N4ZR wrote: Jack, I think you could, if you're willing, have a very fruitful conversation with Alex, VE3NEA. So nice to hear from Jack, VK3FI - hi. K1ZZ was kind enough to scan MIT article for me and
HS0ZCW wrote: Just so you know, I am breaking my face with a grin at all the bad news re Skimmer... Let me combine these two comments from my 1991 ARRL CW experience with over 200 QSO worked by robot
K3LR was erroneously spoted as EK3LR about 100 times out of 37500 cases! Only the robots can be so accurate :-) 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU Add the 20 EK1LZ spots to all the others and it becomes a big p
VE3DZ wrote: One's got to be really "deaf" or (else?...) to confuse "2' and "5" while being "NON-ASSISTED". This is simple typing error when using numerical keypad. 6V7C out of 6V7V is also typing er
VR2BG/p wrote: How many wrong frequency spots are there on RBN? I had short 10 minutes CQ run in ON UBA CW contest this morning with 100 W and tribander on 14025,75 kHz. RBN had 3 spots on 14025,7 kH
K5GO wrote: I'm sure I'll love having an automated run station in a few years. I had it runing in 1991 and I can tell you it is boring supervising for just 200+ QSO. Another CQ WW Expert atempt recen
N2IC wrote: K5GN did indeed catch good European openings on 20 meters during the wee hours of the morning, both mornings. N2IC did not, and in fact, didn't look for those openings. I guess N2IC didn'
VR2BG wrote: Since it's only certain skimmers sending wrong-freq spots, you can imagine all you want Pete, it won't change the fact that the receivers have spurious responses & if signals appear ther
N4ZR wrote: The two QS1Rs (out of over 60 regulars contributing to the RBN) continue to baffle us. I spent some Excell time with 150K RBN raw spots from quiet Feb. 26th. I didn't find any harmonics e
K3IT wrote: check CW Sprint contest with its QSY rule. Renders RBN and skimmer completely useless. No big deal. Now we just need a DX version of this contest. :) I must agree that QSY rule is not a b
W3TX wrote: An SSB skimmer could be devised without speech decoding. Simply embedding a digital sub audible footprint within the SSB would do the job. Interesting concept on the first sight but hamra
VR2BG wrote: I still find it interesting that on WEEKDAYS, I found so many RBN spots of EXACTLY THE SAME CALL, at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME (to the SECOND), on either another frequency on the same band,
Common EU CEPT license specifies host country portable home callsign. Few years back I operated IOTA with S55A and we signed M/S55A and M/S56A shifts. There was a lot of convincing against dupe claim
WVE is popular DX contest because of good ops with strong signals. EEU works mainly East of Mississippi states on all bands. Limited number of USA mults makes it run event with fixed beaming. VE has
The following scoring approach I adapted in 1998 for SCC RTTY contest after worldwide internet debate: 7. QSO POINTS - One (1) QSO point for contacts within your own DXCC or WAE country; - Two (2) QS
WC1M wrote: The only item on your list it wouldn't cover is running "totally illegal power", and that's a completely different subject There is much more serious offence in using "remote Beverage" -
K5ZD wrote: I bet sailboat racing was a lot different before they had GPS. USA 17 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_17_(yacht)> is a trimaran measuring 90-foot (27 m) length-on-waterline, maximum bea
VE3IAE wrote: Distinguishing Assisted from Non-Assisted is easy. Just answer the question, who fills your band map. My band map can be filled by my FT1K IF SDR using my own program for CW and RTTY fe
EI5DI wrote: CT1BOH has missed a basic point. Unconnected contesters do not use the internet, and do not use multi-channel decoders. I'd exceptionally agree with Paul with the first word changed to u
EI5DI scenario based on K5GO script is not probable in CT1BOH case! CR3L is 18 miles/ 28 km away from CR3E and bandscope line might not be all that thick. Please note that Jose at CR3E was monitored