Hi, I am neither an experienced CW op nor an avid contester. I would also differentiate low-bands and HF, running or S&P. However this is my experience with "different letters" and a "rare" callsign
Hi, Last week I build and installed a hybrid-Moxon for 15m-10m-6m with fixed beam (could be manually turned but not real time). I was a happy DXer with my vertical but wanted something more for conte
Hi Steve, Interesting comment. Congratulation. I think I heard 9V1YC calling you on saturday but here I was not able to copy you, not even a whisper... I am not surprise you have a lot of YBs in your
Hi Tom, Yes I agree with you that condx can vary greatly with only hundred of miles, especially when condx are tricky. That's why I needed several opinions because it only has a statistical value. I
Hi Tom, Sorry for the delayed answer. Gain is over "real ground" as MMana computes it. The Moxon is around 11dBi when at the exact goal frequency, you quickly loose 1dB when going far from it. It is
Hi, This is bit out of topic but contesters opinion is highly valuable. Following a discussion on DX-World.net about the next Intrepid-DX group QSL policy I started a small poll about QSL in the 21th
Hi, Just a follow-up about my antenna and the path to NA. During last CQ WPX SSB I had only a few hours that I spend on 15m exclusively. Saturday morning I had 30 minutes around 8am local time (01.00
Paul N6PSE questioning was interesting. The last big expeditions (ST0R, T32C) costed around 300 000 USD each... For rare entities, people (perhaps not everyone) are ready to pay for Direct QSL. Howev
Thanks Tom, Dave, for your comments, Yes I knew the Moxon was rather sensitive to its environment. However, since it was working so well to Europe, I was surprised to have bad performances to NA. I t
Hi Dave, I have no experience on 160m and really little on 80m so I will not talk about low bands. However, during the last two years I have been actively chasing DX and trying to learn the propagati
Hi John, I first tried to send my answer direct to your e-mail address but it has been rejected. I answer you via the reflector, sorry for the bandwidth... Well thanks for your patience and thanks fo
Dave, guys, As a moderatly rare DX station this situation happens many time to me. With electronic keyers its harder to recognize the fist of the operator and sometime they change their frequency a l
Hi, I agree that with technology improvements and "connected" computer being everywhere including inside our radios, it's hard to define what is assistance. My opinion is that in order to make the Si
Hi Bob, Just read your message (I'm reading the diggest). I fully agree with your views. Even more, we don't have to put more words in the sentences. The more words you put, the more possibilities of
Hi Hans, What count is what you use for making the contest QSO, not what you have in your shack. If not, we could be all disqualified for having started the QSO before time... 73, Yan. -- Yannick DEV
Ok Hans, now I understand what you mean. That was not the point of my first message but yes I think SO2R should be in another category than SO-Unassisted. For me it's also a problem of the equipments
Dear Katsuhiro, Michael, Katsuhiro, you are right this is a serious security flaw in the way the log submission are handled. It can lead to spoofing (someone use your identity to upload logs) and flo
Sorry Dick, that was you I wanted to quote about LotW. As you state, forging a fake log that seems genuine enough but harmful to the score is something with a low probability. Making the submission d
Michael, Vladimir, Vladimir, I agree with the 3 points you gave in your e-mail. Michael, I am in the same situation than you. I started CW in march last month and tried a few contests in august. I fo
Hi Pete, The online spanish free magazine "Radio Noticias" has a broad community of readers. It is not dedicated to DX or south america but I am sure it will have readers among them. Radio Noticias s