Curiously, did anyone hear (or work) VE1, VE4, VE5 or VE6 mults last night? I was stunned that I didn't hear a deluge of VE3's active. The overall participation seemed 'light' compared to past CW Spr
(A re-tweak of my recent post to the NCCC) If it were not for the kind assistance of N6RO, K6XX & W0YK a few years ago, I probably would have never made it over the hump of 'intimidation' about the S
Congrats to the NCJ Subscription/Renewal Award Winners and TNX again to all participants in this year's LQP (Locust QSO Party). The LQP FINAL RESULTS are now at: http://www.k6vva.com/lqp52/lqp52_fina
PCs at PJ2T. Holy cow - that's pretty ugly. It's a good thing the salt air doesn't do this to the operators (a/k/a "Human" computers) !!! 73... Rick, K6VVA ___________________________________________
(The flip side of the 'No US DX Only - ARRL DX' thread) I had a specific goal in mind for this primarily Contest-Pedition trip, and that was to (hopefully) end up with the Top 20m Single Band DX Stat
TR4W was my contest logging software choice for VP2VVA. Dmitriy has been great to work with over the past year in making changes and tweaks to the program, and is very receptive to feedback, suggest
Seeing this on the reflector, I downloaded TR4W on Monday just to take a look. I'm a little pistol SO1R operator and just use my radio interfacing to the 850, lpt cw keying and a voice keyer through
<snip> Once again, super kudos to David for his generous spirit of sharing with the contest community at large. What a great way for Little Pistol Contest Station ops to get a taste of the Big Time s
dislikes. Precisely why MY '65 year old body' chose to enter the 20M single band category as VP2VVA this year (and still hand out the VP2V mult for a while on 40m & 80m when 20 went in the tank. sing
Ken, N6RO, posted: SAVINGS. Hopefully everyone is on board AOK about the DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME change and how 0230Z now plays out in local time !!! Yes, please S-P-R-E-A-D O-U-T !!! FYI, the NCCC suf
My personal opinion is that the K3LR and W3LPL teams (as well as most others) participate in the cluster postings in the same spirit of 'friendly competition' that can ultimately lead to more QSO an
county abbreviation list) Jim, AD1C, replied: Hmmm, I thought the NAQP (North American QSO Party) was really a coast-to-coast QSO party :^) 73. Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ______________________________
or-white-spaces-access/ Am I seeing things, or is that really a bicycle mounted by the wheels on the left side of the main tower in the photo??? 73. Rick, K6VVA * The Locust _________________________
this is listed. these all existed? Some options immediately come to mind, assuming that reasonable people can collectively agree on reasonable solutions to problems {cough, gag}. Using the 20m SSB US
Tod, I think the problem with Wikipedia is, as some one else said, that its managers won't allow it to go into the kind of detail that contesters want and need. What is appropriate for a general pur
IMHO, this is still game playing and a violation of the Spirit of the Rule(s). If the ARRL is going to allow use of a Bogus CK, then THEE RULE(S) should be changed to state Carte Blanche is permissi
Before leaving for Visalia, I decided to at least pull out 20M Callsign audio for some of you NS'ers to get an idea of what you sounded like last night via Locust Peak to the home QTH kitchen table :
You be the judge. For those who participated in the DR1A on-air CW test in the 20m SSB spectrum (and filled out the form), didn't you find it interesting that a kinda-sorta solicitation to work them
CQ Contesters in: ID, WY, AZ, NM, ND, WV, RI, AR, KY, VT, VE1/VO1, VE2, VE5, VE6, YT, KL7, and other Mult areas we either rarely hear or have never heard in a Thursday Night NCCC NS or NS Ladder even