That allows an amateur to use any means of communications "when normal means of communications are not available." However, it does not permit an amateur to intentionally ignore (fail to own and/or
For a sailor the "normal communications systems" are marine radio (HF and VHF) and satellite phone. To go about without those is to specifically court danger. It is much like the health department sa
Unfortunately, to follow ITU rules the authorities will need to make that call E55E somewhat diluting the advantage. 73, ... Joe, K4IK _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
It is far easier to establish security and validation in advance than spend all the time to investigate, prove and then "clean up" after significant cheating. Look at the problems with operations tha
The "hoops" do exist ... they're just different. If the UK had an accessible (official) database like our FCC database, I suspect the ARRL would consider using it at least that's what I was told by
Steve, That is an excellent idea ... I am forwarding this to NN1N at ARRL for consideration. At present, any LotW "confirmations" are not counted in the 120 card limit. Thus if you had more than 120
Look at the very bottom of the page you reference: XZ8RRR: *Has a mixed DXCC award. He has 190 confirmations in LoTW that he would like to use for a DXCC application. He does not want to buy extra L
Screw the ARRL National Convention and Bob Heil ... the DX, Contest, and Antenna forums have been the most popular and best attended forums year in and year out. Why should ARRL and Bob Heil push as
If eQSL is ever linked to a 'presige' certificate, that award will loose its prestige. Of the electronic confirmation systems, only LotW is secure and verifiable. Yes, LotW can be "cheated" but it r
Dale, As did Heath in a great many of their rigs ... including the RF output of all of the entire DX series (except the DX-100) and the RF input of the HA-10 (Warrior) and SB-200 amplifiers, AFAIK. 7
The choice of a weekend discriminates unfairly against who must who work weekends (public service/public safety employees, some in transportation industries, many in retail, many in the entertainmen
Quite simply, there are plenty of "contest free zones." They are the "WARC" bands and the "opposite" mode. Even during CQWW Phone or ARRL DX Phone, 17 and 12 meters are relatively lightly used. 17 i
Patrick, You're off base ... nobody cares a bit about the financial status of the yachtsmen but their activities are certainly quasi-commercial and have NO BUSINESS on amateur frequencies. If there i
Don't count on it ... I used to report every non-amateur amplifier that appeared on the site. eBay has essentially taken the stand as long as the description says the amp is not legal for CB they wi
Bill, Any newspaper (or other advertising medium) that accepts an ad for heroin or cocaine would certainly be subject to legal action. While the social consequences of eBay's acceptance of ads for il
This is what is know as "blanketing interference" and there are rules against it (or were when I was actively working as a broadcast chief engineer). Stations are (were?) required to minimize blanke
There is nothing wrong with XML. However, ADIF for all its faults does the job reasonably well at the present time. Some of the proposed extensions in ADIF 2.0 (e.g, the <APP_xxxxxx:nn> syntax for a
That's only true if the XML file has the appropriate style sheet attached or associated. Otherwise one ends up with a nearly unreadable list of terms. 73, ... Joe, K4IK -- The world's top contesters
More specifically: The INRAD information is not currently on the web site. George told me they would update the data after they returned home (a leisurely trip back to the west coast in their RV). L
Simply put, they already have the original information ... your account set-up data. They have, in all probability, also verified your data with at least one of the credit bureaus. My financial inst