Not true. The ARRL provides a PDF file with the QST article plus full score listings. For example: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2005/DXCW.pdf ARRL members also get access to a downloadable da
My current understanding is that the FCC enforcement area may not have interpreted the rules involving 3rd party operation correctly. I've asked for a clarification and will post whatever I find out.
[related to signing W1ABC/VE1 or VE1/W1ABC] There is a specific USA-Canada agreement about reciprocal operating. http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/io/#us -- Tom/K1KI -- e-mail: frenaye@pcn
Alan - I don't know about having it backwards, but when in the USA, Canadians have to follow FCC rules for US amateurs, and Americans operating in Canada have to follow Industry Canada rules. I don't
The CW Sprint has 50%+ more participants (and logs submitted) than the SSB Sprint, and four times more than the RTTY Sprint. Logs received: CW SSB RTTY 2004-fall 194 112 44 2004-spr 219 150 69 2003-f
I'd be interested in why you think that is true. Looking at the logs submitted for the ARRL DX Contest this year I don't see much difference between the number of logs sent in by USA and Canadian ham
I think I was smart enough to deal with that. I used official figures from the IARU ( http://www.iaru.org/statsum00.html ) showing the number of Canadian operators (not stations, not clubs, not secon
That seems like a good reason to make it the 3rd weekend in January (and avoid the CQ 160 CW contest on the 4th weekend). I did some checking of last year's CQ 160 CW results and the ARRL VHF SS resu
Just about every country does NOT regulate subbands. The USA is unusual in that it does. Many do have suggested bandplans, or point to IARU bandplans. Stations licensed by the US in Region 1 and 3 (l
Bill isn't often wrong, but the FCC regulates ham radio by mode, not by bandwidth. And most licensing authorities are moving to regulation by bandwidth, not mode. We now have wideband digital modes i
Oops, my mistake... it is 7075-7100... not 7050-7100... -- Tom -- e-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com YCCC --> http://www.yccc.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444 -- T
The numbers you quoted are reasonable. In my town there are about 14000 people and 50 hams. I don't think more than 10 of them are active though. The number of hams per one thousand people in the USA
The results from the November Sweepstakes will show the number of hours each participant spent making QSOs (as did last years). It isn't an exact number, just the number of hours - calculated based o
One place is --> http://www.digitalbadge.com/ But they are usually cheaper at conventions... -- Tom -- e-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com YCCC --> http://www.yccc.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffi
If I was in charge of trying to search for rules violations, I'd simply buy some of the devices available for recording a broad spectrum of frequency. In the USA you can buy such receivers from sever
The surveys of all hams that ARRL conducted in 1992 and 2003 each showed that 13% of all USA hams were female. The 2003 survey showed that 5% of ARRL members were female. These numbers should be accu
One thing to consider is that scores submitted through 3830 score reporting may not be the same as those submitted to the contest sponsor. I know that I'll often post my score to 3830 within a day or
Something that I think is new in the Sprint rules is "Entries must be received no later than 30 days after the Sprint." Unlike most other contests, the deadline is for the receipt of logs, not for se
Wouldn't you know it, the day I post the message about the NEQP, our website went down. Things are back on-line now (though on a temporary site). Check out --> http://www.neqp.org -- Tom
It's on the NEQP web site. The link is in the software section off the home page. The last update about county activity should be posted sometime Saturday morning. Late plaque: N2OW is sponsoring on