Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:42:18 -0800
I would guess that 75+% of those licensed to operate on HF have not transmitted a signal on HF in the past year. If you totalled the number of HF users Monday to Friday in the last week of October, y
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:58:10 -0800
<thread stolen from discussion of 100% recorded audio phone contesting...> My techniques for eating during a phone contest are: * Eat during off times if you can. * Eat while the DVK is calling CQ. A
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:41:16 -0800
http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-all.html 3.10. The use of non-Amateur Radio means of communication (for example, Internet or telephone) to solicit a contact (or contacts) during the
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:38:00 -0800
So, it's not good enough that others are altruistically doing your work for you, it's important that they do near-perfect work for you, and if they don't, we should "expose" them and start humiliatin
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:11:55 -0700
Eric, The District of Columbia _does_ count as Marlyand for Worked All States. Just as the NAQP rules have an explicit statement about the District of Columbia ("District of Columbia counts as Maryla
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:06:05 -0700
Why not have a W/VE contest fashioned like a state QSO Party where in the "in state" stations are those located on any of the U.S. Indian Reservations or Canadian Indian Reserves (which would provide
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:29:18 -0700
Population is only part of the decision making process. Ultimately, the sections serve the needs of the ARRL Field Organization, specifically the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. Washington state is
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:17:11 -0700
It's not just Europe - it's all the low power CW continental records that are missing: http://www.cqwpx.com/records_lowpower.htm And the records for the QRP categories are even sparser. I would assum
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 07:19:11 -0700
I'm very interested in this, as well. We have archives of solar observation data going back to the dawn of radio contesting and beyond. It would be great to line up solar data with specific contest w
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:26:09 -0700
FWIW, the Central Texas DX & Contest Club is in something of a similar situation. Most of the membership is in South Texas (STX), but we have several active contesters living in the southern parts of
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:36:15 -0700
We seem to have gotten past this with Log Checking Reports. I remember when people were first getting their LCRs, there was a certain amount of nitpicking and teeth grinding over specific QSOs, and c
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:10:52 -0700
The results for three ARRL contests are going to be published in the July, 2007 issue of QST: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2006/10meter.pdf http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2007/rtty.pdf
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:24:24 -0700
The ARRL's Certification and Continuing Education (CCE) program offers a variety of course in Amateur Radio topics. These include license courses, ARES courses, and technical courses about topics lik
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:44:31 -0700
For me, it boils down to whether one is changing the content of the information as logged during the contest, or merely changing the format/structure/syntax of the information. Clearly, taking a TR L
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:51:21 -0700
The records for the ARRL 10 Meter Contest have been updated on the ARRLWeb to include results of the 2006 contest. http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/10-meter-contest-records-wve.html http://www.ar
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:43:13 -0700
I often use a voice keyer that is implemented as an ISA card installed in the logging computer. Because of where the computer is located in the shack, my effective microphone cable length can be 30'
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:01:27 -0700
I've ploughed through a LOT of line scores while working on the Contest Score Database Project (http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/scoredb/). A score like that is almost certainly one that was not submitted by
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:45:45 -0700
In the example you provide (which matches what I see in the ARRLWeb's Interactive Contest Scores database) every one of those ten line scores has QSO totals (W3LL has 478 QSOs, W1WO has 316 QSOs, AD5
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:03:45 -0700
A name search at QRZ.com of "NU" (the postal code for Nunavut) returns the following Canadian operators: VY0AB Foreman Michael James P O BOX 300 POND INLET NU X0A 0S0 VY0AC Chubbs Adam E P O BOX 580
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:32:56 -0700
The September, 2007 issue of QST lists the annual ARRL Foundation scholarships given out to college students. I recognize several contesters among them this year: William Fisher W4WJF Nat Heatwole WZ