For those of you that participated in the 2015 Michigan QSO Party back on April 18, the deadline for submitting your log is this coming Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Electronic Cabrillo logs can be submitte
Rich, As I am sure you are aware, if the two antennas/arrays are in phase the field strengths add and if out of phase subtract. Feed line length is only half of the question in regards to phase. The
The Michigan QSO Party Organizing committee is pleased to announce that the results of the 2015 MiQP are available on the MiQP web site at http://www.miqp.org. Here is a list of the major category wi
"even a small sidetone delay can drive one nuts" How small? 5 mS? You will not notice 5 mS, but 5 mS is indeed small. I would not argue the statement "even a *noticeable* sidetone delay can drive one
Your Cabrillo log should always show every QSO you made and contain exactly the exchanges that occurred over the air. You can show your intended category in the log header, but the QSO lines need to
Can we please stop clogging reflector bandwidth debating what CR3L should or shouldn't have done and concocting "new angles" to prevent "category hopping" (which is only an issue in your mind). Every
All, As the founder/originator/creator of the NAQP, I feel compelled to comment on this thread The NAQP was the brainchild of myself and several other active contesters in the Contest Hospitality Sui
For those stations who participated in the 2016 Michigan QSO Party last month, this is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting your log is only a week away (May 17). For people who logge
Fritz, I would check out Amazon to see what is available there. I'm sorry that I can't offer advice specific to the FT-1000, but a few of us here in Detroit recently purchased ICOM-to-USB adapters of
The Michigan QSO Party Organizing committee is pleased to announce that the results of the 2016 MiQP are available on the MiQP web site at http://www.miqp.org. Here is a list of the major category wi
I went to my first Hamvention in 1980 at Hara Arena and haven't missed one since. Even in Hara's current condition, I would rather have attended 37 Hamventions at Hara than none at all. I am sure the
I was fortunate to go to the 1996 WRTC in San Francisco with my operating partner K5GO. We finished tenth from a modest station, met a lot of great people, and had a great time. Back in those days, t
Even with all the good suggestions thus far, nobody has mentioned what I think is the #2 most important NAQP strategy decision (right after band selection) Sent from my iPhone _______________________
All: I apologize for my previous incomplete message on this subject. I was trying to send it from my hotel room in Rhodes, Greece and there was some sort of error (dunno, it could have been iPhone so
Speaking as the owner of not one, but six FT-1000Ds (200W xcvrs) from the days when K8CC regularly ran multi-multi in DX contests, I can't see any merit to this proposal. It's a matter of having a fa
I have a DXDoubler with a PIEXX SO2RXLAT and it works perfectly. The only thing necessary is that your logging software must support the MicroHam SO2R protocols over USB to control the SO2RXLAT (whic
Fritz, Those aren't "fake" cables - these are referred to as "null modem" cables typically used to connect the COM port of one computer to another. A non-crossover cable with female connectors on eac
I've been contesting for 40+ years and I've never felt that sending "test" at the end of a contest CQ has ever hurt my rate. Is it absolutely necessary? No...but I do think that it helps to attract m
Back in the day, KLM made the KT-34A tribander, which had four tri-band, trapped elements, and the KT-34XA tribander which had a longer boom with five tri-band, trapped elements and and extra monoban
I have to wholeheartedly agree with the comments made by Paul, EI5DI. If "indistinguishable" and "unenforceable" are the criteria for combining single-op and single-op assisted, then lets get rid of