I see your point, and you are absolutely right. Until I got your note, I saw that call as simply another ham call; it was just a 1 x 3 call that had no significance. But since you pointed this out, a
Re all the recent comments about 40m sideband frequencies.... My SSB range here in CI is 7050-7300. I have tried CQing in 7150-7300, but nobody in the US ever listens there. That was totally unproduc
Sorry, I can't buy this one, and I don't think others should either. I believe it's the height of rudeness to plop down within someone else's 500Hz bandwidth and blast away, then simply ignore the pl
... Wonder who that could have been? Actually, I figured ARRL would get a lot of logs with errors like that. I was using CT, set up for the 10m contest on the DX side, and set up correctly (within th
K3ZO posts: "My stock answer is: 'If you had to move the dial to tell me it was in use, then it wasn't', and I mean it!" Then W4AN chimes in: "I just found a frequency in that 1KC-clear zone you are
This is the village idiot speaking. I thought the ARRL160 contest would be a fun one over the weekend, even though the solar report looked fairly awful, so resolved to take Friday afternoon off from
I'm sorry, but I disagree with this one. I've caught flak on this issue before, and I know ahead of time I'll take flak again for sticking my neck out now, but this is just the way I see it. If a guy
I've been keeping my ears as close to the ground as I can, but from this isolated spot that's not very close. So let me ask directly and see if anybody can give me any leads: 1. Who was on from TI1C?
You can just "sort of" get it to work by telling it you're operating CQP. You edit the California counties file (cqp.dat) to contain Canadian provinces instead of California counties. At least you ca
No phone contacts in the "conventional CW sub-bands"? From the perspective of a US operator, I have very good reason to think of 7000-7150 as a conventional CW sub-band. Likewise, the same is true be
Is 1 out of 3 good enough? I've got the same problem K7BG does...I think I can find my way to Dayton OK (first go to SLC , then follow the sun for the next three days, right?), but once I get there,
I still think the suggestion K5TR put out the other day (and credited to N5KO) is the best I've heard yet. Allow self-spotting, and encourage EVERYBODY to put out a spot on themselves every time the
While everybody is thinking about how to increase SS participation, you might think about the idea of allowing non-US/VE stations to make contacts. What would be the harm? Just as in NAQP, the contac
I just received a totally unexpected, but much appreciated, package in the mail today from the ARRL. It was a plaque for last January's RTTY Roundup (DX SOAB/HP), which I had thought was unsponsored.