WC1M wrote: In contesting, fun and participation interact and reinforce each other, either positively or negatively. I can assure you that EU participants would have much more fun with ARRL DX limite
Rick, my humble advice would be to improve on network engineering. You got enough hardware supported by triple PhD but I wonder how YM Webmaster copes with CW Skimmer endless stream of spots during t
Tom, N0SS left an enduring legacy in the form of Dayton KCDXC pileup audio tapes. I've been using them for 20 years in the research and development of CW robot. I had a pleasure of meeting him in USA
Off times WAEDC rule: If operation is interrupted for more than 12 hours the three longest off time periods must be a minimum of 12 hours. I operate WAE since 1962 and never cared much about off time
AB1OD wrote: The rule is saying that you have to take 12 hours off-time spread across no more than 3 breaks. If you take more than 3 breaks, your three longest breaks have to be at least 12 hours lon
E73M wrote: Everybody with some amplifier building knowledge is familiar what happens when you run amplifier at 1500w designed with output filter for 5+ kW. Not much, really, you just have to increas
Once upon a time Alpha made a good tube linear amplifiers but than came Acom If 50 W of drive is required for legal output of 1500 W, further reduced drive of 33 W (for 1.000 W output) would be even
RF amplifiers convert DC power with 50-70% efficiency. I preffer to keep tubes as cool as possible puting slightly more burden to pasive coils. Beware of overdriving :-( 73 de Mario, S56A ___________
EI5DI wrote: To this I say that anyone who needs a CW decoder has no business being in a CW contest - because they don't know CW. I don't know Baudot code so I used PC decoder this fabulous CQ WW RTT
W5OV wrote: You have to have both locating AND identifying components performed by the operator. Hams seem to be adicted to slow VFO knob rotation while they happily use SCP identifying! Even n+1 ver
What are the simple solutions to illegal power and remote receivers? It is legal and moral problem, not a technical one! I am planning the commercial release of SDR wideband RTTY Skimmer soon togethe
Paul, I share your feelings. Callsigns database was the greatest tool at our 2002 K1B DX-ped. No CW Skimmers to display all the callers. People enjoy debating nuisances of their mother tongue @ KR2Q.
AA0AA wrote: The operator was on 7.128.30 (on my dial) and kept saying (exact words) "this frequency and 'seven zero three three'". "This frequency" is his transmitting one of 7128 kHz. He listens th
N4ZR wrote: Peak rates of over 1300 spots per minute were seen often Only N6TJ & CT1BOH can handle such pile-up in CW Skimmer visual mode :-) I'd use robot! Master.dta would never be up-to-date with
Jim, K6OK wrote great CW Skimmer RBN motto: You can't beat free worldwide advertising! However, N5TJ proved that "assisted" helps! It took us 20 years to accept DX Cluster. I hope only 10 years for C
Nice to read OH2BH article on W3LPL RBN CW Skimmer experience. Nokia delayed response to smart phones is just like DEC/Compaq to PC. Unfortunately hams seem to be conservative users of SDR. They inve
W1VE wrote: You can beat this dead horse forever, Paul. I can't agree more :-) Just finished first hour of CWT from my sister in law home in Jagodina, KN03PX as YU/S56A using TS-480 with homemade 40
W3WN wrote: What is the best method or methods to proceed that allows for the technical advances, without pushing traditional contesting out the window? K1DG of CQ WW and April 1st fame gave the prop
ES5TV wrote: We at ES9C use ENN and T and N. If you are so much concerned about timing, you should also use A instead of 1. I am more annoyed with 5NN ahead of the request for serial number repeats.
N4ZR wrote: This is because, with the regularity of computer-sent CW and the presence of "5NN" as a signal to expect the number to begin at a certain time, you can often infer from the length of the