Actually, I've always felt people are generally on good behavior at Dayton - civil conversations can be had even with people I don't particularly like (or don't like me, as a turnabout - no illusion
be That's great. TERRIFIC. I scheduled myself for a trip that weekend because, of course, the CW Sprint is the weekend of February 15th and I wanted to be sure I'd be around that weekend to operate
Understandable. I am married, too. But I'm willing to bet that 2/14/04 was listed as the date of the contest long before the change was made. The consequences of doing so were apparently not consider
Tennessee Contest Group is rounding out a couple of teams for the NAQP CW contest this Saturday, Jan. 13. If you're not committed to another club's team and would like to be included with us send an
There's another solution to the "homebrew headphone/boom mike" question that I have employed for a number of years. Use the desk mic from your HF rig placed on a boom stand set off to the side of the
Amen and hallelujah brother! Sing it! As a person who is ROUTINELY IRRITATED by listening to the same guys year after year conduct themselves in an unsportsmanlike manner (particularly during SSB DX
K5ZD (W4PA) SO/AB/HP ARRL DX CW. Pre-contest: Flew up to Hartford from Knoxville early Friday morning, got a rental car from National and made the 90 mile drive to Randy?s house. Not as convenient as
"frequency rights." There is you can hear them of not. also on that channel (or The good op knows when to Chad: Come on down to Tennessee! Us W4's are used to routinely being chased off of run freque
It's 2120Z on Saturday - if you're reading this in real time, tune your rig to 21.207.4 and listen to TO5T asking about every third caller to spot him on packet in WPX SSB. Cheating! I called him and
Hi folks! Boy, have I ever been burnt to a crisp by the email I received in response to my suggestion that TO5T should be disqualified for not following the rules of the WPX SSB contest. I've receive
Well, I certainly did get a lot of email, pro and con about the TO5T messages I posted to the Internet over the weekend. Especially after the 'burnt to a crisp' message I posted on Monday. How anyone
"gentlemen I knew that this was going to degenerate to yet another discussion over parsing rule language. At the beginning of the rules, there is a statement that reads (quoting directly): "Only the
My $0.02 - I go to Dayton every year and it does preclude me from making a serious 36 hour effort for WPX CW. If they were not back to back weekends (like if WPX CW was moved out one weekend to the 1
Let me preface this by saying: 1) I sent K9GY a private email message about WAE 2) I *like* the WAE contest 3) I get on each year and casually make contacts in it. But...the WAE contest is the only m
I think I have the SO2R thing pretty well in hand, and I have to totally disagree with that. I stack the radios on the left. Either radio can be the run radio. I can put either radio in either ear fo
nice to see them show up on Sunday afternoon when get people on who normally would not get on more QSOs overall, yes...but it is not NEW BLOOD, Jim ? I disagree with you because I think a Sprint cate
YAWN. How many times has the relative merits of SO2R been debated on this reflector in the last 5 years? Whether it?s fair, whether it?s a separate category whether it?s this or that really isn?t rel
After I've had all weekend to think it over, you know what really irks me about people complaining about "US - the dreaded SO2R operators"? When I decided to learn SO2R in 1996 I did it so I could ke
TIME advantage over the course of a contest, literally HOURS more spent receiving than the one radio guy. But Bill ? you?re missing the fundamental point of what contesting is. Contesting is not wor
a other in descending all? After all, you >know your own score, don't you? The heart of contesting is a competition >between stations, not competition against oneself. -- This is a philosophical rift