Why not? It only requires CQ operating awards committee to become a card carrying member of the "LOTW society". I suspect that if everyone wanted to, this could be done quickly. I really hope this is
I doubt (and hope I am right) that ARRL will charge CQ to provide this. The user is paying for this in the "QSL credit" fee. That is as it should be. By the way, it appears that it is not impossible
Though I have strong doubts as Mario, this one is not warranted. I will await with anticipation the ARRL Lab tests. With modern RTTY programs and TU's, you can copy RTTY with one of the tones complet
Bands? What bands? Oh, you mean that hiss that allows you to talk to anyone who is groundwave ? ;-(. The current prediction for tomorrow is strong geomagnetic storm, with regular HF outages lasting t
Fox News has been reporting on the coronal flare event and saying that it will be arriving in waves over the next few days and that we should expect even our cell phones to be hit. Where they got the
CNN (Bill Hemmer) actually asked if the sky was falling! Flare (high energy protons) to arrive later today. Bob N4HY -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC
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To escape the rat race one of the ops where I was, put us up in the top 50 on 20 meters. It seemed to work, I had a few hundred Q's and a bunch of multipliers but the county hunters and other netizen
However, you have in some cases a reasonably large sample size and can correlate various things (such as signal strengths and rates) with the propagation picture. If the LOTW sample size is large eno
I have a MUCH more cynical view of what was going on. The Space weather folks are under the absolute axe from congress. Nothing like a load of publicity when you need it most . . . . Bob McGwier N4HY
AMEN. I've been plowing through my e-mail and noticed an endless string of junk about packet. If anyone is interested in talking about contesting, I'll be up 5 kHz. See you there. 73 John, K1AR -- Th
Hear Hear. I undestand Wayne's frustration but think he got a little heavy handed with "us" good guys. However, who else but a contester would buy or otherwise acquire the fake registration codes? It