This thread has some very interesting and appropriate comments relative to the awarding of Plaques. However, I am of the opinion that there are even larger discrepancies in the area of scoring to det
Terry, I believe you have a misconception that time at the beginning of the contest and at the end of the contest have to comply with the 60 minute rule. IMHO and my understanding of the rules, the f
Terry, I don't see anything in Randy's comment that has anything to do with the subject at hand. He is talking about a different aspect of taking shorter "OFF" times during the contest and then just
Correct. You cannot take "off" time if you haven't been on. Likewise at the end, you can't take "off" time IF you have finished the 36 cumulative hours of operating. The contest is over for YOU. You
Doug, In your example given, start your operation 11.5 hours after the beginning of the contest and then operate 36 stright hours, there is no ""OFF" time. You have simply operated the 36 hour contes
And this is a not so subtle reminder that the Indiana QSO Party and the 7th District QSO Party (7QP) take place the same weekend as the NEQP. What a threesome!!!!!!!! A contester's delight. All of Ne
And it is just 8.5 hours 'til the start of the 7QP. Our station, a county line expedition in SE AZ is ready to rock and roll at 1300Z from rare Graham and Greenlee Counties. Look for K7EAR and ALL th
Stan and Randy, I have never mentioned it before, but perhaps there are many others who have the same obligations I do; that is Sunday daytime family and church things to attend. Let me add my little
I note that no one has yet responded to the quiery about the 2 receiver transceivers. In my career in Amateur Radio, I was taught and have always heard that "rig" referred to a transmitter, not the r
-- Mike, I really don't comprehend how you can even come close to making a M/S play "obviously artificial" compared to a M/M. How can a single transmitter on one band (even in those contests which al
-- OK. Explain to me where these TWO transmitters are transmitting. Are they on the SAME band? That is the only place they can be and meet the logging requirements of M/S. If they are not on the same
-- Doug, your analogy doesn't quite fit. It is analagous to the original operator placing a continuous dead carrier or a continuous repeating CQ on the frequency. The intended purpose of the use of t
I think any of us that were involved in the "Great Callsign Rush" will never forget filling out the paperwork,waiting in anxiety for the mail to come, and then being exhilarated at the final result.
However, I believe every QRZ lookup has the SIX character square listed. So, not very difficult to obtain. Mis dos centavos, Milt, N5IA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mai
-- In the Spanish language alphabet, the double ell (ll) is a separate letter pronounced as a "y". The "a" is pronounced "ahhh" and the "i" is pronounced "eeee". The word is spoken in its entirety as
Ryan, By far the best (most robust, heavy duty, etc.) are the foot switches used by musical instrument players (keyboards, etc.). We started buying those a few years ago from the local music instrume
Likewise, the 7th District QSO Party starts in a bit less than 1.5 hours. The Eastern AZ Amateur Radio Society, Inc. will be operating a County Line Expedition category, Multi-Multi Low Power, genera
Shane, Just find out who is the closest distributor for Commscope cable. Order up one or more reels depending on how many runs you are going to make. The stuff is less expensive doing that way than p
Jim's method is good. I use a similar MO to hunt power line noise sources. Pasted below is a post I made to the Topband reflector in February due to the problem affecting 160 Meter operations. Anyone
Hi Rich, At double the price they only have to sell 1/2 the rooms with 1/2 the house cleaning expenses to come out on top. IMHO you and others are going to have to turn more than 50% to another locat