Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:54:13 -0700
I'd say that looks a lot like this posted score from OM2VL: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2007-08/msg00576.html -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenharker.com http://www.kenharke
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:27:49 -0700
Participation in RTTY contests has been growing very strongly in the past two decades. Go to http://www.radiosport.ca/rsrp/logs.php, select "Graphs and Tables" -> "Log submissions" -> "ARRL RTTY Roun
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:15:00 -0700
For the past several years, the bottles of wine awarded to category winners in the California QSO Party have come from Jeff Stai WK6I, owner of Twisted Oak Winery in the foothills of California's Sie
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 07:55:15 -0700
Now, why would you do that? Seriously? By calling "CQ VY1" you're either hoping to get the attention of some VY1 station that would otherwise tune by you and not give you a call (?) or you're implici
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:00:05 -0800
As the organizer of the North American Collegiate Championship (http://www.collegiatechampionship.org/), which basically compares the Sweepstakes scores of college/university clubs, I sometimes get i
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:28:57 -0800
Tavan, Rick, N6XI. "NCJ Reviews: Elecraft K3". National Contest Journal. Vol. 35, No. 5. Sep./Oct., 2007, p. 8. The radio has not been reviewed in QST yet. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R kenharker@kenhark
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:17:17 -0800
I completely disagree. They are _very_ different. A spotting network is someone else helping you operate. Yes, the technology of stations and radios is going to change over time, and the operators th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:33:12 -0800
Actually, one of the usual top ten Sweepstakes ops did build not only the operating desk, but the entire building his station is housed in. He uses Kenwood radios, though. -- Kenneth E. Harker WM5R k
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:49:29 -0800
Don't mislead the other station into thinking they have a valid QSO if they do not. If you ask for repeats, you can't get it and say "sorry" and move on, the other station should not log the QSO eith
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:16:36 -0800
The claimed scores from the 2007 Collegiate Championship, CW are now online: http://www.collegiatechampionship.org/results/2007/ There were at least eight college/university clubs on the air for the
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:02:03 -0800
The CTY.DAT file that you use during the contest will likely not be the one that the adjudicators use a month from now. They will be using one that has been updated to reflect unexpected changes that
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:45:45 -0800
There are several tutorials on SO2R at the TR Log web site: http://www.trlog.com/tworadiosupp.shtml At the very least, you will need some way to switch the keying/mic/audio lines between the two radi
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:08:31 -0800
That doesn't sound right at all. In the past, I've worked a lot of people in the IARU contest that thought they were in zone 3, 4, or 5 even when their call sign indicates that is not possible. I can
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:31:36 -0800
This is similar to someone requesting that you QSL with their callsign/qrp. I'm not going to "confirm" something I can't know. Maybe offer the guy a sked sometime with his own call sign? -- Kenneth E
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:22:01 -0800
Ultimate goal? Do you mean "For Amateurs worldwide to exchange QSO information with as many stations as possible on the 10-meter band."? What's not meaningful about the current scoring formula? Here
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:13:56 -0800
A more likely scenario (to use my own call sign) would be if I did a log lookup for a DXpedition for WM5R, found the two or three QSOs I made, but also one on a band mode I didn't work the DXpedition
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:59:55 -0800
If you examine the archives for this reflector, you'll find that that discussion has been going on here, with the occasional lull, for about 11 years now. Public logs is one solution to the problem f
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:57:22 -0800
The results of the September 2007 North American Sprint, Phone, are now published in the Jan/Feb 2008 NCJ, p. 42. In the Top 10 box, the SO winner, K7SS's, breakdown has # for band changes, and the h
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:10:37 -0800
I think it's disingenuous to suggest that if someone makes a mistake when operating a contest that they were not operating to win. The one time I've come really close to beating K5TR in a head-to-hea