If the ARRL DX Contest were structured like the Russian DX Contest, the outline would look like this: 7. QSO Points. 7.1 U.S.stations: QSO with your own country (U.S.) - 2 points, QSO with a differen
Hi Dan: Great job on the writeup of the 2008 Florida QSO Party. http://www.floridaqsoparty.org/results/fqp2008.pdfI promise to try to do a lot better this year, CW only. The FQP has several attractio
Good job, Cal! I really enjoyed listening to the NS audio. I've never listened to an NS on the air. Your grampa K9MMS must be so proud of you. You will go far at whatever you do in life, no doubt in
Tom: Absolutely outstanding write-up on the 2008 New England QSO Party! The graphs and charts are especially interesting. I know what a big job it was to put it all together. While a whole year is a
Hi Bob: Good job on your FlQP spread sheet; it obviously was quite a bit of work and a real nice thing to do. I had fun playing with it on Sunday morning, when I had a pipe dream of working all 67 Fl
The only "issue" the FQP robot had with my CTWIN Cabrillo log submission was: "[X] 'FL-QSO-PARTY' is not the CONTEST: name I was expecting. I am setting it to FCG-FQP." I did not see this as "an issu
K0HB said: "'Way-back-when' FCC required such appendages. Old habits die hard. Humor us. A lot of us are enjoying our last couple of sunspot cycles. We'll be out of your way soon." Hans, nicely put.
Hi Randy: On-line certificates -- great idea! I don't see the "CERT link," at the URL you provided, though. What's next? Plaques and trophies on demand? Can holograms be e-mailed? Those with full bor
Good catch, Jim. That undoubtedly was not written by a contester, or maybe not even by a ham. An abomination of that magnitude would have been caught back when they had editors there at Mecca. But it
In all Danny Weil's travels, the one, only, country where he got into a hassle with local hams was Colombia. It's all in my book. Jim Cain, K1TN www.arrl.org/catalog/yasme/ It's interesting to me tha
Machines don't win anything, "winning" being a human concept. Machines simply do our bidding. I wonder whose bidding the Skimmer was doing. Too bad there's nothing on the KC web site other than the l
Yes. On a snowy morning in December, 1963, I retrieved the January 1964 issue of QST from our mailbox and nearly got run down crossing the road while eagerly searching for the "Operating News" colum
Jack Najork (W5FG) wrote what may have been the most brilliant fictional article ever to appear in QST: "The Templeton Case," January 1963. It's almost worth buying an ARRL membership for access to i
I disagree. On Field Day, like in other contests, some newbies are bashful about calling CQ and would rather answer CQs. 1D stations can give them that opportunity to jump in and get wet. Some Field
This is a pretty decent ham radio article. Try to put your feelings about the NYTimes aside for a moment. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/technology/27moon.html?_r=1&hpw Conspicuously absent from t
Congrats to the CQ WW crew for getting the log processing for last November's WW CW finished and out so quickly. Both logs and UBN reports are available. Excellent! I suppose with my pathetic station
This is very ugly but in no way is a precedent. Just a terrible error. CW has always been the mode with no restrictions on frequency. CW contesters are pretty vigilant about avoiding interfering with
Rich: Thanks for writing. Your comments 1-3 are right on and make good points, especially about newcomers and those with smallish stations, who are the heart of every contest. But ... nothing seems t
Correct. Read MY qst article "Packet With a Purpose," QST, August 1990, page 54. Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@
Wow! This contest write-up/report is as good as any I have ever seen. http://www.miqp.org Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation Atlantic City _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma