Mail Archive Search: <+subject:/^(?:^\s*(re|sv|fwd|fw)[\[\]\d]*[:>-]+\s*)*\[CQ\-Contest\]\s+A\s+call\s+to\s+action\s*$/>

Results:

References: [ +subject:/^(?:^\s*(re|sv|fwd|fw)[\[\]\d]*[:>-]+\s*)*\[CQ\-Contest\]\s+A\s+call\s+to\s+action\s*$/: 45 ]

Total 45 documents matching your query.

21. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Steve Harrison <k0xp@dandy.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:58:33 +0000; True; I'd venture the guess that only the YFs and YLs (and maybe several of the more vain OMs) amongst us send anything other than the correct year 8-) Now, THERE'S a new exchange possibility for an; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00499.html (9,810 bytes)
22. Re: [CQ-Contest] A Call to Action (score: 1): Author: Ken Alexander <k.alexander@rogers.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:48:57 -0400 (EDT); The "big red button" would be a good thing for those of us with personal ham radio websites to add to our own home pages. Any graphic designer types out there that want to make up a "big red botton"; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00500.html (9,441 bytes)
23. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Steve Harrison <k0xp@dandy.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:01:47 +0000; Just tell him CW contesting by 'puter is the next step up from digital modes since it puts more emphasis on op skills 8-))))) Steve, K0XP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00501.html (9,311 bytes)
24. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Dave Lawley <g4buo@compuserve.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:18:57 +0000; Don't be so sure about datamodes. A while ago G3GVV, who ran a club at a local school, asked me to go along and demonstrate RTTY and PSK31 to some of the boys in the club. They had got their Foundati; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00502.html (9,024 bytes)
25. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: K4BEV@aol.com; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:14:55 EDT; As I understood the question, it was how to attract more hams to contesting, not how to attract more people into ham radio. It seems to me that Amateur Radio Contesting is getting to be way more like; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00503.html (10,339 bytes)
26. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: John Geiger <n5ten@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:19:08 -0700 (PDT); One of the misconceptions that seems to keep coming up is that most hams become hams when they are young, and stay hams their entire life. So we believe that we can only attract young people. Why lim; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00504.html (10,135 bytes)
27. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt@mts.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:06:52 -0500; Hi Bill, To a point, they are related: we have a number of newly licensed VHF/UHF types who are keen to ham radio, but need to be nudged toward HF activity. So it's not so much about getting new hams; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00505.html (10,776 bytes)
28. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:59:35 -0700; Not so very different at all. The real question is how to RETAIN the new ham's interest in ham radio. By going beyond the sheer utility of communication to the enjoyment and interest that radio has; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00508.html (9,520 bytes)
29. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: John Warren <nt5c@texas.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:16:37 -0600; Our discussions always concentrate on how to bring more young people into ham radio, and then how to keep them interested/involved. How can one argue with that noble objective. But there's another po; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00510.html (9,041 bytes)
30. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Ken Alexander <k.alexander@rogers.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:37:58 -0400 (EDT); Hi Dave, All true, but they were hams already and The Magic Of Radio means something to them. I haven't gotten that far with my non-ham nephew yet. I think that computers will provide the initial hoo; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00511.html (10,288 bytes)
31. [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: James Duffey <JamesDuffey@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:18:56 -0600; I am a casual contester and have been on and off since the Novice Roundup of 1966. So, there is a good place to start. Many of us made our debut into contesting as part of the old Novice Roundup. It; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00512.html (9,662 bytes)
32. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:43:38 -0700; ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:06:52 -0500, "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt@mts.net> wrote: <snip> -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Nudged?? Perhaps so, but my experience back in the '50s was just the opposite. B; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00513.html (9,602 bytes)
33. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Vic Dively <kg4htt@juno.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:35:54 -0500; I would second Ward's observation. As a relatively new ham (2000) and also relatively new to contesting, I think our challenge is helping new hams experience the high points of contesting, even if th; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00515.html (9,945 bytes)
34. Re: [CQ-Contest] A Call to Action (score: 1): Author: kd4d@comcast.net; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:03:00 +0000; [...] Hi Ward: Have you seen the "Contesting FAQ?" http://www.qsl.net/zs1an/contesting_faq.html I think ZS1AN has done a great job with this and I think it is a great resource. 73, Mark, KD4D _______; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00517.html (10,079 bytes)
35. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Ethan Miller K8GU <ethan@k8gu.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:46:23 -0400 (EDT); There's a book called "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell that was very popular a couple of years ago, especially in business/marketing circles. The basic premise of the book is that epidemics (w; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00518.html (10,898 bytes)
36. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: John Geiger <n5ten@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:51:32 -0700 (PDT); And many of us might have gotten started in contesting at the local club during Field Day. I know, FD isn't a contest (need proof? QST publishes the scores, so it can't be a contest) but it has many; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00520.html (13,257 bytes)
37. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: Jim George <n3bb@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:57:59 -0500; This is a really great analogy by K8GU. The hypothesis in The Tipping Point is a terrific way to think logically about getting the magic of radio contesting out to more people. Jim N3BB _____________; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00521.html (11,847 bytes)
38. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: "Trent and Lorraine Sampson" <vk4ti@sampson.net.au>; Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:58:39 +1000; With the great numbers of newbie's who are non Morse /CW operators is the need out there for very advanced CW decoder programmes "to keep the dream alive" . I know Writelog has a pretty good decoder; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00524.html (13,565 bytes)
39. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: "Alan Zack" <k7acz@cox.net>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:08:21 -0700; I don't know. CW decoders just don't work well as a set of ears. From my understanding you must be right on freq and have a very good s/n ratio. If you are calling on the DX's freq and someone sends; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00533.html (17,254 bytes)
40. Re: [CQ-Contest] A call to action (score: 1): Author: "Rex Maner" <k7qq@netzero.net>; Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:58:13 -0000; Quack Note I just for kicks did some Google and found a Russian CW decod program called CW Get and it really didn't do too bad of a job copying , however with QRM/QRN it did miss quiet a bit and the; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-03/msg00548.html (19,999 bytes)

Current List: 21 - 40
Page: [1] [2] [3]