Hi all Does it seem to you that there are less postings on 3830 now than before? With the hornicopia submission form, you can't see who is posting the scores till you open the E-mail. Everything seem
80, >160)categories restored in the ARRL DX Test. I'd like to second that idea also! During the day, contests are a lot of fun from the west coast, but after dark things get pretty slow for us "verti
Geez, if that's the only mistake I'da made when I started, I think I'da been doing pretty well! It was probably the first time a lot of these guys got on HF and they were pretty nervous. Especially i
Hi Sean I find I can work CW much faster than SSB, mainly because my hearing is not what it used to be after working 35 years in a very noisy environment. It is amazing to me how some ops can pick a
Hi Dave et al Maybe not so much now, but when I first got into rtty it was definitely amateur radio. Everyone built their own equipment, scrounged old machines to get going, etc. I got started with a
I'm responsible? How do you figure that? Involved with what? I didn't push for codeless licenses or dumbing down the tests. I was a VE for years but quit because nobody wants to learn code any more.
Hi Jim It's plain to see you have never operated a RTTY contest. CW contests are FUN, but so are RTTY contests. You have to make the same decisions in either contest. When to change bands. Moving guy
I wonder in Cabrillo catches the reports where someone sends 569 or 579 and it just gets logged at 599. I've had guys send a different report than the standard 599 and I usually change it. If we star
Hi Tom You don't have to be a rich guy. Just listen to some of the "big guns" here in the states that have rotten audio. There was one K9 station on 20 Saturday that was 10 or 15 kc wide and splatter