The best program that I've seen, by far, is Morse Runner which was developed by Alex VE3NEA. Its fantastic. You have good ops, LIDS, QSB, QRM, static, flutter, etc. Very, very realistic. You can find
separate multiplier purposes), then you reservation, national state. This reminds me of the K7SS/PTI "DXpedition" from 1990 or thereabouts. I can't remember what Don Search's response to that DXCC r
I have to agree with Jim. I've never been to Dayton, and am planning on going next year. However, Visalia has always been a special event in that its 100% DXing/contesting in a forum which is designe
After lots of years off the air, I've finally gotten some things worked out and have some meager aerials in the sky. Was looking back at my old stuff that I shipped out from California, and came acro
As an experienced contester, I'm really annoyed by 1x1 callsigns... Totally confusing. Rich NN3W collecting, eh... contestors into station on their own, confusion, and is that for the his own or only
Some would make the same argument for CQWW when the east coasters get chip-shots at EU while the Left coast gets to listen in. You also have to remember that this is not a US-only contest. There need
Just tossing out an idea - and I couldn't care either way. How about Phone Sprint on Saturday 0000-0400 and CW Sprint on Sunday 0000-0400. I was slightly annoyed at how far down in the band the RTTY
If you can find one modified with the PIEXX board, I'd take good old TS930s! 50$................ contest _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.
I completely agree with Pete. When I was living in California and was a active member with the San Diego DX Club in the late 80s and early 90s, the chit-chat before our club meetings that were held a
I can remember three female hams/contesters that stick in my mind. Two were sisters - Zitto sisters? They lived in Utah, and were my age when I used to talk to them back in the early 90s. The other w
For now, its a universal problem on 40. I spent a lot of time on Saturday night during ARRL DX and you could tell that the DX stations were having to cluster their listening freqs away from the BCI.
K1ZM and KQ2M friends): this year's ARRL DX. any conditions. Jeff advantage on CW. So how do 14.150? This is true, Jeff did apparently win both CW and SSB. But the margin of victory in CW was about 4
Given the viewpoint that DARA has taken, why not? Its not as if half to 3/4 of all the HF amateur gear isn't being produced for contesters/DXers in mind. With the contest and DXers being effectively
Well, for one, Field Day. Rich NN3W class to squash the operators? radios to preclude inconvenienced a bit by this works S&P was the needed to maximize needed. rule ever applied to operators. The aa4
IIRC, this was an issue of discussion not to long ago. A lot of folks were complaining about the # of QSOs in their log where their logged time differed from the other station's QSO by 5 minutes or m
Not quite single op, but the one transmitter does act like a single op... flexibility contest _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://
Drake L-7. $1000 that are sufficie= due to tx into wrong an= my thoughts=2E =20 was only designed for = come by=2E Possible VH= these issues are demin= extra 300-400$? some places, but designed= expe
Is that FCC kosher??? Of Bob, N5RP living in Kemah, Texas? contest contest _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.co
5 words per minute? I'd shoot myself after 10 QSOs. Rich NN3W casual folks to do good thing. The islands or prefectures the casuals into have to be sent participation. to go along with tall" part of
Well, as to contacting folks before the contest, I rarely hear any QSOs involving an exchange of requisite Contest QSO information and I certainly don't see anybody logging those contacts. In fact, d