Tho next saturday. He is planning to operate my station (using my callsign as guest operator) during the SP DX contest. I don't know his exact operating plans so you'
Hi, I am using both N1MM and DXKeeper (DXLabs). Both free and great. My operating style is DX, running small pile-up and casual contesting. Almost no digi-modes, no ragchewing. - I use N1MM at the op
Hi Pete, You are right about the KX3. In its detailed report, Rob NC0B specifically comments that despite its good close DR3 the KX3 will perform badly in a contest environment. The "digital convers
Dear fellow contesters, Yesterday I was using the DX Cluster (DXWatch website) to do some statistics and check the best time for propagation. I found that some participants have been self-spotting. I
Hi Rin, Thanks for your comment. I was planning to write to JARL about this but preferred to have comments from the contesters community before. I know the guy who was self-spotting and he is a nice
Hi Rex, First, you have skimmers on your corners, but here we don't have that much. Even in Japan you have not so many skimmers. When running LP in a contest, it is usual to be unnoticed by NA or EU
Hi, Just for the record, this is the answer I received within 24h from JARL : -- Dear Yannick, Thank you for your participation in AA DX Contest and valuable comment. I am writing on behalf of the Co
Hi, This evening my wife is out in the city and the kids are at their grand-parents farm. I had very good condx on 20m a few days ago. I hope they will be good too this evening. I will be on 20m cw a
Bernie, fellow contesters, For 3 years I was the only one station in Vietnam participating (with limited time and resources) in IARU HF contest. This was somewhat new and Bac Ai XV2A the VARC preside
Thanks John, Georges, Jacques and Pete for your answers. I think I have it clear now. I know that being an HQ station will not help me with my score, but as my participation will be time limited, it
John, I am not able to answer you to your private mailbox, the server is rejecting me for "abuse"... We are divided in zones (http://varc.radioclub.asia/vietnamese-callsign-prefix-zones/) but that wo
Hi Rick, I don't want to interfere with your plans, but just for your information, 80m has been quite surprising to me. I am running a standalone 80m beacons with 1W to a low above ground OCF Dipole.
Hi, I only have a simple station and I am not a "top contester" looking at either my results or time spent in contesting. However, even if it was for only a few hours, sometime I like to know "what I
Hi, This is some kind of follow-up to the last discussions about IARU HF we had on the reflector. As some of you may already know, I was running HQ station for Vietnam during the last IARU HF contest
Hi, As it may interest some for future participation, in case you have several callsigns participating as "HQ", merging of the logs has to be done manually. You have to send each station log separate
Dear COSTA alpha-testers, Thanks to the help of some of the list members, the technical basis for the project COSTA are now stable enough so I can make it an open beta. Anyone having big or small log