At 06:41 PM 12/3/03 +0000, Bernie McClenny, W3UR wrote: Anyone who spots a station that answered them on a CQ should spot them as "21000 BQ9P Answering CQs" (depending on the band), other wise they r
At 08:39 AM 12/4/03 -0800, WA7VNI wrote: What should I do? Do I say "no, not in my log" or just let it go. Neither of these stations were mult's for me so the loss on my part was minimal and I just l
At 06:02 PM 12/4/03 +0000, Dr K Kerr wrote: Hi Jim, If I am getting a lot of dupe calls I ask myself: Is there a bum spot out on me on the cluster? Am I unintelligible....crap signal, sending too fas
At 02:52 PM 12/4/03 -0800, Alan C. Zack wrote: Will the contest gurus list him according to the address used on his log placing him in the call area where he was actually located or will he be listed
At 03:47 PM 12/4/03 -0600, you wrote: But during log checking they will come to see that I busted EEA/EEE -- negative points happen ok that's gud. Then does the REAL EEE become an-unDupe and I get cr
At 09:56 PM 12/4/03 -0800, Leigh S. Jones wrote: We can see a pattern of "my friend spotted me" type abuses, even clear instances of "friends" who are seen to be hiding their true identities while sp
At 03:48 PM 12/8/03 -0500, David A. Pruett wrote: Also, take note of K3LR's note about writing your CAC representative and making your feelings known. While the CAC does not make the rules, if your C
Re our recent discussion about the ARRL 160, I just received the following from the Chairman of the Membership Services Committee, which oversees the CAC and DXAC. Thanks for directing your question
At 01:08 AM 12/12/03 +0000, K0HB wrote: This seems to me to be the most painless way of making this transition for folks who have a similar situation to mine. Just buy one new box and a switch, set i
At 03:11 PM 12/12/03 +0000, K4SB wrote: If Pete is speaking of different O/Ss, I would agree 100%. However, if the 2 O/Ss are the same, say Win98SE, there should be absolutely no problems. 1 exceptio
While we're at it, let's also thank Bill Fisher, W4AN, and the team who have kept the contesting.com reflectors and web site at our service all these years. I know that the real cost to Bill is consi
My current favorites for CW are a pair of Koss UR-15s that I got at Radio Shack, in a combination pack with a pair of in-ear Koss phones, for $15 total. They are very light, cover my whole ear, and a
W8JI, among others, has complained about the hard keying characteristic of many modern rigs, which exacerbates the crowding during CW contests. Has anyone ever had success modifying the keying charac
Hi Ted -- I have done this on 2 pair of Radio Shack phones. The trick is to get hold of a captive nut of some sort that has the right thread for a bolt that goes through the pivot assembly on the Hei
I'm using a hybrid Radio Shack headset/BM-10 boom, and the only difficulty I've had with it is some mechanical feedback between headsets and boom mike if I set the audio gain too high. The HC-4 eleme
I'd like to tap the assembled wisdom of the group on this topic. Since I don't know how many others are interested, I suggest direct replies, and I'll summarize for the reflector (just like the old d
The response has been terrific. Unfortunately, one of those who responded also sent me the KAK@M virus. I have privately informed him by e-mail. My McAfee caught it at the stage of saving to a folder
If you replied to my query before this morning, and did not copy the reflector, please respond again. I lost a number of highly interesting replies, including K3WW's, K4OJ's and K1IR's to a glitch he
Based on a quick sampling from PVRC, there appear to be quite a few people left off the logs-received list for 2000 SS Phone. Hopefully, it's just a problem with the list, rather than the logs, but c
I was somewhat disappointed last night by violations of two basic Sprint behavior patterns -- Participants in a QSO waiting for (or providing) some form of confirmation before going QSY. Stations wai