I think most everyone is missing the point, at least from my perspective: The problem is not the definition, it is the ethics of the involved. If the person dose not respect the "gentle-person's ethi
Bob and all You left out that the single operator must also LOG his own contact. If he is using a program, that will be done automatically, but the operator cannot have assistance of someone who fill
Bob and all As someone else mentioned and as I wrote in a different post--its not really that cut and dried because the are literally HUNDREDS of things that are not mentioned specifically in the rul
Bob and all, Sorry if my message came off as a negative reply-- that is one of the problems with this media in that we have to keep the text terse to cut down bandwidth and then it sometimes sounds h
Hi all; I was enjoying the CQWW-SSB contest and I heard a station working split (I think!). This is the first radio I have owned that would work split and so I have never used that technique even tho
Thanks to all who provided answers to my question about split operating. And, as mentioned by several, I did hear some European stations being called up high on the band and no one answering, but I j
Zack (w9sz) I had a limited amount of time for this one so I only made 163 QSO's but of those, every station I worked sent his callsign in the exchange at the proper point. I followed the same routin
When I wrote in a previous post that everyone was sending at such a high rate during the CW-SS I didnt mean for it to be as a complaint! I am not a new ham-licensed around 1986 (since Ive long lost m
Sent from Scott's iPad umber of times, I had 3-4 stations calling simultaneously, all exactly zero-= beat to each other. That is a "signature" of clicking on a spot. None of the= se callers were what
I think I just found a new business--selling automatic Iders to contesters! Remember the ones we constructed to connect to 2m rigs back when repeaters were still not that common? The CW version would