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261. [CQ-Contest] "Please Copy" - an opinion (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:47:22 +0000
When I was training to be an air traffic controller 50 years ago I sat down at the radar and said "Please copy American 318 descend and maintain flight level 350." My instructor said "Where did that
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-11/msg00284.html (7,268 bytes)

262. [CQ-Contest] AZ1A/X = Argentina (CQWW CW) (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 00:25:20 +0000
In 1963 my parents bought a new house about three city blocks away and I had to sign WA9AUM/9 for six weeks until an FCC license arrived in the mail with the new address. cain K1TN/4 ________________
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-11/msg00308.html (7,784 bytes)

263. [CQ-Contest] IARU Contest HQ stations (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 10:42:33 +0000
HQ stations are multipliers to remind idiot contesters, for one fleeting moment, that the International Amateur Radio Union is an organization (not a damn contest) that involves volunteers around the
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-12/msg00078.html (6,827 bytes)

264. [CQ-Contest] RTTY RU Practice sessions ?????? (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:40:22 +0000
If you can't smell hot machine oil it ain't RTTY. cain K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listi
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-12/msg00192.html (8,084 bytes)

265. [CQ-Contest] K8CC SK (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:51:02 +0000
Sorry to hear this. The greatest thing that Dave Pruitt, K8CC, did was to keep the original CT contesting software alive long past its use date. As told to me by Dave himself, CT author K1EA wrote hi
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2020-12/msg00202.html (7,492 bytes)

266. [CQ-Contest] Feb Sprint time changes (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:20:52 +0000
"The February 6 *NCJ* <http://ncjweb.com/>-sponsored North American Sprint (CW) and the March 13 RTTY Sprint will begin 1 hour earlier, at 2300 UTC instead of 0000 UTC. Both contests will end at 0259
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-02/msg00006.html (9,010 bytes)

267. [CQ-Contest] Feb Sprint Time Changes (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 21:39:02 +0000
What's all this talk about "propagation" and "skip zone?" That's just science, and science is 'way overrated. The geniuses who change contest time periods will maybe neutralize the "sun" so it won't
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-02/msg00023.html (10,172 bytes)

268. [CQ-Contest] PSE COPY (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:12:24 +0000
Would people posting here puleeeeeze, when writing their post, say what mode and what contest they are talking about? This is what used to be Lesson One in what passed for Journalism 101 lead sentenc
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-02/msg00080.html (7,884 bytes)

269. [CQ-Contest] Last CD Party? (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 09:21:04 +0000
The last ARRL CD Party was April 1982, an "open" party. I looked at the NCJ web site and they have NAQP results going back to 1999. Seventeen years is a long time. I was not active in contests in tho
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-05/msg00054.html (8,091 bytes)

270. [CQ-Contest] Archives (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 13:14:45 +0000
Re the NAQP history discussion, in a perfect world ALL issues of the NCJ would be archived on line for historians to access. There must be complete sets out there. When I was doing research for my bo
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-05/msg00062.html (8,949 bytes)

271. [CQ-Contest] ROSS Hull Who was he? (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 13:50:48 +0000
Nice work, Trent, on the cq-contest post! I looked at the Wikipedia entry for Ross Hull. It's very short and could be greatly expanded. He surely had an amateur call sign and I may have known it but
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-08/msg00180.html (8,543 bytes)

272. [CQ-Contest] Ross Hull Who was he? (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 08:15:47 +0000
Ross Hull's Bolton, Connecticut elevation was about 535 feet. For comparison, W1AW, down in the Connecticut River valley to the west and about 20 miles away, is ESL 75 feet. Hull's obituary is in Nov
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-08/msg00182.html (7,792 bytes)

273. [CQ-Contest] Call sign choice (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:10:46 +0000
Who cares what "N1MM likes"? The whole point is what kind of call sign causes operator confusion on the receiving end. BTW, congrats to NN3W for getting it right: the original post didn't even specif
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-10/msg00039.html (8,265 bytes)

274. [CQ-Contest] The CQ WW is This Weekend (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:57:44 +0000
"The late Larry LeKashman, W9IOP once said that before each DX contest he'd go outside and sniff the air for DX." ("Bedrooms or Beverages?" -- QST, October 1994, page 53, by James D. Cain, K1TN.) --
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-10/msg00048.html (7,149 bytes)

275. [CQ-Contest] Working Split in Contests (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:45:53 +0000
The way I figure it, in today's push-button/mouse-click world of radio operating, if you tell your CW pileup UP5 or U5, half of them won't know what you are talking about. The half who do will click
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-11/msg00168.html (8,572 bytes)

276. [CQ-Contest] N1MM Setting for Avoiding Zero Beat (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:46:24 +0000
Note to N5OT and K9YC, can't you guys just get with The Program? Adjusting the knobs on your "radio" sounds like anarchy to me. cain K1TN I really don't like not knowing where my carrier is, so I cho
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-11/msg00172.html (8,669 bytes)

277. [CQ-Contest] Getting a call on the super check partial (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:22:04 +0000
That would put you in the Assisted category, wouldn't it? Maybe you are planning to enter in that category? But why care? If the other operator logs your call sign wrong he loses the QSO, not you. Be
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-11/msg00180.html (7,642 bytes)

278. [CQ-Contest] Getting a call on the super check partial (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:31:27 +0000
And, as I also said, if he's planning to enter the Assisted category, I suppose what he proposes would not be disqualifying. cain K1TN -- I get it in? Bill V31XX" ____________________________________
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-11/msg00185.html (8,264 bytes)

279. [CQ-Contest] How to write good (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 11:02:35 +0000
I do not know Yuri, VE3DZ; I have never met him. But I want to publicly congratulate him on his 3830 story about his CQ WW CW operation this year as VE2IM. There are others who write interesting stor
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-12/msg00017.html (7,392 bytes)

280. [CQ-Contest] Spoofed spots (score: 1)
Author: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:04:33 +0000
You want your packet cluster history? Here it is, I wrote it. QST August 1990 cain K1TN _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.
/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2021-12/msg00056.html (8,084 bytes)

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