OK....I call CQ and I have a weak station answering me, who then gets clobbered by an impatient S&P guy who sends "?" on top of the caller? That drives me nuts. Hold off on the "?" and wait 3 seconds
I'd agree. I've made and used fiberglass covered Bamboo Quad spreaders. They worked well and lasted for many years. But they were hard to make, they were very heavy, and fiberglass resin is nasty stu
Perhaps, in the ARRL's view, the results of a single contest only matter for 12 months, while DXCC records are "forever". Therefore validated contact information in LOTW would assume a higher priorit
I personally don't think open logs are any big threat, on the other hand I don't see any good application for them either. Propagation is so very different from one year to the next. In the 2001 CQWW
Mark, You make some good points and I can see your arguments. But with all respect lets look at the other side of this. Unless you have a very good reason to think otherwise, I'd assume that you'd re
Move about 16 degrees farther North and then see what 40 meters sounds like :) I thought the bands sounded horrible. The fishing last weekend, however, was excellent. Sounds like you worked a bunch o
Date and Contest Period: 2.1. CW: First full weekend in November (November 1-3, 2008). 2.2. Phone: Third full weekend in November (November 15-17, 2008). 2.3. Contest Period: Begins 2100 UTC Saturda
The big difference here...if you're logging during the contest you get that one opportunity at getting the information down right. If you use a recording, you could listen to the same QSO 17 times un
I'm usually in the camp that works the dupes and keeps on going, however in last weekend's ARRL 160 meter DX contest the number of dupes was astonishing. I had one VE3 call me seven different times.
The most important single factor? All the guys who took the time to teach me. Elmers like W0BE, WA0PRS, W0UA, W0ZZ, N0IJ. And all the guys who have helped me now, like KQ2M or K5ZD and many others. I
Rick, Imagine a contest where no one answers your CQ's and you get beat every time you call someone. Does that sound like fun? It's awful, and that also describes Sprint from up here. With the curren
Even more interesting would be a break down of stations North versus South. East/West is much less significant when it comes to propagation. On the 3830 reflector, Andy N2NT asked: "...Anyone for mov
"Having lots of people on close to you gives you a bunch of loud easy contacts on 80m and 40 as well. " The problem with that argument is that to be competitive you have to work everyone on three ban
Very sorry to hear about this. As a cancer survivor and a Ham, I felt great pride in knowing that K3TUP...one of US.....might have come up with a way to help thousands of cancer patients. I saw an in
I ended up working a dozen or so stateside guys last weekend. If I had more than one of them calling me, I'd call "CQ DX Contest K0SR K0SR DX DX K". That seemed to get the point across without yellin
Last Sunday on 20 meters I had a stateside guy that just had to call me during a European run. His suffix was IQT, I copied IQT....I called IQT and gave him a report and he never corrected the call.
After receiving some off-line critisizm about this post, I realized I probably should have also mentioned that I did send this guy a card as well as a note with a few helpfull suggestions. Maybe he'l
Once again I'm reminded why I NEVER read UBN reports. Life is easier if you don't worry about things you can't control. 73 Steve K0SR _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailin
Check out this week's survery question on the ARRL Website...www.arrl.org. It looks like a lot of people are seriously depressed about the lack of sunspots! 73 Steve K0SR ____________________________
When I'm in dedicated S&P mode I can FIND stations to work about as fast as Randy does. WORKING them that fast is an entirely different matter :) 73 SR _______________________________________________