I have been asked to do a talk at the Dayton Contest Forum titled "Why Do They Call It Wireless? - Behind the Radios in Multi-Radio Contest Stations." The idea is to pull together a compendium of the
Ford raises many interesting questions. Let me just concentrate on one. Would it be a violation of CQ's copyright if someone were to buy a copy and then, perhaps 6 months later, transcribe the result
Response to my initial message seeking input for my Dayton presentation has been pretty good, but I still hope to hear from a lot more of you. a couple of points: -- This is not about multi-multis, o
Although my original April 15 target for collecting material on innovative station designs has passed, I still need lots more to fill out my Dayton presentation, so that it will be truly representati
I'm happy to report that I've been offered web site space for the prsentation, so I can post it immediately after Dayton. 73, Pete N4ZR Contesting is! The World Contest Station Database is waiting fo
That has been my situation both last year (my first at Dayton) and this... Fortunately I found the tradeoff worth it. 73, Pete N4ZR Contesting is! The World Contest Station Database is waiting for yo
This is an excellent idea! Who knows, we might even have better conditions both on high and low bands. Let's do it. 73, Pete N4ZR Contesting is! The World Contest Station Database is waiting for your
Perusing the WA7BNM contest calendar, it appears that there may be no workable dates in April. The SP DX Contest (4/7), JIDX test (4/14) , YU DX Test (4/21), and Helvetia (4/28) appear to have it cov
In some current research on SO2R, I was reminded recently that nothing's for free. One well-known SO2R op commented that he got only 80 watts out of the bandpass filters that follow his 100-watt clas
The whole E-QSL thing aside, what I would like to see is the ARRL granting award credit for any contest QSO that is verified through receipt of BOTH logs. Once the Cabrillo files for both are on thei
Hi Rob -- Don't see why not. In fact, the independent site www.eqsl.cc seems to have a pretty well-evolved system that uses a date match only. The special case of a time mismatch resulting in a date
Hi Jeff -- don't know if you kept the data, but it might be very instructive to compile a table showing which US ops placed where in each of the 3 runnings to date. Perhaps a single figure of merit c
As promised, my Contest Forum presentation, "Why Do They Call It Wireless -- Behind the Radios in Multi-Radio Contest Stations" is now on the web at www.pvrc.org/dayton_2001.htm. It is available ther
Hi Bruce -- Instead, can I suggest a program called RecAll by Sagebrush Software? It records to hard disk, uses <600MB (I think) for a 48-hour contest, and best of all, it timestamps the record so th
I hope Tom, George et al will pursue this and publicize their conclusions. I also hope they will reach a consensus, because there are a lot of us out here who are less technically adept but want just
Barry makes business sense, but I think that at least there could have been ONE article about a high performance antenna topic. ARRL should remember that in politics and business, it's not only sheer
Boy, this offended me. Maybe N7MAL was supporting some other team? "Pimping" strikes me as way out of line. As a PVRC member, I can tell the world that there was no concerted c;ub effort to promote W
For the first time in my ham career, I've acquired a second hf transceiver and am contemplating setting up for SO2R. I've always tried hard for good ergonomics in my SO1R setup, and so I'm thinking h
Well, Mal, I stand by my distaste for your terms, and I don't agree with your interpretation. Instead, what I see is a couple of guys who set out as I did to work W3AO on every band, and who put out
I really feel like a space cadet -- this is only my 40th ARRL DX test or so, and suddenly I'm confused. Following from the ARRL web site: 1.1. W/VE amateurs work as many amateur stations in as many D