If you follow the link to the Federal Register you will find that it is currently a proposed rule to discontinue sale of IRC. The is before the Postal Regulatory Commission. There is a comment period
The preliminary results for the January NAQP SSB Contest are now on the NCJ web site. Questions contact me at ssbnaqpmgr@ncjweb.com . Always looking for pictures or stories about your NAQP SSB contes
Revised preliminary results for the 2013 January NAQP SSB contest have been post on the NCJ web site. Please review and let me know if you see any errors in the next few days. Bill, AC0W NAQP SSB Man
Thanks to the hard work of the NAQP log checking team we now have the August NAQP SSB preliminary results available on the NCJ web-site to view, http://www.ncjweb.com/naqpssbprelim.php . Please verif
Actually W1AW/0 will be activated by several stations during the contest (1400 - 2359). Stations will be on the full time period on the following bands and modes: 40 CW & SSB 20 CW & SSB 15 SSB. 15 C
With RFID there are many things that affect the effective range very similar to our contest station. On the chip side you have both active and passive systems. As noted the toll pass system use activ
Starting June 11 0000 UTC, W1AW will be coming to Minnesota. Scheduled operating times can be found at this link http://sdrv.ms/1dSbef5 . Check back periodically as the schedule is updated as people
Some of the lamps will have a color tone or color temperature (not all vendors do this for residential lamps). You want color temperatures 4100 K and higher, such as 4100 K, 5000 K, and 6500 K. You d
GS If K0RF has the older technology fluorescent some people are sensitive to the 120 Hz flickering of the lamps. Plus the phosphor technology in the older stuff was not very good creating accurate co
First, thank you for your patience during our server issues last week. I've been told things have been "beefed" and the problem should not return. In the last few days a new problem has been discover
First I need to apologize for some of the continuing issues we are experiencing with receiving logs for the August NAQP SSB Contest. Early during the log submission period the server the log receivin
I should have added, for those getting messages such as " Missing "END OF LOG:" statement; please so not attempt to resend the log. We have the correct original log and will get this into the log che
I'm going to agree with K0AD on this, using a prefill or database is a tool that can help improve your accuracy and reduce fatigue. As with any tool when used improperly it can do more harm than good
Personally I will not change my operating category just because of the WRTC 2018 qualification rules. I enjoy SO1R non-assisted with single tribander and vertical with low power. When I have time to
Suggest you check the contest rules before throwing a contest into this discussion. A check of the NAQP rules has multipliers as provinces, states and NA countries outside of US and Canada. The issue
My suggestion on the change in N1MM was made after operating a contest that allowed DC as a mult. However, every time I entered DC it was automatically changed to MD. This then required a manual edit
The NAQP January SSB Contest preliminary results are now posted on the NCJ web site, www.ncjweb.com. Please check your results to make sure they appear to be accurate. Things you want to check are th
Most of my co-workers and friends roughly 40 and under that learn of my radiosport activities ask a lot of questions. Many appear very interested. However at some point two questions tend to come up
Art, I just received the digest today and needed to verify a few things before responding publically. While the proper thing to enter into the multiplier field for the Virgin Island contact is VI, ou
In responding to other questions I this I realized I made a small error. The rules state that multipliers are North American Countries and how we've designated in the multiplier field is by the stand