I've got a gig on Saturday, but hope to get on some midday from EM84 or EM74. I'm planning on operating from Mt. Mitchell NC in EM85 on Sunday, and depending on how things are going (that is if it's
Which presumes the contests are designed to support the ARRL's Spectrum Defense Fund. I don't recall seeing anything published by the ARRL that states this. It's about resource management. If there w
They don't work against each other. One (fund) promotes use of the spectrum, the other (contest) doesn't discourage it...in fact, the contests also encourage the use of microwaves, but apparently not
I'm familiar with the concept. I was active in contest mountaintopping long before the Limited Multi class was implemented. As long as there is only one transmitted signal per band, the number of ope
Uh, the dayton.akorn.net machine is the machine the list is on. 73 de Lee -- Lee Hiers, AA4GA Cornelia, Georgia _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontestin
B-L-A-T-T! We have a loser. I remember back in the California QSO party a few years back, early in the morning, I was operating mobile and the rules stated that you had to work at least 10 guys from
Your proposal, as K8MR stated, is stupid. You *really* don't get it, do you? Legitimate, as in: an activity which is within the spirit of the rules. The reason your example of QSOs between a multi-op
I've been waiting for this advertisement. No, it would be *much* cooler if all QSOs were made via a means that actually requires humans to copy the exchanges by ear. It may or may not be a fun toy to
Although the attempt at sarcasm is appreciated, you seem to have misunderstood. I don't think WSJT, Ham-IM, etc. have no place in amateur radio. Far from it. I think they have no place in *contesting
Maybe I can answer both of these with one reply! Nowhere did I say WSJT contacts were easy. Nowhere did I denigrate the value of WSJT. I was including WSJT as one of the more interesting ones. I pers
I just marked the grid corners on a Rand-McNally road atlas to get me going in the general direction I was headed in, and use a GPS to determine my lat-long if there is any question about which grid