I hear form Arasu VU2UR that All India Radio is moving out from the 7100-7200 space on March 29th, 2009 as per their new schedule but BY, BV and P5 areas will be a huge challenge. Also similar challe
Mike, That is a very interesting way of looking at this new Xtreme category. I first took part in CQWW CW 1987 to try and work some new countries for DXCC - ultimately worked all of 30 QSOs in 48 hou
I just got presented with a Sony PS3 game console by my wife (maybe she wants to wean me away from the radio). Now just waiting for Sony to tune into this discussion to come up with a InternetHam Blu
See below. We are working with the ministry to ensure we have individual band/mode HQ calls for IARU next year and avoid the long call. :) 73 de Prasad, AT1HQ/VU2PTT The HQ station from India is AT1H
Robert, That list has an old entry for India VU2 which will be AT1HQ/<call sign of calls for each band/mode. *73 de Prasad* AT1HQ/VU2PTT *VU2PTT, W2PTT* ARSI, ARRL, SCCC, NCDXF, EUPSK _______________
AT1HQ will be the sole callsign used by all stations out of India representing ARSI - the national association. That's right, just one call sign for all bands and modes per the letter from our Minist
Is packet use allowed for HQ stations? 73 de Prasad VU2PTT One of AT1HQ in IARU _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
[image: Logger32] <http://www.logger32.net> *Prasad Rajagopal* *VU2PTT, W2PTT* ARSI, ARRL, SCCC, NCDXF, EUPSK The following notes from the IARU R-1 Bandplan make usage of bands clear at least for CW:
Here is the latest news on the 40m band expansion for VU hams from Gopal VU2GMN who is the President of ARSI - the IARU recognized national organization of India. Please spread the news :) 73 de Pras
Jim, This seems seems to be the new format in MS Access 2007. Would be nice to get it in .MDB format which most of us use in the older versions of MS Office. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT. ____________________
2, 44, 144, 1044, this sequence does look like progress is being made. Time to call out the lawyers :) 73 de Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing li
FYI The Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI) will be represented in the IARU HF 2010 contest this weekend by Pai VU2PAI who will be using his own call. VU2PAI will be giving out the ARSI HQ multipli
Martin, One interesting option may be to have a WRTC in India considering the way we struggle out here for QSOs with all areas of the world in contests. We will suddenly find most people beaming this
Charles, I strongly second your suggestion. It is always difficult in the first hours and much of the night due to the reasons you stated. I and a few others have been making a concerted effort to ge
Ward, Appreciate your comments and this is exactly what I have been contemplating in the run up to planning a pan-VU contest. Trying to decide which of the big ones to select in terms of exchange. Th
This is the reason why I come out to play at least the CQWW each year since 1987 - to have fun and compete with myself. In CQWW CW this year, I had last year's certificate in front of me and I nearly
Well I have to add, a local ham VU2UR tells me he heard and tried to call both K3LR and VY2ZM on 10m - he was running a puny trapped vertical and QRP - did not get through but he heard them which is
Rick, I faced this phenomenon in CQWW CW 2010 on 20m - bone crusher signals all zero beat on each other from EU - all 59+20-40db signals and no way to separate them. After 10 minutes of this I had to
Martin, We kick started the VUCG (VU Contest Group) informally last year and plan to have a formal presence starting this year. The sticking point for us has been the distance from the central point