This week, I operated the Yaesu FT1000/FL7000 operating position at W5RRR (Johnson Space Center ARC) on SSB in the School Club Roundup at lunch, a couple of hours after work, and part of this afterno
Excerpted from The ARRL Letter, Vol 17, No. 7 US TO PARTICIPATE IN CEPT GUEST LICENSE ARRANGEMENT US amateurs soon will not need to apply for reciprocal licenses in order to operate during short visi
stateside that I fee. The find any months I County cards. After all, apply to Fred, As a QSL manager, a contester, DX'er, and rag chewer, I would like to comment: First: Yes. It is the 'final courte
Every day is April 1 for N5RP! in talk components in -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
Further savings can be achieved, Zoran. Since the likelihood of the incoming QSL ending up in a box or drawer never to see daylight again, why not slap the labels on the back of the incoming QSL card
10, 15, and gang are 50W (at I looked again at the W5RRR log and our participation in the 1998 School Club Roundup contest, Feb 9-14. While it was not a high level, high interest contest, and DX (or
I think the ham is going to move the equipment more than Mother Nature will. have the heavy stuff (e.g., amps, power supplies, etc.) at desktop level and lighter stuff above and below. Years ago, I h
after the If it's According to The ARRL Operating Manual (doesn't everyone have one in their station?)(copyright 1995), Chapter 8, Operating Awards, page 8-3, "QRP is defined as 10-watts input (or 5
state you It's not ANY station's responsibility, except the station claiming it. I operate QRP in contests. I don't sign /QRP in or out of contests. I equate the use of /QRP to saying "work me becau
The article is okay about the satellite and packet aspects of ham radio. HF ham activities are, in my opinion, given not only short shrift, but are erroneous. It is as if the people he was interviewi
I hate when that happens...I sent my New York Times Article note to the wrong reflector. Apologies to all. Dale Martin, KG5U kg5u@hal-pc.org http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://w
-- cal it is satation can listen to see that he till he Japan Xray these big calls and to get they caught up get the wpm on cw, your rate those of us The fact that you have a 2x3 shouldn't keep you
got a "599" thought I had at that with the exact only a thinking I you can qsling thread Joe, It works the other way, too. Back in 1981, when I was living in a subdivision with deed restrictions agai
Does the station who copies and logs my call wrong in his log get gigged for it? What happens if more than one or two stations copy my call wrong in their logs the same way? Do they all get gigged or
property If 20,000 of us went in together, that would be only $2,350 per person! Now about the timeshare/operator schedule...... Dale, kg5u kg5u@hal-pc.org (I don't have to buy an island, I need onl
June!!!! Down here, that's considered RELIEF! It's when the fire ant-infested mounds are at their maximum numbers and size, mosquitoes have pefected their formation flying, the clouds have disappear
Okay, boys and girls. Here it is....Put away your Viagra and check this out! May 7, 1998 Wide Awake French Drug -- David Kestenbaum reports that a drug used in France to treat narcolepsy may be safe
anyone with any in... allowed that record. 175 OR... Allow the club to contour an area of up to 96,162.5 square miles (the area of a 175mi radius circle). If it's good enough for our congressmen, it'
I bought a Ten-Tec Omni VI after the fifth time the 930 went to the local Kenwood repairman here in the Houston area. When he said he could no longer fix it to where it would not happen again, I cal