This is a directional CQ! I'll be in Chandler for a Thursday meeting. Planning to fly back to Boston on Friday morning, so I have Thursday night free. Any Phoenix area contesters interested in a cold
Some ideas from my experience: - I do like to watch how my effort is doing compared to either a previous effort or a newly created goal. It is important that the comparison be something that can be i
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A lot more people would enter marathons if they were reduced to 10 miles. K1AR makes the legitimate point that today's manual methods make it difficult to endlessly add categories and hand out a zill
We were having this OJ/0J discussion over on the YCCC reflector. Here is one of my notes. The effects of a bad spot are viral. Once a bad spot or two are out there, it all spirals out of control . .
Maximum of six band changes in a clock-hour. No two sigs on the air at the same time. Second radio and op useful for finding needed mults or Q's on another band in order to make efficient use of a ba
ARRL M/S is definitely a lower-stress kind of operation. When we have 3 or 4 ops available, we feel overstaffed in that category. If we had our interstation interference situation under control here,
Ok, Dave. This is great stuff. But, now that you have almost completely eradicated malicious spotting from our world, you need a new challenge. Almost as detrimental as self-spotting, busted spotting
California remoted to an east coast station. Hopefully that same station would not be using any equipment that he might have in Cali at the same time. Difficult to police. < More importantly, if that
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Anybody interested in a round of golf in Dayton this year? 73, Jim Idelson K1IR email k1ir at designet.com web http://www.k1ir.com _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing l
Lee, You've just begun to scratch the surface of the interstation interference problem. There are a lot of things going on, and the filters actually serve multiple purposes. Rather than go into it he
Well, it's the night before the contest and the noise is still there. It's a 24/7 noise and I can DF it in one direction with yagis on 40-10 meters. It's pretty broadband and it has a sputtering soun
Yes. It is true. The Green Heron Controller does perform miracles. For several years, I've been turning my big Optibeam OB4-40 4-element 40m yagi with a TIC Ring Rotor. The rotor uses a single drive
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Hi Gerry, Thanks for your comments . . . I've received quite a few private emails [thanks to all who replied]. All were positive and focused mainly on the humorous side of this "march of technology"
Friends, M/S DX contesting has been my absolute fav since 1973. And I've had the pleasure of doing it a lot - from small and large stations, competitive and casual. I want to voice my OPPOSITION to t
I an earlier email, Ron W3WN said, "A significant percentage wanted only a slight change in the number of band changes or a "10-minute rule" for the SECOND transmitter.. " For all the years I can rem
This is nice to see. I have always been amazed by the lack of appreciation expressed by award recipients to plaque and trophy sponsors. Ask any long-time award sponsor how many thank you notes s/he h