I was searching CQ Magazine's site for an e-mail address to check my subscription expiration and was quite surprised to see several new features on the Website for the August issue which includes the
called a FOB Chief Engineer). He was with a group of visiting hams. This was about 1 year ago when the FCC Chairman was new. My take it was a challenge statement not a statement to abandon CW and SSB
I just added the Orion's claimed IMDDR3 spec to the previous table of ARRL test measurements at 5 kHz spacing: Rig IMDDR3 BDR Ten-Tec Orion 101 (claimed) ? Elecraft K2 88 126 Ten-Tec Omni 6+ 86 119 Y
The following info is from Dave K4JRB: The 2002 CQ 160 CW and SSB High-Claimed Scores are now available on the CQ Magazine web page at: http://cq-amateur-radio.com/160%20Meter%20link.html and may be
Under extreme contest conditions on any band, CW rules! Why is this so? The answer is very simple...noise bandwidth. On the low bands, noise tends to increase as you move down in frequency. This is d
Well said Jim. When contesting or DXing becomes nothing more than exchanging data between our computers, everyone being 599+ with no more effort than plugging their laptop into their telephone jack,
Prove it. I'll wait to see meaningful results or data before I take your word for it. I've never seen any rates for RTTY that are anywhere close to either CW or SSB rates. It would be interesting to
Hi Pete! I think Ham Radio carries them for about $1000. Before spending that, you might consider their software version called World Watch which lists for $50. http://www.geochronusa.com/ Depending
Yes, there is a Multi-Two category in 2002 rules here: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/DX%20Contest%20Link%20815.html Click "Rules 2002 CQ WWDX Contest" to read the Acrobat .pdf file. 73, Bill W4ZV
Is anyone aware of a Cabrillo compatible equivalent to CT's QRATE? QRATE analyzes a complete log and yields highest rates per hour, 10 minutes and 1 minute. 73, Bill W4ZV
Thanks to many who responded to this. FYI, I learned that CBS by K5KA calculates rates AFTER dupes are removed, in addition to several other nice analysis features. K5KA says he "may" modify it later
"Contest results from QST are available here in Adobe Acrobat format. Current issue results appear here immediately and are available to ARRL members as noted with the (Members Only) tag. Contest res
Complete rules for the 2003 contest are now available at: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/infoc.html Click "Contests & Awards", click "CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest" then click "Rules 2003 CQ World
Last I saw on the Ten-Tec reflector was first delivery in November. Here's an excellent summary by Doug Smith KF6DX who is on Ten-Tec's engineering staff: http://www.doug-smith.net/orion.htm 73, Bill
For any SSB types, I omitted another very informative page by KF6DX about the Orion's audio. Looks like Ten-Tec will set some new standards in this area as well. Sure is nice to see a manufacturer pa
Wow! Listen to the MP3 file while following RW3GU's log here : http://www.qsl.net/rw3gu/morserunner.htm He has the current high score of 272 QSO's. 73, Bill W4ZV _____________________________________
Author: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbs@vitelcom.net>(by way of Bill Tippett<btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:07:30 -0400
Dear OM, I have been hoping to donate my shack to a contester from the Gulf area that lost everything but still would like to operate in one of the upcoming contests. (I have been there with 5 hurric