Should I have gotten a log receipt for my NAQP CW log? I sent it to cwnaqp@ncjweb.com and have not heard a peep. 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated August 4. 123 stations
I have done both (individual cards, and more often 8 1/2 x 11 sheets) in print runs of >3000 QSLs, using an HP 840C. You have to feed the printer quite often, but it's pretty willing to wait for you
At 01:37 PM 9/26/03 +0000, Dennis Ponsness wrote: Now that LoTW is up and running, I have a question for the "big guns" as well as the rest of us <grin>... Will you be uploading your contest logs to
At 04:20 PM 9/29/03 -0700, Rick Tavan wrote: I thought QSLL meant "I'll reply to your card when I receive it." /Rick N6XI Jim White, K4OJ wrote: Used to be QSLL was shorthand for QSL All ...will it m
that you still Hmm. Seems like the ARRL will be making money off my data...perhaps they should pay me to upload my logs. And how do they defray the cost of the server, communication lines, and people
At 04:09 AM 9/30/03 +0000, Dennis Ponsness wrote: I do think that the ARRL may have to "rethink" their policy for DX stations to participate however. I have about 40 Q's out of 3300+ "confirmed" and
for the Exactly! Don't expect to get WAZ, 5BWAZ, WPX, or USA-CA using LOTW. ARRL is betting that the LotW facility will become popular enough that CQ, DARC, RGSB et al will sign up too. It would seem
The Slow-Scan group on 20 and 15 and the pig farmers on 75 are annoying also. Learn to coexist. Improvise, adapt and overcome. It's a competition for which cunning and innovation is rewarded. Stop wh
A discussion on the PVRC reflector about the wide variety of entries in SS inspired me to do a quick check. My log shows 598 A's, 214 B's, 138 U's, 128 Q's, 42 M's and 3 S's. Of the Q's, only 4 were
At 11:14 PM 11/5/03 -0500, Art Boyars wrote: if you think he sent number 472 , then asking "472?" is better than "NR?". If you have it right, then he has to send only R R, instead of sending the whol
Ah, but often in those condx, I hear "crashbangQRMcrash 72?"...so I send "472A" because I want to make sure you've got it....if I hear the whole thing, then I'd send "R". Good point -- Most of my exp
At 08:48 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Mark Beckwith wrote: I don't mean to sound elitist, I'm just trying to call it like it is. There's a time and a place for leading zeros, and experienced operators know what
At 01:17 PM 11/17/03 -0500, Georgek5kg@aol.com wrote: I'd like to offer the following comments after having just finished SS Phone: 1.) How many times did we hear "please copy my number"? I don't wan
For several years I have followed a policy of QSLing, via the bureau system, all DX QSOs that are the first with that station on each band/mode combination. This is done to reduce the time required t
At 02:57 PM 11/19/03 +0000, Bruce Sawyer wrote: I am in complete agreement with K4IK, N4ZR, et. al. regarding the LoTW successes. There have been a few rough edges getting this thing started, but the
At 03:14 PM 11/19/03 -0500, K4IK wrote: I will never replace all QSLing with LotW, that is, I will continue to respond to bureau cards via the bureau and direct cards (with SASE) direct. However, I s
At 07:03 PM 11/19/03 -0500, David A. Pruett wrote: I wish we'd see some battles like this again. Admittedly, it takes the right combination of motivated ops combined with big stations, with a dose of
If it was me, I would replace the motherboard in your present machine with an AMD Athlon 1700+ or better, and run Win98SE as my operating system. It has genuine DOS, and, IMO, is pretty stable. I run
At 04:32 PM 12/2/03 -0600, VE5ZX quoted an unofficial US MARS source: "Several American amateurs have been reported operating on the ham bands from Iraq , but this activity is problematic since all r
At 07:25 PM 12/2/03 -0800, Craig Cook wrote: Nice detective work. I went to go listen to 2 spots that were spotted by NX7K and both times found NX7K was the one running stations on the spotted freque