This is a little different situation. The rules in ARRL DX, BERU, All-Asia and a few others specify certain areas can only work certain areas for QSO credit. In WPX, everybody can work everybody in t
I consider it to be more of the "politically correct" garbage that is playing on the emotions rather than the logical thinking of people. The French gave us the Statue of Liberty. Should we give it b
I was just sitting perched on my seat having a whale of a time. After tunaing around for a while and floundering on the bands, I thought I'd call CQ just for the halibut. Only one small fry station f
This is perfectly acceptable to me. I'll wait around if your rate is high and you ID every 3 calls when I'm doing S&P. If someone is only working one every 2 minutes though, it's unlikely I'll stick
Yep. I was taling about CW. I don't get on phone much. :-) If a station keeps saying "call?" after you announce it each time, he either can't copy fast enough (CW) or can't hear you well enough to ma
I have a well-oiled delete key, but I would think that it might be appropriate to announce the contest once, around a month before it happens, and then once more a few days before it happens. This sh
Hey, I like to discuss "days-o-yore"! I'm not the oldest fish in the lake, but in another week I'll have been licensed 36 years. I was just thinking about my first SS ... 73, Zack W9SZ
Funny, I was just thinking about this a half hour ago as I was driving (not much to do but think when you're on the road by yourself.) There could be another reason - maybe he feels he's made suffici
[etc] Gee, this is a big mystery to me. What is the reason for this? Are there people who have changed callsigns but kept their TNC's set up with their old calls? Are there people connected to packet
Hi Gary! My thought on this is that it would stop a lot of people from having the freedom to check into many different telnet packetcluster systems. On our local systems which are also on telnet, K9C
I saw two postings and the one you quoted above was the second one, it wasn't the original by Bruce N6NT. The first one looked like a bit of joking between old friends, and the second one quoted abov
Easy for who? I just tried to work WB4WEN on Mt. Mitchell NC (6600 ft above sea level) on 144 MHz with the hope of trying for microwave band QSO's. That's EN50 > EM85, a 400 mile path. Never heard a
This looks like a real sticky problem to me without an obvious solution the way packetcluster software is set up. I don't own a node so I don't know that much about it, but I do know enough about it
That's a good point. Some of us contest to try to win, some of us just enjoy working stations in a contest environment. Some people do both. I fit mostly into the second category. I just have fun wor
Ham radio contesting is quite different from other sports. In other sports, for example discus throwing, one does not have to depend on any other contestants to determine how far he can throw the dis
That's very nicely done. I wish I could do that with a Toyota Corolla! I'm beginning to reach the limit of what I can stuff into a Corolla for QRP-portable VHF+ operation. Equipment for 10 bands plus
Someone's got a worm! Most likely some contester out there put "dxphone@arrl.org" into his address book. Some people have an automatic setting to put all addresses they send e-mail to into their addr