Tree provided some great pointers for the contest Saturday. An additional point I would make, is to make sure to keep an ear on 10 and 15 later in the evening. I remember at least two contests where
Hi Tom, I sense a little confusion with the rules on your part. In the NAQPs, there are two entry classes. SOLP and Multi-2. The following entry in the rules regarding remaining on a band for ten min
I think it was Mark Bailey's (KD4D) comment that began the thread that degenerated into another round of "my logging software is best". Everyone seems to be passionate about whichever product it is t
I don't like the rule at all. Contesters of all people should be discouraging the practice of signing /QRP rather than engouraging it! Condx were pretty lousy over the weekend, but I got on for about
Even spacing letters doesn't help in some cases. Before Steve dumped NJ4F for NR4M, we had a heck of a time with people hosing the call on cw. Seemed like half the time people had it as N1VF. We trie
While my employment isn't of the odd hours variety, I still get up at 0900Z Monday morning to get to work on time. Five hours of sleep no longer cuts it with me. I think a number of east coasters wou
Say what you will about 40, I sure remember having a lot more elbow room in September than I did last weekend. Several folks let me know that the FOC Marathon had been taking place long before we spr
2005 MAY CW SPRINT RULES DATE/TIME: 0000Z MAY 1 - 0400Z MAY 1, 2005 Modes: CW only. All stations can be worked once per band on 20, 40, and 80M. Entry Class: Single Operator Low Power or Single Opera
While I didn't experience the delay that Tom did, during that first hour that he mentioned on ten I did notice something strange. My own signal with slight delay returning by scatter was so bad that
Respecting the fact that the circumstances under which we all live differ, I can understand the desire on the part of some to make changes to additional Sprints if they were to occur. Having said tha
What was sharper, Jim's whit or cw? The first time I made it to Dayton I approached a group of contesters in the hotel lobby. Most of them were wearing name tags. This smiley guy with a citrus orange
VE5ZX's analysis of CT1BOH's example seems to indicate that spotting did help, although perhaps not as much as one might expect. It goes without saying that Jose's example from P40 is just one small
I have to agree with Mal's comment on simple stations being effective and fun in contests. In my continued attempts to get something going with SO2R on fairly small lot/single tower, I put up a verti
I've been looking to streamline keyboard entries when using contest software. I've also been looking for a functional compact keyboard that takes up less space at the operating position. In looking a
I posted this to the PVRC reflector earlier this week, but decided to post it here after reflecting on the comments made by others regarding our old friend. It's interesting to note that a very large
The commercially produced SO2R boxes all look great, but if price is an object and you don't need all the function, I have to agree that duplicating the box in the "NA" manual is the way to go. It do
snip snip as ? "Yes - W2SC did that. However, the log checking program isn't smart enough to do that. I know it seems simple enough, but this is an automated process that is done on 2000 logs. The pr
A couple thoughts on multis in general. First, as a result of the collaborative efforts of the multis, I am putting multipliers in the log that Probably wouldn't be workable from a fairly modest stat
I don't think one can say that any specific rig is not a contesting radio. Some are much better than others and for my money the most critical element is a decent receiver. In the most recent edition
(K1PX) "I don't want to open a can of worms but I think that it would be a good idea to suspend contests for the time being while the recovery efforts are getting underway." Probably not a bad idea.