Wow! telling Les to give up the hobby is kind of terse. One of the key problems many hams have is the HOA's. Especially in the east and in california. The HOA situation is taking a toll on our activi
The notion of Home owners associations being voluntary is comparable to the same notion that living in a racist society is voluntary and that segregation is voluntary for people who choose to live in
A better argument on the antenna issue vs HOA's is that there are exceptions for TV antennas and Sat. Dishes as well as broad band internet antennas. All of these are corporate based profit making ve
Someone asked "Please explain how we would be better off by having no activity, than by having occasional grid circling activity." The idea is to trade away the majority of the upper spectrum for sec
We need 1.3 ghz down. this is where 99.5 percent of all hams operate. Or should I say 99.5 percent of hams have nothing beyond 1.3 ghz. There are issues going on with 70 cm and the air force in Calif
Here's an recent (20 minute ago Article on the broadband issue) This is why the ARRL should strike a deal before the corporations aim for us. Or we should really use the bands frequently. http://www.
Zack is missing the point, The key would be to get the majority of activity or contacts beyond that of the contests. If we created some real infrastructure on those bands then we have a better chance
To the VUAC and selected others, I wish to voice my comments regarding the negative impact of removing the Assisted class on entries in the 2009 ARRL EME contest. I have previously posted my comments
I have reports of : During the contest there were non contestants (formally assisted) spotting non assisted people on some of the web pages. This was not to help the non assisted people, but to help
well a purest would say yes. What you did by spotting someone as a "SWL" or "VSWL" (hi hi) is assist the station. This station gets assistance by your post when he works other "VSWLs" who follow your
There was a scandal of a HF contest that forbid the use of spotting. However there is no way to prevent a proxy spotter on the internet. However one disgruntled contestant was able to correlate two t
well its more the lack of enforcement in the analogy. Why set a limit you can't or wont enforce? Contests are not really contests without enforcement of rules and judges. The competive spirit of the
The following idea came to me a sa possible compromise or rule change for the EME contests. Assign different values for each type of contact. 1 point for for digital 2 points for CW 3 points for SSB.
James, w8iss, Its the EME contest, however a rover in the EME contest would be impressive. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsofts pow
If spotting was brand new and someone walked up and asked if we should add it to the contest rules I would say yes because it generates more QSOs. Our contests are different animals than HF contests.
roving stats Well if you consider the new tactic since the rule change that 11 teams are using one person's gear (to inflate one club's overall score and dominate all three classes of roving) the num
I never understood why the manufactures never made a DIN or Double DIN mount rig that would go right in your dashboard. Now with the Death of CD's and the birth of MP3 players a DIN mounted rig could
In response to the earlier posts Of course the limited rover is going to expand because of the lower impact of grid circling has on this group, traditional (classic) is dropping because of the poor f
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto Thanks to all of you who have suggested the obvious of resending my CAB file to correct MY problem with the robot. I have done that and Mr. Robot is now happy. My Cab file wa
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