Hmmm. Let's see. All you have to do is wait until the magazine is published. Then the results will be on-line. How long does it take the printed version of QST to arrive in Australia? In Finland? In
Let's see... OLD WAY: international amateurs had to wait weeks longer than US amateurs to see QST results and, if they were not a member -- which itself was considerably more expensive than for US am
Yikes. I thought this ARRL Web thing was a really big issue! Imagine, a private, for-profit organization that structures its affairs in such a way that profits are at least retained, if not augmented
Sylvan, With all due respect, you're on the wrong page if you think that contest sponsors do so to promote world amateur harmony. Maybe they should, but they don't. There are many reasons to sponsor
Dennis, By far, the best option is the headset. A boom mic is just too constricting. With a headset, you can lean back, stretch, scratch, do all sorts of things while speaking that you just can't do
Hi, My request for interesting tidbits from 2001 SS Phone has already generated a few responses. Thank you. I did, however, get a few tidbits from SS CW, which Randy, K5ZD has already written.. Thank
Hi, I'm working on the QST report for 2001 SS SSB. I need to contact the multiop organizers for the above. If anyone can help, please e-mail me. Thanks, ve4xt kelly taylor
Hi all, I'm still looking for volunteers to give a few short paragraphs on the competition in their ARRL region. This will make SS reporting more interesting and livlier than it's ever been, so pleas
I think what we're seeing here is the typical disparity of opinions between those who can easily work DX and those who cannot. For some, DX QSOs comes as easily or easier than domestic QSOs do for ot
Hi all, I'm sending this with the blessing of the list administrator, who's as annoyed by this stuff as I am. But please, do NOT start a thread on this. E-mail me privately if you want. My flame-reta
Jim's admonition about not calling unless you know the ID of the station you're calling only reiterates one of the fundamental principles of on-air behaviour, contesting or otherwise. That it has gen
Hello all, I'm really confused by all this hype about IDing, and how not IDing frequently enough is a waste of time for latecomers to the pileup. I just cannot understand why anybody would waste a na
The problem with the QST Op-Ed is this: when all the world is wringing hands about Big Brother taking away our frequencies because of a lack of activity, why in the world would anyone want to limit s
Hi all, Not to put too fine a point on it, but all anyone needs to do to get more sprints going is agree to organize it... I'd love the idea. Don't have the time myself, but it seems to me that organ
Hi Tonno, I think the answer is that old standby; it depends. I think some casual ops aren't really clear on what TEST ES5TV really means, but if you're at the start of the contest and things are roc
Waiting: it depends on what kind of consumer you are. If you're an early adopter, you probably accept the risk that what you buy will turn out to be buggy, poorly designed or unreliable. You see that
So, once again a perfectly rational question has gone unanswered in the pursuit of all the evils in packet, but it bears repeating: How do we know that packet cheating is rampant? Who got away with i
Whenever I see someone suggest the big boys always shut out the smaller guys, I'm always reminded of the ways I worked KL7Y (WA2GO op.: QRP winner in 2000 SS) or KG5U (perennial QRP masochist): I cal
Hi, Putting together the report for 2003 ARRL SS Phone and would like to contact the operators at K9NS and Bob, KW8N. I sent an e-mail to the two e-mail addresses I found, one bounced, and haven't he
W9RM is listed as trustee for K9NS. Fat fingers, small keyboard. Sorry kelly -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on professional DVD and VHS! ht