This weekend I was listening to a pile-up that a CU station had going. It was a pretty good sized pile-up. I listened for at least 5 or 6 QSOs and he never ID'd, not once. One of the W guys he had ju
I've already made plans to go to Visalia instead of Dayton. Hara Arena is a dump and not likely to change. The WX is better in CA anyway. To be truthful I have scaled back on my Dayton trip in recent
Thank you Bill, The original poster, Tim, sent me this link. I was unable to find out anything about who publishes this, however. Thanks for providing some information. Next question..I use the calen
OK..I figured out how to add this calendar and keep it sync'd with my Thunderbird calendar. Next is to figure out how to integrate all of this with my other Google Calendars. BTW..the DXpedition cale
Hi Gerry I like my K360 too. They have a neat utility that monitors your battery voltage (I think both the keyboard and the wireless mouse) with an icon in the system tray. I always check this before
I have had very good results with the Sabrent brand. Be sure you buy the FTDI chips as Sabrent makes both. I buy mine from Amazon. 73Gary K9GS Ive been using a Keyspan USA-19HS for years in my sta
Hi Ray, My group did this once for FD. A few things: 1) You MUST use bandpass filters. 2) Make sure that you use radios with good phase noise performance. The year we did this in FD we used three 100
A bit of trivia here. This Buggles song was the first song ever played on MTV. If you're not familiar with my word play in the title, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ Barry
I'm the most recent ARRL phone contest a ZD7 showed up on 20m in the afternoon. He was not in the contest but if asked he would give a signal report and power. He was also very loud, at least in W9
You're missing the point that he (the ZD7) was not in the contest so saying he should S&P is not relevant. 73-Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> Date: 3/16
I have been thinking of buying a pair of wireless headphones. If you read postings by hams the consensus is that there is too much of a delay, making CW use difficult or impossible. On the other ha
Great post Bob..thank you for stating So well 73, Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: "Bob Shohet, KQ2M" <kq2m@kq2m.com> Date: 11/30/17 10:01 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Adam Mercier <adam@kenbrio.com>, Ger
I'll second that. I love my Sonys 73-Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: john@kk9a.com Date: 12/6/17 10:23 AM (GMT-06:00) To: cq-contest@contesting.com Cc: cqtestk4xs@aol.com Subject: Re: [CQ-Con
Speaking of Sonys, Koss just introduced the following: https://www.koss.com/headphones/headsets/gmr-540-iso Since I live near the factory i plan on trying a pair. I'm also going to see if I can get
I completely agree. Time to dump this rule.. I dont ever expect to be top 20, let alone top 5. So I dont record. But I work hard, hoping for maybe #37 or #40. The some enchanted weekend the moon and
My name is Gary. People always ask, Garry? Or more common. Jerry. I'll sometimes use Tom which is my middle name, Thomas. Multi Ops get to pick a name. Unless they're all named the same :) 73, Gary
Unfortunately, I don't think Heil sells the elements separately like they used to. At least I couldn't find them on their web site.73,Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: David Siddall <hhamwv@gmai
I'm not a digital guy, just my preference and don't really have much of an opinion on it. Mostly what I hear from others. This past FD we set up FT8 on 6m. It was a complete waste of time. I thin
Pete It would be helpful to know who the vendor is that you bought the bad cable from; so we don't make the same mistake. A link would do the trick.73,Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: N4ZR <n4zr
A close friend is an avid 160m DXer. We were discussing the impact of FT8 on 160m. He has worked several new countries using FT8 this past season.But he did say that one of the biggest problems are