1. Apples (in your homeland). You have problems with location, antenna restrictions, you travel across the country and stay away from your beloved station for too long, etc. In order to find a soluti
Reading RBN data may affect on your strategy in a contest. Accordingly it may impact your submitted score. Changing strategy may include taking a break which you would not take otherwise without RBN
Steve, Certainly there is a deficiency in the wording quoted below. I'd tend to add the following: ... as well as use of any other information from an external source which may affect your contest sc
For whatever reason some people still want to see a Q code message while there is a well established RST report system. Now: 1. If there is a new (NEW, unfamiliar yet) Q-code message, who would prope
Sig, It's even easier. -- Your SSB signal is barely understandable". It sounds overly processed. QSL? -- Your message is explicitly clear, you use the Q code and you force the other party to acknowle
In fact, you did start a debate... 1. Nobody (OK, most of people) sends leading zeroes as full "zeroes", but a short T, instead. In your example, 017 would sound like T17. There is a significant diff
Ulf, What do you mean by "for years"? As far as I can see, the antenna in question is the one of the W3DZZ design. I recall an article in a magazine in mid 1960ies describing a coax trap mod to the W
Terry, Don't you think that any reference to awards is misleading in this respect? Wouldn't it be better to make it explicitly clear: Logs submitted or postmarked after the deadline may be listed in
Yes, indeed. The topic is too serious not to stumble upon that eventually. Regarding Phone: Four is the worst followed by Eight, Seven is the best followed by Five. As for CW, 2,3,7 and 8 are the eas
When the dust settles, it will be very interesting to see how many people would still be inclined to keep on posting their scores at 3830... 73, Vlad VE3IAE -- _______________________________________
As the dead horse appears to be still alive and kicking, let me repeat the statement I used to make here in the list before, perhaps even not once. The Assistance (or whatever you call it) is ... Mak
Hans, Havent you noticed a (bitter) grain of irony behind my statement? If not, sorry, I made the grain too small. If I ever show up in this list, I do it to protect the SO group as Is and trying to
Randy, You are actively promoting the merge for quite some time, but I cannot recall your explanation, why. - Costs of mailing more certificates? CQ no longer provides paper certificates. - More work
Yuri, Whatever sort of skimmer you use, it fills the bandmap while an operator does not move a finger. A scenario: an operator turns his equipment and the local skimmer on, and then leaves for a coff
Barry, Concerning the LoTW part. W2UP and W2UP/0 are different call-signs. If you go for W2UP/0, definitely there will not be any LoTW match if you upload your QSOs as W2UP. 1. Provided, you are a Lo
You did not mention how many QSOs you have actually uploaded. "Big contest logs" sounds good but precise numbers would be better. Anyway, your confirmation rate is suspiciously low. Still, blaming Lo
Alessandro, The term issue is not as simple as it seems. At the first glance, everything looks simple and straight forward, the word AUTO in Italian is similar to SELF in English. This word also migr
There is a difference. A station transmitting on 2 frequencies of the same band emits RF of twice the bandwidth allowed by the FCC and the likes, while the one working split does not. 73, Vlad VE3IAE
Hello Chris, 1. If there is no trailing TEST, then how would people distinguish a CQ call from a S&P call? Look at this: CQ GM2V GM2V (a CQ call) GM2V GM2V (you call somebody else). The only differen
Dave, You are not alone, yet another crying wolf here... I have had some direct correspondence on this very topic. I proposed to change the rule to "Only one signal on the band of operation is permit