Hey John, I am an absolute noob here - I made about 15 QSOs in the previous month of practice sessions. My experience was the majority of my QSOs went as planned/predicted/smoothly. I usually got a
Greetings, There is still time to attend this evening's WWROF webinar: Tuesday evening 0100Z - CQ WW RTTY DX - Legacy Digital Contesting - presented by contest director Ed Muns, W0YK. We will review
The highly successful webinar presented by Ed, W0YK on Tuesday (nearly 100 registered) has been posted to the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation website here: https://wwrof.org/category/webinar-ar
The World Wide Radio Operator Foundation (WWROF) is pleased to announce the following webinar: "CQ WW SSB and CW Current News on Your Favorite Contests" - presented by John Dorr, K1AR CQWW Director K
This is a reminder that the World Wide Radio Operator Foundation (WWROF) will hold a particularly pertinent webinar this weekend, and there are still a few spaces open: "CQ WW SSB and CW Current News
Greetings, I have posted the archival recording of this webinar from last Sunday, hosted by the Worldwide Radio Operators Foundation and presented by CQWW Contest Director, John Dorr, K1AR. If you w
The World Wide Radio Operator Foundation (WWROF) is pleased to announce the following webinar: "Contest Q&A Your Chance to Ask Anything" - presented by Randy Thompson, K5ZD Randy, K5ZD fields questio
There are a few seats left for the webinar tomorrow night (Tuesday evening USA local time). This webinar was inspired by seemingly endless sessions of Q&A that come up at Contest University. Now is
Thanks Tim. This is a big deal. Everyone reading this should consider supporting this initiative. If there was ever a "hope for the future" project to get behind, well, this is the one. The YOTA
Archival recording of Tuesday's great webinar is now posted: https://wwrof.org/webinar-archive/contest-qa-your-chance-to-ask-anything/ 73 - Mark N5OT "Contest Q&A Your Chance to Ask Anything" - prese
Greetings topband contesters, If you like 160 then you already know this weekend is ARRL's annual 160 meter bedlam. I had the pleasure of writing about it last year in QST: https://contests.arrl.org/
Great post, Art. Obviously left everyone wordless. Mark N5OT W2UP, August 2020 "We fell way behind when our internet connection went down for six hours [paraphrased from memory]." W3LPL, circa 2010
The things we used to do. Yes. Wow. Dupe sheets that took up all the leftover space in front of the radios. Pentel pencils revolutionized the game at one time. Had my first Pentel in CQWW CW 197
Somebody got up on the Hans side of the bed! I presume there should have been a separate category for users of the Hallicrafters TO-Keyer? 73 - Mark N5OT 73, de Hans, KØHB Just a Boy and his Radio --
Fabulous! Thanks Frank. I am pretty sure K1DG would say there are too many. 73 - Mark N5OT On 8/19/2020 4:37 PM, donovanf@erols.com wrote: media.newyorker.com/photos/5f3d3055af5808094671118e/1:1/w_
The Caribbean Contesting Consortium has made a similar determination for PJ2T. At this point, no telling who can get down there and what will happen as a result. I will operate from home with my tru
Good morning. Well THAT (CQWWCW) was a total blast! Nice to work so many buds. Excellent. Say, next weekend is the ARRL 160 Meter Contest. I will be writing the QST article on it after the smoke se
Okay, the dust is settling. Write down your ARRL 160 anecdotes before you forget them. Did you remember to take photos? It's not too late to go back to the desk and fake some in retrospect. Nobod
Hey Mike, I thought SO2R was illegal for anyone who was over 50. I am not a fan of the "10-key pad" on full size keyboards, and since radio-desk real-estate is always at a premium, I opt for keyboard
Good question Ed. Mike I think you're stretching that mic cord to the point where it breaks. I decline to pin a conclusion on the personal opinion of one Canadian radio inspector. The real questions