Hi all, Thanks to everyone who responded. Chad is alive and well and we each have the other's co-ordinates! Great to have so helpful a group on here! 73 Kelly ve4xt Sent from my iPad ________________
Hi all, Has anyone applied the X-beam philosophy (two yagi elements that, while horizontal, come together at the centre (like a quad element laid flat)) to an inverted vee? Herešs my conundrum: at th
My take on the whole infrequent ID thing is this. 1. If you're not going to be competitive, chill. Put the guy into memory and come back later. Almost all the other stations in the pileup have an adv
The best support you can offer any private business is to patronize it. If you're not willing to patronize it, if it's products aren't of value to you, then its fate is out of your hands. If CQ is im
Irrespective of how correct Hans and Steve are... You can't control how others act but you can control how you react. If you choose to sit there and wait and get steamed at the guy for not IDing, tha
If you like CQ and wish it to continue, the worst thing you could do is not re-up. It's not a life-changing amount of money (if it were, you wouldn't be online). 73, kelly ve4xt _____________________
Bob, One fly in your otherwise perfect ointment: Rick notes neither he nor the station he worked received the exchange. No QSO. though, otherwise, I'd agree with your sentiment entirely. 73, Kelly ve
Hi all, In ARRL DX CW, I called one of the ZZ80xyz stations. He came back to me as VE3XT. Following the advice of many stations on here, I withheld my exchange to give him the opportunity to get my c
Hi, One respected contester is asserting the rules for WW mean we can use the Internet, real-time, to verify exchange information. Does anyone else see that as being prohibited by this rule? 8. All r
You can use a variety of methods of electrically lengthening physically short radials, from the coils Joe suggests to linear methods or just running the full-size radials in the spaces available, zig
Then don't sit there waiting. Use a quick men or radio 2 to find something else to work. It seems, sorry to put such a fine point on it, Dave, that those who get frustrated sitting on a frequency wai
Copying what was sent has to have limits. If you're walking a casual op through an SS exchange and you ask him his power (to determine his PREC), and he responds 1kw, do you put 1kw in the PREC entry
Hi all, Given the newfound interest in seeing things operate, and I don't believe they expect you to wire an antenna and make contacts from scanner table, would a failsafe fix not be something as sim
Dave, I think you misunderstood my point: Carry a copy of QST to show the guy it's a legit hobby and not some hopped-up excuse to board a plane with dangerous goods. IF it has an ad for your radio, e
Charles, 100 per cent right. And, unfortunately, 100 per cent irrelevant until you can convince the security kommisars. Remember, they don't need to let you board the plane. 73, kelly ve4xt light up.
Further to Tony's message: successful travel requires a complete suspension of common sense and being prepared to answer any questions, with backup like Tony suggests. It doesn't matter whether the s
In SS, at least, working yourself is not allowed. You are not an "other" station. Rules of SS specifically state the objective is working as many OTHER stations as possible. (Emphasis added.) Further
If contest organizers wish to ban a certain practice or technology, they are free to do so and should say so specifically in the rules. It should not be incumbent on participants to devine the rules
I empathize with Andy, however, it seems worthy to point out that more than 2,000 people have been killed, more than 4,000 wounded and nearly a million people have been displaced in this conflict. A
Hi all I have an in modified DXDoubler that's not keying with N1MM but works fine with WinTest. Is the U4 mod (severing I think pins 2 and 5 and grounding them) the fix to get MM to key the radio? Do