Please excuse my use of the reflector for this. John sent me a private e-mail in response to my contest hours rant. My 2 replies to him have both bounced. John - do you have an alternate e-mail addre
I really, really like seeing the number of op hours shown. It helps me to see how I'm doing, sometimes worse than I thought. It doesn't have to be super precise. The nearest hour is probably good eno
I have tried Fujiyama Osaka on JAs. Generally get a stunned silence. Did get one laugh, though. 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Hanlon, Steve wrote: I think so long as English is used, ops whose English is acc
Hi Sean, The only Sprints I've been in are the NCJ sponsored ones. Perhaps there are many other Sprints with different rules. If so, my following comments may be totally out to lunch. It is my unders
Suppose one toaster draws 10A at 120V Then one toaster will draw 1A at 12V (actually more because it won't be as hot) You need 30 toasters in parallel Or, suppose one auto headlight draws . . . at 12
Private responses have revealed that my comments were, indeed, totally out to lunch. 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Jim Smith wrote: Hi Sean, The only Sprints I've been in are the NCJ sponsored ones. Perhaps
In WPX SSB I had some contesting newbies over for training. One of them (the spotter sitting at the old 75A4 Rx) logged some stations he didn't actually work (no Tx). Given that he's 20 yrs older tha
I'll be there too. OJ de Jim Smith Volusia Escambia 7 Flagler Osceola Rex Maner wrote: OK U FQP'ers Just be sure to be on 40 M Sunday morning to work the Left Coast. Will do CW from Extreme Left Coas
When I moved my shack from the 2nd floor to the new one in the basement I spent some time thinking about the ergonomics. First of all, I find that the things I pay the most attention to are the monit
I've tried twice to send my NAQP results to ssbnaqp@ncjweb.com Each time I got the following message. Anyone else having problems with this? User's mailbox is full: <shorn@pacbell.net> Unable to deli
Thanks Kevin, I did as you suggested. The only problem now is that the robot showed only one of the 3 ops' calls listed in the Cabrillo file. Sigh 73, Jim VE7FO Kevin J. Rowett wrote: Try the web pag
Hi Jim, http://www.qsl.net/zs1an/contesting_faq.html#why-take-part This is probably a lot more detailed than you want. However, you may be able to use parts of it. 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Jim Idelson w
As some of you know, I've decided to try to increase the number of contesters. To that end, I routinely invite members of the emergency comms club I belong to to operate in SSB contests. I've had som
Didn't work for me at 2 Nov 2004 05:25:08 -0000 Guess they're having problems 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Hi. This is the qmail-send program at seattle.eham.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your me
There's a very nice intro to contesting here http://k1ra.k8gp.net/lpl/cqwwssb2k1/ Not PP but wouldn't be too hard to turn it into one, presuming that the authour gives permission. 73 de Jim Smith VE7
You may remember that I unleashed 11 total newbie, no-ticket ops in CQ WW SSB. Well, 4 of them are coming back at the novice contester level and they must have talked a lot about how much fun they ha
I'm trying a different way to increase contest participation. I invited a bunch of newbie, no-ticket, folks taking the VECTOR club licence class to come to my QTH and op for CQWW SSB and SS SSB. They
Hi Bob, You're right, SSB contesting is tough with a modest station, and therefore not that much fun. One can have a lot more success with CW. You can get quite a few CW stations in the bandwidth occ
A while back I found a hole on 20 during the morning Eu opening, said QRL? a couple of times, heard no response, and started running Eu. After a few Qs a VE3 (call sign on request) started calling CQ
I suppose you could tell him to wipe the smudge off his monitor. Either that or scroll the log up or down a line so the smudge is now on top of someone else :-) 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO Mike Fatchett, W