In 1972 or 73 when Dick Ehrhorn was traveling the summer hamfest circuit (near Chicago) hawking his Alpha Amplifiers like Ginzu knives, I bought one from him. Alpha 77 :-) That was my second good de
Whew WPX! It is said if you give an "x" amount of monkeys typewriters with an indefinite period of time, all the great literary works will have been written. On the otherhand, if you give an infinite
Contesters, Club members residing within a 20 miles radius should count as 3 points, 2 points for less than 175 miles and over 175 miles 1 point. Anyone who operates a radio that's not plug in should
Contesters, Once again the Green Hornet and I will be the ticket collectors at the contest dinner. If you have any extra tickets we will be happy to re-sell them at the door for you. No problem, alwa
Leaving for Dayton in about an hour...... I like the circumference idea, sounds like my kinda rule. Leme see, 1/64" width tract connecting K5ZD to K4OJ then over to N6IG then K3ZO, ect. ect. Sucha be
Geez, A few guys having fun in the SS, A few guys chasing a mug, another few guys getting together as a multi making more noise in the shack than on the air. Take all their scores add them up, not m
In 1956 W2AFY took me and another young ham (both of were 14 years old) to the Erie, PA hamfest. I won a free battery charge from some local garage. A couple years ago I won a six inch wire you hook
Chris, Unabashed self-promotion! Sincerely, dr. Bafoofnik, p.s. I guess there goes my GS2 Mult, woe is me. -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-con
Dear Walt, I have never had any contesting organization lose or deep six any of my logs, but this reflector did lose? my last two post. When Warren departed the ARRL it left Billy and the contest div
Contesters, It's really the human element which improves the scores over a contesting career. I never want to sound like, look like, or be a contest bot. Most of my operating for the last several yea
Well George... Glad you asked, I like your idea, maybe we can get KH2D to make a 6 pointer lid list (worldwide) which could be incorporated into a super lid partial search. If people are going to gue
Contesters, Rule changes? Attention All: There will be no rule changes! What say K3EST? All the quibbling is about points and equity. Everyone wants to gain something but give up nothing. Typical con
Agreed.... Running an amplifier to reach 150 watts in any contest shows poor judgement. Any perceived gain you might have accomplished is more than offset in what others will think of you. It's cheap
In the naqso there are no (needto) pileups to break, no precious frequencies to control, the overall score is how many stations you can hear and how many mults you can move. dr. Bafoofnik -- CQ-Conte
Contesters, Just getting ready for my next low power contest, will be driving a pair of 8877's, also have my watt meter at the antenna as not to violate the 150 watt rule. My question is this, my exc
I shall second that challenge! The truth of the matter is that Doug was running away from 325 mad Europeans when the pizzas didn't arrive an the Miami Room. (Dayton HamVention) I once went to a 24 ho
More? Sincerely, dr. bafoofnik -- End of Forwarded Message -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
Dateline: West Middlesex, PA Doctors are blaming a rare electrical imbalance in the brain for the bizarre death of a amateur radio operator whose head literally exploded in the middle of an internati
My Fellow contesters, As your faithful scribe from B.N.N., I have been sitting on this news? story for some time to protect the reputations of some of the finest contesters on this reflector. With th
My fellow contesters, Dayton HamVention soon will be here. Always in the past I had a tough time telling K1AR apart from K1DG or visa versa. So in past years I would scotch tape little thumb nail pic