You don't need the contest sponsors to judge this for you, you can do this yourself! I know I do. I don't always keep every contest/category memorized, but for those few contests I do "seriously", I'
Back in the mid-80s, I went to one of the first "last tour" concerts of The Who. It was at the Lakewood amphitheater pavilion in Atlanta. Our seats were about 300 feet from the stage, just 25 feet ou
While I agree with Mark, the crucial issue isn't what is sent to determine if a frequency is in use. The critical component is how much you LISTEN to determine if a frequency is in use. Far too often
How are 17 and 12m any narrower than the 40m band in Region 2? Actually, there are still some parts of 30m that are shared with the Fixed service. 17 and 12m are exclusive amateur world-wide. And yet
And he had no receiver, so he couldn't see if the frequency was in use or not, regardless of whether o he transmitted "QRL?", "?" or "IE" ('C' in continental Morse).... Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL M
So, Jim, which 10 feet is this? From 50 to 60 feet? Or from 100 to 110 feet? Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!" -- Wilbur Wright
See below. Mercifully, when Regions 1 and 3 move to a 200 kHz allocation for 40m in 2009, hopefully the RTTY DX frequency will move up higher in the band (like about 7080 kHz). In the meantime, it is
No argument from me, but moving QRP lower or higher didn't make much sense, either. You move them lower to get away from the digital guys, they they run into the QRQ. Higher and they end up fighting
The log-checking will not bust you for a bad RST. We have to send it because it is in the rules. -- This reminds me of the times I'm watching television, and some character on a show does something t
Sorry for responding to an old message. If your typing ability is the problem -- why not just learn how to type? It's a skill, like CW, and can be learned with practice. There are several software pr
I don't know where this study came from, but it has been known for many years that humans operate optimally in a very narrow skin temperature range. Above 85 degrees, thinking slows down considerably
I was thinking something similar earlier. I had fun during SKN working stations on a rock-bound CW transmitter that I had just finished the week before, and I was reflecting on how much ham radio had
Yes, this weekend during the CQ 160m CW contest, there were lots of inconsiderate CW operators, operating way above 1843 kHz -- I heard some of them as high as 1880 kHz. There's plenty of space for C
Oh, I think I thought about this a lot.... Yup. No, it wouldn't. Doug, I wasn't really, really serious about that posting. The <grin> at the end should have given that away. My point was to highlight
It became abundantly clear this weekend working the ARRL DX at the NQ4I M/M that the spotting network needs to have a Mode field. I lost count of the number of times I had to delete spots (many of th
I have held this call for over 20 years, and it still astounds me that so many folks have trouble with the prefix on SSB, and sometimes even on CW. I'm frequently confused for a a PA4 or DA4 A while
Sorry for replying to an old message (I'm behind), but I have to differ with this opinion, Tom, for two good reasons: 1) There's no relationship between Contest CW and regulatory CW. In the US, the h
I for one, can't stand this format, especially for CW contests. While tuning across, I'll hear "5u test". Whereas, if you had used the standard format of TEST KG5U KG5U, I might have gotten "5U KG5U"
Back in the days of paper logs, it was not uncommon for someone to rewrite the log sheets in order to make the log entries readable and presentable for submission. In doing so, many minor errors, suc
Seems to me that as long as all the signal origination (transmitter) and signal capture (receiver) points reside in a single 500m circle, there's really no issue here. The results would be no differe