Some of us on the PVRC list thought it would be a good idea to send QSL cards to the tonight show (originally suggested by Gene, AD3F). It might be nice if they got a big response from a little skit
Greg, I took down my 40 meter 4 square after putting up an OptiBeam OB2-40 last year. Here is what I experienced: Setup: - The OB2-40 is at 92' - The 4 square had 480 1/2-wave radials - Terrain map t
We have some more publicity: http://www.wired.com Right now the article is right on top. It will drop down in time, so if you read this late the article is at: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,14
authorities it is not up to an individual amateur radio operator to decide, on his own, that something is an emergency and begin non-amateur communications Last time I read the rules, anyone is allo
I never understood these complaints. While dozens of them like we've seen for K7C are a bit rediculous, there is some advantage to spotting stations you can't hear if/when stations reasonably close t
I basically agreed with the first but its the second (the "can't hear him here" part) that my response was primarily referencing. 73, Tom, NI1N _______________________________________________ CQ-Con
Oh please... I was not talking about a direct beam heading. Yes, I know K7C is 298 degrees from my QTH, and if I didn't the software tells me it is. I was talking about times when strange things hap
ummmm... UDP? And the logging software is supposed to know which entries weren't uploaded? With UDP it has no way to know that; there is no guarantee the packet made it to its destination. The same
That is correct, sort of. Log whatever you want for the zone; it doesn't matter. The program that does the scoring removes everything except the band and callsign. It figures out the zone on its own.
It is true, but I don't think it takes anything away from the skills and talents required to do well in it. It still takes still to run the pileup or skill and/or big antennas to get through the pile
Not with Tango, but I have a similar problem with India. It gets picked up as Radio by many non-native-english-speaking operators. I've found Italy works much better. Tom, NI1N ______________________
Yeah... how about the guys who actually like working SOA? Personally, I like SOA because it is fun. No other reason needed. And personally, I'd rather leave out the LP guys, especially the USA ones
When you are running in a DOS window in Windows, press Alt+Enter to toggle it between windowed and full screen modes. 73, Tom, NI1N _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
I agree with all of the recommendations. Many times this weekend the QRPers slowed down when I asked for a repeat, as if the reason I couldn't copy it was because they were sending too fast. Nope...
There is always talk of how the contesting community is getting older and how we need to attract more young people. With most contesters being somewhere between my father's age and my grandfather's a
Hi Chuck. It is best to put them in both IF stages. I'd recommend a 400Hz filter over the 250Hz. The 250Hz seems only really useful in exceptional cases. For example, when that loud USA guy is right
Bill - the penalty of 3 qsos is 3 qsos worth the same point value. So, busting a 0 pointer or being a NIL in his log is a penalty of 3 * 0 = 0 points. We discussed this at W3LPL this weekend and K3ES
I think the problem was too many people way to close to each other, if not right on top of each other. Here's what I noticed... I wasn't doing anything serious this weekend. We had our company Christ
Another solution would be to not CQ on top of each other or leave more than 50Hz space. Most of what I heard this weekend surely weren't stations who couldn't hear each other. When I call one statio
If you would like examples of casual ops in the Stew Perry contest, I am one of them. I made about 30 contacts or so. I was well aware of the rules. However, I was not submitting a log. The contest r