At our Annual NCCC Awards Dinner Meeting tonight, we had a brief time of silence in honor and memory of W7RM and other FB contesters we've lost in the last year. FYI & 73... Rick, K6VVA _____________
Ken, WM5R informed us: Hmmm...didn't see any mention of a WAN (Worked All Nodes) Award :-) 73... Rick, K6VVA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
== Whenever I get in my truck and hit the local repeater I try to talk up contesting and HF in general. I am pretty much met with apathy and an attitude that it is better to sit and wallow on a 2 met
hams in the U.S. is female. I found this statistic quite astonishing. If contest sponsors offered some prize awards like gift certificates to Nordstrom, Bed-Bath & Beyond, etc., ... or even one "Extr
Diane, K2DO commented: disgusting things as I was calling CQ. Shame on those LIDS. As the old saying goes, "that ain't no way to treat a lady." do was power up the amp and turn the beam in their dire
-- I encountered an incident a couple of times this last weekend during WPX SSB. Once was on 10m SSB working an SA station, and he gave me "sorry, worked before". -- Although only part-time in the WP
Does the CHQP ("Coat Hanger QSO Party") offer more Contesting Equality? Let's see... Here is my initial draft, inspired by the CQ-CONTEST threads and other reflector discussions. The easiest approach
*NOTE: This is of critical importance to CONTEST-Peditioners, DX-Peditioners & IOTA-Xpeditioners ** (All others may wish to hit the delete key now) ** There has been an alarming number of "denials" b
I'm not on packet yet, but I know computer software can be used to S-O-L-V-E problems (or at least partially), and most likely "spotting" as an animal will never become an extinct species. 1. Unless
operating when the Kinda like a bunch of dogs peeing on fire hydrants..."staking out their claims" :-) I agree with rules if they are clearly written and thorough. Sometimes rules need changing or am
Tnx to all who responded directly or posted. My original post was meant to stimulate some "outside the box" thinking. In consideration of the reality that Packet is here to stay, here's a novel follo
The U.S. Tower Girls would be nice :-) 73... Rick, K6VVA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo
Try this one: We all zero beat 14.050 as the National Warm-Up Frequency and let Auto-CQ's run with a "Testing, 1, 2, 3...Just Warming Up The Frequency...<Callsign>" signals for one-half hour before P
Richard, M6RIC inquired: My good friend Jim, N6TJ/ZD8Z (U.S. Citizen) will be operating as TO4A from (FM5) Land - Martinique - in the CQ WW (CW) Contest. You might drop him a line via QRZ.com and ask
I've been terribly remiss in completing an article for Carl at the NCJ entitled: "X-Treme Contesting With BPL" This is one of "The Next BIG Step(s) in contesting" to also try and attract new young bl
Ken, K6LA commented about his SS check of 65, to which Bill, N6ZFO replied with an NCCC post by K6VVA of info received from Dan, N1ND on the Subject: Who, me "practical"? That's very kind of you Bill
Ward, N0AX admonished against: Due to a throat infection, using digital EVERYTHING was the ONLY way I could work the phone contest on Saturday. I had over-trimmed many of my test pre-recorded files,
I thought I was imagining things...why would someone QRM my puny 75m signal with a carrier? It happened several times. So I QSY'd slightly to zero-beat myself with it. Never did get any "QRZ the AM s
What a crack up. You should send this into the NCJ, Dave. 73... Rick, K6VVA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.c
For those interested in the details of a "Full Robot" experience in the Phone SS, I've recapped it all in an article just sent off to the NCJ. There's a .pdf file at: http://www.k6vva.com/k6vva_04ssp