YO5SF has asked me a question I have no answer to. Would someone on the reflector mind replying ot him DIRECTLY with help? I have no info any amps but perhaps someone can recommend a good, inexpensiv
As much as I'd like to (and I know many of you would as well) 'You can't go home again!'. What that means is that as much as I'd LOVE to return to those golden days of yesteryear where the human/mach
Must differ with YT3T. Rules say 'self spotting is reason for DQ'. Self spotting is against the rules. ERGO - self-spotting IS cheating. There is a fine line between 'unsportsmanlike conduct' and 'ch
The comment about the YM embracing technology and the OM wanting to hold onto the old ways made me think of this. A YM with packet will NEVER beat at OM with packet. The OM (with experience) will alr
S56A misses the mark, completely. Competitors compete against THREE things - 1) The inflexible standard of the parameters of the event - Time, Distance, Speed, etc. These don't change and they presen
MDC QSO party announcement. Since we're about 1 month away, I felt appropriate to let folks know about this. This is NOT the official announcement, just a summary. **ONLY THE WEBSITE has official rul
Honestly, I have to wonder WHY all the concern with someone who records the entire contest that transpired at THEIR station going back and doing some 'after contest' review. Time limits are not going
Greetings! I am doing a research project on the MDC QSO party. Specifically, I am gathering scores and other info for as far back in time as is possible but concentrating on the period of time from *
MDC QSO Party, 9 - 10 Aug 2003. Several PVRC'ers are going to be going at it 'key and mike' for the Party. Details available at http://www.w3cwc.org/ and look on the LEFT side of the screen. Click on
Clarification. FCC rules require USA hams to send THEIR OWN call ONLY at the end of an exchange of transmissions with a station OR every 10 minutes - whichever comes first. In contests, that means we
See http://www.arrl.org Following text from ARRL website (C) ARRL 10 Sep 03. Looks like we update our software AGAIN and replan our 'off' time :-) K3FT == "ARRL announces contest rule changes (Sep 10
Interesting reading all the posts and thoughts on the unique QSO business. One thought comes to mind.. Doesn't it strike anyone as a bit strange to delete uniques as a rule rather than an exception?
To which AD1C sagely replied.."I'll add him to the country file next time. Are there others?" And K3FT added a thought or two for ponderment by the gang. Jim, a question for you and the other contest
Hi Bob, The question about cost was just in passing reference to my supposition as to when they'd release it. Since they have, the question is answered, for me. My question had more to do with the im
AMAZING! So long now people have been begging for some kind of electronic QSO log collection system so they can have EASY and (almost) instantaneous confirmation of QSO's for ARRL Awards. SO.. they g
See http://www.arrl.org for cover story on yet ANOTHER group of technically savvy AND economically valuable heavyweights who vote "NYET!" to BPL. 73 Chuck K3FT __________________________________ Do y
Could it be that it just so happens that someone who is a well known contester of note lives on that road? :-) Now if they had mentioned traffic jams coming into , and out of, DE rte 20 and, oh let u
Is perfectly legal and acceptable PROVIDING the holder of that callsign agrees. The following provisos are applicable. 1) YOU assume the responsibility of being the control operator of the station EV
If you want to measure your bandwidth you need a couple things. 1 - A GOOD SOLID strong signal so you can FIND the suppressed carrier. (This provides a reference point for the other measurements of t
Jay provided this to me and asked that it be distributed. If it helps you garner a NT QSO.... great! if not.. then it's good info, none the less! 73 Chuck K3FT == In the 2003 SS contests, more than e