SO2R is really more an acquired skill then just cobbling together the hardware. My guess is the best way to beat the SO2R guy in your neighborhood is to learn this skill as well. Nothing about contes
Losing Ed has to be hard on his contest team but it's tough for all of us. I worked with W3AU while I was assigned to the East coast and he would invite NASA's WA3NAN group over for a visit now and t
I have a small building beside my home build for Multi-op radio which is really nice during a contest but really inconvenient for casual Dxing. Just getting it up to temp in the winter requires plann
In 1988 I went to a Pirod's tower factory near Plymouth, Indiana. This one was making something that looked like 45G. I seem to remember it was a pretty small place and the salesman was very busy and
Hi Chris You gave an either/or choice for upgrade. Surely antennas would be better then a new radio. If your intent is to increase the qso count after a 48 hour contest then you might look at it agai
Very bad news to see Tree's posting this morning. I considered Phil a very good friend although I never operated with him as many of you have. He operated from another zone one station for his Operat
Beyond all reasonably doubt you could get the Woodpecker to freq hop. Often in the mornings in Fairbanks on 15 meters the UA0 radar would be 50 over. It was easy to find the main bang. Running full
Yo Bob contest in past years. So from a selfish reason I can understand your comments. Why change a winning (for you) format. Since I'm on the opposite side of our great country from you, I take the
Pete mentions logs that were submitted for contest credit could be used for award credit as was done many years ago. The problem is LoTW has many steps or hoops that may be a show stopper as it is ri
Having all the cross-checked 'clean' logs with UBN's removed sent to LoTW post contest for LoTW member's award credit is a good idea. It would boost the awards program a lot and may even get more ham
Bltzzz - busted name, it is Bill. Lose one additional Q. My guess is KL7 is a mult because it is in, "drum roll!", North America. (I know, I know, it is down beside KH6 on most U.S. maps or left off
-- snip-- I agree with Steve but my hope is since the band has been expanded to allow SSB down to 3600, USA ops will start to move down. The reason is this allows one antenna length to cover both CW
Yo Ralph I did this very thing for KL7IGZ. On a flat lot it showed it was worth it for his non-contest activity and an improvement for both ten and fifteen meters. But it did a lot more. This was a g
I don't believe there are any records for the NAQP SSB or CW so that issue isn't on the table and I doubt there is a committee for rule making unlike the CQWW that requires a large group of internati
I have them all and the best we have here is the Yamaha CM-500. Light, doesn't touch the ears and sounds excellent. They look as well made as the others I have here that are $150. Built for gamers so
The K5ZD super WPX website provides a lot of good data. On the 30 vs. 36 hour change the polling shows half want the rule to stay as is and half want it to change to something else so we can assume t
The 30 hour format seems to allow more ops outside the normal "win" zone to make the top ten if running Europe allows a better score. In 2011 the top ten claimed for the WPX CW shows only one statio
Just a reminder that the Stew Pot warm up is this weekend and now is the time to make sure your station is competitive for the topband season. Okay, W1 land ops need only make sure their antenna is s